THE Good Old Test REVIVED and RECOMMENDED To all Sincere CHRISTIANS.  
SINCE God and Caesar has given us Peace, let us enjoy it. Why should any be any longer Miserable, when a Universal Blessing bids all be Happy? We have had enough of Persecution, enough of Sequestering, of Seizing, of Confinements, of Prisons; enough of starving, of undoing Families, of Tortuning Consciences and making Orphans and Widows for God's sake. These have been the Evils We have hitherto groaned under, and which have for many years deformed Our Goshen with an Egyptian Servitude. But now, Heaven be Blessed, and Thanks to Our Good Sovereign, we are called from this Slavery; these Heavy Burdens are taken off our Shoulders; We need no longer dread the Black Writ, or a Summons; but may every one sit under his own Figtree, and eat of the Fruit of his own Vine. Away therefore now with all Animosities and Hatreds, let Jealousies and Plotting be banished from amongst us, let Factions and Riots be buried for ever; and let an Undistinguishing Charity unite us equally to every Neighbour. Let us have no other Test, but of Loyalty and Love. Let every one Serve God to the best of his Knowledge: And tho' we cannot join in Worship, yet let no Hatred divide us. Let Christians dread nothing, but from Infidels or Turks: If these are taught to hate us, to Revile and Rail against us; if these have their Chains, their Prisons and their Slavery; Let these Turkish Entertainments remain with the Turks: For why should Christians prepare them for one another? Let us all join our Hearts and our Hands, to purge the Nation of these Barbary-Fashions: And let Railing and Reproaching be no longer any part of Our Religion; These may sound well enough in a Mosch; But make no good Music within Christian Walls: Let the Test of a Christian be no other than what was appointed by Christ. He Commanded us to Love one another: Let us all take This Test, This Christian Test. In this let us strive to out do one another: And let this be the chief Argument, by which we desire to prove, that We are Christ's Disciples. Oh! what a Happy Nation would This Charity make us? How soon would Peace and Plenty begin to overflow? How would our Neighbours abroad both Love and admire us? How would our Enemies swell both with Envy and Dread? And why now shall we not be thus Happy, when we may? If we hinder it not ourselves, our Guardian-Caesar will not permit it to be in the Power of others to do it. Let us apply therefore our Minds to the Promoting this Union: Let us all endeavour to mend every one One. Let us all search our Inclinations, and examine our Hearts; if any one discovers there any Sourness or Aversion to Peace; if any Melancholy arising at this General Joy: Let him purge and discharge it: Such Symptoms betray a corruption of Humours, and that the Constitution is not so Christian as it should be. If any Grieve, because This Peace has lessened their Authority, or shortened their Power; let them examine, what this Power and Authority was: If 'twas a Power of Persecuting, a Power of Oppressing, a Power of Afflicting their Neighbour; let them Remember, that to a Good Man such a loss is desirable, and that Tyranny is no proper Badge of a Christian. If any find an Inclination to be Railing against their Neighbours; if they can never think themselves well, but when they are Trampling upon their Fellow-Christians; if they recommend their Persuasion, by making others Ridiculous; this may pass for a Zeal, but scarce according to Knowledge; This might do well enough, were it the Interest of Christians to destroy Christianity; were there any virtue in Passion, in Animosity, and Malice; or were it our Duty to Hate, instead of Love one another. But as our Gospel stands, Meekness, Charity, Compassion and Peace, are the better Virtues, and more Substantial Proofs of a good Religion. Since our Gospel therefore is a Gospel of Peace, let us improve this virtue amongst us: And for all Snarling, Quarrelling, Unneighbourly Tempers, let them be gone into Cadmus' Field, where Fight is all the Fashion; where no Man gets up, but 'tis to knock down his Neighbour, where Ruin is all the Design. This is the proper place of such embittering Spirits; here let them fire all their Mouth-Granados, and beat up their Points of War upon Pulpit-Drums: But for us, let us live in Peace, we desire no such Champain Divinity. Our Gospel instructs us to Serve God, to Give Caesar his Due, and to Love our Neighbour; let this be our Profession and our Practice. Let those be admired, who encourage these Virtues and Teach them. But for others who either openly, or by Sly Insinuations promote the contrary, let them be esteemed neither for Good Christians or Loyal Subjects.   

LICENC'D,  
April the 2 d. 1687.   

LONDON, Printed, and are to be sold by Randal Taylor, near Stationers-Hall. 1687.