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A57577	Fall not out by the way, or, A perswasion to a friendly correspondence between the conformists & non-conformists in a funeral discourse on Gen. 45. 24. occasioned by the desire of Mr. Anthony Dunwell, in his last will / by Timothy Rogers ...	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.	1692 (1692)	Wing R1850; ESTC R11323	41,002	128

Fall not out by the Way OR A PERSWASION TO A Friendly Correspondence Between the Conformists Non-Conformists IN A Funeral Discourse On Gen. 45.24 Occasioned by the Desire of Mr. Anthony Dunwell in his last Will. By TIMOTHY ROGERS M. A. LONDON Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultery 1692. To the Gentlemen that Contribute to the Encouragement of the Evening Lecture at Crosby-square Gentlemen IT is to you that I owe the largest acknowledgment imaginable for the kindnesses that you have shewed me have not only been in themselves very Great but very Singular It was a Noble and a Generous Act so liberally as you have done to encourage Mr. Kentish and Me and it was a Rare and Peculiar Generosity not to withdraw the Testimonies of your Love and Respect during my Long and Doleful Sickness which made me for two Years incapable of being any way serviceable to you It is impossible for me to forget so great a Favor and equally impossible for me to express the sense I have of it At the desire of Mr. Dunwell one of your number I Preached on the following Subject and now at the request of a great many of the same number it comes into the World And I was the more willing that it should see the Light because as far as in me lies I would help to Extinguish those Flames which being encreased by distance and strangeness have long Troubled and Scorched us It is in vain I well know to think that all Men will have the same Thoughts or the same Expressions about matters of Religion forasmuch as in their different Souls there are different degrees of Light but I would endeavour however to perswade persons of different apprehensions to be kind and civil and genteel to one another and this is easy to be done and will be attended with a mighty pleasure Our Lecture as you will bear us Witness is not a Seminary of Sedition nothing we dare appeal to you and our other Hearers is Preached there but what is Orthodox and Loyal too nor do we there take an occasion to vent our own Passions instead of the Truths of God nor at any time endeavour to make our Hearers have an ill Opinion of our Brethren the Conformists for so we love to call them and we hope they will not refuse to give to us the same Friendly Title We have among us all abundance of common Work to do against Atheism and Drunkenness and the other Vices of a Corrupt Age and against the World the Devil and the Flesh The necessities of the Souls of Men are so many that our United Endeavors will be little enough to supply them and therefore we should Love and Encourage and bear with one another and so the Good of all sides I verily perswade my self will resolve to do In our Discourses our Auditory do not use to find matter either of just Scorn or Laughter nothing I hope that is Absurd or Ridiculous A late Epitomizer of the Works of the Learned is so complaisant as to call some Practical Discourses of mine formerly Published Canting Sermons and thinks those Gentlemen who in a late Account of Books put an Abridgment of those Discourses after some Sermons of Mr. Norris Acted as if by such a method they designed to expose the Dissenters I will allow Mr. Norris to be an Ingenious and neat Writer his Thoughts is Cleanly and his Language Fine but I think it will be no diskindness either to him or Mr. De la Crose to desire them not to dip their Pens in Gall and to forbear Satyr when they would spread Truth A little more good Nature and Civility would do neither of them any great harm To say this or that is Cant is no Proof 't is Reviling without a Reason and none of the Learned or Judicious will use so silly and so Trite a Word I am afraid this French Writer is of a very little Soul and thinks no Sense can be spoken but on his own side Men of more Vnderstanding than he will allow that the Dissenters know a little what belongs to Sense and good Language too He Ridicules the Lives of Mr. Hieron and Mr. Eliot of New England those Blessed Divines as he calls them but I wish he may sit at their Feet in the other World I would desire this Abridger of Books not to be so Partial and if he would have his Writings to be useful not to cram them again with such Stuff for it is nauseous to all Men of Sense and good Breeding to see persons of such a Little Soul talk as if they had Monopolized all the Wit and Sense of the World in their own Brains I have longer insisted upon this because I hope it may a little Soften some that are of a Morose and Waspish Constitution I wonder in what Air they have lived that are continually spitting out Ulcerated Language I wish all the Men of Bitterness an Healthful state of Soul and then I am sure they will be calm and gentle they will cease to be Incendiaries and learn to be Peacemakers which is a much better Office To you Gentlemen it is that I do now publickly return my sincere and hearty Thanks for all your Kindnesses to me both in Health and Sickness At your Service I am and shall upon all occasions be ready to give you the most chearful Marks of my Respect may your Trades and Employments thrive better for what you give to my Brother Kentish and to me What good is done to the Souls of Men by us as we hope there is some will turn also to your Account in that Day I wish you may continue to be promoters of Peace and Union among all good Persons of all Perswasions and that you would labour in your several Stations to advance a thing so Pleasant and so Profitable May you have always calm Spirits and quiet Families and loving People to Deal withal May you have Comprehensive and large Souls For many long Years may you Thrive and Prosper and be useful in this World and at last be admitted into the World above which is the blessed place for it is the World of Love So Prays Gentlemen Your very much Obliged Servant L. Rogers London Decemb. 12th 1691. The following Books have been lately Published by the Author of this Discourse 1. PRactical Discourses on Sickness and Recovery in several Sermons as they were lately Preached in a Congregation in London after his Recovery from a Sickness of near two Years continuance 2. Early Religion Or a Discourse of the Duty and Interest of Youth with some Advices to Parents and Aged People to Promote it in their several Capacities 3. A Discourse concerning Trouble of Mind and the Disease of Melancholy All three to be Sold by John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey ERRATA PAge 25. line 20. Read Ages posesed p. 31. l. 21. r. in its self p. 71. l. 19. for of r. in Two SERMONS Preached

Love as Brethren be Pitiful be Courteous not rendring Evil for Evil or Railing for Railing but contrary-wise Blessing knowing that ye are thereunto called that you should inherit a Blessing In the Primitive times they could forbear and forgive their Enemies much more their Brethren and were not like the Waspish Philosophers who as one says were ready to fall foul upon one another Dr. Cave's Primitive Christianity pt 3. ch 3. p. 317. for every petty and inconsiderable Difference that was among them Christians as he says were careful not to offend either God or Man but to keep and maintain Peace with both thence that excellent saying of Ephraem Syrus when he came to die In my whole Life said he I never reproached my Lord and Master nor suffered any foolish Talk to come out of my Lips nor did I ever Curse or Revile any Man or maintain the least Difference or Controversie with any Christian in all my Life Why may it not be among us as Sir William Temple says it is in the Netherlands where differences in Opinions make none in Affections little in Conversation where it serves but for Entertainment and Variety They argue without Interest or Anger they differ without Enmity or Scorn and they agree without Confederacy Men live together like Citizens of the World associated by the common tyes of Humanity and the Bonds of Peace under the Impartial Protection of indifferent Laws with equal encouragement of all Arts and Industry and equal freedom of Speculation and Enquiry According to our old saying Soft Words and hard Arguments are the best and if I may judge of others by my self harsh Expressions and a sowre Carriage will never make one regard what another says The Potion has too much Gall in it to be Medicinal whereas we cannot refuse to listen to a Man that comes to us in a mild and gentle manner It is the Spirit of Elias and not the Spirit of Jesus that is furious and violent It is an Human thing to be kind to those of the same nature with our selves but for one Professing Religion to be furious and eager and stormy is to let the Christian destroy the Man Mildness is an Offspring of Heaven the resemblance of Christ and has a strange constraining Power with it A calm and gentle Soul will govern and allay the disorder of the Tongue and keep us all quiet The very appearances as one observes of a calm Temper have a Charm in them but the effects of them in concurrence with other prudent Methods are almost irresistible And says he it is better to be over-run and ruined in the ways of Meekness than to conquer all the World by Cruelty in the one we bear the Cross and suffer for Righteousness sake in the other we Triumph in the Garments of Antichrist dyed red with the Blood of those who though in Errors yet may be good Men in the main for ought we know Sixthly Let us always Love our Brethren though we cannot he in all things of their Mind And this Love will produce all those acts of Kindness and good Will which I have newly mentioned in our different places of Worship and in the different manner of our Prayers there may be still an Union in our Hearts I can love many a good Man and wish him well with all my Soul to whose particular Persuasion I am not satisfied to joyn my self Let us love our Brethren for the Common Truths in which they and we both agree we have one Faith though we have two Names then let us commend all that we see in others that is truly good and commendable let us commend their Gifts and Graces their Learning and their Holy Lives let us pity their Faults and praise them for their good Deeds and this is the best way that I know of to keep us from falling out And if we must strive let us strive who shall be most serviceable to God and to one another Seventhly Take heed of loving needless Disputations Of all things beware of taking pleasure in them or of frivolous and curious Questions which tend to fill us with Rancour but promote not Edification Carnal Zeal as one says may put us on disputing but true Zeal will put us upon Prayer Some Men are of so strange a Palate that they love Niceties and Quelques chose rather than solid and substantial Food some love to splinter the plain Truths of the Gospel and to wrap them up in Clouds when if they left them to their native plainness they would be as bright as day For my part I had rather be a quiet Ploughman than a fiery Philosopher I had rather be a Son of Peace than the greatest Disputer in the World Disputes occasion abundance of ferment in the Minds of those who would otherwise be very quiet People and they also prove a Generation of Vipers Such as love them generally sting one another with many base and mean Reflections and which tast more of Billings-gate than of Jerusalem I thank God I have a peculiar Antipathy in my Temper to all hot and fiery Proceedings and I had rather Preach one Sermon of Vnity among Brethren than Write a thousand Follo's of Controversie We have all Reason to be thankful that our Age is pretty well delivered from a doting Admiration of the old School-men that spun Divinity into Cobwebs and made Depths and Mysteries where they found none it would pity a Man to see such excellent parts as many of them had to be so ill imployed But their Notions are now musty and antiquated and dead and I will never do any thing to revive or quicken them For as one very well observes our Fathers in the beginning of the Reformation were greatly scandalized at that School divinity which for a long time had filled the World not only with Questions vain and frivolous but pernicious also and leading Men to Wickedness What can any one think of such a manner of treating the Mysteries of Religion as they used and by Distinctions crude and sensless if it were not that all that was very likely to raise an abundance of Errors and excellently contrived for the maintaining of all such as Ignorance Passion Engagements or Interests would have produced One of the Effects of that Disorder of the Schools was the depraving of Christian Morality by the Introduction of divers destructive Maxims which tended only to corrupt Men's Minds and Hearts Instances of which see at large in Monsieur Claude 's Historical Defence of the Reformation part 1. p. 28. It would be a Comfortable Sight to see the Funeral of all needless Controversies We have seen indeed a Book lately writ by a Learned Man Mr. Baxter of The End of Controversies and I wish they were really ended that so we might Learn though not to Talk so logically yet to Live better Some Errors there are indeed that must be opposed and God leaves not his Ministers without Gifts for that very