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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52476	Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is shewed, the Lords soveraignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...	Norton, John, 1606-1663.; Norton, John, 1606-1663. Copy of the letter returned by the ministers of New-England to Mr. John Dury about his pacification.	1664 (1664)	Wing N1324; ESTC R40050	44,511	76

doth utterly forbid the denial of Fellowship-priviledges to such Members as are found without scandal Let not the words and practices of them that pretend to the greater Purity of Reformation be Yea and Nay which if it should appear the Scandall would be so much the greater in that the foresaid Letter with so many Subscriptions in all probability is known in the world being sent into Forreigne parts upon a Publick account As for the Translation of the Letter they who had the chiefest hand therein have no other design then by approving themselves as Lovers of Truth and Peace to undeceive simple-hearied and honest-minded persons who are ready with Barnabas to be carried away with the dissimulation of such as are through a kinde of preposterous Zeal unwilling to have any of the common Priviledges of the Church of God bestowed upon any whose effectuall Sanctification may be questioned which is the cause as one observeth of a Schismaticall inclination of some godly and religious persons In reference to the Words and Phrases much of the Elegancy of them is taken away in the Translation by reason of the abstruseness of the Latine it faring in this kinde with Books as it doth with Bodies which are nothing so comely when arrayed with a stranger as with their own proper clothing and habit but where-ever appeared a necessity of changing the phrase the sense is preserved whole and entire For a Conclusion If the Practice of the purest Churches together with the Authority of the most Pious Zealous Learned and judicious Divines might avail any thing in this consideration it were easie to present many things to the view of the Reader from the Writings of a Cas Consc Ep 9. qu. 3. Com. Gal 5.27 Perkins b De Pol lib. 1. cap. 13 14 33. Parker c Epist 149. 103. Calvinus d Locus 47. thes 33 34. Bucanus with many other of the Learnedst Non-Conformists who alwayes disclaimed both the Principles and Practices of the Rigid Separation and all such as renounced Communion with other Churches upon the account of some Impurities about Order and Discipline However it came to be the fate of these Churches in America to verge too near them in their Primitive Administrations But we shall onely content our selves with the mentioning the Judgement of two not the least eminent and famous Lights in the Church of God about this point No Church can be said to be alienated from God and from his Covenant although it may become very sick and adulterous until God shall have taken away from it his Matrimonial Covenant casting it quite off as defiled with Adultery according to Isa 50 1. which will not be so long as it retaines the Head and the Head retaines it by a publick declaration of his grace that calleth Col. 2.19 Jun. Thes Theolog. Thes 36. pag. 2099. But Ames more fully about the Subject of Baptism 1. Expositious Infants are to be baptized whose Parents are unknown if they be born among Christians out of charity they are to be looked at as the sons of Christians if there be not just cause to presume the contrary 2. They that in some way by their Profeision belong unto the Church yet notwithstanding do openly violate the Covenant of God their Infants ought to be baptized though with some distinction sc so that what the Covenant requires and is wanting in them be supplied by others 3. Infants illegittimate ought so to be baptized that either their Parents profess their Repentance or that their Education be undertaken by other godly persons 4. Children of contumacious Excommunicates are not conveniently baptizable unless by the interposition of meet Sureties 5. Infants of Papists and such like who are Semi-Christians may be baptized if they finde a meet surety under whose power may be their Education Ames Cas Consc Lib. 4. Cap. 27. To which may be added The Baptism of Infants ought not to be deferred without a serious and weighty reason Ibid. TO THE WORTHY AND EMINENT M R. JOHN DURY SALVTATIONS THat amongst so many horrid Alarms of War amongst so many fatal differences of Opinion raised in matters of Religion and that also after so many and such unwearied labours of famous Intercessors now so often in this cause undertaken in vain you should O Dury the most zealous Friend of Peace not onely be seriously thinking of but are also unto this day strongly endeavouring the Espousals of Truth and Peace between the Professors of the Gospel we verily do largely congratulate you in the conceiving so great a design with our utmost and daily Prayers helping forward by Gods Assistance the birth of this Man-Childe Suffer us to speak the very truth of the matter nor is there any need to deny the same even as the Holy-Scripture relates how the Olive Branch brought much comfort to the Parent of the other World after the Flood while he was lamenting over the Tremendous Spectacle of the Deluge over flowing all here below in like manner did your Letter breathing a very spirit of peace as another Noahs dove sent down from Heaven wonderfully refresh the exile Brethren who were almost astonished to see so many nations that profess the Gospel making irreconcileable war amongst themselves together with the many and great dissentions in the business of Religion and that monstrous flood of Errour breaking forth not out of the Cataracts of the Clouds but the very Mouth of the Dragon Be it so that we are in the utmost parts of the Earth we have onely changed our Climate not our mindes we have altered our place that we might retain the Faith without alteration There are indeed some that might have been better imployed at least meer strangers to our affairs who do therefore impute unto us the guilt of Schism because in the first place we have endeavoured after the pure Worship of God But if any see good to enquire into the Reason why these Churches in the Wilderness left their Country this it was viz. that the Ancient Faith and pure Worship might be found inseparable companions in our Practice and that our posterity might be undefiled in Religion Nevertheless we are never unmindefull of the saying of Austin to the Brethren in the Wilderness as he styles them There are two things considerable saith he Conscience and good Name Conscience is necessary for thy self good Name for thy Neighbour He who trusts to his Conscience and neglects his good name is cruel especially if he be set in that place of which the Apostle writing to his Disciple saith In all things shew thy self an example of good works It may not be unlawful for us who are in the Wilderness on the further side of the Seas as well those who through grace are called to the Ministry though in our selves the greatest of sinners and the least of all the Saints as any others to Apologize for our selves in the Words of the Tribes beyond Jordan a little changed for the