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A54118 Christian liberty as it was soberly desired in a letter to certain forreign states upon occasion of their late severity to several of their inhabitants, meerly for their different perswasion and practice in point of faith and worship towards God / made publick on the behalf of the present suffering dissenters within this kingdom. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1674 (1674) Wing P1265; ESTC R32174 4,243 10

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usurp his Authority and boldly ascend his Throne to sit Lords over it Were their Conversation Scandalous and Destructive to the Good of your State you were to be held excusable But verely no man of Mercy and Conscience can defend your Practice upon poor Men so peaceable and Inoffensive Gamaliel will rise up in Judgment against you if you persevere in this course Do not you help to fill the Catalogue of Persecutors in much Love I intreat you but as becomes Christian men true Protestants leave men to their particular Perswasions of Affairs relative of the other World which have no ill Aspect on the Affairs of this but Vice hath an evil Consequence as to both Therefore punish Vice and affect Truth and Righteousness and bend not your Civil Power to Torment Religious Dissenters but to retrive good Life lamentably lost amidst the great Pretences that are made to Religion Doubtless Magistracy was both ordained of God and elected by Men to be a Terror to Evil-doers and not to them that do well though of different Judgments You oppugn the Roman Church for assuming Infallibility to herself and yet your own Practice maketh you guilty of the same Presumption or worse For either you do exercise that Severity upon an Infallible Knowledge or you do not if you do you take that to your selves your Principles deny to any Church whatever which is a Contradiction if you do not you punish People for not conforming to what you your selves deny any Certainty about And how do you know but you compel them to that which is false as well as that which is true Verely this Dilemma is not easily avoided as well as that this inhuman Practice will stain your Profession infame your Government and bring a Blot upon your Posterity Remember that they are Men as well as your selves born free and have equal Plea to Natural and Civil common Priviledges with your selves The different Perswasion of their Consciences about Things relating to another Life can no wayes render them unfit for this it neither Unmans nor Uncivilizes them They have the same Right to their Liberty and Property as ever having by no Practice of theirs in the least forfeited any of those human Advantages the Great Charters of Nature and Scripture have conferr'd upon them And the Opulency of your Neighbours and Prosperity of their Affairs prove to you that Indulgence is not inconsistent with Policy howbeit you have now tryed the Sincerity of their Procedure by what you have already inflicted and they sustained Let the Time past suffice and make them not Sacrifices for their conscientious Constancy If they are in the Wrong 't is more then they know Will you persecute Men for being what they must be if they will be true to themselves this were great Violence rather Commiserate then thus violently Compel them I beseech you seek some cheaper Way to accommodate your selves then by their Destruction who are so very remote from seeking yours Oh! the Day will come wherein one Act of Tenderness about Matters of Conscience shall find a better Reward then all the Severity by which Men use to propagate their Perswasions in the World and there is great Reason for it since the one flows from the Saviour the other from the Destroyer of Men. In fine Let your Moderation be known unto all Men for the Lord is at hnad whose Reward it with him and he will recompence every Man Family State Kingdom and Empire according to the Nature of their Works committed in this mortal Body at whose Bar it shall never be laid to your Charge that out of Fear of taking God's Office out of his Hands and being unmerciful to tender Consciences you admitted Men of differing Judgments to dwell quietly among you truly you cannot be too tender in this Point Imitate the God of Nature and Grace by being propitious to all his Sun shineth on all his Rain falls on all he gives Life and Being to all his Grace visits all and in Times of Ignorance he winketh And though such you may repute ours I hope you cannot think you wink at it who make such broad Tokens of your Displeasure Oh! how forbearing and merciful is he towards you Have you so lately escaped the Wrath of Enemies and can you already thus sharply treat your Friends Had he enter'd into Judgment with you what had become of you Let his Goodness to you prevail with you to express Clemency to others that so the Great God of the whole Earth even the God of the Spirits of all Flesh who respects not the Persons of the Rich Poor or Powerful in Judgment may show you Mercy in the day of his Righteous Judgments Ame● London the 14 th December 1674. * Our Account sayes Some were cruelly beaten by Order others Banished some put in a Dungeon and fed with Bread and Water only several Fin'd greater sums of Money it is thought then they had to pay * And Property which they repute themselves Guardians of is hereby lost