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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>His Grace the Arch-Bi&s;hop of Canterbury's ADDRESS, to his MAJESTY, For the Suppre&s;&s;ion of <HI>Mona&s;teries, Fryeries, Nunneries,</HI> and other <HI>Popi&s;h Semina|ries,</HI> or allowing any General <HI>TOLLERATION</HI> to the <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> of <HI>ENGLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>May it plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty,</OPENER>
<P>I Have been too long &s;ilent, and am afraid by my Silence I have neglect|ed the duty of the place it hath plea|&s;ed God to call me unto, and your Ma|je&s;ty to place me in: But now, I humbly crave leave, I may di&s;charge my Con|&s;cience towards God, and my duty to your Maje&s;ty; and therefore, I be&s;eech you freely to give me leave to deliver my &s;elf, and then let your Maje&s;ty do with me what you plea&s;e. Your Maje&s;ty hath propounded a Toleration of Religion, I be&s;eech you take it into your Con|&s;ideration what your Act is, what the Con&s;e|quence may be. By your Act you labour to &s;et up the mo&s;t Damnable and Heretical Do|ctrine of the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> the Whore of <HI>Babylon:</HI> How hateful it will be to God, and grievous to your good Subjects, the Pro|fe&s;&s;ors of the Go&s;pel, That your Maje&s;ty who hath often di&s;puted, and learnedly writ|ten again&s;t tho&s;e Here&s;ies, &s;hould now &s;hew your &s;elf a Patron of tho&s;e wicked Doctrines which your Pen hath told the World, and your Con&s;cience tells your Self, are Super&s;titious, Idolatrous, and Dete&s;table. And hereunto I add what you have done in &s;ending the Prince into <HI>Spain</HI> without con&s;ent of your Council, the Privity and Approbation of your People: And although you have a Charge and Inte|re&s;t in the Prince, as Son of your Fle&s;h; yet have the People a greater, as Son of the Kingdom, upon whom next after your Maje&s;ty are their Eyes fixed, and wellfare depends; and &s;o tenderly is his going apprehended, as (believe it) however his return may be &s;afe; yet the drawers of him into this Action, &s;o danger|ous to him&s;elf, &s;o de&s;perate to the Kingdom, will not pa&s;s away unque&s;tioned, unpuni&s;hed. Be&s;ides, this Toleration which you &s;et up by your Proclamation. cannot, be done without a Parliament, unle&s;s your Maje&s;ty will let your Subjects &s;ee that you will take unto your &s;elf ability to throw down the Laws of your Land at your plea&s;ure. What dread con|&s;equence the&s;e things may draw afterward, I be&s;eech your Maje&s;ty to con&s;ider, and above all, le&s;t by this Toleration and di&s;counte|nancing of the true Profes&s;ion of the Go&s;pel, wherewith God hath ble&s;&s;ed us, and this Kingdom hath &s;o long flouri&s;hed under it, your Maje&s;ty do not draw upon this King|dom in general, and your &s;elf in particular, Gods heavy wrath and indignation.</P>
<P>Thus in di&s;charge of my duty towards God, to your Maje&s;ty and the place of my calling, I have taken humble leave to deliver my Con&s;cience. Now Sir, do what you plea&s;e with me.</P>
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<CLOSER><HI>Collect. V.</HI> I.</CLOSER>
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<P>Printed in the Year, 1689.</P>
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