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A26927	Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's letter to the King and all the bishops of Irelands protestation to the Parliament to the same purpose : with an answer to the Roman-Catholicks reasons for indulgence : also the excellent reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against indulgence, with historical observations thereupon.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1263; ESTC R15222	25,663	47

the Popes is infallible when sometimes one Pope disannulleth what another decreed 7. When there are many Popes at once as there have been they must know which is the Infallible 8. They must be sure at this distance that the Cardinals consecrated him who is now in the seat they must know in England that they have the right decree of the Pope or travel so many miles to him themselves and the right meaning of them c. will you O gracious Prince give up the peoples Souls that are under you to these infinite doubts and scruples which it is impossible for any to be satisfied in will you not keep them to the Sure word of prophecy To which they do well to take heed as to a light shining in a darke place Reason 7. The greatest novelty and Schisme in the world is not to be Tolerated Popery is the greatest Schisme and novelty in the world So great a Schisme that separate from all the world and damne all the world So great a novelty that we have no footsteps of it in the Scripture which is the reason why they would not have us read the Scriptures will you Indulge novelties O ye the defenders of the Faith Once delivered to the Saints Will you allow them amongst us whose business it is to perswade the world that you and we are damned Reason 8. Nothing is to be Tolerated that is directly contrary to the word c. For therefore indeed Kings are commanded to read the word of God that they may suffer nothing that is contrary to the word you can do nothing against the truth but for the truth you are to be a terror to them that do evil against the word and an Incouragement to them that do well according to that word we pray four you that are in authority that we may lead peaceable quiet lives in all godlinesse according to the word of God and honesty according to the Laws of men how can you stand by and see the Communion and administred in one kind against the Institution of Christ which is Eat ye all of this drink ye all of this How can you stand by and look upon them serving or rather mocking God in an unknown tongue in dispight of the Apostolical injunction 1 Cor. 14. will you allow men a liberty to choose whether they will read the Scripture when you know that these things are written that ye might beleive that beleiving ye might have life through his name will you suffer them that say rend not these holy Scriptures least they destroy your faith and bring you to damnation when you know that whatsoever things are written are written for our learning that we through the comforts of the Scriptures might have hope What shall I do saith the man in the Gospel that I may inherit eternal Life Our Saviour answereth what is written in the Law how readest thou What sins will you punish O you Kings 1. If you wink at them that vilifie Gods words us obscure or insufficient for Salvation even the late times of liberty denied liberty to them that denied the Scripture 2. That presume to alter the express Institutions of God 3. That forbid the reading of the Scripture the only way of Life Lord what shall not be allowed if these men be allowed Reason 9. Idolatry is not to be Tolerated What have we to do any more with Idols Popery is Idolatry c. can you have the patience to see the Creature worshiped instead of the Creaor is not your spirit stirred within you to see men change the truth of God into a Lye and worshipping and serving the Creature more than the Creator God blessed for ever do you not know that this sin overthrew Princes over turned Kingdomes and hath the wrath of the jealous God who will not give his honour to another allwayes attending it If you forbid not their sin you commit it and if you partake of their sins you will partake of their Plagues Hath God honoured you O ye excellent Princes and will you see him thus dishonored hath he exalted you and will you see him thus debased would you see an Usurper upon your Throne and can you endure stocks and stones in Gods house he that honoureth God God wil honour he that dispiseth him shall be lightly esteemed shall Darius make a decree for all people nations and Languages that dwell on the Earth that all men should tremble and fear only before the living God And shall Christian Kings endure other Gods should be worshipped How can you endure to see men falling down before the works of mens hands O remember that Rev. 2.10 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou hast suffered that woman Iesabel which calleth her self a Prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants to commit Fornication and to eat things sacrificed to Idols I have a few things against thee because thou hast there them that hold the Doctrine of Baalam who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the Children of Israel to Eat things sacrificed unto Idols and to commit Fornication Reason 10. That Religion which destroyeth all civil Government is not to be Tolerated shall Princes wink at their own ruine Popery destroyeth all civil Government Kings have no more power subjects owe no more duty then the Pope is pleased to grant the one and enjoyn the other shall we admit these among us that upon all occasions let loose the people to cut one anothers Throat and to destroy their soveraigns who then may be safely the Prince must dayly look for poison and daggers The people for Massacres and cruelties all for dangerous attempts against the Lord and against his Annoynted who embroyled us in the late War was it not Papists upon what principle did we Rebel kill and take possession but upon the principles of popery if they did such mischief when checked and awed by Laws what will they do when tolerated shall a Protestant Prince countenance them that may in conscience be bound to kill them as Hereticks shall the Prince look upon them as subjects who may upon the least occasion be absolved by the Pope from all fealty and Allegiance to the great danger of the Kingdom if they are Papists they cannot be indulged for they are not subjects if they are Protestants they need not be Indulged for they are and will be obedient and faithful subjects as whole Profession states the Rightly of civil Goverment upon the most clear and firm principles secure them by the most powerful obligation and urgeth them upon the most efficatious imotives of reward and punishment in the world shall we allow them that upon ruin of encommunication and damnation may not dare to be faithful who must renounce their Religion i.e. obedience to the Pope that they be Loyal Reason 11. That way must not be tollerated Whose tolleration increaseth our danger and yet lesseneth those Incomes whereby we defrayed the charges of our

FAIR-WARNING OR XXV REASONS Against Toleration and Indulgence of POPERY WITH THE Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's LETTER TO THE KING AND All the Bishops of Irelands Protestation to the Parliament to the same Purpose With an Answer to the Roman-Catholicks reasons FOR INDVLGENCE ALSO THE Excellent Reasons of the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS Against INDULGENCE With Historical Observations thereupon London Printed for S. U. N. T. F.S. 1663. TO THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTY May it please your Majesty I Have been too long silent and am afraid by my silence I have neglected the duty of the place it hath pleased God to call me unto and your Majesty to place me in And now I humbly crave leave I may discharge my conscience towards God and my duty to your Majesty And therefore I beseech your Majesty give me leave freely to deliver my self and then let your Majesty do with me what You please Your Majesty hath propounded a Toleration of Religion I beseech you Sir take into your consideration what the Act is next what the Consequence may be By your Act you labour to set up that most damnable and heretical Doctrine of the Church of Rome whore of Babylon How hatefull will it be to God and grievous unto Your good Subjects the true professors of the Gospel that your Majesty who hath often disputed and learnedly written against those wicked Heresies should now shew Your self a Patron of those Doctrines which Your Pen hath told the World and Your Conscience tells Your self are superstitious idolatrous and detestable Besides this Toleration which You endeavour to set up by Proclamation cannot be done without a Parliament unlesse your Majesty will let your Subjects see that You will take unto your self a liberty to throw down the Laws of the Land at your pleasure What dreadfull consequence these things may draw after them I beseech your Majesty to consider And above all lest by this Toleration and discontinuance of the true profession of the Gospel whereby God hath blessed u● and under which this Kingdome hath for many yeares flourished Your Majesty do not draw upon the Kingdome in generall and your self in particular Gods heavy wrath and indignation Thus in discharge of my duty towards God to your Majesty and the place of my calling I have taken humble boldnesse to deliver my conscience And now Sir doe with me what you please I am Your most faithfull Subject and Servant G. Canterbury TO THE Right Honourable THE LORDS AND COMMONS Assembled in Parliament Humbly sheweth THat the Religion of the Papists is Superstitious and Idolatrous their Faith and Doctrine erronious and hereticall their Church in respect of both Apostaticall To give them therefore a Toleration or to consent that they may freely exercise their Religion and professe their Faith and Doctrine is a grievous sin and that in two respects For first It is to make our selves accessary not only to their superstitious Idolatries Heresies and in a word to all the abom●nations of Popery but also which is a consequent of the former to the perd●tion of the seduced people which perish in the Deluge of the Catholick Apostacy And as it is a great sin so also a matter of most dangerous consequence the consideration whereof we commend to the wise and jud●cious Beseeching the zealous God of Truth to make them who are in Authority zealous of Gods Glory and of the advancement of true Religion zealous resolute and couragious against all Popery Superstition and Idolatry Amen Ja Armachanus Auth Medensis Ro Dunensis c. Richard Cork Cloyne Rosses Tho Kilmore Ardagh Mich Waterford and Lismore Mal Casohellen Tho Hernes Laughlin Geo Deceus Andr Alachadeus Theo Dromore Franc Lymrick Since then neither in right reason and true policy of State it is either becoming or safe for Christian Magistrates to have no acknowledgment of any face of Religion so farre among their people and Subj●cts as to stablish own and command it nor is it any piety for Christians to be alwayes scepticks in Religion ever unsatisfied and unresolved and unestablished in matters of Gods worship and mans salvation still ravelling the very grounds of Religion with endless cavells and endless disputes Since the Word of God is neer and open to direct all men in the wayes of God and since what is necessary to be believed and obeyed in truth and holinesse is of all parts in Scrip●ure most plaine and easie No doubt but Christian Magistrates are highly bound in Conscience to God and in charity to the good of their Subjects to whom they must do more good then they are desired to do by the Vulgar to establish those things as to the extern order Ministry form and profession of Religion both in doctrine and duties which they shall in their conscience judge and conclude upon the best advice of learned and godly men to be most agreeable to the will of God as most clearly grounded on the Word in the general tenor and analogy of it and as most fundamentally necessary to be believed and obeyed by all Christians whereto the Catholick beleife and practice of all Churches more or lesse agreeing gives a great light and direction Christians must not be alwayes tossing to and fro in Religion as if nothing were true fixed and certaine in Religion nothing heretical corrupt and damnable in opinion and doctrine nothing immorall unlawfull and abominable in practice nothing perverse uncharitable and uncomely in seditions schisms and separations John Wigorn. Twenty five Reasons Against Toleration of Popery Reason 1. THat way which seduceth poor Souls from the great Rule God hath given to live by and be saved is not to be tolerated shall we allow them among us who take away from Immortal Souls all the sure foundation they have against the time to come shall we endure them among us whose business it is to hide the eternal counsel of God from men Popery doth seduce poor Souls from the great Rule of life Papistis and shall they be tolerated make it part of their Religion to perswade us that we should not search the Scripture wherein we may have life Catholicks and shall they be Indulgent make it their business to keep us from the holy Sriptures which are able to make us wise unto salvation perfect and thoughly furnished unto all good works they of Rome and shall they be connived at draw poor Souls from the word of God that is able to build us up and to give us an inheritance among them that are sanctified they said that there should be such among us endeavour that we should not prove what is the good the perfect the acceptable will of our God that without knowledge of this will the people should perish they and what can Satan do more disuade poor Souls from reading the Scriptures they persuade them that the Scriptures ought to be in an unknown Tongue that hearing poor Souls might hear and not understand the things that belong to their peace