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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85827	A discours apologetical; wherein Lilies lewd and lowd lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the yeer 1654. are cleerly laid open; his shameful desertion of his own cause is further discovered; his shameless slanders fullie refuted; and his malicious and murtherous mind, inciting to a general massacre of Gods ministers, from his own pen, evidentlie evinced. Together with an advertisement concerning two allegations produced in the close of his postscript. And a postscript concerning an epistle dedicatorie of one J. Gadburie. By Tho. Gataker B.D. autor [sic] of the annotations on Jer. 10.2 and of the vindication of them.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing G319; Thomason E731_1; ESTC R202124	96,485	112

Ministerial employment whereby it may appear how free I have ever been from anie such fordid disposition It was by some ancient Philosophers held that in every generation or production of ought there was a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a general mixture of the seeds or principles of all things and of the affection of anger a grave Author saith that there is in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a general mixture of the seeds of all other evil affections But of mans Soul we may truly say that it is by nature like an untilled soil as il weeds of all sorts pomiscuously growing in the one so wicked and corrupt affections of all kinds harboring in the other so that it may wel not unfidie be termed a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a seed-plot or if you wil sentina a sink and commonsewer of all sorts o● sin Howbeit as Seneca also wel observs Stultus omnia vitia habet sed non in omnia natur â pronus est Omnia in omnibus vitia sunt sed non omnia in singulis extant Omnia omnibus insunt sed in qibusdam singula eminent The foolish heart of man though fraught with all manner of vice yet is not by nature alike prone or addicted to all All vices tho existent in all yet are not extant in each one but some of them are more eminent then the rest in some and other of them in others As in a ground untilled tho great varietie of weeds there is usuallie some master weed some one among the rest that is rifer and ranker then any of the rest And as it is in the bodie of man that altho in some degree or other more or les there be a mixture of all the four humors not anie of them whollie wanting yet there is some one of them predominant that gives the domination in regard whereof some are said to be of a Sanguine some of a Phlegmatick some of a Cholerick and some of a Melancholick Constitution so is it also in the soul tho there be a general mixture and medlie of al evil and corrupt qalities yet is there some one usuallie more powerful and prevalent that swayeth and sheweth forth it self more eminentlie and evidentlie then anie other of them do and from this therefore more frequentlie and apparentlie discovering it self is the denomination wont to be given whereby some ar styled ambitious some covetous some lascivious some envious some malicious some haughtie some hastie and the like Yea according to this consideration even after the gracious work of regeneration there remains as a smatch of all sin in some degree or other so more freqent sproutings out of that master corruption that bare most sway before even in the most renewed and best reformed as in a peece of ground even after the best and most accurate tillage some seeds and roots of those noisome weeds wherewith it was formerlie much pestered w●l stil remain and wil be springing up be it never so sedulously and assiduously managed Hence it is that not Proclus or Proculus rather an old rotten Heretick as some Popish writers would have it but Methodius an ancient Bishop and valiant Martyr compares inbred corruption in mans heart to a wild fig-tree growing upon the wal of some goodlie Temple or statelie Palace whereof albeit the main trunk of the stem be broke off and stump of the root plucked out yet the fibrous strings of it piercing into the joynts of the stone-work wil not utterlie be extracted and wil be ever anon shooting and sprouting out until the whole frame of the building be all dissolved and the stone-work thereof dis-joynted and pulled all to peeces But of this more elswhere Howsoever therefore I dare not presume to challenge to my self an immunitie from the common condition of all Adams sinful posterity but must needs acknowledge in my self a general taint and that a deep one of all sin whatsoever Yet for this particular corruption of Covetousnes wherewith this fals traducer so freqentlie upbraideth me and so virulentlie chargeth me I hope I may in the sight and presence of God trulie and sincerelie profess that it of all other ever had the least power over me or in me And I hope there are none that have thoroughlie known me but wil testifie for me how far my courses and carriages have always been from giving cause to suspect in me a mind subject thereunto Wherein therefore I shal endevor to cleer and approv my self not to them so much as unto others I find in divers Ancient Canons and Councels a restraint of remoovals of Ministers from Charge to Charge And howsoever I make no qestion but that in many cases it may be not lawful onely but even necessary in which Cases the Canon saith Non mutat sedem qi non mutat mentem He changeth not his seat that changeth not his mind The meaning I suppose is that he comes not within compass of that change which the Canon inhibites and condemns I would rather speaking more plainly say as he Coelum non animum so Sedem non mentem mutat In such cases a man tho he change his Charge yet may not change his affection tho he retain not stil the same seat yet may he retain still the same mind and disposition and such changes therefore do not necessarilie argu anie evil or corrupt habit in the heart yet freqent removals upon unnecessarie occasions have been ever esteemed to have some smatch as one of the Ancients observs Aut avaritiae an t ambitionis Either of ●varice or ambition And that the rather saith he Qia nullus hac in re invent us sit qi de majore ad minorem transier it Because never ani● had been found to remov but from a less place to a greater from a poorer to a richer And indeed to remov oft from place to place for some smal advantage thereby to be atchieved no other consideration of moment reqiring or enforcing a change may give just suspition either of an unsetled brain or of a covetous disposition Now for mine own part I cannot be charged to have been faultie in this kind In two places onelie have I exercised a setled Ministerie for these Two and fiftie years seated Ten years in the one place and Fourty two in the other The former place wherein I was seated was the worthie Societie of the Professors Practisers and Students of the Common Law of this Land in Lincolns Inn. For mine entrance whereunto that I may not be taxed of ambition for undertaking such a place at so few years after so famous men as had with much credit formerlie held and discharged it I shal to free my self from that aspersion give a tru account how I came to it Having upon some occasion obtained Licence of discontinuance from the Colledge whereof I was Fellow from the Earl of Kent and the Lord Harrington the Countess of Sussex her Trustees for the founding thereof and

abiding now with Sir William Cook my Kinsman at London the Preachers place at Lincolns Inn became vacant Whereupon a Gentleman of that House to me a meer stranger but of my reverend and inward Friend Mr. Stocks acqaintance at whose Church he had sometime heard me Preach together with him repairing to me acqainted me with the business encited me to put in for it assuring me that by the Lord Chief Justice Pophams mediation whom he knew to favor me it might easilie be obtained I was verie avers to the motion albeit that Mr. Stock also instigated and encouraged me thereunto But my counter-plea to them both was That I durst not adventure so young and raw to look so high While we were to and fro debating the business in that verie conjuncture of time Dr. Mountague Master of the Colledge being come up to the Citie about some Colledge affairs was pleased to vouchsafe me a visit desirous to draw me back to the Colledge and telling me That he had prevailed with the Lord Harrington to allow a Salarie for an Hebrew Lecture which he would have me to read But being enformed by Mr. Stock upon what account they were with me he earnestlie pressed it that I should in no wise refuse it it would be a grace to the Colledge to have the first that went out of it to settle in a place of that note nor should I need to seek or su for it or to be seen at all in it He being the next day to attend the Lord Popham about a Colledge business would break the matter to him which being accordinglie performed by him his Lordship immediatelie sent his Secretarie to the cheif of the House by whom being invited to Preach the next Lords day with them I was within few days after chosen their Lecturer And indeed had it been of mine own seeking I could hardlie have satisfied or justified my self in a spontaneous undertaking of such a charge For the truth is I was but young and seemed younger then indeed I was In regard whereof it might not altogether undeservedlie have been deemed of me that I had flown out of the nest before I was wel fledged and that it had been better for me as David willed his Embassadors returning from the Ammonites to have stayed at Jericho among the sons of the Prophets until my Beard had been better grown Nor may it be amiss here to recreat my Reader with a plain Corydons censure about that time past on me Mr. Leigh afterward Sir James Leigh and Lord Treasurer was that yeer Reader at Lincolns Inn and having his familie in Town both he and his wife heard me Preach one Lords day at Martins in the Fields Whence after return from the Sermon Mistress Leigh was pleased to ask an old Servant with whom by reason of long continuance in the familie they were wont to talk more familiarlie How he liked the Preacher who returned her this blunt answer That he was a prettie pert Boy but he made a reasonable good Sermon Not manie weeks after Mr. Leigh returning from Lincolns Inn told his wife he would tel her some news That Yong man said he whom you heard at St. Martins is chosen our Lecturer at Lincolns Inn which the old felow standing by when he heard askt Whether the old Benchers would be taught by such a Boy as he Howbeit it pleased God so to dispose of it that I was courteouslie entertained by them nor was my youth in contempt with them but I received as much respect from them as I could desire yea much more then I could expect Which kind and courteous usage tied me so fast to them as to such bands may that of him in the Comick be wel-applied Qam magis extendas tanto adstringunt arctiùs The more they are let out the straiter they bind the stronger and faster they hold That they kept me a longer time with them then anie one yea then divers put together that had been before me had made stay among them For as I have been enformed Mr. Cha●k who is said to have been the first setled constant Preacher at Lincoln Inn as Dr. Crook at Greys Inn and Father Lever for so by my Father and others I always heard him styled at the Temple continued not above eight year with them being removed as was suspected through the secret undermining of one of prime note then in the House who upon a private grudge wrought underhand with the Archbishop for his removal After him successively folowed Mr. Field Mr. Eglionbie Mr. Crakenthorp Mr. Pulley whose times all put together ar said scarce to have made up so manie yeers as amounted to my Ten. But it may be surm sed that either the largeness of the allowance or the want of means to mend my self kept me so long with them Surelie neither of both For my Salarie for the first five yeers or thereabout was but Fourtie pounds per annum yet as much as anie of my Predecessors had formerlie received Howbeit after when I married and had a Familie in the Citie they raised it to Threescore of their own accord without anie motion of mine but withal they reqested me to Preach once a day in the Vacation time when anie store of companie was in the House as in the two shorter ones constantlie and in the two longer until the solemn Readings were over usuallie there was That which I also was right-willing to do making mine abode in the Citie whereas formerlie I was wont to spend the Vacations with a Knight my Kinsman in the Countrey Nor wanted I opportunitie more then once or twice while I staid there to have mended my means had I been eagerlie bent or had but a minde thereunto For I had places more then two or three offered me both from Gentlemen in the House and from others abroad First The Lectureship at the Rolls being vacant offer was made to me of it from Sir Edward Philips then Master of the Rolls by Sir Robert his Son and Mr. Whitakers his Secretarie who both used to hear me supposing that I might wel enough discharge both being no farther asunder and but for once a day with either and that at the Inn at seven in the morning which I waived willing to reserv my self whollie to the place where I was But this was no motion for removal some addition to my means onelie That which foloweth was After that my Morning Lecture was reduced or deduced rather to the ordinarie hour in most places Mr. Masters Master of the Temple for that Title his place there bare his own Lecture continuing at the wonted hour used after that dispatched to repair to mine as I did to Dr. Leyfields at Clements until that cours was in the Inn altred as before hath been related Mean while the Lecturers place falling void at the Temple he by a wile drew me to Preach one Afternoon on the Week Lecture day there And shortlie after I little dreaming ought