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A28205	Cabala, or, An impartial account of the non-conformists private designs, actings and wayes from August 24, 1662 to December 25 in the same year.	Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679.	1663 (1663)	Wing B2965; ESTC R233109	25,328	40

Indulgence was likely to go on Whereupon Mr. Seaman and Dr. Goodwyn offered this viz. That there was no way better to try the Kings pronenesse to indulgence then to make use of their Christian friends aforehand at some holy meeting or if that were not publick enough at one of those many Churches that are at our disposal And immediately Mr. Calamy was ordered to watch an opportunity at Aldermanbury and go up and preach Very fit this agreed upon by the whole company for either the King would wink at it and then we are sure he hath a kindness for us and the world may think that we are considerable in his eyes and that we have over-ruled the Law or it may be he punisheth it however we have honourable Friends that shall bring Mr. Calamy off and it may be five hundred pounds in his way Well said Mr. Brice we have a price put into our hands the Lord give us hearts to use it let us redeem the time that hour Mr. Calamy had need be well spent Mr. Calamy Mr. Caryl Mr. Lye withdrew to consider what subject he should preach upon and they reported that none was more seasonable then this either Ichabod the glory is departed or The Ark is departed Whereupon Mr. Calamy was desired to insist on all the hints of fears jealousies and surmizes which had already possessed the people concerning the departure of the Gospel And it was ordered that since notice should be given of this extraordinary mercy and that Mr. Calamy being thanked by the City for his great paint should be desired to print and publish his Sermon for the common good And in the mean time let us promote a strict Act for regulation of Printing that no Orthodox books as they call them be published but with much difficulty as may be wrought upon by money that as soon as we understand the method of the Law we may understand the method of affronting the Law September 24. It being represented to the Reverend the Committee of ejected Ministers that there are so few honest men left that the people are at a losse is to publick meetings It was ordered that there should be twenty or thirty young men to supply by turns some carelesse Episcopal mens Pulpits to keep the root of the matter in the good people and that there be Messengers to invite the good people to these soul-searching Sermons from Dan to Beersheba that the same course be taken as to Lectures that may be preached upon week-dayes especially at Aldermanbury Allhallows-Breadstreet and Laurence-Jury and likewise as to Fun●ral Sermons which the well-affected must take care that they be preached by none but the honest men About this time notice being sent from honourable friends that the Bishops resolved upon their respective Visitations it was ordered that the platform of Government offered at agreed upon in London Cambridge and Northampton by Mr. Cartwright Mr. Travers Mr. ●●all c. and other discount enarced Ministers in Queen Elizabeths time and petitioned for by the thousands of Israel in King James his time and offered to the Parliament by the Assembly of Di●ines in King Charles his time should be drawn up and agreed to and immediately exercised in opposition to that Antichristian way of Bishop but the brethren of the Congregation alway making some difficulty of submitting to the Pattern in the Mount it was agreed however for the present that two Elders grave and apt to teach should be designed for each County to confirm the brethren and as Barnabas to exhort them to cleave to the Lord with full purpose of heart and to that end it was thought fit that the discourse concerning Liturgies and their Imposition Mr. Case and Mr. Crofton of the Covenant Baines and Ames against Ceremonies together with the Province of Londons discourse about Presbytery be reprinted to be bestowed by them in their respective charges together with the books of Miracles Mr. Brooks's Gods Consolations for Saints in affliction and Mr. Alliband's Nubecula est cit● transibit The Ministers Case for said Mr. Watson when they may not hear us they may read us when they have not us they may have our books At the same time it was resolved among the brethren of the baptized way That Mr. Jessey and Mr. Knowles should go and visit their friends and edifie the respective members of their Congregation all over England with Letters of salutation from the Friends in London thus directed Jer. Ives c. a Servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the twelve Tribes which are scattered abroad greeting It was reported on the 24th of the seventh moneth to the Provincial Assembly then seeking the Lord by fasting and prayer that the union among them of the Congregational way was now finished and that a great design was going on whereupon Mr. Case pressed that they should be unanimous now Gebul and Ammon and Amaleck the Philistines with them of Tyre were joyned together And not long after there was an overture of accommodation between them upon the terms of the Covenant only some other time was reserved for explaining the words Herefie and Schisme As to the Design on foot it was judged unlikely that so unconsiderable a part of the Nation could do any good and therefore answer was made by the members of the Assembly to the brethren of the Congregational way that they would wait upon providence i. e. see if their undertakings prospered if not they would disown it for as one said very well experience had taught them the method of overturning this Government and that method is this to keep the City and get a major part in Parliament this Government must be insensibly overturned by possessing the major part of the people with such discourses as most accommodates their thoughts and consciences Therefore seeing there was no likelihood of dissolving this Parliament it was offered that the vacancies by death in Parliament should be observed and that the people be prepared upon all these occasions to make a choice according to the Lords mind of men ●earing God and loving and tender towards his people and well affected to the good old Cause for which purpose it was judged expedient to improve the spreading discontent about Chimney-money and other Impositions for which we are much engaged to the discretion and faithfulness of our good Friends who observing the necessities former times have run the Government into promoted these unusual supplies at once to oblige his Majesty to our party for our care of his Revenue and to enrage the people against the Parliament for their profuseness of their money and neglect of their interest suggesting the danger of a French government or a Norman slavery whereby the Nobility and Gentry shall withdraw their necks and leave the poor Commonalty to the charge and slavery of subjection with which a groan or two must be interposed touching the Ark tender Consciences and the Gospel in the purity of it and

interests what their charge is and of what value their livings are out of which they have been ejected 2. That there be an account taken of the well-affected Gentry Nobility and Commonalty whose hearts the Lord may open to lay out themselves in the Cause of God and of the sums they are ready to contribute towards the relief of his faithful servants in the work of the Ministry which account is to be returned to a Grand Committee for that purpose appointed in London 3. That there be Treasurers and Receivers in the respective Counties consisting in each County of two suffering Ministers and three well-affected Gentlemen to dispose of the foresaid charitable Contributions so gathered as they shall judge most necessary and advantagious to the advancement of the Common Cause and that there be Commissioners of Inspection that may look into their Qualifications who may claim the benefit of the said benevolence and contribution The 2● of the sixth moneth It was ordered That Mr. Calamy Mr. Case Mr. Bates Mr. Spurstow Mr. Gough c. do meet to morrow about the twelve thousand pound gathered among the Brethren to gratifie the Right Honourable and the well-affected who own the Cause of God in Court and Parliament and that it should not be called a bribe but the humble acknowledgement that the people of God make to the Honourable personages that stand in the breach at such a time as this and that Mr. Cradocker Mr. Jackson and Mr. Brice do look into Newmans Concordance for three or four opposite Texts of Scripture wherewith this money may be savingly delivered And it is further ordered upon Mr. Spurstows motion that Act. 12. 20. be one of those Texts consulted And Herod was highly displeased with the men of Tyre and Sidon but they came with one accord to him having made Blastus the Kings Chamberlain their friend And upon Master Jenkins his motion Act. 24. 2 3 4. was ordered to be another Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness and that very worthy deeds are done unto this Nation by thy providence we accept always and in all places most Noble Faelix with all thankfulness notwithstanding that we be not further tedious unto thee well may thee accept of this The 23 of the sixth moneth It was agreed upon that a List of those thousands that must now lye down in heart breaking sorrow upon the removal of their faithful Guides be prepared for his Majesties view that he may see the strength of our party and may be convinced that the people of God is his greatest strength The 22 of the same moneth It was agreed upon that would be for the advancement of the Cause if they would take the occasion of some farewell Sermons to promote it provided that those discourses should be very quickning And 1. That Master Lye was to bid them beware of Episcopal Divines of Ceremonies of Popery and to weep a quarter of an hour 2. That Mr. Jenkins perswade the people that any place is as holy as the Church and that two or three met together in a private house might do as well as a thousand in the publick Congregation 3. That Mr. Caryl being to expound that place in the Revelation about them that walked with the Lamb in white should take that occasion to speak against Surplices 4. That Mr. Watson may give twenty Rules which may be his Congregations Directory and among other Rules this may be one That seeing they cannot have their Ministers they may yet read their books so that if they cannot preach they may yet live by writing 5. That Mr. Case do cry two hours together next Lords day for the abominations of Service-book Altar-worship Lordly Prelacy c. The same day it was Enacted That some well-affected Stationers do gather all the Farewell Sermons in City and Country to one volum and that they scatter them throughout the Nation for the propagation of the Gospel the Cause will not be a little promoted by the dying words of the faithful Pastors and because the twelve Apostles are painted before the Bible though we otherwise allow of no Images yet it may be very convenient that twelve Reverend persons heads may be set before the Sermons and though Mr. Serman urged that their heads set there would give occasion to the prophane to compare them to the Traytors heads at London-bridge or to that row of heads set before that prophane book called Montelion last year yet it was voted unanimously that they were not so fearful as not to dare shew their heads they were ready to die as well as to be reproached for the Truth But when it was urged that Mr. Loves head might be amongst them Mr. Calamy Mr. Case and Mr. Jenkins stood up and voted it down as ominous The 23 of the sixth moneth heathenishly called August there was an offer made by several well-affected Citizens of Mr. Seamans and other Congregations that were ready to oppose that Mass book commonly called the Service-book but it was over-ruled that those Eminent persons be excused that service and be reserved for more honorable service and that the work of the day be carried on by the Apprentices who with such success helped the Lord against the Mighty in the beginning of the wars that sure the presence of the Lord was still amongst them whereupon Mr. Greenhil held forth upon those words of the eighth Psalm Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightst still the Enemy and the Avenger Out of Mr. Meads Diatriba three quarters of an hour by Shrewsbury-clock as Sir John Falstaffe speaks in the third of Edward the fourth and the fifteenth It was offered by Mr. Jenkins that the Lord had often forsaken the Prentices as in 48. with Colonel Brown and Massey and in 59. in Hewsons businesse to which Mr. Caryl replied that it might be their strength might fail them when they raised tumults against their brethren and the servants of God but if you mark it said he the text saith the enemy and the avenger The same day in the afternoon was brought in by Mr. Gurnall Mr. Ford c. and other Latitude men the humble Petition of several young men that had not taken the Covenant for leave to conform as their Reverend Fathers had done before the Warrs Whereupon Mr. Case rose up in a great fury and said If Baal be God serve him if God be God serve him But Mr. Owen and Mr. Caryl More moderation becomes you you know conscience is a very large thing and you know not how far it may reach Saith old Mr. Jackson Brethren it is necessary that there be some seed-plots laid for the next Generation Had not the Lord left us a remnant among the old Conformists we had been as Sodome and we had been like unto Gomorrah We know not but that these young men may live under the Government to cast it off as we