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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	bishop_n	church_n	time_n	3,265	5	3.4917	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12700	A brotherly persvvasion to vnitie, and vniformitie in iudgement, and practise touching the receiued, and present ecclesiasticall gouernment, and the authorised rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. VVritten by Thomas Sparke Doctor in Diuinitie. And seene, allowed, and commended by publike authoritie to be printed	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1607 (1607)	STC 23019.5; ESTC S102433	84,881	104

wilfully to persist in their superstitious refusal or recusancy on the one side in their like peuish shuÌ„ning of ioining in coÌ„muioÌ„ again with vs of the other And therby as much doubtles as ether the weight of those reasons comes to or the credit of their persoÌ„s is that stand therupon are they will they be emboldened to think say in the opinion of so many of our own religion and fellowship that they haue had wrong and shall haue still in being punished as they haue beene are or shall be for refusing to ioyne with vs in vse of that seruice and for submitting themselues to that forme of Ecclesiastical gouernment which is in so many respects contrary to the word O therfore it were to be wished good brethren in this case that you would seriously remember that the Lord requires of all his Zac 8.19 that they should loue truth and peace ioyning them both together therfore that the Apostle Rom. 12.11 had no sooner wild vs to be ferueÌ„t in spirit but he addeth streight seruing the lord ver 18. vrging vs al as much as is possible to haue peâ—â—â— with al meÌ„ For doubtles they are very much deceiued that vnder pretence of zeale think they may without offence disturbe the Churches peace For who knoweth not that it is as dangerous erring on the right hand as on the left and that Christ iustly checked the sons of thunder Luk. 9.55 though their wish of fire against the Samaritans came from a fiery zeale and loue towards himselfe Surely euen the lamentable experieÌ„ce we haue had already by the original growth of the opeÌ„ schisme wherin to many of our brethren haue desperately run of late years wherin stil wofully and obstinately they continue being as all men must needs see from no other ground occasion but from the too much vrging and amplifying vnder the shew likenes of zeale of the same things that now still in this case of refusall of conformity and subscription are reuiued I would thinke should haue sounded such a loud retreat in all our eats from euer medling any more therewith for feare of the like inconuenience to our selues that ere this wee should haue beene sufficiently warned from running any more this course for hardly can any be of the iudgment of the one but he must like of the practise of the other But Nunquam sera est ad bones mores via Wherfore let not studium partium or any preiudicate opinion touching loue of our own priuat credit or to much desire too please a few priuat men make any of vs so to forget our duty either to God our church or our selues and those that depend vpon vs as for a few weake obiections a thousand times so answered that as Augustine speaketh Epist 118 might satisfie though not a contentious person yet any modest and peaceable minded man to run our selues and ours any longer vpon these so dangerous rocks so much to our owne harme so much also to the reioycing and strengthening of our common aduersaries And yet this I haue not writ or any thing therein eyther to condemn any that of weaknesse and tendernesse of conscience indeed all this that I haue said notwithstanding cannot in faith doe otherwise for I haue learned of the Apostle Rom. 14. as I said in the beginning that whatsoeuer is not done of faith is sinne or any way to stay or to withold them that be in authority eyther from shewing what fauour they will or may to such else also being peaceable and fruitfull men or when it shal seem good vnto theÌ„ is regard of theÌ„ to remoue or better to smoth the controuerted changable things they most take offence at but onely in the meane time whilest things stand as they do hereby to perwade my good brethren in the best manner I could how with a good conscience these things may be yeelded vnto for the peace of the Church without any iust offence therby either giuen or taken rather theÌ„ that for their not so yeelding they shold suffer themselues to be kept from entring the ministery or to be depriued thereof againe or but to be but suspended from the execution thereof by the sentence of the Bishoppes But in the meane time whiles we can grow all to be thus minded to be at vnity amongst our selues in these things let no man thinke that therfore he hath any iust cause giuen him to call into question the truth of our religion otherwise or the Papist at all therefore to insult ouer vs. For none of any reading of the monuments of antiquitie can be ignorant that in the primitiue Church and in the best times thereof since the Apostles that for a long time together there hath beene amongst the ancient Christians otherwise very sound and at vnitie in the trueth and substance of religion amongst themselues as great diuersities of opinons and as hot contentions as in these respects these of ours be about Ecclesiasticall rites and ceremonies And all the world may know but by the confessed differences of opinions by Bellarmine amongst themselues in his bookes of controuersies in matters of far higher nature that the Papists of all men haue least vnitie euen in the chiefe grounds of their religion and it is as famously knowne that here in England whiles they bare the sway for all their great brag of vnitie otherwise that in their church seruice there was great diuersitie some following the vse of Sarum some Herford vse some the vse of Bangor some of Yorke and some of Lincolne CHAP. 16. Containing the conclusion and exhortation to vnitie YEt to conclude good brethren seeing in euery particular nationall church vniformitie in such things is very requisit and commendable for the better maintenance of peace and loue therein euen of loue and compassion to our common mother the Church of England which as I haue sayd is troubled with so dangerous enemies both on her right hand and left and so to bury and extinguish for euer the odious name of Puritants to put an end to all shew of Schisme distraction and diuision amongst our selues to the no small strengthning of our selues to our reioycing against our common aduersaries and so to the great weakning and vndoubted griefe of our enemies let vs all of vs for euer hereafter giue ouer contending any more thus amongst our selues about these our mothers outward fashions trimmings and deckings and let vs both speedily and vnfainedly euery one of vs reunite our selues together in vnitie of iudgement and vniformitie of practise as by these her outward orders is by her authority required at our hands that so we may bend all our forces as dutifull children together to the preseruation of the life and strength of our sayd mother which we cannot but see otherwise to be in great perill and danger so the better that she may strongly encounter ouercome and subdue all both her aduersaries and ours For Nestor

A BROTHERLY PERSWASION TO VNITIE AND VNIFORMITIE IN IVDGEMENT AND PRACTISE TOVCHING THE RECEIVED and present Ecclesiasticall gouernment and the authorised rites and ceremonies of the Church of England VVritten by Thomas Sparke Doctor in Diuinitie And seene allowed and commanded by publike authoritie to be printed ROM 12.18 If it be possible as much as in you is haue peace with all men COR. 11.16 If any lust to be contentious we haue no such customs nor the Churches of God LABORE ET CONSTANTIA LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet-street neere to the great Conduit 1607. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF GREAT BRITAINE France and Ireland King and ouer all persons and in all causes as well Ecclesiasticall as ciuill in these his dominions next and immediatly vnder God Supreme Gouernor and defender of the ancient Catholike and Apostolike Faith HIgh and mightie Monarch and my most dread gratious Soueraigne being one of them that by your most Honorable Councels letters in your Maiesties name were called to be before your highnes at the conference at Hampton Court and receiuing there such satisfaction as I did by your excellent Maiesties owne most readie and apt answers to the doubts and obiections there and then proposed as I could not but then greatly reioyce in my heart and praise and magnifie the Lord for the same so euer since though to the better satisfying of all others I haue not onely in my practise accordingly yealded vniuersall conformitie but priuately by word and writing also haue laboured to perswade all whom I haue met with to do likewise yet seeing and obseruing so many stil to refuse I could not but think it my bounden dutie to God and his Church first then to your highnesse by writing some short Treatise to doe the best that I could to further your most gracious christian purpose resolution determination in the said confereÌ„ce which was as I conceiued it by your most princely moderation resolution first of al in our home controuersies amongst our selues about our Churches Liturgie or Hierarchie so to knit vs all together in vnitie verity as that al our forces hereafter might more strongly be bent employed against our common aduersaries so the better also after to draw them to conformity with vs in the exercises and profession of our true and pure religion And therfore now wel nigh two yeares ago hauing writ this Treatise and finding that the priuat vse therof though it hath done good with som yet to that purpose could reach but to a few it hauing in this time comd bene in the view of some of the most reuerend Bish so hauing also got allowaÌ„ce by authority to be printed hereupon hauing bene by theÌ„ and many others which haue sene read the same much vrged to publish it I am bound thus to dedicate it to your Maiesty so to offer it to the sight of all who shal be pleased to read it And the rather I thought iustly I might so do for that the ground of most of that I haue said therin to the satisfying of my brethren arises froÌ„ the speeches answers determinations that your highnes self gaue in the forsaid coÌ„ference But indeed I must needs confesse I durst not yet thus far haue aduentured but vpon comfortable remeÌ„braÌ„ce of your Mai. vouchsafing the next morning after the said coÌ„ference to send for me theÌ„ to giue me that most gratious couÌ„tenaÌ„ce most princely kind words that you theÌ„ did in coÌ„sideration of a book that your highnes vnderstood I had writteÌ„ bin in some trouble for in her Ma. time that last was touching succession Pardon me therfore most gracious soueraign if to testify in some measure my loyalty and thankefulnes for the same I venture now againe into your highnesse presence with so small a present as this For you being pleased to accept the same to giue it passage thus vnder your most roial patronage and protectioÌ„ to the end aforesaid vndoubtedly it wil may much the sooner get liking and entertainment withall so also giue the better satisfaction and contentment to all them whersoeuer it finds the same Thus therefore once againe most humbly crauing pardon for this my great boldnes hoping of your Maiesties fauorable acceptance hereof most instantly vpon the knees of my soule begging of the almighty that your Highnes your most royall issue may most happily prosperously reign rule ouer vs while the Sun Moon endure to his most gracious protection I commend your Maiestie now and euer From Bletchley in Buckinghamshire 1607. Your Maiesties faithfull and humble subiect Thomas Sparke The Epistle to the Christian Reader I Am not ignorant welbeloued in the Lord that I haue and doe vndergoe already the hard censure of many for conforming my selfe as I haue to the orders of our Church and that I am like to endure harder for the writing and publishing of this Treatise following to perswade others so to doe likewise And all this the rather for that eyther through ignorance what my iudgement in former times hath beene of these matters now in question or misconstruction of some of my former actions many as it seemeth haue conceiued that heretofore I haue not beene the same man that now in this my dealing I manifest my selfe to be To satisfie therefore all men if it may be in this respect first they are to vnderstand that though there be now vpon occasion of the manner of this new vrging the rites and ordinances of our Church as they are some difference in outward shew betwixt my former courses and this which I now take that yet that prooues not circumstances duely considered any alteration of my minde or iudgement at all touching these things For I alwaies before as occasion serued me both in Pulpit and otherwise in priuate conference with many manifested my selfe to be of that opinion that I alwaies thought they were rather to be yealded vnto being but of the nature they are and being vrged no otherwise then in deed and truth they be by our Church then that any minister should for his refusing conformity therunto suffer himself to be put from the vse of his gifts place and ministery for such a necessity is laid vpon vs that be in the ministery I alwaies knew and remembred to preach the Gospell that woe is to vs if we do not so 1 Cor. 9.16 And with Archippus I euer vnderstood that Paule had said to euery one of vs take heed to thy ministery that thou hast receiued in the Lord that thou fulfill it Coll. 4.17 And therfore I could neuer think and so my vsuall saying hath been alwaies to my friends and felow ministers talking with me of these things that at the last day it would or could be taken

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