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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85446	The great case of transplantation in Ireland discussed; or Certain considerations, wherein the many great inconveniences in the transplanting the natives of Ireland generally out of the three provinces of Leinster, Ulster, and Munster, into the province of Connaught, are shewn. / Humbly tendered to every individual member of Parliament by a well wisher to the good of the common-wealth of England.	Gookin, Vincent, 1616?-1659.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1273; Thomason E234_6; ESTC R6361	17,246	34

THE GREAT CASE OF TRANSPLANTATION IN IRELAND DISCUSSED OR Certain Considerations wherein the many great inconveniences in the transplanting the Natives of Ireland generally out of the three Provinces of Leinster Ulster and Munster into the Province of Connaught are shewn Humbly tendered to every individual Member of Parliament by a well wisher to the good of the Common-wealth of England LONDON Printed for I. C. 1655. The great Case of Transplantation in Ireland discussed c. THE planting of Ireland is the subject of many mens Desires most mens Discourse of few mens Endeavours some of these few deeming themselves lead by Principles of Religion in order to the purity of the Gospell some by principles of publique good in order to the preservation of the English Nation and Interest entire Some by Principles of Advantage in order to the fixing English Estates where the hazard may be least and profit greatest urge earnestly the transplanting of the Irish pardon'd for Life and to continue in the Dominion into Connaught as the first expedient in order to the well planting of that Land to which purpose divers Orders have at sundry times issued but others who embrace the same Principles and are also desirous to be ●ead by them conceive this conclusion at least inconsequent if not contradictory to those premises and for this perswasion humbly offer these Considerations Concerning Religion FIrst if the Physitians and Attendants must necessarily cast out the Patient whensoever any hazard of infection is possible all diseases are disperate But the unitive principles of Christianity teach us that separations of persons are then onely Lawfull when necessary and then onely necessary when the malignity of the poyson is greater then the vertue of the Antidote or obligation of duty Here two things then ought to be weighed First whether it be more probable as things now stand that the Irish Papists should pervert the English Protestants or that the English Protestants should convert the Irish Papists Secondly whether the English Protestants be more obliged by any special duty to continue many of the Irish Papists though the probability of infection were greater than by that general fear and probable hazard to remove them The consequent of the first disjunction seems most probable on these grounds First Natural Conscience makes all persons who stand in awe of a Diety preferre some Religious External Observations before none When therefore no toleration is given to the exercise of Popery and the Reformed Religion publiquely professed throughout the Nation it is very conceivable that Natural Conscience may perswade many Papists at least externaly to frequent the Protestant Assemblies and many have been woon in the Ordinances who by external Motives were first induc'd to them But what Temptations in such an Instance may invite Protestants to turn Papists is not conceivable Secondly By the Cruelty of the Papists in the late Rebellion the Protestants are more confirmed against Popery as the Original of those Cruelties and by those heavy Judgments wherewith God hath avenged the blood of his Servants The Papists themselves made less in love with that Profession which lead them on to those cruelties and thereby provoked these judgments in this instance therefore it is much more probable Papists should be converted than Protestants perverted Thirdly when God intwists his interesse with man's man is commonly so inamoured with his own that in such a case he is not apt to leave God's and such is the present case in Ireland it is not even for the civill interess of Protestants to turn Papists it is for the Papists to turn Protestants Fourthly in time of peace when the highest externall inducements ran on the Papists side yet many Irish were reduced to Protestanism for every one English seduced to Papism Objection Against this some may perhaps pretend That the Papists in Ireland are hardened in their Idolatry and few of them converted of late Answer First that it is not strange if onely few of them be converted yea it is even wonderfull that any of them should of late be converted considering First the heavy pressures under which they have groaned to the very grinding of them by which means more families have been destroyed under the protection of Protestants then in opposition against them Secondly the many divisions among those who are called Protestants and bitternesses of those who are thus divided because by the former the Papist sees not where to fix if he should come to us and because of the later he sees not what friends or security he could partake if the should fix Thirdly the intire neglect of sending forth instruments to instruct them it is sad observe how Garrisons are placed in every quarter where the Irish inhabite Ministers in none as if our business in Ireland was onely to set up our own interess and not Christs Fourthly the lamentable ignorance of most and blasphemous haeresies of some who have been employed and allowed publick maintenance in Protestant congregations under the notion of Preachers First so that if the Irish Papists be hardened we must blame our selves for it 'T is certain that in these few places where Ministers make it their work to deal with them and to remove those gross scandals out of the way they find them more pliant and flexible to submit to scripture directions then some of those who complain of their hardness Secondly who art thou who complaines of their hardness didst thou ever pray for their softning if no mourn for thy own hardness if yea labour for what thou hast prayed and presume not to cast the dust off thy feet till thou hast thus laboured Many fearing God and studying the spiritual advantage of those poor natives are confident that the Lord's harvest in Ireland is farr more then the Labourers Thirdly the blade appears not above ground assoon as the seed is sown supernaturall habits are infused after the manner of acquired after good husbandry hath been used stand still awhile and see what increase the Lord will give nay what he has given Many of them desire now earnestly to put their Children into the Care of the English of qualitie adjoyning to them offer largely to their maintenance in the Education of the Religion and manners of England I shall not search mens hearts to censure the doing this for sinister ends who knows but God may have softned and convinc'd them by his rod But this is certain The means is good though their ends are bad and God may bring a good end out of that too The son may be sincere though he father be a hypocrite and what his earthly father intended onely for the saving his estate his heavenly father may advance to the saving of his soul Objection But some may be employed to instruct them as well in Connaught if they should be transplanted thither as if they be not transplanted Answer First those that shall be employed must be either such as are already in the other parts of