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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59752	A discourse of the rise & power of parliaments, of law's, of courts of judicature, of liberty, property, and religion, of the interest of England in reference to the desines of France, of taxes and of trade in a letter from a gentleman in the country to a member in Parliament.	Sheridan, Thomas, 1646-ca. 1688.	1677 (1677)	Wing S3225; ESTC R16270	94,234	304

Name than that of Christians for indeed as such they al agree that is in the Fundamentals of Religion as for the disputed things they are already shewn not certain therfore not necessary consequently to us impertinent which of the assertions be true and only differ by the considerations of Pride or interest as they are Trinitarians or Antitrinitarians Arians Socinians Papists or Protestants Remonstrants or Antiremonstrants Iansenists or Molinists Franciscans or Dominicans Lutherans or Calvinists Presbyterians or Independants c. But for my own part I am of opinion That we shal never arrive at the tru state of Christianity either by Disputing without Toleration or by Toleration with Disputing i. e. we shal not come to live Righteously Soberly and Godly in this present World For disputing destroys al and Toleration alone wil not take away those wrong Notions with which the present Age is prepossess'd tho some of the prejudices may be lessen'd by softness and gentleness by Love and Perswasions this Iconfess wil not do in al because al have not understanding and such as want it must inevitably run into Error For whatever the Philsophers Dispute whether the Wil and the Understanding be distinct Faculties or distinct Operations of the same Soul it plainly appears in al our actions that we wil or nil things according to our Understandings which as wel or il inform'd make us do things good or evil so that til our Notions are rectifi'd we are to be pityed and instructed not hated or condemned When by an excellent Education and a good Example we are taught not only to know but to practise our Duty it wil then be almost morally impossible for us to offend wheras on the contrary while both are now neglected 't is a wonder we are not worse Pursuant to this Salomon gives a wise Direction Train up a Child in the way thou woud'st have him to go and when he is old he wil not depart from it The great Business then not only to asswage the pain which in the present Circumstances cannot be don without Toleration but wholly to remove the Distemper is to introduce such a fixt Method of Education as may imprint on our Minds tru and early Notions of Virtu and Religion The Parliament have lately begun to look into the Practice of Piety and to prevent or lessen Prophanation and Debaucheries have enacted That Hackney-Coaches it had bin more equal if al had bin under the Penalty shal after the Iewish manner of Sabbath rest from Labor I wish they woud now be pleased to take care the People keep the christian-Christian-Sabbath as they ought Not so much in a Rest from bodily Labor as from Sin the greater toyl of the Soul to which they are oblig'd by every days Duty The use of the Seventh above the rest seeming to be set apart for returning Thanks for Blessings and for Exhortations effective of Holiness and a good Life The Duty of that day is not fulfil●d by hearing a quaint-Man preach himself not Christ Policy not Morality confute the Pope the Calvinist or the Arminian the Presbyterian or the Episcopal Such Discourses engender nothing but Strife and tend not to Edification they are the vain Traditions of Men in which we shoud quicly find did we but seriously consider that there was nothing of that Faith without which we cannot please nor of that Holyness without which no man shal see God And since the Parliament by that last mention'd Act have begun to tythe Mint and Commin t is to be hoped they wil go on and not leave the weightier things of the Law undon that their Wisdoms and their Zeal wil be more imploy'd about the Power than the form of Godliness which may for ever be establisht by the following Method or such other as they shal think more agreeable viz. To make new Divisions of Parishes which may with more convenience to the People be don than as at present they stand by limiting every Parish to the compass of about three Miles Square and building a Church in the central place to hold about a thousand and to apportion the Parishes in Cities at least to the like number of People This wil reduce the Parishes from about ten to a little more than four Thousand To erect Schools in every Parish where al the Children shal be instructed in Reading Writing and the first Elements of Arithmetic and Geometry without charge to the Parents Whence to the greater Schools to be erected in the Dioceses Counties or Hundreds after the manner of Westminster Eaton or Winchester so many of the ripest and best Capacitated as shal suffice for the supply of al Callings that make Learning a Trade as Divinity Physic and Law may be yearly elected to be train'd up in the further necessary Parts of Learning and from thence yearly sent to the Universities from the Universities upon al vacancies Schoolmasters and Ministers to be chosen the first not under five and twenty years the later not under Thirty the age allow'd among the Iews for Doctors or Teachers and at which our Savior began to Preach and both to be Masters of Art before the one be Licensed or the other Ordain'd by the Bishop and none to be Ordain'd before they are secur'd of being Noble Mens Chaplains or elected to Parishes That the Bishoprics be also divided according to Convenience and the number of Parishes That the Ministers and School-masters be Celibats not under a vow as in the Church of Rome but on condition of quitting their Benefices upon Marriage and returning to a Lay-life For that of the priests being jure Divino being disputed is therefore to say no more to our Salvation not necessary to be believed For unless they demonstrat the contrary by Scripture the sufficient Rule of Faith or by Miracles men wil be apt to believe the Story of an indelible Character to be a Relic of Popery invented to aggrandize the Honor and Power of the Church turn'd into a Court of Rome But be it what it wil 't is plain they can't be greater than St Paul who did not only for Convenience of the Church avoid leading about a Wife or a Sister but wrought at his Trade after he had Received the Holy-Ghost of which it were to be wisht al Divines shew'd themselves possest by a Life conformable to that of the Holy Iesus But without doubt there wil be enuff found to undertake this calling on these terms tho seemingly difficult By this course there is a provision made for the Incontinency of such of the Priests as find themselves Flesh and Blood which if don in the Church of Rome woud free it from great Scandal That a book of Homilies be compil'd for varietie four for every Sunday and two for each festival or holy day That nothing be inserted but Dehortations from Vice and Exhortations to Virtu neither Controversies nor State Affairs so much as oblicly glanc'd upon That a Catechism adapted to the meanest Capacity be