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A91080 A proposall humbly offered, for the farming of liberty of conscience Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. 1663 (1663) Wing P3705; ESTC R26476 6,999 12

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of all Ordinances 5 0 0 A Preaching assistant 4 0 0 An Elder in Office 3 0 0 A Deacon 2 0 0 A Hearer in Fellowship male or female to all Ordinances 2 0 0 A common Hearer only 1 0 0 A Fifth Monarcher admitted to hold forth 5 0 0 An Elder under the same Administration 3 0 0 A Deacon under the same Administration 3 0 0 A Hearer male or female in Fellowship according to the value of his or her Estate 2 s. per l. per annum       A common hearer male or Female according to the value of his or her Estate 12 d. per l. per annum       A speaking male Quaker 4 0 0 A speaking female Quaker 3 0 0 A common Quaker male or female 2 0 0 A Confessor 6 0 0 A Seminary or Mass-Priest at large 5 0 0 A private Mass-Priest 4 0 0 A Roman Catholick in any other order 3 0 0 A Roman Catholick not in order male or Female 1 0 0 An Officer under any Administration not mentioned in the rates aforesaid being a Native of England such only excepted as stand Conformable to the Church of England 5 0 0 A common person under any Administration not mentioned in the rates aforesaid being a Native of England such only excepted as stand conformable to the Church of England 2 0 0 An Officer under any Administration whatsoever not a Native of England except conformable to the Church of England 10 0 0 A private person under any Administration whatsoever not a Native of England except conformable to the Church of England 5 0 0 Rates to be observed in compounding for Liberty of Conscience in the particulars following viz. For Liberty to assert the Popes Supremacy 10 0 0 For Liberty to write speak or Preach against the Government as they shall be inwardly moved 5 0 0 For liberty to keep on their Hats before Magistrates or in Courts of Judicature 2 0 0 For Liberty to rail publickly against the Bishops and Common Prayer 1 0 0 For Liberty to refuse all manner of Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or in Cases Civil or Criminal 2 0 0 For liberty to deny Tythes and other Church Duties 1 0 0 For liberty to expound the Revelations and the Book of Daniel 1 0 0 For Liberty to disturb any Congregation after Sermon 0 10 0 For Liberty to assert the Solemn League and Covenant 1 5 0 For Liberty to instruct youth in the short Catechism set forth by the Assembly of Divines 0 10 0 That any person or persons gifted for any the Particulars abovesaid may have liberty therein either as an Itinerate in private or Publique at the Rates abovesaid That no person or persons be admitted to compound for Liberty of Conscience until he or they have first taken and subscribed the Solemn Protestation following before the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers or their Sub-Commissioners respectively I A. B. do here solemnly protest That I judg my self still bound by the Solemn League and Covenant by the Engagement by private Church-Covenant or by any other Oath which I have taken ever since the year 1641. and that so far as with safety to my person and Estate I may I will endeavour the utter extirpation of Episcopacy and to the utmost of my power will abet and promote all Schism faction and discord both in Church and State according to the best form and manner prescribed and laid open in the Sermons of many of the Grand-Commissioners and Farmers before the Parliament appointed to be Printed and now called the Homilies of the Separated Churches And that I will never by what Conviction or Authority soever whether legall or Episcopall ever consent to the Establisht Doctrine and discipline of the Church of England And I do likewise believe That Liberty of Conscience was a Mysterious yet profitable talent committed to the Churches and that it may be lawfully Farmed out for advantage and improvement That no person within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Barwick may from and after the 25 day of March next use or exercise any manner of Liberty of Conscience except persons standing conformable to the Church of England untill such person or persons shall first take the Solemn Protestation and shall compound with the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers for Liberty of Conscience nor shall he be admitted or permitted to be a Speaker or Hearer in any Meeting or Assemblies whatsoever That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience may have power to constitute under the Publique Seal of the said Office a convenient number of Spiritual Gagers who may have and exercise all such Powers Priviledges Authorities as the Gagers for Excize of Beer and Ale have or ought to have and enjoy and may at any time in case of Suspition enter into any house or place publike or private to gage and try the Spirits and Affections of any person or persons and by Praying Preaching or other good Exhortation disswade from Episcopacie and the Common-Prayer the better to fit and prepare them to compound for Liberty of Conscience That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience may have power to fine any person or persons not exceeding the sum of 20 l. for every offence who shall after Composition for Liberty of Conscience and subscribing the Solemn Protestation be present in any Church or Chappel within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick in the time of any part of Divine Service unless at the Funeral of his Father or some other like occasion or if being present at any such occasion he shall either respond be uncovered or carry himself reverently in the time of Divine Service aforesaid That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience or any 24 of them assembled at the Office aforesaid may have and exercise a Iurisdiction of Appeal in all matters relating to Liberty of Conscience within the said Kingdom of England and shall have a conclusive power in all matters brought before them by way of Appeal as aforesaid That for the better management of all such matters as shall be brought judicially before the said Grand Commissioners Farmers of Liberty of Conscience by way of Appeal the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers shall have power to constitute and appoint Mr. Oliver St. Johns and such others as they judge fit for their said Service to be of Standing-Councel with the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers And the said Mr. Oliver St. Johns being so constituted and appointed under the Publick Seal of the said Office shall and may be exempted and discharged from being in any Publike Office or place of Trust or Profit for the said term of 7 years any thing to the contrary notwithstanding That if any person or persons shall happen to be proceeded against in any of the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Bishops of this Kingdome for Contumacy for
Non-Conformity for non-payment of Tythes and other Church-Duties for publick rayling against the Bishops the Common-Prayer or the Government of the Church of England or shall speak Oprobriously or Scandalously against the Doctrine or Discipline thereof as Antichristian or shall maintain any Positions or Doctrines contrary thereunto Every such person producing a Certificate from the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers under the publike Seal of the said Office that such person or persons are under Composition for Liberty of Conscience shall actually be discharged and all further proceedings stayed Any thing to the contrary notwithstanding That if any persons shall happen to be Indicted or Criminally proceeded against in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster or elsewhere within the Kingdom of England either for Treasonable Speeches or Practises for publike rayling at the Government or for Scandalous words against either or both Houses of Parliament or for Transgressing any of the Penal Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom Every such person or persons producing a Certificate from the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers under the publike Seal of the said Office that such person or persons are under Composition for Liberty of Conscience and that such words or practises were not spoken or acted malitiose but were only the natural and proper effects and product of Liberty of Conscience shall be discharged and all further proceedings stayed Any thing to the Contrary notwithstanding That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience may have power from time to time to Ordain Pastors Elders and Deacons or any other Officers under any Administration whatsoever by the laying on of the publique Seal of the Office Which said Imposition of the said publique Seal being received with a Certificate shall be as lawful an Ordination as if every such person had received Imposition from the hands of the Presbytery Any late Vsage or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers may have power from time to time to set apart dayes for publique Fastings and Humiliation and Thanksgiving on which dayes it may be lawful for any person or persons appointed to Officiate before the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers to stir up the people to a holy Indignation against themselves for having by their want of Zeal and Brotherly kindnesse one towards another lost many pretious enjoyments and above all the never to be forgotten Losse of the late Power and Dominion which with the Expence of so much Blood and Rapine was put into the hands of the Saints And to take up for a Lamentation and great thoughts of heart the Divisions of Ruben That having our Sacks full such an evill spirit should be found in the midst of us as to fall out by the way might it have beén with those that abode by the Stuff as with those that went out to the Battel it had not beén with us as at this day Some starting aside like a broken Bow in the year 48 others continuing to bear the burthen and heat of the day untill 60 being harness'd did then turn their backs in the day of Battel as was most sweetly handled at the Fast kept Yesterday at Mr. Beale's by Mr. Callamy Mr. Baxter and others That the twentieth day of April next commonly called Easter-Monday be kept as a day of Solemn Fasting and Humiliation for a Blessing upon these Gospel Vndertakings and that Mr. Edmond Calamy Mr. Peter Sterry Doctor Lazarus Seaman and Mr. Feake be desired to carry on the Work of the Day in Prayer and Preaching before the said Grand Farmers and that the particulars following be recommended to their Consideration in the Work of the Day 1. To Bewail 1. All our Court Sins 2. Our Bishops Sins 3. Our Monk Sins 4. Our Common-Prayer Sins 2. To Divert 1. Westminster-Hall Iudgments 2. Our Old-Bayly Iudgments 3. Our Tower-Hill Iudgments 4. Our Charing-Cross Iudgments 5. Our Tyburn Iudgments Lastly For deliverance from the Hand of Dun that uncercumcised Philistine That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience may have power to build Churches and Chappels in any place or places except upon such Ground only where Churches or Chappels do already stand in regard of the inconvenience of setting up Altar against Altar And forasmuch as the Custom of Reading some part of the holy Bible before Sermon commonly called first and second Lessons hath been found fruitless That therefore the said Grand Commissioners Farmers may have power to appoint instead thereof the Annual reading of those Sermons preached by many of the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers before the Parliament Vpon special Occasions of Thanksgiving and Humiliation from the Year 1641 to the Year 1648 Which said Sermons may be called The Homilies of the separating Churches That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers may have power to require Mr. Gilbert Millington and Mr. Luke Robinson the lame Evangelist to deliver up all such Articles Orders Books Papers and other Writings as were transacted before the late Committee for plundered Ministers and likewise all such as were passed and transacted before Mr. Philip Ney and some others of the now Grand Commissioners and Farmers and heretofore called Commissioners or Spiritual Tryers to the end the said Articles Orders Books and other Papers may be Printed and Published and may be kept at the said Office upon Record for ever and appointed to be the Book of Canons of the separated Churches All this being done we may upon Scripture Grounds expect that the door of Hope may yet be open to Vs and Our Children after Vs to see the travell of our Souls and to lett Vs into the promised Land and to reap some of those Clusters of the Grapes of Canaan which with so much Labour and Toyl of Body and Mind were planted especially in the Years of 1641 42 43 44 45. by many of Vs and other precious Saints and Ministers of the Gospel who are since fallen asleép and have We hope reaped the Fruits of those Labours the Lord having in that Day put a mighty Spirit into Vs set Vs as Watchmen upon the Towers of Israel to cry mightily Curse ye Meroze Curse ye bitterly the Lord Grant That those Heart-breaking Labours of Ours those King-destroying Labours these Kingdom-ruining Labours those Gospel-scandalizing Labours those Church-subverting Labours those Soul-confounding Labors of Ours may never be forgotten but may be written as with the point of a Diamond upon the Heart of the King upon the Hearts of the Bishops upon the Heart of the Parliament and upon the Hearts of all the People from Dan to Beersheba that so in Gods good time we may receive our Reward seven fold-into our own Bosomes and that the Generations to come may hear and fear and do no more so wickedly So prayes B. G.