The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his book, entituled, The Surey impostor. In a letter to himself. / By an impartial hand.

  • Carrington, John, -1701.
Date:
1698
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Credit: The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his book, entituled, The Surey impostor. In a letter to himself. / By an impartial hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chappel, and went thither ftill, I am within compafs, tho’ a Dif* lenter Preaches there-, and you fay it’s a Confecrated Chappel, and they have it by Law, (and I hope that’s no greater a Crime, than for you to have had an Unconfecrated Chappel by force ) and fo they di ride not from a Church Eft abliihed by Law, Ay, but you’ll lay. They are Schifmatkksj this is another fright¬ ful Word. A Learned Man, ncDiffenter, calls it an Ecelefiaftical Scare-crow. I have often heard the Proteftants excufe themfelves from being Schifinaticks from the Church of Rome, becaufe that Church requires as Terms of Communion, things doubtful, unlaw¬ ful, andfmful, and retort upon them, that they are Schilmaticks for lo doing: Ay-, but DiJfenters cannot by Arguments juftifte their Di- vificns. Now lome of the moft Charitable of them lay, they divide not from the Church Eitablifhed, they do frequently join with them in their Prayers, and they believe the Do£irine of the Church in the 3P Articles, and Homilies; and all of them fay, their Aflemblies are Eftablifh’d Churches: And if you will walk a little alide with me, I’ll tell you as a Friend, if you’ll not be angry, what Realons lome of ’em give, why they cannot in all things conform to the Dif- cipline and Worfhip according to your Canons and Liturgy. ( i.) Some of them cannot for their Life, much lels for Prefer¬ ment, think it lawful for any body to command Things in the Wor¬ fhip of God, of the fame Nature, Ule, Significancy, and End, with God’s own Appointments, and make them neceflary Terms of Com¬ munion, when there’s no difference, but God commands the one, and Men the other * lb they lay, the Crofs about Baptiffti is fuch a Humane Sacrament. To deal plainly with you, I have read all I can- meet with about this, and I am lo weak I cannot be latisfy d * and I fhould think it hard for this to be accounted a Schilmatick, and Ex¬ communicated. ( 2.) Some of thele whom I dare not judge, but to be as truly Good and Pious as you and I, are offended at kneeling in receiving, the Bread and Wine in the Lord’s Supper. I think I can anfwer, their Arguments, but I fhould be loth to fee them have their Brains dafh’d out, becaufe in that thing they cannot be latisfy’d with what doth farisfieyou and me •, and tho’ I fhould think them very unjuftly Cenlorious, if they fhould account us Idolaters for it; yet if they mo- deftly differ in their Opinion, I would not brand them as Schifma- tLks, if they went to their own Meeting-places, to enjoy their Free¬ dom. li Peter will join with the Circumcifed, and Paul with the Undrcumcisd, 1 would not blame them, if they be not Uncharita-