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A26924 The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ... Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1689 (1689) Wing B1259; ESTC R2816 234,586 307

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will he give for his Life And can you think that Prince or Kingdom is in safety that shall destinate to destruction so great a number and of such quality as are all the Papists Infidels Iews Anabaptists Separatists Independants Presbyterians and Episcopal Non-conformists as are in England Though I think the latter sort would suffer death rather than be disloyal I am sure Rulers and Adversaries think not so who accuse them of intolerable disloyalty And they that think so ill of them will expect ill at their hands It 's true that the worse men are and their principles the more need there is of suppressing them But destroying them is the chief means that I know to increase their principles of resistance It 's ordinary with men that never suffered to detest resisting Governours and to change their opinions when they think they are implacably h●mted to destruction without desert or any remedy Draw your Sword upon them even on a Quaker and it 's two to one you will change his judgment and make him think that self-defence is lawful Yea if you could kill all that think resistance lawful if it be half the Kingdom it 's the likliest way to make all the rest that survive of the same mind because of the inhumanity of the Execution I have met with few that thought that resistance at the French Massacre on Bartholomew-day or at the greater in Ireland had been unlawful whoever commanded them Yea the Lord Bacon Chancellour of England in his Discourses of a Holy War against the Turks and of a War with Spain thought that their barbarous Cruelties though the Turks give Liberty of Conscience allow other Princes to War upon them to vindicate mankind the World being one Kingdom of God in which every man oweth charity and due help to others which is honoured in Tamerlane when he relieved the Greek Emperour of another Religion against Bajazet that was of his own and this in meer Humanity and Charity I meddle not with the case of the lawfulness of such actions But I say All the World cannot devise a more effectual way to make all men think that Self-defence is Lawful than by great cruelty against multitudes to make it seem necessary And if you will cure it by forced Oaths I heartily wish the King better security for his Life and the Kingdom for its Peace than mens conscientious keeping of those Oaths will be unless conscience and patience were more universal and powerful than they are and would make all sorts of Dissenters choose Martyrdom rather than defensive resistance And as for Queen Elizabeth's Case her Dangers were many her Advantages were great her Executions for Religion were so few that the Lord Bacon and many other say none suffered for any thing but Treasons or such crimes And God did wonderfully preserve her But to say no more of the Papists whose case quite differs from all the rest if you will make many Laws about doubtful words and forms and ceremonies and then extirpate all sober godly peaceable Subjects that for fear of sinning against God dare not obey them what do you but mince and pulverize the Nation and dissolve its consisting and strength and make it a Cock-pit or a Prey to the cloven-footed deceiver and divider The Non-conformists in England lived quietly till the Canons were made for their prosecution The great Counsellours of State Sir Nic. Bacon Throgmorton Sir Amias Paulet the Earl of Leicester Sir Francis Knowles Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary Beale c. except Hatton and Whitgift were for lenity yea for such abatements as might have caused Unity And Sir William Cecil Lord Burleigh though for Episcopacy almost fell out with Arch bishop Whitgift for his hard usage of the Non-conformists And were all these fools and you only the wise men But when Bancroft lest they should increase would ruine them and the Canons were made which ipso facto Excommunicated all People in the Land high or low that did but affirm that any thing in their Liturgy Articles Ceremonies Ordination or Church offices from the Arch-bishop to the Apparitor was repugnant to the Word of God the Church and Kingdom presently felt that solutionem continui which these tearing racks had made And when all must be ejected and silenced that durst not subscribe that There is nothing in the Liturgy contrary to the Word of God which I would not say of the Bible it self as in any one translation then our over-zealous Uniters tore all to pieces and the shreds could never to this day be well set together to make one piece Yea all the Parliaments of England have still been striving to restore the Concord of Protestants by laying bye some of these dividing tearing Engines But Whitgift though too great an Anti-Arminian and Hatton c. prevailed still with the Queen to prohibit them and they were loth to displease her having had so great a deliverance from Popery and Persecution by her Reign The Lord Verulam Bacon tells us of a Reforming Act in which himself had a hand prepared in the Parliament but prohibited by the Queen And if any Kings who should no more divide from their Kingdom Real or Representative than the Husband from the Wife that I say not Than the Head from the Body should so far misunderstand their own and Peoples interest as to be jealous of Parliaments as their enemies and if wise Kings desire to keep the Nobility from being as Henry 4th Richard Nevill and others have been too strong for their Sovereigns they cannot more cross their own ends and serve the ambitious designs of these men than by afflicting a great a sober and a religious part of the Kingdom whom these seditious men will be still serving themselves upon by pretending to head them for their deliverance as many factious Nobles did in France It 's a great encouragement to rebellious great ones when they have always hope that a great body of distressed men will be ready as necessitated for self-defence to accept of their offers for insurrections or at least to strengthen faction L. It is for all these very reasons that we would destroy or extirpate all Dissenters that they may not be the serviceable instruments in such designs M. For all these reasons you should unite on the terms that Christ and his Apostles instituted as sufficient for Christian Love Communion and Concord that there may be no distressed exasperated Dissenters among us or only so few and culpable by the grossness of their errours as that their shame and paucity may reader them no way dangerous You should not take such men of extraordinary wisdom as Queen Elizabeth 's Councellours and Parliaments the Lord Bacon Judge Hale and such pacificators as Davenant Hall Chillingworth Abbot Grindal Amycald and most of the French Dutch German Protestants to be all fools and you to be wise Men. A Council in Bedlam could scarce advise a madder way to root out faction than to make Canons or