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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62992	A letter to Mr. Mead, in answer to several unscriptural, and unsound sayings of his in a sermon against the seventh-day-sabbath, preached at his place of meeting, the twenty third of the second month. 1682. Wrote the same day the sermon was preached, refuting his arguments, and turning them back, making their unskilfulness and weakness manifest; and clearly evidencing, that the seventh-day is the sabbath day; by clear scripture-testimony, and sound arguments grounded thereon. Published for his hearers, because he would neither hear an objection in publick, nor admit of a conference in private.	Tovey, W.	1682 (1682)	Wing T1957B; ESTC R222359	11,750	16

A LETTER TO M R. MEAD IN ANSWER to several Unscriptural and Unsound Sayings of his in a Sermon against the Seventh-Day-Sabbath Preached at his Place of Meeting the Twenty Third of the Second Month. 1682. WROTE the same Day the Sermon was Preached refuting his Arguments and turning them back making their Unskilfulness and Weakness manifest and clearly Evidencing That the Seventh-Day is the Sabbath Day by clear Scripture-Testimony and sound Arguments grounded thereon Published for his Hearers because he would neither hear an Objection in Publick nor admit of a Conference in Private Prov. 27. 5. Open Rebuke is better than secret Love. London Printed for the Author and are to be Sold by John Lawrence at the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal-Exchange A Prefatory Epistle TO Mr. Meads Hearers Men Brethren and Fathers AND all you that heard him that day Read the Defence which I make for my self in this Practise you are my Witnesses especially such of you as were near me how I behaved my self in your Assembly giving no disturbance or cause of offence to any Man but listening attentively to the Word spoken lest I should let any of it slip And when the Sermon was ended I stood up and assayed to speak but a Psalm being called I abode in silence until the whole Service was over and then I stood up and Meekly Reverently and Submissively craved leave to speak to which Mr. Mead answered That I had no Call to speak there And I replyed He would better judge of that when he had heard what I had to say for he knew not but I might Report that God was in you of a Truth 1 Cor. 14. 25. but I was again repulsed and denyed leave to speak Wherefore I went away peaceably neither with Noise or Tumult And as I went forth several of you witnessed That I spake modestly and wished that I had been heard and others of you gave me assurance That Mr. Mead would be ready and free to have private Conference with me and urged me to take a convenient Season to go to him upon which I hasted home and the same Afternoon wrote a large Letter to him and I have Printed my Letter herewith that you may judge betwixt us For receiving no Answer to my Letter neither in publick for he omitted Preaching the next First-Day nor in private I took a Friend with me and went to his House and told him I was the Man that in his publick Assembly desired leave to speak and had since Wrote unto him and receiving no Answer to my Letter I made bold to wait upon him for it At which he Majesterially asked me as the Chief Priest asked our Lord Jesus Christ By what Authority I spake in his Meeting At which I wonderingly repeated his words And he replyed demandingly Ay I ask you by what Authority And said farther That I made a Disturbance in the Worship of God and occasioned a Scandal to be cast upon them To which I mildly answered That I made no Disturbance in the Worship of God neither gave any occasion of Scandal and that I spake by the Authority of the Scriptures and pulled out my Bible to shew from the Scriptures that my Practise therein was to be justified But he not caring to have an Authentical Answer to His Majesterial Demand Pilate like John 18. 38. went off from that and told me I had Notoriously Abused him in my Letter calling him ignorant Fellow and asking him if he were not ashamed To which I answered That I did not call him ignorant fellow but to say he was ignorant of this or that I thought no crime and hoped he would acknowledge his ignorance in some things and indeed ignorance is the fairest excuse that can be made for him and I hope he would be ashamed of an Error and I wondered that he should so Treat me but he said he had shewn my Letter to my Betters and his too and that he had a sufficient account of me what a fellow I was insinuating as if he had heard some ill thing of me but mentioning nothing but I knew he that reproved a Scorner would get to himself a Blot And I urged to have an Answer to my Arguments but he ignorantly told me I deserved no other answer but to be sent to the House of Correction and he could spend his time better than to talk with such a fellow and so he shewed me the way to the Door And more such like words he gave me though I gave him no one provoking word but Debased my self to Gain upon him because I had heard he was a Proud High-minded Man. When he said I deserved to be sent to the House of Correction I answered him That I was glad he had not Power And so I am for if he had power I might have a Scandalum Magnatum brought against me of more Hundred Pounds Damage than I am worth though the Letter was privately sent to his own hand and he suffered no damage at all It may be some of you will not know how to bear my Plain-dealing with the Man you so much Love but how do you think I can bear being threatned with a House of Correction a place for vagrant Rogues and not for a Man that is well known and lives in good Repute whose Wife and Children and Servants are all an Honour to him How do you think such a Man can bear such Majesterial Threats from one that hath no power over him and how provoking was it to be despised and scorned as not worthy to be spoke to and how unlike humble Paul was it to carry it thus for Paul became all things to all Men that he might by any means Save some If any of you do judge my Stile too harsh I desire you will weigh his Carriage to me in the same Ballance and for what was suggested against me I told him it was a light thing with me to be Judged of Mans Judgement but let them that Accuse me speak nothing but the truth and I challenge them to search my whole Life and publish my Crimes if they themselves be not guilty of them through Mercy I have been kept from the common Pollutions of the Times and Corruptions in my Calling fraudulent Dealing and Vsury and of this I have Witness And I am sure the worst he could hear of me was that I am a Passionate Man Ay I am perswaded that was the account he had of me for he took a ready course to be too hard for a Collerick Man but he did not magnify his Office therein I do not glory in my Passion or count it a light Sin but write it to my shame that he may not think I exalt my self above him when I would have him be ashamed of any Error he committed and if an Enemy will discover any Sin in me that I do not see in my self I will count him my Friend therein Nay though he do it out of Mallice I will