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kingdom_n	glory_n	know_v	lord_n	2,445	5	3.6014	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57577	Fall not out by the way, or, A perswasion to a friendly correspondence between the conformists & non-conformists in a funeral discourse on Gen. 45. 24. occasioned by the desire of Mr. Anthony Dunwell, in his last will / by Timothy Rogers ...	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.	1692 (1692)	Wing R1850; ESTC R11323	41,002	128

in the Body And so again Men of Metaphysical and Notional Brains have conformed Religion and their Notions of it to Metaphysicks and indeed have made that which is and ought to be the common Principle for the actuating of all Men yea even of the meanest Capacities to be a meer Collection of Subtilties far more abstruse than the most intricate and sublimated Learning whatsoever See the L. Ch. Just Hale 's Disc of Rel. p. 26. Besides Parents and Examples and Education and Company and Books have their several Influences upon the Thoughts of Men and it is unreasonable to expect an entire Vnion of Thinking among those whose early Years have been seasoned with Principles and Opinions very different from one another and we ought to make great Allowances to one another upon this Account 7. Another Cause of Brethen's falling out by thy way is when they impose things upon their Brethren that are but in their own Nature Indifferent as if they were absolutely necessary or will not hold Communion with others unless they will agree to all the Terms which they have proposed as it would be an unreasonable thing for a Man not to allow me to Travel with him in the same Road unless I will wear a Garment of the same Colour with his own and stop or go on just as he would have me stay or go and yet for the sake of Peace I may comply with him in several things which I take to be Innocent and Lawful though I can by no means praise him for his enjoyning them It is no doubt as one says a very desirable thing to lessen the differences of Christians Dr. Wake 's Sermons p. 282. and enlarge their Communion as far as ever we can and it has never gone well with the Church of Christ since Men have been so narrow spirited as to mix the Controversies of Faith with their publick Forms of Worship and have made their Liturgies instead of being Offices of Devotion to God become Tests and Censures of the Opinions of their Brethren It is a miserable thing when Men agree in Fundamentals and in all those common Truths that are absolutely necessary to be known in order to Salvation that they cannot bear with one another in less considerable things and without doubt the best things are the plainest and the least disputable and unless we can prove our selves to be Infallible we cannot claim of others a total Submission to what we say or impose upon them and unless by the Light of Reason and of Scripture we can gently convince them that they are in the wrong way and that we are in the right And if we be in the right and have setled things very well yet if the peace of the Church be like to be injured by their scrupling of several things as sinful in the lawfulness of which we are very well satisfied yet it will be no' Reproach to us to make such alterations and abatements in the conditions of our Communion as may shew that we most charitably desire to have them to worship God with us and in our Assemblies for nothing Human can be so compleat as not to need by some unforeseen Circumstances some Variation No harm will ensue so long as the things most Fundamental are agreed on both sides and as one observes Charity to a weak Brother in things indifferent in their own nature is then to be exercised when my Brother is offended therewith or never And if it be said it is his Duty to submit to the Church and not the Church to him I do think that Answer will not serve in this Case for surely though a Child owes a Duty to a Father yet his neglect thereof especially if it be upon a Conscientious Account will not excuse the neglect of a Father's duty to his Child The Apostle professed he would abstain from things lawful rather than offend his weak Brother See the L. Ch. Just Hale 's Disc of Relig. p. 32. 8. Another cause of falling out by the way is from a littleness and narrowness of Soul when Persons will have no good opinion of any but such as are of their own Way and Party when they will cry up their own Men with excessive Praises and run down all others with the same Breath Such are like the Jews of whom we have read that living in some remote Place surrounded with Seas because they have no Correspondence with others think that they are all the World and that the Race of Men is confined to so small a number It is a most uncomly thing for any Party of Christians to say that none can be saved but in their way as if they did not know that several Roads may all lead to the very same Place and several Apprehensions about less necessary things not hinder their passage to the same Glory Let us take heed lest we diminish the Kingdom of our Lord and make his Empire less extensive than it is He hath his People scattered up and down the World and it would be a foolish and uncharitable thing to say we alone are the true Church and there is none so besides our selves Let us take heed of such a littleness of Soul and of such an ignorance of the State and Progress of Christianity let us not judge nor condemn nor think hardly of another Man because he is not of our way but stop our Censures till we know the Reasons upon which he differs from us We need not Fall out by the Way because we cannot all think and speak alike it would be a rude and uncivil thing for an Englishman suppose to fall out with a Frenchman upon a Journey because his Air his Address his Judgment his Prounciation and the Tone of his Language differs from his own A Publick and Generous Spirit will love the Name the Interest of Christ and his Glory wherever it is advanced though by Persons of another Persuasion or in Places vastly distant from his own Country Let us carefully distinguish between things that are really Momentous and those that are but Trifles Let us not lay too great a stress on the little Things that are peculiar to this or that Party for a great many are as one says like a Company of Boys that blow Bubbles out of a Walnut-shell every one runs after his Bubble and calls it Religion and every one measures the Religion or Ireligion of another by their agreeing and differing with them in these and the like Matters and at best whilst we scramble about the pieces of the Shell the Kernel is either lost or gotten by some that do not prize any of their Contests And we ought to consider as a great Man observes That Belief is no more in a Man's Power than his Stature Sir William Temple's Obs on the Netherlands p. 168. or his Feature and he that tells me I must change my Opinion for his because 't is the truer and the better without other Arguments that