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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45122	An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's book of The unreasonableness of separation so far as it concerns The peaceable designe : with some animadversions upon the debate between him and Mr. Baxter concerning the national church and the head of it.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Humfrey, John, 1621-1719. Peaceable design.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Of national churches.; Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699. Unreasonableness of separation.	1682 (1682)	Wing H3667; ESTC R28713	17,588	40

of it were composed of Scripture-Phrase altogether leaving nothing at all lyable any more to Exception unless the Imposition of a Form only which I doubt not but is also Justifiable by Scripture-Instances as well as Sound Reason it might go near to put an end to all Dissention among the Sober and Peaceable of the Nation It is this I know is apt to recur into the Imaginations of Good Men and forasmuch as there was lately two Bills prepared for Comprehension or Uniting the Protestants and for Indulgence or repealing the Penal Statutes I shall not I hope incur any blame if I apprehend that such Men who are most considerate and intent upon the Interest of God in what they seek do or did look upon either of such Bills as no other than an English Interim preparative to this Higher Concord and Union of the Bishop with his Presbyters according to the Primitive Pattern mentioned as soon as more mellow opportunity and well advised Piety should administer unto such farther Perfection Nevertheless in regard there is no Uniting of a Nation can be supposed by any Model but such as is of H●man Contrivance and there are Multitudes of Holy and Learned Men in this Kingdom that do believe the way of their Gathered Congregations is after a higher Pattern than this of Primitive Episcopacy it self i● there were any hope of the return of it it is manifest that there is no Society which is National in England could be formed on these terms because these Congregational Men can never recede from that which is of Divine Appointment for the sake of any Antiquity whatsoever They do hold Particular Churches to be of Christ's Institution and Diocesan of Ecclesiastical Consent only and under the Notion of Divine Right it is Sin to them to Submit to any Bishop There is another Notion then that must be advanced to take in these Good Men of This Way as well as those of the Parochial and Diocesan Way into one Political Body for the making up the National Church of England whereof the King is Head as I have been speaking and that is by an Act of Parliament Legitimating these Meetings of the Nonconformists so as to become thereby immediately Parts of the Church as National no less than the Parochial Assemblies It was a good thing in the House of Commons that they were about to free many Innocent Men from the danger of the Penal Statutes but the making such Meetings to be Legal is a Design of another Nature of a far greater nobler and vast Importance The Nonconformist as well as Conformist The Congregationalist as well as Presbyterian do acknowledg the King's Supremacy and can take the Oath The one as well as the other therefore do own an External Regiment of the Magistrate over their Churches so as to be punishable by him for any neglect of the Gospel Order which themselves profess or for any Rules they make or Things they do which are repugnant to the Peace of the Kingdom If it shall please the King consequently to commit any part of that Authority of his which he hath Circa Sacra to be exercised by the Bishops as Ecclesiastical Magistrates under him they can submit to a Visitation under them upon that account though they acknowledge them not to be Christs Officers bearing or having any Internal Church-Power from him over them or any other but their own Charge Upon which account it appears further how the outward Dignity and Grandeur of the Bishop need not be Diminished but enhaunced and his Superintendency extended over the Congregational as well as the Parochial Churches Provided only he will but keep within his Line that is the Line of the King and meddle not with Christ's Jurisdiction Neither will they envy him his Barony and sitting in the Parliament And if it should seem farther good here to a Parliament in one and the same Act that Legitimates such Meetings to appoint that unto the two Clerks which are Elected by the Ministers of every Diocess there should be one more chose by the Congregationalists likewise for every Convocation to joyn with them in Consultation that such Canons and such only may be framed as tend to the propagation of Holiness and Peace throughout all the Churches as we●l Congregational as Parochial who does not see how by this means one Organ more should be added to this great Political Society for deriving an influence from this Head to these Parts of the Body as well as others which now seem neglected and to have no care taken of them And this brings into my mind a Text of the Apostle God hath tempered the Body together having given abundant Honour to that part which lacked That there should be no Schisme in the Body but that the Members should have the same care of one another From which Text if I may go a little about to come the nearer home we may understand where the Core of that Evil we call Schisme does lye and that is mainly in the Want of that Love and that Care which the Members owe one to another It will follow that whosoever they be whether Conformist or Nonconformist who do care least for the Concord and Edification of the whole Body those are like to be found most Guilty of that Sin in the Sight of God The Nonconformist Minister does often come to the Parish Church but the Conformist Minister comes never to his Meeting and Which then of the Two is the greater Separatist The Meetings of the one and of the other as they are Particular Churches are Churches of Christ and Parts of the Universal and so of Divine through Quatenus Parochial of Human Institution They both agree in the same Doctrine and the same Sacraments They have one God one Hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism They differ somthing indeed in Opinion about the Church as to the external Constitution and Discipline of it and about some Rites and Practices which makes them go into distinct Congregations But is their going only to two Meetings enough to make Both or Either of them to be Guilty of this Sin of Schisme Separation I take it in its self simply considered is neither Good nor Evil and there must be something that makes such a Separation to be Sinful or else it is not to be accounted Schisme If a Man shall Separate from the Parish Church upon the perswasion that those Churches are no true Churches I take such a Separation to be a high breach of Charity which must therefore render it Sinful and Consequently Schisme If any shall Separate out of Pride Contention or any the like Sinful Cause or to any Sinful End as Worldly Gain for to some Gain is Godliness or Vain Glory this will make such a Separation to be still Sinful and so Schisme It were the part then of such a Convocation before mentioned that is of Ministers consisting of both sorts to be sure to agree upon this That