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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42589	Dr. Pierce his preaching exemplified in his practice. Or, An antidote to the poison of a surrilous [sic] and libellous pamphlet sent by N.G. to a friend in London, and printed without license In a letter from a friend of truth and justice unto a worthy divine of Cambridge.	N. G.; J. F. aut	1663 (1663)	Wing G48; ESTC R217412	4,664	11

Dr. Pierce HIS PREACHING Exemplified in HIS PRACTICE OR An Antidote to the poison of a surrilous and Libellous Pamphlet Sent by N. G. to a Friend in London and Printed without License In a Letter from a Friend of Truth and Justice unto a worthy Divine of Cambrige Printed in the year 1663. SIR THough I am yet a stranger to your Person I have heard so much of your Integrity and candour and zeal for God and all good men that I cannot but believe you will think your self concern'd in the news which at present I mean to send you It will suggest an opportunity of doing some right to the noless injured then excellent Dr. Pierce President of S. Mary Magdalen College in Oxford How great a blessing his Example and Government have been unto that flourishing Foundation since his Prince's favour and his own eminency of merit fix'd him there they that envied all have been so unable to conceal that attempting oft to find a fault where their utmost malice had not wit enough to descry one they thought fit at last to accuse his vertues and in stead of blasting his matchless reputation have by that very project undone their own The Terrae Filii who mistake it for a part of their office to revile Authority and be factiously Scurrilous had a design to traduce him this last Act as they did to some purpose many more of great Rank besides the King himself and my Lord of London But the one of them was so loudly hist and exploded for his paines that we could not well understand by what he had a mind to expose himself The other with an impudence great as his profanation in a place no less Sacred then S. Mary's Church and before an assembly of both Universities and other persons of quality spoiled the Ballad I am here inclosing by turning such plain English into worse Latin and not fearing to abuse the Text and Sermon both together still concluded his ribaldry with an Ab initio non fuit Sic. Ought it not to be for a lamentation that a Sermon made publick by most express command from his Majestie and for its extraordinary worth and usefuless translated into foreign languages countreys abroad should be thus set up as a Mark at home for most unclean invenom'd Tongues to shoot their arrows at even bitter words whilst the Romanists themselves were but examining their quiver for much more civil and Christian Shafts That God's Word and Servant should be thus blasphemously trampled on by Professors of the Religion they presume so to shame and resolve to wound through one of it's stoutest Champion's sides rather then allow him the barely-just honour of having preach't and publish't it's vindication Others there are who madly spurning at the bonds which they know not how to break or to cast off from them are so vext at the strictness of his impartial and Christian discipline that like the proud enraged waters still foaming against the Banks which restrain their Insolency finding how much he hath lessen'd the Drunkard's company they would needs make him their Song and be reveng'd upon him in rhyme So much of it as hath been gathered piece-meale I here present unto your view when I shall first have assur'd you that the cutting down of the Walnut-Tree objected in the fourth Stanza was not by command of the President but without his knowledge by order of the Bursars who are entrusted by the College with affaires of that nature much less is the Bowling-green made a Turnip-garden as some Cambridge-men and others whose curiosity was tempted by the confidence of that report to let their own eyes undeceive them can abundantly testify though for very weighty reasons and upon serious deliberation it was voted down by the farr major part of the whole Society which is the very same power that does commonly lease out the Colledge Lands and sure much rather may freely dispose of their Recreations All else here mentioned by such as have hated to be reform'd and would not chuse the fear of the Lord was apparently done in such perfect conformity to the Statutes of the College the Canons of the Church and the Law of the Land that if I had not before told you so you would have concluded this charge to have proceeded either from the Ale-house or the Antipodes And therefore I leave you for a while to reade and pitty these Poetasters who thus have gratified the Papists and sham'd themselves NEar to the Ford or'e which an Asse Or an Ox at least did pass And where the once bless't Magdalen A Sinner is possess 't agen The man that sets up Innovation By th' Primitive Rule of Reformation And preach't down Poperie too in hope To be in time Himself a Pope Makes new Religious Modes to grow Which from the Beginning were nothing So. Demyes and Fellows too they say Are in the Chappel brought to pray As often as the Organs blow But from the Beginning it was not So. The Founder's Laws are so set up That Scholars when they dine and sup Must bandy Latin to and fro But from the Beginning it was not So. The Tree which Wallnuts forth did shoot Is voted down both branch and root And where Bowls ran there Turnips grow But from the Beginning it was not So. Demyships which were bought and sold Cannot now be had for Gold And Things call'd Merits currant goe But from the Beginning it was not So. Fellowships eke are nothing worth Which eightscore Pieces did bring forth And a Gratuity too I trow But from the Beginning it was not So. A Bellyful now for a Feast must suffice Whilst by an Abatement of Plumbroth and Pyes Men are taught to be Temperate But yet we know That from the Beginning it was not So. Depraved manners now must be Reform'd by Easter-Scrutiny Where none must his Accuser know But from the Beginning it was not So. In time of Term 't is lately said That weekly Preachments must be made Whether the Preacher will or no But from the Beginning it was not So. Gold is now wrested from the Fists Of all the late Spurroyallists Sent Pris'ners to the Tower as though From the Beginning it had been So. The Grammar-School hath also cause To say New Lords do make new Laws Though Busby's followers needs must know That from the Beginning it was not So. Amongst the other modern Fashions All men are brought to Disputations Both great and small from Top to Toe But from the Beginning it was not So. If a good Fellow be Maudlin drunk Speak verba Brigosa or keep a Punck He straight must out of Commons goe But from the Beginning it was not So. If thereupon he make Appeals For having fasted all those Meals He never must have Commons moe But from the Beginning it was not So. AND now Sir I hope you do not imagine that Satan's Journymen have in earnest so farr befriended Mr President as to give you a perfect catalogue