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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55103	A Plea for moderation, or, A stricture upon the ecclesiasticks of our times		1681 (1681)	Wing P2514; ESTC R16069	9,524	15

An ADVERTISEMENT to the Reader concerning the occasion of the ensuing Lines A Sober and serious Person lately departing this Life left the Education of his Children to a Friend of his of that Class called Presbyterians Non-Conformists or Dissenters whereupon an High Ecclesiastick of the Episcopal way pretending it seems some interest in the deceased and in order to the vacating of that part of his desires did in an open Court or Assembly declare That he had rather see the Children in their Graves than under the Care and Intuition of such a Person which Words as they gave no great content to many of the Hearers so they administred the occasion to the following Essay the Author hath much more to speak upon the same Subject but this was intended only as a brief Stricture to perstringe and curb that Intemperance and exacerbation of spirit which intervenes betwixt those who are all called Protestants A PLEA FOR MODERATION OR A Stricture UPON THE ECCLESIASTICKS OF Our Times Matth. 18.33 Shouldest not thou also have had Compassion on thy Fellow-servant even as I had pity on thee Philip. 4.5 Let your Moderation be known unto all Men the Lord is at hand LONDON Printed for R. Janeway in Queen's Head Alley in Pater-Noster-Row 1681. A PLEA For Moderation c. MAny and great are the Vicissitudes of humane Affairs the All wise Providence of the Almighty permitting changes and alterations here below that the stupid unbelieving and Atheistical World might be convinced both of his Being and also of his Power That he is a God and that he is a God that judgeth in the Earth Psalm 58. and the 11. casting down one and setting up another even as it pleaseth him Nations and People in Scriptural Language are compared unto Waters the unstablest of all the Elements which we know hath its Fluxes and Refluxes its Ebbings and Flowings sometimes Rolling towards the Shore in mighty Waves sometimes receding therefrom with the like roaring Billows which seem to be swallowed up in their own Abyss And it is to be observed as conducive to our purpose that the said Scriptural Metaphor and Allusion relates to mankind principally in its Ecclesiastick Reference as the Book of the Revelations which is a Church History wherein the similitude is eminently prosecuted doth make appear Revel 17. and 15. The Waters which thou s●west whereon the Whore sitteth are People and Multitudes and Nations and Tongues And those iterated Monitions in that Book of the Apocalypse no less than seven times in the second and third Chapter thereof He that hath ears to hear let him hear c. do afford us this useful observation That Ecclesiasticks of all others are most deaf and unheedful in things relating to their own fatality and by reason of such inadvertency are hurried on to such Precipices as tend to their Ruine and therefore had need to be rouzed up by some awakening considerations lest they should continue to tread in those steps which have led others in the same Circumstances with themselves to diminution and loss Now the Reasons of this drowsie and careless temper in those which should be Watchmen unto others is rendred Revel 8. and 7. She saith in her heart I sit as Queen and am no Widdow and shall see no sorrow Present ease drowns all thoughts of future harms the concerns of others under sufferings do not otherwise affect the spirits of such men than to make an Accession thereto by triumphing over them and thereupon sending gifts one to another as after a complete Conquest Add hereunto that the Ivy growing up by the Oak 1. the Ecclesiastick Power supported by the secular is secure of its own station and looks down with di●●●ciency upon his undervalued Opponent But humane Dignities not grafted on a divine Stock are not always long lived neither can they give the present owners a just Ground and Title to the hopes of a perpetuated and uninterrupted possession God reserves so much of the Government of the World in his own immediate hands that high places have been found slippery by those who have thought themselves most secure and established therein and there is no greater prognostick of a declension at hand than an high degree of confidence Revel 18.8 Therefore shall her Plagues come c. It cannot justly be denied but that Party of Ecclesiasticks amongst us which goes under the Name of Presbyterian had a very great Influence on the Restoration of His Majesty the Episcopal Clergy unless in their wishes and desires contributing but little thereunto and indeed they were incapacitated to add much as being outed by the then Powers and besides were no high Favourites of the People And whether their actings since their Restitution have been for the 〈…〉 as and affections time will shew Now that such a considerable body and so highly demeriting in so grand an Affair should have the Garland pluckt from their head and instead of a priviledge meet with a vilification and a disappointment of so deep a dye as in offect to be accounted the sole Troublers of our Israel in respect of God all men must be silent and admire his Providence bue in reference to the men who are the Instruments of such returns I will not say where is your Gratitude but where is your Common Reason and Understanding certainly you must have vented your passions at a greater distance if your Adversaries for so they seem to be accounted had not called you home to their own doors But to take matters as they are at present whether the Church should be governed by a Super-intendent Paramount call him by what name you will Patriarch Bishop c. or else by an Assembly of Elders is not the dispute of our Age one it was born before us and is likely to last when our days are ended there are Great names on both sides magno se judice quisquè tuetur 'T is not my present design to lanch out into the grand Controversie but if what I say can be influential to a just and equal Moderation and may tend to allay the too much hear animosity and acerbity of Spirit amongst Church men I have my end I look upon Interest Self-love and Desire of revenge to be the great Make-bates and disuniters of those who should an agree in one common Design for the saving of Souls by Interest I mean a carnal and worldly one such as grows upon the unregenerate stock of a vindicative mind and hath its place in all men as far as they are inwardly unrenewed 'T is fresh in the memoties of some Who were the Instruments of their Abasement and that Such should have any priviledge under their restored Government what reason This is the Voice of interested self and by this means the Potsheards of the Earth dash one against another till both as may be feared come to be broken These differences are the more unhappy because the Matters in dispute are not Doctrinal nor belonging to the Essentials