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<HEAD>CONSIDERATIONS</HEAD>
<P>IN the behalf of Foreiners, which re&s;ide in <HI>England;</HI> and of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> who are out of their own Countrey,</P>
<P>To allay the tempe&s;t, which is too often rais'd in the minds of the vulgar &s;ort; and to &s;weeten the bitterne&s;s of a bilious, or cholerick humor again&s;t &s;trangers, 'tis good to Con&s;ider,</P>
<P N="1">1 That wi&s;e Nature produces no animal, although never &s;o vile in the eyes of others, which de&s;ire not to pre&s;erve his being, and which, con&s;equently, &s;eek not the means of &s;elf-pre&s;ervation.</P>
<P N="2">2 That in order to that, and by Natures In&s;tinct, Bea&s;ts change often their pa|&s;tures and quarters: Birds flie from Country to Countrey: and I i&s;hes &s;wim from Sea to Sea, yea enter into our Rivers.</P>
<P N="3">3 That it is likewi&s;e for that end, that men do oft leave their Native Countrey, becau&s;e it is, either too populous, and &s;o one cannot live by the other; or too &s;teril, and &s;o it is not &s;ufficient for all; or that the Air is contrary to their con&s;titution; or that they have pui&s;&s;ant enemies; or that the taxes are &s;o great, that they can|not be born; or finally, that the Laws threaten them with lo&s;s of liberty or life for crime, or do not permit them the free exerci&s;e of their Religion.</P>
<P N="4">4 That God having <HI>made of one bloud all nations of men, to dwell over all the face of the Earth,</HI> it is a mark of Piety, and a duty of Humanity, to cheri&s;h that bloud.</P>
<P N="5">5 That on that ground, the Wi&s;e and Religious, e&s;teeming not that per&s;on a &s;tranger, which hath the &s;hape of a man, and the knowledge of God, have in all a|ges approv'd negotiations and conver&s;ation with others of their own &s;pecies: and &s;o 'twas free for all to travell from place to place, every one profe&s;ting his Science, teaching his Art, and working at his Trade; thus to entertain the Communion, which ought to be among all men, by a voluntary communication of the indu&s;try of their wits, the dexterity of their hands, and goods of their countreys.</P>
<P N="6">6 That though the Earth have been divided into many Countreys, for the habi|tation and inheritance of &s;ome Patriarchs; and each Countrey, &s;ubdivided into ma|ny parts or cantons, for their branches or twigs: yet all tho&s;e Countreys (except <HI>China</HI>) have always been open to per&s;ons of other Nations, who (&s;ince <HI>God <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">th given the Earth to the children of men</HI>) might ju&s;tly complain, if they had not the li|berty to dwell where it &s;eems good to them, in behaving them&s;elves wi&s;ely, living according to the laws of the Land, and not pre&s;uming to play the Criticks in State-affairs, whether Civill or Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, no not &s;o much in the humors nor man|ners of the Natives.</P>
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<P N="7">7 That if this <HI>Libertie</HI> had not been given heretofore, and were not &s;till enjoy'd, the proverb of one of the Wi&s;e men of old had had no ground, when it was made, nor could be now verifyd among&s;t us; <HI>The wi&s;e is every where in his Countrey,</HI> that is, he can live every where, as well as in his Native Soil; as carrying with him his Sci|ence, to teach; his Civility to gain love; or his hands, to labour.</P>
<P N="8">8 That this <HI>Liberty</HI> of teaching and working every where, is as clear as the light in Hi&s;tories, both holy and profane: and it is evident, that the grand Apo&s;tle of the Gentiles, made u&s;e of it to maintain him&s;elf in divers Countries <HI>by his own la|bour,</HI> that he might not be chargeable to the Churches of God, <HI>Acts</HI> 18.3. &amp; 20.34. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 4.12. 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2.9. 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 3.8.</P>
<P N="9">9 That God having commanded the <HI>Jews</HI> (a covetous, and inhumane nation) to be civill and courteous to &s;trangers: he &s;hews him&s;elf more cruell then a Jew, who goes about to expell them out of a Land, where they (poor &s;ouls) indeavour to live by their own labor.</P>
<P N="10">10 That tho&s;e Nations, which do refu&s;e to intertain Strangers, or have nothing in their country to attract them, are commonly the lea&s;t Civill; and have but little of humane Prudence, and divine Knowledge.</P>
<P N="11">11 That of all Nations of <HI>Europe,</HI> the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>French</HI> &s;hould love one ano|ther be&s;t, as well for their Vicinity, as for the great Commerce which is 'mong&s;t them in time of Peace, and for their Con&s;anguinitie, there being in this Countrie thou&s;ands of Families, which are de&s;cended from the <HI>French;</HI> and as many or more in <HI>France,</HI> who&s;e Progenitors were <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P N="12">12 That between the greate&s;t part of the <HI>French,</HI> which are in this Countrey, and of th' <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> there is another band or tie, &s;tronger then fle&s;h and bloud, and more con&s;iderable then Neighbourhood and Negotiation: I mean the Communion of Saints; for &s;ince they acknowledge and adore the &s;ame God, and &s;erve him the &s;ame way, indevouring to adju&s;t their thoughts, affections, words, actions to the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ule, he hath given them, they ought to love one another dearly, as good <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ellow|&s;ervants, Members of one bodie, Children of one Father, and thus Joint, heirs of one and the &s;ame Happine&s;s.</P>
<P N="13">13 That the Engli&s;h are greatly mi&s;taken in their Calculation or Catalogue of the French, living here, e&s;teeming &s;uch all tho&s;e that &s;peak their tongue: &s;o that the high <HI>Germans, Switzers</HI> of the <HI>French</HI> tongue, <HI>Danes, Swedes, Dutch, Walloons,</HI> and tho&s;e of <HI>Geneva</HI> pa&s;s for good <HI>French</HI> in the opinion of many, although in truth, there are not here two Naturall <HI>French</HI> 'mong&s;t ten, which are taken for &s;uch, or who for their profit, would gladly go for &s;uch.</P>
<P N="14">14 That if the <HI>French</HI> and other &s;trangers have any dealing and trading with the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> it is becau&s;e the&s;e, as a free Nation, are willing to make u&s;e of them, delight in their dexterity, and do admire their Inventions, confe&s;&s;ing, 'tis from them, that the Natives have many &s;ine Manufactures, and learnt of them pretty knacks, and excellent things.</P>
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<P N="15">15 That unle&s;s it be prov'd, either that tho&s;e &s;trangers force the Natives of this Country, to take their Wares, or to make u&s;e of their &s;ervice; or that the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> have not the liberty to do either, ther's no wi&s;e man that can condemn the Natives nor Aliens.</P>
<P N="16">16 That it cannot be &s;aid without temeritie, that the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> to follow their caprichio, or fooli&s;h fancy, employ any Strangers: &s;ince many do't, either by rea|&s;on of &s;ome acquaintance or familiarity, they had before with tho&s;e Strangers; or through compa&s;&s;ion of their poverty; or in con&s;ideration of their Religion; or becau&s;e the commodities and work of tho&s;e Strangers plea&s;e them better; or that they &s;tand in need of them, and perhaps that they are cheaper.</P>
<P N="17">17 That if Aliens have not the <HI>Liberty</HI> to trade and work in this Country, ma|ny of them cannot long &s;ub&s;i&s;t here, yet dare not go back into <HI>Flanders,</HI> where the greate&s;t part of them were born, nor others, into <HI>France</HI> nor <HI>Italie,</HI> by rea&s;on of their Religion; and &s;o they will be reduc'd to mendicitie, or expos'd to greater mi&s;chiefs; wheras now by the fruits of their labor and indu&s;try, they entertain many hundreds of poor per&s;ons, and about &s;ixteen Mini&s;ters of the holy Go&s;pel, in 12 or 13 Churches, they have in this Kingdom.</P>
<P N="18">18 That if they be depriv'd of this <HI>Liberty,</HI> their Churches, which have been &s;tabli&s;ht in this Realm, will infallibly cea&s;e and be di&s;&s;ipated, under the pious and prudent government of our Religious and Gracious Monarch, to the great grief of all the Reformed Churches abroad, but to the great joy of their Adver&s;aries, who will greatly triumph at &s;uch a &s;ad di&s;&s;ipation. And certainly this Augu&s;t Prince and his great Parliament do not intend that the&s;e poor Churches be brought to no|thing: &s;ince that in their behalf they have of late in&s;erted an Article or Provi&s;o in the Act of Uniformity: and it is a wonder to &s;ee, that tho&s;e who acknowledge, that the King of <HI>England</HI> is al&s;o King of <HI>France,</HI> and Defender of the Faith, can find in their hearts to bandie them&s;elves again&s;t tho&s;e, who, upon that account, are his Subjects; and murmur again&s;t their brethren, the poor Prote&s;tants; &s;ince both come into this Countrey, to live Peaceably and Religiou&s;ly, under the protection which he ows them, as King to his good Subjects; and as Defender of the Faith, unto Religious Souls, faithfull Chri&s;tians, and holy Members of the Son of God.</P>
<P N="19">19 That if their Churches (which God forbid) be thus di&s;per&s;t, many of their Members will be able to &s;ay with the Prophet <HI>leremie,</HI> in a &s;pirituall &s;en&s;e; <HI>The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it unto them:</HI> For, under&s;tanding none or but little Engli&s;h, there will be here no man to afford them the bread of life, and to direct them in the ways of their eternall &s;alvation, in preaching unto them the Golpel of Chri&s;t, in <HI>French,</HI> low <HI>Dutch,</HI> and <HI>Italian:</HI> and &s;o this Land will cea&s;e to be a place of Refuge and Con&s;olation to tho&s;e poor Prote&s;tants, who are per&s;ecuted in their own Countries.</P>
<P N="20">That finally, many of the Engli&s;h, whom pa&s;&s;ion and private intere&s;t &s;tir up again&s;t &s;trangers, have been, they and their fore-fathers, in a condition to implore
<PB N="4" REF="3">their counteous Neighbours help: Their Grandfathers, in Queen <HI>Maries</HI> days; and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">hey th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;elves, during the late troubles of this State. They may read in their <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ories and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;hop <HI>Jewel,</HI> who &s;peaks of it by experience, the good u&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ge of neighbouring Nations to their Religious Ance&s;tors: And concerning them&s;elves, they know, how <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hey ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> been treated abroad, during the&s;e horrid di&s;orders. If <HI>well,</HI> as mo&s;t of them h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> been, yea by per&s;ons di&s;&s;enting from them in many points of Religion; both Gratitude and Genero&s;ity oblige them to render like for like, in &s;hewing to &s;trangers as much Charity and Civility, as they have receiv'd in their want. If <HI>ill,</HI> as it mu&s;t be confe&s;t, too many have been &s;o, yea by per&s;ons who ow'd them more Civilities; they know full well, that vengeance is forbid, and that God commands them to render good for evill. And morover, they know a|gain, that the&s;e poor &s;ouls, who live here among them, are not the vile per&s;ons, who in their pre&s;&s;ing wants, refus'd them the effects, Humanity did then require (not to &s;peak here of what was due to the Greatne&s;&s;, Bloud and Merits of &s;ome of them) but that the&s;e duties were deni'd, by meer <HI>Tygers</HI> in humane &s;hape; by <HI>hearts</HI> mo&s;t barbarous, and by <HI>minds</HI> altogether wild, which they mu&s;t not propo&s;e unto them&s;elves, as fair models of their vertuous actions.</P>
<P><HI>As man is Rational, and thus oblig'd to act always according to the rules, Rea&s;on dictates, and Ju&s;tice does require; I have no cau&s;e to doubt, that the&s;e</HI> Con&s;iderations <HI>do not powrfully invite us to ca&s;t mo&s;t gracious looks one upon another, to love any man tenderly, and to &s;eek and embrace all occa&s;ions to &s;erve others, as we are de&s;irous to be a&s;&s;i&s;ted in our wants.</HI></P>
<P><HI>If my little Labor produce the&s;e verie &s;weet, the&s;e mo&s;t delightfull Fruits, my Re|compence is great, and my Joy will be exce&s;&s;ive.</HI></P>
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