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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38463	The Englishman, or, A letter from a universal friend, perswading all sober Protestants to hearty and sincere love of one another, and a unanimous claim of their antient and undoubted rights, according to the law of the land, as the best means of their safety with some observations upon the late act against conventicles.	Universal friend.	1670 (1670)	Wing E3097; ESTC R11893	11,137	15

The Englishman OR A Letter from a Universal Friend perswading all Sober Protestants to hearty and sincere Love of one another And a Unanimous Claim of their Antient and Undoubted Rights according to the Law of the Land as the best means of their safety With some Observations upon the late Act against Conventicles Gen. 13. 8. And Abraham said unto Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee for we are Brethren Rom. 8. 13. If God be for us Who can be against us 1 King 21. 3. The Lord forbid it me that I should give the inheritance of my Fathers unto thee Ld. Cook The Law of England is our Inheritance yea the Inheritance of Inheritances without which we have no Inheritance Vauhan The Laws of England were never the Dictates of any Conquerors Sword or the Placita or good will and pleasure of any King of this Nation or to speak impartially and fréely the Results of any Parliament that ever sat in this Land Printed in the year 1670. The Englishman OR A Letter from a Universal Friend perswading all sober Protestants to hearty and sincere Love of one another c. Dearly beloved Brethren IF neither the holy Scripture nor humane History the Reason of the thing it self nor the general Observation of all Ages had shewn us the evil of Discord and Division yet our own Experience had been enough to evince us and future generations of the inevitable mischief destruction and ruine that attends it under the sad and lamentable consequences whereof we lye groaning at this day For the ending of which evil at present and preventing the like for the future it were good we would cast our thoughts upon some common medium wherein we all might center And the beter to prepare us for some such general Proposal It is necessary that we first consider What are and have been the Causes of our sore Devisions And my Friends the Rise Seeds Causes Growth and Encrease thereof seemeth at least in my understanding to have its Original and Continuance from some irregular and undue apprehensions in Religious mattors Not that Religion in its own nature hath any Principle of Discord or Division in it no not at all but quite the contrary being full of Peace Love Joy Gentleness Forbearance and the like and to say truth is the only thing that qualifies and fits us for Communion with Men as well as with God But because of our propensity to erre in our Understandings or Practice or both This sweet lovely innocent thing of Religion is through mistake made nocent to our selves and others and this mistake dearest friends is begotten and improved by nothing more than by our departing from those Fundamentals of Religion God himself hath laid and laying others formed by our own Imaginations in the room and stead thereof For our Lord Jesus ranks all Religion under these two heads of Loving the Lord our God with all our heart with all our soul with all our strength and with all our mind and our Neighbour as our selves And hath assured us that in these two Commandments all Religion is contained and upon them hangs all both the Law and Prophets The first doth mostly respect our inward Man or Conscience The latter our outward Man or Conversation but both together our whole Man our inward and outward our Soul and Body Many mind the first only which makes them less Humane than they ought and many respect the last alone which makes them better Men than Christians but few yea very few do reckon themselves equally obliged to both and according to that Obligation give obedience to both walking in all integrity and uprightness towards God and all men This Partial Obedience to these two great Fundamentals and Commands of God is the in-let to all the Divisions and Miseries which befall us for each Profession confines and restrains his Religion very much if not wholly within the Pale of his own Perswasion and too much thinks what he gives to any other is rather his Charity than his Duty whereas you see there is one part of true Religion ought to be as extensive as the World it self For if we take our Lords definition of our Neighbour our Neighbour is not to be understood by the vicinity of our Habitation nor by our relation as Church-members whether of our own or any other Perswasion for the Neighbour we are obliged both by the Law and Gospel to love as our selves stands not related to us as we are Christians but as we are Men as he admitably illustrates in the instance of the man journeying from Jerusalem to Jericho that fell among Theeves where the poor Samaritam proves the Neighbour and exhibits the duty thereof when both the Priest and Levite had denied it So that a Stranger in our Lords sence may be our Neighbour when he that lives next us either by Habitation or Profession may not And a poor virtuous Heathen for so the Samaritans were judged by the Jews may more exactly perform this part of Religion than the very Teachers and Guides themselves of a bare formal Profession But where there is more than bare form even the seeming power of Godliness how much is the Omission of this part of Religion to be lamented and how unfit are we to serve the whole Creation by it that yet know not to extend it to him that dwels next us The way therefore to return to Union and as a consequence to happiness is to return to our duty which is the way to both For if the neglecting this grand fundamental was and is the Cause of our Divisions the returning to it will be the healing of them again for if it be one part of our Religion to love Men as Men though they have no Profession on them surely we grievously go beside our duty if we do not love our fellow Professors as such though of different perswasions from us or go to restrain this universal Love to the narrow limits of our own particular Churches and think there is no duty of Love and service from us to any but such as are of the same shape stature and complexion in their spiritual understandings with our selves the evil of which hath so rent us Protestants tore us from one another and so wounded and weakned us that except we speedily return to a sincere and hearty affection of each other there is too much reason to fear we may become an easie prey to those that have an equal enmity to us all Many Expedients I know have been proposed and practised to accomplish this Christian Union as the Meeting Praying and Exercising of differing Perswasions together that so they might ferment and grow up into a mutual Love and Understanding of one another which is very good but cannot reach the end of that duty hear spoken of for though it may reconcile the differences of those perswasions which are nearest alike one to another yet it can go no further But