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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26927	Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's letter to the King and all the bishops of Irelands protestation to the Parliament to the same purpose : with an answer to the Roman-Catholicks reasons for indulgence : also the excellent reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against indulgence, with historical observations thereupon.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1263; ESTC R15222	25,663	47

danger the Papists disturbed us indeed formerly but their Estates secured us they threatned us and their Estates maintained those forces by Sea and Land that protected us shall we now increase our danger in allowing their liberty and yet quit those two parts of their Estates by which we weathered out the danger what at once let in an enemy and weaken our selves Reason 12. Blasphemy must not be tollerated he that blasphemed was to be put to death you know Popery is Blasphemy do not your ears tingle to hear them say that God in the Scripture is not infallable but the Pope in his decrees is 2. That they can make a God of a piece of bread 3. That that God may be eaten by the most wicked man yea the most vile creature by a Dog or a Mouse c. Shall the name of God through you be blasphemed God forbid Reason 13. That way which brings to an uncertainty is not to be tollerated c. Will you suffer men to live among us that perswade us we must not believe our eyes that are so deceitful that when we see a piece of bread must needs insinuate to us that we see a God a Saviour if we cannot trust our eyes how shall we live if we cannot trust our sences how can we know you and obey you how can we know the Scripture and believe it O suffer not those men among us that are about to perswade us that we must not believe our eyes and that we can know nothing Reason 14. They are not to be tollerated who turn all Religion to interest and formality will you endure them that teach poor men no more religion then 1. the advancement of one to be head of the Church For let us believe what we will if we deny that the Pope is head of the Church we are damned 2. then a few formalities and ceremonies will you suffer poor men to rest in a form of Godliness denying the power thereof will you let Christianity turn a piece of Pagentry and all Christians walk in a vain shew will you not once appear before that God that is to be worshiped in Spirit and in truth and can you forbear 't when you look abroad and see the Holy and Blessed God mocked with histrionical gawdy vain bablings childish canting saying and hearing they know not what God forbid we should countenance that in the world by a Christian Religion whose businesse is to mock God with an unreasonable Service and to set up man in an unreasonable pomp greatnesse dominion and tyranny over the world O shall the spiritual and inward frame and power of Religion be turned to an outward shew Reason 15. That Religion that allows men the greatest liberty to sin is not to be tollerated c. Shall you who have power given you to restrain evil allow a Religion that gives the greatest liberty to it In vain are you Kings if you allow that way which can dispence with all oaths and obligations of Subjects unto Kings In vain will you make Laws against prophanesse if you indulge a Religion if I may so call it which may give indulgence to all prophanesse In vain will you punish if you suffer men to think the Pope may pardon In vain do you trust your Subjects upon their oaths and promises if you countenance that Religion that teach men to equivocate to speak one thing to mean another In vain do you professe the Protestant-Religion if you allow that Religion that gives men liberty to dissemble any Religion to be Anabaptists to be Quakers to be any thing to promote their own cause Will you permit that way which leads men to these abominable courses My soul come not thou into their secrets Shall the poor people be given over to believe Lyes and Legends and when they have seen their ridiculousnesse and folly at last come to believe nothing their holy frauds and cheats making most of the antient writings uncertain a mischief as we cannot expresse so they cannot repair Reason 16. A way that engageth poor souls in certain perjury contradiction and impossibility is not tollerable c. The Papists Can you O ye tender hearted Princes see poor souls perplexed thus with impossibilities amazed with contradictions and plunged in perjury and consider that posterity will write that these things were done in your days and that the poor souls will complain at the last day Alas woe is us we were undone under your government O most excellent Governours we hope better things of you Reason 17. A Party whose businesse it is to puzzle people in their Religion and debauch them in their lives is not to be tollerated The Papists are such c. they puzzle us with divisions that we know not what to do but return to Popery where though we do err yet they bear us in hand that we cannot err They debauch poor souls with Licenciousnesse that when they are troubled in conscience and upon their death-bed know not how to be saved they may in dispair throw themselves into Popery for that pardon and indulgence which no other Religion can afford them In vain do you set up an Ecclesiastical government if you endure another way to take in those whom your Discpline cast out when we have taught the people faithfully admonished them sincerely reproved them severely censured them justly and excomunicated them solemnly They in Contempt of you and us can turn Papists and laugh at us for Popery and Schism is the sinne and channe that receives the excrements and filth of our Church when we tell men of their sins they run to the Papists and they tell them they are venial when we restrain men they run to them of the separation and there are at liberty to do what they please it is in vain to make Laws if a party of dissenters be tollerated with whom loose men may find Refuge against all Laws Reason 18. What destroyes your Government most Excellent Prince under which we lead peaceable and quiet lives in all godliness and honesty secure in our lives estates and libertie is not to be tolerated Popery destroyeth your Government they set up one whom they must obey for conscience sake while they obey you onely for conveniency theire Priests may do what they please you have no power over them Sr. if the Question between us were whether we should be holy or prophane whether we should obey Christ or not whether we should be good Christians and Subjects or not we should be ashamed to come behinde them but when we consider that all this stir is to set up one man above the world shall we gratify his ambition and promote his designe against our own Interest and welfare now they care peaceable indeed but let a Priest be discontented and what State can promise to please them alwayes and they will let you know what it is to let Priests and Jesuits into England they will incense the people promote discontents conviegh