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Excerpt from A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists, Vol. 1: Being Written and Published by the Most Eminent Divines of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Reign of King James II IV. If on this occasion an enumeration should be made of the punishments which the laws have provid Against the Exercise of Episcopal Power by Popish Bishops Against the keeping of Popish Schools and Seminaries Against the giving Protections to English and Irish Priests and, Against the pervertin or attempting to pervert any Protestant subject to the Romis Religion. This might look like a design to stir up prosecutions, and which I dare sa is very far from being in any one' s desire or intention, wit out such provoca tions on their part, as render them evidently necessary. But when the laws on one hand are so strong against them, and on the other hand are suffered to sleep, it might well be ex pected, that both priests and people should retain a grateful sense of the lenity of the government, and take care to behave in the most cautious and inoffensive manner, especiall when their known attachment to two foreign heads renders t em so liable to be suspected, and would well justify the Government in keeping the strictest eye over them and their behaviour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.