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A51062 The moderate Independent proposing a word in season to the gathered churches, the Episcopal and Presbyterian parties tending to their humiliation for what is past, to be reconciled to each other for the time to come, and joyntly to acquiesse in the determinations of this present Parliament, as to the government of church & state / by Salem Philalathes ... Philalathes, Salem. 1660 (1660) Wing M2325; ESTC R16471 30,990 34

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THE Moderate Independent PROPOSING A Word in Season TO THE GATHERED CHURCHES The EPISCOPAL AND PRESBYTERIAN Parties Tending to Their Humiliation for what is past To be Reconciled to each other for the time to come AND Joyntly to Acquiesse in the Determinations of this Present PARLIAMENT as to the Government of CHURCH STATE By SALEM PHILALATHES A Church-Member Let your Moderation be known unto all men Phil. 4. 5. LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. was retiring from his Court was presented by him with a little Book in the Beginning Middle and End thereof was only written Moderation Moderation Moderation By which he insinuated that Moderation was the only way to make both Prince and People happy in each other And if so to restore both Prince and People to it that have lost it by running into Extreams Though therefore our Breaches seem to be like the Breaches of the Sea which can hardly be resisted or made up again and the fierce Contentions devouring Divisions and Differences that have been between all Parties seem to be like the Contentions amongst Brethren which Solomon tels us are like the Bars of a Castle which naturally are baracadoed to reconciliation and accomodation with each other again A Brother offended being harder to be won than a strong City Prov. 18. 19. Yet if that our own iniquities and the Jesuits subtilties hinder not there is a way to unite us all together and to pluck up the Causes of all our Dissentions by the Roots and that is by Moderation Moderation Moderation Now it is Moderation a Christian Condescention to and Reconciliation with each other that I profess that I propound as the end of my impartial and plain dealing with you all And that I may remove that which is the great Impediment and Hinderance thereof amongst all parties viz. the high opinion and conceit they have of themselves all their waies being as Solomon saith right in their own eyes that all others have wronged them and they have been injurious to none Though I may seem peradventure to some of you to speak as one more likely to widen than to heal the Breaches now amongst us by some smart passages and expressions Yet I intreat you all to consider that what I have written that may give any of you occasion so to think is only out of my unfeigned desire to remove that great Impediment aforesaid to Moderation out of the way from all Parties And that we may not be slightly healed it is that I so often seem to search you to the quick Let not therefore I beseech you any thing that hath dropt from my Pen be taken by the wrong Handle and be so far perverted as to heighten your passions and prejudices against one another but as all Parties have joyned together by their sins to provoke the Divine Majesty thus wofully to wound us and almost tear us all to pieces so let us call upon one another in the words of the Prophet Come and let us return unto the Lord for he hath smitten us and he will heal us he hath torn us and he will bind us up To this purpose let me in the first place make my address to you of the Episcopal Party whether of the Clergy or Laytie as you distinguish Far be it from me to suggest any thing that might irritate and provoke you except to Love and good works Yet give me leave to tell you that the great encouragement that generally hath been given to Prophaneness and the Scorn Opposition and Persecution of Godly men in all ages from the time of Reformation till God brought this Judgment upon us I fear hath much provoked the Holy One of Israel That it hath been a sinne of a long standing amongst you whereof you are highly guilty * And Dr. Jackson of C. C. he also confirms what I affirm in many places of his works especially in Fol. 3660. In a Sermon of his Preached to the University of Oxford speaking to such persons whom he stileth the Reverend Fathers of the Church and his Respective Brethren saith he speaking of the stupidity of this Nation under Gods Hand who had lately visited it with the Plague c. and the City of Oxford in particular saith he should a Stage-Player or other Instruments of Vanity turn or have entred these suburbs within two moneths after our 4th or 5th visitation past more of better rank amongst us would have been more afraid of being censured as Puritans for speaking 〈…〉 though in this place then would have blushed to have been spectators of their most unseasonable sporting I shall present you with a complaint of that Pious and Learned Bishop Downam in his Sermon preached at Spittle above forty years ago called Abrahams Trial p. 72. Even in these times saith he the Godly live amongst such a generation of men that if a man do but labour to keep a good Conscience in any measure though he meddle not with matters of State or Discipline or Ceremonies As for example If a Minister diligently preach or in preaching seek to profit rather then please remembring that saying of the Apostle If I seek to please men I am not the Servant of Christ Gal. 1. 10. Or if a private Christian make Conscience of swearing sanctifying the Sabbath frequenting Sermons or abstaining from the Corruptions of the times he shall straightway be condemned for a Puritan and consequently find less favour than either a Carnal Gospeller or a close Papist It seemeth in those daies persons of meek and quiet Spirits though conformable to the Government of Church and State met with the persecution of the Tongue under the odious and reproachful name of Puritan and found less favour than Prophane ones or Papists How you proceeded to higher degrees not only of the Tongue but Hand to the Silencing Suspending and imprisoning of many Pious and Conformable Ministers that would not publish that woful Book for the Prophanation of the Lords Daies forcing many Godly Ministers and Christians to leave their Native Country and flee into new-New-England Holland and other Places The first Remonstrance of the Parliament begun in Nov. 1640. doth at large demonstrate together with those many Speeches spoken by Sir Edward Deering my Lord Digby and others that were no Puritans nor yet for the total abolition of Episcopacy * Speeches and Passages of Parliament p. 98. Printed for William Cooke at Furnifuls Inne Gate in Holbourne 1641. Saith Sir Edward Deering The Pride the Avarice the Ambition the Oppression of our ruling Clergy is Epidemical it hath infected them all There is not any or scarce any of them which is not practical in their own great cause in hand which they impiously do miscall the Piety of the times but in truth so wrong a Piety that I am told to say In Facinus jurasseputes So he And saith my Lord Digby P. 65. of the same Collections There is no man within these walls more sensible of the heavy