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A26943 Mr. Baxter's judgment and reasons against communicating with the parish-assemblies, as by law required, impartially stated and proposed Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1684 (1684) Wing B1289; ESTC R14325 19,788 40

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Mr. Baxter's JUDGMENT AND REASONS Against Communicating with the Parish-Assemblies As by LAW Required Impartially Stated and Proposed Great Men are not alwayes Wise c. Job 32. 9. Surely in vain the Net is spread in the sight of any Bird Prov. 1. 17. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth Rom. 14. 22. Printed in the Year 1684. TO THE READER THou art desired to consider That the Reason why the Author of these Papers has given thee the Judgment of Mr. Baxter against communicating with the Parish-Assemblies as by Law required is to undeceive those who think that he has been of late writing for it whereas that which he hath written does hold good only on Supposition the Parish Assemblies are Congregational Churches independent on the Diocesane Bishop who is for our holding Communion with them only as such It has very much grieved the Author to see how many have been led from their Principles by some men who though otherwise Dissenters have since the late vigorous Execution of the paenal Laws not only gone themselves to Church but done their best to engage Others to do so too and to that end have observed the Rule of the Polititian To press the Examples and Practices of some Eminent Men as a good means to draw on the rest Thus have they published the Names of Nye Robinson Owen and Goodwin to countenance their Commnnicating with the Parish Assemblies in the Liturgy-Worship which is manifest Abusing those Persons while they are made to plead for a Practice they Disavow The Designe of the Publisher of Mr. Nye Robinson c. as he himself professeth Is as well to satisfie those that scruple Communion with the Church To wit with the Parish Assemblies in their Liturgy-Worship as to vindicate those who have complyed whereas there is not one of these men that spake a word in favour of Parish Communion Nye's and Robinson's Rapers are ONLY for the Lawfulness of Hearing the Conformist Ministers preach not for Communicating with the Parish in their liturgy-Liturgy-Worship Besides it must be noted That what they wrote was confined to private Manuscript until some Years after their Death and never it may be designed for publick view And the Author of A speedy Remedy against Spiritual Incontinency pag. 4. doth assure us That at Leyden Mr. Robinson being confuted in the presence of above Three Hundred People did revoke his Opinion about Hearing and acknowledged that Hearing was a sinful partaking with that Ministry That this was Nine Years before Robinson's Death and that Robinson's Papers were not published in some years after his Death and had not been published then neither had they not through Inadvertency escaped the Flames and fell into the hands of an Inverterate Enem● who printed them Soon after they were printed Mr Cann wrote an Answer notwithstanding which thes● Papers are now Re-published and Robinson's Authority urged to justifie the LAWFULNESS Communicating with the Parish Assemblies in the Liturgy-Worship In like manner Dr. Owen who did grant that Forms of Pra●ers in Thesi may be lawful is introduced as an Approver of the Lawfulness of the imposed Liturgy and Ceremonies in particular than which there cannot be a greater Abuse Dr. Goodwin likewise after the Diocesane Episcopacy was laid aside did say That in some of the Parishes in this Kingdom there are many Godly Men that do constantly give up themselves to the Worship of God in publick and meet together in one place to that end in a constant Way under a Godly Ministry whom they themselves have chosen to cleave unto though they did not chuse him at first These saith the Doctor notwithstanding their Mixture and want of Discipline I never thought for my part but that they were true Churches of Christ and Sister Churches and so ought to be acknowledged And as for holding Communion with them I say as Sister-Churches occasionally as Strangers men might hold Communion with them So far Dr. Goodwin Note here 1 st That he describes a Church which for its kind is Congregational though in it there is a Mixture and want of Discipline His Discourse is of a compleat Congregational Church not of an incompleat part of the Diocesane 2 dly He writes for our acknowledging 'em to be Sister Churches and communicating with them occasionally as Strangers but speaks not of our communicating with such Parish-Assemblies as are of the Diocesane Frame nor of fixing our Communion there as the Law now requires 3 dly He insists only on the Faultiness of Mixture and want of Discipline not on the Liturgy-Worship which sufficiently evinceth that he meant it of the Presbyterian Congregations which had no Liturgy not of the Episcopals which have For whoever consults what he has in his Exposition on the Revelations will find enough that shews how much he was against the Liturgy-Worship But yet this Doctor 's Judgment must be produced for the justifying our communicating with the Parish-Assemblies that are but incompleat parts of a Diocesane single Church in their Liturgy-Worship as by Law required Much after the same manner doth the Reverend Mr. Baxter deal with us when he refers us to the Judgment of the Old Nonconformists who though they were for Communion with the Parish Assemblies then in being yet esteemed the Diocesane kind of Churches Ministry and Ceremonies to be Violations of the second Commandment Idolatrous and Antichristian And as to the controverted Ceremonies for instance Kneeling at the Sacrament Mr. Baxter knows best how much he differs from several of them to whom he refers us for they assert these Ceremonies to be Antichristian and Idolatrous But Mr. Baxter notwithstanding the high Applauses he gives 'em has openly relinquished their Doctrine and fallen in with Morton and Burgesse having also espoused that very Distinction of Primary and Secondary Worship which they received from Bellarmine and Suarez the insufficiency whereof has been long a go detected by Doctor Ames in his Reply and Fresh Suite Moreover it must be observed that Mr. Baxter has not given us so full and distinct a state of the present Controversie between him and those he calls Separatists as was necessary for his Discourses for Communion with the Parish-Assemblies without fuller Explanation will as now they are be generally taken as if he meant it of the Parish Assemblies by Law established which are in a kind destructive of Christ's Churches Ministry and Discipline as Mr. Baxter himself avers whereby the weaker sort mistaking Mr. Baxter are induced to conclude the established Constitution to be good But what is this less than the casting a stumbling Block in the way of his weak Brethren These things then being so 't is become necessary that some-what be done to undeceive the World and seeing Mr. Baxter is the Person on whose Authority most of those Dissenters who are now for Parish Communion do lean I have thought it expedient to lay before them an impartial state of Mr. Baxter's Judgment as I