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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20688	Innovations unjustly charged upon the present church and state. Or An ansvver to the most materiall passages of a libellous pamphlet made by Mr. Henry Burton, and intituled An apologie of an appeale, &c. By Christopher Dow, B.D.	Dow, Christopher, B.D.	1637 (1637)	STC 7090; ESTC S110117	134,547	244

eum qui Deum Patrem per filium ejus ante aram rogaverit And a little after Si aliquid Christianus deliquerit peccator dici potest Paganus iterum dici non potest And it is as verified of these men which the Father after addes Ille vobis videbitur Christianus qui quod vultis fecerit non quem fides adduxerit Optat. Milevit l. 3. Pagans or heathens baptized with outward Baptisme which as one of them once expressed it in a Sermon though I tremble to relate it did no more to the making of them Christians than the washing of a dogges legge Their usuall names by which they use to note out those that are not of their Tribe are The Wicked Carnall Men of no Religion Vnconverted Wretched beasts And when they are most charitable Civill-honest-men which yet is no commendation because with them civill-honestie is no better than a smooth devill Men that have good naturall parts some common gifts of grace which a reprobate may have or if their charity haply doe enlarge it selfe more than ordinary Men that have some good things in them or some small beginnings of grace But for Preachers that sute not their humour that is all that are throughly conformable who subscribe and practise not grone murmur and complain their best termes of them are Formalists Time-servers Men pleasers Enemies of grace and sincerity c. As for the Bishops let Master Burton tell you under what names they use to cloak their conceit of their persons and places And here for the better demonstration of their reall separation wherewith I charge them and that it may appeare that though they are with us they are not of us give mee leave briefly to instance in some of the most remarkable points in difference betweene us wherein I shall desire my reader to expect no accurate or elaboratelymethodicall discourse my intent being onely to make a rough draught of them in such order as they shall offer themselves to my present memory The ordination of Priests and Deacons in our Church as ever in the Church of Christ belongs to the Bishops which because they cannot otherwise choose they are contented to accept from their hands that their seale may protect them from danger of Law but yet think themselves not rightly called to that Function unlesse they have withall gotten the approbation of the people of God and of the godly Ministers and for this end they must give triall of their gifts in some private conventicle or adventure up at some Lecture without the Churches ordination where some of the Fathers of their Order shall be present and after with the people at a Feast pronounce sentence of their gifts and abilities Which if it happen for them they doubt not but they are rightly called In like manner for their calling to a Benefice or Pastorall charge taking the Patrons presentation and Bishops ordination only for their safe standing and security of enjoying it they must be called of the people too the cure of whose soules they undertake For which end their course is because they cannot openly put it to election to shew themselves by preaching to the Congregation and then to withdraw themselves as unwilling or at least unresolved to accept of the place expecting whether they shall bee desired of the people either the major part or for they vary as it shall make most for their purpose the better as they account them that is the Professors of the Parish or neere adjoyning wherof if they have but three or foure for them though all the Parish beside be against them they take their calling to be from God Or if haply this shall faile them then they will have their calling scand and approved by some of the best Ministers or perhaps by some one of them which shall for a need serve the turne to make good their calling rather than part with the Living unlesse some better hopes shew themselves So that upon the point we may say of them as Saint Austine once of his Donatists They have ordained Bishop against Bishop Episcopum contra Episcopum ordinaverunt altare contra altare erexerunt August Epist. 171. or rather because they like that name better a private Presbytery against the Bishops yea and they have though that name offend them too erected Altar against Altar setting up a new religion a new faith and forme of Gods worship 1. I say their faith is new being as they imagine a firme perswasion of Gods speciall love to them in Christ or an assurance of their election and consequently of salvation which is nothing else but to have a good conceit of a mans selfe in regard of Gods favor to beleeve themselves to bee his dearlings 2. It is new in the instrument all cause of it being not wrought by the word of God as it is left written for our learning by the holy men of God moved by the Holy Ghost that hath no power to worke conversion but preached that is not alwaies out of the pulpit a tables end will serve expounded and applyed as they call it by them with this helpe the word of God otherwise insufficient becomes able to worke their conversion and salvation and which is more strange to doe it in an instant for they admit no preparatory acts to proceed and that so powerfully that it is impossible to resist or to deferre the worke of it for a moment and so sensibly that every man may yea and if hee be rightly must know the time of his conversion 3. It is new in the effects of it For first it frees a man from the feare of him that is able to cast body Luke 12. 5. and soule into hell fire so that they are exempted from that precept given by our Saviour commanding us to feare him They looke at Hell as a danger past and at Heaven as if they were in possession of it already holding the hope of reward a poore incentive to performe duty or endure affliction a reprobate may goe so farre as to abstaine from evill and doe good for feare of hell and with an eye to the recompence of reward so that a man must goe farther than this or otherwise he can have no assurance that he is the childe of God Secondly it gives them a right not to heaven onely but even to the things of this life which if others that want this faith chance to have they are in Gods sight usurpers and shall as theeves and robbers be arraigned for them at the dreadfull barre of Gods severe judgement seat and bee condemned not for the abuse but for the having of whatsoever creatures of God they have had any part in their whole lives insomuch as every bit of bread they eat shall helpe to increase their score and aggravate their condemnation Whereas they having by vertue of their faith this right and faculty granted them may use them securely and without all feare I had almost said and abuse