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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65556	The Protestant peace-maker, or, A seasonable persuasive to all serious Christians who call themselves Protestants that laying aside calumnies, and all exasperating disputes, they would pursue charity, peace, and union, as the only means (now left us) of safety and reformation of the publick manners : with a postscript, or notes on Mr. Baxter's and some others late writings for peace / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1682 (1682)	Wing W1513; ESTC R38252	74,674	136

will call that Solitude which you call Concord Vniformity Peace c. I am weary of transcribing such Language and sorry to find men who would take it very ill not to be thought Conscientious against their Consciences to impute that to their Brethren which themselves do not believe they would ever attempt nay which they abhor in the least to desire Good Lord forgive 4. I must needs look upon his aggravating his own and the Dissenters sufferings beyond truth I am sure beyond Probabilities to have proceeded from the same want of temper Pag. 142. He tells us Some of the ejected Ministers are so reduced and find so little succour that they live upon brown bread and water I will only in Answer hereunto make and I do hereby make a solemn and serious Invitation of all those Protestant Ministers in my Diocese nay of all of them in the whole Province who are thus low I invite them I say hereby to my Table every day in the year They shall freely eat as I do and Wellcome in God's Name But it is yet an higher strain which we have pag. 153. Some have died through the effects of want I have heard so indeed of divers of our own Churches Clergy ejected in the days of Vsurpation and I have reason from some I knew to believe it But Mr. Baxter must pardon me if I tell him I am very sure there is more Liberality and Charity amongst the Brethren than that any such things could come to pass except men were resolved wilfully to conceal their own Conditions and throw themselves away in some discontented Humour But this I take only for a Figure which he uses beyond the Rule in Oratory usque ad nauseam We have it again pag. 210. Having told us after his use of the Two thousand silenced Ministers of late he adds to that Sum and the many that have died in and by Imprisonment which we are told of again pag. 180. as if besides that vast number silenced there were many others that fared much worse We must profess all these things are new to us never heard of before and as Mr. Baxter says well upon a like indefinite Accusation pag. 145. All proof in such cases must be of individuals so till such proof be brought he must excuse our Faith as we are content herein to excuse his Charity Again pag. 194. We will be thankful to be under no severer usage than Colliers and Bargemen and Seamen than begging Rogues and Vagabonds have Ficta voluptatis causâ sint proxima veris. 5. Of the same nature are his Altitudes touching the Conformity by Law required Pag. 189. Subscribe That we have not mistaken a word in all the●e three Books c. We will suppose by the three Books he means the Liturgy Canons and Homilies but what by the c. in which we pretend to be infallible as he insinuates we know not unless it be a litt●● Art to make ignorant People furmise more than he durst affirm Or else you shall not preach the Gospe● of Salvation nor labour to save Peoples Souls n●● perswade them to think on another life Yes in pravate as much of this as you please or not to above five at a time that are not of the Family The same in sense we have again pag. 219. We cannot subscribe that your three Books are inf●llible to a word c. I doubt not but Mr. Baxer knows a man may subscribe with good Conscience to that which he does not know infallibly to be true There are many things which both he and I verily believe yet we are not infallibly sure we are not mistaken If I have a fair and clear perswasion or satisfaction grounded hereon That though there be Arguments on the contrary side yet they are such which I judge honestly answered but on the side I take the Arguments are far the stronger and not satisfactorily answerable as I see I say I may subscribe with very good Conscience that I receive such Doctrine Lubens ex animo for I do so though perhaps I receive it not as of strictness necessary to Salvation or as an Article of Faith But neither is that assent required in the Subscription We subscribe only with a design of Peace and Union The very Articles are intitled Articles agreed upon for the avoiding of diversities of Opinions I could tell Mr. Baxter that somewhere in this his Book if my memory mistake not he says he durst not reject such an one who should not subscribe he believed every Book of the Old Testament as perhaps a Chapter of Ecclesiastes or the Book of Canticles or some other like piece to be infallibly Canonical yet I doubt not but he subscribed and can in Conscience subcribe the sixth amongst the 39 Articles Nay pag. 167. The Nonconformists offer to subscribe I fear with some exception the same Doctrine of the Church of England as the Conformists do in the 39 Articles and the Book of Homilies Yet neither do the Conformists nor Nonconformists believe every word in those Books to be infallible but they judge them a wholsome mean of Peace and by their subscription are bound not to teach contrary What needed then those terms subscribe we have not mistaken a word Did any one ever say so that these three Books are infallible to a word c. These heights serve only to conciliate hatred and the reputation of cruelty to us and so to blast Peace 6. I will only ask Mr. Baxter himself whether he thinks that imputing to men gross ignorance of their Office unbelief of Religion obdurateness beyond Examples and the like are apt terms to gain mens hearts and unite us and them Yet all these and worse than these as far as worse can be we have abundantly from his hand Pag. 2. He accuses the Clergy at the Savoy that is those Bishops Doctors and diverse the Learnedest men in the three Kingdoms perhaps in Europe with whom he there treated of having spoiled the work at that season for want of skill But this is Modesty in Mr. Baxter yet Pag. 89. Alas that England must suffer so much while the Bishops are learning to rule and do their Office yea learning what weaker persons i. e. himself lin 15. easily perceive Alas that so many thousand souls must pay so dear for a few mens experience Pag. 195. I shall give you reasons that will make you know it if you have but the understanding of ordinary men This as to the ignorance and sottishness yea even of those of our Party who are ablest such I say as were those at the Savoy Poor Dr. Sanderson Dr. Morley Dr. Gunning Dr. Pierson c. that had not the understanding of Ordinary men Then as to our Atheistical Irreligious Temper pag. 190. O! what a plague it is to the Church and World to have Ministers that when they read of the necessity of Knowledge Holiness and Salvation do neither believe Christ nor themselve Lastly