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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44741	A letter of friendly admonition to a divine of the Synod, upon occasion of a sermon preached by him, Octob. 18, 1647 together, with certaine quæres presented to the Synod : wherein the maine objections against the Common-prayer set forth in the preface to the late Directory are examined : together, with other acts that have been done against the suffering party of this kingdome : and the answer of the Synod desired thereunto / by a hearty wel-wisher to truth & peace, T.W.	T. W.; Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.	1647 (1647)	Wing H310; ESTC R14726	12,807	25

certaine time before they be finally admitted into the number so those new Lawes that are brought in might be probationers too amongst us for a convenient time in which time it might be free for all men to make their exceptions against them in a faire and peaceable manner The banes of them should be first as it were publiquely asked as we use to do in marria●es and liberty allowed to every man to shew cause if he knowes any why they ought not to bee contracted with the Common-Wealth and when they are once so setled for ever after the people should bee bound to hold their peace unlesse it be in such case where some cleare and manifest opposition is discovered betweene the Law of God and the received constitutions In which case also there is great moderation to be used and nothing to bee extorted by force or tumult nor is it often found that the people are fit Judges in such things But this may serve I hope to excuse me from the over-severe censure either of folly or malignity in that now I have indeavoured so far to serve the good of the Church State as now in this time of attempted change and whilest those new Lawes that are brought in are yet upon their probation being not yet established by a full authority which cannot be done with pretermission of or contradiction of the supreme magistrate yea whilest the Lawes are yet in force whereby the old customes are ordained unlesse we will admit that the acts of a lesse and more imperfect power may abolish the acts of that which is more full and perfect or that a Body without a Head hath more faculty and perfection than a Body and Head together I hope I say I may be excused from the aforesaid censures if now I have discharged so much faithfulnesse to the Church and State and particularly to my Prince and the suffering party as to offer my objections against those things that are attempted in a faire way to the publique view and especially unto their consideration who have taken upon them the mannage of the businesse And this may serve in part too for an answer unto the second objection that may be made against me in point of Arrogancy in undertaking the examination of the Acts of a whole Synod I shall acknowledge the parts and gifts that are amongst them to be farre more eminent than any I can pretend unto I contend not with them in these things but I hope to be found as faithfull as they and thinke I have altogether as much Authority to desire a resolution from them of those doubts that conscience may make against that they have done as they hav● being not designed by the supreme power or the Church thereunto to make constitutions wherein mens Conscience are not satisfied God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise the weaker things of the World to confound the things that are mighty the base things of the World and things that are despised hath God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are that flesh should glory in his presence I desire not to make odious comparisons for them nor ambitious or arrogant ones for my selfe not to quench but revive the flames of Christian love betwixt us But yet it is possible they may be in an errour and then Micaiah was no presumptuous Prophet to oppose 400 Prophets that had mistaken their message and I could tell my censurers that the Arrian Councells and the Councell of Trent too might have had a more free and uninterrupted passage through the World perhaps if they had been secured from the examination and opposition from particular men And we know the Apostle hath laid a command upon us to try the spirits however we may reverence their guifts and wish the Church the benefit of them in the right employment yet wee dare not ascribe so much Divinity unto them as to take all things upon trust that they shall impose upon us or receive every Mettall of their Coinage for pure Gold without bringing it unto the ●est lest in so exalting them wee should debase the most high and whilest we afford such reverence unto them we should forget to pay that reverence which is due from us unto the Church of England and those Constitutions which have beene established by other former Synods at least as Authenticall as they If all this will not justifie me form a blot of insolency I must beare it for ought I know onely to make them the more inclinable to lenity in their censure of it give me leave to say that if I cannot bee freed from the guilt of insolency in taking upon me to examine the Acts of a whole Synod as they are stiled I cannot see how it will gaine them the Glory of modesty to take upon them not onely to examine but to abolish the Acts of the Church of England confirmed by the Lawes of the supreme civill power and by the Constitutions of the Ecclesiasticall State of this Nation unlesse they had a better calling to do it than we know of To the third quarrell of impertinency that may be entred aagainst me in desiring an answer from them for the actions of others I answer briefely That the highest capacity that I can look upon them in in that Body where they are assembled is as they are chosen by those others for the direction of their Consciences in those things which they were to doe And therefore if things have beene done amisse it concerned them to have advised them better and yet wee have some reason to beleeve where we consider the advantages that divers of the Synod have made unto themselves of some of those Acts that have beene done by others in the receiving the benefit of pluralities of Sequestred Livings c. That some of those things were done not for want of their advice to the contrary but were promoted by their advice and councell And Councellours as well as Actours of Inconveniences are answerable to God and may be desired by men concerned to afford them satisfaction in Conscience However it bee I doe but propose Quaeres and Doubts of them in the maine and if there be any modest harmelesse way I thinke that is it To the fourth and last objection that I am lyable to I doe not undertake the justification of my selfe against it but first excuse it and desire pardon my minde is full of many thoughts in these times many issues I have strugling in the wombe of my soule at once and one hath the hand as it were upon the heele of another like Jacob upon the heele of his Brother ready to supplant it or precipitate the birth of it Besides the particular businesse of the Directory reasons was not in my minde when I went first about this worke and that may I hope bee admitted for one tolerable Apology for the omission of setting downe the Passages of the