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A37543 The Jury-man charged, or, A letter to a citizen of London wherein is shewed the true meaning of the statute entituled, An act to prevent and suppress seditious conventicles ... H. E. 1664 (1664) Wing E10; ESTC R23241 12,624 15

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The Jury-man charged OR A LETTER To a CITIZEN of London VVherein is shewed the true meaning of the Statute Entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles As also the false Glosses and Interpretations detected And it is evinced by Undeniable Reasons that the Quakers and others that are ordinarily committed to Prison by Justices of the Peace and Chief Magistrates of Corporations upon that Statute are not guilty of the breach of it and yet in reason it is impossible to convict any man among us of being present at a Meeting under pretence and colour of any exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the Lyturgy or Practice of the Church of England except those that in then Meetings are manifestly Seditious or otherwise notoriously wicked And that that Juryman that finds any other person guilty is himself guilty of Perjury and liable to the Vengeance of God upon his Family and Trade Body and Soul in this world and that to come Hales of Schism For indeed all Pious Assemblies in times of Persecution and Corruptions howsoever practised are indeed or rather alone the Lawful Congregations and Publick Assemblies though according to form of Law are indeed nothing else but Riots and Conventicles if they be stained with Corruption and Superstition London Printed in Year 1664. The JURY-MAN Charged OR A LETTER to a Citizen of LONDON c. Dear SIR AS it is the nature of true Love and Friendship both to wish and endeavour the Good and VVeal of those we have registred in our hearts for Friends so it cannot be but that the happiness of the one will redound to the other and there will need nothing to the making your Friend partner in your Joyes but the knowledge of them But among all Goods that can beautifie a F●…nd none is comparable to that of a mind habituated to Holiness 〈◊〉 delighting to do the VVill of God And because God speaks to us by our Consciences it must needs be our necessary duty to walk according to the Light we find in that Divine Closet And inasmuch as the Light and Knowledge at least a great part of it comes from without through the windows of our senses we ought by all means to keep those Mediums pure and untinctured for otherwise the Light in our Souls wil not be clear orient How can I then but greatly rejoyce in you whom I find not only willing to obey but diligent to know your Heavenly Masters Wil the former of these Divine Qualities separates you from the multitude of the world that lies in wickedness and disobedience the latter distinguishes you from ignorant Zealots and blindly obedient Not but that I confidently believe that God that gave his Son for us when we were Enemies will much more pardon and save us being weak and in some things ignorant Friends but many and lamentable are the sad Consequences even of pardonable Ignorance much more of the damnable Ignorance of those that in killing and casting out the Servants of God think they do God good Service And I have no slender grounds of fear lest this may be the case of many of those that are forward in executing penal Statutes upon Religious persons for matters relating properly to their Religion and Conscience And lest you may in the least offend through ignorance of any sort you are pleased to ask my advice what you should do if it should be your lot to be called forth on a Grand Inquest or other Jury for the putting in execution the late Act entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles I could wish you had made use of some other in this Question that had been well-skilled in the Laws of England rather than of me that am wholly ignorant in that study but however being assured you will pardon what you know flows from a sincere intention I shall not be afraid to give you my private judgment as a Christian whatever it is in a case that may be my own as well as yours though likely to be yours first We have seen the Title of the Act already it proceeds thus For providing therefore of further and more speedy remedies against the growing and dangerous practices of Seditious Sectaries and other disloyal persons who under pretence of tender Consciences do at their Meetings contrive Insurrections as late experience hath shewed Be it enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Common in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person of the age of sixteen years or upwards being a Subject of this Realm at any time after the first day of July which shall be in the year of our Lord 1664 shall be present at any Assembly Conventicle or Meeting under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the Lyturgy or Practice of the Church of England in any place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed at which Conventicle Meeting or Assembly there shall be five persons or more assembled together over and above those of the same houshold Then it shall and may be lawful to and for any two Justices of the Peace of the County Limit Division or Liberty wherein the Offence aforesaid shall be committed or for the Chief Magistrate of the place where such Offence aforesaid shall be committed if it be within a Corporation where there are not two Justices of the Peace And they are hereby required and enjoyned upon proof to them or him respectively made of such Offence either by Confession of the Party or Oath of Witness or notorious Evidence of the Fact which Oath the said Justices of the Peace and Chief Magistrate respectively are hereby impowred and required to administer to make Record of every such Offence and Offences under their Hands and Seals respectively which Record so made at aforesaid shall to all intents and purposes be in Law taken and adjudged to be a full and perfect Conviction of every such Offender for such Offence And thereupon the said Justices and Chief Magistrate respectively shall commit every such Offender so convicted as aforesaid to the Goal or House of Correction there to remain without Bail or Main prize for any time not exceeding the space of three months Unless such c. Now Sir give me leave to tell you that there are some that except against the whole Act as null and void in it self as all Statutes are that are made against Piety as this seems to them to be but then they that thus judge take it for granted that it forbids some exercise of Religion which God commands or allows and in that case all Lawyers will readily confess it to be of no more force than King Darius his Decree Dan. 6. against asking any Petition of God or man for thirty dayes save of himself and which Decree