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    Cf 2 . This is a very discovery of a man ' s thoughts and Bis conscience before God " . Consider how the times when this was imposed fas in the Long Parlia . ment ) differed from this . Then was a time of war . Courts of justice were shut up , so that there was no way of conviction . The necessity ceasing-, the thing ceasetlu

    * ' 3 . You have condemned oaths of this nature . The oath ew officio had your sense and severity , and to revise that # is not reasonable . The ecelesi * deal courts were put down upon this . ** 4 . You hold forth a liberty of conscience , and such , as his Highness observes , was never since Christ ' s time . Consider what an indulgence and favour you hold to one sort of unsound persons , and so severe against others ; though the . one may be as unsound as the other . Jt is neither of ingenuity nor integrity .

    ' 5 . An argument was used by an Honourable from the bar , about the oath upon the Cavaliers , in the debate about decimations . It will only fall upon the most conscientious . It will be but to others drinking another glass of sack . I told you of one of this kind in my own experience . You must needs draw yourself into a guilt by imposing such an oath upon persons that are devoid of conscience , and haply lose your ends as to the revenue * I would have a clause added , that the ministers and churches may be enjoined to present them . They are well enough known over ail England . In our parts they are . I would have articles against them , and let them clear them * selves , by proving that they come to some public place of worship . I would have the Bill committed upon this account / WPp . 150—162 .

    ' Mr . God / ret / . Admit them to be never so bad ; to be the worst of men % to give the Devil his due , this is no argument-to you to do injustice . I think they are the worst of men ; and imitating their practices , the worst of their practices , is to imitate the worst of men in the worst of practices . I know no difference between it and the Inquisition ; only the one racks and tortures the purse , the other the person and the body . " - ^ Jr \ 153 . The division was a very near one , there being 53 to 51 . Qn the 20 th June , 1657 , occurs a debate on the bill . for the observance of the J » ord ' s-day .

    " Colonel Holland . We have but too many penal laws , and one hundred clauses of that kind may well be repealed 1 hese laws are always turned upon the most godly . This is very strict , as to that of unnecessary walking * and coming into men's houses . The last Bill for the Lord ' s-day , I remember , was passed on a Saturday , and carried on with great zeal . Then I told

    them that they had tied men from coming to churqh by water or coach . Next dav , I , coming to Somerset House to sermon , had my bpat and waterman laid hold on for the . penalty . " —Pp . 261 , 26 & Mr . West . I except against the words in the Bill , ' idle sitting , openly , at gates or doors , or elsewhere $ ' and ' walking in churchyards , ' &c . Let a jcaan be in what posture he wilj , your penalty finds him . " Lord Wkitiock was against these words , and said - f "" Mr , Godfrey I move to leave oujt the words , ' profane and idle sitting ;'

    ? u In * a code of laws , made in the dominion of Newhaven , at its first settlement / in 1637 , by emigrants from England , are the following prohibitions , under severe penalties ; - ! . * " No oue ahallmn oatheSabljath day , orwalk in 4 ris garden , or elsewhere , except reverently to and'from meeting . *«« Nooue « hall f navel ,, dpok Victuals , make tfeeds , sweep house , out hair , or fihave , ou the Sabbath day . " * No wojnanyfttoftU Hit * k « r ^ Wld , ^ ii < tke ^ abhath , ar testing day / " t" AtiUnkMtheMfr "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page 467, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/35/