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<HEAD>REASONS FOR CONFORMITY TO THE Church of England, AS BY LAW ESTABLISHD.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><ADD>19. Aug. 1699.</ADD></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<BYLINE>By <HI>R. SHERDLEY,</HI> who was formerly a <HI>Presbyterian</HI> Mini&s;ter in the City of <HI>Kilkeny,</HI> in <HI>Ireland.</HI></BYLINE>
<P>THE Actions and De&s;igns of all Men have their Ulti|mates: So has the Author in this &s;mall Tract: It is not to be accounted Famous or Learned; neither does he hope to bani&s;h Schi&s;m, (that cur&s;ed Title which all Men hate, yet nouri&s;hd by many) out of a Kingdom where the Church of God is &s;o eminently Glorified; but he is a Stranger here, and all Men that &s;ee him have their private Sen|timents of him; &s;ome by Information, believe him a Cheat, and an Impo&s;tor; others, one of the Regular Prie&s;ts crept out of <HI>Ireland,</HI> pur&s;uant to a late Act of Parliament made there; but tis commonly reported of him thus, e&s;pecially by &s;uch who have &s;ome Knowledge of him: That he did really conform to the E&s;tabli&s;hd Church at <HI>Kilkeny,</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> by rea&s;on of his irregular and immoral Life: For had he not left the Presbyterian Party when he did, he woud have been Excluded their Societies in an open Synod or Convention of Presbyters. To this the Author An&s;wers, That this Opinion is fal&s;e and groundle&s;s; for he has it under the Hands of the Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Prote&s;tant-Inhabitants of the City of <HI>Kil|keny,</HI> affirming him to be a Man of a &s;ober Conver&s;ation; nay, he is not only thus fortified again&s;t malevolent Cen&s;ure, but he has the
<PB N="2" REF="2">Hands of the very Presbyterians them&s;elves (who are &s;till Inhabi|tants in <HI>Kilkeny</HI>) declaring him to be a Man of an hone&s;t and regular Life: And further, the Provo&s;t and Senior Fellows of <HI>Trinity</HI>-Col|lege, near <HI>Dublin,</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> have given him their own Hands to the like Truth.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> Now it may be objected, why the Author did not &s;tay in a Kingdom where he was &s;o well known for a Sober and Pious Man?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w. Ireland</HI> was a Country very pernicious to the Author, as the Eminent Dr. <HI>Gwither</HI> of the College of <HI>Dublin</HI> can ju&s;tine, he never enjoyd Six Weeks of Health &s;ucce&s;&s;ively in Five Years Time: Moreover, <HI>England</HI> is the Land of his Nativity, and a Place where he enjoys a con&s;iderable Mea&s;ure of Health, which Argument is &s;uffi|cient: But now tis reported, that he chiefly conver&s;es with Di&s;&s;en|ters; and &s;ince the Church of <HI>England</HI> takes not that Care of him he expected, he is endeavouring to &s;ement him&s;elf with tho&s;e of his former Factious Acquaintance. Now he does hereby endeavour to &s;atisfie the World, that notwith&s;tanding all di&s;re&s;pect what&s;oever &s;hown him by the E&s;tabli&s;h'd Church; yet, as he has never done any Thing to ca&s;t him beyond the Pale of that Church, he is, and hopes always to remain a Member and Well-wi&s;her of the Churches of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> as by Law E&s;tabli&s;hd.</P>
<P>Now to conclude he only mentions Two or Three of the Rea&s;ons which induced him to Conformity.</P>
<P N="1">I. Becau&s;e the lawful Commands, of a lawful Authority, are and ought to be obeyd in Things lawful.</P>
<P N="2">II. The Commands and Injunctions of the E&s;tabli&s;hd Church are grounded upon a lawful Authority and enjoyns nothing &s;inful, or in them&s;elves unlawful.</P>
<P N="3">III. If &s;o (granting Validity of the former Po&s;itions) to di&s;&s;ent from this Authority, were to draw a Church out of a Church, which is po&s;itive Schi&s;m.</P>
<P>Now the Author de&s;ires the Reader to take Notice, that he does not pinch or &s;queeze too narrowly on the Term lawful, but freely al|lows the full Sence the Term will bear.</P>
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