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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$The Publifher to the Reader. arid Tools of the PapiCts, to Cheat) and Impoje upon People ) and Jo great is his Prejudice) that the Old Puritans cannot efcape his lajh \ for which End and Purpofe) Stories are quoted out of Dr. Heylin, a goodly Author l of whom two Learned Bijhops ( jet Living) fiv of him, That he was fo bent on his own Way, that he could not be an Impar¬ tial Hiftorian : And what favour could the Puri¬ tans expeCt from fuch a Man, that could not jf are Reflecting on that Godly Prince Edward VI. af¬ firming ) That it was no Infelicity to the Church of England) that he died fo loon, (th*> a Popifh and Bloody %eign followed) the reafow, no doubt) is) becaufe he was not over-fond of the high Commodes of the Church. I entreat Mr. Taylor, and the rejl of 'the Diflen- ters lU-willerS) to confider the great Evil of bearing Falfe Witnefs againfi their Neighbour) arid Envying their Liberty, let them remember their: Vows and Promifes in the late Reign) when we dll were in dan¬ ger') I refer them to Dr. Goodman, vizi in his Sermons in Oftavo, p. 244. Nor ought it ( fays he ) trouble us,' .that fome Men (mean¬ ing the. Diffenters) fhould Enjoy ldme (hare of Advantage by this Revolution ; llnceit is not only what we Vow’d to God, and Pro- . miled to them, in our Adverfity, but is that which cannot be denied them, confidently our own Safety. R. B. A$