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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30511	The case of free liberty of conscience in the exercise of faith and religion presented unto the King and both Houses of Parliament ... / by ... Edward Burroughs.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1661 (1661)	Wing B5986; ESTC R5152	10,124	15

ye allow not the free exercise of Conscience in Spiritual matters but do take Dominion over mens faith and impose by violence in the cases of Conscience about Religion and do not suffer the Lord to enjoy his onely right to be King in the matters of his own Kingdom then ye divert the end of just rule and government among men and perverts the end of Gods great love and favour shewed unto you in restoring of you to the place of Authority and Judgment for the end of just Government upon earth by Kings and Rulers is to exercise Justice Truth and Righteousnesse among men and over the outward man and to be a praise to all that do well and walks uprightly and to be a terrour to all transgressors and them that do evil in their outward man and to keep the outward man in good order by just Judgment in all cases between man and man This is only the extent of your Authority over the outward man and to your Jurisdiction only this belongs to judge in Truth and Righteousness to make Laws and execute them between man and man to preserve mens persons and estates from the wrong one of another but not at all to make Laws and execute them between God and mens Consciences in the cases of his Spiritual Kingdom this power belongs to God and he hath not committed it to you to exercise and therefore let justice equity and mercy be exercised by you among men and over the outward man and in all cases between man and man but meddle not in the cases of mens faith to God and their Consciences to him but leave that unto him alone whose right it is for it is dangerous and will bring wofull effects if ye intrench on Gods Soveraignity and if ye divert the proper end of just Government and of the Love of God in restoring you into Authority and Power 4. Consider if ye allow not free Liberty of Conscience in the profession and practice of spiritual things but will compel by violence about Religion then this will inavoidably produce and bring forth cruel persecution in the Kingdoms imprisonment banishment and death and all the evil effects of persecution will fill the Nations for though never so forceable impositions be laid on the persons estates and consciences of men for the cause of difference in Judgment and practises of Religion and to compel into Conformity yet it cannot be supposed that all will bow and conform to the denying of that way which they are perswaded in Conscience to be right and to the embracing of what they cannot in Conscience believe is of God but will rather suffer the cruelest death then conform to any thing contrary to light and knowledge and if free Liberty of Conscience be denied many such must needs be exposed to persecution even to death though they may be peaceable people and profitable inhabitants of the Kingdoms and in the things between man and man and in all matters temporal pertaining to the King may be just and righteous and unreprovable yet because of difference in judgment and opinion exposed to be destroyed in person and estate and such effects will not be of honour nor safety to these Nations if innocent and just men be destroyed and their relations ruined onely for their Conscience and Religion sake by persecution 5. Consider if ye do impose one way of worship by force and persecute all that are contrary-minded to prison and death then how shall your Names and memorial be left a reproach to generations after you in dayes to come who shall repute you cruel men and persecutors and such as destroyed your people for difference in matters of Religion and without just cause and thus will your names be a curse and not a blessing to your Children and their Children to all ages if that ye make Laws and execute them to the persecution and destruction of people for Conscience sake and for difference in Religion for persecution was never of God nor ever justified in succeeding ages but persecutors alwaies were rendred Tyrants and cruell in the ages succeeding them for do not you condemn the Papists as oppressors and cruel persecutors in Queen Maries daies for their persecuting your Fore-fathers And King Iames said it was usually the condition of Christians to be persecuted but never to persecute c. in his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance pag. 4 And indeed they are no true Christians that persecutes for matters of Conscience and difference in Opinion but the false Christians that have a form of godliness but are without the power and out of the Doctrine of the Scriptures who saith love your enemies and render to no man evil for evil but over come evil with good 6. Consider If ye do impose upon the Conscience and persecute about Religion ye can never effect your end thereby as to force all into a conformity and uniformity to your Church and Religion but though death and banishment and the loss of all be inflicted yet such a thing cannot be effected neither is it the way of Christ to promote his Church and to convert the contrary-minded by such means as force and violence exercised on mens persons and estates As K. Iames said in his speech in Parliament 1609. That it is a sure rule in Divinity that God never loves to plant his Church with violence and bloud and if ye do persecute to the heighth in the case of Religion ye will weaken your selves and cause the love and good affection of people to die towards you and the persecuted will grow and their cause be made honourable and many will be increased unto it for it is usual in ages that the way and Religion which hath been most persecuted hath most grown and thus it must infallibly be at this day and ye can never effect your end by persecution nor promote your own Church nor destroy all the contrary-minded As a Privy Counsellor to K. Iames the 5th of Scotland advised in counsel about the year 1539. upon the occasion of diversities of opinions then in that Kingdom said he It is an errour of State in a Prince for an opinion of piety to condemn to death the adherers to new Doctrines for the constancy and patience of those who voluntarily suffer all temporal miseries for matters of faith stir up numbers who at first and before they had suffered were ignorant of their faith and doctrine not onely to favour their cause but to embrace their opinions pity and commiseration opening the gates and thus their faith is spread and their number daily increaseth c. 7. Consider If that ye do not allow Liberty of Conscience but do impose and persecute as aforesaid though some for your fear and terrour and force against their Consciences should deny their Principles and conform to your Church such ye cause to sin for whatsoever is performed by force and not of faith is sin as it is written and such their sin