Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.

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Title: Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.
Author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
Publication: London :: [s.n.],; 1662.
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Subject terms: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688.
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An Oration against Liberty of Conscience.

Fellow Citizens,

I Am not of the former Orators opinion; for if you give Liberty in the Church, you must give Liberty in the State, and so let every one do what they will, which will be a Strange Go∣vernment, or rather I may say, no Government: for if there be no Rules, their can be no Laws, and if there be no Laws, there can be no Justice, and if no Justice, no Safety, and if no Safety, no Propriety, neither of Goods, Wives, Children, nor Lives, and if there be no Propriety, there will be no Husbandry, and the Lands will lye Unmanured, also there will be neither Trade nor Traffick, all which will cause Famine, Warr, and Ruine, and such a Confusion, as the King∣dome will be like a Chaos, which the Gods keep us from.