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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27014	Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministery rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated, against the reasonings of a confident questionist, in a book called Toleration not abused; with counsil to the nonconformists, and petition to the pious conformists / by one that is consecrated to the sacred ministry, and is resolved not to be a deserter of it ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1672 (1672)	Wing B1380; ESTC R5946	61,174	146

improve your Converse I. Often meet for fasting and prayer to lament our former and later sin and to pray for the Church of Christ and for all men for the King and all in Authority that we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and honesty II. Set up constant regular Disputations not about trifles nor with litigious licenciousness But about the grounds of our Religion especially the differences between us and the Socinians and Papists And this with School order under Moderation Because 1. Too many of us are young and unstudyed in these matters and little fit to deal with the Philistins Goliahs and have great need to increase in holy defensive skill 2. It will by the bounds of order prevent all contentions and wranglings and medling with Rulers or other mens matters and all loss of time by impertinent discourse III. Counsel and Concord about Church practice must take up the rest of your time And these three seasonably used Prayer Disputation and Counsel will conduce much to your growth and strength But see that Ministerial Meetings turn not from Counsel and Agreement to Formality and Vsurpation of a Ruling power over one another and so degenerate not into Synodical Church-tyranny much less usurpe the Magistrates right For Synods ill managed have bin the Fevers and Pleurisies of the Churches 19. Therefore be sure to keep out both the Tyranny of Major Votes and of the proud Magisterial self-arrogations of any individuals that think all others must stoop to them 1. When it is once thought that the Major Vote must carry it an Ithacian Synod will tyrannize and every weak self-conceited man that hath nothing of sence to say against you will charge nine Learned judicious grave Divines with Insolency if they will not be governed by ten that are unlearned or injudicious self-esteemers Voteing is not for government but for Concord And not to be used lest it seem an appearance or introduction of usurpation except in cases where meer Concord is your work 2. But nothing hath more plagued the Church than the Pride and Arrogancy of some of the Pastors that think they are wronged if they may not Rule Think not that this Spirit is only in Papists or Diocesans Pride is the heart of the old man and born in all And doleful experience telleth how it surviveth in too many Antiprelatical Ministers of humbling principles and unhumbled souls Do we not know that the Pride of some among our selves that must be All and do all till they have undone all is the very thing that hath silenced so many Ministers and brought us to the state that we are now in There are some men that must only be heard in all debates and seldom hear who are angry if they be gainsaid who think that nimble Tongues or popular Interest or grey hairs must pass for uncontrolled reason And they study to make parties and set up their own Dictates by passion or indirect contrivances They can seldom debate a cause but their spleen swelleth against those that say not as they say but contradict them and they secretly back-bite them to blast their names They note those that follow them and those that oppose them and make two parties of them And all cometh from the common sin of man-kind An unhumbled overconfident understanding These men must first be meekly desired to be quiet and to let you be quiet and to remember that Non-conformists are not for self-obtruding Prelacy And that they are Brethren and not Lords If that will not do try by Prayer to prevail with God for more of humility and peace in his Ministers If that will not do silently bear their importunity with neglect If that do not Meet without them 3. And yet there is as great a mischief as any of these to be avoided also Which is the self-conceitedness and Pride of the younger and the more injudicious Sort of Ministers hindering them from following the Counsels of wiser experienced men For though we must have no arrogant Lordly Usurpers among us yet all that know any thing must confess that in all professions wise and eximious men are few It is but to few Divines that God giveth clear and accurate judgments And undoubtedly there is a three-fold Superiority and submission of divine obligation 1. Of Subjects to men in Office over them 2. Of the younger to the Elder 3. Of them that have less knowledge to them that have more For Office and Seniority are but formalities did they not suppose an eximious fitness by Superior knowledge If therefore God endow here and there one man with extraordinary judgement it is the wisdom and happiness of the times to know him and to kindle their Torches at his fire So did one Luther one Melanchthon one Calvin one Erasmus one Jewel Whitakers Reignolds Davenant c. profit many You may go a hundred miles amongst the less judicious sort and miss of that light which one Amesius●ne ●ne Camero one Strangius one le Blanch c. could shew the world And it is the Plague of corrupted nature that Ignorance keepeth men from knowing it self and not one of a multitude even of Religious men who are injudicious will believe that they are injudicious but every man is so much the more confident that he is in the right and others erre by how much the more he erreth himself so that few ignorant Ministers are teachable but think that they are too wise to learn because by office they undertake to teach But through Gods mercy my own converse hath bin with an humble sort of Ministers which was the occasion of our unity and peace And London and the Countrey have many such who I hope will be able to resist the dividing attempts of the self ignorant and self-conceited 20. Lastly Spend this little time as in the way to speedy sufferings and death Your present Winters day is short Work hard Live wisely Suppose your tryal were the next year Behave your selves as men that stand in prospect of the Grave It is not likely that God will pass over twenty years wilfull divisions wantonness proud contention self-distraction scandals and great sins so little repented of that men cannot endure to hear them named with so short or small a suffering as we have undergone And the same Spirit yet blinding the guilty and keeping some of the separating party in Impenitence and working still by unlawful means to their unlawful ends is the fearful Prognostick that more of the old effects are to be produced by the old uncured cause O be not partakers in the guilt and blindness lest you partake of the destruction and dementation be the sure prognostick of perdition But O Lord spare thy people and bless thine Inheritance and let not the weakness or willfulness of the Pastors or people deliver it up as a prey to the Destroyer And though our folly and scandal have made us a scorn let it not turn to the extirpation of true