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" To the order of your proceedings . First , call ths party hither and read the charge and ask him , guilty or not guilty , and thereupon order your proceeding , before you prepare a bill ; for I would have him have all the fair way of trial that may be . It concerns his life . "—Pp . 38 , 39 . " Mqjor- Qe nerak Disbrowe * I shall offer an expedient , though haply foolishlyt that this fellow may be banished j for life is precious , and you have matter enough , already , to ground such a sentence upon . "—P . 39 .
" Captain Btwnes * However others look upon Nayler , I look upon him as a man , an Englishman . I would have him so tried as to bring in a bill of attainder against him , or leave him to the law . It is below you to honour him with a trial here ; but if it must be otherwise , let him be called to the bar , and proceed judicially against him , lest the precedent be of dangerous and ill consequence to other persons , whose lot it may be , in other cases . "—P . 44 . Nayler having been at last called in , and having admitted the greater part of the charge , the debate proceeded as to whether ne should be heard further , and as to what should be done .
" Mujor-General Skippon was against calling him in , or asking any more questions , saying , He hath confessed enough to vindicate the Committee , who deserve thanks , for they have been very faithful and painful in the business . It now liea with us , ( being fully possessed of the matter of fact , ) not to suffer the honour of God and the truths of the Gospel to be thus * trampled upon . We shall see what judgments will come upon us . God now looks what you will do . Indeed , my heart trembles at those things remarkable , which will follow your remissness herein . I am afraid there will nothing come of this business , and then sin and judgment lie at your doors : These Quakers ,
Ranters , Levellers , Socinians , and all sorts , bolster themselves under thirty-seven and thirty-eight of Government , * which , at one breath , repeals all the acts and ordinances against them . " I heard the supreme magistrate say , 'It was never his intention to indulge such things j" yet we see the issue of this liberty of conscience . It sits hard upon my conscience ; and I choose rather to venture my discretion , than betray conscience by my silence . If this be liberty , God deliver me from such liberty . It is to evil , not to good , that this liberty extends . Good Sir ; discharge your duty to God in this thing , and put the question to agree with the Committee . "—Pp . 49 , 50 .
" Major-General Di&browe . We must not proceed without rules ; though the offence be heinous enough . We must either take the law of God , or of man , to regulate our judgment herein . " Upon the common sense of scripture , there are few but do commit blasphemy , as our Saviour puts ) it in Mark , ' Sins , blasphemies ; if so , then none without blasphemy . It was charged upon David , and Eli's son , Thou hast blasphemed , or caused others to blaspheme . ** But the law of God is more particularly set forth in Leviticus , ' He cursed
* " ' The Instrument of Government / promulgated December 16 th , 1653 . It contained the following articles , —uncommonly liberal , excepting the injustice of tolerating neither * popery nor prelacy , and the assumption that Christians alone could claim that dearest of civil righto , religious liberty : — ' < * 37 . That such as profess faith in God by Jesus Christ , ( though differing in
judgment from the doctrine , worphip or discipline publicly held forth , ) shall not be restrained from , but aUall be protected iu the profession of the faith and exercise of their religion ; m as they abuse not this liberty to the civil injury of others , and to the aqttfa ) dtsturfcgnee of the public peace on their parts . Provided this liberty be not expended to Popery , nor Prelacy , nor to such as under the profession of Christ hold forth and practice licentiousness . 4 < * 38 . That all laws , statutes , and ordinances , and clauses in auy law , statute and ordinance to the contrary of the aforesaid liberty , shall be esteemed as null and \ oid / Part . HfaxX ; 2 fL * .
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Rtviem . ' —Burtori's toinrg ; 387
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/27/
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