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A30777 A proposall humbly offered for the farming of liberty of conscience Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.; B. G. 1662 (1662) Wing B6329; ESTC R37173 6,906 12

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speak Oprobriously or Scandalously against the Doctrine or Discipline thereof as Antichristian or shall maintain any Positions or Doctrines contrary thereunto Every such person producing a Certificate from the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers under the publike Seal of the said Office that such person or persons are under Composition for Liberty of Conscience shall actually be discharged and all further proceedings stayed Any thing to the contrary notwithstanding That if any persons shall happen to be Indicted or Criminally proceeded against in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster or elsewhere within the Kingdom of England either for Treasonable Speeches or Practises for publike raysing at the Government or for Scandalous words against either or both Houses of Parliament or for Transgressing any of the Penal Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom Every such person or persons producing a Certificate from the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers under the publike Seal of the said Office that such person or persons are under Composition for Liberty of Conscience and that such words or practises were not spoken or acted malitiose but were only the natural and proper effects and product of Liberty of Conscience shall be discharged and all further proceedings stayed Any thing to the Contrary notwithstanding That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience may have power from time to time to Ordain Pastors Elders and Deacons or any other Officers under any Administration whatsoever by the laying on of the publique Seal of the Office Which said Imposition of the said publique Seal being received with a Certificate shall be as lawful an Ordination as if every such person had received Imposition from the hands of the Presbytery Any late Usage or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers may have power from time to time to set apart dayes for publique Fastings and Humiliation and Thanksgiving on which dayes it may be lawful for any person or persons appointed to Officiate before the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers to stir up the people to a holy Indignation against themselves for having by their want of Zeal and Brotherly kindnesse one towards another lost many pretious enjoyments and above all the never to be forgotten Losse of the late Power and Dominion which with the Expence of so much Blood and Rapine was put into the hands of the Saints And to take up for a Lamentation and great thoughts of heart the Divisions of Ruben That having our Sacks full such an evill spirit should be found in the midst of us as to fall out by the way might it have beén with those that abode by the Stuff as with those that went out to the Battel it had not beén with us as at this day Some starting aside like a broken Bow in the year 48 others continuing to bear the burthen and heat of the day untill 60 being harness'd did then turn their backs in the day of Battel That the twentieth day of April next commonly called Easter-Monday be kept as a day of Solemn Fasting and Humiliation for a Blessing upon these Gospel Undertakings and that Mr. Edmond Calamy Mr. Peter Sterry Doctor Lazarus Seaman and Mr. Feake be desired to carry on the Work of the Day in Prayer and Preaching before the said Grand Farmers and that the particulars following be recommended to their Consideration in the Work of the Day 1. To Bewail 1. All our Court Sins 2. Our Bishops Sins 3. Our Monk Sins 4. Our Common-Prayer Sins 2. To Divert 1. Westminster-Hall Iudgments 2. Our Old-Bayly Iudgments 3. Our Tower-Hill Iudgments 4. Our Charing-Cross Iudgments 5. Our Tyburn Iudgments Lastly For deliverance from the Hand of Dun that uncercumcised Philistine That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience may have power to build Churches and Chappels in any place or places except upon such Ground only where Churches or Chappels do already stand in regard of the inconvenience of setting up Altar against Altar And forasmuch as the Custom of Reading some part of the holy Bible before Sermon commonly called first and second Lessons hath been found fruitless That therefore the said Grand Commissioners Farmers may have power to appoint instead thereof the Annual reading of those Sermons preached by many of the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers before the Parliament Upon special Occasions of Thanksgiving and Humiliation from the Year 1641 to the Year 1648 Which said Sermons may be called The Homilies of the separating Churches That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers may have power to require Mr. Gilbert Millington and Mr. Luke Robinson the lame Evangelist to deliver up all such Articles Orders Books Papers and other Writings as were transacted before the late Committee for plundered Ministers and likewise all such as were passed and transacted before Mr. Philip Ney and some others of the now Grand Commissioners and Farmers and heretofore called Commissioners or Spiritual Tryers to the end the said Articles Orders Books and other Papers may be Printed and Published and may be kept at the said Office upon Record for ever and appointed to be the Book of Canons of the separated Churches All this being done we may upon Scripture Grounds expect that the door of Hope may yet be open to Us and Our Children after Us to see the travell of our Souls and to lett Us into the promised Land and to reap some of those Clusters of the Grapes of Canaan which with so much Labour and Toyl of Body and Mind were planted especially in the Years of 1641 42 43 44 45. by many of Us and other precious Saints and Ministers of the Gospel who are since fallen asleép and have We hope reaped the Fruits of those Labours the Lord having in that Day put a mighty Spirit into Us set Us as Watchmen upon the Towers of Israel to cry mightily Curse ye Meroze Curse ye bitterly the Lord Grant That those Heart-breaking Labours of Ours those King-destroying Labours these Kingdom-ruining Labours those Gospel-scandalizing Labours those Church-subverting Labours those Soul-confounding Labors of Ours may never be forgotten but may be written as with the point of a Diamond upon the Heart of the King upon the Hearts of the Bishops upon the Heart of the Parliament and upon the Hearts of all the People from Dan to Beersheba that so in Gods good time we may receive our Reward seven fold-into our own Bosomes and that the Genera●ions to come may hear and fear and do no more so wickedly So prayes B. G.