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A27030	A search for the English schismatick by the case and characters I. of the diocesan canoneers, II. of the present meer nonconformists : not as an accusation of the former, but a necessary defence of the later, so far as they are wrongfully accused and persecuted by them / by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing B1399; ESTC R6862	28,132	47

Lying Perjury false Covenanting against duty and all the other sins with their many and heinous aggravations which we fear being guilty of if we should conform Nor did we ever refuse to give the reason of our fears to the Learned'st man that doth accuse us 81. As is aforesaid we never to this day put up our Petition to any Parliament since we were silenced for relief compassion or to be heard which may seem strange to those that know our long accusations and sufferings 82. So far are we from loving Schism that we take Unity to be essential to the universal and particular Churches and that division is destruction though every difference is not such division And the chief of my studies and labours in the world is How to reconcile and unite divided Christians And having fully proved in a Treatise of the only terms of common concord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will never be attained but on the terms of Primitive simplicity prescribed by Christ and practised by the first Churches it is because our Conformity is inconsistent with such terms of common concord and such as we think but Sectarian schism that we are Nonconformists Let him that is for dividing the child be taken for no true mother of it 83. We are not against all Litanies our Litany hath not less but more than theirs We heartily say From Atheism Infidelity and Popery from prophaneness persecution and oppression from all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from false doctrine heresie and schism from an ignorant proud and worldly domineering Clergy from malignant hatred of Gods holy Image and servants and serious worship and from contempt of his word and commandments Good Lord deliver us Jam. 3. 13 14 15 16 17 18. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledg among you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts much more silencing persecution glory not and lye not against the truth This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual devilish For where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace 1 Thes 2. 15 16. Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted us And they please not God and are contrary to all men forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sin always For the wrath is come upon them to the utmost I determine not in all this Who is the Schismatick but make a pair of Spectacles for the purblind to discern it But Reader I must earnestly intreat thee as thou lovest thy Soul to remember that as toys and plays and lust and pride and drunkenness and gluttony and ambition and covetousness are the Devils nets by which he taketh the most of the world so he hath a second sort for those that are above these things and that is the delights of wit in the vain unprofitable part of Learning And for those that yet are above this one of his last snares is Religious wrangling turning faith and godliness into opinions sidings formalities and perverse disputings especially with men of corrupt minds that take gain for Godliness and think that Reputation and Money will coin any thing that is for them into Truth and Goodness I conclude therefore That if thou would'st escape that Schism and Dangerous sin which Contenders charge on one another the way is short and plain I. Understand and stand to thy Baptismal-Vow and see that thy Belief Love and Practice of known Christianity according to our Creed Lords-Prayer and Decalogue in Love to God thy Soul and thy Neighbour in Godliness Charity Justice and Sobriety be serious and sincere and then thou art certainly of that Catholick Church which Christ is the Head of and will save II. Love all Christians as such according to the measures of their goodness and remembering thy own weakness pity and bear with the infirmities of the weak and when others wrangle against them and abuse them study thou to do them good III. Look on all particular Churches as members of the universal afore described and chuse the best thou canst for thy ordinary communion and good so it be not to a greater hurt by accident But deny not occasional communion with any though accused by others further than they force thee to sin or than they separate from Christ Thy presence maketh thee not guilty of the tolerable faults which thou canst not amend Take them for Sectaries and Separatists who forbid thee communion with all that are not of their mind and way in tolerable differences IV. Take heed of neglecting any truth or duty or living in any sin which all good Christians even the Contenders are agreed about And in these thou wilt find enough for peace of Conscience and Salvation V. Be sure that thou approve thy self to God and take his Law for thy Rule and his Love and the heavenly Glory for thy portion hope and All and let not the flesh nor worldly interest cheat thee into justly suspected sin nor the Threats or Flatteries or Bribes of men either Drive Allure or Hire thee to be false to thy Conscience thy Saviour and God nor prophanely with Esau to sell thy Birthright for a morsel or hazard thy part in Heaven for a transitory befooling dream and shadow of profit honour or delight FINIS

A SEARCH FOR THE English Schismatick By the CASE and CHARACTERS I. Of the Diocesan Canoneers II. Of the Present Meer Nonconformists Not as an Accusation of the former but a Necessary Defence of the later so far as they are wrongfully Accused and Persecuted by them By Richard Baxter One of the Accused LONDON Printed for Nevil Simmons at the Sign of the Three Golden Cocks at the West-end of St. Pau ls Church-Yard 1681. POSTSCRIPT THE strivings of Parliaments since Archbishop Laud's Government against Innovations Popery and Arbitrary over-topping Law and their jealousies of the designs and progress while they themselves were of the Old Church of England do call us to think what the difference was between the Old and New HE that would know what the Old Church of England is let him read I. The 39 Articles II. The Homilies III. The Apology with Jewels defence IV. Nowell's Catechism V. Deus Rex all owned by the Church VI. Hookers Ecclesiastical Polity in 8 Books VII Bishop Bilson of Christian Subjection VIII Bishop Downham de Antichristo IX The great Writers against Popery as Dr. Whitaker Dr. Reynolds Dr. Willet Dr. Sutliff Dr. White Dr. Airy Dr. Humphrey Dr. Fulk Dr. Prideaux Dr. R. Abbot Dr. Crakenthorp Dr. Challoner Dr. Hall Bishop Usher Dr. Davenant Bishop Carlton Chillingworth Bishop Morton c. X. The Writings against Bishop Laud viz. Bishop Hall ' s Epistle to D. L. Archbishop G. Abbots and Bishop R. Abbot ' s judgment of him and his Tryal with what was there charged against him XI The Harmony of Confessions and the Synod of Dort XII King James ' s Works HE that would know what is the New Church of England since Bishop Laud differs from the Old let him read I. Dr. Heylin ' s Writings Dr. Pocklingtons Mr. Dows Sybthorps and Mainwarings II. Heylin ' s Life of B. Laud particularly his description of the designed reconciliation with the Papists III. Mr. Thorndike's Just weights and measures and forbearance of Penalties IV. Archbishop Bramhall ' s book against me explaining the new way in these particulars 1. To abhor Popery 2. That we all come under a Foreign Jurisdiction obeying the Pope as the Western Patriarch and also as the Principium unitatis to the universal Church Governing by the Canons 3. That Dissenters from this be accounted Schismaticks 4. That we yield to what the Greeks have yielded and be of their Religion 5. That Grotius was a Protestant for the Church of England V. Dr. Parkers Preface to that book and Dr. Pierce's defence of Grotius VI. Grotius his Volume and Notes on Cassander specially his Discussio Apologetici Riveliani in which he professeth 1. That Rome is the Mistris-Church 2. Sound in faith 3. That he finds Protestants can never unite but by uniting with Rome 4. He owns the Doctrine of the Councils even that of Trent 5. The Pope to govern by the Canons of the Councils and not arbitrarily 6. Nor must invade the rights of Kings or Bishops 7. That if the curiosities of the School-men and the ill lives of the Clergy be disowned and amended this much is enough to sober men 8. And he saith that the English Bishops were many of his mind tho' the Separatists were not VII The Earl of Clarendon ' s Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet laying the nature of Popery in their injury to Princes VIII Guil. Forbes Bishop of Edenborough his Irenicon IX Mr. Dodwell ' s book against Schism and the same doctrine maintained by others who nullifie Ministry and Churches whose Episcopal Ordination hath not come down from the Apostles uninterrupted X. The Bishops endeavours since 1660 to silence fine imprison banish and drive five miles from all Corporations c. all such as receive not the Impositions Together with the rest of the true History of these last Twenty years The particulars are not now to be recited A SEARCH FOR THE ENGLISH SCHISMATICK OR The True Characters of the several Accused Parties by which they may be discerned CHAP. I. The Parties Accused The Parties questioned are I. The Papists II. The Diocesan-Militants or Canoneers III. The Passive peaceable Conformists IV. The Meer Nonconformists V. The Sectarian Church-Appropriators and Causeless Separatists and Dividers I. THERE is no Sect of Christians which maketh so great use of their pretence to Unity and crying down Heresie Schism and Separation as the Papists do and yet are the greatest Schismaticks and Dividers as thus appeareth 1. They have a self-made humane universal Church feigning the Pope to be the rightful Head of all the Christian World 2. They exclude all from Christs Chuch who are not the Popes Subjects though at the Antipodes where he never came nor sent 3. They presume to make universal Laws for all the World 4. They Curse men from Christ by Excommunications who refuse such subjection and obedience to these Laws 5. They have introduced many new Articles of Faith on pretence of declaring and expounding Faith 6. They have multiplied corrupting additions in the Christian Worship 7. Their regular objective Religion now consisteth in so great a number of the Decrees of Councils as no Christians can well understand while they accuse Gods Laws as unintelligible 8. They can give us no certainty which of these Councils are obligatory to us while they contradict each other 9. They agree not of the Essence of Christianity or necessary truths but resolve all into the uncertainty of sufficient Proposals 10. They damn men as Hereticks that deny not all humane sense believing there is no Bread and Wine when they see and taste them 11. They burn such as Hereticks and are for tormenting Inquisitions to destroy them 12. They bind Temporal Lords to exterminate all such and to swear to do it and this on pain of Excommunication Deposition and Damnation So that a Protestant Kingdom under a true Papist King hath a King that is thus bound to exterminate his Subjects if he be able and professeth to do it on these three penalties his Salvation lying on it 13. They decree the giving of his Dominions to another and absolving his Subjects from their Oaths of Fidelity if he obey not 14. They decree that it's Heresie to hold that a King hath the power of Investing Bishops and that he is not thus subject to the Pope 15. They tolerate their chief Doctors to write that a Heretick is no King at least if Excommunicate and may lawfully be killed 16. Their Canons exempt the Clergy from being Governed and Taxed by Kings 17. They forbid the reading of the Scriptures translated without a License 18. They say that we cannot well believe the Gospel but on the credit of their Church As if we must first know that the Pope and Council are authorized by Christ before we believe in Christ himself 19. They renounce Repentance by pretending to Infallibility 20. They cherish a numerous Clergy and Sects to carry on all this in the World and perswade high and low that to promote