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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08995	A sober reply, on behalf of the people called Quakers, to two petitions against them, (the one out of Norfolk, and the other from Bury in Suffolk) being some brief observations upon them. Published on occasion of Francis Bugg's exposing one of the said petitions in print, and commending the other, &c. With many unjust aggravations and misrepresentations in his late book, falsly stiled A modest defence, &c.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1700 (1700)	Wing E628A; ESTC R174956	8,661	16

Society no Rules of Discipline no Power in Matters of Religion among us that is Repugnant to the Establish'd Laws of this Kingdom relating only to Civil Matters nor contrary to the Acts for Toleration Nor with Submission to our Superiours do we see how those Acts could be truly called Acts of Toleration to Dissenters if they did not Tolerate each sort of Dissenters to Assume Rules of Discipline Power in Matters of Religion and Forms of Church Government for and amongst themselves while nothing is thereby done Repugnant to the Publick Peace Nor do we understand but that the same is allow'd to and practic'd by all other Protestant Dissenters Pet. Vouching in all their Actions Divine Inspiration for their Warrant and the Indulgence of the Government for their Indempnity Obs In All their Actions is too large an Expression and shews the Petitioners spake by rote But if we vouch Divine Inspiration for our Warrant in some things which relate more immediately to the Worship and Service of God and undertake withal to make appear that That Inspiration is not disagreeable to the Divine Testimonies recorded in the Holy Scriptures we hope our Warrant will not be disliked for being Grounded on Inspiration nor that Inspiration for being Divine And that the Indulgence of so Indulgent a Government will be sufficient to Indempnifie us in our Peaceable Performance thereof Pet. How apparently their Blasphemous Books and Pernicious Principles tend to subvert the Fundamentals of Christianity and undermine the Civil Government are sufficiently Demonstrable Obs Demonstrable Not yet Demonstrated then it seems tho' for these Forty Years and more it has been endeavoured Hard Words and Ill Names may easily be put upon the best Books and Principles And there is no Book or Principle which may not by Perversion and Misconstruction be made to look and sound Ill. But sure we are and always ready to make appear that neither are our Books Blasphemous nor our Principles Pernicious The Fundamentals of Christianity we heartily Own and Assert as Boldly and Vigorously as any And how far we have been from undermining the Civil Government our Practice well known throughout these Kingdoms is the best Demonstration Pet. The Publishing whereof by pretended Permission of the Government is of most dangerous Consequence Obs Pray give the Government leave to judge of that So long as the Church of Rome could stop the Publishing of any Books or Principles but her own the Christian World lay very Snug in a deep Sleep of Darkness and Profound Ignorance which she had lul'd it into which was what she desired And if the first Reformers had been debarr'd the Liberty of Publishing their Books and Principles the Reformation must either not have been begun or greatly retarded in the carrying of it on and Popery might have prevailed still It is a sure Maxim that Truth is Strongest And therefore they who have Truth on their side and who know their own Principles to be Sound need not fear the Publishing of Principles by others for if those Principles publish'd by others be true they co-operate with theirs and therein they have Cause to rejoyce If false they have thereby a fair Occasion given them by exposing and confuting the Errors thereof to illustrate more clearly and establish more firmly the true Principles asserted by themselves and for that they have no cause to be Sorry Thus far the Petition out of Norfolk the Prayer of which shall be considered together with that from Bury which will help to explain one another The Petition from Bury speaks in the Name of The Alderman Assistant Justice chief Burges and Burgesses of the Common Council in behalf of themselves and other the Inhabitants of that Burrough And in it they say Pet. That we considering all Ancient Haeresies which have vexed both Church and State were never so formidable in their Rise and Progress as are the Quakers Obs Are then the Alderman and Burgesses of Bury acquainted with and versed in All Ancient Haeresies Or do they rely upon the assistance of their assistant Justice Or do both They and He take this upon trust from some not very trusty Parson Have they read examined considered the Vexation the Spoil the Havock of both Estates and Lives and almost Desolation made in both Church and State by the Arian Haeresie alone so tragically set forth by Ruffinus Socrates Scholasticus Theodorit and Sozomen in their Ecclesiastical Histories Or if they have can they without blushing say The Arrian Haeresie and all other Ancient Haeresies were never so formidable in their Rise and Progress as are the Quakers Who are the Quakers formidable to unless to the Priests And wherein to them Unless the Quakers Zeal which they so complain of makes them fear that they must both Preach better and Live better or else they will be in danger to lose the best of their Hearers and perhaps with them what they value more than them some of their Maintenance But they say Pet. We have too just a Cause of dreading the Subversion of our Government by them if not carefully prevented and suppressed Obs Our Government What do they mean The Government of the Burrough of Bury St. Edmonds by the Aldermen assistant Justice chief Burgess and Burgesses of the Common Council there We never understood that any Quaker hath attempted to meddle with their Government or intrude into it but rather that some have declin'd it when invited thereunto If they mean the Government of England we hope they will not so appropriate it to themselves as to exclude their Fellow-Subjects from a Share in the Care Support and Preservation thereof which we and all other Protestant Dissenters have as much reason as they with respect to our Estates Liberties and Lives to wish and seek the Welfare and Safety of And we humbly appeal to the Governours themselves whether we have given any just Cause by our Carriage Deportment and Behaviour to and under the Government for any to Dread the Subversion of the Government by us Pet. Being in their Clandestine Constitutions opposite to the Condition of our established Polity Obs What they mean by Clandestine Constitutions we know not nor what by the Condition of their established Polity But this we know that as we have nothing which we call Constitutions so neither any thing that is Clandestine or done in a Clandestine way among us Pet. And in their Principles of Faith Anti-christian Obs So did the Church of Rome object to the Protestants in general upon the Reformation as Bp. Jewel in his Apology for the Church of England observes Clamant hodie passim says he p. 7. Nos omnes esse Haereticos discessisse à fide c. They cry out now a-days That we are all Haereticks That we are departed from the Faith c. But if that was a false Charge against them we are sure this is not a true Charge against us For we sincerely and heartily own all that is written in the Holy