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death_n	crown_n	england_n	king_n	4,225	5	4.0191	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47052	Nonconformity not inconsistent with loyality, or, Protestant-dissenters no seditious or disloyal sectaries evidenc'd in a sober discourse upon those statutes, by which the Protestant-dissenters are prosecuted at this day : humbly offered to the candid consideration of all Protestants, whether conformists or nonconformists / by James Jones ...	Jones, James, fl. 1683-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing J958; ESTC R17214	32,964	24

NONCONFORMITY Not Inconsistent WITH LOYALTY OR Protestant-Dissenters NO SEDITIOUS OR DISLOYAL SECTARIES EVIDENC'D IN A SOBER DISCOURSE upon those STATUTES by which the Protestant-Dissenters are Prosecuted at this Day Humbly offered to the Candid Consideration of all Protestants whether Conformists or Nonconformists By JAMES JONES a Protestant-Dissenter and now a Prisoner in Wood-Street-Compter for Nonconformity Esther 3.8 9. And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus There is a Certain People Scattered abroad and Dispersed among the People in all the Provinces of thy Kingdom and their Laws are divers from all the People neither keep they the Kings Laws Therefore it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them If it please the King let it be written That they may be Destroyed Isa 42.22 But this is a People robbed and spoiled they are all of them snared in holes and they are hid in Prison-Houses They are for a Prey and none delivereth and for a Spoil and none saith Restore LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be Sold by William Bateman and most Booksellers 1684. To all Sincere Protestants whether they be Conformists or Nonconformists Fellow Protestants I Do humbly present to your sober consideration a Brief Discourse concerning several Statutes by which they Protestant Dissenters are Prosecuted to the very great dammage of multitudes of Families who are his Majesties Faithful Subjects and can Appeal to God and the King that they are persons of Loyalty notwithstanding their Nonconformity And as it is Recorded concerning Holy Daniel who was the great Nonconformist of that day Dan. 6.5 That he could not be fairly accused of any matters to make him a criminal except it were concerning the Law of his God Even so it may be truly said of the Nonconformists in England however they may be Reproached and be spattered as a Seditious and Rebellious People But it is well known that it is no new thing for such as fear God and are greatly favoured by God to be miscalled Jerusalem which was the City of the Great King viz. God the King of Kings Mat. 5.35 was called the Rebellious and Bad City Ezra 4.12 and in verse 19. A City of Insurrection Rebellion and Sedition And Jesus Christ was charged with Blasphemy Mat. 26.56 and called a Deceiver Mat. 27.63 And the Apostle Paul was called a Postilent Fellow a Mover of Sedition and a Ring-leader of the Sect of the Nazareens Acts 24.5 and his way of Worship was called Heresie verse 14. And no marvel if it be so in those our days But now it will be Replyed by some that the Protestant Dissenters are in a Conspiracy and Bloody Plot against the Kings Person and Government Vnto which let this answer be Considered That although some particular persons that have been counted Dissenters may be so wickedly concerned yet that is no proof that this is the Dissenters Plot no more then because some of the Church of England may be proved to have been in such a Conspiracy it can be called the Church of England's Plot which to affirm would be very wicked and abominable for it would render the Church-Protestants no better than Traytors However if either any of the Dissenters or of the Church-men should be so wicked as to be really guilty let them suffer the Justice of the Law that others may bear and fear and do no more so wickedly But God forbid that a whole Party of any sort of People should be charged with the wickedness of some of the same Party Simeon and Levi were guilty of a horrid and Bloody Fact in cutting off Hamor and Shechem which was the Prince of that Land and his Son and they also cut off the Inhabitants of that City where they Ruled because that Shechem the Son of Hamor had defiled Jacobs Daughter See the whole Story in Gen. 34. But it would be a very unrighteous thing to charge good old Jacob with this Bloody Crime because he it as their Father or to charge the rest of his Sons because they were Simeon and Levi's Brethren It is enough that they who be really guilty of any Crimes be charged with them and be Prosecuted so as to suffer justly for them And besides this it must be considered that such as have been innocent persons have been Accused of high Crimes and have suffered death as for instance Naboth was accused that he had Blasphemed God and the King and was stoned to death for it when indeed it was a Plot invented by Jezebel and managed by the Elders of the City where Naboth dwelt See 1 Kings 21. v. 9 10 11. And thus we find it concerning our Blessed Saviour he was Accused that he said he would destroy the Temple which was made with hands and within three days build another without hands Mark 14.58 Now Christ had spoke of Destroying and Raising of a Temple in three days see John 2. v. 19. Jesus answered and said unto them Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up v. 21. But he spoke of the Temple of his Body Thus we have two famous Instances of false Accusations concerning words Naboth was Accused of words that he never spoke Christ was Accused of some words he had spoke but the Accusation was not just as the words were spoken for though he spoke of a Temple and destroying of it and raising of it he did not say the Temple that was made with hands neither did he say that he himself would destroy any Temple but he spoke to the Jews who he knew would destroy his Body and said to them Destroy this Temple and as for Raising of it up that he said should be his own work And I will Raise it up in three days But he was Prosecuted for saying he would destroy the Temple of Solomon and build it in three days when it was no such thing And in our English Chronicle it is stoired of a good House-keeper or in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth that told his Son who was a Child saying Thou art Heir to the Crown meaning his house which was the sign of the Crown in Cheap-side But the Honest Citizen was Accused of Treason and suffered Death as a Traytor See bakers Chron. However it must be confest that Trayterous Designs have been too many times managed against the Kings of several Kingdoms and against the King of England in particular and whosoever can be proved really guilty thereof ought to suffer according to their Crimes But as for my own part who do profess my self a Protestant Dissenter I do solemnly profess before Almighty God that I do with my Soul abhor all acts of violence to the meanest of the Kings Subjects and do deem it ten thousand times worse to offer any violence to the Person of the Kings Majesty 1. Because of the Greatness of his Person he being by the Providence of God the Head of the Nation 2. Because the shedding of his Blood and taking away of his Life is the