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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30779	A proposal humbly offered for the farming of liberty of conscience	Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.; B. G.	1663 (1663)	Wing B6330; ESTC R15065	6,996	16

A PROPOSAL Humbly Offered FOR THE FARMING OF LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE Printed in the Year 1663. A Proposal Humbly offered for the Farming of Liberty of Conscience SInce nothing can be dearer unto poor Christians than Liberty or the free exercise of their Judgements and Conscience which hath kindled that fire in the bowels of the three Kingdoms which all the precious blood that hath been shed during those late Troubles hath not been able totally to extinguish And since many of us whose names are affixed were so profitable instrumental in those late Combustions as appears all along in our Sermons before the Honourable House of Parliament in the Years 1642. 43.44.45.46 in exciting the good people of this Nation to seek and maintain their Christian Liberty against all Prelaticall and Antichristian Imposition whatsoever And considering that the Little Finger of Apostasie from our first Love would be a greater burden upon our tender Consciences than the Loyns of Episcopacy We being more bound in Honour than Conscience cannot totally desist neither need any man fear or so much as suspect lest any inconvenience or alteration should happen in Religion by the great diversity of Opinions Tongues and Languages tolerated amongst us unless in the great Babel of Episcopacy that may possibly be pulled down and destroyed by this our notable Confution For if the Gospel was wonderfully difininated and spread abroad by every mans speaking in his own Language and the very Enemies thereof astonished and miraculously wrought into a belief of it how is it likely to be now obstructed in the free exercise of our Spiritual Gifts with these our cloven and devided Tongues And since many worthy Persons from whom we might little expect it but far less deserve it out of their goodness and clemency are pleased to encline to some Liberty did not some Persons Aliens and Strangers to the Common-wealth of Israel take up a reproach against us as Persons reprobated into a unpossibility of submission to Principles of Concord Peace and Order in Church or State never being able hitherto to come to any consistency amongst our selves The Ark of God having for twenty years together been exposed to by-wayes streets and worse places for want of an agreement amongst our own Brethren where to rest it or how to entertain it If this be our Case and could we be sure of so much favour as Saul once desired of Samuel that the Bishops would but honour us before the people We would in a private Christian way lay our hands upon our hearts and acknowledge the hand of God and the justice thereof in turning us out of his Vineyard as wicked and unprofitable Servants and to suffer the iniquity of our heels to overtake us crying out with Reverend Mr. Calamy The Ark of God is justly departed from us but being not yet thus assured do hope the people will yet believe these to be only Bears skins lapt about us by Episcopal hands And therefore to the end that a Consistency and Oneness of Judgement of the whole seperating Brethren and their moderation may be known unto all men and that the World may know that there is a Spirit of Rule and Government resting in us IT is humbly proposed that the Sole Power of granting Licences and Indulgences for Liberty of Conscience within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Barwick may be vested in the Persons under named for the term of seven years under the Farm Rent of an Hundred Thousand Pounds per Annum to Commence from the twenty fifth day of March next under such Rates and Qualifications as are bereafter specified The Names of the Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience proposed on yesterday being Monday March 2. 1662. being the day of a private Fast kept by Mr. Calamy Mr. Baxter and others at Mr. Beal's house near my Lord of Ely's Chappel in Holborn Mr. Edmond Calamy Mr. Tilham late of Colchester Mr. Philip Nye Mr. Feake Mr. Stanley of Dorchester George Fox Executor of the last Will and Testament of James Nailor deceased Doctor Lazarus Seaman Mr. Dell late of Cambridge Doctor Owen Mr. Bryan late of Coventry Mr. Matthew Mead Mr. John Coppin Doctor Manton Mr. Kiffen The Executor of Mr. Venner lately Executed Mr. Thomas Case Mr. Reynor late of Lincoln Mr. Ralph Venning Mr. Rogers Mr. Benn late of Dorchester Mr. George Griffith late of Charter-house The Executor of Hugh Peters lately Executed Mr. George Newton late of Taunton Mr. Dan. Lyke late of Hertford-shire Mr. William Ienkins Mr. Fisher late of Kent Doctor Thomas Goodwin Mr. Hammond late of Newcastle Mr. Peter Sterry Mr. Bridges late of Yarmouth Mr. Joseph Carroll Mr. Tombes late of Lemster Mr. Leigh late of Lumbard-street Mr. Mayo late of Kingston Mr. Joshua Sprigg Mr. Henry Jessey Mr. Newcomen of Dedham in Essex Doctor Tuckney of Cambridge Doctor Cornelius Burges Mr. Zarhary Croften Doctor Holmes Mr. John Cann Mr. Thomas Brooks That the Persons aforesaid may be constituted Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick and may be impowred to set up one publick Office within the City of London and to nominate and elect a convenient number of Registers Clerk and other Officers And for the more certainty of all Certificates to be granted as is hereafter appointed The said Grand Commissioners and Farmers may form a common Seal to be known and called by the common name of The Publique Seal of the Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience engraven An Ass without Ears Braying with this Motto encircled Stat proratione libertas And the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers or any 24. of them in the said Office assembled may from time to time compound and agree for Liberty of Conscience with any person or persons under such Rates and Qualifications as are hereafter specified That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers or any 24. of them may constitute and appoint under the Publique Seal of the Office Sub-Commissioners and other Officers for every County within the said Kingdom not exceeding the number of 12. for each County whereof 7. to be a Quorum who may compound and agree for Liberty of Conscience with any person or persons select Congregations Cities Towns Corporate Parishes Hamlets and Villages by the great or otherwise within their respective Countries not exceeding the Rates hereafter mentioned Rates to be observed in all Compositions for Liberty of Conscience   Per Annum A Presbyterian Minister 5 0 0 A Ruling Elder 4 0 0 A Deacon 3 0 0 A Hearer Male or Female in Fellowship to all Ordinances 2 0 0 A Common Hearer only 1 0 0 A Inndependant Pastor 5     A Teaching Elder 4 0 0 A Helper in Government 3 0 0 A Deacon 3 0 0 A Hearer male or female in Fellowship to all Ordinances 2 0 0 A common Hearer only 1 0 0 A Baptist admitted to the administration of