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A34735	The counter-plot, or, The close conspiracy of atheism and schism opened and so defeated and the doctrine and duty of evangelical obedience or Christian loyalty thereby asserted / by a real member of this most envy'd as most admired, because, best reformed Protestant Church of England.	Real member of this most envy'd, as, most admired, because, best reformed Protestant Church of England.	1680 (1680)	Wing C6522; ESTC R10658	41,680	44

The name of Jesus adorable The Bowing at the Name of Jesus is none of those things and the offence they take therefore is not given for admitting what they object that the practice is neither warranted nor intended by the Apostle in that common Text yet certainly those mighty peculiar Emphases which we find put by the Spirit of Truth upon that all-adored and salvifick name must needs enforce it Have the Angels in their more exalted nature have they knees for this hyperhypsistous Immanuel and can the Christian man have none for the same superexcelling and most exalted Jesus do they bow inquisitively shall the mountains and rocks bow litterally and can I not bow Religiously must my understanding bow or break to the Faith of the incarnation and can my body in this state of Vnion not bow at the Name or which is all one at the mention or memory of God incarnate Versus c. Typical And for the like reason though bowing towards the Temple Hierusalem were Typical then yet bowing in the Temple or house of Prayer even by the practice of the Antitype it self must be pious still and that place as separated and consecrated by Christ so hallowed and esteemed by us Arist The Philosopher can tell us that a lye is malum in se a sin against the Law of our Nature therefore to make a lye quod efficit tale must be so and more and to violence or captivate a profitable truth can be little less the good which I do against my mind is so far hypocrisie as the evil which I so do is infirmity and there is crimen falsi in both when I bow my body to the person I had rather stab or kiss the hand that I wish cut off does not my soul make my body lye so when my soul bows in Adoration of God can it so exclude the body in this state of conjunction as either to deny the right or interdict the use of its assistance would not such exclusion be an injurious restraint and oppression of that truth which I am always bound to own and assert by a reasonable service of God with my whole man my soul and body together We grant 't is the Loyalty of the soul that makes a true Christian subject yet we know this never is or can be unattended by the hand and knee too Voluptas animae anima voluptatis We grant that as the pleasure of the Soul is the soul of pleasure so the worship of the Soul or Spirit is the soul of worship but then this soul is in the body still and acts not but ecstatically without it and it acts as distinctly as grosly bodily in any determinate position of the hand or eye as in the flex on of the back or knee all are alike bodily worship and equally lyable to exception though their fortune has not been alike if there be any difference in the notoriety of the gestures then we say the more visible if decent and Analogous the more honorary we think it impossible for any soul seriously militant to think it adviseable to throw away his arms or give them up to his enemy to give that bow or worship to any creature which upon the oath and fidelity of a souldier he must give to and only to his Creator he must bow as spiritually and litterally too as he must not bow yea he must bow as naturally and necessarily whilst he is in the body as he must not he cannot enter the house or begin the work of Prayer without bowing forth his Domine non sum dignus nor make any solemn religious address without the Soul of a Christian and the body of a man together the negative precept both directs and confirms the positive duty and by being commanded not we are instructed how to bow look what share he knows his body must have in the violation he gives it the same in the performance of his duty and is so well perswaded of the reasonableness of this service that without doing open violence to the express command by hacking out a piece as some of our Schismaticks acquaintance have cut off the whole and restively stopping at thou shalt not bow he cannot conceive the least colourable objection against this or in favour of the contrary practice unless either it should be said here as we have heard before that it must not be done because commanded which God forbid or that it could be thought argumentative or not Sarcastical which I remember to have seen somewhere produced by a person of Honour as the only Text that can piece up the rent of that mutilate Communion in the Church of Rome viz. Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me c. But it may be the pinch is not so much here and they are more offended as English men than as Christians Where the pinch lyes as abridged of those priviledges which their interest in Magna Charta claims for them that they are not admitted to places of trust and office c. Truly we might willingly endure the envy of this objection upon condition it were but as true in Thesi as it would be absurd in Hypothesi For besides that we know by sad and memorable experience were Schismaticks Legislators they would certainly inforce such a Conformity as they will now neither comply with themselves nor forgive in others they have made themselves even by their own Principles incapable of being what they complain they are not for if indifferent things are not properly the matter of humane Laws as humane is contradistinct to divine there 's nothing in the world besides that can be so because all necessary things are already sufficiently commanded and all unlawful things as evidently forbidden in the Word of God in which respect they are altogether divine and in no wise humane Laws so that there could be but one Law precisely humane which the Schismatick Legislator could possibly enact The Schismaticks Law viz. that every Christian should be a law unto himself or the same in other words that every mans reason should be his guide and every mans will should be his Law and consequently that all should be rulers as much as any May we not now appeal unto themselves whether they be not of all Recusants the most unexcusable more than those that are tossed about with every wind of false doctrine when not our Doctrines true or false but our bare Surplices can skare them or our Organs blow them out of the Church whether it had not been better for them never to have been the members of Christ than being such to out themselves off from his Body which is the Church whether it were not fitter seeing common safety cannot always subsist without publick peace nor publick peace without compliance on one side or other whether I say it were not fitter that the Inferiours the fewer and the more ignorant should yield to the Superiours the many and the

nay it seems next to a contradiction or moral impossibility that it should be otherwise for how can his knowledge admit such doctrines as are pointblank opposite to the sence and reason of Mankind or how can that be Faith which embraceth such as are inconsistent with the nature and rule of Faith Besides that the Supposition as first made would fitly serve which can never be thought of without horror to justifie the Effusion or stain the Innocence or elicit an Ominous Ebullition of the yet fresh and purest bloud of that ROYAL MARTYR But to return from this unacceptable digression Tell him therefore the lawful King must be obeyed whatever he is otherwise and you confound him away he cry's I see you are a disguised Protestant Tell another Schismatick God has given us a Natural Law distinctive of good and evil and such Faculties as duely exercis'd are sufficient to discern it c. he readily agrees to the words only he must reserve a sence for his own practice He is ashamed not to say as you do whilst resolved never to do what you say and the next news you hear of him he has transverst those very Faculties he is either Transubstantiating Bodies or Gelding Oaths or Deposing Kings or a sad pretty thing Absolving Subjects from the Law of their own Natures or to say all in a word he is Covenanting against his own Vows and so breaking the bonds blasting the dignities and consuming the persons of all men and things Sacred or Civil by the breath of that Fiery-flying-Serpent Good God! what Babels of Opinion and practice does the pride and ignorance of men erect against Thee every man is building like mad and every man will be a master and lay his own foundation One makes it of the smallest sifted particles of Atomical dust which he found by that same good luck that they had to meet there Another lays it only with dry loose stones thrown together by the withered and tremulous hands of some decrepit and uncertain Traditions doating enough to be thought old and old enough to be found rotten Another works it with hewn and squar'd and polish'd stone but joynted with the most untemper'd mortar of perverse reasoning and vain Philosophy a deal of good stuff spoil'd and worse than lost Another that saith he sees the vanity of these foundations yet builds such an irregular Superstructure as is only fit to stand upon these and worthy for whose sake these foundations themselves should be razed and overthrown Such mad work is there made by the lusts and interests of men with the most holy Religion and laws of God! But 't is well for us that in these confusions and against these extreams we are sufficiently directed and forewarn'd not to believe every spirit Joh. 4.1 therefore we are sure there are Spirits and that some are true and many are false and all must be try'd and that they may be tryed we have given us from God the Spirit Cor. 12. ● 10 the gift of discerning Spirits or distinguishing those glisterings among us which are not gold which pretend the Commission or Inspiration of God for the impulse or impetus of lust which make good and evil true and false to be but empty names or words that signifie nothing or nothing but the Will of the Supreme Magistrate and so necessarily infer this contradiction that the same things in several places are true and false and our Lord Christ must have been a false Prophet ●●viathan 250. because condemned by the Roman Governour and Mahomet a true Prophet because allowed by the chief Sultan which teach us that the Soveraign power beyond whatever hath yet been arrogated by any Pope may null the old Ibid. and make a new Canon of Scripture or none at all Now for these and a thousand more the like Spirits of error we may if we will find a plain rule of tryal in the word of truth where we see the genuine characteristick properties of the Spirit of God It is a Spirit of Truth therefore a good life with an erroneous judgment in Essential and Fundamental points necessary for Faith or Practice as in the great doctrine of Obedience to Governours which runs through the whole body of the Gospel if he allows or abets resistance in any case or if he ascribes infallibility to frail and sinful man or priviledgeth a Priest to do a greater Miracle than ever Christ did by Transubstantiating a piece of bread to make and eat his Saviour he must needs be led by a Spirit of error It is a Spirit of Holiness therefore to be Orthodox and yet immoral to have good opinions with bad practices to think right and to do wrong is to be led by the unclean spirit It is a Spirit of Vnity therefore to Reform by Schism to dissolve the Bond of Peace wherein the Vnity of the Spirit is to be preserv'd to separate or Absolve Subjects from their Obedience to teach them to swear to be forsworn or to lye for Gods sake is to be led by the Spirit of division whose name is Legion It is a Spirit of meekness and order therefore to despise dominions to excommunicate Kings or subvert Kingdoms is to be led by the Spirit Abaddon or Apollyon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 9.11 the Spirit of mischief or destruction always working in the children of disobedience It is a Spirit of Sincerity working in us simplicity and singleness of heart therefore to lift up the Left hand to God and the Right against his Vice-gerent to hate Idols and love Sacriledge to declaim against the Prelacy of Conforming and Vote up the Papacy of Nonconforming Ministers is to be acted by the Spirit of Hypocrisie or the father of Lyes It is a Spirit of Knowledge or understanding therefore to level the Canon of Scripture with the Apocrypha to make the Word of God truckle under Tradition to advance Jesus against Christ or to propagate Religion by the Sword is to be led by the Spirit of Slumber the God of this world that blindeth the minds of men Thus let us Try the Spirits and by the fruits of Love Joy Peace Gal. 5.22.19 Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness c. or of hatred variance wrath strife seditions heresies c. we shall easily know them Yet because Vice borders close upon Vertue and is never without some colour or probability to set it off we are not to make our last judgment upon the Acts till we be first acquainted with the habits of men till we know the general current of their lives as well as the particular conduct of their designs and the means they use as well as the end they pretend to and when this is done let the Forms of godliness be never so artificially drawn the fire of Zeal and the light of Sanctity never so well painted let the Colours be never so fine ground and laid on with never so delicate a Pencil we shall see the

also from us the honour of obedience because this is only of consequence as agreeing with the nature and will of God Say now again is our Worship and Service Idolatrous or Superstitious Oh ye blessful Souls of Cranmer Ridley Hooper Latimer c. are not we followers of you or were not you of Christ Is our Superstition more or less than yours Tell us if it were not part of your Triumph that you enjoyed those very priviledges which the present establishment affords us 'T is true there were some differences of judgment even among these but not more I trow nor greater than were between St. Peter and St. Paul nor of worse consequence among themselves however since perverted by Posterity than theirs were They had not all the same mind in all things but they had all no mind to separation They were men but good men sincere men therefore differing and therefore not divided They had several opinions of some lesser circumstantial things but gave them all up and at such a time as conscience must needs have been most awake to those greater and essential interests of peace and unity The most fearful among them did but slacken their steps thoughtfully none of them stood still restively or stubbornly or stayed till the Government should come to them by Teleration rather than they would go to it by Conformity No no they knew for all the prejudices of Foreign conversation or domestick Persecution either of which might have been apt enough to drive them out of or beyond their pace they knew well how Obedience was better than Sacrifice but knew nothing of our modern Gloss which sacrifices obedience it self to the Mammons of interest or humour How unlike were their peaceable Dissentings to our Seditious dissentions Those soft and tender Willows to our hard and sturdy Ket's Oaks of Reformation quite another thing in their causes and effects their means and ends their extraction and conversation Their differences were neither begotten of Pride nor born of Ignorance but the lawful issue of godly jealousie and humble fear so born in honest wedlock Christned by the Canon of Scripture attested by the Prophets and Apostles proclaimed and certified to us as with Drum and Trumpet by their Noble Army of Martyrs and fellow-souldiers They were not menaged by peevish publick Remonstrances or the same thing in other words prohibited Petitions but by modest inquiries by private gentle discussions by fraternal correptions or admonitions and at last sweetly concluded and indeed necessarily from such Christian premisses in most Evangelical complyances and condescensions There have been there are there will be differences in the judgments till there be none in the faces of men Schism only let them be without offences however without that which has more than all the rest and is the Rock of offence SCHISM An offence with a witness having as much of the Devil for it as of Christ against it A difference as Antichristian as Inhumane not only of interests but of natures making one man a Wolf in Plundering a Serpent in Trapanning or Implotting and a Devil in accusing to another For my own part as I doubt not there are many so I am perswaded that I know some in the present Communion of the Church of England so abhorrent from any likeness or appearance of Superstition that they are always ready in voto to interpose their own lives between it and their Consciences who yet chuse to incorporate themselves into this Establisht body as the aptest the clearest the surest evidence of that abhorrence This Clouds of Witnesses past away before our memories only by the hearing of the ear but there 's another which our eyes have seen though no bigger at first than a mans hand Arch-Bp Laud. or the dimensions of a single person yet quickly spreading it self over the surface and darkning the Horizon of three Nations with such a thick and palpable darkness as will never let us forget how long it was ere Sun or Stars appeared A Martyr of the infelicity of the times he liv'd in A Martyr against the Devil and his principal work of Schism and how then or who says not a Martyr for the God of Vnity who wrote himself so Legibly a Protestant that even that which we know runs fastest from truth prejudice it self or any thing but gross or affected ignorance may read it so that one might with as much truth and reason deny him the name of his first Baptism William Laud as with justice or good manners that of his second Protestant Martyr a Name so truly and eminently his own that besides his Title by purchase as before he has that of Royal donation and that also from that First CHARLES THE PRINCE OF PROTESTANTS AND MARTYRS TOO wherefore it may be good counsel or caution to him that thinks or speaks otherwise to consider well whether he can reasonably suppose there were any man then living with so great advantage to know or ability to judge the mind and cause of that happy man that unhappy Metropolitan as was that incomparably most Judicious Prince But to resume our buisiness of inquiry does the Schismatick dislike our Worship because he likes not our Discipline Is he offended at that lenity and longanimity which is used towards scandalous sinners If this be it then let them first compare as was noted before those sins which the Devil never commits with those which are proper to him and then religiously consider the dreadful Emphasis of St. Peters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chiefly or especially concerning those that despise Government of whom he tells us that they are especially reserv'd by the Lord to the day of judgment ● Pet. 2.9 10. to be punished and then though our Ministers do not what they cannot lawfully shut the doors against such sinners till excommunicated they will either think with more Charity of our Communion or with less Arrogancy of their own and separate from us if at all with the temper and language of that meek Centurion Domine non sum dignus Lord I am not worthy 〈◊〉 7.6 ●s 65.25 c. not of those Idolaters in the Prophet stand further off c. And then how would such an excess of humility in them be quickly matcht with another of Charity with arms and hearts from us what joy would there be in heaven what peace on earth what harmony in both How would the Atheist blush the Papist fret and our Schismatick leer and all the enemies of God and the King be as that young man Absalom Whereas on the contrary if these brethren of ours Alas our brethren for such they profess frequently they are and such God knows we desire most passionately they should be will still remain inexorable by all the methods of reason or loving kindness if they will invincibly persist to maintain their separation to deprave the doctrine disturb the discipline and disown the Government of the Church if they will walk thus