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A25450	Animadversions upon Dr. Calamy's Discourse in the conformists cases against dissenters, concerning a scrupulous conscience wherein the nature of a doubting, tender conscience is considered, together with the duty of such as are proffessed of it.		1700 (1700)	Wing A3203; ESTC R16305	21,244	32

the Temple and in the Synagogues tho' he had no share in the Revenue of the Priests and Levites he used it and often heard the Law of his Father opened and read often reading and opening it himself in the mean time he would himself have nothing to do with their Traditions not so much as to wash his Hands religiously but only with his Father's Institutions nor did he think himself obliged only to preach there but in many other Places in Ships upon Mountains in Private Houses in Fields and that not to Four or Five only but to Four and Five thousand Dissenters only crave that they may go and do likewise If they may not this Example is ill produced For the Churches of Corinth c. they do not think themselves further bound to follow them than as they followed Christ who did not admit drunken Persons to the Sacrament and had our Author pleased he could have put a fairer Sense upon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 than drunken and so our Translators have done John 2.10 where the Translation is When men have well drunk yet the same Word in the Greek is there used and that is all meant 1 Cor. 11.21 For as none will say that Joh. 2.10 it signifies men stark drunk so in 1 Cor. 11.21 the Disorder he reproveth amongst the Corinthians is thus expressed For in eating every one taketh before his own Supper and one is hungry and another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath drunk sufficiently so as it should seem that they made the Lord's Supper but as a Banquet or Grace-cup after their own Supper so could not receive it with that Premeditation and Preparation and Holy Reverence which they ought Our Author concludes with magnifying of Vnity and perswading to it minding us of the high Sense the Primitive Christians and old Nonconformists had of Division and at last tells us In all that I have now said I am not conscious to my self that I have used any Argument but what many of those very Ministers who now dissent from us did teach and maintain and print too against the Independants and other Sectaries that divided from them when they preached in the Parish-Churches And if this was good Doctrine for those who separated upon the account of Corruptions for purer Ordinances in those Days I see not why it is not as good against themselves when upon the very same Pretences and no other they divide from us now We would willingly know what Vnity it is they plead for Is it an Union of Love and Affection We profess our selves seperated from no part of Mankind in that Sense and more particularly to love our own Nation all those in it more especially who are Protestants and to have a more particular Delight and Complacency in such of them as we see live Holy Lives in a more strict Conformity to their Rule Is it an Union in Doctrines We have often enough professed our selves in Heart to believe all Doctrines of Faith contained in the Holy Scripture particularly those in the Articles of the Church of England so far as concerneth Doctrine In the Irish Articles and Scottish Articles what in this thing can they ask more Is it an Union in the same specifical Acts of Worship We use no other than is and always was used in the Church of England Prayer Preaching Hearing the Word Baptizing Infants Receiving the Lord's Supper c. Is it in the Circumstances of Worship necessary as some Time and Place is some Gesture and Habit is Was there ever such an Unity or Uniformity in England Or is there now Did all People ever meet in the same Place or at the same Time or in the same Habits or use the same Gestures At all times did not some pray standing some kneeling some sitting And did they not always as much differ as to their Gesture at the Sacrament Or Convenient or obviously decent Circumstances Are then all the Parish-Churches equally convenient or their Pulpits or Seats for Preaching or Hearing Do all Persons come to Churches in Habits equally decent Tho' possibly few use Habits indecent which none can charge on us Do not all use the same Words in Prayer And do Conformists all use the same or did they ever use the same in the Pulpit and the Desk Do we not all meet with them in the same Place Can then all the People in a great Town or City so meet Is the Division here then that we do not agree Parochial Societies to be particular Churches Which amongst our Conformable Brethren will so own them Surely they reckon the Diocess the Particular Church and the Bishop the Pastor Will not we own Bishops and the Government of the Church by them We cannot indeed own them by Divine Right to have any such Power but we will own the King to be the Governour of the Church under Christ not to make new Laws but to put his Laws in execution and to have Power to appoint his Commissioners under what Titles he pleaseth whether Archbishops or Bishops who shall have Power by Virtue of such Commission to do in the Church whatsoever the King may do and if these Commissioners be also Ministers of the Gospel by Virtue of that Commission from Christ they shall also do what any Gospel-Ministers may do All the Cry against Dissenters for dividing and rending the Peace of the Church amounts to this 1. That they can own no intrinsick Officers in the Church whom Christ hath not appointed in his Word 2. That they can own no Laws in Worship but what he hath made by himself or his Commissioners the Apostles till those be proved not to have been sufficient 3. That they cannot allow the Bounds of Parishes to be on that account the Bounds of Churches nor Inhabitants in them sufficient to entitle all baptized Persons to be Members of the Church in that Place 4. That they cannot agree all Persons of Sixteen Years of Age to be fit to receive the Lord's Supper a thing never allowed by any Church in the World To make the Matter short Dissenters profess themselves ready to unite with their Brethren in all things relating to Worship for which the least Line of Scripture shall be shewn and in other things if they can be made appear naturally necessary for the Actions or convenient or decent We never need fear breaking with them who will not upon these Terms unite with us The Case of the Difference betwixt Presbyterians and Others was this The Presbyterians were regulating things according to the Divine Will offered their Brethren Liberty to preach yea and in the greatest Congregations were ready to hear them in any thing they could object in their Practice contrary to the Word of God and to reform any thing proffessed to make nothing their Rule but the Word of God They had Reason to blame those who on these Terms would not unite with them Are these the Terms of Union now offered It may be some