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A63461	The True cause of all our miseries, discovered in their visible effects as I find it (to my great satisfaction) most manifest, in The lay-man's religion, lately published, licensed, Octob. 1, 1690 : which vindicates the doctrine of the Church of England, (above all others,) to allow liberty of conscience, according to the tenour of the Gospel ...		1690 (1690)	Wing T2593A; ESTC R38360	10,212	10

Obstinacy and Worldly Design all which are directly contrary to the meek yielding and self-denying Temper of Primitive Christianity And here I may with an humble Confidence inforce this Argument from the greatest Example and the most excellent Pattern even that of His Sacred Majesty now in the Throne the Head of our Government and Chief of our Communion whose incomparable Perfections whether we consider Him as a Man or as a Christian are sufficiently known to the whole World WHO to give us the clearest Evidence of his Zeal and Sincrity hath exposed himself to the greatest Dangers for Defence of the Reformed Religion And though his Education was in a different Persuasion the Discipline established in his native Country yet to demonstrate both his Piety and Prudence when he had searched into and was fully satisfied that the vital Part of that Religion wherein he was bred and the Doctrine here taught in our National Church was one and the same he was neither tenacious in his own Opinion nor bigotted to the outward Form or Persuasion which is but the Crust and Shell But as best became the Head of his People he together with his Royal Consort as one Soul do openly profess our established Religion the greatest Blessing Heaven could bestow if we know our Happiness And Oli that all Their Majesty's Subjects would resent it accordingly And farther I might urge another eminent Instance in His Royal Highness the Prince of Denmark whose Education was most strict in the Lutheran Church the established Religion of that Kingdom where the Discipline is as different from that of the Calvinists in Holland as ours is from both and yet from the same Christian Principle founded in the vital Substance of Truth and Goodness and not wedded to the Shell and Shadow finding the pure Doctrine still the same he joyns himself with His Sacred Majesty in the same Communion Who both during their late Expedition abroad in the defence of their Religion and Country have constantly in a devout manner offered up their Morning and Evening-Sacrifice at the Publick Prayers according to the Discipline establish'd in our Church From whence we may appeal to all impartial Christians herein whether such as are Natives of our own Country and Fellow-Subjects with us in one Kingdom and do all pretend to hold Vnity in Doctrine with the Reformed Churches abroad and with us too in our National Church and can so readily conform to the Fashions Garb and Attire of the present Age and are apt enough to insist upon the least minute Particle of Precedency with the rest of Mankind in Honour according to Order and Decency in Temporal Government yet are so tenacious in their Opinion and wedded to their own outward Form or Shadow of Divine Worship as by a continued Separation to sacrifice our Religion and the Peace and Safety of our Government our Laws our Liberties and our Lives as a Prey to our Foreign Enemies rather than with those most Illustrious Persons and many other eminent modern Instances who were all as strictly bred in different Persuasions under Foreign Governments to embrace that holy and pure Religion so here established and setled among us from the first Reformation by those pious and learned Martyrs the Founders of it I say whether this Stiffness and Obstinacy doth not arise from Ignorance and Prejudice in the honest and well-meaning who are seduced and imposed upon and from Self-Love Ambition and worldly Design in the Leaders and Seducers rather than from any pure Principle of Primitive Christianity I leave to all Persons concerned herein to be themselves Judges of the Matter I shall only add to compleat this Discourse these following Paragraphs out of the Second Part of the same Lay-man's Religion published since the First Licensed Nov. 13. 1690. Page 13. I Do not hereby charge all Non-conforming Clergy as culpable herein God forbid For I am fully satisfied there are many reverend pious and sincere Christians of that number who have great Veneration for our Established Religion yet have so far engaged themselves in their different Persuasions as they judge themselves uncapable Salva Conscientia entirely to communicate with us without some Accommodation in those things which have hitherto obstructed so happy an Union to which it is well known the most holy and learned Fathers of our Church have been and still are readily and most willingly inclined if such Application were made as according to the decent Rules of Civil and Religious Order in Government is required And to stop the Mouths of such as endeavour to render such an Accommodation either unpracticable or impossible whoever shall read and will consider the 34th Article of our Established Religion may be fully satisfied that as the pious Founders of it took care nothing therein should be repugnant to the Word of God so they never intended the Rites and Ceremonies which are the Shadow or Crust and Shell of Divine Worship established in our Church should like the Laws of the Medes and Persians be unalterable thereby declaring plainly that as those Rites and Ceremonies might be changed according to the diversity of Countries Times and Manners of Men so every particular or National Church not particular Parties or private Judgments hath Authority to ordain change or abolish them so as all be done to edifying But it cannot be reasonably supposed such an established Discipline the alone Medium of Unity and the Nerves and Sinews of all Government should be so from time to time changed much less abolished to gratifie every Leader or Founder of a Sect or different Persuasion that separates from our publick Communion into gathered Churches though on never so specious Pretences no more than may be reasonably required of a Master of a Family to alter the Oeconomy of his Houshold to gratifie the Humour of every petulant Servant or of Magistrates in Corporations to endanger the Peace and Safety of their Civil Established Government by a Change or Alteration therein only to remove or prevent the Murmurs or Complaints of every discontented Citizen that through Ignorance Interest or Design shall scruple or refuse to comply with the Rules and Orders made long before they were there Inhabitants for the Safety and Well-being of the Place Every reasonable and unbyassed Person that shall seriously consider these things and well weigh the Consequence of it must necessarily conclude that such a Condescention in Superiours herein would quickly unhinge all Government and turn all setled Order in the best Constitution in the World into Anarchy and Confusion How infinitely happy then would it be for this Kingdom if all that are Men of Learning and Parts and every way fitly qualified for their high and holy Calling to whose Judgment I humbly submit the Consideration of these great and growing Evils would labour after such an Accommodation in so sacred and weighty Affairs that they might all as Fellow-Labourers join in the promoting and endeavouring after so desirable a Blessing as Harmony in Divine Worship the only Means to heal our Divisions and effect an universal Reformation of Manners among us For as it is most plain Separation was the original Cause and hath increased all our Miseries so nothing but such an Union can heal and effect our Cure God grant all Their Majesties Subjects may approve themselves herein as worthy Members of such a Communion in order thereto by following the Royal Pattern and Example of our Sovereign and chief Member himself now on the Throne But after all I would be so understood as I have plainly in the First Part already declared that I do not aim at in any thing I have said the least Abridgment of that honest and innocent Liberty of Conscience the Christian's Birth 〈…〉 live peaceably under the Government in all Godliness and Honesty But still I say it is both equal and just that till such Persons shall be so rightly informed and convinced in their Judgments as to conform to our Religion established they ought to be content with such Liberty of Conscience and Indulgence as the Law allows them and not to make it a Stalking-horse to serve their Worldly Interest or Design for it is from Lucifer and not from Heaven if they aspire after or attempt to share in the Government upon any other Terms FINIS LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Hea● in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1690.