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A19885	A iust complaint against an uniust doer Wherein is declared the miserable slaverie & bondage that the English Church of Amsterdam is now in, by reason of the tirannicall government and corrupt doctrine, of Mr. Iohn Pagett their present minister. The which things are plainly manifested in two certein letters, the one written by Mr. Iohn Davenport to the dutch classis, the other given vp to the English consistorie by some of the brethren. With other briefe passages tending to the same effect. Published by one that much pitties them and prayes dayly for their deliverance.	Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1634 (1634)	STC 6311; ESTC S119390	15,142	26

one for which Mr. Davenport is kept out of this Church though there is no need of tying the Minister of this Church to that custome the congregation being small and who can thinke that they would tye us so strictly to all their orders when one of them said to Mr. Paget on occasion of his complaint in the Classis of Mr. Davenport not conforming to their orders why yuur selfe do not conforme to all our orders and certainly they would all have rejoyced to have heard that all our differences had beene ended amongst our selves yea he hath of late as we heard required of the Elders to make an order in the consistory that whatsoever Minister shall hereafter be called to this Church should conforme to a writing which he got 5. Dutch Ministers to make in his owne house about that question and sent it to Mr. Davenport which we thinke no Godly man will absolutely be bound unto Thirdly he violently without consent of any of the consistory bringeth matters from thence to the Classis when he can not have his will injustly satisfyed and so destroys the power of the Church utterly often answering they can doe nothing in these cases without the classis of which we reverently esteeme for Counsell and advice in all difficult matters that can not be ended amongst our Consistory Fourthly under pretence of asking and taking advise of the Classis he subjected the Church under their authority and power as he calls it tho the Church never acknowledged any such power to be due as the scriptures in any place giveth not to such a company of Ministers nor as becometh any except the Apostles that could not erre to have Fourthly he doth not the duty of a Pastour to the particular members of this congregation we prove after this maner First when Godly persons make their complaint of those that walke disorderly and that the censures are not executed against offenders they that seeke the good of the Church are checked and discouraged by him Secondly when some have beene suspended from the Lords table they may live many yeares and dye in their sins before he lookes after them to reclaime them Thirdly the visiting of the members at their houses is so farre neglected that not onely divers members never were once visited by him in divers yeares but also the visitation of the members against the sacrament is wholy left off Fourthly wheras it was desired that the weekly sermons on wendesdayes and those usuall before the Sacrament should againe be begun and assistance hath beene offred him therein without his charge at least he neither would performe them himself nor suffer any other we could get to do it though the Eldership agreed it should be soe Secondly for his Doctrine we have much against it But to let passe his sleight Sermons which be many for a man of his abilityes First his self preaching and misapplying of holy truths which hath beene done with such bitternes of late that some of us are discouraged from hearing him and all of us are sent home with sad hearts when those of his side are made glad and insult who pretend to cleave to Mr. Paget out of their enmity against us and those wayes of Godlines wherin we desire and indeavour to walke Secondly for his takeing of text of purpose fit to stirre up contention as of late that of the 5. of Esay about the vinyard upon which five first verses he hath taught a great while which with what bitternes he hath taught against the Godly many Passages and members will witnes and insinuating things against us that we never thought of making us vile before the whole congregation and to be insulted over by unworthy termes from those of his side to our great griefe and continuall vexation and 10. dayes since strain●d the 5. verse which tels what God will doe to his vineyned and spake altogether of mens disorders in the Church Thirdly he hath preacht very bitterly and provokingly against privat meetings not onely long since but of late hath done very unjustly and manifest injurye to Mr. Davenport whom he plainly enough reproached in his pulpit about the meeting of divers to heare him open the groundes of religion in Catechysing the family where he lived every Lords day after the sermons were ended at 5. a Clock at night where many received much edification which he hath injuriously now deprived us of to the great grief of many Godly soules Fourthly about the question betweene him and Mr. Davenport for the baptising of all Children that are brought though the parents were altogether unknowne he very reproachfully upbraided Mr. Davenport of errour and gave out that he would answer him in the pulpit and when the day came wherein we expected the performance of his promise he avoyded the question betweene them and fell upon the Anabaptists and Brownists from both which Mr. Davenport differeth in that poynt as he hath tould him formerly and offred him to declare in publick how farre he differed from them therein is this brotherly dealing thus to use a minister who hath so loveingly assisted him and us in our necessity and to traduce him falsly and injuriously in this maner and all to the end that he may seeme to justify his keeping of him out of the Church whom the Church hath so much desired and bewaileth that they are deprived of him which the Classis at first consented unto though they knew the difference till Mr. Paget brought it againe to them by force to have them make an order to condemne their owne practice and therefore wee conceive Mr. Paget the onely cause we are deprived of such heavenly means for our Edification Now we pray you our Elders in the feare of God to take these our complaints to heart and to give your judgment w●ether it be not fit and more then time that some lawfull course be taken for the redresse of these grievances and to consult which way it may best be done that so in that great day of the Lord you may give up yours account for the discharge of this Trust committed unto you with joy which if you shall upon this our solemne complaint neglect to doe we doe protest before the Lord his Church to be wholy guiltles of all these evills haveing done our utmost indeavour for the redresse of the same the sinne thereof to lay upon Mr. Iohn Paget our present pastour as the principall cause of all these evills and next upon your selves who have the cheifest authority in the Church for the redresse of all evils So beseeching the Lord to blesse our indevours and desireing you to cause these our complaints to rest upon record in the register of this Church that after times may see how these evils have beene witnessed against we subscribe our names as followeth desireing also that place may be left in the register for all others that hearing hereof shall desire to have their names underwritten for the more full witnes of these things because we have not gathered many names as we could have done of many because you might have nothing to take offence at that way which we conceive would gladly have joyned with us herein not onely of men but of many Godly women also that are of the same mind with us W. B. N. I. I. C. I. P. I. St. L. C. T. F. H. P. A. H. We who last time did not with our brethren above written abstaine from the Lords Supper yet desire to joyne as one with them in these complaints and Grievances and therefore have underwritten our names as follow S. O. D. B. T. A. R. P. I. H. G. B. E. P. L. D. T. P. E. S. F. D. P. L. After thes greivances were given unto the consistory divers members more hearing thereof desired to joyn in the same and subscribed their names allso Now for conclusion since the case so stands as is here reported under such plentifull testimonie what remains but that every one that would approve himself to God if redresse cannot be had labour to keep himself pure and not pertake of others sins by continuing the servants of men against the power and liberty purchased by Christ for his Church of saincts knowing the way of the upright is to depart from evill Stand fast therefore quitt you like men in striving for the maintenaunce of this part of the faith and the Lord wil be with you if you wil be faithfull unto him

thing bound unto any of the canons of the Church of England Nevertheles Mr. Paget propounded to me in the consistory that I should consider and conclude with my selfe when I should give my last answer whether I would promise to baptize all infants that should be presented to baptisme refusing none unto which question the next weeke I gave in the same place this answer I dare not promise to baptise all that shall be offered therunto Because the promise of doeing it is a confession that the thing is lawfull to be done which I doe not beleeve yet because I much prise your love and desire your peace I will if you desire it continue assisting Mr. Paget a convenient time such as we shall agree upon wherin I may make my selfe knowne better to the Dutch Pastors and obtayne that by their meanes this question may be layd aside and your Church may obtaine liberty therin and I may more fully understand the other Customs of the Dutch Church and the state of this Churche This proposition was cheerfully imbraced by the Elders who consulted about allowing a years time for this purpose wherunto I hope you reverend brethren will assent which if you doe it shal be my part to endeavour that neither you may reprent of your benevolence nor the magistrats of their indulgence but that many thankes may be given both to you and them both by Mr. Paget and by the English Church by him for the continuance of an Assistant such a one as he is by it for the preservation of peace amongst them which all desire wherunto I pray God to give his blessing and to inrich you reverend brethren with the spirit of wisdom Christian prudence and the fear of God that you may well order this busines So prayeth Iohn Davenport Englishman Bachelou● of divinitie in Oxford At present 6 Stranger in Amsterdam LET the reader judge what I could say less or more mildly beinge to give an account of the passages in such a busines or what passage herein might justly be thought offencive considering the premises And who would not have thought that the Classis wold have approved of the desire of the Consistory that a years time should be granted me for the ends aforesayd yet on the contrary they seemed to be offended at the writing threatened to complayn to the Magistrats and after much debate concluded that I shall have but a monthes time in which if I doe not answere categori ally that I will conforme to the orders and customs of the dutch Church and to this particularly in question restinge in the judgment and resolution of the 5. dutch Preachers and joyne with the Classis or voluntarily desist they will complayne to the Magistrats c. what remained now to be done but either voluntary desistance on my part or violent rejection on theirs in this month allso Mr. Paget both in publick and in privat shewed his aversenes from my joyning with him more then formerly wherfore to prevent disturbance in the Church and further disquietment of my self upon serious consideration and good advise I voluntarily desisted and left the ensuing Coppie therof in Lattin and English with the elders with this liberty either to shew or conceale the same as they shold judge it most expedient intreating them in these words or in words tending to this purpose to expresse my resolution to the Classis CERTEINE INSTRVCTIONS delivered to the Elders of the English Church deputed which are to be propounded to the Pastors of the Dutch Church in Amsterdam FIrst the reverend brethren Pastors of the Dutch Church under the Classis of Amsterdam are to be intreated not to accuse Mr. Davenport as the cause of this trouble that that particular question concerning baptisme between Mr. Paget is brought unto them which by his will should have been privatly ended between themselves and the brethren should not have been troubled more then was necessary with such questions who have matters of greater moment to take care for in their classicall meeting Secondly let them be certified that for many we ghtie reasons Mr. Davenport can not rest in that writing of the five brethren whose judgment nevertheles he doth very much esteeme concerning which matter though he hath much to say yet passing by other things this alone he professeth at present that his judgment is that Dr. Ames his opinion herein is most agreeable vnto the word of God who in the 4th booke of his cases of conscience Chap. 27. Concerning baptisme having affirmed that it is nescessary that the Infants to be baptised be in the covenant in externall profession and estimation in their parents and that their is hope that they shall be instructed and educated in that covenant afterwards and that at least one of the parents is within the Church not out of it doth conclude that their negligence can by no meanes bee excused who doe promiscuously admit to baptisme whosoever is offered and by whomsoever Thirdly let them understand that Mr. Pagets former delayes in this busines of Mr. Davenports call and his stifnes in that question concerning baptisme without yealding any brotherly moderation to Mr. Davenport so much as to beare with him in so small a matter as this seemed both to them and him to be and to take vpon himselfe that which he can doe if occasion require with full perswasion but Mr. Davenport can not doe with inward peace and his rejecting all Mr. Davenports endeavours for a peaceable composing and ending of this difference privatly between themselves or with the counsell of the Elders of his Church and certeine sharpe and biting Sermons preached by him of late and his privat conferences with cert●ine persons doe abundantly demonstrate that Mr. Paget hath no desire that Mr. Davenport should be his Colleague but doth indevour the hinderance rather then the furtherance therof Lastly Seing peace and a greement between the Pastors doth much conduce to the edification of the Church and seing that for the reasons aforesayd ther is no hope of peace and christian concord between them Mr. Davenport being studious of the peace of the Church his mind is wholy turned from taking upon him the office of Pastor in the English Church in this cittie and doth voluntarily desist from his publicke ministry in this place and doth commend vnto God the brethren in every good worke and committ himselfe wholy to the only wise father to be disposed elsewhere as it shall please his infinit wisdom to his owne glory April 28. An. 1634. THAT THESE INSTRVCTIONS were written by himselfe and by himselfe delivered to the Elders deputed he witnesseth by subscribing his name Iohn Davenport THough I have deserved better usage at Mr. Pagets hands for allmost 6. Months assistance of him and have done and suffered so much to preserve his peace and the Churches which if I had not exercised much patience and industry would certeinly have fallen from him being over burd●n●d with the losse of