Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, very unjustly by a letter in the general pretended; but as far as was charg'd, very fully proved upon the dissenters that were concerned in the Surey imposture. / By Zach. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.
Date:
MDCXCVIII
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Credit: Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, very unjustly by a letter in the general pretended; but as far as was charg'd, very fully proved upon the dissenters that were concerned in the Surey imposture. / By Zach. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was : He would infinuate a Licence to another Cure, he means N. Chapped which he never had, &e. But had it been all as true, as ir is notorioufly falfc, all that was done was at the Importunity of the Presbyterian Party; and when they have got their End, they would (had it been pofiible) have flung Dirt inro the Face of him, that out of meer Condefceniion was willing to pleafe them. This puts me in Mind of the manner that the faid Party treated a Neighbouring Vicar , on the Indulgence granted in the late King James's time: He was a good Man, and of an eafy Temper, which betraid him to an undue Compliance to thofe that pretend a render Confcience; on which Account, in Compaffion to them, he was (as I hear) prevail’d with to Chriften fometimes a Child without the Sign of the Crofs; to admit fome others to the Lord’s Supper, though they were too ftubborn to Kneel, (the two Things my Friend (ticks at) in hopes by gentle Means and Compliance, in due time to reclaim thefn from their Errors: And he was wonderfully courted by them, till the - late King James's Indulgence came out; but no fooner did that appear, but they flew from him ; and when he endeavoured by Arguments of this Compliance to them to regain them, they retorted his own Argu¬ ments upon him , and upbraided him as one falfe to his Oath, and treacherous to the Difciplineof the Church, in which he was intruded a Miniller; which fo far feiz’d the meek Man’s Spirits, that it was thought to fhorten his Days. Such Reward do they meet with, that out of too eafy a Compaffion, comply with your pretending tender Confciences. The next Charge that I am made unjuftly to lay againd Diffenters, is that of Ignorance; and the Truth is, I find that I charge them home either with Ignorance or Negled, in that being call’d to a Con- fult to determine Whether it was lawful to confer as Mr. C. did, with Satan, they gave no Judgment againfl it : Whence I inferr’d, That they were cither fo Ignorant that they could not, or fo Carelcfs that they would not refolvc the Point, p. 5. And I am dill of the fame Mind. But if my Friend would rather have them Carelefs in Fuch weighty Matters, than Ignorant of them, he (hall have it after him: It mud needs com¬ mend their Minrdry wonderfully to the World, that they are fo very carelefs Creatures in fuch Important Cafes. I charged them either with Ignorance or Negligence, (for though my Friend will take no notice of the Latter, led his Hand flipuld be found in any thing to anfwer his Title, to be Impartial, yet more than once I hinted, that that as well as Ignorance might be thecaufe of it) in not difeerning the Numerical Quota 6oo, in the Devils pretended Greek Commiflion, that was fi¬ gured in Arabic^ Cyphers, to argue a Cheat. And I cannot yet abate one Syllable in my Charge, let my Friend value his Academick and Arch-pedagogue as he pleafeth. As for the red, my own Learning, I am