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A58235 Reasons for conformity tenderly offered to all the sober dissenters of London, by some Laodicean conforming ministers. 1683 (1683) Wing R487A; ESTC R15582 1,745 1

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REASONS FOR CONFORMITY Tenderly offered to all the Sober Dissenters of London BY SOME Laodicean Conforming Ministers Dear Brethren Whereas several eminent Divines have lately set forth in Print many Arguments as Motives to perswade you to Conformity and the Success of their Labours has not ●swered their Expectations and Wishes And whereas the Government for its own Preservation and Defence has thought fit to compell you to Conformity by putting the penal Laws against Dissenters in Execution Know ye therfore That out of Our wonted Grace and Compassion WE have consulted all WE could for the Ease ad Satisfaction of your Tender Consciences And By these PRESENTS do give and grant unto you these following REASONS for CON●ORMITY First That WE shall frankly and joyfully receive your return Though your Conformity be no more but seeming external and not from your hearts Secondly If you will but confess that some of our Sermons or Writings were the means of bringing you over to the Church we will then proclaim and publish to all the World That you are the most Pious Holy Men WE know and far more excellent Converts than ever were made by St. Paul for Truth is WE count none Good as they should be unless they admire US and our Labours Thirdly If you will conform that is Come and Hear US WE will cry you up for the sober Godly partly of the Nation Fourthyly If you fall into any Jeopardy for not frequenting your own Parish-Church WE will be ready at all times to appear in any Court to vouch and attest upon Oath That you are as High and Strict Churchmen as our selves or any Others we have familiar acquaintance with Fifthly If you will be our Auditours and help to fill our Churches WE do promise you all manner of Indulgence and to salve all Doubts and Scruples of Conscience according to your own Wills and Humours Sixthly If you sit in Church all the Service while on your Breech or Talk or Sleep whilst its reading and never stand up at the Creeds though WE see and know it yet WE will wink at it and never reprove you for it for truth is WE can doe the same our selves Seventhly WE will use all powerfull means to save and defend you from being Presented and Prosecuted for deserting your own Parish-Church and Minister Eighthly Whatever are scandalous notorious and damnable Sins in others WE will endeavour to prove but small venial natural and unavoidable infirmities in you Ninthly If you design and cannot effect an Alteration in the Government upon pretence of bettering it WE will throw the Odium of it upon the Papists for our saying it was They that murthered Charles the first has made it pass for a ●urrent Truth Tenthly If you will receive with US the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper either sitting lying leaning lolling or standing WE will give you our Certificates that you received it according to the usage of the Church of England Eleventhly If you would have your Chrildren Christned or not Christned with Godfathers and the sign of the Cross or without them WE are ready to doe either for truth is WE judge such indifferent things left to yours and our discretion and pleasure Twenfthly WE will always earnestly Expose Rebuke and Condemn all those for Rash Imprudent and Unlearned Preachers that shall offer to revile you for former Faults or rip up the old stories of Schism Faction and Rebellion in the LATE BAD TIMES Thirteenthly If your Wives shall present us with Cloth Silks Plate Money Wine and Sugar-loaves as they formerly did to their Pastors WE do promise upon our sacred words That WE will not accept and receive them without your leave and consent first had and obtained for WE value our selves upon such Scruples and Criticisms of Honesty Lastly WE do vow and protest that whereas you formerly gave One Two Three or Four Pounds a Year to a Conventicling Teacher WE would be glad to have you our Auditors for Ten Shillings a Year And thank you too By this you may see our Moderation NOW consider what is here offered to you First here is Liberty of Conscience as much as you can desire Secondly Credit and Reputation as far as WE can promote it Thirdly Indulgence and Ease to the most Tender Consciences Fourthly Security against Persecuting Churchwardens and Bishop's Officials Fifthly Complyance to Administer Sacraments which way you will Sixthly To extenuate the greatest Sins you can commit upon the score of Reformation Seventhly To reprove and condemn all them that shall speak any manner of ill against you Lastly to preserve your Goods and save you some Pounds in the Year which is for your Interest If such Considerations and Arguments as these cannot prevail with you to Conform to the CHURCH of ENGLAND or at least to US in Our publick Congregations according to Our PROPOSALS WE then in Great Grief of Heart must fear that you are in a Reprobate State And the Lord have Mercy on your Souls LONDON Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationer's Hall