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religion_n	church_n	doctrine_n	reform_a	3,582	5	9.8202	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85169	A beacon set on fire: or The humble information of certain stationers, citizens of London, to the Parliament and Commonwealth of England. Concerning the vigilancy of Jesuits, papists, and apostates, (taking advantage of the divisions among our selves and the states great employment,) to corrupt the pure doctrine of the Scriptures. Introduce the whole body of popish doctrine & worship. Seduce the subjects of this Commonwealth unto the popish religion, or that which is worse. By writing and publishing many popish books, (printed in England in the English tongue within these three last years, therein maintaining all the gross points of popery, ... And blasphemous books of another nature: all made evident by the catalogue and contents of many of the aforesaid books added hereunto. Published for the service of the Parliament and commonwealth. Hoping that the Parliament by sufficient laws, ... will set themselves ... to maintain the faith that was once delivered to the saints against all the enemies thereof.	Fawne, Luke, d. 1666.	1652 (1652)	Wing F564; Thomason E675_14; ESTC R202095	8,134	16

within these last three Years to the number of as we guess reckoning 1500 to an Impression of each Book that hath been in that time printed Thirty thousand at least As if they were now confident of compleating their design and as if in their opinion of us we were yet to seek whether the Popish or Reformed Religion were the right Religion and were ashamed of the former Zeal of Church and State to preserve the people of this Commonwealth from Romish Doctrine Worship and Tyranny and did now think their natures and Religion more milde then when so much Blood of our now glorious Ancestors was in cool blood most inhumanely shed by them for holding that the Pope and his Bishops could not make an Article of Christian Faith much less were to be beleeved or obeyed in things contrary to the Canon of the Scripture or that the very body of Christ now glorified in Heaven was not in ten thousand places at one time upon earth of many of which Popish Books both their Titles and Contents we do hereafter give a Catalogue and do keep in our custody one of each to make good our Information if so commanded And although upon the Titles of most of the Books there be Paris or other places beyond the Sea prefixed as if they were printed there yet we and all the Booksellers and Printers in London that have seen or shall see them do upon such sight know that they are printed in London And the Founders of Printing-letters that live in London do infallibly know that the letters with which the said Books are printed were by them cast and made in London The Premisses considered we do humbly pray the § 4 Parliament for the sake of our dear Saviour Jesus Christ in behalf of our selves and all the many thousands of Gods people in England yea and again most heartily implore the Parliament and every Member thereof by Gods and mans expectations your own publique Professions and Engagements and as ever you expect to appear before God with comfort who hath put power into your hands to do much for his beloved Spouse and Cause That you would stir up your Strength and your Zeal against the Enemies of both the Souls and Bodies of the people of this Commonwealth By suppressing Popish and Blasphemous Books which are the Nursery of Error Idolatry and Rebellion Putrefaction and Shame of a Nation Provocation of Divine Vengeance and High-way to eternal Perdition And that if the Act now depending concerning the Company of Stationers and Printing do not make ample provision in the Premisses it may be accommodated to the aforesaid purpose as well as any other And to the end so good a work may be accomplished and effectual means may be applyed we shall humbly offer our Proposals if commanded how it maybe done without any trouble or charge to the State In the mean time begging leave that without offence we may say we humbly conceive that we shall despair of ever seeing a sufficient Redress in this case unless the way of Licensing Books by faithful able men that are sound in the faith be strictly enjoyn'd and an equitable penalty layd upon all that print and publish or cause to be printed and published any Book not Licensed and the said penalty to be recovered by any that shall prosecute the Offender at the Common-Law with good encouragement to the Prosecuter And lastly Least the Parliaments great Affairs about War and Peace should hinder such inconsiderable Informers as we are from being heard we do beg in the Name of Christ of all persons of all degrees whether Ministers of the Gospel Gentlemen or others by what Names soever distinguished that are or would be esteemed real Friends to true Religion the Parliament and Commonwealth of England That they would improve all the interest they have both in God and men in authority for the effectual Suppression of Popish Books and stopping the growth of Popery The same Request to the Parliament and aforesaid Persons we humbly desire may extend unto other Blasphemous Books also The Names and Blasphemies of some of which we likewise herewith tender Luke Fawne Samuel Gellibrand Joshua Kirton John Rothwell Thomas Vnderhill Nathaniel Webb The Catalogue and Contents of some of those Popish Books that have been published in the English Tongue within these three last Years and Printed in ENGLAND 1. THe Golden Treatise of Vincentius Lirinensis 1651. 2. The Verity of Christian Faith 1651. 3. The Felicity of a Christian Life 1651. 4. The Profit of Beleeving 1651. 5. Saint Austin's Care for or the Dead 1651. All which forementioned Books have more or less in them in favor of the Popish Religion as cunningly insinuating that the Romish Church is that Universal Church to which all must necessarily adhere c. 6. Parson's Resolutions as he first put it forth without Bunny's Correction 7. Sales his Introduction a Book burn'd as Popish in the late Arch-Bishops days as having many of the gross Points of Popery in it 8. The Holy Court which Book with the other two foregoing it are so well known to many Schollers and judicious men in England to abound with Popish Errors that we need but name them 9. The lost Sheep returned home or the motives of the Conversion to the Catholike Faith of Tho Vaine D. D. Laboring by a great shew of Learning and Argumentation to evince the Popish Religion to be the onely true Religion the Church of Rome the onely true Church and infallible maintaining Latin Service the Communion in one kind and most of the grossest points of Popery 10. A Missive to his Majesty K. James by Dr Carrier written 39 years ago and reprinted 1649. containing the Motives of his Conversion to the Roman Religion with Inducements to that King to turn Papist The Publisher endevoring to make Luther Calvin Beza c. odious inferring from Mechanicks Claim to the Pulpit the Disagreement that is among our selves and the miscarriages of particular persons That our Religion is false glorying much in the Conversion of many Protestants to Popery of late as Dr Vaine Hugh Paulin Hen Ireson N. Read Mr Rich Nicholls Mr Rich Milesent Mr Rich Crashaw Mr Will Rowlands Mr Thomas Normington Mr Joyner Mr Blakistone Mr Edward Barker Mr Eaton Mr Peter Glue Mr Jackson Mr Cooper Mr Jo Crighton Mr Andrew Youngston Mr Hugh Ross Mr Tho Johnston Mr William Simple Perswading that things being fallen to such an unconceivable Confusion in England it is no matter of wonder that so many turn to Popery but that more do not follow 11. The Love of the Soul by G. M. The whole scope of the Book is to perswade people That the Church of Rome is the one only true Church and that separation from her is sinful and damnable and at the end of it are prefixed some Popish Questions in Rhyme which were answered by Mr Samuel Hiron forty years ago 12. A Manifest touching Mr W. P. Aversion from the Protestant

A Beacon Set On Fire OR The Humble Information of certain Stationers Citizens of London to the Parliament and Commonwealth of ENGLAND Concerning the Vigilancy of Jesuits Papists and Apostates taking advantage of the Divisions among our selves and the States great Employment To Corrupt the pure Doctrine of the Scriptures Introduce the whole Body of Popish Doctrine Worship Seduce the Subjects of this Commonwealth unto the Popish Religion or that which is worse By Writing and Publishing many Popish Books Printed in England in the English Tongue within these three last Years therein maintaining all the gross Points of Popery urging a necessity for all to receive them upon pain of Damnation proclaiming in one of them that the Parliament have discharg'd the people of this Nation from the common professed Religion thereof boasting of many eminent men that are lately converted to their Religion and expressing the hopes they have of a great flowing in of people unto them And Blasphemous Books of another Nature All made evident by The Catalogue and Contents of many of the aforesaid Books added hereunto Published for the Service of the Parliament and Commonwealth Hoping that the Parliament by sufficient Laws and the Lords Ministers and People by their Preaching and Prayers will set themselves upon this Alarum that the Enemy gives to maintain the Faith that was once delivered to the Saints against all the Enemies thereof LONDON Printed for the Subscribers hereof 1652. The humble Information of certain Stationers Citizens of London to the Parliament and Commonwealth of England concerning Popish and Blasphemous Books THe ardent affection that we bear unto the § 1 true Reformed Christian Religion taught in the holy Scriptures the operation and sweetness whereof upon our hearts we have an experimental knowledg taste and feeling of through the Holy Ghost to the eternal praise of the grace of God which Religion through the same effectual working hath been sealed with the blood of so many holy Martyrs The tender love we bear to our own native Country and Relations being passionately desirous that the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus may flourish in this Nation unto the end of the World that so the future generations enjoying the light of his glorious Gospel and Ordinances may through his grace walk in that light unto the Kingdom of Glory And lastly the just fear we have lest Popish Blasphemous Books should grow so numerous as to become a considerable if not the greatest part of our Trade and so we be tempted to be Venders of such Loathsom Ware or else necessitated to leave our Callings to keep our Consciences pure These Considerations have put us upon giving this Information following to the Parliament and Commonwealth of England concerning the late publishing and printing many Popish and Blasphemous Books in England in the English Tongue which otherwise perhaps they would not so soon come to the knowledg of that they might suppress them § 2 Hoping it will be well taken because it is a matter of such unspeakable concernment as Gods staying with these Nations or departing from them the Salvation or Damnation of millions of Souls and because the Members of the Parliament to whom we chiefly intend this our humble Information are by Profession of the Reformed Christian Religion in opposition to Popery who have in all their Declarations ever since the beginning of the late troubles held forth the maintaining thereof as one end of the War and have demolished Popish Pictures that men might not learn Popery by them put men to death for being obliged by Office to assert the Popes Supremacy made a greater Profession of Sanctity then any Parliament that ever sat before them and of aiming at the highest degrees of Reformation even beyond Presbytery it self Yea our hopes ascend higher to wit That that great Accusation of the Parliament in one of the Popish Books namely That God hath put a period to the common professed Religion of this Nation and that by Authority of PARLIAMENT will be by publique Demonstrations confuted the Parliament well knowing that the common people of this Nation will be of one Religion or other and if by publique Authority they be not kept to the Reformed Religion they 'l be easily drawn to the Popish When an old Religion is out of credit with a State the multitude will welcome the Introducers of a new and if once the Approvers of Popery should grow most numerous how then can we have other then a Popish Parliament and a Popish Army Or if the Parliament should be Protestant yet how could it rule or be safe sith the strength of the supream Magistrate lieth in his Subjects And if once the Romish Religion should prevail then farewel the holy Bible in our Mother Tongue and Sacraments in both kinds or so much as in one otherwise then as a visible real material Sacrifice both for the quick and the dead Then no more preaching and Catechizing in English out of the pure Fountain of the Scripture we must part with these inestimable Treasures for the filth of Egypt viz. the Romish Church for the Rule and Standard of our Faith and her Service in Latin with all the rabble of her Will-worship and Superstition for our Practice which if we shall not like of as the best we shall for our satisfaction be sent to the Inquisition there adjudged to be Hereticks and so past their cure and then as if it were pity to leave us so tender-hearted fathers as they are they 'l turn us over to the secular Power who will quickly rid themselves and their Church of us the same way as they did our renowned Progenitors in Q. Mary's days And then what will become of the Souls of our dear children and the posterity that shall succeed us when they shall want the means of their Conversion and Salvation viz. the pure Gospel and Ordinances of Jesus Christ which every godly parent and Commonwealthsman had rather leave unto his children then the greatest earthly Inheritance that ever man was born to Having thus in all humility declared our selves by § 3 way of Introduction we do hereby faithfully inform the Parliament and Commonwealth of England That while the people of God in this Land have vented their heat against each other about lesser points in Divinity and the Parliament and Army conflicted by Councel Force with many Enemies in reference to publike Liberty wherby the great care that otherwise might have been had of the Lords Vineyard hath been hindred the old vanquish'd Popish Party Jesuits and Papists are unawares with indefatigable pains endeavoring all along to entice the people of this Commonwealth unto the Popish Religion and have made such great progress therein by ways known not only to God but as we conceive wise men also as that now they have taken the boldness to publish among the people of this Nation divers Impressions of several sorts of Popish Books in the English Tongue and printed in England