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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12700	A brotherly persvvasion to vnitie, and vniformitie in iudgement, and practise touching the receiued, and present ecclesiasticall gouernment, and the authorised rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. VVritten by Thomas Sparke Doctor in Diuinitie. And seene, allowed, and commended by publike authoritie to be printed	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1607 (1607)	STC 23019.5; ESTC S102433	84,881	104

A BROTHERLY PERSWASION TO VNITIE AND VNIFORMITIE IN IVDGEMENT AND PRACTISE TOVCHING THE RECEIVED and present Ecclesiasticall gouernment and the authorised rites and ceremonies of the Church of England VVritten by Thomas Sparke Doctor in Diuinitie And seene allowed and commanded by publike authoritie to be printed ROM 12.18 If it be possible as much as in you is haue peace with all men COR. 11.16 If any lust to be contentious we haue no such customs nor the Churches of God LABORE ET CONSTANTIA LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet-street neere to the great Conduit 1607. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF GREAT BRITAINE France and Ireland King and ouer all persons and in all causes as well Ecclesiasticall as ciuill in these his dominions next and immediatly vnder God Supreme Gouernor and defender of the ancient Catholike and Apostolike Faith HIgh and mightie Monarch and my most dread gratious Soueraigne being one of them that by your most Honorable Councels letters in your Maiesties name were called to be before your highnes at the conference at Hampton Court and receiuing there such satisfaction as I did by your excellent Maiesties owne most readie and apt answers to the doubts and obiections there and then proposed as I could not but then greatly reioyce in my heart and praise and magnifie the Lord for the same so euer since though to the better satisfying of all others I haue not onely in my practise accordingly yealded vniuersall conformitie but priuately by word and writing also haue laboured to perswade all whom I haue met with to do likewise yet seeing and obseruing so many stil to refuse I could not but think it my bounden dutie to God and his Church first then to your highnesse by writing some short Treatise to doe the best that I could to further your most gracious christian purpose resolution determination in the said confereÌ„ce which was as I conceiued it by your most princely moderation resolution first of al in our home controuersies amongst our selues about our Churches Liturgie or Hierarchie so to knit vs all together in vnitie verity as that al our forces hereafter might more strongly be bent employed against our common aduersaries so the better also after to draw them to conformity with vs in the exercises and profession of our true and pure religion And therfore now wel nigh two yeares ago hauing writ this Treatise and finding that the priuat vse therof though it hath done good with som yet to that purpose could reach but to a few it hauing in this time comd bene in the view of some of the most reuerend Bish so hauing also got allowaÌ„ce by authority to be printed hereupon hauing bene by theÌ„ and many others which haue sene read the same much vrged to publish it I am bound thus to dedicate it to your Maiesty so to offer it to the sight of all who shal be pleased to read it And the rather I thought iustly I might so do for that the ground of most of that I haue said therin to the satisfying of my brethren arises froÌ„ the speeches answers determinations that your highnes self gaue in the forsaid coÌ„ference But indeed I must needs confesse I durst not yet thus far haue aduentured but vpon comfortable remeÌ„braÌ„ce of your Mai. vouchsafing the next morning after the said coÌ„ference to send for me theÌ„ to giue me that most gratious couÌ„tenaÌ„ce most princely kind words that you theÌ„ did in coÌ„sideration of a book that your highnes vnderstood I had writteÌ„ bin in some trouble for in her Ma. time that last was touching succession Pardon me therfore most gracious soueraign if to testify in some measure my loyalty and thankefulnes for the same I venture now againe into your highnesse presence with so small a present as this For you being pleased to accept the same to giue it passage thus vnder your most roial patronage and protectioÌ„ to the end aforesaid vndoubtedly it wil may much the sooner get liking and entertainment withall so also giue the better satisfaction and contentment to all them whersoeuer it finds the same Thus therefore once againe most humbly crauing pardon for this my great boldnes hoping of your Maiesties fauorable acceptance hereof most instantly vpon the knees of my soule begging of the almighty that your Highnes your most royall issue may most happily prosperously reign rule ouer vs while the Sun Moon endure to his most gracious protection I commend your Maiestie now and euer From Bletchley in Buckinghamshire 1607. Your Maiesties faithfull and humble subiect Thomas Sparke The Epistle to the Christian Reader I Am not ignorant welbeloued in the Lord that I haue and doe vndergoe already the hard censure of many for conforming my selfe as I haue to the orders of our Church and that I am like to endure harder for the writing and publishing of this Treatise following to perswade others so to doe likewise And all this the rather for that eyther through ignorance what my iudgement in former times hath beene of these matters now in question or misconstruction of some of my former actions many as it seemeth haue conceiued that heretofore I haue not beene the same man that now in this my dealing I manifest my selfe to be To satisfie therefore all men if it may be in this respect first they are to vnderstand that though there be now vpon occasion of the manner of this new vrging the rites and ordinances of our Church as they are some difference in outward shew betwixt my former courses and this which I now take that yet that prooues not circumstances duely considered any alteration of my minde or iudgement at all touching these things For I alwaies before as occasion serued me both in Pulpit and otherwise in priuate conference with many manifested my selfe to be of that opinion that I alwaies thought they were rather to be yealded vnto being but of the nature they are and being vrged no otherwise then in deed and truth they be by our Church then that any minister should for his refusing conformity therunto suffer himself to be put from the vse of his gifts place and ministery for such a necessity is laid vpon vs that be in the ministery I alwaies knew and remembred to preach the Gospell that woe is to vs if we do not so 1 Cor. 9.16 And with Archippus I euer vnderstood that Paule had said to euery one of vs take heed to thy ministery that thou hast receiued in the Lord that thou fulfill it Coll. 4.17 And therfore I could neuer think and so my vsuall saying hath been alwaies to my friends and felow ministers talking with me of these things that at the last day it would or could be taken

9. Of the order and practise of the book in reading the scriptures Canonicall Chap. 10. Touching the reading as the booke appointes of the Apocrypha Chap. 11. Concerning the interrogatories in Baptisme Chap. 12. Answers touching diuers other obiectioÌ„s against the booke Chap. 13. Touching subscription and certaine obiections against the same Chap. 14. Answers to more obiections made against the same Chap. 15. Answers to certaine obiections against the booke of ordination Chap. 16. The conclusion and an exhortation to vnitie A PERSVVASION TO VNIFORMITIE VNto his Christian brethren The Preamble Chap. 1. THough I must needs confesse well beloued that none that with any diligence haue read the Ecclesiasticall stories and the monuments of the ancient councels and fathers but that therein they must needs see and find that alwayes there haue bene diuersities of opinions in causes Ecclesiasticall euen in the best times sinse the Apostles and that amongst the best and most famous Christians otherwise especially about the outward orders and customes of the Church yet no small griefe hath it bene vnto me to see and behold now for these 34. yeares that I haue bene in the ministerie the originall growth and continuance of these our domesticall controuersies amongst our selues about the outward policie and rites of our Church For whiles men haue spent their times and zeale in the pursuit thereof as of both sides they haue very much so much time leasure and oportunitie hath Sathan got to sow and water his tares of Atheisme Papisme and of sects and schismes amongst vs. Insomuch that the sight and consideration therereof hath often made me to thinke and say as occasion hath serued me to men of both sides as Moses did to the Israelits Exod. 2. Why smitest thou thy fellow being thy brother and as Paul sayd to the Galathians Gal. 5. If ye thus bite one another take heed yee be not consumed one of another For alwayes it hath bene and still is my opinion in such cases Conferant fratres sed non contendant for doubtlesse in such matters as these especially S. Paul hath told vs if any list to be conteÌ„tious that we haue no such custome nor the Church of God 1. Cor. 11.16 Foreseeing yet what further inconuenience might grow of these controuersies in the end if it were not in time preuented I haue long and much wished and prayed that God would raise vs some one that both for authoritie skill and will were fit to be a moderator therein and so an effectuall composer thereof Wherein his name be blessed for it at the last he hath graunted that my desire in sending vs him to be our soueraigne Lord and king whom he hath who accordingly vpon his first entrance into this his kingdome most religiously and christianly hath sought by a solemn conference to end and determine the same by letting both parties therein see wherein they had gone too farre what was the Medium in which they were both to meete and agree Wherein his Maiestie so caried himself that verily I thinke I may boldly speake it in the name of all that were then present thereat that neuer any of his place before in such varietie of questions and matters shewed himselfe more worthie of admiration and applause of all either for his indifferency in deciding or for his iudicious kind of examining of euerie thing that then came in question Insomuch that without all doubt if once whatsoeuer then and there his Maiestie resolued of might take effect and accordingly be put in execution witnesse but the report of the sayd conference alreadie with allowance published in print great hope there would be that the vnitie that thereby his Highnesse aimed at would quickly be attained and happily continued For euen thereby it appeares that an vniuersall learned and preaching Ministery through his dominions and that also by all good meanes prouision should be made for the same as soone as might be was then yeelded to be fit and verie necessarie Pag. 52. 96. The carelesnesse and negligence of sundrie ministers in this Church also was therein by his Maiestie inueyed against and condemned Pag. 52. And that stricter order should be taken for the due sanctifying of the Sabaoth was then vniuersally approued Pag. 45. Likewise how and by whom hereafter the censures of the Church might be euerie way and in all Ecclesiasticall courts most fruitfully and sincerly administred then and there was so resolued of as that if accordingly there be proceeding therein we shall all therefore haue great cause to reioyce Pag. 19. 78. 89. 94. And for the better maintenance of the puritie of religion amongsts vs then and there by his Highnesse order was taken which since most carefully and religiously his Maiestie hath caused to be gone about that as pure and perfect a translation should be made of all the scriptures as may be that then that onely both to the ending of all quarrels touching translations as much as possible might be both amongst our selues and also with our aduersaries should after be publiquely vsed in our Churches Page 46. Then also it was to the same end agreed that our Catechisme should be perfected Page 43. which since thereupon as we see hath beene enlarged amended Thirdly to that end likewise it was yeelded vnto that there should bee a straiter restraint for the selling of Papists bookes then before had beene Page 49. And lastly then also it was graunted that the words in the sixteenth Article of the booke of articles touching falling from grace of regeneration should be explayned by addition of some such words as wherby plainly it might appeare that it taught not that the regenerate and iustified either totally or finally fall at any time from the same Page 30. 41. Further concerning the communion booke to make the vse and subscription thereunto the easier to be yeelded vnto it was by his Maiestie with the assent of the Bishops concluded that to the title of absolutioÌ„ shold be added for the better explanation of the meaning thereof these words or remission of sins Page 13. And that to the title of confirmation should be annexed these laying on of hands vpon children baptised and able to render an accompt of their faith according to the Catechisme following Page 36. And that the Rubricks touching priuate babtisme should be so altered as that thereby it might be euident that the booke in no case of necessity allowes any but a lawfull minister to baptise any childe Page 19. 86. And that those words his disciples shold twice be left out in the Gospells Page 63. al which we see in our new communion bookes don And then also certainly as it is plainly set downe Page 61 of the said booke of the coÌ„fereÌ„ce his Maiesties order was that none of the Apocrypha should bee read at all wherein there was any error and therefore his highnes willed D Reynolds to note those chapters in the Apocrypha bookes wherein such errors were and to

beene counted a glorious thing to yeeld vnto the truth thogh men haue oppugned it neuer so long before And what should any man so stand vpon his owne priuate credit as in comparison thereof to forget the maintenance of the credit of so gratious and christian a King and the publike credit of so famous an estate of a Church as this of ours is that vrg vs hereunto we deceiue our selues if we think we offend men straight in the sense that it is forbid when they are angry at that we doe therfore prate talke their pleasures of vs but theÌ„ only we so offend Gods children others indeed when we do or say any thing wherby iustly in truth we occasion theÌ„ either to fall into an error or into any sin neither of which we do in this case in obeying for the good of theÌ„ Gods church the lawful ordinaÌ„ces of the same 3 O that euery one would as forcibly bend his wits to take a suruey aswell of the inconueniences of their refusall hereof as it seemes they haue done of the contrarie For then quickly they would and should find in my opinion that the inconueniences this way are farre the greater For doubtlesse whiles they pretend conscience as they do for their so doing and stand vpon so many reasons for that their refusall as though the things whereunto they are vrged were in so many respects contrarie to Gods word do they not thereby as farre as the credit of their persons and those their reasons stretch discredit both his Highnesse and all the state of this Church that ioyne with him in the vrging hereof as vrgers of so many things against the word of God to the weakning of them ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ consequently so much in their reducing to conformitie of religion and the open practise thereof with vs both Papist and Brownist for so many reasons they haue by this meanes put into their heads and hands why they should hold out as Recusants still And though I must needs confesse their cause be Ã¬nfinitly worse then this of these men yet by this their example doubtlesse they take the more encouragement to plead their blind and fond conscience for the iustifying of their said stubbornnes and peuishnesse and also to thinke that they may be yet aswell borne withall in their disobedience in greater matters which as they thinke more deeply concerne their saluation or damnation as thâ—s in these things of lesser momeÌ„t And say they in words neuer so much that they yeeld his Maiestie his iust and full title of supremacie in all causes and uer all persons as well Ecclesiasticall as Ciuill yet as long as they refuse as they do in things of this kind to yeeld him obedience hardly can they perswade his Highnesse saith the libeller T. W. in his late augmented and printed libell against vs that in earnest they doe meane so indeed For in matters that God hath expresly or by good consequent from his word commanded first himselfe say they they would and should obey though hee sayd nothing and if hee should commaund contrarie to that his word then answer would and might be made that they were rather to obey God then him and therfore in such matters as this which are neither commanded nor forbid by him are they to shew they yeeld it or wherein else can they And by perseuering in this refusall and so occasioning thereby the sentence of their ordinarie to passe against them to their depriuation alas to what inconueniences besides the weakning of our selues and our whole cause do they expose themselues their wiues and children and their flockes whereunto they are so strictly bound as they are by so many bonds naturall ciuill and Ecclesiastical Surely surely deare brethren in this yron and hard world men had neede be sure that they suffer for an apparent righteous cause indeede to beare them out cheerefully to endure the manifolde vnkindnesses thereof O what a griefe can it not chuse but be for many to see as it is much to be feared it will come to passe by one meanes or other vpon this occasion they leauing their places that such shall creepe into their roomes as not onely shall want the skill and will that they had to doe good in their flocks but also that shall euen in their sightes if not pull downe themselues yet suffer by the common aduersary that to be ruinated that they with great labour before had built But put case Law should not be executed so seuerely yet who seeth not whiles men openly by their refusall of this conformitie lay themselues open to the danger therof that thereby they so weaken themselues in their places that they shall no sooner go about to bridle by other lawes any lewd persons in their charge but that therby they shall prouoke them to vrge the execution of this law against them It may be the mouths of some Papists foolish protestants also will be opened against them that yeeld surely we se they will not be stopt against them that refuse Many will be offended at thy yeelding thou saist but more and they that are more worthy to be respected will be offended at thy refusall by thy yeelding thou strengthens thy self thy Prince the whole state so much by thy vnity with thy brethren that do against their common enemie and thine to all your reioycing by thy continuance in thy refusall thou weakens all these to the ioy of our common aduersaries 4 To conclude therefore this point the best aduise and councell further that I can giue is that as heretofore thou hast sought to gather all the reasons together thou couldest to induce thy selfe still refuse so much thy owne harme and perill and the Churches so thou wouldest henceforth study as seriously to satisfie the same and seeke out as carefully reasons to perswade thy selfe that with a good conscience thou both mayest and oughst to yeeld For this I must needs tell thee that thou but deceiuest thy selfe and seekest also to beguile others as long as thou pretendest that thou refusest only of weaknesse or tendernesse of conscience and yet wittingly and willingly thou holdest on the former course and doest not follow this aduice Forecast therefore in time as well what is or may be sayd to strengthen thy conscience in the lawfull vse of these things as euer thou hast what tendeth to hold it in weaknesse still and therfore not to dare to vse them and earnestly with thy selfe aswell forethink of the scruples and troubles that thou maist haue in thy conscience after that by thy standing to long in this refusall depriuation bee pronounced vppon thee for the inconueniences that many waies may grow thereby as euer thou hast thought of those that may come by thy yeelding least when it is too late thou then cry had I wist Christ yeelded of his right to pay tribute to the officers of heathen Caesar least he should offend them Math. 17.27 And so likewise

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