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A30511 The case of free liberty of conscience in the exercise of faith and religion presented unto the King and both Houses of Parliament ... / by ... Edward Burroughs. Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Parliament. 1661 (1661) Wing B5986; ESTC R5152 10,124 15

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will be laid to your charge and such who cannot deny their Principles and conform will be destroyed and their death will be accounted against you in the day of the Lord and therefore if ye do not allow Liberty of Conscience many grievous evils will infallibly follow both to your selves and your people And what advantage of honour will such be to God and your Church that are against their Consciences and light forced into a conformity for fear and terrour of men it makes them manifold more the Children of the Devil and time-servers and Hypocrites and destroys their souls and such can be no true members of the true Church of Christ but are Reprobates and a dishonour to God and your Church 8. Consider if ye constrain and compel in matters of Religion and do not allow liberty of Conscience it is unreasonable and unequal and down-right contrary to the Holy and pure Law of God which saith ye shall do unto all men as ye would that men should do unto you and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self and this is the fulfilling of the Law But to be imposed upon and persecuted for the cases of Consciences and for the matters of Worship of God your selves would not willing be against your light and knowledge and then it is unequal and unjust and contrary to the Law of God for ye to do the same to others which your selves would not be done unto And do not you to this day cry out against the Papists in Queen Maries daies and at this day in other Nations and condemn them as Tyrants and Oppressors for Persecuting Killing and Destroying the Protestants for the matters of their Conscience and difference in Opinion and Judgment And will you do the same at this day as they do to others and follow their example of cruelty and persecution and break the Law of God and walk contrary to it in doing to others what you would not be done unto And seeing you condemn the late foregoing Powers in these Kingdoms for Tyrants and Usurpers and Oppressors for prohibiting your way of worship and commanding the contrary and disanulling so much as they could your service Book and Ministry how can you justly do the like to others as to force waies of Religion upon them and prohibit theirs and command the contrary if you do it ye condemn your selves by judging of others in the like case 9. Consider if ye do not allow liberty of Conscience but impose Church Government and Religion by paines and penalties then ye will fill the land with Hypocrites and force people into time-serving obedience and into formal waies of worship some against their Consciences and some in the ignorance thereof which is great abomination unto the Lord and such will neither be true and faithful in Church nor State but will seek advantages against you if they are forced by violence in the cases of their Consciences and it will beget great contentions and hatred in the minds of men and divide them into heart-burnings one against another and against you and your Government for if men become Hypocrites for your fear and terror and deny their professed principles and conform they will be false-hearted and envious and malicious and attempt any thing to be freed from bondage and impositions of Conscience and their hearts will be disengaged in love and affection to you-wards and this will be infallibly the effect of persecution for Conscience sake as King Charles the I. saith in his Meditat. A charitable connivance and Christian toleration often issi pates their strength whom rougher opposition fortifies and puts the dispised and oppressed party into such combinations as may most enable them to get a full revenge on those they count their persecutors c. 10. Consider if ye force Worship and Religion and cause men to conform against their Judgements how dangerous is this to destroy mens souls and to lead them even to destruction For seeing ye affirm not the Infalibility of your Worship and Religion and yet will impose them and so engage mens souls in dependancy for Salvation upon things and waies uncertain and which God gives not the Faith to believe in I say how dangerous is this to ruin souls for in no way can the soul be secure but in the faith which God works in the heart in the Obedience of infallible Truth So ye run mens souls upon a Rock and it is unreasonable as before mentioned that men should be forced into the profession and practice of uncertain and fallible Religion and that they should be forced by you into that which may be evil for which not you altogether but themselves must bear the punishment in the day of the Lord and except ye could affirm and prove the Infalibility of your Church which is impossible there is no equity nor right reason for it that you should impose upon others any more then others should impose upon you for as King Charles the I. said in his Medit. He desired not any should be further subject unto him then he and all of them might be subject unto God c. 11. Consider if ye alow not liberty of Conscience but persecute about the same ye walk in the way and after the example of some of the Heathen Rulers and of the false Christians and shews that ye allow of the cruel persecutions by the Church of Rome and ye follow their example who persecutes unto death such as they call Hereticks and if ye do persecute for matters of Conscience then ye allow the very deeds of the Heathens who persecuted the Christians for their Religion sake and ye justifie the Papists in persecuting the Protestants and ye plainly demonstrate unto all the World by your works and fruits that ye are of Antichrist if ye impose on mens Consciences by force in the matters of Religion and persecute good Conscience about the same for it was the Antichrist and the Beast that first forced all to worship and violently engaged all into a conformity and killed and persecuted all that would not worship according to the Image Rev. 13. as ye may read And it was not Christs way nor the practice of any his Primitive Churches to impose and force on the persons and Consciences of men concerning their Church and Religion to cause all into a conformity thereunto and destroy and persecute all that would not This was not the way of Christ and his Apostles in their daies but they left Religion free and said they were not lords over mens faith nor lords over Gods Heritage neither did impose upon any in doubtful cases of conscience much lesse compel against mens Consciences for the Apostle left the practice of doubtful things as every one was perswaded in his own mind to do or not to do without imposing by force or directions of persecution about the same Therefore if ye do not allow free liberty of Conscience ye are out of the Doctrine and Example of Christ and his