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A31126	The conformists sayings, or, The opinion and arguments of kings, bishops, and several divines lately assembled in convocation in favour of those who dissent from the present ceremonies of publick worship by a Minister of the Church of England.	R. C., Minister of the Church of England.	1690 (1690)	Wing C102; ESTC R13828	58,158	82

great that such an absolute consent amongst pious persons is scarcely to be expected in this World the next thing to be endeavoured after is that they may agree in the belief of the principle Heads of our Religion and as for other things which neither of necessity belong to Holiness of Life nor the comfort of Souls nor the Kingdom of God that men would so believe them as to bear with them who think otherwise concerning them For that this may lawfully be done the thing it self declares and St. Paul pronounceth not onely in many places doth permit but even commands us to bear with Dissenters This is the common opinion of all persons which from the first ages of Christianity to the present times have been of any esteem or honour in the Church Principles and Practices of some Moderate Divines p. 308. Let the Professors of Christianity labour for the true spirit and temper of Christians and it will be as well with the Christian World as if we were all of the same mind I mean let us not Magisterially impose upon one another and be so Charitable as to believe well of Dissenters from us that live good lives Item p. 348. That we may contend with each other about nothing more then who shall express in the midst of our different perswasions most Charity and most Candor Conformist Plea to the Non-Conformist part 3. p. 62. Doth Christian Love and Compassion prompt us to wish our persecuted Brethren in France enjoyed the liberty of the true Religion there And if they should enjoy a freedom there shall we deny a liberty to Protestant Brethren here I can see no ways to avoid a Justification of the barbarous usage of Protestants there by them that prosecute Protestants here Idem part 4. p. 1. Peace Love and Forbearance have a greater place assigned them in Religion than the things in controversie which cause our Divisions And whether it be Meeter for the greater things to suffer by the lesser or the lesser to give place to the greater let common reason judge and common experience come in as an evidence Mr. Kidder 's Serm. of Peace pag. 24. The best men as they may differ from each other but then their Christian charity will dispose them to forbear and forgive and to debate with great calmness and temper which is the way at once to Truth and Peace Mr. Tully 's Serm. of Moderation pag. 2. Those Homiletic or if I may so speak conversable Graces of Meekness Gentleness Forgiveness Forbearance c. are so frequently pressed upon us in the Sacred Writings upon this prospect partly no doubt that they all of them tend mightily to the sweetning of Societies and to the prevention or healing those differences which are apt to embroil us Argument for Toleration and Indulgence in relation to differences in Opinion pag. 2. We must distinguish between points of Faith and Points of Opinion that we ought to bear one with another in respect of differing Opinions as God doth bear with us all he hath left somethings less plain and clear then others as matters both to exercise the reasonable faculties of good and pious men and to afford them subjects of mutual Charity and Forbearance in their different Sentiments and Apprehensions about them Item pag. 25. As for Separations into several and distinct Conventions I see no cause of fearing any greater inconvenience in them to the Church or to the State if mutual Toleration and Indulgence be the received Principle than is in so many several Clubs of Friendship or Companies of Trade However different they may be from one another in other respects in this they will all agree to love one another for that of God they see and to maintain the publick Liberty the common Interest of all and so though they are as many Conventions as you can imagine and the more the less dangerous one will balance another yet they are not Factions Form of Prayer Dec. 22. 1680. By the power of thy Holy Spirit of Peace dispose all our Hearts to such Meekness of Wisdom such calm and deliberate Long-Suffering and Forbearance of one another in Love that so we may live in Peace and the God of Peace may be with us That Force and Capital Punishments are not to be Inflicted on Christians for their difference in Opinions from us GOod Advice to the Church of England c. pag. 22. And to the end that I may do the Reformation Right and the Principles of the Church of England Justice those in Queen Maries Time particularly Latimer Philpot Bradford Rogers very eminent Reformers hardly one person of any Note but did pass Sentence on Persecution as Anti-christian the Apologies afterwards of the same strain as may be seen in Juel Haddon Reynolds c. censuring the Papists for the Persecutions that they raised against the Protestants for matters of pure Religion Bishop Juel 's Defence of the Apol. pag. 484. St. Augustine saith Nullis bonis in Catholica Ecclesia hoc placet si usque ad mortem in quen-quam licet haereticum saeviatur No good man in the Catholick Church likes that any Heretick should be punished with Death As for our parts speaking of our Church we were never yet guilty to one drop of your blood We seek no Aid at Fire and Sword we will rather say with St. Jerom Vtinam filios haereticorum c. Would God we may kill the Children of Hereticks and of all them that be deceived with Spiritual Arrows that is to say with the Testimonies of Scripture And with St. Augustine O si occidas eos gladio bis acuto c. Bishop Andrew's Sermons on Luk. 9.54 55 56. pag. 912. He puts the case whether the Town of Samaria for not receiving Christ upon pretence he was not of their Religion might not be consumed but Christ ruleth the Case for the Town that it ought not to be done It was an Errour this of the two Disciples we see it plain by Nescitis but of it may well be said that Gregory saith of another of theirs O salutaris error c. Blessed Errour it was for by it the World was rid of the like Errour ever after For so long as this verse shall stand in this Gospel it will serve for a resolution to this Question Any of his Disciples may do that which they here would have done This rebuke here of these will reach to all undertakers in the same kind this Non perdere sed salvare saves all our Towns Cities and States from consuming by fire from any of Christs Company Item pag. 919. And where they move him in specie for a destruction by Fire he not content to deny that alone denieth it in genere not to destroy at all neither by Fire nor any other way Here we have a case of Fire will ye have another of the Sword St. Peter St. John 22.49 Shall we smite with the Sword that he denies too Out with your Fire James

badge of the Church a mark whereby to discern Christian men from Infidels and Jews Dr. Hammond of Schism p. 58. Calls the Creed the Apostolick badge or mark A tessera or token of the Apostles having planted the Faith in any Church the known summary of that beleif which had been received from the Apostles p. 211. It cannot be affirmed of all the Articles of the Creed that they are thus absolutely necessary i. e. that no man can be imagined to Reform his life so as to be acceptable to God but he to whom every one of those Articles has been intelligibly revealed for as to many plain yet pious Christians it s not certain that can be affirmed Bishop Tailor Coll. of disc p. 536. The Religion of Jesus Christ is the Form of sound Doctrine set down in Scripture separated as to the Question of necessary or not necessary by the symbol of the Apostles Item p. 407. Now if more were necessary than the Articles of the Creed I demand why was it made the characteristick note of a Christian from an Heretick Jew or an Infidel or to what purpose was it composed or if this were intended as sufficient did the Apostles or those Churches which they sounded know any thing else to be necessary Bishop Sparrows Rationale upon the Common Prayer p. 50. In the time of the stay at Jerusalem they agreed upon this Creed as a Rule of Faith according to the Analogy of which they and all others should teach and as a word of distinction by which they should know Friend from Foes for as the Gileadits by the word Shibboleth Judges 12.6 c. So the Apostles and the Church should know who were right believers who false by this word of Faith for all that walked according to this Rule and Professed this Faith she acknowledged for hers and gave them her peace but all others that went contrary to this Rule and Word she accounted enemies Tertull. de praescriptione and lead by false Spirits as 1 John 4.6 Item a Christian evidences to the Church his sound beleif by expresly repeating the Creed and every particular thereof which is and always hath been accounted the mark and character whereby to distinguish a true beleiver from an Heretick or Infidel Judge Hales discourse of Religion p. 4. The Credenda or things to be known or beleived are but few and intelligible briefly delivered in that summary of Christian Religion usually called the Apostles Creed and in brief the Baptismal Covenant as it is contained in the Liturgy and Explanation thereof in the Church Catechism i. e. by the Covenant Mercies and Covenant-duties together with the precepts of the Decalogue contain in effect the summary or brief Epitome of our Christian duty Cars peaceable Moder p. 43. The Creed is a short Abridgment and Epitome of the Apostles Doctrine which they received from Christ our Saviour and delivered to us in the New Testament the Rule of our Faith Touch-stone of Truth the pith and substance of our Christian Religion the very badge and cognizance of a Christian whereby he is not only known from Pagans but also distinguished from Hereticks Bishop Pearson The Creed without controversie is a brief comprehension of the objects of our Christian Faith and is generally taken to contain all things necessary to be beleived in praef to his Exposition on the Apostles Creed Glanvell's Catholick Charity p. 30. The Fundamentals of belief are few and plain for certainly the Divine goodness would not lay our Eternal interest in difficulties and multitudes things hard to be understood and retain'd Item Agreement of Reason and Religion pag. 5. In the Creed are all the Fundamentals of Religion and though our Church require our Assent Ministers he means to more propositions yet those are only Articles of Communion not Doctrines absolutely necessary to Salvation And if we go beyond the Creed for Essentials of Faith who can tell where we shall stop Doctor Tillotson I doubt not but that the belief of the Ancient Creed provided we entertain nothing that is destructive of it together with a good Life will certainly save a Man True state of the Primitive Church Part First That which we commonly call the Apostles Creed if it were not composed by them yet certainly by Primitive and Apostolick men and proposed as the sum of Christian Faith the sum total necessary to Salvation It cannot be supposed that they left out any thing which they thought necessary to Salvation they might as well have omitted half or all Dr. Steward 's Englands Case pag. 20. In our Reformation we still adhering unto the Three Creeds which are the Faith of the Church Catholick Mr. Hancock 's Sermon on Luk. 19.42 pag. 26. To the Honour of the Church of England let it be said whatsoever is imposed on us as necessary to the Salvation of all men is contained in the Apostles Creed This is the Faith of the first and best times of Christianity the Faith into which we are Baptized and the Belief of this Creed hath a direct influence on our Christian practice which is the great business of Religion Bishop Sanderson in his nine Cases of Conscience pag 8. Whosoever well considers may rest satisfied in his judgment and conscience that the Faith professed and taught in the Church of England is a plain and safe way to lead a Christian Believer to Eternal Salvation if he withal lead his life and conversation answerable thereunto Dr. Barrow 's Discourse of the Vnity of the Church annexed to his Treatise against the Popes Supremacy In regard to this Union of Faith among Christians the Body of Christians adhering to it was called the Catholick Church from which all those were esteemed Ipso facto to be cut off and separated who in any point deserted that Faith pag. 9. Conformists not forward in Censuring any as guilty of Heretical and Damnable Errors HOmily of Contention First Part. May help with other Citations to explain the Hereticalness of an Error He that is faulty let him rather amend than defend that which he hath spoken a miss least he fall by contention from a foolish Error into an obstinate Heresie Bishop Jewel's Def. of Apol. pag. 46. For just proof of Heresie three things necessarily be required 1. That it be an Error 2. That it be an Error against the Truth of Gods Word for otherwise every Error maketh not an Heresie 3. That it be stoutly and wilfully maintained otherwise an Error in Gods Truth without wilful maintainance is not an Heresie St. Augustine saith Errare possum Hereticus esse non possum Item p. 67. The Catholick Fathers and Bishops made no doubt but our Religion might be proved out of the Scriptures neither were they ever so hardy to take any for an Heretick whose Error could not evidently and apparently be reproved by the self-same Scriptures Bishop Andrews cited in Appendix to the third Part of the Friendly Debate Let but obstinacy and perverseness be wanting it