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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27046	A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our concord, 2. the impossibility of it, on the terms of the present impositions against the accusations and storms of, viz., Mr. John Hinckley, a nameless impleader, a nameless reflector, or Speculum, &c., Mr. John Cheny's second accusation, Mr. Roger L'Strange, justice, &c., the Dialogue between the Pope and a fanatic, J. Varney's phanatic Prophesie / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing B1419; ESTC R647	161,764	297

Enclosure and the Communion of your Conformists I have some business on your side the Hedge the Law and your own expectation will tell you part of it I see some of my Fathers Family with you I have busines on the other side the Hedge There are as good as you and such as I am neerly related to and commanded to love as my self and to receive as Christ received us and not to doubtful disputations to prove or approve all your Jurisdictions Assumptions Oaths Covenants Subscriptions Reordinations Formalities and Ceremonies Your thorn-hedge hath enclosed but one corner of Christs Vineyard and I have business in the rest It hath separated Parents from Children Husbands from Wives as to Church-communion Masters and Servants Brethren from Brethren Neighbours from Neighbours If they that made the hedge can justifie it let them do it it will be tryed before a jealous God ere long if those of you that in learned Books and Sermons exhort us with somewhat hissing Rhetorick to separate from those on the other side the hedge can prove that themselves are all Christs Church and that God would have us separate from all save them and give over Preaching and all publick Worship of God till we can conscionably conform to all their Impositions I say if all these silencing Preachers can make good their accusation of the Brethren and their conclusions let them that undertake it speed as they perform it but for my part I will not separate from Father Mother Brother Friend and all good Christians save a domineering Sect because that Sect will else call me Separatist I was wont to draw the Map of the Church Universal as one Body or Field or Vineyard of Christ hedged in indeed round about from Infidels and distributed into thousands of particular Churches as Streets and Families in one City But if any will say Hold Communion with one Street or Family and separate from the rest and then say that you are a Schismatick for not being for that odious Schism I will hear such as I do the people that talk through the windows on the west side of Moor-fields when they say that all are mad or Schismatical that are not in their Cubs and Chains Mr. Cheney was never there I think and yet it was per album an atrum nescio revealed to him that I am downright for an Independant Covenant which hath twenty Arguments extant to batter it and prove it guilty of irreligiousness or somewhat worse And they say for I am not acquainted much with their practice that the Independent bind their flock to hold Communion with none but their own Sect nor to depart without leave from their particular Churches I am apt to believe that they are slandered for whoever falls sick I will first fear the most epidemical or common disease but if it be no slander I profess that I will never be of a particular Church which claims to be the universal and will forbid me Communion with all save them And if in this the Prelatists agree with the Independents I am against the separating Sectarian Schismatical presumption of them both I take the Kitching and Cole-house to be parts of the house and I have sometimes business in them both But I am most in my Study and Chamber and I will take both Chamber and Colehouse for Schismticks if ever I hear either of them say I am all the house or it is lawful to be in no other room Lord pull up the separating Schismatical Thorn-hedge which hath cursedly divided thy family and flock CHAP. II. The Impleaders Truth examined § 1. CHrist saith that the Devil is the Father of Lies and doubtless he hath subtilty to excuse them and improve them and it is a great advantage to them that they are so disowned by humane nature that it is taken for an injury to humanity to charge any man to be a Lyar and a Ruffian will say it deserveth a challenge or a stab You will think it a paradox that natural dislike should be turned to the advantage of a sin But it is but natural light convincing the understanding not changing or fortifying the will against it And therefore it is but pride of reputation and impenitency that is indeed the fortress of the sin § 2. Accordingly it hath many times been my hard hap to have such Books written against me and that by men whose Reputation is not undervalued by themselves or their followers as were to be answered chiefly by a Mentiris from end to end if it would not seem by custom to be uncivil And to tire the Reader by turning a Mintiris into a civil long Parenthesis and this as frequently as gross falshoods are openly said or intimated is tedious even when necessary With one I was put to use my Arithmetick and to answer him by numbring the untruths asserted But I have forborn it with others far more guilty lest their reverence and power should make truth intolerable whose passion or interest or errour had made gross Lies seem true and necessary § 3. This Impleader hath been taught too much by the same Master and had he not spent part of his Book on Doctrinals where his Errata are but mendae but been all Historical where there are too many Mendacia I might have been put to the way of answering before-mentioned But be they Mendae or Mendacia they need aniendment and the Reader may need an antidote against them § 4. Some beginning we have on the Title-page pretending to shew the Reasons of the sinfulness of Conformity Mend. 1. I pretend in my Plea to shew but the matter of Nonconformity and Historical Narrative of our judgment and matters of fact passing by the Reasons or Arguments that must prove the things unlawful though Reason may be gathered by the Reader from the matter or History itself § 5. The same is repeated p. 1. He pretends to give Reasons for the sinfulness of Conformity M. 2. And he overpasseth the chief part of my Book in which I state the case of Government and Separation on pretence that it is a dark and dirty way in which I have lost my self M. 3. And a little will satisfie him that regards such an easie dark and dirty answer § 6. He guesseth that kneeling at the Sacrament for that was then discourst of was one and the chief of those many heinous sins of Conformity Mend. 4. It seems the man was present Reader look to thy belief when thou art among such men 1. There was not a word spoken then against the lawfulness of Kneeling at the Sacrament 2. I openly declared that I held it lawful and none of my Brethren contradicted 3. The thing which we proved unlawful then was Casting those faithful Christians out of the Church-Communion in that Sacrament who dare not take it kneeling for the reasons which cause them to think it sinful § 7. Impl. He will not urge the case but barely mention matters of fact 〈…〉 much