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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80846	Malice against ministry manifested by the plain and modest plea and defence of Zach. Crofton minister of the Gospel at Buttolphs Aldgate London unto the false and frivolons [sic] charge of Tho. Harrison, and John Levet against him exhibited unto the commissioners for the ejection of ignorant, scandalous and insufficient ministers, &c. within the City of London. In which you have his past credit attested. Present plea demurred. Particular articles duly and distinctly answered.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6996; Thomason E931_5; ESTC R207660	20,753	32

MALICE Against MINISTRY MANIFESTED By the Plain and Modest PLEA and DEFENCE OF ZACH. CROFTON Minister of the Gospel at Buttolphs Aldgate London Unto the False and Frivolous Charge of Tho. Harrison and John Levet against him exhibited unto the Commissioners for the Ejection of Ignorant Scandalous and Insufficient Ministers c. within the City of London In which you have His Past Credit Attested Present Plea demurred Particular Articles duly and distinctly answered Acts 26.2 I think my self happy King Aggrippa because I shall this day answer before thee of all things whereof I am accused by the Iewes Neque tu bonus Poeta esses si preter legem carminis caneres Neque ego Civilis Praetor essem si preterquam quod leges permittunt tibi gratificarer Themi ad Sim. London Printed for James Nathal and are to be sold at his house in the Minories next door to the Dolphin and at Book-sellers Shops 1657. To the Right Worshipful and Reverend The Commissioners for the Ejection of Ignorant Scandalous and Insufficient Ministers c. within the City of London Right Worshipful and Reverend Sirs THIS ensuing plea is to you presented not as a Book which begs your Patronage nor yet to prejudge the cause before you depending or in the least to supersede your proceedings but to acquaint you with the real truth to facilitate your debates and answer the desire of some among you whom if I did not mistake I heard in my last appearance before you say They expected my answer in writing which now you have and this Epistle is to apologise this publick approach unto you unto which I have been constrained By your multitude to whom one Copie could be little advantage and transcription is a burden I cannot bear and I believe your Clerks would find very heavy By the clamors of mine enemies who have loudly said They had laid in before you a Charge by which they should discover me to be the vilest Minister in England even more vile then those Centuries silenced by the late Committee for plundered Ministers and therefore did provoke my friends to perswade me to run away and have since my appearance clamored that I cover my guilt by denying your cognisance and demur to your jurisdiction because I dare not plead to the charge hereby the world may see the charge though detecting some infirmities is not so criminal and although I would not represent you arbitrary who are bound up to a law and therefore by advice of Counsel learned in law I have demurred yet I had a full answer ready on which I dare join issue By the pragmatick readiness of some over-busie spirits to be printing the passages of last dayes proceedings which was by a Printer of my acquaintance providentially prevented lastly I have made thus bold to entreat a speedy result of your present debate that if within your cognisance we may proceed to triall if not you will please judicially to declare it so and not keep it in deck and me and my people under suspitious delayes mine accusers have said it shal be Lady-day before it be by you decided but I hope you will consider the great work of God upon my hands and one way or other set me at libertie and if as mine accusers blaze abroad the charge be to be returned to his Highness and Councel whose cognisance I cannot but believe it is much below I crave that you will please with the charge to return this plea that if possible by it their prejudice against me may be removed and I and my people by their favor be restored to our Sabbaths liberty in our own Church and erroneous John Simpson be removed from among us the which if you or any of you could obtain in our behalf our restored peace and order the advancement of Gods truth and ordinances should be your blessing and I should be no more suspected of disaffection to the present Government then I was before his intrusion Worthy Sirs I will hold you no longer save to tell you I doubt not but you see how ready Satan is to make use of you who are piously intended to reform the Ministrie unto the ruine of this holy function and how ever it may fare with me I hope it will make you cautious what charge and by what kind of persons is laid against a Minister and if I have offended in coming a little out of my way to meet you with this answer I pray remember you stept something out of your way to call him hither who is From my Study in Covent-Garden in the Parish of Butolphs-Aldgate this 8. of December 1657. Your humble Orator expecting your piety and justice ZACH. CROFTON MALICE against MINISTRIE MANIFESTED By The modest Plea and Defence of ZACH. CROFTON unto the false and frivolous Charge against him exhibited unto the Worshipful and Reverend The Commissioners for ejection of Ignorant Scandalous and Insufficient Ministers within the City of London by John Levet and Tho. Harrison and other their anti-ministerial Confederates in the Parish of Botolphs Aldgate as it was prepared and purposed to be declared at the Guild-hall on Wednesday the 2 of Decemb 1657 I Am here convened before you under the Notion of a Scandalous man in life and conversation and on that account to be ejected out of the Ministry The Ministrie of the Gospel I know to be so sacred a Function of approach to God as that Holinesse should adorn the subjects of it A Ministers practice I well know is so obvious to the peoples view that he that is prophane must needs unprofitably preach the Word of Holiness it hath ever been a Petition in my Lerany From an ignorant and profane Ministry the scandal of Christianity Good Lord deliver us And on that account I have in my late A Book so called Right Re-entred declared to all the world and told mine enemies I am so zealous for a pious Ministry that let me but have just Judges judicial Process and faithful Witness and if I be found guilty of a scandalous conversation let me be cast out as unsavory salt for though I cannot bear recrimination as the answer of my Right yet I desire not to retain forfeited priviledges the forfeiture being regularly demanded Hereupon the enemies of my Ministry having loudly clamoured that I was a person vile and scandalous and that they may audactèr calumniare reproach with impudence not doubting but that though they miss their design they may with so much impudence make some dirt to stick To this end they have exhibited a charge in sundry Articles against me unto which I now appear to give this ensuing answer Articles exhibited against Mr. Zachary Crofton of Buttolphs Aldgate London To his Highness the Lord Protector and Council by John Levet of the said Parish I. AT his first coming into the Parish some difference fell betwixt him and the Inhabitants wherupon the Church Wardens and some others went up to him in the