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

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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$ble one to another. I am for the Apoftles Canons, Rom, 14. And I know of none,that have Authority' to alter them. ' . * But Ill tell you one thing in your Ear, , which. I cannot tell now to aniwer, and if you can Ill thank you *, fome or them think it hard, that for doing, or endeavouring to do, as the Apokles did at the a- cramentof the Lord’s Supper, they ihould be peremptorily deny d that Ordinance, ( and Oh ftrange 1 Some Great Ones m tne C^urox have undertaken to prove it Charity to exclude them ) when by tne fame reaibn, if Chriffs Difoiples were now on Earth, ano did as they did, even in the prefence, and with the approbation or then Matter, they mutt be Excommunicated •, and thus they lay, 11 they err, it’s with good Company, andfo they are cauilelly di i\ en away fiom the Communion of the Church of England, . • C 3.) Some of them fay, the impofing of Terms of Communion, and ty ing Men to their Form of Worihip, is an Invafion of God^s Prerogative. Impeaching his Wifdom, as if Men knew better than himfelf, what Service were fitteft for him: And that it s an ufurping of Authority to make Laws for him to obey, with an annexed PenaL ty, ( I. ) On him v fox he iliall either take that Worihip which they have eompofed for him, or he ihall have none -, fo you will be firft pleaied. and then He, (with Reverence be lt fpoken) iliall have what pleaies you. or none at all by your good will, or ill wi l rather: And another Penalty, annexed, (2.) On Men; for they fhall either lb lerve him, or be punipred; lo Clod, ana Men mult have your Allowance and Approbation, or eifo he iliall hate no Worihip, or they punfihed for doing him Service. ^ ( 4.) Some of’em think it no lefs than Sacnledge, to transfer the Ends of Gods Sacraments, and to attribute them to their own ^ they think we are Baptized in Token hereafter, we fhall not be. aihamed; to profefs the Faith of Chrift, &c. and.that Baptife is the hopour r, able Badge, whereby the Infant is Dedicated to the Serv ice of. him that Died on the Crofs, and fhould not be attributed to the Sign of the Crofs : You will find, a great many more Arguments in Lome Books of Diffenters. See Baxter's Englijh Nonconformity, But I doubt you foorn to look into them, your Prejudice foems to be fo great v and it’s not for your Intereft, for poffibly it might liar- tie your Confcience a little, and difturb your Confidence and Repofe, to find more in them, than you ever expelled from fuchdimimtiv© Creatures. Ux. Jeans, the great School-Divine, conndent when youhp, writ for the Ceremonies: of the Church of England no con¬ temptible Book; but alter lie grew a little older, and chat ^Centro* verfie began to be more ftriftly inquired into, he very honettly^con-$