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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86877	An apologeticall letter to a person of quality, concerning a scandalous and malicious passage, in a conference lately held betwixt an inquisitor at White-Hall and Mr Anthony Sadler, published in his Inquisitio Anglicana. / Written by Jo. Hall Bishop of Norwich, in vindication of himself.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; H. S.	1654 (1654)	Wing H364; Thomason E818_2; ESTC R207387	3,534	13

AN Apologeticall LETTER TO A Person of QVALITY Concerning a Scandalous and Malicious Passage in a Conference lately held betwixt an Inquisitor at White-Hall and Mr Anthony Sadler Published in his Inquisitio Anglicana Written by JO HALL Bishop of Norwich in vindication of himself Alma Mater HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA LONDON Printed for N. B. and are to be sold at the Marigold in S. Pauls Churchyard 1655 To the Right Reverend Father in God Dr J. HALL Bishop of Norwich R. R. Sir WIth my respective remembrance I cannot blame you if you were much moved with that wrong which was so publickly done to your name in that mentioned Pamphlet whereof we that are your friends are so sensible as that I have been advised by divers of them to publish that Letter of Vindication which you were pleased to addresse privately to me whereunto I have been easily induced to consent For though I had at the first receipt of it purposed to conceal it as supposing it not needfull to take notice of that aspersion which was thus cast upon you by a namelesse Authour well knowing that all wise men were satisfied long ago with that full Defence that you made for your self and which was so effectually seconded by those Reverend Bishops and Learned Doctours who were in the height of reputation for their profound judgement and out of all danger of suspicion of any Popish inclination Yet now perceiving that the lesse judicious and common sort of people are apt to take offence at this imputation which is so confidently laid upon you by some person that would seem to carry authority in his publick employment I have thought it requisite to let this your short vindication to flie abroad although thus late for the satisfaction of those who either have not seen the resolutions and Apologeticall answers of those Learned Bishops and Doctours or who are not able to judge of the state of this question raised as you have truly said and Bishop Davenant before you out of a mere misconstruction of words and not any reall difference in matter Sir I hope I have done nothing herein that may be displeasing to you since what I have done hath been out of a zealous respect to your dear reputation which herein suffers too much in the weak opinion of vulgar readers Commending all your studies and holy endeavours to the blessing of the Almighty I take leave and am Nov. 20. 1654. Your much obliged friend to serve you H. S. A Brief LETTER OF APOLOGIE sent by the R. Dr HALL B. N. to a private friend Worthy SIR IN that strange Pamphlet which I received from you yesterday you cannot marvell if I startled to meet so inexpectly with the name of Bishop Hall disgracefully ranked with Priests and Jesuites and the man that was executed the other day for so it hath pleased my unknown Accuser in his great charity to range my unworthinesse If my pale and wrinkled cheeks could be any whit capable of the tincture of shame you may well think what change of countenance these words must needs have wrought in me Lord thought I what so hainous crime is this for which I am thus shamefully arraigned before all the world now on the brink of my grave Forsooth Bishop Hall as the rest of those meet complices saith the Church of Rome is a true Church Grave crimen Caie Caesar What an impotent malice is this to single out my name thus ignominiously from all the rest of my profession for an odious Paradox when I say no more no other herein then all the Orthodox Divines of Christendome How must the reader now needs think Sure this Bishop Hall is a man of corrupt principles singular for his dangerous mis-opinions a greater friend to Rome then all his fellows whenas the world knows that I have already about 28 yeares ago clearly vindicated my self from this grosse misconstruction and shewed that in my sense there is no knowing Protestant Divine that agrees not fully with me You remember that about the time mentioned when upon some passages of the Old Religion then published by me Mr Burton and some others boggled at that expression namely that the Church of Rome is yet a true visible Church though extremely corrupted and that the quarrell began to wax warm and the Presse to complain of being pestred with opposite Tractates in a due care to lay this ill-raised spirit besides my own full and satisfactorie Apology then set forth I appealed to other unquestionable Divines the Oracles of our Church writing my publick letters to two famously learned Bishops Bishop Morton and Bishop Davenant and to two eminent and approvedly Orthodox Doctours Doctor Prideaux and Doctor Primrose Pastor of the French Church earnestly desiring them to declare their judgements freely and fully concerning this point All which have not only in their published answers declared this to be an undoubted truth in the sense proposed proving it by sound and convincing reasons and asserting it not as their own private opinion but as conceived by them to be the just and common tenet of all Orthodox Divines and Churches but withall affirming that those men little know what prejudice they do to the Protestant cause that hold the contrary The instances whereof it were easy for me to give were it not that I fear and hate to furnish the adversary with weapons to wound our selves I wis those our enemies are quick-eyed enough to espy their own advantages and our exposednesse to the danger of self-wronging consequences without our intimation The grave and solid determination of those godly and judicious Divines is still extant in a thousand hands upon the publication whereof the world then rested satisfied my self acquitted the adversary silenced and the controversie quieted which is now thus uncharitably and unadvisedly raked up from under the ashes of a wise and just silence The truth is nothing but a grosse and inconsiderate mistake is guilty of this quarrell The homonymy of this word True as master Blake in his answer to master Tombes besides the fore-named authours hath truly observed makes all this seeming difference If we take a True Church for a true believing Church so the Church of Rome is far from a True Church If we take a True Church for a Church truly existing in a visible profession of Christianity so it cannot be denied to be a True visible Church A thief is no True man yet he is truly a man So the Church of Rome though false in too many of her Doctrines yet hath a true visible being Her Clients vainly flatter her with the title of Catholick or Universall we expect no thanks from her to say she is universally corrupted yet a Church visible still Those grosse errours wherewith she abounds have marred her first purity but do not forfeit her outward Church-ship It were a strange uncharitablenesse to say that a Romanist is no Christian though too many of their Tenets are justly branded for Antichristian And where there is a society of Christians not directly and obstinately destroying the Foundation though otherwise foul and erroneous in opinion there cannot be denied a visible appearance of a Church Let the Church of Rome then go for as erroneous impure false in matter of opinion and practice as she is she cannot be denyed the face of a Church how ever rotten at the heart All which hath been so judiciously amply declared by those learned worthy Contests whom I formerly mentioned in their publick discourses of this point that I am confident if Mr Sadler had had leisure to have considered he would rather have distinguished then denied and the Questionist who ever he was would upon second thoughts have thought good to suffer my innocent name to rest in peace whereas now he hath both wronged me and himself more in drawing upon himself an opinion of either ignorance or uncharitablenesse or both God forgive him I do Thus we too well see how apt nature is even in those who professe an eminence in holinesse to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike and perhaps also to brand with the black note of unjust infamy those who concenter not with them in some lighter opinions although indivisibly theirs in the brotherhood of the same most holy faith and meekly affecting to hold with them the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace Truly Sir to open my self freely to you nothing hath more wounded my soul nor drawn deeper sighs from me in secret then to see that whereas our dear and blessed Saviour hath so vehemently encharged all his true disciples with the duty of mutuall Love and his chosen vessell with so zealous importunity cries down strife and contention as arguing mere carnality and utterly inconsistent with the truth of Christian disposition and practice yet no Grace is such a stranger to us for the most part as Charity nor no imployment so universally rife amongst us on all hands as quarrels and brawlings both verball and reall arising commonly from false surmises and misconstructions and proceeding too often not to the scratching of faces but to the ripping of bowels and to the stabbing of hearts to the infinite scandall of the Gospell of peace and to the sport and triumph of Gath and Ascalon Now the God of peace whom we all professe to serve be pleased for his great mercies sake to pull out of our bosomes all these roots of bitterness and to compose our mis-alienated hearts to perfect love and concord to the glory of his great Name and to the comfort of all those that are faithfull in his Sion Sir you will pardon me if I have thus passionately enough unloaded my self into the bosome of so faithfull a friend of my justly conceived grief to be thus scandalously and causelesly traduced Your love will both put the best construction upon these sudden lines and where you meet with this blurre undeservedly cast upon my name wipe it off with a just and friendly vindication wherein you shall do an office worthy of the thankfull acknowledgement of Higham Nov. 5. 1654. Your unfeignedly devoted in all Christian affection Jos. Hall B. N.