Good advice to the Church of England, Roman Catholick and Protestant dissenter, in which it is endeavoured to be made appear that it is their duty, principle & interest to abolish the penal laws and tests
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           Good
           Advice
           TO
           THE
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           Roman
           Catholick
           ,
           and
           Protestant
           Dissenter
           .
           In
           which
           it
           is
           endeavoured
           to
           be
           made
           appear
           that
           it
           is
           their
           Duty
           ,
           Principles
           &
           Interest
           To
           abolish
           the
           Penal
           Laws
           and
           Tests
           .
        
         
           Beati
           Pacifici
           .
        
         
           Licenced
           June
           the
           30th
           1687.
           
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           ,
           and
           Sold
           ,
           by
           
             Andrew
             Sowle
          
           ,
           at
           the
           Crooked-Billet
           in
           Holloway-Lane
           in
           Shoreditch
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           
             Three
             Keys
          
           in
           Nags-Head-Court
           in
           Grace-Church-Street
           ,
           over-against
           the
           Conduit
           ,
           1687.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           THE
           PREFACF
           .
        
         
           
             Reader
             ,
          
        
         
           NO
           matter
           who
           ,
           but
           what
           ;
           and
           yet
           if
           thou
           wouldst
           know
           the
           Author
           ,
           he
           is
           an
           English-Man
           ,
           and
           therefore
           obliged
           to
           this
           Country
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           that
           made
           him
           Free.
           
        
         
           That
           single
           Consideration
           were
           enough
           to
           command
           this
           Vndertaking
           ;
           for
           't
           is
           to
           perswade
           his
           Country
           Men
           to
           be
           delivered
           of
           the
           greatest
           Yoke
           a
           Nation
           can
           well
           Suffer
           under
           ;
           
             Penal
             Laws
             for
             Religion
          
           ,
           I
           mean.
           
           And
           now
           thou
           hast
           ,
           both
           the
           who
           ,
           and
           what
           ;
           If
           thou
           art
           Wise
           and
           Good
           ,
           thou
           art
           above
           my
           Epethites
           ,
           and
           more
           my
           Flatteries
           ;
           If
           not
           ,
           I
           am
           in
           the
           Right
           to
           let
           'um
           alone
           .
           
             Read
             ,
             Think
          
           and
           Judge
           .
           Liberty
           ,
           English
           and
           Christian
           ,
           is
           all
           that
           is
           sought
           in
           the
           ensuing
           Discourse
           .
        
         
           Adieu
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         Good
         Advice
         ,
         &c.
         
      
       
         
           PART
           I.
           
        
         
           I
           Must
           own
           ,
           it
           is
           my
           Aversion
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           to
           meddle
           with
           Publick
           Matters
           ,
           and
           yet
           my
           Duty
           to
           the
           Publick
           will
           not
           let
           me
           be
           Silent
           .
           They
           that
           move
           by
           Principles
           must
           not
           regard
           Times
           nor
           Factions
           ,
           but
           what
           is
           just
           ,
           and
           what
           is
           honourable
           ;
           and
           that
           no
           Man
           ought
           to
           Scruple
           ,
           nor
           no
           Time
           nor
           Interest
           to
           Contest
           .
        
         
           The
           single
           Question
           I
           go
           upon
           ,
           and
           which
           does
           immediately
           concern
           and
           exercise
           the
           Minds
           of
           the
           Thinking
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Talking
           Men
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           is
           ,
           
             whether
             it
             be
             fit
             to
             repeal
             the
             Penal
             Laws
             and
             Tests
             ,
             in
             matters
             of
             Religion
             ,
             or
             not
             .
             I
          
           take
           the
           Affirmative
           of
           the
           Question
           ,
           and
           humbly
           submit
           my
           Reasons
           to
           every
           reasonable
           Conscience
           .
           I
           say
           reasonable
           ,
           because
           That
           which
           knows
           not
           its
           own
           Duty
           ,
           Principles
           and
           Interest
           ,
           is
           not
           so
           ,
           and
           That
           which
           is
           not
           willing
           to
           do
           to
           others
           as
           it
           would
           be
           done
           by
           ,
           less
           deserves
           to
           be
           thought
           so
           .
        
         
           Now
           there
           are
           three
           sorts
           of
           People
           that
           will
           find
           themselves
           concerned
           in
           this
           Question
           ;
           
             The
             Church
             of
             England
             ,
             the
             Roman
             Catholick
             ,
          
           and
           
             the
             Protestant
             Dissenter
          
           ,
           and
           these
           make
           up
           the
           whole
           Body
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           If
           it
           appear
           to
           be
           their
           Duty
           ,
           Principles
           and
           Interest
           ,
           the
           Question
           is
           gain'd
           ,
           and
           no
           body
           is
           left
           to
           complain
           ;
           and
           if
           I
           am
           mistaken
           ,
           it
           is
           with
           so
           great
           an
           inclination
           to
           serve
           them
           all
           ,
           that
           their
           good
           nature
           cannot
           but
           plead
           my
           Excuse
           ,
           especially
           when
           they
           consider
           I
           am
           neither
           mov'd
           by
           Hopes
           nor
           Fears
           .
           Private
           Loss
           or
           Gain
           being
           farther
           from
           my
           thought
           ,
           then
           I
           hope
           they
           are
           from
           a
           good
           Understanding
           .
        
         
         
           I
           say
           ,
           first
           ,
           then
           it
           is
           the
           Duty
           of
           all
           of
           them
           ,
           because
           they
           all
           profess
           that
           Religion
           which
           makes
           it
           their
           common
           duty
           to
           do
           it
           ;
           Christianity
           ,
           I
           mean
           :
           For
           no
           Christian
           ought
           to
           deprive
           any
           man
           of
           his
           native
           Right
           for
           matters
           of
           Faith
           and
           Worship
           towards
           God
           ,
           in
           the
           way
           that
           he
           thinks
           most
           agreeable
           to
           the
           Will
           of
           God
           ;
           because
           it
           is
           necessary
           to
           a
           Christian
           to
           believe
           that
           Faith
           is
           the
           Gift
           of
           God
           alone
           ,
           and
           that
           He
           only
           is
           Lord
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           is
           able
           truly
           to
           enlighten
           ,
           perswade
           ,
           and
           establish
           it
           ;
           and
           consequently
           that
           prejudicing
           Men
           in
           their
           Persons
           or
           Estates
           ,
           or
           depriving
           them
           of
           any
           Station
           in
           the
           Government
           ,
           they
           might
           otherwise
           ,
           in
           their
           turn
           ,
           be
           capable
           to
           serve
           the
           Publick
           in
           ,
           is
           contrary
           to
           the
           tenderness
           and
           equity
           of
           that
           Religion
           ;
           which
           will
           yet
           further
           appear
           ,
           if
           we
           consider
           that
           Christianity
           is
           the
           sole
           Religion
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           that
           is
           built
           on
           the
           Principles
           of
           Love
           ;
           which
           brought
           with
           it
           the
           greatest
           Evidences
           of
           Truth
           .
           Equally
           convincing
           our
           Understandings
           with
           its
           Light
           ,
           and
           bearing
           down
           our
           Sences
           with
           its
           Miracles
           :
           Which
           silenc'd
           the
           Oracles
           of
           the
           Heathens
           by
           the
           Divine
           Power
           present
           with
           it
           ,
           and
           vanquisht
           their
           Hearts
           ,
           that
           had
           left
           nothing
           else
           to
           conquer
           ,
           leading
           Kings
           and
           Emperors
           with
           their
           Courts
           and
           Armies
           in
           triumph
           after
           the
           despised
           Cross
           of
           him
           ,
           who
           was
           the
           holy
           and
           blessed
           Author
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           It
           was
           he
           that
           laid
           not
           his
           Religion
           in
           worldly
           Empire
           ,
           nor
           used
           the
           Methods
           of
           worldly
           Princes
           to
           propagate
           it
           ;
           as
           it
           came
           from
           Heaven
           ,
           so
           that
           only
           should
           have
           the
           Honour
           of
           protecting
           and
           promoting
           it
           .
           His
           whole
           business
           to
           mankind
           ,
           from
           first
           to
           last
           ,
           was
           Love.
           'T
           was
           first
           Love
           in
           his
           Father
           to
           send
           him
           (
           as
           St.
           John
           teaches
           )
           
             God
             so
             loved
             the
             World
             that
             he
             sent
             his
             Son
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           It
           was
           love
           in
           Jesus
           Christ
           to
           ▪
           come
           on
           that
           Arrand
           ;
           that
           he
           ,
           
             who
             thought
             it
             no
             Robbery
             to
             be
             equal
             with
             God
             ,
             should
             take
             the
             form
             of
             a
             Servant
             to
             adopt
             us
             Children
             ,
             and
             make
             himself
             of
             no
             Reputation
             with
             the
             
             World
             ,
             that
             he
             might
             make
             us
             of
             Reputation
             with
             God
             his
             Father
             .
          
        
         
           And
           he
           did
           not
           only
           come
           in
           much
           Love
           ,
           but
           preach't
           it
           and
           prest
           it
           both
           to
           Friends
           and
           Foes
           ;
           
             Love
             one
             another
             ,
             Love
             Enemies
             ,
             do
             good
             to
             them
             that
             hate
             you
             ,
             forgive
             them
             that
             trespass
             against
             you
             ;
             what
             you
             would
             that
             other
             Men
             should
             do
             unto
             you
             ,
             do
             that
             unto
             them
             ;
             by
             these
             things
             shall
             all
             Men
             know
             you
             are
             my
             Disciples
             ;
             for
             I
             came
             not
             to
             destroy
             Mens
             Lives
             ,
          
           no
           ,
           not
           for
           Religion
           it self
           ;
           
             for
             my
             Kingdom
          
           ,
           Power
           ,
           Force
           ,
           Weapons
           ,
           and
           Victory
           
             are
             not
             of
             this
             World.
          
           In
           all
           this
           Love
           prevails
           .
           It
           was
           his
           great
           ,
           his
           new
           ,
           his
           last
           Commandment
           ;
           of
           all
           his
           Disciples
           ,
           the
           most
           persued
           by
           his
           beloved
           One
           ,
           that
           in
           his
           Bosom
           had
           learn'd
           his
           Heart
           ,
           as
           his
           Divine
           Doctrine
           of
           Love
           in
           his
           Epistle
           tells
           us
           .
        
         
           As
           he
           liv'd
           in
           Love
           ,
           so
           he
           died
           in
           Love
           ,
           with
           us
           ,
           and
           for
           us
           ,
           and
           that
           
             while
             we
             were
             rebellious
             too
          
           ;
           ay
           ,
           he
           pray'd
           and
           dy'd
           for
           them
           who
           put
           him
           to
           Death
           ,
           
             shewing
             us
          
           (
           says
           St.
           Peter
           )
           
             an
             Example
             that
             we
             also
             should
             follow
             his
             Steps
             .
          
           And
           what
           are
           they
           ?
           doubtless
           the
           Steps
           of
           Love
           ,
           the
           Path
           he
           trod
           :
           To
           do
           good
           to
           Mankind
           ,
           Enemies
           as
           well
           as
           Friends
           ,
           that
           we
           may
           be
           like
           our
           heavenly
           Father
           ,
           
             that
             causes
             his
             Sun
             to
             shine
             ,
             and
             his
             Rain
             to
             fall
             upon
             the
             Just
             and
             Vnjust
             .
          
           This
           must
           be
           the
           Apostles
           meaning
           ,
           for
           the
           rest
           of
           his
           Passion
           was
           Inimitable
           .
        
         
           Now
           if
           this
           be
           
             the
             Doctrine
             of
             Christ
             ,
             the
             Nature
             of
             Christ●anity
             ,
             the
             Practice
             of
             the
             Primitive
             Church
             ,
          
           that
           ,
           like
           Adam
           ,
           was
           Created
           in
           
             full
             Strength
             ,
             Beauty
             and
             Wisdom
             ,
          
           and
           so
           an
           Example
           to
           succeeding
           Ages
           of
           Religion
           ,
           and
           to
           which
           we
           so
           often
           refer
           as
           our
           Original
           ;
           with
           what
           Pretence
           to
           a
           Christian
           Conscience
           can
           any
           one
           stickle
           to
           keep
           
             Imprisoning
             ,
             Banishing
             ,
             Impoverishing
             ,
             Hanging
             and
             Quartering
             Law●
          
           on
           ●oot
           for
           Religion
           sake
           ,
           but
           especially
           against
           such
           as
           are
           by
           Creed
           professors
           of
           Christianity
           as
           well
           as
           themselves
           .
        
         
         
           I
           know
           the
           Case
           is
           put
           hard
           by
           those
           that
           have
           the
           Laws
           on
           their
           side
           ,
           
             We
             do
             this
             to
             save
             our selves
          
           ;
           but
           an
           harder
           Case
           than
           Christs
           can
           never
           be
           put
           ,
           whose
           Answer
           in
           his
           ,
           ought
           to
           resolve
           theirs
           fully
           .
        
         
           Christ
           is
           sent
           by
           his
           Father
           for
           the
           Salvation
           of
           the
           World
           :
           He
           introduces
           and
           proves
           his
           Mission
           by
           Miracles
           ,
           and
           the
           great
           Authority
           of
           his
           Word
           and
           Doctrine
           ;
           His
           Followers
           fully
           satisfied
           who
           he
           was
           ,
           whence
           he
           came
           ,
           what
           he
           taught
           ,
           and
           how
           eminently
           confirm'd
           ,
           grew
           impatient
           at
           Contradiction
           ;
           they
           could
           not
           bear
           the
           least
           Dissent
           ;
           for
           when
           some
           of
           the
           Samaritans
           refused
           to
           entertain
           their
           Lord
           ,
           because
           they
           thought
           he
           was
           going
           for
           Jerusalem
           ,
           the
           place
           of
           their
           greatest
           aversion
           ;
           these
           Disciples
           were
           for
           having
           but
           the
           Word
           from
           his
           Mouth
           ,
           and
           they
           would
           ,
           in
           imitation
           of
           
             Elijah
             ,
             have
             called
             for
             Fire
             from
             Heaven
             to
             have
             destroy'd
             them
             .
             But
             he
             turned
             and
             rebuked
             them
             ,
             and
             said
             ,
             ye
             know
             not
             what
             manner
             of
             Spirit
             ye
             are
             of
             ,
             for
             the
             Son
             of
             Man
             is
             not
             come
             to
             Destroy
             Mens
             Lives
             but
             to
             Save
             them
             .
          
           This
           Answer
           is
           to
           purpose
           ,
           and
           for
           all
           times
           ,
           to
           be
           sure
           Christian
           ones
           ;
           and
           the
           higher
           the
           Pretentions
           of
           any
           Party
           are
           to
           Christianity
           ,
           the
           more
           inexcusable
           if
           they
           practice
           the
           contrary
           ,
           Would
           not
           Christ
           then
           hurt
           them
           that
           refused
           him
           ,
           and
           can
           we
           hurt
           our
           Neighbors
           for
           not
           receiving
           us
           ?
           He
           condemned
           that
           Spirit
           in
           his
           Disciples
           ,
           and
           shall
           we
           uphold
           the
           same
           Spirit
           ,
           and
           that
           by
           Law
           too
           ,
           which
           he
           condemned
           by
           his
           Gospel
           ?
           This
           is
           
             killing
             for
             Gods
             sake
          
           ,
           expresly
           charg'd
           by
           Christ
           with
           Impiety
           .
           
             They
             shall
             think
          
           ,
           says
           he
           to
           his
           Disciples
           ,
           
             they
             do
             God
             good
             service
             to
             kill
             you
          
           ;
           who
           should
           think
           so
           ?
           why
           
             the
             Christian
             Persecutors
          
           .
           Is
           it
           their
           Property
           to
           do
           so
           ?
           yes
           ,
           what
           shall
           one
           think
           then
           of
           those
           Christians
           that
           profess
           it
           .
        
         
           The
           Jews
           were
           grievously
           punished
           of
           God
           ,
           for
           that
           abomination
           of
           sacrificing
           their
           Children
           to
           Moloch
           ,
           but
           these
           〈◊〉
           though
           they
           change
           the
           Object
           ,
           they
           have
           not
           lessen'd
           
           the
           Sin
           ;
           
             for
             they
             offer
             up
             Man
             ,
             Woman
             and
             Child
             ,
          
           and
           tho
           they
           say
           't
           is
           
             to
             God
          
           ,
           no
           matter
           for
           that
           ,
           since
           it
           makes
           their
           Case
           worse
           ,
           for
           't
           is
           to
           imagine
           that
           so
           good
           ,
           so
           just
           ,
           so
           sensible
           ,
           so
           merciful
           a
           Beeing
           can
           take
           pleasure
           in
           so
           much
           Cruelty
           .
           Well
           ,
           
             but
             if
             we
             must
             not
             knock
             Folks
             on
             the
             Head
             ,
             what
             must
             we
             do
             with
             them
          
           ?
           Take
           an
           Answer
           at
           the
           Mouth
           of
           Truth
           and
           Wisdom
           .
           
             Let
             the
             Tears
             and
             Wheat
             grow
             together
             till
             the
             Harvest
          
           ;
           what
           's
           that
           ?
           he
           tells
           you
           ,
           
             't
             is
             the
             end
             of
             the
             World
          
           ;
           so
           that
           whatever
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           is
           ,
           't
           is
           certain
           Christ
           is
           for
           a
           Toleration
           ,
           and
           his
           Doctrine
           is
           always
           in
           Fashion
           ;
           what
           he
           was
           ,
           he
           is
           ,
           and
           will
           be
           ;
           he
           went
           not
           by
           Reasons
           of
           State
           ,
           or
           Customs
           of
           Countries
           ;
           his
           Judgment
           was
           better
           built
           ,
           who
           came
           to
           give
           Law
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           receive
           it
           ,
           and
           't
           is
           a
           Light
           and
           Rule
           to
           all
           times
           :
           
             And
             He
             that
             loves
             Father
             ,
             or
             Mother
             ,
             or
             Wife
             ,
             or
             Children
             ,
             or
             House
             ,
             or
             Land
             better
             than
             him
             ,
          
           that
           is
           ,
           
             his
             Doctrine
          
           (
           of
           which
           this
           is
           so
           great
           a
           part
           )
           
             is
             not
             worthy
             of
             him
          
           ;
           and
           I
           fear
           no
           other
           Reason
           induces
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           decline
           it
           .
        
         
           To
           confirm
           what
           has
           been
           said
           ,
           tho
           I
           design
           Brevity
           ,
           let
           me
           not
           lose
           another
           Passage
           very
           pregnant
           to
           our
           purpose
           ;
           when
           his
           Disciples
           had
           accomplisht
           their
           first
           Mission
           ,
           at
           their
           return
           they
           gave
           him
           the
           History
           of
           their
           Travels
           :
           Among
           the
           rest
           ,
           they
           tell
           him
           of
           one
           they
           met
           with
           ,
           that
           in
           his
           Name
           cast
           out
           Devils
           ,
           but
           because
           he
           would
           not
           follow
           with
           them
           ,
           
             they
             forbad
             him
          
           ;
           here
           is
           at
           least
           a
           Dissenting
           Christian
           ,
           tho
           a
           Believer
           ,
           yet
           it
           seems
           not
           one
           of
           that
           closer
           Congregation
           ;
           we
           also
           see
           their
           Zeal
           and
           Sentence
           .
           But
           what
           says
           the
           Master
           ,
           yet
           alive
           ,
           and
           with
           them
           ,
           the
           infallible
           Doctor
           ,
           in
           whose
           Mouth
           was
           no
           Guile
           ,
           who
           had
           not
           the
           Spirit
           by
           measure
           ,
           and
           was
           the
           great
           Wisdom
           of
           God
           to
           his
           People
           ,
           was
           he
           of
           the
           same
           mind
           ,
           or
           did
           he
           leave
           them
           without
           rule
           in
           the
           Point
           ?
           His
           Answer
           is
           this
           .
           And
           Jesus
           
             said
             to
             them
             ,
             forbid
             him
             not
             ,
             for
             he
             that
             is
             not
             against
             us
             is
             for
             us
             .
          
           The
           Prohibition
           is
           taken
           
           off
           ,
           and
           their
           Judgment
           revers'd
           ,
           and
           from
           his
           ,
           to
           be
           sure
           ,
           there
           lies
           no
           Appeal
           .
           For
           tho
           a
           Power
           of
           Decision
           were
           allow'd
           to
           some
           one
           or
           more
           on
           Earth
           ,
           in
           matters
           obscure
           and
           undetermin'd
           ,
           yet
           in
           cases
           
             already
             adjudged
             by
             the
             Son
             of
             God
             himself
             ,
             who
             had
             the
             Chair
             ,
             and
             could
             not
             Err
             ,
          
           there
           can
           be
           no
           room
           for
           another
           Judge
           .
        
         
           Now
           to
           apply
           it
           ,
           I
           must
           first
           say
           ,
           I
           find
           no
           such
           Disciples
           among
           those
           that
           are
           of
           the
           side
           of
           keeping
           up
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           ,
           God
           knows
           ,
           the
           disparity
           is
           but
           too
           unequal
           .
           But
           next
           ,
           if
           they
           were
           all
           Twelve
           in
           
             Westminster
             Abby
          
           ,
           and
           should
           be
           of
           the
           side
           of
           upholding
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           (
           which
           is
           the
           wrong
           side
           they
           were
           of
           before
           )
           I
           should
           beg
           their
           Pardon
           ,
           if
           I
           were
           of
           their
           Masters
           mind
           ,
           and
           objected
           his
           Wisdom
           to
           their
           Zeal
           ,
           and
           his
           gentle
           Rule
           to
           their
           harsh
           and
           narrow
           Judgment
           .
           And
           I
           beseech
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           consider
           ,
           that
           no
           Pretence
           can
           excuse
           her
           Dissent
           ,
           and
           less
           her
           cross
           Practice
           to
           the
           Judgment
           of
           her
           Saviour
           :
           
             A
             Judgment
             that
             seems
             given
             and
             setled
             for
             the
             Conduct
             of
             the
             Church
             on
             the
             like
             Occasions
             in
             succeeding
             times
             .
          
           And
           't
           is
           pitty
           any
           worldly
           thing
           should
           have
           place
           with
           her
           to
           divert
           her
           Obedience
           .
           Did
           Christ
           then
           come
           to
           save
           Mens
           Lives
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           destroy
           them
           ?
           and
           should
           she
           (
           she
           I
           say
           ,
           that
           pretends
           to
           be
           a
           reformed
           Church
           )
           uphold
           those
           Laws
           that
           do
           destroy
           them
           ?
           He
           ,
           Alas
           !
           went
           to
           another
           Village
           instead
           of
           burning
           them
           ,
           or
           theirs
           ,
           for
           refusing
           him
           :
           And
           she
           forbids
           any
           ,
           that
           belongs
           to
           any
           other
           ,
           to
           lodge
           in
           hers
           ,
           upon
           pain
           of
           loosing
           Life
           or
           Estate
           ;
           This
           may
           make
           her
           a
           Samaritan
           indeed
           ;
           but
           not
           the
           
             good
             One
          
           ,
           whose
           Example
           would
           have
           taught
           her
           ,
           instead
           of
           these
           sharp
           and
           ruder
           Remedies
           ,
           to
           have
           poured
           the
           Oyle
           of
           Peace
           and
           Gladness
           into
           those
           Chops
           and
           Wounds
           that
           Time
           and
           Heats
           of
           all
           Hands
           had
           made
           in
           every
           Religious
           Party
           of
           Men.
           Nor
           does
           she
           lose
           anything
           by
           repealing
           those
           Laws
           ,
           but
           the
           Power
           of
           Persecuting
           ,
           and
           a
           good
           Church
           would
           never
           have
           the
           Temptation
           .
           
           Come
           some
           body
           must
           begin
           to
           forgive
           ,
           let
           her
           not
           leave
           that
           Honour
           to
           another
           ,
           nor
           draw
           upon
           her self
           the
           Guilt
           and
           Mischief
           of
           refusing
           it
           .
           She
           pretends
           to
           fear
           the
           Strokes
           of
           the
           Romanists
           ,
           but
           I
           would
           fain
           know
           of
           her
           ,
           if
           following
           their
           Example
           will
           convert
           them
           ,
           or
           secure
           her
           ?
           Does
           she
           hope
           to
           keep
           them
           out
           by
           the
           Weapons
           that
           have
           fail'd
           in
           their
           Hands
           ,
           or
           can
           she
           honourably
           censure
           Persecution
           in
           them
           ,
           and
           yet
           use
           it
           her self
           ?
        
         
           But
           she
           is
           extreamly
           scandal'd
           and
           scared
           
             at
             the
             Severity
             upon
             Protestants
             in
             France
             .
          
           'T
           is
           certainly
           very
           ill
           ;
           but
           do
           not
           the
           Laws
           she
           is
           so
           fond
           of
           point
           at
           the
           same
           Work
           ,
           Conformity
           ,
           or
           Ruin.
           And
           don't
           we
           know
           ,
           that
           in
           some
           Places
           ,
           and
           upon
           some
           Parties
           her
           Magistrates
           have
           plow'd
           as
           deep
           Furrows
           ,
           especially
           within
           these
           six
           and
           twenty
           Years
           ▪
           
             Husbands
             separated
             from
             their
             Wives
             ,
             Parents
             from
             their
             Children
             ,
             the
             Widdows
             Bed
             and
             the
             Orphans
             Milk
             made
             a
             Prize
             for
             Religion
             ,
             Houses
             stript
             ,
             Barns
             and
             Fields
             swept
             clean
             ,
             Prisons
             crowded
             without
             regard
             to
             Sex
             or
             Age
             ,
             and
             some
             of
             both
             sorts
             Dungin'd
             to
             Death
             ,
             and
             all
             for
             Religion
             .
          
           If
           she
           says
           they
           were
           
             peevish
             Men
             ,
             Biggots
          
           ,
           or
           mov'd
           by
           
             private
             Interest
          
           ,
           she
           still
           made
           the
           Laws
           ,
           and
           says
           no
           more
           for
           her self
           than
           the
           French
           say
           for
           their
           King
           ,
           which
           yet
           she
           refuses
           to
           take
           for
           an
           Answer
           .
           Perhaps
           I
           could
           parralel
           some
           of
           the
           severest
           Passages
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           out
           of
           the
           Actions
           of
           some
           Members
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           in
           
             cool
             Blood
          
           ,
           that
           are
           even
           yet
           for
           continuing
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           upon
           their
           plunder'd
           Neighbours
           ;
           so
           that
           this
           Reflection
           of
           hers
           upon
           France
           ,
           is
           more
           popular
           than
           just
           from
           her
           .
           But
           I
           beseech
           her
           to
           look
           upon
           a
           Country
           four
           times
           bigger
           than
           
             France
             ;
             Germany
          
           I
           mean
           ,
           and
           she
           will
           there
           see
           both
           Religions
           practis'd
           with
           great
           Ease
           and
           Amity
           ,
           yet
           of
           this
           we
           must
           not
           hear
           one
           Word
           :
           I
           hope
           it
           is
           not
           for
           fear
           of
           imitating
           it
           .
           However
           't
           is
           disingenious
           to
           object
           the
           Mischiefs
           of
           Popery
           to
           a
           general
           Ease
           ,
           when
           we
           see
           it
           is
           the
           way
           to
           prevent
           them
           .
           
           This
           is
           but
           in
           the
           name
           of
           Popery
           
             to
             keep
             all
             to
             herself
          
           ,
           as
           well
           from
           Protestant
           Dissenters
           ,
           as
           Roman
           Catholicks
           .
           How
           Christian
           ,
           how
           equal
           ,
           how
           safe
           ,
           that
           narrow
           Method
           is
           ,
           becomes
           her
           well
           to
           consider
           ,
           and
           methinks
           she
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           long
           about
           it
           .
        
         
           I
           know
           she
           flatters
           herself
           and
           others
           to
           believe
           ,
           she
           is
           a
           Bulwork
           against
           Popery
           ;
           and
           with
           that
           ,
           without
           any
           further
           Security
           to
           other
           Protestants
           ,
           wipes
           her
           Mouth
           of
           all
           old
           Scores
           ,
           and
           makes
           her
           present
           Court
           for
           Assistance
           .
           But
           when
           that
           word
           Bulwork
           is
           examined
           ,
           I
           fear
           it
           appears
           too
           mean
           no
           more
           than
           this
           ,
           
             That
             she
             would
             keep
             out
             Popery
             for
             that
             reason
             for
             which
             she
             apprehends
             Popery
             would
             turn
             her
             out
             ,
          
           viz.
           
             Temporal
             Interest
          
           .
           But
           may
           I
           without
           Offence
           ask
           her
           ,
           when
           she
           kept
           Persecution
           out
           ?
           Or
           if
           she
           keeps
           out
           Popery
           for
           any
           bodies
           sake
           but
           her
           own
           ?
           Nay
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           not
           to
           hold
           the
           Power
           she
           has
           in
           her
           hands
           ,
           that
           she
           would
           frighten
           other
           Parties
           (
           now
           she
           has
           done
           her
           worst
           )
           with
           what
           mischief
           Popery
           would
           do
           them
           when
           it
           has
           Power
           .
           But
           to
           speak
           freely
           ,
           can
           she
           be
           a
           Bulwork
           in
           the
           Case
           ,
           that
           has
           been
           bringing
           the
           worst
           part
           of
           Popery
           in
           these
           six
           and
           twenty
           Years
           ,
           if
           
             Persecution
             be
          
           so
           as
           she
           says
           it
           is
           ?
           This
           would
           be
           call'd
           Canting
           to
           the
           World
           in
           others
           .
           But
           I
           hear
           
             she
             begins
             to
             see
             her
             Fault
             ,
             is
             heartily
             sorry
             for
             it
             ,
             and
             promises
             to
             do
             so
             no
             more
          
           :
           And
           why
           may
           not
           Popery
           be
           as
           wise
           ,
           that
           has
           also
           burnt
           her
           Fingers
           with
           the
           same
           work
           ?
           Their
           praying
           for
           ease
           by
           Law
           looks
           as
           if
           they
           chose
           That
           rather
           than
           Power
           for
           Security
           ;
           and
           if
           so
           ,
           why
           may
           not
           the
           Papists
           Live
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           she
           Reign
           ?
           I
           am
           none
           of
           their
           Advocate
           ,
           I
           am
           no
           Papist
           ,
           but
           I
           would
           be
           just
           and
           merciful
           too
           .
           However
           ,
           I
           must
           tell
           her
           ,
           that
           keeping
           the
           Laws
           on
           foot
           ,
           by
           which
           she
           did
           the
           mischief
           ,
           is
           none
           of
           the
           plainest
           Evidences
           of
           her
           Repentance
           :
           They
           that
           can
           believe
           it
           ,
           have
           little
           reason
           to
           quarrel
           the
           unaccountableness
           of
           Transubstantiation
           .
           Is
           it
           unjust
           in
           Popery
           to
           invade
           her
           
           Priviledges
           ,
           and
           can
           it
           be
           just
           in
           her
           to
           provoke
           it
           ,
           by
           denying
           a
           Christian
           Liberty
           ?
           or
           can
           she
           expect
           what
           she
           will
           not
           give
           ?
           or
           not
           do
           as
           she
           would
           be
           done
           by
           ,
           because
           she
           fears
           others
           will
           not
           observe
           the
           same
           Rule
           to
           her
           ?
           Is
           not
           this
           
             doing
             Evil
             that
             Good
             may
             come
             of
             it
             ,
          
           and
           that
           uncertain
           too
           ,
           against
           an
           express
           Command
           as
           well
           as
           common
           Charity
           ?
           But
           to
           speak
           freely
           ,
           whether
           we
           regard
           the
           Circumstances
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           the
           Relation
           of
           his
           Children
           ,
           the
           inequality
           of
           the
           Number
           and
           Strength
           of
           those
           of
           each
           of
           their
           Communions
           ,
           we
           must
           conclude
           ,
           that
           the
           Aversion
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           this
           intreated
           Liberty
           ,
           cannot
           reasonably
           be
           thought
           to
           come
           from
           the
           Fear
           she
           has
           of
           the
           prevalency
           of
           Popery
           ,
           but
           the
           loss
           of
           that
           Power
           the
           Law
           gives
           her
           to
           domineer
           over
           all
           Dissenters
           .
           And
           is
           not
           this
           a
           
             Rare
             Motive
          
           for
           a
           Christian
           Church
           to
           continue
           Penal
           Laws
           for
           Religion
           ?
           If
           her
           Piety
           be
           not
           able
           to
           maintain
           her
           upon
           equal
           terms
           ,
           methinks
           her
           having
           so
           much
           the
           whip
           hand
           and
           start
           of
           all
           others
           ,
           should
           satisfy
           her
           Ambition
           ,
           and
           quiet
           her
           Fears
           ;
           for
           't
           is
           possible
           for
           her
           to
           keep
           the
           Churches
           if
           the
           Laws
           were
           abolished
           ;
           all
           the
           difference
           is
           ,
           she
           could
           not
           force
           :
           She
           might
           perswade
           and
           convince
           what
           she
           could
           :
           And
           pray
           ,
           is
           not
           that
           enough
           for
           a
           true
           Church
           ,
           without
           
             Goales
             ,
             Whips
             ,
             Halters
          
           and
           Gibbets
           ?
           O
           what
           Corruption
           is
           this
           that
           has
           prevail'd
           over
           Men
           of
           such
           Pretensions
           to
           Light
           and
           Conscience
           ?
           that
           they
           do
           not
           ,
           or
           will
           not
           ,
           see
           nor
           feel
           their
           own
           Principles
           one
           remove
           from
           themselves
           ;
           but
           sacrifice
           the
           noblest
           part
           of
           the
           Reformation
           to
           Ambition
           ,
           and
           compel
           Men
           to
           truckle
           their
           tender
           Consciences
           to
           the
           Grandure
           and
           Dominion
           of
           their
           Doctors
           .
        
         
           But
           because
           the
           Sons
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           keep
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           such
           a
           stir
           in
           her
           favour
           ,
           and
           fix
           her
           excellency
           in
           her
           opposition
           to
           Popery
           ,
           it
           is
           worth
           while
           to
           consider
           a
           little
           further
           ,
           if
           really
           the
           most
           feared
           and
           disagreeable
           part
           of
           Popery
           in
           her
           own
           opinion
           ,
           does
           not
           belong
           to
           her
           ,
           and
           if
           it
           does
           ,
           should
           we
           
           not
           be
           in
           a
           fine
           Condition
           ,
           to
           be
           in
           Love
           with
           our
           Fetters
           ,
           and
           to
           Court
           our
           Misery
           ?
        
         
           That
           part
           of
           Popery
           which
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           with
           most
           success
           objects
           against
           ,
           is
           her
           Violence
           .
           This
           is
           that
           she
           can
           only
           pretend
           to
           fear
           :
           Her
           Doctrines
           she
           partly
           Professes
           or
           thinks
           she
           can
           easily
           refute
           .
           She
           does
           not
           think
           her
           Doctors
           
             Conjurers
             ▪
          
           for
           their
           Transubstantiation
           ,
           or
           dangerous
           to
           the
           State
           for
           their
           Beads
           ,
           or
           their
           
             Purgatory
             .
             But
             forcing
             others
             to
             their
             Faith
             ,
             or
             ruining
             them
             for
             refusing
             it
             ,
             is
             the
             terrible
             thing
             we
             are
             taught
             by
             her
             to
             apprehend
             .
          
           Now
           granting
           this
           to
           be
           the
           case
           ,
           in
           reference
           to
           the
           Roman
           Religion
           ,
           where
           it
           is
           in
           the
           Chair
           :
           I
           ask
           ,
           if
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           with
           her
           better
           Doctrines
           ,
           has
           not
           been
           Guilty
           of
           this
           Impiety
           ,
           and
           for
           that
           cause
           more
           blameable
           the
           the
           Church
           she
           opposes
           so
           much
           ?
           If
           we
           look
           into
           her
           Acts
           of
           State
           ,
           we
           find
           them
           many
           ,
           and
           bitter
           ,
           against
           all
           sorts
           of
           Dissenters
           .
           There
           is
           nigh
           twenty
           Laws
           made
           ,
           and
           yet
           in
           force
           ,
           to
           constrain
           Conformity
           ,
           and
           they
           have
           been
           executed
           too
           ,
           as
           far
           and
           as
           often
           as
           she
           thought
           it
           fit
           for
           her
           Interest
           to
           let
           them
           .
           
             Some
             have
             been
             Hang'd
             ,
             many
             Banish't
             ,
             more
             Imprisoned
             ,
             and
             some
             to
             Death
             ;
             and
             abundance
             Impoverish't
          
           ;
           and
           all
           this
           meerly
           for
           Religion
           :
           Tho
           ,
           by
           a
           base
           and
           barbarous
           use
           of
           Words
           ,
           it
           has
           been
           call'd
           
             Treason
             ,
             Sedition
             ,
             Routs
             and
             Riots
          
           ;
           the
           worst
           of
           aggravations
           ,
           since
           they
           are
           not
           contented
           to
           make
           People
           unhappy
           for
           their
           Dissent
           ,
           but
           rob
           them
           of
           all
           they
           had
           left
           ,
           
             their
             Innocency
          
           .
           This
           has
           been
           her
           State
           Craft
           ,
           to
           coin
           Guilt
           ,
           and
           make
           men
           dangerous
           ,
           to
           have
           her
           ends
           upon
           them
           .
           But
           that
           way
           of
           Palliating
           Persecution
           ,
           by
           rendring
           a
           thing
           that
           it
           is
           not
           ,
           and
           punishing
           men
           for
           Crimes
           they
           never
           committed
           ,
           show
           but
           little
           Conscience
           in
           the
           Projectors
           .
           The
           Church
           of
           England
           crys
           out
           against
           Transubstantiation
           ,
           because
           of
           the
           Invisibility
           of
           the
           Change.
           She
           don't
           see
           Christ
           there
           ,
           and
           therefore
           he
           is
           not
           there
           ,
           and
           yet
           her
           Sons
           do
           the
           same
           thing
           .
           For
           tho
           all
           the
           
           tokens
           of
           a
           Riot
           are
           as
           invisible
           in
           a
           Dissenters
           Meeting
           ,
           as
           Christ
           in
           the
           Transubstantiation
           ,
           yet
           it
           must
           be
           a
           Riot
           without
           any
           more
           to
           do
           :
           The
           English
           of
           which
           is
           ,
           't
           is
           a
           Riot
           to
           pray
           to
           God
           in
           the
           humblest
           and
           peaceablest
           manner
           in
           a
           Conventicle
           .
        
         
           I
           know
           it
           is
           said
           ,
           
             The
             Blood-shed
             in
             the
             fore-going
             Raign
             ,
             and
             the
             Plots
             of
             the
             Papists
             against
             Queen
          
           Elizabeth
           ,
           
             drew
             those
             Laws
             from
             the
             Church
             of
          
           England
           .
           But
           this
           was
           no
           reason
           why
           she
           should
           do
           ill
           because
           they
           had
           done
           so
           :
           Besides
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           answered
           ,
           that
           that
           Religion
           having
           so
           long
           intermixt
           it self
           with
           worldly
           Power
           ,
           it
           gave
           way
           to
           take
           the
           revenges
           of
           it
           .
           And
           certainly
           the
           great
           men
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           endeavouring
           
             to
             intercept
             Queen
          
           Mary
           ,
           
             by
             proclaiming
             the
             Lady
          
           Jane
           Gray
           ,
           
             and
             the
             Apprehension
             the
             Papists
             had
             of
             the
             better
             Title
             of
          
           Mary
           
             Queen
             of
          
           Scots
           ,
           
             together
             with
             a
             long
             Possession
          
           ,
           were
           scurvy
           Temptations
           to
           kindle
           ill
           Designs
           against
           that
           extraordinary
           Queen
           .
           But
           tho
           nothing
           can
           excuse
           and
           less
           justifie
           those
           cruel
           Proceedings
           ;
           yet
           if
           there
           were
           any
           reason
           for
           the
           Laws
           ,
           it
           is
           plainly
           removed
           ;
           for
           the
           Interests
           are
           joyn'd
           ,
           and
           have
           been
           since
           King
           James
           the
           first
           came
           to
           the
           Crown
           .
           However
           ,
           't
           is
           certain
           there
           were
           Laws
           enough
           ,
           or
           they
           might
           have
           had
           them
           ,
           to
           punish
           all
           civil
           Enormities
           ,
           without
           the
           necessity
           of
           making
           any
           against
           them
           as
           Papists
           .
           And
           so
           the
           civil
           Government
           had
           stood
           upon
           its
           own
           Legs
           ,
           and
           Vices
           only
           against
           it
           had
           been
           punishable
           by
           it
           .
           In
           short
           ,
           it
           was
           the
           falsest
           Step
           that
           was
           made
           in
           all
           that
           great
           Queens
           Raign
           ,
           &
           the
           most
           dishonourable
           to
           the
           Principles
           of
           the
           first
           Reformers
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           know
           no
           better
           Reason
           why
           it
           should
           be
           continued
           ,
           than
           that
           which
           made
           the
           Cardinal
           in
           the
           History
           of
           the
           
             Council
             of
             Trent
          
           oppose
           the
           Reformation
           at
           Rome
           ;
           That
           tho
           it
           was
           true
           that
           they
           were
           in
           the
           wrong
           ,
           yet
           the
           admitting
           of
           it
           
             approved
             the
             judgment
             of
             their
             Enemies
             ,
             and
             so
             good-night
             to
             Infallibility
             .
          
           Let
           not
           this
           be
           the
           Practice
           of
           
           the
           Church
           ▪
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           the
           rather
           ,
           because
           she
           does
           not
           pretend
           to
           it
           :
           But
           let
           her
           reflect
           ,
           that
           she
           has
           lost
           her
           King
           from
           her
           Religion
           ,
           and
           they
           that
           have
           got
           him
           ,
           naturally
           hope
           for
           ease
           for
           theirs
           by
           him
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           the
           end
           they
           labour'd
           ,
           and
           the
           great
           use
           they
           have
           for
           him
           ,
           and
           I
           would
           fain
           wonder
           that
           she
           never
           saw
           it
           before
           ;
           but
           whether
           she
           did
           or
           no
           ,
           why
           should
           she
           begrudg
           it
           ,
           at
           least
           refuse
           it
           now
           ?
           Since
           't
           is
           plain
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           nothing
           we
           esteem
           dangerous
           in
           Popery
           that
           other
           Laws
           are
           not
           sufficient
           to
           secure
           us
           from
           :
           Have
           we
           not
           enough
           of
           them
           ?
           let
           her
           think
           of
           more
           ,
           and
           do
           the
           best
           she
           can
           to
           
             discover
             Plotters
             ,
             punish
             Traitors
             ,
             suppress
             the
             Seditious
             ,
             and
             keep
             the
             Peace
             better
          
           than
           those
           we
           have
           can
           enable
           us
           to
           do
           :
           But
           ,
           for
           Gods
           sake
           ,
           let
           us
           never
           direct
           Laws
           against
           Men
           for
           the
           cause
           of
           Religion
           ,
           or
           punish
           them
           before
           they
           have
           otherwise
           done
           amiss
           .
           Let
           Mens
           Works
           ,
           not
           their
           Opinions
           ,
           turn
           the
           Edg
           of
           the
           Magistrates
           Sword
           against
           them
           ,
           else
           't
           is
           Beheading
           them
           before
           they
           are
           Born.
           
        
         
           By
           the
           common
           Law
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           there
           must
           be
           some
           
             Real
             and
             Proper
             Overt
             Act
          
           that
           proves
           Treason
           ;
           some
           Malice
           that
           proves
           Sedition
           ;
           and
           some
           
             violent
             Action
          
           that
           proves
           a
           Rout
           or
           Riot
           .
           If
           so
           ,
           
             to
             call
             any
             sort
             of
             Religious
             Orders
             ,
          
           the
           one
           ,
           or
           
             Praying
             to
             God
             in
             a
             way
             out
             of
             fashion
             ,
          
           the
           other
           ,
           is
           prepostrous
           ,
           and
           punishing
           People
           for
           it
           ,
           down
           right
           Murther
           ,
           or
           
             Breach
             of
             the
             Peace
          
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           true
           use
           of
           Words
           ,
           and
           the
           old
           Law
           of
           England
           .
        
         
           If
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           fears
           the
           growth
           of
           Popery
           ,
           let
           her
           be
           true
           to
           the
           Religion
           she
           owns
           ,
           and
           betake
           her self
           to
           Faith
           ,
           rather
           than
           Force
           ,
           by
           a
           
             pious
             ,
             humble
          
           ,
           and
           a
           
             good
             Example
          
           :
           To
           convince
           and
           perswade
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           highest
           honour
           to
           any
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           greatest
           Victory
           over
           Men.
           I
           am
           for
           a
           National
           Church
           as
           well
           as
           she
           ,
           so
           it
           be
           by
           Consent
           ,
           and
           not
           by
           Constraint
           .
           But
           Coercive
           Churches
           have
           the
           
             same
             Principle
          
           ,
           tho
           not
           the
           same
           Interest
           .
           A
           Church
           ,
           
             by
             Law
             established
          
           ,
           is
           a
           
           State
           Church
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           no
           Argument
           of
           Verity
           ,
           unless
           the
           State
           that
           makes
           her
           so
           be
           infallible
           ;
           and
           because
           that
           will
           not
           be
           asserted
           ,
           the
           other
           can
           never
           oblige
           the
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           consequently
           the
           Compulsion
           she
           uses
           ,
           is
           unreasonable
           .
           This
           very
           Principle
           
             justifies
             the
             King
             of
          
           France
           ,
           
             and
             the
             Inquisition
          
           .
           For
           Laws
           being
           equally
           of
           Force
           in
           all
           Countries
           where
           they
           are
           made
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           as
           much
           Fault
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Englands
           Judgment
           to
           be
           
             a
             Protestant
             at
             Rome
             ,
             or
             a
             Calvanist
             at
             Paris
             ,
          
           as
           to
           be
           a
           
             Papist
             at
             London
          
           :
           Then
           where
           is
           Truth
           or
           Conscience
           but
           in
           the
           Laws
           of
           Countries
           !
           which
           renders
           her
           an
           Hobbist
           ,
           notwithstanding
           her
           long
           and
           loud
           Clamours
           against
           the
           Leviathan
           :
        
         
           I
           beg
           her
           ,
           for
           the
           love
           of
           Christ
           ,
           that
           she
           would
           think
           of
           these
           things
           ,
           and
           not
           esteem
           me
           her
           Enemy
           for
           performing
           the
           part
           of
           so
           good
           a
           Friend
           .
           Plain
           Dealing
           becomes
           that
           Caracter
           ;
           no
           matter
           whether
           the
           Way
           be
           agreeable
           ,
           so
           it
           be
           right
           :
           We
           are
           all
           to
           do
           our
           Duty
           ,
           and
           leave
           the
           rest
           to
           God
           :
           He
           can
           best
           answer
           for
           our
           Obedience
           ,
           that
           Commands
           it
           ;
           and
           our
           Dependance
           upon
           his
           Word
           ,
           will
           be
           our
           Security
           in
           our
           Conduct
           .
           What
           weight
           is
           it
           to
           a
           Church
           ,
           that
           she
           is
           
             the
             Church
             by
             Law
             established
          
           ,
           when
           no
           humane
           Law
           can
           make
           a
           true
           Church
           ?
           A
           true
           Church
           is
           of
           
             Christs
             making
          
           ,
           and
           is
           by
           Gospel
           established
           .
           'T
           is
           a
           Reflection
           to
           a
           Church
           that
           would
           be
           thought
           true
           ,
           to
           stoop
           to
           humane
           Law
           for
           her
           Establishment
           .
           I
           have
           been
           often
           scandal'd
           at
           that
           Expression
           from
           the
           Sons
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           especially
           those
           of
           the
           Robe
           ,
           
             What
             do
             you
             talk
             for
             ?
             our
             Religion
             is
             by
             Law
             established
             ,
          
           as
           if
           that
           determin'd
           the
           Question
           of
           its
           Truth
           against
           all
           other
           Perswasions
           .
        
         
           The
           Jews
           had
           this
           to
           say
           against
           our
           Saviour
           ,
           
             We
             have
             a
             Law
             ,
             and
             by
             our
             Law
             he
             ought
             to
             Dye
             .
          
           The
           Primitive
           Christians
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           our
           first
           Reformers
           Dyed
           
             as
             by
             Law
             established
          
           ,
           if
           that
           would
           mend
           the
           matter
           ;
           but
           does
           that
           make
           it
           
           lawful
           to
           a
           Christian
           Conscience
           ?
           we
           must
           ever
           demur
           to
           this
           Plea.
           No
           greater
           Argument
           of
           a
           Churches
           Defection
           from
           Christianity
           than
           turning
           Persecutor
           .
           'T
           is
           true
           ,
           the
           Scripture
           says
           ,
           
             The
             Earth
             shall
             help
             the
             Woman
             ,
          
           but
           that
           was
           to
           save
           her self
           ,
           
             not
             to
             destroy
             others
          
           :
           For
           't
           is
           the
           Token
           that
           's
           given
           by
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           of
           a
           false
           Church
           ;
           
             That
             none
             must
             Buy
             or
             Sell
             in
             her
             Dominions
             that
             will
             not
             receive
             her
             Mark
             in
             their
             Forehead
             ,
             or
             Right-hand
             .
          
           That
           is
           by
           going
           to
           Church
           against
           Conscience
           ,
           or
           bribing
           lustily
           to
           stay
           at
           Home
           .
        
         
           Things
           don't
           change
           ,
           tho
           men
           do
           .
           Persecution
           is
           still
           the
           same
           ,
           let
           the
           hand
           alter
           never
           so
           often
           ;
           but
           the
           Sin
           may
           not
           :
           For
           doubtless
           it
           is
           greatest
           in
           those
           that
           make
           the
           highest
           claim
           to
           Reformation
           .
           For
           while
           they
           plead
           their
           own
           Light
           for
           doing
           so
           ,
           they
           hereby
           endeavour
           to
           extinguish
           anothers
           Light
           that
           can't
           concur
           .
           What
           a
           Man
           can't
           do
           ,
           
             it
             is
             not
             his
             Fault
             he
             don't
             do
             ,
             nor
             should
             he
             be
             compell'd
             to
             do
             it
             ,
             and
             at
             least
             of
             all
             be
             punished
             for
             not
             doing
             it
             .
             No
             Church
             can
             give
             Faith
             ,
             and
             therefore
             can't
             force
             it
             ;
             for
             what
             is
             constrain'd
             is
             not
             Believed
             ;
             since
             Faith
             is
             in
             that
             sence
             free
             ,
             and
             constraint
             gives
             no
             time
             to
             assent
             ;
             I
             say
             ,
             what
             I
             don't
             will
             is
             not
             I
             ,
             and
             what
             I
             don't
             Choose
             is
             none
             of
             mine
             ,
             and
             anothers
             can't
             save
             me
             ,
             tho
             it
             should
             save
             him
             .
          
           So
           that
           this
           Method
           never
           obtains
           the
           end
           design'd
           ,
           since
           it
           Saves
           no
           body
           ,
           because
           it
           Converts
           no
           body
           ;
           it
           may
           breed
           Hypocrisie
           ,
           but
           that
           is
           quite
           another
           thing
           than
           Salvation
           .
        
         
           What
           then
           is
           the
           use
           of
           Penal
           Laws
           ?
           only
           to
           show
           the
           Sincerity
           of
           them
           that
           Suffer
           ,
           
             and
             Cruelty
             of
             those
             that
             make
             and
             execute
             them
             .
          
           And
           all
           time
           tells
           us
           they
           have
           ever
           fail'd
           those
           that
           have
           lean'd
           upon
           them
           :
           They
           have
           always
           been
           loosers
           at
           last
           :
           Besides
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           most
           unaccountable
           obstinacy
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           stickle
           to
           uphold
           them
           ,
           for
           after
           having
           made
           it
           a
           matter
           of
           Religion
           and
           Conscience
           to
           Address
           the
           late
           King
           in
           behalf
           of
           this
           ,
           to
           think
           He
           should
           leave
           his
           Conscience
           behind
           him
           in
           Flanders
           ,
           or
           when
           they
           waited
           on
           
           him
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           send
           it
           thither
           upon
           a
           Pilgrimage
           ,
           is
           want
           of
           wit
           at
           best
           ,
           pardon
           the
           censure
           .
           Could
           they
           Conscientiously
           oppose
           his
           Exclusion
           for
           his
           Religion
           ,
           and
           now
           his
           Religion
           because
           he
           will
           not
           leave
           it
           ?
           Or
           can
           they
           reasonably
           maintain
           those
           Tests
           that
           were
           contrived
           to
           exclude
           him
           when
           
             Duke
             of
             York
          
           ,
           while
           they
           endured
           none
           to
           
             hinder
             him
             from
             the
             Crown
          
           ?
           I
           heartily
           beg
           the
           Church
           of
           Englands
           excuse
           ,
           if
           I
           say
           I
           can't
           comprehend
           her
           :
           Perhaps
           the
           fault
           is
           mine
           ,
           but
           sure
           I
           am
           she
           is
           extreamly
           dark
           .
           How
           could
           she
           hope
           for
           this
           King
           without
           his
           Conscience
           ?
           or
           conceive
           that
           his
           Honour
           or
           Conscience
           would
           let
           him
           leave
           the
           Members
           of
           his
           Communion
           under
           the
           lash
           of
           so
           many
           Destroying
           Laws
           ?
           would
           she
           be
           so
           serv'd
           by
           a
           Prince
           of
           her
           own
           Religion
           ,
           and
           she
           in
           the
           like
           Circumstances
           ?
           She
           would
           not
           ,
           let
           her
           talk
           till
           Dooms-Day
           .
        
         
           To
           object
           
             the
             Kings
             promise
          
           ,
           when
           he
           came
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           against
           the
           repeal
           of
           the
           Penal
           Laws
           ,
           shows
           not
           his
           Insincerity
           ,
           but
           her
           Uncharitableness
           ,
           or
           that
           really
           she
           has
           a
           very
           weak
           place
           :
           For
           it
           is
           plain
           the
           King
           
             first
             declared
          
           his
           own
           Religion
           ,
           and
           then
           
             promised
             to
             maintain
             hers
          
           ;
           but
           was
           that
           to
           be
           without
           ,
           or
           together
           with
           his
           own
           ?
           His
           Words
           shows
           he
           intended
           that
           his
           own
           should
           Live
           ,
           tho
           t'other
           might
           Raign
           .
           I
           say
           again
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           credible
           that
           a
           Prince
           of
           any
           Sincerity
           can
           refuse
           a
           being
           to
           his
           own
           Religion
           ,
           when
           he
           continues
           another
           in
           its
           well
           being
           .
           This
           were
           to
           act
           upon
           State
           not
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           more
           Conscience
           to
           uphold
           a
           Religion
           he
           cannot
           be
           of
           ,
           
             than
             of
             giving
             ease
             to
             one
             his
             Conscience
             obliges
             him
             to
             be
             of
             .
          
           I
           cannot
           imagin
           how
           
             this
             thought
          
           could
           enter
           into
           any
           Head
           that
           had
           Brains
           ,
           or
           Heart
           that
           had
           Honesty
           ▪
           And
           to
           say
           true
           ,
           they
           must
           be
           a
           sort
           of
           State
           Consciences
           ,
           
             Consciences
             as
             by
             Law
             Establish'd
          
           ,
           that
           can
           follow
           the
           Law
           against
           their
           Convictions
           .
        
         
           But
           this
           is
           not
           all
           I
           have
           to
           observe
           from
           that
           objection
           :
           It
           implies
           too
           evidently
           ,
           first
           ,
           that
           she
           thinks
           her self
           shaken
           ,
           if
           
           the
           Penal
           Laws
           be
           repeal'd
           ;
           then
           by
           Law
           Established
           she
           must
           mean
           ,
           
             Established
             by
             those
             Penal
             Laws
          
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           having
           promised
           to
           maintain
           her
           ,
           as
           by
           Law
           established
           ,
           
             he
             ought
             not
             to
             endeavour
             their
             Repeal
             by
             which
             she
             is
             established
             .
          
           I
           confess
           this
           is
           very
           close
           arguing
           ,
           but
           then
           she
           must
           not
           take
           it
           ill
           ,
           if
           all
           Men
           think
           her
           ill
           founded
           ;
           for
           any
           thing
           must
           be
           so
           ,
           that
           is
           established
           by
           destroying
           Laws
           ?
           Laws
           ,
           that
           Time
           and
           Practice
           have
           declared
           Enemies
           to
           Property
           and
           Conscience
           .
           O
           let
           her
           not
           hold
           by
           that
           Charter
           ,
           nor
           Point
           thither
           for
           her
           Establishment
           and
           Defence
           ,
           if
           she
           would
           be
           thought
           a
           Christian
           Church
           .
        
         
           Plutarch
           had
           rather
           one
           should
           think
           there
           never
           was
           such
           a
           Man
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           than
           that
           Plutarch
           was
           an
           ill
           Man.
           Shall
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           that
           glories
           in
           a
           great
           Light
           ,
           
             be
             more
             concern'd
             for
             her
             Power
             ,
             than
             her
             Credit
          
           ?
           To
           be
           ,
           than
           to
           be
           that
           which
           she
           should
           be
           ?
           I
           would
           say
           ,
           far
           be
           it
           from
           her
           ,
           for
           her
           own
           sake
           ,
           and
           which
           is
           of
           much
           more
           moment
           ,
           for
           the
           sake
           of
           the
           general
           Cause
           of
           Religion
           .
        
         
           Let
           us
           see
           therefore
           if
           there
           be
           not
           another
           way
           of
           understanding
           those
           Words
           ,
           more
           decent
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           more
           honourable
           for
           her
           ,
           viz.
           that
           she
           is
           in
           the
           
             National
             Chair
             ,
             has
             the
             Churches
             and
             Revenues
             ,
             and
             is
             Mother
             of
             those
             that
             do
             not
             adhere
             to
             any
             separate
             Communion
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             King
             has
             promised
             to
             maintain
             her
             in
             this
             Post
             from
             the
             Invasions
             of
             any
             other
             perswasion
             that
             would
             wrest
             these
             Priviledges
             out
             of
             her
             hands
          
           :
           this
           he
           promised
           formerly
           ;
           this
           he
           has
           very
           particularly
           repeated
           in
           his
           gracious
           Declaration
           :
           But
           to
           Ruin
           Men
           that
           would
           not
           Conform
           ,
           while
           himself
           was
           so
           great
           a
           Dissenter
           ,
           and
           came
           such
           ,
           to
           her
           knowledge
           ,
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           can
           be
           no
           part
           of
           his
           Promises
           in
           the
           Opinion
           of
           common
           Sence
           and
           Charity
           .
           Is
           there
           no
           Difference
           to
           be
           observed
           between
           not
           turning
           her
           out
           ,
           and
           destroying
           all
           others
           not
           of
           her
           Communion
           :
           He
           will
           not
           turn
           her
           out
           ,
           there
           's
           his
           Promise
           ,
           and
           he
           has
           not
           done
           
           there
           's
           his
           performance
           :
           Nor
           will
           he
           do
           it
           ,
           am
           confident
           ,
           if
           she
           pleases
           .
           But
           there
           is
           no
           manner
           of
           necessity
           from
           this
           Engagement
           that
           all
           Parties
           else
           are
           to
           be
           Confounded
           .
           Tho
           if
           it
           were
           so
           ,
           't
           is
           ill
           Divinity
           to
           pr●ss
           such
           Promises
           upon
           a
           Princes
           Conscience
           ,
           that
           can't
           be
           perform'd
           with
           a
           good
           One
           by
           Any
           Body
           .
        
         
           Let
           her
           remember
           how
           often
           she
           has
           upbraided
           her
           Dissenters
           with
           this
           ,
           
             Render
             to
             Caesar
             the
             things
             that
             are
             Caesars
             ,
          
           whilst
           they
           have
           returned
           upon
           her
           t'other
           half
           of
           the
           Text
           ,
           
             and
             render
             unto
             God
             the
             things
             that
             are
             Gods.
          
           It
           happens
           now
           that
           God
           and
           Caesar
           are
           both
           of
           a
           mind
           ,
           which
           perhaps
           does
           not
           alwayes
           fall
           out
           ,
           at
           least
           about
           the
           Point
           in
           hand
           .
           Will
           she
           Dissent
           from
           both
           now
           ?
           Her
           case
           ,
           believe
           me
           ,
           will
           be
           doubtful
           then
           .
           I
           beg
           her
           to
           be
           Considerate
           .
           'T
           is
           the
           greatest
           time
           of
           Tryal
           she
           has
           met
           with
           since
           she
           was
           a
           Church
           ▪
           To
           acquit
           her self
           like
           a
           Member
           of
           Christs
           Universal
           One
           let
           her
           keep
           nothing
           that
           voids
           her
           pretentions
           .
           The
           Babilonish
           Garment
           will
           undo
           her
           .
           Practices
           Inconsistant
           with
           her
           Reformation
           will
           ruin
           her
           .
           The
           Martyrs
           Blood
           Won
           the
           Day
           ,
           and
           her
           Severity
           has
           almost
           lost
           it
           .
           They
           Suffer'd
           by
           Law
           ,
           she
           makes
           Laws
           
             for
             Suffering
          
           .
           Is
           this
           an
           Immitation
           of
           their
           practice
           ,
           
             to
             uphold
             the
             Weapons
             of
             their
             Destruction
          
           ?
           I
           must
           tell
           her
           ,
           't
           is
           being
           a
           Martyr
           for
           Persecution
           ,
           and
           not
           by
           it
           .
           Another
           Path
           then
           that
           the
           holy
           Ancients
           ,
           and
           our
           humble
           Ancestors
           trod
           ,
           and
           which
           wll
           lead
           her
           to
           be
           deserted
           and
           Contemn'd
           of
           every
           Body
           that
           counts
           it
           safer
           to
           follow
           the
           Blessed
           Rule
           and
           practice
           of
           Christ
           and
           his
           inspr'd
           Messengers
           ,
           then
           her
           narrow
           and
           worldly
           Policies
           .
           But
           that
           which
           heighthens
           the
           Reproach
           ,
           is
           the
           offer
           of
           the
           Romanists
           themselves
           to
           make
           a
           perpetual
           civil
           Peace
           with
           her
           ,
           and
           that
           she
           refuses
           ,
           Would
           the
           Martyrs
           have
           done
           this
           ?
           surely
           no.
           Let
           her
           remember
           the
           first
           Argument
           honest
           old
           Fox
           advances
           against
           that
           Church
           ,
           is
           the
           Church
           of
           Englands
           present
           Darling
           ,
           viz.
           Penal
           Laws
           for
           Religion
           ;
           as
           she
           may
           see
           at
           the
           beginning
           of
           
           his
           first
           Volumn
           :
           Doubtless
           he
           was
           much
           in
           the
           right
           ,
           which
           makes
           her
           extreamly
           in
           the
           wrong
           .
           Nothing
           ,
           says
           the
           Prophet
           ,
           must
           harm
           in
           Gods
           holy
           Mountain
           ,
           and
           that
           's
           the
           Church
           sayes
           Fox
           ,
           and
           therefore
           he
           says
           ,
           Christ's
           Church
           never
           Persecutes
           .
           Leave
           then
           God
           with
           his
           own
           Work
           ,
           and
           Christ
           with
           his
           own
           Kingdom
           .
           As
           it
           is
           not
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           let
           not
           the
           World
           touch
           it
           ;
           no
           ,
           
             not
             to
             uphold
             it
          
           ,
           tho
           they
           that
           bear
           it
           should
           trip
           by
           the
           way
           .
           Remember
           Vzza
           ,
           he
           would
           needs
           support
           the
           Ark
           
             when
             the
             Oxen
          
           Stumbled
           ;
           
             but
             was
             struck
             Dead
             for
             his
             Pains
             .
          
           The
           Presumption
           is
           more
           than
           Parralel
           .
           Christ
           promis'd
           
             to
             be
             present
             with
             his
             Church
             to
             the
             end
             of
             the
             World.
          
           He
           bid
           them
           
             fear
             not
          
           ,
           and
           told
           them
           ,
           
             that
             sufficient
             was
             the
             Day
             for
             the
             Evil
             thereof
             .
          
           How
           ?
           with
           Penal
           Laws
           ?
           no
           such
           matter
           ;
           but
           his
           Divine
           Persence
           .
           Therefore
           it
           was
           ,
           He
           call'd
           not
           for
           Legions
           to
           fight
           for
           him
           ,
           because
           his
           Work
           needed
           it
           not
           They
           that
           want
           them
           have
           an
           other
           sort
           of
           Work
           to
           do
           :
           And
           't
           is
           too
           plain
           ,
           that
           Empire
           ,
           and
           not
           Religion
           ,
           has
           been
           too
           much
           the
           Business
           .
           But
           ,
           O
           let
           it
           not
           be
           so
           any
           more
           !
           To
           be
           a
           True
           Church
           is
           better
           then
           to
           be
           a
           National
           One
           ;
           especially
           as
           so
           uphold
           .
           
             Press
             Vertue
             ,
             Punish
             Vice
             ,
             Dispence
             with
             Opinion
             ;
             Perswade
             ,
          
           but
           don't
           Impose
           .
           Are
           there
           Tares
           in
           Opinion
           ?
           let
           them
           alone
           ;
           you
           heard
           
             they
             are
             to
             grow
             with
             the
             Wheat
             till
             Harvest
             ,
          
           that
           is
           ,
           
             the
             end
             of
             the
             World.
             Should
             they
          
           not
           be
           pluckt
           up
           before
           ?
           no
           ;
           and
           't
           is
           Angles
           Work
           at
           last
           too
           .
           Christ
           that
           knew
           all
           Men
           ,
           saw
           no
           Hand
           on
           Earth
           fit
           for
           that
           Business
           .
           Let
           us
           not
           then
           usurp
           their
           Office
           Besides
           ,
           
             we
             are
             to
             Love
             Enemies
          
           ;
           this
           is
           the
           great
           Law
           of
           our
           Religion
           ;
           
             by
             what
             Law
             then
             are
             we
             to
             Persecute
             them
             ?
          
           and
           if
           not
           Enemies
           ,
           not
           Friends
           and
           Neighbours
           certainly
           .
        
         
           The
           Apostle
           rejoyced
           
             that
             Christ
             was
             Preached
             out
             of
             Envy
             ,
          
           If
           so
           ,
           I
           am
           sure
           we
           ought
           not
           to
           envy
           Christians
           the
           enjoyment
           of
           the
           Liberty
           of
           their
           Consciences
           .
           Christianity
           should
           be
           propagated
           by
           the
           Spirit
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           and
           not
           by
           Violence
           
           or
           Persecution
           ,
           for
           that
           's
           the
           Spirit
           of
           Antichristianity
           .
           Nor
           for
           fear
           of
           it
           ,
           should
           we
           ,
           of
           Christians
           ,
           become
           Antichristians
           .
           Where
           is
           Faith
           in
           God
           ?
           where
           is
           trust
           in
           Providence
           ?
           let
           us
           do
           our
           Duty
           ,
           and
           leave
           the
           rest
           with
           Him
           ;
           
             and
             not
             do
             Evil
             that
             Good
             may
             come
             of
             it
          
           ;
           for
           that
           shows
           a
           Distrust
           in
           God
           ,
           and
           a
           Confidence
           in
           our
           own
           Inventions
           for
           security
           .
           No
           reason
           of
           State
           can
           excuse
           our
           Disobedience
           to
           his
           Rule
           ;
           and
           we
           desert
           the
           Principles
           of
           our
           heavenly
           Master
           when
           we
           decline
           it
           .
           The
           Question
           is
           about
           Conscience
           ,
           about
           this
           we
           can
           none
           of
           us
           be
           too
           tender
           nor
           exemplary
           .
           'T
           is
           in
           right
           doing
           that
           Christians
           can
           hope
           for
           Success
           ;
           and
           for
           true
           Victory
           only
           through
           Faith
           and
           Patience
           .
           But
           if
           to
           avoid
           what
           we
           fear
           ,
           we
           contradict
           our
           Principles
           ,
           we
           may
           justly
           apprehend
           
             that
             God
             will
             desert
             us
             in
             an
             unlawful
             way
             of
             maintaining
             them
             .
          
           Perhaps
           this
           may
           be
           Gods
           time
           of
           trying
           all
           Parties
           ,
           what
           we
           will
           do
           ;
           whether
           we
           well
           rely
           upon
           him
           or
           our
           own
           feeble
           Provisions
           ;
           whether
           we
           will
           allow
           what
           we
           our selves
           in
           our
           turn
           
             have
             all
             of
             us
             desired
          
           ;
           if
           not
           ,
           may
           we
           not
           expect
           to
           suffer
           the
           thing
           we
           would
           inflict
           ?
           for
           our
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           cannot
           secure
           us
           from
           the
           turns
           of
           Providence
           ,
           and
           less
           support
           us
           under
           them
           .
           Let
           us
           consider
           the
           true
           ground
           of
           the
           difficulty
           that
           is
           made
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           not
           partial
           and
           light
           in
           Gods
           Scale
           ;
           for
           to
           that
           tryal
           all
           things
           must
           come
           ,
           and
           his
           Judgment
           is
           inevitable
           as
           well
           as
           infallible
           .
           Besides
           ,
           if
           we
           have
           not
           tryed
           all
           other
           methods
           ,
           we
           are
           inexcusable
           in
           being
           so
           tenacious
           for
           this
           .
           I
           do
           therefore
           ,
           in
           all
           humility
           ,
           beseech
           all
           sorts
           of
           Professors
           of
           Christianity
           in
           these
           Kingdoms
           ,
           to
           abstract
           themselves
           from
           those
           Jealousies
           which
           worldly
           motives
           are
           apt
           to
           kindle
           in
           their
           Minds
           ,
           and
           with
           an
           even
           and
           undisturbed
           Soul
           pursue
           their
           Christian
           Duty
           in
           this
           great
           Conjuncture
           :
           Considering
           
             the
             Race
             is
             not
             to
             the
             Swife
             ,
             nor
             the
             Battle
             to
             the
             Strong
             ,
          
           and
           that
           for
           all
           our
           Watchmen
           ,
           
             't
             is
             God
             alone
          
           (
           at
           last
           )
           
             that
             keeps
             the
             City
          
           .
           Not
           that
           I
           would
           decline
           a
           fitting
           ,
           but
           an
           unchristian
           
           Provision
           :
           For
           though
           the
           Foundation
           were
           never
           so
           true
           ,
           yet
           if
           our
           Superstructure
           be
           Hay
           and
           Stuble
           (
           our
           own
           narrow
           Devices
           )
           the
           Fire
           will
           consume
           it
           ,
           and
           our
           Labour
           will
           be
           worse
           then
           in
           vain
           .
           Let
           us
           not
           therefore
           
             Sow
             what
             we
             would
             not
             Reap
             ,
             because
             we
             must
             Reap
             what
             we
             Sow
             :
          
           And
           remember
           who
           told
           us
           ,
           
             what
             we
             measure
             to
             others
             shall
             be
             meeted
             to
             us
             again
             .
          
           Let
           us
           therefore
           do
           unto
           all
           Parties
           of
           men
           ,
           
             as
             we
             would
             be
             done
             unto
             by
             them
             in
             their
             tu●n
             of
             Power
             :
          
           Least
           our
           fear
           of
           their
           undutifulness
           ,
           
             should
             tempt
             us
             out
             of
             our
             Duty
             ,
          
           and
           so
           draw
           upon
           our selves
           the
           mischiefs
           we
           are
           afraid
           of
           .
           Sacred
           Writ
           is
           full
           of
           this
           ,
           in
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           both
           Testaments
           ;
           and
           as
           we
           profess
           to
           believe
           it
           ,
           we
           are
           inexcusable
           if
           we
           do
           not
           practice
           it
           .
           Let
           the
           Spirit
           then
           of
           Christian
           Religion
           prevail
           .
           Let
           our
           Policies
           give
           way
           to
           our
           Duty
           ,
           and
           our
           Fears
           will
           be
           overcome
           of
           our
           Hopes
           ,
           which
           will
           not
           make
           us
           asham'd
           at
           the
           last
           and
           great
           Judgment
           :
           where
           ,
           O
           God!
           let
           us
           all
           appear
           with
           Comfort
           .
        
         
           I
           could
           yet
           Enlarge
           upon
           this
           Subject
           ;
           for
           nothing
           can
           be
           more
           fruitful
           .
           I
           could
           say
           ,
           that
           a
           Church
           that
           Denies
           Infallibility
           ,
           cannot
           force
           ,
           because
           she
           cannot
           be
           certain
           ,
           and
           so
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           (
           tho
           it
           were
           possible
           that
           they
           could
           be
           lawful
           in
           others
           )
           in
           her
           ,
           
             would
             be
             Vnjust
          
           .
           That
           Scripture
           leaves
           Men
           to
           Conviction
           and
           Perswasion
           .
           That
           the
           true
           Chruch-Weapons
           are
           Light
           and
           Grace
           ;
           and
           her
           punishments
           ,
           Censure
           and
           Excommunication
           .
           That
           Goals
           and
           Gibbets
           are
           Inadiquated
           Methods
           for
           Conversion
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           never
           succeeded
           .
           That
           this
           forbids
           all
           further
           light
           to
           come
           into
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           so
           limits
           the
           Holy
           One
           ,
           which
           in
           Scripture
           is
           made
           a
           great
           Sin.
           And
           lastly
           ,
           that
           such
           ensnare
           their
           own
           Posterity
           that
           may
           be
           of
           an
           other
           mind
           ,
           and
           forfit
           by
           it
           the
           estates
           they
           have
           so
           carefully
           transmitted
           to
           them
           .
           Thus
           far
           against
           Imposition
           .
           And
           against
           Compliance
           ▪
           I
           could
           say
           ,
           that
           it
           s
           to
           betray
           Gods
           Soveraignty
           over
           Conscience
           ;
           To
           deify
           Men
           ;
           Gratifie
           presumption
           ;
           foil
           and
           extinguish
           truth
           in
           the
           mind
           ;
           obey
           blindfold
           ;
           
           make
           over
           the
           Soul
           without
           Security
           ;
           turn
           Hipocrite
           ,
           and
           abundance
           more
           ;
           each
           of
           which
           heads
           might
           well
           merit
           an
           whole
           chapter
           .
           But
           this
           having
           been
           well
           and
           seasonably
           consider'd
           elsewhere
           ,
           I
           shall
           now
           proceed
           to
           the
           second
           part
           of
           this
           discourse
           in
           which
           I
           will
           be
           as
           brief
           ,
           and
           yet
           as
           full
           as
           I
           can
           .
        
      
       
         
           PART
           II.
           That
           't
           is
           the
           Principle
           of
           Men
           of
           Note
           of
           all
           Parties
           .
        
         
           BUT
           what
           need
           is
           there
           of
           this
           ,
           may
           some
           say
           ,
           when
           all
           Parties
           profess
           to
           be
           of
           the
           same
           Judgment
           ,
           
             That
             Conscience
             ought
             not
             to
             be
             forced
             ,
             nor
             Religion
             imposed
             upon
             men
             at
             their
             civil
             peril
             ?
          
           I
           own
           they
           are
           all
           of
           that
           mind
           ,
           at
           one
           time
           or
           other
           ,
           and
           therefore
           that
           I
           may
           purge
           my self
           of
           any
           Animosity
           to
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           I
           will
           Ingeniously
           confess
           ▪
           the
           severe
           conduct
           I
           have
           argued
           against
           ,
           is
           not
           to
           be
           imputed
           to
           her
           Principles
           ;
           but
           then
           her
           Evil
           will
           be
           the
           greater
           ,
           that
           in
           fact
           has
           so
           notoriously
           contradicted
           them
           .
           I
           know
           some
           of
           her
           defenders
           will
           hardly
           allow
           that
           too
           ;
           Tho
           the
           more
           candid
           give
           us
           their
           Silence
           or
           Confession
           :
           For
           they
           tell
           us
           ,
           
             't
             is
             not
             the
             Church
             that
             has
             done
             it
             ,
          
           which
           ,
           unless
           they
           mean
           ,
           the
           Laws
           were
           not
           made
           a
           Church
           ,
           must
           needs
           be
           false
           ,
           since
           those
           that
           made
           and
           executed
           them
           were
           of
           her
           own
           Communion
           ,
           and
           are
           that
           great
           body
           of
           Members
           that
           constitute
           her
           a
           Church
           ;
           but
           by
           her
           shifting
           them
           off
           ,
           't
           is
           but
           reasonable
           to
           conclude
           that
           she
           tacitly
           condemns
           what
           she
           publickly
           disowns
           .
           One
           would
           think
           then
           it
           should
           not
           be
           so
           hard
           to
           perswade
           her
           to
           quit
           them
           ,
           in
           the
           way
           she
           made
           them
           ,
           or
           to
           injoyn
           her
           Sons
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           if
           that
           language
           be
           to
           harsh
           for
           her
           .
           
           This
           Story
           she
           must
           hear
           of
           some
           way
           ,
           and
           I
           pray
           God
           she
           may
           endeavour
           to
           do
           her
           duty
           in
           it
           .
           She
           is
           not
           alone
           ;
           for
           every
           Party
           in
           Power
           has
           too
           evidently
           lapst
           into
           this
           Evil
           ;
           tho
           under
           the
           prevalency
           and
           persecution
           of
           another
           Interest
           they
           have
           ever
           writ
           against
           club
           Law
           for
           Religion
           .
           And
           to
           the
           end
           that
           I
           may
           do
           the
           Reformation
           Right
           ,
           and
           the
           Principles
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           Justice
           ,
           I
           must
           say
           ,
           that
           hardly
           one
           person
           of
           any
           note
           ,
           dyed
           in
           the
           time
           of
           
             Queen
             Mary
          
           ,
           that
           did
           not
           pass
           Sentance
           upon
           Persecution
           as
           Antichristian
           ,
           particularly
           
             Latimer
             ,
             Philpot
             ,
             Bradford
             ,
             Rogers
             ,
          
           very
           Eminent
           Reformers
           .
           The
           Apologies
           that
           were
           writ
           in
           those
           times
           ,
           are
           of
           the
           same
           strain
           ,
           as
           may
           be
           seen
           in
           
             Jewel
             ,
             Haddon
             ,
             Reynalds
             ,
             &c.
          
           and
           the
           Papists
           were
           with
           reason
           thought
           much
           in
           the
           wrong
           by
           those
           Primative
           Protestants
           ,
           for
           the
           Persecution
           that
           they
           raised
           against
           them
           ,
           for
           matters
           of
           pure
           Religion
           .
           But
           what
           need
           we
           go
           so
           far
           back
           ?
           is
           it
           not
           recent
           in
           memory
           ,
           that
           
             Bishop
             Vsher
          
           was
           Employ'd
           to
           
             O.
             Cromwell
          
           by
           some
           of
           the
           Clergy
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           for
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           ?
           
             Dr
             Parr
          
           ,
           in
           the
           Life
           of
           
             Dr
             Vsher
          
           Primate
           of
           Armagh
           ,
           fol.
           75.
           has
           that
           passage
           thus
           .
        
         
           
             Cromwell
             forbidding
             the
             Clergy
             ,
             under
             great
             penalties
             ,
             to
             teach
             Schools
             ,
             or
             to
             perform
             any
             part
             of
             their
             ministerial
             function
             ;
             some
             of
             the
             most
             Considerable
             Episcopal
             Clergy
             in
             and
             about
             London
             ,
             desired
             my
             Lord
             Primate
             that
             he
             would
             use
             his
             Interest
             with
             Cromwell
             ,
             (
             since
             they
             heard
             he
             pretended
             a
             great
             respect
             for
             him
             )
             that
             as
             he
             granted
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
             to
             almost
             all
             sorts
             of
             Religions
             ,
             so
             the
             Episcopal
             Divines
             might
             have
             the
             same
             freedom
             of
             serving
             God
             in
             their
             private
             Congregations
             (
             since
             they
             were
             not
             premitted
             the
             publick
             Churches
             )
             according
             to
             the
             Liturgie
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             ;
             and
             that
             neither
             the
             Ministers
             ,
             nor
             Those
             that
             frequented
             That
             Service
             ,
             might
             be
             any
             more
             hindered
             ,
             or
             disturbed
             by
             his
             Souldiers
             :
             So
             according
             to
             their
             desire
             ,
             he
             
             went
             and
             used
             his
             utmost
             Endeavours
             with
             Cromwell
             ,
             for
             the
             taking
             off
             this
             restraint
             ,
             which
             was
             at
             last
             promised
             (
             tho
             with
             some
             difficulty
             )
             that
             they
             should
             not
             be
             molested
             ,
             provided
             they
             meddled
             not
             with
             any
             matters
             relating
             to
             his
             Government
             .
          
        
         
           Certainly
           those
           Gentlemen
           were
           of
           my
           mind
           .
           And
           to
           give
           
             Dr
             Hammond
          
           his
           due
           ,
           who
           I
           understand
           was
           one
           of
           them
           ,
           he
           left
           it
           to
           the
           Witnesses
           of
           his
           end
           ,
           as
           his
           dying
           Counsel
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           That
           they
           displaced
           no
           man
           out
           of
           the
           University
           or
           present
           Church
           ,
           but
           that
           by
           Love
           ,
           and
           an
           holy
           Life
           they
           should
           prevail
           upon
           those
           in
           possession
           to
           come
           into
           their
           Church
           .
           But
           this
           lookt
           so
           littie
           like
           the
           Policy
           and
           Ambition
           of
           the
           Living
           ,
           that
           they
           resolved
           it
           should
           be
           Buried
           with
           him
           .
           This
           I
           had
           from
           an
           eminent
           Hand
           in
           Oxford
           ,
           a
           year
           or
           two
           after
           his
           Death
           .
           An
           older
           man
           out
           liv'd
           him
           ,
           and
           one
           of
           the
           most
           Learned
           and
           Pious
           of
           that
           Communion
           ,
           
             Bishop
             Sande
             son
          
           I
           mean
           :
           They
           were
           the
           two
           great
           men
           of
           their
           sort
           that
           was
           of
           the
           Party
           .
           Let
           us
           see
           what
           this
           Reverend
           man
           says
           to
           our
           point
           .
        
         
           
             The
             Word
             of
             God
             doth
             expressly
             forbid
             us
             to
             subject
             our
             Consciences
             to
             the
             Judgment
             of
             any
             other
             ,
             or
             to
             usurp
             a
             Dominion
             over
             the
             Consciences
             of
             any
             One.
             
          
           
             Several
             cases
             of
             Conscience
             discussed
             in
             ten
             Lectures
             in
             the
             Divinity
             School
             at
             Oxford
             ,
             3
             Lect.
             30
             Sect.
             pag.
             ●03
             .
             Printed
             1660.
             
          
        
         
           
             He
             is
             not
             worthy
             to
             be
             Christs
             Disciple
             ,
             who
             is
             not
             the
             Disciple
             of
             Christ
             alone
             .
             The
             Simplicity
             and
             Sincerity
             of
             the
             Christian
             Faith
             ,
             hath
             suffered
             a
             great
             prejudice
             since
             we
             have
             been
             divided
             into
             Parties
             ,
             neither
             is
             their
             any
             hope
             that
             Religion
             should
             be
             restored
             to
             her
             former
             Original
             and
             Purity
             ,
             until
             the
             Wounds
             that
             were
             made
             wider
             by
             our
             daily
             Quarrels
             and
             Dissentions
             ,
             being
             anointed
             with
             the
             
               Olye
               of
               Brotherly
               Love
            
             ,
             as
             with
             a
             Balsom
             ,
             shall
             begin
             to
             close
             again
             ,
             and
             to
             grow
             entire
             into
             the
             same
             Unity
             of
             Faith
             and
             Charity
             ,
          
           
             
               ibid
               Sect.
            
             29.
             
          
        
         
         
           
             The
             obligation
             of
             Conscience
             doth
             not
             signifie
             any
             Compulsion
             ,
             for
             ,
             to
             speak
             properly
             ,
             the
             Conscience
             can
             no
             more
             be
             compelled
             than
             the
             Free-will
             .
          
           
             ibid
             4.
             
             
               Lecture
               Sect.
            
             5.
             pag.
             109.
             
          
        
         
           
             The
             express
             Commandment
             of
             God
             doth
             oblige
             the
             Conscience
             properly
             by
             it self
             and
             by
             its
             own
             force
             ;
             and
             this
             obligation
             is
             absolute
             ,
             because
             it
             doth
             directly
             and
             always
             oblige
             ▪
             and
             because
             it
             obligeth
             all
             persons
             ▪
             and
             the
             obligation
             of
             it
             is
             never
             to
             be
             cancelled
             .
             
               No●e
               but
               God
               alone
            
             hath
             power
             to
             impose
             a
             Law
             upon
             the
             Conscience
             of
             any
             Man
             ,
             to
             which
             it
             ought
             to
             be
             subjected
             ,
             as
             obliging
             by
             it
             s●lf
             ,
             —
             This
             Conclusion
             is
             proved
             by
             the
             words
             of
             the
             Apostle
             ,
             
               There
               is
               but
               one
               Law-giver
               ,
               who
               can
               both
               save
               and
               destroy
               ,
            
             In
             which
             words
             two
             Arguments
             do
             profer
             themselves
             to
             our
             Observation
             ;
             In
             the
             first
             place
             they
             assert
             there
             is
             but
             one
             Legislator
             ;
             not
             one
             picked
             out
             amongst
             many
             ;
             not
             one
             above
             many
             ;
             but
             one
             exclusively
             ,
             that
             is
             to
             say
             ,
             One
             ,
             and
             but
             one
             only
             .
             The
             Apostle
             otherwise
             had
             made
             use
             of
             a
             very
             ineffectual
             argument
             ,
             to
             prove
             what
             he
             had
             propounded
             ;
             for
             he
             rebuketh
             those
             who
             unadvisedly
             did
             pass
             their
             Judgment
             either
             on
             the
             persons
             ,
             or
             the
             deeds
             of
             other
             Men
             ,
             as
             the
             Invaders
             of
             their
             Rights
             .
             
               Who
               art
               Thou
            
             (
             saith
             he
             )
             
               who
               dost
               judge
               another
            
             ?
             as
             if
             he
             should
             have
             said
             ,
             dost
             thou
             know
             thy self
             ,
             what
             thou
             art
             ,
             and
             what
             thou
             dost
             ?
             It
             doth
             not
             belong
             to
             Thee
             to
             thrust
             thy
             sawcy
             Sickle
             into
             the
             harvest
             of
             another
             Man
             ,
             
               much
               less
               boldly
               to
               fling
               thy self
               into
               the
               Throne
               of
               Almighty
               God.
            
             If
             already
             Thou
             art
             Ignorant
             of
             it
             ,
             then
             know
             ,
             that
             it
             belongeth
             to
             him
             alone
             to
             judge
             of
             the
             Consciences
             of
             men
             ,
             
               to
               whom
               alone
               it
               doth
               belong
               to
               impose
               Laws
               upon
               the
               Consciences
               of
               men
               ,
            
             which
             none
             can
             do
             but
             God
             alone
             .
          
           
             
               ibid
               pag.
            
             111
             ,
             112
             ,
             113.
             
          
        
         
           
             The
             Condition
             and
             Natural
             estate
             of
             the
             Conscience
             it self
             is
             so
             placed
             as
             it
             were
             in
             the
             middle
             betwixt
             God
             and
             the
             
             will
             of
             Man
             ,
             as
             that
             which
             is
             usually
             and
             truly
             spoken
             of
             Kings
             and
             Emperors
             ,
             may
             as
             truly
             be
             verified
             of
             the
             Consciences
             of
             every
             man
             ,
             
               Solo
               Deo
               minores
               esse
               ,
               nec
               aliquam
               in
               Terris
               superiorem
               ag
               noscere
               ;
               They
               are
               less
               than
               God
               only
               ,
               and
               on
               Earth
               do
               acknowledge
               no
               Superior
               .
            
             That
             Speech
             of
             the
             Emperor
             Maximilian
             the
             first
             is
             very
             memorable
             ,
             
               Consciencij
               Dominari
               velle
               ,
               est
               Arcem
               Coeli
               invadere
               ;
               To
               exercise
               a
               Domination
               over
               Consciences
               ,
               is
               to
               invade
               the
               Tower
               of
               Heaven
               .
            
             He
             is
             a
             Plunderer
             of
             the
             Glory
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             a
             
               nefarious
               Invader
            
             of
             the
             Power
             that
             is
             due
             unto
             him
             ,
             whosoever
             he
             is
             that
             shall
             claim
             a
             right
             to
             the
             Consciences
             of
             men
             ,
             or
             practice
             an
             Usurpation
             over
             them
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               Sect.
            
             11.
             pag.
             115.
             
          
        
         
           And
           yet
           this
           is
           the
           sad
           consequence
           of
           imposing
           Religion
           upon
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           punishing
           Non-conformity
           with
           worldly
           Penalties
           .
        
         
           Let
           us
           now
           hear
           what
           the
           late
           Bishop
           of
           Down
           says
           in
           his
           
             Lib.
             of
             Prophesie
          
           to
           our
           Point
           ,
           
             I
             am
             very
             much
             displeased
             that
             so
             many
             Opinions
             and
             new
             Doctrines
             are
             commenced
             amongst
             us
             ,
             but
             more
             troubled
             ,
             that
             every
             man
             that
             hath
             an
             Opinion
             thinks
             his
             own
             and
             other
             mens
             Salvation
             is
             concerned
             in
             its
             maintenance
             ,
             but
             most
             of
             all
             ,
             that
             men
             should
             be
             Persecuted
             and
             Afflicted
             for
             disagreeing
             in
             such
             Opinions
             ,
             which
             they
             cannot
             with
             sufficient
             grounds
             obtrude
             upon
             others
             necessarily
             ,
             because
             they
             cannot
             propound
             them
             Infallibly
             ,
             and
             because
             they
             have
             no
             warrant
             from
             Scripture
             so
             to
             do
             ;
             for
             if
             I
             shall
             tye
             other
             men
             to
             believe
             my
             Opinion
             ,
             because
             I
             think
             I
             have
             a
             place
             of
             Scripture
             which
             seems
             to
             warrant
             it
             to
             my
             understanding
             ;
             why
             may
             he
             not
             serve
             up
             another
             dish
             to
             me
             in
             the
             same
             Dress
             ,
             and
             exact
             the
             same
             task
             of
             me
             to
             believe
             the
             contradictory
             ?
          
           
             
               Liberty
               of
               Prophesie
            
             ,
             Epist
             .
             Dedic
             .
             pag.
             8
             ,
             9.
             
          
        
         
           
             The
             Experience
             which
             Christendom
             hath
             had
             in
             this
             last
             Age
             is
             Argument
             enough
             that
             
               Toleration
               of
               differing
               Opinions
            
             
             is
             so
             far
             from
             disturbing
             the
             Publick
             Peace
             ,
             or
             destroying
             the
             Interest
             of
             Princes
             and
             Common-wealths
             ,
             that
             it
             does
             advantage
             to
             the
             Publick
             ,
             it
             secures
             Peace
             ,
             because
             there
             is
             not
             so
             much
             as
             the
             
               pretence
               of
               Religion
            
             left
             to
             such
             Persons
             to
             contend
             for
             ,
             it
             being
             already
             indulged
             to
             them
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               p.
            
             21.
             
          
        
         
           
             It
             is
             a
             proverbial
             saying
             ,
             
               Quod
               nimia
               familiaritas
               servorum
               est
               conspiratio
               adversus
               Dominum
               ,
            
             and
             they
             who
             for
             their
             security
             run
             in
             Grots
             and
             Cellers
             ,
             and
             Retirements
             ,
             think
             that
             they
             being
             upon
             the
             defensive
             ,
             those
             Princes
             and
             those
             Laws
             that
             drive
             them
             to
             it
             are
             their
             Enemies
             ,
             and
             therefore
             they
             cannot
             be
             secure
             ,
             unless
             the
             Power
             of
             the
             one
             ,
             and
             the
             Obligation
             of
             the
             other
             be
             lessened
             and
             rescinded
             ;
             and
             then
             the
             being
             restrained
             and
             made
             miserable
             indears
             the
             discontented
             Persons
             mutually
             ,
             and
             makes
             more
             hearty
             and
             dangerous
             Confederations
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             23.
             
          
        
         
           
             
               No
               man
               speaks
               more
               unreasonably
               ,
               than
               he
               that
            
             denies
             to
             men
             the
             use
             of
             their
             Reason
             in
             choice
             of
             their
             Religion
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             pag.
             169.
             
          
        
         
           
             No
             Christian
             is
             to
             be
             put
             to
             Death
             ,
             Dis-membred
             ,
             or
             otherwise
             directly
             Persecuted
             for
             his
             Opinion
             ,
             which
             does
             not
             teach
             Impiety
             or
             Blasphemy
             .
          
           
             ibid.
             pag.
             190.
             
          
        
         
           
             There
             is
             a
             popular
             Pity
             that
             follows
             all
             Persons
             in
             Misery
             and
             that
             Compassion
             breeds
             likeness
             of
             Affections
             ,
             and
             that
             very
             often
             produces
             likeness
             of
             Perswasion
             ;
             and
             so
             much
             the
             rather
             because
             there
             arises
             a
             Jealousie
             and
             pregnant
             Suspition
             that
             they
             who
             Persecute
             an
             Opinion
             are
             destitute
             of
             sufficient
             Arguments
             to
             confute
             it
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             Hangman
             is
             the
             best
             Disputant
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             197
             ,
             198.
             
          
        
         
           
             If
             a
             man
             cannot
             change
             his
             Opinion
             when
             he
             lists
             ,
             nor
             ever
             does
             heartily
             or
             resolutely
             ,
             but
             when
             he
             cannot
             do
             otherwise
             ,
             then
             to
             use
             Force
             ,
             may
             make
             him
             a
             Hypocrite
             ,
             but
             never
             to
             be
             a
             right
             Believer
             ,
             and
             so
             instead
             of
             erecting
             a
             Trophee
             to
             God
             and
             true
             Religion
             ,
             
               we
               build
               a
               Monument
               for
               the
               Devil
               .
            
          
           
             ibid.
             pag.
             200.
             
          
        
         
         
           
             The
             Trick
             of
             giving
             Persons
             differing
             in
             Opinion
             over
             to
             the
             secular
             Power
             ,
             at
             the
             best
             is
             no
             better
             than
             Hypocrisie
             ,
             removing
             Envy
             from
             themselves
             ,
             and
             laying
             it
             upon
             others
             ,
             a
             refusing
             to
             do
             that
             in
             external
             Act
             ,
             
               which
               they
               do
               in
               Council
               and
               Approbation
               .
            
          
           
             ibid.
             pag.
             209.
             
          
        
         
           Thus
           far
           
             Bishop
             Tayl●r
          
           ,
           and
           one
           of
           the
           most
           Learned
           Men
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           in
           his
           time
           .
        
         
           Let
           me
           add
           another
           Bishop
           ,
           held
           learn'd
           by
           all
           ,
           and
           in
           great
           Reputation
           with
           the
           men
           of
           his
           Communion
           ,
           and
           among
           them
           
             the
             Lords
             Spiritual
             and
             Temporal
             in
             Parlioment
             assembled
             ,
          
           who
           have
           sufficiently
           declared
           against
           this
           persecuting
           Spirit
           on
           the
           account
           of
           Religion
           by
           their
           full
           approbation
           of
           ,
           and
           
             thanks
             returned
             to
             the
             Bishop
             of
             St
          
           Asaph
           
             for
             his
             Sermon
             preached
             before
             them
          
           November
           the
           5
           th
           .
           1680.
           
             and
             their
             desire
             that
             he
             would
             Print
             and
             Publish
             that
             Sermon
             .
          
           The
           Bishop
           says
           ,
           that
           ,
           
             They
             who
             are
             most
             given
             to
             hate
             and
             destroy
             others
             ,
             especially
             those
             others
             who
             differ
             from
             them
             in
             Religion
             ,
             they
             are
             not
             the
             
               Church
               of
               God
            
             ,
             or
             at
             least
             they
             are
             so
             far
             corrupt
             in
             that
             particular
             .
          
           
             pag.
             8.
             
          
        
         
           Again
           he
           says
           ,
           
             That
             of
             Societies
             of
             Men
             ,
             Christians
             ,
             of
             all
             others
             are
             most
             averse
             from
             ways
             of
             Violence
             and
             Blood
             ;
             especially
             from
             using
             any
             such
             ways
             upon
             the
             account
             of
             Religion
             :
             And
             among
             Christian
             Churches
             ,
             where
             they
             differ
             among
             themselves
             ,
             if
             either
             of
             them
             use
             those
             ways
             upon
             the
             account
             of
             Religion
             ,
             they
             give
             a
             strong
             Presumption
             against
             themselves
             that
             they
             are
             not
             truly
             Christians
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             9.
             
          
        
         
           
             There
             is
             reason
             for
             this
             ,
             because
             ,
             we
             know
             that
             Christ
             gave
             Love
             for
             the
             Caracter
             by
             which
             his
             Disciples
             were
             to
             be
             known
             .
             John
             13.35
             .
             
               By
               this
               shall
               all
               Men
               know
               that
               you
               are
               my
               Disciples
               ,
               if
               you
               have
               Love
               to
               one
               another
               .
            
             And
             least
             men
             should
             unchristen
             others
             first
             ,
             that
             they
             may
             hate
             them
             ,
             and
             Destroy
             them
             afterwards
             ,
             Christ
             enlarged
             his
             Precept
             of
             
             Love
             ,
             and
             extended
             it
             even
             to
             Enemies
             ,
             and
             not
             only
             to
             ours
             ,
             but
             to
             the
             Enemies
             of
             our
             Religion
             ,
             Matt.
             5.43
             ,
             44.
             
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             9.
             
          
        
         
           
             As
             our
             holy
             Religion
             excels
             all
             others
             in
             this
             admirable
             temper
             ,
             so
             by
             this
             we
             may
             usually
             judge
             who
             they
             are
             that
             excel
             among
             Christian
             Churches
             ,
             when
             there
             happens
             any
             difference
             between
             them
             ,
             whether
             touching
             the
             Faith
             ,
             or
             the
             terms
             of
             Communion
             .
             They
             that
             were
             the
             more
             Fierce
             ,
             they
             generally
             had
             the
             worst
             Cause
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             12
             ,
             13.
             
          
        
         
           
             The
             Council
             of
             Nice
             suppressed
             the
             Arians
             by
             no
             other
             Force
             ,
             but
             putting
             Arians
             out
             of
             their
             Bishopricks
             ;
             they
             could
             not
             think
             Hereticks
             fit
             to
             be
             trusted
             with
             cure
             of
             Souls
             ;
             but
             otherwise
             ,
             as
             to
             
               Temporal
               things
            
             ,
             I
             do
             not
             find
             that
             they
             inflicted
             any
             kind
             of
             Punishment
             ;
             but
             when
             the
             Arians
             came
             to
             have
             the
             Power
             in
             their
             Hands
             ,
             when
             theirs
             was
             come
             to
             be
             the
             
               Imperial
               Religion
            
             ,
             then
             Depriving
             was
             nothing
             ,
             Banishment
             was
             the
             least
             that
             they
             inflicted
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             14.
             
          
        
         
           
             Neither
             our
             Religion
             ,
             nor
             our
             Church
             ,
             is
             of
             a
             persecuting
             Spirit
             .
             I
             know
             not
             how
             it
             may
             be
             in
             particular
             Persons
             ;
             but
             I
             say
             again
             ,
             it
             is
             not
             in
             the
             Genius
             of
             our
             Church
             :
             She
             hath
             no
             Doctrine
             that
             
               teacheth
               Persecution
            
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             20.
             
          
        
         
           
             I
             would
             have
             no
             man
             punished
             for
             his
             Religion
             ,
             no
             not
             them
             that
             destroy
             men
             for
             Religion
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             37.
             
          
        
         
           Dr
           Stillingfleet
           comes
           short
           of
           none
           of
           them
           on
           this
           Subject
           .
           
             Our
             Saviour
             ,
             
               says
               he
            
             ,
             never
             pressed
             Followers
             as
             men
             do
             Souldiers
             ,
             but
             said
             ,
             
               If
               any
               man
               will
               come
               after
               me
               ,
               let
               him
               take
               up
               his
               Cross
            
             (
             not
             his
             Sword
             )
             
               and
               follow
               me
            
             .
             His
             was
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             his
             very
             Commands
             shewed
             his
             Meekness
             ;
             
             his
             Laws
             were
             sweet
             and
             gentle
             Laws
             ;
             not
             like
             
             Draco's
             that
             were
             writ
             in
             Blood
             ,
             unless
             it
             were
             his
             own
             that
             gave
             them
             .
             His
             design
             
             was
             to
             ease
             men
             of
             their
             former
             Burdens
             ,
             and
             not
             lay
             on
             more
             ;
             the
             Duties
             he
             required
             were
             no
             other
             but
             such
             as
             were
             necessary
             ,
             and
             withal
             very
             just
             and
             reasonable
             .
             He
             that
             came
             to
             take
             away
             the
             insupportable
             Yoke
             of
             Jewish
             Ceremonies
             ,
             certainly
             did
             never
             intend
             to
             gall
             the
             Necks
             of
             his
             Disciples
             with
             another
             instead
             of
             it
             .
             And
             it
             would
             be
             strange
             the
             Church
             should
             require
             more
             than
             Christ
             himsel●
             did
             ;
             and
             make
             other
             conditions
             of
             her
             Communion
             ,
             
               than
               our
               Saviour
               did
               of
               Discipleship
               .
            
             What
             possible
             reason
             can
             be
             assigned
             or
             given
             why
             such
             things
             should
             not
             be
             sufficient
             for
             Communion
             with
             a
             Church
             ,
             
               which
               are
               sufficient
               for
               eternal
               Salvation
               ?
            
             And
             certainly
             those
             things
             are
             sufficient
             for
             that
             ;
             which
             are
             laid
             down
             as
             necessary
             Duties
             for
             Christianity
             by
             our
             Lord
             and
             Saviour
             in
             his
             Word
             .
             
               What
               ground
               can
               there
               be
               why
               Christians
               should
               not
               stand
               upon
               the
               same
               terms
               now
               which
               they
               did
               in
               the
               time
               of
               Christ
               and
               his
               Apostles
               ?
            
             Was
             not
             Religion
             sufficiently
             guarded
             and
             fenced
             in
             ●hem
             ?
             Was
             there
             ever
             more
             true
             and
             cordial
             Reverence
             in
             the
             Worship
             of
             God
             ?
             What
             Charter
             hath
             Christ
             given
             the
             Church
             to
             
               bind
               men
               up
               to
               more
               than
               himself
               hath
               done
            
             ?
             Or
             to
             exclude
             those
             from
             her
             Society
             who
             may
             be
             admitted
             into
             Heaven
             ?
             Will
             Christ
             ▪
             ever
             thank
             Men
             at
             the
             great
             day
             for
             keeping
             such
             out
             from
             Communion
             with
             his
             Church
             ,
             when
             he
             will
             vouchsafe
             not
             only
             Crowns
             of
             Glory
             to
             ,
             but
             it
             may
             be
             Aureolae
             too
             ,
             if
             there
             be
             any
             such
             things
             there
             ?
             The
             Grand
             Commission
             the
             Apostles
             were
             sent
             out
             with
             ,
             was
             only
             to
             
               teach
               what
               Christ
               had
               commanded
               them
               .
            
             Not
             the
             least
             Intimation
             of
             any
             Power
             given
             them
             to
             impose
             or
             require
             any
             thing
             beyond
             what
             himself
             had
             spoken
             to
             them
             ,
             or
             they
             were
             directed
             to
             by
             the
             immediate
             Guidance
             of
             the
             Spirit
             of
             God.
             
          
        
         
           
             Without
             all
             Controversie
             ,
             the
             main
             Inlet
             of
             all
             the
             Distractions
             ,
             Confusions
             and
             Divisions
             of
             the
             Christian
             
             World
             ,
             hath
             been
             by
             adding
             other
             Conditions
             of
             Church
             Communion
             than
             Christ
             hath
             done
             .
          
           
             There
             is
             nothing
             the
             
               Primitive
               Church
            
             deserves
             greater
             imitation
             by
             us
             in
             ,
             than
             in
             that
             admirable
             Temper
             ,
             Moderation
             and
             Condesention
             which
             was
             used
             in
             it
             towards
             all
             the
             Members
             of
             it
             .
          
           
             This
             admirable
             Temper
             in
             the
             Primitive
             Church
             might
             be
             largely
             cleared
             from
             that
             Liberty
             they
             allowed
             freely
             to
             Dissenters
             from
             them
             in
             matters
             of
             Practice
             and
             Opinion
             ;
             as
             might
             be
             cleared
             from
             
               Cyprian
               ,
               Austin
               ,
               Jerome
            
             ,
             and
             others
             .
             —
             Leaving
             the
             Men
             to
             be
             won
             by
             observing
             the
             true
             decency
             and
             order
             of
             Churches
             ,
             whereby
             those
             who
             act
             upon
             a
             true
             Principle
             of
             Christian
             Ingenuity
             may
             be
             sooner
             drawn
             to
             a
             Compliance
             in
             all
             lawful
             things
             ,
             than
             by
             Force
             and
             rigorous
             Impositions
             ,
             which
             make
             men
             suspect
             the
             weight
             of
             the
             thing
             it self
             ,
             when
             such
             Force
             is
             used
             to
             make
             it
             enter
             .
          
           
             in
             Preface
             .
          
        
         
           The
           same
           is
           in
           effect
           declared
           by
           the
           
             House
             of
             Commons
          
           ,
           when
           they
           returned
           their
           Thanks
           to
           Dr.
           
             T●llotson
             ,
             Dean
             of
             Canterbury
          
           ,
           for
           his
           Sermon
           preached
           before
           them
           November
           the
           5
           th
           .
           1678.
           
             desiring
             him
             to
             Print
             that
             Sermon
             ,
          
           where
           he
           says
           ,
           upon
           our
           Saviours
           Words
           ,
           
             
               Ye
               know
               not
               what
               manner
               of
               Spirit
               ye
               are
               of
               ,
            
             Ye
             own
             your selves
             to
             be
             my
             Disciples
             ,
             but
             do
             you
             consider
             what
             Spirit
             now
             Acts
             and
             Governs
             you
             ?
             not
             that
             surely
             which
             my
             Doctrine
             designes
             to
             mould
             and
             fashion
             you
             into
             ,
             which
             is
             not
             a
             
               Furious
               and
               Persecuting
            
             ,
             and
             
               Destructive
               Spirit
            
             ,
             but
             Mild
             and
             Gentle
             ,
             and
             Saving
             ;
             tender
             of
             the
             Lives
             and
             Interests
             of
             Men
             ,
             even
             of
             those
             who
             are
             our
             greatest
             Enemies
             .
          
           
             pag.
             6
             ,
             7.
             
          
        
         
           
             No
             difference
             of
             Religion
             ,
             no
             pretence
             of
             Zeal
             for
             God
             and
             Christ
             can
             warrant
             and
             justifie
             this
             Passionate
             and
             Fierce
             ,
             this
             Vindictive
             and
             Exterminating
             Spirit
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             7.
             
          
        
         
           
             He
             (
             
               i.
               e.
            
             Christ
             )
             came
             to
             introduce
             a
             Religion
             ,
             which
             
             consults
             not
             only
             the
             Eternal
             Salvation
             of
             mens
             Souls
             ,
             but
             their
             Temporal
             Peace
             and
             Security
             ,
             their
             Comfort
             and
             Happiness
             in
             this
             World
             ,
          
           
             
               ibid
               ▪
               pag.
            
             8.
             
          
        
         
           
             In
             seemed
             good
             to
             the
             Author
             of
             this
             Institution
             to
             compel
             no
             man
             to
             it
             by
             Temporal
             Punishment
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             13.
             
          
        
         
           
             To
             seperate
             Goodness
             and
             Mercy
             from
             God
             ,
             Compassion
             and
             Charity
             from
             Religion
             ,
             is
             to
             make
             the
             two
             best
             things
             in
             the
             World
             ,
             God
             and
             Religion
             ,
             good
             for
             nothing
             .
          
           
             
               idid
               .
               pag.
            
             19.
             
          
        
         
           
             True
             Christianity
             is
             not
             noly
             the
             best
             ,
             but
             the
             best
             natured
             Institution
             in
             the
             World
             ;
             and
             so
             far
             as
             any
             Church
             is
             departed
             from
             good
             Nature
             ,
             and
             become
             Cruel
             and
             Barbarous
             ,
             so
             far
             it
             is
             degenerated
             from
             Christianity
             .
          
           
             
               idid
               .
               pag.
            
             30.
             
          
        
         
           Thus
           far
           
             Dr
             Tillotson
          
           ,
           who
           to
           be
           sure
           ,
           deserves
           not
           to
           be
           thought
           the
           least
           Eminent
           in
           the
           present
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           Let
           us
           hear
           what
           Doctor
           Burnet
           says
           to
           it
           .
        
         
           
             Men
             are
             not
             Masters
             of
             their
             own
             Perswasions
             ,
             and
             cannot
             change
             their
             thoughts
             as
             they
             please
             ;
             he
             that
             believes
             any
             thing
             concerning
             Religion
             ,
             
               cannot
               turn
               as
               the
               Prince
               commands
               him
               ,
               or
               accomodate
               himself
               to
               the
               Law
               or
               his
               persent
               Interests
               ,
            
             unless
             he
             arrive
             at
             that
             pitch
             of
             Atheism
             ,
             as
             to
             look
             on
             Religion
             only
             as
             a
             matter
             of
             Policy
             ,
             and
             an
             Engine
             for
             civil
             Government
             ;
          
           
             
               Dr
               Burnet's
               History
               of
               the
               Rights
               of
               Princes
               ,
            
             &c.
             in
             his
             Preface
             ,
             pag.
             49.
             
          
        
         
           'T
           is
           to
           this
           Doctor
           's
           pains
           she
           ows
           the
           very
           History
           of
           her
           Reformation
           ,
           and
           as
           by
           it
           he
           has
           perpetuated
           his
           Name
           with
           hers
           ,
           certainly
           he
           must
           have
           Credit
           with
           her
           ,
           or
           we
           can
           deserve
           none
           with
           any
           body
           else
           ,
           for
           no
           man
           could
           well
           go
           further
           to
           oblige
           her
           .
        
         
           Let
           me
           here
           bring
           in
           a
           lay
           Member
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           Sir
           
             Robert
             Pointz
          
           ,
           in
           his
           vindication
           of
           Monarchy
           ,
           who
           yeilds
           us
           an
           excellent
           Testimony
           to
           the
           matter
           in
           hand
           ,
           
             The
             Sword
             
               availeth
               little
            
             with
             the
             Souls
             of
             Men
             ,
             unless
             to
             destroy
             
             them
             together
             with
             their
             Bodies
             ,
             and
             to
             make
             men
             desperate
             ,
             or
             dissemblers
             in
             Religion
             ,
             and
             when
             they
             find
             oppertunity
             to
             fall
             into
             Rebellion
             ,
             as
             there
             are
             many
             Examples
             .
          
           
             p.
             27.
             
          
        
         
           
             In
             the
             Ancient
             Times
             of
             Christianity
             ,
             such
             means
             were
             not
             used
             as
             might
             
               make
               Hereticks
               and
               Schismaticks
               more
               obstinate
               than
               docible
               ,
               through
               the
               preposterous
               proceedings
               of
               the
               Magistrates
               and
               Ministers
               of
               Justice
               in
               the
               Execution
               of
               Penal
               Laws
               ,
            
             used
             rather
             as
             Snares
             for
             gaining
             of
             Money
             and
             Pecuniary
             Mulcts
             impos'd
             ,
             rather
             as
             Prices
             set
             upon
             Offences
             ,
             than
             as
             Punishments
             for
             the
             Reformation
             of
             Manners
             ▪
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             28.
             
          
        
         
           
             The
             
               Ancient
               Christians
            
             were
             forbidden
             by
             the
             
               Imperial
               Law
            
             ,
             
             as
             also
             by
             the
             Laws
             of
             other
             Christian
             Nations
             ,
             under
             a
             great
             Penalty
             to
             
               meddle
               with
               the
               Goods
               of
               the
               Jews
               or
               Pagans
            
             living
             peaceably
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             29.
             
          
        
         
           
             For
             ,
             the
             Goods
             of
             the
             Jews
             ,
             although
             Enemies
             to
             the
             Christian
             Religion
             ,
             
               cannot
               for
               the
               cause
               of
               Religion
               come
               ,
               by
               Escheat
               unto
               Christian
               Princes
               ,
            
             under
             whom
             they
             live
             .
          
           
             
               ibid.
               pag.
            
             29.
             
          
        
         
           
             It
             is
             truly
             said
             ,
             that
             Peace
             ,
             a
             Messenger
             whereof
             ,
             an
             Angel
             hath
             been
             chosen
             to
             be
             ,
             
               is
               scarce
               ever
               established
               by
               the
               Sword
            
             ;
             and
             the
             Gospel
             ,
             the
             blessed
             Peace
             ,
             cannot
             be
             published
             by
             the
             
               Sound
               of
               the
               Cannon
            
             ;
             neither
             the
             
               Sacred
               Word
            
             be
             conveyed
             unto
             us
             by
             the
             
               impious
               hands
               of
               Souldiers
            
             ;
             neither
             Tranquility
             be
             brought
             to
             the
             Persons
             and
             Consciences
             of
             Men
             ,
             
               by
               that
               which
               bringeth
               Ruin
               unto
               Nations
               .
            
          
           
             ibid.
             pag.
             30.
             
          
        
         
           He
           has
           said
           much
           in
           a
           little
           ,
           the
           Talent
           and
           Honour
           of
           Men
           truly
           great
           .
           I
           give
           this
           still
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Englands
           Principles
           ,
           which
           yet
           makes
           it
           harder
           for
           her
           to
           justifie
           her
           Practice
           in
           her
           use
           of
           Power
           .
           But
           let
           us
           hear
           a
           King
           speak
           ,
           and
           one
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           is
           bound
           to
           hear
           by
           many
           Obligations
           .
        
         
         
           King
           Charles
           the
           First
           ,
           out
           of
           his
           tender
           and
           princely
           sence
           of
           the
           sad
           and
           
             bleeding
             Condition
          
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           his
           unwearied
           Desires
           to
           apply
           such
           Remedies
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           blessing
           of
           Almighty
           God
           ,
           might
           settle
           it
           in
           Peace
           ;
           by
           the
           Advice
           of
           his
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           of
           Parliament
           Assembled
           at
           Oxford
           ,
           propounded
           and
           desired
           ,
           that
           all
           the
           Members
           of
           both
           Houses
           might
           securely
           meet
           in
           a
           full
           and
           free
           Convention
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           there
           to
           
             treat
             ,
             consult
          
           and
           agree
           upon
           such
           things
           ,
           as
           may
           conduce
           to
           the
           maintenance
           and
           defence
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           with
           due
           consideration
           to
           all
           just
           and
           
             reasonable
             ease
             to
             tender
             Consciences
          
           .
           The
           Kings
           Message
           of
           a
           Treaty
           ,
           March
           3.
           1643.
           from
           Oxford
           ,
           Superscribed
           to
           the
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           of
           Parliament
           assembled
           at
           Westminster
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           Kings
           Twentieth
           Message
           for
           Peace
           ,
           January
           29.
           1645.
           he
           has
           these
           Words
           ,
           
             That
             by
             the
             Liberty
             offered
             in
             his
             Message
             of
             the
          
           5
           
             th
             .
             present
             ,
             for
             the
             ease
             of
             their
          
           Consciences
           
             who
             will
             not
          
           Communicate
           
             in
             the
             Service
             already
             established
             by
             Act
             of
             Parliament
             in
             this
             Kingdom
             ,
             He
             intends
             that
             all
             other
             Protestants
             behaving
             themselves
             peaceable
             in
             and
             towards
             the
             civil
             Government
             ,
             shall
             have
             the
             free
             Exercise
             of
             their
          
           Religion
           
             according
             to
             their
          
           own
           way
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           Thirty
           third
           Message
           for
           Peace
           ,
           November
           17.
           1647.
           there
           are
           these
           Words
           ,
           
             His
             Majesty
             considering
             the
             great
             present
          
           Distempers
           concerning
           Church
           Discipline
           ,
           
             and
             that
             the
          
           Presbyterian
           Government
           
             is
             now
             in
             practice
             ,
             his
             Majesty
             to
             eschew
          
           Confusion
           ,
           
             as
             much
             as
             may
             be
             ,
             and
             for
             the
             satisfaction
             of
             his
             two
             Houses
             ,
             is
             content
             that
             the
             said
             Government
             be
             legally
             permitted
             to
             stand
             in
             the
             same
             Condition
             it
             now
             is
             ,
             for
             three
             Years
             ;
             provided
             ,
             that
             his
             Majesty
             and
             those
             of
             his
             Judgment
             (
             or
             any
             other
             who
             cannot
             in
          
           Conscience
           
             submit
             thereunto
          
           )
           
             be
             not
             obliged
             to
             comply
             with
             the
             Presbyterian
             Government
             ,
             but
             have
             free
             Practice
             of
             their
             own
             Profession
             without
             receiving
             any
             Prejudice
             thereby
             .
          
           From
           the
           Isle
           of
           Wight
           .
        
         
         
           In
           his
           Declaration
           to
           all
           his
           People
           ,
           January
           18.
           1645.
           from
           Carisbrook
           Castle
           ,
           after
           the
           Votes
           of
           no
           Address
           ,
           He
           says
           ,
           
             I
             have
             sacrificed
             to
             my
             two
             Houses
             of
             Parliament
             ,
             for
             the
             Peace
             of
             the
             Kingdom
             ,
             all
             ,
             but
             what
             is
             much
             more
             dear
             to
             me
             then
             my
             Life
             ,
             my
          
           Conscience
           
             and
             my
          
           Honour
           .
        
         
           In
           his
           Letter
           to
           the
           Lords
           ,
           Gentlemen
           and
           Committee
           of
           the
           Scotch
           Parliament
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           Officers
           of
           the
           Army
           ,
           July
           3.
           1648.
           from
           Carisbrook
           Castle
           .
           —
           
             As
             the
             best
             foundation
             of
          
           Loyalty
           is
           Christianity
           ,
           
             so
             true
          
           Christianity
           
             is
             perfect
          
           Loyalty
           .
        
         
           VI.
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           Upon
           his
           Majesties
           retirement
           from
           Westminster
           .
           —
           
             Sure
             it
             ceases
             to
             be
             Counsel
             ,
             when
             not
          
           Reason
           
             is
             used
             ,
             as
             to
             Men
             to
          
           Perswade
           ,
           but
           Force
           and
           Terror
           
             as
             to
             Beasts
             ,
             to
          
           drive
           and
           compel
           
             men
             to
             whatever
             tumultary
             Patrons
             shall
             project
             .
             He
             deserves
             to
             be
             a
          
           Slave
           
             without
             Pity
             or
             Redemption
             ,
             that
             is
             content
             to
             have
             his
             Rational
          
           Soveraignty
           
             of
             his
          
           Soul
           ,
           and
           Liberty
           
             of
             his
          
           Will
           and
           Words
           
             so
             captivated
          
           .
           —
           Again
           ,
           ibid.
           
             Sure
             that
             Man
             cannot
             be
             blameable
             to
             God
             or
             Man
             ,
             who
             seriously
             indeavours
             to
          
           see
           
             the
             best
          
           reason
           of
           things
           ,
           and
           faithfully
           
             follows
             what
             he
             takes
             for
          
           reason
           ;
           the
           uprightness
           
             of
             his
          
           Intentions
           
             will
             excuse
             the
             possible
             failings
             of
             his
          
           Understanding
           .
           —
           Again
           ,
           ibid.
           
             I
             know
             no
             Resolutions
             more
             worthy
             a
          
           Christian
           King
           ,
           
             then
             to
             prefer
             his
          
           Conscience
           
             before
             his
          
           Kingdoms
           .
        
         
           XII
           .
           Upon
           the
           Rebellion
           and
           Troubles
           in
           
             Ireland
             ,
             —
             Some
             kind
             of
             Zeal
             counts
             all
          
           merciful
           Moderation
           Lukewarmness
           ,
           
             and
             had
             rather
             be
          
           Cruel
           
             than
             accounted
          
           Cold
           ,
           
             and
             is
             not
             seldom
             more
             greedy
             to
             kill
             the
             Bear
             for
             her
             Skin
             ,
             than
             for
             any
             harm
             he
             hath
             done
             .
             —
             ibid
             ,
             O
             my
             God
             ,
             thou
             seest
             how
             much
             Cruelty
             among
             Christians
             is
             acted
             under
             the
             colour
             of
             Religion
             ,
             as
             if
             we
             could
             not
             be
             Christians
             unless
             we
             Crucifie
             one
             another
             .
          
        
         
           XIII
           .
           Upon
           the
           calling
           the
           Scots
           and
           their
           coming
           .
           —
           
             Sure
             in
             matters
             of
          
           Religion
           those
           Truth
           's
           
             gain
             most
             on
             mens
          
           Judgments
           
           and
           Consciences
           
             which
             are
             least
             urged
             with
             Secular
          
           Violence
           ,
           
             which
             weakens
             Truth
             with
             Prejudices
             ;
             and
             is
             unreasonable
             to
             be
             used
             ,
             till
             such
             means
             of
             rational
             Conviction
             hath
             been
             appli'd
             ,
             as
             leaving
             no
             excuse
             for
             Ignorance
             condemns
             mens
             Obstinacy
             to
             deserv'd
             Penalties
             .
             —
             Violent
             Motions
             are
             neither
             Manly
             ,
             Christian
             nor
             Loyal
             .
             —
             The
             proper
             Engine
             of
             Faction
             is
             Force
             ;
             the
             Arbitrator
             of
          
           Beasts
           ,
           
             not
             of
          
           reasonable
           Men
           ,
           
             much
             less
             of
          
           humble
           Christians
           and
           loyal
           Subjects
           ,
           
             in
             matters
             of
             Religion
          
           .
        
         
           XIV
           .
           Upon
           the
           Covenant
           .
           —
           
             Religion
             requires
          
           Charity
           and
           Candor
           
             to
             others
             of
             different
             Opinions
             .
             —
             Nothing
             Violent
             and
             Injurious
             can
             be
             Religions
             .
          
        
         
           XV.
           Upon
           the
           many
           Jealousies
           raised
           ,
           and
           Scandals
           cast
           upon
           the
           King
           to
           stir
           up
           the
           People
           against
           him
           .
           —
           
             In
             point
             of
             true
             Conscientious
             Tenderness
             (
             attended
             with
             Humility
             and
             Meekness
             ,
             not
             with
             proud
             or
             arrogant
             Activity
             ,
             which
             seeks
             to
             hatch
             every
             egge
             of
             indifferent
             Opinion
             to
             Faction
             or
             Schism
             )
             I
             have
             oft
             declared
             how
             little
             I
             desire
             my
          
           Laws
           and
           Scepter
           
             should
             intrench
             over
             Gods
             Soveraignty
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             only
             king
             of
             mens
             Consciences
             .
          
        
         
           XXVII
           .
           To
           the
           Prince
           of
           
             Wales
             .
             —
             Take
             heed
             of
             abetting
             to
             any
             Factions
             ;
             your
             partial
             adhereing
             to
             any
             one
             Side
             gains
             you
             not
             so
             great
             Advantages
             in
             some
             Mens
             Hearts
             (
             who
             are
          
           prone
           
             to
             be
             of
             their
             Kings
             Religion
             )
             as
             it
             looseth
             you
             in
             others
             ,
             who
             think
             themselves
             ,
             and
             their
             Profession
             ,
             first
             despised
             ,
             then
             persecuted
             by
             you
             .
             —
             My
             Counsel
             and
             Charge
             to
             you
             is
             ,
             That
             you
             seriously
             consider
             the
             former
             real
             or
             objected
             Miscarriages
             ,
             which
             might
             occasion
             my
             Troubles
             ,
             that
             you
             may
             avoid
             them
             .
             —
             A
             Charitable
             Connivance
             and
             Christian
             Toleration
             ,
             often
             dissipates
             their
             Strength
             whom
          
           rougher
           Opposition
           
             fortifies
             .
             —
             Always
             keep
             up
             Sollid
             Piety
             and
             those
             Fundamental
             Truths
             (
             which
             mend
             both
             Hearts
             and
             Lives
             of
             Men
             )
             with
             impartial
             Favour
             and
             Justice
             .
             —
             Your
             Prerogative
             is
             best
             shewed
             and
             exercised
             in
          
           remitting
           
             rather
             then
             exacting
             the
             rigour
             of
             the
             Law
             ,
             there
             being
             nothing
             worse
             than
             legal
             Tyranny
             .
          
        
         
         
           And
           as
           this
           was
           the
           Sence
           and
           Judgment
           of
           a
           King
           that
           Time
           and
           the
           greatest
           Troubles
           had
           inform'd
           with
           a
           superiour
           Judgment
           ,
           (
           and
           which
           to
           be
           sure
           highly
           justifies
           the
           measures
           that
           are
           now
           taken
           )
           So
           Dr.
           Hudson
           his
           
             Plain-dealing
             Chaplain
          
           must
           not
           be
           forgotten
           by
           us
           on
           this
           occasion
           ,
           who
           took
           the
           freedom
           to
           tell
           his
           Royal
           Master
           ,
           
             That
             he
             lookt
             upon
             the
             Calamities
             he
             laboured
             under
             ,
             to
             be
             the
             hand
             of
             God
             upon
             him
             ,
             for
             not
             having
             given
             God
             his
             due
             over
             Conscience
             .
          
        
         
           One
           can
           easily
           imagin
           this
           to
           be
           Reformation
           Language
           ,
           and
           then
           it
           is
           not
           hard
           to
           think
           how
           low
           that
           Church
           must
           be
           fallen
           ,
           that
           from
           so
           free
           and
           excellent
           a
           Principle
           ,
           is
           come
           to
           make
           ,
           execute
           and
           uphold
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           for
           Religion
           ,
           against
           her
           Conscientious
           Neighbours
           ;
           but
           it
           is
           to
           be
           hoped
           ,
           that
           like
           
             Nebuchadnezzar's
             Image
          
           ,
           whose
           Feet
           was
           a
           mixture
           of
           Iron
           and
           Clay
           ,
           and
           therefore
           could
           not
           stand
           for
           ever
           ;
           Persecution
           will
           not
           be
           able
           to
           mix
           so
           with
           the
           Seed
           of
           Men
           but
           that
           Humanity
           will
           overcome
           it
           ,
           and
           Mankind
           one
           day
           be
           delivered
           from
           that
           Iron
           hard
           and
           fierce
           Nature
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           done
           with
           my
           Church
           of
           Englands
           Evidences
           against
           Persecution
           .
           And
           for
           the
           Judgment
           of
           all
           sorts
           of
           Dissenters
           in
           that
           Point
           ,
           let
           their
           Practice
           have
           been
           what
           it
           will
           ,
           nothing
           is
           clearer
           than
           that
           they
           disallow
           of
           Persecution
           ,
           of
           which
           their
           daily
           Addresses
           of
           Thanks
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           for
           his
           General
           Ease
           by
           his
           Excellent
           Declaration
           are
           an
           undoubted
           Proof
           .
        
         
           Thus
           then
           we
           see
           it
           is
           evident
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           not
           only
           the
           Duty
           of
           all
           Parties
           ,
           as
           they
           would
           be
           thought
           Christians
           ,
           to
           Repeal
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           for
           Religion
           ,
           but
           upon
           a
           fair
           enquiry
           ,
           we
           see
           it
           is
           the
           avowed
           Principle
           of
           every
           Party
           at
           one
           time
           or
           other
           that
           Conscience
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           compel'd
           ,
           nor
           Religion
           impos'd
           upon
           worldly
           Penalties
           .
           And
           so
           I
           come
           to
           the
           third
           and
           last
           part
           of
           this
           Discourse
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           PART
           III.
           It
           is
           the
           Interest
           of
           all
           Parties
           ,
           and
           especially
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
        
         
           AS
           I
           take
           all
           Men
           to
           be
           unwillingly
           separated
           from
           their
           Interests
           ,
           and
           consequently
           ought
           only
           to
           be
           sought
           and
           discours'd
           in
           them
           ,
           so
           it
           must
           be
           granted
           me
           on
           all
           hands
           ,
           that
           Interests
           change
           as
           well
           as
           Times
           ,
           and
           't
           is
           the
           Wisdom
           of
           a
           Man
           to
           observe
           the
           Courses
           ,
           and
           humor
           the
           Motions
           of
           his
           Interest
           ,
           as
           the
           best
           way
           to
           preserve
           it
           .
           And
           least
           any
           ill-natur'd
           or
           mistaken
           Person
           should
           call
           it
           temporizing
           ,
           I
           make
           this
           early
           Provision
           ;
           That
           I
           mean
           no
           immorral
           or
           corrupt
           complyance
           :
           A
           Temporizing
           ,
           deservedly
           base
           with
           Men
           of
           Vertue
           ,
           and
           which
           in
           all
           times
           ,
           my
           Practice
           as
           well
           as
           Judgment
           hath
           shown
           the
           last
           Aversion
           to
           .
           For
           upon
           the
           Principle
           I
           now
           go
           ,
           and
           which
           I
           lay
           down
           ,
           as
           common
           and
           granted
           in
           Reason
           and
           Fact
           with
           all
           Parties
           concern'd
           in
           this
           Discourse
           ,
           that
           Man
           ,
           does
           not
           change
           ,
           that
           morrally
           follows
           his
           Interest
           under
           all
           its
           Revolutions
           ,
           because
           to
           be
           true
           to
           his
           Interest
           is
           his
           first
           civil
           Principle
           .
           I
           premise
           this
           to
           introduce
           what
           I
           have
           to
           offer
           ,
           with
           respect
           to
           the
           Interests
           to
           be
           now
           treated
           upon
           .
        
         
           And
           first
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           I
           take
           it
           to
           be
           the
           Interest
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           abolish
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
             ,
             because
             it
             never
             was
             her
             Interest
             to
             make
             them
             .
          
           My
           reasons
           for
           that
           Opinion
           are
           these
           .
           First
           ,
           they
           have
           been
           an
           Argument
           to
           invalidate
           the
           Sufferings
           of
           the
           Reformers
           ,
           because
           if
           it
           be
           unlawful
           to
           disobey
           Government
           about
           matters
           of
           Religion
           they
           were
           in
           the
           wrong
           .
           And
           if
           they
           say
           ,
           O
           but
           they
           were
           in
           Error
           that
           punish'd
           their
           Non-conformity
           ;
           I
           answer
           ,
           how
           can
           she
           prove
           that
           she
           is
           Infallibly
           in
           the
           Right
           ?
           And
           if
           this
           cannot
           be
           done
           ,
           she
           compels
           
           to
           an
           uncertainty
           upon
           the
           same
           terms
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           She
           has
           overthrown
           the
           Principles
           upon
           which
           she
           separated
           from
           Rome
           .
           For
           if
           it
           be
           unlawful
           to
           plead
           Scripture
           and
           Conscience
           to
           vindicate
           Dissent
           from
           her
           Communion
           ,
           it
           was
           unlawful
           for
           her
           upon
           the
           same
           Plea
           to
           dissent
           from
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           unless
           she
           will
           say
           again
           ,
           that
           she
           was
           in
           the
           Right
           ,
           but
           the
           other
           in
           the
           Wrong
           ,
           and
           she
           knows
           this
           is
           no
           Answer
           ,
           but
           a
           begging
           of
           the
           Question
           ;
           for
           they
           that
           separate
           from
           her
           ,
           think
           themselves
           as
           Serious
           ,
           Devout
           ,
           and
           as
           much
           in
           the
           Right
           as
           she
           could
           do
           .
           If
           then
           Conscience
           and
           Scripture
           ,
           interpreted
           with
           the
           best
           Light
           she
           had
           ,
           were
           the
           ground
           of
           her
           Reformation
           ,
           she
           must
           allow
           the
           Liberty
           she
           takes
           ,
           
             or
             she
             eats
             her
             Words
             ,
             and
             subverts
             her
             Foundation
          
           ;
           then
           which
           nothing
           can
           be
           more
           destructive
           to
           the
           Interest
           of
           any
           Beeing
           ,
           Civil
           or
           Ecclesiastical
           .
           Thirdly
           ,
           The
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           have
           been
           the
           great
           Make-bate
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           from
           the
           beginning
           .
           For
           if
           I
           should
           grant
           that
           she
           had
           once
           been
           truly
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           I
           mean
           ,
           consisting
           of
           all
           the
           People
           of
           England
           ,
           (
           which
           she
           was
           not
           ,
           for
           there
           were
           divers
           Parties
           dissenting
           from
           the
           first
           of
           her
           establishment
           )
           yet
           since
           it
           afterwards
           appear'd
           she
           was
           but
           one
           Party
           tho
           the
           biggest
           ,
           she
           ought
           not
           to
           have
           made
           her
           Power
           more
           National
           than
           her
           Faith
           ,
           nor
           her
           Faith
           so
           by
           the
           Force
           of
           her
           Temporal
           Authority
           .
           'T
           is
           true
           she
           got
           the
           Magistrate
           of
           her
           side
           ,
           but
           she
           engaged
           him
           too
           far
           .
           For
           she
           knew
           Christ
           did
           not
           leave
           
             Caesar
             Executor
          
           to
           his
           last
           Will
           and
           Testament
           ,
           and
           that
           that
           should
           be
           the
           reason
           why
           she
           did
           so
           ,
           was
           none
           of
           the
           best
           Ornament●
           to
           her
           Reformation
           .
           That
           she
           was
           but
           a
           Party
           ,
           tho
           the
           biggest
           ,
           by
           the
           Advantages
           that
           temporal
           Power
           brought
           her
           ,
           I
           shall
           easily
           prove
           ,
           but
           I
           will
           introduce
           it
           with
           a
           short
           Account
           of
           our
           State-Reformation
           here
           in
           England
           ,
        
         
           
             Henry
             the
             Eighth
          
           ,
           was
           a
           kind
           of
           Hermophredite
           in
           Religion
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           Language
           of
           the
           times
           ,
           a
           Trimmer
           ;
           being
           a
           meddly
           of
           
           Papist
           and
           Protestant
           ,
           and
           that
           part
           he
           acted
           to
           the
           Life
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           Death
           rather
           ;
           Sacrificing
           on
           the
           same
           Day
           Men
           of
           both
           Religions
           ,
           because
           one
           was
           not
           Protestant
           enough
           ,
           and
           t'other
           Papist
           enough
           for
           him
           .
           In
           this
           time
           were
           some
           Anabaptists
           ,
           for
           the
           distinction
           of
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           Calvanist
           was
           not
           then
           known
           .
        
         
           
             Edward
             the
             Sixth
          
           succeeded
           ,
           a
           Prince
           that
           promised
           Vertues
           ,
           that
           might
           more
           than
           ballance
           the
           Excesses
           of
           his
           Father
           ,
           and
           yet
           by
           
             Arch-Bishop
             Cranmer
          
           ,
           was
           compelled
           to
           sign
           a
           Warrant
           to
           Burn
           poor
           
             Joan
             of
             Kent
          
           ,
           a
           famous
           Woman
           ,
           but
           counted
           an
           Enthusiast
           :
           But
           to
           prove
           what
           I
           said
           of
           him
           ,
           't
           was
           not
           without
           frequent
           Denials
           and
           Tears
           ,
           and
           the
           Bishop
           taking
           upon
           him
           to
           answer
           for
           it
           at
           Gods
           Judgment
           ;
           of
           which
           I
           hope
           his
           Soul
           was
           discharged
           ,
           tho
           his
           Body
           ,
           by
           the
           same
           Law
           ,
           suffered
           the
           same
           Punishment
           in
           the
           succeeding
           Reign
           .
           Thus
           even
           the
           Protestants
           begun
           with
           Blood
           for
           meer
           Religion
           ,
           and
           taught
           the
           Romanists
           ,
           in
           succeeding
           times
           ,
           how
           to
           deal
           with
           them
           .
        
         
           At
           this
           time
           the
           Controversie
           grew
           warm
           between
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           and
           the
           Calvanists
           ,
           that
           were
           the
           Abler
           Preachers
           and
           the
           Better
           Livers
           .
           The
           Bishops
           being
           mostly
           men
           of
           State
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           them
           looking
           rather
           backward
           then
           forward
           ,
           Witness
           the
           Difficulty
           the
           King
           had
           to
           get
           Hooper
           Consecrated
           Bishop
           ,
           without
           Conformity
           to
           the
           reserved
           Ceremonies
           .
        
         
           
             Queen
             Mary
          
           came
           in
           ,
           and
           ended
           the
           Quarrel
           at
           the
           Stake
           ▪
           Now
           Ridly
           and
           Hooper
           hug
           ,
           and
           are
           the
           dearest
           Brethren
           and
           best
           Friends
           in
           the
           World.
           Hooper
           keeps
           his
           Ground
           ,
           and
           Ridly
           stoops
           with
           his
           Ceremonies
           to
           t'others
           further
           Reformation
           .
           But
           this
           Light
           and
           Union
           flow'd
           from
           their
           Persecution
           :
           For
           those
           abroad
           at
           Frankford
           ,
           and
           other
           places
           were
           not
           upon
           so
           good
           Terms
           :
           Their
           Fewds
           grew
           so
           great
           that
           the
           one
           refused
           Communion
           with
           the
           other
           ,
           many
           endeavours
           
           were
           used
           to
           quench
           the
           Fire
           ,
           but
           they
           were
           ineffectual
           ;
           at
           best
           it
           lay
           under
           the
           Ashes
           of
           their
           Affliction
           for
           another
           time
           ;
           for
           no
           sooner
           was
           
             Queen
             Elizabeth
          
           upon
           her
           Throne
           then
           they
           returned
           ,
           and
           their
           Difference
           with
           them
           .
           They
           managed
           it
           civilly
           for
           a
           while
           ,
           but
           Ambition
           in
           some
           ,
           and
           Covetousness
           in
           others
           on
           the
           one
           hand
           ,
           and
           Discretion
           giving
           way
           to
           Resentment
           on
           the
           other
           ,
           they
           first
           ply
           the
           Queen
           and
           her
           Ministers
           ,
           and
           when
           that
           ended
           in
           favour
           of
           the
           
             Men
             of
             Ceremony
          
           ,
           the
           others
           arraigned
           them
           before
           the
           first
           Reformers
           abroad
           ,
           at
           
             Geneva
             ,
             Bazil
             ,
             Zurich
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           The
           leading
           Prelates
           by
           their
           Letters
           ,
           as
           Doctor
           Burnet
           lately
           tells
           us
           ,
           in
           his
           Printed
           Relation
           of
           his
           Travels
           ,
           clear
           themselves
           to
           those
           first
           Doctors
           of
           any
           such
           Imputation
           ,
           and
           lay
           all
           upon
           the
           Queen
           ,
           who
           for
           Reasons
           of
           State
           would
           not
           be
           brough
           to
           so
           Inceremonious
           a
           way
           of
           Worship
           as
           that
           of
           the
           Calvanists
           .
        
         
           At
           this
           time
           there
           were
           
             Papists
             ,
             Protestants
             ,
             Evangelists
             ,
             Praecisians
             ,
             Vbiquitists
             ,
             Familists
          
           or
           Enthusiasts
           and
           Anabaptists
           in
           England
           ;
           when
           the
           very
           first
           Year
           of
           her
           Reign
           ,
           a
           Law
           for
           
             Vniformity
             in
             Worship
             and
             Discipline
          
           was
           enacted
           ,
           and
           more
           followed
           of
           the
           severest
           Nature
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           executed
           .
           Thus
           then
           we
           see
           ▪
           that
           there
           never
           was
           such
           a
           thing
           as
           a
           Church
           of
           England
           since
           the
           Days
           of
           Popery
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           a
           Church
           of
           Communion
           containing
           all
           the
           People
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           so
           cannot
           be
           said
           to
           be
           so
           much
           as
           a
           Twin
           of
           the
           Reformation
           ;
           nevertheless
           she
           got
           the
           Blessing
           of
           the
           Civil
           Magistrate
           .
           She
           made
           him
           great
           to
           be
           great
           by
           him
           :
           If
           She
           might
           be
           the
           Church
           ,
           He
           should
           be
           the
           Head.
           Much
           good
           may
           the
           Bargain
           do
           her
           .
           Now
           is
           the
           time
           for
           her
           to
           stand
           to
           her
           Principle
           .
           I
           never
           knew
           any
           body
           exceed
           their
           Bounds
           that
           were
           not
           
             met
             with
             at
             last
          
           .
           If
           we
           could
           escape
           Men
           ,
           God
           we
           cannot
           ,
           his
           Providence
           will
           overtake
           us
           ,
           and
           find
           us
           out
           .
        
         
         
           By
           all
           this
           then
           it
           appearing
           ,
           that
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           was
           not
           the
           Nation
           ,
           the
           Case
           is
           plain
           that
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           were
           a
           Make-bate
           ,
           for
           they
           Sacrificed
           every
           sort
           of
           People
           whose
           Consciences
           differed
           from
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ;
           which
           first
           put
           the
           Romanist
           upon
           flattering
           Prerogative
           ,
           and
           courting
           its
           Shelter
           from
           the
           wrath
           of
           those
           Laws
           .
           The
           Address
           could
           not
           be
           unpleasant
           to
           Princes
           ;
           and
           we
           see
           it
           was
           not
           ;
           for
           
             King
             James
          
           ,
           that
           came
           in
           with
           Invectives
           against
           Popery
           ,
           entring
           the
           List
           with
           the
           Learn'd
           of
           that
           Church
           ,
           and
           charging
           her
           with
           all
           the
           Marks
           the
           Revelation
           gives
           to
           that
           of
           Antichrist
           ,
           grew
           at
           last
           so
           tame
           and
           easy
           towards
           the
           Romanists
           ,
           that
           our
           own
           Story
           tells
           us
           of
           the
           Fears
           of
           the
           encrease
           of
           Popery
           in
           the
           latter
           Parliament
           of
           his
           Reign
           .
        
         
           In
           
             King
             Charles
          
           the
           First
           's
           time
           ,
           no
           body
           can
           doubt
           of
           the
           Complaint
           ,
           because
           that
           was
           in
           great
           measure
           the
           drift
           of
           every
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           one
           Reason
           of
           the
           War.
           On
           the
           other
           hand
           the
           Severity
           of
           the
           Bishops
           against
           Men
           of
           their
           own
           Principles
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           main
           ,
           of
           their
           own
           Communion
           ,
           either
           because
           they
           were
           more
           zealous
           in
           Preaching
           ,
           more
           followed
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           or
           could
           not
           wear
           some
           odd
           Garment
           ,
           and
           less
           ,
           lead
           the
           Dance
           on
           a
           Lords
           Day
           at
           a
           Maypole
           ,
           (
           the
           Relique
           of
           Flora
           the
           Roman
           Strumpet
           )
           or
           perhaps
           for
           rubbing
           upon
           the
           Ambition
           ,
           Covetousness
           and
           Laziness
           of
           the
           Dignified
           ,
           and
           Ignorance
           and
           Loosness
           of
           the
           ordinary
           Clergy
           of
           the
           Church
           (
           of
           which
           I
           could
           produce
           Five
           hundred
           gross
           Instances
           )
           I
           say
           these
           things
           breed
           bad
           Blood
           ,
           and
           in
           part
           ,
           gave
           beginnings
           to
           those
           Animosities
           ,
           that
           at
           last
           broke
           forth
           ,
           with
           some
           other
           Pretences
           into
           áll
           those
           National
           Troubles
           that
           agitated
           this
           poor
           Kingdom
           for
           Ten
           Years
           together
           ,
           in
           which
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           became
           the
           greatest
           Looser
           ,
           Her
           Clergy
           turn'd
           out
           ▪
           her
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           Sequestred
           ,
           Decimated
           ,
           Imprisoned
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           whatever
           she
           is
           pleased
           to
           think
           ,
           nothing
           is
           truer
           ,
           then
           that
           her
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           ,
           and
           Conduct
           in
           the
           
           Star-Chamber
           ,
           and
           
             high
             Commission
             Court
          
           in
           matters
           of
           Religion
           ,
           was
           her
           overthrow
           .
        
         
           'T
           is
           as
           evident
           ,
           the
           same
           Humour
           since
           the
           Restoration
           of
           the
           late
           King
           ,
           has
           had
           almost
           the
           same
           Effect
           .
           For
           nothing
           was
           grown
           so
           little
           and
           contemptible
           as
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           in
           this
           Kingdom
           she
           now
           intitles
           her self
           the
           Church
           of
           :
           Witness
           the
           Elections
           of
           the
           last
           three
           Parliaments
           before
           this
           ,
           I
           know
           it
           may
           be
           said
           the
           Persons
           chosen
           were
           Church
           goers
           ;
           I
           confess
           it
           ,
           for
           the
           Law
           would
           have
           them
           so
           .
           But
           no
           body
           were
           more
           avers
           to
           the
           Politicks
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ;
           insomuch
           that
           the
           Parson
           and
           the
           Parish
           almost
           every
           where
           divided
           upon
           the
           question
           of
           their
           Election
           .
           In
           truth
           ,
           it
           has
           been
           the
           Favour
           and
           Countenence
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           not
           her
           intrinsick
           Interest
           or
           Value
           ,
           that
           has
           kept
           her
           up
           to
           this
           Day
           ;
           else
           her
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           ,
           the
           Bulwork
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           by
           the
           same
           figure
           ,
           than
           she
           is
           one
           against
           Popery
           ,
           had
           sunk
           her
           long
           since
           .
        
         
           I
           hope
           I
           may
           ,
           by
           this
           time
           ,
           conclude
           ,
           without
           offence
           ,
           that
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           have
           been
           a
           Make-bate
           in
           the
           great
           Family
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           setting
           the
           Father
           against
           his
           Children
           ,
           and
           Brethren
           against
           Brethren
           ;
           not
           only
           giving
           the
           Empire
           to
           one
           ,
           but
           endeavouring
           to
           extinguish
           the
           rest
           ,
           and
           that
           for
           this
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           has
           once
           paid
           a
           severe
           Reckoning
           .
           I
           apply
           it
           thus
           :
           Is
           it
           not
           her
           Interest
           to
           be
           careful
           she
           does
           it
           not
           a
           second
           time
           ?
           she
           has
           a
           fair
           Opportunity
           to
           prevent
           it
           ,
           and
           keep
           her self
           where
           she
           is
           ,
           that
           is
           ▪
           the
           Publick
           Religion
           of
           the
           Country
           ,
           with
           the
           real
           Maintenance
           of
           it
           ;
           which
           is
           a
           plain
           preference
           to
           all
           the
           rest
           .
           If
           she
           hopes
           by
           her
           Aversion
           to
           a
           general
           Ease
           ,
           to
           set
           up
           for
           a
           Bulwork
           against
           Popery
           ,
           one
           Year
           will
           show
           the
           trick
           ,
           and
           mightily
           deceive
           her
           ,
           and
           the
           Oppertunity
           will
           be
           lost
           ,
           and
           another
           Bargain
           driven
           ,
           I
           dare
           assure
           her
           ,
           mightily
           to
           her
           Disadvantage
           .
           Violence
           and
           Tyranny
           are
           no
           natural
           Consequences
           of
           Popery
           ,
           for
           then
           they
           
           would
           follow
           every
           where
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           places
           and
           times
           alike
           .
           But
           we
           see
           in
           twenty
           Governments
           in
           Germany
           there
           is
           none
           for
           Religion
           ,
           nor
           was
           not
           for
           an
           Age
           in
           France
           ,
           and
           in
           Poland
           ,
           the
           Popish
           Cantons
           of
           
             Switzerland
             ,
             Venice
             ,
             Lucca
             ,
             Colonia
             ,
             &c.
          
           where
           that
           Religion
           is
           Dominant
           ,
           the
           People
           enjoy
           their
           Ancient
           and
           Civil
           Rights
           a
           little
           more
           steadily
           than
           they
           have
           of
           late
           time
           done
           in
           some
           Protestant
           Countries
           nearer
           home
           ,
           almost
           ever
           since
           the
           Reformation
           .
           Is
           this
           against
           Protestancy
           ?
           No
           ,
           but
           very
           much
           against
           Protestants
           ,
           For
           had
           they
           been
           true
           to
           their
           Principles
           ,
           we
           had
           been
           upon
           better
           Terms
           .
           So
           that
           the
           Reformation
           was
           not
           the
           Fault
           ,
           but
           not
           keeping
           to
           it
           better
           than
           some
           have
           done
           ;
           For
           whereas
           they
           were
           Papists
           that
           both
           obtain'd
           the
           
             Great
             Charter
          
           and
           
             Charter
             of
             Forests
          
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           successive
           Reigns
           of
           the
           Kings
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           Industriously
           laboured
           the
           Confirmation
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           the
           great
           Text
           of
           their
           Liberties
           and
           Properties
           ,
           by
           above
           thirty
           other
           Laws
           ;
           we
           find
           almost
           an
           equal
           Number
           to
           Destroy
           them
           ,
           and
           but
           one
           made
           in
           their
           Favour
           since
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           and
           that
           shrowdly
           against
           the
           will
           of
           the
           high
           Church-men
           too
           ;
           I
           mean
           
             the
             Petition
             of
             Right
          
           ,
           in
           the
           third
           Year
           of
           Charles
           the
           first
           .
           In
           short
           ,
           They
           desire
           a
           legal
           Security
           with
           us
           ,
           and
           we
           are
           afraid
           of
           it
           ,
           least
           it
           should
           insecure
           us
           ;
           when
           nothing
           can
           do
           it
           so
           certainly
           as
           their
           Insecurity
           ,
           for
           Safety
           makes
           no
           Man
           Desparate
           .
           And
           he
           that
           seeks
           ease
           by
           Law
           ,
           therefore
           does
           it
           ,
           because
           he
           would
           not
           attempt
           it
           by
           Force
           .
           Are
           we
           afraid
           of
           their
           Power
           and
           yet
           provoke
           it
           ?
           If
           this
           Jealousie
           and
           Aversion
           prevail
           ,
           it
           may
           drive
           her
           to
           a
           Bargain
           with
           the
           Kingdom
           for
           such
           general
           Redemption
           of
           Property
           ,
           as
           may
           desolve
           our
           great
           Corporation
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           then
           she
           will
           think
           that
           half
           a
           Loaf
           had
           been
           better
           than
           no
           Bread
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           had
           been
           more
           advisable
           to
           have
           parted
           with
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           ,
           that
           only
           serv'd
           to
           dress
           her
           in
           Satyr
           ,
           then
           have
           lost
           all
           for
           keeping
           them
           ;
           especially
           ,
           when
           it
           
           was
           but
           parting
           with
           
             Spurs
             ,
             Claws
          
           and
           Bills
           that
           made
           her
           look
           more
           like
           a
           Vulter
           than
           a
           Dove
           ,
           and
           a
           Lion
           than
           a
           Lamb.
           
        
         
           But
           I
           proceed
           to
           my
           next
           Reason
           ,
           why
           it
           is
           her
           Interest
           to
           Repeal
           those
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           ,
           (
           tho
           a
           greater
           cannot
           be
           advanced
           to
           Men
           than
           
             self
             Preservation
          
           )
           and
           that
           is
           ,
           
             That
             she
             else
             breaks
             with
             a
             King
             heartily
             inclin'd
             to
             preserve
             her
             by
             any
             way
             that
             is
             not
             Persecuting
             ,
          
           and
           whose
           Interest
           she
           once
           persu'd
           at
           all
           Adventures
           ,
           when
           more
           than
           she
           sees
           was
           suggested
           to
           her
           by
           the
           Men
           of
           the
           Interest
           she
           opposed
           in
           favour
           of
           his
           Claim
           .
           What
           then
           has
           befallen
           her
           ,
           that
           she
           changes
           the
           course
           she
           took
           with
           such
           resolutions
           of
           perseverance
           ?
           for
           bringing
           him
           to
           the
           Crown
           with
           this
           Religion
           ,
           could
           not
           be
           more
           her
           Duty
           to
           his
           Title
           ,
           or
           her
           Interest
           to
           support
           her
           own
           ,
           than
           it
           is
           still
           ,
           to
           be
           fair
           with
           him
           .
           If
           she
           ow'd
           the
           one
           to
           him
           and
           to
           Christianity
           ,
           she
           is
           not
           less
           indebted
           to
           her self
           the
           other
           .
           Does
           he
           seek
           to
           impose
           his
           own
           Religion
           upon
           her
           ?
           By
           no
           means
           .
           There
           is
           no
           body
           would
           abhor
           the
           Attempt
           ,
           or
           ,
           at
           all
           Adventures
           ,
           condemn
           it
           more
           than
           my self
           .
           What
           then
           is
           the
           matter
           ?
           why
           he
           desires
           ease
           for
           his
           Religion
           ,
           she
           does
           not
           think
           fit
           to
           consider
           him
           in
           this
           ,
           (
           no
           not
           to
           the
           King
           she
           brought
           with
           this
           Objection
           to
           the
           Crown
           )
           Certainly
           she
           is
           much
           in
           the
           wrong
           ,
           and
           shews
           her self
           an
           ill
           Courtier
           (
           tho
           it
           was
           become
           her
           calling
           )
           first
           to
           give
           him
           Roast-meat
           ,
           then
           beat
           him
           with
           the
           Spit
           .
           Is
           not
           this
           to
           quit
           those
           high
           Principles
           of
           Loyalty
           and
           Christianity
           she
           valued
           her self
           once
           upon
           ,
           and
           what
           she
           can
           ,
           provoke
           the
           Mischiefs
           she
           fears
           ?
           certainly
           this
           is
           dividing
           in
           Judgment
           from
           him
           that
           she
           has
           ackowledged
           to
           be
           her
           
             Ecclesiastical
             Head.
          
           
        
         
           My
           fifth
           Reason
           is
           ,
           that
           as
           the
           making
           and
           executing
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           for
           Religion
           affects
           all
           the
           several
           Parties
           of
           Protestant
           Dissenters
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Papists
           (
           the
           Judges
           in
           
           Vaughhan's
           time
           ,
           and
           he
           at
           the
           Head
           of
           them
           ,
           giving
           it
           as
           their
           Opinion
           ,
           
           they
           were
           equally
           exposed
           to
           those
           Laws
           )
           and
           that
           are
           thereby
           naturally
           driven
           into
           an
           Interest
           with
           them
           ;
           so
           it
           is
           at
           this
           time
           greatly
           the
           Prudence
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           repeal
           them
           ,
           for
           by
           so
           doing
           she
           divides
           the
           Interest
           that
           self
           Preservation
           allows
           all
           Men
           to
           persue
           ,
           that
           are
           united
           by
           danger
           :
           And
           since
           she
           is
           assured
           the
           Papists
           shall
           not
           have
           the
           less
           Ease
           in
           this
           King's
           time
           than
           if
           the
           Laws
           were
           Repeal'd
           ,
           and
           that
           her
           Fears
           are
           not
           of
           the
           succeeding
           Raigns
           ,
           how
           is
           their
           Repeal
           a
           great
           Insecurity
           ,
           especially
           ,
           when
           by
           that
           ,
           she
           draws
           into
           her
           Interest
           all
           the
           Protestant
           Dissenters
           ,
           that
           are
           abundantly
           more
           considerable
           than
           the
           Papists
           ,
           and
           that
           are
           as
           unwilling
           that
           Popery
           should
           be
           National
           as
           her self
           .
           For
           if
           this
           be
           not
           granted
           ,
           see
           what
           Reputation
           follows
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           She
           tells
           the
           King
           she
           does
           not
           desire
           his
           Friends
           should
           be
           persecuted
           ,
           yet
           the
           forbearance
           must
           not
           be
           by
           Declaration
           to
           save
           the
           Government
           ,
           nor
           by
           Law
           to
           save
           her
           ;
           and
           without
           one
           of
           these
           Warrants
           ▪
           every
           civil
           Magistrate
           and
           Officer
           in
           England
           is
           Perjured
           that
           suffers
           them
           in
           that
           Liberty
           against
           Law.
           How
           can
           she
           be
           sincerely
           willing
           that
           should
           be
           done
           ,
           that
           she
           is
           not
           willing
           should
           be
           done
           legally
           ?
        
         
           But
           Sixthly
           ,
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           does
           not
           know
           but
           they
           or
           some
           other
           Party
           may
           at
           one
           time
           or
           other
           prevail
           .
           It
           seems
           to
           me
           her
           Interest
           to
           set
           a
           good
           Example
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           bespeak
           easie
           Terms
           for
           her self
           .
           I
           know
           of
           none
           intended
           ,
           and
           believe
           no
           body
           but
           her self
           can
           place
           her
           so
           low
           ,
           yet
           if
           it
           were
           her
           unhappiness
           ,
           I
           think
           to
           have
           civil
           Property
           secur'd
           out
           of
           the
           Question
           of
           Religion
           ,
           and
           Constraint
           upon
           Conscience
           prevented
           by
           a
           Glorious
           
             Magna
             Charta
             for
             the
             liberty
             of
             it
             ,
          
           were
           not
           a
           thing
           of
           ill
           Consequence
           to
           her
           Interest
           .
           Let
           us
           but
           consider
           what
           other
           Princes
           did
           for
           their
           own
           Religion
           ,
           within
           the
           last
           seven
           Raigns
           ,
           when
           they
           came
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           we
           cannot
           think
           so
           soft
           and
           equal
           a
           thing
           as
           an
           impartial
           
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           after
           all
           that
           has
           been
           said
           of
           a
           Popish
           Successor
           ,
           an
           ordinary
           Caracter
           of
           a
           Prince
           ,
           or
           a
           mean
           Assurance
           to
           us
           :
           This
           ought
           not
           to
           slip
           her
           Reflection
           .
           Besides
           ,
           there
           is
           some
           care
           due
           to
           Posterity
           :
           Tho
           the
           present
           Members
           of
           her
           Communion
           may
           escape
           the
           Temptation
           ,
           their
           Children
           may
           not
           :
           They
           may
           change
           the
           Religion
           of
           their
           Education
           ,
           and
           Conscientiously
           chuse
           some
           other
           Communion
           .
           Would
           they
           submit
           the
           Fortunes
           they
           leave
           them
           to
           the
           Rape
           of
           hungry
           
             Courtiers
             ,
             Biggots
             and
             indigent
             Informers
             ,
          
           or
           have
           their
           poor
           Posterity
           
             Impoverisht
             ,
             Banisht
          
           or
           Executed
           for
           Sober
           and
           Religious
           Dissent
           ?
           God
           knows
           into
           whose
           hands
           these
           Laws
           at
           last
           may
           fall
           ,
           what
           Mischief
           they
           may
           do
           ,
           and
           to
           whom
           .
           Believe
           me
           ,
           a
           King
           of
           the
           humor
           of
           Sr
           J.K.
           of
           the
           West
           ,
           or
           Sr
           W.A.
           of
           Reading
           ,
           or
           Sr
           R.B.
           or
           Sr
           S.S.
           of
           London
           ,
           would
           ,
           with
           such
           vouchers
           ,
           quickly
           make
           a
           Golgatha
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           .
           If
           she
           thinks
           her self
           considerable
           in
           Number
           or
           Estate
           ,
           she
           will
           have
           the
           more
           to
           loose
           .
           Let
           her
           not
           therefore
           establish
           that
           in
           the
           Prejudice
           of
           others
           ,
           that
           may
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           others
           turn
           to
           her
           Prejudice
           .
        
         
           Lastly
           ,
           I
           would
           not
           have
           her
           miss
           the
           advantage
           that
           is
           design'd
           her
           by
           those
           that
           perhaps
           she
           thinks
           worst
           of
           .
           I
           dare
           say
           no
           body
           would
           willingly
           see
           the
           Presbyterian
           in
           her
           Chair
           ,
           and
           yet
           that
           may
           happen
           to
           be
           the
           Consequence
           of
           her
           Tenaciousness
           in
           a
           little
           time
           .
           For
           if
           the
           Aversion
           her
           Sons
           promote
           by
           whole
           sale
           against
           Popery
           should
           prevail
           ,
           the
           remains
           of
           it
           in
           her self
           are
           not
           like
           to
           escape
           that
           Reformation
           :
           I
           mean
           ,
           her
           
             Episcopal
             Government
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Ceremonies
           of
           her
           Worship
           ,
           for
           which
           she
           has
           vext
           the
           most
           Consciencious
           People
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           above
           an
           Age
           past
           .
           And
           the
           Presbyterian
           being
           a
           Rich
           ,
           Industrious
           and
           Numerous
           Party
           ,
           as
           well
           among
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           as
           Trading
           and
           Country
           People
           ,
           I
           cannot
           see
           but
           the
           next
           Motion
           ,
           naturally
           speaking
           ,
           is
           like
           to
           tend
           that
           way
           ;
           for
           other
           Parties
           ,
           however
           well
           
           esteemed
           may
           seem
           too
           great
           a
           step
           of
           Reformation
           at
           once
           ,
           and
           methinks
           she
           has
           tasted
           enough
           of
           that
           Regiment
           ,
           to
           be
           once
           wise
           ,
           and
           keep
           the
           Ballance
           in
           her
           own
           Hands
           .
           And
           certain
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           nothing
           will
           so
           effectually
           do
           this
           as
           the
           entreated
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           ;
           for
           then
           there
           will
           be
           four
           Parties
           of
           Dissenters
           besides
           her self
           ,
           to
           Ballance
           against
           any
           Designs
           that
           may
           warp
           or
           byass
           things
           to
           their
           Advancement
           .
           And
           that
           which
           ought
           to
           induce
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           not
           a
           little
           to
           hasten
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           do
           the
           thing
           ,
           is
           this
           ;
           she
           is
           now
           a
           sort
           of
           National
           Church
           by
           Power
           ,
           she
           will
           then
           be
           the
           Publick
           Church
           by
           Concurrence
           of
           all
           Parties
           .
           Instead
           of
           Enemies
           to
           invade
           or
           undermine
           her
           ,
           they
           that
           should
           do
           it
           are
           made
           the
           Friends
           of
           her
           safety
           by
           the
           happiness
           they
           enjoy
           through
           her
           complacency
           :
           And
           if
           any
           should
           be
           so
           unnatural
           or
           ungrateful
           to
           her
           ,
           the
           Interest
           of
           the
           rest
           will
           oblige
           them
           to
           be
           her
           Spys
           and
           Security
           against
           the
           Ambition
           of
           any
           such
           Party
           .
           I
           do
           heartily
           pray
           to
           God
           that
           he
           would
           
             enlighten
             the
             Eyes
             of
             her
             Leaders
             ,
          
           and
           give
           them
           good
           Hearts
           too
           ,
           that
           Faction
           may
           not
           prevail
           against
           Charity
           ,
           in
           the
           name
           of
           Religion
           :
           And
           above
           all
           ,
           that
           she
           would
           not
           be
           proud
           of
           her
           Numbers
           ,
           or
           stand
           off
           upon
           that
           Reflection
           ;
           for
           that
           alone
           will
           quickly
           lessen
           them
           in
           a
           Nation
           loving
           Freedom
           as
           much
           as
           this
           we
           live
           in
           ;
           And
           what
           appears
           in
           the
           Town
           is
           an
           ill
           Glass
           to
           take
           a
           prospect
           of
           the
           Country
           by
           :
           There
           are
           Parishes
           that
           have
           Fifteen
           Thousand
           Souls
           in
           them
           and
           if
           two
           come
           to
           Church
           it
           is
           matter
           of
           Brag
           ,
           tho
           half
           the
           rest
           be
           sown
           among
           the
           several
           dissenting
           Congregations
           of
           their
           Judgment
           .
           I
           would
           not
           have
           her
           mistaken
           ,
           tho
           Popery
           be
           an
           Unpopular
           thing
           ,
           't
           is
           as
           certain
           she
           of
           a
           long
           time
           has
           not
           been
           Popular
           ,
           and
           on
           that
           Principle
           never
           can
           be
           :
           And
           if
           she
           should
           Plow
           with
           that
           Heifer
           now
           ,
           and
           gain
           a
           little
           by
           the
           Aversion
           to
           Popery
           ;
           when
           it
           is
           discern'd
           that
           Popery
           does
           return
           to
           the
           civil
           Interest
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           they
           will
           quickly
           be
           
           Friends
           .
           For
           besides
           that
           we
           are
           the
           easiest
           and
           best
           natur'd
           People
           in
           the
           World
           to
           be
           appeas'd
           ,
           there
           are
           those
           charms
           in
           Liberty
           and
           Property
           to
           English
           Nature
           that
           no
           endeavours
           can
           resist
           or
           disapoint
           .
           And
           can
           we
           reasonably
           think
           the
           Romanists
           will
           be
           wanting
           in
           that
           ,
           when
           they
           see
           it
           is
           their
           own
           (
           and
           perhaps
           their
           only
           )
           Interest
           to
           do
           so
           ?
           These
           are
           the
           Arguments
           which
           ,
           I
           confess
           ,
           have
           prevailed
           with
           me
           to
           importune
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           yeild
           to
           the
           Repeal
           of
           all
           the
           Penal
           Statutes
           ,
           and
           I
           should
           be
           glad
           to
           see
           them
           either
           well
           refuted
           or
           submitted
           to
           .
        
         
           I
           shall
           now
           Address
           my self
           to
           those
           of
           the
           
             Roman
             Church
          
           ,
           and
           hope
           to
           make
           it
           appear
           it
           is
           their
           Interest
           to
           sit
           down
           thankfully
           with
           the
           
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
          
           herein
           desired
           ,
           and
           that
           a
           
             Toleration
             and
             no
             more
          
           ,
           is
           that
           which
           all
           Romanists
           ought
           to
           be
           satisfied
           with
           .
           My
           Reasons
           are
           these
           .
           First
           ,
           The
           Opposition
           that
           Popery
           every
           where
           finds
           :
           For
           in
           nothing
           is
           the
           Kingdom
           so
           much
           of
           a
           mind
           as
           in
           this
           Aversion
           :
           'T
           is
           no
           news
           ,
           and
           so
           may
           be
           the
           better
           said
           and
           taken
           .
           I
           say
           then
           this
           Vnity
           ,
           this
           Vniversality
           and
           this
           Visibility
           against
           Popery
           ,
           make
           the
           attempt
           ,
           for
           more
           then
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           too
           great
           and
           Dangerous
           .
           I
           believe
           there
           may
           be
           some
           poor
           
             silly
             Biggots
          
           that
           hope
           bigger
           ,
           and
           talk
           further
           ,
           but
           who
           can
           help
           that
           ?
           there
           are
           weak
           People
           of
           all
           sides
           ,
           and
           they
           will
           be
           making
           a
           Pudder
           :
           But
           what
           's
           the
           
             language
             of
             their
             true
             Interest
          
           ,
           the
           Infallible
           guide
           of
           the
           wiser
           Men
           ?
           Safety
           certainly
           ;
           and
           that
           in
           succeeding
           Raigns
           to
           chuse
           :
           And
           if
           so
           ,
           their
           Steps
           must
           be
           modest
           ,
           for
           they
           are
           Watcht
           and
           Number'd
           .
           And
           tho
           their
           Prudence
           should
           submit
           to
           their
           Zeal
           ,
           both
           must
           yeild
           to
           Necessity
           ,
           whether
           they
           like
           it
           or
           no.
           What
           they
           convert
           upon
           the
           Square
           ,
           Perswasion
           I
           mean
           ,
           is
           their
           own
           ,
           and
           much
           good
           may
           it
           do
           them
           .
           But
           the
           fear
           is
           not
           of
           this
           ,
           and
           for
           compelling
           the
           avers
           Genius
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           
             they
             have
             not
             the
             means
          
           ,
           what
           ever
           they
           would
           do
           if
           they
           had
           them
           :
           
           Which
           is
           my
           second
           Reason
           .
           I
           say
           
             they
             have
             not
             the
             Power
          
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           what
           we
           apprehend
           most
           .
           There
           are
           three
           things
           that
           prove
           this
           in
           my
           Opinion
           .
           First
           ,
           
             their
             want
             of
             Hands
          
           ,
           next
           ,
           
             want
             of
             Time
          
           ,
           and
           lastly
           ,
           
             their
             Intestine
             Division
          
           ;
           which
           ,
           whatever
           we
           think
           ,
           is
           not
           inconsiderable
           .
           They
           are
           few
           ,
           we
           must
           all
           agree
           ,
           to
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           upon
           the
           best
           Computation
           that
           could
           be
           made
           .
           Out
           of
           eight
           Millions
           of
           People
           ,
           they
           are
           not
           
             Thirty
             thousand
          
           ,
           and
           those
           but
           thinly
           sown
           up
           and
           down
           the
           Nation
           ;
           by
           which
           it
           appears
           that
           the
           Disproportion
           of
           the
           natural
           strength
           is
           not
           less
           than
           two
           hundred
           and
           seventy
           Persons
           to
           one
           .
           So
           that
           Popery
           in
           England
           is
           like
           a
           
             Spirit
             without
             a
             Body
          
           ,
           or
           a
           General
           without
           an
           Army
           .
           It
           can
           hurt
           no
           more
           than
           Bullets
           without
           Powder
           ,
           or
           a
           Sword
           and
           no
           Hand
           to
           use
           it
           .
           I
           dare
           say
           ,
           there
           is
           not
           of
           that
           Communion
           ,
           enough
           at
           once
           ,
           to
           make
           all
           the
           Coal
           Fires
           in
           London
           ,
           and
           yet
           we
           are
           apprehensive
           they
           are
           able
           to
           consume
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           .
           I
           am
           still
           more
           
             afraid
             of
             her
             Fears
          
           than
           of
           them
           ;
           for
           tho
           they
           seem
           high
           ,
           she
           thinks
           their
           Religion
           in
           no
           Reign
           has
           appeared
           much
           lower
           .
        
         
           
             O
             but
             they
             have
             the
             King
             of
             their
             Side
             ,
             and
             he
             has
             the
             Executive
             Power
             in
             his
             Hands
          
           !
           True
           ,
           and
           this
           I
           call
           the
           Artificial
           Strength
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           .
           But
           I
           say
           ,
           first
           we
           have
           his
           Word
           to
           bind
           him
           .
           And
           tho
           some
           may
           think
           our
           Kings
           cannot
           be
           tyed
           by
           their
           People
           ,
           certainly
           they
           may
           be
           tyed
           by
           themselves
           .
           What
           if
           I
           don't
           look
           upon
           the
           Act
           of
           both
           Houses
           to
           oblige
           the
           King
           ,
           his
           own
           Concession
           must
           ;
           and
           that
           may
           be
           given
           in
           an
           Act
           of
           State
           I
           take
           the
           King
           to
           be
           as
           well
           obliged
           in
           Honour
           and
           Conscience
           to
           what
           he
           promises
           his
           People
           in
           another
           Method
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           had
           been
           by
           his
           Royal
           Assent
           in
           Parliament
           ;
           for
           an
           honest
           mans
           Word
           is
           good
           every
           where
           ,
           and
           why
           a
           Kings
           should
           not
           I
           can't
           tell
           .
           'T
           is
           true
           ,
           the
           Place
           differs
           and
           the
           Voice
           comes
           with
           greater
           Solemnity
           ,
           but
           why
           it
           should
           with
           greater
           Truth
           I
           know
           not
           .
           And
           if
           
           the
           
             Church
             of
             England
          
           will
           but
           be
           advised
           to
           give
           him
           the
           opportunity
           of
           keeping
           his
           repeated
           Word
           with
           her
           ,
           and
           not
           deprive
           her self
           of
           that
           advantage
           by
           Jealousies
           and
           Distances
           that
           make
           her
           suspected
           ,
           and
           may
           force
           him
           into
           another
           Conduct
           ,
           I
           cannot
           help
           believing
           that
           the
           King
           will
           not
           to
           a
           tittle
           let
           her
           feel
           the
           assurance
           and
           benefit
           of
           his
           Promises
           .
        
         
           But
           next
           ,
           
             we
             have
             his
             Age
             for
             our
             Security
             ,
          
           which
           is
           the
           second
           Proof
           ,
           of
           the
           second
           Reason
           ,
           why
           the
           Papists
           should
           look
           no
           farther
           then
           a
           Toleration
           .
           This
           is
           the
           want
           of
           time
           I
           mention'd
           .
           They
           have
           but
           
             one
             Life
             in
             the
             Lease
          
           ,
           and
           't
           is
           out
           of
           their
           power
           to
           renew
           ;
           and
           this
           Life
           has
           liv'd
           fast
           too
           ,
           and
           is
           got
           within
           seven
           of
           threescore
           ;
           A
           greater
           Age
           then
           most
           of
           his
           Ancestors
           ever
           attain'd
           .
           
             Well
             ,
             but
             he
             has
             an
             Army
             and
             many
             Officers
             of
             his
             own
             Religion
             .
          
           And
           if
           it
           be
           so
           ,
           what
           can
           it
           do
           ?
           It
           may
           suppress
           an
           Insurrection
           ,
           but
           upon
           the
           attemps
           we
           foolishly
           fear
           ,
           they
           were
           hardly
           a
           Breakfast
           to
           the
           Quarters
           they
           live
           in
           .
           For
           if
           they
           were
           together
           ,
           all
           the
           confines
           or
           remote
           parts
           of
           the
           Nation
           would
           Rise
           like
           Grass
           upon
           them
           ,
           and
           if
           dispersed
           ,
           to
           be
           sure
           they
           have
           not
           strength
           for
           such
           an
           Attempt
           .
        
         
           
             But
             if
             they
             are
             not
             sufficient
             ,
             there
             is
             a
             Potent
             Prince
             not
             far
             off
             can
             help
             the
             Design
             ,
             who
             is
             not
             angry
             with
             Protestancy
             at
             home
             only
             .
          
           Suppose
           this
           ,
           is
           there
           not
           as
           Potent
           Naval
           Powers
           to
           assist
           the
           Constitution
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           from
           such
           Invasions
           ?
           yes
           ,
           and
           Land
           ones
           too
           .
           And
           as
           the
           Protestant
           Governments
           have
           more
           Ships
           then
           the
           other
           ,
           so
           an
           equal
           Land
           Force
           ,
           when
           by
           such
           attempts
           to
           make
           Popery
           universal
           ,
           they
           are
           awaken'd
           to
           the
           use
           of
           them
           :
           But
           certainly
           we
           must
           be
           very
           silly
           to
           think
           the
           King
           should
           suffer
           so
           great
           a
           shake
           to
           his
           own
           Interest
           as
           admitting
           an
           Army
           of
           Forraigners
           to
           enter
           his
           Kingdom
           on
           any
           pretence
           ,
           must
           necessarily
           occasion
           .
           These
           Bull-Beggers
           ,
           and
           Raw-Heads
           and
           Bloody-Bones
           ,
           are
           the
           Malice
           of
           some
           ,
           and
           Weakness
           of
           others
           .
           But
           time
           ,
           that
           Informs
           
           Children
           ,
           will
           tell
           the
           World
           the
           meaning
           of
           the
           Fright
           .
        
         
           The
           third
           Proof
           of
           my
           second
           Reason
           ,
           is
           
             the
             Intestine
             Division
             among
             themselves
          
           .
           That
           Division
           ,
           weakens
           a
           great
           Body
           ,
           and
           renders
           a
           small
           one
           harmless
           ,
           all
           will
           agree
           .
           Now
           that
           there
           is
           such
           a
           thing
           as
           Division
           among
           them
           is
           town
           talk
           The
           Seculars
           &
           Regulars
           have
           ever
           been
           two
           Interests
           all
           the
           Roman
           Church
           over
           ,
           and
           they
           are
           not
           only
           so
           here
           ,
           but
           the
           Regulars
           differ
           among
           themselves
           .
           There
           is
           not
           a
           Coffee-House
           in
           Town
           that
           does
           not
           freely
           tell
           us
           that
           the
           Jesuites
           and
           Benedictines
           are
           at
           variance
           ,
           that
           Count
           
             Da
             Da
          
           the
           Popes
           Nuncio
           and
           Bishop
           Lyborn
           Dissent
           mightily
           from
           the
           Politicks
           of
           the
           first
           ;
           Nay
           t'other
           Day
           the
           Story
           was
           that
           they
           had
           prevail'd
           Entirely
           over
           them
           .
           The
           Lords
           and
           Gentlemen
           of
           her
           Communion
           have
           as
           warmly
           contested
           about
           the
           lengths
           they
           ought
           to
           go
           ,
           Moderation
           seems
           to
           be
           the
           conclusion
           .
           Together
           they
           are
           little
           ,
           and
           can
           do
           little
           ;
           and
           divided
           ,
           they
           are
           Contemptible
           instead
           of
           Terrible
           .
        
         
           Lastly
           ,
           the
           
             Roman
             Church
          
           ought
           to
           be
           discreet
           ,
           and
           think
           of
           nothing
           further
           then
           the
           entreated
           general
           Ease
           ,
           because
           it
           would
           be
           an
           extream
           that
           must
           beget
           another
           in
           the
           succeeding
           Raign
           .
           For
           as
           I
           can
           never
           think
           her
           so
           weak
           as
           well
           as
           base
           ,
           that
           after
           all
           her
           Arguments
           for
           the
           
             Jus
             divinum
          
           of
           Succession
           ,
           she
           should
           ,
           in
           the
           Face
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           attempt
           to
           violate
           it
           in
           the
           wrong
           of
           One
           of
           another
           Perswasion
           ,
           (
           for
           that
           were
           an
           eternal
           loss
           of
           her
           with
           Mankind
           )
           So
           if
           she
           does
           not
           ,
           and
           yet
           is
           Extravagant
           ,
           she
           only
           rises
           higher
           to
           fall
           lower
           then
           all
           others
           in
           another
           Raign
           .
           This
           were
           provoking
           their
           own
           Ruin.
           And
           to
           say
           true
           ,
           either
           way
           would
           ,
           as
           the
           second
           Letter
           has
           it
           ,
           discredit
           her
           for
           ever
           and
           make
           true
           Prophets
           of
           those
           they
           had
           taken
           such
           pains
           to
           prove
           false
           Witnesses
           .
           And
           supposing
           her
           to
           reckon
           upon
           the
           just
           Succession
           ,
           nothing
           can
           recommend
           her
           ,
           or
           continue
           her
           happiness
           in
           a
           Raign
           of
           another
           Judgment
           ,
           but
           this
           Liberty
           
           equally
           maintained
           ,
           that
           other
           Perswasions
           ,
           more
           numerous
           ,
           for
           that
           reason
           as
           well
           as
           for
           their
           own
           sakes
           ,
           are
           obliged
           to
           insure
           her
           .
           Here
           the
           Foundation
           is
           broad
           and
           strong
           ,
           and
           what
           is
           built
           upon
           it
           ,
           has
           the
           looks
           of
           long
           Life
           .
           The
           Indenture
           will
           at
           least
           be
           ,
           quint-pertite
           ,
           and
           Parties
           are
           not
           so
           mortal
           as
           Men.
           And
           as
           this
           joyns
           ,
           so
           it
           preserves
           Interest
           intire
           ,
           which
           amounts
           to
           a
           
             Religious
             Amity
          
           and
           a
           
             Civil
             Vnity
          
           at
           the
           worst
           .
        
         
           Upon
           the
           whole
           matter
           ,
           I
           advise
           the
           Members
           of
           the
           
             Roman
             Communion
          
           in
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           to
           be
           moderate
           ,
           't
           is
           their
           Duty
           and
           it
           belongs
           to
           all
           Men
           to
           see
           it
           and
           feel
           it
           from
           them
           ,
           and
           it
           behoves
           them
           mightily
           they
           would
           ;
           for
           the
           first
           part
           of
           this
           Discourse
           belongs
           to
           their
           Hopes
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           
             Englands
             Fears
          
           ,
           viz.
           the
           
             Duty
             and
             Spirit
             of
             Christianity
          
           .
           Next
           ,
           let
           them
           do
           
             good
             Offices
          
           between
           the
           King
           and
           his
           excellent
           Children
           ,
           for
           as
           that
           will
           be
           well
           taken
           by
           so
           affectionate
           a
           Father
           ,
           so
           it
           gives
           the
           lie
           to
           their
           Enemies
           Suggestions
           ,
           and
           recommends
           them
           to
           the
           Grace
           and
           Favour
           of
           the
           Successors
           .
           And
           having
           said
           this
           ,
           I
           have
           said
           all
           that
           belongs
           to
           them
           in
           particular
           .
           There
           is
           left
           only
           my
           Address
           to
           the
           
             Protestant
             Dissenters
          
           and
           a
           general
           Conclusion
           to
           finish
           this
           Discourse
           .
        
         
           Your
           Case
           that
           are
           called
           
             Protestant
             Dissenters
          
           ,
           differs
           mightily
           from
           that
           of
           the
           
             Church
             of
             England
             and
             Rome
          
           .
           For
           the
           first
           have
           the
           Laws
           for
           her
           ,
           the
           last
           the
           Prince
           .
           Those
           Laws
           are
           against
           you
           ,
           and
           she
           is
           not
           willing
           they
           should
           be
           Repeal'd
           :
           The
           Prince
           offers
           to
           be
           kind
           to
           you
           if
           you
           please
           ;
           Your
           Interest
           ,
           in
           this
           Conjuncture
           ,
           is
           the
           Question
           .
           I
           think
           none
           ought
           to
           be
           made
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           the
           
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
          
           ,
           desired
           ,
           because
           you
           have
           much
           more
           need
           of
           it
           ,
           having
           neither
           Laws
           nor
           Prince
           of
           your
           side
           ,
           nor
           a
           Successor
           of
           any
           of
           your
           Perswasions
           .
           The
           Fears
           of
           Popery
           I
           know
           reach
           you
           ;
           but
           it
           is
           to
           be
           remembered
           also
           ,
           that
           if
           the
           Laws
           are
           not
           Repeal'd
           ,
           
           there
           wants
           no
           new
           ones
           to
           Destroy
           you
           ,
           of
           the
           Papists
           making
           ;
           so
           that
           every
           fear
           you
           are
           taught
           to
           have
           of
           their
           Repeal
           ,
           is
           against
           your selves
           .
           Suppose
           your
           Apprehensions
           well
           grounded
           ,
           you
           can
           but
           be
           Destroy'd
           ;
           Which
           is
           most
           comfortable
           for
           you
           to
           suffer
           by
           Law
           or
           without
           it
           ?
           The
           Church
           of
           
             England
             ,
             by
             her
             Penal
             Laws
             ,
             and
             the
             Doctrine
             of
             Headship
             ,
          
           has
           Armed
           that
           Religion
           (
           as
           it
           falls
           out
           )
           to
           Destroy
           you
           .
           Nay
           ,
           has
           made
           it
           a
           Duty
           in
           the
           King
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           from
           which
           (
           says
           she
           )
           nothing
           but
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           can
           absolve
           him
           ,
           &
           that
           she
           is
           not
           willing
           to
           allow
           .
           And
           is
           it
           not
           as
           reasonable
           that
           you
           should
           seek
           their
           Repeal
           ,
           that
           if
           you
           suffer
           from
           the
           Papists
           ,
           It
           may
           be
           without
           human
           Law
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           against
           Christs
           Law
           ,
           as
           for
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           keep
           them
           in
           force
           ,
           because
           if
           she
           suffers
           ,
           it
           shall
           be
           against
           the
           Laws
           made
           to
           uphold
           her
           ?
           For
           not
           repealing
           them
           ,
           brings
           you
           an
           inevitable
           mischief
           ,
           and
           her
           ▪
           at
           most
           ,
           but
           an
           uncertain
           safety
           ;
           tho
           't
           is
           certain
           ,
           she
           at
           the
           same
           time
           will
           Sacrifice
           you
           to
           it
           .
           And
           yet
           if
           I
           were
           in
           her
           case
           ,
           it
           would
           please
           me
           better
           to
           remove
           Laws
           that
           might
           reproach
           me
           ,
           and
           stop
           my
           Mouth
           when
           turn'd
           against
           me
           ,
           and
           be
           content
           ,
           that
           if
           I
           Suffer
           for
           my
           Religion
           ,
           it
           is
           against
           the
           Law
           of
           
             God
             ,
             Christianity
          
           and
           the
           Fundamentals
           of
           the
           old
           and
           true
           Civil
           Government
           of
           my
           Country
           ,
           before
           such
           Laws
           helpt
           to
           spoil
           it
           .
           In
           short
           ,
           you
           must
           either
           
             go
             to
             Church
          
           ,
           or
           Meet
           ,
           or
           
             let
             fall
             your
             Worshipping
             of
             God
          
           in
           the
           way
           you
           believe
           .
           If
           the
           first
           ,
           you
           are
           Hypocrites
           ,
           and
           give
           away
           the
           Cause
           ,
           and
           reproach
           your
           dead
           Brethrens
           Sincerity
           ,
           and
           gratifie
           the
           old
           accusation
           of
           
             Schism
             ,
             Ambition
             ,
             &c.
          
           and
           finally
           loose
           the
           Hope
           and
           Reward
           of
           all
           your
           Sufferings
           .
           If
           the
           second
           ,
           viz.
           that
           you
           
             Meet
             against
             Law
          
           ,
           you
           run
           into
           the
           Mouth
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           whose
           Teeth
           are
           to
           meet
           in
           you
           and
           Destroy
           you
           ,
           
             as
             by
             Law
             established
             ,
          
           .
           If
           the
           last
           ,
           you
           deny
           your
           Faith
           ,
           over-throw
           your
           own
           Arguments
           ,
           fall
           away
           from
           the
           Apostolical
           Doctrine
           of
           
           assembling
           together
           ,
           and
           so
           must
           fall
           into
           the
           Hands
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           under
           the
           troubles
           of
           your
           own
           Consciences
           and
           woundings
           of
           his
           Spirit
           ,
           of
           which
           't
           is
           said
           ,
           
             who
             can
             bear
             them
          
           .
           So
           that
           nothing
           is
           plainer
           then
           that
           
             Protestant
             Dissenters
          
           are
           not
           oblig'd
           to
           govern
           themselves
           after
           
             such
             Church
             of
             England
             Measures
          
           ,
           supposing
           her
           Fears
           and
           Jealousies
           better
           Bottom'd
           then
           they
           are
           :
           For
           they
           are
           neither
           in
           this
           Kings
           time
           in
           the
           same
           Condition
           ,
           with
           her
           if
           the
           Penal
           Laws
           remain
           in
           force
           ,
           nor
           like
           to
           be
           so
           ,
           if
           she
           can
           help
           it
           ,
           in
           the
           next
           Raign
           ,
           if
           they
           are
           not
           Repeal'd
           in
           this
           ;
           so
           that
           they
           are
           to
           be
           certainly
           Persecuted
           now
           ,
           in
           hopes
           of
           an
           uncertain
           Liberty
           then
           .
           Uncertain
           both
           whether
           it
           will
           be
           in
           her
           Power
           ,
           and
           whether
           she
           will
           do
           it
           if
           it
           be
           .
           The
           Language
           of
           Fear
           and
           Assurance
           are
           two
           things
           ,
           Affliction
           promises
           what
           Prosperity
           rarely
           performs
           .
           Of
           this
           the
           Promises
           made
           to
           induce
           the
           late
           Kings
           Restoration
           ,
           and
           the
           cancelling
           of
           the
           former
           Declaration
           ,
           and
           what
           followed
           upon
           both
           are
           a
           plain
           proof
           .
           And
           tho
           the
           last
           
             Westminster
             Parliament
          
           enclin'd
           to
           it
           ;
           no
           body
           so
           much
           oppos'd
           it
           as
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           Zealous
           Sons
           of
           that
           Church
           :
           And
           if
           they
           could
           or
           would
           not
           then
           see
           it
           to
           be
           reasonable
           ,
           I
           can't
           see
           why
           one
           should
           trust
           to
           People
           so
           selfish
           and
           short
           sighted
           .
           But
           if
           she
           will
           stoop
           to
           all
           those
           Dissenting
           Interests
           that
           are
           Protestant
           ,
           it
           must
           either
           be
           by
           a
           comprehension
           ,
           and
           then
           she
           must
           part
           with
           her
           Bishops
           ,
           her
           Common-Prayer
           ,
           her
           Ceremonies
           ,
           and
           this
           it self
           is
           but
           Presbyterian
           ;
           (
           and
           she
           must
           go
           lower
           yet
           ,
           if
           she
           will
           comprehend
           the
           rest
           )
           or
           ,
           if
           not
           ,
           she
           must
           Persecute
           or
           give
           this
           
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
          
           at
           last
           ;
           which
           ,
           that
           she
           will
           ever
           yeild
           to
           uncompel'd
           ,
           and
           at
           a
           time
           too
           ,
           when
           there
           is
           none
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           while
           she
           refuses
           it
           under
           her
           present
           pressing
           Circumstances
           ,
           I
           confefs
           I
           cannot
           apprehend
           .
           But
           there
           is
           yet
           one
           Argument
           that
           can
           never
           fail
           to
           oblige
           your
           compliance
           with
           the
           General
           Ease
           entreated
           ;
           
             viz.
             That
             the
             Penal
             Laws
             are
             against
             our
             great
             Law
             
             of
             Property
             ,
             and
             so
             void
             in
             themselves
             .
          
           This
           has
           been
           the
           Language
           of
           every
           Apology
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           ,
           to
           say
           true
           ,
           is
           not
           to
           be
           answer'd
           :
           How
           then
           can
           you
           decline
           to
           help
           their
           Repeal
           ,
           that
           in
           
             Conscience
             ,
             Reason
          
           and
           Law
           you
           think
           void
           in
           their
           own
           Nature
           ?
        
         
           Lastly
           ,
           There
           is
           nothing
           that
           can
           put
           you
           in
           a
           Condition
           to
           help
           your selves
           or
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           against
           the
           Domination
           of
           Popery
           ,
           but
           that
           which
           she
           weakly
           thinks
           the
           way
           to
           hurt
           you
           both
           ,
           
             viz.
             The
             Repeal
             of
             the
             Penal
             Laws
             .
          
           For
           as
           you
           are
           ,
           you
           are
           tyed
           Hand
           and
           Foot
           ,
           you
           are
           not
           your
           own
           men
           ,
           you
           can
           neither
           serve
           her
           nor
           your selves
           ,
           you
           are
           fast
           in
           the
           Stocks
           of
           her
           Laws
           ,
           and
           the
           course
           she
           would
           have
           you
           take
           ,
           is
           to
           turn
           Martyrs
           under
           them
           to
           suppo●t
           them
           .
           If
           you
           like
           the
           Bargain
           you
           are
           the
           best
           natur'd
           People
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           something
           more
           .
           And
           since
           Begging
           is
           in
           Fashion
           ,
           I
           should
           desire
           no
           other
           Boon
           ;
           for
           upon
           so
           plain
           a
           loss
           of
           your
           Wits
           ,
           your
           Estates
           will
           of
           course
           fall
           a
           stray
           to
           the
           Government
           ,
           so
           that
           without
           the
           help
           of
           a
           Penal
           Law
           ,
           you
           make
           an
           admirable
           Prize
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           no
           mind
           to
           end
           so
           pleasantly
           with
           you
           .
           I
           have
           a
           sincere
           and
           Christian
           regard
           to
           you
           and
           yours
           .
           
             Be
             not
             Couzn'd
             ,
             nor
             Captious
             ,
             at
             this
             Juncture
             .
          
           I
           know
           some
           of
           you
           are
           told
           ,
           if
           you
           lose
           this
           Liberty
           ,
           
             you
             Introduce
             Idolatry
          
           ,
           and
           for
           Conscience
           sake
           you
           cannot
           do
           it
           .
           But
           that
           's
           a
           pure
           mistake
           ,
           and
           improv'd
           ,
           I
           fear
           ,
           by
           those
           that
           know
           it
           is
           so
           ,
           which
           makes
           it
           the
           worse
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           not
           Introducing
           Idolatry
           (
           taking
           for
           granted
           that
           Popery
           is
           so
           )
           but
           saving
           the
           People
           from
           being
           Destroy'd
           that
           profess
           that
           Religion
           .
           If
           Christ
           ,
           and
           his
           Apostles
           had
           taken
           this
           course
           with
           the
           World
           ,
           they
           must
           have
           Killed
           them
           instead
           of
           Converting
           them
           .
           'T
           is
           your
           mistake
           to
           think
           the
           Jewish
           rigorous
           Constitution
           is
           adequate
           to
           the
           Christian
           Dispensation
           ;
           by
           no
           means
           :
           That
           one
           Conceit
           of
           
             Judaising
             Christianity
          
           in
           our
           Politicks
           ,
           has
           fill'd
           the
           World
           with
           Misery
           ,
           
           of
           which
           this
           poor
           Kingdom
           has
           had
           its
           share
           .
           Idolators
           are
           to
           be
           Enlighten'd
           and
           Perswaded
           ,
           as
           St.
           Paul
           did
           the
           Athenians
           and
           Romans
           ,
           and
           not
           
             knock
             on
             the
             Head
          
           ,
           which
           mends
           no
           body
           .
           And
           to
           say
           a
           Christian
           Magistrate
           is
           to
           do
           that
           ,
           that
           a
           Christian
           can't
           do
           ,
           is
           ridiculous
           ;
           unless
           like
           the
           
             Bishop
             of
             Munster
          
           ,
           who
           goes
           like
           a
           Bishop
           one
           part
           of
           the
           Day
           ,
           and
           a
           Souldier
           the
           other
           ,
           he
           is
           to
           be
           
             a
             Christian
             in
             the
             Morning
             and
             a
             Magistrate
             in
             the
             Afternoon
             .
          
           Besides
           ,
           't
           is
           one
           thing
           to
           enact
           a
           Religion
           National
           ,
           and
           compel
           Obedience
           to
           it
           (
           which
           would
           make
           this
           Case
           abominable
           indeed
           )
           and
           another
           thing
           to
           take
           off
           unchristian
           Penalties
           for
           the
           sake
           of
           such
           mistakes
           ,
           since
           that
           is
           to
           give
           them
           Power
           to
           hurt
           others
           ,
           and
           this
           only
           to
           save
           you
           from
           being
           hurt
           for
           meer
           Religion
           .
        
         
           To
           conclude
           my
           Address
           to
           you
           ,
           of
           all
           People
           ,
           it
           would
           look
           the
           most
           disingenious
           in
           you
           ,
           and
           give
           you
           an
           Aire
           ,
           the
           least
           Sensible
           ,
           Charitable
           and
           Christian
           not
           to
           endeavour
           such
           an
           Ease
           that
           have
           so
           much
           wanted
           it
           ,
           and
           so
           often
           and
           so
           earnestly
           pressed
           it
           ,
           even
           to
           Clamour
           .
           But
           that
           you
           should
           do
           it
           for
           their
           Sakes
           who
           have
           used
           you
           so
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Instruments
           of
           their
           Cruelty
           ,
           
             the
             Penal
             Laws
          
           ,
           should
           from
           a
           common
           Grievance
           become
           a
           Darling
           to
           any
           among
           you
           ,
           will
           be
           such
           a
           Reproach
           to
           your
           Understandings
           and
           Consciences
           ,
           that
           no
           Time
           or
           Argument
           can
           wipe
           off
           ,
           and
           which
           I
           beseech
           God
           and
           You
           to
           prevent
           .
        
      
       
         
           The
           Conclusion
           .
        
         
           I
           Shall
           conclude
           with
           one
           Argument
           ,
           that
           equally
           concerns
           you
           all
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           this
           ;
           you
           claim
           the
           Caracter
           of
           
             English
             Men.
          
           Now
           to
           be
           an
           
             English
             Man
          
           ,
           in
           the
           sence
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           is
           to
           be
           a
           Freeman
           ,
           whether
           Lord
           or
           Commoner
           ,
           to
           hold
           
           his
           Liberty
           and
           Possessions
           
             by
             Laws
             of
             his
             own
             consenting
             unto
             ,
          
           and
           not
           to
           forfeit
           them
           upon
           Facts
           made
           Faults
           ,
           by
           Humour
           ,
           Faction
           or
           Partial
           Interest
           prevailing
           in
           the
           Governing
           part
           against
           the
           Constitution
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           but
           for
           Faults
           only
           ,
           that
           are
           such
           in
           the
           nature
           of
           civil
           Government
           ;
           to
           wit
           ,
           
             Breaches
             of
             those
             Laws
             that
             are
             made
             by
             the
             whole
             ,
             in
             persuance
             of
             common
             Right
             ,
             for
             the
             good
             of
             the
             whole
             .
          
        
         
           This
           regard
           must
           at
           no
           time
           be
           neglected
           ,
           or
           violated
           towards
           any
           one
           Interest
           ;
           for
           the
           moment
           we
           concede
           to
           such
           a
           Breach
           upon
           our
           General
           Liberty
           ,
           be
           it
           from
           an
           aversion
           we
           carry
           to
           the
           Principles
           of
           those
           we
           expose
           ,
           or
           some
           little
           sinister
           and
           temporary
           Benefit
           of
           our
           own
           ,
           we
           Sacrifice
           our selves
           in
           the
           prejudices
           we
           draw
           upon
           others
           ,
           or
           suffer
           them
           to
           fall
           under
           ;
           for
           our
           Interest
           in
           this
           respect
           is
           common
           .
           If
           then
           as
           
             English
             men
          
           ,
           we
           are
           as
           mutually
           interested
           in
           the
           inviolable
           conservation
           of
           each
           others
           Civil
           Rights
           ,
           as
           men
           embark'd
           in
           the
           same
           Vessel
           are
           to
           save
           the
           Ship
           they
           are
           in
           for
           their
           own
           sakes
           ,
           we
           ought
           to
           Watch
           ,
           Serve
           and
           Secure
           the
           Interest
           of
           one
           another
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           our
           own
           to
           do
           so
           ;
           and
           not
           by
           any
           means
           endure
           that
           to
           be
           done
           to
           please
           some
           narrow
           regard
           of
           any
           one
           Party
           ,
           
             which
             may
             be
             drawn
             in
             Example
             at
             some
             other
             turn
             of
             Power
             to
             our
             own
             utter
             Ruin.
             
          
        
         
           Had
           this
           Honest
           ,
           Just
           ,
           Wise
           and
           English
           Consideration
           prevailed
           with
           our
           Ancestors
           of
           all
           Opinions
           from
           the
           days
           of
           
             Richard
             the
             second
          
           ,
           there
           had
           been
           less
           
             Blood
             ,
             Imprisonment
             ,
             Plunder
             ,
             Beggery
          
           for
           the
           Government
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           to
           answer
           for
           .
           Shall
           I
           speak
           within
           our
           own
           knowledge
           ,
           and
           that
           without
           Offence
           ,
           there
           has
           been
           Ruin'd
           ,
           since
           the
           late
           Kings
           Restoration
           ,
           above
           
             Fifteen
             Thousand
             Families
          
           ,
           and
           more
           then
           
             Five
             Thousand
             Persons
          
           Dead
           under
           Bonds
           for
           matters
           of
           
             meer
             Conscience
          
           to
           God
           :
           But
           who
           hath
           laid
           it
           to
           Heart
           ?
           It
           is
           high
           time
           now
           we
           should
           ,
           especially
           when
           our
           King
           ,
           with
           so
           much
           Grace
           and
           Goodness
           leads
           us
           the
           way
           .
        
         
         
           I
           beseech
           you
           all
           ,
           if
           you
           have
           any
           Reverence
           towards
           God
           ,
           any
           Value
           for
           the
           Excellent
           Constitution
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           any
           Tenderness
           for
           your
           Posterity
           ,
           any
           Love
           for
           your Selves
           ,
           you
           would
           embrace
           this
           happy
           Conjuncture
           ,
           and
           persue
           a
           common
           Expedient
           ;
           That
           since
           we
           cannot
           agree
           to
           meet
           in
           one
           Profession
           of
           Religion
           ,
           we
           may
           entirely
           do
           it
           in
           this
           common
           civil
           Interest
           where
           we
           are
           all
           equally
           engaged
           ;
           and
           therefore
           we
           ought
           for
           our
           own
           sakes
           to
           seek
           one
           an●●●ers
           Security
           ,
           that
           if
           we
           cannot
           be
           the
           Better
           ,
           we
           may
           not
           be
           t●e
           Worse
           for
           our
           Perswasions
           ,
           in
           things
           ,
           that
           bear
           no
           relation
           to
           them
           ▪
           and
           in
           which
           ,
           it
           is
           impossible
           we
           should
           Suffer
           ,
           and
           the
           Government
           escape
           that
           is
           so
           much
           concern'd
           in
           the
           civil
           Support
           and
           Prosperity
           of
           every
           Party
           and
           Person
           that
           belongs
           to
           it
           .
        
         
           Let
           us
           not
           therefore
           uphold
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           against
           any
           of
           our
           Religious
           Perswasions
           ,
           nor
           make
           Tests
           out
           of
           each
           others
           Faiths
           ,
           to
           exclude
           one
           another
           our
           civil
           Rights
           ;
           for
           by
           the
           same
           Reason
           that
           denying
           Transubstantiation
           ,
           is
           made
           One
           to
           exclude
           a
           Papist
           ,
           to
           own
           it
           ,
           may
           be
           made
           one
           to
           exclude
           a
           
             Church
             of
             England-man
          
           ,
           a
           Presbyterian
           ,
           an
           Independant
           ,
           a
           Quaker
           ,
           and
           Anabaptist
           :
           For
           the
           Question
           is
           not
           who
           is
           in
           the
           right
           in
           Opinion
           ,
           but
           whether
           he
           is
           not
           in
           Practice
           
             in
             the
             wrong
          
           ,
           that
           for
           such
           an
           Opinion
           deprives
           his
           Neighbour
           of
           his
           common
           Right
           ?
           Now
           't
           is
           certain
           there
           is
           not
           one
           of
           any
           Party
           ,
           that
           would
           willingly
           have
           a
           Test
           made
           out
           of
           his
           Belief
           ,
           to
           abridge
           him
           of
           his
           native
           Priviledge
           ;
           and
           therefore
           neither
           the
           Opinion
           of
           Transubstantiation
           in
           the
           Papists
           ,
           Episcop●cy
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           Man
           ,
           Free-will
           in
           the
           Arminian
           ,
           Predestination
           in
           the
           Presbyterian
           ,
           
             Perticular
             Churches
          
           in
           the
           Independant
           ,
           
             Dipping
             of
             adult
             People
          
           in
           the
           Anabaptist
           ,
           nor
           not-swearing
           in
           the
           Quaker
           ,
           ought
           to
           be
           made
           a
           Test
           of
           ,
           to
           deprive
           him
           of
           the
           comforts
           of
           his
           Life
           ,
           or
           render
           him
           incapable
           of
           the
           service
           of
           his
           Country
           ,
           to
           which
           by
           a
           natural
           Obligation
           he
           is
           indebted
           ,
           and
           from
           which
           ,
           no
           Opinion
           
           can
           discharge
           him
           ,
           and
           for
           that
           Reason
           ,
           much
           less
           should
           any
           other
           Party
           think
           it
           fit
           ,
           or
           in
           their
           power
           to
           exclude
           him
           .
        
         
           And
           indeed
           it
           were
           ridiculous
           to
           talk
           of
           giving
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           (
           which
           yet
           few
           have
           now
           the
           fore-head
           to
           oppose
           )
           and
           at
           the
           same
           time
           imagine
           those
           Tests
           that
           do
           exclude
           men
           that
           Service
           and
           Reward
           ,
           ought
           to
           be
           continued
           :
           For
           though
           it
           does
           not
           immediately
           concern
           me
           ,
           being
           neither
           Officer
           nor
           Papist
           ,
           yet
           the
           Consequence
           is
           general
           ,
           and
           every
           party
           ,
           even
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           will
           find
           her self
           concern'd
           upon
           reflection
           ;
           For
           she
           cannot
           assure
           her self
           it
           may
           not
           come
           to
           be
           her
           turn
           .
        
         
           But
           ,
           Is
           it
           not
           an
           odd
           thing
           ,
           that
           by
           leaving
           them
           on
           foot
           ,
           every
           Body
           shall
           have
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           
             but
             the
             Goverment
          
           ?
           for
           while
           a
           man
           is
           out
           of
           Office
           ,
           he
           is
           
           Test-free
           ,
           but
           the
           hour
           he
           is
           chosen
           to
           any
           station
           ,
           be
           it
           in
           the
           Legislation
           or
           Administration
           ,
           he
           must
           wiredraw
           his
           Conscience
           to
           hold
           it
           ,
           or
           be
           excluded
           with
           the
           Brand
           of
           Dissent
           :
           And
           can
           this
           be
           equal
           or
           wise
           ?
           Is
           this
           the
           way
           to
           employ
           men
           for
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Publick
           ,
           where
           
             Opinion
             prevails
             above
             vertue
          
           ,
           and
           
             Abilities
             are
             submitted
             to
             the
             humour
             of
             a
             Party
          
           ;
           surely
           none
           can
           think
           this
           a
           Cure
           for
           Division
           ,
           or
           that
           Animosities
           are
           like
           to
           be
           prevented
           by
           the
           only
           ways
           in
           the
           World
           that
           beget
           and
           heighten
           them
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           possible
           that
           the
           ease
           that
           should
           be
           granted
           can
           continue
           long
           when
           the
           Party
           in
           whose
           savour
           they
           are
           not
           repeal'd
           ,
           may
           thereby
           be
           enabled
           to
           turn
           the
           point
           of
           the
           sword
           again
           upon
           Dissenters
           .
        
         
           I
           know
           Holland
           is
           given
           in
           Objection
           to
           this
           extent
           of
           freedom
           ,
           where
           only
           
             one
             Perswasion
             has
             the
             Government
          
           ,
           tho
           the
           rest
           their
           Liberty
           :
           But
           they
           don't
           consider
           ,
           first
           ,
           
             how
             much
             more
          
           Holland
           
             is
             under
             the
             power
             of
             Necessity
             then
             we
             are
             .
          
           Next
           ,
           
             That
             our
             Constitutions
             differ
             greatly
          
           .
           For
           the
           first
           ,
           't
           is
           plain
           ,
           in
           the
           little
           compass
           they
           live
           in
           ;
           the
           uncertainty
           and
           precariousness
           of
           
           the
           means
           of
           their
           subsistance
           :
           That
           as
           they
           are
           in
           more
           danger
           of
           Drowning
           ,
           so
           neerer
           ruin
           by
           any
           Commotion
           in
           the
           State
           ,
           then
           other
           Countries
           are
           .
           Trading
           is
           their
           Support
           ,
           This
           ,
           keeps
           them
           busy
           ,
           That
           ,
           makes
           them
           Rich
           ;
           and
           Wealth
           ,
           naturally
           gives
           them
           caution
           of
           the
           disorders
           that
           may
           spoil
           them
           of
           it
           .
           This
           makes
           the
           governing
           Party
           wary
           how
           they
           use
           their
           power
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           Interests
           tender
           how
           they
           resist
           it
           ;
           for
           upon
           it
           ,
           they
           have
           reason
           to
           fear
           a
           publick
           Desolation
           ;
           since
           Holland
           has
           not
           a
           natural
           and
           Domestick
           Fund
           to
           rely
           upon
           ,
           or
           return
           to
           from
           such
           national
           Disorders
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           Consideration
           is
           as
           clear
           and
           cogent
           ;
           our
           
             Constitutions
             differ
             mightily
          
           :
           For
           though
           they
           have
           the
           Name
           of
           a
           Republick
           ,
           yet
           in
           their
           choice
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           Legislature
           they
           are
           much
           less
           free
           then
           we
           are
           :
           And
           since
           the
           Freeholders
           of
           all
           Parties
           in
           England
           may
           Elect
           ,
           which
           in
           Holland
           they
           can
           no
           more
           do
           then
           they
           can
           be
           chosen
           ,
           there
           is
           good
           reason
           why
           all
           may
           be
           elected
           to
           serve
           their
           King
           &
           Country
           here
           ,
           that
           in
           Holland
           cannot
           be
           chosen
           or
           serve
           .
           And
           if
           our
           Power
           to
           chuse
           be
           larger
           then
           theirs
           in
           Holland
           ,
           we
           are
           certainly
           then
           a
           freer
           People
           ,
           and
           so
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           confin'd
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           about
           what
           Person
           it
           is
           that
           must
           be
           chosen
           :
           Methinks
           it
           bears
           no
           proportion
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           Instance
           and
           Objection
           are
           improper
           to
           our
           purpose
           .
        
         
           But
           it
           is
           said
           by
           some
           ,
           
             That
             there
             cannot
             be
             two
             predominant
             Religions
             ,
             and
             if
             the
          
           Church
           of
           England
           
             be
             not
             that
          
           ,
           Popery
           
             by
             the
             Kings
             Favour
             is
             like
             to
             be
             so
             .
          
           It
           is
           certain
           that
           
             two
             predominant
             Religions
          
           ,
           would
           be
           two
           Uppermosts
           at
           once
           ,
           which
           is
           nonsence
           every
           where
           :
           But
           as
           I
           cannot
           see
           what
           need
           there
           is
           for
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           to
           lose
           her
           Churhces
           or
           Revenues
           ,
           so
           while
           she
           has
           them
           ,
           Believe
           me
           ,
           she
           is
           Predominant
           in
           the
           thing
           of
           the
           World
           that
           lies
           nearest
           her
           Guides
           .
           But
           if
           I
           were
           to
           speak
           my
           inclination
           ,
           I
           cannot
           apprehend
           the
           necessity
           of
           any
           Predominant
           Religion
           ,
           understanding
           the
           word
           
           with
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           in
           the
           tale
           of
           it
           :
           The
           Mischief
           of
           it
           ,
           in
           a
           Country
           of
           so
           many
           powerful
           Interests
           as
           this
           ,
           I
           can
           easily
           understand
           ,
           having
           had
           the
           opertunity
           of
           seeing
           and
           feeling
           it
           too
           :
           And
           because
           nothing
           can
           keep
           up
           the
           Ball
           of
           Vengance
           like
           such
           a
           Predominant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           that
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           and
           Tests
           are
           the
           means
           of
           the
           Domination
           ,
           I
           ,
           for
           that
           reason
           ,
           think
           them
           fit
           to
           be
           Repeal'd
           ,
           and
           let
           English
           Mankind
           say
           AMEN
           .
        
         
           I
           do
           not
           love
           Quibling
           ,
           but
           't
           is
           true
           ,
           to
           a
           Lamentation
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           little
           of
           the
           
             power
             of
             Religion
          
           seen
           where
           there
           is
           such
           a
           predominant
           one
           ,
           unless
           among
           those
           it
           Domineers
           over
           .
        
         
           I
           conclude
           ,
           they
           that
           are
           so
           Predominant
           ,
           and
           they
           that
           seek
           to
           be
           so
           (
           be
           they
           who
           they
           will
           )
           move
           by
           the
           same
           Spirit
           and
           Principle
           ,
           and
           however
           differing
           their
           Pretentions
           and
           Ends
           may
           be
           ,
           the
           odds
           are
           very
           little
           to
           me
           ,
           by
           which
           it
           is
           I
           must
           certainly
           be
           Opprest
           .
        
         
           Dare
           we
           then
           do
           (
           for
           once
           )
           
             as
             we
             would
             be
             done
             by
             ,
          
           and
           show
           the
           World
           ,
           we
           are
           not
           Religious
           
             without
             Justice
          
           ,
           nor
           Christians
           
             without
             Charity
          
           :
           That
           
             False
             self
          
           shall
           not
           govern
           us
           against
           
             True
             self
          
           ;
           nor
           oppertunity
           make
           us
           Thieves
           ,
           to
           our
           Neighbours
           for
           Gods
           sake
           ?
           the
           end
           of
           Testing
           and
           Persecuting
           under
           every
           Revolution
           of
           Government
           .
           If
           this
           we
           can
           find
           in
           our
           Hearts
           to
           do
           ,
           and
           yet
           as
           Men
           ,
           and
           as
           Christians
           ,
           as
           English
           Men
           ,
           we
           do
           but
           do
           our
           Duty
           ,
           let
           the
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           and
           Tests
           be
           Repeal'd
           ;
           and
           in
           order
           to
           it
           ,
           
             Let
             us
             now
             take
             those
             measures
             of
             men
             and
             things
             ,
          
           that
           may
           give
           our
           Wishes
           and
           Endeavours
           the
           best
           success
           for
           the
           publick
           good
           ,
           that
           our
           Posterity
           may
           have
           more
           reason
           to
           bless
           our
           Memories
           for
           their
           Freedom
           and
           Security
           ,
           then
           for
           their
           Nature
           and
           Inheritance
           .
        
      
       
         FINIS
         .
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A54142-e3290
           
             Irenicum
             ,
             a
             Weapon-Salve
             for
             the
             Churches
             Wounds
             ,
             by
             
               Edward
               Stillingfleet
            
             ,
             Rector
             of
             ●uton
             in
             Bedfordshire
             ,
             in
             Preface
             to
             the
             Reader
             .
          
           
             L.
             6.
             
             Cod.
             de
             Paganis
             .