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An account of the unjust proceedings, in some matters of difference, between Mr. Williams Collins and Isaac Marlow; by several persons who pretend upon plain evidence, to acquit the one, and to give their judgement against the other.
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Marlow, Isaac.
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1697
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that the farther matter of Fact in difference between him and me is published in Print I hope our People know me so well as to distinguish me by my true Marks from Mr. Collins and his Confederates And surely their Time had been better spent in humbling themselves for their Iniquities and in wipeing the black Mark of their Paper from off themselves by true Repentance instead of giving it forth as I heard they did to Mr. Collins since I sent them my before-recited Answer to it 3. I desire it may be noted what a persecuting Spirit is like to follow me if I should joyn my self to any Church and how troublesome my Adversaries would be to the Peace and Union of any People that should receive me into Communion seeing they would seek their Remedy as they call it or rather their Revenge against me by them For 't is rational to expect no better Dealing from them than their false Testimony already given or instead of that false Accusation in their Paper some other piece of Forgery that would pass a Church easier with their pressing Influence to sway the People to a wrong Judgment against me to blemish my Testimony for Truth and Righteousness And had those Singers power suitable to their Wills I believe I should quickly feel the Smart of it for my Faithfulness to the pure Interest of the Baptized Churches and for Reproving them for their Iniquity 4. As to what they say in their Paper of my being at present no Member in any of the Baptized Churches I shall farther Answer That I believe they cannot but know that I was lately a Member of a Baptized Church here in London and that they or some of them have seen my Printed Case of Separation from it which was never yet answered nor the Truth thereof as I know of at all denyed by the Church or any Member of it And were there any particular matter concerning my Proceedings for which I could be justly blamed I believe I should e're now have heard enough of it in Print but the Lord has so directed my Steps as to shut the Mouths of all Men in Publick whatever private Insinuations they use against me And tho' I am not again joyned to any People it is not because I cannot find in this City a Baptized Church in Gospel Order that as a Church I could have Communion with at the Lords Table if it were not for the Corruption of some singing-Singing-members in their Fellowship who bar my Conscience from their Communion 5. As to what my Unjust Judges also say in their Paper that my Reflections on Mr. Collins in my Book lately Published render him unworthy to be a Member of the Church much more their Pastor I shall only return this Answer that seeing my Reflections are so just and true that neither he nor his Friends are able to clear him of any one of them it then follows from the Judgment of his own Friends and my Adversaries that he is unworthy to be either a Pastor or Member of the Church and I beleive so too while he is under his present Circumstances of Sin And I likewise believe the same of his Fellow-Singers the Authors of the aforesaid Paper who are also unworthy of church-Church-Communion 'till they have manifested true Repentance for their unjust Judgment false Accusation and Forged Lye against me deceitfully to cover Mr. Collins's Lye And whoever reads the Controversie of Singing from first to last they may plainly see that with the Bringing among our Churches the false Worship of Common Set-form Singing there has appeared in it's Defence such a Dishonest Spirit of Deceit and Lying as ought to be abhorred and counted unworthy of the Society of all sober Men and is a plain Mark of an apostatizing Spirit from true Religion A Lye being as my false Accusers say in their Paper the Character of a Man of a very corrupt Conscience and a Contrived Lye the worst of that kind of Evil. To Conclude I have shewed in my last Book called A Clear Confutation c. not only how Mr. Collins has abused the Translation of the Latin of Augustine Marlorate who was a Reformed Minister and Faithful Martyr of Jesus Christ but also how he has abused the Learned and Worthy Mr. Ainsworth who in his Annotations and Translation of the Psalms of David has eight several times given the Signification of the Greek Word Hymnos to be Simply Praise and in no one place as I can find has translated it a Song of Praise and yet Mr. Collins in his aforesaid printed Paper has the Confidence to say that Mr. Ainsworth on Psalm the 3d. Intends nothing less than a Song of Praise tho' Mr. Ainsworth has there said no more on the Signification of the Word Hymnos than Tehilla in Gr. Hymnos a Hymn or Praise Besides Mr. Collins in the same Paper at the End of Mr. Keach's Breach Repaired in Answer to me on Psalm 78.63 has cited Jun. and Trem. thus Non Epithalamio celebratae sunt i. e. were not Honoured with a Wedding-Song But this is a Wrong to those Authors for Junius and Tremellius in their Latin Bible translates the Text thus Juvenes ejus absumeret ignis Virgines ejus non laudarentur that is The fire consumed his Young Men and his Virgins were not Praised So that considering how apt Mr. Collins is to misrepresent and abuse Authors See my Clear Confutation P. 7 8 43. and his wronging the first Baptized Churches contrary to their Printed Confession of Faith which testifies against his Publick Slander of them and his Commendation of Mr. Allen's Cheat about the Hebrew Rhime and Metre and his contrived Lye against me which is justly so termed from his Design to deceive with it and from his deliberate doing of it by Writing his Contrived Deceit and giving of it forth to Print I think therefore we have no Reason to Credit his Words or Writings 'till he has manifested Sincere Repentance for those Evils Moreover I have also shewed in my last Book Entituled A Clear Confutation of Mr. Richard Allen and his five Commendators from their own Confessions what a Pernicious Popish Error Mr. William Collins and his Companions have broached in Print among our Churches viz. That Christian Churches have liberty to Order such Accidental Modes and Circumstances of Divine Worship as are not particularly prescribed in the Word as they shall judge most for Edification Which strikes at a Foundation Principle and tends to the Ruine of ours and the Protestants Reformation more in General it being as I have proved in my aforesaid Confutation opposite to the Principle of our first Reformers from Popery and is contrary to the Presbiterians Independants and Baptists Confessions of Faith Article 1. and Art 21 22. To which last is Mr. William Collins's Name So that he is Apostatizing in Spirit from a Foundation-Principle of the Protestant Reformation And let the Reader judge from what I have said whether it be not from Moral Honesty too I shall only add That as I never had any Difference with Mr. Collins in any other matters than of Religion so my Conscience bears me Witness that I have not thus discovered his Iniquity from any Prejudice against him but that the Truth he has endeavoured to stifle by his Deceit may be made manifest and to discourage him and his Confederates and others hereafter from defending their Errors by such Foul and Mischievous Ways which if they were not laid open and made Examplary to deter others no sober Christian would be able to appear publickly for the Truth he professeth tho' it be never so violently assaulted without the hazard of his Honest Reputation his being tyred with the Increase of Charge in printing and of such a Labyrinth of Difficulties as but few are able to pass through which I hope the Lord in his due time will deliver me from and discover to our Churches and make them sensible of the base Confederacy of my Adversaries and their Treachery against the Baptized Interest in this Nation more and more Isaac Marlow London July 2. 1697. Bar ye are Forgers of Lyes ye are all Physitians of no Value Job 13.4 The Proud have forged a Lye against me Psal 119.69 Deliver my Soul O Lord from Lying Lips and from a Deceitful Tongue Psal 120.2 I hate and abhor Lying but thy Law do I love Psal 119.163 Lye non one to another Col. 3.9 Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour Exod. 20.16 A false Witness that speaketh Lyes God hateth Prov. 6.19 A false Witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh Lyes shall not escape Prov. 19.5 The Mouth of them that speak Lyes shall be stopped Psal 63.11 Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thine Heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy Neighbour and not suffer sin upon him Lev. 19.17 Ye shall do not Vnrighteousness in Judgment thou shalt not respect the Person of the Poor nor honour the Person of the Mighty Lev. 19.15 Now we command you Brethren in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye withdraw your selves from every Brother that walketh disorderly and not after the Tradition which be received of us 2 Thes 3.6 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have Mercy Prov. 28.13 FINIS
by me Written and Signed with Mr. Keach's Name by his own Hand which Letter is in my Narrative of the Rise Occasion and Management of the Controversie of Singing Printed about five years agoe at the End of my Reply to Mr. Keach's Breach Repaired For in a Letter I sent Mr. Keach which is also Printed in the aforesaid Narrative I excepted against Mr. William Collins for dealing so disingenuously with me at the End of Mr. Keach's Book and I only there mentioned in particular his Dealing so unfairly by my Author Mr. Timme the very Case in hand of the false Translation to which Mr. Keach in his Letter return'd me this Answer in these Words viz. Brother Marlow I have received yours of the 20th of this Month and in Answer thereunto I reply to your Exception against Mr. William Collins That which is contained in that wrote by him is not matter of difference between you and I therefore that I am not concerned with in choosing him and the Rest viz. that he choose to meet together with others chosen by me to inspect into Mr. Keach's Abuses in his Book which I had before complained of Now seeing Mr. Collins's unfair Dealing with Mr. Timme which was about the False Translation is said by Mr. Keach in answer to that particular not to be matter of Difference between him and me and that he also tells us he is not concerned with that contained in that wrote by Mr. Collins viz with that unfair Dealing with Mr. Timme and Marlorate's Latin in Mr. Collins's Paper 't is very plain that Mr. Keach has there cleared himself of the false Translation and fixed it on Mr. William Collins as the Author of it In the next place as to the Correction which is talked so much of in Defence of Mr. Collins and that he sent a Letter by a Porter to me I have this to say that before I had read Mr. Keach's Breach repaired quite through I first heard of the false Translation neither from Mr. Keach nor from Mr. Collins but from the Noise that was spread abroad of it by others and before I had seen it corrected in any Book my Brother Mr. Luke Leader brought me the Correction in Writing from a Book Mr. Keach shewed him and my Brother wrote it with his own Hand and it still remains in my Uncorrected Book which to my best remembrance Mr. Keach gave me and after this I desired my Brother to bring me a corrected Book from Mr. Keach who took down several of those Boks from off his Shelf before he could find one of them corrected which was the first I saw of them and I believe I never saw above one more Corrected Moreover some time after they were pretended to be corrected I enquired for one of those Books at Mr. Keach's Booksellers and at another place where they were to be sold the one offered me one of those Books uncorrected and the other told me he had none so altered and that he knew nothing of it Besides no longer ago than in the Months of June and July 1696. 't is testified to me and I can shew it that two of those Books were bought at Mr. Keach's or of his Daughters that sold them in their Shop both of which are uncorrected So that I believe the Correction was made but of a very few only at first to blind my Eyes that I should not give any Publick Notice of that Abuse And as to the Letter they say was brought me by a Porter about the Correction of that false Translation I shall further Answer as I did before in my last Book Entituled A Clear Confutation of Mr. Richard Allen c. pag. 37. That I have not the least knowledge of any such Letter that was sent me or came to my Hands from Mr. Collins or any other Person whatsoever concerning that Matter and I here add or that I ever heard the least mention of any such Letter or Porter till last Summer after Dr. Russel's Animadversions on Mr. Allen 's Essay was Published wherein he took Notice of Mr. Collins's false Translation which was about five years after it was pretended that Mr. Collins sent that Letter But if he had sent me an hundred Letters to signifie his Correction they could not clear him of his first design to abuse his Unlearned Reader with his false Translation of the Latin Moreover my false Accnsers in the beginning of their Paper say That Having seen a Book lately Printed and Published by Mr. Isaac Marlow Wherein there are very scandalous and false Reflections upon him viz. Mr. William Collins the Elder of the Church which render him unworthy to be a Member with them much more their Pastour and whereas there is no Remedy in a Church-way against the said Mr. Marlow he being at present no Member in any of the Baptized Churches in and about this City or elsewhere We hold it our Duty to put the Matter of Fact as it appears upon Evidence before us with our Opinion of it in Writing that our Reverend Brother viz. Mr. William Collins may make use of it for the clearing of his Innocency as he shall see cause and that we may bear our Testimony against the Proceedings of Mr. Marlow as scandalous and tending to the Disturbance of the Peace of Churches and that all Persons that are in our Communion may mark him as such Answer 1. We may plainly see what Adversaries my false Accusers are to common Justice and Equity when it pinches one of their Singing-Party for they count it a Disturbance to the Peace of Churches for me to complain of the Publick Wrong committed by Mr. Collins and they are so averse to the Authority of Jesus Christ in his Church that altho ' before they sent me their Paper herein answered in a Paper I sent to them in Answer to their Minds by two Messengers that I should bring the matter of Difference between Mr. Collins and me to a hearing before them I gave them my Opinion viz. That seeing they concerned themselves that the matter of Difference should not lye as it did Mr. Collins's Church whose proper business it is should be rather moved to look into it yet notwithstanding this they would not desist from their Arbitrary Proceedings against me Nor have they given me the least Answer to another Paper I sent them on May the 24th 1697. wherein I signified that I heard they had given forth their Paper to Mr. Collins and that I expected Satisfaction from them for it 2. Observe how they are for setting their Mark upon me so Publickly that all Persons in their Communion may take Notice of me as such as they represent me to be but seeing my Charge of a contrived Lye is confirmed against Mr. Collins in my last Book by the Testimony of such Worthy and Credible Witnesses as Mr. William Kiffin Pastor Mr. Robert Steed Pastor Mr. John Scot Pastor Mr. Hugh Smith Minister and Mr. Luke Leader and considering