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A47050	The grand case of subjection to the higher powers in matters of religion resolved to which is added an appendix to a late book intituled A plea for liberty of conscience, wherein the kings supream power in ecclesiastical matters is asserted ... / by James Jones, a Protestant-dissenter, and now a prisoner in Woodstreet-compter for nonconformity.	Jones, James, fl. 1683-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing J956A; ESTC R36209	11,281	12

Promise some of the Kings liege Subjects affirming That there is a Final End of the said Promise But I do humbly conceive that my Plea for Liberty of Conscience is substantially founded upon those several Reasons therein soberly urged and particularly upon his Majesties Royal Promise as one of those Reasons For the better clearing whereof I must of necessity Recite his Majesties Princely Expressions when he Repeated his Promise a considerable time after it was first made Pray see his Majesties Declaration of December 26. 1662. Page 7. We well Remember the very Words from Breda viz. We do Declare a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be Disquieted or called in Question for Differences of Opinion in matters of Religion which do not disturb the Peace of the Kingdom and that we shall be ready to consent to such an Act of Parliament as upon Mature Deliberation shall be offered to us for the full Granting that Indulgence We well Remember the Confirmations we have made of them since upon several Occasions in Parliament and as all these things are still fresh in our Memory so are we still firm in the Resolution of Performing them to the full But it must not be wondred at since that Parliament to which those Promises were made in Relation to an Act never thought fit to offer us any to that purpose that being so Zealous as we are and by the Grace of God shall ever be for the Maintenance or the True Protestant Religion finding it to be shaken not to say Overthrown as we did we should give its Establishment the Precedency before Matters of Indulgence to Dissenters from it But that being once done as we hope it is sufficiently by the Bill of Vniformity we are glad to lay hold on this Occasion to Renew unto all our Loving Subjects Concerned in those promises of Indulgence by a True Tenderness of Conscience this Assurance Page 8. That as in the first place We have heen Zealous to settle the Vniformity of the Church of England in Discipline Ceremony and Government and shall ever constantly maintain it so as for what Concerns the penalties upon those who Living Peaceably do not Conform thereunto through Scruple and Tenderness of Misguided Conscience but Modestly and without Scandal perform their Devotions in their own Way We shall make it our special Care so far forth as in Vs lies without Invading the Freedom of Parliament to incline their Wisdom at the next Approaching Sessions to concur with us in the making some such Act for that purpose as to Enable us to Exercise with a more Vniversal Satisfaction THAT POWER OF DISPENSING which we conceive to be INHERENT IN US nor can we doubt of their chearful Co-operating with us in a thing wherein we do conceive our selves so far Engaged both in Honour and in what we owe to the peace of our Dominions Page 9. Which we profess we can never think secure whilst there shall be a Colour left to the Malicious and Disaffected to inflame the minds of so many Multitudes upon the score of Conscience with despair of ever obtaining any Effect of our promises for their Ease Objections Objection I. But some will be ready to Object and sav That since this his Majesties Declaration the House of Commons did Vote and Resolve in Feb. 1663. First That the thanks of this House be returned to his Majesty for his Resolution to maintain the Act of Vniformity Secondly That it be presented to the Kings Majesty as the humble advice of this House that no Indulgence be granted to the Dissenters from the Act of Vniformity Objection II. And since this Advice an Act of Parliament hath been made for the punishing of such as are Dissenters from the Church of England See the Act against Conventicles April 1670. Answer Let not these things be thought to be Unanswerable Objections and so Conclude that there is a Total and Final End of that GOOD contained in the Kings Promise viz. Liberty of Conscience And therefore let these few following things be soberly Considered as an Answer to the former Objections First Consider who did best the KING in making this Promise of so great a Good to so great a Body of his Subjects as the Protestant-Dissenters are and pressing the compleat Performance of it or the House of Commons in advising the King to the contrary Especially Considering the great strength of Argument in the Kings Words in the before-mentioned Declaration Page 9. Wee do conceive our selves so far ingaged Both in Honour and in what we owe to the Peace of our Dominions which we profess we can never think secure whilst there shall be a Colour left to the Malicious and Disaffected to inflame the minds of so many multitudes upon the score of Conscience with despair of ever obtaining any Effect of our promises for their Ease Secondly Consider that the Votes and Advice of a House of Commons cannot wholly make Null and Void the Promise of a KING if the matter of the Promise be Good and Lawful in it self And especially if the King hath a legal Power in himself to perform such Promise or any Part thereof Thirdly Consider that though that House of Commons did Vote and Advise not to grant the Promised Indulgence by Act of Parliament yet they did not neither could they thereby viz. By their Votes take away the Power of the King in Ecclesiasticall matters so as he should not Suspend or Abate the severe Prosecutions of the Laws in matters of Religion which is the first part of his Majesties Royal Promise viz. That no Man shall be disquieted or called in Question for Differences of Opinion in matters of Religion which do not disturb the Peace of the Kingdom Fourthly Consider that though the House of Commons at that time did not think meet to Establish Liberty of Conscience by a Law Yet they left the King in the Injoyment of his Supream Power to Dispense with the Penalties of such Laws as were already made against Dissenters from the Church of England Fifthly Consider that his Majesty hath Declared in the fore-mentioned Declaration that he did conceive that he had an Inherent Power in himself to dispence with the Penalties attending his Subjects who living Peaceably could not Conform But did Modestly and without Scandal perform their Devotions in their own way See Page 8. Sixthly Consider that though the Parliament long after this did make an Act against Seditious Conventicles in the Year 1670. Yet they were very careful to Reserve unto the King his Supream Power in Ecclesiastical Affairs See Page 24 of the said Act thus Worded provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall Extend to Invalidate or Avoid his Majesties Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Affairs but that his Majesty and his Heirs and Successors may from time to time and at all times hereafter Exercise and Enjoy all powers and Authorities in all Ecclesiastical Affairs as fully and as amply as