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Show An Addrefs to Proteftants. VoL. 1. 788 1 B 1 aviour ·without which Virtues, doubtlers 679 ' g,et a faber, modeft, baJhfu B e 1 here ~e mull attemivety confider, both, ~ ' no good can be effetl"e · J ~t .t to the Judgment of the Congregation, Part ll. ' how far a Man ought to u mtunted a Troubler of the Church. Veri· sea. 5· ' and who m~y defervedly be accfar to ive way, 35 that after l have al- ' ly, I concetve a M:tn r,ug~t fo y Opinfon, if yet the rcft !hall n~t allow ' ledged what I had to ah 0~ mive over defending of it, and ce:tfe .ro be ' of my Judgmenr, I aug t t &on concerning the fame: But I ought not ' troubtefOme to the Co£~reg~u 1 have erred nor w deprecate :~ny faulr, ' to be compelled to con~ s ftt aJ that I have' erred for fo 1 fhould fin a· ' while I do nor yet u; er. 3 ~ Troubler of the church, that will not, fo ' gainft God. He there ffir~ I}uhmit to th. e Judgment of the Church, but ' far as we have expre fc e • . but efpecially that Man who would. exaCt ' goeth on to be troubl_e orne 'ou ht not to do :, viz. to recant, bemg not ' of another that ~ht.ch h'£ ro~ But thofe Men are commonly reputed ' perf waded that he IS In an r · efufe to ratifie whatever fl1ll\ any Ways • Troubfers of the Churc~ whho r Again in this Place it may reafonably ' fall out of the Pafiors out s.that a Matter hath been once or twice ' be demanded, whet~r, 'k_~1~nwing the Judgment of the Congregation, ' debated, and fome . 3 ~· C troverfie he ought to be heard, or en· ' would again reduce It tnto on aner fo'r determined: But of this we • joyned Silence, and take the ~enientl di{i ute. That which remains 'fhall in another Place moriucon 'th Gal b/daily Prayers, to grant tha t ' therefore, is, thh:J.t ij~ w;etbi~ r~foveraiin and faving Liberty, fo profit~' we may have t 6 e 0 b y reap Abundance of Frutt, ' ble to the Church, and t~t thede bre~k ~:d tame our Spirits with his ' An~.that he would, to t a.t en nd entle: and not fuffer, what he hath ' SpmtJ and rende(: thfim mt.ld a anlEftabliOlmenr of his Church, to beJ ' ordained for the fon r~apton fl efs of our Wits and Minds, turned to '' tbhye t hMe. Sn~bbornn:Ds aftn a· erv~~~reof. With much more to the fatl)e 1fchtef and e ru to~ Purpofe, too larf;e dto b~ he~e/A~~l~~Y for doing fo, needlefs; His whole What I have cue , ma cs 1 f S ;an•s Stratagems to caufe and keep Book is a moft accurate. ~ccount o ·ln a firft Place ~ith the moft Chriup Divifions among Chriflta[t {· d~fT_vt e~ He was an [ralialf of excellent ftian Wtitersfince the Apo1 Eodtca ~~s 'banilht about Luther's Time for NJtural and Supernatura n ow men ' the Gofpe1. . f, r. 1, f the Judgment of that great Man of, our Let us now tn orm our £' ;s oin his Treatife of the Power of the Keys. '1· Hl.lu, Of own Counny J.J!alu of vizol1' To your fecond Query, Wbetfgr the K_eys the Keys~pag Upon the Matter 1b h~nd.'n/ · ly? The anfwer is in no cafe hard to gt~e, 170. 171,172 ' were confined to I e. P0!' er ont · b da gerous. for there U a Generauon 113• ' it may p~rc~an~, JJ !h~Ct~g~' th~y c~U tbem,' who impropriare tbe Kqs 'of Mcnn~/,e or J !dbevery angry to umferftand,tbatotbersfJom ' unto tlum;eJVt:s, f'Jt _wou . bt unto them. To your Quefiion then, uo ~ tbemfe!vts fhoul c azm a. ng . d h K f om the MoUfh of our SJ' d?ubt but originallyfitone rtc~t~~ne tdid o;yesve: could manage them with ' vtour, but r~e Apo tl S \:r.Jo'r as the Apoftles did, who were, abo\'e all : rhaft Aut~oryy .afued ~th aU Things fitting fo great a Work. Fon~hered , mo 0~%~ri:_ t~~~timate, . that t~e preaching Miffion was commun:c~tdo ' ~~ ~thers, as' the feve~tfy two Dtf~tpl~~a:~~~c~e~ss t~f ~~eoig~s~p~l0were ' but rnifiake your felf, l you conc~Ive . h M fter of Jefus ; ~~,~~~t~~~S"~~n~~£;~; ~,t~~~:t,~~~~~i~~~~~~dJL~o~;; , k it not To be the pnme Repotters o t Is, wa h they new ;he A ofiles. Yet were they not fo implned, as t at : iipa{hd\~lybet~onfin'lto the~. Every one that heard anddrcceJi\~g ~~~ t ley ou . D 8: . from them fof!lr forth al be bll un t:rp an ', ~ig~t obf t~;,~lVoftngLV~ b~de now the KeJr of tbe Kingdom of Hc.zvcn contd· ~ mg m t e fvaJs :J 1 , ~ mJtte VoL. I. An Addrefs to Protejlants. ]89 : mitttd to bit Pow~r! both for his- Otl}n and oi!Jtrt ufe. Every one, of 1679. i mbdt Sr~u or Condmonfoever, that barb anyoccnjion offered him, tofcrvt ~ anoJ.ber JR the Ways of Lifo, Clergy, or LJy, Male or Female whatever he PJrt 11 : ~e, hath the.fr Keyr, no/ rmly forbimfelf. but for rbe Benefit o} others. For SeCt, 5.' , If Natural Goo_dnefs teach every ~1an, Lumrn de Lumir.e, Errami c01111• ter f!!Orlflrare VIam, &c. then how much more doth Chriftian Goodnefs ; requue of every. one, to his Ability, to be a Light to thofe who fit in Darknefs, and duca their fteps, who mofi: dangerouflt miftake their : Way?. T~ [ave'! _Soul, every Man iss Priefl. To whom I pray you, is , that fa1d tn LevitiCIII, ThoN.fhait not foe tby Brother Sin, butjhalt reprove, , ttndfave 1hy Brother? And 1f rhe Law binds :1. Man, when he faw his E' ~emte.s Ca~tel to itray, to pur them in their Way; How nmch more doth , It obhge him to do. the li.ke for t.hc Man himfel~> See you nor how rbe , whole World ~onfpttes WHh me 10 the fame Opmien? Doth nor every , Father teach h1s Son,. eve.ry M_afier his Servapr; ~\'ery Man his Friend? How many of the Latty tn thts Age, and from ttme ro time in all Ages : hav~ by writing for t~e publick good, propagated the Gofpel of Cbrift: as 1f fame fecret Infi:mct of Nature had put into Men's Minds thus to • do, EYe. • To rh!s let me add his Senfe of the Force of the Fathers Authorit1 in the Decifion of Controverfies, and how far the Anciems whether Fathers or Councils, ought to be interefted in the Debates of rh.ere Times which may not be improper to the prefent fubjea, hecaufe not a few build upon their Bottom, the Clergy ro be fure, that pretend to direct the reft. 'You fball find (fays he) that all Scbifms have crepr into the Church • by one of thefe three Ways; either ¥con Matter of Faa, or Matter of !/.H.Jt~ ; Opinion, or Point .of _Ambiti~n. or the firft; I call th?t Matter of ~h~~~p. 201 Fact, when fomethmg IS requued to be done by us, whtch either we 202 :zo3 204 : know ?r ftrongly !ilfpe8: to be unlaw~ul; ~o .the firft nora6le Scbifm, ' ' of whtch we read, m the Church, comamed In It Matter of Faa; For it ' being, upon Error, taken for neceffary that an E'afler muft be kept:, and ' upon worfe than Error, if I may fo fpeak, (for it was no lefs than a ' Point of ]udaifm, forced upon the Church upon worfe than .Error. I ; [ay) thought further neceffJry, that the ground for the Time of our keep~ 1ng that Feaft, mnft he the Rule left by Moftr to the 7twr; there Jrofe ' a ftout Queftion, Wbetbtr we were to Cclt:hrate wi1b tbe Jews, on tbe [oNr' teentb Moon, or I he Sunday foUowing? This Matter, though moft unne ... ' ceffary, moll \'ain, yet caufed as great a Combu ll:ion, as ever was in the ' Church, The Weft fcparating and refufing Communion with the Eaft, ' for many Years together. In this FantalticJl Hurry, I cannot fee, but ' a1l the World were Schifmaticks: Neither can any Thing excufe them ' from rhat Imputation; excepting only this, that we charitably fuppofe ' that all Parries, out of Confcience, did what they did. ' A Thing which befel them through the Ignorance of their Guider, for ' 1 will not fny their Malice, and tbat through the jufl }udg11Unt o/God, be' caufe tbroNgb S!o1h ttnd Blind Obeditnct, .Mtn examiheJ 'not 1he Thing4 ' which tbq were taught, but lille Bea.fts- of Burden, Jatiently cokched dttwll, ' 4ml indifferently underwent wharfoever their SJJperzors laid upon them. By ' the Way, by this you may plainly fee the Danger of our Appeal unto An· ' tiquity, for Refolution in Contravened Points of Faith, and how fmaJI ' Relief we are to ex~a from rhence. For if the Diferetion of the cbirf41 ' Guides and Dire!lorl of the Church, did in .a Point Jo trivial, fo incon./i• ' derable, fo mainly fail them, m not tofte tbt Truth in a SNhjrO, n·htrein ' it is the grearejl Marvtl bow they could avoid the Sight of it; ca.'! _roe, 1 wit bout Imp11ta.tion of ex1ream Grofnefr tlltd FoUy, tbinll fo Poor ~pm1ed ' Perfoni, competent Judges of the ~~~eflto;u now on Foot, bttw1xt the 1 Cb11rcbu? PJrdon mel I know nor what Temptation drew' that Note , too~ r:h~re Two wonhy .Men will come off, I can't tell: They have veritured fairly, and yet I think their Cafe nor hazardous at a-ll. You :h~: |