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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40722	Toleration not to be abused by the Independents by a lover of truth and peace.	Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.	1672 (1672)	Wing F2518; ESTC R35474	9,735	32

comes in must presently take us for Mad Do ours come to the Communion drunk as at Corinth Then for Manners and Life We acknowledge our selves heynous Offendors which I suppose those that call themselves the Saints and separate from us Publicans do unless frantick confess true of themselves But what then have we worse than Incest Fornication Covetousness Malice Contentions unrepented of as is the Church of Corinth Or biting and devouring one another permitters of Idolaters boasters of Gifts as in the Church of Galatia As touching neglect of Discipline First in the Apostles own company the Ministers that should exercise Discipline they all sought there own and none the things of J●sus Christ and the grossest Vices winked 〈…〉 mented as we saw before in the Church of Corinth and should have been so still had not the Apostle been Living and exciting them to their Duty Lastly concerning Tyranny Ye see what Oppression the false Apostles used 2 Cor. 11. 20. Ye suffer saith the Apostle if a man take of you if a man bring you into bondage if a man devour you if a man exalt himself c. by which words he toucheth the Tyranny though out of malice against the Apostle willingly submitted to by the Church of Corinth and we know that Dyotrephes exercised his Government with such Insolency that he cast out whom he would admitted whom he would opposed S. John himself yet no news of Separation Now let these men consider that separate from us the Apostolical Church was a Virgin newly espoused to Christ in the midst of the Heathen under the Rod of Persecution the great Apostle then living and yet vitiated more then the Churches that these depart from and yet the then Separatists branded with the Characters of Schisme and Sedition by the Blessed Apostles And here I desire the men of this way seriously to consider that Separation being discountenanced from Churches more vitiated than ours by the Holy Apostles how these men owning our Parochial Churches true as to Essentials can ever justifie their Separation from us It would certainly be duly weighed by such as desire to appear tender Consciences and so capable of a right in the present gracious Indulgence That they do so acknowledge our Parochial Churches their Apologetical Narration declares sufficiently in these following words We have alwaies profest and that in these times wherein the Churches of England were most either actually overspread with defilements or in the greatest danger thereof that we both did and would hold Communion with them as true Churches of Christ and that our Parochial Churches were the very Body of Christ which is in effect to approve and forsake at the same time and gives occasion too great of applying a Sentence in S. Austin against Parmenian Lib. 1. cap. 8. against these Dissenters Et adversum nos loquuntur nobiscum loquuntur cum eos obmutescere compellat veritas silere non permittit iniquitas They speak against us and they speak for us and when Truth constrains them silence their Iniquity will not let them hold their peace There are three things that I would humbly offer to all sober men of the Congregational perswasion and I beseech them to consider them seriously as from one that equally wisheth their Salvation with his own 1. That they would cautiously distinguish between corruptions in Doctrine and corruptions in the practice of a Church 2. That they would Conscientiously distinguish between corruptions whether in Doctrine or Practice profest and avowed by a Church and required as the absolute conditions of Communion from all its members and corruptions only crept in and meerly tolerated in a Church and not any way required as the conditions of 3. To distinguish carefully between Non-communicating as to the abuses of a Church and a positive and total Separation from a 〈◊〉 as it is a Church These three the second 〈…〉 duly weighed and considered would 〈…〉 a period to their Separation 〈…〉 of England or tend at least to 〈…〉 ening of the Breach too sadly occasioned for want of a due reflection upon the Premisses aforesaid Again We of the Church of England have not given them the like or any just cause of Separating as the Church of Rome gave them and us For where do we urge any Doctrines as Articles of Faith which we offer not to a tryal by Scripture and the Four first General Councils which all Christians reverence and were Anciently honoured next to the Four Gospels and if the Church should teach any other Propositions she protests against their being Articles of Faith and of Necessity to Salvation and for this reason imposeth not Her ●●●IX Articles as Articles of Faith but of Peace and Communion nor does the Church of England censure other Churches for their different Confessions but allows them the liberty she her self takes to establish more or less conditions of Communion as the Governours of the Church shall deem most expedient for Vnity and Peace She only requires of such as are admitted to any Office or Employment in the Church to subscribe to her Articles as certain Theological Verityes not repugnant to GOD's Word particularly culled out and selected to be taught and maintained within her Communion as highly conducive to the preservation of Truth and prevention of Schisme And for this reason She passes no other censure upon the Impugners of her Articles then against the Impugners of Her Government Liturgy and Rites because all intended by her for the same end The avoiding of all Disorders and Confusions But as for the absolute Articles of the Church of England they were not of Her own Inventing but such as She found established in the best Ages of the Church nearest the Primitive and Apostolical simplicity Here She fixeth the bounds of Her Faith to prevent the danger of endless Additions and Innovations And because in smaller matters somewhat may escape the greatest caution and prudence She hath reserved Just power to her self to reform what is really amiss and finds so abused that the use of them cannot stand with Piety and Holiness allowing the same Liberty to all her Sister Churches and all Church Governours within the sphere of their respective Jurisdictions This is the true state of the Reformation of this Church as hath been apparently evidenced by her Regular Sons against all Opposers Now let the Independents consider whether this be not though a brief yet a True account of the Moderation and Prudence of this Church and then let them reflect at the same time upon the second especially of the Three aforesaid Propositions and upon the whole examine their Tender Consciences whether it does not Justifie our Separation from the Romanists and at the same time prove them guilty by departing from us We both agree that where any Church is guilty of Corruptions in Doctrine and practice which it owns and requires as absolute conditions of Her Communion there to Separate is no Schisme but Lawful and Convenient