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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48865	A peaceable enquiry into the nature of the present controversie among our united brethren about justification. Part I by Stephen Lobb ...	Lobb, Stephen, d. 1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing L2728; ESTC R39069	94,031	169

Pleasure and Delight Rejoycing to Understand by them that your Ministers have not only most heartily Resolved to lay by their Jealousies and Bitter Invectives but to do what in them lyeth for Peace and Concord The God and Father of all Peace and Love give a Happy Issue to those Pious Resolutions according to that Promise When a Man's ways please the Lord he will make even his Enemies to be at Peace with him We must count upon it that some on both sides will Dislike our Endeavors for Concord and entertain hard thoughts and suspicions of us But if we who are Cordial and Sincere in our Desires do with Constancy and Diligence Prosecute this Design Certe quicquid ad promovendam concordiam faciet id pro virili ita agam ut ne quid in me possitis desiderare novit hoc Deus quem testem invoco per animae salutem Epist Luth Consul Helveti●e Tiguri c. A.D. 1537. Our Gracious God and Father will soon give us his Assistance and in a little time the Remaining Heats will be over I humbly beseech you to believe that I shall do whatever may be expected from One that is serious and Hearty in this Matter that in this Cause of Promoting Concord I will to the utmost of my Abilities satissie your Desires and Expectations The Truth of this God knows whom I call for a Record upon my Soul For these Dissentions have neither Profited me nor any body else but have been Prejudicial to many so that not the least good could have been or can be hoped for from them Thus far Luther who gives me a fair Occasion to Consider the Mischievous Effects of Discord and Contentions among Christians How the Ignorance Rash Zeal and Peevishness of some the Selfish Designs Private Interests Pride and Malice of others have given the Devil opportunity to turn the Churches into Disorder and Confusion I will instance in the Quarrel between Peter of Alexandria and Miletius and touch the Rise and Progress of Arianism The Contest between these two tho' differently Reported by those who liv'd nearest these Times was in the esteem of all managed with that Indiscretion and Heat as brought on them all that Mischief they endured That they were both sound in the Faith and their chief difference about the time to be given for the Tryal of the Repentance of such as under the Persecution Revolted from the Truth cannot be denied Socr. Hist Eccles l. 1. c. 3. 6. Nic●●h Caliist Hist. Ecclis lib. 8. c. 5. T●●d●r Hist. lib. 1. c. 9. H●●ret Fa●ul lib. 4. de Me●●●is S●●om Hist Eccl. l. 1. c. 23. Aust de Haeris And although Ashanasius Socrates and Nicephorus Callistus report that Meletius apostatiz'd and Epiphanius with whom St. Austin seems to agree represents the Matter quire otherwise yet it 's past doubt that the Different Opinions of these Orthodox Guides of the Church in the one Grounded on a Zeal for Truth in the other on Compassion to the Souls of the Weak occasioned a very wide Breach amongst those Christians when they were Groaning under the Violence of a Bloody Persecution For whilst in Prison the Fire brake out to that Degree as to issue in an angry Separation no wonder if it continued after Peter's Martyrdom and when Constantine gave Liberty was much Encreased It 's true Alexander who succeeded Achillas Peter's immediate Successor did during Meletius his life time carry it kindly to the Meletians but after Meletius his Death he violently Persecuted them who were thereby provoked to send some of their Bishops with a Petition to the Emperor for Liberty which being Rejected they apply themselves to Eusebius of Nicomedia then great at Court and a Favorer of Arius Eusebius refuseth to help them on any terms short of their admitting the Arians to their Communion to which that they might Escape the Cruel Persecution of their Orthodox Brethren they yielded and had the Grant of Liberty By this means the Arians gain'd so great an Advantage and grew so Strong that in some Years after they spread themselves so far as to Cover almost all the Christian Churches in the World It is amazing to consider from what a small spark the Arian Fire that turned the whole Christian World into a flame had its rise 't was only from the subtil and over curious Discourse of Alexander Bishop of Alexandria the undue Suspicion of Arius and the Indiscreet Heat of Both Hist. Eccles lib. 1. c. 3. for saith Socrates Alexander enjoying much Peace at Alexandria calls together his Priests and with them did so very nicely and subtilly Discourse of the Unity in the Trinity that Arius one of the Priests a Man of great Learning Suspecting him to be a Favorer of Sabellius who held that the Father Son and Holy Ghost were but Three Names of one and the same Person did in opposition to him affirm the Son to be so Distinct from the Father as to have a Beginning From whence it follows that he had his Subsistence from Nothing that he was a Creature not Coeternal nor Consubstantial with the Father This Controversie was managed with so much Bitterness that to use Socrates his own words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Soc. Hist. Eccl. lib. 1. c. 3. from a very little Spark a great Fire broke out disturbing the Peace of all Egypt Lybia the Upper Thebais and many other places The Flame having thus got head Alexander with the utmost Vehemence Endeavors the suppressing it He Excommunicates Arius writes to the Bishop of Constantinople complaining of his Pride and Covetousness prayeth him not to suffer Arius nor any of his Followers to Preace within his Jurisdiction He calls in the Help of his Colleagues who Approv'd of what he had done against the Arians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Arius provok'd hereby doth also write to several Bishops giving them an account of his Faith in words so very like the Orthodox Confessions Cum Alexander literas ejusmodi ad Episcopos passim in sineulis ●ivitatibus scripsisset Latius Propterea serpevat malum quòd hi qui erant illis literis certiores facti consentionis Discordiae incendiis inter ipsos conflagrare caeperunt nam alii literis suffragari iisdemque subscribere alii penitus adversari Socr. ubi sup that he is by some Grave and Judicious Bishops esteem'd sound in the Faith This nettles Alexander who sends forth his Circular Letters throughout the whole Catholick Church with a Catalogue of the Arian Errors and the Names of those who adher'd unto them by which means Arianism saith the Historian was strangely Propagated all the World over Constantine observing how the Contentions spread from one Part to another of his Empire and how much Violent Methods contributed hereunto makes use of more calm ones He writes a Letter to Alexander and Arius which he sent by Hosius Bishop of Cordovia Declaring it to be his Opinion That the Controversie being about what