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A36204 The Danger and unreasonableness of a toleration in reference to some late papers which have passed concerning liberty of conscience. 1685 (1685) Wing D177; ESTC R17399 3,941 10

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amongst a great number of which these are some That the Scriptures cannot be said to be the Word of God and are no more to be credited than the Writings of Men being not a Divine but Humane Tradition that God has a hand in and is the Author of the sinfulness of his People not of the Actions alone but of the very Pravity which is in them and afterwards That the Soul of man is mortal as the Soul of a Beast and that there 's no Resurrection at all of the Bodies of Men nor Heav'n nor Hell after this Life You may perceive hereby how such a Liberty as this of maintaining publickly whatsoever a man's depraved Fancy suggests to him cannot but tend to the great propagation of Religion the edification of the People and glory of the Church But what do they desire under this name of Liberty of Conscience or a Toleration Is it a free Liberty to stick close to their old Principles and continue in their profess'd Opinions if this be it let them reflect upon those Tenets that have been maintain'd among them and which I hear not as yet recanted if these are destructive to Government and tend to the upholding of Rebellion it seems a little unreasonable for them to require a persistance in them What they are and how likely to produce Loyal and peaceable Effects would be a long work to shew I shall only send you to a Collection of many of them by a Loyal and Laborious Subject of this Nation L'Estrange where you may have a full view of the Separatist's Opinions and where you are directed to their Author 's You may also find some of them in the sheet that came out at the burning of Seditious Libels in Oxford the last year in both of which you may learn what it is that keeps them in as good a posture as they are in at present and that if they had power proportionable to their desires to the augmentation of which such a Toleration must necessarily contribute much we should have them fight the Lord's Battels and try again to set King Jesus upon his Throne 'T is easily known who I mean and 't is observable that there was never such oppression exercised over mens Consciences by Christians as was by those who so much pretended to an abhorrence of Ecclesiastical Tyranny and who have not many years since been sticklers for a Toleration I shall not trouble my self with answering any of those late Papers concerning Liberty of Conscience neither weighing whether they are in the right when they say the great Oppression they are under is purely for their Religion nor confuting that irrefragable Argument in case of Hypocrisie to which men should be forced if they comply with us nor examining what one of them says concerning Qu. Elizabeth's time conceiving that none of these belong to my purpose my intent is only to hint at the unreasonableness of their desire and the dangerous consequences that would ensue upon it I 'll only desire to know of them whether it were not better if it were possible for us to be united than to widen our Breaches I believe none is such an Enemy to Peace but will at least grant me this if so we beseech them to use such means as may conduce to it They are easie enough to men of unbiass'd Affections and unprejudic'd Spirits that are Friends to Peace and desirers of Unity The case is plain and brief the Constitutions of our Church are known and wherein Dissenters differ from us our Request therefore to them is that they would lay open the Reasons why they desire such an unbrotherly Separation from us but we also desire them to avoid Repetitions and that they produce not Arguments answered long ago unless they give their Replies to them we desire them with unprejudic'd affections to peruse the late Writings of our Ministers in defence of our Church and to acquaint us wherein their Reasons are deficient and unfatisfying let this be done with a Christian Spirit and a desire that their Judgments may be rectify'd in all things and I doubt not but God who is not the God of Confusion but of Unity who is the Author of Peace and Lover of Concord will grant us a Remedy for these sores that we need not enter upon actions of utter Desperation FINIS