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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26264	An awakening word in season to the grand-jury-men of the nation		1684 (1684)	Wing A4276; ESTC R3377	3,612	16

Reconciler had done in England had taken Root from his Lordship's Discourse and Bounty I say I do not wonder at any one of these Enormities or at all put together I do not wonder at his Zeal his impertinent Zeal his Zeal against Knowledge rather than without it for the Bill of Exclusion or at the Timeing of his Libel against the Government when the King was at New-Market design'd for Slaughter in his Return I do not wonder at any Wickedness which hath proceeded or may proceed from the worst of Men An Episcopal-Presbyterian a Canonical-Cathedral-Fanatical-Anarchical-Republican an Antimonarchical Cromwellian-Shaftsburian-Royalist an half-faced whole-faced two-faced Brother But I and multitudes do wonder from day to day and think we can never wonder enough that after so many lesser Criminals have been Hang'd Drawn and Quarter'd for fewer Crimes less notorious than in Print this Protestant Joyner in whose Printed Libel Stephen College still lives is not yet Indicted by any Grand-Jury for the Sedition or the Treason whereof he stands charged by Mr. Jenner if he is as really as reputedly the Author of the Book which occasions mine but still lives wallowing in his many and great Preferments and slips his Neck out of every Collar prepared for and due to him meerly by the Verbal Mockery of a pretended Recantation which cost him nothing but the Pleasure of out-witting his Governors by a Part acted in a Comical way besides the Pleasure of being known by that Side-wind to have been indeed the Author of that Famous Book whereof till then he was but suspected And the Comical Recantation in but one transient Observator had this remarkable Beginning I Daniel Whitby D.D. Chanter of Sarum and Rector of the parish-Parish-Church of St. Edmunds in the City and Diocess of Sarum having been the Author of a Book called the Protestant Reconciler which through want of Prudence and Deference to Authority I have caused to be Printed and Published am truly and heartily sorry for the same and for the Evil Influence it hath had upon the Dissenters from the Church of England Establshed by Law or otherwise c. Now though the Loyal and Learned Author who Penn'd and Publish'd The New Discovery of Treason hath proved the Design of the Protestant Reconciler to be nothing but Anarchy and Confusion in Church and State pag. 82. which is a greater Treason than that for which by Law he is to be Hang'd pag. 80. Yet so far hath he been from being Executed at Tyburn or Degraded from his Priesthood or under Excommunication or Imprisonment for Life or so much as suspended from any Profits of his Preferments that under the Notion of Recanting he has owned that Libel which was the Joy of his poor Heart and the Delight of his Evil Eyes that which made him so dear to the Disaffected of every sort and lastly procur'd him Letters of Thanks from the Anabaptists of Munster from the New-England Congregations and from the Quakers of Pensilvania All Three Printed at London for Benjamin Took 1683. Whosoever shall well consider what a Judgment was pronounced in the Court of King's-Bench in Trinity-Term vicesimo nono Caroli Secundi against Mr. Joseph Brown meerly for Publishing an unlicensed Book called The Long Parliament Dissolved and shall compare the signal Favor which was shewn to the said Brown by the same House of Commons which the very next Day fell so severely on Mr. Thompson now Dean of Bristol will justly wonder that our Grand-Juries have been as often in a deep Sleep as Dr. Whitby and his Sedition supposing it does not amount to Treason hath been omitted in their Indictments FINIS

AN Awakening Word IN SEASON TO THE Grand-Jury-Men OF THE NATION LONDON Printed for Arthur Jones at the Flying-Horse near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1684. A Book Entituled A Discovery of Treason Printed at Cambridge for Charles Morden a Bookseller there and commonly said to have been Penn'd by Mr. Jenner of Gaius College one of the King's Chaplains and Prebendary of the Church of Sarum hath publickly undertaken to prove Dr. Whithy Praecentor of the same Church and Confessedly the Author of The Protestant Reconciler Guilty of Treason an Encourager of the New Plot a Giver out unto the the People That the King and Governors were and are the Betrayers of their Liberties and therefore deserve Death This in General and in the Title Page of the Book In the Book it self beginning at p. 60 't is proved against the said Daniel Whitby D. D. 1. That his Design is malicious and Treasonable not only towards the King but also towards the Governors of Church and State Pag. 60. 2. That he scandalously makes the King and Governors The Authors of all our present Schism and Factions Pag. 61. 3. That he affirms an Horrid Schism with all its dreadful Consequences to have been Caused he does not say Occasioned by the Imposition of them throughout the Body of the Nation pag. 62. 4. That according to the said Dr. Whitby in his Libellous Book The King and Governors are proud Men and the Plagues of the Earth for Imposing things Indifferent p. 67. 5. That he the said Dr. Whitby hath east a great Lye on the King and Government 6. That according to him the said Dr. Whitby The King and Governors deserve Death for Imposing things Indifferent p. 68 69. 7. That according to him the said Dr. Whitby the King and Governors are Traitors to the Common-wealth and Betrayers of the People's Liberties and that the People ought not to yield to their Impositions but ought to Rebel and vindicate their Christian Liberty p. 70 71 c. 8. That never did Hugh Peters Preach and Print greater Treason than the said Dr. Whitby upon the pretended force of whose Treasonable Argument Oliver and the Rump with their Rebellious Army cut off King Charles the First his Head p. 71 72 73. 9. That the King and Governors are affirmed by Dr. Whitby to want Piety and Prudence in their imposing upon the People things Indifferent p. 74 75. 10. That the said Dr. Whitby does again sound the Trumpet to a New Rebellion odiously and maliciously misrepresenting the King and Governors unto the People as Idiots and Fools as Wicked and Vngodly p. 76. 11. That according to him the said Dr. Whitby The King and Governors are the Destroyers of the work of God and the Murderers of myriads of Souls by imposing things Indifferent p. 77. 12. That he the said Dr. Whitby feigns the King to command Men to sin when he commands their Obedience to things Indifferent p. 79 80. Having Collected this single dozen of remarkable things in that Book which its Author hath Entituled A New Discovery of Treason and faithfully cited the several Pages wherein the Proofs are to be seen by every Reader and where the Pages of Dr. Whitby in his Libellous Book Entituled The Protestant Reconciler are cited also I do not wonder that the said Libel was made an Example of at Oxford where 't was publickly Condemned to be Burn'd Alive like an Arrant Witch because it had been known too well to have Bewitched silly Creatures of each Sex with Rebellious Disaffections both to the King and the Church of England And Rebellion being a Sin like the Sin of Witchcraft 't is not strange the Witch was burn'd Nor do I wonder that the Author of the New Discovery of Treason has stigmatiz'd Dr. Whitby as the Scurrillous Reconciler p. 66. or as a second Hugh Peters p. 72. or as a Janus with two Faces p. 65. whose Practices in a Cathedral for the Keeping of Four Preferments enough for Four Better Men do flatly contradict his Arguments for Non-Compliance and Non-Conformity Nor do I wonder that the People do Nick-Name him Whigby who has broken all the Statutes of God and Man to Patronize the worst things in our Modern Whiggs and to make them much worse than before they were I do not wonder that Mr. Thomas a very loyal and learned Writer hath in his excellent Remarks on the Protestant Reconciler put the saddest Dilemma on Dr. Whitby that ever was put by a good Logician upon an ill one A Dilemma which evinceth him to be the worst of Men or Monsters let him take which part he will p. 4. Nor do I wonder that Mr. Thomas hath proved the Railings of Fanaticks to be made by Dr. Whitby his own intirely pag. 4. and 5. And that by three several Canons now in force to wit the Fourth Sixth and Tenth Dr. Whitby stands sentenced unto an Excommunication pag. 5 and 6 c. Nor do I wonder that Mr. Thomas though of the greatest Moderation has told the World in plain English That he the said Dr. Whitby has plaid the Knave with two Kings pag. 10. for he proves the Accusation by unanswerable Arguments pag. 11 12 13 c. And other Arguments there are which never yet came to that Author's Ears I do not wonder that Dr. Womock now Lord Bishop of St. Davids in his most excellent Book entituled Suffragium Protestantium hath publickly Gibbetted Dr. Whitby as the weakest of Logicians and worst of Men. Nor do I wonder that such an Apostate in his Protestant Joyner has shew'd his Malice against the King's Commissioners at the Savoy pag. 39 40 197 198 199 330 331. against the right Reverend Bishop Taylor Bishop Davenant Dr. Potter Dr. Tillotson Dr. More Dr. Burnet Mr. Falkner Judge Hales and others in too many Passages of his Libel to be here number'd up though I have them ready Much less do I wonder at his Abuses of the Learned and Reverend Dr. Stillingfleet as hypocritical and sensless pag. 297 298 301 302 363. or as a Man of weak Evasions pag. 81 82. much less yet at his avowed Partiality to the Schismaticks pag. 202 203 205 as far as to pag. 208. and again p. 320 363 364. Last of all I do not wonder that such a Monster of Ingratitude to his own very good Lord from whose Bounty he hath his Bread should reproachfully brand so great a Prelate as the right Reverend Bishop of Sarum under the Notion of Patron To whose Instructions and Example Discourse and Counsel he owes the small Improvements which he hath hitherto attained Yea from whose Favours and Protection he derives the Comforts and Satisfactions of his Life yes and the Encouragement of all his Labours By all which sly Insinuations under the colour of a Complement in a Dedicatory Epistle 't is hard to say how many ways he hath publickly injur'd so great a Father of the Church as if the whole Crop of Mischiefs which his Protestant