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APPENDIX.
Numb.IX.
To
the
Right
Worlhipful
Sir
E.
H.
SIR,
f
mpEI
E
Healing
of
Chriftians
endangered
as
we are by our own
Difeafes,
is
s
1
one
of
the greateft Works in this World, and therefore
not to
be
marred by
`
hafte, or for wantof
due
Confultation
and Advice.
Three
ways are
now pleaded
for among
us
:
Of
which two are Extreams, and much
of
our
Difeafe.
4
L One
is
by the forcing Prelates, who would
have
all
forced
to
full
Confer
-.
'
mity to
their Canons, and
other
Impofitions
;
and none endured,
be
they
never
'
fo wife,
or godly, or
peaceable,
whothink any thing in themto
be
finful.
This
e
way
was
long tried heretofore
;
and thefe laft
Twenty
years,
it
bath (hewed
us
`
what it will
effect
:
The
Shepherds have been
fmitten,
and the Flocks fcattered,
'
about
Two
thoufand godly Minifters
Silenced
,
adjudged to lye in Jail
with
`
Rogues, and
to utter Ruine
by
paying Twenty and Forty
pound
a
Sermon, &c.
`
The
People hereby imbittered
againft the Prelates, and alienated from their
Par-
'
ty
as
malignant Perfecutors, and
as'Gnelpbes
and
Gibelines,
all
in dilcontent and
`
dangerous
contention,and on both
fides
growing
worfe and worfe. And
is
this
the
`
only
healing way
?
'
ILThe
other
Extre
atir'i5
thole that
are'too
far
alienated
into
unlawful Separati-
'
ens;
whole talk
is
earneft againft that which
is
called a
Comprehenf
;on,
that
is,
'
fuch a
Reformation
of
the Parifh
Churches
as
may there unite the
main
Body
of
'
the faithful
Minifters
:
And they
had
rather the things which we cannot there
'
confent to, were continued unreformed, that
fo the
belt
People
might be
1E11
ali-
`
nated
from them, and driven
all
into their Tolerated
Churches.
Concerning
this way,
I
offer
to
your Confideration,
`e.
Is
it
the part of
good Men thus
to
be guilty of that which
themfelves
ac-
count intolerable
Sin,
and that in manyHundred
thoufands, detiring
it
might
not
be reformed, and
this
on pretence of promoting
Godlinefs
;
when once their
Lea-
'
ders
drew
it
up
as
a Fundamental,
That
[be
that aloweth
others
in
known
fin
cannot,
'
be
famed].
z.
It
is
certain
that
there
isno
way
fo
orderly and
advantageous
to
the cam-
'
mon Intereft
of
Chri(tianity,
as
Reformed
Parifh
Churches.
'
g.
The
molt of the
People
that moft need the Miniftry,
will
come to the Pa-
rif
as
Churches,
and will
grow
worfe
and worfe
if
they
have
not faithful Teachers
;
and we
(hall pleafe
a
few
good People
till
they
are worn
out, and
for
want
of
a
ferious
believing
converting Miniftry,
a
Generation
of
ignorant Maiignants will
'
Erected them.
And
we
!hall
come fhort
of
the main end
of
theMiniftry.
`
4. So
many
good
and
fcrupulous People
will
leave the
Parifh Churches,
as
will
fee
the Nation
(or
rather
London)
in an
even balance,
and
increafe
the
envy
'
of
the other part
,
and one
fide
will talk more contemptuoutly
of
the Periih
'
Churches,
and the Patina Pulpits will daily ring with Reproach againft them, fo
that the
Common People, who
will be in
the
Parifh Churches,
will increafe
their
hatted
againft
the Tolerated, and
they
will live in a
mutual and wordy War.
s. The violent
Prelatifts will
by this
have
their
ends,and will
triumph
over
them
'
in
there Confufions, and fay,
Did not we tell you what would be
the
Effect
of
'
Alteration and Toleration
?
6.
When it
is
intended that
this
be butthe Introdufkion
of
a better Settlement,
'
the new Attempt will by
this
be difabled; and they
will
fay, You
fee
that
they
'
are never
latisfied,
but are
ftill
changing,
and know
not where
to
reft.
7.
The
next Parliament having Experience
of theft Confulons.
will
recall
and
'
and abrogate
all
their Tolerations.
Theft
things areeafily
forefeen.
And
you that
` were One
of
the Eleven excluded Members, know what
fuch-
Hands have former-
!
ly
done.
`
III.
The
middle true
-way
therefore
is
Parochial
Reformation:
This
is
neceffary
init
fell:
This
is
confiftent
with the Ïüfereft
òf theft
that
jufily
defre
Toleration.
e
In
a
well
conffituted Chrillian
Nation,
toleratedÇhurches fhould be but
as
Hodes
of