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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36898	The Dublin scuffle being a challenge sent by John Dunton, citizen of London, to Patrick Campbel, bookseller in Dublin : together with small skirmishes of bills and advertisements : to which is added the billet doux sent him by a citizens wife in Dublin, tempting him to lewdness, with his answers to her : also some account of his conversation in Ireland, intermixt with particular characters of the most eminent persons he convers'd with in that kingdom ... : in several letters to the spectators of this scuffle, with a poem on the whole encounter.	Dunton, John, 1659-1733.	1699 (1699)	Wing D2622; ESTC R171864	245,842	426

moved by the Holy Ghost and contain all things necessary to salvation and are the standing Sealed Rule of Faith and Life yet I believe that every one has some particular Mode of his own by which he steers the Course of his Devotions especially as to what he performs in his Closet But to proceed to my Diary And here I shall first acquaint you how I spend Saturday Saturday is usually a Day of Hurry and Business with the generality of Men and as the same winds up the Week so do People their Affairs But for my own part I confess I never affect multiplicity of Business on that Day but on the contrary have frequently shun'd it tho' I have observ'd it has often fallen to my share upon these Days to have a great deal for last Saturday I was so taken up with Adjusting some Controversies that did arise concerning the Affairs of my Auction that I had hardly leisure to take my Dinner however they were terminated so much the more to my satisfaction by how much all Parties were brought to acquiesce in my determination By this you see Madam I am no Sabbatarian but for those that are I am so far from having any hard Thoughts of them that I both pity and respect them for I can never believe 't is an Error of Wilfulness but of Ignorance only in them and whereas I do understand divers of them at least make a Conscience of keeping both Days because they would be sure to be right I think I have just reason to honour them for it and cannot choose but think much better of them than those who totally deny the Morality of the Sabbath day I confess Madam I do not remember to have read any thing material concerning the Controversie about the said Days and that I am as much at a loss to know certainly when our Christian Sabbath begins when there is such a variation in the Site of Places and Countries and that now we experimentally find where 't is Day in one place 't is Night in another And Madam as I know of no Person living with whom I can so well satisfie my Scruples and inform my Understanding than your self who are so well skill'd both in Polemical and Practical Divinity so I humbly request your Sentiments in this Case promising to make your Practice my own But Madam having told you how I spend Saturday I am next to inform you how I spend the Sabbath For in the Practice of Religion I look upon the Sanctifying of the Lord's Day to be a principal part Judge Hales recommends to his Children a very strict Observation of the Lord's Day and tells 'em That he had always found that his Worldly Affairs thriv'd either more or less the following Week as he had kept the Sabbath And therefore on Sunday I usually took leave of my Bed sooner than on other Days and strive to dismiss as much as I can all Worldly Affairs out of my Thoughts tho I have found 'em I acknowledge like the Flies that spoil the Apothecaries Ointment 〈◊〉 most unseasonably thrusting themselves in The Publick Worship of God being the principal Duty of this Day I made it my Practice to bow my Knees before my Maker in private before I went thither and there beg his Blessing on the Publick Ordinances and previous thereto have us'd to read some Portion of the Holy Scriptures being told therein that every thing is Sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer which is so much the Advantage of a Christian that I always thought never Prayer rightly made was made unheard or heard ungranted And I believe that Prayer is rightly made which is made to God in the Name of Christ in Faith and offer'd up with Humility When I come to the House of God I mean the place of his Worship whether it be a Church or a Meeting-House I always keep my self uncover'd whilst I continue there For as Holiness becomes his House so does a Behaviour mix'd with Reverence and Godly Fear in all that wait upon him And therefore during the Time of Prayer I either Kneel or Stand up believing the humblest Posture to be best when I am invocating the Majesty of Heaven and fixing my Eyes upwards I endeavour to apply every part of God's Worship to my own Conscience and the present State of my own Soul I love those Sermons best that check my Conscience for Sin and cheer it with applying Gods Mercy beginning with the Law and ending with the Gospel searching the Wound first and pouring in the Oyl of Consolation afterwards And those I reckon the worst Preachers that sooth M●n up in their Sins perswading Men they are good Christians when they don't know what 't is to be Born again Yet I don't love to be Pragmatical in censuring of Ministers I endeavour like the Industrious Bee to suck Honey from the Flowers of Devotion and not like the Spider to convert what was intended for Nourishment into Poyson If any thing drops from the Pulpit which I think not so pertinent I cover it with the Mantl● of Love and strive to remember that which is better For as the Divine Herbert observes If the P●rson be dull God Preaches to the Hearers a Lecture of Patience In the Singing of Psalms I labour more to have my Soul inflam'd with Love and Zeal than to have my Spirits cheer'd either by the Harmony of Voices or sound of the Organ and cou'd heartily wish that Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalms tho'well enough 150 Years ago were now remov'd and Mr. Tate's Translation put in their place As to the Receiving the Holy Sacrament it has ever been my Opinion that whoever participates of that Solemn Ordinance lest he Eats and Drinks Damnation shou●d retire himself from the World for a Day at least 〈◊〉 by a strict recollection of his Actions and serious examination of his own Life attended with Fasting and Prayer endeavour so to prepare himself that he may come as a Worthy Receiver to the Tab●e of the Lord that so by the Strength he receives by that Spiritual Viaticum he may be inabled to run with Pa●ience the Race that is set before him and therein through the Assistance of Divine Grace so to run as to obtain the Prize After the Publick Duties of the Day are over I return to my Chamber and enter into my Closet spending some time therein in Meditating on what I have heard and in reiterated Addresses to the Throne of Grace to follow it with his Blessing Well knowing that tho Paul may Plant and Apollo Water yet it is God that teaches me to profit And if in the Evening as sometimes there does a Friend comes to visit me I spend my time with him in discoursing on Divine things whereby our Hearts are warmed and our Affections stirred up to praise God for his Goodness and hereby find the Benefit of the Communion of Saints which is too much neglected tho' an Article of the Creed Sure I

that in my Father's Will was this Expression Item I bequeath unto Mrs. Mary Hall servant to Sir Henry Ingoldsby when I was in Ireland Five Pounds if ever demanded or she be not dead for her friendly Offices to me during a great sickness I had in that Kingdom I told Sir Henry I was not put upon this Enquiry by the Executrix but that Providence having brought me to Ireland tho' Twenty Years after my Fathers Death I cou'd not be satisfy'd without enquiring whether this Mary Hall were alive or dead To which Sir Henry did me the Honour to reply It was a Great piece of Iustice in me if I had no Advantage in it my self To which I return'd I had not any farther than to see to the Execution of my Father's Will But as to this Mary Hall Sir Henry told me he suppos'd she dy'd at Limerick she marrying thither from his House to a Rich but ill-natur'd Man which soon ended her Days Pardon me Madam for the digression of this Story I had some Hesitation in my own Breast about making this Enquiry I was not satisfy'd that Conscience oblig'd me to it but not being satisfy'd without doing it I did it and it yet appearing to me a moot Case because I was none of the Executor I leave it to your Determination Whether I cou'd be under any Obligation in that case or no This Discourse being ended I gave Sir Henry an Account of the Reason of my coming for Ireland with which he was so well pleased that he promised to give me and my Auction all the Encouragement he cou'd for which I return'd him my humble Thanks and so took my leave of Sir Henry for that time Madam I dare not presume to give Sir Henry's Character to describe so great a Man would be a Theam big enough for my Ingenious Friend Mr. Charles Wormington a Person of great Modesty and Worth and perhaps the most Ingenious Poet in all Ireland but tho' I shan't presume to Characterise this ancient Knight yet I shall say what every one does That he has the Repute of a Person of Great Honour and Probity and of that great Judgment and Experience in Affairs of State as renders him worthy of the Dignity of a Privy Counsellor which he has been for many years and tho' he is now arriv'd to Fourscore Ten more than the Age of Man yet he enjoys his Health and Strength to Admiration which shews him to have been a Person of great Temperance and perhaps on this Account he has no Equal in Ireland or it may be in the whole World But to proceed in my Rambles Having taken my leave of Sir Henry Ingoldsby in my way home I met with Lieutenant Downing my former Fellow Traveller to New England You can hardly imagine Madam how agreeable a thing it is to meet with an old Friend in a Foreign Country It was some thousands of Miles off that we were last together and we were equally surpriz'd to meet each other here There was in his Company at that time Captain Annesly Son to the late Earl of Anglesey to whom I had the Honour to be related by my First Wife We stay'd not long in the Street but went to drink at the Widow Lisles in Castle-street whither 〈◊〉 to go out of a Principle of Gratitude hers being the first House that receiv'd me in Dublin After a Health to the King and some others of our Friends in England we talk'd over our New-England Ramble After this I told the Lieutenant of my Brother Aanesley's Death at which he was highly concern'd This Discourse being ended Captain Annesley told me That the Earl his Father had writ an Excellent History of Ireland but it was in such hands as he believ'd wou'd strip it of some of its choicest Remarks and Madam this is likely enough for there are some Men in the World which are afraid of following Truth too close lest it shou'd dash out their own Teeth I then told Captain Annesley I had Printed his Father 's Memoirs the Copy of which I purchas'd of Sir Peter Pett and he cou'd not but think 'em genuine because of that great Amity which was be tween the Eail his Father and Sir Peter Pett To give ye Madam the Captains Character He is a most accomplish'd Gentleman not as a Wit Observes that thin sort of Animal that flutters from Tavern to Play-house and back again all his Life made up with Wig and Cravat without one dram of Thought in his Composition but a Person made up of Solid Worth as Grave as he is Witty Brave and Generous and shews by his humble and courteous Carriage that he is and was born a Gentleman And for the Lieutenant my old Fellow-Traveller I must say he has much Address and as great a Presence of Mind as was ever seen he is most agreeable Company and perhaps the best Friend I had in America After three hours spent in this Conversation I went to Visit Captain Townley and his Lady as also one Madam Congreve who were all three my Fellow-Travellers in the Coach from London to Chester The Captain is a Person of Great Honour and Worth and so is his Lady but of these I shall say more in my Summer Ramble but more particularly of Madam Congreve In my way home I call'd upon Mr. 〈◊〉 and his Wife stil'd The most Ingenious Who tho' she has Enemies perhaps as little deserves 'em as any Woman in Dublin and tho' I shou'd get hatred by saying this yet my way is to do as I 'd bi done by and to speak as I find but having Charactarized the most Ingenious 't is fit next that I speak of her Lord and Master He 's a very honest sober Man and one of that great Modesty that I heard he went Forty Miles to demand a Debt which yet he was so civil and courteous as not to ask for when he came there But it grew late so leaving this loving Couple at their Fine Embroidery I went next to pay a Visit to Mr. Lum in Castle-street a Member of Parliament and one of the chief Bankers in Dublin whom I made use of to remit my Moneys to London He is a Person of great Integrity has a good Estate and is punctually just and honest in his Dealings And to compleat his Character He 's a Gentleman of Extraordinary Sense which he has the Happiness of being able to express in words as manly and apposite as the Sense included under them He treated me with much Candor and Respect as long as I stay'd in Ireland His chief Manager of his Business Mr. Purefoy was also very obllging and ready to serve me upon all Occasions Captain Davis who was also a Member of the House of Commons gave me a most obliging Welcome to Dublin at the Garter-Tavern in Castle-street If I shou'd attempt this Gentleman's Character it wou'd be to his Prejudice for all that I can say will come far short of