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A92440	Innocency cleared, true worth predicated, against false aspertions: in a letter sent to Mr Henry Burton. From a Christian friend; in defence of Dr Bastwick, one of his quondam fellow sufferers.	B. S., fl. 1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing S10; Thomason E265_7; ESTC R212420	8,332	9

heart to read such lines from Mr. Henry Burton against his quondam fellow-sufferer Doctor Bastwicke I medle not with your Arguments about Presbyterian dependant and Presbyterian independant but I question the selfeishnes the false accusing the fiery spirit the aspersing Language which you have scattered in severall pages of your booke against your fellow-sufferer Sir God hath bestowed on Doctor Bastwicke your selfe and others extraordinary gifts for to you it was given not onely to believe but to suffer for his sake yea and to suffer at one time yea and at that time for one cause your judgement then being different to that it is now so that there was an onenesse in the cause and sufferings O then why maintaine you not this onenesse still at least in your affections but page the second you seeme your selfe to insinuate this question for say you How comes it to passe that my two fellow-sufferers and my selfe should fall at this ods was it by any divine providence ominated or presaged by your two standing on one Pillory and mine alone on the other that we should come upon one Theatre to become spectacles to the world by mutuall digladiations as if the one Pillory should contend with the other thus you Sir before I answer your question I beseech you in all christian love give me leave to advise you O take heed take heed how you harbour such a thought as to charge divine providence with your humane frailties and self seeking Vindications make not God the author of your divisions who is a God of unity peace and love it is true by way of permission there is no evill in a City that the Lord hath not done Amos 3.6 and the Scripture tells us it must needs be that offences come but woe be to that man by whom the offence cometh and therefore I cannot but deale ingenuously with you and for answer to your question tell you what Godly holy selfe-denying men not onely converts in part as you censure all of a contrary judgement to your selfe to be but some of your owne judgement have said which is this That it came to passe by your unadvised thrusting your self in to contend with Mr. Prynne by name one of your quondam fellow sufferers whereas according to all rules of friendship you were the unfittest man for that worke of any there being many other sober minded christians besides Mr. Henry Burton and as some of your owne party have said more able to defend and maintaine their cause then your selfe but for my part I question not your abilities but this is very cleare that you and you onely did make this odds with your fellow-sufferer and so primarily and originally you have caused all the difference betweene you by proclaiming all of a contrary judgement to your selfe though otherwise never so godly to be enemies to the government of the Lord Iesus Christ which opinion Doctor Bastwicke Learnedly and Christianly confuted and reproved naming no man Sir I honour you and in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ beseech you who am a fellow-sufferer with you and that in as deepe a measure as any though not to blood lay this to heart that you have had a hand in causing offences in the Church by your unchristianing and censuring the dear people of God O pull downe every high thought that exalteth itself and humble your selfe before the Lord for this miscarriage lest you be lyable to that woe pronounced Mat. 18.7 Thus in christian love I have faithfully and truely as in the sight of God answered your question But you will say how make you good that charge in the beginning of your Letter Sir I shall doe it from your owne writings for I find in them that your chiefe labour and paines is spent to vindicate and exalt your selfe for the Arguments of difference they are but coldly and unsatisfactorily handled but when you come to your selfe who you say have beene unsufferably wronged then you are so heated that while you seem to blame the Doctor you forget your promise page 2. where you say you will answer him in sobernesse and in the spirit of meeknesse and love and you fall into unadvised unseemly unbrotherly Language and false accusations against Doctor Bastwicke But you have beene provoked not a litle for say you the Doctor speakes of a grave man with a white basket-hilted beard though not naming any yet you were the man aimed at Why good Sir if you were Here is gravity acknowledged which speakes a reverence borne to the man though a dislike of his uncharitable and unwarrantable writings But the Doctor expresseth himselfe with a scurrilous Epithite say you I deny it for it is but a harmelesse jest and no other it can never hurt you and truely a meeke hearted Moses would have passed it by and have taken no notice of it nor have made such acclamation about a merry word But it is a disgrace which you cannot beare O! Oh! selfe appeares exceedingly in all your lines and because you have made such an out-cry and make a man an offender for a word take a view of your owne Language to your quondam fellow-sufferer worthy Doctor Bastwick but before I give you in your Catalogue of unsavory words I here protest in the presence of God who knowes the secrets of all hearts and from whose eyes nothing can be hid that neither Doctor Bastwick nor any mortall man as yet doth know of this Letter unto you for the noble Doctor did ride into the Country before your booke came forth and is not yet returned so that he hath never seene your booke therefore no instigation from him hath procured me to write but when I saw how all along your booke you falsly accused that deserving Gentleman labouring to take away his good name which Solomon saith is better then precious oyntment Ecclesi 7.1 And I having had such experience as none in England hath had more of the Doctors worth Zeale for Gods glory and Christian Conversation it made me that I durst not be silent lest I should be partaker with you in your sinne And for the Doctors expressions in his bookes which you make so much adoe about I assure you the many affronts the base unworthy Language that he hath from time to time undergone from many both men women of your judgement vilifying reviling scorning him to his face some of them being of no mean account amongst you was the cause of them for before he had published any booke onely they heard he was writing against their opinion they dayly abused him most unworthily for which he privately in Christian love reproved them but when he saw that his silence and patience did no good this caused him to make his Postscript and the other booke truly relating their unchristian Carriage and laughing at their unreprovable folly And doth not God laugh at the wicked who will go on in their sinfull and perverse wayes and will not be reproved see

INNOCENCY CLEARED True worth Predicated AGAINST FALSE ASPERTIONS IN A LETTER SENT To Mr Henry Burton From a Christian Friend In Defence of Dr Bastwick one of his Quondam Fellow sufferers Rom. 2.1.3 Therefore thou art inexcusable O man whosoever thou art that Judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy selfe for thou that judgest dost the same things And thinkest thou this O man that judgest them that do such things and doest the same that thou shalt escape the Judgement of God James 4.10 11. Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up Speak not evill one of another brethren he that speaketh evill of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evill of the Law and judgeth the Law but if thou judge the Law thou art not a doer of the Law but a Judge Heb. 12.14 Follow peace with all men and holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord. London Printed by John Macock 1645. To the impartiall Reader Christian Reader I Delight not to shew my self in Print yet as it is my duty to admonish a brother which in this insuing Letter I have done so the like obligation lyes upon me to publish it that I might clear the innocency and predicate the worth of that Godly Learned Gentleman Dr. Bastwick A man on whom the Independents have privately and publikely laid loads of defamations for it satisfied them not to give him reproachfull language to his face which was sad to hear and even a shame to repeate but they set forth in Print known untruths premed tated Lyes to make him odious to the World witnesse Lieut. Col. John Lilburne his book accusing him for an ungratefull man which is a vice not onely hatefull to God and all good men but to the very heathens which charge of his against the Doctor was most falfe I hen came out another under the name of a Presbyterian but whether in truth or thew for feme particular benefit may be suspected and he accuseth him to be a proud selfe-conceited man c. yea he taketh the boldnesse to lay this deep charge upon him in the name of all his godly Presbyterian friends which accusation all the Doctors godly Presbyterian friends and acquaintance that I know and I am no stranger to the most of them do utterly disavow and for this Presbyterian if one for I do not think he is he drives the Innependents designe as may be proved for when this Letter was framing an Independent said to some that I know that he and others of his parry were to meete that day to draw a moderate Letter to be sent to Doctor Bastwick But the Letter was never sent unto him onely a day or two after this meeting a booke-feller brought a written booke made ready for the Presse and shewed it to the Doctor saying as a neighbour and a friend he gave him a fight of it for he was to put it in Print then this was no Letter sent unto him as on the frontispice of his book he falsely pretends but at is plaine the Author thereof call him what they will consulted with the Independents about this Letter and they and he together framed it after such a manner as they supposed would make their designe no way suspected yet by the course he took and the printing but not sending it to the Doctor every man may perceive this Letter was writ and published meerly to defame Doctor Bastwick And that comming forth under the name of a Presbyterian it might render him the more infamous But this wrought not effectually and therefore one of his quondam fellow-sufferers he comes out against him and with his full strength aiming at his head that so if possible he might strike him downe in the opinion of all men never to rise again but the hand is too feeble he presented this holy worthy learned Doctor to the people as a mad man casting many reproaches upon him and amongst his accusations p. the 24 He complaines of stinging netles in the Doctors Booke but one sharper then all the rest whatsoever construction he makes of the Doctors words there they are no more but this Doctor Bastwick out of his pious zeale for Gods glory and carnest desire of the Churches peace and tranquility writ against Independency and exhorts magistrates masters of families and parents of children to labour to keepe the people from errour that are under their charge and with faithfull Abraham to instruct their families in the knowledge feare and worship of the true God and with holy Joshua Josh 24.15 to see that they and their house do serve the Lord surely this is no bad Councell nor will never sting a well grounded setled established Christian For if a father presents wholsome food that which he knowes is good for his child but the child either out of ignorance of wantonesse refusech to taste of the meet because he seeth variety of other dishes and so set out and garnished that they seeme pleasant to the eye and to be desired like to the forbidden fruite Gen. 3.6 And if a learned Phisitian tell the father that those dishes which seem so pleasant to the eve are mingled with such ingredients as will prove very pernicious to his childs health he is a sl●p father and not a loving father that causeth not his child to forbeare to tast of any of those dishes and that persuadeth him not to eate of such food as he knowes is wholsome and good for nourishment and that 〈◊〉 is no Incendiary for advising the father for the welfare of his child this is the result of all and directly Dr Bastwicks case Courteous Reader it may be some will censure me for being too large but Seneca and many excellent Authors have delivered their mindes in Letters far more prolix●● 〈◊〉 now 〈◊〉 a Petitioner unto thee for a license to adde a few words more to let thee know that I perceiving the Independents grand designe is to use all meanes publikely to reproach disgrace 〈…〉 and falsly accuse this worthy sufferer and faithfull servant of the Lord who the glory of God the ultimate end of all his endeavours I could do no lesse then present to the publike view of all men the reall worth and unfamed goodnesse which I know to be in the Gentleman This I have done in faithfullnesse without flattery and I assure thee in the presence of the Lord who knowes all things I speake the truth I lye not that Dr. Bastwick nor 〈◊〉 on living and know of this Letter untill it was sent to Mr. Burton neither doth Dr Bastwick yet know that there was any such Letter writ sent or is to be published I beseech thee read consider judge impartially Farewell Thine in the Lord B. S. To the Reverend and Honoured Mr Henry Burton c. SIR SOme few dayes since a book intituled Vindiciae Veritatis came into my hand subscribed with your name which deliberately I perused and was grieved at