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kingdom_n	end_n	good_a	king_n	2,121	5	3.5446	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90786	The way to the peace and settlement of these nations, fully discovered in two letters, delivered to his late Highnesse, and one to the present Parliament, as also one to his Highnesse Richard Lord Protector, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. Wherein the liberty of speaking ... is opposed against Antichrist, for the procuring of his downfall, who will not grant the same to others; and now published to awaken the publick spirits in England, and to raise up an universal magistrate in Christendome, that will suffer all sorts of people, (of what religion soever they are) in any one countrey, as God (the great magistrate) suffers the same in all countreys of the world. By Peter Cornelius, Van Zurick-Zee, a lover of truth and peace.	Plockhoy, Pieter Corneliszoon, fl. 1659.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.; Cromwell, Richard, 1626-1712.	1659 (1659)	Wing P2581E; Thomason E972_6; ESTC R203156	15,982	32

evidently then formerly and the more because the common assembling place may be instituted for drawing of the people from the Ministers in all places without compulsion of any man bringing all Sects without giving wages to any as brethren to equal priviledges But if those that are of one and the same opinion will have particular Congregations and Set-Ministers let themselves pay them as a Master doth his servant For it s no reason that a man should help to maintain anothers servants especially if they be such as in his judgement are soul-destroyers who being in his senses would assist such enemies as do countermine him Is it not to be wondred at that the Ministers who would be esteemed more then the Magistrates should to the shame of their Church or Congregations desire wages of them for whom they have not laboured Neither is it the mark of a true Church where the Members thereof are so covetous and unmercifull that they will not maintain or provide for their own Ministers and the Teachers loving the wages of unrighteousnesse do contrary to the 10th Commandement covet the goods of others whereof the Apostles and their Congregations would have been ashamed to think much lesse would do it Yet I hope that once the Conscience-burthening-law of constraining to pay Tithes to the Ministers who seek rather after Lucre then the Truth for the rest of these Nations will be made null and void Some course being taken to supply the necessities of the Ministers who by such Act that none shall be forced to pay Tithes to them may be brought to a want of a subsistance and yet that this may be so done only for those that are now made destitute but no encouragement for any others in time to come And by this the Magistrates while every Sect maintain their own Ministers will be freed from laying such intollerable burthens on their Subjects having to provide for none else but those who are appointed in the generall Assemblies or meeting-places to read the holy Scriptures and keep the people in order to shew that they are no maintainers of Sects but of the Christian Religion being as Fathers and Mediators to bring the good together out of all Sects to unite under the name of Jesus to the end that his Kingdome and Government may be enlarged for an example to Holland Denmark Sweden France and other Kingdomes who seeing there is no force nor constraint used will easily be brought to a firm bond of Unity This being the only means by forsaking all Men and human-Forms to be blessed by Christ whose honour only is sought against the Antichrist contrary to the way of other Kings and Princes who being separated from Popery have made themselves unworthy of the blessing of Christ by giving honour to the bare name of Luther Calvin and others instead of giving it to Christ having been deceived by the little Antichrists their followers who as well as the great one seek their own glory ease and idlenesse and as if they had no fellowship with the great Antichrist have put the holy Scriptures into the common peoples hands which was before was prohibited to be read only seeking that we should agree with them in their Forms applying and fitting themselves such is their subtilties to the temper of the times as a Fowler gives scope to a Bird he hath already in a string that so at length it may be content to live in a Cage Now against these little Antichrists who under the name of giving liberty would bind the people to their opinions the Magistrates being taught by experience should as wel counter-work as against the great that they may come to the very root bringing the holy Scripture which was formerly prohibited to be read with great Triumph into the generall Assembly or meeting-place and set it on high to the end that the found or report of this to wit that Christ alone must rule by his word in the hearts of men among all Nations according to the great work done in England may be heard giving liberty to every one after the reading of the Scripture contrary to the little Antichrist who wil have it understood only according to their own Forms and Expositions to set forth his own apprehension without being bound to any ones opinion That spirituall matters being applyed to spiritual Antichrist may be stormed with two Armies viz. the Truth against Error and the materiall sword against oppressors who by their arrogating disposition and exclusion of others do seek to restrain the liberty of speaking which discovers the errors of the understanding for the cure thereof Whereas by stopping the mouths of people as heretofore they make men incureable Now to further this that the weaknesse or Ignorance of some may be remedied by the knowledge of others without disturbance or Confusion it will be necessary that the Authority of the Magistrate interpose in this generall Assemby or meeting-place that every one may speak in their order staying their time and those that break order may after due warning be ejected till they are better disposed without oppressing them by Imprisonment or otherwise This would be glad tiding yea a true year of Jubilee for those that lye in prison only for asserting their opinions in matters of Religion that now they may together with others bring in their understandings into this generall Assembly to receive or give light And to the end that Antichrist or he that exalts himself above others may be continually shut out it is exactly to be observed that no preheminence or sole priviledge be granted to any of offering any thing or of speaking first that so every one being at liberty and unhindered may bring forth that which is most conducing to the Common welfare according to the words of Paul 1 Cor. 14.16 All of them sitting still so long after the reading of the Scriptures as being swift to hear and slow to speak till any one think it fit in his judicious and humble mind to propose somewhat for mutuall edification endeavouring withall to make his discourse short that another may have his turn likewise contrary to the custome of the common Teachers who only or solely speaking do lengthen out their discourse to the wearinesse of their Auditory for which end the Moderators who ought to be meek and understanding men are to observe that there be due order kept This seeing no Forms or Articles are made in it besides the holy Scripture will be a Councel and Synod standing alwayes open to all rational people without imposing any mans conclusions contrary to the former Assemblies who have excluded all Nations and Posterity by their self conceitednesse dividing people as by a wall of separation one from another by their Forms whereupon great estrangement hath ensued as if they were different Nations And the better to set up their Antichristian Kingdom and dominion have so contrived their Catechismes that they have bound up and so spoiled the understandings of their