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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43648	An apology for the new separation in a letter to Dr. John Sharpe, Archbishop of York, occasioned by his farewell-sermon, preached on the 28th of June, at St. Giles's in the Fields.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1691 (1691)	Wing H1841; ESTC R12652	21,953	20

against the better Title becomes not only a Condition to the Clergy of exercising their Ministry but also a part both in Prayers and Sacraments of the daily Offices of the Church This my Lord is their Opinion and had this ever been the Case of the Primitive Christians as you wrongfully suggest it was they doubt not but their Practice would have been answerable thereunto For the Primitive Christians say they were Christians all over who served God faithfully in the most difficult as well as most easie parts of Religion they were as zealous for the practical as the speculative Doctrines of Christianity and stood up as much for probity of Life as purity of Faith and Worship In a word they were as Righteous towards their Kings as towards God and would have suffered as much for the Third Fifth Sixth and Eighth Commandments as for the First or Second or any Doctrine of the Creed I have now my Lord repeated all the Answers which I have heard your Adversaries make to your Querres and I must needs beg so much favour from you as to consider me as the bare recite of them for the sufficiency of which it is their part to undertake and not mine But if they chance to prove sufficient Answers to say no more of them then to espouse the Party of those Men will not as you tell your Parishoners be to espouse a Faction or a Communion which is not the Communion of the Church But you tell them how uneasie soever some of them may be in joyning with the altered and additiona Prayers then it seems some are uneasie at the Prayers and what is the reason of that that but they will be ten times more uneasie in separating from you which may be true say they with respect to outward ease but not to the ease that is within And truly my Lord they themselves are a sensible Example of what they say for you may read perfect Contentment in their looks and perceive by conversing with them that they enjoy their Deprivations more than ever they enjoyed the Possessions of which they are depriv'd Oh! my Lord had you seen Him of Palsgrave-Court after his Extrution you would have seen him look more Chearful and Great and Venerable than ever and I seriously profess to you I had rather have his inward Peace and Satisfaction than his Throne with all its Revenues and be in his Condition rather than that of any arrogant intruding Politician who can scoff at him now to whom he would have formerly cringed and from whom before the Revolution he would have counted a smile a great favour I wish the time may come when both the insulting Scoffers may repent of it least another time should come upon them like travel a Woman when they shall say in anguish of Spirit O let me die the Death of That righteous Man and let my latter end be like his Fathermore you tell your Parishoners of the Heat and Turbulency the Passion and Peevishness the bitter Zeal and Vncharitableness that the being of a Party doth naturally engage Men in This my Lord they acknowledge to be true in all Church and State Divisions especially with respect to them that are engaged on the wrong Side It is not my undertaking now to determine in this Division of our Church-men which Side is in the right but this I can say by experience from their Conversation that those who have separated from the Publick have for the kind as few and for the degree as little of those troublesome Passions as any sort of Men in the World I appeal to your worthy Successor in St. Giles's-Parish if one of the new Bishops was not in a very disturbed and uneasie paroxism of Spirit about accepting his Bishoprick and whether in a great heat of Passion he was not ready to go to her Majesty like Dr. B. to desire to be excused None of the deprived Bishops parted with their Bishopricks with half that reluctancy that some of the accepters took them The Episcopal Seals were bespoke and unbespoke and at last after many Agonies and Fluctuations finally bespoke again But the deprived are calm and smooth and uniform within their Hearts are fixt on God and their good Principles they are as free from bitter Zeal as from Shame and Remorse and if you do not envy the Felicity of their Deprivations I dare say they do not envy you their Revenues and think you no reproach to them if you do not think them so to you But farther my Lord be the Passions never so great on both or either side upon the account of the Separation Who must answer for that Casnists say that those that are the Cause of any War must answer to God for all the Blood that is shed and all the Devastations that are committed in it and so I think those that are the Cause of any Separation must answer to the God of Peace and Unity for the Division and all the Heats and Passions and irregular Zeal and Uncharitableness on both sides that 's occasioned thereby When there is Pope against Pope Bishop against Bishop there will be Feuds and Animosities this is now the sad Condition of our other World and let them look to it who have set up the Seconds who in the Judgment of the African Church are none at all But you call the deprived warm Men and some that is a few warm Men. But as for their fewness my Lord they say as the Orthodox or Catholicks used to say to the World of Arians That no Cause is to be tried by Numbers that the Number is often in the wrong and that they are but some that will be saved for the Truth of this I refer to their former instances with which you used to stop the Mouths of the Papists when they boasted of their Numbers but I perceive from your Writers that Numbers and the Publick are now become excellent Arguments for Truth But then as for the imputation of heat as they think it signifies not much so they wonder you should reproach them as hot Men who apparently have so many Hot-heads among your selves Certainly my Lord had you called to mind your PP cks and T ns and P ns and F rs and H ns and W ms you would have spoken more respectfully of heat and not have been so ready to reproach the Jacobites as warm Men For the Philosophers my Lord that treat of the Passions and the Use of them tell us that Heat is the active Principle and as necessary in the moral as in the natural World and a very cool Man who since proved a Jacobite once saying to another Brother Brother God send you Patience Brother replied the warm Gentleman God send you more Passion I am zealously affected in a good thing and I wish you were so too And I remember your good old Friend Dr. Calamy reflecting on some Men whom you know who condemned others as Hot-heads for preaching against the Faction in the Popish Plot-time Discourse about a Scrupulous Conscience Epist Dedicatory preach'd at Aldermanbury 1683. said I am very sensible that in this Age we live in some are so extraordinary Wise and Wary as to censure and discourage all Men that speak roundly and act vigorously for the King and Church as being more forward and busie than is needful but I am also sensible that if some Men had not shewn more Courage and Honesty than those prudent Persons bot would have been by this time in far greater Danger than at this present thanks be to God they are But now my Lord to apologize no longer for Heat which is good or bad as the Occasion upon or the Cause in which it is used I appeal to your own Conscience Whether you do not know among the Jacobeans as cool and as considering Tempers as any you know among your Acquaintance who yet separate from the Publick upon the same Pretences which you tell the People some warm Men suggest I wish my Lord for the future you would take the Counsel of Gamaliel and let these Men alone for if this Counsel or this Work of theirs be but the effect of Heat or ‡ Page 29. unaccountable Humour it will come to naught of it self but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it though you may persecute them to destruction lest haply ye be found to fight against God I have now given your Grace an occasion to review your Faremwel-Sermon in which by the leave of the Gentlemen of the Vestry I must needs say I think you have reasoned very indifferently and-noot like your self And though those Gentlemen through the great veneration they deservedly had for you did not perceive the weakness of your Reasoning yet many others who can distinguish betwixt the Speaker and what is spoken did Nay I can assure you that some of the weaker Sex were sensible of it Madam said a Lady to another of great Quality You hear what my Lord says Yes saith she I have heard what be says as well as your Ladiship but he hath said nothing to convince me And if this be all he hath to say I shall be more confirmed than I was for I think I am able to answer all that I heard him say To this purpose spoke that Noble and most Vertuous Lady and I could do no less then tell your Grace of it that hereafter you may take care to print none but rational Sermons which it concerns you to do not only as a Person of most venerable Character but as a great pretender to Reason who in a certain time and place doubted if the Bishops then suspended were good Reasoners though you could not but grant that they were good Men. My Lord I am your most faithful Monitor and obedient Servant FINIS