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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59749	Ta proz eirenen, the things that belong unto peace, or, A seasonable discourse for these factious times delivered lately in a sermon before the judges at St. Maries in Nottingham at the assizes there, and now printed at the command of some persons of honour ; to which is annexed A short and modest apology for the author and book of the several weighty considerations, humbly recommended to the serious perusal of all, but more especially to the Roman Catholicks of England, by Thomas Sheppey ...	Sheppey, Thomas.	1682 (1682)	Wing S3221; ESTC R33738	21,949	42

Condition Advising her in the mean while not to trouble her self with scruples and Controversies but bonâ fide to follow such Instructions as I had formerly left with her till I might be so happy as personally to wait on her and discourse her both about what I had done my self and what course I woud wish her to take And to yield her some satisfactory Consolation in the Interim I told her out of an excess of my Charity to that Party that if it should please God to take her away before I could confer with her yet I was so well acquainted with her Vertuous Life and Conversation and her sincere pious Intention of serving God to the best of her knowledge and Ability that I doubted not she might dye in a safe condition as well knowing that God of his infinite mercy might deal favourably with one in her circumstances and not let her be prejudiced in her Eternal Concerns for some Notional Errours deeply radicated by a long uninterrupted habit of many years If this were a mistake in me it was meerly a Transport of that Charity I have for all that profess Christianity But because I was soon inform'd how basely and unworthily this Letter was divulged and wrested to a wrong Sence by some at whose hands I have deserved better and civiller dealings I never made her any Visit nor ever had I nor will I entertain the least Correspondence with any of that Faction otherwise than in a common Civility which also for the future I shall avoid so far forth as good Manners and Necessity will permit And I take God to witness I was so far from perswading that Person to remain in Popery strictly so called that it was my design had I seen her truly and fully to have represented to her several of the gross abuses of that Church and so by degrees have reduced her from what I conceived most dangerous in the Popish Communion And had my Adversaries dealt candidly they would rather have taken notice of those many Pathetical Disswasives I sent to divers of them against Popery than to lay such a stress upon a Charitable Expression That I hoped well of a Vertuous Gentlewoman who might chance to dy in the Communion of that Church But there can be no surer evidence of a baffled sinking cause than thus to catch hold of every Straw that comes in their way Either the Papists believe me still to be a Papist or they do not If they do certainly it is very ungraciously done of them to vilifie and calumniate one whom they still believe to be their trusty confident Friend and to endeavour the ruine of his good name whom they would impose upon the World either as already being or willing to become a Member of their Church If they do not believe it themselves the more shame for them subtilly and malicioussly to insinuate to others what they themselves give no credit to I assure you gentlemen this is neither a holy Cheat nor a pious Fraud Were a disowning the Orders derived from the Church of Rome either necessary or convenient I should not be wanting to give that last proof of the sincerity of my Conversion But finding no solid ground or precedent for such a novelty neither in Dr. M. Luther Archbishop Cranmer no nor Mr. Calvin himself who never renewed their Orders but only relinquished the Errors and Superstitions of Rome I shall acquiesce and I think I have most if not all Protestant Divines on my side in that known Maxime Quod sieri non debuit factum valet And now to put a period to this Apology I know not how more fitly to conclude it than by making this solemn protestation before God Angels and Men That notwithstanding all that evil minded men have suggested to the contrary I am as real and loyal a Protestant as the Objecters themselves are inveterate Papists and I look upon that term of indignation wherewith they continually mention me of a fallen Priest to be less infamous by far than what suits with many of themselves whom I know to be Renegado Protestants In a word as I was sincere in my re-union so am I daily more and more confirmed in my adhesion to that Church wherein I was made a Christian and which upon an impartial Survey I judge to be the best copy of the true Apostolical Primitive Church in the World I mean the Church of England as by Law now established and therein I finally purpose by Gods grace to live and dye and if the All-wise Providence should think it fit to reduce me even to the last exigencies of begging my Bread yet neither the sollicitations of one nor the unkiudness of the other shall ever prevail with me to alter this resolution And I humbly request the Prayers of all good Protestants That God would enable me to reform the errours of my practice as I have done those of my Opinion and that I may never more scandalize that holy profession I here make And thus having publickly vindicated both my Innocency and sincerity against the usual cavils that are made against both I think it high time to ease both my Reader and my self THOMAS SHEPPEY FINIS A CATALOGUE of some BOOKS Printed for Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in St Paul's Church-Yard THE Antiquities of Nottinghamshire extracted out of Records Original Evidences Lieger Books other Manuscripts and Authentick Authorities Beautified with Maps Prospects and Portraictures By Robert Thoroton Doctor of Physick Folio A Rational Account of the grounds of Protestant Religion being a Vindication of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Relation of a Conference c. from the pretended Answer of T. C. Wherein the true Grounds of Faith are cleared and the false discovered the Church of England justified from the imputation of Schism and the most important particular controversies between us and those of the Church of Rome throughly examined The second Edition corrected By Edward Stillingfleet D. D. Dean of St. Pauls Folio A Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome and the hazzard of Salvation in the Communion of it in answer to some papers of a revolted Protestant with a particular account of the Fanaticism and Divisions of that Church Octavo An Answer to several late Treatises occasioned by a Book entituled A Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome and the hazzard of Salvation in the Communion of it The first Part. Octavo A second Discourse in vindication of the Protestant grounds of Faith against the pretence of infallibility in the Roman Church in Answer to the Guide in Controversies by R. H. Protestancy without Principles and Reason and Religion or the certain Rule of Faith by E. W. with a particular enquiry into the Miracles of the Roman Church Octavo An Answer to Mr. Cressy's Epistle Apologetical to a person of Honour touching his Vindication of Dr. Stillingfleet Octavo A Defence of the Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome in Answer to a Book intituled Catholicks no Idolaters Octavo Several Conferences between a Romish Priest a Fanatick Chaplain and a Divine of the Church of England being a full Answer to the late Dialogue of T.G. Octavo Of the nature of Superstition A Sermon Preached at St. Dunstans West March 31. 1682. All written by Edward Stillingfleet D. D. Dean of St. Pauls and Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty