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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86726	An Humble advise to the right honorable the lord mayor, the recorder, and the rest of the justices of the honorable bench to the goodmen of the jury, aud [sic] at the Sessions House in the Old-Bayley, London, in behalf of Mr. John Bidle, prisoner in Newgate.		1654 (1654)	Wing H3396; ESTC R42339	15,114	16

to the publique profession held forth none shall be compelled by penalties or otherwise but that endeavours be used to win them by sound Doctrine and the example of a good conversation 37 That such as profess Faith in God by Jesus Christ though differing in judgment from the doctrine worship or discipline publikely held forth shall not be restrained from but shall be protected in the profession of the Faith and exercise of their Religion so as they abuse not this liberty to the civil injury of others and to the actual disturbance of the Publike Peace on their parts provided this liberty be not extended to Popery or Prelacy nor to such as under the profession of Christ hold forth and practise licentiousness 38 That all Laws Statutes Ordinances and clauses in any Law Statute and Ordinance to the contrary of the aforesaid liberty shall be esteemed as null and void Mr. Bidle now professeth Faith in God by Jesus Christ and that truly not notionally and as the compilers of the instrument by their words shew us they did intend As for Popery Prelacy teaching or practising licentiousness so free is he from these as none taxeth him with it How then can it be that his differing in judgment from the doctrine worship or discipline publikely held forth should exclude him any more then any other man in the Nation from protection in the profession of the Faith and exercise of his Religion since he no way abuseth this liberty to the civil injury of others nor doth any thing to the disturbance of the publike Peace on his part but on the contrary demeaneth himself peaceably and quietly as becometh a Christian and exhorteth others to do the like The true sense and meaning of these Articles or of the intention of the Law-makers thereof you can no otherwise know from any person or persons whatsoever so as to be satisfactory to your consciences but from the words and expressions themselves which do most evidently and plainly afford M Bidle protection from all Laws and Ordinances before made and from all kinds of trouble and molestation As for proving any the opinions alledged against him to be Blasphemy in the Scripture sense is impossible to be made appear It is true indeed by the Law of Moses a Blasphemer was to be put to death and you hear often that Scripture urged to incite you to judg such to death as are at any time indicted here for Blasphemy but you are to be aware of Scripture misapplied there being no speedier way to misery and destruction Christians being not to be swayed in their judgments and consciences by the rule of the Law of Moses but by the precepts and examples of Christ and his Apostles Yet if Mr. Bidle were to be tried by the Law of Moses unless it do appear that by the Law of Moses these things or words or books in the Indictments are declared to be Blasphemies or such crimes as for which men ought to die which that declareth not there would be no ground at all from thence to proceed against him And as for any warrant from the New Testament you have heard already how gently Christ himself dealt with the misbelieving Sadduces as also with those that would not receive his Word and how he reproved such as would have had fire from heaven to consume the Samaritans so as from thence nothing will ever justly be raised to endanger his life in your hands nay not to countenance his least molestation For let the utmost that can be urged from these places by the misapplication of which many a well meaning Judg and Jury man hath been in this place misled to the sad destruction of many innocent men fearing God for the daies are still in remembrance and will never be forgotten whenas Parliaments were so unchristianlike busie in making Laws in matters of Religion touching Faith and the Worship of God that amongst other snares laid to intrap good mens lives they enacted to this effect That whosoever should deny the very Body and Blood of Christ to be really in the Bread and Wine after the words of Consecration should be put to death as being an Heretique or Blasphemer Whereupon divers Informers of those times set themselves and were by the then Clergy secretly put on to lay in wait and gather up such words as rendred enquiring Christians which were willing to be satisfied of the truth of so strange a mystery obnoctious to their cruelty most of the Informers being Booksellers whose trade was sure to fail in case this mystery of which their Books were full stuffed should be proved but a delusion bestirred themselves to purpose halling and driving multitudes before the Bishops who soon sentenced them and turned them over to the civil Magistrates to be put to death for Blasphemy and Heresie Where by the way your Honor and the Honorable Bench and especially you good men of the Jury are to observe with what reverence nay with what adoration this error this the grossest error in all Popery as Mr. Bidle useth to call it was every where believed and no marvel whenas Parliament Law had made it death to dispute or deny it and then how here in England where liberty of debating and disputing this mysterious point hath been long time admitted this gross error hath been wrought out of most mens understandings which effectually sheweth the real necessity and benefit of freedome in dispute and arguing of all points none excepted and what enemy to the truth those are this Christian liberty yet still to this day where Laws of State govern in matters of Religion and where conscience and discourses are overawed with Laws of Imprisonments Banishments and death as in most of the Popish Dominions they are there this grosse error which now through Gods mercy appears to every considerate person one of the greatest and most palpable mysteries of iniquity is neverthelesse admitted and received with the same if not higher respect and admiration then ever which shews also of what Tribe and Kindred they are that would have setled here again in this Nation a coercive or constraining power in matters of conscience belief and the worship of God And truly whil'st you have this mysterious point of the real presence of Christs Flesh and Blood in the Sacrament and cannot but wonder how it should enter into mans heart to be believed it being so expresly contrary to every ones perseverance tasting therein very Bread and very Wine even after the words of Consecration whilst you have this in mind and through how many difficulties and impossibilities and wrackings of the understanding by Sophismes and subtil arguments men were made to believe that they did believe the real presence to be there when it was impossible for any though they said they did so much as to understand it for so grosse an error did never appear a reality or truth to the understanding Be pleased whilst your thoughts are thus imployed to reflect upon the