A pacifick discourse of the causes and remedies of the differences about religion, which distract the peace of Christendom
Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710.
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A pacifick discourse of the causes and remedies of the differences about religion, which distract the peace of Christendom
Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710.
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1688.
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1687.
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Needham
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A
Pacifick
Discourse
OF
THE
CAUSES
AND
REMEDIES
OF
THE
DIFFERENCES
ABOUT
RELIGION
,
Which
distract
the
Peace
of
Christendom
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
Sam.
Smith
at
the
Prince's-Arms
in
St.
Paul's
Church-yard
.
1688.
A
pacifick
discourse
of
the
causes
and
remedies
of
the
differences
about
Religion
which
distract
the
peace
of
Christendom
.
HOW
much
the
saving
doctrine
of
the
Christian
religion
doth
conduce
to
the
establishment
of
an
universal
peace
in
the
world
,
beyond
the
utmost
force
and
reach
of
humane
wit
and
policy
,
it
were
to
be
wisht
,
it
could
be
as
clearly
made
out
by
fit
and
suitable
events
,
and
by
the
lives
and
behaviour
of
Christians
,
as
it
is
most
justly
demonstrable
from
the
design
of
Christ
,
and
the
proper
and
genuine
ends
of
such
an
holy
institution
.
For
with
what
just
severity
doth
that
most
perfect
rule
of
life
require
of
us
to
lay
restraints
upon
our
passions
,
and
to
stifle
and
suppress
the
first
motions
of
them
,
lest
our
ill
will
and
dissatisfactions
break
forth
into
enmity
,
and
our
enmity
soon
improve
into
downright
malice
and
hatred
!
how
doth
it
give
and
restore
to
the
mind
a
full
power
of
reducing
unto
reason
all
those
tumults
and
disorders
,
which
either
anger
or
lust
are
wont
to
raise
!
with
what
great
●●re
,
even
a
care
worthy
of
God
,
is
it
there
provided
for
,
that
no
one
should
deserve
ill
of
his
neighbour
,
nor
so
much
as
treat
his
enemy
,
as
his
enemy
,
that
is
,
in
a
furious
,
disdainful
,
and
hostile
way
,
but
rather
forgive
him
,
and
shew
him
kindness
and
mercy
:
that
we
should
be
more
afraid
to
do
,
or
return
,
and
revenge
an
injury
,
than
undergo
death
it self
:
that
we
endeavour
to
the
utmost
of
our
power
to
do
good
to
all
,
and
in
several
cases
have
less
regard
to
our
own
than
anothers
advantage
,
and
sacrifice
our
lives
and
dearest
interests
to
the
publick
peace
!
Under
what
terrible
sanctions
,
and
with
what
fulness
and
clearness
of
expression
hath
the
divine
Author
and
establisher
of
the
Christian
law
enacted
,
that
the
rights
of
every
one
,
whether
founded
in
nature
,
or
introduced
by
custom
and
the
common
usages
of
life
,
or
by
civil
and
municipal
laws
,
should
in
no
wise
,
and
upon
no
pretense
whatever
be
violated
,
but
be
preserved
in
their
full
extent
and
vigour
!
How
had
the
world
been
blessed
with
a
solid
and
lasting
peace
,
if
these
excellent
rules
had
been
observed
,
and
if
no
unjust
force
had
been
used
;
if
men
had
religiously
and
conscientiously
abstained
from
invading
the
right
and
property
of
others
,
and
had
been
content
with
that
state
and
condition
of
life
,
in
which
providence
had
placed
them
,
without
having
recourse
to
fraud
and
evil
arts
,
or
to
violence
and
arms
!
Thus
we
see
Christ
hath
consulted
most
wisely
and
effectually
the
peace
and
benefit
of
all
mankind
in
general
,
beyond
the
institutions
of
the
most
famous
Law-givers
whatever
.
But
how
more
deeply
and
zealously
concerned
,
and
fuller
of
holy
care
was
our
blessed
Saviour
for
all
such
,
as
should
believe
in
his
name
,
and
make
profession
of
his
religion
in
all
ages
of
the
world
,
that
the
mutual
love
,
which
the
acknowledgment
of
the
same
Faith
,
which
the
partaking
of
the
same
holy
rites
and
mysteries
,
and
which
the
hope
of
the
same
immortal
happiness
and
glory
to
be
enjoyed
in
the
other
world
justly
challenged
,
and
required
,
and
obliged
them
to
upon
so
many
excellent
accompts
,
should
be
continually
kept
up
,
and
made
appear
at
all
times
by
an
hearty
desire
and
readiness
of
doing
good
in
their
several
stations
,
and
whensoever
an
opportunity
presented
it self
,
by
all
offices
of
love
and
kindness
!
He
was
so
intent
upon
this
necessary
and
essential
part
of
Christianity
,
in
the
last
stage
of
his
life
,
that
in
that
divine
discourse
,
which
he
made
to
his
Apostles
,
St.
John
chap.
14.
just
before
he
was
to
leave
the
world
,
and
offer
up
his
most
pretious
blood
,
as
a
just
price
and
satisfaction
for
the
sins
of
mankind
,
he
commends
nothing
more
to
their
imitation
,
and
makes
this
the
great
characteristick
of
his
Religion
:
and
shews
,
that
nothing
could
be
more
dear
and
grateful
to
him
,
and
more
advantagious
and
beneficial
to
them
,
or
could
more
powerfully
and
evidently
shew
their
love
to
him
,
and
better
deserve
their
care
,
than
their
punctual
and
diligent
observance
of
this
new
command
,
that
they
should
love
one
another
,
as
he
had
loved
them
.
Now
this
command
being
grounded
on
the
greatest
authority
,
and
the
highest
reason
,
and
equity
imaginable
,
and
which
cannot
be
violated
without
the
imputation
of
impiety
and
folly
,
and
without
great
hazard
of
Salvation
,
who
would
believe
,
that
Christians
should
be
so
unmindful
either
of
God
or
themselves
,
as
to
dare
to
contravene
it
,
as
if
they
were
not
any
longer
to
be
known
to
be
of
that
denomination
,
by
reciprocal
affection
and
charity
,
and
by
unity
and
harmony
of
mind
,
and
by
the
most
endearing
acts
of
generous
friendship
,
but
by
bitter
invectives
and
reproaches
,
by
siding
with
parties
,
and
by
disagreement
and
hatred
one
of
another
?
It
is
a
long
time
since
,
that
the
Catholick
Church
of
Christ
hath
felt
the
sad
effects
and
consequences
of
this
foolish
and
mad
perfidiousness
,
even
almost
soon
after
she
was
blest
with
peace
,
and
freed
from
the
horrid
butcheries
and
cruel
persecutions
of
the
heathen
Roman
Emperours
,
(
who
made
it
their
business
to
keep
up
their
idolatrous
worship
,
with
all
the
arts
of
subtilty
and
furious
rage
,
and
exterminate
the
very
name
of
Christian
out
of
the
world
)
and
hath
been
forced
to
endure
and
suffer
far
worse
things
from
her
own
children
,
hurried
on
with
the
excesses
of
mad
zeal
,
and
all
the
bitterness
of
enraged
passion
:
by
reason
of
which
unchristian
misbehaviour
she
soon
perceived
,
that
she
had
but
little
reason
comparatively
to
complain
of
the
proceedings
of
Nero
,
Decius
,
Diocletian
,
and
the
rest
of
her
merciless
Persecutors
.
For
this
was
the
sad
case
and
temper
of
those
times
,
that
they
,
whom
fear
,
and
modesty
,
and
a
due
regard
to
,
and
reverence
of
the
name
of
Christianity
,
and
whom
common
dangers
and
sufferings
had
endeared
to
each
other
,
to
the
great
astonishment
of
their
enemies
,
now
when
they
no
longer
stood
in
awe
of
the
tribunals
of
the
Gentile
Magistrates
,
and
of
the
pursuit
and
arrest
of
soldiers
and
officers
of
the
civil
Courts
;
when
they
were
no
longer
in
danger
of
being
dragged
to
prison
,
or
condemned
to
crosses
,
stakes
,
gibbets
,
and
wild
beasts
in
their
Amphitheaters
;
when
by
the
protection
of
the
civil
power
they
might
profess
Christianity
with
all
possible
security
,
the
whole
Empire
becoming
Christian
,
and
embracing
that
faith
,
which
it
had
for
some
ages
before
endeavoured
with
so
much
fury
and
madness
to
root
up
;
these
very
persons
,
abusing
this
wonderful
change
,
that
God
had
brought
about
,
when
they
had
no
enemies
to
exercise
their
faith
and
their
patience
,
soon
grew
peevish
,
and
froward
,
and
insolent
towards
one
another
.
The
doctrine
of
faith
,
as
it
is
proposed
in
the
holy
Gospels
,
was
slighted
and
carelesly
past
over
,
and
fierce
contests
arose
about
matters
of
opinion
and
ceremony
,
as
if
nothing
less
than
eternal
salvation
had
been
concerned
in
these
niceties
;
whence
charity
being
wholly
forgot
and
lost
in
these
disputes
,
whilst
each
strove
,
not
so
much
for
truth
as
victory
,
evil
suspicions
and
animosities
took
place
,
and
opened
a
wide
gap
for
schism
to
enter
.
Hereupon
Altar
was
erected
against
Altar
,
and
contrary
Episcopal
Sees
established
in
the
same
cities
;
and
furious
and
seditious
Preachers
sounded
in
the
Pulpit
an
alarum
to
a
holy
war
,
as
if
they
had
been
ready
to
engage
with
the
professed
enemies
of
Christ
in
defence
of
the
chief
articles
of
Religion
.
Hence
they
first
lookt
upon
it
as
a
piece
of
becoming
zeal
,
and
as
a
mark
of
godliness
to
abstain
from
all
external
communion
with
each
other
:
as
if
the
danger
and
the
guilt
had
been
less
to
have
been
present
at
the
Heathen
and
Jewish
assemblies
:
afterwards
followed
odious
crimes
laid
to
each
others
charge
,
and
most
abusive
and
execrable
titles
and
appellations
,
as
if
there
had
been
a
total
apostasy
and
defection
from
the
Christian
faith
;
from
which
most
unjust
and
scandalous
censures
there
arose
at
last
an
irreconcileable
enmity
and
hatred
,
which
no
art
,
no
compliance
in
other
matters
,
whilst
these
evil
and
perverse
opinions
were
rooted
in
their
minds
,
could
be
able
to
remove
or
mollify
.
But
alas
!
so
far
are
these
dreadful
and
fatal
heats
,
with
which
the
Church
for
so
many
ages
has
been
enflamed
,
from
being
abated
,
that
upon
the
addition
of
fresh
matter
they
have
burst
out
with
greater
violence
,
which
is
almost
irresistible
.
Who
is
there
so
far
forsaken
and
devoid
of
good
nature
,
mercy
,
and
pity
,
who
is
not
filled
with
horror
,
when
he
reflects
upon
those
horrid
tumults
and
distractions
,
with
which
Christendom
is
torn
asunder
at
this
very
day
?
I
do
not
mean
those
distractions
the
natural
effects
of
war
,
wherein
thousands
are
daily
sacrificed
to
ambition
and
other
brutal
passions
,
but
such
,
as
different
opinions
about
matters
of
religion
have
brought
upon
the
world
,
in
which
no
mercy
and
charity
are
shewed
to
the
souls
of
the
adverse
party
,
which
,
as
far
as
furious
zeal
takes
place
,
are
consigned
over
to
hell
by
peremptory
sentences
of
excommunication
:
it
being
accounted
a
very
godly
and
justifiable
pretension
,
to
think
and
judge
amiss
of
those
,
who
differ
from
them
in
lesser
matters
.
In
the
mean
time
,
whilst
every
one
doth
foolishly
indulge
to
his
ambition
,
same
,
and
wit
;
whilst
they
most
partially
favour
that
side
,
which
either
chance
has
cast
them
upon
,
or
prejudice
,
education
,
and
interest
have
recommended
to
their
choice
;
whilst
the
love
of
the
world
,
and
a
fear
arising
thence
,
lest
there
should
be
any
abatement
and
diminution
of
their
secular
pomp
and
advantage
,
shut
out
truth
;
and
whilst
perversness
and
obstinacy
of
mind
set
a
bar
against
mutual
forbearance
and
condescension
:
altho
out
of
modesty
each
may
pretend
to
wish
,
that
an
happy
end
were
put
to
these
disputes
,
and
endeavour
with
great
earnestness
to
wipe
off
the
envy
of
such
a
charge
:
yet
it
is
too
too
evident
,
that
they
are
kept
up
and
maintained
by
pride
and
peevishness
and
base
interest
,
whilst
they
do
not
follow
,
according
to
the
excellent
and
wise
advice
of
St.
Paul
,
after
the
things
which
make
for
peace
,
and
things
wherewith
one
may
edify
another
.
Romans
14.
19.
It
is
the
design
of
this
paper
briefly
to
enquire
,
first
into
the
reasons
and
causes
of
these
differences
arising
about
Religion
,
which
are
still
maintained
with
so
great
heat
,
to
the
great
scandal
of
so
holy
and
venerable
a
Profession
,
and
how
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
the
mild
,
the
sweet
,
the
merciful
temper
and
genius
,
which
Christianity
inspires
her
true
Votaries
with
,
seems
utterly
lost
,
amidst
the
noise
and
fury
of
those
hot
debates
,
that
prevail
between
parties
of
different
communions
:
and
then
,
secondly
;
into
the
proper
remedies
of
these
horrid
confusions
and
distractions
,
and
see
if
there
be
any
just
reason
and
ground
to
hope
for
the
restoring
of
Ecclesiastical
peace
and
unity
to
the
divided
countries
of
Christendom
.
As
to
what
concerns
the
first
part
of
my
enquiry
,
I
shall
comprehend
the
original
and
causes
of
the
divisions
among
Christians
,
and
which
hinder
them
from
uniting
in
the
same
common
worship
and
service
of
God
,
under
these
four
following
heads
;
all
others
being
of
lesser
moment
,
or
else
easily
reducible
to
one
of
them
.
The
first
and
principal
is
this
,
a
manifest
and
great
departure
from
the
simplicity
of
faith
.
In
the
first
beginnings
of
Christianity
,
when
the
Apostles
,
every
of
them
in
their
distinct
provinces
,
declared
to
the
world
the
revelation
of
God
our
Saviour
,
it
was
not
,
as
to
what
concerns
the
doctrine
of
faith
,
any
great
matter
of
difficulty
,
nor
required
any
great
study
or
deep
research
to
be
a
Christian.
The
mysteries
of
it
,
as
to
their
number
,
were
but
few
,
as
is
evident
from
the
Creed
,
which
contains
a
brief
form
of
words
,
clearly
and
nakedly
proposed
without
any
perplexity
or
ambiguity
of
expression
;
so
that
although
the
matter
of
some
of
them
do
transcend
the
utmost
strength
and
force
of
humane
understanding
,
and
cannot
be
comprehended
by
the
most
sublime
and
subtle
wit
whatever
:
yet
persons
of
the
meanest
capacities
and
most
ordinary
understanding
cannot
complain
,
that
they
were
neglected
.
Now
this
doctrine
of
faith
was
at
first
one
&
the
same
every
where
,
even
in
the
most
distant
countries
,
which
had
no
commerce
one
with
another
.
At
that
time
they
believed
no
otherwise
at
Rome
,
Ephesus
,
Alexandria
,
or
Corinth
,
than
at
Jerusalem
.
The
Apostles
being
guided
by
the
same
infallible
spirit
,
taught
the
same
necessary
articles
of
faith
every
where
:
whence
arose
that
admirable
concent
and
harmony
of
doctrine
,
as
if
that
great
work
of
the
conversion
of
the
world
to
the
faith
of
Christ
had
not
been
done
apart
,
but
had
been
jointly
carried
on
by
the
common
advice
and
direction
of
the
College
of
Apostles
remaining
in
a
fixed
place
.
For
then
those
here
in
Britain
agreed
in
judgment
with
those
who
were
in
India
,
when
there
was
no
passage
through
the
great
and
vast
ocean
known
,
or
so
much
as
attempted
:
the
polarity
of
the
magnet
being
then
unknown
and
undiscovered
:
And
the
like
is
to
be
said
of
the
other
parts
of
the
world
,
as
Irenaeus
shews
in
his
first
book
against
heresies
chap.
3.
where
being
about
to
evince
the
truth
of
the
Catholick
faith
from
the
agreement
of
so
many
nations
,
differing
in
language
,
and
manners
,
and
customs
of
living
,
so
many
seas
running
between
,
he
adds
,
that
there
is
the
same
force
of
tradition
,
notwithstanding
this
great
variety
of
language
,
and
that
the
Churches
in
Germany
,
Spain
,
Gaule
,
in
the
East
,
in
Egypt
and
Lybia
neither
believed
nor
delivered
down
contrary
doctrines
:
but
as
the
Sun
,
the
creature
of
God
,
is
one
and
the
same
in
the
universe
,
so
the
light
and
doctrine
of
truth
shines
every
where
,
and
enlightens
all
men
,
who
are
willing
to
come
to
the
knowledge
of
it
.
So
that
all
being
admitted
by
the
Sacrament
of
baptism
to
the
profession
of
the
same
faith
,
if
chance
or
business
,
or
curiosity
of
travelling
brought
Christians
of
different
nations
together
,
upon
the
first
acknowledgement
of
this
faith
,
which
shewed
,
that
they
were
Christians
,
they
run
into
each
others
embraces
,
and
found
,
that
they
agreed
in
the
same
points
of
religion
,
as
if
they
had
been
bred
up
under
the
same
masters
,
and
had
spent
their
whole
time
together
.
And
indeed
it
could
scarce
be
otherwise
through
the
piety
,
innocence
,
zeal
,
and
constancy
of
those
times
,
not
as
if
there
were
no
opinions
started
,
about
which
they
might
have
different
sentiments
(
for
that
in
such
great
variety
and
disproportion
of
understanding
and
temper
was
scarce
possible
)
but
they
held
fast
to
the
Apostolical
doctrine
and
tradition
:
and
provided
,
that
their
faith
in
Christ
was
entire
and
orthodox
,
in
lesser
matters
liberty
of
judgment
was
allowed
without
censure
.
No
one
was
oppressed
with
unjust
suspicions
and
prejudices
:
they
shunned
not
such
an
ones
company
,
as
if
he
had
been
excommunicated
,
but
received
and
embraced
him
as
a
Brother
and
fellow
Christian.
The
holy
Apostles
,
who
by
their
unwearied
diligence
and
preaching
had
form'd
and
establisht
Churches
every
where
,
that
they
might
make
just
provisions
for
the
Christians
of
all
ages
after
their
decease
,
thought
it
highly
concerned
them
to
commit
to
writing
the
doctrine
of
faith
,
which
they
had
taught
;
that
in
case
any
doubt
should
arise
in
aftertimes
,
and
new
doctrines
should
be
introduced
by
wanton
and
over
curious
wits
,
desirous
and
over
apt
to
innovate
in
matters
of
religion
under
a
pretense
of
Apostolical
tradition
,
these
infallible
oracles
might
be
consulted
,
as
the
measure
and
standard
of
divine
truth
.
Accordingly
to
these
sacred
writings
they
had
recourse
as
to
the
only
rule
of
faith
:
they
derived
all
the
streams
of
saving
truth
from
these
uncorrupt
springs
;
here
was
the
tryal
,
whether
any
one
was
sound
or
reprobate
concerning
the
faith
:
so
the
great
truths
of
Religion
were
preserved
entire
,
there
was
no
trouble
given
to
any
one
upon
the
accompt
of
any
subtle
or
nice
questions
.
All
equally
enjoyed
the
same
right
of
communion
;
they
were
present
at
the
same
holy
offices
of
religion
with
a
most
agreeable
piety
;
they
all
were
partakers
of
the
same
holy
Sacrament
;
from
which
if
any
were
by
the
strict
discipline
of
the
Church
debarred
,
it
was
wholly
to
be
imputed
to
the
miscarriages
of
life
,
whereof
they
were
guilty
,
which
the
Church
desired
to
amend
and
make
them
sensible
of
by
this
severe
course
and
method
.
But
when
the
pertinaciousness
of
Hereticks
,
relying
upon
the
quirks
and
subtilty
of
unsound
wit
,
would
in
no
wise
acquiesce
in
Scriptural
propositions
of
faith
;
when
with
a
sacrilegious
boldness
they
would
break
into
the
very
secrets
of
heaven
,
which
were
above
the
capacity
of
humane
understanding
fully
to
make
out
and
comprehend
;
when
despising
and
rejecting
the
revelations
of
Scripture
,
they
disclaimed
the
profession
and
acknowledgment
of
the
truths
and
mysteries
of
the
Christian
religion
;
and
when
by
their
evil
designs
,
arts
,
and
practices
,
the
weaker
sort
of
Christians
,
whom
they
had
infected
with
their
corrupt
and
poisonous
doctrine
,
were
drawn
away
from
the
profession
of
the
true
faith
;
it
then
became
necessary
and
most
worthy
the
serious
thoughts
and
care
of
Constantine
the
great
,
and
the
other
pious
Emperors
,
to
call
General
Councils
,
in
order
to
prevent
those
disturbances
and
breaches
of
the
Churches
peace
,
which
were
likely
to
arise
from
the
change
and
alteration
of
faith
:
and
all
the
industry
of
those
great
men
,
who
were
summoned
to
attend
and
assist
at
those
solemn
and
venerable
assemblies
,
was
laid
out
and
imployed
,
not
in
inventing
and
making
new
Articles
,
but
in
interpreting
and
explaining
the
old
ones
:
for
both
their
zeal
and
piety
forbad
,
that
they
should
give
way
to
any
innovation
,
or
suffer
the
ancient
Catholick
faith
,
which
was
at
first
delivered
,
to
be
antiquated
,
and
the
profession
of
it
disused
.
For
to
use
the
words
of
a
Vincentius
Lirinensis
,
what
other
thing
has
the
Church
of
Christ
designed
and
effected
by
the
decrees
of
Councils
,
but
that
that
which
was
before
simply
believed
,
might
now
be
believed
with
greater
diligence
:
that
,
which
before
was
more
rarely
and
gently
preached
,
might
now
be
preached
with
greater
zeal
and
concern
:
and
that
,
which
was
held
and
maintained
more
securely
,
might
now
be
studied
and
maintained
with
greater
care
and
solicitude
?
So
that
to
stop
the
mouth
of
heresy
,
and
to
give
it
its
deaths
wound
,
those
Heroes
,
mostly
and
chiefly
relying
upon
the
authority
of
the
sacred
scripture
,
and
calling
in
to
their
aid
and
assistance
the
constant
practice
and
consent
of
the
Orthodox
Christians
of
the
preceding
ages
,
and
antient
and
Catholick
tradition
,
made
a
most
excellent
provision
for
the
security
of
the
Christian
faith
,
which
Arius
,
Macedonius
,
Nestorius
,
and
the
other
infamous
Haeresiarchs
had
with
their
false
glosses
perverted
,
by
laying
down
short
forms
and
professions
of
faith
:
that
so
the
several
mysteries
of
it
,
upon
the
belief
of
which
the
true
religion
and
the
happiness
of
its
Professors
depend
,
might
be
better
and
more
easily
admitted
and
understood
.
By
this
Test
the
Catholick
Church
distinguished
those
of
her
communion
from
the
hereticks
,
and
by
this
unity
of
faith
united
their
hearts
in
love
and
affection
;
all
who
made
profession
of
her
doctrine
,
in
what
part
of
the
world
soever
they
were
,
being
acknowledged
and
received
for
friends
,
for
brethren
,
for
Catholicks
.
For
there
was
no
need
of
any
other
character
or
recommendation
:
and
hence
that
pious
and
laudable
custom
and
practice
of
keeping
up
and
maintaining
this
Ecclesiastical
communion
by
the
Epistolae
formatae
,
which
were
usually
sent
from
one
Bishop
to
another
(
nor
did
the
Bishop
of
Rome
exempt
himself
)
upon
their
instalment
,
had
their
original
:
nor
was
there
any
other
proof
exacted
or
demanded
of
their
retaining
the
profession
of
the
true
Christian
faith
,
than
a
firm
and
hearty
assent
to
those
antient
Creeds
.
How
happy
it
had
been
for
the
Catholick
Church
,
if
the
terms
of
communion
had
continued
thus
enlarged
,
the
meanest
capacity
may
easily
be
sensible
of
;
for
most
assuredly
,
if
the
antient
faith
,
the
profession
of
which
has
saved
so
many
myriads
of
Christians
,
had
been
preserved
uncorrupt
and
entire
from
the
encumbrance
and
addition
of
novel
opinions
,
which
owe
their
original
and
propagation
to
meer
phantasy
,
and
superstition
,
and
secular
interest
;
and
if
all
,
who
acknowledge
that
Faith
,
might
have
been
present
at
the
publick
worship
and
service
of
God
upon
the
same
conditions
,
as
in
the
first
ages
,
according
to
the
rules
established
by
the
supream
Ecclesiastical
authority
;
there
had
not
been
that
great
confusion
every
where
in
the
world
,
as
now
there
is
.
By
this
just
and
easy
method
,
schism
might
have
been
prevented
,
and
a
liberty
of
judgment
being
allowed
in
matters
no
way
fundamental
and
essential
to
faith
,
an
eternal
peace
had
been
established
.
Of
the
violation
of
which
we
justly
accuse
the
Roman
Church
,
which
,
having
wholly
neglected
and
laid
aside
the
rules
of
primitive
Antiquity
,
has
,
as
mistress
of
the
faith
of
all
Christians
,
obtruded
new
articles
,
under
the
specious
pretense
and
title
of
Declaration
,
upon
their
consciences
and
understandings
.
But
what
injustice
,
what
arbitrary
proceeding
,
what
tyranny
is
this
,
that
the
faith
of
the
Christian
world
should
depend
upon
the
humor
and
pleasure
of
the
Roman
Court
,
and
the
opinions
of
the
Schoolmen
,
without
any
regard
to
Scripture
and
antiquity
:
and
that
all
other
Churches
should
be
excommunicated
,
unless
they
enslave
themselves
to
her
Tenents
,
and
that
all
should
be
branded
with
the
odious
name
of
Schismatick
and
Heretick
,
who
dare
maintain
and
defend
their
rights
against
the
imposition
of
their
novelties
!
Let
the
true
faith
be
examined
by
the
rule
of
Scripture
:
let
the
doctrine
of
the
first
times
be
consulted
in
the
proof
and
tryal
of
it
:
let
the
antient
canons
be
restored
:
let
no
force
be
put
upon
the
conscience
;
and
let
all
unjust
conditions
cease
,
and
be
for
ever
abrogated
;
the
peace
of
the
Church
will
then
return
,
and
we
may
hope
to
see
good
days
in
Christendom
.
Which
suggests
to
me
an
other
hindrance
of
Ecclesiastical
peace
and
unity
,
which
ariseth
hence
,
2.
That
several
opinions
and
tenents
,
which
without
prejudice
to
the
true
faith
,
we
may
be
ignorant
of
,
are
too
highly
valued
and
esteemed
,
and
by
an
overhasty
and
inconsiderate
zeal
are
lookt
upon
as
fundamental
points
,
necessary
to
salvation
.
The
Apostle
Saint
Paul
takes
a
particular
and
wise
care
in
the
14th
chapter
of
the
epistle
to
the
Romans
,
lest
they
,
who
agreed
in
the
Faith
of
the
eternal
Son
of
God
,
the
true
Messias
and
Redeemer
of
mankind
,
and
were
called
by
his
blessed
name
,
should
upon
some
little
differences
in
trivial
matters
,
break
out
into
hatred
and
ill
will
one
to
another
.
For
there
was
not
the
same
opinion
among
them
about
the
ceasing
of
the
Mosaical
institutions
.
They
who
had
arrived
to
a
greater
degree
of
faith
and
maturity
of
judgment
,
very
much
rejoyced
in
their
happy
change
and
condition
of
life
,
that
they
were
delivered
from
the
grievous
burden
of
the
Jewish
rites
and
ceremonies
,
whilst
others
,
who
were
not
so
well
instructed
and
satisfied
in
the
privileges
and
liberties
of
the
Christian
religion
,
very
fiercely
contended
,
that
no
one
,
at
least
no
Jew
,
was
exempt
and
freed
from
those
observances
.
Hence
proceeded
bitter
and
severe
censures
one
against
another
,
as
transgressors
of
the
divine
law
;
and
hereupon
they
entertained
those
unjust
opinions
of
one
anothers
condition
as
to
the
other
world
,
as
if
one
heaven
could
not
hold
two
such
contrary
parties
.
But
what
says
the
Apostle
to
all
this
?
he
plainly
shews
,
that
this
sharp
,
censorious
,
and
fierce
temper
of
mind
is
most
displeasing
to
him
,
as
being
most
disagreeable
to
the
very
rules
of
Christianity
:
that
in
an
affair
of
so
slight
a
nature
,
no
one
runs
the
hazard
of
his
salvation
;
that
the
strong
were
herein
to
indulge
and
yield
somewhat
to
the
weak
in
faith
,
who
were
not
so
fully
enlightned
,
as
they
were
;
that
they
who
thought
that
there
was
an
obligation
still
lying
upon
them
to
observe
the
law
of
Moses
,
had
not
upon
this
accompt
abjured
the
faith
of
Christ
,
and
that
they
,
who
on
the
contrary
thought
that
there
was
no
obligation
lying
upon
them
,
had
not
been
guilty
of
the
breach
of
a
divine
law
:
that
they
were
not
to
abstain
from
communicating
with
each
other
:
that
in
these
matters
a
liberty
of
judgment
was
not
to
be
denyed
,
so
they
had
a
right
faith
in
Christ
;
that
this
common
faith
,
in
which
both
parties
agreed
,
was
a
sufficient
ground
of
Christian
communion
:
and
lastly
,
that
they
were
to
be
more
studious
of
peace
and
mutual
edification
,
than
of
useless
controversies
,
which
contributed
little
or
nothing
to
the
advancement
of
Christianity
,
or
to
their
own
mutual
benefit
and
advantage
,
or
to
the
encrease
of
piety
,
and
good
manners
.
With
what
greater
modesty
and
moderation
had
such
,
as
having
laid
aside
all
thoughts
of
peace
for
the
sake
of
opinions
of
far
lesser
moment
,
have
gone
about
to
make
divisions
in
the
Catholick
Church
,
have
carryed
themselves
,
if
they
had
imitated
this
Apostle
in
this
his
most
exemplary
meekness
and
lenity
!
Hast
thou
faith
?
Sayes
this
wise
and
excellent
person
;
have
it
to
thy self
before
God.
Let
every
one
enjoy
his
own
private
opinions
,
of
which
sort
there
may
be
many
,
for
the
sake
of
which
we
cannot
,
without
the
highest
injustice
,
give
way
to
furious
passion
and
strife
:
at
least
,
if
they
cannot
retain
them
in
their
breasts
,
but
have
an
itch
of
venting
them
;
let
them
not
impose
them
upon
others
,
as
oracles
,
as
if
all
,
who
do
not
assent
to
them
,
were
in
a
deplorable
condition
.
The
case
is
the
same
about
particular
Churches
,
as
about
private
men
:
whilst
each
retains
the
entire
doctrine
of
the
Catholick
Church
,
let
them
make
what
laws
,
articles
,
and
constitutions
they
shall
think
fit
,
to
oblige
their
own
members
to
uniformity
;
this
certainly
being
a
privilege
,
which
is
essential
to
every
national
Church
in
order
to
its
better
establishment
.
If
these
controversies
concerning
private
and
particular
opinions
had
been
confined
to
the
Schools
,
with
a
salvo
to
conscience
and
free
judgment
,
by
the
fierce
disputants
on
either
side
,
the
Church
might
have
received
no
prejudice
and
damage
by
them
,
and
have
been
wholly
uninterested
in
their
quarrels
.
For
this
is
to
be
allowed
and
permitted
to
humane
wit
,
to
be
naturally
prying
into
secrets
and
mysteries
,
and
mostly
to
please
it self
in
new
speculations
:
and
this
it
may
do
lawfully
enough
,
so
it
doth
not
pass
those
due
boundaries
,
which
Scripture
,
the
Creeds
of
the
Catholick
Church
,
and
sober
reason
have
set
and
fixt
.
Let
the
Schoolmen
,
over-run
with
the
itch
of
curiosity
,
wrangle
eternally
,
if
they
please
;
seeing
they
not
onely
delight
in
it
,
but
make
it
their
trade
and
business
to
perplex
and
entangle
the
most
obvious
truths
:
although
it
is
very
apparent
,
that
in
these
eager
and
sharp
contentions
,
they
aim
more
at
victory
and
reputation
than
at
truth
:
and
let
them
enjoy
the
fame
and
credit
of
being
accounted
great
Sophisters
and
wits
:
Let
them
flatter
themselves
,
that
they
can
explain
the
most
difficult
problem
,
and
satisfy
the
most
confounding
objection
with
their
nice
and
subtil
distinctions
:
let
them
enjoy
their
phansy
or
their
judgment
,
without
the
least
disturbance
and
censure
:
seeing
some
are
so
in
love
with
their
errors
,
that
they
hate
to
be
better
instructed
;
and
to
go
about
to
convince
them
,
is
the
way
to
disoblige
them
:
provided
all
this
be
done
as
a
tryal
of
wit
,
and
as
an
exercise
of
a
plodding
brain
.
I
add
further
,
let
any
particular
Church
,
to
prevent
all
disputes
,
which
may
have
an
influence
upon
its
peace
,
and
which
,
by
the
cunning
contrivance
of
designing
men
,
may
introduce
schism
and
disorder
,
make
a
body
of
articles
and
canons
to
be
subscribed
by
all
,
who
are
entrusted
with
the
administration
of
holy
things
,
as
an
instrument
of
peace
and
concord
:
and
where
they
pretend
to
state
and
determine
controversial
points
,
let
them
be
esteemed
by
those
of
that
Church
never
so
pious
,
never
so
credible
,
never
so
probable
,
no
harm
can
possibly
arise
,
so
long
as
the
summary
of
the
Christian
doctrine
is
not
violated
;
so
long
as
they
are
not
ranked
with
the
fundamental
articles
of
faith
;
so
long
as
they
do
not
impose
them
upon
other
Churches
,
who
are
no
way
subject
to
a
forraign
jurisdiction
;
much
less
upon
the
whole
body
of
Christians
in
all
the
parts
of
the
Universe
,
under
the
pretence
of
Apostolical
authority
,
and
under
the
heavy
penalty
of
an
Anathema
.
But
that
there
should
be
no
difference
put
between
the
novel
opinions
of
the
Schoolmen
,
and
the
Oracles
of
Scripture
;
that
the
same
deference
and
honour
should
be
paid
to
humane
authority
,
very
obnoxious
to
passion
and
error
,
which
only
infallible
truth
can
justly
challenge
;
that
the
phansies
of
private
men
,
as
they
were
at
first
,
should
,
many
ages
after
,
by
a
pretended
Church-power
,
be
reckoned
as
fundamentals
:
and
lastly
,
that
we
should
be
obliged
to
profess
our
assent
to
rash
sanctions
and
definitions
,
which
a
corrupt
part
of
the
Church
for
secular
ends
and
advantages
hath
decreed
and
established
;
this
,
this
is
that
,
which
scandalizeth
Christendom
,
and
obstructs
its
peace
.
This
was
the
just
complaint
of
the
former
century
,
which
made
way
for
the
Reformation
,
and
which
a
conviction
of
the
truth
and
reasonableness
of
it
extorted
from
the
mouths
of
several
Romanists
,
who
yet
had
not
the
courage
to
relinquish
the
communion
of
that
Church
,
though
confessedly
corrupt
in
matter
of
doctrine
,
discipline
,
and
worship
.
This
was
the
trouble
and
heart-breaking
of
several
excellently
learned
and
pious
persons
in
those
times
,
and
doth
still
distract
the
minds
of
all
good
men
,
even
of
considering
Romanists
,
not
infatuated
with
superstition
and
furious
bigotry
,
who
pray
for
the
restoration
of
Catholick
unity
among
all
Christians
.
But
such
a
schism
,
so
detestable
,
so
deplorable
,
and
so
big
with
dismal
effects
,
consequences
,
and
events
,
has
been
brought
into
the
Church
by
corrupt
interest
,
by
base
and
disingenuous
artifice
and
subtilty
,
and
by
the
highest
immodesty
,
and
by
downright
force
and
violence
,
and
this
,
confirmed
by
the
free
,
holy
,
oecumenical
council
of
Trent
,
as
they
call
it
,
when
God
knows
it
was
neither
free
,
nor
holy
,
nor
oecumenical
,
as
that
all
hope
of
reconciliation
among
the
different
professions
and
perswasions
of
Christians
is
taken
away
,
unless
the
Authors
of
this
schism
shall
offer
terms
of
an
accommodation
fit
to
be
accepted
,
that
is
,
by
annulling
or
suspending
for
ever
the
authority
of
the
Tridentine
council
,
which
is
a
thing
not
to
be
expected
from
them
,
or
rather
,
unless
the
Princes
of
the
Roman
Communion
shall
force
the
Pope
to
call
another
Council
,
and
in
case
of
refusal
,
shall
assemble
several
Bishops
and
Doctors
of
their
respective
countries
to
debate
the
controversies
,
which
are
now
on
foot
,
and
to
determine
them
by
Scripture
,
primitive
Antiquity
,
and
Apostolical
Tradition
.
It
will
yield
just
matter
of
astonishment
to
the
serious
Reader
to
consider
,
that
the
institution
of
the
holy
Sacrament
of
the
Eucharist
,
which
Christ
left
to
his
Church
in
remembrance
of
his
passion
and
death
,
and
for
a
pledge
of
his
love
,
and
as
a
mark
and
token
of
the
mutual
love
of
Christians
,
and
of
their
faith
in
him
crucified
:
whom
that
Sacrament
does
truly
and
efficaciously
represent
and
exhibit
,
should
by
the
subtilty
of
the
Devil
,
and
the
perverse
disputings
of
interested
persons
,
be
so
far
abused
and
perverted
,
that
they
should
hence
take
occasion
of
envying
eternal
salvation
,
purchased
by
his
precious
bloud
,
and
of
denying
it
too
,
as
much
as
in
them
lyes
,
to
such
,
as
are
partakers
of
those
holy
mysteries
according
to
his
original
institution
.
For
what
other
reason
can
be
alledged
for
that
fury
,
which
under
the
notion
and
pretext
of
zeal
,
has
taken
up
arms
;
as
if
the
cause
of
God
were
concerned
in
it
,
and
has
brought
that
great
confusion
upon
the
world
,
unless
because
they
have
different
notions
and
sentiments
about
this
tremendous
mystery
,
and
disagree
somewhat
in
their
explications
of
it
?
What
great
quantity
of
Christian
bloud
has
been
spilt
by
an
enraged
party
upon
the
accompt
of
these
unhappy
Sacramentary
quarrels
,
which
have
ended
in
bloudy
wars
and
Massacres
!
What
great
havock
and
wast
have
they
made
,
both
by
fire
and
sword
,
of
thousands
of
their
Fellow
Christians
,
beyond
the
fury
and
madness
of
the
Heathen
persecutions
,
who
were
in
all
other
points
innocent
,
and
were
therefore
burnt
,
and
had
their
throats
cut
,
only
for
this
one
great
crime
,
because
they
would
not
admit
,
believe
,
and
acknowledge
,
contrary
to
scripture
,
reason
,
sense
,
and
experience
,
the
portentous
and
extravagant
fiction
of
Transubstantiation
!
There
is
no
Christian
,
but
believes
Christ
to
be
really
and
truly
,
that
is
,
spiritually
,
and
to
all
the
real
effects
and
benefits
of
his
Passion
and
death
,
and
by
the
efficacy
of
his
grace
and
Spirit
,
present
under
the
sacred
Symbols
,
which
yet
retain
their
true
and
natural
substance
,
as
well
as
qualities
,
and
that
he
receives
the
mystical
body
of
Christ
after
the
consecration
,
according
to
the
words
of
the
institution
,
upon
which
the
faith
of
all
Christians
is
founded
,
and
what
has
been
professed
in
all
ages
,
and
justly
esteemed
the
badge
of
Christian
communion
by
all
sober
persons
,
whose
judgments
have
not
been
perverted
by
passion
and
unjust
prejudice
.
If
every
one
,
without
any
curious
enquiry
into
this
mystery
,
had
contented
himself
with
the
plain
and
simple
belief
of
it
,
and
with
all
due
care
had
intended
the
worthy
partaking
of
it
;
if
the
Church
of
Rome
had
not
first
of
all
in
the
Lateran
council
,
and
after
that
in
the
council
of
Trent
,
rashly
determined
the
manner
of
the
presence
of
Christ
in
the
sacrament
:
if
the
Lutherans
and
others
had
onely
determined
for
themselves
,
without
prescribing
to
,
or
condemning
others
;
and
if
an
explicite
belief
of
this
monstrous
opinion
had
not
been
made
a
necessary
term
and
condition
of
communion
;
how
might
we
have
adored
before
the
same
altars
,
(
from
which
we
are
now
excluded
as
profane
,
unworthy
and
excommunicate
persons
;
and
from
which
we
have
reason
to
abstain
and
fly
,
as
the
primitive
Christians
did
from
the
sacrifices
of
Idolaters
)
and
have
been
present
at
the
most
solemn
services
of
religion
with
the
same
zeal
,
to
the
great
advantage
of
Christian
charity
and
devotion
.
No
Priest
would
then
have
been
afraid
to
admit
any
devout
lay-person
,
approaching
the
holy
sacrament
with
due
preparation
;
and
no
lay-person
would
then
also
have
been
afraid
to
receive
it
from
the
hand
of
such
a
Priest
,
rightly
ordained
and
constituted
.
The
like
may
be
said
of
many
other
points
of
religion
,
which
without
any
prejudice
to
the
doctrine
of
Faith
,
are
disputed
and
controverted
:
but
whilst
,
all
other
interpretations
and
expositions
being
laid
aside
,
men
boldly
decree
and
determine
this
or
that
opinion
to
be
de
fide
;
whilst
the
niceties
of
the
Schoolmen
,
and
the
positions
of
contentious
and
Polemical
Theology
,
which
idle
men
,
relying
too
much
upon
their
subtil
wit
,
and
false
and
sophistical
way
of
arguing
,
have
introduced
,
are
in
such
esteem
and
vogue
with
some
,
as
to
be
lookt
upon
,
as
necessary
appendages
of
the
Christian
religion
;
and
whilst
articles
of
faith
,
which
were
altogether
unknown
to
the
first
ages
,
are
hugely
encreased
and
multiplied
,
as
is
too
too
manifest
from
the
present
state
and
condition
of
the
Roman
Church
,
and
the
obscure
confessions
of
other
Churches
;
what
other
effect
can
we
expect
should
proceed
from
this
mighty
industry
and
zeal
,
but
that
Christendom
being
divided
into
so
many
parties
and
factions
,
all
just
hope
of
union
should
be
wholly
removed
and
taken
away
,
when
the
effecting
of
it
hereby
seems
to
be
rendred
morally
impossible
?
3.
The
arrogant
pretensions
of
the
Popes
unbounded
power
contributes
not
a
little
to
the
heightning
and
augmenting
the
difference
in
Christendom
.
It
does
not
seem
at
this
day
to
comport
with
the
greatness
of
the
Roman
Church
,
to
be
content
to
be
included
within
the
antient
limits
of
the
Suburbicary
regions
.
For
not
satisfied
with
a
Primacy
of
order
,
or
with
her
antient
Patriarchate
,
(
to
whose
jurisdiction
the
Britannick
Churches
were
not
of
right
subject
)
or
with
her
other
privileges
,
conferred
upon
her
out
of
a
respect
to
the
Imperial
city
;
as
if
the
spirit
of
the
old
Romans
were
infused
into
her
,
she
proudly
affects
an
empire
over
the
whole
body
of
Christians
throughout
the
world
.
If
the
other
Patriachs
,
who
owe
that
honour
and
dignity
to
the
same
original
,
the
favour
of
Princes
,
and
the
decrees
and
constitutions
of
general
Councils
(
in
the
assignment
of
which
,
as
it
is
most
evident
from
the
28th
Canon
of
the
Council
of
Chalcedon
,
they
had
onely
a
regard
to
the
privileges
and
dignities
of
cities
,
to
which
the
Ecclesiastical
government
was
accommodated
)
defend
their
rights
and
liberties
against
the
attempts
and
encroachments
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
;
if
they
will
not
submit
to
a
forraign
yoke
;
unless
they
with
a
base
and
a
most
unbecoming
flattery
adore
Rome
,
as
their
Mistress
and
Patroness
,
and
obey
her
decrees
and
orders
;
presently
there
is
an
end
of
them
:
they
are
arraigned
and
accused
as
guilty
of
schism
;
nor
shall
they
be
thought
worthy
of
the
honour
and
favour
of
her
communion
.
When
some
time
after
the
Empire
was
divided
into
East
and
West
,
there
seemed
to
be
a
kind
of
agreement
at
least
,
and
a
fair
and
amicable
correspondence
kept
up
,
the
ambition
and
pride
of
the
Bishops
of
Rome
,
who
would
needs
busy
and
interest
themselves
in
the
affairs
of
the
Greek
Church
,
spoiled
all
.
For
to
no
other
cause
can
the
original
of
that
sad
and
fatal
separation
be
ascribed
,
altho
it
was
afterward
heightned
,
and
the
wound
festered
more
and
more
,
when
the
article
of
the
procession
of
the
holy
Spirit
from
the
Son
was
added
to
the
Constantinopolitan
Creed
,
without
ever
so
much
as
consulting
the
Oriental
Bishops
,
who
upon
the
knowledge
of
it
soon
after
vehemently
opposed
it
;
justly
alledging
,
that
it
was
utterly
unlawful
so
to
do
,
it
being
expresly
against
the
7th
canon
of
the
council
of
Ephesus
.
But
things
were
more
securely
advanced
and
carryed
on
in
the
Western
Empire
,
by
the
artifice
and
policy
of
the
Popes
of
Rome
:
for
the
opposition
,
which
was
made
now
and
then
by
two
or
three
honest
and
stout
men
,
to
their
tyrannical
and
arbitrary
proceedings
,
signified
little
or
nothing
,
and
was
run
down
with
noise
,
violence
,
and
power
.
When
then
they
had
no
regard
to
the
canons
of
antient
Councils
,
by
which
the
Catholick
Church
was
formerly
governed
;
when
they
had
trodden
under
their
feet
all
divine
and
humane
law
and
right
;
when
they
had
arrogated
to
themselves
the
disposition
of
all
Church-affairs
,
and
had
usurpt
a
power
over
all
Christians
;
and
nothing
for
the
future
was
to
be
admitted
and
believed
,
but
what
was
agreeable
to
the
Bulls
and
decrees
of
the
Roman
Court
;
can
any
one
wonder
,
when
things
were
brought
to
this
pass
,
that
Christendom
should
at
last
awaken
from
its
deep
lethargy
,
and
grown
sensible
of
the
miserable
slavery
of
its
condition
,
should
complain
of
the
exercise
of
this
usurped
,
unjust
,
and
tyrannical
power
,
and
seriously
think
of
recovering
its
true
,
antient
,
original
(
hristian
liberty
?
In
the
mean
time
,
what
did
they
at
Rome
?
did
they
enter
upon
serious
counsels
and
resolutions
honestly
and
effectually
to
satisfy
the
requests
and
demands
of
Kings
,
Princes
,
and
Republicks
concerning
a
Reformation
,
which
were
continually
sent
thither
by
their
Ambassadors
and
Agents
?
did
they
restore
their
ill-gotten
goods
,
which
they
had
seized
upon
most
unjustly
,
and
as
unjustly
had
detained
by
force
and
violence
,
I
mean
,
the
common
rights
and
privileges
,
belonging
to
the
Bishops
;
and
to
all
Christian
people
?
nothing
less
:
they
exclaim
,
they
rage
,
they
are
furious
and
mad
,
and
let
fly
their
thunderbolts
of
excommunication
from
the
Vatican
hill
,
and
devote
men
to
hell
and
damnation
,
only
for
this
unpardonable
fault
,
because
they
were
at
last
quite
tyred
with
,
and
weary
of
the
slavery
,
which
they
had
laboured
under
for
so
many
years
.
This
is
that
,
which
troubles
and
grieves
them
now
at
Rome
,
and
which
they
are
endeavouring
with
so
much
art
and
policy
to
effect
and
bring
about
;
and
this
is
that
,
which
unless
God
shall
vouchsafe
to
avert
the
omen
,
and
open
the
eyes
of
all
such
,
who
are
deluded
by
the
witchcrafts
and
sorcery
of
Rome
,
to
forsake
her
communion
,
which
is
so
dangerous
to
their
salvation
,
will
make
the
schism
irreconcileable
and
eternal
.
For
,
as
things
stand
at
present
,
there
can
be
no
peace
and
accommodation
with
Rome
,
unless
we
part
with
our
liberties
,
and
our
laws
,
and
our
consciences
,
and
our
religion
,
the
true
Christian
religion
,
and
every
thing
,
which
is
dear
to
us
:
nor
yet
,
such
is
the
restlesness
of
that
party
,
and
especially
of
the
Jesuits
,
that
if
the
counsels
of
such
fiery
Bigots
may
prevail
,
we
shall
never
be
at
quiet
,
unless
we
submit
our
necks
once
more
most
stupidly
to
the
Roman
yoke
,
which
our
Popish
Ancestors
,
even
both
before
and
after
they
were
enlightned
with
the
knowledge
of
the
truths
of
God
,
threw
off
with
great
indignation
,
as
not
being
able
to
bear
it
.
Lastly
,
we
are
convinced
by
sad
experience
,
that
these
differences
about
religion
,
which
have
divided
Christendom
into
so
many
sects
,
to
the
great
disturbance
of
its
peace
and
quiet
,
owe
no
small
part
of
their
original
to
the
great
decay
of
true
solid
piety
through
idleness
and
carelesness
,
and
to
the
departure
from
the
most
holy
rules
of
living
,
which
Christ
our
blessed
Lord
and
master
has
prescribed
us
,
which
is
every
where
so
visible
.
I
need
not
here
labour
in
the
proof
of
this
by
heaping
up
arguments
,
when
the
fact
is
so
evident
;
nor
shall
I
tragically
exclaim
or
inveigh
against
the
unmanly
softness
,
the
luxury
,
the
prophaneness
,
the
wickedness
of
the
age
,
and
the
evil
lives
of
Christians
;
this
reflexion
deserving
our
sighs
and
tears
rather
than
satyre
and
invective
.
I
do
not
here
mean
so
much
those
,
whose
wicked
&
corrupt
principles
and
most
scandalous
lives
sufficiently
shew
,
that
they
have
no
sense
of
any
religion
,
but
I
chiefly
intend
such
,
as
make
a
fair
shew
of
Christianity
;
how
little
of
true
piety
is
found
about
them
!
but
how
much
of
superstition
,
and
immoderate
zeal
for
the
peculiar
tenents
of
their
sect
,
by
which
they
would
be
distinguished
one
from
another
!
in
compliance
of
the
genius
of
the
age
,
which
is
concerned
more
for
ingenuity
,
and
learning
,
&
the
inventing
new
hypotheses
,
and
satisfying
curious
enquiries
into
nature
,
than
for
the
practices
of
moral
honesty
and
Christian
vertue
,
and
how
we
may
foyl
and
baffle
our
adversaries
by
our
wit
,
rather
than
adorn
our
holy
profession
with
suitable
lives
.
But
alas
!
by
how
much
less
pious
we
are
,
so
by
degrees
we
become
more
and
more
censorious
and
uncharitable
.
We
bestow
all
our
zeal
in
lesser
matters
,
and
lay
the
great
stress
of
our
duty
upon
it
,
being
little
solicitous
about
the
ornaments
of
a
Christian
life
,
as
if
by
this
fallacious
and
flattering
kind
of
artifice
we
would
compound
with
God
for
the
want
of
them
.
It
is
in
vain
to
complain
of
,
and
cry
out
upon
the
wickedness
of
the
times
,
when
we
our selves
are
to
blame
,
that
they
are
no
better
,
and
if
we
would
our selves
,
we
might
make
them
so
.
For
if
the
true
Christian
piety
,
and
strict
discipline
,
and
integrity
of
manners
,
were
but
once
restored
;
and
if
we
throughly
minded
the
great
duties
of
Christianity
,
which
consist
in
unfeigned
devotion
and
holiness
,
in
charity
,
and
meekness
,
and
patience
,
and
forbids
all
bitterness
,
and
wrath
,
and
evil
speaking
,
and
hatred
,
and
malice
,
and
abstracts
from
all
niceties
and
subtilities
of
disputation
,
and
quarrels
about
Scholastick
notions
and
opinions
,
in
which
the
essence
of
faith
is
no
way
interested
;
it
will
be
no
vain
,
idle
,
or
ill-grounded
expectation
,
that
we
might
live
to
see
the
different
parties
of
Christendom
united
,
and
Ecclesiastical
peace
and
unity
restored
.
But
whilst
ill
manners
and
a
careless
way
of
living
prevail
;
whilst
charity
and
modesty
are
laid
aside
,
and
men
grow
over-wise
and
conceited
in
their
opinions
,
and
despise
all
others
of
a
contrary
judgment
;
whilst
to
be
of
a
Party
,
and
to
maintain
private
phansies
with
fierceness
and
heat
,
is
accounted
a
good
argument
of
their
being
godly
;
whilst
being
too
much
concerned
for
the
externals
of
religion
,
and
controversial
points
,
we
over-look
our
duty
,
and
growing
secure
and
careless
,
seem
to
have
little
or
no
regard
to
what
Christ
and
his
Apostles
command
us
to
look
after
with
all
possible
care
and
diligence
,
and
make
our
most
serious
study
and
business
;
who
can
be
so
void
of
sense
or
good
nature
,
as
not
to
observe
with
grief
and
sorrow
of
mind
,
that
by
this
ill
imployed
industry
,
and
by
these
furious
quarrels
,
Christianity
suffers
,
and
that
,
new
prejudices
arising
continually
,
the
evil
distemper
grows
worse
and
worse
,
and
will
soon
become
desperate
and
incurable
?
No
serious
and
honest
Reader
can
be
so
unjust
,
as
to
imagine
,
that
I
plead
for
a
toleration
of
vile
sects
and
opinions
,
or
that
I
think
it
a
matter
of
meer
indifference
,
to
what
communion
of
Christians
we
betake
and
joyn
our selves
.
We
of
the
Church
of
England
are
obliged
to
render
unfeigned
and
hearty
thanks
to
Almighty
God
,
for
his
great
mercy
and
goodness
towards
us
,
that
he
has
made
us
members
of
such
an
eminently
pure
and
Apostolical
part
and
branch
of
the
Catholick
Church
;
that
we
were
born
and
baptized
,
and
live
in
the
communion
of
a
Church
,
whose
doctrine
is
truly
Christian
and
Catholick
;
government
primitive
and
Apostolical
;
and
Liturgy
conformable
to
the
antient
standard
,
and
agreeable
to
the
uses
of
true
devotion
,
without
the
least
mixture
of
superstition
and
foppery
;
and
where
the
Sacraments
are
administred
according
to
Christs
holy
institution
:
and
where
all
things
necessary
to
make
a
true
Orthodox
Catholick
Christian
,
and
to
render
him
eternally
happy
in
the
other
world
,
are
to
be
found
and
met
with
.
It
highly
becomes
us
in
point
of
duty
to
be
very
sensible
of
this
great
blessing
:
and
it
ought
to
be
the
great
comfort
of
our
lives
and
deaths
too
:
yet
I
cannot
but
oppose
to
all
unjust
censure
that
expostulation
of
Saint
Paul
,
Romans
14.
4.
Who
art
thou
that
judgest
another
mans
servant
?
to
his
own
master
he
standeth
or
falleth
:
yea
he
shall
be
holden
up
:
for
God
is
able
to
make
him
stand
:
and
will
further
add
,
that
I
doubt
not
in
the
least
,
but
that
at
the
dreadful
day
of
judgment
a
virtuous
,
honest
,
and
sober
life
will
be
more
esteemed
by
Christ
himself
,
than
niceness
of
knowledge
and
opinion
,
be
it
never
so
true
;
that
no
one
who
has
adorned
his
Christian
profession
with
an
agreeable
conversation
;
notwithstanding
his
errors
and
misperswasions
,
if
they
be
not
aggravated
and
made
pernicious
by
obstinacy
of
mind
,
and
a
wilful
resisting
and
refusing
the
truth
,
will
be
rejected
,
and
that
those
who
now
out
of
a
furious
zeal
,
(
if
yet
there
be
any
who
do
this
,
besides
some
of
the
fiery
men
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
who
arrogantly
call
themselves
Religious
,
and
their
credulous
&
infatuated
Proselytes
)
deny
or
scarse
own
salvation
possible
to
others
,
who
are
not
of
their
communion
:
which
is
a
most
unwarrantable
,
impudent
,
scandalously
false
,
and
unchristian
opinion
,
the
wickedness
of
which
cannot
be
sufficiently
aggravated
:
of
what
party
of
men
soever
,
and
are
thus
uncharitable
one
to
another
,
if
an
holy
and
virtuous
life
be
superstructed
upon
the
foundation
of
faith
,
in
which
they
all
agree
,
by
the
grace
and
mercy
of
God
,
and
the
all-sufficient
merits
and
satisfaction
of
Christ
,
will
be
happy
hereafter
for
ever
in
heaven
.
Hitherto
of
the
causes
of
those
quarrels
about
Religion
which
distract
the
quiet
and
peace
of
Christendom
.
Let
us
now
briefly
consider
the
remedies
.
In
general
,
it
is
most
evident
,
that
all
endeavours
about
composing
these
differences
,
are
in
vain
and
to
no
purpose
,
and
that
we
cannot
entertain
the
least
ground
of
hope
,
to
attain
to
the
unity
of
the
primitive
Church
,
unless
all
parties
relax
their
censures
,
which
have
hitherto
excluded
love
and
charity
,
and
make
use
of
the
same
means
in
restoring
it
,
as
the
Christians
of
the
first
times
did
in
retaining
it
.
If
with
composed
and
settled
minds
and
affections
we
would
agree
in
this
excellent
method
,
we
have
no
reason
to
despair
,
but
that
the
pacifick
counsels
and
pious
endeavours
of
honest
men
,
who
labour
after
the
blessed
work
of
union
and
reconciliation
among
Christians
,
might
be
very
successful
.
Now
the
means
of
obtaining
this
Ecclestastical
peace
,
consist
in
the
removal
of
the
causes
above-mentioned
,
which
have
obstructed
it
,
and
are
these
.
Whereof
the
first
is
,
that
the
antient
,
simple
,
Christian
faith
,
as
it
is
contained
in
the
Scriptures
,
summed
up
in
the
Creeds
of
general
Councils
,
and
received
in
all
the
Churches
of
Christ
,
be
only
urged
as
necessary
to
be
believed
in
order
to
salvation
.
For
seeing
that
this
common
faith
was
made
use
of
by
the
Catholick
Church
,
as
a
tye
and
bond
of
holy
communion
;
seeing
the
Catechumens
,
after
praevious
instruction
,
upon
their
profession
of
this
faith
,
no
other
condition
being
exacted
,
were
admitted
to
baptism
,
and
had
a
right
to
partake
of
the
holy
mysteries
of
the
Eucharist
;
seeing
that
in
the
profession
of
the
same
faith
,
all
true
Christians
do
fully
agree
;
(
for
the
Socinians
,
who
go
about
to
overthrow
the
whole
frame
of
the
Christian
doctrine
,
by
arrogant
presumptions
of
false
reasonings
,
and
by
sophistical
arguments
,
and
by
their
blasphemies
against
Christ
,
the
eternal
Son
of
God
,
and
turn
the
grace
of
God
into
the
lasciviousness
of
humane
wit
,
and
deny
the
divinity
of
our
Saviour
,
are
not
to
be
honoured
with
this
name
:
)
why
should
not
the
foundation
and
ground-work
of
Ecclesiastical
peace
and
unity
,
after
the
example
and
practice
of
the
primitive
Church
,
be
laid
in
the
same
faith
?
with
what
pretense
of
reason
ought
any
opinion
,
after
the
first
preaching
and
establishment
of
the
faith
all
the
world
over
,
after
the
conveyance
of
it
down
to
so
many
ages
,
be
superadded
as
a
necessary
point
of
faith
,
which
was
unknown
to
all
Antiquity
?
by
what
right
can
such
a
number
of
articles
be
obtruded
upon
the
understandings
and
consciences
of
Christians
,
and
especially
such
,
as
have
been
invented
and
propagated
for
base
and
secular
interests
and
advantages
,
and
to
maintain
worldly
grandeur
and
reputation
?
That
Christians
do
so
little
agree
in
some
of
their
sentiments
about
Religion
,
as
if
there
were
not
the
same
rule
of
faith
,
equally
and
under
the
same
obligation
proposed
to
all
;
this
must
not
be
imputed
either
to
our
B.
Saviour
,
or
his
Apostles
,
or
to
the
nature
of
his
Religion
,
which
proposes
in
easy
terms
and
Propositions
,
to
the
most
ordinary
and
less
intelligent
Christians
,
enough
to
conduce
to
their
obtaining
eternal
salvation
,
but
to
certain
fiery
Zealots
,
who
venting
their
beloved
tenents
and
notions
for
oracles
,
impose
them
upon
others
under
direful
curses
and
Anathema's
.
What
fuller
proof
and
argument
can
there
be
of
this
surious
zeal
,
than
what
the
Romanists
are
guilty
of
,
in
inveighing
against
us
,
as
they
do
most
falsly
and
unjustly
,
for
not
receiving
several
tenents
,
which
are
but
of
a
few
ages
standing
,
and
which
are
destitute
of
all
authority
,
whether
of
Scripture
or
Antiquity
?
But
this
is
our
comfort
,
(
if
yet
it
be
any
comfort
to
persons
in
distress
,
to
have
any
to
share
with
them
in
it
)
we
shall
not
be
condemned
alone
:
but
at
the
same
time
they
condemn
us
,
they
must
draw
into
the
guilt
of
the
same
heresy
,
as
they
are
pleased
most
civilly
to
word
it
,
all
such
,
as
have
a
true
and
just
veneration
of
uncorrupt
Antiquity
:
and
for
this
reason
among
others
,
reject
the
Creed
of
Pope
Pius
the
fourth
.
But
if
we
are
to
think
well
of
the
condition
of
those
,
who
in
the
first
ages
preserved
the
integrity
and
purity
of
the
Christian
faith
with
Creeds
,
and
other
holy
writings
,
as
so
many
sacred
amulets
and
preservatives
against
the
infection
and
poison
of
heresy
truly
so
called
;
who
were
ambitious
of
dying
,
and
lost
their
lives
for
the
profession
of
that
faith
,
and
embraced
the
flames
rather
than
dissemble
or
disown
it
;
if
the
primitive
Saints
and
Martyrs
be
happy
and
blessed
;
we
need
not
fear
the
noise
of
their
thunder
,
which
can
do
no
execution
upon
us
,
and
which
are
meer
bug-bears
to
affright
persons
of
weak
and
childish
phansies
:
we
tread
in
the
steps
of
those
holy
Saints
and
Martyrs
;
we
are
safe
,
we
are
secure
;
provided
we
copy
out
their
lives
,
and
imitate
those
glorious
examples
they
have
set
up
of
consummate
piety
as
well
as
profess
the
same
faith
.
Wherever
the
Christians
were
dispersed
,
whether
in
the
Patriarchate
of
Rome
,
or
Alexandria
,
or
any
other
;
by
virtue
of
this
Profession
of
faith
,
they
were
received
into
communion
and
admitted
to
the
common
rights
of
Religion
,
not
denying
or
envying
to
each
other
salvation
in
the
world
to
come
,
but
by
joint
exercises
of
devotion
mutually
promoting
and
advancing
it
:
nay
their
,
charity
was
so
great
,
that
notwithstanding
the
most
unchristian
censures
and
unjust
Schism
of
the
Donatists
,
they
lookt
upon
them
as
Brethren
still
,
though
horribly
perverted
by
a
false
and
ignorant
zeal
to
make
a
separation
from
them
;
nay
they
did
not
pass
a
damnatory
sentence
upon
a
the
Arians
,
nor
altogether
despair
of
their
s●●●ation
,
but
left
them
to
stand
or
fall
to
their
own
Master
.
2.
Upon
and
after
a
ready
acknowledgment
of
the
articles
of
faith
,
without
which
no
one
can
pretend
to
be
a
Christian
,
let
a
liberty
of
judging
in
other
less
material
points
of
doctrine
be
allowed
and
indulged
:
for
variety
of
opinions
does
no
more
dissolve
the
unity
of
faith
,
than
variety
of
rites
and
ceremonies
.
How
had
that
wide
wound
,
which
schism
has
made
in
the
body
of
the
Church
,
been
long
since
closed
and
perfectly
healed
,
if
this
soveraign
medicine
had
been
applyed
,
and
if
they
had
not
proceeded
so
dogmatically
and
boldly
,
by
confessions
of
faith
,
and
by
new
and
unheard
of
canons
to
determine
points
uncertain
and
doubtful
!
by
which
way
of
procedure
the
minds
of
Christians
are
oppressed
,
and
the
doctrine
of
faith
rendred
perplext
and
obscure
by
scholastick
subtilties
and
niceties
.
It
were
to
be
wisht
indeed
,
that
all
Christians
,
and
especially
those
,
who
,
for
most
just
and
weighty
and
indispensable
reasons
and
motives
,
have
relinquished
the
Roman
communion
,
could
agree
in
a
general
systeme
of
Theological
opinions
:
but
because
this
is
not
to
be
hoped
for
,
considering
the
different
apprehensions
,
tempers
,
inclinations
,
interests
,
judgments
,
way
of
education
,
method
of
study
and
arguing
,
and
interpreting
scripture
,
and
consequently
there
not
being
the
same
light
of
knowledge
,
the
same
force
and
sharpness
of
wit
and
understanding
,
the
same
industry
and
impartiality
;
why
should
we
not
for
peace
and
quiet
sake
bear
with
others
,
who
,
though
they
may
differ
from
us
in
some
particulars
,
agree
with
us
in
fundamentals
,
as
they
are
contained
in
easy
texts
of
Scripture
,
and
in
the
ancient
Creeds
,
with
all
Christian
charity
,
and
compassion
,
and
moderation
?
Let
that
evil
custom
of
reviling
,
which
is
almost
become
habitual
and
natural
,
and
that
odious
calling
of
names
and
branding
private
notions
with
ill
characters
,
if
they
may
admit
of
a
more
favourable
interpretation
,
without
prejudice
to
the
essential
truths
of
the
Gospel
,
for
ever
cease
,
and
be
totally
laid
aside
.
For
by
this
mutual
indulgence
and
condescension
,
which
all
Lovers
of
peace
cannot
but
acknowledge
to
be
most
fit
and
equitable
,
there
is
no
one
whatever
,
be
his
capacity
never
so
mean
and
dull
,
but
he
will
foresee
and
presage
,
that
a
mighty
benefit
would
redound
to
Christendom
,
and
a
happy
stop
would
be
put
to
the
disorders
and
confusions
of
it
.
3.
Let
the
antient
canons
about
Church-government
be
restored
to
their
full
vigour
,
and
every
National
Church
enjoy
its
just
rights
,
and
the
Bishop
of
Rome
be
reduced
to
his
original
jurisdiction
,
and
all
pretensions
to
an
Oecumenical
power
for
ever
be
abolished
and
annulled
.
For
the
Romanists
,
in
the
height
of
all
their
pride
and
usurpations
,
which
have
violated
the
peace
of
the
Church
,
of
which
they
cannot
but
be
convinced
in
their
consciences
,
may
remember
,
that
communion
with
their
Church
was
never
held
necessary
,
but
onely
,
as
it
was
a
part
,
and
branch
,
and
member
of
the
Catholick
Church
.
Besides
,
who
can
be
ignorant
of
the
great
disputes
maintained
with
the
See
of
Rome
in
antient
and
latter
times
,
by
the
Christians
of
other
communions
,
in
defense
of
their
rights
?
The
Churches
,
both
in
the
East
and
South
,
divided
into
several
Patriarchates
and
Bishopricks
,
vindicated
their
privileges
,
which
they
enjoyed
according
to
the
decrees
of
the
Council
of
Nice
,
in
their
several
limits
and
districts
.
The
title
of
Universal
Bishop
was
not
then
known
or
pretended
to
:
no
one
had
either
the
vanity
or
the
ambition
to
usurp
such
an
unlimited
power
.
This
honour
was
reserved
for
Pope
Boniface
the
third
,
and
his
Successors
,
as
if
all
the
world
hence
forward
were
to
be
included
within
the
walls
or
Pomoeria
of
the
city
of
Rome
.
The
world
was
astonished
at
this
procedure
,
and
could
not
with
any
patience
admit
and
suffer
so
great
an
imposition
.
Christian
Carthage
despised
the
insults
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
as
much
as
their
Heathen
Ancestors
did
the
Senate
:
and
although
Constantinople
,
unwillingly
enough
,
allowed
the
honour
of
the
first
,
and
chief
See
to
Rome
,
yet
it
ever
maintained
its
own
liberty
:
and
though
now
horribly
oppressed
and
sadly
groaning
under
Turkish
tyranny
,
is
not
so
forgetful
of
its
ancient
honour
,
as
basely
to
submit
to
the
claims
of
Rome
.
They
would
very
willingly
retain
communion
with
her
,
and
with
all
the
branches
of
the
Catholick
Church
,
if
the
hinderances
of
that
communion
were
once
removed
,
and
that
pretended
universal
authority
laid
aside
:
in
which
holy
desire
we
join
with
them
.
Let
the
Bishop
of
Rome
be
the
first
of
that
order
;
provided
,
that
he
be
not
lookt
upon
,
as
the
sole
universal
Bishop
;
and
that
all
others
be
deemed
to
be
,
as
indeed
they
are
,
by
the
constitution
of
Christ
and
his
Apostles
,
independent
,
and
not
his
Vicars
and
Deputies
:
and
provided
also
,
that
their
rights
,
which
rely
upon
the
same
Ecclesiastical
laws
,
be
reserved
to
them
in
their
full
and
just
extent
;
and
that
the
decrees
of
the
Roman
Court
be
not
imposed
upon
the
world
with
a
non
obstante
to
Apostolical
constitutions
;
and
that
its
jurisdiction
be
contained
within
the
limits
of
the
antient
Canons
.
If
this
bar
were
removed
,
a
way
would
quickly
be
opened
to
let
peace
into
the
most
divided
parts
of
Christendom
.
This
all
good
Christians
,
all
but
such
worldly-minded
men
,
whose
interest
it
is
to
keep
up
these
differences
,
earnestly
wish
,
sigh
,
and
pray
for
,
and
would
readily
unite
upon
these
honest
and
just
conditions
,
if
truths
necessary
to
salvation
were
only
proposed
to
be
believed
,
according
to
the
antient
forms
;
if
all
fiery
censures
and
excommunications
were
utterly
condemned
and
abolished
;
and
if
superstition
were
removed
from
the
service
of
God
,
and
the
publick
offices
of
Religion
.
Unless
this
be
done
,
we
must
,
as
in
the
presence
of
God
,
and
his
holy
Angels
,
and
all
mankind
,
lay
the
schism
at
the
Romanists
door
,
and
wholly
impute
it
to
them
,
that
the
Catholick
Church
does
not
enjoy
the
great
blessing
of
Ecclesiastical
peace
.
In
the
mean
while
,
we
of
the
Church
of
England
,
are
very
ready
to
admit
of
any
conditions
of
obtaining
this
most
blessed
and
glorious
end
,
provided
that
by
them
the
peace
of
our
consciences
be
not
violated
and
disturbed
;
that
they
do
not
contradict
and
thwart
the
principles
and
analogy
of
faith
;
that
the
Scripture
,
and
its
best
and
most
genuine
interpreter
,
Antiquity
,
be
admitted
to
have
the
highest
and
only
lawful
authority
in
determining
controversies
of
faith
;
that
no
prejudice
be
done
to
Ecclesiastical
Government
;
and
lastly
,
that
all
things
be
tryed
by
the
rules
and
canons
and
customs
,
which
were
in
use
in
the
first
ages
of
Christianity
,
by
which
the
Catholick
Church
was
then
governed
.
O
happy
,
O
blessed
,
O
glorious
day
,
in
which
all
these
confusions
,
which
no
good
man
can
think
of
without
great
disorder
of
mind
,
shall
be
removed
,
and
all
,
who
worship
the
same
crucified
Saviour
,
shall
unite
in
brotherly
love
,
charity
,
and
communion
!
But
the
wicked
lives
of
Christians
,
and
base
secular
interest
will
not
permit
us
to
expect
so
great
a
blessing
.
We
must
first
endeavour
to
restore
the
piety
,
the
strictness
,
the
humility
,
the
disinterestedness
of
the
antient
Christians
,
before
we
can
pretend
to
the
same
hearty
unity
.
But
alas
!
we
degenerate
from
their
examples
:
religion
is
no
longer
lookt
upon
as
a
rule
and
institution
of
life
and
manners
,
but
is
turned
into
an
art
of
disputing
,
and
our
vices
alienate
our
minds
from
all
thoughts
and
designs
of
union
:
pride
,
and
malice
,
and
naughty
affections
,
and
love
of
worldly
splendor
and
greatness
shut
out
all
hope
of
peace
.
It
must
be
the
work
of
Almighty
God
,
and
the
wonderful
effect
of
his
Providence
and
grace
,
to
dispose
the
hearts
of
the
Christian
Princes
,
and
great
Ecclesiasticks
of
the
Roman
Communion
,
to
set
upon
this
great
design
of
reforming
in
order
to
a
perfect
union
and
agreement
:
and
I
doubt
not
,
but
thousands
of
that
communion
,
especially
in
the
Gallican
Church
,
where
they
have
set
bounds
to
the
exorbitant
power
of
the
Pope
by
their
late
decrees
,
in
compliance
with
the
antient
canons
,
and
in
vindication
of
their
own
privileges
,
and
where
they
begin
to
be
ashamed
of
several
gross
errors
,
which
have
hitherto
passed
for
good
,
wholsome
,
Catholick
doctrine
,
as
appears
by
their
new
Expositions
,
and
Interpretations
,
and
Catechisms
,
long
to
see
this
happily
effected
:
for
which
purpose
it
becomes
us
all
,
to
put
up
incessant
prayers
to
God
,
that
all
,
who
call
,
and
own
,
and
profess
themselves
Christians
,
may
remember
from
whence
they
are
fallen
and
repent
,
and
ever
after
exercise
themselves
in
the
practices
of
all
Christian
virtues
,
and
in
the
acknowledging
of
the
truth
,
which
is
after
godliness
,
that
laying
aside
all
vain
jangling
about
lesser
matters
,
they
may
follow
after
things
,
which
make
for
peace
and
mutual
edification
,
and
that
being
guided
and
governed
by
the
good
spirit
of
God
,
they
may
be
led
into
the
way
of
truth
,
and
hold
the
faith
,
the
truly
Christian
,
the
truly
Apostolical
,
the
truly
Catholick
faith
,
in
unity
of
spirit
,
in
the
bond
of
peace
,
and
in
righteousness
of
life
.
May
the
God
of
all
mercy
and
comfort
at
last
restore
unity
to
his
Church
,
now
labouring
under
grievous
distractions
,
for
the
merits
and
intercession
of
our
blessed
Lord
and
Saviour
Jesus
Christ.
Amen
.
FINIS
.
ERRATA
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PAge
16.
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Academia
Cantabrigiensi
Junii
11.
An.
1687.
Pro
Gradû
Baccalaur
.
in
S.
Theologia
.
Ubi
Vindicatur
Vera
&
Valida
Cleri
Anglicani
,
ineunte
Reformatione
,
Ordinatio
.
Cui
accessit
Concio
habita
Julii
3.
1687.
De
Canonicâ
Cleri
Anglicani
Ordinatione
,
Latinè
reddita
&
aucta
.
A
T.
Browne
,
S.
T.
B.
Coll.
D.
Joh.
Evang.
Soc.
Annexum
est
Instrumentum
Consecrationis
Matth.
Parker
Archiepiscopi
Cantuariensis
ex
MS.
C.
C.
C.
Cant.
The
State
of
the
Church
of
Rome
when
the
Reformation
began
,
as
it
appears
by
the
Advices
givento
Paul
III.
and
Julius
III.
by
Creatures
of
their
Own.
With
a
Preface
leading
to
the
Matter
of
the
Book
.
Remarks
upon
the
Reflections
of
the
Author
of
Popery
Misrepresented
,
&c.
on
his
Answerer
,
particularly
as
to
the
Deposing
Doctrine
?
In
a
Letter
to
the
Author
of
the
Reflections
.
Together
with
some
few
Animadversions
on
the
same
Author's
Vindication
of
his
Reflections
.
Jacobi
Usserii
Archiepiscopi
Armachani
,
Opuscula
Duo
,
Nunc
primùm
Latinè
Edita
:
Quorum
alterum
est
de
Episcoporum
,
Et
Metropolitanorum
Origine
:
Alterum
De
Asia
Proconsulari
.
Accessit
Veteris
Ecclesiae
Gubernatio
Patriarchalis
,
Ab
E.
B.
Descripta
.
Interprete
R.
R.
E.
B.
P.
Praetereà
accedit
Appendix
,
De
Antiquâ
Ecclesiae
Britannicae
Libertate
,
&
Privilegiis
,
Miracles
Work
's
above
and
contrary
to
Nature
;
Or
,
an
Answer
to
a
late
Translation
out
of
Spinoza
'
s
Tractatus
Theologico-Politicus
,
Mr.
Hobb
'
s
Leviathan
,
&c.
Published
to
undermine
the
Truth
and
Authority
of
Miracles
,
Scripture
,
and
Religion
,
in
a
Treatise
Entituled
Miracles
no
Violation
of
the
Laws
of
Nature
.
The
Difference
between
the
Present
and
Future
State
of
our
Bodies
considered
in
a
Sermon
,
by
Jeremy
Collier
,
M.
A.
The
Life
of
St.
Mary
Magdalene
of
Pazzi
,
a
Carmelite
Nunn
.
Newly
translated
out
of
Italian
by
the
Reverend
Father
Lezin
de
Sainte
Scholastique
,
Provincial
of
the
Reformed
Carmelites
of
Touraine
.
At
Paris
,
For
Sebast.
Cramoisy
in
St.
James
'
s
Street
,
at
the
Sign
of
Fame
.
1670.
And
now
done
out
of
French
:
With
a
preface
concerning
the
nature
,
causes
,
concomitants
,
and
consequences
of
Ecstasy
and
Rapture
,
and
a
brief
discourse
added
about
discerning
and
trying
the
Spirits
,
whether
they
be
of
God.
The
Vanity
of
all
Pretences
for
Tolleration
,
wherein
the
late
Pleas
for
Tolleration
are
fully
Answered
;
and
the
popular
Arguments
drawn
from
the
Practice
of
the
United
Netherlands
are
stated
at
large
,
and
shown
to
be
weak
,
fallacious
&
insufficient
.
The
Duty
of
Servants
,
containing
First
,
Their
Preparation
for
,
and
choice
of
a
Service
.
Secondly
,
Their
Duty
in
Service
,
Together
with
Prayers
suited
to
each
Duty
.
To
this
is
added
a
Discourse
of
the
Sacrament
suited
peculiarly
to
Servants
.
By
the
Author
of
Practical
Christianity
.
The
History
of
the
Original
and
Progress
of
Ecclesiastical
Revenues
:
Wherein
is
handled
according
to
the
Laws
,
both
Ancient
and
Modern
,
whatsoever
concerns
matters
Beneficial
,
the
Regale
,
Investitures
,
Nominations
,
and
other
Rights
attributed
to
Princes
.
Written
in
French
by
a
Learned
Priest
,
and
now
done
into
English.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A60563-e170
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Commonitor
.
cap.
32.
a
V.
Salvian
.
de
gubernat
.
Dei
lib.
5.
p.
100.
ex
editione
Baluzii
.