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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61586	Proposals tender'd to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament for uniting the Protestant interest for the present, and preventing divisions for the future together with the declaration of K. Charles II, concerning ecclesiastical affairs, and some proposals of terms of union between the Church of England and dissenters / long since published by the Reverend Dean of S. Pauls.	Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). Declaration to all his loving subjects of his kingdom of England and dominion of Wales concerning ecclesiastical affairs.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5621; ESTC R8098	25,861	37

this condescention of hers she will certainly bring into her Communion a great number of pious moderate and more considerative Non-conformists Which will not only add strength to her self but give a great joy and content to all those who have wish'd well to the Peace Unity and prosperity of this our Church and Nation To which end it would not be amiss that a strict Injunction should be laid on the Clergy and People to forbear all harsh and unchristian Language one towards another and to observe the Apostles Rule of not judging one another 2. I would likewise humbly propose That the rest of the Protestant Dissenters might be indulged by Act of Parliament provided they neither Preached wrote nor discours'd against the Doctrine or Government of the Church as by Law established and that because Charity which is kind and thinks no evil would oblige a sober and indifferent person to believe that the reason of their Separation from our Church did chiefly proceed from a tenderness of Conscience impressed upon them by the force of their Education Study Conversation c. lest in complying with the present established Form of Worship they should sin against God and wound the peace of their own Souls for otherwise their own present quiet and interest must necessarily have obliged them to a Compliance they having been under a continual danger and hazard of the execution of the Laws established against them whereby they have been not only deprived of that Maintenance which by the countenance of Authority they might otherwise have expected and publickly enjoyed but exposed to many wants difficulties and sufferings Proposals for preventing future Divisions I humbly propose to the Wisdom of this present Parliament That an ACT might be passed whereby every person after a limited term of years intending to take holy Orders should be incapacitated for any Church-preferment or for a License to preach in private Congregations who could not give a satisfactory account to the Bishop of the Diocess where he intended to settle of his proficiency and ability in Church-History and Primitive Learning whereby he might be able to give a clear and plain account of what Discipline and Order were used in the Church of God nearest our Saviour's and the Apostles days when Differences and Errours in Doctrine or Church-government began first to arise with the Authors Occasion and Effects thereof The Advantages which must necessarily attend the making of such a Law would be very great both to our interest in Church and State amongst which I beg leave to name the following 1. We might hereby for the future more assuredly hope for and expect Peace and Union amongst our Church-Men who having been all well acquainted with Primitive Learning and practice with the rise and growth of all Heresies Schisms and Divisions in the Church and with the fatal consequences which have attended them they would not more rationally than unanimously make choice of one and the same Form of worship and Discipline but most heartily unite in their affections to one another endeavouring with all their strength and power to maintain the Church in Peace and Unity 2. By this means we might be assured to enjoy the most Learned Clergy that ever this Nation brought forth who would not only prove a great Bulwark against Popery on the one hand but Schism and Faction on the other and being to well accomplished for the Ministerial Function before they enter into it might much more assuredly engage the affection and hearts of their people by spending in private the greatest part of the Week in instructing them in the Principles and encouraging them in the Practice of the Christian Religion a Duty alas too much neglected in our days 3. We may then hope for Preferments to answer every man's Merit One of the principal Reasons why we have more Clergy-men than Livings seeming to be this That a great number of ordinary Tradesmen and Farmers do send their Children to the Universities being ambitious to make them Gentlemen though they are unable to maintain them there above three or four Years in which time such Accomplishments are not to be attained as are required by this Proposal If therefore such a Law as this were once established they would be willing to bring them up to honest Professions and Trades much more suitable for them and Persons of better Estate and Quality would be encouraged to bring up their Children in the Universities and continue them there until they arrived to that pitch of Learning which would not only render them the Honour of their own but the Envy of Foreign Nations and also capacitate them for the enjoyment of a Preferment suitable to their Parents Charge and their own Pains and Industry especially if the King would appropriate the First-Fruits and Tenths of all Ecclesiastical Preferments or the Parliament should think fit to raise a sum of Mony for the purchasing Impropriations and endowing Livings with such a competency as might enable the Incumbents to provide comfortably for themselves and Families and to keep up decent Hospitality in their Neighbourhood and would annex those Impropriations when purchased to the Bishops and Chapters of each Diocess who are to be presumed to be the most competent Judges of the Abilities of all Persons to be entrusted with the care of Souls And for the more effectual Success of this important Affair let the Bishops be obliged every Year to call upon the Universities for the Names of the most Pious Learned and Industrious Persons in their several Colleges In short I heartily wish that we might often and seriously remember our blessed Saviours Prediction that a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand and likewise consider that fate which attended the Faction and Division of the Iews which grew to that height that they could not forbear destroying each other even when their declared Enemies the Romans were coming to besiege their City From which good Lord deliver us APPENDIX His Majesty's Declaration to all His loving Subjects of His Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs CHARLES R. HOW much the Peace of the State is concerned in the Peace of the Church and how difficult a thing it is to preserve Order and Government in Civil whilest there is no Order or Government in Ecclesiastical Affairs is evident to the World and this little part of the World Our own Dominions hath had so late experience of it that we may very well acquiesce in the Conclusion without enlarging Our self in Discourse upon it it being a Subject We have had frequent occasion to contemplate upon and to lament abroad as well as at Home In Our Letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons from Breda We declared how much We desired the Advancement and Propagation of the Protestant Religion That neither the unkindness of those of the same Faith towards Us nor the Civilities and Obligations from those of a contrary Profession of both which We have had