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A59749	Ta proz eirenen, the things that belong unto peace, or, A seasonable discourse for these factious times delivered lately in a sermon before the judges at St. Maries in Nottingham at the assizes there, and now printed at the command of some persons of honour ; to which is annexed A short and modest apology for the author and book of the several weighty considerations, humbly recommended to the serious perusal of all, but more especially to the Roman Catholicks of England, by Thomas Sheppey ...	Sheppey, Thomas.	1682 (1682)	Wing S3221; ESTC R33738	21,949	42

all the Country where I then sojournd know that when others fled I remaind and appeared publickly divers Months after that I went and surrendred my self to a Justice of Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of the County on purpose to answer any thing that might be alledged against me and he assured me he heard of nothing I was charg'd withall that I never was so much as a Convicted no not a Presented Recusant and that afterwards being fully satisfied as to the Traiterous Principles and Practices of the Church of Rome I immediately but not without Licence first obtained from the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council came up to London and re-united my self to the Church of England from which I had been unwarily seduced and there to give a general satisfaction I published the Book of the Several weighty Considerations c. Having thus dispatch'd the two main Exceptions that have been made against me I shall make quick work with the other trifling cavills that have been proposed to blast my Reputation That the Dean of St. Paul's composed the Weighty Considerations for me as it is very silly and senseless in the Objectors so it is but too great an Honour for my self But those who have any brains are better acquainted with the genius and unimitable Style of that Great Mans Writings than to think that he could stoop to so mean a Production That if I please I can answer the Book my self is a complement I thank them for But I desire them to ease me of the trouble for I profess in good earnest it is past my skill And for their Incouragement I do here solemnly declare That if they can convict me of one Single falshood wittingly asserted or one Authority forged Nay if they will but satisfie me in this One Point that Sedition and Treason I mean the Deposing of Princes and Absolving Subjects from their Allegeance is not the Doctrine of their Church as well as of Particular Doctors and Societies and hath not been their Constant Practice when ever it lay in their Power I will as my Lord Bishop of Lincoln speaks in his late Book renounce all that I have written and become one of the worst sort of Chistians a Roman Catholick Or if this will not content them I will burn my own Book and I question not but they will have the same Charity for me as they have for all others they are pleased to call Hereticks had they but the opportunity of Queen Maries Days to throw me into the fire after it That I had a Benefice of 200 a year confer'd upon me and that upon my forsaking them I immediately married are such notorious untruths that all who know me know those Rumours to be false As to the former I wish they could make their Objection good But I bless Good I remain as contented with those mean Circumstances I have lain under since I departed from them as they at present seem to be transported with the flattering Prospect of a Golden Age to succeed as to their Interests For I am sure many of them talk as bigg as if they intended to carry all before them But I hope the never Slumbring Keeper of our Israel and the watchful eye of our Magistrates will procure that as of late they counted their Chickens before they were hatchd so now they may reckon without their Host A Person of Honour of the Romish perswasion was pleased to intimate to an Honoured Friend of mine that I had wrong'd the R. F. Francis à S. Clara by asserting his Vindication of the equivocating Jesuite who was taken not far off my habitation about 6 years since Of which Passage I give an account in my Preface to the formentiond Book My obligations to that Reverend Father now as I hear deceased are of such a Nature that I would sooner cut off my own right hand than falsly asperse his Memory But though Socrates and Plato are both my friends yet there is one much dearer to me than my self and that is Truth And therefore for clearing my innocence as to that Point I shall only refer the Reader to the matter of fact set down in the abovesaid Preface and which is known to be true by a Great Many in that Town and County where it happend subjoyning that Reverend Fathers Letter to me upon that occasion I have the Letter still by me and it hath been shewn to divers Persons of Quality and so leave it to the Reader to give up his Verdict to bring me in Guilty or not Guilty of Injuring my Friend Father S. Clare usually went by the Name of Mr. Hunt as all know that knew him And this I mention to prevent any mistake that might happen by change of Name The Letter Good Mr. Sheppey I Received yours touching your Neighbours forswearing himself I have been very ill and it 's frequent which may excuse my not writing which indeed I do very seldome I informed my self of the whole Passage from my Neighbours i.e. the Provincial and others of the Jesuits who would be sure to make the best of so foul an action of one of their own Members who had express Letters of the Truth He was before the Mayor and Sheriff being asked if he were Married he answered Yes and this was taken for Answer Onely he promised to come whensoever they demanded it The Sheriff since wrote to him not to appear though called This is the substance wherein he is Nothing reprehensible and he now follows his Course as before except that only Town Excuse me for not being more large my head is not good Pray for your old Servant Fr. Hunt Jan. 16. 1675. But there is a Letter of mine own written to a Gentlewoman soon after I had published my Several weighty Considerations with which my Enemies make a great noise as if while I renounced the Romish Religion my self I perswaded others to continue in it I am sorry I did not keep a Copy of that Letter by me and I wish with all my heart they would produce the Letter it self that it might appear to the world with how great Disingenuity they have treated me upon that Occasion The business was only this having for some years been more than ordinarily concern'd in the spiritual affairs of an Antient infirm Gentlewoman of whose death I expected to hear every moment and knowing withal how much she relyed upon my directions and that she would be reduced to great perplexity upon the report of my proceedings I thought it my Duty both in respect of my former obligations to her and the care I had particularly taken of her not to let her be wholly neglected at that Conjuncture Whereupon I wrote to her to acquaint her with what I had done and that being design'd for a place not far from her I intended upon my coming down into the Country to wait upon her and give her those directions I judg'd most proper and suitable to one in her

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The things that belong unto Peace OR A Seasonable Discourse FOR THESE Factious Times Delivered lately in a SERMON BEFORE THE JUDGES At St. Maries in Nottingham at the Assizes there And now Printed at the Command of some Persons of Honour To which is annexed A Short and Modest Apology for the Author and Book of the Several Weighty Considerations humbly recommended to the Serious Perusal of all but more especially to the Roman Catholicks of England By Thomas Sheppey formerly of Pembrook-Hall in Cambridge now Chaplain to the Right Honourable William Lord Byron Baron of Rachdale c. And when he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the Things which belong unto thy Peace Luke 10.41 42. LONDON Printed for Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Pauls Church-yard and at the White Hart in Westminster-Hall 1682. To the Right HONOURABLE Truly Noble and Loyal William Lord Byron Baron of Rachdale c. My Lord INtending to present You and your Noble Consort with something that may bear a more suitable Correspondence with your Greatness and my Obligations than this Trifle can pretend to I humbly request your good Lordship while That is preparing to accept of This as an Earnest of What if God grant Life and Health shall in due time follow Your Lordship was pleased to honour this Discourse with your Presence and as divers other competent Judges did with your Approbation I hope its Defects will now meet with the same Candour and Pardon which divers other failings of the Author have frequently experienced I have subjoyned a Just Vindication of my Self and of a Treatise I writ about three years and a half since from the silly Cavils of some Bigotted Papists and some indifferent Protestants The Latter of which as little Care for their Religion as the former Understand Theirs The Sermon was not easily Perswaded to the Press but I assure you the Apology was altogether extorted from me For I am so great a Lover of Peace that I can hardly prevail with my self to take up even Defensive Weapons And even now like him in the Poet Clypeum post Vulnera sumo For your Lordship and many Others can bear me witness how rudely I have been treated by my Implacable and Restless Adversaries and that when I have expressed the most Obliging Civilities to their Persons and treated them with far more Respect than ever I animadverted upon their Tenents with severity My design in Publishing these Papers next to Gods Glory is to evidence my self a sincere and Loyal Protestant against all Exceptions and to Demonstrate that your Lordship could not give a more convincing Argument of your Zeal for the Church of England than by receiving into your Protection one that shall consecrate his Life and Studies to the service of his Holy Mother and his Noble Patron in the Quality of My Lord Your Lordships most humble most obedient and obliged Servant THOMAS SHEPPEY 1 THESS IV. part of the x. and xi Verses But we beseech you Brethren that you increase more and more And that you Study to be Quiet and to Do your Own Business AMong those many Glorious Titles wherewith the Evangelical Prophet Isaias endeavours to honour our Blessed Saviour he particularly applies those of a Counsellour and Prince of Peace c. 9.6 To us a Child is born to us a Son is given and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellour the Prince of Peace And that without question upon this very Account because the Messias at his coming and divulging his Gospel by Himself and his Apostles was to give the best Advice and most Heavenly Counsel that ever was offer'd to the sons of Men. Now among all those wonderful Lessons and Instructions which are left us by him in the Writings of his holy Apostles and Evangelists I know none more Excellent nor at present so seasonable as this he hath bequeathed to us by the Pen of St. Paul in the words recited to you Counsel so good and effectual that whosoever will faithfully embrace it shall easily be master both of this World and the World to come and be able to vie Felicity with the Greatest Monarchs Counsel that will at once disingage us from all our Fears and Jealousies and put us out of danger of any thing but of being too happy that is of Resembling God himself who transacts a life in the greatest Peace Tranquillity and Quiet imaginable So that not only the love of God but self interest it self invites us to this Divine Philosophy Nature as well as Grace prompts us earnestly to prosecute our own advantage and Time as well as Eternity ingages us to comply with this Heavenly Counsel of Increasing more and more Of studying to be quiet and of minding our own Business The words are very plain God make them as visible in the Practice of our Lives as they are intelligible in themselves They are indeed usher'd in with a word of Induction But I beseech you c. But the Connexion making little or nothing to the clearing of any Difficulty in them I shall consider them absolutely without any coherence but what they have with themselves and so make those Remarks upon them whereon with Gods help and your patience I shall ground this present discourse Yet I cannot but take notice of that mutual Aspect and Combination these duties here recommended have among themselves For by making a daily advance in our Christian Progress we shall arrive at such a serenity of mind that we shall be very fit to serve God and our Generation in that Employment and Station wherein his allwise Providence hath placed us Or vice versâ By a conscientious diligence in our own lawful Vocation we may be confident of attaining real Peace and making considerable progress in Grace and Christian Vertues Or thus By studying and following the things that belong to Peace we shall be enabled to make a sufficient growth in Grace and advance in our own both Temporal and Eternal concerns So you see I can hardly mistake whereever I begin to make those Remarks I just now mentioned For at last it will all amount to this to make us Good Christians by increasing more and more Good Subjects by studying to be quiet and Good Neighbours by doing our own business 1. And in the first place we may hence inform our selves that our Holy Religion is no idle sluggish habit but as our Great Chancellour in a Royal Assembly fitly termed it A Principle of life and Vigour within us A Principle which though at first but as a Grain of Mustard seed yet by increasing more and more it becomes a great Tree For by Increasing more and more our Apostle here means nothing else but what St. Peter presses so vehemently in his 2 Epistle c. 3.18 to wit Growing in Grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ We must be