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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26160	An Attestation to the testimony of our reverend brethren of the province of London to the truth of Jesus Christ, and to our Solemn League and Covenant as also against the errours, heresies, and blasphemies of these times, and the toleration of them, resolved on by the ministers of Cheshire, at their meeting May 2, and subscribed at their next meeting, June 6, 1648.		1648 (1648)	Wing A4161; ESTC R17649	58,802	68

if they bee published in Bookes and Pamphlets that they ought to pursue them with zeale as hot as fire that they may bee burned as the Bookes of (g) Abderites Protagoras cum in principi● libri sui sic posuisset de Diis neque ut sint neque ut non sint habeo dicere libri ejus in concione combusti sunt Cicer. de Nat. Deo l. 1. p. 206. Abderites Protagoras were at Athens for his speaking doubtfully of Religion in the beginning of them and the bookes of curious arts at Ephesus Acts 19.19 and the Bookes of the hereticks as of (h) Nicep Calist l. 8. Eccl. Hist c. 18. col 384. Arius and others and that the persons of such as are forward to poyson soules with pernicious errours if when they be forbidden they will not forbeare ought either to be confined or exiled a ● (i) Athen●ensium jussu urbe atque agro exterminatus est librique ejus ut supra ad lirt g. Abderites Protagoras was by the Civill authority and no more to be allowed liberty to seduce the soules of men to the belief of damnable doctrines then those who have the Plague sore running upon them to come into all companies or for furious mad men to bee permitted to walke at large with Swords in their hands to wound and kill whom they meet if they have a mind unto it And wee take it to bee the true Bloody Tenent which might give denomination to the Booke of that title though the Authour meant no such matter k Bloody Tenent p. 2. That it is the will of God that since the comming of his Son Christ Iesus a permission of the most Pagan Iewish Turkish and Antichristian consciences and worships be granted to all men in all Nations and Countries and that they are onely to bee fought against with that which onely in soule matters is able to conquer to wit the sword of Gods Spirit the Word of God And (l) Ibid. c. 3. p. 19. that to molest any person Iew or Gentile for either professing doctrine or practising Worship meerely Religious or Spirituall is to persecute him and such a person what ever his Doctrine or practice bee true or false suffers the persecution for conscience Which are such maximes of soule-murther as if when hee wrote them Satan who most thirsteth for the blood of souls did not onely stand at his right hand as Psal 119.6 but did guide his pen while he wrote such paradoxes of perdition against which it were an easie taske if it were any part of our present undertaking to make good the contrary tenent of (m) Mea primitus Sententia erat neminem ad veritatem Christi esse cogendum Sed haec opinio mea non contradicentium verbis sed demonstrantium superabatur exemplis Aug. Ep. 48. Vincentio p. 195. Augustine Where hee corrected his former remisnesse and lenity towards the erronious by resolving upon better consideration that men may be compelled to their own good and overruled when they are in an evill mind which is the summary contents of his Epistle to Donatus the Donatist when cited to the councell hee offered to make away himselfe by the way Fourthly In opposition to the prodigious indulgence forenoted and to the evill effects it may produce if not opposed by the Magistrates as well as by the Ministers We conceive it was necessary for the High Court of Parliament to set forth an Ordinance for the punishing of Blasphemies n The same day the Ministers of Cheshire met at Northwich and resolved of an Attestation to the Testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ c. as they did the second of May 1648. Whereof the summary Contents which wee think meet to mention in this place are that all such persons as shall from and after the date of this present Ordinance willingly by preaching teaching printing or writing maintain and publish that there is no God or that God is not present in all places doth not know and foreknow all things or that hee is not Almighty that he is not perfectly Holy or that he is not Eternall or that the Father is not God the Son is not God or that the Holy Ghost is not God or that shall in like manner maintaine and publish that Christ is not God equall with the Father or shall deny the manhood of Christor that the Godhead and Manhood of Christ are severall natures or that the humanity of Christ is pure and unspotted from all sinne or that shall maintain or publish as aforesaid that Christ did not dye nor rise from the dead nor is ascended into heaven bodily or that deny his death is meritorious in the behalfe of Beleevers or that shall maintain and publish as aforesaid that the holy Scriptures of the Old Testament from the first of Genesis to Malachi and of the New Testament from Matthew to the Revelation is not the Word of God or that the bodies of men shall not rise againe or that there is no day of Iudgement after death All such maintaining and publishing of such errour or errours is made felony and the party accused thereof by the oath of two witnesses before any two of the next Iustices who in such a case are authorized by the Ordinance to minister an Oath or by confession of the party shall by them bee committed to prison without baile or mainprize untill the next Gaole-delivery at which hee shall bee indicted for felonious publishing and maintaining such errour And in case the Indictment bee found and the party upon his triall shall not abjure his said errour and defence and maintenance of the same hee shall suffer the paines of death as in case of felonie without benefit of Clergie and in case hee shall renounce and abjure his c. Hee shall neverthelesse remaine in prison untill hee shall find two sureties being subsidy men that hee shall not thenceforth publish c. And if after abjuration hee relapse and it bee proved as aforesaid hee shall suffer death as in case of Felony without benefit of Clergy And it is further Ordained by authority aforesayd that every person that shall publish or maintain as aforesaid that all men shall bee faved or that man by nature hath free will to turn to God or that God may bee worshipped in or by pictures or Images or that the soule of any man after death goeth neither to heaven or hell but to Purgatory or that the soule of man dyeth or sleepeth when the body is dead or that Revelations or the workings of the Spirit are a rule of faith or Christian life though diverse from or contrary to the written word of God or that man is bound to beleeve no more then by his reason he can comprehend or that the Morall law of God contained in the ten Commandements is no rule of Christian life or that a beleever need not repent or pray for pardon of sinnes or that the two Sacraments of