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A54264) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 98768) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1039:9 or 2213:16) A seasonable paper presented to the consideration of all that profess Christianity ... / J.P. Pennyman, John, 1628-1706. Penn, William, 1644-1718. Address to Protestants. 1 broadside. [s.n.], London : 1679. Attributed to Pennyman by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints. This piece extracted from Wm. Penn's "Address to Protestants". Item at reel 1039:9 identified as Wing P1413 (number cancelled). Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library and British Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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THe bent of my mind being to promote Piety and Goodness , Love and Unity amongst Men ( tho of different Perswasions ) rather than Notions and Opinions , puts me upon collecting and publishing this following ; which if duly considered by all sorts of People , might much conduce thereto . It is taken out of a Book lately printed , intituled , An Address to Protestants , &c. The whole is large , so have only collected these Passages , which I apprehend will be serviceable to many . Where there is this stroke — there is something omitted for brevity-sake , but the sense not alter'd . My desire is , the reader may receive that benefit by it , as is intended by his Friend , J. P. An Address to Protestants , — by a Protestant , W. Penn. But before I begin ( says the Author ) I desire to premise ( and can with much sincerity declare ) that I intend not the reproach of any Person or Party : I am weary with seeing so much of it in the World : for it gains nothing that 's worth the keeping , but hardens to a desperateness , what is our duty to endeavour to soften . Page 60. I Conscientiously refuse to name Parties , because I am tender of giving the least offence . p. 135. Let all Asperities be avoided , Nick-Names forbidden . p. 225. Christians ought to be distinguished by their likeness to Christ , and not their Notions of Christ by his Holy Qualifications , rather than their own Lofty Professions , and Invented Formalities . p. 119. He that keeps the Law of God , and abstains from the impurity of the World ; that is the good Man , the just Liver ; he is the Apostle's true Jew and Circumcision . p. 120. Men that are angry for God , passionate for Christ , that call Names for Religion , and fling stones and persecute for Faith , may tell us they are Christians if they will , but no body would know them to be such by their Fruits ; to be sure they are no Christians of Christ's making . p. 242. Holy living is become no Test among Vs , unless against the Liver . The Tree was once known by its Fruits , 't is not so now ; the better Liver , the more dangerous , if not a Conformist . p. 245. Alas ! 't is for want of considering that Men don't see , that to disorder the mind in Controversy , is a greater mischief , than to carry the Point can be a benefit ; in that it is not to be Religious to apprehend rightly , but to do well . p. 244. The Tree was not accounted good or bad by the Leaves , but the Fruits ; not by the Opinions , but the holy living . p. 104. Ye shall know them by their Fruits , saith Christ of the Pharisees ; so shall Men know them that sincerely believe and confess Christ , by their sanctified Manners , and blameless Conversations ; And wo to them that make other distinctions ! for God hath made no other ; there will be but Goats and Sheep at the last Day , Holy and Vnholy , Just and Vnjust . Therefore let that be our distinction , which ever was and will be God's distinction ; for all other Measures are the Effects of the Passions and Presumptions of Men. p. 99. A Man may falsly believe as the true Church believes ; for if I believe what she believes , only because she believes it , and not because I am convinced in my own Understanding and Conscience of the truth of what she believes , my Faith is false , tho hers be true ; I say , it is not true to me , I have no evidence of it p. 146 . So that believing as the Church believes , is no more nor less than rooking Men of their Understandings . p. 156. I beseech you — FLY ROME AT HOME ; look to the Enemies of your own House , have a care of this presumption , carry it not too high ; lay not stress where God has laid none , neither use his royal Stamp to Authorize your Apprehensions , instead of his Institutions . p. 77. But if I must abandon my own Sense and Judgment , and yield my self up to the Faith and Authority of another — What security can I have , that the Man , or Men whom I trust , may not err and deceive me ? and that deceit is irreparable . p. 187. To be therefore of the Church of which Christ is Head , the Redeemed , Regenerated Church of Christ , is quite another thing , than to be of any visible Society whatever ; for in all such Communions there are but too many that have no true Title to Christianity . p. 177. Thou hast no dominion over thy Brother's Faith , nor hast thou Commission to be Lord over his Conscience ; 't is Christ's Right , his Purchase , &c. — that he might rescue them from the Jaws of Oppression from those that usurpt their Consciences , and made a prey of their Souls . But why dost thou judg thy Brother ? Come , let us look at home , and view our Actions , and see if we are not the Men. p. 212 , 213. Christ teacheth us the Duty of Prayer , where and what ; not in the corners of the Streets , nor in the Synagogues , to be seen of Men , but in the Closet , in the secret of the Heart , betwixt God and the Soul. p. 1 2 King. 18. 4. He took away the high Places , and brake the Images , and cut down the Groves and broke in pieces the Brasen Serpent that Moses had made : for unto those days the Children of Israel did burn Incense to it , and he called it * Nehushtan . LONDON : Printed in the Year . 1679. Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A54264-e90 * That is , a piece of Brass : thus he called the Serpent by contempt ; which notwithstanding was set up by the Word of God and Miracles were wrought by it : Yet when it was abused to Idolatry , this good King destroyed it , not thinking it worthy to be called a Serpent , but a piece of Brass .