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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11615	Calderwoods recantation: or, A tripartite discourse Directed to such of the ministerie, and others in Scotland, that refuse conformitie to the ordinances of the church. Wherein the causes and bad effects of such separation, the legall proceedings against the refractarie, and nullitie of their cause, are softly launced, and they louingly inuited to the vniformitie of the church.	Scot, Patrick.	1622 (1622)	STC 21857; ESTC S103208	18,004	58

CALDER WOODS RECANTATION OR A Tripartite Discourse DIRECTED TO SVCH OF the Ministerie and others in Scotland that refuse Conformitie to the Ordinances of the Church Wherein the Causes and bad Effects of such Separation the Legall Proceedings against the Refractarie and Nullitie of their Cause are softly launced and they louingly inuited to the vniformitie of the CHVRCH Epist Iam. cap. 3. Vbi Zelus Contentio ibi Inconstantia omne opus pranum LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop dwelling in Distaffe Lane at the Signe of the Dolphin 1622. TO THE IMPARTIALL READER I Am not ignorant impartiall Reader that to perswade or contend for Redresse without Authority little preuailes and oft times exposeth such Motions to Contempt or Malice yet the loue I owe to the Peace of the Church enforceth me to sollicite Conformitie in a matter of great consequence If any challenge my insufficiencie or interest let them know that I much more estimate the weake endeuours of good meaning then the more learned shewes of Pharisaical Ostentation That I am as well lyable to giue account of my Talent as the Arch Pillars of most profound Learning and that armed with these Reasons I care not what the most Censorious Criticke or Thraso-like Braggadochio can degorge against me One fauor I craue That thou wilt not curiously enquire what I haue beene or pry into my former Errors for which I humbly begge pardon from the Mercy-Master in Heauen and from his Vice-gerent my dread Soueraigne vpon Earth but consider with iudgement what now I am and how affected to the Truth I haue in this ensuing home-spun Discourse freely expressed my selfe touching the Controuersies which haue long troubled the Church of Scotland In it I neyther wrong the dead cast contempt vpon the liuing neyther leuell I at any mans person further then in the inquirie of Truth may conduce to the aduancement thereof and publike good In this pursuit I haue left all extrauagant Wanders and balk'd all circulating Complements too common both to Wits and Writs in this Age and haue runne poste in the high way wherein if I haue stumbled I expect lesse harme or more pitty What I haue written is without Art or Insinuation perhaps it may proue the lesse gracefull yet I hope it shall finde correspondence in the mindes of those that are not imbarked in partialitie and loues the whole better then a part Farewell Amsterdam this 29. of Nouemb. 1622. CALDER WOODS RECANTATION Or A TRIPARTITE DISCOVRSE IT is fore-told of Christ That in the latter dayes it should be said Loe there loe here is Christ which by the Learned is vnderstood not as if the Person of Christ should be assumed and counterfeited but his Authoritie and Preheminence which is to be Truth it selfe that is to bee challenged Ecce in deserto ecce in penetralibus Some haue sought the Truth in the Conuenticles and Conciliables of Heretikes and Sectaries some in the externall forme and representation of the Church some one way some another but the true Badge of the Church and finding of Christ is in Vnity Peace and Brotherly Loue. Whosoeuer then by contentious controuersies in matters indifferent vnswaddle the Church of her Bonds of Peace are in the right way of diuiding the Vnitie of Spirit to open a Gap to all disorder and scandall that thereby the weake may be brought to an incertaintie of Religion the peruerse reiect it or that the Enemies of the Church may make Musicke by their disorder For this cause I am in good hope that whatsoeuer shall bee spoken sincerely and modestly for appeasing the Relikes of such controuersies as disturbe our Church of Great Britaine but more specially of Scotland will be taken in good part and be displeasant to none If any bee offended at this voyce Vos estis fratres you are Brethren why striue you Hee shall giue a great presumption against himselfe that hee is the party that doth his Brother wrong I will not enter into the controuersies themselues they are so fore-stalled and determined by many more Learned Pennes that whatsoeuer I might say might seeme borrowed or of lesse weight All men know and confesse they are none of the high Mysteries of Faith which detayned the Church many yeeres after her first Peace neyther doe they concerne that great part of the worship of God of which it is true Non seruatur vnitas in credendo nisi eadem sit in colendo but wee contend about Ceremonies Policie and things indifferent Let the offending side aggrauate their Grieuances as they please yet are they but Ceremonies for which they haue so long contended and wherein no Holinesse is put other then Order Decencie Conueniencie neyther are these Ceremonies so much stood vpon as due obedience to Superior Powers If God tryed Adam with an Apple it is enough the sinne is not valued but the prohibition Shimei was slaine for going out of the Citie the Act was little but the Bond was great I will then first take a sincere view and consideration of the accidents and circumstances of Church-controuersies at least such as concerne our selues to looke vnto amongst which I finde that the imperfections in the conuersation of those who had the chiefe place in the Church and their mis-gouernment hath euer beene the prime cause of Schismes and Diuisions For whilest the Gouernours of the Church continue full of Knowledge and Good Workes according to their Dignitie and the precious care of Soules imposed vpon them so long the Church is situated as it were vpon a Hill no man maketh question of it or seeketh to depart from it But when these Fathers and Leaders lose their Light and that they waxe worldly louers of themselues or pleasers of men then doe men begin to grope for the Church as in the darke they are in doubt whether they be the Successors of the Apostles or Pharisies Howsoeuer they sit in Moses Chayre yet they neuer speake tanquam authoritatem habentes because they haue lost their reputation in the Consciences of men by declining their steppes from the way they trace out to others so that nolite exire had neede continually to bee beaten in the eares of men so ready are they euery way to depart from the Church For it is the pollicy of the spirituall Enemy eyther by counterfeit holinesse of Life to establish and authorize Error or by the corruption of Manners draw in question Truth and lawfull things This concerneth certainely the Bishops to looke vnto to whom I am witnesse vnto my selfe that I stand affected as I ought No contradiction hath supplanted in me the reuerence I owe to their Calling neyther hath any detraction or calumnie imbeaseled my opinion of their Persons I know some of them who are most pierced with these accusations to bee men of great vertue and for the rest I can condemne none I know it is truely sayd of Fame Pariter facta atque non facta canit their taxations come not all from one