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A26073 A seasonable discourse against toleration with a preface wherein the nature of persecution in general and the unjust complaints of the dissenting parties concerning it in particular are distinctly considered. Assheton, William, 1641-1711. 1685 (1685) Wing A4041; ESTC R23636 62,270 115

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Praise of them that do well 1. Pet. 2. 19. There be some that would blot out halfe your Commission and restrain this good and evill to Civil good and to evils only against men But this is against that generall Rule Non est distinguendum ubi Lex non distinguit Where the Law doth not distinguish there must not we distinguish Tell me I beseech you Shall it be lawfull for Magistrates to punish those that destroy mens Bodies but not those that destroy mens Souls Shall they be blamed for suffering men to draw people away from obedience to the Laws of the Land and to themselves and not also for suffering men to draw away people from the Truth of the Gospell and from the ways of God such as Hymenaeus and Philetus who overthrow the Faith of some and their words eat as a Canker shall Christian Magistrates take up the Maxime of Tiberius Deorum injurias Diis curae esse Let God himself take care to vindicate himself from injuries committed against God as for mee I will just like Gallio take care of none of these things Can Christian ears endure such Language Doth not God Prophesy Isaiah 49. 23. That in the New Testament Kings shall be our Nursing Fathers and Queens our nursing Mothers And how can a Christian Magistrate discharge that duty aright if he hath not power from God to punish those that would poyson the souls of his weak Children with Heresies and soul destroying opinions Will you allow the Magistrate to Tyrannize over Object mens Consciences By no means But I believe it is the duty of Magistrats Answ to keep men from infecting their Subjects with soul destroying Errors If thou hast an Hereticall Opinion have it to thy self and the Magistrate will not nay cannot meddle with thy Private Conscience But if thou labourest to infect others with thy Grace-destroying Opinions I doubt not but the Magistrate is bound to keep thee from spreading thy infection to the undoing of the Souls of his Subjects If he may lawfully shut up a man that hath the Plague upon his body that he may not infect others why not a man that hath the Plague of Heresie upon his Soul that so he may not destroy the souls of Thousands Shall a Master in a Family have power to put away a Servant that is tainted with a gross opinion and yet not be called a Tyrant over that Servants Conscience and shall not the chief Magistrate of a Kingdome have power to put out of his Kingdome at least to shut up from doing hurt one that is his Subject and polluted with blasphemous Hereticall Idolatricall Opinions Is not the Kingdom the Magistrats house and Family a Ser. before the Comm. Octob. 22. 1644. p. 26. This is a certain Rule That all the Sins of the Kingdom which are committed by your connivence or allowance are the Parliament Sins and they call for a Parliament Repentance And therefore I beseech you search and try your hearts and consider how far you are accessary to the sins of the Kingdome that so you may be wrought up not only to a personall but a Parliament humiliation And if it doth appear that you have taken more care in setling your own Liberties then in setling of Religion If you have taken more care to build your own houses then Gods house this is a crying Sin and this makes you accessary to a Thousand Sins that are commited in the Kingdome Againe if you do not labour according to your duty and according to your power to suppress the Errors and Heresies that are spread in the Kingdome all these Errors are your Errors and these Heresies are your Heresies and they are your Sins and God calls for a Parliamentary Repentance from you for them this day You are the Anabaptists and you are the Antinominians and it is you that hold That all Religions are to be tolerated c. And these are your Errors if they sptead by your Connivence For the Sins of the Sons of old Ely are imputed to old Ely himselfe And when the People of Israel had prophaned the Sabbath Nehemiah contended with the Nobles of Judah for suffering them and tells them that it was they that did prophane it because they suffered the People to prophane it Neh. 13. 17. It was none of the Old cause that the People should a M. Ric. Baxter Holy Common-wealth Addition to Pref. Prop. 6. Lond printed for Tho Vnderhil at the Anchor and Bible in Pauls Ch yard 1659. have Liberty and the Magistrate should have no Power in all matters of Gods Worship faith and Conscience And as it is not the Old Cause so it is not a Good Cause For first it contradicteth the expresse Revelation of the will of God in the holy Scriptures Moses had to do in matters of Religion as a Magistrate and so the ruling Elders of Israel that assisted him And so had the Kings of Israel and Judah as is well known insomuch that in Asa's days they covenanted to put him to Death that would not seek the Lord God of Israel 2. It tendeth to the ruine of the Commonwealth and therefore it is no good cause How God was provoked By Aarons Calfe and by his Sons that offered strange fire which the Lord commanded not Lev. 10. what was the effect what benefit the Calves at Dan and Bethel brought to Israel and Jeroboams house and the high places and other Errours about worship brought to the Princes and People of Judah we need not particularly recite Law and providence are quite changed if Toleration of false Worship and other abuses of Religion tend not to the ruine of the Commonwealth If Magistrates must give Liberty for all to propagate a false Religion then so must Parents and Masters also for their Coercive power is rather lesse then the Magistrates then more and they are no more Lords of faith or Conscience But if all Parents and Masters should give such a Liberty it would be a crime so horrid in the nature and effects as I am loath to name with its proper Titles A pari it tendeth to the destruction of an Army to give liberty to all men to do their worst to draw them to Mutinies and Rebellion It tends to the ruine of Families that all have liberty to do their worst to tempt the Sons to Theft and drunkennesse and the wife and Daughter to whoredome It tends to the Destruction of the Commonwealth if there be liberty for all to perswade the the People to Sedition and Rebellion And therefore it must tend to the destruction of the Church and mens souls and consequently of the Commonwealth in the cheif respects if all have leave to do their worst to preach up infidelity Mahometanisme Popery or any false Doctrine or Worship against the great and necessary Truths I leave it therefore to the judgement of all men that are not fast a sleep in their security and utterly unacquainted with the advantages