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A36831 An appeal of all the non-conformists in England to God and all the Protestants of Europe in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King to which is added a sober and unpassionate reply to the author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin / by Dr. Lewis Du Moulin ... Du Moulin, Lewis, 1606-1680. 1681 (1681) Wing D2530; ESTC R35666 14,500 36

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AN APPEAL OF All the Non-Conformists in ENGLAND TO GOD And all the Protestants of EUROPE In order To manifest their Sincerity in point Of Obedience to God and the King To which is added A Sober and Vnpassionate REPLY To the AUTHOR Of the Lively Picture of Lewis du Moulin By Dr. LEWIS Du MOVLIN Late History Professor of Oxford London Printed for Richard Janeway in Queens-Head-Ally in Pater-Noster-Row MDCLXXXI A Notice to the Reader ALthough these Papers to thee are Posthumous the Author of them departing this Life three or four days since yet the Doctor himself both saw and corrected all the sheets save one before his sickness October 23 1680. Pag. 20. line 5 read Conformist for Non-Conformist AN APPEAL OF All the Non-Conformists in ENGLAND to GOD and all the Protestants of Europe in order to manifest their Sincerity to GOD and the KING HAving in some late Treatises given a short Account of the Advances of the Church of England towards Popery from the beginning of the Reformation I am obliged to mention some Particulars over again which leads me to some other Considerations very material for the Design in hand 1. That the First Reformers in the dayes of E. 6. though of several Judgments about the External part of the Government were all of honest Principles and Sentiments in their Doctrine and had the same mind and design to purge the then present Church of its Idolatry Superstitions and gross Errours and to bring in the same pure Doctrine that was professed by Calvin and the Reformed Churches in France and which hath been and is still retained by the Non-Conformists that were and are now 2. That the said first Reformers being divided in their Opinions about retaining that which was good and taking away whatsoever was amiss in the Romish Church as to the outward Governmnt the Opinion that the Reformation could not be thoroughly done for matter of Government and Externals as it was possible for matter of Doctrine prevailed so far with Bishop Hooper Rogers and others that wisht it had been otherwise as to make them forbear any further urging of a compleat Reformation in hopes that when the people that were instructed in the true saving Doctrine should be more numerous the opposition to a through Reformation in all points would be less 3. That this rude draught of Reformation suitable to that time had very bad Success because the Conformable Party prevailed still with the Soveraign and the Grandees of the Realm to have it a standing Law that was not to be repealed nor altered and which drawing along with it Non-Residency plurality of Livings a meer form and garb of Religion and Piety outward pomp and grandeur best suited with a Worldly interest whilest the other Party who were then Puritans and whom we now call Non-Conformists retained and do still to our days a desire and longing after a thorow Reformation and they have endeavoured by Conferences Remonstrances and Writings to have it introduced 4. That yet the Conformists were not all of one mind there being still a Party among them very peaceable and Orthodox and at less distance from the Non-Conformists especially among the Gentry that were no Courtiers and in great Towns Cities and Corporations whilest the other Party made up of Conformists grew corrupt and so far from hearkening to a further Reformation that they made nearer advances towards Rome 5. That Jealousies and apprehensions daily encreasing and fears of inclining to Popery and the Troubles in Scotland intervening in the Years 38 and 39 and the Discontents rising up in England the King was forced to call a Parliament which began in 1640. 6. That that Parliament both Lords and Commons was most if not all composed of such Peaceable Orthodox Church of England men I have but now mentioned and all conforming to the Rites Ceremonies of Episcopacy and Hierarchy but yet greatly averse to Popery Tyranny and the Corrupt Party of the Church of England that inclined towards Rome Witness the many Speeches in Parliament they made as of the Lord Faulckland Sir Benjamin Rudyer Digby and others with whom Good and Honest Bishops joyned 7. That the Ground and Rise of the Civil War in 1640 and 43 was in opposition to such as Bishop Laud and other bad instruments 8. That the Lords and Commons in 1642 and 43 were all in perfect Conformity to the Church of England so was the Army too that they raised for the General the main Body of the Army the Officers and Captains both by Land and Sea were all conformable to the Church of England and none of them Puritans Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Sectaries or Conventiclers 9. That likewise the Assembly of Divines in Westminster chosen by the Parliament were all Conformists and none of them Silenced Ministers except 8. or 9 and 4 Scots 10. That the first Intentions of the Parliament was so far from subverting the Government of Church and State established by Law and from taking away the House of Lords and Bishops root and branch that it was only to reform the abuses of both and to settle such a Model of Church Government as was recommended by the Pious and Learned Bishops Vsher and Hall and which did not much differ from that which our Gracious Soveraign that now is recommended to his Parliament in his Declaration 1660. about Ecclesiastical Affairs 11. That the Parliament had no thoughts of bringing in the Covenant into England had not the necessity of their Affairs forced them to joyn with the Scots 12. That no man was obliged by it to take away Bishops but only as they are in Conjunction with the English Hierarchy 13. Neither was it the Intention of the Lords and Commons at first to take away Deans and Chapters but to make them more serviceable and useful to take away Pluralities Non-residencies and to settle a more proportionable Maintenance for Ministers 14. That the Change or Subversion of Government the taking away the Lords House and with them the Bishops and excluding the greatest part of the House of Commons and last of all the taking away the King and all the Confusions and Disorders that happened thereupon did arise from a third Party viz. The Army that was neither for the King nor Parliament Neither for Conformists nor for Non-Conformists but was an Enemy to them all and sought their absolute ruine and destruction 15. That the Non-Conformists who usually now go by the name of Presbyterians Fanaticks Independents Rebels Sons of Belial c. by the corrupt Church-Party that have been always making advances towards Popery were so far from being the first in Arms in opposition to the King our late blessed Martyr and being contrivers of his Death and of taking away Monarchy that on the contrary it was the only Party while the others of the King's Friends sate still that appeared before and since 48 in his behalf to the hazard of their Lives witness Mr. Love and that in 1660 had a