A Search for the English Schismatic, Title page – Postscript
A SEARCH FOR THE Engliſh Schiſmatick: By the CASE and CHARACTERS, I. Of the Dioceſan Canoneers. II. Of the Preſent Meer Nonconformiſts. Not as an Accuſation of the former, but a Neceſſary Defence of the later, ſo far as they are wrongfully Accuſed and Perſecuted by them.
By Richard Baxter, One of the Accused.
LONDON: Printed for Nevil Simmons, at the Sign of the Three Golden Cocks at the Weſt-end of St. Pauls Church-Yard. 1681.
POSTSCRIPT.
THE ſtrivings of Parliaments ſince Archbiſhop Laud's Government, againſt Innovations, Popery and Arbitrary overtopping Law, and their jealouſies of the deſigns and progreſs, while they themſelves were of the Old Church of England, do call us to think what the difference was between the Old and New.
HE that would know what the Old Church of England is, let him read,
I. The 39 Articles.
II. The Homilies.
III. The Apology, with Jewels defence.
IV. Nowell's Catechiſm.
V. Deus & Rex (all owned by the Church).
VI. Hookers Eccleſiaſtical Polity, in 8 Books.
VII. Biſhop Bilſon of Chriſtian Subjection.
VIII. Biſhop Downham de Antichriſto.
IX. The great Writers againſt Popery, as Dr. Whitaker, Dr. Reynolds, Dr. Willet, Dr. Sutliff, Dr. White, Dr. Airy, Dr. Humphrey, Dr. Fulk, Dr. Prideaux, Dr. R. Abbot, Dr. Crakenthorp, Dr. Challoner, Dr. Hall, Biſhop Uſher, Dr. Davenant, Biſhop Carlton, Chillingworth, Biſhop Morton, &c.
X. The Writings againſt Biſhop Laud, viz. Biſhop Hall's Epiſtle to D. L. Archbiſhop G. Abbots, and Biſhop R. Abbot's judgment of him, and his Tryal, with what was there charged againſt him.
XI. The Harmony of Confeſſions, and the Synod of Dort.
XII. King James's Works.
HE that would know what is the New Church of England, ſince Biſhop Laud differs from the Old, let him read,
I. Dr. Heylin's Writings, Dr. Pocklingtons, Mr. Dows, Sybthorps and Mainwarings.
II. Heylin's Life of B. Laud, particularly his deſcription of the deſigned reconciliation with the Papiſts.
III. Mr. Thorndike's Juſt weights and meaſures, and forbearance of Penalties.
IV. Archbiſhop Bramhall's book againſt me, explaining the new way in theſe particulars, 1. To abhor Popery. 2. That we all come under a Foreign Juriſdiction, obeying the Pope as the Weſtern Patriarch, and alſo as the Principium unitatis to the univerſal Church, Governing by the Canons. 3. That Diſſenters from this be accounted Schiſmaticks. 4. That we yield to what the Greeks have yielded, and be of their Religion. 5. That Grotius was a Proteſtant for the Church of England.
V. Dr. Parkers Preface to that book, and Dr. Pierce's defence of Grotius.
VI. Grotius his Volume and Notes on Caſſander, ſpecially his Diſcuſſio Apologetici Riveliani; in which he profeſſeth, 1. That Rome is the Miſtris-Church. 2. Sound in faith. 3. That he finds Proteſtants can never unite, but by uniting with Rome. 4. He owns the Doctrine of the Councils, even that of Trent. 5. The Pope to govern by the Canons of the Councils, and not arbitrarily. 6. Nor muſt invade the rights of Kings or Biſhops. 7. That if the curioſities of the School-men, and the ill lives of the Clergy be diſowned and amended, this much is enough to ſober men. 8. And he ſaith that the Engliſh Biſhops were many of his mind, tho' the Separatiſts were not.
VII. The Earl of Clarendon's Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet, laying the nature of Popery in their injury to Princes.
VIII. Guil. Forbes, Biſhop of Edenborough his Irenicon.
IX. Mr. Dodwell's book againſt Schiſm, and the ſame doctrine maintained by others who nullifie Miniſtry and Churches, whoſe Epiſcopal Ordination hath not come down from the Apoſtles uninterrupted.
X. The Biſhops endeavours ſince 1660, to ſilence, fine, impriſon, baniſh, and drive five miles from all Corporations, &c. all ſuch as receive not the Impoſitions. Together with the reſt of the true Hiſtory of theſe laſt Twenty years.
The particulars are not now to be recited.