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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43648	An apology for the new separation in a letter to Dr. John Sharpe, Archbishop of York, occasioned by his farewell-sermon, preached on the 28th of June, at St. Giles's in the Fields.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1691 (1691)	Wing H1841; ESTC R12652	21,953	20

AN APOLOGY FOR THE New Separation In a LETTER to Dr. John Sharpe Archbishop of YORK OCCASIONED By his Farewell-Sermon preached on the 28th of June at St. Giles's in the Fields MALACHI 11.7 8 9. The Priest's Lips should keep Knowledge and they should seek the Law at his Mouth for he is the Messenger of the Lord of Hosts But ye have departed out of the Way ye have caused many to stumble at the Law ye have corrupted the Covenant of Levi saith the Lord of Hosts Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the People according at ye have not kept my ways but have been partial in the Law LONDON Printed in the Year MDCXCI To the Gentlemen of the Vestry of St. Giles's in the Fields SIRS I Here present you with some Reflections upon the Arch-Bishop of York's Farewel-Sermon which his Grace tells us he Published at your Request They are written in form of Letter to him and as I present them to you with as much Respect and in as much Christian Charity as he I believe presented the Sermon so I hope you will read them with as much Candour and examine impartially without any byass to Persons or Causes which is in the Right and whether the Things which you took upon his Grace's Authority be so or no. I must do him the Justice to acknowledge That he is an eminent Person in his Profession as well as in that station which he now holds in the Church and that he deserves that Esteem and Veneration which you have for him But then I must tell you That the Authority of no single Man or number of Men how eminent or great soever ought to signifie any thing with Church of England Men against the Authority of the Church I have seen her Articles and Homilies in many of the London-Vestries and if they be in yours I desire you to make them the Test of my Lord's Sermon and this Answer to it which I desire may be approved or rejected by you as it happens to prove by that Test See I pray you Gentlemen if you can find any thing in them to countenance transferring Allegiance from a living and claiming Legal King or daily Praying for his destruction See if you can find any thing in them that will justifie his Graces Exposition of 1 Tim. 11.1 2. or of Submitting or Praying for the Powers in being without distinction or regard to Titles which he says Is the very Doctrine of the Church of England Pag. 3. If it be you may surely easily find it but if you cannot find it or any thing like it then you may be sure it is not the the Doctrine of the Church though it may be the Doctrine Preach'd of late in the Churches and then you will have occasion to follow the Apostle's advice which is not to have the Persons of Men in Admiration and to remember what our Lord often inculcated to his Disciples to beware whom and how they heard There are some times in which his advice is more needful than others and this I think is such a time when our Church-men are divided in their Practice and about some practical Points and whether the greater or smaller number is in the Right you will never be able judge though it concerns your Souls to judge aright unless you will hear what both say There are Men of equal Eminence and Learning on both sides and if one side can pretend the Advantage Numbers the other can urge against it the interest of saving and getting more to depretiate the Number and Authority of their Examples together with a multiform variety of most different Opinions and Principles among them one of them complying in one sense and upon one Principle and another upon another This Book of mine is a short and summary Apology for the little suffering Number against the Arguments and Accusations of the Arch-Bishop who is now at the head of the other Party and if it can prevail with you to look more narrowly into the Controversie in which you have engaged his Grace I shall think my self sufficiently recompenced for my little Pains in Writing of it and in Hopes that you or some of you who have most leisure and ingenuity will do so I Subscribe in all Sincerity Gentlemen Your most Faithful and Humble Servant AN APOLOGY FOR THE New Separation MY LORD I Once had the Happiness to hear you preach an excellent Sermon in which you spoke many excellent things that were true and just with all that serious Air and Authority that could become a sincere Preacher I often had occasion since to wish it had been put in Print it was preached at St. Margaret's Westminster on the 30th of January was two years before the Gentlemen of the Convention and remembring the excellent Discourse you then made and pressed upon the Consciences of the Conventioners I had a great Desire and Curiosity to read your late fare-well Sermon to see if you stood firm in these times of Defection to your former Principles But to be plain and serious with you I find you so altered like many of your Brethren from your self that though Dr. Sharpe is still the same Person yet I do not find that the Dead of Norwich and the Archbishop are the same Man For then my Lord you preach'd with great appearance of Zeal and Sincerity against the resisting and deposing Doctrines for which you had the Honour to be censured by many of the House but now in the very Phrase and Language of those Authors who have taught the World those damnable Doctrines Page 30 you tell us that we must be more concerned for our Countrey and Nation than the Interest of any single Man in it A Saying certainly in the sense you must needs mean it fitter for a Bishop of the Romish than the English Church which conformably to our Laws and the eternal Reasons of them teacheth her Children That the Interest of the People is wrapt up with the Safety and Interest of the Prince and that they can never be happy without him This our Ancestors have often felt and confessed upon Experience particularly Mr. Pryn in his Preface to Cotton's Abridgment to whose Words I refer you But you my Lord contrary to all Law Reason and Experience have taught the People in this Sermon to set up a separate and distinct Interest against that of the Prince and by consequence to resist or depose him to turn or keep him out of his Kingdom be he who he will even the present as well as any of our former Kings You cannot but know that there are a party of Men among us who are more concerned for another Interest than the Interest of the King I mean the Comman wealthsmen and they thinking that Interest which I assure you is a growing Interest the Interest of their Countrey they may upon your Principles do as much for his Majesty as the Pretenders of Publick Good in former