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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93861	The second part of the apology of Socrates Christianus, or, A plain declaration of the authority by which he acts freely offered to the consideration of all serious, considerate, and unprejudiced Christians.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5439A; ESTC R42855	13,986	16

and 14 Car. 2. against it But there I continued the use of it between two and three Years and might undoubtedly have done so till this day if I had thought fit but that I did not considering how unworthily and shamefully it was neglected by the Clergy there being in the first Church we used no less than three in Priests Orders and not one of them ever came to join with us unless the Reader once or twice at the most and there after their Preaching and Printing for frequent Communion they not only after some time put a stop to our daily Communion but reduced their own from weekly to monthly In the next Church we had we never had any of the Clergy but once two who came upon a special Occasion and then again after some time upon some little Temporal Consideration we had Warning given to remove within a time limited In the third place indeed the Dr. liv'd at a great distance but he was always kind to us but then it became more known we had Communicants who came frequently from all Parts and for some time seldom so few as thirty daily and on the Lord's Day and other Holy-days a considerable Number but not above three or four times any of the Clergy but on the contrary upon Holy-days another Communion was set up at Bow he Arch-bishops peculiar in opposition as I supposed to it and others falling off till we were not ordinarily above twenty I began to think we had done our Business and finished our Testimony and considering this Neglect I wish'd for a Discharge from that Publick Place fearing it might be but exposing of such Holy things if continued much longer yet did not think fit to leave that Station without either some Prohibition to proceed or such Invitation to some other as might satisfy me to do it and such an one we had soon after and a very considerable one indeed but the only Effect of it was first a Satisfactory Discharge from that Publick Service and next a Review of the Reformation for which I had a Commodious Retirement and other Considerable Advantages and Motives sufficient before I left the City And of the Observations I made upon that Review in Relation both to Church and State I gave some Account to such as I thought most proper And here again we had another Admirable Evidence of that Wise and Gracious Providence by which this Work had been ordered all along For we had certainly been involved in much Trouble and Difficulties had not the same infallible Providence both foreseen it from the beginning and as seasonably and sufficiently provided for it But the several Manifestations of a Divine Conduct over us to this time are more than need to be related or can be so sensibly understood by such as were not concerned in them or have had no Experience of the like Nor perhaps was it necessary that it should ail be so manifest to any other as to my self who was to Act and yet do nothing which needed any Extraordinary Authority or Attestation for the Satisfaction of such as were concerned in what I did But it seems to have been providentially ordered that so much should be so manifest to me as is sufficient not only to satisfy such Scruples as might be raised in my own Mind but also to answer the Objections of others The Principal Objections are against my Performance of the Office of Priesthood without other Ordinary Authority than what I my self now think not sufficient But to the Political Clergy who make this Objection I answer 1. That for Ordinary Authority I have as much as themselves 2. That that was sufficient for some purposes and particularly for a tacit Testimony against them 3. That I have besides what doth satisfy my self and that whether Ordinary or Extraordinary is sufficient for them And to all others that I take not this Office of my self but was called of God as Samuel was first Dedicated to his Service by particular Dedication if not by my Mother which might be too for ought I know however by my self which is not less and accepted by him and this manifested by an Extraordinary Concurrence of various Causes many of them in a surprizing and yet orderly and necessary manner to the producing of such just reasonable and necessary Effects as our Daily Communion my Engaging in that Service our Performance of it under such a Conduct from despicable private Lodgings to the very Heart of the City and then there for so long time a sufficient time without any Interruption notwithstanding the Laws against the Form I was known to use Then my Discharge in due season and to my Satisfaction and our Conduct thence to a convenient Place of Retirement with seasonable Provision for unsuspected Difficulties and our Reduction back again c. so many Circumstances so orderly concurring as can no more be accounted for without a Providence than an orderly Composure of proper Letters into a Verse or Sentence without the Skill of a Compositor and a Founder and besides all this Structure built upon the Foundation of a Constant Disposition of so many years Continuance to what neither any thing in Nature nor any Temporal Prospect was any Motive or Inducement and farther yet my Acceptance of the Office not without such special Internal Motions as I had had Experience of many years before to what the Laws of the Land require so that I could with clear Conscience answer the Questions to be proposed to me The Concurrence of all these 1. Of such a Disposition of so many years Continuance 2. Of so many External Providential Occurrences so necessary so orderly succeeding and in so surprizing a manner and 3ly Such Internal Motions And all to the same just and reasonable and necessary End is to me so Satisfactory an Evidence as I can hardly think can be rejected by any one who doth not disbelieve either a Divine Providence or at least one of the Chief Principles of the Gospel but think sufficient for Caution to all considerate Persons and for Conviction before God of such as presume to oppose or dispise it If my Commission be defective in the Ordinary Conveyance whose Fault is that But may not that Defect be supplied by what is Extraordinary Is God's Hand shortened Has our Saviour limited his Power by His Commission to the Twelve How then came Paul to be an Apostle Is there not as much need now here as there was in the days of Samuel then Consult Bishop Andrews Consult Bishop Taylor Consult Dr. Sherlock Dean of St. Pauls Famous Cathedral in the Principal City of the Nation in his last Chapter of Religious Assemblies and others that might be named Are not many Teachers either shamefully Ignorant of the most Solemn and peculiar Part of the Christian Worship or notoriously self-condemned here and in danger to be damned hereafter for their unfaithfulness and wilful Neglect of what they know And is not such an Admonition