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Nineteen cases of conscience. Submissively tendred to Mr. Hugh Peters, and the rest of his fellow commissioners, the triars by sundry weak brethren.
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Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.
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1659
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Wing N1163; Thomason E986_16; ESTC R203061
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NINETEEN CASES OF CONSCIENCE Submissively tendred to Mr. HVGH PETRS And the rest of his Fellow Commissioners the TRIARS By sundry weak Brethren LONDON Printed in the year MDCLIX NINETEEN CASES OF CONSCIENCE I WHether the Immortality of a man's Soul be a Doctrine at all fit or suitable to be preached or taught either in Pulpits or Books to the men of this Generation and whether there be any such thing as a future condition of happiness or misery in another world Now the ground of this scruple ariseth from long observations in State ever since 1641 till this present 1659. II Whether it be not a matter of weighty consequence that a Petition be preferred to the Parliament to entreat them that they would pass an Act for repealing nulling and making void all Oathes whatsoever taken since 1 Caroli to the 3 of Septemb. 1658 And whether it be not expedient that this be done very suddenly least some who may be concern'd should in the interim sneak out of the world and so become incapable of receiving any benefit thereby III Whether it would not much advance our long desired Reformation if those places of Scripture out of which the Common-Prayer-Book is collected were diligently sought after and blotted out of our Bibles that no mark of the Superstitious Liturgy may remain among us to make our Children Idolaters IV Whether Lying crying at pleasure swearing by the living God murthering men at an High Court of Justice Perjury three or four times over eating the Bread of Orphans grinding the faces of the Poor trampling on abilities starving a learned and orthodox Ministry and exercizing worse Tyranny for five years last past over England than Pharaoh did over Aegypt were sins or â—ot And if sins whether any whit more venial in a Saint than a Sinner V Whether we have not as good cause to celebrate a solemn Anniversary of Thanksgiving upon the 3 of Sept. as the 5 of Novemb. for the mercifull deliverance from the Author of all our coâ—fusions VI VVhether a Common wealth modell'd as Mr. Harrington would have it like to that of Israel be not now the best kind of Government for us seeing we have so many Jewes amongst us VII VVhether the fellowes of Magdalen College in Oxford have not given Dr. Thomas Goodwin upon the account of his wife better reason to make an Horn-booke than Dr. Owen had given him by any body to make a Primmer VIII VVhether his late Highness's Letter to the House was not a large manifesto of the humility of his Spirit of his forsaking the World and the Devil of his Christian valour and fortitude a tryal of his patience an exercising of all his virtues a probate of his desire to save his windpipe and lastly of his mighty will to inform the world and the worthies thereof how inconstant that same blind whore Fortune is how burthensome Thrones and Scepters nay how empty a thing and how vain is Supream-Magistracy And this Remarqu ' may give us occasion to think upon those Comparisons which are frequent concerning this matter Mr. Quarlâ— hee sayes Or like a Sun or like a shade Or like the Gourd that Jonas had c. Another he sings sweetly Fortune my foe why art thou thus unkind c. Comparing Crowns to Crabtrees the Pearls upon them to Missletoe-berries which which we are confident are profitable for nothing save only to make birdlime to ensnare ambitious mortalls who as hee goes on with the Allegory are like little birds that hop up and down on little twigs on the highest trees they can find O sayes the School-boy think upon Icarus and Phaaeton thou that aspirest to a Diadem saies another Classicall Author remember Belizarius Blind Belizarius reaching out his cripled fingers and crying Give poor Belizarius one farthing O who would not part with an hundred Protectordomes if hee had them to occasion so many good thoughts in a sinner IX VVhether this Parliament would not quit Curtesie handsomly to turn his bones out of the Abbey who turn'd them by force and violence against all humanity and good manners out of the Parliament House or in short whether Quid pro Quo be not lawfull and avowable X. VVhether Machiavels maxime for which our Divines rail so at him viz. that Christian Religion makes man Cowards be not now sound Doctrine and most evidently demonstrated his by late Highnesse XI VVhether a man may not venture his Soul for the procurement of an Estate and promotion of his worldly interests altogether as laudably as for Religion XII VVhether it were not a deed of Charity in the Parliament to erect another High Court of Justice that so the Lord Lâ—s le might know how to dispose of some of that time and leasure which they have thought fit to allot him by discharging him the trouble of being one of the Keepers of the great Seal of England And whether we ought not to think in Charity that the House discarded him of his dignities in tender compassion to his Soul that so he might have convenience to repent him of his blood guiltinesse and other crying Sins which can the pared off with his nails XIII VVhether Sermons should not be put down as well as Playes the meetings being farr greater the Aâ—â—ores more seditious and fewer Souldiers being there by their good wills XIV Whether the Whore of Babylon that Man of Sin be in good earnest after so many disputes a Man or a 〈◊〉 or an Hermaphroditâ— XV Whether old Oliver Cromwel and Dr. Iohn Hewyt are now within sight of one another and if not how many Leagues over the Gulph is that parts 'em And truly the resolution of this one doubt if the Gulph were stated to be but narrow would make many men in this world excellent Swimmers in hopes one day to make use of their Art when the time shall come that they must either Sink or Swim XVI Whether they best deserve of the State who have hazarded their persons and estates or they that have ventur'd their Souls and Consciences for the Good Old Cause XVII Whether we be not much happier now than we have been any time this seven years before in regard we have again gotten over us the Harp and Crosse one being an inctrument of mirth and the other a badg of our Religion wheras before we had a great white ramping Lyon over us now a Lyon is a beast of prey and the property of beasts of prey is to devour as we all know VIII VVhether the Devil be not a Malignant because he is so hot for Monarchy and whether if the Act of Oblivion will not quit him that one Argument be not enough to perswade men to defie him and all his works XIX VVhether seeing that Liberty of Conscience is now generally granted to all men it be not the best exercise for poor witty Cavalliers to write Pamphlets and the best recreation for rich Commonwealth's men to read them The End