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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

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 Printed in the Year 1686. CVrse not the King no not in thy Thoughts and Curse not the Rich in thy Bed-Chamber for a Bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter Eccles 10.20 Thus saith the Lord God let it suffice you O Princes of Israel remove Violence and Spoil and execute Judgment and Justice take away your Exactions from my People saith the Lord God Ezek. 45.9 This is the City to be visited shee is wholly oppression in the midst of her Jer. 6.6 He that turneth away his Ear from hearing the Law even his Prayers shall be abomination Pro. 28.9 O that thy were wise that they understood this that they would remember their latter end Deut. 32.29 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seek in the broad places thereof if ye can find a Man if there be any that executeth Judgusent that seeketh the Truth and I will pardon it Jer. 5.1 Blessed are they which are persecuted for Righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Math. 5.10 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge amongst you let him shew out of a good-conversation his works with meekness of wisdom James 3.13 If the Foundations be destroyed what can the Righteous do Psal 11.3 The Cretion Radamanthus Virgil ranks Amongst Infernal Judges for his pranks He first Condemned then Try'd and by his aw Subserviant to his will did make the Law Who makes his will his Rule and Power his Law Doth plainly shew Gods will he doth not know He that convicts upon an Information Not having heard the accus●d's Vindication Percliance may hit the mark yet is his way Very unjust as all good Laws do say A Brief Collection of Certain Instances of Holy Scripture and Ancient Laws of England concurring against Persecution Oppression and Injustice c. I will get me unto the great men and will speak unto them for they have known the Way of the Lord and the Judgment of their God Jer. 5.5 THat the great men of England have in some degree formerly known the way of the Lord witness some of the antient and fundamental Laws of England and the Maxims upon which they are grounded First that Book called Doctor and Student ch ● p. 4. declares That the main and principal Foundation of the Law of England is the Law of God and that Law is written in the heart of man which is man created in the Image of God and this Law is always righteous stirring up the man to do that which is Good and abhor that which is Evil and therefore saith the Book against this Law Prescription Statute Custom may not prevail and if any be brought against it they are void and against Justice c. And pag. 12. chap. 4. Every good Law is ordained for the health of the Soul and to the fulfilling of the Laws of God and to induce the people to fly evil desires and to do good works Also the Cardinal of Cambrey writes that every Law of Man must be consonant to the Law of God and therefore the Law of Princes the Commandments of Prelates the Statutes of Commonalities nor the Ordinance of the Church is not Righteous nor Obligatory except it be consonant to the Law of God And of such a Law of man that is consonant to the Law of God it appeareth who hath right to Lands and Goods and who hath not for whatsoever a man hath by such Laws of man he hath Righteously and whatsoever he hath against or contrary to such Laws is unrighteously and unlawfully had And the intent of a Law-Maker is to make the people Good and to bring them to Vertue and altho I have somewhat in general shewed thee whereupon the Law of England is grounded for of necessity it must be grounded of these Laws that is to say of the Law Eternal of the Law of Reason and of the Law of God c. But this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days saith the Lord I will put my Laws in their inward parts and write them in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my People Jer 31.33 With this agrees the Prophet of the Lord Micah 6.8 He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God Stat. 20. Ed. 3.1 The Kings Justices shall do right to all without respect of Persons notwithstanding the Kings Letters or Command to the contrary and if any such be they shall acquaint the King and his Council therewith they shall take no fee but of the King nor give Council where he is a party and if they do amiss they shall be at the Kings will in Body Goods and Lands O house of David thus saith the Lord Excecute Judgment in the Morning and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the Oppressor least my fury go out like fire and burn that none can quench it because of the evil of your doings Jer. 21.12 Thus saith the Lord Execute ye Judgment and Righteousness and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the Oppressor and do no wrong do no violence to the Stranger the Fatherless nor the Widow neither shed innocent blood Jer. 22.3 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father c. Matt. 25.34 and vers 40. Verily I say unto you in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren ye have done it unto me Magna Charta 29.9 H. 3. No free man shall be taken imprisoned disseised out lawed exciled or other ways destroyed or condemned without Tryal by his Peers or the Law Justice or Right shall not be sold denied or deferred to any c. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his Cause Keep thee far from a false matter and the Innocent and Righteous slay thou not for I will not justifie the Wicked Exod. 23.6 7. And I charged you Judges at that time saying Hear the Causes between your Brethren and judge righteously between every Man and his Brother and the Stranger that is with him Deut. 1.16 Ye shall not respect persons in judgement but ye shall hear the small as well as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of man for the judgment is Gods verse 17. And if ye call on the Father who without respect of persons judgeth every one according to his works pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 1 Peter 1.17 Stat. 5. Ed. 3.9 None shall be atteached upon any

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