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A86117	Collonel James Hays speech to the Parlament upon the debate concerning toleration. As it was taken by Anonimus a Member of the House, and sent to the press with this epigram on the author. [dagger] Fælix fifa suis cælebrata Catonibus eheu! clodius in miseros furit, & Catalina Britannos. [dagger] Henderson ...	Carlisle, James Hay, Earl of, ca. 1612-1660.; Brummet, Christoph.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1201; Thomason E828_4; ESTC R202584	15,186	32

first before you come unto the particular Churches as it is set down in the Revelation of Saint John which was a vision of the Church As it was from the beginning and shall continue to the end of the world How sweet is it to observe the order of God in his wil toward the Church as it pleased him to reveal it to Saint John where you find 1. Seals 2. Trumpets 3. Vials with us Churches Laws Penalties seven Seals opened seven Trumpets blown seven Vials powred forth To each Church called God gives and proclaims the law to the law proclaimed he appends the Anathema ordains the penalties denounces Judgment on the Rebellious And this you wil find verified in the particular survey of the several Churches in order The first whereof is the Archetypical Church the Church of Angels God Sir being unum verum bonum the only true Good and the nature of good being Esse sui diffusivum God in the contemplation of his own goodness did beget in himself a desire to diffuse it and make it communicable and practicable which could not be without creatures Therefore did he create the Archetyp wherin the shapes and Ideas of all things were breathed and there and then did he send forth the spotles intelligences who doth inhabite that infinite vacuity which is filled with the Majesty of God whose Religion and work it is to sing praise honor and glory to the Jasper on the Throne with the rain-bow about him Thus Sir was the first seal opened the first mystery revealed the first Church called by the Lamb even the Bereshith rhe principium principians the word and wisdom of the Father by whom al things were made The characters of which Church were a white horse a Crown and bow The Ensigns of Candor Victory and triumph So was it and shal continue a pure victorious triumphant Church Then was the first Trumpet blown the first Viall powred out the first Law proclaimed the Anathema appended the first vengeance denounced against the Rebels the authors of division the fountain of Toleration In the constitution of this Church Sir there was but one God known by the one great ineffable Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One Sephiroth one Emanation one great power one company of Angels of one mind thinking the same and singing the like all things in common amongst them none knowing more than other to none a more ful Vision of God than the rest no place or possession peculiar to any this is the nature of Angels Sir thus it was thus it is and thus it shall bee with these blessed spirits for ever and ever .. The name of toleration was not known here heresie a stranger to this happy society til Lucifer and his tender Conscience brake forth There is a proverb which in all Ages of the Church hath been found of universal truth namely that God had never a Church but the Devill had a Chappel in some corner thereof Sir all Religion hath its superstition all Doctrine its heresie and here it did begin even in this the purest and perfectest Church that ever was or shal be The Devil emulous of the glory and greatness of God would needs set up his own Image erect a congregation of his own by dividing that blessed unity into two Right wrong truth and falsehood But what came of it Sir was he tolerated was he suffered to go so No the spirit of unity and truth went out against him with crown and bow and conquering did conquer the prince of Darkness cast him out of the congregation deprived him the happiness of Heaven and thurst him down to Hel and the earth to have his dominion amongst the sons of Men hence that Church purchased and shall while the world lasts enjoy the name of Triumphant By this punishment God did not only condemn toleration assert the truth the unity of Worship the entirenes of Religion clearly holding forth that he would admit of no copartner in the Worship and praises of the Angels but also did declare the detestable nature of heresie and how unsupportable a thing it was and thus did he by the power of his own Councel which cannot etr reunite the Church again The second Church was the Paternal church that whereof Adam under God was Lord and High Priest In the constitution of this church you 'l find there was but One God one man one commandment one Religion one way of Worshipping that God one treasure and common fortune for all one body to enjoy that fortune one mind in that body Adam knew none above God loved none as God served none but God feared none besides God There was no heresie in Doctrine here no schism in discipline Adam stood in need of none to teach him and as few to enforce him to obey All was one Sir an universal Oneness this was the first and great model amongst men Thus was the second Seal opened the second Mystery revealed the second Church called the Law proclaimed Eat not of the Tree of knowledg c. Gen 2.17 The Anathema appended The day thou eatest thou shalt surely dye comparatively like in every thing to the pattern the Archetypicall Church onely differing in the prophetical characters the red horse and the sword the badges of blood war and man-slaughter signifying that this Church should be liable to many and great temptations and the spirit of the times much addicted to blood cruelty and revenge All things here were answerable to the pattern til the appearing of Satan and founding of heresie by him Then were the characters of this Seal made manifest and read in Mundo The pure perfect and Trinial unitie the prop and pillar of all societies rent asunder and all turned to confusion Nothing now but blood and War God against man and man against God Father against Son and Brother against Brother and the Devil against all and all for Religions sake Adam was one and the Devil made two and that was Heresie God had a Temple and now begins Satan to have a Synagogue God had his Priest and the Devil his Chaplain Abel of one mind Cain of another Cain draws the sword Abel is therewith killed Thus the unity of mind the unity of bodies rent in two Isaac had one portion and Ishmael had another Isaac the promise Ishmael what he could gain his hand against all and all against him Thus came the happy and harmless unity of fortune into the community of possession to be converted into the miserable and turbulent Law of property Jacob was of one mind Esau of another he chose the birth-right even Sacrum sacerdotii Sir Esaw somwhat else Mammon Dominium ventriculi the possessions of this Earth the things of this world Nay look over the whole Paternal time even from Adam to Moses you l find nothing but heresie in doctrine and schism and division in the matter of worship The impression of the red horse seconded with War blood and wounds The miserable effects of

malorum a gulf of evils Over all this Church you 'l find nothing like Toleration which if it could have been granted to any people or congregated number in the world sure it had been to the beloved house of Israel And yet we find that once upon their Rebellion God was about to have extinguished the very name of Israel and made a Nation of Moses Numb 12.12 And another time upon the like rebellion God condemns them to 40 years wandring and suffered none that rebelled ever to enter the promised Land If any one person might have been dispensed with in this matter sure it had been Moses the Lords familiar acquaintance and yet for but one blow more than enough he was blown out of the land of Canaan he see it but never came into it Numb 20 11 12. Was it so with the chosen Israel with the great Moses whom neither authority nor State necessity could excuse O what shall become of the reconciled Gentiles if we fall into the like errors my soul doth tremble to think on the sad consequence● Avertat Deus I hope I hope Sir the Lord wil preserve you from this uncovert iniquity fly the sin as you would avoid the Judgment I heard an honorable person below move The Isralites suffering slaves to live amongst them as an argument for Toleration I humbly conceive Sir there is a twofold toleraration a civil toleration and a spiritual for the first Sir they had indeed and upon a civil account meerly they suffered them to live amongst them because they served them to good use Josh 9.21 So did they tolerate and cherish their horses and Oxen. As to the second Sir they were strangers to it and it to them They were neither admitted to the priviledges of Israel in the Tabernacle neither were they allowed to serve the Gentile Gods after their own fashion at home So to this spiritual toleration it was with them as with the beasts If this be it that 's pleaded for the seperate Saints In time I shall make bold to speak to it It was also Objected what Elijah said to the people 1 Kings 18.22 If the Lord be God follow him if Baal follow him I hope no man will conclude that this flowed from him as a rule or as if he meant to argue a toleration of the worship of Baal No he spoke it by way of reproach shewing what abominable inconstancy and detestable ingratitude it was and would prove to forsake the living God who had done so much for them and their Fathers and serve Baal and his Chemarims It was likewise Objected Sir that we are not now under the Law and therefore not to be tied by arguments raised from the Law We are not indeed under the dark Law the Typical law the Law of works yet are we under the law of grace even the glorious liberty of the children of God which is the same in substance the old Law was in shadow and which in its substance is as forcible and binding now as ever There was not one tittle of that Law which did not signifie something to come which when it is come is of so much more power as the substance is above the shadow Christ himself saies Mat 5.17 That he came not to destroy but to fulfill the Law and till Heaven and earth pass away one jot of the Law shall not pass till all be fulfilled and whoso breaketh the least of these and teacheth others to do so shall be least in the Kingdom of Heaven Now this liberty The law of the Gospel must not be misconstrued and taken for a loosing of all religious bonds and ties To prevent which St. Pa●l Gal. 5.13 forbiddeth for to use liberty for occasion to the flesh but for love one to●ard another and explaineth himself ver 19. declaring the w●rks of the flesh to be adultery fornication uncleaness and so forth and v 22. the fruits of the Spirit to be love joy peace c. against which there is no Law We are then still under a Law witnes Jam. 2.12 So do and so speak as they that must be judged by the Law of Liberty The fourth Church is that which now is the Universal the Christian Church Universal I call it because the Lord came to call the Jew and Gentile to repentance This Church was called This mystery revealed This seal opened by the Lamb indeed the Lamb inc●rnate Jesus Christ the author and finisher of our faith The characters of this Church were a pale horse and Death with the sword hunger famine and the Beasts of the earth to signifie that this pale and new revived Church the dead dark and lingring letter of the old Law being quickened by the spirit and converted into the light and liberty of the Gospel The law of grace should be begun with death and continued with persecutions of severall kinds the worst whereof and the greatest Enemies to the Church of God I esteem to be the foul noysome Beasts of the earth the children of this world who hatch maintaine heresies Atheisme and Idolatrie the greatest of all evills Ut credant mendacio qui veritati non crediderint these are the beasts you have most need to be affraid of at this time In this Church you 'l find Jesus the founder of it to have beene of One mind with the Father and the Father with him he was of one substance with the Father and the Father with him had no property all things were common to him This he leaveth in legacie to his Apostles willing them to be of One mind and love one another Joh. 13.34 A new commandement give I you that ye love one another for hereby shall ye be known to be my disciples He required it also as a duty and meane of obedience as Ioh. 14.15 If you love me you will keepe my Commandements for this same union and love he prayeth the Father before his death on behalfe of the Apostles Ioh 17.11 that they may be one as we are one In the constitution of this Church I finde two notable passages in order to this same Toleration The one Luke 10.11 where sending abroad his disciples to preach he charged them if any Citie refuse them to shake the dust of their feet against it a sad Anathema indeed Sir if it were rightly considered The other is a sadder yet from the mouth of Christ himselfe If any man deny me before men him will I deny before my Father in Heaven Matt. 10.33 Observe Sir that he who denyeth the doctrine of Jesus denyes himselfe for he saies whosoever shall breake the least of these c. stall be least in the Kingdom of Heaven And who offendeth one of these little ones or who refuseth the works of love to the needy all you know they are liable to severall sad Anathemas Will you looke into the pactice of the apostles after Christ and you l finde it was thus with the disciples and beleivers then also for Act. 4.32