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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92949	Inquisitio Anglicana: or The disguise discovered. Shevving the proceedings of the commissioners at White hall, for the approbation of ministers, in the examinations of Anthony Sadler Cler: (chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lady Pagett, dowager) vvhose delay, triall, suspence and vvrong, presents it self for remedy, to the Ld Protector, and the High Court of Parliament: and for information to the clergy, and all the people of the nation.	Sadler, Anthony, b. 1610.	1660 (1660)	Wing S265; Thomason E813_23	9,474	23

was his Chaplain eleven years Sir were it not that I have a Zeal to advance Gods Glory I would not take this Preferment I thank God I can live as I am Com. Q. What doe you say of the Church of Rome Is it a True Church or no Bishop Hall saies it is a True Church and the Priests and Jesuits and He that was Executed the other day said It was a True Church What say you Sad. A. It s no True Church I think the Church of Rome is as a Virgin Defloured She was Pure but she is Defiled Then they bid me Withdraw I waited to be Called in again according to their Custome to hear the Result but I was called for no more insomuch that when they Rose I followed Mr. Nye and askt him of the issue of my Examinations He told me The Commissioners did not Approve I askt the Reason why but he seemed to slight me and went away without speaking any farther to me I went forthwith to Mr. Peters and told him I was sorry that I was not thought worthy of their Approbation He answered That the Commissioners had not yet Concluded any thing and that it was upon Suspence About a Fortnight after I met with Mr. Lockier and desired him That a Vote might passe with me or against me He said There was a Vote and bid me ask the Clerk whom upon the 7 of August I did and having the Book reviewed there was onely this Recorded That such an One was Examined and no more The 14 of August I wrote a Letter to Mr. Nye the Copie whereof is This Worthy Sir BEcause I have been twice Examined first by Five and then by Nine Commissioners and nothing as yet Determined as upon Record either for me or against me and because my Life and Doctrine is generally known and I am Commanded by some Persons of Quality to Satisfie the World and to Justifie my Self so farre as to a Prudentiall Vindication And lastly because my Sufficiency for my Calling is by You Obliquely in the Negative I have followed the advice of my good Friend Mr. O. Sedgwicke in making this Addresse unto your Reverend Self Sir I beseech you to hold the Scale with Piety and Prudence and let it not be turned by Policie or Prejudice Fac Aliis fieri quod cup is ipse Tibi is a Gospel Precept and even Mahomet also in his Alcoran makes it Obligatory Remember I pray you the Mottoes upon the Spoaks in Sesostris Wheel Imagine my Case Yours and let God and a good Conscience guide you as you will Answer it at the Dreadfull Day of the Lords Coming You know Master Nye that every one hath not the Boldnesse it may be the Ingenuity it may be the Memory no the Ablest Scholler is sometimes Indisposed and Dull and Haesitates at That which at another time he is Facetious In to Answer Quodlibets ex tempore and to make out upon the sudden the Gifts and the Graces which are in him It is well known I have in this City Preacht and the Text given me upon a Daies Warning I have and shall again as occasion serves Preach both Practicall and School-Divinity This for Manifestation in regard of my Sufficiency and That for Edification in regard of the People I know a Teacher of Gods Word hath a fourfold Duty and the Word of God a fourfold Use Three Practique and One Contemplative I know bonae sunt in Scriptur is sanctis Mysteriorum profunditates quae ob hoc Teguntur ne Vilescant ob hoc quaeuntur ut Exerceant ob hoc autem Aperiuntur ut Pascant Credimus ut Cognoscamus non Cognoscimus ut Credamus Optimus est Lector qui dictorum Intelligentiam expectet ex Dictis potiùs quàm Imponat Retulerit magis quàm Attulerit Sir give me any Controversed-Theologicall point but That of Free-will which was never yet Decided by Oecumenicall or Generall Councell I shall be your humble Respondent in any Publique Audience I must Entreat you to Pardon my Boldness I confesse the Prophet Excusabat se per Verecundiam and the Apostle affirms it by a Question of Abnegation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and yet the same Apostle was enforced to a kinde of Vain-glory if I am so You have Compelled me and I crave your Excuse My Credit and my Livelihood are both Reflected on by the Suspence of your Vote and the Contingency of your Approbation Mr. Peters told me nothing was Concluded and the 7 of this instant Aug I had the Book Revised and found it so I humbly crave an Ultimate Answer and a Positive Conclusion upon my Examinations which I have fully Recollected and can produce my Patron will Present none other till That be done If You please to Approve me as God and the World hath by my Meet Gifts and Lawfull Ordination I shall God willing Employ my Talent to my utmost power the best Advantage but if you are resolved to Disapprove me let it be I pray you upon Record and the Reason why that saving your Complement Aftertimes may know it as well as You This is the humble and but just desire of Sir Your Servant in the Lord A. S. Of this Letter I had no Return but This was as were my Answers my first Certificate and second Subscribers Nauseated by his Worship so that as if his Will were the Law his Power Unlimited and both Unquestionable I am strangely kept in an Arbitrary way under the Hatches of their displeased Pleasure yea and all this to the losse of my Time Living and Preferment without any reason rendred me Being therefore Enforc'd I say Enforc'd to this True Relation and but Just Appeal I hope the Lord my God will so Blesse it as to be Successfull to his Glory and the Publique good The End