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A54102 Annimadversions on the apology of the clamorous squire against the Duke of Buckinghams seconds, as men of no conscience Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1685 (1685) Wing P1252; ESTC R7073 7,000 8

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10. That wise Men will try as few Conclusions in Government if settled as is possible and yet when only one Conclusion is left to be tryed and that so necessarily prayed and prest methinks 't is not unwise to make the Experiment when Mercy Goodness and Charity are on that side But alas the Author of this Apology is not contented to fasten upon an occasion given and improve it with all the aggravation of an unkind Nature but turns Fortune-teller and reads us a Lecture by the slying of his Jack-daw of our own insides future Devices A down-right Divination and Enthusiasm as if he had been on an Errand to Delphos Hear him pag. 11. That we were all thunder-struck dreaded a Prince we had offended and that had so much diligence and courage to repay us and therefore turned Trimers went to Church took the Sacrament gave up the Game set up for Loyal And that in this Melancholly frame it was his Grace found us when he publisht his Ess●y and that no meaner Person durst do it though enough follow him Now the first part of the Story is false and the last silly and saucy as well as untrue I see Dissenters Vertues as few as they are must be their Vices for a need Their quietness is from the stroke of Guilt and their Conformity only Hypocrisie for Safety They have a fine time of it and are mightily oblig'd to this Gentleman's Goodness and Justice much good may it do'um But the Duke out of measure is made brave in a bad Cause a Ca●aline at least or if you will a Cor●h that is leading them back to Egypt again A mighty Charge and but that it is not true 't were an Impeachable business and because it is not let this Gentleman take heed of a Scandalum Magnatum But this cry for Liberty here is to break out with Argile's Plot in Scotland This is shrewdly hit Politick every bit of it I thought Argile's Presbyterians and Liberty had not agreed so well together I have heard such Folks hold as ill an Opinion of it as this Gentleman for his Ears But bes●des all this he tells us Our time is short we must in pure dispair do Fears and what are they but to maul and disgrace the Church Party at any rate But if they will give us as good Quarter as they have received from the three or four Pamphlets for Liberty I dare make the Bargain that the Dissenters shall look no farther after Bishopricks nor Church Livings and I would to God it might rest there What a stir is here that men pray to be quiet O! but we know you won't be quiet and therefore you shan't be quiet There is nothing so idle as being very cunning and making every thing a Plot. So Tacitus makes Tiberius to have a deep one in going to the House of Office To be sure it was a necessary one His Conclusion is hard upon us that advocates the Cause of tender Consciences saying We are men of no Honour no Conscience nor Honesty but leaves the proof to be understood Certainly he cannot have too much of those good Qualities that advocates Tertullus like against tender Consciences and to give him his due he is sensible of it for he presently acknowledges his sharpness but excuses it with the baseness of those that dare affirm the Excluders were Church of England Men. But for all that it falls out to be true and nothing but Truth pinches any Body He concludes in defence of the Church of England's Severity and says Tell me how Christ can be Head of opposite Bodies But what then must you persecute where your Head forbids it Though he is not Head of opposite Bodies he does not destroy the Bodies of which he is not Head But what does this Man think of an opposite Head and Body the Head of one Mind and the Body of another An Head and no Member Riddle me Riddle me what 's this He bids us Consider this following place of Scripture and bless the World with a Comment Rev. 11.20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest or toleratest that Woman Jezabel which calleth her self a Prophetess a godly Woman to teach and seduce my Servants to commit Fornication and to eat things sacrificed to Idols Now says he I would fain know how long ●oleration has been a Christian Virtue Rev. 11. By this never trust me one would think him a Divine every Inch of him that can so cleaverly take Not Tolerating IN Communion for Not Tolerating OUT of Communion But is this the Dissenters case Have they askt for the Churches or do they usurp the Pulpits or out of your Communion either do they teach the use of Fornication and Idolatrous Food What stuff is this for a man of some Wit and Words Besides Jezabel was a Persecutor and believed a Whore which with all the manners I have I would fain know to whose Church it is the most part of our English Jezabels go For his Query How long Toleration has been a Christian Virtue 'T is plain ever since Christ came That bid the Tares should grow with the Wheat till the Harvest which his own blessed Comment says Is the end of the World where I should be glad to meet this Gentleman upon my Word Till then I would fain have him and his Friends let us alone and then do their worst Luke 9 54 55 56. They said Lord wilt thou that we command that Fire come down from Heaven and consume them even as Elias did But Jesus turned about and rebuked them and said Ye know not what Spirit ye are of For the Son of Man is not come to destroy mens Lives but to save them An Exposition upon which because the Question is perfectly in the Text is humbly begg'd Of his to Command With Liberty of Conscience FINIS See Sir Sim. Dew pag. 140. 207.