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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61926	The subject's religion directing and disposing them to a conscientious and careful discharge of their duty in the choice of publick magistrates and officers / by a citizen of London.	Citizen of London.	1691 (1691)	Wing S6105B; ESTC R26950	15,998	24

Primitive Christianity in real Meekness Christian Charity and Self-denial than the Picture hanging against a Wall hath of the real Essence and Substance of the Soul and Body of a Man And thus we see Ignorance in Separation as well as in Popery becomes the Mother of Devotion And we may appeal to the surviving Spectators of our late intestine unhappy Broils how our Religion and Government as inseparable Supporters of each other were by the same Instruments and Methods both overturn'd together though the first Miners those of the Presbytery were blown up themselves by those of the Congregational Way who afterwards disagreeing amongst themselves who should be uppermost brought all into Confusion leaving us for a while without any setled Order or Government in the Kingdom till by a miraculous Revolution our Religion and Government were both restored on their old Foundation Wanting nothing but Reformation of Manners in its Members and Harmony in Divine Worship as the best Means to stem the Tide of Debauchery and Profaness in order to such a Reformation and to check and countermine the Jesuit on the one hand and the Sectary on the other so as to secure our setled Religion and Government against the Subtilty and Malice of both That instead of Emulation Strife and Envy and contending who shall be uppermost we might all as Subjects of one Government and Members of one National Communion humble our selves under the mighty Hand of God and provoke one another in Tenderness to Love and to good Works thereby to propagate the Faith in the Vnity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace Now as it cannot be denied but the Presbyterians laying the Blood of the Royal Martyr at the door of those of the Congregational Way were the chief Instruments in that mighty Revolution so it is as plain that what they did in order to it was to establish Presbytery here in this Kingdom So we must also allow the Dissenters to be eminently instrumental in the late happy Revolution to settle their Sacred Majesties now on the Throne But though I shall not here question from what Principle they acted therein yet I may boldly say that if they were real Friends and Well-wishers to Monarchy they would as readily demonstrate their impartial Affection and Loyalty to their Majesties to secure and support them now in the Throne as they are Guardians and Head of our Established Religion and Government by disposing their Subjects to Harmony in Worship the alone Seminary and Nursery of true Loyalty and Union among our selves and live in Charity with their conforming Brethren peaceable and content with the Indulgence allowed them till a proper Medium may be found out for all to join in the same Communion as Subjects and Children of one and the same Civil and Politick Parents and Government And in the mean time forbear to rail against and cry down the innocent Rites and Ceremonies of our Established Religion to create Offence in the Ignorant and the Weak with Designs thereby to draw our Members into their Separation as if the external way of Worship were the vital Substance in Religion Especially when the Church of England lays no more stress in any Rite or Ceremony than Decency and Order according to the Tenor of the Gospel do require And it is plain from the the 34th Article that as things indifferent they may from time to time be changed altered or abrogated to promote Peace and Harmony in the Church but not to be done by any private Spirit And it is most manifest our Holy and Reverend Governors are inclinable nay most desirous to comply with any reasonable Demands in order thereto if the Dissenters would agree among themselves and make their application as becomes Inferiors to those who are intrusted by the Government in so sacred and weighty an Affair We may justly therefore pronounce a Woe against them that do hinder nay that do not as much as in them lies promote so great a Blessing to their Majesties and the whole Kingdom But what hopes can we now entertain that Dissenters should ever unite with us when they are so far from any such Condescention or Application in order to it that by Colour of their Indulgence but contrary to the Design of the Law-makers they have set up their Standard in open defiance against it Printing and publishing the Heads of their Association and Agreement between the Presbytery and the Congregational as irreconcileable as Fire and Water to encrease and multiply their Leaders as it were under their Political Discipline assigning to each his Parochial Boundaries as so many Patriarchs each within his peculiar Province in opposition to the settled Religion and established Discipline of our National Church And all this done that they may the more effectually dispose their own Followers to a greater Aversion to our Communion and draw our Members with the Baits of Interest Trade and Advantage into their separate Congregations as into so many Arks of Salvation as if no sure Guide can be found elsewhere in the right and ready way to Hierusalem And yet at the same time notwithstanding the legal Test and Qualification by the Government enjoin'd peremptorily challenging by Nature and Education to use their own Words an equal Right with their Fellow-Subjects complying with the Law to bear Offices both Civil and Military in the Government Nay so bigotted are many of their Followers now become under their Discipline as to impose upon their Children as also upon our Members if they will match into their Families tying them up in their Conjugal Contracts to adhere to their separate Way of worship a good Expedient to advance Hypocrisie but not to promote Christianity or Sincerity Certainly so long as we see them thus restless to seduce our Members and bold in their Attempts and Endeavours to share in the Government on Terms contrary to Law which is in effect to pull down the Fences and Bulwarks of our Religion and Government together we may well conclude without breach of Charity that the Lamp of their Loyalty to their Majesties will burn no longer than it is fed with the Oil of Intetest and that when their Designs are ripe they will again make use of the carnal Weapon to overturn both our Religion and Government together For he that hath but half an Eye may easily discern the same Methods and Engineers formerly made use of now secretly endeavouring so to poison divide and dispose the People if not timely prevented as to engage us again in the same Civil War from which let us all earnestly pray Good Lord deliver us Therefore to countermine those deep dangerous and dark Designs of our Enemies and to undeceive all honest and well-meaning Persons that have been imposed upon by those subtil Politicians I here offer a brief Spacimen of Religion as I have learn'd it under the Discipline of our National Communion which I humbly submit to an exact Scrutiny of the most censorious Adversary

and the same Fountain and Original as they are all managed under the Conduct of one and the same Sovereign Pilate Lucifer himself and acted by one and the same predominant Principles of Ambition and Worldly Design which is quite contrary to the Doctrine and Principles of the Church of England as well as that of our Blessed Redeemer who renounced all Dominion in this World So that it is most manifest that neither the Doctrine nor Discipline of our Established Religion can without weakning wounding and betraying it self either countenance or patronize any Enemies to our Government though they all whether Jesuits Sectaries or Jacobites as Enemies to it do abuse wrest and misapply both our Doctrine and Discipline as well as they do the Gospel it self to justifie their Rebellion and carry on their own Designs All which will fully appear in the following Discourse THE Subject's Religion Directing and Disposing them to a Conscientious Discharge of their Duty in the Choice of their Publick Magistrates and Officers The Introduction SHould we judge of the Christian Religion by the Pride Malice and Railery the Ambition and Worldly Design of many Christians who have separated from our National Communion under a Pretence of greater Purity and of being more Holy than their Neighbours and had no other Rule for our Standard we might with the poor Indians when they beheld the ill Actions and Bloudy Cruelty of the Jesuits who came in a Saint like Disguise to convert them chuse rather to go to Hell in our natural Religion than to accompany such fiery Zealots in their Diabolical Practice though with Angels Tongues to their Celestial Paradise This may sound harsh in the Ears of many tender Minds who are hoodwink'd and imposed upon by their Seducers whose Souls I am confident would abhor the Evil were it unveiled unto them as the Murther of Caesar was by Anthony when he spread his bloudy Garments in the Senate-House and therefore it is nenessary that both the Criminals and the Seduced should feel the Smart of the Lance in opening the Wound by reflecting upon one Capital Crime for all the rest that the same Disease may not ulcerate again to an incurable Distemper especially when that Capital Crime will appear to be the most barbarous and execrable Tragedy that ever was acted in the Face of the Sun if seriously considered with all its impious and aggravating Circumstances and to be of so great a Scandal to the Protestant Religion that nothing can or ought to raze it either out of our Annals or Memory but a Repentance of as a deep a Dye even to an Abhorrence of the Fact This should never have been revived or here taken notice of did not the surviving Bloudy Actors and such as are tainted with the same Pernicious and Treasonable Principles still endeavour in secret by their venemous Tongues and Pens to justifie their Villany and to Canonize the very Regicides themselves as the Papists have done their French Friar and Ravilliac by raking into the Ashes of their now Sacred Majesties Royal Ancestors to reproach both their Memory and our Established Religion with the most malicious infamous and false Reflexions thereby to render both our Established Religion and Monarchy nay if it were possible the very sacred Name and Title of a Crowned Head Tyrannical and odious to make way for their darling Common-wealth And at the same time when there was never more need of Union among Their Majesties Subjects venting their Malice in the most virulent and provoking Language by their Squibs and Trumpets against those who have approved themselves both in Purse and Person Loyal Subjects to Their Sacred Majesties now on the Throne as well as true and constant to the Church and Government and in whom we all know the Power both Civil and Military here in this City resided during His Majesty's Absence and the Invasion lately threatned by the French stigmatizing them with the odious Names of Jacobites Rapparees and Traitors though all in effect do amount to no more than a nauseous Repetition of the same Stuff which they so lately exhibited against some of the same Persons in the Honourable House of Lords making good nothing of their black Charge but their own Malice and Revenge for Personal Injuries apprehended towards themselves However these Worthy and Loyal Men notwithstanding all these Provocations as became good Christians have not answered them according to their Folly but by their Patience and Silence have returned their venomous Arrows into their own Bosoms By all which and many other apparent Evidences it is manifest that these irreconcilable Enemies to our Established Religion and Government do daily refresh our Memory with the Blackness of their Crimes and awaken our slow but just Apprehensions to suspect they are preparing again if they succeed in their Endeavours which God forbid for another Bloudy Scene Doubtless such wicked Practices and unrighteous Dealings of many Persons who under such specious Pretences of greater Purity do either wholly dissent from our National Communion or are such partial Ambodexters as to communicate with us in the Morning and do separate from us in the Evening have caused so many Practical Atheists among us who giving themselves up to Sensuality through neglect of Piety and Devotion do from thence with Lucretius the Epicurean Philosopher not only form Arguments against all Religion in general but also against Divine Providence it self and take occasion in his Atheistical Expressions to maintain That Religion hath done and will contrive promote and act the greatest Ill. Concluding from such prodigious Impiety in our Separated Votaries as he did from the Bloudy Sacrifice of a Royal Virgin by the Trojan Priests to buy a Wind for Troy Such devilish Acts Religion could persuade For as the designing Leaders in Separation and Rebellion have ever had an insatiable Appetite after Dominion and Rule though under a Veil of Religion and Zeal for Reformation so they always bait their Hook with Interest Trade and worldly Design to engage the Hypocrites and formal Professors in their Cause And we need not wonder at the numerous Train of their ignorant and bigotted Followers if we consider that not one in Ten of those poor deluded Proselytes though they talk so loudly of Religion and quarrel about the Shadow or outward Persuasion did ever inwardly and savingly relish the vital Substance of it in their hearts or truly understand what it is farther than as a blind Zealot to follow his Guide as an infallible Oracle of that Persuasion believing that in so doing he is in the ready way to Jerusalem and shall be accepted By which means many thousands of poor deluded Animals thus bigotted and by their Leaders dubbed Saints as they are admitted Members into separate Congregations are puff'd up with an over-weening Conceipt of their own Perfection and Holiness as so many blind Papists incorporated into their Religious Fraternities though they have no more of a pure Spirit and of