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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56305	The church of Christ in Bristol recovering her vail out of the hands of them that have smitten and wounded her, and taken it away. Being, a just and necessary vindication, from a false and scandalous imputation cast upon her by Dennis Hollister, formerly a member of her, but now an apostate from, and an opposer of those waies, truths, and people, which once he seemed zealous for. As appears by a late pamphlet put forth by him, called, The skirts of the whore discovered. With some particular words, from some particular persons whom he hath by name abused and reproached. Likewise a word by Thomas Ewen, unto what concerns him in the said pamphlet, and also to the later part of another book, called, Satan enthroned in his chair of pestilence.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666. aut	1657 (1657)	Wing P4232; ESTC R213966	65,602	90

done with the substance of your Letter I intend to add a short word to the ensuing part of your Book but I shall first make a little digression by joyning an occasional word to what I have now written c. I shall desire you to Consider Whether you are not by this act of yours in publishing me thus to the world tickled the hearts and pleased the fancies of many who were full enough of prejudice against me before nay are you not joyned as a Brother in bitterness with him that wrote the late Book called Satan Enthroned in his chair of Pestilence Let any judicious Christian compare your Book with the latter part of his and see whether those two bitter streams do not both arise from one corrupt fountain namely the Spirit that is from beneath may not I return your own words upon you which you unjustly charge upon me and this Church from Obediah 11 Thou wast like one of them c. and is this the kindness of a friend or the part of a brother O how truly are those Scriptures fulfilled in you Mic. 7. 5. Trust ye not in a friend c. Jer. 9. 4. Take ye heed c. for every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbour will walk with slanders You had written your Letter to me about a year ago and if you had known ought by me you might have written more but for you now to publish it to the world and to proclaim it in your Frontispiece and that in such a subtile manner that he that reads your title page and my name would verily think if they did not know otherwise that I were some dreadful persecutor and that I had caused some Servant of Christ to be whipt and punished but I trust the Lord will look upon my wrong and your envie my innocency and your hypocrisies c. but I know it is in vain to write farther to you and truly had it not been for the vindication of the truth and satisfact on of some poor souls in this City and Nation I should have cast your Book and the other mans Book aside and never have troubled my self to have answered you or him but since it is so that both your Books are spread abroad and read by many at which some are grieved others staggered and people generally apt to conclude that things are so as he and you have said because I am silent and say nothing as I remember it was with me once before when a publick Scandal was raised and cast upon me at my first coming to Bristol which the Lord knew and I in my own Conscience knew I was as innocent in as any man or child under heaven and therefore sate still about half a year resolving my innocency should answer for me c. which made many conclude I was guilty because I was silent till at length I was forced to seek a publick Vindication by the Magistrate which I had and then the mouths of bad people were stopped and the minds of good people satisfied So I conceive it might be now if I were wholly silent as to what you and he do write though indeed I had resolved silence and to have given you and him and others leave to have trampled upon me and were I in a private capacity I think I should do so but forasmuch as the Lord hath set me as a publick instrument in his work and that that which you and he have written of me tends much to the defaming of me and the hindrance of my work by laying stumbling blocks of prejudice into the minds of people against me I therefore think my self bound for the truths sake and for the sake of some good people in this City being thereunto also advised and perswaded by godly friends to set forth a few words of truth and soberness both to your Book and his And I desire that neither you nor he will be offended that I joyn you both together in this my Answer for first you are much alike Brethren in bitterness against the people called Independants and Baptized as may be seen throughout your Book and in the latter part of his Secondly I find that he hath often joyned you with me therefore I think it not improper to coupple him with you and I hope that neither your friends nor his will look upon my so doing as any disparagment to you or him Yet I must needs say in some things he is more modest than you in that he doth not name me as you often do though in some things you are more serious than he in that you do not 〈◊〉 as he often doth but both you and he have done what you could to lay me under contempt and scorn to the whole City and Nation and therefore I shall now address my self to answer some few passages in his Book though not for your information but for my own Vindication and for publick and general satisfaction c. And first in the 48 page of that his Book called Satan enthroned in his Chair of Pestilence c. he tells a story how they meaning the Church in Bristol send for a Taylor out of Wales to be their Teacher c. in which he deals very dis-ingeniously for first he knew that I was sent for by the Major of the City some Aldermen many of the Council and other Gentlemen and Commissioners of the City of Bristol which I take to be the Representative of the City c. As likewise I was sent for by many of the godly inhabitants as I have elsewhere declared and that not only to be a Teacher in the Church of Bristol but to be a publick Preacher of the Gospel in the City as I have through the help and grace of Christ hitherto continued and he himself at my first coming gave me the right hand of fellowship and professed he was satisfied in my Call But secondly I was no more a Taylor in Wales than he was any of his former Callings after he came to Bristol For when I was called to Preach the Gospel in Wales I left my former Employment as he did leave his several Callings when he took to Preaching the next thing concerning me in his Book is page 50. where he mentioneth a great Woman that had three Children unbaptized the truth of which I shall relate by which the falseness of his Relation will appear c. There was about the time of my coming first to Bristol a godly woman one at whose Husbands house the Church did often use to meet she having been delivered of a Child did about a month after desire the Church to meet at her house to render praise to the Lord and to spend some time in Prayer and conference c. accordingly the Elder that then was did upon the first day of the week appoint that the next Meeting should be at such a place to such an end now when the Church was met she desired that her Children might also

by Iames Naylor a man then highly admired and cried up by you or those of your way as a man of great infallibility which perhaps might help to puff him up with pride by which he came to fall into this fad condemnation c. Now whereas some of your way boast much of your being all led by one and the same Spirit so that though they were at a great distance yet they all speak but one thing c. Now let any man read and compare your answers with Iames Naylors and see how near they come together unless it be in railing judging and censuring though therein I must needs say his answers are more moderate than yours And whereas a late Writer for your way puts it by way of derision to the Preachers in England that if six of the most able Doctors should have a portion of Scripture given them to interpret and they shut up in six several rooms c. that perhaps not two of the six agree in their interpretation Now suppose you had taken four more of your Teachers such as some of you had challenged the whole world to accuse of sin and made them six in number and have given them these sixteen Quaeries apart to answer perhaps they would have come as rear as you and Naylor do in your answers or as six of the weakest Preachers in England might have done in their interpreting a place of Scripture As for your word to England I shall say little to that but desire rather to mourn for the evils and abominations therein as I know it is my duty and yours also if you knew how to do it and so I conclude expecting that I shall have many sharp Arrows of bitter words shot at me both by you and others but for that I matter not much being conscious to my self that I have written in plainness words of truth and soberness and that I have been pressed by others to do what I have done and that rather for the vindication of truth than of my self and rather for the sakes of some godly people who may read it than for your sakes to whom I direct it and if you or others shall dip your pens in Vineger or Gall to write again I hope I shall bear it or modestly reply to it though my thoughts are rather to suffer my self to be trampled upon then again to answer a word seeing that of making many Books there is no end and much study is a weariness of the flesh Eccles 12. 12. And knowing also that neither you nor others can speak or write me so vile as I can and do see and acknowledge my self to be as in my self yet is my perfection and compleatness in another even in Christ Jesus my Lord in whom is all righteousness all strength and all fulness laid up for all those that sensibly see and feel that in them that is in their flesh dwelleth no good thing c. and thereupon do look unto him to receive of his fulness grace for grace in which glorious person all that do believe are justified and by whose grace and blessed Spirit they are in a measure sanctified and through whose pretious blood and perfect righteousness mediation and intercession they shall be eternally saved and in whose way I could as gladly now as ever subscribe my self Your Friend T. E. FINIS There is now in the Press a Book written by Robert Purnel entituled A little Cabbinet richly stored with all sorts of heavenly varieties wherein there is a Remedy for every Malady viz. Milk for Babes and Meat for strong Men and the ready way for both to obtain and retain assurance of Salvation being an Abridgment of the sum and substance of the true Christian Religion and to be fold at the Three Bibles in Paul's Church-yard