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Master Edmund Calamies leading case
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MASTER Edmund Calamies LEADING CASE Behold how he seeketh a quarrel against me SPICANTE DEO LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXIII Mr. EDMVND CALAMIE'S LEADING CASE Lord Mayor's Officer with a Warrant FOrasmuch as I have received a Certificate from and under the Hand and Seal of the right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of London That Mr. Edmund Calamy late Curate of the Parish Church of St. Mary Aldermanbury in the said City of London being according as is provided and enacted by the late Act of Parliament made for the Vniformity of Publick Prayers c. by reason of his Inconformity disabled to Preach or Read any Lecture or Sermon in any Church or Chappel within his MAJESTIES Realm of England or Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and continuing and remaining still so disabled did since the Feast of St. Bartholomew last past upon two several daies viz. on Tuesday the twenty sixth day of August last past and upon Sunday the twenty eighth day of December 1662. in the said Church of St. Mary Aldermanbury presume and take upon himself without any lawful approbation and licence thereunto to Preach or Read and did Preach or Read two several Sermons or Lectures publickly before the Congregation then and there in the said Church assembled contrary to and in contempt of Authority of the said Act of Parliament These are therefore as I am required by the said Act in His MAJESTIES Name to will and command you to receive into your Custody within the Gaol of Newgate the Body of the said Edmund Calamy brought unto you herewith and him there detein for the offence aforesaid for the Term of three Months from the day of the date hereof without Bayl or Mainprise according to the tenor and effect of the Act of Parliament aforesaid And this shall be your Warrant therein Dated this fifth day of January 1662. Church-Members FAr be this from you good Sir spare your self and retire until this Calamity be overpast Come my people enter thou into thy Chambers Is 26. 20. and shut thy doores about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment until the indignation be overpast Mr. Calamy What mean you to weep and to break mine heart for I am ready not to be bound Act. 21. 13 onely but to dye for the Lord Jesus Brethren Now you will not be perswaded we must cease and say The will of the Lord be Acts 21. 14. done Calamy The Lord Jesus did not hide himself when he was to be taken for me but said Here I am I will not hide my self now I am to be taken for him but will say Here I am only I shall entreat some of your Company to my Lord Mayor to whom you may give an account of that daies proceeding Brethren With all our hearts Lord Mayor As I would upon other occasions have been glad so really I am now sorry to see you Mr. Calamy equally sorry I am that I must inflict such a punishment as I am obliged by the Act upon a Person of your Years and Profession and that such a Person should deserve it In charity I could not think your Conscience could have allowed you at any time so open an affront to the most Solemn Establishment of Authoritie I reason I could not think your prudence could have allowed it at this time when His Majestie was so full of gracious thoughts towards you and all sober men of your way Calamy In prudence I should not at this time have displeased his Majestie In Conscience I cannot at any time displease God Lord Mayor I hope His Majesties Government is so just so moderate so agreeable to the great Principles of Religion and Reason upon which mankind joyn in a Society or Christians in a Church that there is no discreet and knowing Person put upon the sad Dilemma of either provoking God or opposing the Authority ordained of God Calamy Necessity is layd upon us yea woe unto us if we preach not the Gospel That you 1 Cor. 9. 16 may have a reason of that which was done by me and so may not think I did it unwarrantably I offer your Consideration what hath been much upon my spirit from the 5. of the Acts As the Apostles taught the People the Priests the Sadduces the Captain of the Temple came upon them being grieved that they taught the People And they layd hands on them and layd them in hold against the next day Howbeit many of them which heard the Word believed and the number of the men was about five thousand And when they had called them before them they a ked them by what Power or in what Name have you done this Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost said unto them Ye Rulers of the People and Elders of Israel if we be examined this day of the good deed that we Acts 14. have done be it known unto you all we have done it it in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ And when they saw the boldnesse of Peter and John they marvelled and they took knowledg of them But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the Councel they conferred among themselves saying What shall we do to these men for that indeed notable things have been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell at Jerusalem and we cannot deny it But that it spread no further among the People let us straitly threaten them that they speak henceforth to no man in this Name And they called them and commanded them That they should not speak at all in the Name of Jesus But Peter and John answered and said unto them Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto God more than unto you judge ye for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard So when they had further threatned them they let them go finding nothing how they might punish them because of the People L. B. L. If it were not our businesse rather to manifest our obedience to the Act of Uniformity in performing duty then to dispute your disobedience in neglecting yours we could easily show you how many waies you have wrested this Scripture as the unlearned and unstable wrest them to their own damnation and how wide your case is from theirs For 1. They were silenced by no Law you are silenced by a Law they could say with St. Paul Acts 25. 8. for themselves and answer That neither against the Law of the Jewes nor against the Temple nor against Caesar have we offended at all You must confesse That against the Law of the Nation against the Church and against Caesar in many things have you offended all 2. They were forbid to preach in the Name of Jesus You are onely forbid to Rebel in the Name of Iesus They were restrained from publishing the Truth You are restrained onely from publishing Errors 3. There the whole Ministry was to be