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A34020	Gospel order revived being an answer to a book lately set forth by ... Increase Mather ... entituled, The order of the gospel, &c ... / by sundry ministers of the gospel in New England.	Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.; Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1672-1717.; Woodbridge, Timothy, 1656-1732.; Bradstreet, Simon, 1671-1741.	1700 (1700)	Wing C5399; ESTC W13238	38,537	52

Congregational Brother the Answer satisfies a Presbyterian It seems also that the Adversaries of this Gospel Order multiply a pace for in pag. 22. They are meerly a few gentlemen at Boston and New-York But by that time you come to pag 30. our Brethren of Connecticut exceed all the rest of New-England in proclaiming their Indisposition to it And by the following Exclamation O Tim●● and Manners ●t seems that Cicero must be called from the Grave to i●●●●gh against these Raw-Yo●●●s th●se licentious Ca●al●es We can't pass over pag. 61. without a Remark The Apostacy of our Young Men say our Authors is great before the Lord. The Apostacy it seem respects the Examination and Qualifications of Comm●●●●●nts at the Lords Table which is suggested to be in d●●●ying the Necessity of mens coming to the holy Table with Repentance Fait and Love God forbid we should so accuse or not vindicate our Brethren This is to a●ledg a Crime abhorred by the Generation 〈◊〉 Well but they zealously disperse unhappy Pamphlets If the Doctrine of Instituted Churches ●● referred to that is but one and what other the Reverend Authors mean we cannot guess and that Tr●ati●● in most parts is a Mine of Gold and a rich Treasury of right Thoughts The next Surmize is a meer Defamation That Go●ge Roberts Dolittles Books must be h●●s'd back to Europe again A pre●●● device to praise the Gentlemen beyond Sea and at the same time condemn those here that conform to their constant Practice Had the Attestation in pag 63 been only to recommend the following Treatise of the excellent Mr. Quick's to our perusal and Practice no Minister in New England that c●●●s himself a Presbyterian but would chearfully subscribe it but we believe few would confederate in its Reflections on the Reverend Mr. S●●ddard or favour that worse Report That under the Vmbrage of the Name of Presbyterians some would bring in Innovations ruinous to our Churches and contrary to the Doctrine and Spirit of Mr. Quick'● Book And to add one Guess h●re It s twenty to one if any one of the Attestators knew what a soft Answer was to be prefixed to their Attestation For this would not be the first time that men have subscribed a Paper which had they known would have been placed to such advantage as to the less discerning R●ad●● to seem an Attestation to the whole Book they would have refused their Names with Indignation What remains is to Recommend that Treatise The Young Man's Claim to the Sacrament to the serious and diligent perusal of our Youth A Performance for its kind very perfect and highly profitable But the Reverend Author and his Treatise are both abused in this impression Mr. Quick is here betrayed in a specious show of Reverence and Friendship while his Name is used to Combate those very men and their Principles which he most values and honours And were Mr. Quick here among us and should continue what is his stated Practice in the Worship of God he would be decryed among the Presbyterian Formalists in pag 9. as much as he is now magnified for a Reformer For our parts we do sincerely believe him to be our Exemplary Reformer and wi●h our Reverend Authors would credit their Character of him and follow his Example for he is conscientious to have the Scriptures reed ●very Sabbath in the publick Worship of God together with 〈◊〉 Ten Commandments and he as often uses the Lords Prayer Nay 〈…〉 few years since this Reverend and holy Person took leave of a reverend Minister returning to us in words to this effect Sir 〈◊〉 our Reverend Brethren in New-England that they must come over to the Presbyteri●● Government if they would perserve their Churches And would it not now provoke a just Indignation to see People so deluded and a Gentlemans Name so dear and venerable as it is with us advanced against his own Principles And will it not turn unto us for a Testimony to use the Authors words pag 5●● not only that we have endeavoured to vindicate the Truth but also to do 〈◊〉 Quick justice FINIS

dishonour upon them or call them fools This Charge falls heavy on those who are for imposing their will on others We crave no more but to enjoy the Institutions of Christ unmix't And it appears very strange that those who fl●d from an Act of Uniformity should presently impose on themselves on their Neighbours and entail the Mischief on their Posterity Some indeed would make the design of our first Planters to consist in some little Rites Modes or Circumstances of Church Discipline and those such as the Word of God no where requires These are the men who dishonour their Country and their Fathers Memory by making their great design to lie in so small matters And it is notorious there has been no agreement in these points from the beginning It s known there was Anti-Synodatia printed and who had a hand in it and how modest his Dissent was and in what terms they contradicted what the Synod had established tho' the like is criminal and insufferable in any other These Principles in Church Discipline are also wrote against in English by the Assembly of Divines by Mr. C●●dry Mr. Ratherford Mr. Ba●ly c. In a word if it be the Truth according to Gods Word we stand for it would not be grievous to any of our pious Ancestors were they now on Earth neither will it be grievous to them now in Heaven nor should it be grievous to any good Man to receive Conviction We refer all therefore to the Word of God to the Law and to the Testimony In the Preface or Epistle to said Book we find several things that might be justly excepted against but designing neither to be contentious nor volumnious we shall speak but to one or two In pag. 8. the Reverend Author is pleased to number up seven or eight erronious Doctrines as he apprehends them to be the consequence from all is this that if we espouse these Principles we give away the whole Congregational Cause at once Whence we perceive now the professed cause which the Author engages in tho' we hope it is not the Name or the Party but the Truths they delend We shall have occasion to examine these Principles hereafter it may su●ti●e here to say they are craftily unfairly worded in the Dress they are here clad we do not espouse them yet according to their most fair genuine construction there is a great deal of Truth in most of them And this is but a block the Author politickly casts in the way which at last we fear may but discourage some from embracing the Congregational way seeing it must needs fight for its life against some Truths It s hard kicking against the pricks Acts 9. 5. Another thing Remarkable in the Preface is the Authors heat and 〈◊〉 pag 9. Shall we then by Silence betray the Truth shall we re●ort therefore we are bold to speak too Who is on the Lord side Who shall we answer we are we trust through Gods Grace together with you and all other siding 〈◊〉 would have in contempt Is there no one that will stand up for the Churches of Christ God orbid but we should had others declined it The good People in them then may well think their Watch-men are all either dead or a sleep or if they talk light and heady they may conclude them in a trance or not quite awaked 〈◊〉 which cause it is that I dedicate this ensuing Dissertation And for the same cause we address you in the following answer It is not my cause but yours Nor is it ours but the Churches and every good Christians in common Did I say yours nay it is Christ cause We list under the same Banners and would to God we were all as really as we would seem to be divested wholly of carnal self ........ for truly our present Defence is become the peculiar concern of these Churches But why all this heat we would not interpret too hard but these Expressions seem plainly to carry this sense That every one who obeys not the late published Orders is an opposer of Truth not on the Lord side Enemies to the cause of Christ and the Churches of New-England Whereupon the Reverend Author roules himself and sounds an Alarm to the Churches To put down all such If this be not involv'd in it we would beg his Pardon and be informed better But truly Sir it is a mistaken Zeal ●dly lavish'd away and not kindled from above ●or we know no such conspiracy against the Truths of our Lord Jesus Christ or against the good of the Churches in New-England altho' we are not proselyted to some of your particular Opinions It appears to us that the Reverend Authors infirmity in this matter is the same with the Apostle Johns Mark 9. 38. Master we saw one casting out Devils in thy Name and he followeth not us and we forbad him because he followed not us Which too forward zeal ou● Lord checks and reconciles the matter Vers 39 40. And ●esus answered forbid him not he that is not against ●● is on our part But in this case as in many others we ●ould instance in if need were the Reverend Author tho' very zealous for a time yet is not very steady constant for before he ends his Book he comes about again in pag 139. where he proposeth his Brothers Essay for Union wherein he shows how inconsiderable the Differences are between those of the Presbyterian and Congregational judgment that they need not set Truth to purchase Peace And yet by the cry just now you would have thought all the Truths of Christ trampeled under foot the Cause of Religion deserted and and a formidable War commenced by the Presbyterians against the order of the Gospel It is observable that the Reverend Author in the Dissertation of the following Questions makes use of abundance of Quotations from several famous Persons in their Generations but in some the sence is perverted to a wrong end beside the obvious intention of the Writers in some he brings them in contradicting at one time what they said at another and sets some in opposition to others And where he endeavours to confirm his Tenets by the Testimony of some he might if he had pleased have brought many others to contradict the same thing But this is a good way to amuse the Reader and to cloud his mind and to terrifie him by mustering a legion of 〈…〉 artifica● Arguments We shall be sparing in Quotations and pass by many cited by the Author tho' we approve them not Only we crave leave to present one Quotation which may be of use to us all along being we are unwilling to be imposed on to believe what God never spoke or to do what God never requir'd It is that of the Reverend Mr. Willa●a in his fore-quoted Sermon pag. 23. 24. Hence it follows that there ●s nothing to be received by us on this account but what has Gods Seal affixed to it It s therefore