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A26073 A seasonable discourse against toleration with a preface wherein the nature of persecution in general and the unjust complaints of the dissenting parties concerning it in particular are distinctly considered. Assheton, William, 1641-1711. 1685 (1685) Wing A4041; ESTC R23636 62,270 115

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Reformation Performance of our Covenant and Benefit of present and succeeding Generations From Sion-Colledge Lond. Decemb. 18. 1645. Subscribed by Us your Affectionate Brethren and Fellow-labourers in the work of the Ministry to whom Truth and Peace is very pretious The Judgement of King JAMES and His Privy-Council against Toleration Transcribed verbatim out of Judge Crooks Reports Term. Mich Anno 2. Jacobi Parag. 13. Part. 2. p. 37. MEmorandum that by command from the King all the Justices of England with diverse of the Nobility viz. The Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancelor the Earle of Dorset Lord Treasurer Vicount Cranbourne Principall Secretary the Earle of Nottingham Lord Admirall the Earles of Northumberland Worcester Devon and Northampton the Lords Zouch Burghley and Knowles the Chancellor of the Dutchy the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Bishop of London Popham chief Justice Bruce Master of the Rolls Anderson Gawdy Walmesly Fenner Kingsmill Warberton Savill Daniell Yelverton and Snigg were assembled in the Star Chamber where the Lord Chancellor after a long Speech made by him concerning Justices of Peace and his Exhortation to the Justices of Assize and in discourse concerning Papists and Puritans Declaring how they both were disturbers of the State and that the King intended to suppress them and to have the Laws put in execution against them Demanded of the Justices their Resolution in three things First Whether the Deprivation of Puritan Ministers by the High Commissioners for refusing to Conforme themselves to the Ceremonies appointed by the last Canons was Lawfull Whereto all the Justices answered That they had conferred thereof before and held it to be lawfull Because the King hath the Supream Ecclesiasticall Power which he hath Delegated to the Commissioners whereby they had the Power of Deprivation by the Canon Law of the Realm and the Statute of 1. Eliz. which appoints Commissioners to be made by the Queen doth not confer any new Power but explain and declare the ancient Power And therefore they held it clear That the King without Parliament might make Orders and Constitutions for the Government of the Clergy and might deprive them if they obeyed not And so the Commissioners might deprive them But they could not make any Constitutions without the King and the divulging of such Ordinances by Proclamation is a most gratious Admonition And for as much as they have refused to obey they are lawfully deprived by the Commissioners ex Officio without Libell Et ore tenus convocati Secondly Whether a Prohibition be grantable against the Commissioners upon the Statute of 2. H. 5. if they do not deliver the Copy of the Libell to the Party whereto they all Answered That that Statute is intended where the Ecclesiasticall Judge proceeds Ex officio ore tenus Thirdly Whether it were an offence punishable and what punishment they deserved who framed Petitions and collected a multitude of hands thereto to prefer the King in a publick cause as the Puritans had done with an Intimation to the King That if he denyed their Suite many Thousands of the Subjects would be discontented Whereto all the Justices answered that it was an offence finable at discretion and very neer to Treason and Felony in the punishment for they tended to the raising of 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 Rumour of the King how he intended to grant a Toleration to Papists which offence the Justices conceived to be heinously finable by the Rules of the Common Law either in the Kings Bench or by the King and his Councill or now since the Statute of 3. H. 7. in the Star-Chamber And the Lords severally declared how the King was discontented with the said false Rumour and had made but the day before a Protestation unto 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 any of his Issue should maintain any other Religion then what he truly professed and maintained that God would take them out of the World VOTES c. OF THE Honourable House of COMMONS Feb. 5. c. 1662. Upon Reading His Majesties Gratious Declaration and Speech c. Die Mercurii 25. Feb. 15. Car. R. Resolved c. Nemine contradicente That the humble Thanks of this House be returned to His Majesty for his Resolution to Maintain the Act of Vniformity Resolved c. That it be presented to the Kings Majesty as the Humble Advice of the House That no Indulgence be granted to the dissenters from the Act of Vniformity Most Gratious Soveraigne THe Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament did with great joy receive your Majesties most Gratious Speech at the opening this Session of Parliament And being thereby invited to consider of their Declaration of the Twenty sixth of December last they have with all Sobriety Duty and Affection examined the grounds thereof and do by me present unto your Majesty their most hearty Thanks for the same and humble Advice thereupon both which I do beseech your Majesty that you will vouchsafe me to deliver in their own words May it please your most excellent Majesty Wee your Majesties most Dutifull and Loyall Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled having with all fidelity and obedience considered of the severall matters comprized in your Majesties late Gratious Declaration of the 26 of Decemb. last and your most gratious Speech at the beginning of this present Session Do in the first place for our selves and in the names of all the Commons of England render to your Sacred Majesty the Tribute of our most hearty Thanks for that infinite Grace and Goodness wherewith your Majesty hath been pleased to publish your Royall intentions of adhering to your Act of Indempnity and Oblivion by a constant and Religious observance of it And our hearts are further enlarged in these returnes of Thansgivings when we consider your Majesties most Princely and Heroick Professions of relying upon the Affections of your people and abhorring all sort of military and arbitrary Rule But above all wee can never enough remember to the honour of your Majesties Piety and our unspeakable Comfort those solemne and endearing Invitations of us your Majesties Subjects to prepare Lawes to be presented to your Majesty against the growth and encrease of Popery and withall to provide more Laws against Licentiousness and impiety at the same time declaring your own Resolutions for maintaining the Act of Uniformity And it becomes us alwaies to acknowledge and admire your Majesties Wisdome in this your Declaration whereby your Majesty is pleased to resolve not only by sumptuary Laws but by your own Royall example of frugality to restrain that excess in mens expences which is grown so generall and so exorbitant and to direct our endeavours to find