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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17345	Religions peace or A reconciliation, between princes & peoples, & nations (by Leonard Busher: of the county of Gloucester, of the towne of Wotton, and a citticen, of the famous and most honorable citty London, and of the second right worshipfull Company) supplicated (vnto the hygh and mighty King of great Brittayne: etc: and to the princely and right Honorable Parliament) with all loyalty, humility and carefull fidelity	Busher, Leonard.	1614 (1614)	STC 4189; ESTC S121938	38,867	38

naturaly descended of him therfore beleving Kings may safly walke in the steps of their Father Abraham and with their swords defend their subjects against their adversaries and redeeme their bretheren out of the jawes of al devouring beasts and bloudy persequtors for they beare not the sword for nought And now also I desier those subjects of what degre soever that wold destroy their Kings and Governors for difference in Religion to consider that therin they justifye their Kings and Governors which destroy their subjects for difference of Religion For as it is sinne for Kings and Governors to destroy their subjects for difference of religion at the perswasion of their Bishops So is it sinne but in a higer degree for subjects to destroy their King and Governors for difference of religion at the perswasion of their Bishops and Ministers Therfore perseqution for difference in religion is a monstrous ād cruel beast that destroyeth both Prince and people hindereth the gospell of Christ and scattereth his Disciples that professe and witnes his name But permission of conscience in difference of Religion saveth both Prince and people for it is a meeke and gentle lamb which not onely furthereth and advanceth the gospel but also fostereth and cheris heth these that professe it as may bee seene by the permission of the Princesse Elizabeth and others that were permitted and fostered in Dutchland at that time Also permission of conscience is a greate and suerband and benefit to the King and State as may likewise bee seene in the same Princesse Eliza who if she had not beene permitted but had suffred death as the bloudy Bishops earnestly desyred then had not the Kingdom been so suerly not yet so purely kept ād preserved for his Mayesty ad his Royal issue as now it is the Lord be praysed therfore Further I beseech his right excellent Maiesty and parliament to obser that perseqution was the occasion that the Apostoliq Church was at first scattered and driven into the wildernis that is desert places of the world whether she fled to save herself from the rage and Tyrannye of Antichrist and his Apostles and Ministers the first Authors of perseqution vnder the Gospell Therfore his Majesty and Parliament may please to consider that so long as perseqution continue so long will the Apostoliq Church continue scattered and persequted into the secret places of this world and no mervayle for her faith and discipline is as offensive as odyous and as vnwelcom vnto Antychrist and his Bishops and Ministers now as it was then as their burning banishin hanging and imprisoning doe withnes even vnto this day And it is to be noted that as the Apostoliq faith and discipline in the Apostles dayes when through them true signes and wonders were wrought by the extraordinary gift and power of the Holy Ghost did let and hinder the mistery of iniquity wrought by Antychrist his Apostles and Ministers by whō the lyeing signes and wonders were done through the extraordinary spirit of Satan So now the Catholiq or Antichristian faith and discipline haveing gotten the vpperhand by her lyeing signes and wonders and by perseqution doe by the same let and hinder the mistery of Godlines wrought by Christ his Apostles and Ministers by whom the true signes and wonders were done without perseqution And it is well worthy to bee observed both of King Prince and people that the Bishops Ministers of Antychrist cannot abide nor endure the faith and discipline of the Apostoliq Church because it willbee the overthrow of their blasphemous and spirituall Lord ships and of their Antichristian and bloudy Kingdome And therefore are they so fyery hot and zealous for the Catholiq or Antichristian faith and disciplyne for by their faith they shew plainly that they are succeeded and descended from Antychrist VVho confessed not that the Messiah came in flesh and by their discipline or goverment they playnly shew they are Antichrists Bishops and Ministers who persequte with fyer and sword al degrees both King Prince and people that will not confesse their faith and obey their discipline And it is very plaine and easy both for King Prince and people if they wil not take vp religion oncredit and content them with the religion they were borne ād brought vp in as doe the papists to discerne who they be that teach the Apostoliq faith and discipline and who they be that teach Antychrists faith and disciplyne for the holy Apostle sheweth it to al men that wil give heed therto for he saith Dearly beloved beleeve not evry spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God for many false Prophets are gone out into the world which confesse not that Iesus Messiah came in flesh Hereby shal you know the spirit of God evry spirit that cōfesseth that Iesus Messiah came in flesh is of God and evry spirit that confesseth not that Iesus Messiah came in flesh is not of God but this is the spirit of Antychrist whom ye have heard how that he shold come now already is he in the world The same is the Antychrist that denyeth the Father and the Sonne whosoever denyeth the son the same hath not the Father The Apost meaneth such as deny Iesus to be Messiah the Lord that came downe from Heaven as Christ and they have taught such have not the Father but doe deny hem also as they have taught him and therfore Christ saith The tyme shal come that whosoever killeth you wil think that he doth God good service but these things they wil doe vnto you because they have not knowen the Father nor me the Father loveth such as beleeve that I came out from God thus faith Christ But Antychrist and his Ministers beleeve not this doctrine neither doe they thus teach Christ Iesus the Messiah And you may please to vnderstand that of this Antichrist or rather as the ●●riack of this false Christ came the Church of Rome whose bishops and Ministers teach not this doctrine ād as the Mother so the daughter also teacheth not this doctryne but will likewyse persequte both Prince and people that shall confesse that Iesus Messiah came in flesh as Iohn teacheth or that the Son of Man ascended vp 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 Paule teacheth for these ād such like doctrynes doe the Church of Rome ād her daughters persequte with fyer ād sword being indued with the spirit of Antychrist By which Antychrist his Apostles and Ministers the Apostoliq Church was scattered and driven into the wildernes that is desert and secret places of this world evē by their bloudy perseqution The which stil they continue and raise against the members and witnesses therof who w●ere and

are the Martyrs which in al ages have and doe suffer death imprisonment and bannishment since the first perseqution and we never reade nor ever shal reade that the Apostoliq Church or such as have derived their faith and discipline of her did ever persequte Therfore I humbly desier his Majesty and Parliamēt with al godly carefulnes to consider that it is not possible that the Church of Rome caled Catholiq or those that are descended of her and have decived their faith and discipline frō●her ever was or could be the Apostoliq Church caled primitive Church or she that is descended frō her seing the scripture saith the Apostoliq church caled in scripture the womā hath a place prepared of God in the wildernes a thousād twe hōdred and sixty dayes from the presence of such as did persequte her Now then I beseech you cōsider may it be possible that the church of Rome caled in scripture a mistery great Babilon the Mother of whoredoms abominations of the Earth the woman that sitteth vpon a scarlot coulered beast full of names of Blasphemy the womā arayed in purple scarlet guilded with gold pretious stones pearles haveing a cup of gold in her hand ful of abominations filtines or her fornication the woman that is drunken with the bloud of Saints with the bloud of the martyrs or witnesses of Iesus by her beastly perseqution was or could be ever the Apostoliq Church or are those that are descended from her seeing the scripture saith she hath a Place in the wildernes prepared of God where she shold be fed a thousand two hundred sixty dayes from the presence of her persequtors If so be you wil have the Church of Rome and those that are descended from her to be the true Apostoliq Church then it wil follow that the Church caled the woman and did flye into the wildernes from her persequtors was and is the false Antichristian Church and also it will follow that those which we account to be the Martyrs and witnesses of Iesus were not of the true Apostoliq church but were obstinate persōs and heretiks even as their adversaries in Rome Spaine England and els where did persequte adjudge and execute them far But if you wil have the Prophecy of the Apostles to be true a●● 〈◊〉 beleeve their holy writings and also wil have the Martyrs that have bene burned ban hanged ād imprisoned to be of the true Apostoliq Chur then it will follow and that justly according and agreeable to the scriptures that the Church of Rome and those that did ād doe persequte are descended from the false Antichristian Church caled a mistery great Babilō the mother of whoredoms abominations of the Eearth c which was and is druncken with the bloud of Saints martyrs of Iesus seing they have her Antichristian faith and lordly discipipline and for the defence and maintenance therof wil also burne bannish hang and imprison so hot ād fiery zealous that therby they shew plainly that they walke so just and even in the steps and paths of the Mystical woman great Babilon their bloudy parent mother so even I say as if they studied her lyeing and Hypocritical doctrine her deep and divelish devinity her blasphemous princely and dāgerous dignity and her beastly bloudy and deadly discipline Through the continuāce whereof not onely the Apostoliq Church is continued stil in the wildernes ād desert of this world but also the jewes and others both in great Brittayne and al over the world are kept back from the knowledge of Gods holy word the onely order and ordinance Christ hath appointed for the gathering of his Church together out of al places of the world And so long as perseqution continue you cannot trye the spirits of the many false prophets that are gone out into the world as the holy Apostle doth loveingly advise and admonish you But like the Pastists must be tyed onely to the spirits of your loedly Bishops and their Ministers who wil have alboth King Prince and people to receave their spirits and therefore wil not have any others to preach and print with in the Land least their lyeing doctrine and Lordly discipline be discovered and disclaimed And in steed of disputing and wryting by the word and spirit of Christ against their adversaries they wil cruelly persequte and fight against them by fyer and sword and Spirit of Antichrist from whom they are descended and succeeded both lynealy and of great antiquite Wherefore I humbly beseech the King and parliament that you will betymes listen vnto the holy spirit in the mouth of the prophet which faith bewyse now therfore yee Kings be learned or instructed yee judges of the earth serv the Lord in feare rejoyce in trembling kisse the son of God least he be angry and ye perish in the way of perseqution when his wrath shal suddēly burne Let not therfore the Kings of the earth band themselves with the Bs ministers of Antichrist nor Princes assemble themselves together against the lord and against his anointed That is against Christ and his church seing both he and she breake your bands and cast your coardes from them Yea her seed overcometh you by the bloud of the lamb by the word of their testimoni for they love not their lives vnto death Beware then in tyme least you offend any more of these litle ones that beleeve in Christ seeing Christ saith it were better to have a milstone hanged about the neck drowned in the depth of the Sea then so to doe He meaneth that it were better for you to loose your lives then any way to consent to the offence of such litle ones that beleeve in Christ See then I pray that they be not despised burned bannished hanged ād imprisoned For their Angels alwayes behold the face of Christs Father in Heaven And remember he saith the tree is knowen by his fruit but persequting of Christians is an evil fruit And that a good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things but persequting of Christiās is no good thing And that for every ydle word men shal speak they shal give accounts at the day of judgement How much more for every wicked and cruel deed of perseqution as burning bannishing hanging and imprisoning of those that cōfesse with the mouth beleeve with the heart the Lord Iesus that God raysed him from the dead whose lawes and ordinances they are carefull to keep and obey Christ saith that such shal bee saved and yet you feare not to burne bannish hang and imprison such But if you beleeve that God will avendge his elect beware of persequting his servāts that cal on his name specialy such as witnes his truth against the abominations of Antychrist Suffer not your Bishops to destroy those