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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96881	An appeal to the churches of Christ for their righteous judgement in the matters of Christ, the concernments of all His glory, over whom there is a defence. Whether the way of Christ with His people be not paved-forth as a cause-way before them in His scriptures, and to be traced by the footsteps of all His neare-ones. Here you have the epistles only. The first to the churches, giving them some short account of their matters. The second unto the minister who enjoyned that work. The second unto the minister who enjoyned that work. The third to some neighbour-ministers for their judgement therein. The fourth to the Christian reader.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3478; Thomason E868_6; ESTC R207694	25,432	43

if we erre It is as a wearied traveller may doe he erreth in his way but sore against his will and thankes him heartily that will tell him he is out of the way and points him to it And 3. We hope we have not done that which we abhorre to doe made the least reflection of Dishonour upon you or any of your brethren of the Presbyterian way Some one of us have read their bookes wherein they declare their Steward-like care to keep the Table of the Lord from prophane mixtures And what they have spoken with the mouth and declared with their pen de jure what ought to be we would hope they performe with their hands de facto that is they practise accordingly as they stand cleared in their judgements they ought to doe Yet 4. We cannot see how the Godly Ministers can answer their God or their own Consciences when they can maintaine fellowship and keepe Communion with such as they judge not godly being of their owne opinion and in their way And not maintaine fellowship it is cleare some of them doe not with such as in charity they judge godly because they are not of their opinion and in their way Idem est motus ad Imaginem ad rem Arist Qui amat suprd amat infrd upon 1 Joh. 5. 1. A godly man loveth all that are godly and those most that most excell in godlinesse in them he delighteth with them he converseth them he honoureth Sicut se habet simplitèr ad simpliciter it à magis ad magis If Godlinesse be the reason why we love then the more godlinesse the more love 5. We can speake this clearely though we are divided from some in our opinions yet not from any in our affections how different soever unto us in their judgements We love him and them dearely we oppose in these following matters heartily We can say and doe as we say love Mr Hum s though we doe not dislike only but loath his Scrible as we should doe sin or hell it selfe For surely the sinne of Division is the greater when we make Religion to Patronize it It is the manner not of a few to divide from one another under a pretence as if they made it Religion to bite and devoure one another Surely this virgin is forced for there is nothing more contrary to the Name or nature of Religion than to cause or further-on divisions Dictam esse Religionem quod quasi in fascem Domini vincti religate sumus dixit Hieron By Religion we are made Gods bundle first tied to Him then one to another Religio à religando The name caries strong union with it from binding us againe to God and to one another after we were divided from Him by our sinne We hope we shall be found all along so farre from doing that which Nazianzen Orat. 12. condemnes in pleading for the Truth bely one another we are fastened to Christ yet loosened our selves we are for peace yet we fight one with another so far from this too ordinary among Christians as if that were the way to maintaine Truth that we shall not let a rude word passe from us Yet if any should sound that way or be mistaken rudely for Cuttingly we English it sharply Let it be understood as it is meant and intended spoken against Mr Hum s onely against whom we could sharpen our words as Paul did his against Elimas Acts 13. 9 10. and those that are fully of his way and judgement and this after they had read his how loth we are to call Books observing That great Philosopher and Learned Lo Verul denies that name to things of that make having neither reason nor honesty to patronize them And savouring worse in the Nostrills of all the Godly we thinke than doe the worst excrements of the Dragon whereby that rude man justifies his way and in so doing hath dealt rudely with our Lord and Master in heaven blaspheming His practise with His Saints when he tabernacled on the earth 6. If it be objected against us That 1 we censure the writings of the Learned and godly we humbly reply no we censure them not we bring the writings of men in reference to set formes of prayer to the Scriptures of God the duty of every man laying them in that ballance and trying them by that touchstone whether they hold weight and proove themselves Gold Those more Generous Eereans might have trusted Paul as soone as any man alive That he would not speake a word which wanted a graine of weight yet their eares a pair of ballances in the Hebrew would weigh the words of Paul though He had an infallible Spirit and spake by inspiration immediately from heaven Auditus Intellectus hearing and understanding should goe together and that each may doe its proper worke our eare must try mans words not taking them-up upon Trust Indeed what the Lord God speaks once we should heare twice without more to doe onely to doe it in our lives as those use to doe who have heard God speake with the sensitive eare of their bodies and the intellectuall eare of their soules and so what He spake once they heard twice And if it be said in the second place that we doe unbecoming our meane Condition when we take upon us to advise and Councell our betters Let it be observed That our Counsell is pointed to them onely before mentioned and these have as much need of it as any persons ye or we know in all the world Yet ye shall finde we hope this Counsell is given in much love And if it be so taken all will be well though it be a Reproofe which is good Counsell made keen and sharpened and not a hairs-bredth from our Rule Them that sinne saith the Apostle 1 Tim 5. 20. scandalously and to the offence of others as Mr Hump s hath done and as doe all that are in his way Rebuke before all that others also may feare We would adde hereunto That we know no other way to manifest our Love openly but by open Reproofe Open Rebuke being better then secret Love Pro. 27. 5. And to hate a brother and not to rebuke him are equivalent expressions in that Law Levit. 19. 17. we are assured we have not brought a railing accusation against that Railing man for so we should not have done had we contended with the Devill But so he hath done with worthy Dr Drake taking his Lords part against that Scrible wherein he blasphemeth his Lord and then what wonder if he raileth upon his servant 7. We have but two words more and then we have done If ye finde Art wanting here all along It were a wonder ye should not if you daine to looke through any part of it it is a small want and not unbecoming us to speak like our selves We love the Cause dearely we here maintaine relating as we judge so nearely to our Lord Christ and his people It is