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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64270	A disswasive from contention being a sermon preached and designed for the last itineration of the King's preachers in the county Palatine of Lancaster / by Zachary Taylor ...	Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.	1683 (1683)	Wing T596; ESTC R81	21,461	36

A DISSVVASIVE FROM Contention BEING A SERMON Preached and Designed for the last Itineration of the King's Preachers in the County Palatine of Lancaster By Zachary Taylor A. M. Vicar of Ormskirk and one of the King's Preachers in that County St. James ch 3. v. 14.16 If you have bitter Zeal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Strife in your Hearts glory not and lye not against the Truth For where Zeal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Strife is there is Sedition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and every Evil Work LONDON Printed by John Gain for William Cadman at the Pope's Head in the New-Exchange 1683. To the Right Honourable Lawrence Earl of Rochester Sir John Ernle Chancellour and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer Sir Edward Dearing Sidney Godolphin Esq Sir Stephen Fox The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury My Lords IT is an Aspersion cast peculiarly on our County by a Diotrephes of the Faction That the Growth of Popery among us is for want of an able Ministry to Instruct and Settle the People A Suggestion truly Fanatical i.e. it wants both Charity and Truth The first for who learnt the Detractor to blemish the Reputation of Persons whose Abilities he is altogether unacquainted with And for the latter there hath more Converts been gained to the Church within these last five Years than the Key for Catholicks hath opened the Heart of But the Sollicitations which your Honour we hope will favourably admit in behalf of some Convict Recusants who having Legally joyned our Communion labour to be discharged from the Exchequer will be a more ample Confutation of so Infamous a Scandal than any thing I can expect to Offer And for this my present Essay I foresee it will be construed rather an incouraging than weakening of the Papists For though there would be no such Fatal Stroak unto the Tripple Crown as our uniting in the Bond of Peace which is my Prayer as well as Province Yet when ever we design to reduce these wandring Sheep unto their Folds they exclaim as if we were giving Indulgence for Beasts of Prey to Forage Reputing it the Property of a good Shepherd to be always in pursuit of Wolves not considering that in his absence the ninety nine may go astray and perish in the Wilderness And never more need to project this Vnion than at this Season when the Sheep have exchang'd with the Wolf their Cloathing for his Ravenage and we are expos'd to as much danger from the Sword of the Lord in the hand of the Saints as that of Peter's in his degenerated Successors The just Apprehension of these Fears which by Vertue of my Cure I take my self obliged as much to obviate as any other together with a prospect of that Advantage which their Adherene would afford against the Common Enemy gave Being to this Disswasive from Contention Which I intreat the Dissenters who shall be pleased to read it to peruse with something more Coolness than their Brethren Auditors who heard it For the Calumnies they spread and the Mischief they designed me for it as if they meant to let us understand they were so little Edifyed by our Correptions that If the Righteous should smite them they would not take it for a Kindness nor allow of his Reproof to be healing as an excellent Oyl but the rather grievous as what doth break their Head This constrained me in my own Vindication as well as for the Benefit of others who by their supercilious Censures were prejudged in their Opinions about it and by that means prevented from the hearing of it to send these Papers on the Itineration in the Room of their Master And I humbly beseech your Lordships to favour it with a Protection for then though it may chance to feel it will not fear their Obloquies In Duty no less than Prudence was I bound to seek a Sanctuary under the Vmbrage of your Honour from whose Influence these our Labours are quickened and our Industry animated For we duly value our selves as those happy Instances by the Countenancing of whom your Lordships do resolve to convince the World how falsly and unjustly our Dissenting Brethren Prophesy of the Regress of Popery My Lords this Provident Establishment of which your Honours be the Guardians founded by the late Queen Elizabeth of happy Memory is the only Relique of that mature Deliberation which by our firct Reformers was found the best Expedient to propagate the Gospel I mean the Commanding their Majesties Chaplains to Itinerate the Kingdom and in their respective Divisions to Preach the Reformation Which how successful it was the Event demonstrated Though we confess our selves much their Inferiours for Ability we are unwilling to be thought behind them in our Duty And therefore in all due Gratitude acknowledge your Lordships Generous Candor on so Charitable a Settlement and so good a Work Whom to Revere as our Patrons is the Ambition of My Lords Your Honours most Humble Client and obsequious Servant Zachary Taylor A Disswasive FROM Contention c. PROV 17. V. 14. The beginning of Strife is as when one letteth out Water therefore leave off Contention before it be meddled with THAT there are Divisions among us needs our Lamentation more than Proof and a Rupture so visible requires a Healing Hand more than a Weeping Eye My Design therefore is to invite all those that are the Sons of Peace to Peace and Vnity Vniformity and Charity by exposing the Dreadful Consequences of Animosities and Divisions and by admonishing them of some Wasting Impieties which are the Inseparable Adjuncts of their Separation For when they apprehend the Guilt we may hope they will be wise enough to avoid the Danger Our Saviour gives us this Characteristick to distinguish of False Prophets You shall know them by their Fruits Mat. 7.16 i. e. by such Emergencies as are the natural Effects of their Principles or unreproved Practices The common Effects I say for I acknowledge it and I wish our Brethren would do so to an injustice to charge Impiety upon a Party which neither favour it by their Positions nor connive at it in the Execution But where the Fruit is Evil the Tree must be Corrupt Mat. 12.33 And what the Guilt of our Dissentions are unto that Faction that foment them will appear in the Discussing of this Aphorisme The beginning of strife c. The Words are a Disswasive from Dissention and by representing the Original Progress and Effect thereof advise us to leave off Contention before it grow Tumultuous which is the Importance of our Translation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Hithp antequam immisceatse Jun. Trem. Before it be meddled with For it is not properly Contention till the adverse Party meddels or joyneth Issue till there be what the Original implies A reciprocation of the Quarrel that it Ferment and grow Impetuous For 1. Tho the Original be But as the letting out of Water which in it self is a small and trivial thing and may