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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06632	A letter of Sr. Humfrey Linde, to a lady of great worth, much afflicted for Syr Humfreys sake, hearing him ill spoke of, for not answering the Whetstone, and the Spectacles, that were written against his Via tuta And also for that he is greatly taxed for lying and corrupting of many authours. In which letter he doth cleare himselfe.	Floyd, John, 1572-1649.; Lynde, Humphrey, Sir.	1634 (1634)	STC 17093; ESTC S100654	14,875	50

A LETTER OF S. r HVMFREY LINDE To a Lady of great Worth much afflicted for Syr Humfreys sake hearing him ill spoken of for not answering the Whetstone and the Spectacles that were written agaynst his Via tuta AND Also for that he is greatly taxed for lying and corrupting of many Authours In which Letter he doth cleare himselfe Printed Anno M.DC.XXXIIII MADAME The affliction you endure for my sake is a sharpe Arrow shot euē to my hart and is not thence to be remoued vntill your griefe be remoued by this my Letter which I know to you who are so zealous a louer of the Word and hater of the Pope will giue aboundant satisfaction As for the Church-going Papists therefore and some other that are not of the purer sort of the reformed Church who as you say do dash you in the teeth with my lyes 150. and odd in my first Booke called Via tuta and the Lord knowes how many in my second called Via deuia so that when you would sound forth my euerlasting praises they stop your pure Mouth with my infinite numbers of corruptions shiftes Foxian Iewellian and Mortonian falsifications crying out that I haue had too printed Bookes sent me one called the Spectacles to see my way the other the Whetstone the iust reward of my desert for lying so egregiously with many other papers of like nature displaying my vntruthes Know deare Lady that a Brother or Sister that spring from the pure bowels of the reformed Church as your Honour and I doe must suffer much more then this by that vile deformed and Antichristian Crew the Wicked But now to the matter This only I request at your Honours hands that if you know any should be desirous before my printed Bookes come forth to receaue any further satisfaction then this my Letter to your Ladishippe will giue them they may be sent on the Lords name either to my owne House or to the Wine-Office where I and many of our learned and zealous brethren meete often about a further reformation of Religion desiring that not so much as a ragge of Popery may remayne in the House of the Lord neither Bells nor Organs Rochets or Myters square Caps or Surplisses Crosse or Image for I am assured a true Brother or Sister had rather see Antichrist himselfe then any of these nay we trust in the Lord to put the Word Catholicke out of the Creed as well as out of Tombe-stones and in place therof to say I belieue in the Reformed Church And though our enemyes shew that Lying is one of the Markes of our Church and that I for the glory of it haue told ouer againe all the lyes of M. Bell Fox Iewell White Morton and others in a new fashion yet all this notwithstanding I hope to giue any reasonable man full satisfaction For put case there hath beene now and then a slip or two and that out of the aboundance of my zeale I haue sometimes ouerlashed or stretched a point for the loue of the Ghospell I hope this will be no such Capitall Crime amongst the pure little Flocke who know right well what latitude may be vsed for the splendor of the Ghospell what our Elders and Fore-fathers in this kind haue done no learned knight can be ignorant What therfore I haue done was not without authority yea herein I haue tracked the very footsteps of the most famous D. Luther and the pure preacher of the word D. Caluin These were the lights sent from heauen it self to driue away the darke clouds of papistry These were they who made their doctrine odious to the world And wot you how why thus Those reuerend Fathers of our Church affirmed how Papists bragged of being able to keep Gods Commaundements without Gods grace how they put their trust in their owne Merits and not in Christs how they adored Bread Statues Images and Idols Now the Papists ashamed denyed it stoutly Againe those Reuerend Fathers affirmed it boldly so conuinced them What is not our affirmation a sufficient refutation of their deniall Sure I am this manner of arguinge hath beene allowed of this fourescore yeares in our Churches and pulpits When D. Luther tom de matrim f. 119. began to teach from aboue no doubt that this in Genesis Multiply and increase was not a Precept only but more then a Precept and that it was not within the power of a man to be without a woman And agayne that if the wife would not yield she should be sent packing marry Hesther put away Vasthi that if the husband were impotent the wife might marry another or with his consent lye secretly with his brother or some other man What did the Papists Oh it vexed them to heare of reformatiō they vrged Scripture too Matt. 5. where it is said that Whosoeuer dismisseth his wife vnles for fornication and marieth another committeth adultery But alas they haue not the spirit of interpreting Scriptures their old Fathers Grandsires were blinded and therfore according to his Tenet well sayth D. Luther Be it that the Church Augustine other Doctors Peter Apollo yea an Angell frō heauen teach otherwise yet is my doctrine such as setteth forth Gods only glory Nay he had authority from heauen to reprehend the Apostles themselues and to put in and out what he pleased of the holy Word of the Lord for so he himselfe affirmeth in his booke agaynst King Henry the 8. I am certayne sayth he I have my doctrine from heauen and yet marke the humility of the man it is not myne sayth he but Christes And therefore you see how afterwards King Henry obeyed him and his doctrine which he would neuer haue done had it not beene from God or had it not beene most pure and holy doctrine and therfore you may read how zealous King Henry became how purely and chastly he liued being conuerted from Popery Agayne D. Luther added to the Text Rom. 3. this word alone Man is iustifyed by fayth alone And this not without both authority from God as before you haue heard out of his owne mouth and no doubt do firmly belieue but also with great reason to wit to vexe the old Papists O this doth silence them this makes thē chafe and sweat Let them cry we falsify the Scripture I will study no further answere for them then this of D. Luthers which is neuer to be answered A Papist and an Asse are all one thinge So I will haue it so I commaund it my will must stand for a reason And good reason for thy Will was the Lords will and the Lords will was thy Will So in the 2. of Peter he hath thrust out good Workes as not beseeming these holy times when a liuely fayth excludeth all good Workes all counsels of Pouerty Chastity and Obedience Giue me fayth and let the Papists goe with their good Works and Restitutions whither they will I le none This doctrine we exactly follow and protest