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Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 19: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
HE nation is in too high aferment, for me to expect either fair war, oreven (0 much as fair quarter, from a reader of the Oppofite party. All men are engaged either on this fide or that; and though confcience is the common word, which is gixcu by both, yet if a writer fall among enemies, and cannot give the marks of their confcience, he is knocked don 11 before the reafons of his own are heard. A preface, therefore, which is but a befpeaking of fan our, is al together ufelefs. What I defire the reader fhould know concerning me, he will find in the body of the poem, if he have but the patience to perufe it. Only this ad vertifement let him take before-hand, which relates to the merits of the caufe. No general characters of par ties (call them either feeds or churches) can be (0 fully and exafily drawn, as to comprehend all the feveral members of them; at leafi all fuch as are received uh der that denomination. For example; there are fome of the church by law ef'tabliihed, Who envy not liberty of confcience to difl'enters; as being Well fatisfyed that, according to their own principles they ought not to perfecute them. Yet thefe by reafon of their fewnefs, I could not difi'inguifh from the numbers of the refi, with whom they are embodied in one common name. On the other fide, there are many Of our fefls, and moremore indeed than I could reafonably have hoped, who have Withdrawn themfelves from the communion of the Panther, and embraced this gracious indulgence of his majefiy in point of toleration. But neither to the one nor the other of thefe is this fatire any way intended it is aimed only at the refractory and difobedient on either fide. For thofe, who are come over to the royal party, are confequently fuppofed to be out of gun-(hot. Our phyficians have obferved, that, in procefs of time, fome difeafes have abated of their virulence, and have in a manner worn out their malignity, fo as to be no longer mortal: and why may not I fuppofe the fame concerning fome of thofe, who have formerly been ene mies to kingly government, as well as Catholic religion? I hope they have now another notion of both, as having fotmd, by comfortable experience, that the doctrine of perfecution is far from being an article of our faith.
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Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 19: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
HE nation is in too high aferment, for me to expect either fair war, oreven (0 much as fair quarter, from a reader of the Oppofite party. All men are engaged either on this fide or that; and though confcience is the common word, which is gixcu by both, yet if a writer fall among enemies, and cannot give the marks of their confcience, he is knocked don 11 before the reafons of his own are heard. A preface, therefore, which is but a befpeaking of fan our, is al together ufelefs. What I defire the reader fhould know concerning me, he will find in the body of the poem, if he have but the patience to perufe it. Only this ad vertifement let him take before-hand, which relates to the merits of the caufe. No general characters of par ties (call them either feeds or churches) can be (0 fully and exafily drawn, as to comprehend all the feveral members of them; at leafi all fuch as are received uh der that denomination. For example; there are fome of the church by law ef'tabliihed, Who envy not liberty of confcience to difl'enters; as being Well fatisfyed that, according to their own principles they ought not to perfecute them. Yet thefe by reafon of their fewnefs, I could not difi'inguifh from the numbers of the refi, with whom they are embodied in one common name. On the other fide, there are many Of our fefls, and moremore indeed than I could reafonably have hoped, who have Withdrawn themfelves from the communion of the Panther, and embraced this gracious indulgence of his majefiy in point of toleration. But neither to the one nor the other of thefe is this fatire any way intended it is aimed only at the refractory and difobedient on either fide. For thofe, who are come over to the royal party, are confequently fuppofed to be out of gun-(hot. Our phyficians have obferved, that, in procefs of time, fome difeafes have abated of their virulence, and have in a manner worn out their malignity, fo as to be no longer mortal: and why may not I fuppofe the fame concerning fome of thofe, who have formerly been ene mies to kingly government, as well as Catholic religion? I hope they have now another notion of both, as having fotmd, by comfortable experience, that the doctrine of perfecution is far from being an article of our faith.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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