Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecutedHart, W. H. (William Henry)
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Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted
Hart, W. H. (William Henry)
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publick Justice, and gain time to bring their Plot to effect._[227]
The result of this prosecution does not appear. A copy of the book
is preserved in the British Museum Library.
273.
The Presbyterian Paternoster; Creed, and Ten Commandments. 1681.
This is a single sheet printed on both sides. A copy is preserved
in the Library of the British Museum.
In a newspaper of the period, The True Protestant Mercury of
February 23, 1680-1, we find the following account of this
production:--"Feb. 18, 1680-1. Complaint being made to the
Bishop of London of a most vile and blasphemous pamphlet, lately
published by one Hindmarsh, a bookseller in Cornhill, intituled
_The Presbyterian's Paternoster, Creed, and Decalogue_, wherein
the sacred form of prayer taught by our Blessed Saviour to his
disciples, the Ten Commandments, written with the finger of the
Almighty, and delivered with dreadful Majesty, together with that
Brief Summary of our Holy Faith, commonly called _The Apostle's
Creed_, were most impudently depraved and profaned, and to the
horror of all pious ears, the scandal of Christianity, and
indelible shame of the Nation, turned into ridicule and impiety;
his Lordship detesting such abominations, presented the said
pamphlet to the consideration of His Majesty's most Honourable
Privy Council; and 'tis said, the said Bookseller will at the
Sessions beginning to be holden this week for London be indicted
(as he most justly deserves) for blasphemy; in the mean time all
sober men of the Church of England (for which every true Protestant
has a profound deference and respect, though dissenting from some
superfluous ceremonies, so much perhaps the more eagerly contended
for by domineering spirits, by how much the less necessary they
are) will take notice what kind of persons these are, who so
studiously make it their business to render Dissenters odious and
suspected, with those swarms of seditious libels, daily spawned by
_Th. Too. S. M._ this worthy gentleman in Cornhill, and others. And
that the authors of such pamphlets, whatever they scribble, are no
real sons of the Church of England, but a disparagement unto her,
by shrouding themselves under her mantle, being in truth, either
disguised Papists, or else mere Ruffians, debaucht rakehells and
Atheists."
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