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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47430	An admonition to the dissenting inhabitants of the diocess of Derry concerning a book lately published by Mr. J. Boyse, entituled, Remarks on a late discourse of William, Lord Bishop of Derry, concerning the inventions of men in the worship of God / from William, Lord Bishop of the said diocess.	King, William, 1650-1729.	1694 (1694)	Wing K521; ESTC R2391	38,117	65

the Sign of the Cross and I think is sufficient to convince any unbyas'd Person that you have no cause to separate from our Worship on that Account As for the rest of Mr. Boyse's Remarks which I have not here considered I presume none will suspect that there is more Difficulty in them than in the Points I have already examined But indeed I must declare that I have met with none among you that have alledged Mr. Boyse's Reasons for absenting themselves from our Publick Worship And therefore I cannot think it material to go about to confute a single Person and a Stranger For should I confute his Principles perhaps you for whose Satisfaction only I intend this wou'd think your selves unconcern'd in the Dispute But if I shall find that his Objections have really moved Scruples in you and your Ministers will give their full approbation of his Book and manner of handling this Controversie I shall then think my self oblig'd to give you a just Account of the Whole as I have here done of some Parts of it and particularly of the principal Matters of Fact contained in it The Truth of which if any persist to question I shall then also Publish the Vouchers and Authorities I have for them which I am not willing to do out of tenderness to you as well as on other Accounts till the last Necessity At present I must leave with you this Caution as well in respect of Mr. Boyse's Remarks as of any other Answer that may come out to my Book that I do not think that either you or I are concern'd in Arguments that are not founded on Scripture or in any Answers to my Proofs that contradict the Letter of the Holy Scriptures as most of Mr. Boyse's do particularly such as concern saying or singing our Psalms answering in our Prayers and Hymns and joining our Voices in our Confessions and Addresses to God To Conclude I desire to deal with you as becomes a True Pastour Admonishing and Instructing you in the Spirit of Meekness I neither have nor can have any indirect or worldly Ends in telling you these things nor can you imagine that I either propose or design any Advantage to my self by it but only your Good I need not seek to please Men neither if I designed it were this the way to attain it Some Truths are very uneasie and I know that nothing can be more ungrateful to you then to give you to understand that the Worship you suppose so pure and conformable to the Word of God has no express Warrant in Scripture for it and that all those things in our Worship that you have so long been born in Hand to be only Inventions of Men are really the Dictates of God's Spirit in the Holy Scriptures This I know touches you very near and considering all things I cannot but thank you and do thank you for the Entertainment you have given my Book and I hope it will yet do more Good among you I must again intreat you to take my Addresses to you in good part and not to be offended with me because I endeavour to tell you the Truth They that know me will allow Plain-Dealing to be part of my Character But remember that nothing is more apt to provoke Mankind then Truth and if you meet with any Book written in Answer to mine that Discovers the Writer to have been in a Passion when he wrote it you may look on it as a probable Argument of the Truth of what I have proposed And if upon reading what I have wrote you find any Motion within your selves towards Passion consider well whether it proceed not from the same Cause namely my declaring the Truth to you I must stand or fall to my great Master as to my Sincerity in studying your Good to him I am answerable for the discharge of my Office and of those Obligations from it under which I lye The Conscience of this has put me on these Addresses and I beseech our good God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who purchased his Church with his Blood and promised his Spirit to his Disciples to guide them into all Truth to dispose and prepare your Hearts for the Reception thereof and to incline you to hearken to the Instructions offered you out of his Word by Your truly Affectionate Pastour Will. Derry Londonderry 1. May 1694. FINIS London Morning Exercise p. 65. 1 Cor. 14.40