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A31649	An answer of Humphrey Chambers, D. D. rector of Pewsey, in the county of Wilts, to the charge of Walter Bvshnel, vicar of Box, in the same county published in a book of his entituled, A narrative of the proceedings of the commissioners appointed by O. Cromwel for ejecting scandalous and ignorant ministers, in the case of Walter Bushnel, &c. : with a vindication of the said commissioners annexed : humbly submitted to publick censure.	Chambers, Humphrey, 1598 or 9-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing C1913; ESTC R13745	32,297	49

AN ANSWER OF HVMPHREY CHAMBERS D. D. Rector of PEWSEY in the County OF WILTS To the CHARGE of WALTER BVSHNEL Vicar of BOX in the same County Published in a Book of his entituled A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by O. Cromwel for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the case of Walter Bushnel c. With a Vindication of the said Commissioners annexed Humbly submitted to publick Censure Job 31. 35 36. O that mine Adversary had written a Book Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and binde it as a Crown to mee 1 Cor 4. 4 5. I know nothing by my self yet am not hereby justified but hee that judgeth mee is the Lord Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts and then shall every man have praise of God LONDON Printed for Thomas Johnson at the Golden-Key in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. TO THE HONOVRABLE Sir Anthony Ashlie-Cooper Knight and Baronet AND John Earnly Esq Knights of the Shire for the County of Wilts As also to the Honourable the Citizens and Burgesses returned for this present Parliament for the respective City and Burroughs of the same County Honoured and Honourable Gentlemen I Account it my great happinesse that Mr. Bushnel of Box having published a heavy charge against the Commiss. of the County of Wilts appointed for the ejecting of scandalous and ignorant Ministers and therein bent himself most fiercely against mee as a most grievous offender hath by dedicating his Narrative to you put a necessity upon mee unlesse I would plead guilty to all hee chargeth mee with to publish my answer and make you the Judges which I do with all readinesse and chearfulnesse between him and mee I will not speak a word to fore-stall your judgement but humbly beg your pardon for my enforced boldnesse in directing this my Answer unto you at whose feet I lay and leave it and my self with all content Whereas Mr. Bushnel towards the end of his Narrative having immediately before spoken of mee by name and the Commissioners writes in his Scoffing Dialect and Character Page 208. These men as godly as they are love dearly to bee fingring mony for my part I am sure I never fingred a farthing but spent many a pound whilst I was imployed as an Assistant to the Commissioners and I cannot otherwise apprehend but that all the Commissioners are so free from fingering a penny in the execution of their Commission from first to last that they are all ready as I have heard some of them protest they are and by name Mr. Blisset to purge themselves by oath from this crime and challenge any man to speak who can testifie the contrary of them I will no further trouble you who are taken up in the weighty affairs of the Nations wherein that the Lord would graciously direct and assist you and that Honourable Court whereof you are members to act to his glory the honour of his Majesty and the happy establishment of peace truth and righteousnesse in our Land is the earnest prayer of Your most observant though unworthy servant Humphry Chambers TO THE Christian Reader Christian Reader IF ever a Book hath come under thy view and perusal intituled A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by O. Cromwell for ejecting of scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the case of Walter Bushnel Clerk Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts thou hast then received a heavy charge against my self amongst others into one of thy ears all that I shall beg of thee is but to keep the other ear open to hear the Answer and then bee thou an impartial Umpire between us Si accusasse sufficiat c. If a charge go for proof none can bee innocent Mr. Bushnels Book came first to my hand and view on Thursday the sixteenth of August in the evening Friday I spent in reading of it on Saturday I imployed as much time as I could spare from my studies preparatory to the Lords day in writing my Answer which on Tuesday August 21. I delivered to a friend to bee transcribed for the Press I acquaint thee with this onely to shew that Truth needing no invention or art to set it off may speedily bee spoken without any long study I shall add no more but those never to bee forgotten words of our blessed Saviour Judge not according to appearance but judge righteous judgement Thine in the Lord HUMPHREY CHAMBERS AN ANSVVER to a CHARGE against the Commissioners for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the County of Wilts published in Print by Walter Bushnel Vicar of Box so far as it concerns Humphrey Chambers Rector of Pewsey submitted to publick censure ALthough I have no fear that what Mr. Bushnel hath written will impair my Reputation with those to whom wee are both known who are not a few seeing wee were born and for divers years lived within few miles one of another And though I desire not to put Mr. Bushnel to bestow any more of his invention and eloquence upon mee by replying upon what I shall write yet being told by one who is a common and real friend * both to Mr. Bushnel and my self before I had read this Book That I was so deeply concerned in the Charge contained therein that if I did not some way vindicate my self Religion would suffer greatly through mee and finding the same apprehension in some other Christian friends I was induced to write this Answer for my self leaving others to clear themselves from the crimes objected as they shall see occasion which I conceive without much difficulty they may do Mr. Bushnel saith that hee had no revengeful thought nor had hee in the publication of his Narrative any aim to asperse those of whom hee wrote which if any who reading his book can beleeve to bee true I shall not perswade them to the contrary Certain it is that hee is without hesitation to bee credited in his whole Narrative if what hee writeth in his Epistle Dedicatory were true viz. I have not charged them with a syllable which I am not able by proofs to make good upon them This brings the business to a direct and short issue which I heartily desire it may bee put upon as far as I am concerned in it and wish for no other Judges than those Honourable Gentlemen to whom Mr. Bushnel hath dedicated his Narrative I do not intend to varnish or puzzle the business with multitude or affectation of words but with affected brevity and plainness to lay down Mr. Bushnels Charge against mee that hee may apply his proofs to the several branches of it and then let all wise and good men judge between us So it was that some of the Commissioners Ministers Witnesses and others who have eaten my bread have and do still upon all opportunities offered or sought

themselves very merry with Mr. Bushnels jeering relation concerning mee Nay more should I have chanced to have met your Dr. on the way I should have given him not such reverence as hee looks for but such respect as I thought fitting and upon some such weighty Accompt I have been told that hee was distasted at mee and so was Haman the Agagite against Mordecay Mr. Bushnel might do well to keep in his bitter revilings till hee have some ground of truth upon which to bring them forth doubtless his nameless reporter informed him of a wretched untruth who told him that I was distasted at him for want of shewing respect to mee and hee himself wanted some graines of Charity in mentioning great reverence as that which I lookt for from him or any other under pain of Discontent If I know my self a very little Reverence and Observation will content mee but if I bee mistaken in my self let all that know mee speak though I finde Mr. Bushnel in his Narrative often rubbing as hee thinks upon that sore of my loving to bee reverenced Now Mr. Chambers hearing Henry Sheyler for so was his name that made this pro●er promising one hundred pounds and having heedfully eyed him all the time asks belike fearing that the Commissioners should have forgotten so necessary a Question Whether hee were sufficient 't is like hee meant to pay the rent which hee proffered And here to see how these Doctors Mr. Byfield and Mr. Chambers concurr'd in questions fundamentals What is your Living worth a year quoth Mr. Byfield Is hee sufficient to pay the rent quoth Mr. Chambers This business did in no wise concern Mr. Chambers unless hee mistook the Examination of the sufficiency of the Tenant for an Examination of the sufficiency of the Minister For Henry Sheyler a man that I had never any thing to do with in my life why I should so heedfully eye him as Mr. Bushnel reports I cannot imagine But whether I did or did not possibly sitting by and hearing the discourse about renting the Living such a speech might fall from mee Is hee sufficient you may bee confident I said no more nor pressed it any further if I had Mr. Bushnel doubtless would not have made little of much who makes so much of so little spoken by mee And whether it gives ground to such a loud jeering out-cry about Fundamentals as Mr. Bushnel here makes let the Christian Reader judge The Dr. must give mee leave to tell him that I have read of such who were of this judgements That right and propriety to a thing were founded in grace and that all men were Usurpers who were not of the godly Now wee know well to whom this Epithet Godly hath been by some men appropriated in these latter years and for what purposes And therefore might the Dr. bee so fierce against mee as one I being not of their mark on whom even an Alms were cast away That I was fierce against Mr. Bushnel will never bee proved by him unless hee hath an Art to prove an untruth That propriety is founded in grace is I know an errour that hath met with entertainment in too many which Mr. Bushnel doth very injuriously in a way of sly insinuation charge on mee As for the inclosing the name Godly within the pale of particular parties I have ever abhorred it as a very unchristian practice And as for Mr. Bushnel for all his words I never did nor will take upon mee to judge him to our own Master hee and I must stand and fall and the Lord give him and mee grace impartially and duly to judge our selves that wee bee not judged of the Lord Writing most bitterly after his manner of Mr. Byfield hee saith I beleeve that were hee living hee would confess that hee did mee as much mischief as hee could and yet I beleeve that one of the same tribe did mee more although hee were more secret in it For Mr. Byfield of the integrity of whose heart in what hee did I have ground to bee much assured I cannot hinder Mr. Bushnel from beleeving of him what hee pleaseth But if I bee the other of the same Tribe which hee here speaketh of in beleeving that I did him more mischief than hee did who as hee saith did him as much mischief as hee could hee beleeveth that which the day of manifestation will shew to bee an utter uncharitable unjustifiable untruth Christian Reader I will now onely offer to thy view two or three of Mr. Bushnels scurrilous passages amongst many wherein hee maketh mee his But and whereby hee thinks to cast shame upon mee and then leave it to thy judgement to consider whether it bee credible that hee had not in the Publication of his Narrative any alm to asperse mee amongst the rest Which is much worse than those worst of men the hypocritical Pharisees and Scribes The Godly of those times Mr. Chambers Why may not the Doctor bee mistaken in her as many hundreds have been mistaken in the Doctor William Pinchin and John Trevers have their varieties of baits and flyes suitable to the appetites of their fish Wee know that Cataline had such heretofore yea Mr. Chambers the chief Priests and Elders made use of the like Mat. 26. 61. compared with Luk. 23. 2. By these amongst others his sly and cutting scoffs the Reader may judge whether Mr. Bushnel had not a design to asperse mee in his Narrative After all these reproaches and most slanderous irrational insinuations I finde not in the whole Narrative the least intimation of any dram of charity which Mr. Bushnel hath for mee For although hee pretends to have a little good beleef of Mr. Byfield if he were living yet all things therein and almost every line thereof speaks forth the highest despight and contempt of mee yet all the revenge that I will take of him is to pray for him as for my self that the Lord would forgive him all his trespasses and renew his heart by his grace and guide him with such faithfulness and tenderness in relation to precious souls to fulfil the work of the Ministery that hee may give up his account with comfort to the great Shepherd of souls in the day of his glorious appearing FINIS A Vindication of the Late Commissioners for the Ejecting of Scandalous Ministers in the County of Wilts so far as it concerns Mr. Blisset and other the Commissioners of Marleborough from the Aspersions of Walter Bushnel Vicar of Box VVHen Wee consider how frequently almost in every page and how falsely Mr. Bushnel doth accuse and asperse so Eminent a person as Dr. Chambers whose integrity wee thought had been beyond the reach of envy wee suppose wee might bee silent and leave the unprejudiced Reader to guess at the truth of his several charges against us by his impudency and rashness in attempting to fasten such Notorious Calumnies on that Reverend Doctor