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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78622	A raging wave foming out his own shame. Or, An answer to a book lately published by Richard Hains (a person withdrawn from) entituled, A protestation against usurpation. Wherein appears such a measure of envies bitterness heaped up, pressed down, and running over, as the like in some ages hath not appeared, by his many false accusations, and malicious insinuations, thereby to provoke (if possible) both the chief magistrate, and all men of what degree soever, to have suspicious thoughts of the innocent, easily proved to have no other fouudation [sic] but his own evil imaginations. : Wherein also the church of Southwater by him contemptuously rendered papistical in their act of withdrawment from him, is vindicated and cleared, first, by apostolical authority, secondly, by Rich. Haynes his own pen. / Written by Matthew Caffyn ...	Caffyn, Matthew, 1628-1714.	1675 (1675)	Wing C207A; ESTC R173317	24,862	30

to a paper did appear against him as also others with the assistance of Council learned in the law as Sir Ed. Thurlow of Rigate Sir Hen. Peckham of Chichester before the Lord Keeper of the Broad seal where after some debate of the case he having also able Council on his side his expectation was then frustrated and his design rejected as unreasonable and illegall for said the Council what if a man shall devise a new way to thresh his corn shall he therefore have a Patent surely no and what then may these be deemed innocent as doubtless he conceives them so to be in their opposition for the sake of mens outward advantages and this too after his Majesties grant of the same and may we be published to the world as contemners of his Majesties prerogative in our opposition for the sake of mens foul-advantages without evident demonstration of his malice against us In the Apostles times matters of wrong were punishable as now they are by the civill laws of the Kings and rulers then in being yet saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 6.1 dare any of you having a matter against another go to law c. what would R. H. if he had lived in those times have published the Apostles as one that contemned the Kings prerogative if not then what besides a bitter root of envy for some other cause is the ground of this reason-less and also law-less publication Besides if what is reported to us be true that the statute upon which Patents are grantable is to gratifie the ingenuity of such as by considerable charge or long study shall invent something for publike good as we incline to believe because the Lord Bridgman with Councill learned in the law put a stop to his designe and also because R. H. would as yet never produce the statute in such cases provided if this we say be true then it remains yet a Question to some whether this Patent was not fraudulently procured that is to say by suggesting something of ingenuity study or charge beyond what in uprightness he could do for since the common custome of men long before was to dry the seed of Clover and then to thresh it for which no man meerly mortall coveted a Patent we know not how reasonably to think that to dry the seed of Nonsuch and then to thresh it which R. H. counts a worthy invention especially considering such a president before should be numbred among the deserving arts and inventions of ingenious men As to the inhuman and unchristian suggestions of R. H. against me in relation to contempt of authority so often repeated by him wherein he hath out-done the deeds of the worst of men to me for what end other then persecutor-like to provoke if possible the chief Magistrate against me I know not I only shall adde this more that such has been my doctrine whereever I came with respect to Christian obligations to be subject to the higher Power and to obey every ordinance of man for the Lords sake such also has been my publick reasonings and private conferences in divers places in opposition to that spirit that despiseth dominion such has been my forwardness not only that Festus his civill laws should be observed but that his person also should be honoured as Most noble Festus though as to matters of religion he be found telling Paul that he is besides himself yea and such has been in that case my principles many years ago published in print which is yet visible subscribed by me and many others as that I do not suppose the unworthy insinuations of a man thus over-mastered with the spirit of envy will gain credit among many if any But I may not omit here to let the Reader understand how R. H. having endeavoured as aforesaid to render me an object of hate to the chief Majestrate descends pa. 28. to provoke as may be thought the Judges of Assize and Sessions against me saying that I have complained against them as acting rigidly and illegally but in what when or where he assigns not nor surely will he say that for several years we have had any communion about such persons nor that he did give me the least Item of such a thing before this publication being my first information which surely may be a sufficient demonstration of the unworthinesse of his spirit but while I know nothing of this nature which he abusively suggesteth against me this I well know that my principles have been as my practise have declared when I have been called before persons of such qualities not only to submit to the King as supream but also unto governours as Judges sent by him and if it any time there should be required that which should be thought by any to savour of rigidness or otherwise seem to them unlawfull or illegall and so in conscience to God they cannot actually obey that there remains no other lawfull way for such to take save only patiently to suffer or humbly to intreat favour nor is this all for in pa. 18. he descends to persons of an inferior quality saying that I rebuked him for being conversant with great persons to raise in them also as may be thought a prejudiciall opinion against me and from thence he descends in the same page saying that I also forbid him to be a peace-maker amongst his neighbours he being extreamly unwilling as may hereby be thought that any from the highest to the lowest should have a good opinion of me to all which I answer that there is no more true then that from some fears and godly jealosie that he might among some persons of quality take that liberty which would neither be honourable to the truth nor conduceable to their good as also from some fears that while his understanding was deeply exercised about civil controversies he might as some have forget his Christian obligations and so misbehave himself no more I say true then that upon this account I did cautionally speak something to him about it the truth of which our approbation then as well as now of persons that occasionally are conversant with persons of note and also that are concerned in matters of controversies sufficiently demonstrate nor yet is this all for in pag. 18. he also declareth that for what he can understand familie-duties is spoken against rather then encouraged thereby to beget as one at least wise may think an ill opinion among the several sorts of professors of our times concerning me whenas there is to my knowledge no other foundation for these unworthy reflections as my doctrine and practice to many may declare save only that sometimes I have dropped some words importing some dislike to such proceedings of men therein as seem to be meerly customary and more especially when they thereby pretending religious dispositions shall in the mean time live in religious actions paradventure in their families too as R.H. may well know some have done for that end has been my so

to our Churches and have not communion with us that with some others he would refer the matter unto now to propose such unequal and unreasonable terms too I say again is this the man that tells the Reader of his zeal for impartial justice and not only so but as that which renders his condition the more to be lamented also is found pa. 12. not affraid to make solemn protestation in heaven before God the searcher of hearts that his designe is only Mark to obtain impartial justice what credit may be justly given to such a mans words let the reader judge Besides such are and so great a number his trangressions heaped up since his excommunication namely false accusations reviling and reproachful expressions as also his malitious suggestions as if we were Papistical Baptists for no other case but our conscionable testimony against his coveting the Patent whereby those of differing perswasions from us that have signified their dislike to his proceedings therein are suggested by him likewise to be Papistical as well as me together with what was chargeable before the Patent but for some causes then omitted which favour intended him therein though upon a designe to do him good perhaps might be however so 't is thought by some displeasing to God he being altogether unworthy thereof as his deportment since seems to declare I say such and so great is the unworthinesse that he still abounds in justly requiring his recantation to be as publike as his slanderous protestation as that it justly leaves not only our selves but others also under discouragements to trouble our selves with him while in such a spirit being ready to think that the same mighty hand of God that hath already begun to rebuke this spirit of envy that was in his abetter is the only sufficient and likely means to effect his real reformation and so his reconciliation and so much the more discouraged are some while they consider that if we had no just cause as indeed we have to accept against the referring the controversy c. R. H. himself notwithstanding all his pretenses is not willing to refer the matter indeed as some well know that have treated with him thereabout his profers having been no more what he may do provided he might have the liberty to refer the matter to whom and after what manner he pleaseth I know not then that he would with contentment stand by what end others should make of it according to the unerring rule Mark these are his own words pag. 10. which as himself to one or more have explained it and as the words seem to import is just nothing at all for if the judgment given shall not be according to the unerring rule in his judgment he presently proceeds to judge his Judges and so all the trouble and pains ends with no effect except thereby further to demonstrate his folly And whereas I have said that God hath already begun to rebuke the spirit of envy my meaning is that whereas a certain person formerly abetting and assisting R. H. in his envious designe against me was in humility made to confess the same and declare as followeth These may certifie whom it may concern that I being under the visiting hand of God am made freely and heartily to declare that whereas I have formerly been a co-actor with Rich. Haynes in the publication of some things wherein Mat. Caffyn is accused as an enemie to the Kings laws and his Prerogative together with other things relating to partiality and the like that I say therein I have done very evilly and do judge that it was disorderly and envyously done by me and so am heartily sorry for it and also farther declare that having discourse with M. C. am satisfied towards him and do desire from my heart to be reconciled to the Congregation declaring also that I do greatly fear that by my abetting and standing by R. H. as I have done that thereby I have done him wrong Since which time the said person is reconciled to the Congregation and whereas this so sudden and great alteration by the hand of God tended so much to the stripping and laying open the nature of that envious spirit by which R. H. and his consederate was governed he presently suggested abroad that the said person notwithstanding his confession of envy ruling in him still remained ready to declare that what he had informed him of was all true thereby insinuating that which is most false as the persons own testimony may evidence which is thus And whereas Rich. Haynes since is pleased to report that though I acknowledge the irregularity and enviousnesse of my proceedings yet that I do still declare that what I informed him of was all true as if therein I had still matters of charge against my brethren these are thereupon further to testifie that what things soever of truth formerly declared by me to R. Haynes which then in the spirit of malice uncharitably and abusively was wrested I now in the spirit of charity do judge that there was no just cause thereby given me to accuse my brethren And whereas R. H. once again suggesteth to the Reader that something he forbears to mention that is reported concerning me and wherefore in kindness saith he and in love to regain me now whether he that observes his writings may believe that he in a designe of love to me thus insinuateth which whoever shall hath surely attayned to a larger degree of faith then many others or whether it be a designe of envy for want of something evident whereby to accuse me suggesteth hereby a mountain which if he should have plainly declared his own conscience told him perhaps would not have appeared a mole-hill whether I say the Reader may believe it a designe of love to regain me or a designe of envy to abuse me is the question to be resolved and surely not difficult to resolve when it shall be considered 1st that he neither before this publication nor at any time since informed me of any such report and how then should it be a design of love to regain me while I know not in the least what it is that is reported nor 2ly would he give me any present account of this report what he may in future do I know not though provoked by letter sent by me by the hands of his neighbour James Smith to inform me with this provocation namely lest otherwise his refusing so to do that is to discover the report and the reporters should be judged and construed his not knowing any thing mrterirll by others repoeted as evill in me and so a most abusive suggestion and how then this his pretended designe of love to regain me while he thus keeps me ignorant of the evill that he pretends by his words to gain me out of can reasonably be otherwise then a designe of envy to abuse me let the reader judge And whereas 't is written that the wicked are like the troubled Sea that cannot rest whose waters casteth up mire and dirt whether R. H. his condition doeth not much correspond thereunto casting up such foul and dirty insinuations the like not to be sound surely among any sort of men that know us let the Reader judge by this further saying of R.H. namely that he cannot imagine what shall hinder you meaning the congregation from imprisoning banishing and burning of people for not submitting to your government if power and opportunity were not wanting what shall we render evill for evill God forbid And whereas R.H. is pleased to compare the proceedings of us the congregation to the illegall proceedings of one supposedly in authority that should become a usurper and Tyrant c. and saith p. 28. that our consciences must needs testify the truth thereof c. we the congregation thereupon do hereby testifie before all men the falshood thereof and protest against the same as a scandalous and pernitious parable Finally omitting several other injurious insinuations as if persons dared not without my consent by lawfull means to provide for their families and such like reasonless clamors not likely to have entertaynment in the hearts of reasonable men I now conclude wishing from my heart that God may not lay these many slaunderous accusations and envious insinuations to his charge so as hereafter to reward him accordingly for as God desired not neither may we the death of a sinner but rather that he return and live for the which that it may seasonably be accomplished in him to Gods glory and the Gospells honour nay prayers have been is and shall be to the almighty for him FINIS