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A56807	The conformists plea for the nonconformists, or, A just and compassionate representation of the present state and condition of the non-conformists as to I. The greatness of their sufferings, II. Hardness of their case, III. Reasonableness and equity of their desires and proposals, IV. Qualifications, and worth of their persons, V. Peaceableness of their behaviour, VI. The churches prejudice by their exclusion, &c. humbly submitted to authority / by a beneficed minister, and a regular son of the Church of England.	Pearse, Edward, 1631-1694.	1681 (1681)	Wing P976; ESTC R1092	66,864	80

our Posterities and extended to such as do not yet enjoy the Benefit thereof Of Private Baptism We desire that Baptism may not be in a private place at any time unless by a lawful Minister and in the presence of a competent number and where it is evident that any Child hath been so baptized no part of the Administration may be reiterated in publick under any limitations and therefore we do not see any need of any Liturgy in that Case Exception of Confirmation Altho we charitably suppose the meaning of these words was only to exclude the necessity of any other Sacraments to baptized Infants yet these words are dangerous as to the misleading of the Vulgar and therefore we desire they may be expunged Except of the Catechism We desire the first Question may be altered considering for 20 Years past many had no God-fathers and and the 7th Q. The second Answ Wherein I was visibly admitted into the number of the Members of Christ That the Commandments may be inserted according to the last Translation of the Bible That in the Exposition of the Commandments some clause may be inserted to refer to the fourth Commandment that those words be omitted Answer thus given Two only Baptism and the Lord's Supper c. A more full Explication of the Creed Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments c. Except of the Form of Marriage The word Worship being much altered in the use of it since this Form was drawn up we desire some word may be used instead of it This Rubrick doth either enforce all to forbear Marriage as are unfit for the Sacrament or the unprepared to come to the Sacrament And therefore we desire it may be omitted the rather because that Marriage Festivals are too often accompanied with such divertisements as are unsuitable to those Christian Duties which ought to be before and follow after the receiving of that Holy Sacrament Except Visitation of the Sick That form of Absolution be declarative and conditional as I pronounce thee Absolved instead of I absolve thee if thou dost truly repent and believe This Psalm 121 seems not to be so pertinent as some other viz. Psal 113. Psal 128. Except Burial of the Dead These words cannot in truth be said of Persons living and dying in open and notorious Sins Except in the Litany In regard that the Wages of Sin is Death We desire that this clause may be thus altered From Fornication and all other hainous or grievous Sins Gen. Proposition 12. p. 6. Because singing of Psalms is a considerable part of publick Worship We desire that the Version set forth and allowed to be sung in Churches may be amended or that we may have leave to make use of a purer Version I shall not draw the Parallel any further but infer these following Observations 1. That those great and famous Men did see some necessity or reason for altering of many things in the Liturgy and therefore the Presbyterian Divines most of whom were and are Non-Conformists were not altogether captious and quarrelsom they maintain'd a Necessity of Reformation On the other side there were learned Men who maintained there was no necessity of Reformation But you see against the sense of those admirable Divines that met in the Dean's House 1641. 2. I observe That the Proposals and Exceptions of the Commissioners in the Savoy were not without great President and insisted upon many things which the most eminent Fathers of the Church of England would have yielded to them and doubtless much more if not all for Peace and Union 3. To speak a word for the reproached Brethren of the Non-conformists who are represented to have all the ill Humours of factious Persons and discontented that know not what to ask nor what they would have is but a piece of Justice and Christian Charity Men think nothing but Presbytery and Covenants and Directory will please them which is not just nor true They desired that the Liturgy may consist of nothing doubtful or questioned amongst pious Orthodox Learned Men c. Dr. Allen of Huntingdon-shire and Clerk in the Convocation did earnestly labour with the then Bishop of London afterward Arch-Bishop that they might so refine the Liturgy that no sober Man might make Exception He was wished to forbear for what should be was concluded on or resolved They desired the observation of Saints Days might be omitted c. The most Reverend Vsher and the rest begin their Considerations with this Whether the Numes of some departed Saints and others should not be quite expunged the Kalender They desired that there might be no such Imposition of the Liturgy as that the Exercise of the Gift of Prayer be thereby totally excluded in any part of publick Worship The most excellent Vsher p. 5. ● 16 and the rest recllon it among the Innovations By prohibiting a direct Prayer before Sermon and bidding of Prayer which is now the mode all over the Bishoprick of Duresm as some that are no strangers in it say They at the Savoy stood for a Reformation and were not singular therein for without it the Reverend Dr. Featly a worthy Man and great Sufferer in our unhappy Warrs which is like the Sword that makes no difference printed this Challenge and Manifesto 1. The Articles of Religion need no Alteration at all but only an Orthodox Explication in some ambiguous Phrases and a vindication against false Aspersions 2. That the Government by Bishops removing all Innovations and Abuses in the execution thereof is agreeable to God's Word and a truly Ancient and Apostolical Institution 3. That the Book of Common Prayer N. B. the Kalendar being reformed in point of Apocryphal Saints and Chapters some Rubricks explained and some Expressions revised and the whole correctly printed with all the Psalms Chapters and Allegations out of the Old and New Tement according to the last Translation is the most compleat perfect and exact Liturgy in the Christian World Dippers Dipt p. 16 22. and Gentle Lash 1644. And this is the same in effect with what the Divines at the Savoy humbly proposed and without all these Exceptions that Champion Dr. Featly would not undertake his Vindication of them by which it seems the first of the Church-Constitution and Discipline was not tenable as it stood at that time but our great Church-men were resolved that the World should know their Strength as well as Reason to regain with advantage in 1661 what they lost in 1641. The Presbyterian Divines as they were called did urge both rationally heartily and humbly that the Ceremonies might be omitted being doubtful whether the Church had power to enjoin mystical teaching Signs which the Imposers confessed indifferent of no real goodness c. which many of the Opposers accounted sinful others inconvenient and unsuitable to the simplicity of the Gospel and had been for a hundred Years the Fountain of manifold Evils c. And herein they were not singular for other Men when disengaged and

without the Common-Prayer See also Mr. Blake Covenant sealed p. 308. as I my self have known nor any Child rightly baptized without the Cross yet by this Act of Uniformity they must declare Assent and Consent to all and every thing to Cross as well as Baptism to Ceremony as well as Substance And how easie was it for sinful people and weak to say See what these Men can do Yea in case that in any after-time wise and moderate Governours should see a necessity of making Alterations Then again teaching Scorners to say Yea see what these Men can do to the great dishonour of Religion and disgrace of the best of Ministers And one would think that because the Courts continue to swear Churchwardens to present they had Spies enow upon our Nonconformists and Punishments smart enough they might have spared to require this Declaration or if they had thought us honest our promise to conform had been sufficient tho kept in the Registers and made at our Institutions Yet through this Dishonour we attain our Honour They are debarred from all exercise of their Ministerial Abilities their Wives and Children turned out of doors and when they had made a sad and chargeable Remove of late must remove again upon the Five-mile Act. And these Penalties were next to Death and I conceive proved the Death of many I remember the Renowned Bishop Morton wrote these words to the Nonconformists and desired them earnestly to consider the Censure of the Apostle's Wo being so dreadful I ought not to esteem any thing a just Cause why I should wilfully incur the Censure of Silencing my self from Preaching for which I ought not as willingly to adventure my Life The General Defence of the three Ceremonies Part 1. p. 163. The Nonconformists have suffered what is next to Death and too many have suffered even unto Death in Prisons where several caught their Death and others died it is a dreadful story of whom shall their Deaths be required And it is easie to retort those words of the Reverend Bishop Imposers should not esteem any thing a just Cause of bringing any under the censures of Silencing of Preachers from preaching for which they may not adventure to take away their Lives It is objected That they sin against the Law And they may answer Who procured the Law it is the Magistrate's Sword but who moved him to draw it They are told they have no cause to complain of Sufferings for the Magistrate hath been merciful and hath not execued the Laws Thanks be to God for the Mercy but all have not been so merciful as the King hath been or many inferiour Magistrates but their Mercy hath not been kindly taken by many who should have more tender bowels than any Man that wears a Sword To conclude A reasonable Understanding may judge that Law not fit to remain in force that is not fit to be put in execution That Law cannot be good that is not fit to be brought to act without more real hurt than good And if the wise and merciful God hath by many remarkable Providences put a stop to their execution it is time for Men to annul the Law 2. The Penalty is hard upon them that make their offers to be admitted into the Churches Service or that would come in but for these Injunctions It is but a narrow passage that is made for them that enter in yet what shall they do who have spent all they have in a Preparatory Education In they must tho but to a Curacy which is not easie to be had It is grievous to think with what Implicit Faith they do what is to be done yet must Assent to more than ever many have studied rather following Example than Reason or else there is nothing for them to do Others that are enclin'd to Learning and to serve in the Gospel are deterred upon many accounts and have great prejudices against Conformity because of the great reverence they have to Nonconformists and these are under a great temptation to perpetuate a Nonconformity which is more sutable to their inclinations as being a state of freedom to their Consciences from great Bonds and Obligations tho an Estate attended with hazard to their Bodies and Estates And all young Students are under this necessity either they must subscribe hand-over-head or else they must spend their time in these endless Controversies of the Church and be engaged in the dolefull and fearfull Wars of the Church on one side or other 3. The third Consideration that pleads for our Non-conforming Brethren is taken from the Reasonableness of their Demands I distinguish these Demands into those Proposals made by the Commissioners in the Savoy Anno 1662 with that Modesty Gravity Humility and Reason treating the Bishops and other Commissioners as Superiours 2. Into those which have been repeated by particular Persons and may be seen in the Writings of Laborious and Catholick Mr. Baxter Mr. John Corbet and Dr. Owen in his learned and moderate Book of Church-Peace Love and Unity I shall only generally compare what they humbly desired with what was declared 1. In his Majesties gracious Declaration concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs a most large and healing Plaister for the Churches Wounds and might have been a Pillar to have born up the Church in Unity as his Gracious Act of Indempnity and Oblivion hath held up the State if some Men who can be loyal for their own ends had not perhaps bin industrious to make Divisions by their Affected Terms of Union 2. They humbly moved but for what great Men and famous in the Church of God to all posterity thought fit to grant In that Year 1641 there was a Committee for Religion appointed in the House of Lords ten Earls ten Bishops ten Barons The Bishop of Lincoln Williams sent a Letter to some Divines to attend that Service who met in his House Breviat of his Life p. 24. the Deanery of Westminster upon which Arch-Bishop Laud hath this Note Upon the whole matter I believe this Committee will prove the National Synod of England to the great dishonour of the Church and what else may follow upon it God knows These Divines were no less Men than the most Venerable Arch-Bishop Vsher Bishop Williams of Lincoln Dr. Prideaux after Bishop of Worcester Dr. Brownrig after Bishop of Fxeter Dr. Ward Professor of Divinity in Cambridge and Arch-Deacon of Taunton Dr. Featly Dr. Hacket of late Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield All these subscribed a Paper called The Proceedings c. touching Innovations in Doctrine and Disoipline of the Church of England together with Considerations upon the Common-Prayer Book Out of which I draw a Parallel with the Proposals of the Divines appointed to treat by his Majesty's Commission with the Archbishop and Bishops and other Divines of the Church of England at the Savoy See Account of the Proceedings printed Lond. 1661. The Divines appointed to meet in the Dean's House 1641. Considerations on the