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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44149	A brief collection of certain instances of Holy Scripture, and ancient laws of England concurring against persecution, oppression and injustice, recomended to the serious consideration of all sincere friends to the King and kingdom / by William Holgate.	Holgate, William, fl. 1683-1686.	1686 (1686)	Wing H2415; ESTC R858	11,163	18

Jesus Christ with all Confidence no man forbiding him Acts 28.30 31. On All Saints day Mat. 5. to the 13 vers is appointed to be read And seeing the multitudes he went up into a Mountain and when he was set his Diseples came unto him And he opened his Mouth and taught them c. And the people were astonished at his Doctrine For he taught them as one that had Authority and not as the Scribes Mat. 7.28 29. Seeing then that the Antient Fundamental Laws and Statutes of England the Exposition made upon them by the great Judges men learned in the Laws of this Land in praise of them the confirmation whereof great Judges in our own days allow of the Testimony of holy Scriptures confirms the Liturgy of the Church of England allows and also enjoyns who can think that Persons affecting the Law true Friends to the King and Kingdom should ever be so far mistaken as to strengthen the hands of them that Prosecute Punish Perseute and Destroy sober peaceable upright hearted people reprochfully called Quakers against whom nothing that is evil in it self can justly be proved or ever hath been proved but only concerning the worship of their God O ye great men of England read Daniel's Cause of being Persecuted recorded Daniel 6.5 Then said these men we shall not find any occasion against this Daniel except we find it against him concerning the Law of his God the whole Chapter is worth your reading and your consideration As also the record of Esther concerning Hamans haughtiness who because Mordicai the Jew did not bow unto him nor reverence him as he expected sought occasion to destroy him and all the Jews that were in the Kingdom of Ahasucrus promising to bring ten thousand talents of Silver into the Kings Treasuries Where First Let it be observed as well as it is recorded that Mordicai though a Jew and his and their Laws as to Religion were diverse from all people of Media and Persia yet he was admitted to sit in the Kings Gate having discovered the treasonnable intent of Bigtan and Teresh two of the Kings Chamberlains Esther 2.21 Secondly the regard Mordecai had of Gods Honour and Commandment not to give flattering titles or accept any mans person Job 32.21 22. Therefore did not Mordecai bow unto Haman nor do him such reverence as he expected Esther 3.2 Thirdly The Envy Wrath and evil Intent that arose in Haman a-against Mordecai and the reason of it as in verse 5. Fourthly The way and method he took to accomplish and avenge himself of him verse 8. He informed the King saying There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the Provinces of thy Kingdom and their Laws are diverse from all people neither keep they the King's Laws therefore it is not for the King's profit to suffer them the margin hath it it is not meet or equal to suffer them verse 9. If it please the King let it be written that they may be destroyed and I will pay ten thousand talents of Silver to the hands of those that shall have the charge of the business to bring it into the Kings Treasuries Fifthly Mordecai's behaviour upon knowledge of the Kings decree for his and the Jews Destruction Esther 4.1 He rent his Clothes and put on Sackcloth and wept bitterly Mark He did not plot or conspire Treason neither did any other of the Jews that were in the King's Provinces meet together to plot and conspire Treason but verse 3. In every Province whithersoever the Kings Commandment and his Decree came there was great Mourning amongst the Jews and Fasting and Weeping and Wailing and many lay in Sackcloth and Ashes mark they did not meet to do any evil against the King his Crown or Dignity though rendered and accounted Seditious Sixthly The way the Jews took for their help and to prevent the Decree against them They gathered all the Jews that were present in Shushan together to Fast and Pray and patiently waited the Lord's will concerning them Esther 4.6 Seventhly How much the Kings damage would have been by so cruel and outragious a work as the destroying of a great number of Families of the Jews which were scattered abroad through the hundred twenty and seven Provinces of his Kingdom who were industrious people And it is a certain Truth that the Glory of a Prince is in the multitude of his People not idle loytering Beggers or prophane spend-thrift Informers but men of industry and diligence as the Jews were But alas who that are truly conscientiously Religious can escape seeing their conscientious meeting together to pray unto God and worshipping him is made so great a crime as to forfeit the fruits of their Industry and Diligence Eightly Read the just judgment of God upon Haman and his Family with his abetters who giving the King knowledge of the great damage that would ensue to his Kingdom by Haman's wicked devise which he had devised against the Jews turned the heart of the King so that he caused the evil Haman intended against Mordecai and the Jews to fall upon his own head Esther 9.25 Ninthly The Lord 's good will to his people and the peace and tranquility of the King and Kingdom when the wicked Counseller was removed from the King Esther 10.2 Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall be established in Righteousness Prov. 25.5 But the wicked are like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt Isa 57.20 Scripture records Haman and his Counsel wicked How then shall any in this day who are found doing things of the same nature be reckoned otherwise Therefore O ye great men of England if you love the King and tender your own Souls good your Childrens and Families happiness after ye labour to put an end to those Laws by which a great number of industrious and laborious innocent peaceable people suffer and that near to the utter ruin of many of them and their Families for be assured that the sums of money which by such prosecution comes into the King's Treasuries will not countervail the King's damage nor answer the gain that would come to the King by their lawful Imployments and Trades I observe in that excellent Declaration of King Charles 2. dated December 26. 1662. He declares his wonderful Restoration without the least blood-shed by the military sword and expresseth his Clemency or the Clemency of his Nature towards conscious persons reflecting upon such as by words or practise renders him otherwise and accounts them wicked and malicious yea the most dangerous Enemies of his Crown and of the peace and happiness of the Nation Considerations are to be had to the persons of men and to the Laws of Charity more then to the triumping in any opinion for whatsoever is against the foundation of Faith or contrary to good Life or destructive to humane Society ought not to be tollerated mark then no