( 270 ) But what ,ate the eafy intelligible Circumflances to all the Ceremonies unneceltary even in genere ? `What are they to the Vows of God-fathers without the Parents, or to the dedicating Symbol of the Crofs, or to adhering to a bare Reader, when the next.Parifh hath an able Teacher whom the ignorant have great need to be .inftru&ed by ; to fay no more now of all the Oaths, Declarations, Subfcrlptions, Co- venants, and Profeífìons required of ..Minifters ? 1 again fay therefore, if you extirpate all Subjects that cannot unite with you in all things required by the4 ubricks and Canons, you will wrong the. King by,wweakning his Kingdom, and -rob- bing him of more of hisliSubje4s, than He or the Welfare of the Land can £pare And you will keep the I '" ar,s :x1a a Rate of divifton (and like Antioch, that was fJ'4.Ii.tland terribly íhaken by Earthquakes, that it was in continual danger of wine) and even honeft Irajan lodging there, did hardly fcape through a window, while the failing houfes kill'd his Souldiers. And the Diffenters are not all of one mind and tern- per. All that are wife and good, will fuffer patiently and peaceably ; for . I incline to think, that the expo'fitors mittake, vvho apply Soloman's words to Suferers [Oppreffion inai ih liTrfe mea mad]; and that as fume Criticks tell us, it rather meaneth Riders [that an a ee ation of an oppreffing power, and tLe exercife of at, inaketh wife Rulers forget the very obvious Re-afons of Morality and _Interefl., and to aff as men difira- ¿tcä] But there be Diffenters of dangerous Principles, which are litter to be refrained, than by dofperation to be enraged; as hap is, the Beh nenifis . and Quakers are againfi War, and the old Anabaptifis were. fo - .reported; but fome of them have fhewed a contrary ,judgment; but it's known pall doubt, that, the.Papifis are a fort of Diffenting Conventiclerl, who have fo firong a back beyond Sea to encourage them, and Gre fo tnfiruLted by multitudes of learned Clergymen and Friars, and fo taught by General Councils, which are their very Religion, that many of them will think it merits Hea- ven to kill fuch Kings as would extirpate 'them. King games is deeply cenfured by force, for doing fo much ..as he did towards a Toleration, and for what the French Bit lop of Ambrun writes of him. But for m,y.p °;g veriart ly
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