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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51062	The moderate Independent proposing a word in season to the gathered churches, the Episcopal and Presbyterian parties tending to their humiliation for what is past, to be reconciled to each other for the time to come, and joyntly to acquiesse in the determinations of this present Parliament, as to the government of church & state / by Salem Philalathes ...	Philalathes, Salem.	1660 (1660)	Wing M2325; ESTC R16471	30,990	34

use should be made by them so many of the Nobility and Gentry from Somersetshire Northamptonshire Kent and about the City of London and other places having most piously and Christianly Declared That they do reflect upon their past sufferings as proceeding from the hand of God and that they do abhorre all revengefull thoughts or actions against any party or persons whatsoever Which Declarations of theirs have very much won my heart and I desire that they may have the like effect upon all of our Party towards those truly noble and gentle Persons who have thus prevented us with their love and goodness Let us therefore no longer harbour any jealous and uncharitable surmises against them Let us not say it is an easie matter to give good words though they never intend it The Apostle tels us Love it neither thinketh or speaketh evil But let us all who have seen how evil and destructive divisions and contentions are amongst Brethren now come and see how good and joyfull it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity for doubtless we are Brethren and all have one Father though we most unhappily like Josephs brethren have fallen out by the way And that this good work may be prosecuted and carried on in all our Congregations As I have spoken in particular to the Episcopal Clergy and to the Presbyterian Ministers so I shall address my self to ye who are the Pastors and Teachers of our Congregations such as labour in the Word and Doctrine being lawfully called thereunto Oh be ye instant in season and out of season at all times and upon all occasions more frequently then ever pressing upon your hearers and faithfully applying to them the Doctrine of Self-denial the want of which I fear is the cause of all that selfishnesse which is in our party which selfishnesse is the summe of Vice the capital enemy of God and the King of Order and Government of all grace and vertue of every holy Ordinance and duty especially of unity and Brotherly-love of the welfare of the Publick and our own true good and eternal happinesse Oh therefore let the Doctrine of Self-denial be more preached be more practised then ever Make also Conscience of preaching more then ever against hypocrisie against disobedience to the fifth Commandment And as the most of your hearers profess themselves to be such as have the Spirit of God see to take heed of those ungodly lusts which Jude tels us argue v. 19. that they have not the spirit And perswade them above all things to shew forth in their conversations for the time to come those fruits of the spirit which the Apostle speaketh on Eph. 5. 9. The fruit of the spirit is in all goodnesse righteousnesse and truth Such fruits of the spirit as these breaking out in our lives and conversations will make them winning and draw those that are without to like and approve of the Religion we professe These are such fruits which have but little appeared to the world in these late years amongst us And therefore be perswaded and entreated to charge it upon the consciences of your hearers that they bring them forth The Apostle tels us indeed of other fruits of the spirit as faith love c. these do unite our souls to God and God to us but goodnesse benignity an affable and charitable disposition Righteousnesse in our converse and commerce in the world Truth veracity and faithfulness in our words and promises these unite and tye the souls of men to us all These things saith the Apostle are profitable to men All other our gracious qualifications our most elevated common gifts of the spirit though we could be never so Seraphical in our Contemplations though never so Angelical in our expressions though we had the tongue of men and Angels though we should consume our lungs by our long prayers and even weep our selves blind for many of our sins yet should these be abstracted from goodnesse righteousnesse and truth which the Apostle calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fruit of the spirit we should shew our selves to be but of a selfish and solitary disposition and no way allure others to be in love with Religion Perswade therefore your people to shun that supercilious morosness of many in their conversation saying unto their neighbours Stand by for I am more holy then thou that hard-heartedness that commonly appeareth in many Professors towards poor and indigent persons For though the houshold of faith are to have the preheminence yet we are expresly commanded to do good unto all even to Gal. 6. 10. such as upon whom our heavenly Father causeth his sun to shine and his rain to fall which are the bad as well as the good Matth. 5. 45. Tertullian relates of the Primitive Professors in his time that they were called not Christiani but * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unde venit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrestiani from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word which signifieth good bountiful 1 Pet. 2. 3. sweetness of manners and disposition profitableness 2 Tim. 2. 14. and that fruit of the spirit Gal. 5. 22. translated gentleness It should seem then they were such close followers of the gentleness of Christ and of his goodnesse who went about doing good and that they were so profitable unto humane society by their sweetness of disposition their gentlenesse their bounty benignity and goodnesse they did so abound in such fruits of the spirit that they were called Chrestians Now if we that live in these evil times could be brought but to this excellent temper how should we adorn and crown our holy profession and draw in others to a love and liking of our zeal for God in matters of the first Table and make all our present divisions to vanish Especially if it be in conjunction with Righteousness which will make us give to all their due Obedience and Loyalty to the King as Supream and to all other Governours sent by him and to all our equals love By this means then shall all parties be united together and the effect of these works of Righteousnesse shall be peace and a quiet settlement of these three Kingdoms I have now but a few words to speak unto ye of the Congregated Churches in reference to the extreams into which we have run in relation to matters of Religion and Church Government and to press you to moderation therein also as I have done the Episcopal and Presbyterian parties and so I shall conclude my Discourse Though I must needs say the parties before named have not run into that extream with us in reference to the Civil Government of the Nation and therefore I have not had that occasion to speak to them on that subject which I have so largely insisted on to our selves Yet in Reference to Church Government or matters of the soul and conscience there are none of us all can wash our hands in innocency What just occasion was given to all truly

Common-wealth which Mr. Sedgwick calleth a Hoddy Doddy and all Breach such a one as derogates from the Majesty of God and the wisdom of man Though it had a precious Foundation and the Mortar thereof was tempered even with the Blood of all degrees of men in the Kingdom and of all Parties but our own and hath consumed more Millions then any if not all the Kings of England ever did I say let us be weaned from this Novelty and now let our Spirits be reconciled to Kingly Government again Even that Ancient Government by Kings which oweth its Original to the Ancient of Daies who hath said By me Kings reign and to Jesus Christ who is the Lord of Lords the King of Kings the true Fountain of Honour That Government by which God hath promised in Gospel times that his Church shall be provided for and protected that Kings shall be their Fathers and Queens their Nursing Mothers That Government in the want of which we have found by experience all those wickednesses perpetrated as were done in those daies when there was no King in Israel Judg. 17. 6. 19. 1. That Ancient way of Government by which God ruled his people of old even by Moses who was King in Jesurun and by which this Nation hath been Governed for many hundred years and never by a Common-wealth before I say let us by these Arguments shake hands and be friends again with Kingly Government with which we have been at odds these many years And to bring us together again I shall to these Arguments give you one Quotation more from our Friend Mr. Sedgwick saith he P. 11. Kingliness agreeth with all Christians they who are of a Royal Nature and made Kings with Christ cannot but be Friends to it It is a Bastard Religion that is inconsistent with the Majesty and Greatness of the most absolute Monarch And such Spirits are strangers from the Kingdom of Heaven and know not the Glory in which God liveth and are of narrow and evil minds that are corrupt themselves and not able to bear Greatness and so think God cannot or will not qualifie men for such high Places with answerable and proportionable Goodness and Power In my mind there is very much of Truth in this Quotation and I wish he be of the same mind still that then uttered it Without all doubt they which know any thing of the waies of Gods administrations either in the Kingdom of Grace or of Glory should not be of Anti-monarchical Spirits Their Spirits as he saith are narrow their Minds are evil Especially those amongst us who have loaded with such reproaches him whom I am apt to believe the Divine Providence hath so wonderfully preserved to rule these three Kingdoms And now the very naming of Providence doth furnish me with a most cogent Argument in my judgment to prevail with us all to incline to what I move you For how hath the Divine Providence overturned overturned overturned all the waies of Government we have attempted to set up contrary to the Right both of Prince and People as Mr. Sedgwick teacheth us Doubtless we have cause to fear we have highly offended in walking so by Providence making that to legitimate those Actions of ours for which the Word gave no warrant but condemned rather This was the Argument by which we answered all our Opposers Oh the Providence of God hath declared from Heaven the justness of our Cause and Waies Our Protector though in his long Speech at the Dissolution of the Parliament so called Jan. 22. 1654. he doth very much in many places press all to observe the voice of Providence which had done such great things wondering that they could not proceed further to the Settlement of the Government of the Nation according to his desire for which he broke them up yet he was somwhat loath to own the Providence of God therein For saith he I cannot apprehend what it is I would be loath to call it a Fate that were too Paganish a Word but there is somthing in it that we have not our expectation P. 26. And sure there was the Divine Providence counter-working But how evidently it hath appeared since is our Duty as Christians to own and acknowledge especially since this remarkeable passage in his Speech aforesaid P. 27. As for this Cause it is either of God or man If it be of God it will bear up if it be of man it will tumble as every thing that hath been of man hath done since the World began And as this is so the all wise God deal with it Now let us who have made the Providence of God our Rule contrary to this express Command amongst others that we should do no evil that good might come of it Let us I say as becometh Christians acknowledge the all-wise Providential Dispensations in so stupendiously tumbling down the chief Actors and Agitators in those unwarrantable waies we have too too much owned and justified Truly me thinks the strange Tumblings that we have seen since the Protector was laid in his Grave and how by an evil Spirit the all-wise God hath sent among the men of Sechem he hath so strangely Judg. 9. 23. tumbled down the Family of Abimelech I say that the neer Relations of the Old Protector should be so instrumental in pulling down the New One and in that to lay the Foundations of that Disgrace that is come upon themselves And how strangely the Providence of God hath brought about the Calling of this Parliament defeated Col. Lambert since his escape scattering the Disturbers of the Nations Peace and disappointed their hopes of hindring the peaceable Meeting of this great Convention I say these strange and most admirable Providences which would fill a Volume with the Observations of all the Circumstances of them should now convince us that it is hardkicking against the pricks and should very much bring us into a low Opinion and esteem of our selves and encline us to a peaceable and Christian Accommodation with all Parties and to shew forth more Moderation of mind than we have yet made known to the World It is only for these ends that I have spoken so home and dealt so impartially with you being acquainted with the temper of many of your spirits which require it But if any Prophanatick shall make this cursed use of what I have written as thereby to heighten that hatred of holiness that is so natural to all unregenerate men or to harden himself in his way of wickedness stumble and be scandalized at the fallings of some I have here presented I say no more to him but at his eternal peril be it For though it be true which our Saviour hath said Wo be to them by whom offences come so it is as true also Wo be to the world Matth. 18. 7. because of offences As for many of the late Kings Party that have been the greatest sufferers for him I fear not that any such ill