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A44095 Some considerations of present use wherein is shewn that the strong ought to bear with the weak, and the weak not clamour against or censure the strong, in which the true notion of the strong and weak is stated / delivered in a farewell-sermon at St. George Buttolph-Lane, London, by Benjamin Hoffman ... Hoffman, Benjamin. 1683 (1683) Wing H2347; ESTC R36002 14,423 41

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the Apostle hath given fair Power and Encouragement to Magistrates to be doing when he bids them take care that all things be done decently and in order And who is the best Judge of Order and Decency the Magistrate the Ordinance of God or the Weak Brother I shall leave to Wise Men to determine And whereas they oft object That the Government must not enjoyn any thing but what is expresly commanded in the Scriptures If they will turn the same Argument fairly it will amount to thus much directly against themselves viz. That they must not deny Obedience in any thing that is not positively and in plain Words forbidden unless they think the Scripture allows them more Liberty than it allows the Magistrate or that they shall have Liberty to disobey in those very Cases in which the Prince shall not have Power to enjoyn And then let them shew us where the Scriptures deny a Surplice or any other of our Ceremonies retained and used And do they deny Compliance because of the Tenderness of their Conscience The Magistrate doth likewise out of his tender Love and Care for the Church and Uniformity in our Worship enjoyn them as well knowing that some External Form of Church-Government is absolutely needful and none yet after several Trials can be pitch'd upon that are more decent and less offensive 4. My last Desire to weak Brethren is that they would not throw themselves out of the Communion of Christs Catholick Church By this they frustrate the Design of Christs coming into the World and Dying for us He came to make us all one And I perceive they take it mightily in dudgeon to be Excommunicated which as they manage the Case is onely a Publick Confirmation of what they themselves have done long before St. Paul doth not seem to imagine that they would throw themselves out of Communion but was afraid that the Strong would not Communicate with them And this we desire with all our Souls to do but the mischief of it is our weaker Brethren think themselves Holier and Wiser and if so much Stronger than we And to these I may well use those Words of the Wise-man onely advisable in such Cases as these Eccles 7.16 Be not righteous overmuch neither make thy self over wise for why shouldest thou destroy thy self And why should these Men under a needless and unjustifiable Pretence of Sanctity hazard their Souls by rending the Communion of Christs Church and by Disobedience to Gods Governours and their Bodies and Estates by undergoing the Penalty of our National Laws Who hath required this at their Hands that they should set up for Martyrs before they are called to bear witness to the Truth of Christ And I wish to God these Men would seriously consider what 't is to be out of the Communion of the Catholick Church If there be but One Church why do they not Communicate with us why do they go out from us If there be Two Catholick Churches what becomes of an entire Article of our Creed Indeed there is no sense in that Assertion But I must not I need not add any more to these Particulars I hope what I have said will not be look'd upon either as sharp uncharitable or unseasonable What I have said is spoke out of a real desire that you would be like minded one towards another that you would receive one another as Christ also received us to the Glory of God I am well aware that Men are not like Iron to be hammer'd when they are heated or to be hector'd and jeer'd into Communion and Religion and therefore I have been all along pleading for the contrary But I hope no Man will be angry when we modestly and sincerely tell him the Truth as I have endeavoured plainly to do Especially I would not leave any Distaste with you as to my Person or Temper now in this last Exercise I am performing among you for this would be ill Policy with respect to my Future Undertakings and an ill Requital to that Kindness I own I have received from all Parties among you I shall onely beg your Prayers and Well-wishes for my Future Undertakings and Success in my Performances and conclude all with those Words of the Apostle 2 Cor. 13.11 14. Finally Brethren farewell be perfect be of one mind live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with bless preserve and guide you from this time forth for evermore Amen FINIS Books Printed for FINCHAM GARDINER A Continuation and Vindication of the Defence of Dr. Stilfleets Unreasonableness of Separation in Answer to Mr. Baxter and Mr. Lob c. An Answer to the Dissenters Objections against the Common Prayers and some other Parts of Divine Service Prescribed in the Liturgie of the Church of England The Case of Kneeling at the holy Sacrament Stated and Resolved Wherein these Queries are considered 1. Whether Kneeling at the Sacrament be contrary to any express Command of Christ obliging to the observance of a different Gesture 2. Whether Kneeling be not a Deviation from that Example which our Lord set us at the first Institution 3. Whether Kneeling be not unsuitable and Repugnant to the Nature of the Lord's Supper as being no Table Gesture The first Part. Considerations of present use considering the Danger Resulting from the Change of our Church-Government 1. A Perswasive to Communion with the Church of England 2. A Resolution of some Cases of Conscience which Respect Church-Communion 3. The Case of indifferent things used in the Worship of God Proposed and Stated by considering these Questions c. 4. A Discourse about Edification 5. The Resolution of this Case of Conscience Whether the Church of England ' s Symbolizing so far as it doth with the Church of Rome makes it unlawful to hold Communion with the Church of England 6. A Letter to Anonymus in Answer to his Three Letters to Dr. Sherlock about Church-Communion 7. Certain Cases of Conscience resolved concerning the Lawfulness of Joyning with Forms of Prayer in Publick Worship The first Part. 8. The Case of Mixt Communion Whether it be lawful to Separate from a Church upon the account of promiscuous Congregations and Mixt Communions