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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

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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
the words of a false and hypocritical heart when they are spoken by the Non-Conformists AS for the down-right Thames-Street way of Railing against me which I am sure none of my Friends would use and all others of any improved Civility or good Manners do nauscate and abhor but pure Streams cannot flow from an impure Fountain and so I am satisfied I do not value them nor can they prejudice any but the persons from whom they issue they that will be flinging up dirt do manifestly show themselves of a dirty humour and much good may do them whosoever they are with such their beloved Nastiness but methinks they are greatly like those of the Lawyer whom Suetonius speaks of that thought he had very solidly basfled and overthrown the cause of his Adversary because his Lawyer had committed a gross Soloecisme in his Plea All the Arguments of that Insignificant Rayler that has drawn the Lively Picture of Lewis du Moulin as he thinks to the worst and beastliest advantage and it may be therefore conceals his Name because he is ashamed to own the ugliness of his daubing I say all the Arguments of that Insignificant Railer resemble those of that Oratour who would needs have the cause of Vatinius to be the worst because he had crooked Leggs or are like to Origen's Enemies who finding themselves unable to refute those pretended errors thought to be sure they should acquit themselves bravely by running him down with the Judgments that other people made of his Person and Writings for without ever entring into the merits of the cause he alledges Mounsieur Daille and Mr. Baxter speaking to my disadvantage He might also if it had but once come into his unthinking but rash head have added the Testimony of Dr. Stillingfleet who calls me Wretch and Wicked and blackens me after a strange and unworthy manner only because I have said of him and I believe did I but sincerely appeal to his Conscience it could not upbraid me with a lye that the Judgment which he makes at this day of the Church of England when it lavishly pours upon him I know not how many great Ecclesiastical Preferments is quite contrary to that Opinion he was of concerning it about Twenty Years ago when he was not so well provided and lined with them Except he be somewhat nettled because I have so plainly laid open the weakness of his Argument to make out the unreasonableness of the Non-Conformists for denying viz That all things that are not expresly forbidden in the Word of God are sufficient to justifie those who submit to them when th● Command of the Magistrate intervenes Such great men as He and as Mounsieur Daille was are oftentimes like to Rivers that raise themselves to so vast a height that they overflow their Banks and the Bounds of decent moderation such was once Mounsieur Daille when he flew out against me in such violent heats for having taken it ill because he unhandsomely and ungenerously treated my Father AS to what this Author of the Lively Picture c. sayes of Mr. Baxter and of the sinister Judgment he makes of me he is much gone astray like a lost Sheep from the truth for not many years ago did this same Mr. Baxter dedicate a Book to me in these words TO MY LEARNED SINCERE AND WORTHY FRIEND Lewis du Moulin To be short The way which the Author of the Lively Picture takes to expose a Person to the Laughter and Scorn of all the World and to make him pass for an Ignorant Noddy-peeks a Lyer and a most impertinent Scribler who knows neither what he sayes nor what he writes very well ought not to be that of alledging the Judgment which such Persons as Mounsieur Daille and the Dean of Windsor make of him but he should if he had been able have quoted those Writings and Sentences wherein he might convince the World that they were the product of a man that had neither Brains to make a Judgment nor Learning nor Stile nor that had any thing of truth in him AS to the CELEVSMA of which he makes me the Author I absolutely deny it but If I were so I might what he will never have any occasion to do without vanity boast That I had made one of the best Pieces that ever had yet been extant in the World I mean in the behalf of the Non-Conformists and where there is neither Truth nor Judgment nor Learning nor good Language nor any thing else wanting that is requisite to give a Book applause If I was of his humour I might wire-draw upon him substantially far beyond his length but I had rather speak a great deal of truth in a few pithy words than to be like him scandalously false tedious and railing and never know in reason when to come to a FINIS The Reader is desired to take notice That the Author since the printing of the Appeal would needs have this added as a Supplement to it NOTE that When they that are loose in their profession of Christianity do persecute those that outwardly and formally prosess it with great Exactness without any certain knowledg whether or no the inward disposition and sincerity be answerable they have certainly a secret hatred to all Religion and Piety and wish that there were neither a God nor a Life to come nor an Immortality of the Soul for were they sure that none of these were they would be induced rather to pity and commiserate these strict professors than hate and persecute them To this I may add that the persecuting pirit of those Men that either in pretence or in reality do profess an exact practise of Piety and Devotion comes from a secret kind of Atheisme and Aversion to all manner of Religion when the purest is the greatest Eye-sore to such Spirits as is so much the more apparent and manifest by how much it is evident that they would not be seen to act against Profaneness debauched courses Drunkenness or Popery because those disorderly ways and courses have a great Sympothy and agreeableness with the profane spirits of the World Dr. Sands first Bishop of London and afterwards Arch-Bishop of York was in his life-time so much for Tolleration and a dispensation of Rigour and Subscription that he would needs have it set down in his Will He also expressed in the same Will that the intention of the first Reformers was to suite and accommodate the Reformation to the posture of things at that present time when Papists were numerous and the Protestants but few and that it was not possible then to make a thorow Reformation There may be Laws to keep men out of the Church but there are none to compel them in The Violent pressing of Ceremonies hath been I humbly conceive a great hindrance to many in their embracing of them Men fearing the intention therin to be far worse than really they are and therefore they abhor them We are not to communicate with a persecuting Church how Orthodox soever it be in Faith Martyn the Bishop of Tours would not communicate with Orthodox Men that persecuted HERETICKS much more would he have refused to communicate with those that persecute good men The People of Constantinople refused to communicate with the Expellers of Chyrsostome and with the Bishop placed by Endoxia FINIS * Mr. Baxter's Difference between the Powers of Magistrates and Church Pastors c.