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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56579	A modest and peaceable letter concerning comprehension, &c.	B. P.	1668 (1668)	Wing P7; ESTC R7834	7,213	16

That God would take them out of the World This you may find in the Reports of that Learned Judg as it was left amongst many other of his Reports all exactly written with his own hand and as they are now publisht by Sir Harebottle Grimstone who now is the worthy Master of the Rolls And you may note that the said Reports were publisht in the year 1658 at which time Oliver the Tyrant was in his full power and you may there find that all his Judges allowed these Reports to be made publick and subscribed their Names to them and with Oliver's consent doubtless for he had found that those very Non-conformists whose Sedition helpt him into his power became after a short time as restless and discontent as they were with their lawful King and indeed as willing to pull him down as they had been diligent to set him up Dear Cousin these Places to which I have refer'd you for a Testimony of what I said are not to be doubted and though you would not then give any credit to what I assur'd you I knew to be a truth yet I hope you now will And now seriously Sir let me appeal to your own Conscience and ask how easily would you have given credit to any stranger that had brought you news of any error committed by any Bishop or their Chaplins or by any of the Conformable Clergy though there were not any reasonable Probability for it Dear Cousin consider what I say and consider there is a great stock of innocent blood to be answered for not only the blood of our late Vertuous King and the blood of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Lord Strafford but the blood of many good and innocent Families that now eat the bread of sorrow by being impoverisht and undone and which is worse there is a corruption of the manners of the greatest part of the Nation to be answered for and all this occasioned by our late Civil War and that War occasioned by the discontented restless Non-conformists and them only for till then we knew not the name of Independent or of Seiker or Quaker Cousin these are the sad effects of thes● busie bodies many of whom God hath still so blinded that they cannot yet see the errors they have run themselves and the Nation into nay that would imbroile it again into greater ruin rather than not be complyed with in their peevish desires and designes Dear Cousin I will not say all but indeed too many of the men with whom you comply and do so much magnifie are too like Simeon and Levi that were Brethren in this iniquity And as you love the peace of the Church in which you were Baptized and the peace of the Land in which you were born and live and enjoy what you have nay as you love the peace of your own Soul draw back and let it not enter any more into their Councels or Confederacy but at last take notice that though neither you nor any of your Associates scruple at the sin of Sedition but rush into it without Consideration or fear even as a Horse rushes into the battel yet I pray take notice that St. Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians reckons it with the deeds of the flesh even with murder and Witchcraft which you so much abhor and many think Sedition a more hainous sin than they by reason of the more evil and more destructive effects of it for murder may become so by taking away the life of but one single person and witchcraft hath its limits and bounds set to it perhaps not to take away the life of any man but only to do mischief to a single person or a Family and must end there But who knows the limits of Sedition or when the fire is kindled which is intended by seditious men who can who is able to quench it And for some proof of the miserable effects of it though I might give you too many sad instances of them in former times yet I will only refer you to the late Long Parliament now fresh in memory and the woful effects of that Civil War begot and maintained by seditious discontented men And for the sorrow you express for those men of tender Consciences that are scandalized at wearing a Surplice kneeling at receiving the Sacrament the Cross in Baptism and the like and would have them therefore taken away that so many so learned and so godly Men might by taking them away be brought to a Conformity and made capable of preaching the Gospel which otherwise they cannot do being scandalized at these Ceremonies I now ask you what if more men and more learned men and more godly men and as tender conscioned men shall be scandalized by their being taken away What care will you or those of your party take for their tender Consciences Nay I ask again what if we shall forget or neglect the tender Consciences of our own party and comply with yours What security can you or they give us that this shall satisfie them so as to ask no more when this is granted Or that a year hence their Disciples or their Successors shall rest satisfied with what is now granted Really I cannot think any security can be given but that this being granted yet any man of a melancholly or a malicious or a peevish or a fantastical or a wanton Conscience or a Conscience that inclines to get reputation and Court applause may call his own a tender Conscience and become seditious and restless if his tender Conscience be not compli'd with I shall next satisfie your desire or rather your challenge why I go so constantly to the Church Service and my answer shall be in all love and in sincerity I go to adore and worship my God who hath made me of nothing and preserv'd me from being worse than nothing And this I do inwardly in my Soul and testifie it outwardly by my behaviour as namely by forbearing to cover my head in that place dedicated to God and only to his Service and also by standing up at the profession of the Creed which contains the several Articles that I and all true Christians profess and believe and also by standing up at giving Glory to the Father the Son and to the Holy Ghost and confessing them to be Three Persons and but one God And secondly I go to Church to praise my God for his many deliverances of me from the many dangers of my Body and more especially of my Soul in sending me Redemption by the death of his Son my Saviour and for the constant assistance of his Holy Spirit a part of which Praise I perform frequently in the Psalmes which are daily read in the Publick Congregation And thirdly I go to Church publickly to confess and bewail my sins and to beg pardon for them for his merits who died to reconcile me and all Mankind unto God who is both his and my Father and for the Words in which I

A Modest and Peaceable LETTER CONCERNING Comprehension c. LONDON Printed in the Year 1668. A LETTER Concerning COMPREHENSION Good Cousin I Am right sorry that the Parliaments casting out the Bill of Comprehension should so much concern you as to put you into such a passion as you exprest against them and me at our last nights meeting Sure the Company you now converse with and the strange Principles with which they have now possest you have alter'd your nature and turn'd your former reason into prejudice and unbelief if not you would have believ'd what I did so seriously affirm to be a known truth namely That this Age is not more severe against the disturbers of the setled Peace and Government of the Church and State than they were in the very happy days of our Good Queen Elizabeth Some of the Reasons why I said so I do with very much affection tender to your Consideration and to your Censure to and that the last may be the more charitable and you not apt to make the errors or failings of your Governors seem more or greater than indeed they are let me intreat that you remember what I have very often said to you namely That malicious men of whom really I do not take you to be one are the best Accusers and the worst Judges And indeed I fear it would prove to be a bitter truth if some had that power which too many labour for in these days in which Schism and Sedition are taken to be no sins by men who pretend a tenderness of Conscience in much smaller matters And that I may keep some order and you be the better satisfied in what I intend in this Letter I earnestly intreat that you will at your next leisure read in Mr. Cambdens true History of the Life and Raign of our Good Queen Elizabeth in which you may find what care was then taken to prevent Schism and the sad confusion that attends it and how the Contrivers of Libels and dispersers of them have been severely punisht many of them even to death as namely Henry Barrow and many of his Sectaries for disturbing the publick peace of the Nation by scattering abroad their monsterous Opinions as also for affirming the Church of England to be no true Church and the like As you may find written by the said Mr. Cambden in the thirty-sixth year of that Good Queens Raign But I commend more especially to your Consideration the story and sad death of Hacket and his Adherents as namely of Wiginton Arthington and Copinger all of one Sect and Brotherhood But I say I do most seriously commend to your Consideration the beginning and death of the said Hacket who was first but a Schismatick and stopt not there but became by degrees so fully possest by the evil spirit the spirit of pride and opposition that he publickly revil'd the Queen the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor and at last became so infamous an Heretick that he was condemn'd to death for his errors at which time he revil'd and curst his Judges and died blaspheming and reproaching his Creator This you may read in the Thirty-fourth year of Queen Elizabeth as it is written by honest learned Mr. Cambden who concludes this story of Hacket with this observation Thus doth the enemy of Mankind bewitch those men whom he seeth are not content to be wise unto sobriety These stories I say and too many like them you may find in Mr. Cambd. Hist of Q. Eliz. and you may find the like in Bishop Spots woods History of the Church of Scotland and also the like in Mr. Fullers History of the Church of Great Brittan and you may there find also what labour hath been used by the discontented Non-conformists to unsettle the Government of the Church and consequently of the State and may there also find how severely many of them have been punisht So that you need not wonder at what I said last night not think these the only times of persecuting men of tender Consciences And for the better Confirmation of what I now write to you I will refer you toone Testimonymore in the time of our peaceful K. James and you may view it in the second Volum of the Reports of Judg Crook a man very Learned in the Law But I shall first tell you the occasion of that Report which was this The Non-conformists which are in that Report called by the name of Puritans had given out that the King had an intent to set up or give a Toleration to Popery and they had also compos'd a large Petition complaining of the severity of some usage and of some Laws that concern'd themselves and desir'd that the severity of those Laws might be mitigated and other like desires were in the said petition to which they had procur'd not less than seven hundred hands and the close of it was That if these desires were not granted many thousands of his subjects would be discontented Which indeed was not a threatning but was understood to be somewhat like it This report of his Majesties intent to set up or tolerare Popery begot many fears and discontents in the Nation and to prevent greater disturbances the King did appoint many of his Privy Council and all the Judges of the Land to meet together in the Star-Chamber in which Assembly the Lord Chancellor declar'd to them the occasion of this their publick Convention and asked the Judges this following question As you may read it in the very same words in the said Learned Judges Reports in the second year of the Raign of King James Whether it were an ofsence punishable and what punishment they deserv'd who framed petitions and collected a multitude of hands thereto to prefer to the King in a publick cause as the Puritans had done with an intimation to the King that if he denyed their suit many thousands of his Subjects would be discontented Whereto all the Judges answered that it was an ofsence sinable at discretion and very near Treason and Felony in the punishment for they tended to the raising sedition rebellion and discontent among the People To which resolution all the Lords agreed And then many of the Lords declared That some of the Puritans had raised a false rumor of the King That he intended to grant a Toleration to Papists Which ofsence the Judges conceiv'd to be hainously finable by the rules of the Common Law either in the Kings-Bench or by the King and his Council or now since the Statute of the Third of Henry the Seventh in the Star-Chamber And the Lords severally declared How the King was discontented with the said false rumor and had made but the day before a Protestation to them that he never intended it and that he would spend the last drop of blood in his body before he would do it and prayed that before He or any of his Issue should maintain any other Religion than what he truly professed and maintained