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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

in the Church as many Creeds as Heads Destruction and Unhappiness is in all their ways and the way of Peace they have not known In their bed appointed for rest they study how to be Turbulent and travel with mischief and bring forth Ungodliness These these are the Troublers of our Israel the Thorns in our Eyes and the Goads in our sides the very Firebrands and Bellows of Sedition But we hope better things of You and things that accompany Salvation though we thus speak And though for the Divisions of Reuben there are great thoughts of heart Yet we will leave this Point and these wicked Men who are like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up Mire and Dirt and proceed to something that may prove an expedient to these growing mischiefs and that shall make up the last part of this Discourse and it is this The best way to maintain Quiet between God and Man between Man and Man and in a Man 's own Breast is to put in execution the Apostles advice here that we every one do our own Business Wherein the Apostle recommends to us Diligence in our Calling thereby excluding Idleness and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or intermedling with other Mens Affairs We must be busy but in our own Concerns And then withal by the near Connexion of this with what went before Studying to be quiet is intimated that the more busy we are at home the more quiet we are like to be abroad Man saith the Scripture is born to Labour as the sparks flye upward And though every good and perfect gift be from above yet we must not neglect Industry in our Station and Calling The Husbandman must rise up early and sit up late and eat the bread of carefulness and then he may prudently expect that his Gainers may be filled with all manner of store that his Sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in his Fields that his Oxen may be strong to labour and that there may be no decay in his Cattle Every man must attend his Office the Seaman must look to his Ship and the Tradesman to his Shop that so he may eat the Labours of his hands The Glorious Angels themselves though Spirits yet are Ministring Spirits ordained for the Praise of God and the Service of his Church Even in the state of Innocency Man was placed in the Garden of Eden to dress it as well as to keep and injoy it And this Diligence is to be used says Solomon Prov. 6.11 Lest Poverty come on thee as one that travelleth and necessity like an armed Man That is to say If thou mind not thy business Beggery will assault thee so suddenly so violently that thou canst not resist it All that belong to Gods Vineyard must be Labourers All are Stewards in his Family And as for the Magistrate in particular his business is so great that it made St. Chrysostom exclaim Miror si quis Rectorum salvari possit Nay it is Observable that Gods way of proceeding with his own People the Israelites puts every man in mind of his doing his business For though he could very easily have rained down on them loaves ready baked and fit to eat yet he rain'd down Manna which being scattered about the fields was with no small labour to be gathered together to be bruised in a Mortar or some other way and so formed into Loaves and baked that so at the same time he might supply their wants and teach them Diligence But if to the Temporal Concerns of a Man you adjoyn the spiritual necessities and Eternal Interests of a Christian you will ex abundanti as we say be convinced of the great Reason St. Paul had to press this Duty of looking to our Business I will instance but in that one business of Repentance wherein a Man must unravel his whole Life it is the leading a new Life a putting off the old Man and putting on the New an utter extirpation of all superfluity of Naughtyness and an Address to and a finall passage through all the Passages of Holy Living We have all our accounts to make even between God and our own Souls The Duty of Repentance without which we shall All perish consists of many Parts and so much imployment that it requires much Time and leaves a Man in the same degree of hope of Pardon as is his Restitution to the state of Righteousness and holy Living And who ever hath made the experiment will find that it is not so easy a business to root out the habits of many inveterate Sins which a Man hath contracted through the whole Course of his Life We find it work enough to mortify one beloved Lust in our very best advantages of strength and Time In so much that we read in the lives of the Antient Hermits of a famous Ascetick who having spent many years in that one Verse of the Psalmist I said I will look to my ways that I offend not with my Tongue yet acknowledged he was far from having attained that very Lesson And yet a defect in that very business is able to evaporate all our Religion for he that bridles not his Tongue that Mans Religion is in Vain To which we may annex the Command of the Apostle that we use all Diligence to add to our Faith Vertue and to our Vertue Knowledg and to Knowledg Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly Kindness and to Brotherly Kindness Charity Now certainly Sirs who ever seriously weighs these things will presently cry out who is sufficient for these things Life is short Art is Long the mystery of Godliness is no such easy Trade as many dream of And therefore the Apostles Counsel is most reasonable here To study to do our own Business and onely our own Business for I think we have enough to do However one Caution must necessarily be here interposed and it is not mine but that of a late Excellent Prelate of the Church of England It may be a fault and a great one too so to do our own Business as not to regard what becomes of others So our own turn be served and we get by it no matter who loses This is deservedly prohibited by our Apostle himself Philip. 2.4 Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others and v. 24. he complains that All seek their own and not the things that are Jesus Christs And therefore our own here and our own there are two different Things That which he blames there is our Own of Interest there may be too much of our own in that But what he commands here is our Own of Duty and Office In this we must do so much our Own that we must not meddle with anothers Now how well this is observed especially at this time we need but appeal to our own eyes and Ears I have not time to Anatomize these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

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