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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66451	A paraenetick, or, Humble addresse to the Parliament and assembly for (not loose, but) Christian libertie	Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2769; ESTC R39762	11,662	18

make us live quietly by one another though of severall judgements whilest wee agree in fundamentals but your word to bid us do so Is it not time for the Lords Harbengers and Trumpeters to sound the allarm to the great and dreadfull day of the Lord and to apply your selves now to turn the he●rt of fathers to the children and of the children to the fathers lest the Lord come and smite the earth with a curse Nay hath he not sorely smitten us for not only the neglect but the contempt of this prescription by a contrary practising even setting the Fathers the nursing-fathers of the Church those that should be so against their children And indeed excuse us if when wee consider how faire wee were for a good issue of the common troubles of late when God gave us those many Occasions and those solemne opportunities of praise and thanksgiving when some can say if ever they found their hearts then drawn forth in earnest supplications and triumphant expectations of a smooth successe and in stead thereof what an unusuall return we had from the hand of God contrary to the tenour of his former proceedings beating back our hopes upon us and when we compare this with former the like passages of providence in the like juncture of times as that ill successe that interrupted the Petition ready to be presented at the Common-Councel against us and also compare these with some Scriptures and Scripture examples how God hath made Ierus●lem a burthensome s●one c. Zech. 12. and how he hath formerly rebuked Kings for his peoples sakes saying Touch not mine anointed c. and how hee brought Artaxerxes and his Realm under wrath for that cause Ezra 7. and consider how righteous this is that if the children fall out the father should make the third excuse us I say if wee can give no better account of these things but the Lords jealousie over his peoples liberties Wherefore if pity will not move you let equity at least constr●in you * Let no man go beyond or defraud his brother saith the Apostle Have you taken of us a price deny us not our commodity Christ bought our liberties for us with his blood wee have bought them over again at your hands with our own blood shed not for our selves only but for you also Wee have set you down as it were where you would be wee have dislodged the Can●●nites before you wee are necessitated to passe on further it were but your duty to march on before us and give us quiet possession with you Wee have fought and adventured purse and person upon this expectation of Liberty not of another Religion but of this Way of walking in your Religion as of the Liberty of the Religion it self which we eyed in the first place If nothing lesse was in your hearts why did you not tell us so Nay why hath the Assembly born us in hand with such hopes and intimations Why have such Considerations been tendered to us intimating nay almost assuring us an after-liberty upon condition of a present modesty in that juncture of time only For what else is the tenour of the 5th Consideration published Dec. 23. 1643. in these words That it is not to be doubted but the Counsels of the Assembly and the care of the Parliament will be not only to reform and set up Religion throughout the Nation but will concur●e to prese●ve wh●t ever shall ●ppe●●e to be the RIGHTS of particular CONGREGATIONS according to the Word and to be●re with such whose Cons●iences ●annot in all things conform to the publike 〈◊〉 so far as the Word of God 〈◊〉 have them born with●ll which is all that we de●ire What did you do with those terms The Rights of 〈…〉 and these contradistinguished to the generall Reformation an● setting up of Religion through the Kingdome if you did not speak to our sense But you will say 't is cautioned What ever shall appe●●e according to the Word To whom mean ●ou it should appeare To your selves What promise were this To preserve what ever appeares to you is not grace but debt and if this was your meaning you might have said more properly When ever these Rights should appeare to you and if by according to the Word you meant only in your own interpretation that 's not thank-worthy what bait is held out to us therein but a miserable collusion But the latter part of the Consideration is more expresse which promise a bearing with those whose Consciences cannot in all things conform to the publike Rule And what though it follow so far as the word of God would h●ve them born with●ll for that implies a concession that the word would have them born withall otherwise why do you bob our mouths with these Apples of liberty and toleration and condescend to terms of the measure thereof if no such thing in any degree be due unto us or warrantable by Word Why then do you give place to us so much as for an houre and if a toleration duly bounded be divine then how have you indeavoured it or why do you not indeavour that degree What jot or tittle of toleration have you yet brought forth or do you give us hopes of in your proceeding hitherto What things more terrible and more void and exclusive of all bearing and forbearing can you meditate yet then Fines Prisons Exi●e prohibiting the exercise of our W●y and our Ministery but upon hard conditions which things we have too much cause to feare and expect as not much exceeding the rate and proportion of some present conclu●ions and more menacing agitations Judge now whether the performance of this Consideration be not yet wholly in arrere to us And to minde you of some other passages What do you in that earne●t intreating Ministers and People Consid. 6. to forbeare for a convenient time the joyning themselves into Church-societies untill they see 〈…〉 will not be commended 〈◊〉 them in 〈◊〉 orderly 〈◊〉 I say what do you in this but set as at liberty afterwards And why do you there bespeak us as free-men if you made account and it be in your power to make us bond-men or use us so And further why doth the Assembly in the 7th C●●sideration glance with that congratulatory respect upon the liberty to serve God according to his Word which we injoy in this ti●e more then hath been at any time in England 〈◊〉 the beginning of the Reformation if it be not a just liberty and if it be just why doth it begin to be contracted at least some part of that liberty wee have injoy'd viz. preaching without ordination till wee can have it according to our consciences And lastly do you not cherish as great a hope in us as all that wee have ask'd or shall aske comes to in the last Consideration where you pawn your own hopes to cherish ours that wee shall never come to suffer for doing what shall appeare to be our duty though

are of the same religion with you Did you send us out to be cut off and to make a hand of us Did you slay part of us in the field with the sword of the Enemy that you might the easier suppresse the residue at home Do you count us no better then to be swords-meat and to stop the mouthes of Canons O Earth cover thou not our bloud the Lord behold it and require it Should such a din fill your eares sleeping and waking what fruit would you have of your violent proceedings Should you effect your purposes suppresse our Way and cast forth our persons out of this good Land could you put the price of our bloud into the treasury Would you have any list to r●●st what you had g●t by such hunting Would not your stomacks nauseate and turne againe at the raw and bloudy cruelty of the game Take up Oh take up betimes know you not that it will be bitternesse in the latter end Are we not your fellow-servants and Brethren Did not the same hand make us that made you And is there not one Father of us both One Lord one Faith one Baptisme one Religion Are you the onely rightfull Inhabitants of this good Countrey And is there not a curse denounced against those that lay house to house and land to land that they may dwell alone Doe you stand in no more need of us or have wee been reprieved till now onely as the Canaanites to help you to master the Lyons the wild Beasts that they prevaile not against you Brethren I would to God there were no Divisions among us I wish it under the Imperiall law of Heaven and my hearts desire and prayer for Engl●nd is that they were of one heart and one way But is that upon any Scripture-ground to be expected here at least till those Halcyon dayes come while we kn●w but in p●rt Must we never be of one heart till we be of one way Then belike those Exhortations to love and peace and Christian forbearance of one another and not to judge but to keep the unitie of the Spirit are not visions which the Apostles saw for these dayes The time is not yet as the Jewes said Hag. 2. But the Lord may answer us as he answered them Is it time for you O yee to dwell in your ●eiled houses c So is it time for a you to agree and make your common engagement against any of the Lambes of Christ the ground of a renewed friend●hip Is it a time for Papists Atheists loose and carnall Protestants and Malignants to agree laying aside their particular interests opinions and differences Is it a time for French and Spaniards and Danes and Walloones and Irish Rebells to agree and make a confederacy with our homeborne Vipers against the truth And is it not a time for us to agree for the truth Is it a time for godly able men that have in a great part renounced the hidden things of Antichristian darknes to agree with ignorant superstitious Ceremony-mongers that are devoted still to a Common-Prayer-Booke and petition for a Captain to lead them back into Aegypt and with the meanest and unworthiest spirits that will but serve the time and acknowledge their soveraigntie as good Christians and able Ministers to make their party stronger And is it not a time to agree with those that denying themselves and the world professe to seek the truth in love Is all truth among one sort of men Hath not Christ rendred his members all in a mutuall need of one another * Is your way the fulnesse of him th●t fills all in all Can your refuse-Brethren in Conference and Communication of spirituall gifts adde nothing to you Is there not most oft-times in things that are most despised Would Christ have such desperate Experiments practised upon his members to kill them if you cannot cure them of their lesser errours to fine them prison them banish them which to some persons and estates is little more mercy then to knock them on the head Doth not nature teach to beare with a blain or blemish rather then to destroy the body Is Christ so put to it quite out of hope May they not be gained hereafter Are their opinions damnable either in themselves or proper consequences Are they not further ingaged to persist in their wayes good or bad by suffering for such things so deeply and is not the bridge of retractation drawne up thereby Consider these things and take heed what you doe unto these men the Lord hath made Ierusalem a burdensome stone that shall crush all that attempt to remove her If our Way be of God you cannot overthrow it You may shew your selves fighters against God and get the reward of such and that 's all Take heed of walking contrary unto God of casting shame on those on whom he hath reflected such eminent honour both in the Army and otherwise For I aske you By whom hath God more deliver'd us hitherto Who have shewed themselves more valiant in fight who have oftner put to flight the Armies of the Aliens in the North and els-where but those men that in the end shall be put to flight themselves if some may have their will The sword of the Lord and despised Gideon hath saved this Nation Saul hath slaine his thousands and David his ten thousands Let no man envy God will be acknowledged in his Instruments as well as in his Attributes Take heed of resisting the Holy Ghost for that mighty works have been done by these men you cannot deny their power in prayer their shining doctrine their exemplary burning conversation though wee will not paint the blemishes of any of them But 〈◊〉 de tabula I have offer'd my candle it is in the Lord to proportion the successe To some it may be a word in season to others perhaps it will be a 〈◊〉 and a stone of stumbling 〈◊〉 vineet veritas Truth shall overcome I verily beleeve and expect The little Stone cut out of the Mountaine without hands shall irresistibly grow and fill the whole earth and every plant that the He●v●nly Father hath not planted shall be puld up Men may root out themselves by persecution as the Prelates have done but they shall never root up the truth Christian friends and Brethren if the truth be on your side confide to your Cause cease from force and violence that you reflect not disparagement upon it I would end as I began in the spirit of love and meeknesse Consider your calling Brethren that you are called unto peace and take our Lord Jesus Christ for an example who though he was Lord of all yet became a servant unto all He was further above his Disciples in knowledge and understanding then the wisest among us above the simplest Infant yet he disdain'd them not provoked them not upbraided them not punisht them not taught them as they were able to beare after his resurrection comes to them alwayes with