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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31186	The case of the suspended bishops considered in which the unreasonableness of their descent from the present government and the mischievous consequence that hath attended it, is demonstrated.		1691 (1691)	Wing C1168; ESTC R3534	16,373	38

cannot but laugh at the Poor Notions of such Bigotted Creatures as he I would fain know where this Act of Piety lyes and if it be an Act of Piety it must be a Duty and then instead of Petitioning the King to do it they should have sent in some of their Dissenting Clergy I mean Dissenting from the Present Settlement not the Church to let His Majesty see the great Hazard of omitting such a necessary and binding Duty What narrow and rediculous Notions have some People of Acts of Piety sure it 's in their opinion another great Act of the same Nature for our Author to come the length of Lambeth from his Cell in Gloucestershire meerly to seek the Fatherly Blessing of the Holy Blessed c. Primate as he calls him as being of a greater Value than those of others that have taken the Oaths and concur d with the Present Settlement Our Author 's mentioning the Honour His Majesty acquir'd in passing the Boyne puts me in mind of the great Expectations we were in at that time of the Efficacy this Success of the Kings might have had upon the Consciences of our Suspended Clergy For we were of Opinion that it might have prov'd a Convincing Argument to remove the Scruples that could not be overcome at any time before But we are mistaken for once tho we have yet some weak Glimpse of Hopes Than the Subduing of Limerick and the rest of Ireland beyond the Channon may help to open 2ome Peoples Eyes once for all Who knows but the Sees of the Suspended Bishops may be left vacant till that time and then they may be reinstated in them without the Necessity of an Address from our Gloucester Grand-Jury or an Apology from our Author But Alas we have mistaken mightily our Author and his Partners in this Address we thought they had been Men a little out of the Road of the World and through their Confinement to the Country little acquainted with what passed on the publick Theatre which we deem'd was the reason of their venturing upon such a rediculous Address No the Gentlemen are extraordinarily acquainted at Rome and they are intimately conversant in the Popes Pallaces and in the Colledge of Cardinals For it 's there he finds the News of the Bishops Suspension was joyfully received Yea they have Advice thence That the General of the Jesuits receiv'd the Express with Triumph and surprizing Pleasure The Truth is one would be almost ready to think our Gloucester Grand-Jury had kept Correspondence with Rome and with no less than The Pope the Colledge of Cardinals and the General of the Jesuits yea that they had sent this Express our Author mentions But really I am willing to acquit the Honest Gentlemen of any such Correspondence and I believe their Acquaintance at Rome but small they talk so rediculously of things there It 's true if any body has been at the pains to talk of the Suspended Bishops at Rome they might indeed Laugh at the Measures of some Men who made a great Noise once for the Liberty and Religion of their Country and when it came to be vindicated in a publick Settlement turn'd about they neither know well whither nor wherefore I am of the Opinion we here at London would laugh heartily at the Folly of any of the Cardinals at Rome that should not concur heartily with any thing that might confirm or establish their own Order and Church but should stand out against it without telling the World wherefore And therefore we must upon the like Score even allow them to laugh at some of us here in England But at Rome there will be more laughing at 2ome People I have Characteriz'd than at the rest of England for their Measures towards them The Italians are generally wiser than to laugh at what they would do themselves if they were in the same Case And if our Author be so well acquainted there pray let him acquaint us where in all that Country he has met with any of the clergy enjoying their Offices and Benefices without acknowledging the Government where they lye He Summs up his Pamphlet with a New Rapsody of ill Words and hot Calumnies against the Dissenters and all them that have condemn'd the Gloucester Address for he puts them two always in one bottom The Truth is I am wearied with this Stuff and must even leave the Gentleman to fetch his Breath a little after so violent a Vomit least by stirring up this envenom'd Matter I make my self Sick as well as he But if any of the Dissenters be at pains to throw away as much time as to answer such Silly Accusations they may for me for I am neither concern'd nor have time to do it FINIS