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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41625	A reply to the Answer of the Amicable accommodation being a fourth vindication of the Papist misrepresented and represented : in which are more particularly laid open some of the principal methods by which the papists are misrepresented by Protestants in their books and sermons.	Gother, John, d. 1704.	1686 (1686)	Wing G1349; ESTC R18660	32,565	50

little what Protestants are should let slip his Text and following our Mooish way should be so unjust to his Flock as not to spend his Glass in instructing them in their Duty or reforming their Lives but making use of some little Arts should place his main endeavour in provoking them to a good hearty aversion against Protestants and should thus expose them My Dear Christians stick fast to the Truth of the Gospel preach'd by Christ and his Apostles and deliver'd down to you by a continual Succession of Pastors and Teachers and the Practice of the Faithful in all Ages But above all beware of such who make Divisions and Schisms in the Church of God such as cry out Christ Christ and Reformation but are nothing but the Fore-runners of Antichrist These call themselves Protestants the Name you have scarce heard of as being no where in Scripture Fathers nor Antiquity but their wicked Principles and Practices have fill'd the whole Earth They have out-done even the Heathens and those that know not God in all sorts of Wickedness and Impiety And this the few Good Men that are amongst them own themselves One Eminent for his Writings and known by the Author of the Whole Duty of Man confesses it to them and the World that they have broken down not only the banks of RELIGION but of CIVILITY too And so universal a depravation is there says he amongst us that we have scarce any thing left to distinguish us from the most Barbarous People but a better Name and worse Vices Do you see how under the pretence of Reforming they have brought Corruption into the World that even they themselves own it and yet go on under an empty Title of being the Chosen People of God This same thing is confess'd and own'd almost in the same words by another Good Man now of late who before his Prelate in a Visitation Sermon delivers it for Gospel that they are so wicked that they cannot be thought the Servants of God We can never says he make them our Enemies believe that we are the Servants of the Living God or have a just sense of Devotion while they see that we have nothing to distinguish us from the Worshippers of a False God but a Better Name and Worse Vices But then that you may neither doubt of the truth of this nor yet wonder at it he gives a sufficient Reason in the same Sermon where he says that their Guides and Ministers who should lead and direct them to Good do instead of this encourage them to Vice and Faction When the Clergy themselves says he p. 14. have given EXAMPLE and ENCOURAGEMENT to Men to break the Churches Laws and contemn her Authority no wonder that VICE and FACTION appear insolent and daring You see then they have not the Fear of God in their Hearts nor Actions and you see the Reason of it This is all hitherto in respect chiefly of God but now in respect of their Neighbour they have no Charity for any that are not of their mind but for their own Brethren they think themselves bound to help and assist them tho' engag'd in the foulest of Villanies and Crimes Thus when the Scots under pretext of Reforming Religion had invaded their Prince's Authority and by the Preaching of John Knox and other head-strong Ministers says their own Author had been persuaded that it pertain'd to them to reduce by force their Prince to the prescript of Laws and wanting some assistance to effect it they sent to Queen Elizabeth for Aid And here what says Sir Rich. Baker a Protestant Historian Amongst other Considerations It seem'd no less says he than an IMPIETY not to give aid to the Protestants of the same Religion So that tho' they are confess'd by him to have pretended only a Reformation not by chance but rather plotted of purpose according to the Suggestion of Head-strong Ministers to incroach upon the Prerogative of the Crown and to demand aid from abroad by violence to reduce their Prince which is to be as great Traytors as can be yet 't is an Impiety says he not to help them in their Rebellion since they are Brethren of the same Persuasion Holy Brethren believe me thus to deem it a Duty to joyn hands in Rebellion and to be Traytors for Religion-sake You see what their Doctrin is in regard of Foreign Princes And do you think they have any better respect for their own Yes if He be of their Religion and thinks as they think Otherwise they 'l beg his Pardon as now if he should be a Popish one for Example what deference would they have for him You may learn it from one of their own Leaders in the Gospel who with a very Remarkable NOVERINT or BE IT KNOWN delivers a Doctrin of a most rare piece of Gallantry with a most admirable Resolution of confronting such a Prince to his face and making the contempt of him a Duty And that none may question in the least this their Respectful Divinity this Author delives it yet plainer in another Place p. 80. Where making a Discourse with some prospect of a Popish Successor He thus openly speaks their common sense So far says he are all those who are so tender of the Succession from having any tenderness for a Popish Successor that they dread him like the PLAGVE and therefore would have had Provisional Laws made to bind up such an One and put him under very CLOSE LEGAL CONFINEMENT in case he should be King This is what the better and most Loyal Part of them were willing to afford such a Prince but for the others Nothing would serve says he the other Protestants but an Act of EXCLVSION back'd with another for an ASSOCIATION Do you see my Dear Flock what new sort of Christians these are what their Charity what their Loyalty what they look upon their Duty How far the Best of them can go how far the Worst Well might that One Good Man confess that they have broken down the Banks not only of RELIGION but of CIVILITY too and that their Vices are more heinous than those of the most Barbarous People And what he confess'd you your selves have now seen prov'd to the scandal of the Christian Name out of their own Authors and those not obscure ones or rak'd out of the Dust but of the most Eminent amongst them to be found in all hands read every where and never reprov'd or condemn'd by any so that you have all the reason in the World to conclude that 't is the sense of their Church whatsoever some of the more subtle of them may pretend to the contrary But I must not harangue too long I know it will not please and really it even nauseates me even in this manner to carry on a piece of Sophistry which I have seen and heard so often practic'd in earnest in the weightiest concern by the Soberest Men and in the most Sacred Places This will suffice