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A91901	The petitioners vindication from calumnie and aspersion. And the young mans animation to the building up of Zion. Published in their defence, against a scurrilous book or pamphlet lately written against them by I.W. and scandalously intituled, Petitions against bishops and their votes in Parliament. Subscribed unto after a clandestine, delivered after a tumultuous manner, and falsly going under the name of a whole county or town, proved to be both contrary to our late taken Protestation, as also utterly unlawfull by many other cleare and evident reasons. Now answered and refuted, and petitions delivered unto the Parliament, by impregnable reasons proved to be both lawfull, and according to the petitioners duty, and the late taken Protestation. With many other remarkable passages worthy of observation. By T. Robinson, veritati devotum.	Robinson, T., fl. 1642.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1715; Thomason E146_24; ESTC R212725	45,496	53

bound to oppose and by all good means to seek the abolition of is an errour materiall and condemnable And further that to vilifie and inveigh against those that in pious discharge of their conscience and Protestation have endeavoured the Parliaments security and a reformation and likewise by cunning craftinesse and sophisticall arguments both to disswade others from doing the same and to animate and confirm other some in their indifferencie lukewarmnesse and neutralitie to the great dishonour of God their utter shame and souls-hazard are errours of the same nature all which my Author by his book hath done But I hope being now informed he will repent of his first work and forthwith fulfill stis last h promise But he must withall be i convinced of these his errours The same objection hath the blind Jew concerning Christ against all the testimony of holy Scriptures and it is the work of God to convince the conscience and not of man And so I will leave him expecting better fruits of his k profession for by his fruits he shall be l known according as he doth m persist or desist his errours Onely I would as a friend advise him nay as a brother intreat him not to resist the known truth nor willfully to shut his eyes against the light lest he be found a fighter against God and so perish suddenly in the way when his wrath is kindled but a little against him Let him weigh well what I have said and the God of all knowledge if he see it good give him understanding in all things Vivat Rex vigeat grex valeat Lex Amen Thus according to my poore abilitie have I answered particularly all his Assertions For whatsoever he hath written is but barely affirmed by him He hath neither positively nor by consequence proved any thing Sophistry and colour of Conscience are his strongest Arguments Some were perswaded with the things that were spoken and some beleeved not Act. 28. 24. THE YOVNG MANS ANIMATION TO THE building up of ZION Now my desire is to write something for the incouragement of my Brethren and companions that as they have begun so they may go on to further by all good means the building up of Zion And chiefly I write to the young men for they through the might of God have done worthily they have indeed excelled their Ancestry And I had as much need if not more to write a word of comfort to the old men for I think their hearts are even dying if not with Nabals already dead within them But to all of them both old and young it may be the dead may hear and revive WHen Cyrus King of Persia had made Proclamation for the return of the Jews and for the reedifying the Temple of the God of heaven at Jerusalem it is said that the chief * Mark old men Fathers amongst them and the Priests and Levites rose up with all them whose spirit God had raised to go up to build the house of the Lord Ezra 1. 1. to 5. In which words you may observe it was not the great men and the Church men onely that rose up to build Gods house but all others also whose hearts God had moved unto that work were they old or young rich or poore bond or free of what degree or condition soever and we find none of them prohibited neither by the King nor by any of their own heads or Governours Be not then my brethren discouraged or dis●●●ded for any reproaches or invectives of railing Rabshekehs or jeering Sanballats and Tobiahs the enemies of the Church of God Nehem. 2. 19. and 4. 2. let not your hearts be faint nor your hands weak for there are more with us then against us The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodnesse but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him Ez. 8. 22. yea though Rehum the Chancellour and Simshai the Scribe the great popish Lords and popishly affected Officers with the rest of their companions Ezra 4. 9. do consult and combine yea and misinform the King too calling ye the Rebellious City ver 12. that the work of reformation may be hindred the house of God still lie waste and defaced by our popish adversaries yet it shall go on the God of heaven shall prosper us and therefore let us his servants rise up and build be still diligent in the use of all good means and as for them they have no portion nor right nor memoriall amongst us Nehem. 2. 20. When the people of the Jews laid the foundation of the second Temple at Jerusalem many of the ancient men that had seen the glorious fabrick of the first wept to consider how inferiour the last was unto that of Solomons Ezra 3. 12. But blessed be God we shall have no such cause for if our Ancients who have know the first structure of our Temple the first Reformation in King Edward the sixt and Queen Elizabeths daies are not more blind then aged they shall if God be pleased so far to honour them see the second frame of our Church this Reformation now by Gods good hand intended far more excellent beautifull and glorious then the first but I doubt many of them will rather weep then rejoyce at at for then will they be like fishes drawn out of the waters not able to breathe though brought forth into a more pure element for their great Idoll the Service Book being taken away how shall they pray or serve God Howsoever ye young men ye glory of this dull age my brethren and companions be ye merry and rejoyce yea shout for joy for the day of Redemption draweth nigh The Lord hath brought again the Captivitie of Zion he hath done great things for us whereof we will rejoyce Psal 126. 1. 3. Come then let us go up to the Mountain and bring wood our prayers and petitions our care cost and pains yea and if occasion be our arms Nehem. 4. 17 18. and build this house for the Lord will be favourable in it and he will be glorified Hagg. 1. 8. Therefore be now of good courage O Zerubabel O Princes O Worthies of Parliament saith the Lord and be of good courage O Jehoshua son of Jehozadek the Priest ye true Ministers of God and be strong all ye people of the Land ye masters and servants saith the Lord and do it for I am with you saith the Lord of hosts according to the word that I commanded you when ye came out of Aegypt When I called you this Parliament and ye came out of prelaticall tyranny Poperie and Superstition when you solemnly vowed before the Lord against it so my spirit shall remain amongst you fear not Hag. 2. 5 6. And the glory of this last house shall be greater then the first saith the Lord of hosts at the 10. verse Fear not therefore nor be weary onely be strong and very couragious to observe and do according to all that the true Moses Jesus Christ hath commanded you Josh 1. 7. The great mountains shall become plain Zach. 4. 7. and the swellings of Jordan shall down and ye shall go over and drive out all your enemies and injoy rest and peace again And Babylon shall fall even that great City Babylon that hath made all Nations drunk with the wine of the wrath of her fornication and the Kings of the earth to commit fornication with her Revel 18. 2 3. Be therefore neither dismayed nor afraid but down with her down with her even to the ground that there may be no more remembrance of her Blessed shall he be that doth reward her as she hath served us Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth her Brats against the stones Psal 137. 8. 9. Sic sit So be it Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos To the Neutrall Atheist or Atheisticall Neutrall HAlt no longer between two opinions lest with Absolom as unworthy the earth and unfit for heaven you be suddenly taken away by some exemplarie judgement If the Lord be God follow him if Baal be God follow him If Christ be the Head honour him and if the Bishops be Head honour them Be not so easily removed from the sound form of doctrine received from Christ Jesus by the mouth of his Apostles Whosoever speaks not according to this word it is because there is no light in him Isa 8. 20. Magna est veritas praevale●●t FINIS

commanded us to pray unto him Matth. 9. 38. he will make his word in all those whom he appointeth unto this work as it was in the Prophet like fire they cannot withhold it they cannot keep it in Jer. 20. 9. it will be more then their meat to them or any worldly respect Joh. 4. 32. 34. Now the glory of the Church Christs Spouse and of all her Ministers is inward in the graces of the spirit God hath chosen the poore of this world rich in faith Jam. 2. 5. and the weak things of this world to confound the wise c. 1 Cor. 1. 27. 28. The Kings daughter is all glorious within Psal 45. 13. It is the propriety of a harlot outwardly to paint and adorn her self but the honest woman arayeth her self in comely apparell with shamefastnesse and modesty as it becometh one professing the fear of God 1 Tim. 2. 9 10. and 1 Pet. 3. 3. Thus doth the Spouse of Christ whose apparelling is not outward but the hid man of the heart her voice is sweet but not seducing her sight is comely but not gorgious Cant. 2. 14. Here I have somewhat digressed because most conceive that outward estate is so exceedingly advantagious to the Church of God But I say such abundance is rather disadvantagious as wofull experience palpably testifies and the Apostle saith that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink that is in the things of this life but righteousnesse peace and joy in the holy Ghost in vertue and grace and he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved to men Rom. 14. 17 18. Wealth indeed is good and profitable but it edifieth not Let us follow therefore after the things which make for peace and the things wherewith one may edifie another Rom. 14. 19. Now I come to my Author To whom I grant yea I fear that others though t inferiour in place and power to the present Bishops may prove as imperious and tyrannicall as they have been if not worse and it is most probable if they be not rightly chosen and constituted And who knoweth if that little horn spoken of in Daniel 7. 8. be not now to come up For it must rise up among the ten horns in some of the ten kingdoms this shall look well but it shall speak big and before it there shall be three of the first horns plucked up by the roots it may be A. S. H. but I prophesie not nor am I a Prophets sonne Howsoever it is justly to be feared and may be expected that yet within this Nation there will be a generall apostasie in Religion which in fine will produce a generall desolation For light and that in abundance is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light Like Jannes and Jambres they resist the truth men of corrupt minds that turn their eares from the truth unto fables being abominable disobedient and to every good work reprobate 2 Tim. 3. 8. and 4. 4. Tit. 1. 16. Oh how averse is the whole kingdom to a * Molū omen For for this very cause hath God a quarrell with us and if we will not bowe he will break us through Reformation Will God think you alway brook our loathsome Laodicean like qualitie No certainly Revel 3. 16. The * Here I understand the regallor Imperiall State Sunne shall be turned into darknesse and the * The Church or Ecclesiasticall State The Author Moon by persecution unto blood before that great and terrible day of the Lord come Joel 2. 31. Neverthelesse all this argueth not that because through ignorance or negligence as great inconveniences may come in these present known evils are not to be taken away no more then it followeth that a man should not repaire his house because it may in time want repaire again Yea we had the more need to remove the evils present and to use the best means and heed to prevent the like for time to come And so I come again to cite his own words fo 10. viz. Fourthly that though there be obstacles and mountains in the way and the supposed u enemies of Gods Church and children yet as I am a Christian I w dare not judge them or curse them as they do or use any unlawfull x means to remove them or under the pretence of pulling down one Babell to set up another What David did by way of prediction as he was a King and a Prophet against the inveterate and y incurable enemies of the Church of God I as an ordinarie Christian ought not to do I may live peradventure to see mine enemies desert upon them which I may not desire to see That there are mountains in the way and u enemies to the Church and children of God my Author acknowledgeth but Answer judge or curse them he w dare not Indeed I beleeve him lest the curse being just should come and so he suffer with them being a Dependant on them Touching the unlawfull x means used and Babel raised by my Author so much objected read my answer to his first Cause fol. 17. c. of this book and my Answer to his second and third Cause in the 22. fol. of this book in both which places and elsewhere that grosse aspersion is refelled Judgement I confesse is onely proper to the Lord and so is vengeance nor may we either curse or prosecute for any personall injury yet of their outward actions and obstinate transgressions we may judge and ought to be jealous of them untill we see some assured testimony of their good will to Zion Act. 9. 26 27. and have we not good cause to suspect those for inveterate and y incurable foes that in stead of confessing and repenting their Popish superstition and Ceremonies usurpation and violenoe over Gods people do still persist therein and * Witnesse the Bishop of Peterborough Elies and Glocesters beastly bowings rotten Sermons and Popish prayers justifie their actions yes and still would were they not restrained exercise their Antichristian power and cruelty by obtruding * Witnesse at the Kings return from Scotland their violent pressing that grand Idol the Service Book to all good men so detestable and burthensome on the conscience things offensive and idolatrous And under favour so farre forth as they manifest themselves the professed foes of Christ and his Kingdom I hold it lawfull to curse them and that without prediction for if they remain hardned as may be justly Feared God hath alreadie told what shall become of them Psal 129. 5 6. And do not I hate them that hate thee and contend with those which rise up against thee saith holy David Psal 139. 19 20 21 22. yea I hate them with an unfeigned hatred as they were mine utter enemies Now did ever any man hate another unfeignedly as his utter enemy and not curse him I think not But see Psal 28. 4. Lament 3. 64. to the end If Meroz