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A23665 A friendly call, or, A seasonable perswasive to unity directed to all nonconformists and dissenters in religion from the Church of England, as the only secure means to frustrate and prevent all popish plots and designs against the peace of this kingdom both in church and state / by a lover of the truth and a friend to peace and unity. Allen, William, d. 1686. 1679 (1679) Wing A1064; ESTC R10550 37,078 70

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Imprimatur Carolus Alston R. P. D. Hen. Episc Lond. à sacris domesticis A Friendly Call OR A SEASONABLE PERSWASIVE TO UNITY DIRECTED To all Nonconformists and Dissenters in Religion from the Church of ENGLAND As the only secure Means to Frustrate and Prevent all POPISH PLOTS and Designs against the Peace of this Kingdom both in CHVRCH and STATE By a Lover of the Truth and a Friend to Peace and Vnity Pfal 123.1 Behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is for Brethren to dwell together in Vnity 1 Cor. 1.10 Now I beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same Thing and that there be no Divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same Mind and in the same Judgment LONDON Printed for T. Basset and J. Leigh Booksellers in Fleet-street 1679. A Friendly Call OR A PERSWASIVE TO UNITY THE wisest of Kings hath told us that there is a Time and season for all things Eccles 3.1 7. a Time to keep Silence and a Time to Speak and certainly now if ever the last Time is not only Convenient but absolutely Necessary and should Man hold his Peace and neglect this Duty Hab. 2.11 even the Stone should cry out of the Wall and the Beam of the Timber shall answer it I could wish I had the Voyce of Stentor that I might be heard throughout our Israel or that of a Trumpet that I might be heard by the Ears of the People I would cry aloud to this deaf Generation that they might be awakened out of the dream they now seem to be possessed with and be roused from the Lethargie and Apoplectical estate they now lye under Isaiah 58.1 Cry aloud spare not lift up thy Voice like a Trumpet and shew my People their Treansgressions and the House of Jacob their Sins I direct this my Discourse and Friendly Call to all in General but more particularly to those who are Dissenters from the Church of England and who seem to make a breach in the Conformity and happy Unity of the Church and who through over-nice Scruples cause a Schism and Rent in its seamless Garment 'T is to You that I now speak as a Friend as a Brother for so we ought to be one to another and not as Wolves and Dogs snarling and snapping one at the other but with gentleness and freedom admonish one another Eph. 4.2 3. With all lowliness and meekness with long-suffering forbearing one another in Love Endeavouring to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace 'T is the Command of Christ who is Love it self John 13.34 that we Love one another by it we are known to be his true Disciples and followers of Him And there can be no greater sign of this Love than Friendly to admonish one another of Errors and straying from the Truth and to assist the weak to raise up those that fall to call to Unity and Concord and to stir up to Peace and Amity That we may be all of one Mind 1 Pet. 3.8.9 having Compassion one of another loving as Brethren being Pittiful being Courteous not rendring Evil for Evil and Railing for Railing 'T is with this Spirit of Brotherly Love and of Holy Friendship that I would Call unto you at this Time and though I would Call and Cry aloud to be heard and that I might unstop your sealed Ears yet I would not do it in the Thunder and Ratle of Words only in the empty noise of Sounds and gingling of Syllables with vain Rhetorick or fruitless Oratory but I would speak home to your Understandings to your Hearts and to your Spirits I would speak Life and Fire that you might be at this time Quickned and that you might feel and be sensible of the Truth I know there have been many Boanerges Sons of Thunder that have rent the Mountains and broken to peices the Rocks of Division with their Voices and with the Wind of their Mouths there have been also those who have made Earth-quakes and troubled the waters of Dissention there have been others who with their fiery Zeal have burnt up all before them and with too much Wrath and Bitterness have rather widened than healed up the Breaches and by such Debates and Disputes have rather hindred than farthered the happy and desired Unity and Conformity in the Land I will not say God was not in them but I would now with a still small Voice speak Peace and Harmony perswade to Unity and Conformity to Brotherly Love and Affection I would speak with the Tongue of Charity rather than with that of Men and Angels I would bring Balm to your Wounds and Ease to your Griefs of Separation This is the End this is the Scope and this is the meaning and true intention of this Call at this time 2 Cor. 13.11 that we may be of good Comfort and of one Mind that we may live in Peace and that the God of Love and Peace may be with us As the intention of this Call is Charity to the whole Nation I come not therefore with Launcets and Razers to cut and break up the Wounds or with Probes and Pledgets to search or keep them open the Wounds of Division and Separation have been sufficiently handled by able and skilful Chirurgions and now is the time if ever to apply a Cataplasm and healing Plaister a ripening and cicatricing Seare-cloth that there may no Scar or Deformity remain which Panacea is Vnity of Spirit in the bond of Peace And as this is it I would Call to in Charity and with all earnestness with Love and also with Power so I would do it in few Words and if I could to the purpose Matt. 6.7 1 Cor. 14 19 For it was a Heathenish fault to use vain repetition and to be thought to be heard for much Speaking and I had as St. Paul says much rather speak five words with my understanding that I might be beneficial to others than ten thousand not to be understood therefore as the Wise-Man Counsels Eccl. 5.2 Prov. 10.19 My Words shall be few for in the multiplicity thereof there wanteth not Sin And now in the first place Consider that Love is the special Command of Jesus Christ our Pattern by whose Name we are Called our Saviour and our Master 't is a Mark by which he will have his true Sheep known from the counterfeit from the Wolves in Sheeps cloathing 1 John 4.20 and St. John will not believe any one that shall make a Profession of Love to God and not at the same time shew it to his Brother he tells him that shall so Profess that he is a Lyar and surely 't is the greatest Hypocrisie in the World and we deceive our selves if we think we can at any time truly Love God whilst at the same time we are at open Enmity and Hatred with our Brother But let us not