The speech of William Penn to His Majesty upon his delivering the Quakers address. Penn, William, 1644-1718. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A54222 of text R24457 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P1372A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A54222 Wing P1372A ESTC R24457 08189494 ocm 08189494 41056 2248505088

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A54222) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 41056) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1236:18) The speech of William Penn to His Majesty upon his delivering the Quakers address. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 2 p. s.n., [London? : 1687?] Caption title. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library. eng Society of Friends. eebo The speech of William Penn to His Majesty, upon his delivering the Quakers address. Penn, William, 1687 4 464 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2005-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-06 Sampled and proofread 2006-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The SPEECH OF WILLIAM PENN To His MAJESTY , Upon His Delivering the Quakers Address . May it Please the KING ,

IT was the saying of our Blessed Lord to the Captious Jews , in the case of Tribute , Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar' s , and to God , the things that are God's . As this distinction ought to be observed by all Men , in the Conduct of their lives , so the KING has given Us an Illustrious Example in His own Person that excites Us to it ; For while HE was a Subject , HE gave Caesar His Tribute ; and now HE is a Caesar , gives GOD his Due , ( viz ) The Sovereignty over Consciences . It were a great shame then , for any English-Man ( that pretends to Christanity , ) not to give GOD his Due . By this Grace HE has relieved His Distressed Subjects from Their Cruel Sufferings , and raised to Himself a New and Lasting Empire , by adding Their Affections to Their Duty . And We Pray GOD to continue the KING in this Noble Resolution ; For HE is now upon a Principle , that has good Nature , Christianity , and the goodness of Civil Society on its side , a Security to Him beyond all the little Arts of Government .

I would not that any should think , that We came hither with design to fill the Gazet with Our Thanks , but as Our Sufferings would have moved Stones to Compassion ; So We should be harder , if We were not moved to Gratitude .

Now , since the KING's Mercy and Goodness have reached to Us throughout the Kingdom of England , and Principality of Wales ; Our General Assembly from all those parts , met at London about Our Church-Affairs has appointed Us to Wait upon the KING with Our Humble Thanks , and Me to Deliver them ; Which I do by this ADDRESS , with all the Affection and Respect of a Dutiful Subject .

His MAJESTIES most Gracious ANSWER . Gentlemen ,

I Thank You heartily for Your Address , some of You know , ( I am sure You do Mr. Pen , ) that it was always My Principle , that Conscience ought not to be Forced . And that all Men ought to have the Liberty of Their Consciences : And what I have Promis'd in My Declaration , I will continue to Perform as long as I Live ; And I Hope , before I Die , to Settle It so , that After Ages shall have no Reason to alter It.

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