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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84572	An earnest request to Mr. John Standish, &c. Upon occasion of a sermon of his preached at White-Hall, before His Majesty. September 26. 1675. From Patropolis, directly over against Irenopolis		1676 (1676)	Wing E98A; ESTC R228649	8,467	26

spoken to have so much care of the Flock committed to your Charge as to make enquiry after such Grievous Wolves as he describes Who is the only man as far as I can learn that knows them and is able to inform you where they lurk Let him be summoned therefore to appear before you and required to do the Church of God so much service as to detect those Wolves that their Sheeps-Cloathing may be pulled off and Mr. Standish not they pass for innocent He may be willing perhaps to do that privately to your Lordships which he will not do openly to the World give in a list that is of those mens Names who deprave the Christian Religion among us by those fore-named Heresies There is the greater reason he should do it because he pretends cause to fear least we live to see our youth unless effectual care be taken trained up in the Cracovian Catechism instead of that of the Church of England A signe that he thinks these Pestilent Hereticks very numerous unless he and his partakers if he have any have instructed their youth so ill and suffered them to be so corrupted that they will be as ready to catch any infectious Doctrines as some bodies do the Plague Call upon him therefore to let you know where these Pests are Let not such a blot lye upon this Church over which God hath made you Overseers as either they or he have cast upon it This will be the most effectual care you can take which he beseeches from you as well as I to prevent this evil from over-spreading us It will do more good then his preaching if he will be perswaded to make a discovery of these dangerous men to you Whom we beseech you to examine sift and try if they be found guilty let them be expelled the Church as they deserve and suffer such punishment as the Law inflicts I am no Advocate for them nor shall I beg for the least mercy or mitigation if you proceed in the most rigorous manner with them Being as great a stranger to their Heresies as I am a stranger to Mr. Standish whose face I never saw And therefore I hope none will so much as fancy I have any spleen at him when I move on the other side that if no such men can be found then Mr. John Standish may be severely punished for his slander Which is the greater because it is against Gods Priests and before His Sacred Majesty and with so high a confidence from a man that knows his duty better Let not this man go away without some special mark either of your kindness or of your severity If he can produce these Antitrimitarian and other Hereticks let him be preferred to those Dignities which perhaps A. 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D. and I do not know who enjoy But if there be none of this stamp that can be produced then let Mr. John Standish be punished I will not say as the old Law requires in the same manner that he would have served others but with the loss at least of his Chaplains place which he hath so notoriously abused Use your best endeavours that he may never more appear before His Majesty But be put rather to some open shame for defameing those so boldly and publiquely who piously apply their endeavours it 's like to serve God and his Church with much labour and industry whilst such as he if he have any followers sit still and do little as far as appears but study invectives against their Brethren Pardon this Vehemence I most humbly beseech your Goodness which I doubt not is equal to your Wisdom and prudence If I have been too bold in pressing that which I conceive to be the duty of my Superiours and shall hear that this Paper is condemned by you I will condemn it too in my own private thoughts and beg pardon of Almighty God for my rashness Though I think I have great reason for what I have done yet I will not be so presumptuous as to oppose my thoughts to yours But shall condemn that my self which you shall judge imprudently done or not with sufficient modesty I am in good earnest and very sincere in this Profession which perhaps Mr. Standish may not think unfit to imitate For if you my Lords will not be pleased to concern your selves in this Calumny as all that I meet withall think they have reason to call it then I must return back to him and earnestly beseech him to call himself to a strict account and examine upon what grounds he hath indicted his Brethren of at least the suspition of such foul Crimes as if they be true make them most detestable Let him ask himself what moved him to it Was it pure zeal for the glory of God and the good of souls or was it Envy at the Reputation which some men have got by their diligent preaching and writing in the Church of God and fear lest they should step into those preferments of which perhaps he thinks himself far more worthy I accuse him of nothing of this nature because I know him not but it will be safe for him to search his heart whether something of these or such like ill affections do not lurk more secretly there then he fancies Socimanism doth in others I will not put him upon any enquiries about the rest of his Sermon though some I perceive would fain be satisfied about many particulars besides this let him only ask himself again what assurance he hath that he did not wrong the innocent in this part of it For a number of grave persons whom I have spoken withall and that know the world better then he are very confident upon particular search that they have made there are no such men as he hath described among our Clergy And if he find that his declamation was grounded on weak surmises and there is nothing substantial to support so dreadful an accusation let him condemn himself for a grievous offender Let him fall upon his knees and beg Gods pardon let him inflict that penance on himself which his fault deserves though the Church suffer him to escape without any Censure It will be too much perhaps to expect that he should make satisfaction to his Brethren whom he hath wronged by open confession under his hand that he was rash and too easie to believe evil of others to use no harsher word If I were as they I should take his silence for such a confession and look upon him as a man truly sorry for his sin if after this he hold his Peace I have but one word to add to him and a word to some others who I hear are prone to entertain the same Jealousies and then I have done Mr. Standish let me beseech you once more to consider together with all that hath been said how rude and barbarous a thing it was for you who live in the shade as I may say in a cool delightful retirement to come out of it meerly to revile those men many of which it is thought bear the Heat and Burden of the day If you had not accused them of Heresie let that be set aside yet you cannot but think it a piece of very ill nature when you seriously reflect upon it for you who live at your ease and enjoy a pleasant life in a Colledge to appear with your Flourishes before the Court and there vapour over your deserving Brethren those Painful Laborious men who have the constant Cure of Souls and contend in that station with innumerable difficulties They have load one would think enough upon them you needed not have laid on an heavy load of Reproaches They meet with enemies too many it is very hard that their Friends become their Enemies they with whom they walk to the same House of God in company rise up against them This is bitter and needs a deal of patience to bear it And the more because there are a sort of men I hear who as they have been prone to entertain these suspitions so will not suffer themselves to be disposessed of them notwithstanding all that those men whom they aim at have said and done both in publick and private to purge themseves and all their acquaintance of all such Heresies or any thing that looks like them These are persons of a strange disposition whose bare surmises must be believed against other mens downright protestations They pretend it seems to see into the heart They are not to be informed by words what their neighbours think but they look into them as they say Angels do into one anothers thoughts by I know not what immediate intuition There is no way to deal with these men Patience is the only refuge in this case together with serious appeals from them to the All-seeing God who knows the hearts of those that sensure and what they aim at as well as of those that stand susspected And I am sure some of those whose names are endeavoured to be blasted address themselves to him in the words of Susanna v. 42. O everlasting God that knowest the secrets and knowest all things before they be thou knowest that they have born False witness against me and behold I am condemned where as I was never guilty of such things as these men though I hope not Malitiously have invented against me And the Lord who as it there follows heard her voice will sure hear theirs and will make their righteousness to use the Psalmists words as clear as the light and their just dealing as the noon day Which will move many good men To praise God with a lowd voice who saves them that trust in him and teach even you Mr. Standish to learn that lesson better which you have often no doubt heard 11. Eccles 7. with which I shall conclude Blame not before thou hast examined the truth understand first and then rebuke FINIS