our Prefacer of K. Charles He did no Evil Perhaps he could do none for so Sir Orlando Bridgman in the Trial of the Regicides urged it The King can do no Man wrong He that can do no Man wrong can he do any Man right Was it some may say that when the Father's Head was on the Block the two Son's Heads had not been there too I am not more confident of any one thing I ever studied of History then that K. Charles was a Popish Perjur'd Bloody Arbitrary Tyrant As for our Prefacer's Citations 1. Some I doubt are untrue and others want proof 2. Men will too much talk like Courtiers whose Minds cannot be known by their words 3. Some very good prudent Men did think favourably of K. Ch. the 1st's Cause and Family 1. Till the Discovery of â—hat deep Plot by Dr. Oates declared by the Parliament to be true 2. Till they saw the after Proceeding of K. Charles the â—d and his Death 3. Till they saw the open defiance of our Laws by K. James I would appeal to the Consciences of some Men if I thought they had any whether they do or â—an believe what they write of that worst of Kings C. 1st tho â—ot Men. 4. Besides when Men are in Misery as the King was in the Isle of Wight they then are like wild Beasts taâ—ed So he might talk honestly and piously and easily decoy well meaning credulous Persons who are then through pity ready for such impressions 5. Yet I think their fluid Charity perhaps not fix'd is more justifiable than their Prudence or mature Judgments So it hath been as before with the Censurers of Dr. Crisp his Doctrine some close all They hope he was a good Man 6. Yet after all I care not what any Man said but what he ought to say I therefore â—o to the merits of the Cause And for the Church-Men who are angry with 〈◊〉 of us that hope Oliver is in Heaven or the greateâ— Parliamentarian Fighters they themselves must haâ—… own'd so much over their Graves if but lately Deaâ— tho they justified themselves and proceedings to thâ— last If the common Plea be good here That is 〈◊〉 that is in the least degree a remove from Despair and thâ—… you may say of any Man You hope he is in Heaven thâ—… you are not sure to be in Hell Say next you hope the greaâ—… Turk when he dies will go there That you hope to 〈◊〉 till a hundred Years old and to find a great prey not â—…ing sure to the contrary I will not digress else I woâ—… lay open the vanity of this Notion or blind Charity I care not for Milton's Iconoclastes tho I think he haâ—… written a great deal of Truth but whether honestly 〈◊〉 no I leave others to judg I do believe both he and 〈◊〉 Lord Lambert were Roman Catholicks or Scepticks aâ—… Deists doing the work of such I once conversed with 〈◊〉 Lord Lambert in his Garden on the Island nigh Plymoâ—… and could hardly tell what he would be at in Religion 〈◊〉 when I saw him on the 15th Psalm I there found a Behâ—… menistical strain and believ'd he intended to bring our Râ—ligion into Contempt What Bedlow swore is well knoâ—… and he said he brought him Letters from Thâ—… Milton lost his Paradise the Protestant Religion but neâ— reâ—ain'd it more But did nothing that Rushworth saâ—… deserve our Prefacer's Consideration Obj. But it shall be done in time When It is high tiâ—… if ever And he might have let alone this magisterial dogâ—…tical Assertion till that time that we might see all in a pieâ—… What is a Machin when taken in its parts for my paâ—… I not only can but do hear patiently any Man that shâ—… talk two or three Hours together to prove the infamâ—… Martyr-maker to be a glorious Martyr if he so belieâ—… but for Men to assert and assert without proof and be 〈◊〉 patient of hearing Objections they are not fit for Converâ—… â—o doubt this destroyer of his Country doubted not but â—ishop Williams of Ossery his Prophesy should be fulfill'd in â—is Book against Non-Resistance written in the 2d Year of the War That the King should reign till he had put all his Enemies â—…der his Feet God heard the K. when he said if I have â—…ed innocent Blood let my Honour be laid in the Dust As for the keen severe Reflections our Prefacer makes â—n those who mâ—ke a Calves head Feast every Martyrâ—om day I justify them not but if I must be either at â—heir Feast or some Mens Fast that day I know which 〈◊〉 would choose for good chear sake tho I will not tell eâ—ery Body much less the Prefacer lest I should be reâ—ected on in his next turkish-slavish-Turkish-slavish-Book His other â—rother N. Y. that true English-man lately dead is beâ—ond his Censure now This Sermon being printed must never be preach'd â—ore tho with a new Text how often soever it hath been â—reach'd already Must two hundred Pounds a Year be â—…id to a repeater of Sermons tho his own and the Trade â—…ntinue durante Vita He that preach'd his Daughters Diâ—…nity once about standing in â—inging Psalms let him â—…nsult her again and it may be he will no longer up â—…d down preach Pro and Con and turn his Cap as the â—ind blows Will not his Head when he dies serve for â—other thing now on the Steeple Hath the Martyr-â—aker's Picture before the Pulpit set up by Mr. Prefacer â—ade them both giddy That King Charles was the Author of his Image is â—utly asserted by our Prefacer as stoutly denied by Men 〈◊〉 all Parties but never was by me for 1. Colonel Crook told me he saw the Copy of it under 〈◊〉 King 's own hand and he never doubted him the Auâ—…or Now tho I confess this proves him not the Auâ—…or yet it is a great help and confutes some who â—…estion whether ever the King saw it The Testimoâ—… of an Adversary goes far he was one of the greatest Enemies the King had and one of the best Friends his Highness the Protector had 2. What will the denyers get by this who cannot deny the Conference between the King and Mr. Hindersham and other Epistles of his which prove he was a good Scholar and so far a wise Man What if his Brother Juliaâ— and his Brother Trajan were both great learned Men doth that excuse their Tyrannies and other Villanies No tho their good Morals be added to all as not given to Women or Wine c. Their learning unsanctified not enthusiastically manag'd was but as Judas and the Jews Lanthorns and Torches by which Christ was betray'd 3. Doth any Man that knows Bishop Gauden's Stile think this like it And for what a late Writer says Mr. T. of the Earl of Anglesy leaving it under his hand in a Book That he knew it was not the King 's c. and this Mr. Millington testifies 1. Is it likely King Charles the first and
James the theâ— Duke of York should so confess to him What! And none but him 2. Ought not the Earl if so to have declar'd this wheâ— live Viva voce for the satisfaction of his Countrey-men and not leave a Note in so obscure a place 3. I must have greater Testimony than Mr. M. to prove it was the Earl's own Hand and not counterfeit We know who can imitate If as Mr. Millington told me and others That Paul a Knave of Jesus Christ is no true Story but it was found that Knave was with great Artifice put in and the word there before blotted oâ—… might not a lesser Trick be here made Lastly If Bishop Gauden did say he was the Authoâ— and say true it is as true he was the greatest Villain 〈◊〉 the face of the Earth To tell the World the King saâ—… to God and Man what he never said his name deserâ—… to be a Curse on the Earth for abusing all Mankiâ—… But he was accounted one of the best of Bishops 〈◊〉 â—kely the famous Preacher once in Exon told me great â—ngs of him and that he believ'd him to be a Pious â—n tho he himself was a warm Independent Whether â—hop Gauden might help the King to any Materials I â—…l not say or the like but the same Arguments that â—…ve him to be the Author prove him to be a â—at R. 〈◊〉 remember I once heard our Prefacer say when urged â—…th the afore named Story of K. Charles the 2d's giving â—…der his Hand That the Earl of Antrim in the Irish Reâ—…lion acted by his Father's Commission It cannot said 〈◊〉 be denied But he hated his Father because a Protestant â—or thin Sophistry Yet we had an Act from an inâ—…ible Parliament by the way to make it Treason to say â—is King was a Papist I wish those excellent admiâ—le Accomplishments God hath bless'd our Prefacer â—…th say Dr. Salmon what he will to the contrary had â—…en well imployed Would Plymouth Hospital had been â—ther and the Sacramental Test Then we had had him as â—ainter not of an old rotten Post but of a new good â—…e K. William as more than a Crowned Head which is all 〈◊〉 good words he hath for him If Christ and Oliver â—omwel must pass for two Deceivers in some Company 〈◊〉 Judas and the Martyr-makers pass for famous Men. â—…d the King been indeed a Pious Man some Men would â—ver have one good for him who hate every thing of â—…ty where ever they see it except the NAME How hard is it for any Man to serve two Masters Charles 〈◊〉 Pseudo-Martyr and our good K. William Either he â—…st hold to the one and Despise the other they canâ—…t serve K. Charles and K. William If some took off the â—ad of the Father others Dethron'd K. James for K. â—…lliam and would have his Head too could they come at But if I am ask'd as I have often been Will you justify â—…ver Cromwel in all that he did 1. No nor my self in all that I have done but cry God be Merciful to me a Sinner Will these Objectors justify themselves in every thing they have done I believe some cannot justify them in any thing almost they do 2. Can David Solomon Josiah or the best of Princes be justified in all they did The Church by Solomon 〈◊〉 said to be fair as the Morn which hath her Spots 3. Yet what is it he is not to be justified in Oâ—… The taking the Government upon him I know none hate Preferment Did he then make or attempt to make his Family or the Nation great It is well known many Congregational Ministers reflected on him every Lord's day iâ— the Pulpit for usurping the Government When he seâ—… for them together he so acquainted them with the Staâ—… and Posture of things at that time that had he not taken the Protector-ship upon him all things had run into Confusion He wept and they wept as fast as he and would never reflect upon him more Yet to be plain his saying in the Star-Chamber He never sought the Protectorship no manner of way but was unwilling to take it till forced to it and shutting the Parliament-door till they had own'd his Authority were bad vile things and shew'd him 〈◊〉 be but a Man of like Infirmities with others But if it cannot be prov'd he was a Pious Man What then He might be a good Governour How rare are pious Kings One in three or four hundred Year But of him and K. Charles and Affairs relating to them have I said so much in my censur'd Book Vindiciae Anti-Baxterianae that there I refer the Reader These talkers for the slavish Doctrine of Non-Resistance are woful practitioners of it when it comes to be against them They forget themselves as Roger L'estrange in his late Fables and Morals unhappily begins When Archodemus King of the Lacedemonians married a very little Woman his Subjects fined him because they fear'd a small breed by her Why Roger were Kings fined by their Subjects in one of â—e best Governments in the World as the Lacedemonian â—s and that for so small a thing What if that King had â—…pt a Nest of Whores and among them another Man's â—ife had not his Head been the Fire Thus the great â—eaders for absolute Monarchy and Kings to be inviolable â—o Arbitrary trip ere they are aware This is like the â—ose after he had censur'd many Fables in Aesop as trite â—e makes a more foolish one then any there about the Woâ—an and the Needle thrust in her Finger He said he did â—…t thrust himself there she did so Is it not shameful 〈◊〉 see some Men condemn others as Men having no â—…nscience and factious Atheists forsooth If K. Charles â—…s Cause had been good he might say to some pleaders for â—…m as a Holy Man and Martyr what Christ said to their â—aster when he said I know thee who thou art the Holy â—…e of God Hold thy Peace accounting it no honour to â—…m to be thus applied to by an Unclean Spirit You that compare the Man of Blood to David Josiah â—…me to Christ himself remember how Williams Bishop 〈◊〉 Ossery expos'd himself when he wrote a Folio to prove â—ery comically done That Antichrist was the long Parâ—…ment and Bishop Laud and King Charles the two witâ—…sses You that talk of the sick brain'd Apocalyptical â—…en at that time can you find a worse than he or a â—ore mad Prophet than Aris ap Evan The Blood shed in the Civil War the worst of Wars â—…ied for Vengeance and was heard I pray the Inhabitants of that famous Town of Plyâ—outh the place of my Nativity to consider how faâ—ous above any Town in England not only the Men â—…t the very Women made themselves when they reâ—ell'd the Martyr-maker in his highest Attempts to take â—…e Town How God afterwards blessed them with a â—…ly laborious bountiful genteel learned Minister Mr. 〈◊〉 Hughes How all blessings of Trade Peace Plenty as â—ell as Piety then attended them What Confusions are there now in their Worship contrary to the Coâ—… prayer-Prayer-Book Instead of with an Humble Voice saying me They roar with a loud Voice going on with reading Priest or as once I heard going before him Voice not being heard How Atheism and Profanâ— hath abounded there for thirty Years past What 〈◊〉 the B. in the Manger c. Our Prefacer knows this 〈◊〉 true and hath been an Ear Witness as if they 〈◊〉 verify what some have said Where the Common-Pâ—… Book goes up the Bible goes down Let Mr. Munâ—… other serious Persons there compare Times with Tâ—… Ministers with Ministers Magistrates with Magistrâ—… Worship with Worship People with People and they not acknowledg that Plymouth was once a â—…dice now a wild Wilderness c O the Wickedneâ—… some Men who have made other Men as Heathen Meâ—… Publicans and deliver'd them up to Satan for a Tridâ— Ceremony and cherish'd as Members of their Chaâ—… such as have kept other Mens Wives whilst Magistrâ—… C. M. went openly on such particular days of the Wâ—… and such particular hours of the Day How came Canon to give this Man the Sacrament contrary to 〈◊〉 own Orders Hold up your Head Sir Are you a Câ—… formist according to the Constitution of your Chaâ—… No but in this and other things a vile Dissenter FINIS
irresistible Grace in Conversion God takes away the opposition the stubbornness of the Will this is taking away the Stone then gives a principle of Grace this is his giving a Heart of Flesh and then inclines to walk in ways of Obedience Adam was made upright and obeyed he was not made so by doing this and that Duty He was made good and then did good for the time of his Station God â—ath a love of Benevolence or good Will before Men are turned when they have not the Image and Superscription of God but Satan on them but no Love of Complacency till in them is a conformity to his Nature when a homogeneous not a heterogeneous Nature no Beast could be found to be a fit Wife for Man God gives him an Eve so Mr. A. against S. Now I doubt not but the greatest of Sinners may in the â—reaching of the Word be prick'd at the Heart on a â—udden his Will turned for God and against Sin and â—e pardoned should this Man going home ride or â—ross the Waters and break his Neck or be drown'd â—ho he had not one quarter of an Hour for secret Prayer or reading or counselling others he would be â—mmediately carried by the Angels into Abraham's Bosom for his Seed was in him he was born of God And this Mr. Williams I am sure will not deny noâ— I think to do Mr. Baxter right he neither were he alive I solemnly profess I cannot remember one word in all his Books to the contrary who have read more of them than any of his Followers I can meet with tho none of late years except his Life and Vniversal Redemption A Censure of a Scandalous Pamphlet against the Authors of the Congregational Declaration and my self THere coming out lately What shall I call it Not an Answer sure where is not one real or pretended Argument against the Congregational Declaration but a Libel against the Reverenâ— Authors and me I find my self concerned to consider this as well as Esquire Edwards's Defence being directly struck at here and but indirectly there The Composers of this Libel as is agreed on aâ— hands are the Reverend Assembly of unlearned Tradâ—smen the A. Club and now the celebrated Lunatiâ—… applies himself to the wise Men of Gotham to vindicate Trepidantium Malleus with whom they begin then Mr. Mead Mr. Nesbet Mr. Lobb Mr. Griffith Mr. Taylor The Fable of Box was answered three Years since in my Reply to W. C. his Censure of mâ— Mr. Keith and Mr. Lesly As I then said I say iâ— now I offer five Pounds to any that shall prove I waâ— in Box or any such place one hour Is it nothing tâ— print Men Lunaticks and celebrated ones too because once they were plunged into deep Melancholy for a long time Mr. Mead is charged with taking a House and Garden surreptitiously Where I pray hath he did himself and the stoln Goods Are they not upon the spot If other Mens Goods had been so some of this Company needed not to have absconded or gone to Goal for not paying Men their due or spending other Mens Money in Taverns and Coffee-houses in idle Pranks when they should be industrious in their Shops to pay every Man his own Must a Man of Mr. Mead's known Worth Integrity and Usefulness have a Hue and Cry sent after him as a Cheat by such as have been notoriously such How he is cleared by that Gentleman most concerned in that Affair as well as others is not convenient now to relate Let any sober dissatisfied Men if any such there be come to me or him about it It is not convenient in Print to answer Men about these things at large who can only rave not reason I am sorry if this publick Defamation hath been any unhappy occasion of Mr. Mead his late Distempers Such a thing I confess may catch as Tinder doth Fire on Melancholy and the usual Distempers of old Age. If he dies are not these Men Man-slayers No wonder they spare no Man when Mr. Gouge who lately was by these Men magnified as the best if not only Gospel-Preacher in the City is now call'd a Drunkard and Murderer He sees now how he was taken in his Policy who by permitting Jack to speak in his Meeting place to prevent a Storm that he might not be accounted an Enemy to free Grace hath thus occasioned one I doubt he finds in this sense 't is not true That true Repentance is never too late Mr. Nesbet comes next What if he were a Beggar c. must none such write against Crisp a Work fitter for him had he been so to answer poor beggarly Arguments and Phrases of a poor Scholar indeed Nam genus proavos quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco He that could call Mr. Nesbet a mean or contemptible Man would by that thing prove himself so Mr. Lobb comes next to be arraigned tried and cast He is made a Man of Contention and yet once magnified for his faithful Report That he was also a Favourite of K. James They that thus charge him now were Men that encouraged him in it then â—s the Securer of their Liberty I hope these vile Men contributed not to his Death also Trepidantium Malleus and these Mens Names are written in large Characters Mr. Griffith Mr. R. Taylor in small ones and the reason privately given is We were Knaves and they were Fools and such a false Character is given of one of these for easiness of Temper and flexibility that all cry out Shame on it who for the contrary might make an Archbishop or a Judg. Mr. G. say they thought others had subscribed What then Dear Hearts Is it not enough he subscribed to the Declaration as good and sound They say they know none that own the Antinomian Nâ—tions there censured but some of old in Germany I would all such were in Germany and London rid of them They know not What then Will it follow we know not Can some of them say the Teâ— Commandments I doubt it they are old Laws or read a Chapter in English as becomes a Man The design of this Paper as he that runs may read is to bring Ministers and the Ministerial Function into Contempt to make way as is conceiv'd for their own speaking as well as Jack's in time Hence they call Mr. Lobb Dunce Blockhead c. compare them all to Porters and Tinkers and tell of the Wickedness of one and another and all the while the Plague-Sores of Debauchery have been long running on them Tho they begin with us and name plainly I only follow and will put all under fictitious Names What Letters shall I put them in if in great ones they must pass for Knaves only if in small ones for Fools only Well they being both shall have of both sorts Mr. CALVMniator Mr. STALLion Mr. FRAud Mr. DVLman Mr. MAGpy 1. Let them read Trepidantium Malleus intrepidanter malleatus and my Defence
been glad to have seen it had he not died before its publication I am glad to find help from any Men Arminians themselves to prevent Satan's Gospel not Christ's A Doctor of Divinity lately told me of one taken â—n Bed between two Women and clap'd up in Priâ—on who told him that he was between two â—isters godly Women in Bed without not only â—ny sinful Act but Thought and all they did was â—hey sung one of the Songs of Sion but the wicked Man â—f the House sent for him whom they call the Constable â—nd they were all sent to Bridewel and whip'd by the â—icked but he was sorry for one of them a good graâ—ious Woman whom he fear'd would die with it You impenitent Believers whose Doctrine hath once â—lready brought forth Rantism you are laying the â—oundation once more but Heaven grant that as the â—ormer was soon blasted the latter may The Doctor â—…so told me that his Father knew Dr. Crisp and said â—e knew him from a Boy a notorious dull Piece and â—…at he never could manage an Argument And I â—erily believe he was not able to give a Grammatical Account of any Chapter in the Latin Testament nor of ten Verses in any Chapter there in the Greek one Tho other propositions of the Crispians are black and look with an odious Face yet they are nothing to this against Brokenness of Heart as That the Elect were always God's Children as much belov'd by God in their Whoredoms Murders before Conversion as after That God saw then no Sin in them no more than in Angels and Saints above That the filthiness and pollution of Sin was on Christ till he breath'd it out and so he was odious to God as a Toad to a Man and continued so till he rose from the Dead That Whoremongers Blasphemers continuing such may be assur'd they are God's Children and that the general Tender of the Gospel is their best security That no Grace not Faith it self can make any one to have Comfort by it or prevent Evil or obtain Good or further Salvation The worst is That God never chargeth Believers with Sin neither ought they to charge themselves nor be troubled about it David sin'd in both But see my Dialogue between a wild Crispian and a sober Christian And now I friendly apply my self to the Authors of this censur'd Libel I bear you no ill will as you well know and some of you will candidly confess you know not the Pleasure that I take in being of a Reconcileable Spirit any of you shall be welcome to me at any time if it please you calmly to debate matters no Man would be more glad of your Reformation than my self God Almighty give you Repentance unto Life for Sin must be a burden to you here or hereafter I am not without hope but some of you are already ashamed for your abuse of Mr. Mead especially If it be in my power I would be ready to do you any Service and love you as unfeignedly as if you had never given me this Provocation We all offend and provoke the Sin-pardoning God every Hour more than we do one another all our days I remember and O that I remembred it better who said For if you forgive not Men their Trespasses neither will your Father which is in Heaven forgive you your Trespasses Forgive O God my Forgiveness being so weak and imperfect A Censure of a Sermon preach'd by Canon Gilbert Jan. 30. last c. IN the large Porch to a little House I find my self struck at That Mr. Baxter for asserting The King to be inviolable was lash'd in his Grave by one otherwise of his own Kidney I desire the Prefacer to consider 1. How unfair it is to reflect in Print on his own Brother both by Father and Mother tho far from being his Brother in other things who when occasion was declin'd any Censure of him in my late Jacobites Conference but there gave him his due Encomium against his Censurer who call'd him crack-brain'd Man c My Brother is a wise Man By his Oleum Terebynthinae he hath much obliged the World If Mr. Smith the old famous Surgeon of London say true who told me he had his Notions from him I care not the World hath them from my Brother also by his famous Cure of a Boy who lost Brain whom afterwards I made a Scholar and other Books 2. Yet I challenge him or any other to answer that part of the Book that relates to their Martyr-maker which is my name for him Let those that pretend to weep for Tammuz consider it who saw any Tears in their Eyes on Martyrdom days How many generally begin their Fast after a deep Mornings Draught and some after a good Dinner 3. What horrid playing with Scripture makes he when he calls our Parliaments infallible Judges That Men that will not be tryed by this Law and Testimony it is because there is no Truth in them Have not Parliaments in all Ages declar'd different things about matters of Fact and matters of Right 4. Is what is cited approv'd of When the Question is who is King What they say ought not to be question'd What makes some Men then talk as Jacobites and Non-resisters now Is not K. William's Title as good by Parliament as any of his Predecessors and K. James his Right forfeited And why then 5. Was it not horrid Wickedness for some to preach and afterwards Print and he to applaud such Passages as these That K. Charles the 1st Was a strict observer of Justice A Prince that had done no harm nor committed any Fault A Man of perfect Innocency like Josiah the best of Men the best of Kings c. And never Answer what I in my Censur'd Book have prov'd and many more 1. That that King gave a Commission to the Earl of Antrim for what he did in the Irish Rebellion Mr. Long of Exon in his Censure of Mr. Baxter's Life confesseth if such Stories were true no Death could be easy enough for him or to that effect I wrote him in a Letter we were sure of the former let him take the latter Where is the Man that dares deny K. Charles the second confest it in a Letter yet to be seen 2. That he debauch'd the Nation by a Book of Sports on Sundays contrary to the Laws of God and this Land That the face not only of Religion but Civility was gone he was one of the worst of Kings that ever sat on the Throne since the Conquest 3. That he raised Money without his Parliament contrary to his Oaths and got Preachers to tell us All we had was his and no longer ours than till he is pleased to call for his own The very words of Manwaring in his Sermon So that a French Government was designed to be set up and I doubt not Religion too read the Cassandrian Articles the Reasons why the Parliament would make no more Addresses to the King