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A41069 The Way to peace, by the proposal of some considerations arguing the necessity of mutual love, and forbearance in many things to effect it T. F. 1682 (1682) Wing F64; ESTC R17296 24,146 17

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external force or power This Position That Liberty of Conscience is not to be granted in Religion is the the greatest injury and disinterest to True Religion can be supposed and brings upon Nations Wars Bloodshed Subversion of Families Deposing Princes Perpetual Enmity and Hatred and all the Works of the Kingdom of Darkness The most tru●y Religions are most abhorrent from persecution for Conscience sake To these I might add out of this profound Philosopher and Christian Doctor Many more expressions of the same tenor and importance were it not superfluous As a Coronis take these Propositions out of an Author of as great repute for Learning as most that have attempted to prove the Protestant Religion a Safe Way to Salvation Mr. Chill Pag. 161. They are the greatest Schismaticks who make the way to Heaven narrower the Yoke of Christ heavier the Differences of Faith greater the Conditions of Ecclesiastical Communion harder and stricter than they were at first made by Christ and his Apostles Allow the belief of no more difficulties necessary to Salvation now than were in the Primitive Church that no Error is in self destructive which was not then So order Gods Publick Service that plain and honest Christians may without hypocrisy scruple or protestation against any part of it joyn in it then notwithstanding difference in things not plain and therefore not necessary there would be Vnity of Communion Charity and Mutual Tolleration and by these means Schisms and Heresies would be banished the World and those wretched Divisions which rend and tear in pieces not the Coat but the Members and Bowels of Christ with mutual Pride Tyranny Killing Cursing and Damning will receive a blessed Catastrophe Pag 177. The Presumptuous imposing the Senses of Men on the Word of God and laying them on Mens Consciences equally under Penalty of Death and Damnation this vain conceit that we can speak of the Things of God better than in the Words of God the restraining the Understandings of Men from that liberty wherein Christ lest them these make Schisms Immortal Take away Persecuting c. for not subscribing to the Words of Men as the Words of God require of Christians onely to believe Christ and to call no man Master but him onely Take away Tyranny restore Christians to their just and full liberty of Captivating their Understandings to Scripture onely and 't is to be hoped this will quickly reduce us to Truth and Unity I have learnt saith he from the Fathers nothing is more against Religion than to force it from St. Paul that the Weapons of the Christians VVarfare are not Carnal and great Reason for humane violence may make men counterfeit but not believe and therefore fit only to breed Form without and Atheism within 'T is unjust to force VVeak Men by the Profession of a Religion they believe not to lose Eternal Happiness out of a fear they may possibly disturb the States quiet by Opinions by which neither disobedience to Authority or Impiety is taught or licensed They of all men are to be excepted from liberty which teach this Sanguinary Dactrine that 't is lawful by Humane Violence to enforce others If Protestants did compel others to embrace their Reformation and offer violence to their Consciences I excuse them not and blessed had they been had they chose rather to die for their Religion than fight for it This way of violence may perhaps produce Uniformity in a Particular Church or State but Immortalize the greater and more lamentable Divisions of Christendom maintain perhaps the Profession of Truth in one place and the Oppression in an hundred Thus this great Man hath Writ who was able by Reason and Scripture to maintain his Religion and not obliged for want of Rational Arguments to call for the Secular Sword to his Assistance I am aware that the Temper of Mind hereby recommended is by many of a Fiery and Active Spirit decried and interpreted to savour of too great a latitude and to be that luke-warm and Laodicean Humour which is so nauceous and hateful with our Lord That Truth is to be prosecuted with our utmost Care and Intention of Mind and that we cannot be too zealously affected in so good a Cause but ought to express the greatest servency therein Although the Enquiry after Divine Truth and the Propagation of it will justifie our greatest Diligence and Activity yet it will not account for any Irregular and Indiscreet Actions or Passions we shall fall into in the defence and patronage of it the greater Caution and Prudence is at this time necessary to do it real service since it hath suffer'd so much prejudice from their forwardness and heat that have appear'd on its side If I understand what it is to be Zealous for the Truth 't is not to be Passionate and Litigious about it 't is not to give our Natural Tempers when hot and eager the scope of expressing themselves warmly and contentiously for it 't is not to charge those that differ from us with Heresie or Infidelity c. He is the Man that hath a Love and Zeal for Truth that carefully informs his mind concerning it by Enquiry and Consideration that improves it to moderate his Appetites and Passions to resine and sweeten his Temper and Spirit to Correct and Regulate his Life and Manners to make his Converse Beneficial to Men and Subservient to the Honour of the God of Truth The Heresies and Errors which the Apostles so smartly reprehended and warned the Primitive Christians to avoid were such that directly tended to the Subverting Holiness of Life and foster'd Sensuality and Dissolution of Manners and frustrated the gracious design of God in Reconciling the World to himself by the Death and Resurrection of his Beloved Son by turning the Grace of God into lasciviousness making Christ the Minister of Vnrighteousness by taking incouragement to sin because Grace did abound by abusing their liberty to be Servants of Corruption To these Notions and Practices St. Peter gives the name of Damnable Heresies and the Errors of the VVicked and threatens those with fatal Destruction and utterly perishing in their own Corruption that so taught and practiced But when the Apostle hath occasion to Argue with VVeak and Honest Christians which held the Head and built on the true Foundation Jesus Christ though they were Erroneous and had Misapprehensions concerning the Nature of Indifferent Things and Truths of the lesser Magnitude he doth not severely animadvert on them nor was he willing to be positive and lay restraints on their liberty that he might not as he speaks cast a Snare upon them nor confine them where Christ had left them free but gives them general Rules to observe that Love and Peace might be maintained in the free use of their Christian Liberty and that they might manage it so as that it become not a stumbling Block to them that were weak as that they wounded not their brethrens weak consciences by their imprudent