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THOMAS
LONG
I have been in the heat of my Zeal so forward to Changes and Ways of Blood , that I fear God will not let me have a hand in the peaceable building of his Church . Mr. Baxter's Letter to Dr. Hill .
E.
Whitlock
wrote
so
fierce
a
Book
to
prove
me
out
of
my
own
Writings
to
be
one
of
the
worst
Men
living
on
Earth
(
full
of
Falshoods
and
old
retracted
Lines
and
half
Sentences
)
that
I
never
saw
any
like
it
:
That
a
true
Description
of
Persons
is
much
of
the
Life
of
History
,
And
an
evil
Tree
cannot
bring
forth
good
Fruit.
Only
way
of
Concord
Arius
,
Aerius
denying
the
Lord
that
bought
him
:
That
in
the
last
days
men
should
be
lovers
of
themselves
,
covetous
,
boasters
,
proud
,
blasphemers
,
disobedient
to
parents
,
unthankful
,
unholy
,
without
natural
affection
;
truce-breakers
,
false
accusers
,
incontinent
,
fierce
,
despisers
of
those
that
are
good
,
traitors
,
heady
,
high-minded
;
lovers
of
pleasures
more
than
of
God
himself
into
an
Angel
of
Light
,
Ministers
of
Righteousness
he
would
dye
leaving
his
sting
in
the
wounds
of
the
Church
he
was
delighted
in
a
hopeful
Race
of
young
Ministers
and
Christians
;
how
much
he
valued
young
Divines
and
hopeful
Candidates
for
the
Ministry
;
how
liberal
he
was
of
Counsel
and
Encouragement
to
them
,
and
inquisitive
after
,
and
pleased
with
their
growthful
Numbers
and
Improvement
.
that
he
had
the
greatest
hopes
and
expectations
from
the
succeeding
Generation
of
them
,
that
they
would
do
God's
Work
much
better
than
we
had
done
before
them
.
That
Mr.
left
the
orderly
disposal
of
his
bequeathed
Library
to
young
poor
Students
.
Seven
years
before
his
death
Beveredge
,
Comber
,
Falkner
Last
Legacy
and
Admonitions
to
Dissenters
,
Mr.
Baxter
Quorum
pars
magna
fuit
that
History
,
as
opened
by
him
,
should
prove
a
Temptation
to
some
to
contemn
Christianity
it self
,
for
the
sake
and
crimes
of
such
a
Clergy
,
Dux
gregis
Give
me
a
man
that
we
may
fight
together
,
and
if
he
kill
me
we
will
be
your
Servants
,
but
if
I
prevail
against
him
,
you
shall
be
our
Servants
My
Lord
My
Lord
Humphries
,
Alsop
,
Lob
the
present
Archbishop
,
the
Bishops
of
were
expresly
mentioned
by
Mr.
as
Persons
greatly
admired
and
highly
valued
by
him
;
and
of
their
readiness
to
serve
the
Publick
Interest
,
both
Civil
and
Religious
,
he
doubted
not
.
elaborate
and
unconfutable
of
Exeter
(
if
Fame
misreport
not
the
anonimous
Author
)
wrote
so
fierce
a
Book
to
prove
me
out
of
my
own
Writings
to
be
one
of
the
worst
Men
living
on
Earth
,
that
I
never
saw
the
like
of
it
;
and
being
overwhelmed
with
work
,
and
weakness
,
and
pains
,
and
having
least
zeal
to
defend
a
Person
so
bad
as
I
know
my self
to
be
,
I
yet
never
answered
him
,
it
being
none
of
the
matter
in
Controversie
,
whether
I
be
good
or
bad
?
God
be
merciful
to
me
a
sinner
.
The
second
Part
of
the
unreasonableness
of
Separation
,
History
of
Bishops
That
he
made
use
of
their
own
words
.
That
the
Book
was
full
of
Falshoods
,
retracted
Lines
,
and
half
Sentences
he
never
answer'd
it
full
of
Falshoods
,
retracted
Lines
,
and
half
Sentences
,
overwhelmed
with
work
,
weakness
,
and
pains
,
That
though
the
King
had
the
Cause
,
the
Parliament
had
the
better
Men
,
Church
History
of
Bishops
A
few
turbulent
Spirits
silencing
and
destroying
Prelates
proud
,
contentious
,
ambitious
,
and
hereticating
Bishops
,
firebrands
of
the
world
merciless
,
furious
,
and
confounders
of
Churches
,
Silencing
damning
Prelates
,
Bryars
and
Thorns
,
and
Military
Instruments
of
the
Devil
.
That
none
of
the
Bishops
had
silenced
them
,
unless
by
voting
as
Peers
in
the
House
of
Lords
for
the
Laws
●…ainst
Dissenters
,
which
yet
,
all
did
not
Vindication
of
the
Primitive
Church
and
Diocesan
Episcopacy
,
Church
History
of
Bishops
Penitent
Confession
,
Sect.
How
should
one
have
the
better
of
any
Adversary
that
blamed
him
?
A
Schismatical
Sermon
second
Defence
Of
untrue
Accusations
Vntrue
Historical
Relations
Fallacious
Reasonings
that
in
writing
that
Book
against
the
Bishop
,
he
felt
so
little
Passion
,
that
he
thought
verily
that
he
sinned
all
the
while
for
want
of
a
livelier
sence
of
the
sin
and
hurt
which
he
was
detecting
by
his
Confutation
.
That
he
answered
him
in
a
manner
that
required
his
Patience
;
and
if
it
was
too
provoking
,
he
beggs
his
pardon
.
I
doubt
that
I
took
advantage
of
his
temerity
,
and
confuted
him
in
too
provoking
terms
;
and
that
some
meer
impertinent
noise
was
made
by
some
one
that
is
confuted
.
History
of
Separation
discovered
so
much
anger
and
unbecoming
Passion
,
that
I
truly
pitied
him
;
and
was
so
far
from
being
transported
by
it
,
that
it
was
enough
to
cure
an
indecent
Passion
,
to
see
how
ill
it
became
a
Man
of
his
Age
,
Profession
,
and
Reputation
;
for
he
seems
to
have
written
the
whole
Book
in
one
continued
fit
of
anger
.
Though
all
this
be
not
the
Case
of
the
Reverend
Bishop
,
That
his
Principles
overthrow
all
Religion
;
and
that
he
was
a
secret
Vnderminer
of
the
Proofs
of
a
Deity
,
It
is
most
shameless
for
untruths
in
publick
matters
of
fact
the
Accuser
is
a
Member
of
the
best
Church
in
the
World
;
but
is
this
bundle
of
his
gross
untruths
,
a
proof
that
he
is
one
of
the
best
men
in
the
World
?
Friendly
Debate
,
That
his
Book
was
so
disingenious
and
virulent
,
as
caused
most
religious
People
to
abhor
it
for
the
strain
,
and
tendency
,
and
probable
effects
,
that
they
were
virulent
and
ignorant
,
Practical
Treatises
Sacrilegious
Desertion
railing
Russian
want
of
common
sence
and
modesty
.
wrote
a
bitter
Book
against
him
,
full
of
malignant
bitterness
against
godly
men
,
and
breathing
out
blood-thirsty
malice
in
a
fluent
stile
;
abundance
of
lies
are
also
in
it
against
the
old
Puritans
and
me
.
he
wrote
a
much
more
railing
malicious
Volume
than
the
former
,
the
liveliest
express
of
Satan's
image
,
malignity
,
bloody
malice
and
falshood
,
cover'd
in
handsom
railing
Rhetorick
.
I
have
not
heard
,
of
three
such
railing
men
in
of
the
Jesuits
Opinion
in
Doctrinals
,
and
of
the
old
Dominical
complexion
;
the
ablest
men
that
their
Party
hath
in
all
the
Land
;
of
great
diligence
in
study
and
reading
;
of
excellent
oratory
and
temperate
lives
:
but
all
their
parts
so
sharpned
with
a
furious
persecuting
Zeal
against
those
that
dislike
Arminianism
,
high
Prelacy
,
or
full
Conformity
,
that
they
are
like
Bryars
and
Thorns
,
not
to
be
handled
but
by
a
fenced
hand
;
breathing
out
threatnings
against
God's
Servants
better
than
themselves
,
and
seem
unsatisfied
with
blood
and
ruins
,
and
still
cry
,
Give
,
Give
;
bidding
as
loud
Defiance
to
Christian
Charity
,
as
every
or
any
Heretick
did
to
Faith
.
Brook
Pym
,
White
he
did
it
not
as
altering
his
judgment
of
them
,
but
because
it
gave
offence
.
That
the
Lord
was
known
,
and
noted
as
in
the
House
of
Peers
,
and
Sir
in
the
House
of
Commons
Holy
Commonwealth
the
Bishop
of
Chaplain
,
preached
to
the
Lord
Mayor
,
and
turned
his
Sermon
against
and
me
,
charging
me
that
I
had
sent
as
bad
men
to
Heaven
as
some
that
be
in
Hell
;
because
I
had
said
in
my
that
I
thought
of
Heaven
with
the
more
pleasure
,
because
I
should
meet
them
there
.
This
made
me
blot
out
those
Names
after
not
as
changing
my
mind
,
but
not
to
give
offence
.
These
damning
Prelatists
are
for
our
Silencing
,
Imprisonment
,
and
Ruine
Factious
Damners
,
that
for
preferment
condemn
good
men
,
are
ordinarily
self-condemned
.
Appendix
to
his
Life
Not
to
glory
in
Men
;
(
i.e.
)
For
while
one
says
,
I
am
of
and
another
,
I
am
of
are
ye
not
ye
are
Envying
,
Strife
puffed
up
had
the
Persons
of
Seducers
in
admiration
,
because
of
advantage
;
(
viz.
)
Galatians
,
chap.
obeyed
not
the
Truth
of
his
Life
Do
we
approve
of
the
Faith
by
the
Persons
of
Men
,
or
of
their
Persons
by
the
Faith
?
once
delivered
to
the
Saints
Though
we
or
an
Angel
from
Heaven
preach
any
other
Gospel
unto
you
,
let
him
be
accursed
,
transform
themselves
into
Angels
of
Light
,
damnable
Errours
Justin
Martyr
Senec.
Epist.
learn
to
do
well
accustomed
to
do
evil
Ethiopian
to
change
his
skin
,
or
a
Leopard
his
spots
.
facile
credimus
quod
maxime
volumus
Take
heed
of
suffering
Fancy
and
Opinion
to
go
for
Reason
,
and
raise
in
your
Minds
unjustifiable
Mistakes
of
any
Way
or
Mode
of
Worship
.
It
is
wonderful
to
see
what
Fancy
and
Prejudice
can
do
!
Get
once
a
hard
Opinion
of
a
Thing
,
and
your
Judgments
will
make
light
of
all
that
is
said
for
it
,
and
will
see
nothing
that
should
reconcile
you
to
it
.
Partiality
will
carry
you
away
from
Equity
and
Truth
.
Abundance
of
Things
appear
now
false
and
evil
to
Men
that
once
imagiue
them
to
be
so
,
which
would
seem
harmless
(
if
not
laudable
)
if
they
were
tried
by
a
Mind
that
is
free
from
Prejudice
.
For
this
is
the
of
all
Sectaries
to
cry
up
all
of
their
own
way
as
Gnosticks
,
Men
of
great
Knowledge
,
as
if
none
were
to
be
compared
to
them
;
and
as
it
were
Religion
enough
to
be
one
of
their
Party
.
give
a
reason
of
the
Hope
that
is
in
him
,
the
Man
and
his
Communication
Down
with
it
even
to
the
ground
.
That
the
War
was
begun
between
the
Episcopal
Parties
,
the
one
adhering
to
Archbishop
and
the
other
to
Bishop
and
that
the
Parliament
,
the
Army
,
and
Assembly
,
consisted
generally
of
such
as
were
such
as
had
been
Our
Reformers
,
in
the
days
of
Q.
being
fled
to
fell
into
a
division
,
one
part
were
for
Diocesans
,
the
Liturgy
and
Ceremonies
,
that
they
might
no
more
than
needed
depart
from
the
Papists
,
nor
seem
unconstant
by
departing
from
what
King
had
done
.
The
other
were
for
's
Discipline
and
Worship
,
setting
up
Parochial
Discipline
instead
of
Diocesan
;
that
Queen
did
countenance
and
set
up
the
Diocesan
Party
.
The
other
Party
,
flew
in
the
Faces
of
the
Bishops
with
bitter
Revilings
.
That
the
Bishops
were
Men
of
great
Learning
,
good
Preachers
,
and
of
Hol●
Lives
;
but
the
Disciplinarians
petitioned
against
their
Establishment
till
they
were
by
Law
suppressed
:
but
this
lamentable
Breach
,
was
never
healed
No
Bishops
The
first
open
beginning
was
about
the
Militia
,
That
the
Law
that
saith
the
King
shall
have
the
Militia
,
supposeth
it
to
be
against
Enemies
,
and
not
against
the
Commonwealth
,
nor
them
that
have
a
part
in
the
Soveraignty
;
and
to
resist
him
here
,
is
not
to
resist
Power
,
but
Vsurpation
and
private
Will.
And
where
the
Soveraignty
is
divided
into
several
hands
,
as
into
King
and
Parliament
,
and
the
King
invades
the
other
part
,
they
may
lawfully
defend
their
own
by
War
,
and
the
Subject
lawfully
assist
them
;
yea
,
though
the
power
of
the
Militia
be
expresly
given
to
the
King
,
unless
it
be
also
expressed
that
it
shall
not
be
in
the
other
.
Warwick
,
Bedford
,
Clare
,
Bullingbrook
,
Mulgrave
,
Holland
,
H.C.W.
That
Tumult
at
drove
him
Only
by
displeasing
,
not
by
endangering
,
or
medling
with
him
:
That
too
great
numbers
of
Apprentices
and
others
,
emboldned
by
proceedings
of
Parliament
,
not
fore-knowing
what
fire
the
sparks
of
their
Temerity
would
kindle
,
did
too
triumphingly
and
disorderly
urge
the
Parliament
(
as
they
had
done
the
King
)
crying
,
Justice
,
Justice
:
the
King
called
these
,
the
Parliament
called
them
which
in
the
end
did
more
than
displease
the
King
.
Isaac
Pennington
Remains
—
My
Lords
,
It
is
a
foul
and
dangerous
Insolence
which
is
now
complained
of
to
you
(
in
the
Petitions
against
Bishops
)
but
it
is
but
one
of
an
hundred
of
those
which
have
of
late
been
done
to
the
Church
and
Government
.
The
Church
of
as
your
Lordships
cannot
but
know
,
hath
been
and
is
miserably
infested
on
both
sides
;
with
Papists
on
one
side
and
Schismaticks
on
the
other
.
The
Psalmist
hath
of
old
distinguished
the
Enemies
of
the
Church
into
the
one
whereof
goes
about
to
root
up
the
very
Foundation
of
Religion
,
the
other
to
crop
the
Branches
,
and
Blossoms
,
and
Clusters
thereof
:
both
of
them
conspire
the
utter
ruine
and
devastation
of
it
.
As
for
the
former
of
them
,
I
do
perceive
a
great
deal
of
good
zeal
for
the
remedy
and
suppression
of
them
;
and
I
do
heartily
congratulate
it
,
and
bless
God
for
it
,
and
beseech
him
to
prosper
it
.
But
for
the
other
,
give
me
leave
to
say
,
I
do
not
find
many
that
are
sensible
of
the
danger
of
it
,
which
yet
in
my
apprehension
is
very
great
and
apparent
.
Alas
,
my
Lords
,
I
beseech
you
to
consider
what
it
is
,
that
there
should
be
in
and
the
Suburbs
and
Liberties
,
no
fewer
than
fourscore
Congregations
of
several
Sectaries
,
as
I
have
been
credibly
informed
,
instructed
by
Guides
fit
for
them
,
Coblers
,
Taylors
,
Felt-makers
,
and
such
like
Trash
;
which
all
are
taught
to
spit
in
the
face
of
their
Mother
the
Church
of
and
defile
and
revile
her
Government
.
From
hence
have
issued
those
dangerous
assaults
of
our
Church
Governours
;
from
hence
that
inundation
of
base
and
scurrilous
Libels
and
Pamphlets
wherewith
we
have
been
of
late
over-born
,
in
which
Papists
and
Prelates
,
like
Oxen
in
a
Yoke
,
are
still
matched
together
.
O
,
my
Lords
,
I
beseech
you
to
be
sensible
of
this
great
indignity
;
do
but
look
on
these
Reverend
Persons
:
Do
not
your
Lordships
see
here
sitting
on
these
Benches
,
those
that
have
spent
their
time
,
their
strength
,
their
bodies
and
lives
,
in
preaching
down
and
writing
down
Popery
;
and
which
would
be
ready
,
if
occasion
were
offered
,
to
sacrifice
all
their
old
blood
that
remains
,
to
the
maintenance
of
that
Truth
of
God
which
they
have
taught
and
written
:
And
shall
we
be
thus
despightfully
ranged
with
them
whom
we
do
thus
professedly
oppose
?
But
alas
,
this
is
but
one
of
those
many
scandalous
Aspersions
and
intolerable
Affronts
that
are
daily
cast
upon
us
.
My
Lords
,
if
these
Men
may
with
freedom
and
impunity
thus
beat
down
Ecclesiastical
Authority
,
it
is
to
be
feared
they
will
not
rest
there
,
but
will
be
ready
to
affront
Civil
Power
too
.
Your
Lordships
knows
that
the
of
former
times
,
did
not
more
cry
down
Learning
than
Nobility
;
and
those
of
your
Lordships
that
ha●…
read
the
History
of
will
need
no
other
Item
Nothing
could
be
more
plain
,
than
that
upon
the
Call
of
this
Parliament
,
and
before
,
there
was
a
general
Plot
and
Resolution
of
the
Faction
to
alter
the
Government
,
of
the
Church
especially
.
The
Parliament
was
no
sooner
sate
,
than
many
vehement
Speeches
were
made
against
the
established
Church
Government
,
and
enforcement
of
extirpation
Root
and
Branch
.
It
was
contrived
to
draw
Petitions
accusatory
from
many
parts
of
the
Kingdom
against
Episcopal
Government
;
the
Promoters
of
the
Petitions
were
entertained
with
great
respects
.
The
Petitions
of
the
opposite
Party
,
subscribed
with
many
thousand
hands
,
were
slighted
and
disregarded
.
The
Rabble
of
were
stirred
up
to
come
armed
by
thousands
to
the
Houses
,
offering
foul
Abuses
,
crying
out
,
and
professed
they
would
pull
the
Bishops
in
pieces
.
The
House
of
Lords
sent
Messages
to
disperse
them
;
they
hold
on
.
The
Marquess
of
told
the
Bishops
they
were
in
great
danger
,
advising
them
to
continue
in
the
House
that
night
.
Messages
were
sent
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
but
nothing
done
for
their
security
.
At
last
the
Earl
of
undertook
the
protection
of
the
Archbishop
of
and
his
Company
;
and
the
rest
,
by
long
stay
and
secret
passages
,
escaped
home
.
This
Archbishop
perswades
the
Bishops
to
petition
his
Majesty
that
they
might
be
secured
in
the
performance
of
their
Duties
,
and
to
protest
against
such
Acts
as
should
be
made
during
their
forced
absence
.
He
drew
up
the
Petition
and
Protestation
in
our
presence
,
avowing
it
to
be
legal
,
just
,
and
agreeable
to
former
proceedings
,
and
got
our
Subscriptions
:
And
whereas
this
Paper
was
first
to
have
been
delivered
to
his
Majesty's
Secretary
,
then
to
his
Majesty
,
and
after
to
the
Parliament
,
by
the
Lord
Keeper
;
these
professed
they
never
perused
it
;
and
the
Lord
Keeper
,
to
ingratiate
himself
with
the
House
of
Commons
and
the
Faction
,
reads
it
in
the
House
of
Lords
,
aggravates
the
matter
as
highly
offensive
,
and
of
dangerous
consequence
,
and
so
sends
it
to
the
House
of
Commons
;
where
cries
it
up
for
High
Treason
,
yea
,
preferring
it
to
the
Powder
Plot.
The
Bishops
are
called
to
the
Bar
on
their
knees
,
charged
with
High
Treason
,
and
on
at
eight
a
clock
in
the
Night
,
in
extremity
of
Frost
,
voted
to
the
The
Citizens
entertained
the
News
with
Bells
and
Bonfires
.
While
we
were
under
restraint
,
the
Faction
renew
the
Bill
which
had
been
twice
rejected
to
take
away
the
Bishops
Votes
in
Parliament
,
and
prevail
.
Their
greatest
Lawyers
were
employed
to
advance
our
Impeachment
to
the
highest
,
but
found
nothing
to
fasten
on
us
:
One
of
their
Oracles
professed
they
might
as
well
accuse
us
of
Adultery
as
Treason
.
The
House
of
Commons
,
who
first
desired
we
might
be
brought
to
a
speedy
Trial
,
suffered
us
to
languish
:
at
last
,
on
our
Petition
we
obtain
it
.
Our
Impeachments
being
read
,
we
plead
and
desired
speedy
Trial.
A
day
is
appointed
.
aggravate
our
pretended
Treason
;
which
our
Counsel
being
ready
to
answer
,
we
were
put
off
to
another
day
,
which
never
came
.
The
Circumstances
of
that
days
hearing
were
more
grievous
than
the
substance
:
we
were
all
thronged
so
miserably
in
that
strait
Room
before
the
Bar
,
sweating
,
and
strugling
with
a
merciless
Multitude
;
and
when
dismissed
,
exposed
to
a
new
and
greater
danger
:
for
in
the
dark
we
must
back
to
the
and
shoot
the
Bridge
with
no
small
peril
:
There
we
lye
,
expecting
new
Summons
;
but
the
Parliament
wave
their
Impeachment
of
Treason
,
and
accuse
us
of
High
Misdemeanours
;
and
in
a
Bill
preferred
against
us
,
desire
our
Spiritual
Means
may
be
taken
away
.
After
some
Weeks
more
,
finding
the
to
be
chargeable
,
we
petition
for
Liberty
on
Bail
:
the
Lords
grant
it
,
and
we
were
freed
;
but
the
Commons
hearing
of
it
,
expostulate
with
the
Lords
for
freeing
us
without
their
consent
;
so
we
are
remanded
to
the
Having
tarried
there
from
where
by
turns
we
preached
every
Lord's-day
to
a
great
Auditory
of
Citizens
,
upon
our
Petition
and
Bonds
,
with
a
Clause
of
Revocation
at
a
short
warning
,
we
were
dismissed
.
Out
of
these
Concessions
there
was
framed
a
Catechism
that
would
justifie
the
Parliament
in
all
their
proceedings
against
the
King
.
To
bind
my self
to
a
general
and
implicite
consent
to
whatever
they
shall
desire
or
propound
;
which
were
as
if
should
have
consented
not
only
to
bind
his
own
hands
,
and
cut
off
his
hair
,
but
to
put
out
his
own
eyes
,
that
the
might
with
the
more
safety
mock
and
abuse
him
;
which
they
chose
rather
to
do
than
quite
to
destroy
him
,
when
he
was
become
so
tame
an
Object
and
fit
Occasion
for
their
Sport
and
Scorn
.
The
King's
Answer
to
the
Nineteen
Propositions
greatly
confirmed
many
,
that
his
declaring
that
the
Legislative
Power
was
in
King
,
Lords
,
and
Commons
,
and
that
the
Government
was
mixt
,
and
not
Arbitrary
;
but
as
soon
as
the
Parliament
assumed
it
,
they
exercised
as
Arbitrarily
as
ever
Tyrant
did
.
Isle
of
Wight
That
the
War
was
begun
by
Episcopal
Men
None
but
young
Men
and
Foreigners
will
believe
.
Will
you
maintain
and
set
forward
,
as
much
as
lyeth
in
you
,
quietness
,
peace
,
and
love
among
all
Christian
People
,
especially
among
them
that
are
or
shall
be
committed
to
your
charge
.
I
will
so
do
,
the
Lord
being
my
helper
.
Will
you
reverently
obey
your
Ordinary
,
and
other
chief
Ministers
,
to
whom
the
Government
and
Charge
is
committed
over
you
,
following
with
a
glad
mind
and
will
their
godly
Admonitions
,
and
submitting
your self
to
their
godly
Judgments
?
I
will
so
do
,
the
Lord
being
my
helper
.
Hugh
Peters
Polemical
Writings
I
was
not
bred
in
but
in
In
my
Childhood
I
was
first
bred
up
under
the
School
and
Church-teaching
of
eight
several
Men
,
of
whom
two
only
preached
once
a
Month
,
the
rest
were
but
Readers
of
the
Liturgy
,
and
of
very
scandalous
Lives
.
Hist.
of
Episc
Censor
morum
From
the
Age
of
Six
till
Ten
,
I
had
four
School-masters
Curates
of
the
place
successively
,
that
read
Common-Prayer
;
two
never
preached
,
the
other
two
seldom
;
but
the
two
more
learned
drank
themselves
into
beggary
,
and
left
us
.
After
that
I
fell
into
the
hand
of
a
Teacher
that
studied
for
Preferment
,
and
reviled
Puritans
at
length
I
was
taken
into
the
Tuition
of
a
grave
and
eminent
Man
of
high
esteem
among
great
Men
,
who
expected
verily
to
have
been
a
Bishop
.
He
loved
me
well
,
but
so
far
frustrated
my
expectation
,
that
in
two
years
time
he
neither
read
to
me
,
nor
instructed
me
one
hour
,
but
discoursed
usually
of
the
unlearned
factious
Puritans
:
in
his
Study
,
which
was
all
my
help
,
I
remember
not
one
Greek
Book
but
the
Testament
;
nor
one
Father
but
nor
any
of
the
Councils
,
but
ordinary
English
and
Neoterick
Divines
:
And
he
studied
little
all
the
year
but
Bishop
's
Sermons
.
Hitherto
Baxter
,
I
had
no
Non-conformists
Principles
.
Cathol.
Theol.
Morton
:
I
went
my self
at
Thirteen
or
Fourteen
years
to
the
Worthy
with
the
rest
of
the
School-boys
without
any
Certificate
,
and
without
any
Examination
.
He
hastily
said
,
as
he
passed
on
,
three
or
four
Lines
of
a
Prayer
over
us
,
when
I
knew
not
what
he
said
.
Three
neighbour
Ministers
,
venerable
for
Age
,
dying
two
of
them
above
Eighty
,
and
the
third
near
it
,
were
my
most
profitable
Acquaintance
;
these
were
very
worthy
godly
Conformists
,
who
kept
me
from
the
Principles
of
Non-conformity
.
One
of
them
was
a
Learned
great
Disputer
for
Conformity
,
and
my
chief
Tutor
.
Though
they
had
all
three
much
rather
been
rid
of
it
,
and
so
were
before
they
died
.
Downam
,
Hooker
So
that
I
was
not
at
all
in
doubt
of
the
matter
;
and
with
this
satisfaction
I
WAS
ORDAINED
,
AND
DID
SVBSCRIBE
.
Fresh
Suit
ibid.
p.
Though
every
Minister
in
the
Country
was
for
Bishops
as
well
as
himself
,
yet
they
were
so
startled
by
the
Oath
,
that
a
Meeting
is
appointed
about
it
;
for
the
Meeting
was
to
be
on
his
Lecture-day
,
and
it
was
his
lot
to
be
the
Opponent
Baxter
,
p.
The
Defendant
was
Mr.
a
good
Man
,
and
incomparably
beyond
him
in
Learning
,
the
Defender
of
King
the
First
against
the
Marquess
of
and
the
Author
of
the
Rabinical
Commentary
on
whose
Papers
of
Justification
I
since
answered
for
though
my
Objections
Baxter
,
were
none
of
the
strongest
,
yet
the
Ministers
thought
that
he
failed
in
answering
them
,
so
that
they
broke
up
more
dubious
;
(
i.e.
)
The
Scotch
Covenant
was
not
the
first
imposed
on
us
so
well
acquainted
forty
years
ago
with
many
aged
Nonconformist
Ministers
as
his
familiar
Friends
,
that
he
knew
their
minds
,
they
often
sought
his
Life
by
unjust
Accusations
,
though
God
delivered
him
,
Legal
Oblations
Before
I
entred
on
the
Ministry
,
God
blessed
my
private
Conference
to
the
Conversion
of
some
.
In
the
beginning
of
my
Ministry
I
was
wont
to
number
them
as
Jewels
,
but
since
I
could
not
keep
any
number
of
them
;
when
the
Reverend
Instructors
of
my
Youth
did
labour
fifty
years
together
in
one
place
,
and
could
scarcely
say
they
had
converted
one
or
two
of
their
Parishes
.
Church
History
Philostorgus
,
Sondius
of
whom
the
world
was
not
worthy
:
Arians
,
Nestorians
,
Donatists
,
Novatians
,
damnable
Errours
denied
the
Lord
that
bought
them
.
Saints
Rest
the
first
rage
of
the
Prelates
in
silencing
as
learned
able
Ministers
,
and
incessantly
persecuting
as
godly
Christians
as
the
World
enjoyed
,
was
increased
an
hundred
fold
As
I
am
certain
by
sight
and
sense
,
that
the
extirpation
of
Piety
was
the
then
great
design
which
so
far
prevailed
,
that
very
many
of
the
most
able
Ministers
were
silenced
,
Lectures
and
Evening
Sermons
on
the
Lord's-day
suppressed
,
Christians
imprison'd
,
dismembred
,
and
banished
:
That
it
was
as
much
at
least
as
a
mans
Estate
was
worth
,
to
hear
a
Sermon
abroad
,
when
he
had
none
(
or
worse
)
at
home
;
to
meet
for
Prayer
,
or
any
other
godly
Exercise
;
and
that
it
was
a
matter
of
Credit
,
and
a
way
to
Preferment
,
to
Revile
and
be
Enemies
to
those
that
were
most
Conscientious
,
and
every
where
safer
to
be
a
Drunkard
or
an
Adulterer
,
than
a
painful
Christian
;
and
that
multitudes
of
Humane
Ceremonies
took
place
,
when
the
Worship
of
Christ's
Institution
was
cast
out
,
(
besides
the
slavery
that
invaded
us
in
Civil
respects
.
)
So
I
am
most
certain
,
that
this
was
the
Work
which
we
took
up
Arms
to
resist
;
and
those
were
the
Offenders
whom
we
endeavour
to
offend
.
As
I
cannot
yet
perceive
but
that
we
undertook
our
Defence
upon
warrantable
grounds
,
so
I
am
most
certain
,
God
hath
wonderfully
appeared
through
the
whole
.
Having
been
an
Eye-witness
of
a
very
great
part
of
the
eminent
Providences
from
the
first
of
the
War
,
I
have
plainly
seen
something
above
the
common
Course
of
Nature
,
in
almost
every
Fight
that
I
have
beheld
.
The
War
was
begun
in
our
Streets
,
before
the
King
or
Parliament
had
any
Armies
,
between
the
Puritans
and
drunken
Rabble
that
hated
the
Parliaments
Reformation
;
and
so
I
was
forced
to
be
gone
before
the
Wars
.
And
a
Man
that
was
more
pious
and
devout
than
the
Multitude
,
could
not
live
by
them
in
most
places
,
but
were
forced
into
Garrisons
and
Arms
to
save
their
Lives
,
Saints
Rest
His
engaging
in
that
War
was
the
greatest
outward
Service
that
ever
he
performed
to
God
:
That
Neutrality
had
been
sinful
;
and
to
have
been
against
the
Parliament
in
that
Cause
,
had
been
Treachery
,
If
I
had
known
that
the
Parliament
(
in
that
Cause
)
had
been
the
beginners
,
and
in
most
fault
,
yet
the
ruine
of
our
Trustees
is
a
punishment
greater
than
any
fault
of
theirs
against
a
King
can
deserve
;
and
that
their
faults
cannot
disoblige
me
from
defending
the
Commonwealth
.
I
knew
the
King
had
all
his
Power
for
the
Common
Good
,
and
none
against
it
;
and
therefore
that
no
Cause
can
warrant
him
to
make
the
Commonwealth
the
Party
which
he
shall
exercise
Hostility
against
:
and
that
War
against
the
Parliament
,
especially
by
such
an
Army
,
in
such
a
Cause
,
is
Hostility
against
them
,
and
so
against
the
Commonwealth
.
All
this
seemed
plain
to
me
,
and
especially
when
I
knew
how
things
went
before
,
who
were
the
Agents
,
how
they
were
minded
,
and
what
were
their
purposes
against
the
People
.
another
Solomon
for
his
parts
Saints
Rest.
Whatever
the
end
may
prove
,
I
am
sure
I
have
seen
the
Lord
in
the
means
,
That
as
we
undertook
our
Defence
on
warrantable
grounds
,
so
I
am
most
certain
God
hath
wonderfully
appeared
through
the
whole
,
O
the
sad
and
heart-piercing
Spectacles
,
that
mine
eyes
have
seen
in
four
years
space
!
In
this
Fight
a
Friend
fall
down
by
me
,
from
another
a
precious
Christian
brought
home
wounded
or
dead
,
scarce
a
Month
,
scarce
a
Week
,
without
the
sight
or
noise
of
Blood
.
Surely
there
is
none
of
this
in
Heaven
;
our
eyes
shall
then
be
filled
no
more
,
nor
our
hearts
pierced
with
such
Fights
as
at
Mine
eyes
shall
never
more
behold
the
Earth
covered
with
the
Carcasses
of
the
slain
.
travelled
over
the
most
part
of
Illi robor & aes triplex circum praecordia .
Buckinghamshire
.
N.
Penitent
Confessions
Leicestershire
,
Staffordshire
but
I
durst
not
meddle
on
either
side
,
because
I
foresaw
the
Divisions
,
Silencings
,
Persecutions
and
Calamities
which
the
Bishops
and
other
revengeful
Instruments
would
bring
to
the
Kingdom
.
Necessary
Vindication
a
Man
of
War
from
his
Youth
,
Give
me
a
Man
that
we
may
fight
together
:
the
Saints
Everlasting
Rest
Pym
,
Hamden
Petition
of
Right
Proclamation
of
the
First
Juxton
,
Morton
,
Hall
,
Cosin
,
Prideaux
,
Davenant
,
Brownrigg
Sanderson
,
Hammond
,
Holdsworth
,
Hinchman
,
Sheldon
,
Morley
,
Gillingham
,
Mason
,
Duppa
,
Howel
,
Hacket
,
Westfield
,
Featly
,
Walton
,
In
my
Opinion
the
Sequestring
Ministers
being
mostly
young
Men
in
the
Vniversities
,
that
had
nothing
of
their
own
,
could
not
else
get
Bread
and
Clothing
,
much
less
Fire
and
House-room
.
This
is
an
excellent
Plea
for
Peace
,
When
the
Foundation
of
the
second
Temple
was
laid
,
the
People
shouted
:
but
the
Priests
and
Levites
,
and
chief
of
the
Fathers
,
who
were
ancient
Men
,
that
had
seen
the
first
House
,
wept
with
a
loud
voice
.
Jerusalem
,
a
City
at
unity
within
it self
.
sate
under
his
own
Vine
The
Peoples
Rights
were
evidently
invaded
;
many
Thousands
have
suffered
,
or
were
forced
to
remove
out
of
the
Land
,
upon
the
account
of
illegal
Impositions
Ministers
were
ejected
and
punished
for
not
bowing
towards
the
Altar
,
for
preaching
Lectures
,
and
twice
on
the
Lord's
day
and
the
Afternoon
Sermon
was
only
to
be
exchanged
for
a
Catechize
Lecture
.
Saints
Rest
if
Mr.
had
read
no
better
than
my
Saints
Rest
,
the
Life
of
Faith
,
the
Divine
Life
,
the
Christian
Directory
,
he
would
never
have
gone
from
the
Protestants
to
Popery
,
for
want
of
an
affectionate
Spiritual
Devotion
.
Saints
Rest
Brook
,
Pym
,
Hamden
as
Members
of
a
more
knowing
,
unerring
,
well-ordered
,
right
aiming
,
self-denying
,
unanimous
,
honourable
,
triumphant
Senate
I
shall
leave
you
my
best
advice
for
your
immortal
Souls
,
as
the
Legacy
of
a
dying
Man
;
receive
it
as
from
one
that
unfeignedly
loves
you
,
as
if
I
offered
it
on
my
bended
knees
,
yea
,
as
one
that
hath
received
Authority
from
Christ
to
command
you
:
I
charge
you
in
his
Name
,
as
you
will
answer
it
when
we
shall
meet
at
Judgment
,
that
you
faithfully
and
constantly
practise
these
Directions
,
Above
all
,
see
that
you
be
followers
of
Peace
and
Vnity
,
both
in
the
Church
,
and
among
your selves
.
I
differ
from
many
in
several
things
of
considerable
moment
;
yet
if
I
should
zealously
press
my
judgment
on
others
,
so
as
to
disturb
the
Peace
of
the
Church
,
and
separate
from
my
Brethren
,
I
should
fear
lest
I
should
prove
a
Ferebrand
in
Hell
,
for
being
a
Firebrand
in
the
Church
.
And
for
all
the
interest
I
have
in
your
Judgments
and
Affections
,
I
here
charge
you
,
that
if
God
should
give
me
up
to
any
factious
Church-rending
course
,
that
you
forsake
me
,
and
follow
me
not
a
step
.
the
Lord's
Prayer
In-dwelling
of
the
Spirit
Abundance
of
famous
excellent
Divines
were
Chaplains
to
his
Army
,
and
Dr.
's
Regiments
to
Col.
to
the
Lord
to
the
Earl
of
's
;
Mr.
to
Col.
's
;
Mr.
to
the
Lord
to
Sir
's
;
Mr.
to
Col.
's
;
Mr.
to
the
Lord
to
Sir
with
many
more
first
Plea
it
was
contrived
as
a
Stratagem
of
War
to
bind
the
Faction
in
both
Nations
in
a
Confederacy
against
the
King
,
and
strengthen
the
War
against
him
pawned
their
Souls
to
each
other
,
Philip
Nye
That
for
Matter
,
Persons
,
and
other
Circumstances
,
the
like
hath
not
been
in
any
Age
or
Oath
we
read
of
in
Sacred
or
Humane
Story
.
Cant
,
Blaire
Why
dost
thou
,
Tyrant
,
boast
abroad
,
Thy
wicked
works
to
praise
?
Have
mercy
Lord
on
me
,
I
pray
;
For
men
would
me
devour
.
having
got
the
King
into
his
hands
,
he
had
the
Parliament
in
his
Pocket
.
Baxter
:
Four
years
he
was
a
Member
of
the
Army
Bagshaw
:
Is
it
possible
for
any
sober
Christian
in
the
World
to
take
them
to
be
blameless
,
or
these
to
be
little
sins
?
What
?
the
violating
of
the
King's
Person
,
and
the
Life
of
so
good
a
King
,
and
the
Change
of
the
Fundamental
Government
,
and
The
Armies
Force
upon
the
Parliament
;
the
setting
up
a
Protector
,
and
pulling
him
down
again
;
the
setting
up
the
Remnant
of
the
Commons
,
and
presently
pulling
them
down
,
to
whom
they
had
sworn
,
and
sworn
,
and
sworn
again
to
be
faithful
to
,
and
defend
them
;
and
that
they
were
the
best
Governours
in
all
the
World
.
If
all
this
was
not
Rebellion
,
or
Treason
,
or
Murder
,
there
is
no
such
Grime
possible
to
be
committed
?
—
If
I
was
guilty
of
such
sins
,
I
do
openly
confess
,
that
if
I
lay
in
Sackcloth
,
and
in
Tears
,
and
did
lament
my
sins
before
the
World
,
which
had
done
such
unspeakable
wrong
to
Christ
and
to
Men
,
I
should
do
no
more
than
the
plain
Light
of
Nature
assureth
me
to
be
my
great
and
needful
duty
,
for
the
defence
of
the
Parliament
That
many
of
them
were
persons
who
had
openly
preached
Rebellion
,
and
excited
the
People
to
take
up
Arms
against
him
:
That
the
far
greater
part
of
them
were
Men
of
no
Reputation
or
Learning
,
and
eminently
disaffected
to
the
Government
of
the
Church
of
and
therefore
he
forbad
their
meeting
.
I
have
not
read
of
many
Assemblies
of
worthier
Men
since
the
Apostles
days
Baxter
,
p.
the
Divines
there
congregate
were
Men
of
excellent
Learning
and
Godliness
,
and
Ministerial
Abilities
and
Fidelity
;
and
I
speak
it
in
the
Face
of
Malice
and
Envy
,
that
as
far
as
I
am
able
to
judge
,
the
Christian
World
,
since
the
days
of
the
Apostles
,
had
never
a
Synod
of
more
excellent
Divines
than
this
Synod
and
the
Synod
of
Nye
,
Goodwin
,
Burroughs
,
Simpson
Bridges
,
For
my
part
Baxter
,
I
honour
the
Men
,
but
am
not
of
their
mind
as
to
the
Government
they
would
have
set
up
;
and
some
words
in
their
Catechism
I
could
wish
had
been
more
clear
:
And
above
all
,
I
could
wish
that
the
Parliament
,
and
their
more
skilful
hand
,
had
done
more
to
heal
our
Breaches
.
N.B.
Magnus
Apollo
That
if
the
King
had
been
slain
in
the
Battel
at
it
had
not
been
the
Parliaments
fault
,
for
he
might
have
kept
himself
farther
off
if
he
pleased
.
The
question
is
now
whether
Christ
or
Antichrist
shall
be
King
.
These
are
miserable
and
accursed
Men
,
Factors
for
Hell
,
Satan's
Boutefews
;
and
as
true
Zealots
are
set
on
fire
from
Heaven
,
so
these
Mens
fire
is
kindled
from
Hell
,
whether
also
it
carrieth
them
.
Curse
ye
Meroz
,
I
pray
lock
on
me
as
one
that
comes
to
beat
a
Drum
in
your
Ears
,
to
see
who
will
come
out
to
follow
the
Lamb
John
Goodman
That
the
Doctrine
of
Resistance
was
reserved
for
our
times
.
We
are
not
a
Kingdom
divided
against
it self
,
but
one
Kingdom
against
another
;
that
is
,
the
Kingdom
of
Christ
against
Antichrist
.
John
Bond
That
they
fought
against
and
Antichrist
;
and
exhorted
them
to
pull
it
down
,
though
,
like
they
died
with
it
God
would
have
no
Mercy
shewed
where
the
quarrel
is
against
Religion
,
Those
who
would
bring
in
Idolatry
and
false
Worship
to
depose
Christ
from
his
Throne
,
and
set
up
Antichrist
,
Christ
hath
doomed
to
destruction
.
St.
As
for
these
mine
Enemies
,
bring
them
out
and
slay
them
before
me
Thomas
Palmer
That
God
saw
it
good
to
bring
Christ
into
his
Kingdom
by
a
bloody
way
.
It
was
lawful
for
Defence
of
Religion
to
take
up
Arms
against
the
King
:
Calamy
;
'T
is
commendable
to
fight
for
Peace
and
Reformation
against
the
King's
Command
.
's
of
that
made
their
Peace
with
the
King
at
What
a
sad
thing
is
it
,
Case
,
to
see
our
King
in
the
Head
of
an
Army
of
refusing
,
as
it
were
,
to
be
called
the
King
of
and
choosing
rather
to
be
called
the
King
of
Commons
,
Nov.
's
Sons
are
not
spared
,
nor
though
Kings
.
Brooks
Commons
,
Decemb.
Liturgy
,
Two
Plague
Sores
That
while
their
Enemies
go
on
in
wicked
practises
,
and
they
keep
their
Principles
,
they
may
as
soon
make
Fire
and
Water
,
Heaven
and
Hell
to
agree
;
it
is
the
Sword
,
not
Disputes
that
must
end
this
Controversie
:
Wherefore
turn
your
Plowsheres
into
Swords
,
and
your
Pruninghooks
to
Spears
to
fight
the
Lords
Battles
,
to
avenge
the
Blood
of
the
Saints
which
hath
been
spilt
:
It
must
be
avenged
by
us
,
or
upon
us
.
I
have
prayed
that
too
much
pitty
in
our
State
Physicians
,
do
not
retard
the
healing
of
the
Land
;
here
are
Malignant
Humours
in
the
Nobles
and
Gentry
to
be
purged
out
,
before
they
be
healed
.
O
that
in
this
our
State
Physicians
would
resemble
God
,
to
cut
off
those
from
the
Land
who
have
distempered
it
.
Melius
pereat
unus
,
quam
unitas
,
It
is
true
I
did
in
my
place
and
calling
oppose
the
Forces
of
the
late
King
,
and
were
he
alive
again
,
and
I
should
live
longer
,
the
Cause
being
as
then
it
was
,
I
should
oppose
him
longer
:
Atturney
General
of
his
Life
That
the
Souldiers
,
said
he
was
so
like
to
that
he
would
not
be
right
till
he
was
shorter
by
the
head
.
of
his
Life
The
Honourable
Curse
ye
Cursed
be
he
that
doth
the
work
of
the
Lord
deceitfully
,
Cursed
be
he
that
holdeth
back
his
Sword
from
Blood
,
Holy
Commonwealth
Plea
for
Peace
,
My
honest
Friend
,
when
he
saw
here
a
Leg
,
and
there
an
Arm
,
(
was
faint-hearted
,
and
)
said
it
was
time
for
him
to
stop
.
the
Horse
that
rusheth
into
the
Battle
.
Providence
did
so
clear
his
way
and
draw
him
on
,
and
sweeten
unusual
Troubles
with
unusual
Mercies
,
and
issue
all
in
Testimonies
of
Grace
,
that
he
had
great
mixtures
of
Comfort
with
Sorrow
in
the
performance
.
And
that
he
had
more
eminent
Deliverances
and
other
Mercies
in
those
years
and
ways
of
Blood
and
Dolour
,
than
in
most
of
his
Life
besides
.
The
best
is
,
we
now
draw
no
blood
,
they
were
now
as
Conquerours
to
divide
the
Spoil
.
(
Stilo
Novo
Was
I
not
capable
of
Secular
and
Military
Advancement
as
well
as
others
?
Did
I
ever
sollicite
you
as
much
as
for
my
Arrears
,
which
is
many
hundred
pounds
?
Saints
Everlasting
Rest
ungrateful
men
willing
his
Spirit
Flesh
was
being
in
his
Quarters
far
from
home
,
he
was
cast
into
extream
languishing
by
the
sudden
loss
of
about
a
gallon
of
Blood
,
after
many
years
foregoing
weakness
,
by
which
his
Body
was
ruined
beyond
hopes
of
recovery
,
the
sentence
of
present
death
being
by
the
ablest
Physicians
past
upon
him
;
from
which
he
was
delivered
by
a
wonder
in
the
midst
of
his
duties
,
and
was
supported
fourteen
years
in
a
languishing
estate
,
wherein
he
had
scarce
a
waking
hour
free
from
pain
.
Hill
—
I
have
been
in
the
heat
of
my
Zeal
so
forward
to
changes
and
ways
of
blood
,
that
I
fear
God
will
not
let
me
have
a
hand
in
the
peaceable
building
of
his
Church
?
That
he
was
a
Man
of
an
unblameable
Life
and
Conversation
,
though
not
of
such
Parts
as
might
qualifie
him
for
the
Cure
of
so
great
a
Congregation
.
True
Catholick
That
it
is
the
Will
of
God
it
should
be
so
:
For
this
I
clearly
discerned
in
my
first
coming
to
you
,
in
my
former
abode
with
you
,
and
in
the
time
of
my
forced
absence
from
you
.
their
proclaiming
it
Treason
to
say
that
the
Parliament
was
in
being
:
the
secluded
Members
were
the
best
Governours
in
all
the
World
;
that
they
had
the
Supremacy
,
and
yet
had
been
resisted
and
deposed
in
it
is
to
be
believed
that
a
man
would
kill
him
against
whom
he
fights
,
Holy
Commonwealth
Secondly
,
I
mean
the
Powers
that
were
last
layed
by
,
he
piously
,
prudently
,
and
faithfully
,
to
his
immortal
honour
,
did
exercise
the
Government
,
how
ill
soever
you
have
used
him
.
The
present
Government
never
had
known
a
Parliament
more
inclined
to
Piety
and
Peace
(
i.e.
Holy
Commonwealth
They
were
the
best
Governours
in
all
the
World
,
such
as
they
had
sworn
and
sworn
to
obey
again
and
again
;
such
as
might
not
be
imposed
on
pain
of
Damnation
;
and
that
he
would
with
great
rejoycing
give
a
thousand
thanks
to
that
Man
that
would
acquaint
him
of
one
Nation
in
the
World
that
had
better
Governours
in
Soveraign
Power
,
as
to
Holiness
and
Wisdom
conjunct
,
than
these
,
who
yet
had
been
resisted
and
deposed
.
Secluded
Members
the
Rump
Engagement
to
be
true
and
faithful
to
the
Commonwealth
,
without
a
King
or
House
of
Lords
?
an
Oath
of
Abjuration
Holy
Commonwealth
published
so
many
,
so
gross
and
shameless
Falsehoods
,
and
over-acted
the
part
of
the
Accusers
of
the
Brethren
,
True
Catholick
never
persecuted
or
cast
out
any
,
or
endeavoured
it
by
word
or
deed
,
unless
for
notorious
scandal
or
insufficiency
That
the
Ministers
were
ejected
by
the
Secular
Power
.
That
some
of
the
Parish
were
the
Accusers
,
Witnesses
,
and
Sollicitors
.
The
People
should
not
be
left
as
Heathen
,
and
therefore
't
is
an
excusable
errour
;
and
when
the
love
of
Souls
makes
them
spend
themselves
for
the
Peoples
good
,
this
should
not
be
thought
their
unpardonable
Crime
.
And
they
did
think
that
the
Salary
was
for
the
Work
;
and
if
they
had
a
lawful
Call
to
the
Work
of
the
place
,
they
thought
they
had
so
to
the
Salary
.
I
justifie
not
their
Reasons
;
but
my
Opinion
is
,
That
being
young
Men
mostly
in
the
Vniversities
,
that
had
little
or
nothing
of
their
own
,
they
could
not
well
otherwise
have
got
Bread
and
Clothing
,
much
less
Fire
,
House-room
,
We
may
do
evil
that
good
may
come
of
it
,
Their
damnation
is
just
To
say
the
truth
,
many
of
them
thought
it
a
good
work
,
yea
very
good
,
to
cast
out
those
as
insufficient
or
vicious
learned
,
godly
,
faithful
Clergy
,
Pleas
for
Peace
I
got
all
the
Magistrates
and
Chief
of
the
Town
together
,
who
openly
subscribed
to
give
me
as
their
Lecturer
;
and
that
no
part
of
this
should
accrue
from
the
Vicaridge
.
I
told
them
,
that
by
an
Augmentation
which
I
had
procured
,
making
my
and
a
House
,
I
would
be
their
Lecturer
as
before
.
(
i.e.
l.
And
they
used
my
name
in
letting
the
Tythes
:
for
they
had
privily
got
an
Order
to
put
me
in
the
sequestred
Vicaridge
;
which
when
I
knew
,
I
consented
to
,
for
their
indemnity
.
And
this
was
my
taking
the
Sequestration
,
Eve●
the
Vsurpers
allowed
the
Wives
of
the
sequestred
Ministers
the
fifth
part
;
for
my
part
,
I
never
asked
you
so
much
.
Key
for
Catholicks
The
serious
Endeavours
of
your
Renowned
Father
for
the
Protestants
of
discovered
to
the
World
by
Mr.
hath
won
him
more
esteem
in
the
hearts
of
many
that
fear
the
Lord
,
than
all
his
Victories
in
themselves
considered
:
We
pray
that
you
may
inherit
a
tender
Care
of
the
Cause
of
Christ
.
Baxter
,
Oliver
Key
for
Catholicks
Richard
Cromwel
One
that
rejoyceth
in
the
present
happiness
of
and
wisheth
earnestly
that
it
were
but
as
well
with
the
rest
of
the
World
;
and
that
honoureth
all
the
Providences
of
God
by
which
we
have
been
brought
to
what
we
are
:
One
that
concurs
in
the
common
hopes
to
these
Nations
under
your
Government
.
Five
Disputations
of
Church-Government
If
you
give
Liberty
to
all
that
is
called
Religion
,
you
will
soon
be
judged
of
no
Religion
,
and
loved
accordingly
.
Second
Plea
.
That
the
woful
Miscarriages
of
the
King
himself
,
which
we
cannot
but
acknowledge
to
be
very
many
and
great
in
his
Government
,
have
cost
the
three
Kingdoms
so
dear
,
and
cast
him
down
from
his
Excellency
into
a
horrid
Pit
of
Misery
beyond
example
.
Plea
for
the
King
Pleas
for
Peace
We
cannot
but
acknowledge
that
the
woful
Miscarriages
of
the
King
himself
,
not
of
his
evil
Counsellors
only
,
but
his
personal
Crimes
and
fundamental
Errours
in
Government
,
too
many
and
great
to
be
here
mentioned
,
have
cost
the
three
Kingdoms
so
dear
,
as
that
all
the
Bloodshed
,
and
Rapine
,
and
Devastations
that
have
been
made
in
might
be
charged
on
him
;
and
for
these
he
is
justly
cast
down
from
his
Excellency
into
so
horrid
a
pit
of
Misery
beyond
example
Though
the
like
were
never
done
in
the
World
,
he
is
justly
fallen
under
a
Sentence
of
Condemnation
.
Key
for
Catholicks
the
Case
of
Murdering
our
King
,
differs
very
much
from
the
Powder
Plot
,
or
Papists
murdering
of
Kings
,
and
teaching
that
it
is
lawful
for
a
private
hand
to
do
it
.
A
War
,
and
a
treacherous
Murder
,
are
not
all
one
;
nor
is
a
part
of
the
Soveraign
Power
all
one
with
a
private
hand
,
John
Goodwin
If
the
Body
of
a
Commonwealth
,
or
those
that
have
part
in
the
Legislative
Power
,
and
so
in
the
Supremacy
,
should
unwillingly
be
engaged
in
a
War
with
the
Prince
,
and
after
many
years
Blood
and
Desolations
,
judiciously
take
away
his
Life
,
as
guilty
of
all
this
Blood
,
and
not
to
be
trusted
any
more
with
Government
;
and
all
this
they
do
,
not
as
private
Men
,
but
as
the
remaining
Soveraign
Power
,
and
say
they
do
according
to
Laws
:
undoubtedly
the
Case
differs
very
much
from
Papists
murdering
of
Kings
.
I
speak
not
this
by
way
of
Justification
,
whether
they
were
in
the
right
or
wrong
;
I
am
not
the
Judge
:
but
surely
it
was
the
Judgment
of
the
Parliament
upon
the
Division
,
the
Power
was
in
them
to
defend
themselves
and
the
Commonwealth
,
and
suppress
all
Subjects
that
were
in
Arms
against
them
;
and
that
those
that
did
resist
them
,
did
resist
the
Higher
Powers
set
over
them
by
God
,
and
therefore
were
guilty
of
the
Damnation
of
Resisters
.
Political
Aphorisms
That
the
Legislative
Power
being
divided
between
the
Prince
and
Senate
,
the
Prince
invading
the
Senates
Right
,
may
justly
be
resisted
,
and
lose
his
Right
.
For
if
it
were
known
before-hand
,
that
if
they
should
purchase
a
Victory
by
their
Blood
,
when
they
have
done
all
,
they
must
be
all
governed
by
him
,
whom
they
have
conquered
,
and
lye
at
his
mercy
,
they
would
hardly
ever
have
an
Army
to
defend
them
.
(
i.e.
great
Prelate
Art
thou
come
,
little
Vxbridge
:
It
was
the
Lord
that
troubled
and
cut
him
off
because
he
troubled
O
that
in
this
our
State
,
Physicians
would
resemble
God
,
to
cut
off
those
from
the
Land
that
have
distempered
it
Melius
pereat
unus
quam
unitas
:
Men
that
lye
under
the
guilt
of
much
Innocent
Blood
,
are
not
fit
persons
to
be
at
peace
with
,
till
all
the
guilt
of
Blood
be
expiated
and
avenged
,
either
by
the
Sword
of
the
Law
,
or
by
the
Law
of
the
Sword
,
else
the
Peace
can
never
be
safe
or
just
.
I
did
,
it
is
true
,
in
my
place
and
calling
,
oppose
the
Forces
of
the
late
King
;
and
where
he
alive
again
,
and
should
I
live
longer
,
the
Cause
being
as
then
it
was
,
I
should
oppose
him
longer
That
the
Representative
of
the
People
in
Parliament
have
the
Supream
Power
of
the
Nation
;
and
whatever
is
enacted
or
declared
for
Law
by
the
Commons
in
Parliament
,
hath
the
form
of
a
Law
;
and
the
People
are
concluded
thereby
,
though
the
Consent
of
King
and
Peers
be
not
had
thereunto
.
If
a
Thief
apprehends
a
Traveller
,
disarms
him
,
robs
him
of
his
Money
,
and
leaves
him
naked
,
and
fast
bound
to
some
Tree
,
and
some
ravenous
Beast
finding
him
in
that
condition
,
kills
and
devours
him
;
to
whom
ought
the
cause
of
his
Death
to
be
imputed
?
to
the
Thief
,
or
to
the
Beast
?
Whereas
it
might
be
objected
that
the
Covenant
obliged
them
to
preserve
the
King's
Person
:
It
was
with
this
restriction
,
In
the
preservation
of
the
true
Religion
.
Religion
and
Publick
Interest
were
to
be
understood
the
principal
and
supream
Matters
engaged
for
;
the
King's
Person
and
Authority
were
inferiour
and
subordinate
;
which
being
not
consistent
with
the
preservation
of
Religion
and
Publick
Interest
,
they
were
by
the
Covenant
obliged
against
it
.
viz.
That
if
the
King
were
excluded
from
Government
in
for
not
granting
the
Propositions
concerning
Religion
and
the
Covenant
,
it
was
not
lawful
for
that
Kingdom
to
assist
him
for
the
recovery
of
his
Government
?
Solemn
Covenant
That
no
more
Addresses
be
made
from
them
to
the
King
,
nor
any
Letters
or
Message
received
from
him
:
That
it
should
be
Treason
for
any
person
to
receive
Letters
from
the
King
,
or
deliver
any
to
him
,
without
leave
from
both
Houses
.
History
of
Separation
an
Association
Worcestershire
Agreement
Gildas
Salvianus
That
notoriously
insufficient
and
scandalous
persons
Stupor
Mundi
should
not
be
permitted
to
meddle
with
the
Mysteries
of
Christ
,
especially
the
Sacraments
.
That
it
had
been
put
to
a
Vote
in
Parliament
,
to
take
away
both
Ministry
and
Maintenance
,
which
was
carried
in
the
Negative
by
two
Voices
only
One
sort
that
will
be
offended
at
me
are
some
of
the
Divines
of
the
Prelatical
way
,
for
reproaching
not
as
by
hear-say
,
but
from
sight
and
feeling
,
first
,
the
Silencing
of
most
godly
able
men
,
the
Persecution
even
of
the
peaceable
,
the
discountenance
of
godliness
,
and
the
insulting
scorn
of
the
profanest
in
the
Land
.
many
hundred
swearing
,
drunken
,
ignorant
,
scandalous
,
negligent
Ministers
are
cast
out
,
and
we
have
now
many
humble
,
godly
,
painful
Teachers
in
a
County
.
Gildas
,
That
most
of
them
wherever
he
came
,
did
make
Religion
,
and
reading
the
Sacred
Scriptures
,
or
speaking
of
the
way
to
Heaven
,
the
matter
of
their
bitter
scorn
and
reproach
.
by
the
Bishops
instigation
,
kept
Mr.
long
in
Prison
,
and
twice
cropt
his
Ears
for
writing
against
their
Masks
and
Plays
,
and
the
high
and
hard
proceedings
of
the
Prelates
;
though
the
Archbishop
shewed
greater
Crimes
,
of
which
he
was
proved
guilty
,
such
a
fast
as
God
required
,
to
loose
the
bands
of
wickedness
,
to
undo
the
heavy
burthens
,
to
break
every
yoak
,
and
to
let
the
oppressed
to
free
.
s
fast
for
strife
and
debate
,
to
smite
with
the
fist
of
wickedness
,
make
their
voice
to
be
heard
on
high
,
God
I
thank
thee
,
I
am
not
as
other
men
,
nor
as
this
Publican
,
Haters
of
practical
godliness
,
and
of
all
that
would
but
speak
seriously
of
Heaven
,
and
tell
Men
of
Death
and
Judgment
,
and
spend
the
Lord's
day
in
preparation
thereto
;
that
did
but
pray
in
their
Families
,
or
reprove
Drunkenness
or
Swearing
.
The
Churches
were
pestered
with
abundance
of
meer
Readers
,
Drunken
,
Profane
,
and
Debauched
Men
:
and
many
that
had
more
plausible
Tongues
,
made
it
their
chief
business
to
bring
those
they
called
Puritans
into
disgrace
.
So
that
I
must
needs
say
,
I
knew
no
place
in
those
times
where
a
Man
might
not
more
safely
have
been
drunk
every
Week
,
than
to
have
gone
to
hear
a
Sermon
if
he
had
none
at
home
.
What
Toys
and
Trifles
did
the
ancient
Reverend
Fathers
of
the
Church
pester
the
Church
with
?
And
what
useless
Stuff
are
many
of
their
Canons
composed
of
?
Three
lamentable
Vices
did
the
Prelates
of
the
Church
commonly
abound
in
;
Pride
the
Root
,
and
Contention
and
Vain-glory
the
Fruit
,
&c.
No
sooner
were
they
called
home
but
some
of
them
were
so
intemperate
,
impatient
,
and
unpeaceable
,
that
some
turned
to
flat
Separation
,
and
flew
in
the
faces
of
the
Prelates
with
reviling
.
never
had
so
able
and
faithful
a
Ministry
since
it
was
a
Nation
as
at
this
day
,
viz.
Sure
I
am
,
the
change
is
so
great
within
these
Twelve
years
,
that
it
is
one
of
the
greatest
joys
that
ever
I
had
in
the
World
to
behold
it
.
They
are
all
empty
,
careless
,
if
not
scandalous
and
ungodly
men
.
This
is
not
a
confessing
sin
,
but
an
applauding
those
whose
sins
they
pretend
to
confess
?
Gildas
Salvianus
Christian
Directory
That
Schism
is
a
sin
against
so
many
clear
and
vehement
words
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
that
it
is
utterly
without
excuse
;
Whoredoms
,
and
Treason
,
and
Perjury
are
not
oftner
forbidden
in
the
Gospel
than
this
.
That
it
is
contrary
to
the
very
design
of
Christ
in
our
Redemption
,
which
was
to
reconcile
us
all
to
God
.
That
it
is
contrary
to
the
design
of
the
Spirit
of
Grace
,
and
the
Nature
of
Christianity
;
a
sin
against
the
nearest
bonds
of
our
highest
relations
;
a
dividing
of
Christ
,
or
robbing
him
of
a
great
part
of
his
Inheritance
.
That
it
is
accompanied
with
Self-ignorance
,
Pride
and
Vnthankfulness
to
God
.
That
Church-dividers
are
the
most
successful
Servants
of
the
Devil
,
and
serve
him
more
effectually
than
open
Enemies
.
That
it
is
a
sin
which
contradicteth
all
God's
Ordinances
and
Means
of
Grace
;
a
sin
against
as
great
and
lamentable
Experiences
,
as
almost
any
sin
can
be
;
and
this
is
a
heinous
aggravation
of
it
,
that
it
is
commonly
justified
,
and
not
repented
of
by
those
that
commit
it
;
and
the
more
heinous
,
that
it
is
commonly
fathered
upon
God
:
Therefore
remember
this
,
that
Schism
and
making
Parties
in
the
Church
,
is
not
so
small
a
thing
as
many
take
it
for
.
Plea
for
Peace
,
That
more
like
truth
hath
been
said
for
the
lawfulness
of
Anabaptism
,
Polygamy
,
Drunkenness
,
Stealing
and
Lying
in
case
of
Necessity
,
than
any
thing
he
ever
yet
read
of
for
a
full
Conformity
,
sounding
Brass
or
a
tinkling
Cymbal
.
Grotian
Religion
the
Grotian
design
was
carrying
on
in
the
Church
of
that
this
was
the
cause
of
all
our
Wars
and
Changes
in
How
far
the
King
was
inclined
to
a
Reconciliation
I
only
desire
you
to
judge
:
By
the
Articles
of
the
Spanish
and
French
Match
sworn
to
.
By
his
Letter
to
the
Pope
written
in
By
his
choice
of
Agents
in
Church
and
State
.
By
the
Residence
of
the
Pope's
Nuntio
here
,
and
the
Colledge
of
the
Jesuits
,
By
the
illegal
Innovations
in
.
Worship
so
resolvedly
gradatim
introduced
.
All
which
I
speak
not
with
the
least
desire
to
perswade
Men
that
he
was
a
Papist
—
but
only
to
shew
,
that
while
he
as
a
moderate
Protestant
took
hands
with
the
Queen
a
moderate
Papist
,
the
design
had
great
advantage
in
which
he
himself
boasted
of
Baxter
gave
several
intimations
that
the
King
was
Popishly
affected
third
Defence
Why
did
not
the
Man
tell
where
and
when
;
and
that
he
had
printed
the
contrary
in
times
of
Vsurpation
;
and
that
he
is
a
Calumniator
unless
he
prove
it
?
Why
did
he
not
cite
Bishop
's
proof
—
and
you
see
that
a
Calumniator
with
them
is
no
singular
person
;
they
are
not
ashamed
to
tell
the
world
that
their
Archbishops
lead
them
,
and
are
as
bad
as
they
.
I
have
printed
the
contrary
.
See
what
these
sort
of
Men
are
come
to
!
What
credit
is
to
be
given
to
such
Men's
Reports
!
Is
this
it
in
which
the
Authority
of
Archbishops
consists
,
that
they
must
be
followed
in
slanders
,
he
printed
the
contrary
in
times
of
Vsurpation
.
Richard
Cromwel
piously
,
prudently
,
and
faithfully
,
to
his
immortal
honour
,
As
for
the
King
himself
,
that
was
their
Head
,
if
any
conjecture
that
he
was
a
flat
Papist
,
Baxter
believes
him
not
the
head
of
the
Papists
;
and
he
himself
boasted
of
it
(
ubi
suprà
.
)
he
was
a
more
arrant
Papist
than
and
one
that
owned
the
Council
of
And
such
I
think
are
flat
Papists
.
He
did
not
believe
it
himself
,
that
the
King
was
a
flat
Papist
:
Popish
Clergy-men
That
the
Parliament
,
whom
they
were
bound
to
believe
,
made
it
their
great
Argument
and
Advantage
against
the
King
,
that
he
favoured
the
Papists
;
and
on
this
supposition
Thousands
came
in
to
fight
for
their
Cause
.
Canterbury
,
That
he
endeavoured
to
introduce
Popery
,
Du
Moulin
,
That
at
the
Death
of
the
King
,
a
known
Papist
was
heard
to
say
,
That
now
their
greatest
Enemy
was
cut
off
,
Fortiter
Calumniare
,
aliquid
adhaerebit
.
A
Method
for
Peace
Nothing
almost
is
wanting
to
us
to
set
our
Congregations
in
the
Order
of
Christ
,
and
to
the
great
Work
of
Reformation
,
so
much
as
want
of
Maintenance
for
a
competent
number
of
Ministers
or
Elders
to
attend
the
Work
:
We
have
divers
godly
private
Christians
capable
of
helping
us
as
Officers
in
our
Churches
(
i.e.
Worcester
,
p.
How
long
hath
rebelled
against
his
Government
?
Mr.
told
them
in
the
days
of
Queen
That
if
they
would
not
set
up
the
Discipline
of
Christ
in
the
Church
,
Christ
would
set
it
up
himself
in
a
way
that
should
make
their
hearts
to
ake
:
I
think
their
hearts
have
aked
by
this
time
;
and
as
they
judged
him
to
the
Gallows
for
his
Prediction
,
so
hath
Christ
executed
them
by
Thousands
for
their
Rebellion
against
him
.
Coppinger
,
Penry
Eliz.
Angl.
Some
of
those
Men
who
were
great
Admirers
of
the
thought
there
was
no
better
way
for
establishing
it
in
than
by
railing
against
the
English
Hierarchy
,
and
stirring
up
the
People
to
a
dislike
of
Bishops
.
Martin
Mar-Prelate
,
Minerals
,
Diotrephes
,
A
Demonstration
of
Discipline
,
A
Dialogue
That
the
Bishops
Callings
are
meer
Antichristian
,
Dangerous
Positions
They
were
very
devilish
and
infamous
Dialogues
,
and
that
there
was
a
Conspiracy
between
&c.
by
some
extraordinary
means
for
releasing
of
some
that
stood
in
danger
of
their
lives
;
meaning
,
as
I
suppose
,
Vdal
,
Newman
A
Demonstration
of
Discipline
which
Christ
hath
prescribed
in
his
Word
for
the
government
of
his
Church
,
in
all
times
and
places
to
the
Worlds
end
.
To
the
supposed
Governours
of
the
Church
of
Who
can
deny
you
,
without
blushing
,
to
be
the
cause
of
all
ungodliness
,
seeing
your
Government
is
that
which
giveth
leave
to
a
Man
to
be
any
thing
,
save
a
sound
Christian
?
for
certainly
it's
more
free
in
these
days
to
be
a
Papist
,
Anabaptist
,
of
the
Family
of
Love
,
yea
,
as
any
most
wicked
,
rather
than
what
we
should
be
:
And
I
could
live
these
Twenty
years
as
well
as
any
such
in
yea
,
in
a
Bishop's
House
it
may
be
,
and
never
be
molested
for
it
.
So
true
is
that
you
are
charged
with
in
a
Dialogue
lately
come
forth
,
and
by
you
burnt
,
that
you
care
for
nothing
but
the
Maintenance
of
your
Dignities
,
be
it
to
the
damnation
of
your
own
Souls
,
and
infinite
millions
more
.
That
he
was
indicted
on
the
Statute
of
for
publishing
seditious
words
against
the
Queen
,
but
that
the
Book
charged
on
him
,
contained
no
seditious
words
against
the
Queen
,
but
the
Bishops
only
.
That
they
who
spake
against
her
Majesty's
Government
in
Cases
Ecclesiastical
,
her
Laws
,
Proceedings
,
or
Ecclesiastical
Officers
which
ruled
under
her
,
did
defame
the
Queen
.
Key
for
Catholicks
To
his
Highness
Lord
Protector
That
if
the
Body
of
a
Commonwealth
,
or
those
that
have
part
in
the
Legislative
Power
,
and
so
in
the
Supremacy
,
should
be
unwillingly
engaged
in
a
War
with
the
Prince
,
suppose
the
Long
Parliament
,
or
the
Commonwealth
under
against
King
the
First
and
after
many
years
Blood
and
Desolations
,
judiciously
take
away
his
Life
as
guilty
of
all
this
Blood
,
and
not
to
be
trusted
any
more
with
Government
,
(
as
the
Parliaments
Vote
for
Non-address
to
the
King
.
)
And
all
this
they
do
,
not
as
Private
Men
,
but
as
the
remaining
Soveraign
Power
,
and
say
they
do
it
according
to
Law
;
undoubtedly
this
case
doth
very
much
differ
from
the
Powder
Plot
,
or
Papists
murdering
of
Kings
.
Five
Disputations
of
Church
Government
Method
for
Peace
We
have
taken
down
the
superfluous
honour
of
Bishops
,
their
power
over
Presbyters
as
Antichristian
No
Bishop
No
King
Holy
Common-wealth
He
suited
that
Book
to
the
demands
and
doubts
of
those
times
.
That
the
King
being
secluded
,
and
his
Subjects
discharged
of
their
Obedience
,
ought
not
to
be
readmitted
.
That
a
Succession
of
wise
and
godly
Men
,
may
be
secured
to
the
Nation
in
the
highest
Power
,
is
that
I
have
directed
you
the
way
to
in
this
Book
.
that
the
King
was
the
highest
Power
in
the
times
of
Division
,
and
that
he
had
power
to
make
that
War
that
he
made
,
and
I
will
offer
my
Head
to
Justice
as
a
Rebel
.
My
wish
is
that
our
Parliaments
may
be
holy
,
and
this
ascertained
from
Generation
to
Generation
,
by
such
a
necessary
Regulation
of
Elections
,
that
all
those
who
by
wickedness
have
forfeited
their
Liberties
may
neither
choose
nor
be
chosen
.
And
the
reducing
Elections
to
faithful
,
honest
,
upright
men
,
such
as
were
then
in
's
Parliament
,
is
the
only
,
only
,
only
way
to
a
certain
and
perpetual
Peace
and
Happiness
.
Richard
Cromwel
one
that
inherited
his
Father's
Vertue
piously
,
prudently
,
and
faithfully
,
to
his
immortal
Honour
,
exercised
the
Government
all
men
to
live
in
obedience
to
him
Five
Disputations
a
faithful
Subject
to
his
Highness
,
as
an
Officer
of
the
Vniversal
King
,
rejoyceth
in
the
present
happiness
of
and
honoureth
all
the
Providences
of
God
by
which
we
have
been
brought
to
what
we
are
?
Key
for
Catholiks
Holy
Commonwealth
Nor
can
I
be
so
unthankful
as
to
say
,
for
all
the
sins
and
miscarriages
of
Men
since
,
that
we
have
not
received
much
mercy
from
the
Lord
.
HITHERTO
HATH
THE
LORD
HELPED
VS
.
All
of
them
do
light
their
Fires
at
his
Torch
.
wipe
his
mouth
,
and
say
,
What
have
I
done
?
I
must
profess
,
that
if
I
had
taken
up
Arms
in
that
War
against
the
Parliament
,
Holy
Commonwealth
my
Conscience
tells
me
I
had
been
a
Traytor
,
and
guilty
of
resisting
the
Higher
Powers
.
Key
for
Catholicks
Legislative
Power
highest
Judicial
Power
between
the
Prince
and
Senate
That
the
Prince
invading
the
Senates
Right
,
may
justly
be
resisted
and
lose
his
Right
,
Further
than
I
was
for
the
King
,
I
never
was
one
year
with
the
stronger
side
:
Commonw
.
If
any
of
them
can
prove
that
I
was
guilty
of
hurt
to
the
Person
,
or
destruction
to
the
Power
of
the
King
,
or
of
changing
the
Fundamental
Constitution
of
the
Commonwealth
,
taking
down
the
House
of
Lords
without
consent
of
all
three
Estates
that
had
a
part
in
the
Soveraignty
;
I
will
never
gain-say
them
if
they
call
me
a
most
perfidious
Rebel
,
and
tell
me
that
I
am
guilty
of
far
greater
sin
than
Murder
,
Whoredom
,
or
Drunkenness
.
Nonconformists
Plea
,
—
In
all
the
times
of
Vsurpation
,
and
since
,
I
said
and
wrote
that
the
King's
Person
is
inviolable
,
and
to
be
judged
by
none
,
either
Peer
or
Parliament
:
And
the
Book
accused
Holy
Commonw
goeth
on
these
Principles
The
Book
accused
hath
not
a
word
meet
to
tempt
a
Man
in
his
wits
to
such
accusation
:
Though
a
Nation
wrong
their
King
,
and
so
they
are
on
the
worser
side
,
yet
may
he
not
lawfully
war
against
the
Common
Good
,
or
on
that
account
;
nor
any
help
him
in
that
War
.
If
a
Prince
that
hath
not
the
whole
Soveraignty
be
conquered
by
the
Senate
that
hath
the
other
part
,
and
that
in
a
just
defensive
War
,
the
Senate
cannot
assume
the
whole
Soveraignty
,
but
supposeth
that
Government
to
remain
:
and
therefore
another
King
must
be
chosen
.
If
Providence
statedly
disable
him
that
was
the
Soveraign
from
executing
of
Laws
,
protecting
the
Just
,
and
other
ends
of
Government
,
it
maketh
him
an
uncapable
Subject
of
the
Power
,
and
so
deposeth
him
.
by
Thes.
Though
he
were
unjustly
dispossest
,
it
is
not
the
duty
of
his
Subjects
to
seek
his
Restitution
.
he
exceeds
them
as
much
as
a
Flint
doth
a
Freestone
,
Rebellion
is
as
the
sin
of
Witchcraft
,
the
King
was
called
home
the
next
day
after
that
Sermon
of
his
,
intimates
the
Supream
Power
to
be
still
in
the
two
Houses
.
is
part
of
the
Rule
of
his
Religion
,
but
unhappily
there
hath
been
a
difference
amongst
us
which
is
the
higher
Power
.
Heathen
persecuting
must
be
obeyed
it
was
not
the
intent
either
of
St.
or
St.
to
determine
whether
the
Emperour
or
Senate
was
Supream
not
to
the
Senate
Sound
Doctrine
Church
Government
Give
first
to
God
the
things
that
are
Gods
.
godly
,
peaceable
,
and
prudent
people
of
the
Land
,
O
what
happy
times
did
we
once
see
!
Long
Parliament
best
of
Princes
Nox
una
perpetuo
mansura
That
the
removal
of
Prelatical
Innocations
countervailed
for
the
Blood
and
Treasure
shed
and
spent
in
the
late
Distractions
;
nor
would
he
redeem
all
those
by
the
return
of
the
same
,
if
it
might
be
done
.
They
would
surely
silence
such
Ministers
,
and
dissolve
such
Churches
through
all
the
Land
,
if
it
were
in
their
power
,
as
it
may
be
when
our
sins
have
ripened
us
for
SO
GREAT
A
PLAGVE
,
True
Cath.
Nec dum finitus Orestes .
Great
Theodosius
Treatise
of
Bishops
did
cast
himself
down
on
the
Earth
before
to
beg
pardon
and
re-admission
with
tears
,
and
was
not
received
till
some
Months
continued
penance
.
Bagshaw
:
Is
it
possible
for
any
sober
Christians
in
the
World
to
take
them
to
be
blameless
,
or
those
to
be
little
sins
?
What
,
both
the
violating
the
Person
and
the
Life
of
so
good
a
King
?
and
the
change
of
the
fundamental
Government
or
Constitution
?
The
setting
up
the
Protector
,
and
pulling
him
down
again
?
If
all
this
were
no
Rebellion
,
Treason
,
or
Murder
,
is
there
any
such
Crimes
to
be
committed
?
If
I
was
guilty
of
such
sins
,
I
do
openly
confess
,
that
if
I
lay
in
sackcloth
and
in
tears
,
and
did
lament
my
sins
before
the
World
,
and
beg
pardon
both
of
God
and
Man
,
and
beg
all
Men
to
take
warning
by
my
fall
,
which
had
done
such
unspeakable
wrong
both
to
Christ
and
Men
,
I
should
do
no
more
than
the
plain
Light
of
Nature
assureth
me
to
be
my
great
and
needful
duty
,
in
this
Military
way
Third
Plea
,
page
We
offered
his
Majesty
and
the
Bishops
,
at
first
,
the
Archbishop
's
Model
for
Concord
:
Treatise
of
Episc.
They
that
would
have
conformed
to
his
Majesty's
Declaration
went
on
this
Supposition
,
that
the
Species
of
Prelacy
was
altered
by
it
:
and
yet
on
these
terms
they
would
unite
with
the
Prelatists
,
only
so
far
as
to
go
in
a
peaceable
performance
of
their
Office
,
p.
You
did
but
obtrude
on
us
your
own
Opinions
:
for
when
you
had
drawn
up
most
of
those
words
,
his
Majesty
was
forced
to
seem
for
the
present
to
grant
them
to
you
,
for
the
quieting
of
you
.
If
we
did
offer
such
things
,
let
the
World
judge
what
we
sought
by
them
.
There
is
most
of
that
about
Rural
Deans
put
in
,
I
suppose
,
by
the
Bishops
consent
,
who
were
to
word
it
after
it
went
FROM
VS
Whoever
mentioned
or
desired
it
?
it
appears
that
the
work
of
Jurisdiction
,
Excommunication
,
Absolution
,
no
nor
Ordination
,
was
not
thought
to
be
above
the
Office
of
a
Presbyter
And
that
very
Parliament
that
had
so
much
manners
as
to
thank
his
Majesty
for
that
Declaration
did
lay
it
by
,
so
that
it
was
never
done
,
but
other
Laws
established
which
we
feel
,
&c.
in
half
an
hour
in
a
quarter
of
an
hour
:
That
Archbishop
did
profess
to
him
,
that
he
took
a
Bishop
to
be
of
the
same
Order
;
and
every
Presbyter
to
be
a
Governour
of
the
Flock
:
Why
then
he
would
be
a
Primate
?
That
he
took
it
not
for
any
part
of
his
Office
,
but
for
a
collateral
Dignity
which
the
King
was
pleased
to
bestow
on
him
.
that
Bishop
professed
to
him
his
Opinion
to
be
the
same
when
he
took
the
Bishoprick
.
Treatise
of
Episcopacy
,
had
been
a
Judge-advocate
in
's
or
's
Army
Holding
as
I
do
that
a
Bishop
hath
SVPERIORITY
IN
DEGREE
ABOVE
A
PRESBYTER
,
you
may
easily
judge
that
the
Ordination
made
by
such
Presbyters
as
have
severed
themselves
from
those
Bishops
unto
whom
they
had
sworn
Canonical
Obedience
,
cannot
possibly
be
excused
by
me
from
being
Schismatical
.
Faction
is
one
of
the
greatest
Lyars
the
greatest
Slanderers
in
the
World
.
In
this
case
give
me
leave
as
a
Divine
to
tell
you
plainly
,
that
to
supply
the
King
with
means
for
the
necessary
defence
of
the
Country
,
is
not
a
thing
left
to
your
own
discretion
either
to
do
or
not
to
do
;
but
a
matter
of
Duty
,
which
in
Conscience
you
stand
bound
to
perform
.
The
Apostle
,
having
affirmed
,
that
adds
this
as
a
reason
to
confirm
it
as
if
the
denying
of
such
payment
could
not
stand
with
conscionable
Subjection
:
thereupon
he
infers
this
Conclusion
,
agreeable
to
that
known
Lesson
which
he
had
learned
of
our
Saviour
,
where
you
may
observe
,
That
as
to
with-hold
from
God
the
things
which
are
Gods
,
Man
is
said
to
be
a
robber
of
God
,
whereof
he
himself
complains
in
case
of
substracting
Tythes
:
so
to
deny
a
Supply
to
of
such
means
as
are
necessary
for
support
of
his
Kingdom
,
can
be
accounted
no
less
than
a
robbing
of
him
of
that
which
is
his
due
;
which
I
wish
you
seriously
to
consider
the
Extirpation
of
Episcopacy
Root
and
Branch
.
Diocesan
Bishops
Liturgy
is
established
King
and
Bishops
Apology
,
When
the
Presbyterians
seemed
uppermost
,
I
was
looked
on
as
a
Dissenter
:
When
the
was
uppermost
,
I
was
by
their
order
Sequestred
:
With
the
I
was
out
much
more
was
not
for
me
,
because
I
was
not
for
him
.
if
the
Lord
Protector
had
not
stept
in
all
the
Ministry
had
been
taken
down
.
whence
came
it
Key
for
Catholicks
and
others
that
have
been
Souldiers
in
our
Armies
,
have
confederated
with
to
murder
the
Lord
Protector
?
And
whence
came
their
Jesuitical
Treasonable
Pamphlets
,
Killing
no
Murder
provoking
Men
to
take
away
his
Life
?
inherit
a
tender
care
of
the
Churches
of
Christ
,
his
Majesty
the
Church
to
read
as
much
of
the
Common
Prayer
as
they
had
no
just
Exceptions
against
.
they
could
use
the
greatest
part
of
it
,
a
Reformation
both
of
Doctrine
and
Discipline
:
that
some
Learned
,
Godly
,
and
Moderate
Divines
of
both
Perswasions
,
indifferently
chosen
,
may
be
employed
to
compile
such
a
new
Form
,
or
at
least
to
revise
and
effectually
reform
the
old
,
New
Liturgy
his
esteem
of
the
Liturgy
of
the
Church
of
to
advise
upon
and
review
the
said
Book
,
comparing
the
same
with
the
most
ancient
Liturgies
:
And
,
if
reason
be
,
to
make
such
reasonable
and
necessary
alterations
,
corrections
,
and
amendments
,
as
should
be
thought
needful
,
Avoiding
as
much
as
may
be
,
all
unnecessary
abreviations
of
the
Forms
and
Liturgy
wherewith
the
People
are
acquainted
.
That
he
drew
up
another
Liturgy
,
a
Petition
for
Peace
and
Concord
,
and
a
Reply
to
the
Answer
of
the
Bishops
to
their
Exceptions
:
many
imperfections
needed
to
be
amended
the
hasty
off-spring
of
eight
days
more
correct
and
protests
before
God
and
Men
against
the
dose
of
which
was
by
the
Bishops
prescribed
,
as
that
which
plainly
tended
to
cure
their
Disease
by
extinguishing
of
Life
,
and
to
unite
them
in
a
dead
Religion
.
Dr.
(
he
confesseth
)
blamed
them
for
offering
a
new
Liturgy
instead
of
additional
Forms
If
these
be
all
the
abatements
and
amendments
you
will
admit
,
you
sell
your
innocency
and
the
Churches
peace
for
nothing
Isaak
Walton
There
was
a
certain
person
there
that
appeared
to
be
so
bold
,
troublesome
,
and
illogical
,
as
forced
the
meek
Doctor
to
say
,
with
an
unusual
earnestness
,
that
he
never
met
with
a
Man
of
more
pertinacious
Confidence
,
and
less
Abilities
,
in
all
his
conversation
.
furious
eagerness
to
engage
in
a
Disputation
to
which
his
Brethren
shewed
themselves
unwilling
,
wholly
frustrate
the
way
that
tended
to
an
amiable
and
fair
compliance
.
Petition
for
Peace
Take
heed
how
you
drive
men
by
Penalties
upon
that
which
they
judge
doth
tend
to
their
Damnation
.
The
denial
of
their
desires
would
renew
all
our
troubles
.
unmerciful
Impositions
We
do
not
in
Our
Judgements
believe
the
practice
of
those
particular
Ceremonies
we
except
against
to
be
in
it self
unlawful
If
they
will
grant
those
favours
,
it
would
revive
their
Hearts
to
daily
and
earnest
Prayer
for
their
prosperity
:
Should
we
lose
the
opportunity
of
our
desired
Reconciliation
,
it
astonisheth
us
to
foresee
what
doleful
effects
our
Divisions
would
produce
;
which
we
will
not
so
much
as
mention
in
particular
,
lest
our
words
should
be
misunderstood
.
said
to
the
Emperour
,
that
would
have
him
pray
for
the
life
of
his
Son
,
If
thou
wilt
receive
the
true
Faith
,
thy
Son
shall
live
;
which
when
he
refused
,
he
said
,
The
will
of
God
be
done
with
thy
Son
:
So
we
say
too
,
If
you
will
put
on
Charity
,
and
promote
the
Churches
Peace
,
God
will
honour
you
;
but
if
you
will
do
contrary
,
the
will
of
the
Lord
be
done
with
your
Honours
.
a
hasty
work
of
eight
days
,
restless
Spirits
their
own
Godliness
and
Abilities
Is
there
the
least
shew
of
Oppression
,
Sorrow
,
or
cause
of
Complaint
,
except
it
be
that
you
are
not
suffered
to
oppress
,
vex
,
and
gall
your
Brethren
that
joyn
not
with
you
?
Can
you
feed
upon
nothing
but
the
Blood
of
your
Brethren
,
that
you
complain
of
Slavery
and
Oppression
,
because
you
cannot
enslave
and
lead
into
Captivity
?
Is
this
to
kill
you
with
the
Sword
,
that
you
cannot
kill
your
Brethren
with
the
Sword
?
Is
it
ingenuous
to
ask
Liberty
,
and
not
to
give
it
?
What
greater
Hypocrisie
,
than
for
those
who
were
oppressed
by
the
Bishops
,
to
become
the
greatest
Oppressors
themselves
so
soon
as
the
Yoak
was
removed
?
the
Ordinances
against
Common-Prayer
I
see
that
those
are
the
most
rigorous
exactors
upon
others
to
conform
to
their
illegal
Novelties
,
who
were
least
disposed
to
the
due
obedience
of
lawful
Constitutions
:
So
that
I
know
not
whether
they
sinned
more
against
their
Consciences
by
violently
opposing
Our
established
Order
,
or
violently
imposing
their
own
.
The
due
Account
and
Petition
We
must
needs
believe
,
that
when
his
Majesty
took
our
consent
to
a
Liturgy
to
be
a
Foundation
that
would
infer
our
Concord
,
you
meant
not
that
we
should
have
no
Concord
but
by
consenting
to
this
Liturgy
without
any
considerable
alterations
.
reasonable
Alterations
and
Additions
no
Liturgy
(
viz.
Smectimnian
Club
(
viz.
)
Edmund
Calamy
,
Matthew
Newcomen
,
William
Spurstow
Richard
Baxter
He
wondred
at
the
marvellous
Oscitancy
of
the
Bishops
,
as
mistaking
the
matter
to
be
Discoursed
of
,
That
to
injoyn
all
Ministers
to
deny
Communion
to
all
that
dare
not
kneel
in
the
reception
of
it
on
the
Lords
day
,
For
he
judgeth
that
posture
as
lawful
,
as
for
a
Person
to
receive
a
Pardon
from
his
Prince
upon
his
knees
.
Of
Christ
.
Direct
.
That
no
reason
can
been
given
,
why
a
lawful
thing
should
become
unlawful
;
because
a
lawful
Superior
doth
command
it
,
else
Superiors
might
take
away
all
our
Christian
Liberty
,
and
make
all
things
unlawful
to
us
by
commending
them
.
&c.
On
the
Lords
day
,
's
last
Legacy
,
&c.
Was
often
there
,
and
with
fluent
words
and
much
carnestness
,
was
the
chief
Speaker
of
all
the
Bishops
,
and
the
greatest
Interrupter
of
us
.
That
his
furious
eagerness
to
engage
in
a
Disputation
,
to
which
his
Brethren
shewed
themselves
unwilling
,
did
wholy
frustrate
the
way
,
that
tended
to
an
amicable
and
fair
compliance
was
there
constantly
,
and
had
a
great
deal
of
talk
with
so
little
Logick
,
natural
or
artificial
,
that
none
was
moved
by
any
thing
he
said
,
but
two
Virtues
he
shewed
;
one
that
he
was
excellently
well
versed
in
Canons
,
Councils
,
and
Fathers
,
which
he
remembred
when
we
tryed
him
;
the
other
was
,
that
as
he
was
of
a
rustick
Wit
and
Carriage
,
so
he
would
endure
more
freedom
of
our
discourse
,
and
was
more
affable
than
the
rest
,
but
we
took
him
not
for
a
Magician
.
&c.
Of
Mr.
's
Life
was
of
the
most
Grave
,
Comely
,
Reverend
Aspect
of
any
of
them
,
and
of
a
good
insight
in
the
Fathers
and
Councils
;
he
spake
calmly
and
slowly
,
but
was
as
high
in
his
Principles
and
Resolutions
as
any
.
seldom
spake
,
but
his
great
Learning
and
Worth
are
known
by
his
Labours
,
and
his
aged
Peevishness
not
unknown
.
De
Juramento
,
De
Conscientia
Cases
of
Conscience
Isaak
Walton
lookt
so
honestly
,
and
gravely
,
and
soberly
,
that
I
scarce
thought
such
a
face
could
deceive
me
;
but
when
I
talkt
of
many
Dissenters
in
the
Nation
,
he
turn'd
to
the
other
Bishops
,
and
said
,
He
will
not
say
in
the
Kingdom
,
least
he
own
a
King
.
The
whole
Duty
of
Man
spake
a
few
impertinent
passionate
words
.
spake
but
a
little
;
yet
with
a
Spirit
enough
for
the
imposing
dividing
Cause
.
Bp.
of
askt
me
,
Whether
I
did
not
say
that
if
our
Churches
had
no
more
than
bare
Liberty
,
as
others
had
,
without
the
compulsion
of
the
Sword
,
that
none
but
Drunkards
would
joyn
in
them
.
I
answered
,
I
only
said
that
as
they
had
been
ordered
,
if
they
had
but
equal
liberty
for
Volunteers
,
they
would
be
like
Ale-houses
,
where
many
honest
men
may
come
,
but
the
number
of
worse
comers
is
so
great
,
as
maketh
it
dishonourable
.
and
Dr.
did
all
their
work
.
Dr.
was
their
true
Logician
and
Disputant
,
without
whom
,
as
far
as
I
could
discern
,
we
should
have
had
nothing
from
them
.
He
disputed
accurately
,
soberly
,
and
calmly
,
being
but
once
in
a
passion
.
He
was
the
strength
and
honour
of
that
Cause
,
which
we
doubted
whether
he
heartily
maintained
.
was
the
forwardest
and
greatest
Speaker
,
understanding
well
what
belonged
to
a
Disputant
;
a
Man
of
greater
study
and
industry
than
any
of
them
;
well
read
in
Fathers
and
Councils
,
and
of
a
ready
Tongue
,
and
I
hear
and
believe
of
a
very
temperate
Life
,
as
to
all
Carnal
Excesses
;
but
so
vehement
for
his
high
imposing
Principles
,
and
so
over-zealous
for
Arminianism
and
Formality
and
Church
Pomp
,
and
so
very
eager
in
his
Discourse
,
that
I
conceived
his
Prejudice
and
Passion
much
perverted
his
Judgment
;
and
I
am
sure
they
made
him
lamentably
over-run
himself
in
his
Discourses
.
On
our
part
Baxter
,
Dr.
spake
very
solidly
,
judiciously
and
pertinently
when
he
spake
.
And
for
my self
,
I
thought
the
day
and
Cause
commanded
me
these
two
things
,
which
were
objected
as
my
Crimes
,
speaking
too
boldly
and
too
long
.
(
i.e.
Church
History
of
Bishops
(
viz.
)
That
he
be
impartial
,
a
lover
of
peace
,
and
not
ingaged
in
a
faction
;
a
sober
,
calm
,
considerate
man
,
not
one
that
is
passionately
rash
,
that
shews
a
malignant
spirit
;
one
that
extenuates
or
denies
all
the
good
that
was
in
his
Adversaries
,
and
fastneth
on
them
all
the
Odium
he
can
without
proof
;
one
that
is
not
deeply
ingaged
in
a
party
;
one
that
is
of
manifest
hon●…
〈◊〉
conscience
,
publick
Worship
First
Plea
.
Sacr.
Desert
.
Should
the
Ministers
that
have
suffered
so
long
,
but
use
any
part
of
the
Liturgy
and
Scripture
Forms
,
though
without
any
motive
but
the
pleasing
of
God
,
and
the
Churches
good
,
what
muttering
and
censuring
would
there
be
against
them
?
the
Office
of
a
Bishop
,
as
exercised
in
the
Church
of
was
Antichristian
Method
for
peace
of
Conscience
We
had
taken
down
the
superfluous
honour
of
Bishops
as
Antichristian
;
upon
which
the
Devil
set
them
to
cry
down
also
as
Antichristian
,
Tythes
,
Maintenance
,
Priests
,
and
Ministers
:
the
return
of
such
Men
would
be
a
great
Plague
to
the
Land
,
the
True
Catholick
That
a
man
that
had
his
hand
in
blood
,
might
not
be
a
Bishop
.
A
Government
which
gratifieth
the
Devil
and
wicked
Men.
dated
when
by
the
King's
Commission
we
in
vain
treated
for
Concord
,
That
the
Sectarian
Spirit
was
like
Gunpowder
,
ready
to
take
fire
on
such
injuries
:
Guy
Faux
proud
,
worldly
,
covetous
,
domineering
,
malignant
,
lazy
,
the
plague
of
the
world
,
troublers
of
Princes
,
dividers
of
Churches
,
that
will
(
being
Hypocrites
as
to
Christianity
and
Godliness
)
like
that
loved
the
Bag
better
than
Christ
,
make
themselves
a
Religion
consisting
of
meer
Corps
,
and
the
dead
Image
of
true
Religion
.
New
Impositions
,
Subscriptions
,
and
Oaths
,
words
and
Actions
which
they
believe
to
be
against
God's
Word
.
Their
Sufferings
will
make
many
otherwise
sober
Ministers
too
impatient
,
and
to
give
their
Tongues
leave
to
take
down
the
Honour
of
the
Clergy
:
And
this
will
stir
up
the
People
,
and
make
them
pray
for
the
downfal
of
the
Clergy
,
which
they
take
to
be
Enemies
of
God
and
Godliness
;
and
that
to
speak
easily
or
charitably
of
such
Men
,
is
but
to
be
lukewarm
and
indifferent
between
GOD
AND
THE
DEVIL
,
will
think
these
Passions
of
the
People
needful
to
check
the
sierceness
of
the
Afflictors
:
Some
of
the
more
injudicious
hot-brain'd
sort
(
who
are
the
greatest
number
)
will
put
them
on
,
and
make
them
believe
that
all
Communion
with
any
Conforming
Ministers
or
Parish
Churches
is
unlawful
,
and
that
they
are
all
Temporizers
,
and
Betrayers
of
Truth
and
Purity
,
that
communicate
with
them
:
and
carry
about
among
themselves
false
Reports
and
Slanders
;
because
they
will
think
that
the
upholding
of
their
Cause
,
which
they
think
is
God's
,
doth
need
the
suppression
of
these
mens
Credit
and
Reputations
,
The
godly
and
peaceable
Conformists
will
get
the
love
of
the
sober
,
by
their
Doctrine
and
Lives
;
but
will
be
despised
by
the
Sectaries
,
because
they
conform
;
and
will
be
separated
by
the
proud
and
persecuting
Clergy
,
as
leaning
to
the
Dissenters
;
and
thereupon
will
be
under
continual
Jealousies
and
Rebukes
:
And
perhaps
new
Points
of
Conformity
shall
be
devised
to
be
imposed
on
them
,
which
it
is
known
their
Consciences
are
against
,
that
so
they
also
may
be
forced
to
be
Non-conformists
,
because
secret
Enemies
are
more
dangerous
than
open
Foes
:
and
so
part
of
them
will
turn
downright
Non-conformists
,
and
the
other
part
will
live
in
displeasure
till
they
see
an
opportunity
to
shew
it
.
And
these
are
the
likeliest
to
cross
and
weaken
the
worldly
persecuting
Clergy
.
he
made
the
People
believe
that
it
was
lawful
for
them
to
take
up
Arms
against
the
King
,
and
suffered
or
made
them
to
scruple
at
those
things
which
were
lawful
,
which
he
himself
confesseth
to
be
lawful
he
himself
heard
him
to
maintain
such
a
Position
as
was
destructive
to
the
Legislative
Power
both
of
both
of
God
and
Man
That
the
enjoyning
of
things
lawful
by
lawful
Authority
,
if
they
might
by
accident
be
the
cause
of
sin
,
was
sinful
.
The
Cure
of
Church
Divisions
Doth
it
not
speak
against
Church
Tyranny
,
unjust
Impositions
,
Violence
,
and
taking
away
Men's
Liberties
,
and
Rigour
to
Dissenters
,
from
end
to
end
?
Sacrilegious
Silencers
of
the
faithful
Ministry
,
Murderers
of
many
hundred
thousand
Souls
,
perjurious
,
proud
,
tyrannical
,
covetous
,
formal
Hypocrites
,
malignant
haters
of
good
Men
,
The
peaceable
Design
Plea
for
Peace
What
shall
we
say
then
to
the
Papists
?
The
Papist
in
our
account
is
but
one
sort
of
Recusants
,
and
the
conscientious
and
peaceable
among
them
,
must
be
held
in
the
same
predicament
with
those
among
our selves
,
that
likewise
refuse
to
come
to
Common
Prayer
.
As
for
the
common
Papist
,
who
lives
innocently
in
his
way
,
he
is
to
us
as
other
Separatists
,
and
so
comes
under
the
like
toleration
.
Pontius
Pilate
is
a
man
of
latitude
,
and
tyeth
himself
to
no
Party
or
Opinions
of
other
men
;
And
I
so
little
fear
the
noise
of
the
Censorious
,
that
even
now
while
the
Plot
doth
render
them
most
odious
,
say
freely
,
That
I
would
have
Papists
used
like
men
:
And
,
I
would
have
no
man
put
to
death
for
being
a
Priest
:
I
would
have
no
Writ
or
any
Law
compel
them
to
our
Communion
and
Sacraments
.
Second
Defence
First
Plea
It
is
but
reasonable
if
on
such
necessity
they
should
accept
of
favour
from
any
Papist
that
should
save
them
,
old
Protestants
Sacrilegious
Desertion
of
the
Ministry
rebuked
as
they
had
preached
formerly
without
leave
,
so
they
would
do
it
much
more
now
That
though
it
had
cost
some
excellent
men
their
lives
,
yet
nothing
but
death
,
or
utter
disablement
,
should
make
them
desist
.
Sacrilegious
Desertion
of
the
Ministry
That
he
had
not
baptized
any
,
nor
administred
the
Lord's
Supper
,
for
eighteen
or
nineteen
years
together
;
nor
adhered
to
any
Sect
for
twenty
five
years
That
he
and
others
are
Pastors
to
no
Church
,
that
he
never
gathered
a
Church
,
nor
hath
he
constantly
joyned
in
Communion
with
any
Church
,
I
constantly
joyn
with
my
Parish
Church
in
Liturgy
and
Sacraments
,
and
hope
so
to
do
while
I
live
.
administer
the
Sacraments
Vniversal
Church
of
Christ
Church
of
Whoever
of
the
Faithful
enter
and
hear
the
Sacred
Scriptures
,
but
stay
not
at
Prayers
and
Communion
,
ought
to
be
excommunicated
as
Disturbers
of
the
Church
.
every
Sunday
That
those
who
receive
not
the
Sacrament
,
ought
not
to
be
reputed
as
Christians
.
This
bread
we
crave
every
day
,
lest
we
who
are
in
Christ
,
by
the
interposing
of
any
grievous
Crime
while
restrained
,
and
not
communicating
,
should
be
separate
from
the
Body
of
Christ
.
Billinsgate
Language
barbarous
Censures
Sacrilegious
Desertion
Railing
Ruffian
Selfish
envious
Conformists
;
the
doleful
pride
and
selfishness
of
the
carnal
part
of
the
Clergy
;
a
Silencing
Diocesan
,
Such
Toys
A
few
confident
and
silly
Reasonings
of
Dr.
and
other
Pamphleteers
;
Vsurpers
Hear
it
now
,
for
you
shall
shortly
hear
it
from
God
,
I
would
give
all
the
Money
in
my
Purse
to
make
me
understand
what
the
Church
of
Foolish
superstitious
Priests
He
talks
of
I
know
this
is
not
our
case
in
but
if
we
must
follow
you
into
I
have
been
long
of
the
opinion
which
you
will
one
day
pardon
,
that
perjury
,
perfidiousness
,
and
persecution
,
proud
contending
who
shall
be
greatest
,
and
covenanting
never
in
certain
points
to
obey
Christ
against
the
world
and
the
flesh
,
is
not
the
way
of
God
,
Such
confidence
upon
such
insignificant
reasons
,
is
a
great
dishonour
to
the
wit
and
humility
of
the
Authour
,
Our
excellent
Successours
,
that
do
nothing
but
see
the
Peoples
faces
in
the
Church
:
You
forbid
Baptism
and
the
Lord's
Supper
to
all
that
have
not
as
large
a
Swallow
as
your selves
,
His
want
of
common
sense
and
modesty
,
O
with
what
face
They
suppose
that
the
Ministry
doth
not
save
Men
,
as
Wizards
think
that
Charms
do
heal
Men
by
their
presence
,
titles
,
names
,
or
habits
,
by
standing
in
the
Reading-place
or
Pulpit
,
or
being
called
the
Parson
of
the
Parish
,
or
saying
his
set
words
over
them
when
dead
.
They
suppose
that
a
greater
number
of
the
conformable
Priests
than
they
are
willing
to
mention
,
do
preach
so
ignorantly
and
dully
in
the
Pulpits
,
and
do
so
little
of
their
private
work
besides
,
that
there
is
great
need
of
a
far
greater
number
of
Assistants
than
all
the
present
Non-conformists
be
.
They
are
not
able
to
confute
the
People
,
who
tell
them
that
their
publick
Priests
are
so
defective
in
their
necessary
qualifications
for
their
Office
,
as
that
they
hold
it
unlawful
to
own
such
for
true
Ministers
,
and
encourage
them
by
their
presence
,
or
commit
the
care
of
their
Souls
to
such
.
They
think
that
the
ejecting
from
the
Temples
and
Tythes
did
not
degrade
nor
make
them
no
true
Pastors
to
their
Flocks
;
and
that
the
Magistrates
putting
another
Parish
Minister
in
possession
of
the
Temple
and
Tythes
,
did
not
dissolve
the
foresaid
relation
.
They
think
that
the
ejected
Minister
,
retaineth
still
his
ancient
relation
to
his
Flock
,
and
part
of
them
schismatically
separate
from
him
,
and
joyn
with
another
Intruder
that
never
had
a
lawful
Call
.
They
think
that
Conformity
would
be
in
them
such
a
composition
of
heinous
crimes
,
as
they
forbear
to
name
,
for
fear
of
seeming
Accusers
of
others
,
and
unpeaceable
.
Look
up
man
,
without
blushing
;
alas
for
these
poor
People
that
cannot
try
Sence
from
Nonsence
.
His
next
hath
no
bounds
,
it
grieveth
me
to
read
it
.
O
Posterity
,
how
will
you
know
what
to
believe
!
Here
is
much
that
would
as
handsomely
serve
I
will
not
offend
the
Readers
ears
by
giving
them
the
names
I
think
they
deserve
,
but
wish
them
to
read
They
both
killed
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
their
own
Prophets
,
and
persecuted
us
.
And
tell
them
,
by
what
Names
or
Titles
soever
they
be
distinguished
,
that
I
,
that
am
a
dying
man
,
would
be
loth
to
stand
in
their
case
before
God
:
And
if
we
were
well
agreed
that
there
is
indeed
a
God
and
a
Christ
,
a
Heaven
and
a
Hell
,
we
should
easily
be
agreed
in
all
the
rest
;
(
i.e.
)
I
must
tell
you
,
that
we
cannot
but
think
that
you
need
Repentance
,
great
Repentance
,
(
that
your
Souls
yet
,
if
possible
,
may
be
saved
,
for
sinning
more
,
and
that
by
publick
,
deliberate
,
chosen
covenanted
,
ministerial
sin
,
protesting
against
Repentance
.
Come
,
and
impartially
debate
the
Case
with
us
,
who
have
been
the
greatest
Causes
of
Protestant
Divisions
,
Conformists
or
Nonconformists
.
Great
Learning
and
Moderation
The
Learned
Mr.
meer
trifler
swallowed
us
up
quick
A
Plea
for
Peace
A
Plea
for
Discord
and
Division
The
true
and
only
way
of
Concord
;
so
full
fraught
with
impracticable
Notions
,
and
dividing
Principles
,
as
if
his
whole
design
had
been
to
prove
,
that
there
is
no
true
way
of
Concord
among
the
Churches
,
Bishop
Church-History
of
the
Government
of
Bishops
what
History
is
credible
It
ought
to
be
of
One
that
is
impartial
,
a
lover
of
Peace
and
not
ingaged
by
Faction
or
Interest
to
one
side
against
the
other
;
a
calm
and
considerate
Man
,
not
a
passionate
hasty
Judge
;
a
Man
of
manifest
Honesty
,
Conscience
,
and
Fear
of
God
;
not
a
Worldly
,
Wicked
,
Bloody
,
Vnconscionable
Man
.
The
Sectaries
Baxter
,
who
rashly
separate
from
some
Churches
,
because
of
some
Forms
,
Opinions
,
or
Ceremonies
,
which
almost
all
Christians
on
Earth
have
used
in
the
former
purer
Ages
,
and
still
use
,
should
be
more
cautelous
in
examining
their
grounds
,
and
should
hardly
venture
to
separate
from
any
Church
,
for
that
which
for
the
same
reason
would
move
them
to
separate
from
almost
all
Christians
in
the
whole
World
,
if
not
unchurch
the
Church
of
Christ
.
Heylin
?
He
is
so
palpably
partial
,
and
of
so
malicious
and
bloody
a
strain
,
representing
excellent
persons
as
odious
intolerable
Rogues
,
that
he
is
not
to
be
believed
?
If
our
Neighbours
,
that
commonly
these
Thirty
Years
last
use
the
word
had
put
but
instead
of
I
should
have
suspected
that
the
Councils
and
Bishops
had
made
their
Religion
.
Have
not
the
Ministers
themselves
been
the
principal
instruments
of
taking
down
the
Bishops
,
And
what
have
they
got
by
it
?
Plea
for
Peace
;
It
was
by
Bishops
striving
who
should
be
Chief
,
that
the
set
up
And
in
the
Schisms
of
those
times
,
the
Bishops
were
ever
the
chief
Cause
Aërius
,
Novatus
Novatian
,
Majorinus
Cure
of
Divisions
;
Who
brought
in
the
errours
of
the
They
were
Bishops
or
Presbyters
Arians
,
Nestorians
would
not
have
the
Emperours
made
worse
than
they
were
,
because
they
were
for
Toleration
of
both
Parties
;
nor
were
the
themselves
like
the
because
they
acknowledged
all
save
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
(
i.e.
)
How
dangerously
and
most
of
the
Ancient
Doctors
,
before
the
Council
,
speak
hereabout
;
and
how
certainly
and
other
great
Bishops
were
and
how
the
Council
at
laid
by
the
Word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
endeavouring
reconcilation
,
I
need
not
send
you
to
for
proof
Mother
of
God
Plea
:
Nestorius
was
a
Man
of
Study
and
Retirement
,
a
poor
garb
,
and
a
strict
life
,
abhorring
publick
Contentions
,
and
loving
Quietness
,
till
he
got
to
be
uppermost
;
and
then
he
shewed
a
peevish
Zeal
against
Dissenters
,
called
Hereticks
.
He
was
a
Man
of
great
Parts
,
Spirit
,
and
Power
;
but
the
Head
of
a
Turbulent
People
.
As
to
their
Opinions
,
the
Errour
of
the
lay
in
his
want
of
skill
in
speaking
,
Baxter
,
and
the
Controversie
was
about
words
rather
than
matter
.
Most
of
the
People
were
for
and
most
of
the
Courtiers
and
Clergy
against
him
;
and
so
was
the
Emperour
,
who
deposed
and
restored
returned
to
his
Monastery
,
and
there
lived
four
Years
in
Peace
and
great
Reputation
;
but
afterwards
was
Banished
into
Foreign
Countries
,
and
died
.
That
none
should
dare
to
keep
,
read
,
or
transcribe
the
wicked
Books
of
the
profane
and
sacrilegious
but
search
them
out
,
cause
them
to
be
burnt
publickly
;
and
that
none
permit
them
to
have
any
House
or
Field
to
hold
private
or
publick
Assemblies
;
and
whoever
adhered
to
should
suffer
the
loss
of
his
Goods
?
By
which
Edict
our
pious
Emperour
knowing
the
Orthodox
Religion
to
be
the
strength
of
the
Empire
,
hath
taken
away
all
the
seeds
of
Impiety
.
Vincentius
Lyrinensis
sed
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
an
ill
chosen
Bishop
of
i.e.
Novatian
went
to
to
make
a
Bishop
was
duly
elected
before
Rustick
Bishops
an
ill
chosen
Bishop
of
It
was
Zeal
against
Errour
,
which
made
both
the
and
the
run
into
Errour
The
Rigour
of
the
was
increased
by
their
offence
at
other
mens
sinful
latitude
and
tepidity
,
refusing
to
admit
to
his
Communion
,
caused
much
Calamities
:
They
that
had
gathered
Separate
Churches
,
did
communicate
with
that
they
might
be
delivered
from
the
Persecution
of
a
godly
Bishop
,
(
i.e.
)
a
godly
Bishop
Arian
Conventicles
Arianism
.
Arius
Athanasius
,
Constantine
Ariminum
,
Constantius
Majorum quisquis fuit ille tuorum , Aut Pastor fuit , aut illud quod dicere nolo .
noluit
interesse
Agnoites
,
Gainaites
,
Theodosians
,
Themistians
,
Iconoclastes
.
(
i.e.
Leo
Isauricus
Charles
the
Great
A
man
that
had
his
hands
in
blood
,
must
not
be
a
Bishop
.
John
Philoponus
Gregory
Nazianzene
Theodosius
,
Philippicus
tearing
Engines
,
and
Enemies
to
God's
publick
Worship
,
and
ought
to
be
disobeyed
,
because
it
is
written
,
first
Plea
;
It
is
not
the
sence
of
the
Liturgy
but
a
Statute
of
Parliament
which
we
doubt
of
:
it
seems
insufficient
,
if
not
impertinent
,
to
tell
us
what
is
taken
for
the
sence
of
the
Church
;
for
the
doubt
is
,
what
is
the
sence
of
the
Parliament
,
which
we
cannot
otherwise
know
,
but
by
their
plain
words
,
till
they
will
otherwise
declare
their
meaning
:
Plea
the
first
the
Laws
required
of
them
such
Subscriptions
,
Covenants
,
Declarations
and
Practices
,
as
they
durst
not
do
,
because
they
feared
God
.
A
search
for
the
English
Schismatick
Diocesan
Canoneers
meer
Nonconformists
though
he
determine
not
which
of
them
is
the
Schismatick
,
yet
he
makes
the
Book
to
be
a
pair
of
Spectacles
for
the
Purblind
to
discern
it
,
first
Plea
of
Concord
To
answer
the
earnest
demand
of
our
Reasons
by
you
the
Lord
Bishop
of
I
have
published
an
Historical
Narration
,
English
Schismaticks
A
Discourse
about
Church
Vnity
,
in
defence
of
the
Bishop
of
the
Parliament
was
drawn
in
by
the
Convocation
to
make
those
Acts
:
third
Defence
Christ
was
drawn
by
Hypocrites
to
pay
Tribute
to
rather
than
offend
Mendacium
magnum
,
That
about
Six
thousand
Persons
that
had
gone
the
other
way
,
did
declare
their
assent
and
consent
to
a
Book
which
they
never
saw
,
second
Defence
That
at
such
time
as
he
was
turned
out
of
all
,
he
was
never
in
so
good
a
condition
as
to
keep
a
Man-servant
(
except
when
he
travelled
)
nor
a
Maid-servant
,
except
an
old
Woman
to
provide
him
Necessaries
;
and
lived
in
some
upper
Rooms
of
another
Man's
House
:
he
built
a
Tabernacle
in
St.
to
preach
in
himself
second
and
lost
One
thousand
pounds
in
the
loved
their
Nation
,
and
built
them
a
Synagogue
.
first
Plea
:
Even
Bishops
need
to
be
remembred
,
that
while
the
Wheel
is
turning
,
the
upper
side
should
not
tempt
Men
to
forget
what
side
will
be
uppermost
shortly
and
for
ever
.
It
seems
there
is
some
great
evil
to
come
,
when
God
takes
away
the
best
:
if
it
should
be
a
fore-runner
of
a
better
state
,
yet
all
save
two
of
the
old
stock
that
dishonoured
God
perished
:
And
it
was
by
bloody
Wars
that
and
the
new
GENERATION
were
to
possess
the
Land
of
Promise
.
the
time
of
the
Episcopal
Persecution
is
but
short
:
passive
Conformists
There
is
now
good
hope
that
we
whom
they
call
may
shew
them
more
favour
Defence
of
the
Bishop
of
I
will
tell
Mr.
a
Secret
which
I
have
heard
,
but
hope
he
will
not
put
me
to
prove
it
,
That
the
Parliament
made
good
Laws
,
the
Papists
out
of
a
pretended
reverence
to
tender
Consciences
,
hindred
the
Execution
of
them
,
and
some
leading
Fanaticks
had
private
Encouragement
(
to
say
no
more
)
to
set
up
a
mighty
cry
of
Persecution
,
to
cast
all
the
odium
on
a
persecuting
Church
and
Diocesan
Canoneers
.
Some
have
reported
that
some
of
the
Non-conformists
at
least
do
receive
,
or
have
received
Money
from
the
Papists
to
act
their
Affairs
,
and
promote
their
interest
;
which
he
calls
,
a
putrid
Calumny
,
a
malicious
Falshood
,
a
frontless
Lye
:
he
avows
,
that
never
any
Person
in
Authority
,
Dignity
,
or
Power
in
the
Nation
,
or
any
that
had
any
relation
to
Publick
Affairs
,
nor
from
them
,
Papist
or
Protestant
,
did
once
speak
one
word
to
him
,
or
advise
with
him
about
any
Indulgence
or
Toleration
to
be
granted
to
the
Papists
.
Why
a
Fast
was
appointed
by
a
certain
Independent
Pastor
at
that
time
on
the
fifth
of
is
no
Popish
Festival
plain
,
open
,
uncontroulable
Evidence
which
the
Non-conformists
always
gave
,
and
continue
to
give
,
of
their
faithful
cordial
adherence
to
the
Protestant
Religion
and
Interest
in
the
Nation
third
Defence
judgeth
him
a
godly
serious
Man
;
yet
,
his
Book
is
so
dismal
a
piece
in
its
extraordinary
privation
of
common
Reason
,
Truth
,
Charity
,
Tenderness
,
and
Modesty
,
that
I
am
constrained
to
think
that
honest
Man
is
diseasedly
Melancholy
:
that
his
Book
is
〈◊〉
away
as
a
fardle
of
dotage
and
shameless
lyes
,
Baxter
,
That
the
Acts
for
Vniformity
and
Prefaces
are
parts
of
the
Book
of
Common
Prayer
,
to
which
we
are
to
declare
our
Assent
,
That
forasmuch
as
nothing
can
be
so
plainly
set
forth
,
but
doubts
may
arise
in
the
use
and
practice
of
the
same
;
to
appease
all
such
diversity
,
if
any
arise
,
and
for
the
resolution
of
all
doubts
concerning
the
manner
how
to
understand
,
do
,
and
execute
the
things
contained
in
this
Book
,
the
parties
that
so
doubt
,
or
diversly
take
any
thing
,
they
could
do
and
declare
as
the
Conformists
do
,
if
they
could
get
the
sence
of
the
Acts
,
to
be
expounded
so
as
the
Conformists
understand
them
shall
always
resort
to
the
Bishop
of
the
Diocess
,
who
by
his
discretion
shall
take
order
for
the
quieting
and
appeasing
of
the
same
;
so
that
the
same
Order
be
not
contrary
to
any
thing
contained
in
this
Book
:
And
if
the
Bishop
of
the
Diocess
be
in
doubt
,
then
he
may
send
for
the
Resolution
of
the
Archbishop
.
That
the
words
make
not
the
Bishops
Expositors
of
the
Law
or
Book
,
as
Judge
,
but
as
a
Teacher
only
.
Any
intelligent
Man
may
help
the
ignorant
to
understand
the
things
in
the
Book
;
but
the
Bishops
are
made
decisive
Judges
,
to
order
in
what
manner
to
understand
,
do
,
and
execute
all
(
doubtful
)
things
in
the
Book
,
Baxter
,
The
late
Covenanters
had
not
such
Security
for
their
Consciences
,
in
taking
that
Oath
in
a
sense
varying
from
the
precise
Letter
,
as
the
Conformists
have
for
their
Subscriptions
,
third
Defence
a
long
tedious
Discourse
in
him
hath
as
much
substance
as
one
might
put
into
a
Syllogism
of
six
Lines
.
Worcester
,
I
am
Baxter
,
past
doubt
,
that
were
they
now
alive
,
would
be
Non-conformists
.
Apology
for
the
Non-conformist
Ministers
London
,
Lincoln
,
Hereford
,
Carlisle
,
Peterborough
,
and
others
of
their
moderation
,
in
some
hope
,
though
evil
Men
and
Deceivers
wax
worse
and
worse
.
If
the
ancient
Christians
might
present
their
Apology
in
hope
to
Heathen
Emperours
,
may
I
not
so
much
more
to
Christian
Bishops
?
You
are
more
sensible
than
we
,
with
what
deep
sense
Men
will
shortly
hear
,
our
best
Bishops
And
now
we
humbly
lay
these
Petitions
at
your
feet
,
and
beseech
you
for
the
souls
of
many
hundred
thousands
,
that
you
who
call
your selves
their
Pastors
,
and
the
Fathers
of
the
Church
,
will
not
deny
them
the
bread
of
Life
.
We
beseech
you
to
come
out
of
your
Palaces
a
while
,
and
be
familiar
with
the
People
,
and
confer
with
all
the
Poor
of
the
Parish
,
and
dwell
in
some
Country
Village
as
we
have
done
,
that
you
may
not
see
many
hundred
thousands
damned
by
your
means
,
and
you
have
nothing
to
say
when
it
is
to
late
,
but
a
That
the
Instances
of
the
Obduration
of
and
the
make
you
not
afraid
,
lest
wrath
come
upon
you
to
the
utmost
,
while
forbidding
Christ's
Labourers
to
preach
to
the
Ignorant
and
Impenitent
,
And
O
that
God
would
make
them
sensible
how
many
thousand
Persons
damnation
is
like
to
be
charged
upon
them
for
what
they
have
already
done
,
for
seventeen
years
hindring
so
many
faithful
Ministers
!
I
must
profess
,
if
it
were
the
last
word
that
I
should
speak
in
the
world
,
that
I
had
rather
be
the
basest
Scavenger
,
yea
,
and
suffer
many
deaths
,
than
be
found
at
the
Judgment
Seat
of
Christ
in
the
place
and
guilt
of
those
of
you
who
have
done
what
is
done
against
the
Gospel
and
Church
of
Christ
in
this
Land
.
Why
I
write
all
this
to
you
,
and
not
to
his
Majesty
and
the
Parliament
?
It
is
not
them
,
nor
any
of
their
Laws
or
Actions
,
which
in
all
this
Book
I
intend
to
speak
against
.
preaching
in
Cities
against
Laws
Did
not
the
ancient
Christians
also
disobey
a
lawful
●…er
when
forbidden
?
No
Bishops
have
silenced
us
by
Spiritual
Government
that
we
know
of
,
but
only
as
Barons
by
the
Secular
Laws
,
to
which
they
gave
their
Votes
,
all
did
not
he
had
not
read
the
Book
of
Ordination
,
nor
exactly
weighed
what
he
subscribed
to
,
a
passive
Conformist
Lordly
Prelacy
who
with
a
loud
voice
would
say
Amen
to
all
the
Prayers
in
the
Liturgy
,
except
that
for
Bishops
;
to
which
his
silence
was
accounted
a
dissent
.
a
compliance
with
Church
Tyranny
a
frame
of
Government
destructive
of
the
Churches
Ministry
,
and
with
such
Persons
as
professing
themselves
Fathers
of
the
Church
,
are
grand
Enemies
of
Christ
and
Souls
,
and
the
Captains
in
the
Army
of
the
Devil
,
God
bless
the
King
He
would
not
purchase
his
life
at
so
dear
a
rate
.
who
will
not
,
and
cannot
indeed
pray
for
the
Bishops
as
such
,
but
rather
suffer
many
deaths
,
than
be
in
their
case
,
When
you
are
in
the
dust
,
the
world
will
not
be
afraid
of
you
,
but
freely
tread
upon
you
,
and
cast
up
your
bones
to
make
room
for
others
,
and
talk
of
you
and
your
acts
as
freely
as
of
King
the
Eighth
,
Queen
are
now
talked
of
Cranmer
,
Latimer
,
Ridly
,
Hooper
,
Etiam
post
mortem
invidia
Perpetual
and
implacable
Enemies
to
the
Bishops
,
Perjury
,
a
sin
meet
for
none
but
utterly
debauched
Consciences
,
and
such
as
threatneth
dreadful
ruine
.
Such
principles
and
practices
would
make
us
guilty
of
the
perjury
and
impenitence
of
many
hundred
thousand
persons
,
Aggravated
perjury
,
deliberate
lying
,
rebellious
profession
of
disobedience
to
God
,
owning
great
and
publick
sins
,
corrupting
holy
Worship
,
The
sins
which
we
fear
be
of
the
greatest
sort
that
Hell
suggesteth
,
perjury
,
and
owning
the
perjury
of
thousands
,
and
doing
that
which
is
equivalent
to
the
preaching
of
impenitency
,
and
saying
,
Repent
not
,
for
I
declare
it
is
no
sin
,
and
lying
deliberately
,
and
making
a
publick
Ministerial
profession
of
Vsurpation
and
Church
Corruptions
,
and
of
our
resolution
never
to
obey
God
in
doing
any
duty
of
ours
in
order
to
a
Reformation
,
It
may
be
your
great
Patrons
may
die
,
or
fall
,
or
forsake
you
;
and
then
your
hearts
are
broken
.
It
may
be
death
may
end
the
great
Duke
of
Or
they
may
meet
with
such
Executioners
as
Cardinal
may
enter
into
your
Families
,
and
make
you
think
what
blood-thirstiness
doth
tend
to
.
And
you
must
consider
also
,
that
if
blood
or
destruction
be
the
means
you
trust
to
,
you
must
set
up
a
Shambles
or
Trade
of
Butchery
,
and
make
it
the
profession
of
all
your
lives
,
The
world
already
thinks
that
the
Clergy
are
so
covetous
,
proud
,
and
envious
,
that
like
the
great
Dog
that
hath
got
the
Carrion
,
snarls
at
every
little
Dog
that
looketh
at
them
,
suspecting
they
come
to
take
some
from
him
:
it
is
the
common
opinion
,
that
the
Clergy
are
the
Incendiaries
.
Troublers
of
the
World
;
and
that
the
worst
Princes
left
to
themselves
,
are
not
half
so
cruel
against
the
faithful
preachers
and
practisers
of
Christianity
,
as
if
they
persecuted
it
as
the
proud
and
covetous
Clergy
are
.
I
love
to
instance
where
I
dwell
,
and
see
because
of
certainty
.
This
Market
Town
of
ten
miles
from
was
so
extreamly
addicted
to
your
way
,
so
impatient
of
the
Directory
and
Ministry
now
cast
out
,
that
one
who
was
their
Minister
in
times
of
Vsurpation
told
me
,
he
was
fain
to
leave
them
,
and
professed
he
was
really
afraid
lest
they
would
have
put
him
into
the
Grave
,
and
buried
him
alive
,
for
burying
a
Corps
according
to
the
Directory
:
And
now
the
Case
is
so
much
altered
,
that
though
the
Town
consists
so
much
of
Inns
and
Ale-houses
,
a
private
meeting
near
the
Church
is
so
much
crowded
as
the
Churches
were
,
and
the
Church
is
almost
empty
.
Foxes
,
Wolves
,
and
Kites
,
that
live
on
flesh
,
and
devour
those
that
are
better
than
themselves
,
No
Bishops
have
silenced
as
by
spiritual
Government
,
but
only
as
Barons
by
the
Secular
Laws
to
which
they
gave
their
Votes
,
which
yet
all
did
not
.
For
my
part
I
have
one
or
two
of
their
Licenses
never
recalled
nor
nulled
.
It
will
be
an
encouraging
compliance
with
Church-tyranny
,
to
give
over
preaching
as
oft
as
Bishops
forbid
us
,
because
we
will
not
take
their
Oaths
,
and
be
stigmatiz'd
with
their
PER.
I
never
heard
abjuring
was
required
of
the
Ministers
:
they
are
only
to
subscribe
,
That
there
is
no
obligation
on
them
or
any
other
Person
to
endeavour
any
change
or
alteration
of
Government
in
the
Church
.
Lions
greedy
of
prey
trusts
himself
between
their
Teeth
and
Claws
,
Tearing
Engines
of
the
Laws
Apology
for
their
practice
That
God
never
instituted
Churches
to
be
kept
up
in
disobedience
to
those
Christian
Magistrates
which
he
commands
us
to
obey
upon
pain
of
Damnation
.
Disobedience
to
our
Rulers
,
is
in
Ministers
double
treason
and
wickedness
.
it
is
necessary
to
the
Churches
peace
,
that
no
private
Congregations
may
be
gathered
,
or
Antichurches
erected
,
without
approbation
or
toleration
from
the
Magistrates
:
that
if
private
Assemblies
be
permitted
unlimitedly
,
then
,
It
will
be
impossible
to
restrain
Heresie
,
Infidelity
,
or
Impiety
:
Yea
,
They
may
meet
to
plot
against
the
Magistrate
.
And
no
Assemblies
whatsoever
are
to
be
allowed
by
the
Magistrate
.
If
Magistrates
forbid
Ministers
to
preach
or
exercise
the
rest
of
their
Office
in
their
Dominions
,
they
are
to
be
obeyed
Vniformity
of
the
Churches
some
things
not
all
plain
matter
of
Fact
Second
Plea
That
in
all
the
times
of
Vsurpation
he
said
and
wrote
,
that
the
Kings
Person
is
inviolable
,
and
to
be
judged
by
none
,
either
Peer
or
Parliament
;
and
that
neither
the
King
may
destroy
nor
hurt
the
Kingdom
,
nor
the
Kingdom
the
King
.
That
the
very
Book
accused
goeth
on
such
principles
,
and
hath
not
a
word
meet
to
tempt
a
man
in
his
wits
to
this
accusation
.
they
who
will
take
liberty
to
speak
what
they
please
,
must
be
content
to
hear
sometime
what
will
displease
.
First
Plea
That
Pastors
preached
against
the
will
of
Princes
for
Three
hundred
years
.
That
God
wrought
Miracles
to
justifie
such
Preachers
when
forbidden
by
Christian
Princes
,
who
spake
freely
after
their
Tongues
were
cut
out
;
That
there
is
a
wo
unto
them
if
they
preach
not
,
and
many
woes
to
them
that
shall
forbid
them
There
is
not
this
day
on
Earth
a
more
conscionable
,
godly
,
faithful
Party
of
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
than
those
that
are
now
ejected
,
silenced
,
Nonconformists
in
And
his
Testimony
shall
be
believed
when
the
Defamers
and
Calumniators
shall
not
.
against
such
false
and
bloody
Plotters
as
would
perswade
the
King
and
People
that
the
Nonconformists
are
Presbyterians
and
Fanaticks
:
That
it
was
such
Presbyterians
that
killed
his
Father
;
and
that
their
principles
are
rebellious
,
and
that
they
are
plotting
a
Rebellion
and
his
death
;
and
lastly
,
that
this
is
the
Genius
of
the
Parliament
.
Second
Plea
for
Peace
First
Plea
,
it
looks
as
if
he
had
designed
these
Books
on
purpose
to
represent
the
Clergy
of
our
Church
as
a
company
of
notorious
lying
and
perjured
Villains
.
pleading
for
Presumption
,
Profanation
,
Vsurpation
,
Vncharitableness
,
and
Schism
,
p.
that
preaching
in
opposition
to
the
Laws
established
,
is
contrary
to
the
Doctrine
of
all
the
Nonconformists
of
former
times
This
Assertion
is
so
rash
and
false
in
matters
of
notorious
fact
,
that
it
weakeneth
his
reverence
of
the
Doctors
judgment
in
matters
of
Right
,
he
wrote
that
Book
in
a
continued
fit
of
Anger
.
Rochester
,
when
God
gave
him
a
sight
of
his
sins
,
that
he
confessed
he
had
been
drunk
five
years
together
:
a
Schismatical
Sermon
Second
Defence
,
I
profess
I
felt
so
little
passion
in
writing
that
Book
,
that
I
think
verily
I
sinned
all
the
while
for
want
of
a
livelier
sense
of
the
sin
and
hurt
which
I
was
detecting
by
my
Confutation
.
Accusations
,
Reasonings
untrue
;
i.e.
You
lie
,
Sir
,
in
all
that
you
have
written
.
a
Stranger
to
Spite
and
Anger
a
very
quick
and
earnest
temper
of
mind
,
and
his
stile
is
very
keen
and
pungent
.
Perverse
disputings
of
men
of
corrupt
minds
,
and
destitute
of
the
truth
,
supposing
that
gain
is
godliness
;
from
such
withdraw
thy self
a
most
unskilful
,
proud
,
partial
,
obstinate
,
cruel
impertinent
Adversary
.
(
i.e.
I
have
heard
him
great
and
copious
in
commendation
of
several
Prelates
and
Conformists
,
Eli
,
(
i.e.
Baxter
,
Some
Men
have
humours
and
ways
of
their
own
.
do
well
to
be
angry
spring
up
and
cover
their
heads
whereof
they
were
exceeding
glad
Worm
to
strike
it
,
and
make
it
wither
,
and
the
Wind
and
the
Sun
beats
on
their
heads
,
do
well
to
be
angry
even
unto
death
,
was
meditated
when
the
Oath
was
imposed
;
written
and
published
by
the
call
of
Mr.
and
the
importunity
of
our
Superiours
,
who
demanded
the
reason
of
our
Nonconformity
:
The
design
was
,
the
concord
of
all
the
Protestants
who
can
never
unite
in
the
present
impositions
,
and
for
necessary
reformation
of
Parish-Churches
,
and
those
abuses
which
else
will
keep
up
in
all
Ages
a
succession
of
Nonconformists
;
and
to
give
an
account
why
we
dare
not
covenant
by
Oath
or
Subscription
to
endeavour
the
alteration
of
the
Church-government
Second
Part
Alas
Lord
,
How
long
shall
Christs
enemies
be
Pastors
of
his
Flocks
?
and
the
seed
of
the
Serpent
be
the
great
Instrument
that
must
break
the
Serpents
head
;
and
the
lovers
of
sin
be
they
that
must
be
the
suppressers
of
it
;
and
those
employed
to
teach
in
Knowledge
,
who
themselves
will
not
know
;
and
to
preach
up
Holiness
,
that
will
not
endure
it
?
The
truth
is
,
that
is
an
excellent
person
to
us
,
who
is
an
odious
and
contemptible
person
to
the
Prelates
.
If
he
will
make
the
People
believe
that
Presbyterians
are
Rebels
,
and
Disciplinarians
are
seditious
brain-sick
fellows
,
living
in
Hypocrisie
:
And
that
praying
without
Book
,
and
much
preaching
,
is
Fanaticism
;
and
that
none
are
worthy
to
Preach
the
Gospel
who
will
not
swear
to
be
true
to
the
Prelatical
interest
:
That
Drunkenness
in
a
conformable
Man
is
a
tolerable
infirmity
;
and
that
their
ignorantest
Nonsence
is
fitter
to
save
Souls
and
edifie
the
Church
,
than
the
Labours
of
the
Holy
and
Learned
Non-conformists
:
That
was
a
Rogue
were
discontented
factious
Schismaticks
,
unworthy
to
preach
or
be
endured
;
this
is
a
Son
of
the
Church
,
and
an
excellent
Person
.
second
Part
That
to
Swear
,
Subscribe
That
though
Millions
should
swear
to
endeavour
a
Reformation
of
Episcopacy
in
their
Places
and
Callings
by
lawful
means
the
Lord
have
mercy
on
that
Land
,
City
,
or
Soul
that
is
guilty
of
it
.
All
carnal
Interest
,
and
all
carnal
Reason
,
is
on
the
Diocesans
side
;
and
all
the
lusts
of
the
heart
of
Man
,
and
consequently
all
that
the
Devil
can
do
;
and
therefore
while
carnal
Christians
make
a
Religion
of
their
Lusts
and
Interests
,
and
Pride
,
and
Covetousness
,
and
Idleness
are
more
predominant
than
the
fear
of
God
and
the
love
of
Souls
,
no
wonder
if
the
Diocesans
Cause
prevail
with
such
.
Take
but
from
such
Prelates
the
Plumes
it
hath
stollen
from
Magistrates
and
Presbyters
,
and
it
will
be
a
naked
thing
and
simple
name
.
The
Sufferers
will
call
the
Prelates
Persecutors
,
Wolves
in
Sheeps
clothing
,
who
are
known
by
their
fruits
,
their
teeth
and
claws
.
It
is
the
Prelacy
that
maketh
almost
all
the
Sects
that
be
in
this
day
and
when
they
see
what
Ministers
,
and
how
many
hundred
of
them
are
silenced
,
and
what
Fellows
are
set
up
in
their
stead
,
they
think
they
can
never
●…y
far
enough
from
such
Prelates
:
and
we
that
dwell
among
them
do
take
them
that
dislike
their
course
and
ways
,
to
be
generally
the
most
religious
and
sober
People
in
the
Land
,
excepting
always
the
King
and
Parliament
.
That
before
the
Prelates
had
again
ruled
seven
years
,
there
were
seven
and
seven
against
them
,
for
one
that
was
so
before
:
I
am
one
of
the
eighteen
hundred
that
have
been
silenced
by
better
Authority
than
the
Prelates
alone
;
yet
I
think
I
am
bound
in
Conscience
to
exercise
the
Ministry
which
I
received
,
whatever
I
suffer
:
and
if
the
Sword
straitned
me
no
more
than
my
Conscience
of
the
Bishops
prohibition
,
I
should
be
very
little
hindred
;
for
that
is
vanished
into
Air
better
Authority
first
Plea
,
Princes
and
Rulers
may
forbid
all
that
preach
Rebellion
and
Sedition
,
and
punish
them
if
they
do
it
;
and
may
hinder
the
incorrigible
,
whose
preaching
will
do
more
hurt
than
good
,
from
exercising
the
Ministry
in
their
Dominions
.
They
should
see
that
their
Kingdoms
be
well
provided
of
publick
Preachers
and
Catechists
,
and
may
be
due
means
compel
the
ignorant
to
hear
and
learn
what
Christianity
is
.
They
may
,
when
a
Peoples
ignorance
,
faction
,
or
wilfulness
make
them
refuse
all
that
are
truly
fit
for
them
,
urge
them
to
accept
the
best
,
and
may
possess
such
of
the
publick
Temples
and
Maintenance
,
and
make
it
the
Peoples
duty
to
consent
,
as
is
aforesaid
.
the
Peoples
consent
They
ought
to
hinder
Preachers
from
uncharitable
and
unrighteous
railing
at
each
other
,
and
unpeaceable
controversies
and
contentions
.
They
may
make
their
own
Officers
to
execute
their
Magistratical
Power
;
and
if
they
authorize
any
particular
Bishops
or
Pastors
to
exercise
any
such
power
as
belongs
to
the
Prince
to
give
,
not
contrary
to
Christ's
Laws
,
we
judge
that
the
Subjects
should
obey
all
such
even
for
Conscience
sake
.
We
deny
not
but
if
the
generality
of
the
Ministry
obtain
their
liberty
by
some
small
tolerable
sin
or
errour
,
and
the
sounder
part
be
few
and
unnecessary
in
that
Country
,
prudence
obligeth
them
to
go
to
some
other
place
that
needeth
them
,
and
never
to
exercise
their
Ministry
where
in
true
Reason
it
is
like
to
do
more
hurt
than
good
.
Way
of
Concord
That
though
the
execution
of
the
Laws
have
cost
some
excellent
Men
their
lives
already
,
we
may
know
,
that
no
execution
short
of
death
or
utter
disablement
,
will
make
the
most
conscionable
forsake
their
duty
.
Why
we
should
not
speak
openly
rather
than
in
secret
;
and
what
but
a
Spirit
of
Envy
or
Carnal
Interest
,
cross
to
the
interest
of
Christ
,
should
grudge
at
such
preaching
,
we
cannot
tell
.
That
when
set
up
his
Oratorian
Exercises
at
it
was
found
necessary
(
to
win
the
people
)
to
use
large
,
affectionate
,
extemporate
Prayers
,
Expositions
,
and
Sermons
.
This
practice
was
brought
into
by
the
Jesuits
,
to
bring
the
Liturgy
into
Contempt
,
History
of
Separation
That
this
is
a
sad
saying
,
and
that
there
is
no
probability
that
the
Jesuits
should
be
the
first
setters
up
of
this
way
in
second
Defence
the
Bishops's
Book
is
made
up
of
three
parts
:
Of
untrue
Accusations
Vntrue
historical
Citations
abundance
Fallacious
Reasonings
Philip
Nerius
Now
or
Never
:
The
Meetings
of
the
and
their
Exercises
,
are
so
like
those
now
abhorred
by
many
,
second
Plea
for
Peace
It
seems
to
be
designed
on
purpose
to
represent
the
Clergy
of
our
Church
as
a
company
of
notorious
,
lying
,
perjured
Villains
,
for
conforming
to
the
Laws
of
the
Land
,
and
Orders
established
,
with
no
less
than
thirty
Aggravations
of
the
Sin
of
Conformity
.
Only
way
to
Concord
Gunning
,
I
am
fully
perswaded
that
in
this
Book
I
have
told
you
a
righter
way
of
Christian
Concord
,
more
divine
,
sure
,
harmless
,
and
comprehensive
,
fitted
by
Christ
himself
to
the
interest
of
all
good
Men
,
yea
of
the
Church
and
all
the
World
.
Thorns
and
Thistles
,
the
Military
Instruments
of
the
Devil
,
mad
Dogs
Though
thy
Dog
be
thy
own
,
trust
him
not
when
he
is
mad
Surplice
,
Kneeling
at
the
Sacrament
,
That
the
benefit
would
redound
not
reaching
our
necessities
,
but
much
better
than
nothing
,
second
Defence
third
Defence
That
he
once
made
it
the
most
earnest
action
of
his
life
,
to
prevent
the
building
of
this
Wall
or
Hedge
:
I
will
do
the
best
I
can
while
I
live
to
pull
it
down
.
That
which
hath
been
the
chief
cause
and
engine
of
Division
,
will
never
become
the
means
or
terms
of
concord
:
but
such
are
the
multitude
of
unnecessary
,
uncertain
,
humane
Decrees
,
Laws
,
and
Canons
of
Faith
and
Religion
,
whatever
the
proud
and
ignorant
say
to
the
contrary
.
In
the
multitude
of
Counsellors
there
is
safety
.
In
a
word
Councils
of
Bishops
have
been
but
Church
Armies
,
of
which
at
first
the
Patriarchs
were
Generals
,
and
afterward
Popes
and
Emperours
,
who
fought
it
out
for
victory
.
What
the
Independants
have
done
towards
Division
and
Separation
,
it
is
in
vain
in
this
Age
to
recite
;
and
many
wise
Men
think
that
the
Presbyterians
over-violent
rejecting
of
all
Episcopacy
,
setting
up
unordained
Elders
,
and
National
Churches
,
as
headed
by
National
Assemblies
,
are
divisive
and
unwarrantable
,
as
their
making
by
the
Scotch
Covenant
the
renouncing
of
the
Prelacy
to
be
the
Test
of
National
Concord
also
was
.
Only
,
Only
,
Only
way
of
Concord
:
More
sure
,
divine
appointed
by
Christ
himself
,
Approving
the
best
Tolerating
the
tolerable
Sacraments
free
,
and
not
forced
:
The
intolerable
restrained
,
the
Test
of
Toleration
being
this
:
Whether
such
tolerated
Worship
do
more
good
or
hurt
:
Magistrates
keeping
all
in
peace
,
would
heal
us
.
But
alas
,
Magistrates
,
Laws
,
and
Power
,
are
resisted
:
Every
Faction
count
themselves
more
tolerable
than
others
,
yea
condemn
others
as
intolerable
;
and
judge
of
men
and
things
at
best
,
by
their
agreeing
with
their
own
perswasions
;
and
so
the
will
leave
us
still
in
Confusion
.
second
Defence
,
I
value
it
above
all
the
rest
,
being
assured
that
the
Churches
will
never
otherwise
be
healed
,
than
by
that
impartial
,
sure
,
and
easie
Catholick
way
,
which
some
have
reviled
,
but
none
since
that
I
know
of
confuted
Thorns
and
Thistles
,
grievous
Wolves
,
and
the
Military
Instruments
of
the
Devil
.
Vnder
the
name
of
Bishops
,
they
are
Troublers
,
Persecutors
,
and
Destroyers
.
That
to
tell
them
as
Mr.
doth
,
that
no
unlawful
thing
is
imposed
,
will
as
much
satisfie
them
,
as
if
he
had
said
that
lying
,
perjury
,
and
deliberately
covenanting
against
God's
Precepts
,
and
for
corrupting
his
sacred
Doctrine
,
Worship
,
and
Discipline
,
are
lawful
things
.
accounts
all
Bishops
and
Pastors
that
have
not
the
consent
of
the
People
,
to
be
Vsurpers
.
If
the
Temple
or
Tythes
be
given
to
a
Priest
of
Bishop
not
lawfully
called
or
consented
to
by
the
Flock
,
and
another
be
lawfully
called
whom
the
Magistrate
casteth
out
of
the
Temple
and
Tythes
,
it
is
the
Peoples
duty
to
adhere
to
him
that
is
justly
called
;
it
is
not
always
a
duty
to
adhere
to
him
whom
the
Magistrate
imposeth
:
the
Churches
met
against
the
will
of
the
Magistrates
above
three
hundred
years
.
Christian
Magistrates
must
keep
peace
among
all
,
both
approved
and
tolerated
,
and
not
suffer
any
unpeaceable
Preaching
or
Disputes
which
tend
to
destroy
Love
and
Quietness
,
nor
suffer
railing
Calumnies
against
each
other
to
be
published
or
printed
.
Only
way
of
Concord
Way
of
Concord
Pleas
for
Peace
,
(
i.e.
)
terms
for
Vniformity
to
be
to
them
morally
impossible
,
and
is
grieved
that
he
must
set
forth
an
unarmed
Defence
.
God-fathers
and
God-mothers
Sign
of
the
Cross
kneeling
at
Sacrament
the
Apocrypha
Office
of
Burial
Renounceing
the
Covenant
tearing
Engines
of
the
Law
a
company
of
notorious
,
lying
,
and
perjured
Villains
.
It
is
now
seventeen
years
since
near
two
thousand
Ministers
of
Christ
were
by
Law
forbidden
the
Exercise
of
their
Office
,
unless
they
did
conform
to
Subscriptions
,
Covenants
,
Declarations
,
and
Practices
which
we
durst
not
do
,
because
we
feared
God
.
The
reason
of
which
Impositions
,
it
is
God
,
and
not
we
,
must
have
an
account
of
from
the
Convocation
,
He
had
read
the
Books
written
for
Conformity
,
and
thinks
Mr.
had
written
more
for
Anabaptistry
,
a
late
for
Polygamy
,
many
for
Drunkenness
,
Stealing
and
Lying
in
case
of
Necessity
,
than
they
for
the
terms
of
Conformity
,
as
the
Conformists
describe
them
.
second
Plea
It
was
published
to
save
our
lives
and
the
Kingdoms
peace
from
the
false
and
bloody
Plotters
,
who
would
perswade
the
King
and
People
that
the
Non-conformists
are
Presbyterians
and
Fanaticks
:
And
next
,
that
it
was
such
Presbyterians
that
killed
his
Father
:
That
our
Principles
are
rebellious
,
I
desire
those
that
seek
our
blood
and
ruine
,
to
tell
me
,
if
they
can
,
what
Body
or
Party
of
Men
on
Earth
have
more
sound
and
loyal
Principles
of
Government
and
Obedience
.
We
are
far
from
designing
any
abasement
of
the
Clergy
;
nor
do
we
deny
or
draw
others
to
deny
any
due
reverence
to
them
;
yet
he
calls
the
Bishops
Popish
Clergy-men
,
Thorns
and
Thistles
,
Military
Instruments
of
the
Devil
tearing
Engines
,
Goals
,
starving
,
and
bloody
persecution
,
ruine
,
and
death
.
he
hath
written
Eighty
Books
contradictio
sit
oppositionum
Maxima
Roger
L'Estrange
Sacrilegious
Desertion
I
can
reconcile
my
own
words
,
though
he
cannot
:
And
all
is
not
contradiction
which
Men
that
understand
not
words
think
so
,
third
Defence
I
never
taught
Mr.
to
understand
my
Writings
;
but
I
can
reconcile
more
than
he
can
:
first
and
second
Plea
second
Plea
began
the
War
killed
the
Royal
Martyr
third
Defence
third
Defence
rakes
up
the
actions
of
the
evil
Civil
War
,
as
if
that
were
any
thing
to
the
present
Cause
;
that
he
heaps
up
abundance
of
untruths
:
that
he
had
fully
confuted
them
before
O
miserable
World
!
where
the
very
Preachers
of
Holiness
,
Love
,
and
Peace
,
go
on
to
the
Grave
and
Judgment
,
and
Eternity
,
fighting
against
Holiness
,
Love
,
and
Peace
.
third
Defence
,
To
shew
whether
I
be
not
a
giddy
,
mutable
,
self-contradicting
Fool
and
Knave
.
by
the
mouth
of
two
or
three
Witnesses
every
thing
is
established
,
Baxter
,
That
it
had
been
happy
for
the
Church
of
God
if
Mr.
's
Friends
had
never
sent
him
to
School
.
That
notwithstanding
the
great
noise
raised
about
Mr.
he
would
end
in
flesh
and
blood
.
hath
been
a
dying
Man
almost
these
forty
years
.
Second
Defence
Arguments
for
Separation
heinous
sins
of
Conformity
Naked
Truth
(
viz.
made
Israel
to
sin
Lord
have
mercy
on
him
Hic jacet RICHARDUS BAXTER ,
Theologus Armatus ,
Loiolita Reformatus ,
Haeresiarcha Aerianus ,
Schismaticorum Antisignanus :
Cujus pruritus disputandi peperit ,
Scriptitandi Cacoethes nutrivit ,
Praedicandi zelus intemperatus maturavir
ECCLESIAE SCABIEM ,
Qui dissentitab iis quibuscum consentitmaximè :
Tum sibi cùm aliis Nonconformis
Praeteritis , praesentibus , & futuris :
Regum & Episcoporum Juratus Hostis :
Ipsumque Rebellium Solennae foedus .
Qui natus erat per Septuaginta Annos ,
Et Octoginta Libros .
Ad perturbandas Regni Respublicas ,
Et ad bis perdendam Ecclesiam Anglicanan
Magnis tamen excidit ausis . Deo Gratias .
First
concerning
the
Marquess
if
a
Subject
had
seen
such
a
Commission
,
he
was
bound
not
to
believe
that
the
King
was
the
Authour
of
it
,
second
Plea
for
Peace
Philem
O
Neale
Murder
will
out
Phelim
O
Neale
Phelim
O
Neale
I
had
forgotten
one
Passage
in
the
former
War
of
great
remark
,
which
put
me
into
an
amazement
.
The
Duke
of
and
Council
had
the
Cause
of
the
Marquess
of
before
them
,
who
had
been
one
of
the
in
the
beginning
of
that
War
when
two
hundred
thousand
Protestants
were
murdered
.
His
Estate
being
sequestred
,
he
sought
Restitution
of
it
when
the
Second
was
restored
and
the
Council
judged
against
him
as
one
of
the
Rebels
.
He
brought
his
Cause
over
to
the
King
,
and
affirmed
that
what
he
did
was
by
his
Father's
The
King
referred
it
to
some
worthy
Members
of
his
Privy
Council
to
examine
what
he
had
to
show
.
Vpon
Examination
they
reported
,
that
they
found
that
he
had
the
King's
for
what
he
did
;
which
amazed
many
.
Hereupon
his
Majesty
,
the
Second
,
wrote
to
the
Duke
of
and
Council
,
to
restore
his
Estate
,
because
it
appeared
that
what
he
did
was
by
his
Father's
Whereupon
the
Parliaments
old
Adherents
grew
more
confident
than
ever
of
the
righteousness
of
their
Wars
:
And
the
very
Destroyers
of
the
King
,
whom
the
first
Parliamentarians
called
did
presume
also
to
justifie
their
Cause
,
and
said
,
That
the
Law
of
Nature
did
warrant
them
.
But
it
stopt
not
here
,
for
the
Lord
and
others
of
did
so
far
prosecute
the
Cause
,
as
that
the
Marquess
of
was
forced
to
produce
,
in
the
Parliament
of
in
the
House
of
Commons
,
a
of
King
the
First
's
,
by
which
he
gave
him
Order
for
his
taking
up
Arms
;
which
being
read
in
the
House
,
put
them
into
a
silence
:
But
yet
so
egregious
was
their
Loyalty
and
Veneration
of
Majesty
,
that
it
put
them
not
at
all
one
step
out
of
the
way
which
they
had
gone
in
.
But
the
People
without
doors
talked
strangely
:
Some
said
,
Did
you
not
perswade
us
that
the
King
was
against
the
Irish
Rebellion
?
And
that
the
Rebels
belied
him
,
when
they
said
they
had
his
Warrant
or
Commission
?
Do
we
not
now
see
with
what
mind
he
would
have
gone
himself
with
an
Army
into
to
fight
against
them
Murder
will
out
quod
scriptum
erat
,
scriptum
erat
.
We
are
not
meet
Judges
of
the
Reasons
of
our
Superiours
Actions
,
Non-conformists
Plea
for
Peace
if
Subjects
saw
a
Commission
under
the
Broad
Seal
to
seize
the
Guards
,
destroy
the
Kingdom
,
or
deliver
it
to
Forreigners
,
they
were
bound
to
judge
that
the
King
was
not
the
Author
of
that
Commission
.
Subjects
should
not
have
ill
thoughts
of
Kings
;
though
they
be
sinful
,
their
Faults
are
neither
to
be
aggravated
nor
divulged
.
Phelim
O
Neale
Hist.
of
that
War
Phelim
O
Neale
Henry
Vane
John
Ker
Phelim
O
Neale
Charles
Stuart
Phelim
O
Neale
Joseph
Travers
Charles
Stuart
Anno
Dom.
John
Parsons
Life
of
Archbishop
That
the
Sea
of
Blood
which
had
been
there
barbarously
and
cruelly
shed
,
was
enough
to
drown
any
Man
in
eternal
infamy
and
misery
,
whom
God
should
find
the
malicious
Author
or
Instigator
of
its
effusion
;
and
that
there
was
nothing
that
could
be
more
abhorring
to
him
,
being
so
full
of
sin
against
God
,
disloyalty
to
himself
,
and
destructive
to
his
Subjects
.
Yet
some
Men
took
it
very
ill
not
to
be
believed
,
that
what
the
Irish
Rebels
did
was
by
my
privity
at
least
,
if
not
by
my
Commission
:
But
these
knew
too
well
,
that
it
is
no
news
for
some
of
my
Subjects
to
fight
,
not
only
without
my
Commission
,
but
against
my
Command
and
Person
too
,
and
yet
to
pretend
they
fight
by
my
Authority
,
and
for
my
Safety
.
But
as
I
have
no
Judge
but
God
above
me
,
so
I
can
have
comfort
to
appeal
to
his
Omniscience
.
If
I
have
desired
or
delighted
in
the
woful
day
of
my
Kingdoms
Calamities
;
if
I
have
not
earnestly
studied
,
and
faithfully
endeavoured
the
preventing
and
composing
of
these
bloody
Distractions
;
then
let
thy
hand
be
against
me
and
my
Father's
house
.
HE
tells
the
Rebels
Bishop Hacket's Testimony on July 24. 1654.
AT Rigate in Surry I had conference about this Defamation with that excellent Primate of Armagh , saith he , Stop their mouths with this that I shall faithfully tell you . Sir Will . Parsons , our Chief Justice , was much intrusted with the King's Affairs in Ireland ; he deceasing , his Friends sent his Papers to me . In his Cabinet I found a Letter written by the King , to warn him to look well to the meetings of the Popish Irish , for he had received certain Intelligence out of Spain , that they were upon some great Design of Blood and Confusion , &c. I was so scrupulbus , saith Bishop Hacket , to forget nothing of this Relation , that before I stirr'd , I wrote down the speaker , the words , the place , the year and day . Page 197. part 2. of Archbishop Williams 's Life .
Kings
Works
That
if
the
Irish
Rebellion
can
be
justly
charged
on
the
King
,
then
I
shall
not
blame
any
for
believing
all
the
rest
of
the
Allegations
against
him
.
Hist.
p.
Truth
brought
to
Light
Murder
will
out
Our
Referrees
report
that
they
have
seen
several
Letters
of
our
Royal
Fathers
hand
writing
,
and
several
Instructions
to
the
said
Marquess
concerning
his
treating
and
joyning
with
the
Irish
in
order
to
the
King's
Service
,
by
reducing
them
to
their
Obedience
,
and
by
drawing
some
Forces
to
them
for
the
service
of
and
that
besides
the
Letters
under
the
King's
hand
,
they
had
sufficient
Evidence
and
Testimony
of
several
private
Messages
and
Instructions
from
our
Royal
Father
,
and
from
our
Royal
Mother
,
with
the
privity
and
direction
of
the
King
our
Father
.
Phelim
O
Neale
,
Muskerry
That
he
would
die
leaving
his
sting
in
the
wounds
of
the
Church
Murther
will
out
great
remark
That
they
would
shortly
send
a
Person
qualified
to
treat
with
them
,
who
should
have
power
to
give
them
whatever
was
requisite
to
their
Security
and
Happiness
.
Phelim
O
Neale
was
forced
to
produce
in
Parliament
a
Letter
of
King
the
First
,
by
which
he
gave
him
order
to
take
up
Arms.
Many
French
Ministers
sentenced
to
death
and
banishment
,
came
hither
for
refuge
,
and
the
Church-men
relieve
them
not
,
because
they
are
not
for
English
Diocesans
and
Conformity
.
viz.
That
the
Church-men
did
not
relieve
those
French
Ministers
,
who
being
Sentenced
to
Death
and
Banishment
,
fled
hither
for
refuge
Johannis
Jacobus
Mauzino
Barnstable
,
March
Jacobus
Sanxay
Olaves
Exon.
Johannis
Calvetus
Johannis
Gardian
Giury
Daniel
Cauniers
Devon
,
May
Peter
Pabouleus
Andrew
Coyaldus
de
Sante
Lodovicus
Beenaudea●
for
it
was
Baxter
,
because
they
were
not
for
English
Diocesans
nor
Conformity
:
Baxter
,
That
he
would
die
leaving
his
sting
in
the
wounds
of
the
Church
.
That
this
did
begin
and
end
at
home
to
help
the
silenced
Ministers
and
the
Poor
.
Brooks
,
Pym
Saints
Everlasting
Rest.
Some
of
the
poor
Men
did
competently
understand
the
Body
of
Divinity
,
and
were
able
to
judge
in
difficult
Controversies
;
and
so
able
in
Prayer
,
that
few
Ministers
did
match
them
in
order
and
fulness
,
in
apt
Expressions
and
holy
Oratory
with
fervency
.
Six
hundred
Communicants
there
were
not
above
Twelve
of
whom
he
had
not
good
hopes
of
their
Sincerity
.
For
before
I
came
thither
,
there
was
about
one
Family
in
a
Street
that
worshipped
God
,
and
called
on
his
Name
;
but
before
I
came
away
,
there
was
not
past
one
Family
in
the
side
of
a
Street
that
did
not
so
,
That
being
Weavers
,
they
could
set
a
Book
before
them
,
standing
in
their
Looms
,
and
edifie
one
another
by
reading
or
talking
.
that
they
are
the
strength
of
Religion
and
Civility
in
the
Land
Cain
and
Abel
the
tearing
Engines
that
woried
Two
thousand
Ministers
,
casting
them
out
of
their
Possessions
into
Poverty
and
Prisons
to
starve
and
pine
away
;
and
for
imposing
such
Oaths
,
Subscriptions
and
Declarations
,
as
any
Man
that
feared
God
could
not
comply
with
,
I
more
than
ever
lament
the
unhappiness
of
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
and
great
Ones
of
the
World
,
who
live
in
such
temptations
to
Sensuality
,
Curiosity
,
and
Wasting
of
Time
about
a
multitude
of
little
things
,
whose
Lives
●…re
too
often
a
Transcript
of
the
Sins
of
Pride
,
Fulness
of
Bread
,
and
abundance
of
Idleness
,
and
want
of
Compassion
to
the
Poor
.
That
Gentlemen
and
Beggars
and
Servile
Tenants
are
the
strength
of
Iniquity
in
the
Land
R.
Clare
John
Packington
R.
Clare
That
he
was
an
old
Man
of
great
Courtship
and
Civility
,
very
temperate
as
to
Diet
,
Apparel
,
and
Sports
;
seldom
swore
any
louder
than
by
his
troth
;
one
that
shewed
him
much
personal
reverence
and
respect
beyond
his
deserts
,
and
conversed
with
love
and
familiarity
.
One
that
sent
his
Family
to
be
Catechised
and
personally
Instructed
,
which
swayed
with
the
worst
among
that
People
to
do
the
like
.
R.
Clare
:
whereby
did
more
to
hinder
his
Success
than
a
multitude
of
others
could
have
done
.
the
glad
tidings
of
the
Gospel
,
rich
in
faith
Charity
suffereth
long
,
and
is
kind
.
Charity
envieth
not
,
vaunteth
not
it self
,
is
not
puffed
up
.
Doth
not
behave
it self
unseemly
,
seeketh
not
her
own
,
is
not
easily
provoked
,
thinketh
no
evil
,
rejoyceth
not
in
iniquity
,
but
rejoyceth
in
the
truth
.
Beareth
all
things
,
believeth
all
things
,
endureth
all
things
.
That
though
one
speak
with
the
Tongues
of
Men
and
Angels
;
though
he
have
the
Gift
of
Prophesy
,
and
understand
all
Mysteries
,
and
all
Knowledge
;
and
though
he
have
all
Faith
,
so
that
he
could
remove
Mountains
;
and
though
he
bestow
all
his
Goods
to
feed
the
Poor
,
and
have
not
Charity
,
it
profiteth
nothing
.
If
any
man
seemeth
to
be
righteous
,
and
bridleth
not
his
Tongue
,
that
man's
Religion
is
vain
.
When
they
had
in
the
grand
Debate
given
in
their
Objections
to
the
Liturgy
,
some
of
the
Brotherhood
had
prepared
another
Form
,
but
a
great
part
of
their
Brethren
objected
many
things
against
that
;
and
never
as
yet
did
(
as
I
hear
of
)
agree
upon
any
other
,
nor
I
think
ever
will
.
[
additional
Forms
]
That
we
being
the
Plaintiffs
,
they
would
no
further
proceed
to
treat
with
us
,
till
we
had
given
them
in
entirely
in
writing
,
1.
What
we
blamed
in
the
Liturgy
;
and
our
Reasons
of
it
.
2.
And
what
we
desired
as
better
.
said
,
[
This
was
plainly
to
deny
the
Conference
which
we
were
Commissioned
for
.
]
Additional
Forms
[
what
we
desired
instead
Additional
Forms
this
Liturgy
Reply
to
their
Answer
to
our
Exceptions
,
Petition
for
Peace
and
Concord
Roger
L'Estrange
That
imposing
and
restraining
was
not
our
work
,
but
the
Bishops
full
Concord
No
sinful
act
being
required
to
make
Ministerial
Conformity
unlawful
(
which
if
there
had
been
,
they
or
some
other
would
and
ought
to
have
discovered
it
,
and
then
,
I
doubt
not
,
it
would
by
Authority
have
been
taken
away
;
but
that
being
not
done
[
It
is
not
done
?
]
[
It
was
never
yet
discovered
that
Episcopacy
is
lawful
]
Saravia
,
Bilson
,
Hooker
Bradshaw
,
Nicols
,
Ames
,
Parker
,
Jacob
,
Cartwright
,
Blondel
,
Salmasius
,
Gersom
,
Bucer
,
Didoclave
,
Cawdry
,
Hickman
That
we
ought
to
discover
it
if
there
be
any
sinful
act
commanded
?
we
ought
to
do
it
That
did
we
discover
any
sinfulness
,
it
would
by
Authority
have
been
taken
away
.
Nazianzen
,
Chrysostom
Haeresis
Henriciana
Lodovic
.
Pius
Baronius
,
Binius
Innumerable
Bishops
Binius
,
were
in
the
Council
under
Novatus
,
Aerius
I
will
never
whilst
I
breathe
trust
a
Bresbyter
that
sets
himself
to
get
Preferment
,
no
more
than
I
will
trust
a
Thomas
Allen
SIR
,
I
find
that
in
a
Book
of
yours
defending
Schism
against
Mr.
on
pretence
of
opposing
it
,
you
were
pleased
to
think
many
passages
in
my
writings
,
worthy
of
your
recital
,
to
your
ends
.
(
i.e.
verba
dare
To
load
our
publick
Forms
with
private
Fancies
on
which
we
differ
,
is
the
most
soveraign
way
to
perpetuate
Schism
to
the
Worlds
end
,
We
heartily
desire
,
that
according
to
this
Proposal
,
great
care
may
be
taken
to
suppress
private
Conceptions
of
Prayer
,
lest
private
Opinions
be
made
the
Matter
of
Prayer
in
publick
,
is
it
hath
and
will
be
,
if
private
Persons
take
liberty
to
make
publick
Prayers
.
Cure
of
Divisions
Every
Separatist
,
Anabaptist
,
Antinomian
,
doth
too
willingly
put
his
Errours
into
his
Prayers
.
Bag
shaw
By
mentioning
of
Separatists
as
a
distinct
Body
of
Men
from
the
Antinomians
,
Quakers
and
Anabaptists
,
it
is
evident
he
can
mean
no
other
but
his
Presbyterian
and
Congregational
Brethren
.
I
thank
you
that
you
chose
any
words
of
mine
for
Peace
,
which
some
may
make
a
better
use
of
than
your self
.
But
I
think
if
you
had
referred
Men
to
my
own
Books
to
read
what
goeth
before
,
and
after
,
they
would
have
been
more
easily
understood
.
I
understand
by
your
Book
that
you
think
that
you
are
in
the
right
,
which
is
the
most
that
I
have
learned
out
of
it
;
unless
it
be
also
,
that
you
think
the
Non-conformists
be
not
yet
hated
and
afflicted
enough
;
or
that
,
he
that
sweareth
,
must
ascend
by
treading
upon
him
that
feareth
an
Oath
.
The
Magistrate
will
quickly
find
that
the
Distractions
of
the
Church
will
quickly
breed
,
and
feed
such
Distractions
in
the
Commonwealth
,
as
may
make
them
wish
they
had
quenched
the
fire
while
it
was
yet
quenchable
.
The
fire
that
began
in
the
Church
,
may
,
if
let
alone
,
reach
the
Court
,
Sacril
.
Desertion
;
What
good
will
our
Sufferings
do
you
?
Do
you
feel
your selves
ever
the
more
at
liberty
when
we
are
in
the
Common
Goals
?
Are
you
the
fuller
when
some
Non-conformists
want
bread
?
but
upon
better
information
you
saw
cause
then
,
and
may
now
,
to
retract
that
obloquy
.
That
he
that
sweareth
must
ascend
by
treading
upon
him
that
feareth
an
Oath
,
Sacr.
Desertion
I
am
in
some
doubt
,
lest
you
have
wronged
our
Prelacy
,
by
so
openly
proclaiming
the
enmity
of
so
great
a
Man
as
against
them
,
and
by
inticing
Men
by
your
noise
to
read
his
Book
,
which
you
contradict
:
which
if
they
do
,
I
doubt
that
your
Confutation
will
not
save
them
from
the
light
.
(
viz.
Sacril
.
Desertion
That
upon
just
Reasons
you
dissent
from
the
Ecclesiastical
Hierarchy
or
Prelacy
disclaimed
in
Covenant
,
as
it
was
stated
and
exercised
in
these
Kingdoms
,
Primitive
Bishops
History
of
Bishops
our
Prelacy
Preface
to
Grotian
Religion
(
i.e.
But
the
reason
of
troubling
you
with
these
Lines
,
is
only
to
crave
some
satisfaction
about
two
or
three
Matters
of
Fact
in
your
Book
,
which
would
seem
strange
to
me
,
did
I
not
find
such
things
too
common
in
Invectives
against
the
silenced
Ministers
;
and
did
I
not
know
,
that
it
is
part
of
Satan's
work
,
to
perswade
the
World
that
no
History
hath
any
certainty
of
Truth
,
that
so
Sacred
History
may
be
disadvantaged
.
That
he
could
not
have
uttered
more
falshood
if
the
Devil
had
dictated
to
him
.
Shew
me
Baxter
,
in
Scripture
or
History
,
that
either
there
was
ever
or
ought
to
be
such
a
thing
in
the
World
as
the
Papists
call
the
Church
,
and
I
profess
I
will
immediately
turn
Papist
.
de
facto
Sacr.
Desertion
Divine
Right
John
Goodwin
Sion
Colledge
visited
Grand
Debate
All
knew
that
my
judgment
ever
was
for
the
lawfulness
of
kneeling
at
the
Sacrament
,
That
you
would
rather
kneel
than
disturb
the
Peace
of
the
Church
,
or
be
deprived
of
its
Communion
.
Christian
Directory
For
kneeling
,
I
never
heard
any
thing
yet
to
prove
it
unlawful
;
if
there
be
any
thing
,
it
must
be
either
some
word
of
God
,
or
the
nature
of
the
Ordinance
,
which
is
supposed
to
be
contradicted
.
But
there
is
no
word
of
God
for
any
gesture
,
nor
against
any
.
Christ's
Example
can
never
be
proved
to
oblige
us
more
in
this
,
than
in
many
other
Circumstances
that
are
confest
not
obligatory
;
as
,
that
he
delivered
but
to
Ministers
;
and
but
to
a
Family
;
to
Twelve
;
and
after
Supper
;
on
a
Thursday
night
;
and
in
an
upper
Room
,
And
his
gesture
was
not
such
a
sitting
as
ours
.
And
(
2ly
.
)
for
the
nature
of
the
Ordinance
,
it
is
mixt
.
And
if
it
be
lawful
to
take
a
Pardon
from
the
King
upon
our
knees
,
I
know
not
what
can
make
it
unlawful
to
take
a
sealed
Pardon
from
Christ
(
by
his
Ambassador
)
upon
our
knees
.
Christian
Directory
When
they
had
in
the
grand
Debate
given
in
their
Objections
to
the
Liturgy
,
some
of
the
Brotherhood
had
prepared
another
Form
;
but
a
great
part
of
their
Brethren
objected
many
things
against
that
,
and
never
as
yet
did
(
as
I
hear
of
)
agree
upon
any
other
,
nor
I
think
ever
will
.
Westminster
Assembly
Baxter
.
That
the
King's
Commission
authorized
us
to
make
some
Additional
Forms
.
But
I
drew
up
a
Liturgy
which
was
agreed
to
without
one
dissenting
Vote
.
must
be
very
imperfect
,
being
done
in
necessary
haste
in
eight
days
,
(
viz.
to
this
purpose
it
was
not
your
work
to
impose
Morning
Lectures
That
the
heart
may
be
easily
deceived
in
Inlargements
in
Prayer
,
Opinion
of
the
Person
,
Taking
Expressions
,
Popular
Applause
,
Flourishing
Novelties
and
Notions
,
Satanical
Illusions
,
Common
and
Ordinary
Inspirations
,
such
as
are
granted
to
Reprobates
.
All
,
or
any
of
which
,
may
make
the
heart
dance
in
a
duty
,
and
yet
it
's
possible
,
nay
probable
,
the
heart
may
dance
after
the
Devil's
Pipe
.
I
was
especially
desirous
to
have
heard
their
Exceptions
against
our
Liturgy
and
urged
some
of
them
to
it
,
and
could
never
get
a
word
of
Answer
or
Exception
.
Answ.
Roger
L'Estrange
Relapse
Apostate
That
though
your
Liturgy
was
addressed
to
the
Bishops
,
yet
from
them
,
above
all
the
rest
,
it
was
with
more
care
concealed
—
That
it
was
delivered
to
the
Printer
by
Mr.
or
his
order
,
and
being
wrought
off
,
this
was
barrelled
up
,
and
dispersed
through
the
Nation
without
the
knowledge
of
the
Bishops
.
Nor
had
we
one
Objection
from
any
other
.
The
grand
Debate
in
case
of
Prayer
resumed
Conant
,
Spurstow
,
Wallis
,
Manton
,
(
viz.
But
I
well
know
it
is
a
part
of
Satan's
work
to
perswade
the
World
that
no
History
hath
any
certainty
of
Truth
,
that
so
Sacred
History
may
be
disadvantaged
.
That
of
all
things
that
ever
befel
the
Christian
Church
,
he
scarce
knew
any
thing
comparable
in
shame
and
mischievous
effects
,
to
the
horrid
Perfidiousness
,
Contention
,
Schism
and
Pride
of
Bishops
.
That
it
was
an
Episcopal
Parliament
(
forty
or
an
hundred
to
one
)
that
began
the
War
against
the
King
.
Another
passage
is
viz.
(
Ministerial
Conformity
being
submitted
to
by
many
of
the
Assembly
of
Divines
,
and
no
sinful
act
required
to
make
it
unlawful
,
which
if
there
had
been
,
they
,
or
some
others
,
ought
to
have
discovered
it
,
and
then
I
doubt
not
,
it
would
by
Authority
have
been
taken
away
;
but
that
being
not
done
)
the
Ministers
ought
to
conform
by
the
same
Rules
as
the
People
ought
;
which
is
granted
by
Proposition
the
fourth
,
and
confirmed
by
Mr.
's
practice
in
receiving
the
Sacrament
.
Do
you
not
know
what
abundance
of
old
have
thought
they
discovered
the
sinfulness
of
Conformity
,
and
some
of
late
against
our
Conformity
,
and
others
,
yet
unanswered
Whitgift
,
Bancroft
,
Hooker
,
Moreton
,
Burgess
Faukner
,
Durel
,
Fulwood
And
is
this
your
dry
Denial
a
rational
Confutation
?
Don
Quixot
Sacr.
Desertion
,
That
(
Conformity
)
is
a
composition
of
such
heinous
Crimes
as
I
forbear
to
name
,
for
fear
of
seeming
to
be
an
Accuser
of
others
,
and
to
be
unpeaceaable
.
That
Men
ought
not
to
be
blamed
for
not
doing
Impossibilities
.
The
Law
forbids
it
Your
Governours
are
against
it
It
would
drive
you
to
Jails
and
Ruine
?
We
have
begg'd
leave
of
Parliament
Men
to
publish
the
Case
and
Reasons
of
your
dissent
.
Cawdrys
,
Hickmans
The
Church
hath
been
careful
to
put
nothing
into
the
Liturgy
but
what
is
evidently
the
Word
of
God
,
or
hath
been
generally
received
in
the
Catholick
Church
;
and
if
the
contrary
can
be
proved
,
we
wish
it
out
of
the
Liturgy
.
Which
way
got
you
so
strong
a
faith
,
as
to
be
past
doubt
,
that
did
we
discover
any
sinfulness
,
it
would
by
Authority
be
taken
away
.
Make
this
true
,
and
you
shall
have
the
honour
of
being
the
greatest
healer
of
our
breaches
that
ever
rose
in
the
days
of
my
remembrance
.
But
if
this
be
not
true
—
But
I
shall
alledge
your
Authority
when
we
are
blamed
for
discovering
the
sinfulness
of
Conformity
.
Thou
shalt
in
any
wise
rebuke
thy
Brother
,
and
not
suffer
sin
to
be
upon
him
.
Have
no
fellowship
with
the
unfruitful
works
of
darkness
,
but
rather
reprove
them
.
That
near
Two
thousand
Ministers
have
been
near
sixteen
Years
ejected
and
silenced
,
and
many
years
imprisoned
and
killed
,
and
the
People
of
the
Land
divided
and
distracted
by
the
tearing
Engines
.
There
were
about
Eighteen
thousand
Ministers
,
all
lawful
Ministers
,
illegally
ejected
,
both
Vniversities
deprived
of
their
Scholars
,
who
were
driven
to
great
Necessities
,
not
suffered
to
teach
Schools
,
no
not
in
a
Gentleman's
House
for
the
Education
of
their
Children
,
twelve
Bishops
clapt
into
the
at
once
,
the
rest
Sequestred
,
without
any
Provision
or
Respect
to
their
Age
,
Learning
or
Piety
.
The
third
passage
is
Can
you
name
one
Presbyter
for
very
many
Bishops
,
that
have
been
the
Heads
or
Fomenters
of
Heresie
,
Schism
or
Rebellion
?
and
that
(
for
his
part
)
he
knows
nothing
comparable
in
shame
and
mischievous
effects
to
the
horrid
Persidiousness
,
Contention
,
Schism
,
and
Pride
of
Bishops
.
and
his
Fellow
Presbyters
,
who
assumed
the
Episcopal
Power
to
themselves
,
had
shed
more
Blood
and
committed
more
Outrages
than
were
done
under
any
instance
of
Episcopal
Ambition
;
and
that
our
late
Schism
at
home
,
and
the
Wounds
made
by
it
are
yet
so
open
,
that
there
needs
no
Rhetorick
but
our
own
Experience
to
teach
us
,
that
the
little
Finger
of
the
Presbyterians
is
heavier
than
the
Episcopal
Loyns
.
These
are
great
things
to
be
spoken
so
boldly
,
Novatian
,
Aerius
Arius
,
Donatus
Novatian
,
Donatus
Baxter
,
they
were
Prelatical
Presbyters
:
I
will
never
,
while
I
breathe
,
trust
a
Presbyter
that
sets
himself
to
get
Preferment
,
no
more
than
I
will
trust
a
That
if
are
all
the
Presbyters
that
I
name
,
were
the
beginners
of
any
Schism
,
many
hundred
Bishops
were
the
promoters
of
them
all
History
of
Bishops
(
i.e.
History
of
Bishops
Did
you
know
or
not
that
was
an
ill
chosen
Bishop
of
a
promoter
of
his
Prelacy
As
for
there
were
two
of
them
,
one
of
them
a
Bishop
;
and
the
Schism
was
meerly
and
basely
Prelatical
.
History
of
the
Donatists
History
of
the
Donatists
That
Christ
was
not
the
Eternal
Son
of
God
,
but
meer
Man
from
both
his
Parents
.
to
deny
Christ
That
he
had
not
denied
God
,
but
Man
.
that
he
was
not
from
Eternity
,
nor
did
partake
of
the
Substance
of
the
Father
,
being
created
in
time
,
and
was
indeed
more
excellent
than
other
Creatures
,
but
not
equal
with
the
Father
.
History
of
Bishops
Donatists
,
Nestorians
,
Eutychians
,
Macedonians
,
Acephalites
,
Monothelites
,
Hist.
of
Bishops
(
i.e.
Were
it
not
for
entering
on
an
unpleasing
and
unprofitable
task
,
I
would
ask
you
,
Who
that
of
Presbyters
was
that
dethroned
the
King
?
Westminster
Assembly
Was
it
they
that
petitioned
and
protested
against
it
?
That
the
woful
Miscarriages
of
the
King
himself
,
which
we
cannot
but
acknowledge
to
be
very
many
and
great
in
his
Government
,
have
cost
the
three
Kingdoms
so
dear
,
and
cast
him
down
from
his
Excellency
into
a
horrid
pit
of
Misery
beyond
Example
We
affirm
and
testifie
,
that
besides
those
of
his
evil
Counsellors
,
the
King
's
Personal
Crimes
and
fundamental
Errors
in
Government
,
too
many
and
great
to
be
mentioned
,
have
cost
so
dear
,
that
all
the
bloodshed
,
devastations
,
and
rapine
might
be
charged
on
him
,
and
for
these
he
is
justly
cast
down
from
his
Throne
into
so
horrid
a
Pit
of
Misery
,
as
to
fall
under
a
Sentence
of
Condemnation
.
Melius
pereat
unus
quam
unitas
arrant
Papists
Was
it
not
an
Episcopal
Parliament
,
forty
or
one
hundred
to
one
,
that
began
the
War
against
the
King
.
Everlasting
Rest
Whether
the
Archbishop
of
was
not
the
Parliaments
Major-General
Whether
the
Episcopal
Gentry
and
Ministry
did
not
take
the
Engagement
more
than
the
Presbyterians
?
(
viz.
That
the
War
was
begun
by
Episcopal
Men
,
That
the
great
Commanders
in
War
by
Sea
and
Land
,
were
Conformists
viz.
That
it
is
a
part
of
Satan's
work
to
perswade
the
World
,
that
no
History
hath
any
certainty
of
Truth
,
that
so
Sacred
History
may
be
disadvantaged
Knox
,
Goodman
&c.
p.
Gildas
Salvianus
Bertius
,
in
Orbis
Breviario
de
Antichristo
These
rash
heady
Preachers
think
it
their
honour
to
contend
with
Kings
,
and
perturbe
whole
Kingdoms
.
Take
heed
my
Son
to
such
Puritans
,
very
Pests
in
the
Church
and
Commonweal
;
whom
no
Deserts
can
oblige
,
neither
Oaths
or
Promises
bind
;
breathing
nothing
but
Sedition
and
Calumnies
,
aspiring
without
measure
,
railing
without
reason
,
and
making
their
own
imaginations
,
without
any
warrant
of
the
Word
,
the
square
of
their
Conscience
.
I
protest
before
the
great
God
,
and
since
I
am
here
,
as
upon
my
Testament
,
it
is
no
place
for
me
to
lye
in
,
that
ye
shall
never
find
,
with
any
Highland
or
Border
Thieves
,
greater
ingratitude
,
and
more
lyes
and
vile
perjuries
,
than
with
these
Phanatick
Spirits
.
And
suffer
not
the
Principles
of
them
to
brook
your
Land
,
if
you
like
to
sit
at
rest
;
except
you
would
keep
them
for
trying
your
patience
,
as
did
an
evil
Wife
The
third
which
I
call
a
Sect
rather
than
Religion
,
is
the
Puritan
and
Novelist
,
who
do
not
differ
so
much
from
us
in
points
of
Religion
,
as
in
their
confused
Forms
of
Polity
and
Parity
,
being
ever
discontented
with
the
present
Government
,
and
impatient
to
suffer
any
Superiority
,
which
maketh
their
Sect
unable
to
be
suffered
in
any
well-governed
Commonwealth
.
That
such
horrid
things
as
have
been
done
by
that
Generation
,
have
not
been
out-done
by
any
other
since
betrayed
his
Master
last
Legacy
to
all
sober
Dissenters
,