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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97096	The compassionate Samaritane unbinding the conscience, and powring oyle into the wounds which have beene made upon the separation: recommending their future welfare to the serious thoughts, and carefull endeavours of all who love the peace and unity of Commonwealths men, or desire the unanimous prosecution of the common enemie, or who follow our Saviours rule, to doe unto others, what they would have others doe unto them.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.; Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665, attributed name.	1644 (1644)	Wing W681B; Thomason E1202_1; ESTC R208770	22,915	91

of reply or vindication in publike is allowed to any though never so much scandalized by them And that men may not vindicate themselves by writing their next interest is to be Masters of the Presle of which they are lately become by an Ordinance for licensing of Bookes which being intended by the Parliament for a good necessary end namely the prohibition of all Bookes dangerous or scandalous to the State is become by meanes of the Licencers who are Divines and intend their owne interest most serviceable to themselves scandalous Books being still disperst in the stopping of honest mens writings that nothing may come to the Worlds view but what they please unlessc men will runne the hazard of imprisonment as I now doe so that in publike they may speake what they will write what they wil they may abuse whom they will and nothing can be said against them well may they presume of making themselves Masters of the people having these foundations laid and the people generally willing to beleive they are good I might proceed to shew what usage wise men expect from their Government being once establisht how rigid and austere some thinke they will prove countenancing no recreations but what themselves are addicted to how covetous others deem them observing that they have more regard to the Benefice then the people and doe usually change and shift upon proffer of a better Parsonage Some say that they are a people sicke of the Pharises disease they love to sit upermost at feafts to be reverenced in publike places that their respects towards men are as they are rich and benef●ciall to them and that a pore man can hardly obtaine a visite though at the time when the world couceives there is greatest necessity of it that they'hover about dying men for their Fee and hope of Legacy many other things are commonly talked of them which because I suspect to be true I will set myself hereafter more narrowly to observe The Objection wereupon all this I hope necessary digression is built was that men may be compelled though again●● conscience to what the Synod or present Ministery shall conclude to be good and agreable to Cods Word because unity and uniformity in the Church is to be endeavoured To which I further Ans Answer That to sorce men against their mind and judgment to belecive what other men conclude to be true would prove such tyranny as the wicked P●oc●us●es mentioned by Plutarch practised who would fit all men to one Bed by stretching them out that were too short and by cutting them shorter that were too long If we beleive as the Synod would have us what is this but to be brought into their miserable condition that must beleive as the Church beleives and so become as said an honest man not the Disciples of Christ but of the Synod 3. Reas The third Reason for Liberty of Conscience is grounded upon these foundations that whatsoever is not of faith is sin and that every man ought to be fully perswaded of the truenesse of that way wherein he servcth the Lord upon which grounds I thus argue To compell me against my conscience is to compell me against what I beleive to be true and so against my faith now whatsoever is not of faith is sin To compell me therefore against my conscience is to compell me to doe that which is sinfull for though the thing may be in it selfe good yet if it doe not appeare to be be so to my conscience the practice thereof in me is sinfull which therefore I ought not to be compelled unto Againe I am counselled by the Apostle to be perswaded in my owne mind of the truth of that way wherin I serve the Lord I am not therefore to be compelled to worship God in such a way of the justnesse whereof I am not yet perswaded much lesse in such a way as is against my mind Ob. Nothing is more dangerous to a State espeacially in these times than division and disturbance by severall wayes of Brethren which have encreased our miseries and therefore to avoyde division they who wil not of their own accords comply are for the quiet of the state to be compelled and punished Ans I Answer that it is verily thought that the harshnesse only of this proposition hinders that it is not yet put in execution till time cunning have fitted it for the people for we are told in the last consideration tending to diswade from further gathering of Churches that suffering is like to be the portion of such as shall judge the right rule not to be delivered to them A man would thinke that those people that so lately were the sufferers the noyse of whose exclamations against such courses is scarce yet on t of the peoples eares that they should not so soone thinke of being the Tyrants But to the Objection I answer that the diversity of mens judgments is not the occasion of division because the word division hath reference to falling off from the Common cause Now though the provocations and incitements against the Brownists and Anabaptists and some of the Independents have beene many yet their affections to the Publike weale are so hearty in them and grounded upon such sound principles of reason that no assay of the Synod can make them cease to love and assist their Countrey and it is more then evident by the prosperity of our neighbours in Holland that the severall wayes of our brethren in matters of Religion hinder not but that they may live peaceably one amongst an other and the Spaniard will witnesse for them that they unite sufficiently in the defence of their common liberties and opposition of their common enemies Besids it s very materiall to consider that it hath ever been the practice of those that are countenanced by Authority to endeavor the suppression of those that are not who is therefore in the fault the quiet Separatist who being perswaded in his conscience of the truth of that way he desires to serve the Lord in peeceably goes on to do his duty as he thinkes himselfe bound to doe or they who out of a lordly disposition care not what injury they doe to others though to the hazard of the Common-wealth to advance themselves and their government they defame the Separation in their writings and Sermons bid their poselites beware of them as of a dangerous and factious people stoppe their mouthes keep the Presse fom them provoake them by all wayes possible and then like the crafty Politian cry out upon them as the causers of division I heare some men say that it concernes the Minister so to doe because his living depending upon his tythes and guifts is the greater the more rich and numerous his audience is and therefore the Separa ists are not to be suffered who they find by experience draw many people after them and though not the devout honourable women nor the cheife men of the