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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91478	Susanna's apologie against the elders. Or A vindication of Susanna Parr; one of those two women lately excommunicated by Mr Lewis Stycley, and his church in Exeter. / Composed and published by her selfe, for the clearing of her own innocency, and the satisfaction of all others, who desire to know the true reason of their so rigorous proceedings against her.	Parr, Susanna.	1659 (1659)	Wing P551; Thomason E1784_2; ESTC R209665	59,393	127

thenceforth silent though I looked on it as my duty formerly he told me no he vvould have me speak but it must be by a Brother for a stander by may see more then he that plaies the game promising likewise if I did speak by him to deliver my words in the same manner as I spake them After this it pleased the Lord to exercise me with a smarting affliction the death of a dear child the suddennesse of the stroke and some other circumstances made it a very melting affliction When my Bovvels vvere yerning towards my child I called to remembrance the Lords tender bowels towards his children for whom he had given his only Son when I considered the breach that the Lord had made in my family I beheld how terrible it was to make a breach in his family Then the worke I was ingaged in this Sin of Separation appeared nakedly unto me to be no other then a vvounding of Christs body vvhich is his Church the Church vvhich he hath purchased vvith his ovvn blood I then looked on Separation to be a dividing of Christ Truly I beheld it vvith terror this sin of vvounding of Christ it made a vvound in my soule vvhich vvas kept open in a terrible manner the Lord bringing to my remembrance his Justice and severity and vvrath revealed from heaven on families and nations yea on his ovvn people ever since the beginning of the vvorld as also his Judgments vvhich are in the earth to this day from Genesis to the Revelation vvas brought to my remembrance and kept hard upon me Having these Impressions on my Spirit I vvas almost overwhelmed and in mine ovvn apprehension upon the Borders of Hell vvhere the Lord made me to behold the Execution of his vvrath upon sinners I could then have told vvhat hel vvas I felt the flashings of helfire in my soule the vvrath of God that lay hard upon me the effects vvhereof vvere very terrible insomuch as I was even swallowed up only the Lord was pleased to keep me following after him resolving to lie at his feet though he should spurne me to hell Having thus been under a sentence of death with the very terrors of hell in my soule providence so ordering it I came by following the people where Mr. FORD preached I no sooner came into the Congregation but I was so exceedingly troubled as that I vented my selfe in Passionate teares fearing lest I might be unfit to hear but in prayer recovered my selfe His text was in John 16 last Be of good cheere I have overcome the world He instanced in all the enemies of the new creature the World the God of this world Sin Death and Hell the Lord setting it home every sentence was to me as the rivetting of the nailes set on by the great master of Assemblies and in prayer afterward the Lord so providing those very particulars which were the burden of my soule were put up unto God I went out of the congregation with another frame of spirit then when I came in blessing the Lord for giving his Son Jesus Christ who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God But afterwards I began to question whether I had not taken that which did not belong unto me Christ then speaking comfort to his disciples in reference to that hardship they were to meet with in the world among the rest of their sufferings this was one that they should be put out of the Synagogues yea the time would come that whosoever killed them would think he did God good service which things Christ told them that they might not be offended But yet the Sermon being in generall of all the Enemies of the new Creature I could not put it off Furthermore the appearance of God was so remarkable in the change of my spirit as that I could not but take it home that Sins of the right hand and left hand and separation also and death and hell should be cast into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone that in the meane time Christ hath overcome the world the Prince of this world is judged condemned already only the execution is deferred till the time appointed by the father And as for sufferings that we must look for them having such provision so remarkably laid in before I cannot but take notice of it at present But then I could not conceive how it was likely for me to suffer in that kind there being then so much love pretended But now the time is come and therefore I mention it Christ saieth these things have I spoken unto you that when the time shall come you may remember that I told you of them Now I can make application of all the Sermon which is food for my faith to live upon although I suffer as an evill doer I mention it with admiration that the Lord even then when he spake peace unto me after my being convinced of Separation should lay also provision against Excommunication But now after my conviction of Separation it troubled me very much because I knew not how to avoid it my fear was lest I should be constrained to live in it had I presently come off I should have made a breach there They pretended so much love unto me as I knew not which way to break this bond which the Apostle calls the bond of perfectnesse wherefore I resolved to wait upon the Lord for the opening a way unto me which he did afterwards in manner following The Lord was making such abundant Provision for me in Mr. Ford's ministry I did constantly attend thereon hearing him once a Lords day for the most part unlesse it were when we had the Sacrament of the Lords Supper administred among us This was my practice ever since he came to this City of which Mr. Stucley took no great notice before he was in office but afterward both he and the people were displeased with me for it on which began the quarrell on my part between us Mr. Stoneham being a stranger was employed to take me off from this practice who at first pretended that it did very much trouble him but since he hath told me that he wished that he had never been put upon it He sent a Messenger unto me to perswade me to leave Mr. Ford's ministry I then shewed my grounds for that practice what provision I found there and how the Lord had made that ministry effectuall unto me and withall that when I came among them I took up a resolution to attend upon that ministry The same day in a publique meeting they accused me first of Contention and secondly for my hearing Mr. Ford which as the Elder said the Church neither could nor would bear however they would not medle with it for that time As to the Article of Contention I appealed to the Church and charged them to be faithfull as they would answer it another day in making it known

the Schisme is yours 2. From the ordinances I turned my thoughts unto the Churches both that from which I had separated as also that whereof I was then a member as to the Churches of England I considered that they were right in respect of Doctrine and worship and not onely so but that they were united likewise by an implicit covenant which upon enquiry that they of New-England make to be the same for substance with that which is explicit contrarie to what I believed at the first viz. That an Explicit Covenant was necessary to the Constituting of a visible Church and therefore upon this account there was no reason to separate from them I considered that the work of this generation was not the Constituting but the reforming of Churches which I conceived separation did hinder It made my heart bleed within me to think that I should have a hand in the hindering of Reformation for which so much precious blood had been spilt in the late Warre As to the Church whereof I was then a member I feared what it would come to in the end there being in so short a time such a visible difference between our first Ingagements and the present state thereof At the first liberty of conscience and freedome from the Intolerable yoke of being Servants unto men was pretended But now we were in greater bondage then ever all liberty of dissenting from them being denyed Our officers were swayed by such a Prelaticall Spirit as that every one must rest satisfied with their determinations otherwise it would be lookt upon as a non-conformity contention and the Lords Supper forthwith denyed them At the first we were not to rest in the light we had allready received but engaged to study the minde and will of God and live up unto it to have Christ for our Judge our Lawgiver and King but now the voice of the Church two or three of them carries all before it he that did not hearken unto this he that was not obedient unto this must be presently accounted contentious censorious a Rebell against Jesus Christ and dealt withall as such When I demanded whether that which they said to be the voice of the Church were the voice of Christ Answer was returned that the voice of the Church was the voice of Christ If this be true then we must believe as the Church believes we must believe that the Church cannot erre contrary to that in Rev. 3. where we read that the Church of Laodicea said one thing and Christ another where every one is commanded to heare what the spirit saith unto the Churches And as for the people the generalitie of them I plainly perceived that they made it their businesse to study conformity without the least heeding what they had formerly engaged or enquiring what for the time to come this might grow unto Isacher-like they bowed their shoulders to beare and became Servants unto whatsoever tribute was imposed In the last place I took a briefe view of their behaviour abroad in the world where they were striving who should be foremost in getting of offices and places of profit so imployed they were in enriching themselves and building their own houses as that they little minded the house of God And as for Mr Stucley he was so entangled with the world as that it took up a great part of his time every week which should have been spent in the worke of the ministry contrary to that of the Apostle 2 Tim. 2.4 So troubled he was about many things as that he very much neglected that one thing needfull the feeding of the flock He seemed to me to be led captive by ambition and covetousnesse which made him more crafty and politick then could in my Judgment stand with the Simplicity of the Gospell So that I questioned whether or no he had not applied himselfe to the studie of wisedome onely for her left hand blessings of riches and honor I cald to mind his subtilty in the manageing of many busienesses his setting Mr Stonham a worke about that which he durst not appeare in himselfe but especially his trecherousnesse and deceitfull dealing in useing means for the opening reading and Coppying of postletters the letters of the chiefe magestrate of this Citty this I was enformed of by one of their members and since hath been confirmed by others And his appointing a day of thanksgiving for the Succesfulnesse of his designes furthered by such unlawfull meanes whether this were not a bringing of Thanksgiving with leaven I leave it to others to Judge I could not but withdraw from that thanksgiving I considered with my selfe how unlike it was that he should be a faithfull minister of Christ who dealt so unfaithfully with men and therefore that it could not be safe for me to continue any longer under his pastorall charge especially seeing I could not be faithfull to them because of their crafty seeking advantages to ensnare All the remedy I had left was to withdrawe from them Thus being convinced of Separation and the evill thereof and having pondred a while of their Unchristian or rather Antichristian practises I went on the 24 of March 1654. to Mr Eveleigh the Elder whom I desired to acquaint the Church that I should continue no longer with them for severall reasons which I then gave him And that I would willingly if they desired it give them farther Satisfaction he replyed that there was nothing but would be made up I know that very well said I but for severall reasons I am resolved to withdraw from your society About foureteen daies after being sent for I went to their meeting according to my promise supposing they would require an account of my leaving of them but Mr Stucley altogether waved that and insteed thereof having questioned me a little concerning Mr Stoneham demanded how long I had used to heare Mr Ford I answered a year at the least the truth of which assertion when he seemed to question I added farther that my writing books would make it appeare that I had heard him much longer Then he asked me concerning Mris Eveleigh whether I did not speak against her To this I returned Answer 1 by asking him whether he did not say to Mr Eveleigh in his own house within a few daies after that she was admitted that I was so farre from speaking against her as that I had spoken for her and therefore would cleare me To this he answered never a word but was silent 1ly by acknowledging that I had Spoken against her but not to have her kept off as Mr Eveleigh had charged me Why did you then Speake against her said Mr Stucley I answered because she had gone contrary to the law of Charity in that she did partake of the ordinance of the lords Supper with the Presbyterians which we did not If she looked on this as her duty she could not but looke on the neglect thereof as our Sin and so she walked vncharitably she being in