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A25659 An Antidote against Dr. E. Stillingfleet's Unreasonableness of separation being a vindication of the nonconformists from the heavy charges of schism and separation wherein they are loaded by the doctor and two anonymous authors : in two discourses conjoined and seasonably published. 1681 (1681) Wing A3492; ESTC R16438 10,441 33

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towards the Non-Conformists but yet have connived at them either by their submission or their silence and have not vigorously enough set themselves against the Corruption that so much prevailed From all these Hypotheses I gather these Conclusions which naturally follow the aforesaid Premises 1. That several Bishops and Doctors of the Church of England as Dr. Floyd Dr. Tillotson Dr. Stillingfleet Dr. Patrick that are acknowledged by the Non-Conformists to be Persons of great Learning Worth and Piety but who are Extreme Admirers of the Episcopacy of England and all its Consequences and who have also preferred its Government to all other Establishments in Europe have by an unlucky accident contributed more towards the Reputation of the English Hierarchie and its Practises and towards the perpetuating the Feuds and Quarrels between the Conformists and Non-Conformists than it has been possible for any other Corrupted Party to do by all their Irregularities and advances towards Rome 2. That it may be said of these good Bishops and Doctors before mentioned what the Politique Sages have observed of Anselme Bernard Thomas Aquinas John of Salisbury and Gerson That by their great repute of Piety and Learning they have contributed more to the strengthening of the Pope's Tyranny and Religion in the Minds of the People than a hundred such as Gregory the VII and Boniface the VIII were able to effect by their Tyranny and the wickedness and impurity of their Lives for the discrediting of the Pope and his Religion 3. That it is not to be believed how much the Non-Conformists of England suffer in the Esteem of our Great Men of the Protestant Party in Europe who hearing people talk of the Learning and Piety of so many English Bishops and Doctors all Conformists and who resemble those four Doctors I have just before named say aloud that the Non-Conformists must needs be very unreasonable and of a very nice and fantastical Piety for refusing to Conform to the Church of England after the Example of those four Doctors 4. That how good soever the Intentions of some of the Bishops and Doctors of the Church of England may be that are of the same temper of spirit with these four Doctors and what kindness soever they may have for the Non-Conformists it is impossible They should ever come over to them and consent to terms of Reconciliation and Moderation so long as they remain in this Judgment and Opinion That of all the Established Ecclesiastical Governments in Europe that of the Church of England is the most excellent and the most Apostolical and that there is nothing of defect in it and so long as the multitude of their Benefices and the great honour they are in in the World blinds their Judgment there being no likelihood nor hopes that those who are raised so high and that live in honour and abundance richly and fatly unless they will imitate good Dr. Floyd who bestowes most of his Church-Revenues on the Poor will diminish any thing of their greatness both as to their Retinue or their Kitchin and will descend from high to low and that a Bishop who now goes before the Barons will quit his Place to be only a poor simple Moderator and Watchman over a small company of Priests such as were St. Cyprian and St. Austin For this Eminence of Fortune and Dignity does absolutely shut up the door to all the Overtures of Reformation which we learn from Mounsieur Claude in his Defence of the Reformation of the Churches of France where he tells us That the Cardinal du Prat for this very reason was the most violent of all men and the most inraged against Luther's Reformation because he was provided of Five Bishopricks and I know not how many other good and fat Benefices That for these Reasons Methinks it might be expected from these good Bishops and Doctors that by a Christian condescention they would endeavour to incline their Brethren the Non-Conformists to abate something of their heat and vigorousness against the Non-Conformists but so long as they themselves are neither sensible of any error or defect in their Church it is not to be expected or hoped for from them that they should go about the doing of any such good work how great and eminent soever they be no more than it ought to be expected from the Romish Doctors so long as they do look upon and verily believe their Church to be infallible And therefore it cannot be considerately imagined that the perfect day of hope of the Church of England's Reformation and of the Reconciliation of the Conformists to the Non-Conformists should break forth from these good Bishops and Doctors nor from any of the Clergy but from KINGS and the Princes of the People whose hearts are in God's hands and who holds them as the Rivers of Waters 25. As for the Odium that is cast upon the Congregational Way and those who are called Independents as being the more immediate anthors and abettors of the King's Murther and of taking away Monarchy it can be easily wiped off and made out That Oliver Cromwell's Army like that of King David's in the Wilderness was a Medley or a Collection of all Parties that were discontented as some Courtiers some Episcoparians few of any Sect but most of none or else of the Religion of Thomas Hobbes and Dr. Scarborough not mentioning the Papists who had the greatest hand in the Death of King Charles the First the success of which made them so daring and impious as to contrive another most Damnable and Hellish Plot to cut off the Life of his Sacred Majesty that now is how Royal Son and our most Gracious Soveraign 26. That since the Non-Conformists were a generation of men either of the first date as it is most likely or at least that rose in England at the same time as the Conformists did and since they were for number and quality as great or rather greater and more considerate than the other and who in their Judgment came nearer as to the outward Government and Purity of Worship not only to the first Reformers Zuinglius Luther and Calvin but also to the Apostolical Practice and who indeed were the TRUE PROTESTANTS most Conformable to that Party in Germany who so stiled themselves Protestants in opposition to the Imperial Edicts of Worms and Spire it must needs be a great wickedness and cruelty too in the Conformists because they had all the while the Countenance of Princes and the longest Sword to persecute the Non-Conformists and to deprive them of the liberty of setting up Purer Ordinances in Conventicles and of sharing in the Publick Maintenance for the Ministers 27. That it is a most barbarous improper uncharitable and unchristian language in the Corrupt-Party of the Church of England to stile themselves the only true and properly so called PROTESTANTS and to discard all others in Europe from the right to that name for want of such Episcopal Ordinations as are in England as if that 500 men possessing the three parts of the Church-Revenues in England should better deserve to be called Protestants than the first so called in Germany whereas what ever Bishop Bilson Andrews Dr. Floyd Dr. Tillotson and Dr. Stillingfleet could say in the behalf of the Government of the Church of England as being the most Apostolical and Primitive there is none more opposite not only to that of the first Protestants but also to Scripture Reason and Antiquity 28. These being the Material Heads or a Summary Idea of the whole to be more largely and particularly handled hereafter if God giveth Life and Time to the Author I shall excerpt much from the Scrinia of the Reverend and Learned Divine Mr. Richard Baxter but yet so as to take the liberty to follow my own Method and Genius as to the menage of it 29. So then the main design of the Subsequent Book whereof this is a brief but full Specimen shall be to shew prove and make clear to You the unreasonableness unconscionableness and consequently the ungodliness of retaining urging and pressing the things in debate between the Conformists and the Non-Conformists and of persecuting those that refuse to submit to them or at least to approve of them 30. That Dissenters could not cannot ought not neither in reason nor in Conscience to submit to them at least for the assenting and consenting to them and the approving of them 31. That those Conformists whom I call Peaceable and Orthodox men such as were the Members of the Parliament of 1640 and those of Westminster assembled and their Predecessors and all others however otherwise most upright sincere Orthodox holy and well-minded persons since the first Reformation in King Edward the Sixth's dayes and Lovers of the Non-Conformists that have hitherto been Conformists were all guilty of prevarication and of a sinful yielding complying assenting and subscribing to a Church-way which doubtless is sinful 32. And therefore that the Non-Conformists who ever since King Edward's dayes in Conformity to the true Doctrine of those of the best sort of Conformists kept gathered Churches and Meetings out of the Parishes had right Reason and Scripture on their side and walked with a purer Conscience were the best reformed from Popery and those that preserved the true Apostolical Doctrine Worship and Government and conveyed it to Posterity 33. The Author may Incidently speak of the nature of the Church Synods Associations and Fraternities by a confederate discipline but cannot by any means hear of a National Church-Tribunal independant on the Magistrate to whom only he allows the setting up of a National Worship by Persuasion and Commendation but not in the least by forcing men to it by penal Lawes except they be Papists or disturbers of the Publick Peace FINIS