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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>A LETTER <HI>Written to my</HI> LORD RUSSEL IN NEWGATE, The Twentieth of <HI>July,</HI> 1683.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Was heartily glad to &s;ee your Lord&s;hip this Morning in that calm and devout temper at the Receiving of the Ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament; but Peace of minde unle&s;s it be well-grounded will avail little: And becau&s;e tran&s;ient Di&s;cour&s;e many times hath little effect for want of time to weigh and con&s;ider it, therefore in tender compa&s;&s;ion of your Lord&s;hips Ca&s;e, and from all the good will that one man can bear to another, I do humbly offer to your Lord&s;hips deliberate thoughts the&s;e following Con&s;ide|rations concerning the points of Re&s;i&s;tance. If our Re|ligion and Rights &s;hould be invaded, as your Lord&s;hip puts the Ca&s;e, concerning which I under&s;tand by Dr. <HI>B.</HI> that your Lordi&s;hip had once received Satisfaction, and am &s;orry to find a change.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, That the Chri&s;tian Religion doth plainly forbid the Re&s;i&s;tance of Au|thority.</P>
<P>Secondly, That though our Religion be E&s;tabli&s;hed by Law, (which your Lord|&s;hip urges as a difference between our Ca&s;e, and that of the Primitive Chri&s;tians) yet in the &s;ame Law which E&s;tabli&s;hes our Religion it is declared, That it is not Lawful upon any pretence what&s;oever to take up Arms, &amp;<HI>c.</HI> Be&s;ides that, there is a particular Law declaring the power of the <HI>Militia</HI> to be &s;olely in the King. And that ties the hands of Subjects, though the Law of Nature and the General Rules of Scripture had left us at liberty; which I believe they do not, becau&s;e the Govern|ment and Peace of Humane Society could not well &s;ub&s;i&s;t upon the&s;e Terms.</P>
<P>Thirdly, Your Lord&s;hips opinion is contrary to the declared Doctrine of all Pro|te&s;tant Churches; and though &s;ome particular Per&s;ons have taught otherwi&s;e, yet they have been contradicted herein and condemned for it by the Generality of Pro|te&s;tants. And I beg your Lord&s;hip to con&s;ider how it will agree with an avowed a&s;|&s;erting of the Prote&s;tant Religion, to go contrary to the General Doctrine of Prote|&s;tants. My end in this is to convince your Lord&s;hip that you are in a very Great and Dangerous Mi&s;take, and being &s;o convinced, that which before was a Sin of Ignorance, will appear of much more heynous Nature, as in Truth it is, and call for a very particular and deep Repentance; which if your Lord&s;hip &s;incerely exerci&s;e upon the &s;ight of your Error, by a Penitent Acknowledgment of it to God and Men, you will not only obtain Forgivene&s;s of God, but prevent a mighty Scandal to the Reformed Religion. I am very loath to give your Lord&s;hip any di&s;quiet in the Di&s;tre&s;s you are in, which I commi&s;erate from my heart, but am much more concerned, that you do not leave the World in a Delu&s;ion and fal&s;e Peace, to the hinderance ot your Eternal Happine&s;s. I heartily Pray for you, and be&s;eech your Lord&s;hip to believe that I am with the greate&s;t Sincerity and Compa&s;&s;ion in the World,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t Faithful and Afflicted Servant, <HI>J. Tillot&s;on.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed by DAVID LINDSAY, <HI>Anno</HI> 1683.</P>
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