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A36831 An appeal of all the non-conformists in England to God and all the Protestants of Europe in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King to which is added a sober and unpassionate reply to the author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin / by Dr. Lewis Du Moulin ... Du Moulin, Lewis, 1606-1680. 1681 (1681) Wing D2530; ESTC R35666 14,500 36

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Life of his Sacred Majesty that now is his Royal Son and our most Gracious Soveraign 26. That since the Non-Conformists were a generation of men either of the first date as it is most likely or at least that rose in England at the same time as the Conformists did and since they were for number and quality as great or rather greater and more considerate than the other and who in their Judgment came nearer as to the outward Government and Purity of Worship not only to the first Reformers Zuinglius Luther and Calvin but also to the Apostolical Practice and who indeed were the TRUE PROTESTANTS most Conformable to that Party in Germany who so stiled themselves Protestants in opposition to the Imperial Edicts of Worms and Spire it must needs be a great wickedness and cruelty too in the Conformists because they had all the while the Countenance of Princes and the longest Sword to persecute the Non-Conformists and to deprive them of the liberty of setting up Purer Ordinances in Conventicles and of sharing in the Publick Maintenance for the Ministers 27. That it is a most barbarous improper uncharitable and unchristian language in the Corrupt-Party of the Church of England to stile themselves the only true and properly so called PROTESTANTS and to discard all others in Europe from the right to that name for want of such Episcopal Ordinations as are in England as if that 500 men possessing the three parts of the Church-Revenues in England should better deserve to be called Protestants than the first so called in Germany whereas what ever Bishop Bilson Andrews Dr. Floyd Dr. Tillotson and Dr. Stillingfleet could say in the behalf of the Government of the Church of England as being the most Apostolical and Primitive there is none more opposite not only to that of the first Protestants but also to Scripture Reason and Antiquity 28. These being the Material Heads or a Summary Idea of the whole to be more largely and particularly handled hereafter if God giveth Life and Time to the Author I shall excerpt much from the Scrinia of the Reverend and Learned Divine Mr. Richard Baxter but yet so as to take the liberty to follow my own Method and Genius as to the menage of it 29. So then the main design of the Subsequent Book whereof this is a brief but full Specimen shall be to shew prove and make clear to You the unreasonableness unconscionableness and consequently the ungodliness of retaining urging and pressing the things in debate between the Conformists and the Non-Conformists and of persecuting those that refuse to submit to them or at least to approve of them 30. That Dissenters could not cannot ought not neither in reason nor in Conscience to submit to them at least for the assenting and consenting to them and the approving of them 31. That those Conformists whom I call Peaceable and Orthodox men such as were the Members of the Parliament of 1640 and those of Westminster assembled and their Predecessors and all others however otherwise most upright sincere Orthodox holy and well-minded persons since the first Reformation in King Edward the Sixth's dayes and Lovers of the Non-Conformists that have hitherto been Conformists were all guilty of prevarication and of a-sinful yielding complying assenting and subscribing to a Church-way which doubtless is sinful 32. And therefore that the Non-Conformists who ever since King Edward's dayes in Conformity to the true Doctrine of those of the best sort of Conformists kept gathered Churches and Meetings out of the Parishes had right Reason and Scripture on their side and walked with a purer Conscience were the best reformed from Popery and those that preserved the true Apostolical Doctrine Worship and Government and conveyed it to Posterity 33. The Author may Incidently speak of the nature of the Church Synods Associations and Fraternities by a confederate discipline but cannot by any means hear of a National Church-Tribunal independant on the Magistrate to whom only he allows the setting up of a National Worship by Persuasion and Commendation but not in the least by forcing men to it by penal Lawes except they be Papists or disturbers of the Publick Peace FINIS A SOBER and UNPASSIONATE REPLY TO The Author OF The Lively Picture OF LEWIS DV MOVLIN Gal. 4. Vers 16. Am I therefore become your Enemy because I tell you the truth LONDON Printed for Richard Janeway 1680. A Sober and Unpassionate REPLY c. I AM very sensible that My late Book viz. A short and true Account of the several Advances the Church of England hath made towards Rome c. hath raised up very great and fierce tempests against me as well from some of my Friends as from those that are most otherwise to me especially from those who can very calmly sedately patiently and without any disturbance in the world see the publication of Mr. Hobbes's Books and such others that are much what of the same stuff with them that are good for nothing but to instruct People either in Atheism or at best in an indifferency as to Matters of Religion but who are highly provoked if any One comes but near their Noli me tangere either to make a Seasonable Discovery or in Love and Friendship to bring them the wholesome Application of Remedies such as is this Truth That the Papists would never have been ingaged in such a design as to introduce Popery into England by Massacres and other wayes of the highest cruelty if they had not been very well assured that though the Corrupt-Party of the Church of England who are the most prevailing now be not in a disposition to give their Consent to such Massacres the thoughts of which are alone sufficient to strike a horrour into the worst of them yet they are all of them I mean the Corrupt Party pretty inclinable to or which is not a jott less not very much against embracing the Religion of Rome I WILL begin with the Heat and Passion of my Friends against me and with the Judgment which they make upon my Short and True Account c. they say That that Book is altogether now unseasonable When as Persons of great Learning Piety and Merit and who at the bottom are very Sincere and Upright in the Church of England such as Dr. Floyd Dr. Tillotson Dr. Stillingfleet and Dr. Patrick to whom I might joyn Professor Burnett are making it their business as they think it their duty to re-unite the Two Parties the Conformists and the Non-Conformists and when they are most industriously imployed in reducing to Practice the Means of Peace and Concord according to Mr. Richard Baxter's Model and that instead of lending them my helping hand and assisting them in so good a Work I am doing what I can to divide both Parties and to exasperate and imbitter them one against the other BUT Methinks these Gentlemen either have not read my Book at all or else have no mind to understand the design of it