A few considerations humbly offered to the members of Parliament, to obviate some evil jealousies and designs, against the people called Quakers. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B22939 of text R229256 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 2KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B22939 Wing F833 Interim Tract Supplement Guide L.7.a.3[47] ESTC R229256 ESTC R229127 ESTC R229256 ocm99888278

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 eng Quakers -- England -- Persecutions -- Early works to 1800. eebo A few considerations humbly offered to the members of Parliament, to obviate some evil jealousies and designs, against the people called Quakers. . n/a 1694 1 323 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. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-04 Sampled and proofread 2014-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A FEW CONSIDERATIONS Humbly Offered to the Members of Parliament , To Obviate some Evil Jealousies and Designs , against the People called QUAKERS .

THat this Nation doth consist of People differing in Perswasion of Religion one from another , is unquestionable .

That Coercion hath been found Ineffectual to bring all Men to Believe alike , is unquestionable also .

That the Prudence and Wisdom of our Legislators , upon the late Revolution , thought it better to unite the King's Protestant Subjects in Interest and Affection , by suspending certain Penal Laws .

That it hath had an agreeable Effect in most places in England , except where a few discontented Persons have not been easie , because they wanted Laws to disturb their Peaceable Neighbours .

Though the People called Quakers are first the Object of such Mens Envy , yet if they can ruin the Quakers , they are not like to rest there .

Pretentions of Popish Emissaries ( among us ) are Old and Scandalous , we are well known to our Neighbours ; and if they knew any such Emissaries , the Law is still open against them , and we question not our Adversaries Activeness to have found them out , though it were only to blemish us .

The Care we have of our Poor is well known , and well approved , and our Zeal to prevent disorderly Conversation ☞ We also Contribute our shares with our Neighbours to their Poor . among us , We hope is Justifiable in the Eye of the Government , and all Religious People , and yet both , Unpracticable without Meetings for those Ends.

If Virulent Accusations of one anothers Principles should be Countenanc'd among Protestants , 't would greatly tend to divert the good Intention of the Government , of Uniting in Affection those whom 't is hard to Unite in Perswasion .