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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35117	An apology for the Quakers wherein is shewed how they answer the chief principles of the law, and main ends of government : with several reasons why they deserve the liberty of their consciences in the worship of God : for all magistrates and rulers to consider of, lest they pervert justice and provoke the Lord to displeasure / by J. Crook.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7196; ESTC R25362	5,121	9

4thly That all accidents and events all counsels and designs should be improved to the publick good All these ends are manifestly answered by the Lives and Practises of the Quakers for they do not Oppress nor Defraud nor cherish Vice but do good to all their Principle leading them to do to all as they would be done unto And therefore they do the Magistrates work for them in giving good Example both in Life and Doctrine unto all People with whom they converse whereby the Magistrates work is done to their hands And therefore in Justice they ought to have Liberty of Conscience the Ends of Government being answered by them both in Doctrine and Practice while the generality of People are either Oppressors or by their Greatness and Violence do stop the Passages of Justice or do wrongfully take away the Estates and Liberties and sometimes the Lives of others or that do cherish Vice and suppress Vertue and it is the end and design of many to improve all Accidents and Events Counsels and Contrivances to a selfish Interest and not to the publick Good all which encrease the Magistrate's Work that rules for God and layes more burdens upon his back as well as they imploy his hand to draw the Sword if he bear it not in vain All which is spared by the Quakers and those that walk by their Principle and Example but contrariwise vertus as well as veritas odium parit vertuous Lives often gain Prisons when Vice hath liberty And this is made good in our day Probitas laudatur et alget Honesty is praised by most but practised by few By what hath been said it may be seen how the Quakers answer the Ends of Government and therefore may justly challenge the Liberty of their Consciences to worship God according to his perswasions in their Hearts Therefore all Magistrates and Rulers are to consider with whom Prisons are or have lately been filled Is it with those that live dishonestly contrary to Law or honest Livers that answer the Law Are hurters of men in Prison or at Liberty in Taverns Ale-houses and Play-houses let Equity speak Have you been as willing to turn honest Livers and those that Answer the Ends of Government out of Prison upon the Kings late Declaration as you were to put them in upon his Proclamation before Are you as indifferent in the Quakers Cases when they come before you and willing to do them Justice and Release them as Drunkards Swearers and others that come before you at your Courts and Sessions if so What means the lowing of the Oxen and bleating of the Sheep whom as appointed for the slaughter many of you Fine and Imprison at pleasure without any legal Tryal by Juries of the Neighbour-hood which by your Oaths according to Law you ought to do Nay do not many Magistrates now as Israel did in those dayes when there was no King in Israel Every man what is right in his own eyes as to this People If he will be moderate he may and if he will not he may choose as if the time were come that He who is filthy may be filthy still but he who is holy must be holy no longer O Examine Examine whether it be not so or no if true How will you account for these things or have you a belief that God sees not and therefore say in your hearts No evil shall come unto us What doth God take care for Oxen and you who ought to be his Ministers to encourage them that do well and to punish evil Doers take no care of his People Is it not true in this our day that Lazarus finds more favour from the Dogs than from Dives that 's clad with Scarlet and clothed with Purple What are Men become Beasts and Beasts Men Doth the common People every where cry for Liberty and are their bowels opened with Compassions unto the suffering innocent People of God and are your bowels locked and closed who should be as nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers to the true Children but instead thereof beat them as Vagrants and commit them to Prison as the chiefest Offenders only for exercising their Consciences towards their Father who fees in secret and will reward them openly though others that should be as Fathers are without natural affection unto them Can these things go unpunished or pass without controul before God's Judgement seat nay sure though Crimina raris Librat in Antithetis doctas posuisse figuras Laudatur as Juvenal complain'd of his Day yet Rethorique will not cover Vice when God sits Judge Therefore O ye Rulers and Magistrates take heed what ye do for God's People are as the apple of his eye and he that hurteth them God feels the stroak And if he punished them that wag'd the head and cry'd Aha in the dayes past how shall you escape that give them up to be killed all the day long and make them as the Butts for the Arrows of your displeasure to be shot against although they are such as both answer the Principles of the Law and ends of just Government as before is shewed O let them have Liberty therefore and lay the Sword upon the Evil-doers that Justice may flourish and the King's Throne be established in Righteousness before he comes that shall come and will not tarry from whose Presence no Rock nor Mountain Cave nor Den shall be able to hide you but then they whom you now Oppress and Persecute shall have their Cause pleaded by him and receive Justice from him and they shall ascend in Triumph Power and great Glory in the fight and veiw of their Enemies Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly Amen Four Queries concerning Government FIrst Whether the Magistrates in all Nations do not hold their Authority and Power over their Subjects under God the Supream Lord of all 2dly Whether God hath not Authority over every man and whether his Authority and Power be not greater than the Power and Authority of men one over another 3ly Whether the Magistrates commanding any thing contrary to what God commands in the Heart keep the true bounds of Government and Exercise their Authority in true Understanding and Righteousness or whether in so doing they do not erre in Judgement and misguide the reigns of Government 4thly Whether the Governments of this present world are so managed as that God may also govern the Hearts of men according to his Will and Pleasure or whether they are so managed as to interrupt the Lawes and Power of God's Spirit in the Conscience Surely man was made by God and the Place of the Highest is under God and their Government should be in his Wisdom and Righteousness that God might have respect and authority in the Hearts of Men and exercise the Government of his Spirit therein with the encouragement and not with the contradiction of the outward Authority which might easily be in all Governments were the Principle of Reason subordinate and subjected to the Principle of Life and did not take upon it to govern without or against it This would set all streight both in the Governours and in the Governed And this is my Prayer to God that God would spare men but strike through Principles and Spirits that Righteousness might be brought forth and the Image of God exalted in man and Unrighteousness subdued and subjected for alas Unrighteousness and Cruelty is uncomely in man and makes even those miserable who seem most to thrive and prosper by it O that these things might be considered and weighed in an equal Ballance For why should man strive against the Will of his Maker who is too strong for him as all that have contended with him have afterwards been forced to acknowledge THE END