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A66898	The late proposal of union among Protestants, review'd and rectifi'd being a vindication of the most reverend father in God, Edwin, Lord Arch-Bishop of York, and the reverend Dr. Tillotson, Dean of Canterbury, from the misprisions of an apocryphal proposer : with a full answer to his proposal, presented to the Parliament.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1679 (1679)	Wing W3345; ESTC R20318	24,189	16

nevertheless where a certain Order is appointed and received touching such things for the Edification of the Church it is our Judgment that there Unity in such matters ought to be retained and the Orders of the Church ought not to be disturbed according to the rule of the Apostle Let all things be done decently and in order to the edification of the Church Concerning which things we do wonderfully approve and embrace those two Epistles of S. Austin viz. 118. 119. to Januarius after 70 years of age when the heat of his Disputes and Controversial Labours were at an end This was the Faith and Religion which that Learned man professed and died in And whatsoever alteration we can project I am confident 't will generally give more offence than satisfaction and wise men in forein parts will be apt to value us the less for such our levity However with Free States and Princes which are Protestants we may enjoy a firm union by a mutual confederation as is usually done upon all other occasions without any change of Laws Rites Forms or local Constitution on either part And 3. will other sorts of Protestants be so easily persuaded to suffer their deliberate Constitutions to be disputed and contradicted Let us take our measures herein from our late Assembly of Divines whose Advice and Resolution to the then Parliament was this The Advice of the Assembly concerning a Confession of Faith ch 20. sect 4. They who upon pretence of Christian Liberty shall oppose any lawful Power or the lawful exercise of it whether it be Civil or Ecclesiastical resist the Ordinance of God and for their publishing such Opinions or maintaining of such Practices as are contrary to the Light of Nature or to the known Principles of Christianity whether concerning Faith Worship or Conversation or to the Power of Godliness whereof we may be sure they intended to be the Judges or such erroneous Opinions or Practices as either in their own nature or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them are destructive to the external peace and order which Christ hath established in the Church that is by their Presbyterian Model they may lawfully be call'd to account and proceeded against by the Censures of the Church and by the Power of the Civil Magistrate But let us leave the Protestants of forein Churches and keep our eyes at home and here we cannot but observe to our great grief that the Sects and Factions are many and various and which of them should we design our kindness for For Presbyterians or Independents Anabaptists Quakers or Socinians Where ever you resolve to pitch I believe you will have but a little to gratifie the humour of some Party which you can never oblige For it is not to be imagined that our Governours will ever part with so much as has been impetuously required for then we shall lay a colourable ground to justifie their Solemn League and Covenant with all those horrid Mischiefs which ensued upon it and we shall most certainly deform the Church and unhinge the Government which may be of a worse consequence than a temporary Toleration If you grant but little they will conclude they have given the Church a defeat therein and will triumph in it yet this will be too weak a Charm to make them acquiesce and be at peace with us For this sort of men as well as others are observed to be so restless in their humour that instead of studying to be quiet and to do their own business they are always labouring to be uppermost and in order to that they are always studying new Objections against all establish'd Forms of Decency maugre all alterations intended for their satisfaction Sometimes they cry down the Rites and Ceremonies because they are dumb that is dark and unedifying but since the dumb beast has had her mouth opened to convince the madness of these Prophets See the Preface before the Common Prayer and Ceremonies c. they cry out against them for having too much Tongue that is for being too significant and useful And as another Instance of their Unquietness we may observe their watchfulness and artifice in perverting such charitable Discourses as are designed to draw them into the Communion of the Church to palliate their Dissent from it And how tender and scrupulous soever they make themselves at this day yet they will not let us forget that not very long since while they strained at the very same Gnats they could swallow Camels and thought it just to force others as much as in them lay to do the like Sir if these Practices have any affinity with the Definition of Infirmity or a weak Brother I must confess my self at a loss to understand what it is to be stiff wilful and unteachable In short by offering these Dissenters to yield them they know not what upon the Solicitation of we know not whom we shall expose our selves and our Religion to no purpose The Popish Party will upbraid us for our levity and perhaps in departing from the decent and harmless Rites and Usages of the Ancients long before Popery had a being we may give a scandal to such as have come over to us from their Communion And what are we like to get by it As far as I am able to discern we shall give ground to a profess'd Adversary and make a wilful breach upon our wholsom Laws and Discipline to make a new experiment For if it does not succeed well which none but God Almighty can foresee how shall we recover our ground again and who shall stand in the gap to make up the breach for us We are come at last to the Authority alleaged by that Apocryphal Anonymus in the first whereof I find a double mistake for first the Name of that Reverend Arch-Bishop was not Edward but Edwin Sands who died at York Aug. 8. 1588. The said Reverend Person when he was Vicechancellor of Cambridge at the Instigation of the Duke of Northumberland preached up the Title of Jane Grey for which he was imprisoned by Queen Mary Godwyn of Bishops Afterwards being set at liberty upon the Intercession of some Friends he went over into Germany and staid there till he was called back in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth From thence 't is probable he might bring over with him some Inclinations to the Models of Reformation which he had observed amongst some Protestants in those Countries But besides this mistake in the Name there is a greater in the Title Page and I am a little jealous it was wilful and advised for he represents it as the sentiment of the first Reformers when it was but the single Opinion of that Reverend Archbishop in or about the thirtieth year of that Queens Reign all the rest of the Governours as far as we are able to inform our selves were of another Judgment as their Successors generally have been ever since But let us hear the Bistop's own Words at least