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A36831	An appeal of all the non-conformists in England to God and all the Protestants of Europe in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King to which is added a sober and unpassionate reply to the author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin / by Dr. Lewis Du Moulin ...	Du Moulin, Lewis, 1606-1680.	1681 (1681)	Wing D2530; ESTC R35666	14,500	36

which is to dis-ingage and free all honest Persons such as are the above-mentioned Doctors from the Corrupt Party of their Church to joyn and confederate themselves with that of the Non-Conformists that so those two Parties might Consolidate in one and consequently for vis Vnita fortior be more capable to act with greater Zeal and Vigour against the third Party that are making their Advances towards Rome ALSO My design in that Book is to make those honest Persons and Doctors understand who on one hand do perfectly agree with the Non-Conformists in Matters of Faith and Doctrine and on the other with that Corrupt-Party of the Church of England in Matters of Government and Ceremonies My design I say is to make them understand the truth of these following Corollaries THAT seeing this former Agreement ought to be much otherwise the foundation of the Communion of Saints and the cause which should ingage and bind their Hearts Affections and Interests together than the latter those good and honest Doctors are incomparably the more obliged in Conscience to adhere to the Non Conformists who agree with them in Matter of Faith than to those who do only agree with them in matter of Ceremonies and they will find that they are obliged to it so much the more if they will but take upon them the trouble of insisting upon some Obstacles which have for above these hundred Years hindered and as I may say staved off the re-union of the Conformists with the Non-Conformists THE first Obstacle is the Aversion which the Conformists as well the good as the bad have alwayes had even in and since the time of Edward VI. down to our dayes untill the Conformists were awakened by this last most Damnable and Hellish Plott of the Papists to take away the Life of our Sacred Soveraign CHARLES the Second to Subvert the Government and utterly to abolish the Protestant Religion and Name among Christians the aversion I say they had to hearken to any terms of Reconciliation THAT this Aversion has especially appeared in the Corrupt-Party of the Church of England who have evermore turned a deaf ear to the Cryes Clamours and Remonstrances which the Non-Conformists whereof the Chief was Bishop Hooper have made to be freed and discharged from the heavy Yoke of Ceremonies and to persuade and bring over these obstinate and restive men to pass on from that first but rude draught of Reformation made in the time of King Edward VI. which that so much Contemptible and despised Man now a days by them but I say honest Mr. Calvin calls tolerabiles ineptias to a more perfect Establishment according to what the last mentioned great Man Calvin for I cannot speak his Name but with a becoming reverence expresses of it Sic ergò à talibus rudimentis incipere licuit ut doctos probosque et graves Christi Ministros ultrà eniti et aliquid limatius et purius quoerere consentaneum foret Epistola ad Anglos Francofurtenses THAT these Obstinate Men of the Corrupt-Party of the Church of England have been always so remote from hearkning to and answering the requests of the Non-Conformists that they have been just the contrary and they are so much the more violent and inflexible as they have been making their continual advances towards the Doctrines and Ceremonies of the Church of Rome BUxT I find that the greatest Obstacle to the re-union comes from these honest upright and sincere persons whom I mentioned before and from whom we ought to expect that they should come over three parts of four of the way to this Reconciliation but from which they are and will be very remote so long as they do openly and loudly maintain That that first Establishment of Government in the time of Edward VI. is not a rude draught and much less as Calvin would needs have it tolerabiles ineptioe but that it is a Model of Government in the last perfection a Master-Piece that cannot be made better and which of all the Governments that are in the World comes nearest to that of the Apostles THAT so long as the Government which the Non-Conformists would have hath no agreement or affinity with that of the Church of England it is not to be hoped that Two Parties who both do verily believe themselves to be in the right can ever be persuaded to come to any agreement of a middle way which cannot be at least in their accounts but wrong and vitious though according to the belief which I have of and the esteem I bear to them both they do each lye under Errour and a gross and vitious extremity I do not at all question if they would each of them be willing to abate something of their pretended right but that both Parties might meet in a just Middle and an equal temperament which somewhat resembles that Vertue that keeps the ballance even between two Vices and the good and handsome husbandry which is the Medium between Avarice and Prodigality THAT all these Obstacles hindering and keeping off the re-union of the Conformists with the Non-Conformists it would be therefore a most Excellent and Christian Design and a blessed Work to labour to undeceive all honest persons as well Episcopal as Presbyterian of those mighty great and unaccomptable prejudices which each of them are prepossessed with and which makes them so hugely stand up for the pretended Excellency of their Government without which good Work this desired Reconciliation is not feasible it being as Jesus Christ sayes impossible that those who think themselves whole should ever be cured of their disease BUT of all my Friends who treat me ruggedly there is One especially that violently carries himself out against me for having condemned the manner of Dr. Patrick's usage of the Non-Conformists upon the Justification by Faith which he sayes I have done meerly from a spirit of malice and revenge for his having denyed to give me the Sacrament in his Church in Covent-Garden because I relused to take it kneeling But I protest before Almighty God who is the Searcher of hearts and knows that I speak the truth that I have not the least ill resentment of it nor indeed can I make any tolerable handsome pretence to have one because after he had so denyed me that Doctor came to my Lodging and desired my excuse and made me a very obliging and extream satisfaction but it is the Cause of God which carries me forth to repel the wrong and injury he does to the honestest persons in the World Which yet methinks might be pardonable if he was not so hardy as to put himself in the place and stead of GOD in judging of their inward intentions as when he assures us that all those Expressions of Downham Davenant and R. Hooker which are those of the Holy Scripture upon the subject of Justification by Faith and which without doubt he highly approves of in the Mouths of the holy Apostles and of those three Doctors are

chief hand in restoring our gracious Soveraign Charles the II. to his Throne for which never enough to be valued Benefit and kindness although it was but duty no Party has been more severely persecuted by the Corrupt-Party of the Church of England But of this more anon 16. That the Declaration of the King mentioned in the Tenth Consideration was a confirmation of another former Declaration 17. That whereas when the King came over from the Hague there was a great expectation that his Printed Declaration for Ecclesiastical Affairs would be sufficient to compose all differences and heats and unite all Parties by taking away the stumbling block of subscribing to those Ceremonies that were not warranted by the Word of God but just on the contrary the Clamours of the Corrupt Party of the Church of England at length prevail'd for restoring of those Ceremonies All which good Bishop Brownrig foretold a little before his Death in saying That there would continue the same Confusions and Animosities that were before and with them the same spirit of Persecution which the Corrupt Church-Party before 1640 was the cause of 18. That the Zeal and Fervour of the prevailing Corrupt Church-Party in England at this present juncture of time in writing so many Books against the Papists and standing up so stoutly against the Horid Attempt upon the King 's most Sacred Life and introducing of Popery and hearkening to some terms of Reconciliation with the Non-Conformists to make the opposition the stronger against Papists does no way seem to be the effect of a Christian Moderation but a meer worldly Interest like the zeal of Jehu the union of Aristides and Themistocles two Mortal Foes against the Common Enemy Or like that of Augustus Brutus and Cassius against Antony 'T is the goodness of a stubborn Boy just so long as the Rod is over his Back for had another spirit moved the corrupt Party of the Church of England than a Worldly one it would have appeared above these 100 Years when alas no such attempts were made by the Papists against their Lives and Livings when a Hundred Remonstrances were made to them with Prayers and Tears for the removing of the offending Rites and Ceremonies and of the great inclination they had for Popery in depopulating England by driving men away to Colonies abroad but could never be heard 21. Things being thus stated one may rationally and strongly conclude That it is a most horrid untruth and calumnie to make the Presbyterians and Conventiclers or Non-Conformists not only the first authors and abettors of the Civil Wars and of the first taking up of Arms in opposition to the Evil Counsellors about the King in 42 and 43 but also the Murtherers of King Charles the First when as they have been and still are the great preservers of the King's Person Life Honours Dignities and Prerogatives the best Christians the best Reformed and the best Subjects of the King 22. And the false and unworthy stiling of these Restorers of the King Rebels Fanaticks Sms of Belial c. doth carry along with it the same devillish Malice which makes it now become a common Proverb in the Mouths of this corrupt Church of England-Party That they had rather be Papists than Presbyterians and that were there a Turn of State as God forbid they would sooner turn Papists than Presbyterians 23. Besides the idle foolish senceless but also malicious mistake to make the holiest of the Non-Conformists to pass for Presbyterians who though they love their persons and the holiness of their Doctrine and Lives yet either they are wholly averse to the Presbyterian Government or else they do not very well know what it means Since the Well-affected follow their Preaching and imitate their Lives but yet by no means upon any account of their Government 24. That the worst thing in the carriage of the Conformists towards the Non-Conformists is their rash uncharitable and unchristian judging of the Hearts and Insides of men which are only known to God Almighty who is the Searcher of Hearts as if they were made up of Deceit and Hipocrisie and alike construing their unblameable behaviour and carriage as if it were but formal and extrinsecal and of the pure Orthodox Doctrine of their Sermons and Writings though never so much summed up in Scripture phrases as if all was but Cant and Tone and taking of God's Name in vain when they make a quite different Judgment of the Conformists both of their Lives and Doctrines and when they make use of the same Scripture terms as the others do for in their esteem they are looked upon as true sincere and holy Christians though their outward deportment do somewhat differ from that of the other This I intend by God's assistance to make clear to you in a larger Discourse from the Testimony of Dr. Patrick who doubtless cannot in handling of the Nature of Justification by Faith but agree with the Non-Conformists in making use of the same Scripture-Expressions and commend such as Bishop Davenant Downam usher Hall and Hooker all Conformists for doing the like and who will tell us that this Justification by Faith is a Recumbency of a poor Sinner upon the Lord Jesus Christ a casting of our selves upon him relying on his Merits laying hold on him closing with him going to him and shrowding our selves under the Robes of his Righteousness Most of which are Scripture phrases But yet for all this the very same Expressions being uttered by such Non-Conformists as Mr. Baxter Dr. Owen Manton Annesly Jacomb Bates Mr. Jenkins Alsop Cradock Silvester Watson and Others for the better setting out the nature of Justification by Faith are looked upon by Dr. Patrick as meer Imposters Charms Incantations artificial Jugglings Terms of Modish and Courtly Faith by which this Doctor makes good the saying of Pliny the Younger Epist. 21. Multum interest quid à quoque fiat Eadem enim facta claritate aut obscuritate facientium aut tolluntur altissimè aut humillimè deprimuntur That such a prejudice against the Generation of God's Children that make it their grand design to get an assurance of Heaven and of Eternity as are not only many of the Peaceable and Moderate Conformists but such as they miscall and nick-name Puritans Presbyterians Independents Rebels Sons of Belial and worse than Papists That such a prejudice I say is the great distemper of that corrupt-party of the Church of England who have for these 100 years been making their advances towards Popery I shall insist very particularly upon some very considerable Inferences and Conclusions which I shall draw from some Hypotheses that I have already taken notice of but which cannot be too often inculcated the truth of which is known sufficiently by those that are most Eminent in Piety and Holiness of Living and in Learning of the Church of England by the Bishops Hooper Smith Rudd Carleton Grindall the two Abbots usher Hall and by other Doctors that were as Conformable as