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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41812	An historical account of the antiquity and unity of the Britanick churches continued from the conversion of these islands to the Christian faith by St. Augustine, to this present time / by a presbyter of the Church of England.	Grascome, Samuel, 1641-1708?	1692 (1692)	Wing G1572; ESTC R17647	113,711	112

and Succeeding General Councels and of the Subject of Infallibility 3. 4. 5. In what Sense a Councel is the Church-Representative and the Reason of the different force of their Decrees 6. How long time taken to Contrive the Couneel of Trent 7. 8. 9. 10. General Exceptions against the Lawfulness of the Councel of Trent and that their Determinations bind none 11. Aparticular Reason to prove that of what force soever they may otherwise be yet they bind not us ERRATA Sic Corrigenda PAge 12. line 17. for pact● ●ead pact p. 25 l. 27. for That r The. p. 34. for Lindhardus 1. Luidha●dus p. 35. l. 2. Luidhardus again for Lindhardus p. 38. l. 1. for Scithia r. Sythia p. 42. l. 3. for their r these p 44 for Pasca r P●scha p. 46. l 2. after Answer add A. p. 46. for not r. no more which for Pope r. Popes p. 47. for on r. or p. 50. for their r. these p. 52. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 53. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 55. after true add it p. 56. for rhis r. this and for Their r. These p. 57. in redundat p. 59. l. 4. for each r. such p. see redundat p. 62. for praecesser●t r. praecesserat p. 66. for of God r. if good p. 70. l. r. for these r. theirs p. 71. for Roinanists r. Romanists ☜ p. 73 for the Work of a Christian r. the Worst Work of a Christian p. 74. for sec r. so p. 75. ac pr●terea viderent redundaet p. 83. for should r. could p. 87. for as r. or p. 90. for their r. these p. 95. for quem r. quàm and for early r. wily p. 101. for i● r. it CHAP. I. Of Obligations to Vnity amongst Christians I. SO Vehement and Implacable have been the Divisions amongst Christians Managed not only with Tongue-shot Disputations and all manner of Calumnies and Reproaches but even with base Arts most bloody Wars and barbarous and inhumane Cruelties that it might move an Enemy of our Religion yea perhaps an inconsiderate Person amongst our selves to think that that saying of our Saviour I Come not to send Peace but a Sword Mat. 10. 34. was not designed to forewarn his true Disciples of the Persecutions they are to expect from the wickedness of others but rather to instruct and animate them in Quarrels and to live as Cut-throats amongst one another And whatever are their Pretences yet by daily Experience we see That this is too much the Practice of many who are so devoted to their Factions that they startle at the Name of Peace And we have been told of some whose Furious Raptures have Inspired them with such a blasphemous Impudence as to affront God with their impious Prayers That he would Heighten and Increase the Divisions of the Church These and other such like Extravagancies have moved Me in the first place to Consider what Obligations to Unity Christians Lye under for if they Lye under no such Obligations it is most certain That the Name of Schism can hardly be so much as a Theological Scare-crow And they who keep such a Goil for Peace will be found the greatest Violaters of it as attempting to bring all Men to that which they are nothing bound to But on the contrary if there be such Obligations then it is as certain That all dividing and unquiet Persons do incur a Guilt proportionable to the Measure of their Proceedings and the strength of those Obligations And if it further Appear That the Christian Religion doth lay the strongest Obligations to Unity upon all the Professors of it Threatens the breach of it with the highest Penalties Rewards the Observation of it with the utmost Advantages and Affords the best Means and H●lps to preserve it then all that Own the Name of Christians must confess themselves to be indispenseably and eternally bound to the Peace so as to continue in it and procure it upon any termes but that of Sin with which no Peace is to be had But though I propound this particular with this very design That the General Concernment and Obligations of Christianity might make Men bethink themselves and abate their over-eager Propensions and obstinate Adherence to their particular Parties yet I shall be very brief because unless it be some Religious Madmen whose Brains are Heated with Enthusiasm beyond any Hope of Cure even those who are too Active and too Guilty in promoting Division do yet upon any sober Discourse freely Acknowledge That it is not only a good and a pleasant thing for Brethren to dwell together in Unity but also that it is a duty incumbent upon every Christian in his Station by all honest means to promote it not only amongst his own party but with all Others who have Given up their Names to Christ And I wish they were as serious in their Practice as they are free in their Acknow●edgments and would not amongst themselves Teach some private Tenets to Ensure their Partizans whilest they discourse at another Rate with those whom they are too apt to Esteem their Adversaries II. And in the first place If we Consider the Nature of the Christian Religion what can be more evident then that all its Principles and Doctrines as they are most inseparably Knit together and subservient to each other so they tend to Effect and Confirm the strongest Unity amongst the Professors of it Saint Paul beseeching the Ephesians to Endeavor to Keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace presseth them more particularly with this very Argument There is saith he Eph 4. 4. c. one Body and one Spirit even as ye are Called in one Hope of your Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all And in this Profession we have all Engaged our selves to be the faithful Servants of God and of Christ and therefore ought joyntly to Serve the Interest and Maintain the Honour of our Gracious and common Master Nay we not only hereby become Servants but have the Honour of being Friends of Christ Adopted Sons of God and are taken into the same Family and Houshold And of how heinors and insufferable a Crime they are Guilty who are troublesome in this Family and make Factions in this Houshold we may Learn from that Saying of our Saviour Matth. 3. 25. If a House be divided against it self that House cannot stand III. But possibly it may deserve our particular Consideration That the Holy Scriptures speak of all Christians as being incorporated into one Body and that in such a manner that the Hopes of our common Salvation depends upon our being Members of that one Body Hence in relation to our first Admission or Infition we are said to be all Baptized into one Body and that whether we be Jews or Gentiles bond or free 1 Cor. 12. 13. Hence also our