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A69802	The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, A farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor in his two books about the Surey demoniak in a letter to himself.	Carrington, John, d. 1701.	1698 (1698)	Wing C642A; ESTC R173402	30,143	34

it as S. Clara who makes the Articles of the C. of E. agree with the Articles of the Council of Trent and it seems may also lawfully pray for the Turk and Pope and say to God That it may please thee to keep and strengthen them in the true worshipping of thee c. And according to Mr. T. as the best means to reclaim them from their false VVorship Your last thing observable is P. 23. where you justify your self for all your ill Words and hard Speeches from the Examples and Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles Really Mr. T. this is a Boldness that some tender-hooft Men as they call them in derision would startle and boggle at What compare your self with Christ and his Apostles I 'll say this when you know Mens Hearts as Christ did when you have the Spirit of Discerning as the Apostle had you shall have my consent to call Men Hypocrites and Insincere c. Provided always you be not too hasty as some of the Disciples were Luke 9. 54 55. and be sure it be in a Good Cause Gal. 4. 18. and that you have a Call to it lest some of your Brethren should blame you for arrogating to your self from Tit. 1. 10 13. that which they account the proper Work of your Diocesan And if you have a Mind to assume the Authority of Christ to call Men Satan for it seems you 'll allow Peter to have a Devil tho' Dugd. none It may possibly be as good a warrant for others to call you a Devil that is a False-Accuser or Slanderer 2. Tim. 3. 3. CHAP. VI. ANSWER to P. S. I Am now arrived at your P. S. and you produce Two Letters to Justify the R. R. the L. B. of C. c. and Mr. Gr. Mr. T. whatever you insinuate I have a tenderness for the Reputation of that worthy Person and therefore when I understood that a Lover of him had sent him Word That it was not for his Honour to suffer W. C. c. I hoped it might be a sufficient Caution And therefore in the Lev. I did lay the Blame where I think it still lies viz. On those that should have been more Faithful to him and I am the more confirmed in my Opinion by these very Letters you produce in Justice to the B. and to Mr. Gray For in the first Lett. who this R. T. is or who His Worship is I am not concerned But I suppose he is not the Presbyterian Party you spake of at P. 11. At whose Request the B. admitted G. to the Order of Deacon But whoever he is I doubt he is Partial he told the Bishop of Gr's Crime but did he tell him of any Satisfaction he had made for so Publick a Scandal Yes he turned Conformist and all on a Push skipped over to the C. of E. doubtless by immediate Inspiration by the Hopes of better Preferment than among Dissenters Is this Satisfaction This R. T. reflects on Dissenters and therefore cannot be thought their Representative to the B. But he formerly Observed I perceive he 's a Man of Observation and may be an Observable Man too when some weak or debauch'd Minister served in the Place there was but little Reflection A Debauch'd and no Reflection it may be not by his Society but there might by Dissenters sorrowing and mourning for what they could not Reform Nor when a weak Minister truly a weak Minister might be Pious and Godly and might do his best and then Charity forbad Reflection But now Mr. Gray a very able Minister sure this is some fit Judge he was not reflected at Thirske no they knew nothing of him but as he appeared to be a zealous Dissenter 'Till he had a Design for Mot. and Conformity And what then They reflect on him that is they called to Mind his former Offence for which he had never testified any Repentance Let 's see then what the next Letter will do for this is Small Game the Letter is Mr. Gray ' s own 1. But is this fair to admit a Man to be Witness in his own Cause Altho' Upon the severest Examination as to his Morals P. 11. of the Letter Would he Accuse Himself This marrs the Proof 2. This very Letter of his is a Ground of Suspicion 1. He acknowledges not the Justice of his Censure 2. He calls the telling of his Faults Calumnies belched out against him 3. He saith for ought I know a manifest Untruth that the B. of Ch. is struck at for his sake 4. He falsly suggests the Cause of divulging his Crime For was it not divulged where he was not known before and how could it be divulg'd where he secretly sculk'd 5. He falsly and spitefully reflects upon Dissenters and says he might have lived quietly if he had not Conformed 1. But did he Live quietly when he was a Dissenter without Censure for his Sin 2. Had they not cause to reflect on him who in so long time never signified his Repentance to them that Censured him 6. He charges Dissenters roundly with a Position I never heard nor read and have reason to suspect his Veracity However doth Recriminating Justify him 7. He saith he fears it's Malice more than Matter What Impudence is this Is it Malice who gave thee Authority to Judge Mens Hearts More than Matter Was there not a Cause was not the Crime open notorious scandalous and yet no Matter Now Mr. T. are these things Signs of Repentance and of an humble and broken Spirit And yet after all if the Man be sincerely a true Penitent and Live well and Preach well I shall say The Lord give a Blessing and Success to his Labours for the Conversion of Sinners and the Edification of Saints So far am I from envying any Pious Holy Minister whether of the Ch. of Engl. or Dissenters and very heartily will obey your Canon Gal. 6. 1. But Mr. T. you have a strange Comment upon that Text. I will not say you reflect upon my Friend this is honest tho' if he be a Man named to me I am confident no Man living but my self can be sure who he is you call your Friend but your Friend himself no not the Transcriber of the Levite It 's supposed he is as much as the Scots Man interested in the Lenity of this Canon It 's supposed Here was doubtless some Reluctancy But out it comes Mr. ● I was astonished when I read this a Story came into my Mind of a French B. taken by the English in Armour The Pope sends to the K. of England to release his Son Whereupon the K. sends his Armour to the Pope and ordered this Question to be asked Is this thy Son's Coat To which the Pope answered He 's not my Son but the Son of Mars and leaves him to the K. to do with him what he pleased I 'll refer it to your Diocesan to apply it And for my self I have need enough of Indulgence of Paul's Canon yet not in Gray's Case I Appeal to the Righteous Judge of all the World But for you my Friend if I were your Diocesan I would Reprove you sharply but I 'll do it in the Spirit of Meekness For ought you know you have one way or other wounded more innocent Persons than Samson did with the Jaw-bone For there are many Conjectures of the Author of that which is called Lanc Lev. Some say it's Sir such a One and Name others a Learned and moderate C. of E. Man others M. D. and others a Bookish Country Gentleman others Father it on no fewer than Five or Six Dissenting Ministers and name all according to each Man's Fancy So many as these are you have exposed them and their Reputation Besides occasioned the Sin and Censures of so many as believe any of these to be the Author who live some of them 20 Miles distant from one another Now how many may from hence be filled with Unchristian and Uncharitable Surmises of innocent Persons especially such as are willing to believe any thing that 's Ill of the Dissenter Good Sir retire and think what you have done For I profess I never heard the least Charge of this nature against any that are reputed Authors and as I know my self Innocent to I believe are all the rest And read the Author of 〈…〉 of the Government if the T●ngue and The B. of C. of Revenge and the Lord give you a more meek humble and charitable Heart MAY 20. 1698. FINIS

The Lancashire LEVITE Rebuk'd OR A FARTHER VINDICATION OF THE DISSENTERS FROM POPERY SUPERSTITION IGNORANCE and KNAVERY Unjustly Charged on Them BY Mr. Zachary Taylor In his Two Books about the SUREY DEMONIACK In a Second LETTER to Himself LONDON Printed by R. J. and Sold by A. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1698. PREFACE Mr. TAYLOR I Received your LETTER May 2. To Your Apostate Friend N. N. Sir I was much startled at the first sight of the Direction and wondered who it should be that was become an Apostate And I thought of all those Persons I had heard of who were reputed the Authors of the Letter called The Lancashire Levite Rebuk'd thought I is there any of them turn'd Turk or Papist I never heard any such thing But may be Mr. T. thinks the Author is quite gone from the Communion of the C. of E. because he could not Pray with them formerly That God would Strengthen K. J. in the true Worshipping c. But this I can assure you is not so For I can now keep on my Knees at that Petition for K. W. tho' some others will not and heartily say We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. But I was presently satisfied this was not the Reason but because I had denied my Christian Name My first Wonder then ceased but a second arose in its stead that you should say That I had denied my Christian Name or at least were ashamed of it Pray' Mr. T. When was the Time where was the Place who was the Person to whom I deny'd my Christian Name I remember not that I ever did deny it c. I have not been Re-Baptized nor taken a new Name nor am I ashamed of that which was given me in Baptism But I confess I concealed my Name in my Letter to you And if it will please or pleasure you I 'll give you some Reasons why tho' the Fortune of Caesar or Pompey be not concerned therein I concealed it 1. To avoid the Blows of the contending Parties For it 's often the Fate of them that interpose as Friend to both not only to fail of their desired Success to make them Friends but to disoblige both and to make themselves more Enemies of those who out of Kindness they endeavoured to reconcile And this I find too true from both Parties But Am I become your Enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. IV. 16. 2. I was not willing to disoblige you for I feared in some heat upon the reading of your Book I might be so far transported to give Words that I might find cause to repent of for I am a Man subject to like Passions as you are Yet whatever Misapprehensions you may have of me I have a greater Respect for your Self and another angry Man that spits Fire against Dissenters than I doubt I can make you believe And it was your tart Censures and Reflections upon Dissenters that extorted from me some Expressions that you may think are not friendly And for these Reasons and another you have in my P. S. I gave you to understand That if any unbecoming Words had overslipt me I beg'd your Pardon Pag. 28. In this I hope I shall treat you with all the Civility that is meet for your Character tho' there are many Provocations and some Epithets in my former c. I wish were expunged And I was really concerned soon after it was out of my Hands because having occasion to go to Manchester I there in Discourse heard a very Learned and Judicious Man no Dissenter commend a Sermon you had Preached there So I was troubled lest any thing in my latter should be an Occasion of lessening your Reputation and so be a Prejudice to your Ministry But after I understood That others less Judicious were offended at your Sermon because they said it was like a Presbyterian Sermon These were the High Tories and Jacobites who called you Taylor Upon Titus Such Blades there are that nothing pleaseth them that is serious Again I have been told that your Father was sometimes Hasty as we say but his Passion was soon over insomuch that a Man-Servant that lived with him would say I am glad when my Master gives me a Lauke a Lancash Word which you understand for I am sure presently after have a Piece of Silver from him And I supposed you might be of the like Constitution the Sign of a good Nature as we say Therefore I concealed my Name that I might not provoke to that you might afterward see cause to be troubled at and could not be remedied for Litera scripta manet 3. I did also conceal my Name to avoid the Ill-will of such as might mistake any thing in it towards my Person And to prevent the Censures of all and to save my self the trouble of Answering impertinent Questions and avoid the fruitless Discourse of one or other about the Letter 4. Possibly there might be some Apprehensions of Club-Law from some Malignant Spirits by Innuendo's remembring poor De Laune Mr. Baxter c. and what you had said about Crab-tree And if this do not satisfy why I conceal my Name I want not 〈◊〉 Examples of Good Men amongst whom I know you will with me own the Author of The Whole Duty of Man to be one Mr. T. you hint at another Reason why I am an Apostate Because I chang'd the Presbyter into Levite For this I must tell you I did not know of that Title 'till I heard of it by a Friend who had it from Ephraim Johnston for whom your Letter is Printed nor saw it 'till the Letter came down Printed Mr. T. the next thing you blame me for is That I make Personal Reflections upon the Morals of Men that are dead for De Mortuis nil nisi Bonum To this I say 1. Your Maxim is not universally to be observed For then we must have no Histories of Bad Mens Lives and Vices to deterr the Living from such Enormities as the Dead have been guilty of 2. I must give you to understand That it 's ill Chidden for your Reflections upon the Dead Hildersham and Jesse Bee and 17 for ought I know Worthy Men gave me the Occasion to reflect on W. C. in Vindication not only of Dissenters but the C. of E. Lev. p. 18 19. and you have done it i● with a Witness in this Letter to Mr. Pendlebury in Words at length and not in Figures Whereas I did but put two Letters which could not affect him much farther than where he was known or the Places where he acted his Villanies 3. I did it in Faithfulness To intimate to the Reverend B. of C. for future Caution for I heard a Dissenter say he had sent the B. Word by a Rev. Divine That it was not for his Honour to permit such a one as W. C. in a Place which he supposed was in his Own Gift I am perswaded that Ingenious Man forgot to tell him But I know

know not where to find you or what you intend Let the Canon 72 be consulted and I find not either 1. That they made a Canon to condemn Obsession Word or Thing no more than Possession nor do they say it 's a Popish Word 2. Nor do they condemn Fasting and Prayer upon such Occasion but with the B.'s Licence they may Fast and Pray as some did in Norwich if I remember the Place with a Boy that was supposed to be Obsessed or Possessed Here was Prayer upon a Supposition For how could they be sure with the Licence of the then B. of Chester And now take heed of Belying your Mother And I wish not for any Virtue in a B.'s Licence for Caution Dissenters had acquainted the B. or some others of the Ch. of Engl. and advised with more Learned Physicians about this Case Pag. 10. You charge me unjustly Mr. T. in saying I would make the World believe that you were intimate to W. C.'s Intrigue And tho' you never saw the Man you might hear of his Hypocritical Carriage at Kirkham where I suppose you have some Relations And the things were not done in Secret but generally known and spoken of And I had heard you were informed of his Tricks about that Business and withal that you said you would inform the B. which was honest And it never entred into my Thought that you were accessary to the Intrigue I see your Eyes are not yet Cured Prejudice is powerful Again I had said P. 18. Lev. The B. of C. would never have connived at W. C. if he had known such things of him c. much less collated him Here you catch me for it seems he was not Collated Now I 'll easily confess my Ignorance and Mistake For he being in the Place near two Years I thought it rational to believe he was Collated however the other word Connived you acknowledge And if W. C. gave any good Satisfaction or did any Penance proportionable to his Offences committed so little a while before he went thither I am glad of it And being gone you shall hear no more of him from me farther than in my own necessary Vindication But there are some Passages in your Lett. p. 12. you charge on me as an Untruth viz. That I would insinnate a Licence to another Cure viz. N. Chappel Mr. Taylor this is your Untruth I said he was Introduced you say this is notoriously false Pray' Sir what is false Did he not Preach at N. Chappel and some tell me sometimes at Manchester Church But say you Ibid. All that was done was at the Importunity of the Presbyterian Party You here take a Travellers Liberty For the Presbyterians at Newton kept up their distinct Meetings all the time and so did the Presbyterians in Mott Parish and do still to this day And is this like the Presb. Party importuning for him or Grey And then follows a doleful Story of a Vicar c. and I can tell you of another Story Of one that in a Vicar's Church sate Weeping while the Communion-Office was in hand to see the Symbols of Christ's Body broken and his Blood shed tho' he must not eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup because he durst not Kneel And what good Man had not cause to be grieved when he durst not administer to such a Pious Man as I believe he esteemed this to be for fear of Suspension Now I return to your P. 18. and I am accused of bringing in an Argument which you say is Mine not Yours To this I would not willingly misrepresent what you have written nor would I mistake your meaning but I ll tell you what led me so to understand you and if I be mistaken I 'll not persist in it You P. 32. of Sur. Imp. undertook to shew two things 1. That Dugd. was not possessed by the Devil 2. That if he was he found no Benefit at all by those erroneously Religious Offices that they performed for him 1. To the first I expected your Proof and you go over his Tricks c. and at last conclude P. 56. I can find nothing in our Surey-Spark from whence we may conclude him a Demoniack But then to gratify Ministers I will suppose he was so and shew 2. That he found no Benefit by their Prayers c. a very bold Attempt Now how do you shew this First you bring in Dicky as a true Prophet who had said They were not able to perform what they had promised Then you bring in Dugd. the Father saying That after the Ministers had left him he had several Fits Then Walmsley says Notwithstanding M. J. C. and others Preach'd and Pray'd by Ri. his Fits continued as violent as before to the last Fit Upon which you make this Inference P. 57. Doth this look like casting out the Devil Now if this be not your Argument to prove your Assertion I find none viz. To prove That Dick found no Benefit by their Prayers Which was to be Proved So you undertake to shew what you either cannot or will not Again I had said What were those Offices which you call erroneously Religious were they Fasting and Prayers If you exclude Fasting from being Religious Worship Erroneously there is among the Errata Dissenters will not quarrel with you To this you have a witty Reflection P. 19. which I 'll leave to those that are disposed to make merry with your Rhetorick But must tell you Dissenters are not against Fasting to keep under the Body nor as a Help in Religious Worship And methinks this might have passed when many C. of E. will not allow Preaching to be Religious Worship Your next Witticism is If it was conceived in a Barn viz. Prayers it was the fittest Place for them to be begotten in Good Sir is the Worship of God any worse because in a Barn Did not David worship God acceptably on a Barn-Floor 2 Sam. 24. 18 19. Was not a Stable the first place where Christ after his Incarnation was worshipped Again I am here blamed for not having Wit to stop at a Proverb but marr●d it with an Explanation And indeed here you are in the right for if the Explanation had been mine it had been marr'd But I believe E. Johnston your Publisher can assure you and I wonder he did not that presently after he had received the Lev. he had a Note of Errata's one of which was this P. 26. l. 19. After Sands add an absurd Inference vid. Ray's Prov. p. 195. Ibid. dele the four next Lines which were not in the M. S. And who put them there I cannot tell Yet P. 21. I have a Flirt for something in my Lett. P. 27. That I am blind as Tobit I perceive something pleaseth not but you have the Prudence to pass it over and are in haste as well as another of your Friends And for Dr. Chew's Certificate I need not tarry for Dick never had Fit after the first Dose But you say