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A56271 A defence of the Ansvver to a paper intituled The case of the dissenting Protestants of Ireland in reference to a bill of indulgence, from the exceptions lately made against it. Pullen, Tobias, 1648-1713. 1695 (1695) Wing P4194; ESTC R220583 32,654 30

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very unfit person to accuse the Considerer of disingenuity So in this pretended Vindication he has shew'd himself no less unduly qualified to tax the Answerer with irreverence towards the Holy Scriptures For he has not only in a very undecent and profane manner ridiculed the first Constitution of the Apostles against eating Blood but has been pleased to end his Replies to my Answer by an irreverent and unjust application of the Words of our Saviour to the present celebrated Parliament of Ireland in implying that their granting the Dissenters a Legal Indulgence with a Sacramental Test would be to act like those churlish Parents that when their Children ask for Bread give them a Stone and when they ask for Fish give them a Serpent as if the free exercise of their Religion with worldly honour and profit were Bread and Fish but that a publick freedom of Divine Worship without Temporal Advantages were Stone and Serpent And that the Parliament in denying the Dissenters an unlimited Indulgence were churlish Parents To the Vindicator's Reflections on the Considerer drawn from the unfitness of narrowing the common Protestant Interest from the sanguinary Laws in Scotland from the Dissenters subscribing the Doctrinal Articles of Faith of the Established Church and their thinking themselves obliged in Conscience to give to all their Fellow Protestants the Toleration they now desire from the greater inclination of the French Protestants to their Communion then to ours from the pretended inexpediencies of the Sacrament Test and from the pretence of desiring that only a few Protestant Dissenters should enjoy the effects of his Majesties favour To all these I leave the Reader to determine whither I have not already given a satisfactory Answer and all that remains to be considered in those Reflections is the Doctrine and Practice of some Dissenters occasionally Communicating with the Established Church To which I answer First That what the Vindicator says here concerning the Dissenters in these Reflections on the Considerer seems inconsistent with what he says in his Replyes to my Answer for there he says that those who really scruple Kneeling in the Act of Receiving are no way Inferiour for Wisdom to those whose judgment has that latitude that they could receive the Sacrament Kneeling Sitting or Standing but here he says he takes those Protestants who can Occasionally communicate both with the Establish'd Church and with the Dissenters to be the most judicious But 2dly and lastly Concerning the Doctrin and practice of Occasional Communion I shall present the Vindicator with the sence of the Author of a Book called Vox Clamantis who was himself a Dissenter and addresses himself to his Brethren in these words viz. There are some things that I will but lightly touch tho others of Contrary Sentiment will lay on loads one is at which I am not a little abash'd that tho you according to your declar'd Principles and ordinary practice are Nonconformists and Dissenters yet upon occasion and to get into Place and Office of Honour or Profit you will and can take any manner of Tests that have of late been imposed also that you can on such occasions take the Sacrament according to the Form and way of the Church of England tho you never did it before nor perhaps will ever do the same again except on the like occasion And tells 'em that they make use of the same Artifices as the Jesuits do on such cases and that he knows nothing will more render 'em in the eyes of all as Men of flexible and profligate Consciences And speaking of the Reflections which he supposes the Conformists pass on the Dissenters for these things he says that they think that nothing tho never so contrary to their Principles can be devised or made to keep you out or to hold you in but that you will break all Bounds and leap over all Hedges And now I do not question but that if the Vindicator would deal ingenuously and speak a bold Truth he would with the Author of the forementioned Book protest that he knows not how to answer this in behalf of the Dissenters with TRVTH and HONESTY ERRATA PAge 6. line 39. read are p. 7. l. 40. r. two or three p. 10. l. 13. after answer dele p. 13. l. 18. r. consequences l 44. r. irrestrictive p. 14. l. 21. r. Genius l. 27. r. and their l. 47. r. such immoralities p. 15. l. 37. r. their p. 16. l. 19. r. especially l. 24. r. Presbyterians l. 36. r. ordinary l 49. r. to boast p. 18. l. 13. r. swearing l. 46. r. easily l. 47. r. Revolution l. 49 put after equal dele after Dissenters p. 20. l. 23. r. warranted p. 21. l 8. after subjection put l. 45. r. use of