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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18072	A brief apologie of Thomas Cartwright against all such slaunderous accusations as it pleaseth Mr Sutcliffe in seuerall pamphlettes most iniuriously to loade him with	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601.	1596 (1596)	STC 4706; ESTC S118607	15,360	30

If he haue done this as the reading of this Apologie will make it cleare vnto thee Then what reason hast thou to maruell or thinke straunge if thou see him nowe and then most fowly and shamefully ouer-reache him selfe against others that are farre short of this man in iudgement and sufficiencie It is written of Socrates that beeing vniustly put to death without cause while he was going to execution his wife followed him aloofe of howling and weeping and crying aloude O my husband dieth guiltles dieth guiltlesse Wherevnto the good old man looking backe vpon her with a frowning angry countenance replied thus Why thou foolish woman wouldest thou haue me dye guiltie This being the speach of a heathen man voied of the true knowledge of God will rise vp I feare in iudgement against many of vs that professe christianitie in this age whose common corruption is such that when we are wrongfully burdened with any matter of disgrace we frette at nothing more then that the thing is false that is so charged vppon our heades Why if I were guiltie sayeth one or if it were true that they report of me it would neuer grieue me wheras in trueth if we did rightlie consider of it it should grieue vs and humble vs most to be guiltie or that those things should bee true that are thus blowen abroad against vs. Wilt thou knowe then good Reader howe to cary thy selfe when thou art thus iniuriouslie dealt with by any false charge or imposition Looke vppon th' example of the holy Saintes and seruants of God in the Scriptures and as thou seest them doo so doo thou Anna when shee was charged by Eli to be druncken did not frette or snuffe at it or looke vpon the man with a disdainfull eye but in much patience and modestie made aunsweres Nay my Lord not so 1 Sam. 1.15.16 I haue drunke neither wyne nor strong drinke but haue powred forth my soule before the Lord count not thy handmayde a wicked woman for of th' aboundance of my griefe haue I spoken c. Saint Paul likewise when hee was charged by Festus to be besides him selfe was we see no whit distempered or inflamed with it but made answere in all wisedome and reuerence I am not madd most noble Festus Act. 26.25 but I speake the wordes of trueth and sobernesse c. This then must be thy course good Reader and these be the steppes that thou must treade in Thou knowest whose counsell and admonishment it is not to suffer as a malefactour 1 Pet. 4.15 Looke thou to that then in anie case Hic murus aheneus esto Nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa Keepe thou still a good conscience and let the clearenesse of thy heart and innocency of thy hands be as a wall of brasse vnto thee and leaue the rest to the Lorde to doo what seemeth good in his owne eies And then if Satan doo rage or his instrumentes doo revell or revile neuer so much tearming thee a drunkard a madd man a Traitour a Conspirator an Innovatour or what they will els be not thou troubled or dismaied with it but rather reioice and giue God thankes For if thou be able truely to say with th'Apostle in the testimony of thine owne hart By honour and dishonor By good report and euill report 2 Cor. 6.8 as deceyuers and yet true c. Then howsoeuer the bloudthirstie may gnashe and grind their teeth at thee thy conscience may be at peace and thou maiest chearefully answere thy good friendes that are peradventure agrieued to see the falsehoode and indignity of th'impositions laied vppon thee as Socrates did to his wife Why my Maisters would you haue me suffer guilty or be slaundered and ill spoken of deservedly Thus dooing what knowest thou whether the Lord who hath the hartes of all men in his handes will make thy condemners to be thy clearers and thy enemies thy friends yea and turne all this storme and tempest of vntruthes to thy farther peace clearing securitie in th' end For was there euer a more bitter and malicious enemy then Saul was to Dauid And yet we see how the Lord forced this wretched man after many false surmises and vniust ielousies of treason and conspiracy against him to pronounce sentence for Dauids acquitall in these woordes 1 Sam. 24.17 Thou art more righteous then I. And who knowes whether the Lorde may woorke the like effecte and remorse in Mr Sutcliffe ere hee die euen to force him in like maner after all his bundle of outcryes and vniust accusations to passe the white stone on the behalfe of th' accused and him selfe to pronounce That certeinly Tho. Cart. Steph. Egertō are much more righteous thē he and therevppon to adde farther as the same Saul did afterward I haue sinned 1 Sam. 26.21 I haue played the foole I haue erred exceedingly in slaundering and belying th' innocent Sure I am it were happie and thrice happy for him if he might liue to doe this of conscience But whether he doo or no labour thou alwayes good Reader so to walke as thou maiest not iustly bee touched with anie thing that may be a staine to thy holy profession And so harbouring still in thy breast the comfortable guest of a good conscience as an asswagement of all the miseries and discontentmentes of this life cease not to pray in the spirit for the peace of Ierusalem and for her right excellent Maiestie that hath bene so long Gods good instrument of that happie peace That as Iosua commaunded the sunne to stand till he were avenged on his enimies So the Lord would commaund this Sunne-shine of our peace to stand and neuer to goe downe till all the Enemies of his church be brought low to the dust And as that was the longest day that euer was so this hauing bene already by the mercy of God the happiest may also prooue by the power of God to be the longest raigne that euer was That the date of her life may if it please the Lord and with the last date and dissolution of this earth to the continuall blisse and renown of this Land to the terror amazing of the wicked to the comfort and reioycing of the godly and to her owne euerlasting peace and happines in the life to come ❧ A brief of Thomas Cartwright to the printed slaūders of Mr D. Sutcliffe Deane of Exeter so farre as they concerne the same Tho. Cartwright HIs slaunders are either in breach of necessarie dueties imposed vppon all Christians or in thinges which in their nature being indifferent are by him in respect of mine estate giuen out as things of no good report Mr D. Sutcliffes charge In the former kinde is his charge of Conspiracie with Hacket and Copinger to a mutuall communication with Copinger by woord writing and consenting Fol. 10. p. 2. and fol. 44 p. 2. And that he did not disswade him but rather willed him that he