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truth_n	father_n	true_a	worship_v	5,831	5	9.4836	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59752	A discourse of the rise & power of parliaments, of law's, of courts of judicature, of liberty, property, and religion, of the interest of England in reference to the desines of France, of taxes and of trade in a letter from a gentleman in the country to a member in Parliament.	Sheridan, Thomas, 1646-ca. 1688.	1677 (1677)	Wing S3225; ESTC R16270	94,234	304

somtimes finding these things com to pass are not only deluded themselves but incourage others to be so by such Nonsensical Impostors But since al Men have not Understanding you 'l ask How the Evil shal be cur'd The Remedies are only two First a right Education and next a removal of al Interest For since the Foundations of Religion are Eternal Truths were Men rightly instructed of which al are capable because al desin'd for Happiness and Men got nothing by lying we shoud have as much Truth and as little Disputing in matters of Christianity as in the Mathematical sciences Or at least if men defin'd nothing really but the tru Ends of it Eternal Happiness it might be lawful for every Man even in the way which another cals Heresie to worship the God of his Fathers for tho one thinks his a clearer or a shorter way than that of another so long as he stil goes on that is treads in the Paths of a sober and virtuous Life tho he may be more dabbl'd or longer on the Road what 's that to him He that finds fault may miss his own way by looking towards his Brother his particular Duty requires al his care Besides Every Man stands or fals to his own Master But you wil say 'T is Charity to teach my Brother and not to suffer sin upon him 'T is very tru but first 't is not prov'd that difference in Opinion is a sin but the contrary next Charity is not express'd in Thunder and Lightning sending him head-long to the Devil because he wil not be presently whether he can or no of your Opinion which perhaps is not truer than his own tho your greater Confidence assert it But Charity is express'd by Meekness Gentleness and Love by Instruction and Pity not by Hatred and Revilings nay not by Death the too often Consequence of Differences in Opinions From which Considerations 't is plain that 't is not Reason nor Charity that divides us but Interest and Policy How far it wil consist with the safety of the Public to suffer such dangerous Causes of fatal Effects as are brought in by these Clashes of Religionists not Religion I leave to the Wisdom of the Parliament Only to satisfy that part of your Question I wil give you som short Account how these Tares have so sprung up as to choak almost wholly al the good Seed sown afterwards you may judg if they may not now the Harvest is com be cut down gather'd a-part and thrown into the Fire And surely if these Quarrels were only design'd for the Good of the Soul which yet if they were the Promoters must be Men of wrong Understanding or Notions forgetting that Faith is the Gift of God they would not hate and dam one another for different tho false Opinions Nothing can have that Effect but the Committal of Sins of which holy Scripture pronounces Death the Wages or necessary Consequence but these we see past over silently few Excommunicated for Whoredom Adulteries Atheism and Profaness many other Crimes are openly committed without Punishment which perhaps was the end of instituting Ecclesiastical Courts The great desine of Christianity was in a higher and more refin'd way the same with that which Hierocles tels us of Philosophy The Perfection of human Life Therfore the Primitive Christians knowing the end of their Doctrin was to make men good to fil their Hearts with purity of intention productive of good Works not to make them Wife if stuffing their Heads with empty and idle Notions may be call'd so avoided al such with great care pressing only upon men the Reformation of their Lives by the plainess of their Practise and their agreeableness to Reason being wel assur'd the contrary Precepts coud bring forth nothing but endless Ianglings and frivolous Disputes which woud at last not only loosen but destroy Religion by taking away Charity the Bond and Cement of that and al Perfections But when the Piety of succeeding Ages had endowed the Church with Temporalities and with rich Possessions the Church-men altered their Doctrin with their way of living For now kicking like the Calfs of Iesseron grown fat the former practised severity was turn'd into Wantonness The plainess of the Precepts into intricat Niceties This they judged necessary For if according to the Promise the Gospel was to be so plain i. e. so agreeable to Nature and Reason that a Man might running see to Read i. e. a Man that made never so little use of his Reason that did but keep his Eyes open against the false Alurements of sense coud not but perceive the Lines of his Duty written in very larg and plain Characters perceiving every Man thus enabled to Teach his Brother and that Miracles were ceas'd they found themselves under a necessity to make Godliness a Mystery that it might becom gain to 'um in an il sense and that they might secure to themselves that Veneration and Respect which otherwise were now like to fail Religion by this means degenerating from its innocence and simplicity into a Trade of Policy and Subtilty an Art to live by Tent-makers and Fisher-men became too dul and ignorant The preaching of Christ Crucified was fit only for the Witty and the Learned No wonder then that being now so much taken up in refining the Cobweb inventions of their Heads they wanted leisure to look to their Feet to order their steps aright and therfore went astray not only from the Precepts of the Gospel but the Imitation of the Life of the Holy Iesus which was the greater Duty of the two as the End for which his Doctrin the Means was given And to make themselves the more admired they mix'd That with the vain Philosophy of the Greeks especially Platonism with an Addition of many absur'd Heathenish and obsolete Iewish Rites and Ceremonies When the Bishops became Princes the number of Candidats increascing faster than Preferments coud fal the Ambitious were induc'd to Court them by indirect ways The Pretence of an extraordinary Knowledg or Piety to gain the Interest and the Favor of great men and by those steps to mount the Spiritual Throne of Carnal Pride Thus when Arius faild of a Bishopric enraged that a less learned man shoud deprive him of the Miter he resolv'd upon a malicious Revenge and to make himself more famous then the Crosier coud under pretence of discovering the falsities crept into Religion he alleagd one of the great Mysteries to have more of Platoes Fancy than of Christs Truth in it This Mother-Heresie by him introduc'd brought forth many others and which was the greater Evil has been the parent of uncharitable Disputes The certain occasions of much confusion in Life and Doctrin of Assassinations and Massacres of Wars and Desolations The Christians now contrary to Christs positive Command Cal no man on Earth Master i. e. If an Angel from Heaven much less a man shoud Preach any other Doctrin to you than what I your only Lord and