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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56805	The conformist's fourth plea for the nonconformists wherein several considerations are offered for Christian forbearance : with some relations of some of their sufferings ..., together with some account of the infamous lives and lamentable deaths of some informers / by a charitable and compassionate conformist, author of the former Pleas.	Pearse, Edward, 1631-1694.	1683 (1683)	Wing P974; ESTC R34547	112,844	120

clearly discovered he meant Ammianus Marcellinus taxing Georgius a factious Bishop of Alexandria for abusing the Weakness of Constantius the Emperor by base Tale-bearing and privy Informations notes precisely that he did it Oblitus professionis suae quae nil nisi justum suadet lene quite beside his Profession whose especial Notes were Gentleness and Equity The Christians were called Chrestiani from a Word signifying Benignity and Sweetness What reason is there why that should not be one of the chiefest Notes of the Church of Christ which did so especially characterize a Christian Man except there were a decay of it at this day in the Church Serm. of Dealing with erring Christians pag. 26. of the 2d Impression Consid V. It doth reflect a Scandal upon the Church for now except it be by writing of some Books whose Leaves are not like the Leaves of the Tree of Life for healing of the Nation what little Pains are taken to instruct convince or persuade them neither with soft Words nor hard Arguments Either are better than neither of them But now the Officer called Informer is the first Mover and Instrument in the Reformation an Employment that is which many that are too bad cannot be hired unto A sort of Men these are that are more perfect than the Prosecutors in Tertullian's Time Tales semper nobis Insecutores injusti impii turpes quos ipsi damnare consuestis à quibus damnatos reslituere soliti estis I 'le English the Character left some other make it worse than it is It is no more but this They are unjust ungodly filthy such as ye are wont to condemn and our Judges have often condemned and to restore such s are condemned by them I should not dare to write this but that I would move our professed Friends to take another Course more for the Honour of the Church and our Holy Profession than this The Church that now is can no more turn the Stream or change the Course of the Law than other Men can and are not able to help them as the Reverend Bishop of Cork speaks pag. 121. But is it not fit our Governors should know how it reflects upon them 1. The World is possess'd with a Conceit that this Work of undoing Men is pleasing to some that do not only look on but set Men on not displeasing to others tho some say they are sorry for it as the same foresaid sensible and moving Bishop of Cork 2. That such poor and insufficient Ministers are placed in many Churches which rather drive Men away than give them tolerable Encouragement to attend their Ministry or Hopes of Improvement Methinks the Thing it self should be more offensive than the Mention of it when there is such notorious Truth in it The Bishops cannot hinder their Institution but some are sensible of the great easiness of some in their Admission into Orders If awakened Souls keep at home there is danger that sleepy Preaching may cast them into a Lethargy if they go abroad they are in danger of the Laws 3. When other Means are not used or do not overcome Dissenters to set their Creatures upon them doth alienate the Minds of Multitudes We are not say they provided for nor must we provide for our selves Good Conforming Preachers dare not encourage us to go to them and if we are received with better Welcome there they are suspected to be as bad or worse than the Nonconformists And that they should be hunted and worried and the Fleece torn from their Backs by such a sort of Animals of ignorant infidel voracious Enemies to all Religion is a very great Affliction to the Sufferers and Peproach upon our Religion as if spiritual Means were not used or spiritual Weapons had no Power as if Christians were to be tamed by irrational Methods as if the Shepherd's Voice nor his Rod and Staff could do no Good but the scattered Sheep were given up to the Dogs to bring them to the Fold that prey for themselves As if a self-created Officer that 's below a Commission and unworthy of a Livery had greater Virtue in him to cure Church-Divisions than Ordained Ministers I assure the Reader this is written not to make him merry And I do not know whether it will be pardoned to me to conclude this Head with this That 't is no wonder the Success is no better when no more sanctified Means and Instruments are employed to act in a Work of this Nature and Consequence Consid VI. By this way the holy Ordinances of God many choice Men for excellent Pastoral Gifts Qualifications and Parts and real Holiness are brought to contempt to great contempt and this way is a very great Obstruction to the Encrease of Saving-Knowledg and true Religion in many The malignant Influences of our Divisions upon Religion is demonstrated by the affectionate Bishop of Cork in his second Sermon I shall limit my Observation to the same Design of Peace and Unity and keep to the Thing in hand That this proceeding against the Nonconformists is of ill consequence to Religion in general * Vsque ad aetatem Augustini hoc est plus quàm quadringentis post Christum natum annis nusquam legimus Orthodoxes implorissse Caesaris praesidium adversus Haereticos quum id frequentissimè factum esset ab Haeretacis Nunquam tamen hoc exemplum imitari visum est Orthodoxis donec Donatistarum Circumcellionum porpelleret pervicax insanabilis insania c. Erasmus in Respons de Inquisitione If they were an Heretical Sect except turbulent to the State where have we a Rule for such a Process against them But without disparagement or making any offensive Comparisons between their Ministers and their Hearers and ours there is no Man that can take the measure of Abilities proportioned to the Work of Christ but must acknowledg them to come as near to the Standard as most Men in the Age And for their Auditors generally they are Men of as much Aptness Receptivity of Apprehension Judgment and Experience in the Work and Way of Salvation as any Men of their several Ranks and Qualities in the Places where they live and are as great Examples of Truth Sobriety practical Holiness and are as much exercised in reading praying conserring redeeming Time walking not as Fools but as wise as any Men that profess Christ among us and every way as useful Subjects There are several Degrees of them some have their Indiseretions and their Mistakes and their Heats and their Blemishes and what Party have not But if the Grace of God hath appeared to any Men and if any are taught to deny Vngodliness and worldly Lusts and to live soberly righteonsly and godly in this present World as I am sure there are there are such among them And it is no disparagement to them that they are scrupulous considering remaining Ignorance for if Men have a due sense of Sin and have known what it is to be humbled and