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A52984 A modest censure of the immodest letter to a dissenter, upon occasion of His Majesty's late gracious declaration for liberty of conscience by T.N. a true member of the Church of England. T. N., True member of the Church of England.; T. N., True member of the Church of England. 1687 (1687) Wing N76; ESTC R10204 21,456 25

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Indulgent to you beyond a President and done nothing to disoblige you but in keeping you from biting and devouring one another you know not why And who will harm you if you be followers of that which is good I am one of those who am so valiant as to have none of those Fears and Jealousies about me which our Author speaks of nor do I think that he himself who acts this timorous Part before the Dissenter do's believe himself but only pretends it in pursuance of some other dark Designs for which his Letter as black as it is would blush if they should be brought to light The King has done all things that in him lies to create a Confidence in him and all things conspire to give us Ease Satisfaction and Security if we are not wanting to our selves and therefore we have great reason to be extreamly pleas'd and oblig'd and to shew the Nation that part of it which is without as well as that within the Pale of the Church that we are so for this is such a piece of Good Manners as will be a ●●●●●…ian Duty and not a Court Complement and the Vertue of it is the gloater because it is now become necessary for the preservation o● the Church of England and the justification of her avow'd Principles of Loyalty We have hitherto been taught absolute and uncondition'd Obedience for Conscience sake and practis'd it in opposing the black Bill of Exclusion for which our Divinity as well as our Policy was arraign'd by some such Protestants at large as the Author of this Letter at least our want of Foresight and palpable Inadvertency And shall we not now retain the same Integrity and Wisdom and the same Consciences void of offence towards God and Man Wherein hath our Gracious Sovereign been worse than his Word to us Ours is the National Religion still our Revenues and Privileges are as great as ever our Churches are as well fill'd our Sacraments as much frequented our Ministers as much respected at least as they were in the late King's time the present State of the Church of England is as flourishing as ever we knew it and so Exemplary is the King's Self-denyal in the Exercise of his own Religion that he hath not taken any one Church or Chappel throughout the Kingdom for himself or those of his own Communion which was ever dedicated or appropriated to ours by Law so little cause do's he give us of Repining and so much of Rejoycing and Gratitude The first Reformers in Germany as whoever peruseth Sleidan's Commentaries may observe repeated their Addresses of Thanks to the Emperor as oft as he renew'd his Promise of Protection and when something had been done in the Chamber of the Empire that seem'd to them an infringement of former Grants Sleid. Comment l. 10. Edit Argentor 8. p. 292. and some suggested his Design to oppose them by a War upon his Gracious Declaration in a Letter to them of his Resolution still to Protect them they made a new Address of Thanks for delivering them from their new Fears by renewing his Promise And tho' in like Circumstances some of the Church of England who had put such Bounds to their good Breeding as our Author cautions others to do prov'd resty and refus'd to repeat their grateful Acknowledgments for his Majesty's late Gracious Declaration to Protect them in the first place lest such an innocent and usual piece of Good Manners should be interpreted to be the Approbation of the King 's whole Declaration yet others acted more agreeable to the forecited President by renewed Addresses on that occasion whereby they declar'd that they still believ'd him sincere in and faithful to his Promise notwithstanding all the Suspicions that by Malecontents were whisper'd to the contrary And let the World judge whether 〈◊〉 have not acted more agreeable to the Loyal Principles of the Church o● England than this Author who not only suspects the Ingenuity of his Sovereign's Promise but writes on purpose to propagate his Suspicions among the rest of his Fellow Subjects They cannot by Words or Writing treat the King worse who have an opinion of his Idolatry than he do's nor can the Church of Rome her self be worse at Healing than he is who pretends so much to it and therefore 't will be fit for Dissenters to pause upon his Methods before they believe them or have so good an opinion of them or him as not to be upon their guard when he accosts them like one fully resolv'd that his over-merits of the Crown should never do him prejudice And if it be Moral Parricide to wound the Reputation of him whom these three Kingdoms deservedly Honor for their Common Parent and Father of their Country except his licencious Pen can give us a Dispensation for that too and secure us by a Non obstante to the Divine Law that God will not think the worse of us for it the true Sons of the Church of England will not take his Judgment to be any intellectual Standard nor be seduc'd into so crying a Sin by his subtil Devices His whole Letter betrays such groundless Fears and Jealousies of the King and drives on an Interest so very destructive to the Crown and Church of England of which I profess my self to be a Member and declaims with so deep a Resentment against her Persecuting Humor that how sincere soever his Address may seem to them who judge of his Sincerity by the clearness of his Style more than by the weight of his Reasons and have Minds prepar'd to be deceiv'd by his malicious Insinuations because he tells them that they come from a friendly Hand yet I am one of those who have neither Faith nor Charity enough to believe Him to be either a good Subject or a true Son of the Church of England And I must beg his pardon if I am both surpris'd and provok'd to see that in the Condition we are now put into by the Laws and the ill Circumstances we lie under by having the Persecution of Dissenters and the want of Loyalty to the King laid to our charge We who pretend to be true Sons of the Church of England should endeavor to make our selves and others more uneasie and obnoxious to the Present Authority which God hath set over us And methinks he seems to be sore put to it when out of a desire of revenge he teaches Dissenters to run to their old Methods of Embroyling the Kingdom with too much haste to consider all the Consequences and hopes to instigate us of the Church of England to run along with them to the same excess of riot They must be unreasonably valiant who dare follow such Advice and such an extraordinary Courage at this unseasonable time to say no more is too dangerous a Vertue to be commended by any good Christian or good Subject He had need to go upon certain Evidence who charges his Neighbor much more his Prince with sinister