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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64556	The charge of schism renewed against the separatists in answer to the renewer of that pretended peaceable design, which is falsly call'd, An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's late sermon.	S. T. (Samuel Thomas), 1627-1693.	1680 (1680)	Wing T972; ESTC R23566	12,847	24

and therefore inconsistent with the rule of Charity Obedience and Concord Nor is this Principle false in it self only but very pernicious too in its consequents even as to Civils For if a Parishioner may leave his own Parish-Minister against that Minister's will and the will of the Civil Magistrate for greater Edification by the same reason a Son or Daughter may on the same account leave their own Parents and remove into another Family against their Parents consent The Son or Daughter may pretend and too often truly plead that their Father and Mother are unsanctifi'd Persons that they are negligent of Religious Family-duties and take no care to educate their Children in the fear of God and therefore they will forsake Father and Mother and betake themselves to some other Godly Family for greater Edification And so this Principle would produce as great Schisms in Families as it does in Parishes And therefore let this greater Edification-Principle go for a great Falshood and a ruining destructive Principle He talks p. 7. Of some universal impression that there is on the hearts of most honest People which says he makes them tenderly sensible of the wrong that we have suffer'd in being turn'd out of the Vincyard for our Consciences To which I answer That 't is a very evil thing for Non-conformists to complain of suffering wrong for their Consciences and to make no conscience of doing it What do these men mean by pretending they were turn'd out of Vineyard for their Consciences The case was this When after the King's Restauration the Parliament upon due consideration of the horrid Mischiefs and sad Calamities the Land had groan'd under for several Years and likewise of the more horrid Principles which occasion'd those Mischiefs and Calamities both in Church and State thought themselves oblig'd to prevent the like for the future they agree'd upon an Act of Vniformity to that end wherein the Peace and Tranquility of the State was endeavoured to be secur'd by enjoyning the renunciation of such seditious and destructive Maxims as had before disturb'd and ruin'd it And the prosperity and good order of the Church provided for by imposing the Book of Common-Prayer and requiring assent and consent to the use of the Matters contain'd and prescrib'd in that Book To which Renunciation and Imposition the Act oblig'd all those to submit who did then or had at any time a mind to enjoy any Church-Living Promotion or Lecture in this Nation To which Act many men that had then Ecclesiastical Livings either could not or would not Conform And this they call being turn'd out of the Vineyard for their Consciences When as the truth is They turn'd themselves out being tempted and prevailed upon so to do either by their blind and deluded Understandings and misguided Consciences which would not let some of them see the lawfulness of that requir'd submission and compliance though they had studi'd and examin'd things in order to it or else by their perverse and stubborn Spirits being resolv'd before-hand not to comply because they thought it would be too great a dishonour to them to contradict their former Principles and Practices and too great a scandal to the Godly party for their Leaders to backslide and abandon the goodly Reformation they had been endeavouring and carrying on for so many Years Sir For my own part I must needs confess to you that I never did so much as take it into consideration whether I should yield or not yield to what was requir'd in the Act for Vniformity and that because 1. Being fully satisfi'd by occasion of the more serious weighing of such Points in these latter days of the unlawfulness of those things which in my younger years I had conform'd readily to upon little better ground than the example and encouragement of others I was brought I hope heartily and sincerely to bewail before God my former conforming to many things and therefore durst not think of returning to that for which I had formerly in such a solemn penitential way judg'd my self before the Lord my God. And 2. Because being now so far gone in years that I am come to Jacob ' s must die I cannot live much longer I was not willing to do any thing that was scrupulous and doubtful lest upon my Death bed it should prove an occasion of any disquiet or disturbance to me yet withal I must add That it was some farther satisfaction to me when I found that the very same things that seem'd most dreadful to me have also sway'd most with you in keeping you off from the Conformity requir'd Namely 1. Those great words too big for my swallow of unfeigned assent and consent And 2. The doing of any thing that is contrary to that Covenanted Reformation which we had so long and earnestly pray'd and labour'd for or that might be scandalous to those that rejoyc'd in the first-fruits of it and do still desire and endeavour to promote it These are the very words of that prime leading London Non-conformist old Arthur Jackson in a letter of his which I have still to shew under his own hand dated February 26. 62. And I doubt not but most of the Tribe turn'd themselves out of the Vineyard upon the same Temptations and yet these men have the confidence to cry out of the wrong they have suffer'd in being turn'd out by others Which is just as if the Romish Priests should complain of the wrong they suffer'd by being turn'd and kept out of England which was once such a fruitful Vineyard to them because such Oaths and Renunciations were impos'd upon them and requir'd to be made and taken by them for the securing of the Nation against their Treasonable and Seditious Principles as their Consciences could not comply with And yet our Author pleads for the Law 's just severity against them p. 32. of this Pamphlet where he tells us That the Supremacy of the Pope and the Authority of the King are inconsistent in this Land and that the Priest and Jesuite are taken by Law as Factors for the Pope and an undermining the Government is says he in all States a capital Crime Even so say I. The Authority of the King and the owning of those Principles required to be disclaim'd in the Act for Uniformity are inconsistent in this Land and therefore that they who will not disown and declare against those Principles are taken by Law as Factors for another Schism and Rebellion and as Persons that design again to undermine our Government Civil and Ecclesiastical and an undermining the Government is in all States a capital Crime and well had it been for this Nation if such an undermining of it had been made Capital in ours so far am I from being of this Author's mind in his saucy Insinuations in this Page that 't was wrong and iniquity in our Governours to make such a Law for the good of the Nation as accidentally occasion'd these Apologists to eject themselves out