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religion_n	government_n	manner_n	university_n	13,153	5	13.5058	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37061	The copy of a letter written to Mr. Alexander Hinderson	Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1643 (1643)	Wing D2848; ESTC R18034	12,752	20

School-masters for the education of youths should be laid open Also the Charge of the Magistrate as he is Governour and Judge of the people and the duty of the Subject as he is under Superiour powers The Charge of a Husband and Wife The Charge of Parents and Children and of Masters and Servants should all be distinctly described and published in severall briefe Treaties and made common to all that both Protestants might see what they should do according to their own principles of profession and others might be informed of their walking who traduce them for licenciousnesse and blame their Religion as if it were the high way to dissolve all Government and to cast men loose unto all manner of rebellion and dissolution Such Treaties as these being briefly yet fully and substantially penned and then revised and approved by some Synods and Vniversities would be of great use to make all Protestants be of one minde in their profession of Christianity before the world and free them from many odious impressions which evill Statists and Emissaries of the Pope beget in the minds of Princes against them whereby more hurt is done then we are aware of Therefore to elaborate these tasks Men should be set apart and being fitted for the common use of all men they should be printed and dispersed in severall Languages to be seen by all and the Charges of Translation and Printing should be born by those that undertake the Palatine Cause and his Counsellors for the good of this Cause should set their minds awork how to bring these things to passe For herein doth their strength consist against which all the power and plots of the Enemies of Protestancy will never be able to prevail For suppose they should effect what they intend in calling a Councell in Germany by the Emperours authority to rectifie some generall grievances if Protestants have these Declarations and evidences to make the tenor of their common Faith and Practise appear in a readinesse to offer it to be judged by that Councell what will their plot be able to effect Will they not be taken in their own device and made instruments of confirming that Profession which they intend to overthrow I know not what you will think of the possibility to effect all this but I am sure you cannot deny but that all this may be done and that without great difficulty or great delay if the Protestant Cause were taken to heart as it ought to be and if some few Instruments were set apart to elaborate such tasks as these But alas these things are not at all minded nor can they gain any favour or countenance at any bodies hand who is in place of Eminency except they can make a particular use of the undertaking to subordinate the same unto some private aims of their own Hence it is that the solicitors of such Works are lookt upon aloof and suspected as dangerous Men by all sides or laught at in secret as men of odde and singular conceits that fancy unto themselves Castles in the air and impossible undertakings Verily I confesse the undertakings are impossible not per se but per accidens by reason of the stupidity of mens spirits in matters of a publike nature and by reason of their great partiality which doth blinde them in all other things not serving to their private ends and wayes Nor do most men that I meet withall minde any thing but what is immediately of use for their own present turns and because my thoughts cannot run that way I am become like a sparrow on the house top and as an Owle among the rest of the Birds of the Forest For all this while I have been knocking at a deaf mans door intending to put men in minde of these things and seeking help to bring them to passe I have spent my time and strength in vain Now then I have discharged my conscience and will set my mind at rest from henceforth and this I count to be the fruit of my labours This is the first kind of means serving to establish to perfect and to make known what true Protestancy is in the world The second kind of Means doth serve to oppose Popery in that wherein it doth study to divide and undermine the State of Protestants To this effect Means should be thought upon how to go crosse unto them in their proceedings against us They labour and plot how to divide us amongst our selves and to feed our disputes in Religion and jealousies of States and to bring every where some evill intelligence betwixt Rulers and Subjects and to make us of Great Britain to neglect all the thoughts of our Brethren which may tend to their comfort should not we then labour and plot to bring the quite contrary effects to passe namely how to reconcile matters of disputes in Religion and to take away jealousies of States and to bring good intelligences betwixt Rulers and Subjects and to make us here in Great Britain to think upon the State of our Brethren who suffer in and for the same Faith which we professe They have a Synagogue of Satan to tempt the Protestants to defection from whence they send forth swarms of Emissaries as they call it ad propagandam fidem but it is to creep into all Courts and Families to corrupt mens minds and to execute all mischievous designs against us and we are so dull as to intend nothing either for our own preservation or against them Nor is the way thought upon or inquired after how that any such purpose might be effected This then the undertakers of the Palatine Cause should lay to heart and seriously mind as a Fundamentall Maxime of their State That the Causes of divisions amongst Protestant Churches and States must be remedied by some effectuall Negotiation whereof the preparatives being already made to their hand rather by a Providence of God then by any mans instigation and encouragement they will be the lesse excusable if they make not use of the same by taking notice of the Means which may be shewed unto them whereof I will not now speak at large only in a word let me refer you unto the summary discourse concerning the work of Peace Ecclesiasticall how it may concur with the aim of a Civill Confederation among Protestants which is in print was sent unto you 6 or 7 weeks ago But if no such publike Negotiation can be as yet intended then a more private and yet no lesse effectuall way might be used by setting afoot a Theologicall Correspondency with Divines already ingaged in the Work of Reconcilement The maner and Method of entertaining this Correspondency and the Vsefulnesse of it might easily be shewed if there were any hope or appearance of obtaining any countenance Patronage or maintenance in undergoing it for much must be done in it by printed Letters and Tracts which should at once be made to flie abroad to all places convenient and yet not become common to every one promiscuously till matters should be sufficiently ripened in the minds of Leading men on all sides who in due time should be able to sway others unto good Resolutions And although in this publique Cause of maintaining Protestancy nothing else should be done but to keep afoot the Correspondency which is begun already that the thoughts of those that are everywhere raised and set upon these Consultations may be more and more confirmed and ripened yet this alone if it be effectually prosecuted may be able by the grace of God to countermine the Papall plot heretofore mentioned Therefore whatsoever else may be intended if my counsell may be heard I would not have this omitted nor delayed but His Majesty should be moved to settle some donatives and set them apart to maintain the Charges of this correspondency Many things of this nature will be in his Majesties disposing if those that are found guilty be punished and deprived of the gifts and priviledges which they injoyed without doing service to the publique therein Thus you see my desire and the care that doth trouble my minde about this businesse Having thus discharged the burden of my thoughts upon your wisdome and discretion I finde my spirit at rest because I make no doubt but God will addresse you to make some use of them where they may be most profitable to the good of the cause of Religion and I shall not fail to joyn my daily prayers with you and your endeavours that they may not be unfruitfull in this matter Thus I commend you to the Grace of God and rest Your faithfull friend and servant in Christ London Octob. 4. Anno 1641. FINIS