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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69915	A plea for the Non-Conformists giving the true state of the dissenters case, and how far the Conformists separation from the Church of Rome, for their Popish superstitions and traditions introduced into the service of God, justifies the Non-Conformists separation from them for the same : in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Calamy, upon his sermon, called, Scrupulous conscience, inviting hereto : to which is added, A parallel scheme of the pagan, papal and Christian rites and ceremonies : with a narrative of the sufferings underwent for writing, printing and publishing hereof / by Thomas De Laune.	De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.; Danson, Thomas, d. 1694.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Eikōn tou thēriou.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Narrative of the sufferings of Thomas Delaune.	1684 (1684)	Wing D893; Wing D891; Wing D892; ESTC R12757	93,215	122

justifie the Schism and Separation from Rome To have recourse to the Scriptures consulting those Oracles how things stood from the beginning and only separating from them we find Separatists from the Primitive Church and Truth we make Asec●●●ion that we may not partake of the English Roman Schism and answering the Lords express Command Come out from amongst them be ye sepanate c. 2 Cor. 6. Rev. 18. 4. be to be esteemed Sedition Schism and Separation we are Seditious Schismaticks and Separatists If to own the Soveraignity of Christ by whom all things were created and by whom all things consist who to this end dyed rose again and revived that he might be Lord both of quick and dead to whom the Father hath given all Power both in Heaven and Earth King of Kings and Lord of Lords and Powers and Potentates as under him in Conscience to him to whom you own every Knee must bow and the King is but next and immediately under him supream Head and Governour in all Causes Ecclesiastical and Civil it being also stampt upon our Coyn Christ● Auspice Regn● Christ the Kingdom 's happy Guide If the owning and asserting his Soveraignity in chief be Treason and Rebellion we own we are such Traytors and Rebels If in our Places and Stations to endeavour the Defence of the English Government Laws Liberties and Properties and to keep out the Popes forreign usurped Power who has heretofore so tyranniz'd over Prince and People both as to their Bodies and souls in these Nations and to which all who have taken the Oath of Allegeance are so solemnly engaged be to be esteem'd Plotting and Plotters we own our selves guilty of that Plot. The CONCLUSION THus Sir you have at your Friendly Call and Invitation a fair and impartial Examination of the Merits of the Cause giving you the different Sentiments of the Guides on both sides in the most material Objections made by the one and the candid Answers of the other and how far your own Principles and Practice in separating from Superstitious Idolatrous and Persecuting Bloody Rome justifies in many things their Principles as well as Practice in separation from you walking in their steps The substance whereof for a conclusion I shall briefly sum up with some Reflections thereon in the following Queries viz. 1. Quaery If your Answer to the Papists calling for your Negative Proof from the Scriptures against their Molatrous Foppish and unwritten Traditions be good against them viz. That there needs no Negative Proof to disprove them because they are not contain'd in OVR ONLY RVLE OF FAITH THE BIBLE as pag. 5. Then whether the same Answer is not good from the Dissenters when you ask them the very same Question which carries it in the whole of the Controversie ●s Dr. Stillingfleet observes p. 4 viz. That there needs no Negative Proofs to disprove all the Rites Services and Ceremonies inquestion because none of them are contained in our ONLY RULE OF FAITH where they say They no more ●●nd National Provincial Dioc●san Churches your Government by Lord Arch-Bishops and Bishops Deans Arch-Deacons Parsons Vicars Curats Chancellors Officials your Consecration of Churches and Priests your Priests Garments Altars Liturgies Singing-Service Letanies Bowing Crossing Kneeling at Sacrament Holy-dayes Fasts Feasts Vigils Then the Popish Holy Water Salt Oyl Spittle Baptizing of Bells Exorcisms Conjurations Bowing to Images and Altars and other such li●e Fopperies pag. 6 7 8. 2. Query If your own Pens do declare that to enjoyn unnecessary or indifferent things viz. things not contained in the Scripture in Gods Worship and Service as necessary ought to be reputed an adding to Gods Word a teaching for Doctrine the Commands of men Superstition Will-Worship or worshipping God in vein as pag. 12. then how can you avoid the same charge brought against you by the Dissenters when you as sel●-judged and condemned do the same things For are not your Rites and Ceremonies confessed by you to be Indifferent things as pag. 9 10. imposed upon Dissenters as absolutely necessary to the Excommunicating or as much as lies in you daming their Souls ruining their Bodies and Estates who conscientiously scruple and refuse them as page ●1 12 13. 3. Quaery If you do declare the Rites Services and Ceremonies in the Liturgy are of Primitive Antiquity and not of Popish Novelty as pag. 14 15. and that you have left or separated from the Church of Rome because they have left Primitive Antiquity and therefore the Dissenters have no cause to boggle at or scruple them as Popish But if it appear to be quite otherwise as the Examination of each particular seems to demonstrate as p. 16 17 18 19 20 c. viz That they are not of Primitive Antiquity but of Popish Novelty and all of them fe●ch't from the Institution of Popes and Popish Councils and Canons and not from Jesus Christ and his New-Testament Canons If so then first Whether you do not betray much Rashness and Weakness not to say with the Protestant Reconciler one of your own Falshood and Hypocrisie And Secondly Whether you do not thereby justifie the Dissenters Separation from you as warrantable because they separate from you for being in the practice of Popish Superstition and unwritten Tradition because they are expresly commanded by Christ To separate and come out from such unwarrantable Practices 2 Cor. 6. 14 15 16 17 18. Rev. 18. 4. Lest partaking of such Sins they share of the threatned Judgments It being very dishonourable as well as dangerous to halt betwixt two If God be God he but if Baal he is to be served and followed To which purpose we find in that most remarkable Letter of Bishop Hall to Dr. Laud afterward Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that which is very instructive upon this account whereof therefore I shall presume to give you this following part of it viz. Resolve saith he one way and know at last what you do hold and what you should cast off either your Wings or your Teeth and lo●thing this Bate like Nature be either ● Bird or a Beast If you must begin why not now it is dangerous deferring that whose Want is deadly and whose Opportunity is doubtful God cryeth out with ●eh● Who is on my side Who Look at least out of your Window to him and in a resolute Courage cast down this Jezebel c. Thus far the good Bishop which is a good caution against Indifferency and Luke warmness in the service of Christ agreeable to our Saviour Rev. 3. to Laodicea I would thou wert either cold or hot c. 4. Quaery If your selves have judged Popish Imposition and Persecution for Conscience to be Antichristian Wolfish and Beastly wholly contrary to Christianity and the Lamb like Nature of Christ and that it is Injustice and barbarous Cruelty to afflict men for what they cannot help and a plain Rebellion against God by wresting his Scepter and usurping his Empire over Conscience out of his hand the