A decad of caveats to the people of England of general use in all times, but most seasonable in these, as having a tendency to the satisfying such as are not content with the present government as it is by law establish'd, an aptitude to the setling the minds of such as are but seekers and erraticks in religion an aim at the uniting of our Protestant-dissenters in church and state : whereby the worst of all conspiracies lately rais'd against both, may be the greatest blessing, which could have happen'd to either of them : to which is added an appendix in order to the conviction of those three enemies to the deity, the atheist, the infidel and the setter up of science to the prejudice of religion / by Thomas Pierce ...

Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691
Publisher: Printed for Richard Davis bookseller in Oxford
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1679
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A70803 ESTC ID: R18054 STC ID: P2196
Subject Headings: Christian life; Church and state -- England; Dissenters, Religious -- England;
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In-Text For the same want of fear to offend his Maker, the same despight offer'd to Grace, and the same Callousness of Conscience, which either allows or betrays him to any one wilfull Sin, leaves him destitute and expos'd to the Power of All. So that if, by not committing, he seems at any time to abstain from this or that sort of Vice, 'tis not his Virtue, but his Luck. And if any thing is to be thank'd, (besides the restraining Mercy of God, who does often set his Hook into the Wicked man's Nostrils,) he may thank his Stars for it; For the same want of Fear to offend his Maker, the same despite offered to Grace, and the same Callousness of Conscience, which either allows or betrays him to any one wilful since, leaves him destitute and exposed to the Power of All. So that if, by not committing, he seems At any time to abstain from this or that sort of Vice, it's not his Virtue, but his Luck. And if any thing is to be thanked, (beside the restraining Mercy of God, who does often Set his Hook into the Wicked Man's Nostrils,) he may thank his Stars for it; p-acp dt d vvb pp-f n1 pc-acp vvi po31 n1, dt d p-acp vvn p-acp vvb, cc dt d n1 pp-f n1, r-crq d vvz cc vvz pno31 p-acp d crd j n1, vvz pno31 j cc vvn p-acp dt n1 pp-f d av cst cs, p-acp xx vvg, pns31 vvz p-acp d n1 p-acp vvb p-acp d cc d n1 pp-f n1, pn31|vbz xx po31 n1, p-acp po31 n1. cc cs d n1 vbz pc-acp vbi vvn, (p-acp dt vvg n1 pp-f np1, r-crq vdz av vvi po31 vvb p-acp dt j ng1 n2,) pns31 vmb vvi po31 n2 p-acp pn31;




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