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A64274	Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, very unjustly by a letter in the general pretended but as far as was charg'd, very fully proved upon the dissenters that were concerned in the Surey imposture / by Zach. Taylor.	Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.	1698 (1698)	Wing T599_VARIANT; ESTC R34648	26,353	28

it Only before he engages in it he must remove if possible out of the way a frightful Word which a learned Man no Dissenter calls an Ecclesiastical Scare-crow p. 12. yolep'd Schismatick That learned Man for such all that have heard of him will own him lay under violent Temptations when he writ that Tract and was suspected to be what for ought I know my Friend is a Socinian For what makes the Man when he had demanded of me Whether the Dissenters held centrary to the Church of England with the Papists p. 5. begin with the Ninth Article Is it not that he may leave out what concerns the Trinity Art 1. The Eternal Son of God being made Man Art 2. c. Or that he would not disoblige the Papists by taking notice of their false Canon of the Scripture Art 6. If this be so verily Friend I must add another frightful Word to that of Schismatick and let you know that you are an Heretick But to pass that by how doth he clear them from the Guilt of Schism Why he tells us some of them think thus and some are offended at that And what is it to me what they think Should I tell my Friend what I have heard what Thought did I suppose he would be offended too but more of this upon the Head of Ignorance where I shall make a little more bold with my Friend Let us now see what my Charge against them was And p. 4. I had accidentally occasion to speak of Corah Dathan and Abiram and I chanc'd to call them Schismaticks becaused they caused a Schism or if the Word fright my Friend for tho' he hath learn'd to give bad Words I perceive he loves not hard ones made a Division in the Jewish Church and that was all I did not then tell him what I do now That God caused the Earth to open her Mouth and swallow them up alive that had opened their Mouths against their lawful Church-Governours A Judgment so dreadful one would think no Dissenter should ever forget it For did not these Men subscribe all the Articles of the Jewish Faith Not so much as one excepted Did they not conform to all the Ceremonies of Moses Law Yet in that they did not submit to their lawful Church-Governours God thought fit to make them an Example to all Ages of the Sin and Deserts of those that will not submit to their lawful Church-Governours But let us go on and it seems p. 20. I call their Conventicles Schismatical and p. 69. their Division Vnchristian For these five Words here is an Outcry made against me as if I meant with my Doctor to knock out the Dissenters Brains p. 7. which if they have no more than my Friend are not very many and therefore ought to be spared But hark you my Friend are not Divisions Unchristian I find one of our Lords last Prayers was That we may be all one Jo. 17.21 22 23. Or do not your Conventicles make a Division and so are Schismatical for I have before told you these are both one You that herein undertake to vindicate the Dissenters will in your next I suppose vindicate Corah Dathan and Abiram against the Lancashire Levite that hath made them Schismaticks and till that time I dismiss this Head We now may pass to the fearful Story of one Darrel a Devil-monger that purged out seven Devils at a time out of seven Women c. And this Man you say you will not vindicate p. 15. But the Reason I suppose is because you cannot for notwithstanding your Word you first close upon it and you observe 1. That the Relator of this Story is accused by the Learned Bishop Vsher as a partial and fabulous Historian My Friend should have told us where But he goes on to pass his own Judgment upon him and censures that Book of Dr. Heylin's for a Farce of Diabolical Stories and malignant malicious Reflections upon all Parties p. 15. I have read of a sort of Men that say Our Lips are our own who is Lord over us And such an one I suppose my Friend is For since I writ the Surey Impostor I have seen Dr. Harnest's Book against Darrel and if Dr. Heylin hath been as sincere in his other Collections as he was in this a more faithful Historian that was not Inspired did never set Pen to Paper The only thing that seems in any thing the least to discredit it is the Opinion of Bishop Hall to which I reply That that Great Man was but a Youth when Darrel plaid these Tricks for the Bishop was born Anno 1574. and Darrel practiseth with Katharin Wright 1586. when the Bishop was but 12 Years old and from her proceeds to the rest And the Bishop being born at Ashly de la Zouch his Friends possibly might be some of Darrel's Admirers and so infuse such an Opinion of Darrel into him in his Youth as afterwards he was not able to remove Besides it doth not appear that the Bishop ever perus'd Dr. Harnest's Book and so might retain his Prejudices imbibed from his Neighbours for the scarceness of the Book could make one guess that it underwent the same Fate with that of his Friends Surey Impostor is said to meet with to be bought up by the Party and burnt Be the Opinion of that single Bishop what it will I think I have the Judgment of a whole Convocation to oppose unto it and that in the Canon where my Friend finds the Popish Word Obsession whence he thinks it probable the Dissenters had the Word and not from the Papists And probable enough it may be so for the Dissenters finding the pretence there Censured out of that Spirit of Contradiction to the Church of England which they mostly act by may be supposed not only to make use of the Word but the Imposture also which is there condemned But let us inspect the Canon Can. 72. which prohibits all Ministers without Licence obtained To attempt upon any pretence whatsoever either of Possession or Obsession by Fasting and Prayer to cast out any Devil or Devils under Pain of the Imputation of Imposture or Cosenage and Deposition from the Ministry Now would my Friend know the Reason which that Convocation had for making this Canon I must remind him that the Noise which Darrel made with casting out Devils and the Imposture of it was then fresh in every Bodies Mind Dr. Harnest's Book which contain'd the Discovery of it was printed but three or four Years before viz. 1599. and this Convocation begins to sit 1603. and they judged it necessary for the future Prevention of such Imposture and Cosenage to make a Canon that might discountenance and suppress such Hypocritical Pretences What say you to this my Friend Where is the Dirt that I cast in the Face of my Mother p. 5. Could the Convocation condemn such a Fanatical piece of Popery as this is without naming and advising us of the thing My Friend is a Man

of a thousand that can find out Ways and Means to condemn Things and never name them But what do you mean by this Flourish after your Rebuke So have I seen an honest Matron been mistaken for a Strumpet p. 5. I am sorry to hear that my Friend keeps such bad Company that honest Matrons cannot pass along the Streets but he or his Comrades are for picking them up for Strumpers This is as sad a Story only I have the Charity to believe you abuse your self in it as any you tell of W.C. to whom I next proceed And as for this Person though you would make the World believe that I was very intimate to the Intrigue if any there was so Impartial is the Hand you held your Pen in I do declare that I never saw that Persons Face in all my Life that I know of And for his being setled at the Place you hint I was no way concerned in it nor knew of it till afterward And now I wonder what Innuendo's these are for Jefferians p. 2. fall infinitely short of them But I smell your Design You have heard perhaps how Joab treated Amasa such a piece of Kindness you seem to intend for that pious and good Man as you truly enough I wish it be as sincerely call him who I am apt to believe might want your good Word as well as his Curate if you did not think that by the Help of such precious Balms you might be admitted to break his Head The Truth of the Matter is thus The Bishop of Chester never collated Mr. C. to M. the Place my Friend hints at nor could never be prevailed with though sollicited thereto again and again to grant him a Licence to serve that or any other Cure That the Inhabitants of the Parish who are generally enclined to the Presbyterian way of Worship by the Mediation of the chief Man among them most earnestly petitioned the Bishop for him and would not be satisfied with any other Person that could be proposed to them After several Denials being at length tired with the Importunity of the People the Bishop suffered the said W.C. to go to them but withal assur'd the Person who solicited for him That if he ever found him guilty of any evil Practice he would proceed to the utmost Severity against him So he removed to the said Paris● and for the whole time of his Continuance there which was near two Years behaved himself so unblamably that his greatest Adversaries cannot charge him with any thing unbecoming his Sacred Function As to the Renegado Scotchman the Bishop was informed That he had once been guilty of Fornication a very scandalous Crime but was withal certified That he soon after married the Woman and by his sober chaste and pious Life for the space I think of four Years since he had given undoubted Proof of the Sincerity of his Repenttance The Bishop thereupon after a severe Examination of him as to his Morals as well as his Learning at the earnest Request of the People especially of the Presbyterian Party admitted him to the Order of Deacon As for the other Scotchman that is in Pickle in Pickle he is like to be if my Friend or any Body else can prove what he pretends for I suppose he cannot but know what a severe Process the Bishop hath used on that Account My Friend their Foreman at St. Ellens I hear hath a Copy of it and if they have any thing to say no doubt but we shall have it only we understand if Forgery was in the Case it was one of their own beloved Nephews that unknown to the Party concern'd did forge it But suppose the worst pray was not a Testimonial forged for Mr. Pendleberries Batchelors Degree at Cambridge notwithstanding Mr. O. H. mentions it as real in his Life And doth not O. H. pretend a Promise from Bishop Wilkins to his Brother N.H. in favour of the Parsonage of Aughton two Years after the Bishop was dead Good Mr. Friend did W. C. or either of our Scotchmen commit worse Things than these that O. H. hath done that hath his Praise in so many practical Books written and published by him p. 4. One of which according to the Popish Doctrin tells us the several ways that Saints above may understand our Circumstances here below viz. Heav Conv. p. 25. Now the Papist who only prays to the Saints to pray for him on Presumption that they hear him can desire no more of Mr. O.H. than he has granted to support him in his Superstitious Worship But it is pleasant to hear him p. 5. prove That the Soul is a Substance not meer Accident because it is written Prov. 6.2 The Lord weigheth the Spirits He would have done well to tell us what Weight a Soul was of But what will the Atheist say to this for if a Soul have Weight I fear it will be found Matter no matter for that It is comfortable Doctrin to such Blockheads as my Self and my Friend are for if Weight proves the Substance of Souls then the heaviest Souls such as ours are are the most substantial Souls Commend me to Mr. O.H. for this But to return Have I not reason to enquire of what Metal my Friends Forehead is made that in about a Page and an half heaps together so many Untruths He saith W.C. was Collated by the Bishop which he never was He would insinuate a Licence to another Cure he means N. Chappel which he never had c. But had it been all as true as it is notoriously false all that was done was at the Importunity of the Presbyterian Party and when they have got their End they would had it been possible have flung Dirt into the Face of him that out of meer Condescension was willing to please them This puts me in Mind of the manner that the said Party treated a Neighbouring Vicar on the Indulgence granted in the late King James's time He was a good Man and of an easy Temper which betraid him to an undue Compliance to those that pretend a tender Conscience on which Account in Compassion to them he was as I hear prevail'd with to Christen sometimes a Child without the Sign of the Cross to admit some others to the Lord's Supper though they were too stubborn to Kneel the two Things my Friend sticks at in hopes by gentle Means and Compliance in due time to reclaim them from their Errors And he was wonderfully courted by them till the late King James's Indulgence came out but no sooner did that appear but they flew from him and when he endeavoured by Arguments of this Compliance to them to regain them they retorted his own Arguments upon him and upbraided him as one false to his Oath and treacherous to the Discipline of the Church in which he was intrusted a Minister which so far seiz'd the meek Man's Spirits that it was thought to shorten his Days Such Reward do they meet with that cut of