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A93041	A word in season or, A check to disobedience, and to all lying scandalous tongues, with manifest conviction of a general received slander; in vindication of the Right Honorable, John Warner, Lord-Mayor of the Honorable City of London : concerning the justness of his actions upon Christmas-day, calumniated by evil-affected men. / By G.S. Gent. Jan. 13. 1647. Imprimatur G. Mabbot.	G. S., Gent.	1648 (1648)	Wing S30; Thomason E422_26; ESTC R203464	5,036	8

Christmas day and to vindicate his Name from the calumnious Reproaches and horrid lying Slanders cast upon him and upon his Authority by some sons of Disobedience In brief thus The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament being sensible of the too much superstitious keeping the day called Christmas day and the superfluity in all excess which are altogether unsutable to our sad Times of Calamity according to the National Covenant against all Superstition and for Reformation have thought fit to reform that abuse And because some Episcopal men Divines in the City were resolved to preach that day being the 25. of December last with intent to kindle greater fire of Contention rather then to edifie their hearers in the Faith of Christ An Order came from the House to the Lord Major on the Even to command such men not to Preach on that day some obeyed and some disobeyed little was said or done to any but admonished and they are where they were for ought I know as full of Superstition as before The same 25. day of December the Lord Major being at Guildhall sitting in Committee of the Militia complaint was made before them That a tumult was gathered together in Cornhil near Leadenhal where in despite of Authority they had set up Holly and Ivy on the top of a Pinacle a high work or building in the middle of the street which they with these green things had adorned and made some glory in it The Lord Major and the rest of the Committee sent the Marshal of the City with his man and some other of his Lordships Officers to pul down these gawds but not suffered to do it were by the multitude abused One was in danger to be killed the Marshals man as the rest seeking to escape their hands was pursued by some of them and forced to take a house for safety some of the rude multitude assayed to break in upon him and said they would have him and they would kill him but he escaped by a back-way and came back with the rest to the Committee of the Militia where the Lord Major was The Lord Major presently fearing some mischief might be arose and took horse being accompanied with one of the Sheriffs the other being necessarily absent rode to the place aforesaid taking with them some Holbertiers to guard his Lordships person and to keep the perce Their presence gave some dump to the company many of them were submissive but some gave Affront insomuch that one of the Officers strook one of them on the head and brake his head his name was Price ap Williams on whom they laid hold and on some others who were all sent to the Counter but the Lord Major blamed him that strook saying he came thither to keep the peace c. The third day after Examination and admonition they were set at liberty and all well onely Price Williams wore a plaister to his broken pate This Price Williams it seems was servant to Mr. William Garraway a Merchant but not his Apprentice He was first Sir Henry Garraway's Footboy afterward he went abroad to seek preferment but returned empty to this Mr. Garraway son to Sir Henry Garraway where he is employed to go of errands and to wait at Table where he now is well and sound as ever he was since he came first out of Wales his Native place This is the full and whole truth of the business though Envy have spread another Report For those seditious instruments of the Devil who was a lyar from the beginning and is the Father of lyes and lyars maliciously by the secret suggestion of the old Serpent first whispered abroad that Price Williams was dead of the wound in his head and that the Lord Major commanded his Officers to knock him down and that he was a mans son of quality born to a great Estate Apprentice to Mr. Garraway who had in money Three hundred pounds with him and that the Lord Major was in great trouble about it This report being thus secretly spread by wicked and turbulent men it grew by the eighth day of Ianuary to a publike talk in all places within the City and divulged into the Countreys so as the thing was by very many believed with such confidence that many to this day will not believe the contrary And the rather because these malignant persons to make some Insurrection or Rebellious Mutiny had incensed many Apprentices to indignation so as there were several papers set up upon posts to meet together to avenge the blood of their brother Prentice These things being so frequently talked of put me to a diligent enquiry of the business which I really finde as I have related it in every particular And for my better satisfaction I caused these Reports to be made known to the Lord Major who made this wise and grave answer to it That the thing did not nor should not trouble him at all innocency and an upright heart was defence and support to him against all malice of men Saying farther It was a business below him to take notice of it being his own case and rather made that use of their slander that David did of Shime●'s cursing then seeking any revenge up●n the persons of any And as wise Pyrrus did in another the like case when a friend came to him and told him of one in the City of Ambracia that coutinually spak● ill of him to all men and desired he would put him out of the City 〈◊〉 Pyrrus gave this answ●r Let him alone if he speak ill of me while I have not offended and when I have done him no harm how much more will he speak ill of me if I should banish him Truly the conside●rtion of all this put together his Lordships innocency patience and the horribl● slander cast upon him inforced me to write this sheet in his Vindication whose fidelity piety and Iustice is to me well known And he that will not vindicate himself by the Sword of Authority hath need and justly deserves to be defended in so just a cause by the Pen of a friend though I confess his merits do challenge and call for more then I will or can express for I hate to flatter onely to wash the stain that black-mouthed Hell-hounds have sough● to cast upon him I have dipt my Pen in ink not in gall for they want none Now to conclude I shall endeavor to do them good for evil and intreat them to take advice from me to leave lying as they love their souls for the Spirit of God saith plainly All lyars shall have iheir part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone humble your selves therefore ye sons of Belial that dare speak evil of dignities and bring false accusations against the just and lawful Magistrate whom God hath stiled with the honor to bear his own name as they do his image he hath called them gods though they must dye like men Ye children of your Father the Devil know your selves and seek God repent of your horrid wickedness and pray if possible your sins may be forgiven you for you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity yet ye may be as a firebrand pluckt out of the burning But if for my well wishes ye rail against me by reproach of the tongue I say no more to you but what the Apostle Jude said to your Father The Lord rebuke you FINIS

A Word in season OR A Check to Disobedience and to all lying scandalous Tongues with manifest conviction of a general received SLANDER IN VINDICATION OF The Right Honorable John Warner Lord-Mayor of the Honorable City of LONDON CONCERNING The justness of his Actions upon Christmas-day Calumniated by Evil-affected Men. By G. S. Gent. Jan. 13. 1647. Imprimatur G. Mabbot Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people Act. 23. 5. For there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Wherefore ye must needs be subject not onely for wrath but also for conscience sake Rom. 13. 1 5. London printed for Laurence Chapman Jan. 14. FOrasmuch as the Office and Authority of the Civil Magistrate is the Ordinance of God and that Magistrates just Commands and Peoples willing Obedience is the main foundation or the two chief upholding pillars to the being or welbeing of all Kingdoms and Commonweals as well as particular Cities and Families Therefore Injustice in the one or Disobedience in the other have been and necessarily must be the destruction and utter subversion of the greatest Monarchs and most flourishing Kingdoms and of all humane Societies But commonly the defect on the Peoples part casting off the yoke of obedience is much more mischievous to a Commonweal then Injustice in the Magistrate commanding For many States Commonweals and Kingdoms have prospered long under ill Commanders but where ever the People have refused to obey and contemned the Authority of the Magistrate that State Commonweal or Kingdom hath inevitably faln into confusion and desolation All Historians conclude this as a Maxime That an ill Government is better then none the Laws of a Tyrant and his Tyranny may dye with him Justice and Clemency may revive after him to everlasting posterities but the yoke of obedience being once cast off against the lawful Authority of the Magistrate it is like the opening of many floodgates to all wickedness and destruction as the breaking in of the Ocean with an overflowing and destroying deluge which is sudden and remediless It is well observed of one That a wise Statesman being asked how it came to pass that the City or Commonweal of Sparta so long flourished when other States and Commonweals fell into distractions and confusions The wise Statesman answered It was not because their Magistrates commanded better then other but because the Citizens and People obeyed Magistrates willingly In this is utility and safety We know hy what undissolved Tyes Antichristian Rome binde their Subjects to obedience to the Pope his Laws Edicts and Ministers and they know they have been thereby established We may learn of the unjust Steward to be provident the wisdom of the Serpent and the Doves innocency may stand well together We know likewise how all Popes successively have by the craft and activity of their seducing Jesuites stirred up divisions and factions in all States and Kingdoms throughout Christendom and thereby procured Rebellion by which they have ever prevailed and have more inlarged their Dominions then by the Sword for this is their Maxine and practice First Divide then Conquer Do we not see what fearful Divisions they have raised in England Scotland and Ireland at this day for it is the onely act of the Jesuites they first kindled the fire and they stil bring more fuel to make the flame greater yet we will not take notice that divisions and factions are as so many armies besieging us yea almost entred as Conquerers upon us Whence was our late bloody War in England and Scotland and that hellish Rebellion in Ireland but from Romes Jesuites God onely hath broken that snare and we are escaped but our pride our contumacy our envy hath again involved us into a greater labrynth and who but God can deliver us Doth not pride both Spiritual and Carnal prevail Are not men more full of self-seeking and vain-glory then ever Is not Jone in her own conceit as good as her Lady Doth not Jack think himself a Gentleman the Servant beards it with his Master the Peasant equals himself with the Peer and he that should be commanded contends with him that commands these are horrid and unjust things Is not Magistracy despised and calumniated consider well Are we not brought into the last and worst condition of destroyed Jerusalem Doth not opposition in faction carry us beyond the mean to two Extremes Some that too much affect Monarchy Deifie their Prince as at least equal with God on Earth and will rebel against God his Law and Christ their King rather then submit to holy Writ or omit one Ceremony that their Prince liketh Others in the contrary extreme despise Authority refuse to do the thing they are commanded because they are commanded it although they would do the same if it had not been commanded These would have the Magistrate in a worse condition then the Cobler that mends their Shoes they will not alow him to mend a fault nor to correct their wry-goings Thus the common Enemy have overwitted us and will if not prevented by our reconciling and unity overcome us That all this is but the fruit of Gods anger against us for our sins I know and that it is a large addition and aggravation of our former sins I would have all men take notice for this our iniquity will be our ruine if not timely prevented by Humiliation and by Reformation God hath sent unto us his Ministers and Messengers as to the Jews to beseech us Because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place they have foretold us of wrath long before it fell upon us we have some years past seen and felt it to the bitterness of our souls Gods Ministers have fasted and prayed for us and with us when we with one accord joyned with them and God did graciously hear and answer but our hearts are now lift up with pride like the heart of Hezekiah after his great deliverance and we have not rendred to God according to what we have received therefore wrath is come upon all England Do we not now neglect to seek God by prayer and fasting Do we not interpret our Solemn Covenant to our own Ends and turn Religion into Policy and Law into Liberty Did not God spare the natural branches and shall God spare us how can we think it Korah and his company despised the Government of Moses and the Ministery of Aaron but the Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up If I should enter into particulars and give instances of these times parallel to the Rebellion of Korah and his company I should exceed my sheet and multiply it by tens I shall confine my pen to one onely which is indeed my chief aim and that is to reprove that desperate and wicked Affront offered to the Right honorable John Warner Lord Major of the honorable City of London for the time being on the 25. day of December last commonly and ignorantly called