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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80378	The interest of England how it consists in vnity of the Protestant religion. With expedients moderate and effectuall to establish it by the extirpation of the papacy. By a member of the House of Commons.	Constantine, William, Sir, 1611 or 12-1670.	1642 (1642)	Wing C5948; Thomason E121_47; ESTC R22632	28,124	40

we receive as an impartiall standerd in its naked purity which by its primitive dispersion and Divine providence is uncorrupted though the Iesuits being thereby too evidently convinc'd begrudth us that and bespatter it therein hellishly striking at the root of all Christianitie 2 Thess 2.10.11 Now because men will not receive the truth that they may be saved God sends them strong delusion that they believe a lye and certainly the Inferior Priest by his rash vow of blind obedience is so muffled that hee mostly appehends not the aforesaid misteries of the papacy but simply in some sort of innocence is precipitated to uncouth enterprises and the credit of his hot zeale and boldnesse beares up the reputation of the Romish cause In which actions though I totally explode his presumption in the defiance of our Lawes yet I pitty that the zeale if it be so of so much ingenuity should be misguided and since he that professes with the truth but formally loosely and not of conscience is suppos'd in darker plight then he that professes conscientiously opinions that are untrue Rom. 10.1.2 if not blasphemous Therefore as Paul of Israel my hearts desire and prayer to God is that they may be saved for they have the zeale of God but not according to knowledge so t is my charity as not to force Romanists that are now possest from the means of truer knowledge so not totally to disable them the practice of Christanity It can be no attractive to our religion to instate them in condition to be of none either permit we Recusants no subsistence in this Kingdome or admit them to be no Atheists T is prophesyed that in the fulnesse of time a Rev. 18.2 Babilon that b Rev. 17.9 City seated upon seaven hills drunke with the blood of c Rev. 17.6 saints that has made d Rev. 18.13 merchandise of the soules of men and has inebriated all Nations with the cups of hir fornication must fall e 2 Thess 2.10 Him God will consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightnesse of his comming And certainly where the Gospell is preached in its true purity liberty and power that black darkenesse vanishes as a mist before the Sun Ponder we in this Land where it gaines settlement i● it be not either where there is but darke instruction or where the pride ignorance or loosenesse of a Minister scandals his profession Adapt we our Church-Discipline that it may ingage our Ministry to diligence more then interest that people be so superintended as to become neither sottish nor libertines that there be a vigilant and handy-a●e over sinne as well as schisme the Romish Empire which covets darkenesse will be soone confounded mauger the utmost endevour of hir instruments In the interim some gentlelesse to such adversaries as are now possest in conscience as it will argue confidence of our own cause and brotherly longing for their fellowship so may it insinuate and court them into a kindly approbation of our happinesse in the liberty of Divine knowledge which knowledge will soone unvaile even to such as are ingenuous Priests the project of their imposed drudgery To the lay-votarist of confession and ignorance which they cannot but resent with indignation and improve to undeceave themselves apprehending how their estates strengths and zeale are imployed implicitely as Dromedaryes to support the insolence state and riot of their superior Clergy Religionis suae abusus quastus sacrificum est in causa so Postellus Nor can they be deterred by our present fractions since both ours Lib. 1. de orb Concord cap. 7. and the variance which is in most of the reformed Churches is nothing dangerous because not doctrinall T is onely in discipline charg'd to be overgrowne or introduct for politick designes or in Ceremonies which by some are thought indifferent by others absolutely unlawfull by none essentiall to salvation These doubtlesse the difference being interest not divinity and consisting in the garment not the body time and ripe providence will temper to a reconcilement But if some Priests according to the proposition may not be admitted upon the grounds of charity and confidence let it be argued upon the grounds of humane reason The profession of a Romanist so necessitates him to the personall imployment of his confessor that unlesse we suppose him totally * N●mo prae●umitur ●ss● imme●●or ae●e●●ae sa●utis heathenish and unchristian we may assure our selves that he commerses with his Priest And well may the rigour of our Law inforce Priests to privacy and disguisement but never to a totall abjuration for absolutely to dissert their party were to infrindge their vow of obedience to renounce their orders of which some presume they make conscience or they would not subject themselves to so much sufferance restraint rather quickens their inventions to evade then flats their resolutions to adventure since the difficulty of the action instiles it as to them meritorious Perhaps to that deboistnesse which in forraine parts among Priests is so notorious upon such relaxation would here display it selfe in its proper colours whereby the seduced people would be no longer cosend by their glosse of sanctity and the loosenesse of our owne ministry not so much discourage us as if unparaleld Gasp Contar. De Rep. Ven. Now the sage Venetians fadoming that dependance which the whole Clergy have upon the Sea of Rome forbid all Priests their Councells with a Fora y Preti by the voyce of common Cryers but Iesuits they experience to be so slyly officious in State contrivements that they banisht that order their Dominions upon paine of death Nor is it memoris'd that any have violated that Law for that neither conscience nor vow obliges them to so desperate a service since their Priestly office as it relates to God may be dispatcht by others This ground onely is that which will disburthen us of Iesuits and those superfluous swarmes of Priests which now cloy and pester us permit we upon good testimonie and security of quiet conversation some few saeculars such as are borne free-English to injoy their birth-rights Let their number be so straitned as they have no leasure from their function to be tampering in the State let them be injoyn'd a difference in habit whereby they may be distinguisht and avoyded As conscience would not Egge on the recidue to attempt hither with such perill of unavoidable death if apprehēded where they are not necessary in their calling so much mischiefe might chance to be prevented which they now project under the maske of Gallantry and disguise Nor can such a prudentiall act be instil'd a toleration of Idolatry since we charge that Religion with so many present disabilities c. as are else-where exprest as also with a drift in time of * Vid Claus 2. totall extirpation Not to execute the utmost severity of punishment is not an allowance to the crime Of two evills upon