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A27014	Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministery rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated, against the reasonings of a confident questionist, in a book called Toleration not abused; with counsil to the nonconformists, and petition to the pious conformists / by one that is consecrated to the sacred ministry, and is resolved not to be a deserter of it ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1672 (1672)	Wing B1380; ESTC R5946	61,174	146

between a Parish-Church that is such and owneth it self for such And a Parish-Congregation that hath no proper Bishop nor Pastor who hath the power of the Keys of Government but is called by its Rulers only a part of a Church Diocesan and the Minister but the Diocesan Bishops-Curat 5. They distinguish between a Parish-Church where the Ministers in question are forbidden to preach and the People to have the Sacrament or their Children to be baptized unless they will say and do such things as they dare not do for fear of God's displeasure And a Parish-Church that driveth none such away from Ministry or Communion And now will this Adviser prove that what any Presbyterians ever said in one case must reach to all others that are so different Sect. 2. He next questioneth 1. Do you not allow our Parochial Churches to be true Churches Answ Yea those of them that have true Pastors but no others in a political or organized sense 2. Quest And will you not account such Congregations as shall be gathered to your allowed places to be true Churches also Answ In some places we will and in some we will take them but as parts of the Parish-Church And in some we will take them but for temporary Assemblies waiting for a fixed better state And in some we will take them for Churches secundum quid but not simpliciter Even as the case of each particular place requireth Sect. 3. And hence follows the cry of Schism Independents Brownists rank Separatists c. As if the Ministers of Christ did know no difference between noise and sense Yea we are told of Schism from the Church of England when I would give him all the money in my purse to make me understand what the Church of England is 1. I know that the King is the Civil-Head or Governour of it But it is a Constitutive Ecclesiastical Head that must denominate it as an essential part 2. I take it for granted he speaks of a Church organized in a proper political sense as constituted of a Pars regens and a Pars subdita and not as an ungoverned Community 3. I take it for granted that we have two Archbishops and they tell me that one is not under the Government of the other And if that be true we may have a Church of Canterbury and a Church of York but no one Church of England as denominated from one of them as Head 4. I take it for granted that the Convocation is not the Constitutive-Head 1. Because it is so seldom in being that then we should seldom have a Church of England For the Essence ceaseth with the essential part 2. And the Canon thundreth against them that deny the Convocation to be the Representative-Church of England If it mean of the whole Church Pastors and People then the People rule and make Canons by them as the Separatists hold And it is the Head of the Church only that we enquire after If they mean the Clergy then the Representative-Church or Head must be somewhat distinct from the Real represented If it be the whole Clergy that is the Real Represented-Church or Head then we are Popular or Presbyterian for the Presbyters are the major part by far And what Rulers are they that never rule the Church as one by themselves but only by Representatives I confess easily that many Churches united under one King and living in one Kingdom and having thereby special opportunity for Synods and Correspondence and Concord may be called one Church by a denomination 1. accidental 2. and humane not used in Scripture And we will not be so quarrelsome as to avoid that language where men will needs use it But it is the Thing and not the Name that we enquire of What is that One Essential Constitutive-Head which maketh the Churches of England to be all one Church in a proper political sense that is as a Governed-Society None question the Civil-Head none question the need of Communion and Agreement among all these Churches But the Question is only of the one Ecclesiastick Constitutive Head And if you will have the Question to be de nomine pardon us for holding that forma denominat But if you will denominate many Churches One from One Accident instead of One Individual Form or Essence and if you will use terms in Divine Matters which God never so used in his Word we contend not against you but only desire to understand you when you charge us with Schism from the Church of England We have observed what hath been the effect of such another enterprize in the Roman Empire It was thought meet by Princes that where the Empire was One the Church should be in some sort One also which was under them Whereupon Rome had the chief Patriarchate But in time 1. this Humane-Unity name and thing is pretended to be Divine 2. And this One Imperial Church under one Emperour is taken to be One Vniversal Church as if the Indians Persians and all other Christians even the Abassian Empire had been part of it and the Orbis Romanus had been Orbis Universalis 3. And then no man is a Christian that is not baptized into this Papal Church and made a Subject of the Pope Tell us what you mean by our Schism from the Church of England We divide not our selves from the King or Kingdom or from the particular Churches as concordant in any necessary thing If it be only that we agree not with the Major Vote in all Subscriptions Oaths Discipline or Ceremonies No more did the Bishops in the Roman Empire who had various Liturgies nor Gildas with the Britains nor Ambrose and Martin with the French and Italian Bishops nor the Episcopal party in Scotland heretofore with the Presbyterians when they were the major part Is every difference in things unnecessary from the major part a Schism from them The Bishops thought not so in England fifteen years ago We do not go so far with you as Gildas with his British Clergy who pronounced him non eximium Christianum no excellent Christian that called them Priests or Ministers and not rather Proditores Traitors as he himself did Nor do we make such a Schism as Martin seemed to do who renounced Communion with the Bishops and their Synods all his life who had prosecuted the Priscilianists with the Secular Sword Yet neither of these holy men are called Separatists or Schismaticks But perhaps it is our Disobedience to the Church that is our Schism from it 1. But every one that maketh himself an Ecclesiastical Governour over other Pastors and Churches is not therefore their rightful Lord. The King we know and his Officers we know but we know not all that call themselves our Lords or Masters Not but that obedience is the easiest course of life to a quiet humble mind But fidelity to our King commandeth the disowning of Usurpers 2. We confess that we do not actually obey the Civil unquestionable Power in every particle

Sacrilegious Desertion OF THE HOLY MINISTERY REBUKED AND Tolerated Preaching of the GOSPEL VINDICATED Against the Reasonings of a Confident Questionist in a Book called Toleration not to be abused With Counsel to the NONCONFORMISTS And Petition to the PIOUS CONFORMISTS By one that is Consecrated to the Sacred Ministery and is resolved not to be a wilful Deserter of it in trust that any undertakers can justifie him for such desertion at the Judgment of God till he know better how those can come off themselves who are unfaithful Pastors or unjust Silencers of others 1 Cor. 9. 16. For though I preach the Gospel I have nothing to glory of For necessity is laid upon me yea woe is unto me if I preach not the Gospel 1 Tim. 1. 12. 2. 9. 3. 6. For which cause I suffer these things nevertheless I am not ashamed c. 1 Thes 2. 15 16. Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted us c. Printed in the Year 1672. Tolerated Preaching OF Christs Gospel VINDICATED CHAP. I. Of the Author and the Title SECT I. I Am one my self that am so greatly desirous of His Majesties Clemency and that this present Toleration should not be abused by any especially silenced Ministers that if this had been all that Author endeavoured I should earnestly ●e seconded him And I am not without fear of the Weakness Rashness Injudiciousness and Imprudence of some that yet are earnest and profitable Preachers But when I find that by not abusing our Liberty he meaneth not-using it and that he hath the face to exhort us to desert our Office when the King doth hinder them from forcible restraining us and that when it is Gods work which we are vowed to he cometh to us as the old Prophet in Gods name to charge us to forbear it my Conscience bids me help to save the weaker sort that need it from such pernicious fallacies And if I speak plainly of the quality of his arguings I desire the Reader not to interpret it as if I had not the heartyest desire of Peace and all Brotherly Love and Concord with all conformable godly faithful Ministers But words are not answered according to their nature when the nature of them is not opened Sect. 2. Who the Author is and why he resolveth his Question on the Presbyterian Principles and passeth by the Episcopal Non-conformists as if he were so ignorant of the present State of England as not to know that there are many such when at the Kings return 1660. it was Bishop Ushers Form of Episcopal Government which they all offered for Concord who were employed in that work these are little matters not to be insisted on Only I shall tell him that I have met with few Presbyterian Ministers in England though most have that name given them in their Licenses A Presbyterian is one that is For the Divine Right of Ruling-Elders unordained having no Power to Preach and Administer Sacraments and for the Government of the Church by Presbyteries Classes and Synods composed of Teaching-Elders in Parity with these Ruling-Elders Conjunct so that a General Assembly of them is the true Ecclesiastical Head of a National-Church Of late a Presbyterian is like the Puritan of old A word which hath as many and as bad significations as speakers have diversity of designs or intents In one mans mouth a Presbyterian is an Episcopal Protestant of the soberest sort who is neither for Sects nor for Church-Tyranny and so impudency hath called them Presbyterians many years who offered the said Episcopal Form which A. Bishop Usher proved to be the true Government of the ancient Churches And so we have made Episcopal Presbyterians who are against unordained Elders and for Bishops In anothers mouth a Presbyterian is one that is resolute against Popery In anothers mouth a Presbyterian is one that is for the serious practice of a holy life In another mans mouth a Presbyterian is one that is against Bishops And so Independents and many others Sects would be Presbyterians too And in other mens mouthes a Presbyterian is one that is of Bishop Reynolds and Dr. Stillingfleets judgment that no Form of Government besides the meer Pastoral Office and Church-Assemblies is prescribed in the Word of God but variously left to variety of occasions Among all these when you speak with a Railing Ruffian he must tell you which he means himself But when we meet with a Divine that understandeth the common use of the Word we must take him to use it in the first proper sense In which sense I say again that I am acquainted with few comparatively that are for Presbytery but I know many that are for Pastoral Administration without Church-Tyranny or Schism Sect. 3. As the Author honoureth himself with the praise of being a Lover of the Truth and Peace which commendation all the contending parties from the Papist to the Quaker are as ready to give themselves so I hope I shall the easilier obtain his pardon if believing him I shall prove that it is Truth and Peace which he opposeth And if I offer him a better way to secure them assuring him that I agree with him in his main design to bring the Conformists and Non-conformists nearer and to a more amicable concord in the Work of God and not to drive any further from mutual Communion than they are CHAP. II. The Nonconformists Resolutions and the true State of the Case to be debated Sect. 1. BE it known to the Reader that the name of Nonconformists was not made by our selves but by others as the names of the four Confessors Dan. 1. was The Titles which we assume as signifying our own professed Religion are but these our Religion is Christian and no other In opposition to dividing Sects we are Catholicks In contradistinction from Hereticks we cleave to the Scripture as our Rule In contradistinction from the Roman Schism and Corruptions we are Protestants that is we protest to cleave to simple Christianity and to the Primitive purity and simplicity against their introduced Novelties and Vanities Sect. 2. As to the Point of Church-Government Worship the quarrel of the present age 1. We easily confess that we are not all of a mind which is no cause of alienation of affections nor should be a cause of mutual persecutions It being our judgment that Christians are to bear with one another in greater matters than Episcopal Presbyterians Independents and Anabaptists disagree in And if any among us have done otherwise heretofore it was from a Vice Homogeneal to that of the present Conformists which now they smart for and the Conformists may repent of in due time Sect. 3. We take not the name of Nonconformists to be such a Cothurnus or Hose drawn over the several parties by your prudence as shall make them one or tye them closer together than Conformists and Nonconformists are I pray you try if you will not believe us whether