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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44973	An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate and the continuation thereof / by a lover of truth and peace.	Norton, John, 1606-1663.	1669 (1669)	Wing H3402; ESTC R20176	79,882	174

flame with the Civil War were hot and fiery c. Ergo now notwithstanding that there has been nine years peace an Act of Indempnity and Oblivion passed the generality of men formerly divided quiet and quietly disposed uniting cementing and soddering together co-operating For the peace settlement and welfare of the whole a few Clergy-men excepted all that were sometimes of the one Side or Party must be looked upon as Hotspurs Incendiaries very dangerous Persons Enemies to Authority still c. must have the skins of wild Beasts put upon them and a hideous noise and out-cry made after them on purpose to stir up the People to hunt them down or worry them or else to move and provoke Authority to make and spread Nets and Toyles to take them Would it not have been more rational and Christian more Logical and Theological for the Author to have argued thus Mr. Baxter Mr. Allen Dr. Tuckney Dr. Conant and many others now living though Non-conformists are good men good Christians good Subjects good Preachers good Writers therefore we must not judge all our Brethren Inconformists for the failings or miscarriages of a few Or might not the Author of the Debate if he had pleased have argued much better and stronger thus Mr. Dod Mr. Ball Mr. Hildersham Mr. Rathband Mr. Geree and many others of the old Non-conformists were meek and moderate serious and sober zealous against Separation therefore it hath not been the way and Spirit of Non-conformists to be turbulent movers of Sedition in the State or makers of Rent and Schisms in the Church Or thus Mr. Love and Mr. Gibbons laid down their Lives for their Loyalty and Mr. Cawton was indicted of High-Treason for praying for his Majesty that now is The London and Country Ministers declared zealously against all proceedings against the Crown and Life of King Charles the First of Blessed Memory Mr. Vines Dr. Spurstow Mr. Young lost their Masterships at Cambridge and others their places elsewhere for refusing the Engagement The Cheshire and Lancashire Ministers published a Book in Print against the Engagement sided with Sir George Booth in his Undertaking for his Majesty The Presbyterians generally throughout the Kingdom were cordial and zealous for his Majesties Just and Royal Title Therefore they are good men and good Subjects to his Majesty Or if you will thus The Presbyterians and other Nonconformists have really lost their Livings pretending to keep their Consciences have been and still are generally either actively or passively obedient to the Laws pray for and seek the peace and happiness of the King and his Kingdoms have in patience possessed their Souls above seven years together and all this while have forborn even in their private Meetings all exasperating and provoking Language or publickly in print scurrilous Pamphlets or Libels against the Government And have not as the Author of the Debate hath endeavour'd to prejudice a great part of his Majesties Subjects by many Reproaches and Terms of distinction contrary to his Majesties Royal Declaration ordaining That all Notes of Discord Separation and difference of Parties be utterly abolished among his Subjects Therefore Presbyterians and other Nonconformists are men of Peace Religion and Loyalty Forasmuch then as the Author of the Debate hath endeavoured with his Sparks of Wit and Fire to inflame light-headed and hot-headed Persons if it be possible to make a combustion contrary to the Law of the Land the Peace of our Soveraign Lord the King and the great Law of Love and Peace the Act of Oblivion I would advise him to do Justice upon himself in executing his own Books in the Flames for being Incendiaries The worst I wish him is his Reformation that for the time to come he may be more charitable and good-natur'd or more Sanguine than now he is and less Sanguinary than these his Books speak him to be Next to our desires to cure our Adversary I hope we may have leave to go about to heal our selves and this I shall endeavour to do by pulling out the Weapons that have made the wound and by imitating the practise of the Sympathetical Doctors namely by applying some Soveraign Balsam or Healing-Plaisters to his two Weapons his Sword and Dagger or his Sword and Rapier call his two Books which you please if by any means I may heal the wounds Which they have made And though perhaps some others would never have scrupled to have answered these Pieces Railery with Railery or even Railing with Railing and to have thrown that Dirt in his Face which he put into our hands and to have laboured to quench his Wild-fire though with dirty and stinking Billings-gate Kennel-Water Yet this hath not been my design but rather the contrary to overcome him with good usage and good words and because I cannot give him as good Language as he brings therefore to study to give him better however nothing so bad to use hard Reasons and soft Words and herein to follow the Reverend and Judicious Hooker rather than Martin Mar-Prelate As for the way and method I take in assaulting his two strong Holds or Forts which some think impregnable namely why I do not charge in a right Line and rush directly upon the Pikes the Noli me Tangere's of the Books my answer is that of the Duke of Parma upon occasion I know very well what is fit for me to do for the attaining my Ends and am not come so far to take counsel of my Enemy Or as another Prince said I will not take a burning Coal out of the fire with my bare Fingers when I can do it better with a pair of Tongs I add further It doth not necessarily argue the want of a good Cause or a good Courage to come on the Flank or Reer of an Enemy as well as on the Front or to seem sometimes to give Ground and Wheel-about with a design to charge with the more advantage I shall not detain you much longer Good Reader in the Porch being sensible of being so long already May I crave your leave to make a brief Declaration a short Petition and to enter a reasonable Protestation I Declare I do hold the Elders that Preach Well or Rule well or Live well by what names or titles soever dignified or distinguished whether they be Archbishops Bishops Pastors or Curates whether they be Conformists or Nonconformists to be worthy of double honour And that I had much rather we could meet each other half-way to reconcile our Differences and to give each other the right hand of Fellowship than to try it out for Victory by these Pen and Paper Combates any longer lest Atheism and Popery be advantaged by our dissentions and enter in at our breaches I would not have Ministes of either perswasion be like the silly Coneys that continually fight and tear one another without ever joyning to make resistance against the Polcat I declare also I do not in or by this Treatise condemn Conformists or commend