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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81917	An epistolary discourse wherein (amongst other particulars) these following questions are briefly resolved. I. Whether or no the state should tolerate the independent Government? II.If they should tolerate it, how farre, and with what limitations? III. If they should tolerate it, what course should be taken to bring them to a conformity with the Presbyterials? Written by Mr. John Dury. To Mr. Tho. Goodwin. Mr. Philip Nye. Mr. Samuel Hartlib. Published by a friend, for more common use.	Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1644 (1644)	Wing D2859; Thomason E6_14; ESTC R11327	31,647	43

be known Fourthly that to find these Rules I did abstract my thoughts from all particular opinions in the way of my Negotiation not endeavoring to presc●ibe unto any my sense concerning these Rules but rather to draw others to a Consultation and search with me of the Way of finding out the same that when we should have agreed upon an Orderly way of proceeding in all doubtfull matters to finde the decision thereof we may at last come to some issue of the Controversies which hitherto by reason of the confused manner of agitation have been undecidable This was the whole purpose of that Discourse The second principall matter whereupon I was to insist towards you was concerning the Reasons and Arguments which first have induced me to this study of Moderation and which secondly I have used to perswade others towards the same First then concerning my selfe I doe ingeniously confesse that the meere love of Peace and Quietnesse and the hope of doing good to the Church of God did move me to embrace this endeavour when I was called thereunto in Prussia by Dr. Godeman a Councellour of State to the late King of Sweden in the yeere 1628. Since which time as I have never intended to discontinue my purpose of folliciting the Publique Wayes of Peace so I have had severall kinds of inducements binding my Conscience to the duty and some encouragements which were able to support me against the manifold difficulties and impediments which have been incident to my way The first inducement which bound my Conscience to thinke upon these Endeavours was the Call which I had to thinke upon the same which I could not but answer except I should have been wanting to my duty in the Ministery of the Gospell Therefore as I was provoked to thinke upon the Object of Peace and Truth so I thought others would be moved in like manner to doe the same if I did call upon them to that effect Hence it was that I tooke upon me to become a publique Sollicitor of these Endeavours For I conceived that none that was Godly wise and Learned would refuse to concurre in so necessary a Worke so profitable for holy Communication and so fit for Correspondencie in the Communion of Saints Upon this ground you know that I drew a certaine Forme of a Declaration to be subscribed by all such as would joyne to helpe by spirituall Councell these endeavours To this you both did subscribe and I did in some occasions require your advise and assistance but what hath hindered the accomplishment of your promise you your selves best know perhaps God would have the fruits of your Meditations in this kinde reserved till this time wherein they would be most seasonable The Second inducement was the Necessitie of the times wherein nothing could be more usefull for the Publique Good then to heale the breaches of Protestant Churches which we are all bound to pray for and I in my simplicity did then and still doe conceive that what I am bound by prayer to sue for unto Almighty God I ought also by my best endeavours so far as God doth enable me actually to accomplish and promote The Third inducement was the nature and property of the Work if selfe as it hath Place in the Kingdome of God This Consideration did not come at first so fully into my minde as afterward when I had been a certaine space in action for then upon tryall of my heart and examination of my aimes I found that in all the Scripture there was not any one duty so oft and so earnestly recommended as this which tendeth to the keeping of the unitie of the Spirit in the bond of Peace and to the Care of mutuall edification through love Therefore I set my selfe with so much more zeale and diligence to dive into the properties of these virtues whereby to discerne the excellencie thereof and what their usefulnes is in the Kingdome of God And when I perceived that all other virtues and Graces are uselesse and unprofitable to the glory of God and good of his Saints except these be effectually joyned unto them I rectified my purposes in many particulars to make them answerable unto the nature of these duties and setled a resolution unalterable to pursue this aime continually more then any other study whatsoever I had besides these many other motives to draw me on towards these endeavours which it is not needfull to mention yet because some of them are of moment and have much wrought upon me I will name them briefly as this That I found the pronenesse of mans spirit to strive to lift it selfe up against others for some particular matters of Difference very great and then perceiving the danger of such strife and the most pernicious effects thereof in the soules of men and in the body of the whole Church I was exceedingly confirmed in the love of Peaceable endeavours as the only meanes to preserve my soule from being involved into the great inconveniences whereunto I perceived most men were wrapped unawares for want of a Rule to walke by in seeking Peace Also this that the only way to encounter with men of crosse humours and that are strongly led away into grosse errors is to bring them unto the thoughts and affections of Peace and Unitie to be intended according to just and equitable Rules with them from whom they dissent for in convincing their understandings that they ought to walke by the Rules of Love which lead us to maintaine Peace and aime at the wayes of edification they are made void of prejudices and tractable to receive instruction Moreover this that all Disputes turne at last to bitternesse and vaine jangling amongst all men and become endlesse and without fruit except the ayme of Peace and Reconciliation be intended and a Rule of proceeding be used which may l●ad us unto the same These are the principall heads of the Inducements which moved me to these endeavours to which divers encouragements from time to time did co●cu●re whereby I have been strengthened against the straits and oppositions which are fallen in my way to stop me in this course of Negotiation First I had from time to time the cleere consent and full approbation of all the most Godly Divines of both sides so long as their judgements were free and voyd of partialitie and when they did fall off from me I perceived that it came from groundlesse jealousies and false informations or suspitions which did make them leave their true Principles and Rules of edification which at first they had intended Secondly I had the concurrence of the chiefe States-men that were Rationall and Prudent in he wayes of true Government who engaged themselves to give me reall assistance by their Authority Thirdly I found not only great hopes of proceeding but reall eff●cts of my w●●ke by Gods blessing disposing the spirit of leading men unto the wayes of Moderation Fourthly I saw that the very opposition of unreasonable men did