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A30905	Truth triumphant through the spiritual warfare, Christian labours, and writings of that able and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Robert Barclay, who deceased at his own house at Urie in the kingdom of Scotland, the 3 day of the 8 month 1690.	Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.	1692 (1692)	Wing B740; ESTC R25857	1,185,716	995

of Reason And Thirdly as to Reason I shall not need to say much for whence come all the Controversies The Debates hence arising betwixt the old and late Philosophers Contentions and Debates in the World but because every man thinks he follows Right Reason Hence of old came the Jangles betwixt the Stoicks Platonists Peripateticks Pythagoreans and Cynicks as of late betwixt the Aristotelians Cartesians and other Naturalists Can it be thence inferred or will the Socinians those great Reasoners allow us to Conclude Because many and that very Wise men have Erred by following as they supposed their Reason and that with what diligence care and industry they could to find out the Truth that therefore no man ought to make use of it at all nor be positive in what he knows certainly to be Rational And thus far as to Opinion the same Vncertainty is no less incident unto those other Principles Anabaptists for their Wild Practices and Protestants and Papists for their Wars and ●loodshed each pretending Scripture for it § XIV But if we come to Practices though I confess I do with my whole heart abhor and detest those wild Practices which are written concerning the Anabaptists of Munster I am bold to say as bad if not worse things have been Committed by those that lean to Tradition Scripture and Reason wherein also they have averred themselves to have been Authorised by these Rules I need but mention all the Tumults Seditions and horrible Blood-shed wherewith Europe hath been Afflicted these divers Ages in which Papists against Papists Calvinists against Calvinists Lutherans against Lutherans and Papists assisted by Protestants against other Protestants assisted by Papists have miserably shed ane onothers Blood hiving and forcing men to kill one another who were Ignorant of the Quarrel and Strangers to one another All mean while pretending Reason for so doing and pleading the Lawfulness of it from Scripture For what have the Papists pretended for their many Massacres acted as well in France Tradition Scripture and Reason made a Cover for Persecution and Murder as elsewhere but Tradition Scripture and Reason Did they not say that Reason perswaded them Tradition allowed them and Scripture commanded them to persecute destroy and burn Hereticks such as denied this plain Scripture Hoc est Corpus me●m This is my Body And are not the Protestants Assenting to this Blood-shed who assert the same thing and encourage them by burning and banishing while their Brethren are so treated for the same Cause Are not the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland yea and all the Christian World a lively Example hereof which were divers years together as a Theatre of Blood where many lost their lives and Numbers of Families were utterly destroyed and ruined For all which no other Cause was principally given than the Precepts of the Scripture If we then compare these Actings with those of Munster we shall not find great difference for both Affirmed and Pretended they were Called and that it was lawful to Kill Burn and Destroy the Wicked We must Kill all the Wicked said those Anabaptists that we that are the Saints may possess the Earth We must burn obstinate Hereticks say the Papists that the holy Church of Rome may be purged of Rotten Members and may live in peace We must cut-off seducing Separatists say the Prelatick Protestants who trouble the peace of the Church and refuse the Divine Hierarchy and Religious Ceremonies thereof We must kill say the Calvinistick Presbyterians the profane Malignants who accuse the holy Consistorial and Presbyterian Government and seek to defend the Popish and Prelatick Hierarchy as also those other Sectaries that trouble the Peace of our Church What Difference I pray thee Impartial Reader seest thou betwixt these If it be said Object The Anabaptists went without and against the Authority of the Magistrate so did not the other I might easily Refute it Answ. by alledging the mutual Testimonies of these Sects against one another The Behaviour of the Papists towards Henry the third and fourth of France Examples of Popish Cruelties Their Designs upon James the sixth in the Gun-Powder Treason as also their Principle of the Pope's Power to depose Kings for the cause of Heresy and to absolve their Subjects from their Oath and give them to others proves it against them And as to the Protestants Protestant Violences and Persecutions in Scotland England and Holland how much their Actions differ from those other above-mentioned may be seen by the many Conspiracies and Tumults which they have been Active in both in Scotland and England which they have Acted within these Hundred Years in divers Towns and Provinces of the Nether-Lands Have they not often times sought not only from the Popish Magistrates but even from those that had begun to Reform or that had given them some Liberty of Exercising their Religion That they might only be permitted without trouble or hinderance to exercise their Religion promising they would not hinder or molest the Papists in the Exercise of theirs And yet did they not on the Contrary so soon as they had power trouble and abuse those Fellow-Citizens and turn them out of the City and which is worse even such who together with them had forsaken the Popish Religion Did they not these things in many places against the Mind of the Magistrates Have they not publickly with Contumelious speeches Assaulted their Magistrates from whom they had but just before sought and obtained the free Exercise of their Religion Representing them so soon as they opposed themselves to their Hierarchy as if they had regarded neither God nor Religion Have they not by violent hands possessed themselves of the Popish Churches so called or by force against the Magistrates mind taken them away Have they not turned out of their Office and Authority whole Councils of Magistrates under pretence that they were Addicted to Popery Which Popish Magistrates nevertheless they did but a little before acknowledge to be Ordained by God affirming themselves obliged to yield them obedience and subjection not only for Fear but for Conscience sake To whom moreover the very Preachers and Overseers of the Reformed Church had willingly sworn Fidelity and yet afterwards have they not said That the People is bound to force a wicked Prince to the observation of God's Word There are many other Instances of this kind to be found in their Histories not to mention many worse things which we know to have been acted in our time and which for brevities sake I pass by I might say much of the Lutherans whose Tumultuous Actions against their Magistrates not professing the Lutheran Profession are testified of by several Historians worthy of Credit Lutheran Seditions against the Reformed Teachers and Assault upon the Marquess of Brandenburgh c. in Germany Among others I shall propose only one Example to the Reader 's Consideration which fell out at Berlin in the year 1615. Where the