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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75493	An apologetick for the sequestred clergie of the Church of England. Disclaiming and detesting the late unnatural, presumptuous, unparallel'd and antichristian proceedings, against the honor and life of the best of Kings, our most dear and dread sovereign Lord and King, St Charls the martyr. / Communicated in a letter to a religious and loial gentleman, his honored friend.		1649 (1649)	Wing A3537; Thomason E554_7; ESTC R205760	14,269	25

their own Ministers and of the Loial and Legal Clergie was an effectual argument to us and a sufficient ground for our eternal silence 1. Reflecting on Our selvs For supposing the Legal Clergie could have met 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with one mouth with one minde and prepared an uniform Protest and back'd it with all the Arguments that Scripture Reason Law or Conscience could have suggested to us which yet they took an order to prevent and actually effected by the hottest persecution that was ever set on foot by any against their Brother-Christians witness the general 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the dispersion banishment and retirement of most 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Few or none remaining but such as either do precariò vivere subsist by the charitie and alms of pious well-affected Christians or else not standing forsooth recti in curiâ dare scarce bee known to bee in beeing Might wee not justly fear the Cause would suffer by the very interposing of such Advocates Away with such fellows from the earth 't is mercie too great mercie that they live These fellows are but permitted to sojourn here and they will needs bee Lords Could Prudence prompt them to bee Mediators whose very interest carrieth a denial in the forehead Wee would bee loth to have our Reason questioned while wee would improve our Christianitie Good Causes wee have often known miscarrie for want of fitting Instruments to manage them Nor could wee wish our Enemie a greater mischief then for the obteining of his purpose to use unwelcom Mediators Ther 's as much truth in This Hee teacheth to denie that asks amiss as is in That That asks but faintly And in good sadness could wee hope for better by whatsoever wee could saie or do Is not the very Name of Roial Partie an inexpiable crime Is not the very word Malignant a rub and prejudice to the justest suit And is not this our case or do wee stand on any better terms Wee fear'd the least appearance of our Name might bee interpreted som grand Design and instead of findeing the success wee sought seal up the sentence of His condemnation Beside would it not intrench upon our Prudence to irritate the spirit of an adversarie by the ill choice of Intercessors Nor have wee yet so far forgot our Reason as to attempt the quenching of a Flame by the suffusion of Oil. The unacceptableness of our persons and Condition with the great Statists and Grandees whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and respect of persons discover's they have not much to do with God give 's the first Impossibilitie of good success and consequently a Reason of our Non-appearing 2. But secondly when wee reflect and cast our eies upon the Managers of the late and present Agitations wee think that Argument enough to stop our mouths and patronize our Silence Wee would not willingly incur the censure of speaking to no purpose to men resolved and inflexible to men whose Principles are to them as true as they are fals in themselves to men who presume upon their own Dictats as infallible Oracles who rear huge buildings upon sandie grounds and raise Conclusions on none or most deceiving Premises̄ who in the very Principles they somtime pretend to own for ask their Presbyterian Brethren whether they could ever get them to stand to any are as slipperie as Eels as variable as the Moon and constant onely in inconstancie Have they not justjfied their excentrick motions and highest irregularities with the decried Principles of special Providence and Impulses of the Spirit Have they not own'd and practis'd the Assertion that Faith is not to bee kept with Enemies And on that score abus'd the wisest Head in Christendom Not keeping faith with any God or Man Have they not perverted Holie Scripture and the heroick actions of som Saints assisted by immediat inspiration to authorize the highest villanies And are wee still to learn the fetches of Sathan or can wee bee ignorant of their devices Quo teneam nodo If wee could yet but guess what lock to have them at what weapon to fight with perhaps they would not seem so wise not so invincible But indeed it is no matter for the Means they are resolved on the End per fas per nefus and rather then miscarrie or come short of their purposed Defigns run madly upon the pretended unpardonable crimes of those truly Honorable and worthie Patriots who formerly sate at the helm and managed the great affairs in Church and State And that wee may throughly know the meaning of their Canting-language Pro REGE Pro Parliamento Pro Religione and I know not what nothing now conducing to their Ends though never so much decried by themselvs and spoke against in others must bee omitted for the punishment of a foolish people flatter'd into miserie and for the establishment of an Absolute Independent and Arbitrarie Dominion over the Fortunes Lives and Consciences of their late fellow-subjects now their vassals who of the most Free people in the world under a pretence of Libertie are cheated into Slaverie far worse then the Egyptian Brick-kilns or the Gallies of Argire And having such as these to deal withall Quibus non persuadebis etiamsi persuaseris had not our Application been in vain much like the washing of an Aethiop Can a Leopard change his spots or a Black-More his skin Then saith the infallible Oracle that cannot lie may they that are accustomed to do evil learn to do well Believ it SIR the grasping at a Crown was not to bee dissvaded by our arguments and that destructive Principle alone which drive's them on Of a pretended special Call from heaven outvies with them the highest Demonstrations of Reason Law or Religion To which if wee shall add what wee conceiv the Truth and the ground of these Presumptions the Real not Imaginarie Fears and Jealousies which questionless lie heavie on their souls and egg them on Scelera sceleribus tueri to fortifie and mantein what they have don as doubting of the issue of their former sins but by attempting greater you will bee soon induced to believ that as their resolution was to stop their ears against the voice of the Charmer charm hee never so wisely so all our words and arguments had been no better then Sibyllae folia the sport of the windes or the barking of a dog against the Moon 3. In which opinion wee have the greater caus to bee confirmed when wee call to minde the fruitlesness and non-success of those many Applications which have been made to these great Masters of the world not onely by som of the Antient Orthodox and Legal Clergie but also by many of the Presbyterian persuasion who though we cannot excuse their too great activitie in promoting these unnatural distempers by their compliance and encouragement have yet though like very ill Logicians after such Premises as they laid themselvs which were necessarily productive of these horrid consequences utterly denied the Conclusion and