His Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's address to His Majesty for the suppression of monasteries, fryeries, nunneries, and other popish seminaries, or allowing any general tolleration to the Roman Catholicks of England

His Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's address to His Majesty for the suppression of monasteries, fryeries, nunneries, and other popish seminaries, or allowing any general tolleration to the Roman Catholicks of England

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His Grace the Arch-Biſhop of Canterbury's ADDRESS, to his MAJESTY, For the Suppreſſion of Monaſteries, Fryeries, Nunneries, and other Popiſh Seminaries, or allowing any General TOLLERATION to the Roman Catholicks of ENGLAND.

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His Grace the Arch-Biſhop of Canterbury's ADDRESS, to his MAJESTY, For the Suppreſſion of Monaſteries, Fryeries, Nunneries, and other Popiſh Seminaries, or allowing any General TOLLERATION to the Roman Catholicks of ENGLAND.

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May it pleaſe your Majeſty,

I Have been too long ſilent, and am afraid by my Silence I have neglected the duty of the place it hath pleaſed God to call me unto, and your Majeſty to place me in: But now, I humbly crave leave, I may diſcharge my Conſcience towards God, and my duty to your Majeſty; and therefore, I beſeech you freely to give me leave to deliver my ſelf, and then let your Majeſty do with me what you pleaſe. Your Majeſty hath propounded a Toleration of Religion, I beſeech you take it into your Conſideration what your Act is, what the Conſequence may be. By your Act you labour to ſet up the moſt Damnable and Heretical Doctrine of the Church of Rome, the Whore of Babylon: How hateful it will be to God, and grievous to your good Subjects, the Profeſſors of the Goſpel, That your Majeſty who hath often diſputed, and learnedly written againſt thoſe Hereſies, ſhould now ſhew your ſelf a Patron of thoſe wicked Doctrines which your Pen hath told the World, and your Conſcience tells your Self, are Superſtitious, Idolatrous, and Deteſtable. And hereunto I add what you have done in ſending the Prince into Spain without conſent of your Council, the Privity and Approbation of your People: And although you have a Charge and Intereſt in the Prince, as Son of your Fleſh; yet have the People a greater, as Son of the Kingdom, upon whom next after your Majeſty are their Eyes fixed, and wellfare depends; and ſo tenderly is his going apprehended, as (believe it) however his return may be ſafe; yet the drawers of him into this Action, ſo dangerous to himſelf, ſo deſperate to the Kingdom, will not paſs away unqueſtioned, unpuniſhed. Beſides, this Toleration which you ſet up by your Proclamation. cannot, be done without a Parliament, unleſs your Majeſty will let your Subjects ſee that you will take unto your ſelf ability to throw down the Laws of your Land at your pleaſure. What dread conſequence theſe things may draw afterward, I beſeech your Majeſty to conſider, and above all, leſt by this Toleration and diſcountenancing of the true Profesſion of the Goſpel, wherewith God hath bleſſed us, and this Kingdom hath ſo long flouriſhed under it, your Majeſty do not draw upon this Kingdom in general, and your ſelf in particular, Gods heavy wrath and indignation.

Thus in diſcharge of my duty towards God, to your Majeſty and the place of my calling, I have taken humble leave to deliver my Conſcience. Now Sir, do what you pleaſe with me.

FINIS.

Collect. V. I.

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Printed in the Year, 1689.

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His Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's address to His Majesty for the suppression of monasteries, fryeries, nunneries, and other popish seminaries, or allowing any general tolleration to the Roman Catholicks of England

Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1611-1633 : Abbot)

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1689

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A75900

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Wing A59A

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12591469

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— His Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's address to His Majesty for the suppression of monasteries, fryeries, nunneries, and other popish seminaries, or allowing any general tolleration to the Roman Catholicks of England, Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1611-1633 : Abbot), Abbot, George, 1562-1633., Sancroft, William, 1617-1693., Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1678-1690 : Sancroft).

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