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A42473 A true and faithful narrative of the much to be lamented death of Mr. William Tyrrell and the more to be magnified preservation of Sr. John Rous of Henham, Baronet, and divers other gentlemen ... published for the vindication of Gods truth and those persons honour and credit, from some foul and scandalous aspersions cast upon them in alying libell entituled, Sad and lamentable news from Suffolk / by Lionel Gatford ... Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665. 1661 (1661) Wing G339; ESTC R14661 12,334 18

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pillory and for his poor soul God be mercifull to him unlesse he doe in time repent of his lying and slandering of his hypocrisie and counterfeited sanctity it will need no other filth to clog its wings from ever soaring neerer the highest heaven then that heaven where the Prince of the aire is sometimes permitted to revell in and such projectors as he may for a time be allowed to breath in But who told him that the Gentlemen met at Wangford were drinking of healths that in excesse when the late sad heavy judgments befell them There is no mention of drinking healths or drinking in excesse in all the relation attested by Gibson alias Ewin but that they met to drink out a barrell of March Beer which was also a loud one as hath been allready shewn but suppose they were drinking of healths or did otherwise drink in excesse which is the meer fiction of the Libellers own Phanatick brain and that whereby he carryes away the whetstone from Ewin himself how dares the Libeller be so bold with with God and his judgements which are so unsearchable as well as terrible as to apply Gods judgements to any persons whatsoever so as to say or suggest by way of intimation that for this or that cause God sent such or such judgements upon such and such persons unlesse God did by those judgements upon those persons indigitate those causes so evidently as that their sinne might be visibly read in the marks and characters of those judgements And then too men ought to be very wary and tender of judgeing others lest God himself who is the Judge himself of all men Judge them also for usurping his Throne and peculiar Prerogative by Judging of any of his especially so as to think them the greatest sinners on whom God layes the sorest judgements when he spares others Remember those Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices and those eighteen upon whom the Tower of Siloe fell and slew them Luke 13. Christ himself assures you that they were not sinners above all the Galileans nor above all the inhabitants of Jerusalem that escaped those judgments but the prime use to be made by those that escape Gods judgments when others suffer under them or perish by them is as our Saviour there intimates to repent of their own sins lest they also perish Besides so much did God magnifie his mercy at that very time in preserving so many alive and some of them untoucht when he took away onely one of their company and smote some of the rest with so gentle a stroke that their very preservation rather speaks their freenesse at that present from any such foul crime as the Libeller would fain fasten upon them than give any just occasion to any to suspect them guilty thereof But the Libeller goes on You must you 'l say drink the Kings health and to shew his Logick as well as his Rhetorick he refutes the doing so thus Is it congruous in cups of excesse to drink the Kings health when he preserves his health by little drinking surely the man thinks that they who drink the Kings health doe not onely wish or pray for his health or otherwise honourably speak of him but they mingle his health in their Cups as they doe Sugar or some other ingredients or else what congruity is there in that pretty knacking saying of his But who I beseech him are they that say they must drink the Kings health did those Gentlemen say so The Fore-man himself affirms no such thing and if they did drink his Majesties health might they not doe it without drinking it in Cups of excesse and so preserve their own health as well as drink his It is beyond the limits of my vindication to determine the lawfulnesse or unlawfulnesse of drinking the Kings health for the Libeller quarrells onely at the drinking of it in Cups of excesse and so far all sober men concurre with him but it may well be suspected that if he loved the King or his health so well as he should he would not have crowded that passage into his Pamphlet so incongruously impertinently but calumny knows nothing of congruity or pertinency The thing that he aimes at is questionlesse this To have the world believe that such a sad and lamentable judgement fell such a time upon such and such Gentlemen for drinking of the Kings health And whether this does not smell strongly of the Phanatick humour let himself judge though I presume the Phanaticks will not thank him for one observation of his a little before viz. That Wine or Beer in a drunken excesse inflames the heart intoxicates the brain and turns all Phanaticks But truly I thank him for that saying for by this I conjecture how he himself became so inflamed as he is his brain crows so much as it does and so he is turned all Phanatick the poor man had taken a cup or two of excesse Alas poor heart weak brain beware how you meddle any more either with drinking or scribling a little too much for you then throw about your Inke you care not how nor upon whom but bespatter those whom either you know or at least dare not let them know your Name He gives you a caution also against Oathes and Execrations which he forceth into his Libell by head and shoulders and all to throw more dirt into those faces which either he never saw or knows them to be such that the least spot cannot stick upon them especially them that he chiefly aimed at At the last he whines out something that might from another mouth be thought to savour of Loyaltie and therefore as the Philosopher when he heard a very bad man speak a very good sentence entreated an honest man that stood by to speak that sentence over again for that it would sound much better out of a better mouth So I could wish that those good words which this wicked Libeller hath let fall concerning our Gracious and Dread Soveraign and the temperance and devotion with which his good Subjects should as good Christians rejoyce for his return and reestablishment amongst us which I understand by that expression of his Let us all heighten the joyful shout of a King amongst us I could wish I say that some honest cordial Loyalist had uttered those words they would have souned much sweeter and not so hollow crack't as they doe But Saint James hath much abated the wonder of an evill tongue speaking sometimes good words when he saith James 3. Therewith blesse we God even the Father and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing And so this Libeller might by chance at the last speak well of the King though he had all along spoken evil and that most maliciously of some that are his most faithful Subjects And to those faithful Subjects doe I now for a conclusion of