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england_n	great_a	land_n	lord_n	2,551	5	3.2299	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85169	A beacon set on fire: or The humble information of certain stationers, citizens of London, to the Parliament and Commonwealth of England. Concerning the vigilancy of Jesuits, papists, and apostates, (taking advantage of the divisions among our selves and the states great employment,) to corrupt the pure doctrine of the Scriptures. Introduce the whole body of popish doctrine & worship. Seduce the subjects of this Commonwealth unto the popish religion, or that which is worse. By writing and publishing many popish books, (printed in England in the English tongue within these three last years, therein maintaining all the gross points of popery, ... And blasphemous books of another nature: all made evident by the catalogue and contents of many of the aforesaid books added hereunto. Published for the service of the Parliament and commonwealth. Hoping that the Parliament by sufficient laws, ... will set themselves ... to maintain the faith that was once delivered to the saints against all the enemies thereof.	Fawne, Luke, d. 1666.	1652 (1652)	Wing F564; Thomason E675_14; ESTC R202095	8,134	16

A Beacon Set On Fire OR The Humble Information of certain Stationers Citizens of London to the Parliament and Commonwealth of ENGLAND Concerning the Vigilancy of Jesuits Papists and Apostates taking advantage of the Divisions among our selves and the States great Employment To Corrupt the pure Doctrine of the Scriptures Introduce the whole Body of Popish Doctrine Worship Seduce the Subjects of this Commonwealth unto the Popish Religion or that which is worse By Writing and Publishing many Popish Books Printed in England in the English Tongue within these three last Years therein maintaining all the gross Points of Popery urging a necessity for all to receive them upon pain of Damnation proclaiming in one of them that the Parliament have discharg'd the people of this Nation from the common professed Religion thereof boasting of many eminent men that are lately converted to their Religion and expressing the hopes they have of a great flowing in of people unto them And Blasphemous Books of another Nature All made evident by The Catalogue and Contents of many of the aforesaid Books added hereunto Published for the Service of the Parliament and Commonwealth Hoping that the Parliament by sufficient Laws and the Lords Ministers and People by their Preaching and Prayers will set themselves upon this Alarum that the Enemy gives to maintain the Faith that was once delivered to the Saints against all the Enemies thereof LONDON Printed for the Subscribers hereof 1652. The humble Information of certain Stationers Citizens of London to the Parliament and Commonwealth of England concerning Popish and Blasphemous Books THe ardent affection that we bear unto the § 1 true Reformed Christian Religion taught in the holy Scriptures the operation and sweetness whereof upon our hearts we have an experimental knowledg taste and feeling of through the Holy Ghost to the eternal praise of the grace of God which Religion through the same effectual working hath been sealed with the blood of so many holy Martyrs The tender love we bear to our own native Country and Relations being passionately desirous that the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus may flourish in this Nation unto the end of the World that so the future generations enjoying the light of his glorious Gospel and Ordinances may through his grace walk in that light unto the Kingdom of Glory And lastly the just fear we have lest Popish Blasphemous Books should grow so numerous as to become a considerable if not the greatest part of our Trade and so we be tempted to be Venders of such Loathsom Ware or else necessitated to leave our Callings to keep our Consciences pure These Considerations have put us upon giving this Information following to the Parliament and Commonwealth of England concerning the late publishing and printing many Popish and Blasphemous Books in England in the English Tongue which otherwise perhaps they would not so soon come to the knowledg of that they might suppress them § 2 Hoping it will be well taken because it is a matter of such unspeakable concernment as Gods staying with these Nations or departing from them the Salvation or Damnation of millions of Souls and because the Members of the Parliament to whom we chiefly intend this our humble Information are by Profession of the Reformed Christian Religion in opposition to Popery who have in all their Declarations ever since the beginning of the late troubles held forth the maintaining thereof as one end of the War and have demolished Popish Pictures that men might not learn Popery by them put men to death for being obliged by Office to assert the Popes Supremacy made a greater Profession of Sanctity then any Parliament that ever sat before them and of aiming at the highest degrees of Reformation even beyond Presbytery it self Yea our hopes ascend higher to wit That that great Accusation of the Parliament in one of the Popish Books namely That God hath put a period to the common professed Religion of this Nation and that by Authority of PARLIAMENT will be by publique Demonstrations confuted the Parliament well knowing that the common people of this Nation will be of one Religion or other and if by publique Authority they be not kept to the Reformed Religion they 'l be easily drawn to the Popish When an old Religion is out of credit with a State the multitude will welcome the Introducers of a new and if once the Approvers of Popery should grow most numerous how then can we have other then a Popish Parliament and a Popish Army Or if the Parliament should be Protestant yet how could it rule or be safe sith the strength of the supream Magistrate lieth in his Subjects And if once the Romish Religion should prevail then farewel the holy Bible in our Mother Tongue and Sacraments in both kinds or so much as in one otherwise then as a visible real material Sacrifice both for the quick and the dead Then no more preaching and Catechizing in English out of the pure Fountain of the Scripture we must part with these inestimable Treasures for the filth of Egypt viz. the Romish Church for the Rule and Standard of our Faith and her Service in Latin with all the rabble of her Will-worship and Superstition for our Practice which if we shall not like of as the best we shall for our satisfaction be sent to the Inquisition there adjudged to be Hereticks and so past their cure and then as if it were pity to leave us so tender-hearted fathers as they are they 'l turn us over to the secular Power who will quickly rid themselves and their Church of us the same way as they did our renowned Progenitors in Q. Mary's days And then what will become of the Souls of our dear children and the posterity that shall succeed us when they shall want the means of their Conversion and Salvation viz. the pure Gospel and Ordinances of Jesus Christ which every godly parent and Commonwealthsman had rather leave unto his children then the greatest earthly Inheritance that ever man was born to Having thus in all humility declared our selves by § 3 way of Introduction we do hereby faithfully inform the Parliament and Commonwealth of England That while the people of God in this Land have vented their heat against each other about lesser points in Divinity and the Parliament and Army conflicted by Councel Force with many Enemies in reference to publike Liberty wherby the great care that otherwise might have been had of the Lords Vineyard hath been hindred the old vanquish'd Popish Party Jesuits and Papists are unawares with indefatigable pains endeavoring all along to entice the people of this Commonwealth unto the Popish Religion and have made such great progress therein by ways known not only to God but as we conceive wise men also as that now they have taken the boldness to publish among the people of this Nation divers Impressions of several sorts of Popish Books in the English Tongue and printed in England