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A59907 A vindication of the rights of ecclesiastical authority being an answer to the first part of the Protestant reconciler / by Will. Sherlock ... Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. 1685 (1685) Wing S3379; ESTC R21191 238,170 475

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late Pleas for Peace that so I confess I cannot think him so very inconsistent with himself as some men do But did they plead onely for the alteration of some disputable passages in the Liturgy when Mr. Baxter himself drew up a new Liturgy It seems they would first have reformed a Liturgy for us and then have had liberty to have used a better themselves and to have been at their liberty too whether they would have used it or not What if Mr. Baxter and his Brethren imposed upon their Prince with a pretended zeal for Peace and Unity which they pretend still as much as any men as the greatest Incendiaries in Church and State commonly do and with an equivocal use of the name Episcopacy when we all know what Bishops they mean not Diocesan but a new Baxterian invention of Parochial Bishops Though these pretences at first were plausible yet the King and the Parliament soon discovered what they would be at and it is modestly done of our Reconciler to alleadge the Kings Declaration when the King has since that more authentickly declared his will and his judgment of these matters by Act of Parliament But he further adds Moreover we are informed by Dr. Burnet and Mr. Baxter in the Life of the Lord Chief Iustice Hales That Dr. Bates Dr. Manton and Mr. Baxter conferring with the Bishop of Chester and Dr. Burton at the invitation of the Lord Keeper Bridgman came to an agreement drawn up in the form of an Act by my Lord Chief Iustice to every word of which they consented whereupon Mr. Baxter queries Whether after such agreement it be ingenuity to say We know not what they would have I would give all the Money in my Pocket to see this Act to every word of which all these persons could consent But till we know what it is we may with ingenuity enough say That we know not what they would have and I am still apt to believe that they themselves don 't know neither But what if these three men did consent to such an Act were they constituted the Representatives of the whole Body of Nonconformists Could they undertake that the rest of their Brethren should consent too Or must the Church be bound to alter her Constitutions at the instigation of some few busie undertaking Dissenters But since this story is so often alleadged I will freely tell what I know of it from Dr. Burton's own mouth a little before his death Having met with this story in some of Mr. Baxter's Writings for he hath told it more than once and going to visit Dr. Burton at his house at Bar●es and finding him alone among other discourse I told him how often Mr. Baxter used his name in such a story and I thought it concerned him to give some account of it that it might not be represented to his disadvantage I ask'd him whether he could remember what the terms of accommodation were or whether he had any Papers about it He told me he did not remember particularly what the terms were but he believed he had his Papers still though he could not at present tell where to find them but would look for them and shew 'em me if he could find them I desired him in the mean time to tell me what he remembred about the management of that Affair and he gave me this relation of it That when he was Chaplain to my Lord Keeper Bridgman my Lord was very zealous to bring the Presbyterian Dissenters into the Church and thought it a thing very seasible and in order to that did procure a meeting between the Bishop of Chester and Mr. Baxter and some others and commanded him to attend them which as being his Chaplain he could not refuse But besides this my Lord drew up some Proposals of a limited Indulgence for the Independants who as he easily foresaw could not be comprehended in any National Establishment and sent for Dr. Owen and some others of that Party to discourse them about it They thanked his Lordship for his kindness to them and desired some time to confer with the rest of their Brethren and to consider of the Proposals And after some few days they returned to my Lord again and renewed their thanks to his Lordship and gladly accepted of the terms and did solemnly declare That if these terms might be granted them they would acquiesce in it and never give the least disturbance to the Government All this while the Conference with Mr. Baxter and his Brethren went on and in short they could come to no agreement insomuch that he said my Lord told him in the greatest passion that ever he saw him in These men meaning the Independants from whom I expected the least compliance thank-fully accept the terms proposed but the others Presbyterians Mr. Baxter and his Brethren whom I believed most ready to promote such a peaceable designe will never agree in any thing and I will never have more to do with them And thus that Conference wherein Dr. Burton was concerned ended without any effect Whether any thing was done towards an Accommodation at other times or by other hands he knew not but at that time when he was concerned which Mr. Baxter makes the time of forming this Act there was nothing agreed on I press'd him earnestly to search for his Papers and to make this Story publick for the vindication of the Memory of the deceased Bishop and his own Reputation but I never saw him again till I found him upon his Death-bed which was about a fortnight after I had this discourse with him And now let our Reconciler make the best he can of this story 2. Another thing whereby it appears how ineffectual this Condescension he pleads for would be to cure our Divisions is this That should we grant these things for the promotion of our Peace and Vnity Dissenters would onely be encouraged by these Concessions to ask more and we should never know where their demands would end till they had robbed us of the whole Church-government And does not the experience of the late Times manifestly confirm this beyond all dispute And is it reasonable to yield any thing which is fit to be retained in the Worship of God to those men who we know before-hand will be satisfied with nothing but the utter ruine of the Church of England But yet our Reconciler thinks he can perswade men out of their senses For 1. Says he Is not the power in your own hands to grant or refuse as you shall see expedient to the great ends of your whole Ministry the glory of God the peace of the Church and the salvation of Souls Yes thanks be to God yet it is and the Church has granted what she thinks expedient which should satisfie our Reconciler did he not think himself wiser than the Church For if he will own the power to be in the Church and that she must stop somewhere whatever Divisions it occasions she must