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An Apology for God's worship and worshipers [sic] both in the [brace] purity of the one and liberty of the other : from the gracious and (oft) miraculous defence that God makes for them both, when exposed to violation or violence.
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sake just as our Lord predicts to and of the Apostles so are we cast out and yet never were in but coercively and yet worse for his Name that is his Worship that is for calling on it or refusing to pollute it as Paul compelled some to blaspheme Acts 26.11 Now if any desire more see Jer. Burr Zion's Joy Isai 66.10 pag. 28.29 on the place glossing on that Let the Lord be glorified q. d. God's Glory Religion Union Peace pretended that is sorest Persecution they deem it a Service that God loves that is cultum prestare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joh. 16.2 So do the Papists and says he That Persecution by Trajan was the forest though he was a Pattern of good temper Thus blind are men as Oedipus killed Laius his Father for his Enemy but it dishonours God and disunites yea it shakes that Church which you say it settles 2. Do ye not symbolize with that Roman Church and is it not a brand of a Church Antichristian to persecute of the true Spouse to be persecuted It is a Cannon of the Thirdentine Faith to pursue the Evangelicks as Hereticks Scismaticks c. Sir Simon D'Eves pag. 1. out doing the Turks in that that says Conscience cannot be compelled and if it be it gains little the old Brittans Anno 466. wore out Pelagians by a mild Spirit and disputing for the Truth 3. Would ye so be dealt with your selves be expelled from Place and Use deprived of and proscribed from Kirk and Market suspended of Office and Profits exiled among Aliens and put as Musculus to weave dig or beg should Papists succeed and serve you as you have others which God forbid may you not say God is just to repay you in your Coyn Did not our Lord give more equal Rules to his Followers Mat. 7.12 and threatned a day unawares to him that smites his Fellow Servant and eats and drinks with the drunken ch 24.49 50 51. but if at a sacred Feast then 't is more criminal for with such though a Brother one may not eat 1 Cor. 5.11 4thly To ingross Trade is bad Bread is far worse but worst of all for any sort of men to confine the weighty significant Names of Church or chief Rulers Overseers universal Pastors to themselves c. and as such to authorate exauctorate suspend excommunicate and assume a Power Christ never gave exclusive of others his Servants Why should Church-state be appropriate to the Clergy alone or Synods take Denomination from the Ministers only and not the Fraternity too as that first and best did Acts 15.22 23. When People multiply in a Nation and Forreigners are freely admitted yea Lutherans Jews or Papists to the exercise of their Religion in their own way is it not hard it should be denyed Natives that God and the Law have naturalized Or why should Republicks abroad indulge all Dissenters more and fear them less than our Kingdom at home doth Monarchy being deem'd preferrable to all other sorts of Governments 5. As 't is impossible so 't is impracticable to make Convets by fear and force you may fright men in by civil Laws and uncivil Curses to a temporary complyance as one that gives a Thief the Purse to evite a greater Loss But will God reward your blind Zeal or theirs Will Christ thank them that for a sweet rational Luke 14.23 compelling in Guests use a belluine force You bring two bad Guests to the Feast the unworthy and the unwilling has the Church of England any comfort or her Sons Credit in putting in her hosome both Hypocrites Hereticks and Prophane you may so propagate Popery and fill Hell not the Church and make that a means of their Spiritual Death that Christ ordained for the food of eternal Life Some false Christians renouncing their Sacra told the Turk they had given their Name to Mahomet who aking their reason they said to escape Taxes and Oppressions on which the Grand Seignior rejected their forc't Conversion and continued the Taxes If Turks abhor such Votaries why should Christians hug them unless as Cheats and Pick-pockets do to filtch their Penny 6. What comes in by a cursed means is like to arrive at a cursed end Partus sequitur ventrem The Sons of Beor may hunt the Gain of Oppression Namb. 22.5 Deut. 23.5 Joshua 24.9 the Wages of Unrighteousness and overtake it by cursing the Israel of God but how ends it Nor could Baalam curse nor Israel be cursed without God's leave He that has said Bless and Curse not Rom. 12.14 knows how to avert the Curse causeless and to repell it to the Nest whence it took flight Prov. 26.2 And though some of Gods Flock may be driven from the Fields of their Pasture and pusht out nay Pinfolded shorn and shut in Prisons yet has not God promised the evil Beasts shall cease and that he will bless them that bless us and curse them that curse us Ezek. 34.25 Gen. 12.3 7. Suppose a Prince to make probation of his Subjects decree as once an Emperour did to try the constancy of Christians that all should for-go Command that would not quit Christianity and bow to Paganisme and many did so to keep their Places he quickly cashiered them alledging they were unworthy to serve a Prince that were unfaithfull to their God Kings hearts are deep and Interests vary and if a Nights unrest so contiguous an accident Esther 6.1 caused such a turn in the Persian Court and Law judged unalterable Who can tell what Providences lye in the Womb of a day Henry VII by Act helpt Dudly and Empson to do Violence on Peoples Rights and he as sadly repented it on his death And in Henry VIII time they were hanged for executing a Law against Property for the Ruine of the Poor for summum Jus may prove summa Injuria 8. The Plea of Dissenters has obtained in all places as the like has done of old abroad In what Court Church or Countrey has it not At Rome in Pagan-Nero's time Paul is though in Bonds permitted to dwell and preach in his own hired house and to receive all that came to him none forbidding him Acts 28.30 31. And were Pagan-Roman Officers civiller to a Prisoner that preacht down their Gods as false than Protestants are to them that own and invocate the same true God as they do In France it obtained even with Henry III. one of Kather. d' Medices Breed and teaching an utter foe to a hater and betray or of Protestants but a most impotent Prince and not to be convinct till James Clement a Monk had opened his Bowels by a fatal stab and then to his Commanders he gives charge to obey the King of Navar though a Protestant and know saith he that Religion instill'd into Souls by God cannot ' be enforc't by man It has also obtained in the Low Countries so that now 't is the Spaniards Interest to allow them and the Emperours too to preserve the Ballance of Europe