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A74652 The peace-maker or, a brief motive to unity and charitie in religion. By W.P. D.D. W. P. 1652 (1652) Wing P135; Thomason E1417_2; ESTC R209452 13,834 99

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Romanists yet should we not be charitable to you as Christians we were much to blame But see how you mistake or rather indeed pervert and abuse this our charity For say you by your own acknowledgement there may be salvation in our Church but we all deny there can be Salvation in yours therefore all if they had care of themselves would have recourse to us for it is the safer way to be a member of that Church where both sides yeeld there may be salvation then in that where on side denies it This were something if Salvation or Damnation depended upon opinion but I suppose that charitable opinion of ours in hoping you may be saved makes you never a whit the neerer heaven but our selves that rough censure of yours in setting us all out for damnation makes us no whit the neerer hel but your selves And I had rather be a member of that Church which holds there may be Salvation in both then of that which holds there can be salvation but in one For holding with the first I am safe wheresoever I am but holding with the latter I must be in danger wheresoever I am I say wheresoever I am for I am not onely in danger of my salvation if I be in that Church wherein I think there is no Salvation but also if I be in that Church out of which I think there can be no Salvation because I confine Salvation to one of these which though I think it be in this alone yet it may be in the other alone this may suffice to satisfie that great Argument of our Adversaries wherein they so much glory and if it be possible to moderate their severity against us Many other motives unto Charity might be shewed but these briefly shall suffice The one is that we are Chrians and therefore brethren and so ought to love as brethren Another is in that I hope our intentions are good and that none maintains a false opinion perversly against his conscience Now let me say unto all Christians as S. Paul doth to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 6.11 12 13. O ye Christians our mouth is open unto you and not only so but our heart is enlarged not only to the Roman but even to the East Church and to as many as call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Ye are not straitned in us but ye are straitned in your own bowels now for a recompence in the same I speak unto you as unto Brethren be ye also enlarged Let me bespeak all learned Prelats and Pastors on all sides as S. Austine Epist 147. doth Proculianus a Bishop and a favourer of the Donatists I pray and beseech thee saith he if there be any good disposition in thee which many doe extoll and command if it be not a counterfeit courtesie by reason of worldly honour that the tender bowells of pitty and compassion begin to yerne in thee and that you would have these controversies discussd between us at the length not by wrangling and railing one at another but by fervent prayers and earnest supplications unto Almighty God and by comparing all things peaceably and examining them in the spirit of meekness lest the poor ignorant people which now yeeld to and willingly obey our jurisdiction and command over them press us with this their submission and dutifull obedience to us in the day of the Lord Jesus and say they did as their leaders directed them but rather by our unfeigned love and charity being together with us drawn from those by-paths of errour and dissention they should be directeed into the right way of truth and peace I will concude all with this prayer that it would please God to inspire continually the Universall Church with the spirit of truth unity and concord and grant that all they who do confess his holy name may agree in the truth of his holy word and live in unity and godly love And although we cannot at the first attain to that perfection to be of one mind yet let us begin to be charitable and bear with one another for who knows but that by entertaining this bond of peace we may in good time come to the unity of the spirit which he heartily wisheth and daily prayeth for who is Thine in Christ W.P.