A modest plea for the due regulation of the press in answer to several reasons lately printed against it, humbly submitted to the judgment of authority / by Francis Gregory, D.D. and rector of Hambleden in the county of Bucks.

SECT. XII. (Book 12)

8. THIS Authors Eighth Allegation against the Restraint of the Press is this. The Press ought not to be Re∣strained, because the Reformation is wholly owing to it. I answer,

There is no liberty denied to any English Press to publish any Book, which tends to help the Devotions, to reform the Lives, or confirm the Judgments of Men in the true Faith of Christ; but as for the Established Religion of our Church in matters of Faith, and Worship, it is so well refined already from the dregs of Popery and Superstition, that we do not need another Luther, nor the help of any Press to reform and make it better. He that would reform our Religion in any of its substantial Parts, must reform the Scriptures too; for our Church teacheth no other Doctrines in the great Points of Faith and Worship than Christ and his Apostles taught the

World, if we may believe those Sacred Writings, which they have left us. But since I have already, under another Head given a sufficient answer to this Allegation. I need not here say any more about it.