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lord_n	bill_n	house_n	pass_v	12,480	5	7.4741	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34201	Concavum cappo-cloacorum, or, A view in little of the great wit and honesty contain'd under a brace of caps, and wrap'd up in the querpo-cloak of a phanatick in some reflections on the second part of a late pamphlet, intituled, Specvlum crapegownorum, being a dialogue between True-man and Cappocloak-man / by an honest gent. and a true lover of all such.	Honest gent. and a true lover of all such.	1682 (1682)	Wing C5692; ESTC R18924	46,034	73

that is all that you care for For was there ever so senseless a reflection upon all our Laws as this is Are not Bills generally first pass'd in the House of Commons I pray you how many of the Clergy are in that House What is the Speaker's Chaplain alone able to over-rule the wisdom of our whole Nation as sometimes you please to call the Members of that House As for the House of Lords there are but 26 of the Clergy in it and is it not very strange they should out-vote all the rest or that by their Interest they should over-power them It seems the case is altered since they were called the dead weight of that most Honourable House and thought to signifie little or nothing in it I remember a worthy Clerk told me once that a Speaker amongst the Quakers whom he vilely suspected to be a Papist made it his main Argument against his payment of Tythes that the Laws which enjoyned them were made by the Papists and the Clergy And indeed the objection lies equally against all our ancient Laws so that if this be a satisfactory excuse no man can have any right to any thing he possesses by vertue of any ancient Law in England For the same objection may be made against them all Is it for this reason that some of you Dissenters will not take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance nor take any notice of the Acts for the observation of the Thirtieth of Ianuary or 29th of May Are not they most admirable Subjects and most exactly obedient to our Civil Power and great Lovers of the King who refuse to acknowledge his Power and to swear fealty to him or so much as to bewail the murder of his Father or to praise God for his happy return If these are not excellent Subjects I know not where you 'l find any such unless amongst the Banditi or the Wild Arabians Cap-cloak-man Not so fast I beseech you Let me put in a word or two to vindicate my dear Brethren who are for all your aspersions precious in the sight of God and Man As for those who refuse to take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance I utterly disown them But as for the observation of the thirtieth of Ianuary Why should they bewail that fact in which they had no hand This would be tacitly to confess themselves guilty of it And as to the 29th of May Is it not enough for them who think they have received benefit by it to express their joy and thankfulness for it We lost our Lands and Livings by it and what reason have we to keep a thanksgiving for it True-man If you disown the first sort why do you own such Principles as may justifie them for were not the Clergy as much active in making those Laws that enjoyn those Oaths as any other As for the question Why should they the Dissenters bewail that fact in which they had no hand I shall return you these few Queries Had you Dissenters attain'd to an absolute perfection had you no sins that amongst the rest of the sins of the Nation might combine to pull down God's wrath upon us and to render us odious to all Nations by the most barbarous murder of the best of Princes Was it the Cavalier or the Army-Saint that perpetrated that Villany Was it the Church-man that fought for the King or the Phanatick that fought against him that were guilty of it Was it the Jew or Christian that killed our Saviour Was Peter that fought for him or Iudas that betrayed him guilty of his bloud I suppose for the same reason you joyn with the Iews in not observing any day in memory of our Saviour's Crucifixion because you believe that neither they nor you were any ways guilty of it For I am sure you may as well believe this as that you were no ways guilty of the murder of our Royal Martyr As for the Query in your Vindication for not observing the 29th of May though I believe you will be ashamed to own it yet I assure you upon the reputation of a Gentleman that I have heard that reason given by a well-wisher of your brethren and that I do really believe never a Dissenter of you all can give a truer or better reason for that ingrateful neglect Did you not then by the Kings great clemency receive your Lives which were justly forfeited to the Laws and do not too many of you enjoy great Estates which were other Mens Rights and is not all this worth I thank you to God and the King besides those infinite publick Mercies the whole Nation received thereby Cap-cloak-man You never know when to have done railing it is so natural to you Come come if you would lay aside passion you would find the Men you speak off to be good Men and therefore as the second Argument tells you pag. 7. ibid. since it was never yet known in the world that ever any Civil Magistrate made a Law with an intent to punish any good man therefore this Law was never intended by the Supreme Power against the Dissenters For that they are good men is fully proved out of the Psalmist c. pag. 8. True-man Here is a demonstration for you indeed such an one that will hold eternally like a rope of Sand. For first Did you never hear of certain Heathen Emperours that made Laws to punish even with the severest Penalties and greatest tortures all the Professors of Christianity Or 2dly Can you believe that all those Primitive Confessors and Martyrs were not as good Men as our Dissenters And lastly Do you not know that Men may be very good in the performance of some Duties that yet neglect the great duties of peace and subjection and may be very wicked as to many other nay that Men may be very strict in Sobriety and seeming obedience to the Laws of God out of design to carry on some gain or profit to themselves Have you not heard of the Pharisees who made long prayers to devour Widows houses or of a sort of People whose gain is their godliness Was you never acquainted with a sort of good godly and sober people who preached up murder sacriledge and rebellion and justified in their Pulpits that most execrable crime committed against the life of our late martyred Sovereign These might be in other matters as to all appearance very good Men and yet had there not been an Act of Indemnity they do well deserve the Gallows Do you not know that all that will endeavour the destruction of a Church or State by drawing in the People to their party are necessitated to appear as the best of Men to carry on even the worst of designs Hath not the Devil himself been transform'd into an Angel of Light and do not his Agents always imitate him And therefore such as these who under the Shew of Goodness carry on ill Designs not only because their false Pretences make even Religion it self become contemptible