tailieunhanh -   to Moderation to Church-Dissenters,in Prudence and Conscience: Humbly submitted to the KIN G and His Great Council ()The E P I S T L E .AVING of late Time observ’d the Heat, Aversion and Scorn with which some Men have treated all Thoug

to Moderation to Church-Dissenters, in Prudence and Conscience: Humbly submitted to the KIN G and His Great Council ( ) The E P I S T L E . AVING of late Time observ’d the Heat, Aversion and Scorn with which some Men have treated all Thoughts of Ease to Church Dissenters, I confess I had a more than ordinary Curiosity to examine the Grounds those Gentlemen went upon: For I could not tell how to think Moderation should be a Vice, where Christianity was a Virtue, when the Great Doctor of that Religion commands, that Our Moderation be known unto all. | A PERSWASIVE to Moderation to Church-Dissenters in Prudence and Conscience Humbly submitted to the KING and His Great Council 1686 TheEPISTLE. Having of late Time observ d the Heat Aversion and Scorn with which some Men have treated all Thoughts of Ease to Church Dissenters I confess I had a more than ordinary Curiosity to examine the Grounds those Gentlemen went upon For I could not tell how to think Moderation should be a Vice where Christianity was a Virtue when the Great Doctor of that Religion commands that Our Moderation be known unto all Men and why For the Lord is at Hand 1 And what to do but to judge our Rancor and retaliate and punish our Bitterness of Spirit. And to say true tis a severe Reflection we draw upon our selves that though Pagan Emperors could endure the Addresses of Primitive Christians and Christian Caesars receive the Apologies of Infidels for Indulgence yet it should be thought of some Men an Offence to seek it or have it of a Christian Prince whose Interest I dare say it is and who himself so lately wanted it But the Consideration of the Reason of this Offence will increase our Admiration for they tell us tis dangerous to the Prince to suffer it while the Prince is himself a Dissenter This Difficulty is beyond all Skill to remove that it should be against the Interest of a Dissenting Prince to indulge Dissent. For though it will be granted there are Dissenters on differing Principles from those of the Prince yet they are still Dissenters and Dissent being the Prince s Interest it will naturally follow that those Dissenters are in the Interest of the Prince whether they think on it or no. Interest will not lye Men embark d in the same Vessel seek the Safety of the Whole in their Own whatever other Differences they may have. And SelfSafety is the highest worldly Security a Prince can have for though all Parties would rejoyce their own Principles prevailed yet every one is more solicitous 1. Philippians 4 5. 290 penn s argument for religious

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