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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	discretion_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	19	3	8.3069	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76834	Speculum Culmerianum wherein all persecuting, and malitious priests may behold the blindnesse of their zeale, the shame of their hypocricy, and the just reward of their unsatisfied malice. Being an answer to a scandalous book called A parish looking-glasse for persecutors of ministers, pretended to be writ by Richard Culmer the younger, in defence of his father Richard Culmer, Minister of Minster in the County of Kent ... / By Stephen Blaxland.	Blaxland, Stephen.	1657 (1657)	Wing B3176; ESTC R170684	13,355	46

SPECULUM CULMERIANUM WHERE●N All persecuting and malitious PRIESTS May behold the blindnesse of their Zeale the shame of their Hypocricy and the just reward of their unsatisfied malice BEING An Answer to a scandalous book called a Parish Looking-glasse for persecutors of Ministers pretended to be writ by Richard Culmer the younger in defence of his father Richard Culmer Minister of Minster in the County of Kent in the Isle of ●hanet near Canterburie By Stephen Blaxland Isa 57. v. 21. The wicked are like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt Isa 10 12.13 Wherefore thus saith the Lord the holy one of Israel because ye despise this word and trust in oppression and perversnesse and stay thereon Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out of a high wall whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant Anno 1657. To all the well affected Gentlemen in KENT Gentlemen HAving been instigated and indeed importuned by Mr. Culmers unsufferable abuses and most scandalous falseties I have undertaken this short answer which I hope will not be found larded with untruths but to relish of aproved verity I protest I write no thing out of malice but shall refer my self unto your candid judgements and rest A servant to you all and a lover of my Countrey Stephen Blaxlan● To the Reader READER BEfore I make any progresse into my intended discourse I will declare unto the world the reason of my undertakings which in short is as followes First in respect of the wrong and unsufferable injury done to my deceased father by the false approbrious aspertions of Mr. Richard Culmer the elder Minister of Minster in the Isle of Thanet the known Author of that impertinent and shamefull book entituled A Parish Looking glasse pretended to be writ by his son in defence of his as he pretends persecuted Father but time shall shew Mr. Culmers falsity to the world whilst truth the virginity of the soul shall in despight of malice like the rod of Moses devour the rods of the Egyptians Secondly In respect of my own reputation which Mr. Culmer hath most injuriously endeavoured to demolish by several untruthes which I shall declare to the world without the least prejudice to truth and I question not but to shake off his serpentine invectives as St. Paul did his viper without the least detriment to my own conscience And now I shall desire the ingenious Reader after he has seriously perpended and weighed each perticular in the ballance of reason to be an equal judge for I must confesse I have undertaken to encounter a Goliah a man armed with litterature or at least ought to be whose proud insults can neither terrifie nor conquer a true Israelite The sling of Justice is better than the sword of envy Thus armed with resolution I will enter the lists notwithstanding I sufficiently know that to strive with my superiour is furious with my equal doubtfull with my inferiour sordid and base with any full of unquietnesse for indeed as one very well sayes It is a shame to resist where it is no honour to overcome It was the saying of a wise man that a man knows himself best by his enemies which I have found to be an approved truth for I have benefitted more by the serious consideration of Mr. Culmers malice than ever I did by his doctrine I will onely say of him as it was said of Nero Caesar he was Maximus tyrannorum but minimus Doctorum invert that which was said of Julius Caesar he believed as a Pagan but workt as a Christian so Mr. Culmer may be said to believe as a Christian but to act as a Pagan I am sorry that his own merits inforce me to these expressions It was a custome amongst the Heathens to chuse their priests out of their Philosophers and their Kings out of their Priests had Master Culmer lived in those dayes he must have approved himself a better proficient in learning than he did in making those verses of Queen Anne which he so much boasts of in his Book of nick-names where he makes an E●dipthong short Culmerianâ authoritate and not poeticâ licentiâ neither would I have my Reader mistake me and think that I am an enemy to Ministery for I protest I honour them with as much fidelity as the Israelites did Aaron the first of Priests and love them with as much integrity as Jonathan did David the best of Kings Prophets and Priests but when a priest shall degenerate into a Rabshecai a scoffer a railer and instead of pittying those that he pretends to be criminalls nick name and revile them then we may like Lot turn our backs upon Sodome I never read that St. Paul St. Peter or the rest of the Apostles ever did so but constantly exhorted one another to meeknesse patience and charity which three virtues cover the heart of man as Solomon did the Temple with gold but when these three graces are deficient it is an undoubted truth that the Divine cannot be Orthodoxal Moreover all things in a Divine ought to preach his habit his dyet nay his whole life he must not like Ishmael have his hands against every man and every mans hands against him but like Joseph forgive his brethren and instead of punishing them for their cruelty towards him send them home to their father laden with provision for their necessities again a Divines words ought to be Maxims and his actions examples and his examples rules and his perfections ought to consist in the acknowledging his imperfections for wisdom lives at the signe of humility but as for Mr. Culmer he may truely say to all these fore-mentioned virtues as S. Peter said when he denied our Saviour I know not the man neither understand I what thou sayest notwithstanding I do really believe Mr. Culmer is no enemy to learning neither do I believe that learning is much a friend to him but it may be replied what then the Apostles were ilitterate 'T is truth but during the time of their ignorance they converted none but when they had the gift of tongues and were acquainted with learning they converted thousands It is said by a good Authour that Josias was but eight years old when he walk'd religiously before God therefore Religion consists not in learning but in grace is it not possible for him to whom nothing is impossible to make Josia's a Scholler at eight years old moreover it is said that the learned alwayes put the cause before the effect knowledge was the cause of Josia's his Religion and his Religion was the effect of that cause for he could not be zelous for God without being taught to know there was a God for zeal as one saith without learning is stark blinde and learning without discretion is pur-blind like Sampson without his eyes apt to do little good but able to do a great deal of mischief but I stay too long in