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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67003	A short letter modestly intreating a friends judgement upon Mr. Edwards, his booke he calleth an Anti-apologie, with a large but modest answer thereunto framed, in desire, with such evennesse of hand, and uprightnesse of heart, as that no godly man might be effended at it : and with soule-desire also, that they, who are contrary-minded, might not be offended neither, but instructed.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing W3502; ESTC R18279	37,876	40

A SHORT LETTER Modestly intreating a Friends judgement upon Mr Edwards his Booke he calleth an Anti-Apologie With a large but modest Answer thereunto Framed in desire with such evennesse of hand and uprightnesse of heart as that no godly man might be offended at it And with soule-desire also That they who are contrary-minded might not be offended neither but instructed Optimè locutus esset si non in fratres pessimè The man had spoken very well if not against his Brethren very ill Mel. Ep. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Chrysost. There is something unholy in His holy ones His Angels he has charged with folly c. Job 4. 18. 1 COR. 4. 5. 1 COR. 11. 31. Judge nothing before the time except your selves that ye may not be judged 1 THES. 5. 21. Prove all things hold fast that which is good LONDON Printed according to Order 1644. Worthy Sir IHave heard of Mr Edwards Anti-Apologeticall Book as I must needs doe for all the City and Parliament rings of it The most of them cry it up and some few cry it downe Truly Sir I could cry too but neither up nor downe For my heart is big with weeping and I could wish my head a fountaine of teares to bewaile the sad effects which are likely to follow upon these differences of Religion which are fallen out amongst Brethren But that I may know also your affections let me intreate you to cast your eyes not carelesly over a few leaves but the whole Booke that we may be instruments by the grace of God of healing those breaches Sir your freedome of judgement hath not deceived me this 16. yeares in other matters of highest concernement nor is it like to doe now since so many gray haires have covered the seate of it Thus beseeching the God of Truth and Peace to assist both your judgement and affections I take my leave remaining alwayes Sir Your many wayes obliged and most affectionate friend to serve you SAM. HARTLIP From my house in Dukesplace in great haste Aug 5. A short Letter modestly intreating a Friends judgement upon Mr Edwards his Booke he calleth an Anti-Apologie With a large but modest answer thereunto I Must begin complaining Alas Sir how doe you disparage your own judgement when you doe hearken after mine But it is a friendly error I must pardon it and more I will grant your earnest request also How can he choose but yeeld to you what can be yeelded who are all for Truth and Peace pursuing it with all your might Now Blessings be upon your head and the head of yours who have laid-out your selfe and all for God He will returne for man will not nay indeed power is wanting though will more he cannot all your labour of love worke of faith patience of hope seven-fold into your bosome Amen But Sir me thinks you and I are Instruments now meerely passive you in the motion to this undertaking I in the undertaking wrought upon both by a power and counsell higher and better then our owne I conceive it so in you by what I heard you say you had concluded upon between your soule and God I conceive the same of my selfe because I never thought of this nay my mind was wholly averse from scribling till I thought of your Letter and then I could thinke of nothing else and was restlesse till I had answered you Surely Sir there was an hand here more then humane a stronger motion on our spirits than selfe can make A bond which is more binding and engaging then the bonds of men are Gods Cause with his Legacy to the world Truth and Peace And now all is engaged body soul spirit judgement also that is little or nothing indeed But He can use it and direct it Who useth the smallest things to great purpose I le waight upon the Lord as He shall communicate unto me I shall give-back unto you even from His own hand For I thinke it is the desire of my soule willingly to offer my selfe with all the powers of soule and body first unto the LORD Indeed I would not have my selfe or them at my owne dispose for all the world and then my judgement unto you But first I shall say something by way of preface Doe not be jealous of your friend now that he will give any the least libert to his pen to asperse persons or their opinions touching the way of Government now in agitation and dispute Or that any word shall reflect upon the Scots whom I honour no people in the world more with my soule And am perswaded they ought so to be honoured for they are come-forth carrying their lives in their hands willing to lay their lives downe for their friends A greater love than this has ●o man Surely here is a love more then humane for it is as strong as death the Lord returne it to their bosome in Spirituals for Temporals are too meane a returne for such Adventurers It is also as far from my thoughts as it is out of my power to asperse their way of Church Governement I think honourably of that also as be-commeth Nor shall you make judgement by what followeth that I am for the Independency as I foole have called it nor for the Presbiterie neither and Governement that way I professe unto you These words are so tossed to and fro by such simple ones as my selfe that I cannot tell what to make of them or which way to take And yet can see the way cleered before me the Church way past all question for there the Scripture is cleere when yet where it speaketh out cleerly at the first sight for Presbyterie me thinks at the second view and that should be as our second thoughts are the wiser it speaketh all for Independency So that I have not understanding enough the Lord be a light and help unto it to tell my selfe for what way I am unlesse for both as they may both lead each to other and meete in one I am perswaded in my heart that so it will be they will accord meete and kisse each other Not that I can thinke the difference to be small about which there is so great difference nor the way of governement easily discernable sith so many quick-sighted men are prying thereinto yet cannot find it out But this is the ground of my perswasion because the seekers after this way doe I hope seeke Him That makes a path in a wildernesse and are fully resolved to continue seeking and in their disquisition here to keepe themselves close-up to the clue of the sacred Scriptures and to shut-out passion which a Noble Schollar of large understanding the Lord fill it with himselfe calls nothing for so much as there is of passion in the Dispute so much there is of nothing to the purpose The very best Ministers in the world are jealous over themselves in this matter and as watchfull They are zealously affected towards Church Governement in a Church