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 | how they beat down their Bodies, and bring their Flesh into subjection; how they crucifie the world unto themselves, and themselves unto the world: (as if there were nothing more ridiculous than That primitive Criterion, by which a Christian was distinguish'd from Jew and Gentile; nor any thing more to be avoided by one of Quality and Parts, than such a seriousness of life, and such a tenderness of Conscience, as may expose him to the Censure of his being little more than a well-bred Quaker. ) And as 'tis commonly observ'd of the Lacedaemonians, that they stated the guilt of Stealth, not so much in the Act, as the Apprehension, and therefore reckon'd it a Sin, not to steal, but to be caught: So the greatest heed taken by the Majority of Professors, is not so really to be innocent, as not to be censur'd for being guilty. As if, their Prayer were like That of the famous Hypocrite in the Poet, — Pulchra Laverna, Da mihi fallere, da justum sanctúmque videri, Noctem peccatis, & fraudibus objice Nubem. | how they beatrice down their Bodies, and bring their Flesh into subjection; how they crucify the world unto themselves, and themselves unto the world: (as if there were nothing more ridiculous than That primitive Criterion, by which a Christian was distinguished from Jew and Gentile; nor any thing more to be avoided by one of Quality and Parts, than such a seriousness of life, and such a tenderness of Conscience, as may expose him to the Censure of his being little more than a Well-bred Quaker.) And as it's commonly observed of the Lacedaemonians, that they stated the guilt of Stealth, not so much in the Act, as the Apprehension, and Therefore reckoned it a since, not to steal, but to be caught: So the greatest heed taken by the Majority of Professors, is not so really to be innocent, as not to be censured for being guilty. As if, their Prayer were like That of the famous Hypocrite in the Poet, — Beautiful Laverna, Dam mihi fallere, da Justum sanctúmque videri, Noctem peccatis, & fraudibus objice Nubem. | c-crq pns32 vvd a-acp po32 n2, cc vvi po32 n1 p-acp n1; c-crq pns32 vvi dt n1 p-acp px32, cc px32 p-acp dt n1: (c-acp cs pc-acp vbdr pix av-dc j cs cst j np1, p-acp r-crq dt njp vbds vvn p-acp np1 cc j; ccx d n1 av-dc pc-acp vbi vvn p-acp crd pp-f n1 cc n2, cs d dt n1 pp-f n1, cc d dt n1 pp-f n1, c-acp vmb vvi pno31 p-acp dt n1 pp-f po31 vbg av-j av-dc cs dt j np1.) cc c-acp pn31|vbz av-j vvn pp-f dt njp2, cst pns32 vvn dt n1 pp-f n1, xx av av-d p-acp dt n1, p-acp dt n1, cc av vvd pn31 dt n1, xx p-acp vvi, p-acp pc-acp vbi vvn: av dt js n1 vvn p-acp dt n1 pp-f n2, vbz xx av av-j pc-acp vbi j-jn, p-acp xx pc-acp vbi vvn p-acp vbg j. c-acp cs, po32 n1 vbdr av-j cst pp-f dt j n1 p-acp dt n1, — np1 np1, n1 fw-la fw-la, fw-la fw-la fw-la fw-la, fw-la fw-la, cc fw-la fw-la fw-la. |
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