A55307:112
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
13. If Silence and Submission had been required, where Abjuration and Approbation hath been Imposed, the Christian World had known more Peace, and Religion had flourished, and been much more successful, than it hath been for many hundred years. Silence and Submission would have obtained all those ends, which have been sought for in vain, by peremptory and rigorous Impositions. But when some men are not satisfied that others do quietly bear and submit to their Pride, their Domination and imperious Folly, but they must also approve it, justify it. & commend it. This is so monstrous a piece of Tyranny, that I know not to whom originally to impute it, unless to the Devil, who requires the same of his Servants; but those that are the Freemen of Christ, can never endure it. Nay, I will add this little on the contrary hand, That had some things been condemned only to Silence, instead of Renunciation, and others been required only as to Submission, instead of Approbation, I do believe we should have never seen those Divisions, nor known ⟨p. 71⟩those Persecutions, nor heard those Outcries and Complaints of Schism and Separation, nor been in this danger of being swallowed up by the Papists, as now we are. But there are some Clergy-men in this, and some in another World, that were of another mind, though it is like they have by this changed their Opinion at least some of them, and others will do it in due time. Decisions Divisiones pariunt, & quo plures fuerint decisions, eo plures inde oriuntur Divisions & Schismata. Curcellaeus ubi supra.
13. If Silence and Submission had been required, where Abjuration and Approbation hath been Imposed, the Christian World had known more Peace, and Religion had flourished, and been much more successful, than it hath been for many hundred years. Silence and Submission would have obtained all those ends, which have been sought for in vain, by peremptory and rigorous Impositions. But when some men are not satisfied that others do quietly bear and submit to their Pride, their Domination and imperious Folly, but they must also approve it, justifie it. & commend it. This is so monstrous a piece of Tyranny, that I know not to whom originally to impute it, unless to the Devil, who requires the same of his Servants; but those that are the Freemen of Christ, can never endure it. Nay, I will add this little on the contrary hand, That had some things been condemned only to Silence, instead of Renunciation, and others been required only as to Submission, instead of Approbation, I do believe we should have never seen those Divisions, nor known