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A56809	The conformist's second plea for the nonconformists wherein the case of the non-conformists is further stated and the suspension of the penal laws against them humbly moved with all due submission to the magistrate / by a charitable and compassionate conformist, author of the former plea.	Pearse, Edward, 1631-1694.	1682 (1682)	Wing P979; ESTC R11214	81,044	88

and preached there to his Death Mr. Travers ordained by Presbyters in Antwerp after a sharp Controversy with Mr. Hooker was made Provost of Trinity Colledg near Dublin by A. B. Loftus See Fuller's Hist B. ix Chancellor of Ireland Rob. Brown that deserved worst held his Rectory of A-Church Mr. Stone continued in his Parsonage of Warkton A. B. Whitgift whose Stiff constancy was known and proved wrote thus to the Lord Treasurer Burleigh My Procceedings are neither so vehement nor so general against Ministers and Preachers Ibid. p. 139. as some pretend doing me therein great Injury In another to Sir F. Walsingham I have forborn to suspend or deprive any Man already placed in any Cure or Charge for not subscribing Only Bishop Anthony Rudd in his Speech in Convocation An. 1604 said See Addenda to the first Plea That many Learned Preachers enjoyed their Liberty conditionally that they did not by Word or Deed openly disgrace or disturb the State established would that do now we should see a return of many cast out if not of all What need I say of the Indulgence of Arch-Bishop Abbot Remarkable is that Discourse between A. B. Bancroft who was a sharp Adversary of the Puritans with a N. C. An honest able Man protested to him that it went against his Conscience to conform which way quoth the A. B. will you live if put out of your Benefice The Minister answered He had no way but to go a begging Full. B. 10. p. 57. or put himself on the Divine Providence Not that said the A. B. you shall not do so but come to me and I will take order for your Maintenance Many had Lectures or were connived at by Bishops or protected by Great Men as is proved in Particulars by Mr. Baxter Second Part of the Defence against Dr. Stillingfleet c. 4. Hist B. ix p. 135. Sect. 18. Pertinent is that to my purpose which Dr. Fuller writes of some in the Time of Q. Elizab. Reign The Practises of the Presbyterians now found so much Favour as almost amounted to a connivance at their Discipline For whilst the Severity of the State was at this time intended to the heighth against the Jesuites some Lenity of Course by the very Rules of Opposition fell to the share of the Nonconformists on the score of their notorious Enmity to the Jesuitical Party The Earl of Leicester procured great Favour for them from the Queen and snibbed the Bishops for urging Subscriptions The great and wise States-men were Intercessors for some of them witness the Letters of the Lord Treasurer Burleigh and Sir F. Walsingham in that Church-History But now is there no Mittigation to be looked for when our present N. C. approach nearer to a Closure and when their Opposition to the Jesuites doth provoke that Party to strain all their Policies Power and Malice against them Consider if it be not a time to shew Mercy to our Brethren and not to oppress them as Enemies when the whole Protestant Interest among us is saved by meer Mercy How contrary will the impoverishing of them be to that Duty If thine Enemy hunger feed him if he thurst give him Drink Surely if we ought to relieve an Enemy so far as to keep him alive we ought to spare our Brethren and preserve them from a Necessity to beg their Bread But here I seem to some to beg a Question I call them Brethren when they are not It is true I do and if they who profess the same Faith Worship and live under the same Laws are not Brethren have we any in any part of the World Is there any Houshold of Faith out of the Houshold of Conformists If not then our extream Zeal against Nonconformists will carry us to Donatism and confine the Church within the Lines of our Uniformity If to avoid this we acknowledg a Catholick Church out of those Bounds then why shall not that Right be allowed to them that dwell among us as well as to them that live in Forreign Nations and differ as much from our Form of Discipline as they do If therefore they are Brethren let them receive from us some Tokens of Affection and not be burnt with the Marking-irons of Anger as unfit Objects of any thing less than Exclusion from all Favour And let not the Mercy and Mildness of former times come into Judgment against this Generation I do hope there are many that have Sorrow in their Hearts daily for them and that have Hearts of Flesh to them Arg. 3. Both Church-men and Magistrates should forbear this Course of Rigor for fear of being guilty of the great Sin of Persecution or approaching near it All good Christians should be tender of falling into degrees of that Sin which in the highest degree is proper to the Enemies of Christ There are now none in any place of Power but such have by Oaths and Tests avowed themselves to be sincere and honest Protestants and if they will hear Reason on their Brethrens behalf what Mercy can Protestants expect from Papists or perjur'd Hypocrites Abstain from punishing and hurting the Servants of Christ lest ye be found fighting against God and obstructing the Prosperity of Christ's Kingdom by quenching any Light of the Gospel because it is not set up in a branched Candlestick or in the Church They would all burn in the Church but for something that keeps them out in the Church-porch Now as every Christian that hopes for Salvation alone by Christ should be afraid of hurting Christ in his Members so must every Man be tender in affixing the Charge of Persecution upon any which that I may not do I will 1. Open the nature of Persecution 2. The kinds of it 3. Consider what is said to free the Prosecution of the Laws from being a Persecution First To persecute in this place is taken in an ill sence for any kind of Vexation or Trouble brought upon others especially such as is grievous to be born Grot. in Math. 5.10 Petr. Ravan it is ardenter pertinacitèr dilgenter insectari ad nocendum or as others To follow as a Hunter doth his Game In respect of the Sufferer it must be causeless and undeserved and by Consequence not for doing ill in respect of the Inflicter it must be injurious and in respect of the Cause it must not be a civil Cause but Religious in Whole or in Part. It is Persecution if it strike at any part of Religion or for any Exercise of Religion Secondly There are many kinds and degrees of Persecution distinguished by the Afflicters Affliction and Afflicted and the Reasons Causes and Ends. The menaced Sufferings of the Nonconformists are not 1. From an open professed Enemy of the Faith but what is marvellous from Men professing the same Faith as Protestants the Power being in no other hand 2. It is not for Christianity for the Name of Christ or being Christians 3. It is not directly a suffering of Death