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A75466	An antidote against bigotry in religion, or, A discourse proving from the testimony of kings, nobles, judges, bishops, deans, doctors, &c. that wise and good men may differ one from another both in doctrine and discipline, and maintain Christian charity amongst themselves / by a True Berean.	True Berean.	1694 (1694)	Wing A3491A; ESTC R43601	60,737	88

the Church of England and of his works pag. 138. pag. 192. Of the abuse of Excommunication vide c. Hooker 's Discourse of Justification pag. 54. If was a perilous Error that the Galatians held about Justification yet so far was St. Paul from striking their Names out of Christ's Book that he commandeth others to receive them i. e. to have communion with them with singular Humanity use them as Brethren he knew mans imbecility had a feeling of our blindness which are Mortal Men how great it is The Judgment of the Professors of Divinity in the Vniversity of Aberdeen mentioned pag. 707 is not unsuitable to this Subject That the condition of that Church is worse and incomparably more lamentable that is so swelled and puft up with the splendour of its Golden Edifice upon the Foundation or of its Orthodoxy that neglecting Charity and Equanimity and trampling on the Law of Christ fastidiously rejects and Anathematizeth other Churches Orthodox in the Foundation and willing to maintain place with it than is the condition of those Churches who though they are infirm in Faith inferiour in knowledge do yet hold in the Foundation maintain inviolable Charity and after the Example of Blessed Cyprian do neither judge nor separate from Communion those who think otherwise than themselves Dr. Casaubon 's Necessity of Reformation pag. 142. cited by Dr. Puller 's Moderation c. pag. 436. Were there nothing else objected to Papists but this one thing their uncharitable proscribing and Excommunicating all Christians in all parts of the World as in the Council of Trent imposing her Doctrines which were but disputable before to be de fide with an Anathema to such as thought of them otherwise who are not of their Communion and obliging all that adhere unto them to profess the same I should think that one thing a just ground of Separation or forsaking their Communion Dr. Steward 's Englands Case pag. 26. When Men cast out of the Church Catholick and so damn to Hell all those that hold not their Opinions this St. Augustine oft-times calls Schism in the Donatists I could name you those who are guilty of this but I am sure our dear Mother is not who hath been so mild to those who have most highly opposed her Dr. Hammond's Pract. Catech. Vpon Blessed are the Peace-makers We are not to think our own Opinions in Religion such as are not of Faith of such importance as to deny Communion or Salvation to those who differ from us Item of Schism pag. 165. and pag. 166. That as we exclude no Christian from our Communion that will either Filially and Fraternally embrace it with us being ready to admit any to our Assemblies that acknowledge the Foundation laid by Christ and his Apostles so we as earnestly desire to be admitted to the like Freedom of External Communion with all the Members of all other Christian Churches as often as occasion makes us capable of that Blessing And pag. 5. Tell us the Governours of the Church use to inflict that punishment of Excommunication on the most scandalous Sinner And pag. 15. Calls it that very condition into which the Adulterer and obstinate offender is cast by the Censures of the Church Hammond of the Keys chap. 5. Sect. 18. The more shame for the over-easie denouncers of that censure that inflict it for every trivial commission without consideration whether or no repented of or that use this Sovereign Recipe unadvisedly for any other end than Reforming the Profane Dr. Puller 's Moderation of the Church of England pag. 366. It is evident that the Divine Moderation of our Church considers the frame of Man and the uncertainty difficulty and imperfection of Humane Knowledge the weakness and variety of Humane Understandings she alloweth much to the force of Prejudice Education and the power and artifice of Seducers Our Church makes a great reserve of Dispensation to persons of Modest Humble Docible and peaceable Spirits and proportions her Censures to the degrees of Malice and the Unchristian Temper which appears in Offenders Dr. Cumber on the Common-Prayer in the Commination Discipline with-held in favour of Dissenters least the imposing it there should make this Holy Means of Reformation despised rather than obeyed Item pag. 369. Dr. Puller Wherefore the Institution of a Christian Man made by Cranmer saith the Bishops are not bound so precisely but they may attemper and forbear the execution of their Jurisdiction when by so doing the cure of the offenders and the tranquility of the Church may be furthered Item pag. 35. According to Equity our Church desires all her Laws may be Interpreted Benignius Leges interpretandae sunt c. She admits of a Mitigation of a rigid Sentence And pag. 11. Disposeth them where the Laws press too hard upon particular persons to relax the Rigour of them Pag. 370. Wherefore those who in Execution of the Church Discipline abuse the most excellent Temper of the Church in the constitution of her Laws under the pretence of Ecclesiastical Authority verily they most of all deserve the Churches Rod and the dire point of her Anathema Let it be considered said Bishop Tailor Ductor Dub. L. 3. pag. 259. How Great a reproach it is to Ecclesiastical Discipline if it be made to Minister to Covetousness and to the needs of Proctors and Advocates Bishop Bramhall pag. 14. Vindicat. of the Church To exclude none from Catholick communion and hope of Salvation either Eastern or Western or Southern or Northern Christians which profess the Faith of the Apostles and Primitive Fathers established in the first General Councils and comprehended in the Apostolick Nicene and Athanasian Creeds and lastly to hold an Actual External Communion with them in votis in our desires and to endeavour it by all lawful means Item pag. 17. There is not the like necessity of communicating in all Externals there is not so great conformity to be expected in ceremonies as in the Essentials of Sacraments Bishop Bilson of Subjection Part 2. pag. 223. Edit 4. It is a most pernitious fancy to think that divers Nations and Countries differing by Customs Laws and Manners so they hold one and the same Rule of Faith in the Bond of Peace cannot be parts of the Catholick Church Communicant one with another The Communion of Saints standeth not in External Rights Customs and Manners but in believing the same truth tasting of the same grace resting on the same Hope calling on the same God rejoycing in the same Spirit whereby they be sealed sanctified and preserved unto the day of Redemption Causes of Decay of Christian Piety pag. 285. As Christ when he forewarned his Disciples of the ensuing persecution tells them not only they should be killed but they should be put out of the Synagogue so now as if Christians were emulous of every branch of Jewish Cruelty we transcribe that part of the Copy too and either by causeless Excommunicating others or separating our selves we deny the

honest and upright and sincere hearts to God-ward and are unfeignedly Zealous for Gods Truth and for Religion They that are such no doubt feel the Comfort of it in their own Souls and we see the Fruits of it in their Conversations and rejoyce at it Judge Hales Discourse of Religion pag. 21. Some persons truly Conscientious observing the many corruptions that the Romish Church hath brought into the Worship of God are very suspicious of any thing that may look as they think that way though they are otherwise Men of sound and Orthodox Principles and of a truly Righteous and Sober Life Item p. 13. Scrupulous of the Ceremonies otherwise sound in the principles of Faith Pious and Strict in their Lives Just and Honest to all men and Sober Temperate and Blameless Mr. Smithies Spirit of Meekness pag. 71. It may be they are good Men and were converted by that Minister or some other of the same perswasion from the ways of Wickedness to the practice of Religion 'T is well quoted by a late Learned Writer for the Church in the division of hearts that is in the World it 's certain some good may Dissent Bishop Tailor Duct Dub. P. 3. ch 4. Rule 23. Sect. 8. Item Collect. of Discourse Epist Dedic before Liberty of Prophesie It s an hard Case that we should think all Papists and Anabaptists and Sacramentaries bad men certainly among all these Sects there are very many Wise Men and Good Men as well as Erring Mr. D' l'Angles Letter to the Bishop of London It is certain that among the multitude that follow them i. e. the Separatists there is a very great Number of good Men whose Faith is pure and whose Piety is sincere and seems to me that the good and charitable Bishops ought to say of them though in something a different sence as Optatus Milevitanus said of the Donatists in his time Si Collegium Episcopale nobiscum habere nolunt tamen fratres sunt Doctor Stillingfleet Mischief of Separation p. 9. I cannot perswade my self that so many scrupulous and conscientious men as are at this day among us would live so many years in a known sin i. e in a state of Separation from the Communion of a Church which in Conscience they thought themselves obliged to communicate with Conformists Plea for the Nonconformists Part 4. pag. 17. Some have their Indiscretions and their Mistakes and their Heats and their Blemishes and what Party have not But if the Grace of God hath appeared to any men and if any are taught to deny Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live Soberly Righteously and Godlily in this present World as I am sure there are there are such among them Pag. 20. What an Example was the most faithful and successful Mr. Baxter whose practice was copied after his Gildas Salvianus and the Ministers of that Association How diligent was Mr. Stubbs Mr. Allen Mr. Wadsworth and others Idem pag. 27. The chief of the Congregational are Men of great Worth Learning Sobriety and Holiness The Anabaptist such as are simply scrupulous in the point of Baptism are reputed peaceable and holy men by them that write against them as Mr. Baxter Mr. Obad. Wills and Mr. Joseph Whiston Lastly The Quaker must have the right of Humanity they who scrupled swearing did call God to witness and did protest and promise Loyalty and Obedience They offered the security of their words and bodies to the Law when found Transgressors against the Peace There are many things commendable in them Idem p. 101. As far as my Acquaintance doth extend to the Nonconformists I must do them this Justice that they are of a Loving Healing and Uniting Spirit I have heard them speak very well of good Conformists and as free to acknowledge the Grace of God in them as in those of their own perswasion Principles and Practice c. p. 28. The matters in Controversie i. e. of Conformity between men of confessedly great worth and goodness I declare for my part and care not who knows it that I love with my heart a sober and peaceable minded Nonconformist as much Conformist as I am my self and I think him never the worse man that is so supposing I perceive him Conscientious in other Matters and particularly that he is not of a Censorious Seditious and Tumultuous Spirit but yet such I would not hate neither but pity and pray for them Car's peaceable Moderator Pref. Some of the dis-affected to the Book of Common Prayers I take to be good Christians Honest Moderate and well meaning people c. Item in another place I make no Question but some are right honest Men and truly pretend Conscience that they cannot submit to such Orders and to such and such Rites Testimony of above an 100 Non conformists for the Lawfulness of Lay-Communion speaking of the Nonconformists those good men who met after the Plague having preached to the People in the time of the Plague Mr. Dodwell 's Letters of Holy Orders Our Conscientious dissenting brethren c. pag. 22. Their Errors themselves are innocent to such as are more intent on the improvement of Christianity it self then any subdividing Denomination Stop to the Course of Separation pag. 37. I will not deny but that some yea many of the Ministers that are now laid aside while they had their Ministerial standing in the Parish Churches and Catholick Communion were profitable Memorial from the English Protestants to his present Majesty when Prince of Orange pag. 28. Four of our succeeding Parliaments perceived the abuse of these Penal Laws and the mischief thereby to conscious Christians and declared there intention of relieving them Doctor Burnet Bishop of Salisbury on Matth. 12.25 Of the Dissenters who though in Errors yet may be good men in the main for ought we know Doctor Barrow 's Sermons against Evil Speaking He that loveth and Reverenceth God will acknowledge and approve his Goodness in bestowing gifts and graces to his Brethren he will be afraid to disavow or disgrace them that he may not rob God himself of the glory due to his Favour and Mercy Item pag. 20. God is jealous of his Glory and therefore cannot endure it to be abused by slurring his good gifts and graces Glanv Cathol Char. pag. 55. That our Brethren may be good men though they understand not many things in which we judge aright Item pag. 22. Let us then be so ingenuous as to own the vertue and goodness that is in all Parties and Opinions Let us commend and love it And Page 56. We should converse indifferently with all perswasions without wrangling or discord and exercise our Charity and good will towards the good men of any sort This will be a means to sweeten our Spirits and to remove the Animosities we are apt to conceive against the persons of Dissenters and it will engage them on the other hand to a greater kindness for us and so lessen our distance and disagreements Doctor Ham.