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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96300	Mercurius Americanus, Mr. Welds his antitype, or, Massachusetts great apologie examined, being observations upon a paper styled, A short story of the rise, reign, and ruine of the Familists, libertines, &c. which infected the churches of New-England, &c. Wherein some parties therein concerned are vindicated, and the truth generally cleared. By John Wheelvvright junior. Philalethes.	Wheelwright, John, 1594-1679.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1605; Thomason E309_37; ESTC R200432	25,051	29

it must be reckoned amongst his impertinences seeing the degree doth not vary the kind let him be as urgent as he pleaseth Salvaratione fidei salva specie whilest he keeps within that universality against those which are Legalists which he did and onely did let me use my Authors main Argument which we meet with presently Put the case in a Reversed Frame if my Author had flamed in zeal never so much against Mr. Wh Sermon or some of the Opinionists would he have admitted that as a topicke of Sedition In such a particularization which is more then he can fix upon Mr. Wh would not the equity of his cause have been his plea Doth he not therefore rove a little in this discourse if vehemencie of spirit and voice infer sedition it will be dangerous to have good Lungs let my Author take heed he intrench not upon his Divinity tenure and inscribe that to crime which intitles him to the Pulpit But Mr. Wh his vehemencie made him not exorbitant he mist not the cushiou nor was he so fierce as my Author was when he said Lye with him Devill sleep with him Devill c. Mr. Wh promoted a Covenant of grace by a spirituall prostration of its opposites And this in generall too this is all he did what Pretenders to so much charitie Reformation Christian liberty c. A new Heaven and a new Earth as some said of them and so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 celestiall arraign sentence imprison banish a man of their Church too And as though this were not enough Instare morienti to fame him an Heretique Antinomian seditious person what not and this in print with all possible disgrace and diminution and that after he had repented too as is confessed one upon whom he saith he would not reflect any thing his meaning is I suppose that the rayes of his malice should fall directly upon Mr. Wh and all this for so small a matter Tanta fallacia c. May I not retort Tantaene animis coelestibus irae His following discourse is a Panegyrick of discretion which he by his usuall clapping together of Scriptures magnifies the more because he conceives it wanting in Mr. Wh. But how comes it in here under his title viz. a Proof of Sedition and contempt surely he doth not think that indiscretion involveth contempt What doth this curious Impertinent mean I should think that there were a secret and energeticall subsidence of all into this vice and that in his opinion too if he had not as we before shewed cleared Mr. Wh. from such offence See how confused the man is he would convict him of contempt and yet vindicates him from indiscretion as though that could be without this what he means by discretion I know not But. if it be that which is usually called spirituall discerning my Author did use to annex it to the tribe c. His last and main stratagem whereby he will prevail upon the most prejudicate and scrupulous spirits is to put the case as he saith in a reversed frame his words are these p. 57. But if any shall yet pretend want of satisfaction c. put the case in a reversed frame if some others had taught it c. would not Mr. Wh and c. have looked at themselves as intended Yes surely for a proper adjunct may designe a particular company as well as names as Judas by the sop This is an excellent devise A conjecture what Mr. Wh and the other partie would have said upon the like invective I know not what they would have said c. nor do I know what to say to this his master-peece of putting the case c. unlesse I should put it into the case Quid dignum tanto c. Shall we neglect it No the necessity of the times may call for it it is the very distilled quintessence of his brain his Catholicon We will if we can squeeze some sense out of it or at the least leave it in a capacitie if it have any force for the present we must pose our Author knows per species concreat● But I would not reflect upon him as he of Mr. Wh as though he had no more wit then he was born with But what if he knew what they would say shall their practise or speech which may as they are men proceed from passion direct yours If they should take offence at a little forwardnesse freenesse and irrespectivenesse of discourse and beat it out as you have done into sedition and contempt shall that be your Apologie Are a company of Familists Libertines c. so authentick If it must be so let Mr. Wh or some others send word what they would say So a●●● cou●● in N●●●● and this great oration of my Authors even tota haec Româ ruit cum viribus si●s of all his coixcidences impertinences folecismes fruitlesse and weak chullitions this is the worst for those may be acted upon and refined by wit But as for this it may stand eternally before it can receive a good construction all the colour and appearance of reason it can admit must be expected in a message from New England declaring what they would say c. My Author might do well to compasse Seato make a Proselite to go himself thither and procure an expresse but I doubt he will not his mind doth so run upon the sop where I leave him And in the mean time I leave this high strain of his if the winds and seas favour in a possibilitie of being cloathed with a little kind of sense or the best kind of non-sense Alas poore argument The case in a reversed Frame might better have been kept in the case then dut into the Frame He concludes this discourse thus That to lay those under a Covenant of works who have suffered as much as himself savours not of a brotherly spirit p. 58. This can be looked at no otherwayes then as an impertinence too if the Apostle speak truth If I give my body to be burnt c. I do not ingage my self in the dispute c. onely I say utcunque his conclusion is not conclusive he makes had premises and worse conclusion Seeing these things are so that there is so little ground for these pretended crimes seeing there can be no contempt found in Mr. Wh Sermon we will rather impute the undeserved censures to some other cause then to the meet malice of the Court which some uncharitably do Whether it were a strong imagination of the then Deputy upon Mr. Wh which by the power annexed to phansie produced some contemptuous behaviour in him while he was before them Or whether it were that he viz. the Deputy being then occasionally in contemplation of contempt and presuming of the infallibility of his science being as he thought it not simplicis intelligentiae which is more likely but visionis which in that reason must have aliquid externum de facto representative of it thereupon pitched on contempt as Mr. Wh delinquencie Or whether it were which is probable in the despicablenesse of the State and especially of the then Deputie late Governor and in regard of the affection of the people and that deservedly to that worthy gentleman then Governour Sir Hen Vain unlikely to return into that preferment speedily I say whether in regard of his condition his melancholy temper seconded as observed by a sullen constellation then predominant he did absolutely determine he was contemned some way or other and so cum nemini obtrudi potuit he charged it upon Mr. Wh And so sedition by way of concomitance Sedition and contempt being twins as he used to say howsoever Mr. Wh was sentenced guilty of the faults and thereupon banisht imprisoned first upon request indeed dismissed to his family not to stay though above twelve dayes upon pain of strictest censure although in a remote place where they could not fear any effect from the pretended vices c. And although in so cold a season of the yeer wherein I think had he had the very extracted spirits of sedition and contempt they would have been frozen up and indisposd for Action Thus saith my Author p. 43. it pleased the Lord to hear his poore people whose souls had wept in secret for the reproach c. I desire to know of Mr. Welds what he means by pleasing of the Lord whether ratione voluntatis Determinantis vel determinatae In the mean while let the Reader judge whether he have not cause to weep not onely in secret but openly for the reproaches which he hath cast upon some He goes on thus It is the Lords doings and it is marvellous in our eyes Mr. Wh. is gone to Pascal c. what then it was neither contrà nor praeter nor suprà naturam for Mr. Wh to go to Pascal where is the wonder I confesse it was marvellous he got thither at that time when they expelled him by reason of the deep snow in which he might have perished Whether my Author profane not Scripture in this I will refer it to those whom in the same page he speaks of viz. his dear and beloved Brethren FINIS