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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94587	To the reverend and merry answerer of Vox cleri To be left at Mr. Brabazon Aylmer's at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill. With a bundle.		1690 (1690)	Wing T1601; ESTC R200563	7,353	17

To the Reverend and Merry Answerer of VOX CLERI To be left at Mr. Brabazon Aylmer's at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill With a Bundle SIR WITH all due Respect to your City-Dignity I make bold to acquaint you that last Market-day I bought your Book and have since read it without prejudice and am glad to find that a Man of your side though he makes no Abatements in his Wit uses so great Moderation and Temper in his Arguments I am willing to think I have done what you never did for I have really consider'd your Book which had you done who live within the Air of the Court and must needs be infected with good breeding you had doubtless retrenched divers Passages that are full enough of Wit you 'll say but not quite so full of good Manners In short Sir had you consider'd you had never printed and however at other times the Burthen of Writing may p. 35. have lain upon your Shoulders you would for once have consider'd upon whose Shoulders the Burthen of Reading was to lie For my own part I design to do this and shall therefore draw up what I have to say in as little compass as I can for as Horace says upon the like Occasion should I too long interrupt your Care of your thirty thousand how could I answer it to the Parish To begin therefore I agree with you that Indifferent Things are in their own nature alterable and even a Country Divine may gather from the Rubric that Ceremonies are such Indifferent Things 'T is an acknowledg'd Truth and will be so though you prov'd it in six pages more Wherefore if you please well take it for granted and go on to the main Point which is making Alterations at this time Of this you give us your Sense in divers Places I wish you would please to reconcile ' em For our Western Understandings cannot so readily comprehend how the Reason of a p. 20. thing shews the Necessity though there be no Necessity p. 2. in the Things themselves so that good and wise Men p. 6. may differ upon the Point but no man can oppose it that has cool and sober thoughts Make but these p. 2. Passages consist and you shall have my Vote to be Chairman in the next Committee of Union But since you allow so graciously that Good and Wise Men may differ pray why so hard upon the Good Men that are not of the Wise Mens Opinion Must we needs be kick'd out of Church if we like the Establish'd Liturgy and away to Bealam for cool and sober thoughts Is there no use of p. 2. our Pews but to sit in at the Sacrament sure the honor of God would dispense with Kneeling nor is the Peace and Interest of the Kingdom so concern'd p. 1. in these Alterations but a Man may still use the Cross in Baptism without being sworn to the Peace and carry a Knife about him though he should bespeak two Godfathers It were to be wish'd too that the Wise Men would a little adjust their Notions for the benefit of us Country-men who are now perplex'd with their different Sentiments as bad as Judge A was when the Lawyer spake for the Defendant One with great Depth and Gravity informs 1st Letter us that the Nature of the Things themselves requires an Alteration Another with as much 2d Letter form assures us that the times exact it and in case we demur upon the Point the Nation will abhor us and the Parliament reduce us to the State of Scotland You must imagine this puts us in a terrible Fright for the Man 's as confident as if he were a Member and a Scot too But to comfort our Hearts down comes Tertius è Caelo like Tumbler into the Isle of Pines not altogether so wise but much the merriest of the three and he crys No such matter good People the Nature p. 11 of the things require no Alteration all your fear p. 2. is ridiculous and therefore Old Gentleman lay down your Spit and your Firefork and let you and I exchange a scrap of Latin and break a Jest or two upon this great Occasion You Wise Men of the West think it reasonable the p. 7. End should be consider'd before the Means are resolv'd upon which is very Sage and Grave and becoming your Country Wisdom which does nothing in vain never brews Ale without some body to drink it and never sets a Hen but to breed Chickens according to that Logical Axiom which you han't quite forgot Finis primum in intellectu True Sir and if Writers as well as Brewers would but consider that Axiom Oh Heavens what Ale and Pamphlets should we have But you forget Sir one main point of Country Wisdom which is this That we never make Pies without Paper to put under 'em and therefore your Book coming so very opportunely my Maid went cheerfully to Baking As for Brewing you say well that we always do it in hopes some honest Man may be the better for 't for do you think I 'd have brew'd last March had I thought the Dissenters were to drink it this February The drink would never have work'd Man But how come you to be so knowing in our Country Business Tu regere imperio as the Poet has it Do you mind Beef and Whitechappel and set up your Pillars at those Bars You may keep a few Hens instead of Fathers in your Cockloft to learn how to reckon your Chickens but as ever you hope to have a Dignity not a word of Ale or Union You see Sir how forward we Country People are to get into the City fashion You give us the Laws of Writing and your Example must be our Apology if we endeavor to trace your steps We do it as becomes us with a Longe sequere preserving the due distance between a poor Country Vicar and one that drinks Sack● in p. 35. the Vestry But we had rather you 'd forbear setting us these Copies because they take us too much off from our Country Business we should brew better Ale if you minded your Custard and our Hens would lay though you did not cackle Therefore pray Sir for the future keep your witty Notions of Cookery to your self and leave us p. 19. 35. to our old Service and brown Apple-Pie which we can feed upon very contentedly at least till the Convocation finds us better Victuals It is a great Condescension in you after all your sharpness to submit to that Country Method you have railled though at last you graciously do it and consider both the End and Means Your End it seems is bringing in Dissenters and your Means Abatements and Alterations and for these you give us two notable Reasons 1. That the Church may be clean 2. That Religion may be trim That the Church may be clean 't is plain for you mean not to cleanse away The Pillars but only to take