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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78056	Religions peace: or, A plea for liberty of conscience. Long since presented to King James, and the High Court of Parliament then sitting, / by Leonard Busher citizen of London, and printed in the year 1614. Wherein is contained certain reasons against persecution for religion, also a designe for a peaceable reconciling of those that differ in opinion.	Busher, Leonard.; H. B.	1646 (1646)	Wing B6251; Thomason E334_7; ESTC R200599	43,040	46

ye have heard how that he should come and now already is he in the world The same is the Antichrist that denyeth the Father and the Son whosoever denyeth the Son the same hath not the Father 1 Ioh. 2. ●… 2● Iohn 17.3.5.8 1 Cor. 15.47 Iohn 6 38.4● 62 7.26 27. Iohn 16.2 3.27 21. the Apostle meaneth such as deny Jesus to be Messiah the Lord that came down from heaven as Christ and they have taught such have not the Father but doe deny him also as they have taught him and therefore Christ saith The times shall come that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God good service but these things they will do unto you because thay have not known the father nor me the father loveth such as beleeve that I came out from God thus saith Christ but Antichrist and his Ministers beleeve not this doctrine neither doe they thus teach Christ Jesus the Messiah And you may please to understand that of this Antichrist or rather as the Syriack of this false Christ came the Church of Rome whose Bishops and Ministers teach not this doctrine and as the mother so the daughter also teacheth not this doctrine but will likewise persecute both Prince and people that shall confesse that Iesus Messiah came in flesh as John teacheth 1 Ioh. 4 2. Iohn 6.62 and 3.13 Iohn 17 5. 1 Cor. 15.47 49 1 Ioh. 4 3. 2 Cor. 11 12 15. Rev. 12.6.14 or that the Son of man ascended up where he was before or that he was glorified with his father before the world was as himself saith Or that he was the second man the Lord from heaven or that he had and hath a heavenly body as Paul teacheth for these and such like doctrines doe the Church of Rome and her daughters persecute with fire and sword being indued with the spirit of Antichrist By which Antichrist his Apostles and Ministers the Apostolick Church was scattered and driven into the wildernesse that is desert and secret places of this world even by their bloody persecution the which still they continue and raise against the members and witnesses thereof who were and are the martyrs which in all ages have and doe suffer death imprisonment and banishment since the first persecution and we never read nor ever shall read that the Apostolick Church or such as have derived their faith and discipline of her did ever persecute Therefore I humbly desire his Majesty and Parliament with all godly carefulnesse to consider that it is not possible that the Church of Rome called Catholick or those that are descended of her and have received their Ministry and Ordination from her ever was or could be the apostolick Church called primitive Church or she that is descended from her seeing the Scripture saith the Apostolick Church called in Scripture the woman hath a place prepared of God in the wildernesse a thousand two hundred and sixty days from the presence of such as did persecute her Rev. 12 6.13.14 How then I beseech you consider may it be possible that the church of Rome called in Scripture a mystery great Babylon the mother of whoredoms and abominations of the earth the woman that sitteth upon a scarlet coloured beast ful of names of blasphemy the woman arrayed in purple scarlet and guilded with gold and precious stones and pearls having a cup of gold in her hand full of abominations and silibinesse of her fornication the woman that is drunken with the blood of saints with the blood of the martyrs or witnesses of Iesus by her beastly persecution was or could be ever the Apostolique Church or are those that are descended from her seeing the Scripture saith Rev. 12 6.13.14 she hath a place in the wildernesse prepared of God where she should be sed a thousand two hundred and sixty dayes from the presence of her persecutors If so be you will have the Church of Rome and those that are descended from her to be the true Apostolick church Note then it wil follow that the church called the woman and did fly into the wilderness from her persecutors was and is the false Antichristian Church and also it will follow that those which we account to be the martyrs and witnesses of Jesus were not of the true Apostolick Church 2 Thes 2.3 6.8 1 Tim. 4.1.2 ●… Rev. 12.6 11 14. and 17.2 6 17. 2 Tim. 3.1.9 4.3 4. 2 Pet. 2.1.3 1 Ioh. 2.18 19 and 4.1 2 Iohn 7. Iude 4 11 16. Like mother like Daughter 1 Tim. ● ● Rev. 2.24 but were obstinate persons and heretiques even as their adversaries in Rome Spain England and elswhere did persecute adjudge and execute them for But if you will have the prophecy of the Apostles to be true and will beleeve their holy writings and also will have the martyrs that have been burned banished hanged imprisoned to be of the true Apostolick Church then it wil follow and that justly according agreeable to the Scriptures that the Church of Rome and those that did and doe persecute are descended from the false antichristian Church called a mystery great Babylon the mother of whordoms and abominations of the earth c. which was and is drunken with the blood of saints and martyrs of Iesus seeing they have her antichristian faith and lordly discipline and for the defence and maintenance thereof will also burn banish hang and imprison so hot and fiery zealous that thereby they shew plainly that they walk so just and even in the steps and paths of the mysticall woman great Babylon their bloody parent and mother so even I say as if they studyed her lying and hypocriticall doctrine her deep and devilish divinity her blasphemous princely and dangerous dignity and her beastly bloudy and deadly discipline Through the continuance whereof not only the Apostolick church is continued still in the wildernes and desert of this world but also the Iews and others both in great Britain and all over the world are kept backe from the knowledge of Gods holy Word the onely order and ordinance Christ hath appointed for the gathering of his Church together out of all places of the world 1 Joh. 4.1 And so long as persecution continue you cannot try the spirits of the many false Prophets that are gone out into the world as the holy Apostle doth lovingly advise and admonish you But like the Papists Fire and sword no equall weapons to the spirit and Word must be eyed onely to the spirits of your lordly Bishops and their Ministers who will have all both King Prince people to receive their spirits and therefore will not have any others to preach and print within the land lest their lying doctrine and lordly discipline be discovered and disclaimed And in stead of disputing and writing by the word and spirit of Christ against their adversaries they wil cruelly persecute and fight against them by fire and sword and spirit of

Sermons nor yet by their bookes which are full fraighted with false doctrines and confirmed and countenanced not onely by the Kings authority and power but also by wresting and false interpreting of the Scriptures and by alledging of popish Fathers which through the great ignorance of the people doe greatly prevaile btt then shall be abolished through the word and spirit of god his two witnesses in the mouth of his servants Rev. 11.3 and 19.10 who by word and writing shall breed such knowledge that none of wisedomes children shall be deceived Another reason why so many good people are now deceived is because we that have most truth are most persecuted and therefore most poore whereby we are unable to write and print as we would against the adversaries of the truth it is hard to get our daily food with the labors of our weak bodies and feeble hands how then should we have to defray other charges and to write and print I have through the help of god out of his word made a scourge of small cords 2 Pet. 2.2 wherewith Antichrist and his Ministers might be driven one of the Temple of God Also a declaration of certain false translations in the new Testament but I want wherewith to print and publish it therefore it must rest til the Lord see'th good to supply it It is the kings honor to search out a thing Prov. 25. Exod 3.6 In mean while I humbly intreat his Majesty and Parliament to give me leave to prove the Bishops with one question by which you may perceive the ignorance of your Bishops 't is this how they will bee able to prove a resurrection from these words I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Onely from these words will they prove the resurrection if they be the Bishops of Christ for he proved the resurrection from hence Luk. 20.27 The question is hard I grant but if their Lordships be not able to interpret it according to the meaning of Christ as I am sure they are not then it will be another cause very sufficient for their deprivation from their Lordly and idol offices and princely livings But because most men do wrest and mis-interpret the Scriptures some of wickednesse and some of ignorance for the utterance of their doctrines and so deceive both Prince and people I will shew how you shall perceive it lest thereby you still be deceived Every Scripture therfore mis-interpreted do make a contradiction As for example M. Iohnson one of the Preachers called Brownists to prove Rome a true church alledgeth 2 Thes 2.4 where the Apostle sheweth That the man of sin and son of perdition sitteth in the Temple of God which words Temple of God he interpreteth to be the church of God whereby he doth greatly erre for then such interpretation will contradict this scripture which saith 1 Tim. 3.15 The Church of God is the pillar and ground of truth But if the man of sin sitteth there Rev. 28.2 Rev. 18 4. then it is a hold of foul spirits a cage of every unclean and hatefull bird as the Scripture speaketh yea the pillar and ground of falshood and not of truth Neither would the Lord call his people out of her as he doth if it were the true Church Rev. 12.13 14. Also if the temple of God in that place be interpreted the church of God this foul absurdity and contradiction will follow viz. that the Church called the woman to whom were given two wings of a great Eagle that she might fly into the wildernesse from her persecutors for a time times and half a time was not persecuted neither yet did sly into the wildernesse so long a time Neither yet was the Church called both woman and whore Re. 17.1 5. also great Babylon the mother of whoredoms and abominations of the earth drunken with the blood of the saints and of the martyrs of Iesus as the Scripture testifyeth Again if that be the church of God where the man of sin sitteth then the winepresse was not troden without but within the Church and so it also crosseth this Scripture which saith Rev. 14.20 the winepress was troden without the City so that blood came out unto the horse bridles by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs Ergo a false interpretation Moreover we are not to understand the word Temple at all times to mean the Church for when Christ said destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up again did not mean the church nor yet the materiall Temple wherin he was but meant his body yet the Jews understood the word Temple otherwise even as Mr. Iohnson c doe here understand the word Temple otherwise then the bodies of peoples multitudes nations Rev. 17.5 and tongues which they ought not to doe Likewise Paul when he said If any man destroy the Temple of God him will God destroy did not mean the Church but the members of the Church So when he said the man of sin sitteth in the Temple of God he did not mean so much as the members of the church much lesse the church Therefore it must be understood that all those in whom the man of sin sitteth are called the Temple of God onely in respect that the Lord hath bought them for the Lord hath bought all men 2 Pet. 2.1 1 Joh. 2.2 1 Cor. 6.19 20. 7.23 Lev. 18.6 even the false teachers that deny him Therefore no man is his own in that respect but the Lords Also the Bishops themselves to prove brothers and sisters children may marry alledge Lev. 18. But that Scripture do not prove such marriages but the full contrary for it saith none shall come near to any of his kindred to uncover shame But brother and sisters children are kinsfolks Lev. 18.17 therefore they may not come near to uncover shame for that were wickednesse This they must confesse or else prove that brother and sisters children are not kinsfolks which they cannot seeing then brother and sisters children cannot call cozen and so all cozenship is blotted out by their doctrine for uncles and Aunts call their brothers and sisters child nephew neece Thus many Bishops and preachers do deceive Kings Princes and peoples by wresting and misinterpreting the Scripture Col. 2 8.1● Therefore I earnestly desire your Majesty and Parliament to beware lest there be any man that spoyle you through Philosophy and vaine deceit through the Traditions of men according to the rudiments of the World and not after Christ 1 Tim. 6. ● 20 21. ● And to avoid profane and vain bablings and Antithesis or opposition falsly called learning which while some professe they have erred concerning the faith And now O King Prince and Parliament open your eyes and listen your eares unto compassion and mercy 2 Cor. 5.10 Mat. 5.45 Ver. 21 22. Lu. 18.7 8. 2 Thes 14.8 Jam. 1.5 6.