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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    vuir?' For it s fcarcepoffible but thefe Miftakes will be, till, ad Minutes be as honeft as they ought, or Dioceffes fmaller. And will not Difienters fay, (if it were for nothing elfe) wre dare not Contorm, for wemuftSubfcribe all and every thing contained and preienbd, &c. and that we will not endeavour any Alteration of Government in Church, &c. t < i \ «^ I can Charitably lay my Fingers on many faults in both Parties, and let them that are without, caft the firft Stone * but I ** iard, yea, unjuft, to fall foul on a whole Tribe for the fault of a few, unlels they juftifie the faults of thofe few. Yet fome Pha * naticks will fay, Ifs the fault of the Church of E-s Conftitution. but/0 will not I; but there are hotdpurs on both fides, that are the Make-baits, and hinder the Union of Sober, Serious, Moderate Men’t L. % not Gangrene Edwards, nor Brick-maker Lon?, nor the Direftor of the Inferior Clergy, Trufty Hodge, I can tell how to excule many things that fome Difienters Charge upon the C. of E. and would not impute the Crimes of a few upon all * yet I am extreamly puzzled, and know not what to think or lay, of a ge neral practice of praying in the late Reign, That it way pleafe thee to keep and fir engthen in the true worjhipping of thee in Right eotifnefs, and HoUnefsof Life, thy Servant ourmofi Gracious King and Governour. Now was not his W orfhip Idolatrous ? And did they pray that he might be kept and ftrengthened in his Idolatrous Worfhip i If they meant as they read, and thought it not Idolatry, will a Phanatick %, Then let the two P s hereafter be Papifts and Proteftants of the C. of£. And, (fome think ftrange how this Petition came to be id devoutly ufed, in the late Reign, by the Church of £.) if they meantasthey laid, then return to your Mother; will the Papift iay\ if they meant not as they laid, what horrid Propharieneis, and auda¬ cious Wickednels, (will the Dilfenters fay) to ask upon their Knees that of Almighty God, which they would not have him grant -, God is not mocked. If the Difienters fliould thro’ inadver- tency, m a conceived Prayer, be guilty offuch Blaiphemy, what a nolle fhould we have heard, of it with both Ears) as of that Ex- preffion you inftance in your Preface, and you refer to the Sureyf Hem, p. 20. the words are, lam Jure if the Holy Spirit and our Hearts, do once tell their wind to the Father for thy going hence, &c. that then tkWftnft'fidyP0 loyger there• youday, what doth it want of Blaf* phemy j Really if this had been aft Mr. C’s Faults, a Charitable Man might eafily help him out of the Sudds*, with aft the Spe&a- cks l have, I cannot find where the Blafphemy lyes *, Dr. Featlyf I think, was no DHIenter, and you may poflibly find your offtake, - ■ ‘ D 2* ' hi