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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19884	An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of VV.B. Also an answer to Mr. I.D. touching his report of some passages. His allegation of Scriptures against the baptising of some kind of infants. His protestation about the publishing of his wrightings. By Iohn Davenporte BD.	Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1636 (1636)	STC 6310; ESTC S119389	275,486	356

Mat 10.28 v. 23. with 28. Nor is this that unlawfull feare of them that can kill the body as appeareth in this that in the same chapter where the Apostles are forbidden to feare they are allowed to fly And if these might stand together in the Apostles why not in others Nor is this the unlawfull faynting in affliction 2 Cor 4.16 with 2 Cor 11.30 spoken of by Paul For even the same Apostle in the same Epistle where he speaketh of his not faynting speaketh of his flying to shew that these are not contrary Nor is this like the flying of Ionah or that whereunto Ieremy was tempted For they that doe thus doe not doe it that they may not preach but that they may preach the Gospell of which liberty they foresee that they should utterly be deprived if they should fall in to they re hands who would not afford them the favour which Paul had at Rome to dwell in his owne hired house Act 28.16.30.31 and to receive all that came in unto him preaching the Kingdom of God c. no man forbidding him Neither is it done by them as by those who are acted by the spirit of that base feare which is opposed to the spirit of power and of a sound mind 2 Tim 1.7 For even the spirit of power or courage or fortitude worketh diversly in the servants of God upon severall occasions When God calleth men to confesse the truth by doing it it incourageth them thereunto whatsoever difficulties or impediments lye in the way when he calleth them to witnes to it by suffering it strengthneth them thereunto But how to suffer that tryall not wherewith men would insnare them but wherewith it pleaseth the Divine providence to excercise them Men would imprison them but God strongly inclineth theyr spirits rather to chuse a voluntary banishment for a short space of time which is a sorer tryall then some imprisonment And in such a case flight it selfe is a reall confession and profession that the truths of the Gospel are of no small value to them who thus flye For who had not rather tarry in his owne country then leave his country acquaintance all the commodities which with them he might have injoyed and travayle amongst strangers whose language dispositions and customs he knoweth not where he is exposed to many inconveniences by the change of ayre and dyet and to be reviled in his owne land and suspected amongst strangers and to be ill intreated oppressed rejected and in print traduced by those who should have comforted and countenanced him and to be brow-beaten by his inferiours fhily looked upon by some aequalls treacherously circumvented by others obnoxious to the injuryes of all In a word to be a footestoole for others to tread upon that they may rayse themselves by doing some service though it be by rayling against or slandering those whom they frowne upon Psal 129.3 Secedamus inquit am● cis nubecula est quae citò evanescit Socrat hyst 3.12.18 from whom they expect preferment As Erasmus said of Luther poore Luther made many rich men because they got preferment in those dayes by wrighting against him Is this to forsake the Lords plough or is it not for the testimony of Christ to be content that the ploughers plough long furrowes upon our backs Did Athanasius forsake the Lords plough when to decline Iulians plot against him he fled from Alexandria This was not to forsake the calling of God but to follow it The like I may say of Peter Martyrs relinquishing his station in Luca when he saw he could not with safety hold it it was not a deserting of his flock but a preserving himselfe for his flock whom if he had not left for a time they and the whole Church had lost for ever I wil not now speake of Policarpus and Cyprian others in former times nor of those who fled in Q Maryes dayes and were preserved in Franckfurt and other places for after times In Hypothesi For the justifying of myne owne act in this particular being injuriously compelled hereunto in so publick a way by the inconsiderate importunity of an angry brother who seemeth very regardlesse how farr he exposeth me to censure or danger I will breifely relate both the causes of it and the manner of my carriage in it That the true cause may be knowne false causes pretended by others must be removed For this way I have bene much wronged whilest many out of ignorance or malice or both either willingly not knowing or maliciously concealing the truth have taken an unwarrantable liberty to spread abroad slanders with as much confidence as if they had bene trayned up in the Machiavells and Iesuits principles Calumniare audacter aliquid haerebit from theyr childhood And some were so bold herein that they feared not to cast the poyson of theyr reproaches and to shoote the arrowes of theyr slanders at me thorough the eares of theyr superiours persons of noble quality whose place and authority should have awed them and made them affrayd to be found lyars unto them though they had no regard of God nor of theyr conscience nor of theyr account in the day of Christ The time may come when I shall 3. Ioh. 10 in print remember they re deeds which they doe and they re prating against vs with malicious words if they take not up in time but proceed and persist in these injurious dealings In the meane space and allwayes my soule stay thy selfe upon the righteous God Psal 37.6 the God of truth And he shall bring forth thy righteousnes as the light and thy judgements as the noone day Say unto the Lord my God Thou hast knowne my reproach Psal 69.19 6.7 and my shame and my dishonour my adversaries are all before thee Let not them that wayte on thee o Lord God of hoasts be ashamed for my sake Let not those that seeke thee be confounded for my sake o God of Israel Because for thy sake I have borne reproach c. yet that I may not be altogether wanting to my selfe nor injurious to the Reader in suffering him to be guilty of the sinne of evill surmises or of slander in heart for want of information I doe seriously and sincerely protest that so farr as I know myne owne heart I did not with draw my selfe 1. out of any disloyall affection or unduetifull thought towards his Matie of great Brittayne my dread Soveraigne for whom my hearty prayer shall be day night that his soule may be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord his God that the soules of his enimyes may be slung out as out of the middle of a sling And that the Lord will cloath his enimies with shame but upon himselfe let his crowne flowrish 2. nor out of any Schysmaticall propension to forsake the Church assembles of England Heb. 10.29 as if I thought there were no true Churches of