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judgement_n	world_n	wrong_a	wrong_n	20	3	8.3875	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26462	Advice to the English youth relating to the present juncture of affairs.		1688 (1688)	Wing A655; ESTC R25837	8,053	4

Business to find out a Way to involve our unhappy Countrey into all the Calamities all the Misery and Confusion which it has so long laboured under we could not possible have invented a more suitable Expedient than to persecute Men and use Force and Violence in Matters of Religion This is the only ready way to set all in an Uprore for Heaven and Hell Eternal Bliss and Glory for the Prize on one side to those that win and Eternal Misery and Confusion on the other to those that lose and this not only for themselves but for their Posterity which adds Life and Strength to their Contention I say for Men to be stopped in their Career and eager Pursuit after such Things Good God! How must they needs be Exasperated at those who hinder and lett them It surpasseth my thought to conceive and I am so far from wondring at all the Calamities and Miseries that Men have brought on the World on this Account that I think they have been slow and dull nay very Merciful and Gentle and do rather wonder they have not Perpetrated more and had it not been for the Accidental and Undesigned Aid of some Unbelievers before this time Beasts had Inhabited Christendom instead of Men. Believe me Force in the Matters of Religion is the Rock which your Fore-fathers have split upon a thing no doubt invented by the Enemy of Mankind to disturb them and to make their Earth a Hell and all the Kingdoms thereof as much as possible like his own These things I would have you consider and observe It lies not in your Power to Act I know and I solicite not that but it lies in your Power to consider to hear to be sober and discreet yes and to discourse your Parents and Principals about the same and I hope your Religion will admit of such things I would not have you mistake me I come not to Proselyte you to any Side or Party of Christians nor to disswade you from the Religion you were bred in to be Undutiful to your Parents or Disrespectful to your Superiours No I know that every Side and Party of Christians are in the right and none in the wrong I shall leave such things to God and your own Consciences to whom they most properly belong But I come to perswade you to use that Reason and Understanding which God Almighty has blessed you with so as to distinguish betwixt that which will make you Happy and that which will make you Miserable Religion I mean the Christian Religion would make you happy if rightly understood and managed and therefore however at present obscured I would have you always entertain High and Honourable Thoughts of Her. Her Natural Issue are Love Peace Compliance and Charity and whatever else can be called good or can any way contribute to the making a Nation or People happy I therefore discharge her from the Miseries and Mischiefs which infest us I also discharge which some will wonder at all the Divisions and Sects amongst us from having a direct Hand herein for they would no more affect or hurt us than our several Counties and Corporations were they but let alone It must be confessed indeed that in those Nations where only one Way and Method of Religion is practised whether right or wrong it matters not there are more Advantages for Peace and Quietness but less for Truth and true Holiness For they all thinking that particular Way to be the true and right Way they are easy and have no Regret or Remorse on their Consciences They make no Opposition or Disturbance enjoying the Religion they were bred in which to all men is always the Right These Men indeed are in a fair way for Peace in This World but as for Truth if they have it it must be by Chance and accidentally for if what their Governours lays on them or their Parents teach them be wrong or false they are under an invincible Necessity of being in the wrong too for all Disquisition all Liberty of Choice and Judgment is taken away and what will become of them in another World I will not here determine But then in those Nations where diversity of Opinions and several ways in Religion are afoot and the Professors of each think their own way to be the true and right way to Salvation and no other whether it be or be not whether it comes by Chance or by Choice is not material but their thinking so To supply the defect of One-ness a general Indulgence and Liberty must be granted to all Parties and this will make them all of one Religion though they had but one before and when they are all of one Religion then the Natural Consequence is Peace and Quietness Our Unhappy Nation is one of these and has been long perplex'd in Misery and Troubles and that by our Unskilfulness in taking wrong Measures for thinking to bring Peace by Uniting all the Medium we have used in order thereunto being Force has Ruined and Confounded all So that I discharge both Religion and Divisions from having a hand herein and lay all the fault where it truly is upon our selves We have managed things ill nay we have been infinitely mistaken not only in our Methods of Peace but also in other things We have called our Passion our Humour our Opinion our Fancies nay our very Vices our Pride Ambition and Avarice and almost every thing by the Venerable Name of Religion And having embraced a Cloud instead of Juno no wonder the Issue and Production have been Strife Envy Hatred Malice and all that Black List of Enormities which have so constantly Vexed and Perplexed us to this day But on further Consideration instead of blaming methinks I begin to pity the present Actors in a very great measure looking on their Actions as not altogether their own but as an Insatuation on their Understandings and a Judgment from Heaven upon them which I hope God will now soon avert for their Sins For if any of them be asked why they formerly did or do still continue to Perpetrate such Iniquities their Answer is St. Paul's Verily I thought I ought to do many thing against that Name against such Men or such a Party This puts me upon Lamenting the Unhappiness of our several Educations which engage us in such Mutual Severities it also puts me upon looking a little more narrowly into that Religion which by our Ill Managery does prey upon Humanity I consider therefore that we Suck not in our Religion with our Milk nor is it Natural but Taught that if any other Religion but the Christian had been Taught us we should have defended and stood up as much for that that 't is our happiness that we were Born in a Christian Country and not in another and that we should as certainly have been Mahometans had we been Born in Constantinople as now we are Christians That more ought to be Ascribed in this matter to Chance or rather God's good