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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54588	The visions of the reformation, or, A discovery of the follies and villanies that have been practis'd popish and fanatical thorough reformations since the reformation of the Church of England by Edward Pettit ...	Pettit, Edward.	1683 (1683)	Wing P1895; ESTC R31108	84,657	252

fomented the fatal divisions of that Kingdom to establish the Throne of Christ's Vicar upon the Ruines of the Monarchy they instructed and encouraged the Assassins and yet they did not kill him 't is easie to apply it but 't is hard to make them believe it I believe so too Sir said I for with the same confidence that the Jesuits could splendidly embalm the heart of that * Henry 4. Prince whom they had traiterously Murthered do our Presbyterians seem to lament for the Death of King Charles the First and who but they restored King Charles the Second who now such Defenders of the Regalia of France as the Jesuits and Father Maimbourg writes against the Usurpations of the Pope who but Presbyterians are Loyal Subjects who but they the Preservers of their Country and of the true Protestant Religion Hiccius Doxius of Colchester writes his Black Nonconformist and Dedicates it to the Archbishop of Canterbury just as * Answered by Dr. Durel Philanax Anglicus a Jesuit did before him these are the men that are so irreconcilable to Popery that every honest Orthodox Church-man is a Jesuitical Tory and is mark't out in Libels and Pamphlets to the Rabble who have a fair occasion to complement him when they Cart the Whore of Babylon through the streets of London These are your true Protestant Processions wherein they burn the Pope in Effigie that they may establish his Authority for the multitude are as ready to change Crucifie him into Hosanna's as Hosanna's into Crucifie him they are but as Dogs to Perk that fair game the Jesuits never want a consecrated Gun to shoot at this is the old game of 41 but they will neither acknowledge their former guilt nor fear that punishment which attended it which King Charles says was like that of Corah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 261. and his Complices at once mutining both against Prince and Priest in such a method of divine Justice as is not ordinary the earth of the lowest and meanest people opening upon them and swallowing them up in just disdain of their ill-gotten and worse-used Authority upon whose support and strength they chiefly depended for their building and establishing their designs against me the Church and State As soon as I had spoken these words the roof was in a moment uncovered and there descended the most glorious object that ever I beheld it was in the shape of a Virgin Beautifull as the Sun and which had all the Charms of Heaven and Earth her garments were not very rich but decent and comly her eyes piercing as lightning and on her face was enthron'd all the glories of modesty and innocency her feet which were bare seemed torn and bloody with Thorns and Briars on her right hand sat Kings and Princes and immediately next her King Charles the First with a Crown of light upon his head her left was guarded with a long row of Reverend Prelates in garments white as Snow she no sooner descended with a quickning light all about her but both the Trent Fathers and Assembly of Divines were so strangely Metamorphosed that I could not distinguish them from Devils or from one another for the Fucus and Paint of Hypocrisie upon their faces with which they had deluded and bewitch'd such multitudes of people melted off with the warmth of her Rays and she no sooner espied them but with an angry grief she threatned to make them in a short time as contemptible and odious to future Ages as the worst Hereticks in the world ever were I have said she turning and looking around her travelled through the Wilderness of this World now more than Sixteen hundred years and never yet could find any long-continued abode or resting-place But when the Defenders of the Faith like true Christian Champions had set me free from my long and dark imprisonment and had restored me to my Primitive purity and just Authority the Honour the Peace the Plenty I brought to these Kingdoms made me reflect not only upon their gratitude but their interest too for my security But wo is me I still like the Sun must pass through Clouds of various shapes which are every where drawn from the combined humours of a feculent world yet never was I so much darkned with sorrow and lamentations as in these Islands for the unparallell'd Indignities inflicted upon my head and my members by the most ungratefull men upon the most unjust accusation that ever was lay'd to my charge by Heathens or Infidels I who freed them from the Tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities was condemned and torn in pieces as guilty of Popish Superstitions So my great Bridegrome was accused as instrumental to the bringing the old Romans to take away the Place and Nation of the Jews but their destruction followed his Crucifixion and the Rebellious divisions of those very Jews provok't the Roman Emperours and lay'd them open to that final vengeance that they left that Land delug'd with blood which they found overflown with Milk and Honey Oh my people of England whom I love and pity with the tenderest compassion and with an unlimited charity Oh that ye weeping said she would know in this your day the things that belong unto your peace that ye would open your eyes and see and consider who they are that will by undiscreet zeal preposterous fears or an ambitious policy subject you to a more intollerable bondage than ever this Nation yet felt Are they not those Pharisaical Hypocrites which strain at a Gnat but swallow a Camel who Pray against Popery in the Church but Preach Jesuitism in the Conventicle who fight against me under a form of Godliness who for a pretence make long Prayers and thorough Reformations that they may destroy Widows houses and God's too Certainly ye have been sufficiently taught from the Calamities ye have lately felt without comparing them to others of a farther distance of time and place not to trust to any change of that Government which was restored with so Universal satisfaction and has still preserved you in peace but by an union of Loyal and truly Christian Resolutions to maintain it against all opposition upon what pretence soever which thing if ye doe then shall ye be delivered from the Presbyterianism of the Council of Trent and from the Jesuitism of the Assembly of Divines from Popish Leagues and Protestant Covenants from the Good Old Cause with a new name to it from establishing Christ's Throne upon the Blood Of Pious Prelates and of Christian Kings From Killing God's Anointed to his Glory From Prayers in unknown words for unknown things And from the Mass and from the Directory THE Third VISION OF THE REFORMATION A short Vindication of the Reformation of the Church of England The Methods the Presbyterians used to ruine it A full Description of their thorough Reformation Parallel desideratur IT is a great and lawfull conveniency that a well-meaning man has in Visions

and those bloody Murthers that happen'd in Constantinople for the Colours of Green and Blew under Justinian But now let 's hear you Play upon the Organs Whig Not for the World they are both Jewish and Popish and the proof for them in Durantus's Rationale will not hold good from that Text of Scripture Let every thing that hath Breath praise the Lord for Pope Vitalian was the man that glories first to have taught mankind the art of worshipping God with a Box of Whistles Pamph. They sound better than the prayers of a Sauce-box that trumpets his impertinences to Heaven through his Snout of which we had good store when the Trumpeters in Zion made a Drum of the Pulpit to call the people out to fight the Lord's Battels against his Anointed in the days of the Sweet-singers of Israel Whose frensies then were reconcil'd Hud With Drums and Rattles like a child I know the Chinese sing all in one Note and the Turkese Amusical dispositions shew the Barbarity of their tempers in some cases but that true Protestants should serve God onely with those tunes they whistle to their Horses is the strangest thing in the world that they should think nothing so sprightly in devotion as that which Lulls their Brats asleep Well the beating a Hog's Trough is as good for a Sow as a pair of Organs for her Pigs for extempore singing or snivelling sounds better with them than orderly composures that will not be confin'd to any Rule in any thing else But if Instrumental Musick be as you fancy so offensive to God on Earth how come we to reade of Citharists and Harpers in Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having the Revel 15. 2. Harps of God The whole Book of Psalms so often used by Christ is Sepher Tehillim a Book of Praises And why may they not now the Prophetick Part is fulfilled be sung with as joyfull a noise as they were in the Temple before to which Christ himself in his flesh often resorted I know no reason why Organs should blow Popery into any man's head we have had experience to the contrary at home for * Histor if the Reform Part 1. pag. 326. Rob. Festwood and John Marbeck two Singing-men at Windsor prov'd as Early Protestants as any of their neighbours for Festwood was Burn't for it and Marbeck was the first that shew'd the way to compose an English Concordance The Reformed Churches abroad use them and I dare lay you a wager you will find a pair in the very Maiden Town of Dort which was never yet forc'd with your Musick of the Canon And now we are got again to Dort let St. Austin for old acquaintance sake give you a small sentence to teach you better manners for the future In his rebus saith he quibus August in Ep. Casulano nihil certi statuit divina Scriptura mos Populi Dei vel Instituta Majorum pro Lege tenenda sunt utique cavendum est nè tempestate contentionis serenitas charitatis obnubiletur In those things concerning which divine Scripture determineth nothing certain the custome of God's People or the determinations of our Ancestours are to be held for a Law Whig I take you at your word I stand to the customes of God's People and I cry with the Council of Nice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pamph. And I 'll take the words of the Apostle 1 Cor. 11. 16. If any man among you seems to be contentious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we have no such custome nor the Churches of God And this he saith after he had given the Corinthians a Rationale of the Service and Ordinances he had delivered them and for such Projectours as you are since you so often appeal to the Reformed Churches abroad Hear what * Epist Ded in N. T. Beza saith Intolerabiles sunt omninò qui Novitatis studio vetustatem damnant sed ii quoque magnam reprehensionem merentur quibus nihil nisi vetustum sapit They are altogether intolerable that condemn all Antiquity out of a study of Novelty but they too deserve mightily to be blam'd who will admit of nothing but what is very ancient But Sir for my part I 'll scramble with you no longer but leave it to the Learned who are longer winded than I am and besides you have so many ridiculous scruples about the Circumstantials of Time and Place c. That you seem rather to urge some of them for the sake of a Jest than for any Reason in them lest any one Quibble in your Common Place book should be lost and not doe the work of its Generation Whig Ay but Sir I 'll be serious My Conscience will not give me leave to comply with these humane Inventions though back'd with the Authority of the Supreme Magistrate God Commands me to obey Authority the same God Commands me not to sin against my light in some cases I am not bound to obey Authority but in no case am I allowed to act against my light It 's very clear that the Magistrate has a Power to command but not so clear that he has a power to determine things Indifferent and make these determinations the conditions of my enjoying the means of salvation But it 's very certain that Conscientia erronea ligat licèt non obligat An erroneous Conscience though it oblige me not to act against what God has made a duty yet it binds me up from ever acting against its Convictions And therefore 't is safer to adhere to the clearer side and not to act against the decision of Conscience in compliance with a Command which its uncertain whether it oblige or no. Pamph. Here is the scope of all your Arguments in your 6 7 and 8 Chapters crouded up into this kind of Prosyllogism should I trip up one of the Propositions down they would all tumble like an House built of Cards Trumps and all but we will take 'em off gently one after another We grant you that you are in no case allowed to act against your Light No by no means so to act as to make that light darkness which you do if you be wilfully ignorant and blind however you say 't is clear that the Magistrate has a Power to Command Many thanks to you for that 't is a Property of his that may be felt and that 's more But how is it not so clear that he has a Power to determine things Indifferent why the following Clause makes it obscure And make these determinations the conditions of my enjoying the means of salvation Pray how or in what sense do you mean his making them the Conditions c. Suppose you had a Tryal for a Title to an Estate because the Supreme Magistrate appoints the time place and persons for the Assizes would those determinations be the conditions of your enjoying the means c. not the immediate conditions certainly but the Evidence you can make and the Letter of the Law Now if you will