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A28205	Cabala, or, An impartial account of the non-conformists private designs, actings and wayes from August 24, 1662 to December 25 in the same year.	Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679.	1663 (1663)	Wing B2965; ESTC R233109	25,328	40

Indulgence was likely to go on Whereupon Mr. Seaman and Dr. Goodwyn offered this viz. That there was no way better to try the Kings pronenesse to indulgence then to make use of their Christian friends aforehand at some holy meeting or if that were not publick enough at one of those many Churches that are at our disposal And immediately Mr. Calamy was ordered to watch an opportunity at Aldermanbury and go up and preach Very fit this agreed upon by the whole company for either the King would wink at it and then we are sure he hath a kindness for us and the world may think that we are considerable in his eyes and that we have over-ruled the Law or it may be he punisheth it however we have honourable Friends that shall bring Mr. Calamy off and it may be five hundred pounds in his way Well said Mr. Brice we have a price put into our hands the Lord give us hearts to use it let us redeem the time that hour Mr. Calamy had need be well spent Mr. Calamy Mr. Caryl Mr. Lye withdrew to consider what subject he should preach upon and they reported that none was more seasonable then this either Ichabod the glory is departed or The Ark is departed Whereupon Mr. Calamy was desired to insist on all the hints of fears jealousies and surmizes which had already possessed the people concerning the departure of the Gospel And it was ordered that since notice should be given of this extraordinary mercy and that Mr. Calamy being thanked by the City for his great paint should be desired to print and publish his Sermon for the common good And in the mean time let us promote a strict Act for regulation of Printing that no Orthodox books as they call them be published but with much difficulty as may be wrought upon by money that as soon as we understand the method of the Law we may understand the method of affronting the Law September 24. It being represented to the Reverend the Committee of ejected Ministers that there are so few honest men left that the people are at a losse is to publick meetings It was ordered that there should be twenty or thirty young men to supply by turns some carelesse Episcopal mens Pulpits to keep the root of the matter in the good people and that there be Messengers to invite the good people to these soul-searching Sermons from Dan to Beersheba that the same course be taken as to Lectures that may be preached upon week-dayes especially at Aldermanbury Allhallows-Breadstreet and Laurence-Jury and likewise as to Fun●ral Sermons which the well-affected must take care that they be preached by none but the honest men About this time notice being sent from honourable friends that the Bishops resolved upon their respective Visitations it was ordered that the platform of Government offered at agreed upon in London Cambridge and Northampton by Mr. Cartwright Mr. Travers Mr. ●●all c. and other discount enarced Ministers in Queen Elizabeths time and petitioned for by the thousands of Israel in King James his time and offered to the Parliament by the Assembly of Di●ines in King Charles his time should be drawn up and agreed to and immediately exercised in opposition to that Antichristian way of Bishop but the brethren of the Congregation alway making some difficulty of submitting to the Pattern in the Mount it was agreed however for the present that two Elders grave and apt to teach should be designed for each County to confirm the brethren and as Barnabas to exhort them to cleave to the Lord with full purpose of heart and to that end it was thought fit that the discourse concerning Liturgies and their Imposition Mr. Case and Mr. Crofton of the Covenant Baines and Ames against Ceremonies together with the Province of Londons discourse about Presbytery be reprinted to be bestowed by them in their respective charges together with the books of Miracles Mr. Brooks's Gods Consolations for Saints in affliction and Mr. Alliband's Nubecula est cit● transibit The Ministers Case for said Mr. Watson when they may not hear us they may read us when they have not us they may have our books At the same time it was resolved among the brethren of the baptized way That Mr. Jessey and Mr. Knowles should go and visit their friends and edifie the respective members of their Congregation all over England with Letters of salutation from the Friends in London thus directed Jer. Ives c. a Servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the twelve Tribes which are scattered abroad greeting It was reported on the 24th of the seventh moneth to the Provincial Assembly then seeking the Lord by fasting and prayer that the union among them of the Congregational way was now finished and that a great design was going on whereupon Mr. Case pressed that they should be unanimous now Gebul and Ammon and Amaleck the Philistines with them of Tyre were joyned together And not long after there was an overture of accommodation between them upon the terms of the Covenant only some other time was reserved for explaining the words Herefie and Schisme As to the Design on foot it was judged unlikely that so unconsiderable a part of the Nation could do any good and therefore answer was made by the members of the Assembly to the brethren of the Congregational way that they would wait upon providence i. e. see if their undertakings prospered if not they would disown it for as one said very well experience had taught them the method of overturning this Government and that method is this to keep the City and get a major part in Parliament this Government must be insensibly overturned by possessing the major part of the people with such discourses as most accommodates their thoughts and consciences Therefore seeing there was no likelihood of dissolving this Parliament it was offered that the vacancies by death in Parliament should be observed and that the people be prepared upon all these occasions to make a choice according to the Lords mind of men ●earing God and loving and tender towards his people and well affected to the good old Cause for which purpose it was judged expedient to improve the spreading discontent about Chimney-money and other Impositions for which we are much engaged to the discretion and faithfulness of our good Friends who observing the necessities former times have run the Government into promoted these unusual supplies at once to oblige his Majesty to our party for our care of his Revenue and to enrage the people against the Parliament for their profuseness of their money and neglect of their interest suggesting the danger of a French government or a Norman slavery whereby the Nobility and Gentry shall withdraw their necks and leave the poor Commonalty to the charge and slavery of subjection with which a groan or two must be interposed touching the Ark tender Consciences and the Gospel in the purity of it and

That he have a mortified countenance with a black Cap and a white one under it 2. That he go in Quirpo 3. That he be turned out of another mans Fellowship or Living 4. That he prayeth extempore three quarters of an hour before Sermon and half an hour after and mention neither King nor Bishop directly in neither and sometimes without the Lords Prayer 5. That he use four ab Lords and hus in 't a time 6. That he preach moderation bewail the sins of the times and threaten Antichrist and tell them of what is done abroad but the good man is sorry for it that he presse inward sincerity when the Law calls for outward conformity that he say keep holy the Sabbath-day when the Church saith observe Holy-dayes 7. That he deliver the flowings of milk and honey that he pour out refreshing comforts when carnal men preach moral honesty universal obedience and good works 8. That he have a Certificate from Mr. Calamy Mr. Jenkins Mr. Case Mr. Seaman That he is a confiding person fearing God ill-affected to the present Government 9. That he comply not with the Minister of the place but if occasion be he set up his Interest against him and that what the Minister of the place will not do he may for the case of tender consciences September 13. Notice being given at a Provincial meeting of the well-affected that St. Antholines Lectures were to be chosen at the time superstitiously called Michaelmas and that the high Priest of London had a design to furnish it with men whom the ignorant call Orthodox and peaceable and upon mature consideration that those Lecturers were the seed-plots of the good old Cause It was ordered that all the honest men that are left should be picked up to stand for those places that the holy Sisters may have still in a morning some saving truth which may after their Caudle lye next their heart and that by the opportunity of those Exercises Saints may be propagated from generation to generation and by Gods blessing on a morning Exercise Babes of grace may be multiplied for Tantlyns is beyond Tunbridge and Morning-meetings beyond Epsum waters but because the hard Laws of this Land tie men to read the Word of God to pray unto God and to praise him before they make their own Sermons It was ordered that some poor Readers should be picked up who might excuse them that toyl that they may be reserved wholly for their own Exercises The same day is being taken into consideration whether the faithful should be present at the reading of the Service It was ordered that they might hear the Common-prayer provided they did think according to the Directory Brethren said Mr. Calamy I shall say to you in that case as the Pope did in the same case in Queen Elizabeths dayes You may be present you may hear but Son give me thy heart But saith Mr. Case That you may be distinguished from the prophane and the precious be separated from the vile use the liberty of your gesture and where the Church saith stand sit ye down for the ease of tender consciences where it saith kneel stand that you may not be brought into subjection to any man and least your thoughts should be entangled with the abominations of the wicked while they are at their Porridge feed you on the Crumbs of Comfort or Milk for Babes or The best Wine left until last or you may sleep and say with the Spouse I sleep but my heart waketh till you are awakened by a soul-searching and sinner-rousing Sermon Truly said Mr. Jenkins it is safer staying at dore or at home untill you hear the good man in the Pulpit for what communion hath light with darknesse what comparison is there between a soul-suing Sermon and a formal and dead prayer September 15. There was a Committee appointed to take the names of the faithful Pastors who suffered for their Consciences throughout England Scotland and Ireland and withall of all the well-affected who are ready to contribute for their subsistance that we may understand the Interest of the good people of this Land and withall how many confiding persons could keep a Minister in their houses to instruct them and their Tenants and confirm them in the faith From which Committee there was this Report brought in a while after That London would contribute 4563 l. 10 s. 5 d yearly besides that several would entertain the respective ejected Ministers at their own tables Besides that it was reported from the close Committee That the holy Sisterhood would raise among themselves without their Husbands knowledge 1251 l. 3 s. 4 d. besides other tokens of their love and kindnesse And withall there was read an Order of the same close Committee That in the time of exigence and distress all the holy Maids and faithful Widows should marry the faithful Brethren now under persecution forasmuch as the Apostles in the same condition led about Sisters for their Wives R. Venning H. Hurst T. Harrison Will. Allen Jo. Godolphin Chr. Pack P. Barebone The same day the several persons were named who were to bring in the Countrey Contributions with the names of their respective suffering Ministers with their conditions and effectual Certificates concerning both and for the more effectual carrying on of the work It was ordered that two noble Patriots in each County be desired to assist the foresaid Ministers for the maintenance and support of the Cause September 18. It was taken into consideration that all Burroughs Cities Corporations which have been hitherto supplied by men of honest principles be looked after and that such moderate men as have a Licence from Mr. Baxter Mr. Calamy Dr. Manton and Mr. Burgesse to conply may from time to time be put in those places for which Mr. Jenkins offered two Reasons 1. it is very expedient for so we are sure to command the choice of honest Parliament men for wherever we are we must preside in that case as zealous Mr. Fouke at Reading discreet Mr. Boules at York publick spirited Mr. Baxter in Worcester-shire and you know the Burgesses and Citizens are for the major part of the House of Commons and an honest majority among the Commons with a moderate House of Lords may be healing of our breaches and restorers of paths Let me add said Mr. Boules that Towns Cities and Corporations being well affected have the greatest advantage of fellowship communion and correspondence with themselves and the adjacent neighbourhoods 2. Saith Mr. Jenkins beloved the settlement of well-affected men in Towns Cities and Corporations is very easie for considering the great pains that must be taken there and the little stipend that is legally settled there the Orthodox as they call them will not look after those places but our good Friends you know can labour in the Word and Doctrine and withall get more by the benevolence of the well-affected then is settled upon any by the Law of the Land the