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A41779	A friendly epistle to the bishops and ministers of the Church of England for plain truth and sound peace between the pious Protestants of the Church of England and those of the baptised believers written with the advice of divers pastors and brethren of the baptised congregations, by Tho. Grantham.	Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.	1680 (1680)	Wing G1534; ESTC R10561	15,630	42

Spirit of Pride and BLOOD-THIRSTINESS from amongst the Christian People And let all that are called by that Name be ashamed that ever such wrath hath bin found amongst them and let them be humbled before thy Majesty in the remembrance of it O Lord we beseech thee Most Gracious God we confess unto Thee we are not worthy to undertake any thing in behalf of the Peace and Vnity of divided Christians But thou O God that despisest not the base and weak things of this World be intreated to bless our present Enterprise as it is consistent with thy pleasure to the good of thy People universally That they may be one in Truth and Peace according to thy Word which is Truth We beseech thee to bow the Heart of the Mighty the Wise and Honorable in the Christian Nations to study Truth and Peace to condescend to any thing for thy Glory and thy Peoples Happiness and we pray that none who are called by thy Name may any longer be puffed up for one and against another O teach those that love Thee to strive together with one mind for the Truth and Power of Religion according to the Gospel Good Lord be intreated for thy Names sake in behalf of all those that are of pious meaning in these Nations especially that their Hearts being intirely knit together in the great and more necessary parts of thy Worship they may Glorifie thy Name with one consent by a charitable forbearance in things which are not sinful in thy sight We intreat Thee our God make us thy Servants ever to be ready on our parts to evidence by act what here we propose in words and grant thy Spirit to enable us herein to serve Thee and all such as fear Thee and love thy Testimonies And grant that none of thy People may uncharitably censure this our undertaking for Concord amongst thy Servants Grant them Patience to consider what is here offered and where we may seem deficient herein lead others to supply what is wanting that through thy Blessing upon our united Endeavours the Good here intended may be prosperously promoted to thy Praise O Lord to the great increase of Charity and therewith to the true comfort of thy People throughout the whole World Even so Lord God Almighty Even so Amen A Friendly Epistle TO All the Bishops Ministers OF THE Church of England Reverend Sirs MAy it please you in the meekness and gentleness of Christ to lay aside a little those exterior Honours which are conferred upon you and to condescend to Men of low degree and in that Condescention seriously to ponder what is herein with Humility and Sincerity submitted to your Consideration We do seriously account it a part of our Infelicity to see the Distractions and Divisions which are in our Land about things relating to the Worship of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ and therewithal it is too evident that the Power of Godliness is much neglected and the Ways of Christianity greatly depraved whereupon many that love the Lord Jesus are so estranged among themselves as to become Adversaries to their own Peace and the Comfort of each other May it then please God to lead us all to the Consideration of these ill Effects and to remove the Causes of them And seeing we may perhaps be under worse Apprehensions concerning one another than there is real cause for let it be calmly considered on both parts that our greatest differences are about Ceremonies And those also of Humane device as we conceive the best of which are not worth the loss of one Soul and therefore in no wise fit to adventure the breach of our Peace and Christian Concord for their sake which may be the cause of perishing to many May it therefore seem well pleasing to you the Bishops of the Church of England with your Brethren of the Ministery to admit of some friendly and free Debate with the Bishops and Teachers of the Baptized Churches in this Nation to try if by any means a way may be found to bring us to Christian Concrd in the Gospel of God To effect this is either impossible or difficult only Not the first sith our differences lie not in the doctrinal part of any Foundation-Article of the Christian Religion so much as in the application or practick part of them For to touch a little the grand points about which we differ viz. Sacred Baptism and the Discipline of the Church of these we spake the same thing for thus you teach That in Baptism there is an inward and spiritual Grace and an outward and visible Sign And that Repentance whereby we forsake Sin And Faith whereby we stedfastly believe the Promises of God made to us in that Sacrament are the things required of all Persons that are to be baptized And hereunto we do most heartily subscribe And touching holy Discipline your Doctrine is That the manner of proceeding in Excommunication is first by gentle Admonition and that once or twice given with the Spirit of meekness if the fault be not notoriously known and next by open reprehension afterwards by publick sentence of the Church to put him from the company of the faithful to deliver him to Satan to denounce him an Heathen and a Publican if no Admonitions will serve and the crimes be very offensive To this Doctrine like wise we do give our full consent Nevertheless it must be granted a very great difficulty as things now stand to reform what is really amiss on your part in the practice relating to those two points of the Christian Religion especially seeing that the worldly interest of so many carnal-minded men seems to depend upon the continuation of the Errors which have befallen you in the practice of these holy Institutes Howbeit this Difficulty is not greater than it was to reform what was as really amiss in that great Ordinance the Lord's Table whether we consider their Error who for many Centuries gave the Communion to Infants or theirs who by their Transubstantiation destroy the very nature of the Sacrament Nor shall we here forget but thankfully remember the great Travel and Sufferings of your Martyrs and the pious Zeal which appeared in many of them when called to reduce that holy Ordinance of the Lord's Supper from many corruptions by which it had been prophaned But yet we must needs condole their shortness in not looking with like diligence into the pristine purity of the other Sacrament By which oversight we which survive them are exposed the more to our present Difficulties And hence we may borrow that passage in 1 Chron. 15. 13. Because ye did it not at the first therefore the Lord our God made a breach upon us for that we sought him not after the due order And here we ought to learn that seeing God would not indulge his Servant David in such an oversight when yet his intention was very pious will have his own Methods duly observed in things pertaining to his Service