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A44308	The non-conformists champion, his challenge accepted, or, An answer to Mr. Baxter's Petition for peace written long since, but now first published upon his repeated provocations and importune clamors, that it was never answered : whereunto is prefixed an epistle to Mr. Baxter with some remarks upon his Holy Common-wealth, upon his Sermon to the House of Commons, upon his Non-conformists plea for peace and upon his Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet. / by Ri. Hooke.	R. H. (Richard Hooke); Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Petition for peace.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Holy commonwealth.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Sermon of repentance.	1682 (1682)	Wing H2608; ESTC R28683	62,409	170

the higher power when those which have their shares in the Sovereignty are divided But whether we should be subject to the higher power is no question to us Very pretty pure Jesuitism Sir True Protestants of the Church of England were never so unhappy as to differ about the higher power They all agreed it was the King and that none did or ought to share with him in the Sovereignty 'T is the Papist whom you confess to be in your Counsels and Armies and you who unhappily differ which is the higher power They say not the King but the Pope you say not the King but the Parliament and Rom. the 13th is part of the Rule of their Religion as well as yours and whether they should be subject to the higher power is no more a question with them than with you and so you prove the Papists as good Subjects as your selves This then is your argument for your Loyalty 'T is no question with you whether you should be subject to the higher power but unhappily you differ and are ignorant who is the higher power to whom you should be subject you did not know whether England was a Kingdom or a Common-wealth whether the King was higher than the Parliament whom he hath power to convoke and dissolve when he thinks fit who call themselves his Subjects and recognise his Sovereignty by swearing unto him allegiance thus your unhappy and invincible ignorance who was the higher power hath led you more unhappily to take part with the lower but stronger power and to resist and destroy the higher May your timely Repentance prevent the doom denounced Romans the 13th But this and your other little slips in arguing proceeded from your present want of advantages for study Having and using Book but a Bible and a Concordance as you say in your Epistle How vain how false how rankly smells it of the Pharisee What want of advantages for study in London Could not all the publick Libraries or Booksellers shop furnish you with Books for A Sermon of Repentance But advantages though you wanted you needed not I must with you collaud your Sermon and cofess you have spoken well of Repentance and home to diverse particular Sins and powerfully prest several Duties but that which was the Duty of the Day to lay open the Sin and deprecate the Guilt of the late unparallel'd Rebellion and the Murther of his late Majesty our most gracious and religious King and the most injurious Expulsion of his present Majesty from his Crown and Kingdoms and to press his speedy Restoration this hath no place in your Sermon Surely your topical Head had your Heart been for it and had you that respect for the King as for Richard could from your Bible and Concordance alone have so laid open the Sin and laid home the Duty as at once to have pricked and bowed the hearts of all Israel forthwith to send unto the King and say Return thou and all thy servants This indeed you faintly confess was some little part of your duty to have minded your Auditours what Sins of the Land must be remembred and loathed in order to Peace and Healing but your Glass forbad you It seems your time for a whole hour was imployed in a Work more proper and necessary than that which would conduce to the Peace and Healing of the Nation But Sir I fear 't was another kind of Glass forbad you which would have reflected them on you with so ugly a countenance that you could not endure the sight The Sins of the Land you should have minded them of were gainfull Sins the Goods and Lands the Godly Party had won by the Sword from the Wicked and Delinquents and to remember so as to loath and vomit up these oh it would break their tender hearts shortly Though in your other Tenets you are they say volatile yet as to your Politicks you are constant to your self the very same in your Sermon as in your Common-wealth And you are still the same in your Plea for Peace As the review of the Calamities and Cofusions of the Church and State after seventeen years could work in you then no change nor reconcile you to the banished King and Church of England so now that for seventeen years more you have beheld the King and the Church restored which was the Lord's doing and even done by Miracle and is marvelous in our eyes it is grievous in yours and by a pretended Plea for Peace you proclaim a new War Never did any man talk of Peace and cast about as you do Fire-brands Arrows and Death Your Petition for Peace is advanced to a Plea and that Plea is all Satyr Others you say are answering your Book I shall onely take notice of your Epistle And you begin with a furious Charge against the Government It is near seventeen years since Two thousand Ministers of Christ were by Law forbidden the Exercise of their Office unless they did conform which they durst not doe because they feared God Foreseeing what Conformity would doe to the destroying of Love and Concord and of men's Souls weakning the Land encouraging Popery Heresie and Schism Could ever any thing be said in so few words by the greatest Boautefew in the world more seditiously undutifully and uncharitably Did ever the world see such a Defiance of the Laws by a pretended Pleader for Peace of which the Laws are Conservatours as this Herauld denounces in the name of his Thousands Ministers of Christ No minister of Anti-christ could bring such a railing Accusation against Rulers These are they that speak evil of Dignities What can you say worse against a Dioclesian than to forbid the Ministers of Christ not conforming the Exercise of their Office To make Laws which they who feared God durst not obey Laws which tend to the destroying Love Concord yea mens Souls Laws encouraging Popery Heresie and Schism Laws weakning the Land 'T is great pitty the Land is not govern'd by the Laws of your Holy Common-wealth That Law of Christ of Loving Enemies our most mercifull King doth but too strictly observe he loves them but too much else ere this you had been called to a severe account for your vile Aspersion of the Laws and Violation of the Majesty of the Law-giver 2. You accuse the Magistrates as Persecutours and cry out of your Parties and your own Sufferings which in your Petition for Peace you repeat ad Ravim usque The Penalties of Forty pounds a Sermon and long Imprisonment in common Gaols and driving us Five miles from Corporations and places where we lately preacht The Laws and Canons imprison and excommunicate us ipso facto if we do but give the Reasons of our Non-conformity A loud Name The Law or Canon that does so for onely giving the Reasons of your Non-conformity We are made their Scorn and many want Bread and they choose Beggery and Scorn and live onely on mens Charity therefore cannot be as they are accused

have all due veneration for Parliaments next unto and under the King But I never learnt that they were sharers in the Supremacy and I believe it would be a flattery as displeasing to a Parliament as injurious to the King to ascribe unto it a part of the Sovereignty One of yours tells us that formerly the Name of a King was an Idol unto his Subjects but now by the courage of the Parliament 't is death to that man and his father's house that durst name a King and you make an Idol of the name of a Parliament and dare to say that if you had known the Parliament had been the Beginners and in most fault yet their Ruin is a Punishment greater than any fault against a King his Murther and the Ruin of his Family and all his loyal Subjects can from him deserve And now Sir your Audacity begets in me the Confidence to tell you that your Rebellion was most foul and the Arms you bare were against both King and Parliament for that you call so was an idol a nothing no parliament but onely some corrupted members of it which had by tumults and threats frighted away as the King so all the sound and loyal Members of Parliament both Lords and Commons and that in so great a number that they made a Parliament in Oxford Now seeing the Parliament thus divided a part against the King a part as great for him Prudence and Loyalty might have taught you either to have sat still and bewailed the unhappy rupture and division and prayed for a closure and reconciliation or to have joyned with the King and the loyal part of his Parliament but of the Sovereignty of Parliaments enough I pray God grant the King and kingdom may nevermore see the like to that you plead for and served under with such a perseverance that you say you would doe it again in the same state of things Your honest Friend when he saw here a Leg and there and Arm in the way saith as you tell us it was time for him to stop 'T was in him a poor pusillanimity but such was your magnanimity that Legs and Arms could not stop your Career you could undauntedly march on through bloud and slaughters 'T was a cowardly cruel Triumph in your other honest Friend Mr. Love to flourish his handkerchief dipt in the bloud of that great Prelate when dead whose venerable face he durst not have lookt on when alive But your valiant Sword drencht it self in bloud in the field of Mars You were as bold as the brutish brave horse in Job You cloathed your neck with thunder the glory of your nostrils was terrible you rejoyced in your strength you went on to meet the armed man you mocked at fear were not affrighted nor turned your back to the sword you said among the trumpets Ha ha and your Trumpet sounded as loud as they Curse ye Meroz curse ye bitterly Cursed be the man that doth the work of the Lord negligently cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from bloud But 't is time to sound a retreat Valiant Sir had your Arms been no stouter than your Arguments you had forsaken the field as you plainly do when in the close of your Reasons for the late War you confess that every one of your Reasons is not a sufficient medium to infer your conclusion But altogether shew upon what grounds you proceed to dispute the point So that you justifie Treason upon the very same grounds on which the noble Earl of Strafford was condemned on pretence of it When none could be prov'd against him single he must die for Treason accumulative I shall ease your patience upon this subject when I have reminded you that you have much mis-timed your Holy Common-wealth Therein you shew your self a great Dictatour but little a Polititian and less a Prophet when you send it forth in the dark and dismal night of confusion and could not stay to take a prospect of the morning when the blazing and affrighting Comets pestiferous matter being spent the Sun was ariseing in brightness and returning in glory But your zeal for the restoring your prudent and pious Richard blinded your Eyes and that heat put out the light and so you thought the Common-wealth would bring him in again Well yet you were not wholly forsaken in your Politicks but when though late you discovered the Protectorship and the Common-wealth expiring and the King like to be restored you expiated your little errours by a great merit you preached to the honourable House of Commons in Parliament and as in your Epistle and elsewhere you boast God and they put upon you a great honour the next morning after they acknowledged his Majestie 's Authority But surely Sir 't was no effect of your Sermon but their own Loyalty which wrought upon them to make that acknowledgment You all along in your Sermon reflect on the Royal Party as profane and censuring the Puritans and Precisians who dare not be so bad as they Nay you implicitly accuse that Honourable House as if there were some among them and 't is easie to guess whom you mean that would take that man as a Puritan and Phanatick who would employ half so much time for his Soul and the Service of the Lord as they do in unnecessary sports and pleasures and pampering their flesh And you freely tell them that God must have the precedency and as our Calamities began with Differencies in Religion and still that 's the Wound that most needs closing and with grief and shame we see this Work so long undone Which plainly implies you would have this Work done according to your Covenant by the Parliament before the King come in and putting a high value on your self and all of your mind you declare they shut you out if they would enforce you to administer Sacraments without discipline and the conduct of your own discretion and say you Give first to God the things that are God's and then give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's that is first set up the Discipline before you admit Caesar This was the method of your Brethren in Scotland And you here again caution and share the Sovereignty 'T is right indeed as you say A Papist must cease to be a Papist if he be truly and fully loyal to his Sovereign and 't is as true A Presbyterian must cease to be a Presbyterian if he be truly and fully loyal to his Sovereign but you hide him under the general name of Protestant and tell us so a Protestant must so far cease to be a Protestant before he can be disloyal you should have said a Protestant truly conformable to the Church of England such a one can never be disloyal But behold how rarely you prove your non-conforming Protestant cannot be disloyal for Rom. the 13th is part of the Rule of his Religion but unhappily there hath been a difference among us which is