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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24306	Sober and useful reflections upon a treatise of Mr. Richard Baxter's stiled, (Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministry rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the Gospel vindicated) with a most serious preface to the same, out of the said Mr. Baxter. ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministry rebuked.	1680 (1680)	Wing A18; ESTC R14153	72,472	84

and received into the Church by a Judg that hath Authority thereto Not at all from Artic. XXXIV where it is declared That whosoever through his private Judgment wittingly and purposely doth openly break the Traditions and Ceremonies of the Church which be not repugnant to the Word of God and be ordained and approved by common Authority ought to be rebuked openly that others may fear to do the like as he that offendeth against the common Order of the Church and hurteth the Authority of the Magistrate and woundeth the Consciences of weak Brethren Not at all from Artic. XXXVI where it is declared That the Book of Consecration of Arch-bishops and Bishops and ordaining of Priests and Deacons doth contain all things necessary to such a Consecration and Ordaining neither hath it any thing which is of it self superstitious or ungodly And are not these part of the professed Doctrine of the Church of England But why chatechize I you thus far when you have before profess'd your Ignorance what is meant by the Church of England How then can you tell what the Doctrine of that Church is and whether or no or in what you agree and differ with it Till the new Doctrine about Infants was brought into the new Rubrick If you differ not at all from the old Doctrine of the old Rubrick as you would seem to tell us there needs no question about the new for let us view them well together The Old Rubrick thus That no Man shall think that any Detriment shall come to Children by deferring of their Confirmation he shall know for a Truth that it is certain by God's Word that Children being baptized have all things necessary for their Salvation and be undoubtedly saved The New more shortly thus It is certain by God's Word that Children which are baptized dying before they commit actual Sin are undoubtedly saved Where indeed the Preface of the former is omitted but nothing is taught for a Truth certain by God's Word but what was so acknowledged before For the Omission of that one Clause have all things necessary to their Salvation is sufficiently included in are undoubtedly saved and the inserting that other dying before they commit actual Sin tends rather to restrain than to enlarge the Proposition as the impartial Observer will easily judg And yet forsooth this new Doctrine as he slanders it sticks much with them who avouch themselves not to differ at all from the Doctrine of the Church of England till that new Rubrick which contains it was introduced And here is the Sum of his Doctrinal Corruptions in the Plural Number which we had mention of before And he hath yet another Fling at it before the end I read in the Rubrick of something about Infants certain by the Word of God but I never read in what Chapter or Verse it was Now must he not evidently affirm as much of the Old if he agree unto it as he would be thought to do Is it not there as express He shall know for a Truth that it is certain by the Word of God Is not that Fanatick Exception every whit as pertinent and agreeable there ' But I never heard in what Chapter or Verse it was What need of this I pray to either What Chapter or Verse As if Scripture Sence and Consequences were not as truly the Word of God as Scripture-Words and express Assertions That which is there dianoeticè as well as that which is there axiomaticè as some love to speak Or as if Holy Scripture were not before Chapter and Verse were determined in it But this is the doughty way of arguing which the Presbyterians have furnished the other Sects withal against themselves What Chapter and Verse saith so and so And this great Rebuker of other Sectaries seems mightily taken himself with it What Chapter and Verse saith that only Subscribers Swearers Declarers and Conformers are the Church of Christ and those that fear an Oath and Conformity are none of it This one would think were matter enough for many Verses ' Yet it is not in minutioribus that we differ from the Conformists So it appears God knoweth we think the Matters in difference very far from things indifferent Gather from it what you can We must gather from it then That they are not minute or small Matters upon which you are rejected and that the Church and you are not like to agree until either she renounce her Doctrine or you alter your Judgment about it We can therefore the more easily believe you when you say We have almost twelve years ago cried out even to Vnmannerliness that if possibly we might have been heard to the Reverend Prelates O drive not godly People from your Communion for nothing Vnmannerliness with a Witness But can any thing be of less weight than nothing Elsewhere you have it Do you excommunicate and drive from your several Parishes the Members of Christ for not eating with your Spoon And can there be any thing almost more minute or indifferent than that But elsewhere you are still more irreverent and in your own word unmannerly malè morati Do you silence us and depose us from the Ministry and forbid Baptism and the Lord's Supper to all that have not as wide a Swallow as your selves And yet all this while you meddle not with our Consciences It were obvious to retort that their Swallow was wide enough who could let down the Covenant Bishops and their Lands together and may claim Kindred with those on Record for straining at Gnats and swallowing Camels Why may not we in the allowed Places exercise our Ministry in baptizing the Children of any of your Flocks that shall desire it or giving them the Sacrament I yet understand not unless for avoiding your Envy and Displeasure Again What harm will it do you if a N. C. preach by you if many follow him if some prefer him before you Yea further Brethren what if the Nonconformable Ministers do give the Sacrament to some as you do to others What if they call themselves a Church or exercise Discipline which without need I would not have them do what harm will this be to you or others Were they once permitted we may perceive how they would be still hitching forward and encroaching step by step For I note these Passages only as a Specimen of those Liberties which they design to take from their Toleration And yet we must believe him We never desired to play the Bishops in other Mens Diocesses What! not in the Bishop of Worcester's not in the Bishop of London's c But to the Questions briefly Why may we not do so and so Or What harm will it do to you or others We may answer as the Presbyterians themselves sometimes did their Independent Brethren The whole Church of England in short time will be swallowed up with Distraction and Confusion And the Mischiefs in the Church will have