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A63900
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An argument in defence of the hospitaller of St. Thomas Southwark and of his fellow-servants and friends in the same house
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Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.
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1689
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Wing T3300; ESTC R9444
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Hospitall together without confuting his book For two Livings I suppose will be granted to be a Plurality and it is a known Maxim in the 〈◊〉 Philosophy which is like Mr Hughes for that that it is sometimes in the right though it be but very seldom that one and the same numericall and Individuall body cannot be present in two Places at once and from thence Non-Residence must unavoidably have followed So that Mr. H. in this Case had no more choice then this he must either have affronted his Conscience and what a Conscience is that that would Prostitute it self for so very small an advantage as I have computed this would have amounted too or he must have relinquisht one of his places or recaâ—â—ted his book and own himself to have written or rather bray'd Heresy before he was aware like the dull animal that mumbles Thistles I grant indeed that in law these two preferments would have made no plurality because one of them is not in the legall stile properly term'd cura animarum but yet there are Souls in one place as well as in the other and it may be more in this then in his Country Living so that it is a plurality in Conscience though not in Law and I challenge him to shew me one argument in his Book that does not â—ly in his face and call him by those names which I will not give my self the liberty to use being sensible I have called him but too severely already for which I beg his excuse as I hope he will think it but just and honest to beg mine too for having given me so Foul a Provocation by endeavouring to eject me out of what I legally and rightfully enjoy though he himself can get nothing by the bargain which is infernall quintessence the Devill rectify'd to his highest pitch it is Malice not in words as he may perhaps interpret my raillery to be a poor piece of business for a man that is robb'd of his right but in very deed and in truth I say he can get nothing but infamy and disgrace among all the Catholique Church of honest men for none but such do properly belong to the mysticall body of Christ and if this be the gain he contends for much good may it do him and I call it malice because I cannot call it Revenge for Revenge is the retaliation of an injury receiv'd but I never did him any he delerv'd it's true to be turn'd out of his place but I knew not the man nor his place neither I never supplanted him I scorn such profligate and degenerous acts I was actually appointed in his stead by the kindness of my friends before I knew the least Syllable or letter that any such thing was design'd and if I had not had it it is undoubtedly certain that some body else must so that I in particular was so far from doing him any injustice that my very succeeding him really did him no harm since it must have been done by some body else if it had not been done by me and yet if providence had not just then pointed out that refuge for me to fly to my affairs were brought to that extremity that I was in danger of immediate ruine so that he is angry with providence for providing for my safety as it did afterwards more plentifully for his he is angry with me for giving my self up to the Guidance and conduct of those happy Starrs that would not see me perish with Hunger and Cold and he makes it now his business to procure my ruine though at the same time he knows he can get nothing by it but the odious reputation of the worst of men so that if this be not malice there is no such thing and if ever man were excuseable for a sharp invective upon an invererate but causeless Enemy 't is I. But saith Mr. Hughes as to the business of Pluralities it was his own evasion when I urg'd it to him Sauce for a Goose is Sauce for a Gander why may not I be a Pluralist as well as you No Mr. Hughes it is not the same case for I never writ agrinst pluralities as you have done and besides you cannot accuse me of non-residence from whence all your arguments if you would speak any thing that looks like sense must of necessity derive their force and by this you made the Hospital a Plurality though it were but one place It is not a plurality in law because neither of the Places is cum cura animarâ—â— in the legall stile nor in Conscience though I am for Pluralities in a sober sense if I knew how to come at them because they are contiguous and may both very well be sufficiently taken care of even in the Judgment of those that quarrell most at such things by the same Person it is after the Example of St Bartholomew's it self which is the older Foundation of the two where both the Hospitall and Parish are United it is pursuant to the reason and intention of that Act of Parliament by which small Livings were united and joyn'd together after the Fire of London and there is no doubt but if that fatall Calamity had spread it self so far as by Gods great Mercy it did not the same provision upon the same ground would have been made here and Lastly the Justice and even necessity of it is acknowledged by the Excellent Dr. Burnet now the Right Reverend Lord Bishop Elect of Sarâ—m in his Sermon before the Commons at the beginning of this present Parliament where among other things that are managed like himself with an Air and vigour peculiar to their Author he piously recommends the encouragement of the Clergy and the encreasing of small Livings for their support I know not whether Mr. Hughes hath read that Sermon or no but I am sure he dare not read his two other Admirable discourses from the Pulpiâ— The Royall Martyr I mean and the Dutifull Subject for fear of reflecting too severely upon his own doubty Performance to be admired for nothing that I know of but that it is so resinedly so admirably wicked His Abingdon Law his Banqueting house Entertainment more Cruell then those of Progne and Thyestes wherein he caress'd himself and entertain'd his Friends O scelus O Flagitium with the Mangled and bleeding Father of his Country I shall conclude this whole matter with these two things First I desire that it may be taken notice that when upon the death of the Reverend my late dear friend Mr Sowton the Parish of St. Thomas's became void his Majesty King James the Second was pleased upon a Representation of the Equity of my Case to him the Hospitall alone not affording a sufficient maintenance for a Clergy Man in this Town to withdraw a Mandate granted in behalf of another in my Favour and accordingly upon this notice that it was his Majesties pleasure as I think a plainer Indication of it could not possibly be given I had an