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A67882	The way to peace amongst all Protestants: being a letter of reconciliation sent by Bp. Ridley to Bp. Hooper, with some observations upon it. Licensed, July the 14. 1688.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.; Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.; Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1688 (1688)	Wing J847A; ESTC R3678	9,940	11

Protestant Religion whom perhaps formerly in their unhappy Differences he mistook to be Popishly affected or not far enough removed from Popery and too zealous for the raggs of Rome Then he writes Then he sends to him Then he consults him as an Oracle And I have often thought That it must needs produce the same effect in all the Sincere and Hearty Protestants amongst the Dissenters at this time when they see the Clergy of the Church of England of whom they have had jealous thoughts lest they were too much Popishly inclined now approving themselves the Defenders and Champions of the Protestant Cause Which they have Maintained with that clearness and strength that I doubt not but the downfall of Rome will hereafter be dated from the time of their writing Blessed be God must the Dissenters needs say That we are so happily Disappointed and that the Clergy are not the Men we took them to be but as Hearty Protestants as our selves And from this day forward we will own and love them as such The Priests and Jesuits and their Assistants have not indeed been wanting to revive and heighten the Dissenters old Jealousies in this kind by several late Pamphlets pretending a wonderful Agreement betwixt the Church of England and the Church of Rome And that New Popery as they are pleased to call it is as bad as the Old Or the Daughter as bad as the Mother But this is Transubstantiation-work and goes on but heavily for Men will not be outfaced out of their Senses And therefore they have almost dropt the Cry of Popery to set up a louder one of Persecution and to lay all the Miseries which the Nonconformists have suffered to our Charge But if any body take my Right Hand and therewith bruise and batter my Left is my Right Hand therefore become a Persecutor Is it not really Persecuted as well as the other And has it not a fellow feeling and a share of the Misery And suppose my Left Hand were so over-ruled and managed against the Right would it not be the same thing And would not the Design be the same to mischief and maim and disable both Hands And after all would it not be the Addition of a Scorn to this Misery to accuse or blame either of my Hands in this Case for hurting its fellow To conclude There is a Charm in the very naming of Hooper and Ridley to reconcile Nonconformists and Conformists together for their Differences were alike their Misunderstandings of one ●nother were alike And the Papists in Queen Maries time loved those two Protestants and used them just alike For they were both of them so long and miserably tormented in the Flames that they were forced to mingle with their Prayers to God these doleful outcries to the People For God's love good People let me have more Fire says Hooper For Christ's sake let the Fire come unto me says Ridley Our Enemies made no difference betwixt those that are for Ceremonies and those that are not And why should we Let us rather Bless God for the concurring Testimony which these Good Men though of different perswasions in By-matters have both given to the Protestant Religion and let us exceedingly value and prize the free Use of our Bibles which was the Purchase of theirs and of the other Martyrs Blood According to what Latimer said when he and Ridley were both of them at the Stake Be of good Comfort Master Ridley and play the Man We shall this day light such a Candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall Never be put out And we ought to Unite and hold close together that we may shield and cover this Light from the open mouths and impetuous blasts of those who seek to Extinguish it and to leave us and our Posterity in the old Egyptian Darkness 5. For this is the End and the very Use and Advantage we are to make of our Reconciliation and of our mutual love and Agreement as we see by the following words of this Blessed Martyr And because the World as I perceive Brother ceaseth not to play his pageant and busily conspireth against Christ our Saviour with all possible force and power Exalting high things against the knowledge of God Let us joyn Hands together in Christ and if we cannot Overthrow yet to our Power as much as in us lyeth let us shake those high Altitudes not with Carnal but with Spiritual weapons The World Conspires as Bishop Ridley's word is against Christ our Saviour Regulars and Seculars Jesuits and Dominicans Pope's-men Council-men and Blackloists and the rest of that Colluvies and Gallimawfrey of Sects of which the Church of Rome is made up do lay aside all the Differences of their several Factions and are Confederate against God's true Religion And though none of them are agreed in other things yet they are all for Extirpating the pestilent Northern Heresie and they all march steadily to the same end And shall not we all then Unite in our utmost endeavours to Support that true Faith which they call Heresie Shall we not be as ready to give one another the right hand of Fellowship and to joyn Hands together in Christ and for him when we see how Unanimou● They are in banding together against him This is the common Concern of us all For every Man has a Soul to be saved one as well as another Every Man has an equal share in the Bible Every Mans stake is the same and they have all a like Interest in their Religion And therefore all the Protestants of England ought to be as one Man in the Maintenance and Support of their Religion And every single Man in his several capacity and according to his power ought to be as zealous for it as if He alone were to support it And he should say to our Saviour and hold to that saying Though all men forsake thee yet will no● I. By this means under God we shall preserve our Religion and transmit it to our Posterity at a far cheaper rate than Ridley and Hooper and the rest of the Blessed Martyrs conveyed it down to us By this means we shall disengage our selves from all needless Disputes about Meats and Drinks and such like things in which the Kingdom of God does not consist and from those Skirmishings which have deteined us too much upon the Frontiers of Religion without cultivating and reaping the Fruits of th● Holy Land in that measure as we ought ●● have done By this means our private A●●● mosities and groundless Quarrels will cea●● when we all engage in the Lord 's Quar●●● as Bishop Ridley calls in it this Letter I● word by this means we shall be freed fro● Divisions and those unhappy Diversio●● which have been purposely given us to hi●●der us from exercising the power of God●●●ness both in reforming our own Liv●● and in putting a stop to that deluge of I●●piety which has been let into the Natio● in order to make way for Popery And t● shall have an opportunity to imploy o● United Endeavours in promoting the G●●spel to the high Honour of God and t● the Edifying of his Church and to the Sa●●vation of our Souls As for the Contents of the latter part 〈◊〉 this Letter they are of so nice and difficu●● Application that a Man may be soon thoug●● to say either too much or too little of the● for which reason I shall wholly forbear a●● leave them to the Reader as they are Th●● he may make his own Observations FINIS