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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62886	The inconveniencies of toleration, or, An answer to a late book intituled, A proposition made to the King and Parliament for the safety and happiness of the King and kingdom	Tomkins, Thomas, 1637?-1675.	1667 (1667)	Wing T1835; ESTC R236045	34,802	42

the Justice of the thing His Majesty's Piety is indeed for ever to be Celebrated in being thus the Church's Nursing-Father it had suffered for Him and He scorned that Advice which would have had it to Suffer by Him And as for the good works which he fancied that money might have been better employed in Who shall secure us that suppose the Church had lost it it should have been employed wholly in good works Was not this the very Plea of Judas Might not This have been sold for five hundred pence and given to the Poor How Charitable and Publick-Spirited are these men grown upon other mens Purses Former Sacriledges have been committed upon such plausible pretences as the Publick Benefit and Security but if we consult things aright we shall not find that the Publick ever gained by such courses nor do we believe that it ever will nor indeed is it fit that it should do so While these things continue in the Church the Publick hath a considerable Interest in them take them away thence and you raise some private Families whose turn being now served the Publick hath no influence upon them any longer Men may talk of the Common Good and pretend that but no man will be an Instrument of Sacriledg without an eye to his Private Interest As the Case now stands How much of the Churches Revenue is still payable to the King And how much more hath He the Disposal of Now those Lands are in the hands of those who are the King 's constant Dependants take them away and you may give them to those who may immediately turn his Enemies and if we should make an Observation upon experience we might perhaps find that those who have enjoyed the spoils of the Church have not alwayes shewed themselves the firmest Friends to the Crown But as to that money for Fines which the Author speaks only about we think it was employed about very good Works Was not the Repairing of the Twenty years Losses of so many Learned Pious and Loyal Persons of it self a very good work The Repairing of Cathedrals and furnishing of them was a very good and a very costly work The Redemption of Captives was a very good work His Majesty's Favour was most humbly acknowledged in a large Benevolence The re-building of Houses and augmentation of Vicaridges to eighty pounds per annum was a good and a very great work And to these let them add how much was abated to the Tenant of that proportion which any other Landlord would have taken let us consider these things I say and we shall find the summes of money which came really into the pockets of the Clergy at that time not to have been in any proportion near that which Envy hath Suggested I shall add but one Consideration more which I did not joyn with the rest because though it was a great Loss and Charge to the Church I can scarce reckon to have been a good work and that was the Consideration which was taken of the Purchasers who of all men had perhaps the least reason to be considered yet so generous was the Churches mercy as she did not only forgive but reward those who had been the Robbers of and Spoilers of Her Houses and her Patrimony IN the next place p. 49. Our Author thinks that the Covenant ought not to have been renounced c. If this care had not been taken the People might have had some temptation to believe That the State had tacitly confessed that the Covenant had had some real Obligation and if that were once allowed the whole Foundation of this Proposition had been utterly removed so great a part of the Nation having as we have before observed sworn to bring the Nation to Uniformity 1. art of the Cov. This might have been a President for a violent Faction or part of the two Houses to impose an Oath another time had not that practise of theirs been so solemnly disclaimed it might have been then said that this had been done by them once before not only without but against the Kings Express Command and Authority and that Act of theirs was not so much as questiomed which sure it would have been had it not been warrantable especially since all who took the Covenant have therein sworn to defend each other in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and that they shall not suffer themselves Directly or Indirectly c. to be Divided and withdrawn from this Blessed Union whether to make Defection to the contrary part or to give our selves to a detestable Indifferency or neutrality in this Cause c. But shall all the dayes of our life zealously and constantly continue therein against all Opposition and promote the same according to our Power against all Lets and Impediments whatsoever c. See 6 Art of Cov. The King's Enemies had an Act of Indemnity but nothing could have secured the King's Friends so long as the Covenant was not declared Null the fourth Article lying as a Bond upon a considerable part of the Nation to bring all them to Tryal and Condign Punishment Now is it at all credible that any Nation in the World would allow a great part of the People to believe themselves to continue under the Obligation of an Oath entred into in the time of and in the pursuance of a Rebellion an Oath downright contrary to the standing Laws and Government and yet not so much as call upon them to disclaim it No sure all wise Estates would agree to that known saying of Henry the Fourth That He would be ready to make a Peace with any of the Leaguers but he would never make any Peace with the League PAge 54. There are among the Non-conformists sober and Godly men which are to be compounded with and there are zealous and Giddy which are to be born with c. But how are we sure that it will not Displease the Former that we bear with the Later We do very well remember that there was a time that themselves would not have done it and that they were very angry with those who did Do it What Composition or what Toleration will serve the turn we know not But if themselves will once agree upon it what it is which will please them each and all they shall then know more of Our minds concerning it For the Later of these sorts it is proposed viz. The zealous and giddy That there may be a Liberty granted to these People for Assembling according to their Consciences a rare Contrivance this that there must be Publick Liberty to giddy zeal but their Meeting-places should be open that others may turn giddy by beholding their giddiness that so if they speak any thing against the State there may be some ready to bear witness of it Alas How easie is it to Couch Sedition in words very innocent of themselves so that the Law shall not be able to take advantage over them and yet the Auditors shall very well