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A77638	The naked vvoman, or a rare epistle sent to Mr. Peter Sterry minister at Whitehall; desiring him to shew the causes or reasons of his silence, in that he neither by his ministeriall office, charged the magistrates that were present to redresse, nor so much as shewd any sign of grief or detestation, as became a sincere Christian; against that most strange ans shamefull late act of an impudent woman, in the midst of his sermon on a Lords day at Whitehall chapell, concerning the resurrection, before the chief states of this nation. A satisfactory answer he returned; which with a lving acceptance thereof, are here also printed; very worthy the observation of all, both sexes and degrees of people in these nations.	Brown, David, fl. 1650-1652.; Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing B5014; Thomason E681_20; ESTC R206796	18,211	23

sins against him for which he was cast out of Worcester house from the States service which I both procured for him taught him and kept him in it two years after he was deposed until he got great riches and notice of discoveries to my own great prejudice through his deceitfulnesse and the best recompence I received for all I was Excommunicated which as one of Gods chief Ordinances he and his Confederates most unjustly used as a weapon of unrighteousnesse whereby to execute their malice against me even to their own sin and shame for as Solomon saith As the Swallow and Sparrow by flying doe escape so the curse that is causlesse shall not come And besides all these whereof I have the particulars and many other worthy matters ready for the Presse I and my Family once even upon an occasion also of a Sermon where there were about 2000 people gathered to a Fair neer Greenwich where we had a house and dwelt in the Summer time and we being a long time warned according to the penalties then imposed to come unto the antichristian worship of that high-place where there was a high Altar erected for the late Queen at last went thither on that day which is unjustly called St. Lukes day before the eys of all those Kentish and other Malignants although to our great damage and danger of our lives both in tearing the Surplice to pieces and witnessing to the full all their spirituall evils without either fear or favour as that faithfull Prophet whom God sent from Judah to Bethel did deliver his Message against King Ieroboam's practice in offeriug sacrifice there contrary to the word of God so that his salt did not lose it's savour but still contiuued good But in regard I affect brevity howsoever I be oftentimes driven otherwise either for conveniencie or necessity and that it would be needlesse to carry water to a spring as it must be sometimes carried to a Pump though I have had for many years divers both higher and greater matters in debate with the chiefest of your profession I therefore conclude with those pretious words of the Apostle Paul to the Philippians 4. 8 9. Whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue or if there be any praise think on these things Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the God of peace shall be with you in whom I desire to be From my house this 19th of the 8th moneth called October 1652. it being that great Brick house with the Barn at the North end of Soho in the fields streight up Hedge lane from Charing Crosse where I expect your answer in writing within a fortnight that for generall satisfaction it may be Printed with this Letter which after the time is expired I intend to doe howsoever Yours as you are his and do clear your self in this DAVID BROWN SIR I would have written to you so soon as I heard of this business were it not that I have been sick ever since as I was a little before For Mr. Peter Sterry Minister at his Lodging in Whitehall THE ANSVVER TO THIS EPISTLE SIR YOu charge me in your Letter for being in the Pulpit and being silent there at the time when a very great offence was committed in the Congregation You all along take that for granted which is altogether a Mistake namely that I understood the present Fact Wherefore to remove this Mistake and to inform you rightly will be at once your Satisfaction and my Vindication Vpon this account I shall give you a plain Narration of those passages which relate to my self I was in the midst of my Sermon when I saw at one end of the Chapell a great disturbance among the people with a sudden fear I cast my eye on the other end where I saw in the midst of the crowd a Woman as I guest b● her head bare to the middle of her back the rest of her being hid from my sight in the throng Hereupon I turned to the disturbed people to quiet them by telling them that there was no danger that it was a mad-woman onely that occasioned the Stir No other imagination upon that sudden glance entred into my Spirit Before I could again turn my eye towards that place the VVoman was suddenly carryed out by Souldiers who alwayes keep a court of Guard close by the door of the Chapell It was when I came down out of the Pulpit that I first was acquainted with the Truth of that Story which for the monstrousness of it seemed incredible to me untill it was confirmed by many hands Sir I appeal to those who hear me in publick how farre in a constant course upon all occasions how far after a more particular manner in the first Sermons which I preached after that enormous Scandall I have declared my self against the heynous evill of such Practises and those corrupt Principles which lead to such Practises I doe not therefore think it needfull for me to say more in a private Letter seeing I say so much so frequently in Publique I had much rather that the good savour of my Name should arise freely from the precious Oyntment of Christs Love in his Providence of the Spirit of Christ in my Life in my Doctrine than from my own Endeavours concerning it Only as a Christian I have thus far taken this care to give to you who are a professed Brother in Christ that satisfaction which you have desired from me Having therefore kindly thanked you for that zeal to the glory of our Lord Iesus for that respect and love to me which you expresse in yours Letter Praising you for the heat of your affections so farre as you are carefull to joyn it with Light I commend you to the grace of God and rest October 31. 1652. Your faithfull Friend and Servant in Christ Peter Sterry For Mr. David Brown at the New great Brick house at the North end of Soho in the Fields streight up Hedge lane from Charing Cross The EPILOGUE to Mr. Peter Sterry Minister being cleared of that negligence wherewith he was charged SIR I Have received your Answer to my Epistle whereby for mine own part as one honest man should trust another I am sufficiently satisfied even as I was also of a discreet Military Officer who at the same juncture of time commanded the guard when the impudent woman before that high Assembly appeared and I hope that all the people of these united Nations who have either so much christianity as to trust a Christian or wish in other matters to be trusted themselves or have heard or may happen to hear or read of this businesse as it is in this small volume both questioned and answered or have been otherwise informed yea or have so much moderation and discretion as to submit unto such circumstances as are grounded upon reason cannot chuse but rest likewise satisfied even with those probable causes or reasons of that silence wherewith in the Epistle you are so strictly charged which are in your answer so evidently expressed yet that no man mistake me I do not professe to speak or write infallibly but trust every honest man as I would be trusted by all honest men for revealed things belong to us but secret things to God and therefore it 's justly said That man judgeth by outward appearance but God judgeth righteous judgement Howsoever as King Solomon saith He that rebuketh a man shall find more favour afterwards than he that flattereth with his lips and that a reproof entreth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool Prov. 28. 23. 17. 10. so the truth and validity of both which parables I have found by that discretion moderation and affection yea and both thankfulnesse and commendation which out of your ingenuity you are pleased in your modest answer to use and expresse towards me though a very weak instrument of God for the peoples satisfaction and your good according to the first words of that divine Author Pro. 15. 1. howbeit I charged you as a most negligent Christian even to the very utmost of my evidence which from divers famous people I heard and so far as to them in such a tumult appeared And as concerning the difference of your judgement or practice from the separated Churches mentioned in the New Testament whereof I gave you a hint both in the beginning and midst of what I wrote a few words being sufficient to the wise so still in brief I wish from my heart seeing the most sincere Christians do but know practice believe and prophecie only in part that none of all our endeavours who are but weak in respect of others may tend in the least to the quenching of the Spirit or despising of prophecie but to prove all things hold fast that which is good and abstain from all appearance of evill chiefly by exact obedience to Gods heavenly call even in comming quite out of Babel touching no unclean thing and offering all our gifts and sacrifices in Sion which is the perfection of beauty where God hath promised his own glorious presence in the sincere practice of all his holy Ordinances For to speak impartially which we are bound alwayes to doe as those who come short of the mark have very great need to strive forwards and forget what 's behind so have they as great need who stand very near it alwayes to take heed lest they should fall backwards from it so that I argue not for any immunity in regard of stability concerning totall separats though I conceive that to be the very height of Religion but that all who have the title of Christians may both attain thereunto and persevere therein without apostacy or decling See Heb. 10. 26 c. and 2 Pet. 21. 22. Which excellent duties if we could but fervently desire to perform and earnestly beseech God for the gracious assistance alwaies of his blessed Spirit to strengthen and lead us into all truth then doubtless as Paul prayeth for the Church of the Thessalonians The very God of peace would sanctifie us wholly and preserve our whole Spirit soul and body blameless untill the comming of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom I rest Your faithfull friend to serve you in all duties of love David Brown FINIS

quite discharged and also that great Timber barn in the Palace of Whitehall it self demolished which was erected for the vile exercises of masks and playes and those to be alwayes in the night season even crossing the Ordinance of God which he hath appointed for people to rest and in the day to travell yea and the deluge of Gods temporall judgements were so abundantly powred out in these bloody cruell durable and destructive Wars throughout all the three Nations for the great abominations and crying sins thereof even when they were ripe for the sickle and by which the former State being quite overthrown there remained no more excuses of any intestine opposition to hinder a thorough and full Reformation both in matters spirituall and temporall so that long before any forraign troubles began there might and should have been far better seed proceeding from a godly sorrow not only sowed but sprung up that there might have been a joyfull reaping before this time than any more such of the Enemies tares though of other kinds as he wanteth not a magazine of temptations as God hath of judgements to have been either in our own days or the posterities which now do begin of fresh so to spring up and flourish that if they and their blossoms be permitted to bear seed and ripen untill another harvest then doubtless the last error will be worse than the first for that will highly provoke God in his justice to powr out both more remarkable and inevitable judgements than the former We have upon holy record for our learning or at least for rendering us the more inexcusable abundance of examples whereof for avoyding prolixity I will only mention two of the most pregnant and pertinent as both times do change and we also change in them some being advanced to the skyes and others humbled to the ashes the First is That because the people of Sodom and Gomorrah who being overcom by four Kings and through Gods providence in using Abraham and his Family as his instruments both to destroy those Kings and bring back the prisoners and spoil of those Cities did not walk answerable unto such undeserved favors but did wax much worse in all kind of voluptuousness and wickedness afterwards than ever they themselves or those their friends and neighbours who were destroyed before their eyes did not the same righteous God then punish them to the full even by an extraordinary extirpation of them all saving one Family from off the face of the earth at last as both he did the whole world in the dayes of Noah and the Amalekites for their cruelty to his own own people in their distress which wonderfull visitatious are sufficient enough to terrify us and all posterities from following those wicked people in their most hainous sins if our hearts were not hardned I much fear as both theirs and and King Pharao's were unto the day of destruction So that the Sodomites slight punishment at first by so many thousands who doubtless were as guilty as the rest being freed according to the Lords usuall remembring mercy in the midst of his judgments and yet that so great and undeserved mercy to those who so much enjoyed it not being in any the least measure regarded but rather their hearts so much the more hardened presuming if such another visitation should come again that they should have the like escape and upon that false ground they most ungratefully and undutifully not at all considering the goodnesse of God towards them both increased and multiplyed all their former abominable wickednesses and therefore it may be justly said that that gentle visitation by so many thousands of as guilty people as the rest escaping which at first in much mercy they had was no preservation and far lesse any allowance of them either in their former or latter abominations whereby in the least either so suddenly or at all to have grown secure and much lesse to have proceeded in wickednesse neither was the victory which God gave them over their enemies any sure token of his favour to them above their brethren in evil whom he had destroyed but it was rather a reservation of them unto a more generall inevitable compleat remarkable and extraordinary judgment And the second Example is that when certain men told our blessed Saviour of the Galileans whose blood P●lat had mingled with their sacrifices he answered and said unto them Suppose ye that those Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans I tell you Nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Or think ye that those 18. men upon whom the Tower in Shilo fell and slew them were sinners above all that were in Jerusalem I tell you Nay but except ye amend your lives ye shall all likewise perish Sir I could even in this most rare accident as well as in other matters which are frequent much enlarge my self both from the word of truth and occurrences in our own dayes yea and besides the dear buying of some experience in other kinds I have not been at small both charges and travels besides other great losses and troubles of persecution in being driven by wicked men with my Family oftentimes from our habitations and possessions even from one Nation to another whereby to gain some experience also in this kind For I have not only been divers times Excommunicated in Nationall Churches by the Priests of the high places and their Lords the late Bishops even for witnessing against their manifold evils either by word writing not countenancing their antichristian worship or refusing to maintain them in such indirect courses by paying Tythes or other exactions which they call duties they neither being Christs servants nor content with his wages although I was not a member of any National Church these 35 years which is about the half of my few and evill dayes but likewise I was once Excommunicated in a Church in London where I was a Member indeed in obedience to Gods Word which I esteemed to be of totall separation from all kind of such evills and to walk in the order and purity of the Gospell even because I protested first against the owners of a disorderly boy between 3. and 4. year old whom both they and all other their confederat members saving one allowed as it seemed to trouble the exercise both on first days fast days and other days of weekly meetings for the space of divers moneths I being the oldest in years of any Member saving one Woman who had no liberty to speak and for which as I heard by one of themselves that if I insisted to have such peace silence and order observed that they had resolved I should be Excommunicated Secondly because I witnessed against the evils of divers false doctrines which were by Samuel Chidley one of their Teachers delivered and by the ignorant members received And Thirdly because I both discovered and after privat dealing with him brought famous Witnesses to prove many haynous