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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67472	Love and truth in two modest and peaceable letters concerning the distempers of the present times / written from a quiet and conformable citizen of London to two busie and factious shop-keepers in Coventry.	Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.	1680 (1680)	Wing W673; ESTC R38020	26,280	37

Chancellour declared to them the occasion of this their publick Convention and asked the Judges this following question As you may read it in the very same words in the said learned Judges Reports in the second year of the Reign of King James Whether it were an offence punishable and what punishment they deserved who fra●ed Petitions and collected a multitude of bands thereto to prefer to the King in a publick cause as the Puritans had done with an intimation to the King that if be denied their Suit many thousands of his Subjects would be discontented Whereto all the Judges answered that it was an offence finable at discretion and very near Treason and Felony in the punishment for they tended to the raising Sedition Rebellion and Discontent among the People To which Resolution all the Lords agreed And then many of the Lords declared That some of the Puritans bad raised a false rumour of the King That he intended to grans a Toleration to Papists Which offence the Judges conceived to be h●inously finable by the Rules of the Common Law either in the Kings Bench or by the King and his Council or now since the Statute of the Third of Henry the Seventh in the Star-Chamber And theLords severally declared How much the King was discontented with the said false rumour and had made but the day before a Protestation to them that be never intendedit and that he would spend the last drop of bloud in his body before he would do it and prayed That before he or any of his Issue should maintain any other Religion than what he truly professed and maintained That God would take them out of the World This you may find in that Report of that Learned Judge as it was left among many other of Reports all exactly written with his own hand and as they are now publisht by Sir Hirebottle Grimstone who is now the worthy Master of the Rolls And you may note that the said Reports were publisht in the year 1658. at which time Oliver the Tyrant was in his full power and you may there find that even all Olivers Judges allowed these Reports to be made publick and subseribed their Names to them and with Oliver's consent doubtless For he had found that those very Non conformists whose Sedition helpt him into his power became after a short time as restless and discontent with him as they had been with their lawful King and indeed as willi g to pull him down as they had been diligent to set him up Dear Cousin these Places to which I have referred you for a Testimony of what I said are not to be doubted and though you would not then give any credit to what I assured you I knew to be a truth yet I hope you now will If not search and you shall find them true And now seriously Sir let me appeal to your own Conscience and ask though you would not then believe me how easily would you have given credit to any stranger that had brought you news of any error committed by any Bishop or their Chaplains or by any of the Conformable Clergy though there were not any reasonable Probability for it Dear Cousin consider what I say and consider there is a great stock of innocent bloud to be answered for not only the bloud of our late Vertuous King and the bloud of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Strafford whose deaths were occasioned by the indiscreet zeal and restless fury and clamours of the Non-conformists And not only the bloud of these but the ruine of many good and innocent Families that now eat the bread of sorrow by being impoverished and undon by these troublesom Pretenders to Conscience and which is worse there is a corruption of the innocence and manners of the greatest part of the Nation to be answered for and all this occasioned by our late Civil War and that War occasioned by the fury and zeal of the discontented restiess Non conformists and them only and note that till then we knew not the name of Independent or of Seeker or Qusker Cousin these are the sad effects of these busie-bodies many of whom God hath still so blinded that they cannot yet see the Errors they have run themselves and the Nation into nay that would imbroil it again into greater ruine than not be complied with in their peevish desires which they miscall tenderness of Conscience Dear Cousin I will not say all but indeed too many of the men with whom you comply and do so much magnifie are too like Simeon and Levi that were Brethren in this Iniquity And as you love the peace of the Church in which you were Baptized and the peace of the Land in which you were born and the Laws by which you enjoy what you have nay as you love the peace of your own Soul draw back and let it not enter any more into their Councils or Confederacy but at last take notice that though neither you nor any of your Associates scruple at the sin of Scbism or Sedition but rush into it without Consideration or fear even as a Horse rushes into the battel yet I pray take notice that St. Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians reckons it with the deeds of the flesh even with Murder and Witchcrast which you so much abhor and let me tell you many think Sedition a more hainous sin than they by reason of the more evil and destructive effects of it for Murder may become so by taking away the life of but one single person And Witchcraft hath its limits and bounds set to it perhaps so as not to take away the life of any man but only to do mischief to a single person or a Family and must end there But who knows the limits of Sedition Or when the fire is kindled which is intended by seditious men who can who is able to quench it And for some proofs of the miserable effects of it though I might give you too many instances of them in former times yet I will only refer you to the late Long Parliament now fresh in memory and the woful effects of that Civil War begot and maintained by schismatical seditious discontenced men that believed themselves fit to be Reformers when God knows well they were not And for the sorrow you express for those men of tender Consciences that are scandalized at wearing a Surplice kneeling at receiving the Sacrament the Cross in Baptism and the like and would have them therefore taken away that so many so learned and so godly Men might by taking them away be brought to a Conformity and made capable of preaching the Gospel which otherwise they cannot do by being scandalized at these Ceremonies I now ask you What if more men and more learned men and more godly men and as tender-conscienced men shall be scandalized by their being taken away What care will you or those of your Party take for their tender Consciences Nay I ask