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A40081	The great wickedness, and mischievous effects of slandering, represented in a sermon preached at St. Giles without Cripplegate, on Sunday Nov. 15, 1685 by Edward Fowler, D.D. ; together with a preface and conclusion in his own vindication.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1685 (1685)	Wing F1707; ESTC R10722	18,466	44

than a Lord this last week And I am not to seek to understand why just at This Nick of time I mean within this Week or Fortnight there are such Strenuous but Secret Endeavours used by these Men to make me all that 's naught to our GOVERNOVRS It may be expected I should here Clear my self of Discouraging my Church-Wardens from Presenting Dissenters which they made an Article of but I need to say no more than this to it That as they could make nothing like a Proof of it in the Court so the contrary appeared there by the Deposition of the Principal of their own Witnesses And I had full Evidence ready to prove That I only Charged them to Present Impartially and not to Gratify any ones Revengeful Piques but it was not produced because 't was needless And I had after a full Hearing Ten Pounds Costs given me against them And now my Hand is in a Word or Two to their Grand Article That I gave the Communion to two of my Church-Wardens together Who were Excommunicated in the Court near a Year and half since But as I had Leave to Defer the Publishing of that Excommunication so the Sacrament was given them before 't was Publisht and I had then great Assurance That Excommunications can take no Effect till they are Publisht and what I did was done upon the best Advice I was capable of having and I Relyed upon the Authority of more than One Ecclesiastical Iudge and the same Article had been Exhibited against many other Divines besides my self had they been so unhappy as to have had in their Parishes any People of such Venomous Spirits as those Few I am infested with So that if this were a Fault in me it was a Fault of most Excuseable if I may not say Invincible Ignorance I no way Consulted mine own Interest in doing this thing and I Abominate the breaking of any Order of the Church to Gratify any Person whatsoever There is one thing more which I ought not to omit viz. That whereas I might say but that it may be replied I live far from Neighbours that no Man could live more Peaceably than I have done in this place nor have been more forward to Oblige all Men I have wondred sometimes and so have others too who know my Conversation how I should happen to have in my Parish such Bitter Enemies though I thank God I have but a very few that I know of But I have been for some time satisfied that my Impartiality in Preaching hath netled some and particularly my frequent exposing certain Vices of some among us who value themselves mightily upon their Loyalty and Conformity whom I have plainly told That they are a Disgrace both to the King and the Church and it may be I have but seldom dealt Severely with the Fanaticks and Men of Factious Seditious and Rebellious Principles but I have had a Bout with them too Now this is a Fault I will not make the least Excuse for and if it be a Fault I believe most of the good Service I have done here to the King and Church hath been principally Owing to it A Second Cause of my Troubles I am too sure and I question whether I can name a Third is My Refusing to part with Mr. S. after all Endeavours that have been used to Set me against him And for my great Aversness to Gratify his Enemies herein I will Exercise my Readers Patience with this short Apology viz. That besides one Personal Pique I soon perceiv'd the Bottom of the Emnity against him to be some Sermons he Preached of the Absolute Necessity of Restitution that grievously Galled some who were too well known to have Wronged the Poor together with his declaring his Mind Else-where with some Severity against several unjust Practices before I had any Relation to this Parish And it would have lain heavy upon my Conscience while I had a Day to Live should I have Joyned with Those against him who I was Satisfied did Set themselves in Opposition to him for the Zeal he had expressed upon so highly Commendable an account as that of endeavouring to do Right to Those who are not in a Capacity of Righting Themselves Besides should I have dismissed Mr. S. I could not but expect the Curses of Hundreds of Needy Families for excepting two Noted Citizens I know not his Fellow for bestirring himself to get Relief for Poor People I am Confident That never was a Parish so obliged to a Curate as this Parish hath been for many Years to Him as Ill as he hath now for a long time by some few been Requited for it And to speak my Conscience I am certain this Parish could very much better spare my Self than it can Him I Confess at my first coming there was some Misunderstanding between Him and Me which some hoped would have ended in a settled Enmity like to Theirs But in a very short time We came to know each Other Better and then immediately all That Vanished and hath never been in the least Revived to this Day And as to his Preaching up Loyalty and Conformity to the Church I know not a Divine in London that is or ever since I came hither hath been more Zealous as many Hundreds I may say some Thousands can bear me Witness I will make no other Apology for troubling the Reader with this long Scribble than this very short one viz. Meer Necessity hath sorely against my Inclination Compell'd me to it But for all that I expect to have the old lame Distick flung in my Dish viz. Hoc mihi pro certo est quòd si cum sterc●re Certo Vinco seu vincor Certè Ego Maculor And if I have this Wipe I 'le take it Patiently though of all Gibes I confess I Most hate True Ones St. Giles Cripplegate Nov. 16. 85. THE Great Wickedness And Mischievous Effects of SLANDERING Represented Psalm 101. 5. Whoso privily Slandereth his Neighbour him will I Cut off I Shall not detein you with any thing of Preface but fall immediately upon the Business I designed in the choice of these Words for my Present Subject The Just and Pious KING who was the Pen-Man spends this short Psalm in declaring to his People how he was resolved to mannage himself in reference to the encouragement of Piety and Virtue among them and the discouragement of Vice and Wickedness And among other particular Vices which he tells them should by no means escape Punishment that of Slandering their Neighbours comes in in the Words of my Text. Nor is here any one Vice which he expresseth so great an abhorrence of or so severely Threatens as this of Slandering For whereas he saith A froward Heart shall DEPART FROM ME I will not KNOW a Wicked Person And him that hath a High Look and a Proud Heart will not I SUFFER And he that Worketh Deceit shall not DWELL WITHIN MY HOUSE And he that telleth Lies shall not TARRY IN MY