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A31450 A calm answer to a bitter invective called A letter to the late author of The preparation for martyrdom by that author. Cawdrey, Zachary, 1616-1684. 1683 (1683) Wing C1644; ESTC R24126 4,580 10

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that subject I assert it For the rest of the pious and learned Clergy of this Church which are more I believe than any Christian Church in the World can shew I reverence them and bless God for them So that you might with as much shew of Truth have charged me with the Rebellion of Wat Tyler or the composing the Alchoran as with any one of the Anti-Monarchical or Anti-Episcopal Positions or Practices you have suggested against me and I am confident be you who you will I have suffered as much or more from the men of those Principles as you have All your arguing therefore is only to this purpose That I say one thing but mean the contrary I assert and prove That Men may not resist Authority in case of the danger of Religion O but say you he means They may and must resist Might you not as justly and truly have said He saith and proves That Jesus is the Christ but he means Jesus is not the Christ Sir Was either Truth or Charity consulted by you when you wrote at this rate Making my Discourse to speak direct Contradictions to it self that you might put upon it the appearance of Sedition If you had thought that those who read your Invective would ever consult the Discourse you pretended to write against there would certainly have been some restraint upon you to keep within the bounds of Truth at least of the appearance of Truth For first Let it but be supposed that the Parliament declared Truth in their Vote printed with the Form of Prayer to be used on Friday the 11th of April 1679. appointed by the King's Proclamation and his Majesties special Command which is interpretatively a Royal Attestation to that Vote Which is as followeth Die Martis 25. Martii 1679. Resolved nemine contradicente by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled That they do declare that they are fully satisfied by the Proofs they have heard That there now is and for divers years last past hath been an horrid and treasonable Plot and Conspiracy contrived and carried on by those of the Popish Religion for the murdering of His Majesties Sacred Person and for subverting the Protestant Religion and the ancient and established Government of this Kingdom Jo. Brown Cler. Parliament This therefore being supposed to be Truth let it next be supposed That his Sacred Majesty in further Attestation to and tender Concernment for the removal of the just fears of his Liege-People did most wisely and graciously propose by the right Honourable the Lord Chancellour in Parliament as appears by his printed Speech those most prudent and excellent Securities for the preserving the Protestant Religion under a Popish Successor whi●● 〈…〉 ●●ed by his Lordship Let it next be supposed which I know you are ready enough to suppose That it was to be suspected that some factious Persons taking the advantage of these general Fears of Popery might attempt to stir up the People to fight through their Fears as your Phrase is in defence of their Religion Now then I dare appeal to any unprejudiced Person Whether an honest well-meaning Man concerned for the Peace of his Country could more effectually contribute to the quiet of the same than by perswading his Country-men first That the great and only true ground of their Fears of the subverting Religion and of other Judgments were their sins without the prevailing of which their Enemies could do them no harm and hereby he indeavours to stir up Men to timely Repentance Next by convincing them That under God's Mercy and Favour they had all possible Security for their Religion at home and Peace from abroad in his Majesties most happy Conduct of Publick Affairs and this is done without the least insinuation so much as in a syllable of any jealousie of his Majesties Royal Successor 〈…〉 And then however to keep their Fears whether well-grounded or groundless from raising any Distempers or Disorders I indeavour to instill into my Reader a love of and indeavour after that spirit of Loyalty Humility Meekness Charity and Heavenly-mindedness under the power of which the Primitive Christians lived and died And that these are the total Contents of that Discourse and the unfeigned Design of it will appear to any confiderate Reader and hath been attested to by the Letter of Thanks which several pious and loyal and learned Divines and others have sent to me on that occasion So that what I intended and others received as an Antidote against Sedition you have used all your Art to mis-represent it as Poison and have served both me and my Discourse as the bloody Inquisitors in Spain use the suffering Martyrs the Protestants there you have sowed me up in a Sambenito a Coat painted all over with ugly Devils And 〈…〉 this short Narrative and Analysis is a sufficient Vindication of me and my Discourse against your Invective which is indeed nothing else but one continued Calumny mixed with the most palpable Falshood and highest Contempt and Scorn imaginable I shall therefore committing my Cause to a righteous God indeavour to possess my soul in patience waiting for your other scouring Dose with which you threaten me tho I think and you seem to glory in it there cannot be a Dose compounded of more sublimated Mischievousness than this is When your second Invective shall come forth I will answer both this and that in all the Particulars which shall concern me if I judge that to do so may redound to the Glory of GOD and the Service of the Church and my Country otherwise I shall be as one that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofs In the mean time I shall continue to pray for you and the Men of your Combination if there be any That God would forgive my enemies persecutors and slanderers and turn their hearts Adding also that of the Psalmist for my self and other Sons of Peace Psal 123.4 5. Have mercy upon us O Lord have mercy upon us for we are exceedingly filled with contempt our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease and with the con●●●●●● of the proud FINIS