The Scourge : in vindication of the Church of England ; to which is added, IThe danger of the Church-establishment of England, from the insolence of Protestant dissenters ; Occasion'd by a presentment of the forty second paper of the Scourge at the King's Bench Bar, by the Grand Jury of the hundred of Ossulston ; IIThe anatomy of the heretical synod of dissenters at Salters-Hall . f humane Societies^ and whenthey that minifber at Gods Altar fhall be reducdto Poverty and Contempt, Religion will foondwindle into nothing \ and therefore as your Ma-jefty is now endud with a Power to fave or con-fu


The Scourge : in vindication of the Church of England ; to which is added, IThe danger of the Church-establishment of England, from the insolence of Protestant dissenters ; Occasion'd by a presentment of the forty second paper of the Scourge at the King's Bench Bar, by the Grand Jury of the hundred of Ossulston ; IIThe anatomy of the heretical synod of dissenters at Salters-Hall . f humane Societies^ and whenthey that minifber at Gods Altar fhall be reducdto Poverty and Contempt, Religion will foondwindle into nothing \ and therefore as your Ma-jefty is now endud with a Power to fave or con-fume the Revenues of the Church, yet I beg you,for Jefus falce, the Good of your Kingdom, andthe Peace of your own Conlcience, to difpofe ofthem according to the Intention of the the Spirit of the Univerftties^ and imitate D the H the scourge; Num. 5. the Example oiSamuel^ in whofe Days the Schoolsof the Prophets ^omiihd, even iS^///himfelf, whodid much Hurt among the People, yet when hecame to the Schools of the Prophets, his Heaitrelented, hedurft not violate their KightSj but putoff his Robes and prophecyd among them. Put aStop, I befeech you, to the Ruin of the Churchjas you expert Comfort in the great Day of theLord, for Kings muft he jud^d. Pardon this du-tiful Plainnefs, my moft dear Sovereign, continueme in your Favour, and the Lord continue you MoNPAir 77j^ SCOURGE. ^s J*<: ^K *. ;*. .*^ .^ .*. p*^ .^*;:. it-, *-, *•, ^. a^ J*^. ^i, si* *l<qij C4, *:f? c7» v*^ -T? •^^- *- ^^ *-?-- r-i~ ?4- *-4^f t^ --P ^~ $ I :|:^ puts his Hand into a Nell o^ Hornets^^T^y^^%Lf^ and had need be well guarded both^/-k^ii%\^ with Lav) and Innocence^ to efcapetheir Stings and the Fuiy of their Refentmcnts:As for the Laws^ tis certain they are the Honourand Prote6tionof ^^rEftabhilimentj and wejulHyglory that the Happinefs of this Nation dependsentirely upon the Church of England ^ whofe Pro-fperity alone can derive a BlelHng upon the State,and make us


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