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A65136
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The Visor pluckt off from Richard Thompson of Bristol, clerk in a plain and true character of him.
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1680
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Wing V661; ESTC R9173
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Redcliff and St. Thomas two Eminent Churches within the City of Bristol even from the time of his first appearance to officiate in those Churches hath been privily traduced and now of late openly and maliciously branded by the multiforme Fanaticks of this City for a Church-Papist and Jesuite for the Rector of St. Omers so Nick-naming St. Thomas and with many like Terms of Obloquy and Slander the Invention whereof may be reckon'd upon as the very first and peculiar gift of that Party whose great and only Master-piece it hath been and still is by like Maliciously Witty and Wicked Methods and Artifices to expose alike His Loyalty and Ministry and to lessen that Esteem and Reputation he hath thereby gained in the Hearts and Affections of all the Kings Majesties Loyal and Loving Subjects within this City These are therefore at the Request of and just Due to the said Richard Thompson to Certifie unto all unto whom these Presents shall come that the said Richard Thompson is well known to me John Lloyd Knight and Major of the said City and to all the Kings Majesties Loyal and Loving Subjects therein to be a Person of most Innocent and Exemplary Life and Conversation a most Constant and Careful Dispenser of Gods most Holy Word unto the People under his Charge a most Diligent and Zealous Assertor of the Kings Majesties Supremacy in all Causes Ecclesiastical and Civil in opposition to all Schismatical and Factious Persons and Principles under what Names soever they pass or prevail amongst us and also of all the Christian Doctrines together with the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England as they are now Owned and Established by Law In Testimony whereof I have caused the Seal of my Office of Majoralty to be affixed Dated the Eighteenth Day of September Anno Dom. 1679. John Lloyd Major The Lord Bishop of Chichester lately of Bristol his Certificate THese are to Certifie whom it may concern That Mr. Richard Thompson Minister of St. Mary Redcliff in the City of Bristol is a Person of much more than ordinary Endowments for Learning an Excellent Preacher and which crowns both the former a man of a Clean Life and Unreprovable Conversation A Person free from Novelties in Religion but very Sound and Orthodox in the Doctrins he Preaches and thorowly Conformable as to Discipline Those Parishioners when he came to them were a perverse Ill-principled People His Convincing Arguments together with his modest and prudent Behaviour among them hath brought them to Conformity and made some Christians indeed who before he came were only reputed so He hath Converted Quakers and brought many Non-Conformists home again to the Church The Truth is his Learning Industry in his Calling and his most Exemplary Life may be an Excellent Pattern for all that City Minsters to Imitate And it would be both for their Credit and Comfort to do after his most Laudable Example I could say much more of him because whilst I was Bishop of Bristol he lived under my own Eye I was Witness to that Great and Good Success God did Bless the Great Pains he took in the place where yet he is Himself and one Clergy-man or two more was all I could boast of in that City whilst I was their Bishop But in Conclusion I know no Man of his Years that better deserves very good Preferment in our Church than this Young Man doth And this I do Testifie sincerely from my heart and give under my hand this fourteenth day of September in the Year of our Lord 1679. at my Palace in Chichester Guy Chichester The Dean and Chapter of Sarum their Certificate OMnibus quorum interest innotescat per Praesentes Ricardum Thompson in Artibus Magistrum Vicarium de Bedminster juxta Bristoliam quamdiu apud nos commoratus est pie vitam sobrieque laudabiliter traduxisse In concionibus saepe habendis sedulo curam adhibuisse strenue studiis Theologicis navasse operam Nec unquam quod scimus docuisse quicquam vel tenuisse quod Ecclesia Anglicana non etiam approbat atque tuetur Cujus praesertim Disciplinae superioribus quibuscunque ab omni parte conformem morigerumque se praestitit In quorum omnium Testimonium fidem iisdem faciendam nomina nostra cognomina plane ex animo opposuimus Sept. 13. Annoque Salutis reparatae 1679. Thomas Pierce Dec. Sarum Daniel Whitby Praecentor Sarum Ricardus Drake Cancellarius Sarum Ricardus Hill Can. Resid Sarum Franciscus Horton Can. Resid Sarum A Certificate Signed by several of his Auditors upon the Thirtieth of January 1679. being Persons of great Reputation for Loyalty as well as Fortune THese are to Certifie all whom it may concern That we whose Names are hereunto Subscribed were present at the Parish Church of St. Thomas within the City of Bristol on the Thirtieth Day of January 1679. where we then heard Mr Richard Thompson Preach very solemnly on the Occasion of that Days Fast To which Sermon every one of us for himself doth Declare he was very attentive And we do all hereby Certifie and Declare that we do not remember that the said Mr. Thompson did then say in his Prayer or Sermon That there was no Popish Plot but a Presbyterian Plot or any thing to that or the like effect And we are ready to make Oath of the same if required But on the contrary we have heard him detest and abhor the Popish Plot. And we do further Certifie that the said Mr. Thompson is and by all the time we have known him hath been a True and Loyal Subject to our Most Gracious Sovereign and of a very Sober and Pious Life and Conversation amongst us every way suitable to his Function Witness Our Hands this Thirteenth day of November 1680. John Hicks Alderman Richard Crump Alderman John Knight George Morgan Thomas Davidge Edmond Brand John Broadway Walter Gunter John Hellier John Oliff John Yeomans John Combes George Bourchier Thomas Turner George Hart James Millerd Ralph Oliff James Twyford Daniel Pym Thomas Hartwell Edmund Arundel Richard Benson Francis Yeomans Thomas Durbin Charles Allen. THE END