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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

Religion and to the further advantage of Church-tyranny Ignorance or Malignity in the world And if we the foolish sinful Pastors have forfeited our honour and station in thy Church let not the Tyrannical Foolish and Wicked but those that shall be wiser holyer and more faithfully and succesfully diligent succeed us CHAP. XII An humble Petition to the Conformists Sect. 1. FAthers and Brethren though I presumed to counsel the Non-Conformists as my equals I will presume no higher with you than to lay my self at your Feet and humbly a second time to become your Petitioner for the souls of men for the Gospel the Church and the interest of Christ It is your Office to be Petitioners to mankind for Christ and to beseech them in his stead to be reconciled to God And a man might hope that one that should become a Petitioner to you that your selves would not destroy that Church might find acceptance and prevail But Satan hath got so great advantage that the wisest man living is uncapable of speaking rightly to you without offence He that can draw men into great disgraceful sin hath thereby raised a Bulwark to defend his work To be silent and comply is to be cruel to the sinner and himself and who can do it that believeth Death and Judgement To call men to repentance is utterly to lose them by implying that they have sinned O little did I once think that Repentance had bin so hard a work when God offereth pardon of all other sins against the Law of innocency on so low and reasonable a condition Sect. 2. It is not in my thoughts to confound all Conformists as if there were no difference among your selves I know that there are many sorts of you I. There are some Learned zealous high Conformists who think they have done good service to God by all that they have done already and no doubt were wise enough to foresee what they were bringing to pass and are not by any sober man to be accused of doing either they knew not what or what they did not suppose was good and would countervail all that it should cost to procure it Their work hath prospered And the hinder part of it is yet in their hands But it is also in the hands of God To these Reverend persons I have formerly spoken to their great offense Sect. 3. II. And I would there were no Ministers so pittifully dark and young and raw or so much out of love and relish with things Spiritual through the prevalency of a stronger appetite as that their incapacity convinceth me that I am not to expect much regard from them as knowing with what ears they hear Sect. 4 III. There are also some called Latitudinarians who love not Fopperyes or violence but are men of Reason and sober Conversations though they are not so tender and scrupulous as the Non-conformists but can break over greater rubs Sect. 5. IV. And there are other Godly sober unwilling Conformists who by the benefit of subscribing in their own sence have stretcht themselves to do what they have done who conform on the terms of Mr. Sprint submitting to what would else be evil onely to obtein the liberty of Preaching Far be it from me to put in any selfish ends Who are unwillingly Conformists as the Westminster Assembly were that after took down Prelacy Sect. 6. To all of them that yet have ears to hear I humbly present these following Requests I. O be not too angry with those that censure you as sinners I detest rash censoriousness But you know men that differ in this world about Speculatives may differ about matters of Practice too The Jesuists Fryars and Jansenists do so in not a few or little things And in such a difference one party must needs consure the practisers of the contrary as sinners If you and I differed about Usury Stage playes Gaming c. one party must needs think that the other side do live in sin And who liveth and sinneth not Either the censure is true or false If true should you not be as thankful as to one that would save you from the Plague Will sin do you less hurt than censure If it be false Consider 1. You are fallible and the notice of a possible pernicious danger should be received with self-suspicion and thanks 2. And you should love them the better for their aversness to sin though they should mistake the matter of it A proud heart saith swellingly Am I to be accounted herein a sinner A humble person will say Alas I am too likely to mistake and sin but if I do not I will love even a mistaken enemy of sin And to deal faithfully with you Had those honest Conformists of my acquaintance but come first to the ablest dissenters and impartially heard and weighed all that they had to say and not secretly slipt into Conformity as if they had bin afraid of hearing all I should have bin the more offended with their Censurers But God hateth sin and so must all that truely love him And they are our best friends that do most to preserve us from it And they are our greatest enemies that would flatter us into it To Preach against sin is your Ministerial Office And if any man thinks that you make a solemn Covenant to sin that you may have leave to preach against sin Yea that you deliberately commit a great one that you may have leave to preach against a less in other men this man deserveth to be heard though he mistake At Death and Judgment nothing in the world but sin will be your danger Unjust censures will be none If we say nothing to you yet its easie to gather by the costly terms on which we avoid it that we take conformity for a sin And if any of the people carry it censoriously or contemptuously towards you which we abhor remember that you take them for weak and pievish persons And honour or contempt is valuable according to the quality of the honourer or contemner You take your followers to be the wiser as they are the more And we bear their censures of us and much more And cannot you bear the censures of a few that you judge weaker You will proclaim the Non-Conformists to be the stronger Christians if they can bear poverty and restraints with the censure of the most when you cannot bear the censure of the fewest with liberty and Ministerial maintenance and honour II. For your souls sake and for the Churches sake Take heed of selfishness and Pride lest it fill you with envy against your Brethren that serve the same Lord when you think they any way diminish your reputation and honour I would have others keep up your Reputation to the utmost which in the name of God I charge upon them Yea and in honour to prefer you But if you think they do not remember that you are the Servants of a Crucified Christ who made himself of no reputation but took