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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81923	A memoriall concerning peace ecclesiasticall amongst Protestants. By John Dury.	Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1641 (1641)	Wing D2872; Thomason E156_11; ESTC R377	6,539	16

A MEMORIALL CONCERNING PEACE ECCLESIASTICALL AMONGST PROTESTANTS By JOHN DURY LONDON Printed for W. Hope at the signe of the Unicorne in Cornehill Anno 1641. TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY OR TO His Majesties COMMISSIONER And To His Reverend and loving Brethren in Christ the PASTORS and ELDERS of the Kirk of Scotland met together at their generall Assembly appointed to be held at Saint Andrewes in July Anno 1641. The humble and earnest suit of JOHN DURY Minister of the Gospel of God Reverently and humbly sheweth THat seeing for the space of these ten yeers by-past your Petitioner as without all prejudice and partialitie against any Protestant Church or person so with all favourable permission good liking approbation and encouragements from chief men of all sides whom in a Civill or Ecclesiasticall way it doth concerne hath solicited the work of reconcilement amongst Protestants wherein he is gone so farre as in a private Theologicall way of Treaty may bee proceeded with forraign Churches to prepare their mindes unto further resolutions in due time And now finding by Gods good Providence an opportunity of publick meetings both here in England where his solicitation is laid to heart and also in his native Countrey and Church where hopefully his purpose may be in like manner promoted by publick approbation and counsell of the godly wise and learned Ministery Therefore he thinketh it a part of his duty to deferre his humble respect unto your Reverend Assembly intreating for the love of the Spirit and by the Communion of Saints that in the feare of God so good an endeavour though meanly hitherto countenanced may not bee slighted but that the scope and prosecution thereof may be taken up without prejudice according to the true meaning thereof which is laid open in the printed English Relation and Latine Information herewith offered unto you And that the writ given to M. Alex. Henderson containing a draught of the particular means and manner of proceeding wherein the way of your sued for concurrence is specified may be taken seriously to heart and some Declaration of Christian advice and answer thereupon returned which may conduce and help to advance the glory of God through the unblameable and peaceable profession of the Gospel of Jesus Christ amongst Protestants And I your Petitioner as in duty bound shall pray daily for your eternall and temporall felicity and his Majesties long life in a peaceable and prosperous Government over you and all his Kingdomes A MEMORIALL Concerning PEACE ECCLESIASTICALL amongst Protestants Which JOHN DURY offereth to Master ALEXANDER HENDERSON to bee sent or presented unto the Generall Assembly of the Church of Scotland Worthy Sir and loving Brother in Jesus Christ MY earnest desire is that this well meant and as I conceive very warrantable Negotiation of mine may not bee mistaken by any and chiefely by you in Scotland to whom I owe reverence in the Church of God For As I was not drawne to this worke by any man upon any private considerations so I have never served any mans end nor sought my selfe in it but onely God and the manifestation of his Truth This he that searcheth the hearts of all men knoweth to have beene and still to bee mine onely true and constant aime Nor doe I presume to interpose and cast my selfe up as a Judge and Arbitrator of the differences between Churches but being earnestly in love with truth and peace and having been stirred up by men that seek the truth in holinesse and peaceable affections to endeavour the advancement of the one and the other I have presented hitherto my selfe unto God and to all his servants without partiality as an humble solicitor of the counsels of Peace for the publick good of Protestant Churches that therein the truth of his Gospel may bee conferred and made knowne unto the world And this I finde I am warranted to doe not onely by the necessity of the times and the dangers whereunto the Professors of the Gospel are brought through the prevarication and implacable animosity of some of their Leaders and controversall Writers but also by the expresse Commandements of God which presse mee first to seeke peace with all men Rom. 12. 18. Heb. 12. 14. Heb. 10. 24. so farre as in mee lyeth if possibly it may bee had And secondly to provoke others whom this dutie in like manner doth concerne unto the same affection of love and of good workes Let mee then bee looked upon as a publicke solicitor of peaceable counsels and thoughts and as a provoker of godly men unto the affections of charitable duties for this is the summe of that which I intend Therefore To performe this task more effectually towards every one I have taken notice of that part of the duty wherein wee are distinctly commanded to contemplate and attentively to consider one another for this is the force of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the end that wee should sharpen and stirre up one another for thus much the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 implyeth towards the perfection of our holy calling and profession And therefore give mee leave in obedience to this Commandement chiefly at this time to consider you of my Nation as an object fit to be provoked to all the duties which God hath commanded in his Gospel for the glory of his name Give me leave I say to beleeve that you desire to bee provoked that you will effectually be stirred up hereunto as unto a necessary duty although by such a weake and contemptible instrument as I am it is thus meanly proposed unto you For I hope you will doe it so much the rather and the readier because it is not backed with Authoritie that it may appear you are perswaded and moved by the grace and Spirit of God and not by any humane and outward consideration towards that which is required of you in your heavenly calling Bee pleased then to consider not who it is that maketh the proposition but what it is that is proposed and in whose name and to what end and effect these endeavours were and are undertaken The end you have already heard the name in which the proposall is made is the name of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ who is called the great God and the Prince of peace If therefore you professe your selves to be his faithfull subjects in the Kingdome and Ministers in the Gospel of Peace I may call upon you by your allegeance that you decline not the counsels of peace because hee hath commanded saying Seek peace and Psal 34. 14. follow after it And as for the thing required at your hands to be done at this time it is thus to be conceived That although sometimes I am enabled to use great boldnesse in a private way yet being now to make my addresse unto a whole Church I have reason to feare lest I seeme to abuse my Liberty which is in Christ Therefore I am farre from prescribing any thing