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A36831 An appeal of all the non-conformists in England to God and all the Protestants of Europe in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King to which is added a sober and unpassionate reply to the author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin / by Dr. Lewis Du Moulin ... Du Moulin, Lewis, 1606-1680. 1681 (1681) Wing D2530; ESTC R35666 14,500 36

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the words of a false and hypocritical heart when they are spoken by the Non-Conformists AS for the down-right Thames-Street way of Railing against me which I am sure none of my Friends would use and all others of any improved Civility or good Manners do nauscate and abhor but pure Streams cannot flow from an impure Fountain and so I am satisfied I do not value them nor can they prejudice any but the persons from whom they issue they that will be flinging up dirt do manifestly show themselves of a dirty humour and much good may do them whosoever they are with such their beloved Nastiness but methinks they are greatly like those of the Lawyer whom Suetonius speaks of that thought he had very solidly basfled and overthrown the cause of his Adversary because his Lawyer had committed a gross Soloecisme in his Plea All the Arguments of that Insignificant Rayler that has drawn the Lively Picture of Lewis du Moulin as he thinks to the worst and beastliest advantage and it may be therefore conceals his Name because he is ashamed to own the ugliness of his daubing I say all the Arguments of that Insignificant Railer resemble those of that Oratour who would needs have the cause of Vatinius to be the worst because he had crooked Leggs or are like to Origen's Enemies who finding themselves unable to refute those pretended errors thought to be sure they should acquit themselves bravely by running him down with the Judgments that other people made of his Person and Writings for without ever entring into the merits of the cause he alledges Mounsieur Daille and Mr. Baxter speaking to my disadvantage He might also if it had but once come into his unthinking but rash head have added the Testimony of Dr. Stillingfleet who calls me Wretch and Wicked and blackens me after a strange and unworthy manner only because I have said of him and I believe did I but sincerely appeal to his Conscience it could not upbraid me with a lye that the Judgment which he makes at this day of the Church of England when it lavishly pours upon him I know not how many great Ecclesiastical Preferments is quite contrary to that Opinion he was of concerning it about Twenty Years ago when he was not so well provided and lined with them Except he be somewhat nettled because I have so plainly laid open the weakness of his Argument to make out the unreasonableness of the Non-Conformists for denying viz That all things that are not expresly forbidden in the Word of God are sufficient to justifie those who submit to them when th● Command of the Magistrate intervenes Such great men as He and as Mounsieur Daille was are oftentimes like to Rivers that raise themselves to so vast a height that they overflow their Banks and the Bounds of decent moderation such was once Mounsieur Daille when he flew out against me in such violent heats for having taken it ill because he unhandsomely and ungenerously treated my Father AS to what this Author of the Lively Picture c. sayes of Mr. Baxter and of the sinister Judgment he makes of me he is much gone astray like a lost Sheep from the truth for not many years ago did this same Mr. Baxter dedicate a Book to me in these words TO MY LEARNED SINCERE AND WORTHY FRIEND Lewis du Moulin To be short The way which the Author of the Lively Picture takes to expose a Person to the Laughter and Scorn of all the World and to make him pass for an Ignorant Noddy-peeks a Lyer and a most impertinent Scribler who knows neither what he sayes nor what he writes very well ought not to be that of alledging the Judgment which such Persons as Mounsieur Daille and the Dean of Windsor make of him but he should if he had been able have quoted those Writings and Sentences wherein he might convince the World that they were the product of a man that had neither Brains to make a Judgment nor Learning nor Stile nor that had any thing of truth in him AS to the CELEVSMA of which he makes me the Author I absolutely deny it but If I were so I might what he will never have any occasion to do without vanity boast That I had made one of the best Pieces that ever had yet been extant in the World I mean in the behalf of the Non-Conformists and where there is neither Truth nor Judgment nor Learning nor good Language nor any thing else wanting that is requisite to give a Book applause If I was of his humour I might wire-draw upon him substantially far beyond his length but I had rather speak a great deal of truth in a few pithy words than to be like him scandalously false tedious and railing and never know in reason when to come to a FINIS The Reader is desired to take notice That the Author since the printing of the Appeal would needs have this added as a Supplement to it NOTE that When they that are loose in their profession of Christianity do persecute those that outwardly and formally prosess it with great Exactness without any certain knowledg whether or no the inward disposition and sincerity be answerable they have certainly a secret hatred to all Religion and Piety and wish that there were neither a God nor a Life to come nor an Immortality of the Soul for were they sure that none of these were they would be induced rather to pity and commiserate these strict professors than hate and persecute them To this I may add that the persecuting pirit of those Men that either in pretence or in reality do profess an exact practise of Piety and Devotion comes from a secret kind of Atheisme and Aversion to all manner of Religion when the purest is the greatest Eye-sore to such Spirits as is so much the more apparent and manifest by how much it is evident that they would not be seen to act against Profaneness debauched courses Drunkenness or Popery because those disorderly ways and courses have a great Sympothy and agreeableness with the profane spirits of the World Dr. Sands first Bishop of London and afterwards Arch-Bishop of York was in his life-time so much for Tolleration and a dispensation of Rigour and Subscription that he would needs have it set down in his Will He also expressed in the same Will that the intention of the first Reformers was to suite and accommodate the Reformation to the posture of things at that present time when Papists were numerous and the Protestants but few and that it was not possible then to make a thorow Reformation There may be Laws to keep men out of the Church but there are none to compel them in The Violent pressing of Ceremonies hath been I humbly conceive a great hindrance to many in their embracing of them Men fearing the intention therin to be far worse than really they are and therefore they abhor them We are not to communicate with a persecuting Church how Orthodox soever it be in Faith Martyn the Bishop of Tours would not communicate with Orthodox Men that persecuted HERETICKS much more would he have refused to communicate with those that persecute good men The People of Constantinople refused to communicate with the Expellers of Chyrsostome and with the Bishop placed by Endoxia FINIS * Mr. Baxter's Difference between the Powers of Magistrates and Church Pastors c.
Life of his Sacred Majesty that now is his Royal Son and our most Gracious Soveraign 26. That since the Non-Conformists were a generation of men either of the first date as it is most likely or at least that rose in England at the same time as the Conformists did and since they were for number and quality as great or rather greater and more considerate than the other and who in their Judgment came nearer as to the outward Government and Purity of Worship not only to the first Reformers Zuinglius Luther and Calvin but also to the Apostolical Practice and who indeed were the TRUE PROTESTANTS most Conformable to that Party in Germany who so stiled themselves Protestants in opposition to the Imperial Edicts of Worms and Spire it must needs be a great wickedness and cruelty too in the Conformists because they had all the while the Countenance of Princes and the longest Sword to persecute the Non-Conformists and to deprive them of the liberty of setting up Purer Ordinances in Conventicles and of sharing in the Publick Maintenance for the Ministers 27. That it is a most barbarous improper uncharitable and unchristian language in the Corrupt-Party of the Church of England to stile themselves the only true and properly so called PROTESTANTS and to discard all others in Europe from the right to that name for want of such Episcopal Ordinations as are in England as if that 500 men possessing the three parts of the Church-Revenues in England should better deserve to be called Protestants than the first so called in Germany whereas what ever Bishop Bilson Andrews Dr. Floyd Dr. Tillotson and Dr. Stillingfleet could say in the behalf of the Government of the Church of England as being the most Apostolical and Primitive there is none more opposite not only to that of the first Protestants but also to Scripture Reason and Antiquity 28. These being the Material Heads or a Summary Idea of the whole to be more largely and particularly handled hereafter if God giveth Life and Time to the Author I shall excerpt much from the Scrinia of the Reverend and Learned Divine Mr. Richard Baxter but yet so as to take the liberty to follow my own Method and Genius as to the menage of it 29. So then the main design of the Subsequent Book whereof this is a brief but full Specimen shall be to shew prove and make clear to You the unreasonableness unconscionableness and consequently the ungodliness of retaining urging and pressing the things in debate between the Conformists and the Non-Conformists and of persecuting those that refuse to submit to them or at least to approve of them 30. That Dissenters could not cannot ought not neither in reason nor in Conscience to submit to them at least for the assenting and consenting to them and the approving of them 31. That those Conformists whom I call Peaceable and Orthodox men such as were the Members of the Parliament of 1640 and those of Westminster assembled and their Predecessors and all others however otherwise most upright sincere Orthodox holy and well-minded persons since the first Reformation in King Edward the Sixth's dayes and Lovers of the Non-Conformists that have hitherto been Conformists were all guilty of prevarication and of a-sinful yielding complying assenting and subscribing to a Church-way which doubtless is sinful 32. And therefore that the Non-Conformists who ever since King Edward's dayes in Conformity to the true Doctrine of those of the best sort of Conformists kept gathered Churches and Meetings out of the Parishes had right Reason and Scripture on their side and walked with a purer Conscience were the best reformed from Popery and those that preserved the true Apostolical Doctrine Worship and Government and conveyed it to Posterity 33. The Author may Incidently speak of the nature of the Church Synods Associations and Fraternities by a confederate discipline but cannot by any means hear of a National Church-Tribunal independant on the Magistrate to whom only he allows the setting up of a National Worship by Persuasion and Commendation but not in the least by forcing men to it by penal Lawes except they be Papists or disturbers of the Publick Peace FINIS A SOBER and UNPASSIONATE REPLY TO The Author OF The Lively Picture OF LEWIS DV MOVLIN Gal. 4. Vers 16. Am I therefore become your Enemy because I tell you the truth LONDON Printed for Richard Janeway 1680. A Sober and Unpassionate REPLY c. I AM very sensible that My late Book viz. A short and true Account of the several Advances the Church of England hath made towards Rome c. hath raised up very great and fierce tempests against me as well from some of my Friends as from those that are most otherwise to me especially from those who can very calmly sedately patiently and without any disturbance in the world see the publication of Mr. Hobbes's Books and such others that are much what of the same stuff with them that are good for nothing but to instruct People either in Atheism or at best in an indifferency as to Matters of Religion but who are highly provoked if any One comes but near their Noli me tangere either to make a Seasonable Discovery or in Love and Friendship to bring them the wholesome Application of Remedies such as is this Truth That the Papists would never have been ingaged in such a design as to introduce Popery into England by Massacres and other wayes of the highest cruelty if they had not been very well assured that though the Corrupt-Party of the Church of England who are the most prevailing now be not in a disposition to give their Consent to such Massacres the thoughts of which are alone sufficient to strike a horrour into the worst of them yet they are all of them I mean the Corrupt Party pretty inclinable to or which is not a jott less not very much against embracing the Religion of Rome I WILL begin with the Heat and Passion of my Friends against me and with the Judgment which they make upon my Short and True Account c. they say That that Book is altogether now unseasonable When as Persons of great Learning Piety and Merit and who at the bottom are very Sincere and Upright in the Church of England such as Dr. Floyd Dr. Tillotson Dr. Stillingfleet and Dr. Patrick to whom I might joyn Professor Burnett are making it their business as they think it their duty to re-unite the Two Parties the Conformists and the Non-Conformists and when they are most industriously imployed in reducing to Practice the Means of Peace and Concord according to Mr. Richard Baxter's Model and that instead of lending them my helping hand and assisting them in so good a Work I am doing what I can to divide both Parties and to exasperate and imbitter them one against the other BUT Methinks these Gentlemen either have not read my Book at all or else have no mind to understand the design of it