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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35117	An apology for the Quakers wherein is shewed how they answer the chief principles of the law, and main ends of government : with several reasons why they deserve the liberty of their consciences in the worship of God : for all magistrates and rulers to consider of, lest they pervert justice and provoke the Lord to displeasure / by J. Crook.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7196; ESTC R25362	5,121	9

AN APOLOGY FOR THE QUAKERS Wherein is shewed How they Answer the Chief Principles of the LAVV and Main Ends of GOVERNMENT With SEVERAL REASONS Why they deserve the LIBERTY of their CONSCIENCES in the WORSHIP of GOD. For all Magistrates and Rulers to consider of lest they pervert Justice and provoke the Lord to displeasure By a Lover of Mercy and Truth J. Crook Those whom Lust Fear and Wrath controul Scarce know their Body from their Soul LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. An APOLOGY for the QUAKERS THis People hath been every where spoken against as those that turn the World up-side down and are different in life and manners from the people of the Nations but time and experience hath made many to know them better for they begin to be understood and only to be hardly thought of in those places and by those persons that know them not it being alwayes incident to man to speak evil of things he knows not because he cannot endure to have any to outshine or go beyond his knowledge and therefore what he wants in Worth and Virtue he strives to make up by Force and Wrath though thereby he can never work the Righteousness of God But as Cain thought to get up by removing Abel out of the way and to establish his Form by taking away his life that was in the Power so have all done ever since that have gone in the way of Cain And yet though Abel was killed Cain could not enter into God's savour while sin lay at his door for Form without Power will never be accepted with God however it may be cryed up by men This Peoples Principles are now well known and the more because they have been so much opposed and often tryed even from the Miter-cap unto the Curats-coat besides the lashes by the way from by-standers and lookers-on as well as from those that esteem themselves unquestionably Orthodox in their Judgments and Practices Yet have this People stood when many have fallen and by their tryals both their Principles and Practices come to shine the more and the better to be approved as if to them to dye were gain and to live were Christ That this People deserve to have the Liberty of their Consciences to worship God according to his perswasion in their hearts may appear by what hereafter follows First Because of their Principle which is Light and that leads them to do unto all men as they would be done unto And this Principle and Grace they affirm appears unto all men though few follow it yet is it every man's duty to be subject unto its requirings and those that are faithful unto it it keeps them in all tryals whereby they are upheld when others fall 2dly Because of their Practices being such as become the Gospel not vain-talkers like many others but holy livers not hearers only but doers their words being Laws unto them proceeding not from a vain customary form but from a considerate and pondrous spirit first weighed and then spoken forth and such words never become a burden to the speakers of them though hard to be digested by an unsavoury mind in the hearers But their Practices are so well known that Fairs and Markets proclaim them as well as Shops and Trades besides the experiences of Landlords from their Tenants as well as Relations both near and more remote with their demeanour both in sickness and health poverty and riches liberty and restraint without murmuring at the hand which strikes I need say no more to manifest their Practices they being known from the hoary head unto the youthful dayes and from the chiefest Ruler unto the meanest Subject it being all one to them with whom they have to do either child or experienc'd age Righteousness being the girdle of their loins and Truth and Uprightness the square and line of all their actions 3dly They deserve Liberty because of their faithful Testimony against the Wickedness Injustice Oppressions and Cruelties of the persons places and times in and among whom they have lived even ever since they have been a People unto this day though hitherto they have suffered deeply for the same as the Righteous have alwayes done who by departing from iniquity and bearing witness against it in whomsoever it appeared made themselves a prey 4thly If Liberty should be denied them experience teacheth that they will meet to worship God which argues that both their Faith and Constancy comes from him unless hindred by Banishment Death or Imprisonment and experience sheweth by what of this kind hath already been exercised towards them how their number is encreased and a spirit of pity and compassion is raised up in the hearts of people towards them Besides their usefulness in the Common-wealth they being known to be both laborious themselves and encouragers of others thereunto may be another reason why they deserve Liberty For may it not well be supposed that the denying of Liberty of Conscience unto Quakers and others is one cause why Trade is so decayed and Discontents encreased and can that place or Country be long-liv'd where Trade decayes Trade being unto a Kingdom or Country as meat is unto the stomach And what danger England is in upon this account it concerns the Rulers to look unto before the disease be incurable 5thly They deserve Liberty because they both answer the Principles of the Law and the Ends of Government The main Principles of the Law are these three Honeste vivere Tribuere suum cuique Neminem laedere i. e. To live well To pay every man his own And to hurt no man For their living well it is manifest unto all that know them and have to do with them of which I have spoken before And therefore the Law is abused when Liberty is given to Crows and Doves punished Dat veniam Corvis vexat censura Columbas Juven And this practice doth make Laws like Spiders webs That catch the Flyes but let the Wasps go free Favours the Ill when Just imprison'd be For their paying to every man his own let Landlords speak for their Tenants and Masters and Servants each for other with all others with whom they deal or have to do For their hurting no man it is as manifest in that they are hurt by all and the more because they follow Christ's example When they are reviled not to revile again and therefore can they not be justly charged unto this day with hurting any either in their Persons Estates or Liberties though many have watched for their halting The chief Ends of Government are these four First To prevent Oppressions To limit and restrain the excessive Power and Violence of Great-men To open the passages of Justice with indifferency towards all 2dly To preserve men in their Estates and secure them in their lives and liberties for if it were not for just Government no man would have more certainly in his own than power will allow 3ly That vertue should be cherished and vice suppressed