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faith_n	article_n	church_n	fundamental_a	4,539	5	10.3758	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67743	The cause and cure of ignorance, error, enmity, atheisme, prophanesse, &c., or, A most hopefull and speedy way to grace and salvation, by plucking up impediments by the roote reduced to explication, confirmation, application, tending to illumination, sanctification, devotion / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y143; ESTC R16605	116,892	303

and twenty Governours of Daniel Dan. 6.11 and the Caldeans of Shadrach Meshech and Abednego Dan. 3.10 to 30. Daniel of all Darius his servants was so bold as to pray three times a day not in contempt of the King of Babilons decree but in zeale and obedience to the God of Heavens command the Governours ●●ranging at it accuse him and say this Daniel which is of the captivity regardeth not thee O King nor the Decree which thou hast signed but doth so and so wherfore command we pray thee that he be cast into the Lyons den for no decree nor statute which the King establisheth may be altered Dan. 6. Again what disorder is this that I heare of you saith Nebuchadnezzer to Shadrach Meshech and Abednego will you not serve my Gods nor worship the golden Image that I have set up Dan. 3.14 who answered no be it knowne unto thee O King wee are not carefull to answer thee in this matter they were all as stiffe as if they had eaten a stake and they could not bow to an Idoll as the godly have been in all ages not being able to wheele with the times Yea they that truely fear God are usually as immoveable as the Sun in its course because they thinke and speak and live by rule and not by example and hold themselves as fast tyed as if they had the oath given them which the 〈…〉 solemnly presented to their Judges 〈◊〉 to sw●rve from t●eir consciences wh●●●●mmand soever they should 〈…〉 themselves to the contrary 〈…〉 strictnesse is a great eyesore 〈…〉 men who hate singularity almost as they doe sanctity which makes them so cry it down And no marvell for these men and so all Protestants at large so scorne to be singular that they will conform to any Religion the State shall establish yea should they be commanded to worship a Calfe with the Israelites Exod. 32.4 or a golden Image with the Chaldeans Dan. 3.7 They would instantly doe it as the times of Queene Mary witnesse Good honest men let them injoy their communities peace and plenty any Religion shall serve their turne They are as indifferent as Doctor Kitching who being Abbot was first the Popes sworne Servant then an halfe Papist King Henry having cast off the Pope a Protestant under Edward the sixt a downe right Papist with Queene Marie And a Parliament Protestant againe when hee tooke the Oath of Supremasy under Queene Elizabeth Of whose faith I take most Protestants at large to be For let them hear of a change in Religion it shall never a whit trouble them What cares a stupified worldling for the removall of our Candlestick What is it to him if the superstition and blindnesse of Popery did over-shadow the Land and turne day into night It is nothing to him if he can but see to get money Light or darknesse Scripture or tradition the King or the Pope Christ or Antichrist are all one to him to heare a Sermon or see a Masse he likes them both alike Perhaps they may thinke better of themselves and untill they be put to it resolve stoutly but a temporaries Religion and flashes are but like Conduites running with wine at the coronation that will not hold or like a land flood that seemes to be a great Sea but comes to nothing Now these are the men if you observe them that cry out so against singularity which imputation together with their extolling the meane is a cunning discouragement but it is the Devils Sophistry for the meane of vertue is between two kindes not betweene two degrees it is a meane grace that loves a meane degree of grace Yet this is the onely staffe with which the World beates all that are better then themselves What will you be singular Or are you wiser then all Or what is this but want of discretion And to speake truth that which worldly men call discretion eates up all true wisedome Their discretion and moderate stayednesse devoures all true honesty and goodnesse But shall Lot leave his righteousnesse for such an imputation of singularity Or shall he not depart Sodom because the whole City thinkes it better to stay there still Shall Noah leave building the Arke and so himselfe and his whole houshould perish because all the World else thinkes him haire-brained Or must the name of a Puritan dishearten us from the service of God No but as Saint Paul said in his Apollogy Acts 24.14 after the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my Fathers so wee in this case After the way which prophane men call Puritanisme let my soule desire to serve Iesus Christ. SECT 54. Ob. I Grant will the more moderate worldling say in such cases wherein the word of God is expresse singularity is not lawfull onely but laudable But which makes my spleene rise they will not conforme to things indifferent Answ. A seduced heart deceives thee in so saying why else doest thou cast the same aspersions upon such as are conformable But admit they onely are thornes in thine Eyes doest thou well to hate al that are not of thy own judgement or that have tenderer consciences then thy selfe No for honest and good men may differ in opinion not only in things triviall but in matters of great moment provided they agree in the fundamental articles of the Catholique faith and yet may and ought to continue brotherly love and communion as members of the same mysticall body as many examples witnesse both of eminent Christians and Fathers of the Church as also our Saviours words who speaking of the fundamentall poynts penneth the league thus He that is not with us is against us but o● poynts not fundamentall thus He tha● is not against us is with us Wherea● these differ from thee if thou beest a true Protestant as thou wouldest bee thought to be in nothing materiall for there is a vast difference between another discipline and another doctrine and they little differ that agree in matter Only their consciences are not so large as thine and thou thinkest those things indifferent which they cannot assent unto though they take more paines to satisfie and informe themselves then thou doest But admit they be things of an indifferent nature even actions of indifferency when once they are felt to trench upon the conscience lay deep obligations upon the soul even whiles they are most slighted by carelesse hearts there being no lesse difference in consciences then stomacks of which some will digest the hardest meats and turne over substances not in their nature edible whiles others surfeite of the lightest food and complaine even of dainties And indeed every gracious heart is in some measure scrupulous and findes more safety in feare then in presumption And certainely in cases of a doubtfull and questionable nature it is ever good to take the surest side and which draws neerest to probability Many things are of so questionable a