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B07159	A most humble supplication of many the Kings Maiesties loyall subiects, ready to testifie all civill obedience, by the oath, as the law of this realme requireth, and that of conscience; who are persecuted, onely for differing in religion, contrary to divine and humane testimonies as followeth..	Murton, John.	1621 (1621)	STC 563.7; ESTC S95969	22,236	39

hid c. And Esa 56.10 c. Their watchmen are all blind they have no knowledge c. and these shepheards cannot understand for they all looke to their owne way every one for his owne advantage and for his owne purpose Also Ier. 8.9 The wisemen are ashamed they are afraid and taken for loe they have rejected the word of the Lord and what wis●dome is in them c. Reade Ier. 14.14 c. and 50.6 My people have beene as lost sheep their sheepherds have caused them to goe astray and have turned them away to the Mountaines c. And Micha 3. ch Night shall be unto them for a vision and darkenesse for a divination and he Sunne shall goe down over the Prophets and the day shall be darke over them c. For they have no answer of God They build up Sion with bloud and Ierusalem with iniquitie c. And Zeph. 3.4 Her Prophets are light and wicked persons her Priests have polluted the Sanctuarie they have ●…rested the Law And in the time of our Saviour how had they made the commandements of God of no authori●y by their Traditions Mat. 15. And Act. 13.27 For the Rulers of Ierusalem the high Priests Scribes ●nd Pharisees knew not Christ nor yet the words of ●he Prophets which they heard read every Sabbath day but fulfilled them in condemning him And our Saviour saith thanke thee O Father because thou hast hid these things from the wise and men of understanding Mat. 11. And none of the Pharisees or Rulers beleeved on him Ioh. 7.48 And the Apostle 1 Cor. 1.20 Where is the wise where is the Scribe where is the disputer of this world Hath not God made the wisedome of this world foolishnesse And vers 26. Not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called and others moe Next for the learned since the time of our Saviour The Councell of Ephesus where were present 132. Bishops of Seleucia where were present 160. Bishops related by the Protestants how grievously did they erre in decreeing flat Arianisme Who is ignorant knowing the Histories that from time to time both particular Popes and Generall Councels have grossely erred in many things Onely one wee will mention passing by Trent and others the Councell Lateran we meane which for Vniversalitie was behind none where were present two Patriarches 70. Archbishop Metropolitanes 400. Bishops 12. Abbats 800. Coventuall Priors the Legates of the Greeke and Romane Empire besides the Orators and Embassadours of the Kings of Ierusalem France Spaine England and Cyprus in which Councell it was decreed That all Heretiques and so many as in any point resist the Catholique Faith should be condemned c. And that the Secular powers of what degree soever they bee shall be compelled openly to sweare for the defence of the faith that to the uttermost of their power to roote out and destroy in all their Kingdomes all such persons as the Catholique Church had condemned for Heretiques and if they doe not they shall be excommunicate and if they doe not reforme within one whole yere then the Pope may denounce all his subjects absolved and utterly delivered from shewing or owing any fidelitie or obedience towards him Againe That the Pope may give that land to be occupied and enjoyed of the Catholiques to possesse it all Heretiques being rooted out quietly without contradiction Tho. Beacon Cum privil An. 1567. And the Protestants say that this imperfection hath hung so fast upon all Councels and Churches that Nazianzen saith He never saw any Councell have a good end White pag. 83. Are not here sufficient Testimonies proved from Scriptures and Experience that the learned have usually erred and that so often the holy Scripture warneth us to beware of false Prophets for many are gone out into the world 1. Ioh. 4.1 c. And will not your Majestie your Highnesse your Honours your Worships be pleased to consider of these things but will your selves submit the guidance of your soules to the learned Spirituality as they are called without due examination by the Scriptures which if you doe we can but bewaile with the sorowes of our hearts and are you not herewith satisfied but will you with your power which God hath given you to use well compell and constraine your subjects and underlings to beleeve as the learned binding our consciences by not suffring us to reade and search the Scriptures which if you abhor as being the Romish practise will you doe that which is worse letting us reade the Scripture wherby we may know the will of our heavenly Master and have our consciences enlightned and convinced but not suffer us to practise that we learne and know and that our consciences are convinced of by the Scriptures whereby our sinne and condemnation is made greater against God then the blinde Papist as is proved Luk. 12.47 but we must captivate our consciences and practise to that which in our soules we know to be will and contrary to the manifest law of the Lord onely because the learned have so decreed whom you acknowledge are subject to erre as well as others or else lie in perpetuall imprisonment and be otherwise grievously persecuted May it please you to observe that The Church of Rome seeth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh hath abolished the Priesthood of Aaron and the Legal sacrifices but the learned Iewes see it not to this day nay the high Priests Scribes and Pharisees saw it not but for the publishing thereof persecuted Christ the Lord his holy Apostles to the death calling their doctrine heresie them seditious enemies to Caesar what not for which their cruelty we all justly condemne them so often as we reade the holy historie And the Church of England seeth divers damnable doctrines of the Church of Rome this among many That the Scriptures are not the onely rule of faith but that men ought to be constrained to beleev as the Church beleeves the Protestants see the iniquitie of this because they see all Churches are subject to erre But the learned Papists see it not but have decreed That who so resisteth any point shal be judged as an Heretique and suffer fire and fagot for the which the Protestants and we justly cry out against them for all the innocent bloud that they have shed And we see most manifestly that whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14.23 and that no mortall man may make a law to the conscience and force unto it by persecutions and consequently may not compell to any religion where faith is wanting But the learned of this land see it not or rather will not practise it but for our profession practise of this truth procureth your temporall sword for their spirituall is without edge to persecute us by casting us into prisons where some of us have remained divers yeres in lingring imprisonment without hope of release till our God perswade the harts

of your Majestie your Highnes your Honors your Worships to take pitie on us our poore wives and children or his heavenly Majestie release us by death Will not succeeding ages cry out against these cruell courses of the Protestants as well as they crie out against the crueltie of the Iewes and Papists Yes we are assured they will as many millions doe in other Nations at this day The Scriptures declare the cause of the blindnesse of the learned Iewes was Not the obscurity of the Scriptures but that they winked with their eyes lest they should see and lest their honour and profite should decay and come to nothing Ioh. 11.48 and because their feare towards God vvas taught by mens Precepts and because they looked to their own vvay and to their owne advantage and had rejected the word of the Lord and because they builded their Sion with bloud and Ierusalem with iniquitie and sought their own Honour and not Gods So the cause of the blindnesse of the learned Papists in denying the Scriptures to be the onely rule of faith is not the obscurity of the Scriptures but they receiving not the love of the Truth God hath given them up to strange and strong delusions and the cause of their not receiving the love of the truth being all those afore-named in the Iewes And the Protestant well observeth that the causes why the Papist deny the Scriptures onely sufficiencie and strive so much for their Churches Authoritie are two First That they might make themselves Iudges in their own cause For vvho seeth not that if the Church be the rule of faith and theirs be the Church which way the verdit will goe Next For that the greatest points of their Religion have no foundation on the Scriptures So that take away the Scriptures and establish their Religion but establish the Scriptures and their Religion vanisheth and that Mother of whoredomes that glorified her selfe as a Queene shall be consumed for her Merchants that are wexed rich through her pleasure and profites shall waile and weep The which they now seeing shut their eyes lest they should see that that should bring them from those Honours Profites and Pleasures In like manner it may easily be judged by everie indifferent heart that the cause why the learned of this land will be blind in not ceasing to constraine men to practise that in Gods worship in which they have not faith nay vvhich is contrarie to the light of their consciences is Not the obscuritie of the Scriptures But their winking with their eyes lest they should see that that would take away their honours profits and pleasures For if Bribes blinde the eyes of the wise Deut. 16.19 then honours profits and pleasures much more For who seeth not if none should be compelled to practice any thing in Gods worship but what they have faith in which will make them read willingly and worship holily then the Honours Profits and Pleasures of the learned men in respect of Spiritualty would decay although your Majestie might lawfully give them what temporall Honours Profits and Pleasures your Highnesse liked of These are the true causes of the blindnesse of the learned For so Christ saith Ioh. 5. How can yee beleeve when yee seeke honour one of another and seeketh not the honour that is of God And how can men but be blind in Gods mysteries vvhen they look to their own way for their own advantage and for their own purpose For having rejected the word of the Lord what wisedome is in them they have no answer of God that build up their Syon for so they account their Churches or professions vvith bloud and Ierusalem with iniquitie If these learned could free us from the Lords wrath or that they might answer for us and we be free it were safe for us to submit our selves and captivate our judgements and practise to them but seeing they cannot so much as deliver their own soules and that if the blind leade the blind both must fall into the ditch Mat. 15. and everie one give account of himselfe to God Rom. 14. and be judged by his own workes done in the flesh 2. Cor. 5. and that the soule that sinneth shall die Ezek. 18. vvee dare not follow any mortall man in matters of salvation further then wee know him to agree vvith Gods meaning in the Scriptures Paul the holy Apostle of Iesus Christ taught that we should follow him no otherwise then he followed Christ 1. Cor. 11.1 yea Christ himselfe sent men to the Scripture to try his doctrine Ioh. 5. The Apostles suffred their doctrine to be tryed and commended them that tryed it Act. 17.11 And the Protestants confesse White pag. 127. This doctrine was never misliked till a Church arose up whose silver being drosse and whose milke poyson could not endure the tryall which being true that we may trie why may we not also judge and practise according as Gods Spirit shall direct us in our tryall If a man should drinke poyson and know it to be poyson were he not in a worse estate then hee that should doe it ignorantly not knowing thereof even a murtherer of himselfe in the highest degree so he that drinketh spirituall poyson knowing it for so it is unto them they not having faith in it he is in a worse estate even a murtherer of his owne soule in the like degree And therefore that Church or those learned that vvill suffer their doctrine to be tryed and yet constraine men to receive it and practise it when upon tryall their consciences are convinced of the falshood thereof are worse and doe more highly sinne then they that constraine a blind conscience though both be evill Wee despise not learning nor learned men but doe reverence both it and them according to their worthinesse onely when it is advanced into the seat of God and that given unto it which apperteineth to the Holy Ghost which is to leade into all truth then ought all as Hezekiah did unto the brazen serpent detest it and contemne it CHAP. VI. Persecution for Religion is against the Law of Christ FIrst himselfe commanded Mat. 13.30 vvith 38. Let the Tares and wheate grow together in the world untill the end of this world Secondly the same Christ our Lord commandeth Mat. 15.14 that they which are blindly led on in false Religion and are offended at him for teaching true Religion should be let alone deferring their punishment unto their falling into the ditch Thirdly hee reproved his Disciples vvho would have had fire to come downe from heaven and devoured those Samaritanes that vvould not receive Christ saying Yee know not of what spirit yee are the Sonne of man is not to destroy mens lives but to save them Luke 9.54.55 which plainely proveth that Christ vvould have no man hurt for Religion although they be refusers of him Fourthly the Holy Ghost teacheth the servants of the Lord must not strive but be gentle towards all men suffering the evill