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A78614	Envy's bitterness corrected with the rod of shame: Or, An answer to a book lately published by Richard Haines (a person withdrawn from) entituled, New lords, new laws; wherein is shewed such an image of envy, as in late ages have not appeared, by his heaping up false accusations, and abusive expressions to a great number, with malicious insinuations, thereby to provoke (if possible) the civil magistrate to have suspitious thoughts of the innocent, with a great out-cry of usurpation and tyranny, proved to have no other foundation but his own evil imaginations, and so, neither lords, nor new laws. : Wherein also the several persons therein accused, are in righteousness quitted, to the shame of the accuser. / By Matthew Caffyn ...	Caffyn, Matthew, 1628-1714.	1674 (1674)	Wing C206A; ESTC R173316	27,178	35

ENVYS BITTERNESS CORRECTED WITH THE ROD of SHAME OR An Answer to a Book lately Published by Richard Haines a person withdrawn from Entituled NEW LORDS NEW LAWS Wherein is shewed such an Image of Envy as in late Ages have not appeared by his heaping up false accusations and abusive Expressions to a great number with Malicious Insinuations thereby to provoke if possible the Civil Magistrate to have suspitious thoughts of the Innocent with a great Out-Cry of Usurpation and Tyranny proved to have no other Foundation but his own evil Imaginations and so Neither LORDS Nor New LAWS Wherein also the several Persons therein Accused are in Righteousness quitted to the Shame of the Accuser By Matthew Caffyn of Horsham in Sussex He that is first in his own cause seemeth just but his Neighbour cometh and searcheth him Prov. 8.17 Neither can they prove the things whereof they accuse me Act. 24. LONDON Printed in the Year 1674. A WORD to his WORD To the Ingenious and Learned Perusers WHereas Richard Haines is pleased to suggest that neither Nature nor Education had furnished him with Arts and Accomplishments necessary for such publick undertakings and thereupon intreats their favourable construction in the ensuing leaves as often as they found him unskilful in Language or methodical Order I would only say that Persons of an ordinary Capacity may easily judge him a man somewhat wanting simplicity and singleness of heart in so speaking for that 't is so well known and understood by many himself being the cause thereof that another person whom both Nature and Education hath furnished with Accomplishments necessary for such publick Concerns did frame his matter into that form and manner of language wherein it now appears and is sent forth to publick View Envy's Bitterness Corrected with the Rod of Shame OR An Answer to a Book lately published by Richard Haines a person withdrawn from Entituled New LORDS New LAWS Christian Reader HAving perused the Book entituled New Lords New Laws subscribed by Richard Haines and observing the many reproaches false accusations and abusive expressions therein contained and more especially those his malicious insinuations whereby he as one much out of the fear of God and greatly in the Spirit of Envy endeavours to suggest amongst the Sons of Men that we are but especially my self in and about our proceedings against him in way of Excommunication Enemies to his Majesties Laws and Royal Prerogative the contrary whereof I doubt not but through grace will appear having I say observed these things was made to remember SimeoNs discription of envy as may be read in the Book of the twelve Patriarks after this manner Envy saith he maketh a mans Soul to grow Savage breedeth War in his thoughts setteth his Blood on fire driveth him out of his wits and suffereth no reason to bear sway or rule maketh his body ghastly pineth away at the prosperity of the person envied and is always egging him to slay the same For as saith the Apostle the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God Now the many bitter and dreadful streams that flow from this fountain of malice and envy you in the ensuing discourse are desired to observe And first touching his too common Language how bitter how unsavory how unbecoming any professor but more especially such as excel in knowledg of the Fathers will even that every idle word must be accounted for at last who yet shall not only so do but as it were out-strip therein the deeds of the wicked as this following Catalogue of his expressions gathered out of his Book do plainly demonstrate To wit Vsurper Tyrant Idol new Lord Bell infallible Apostle Idol-God Seducer Deceiver Vpstart Lord Ecclesiastick narrow Throated tender-Conscience of his Lordships grace Pope-ship that had he the priviledge of a torturing Inquisition would severely deal with all that should dare oppose him a second Popish infallibility Tyrannical cruelty Deotriphes As touching the Congregation whom but a while ago with my self was highly esteemed by him he now saith that they are such whose zeal hath been much more fervent for the adoration of their Idol than for God whose principles and practices meaning I suppose with respect to their dealing with him are Popish and Antichristian Confederats with a usurping Tyrant whose actions he supposeth are like the hair-brained Proclamations of John of Leyden or the extravigances of a Popish Bull and in one of his Letters sent to C.G. saith That they are the seat of the Beast Now that such Language should proceed out of the mouths of men always accustomed thereunto is no marvel though every where to be lamented but that it should proceed out of the mouth of a professor and not only so but against his Friends but awhile ago by him esteemed most beloved brethren is more than a little to be admired yet not so much as when his reproachful words shall be considered in conjunction with his malicious designs no less threatning than ruin and destruction and that to his late-esteemed and to use his own words Page 2. Most worthy and most faithful Brother whereby just occasion is given for considerate persons to determin that something more than ordinary gave being to this height of envy at which root as the undoubted cause thereof and preceding the controversie about his Patent too our friends at London struck at when by mutual consent on his and my part the matter was to be revealed without which to intermeddle with other matters is questionless no more in order to communion than the plucking of branches while the bitter root I mean his envy against me and others as some think for my sake remains but how this then was prevented by his means contrary to earnest expectations friends may well remember though the making that private case from being in some kind a publick case was not prevented for which he may complain of no mans folly more than his own for hereby and other such like unwary proceedings of his elsewhere the case by me only hinted at when thoughts of presenting it to the Churches consideration was entertained the only Judg of such cases as many believe though from a holy design the better to regain him afterwards to the contrary resolved there being for other causes sufficient ground to withdraw from him the case I say to that degree private is now become and by some called The private publick case But since he pretends and still would lay the cause of his so great displeasure upon injustice supposedly acted on our parts towards him in the case of his Excommunication though that was no preventing cause of his expected gain by his Patent thereby to enrage him nor could in likely-hood the apprehension of his supposed illegal Excommunication especially when good reason according to the common belief of Christians so plainly testifieth our design therein to be good provoke to such a height of malice for that we have no president I suppose of like malice in

brother Caffyn do declare that we never heard of such principles or practises till his own Book informed us and therefore we think that they may very well be called New Laws indeed our principles being the same as when he was amongst us the same with other Churches yet never such as did allow that persons should be Excommunicated for not parting with their lawful rights upon weak brethren saying they are offended with it or that required persons upon pain of Excommunication to gratify any ones design or thus to humor the weak brethren offended in any case as he suggesteth rather have we believed and still do that in such cases the Congregation with her Elders should endeavour the information of such weak brethren that they may be more strong and so no longer offended with the Legal proceedings of their brethren and commonly such endeavours prove effectual and as we are of no such principles so neither are we in our dealings with him men of such practises as he supposeth for that he was Excommunicated to humor and gratifie a company of weak brethren upon their saying they were offended we do with all clearness deny Further in answer the Reader is to observe that after his Excommunication there was according to his desire a paper sent him containing the grounds of our proceedings against him the which had he dealt uprightly he should have truly stated in his Book and so have endeavoured an answer thereunto but to pass it over in silence without the least making mention of any such Written account from the Church and yet pretend to give an account of the Churches proceedings against him and not only so but in the mean season to frame a false account of the Churches proceedings with endeavours to father that upon the Church and so with many swelling words from a vain mind exclaim against it is such a practise that is seldom heard of and surely never found among any but such as want either wisdom or sincerity or both what did he think that he being first in his own cause should meet with none coming after him to search him out Now that the account given by him is a false account our paper yet visible and that since have been read by many will evidence though his silence about this paper may sufficiently Minister suspition to the Reader of the trueness of his account in all which paper of ours considerably Large those expressions to wit weak brethren so often named by him is not once named nor that a party of weak brethren being offended with his proceedings was by others not so offended gratified and humored by casting him out of the Church once signified but rather his resolutions against all Counsel to the contrary to persist in his Patent design in conjunction with his unworthy carriage as a practise savouring of his preferring the gain of this World before the honor of the Gospel for that thereby Reproach and Scandal was brought upon the same whereby the brethren that is the Congregation being sensible thereof and not a party only was offended and yet are that he should so seek himself his own profit as no more to regard the obligations of the Gospel to avoid such occasions for the profit of others that they might be saved Though it be also true that we were not satisfied that his coveting this Patent was upon just and lawful grounds for that nothing Worthy consideration can be pleaded either as great charge long study or more then common ingenuity as might with a good conscience enright him thereunto and it seems the like judgment was made thereof by Counsel Learned in the Law Sir E. T. and Sir H. P. Before the Lord Keeper when the Country appeared at London in their great dislike and discontent about it with a paper subscribed by the hands of many as well persons of quality as others where one of the Counsel to evade the cause of this desired Patent Pleaded if I mistake not the information what saith he if a man shall devise a new way to thrash his Corn shall he therefore have a Patent surely no. However they soon made judgment against it Nor did we think it a consideration void of Reason that he a seperate a professor should seek a Patent in this case of Nonsuch there being Clover as a president cleansed after the same manner long before when as no person out of the profession sought after a Patent in the case of cleansing Clover upon the account of being the first inventor thereof though without a president Nor did we think it a vain consideration that he having an estate considerable and having besides no small advantage by cleansing this seed while others cleansed it as well as he that he should now as one not content there with endeavour to grasp all into his own hands thereby opening the mouths of men to judg him and revile him as a covetous person to the dishonor of Religion and indeed how he may be cleered I cannot tell from censures of that kind since for the sake of this wedge of Gold circumstanced as aforesaid he could part with his brethren greatly beloved at once and not only so but all his Christian privil does respecting communion and as he parted with and lost these on the one hand with who upon the like account besides a Worldly-minded man would do so on the other hand he purchased infamy to himself and reproach to the Gospel and also rendred himself an occasion of stumbling to the Sons of Men while sometimes upon the road sometimes in the Markets and sometimes elsewhere persons were heard revileing defaming and cursing him upon this account and what may such a man that shall loose freely so much good and purchase unavoidably so much evil and all for that which is but momentary yet think himself innocent herein Oh how is it to be lamented The matter then before specified and thus circumstanced being had in publick consideration and those wholsome Laws and Gospel rules mentioned and given in charge by the Apostle for the prevention of offences and things of an ill report being produced and treated of without offering the least alteration of his mind he also after an unworthy manner censoring some of his brethren in the face of the Assembly we thereupon did judg him as one that did transgress the wholesom Laws of the Gospel and so unfit for and unworthy of communion Even those wholsom Laws we mean that the Saints of old in order to a Gospel-Honoring conversation were enjoyned to observe namely give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God and that not only in Eating and Drinking but whatsoever we did we should do all to the Glory of God and not please our selves nor seek our own profit but the profit of others that might be Saved 1 Cor. 10. and that if their be any vertue if there be any praise whatsoever things were lovely and

with St. Paul Pag. 6. that I with the Congregation do judg that my displeasure is punishable without submission with no less then eternal damnation Pag. 15. That I do contemn the Authority of all above me Pag. 18. That t is not necessary in my Government to reprove according to the Scripture Rule that I have in effect Autherity to do all to wit accuse judg and condemn Pag. 20. That Whoredom Fornication or Idolatry is rather allowed of then this of the Patent Pag. 21. That if a certain person did not confess her sin to me she must according to my principle be damned eternally Pag. 44. That I prophesied he should not prosper neither in body nor estate Pag. 53. That I question the Kings Royal perogative in secular things Pag. 41. All which I do hereby solemnly protest against as false and most unworthy accusations which together with those many before named and yet is to be named respecting perticular cases yet to be spoken to passing over other things of like kind will make up such measure as if it were heaped up pressed down and runing over to the great shame of the accuser and I could wish that in the issue it might tend to his humiliation for I do not desire that the Lord may lay it to his charge Further he chargeth against me partiality and conniving at sin c. And I suppose none may think considering his so great malice against me that he hath left unmentioned any thing that either near or afar of lately or formerly he could meet with all which fairly answered as it respecteth me which to do through grace I nothing doubt of he may reasonably doubt of ever obtaining his end for these things now considerable were I suppose partly more then seven Years ago and in a nother County and partly I suppose about five and six Years ago and partly more lately but all of it a very little excepted while he was in communion with us nor can he plead at leastwise to all that he was ignorant thereof till now for in the case of the woman dying under blame himself tells the Reader Pag. 44. That 't was before the difference betwixt us gathered from a certain discourse between he and I about which he then signified not the least dislike as I know of nor at any time since this publication being my first information and now with no less aggravation then an infallable mark of Popish infallibility but as touching the matter I remember nothing thereof save only a few words with him in way of some mistrust of her condition but that I should for want of her confession to me that I might forgive her my self say that 't was all one if she did repent of her sin before she died and so conclude her one that could not enter into the Kingdom for want of my pardon my answer is that I know no such thing as ever spoken by me nor at any time believed but rather that a sinner may truly repent before God and so enter the Kingdom who yet for want of either opportunity or capassity of body may not confess his sin to the offended neither is it true that the controversie lay between the woman and I if thereby he mean the woman and I only for sever I were acquainted therewith and her Husband the party that was originally offended and in some respects more concerned then ever I was who is ready to testifie the truth thereof And whereas this womans infirmities reproved by me and others consisted in her two much bitterness of Spirit to the preventing her Husbands will against her Husbands daughter that came home with a great belly one never in the profession who charging it upon a certain person he readily confessed it and so married her whereas I say the case was so he having no other cause for doubtless if he had he would even gladly have published it he concluds the matter with this question namely which of the two the Mother or the Daughter I had most kindness for To which question and what else seemingly may look that way elswhere I shall only say that God Almighty the alone searcher of hearts knows both his and mine and if I should be innocent herein and in all cases of that kind as the Lord knows I am and ever was who should I not be upright herein would be a swift witness against me and he should be a man that have been really and foulely guilty in cases of that kind and now become an Enemy to him that has told him the truth how dreadfully presumptuously and daringly doth he thereby Treasure up Sin and Wrath against the day of Wrath unless timely and greatly he doth repent And whereas he endeavours to render me partial in my proceedings against a man and his wife whom he would suppose to be my Favorite because my kinswoman of whom he speaking Pag. 11. saith that there was a necessity of marrying her to some body as if she were with Child by some one besides her espoused Husband The case was thus to wit that these persons being engaged one to the other did before publike marriage according to Law accompany together the which when they had done being under trouble of conscience as was declared did voluntarily tell the same to a certain friend from whom I had the Relation and so did immediately take an opportunity to treat with them about their transgression and finding them in a humble fram considered with their voluntary acknowledgment did proceed no further as to any publike rebuke yet not so satisfied as to permit either of them to communion neither have they unto this day in process of time some imaginations did arise and at last a discovery of the unlawful fact as that the Gospel thereby was lyable to be evil spoken of whereupon we at a publike firstdays-meeting before the Church and others bare our testimony against their ungodly proceedings without the least shew of favour to one more then another The truth of which we the Congregation do testifie And further say that we never heard before the fruit of malice discovered it the least word drop from any of our brother Caffyns favouring his kinswomen in that particuler As touching the person that did Beat and as he saith Curse his tired Horse from the relation of which he further argues partiality in me the Reader is to observe that when I understood there was such a report of this person and that he did deny what was reported I nevertheless did with another Friend and two more sober persons not in fellowship with us go to the place where 't was reported that such words of Cursing was spoken and went from house to house treating with those that were concerned in the report and finding them partly to differ in their testimony and partly mistaken as in the case of his Riding by the Reporters house after such a manner as was described when as it appeared that