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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54123	Considerations moving to a toleration and liberty of conscience with arguments inducing to a cessation of the penal statues against all dissenters whatever, upon the account of religion : occasioned by an excellent discourse upon that subject publish'd by His Grace the Duke of Buckingham / humbly offered to the Parliament at their next sitting at Westminster.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1685 (1685)	Wing P1269; ESTC R32175	9,608	22

have been distressed by hot doings heretofore in the Reign of Queen Mary when they were accounted Criminals for not conforming to that Worship which was then the Established worship of the Kingdom And they should have taken heed before now of what they did and of what Spirit they be still of in Prosecuting others seeing they know not how soon that part of the Wheel which hath been or is on the Ground may come to be at Top and fall the heavier on them upon this Account For with the same measure Men meet withal it shall be meeted to them again CONSIDERATION VI. THe Conforming and Nonconforming Protestants and the Protestants and Papists all do agree as to the substance of Christianity in the same Articles of Faith and the same Rule of Manners in the Apostles Creed and the sen Commandements There is one Body one Spirit one Lord one Faith one Baptisme As a variety of Flowers may grow on the same Bank so may Protestants and Papists live in England Union in Affection is not inconsistent with disagreement of Opinion There is much more Reason to love one another for the many things wherein we agree then to fall out for those wherein we differ and though we cannot have Communion in the same External worship we can and have Communion in the same Internal Adoration of the same Blessed Trinity and in the one hope of our Calling unto Life Eternal through Jesus Christ We cannot come together in the same Church but may live together in the same Land and as we are under the same Gracious King he may Protect both and suffer no Party to Persecute one another The Woolf shall lie down with the Lamb the Leopard with the Kid they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my Holy Mountain CONSIDERATION VII THe French Protestants who are the Dissenters from the Established Worship of that Kingdome are kindly received and succoured by England And when the French King is highly blamed by English Protestants and perhaps too by some English Catholicks for Persecuting his peaceable Subjects shall we do the same things in our Kingdome which we condemn in another Therefore art thou inexcusable Man whosoever thou art for thou that Judgest another dost the same things CONSIDERATION VIII THe Prosecuting Dissenters and Recusants for matters of Conscience is of great disadvantage to the Trade of the Kingdom the Dissenters being a chief part of the Trading People of the Nation considered as Merchants Shop-keepers Clothiers Farmers c. by which many Thousands of the Kings poor Subjects are maintained and consequently Liberty of Conscience must be a most effectual means for the restoring of it I will mention a Story or two which may be easily attested if they be called into Question One Thomas Peard about 16 Years since of West Dean near Barnstable who kept many Poor People at work in the Cloathing Trade was Prosecuted upon the Act for Twenty Pound a Month so many Months for not coming to Church that he was forced to quit his Habitation and Imployment Upon this the Poor People of many Parishes go a Begging and the numbers presently were so great that the Justices were fain to meet and consulting together conclude upon it to get the Mans Fines to be discharged This being done Peard returns to his business takes the Poor off their hands and finds them again the same Living In like manner about 14 Years since the Bishop of Sarum sends forth Instructions into all the Parishes of his Diocess for bringing them to Church or citing them to his Coutt There were Eighty Clothiers Nonconformists of several Judgments in the County of Wilts who being Alarum'd by this Summons think of withdrawing their Trade the time for Provision of their Wool favouring such a suspention but considering what a Number of Poor depended on them some Imploying 500 some a 1000 People under them who were capable of getting no other maintenance Besides that the Farmer was no less concerned than the Spinner and the Carder who could have no Money for his Wool fearing also that if they should give over on a suddain there might so much Clamour ensue as might turn into some uproar they agree upon sending up eight or ten of their sufficient Men to represent their Case to the King and Council Orders are taken hereupon that the Arch-Bishop Writes to the Bishop to desist and assurance is given by both the Secretaries to the Clothiers for their safety in keeping on their Imployment What those Justices and what the Council at that time saw convenient for that Shire and those Towns will be discerned I doubt not by the considerate to be of the like Emolument throughout the Nation And this brings to my remembrance a certain Prophesie that is now much in Mens Mouths and hath been going for Scores of Years That after Eighty Five England shall Thrive which though I have hitherto regarded I must confess when I have heard the words but as Rhime only yet if it shall please the King at his coming now to the Throne to give Liberty of Conscience to his People according to the design of this Paper I shall not doubt but to see the matter really accomplished The Riches of a Nation are the Bodies of Men for the greatness of a Kingdom certainly consists not in a vast continent of Ground but in the Multitude of its Inhabitants and the Thriving of the People lyes in the encrease of Trade Manufacture and Commerce as is intimated An Act for Universal Toleration Stated rightly that is of all so far as they are Tolerable whereof the Wisdome of a Parliament is the fittest Judge would produce both these It would bring People that are Persecuted in our Neighbour Nations about their Religion to England as it does or hath done to Holland and they must bring their Hands and Business with them Besides the Infinite Incouragement it would give to many who now keep in their Monys by Reason of their Obnoxiousness to the Law which they would bring forth most Industriously into Imployment as soon as they could see themselves safe and their Consciences out of danger And when Issachar saw that Rest was good and the Land that it was Pleasant he bowed his Shoulder to Bear and became a Servant unto Tribute CONSIDERATION IX IT hath pleased our most Gracious Soveraign King JAMES the Second whom God Bless with a gentle Mind and good days to declare to his Council and then to the Nation that he will follow his Deceased Brother in his Example of Clemency which we may hope for in this point of Indulgence We have his Royal Word for thus much and his Word we all hear may be Presumed upon so far as the meaning may be Presumed I do not therefore here Presume upon his meaning but the Clemency of the late King and Tenderness to his Subjects in his Gracious Purposes to indulge them in the point of Liberty of Conscience does appear sufficiently to all Men