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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07159	A most humble supplication of many the Kings Maiesties loyall subiects, ready to testifie all civill obedience, by the oath, as the law of this realme requireth, and that of conscience; who are persecuted, onely for differing in religion, contrary to divine and humane testimonies as followeth..	Murton, John.	1621 (1621)	STC 563.7; ESTC S95969	22,236	39

A MOST HVMBLE SVPPLICATION OF MANY THE KINGS MAIESTIES LOYALL SVBIECTS READY TO TEStifie all civill obedience by the oath as the Law of this Realme requireth and that of conscience Who are Persecuted onely for differing in Religion contrary to divine and humane testimonies as followeth Prov. 21.13 He that stoppeth his eare at the crying of the poore he shall also crie and not be heard Printed 1621. This Book belongs to The new-New-England Library Begun to be collected by Thomas Prince upon his entring Harvard-College July 6. 1703 and was given by said Prince to remain therein for ever TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY Prince Iames by the grace of God King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland our Soveraigne Lord on earth TO THE EXCELLENT AND NOBLE Prince Charles Prince of Wales c. To all the Right Honourable Nobilitie Grave and Honourable Iudges and To all other the Right worshipfull Gentrie of all estates and degrees assembled in this present Parliament Right High and Mighty Right Excellent and Noble Right Honourable and Right Worshipfull AS the consideration of that divine commandement of the King of Kings given to every poore Saint 1. Tim. 2. Let supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thankes bee made for Kings and for all that are in authority that wee may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honestie doth cause in us a daily practise therof in our secret chambers as of duetie we are bound of which the searcher of all hearts beareth us witnesse so let it be pleasing to your Majestie and the rest in authority that we make humble supplications and prayers to you for such our bodily miseries and wants as are upon us in that it is in your power to redresse them and especially at this present in this Honourable Meeting assembled for the publique weale of all your loyall subjects Our miseries are long and lingring imprisonments for many yeres in divers countries of England in which many have dyed and left behind them widowes and many small fatherlesse children taking away our goods and other the like of which we can make good probation not for any disloyaltie to your Majestie or hurt to any mortall man our adversaries themselves being judges but onely because wee cannot assent unto and practise in the worship of God such things as we have not faith in which if wee should doe we should greatly sinne against the most High Heb. 11.6 Rom. 14.23 as your Majestie well observeth in these words It is a good sure rule in Theologie that in the matters of the worship of God Quod dubitas ne feceris according to Pauls rule Rom. 14. Let every man be fully perswaded in his minde If we were in errour in these things courses of afflicting our bodies for conscience cause are not of Christ but of Anti-christ as hereafter is most plainely shewed And if no Church be the rule of faith but onely the holy Scriptures as the learned Protestants doe truely confesse and that therefore the doctrine of the Church of Rome that All must beleeve as the Church beleeves and so practise or else be cruelly persecuted be most ungodly then how can they avoide the like censure that practise the same things contrary to their own judgement For the learned Protestants doe say it is high crueltie for the Papists to constraine them to practise those things in Gods worship which they have not faith in nay which they know to bee evill with imprisonment fire and fagot c. and therefore why may not we saie it is as great crueltie for the learned Protestants to constraine us to practise those things in Gods worship which we have not faithin nay which we certainely know to be evill with lingring imprisonment losse of goods and what other cruelties they can procure against us of your Majestie and the civill State If the learned say they have the truth and we are in errour that resteth to be tryed by the true touchstone of the holy Scriptures If the learned be our Iudges the verdit must needs goe against us If their sayings be a safe rule for us to be saved by wee will rest upon them and then why may not the sayings of the Papists be as sure also and they be the Protestants Iudges and so bring us all to beleeve as the Church beleeves The iniquitie of which we have discovered as brieflie as wee can beseeching your majestie and all that are in Authoritie to heare us It concerneth our eternall salvation or condemnation and is therefore of great importance For what can a man give for the ransome of his soule Oh be pleased to remember the saying of that Great and good man Iob ch 29. I delivered the poore that cryed and the fatherlesse and him that had none to help him the blessing of him that was readie to perish came upon me and I caused the widowes heart to rejoyce I was a father to the poore and When I knew not the cause I sought it out diligently I brake also the jawes of the unrighteous man and pluckt the prey out of his teeth Our prayers are and shall be for you day and night to that God of glorie by whom you Raigne and are Advanced that hee will put into your hearts to let these things enter into your thoughts and then wee doubt not the evidence of them being such that you will be moved to repeale and make voide all those cruell Lawes that persecute poore men onely for matters of conscience Not that we any way desire for our selves Papists or others any the least libertie from the strict observation of any civil temporall or humane law made or to be made for the preservation of your Majesties Person Crowne State or Dignitie For all that give not unto Caesar that which is his let them beare their burden But we onely desire that God might have that which is his which is the heart and soule in that worship which hee requireth over which there is but one Lord and one Lawgiver Iam. 4.12 who is able to save it or to destroy it which no mortall man can doe It is not in your power to compell the heart you may compell men to be hypocrites as a great many are who are false hearted both towards God and the State which is sinne both in you and them The vileness of persecuting the bodie of any man onely for cause of conscience is against the word of God and law of Christ it is against your Majesties profession against the profession and practise of other Princes The ancient and latter approved Writers witness against it so doe the Puritanes or Calvinists yea the establishers of it The Papists themselves inveigh against it So that God and all men doe detest it as is herein declared And therefore in most humble manner wee doe beseech your Majestie your Highness your Honours your Worships to consider of it and doe as God directeth you in his Word that cannot lie Let