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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51095	A Modest inquiry into the carriage of some of the dissenting bishops with reflections upon the late B. of E. letter, compared with their own vindication.		1691 (1691)	Wing M2366; ESTC R1130	6,849	4

A Modest Inquiry Into the Carriage of Some of the Dissenting Bishops With Reflections upon the late B. of E. LETTER Compared with their own Vindication Licensed according to Order We read in the Sacred Writings That the Children of Israel when in any Extraordinary Danger or Trouble seemed to be mightily concerned under it and to make strong Resolutions against those 〈◊〉 that had procured it to cry earnestly to God for ●●trance therefrom and withal to use all Lawful 〈◊〉 in order to their Recovery from it But no soon●● the Storm over but they forgot what God had 〈◊〉 for them and returned with the Dog to his Vo●●● This was the Temper of the Generality of the ●●le of Israel And 't were to be wisht that the same 〈◊〉 of Spirit were not too visible in some of the ●est Character of our Church-Guides who no less 〈◊〉 that People have forgot the wonderful Deliver●● God has wrought for us and too daringly tempt 〈◊〉 and turn back in their Hearts to Egypt It is not 〈◊〉 years ago that some at least of these very persons ●●ed to stand up mightily to stem the Flood of Po●●●hich then had not God in his Mercy prevented it had undoubtedly over-flown our Land so as they would not give their Concurrence to any thing that might in the least weaken the Protestant Interest and therefore rather than they would have any hand in reading the late K. James's Declaration in order to have the Penal Laws and Test Repealed which yet might have been done in a Parliamentary way without Sin and shews that they themselves would deny Obedience to the Civil Power in some things not forbidden in the Word of God when so doing was found to be for the general good as well as those the have exposed for so doing as the worst of men they chose to undergo what Penalties the Law could inflict upon them for their Refusal And 't is not unknown how much this Action has been magnified not only by themselves but by their great Admirers who have frequently extolled it even above what was fitting when some persons Zealously affected towards Their Present Majesties seemed to shew their displeasure at their refusing the Oaths by telling them Had it not been for them what had become of us and our Religion ere now But how those Reverend persons can reconcile that Action with their Carriage and Deportment since is justly the Admiration of any thinking Man The Protestant Religion we all know was in no small danger then and they did run well who has hindred them since But should they carry their designs now so as to bring their Friend Mr. Redding as the Canting Letter terms the late King back and resettle him I would gladly know whether the Protestant Religion would not be in infinitely worse Circumstances than it could possibly have been in then even tho the Penal Laws Test had been actually Repealed For then we had not made our Address to the Protestants abroad which considering our Innate strength at home and the Assarance we had of their Assistance for the common Safety was a terrour to our Enemies But now we have already had help from them and it has pleased God to bless it so far that our Liberties were in no Reign so well setled as now they are and had it not been for those Reverend persons and the Party influenced by them we had ere now been the Terrour of our Enemies But should the late King be restored no rational Security could be proposed for us For that turn of Affairs here would undoubtedly be of Fatal Influence on all the Protestant Princes and States abroad so that we could not ●●pect the least Assistance from them whom the pe●●diousness of some of us would destroy with our selves the Countrey here is mightily Empoverished by reason of the prolonging of the War and 't is not to be supposed but that the Flower of our Nobility and Gentry with the best of our Commons will Sacrifice their Lives for the Religion and Liberty of their Countrey rather than come again under the Clutches of one who has shewed himself so implicitely abandoned to the Council of the Jesuits And if it should please God to punish us so far for our Sins as to permit him to prevail over us 't would be no hard matter for him with his French and Irish Souldiers poured in upon us to guide the rest as he pleased All which plainly shews what great Friends to the Protestant Religion some at least of those Holy Confessors those Golden Candlesticks have been who pretended to stand up for it when it was nothing near in so great Danger and yet would betray it in its greatest Exigency and that upon such slender Pretences that a Child would even be ashamed to mention How mightily the English World has wondred after those Dissenting Gentlemen needs not be insisted upon nor how strong a Party of easie short-sighted men have been brought over by their means to King James's side notwithstanding their fair Pretence in their own Vindication That they would always by Gods Grace make it their daily practice to study to be quiet to bear their Cross patiently and to s●ek the good of their Native Countrey It has been the Admiration of not a few that the Publisher of the Modest Enquiry was so severely threatned since it was done from so great a Zeal for their Majesties Government and to awaken people from their sluggish Security in a time of so great a danger a● that was meerly because they seemed to expose in their own Colours those dissenting Prelates who eve● in their own Vindication however it was by some of their Admirers ready to be entertained with T●● Voice of a God and not of a Man make so superficial a● Defence that in the Judgment of all Impartial Readers rather bewrays their Guilt than any way evinces their Innocence As if Romish-like the Protestant Religion and Government should be Sacrificed to the Caprice of a few sullen Prelates But now it has pleased God of his Infinite Mercy to give us a plain Evidence of the Integrity of at least some of them one of whom as is reported by his Admirers is now go●● over to France to prevent that Arbitrary E●wer as he with the rest have it in the common Vindication from coming upon us and prevailing ov●r us or rather 〈◊〉 prevent its too late coming among us as his Lette●● imports A few Remarks upon which comparing it with their Vindication I shall here subjoyn But before I begin it may not be amiss to say some what as to the Reality of the matter of Fact viz. that 't is not a Fiction on purpose to asperse so holy a● Mans Name and this is plain enough if we consider that these Two Letters were seized among the re●● that were sent over to France by my Lord Prest●● 〈◊〉 the rest and known to be his by undoubted Evidence But besides it is further