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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67882	The way to peace amongst all Protestants: being a letter of reconciliation sent by Bp. Ridley to Bp. Hooper, with some observations upon it. Licensed, July the 14. 1688.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.; Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.; Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1688 (1688)	Wing J847A; ESTC R3678	9,940	11

The WAY To PEACE AMONGST All Protestants Being A LETTER Of RECONCILIATION Sent by Bp. Ridley to Bp. Hooper With some Observations upon it Licensed July the 14 1688. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin 1688. Books lately Printed for Rich. Baldwin PVrgatory prov'd by Miracles Collected out of Roman-Catholick Authors With some remarkable Histories relating to British English and Irish Saints With a Preface concerning the Miracles 6 d. The Tryal of Philip Stansfield Son to Sir Iames Stansfield of New-Milns for the murther of his Father and other Crimes Libell'd against him Feb. 7. 1688. 1 s. The Revolter A Tragi-Comedy Acted between the Hind and Panther and Religio Laici c. 6 d. An Historical Relation of several Great and Learned Romanists who did embrace the Protestant Religion with the Reasons of ●heir Change delivered in their own Words Collected chiefly from the most Eminent Historians of the Roman Persuasion to which is added a Catalogue of several Great Persons of the Roman Catholick Religion who hath all along oppos'ed the Tenents of the Church of Rome 6 d. A Seasonable Discourse shewing the Unreasonableness and Mischiefs of Impositions in Matters of Religion Recommended to Serious Consideration By Andrew Marvell Esq late Member of Parliament 6 d. Reflections upon the New Test and the Reply thereto with a Letter of Sir Francis Walsingham's concerning the Penal Laws made in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth 3 d. A Letter of Advice to a Young Lady being Motives and Directions to establish her in the Protestant Religion Written by a Person of Honour and made publick for the use of that Sex. 3 d. A Seasonable Collection of Plain Texts of Scripture in words at length against several Points in the Romish Religion for the Use of English Protestants 2 d. they may be able to do good to many Farewell in the Lord my most dear Brother and if there be any more in Prison with you for Christ's cause I beseech you as you may salute them in my Name To whose Prayers I do most humbly and heartily commend my self and my fellow Prisoners and Captives in the Lord And yet once again and for ever in Christ my most Dear Brother farewell N. Ridley Some Observations upon the foregoing Letter There cannot be a more Blessed Work than to Reconcile Protestants with Protestants And a man would think it should be one of the Easiest because we are able to say to them as Moses did to the two contending Israelites Sirs Ye are Brethren why do ye wrong one to another The meekest Man in all the Earth took another course with the Egyptian but as for Brethren he endeavoured all he could to set them at one again This is the only Design of this Paper in laying before you the Example of two Protestant Bishops who wisely found out the way to put an happy period to their unhappy Differences Which are the very same as have been since taken up by Protestants again af●er those two Good Men had laid them down In the struglings of Ridley and Hooper there were two Nations strugling in the Womb the two great Parties of the Conformists and Nonconformists For those two Persons differed about the self-same matters as we do now the establish'd Ceremonies the dress of Religion certain By-matters and circumstances of Religion which Hooper the Nonconformist could not comply with And Ridley the Conformist because they were according to Law insisted upon and would not abate So that in their old Differences we find exactly our present distemper And therefore in their Cure why should we not also find our own Remedy It is an Approved remedy it cured men who thought one another Superstitious and Imposing on one side and stubborn and intolerably willful on the other side And yet they came afterwards to Believe one another to be as they Really were Upright Men on both sides We have the Receipt in these few but very weighty words But now my Dear Brother forasmuch as I understand by your Works which I have but superficially seen That we throughly agree and wholly consent together in those things which are the Grounds and substantial Points of our Religion against the which the World so furiously rageth in these our days Howsoever in time past in certain By-matters and Circumstances of Religion your Wisdom and my Simplicity I grant hath a little jarred each of us following the abundance of his own Sense and Iudgment Now I say b● you assured that even with my whole heart God is my witness in the Bowels of Christ I Love you in the Truth and for the Truths-sake which abideth in us and as I am perswaded shall by the grace of God abide in us evermore 1. The first Consideration which arises from these words is this That the Agreement there is amongst Protestants in the main matters of Religion should drown and extinguish all lesser Differences The Substance of Religion which we all hold ought in reason to have more power to Unite us than all the By-matters and Circumstances in the world to Divide us We have all but one Rule of Faith and Life one Standard of Religious Worship and Practice which is one and the same English Bible And why should we not then All be of One Heart and One Soul We all believe that there is one God in opposition to Polytheism We believe that this God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth in contradiction to Idolatry without absurdly changing the Glory of the Incorruptible God into the similitude of a Corruptible Man or worshipping our Maker in form of Bread. We all believe in the Father Son and Holy Ghost in whose Names we are Baptized We are all taught of God to Hope for everlasting Happiness through the merits of our only Redeemer Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ the Righteous who is the Author of eternal Salvation to all those that Obey him We are all assured by many Infallible proofs that he is gone to Heaven to prepare a place for all his true Disciples and Followers And that the Heavens must contain him till the r●stitution of all things And that therefore He is not in any Tabernacles or Boxes here below We all know assuredly That in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him And that the Church of God is not now limited or confined to the Iewish or to any other Nation but is truly Catholick and Universal We all believe the two future states of Heaven and Hell for the Just and for the Unjust And neither our Books nor we know of any other nor indeed of any other sorts of Men Nor do any of us believe one word concerning the Profitableness of singing for a Soul. In a word since we are so Unanimous in these and many other the most important Truths shall we fall out about Ceremonies about Postures and Gestures about the Hatt and the Knee about dignifiing and distinguishing Titles about Garbs or Garments about Modes and