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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65556	The Protestant peace-maker, or, A seasonable persuasive to all serious Christians who call themselves Protestants that laying aside calumnies, and all exasperating disputes, they would pursue charity, peace, and union, as the only means (now left us) of safety and reformation of the publick manners : with a postscript, or notes on Mr. Baxter's and some others late writings for peace / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1682 (1682)	Wing W1513; ESTC R38252	74,674	136

as to Obdurateness pag. 235. Neither the Wars nor lasting Plagues nor dreadful Flames which followed move you says he to see so great and grievous sins No nor the instances of the Obduration of Pharaoh and the Pharisees with the Consequents make you afraid lest wrath should come upon you to the uttermost 7. It would be indeed endless to set down those several Passages he has which in humane appearance could have no other design than to expose our Church and Clergy To this purpose the corrupt Manners not unjustly taxed in the Romish Clergy both by Ancient and more Modern Censors of them are carefully summed up and a charitable suggestion made that our Lives are the Commentary with which they are to be read pag. 172 173 174 175. And because many Readers haply understand not Latin the same or worse Characters of us are scattered and insinuated up and down throughout the Book in English Pag. 50. According to this rule which we dissent from all the World should be suffered to be hanged and damned for ever rather than a Conformist should lose a game at Chess or a cup of Sack or abate a Ceremony And again at the bottom of the same Page Were I of this opinion I should not stick to make merchandise of Souls and to sell an hundred for a Benefice and twenty thousand for a Bishoprick nor to give over preaching c. Then as to our Labours and what we do in discharge of our Ministry hear how vile all that is as well as our Lives and Hearts Pag. 203. If these Preachers speaking of the Nonconformists would have talked a little half-sense as they do often and print it too and have read a cold Oration and lived like those that have little sense of God and Heaven and would save men by a charm of words and shews without serious Godliness and Christianity they might have had Maintenance and as much Honour as such men as these can put upon them But judicious serious hearty godliness is intolerable to all the fleshly Tribe whose Mind neither is nor can be subject to the Law of God to which their interest and disposition hath an Enmity I again will return nothing hereto but only ask whether these things tend to Peace Nay do they not evidently infer That no Peace ought to be with us For if Holiness be the Condition and Measure of Peace with such men as he makes us what Peace can genuine Christians enter or maintain Or finally is this agreeable to his own Principles expressed pag. 8 That we ought not to vilifie our Brethren and represent them as Odious and Intolerable and overlook that of Christ which is amiable in them 8. But as to some of our particular Persons we would have borne more silently such Calumnies though there are enough of us that could never play a Game at Chess in our lives the doing of which in season notwithstanding we take not to be a sin nor ever made merchandise of Souls nor have left off preaching c. we would have borne this I say without complaint were he not pleased to deal as unkindly to say no worse with the very Constitution it self It is small perhaps that he says our Articles to which we require subscription are not intelligible or have contrary meanings to fit the use of every Subscriber pag. 122. of which imputation perhaps I may speak anon Yet that is not so easily to be passed by that in order to the fixing Looseness upon our Principles and Cause to use his terms i. e. in plain English on our Laws and Church he accuses the Laws and Practice of the Church of loosness in seven Particulars and of those seven Proposi●ions he brings five are notoriously false whether he knew it or no I will not say viz. 1 3 4 5 7 The Second is impertinent for it pronouncing only touching baptizing Infants dying before actual sin can be no incouragement to loosness of life and the damning of Children for the Vices of their immediate Parents is a Doctrine which I believe Mr. Baxter would be loath to be put upon to make good and the Sixth is an uncertain Inference of his own from the words of the Liturgy taken in nequiorem sensum Too tedious would it be to speak severally to each In short to them all I say No person by the present Law of the Church is to be Confirmed till he understand in some good measure as well as be able to repeat the words of the Catechism being presented and therefore approved as such by the Minister This is plain enough from the Rubricks and from the Preface to the Office of Confirmation Next No person is to Communicate till Confirm'd or in case of necessity be desirous of Confirmation which desire thereof in probability imports an Understanding and some sense of Religion at least herein the Minister is Judge and the Admission of such will be the fault of the Minister not of the Law Ignorance therefore is provided against especially if gross by the Order of Confirmation And as to Scandal the Rubrick is severe enough The Minister alone is not only to suspend the scandalous person from the Communion but to signifie it within fourteen days to the Ordinary that such scandalous Members of the Church may be proceeded against according to her Laws Further the Minister is to admit no Child to Baptism without God fathers and Godmothers nor any to undertake that trust but such who have received the Communion Now what Communicants that is it is to be hoped what understanding conscientious serious persons will become Sureties and Sponsors for the Christian breeding up of the Children of Atheists Infidels and Scorners of Religion Christ and the Holy Scripture except they be well assured the Children shall be under their power as to the direction of their Education that is to say retrived out of the hands of such wicked Parents to be bred in a Christian sort And if any such persons will become Godfathers and Godmothers to such Children and will so promise why such Child may not be baptized and that without any detriment to serious Religion I must profess I see no reason To insist on the Faith of the Parents may I confess do some Parents good though he who will not be vertuous for the sake of his own Soul will scarce become such for his Childs but the want of Parents Faith ought not with the Church to prejudice in this case the Children of such Parents But a more manifest prevarication scarce can be than what he delivers as to the Visitation of the sick Pag. 167. When they are sick says he if they will but say they repent and desire it they must be absolved in absolute terms though they give the Minister no satisfaction that they are truly Penitent and have lived till then a most ungodly life and perhaps by cursing swearing and railing at an holy Life on their Sick-bed It is plain by the