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<NAME>Jonathan Blaney</NAME>
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<P><HI>NINETEEN</HI>
CASES
OF
CONSCIENCE.</P>
<P>Submi&s;sively tendred to
Mr. <HI>H&V;GH PETRS,</HI>
And the re&s;t of his Fellow Commi&s;|&s;ioners,
the TRIARS</P>
<P>By &s;undry weak Brethren.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed in the year MDCLIX.</P>
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<HEAD><PB REF="2">
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NINETEEN
CASES
OF
CONSCIENCE.</HEAD>
<DIV1 N="1" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>I</HEAD>
<P>WHether the <HI>Immortality</HI> of a man's <HI>Soul</HI> be a Do|ctrine
at all fit, or &s;uitable to be preached, or
taught, either in Pulpits or Books, to the men
of <HI>this</HI> Generation? and whether there be any &s;uch thing as
a <HI>future</HI> condition of <HI>happine&s;s or mi&s;ery in another world?</HI>
Now the ground of <HI>this</HI> &s;cruple ari&s;eth from l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ng ob&s;ervations
in <HI>State</HI> ever &s;ince 1641, till this pre&s;ent 1659.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="2" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>II</HEAD>
<P>Whether it be not a matter of weighty con&s;equence, that
a <HI>Petition</HI> be preferred to the <HI>Parliament,</HI> to entreat <HI>them,</HI>
that they would <HI>pa&s;s an Act for repealing, nulling, and making
void all Oathes what&s;oever, taken &s;ince</HI> 1 Caroli <HI>to the 3 of</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="3">
Septemb. 1658? And whether it be not expedient that <HI>this</HI>
be done very &s;uddenly, lea&s;t &s;ome who may be concern'd
&s;hould in the <HI>interim</HI> &s;neak out of the world, and &s;o become
incapable of receiving any benefit thereby?</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="3" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>III</HEAD>
<P>Whether it would not much advance our long de&s;ired <HI>Re|formation,</HI>
if tho&s;e places of <HI>Scripture,</HI> out of which the
<HI>Common-Prayer-Book</HI> is collected, were diligently &s;ought af|ter,
and <HI>blotted out of our Bibles,</HI> that no mark of the <HI>Su|per&s;titious
Liturgy</HI> may remain among us, to make our Chil|dren
<HI>Idolaters?</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>IV</HEAD>
<P>Whether <HI>Lying, crying</HI> at plea&s;ure, <HI>&s;wearing by the living
God,</HI> murthering men at an <HI>High Court of Ju&s;tice;</HI> Perjury
three or four times over; eating the Bread of Orphans;
grinding the faces of the Poor; trampling on abilities; &s;tar|ving
a learned and orthodox <HI>Mini&s;try,</HI> and exercizing wor&s;e
Tyranny for <HI>five years la&s;t pa&s;t</HI> over <HI>England</HI> than <HI>Pharaoh</HI> did
over <HI>Aegypt,</HI> were &s;ins or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ot? And if &s;ins, whether any
whit more venial in a <HI>Saint</HI> than a <HI>Sinner?</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>V</HEAD>
<P>Whether we have not as good cau&s;e to celebrate a &s;olemn
<HI>Anniver&s;ary of Thanksgiving</HI> upon the 3 of <HI>Sept.</HI> as the 5 of
<HI>Novemb.</HI> for the mercifull deliverance from the <HI>Author of all
our co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">fu&s;ions.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>VI</HEAD>
<P>VVhether a <HI>Common wealth</HI> modell'd (as Mr. <HI>Harrington</HI>
would have it) like to that of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> be not now the <HI>be&s;t</HI>
kind of Government for us, &s;eeing we have &s;o many <HI>Jewes</HI>
among&s;t us?</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="case">
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<HEAD>(VII)</HEAD>
<P>VVhether the <HI>fellowes of Magdalen College in Oxford,</HI>
have not given Dr. <HI>Thomas Goodwin</HI> (upon the account of
his <HI>wife</HI> better rea&s;on to make an <HI>Horn-booke</HI> than Dr.
<HI>Owen</HI> had given him by any body, to make a <HI>Primmer?</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="8" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>(VIII)</HEAD>
<P>VVhether his <HI>late Highne&s;&s;</HI>'s <HI>Letter to the Hou&s;e</HI> was not
a large <HI>manife&s;to</HI> of the humility of his Spirit, of his <HI>for&s;a|king
the World, and the Devil;</HI> of his Chri&s;tian valour,
and fortitude, a tryal of his patience, an exerci&s;ing of all
his virtues, a probate of his de&s;ire to &s;ave his <HI>windpipe,</HI> and
la&s;tly of his mighty will to inform the world and the wor|thies
thereof how incon&s;tant that &s;ame <HI>blind</HI> whore <HI>Fortune</HI>
is, how burthen&s;ome <HI>Thrones</HI> and <HI>Scepters;</HI> nay how emp|ty
a thing, and how vain is <HI>Supream-Magi&s;tracy:</HI> And <HI>this
Remarqu'</HI> may give us occa&s;ion to think upon tho&s;e <HI>Com|pari&s;ons</HI>
which are frequent concerning <HI>this</HI> matter: Mr.
<HI>Quarl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> hee &s;ayes,
<Q><L>Or like a Sun, or like a &s;hade,</L>
<L>Or like the Gourd that <HI>Jonas</HI> had &amp;c.</L></Q>
Another, he &s;ings &s;weetly.</P>
<Q>Fortune my foe, why art thou thus unkind, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q>
<P>Comparing <HI>Crowns</HI> to <HI>Crabtrees,</HI> the <HI>Pearls</HI> upon them to
<HI>Mi&s;&s;letoe-berries</HI> which (which we are confident) are pro|fitable
for nothing &s;ave only to make <HI>birdlime</HI> to en&s;nare
ambitious mortalls, who (as <HI>hee</HI> goes on with the <HI>Allego|ry)</HI>
are like little <HI>birds</HI> that hop up and down on little
twigs on the <HI>highest</HI> trees they can find. O (&s;ayes the
<HI>School-boy)</HI> think upon <HI>Icarus</HI> and <HI>Phaaeton</HI> thou that a&s;pi|re&s;t
to a <HI>Diadem!</HI> (&s;aies another <HI>Cla&s;&s;icall Author)</HI> re|member
<HI>Belizarius, Blind Belizarius</HI> reaching out his
cripled fingers, and crying, <HI>Give poor Belizarius one
<PB N="6" REF="4">
farthing!</HI> O who would not part with an hundred <HI>Protector|domes</HI>
(if hee had them) to occa&s;ion <HI>&s;o many good thoughts
in a &s;inner.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="9" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>IX.</HEAD>
<P>VVhether this <HI>Parliament</HI> would not quit Curte&s;ie hand|&s;omly
to turn <HI>his bones</HI> out of the <HI>Abbey,</HI> who turn'd them by
force, and violence again&s;t all humanity, and good man|ners
out of the <HI>Parliament Hou&s;e?</HI> or in &s;hort whether
<HI>Quid pro Quo</HI> be not lawfull, and avowable?</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="10" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>X.</HEAD>
<P>VVhether <HI>Machiavels</HI> maxime, for which our <HI>Divines</HI>
rail &s;o at him <HI>(viz.)</HI> that <HI>[Chri&s;tian Religion makes man
Cowards,]</HI> be not now &s;ound Doctrine, and mo&s;t evident|ly
demon&s;trated his by <HI>late Highne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="11" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>XI.</HEAD>
<P>VVhether a man may not venture his <HI>Soul</HI> for the pro|curement
of an <HI>E&s;tate,</HI> and promotion of his worldly inte|re&s;ts,
altogether as laudably as for <HI>Religion?</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="12" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>XII.</HEAD>
<P>VVhether it were not a deed of <HI>Charity</HI> in the <HI>Parliament</HI>
to erect another <HI>High Court of Ju&s;tice,</HI> that &s;o the <HI>Lord
L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s;le</HI> might know how to di&s;po&s;e of &s;ome of that time, and
lea&s;ure which they have thought fit to allot <HI>him,</HI> by di&s;|charging
<HI>him</HI> the trouble of being one of the <HI>Keepers</HI> of the
<HI>great Seal of England?</HI> And whether we ought not to think
in Charity that the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> di&s;carded <HI>him</HI> of his dignities in
tender <HI>compa&s;sion to his Soul,</HI> that &s;o he might have conve|nience
to repent him of his <HI>blood guiltine&s;&s;e,</HI> and other cry|ing
Sins, which can the pared off with his nails.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="13" TYPE="case">
<PB N="7" REF="4">
<HEAD>XIII.</HEAD>
<P>VVhether <HI>Sermons</HI> &s;hould not be put down as well as
<HI>Playes,</HI> the <HI>meetings</HI> being farr <HI>greater,</HI> the <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ores</HI> more <HI>&s;e|ditious,</HI>
and <HI>fewer Souldiers being there,</HI> by their good wills?</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="14" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>XIV.</HEAD>
<P>Whether the <HI>Whore of Babylon that Man of Sin,</HI> be in
good earne&s;t (after &s;o many di&s;putes) a <HI>Man,</HI> or a <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word">,</HI>
or an <HI>Hermaphrodit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">?</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="15" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>XV.</HEAD>
<P>Whether old <HI>Oliver Cromwel,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Iohn Hewyt,</HI> are
now within &s;ight of one another; and if not, how many
Leagues over the <HI>Gulph</HI> is that parts 'um? And truly the
re&s;olution of this one <HI>doubt</HI> (if the <HI>Gulph</HI> were &s;tated to be
but narrow) would make many men in this world excel|lent
<HI>Swimmers,</HI> in hopes one day to <HI>make u&s;e of their Art,</HI>
when the time &s;hall come that they mu&s;t either <HI>Sink, or
Swim.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="16" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>XVI.</HEAD>
<P>Whether they be&s;t de&s;erve of the <HI>State</HI> who have hazar|ded
their per&s;ons, and e&s;tates, or they that have ventur'd
their <HI>Souls</HI> and <HI>Con&s;ciences</HI> for the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="17" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>XVII.</HEAD>
<P>Whether we be not much happier <HI>now</HI> than we have been
any time this &s;even years before, in regard we have again
gotten over us the <HI>Harp, and Cro&s;&s;e, one</HI> being an <HI>inctrument
of mirth,</HI> and the <HI>other a badg of our Religion;</HI> wheras <HI>be|fore</HI>
we had a <HI>great white ramping Lyon</HI> over us: now a <HI>Lyon</HI>
is a <HI>beast of prey,</HI> and the property of bea&s;ts of prey is to <HI>de|vour</HI>
(as we all know.)</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="18" TYPE="case">
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<HEAD>VIII.</HEAD>
<P>VVhether the <HI>Devil</HI> be not a <HI>Malignant,</HI> becau&s;e he is &s;o
<HI>hot</HI> for <HI>Monarchy?</HI> and whether (if the <HI>Act</HI> of <HI>Oblivion</HI>
will not quit him) that one <HI>Argument</HI> be not enough to
per&s;wade men to <HI>defie him and all his works?</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="19" TYPE="case">
<HEAD>(XIX)</HEAD>
<P>VVhether, &s;eeing that <HI>Liberty of Con&s;cience</HI> is now gene|rally
granted to all men, it be not the be&s;t exerci&s;e for <HI>poor</HI>
witty <HI>Cavalliers</HI> to <HI>write Pamphlets,</HI> and the be&s;t recreation
for <HI>rich Commonwealth's men to read them?</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<TRAILER>The End.</TRAILER>
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