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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58926	A seasonable discourse shewing the necessity of union amongst Protestants, in opposition to popery, as the only means (under God) to preserve the reformed religion also, the charge of persecution, lately maintained against the established religion, by W.P., H.C. and other insignificant scriblers, detected : proving it to be the ministers of state, and not the church, that prosecuted the penal laws on Protestant dissenters.		1688 (1688)	Wing S2228; ESTC R14748	13,863	17

of a Man or to be admitted into the Society of Mankind I desire you would imitate the Church of England in all those things for which I justly commend her In the first place Follow her Loyalty as far as you can and not break the Laws of God nor Men thereto corresponding In the second place Be servent and constant in the Sacred Religion you profess your selves Members of You know without doubt the greatest part of you the Transcendent Excellency of your Religion and therefore if any of you should for Interest or Preferment turn from Truth to Falshood from Light to Darkness from a Sound to a Corrupt Religion How great and unpardonable would so wilful a Sin be And to speak the Truth I must do you the Justice to commend you for your firmness in your Holy Profession in that I have heard few or none that have either gone over or been perverted to the Communion of the Church of Rome notwithstanding the alluring Favours of that Church towards you and practice of her Clergy and Laiety to gain Proselytes among you What I shall say on this Head is Go on and Prosper and without doubt the Spirit of Truth will guide and direct you for the best In the third place Imitate their Fidelity to the Laws of the Land You can't but with admiration perceive how stedfastly they labour to preserve them and all the reasonable Rights and Priviledges of the People As you are Rational Men professing the Protestant Religion and render the Publick Good let not any uncertain Transitory Interest prevail with you so far as basely to give up your Religion and the known useful Laws of the Land be sure you neither consent to the suspending or taking away any that to all Intelligent Men are like to prove your only Security When the Country-man designs to preserve his Grain from those Creatures that would Eat it up or otherwise spoil it he is far from rooting up the Fence that secures it So ought you carefully to preserve the Laws for your own and the Publick Safety Things at present look to you perhaps with a good Aspect I wish they may long continue in that condition But if the course of things should mightily alter and these Halcion Days of which you have no assurance should not long continue how greatly would your hopeful expectations be frustrated Therefore be sure you do not imprudently purchase your present Liberty and seeming Favours at too dear a rate for such Acts may wholly deprive you of the Favours that you may otherwise expect from the next Successor c. But strenuously endeavour to manifest to the World that your former great out cries against the least Invasions of your Religion Liberties Properties and the Laws of the Land were really in earnest and that as then you truly hated those that were in any measure guilty of them so now it something lyes in your Power you will not by the greatest Perswasions and Promises of Kindnesses be wrought on to part with the Laws of the Land because you can't well be Ignorant of the fatal consequence of so doing If you either give us the Laws or cease to execute those that are most necessary you not only highly serve and gratifie your known Enemies but by betraying your Trust you will render your selves extraordinary Odiou● in the Opinion of most Men in that you are unfaithful to what you formerly so much cryed up viz. That the Laws might flourish and Justice might duly and impartially be distributed and all Men quietly possess what of right belongs to them No Honest Man or good Christian will disswade you from Serving or Obeying your Soveraign as f●r as i● Lawful But in all Obedience strict recourse must be had to the Divine and Human Laws that the Limits of neither be Transgressed and then the Issue of such Obedience will be of no ill consequence to you or the Publick Such Obedience will redound to your Immortal Honour Fourthly Consider if the the Papists in England were not of a rigid violent and ambitious Nature they would not make all this stir about the Test which debars them from a share in the Government In Holland we know that though the Papists are very Peaceable and have given many Years Testimonies of their good Behaviour under a Protestant Power yet the States for their own and the Publick Safety will admit none of them into any Offices I am of Opinion and not without Reason Roman Catholicks here can't give so good an account of their Peaceable and Christian Behaviour as those in Holland can Therefore greater Arguments may be produced why no Power ought to be granted to them in England It being notoriously known that though their Prince be a Just Man valluing his Word yet a restless Zeal moves the Papists manibus pedibusque to advance what they call Catholick Interest which without any Restraint will not keep within the bounds of Moderation But if the Laws are taken off I know not of any Obstruction they can meet with then we must expect to be Govern'd wholly by Papists and the consequence of such a Government must be terrible to Protestants for what can they expect less than Popish Lords and Commons and from such a Parliament what less than a perfect establishing of Popery by a Law and without doubt when such Laws are Enacted in favour of that Religion as severe will be made against the growing of Protestant Heresie in England from such Laws and such Times God in Mercy deliver England Pray therefore consider if you once give the Papists so much Power whether so soon as they have it they will not make severer Tests against Protestants than ever were made against the Church of Rome The late Famous Actions of the French King and the Marian Kindness of old to Hereticks are convincing Evidences of the Lenity and Moderation of a Government wholly in the hands of Papists As for the Happiness and flourishing of Kingdoms or Republicks under the Papists See the contrary in Dr. Burnet's Travels The Romanist's great Ambition and eager desire to be in Eminent Places of Trust is enough to convince any Rational Man that for no mean or inconsiderable Enterprises do they contend for them They think if once they can get into the Saddle with greater ease they may Ride the poor Hereticks I would advise you to Ponder with great deliberation the Natures Dispositions and especially the Interests of those Men that with might and main labour to take off the Test And if it shall appear as doubtless it will 't is a grievance to those only that espouse a Forreign Interest directly contrary to yours and that the Test is a strong defence to preserve you I hope you will manifest your real Love and Kindness to this Nation by undergoing for a time as great Severities as ever rather than in any degree be Instrumental in ruining of this now happy Kingdom I mean in her Laws I would