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B10107 A peaceable and friendly address to the non-conformists: written upon their desiring an act of toleration without the sacramental test. Synge, Edward, 1659-1741. 1697 (1697) Wing S6381; ESTC R184783 9,369 16

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A Peaceable and Friendly ADDRESS TO THE Non-Conformists Written upon their desiring An Act of TOLERATION Without The Sacramental Test DUBLIN Printed at the Post-Office-Coffee-House in Fish-Shamble-Street for John Foster Bookseller at the Sign of the Dolphin in Skinner-Row 1697. Imprimatur Hoc Scriptum cui Titulus A Peaceable and Friendly Address to the Non-Conformists c. July 19. 1697. Narcissus Dublin To His Grace the Lord Primate of IRELAND My Lord THe hope which I have of doing some good or at least the confidence that I shall do no hurt in Publishing this small Piece has induced me to expose both it and my self to the censure of the world And altho there may be nothing else in it which may recommend it to your Grace yet I assure my self You will approve of that temper and calmness which I have endeavoured with all care to preserve in every period of it For as bitterness or sharpness of style is contrary to Charity no less than mirth and drollery in matters of Religion are to the seriousness of Christianity so have I ever observed that such a satyrical way of writing is much more effectual to raise the Passion than to convince the Judgment of an Adversary For which reason I have been studiously careful to avoid all expressions which might exasperate or give offence to our Non-conforming Brethren and shall with God's Blessing continue the same care if ever there be an occasion for me any further to defend what I have here written And upon this occasion I beseech your Grace to give me leave to remember to the World how Eminent an Example of Temper and Moderation You have constantly shewn Your self as to all others and at all times so particularly to those to whom I now am about to Address my self No man could be more true and firm to the Established Church and at the same time more mild and gentle to those who dissent from her than Your Grace has always been Of which Your unbyassed Steadiness through all changes and vicissitudes together with the great lenity even in those times when it was most in your Grace's power to have used severity towards them is a demonstration beyond all exception Nor can I omit to take notice of the admirable good effect which your moderate way of Dealing with such persons has had upon divers of the Non-conforming Ministers who were in these parts at the time when your Grace formerly sate in the Chair of this Diocess several of whom as I have been informed being not only convinced by the Arguments but even won by your Obliging and Christian temper did freely and readily yield to receive Ordination at your Grace's hands according to the form prescribed by our Church and continued ever after to conform to the worship and discipline of it Nor have I any thing else to excuse my presumption in this Dedication but only the hope that your Grace will be ready according to your accustomed Candour to approve of and encourage every man tho in the meanest station who endeavors according to his capacity to follow any part of that excellent pattern which Your Grace for so many years has set to the World That Your Grace may enjoy all the Happiness of this Life until such time as You shall exchange it for a Crown of Eternal Glory Is the most earnest and hearty Prayers of Cork July 15. 1697. Your Grace's Most Obedient Chaplain And most Obliged Humble Servant EDW. SYNGE An Advertisement to the Reader THe following Address was Written in the year 1695 upon occasion of some Papers which a little before had past between the Establish'd Church and Protestant Dissenting Party in Reference to a Bill of Indulgence then under consideration in or ready as was suppos'd to be brought into the House of Commons Which Controversy having been for some time silenced by the frequent Adjournment of both Houses of Parliament it was thought unseasonable to Publish any thing in that Interval which might relate to it But because it is not improbable but that our Dissenting Brethren will now the Parliament meets again endeavour to gain the same Point which before they aim'd at it is hoped that those Papers may at least be as seasonable now as they would have been had they been Publish'd at the time when they were Written A Peaceable and Friendly Address To the Non-Conformists Written upon their Desiring An Act of Toleration without the Sacramental Test SInce it is the Duty of every Christian to promote the Peace and Unity of the Church and heartily to endeavour that there may be no Divisions amongst us but that we may be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment 1 Cor. 1.10 In one spirit and with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel Phil. 1.27 And since when one party of Christians separate from another it must either be for a just cause or without a just cause it will follow that where-ever there is Schism in any Church and one Congregation set up in opposition to another and refusing to join in Communion with the other there must of necessity be a sin either on the one side or the other either in them who give the others a just ground of separation or in them who separate without a just ground That there is a separation between you and us and thereby a Schism made in our National Church is too apparent but where the sin of this Division lies whether upon u● for giving you a just cause of dividing or upon you for separating from us without any such cause this is what on both sides we ought to enquire after and to reform it where ever we find it And in order to the making of this discovery I do as I trust in the fear of God and in a true spirit of Meekness and Charity beseech you all calmly and seriously to weigh and consider these following things which I offer unto you First Is there any of those things which are necessary to the salvation of a Christian wanting in the Communion of our Church Do we not profess and teach the true Christian Faith in all its fundamental Articles And if some of our Divines do perhaps differ from yours in the determination or rather the manner of expressing of some Theological Points will any one venture to say that the explicit belief of such Doctrines in difference is absolutely necessary unto Salvation Do we not require all men to lead vertuous and holy lives And is any part of Christ's Institution omitted by us in the Administration either of Baptism or the Lord's Supper Or what is there more required by God in order to any man's Salvation than a true Faith an holy Life to be admitted into the Church by Baptism and to own our Communion with it by the frequent participation of the Lord's Supper In short if we are deficient in any thing which is necessary to Salvation let us know what it