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A37357 Declaration of several of the people called Anabaptists in and about the city of London 1659 (1659) Wing D619; ESTC R12847 1,706 1

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DECLARATION Of several of the People called ANABAPTISTS In and about the CITY of LONDON We being mis-represented to the Nation 1. As such as are opposite to Magistracy 2. That we would destroy the Publick Ministry of the Nation who differ from us in some things about Religion 3. That we do countenance the people called Quakers in their irregular Practise 4. That we endeavour a Toleration of all miscarriages in things Ecclesiastical and Civil under pretence of Liberty of Conscience 5. That we design to murder and destroy those that differ from us in matters of Religion thereby endeavouring to make us odious to some People fearing God And also to incense the rude Multitude against us to provoke them if possible to destroy us To the first Though we cannot answer in justification of every individual person that is of our Profession in matters of Religion yet we can say this and prove it to all the world that it hath been our profession and is our real practise to be obedient to Magistracy in all things Civil and willing to live peaceably under whatever Government is and shall be established in this Nation for we do believe and declare Magistracy to be an Ordinance of God and ought to be obeyed in all lawful things To the second As for the publick Ministers of the Nation who differ from us in the matter of Baptizing Infants and some things in Church-Government We are so far from endeavouring to destroy them that we judge they ought to have the Liberty of their Consciences therein and that it is our duty to stand by them and preserve them so much as in us lies from all injury and violence To the third Concerning the people called Quakers it is well known to all that are not wilfully ignorant there are none more opposite to their irregular practices then we are nor are there any that they have exprest more Contradiction to in matters of Religion then against us though their provocation therein hath not put us in the least on a desire of depriving them of their just Liberty while they live morally honest and peaceable in the Nation To the fourth Whereas we are further charged with endeavouring an universal Toleration of all miscarriages both in things Religious and Civil under pretence of Liberty of Conscience it is in both respects notoriously false And we do before the Lord that shall judge both quick and dead yea before Angels and men declare our utter detestation of such a Toleration for in matters Civil we desire there may not be the least Toleration of miscarriage in any much less in our selves Nor do we desire in matters of Religion that Popery should be tolerated the bloud of many thousands of the people of God having been barbarously shed by the Professours thereof or any persons tolerated that worship a false god nor any that speak contemptuously and reproachfully of our Lord Jesus Christ nor any that deny the holy Scriptures contained in the Books of the Old and New Testament to be the Word of God And yet we are not against tolerating of Episcopacy Presbytery or any stinted form provided they do not compel any others to a compliance therewith or a conformity thereunto for whatever Composers of any form of worship may possibly erre it is derogating from God and his holy Word and injurious to men to compel any to the practice thereof To the last For as much as we are charged with designs to murder or destroy those that differ from us in matters of Religion We do not only abhor and detest it as a cursed practice but we hope have approved our selves both in this City and the Nation to the contrary notwithstanding the great provocation of some who have endeavoured our ruine for all we desire is just liberty to men as men that every man may be preserved in his own just rights and that Christians may be preserved as Christians though of different Apprehensions in some things of Religion in the prosecution whereof our lives shall not be dear unto us when we are thereunto lawfully called The designs of our Adversaries in these Calumnies are to mis-represent us to some people fearing God and also to incense the rude Multitude against us purposely to provoke them if possible to destroy us We hope hereby it will appear to them that fear God that we are no such persons as our Adversaries have represented us And for their incensing the rude Multitude against us it is no more then some others did to our Master and it is not do we expect they should fayour us it is enough to us we have his Promise that if we suffer with him we shall also reign with him This we think meet to Declare to undeceive those who through the unchristian actions and expressions of some persons have been and are prejudiced against us LONDON Printed for Livewel Chapman at the Crown in Popes-Head-Alley 1659.