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A36831 An appeal of all the non-conformists in England to God and all the Protestants of Europe in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King to which is added a sober and unpassionate reply to the author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin / by Dr. Lewis Du Moulin ... Du Moulin, Lewis, 1606-1680. 1681 (1681) Wing D2530; ESTC R35666 14,500 36

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chief hand in restoring our gracious Soveraign Charles the II. to his Throne for which never enough to be valued Benefit and kindness although it was but duty no Party has been more severely persecuted by the Corrupt-Party of the Church of England But of this more anon 16. That the Declaration of the King mentioned in the Tenth Consideration was a confirmation of another former Declaration 17. That whereas when the King came over from the Hague there was a great expectation that his Printed Declaration for Ecclesiastical Affairs would be sufficient to compose all differences and heats and unite all Parties by taking away the stumbling block of subscribing to those Ceremonies that were not warranted by the Word of God but just on the contrary the Clamours of the Corrupt Party of the Church of England at length prevail'd for restoring of those Ceremonies All which good Bishop Brownrig foretold a little before his Death in saying That there would continue the same Confusions and Animosities that were before and with them the same spirit of Persecution which the Corrupt Church-Party before 1640 was the cause of 18. That the Zeal and Fervour of the prevailing Corrupt Church-Party in England at this present juncture of time in writing so many Books against the Papists and standing up so stoutly against the Horid Attempt upon the King 's most Sacred Life and introducing of Popery and hearkening to some terms of Reconciliation with the Non-Conformists to make the opposition the stronger against Papists does no way seem to be the effect of a Christian Moderation but a meer worldly Interest like the zeal of Jehu the union of Aristides and Themistocles two Mortal Foes against the Common Enemy Or like that of Augustus Brutus and Cassius against Antony 'T is the goodness of a stubborn Boy just so long as the Rod is over his Back for had another spirit moved the corrupt Party of the Church of England than a Worldly one it would have appeared above these 100 Years when alas no such attempts were made by the Papists against their Lives and Livings when a Hundred Remonstrances were made to them with Prayers and Tears for the removing of the offending Rites and Ceremonies and of the great inclination they had for Popery in depopulating England by driving men away to Colonies abroad but could never be heard 21. Things being thus stated one may rationally and strongly conclude That it is a most horrid untruth and calumnie to make the Presbyterians and Conventiclers or Non-Conformists not only the first authors and abettors of the Civil Wars and of the first taking up of Arms in opposition to the Evil Counsellors about the King in 42 and 43 but also the Murtherers of King Charles the First when as they have been and still are the great preservers of the King's Person Life Honours Dignities and Prerogatives the best Christians the best Reformed and the best Subjects of the King 22. And the false and unworthy stiling of these Restorers of the King Rebels Fanaticks Sms of Belial c. doth carry along with it the same devillish Malice which makes it now become a common Proverb in the Mouths of this corrupt Church of England-Party That they had rather be Papists than Presbyterians and that were there a Turn of State as God forbid they would sooner turn Papists than Presbyterians 23. Besides the idle foolish senceless but also malicious mistake to make the holiest of the Non-Conformists to pass for Presbyterians who though they love their persons and the holiness of their Doctrine and Lives yet either they are wholly averse to the Presbyterian Government or else they do not very well know what it means Since the Well-affected follow their Preaching and imitate their Lives but yet by no means upon any account of their Government 24. That the worst thing in the carriage of the Conformists towards the Non-Conformists is their rash uncharitable and unchristian judging of the Hearts and Insides of men which are only known to God Almighty who is the Searcher of Hearts as if they were made up of Deceit and Hipocrisie and alike construing their unblameable behaviour and carriage as if it were but formal and extrinsecal and of the pure Orthodox Doctrine of their Sermons and Writings though never so much summed up in Scripture phrases as if all was but Cant and Tone and taking of God's Name in vain when they make a quite different Judgment of the Conformists both of their Lives and Doctrines and when they make use of the same Scripture terms as the others do for in their esteem they are looked upon as true sincere and holy Christians though their outward deportment do somewhat differ from that of the other This I intend by God's assistance to make clear to you in a larger Discourse from the Testimony of Dr. Patrick who doubtless cannot in handling of the Nature of Justification by Faith but agree with the Non-Conformists in making use of the same Scripture-Expressions and commend such as Bishop Davenant Downam usher Hall and Hooker all Conformists for doing the like and who will tell us that this Justification by Faith is a Recumbency of a poor Sinner upon the Lord Jesus Christ a casting of our selves upon him relying on his Merits laying hold on him closing with him going to him and shrowding our selves under the Robes of his Righteousness Most of which are Scripture phrases But yet for all this the very same Expressions being uttered by such Non-Conformists as Mr. Baxter Dr. Owen Manton Annesly Jacomb Bates Mr. Jenkins Alsop Cradock Silvester Watson and Others for the better setting out the nature of Justification by Faith are looked upon by Dr. Patrick as meer Imposters Charms Incantations artificial Jugglings Terms of Modish and Courtly Faith by which this Doctor makes good the saying of Pliny the Younger Epist. 21. Multum interest quid à quoque fiat Eadem enim facta claritate aut obscuritate facientium aut tolluntur altissimè aut humillimè deprimuntur That such a prejudice against the Generation of God's Children that make it their grand design to get an assurance of Heaven and of Eternity as are not only many of the Peaceable and Moderate Conformists but such as they miscall and nick-name Puritans Presbyterians Independents Rebels Sons of Belial and worse than Papists That such a prejudice I say is the great distemper of that corrupt-party of the Church of England who have for these 100 years been making their advances towards Popery I shall insist very particularly upon some very considerable Inferences and Conclusions which I shall draw from some Hypotheses that I have already taken notice of but which cannot be too often inculcated the truth of which is known sufficiently by those that are most Eminent in Piety and Holiness of Living and in Learning of the Church of England by the Bishops Hooper Smith Rudd Carleton Grindall the two Abbots usher Hall and by other Doctors that were as Conformable as
the words of a false and hypocritical heart when they are spoken by the Non-Conformists AS for the down-right Thames-Street way of Railing against me which I am sure none of my Friends would use and all others of any improved Civility or good Manners do nauscate and abhor but pure Streams cannot flow from an impure Fountain and so I am satisfied I do not value them nor can they prejudice any but the persons from whom they issue they that will be flinging up dirt do manifestly show themselves of a dirty humour and much good may do them whosoever they are with such their beloved Nastiness but methinks they are greatly like those of the Lawyer whom Suetonius speaks of that thought he had very solidly basfled and overthrown the cause of his Adversary because his Lawyer had committed a gross Soloecisme in his Plea All the Arguments of that Insignificant Rayler that has drawn the Lively Picture of Lewis du Moulin as he thinks to the worst and beastliest advantage and it may be therefore conceals his Name because he is ashamed to own the ugliness of his daubing I say all the Arguments of that Insignificant Railer resemble those of that Oratour who would needs have the cause of Vatinius to be the worst because he had crooked Leggs or are like to Origen's Enemies who finding themselves unable to refute those pretended errors thought to be sure they should acquit themselves bravely by running him down with the Judgments that other people made of his Person and Writings for without ever entring into the merits of the cause he alledges Mounsieur Daille and Mr. Baxter speaking to my disadvantage He might also if it had but once come into his unthinking but rash head have added the Testimony of Dr. Stillingfleet who calls me Wretch and Wicked and blackens me after a strange and unworthy manner only because I have said of him and I believe did I but sincerely appeal to his Conscience it could not upbraid me with a lye that the Judgment which he makes at this day of the Church of England when it lavishly pours upon him I know not how many great Ecclesiastical Preferments is quite contrary to that Opinion he was of concerning it about Twenty Years ago when he was not so well provided and lined with them Except he be somewhat nettled because I have so plainly laid open the weakness of his Argument to make out the unreasonableness of the Non-Conformists for denying viz That all things that are not expresly forbidden in the Word of God are sufficient to justifie those who submit to them when th● Command of the Magistrate intervenes Such great men as He and as Mounsieur Daille was are oftentimes like to Rivers that raise themselves to so vast a height that they overflow their Banks and the Bounds of decent moderation such was once Mounsieur Daille when he flew out against me in such violent heats for having taken it ill because he unhandsomely and ungenerously treated my Father AS to what this Author of the Lively Picture c. sayes of Mr. Baxter and of the sinister Judgment he makes of me he is much gone astray like a lost Sheep from the truth for not many years ago did this same Mr. Baxter dedicate a Book to me in these words TO MY LEARNED SINCERE AND WORTHY FRIEND Lewis du Moulin To be short The way which the Author of the Lively Picture takes to expose a Person to the Laughter and Scorn of all the World and to make him pass for an Ignorant Noddy-peeks a Lyer and a most impertinent Scribler who knows neither what he sayes nor what he writes very well ought not to be that of alledging the Judgment which such Persons as Mounsieur Daille and the Dean of Windsor make of him but he should if he had been able have quoted those Writings and Sentences wherein he might convince the World that they were the product of a man that had neither Brains to make a Judgment nor Learning nor Stile nor that had any thing of truth in him AS to the CELEVSMA of which he makes me the Author I absolutely deny it but If I were so I might what he will never have any occasion to do without vanity boast That I had made one of the best Pieces that ever had yet been extant in the World I mean in the behalf of the Non-Conformists and where there is neither Truth nor Judgment nor Learning nor good Language nor any thing else wanting that is requisite to give a Book applause If I was of his humour I might wire-draw upon him substantially far beyond his length but I had rather speak a great deal of truth in a few pithy words than to be like him scandalously false tedious and railing and never know in reason when to come to a FINIS The Reader is desired to take notice That the Author since the printing of the Appeal would needs have this added as a Supplement to it NOTE that When they that are loose in their profession of Christianity do persecute those that outwardly and formally prosess it with great Exactness without any certain knowledg whether or no the inward disposition and sincerity be answerable they have certainly a secret hatred to all Religion and Piety and wish that there were neither a God nor a Life to come nor an Immortality of the Soul for were they sure that none of these were they would be induced rather to pity and commiserate these strict professors than hate and persecute them To this I may add that the persecuting pirit of those Men that either in pretence or in reality do profess an exact practise of Piety and Devotion comes from a secret kind of Atheisme and Aversion to all manner of Religion when the purest is the greatest Eye-sore to such Spirits as is so much the more apparent and manifest by how much it is evident that they would not be seen to act against Profaneness debauched courses Drunkenness or Popery because those disorderly ways and courses have a great Sympothy and agreeableness with the profane spirits of the World Dr. Sands first Bishop of London and afterwards Arch-Bishop of York was in his life-time so much for Tolleration and a dispensation of Rigour and Subscription that he would needs have it set down in his Will He also expressed in the same Will that the intention of the first Reformers was to suite and accommodate the Reformation to the posture of things at that present time when Papists were numerous and the Protestants but few and that it was not possible then to make a thorow Reformation There may be Laws to keep men out of the Church but there are none to compel them in The Violent pressing of Ceremonies hath been I humbly conceive a great hindrance to many in their embracing of them Men fearing the intention therin to be far worse than really they are and therefore they abhor them We are not to communicate with a persecuting Church how Orthodox soever it be in Faith Martyn the Bishop of Tours would not communicate with Orthodox Men that persecuted HERETICKS much more would he have refused to communicate with those that persecute good men The People of Constantinople refused to communicate with the Expellers of Chyrsostome and with the Bishop placed by Endoxia FINIS * Mr. Baxter's Difference between the Powers of Magistrates and Church Pastors c.