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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64134	Toleration tolerated: or, A late learned bishops opinion concerning toleration of religion With some brief observations thereon.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1688 (1688)	Wing T402; ESTC R218869	5,671	4

they only think this Doctrine Unreasonable and they are the Men that first disturb the Churches Peace and then think there is no appeasing the Tumult but by getting the Victory but they that consider things wisely understand that since Salvation and Damnation depends not upon Impertinencies and yet that Peace and Publick Tranquility may the Prince in this case is to seek how to secure the Government and the Issues and Intentions of that while there is in these cases directly no Insecurity to Religion unless by the accidental Uncharitableness of them that Dispute Which Uncharitableness is also much prevented when the Publick Peace is secured and no Person is on either side ingaged upon Revenge or troubled with Disgrace or vexed with Punishments by any Decretory Sentence against him It was a Wise saying of a Statesman Thuanus I mean Here●iei qui p●●ce data sa●tionibus S●●●duntur Persecuti●●e uni●… centra Rempublicam If you Persecute Hereticks or Discrepants they Unite themselves as to a Common Defence If you permit them they divide themselves upon Private I●tre●l and the rather if this Interest was the Ingredient of the Opinion Fifthly The sum is this It concerns the Duty of a Prince because it concerns the Honour of God that all Vices and every part of ●●-life be Discountenanced and Restrained and therefore in Relation to that Opinions are to be dealt with for the Understanding being to direct the Will and Opinions to guide our Practices they are Considerable only as they teach Impiety and Vice as they either Dishonour God or Disobey Him. Now all such Doctrines are to be condemned but for the Persons Preaching such Doctrine if they neither justifie nor approve the pretended Consequences which are certainly Impious they are to be separated from th●e Consideration but if they know such Consequences and allow them or if they do not stay till the Doctrines produce Impiety but take Sin before hand and manage them Impiously in any sence or if either themselves or their Doctrine do Really and without Colour or feigned Pretence dusturb the Publick Peace and Just Intrests they are not to be suffered In all other Cases 't is not only Lawful to permit them but it is also necessary that Princes and all in Authority should Persecute Discrepant Opinions And in such Cases wherein Persons not otherwise incompetent are bound to reprove an Error as they are in many In all these if the Prince make restraint he hinders men from doing their Duty and from Obeying the the Laws of Jesus Christ so for that Learned Bishop HEre this Learned and great Man whom I think I may safely pronounce one of the greatest Ornaments which the English Church or N●t●on ever had does not in the least Scruple or Object against His Majesty's Dispensing Power in Tolerating differing Opinions in Religion and s●ith that Religion is not properly concerned in the question so as in any degree to be ind●●gered and that it may be safe in diversity of Perswasions and that it is rather a question of Policy then Religion Nay he is so ●●r from saying the Prince may Tolerate that he ●●ith he 〈◊〉 and leaves it not in his choice or power to Choose and very fairly and ●●ndidly seems rightly to state and determine the present Controversies in giving to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are God's He sets the Prince on his Throne and makes it his Province to look after Peace and to take such Measures which may ●●cure the Government and puts it out of his Power to be concern'd with Men's Consciences This he very justly leaves to the Managery and Conduct of the Great God And how far His Majesty's Judgment does quadrate with this Great Man's I shall here briefly set down For Coming to the Crown of his Ancestors he presently found himself to be the Head of a divided Body and that all his Subjects were a Disturbed and Contending People divided into many differing Sects and Factions and that having had several Educations they had several Consciencess he found also every Sect and Party fiercely carrying on their own little particular Intrests and like Sea-men every one praying for a Wind to carry their own Vessel out of the Heaven though the same Wind kept their Neighbours Vessel in the Port or it nay be sunk or overturn'd it These things he wisely considered and thought th●● he had as good be a Soveraign Shepherd a●… Soveraign King over such a People therefore ●ade it his business to look into the Causes of such great Disorder and found that their Feuds and Animosities were about the things of another World about Truth and Falshood Heaven and Hell And should a People believing in such things be disturbed in their Methods which they thought most suitable and proper to obtain the one or avoid the other He thought and that with great reason His Kingdom here would be very Troublesome and Uneasie therefore seeing them all Fierce and E●ger and that they would all be Judges in their own Cause He undertook to decide their Differences and to judge for them not as to matter of Truth but as to matter of Peace and like a Wise Chymist seeing their Differences principally rose from the Mixture and Confusion of things of a Heterogenial Nature he separated the one from the other the Spiritual things from the Temporal left the Spiritual to God and themselves to whom they most properly belong and took the Temporal as his just Right and due to Himself The Case stands thus His Majesty having in a manner wronght a Miracle to Appease his People viz. To make the Winds blow from all Corners at once that all their Respective Vessels may Sail together and none may ever wax● a Wind to Lanch out at his pleasure One would think they should all be satisfied but we find they are not And indeed if we consider things more narrowly we cannot in Reason expect they should for things being but in their Formation and growing if we pull the Fruit before it be ripe we shall find it have but a Crude and Unsavoury Taste The Truth is there has been a Disease a a long time in the Government and now it comes to be Canvass'd into and searched the pain in Curing makes some men love the Disease better than the Remedy and rather than to be troubled with Dust and Rubish and to have a little Noise about their Ears they had rather have an old rotten House which daily threatens to fall on their Heads ●hen to have a New One founded on a Rock ●t●ich the Rains and the Winds the Wit of ●i●n or Malice of the Devil shall be never ●e to pull down POSTSCRIPT READER COnscience which has been long last by some Gentlemen being lately found in a Paper of Reasons I have just now Read which may be call'd Conscientia Rediviva I dare now let thee know that the real cause of my Publishing this Paper was my Conscience I think really in my Conscience that His Majesty is hearty and sincere in what he proposes and designs nothing but the Good of all His Subjects in general and that it is the Duty of every Man to Contribute something towards making such a Settlement as he desires And I think I have very good Reason for this my Conscience and so I think might all others would they but consider things impartially And since I am got upon the business of Conscience I find there are several Consciences in the Nation There is His Majesties Conscience the Bishops Conscience and the Consciences of all the several Sects and Divisions of Christians amongst us Now I shall not Examine how Unconscionable some of these Consciences may be nor how they came by such their differing Consciences but how if possible they may all be satisfied Then in the first place 'T is but a point of good Manners to let His Majesty's Conscience be first satisfied nay 't is a point of Prudence too And if men would but be wise and consider things as they ought and had really a mind that their Consciences should be satisfied they would begin here first and so reconcile their Duty and Intrest for in letting His Majesty to have His Conscience they really secure their own for 't is His Majesty's Conscience that all Consciences should be satisfied and that none shall be disturbed in any Way or Method they shall choose to obtain Eternal Life or secure a Mansion in another Would But then it is not His Conscience that any should have the power to Disturb or Ruine their Innocent Neighbours or be Indulged in a Liberty to choose what Irregular Methods they please in obtaining a Possession in this and this some Unconscionable Men know and are very much afraid of and 't is His Majesty's Justice they dread more then his Perswasion and they could willingly Tolerate the one so they might be Exempted from the other FINIS London Printed by G. L. at the Two Swans without Bishopsgate WITH ALLOWANCE