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diversity_n	church_n	peace_n	unity_n	543	5	9.9121	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56221	Twelve considerable serious questions touching chvrch government sadly propounded (out of a reall desire of vnitie and tranquillity in church and state) to all sober-minded Christians, cordially affecting a speedy setled reformation, and brotherly Christian vnion in all our churches and denominations, now miserably wasted with civill unnatuall warres, and deplorably lacerated with ecclesiasticall dissentions / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing P4117; ESTC R32182	10,363	9

TWELVE Considerable Serious Questions touching CHVRCH GOVERNMENT Sadly propounded out of a Reall Desire of Vnitie and Tranquillity in Church and State to all Sober-minded Christians Cordially affecting a speedy setled Reformation and Brotherly Christian Vnion in all our Churches and Dominions now miserably wasted with Civill Unnaturall Warres and deplorably lacerated with Ecclesiasticall Dissentions By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne Esquire 1 Cor. 1.10 Now I beseeech you Brethren by the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ that yee all speake the same thing and that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement 1 Cor. 3.3 4. For yee are yet carnall for whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions are ye not carnall and walke as men For while one saith I am of Paul and another I am of Apollo are ye not carnall 1 Cor. 14 33. God is not the Author of unquietnesse but of peace as in all Churches of the Saints LONDON Printed by I. D. for Michael Sparke Senior and are to be sold at the Blew Bible in Green Arbour 1644. HAving neither Leisure nor Oportunity to debate the late unhappy differences sprung up amongst us touching Church Governement disputed at large by Master Herle Doctor Steward Master Rotherford Master Edwards Master Durey Master Goodwin Master Nye Master Sympson and others which much retard the speedy accomplishment and establishment of that happy Reformation wee all earnestly pray for and at least pretend Cordially to desire I have at the importunity of some Reverend Friends digested my subitane apprehensions of these distracting Controversies into the ensuing considerable Questions which sadly pondered solidly debated by sober-minded peaceably disposed men of greater Ability and Vacancy for such a worke then I enjoy may put a happy period to all our dissentions about this subject and heartily unite our devided Judgements Affections the better to secure our selves against the common Enemies who prevaile most by our divisions 1. Whether the Gospell being by Christs owne Injunction to be (a) preached to all Nations and people whatsoever who have their severall established different formes of Civill Government Lawes Manners Rules and Customes sutable to their respective dispositions climes republikes it can be infallibly evidenced by any Gospell Text That Christ hath peremptorily prescribed one and the selfe same forme of Ecclesiasticall Government discipline Rites to all Nations Churches in all particulars from which they may in no case vary under paine of mortall sin Scisme or being no true Churches of Christ with whom good Christians may not safely communicate Or rather whether every severall Nation republike and Nationall Church hath not under the Gospell (b) a Libertie and latitude left them to chuse and settle such an orderly form of Church-Government discipline and Ecclesiasticall Rites as is most suitable to their particular Civill Government Lawes Manners Customes alwaies provided it be consonant and no waies repugnant to the Word of God nor prejudiciall to his sincere Worship or the peoples salvation nor such as hinders their Christian Communion amity Charity among themselvs with other true Christian Churches This being as I conceive a generally received truth among all (c) Protestant Churches the very substance of the 34. Article of the Church of England of the 77. Article of the Church of Ireland and of the Statutes of 2. 3. E. 6. c. 1.3 4. E. 6. c. 10.5 6. E. 6. c. 1.1 Eliz. c. 2.8 Eliz. c. 1. And whether some things in all Church Governments Disciplines Ceremonies whatsoever are not and must not be left to humane prudence for which there is no direct precept nor patterne in sacred Writ Which truth is assented to by al parties Churches whatsoever in theory or practise 2. Whether if any Kingdome or Nation shall by a Nationall Councell Synod and Parliament upon serious debate Elect such a publike Church-Government Rites discipline as they conceive to be most Consonant to Gods Word to the Lawes Government under which they live and manners of their people and then settle them by a generall law all particular Churches Members of that Kingdome and Nation be not thereby actually oblieged in point of (d) Conscience Christianity readily to submit thereto and no wayes to seeke an exemption from it under paine of being guiltie of Arrogancie Scisme Contumacie and lyable to such penalties as are due to these offences 3. Whether that forme of Ecclesiasticall Governement which hath sufficient if not best warrant for it in the New Testament the examples of the Primitive Church of the best reformed Churches in this latter age to backe it the resolutions of the most eminent persons for Learning and Pietie in all Protestant Churches approving it tends most to effect establish Christian (e) Vnitie Peace and Amity in the Churches Nations Kingdomes embracing it and with forraign Churches professing the same Religion suites best with the publike civil Government Lawes Manners of those Realmes who receive it and serves most effectually to prevent suppresse all Heresies Errors Scismes Factions diversities of opinions corruptions of manners Libertinisme Injustice with other inconveniencies which may infest a Church or State is not to be chosen rec●ived as a true undoubted Church-Governement agreeable to the Gospell of Christ and to be preferred before that Ecclesiasticall Government which hath no such expresse ●arrant for it in Scripture no patterne for it in the Primitive or best reformed ●●urches no generall approbation of the most eminent persons for Learning ●nd Piety in all Protestant Churches asserting it tendes not to effect maintaine or establish Christian Vnitie Peace Amitie in the Churches Nations Kingdomes embracing it suits not with their established civill Lawes Go●ernment and is no effectuall meanes to prevent or suppresse but rather to intro●●ce and foment all Heresies Errors Scismes Factions diversities of opinions corruptions of manners Libertinisme Injustice for want of Appeales and other inconveniencies which may infest a Church or State 4. Whether the Presbiteriall forme of Church-government if rightly ordered be not such as is expressed in the former the Independent such as is mentioned in the latter part of the preceding question and therfore the first of them rather to be embraced then the last without any long debate 5. Whether the grounds and reasons principally in●isted on for an Independ●nt Church Government be not such as if duly examined will by unevitable necessary consequence subvert dissolve at least imbroyle endanger all Nationall Provincial Churches Councels Synods all setled Monarchicall Aristocraticall or Oligarchicall formes of civill Governement in Nations Republikes States Cities reduce all Ecclesiasticall all Civill publike kindes of Government to that which is meerely Parochiall or Domesticall and make every small Congregation Family yea person if possible an Independent Church and Republike exempt from all other publike Laws or Rules of civill and Ecclesiasticall Government but what they shall