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A78056 Religions peace: or, A plea for liberty of conscience. Long since presented to King James, and the High Court of Parliament then sitting, / by Leonard Busher citizen of London, and printed in the year 1614. Wherein is contained certain reasons against persecution for religion, also a designe for a peaceable reconciling of those that differ in opinion. Busher, Leonard.; H. B. 1646 (1646) Wing B6251; Thomason E334_7; ESTC R200599 43,040 46

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pomp and state and of our great and princelike houses housholds and revenues that so we may be made equall and conformable to the ministers of Christ and then we shal have both hope and comfort of the world to come although but little in this except your Majesty and Parliament do grant free liberty of conscience the which wee now doe also with the poor distressed christians most humbly intreat and desire and that for these foure reasons First because thereby the gospel of Christ will be set free and at liberty whereby all people both Iews and Gentiles wil be gathered to the apostolick faith church and discipline Secondly because many of your Majesties subjects both men and women who now are forced to dissemble their Religion for fear of our persecution will be released and set free from their spirituall bondage and slavery wherein we now doe hold them against their consciences and so they will become more faitfull Christians to God and more loyall subjects to your Majesty then ever they were before to the salvation of their soules and the safety of the Crown and State Thirdly because the poore distressed Christians how banished and dispersed out of their Fatherland over the face of the earth will bee redeemed from great misery and bondage wherein now no doubt they live and abide because they will not bee in bondage to any other spirituall Lord or bead then the Lord Iesus Messiah alone whose faith and discipline they desire onely to learne and obey Fourthly because thereby great benefit and commodity will redound both to your Majesty and to all your subjects within your Highness dominions by the great commerce in trade and trafick both of Iewes and all people which now for want of liberty of conscience are forced and driven elswhere and also from the revenues and livings which we and our Clergy doe possesse and from the Courts and offices we hold and keep greats profit and commodity will redound both to your Highnesse and to all your kingdoms we say more profit and commodity then we or any man is able to expresse And therefore we also desire all his Majesties subjects hath great and small in all love and feare of God not to be offended or any way moved or grieved Too great is the ods to use the sword against Gods Word when they shall see such a●d formation of us as that famous King Henry the eight did make of our lordly brethren the Abbots and their Clergy For indeed such a reformation ought to come among us and our Clergy seeing we are no way agreeable to the new Testament of the onely spirituall Lord Iesus Messiah but are limbs and fellow members of that Antichristian and Romish church which in the scriptures is Prophecyed to be abolished and destroyed Now therefore we pray you all let not King David say the sons of Zerviah are too strong for him for that will be unprofitable for you all And for conclusion we entreat his Majesty and Parliament to enact that as our adversaries come against us onely with the word of God so we go against them onely with the word of God and nor as we have done by civill authority for so our selves may be forced to dissemble Thus it may be the Lord will perswade and work in the hearts of some of the Bishops who will willingly resign their Antichristian titles and Popish pomp and state with their princelike houses and livings into the hands of the King without any compulsion or constraint But if they do not yet if it please God to open the Kings heart to see their Antichristian and Idol estate the danger and damage they cause both to the King Prince people they will be compelled thereto even as their lordly brethren the Abbots in King Henry's days were The Bps. greater Idols then the Abbots images or golden calf And howsoever it be not regarded or perhaps not discerned yet in the sight of God and his people they are greater Idols then their lordly brethren the Abbots yea greater Idols then the images of wood and stone which that famous and godly King Edward did pul down and destroy for they did not imprison nor burn nor hang nor yet cause to bee banished any of the Kings subjects thus would not worship them as these Idol-bishops do and out of doubt these Bishops are greater Idols then the golden Calfe Airon made and offered unto for the Calf did not persecute nor vex such as did not acknowledge it for their Lord as the Bishops doe neither did the Calf reign and rule by force over the consciences of the people as these Idol-bishops doe Besides the Calf was set up in stead of Moses who brought the people out of Egypt Ex. 32.1 7. What greater idolatry then to obey other spirituall Lords then the Lord Iesus and shewed them the will of God but these Bishops are set up in stead of Christ who have brought us out of the bondage of hel and who sheweth us his Fathers will in his new Testament the which these Idol-bishops will not suffer us to obey but in stead thereof will force us to fal down worship and obey their father Antichrists wil and old testament which stinks in the nostrills of all reformed strangers that hear thereof as well as in ours that have taken our flight from it Therefore these spirituall lords and Idol-bishops ought to be pulled down and suppressed 2 Kings 23 17.20 like the Abbots their lordly brethren though not sacrificed unto the Lord in Smithfield as the godly King Josias sacrificed the Idol-priests of the high places on the Altars thereof And I do verily beleeve that if free liberty of conscience be granted that the spiritual kingdom of these Idol-bishops will in time fall to the ground of it self 1 Sam. 5.3 as the Idol Dagon fell before the Ark for through the knowledge of Gods word will all godly people withdraw themselves in all peaceable and godly wife from the spirituall obedience of these spirituall Lords and Idol-bishops and quietly betake themselves unto the obedience of the only spiritual Lord Iesus Messiah But howsoever it be I shall be contented therewith and so I wish a●l others for we all ought to be content if we obtain liberty of conscience and therefore to give God praise continually that hath wrought so blessed a work in the hearts of the King and Parliament for whom as the Scripture teacheth wee ought to make supplications 1 Tit. 2.1.2 prayers and intercessions that they may come to the knowledge of the truth and that we may lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godlinesse and honesty And unto whom we ought to give by the law of God all earthly honour Ro. 13.1.7 fear and reverence and willingly to pay tribute and custome tax and toll so much and so often as it shall please his Majesty and Parliament to appoint and gather by any officer or officers
Sermons nor yet by their bookes which are full fraighted with false doctrines and confirmed and countenanced not onely by the Kings authority and power but also by wresting and false interpreting of the Scriptures and by alledging of popish Fathers which through the great ignorance of the people doe greatly prevaile btt then shall be abolished through the word and spirit of god his two witnesses in the mouth of his servants Rev. 11.3 and 19.10 who by word and writing shall breed such knowledge that none of wisedomes children shall be deceived Another reason why so many good people are now deceived is because we that have most truth are most persecuted and therefore most poore whereby we are unable to write and print as we would against the adversaries of the truth it is hard to get our daily food with the labors of our weak bodies and feeble hands how then should we have to defray other charges and to write and print I have through the help of god out of his word made a scourge of small cords 2 Pet. 2.2 wherewith Antichrist and his Ministers might be driven one of the Temple of God Also a declaration of certain false translations in the new Testament but I want wherewith to print and publish it therefore it must rest til the Lord see'th good to supply it It is the kings honor to search out a thing Prov. 25. Exod 3.6 In mean while I humbly intreat his Majesty and Parliament to give me leave to prove the Bishops with one question by which you may perceive the ignorance of your Bishops 't is this how they will bee able to prove a resurrection from these words I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Onely from these words will they prove the resurrection if they be the Bishops of Christ for he proved the resurrection from hence Luk. 20.27 The question is hard I grant but if their Lordships be not able to interpret it according to the meaning of Christ as I am sure they are not then it will be another cause very sufficient for their deprivation from their Lordly and idol offices and princely livings But because most men do wrest and mis-interpret the Scriptures some of wickednesse and some of ignorance for the utterance of their doctrines and so deceive both Prince and people I will shew how you shall perceive it lest thereby you still be deceived Every Scripture therfore mis-interpreted do make a contradiction As for example M. Iohnson one of the Preachers called Brownists to prove Rome a true church alledgeth 2 Thes 2.4 where the Apostle sheweth That the man of sin and son of perdition sitteth in the Temple of God which words Temple of God he interpreteth to be the church of God whereby he doth greatly erre for then such interpretation will contradict this scripture which saith 1 Tim. 3.15 The Church of God is the pillar and ground of truth But if the man of sin sitteth there Rev. 28.2 Rev. 18 4. then it is a hold of foul spirits a cage of every unclean and hatefull bird as the Scripture speaketh yea the pillar and ground of falshood and not of truth Neither would the Lord call his people out of her as he doth if it were the true Church Rev. 12.13 14. Also if the temple of God in that place be interpreted the church of God this foul absurdity and contradiction will follow viz. that the Church called the woman to whom were given two wings of a great Eagle that she might fly into the wildernesse from her persecutors for a time times and half a time was not persecuted neither yet did sly into the wildernesse so long a time Neither yet was the Church called both woman and whore Re. 17.1 5. also great Babylon the mother of whoredoms and abominations of the earth drunken with the blood of the saints and of the martyrs of Iesus as the Scripture testifyeth Again if that be the church of God where the man of sin sitteth then the winepresse was not troden without but within the Church and so it also crosseth this Scripture which saith Rev. 14.20 the winepress was troden without the City so that blood came out unto the horse bridles by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs Ergo a false interpretation Moreover we are not to understand the word Temple at all times to mean the Church for when Christ said destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up again did not mean the church nor yet the materiall Temple wherin he was but meant his body yet the Jews understood the word Temple otherwise even as Mr. Iohnson c doe here understand the word Temple otherwise then the bodies of peoples multitudes nations Rev. 17.5 and tongues which they ought not to doe Likewise Paul when he said If any man destroy the Temple of God him will God destroy did not mean the Church but the members of the Church So when he said the man of sin sitteth in the Temple of God he did not mean so much as the members of the church much lesse the church Therefore it must be understood that all those in whom the man of sin sitteth are called the Temple of God onely in respect that the Lord hath bought them for the Lord hath bought all men 2 Pet. 2.1 1 Joh. 2.2 1 Cor. 6.19 20. 7.23 Lev. 18.6 even the false teachers that deny him Therefore no man is his own in that respect but the Lords Also the Bishops themselves to prove brothers and sisters children may marry alledge Lev. 18. But that Scripture do not prove such marriages but the full contrary for it saith none shall come near to any of his kindred to uncover shame But brother and sisters children are kinsfolks Lev. 18.17 therefore they may not come near to uncover shame for that were wickednesse This they must confesse or else prove that brother and sisters children are not kinsfolks which they cannot seeing then brother and sisters children cannot call cozen and so all cozenship is blotted out by their doctrine for uncles and Aunts call their brothers and sisters child nephew neece Thus many Bishops and preachers do deceive Kings Princes and peoples by wresting and misinterpreting the Scripture Col. 2 8.1● Therefore I earnestly desire your Majesty and Parliament to beware lest there be any man that spoyle you through Philosophy and vaine deceit through the Traditions of men according to the rudiments of the World and not after Christ 1 Tim. 6. ● 20 21. ● And to avoid profane and vain bablings and Antithesis or opposition falsly called learning which while some professe they have erred concerning the faith And now O King Prince and Parliament open your eyes and listen your eares unto compassion and mercy 2 Cor. 5.10 Mat. 5.45 Ver. 21 22. Lu. 18.7 8. 2 Thes 14.8 Jam. 1.5 6.