The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery; unjustly charged on them, by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his two books about the Surey demoniack. In a second letter to himself.

  • Carrington, John, -1701.
Date:
1698
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Credit: The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery; unjustly charged on them, by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his two books about the Surey demoniack. In a second letter to himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reafon,becaufe^ they are but of Humane Inftitution ? And what Contradi- ftion in Terms,if they be called Humane Sacraments ? At belt; the Croft is Divine in its End,Ufe and Significancy, but Humane in its Inftitution. But if that Term will not yetpleafe, I told you we would yet part Friends, or it fhall.be your Fault *, for I love not to contend de Lana Ca¬ prine. Therefore, if you will, call it a Humane Appointment * and then, Is zt lawful for any body to command things in the Worfhip of God, of the fame nature f &c. Obj, i. Andnow Diflenters fay, the Croft is fuch a Humane Appoint¬ ment ^ and how do you anfwer this ? Sol. J might have found the Crofs in Baptifm to be no Humane Sacra ¬ ment, if I would have confultedCan. 30.p. 14. lay you. Repl. Sir, I am not fo prejudiced againft the C. ofE.but I will very willingly hear what fhe can fay for her felf ^ yea I would juftify her as far as I am able. And if you knew me, I think you would not be fo harfh in your Cenfures of me. Therefore that I might not be partial or unjuft, I did conliilt her Rubric/:, and Offices, and Canons, particularly Can, 30. and this you will find anon. Obj. 2. Their fecond Argument was, They think it not lawful (feme of them) to kneel in receiving the Bread and Wine in the Lord’s Supper. Sol. To this you fay, My Friend is bewildred., &c. and you ask me a very important Queftion, Do the Rapifts receive Wine in that Sacrament? Now for this time, rather than fall out with you. Ill anfwer you, The Papifts do receive Wine in that Sacrament, unlefs the Priefts be no Pa- pifts ? Juft fuch a Learned Queftion once was asked, in as good earneft as yours. Pray’Sir, will you tell me one things What’s that? Is the Pope a Papift? Am I now bewildred? Having told,you of Diffenters Offence at Kneeling, I thought good to conceal their Argument ^ not that they are contemptible, but that I durft not Vouch for them *, and fo eafed you of the trouble of Anfwering them : Yet defired modefily^your help to anfwer one thing I had heard fome of them objeft, which I could not anfwer my felf Obj. The thing was this. Some of them think it hard, that for doing, or offering to do or the Apoflles did at the Sacrament of the Lord s Supper, they Jhould be peremptorily denied that Ordinance: When by the fame Reafon, if the Apoflles. were on Earth, and offered to do as they did, even in. the Rrefcnee , and with the Approbation of their .majler, they mull be denied it. Nov/ really Mr. T. you are very unkind here ^ for you give me no help to anfwer them ^ but twit me with my Ignorance, when I had confeffed it in this Cafe*, and bad told vou, I was not able to anfwer them. Was this ingenuous?. When in earneft, I would have thanked vou, ac¬ cording to promift. But what fay you to this Scruple of Diffenters ?- C Sol