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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78425	The inconsistencie of the independent way, with Scripture and it self. Manifested in a threefold discourse, I. Vindicia vindiciarum, with M. Cotton. II. A review of M. Hookers Survey of church-discipline. The first part. III. A diatribe with the same M. Hooker concerning baptism of infants of non-confederate parents, cap. 2. Of his third part. / By Daniel Cawdrey ...	Cawdrey, Daniel, 1588-1664.	1651 (1651)	Wing C1629A; ESTC R22287	14,160	25

THE INCONSISTENCIE OF THE Independent way With Scripture and It Self Manifested in a threefold Discourse I. Vindiciae Vindiciarum with M. Cotton II. A Review of M. Hookers Survey of Church-Discipline The first part III. A Diatribe with the same M. Hooker Concerning Baptism of Infants of Non-confederate parents Cap. 2. Of his third part By DANIEL CAWDREY a Member of the Assembly and late Preacher at Martins in the Fields JEREMY 6.16 Stand ye in the waies and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall finde rest for your souls LONDON Printed by A. Miller for Christopher Meredith at the Sign of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard MDCLI THE EPISTLE TO THE Dissenting Brethren IT is some mens happinesse I know not how or why unlesse it be out of the partiality of their Followers to their own way and party that write they or preach they never so weakly or absurdly they finde some admirers to cry them up all their words as Oracles and all their works as Wonders Other men though they do clearly discover perhaps because they do discover the weaknesses and contradictions of those waies and works must have their Books buried in silence slighted and scorn'd or themselves censured and traduced Ep. to the Way cleared pag. 2. as carrying on a design endeavouring by pen to blot the fair Copy of Truth and to crosse out of the Book of mens memory and esteem the names of them whom God will honour though they will not c. I have observed it as a depth of Romish policy of late That they have left off to answer to any controverted points being beaten out of the field by the full and clear confutations of their Doctrines by our late learned Champions and betake themselves now to a complyance with all Heresies and Sects so to oppresse the Truth in another way by crying down both Ministry and Learning To which purpose some Jesuiticall Pamphlets have been vented of late in severall dresses The Swords Abuse asserted The vanity of the present Churches c. and scattered abroad to do mischief which have been answered and confuted but they have the wit not to reply lest they make the cause worse This practice some of our Independent Brethren have too much imitated Witnesse the Diatribe about Ordination Imposition of hands and preaching by Gifted men not in Office which being learnedly and judiciously answered by D. S. and proved to be a Paradiatribe the Authour thereof thought to be a great man amongst them is unwilling it seems to reply whether out of consciousnesse of his own weaknesse or out of pride and scorn of all not of his own way and opinion that his Disciples may think it is not worth answering The like I may say of Vind. Clav. which having discovered many weaknesses and contradictions in The Keys and Way is answered rather with slighting and scorn then any solid convictions as will appear in this present Vindication Of 7. Chapters in the Vind. Clav. he answers but to one and of 3. Sections in that first Chapter he answers but to two and throughout those 2. Sections doth rather reproach his adversary by the undeserved names of Vindex and Avenger then satisfie his charge And after a threefold promise with attestation of the Name of God twice to give a further answer shakes him off as some contemptible person set to be slighted rather then answered When I had upon the first sight of his book read what he had written I presently set pen to paper and made a draught of this present Vindication but yet was not perswaded to print it partly because I waited till M. Baily and M. Rutherford put out their Reply to joyn it with theirs which I have long in vain expected and partly because I was unwilling to make any further Discovery of the weaknesses of the Reverend Authour and partly because I might think the best answer to a slight answer was no answer But when I considered that the Book was cried up by the Epistler to it as so exquisite a piece in these words In the latter part of this Book The Way Cleared being controversal you have a fair Additional to the Models afore printed of the Church-way so much called for not Magisterially laid down but friendly debated by Scripture and argumentatively disputed out to the utmost inch of ground and defended Cap a pie as they speak from the head to the heel of every branch of truth essentiall to the controversie and when withall I perceived that this and other Books of that Way published were highly esteemed as unanswerable and very taking with weak and unsetled mindes to the disturbance of the peace of the Church I found no rest in my spirit till I had seriously tried the strength thereof especially of that Reverend and Learned M. Hookers Survey of Church-Discipline which I heard most magnified as the strongest piece of that Way and so by the way give in a short answer in Vindication of Vind. Clav. from the Reply of M. J. C. so far as concerned my self Ep. to the Way Ep. to the Way cleared To forward this undertaking I was the rather provoked 1. By the importunate and reiterated recognition of those Tracts those Models as they call them of the Church-way Ibid. viz. Church-Government Church-Covenant c. and now the late Modell or crambe saepe cocta of M. Bartlet and this Additional of the Way Cleared 2. By the often repeated quarelling Ep. to the Way at our calling for a fuller Treatise and a clearer Modell of the Church-way 3. By the non-performance of that promise so long ago made so often pretended Of a fuller Treatise of the same Subject with ampler demonstrations by joint consent of the Churches of Old and New England But will they never take notice of the Answers given to most or many of those for they all hold out the same things And why are they not rather offended we have told them we are and they ought to have given us satisfaction had they esteemed us brethren offended I say at their own scandalous breach of promise in not exhibiting that fuller Treatise by joint consent c. Our Brethren of the Assembly how long how oft did they promise a full Modell of their Way which yet we have as long and as oft called for and expected but all in vain The time was when some complained but causelesly as an excuse of their neglect of promise Ep. to the Woy That their hands were bound up and of the unwillingnesse of Licensers to License their Tracts c. But sure these last two or three years their hands have been loose enough and the presse open but still this fuller Treatise by joint consent c. cannot finde the way into the Light We have rather cause to think that their disagreement among themselves is the reason why they dare not give us their Model lest the world