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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60684	A reply to the Observator together with a sermon preached on the 24th of August last past, on Gal. 6. 2. at St. Giles in the Fields : most unjustly reflected upon by him / by William Smythies ...	Smythies, William, d. 1715.	1684 (1684)	Wing S4370; ESTC R19686	22,281	48

Conventicles however he may have been represented by some whose Loyalty and Conformity to the Laws of God the King and the Church lye far more in their Talk than Practice And now Sir not to pay you in your own Coin I mean in returning reviling for reviling give me leave sedately to ask you a few Questions 1. If Mens calmly treating Protestant Dissenters speaks them Trimmers what doth your wonderful mildness and gentleness towards Popish Dissenters speak your self to be Or rather what does the mighty Kindness you are ever expressing towards them speak you to be whilst in the mean time you profess your self a Son of the Church of England Why should not your so vigorous pleading the Cause of the Papists make You as justly liable to the charge of Trimming And to speak to but one instance of your kindness to them If I had been at a quarter of that pains for the lessening of the Phanatique Plot See Observ Aug. 30. that you have taken to sham and redicule the Popish One I would not complain that you abus'd me in calling me Trimmer or by a worse Name if there be any worse May I not speak to you in your own Dialect and in most of your own Words to me as followeth Why this is right Trimming c. You do as good as say Look ye Gentlemen We are Christians and it is Our Duty to Help one Another and to bear one Anothers Burdens If the King gets the Better on 't Let Me alone to do Your Bus'ness And in case of a Turn to the Church of Rome You shall do as much for Me. What 's All This I say but a Tacit Composition with a Publique Enemy where a Man delivers-up his Honour and Conscience for the Saving of his Skin and Int'rest And the Devil Himself with his Cloven-Foot Attests the Contract Why This Man would have been Safe in the Arms of Sir Edmond Bury-Godfrey had the Papists kill'd him when three days after his Death he thrust himself through with his own Sword 2. I demand of you Whether you did more foolishly or spitefully in asking Whether by the Prince of this World I meant the King of Great Britain or the Prince of the Air Pray who ever call'd the King of Great Britain the Prince of this World 3. I ask you Whether you do like a Son of the Church of England or on the contrary vilely disparage her Cause in supposing as you often do that Men who have once imbibed Phanatique Principles can never become sincere Conformists Is not this to suggest that the Arguments to Conformity to our Church are of but little or no force or that the Clergy are too weak to justify it 4. I ask again Whether he that undertakes to pass publick Censures at the rate that You do upon the Divines of our Church and their Pulpit-Discourses assumes not to himself the Office of a Bishop And whether in so doing you do not plainly charge their Diocesans with not keeping a vigilant Eye upon the behaviour of their Clergy And whether it would not have become you much better to inform their Lordships of those Offences you can make good proof of than thus to blacken them to the World and that for the most part upon no other Evidence than the Tales of Gossipping Busy-bodies or Malitious People not to add that of your own Invention 5. I demand See Observ Numb 120. Whether you did not cast an unmannerly Reflection upon his Majesty himself for making your Tony his Lord Chancellor when you reproached some Doctors of our Church for then dedicating Books to him 6. I ask Who that Trimmer was who being judicially interrogated about somebodie 's receiving the Sacrament and answered Yes and being asked How replied very Decently And being asked again was it Sitting or Standing or How replied again It was Sitting but very Decently If this strikes at me as some think it does it is either a Fiction of your own Brain or a base Calumny brought to you by one of your Factors 7. Since no good Man will think that Rebels or Disturbers of the Government can be lash'd by your Pen too severely were it not more advisable that for the future you should suffer those to live in quiet who are no less Loyal but far more peaceable than your self I will conclude with serious advice to you although 't is too probable that you will burlesque it as you did my Sermon That since you have been so exceedingly obnoxious by reason of certain foul Misdemeanours which you have been publiquely accused of and from some of which you have not yet vindicated your Reputation you would no longer blemish the Church by pretending to be her Advocate by which the Mouths of Phanatiques are opened against her And that since you have lived so long in Contention and gratifying a very exasperated Spirit you would now think it high time to betake your self to the great concern of another State that you may die in Peace and in the favour of Almighty God which is heartily prayed for by him who desires the Eternal Happiness of his worst Enemies and who is Cripplegate Aug. 30 1684. Your Well-wishing Friend and Servant W. S. Gal. 6. Ver. 2. Bear ye one anothers Burdens and so fulfil the Law of Christ THE great Design of the Apostle in this Epistle is to rectify the Errors and Mistakes which were amongst the Galatians and to allay those Unchristian heats which are the certain consequent of them There was such a contest amongst them about Christian Liberty that some were ready to take a Liberty which to be sure is most Unchristian A Liberty to bite and devour one another Chap. 5.15 That Christian Liberty which they contended about was a Liberty from observing any longer the positive Institutions of Moses i. e. Those Institutions which were no part of the Moral Law but only performed in obedience to Divine Authority The Galatians had been told by false Teachers that they must observe the one as well as the other The Apostle determines the Controversie by telling them plainly That if they did any longer observe those legal Institutions they should lose the Benefit of the Gospel-Dispensation I Paul say unto you If ye be Circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing But though the Apostle had done this yet it was no easy matter for him to perswade them to maintain Christian Love and Unity amongst them and therefore in this Chapter he prescribes some Rules which Christians ought to observe in order to it The first is in case of Offences v. 1. If a man be overtaken in a Fault ye that are Spiritual restore such an one in the Spirit of Meekness The second is more general in the words of my Text because it relates to all the grievances and unhappinesses that attend men in this Life Bear ye one anothers Burthens and so fullfil the Law of Christ The Galatians were greatly concern'd about fulfilling the Law of