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A54123 Considerations moving to a toleration and liberty of conscience with arguments inducing to a cessation of the penal statues against all dissenters whatever, upon the account of religion : occasioned by an excellent discourse upon that subject publish'd by His Grace the Duke of Buckingham / humbly offered to the Parliament at their next sitting at Westminster. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1685 (1685) Wing P1269; ESTC R32175 9,608 22

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kind of Preaching the Gospel says Gregory to exact Belief as the Egyptians their Bricks with Stripes Decere arbitramur says Theodosius and Valentinian nostrum imperium subditos nostros de Religione commonefacere They chose not to say imperare but commonefacere signifying thereby that Religion ought not to be forced Nihil enim says Lactantius tàm voluntarium quàm Religio in qua si animus est Sacrificantis aversus jam sublata jam nulla est Religio imperari says Cassidoce non potest And suadenda est says St. Bernard non imperanda Praecepit Sancta Synodus says the Toletan Council de Judaeis nemini deinceps ad credendum vim inferre And the New Law says Tertullian does not vindicate it self Ultore gladio The Jewes took no such course as Pestilent as their Doctrine was with the Sadduces nor Christ with the Samaritanes See Luke 9. 35. Matth. 13. 28 29. John 18. 36. John 6. 67. And will ye also go away says Christ to the Twelve Which are words removing all force and necessity from Man in the choice of his Religion So Chrysostome Athanasius Cyprian I may also add Augustine and Salvian We may read in the Life of Josephus when some of the Traohonites came in for Rescue to the Jews where himself was Governour and the Jews would thereupon constrain them to be Circumcized or else not let them abide with them he would not permit that injurious Zeal alledging That every Man ought according to his own Mind and not by Mans compulsion to serve God In our English Story to fuit this by Bede when Ethelbert the first Prince that received Christianity of the Saxon Heptarchy was converted by Austin sent hither by Gregory and many thereupon came into the Church it is said He especially embraced those that came in but compelled none for he half learned that the Faith and Service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not of constraint It helpeth much says the Imperial Edict of Constantine and Lirinus to establish the publick Tranquillity for every Man to have Liberty to use and choose what kind of Worshipping himself pleases and for that intent is this done of us to have no man enforced to one Religion more than to another A Prince who would draw his Subjects divided into Sects and Factions to his Religion should not in my Opinion use Force says Bodin which he Enhances more particularly from the example of Theodosius toward the A●rians John Barclay not William that Wrote Adversus Monarchomachos hath a Discourse on purpose to this effect about the Calvinists as it is thought under the Name of the Hyperephanians in one chapter of his Argenis And Camerartus in his Historical Meditations hath a chapter as Learned Full and Grave as need to be on this Subject lib. 3. cap. 18. It was observed by the Popes Council says Guicciardine that the Prosecution of Luther since it was not accompanied with their own Reformation did encrease his Reputation and that it had been a less Evil to dissemble the knowledge of such a matter which would perhaps have dissolv'd of it self than by blowing at the Brand to make the Fi●e burn the more There may be some Notes conferred with this out of Davilah upon the deliberations of the Politick Ka 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Regent of France about the Pacification in her Son Henry the Thirds time I will rest in one after Henry the Fourth succeeded That great Prince thought fit to declare himself Catholick but gets that same Edict for Liberty to the Hugonots to be renewed and passed the Parliament of Par● By which means endeavouring to remove Suspicion from their minds and confirming them by good Usage together with some Gifts and Promises to the chief Heads he insensibly took away says the Historian the pulse and strength of that Party so that those that are versed in the Kingdom believe that a few years of such sweet Poyson if he had not been disabled in this course through want of Money would have extinguished that Faction which so many years of desperate Wars had not with the Effusion of so much Blood been able to weaken Violent courses says my Lord Cooke are like hot Waters that may do good in an Extremity but the use of them doth spoil the Stomach and it will require them stronger and stronger and by little and little they will l●ssen the Operation They that have this Common-wealth says Judge Jenkins will use means together with the Restitution of the King to procure an Act of Oblivion and tender Consciences a just and reasonable satisfaction else we must all Perish first or last I will Crown these Testimonies with the experienced advice of CHARLES the First to our late Soveraign Beware of Exasperating any Faction by the crosness and asperity of some mens Passions Humours for private Opinions employed by you grounded onely on the differences in lesser matters which are but the Skirts and Suburbs of Religion wherein a charitable Connivance and Christian Toleration often dissipates their Strength whom a rougher opposition fortifies and puts their despised and oppressed Party into such Combinations as may most enable them to get a full Revenge on those they count their Persecutors who are commonly assisted by that vulgar Commiseration which attends all that are said to suffer under the notion of Religion There are two Rules in the Preamble of the Statute Primo Mariae the one is That the State of a King standeth more assured by the love of his Subjects than in the dread and fear of Laws The other is That Laws justly made without extream Punishment are more often and for the moct part better obeyed than those that are made with that extremity Unto which my once before named Lord chief Justice Cook Subjoyns this Sentence M●tius imperanti melius Paretur I will close up all with the end of a Speech of Sir Orlando Bridgeman to the Parliament when he was Lord Keeper If any just grievances shall have happened his Majesty will be as willing and ready to redress them as you to have them Presented to him and his Majesty doubts not but you will give Healing and Moderate Counsels and Imprint that known Truth in the Hearts of his Subjects that there is no distinct Interest between the King and his People but the good of one is the good of both Now this is the Copy of the Letter which Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the Priest I make a Decree that all they of the People of Israel and of his Priests and Levites in my Realm which are minded of their own free will to go up to Jerusalem go with thee And Gamaliel stood up in the Council and said Ye Men of Israel take beed to your selves refrain from these Men and let them alone for if this Counsel or this Work be of Men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot Overthrow it lest haply ye be found even to Fight against God FINIS