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scripture_n	world_n	worship_n	write_n	30	3	8.1894	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53185	The Observator vindicated, or An answer to Mr. Smythies's Reply to the Observator together with a brief, but just, censure on his sermon annex'd to it.		1685 (1685)	Wing O123KA; ESTC R203029	13,349	28

of Shaftsbury that Tony of a Peer cast no unmannerly reflexion upon his Majesty for making him his Lord Chancellor when he did but for you to make such a question is doubtless sawcily to intermeddle in affairs you understand not for his Majesty who is a Wise and Understanding Prince did questionless very well understand the temper of the man at the time he conferr'd that High Honour on him But what if his Majesty thus rais'd him up either to lay the greater obligations to loyalty on him or for the same cause that God did heretofore Pharaoh that his disloyalty to his Prince might be the more conspicuous by his fall as Lucifer's that fell was or for other reasons of state and ends of Government best known to his Majesty must Titus Oates and others of his Fraternity immediately fall to making an Idol of this Chancellor by worshipping of him when his Majesty saw this and that the people fell a bowing to him and he again to the people and that they mutually worship'd one another t was high time His Majesty thought to break this Idol of a Chancellor in pieces or rather by throwing him down to the bottom of contempt to make him burst in sunder with discontent In relation to whom all that I have to add farther is heartily to wish that since a double portion of his unquiet spirit still rests among the Faction the curse which befell him may likewise befall them and that the envy which the Faction have at the prosperity of His Majesty's late good success in his proceedings may be the rottenness of their bones as the like envy in him was the rottenness of his As to your sixth Quere wherein you ask the Observator Who that Trimmer was who being judicially interrogated about somebodie 's receiving the Sacrament and after several interrogatories repli'd that it was sitting but very decently I have nothing more to say but onely to tell you that since you boast of those vast numbers you have brought to the Sacrament and of their exact Conformity to the Orders of the Church in their receiving of it I desire to know of you whether to gain a Proselyte to the Church you never did in that particular break the Orders of it that is never administer the Sacrament to any that cou'd kneel in any other posture than that of kneeling now if by the Oath you have taken not to administer it otherwise you will tell me that you are ready at any time to take the Sacrament on it that you never did you shall then be discharg'd from all suspicion of being the above mention'd Trimmer but till I know that you are ready to purge your self after this manner you will shrewdly be suspected either to be that individual Trimmer or at least one of his Fraternity In your last Quere to thc Observator you ask him whether it were not more advisable that for the future he should suffer those to live in quiet who are no less loyal but far more peaceable than himself To which I answer that this is nothing else but to beg the question by taking it for granted that he has not done what you say is most advisable but let one single instance be produc'd to the contrary and I 'll undertake for him for the future that he shall take your advice Wherefore since you tell us that no good man will ever think that Rebels or Disturbers of the Government can be too severely lash'd by his pen let me desire you for the future not to be so sensible of the smart when you find them lash'd by it And thus I have answered the several questions propos'd by you to the Observator and might now therefore take leave of your Reply to him but that I there find some other little things objected against him the first whereof is his profanely entituling one of his Papers An Edifying Discourse concerning bearing one anothers Burthens now how come your discourses to be so sacred that the Observator cannot use one of them for his Title-page without profanation of it Again another objection against him is that his Papers are commonly read by a sort of men who take occasion from them to revile and censure any whom they dislike and that thereby very innocent persons greatly suffer in their reputation Now supposing this true are his Papers one jot the worse because some men by misapplying them abuse and make an ill use of them no man sure will say they are for then the Scriptures themselves the very best of Writings may be impeach'd as well as his for these likewise are read by a sort of men who take occasion from them to censure the worship of the best Established Church in the whole World and to revile and vilifie the discipline and Government thereof but now the Scriptures surely are herein no ways blameable nor is the ill use that some men make of them to be in any wife charg'd upon them any more than it is to be charg'd upon the wine that some men are so wicked as to debauch themselves and others with it So that you see innocent persons may be traduc'd by means of the Observator's Papers and yet the Observator's Papers be all that while very innocent of the abuse of them Again you tell us farther that there are some who have suffered by his pen who yet have been very kind to his purse but what is this but to tell us that the Observator is no Mercenary Scribler none that may be brib'd to write in favour of any man who is not as hearty a lover of the King and as true a Friend to the Government as himself is but as for all such as are so let them be but once known to him and whether they are kind to his purse or no I 'll undertake that he shall be so to them Others again you tell us of who to your knowledge have had a great honour for his Name and Family and yet have been traduc'd by him now here again I must undertake for him and tell you that if there be any such as you speak of and who likewise have a just esteem for him upon the account of his steady and unshaken loyalty to his Prince which to the immortal honour of his Name ought never to be forgotten and yet have suffered from his pen or been traduc'd by it he shall not onely heartily beg their pardon for it but shall for the future court their friendship and have the same honour and esteem for them which they have for him And now you having thus let fly at the Observator and discharged your self of all your rancour and malice against him but with no better success than one that lets off a Gun which by reason of the foulness thereof recoiles upon himself you tell us in the conclusion of your Reply that you hope he will e'er long either be persuaded or commanded to forbear his publications ar at least leave Ecclesiastical matters and persons to whom they belong In answer to which all that I have to say is that since he meddles with nothing either in Church or State but what the interest of both obliges him to meddle with none that wish well to either will hope as you do but rather believe that it were Sions and Jerusalems interest for whose sake you tell us you cannot be silent that such as you were put to silence And whereas you tell us that you doubt not but in a short time many Dissenters will understand their errours and become lovers of the Church give me leave to tell you that I hope many in a much shorter time will understand the Dissenters themselves and be not onely true lovers of the Church and State but of the Observator likewise for the sake of both whose interest he has all along so heartily embrac'd and maintained and in the defence thereof has bravely stemm'd the torrent of a most violent and impetuous Faction and stood the shock of a turbulent and rowling multitude out-vying as it were hereby the immoveableness of the rock it self in as much as the madness of the people the rage whereof he has born the violence of is more boysterous and raging than is the Wind and Waves Hereby likewise making up the character of Horace's just and upright man who stands so immoveably fix'd in his station as not to be thrown from it although the Orbes themselves crack and fly in pieces about his Ears And thus having done with your Reply and vindicated the Observator from the malitious calumny of it I come now to make some brief reflexion on your Sermon annex'd to it and here indeed to deal ingenuously with you which is that which in your Preface to the Reader you desire of him 't is not the plainness of it which I dislike in it but that spirit of Phanaticism which it savours of and which runs through the whole of it But the Sermon you say shall speak for it self and so it does and says just as much for it self as you do for yours that is it plainly tells us to what party it belongs and who they are it is design'd for the service of Whatever Discourses therefore of this kind you publish in your own Vindication will to every impartial Reader appear no other than so many several Parts to the same Tune of Trimming Wherefore instead of making any particular animadversions on your Sermon I shall make this general one for all that it is a piece calculated for the Meridian of the Faction of London and Middlesex but may without any sensible alteration indifferently serve for any Conventicle of this Kingdom whatsoever of the justice of which reflexion I leave every impartial Reader to judge and you to think as you please of SIR Your c. FINIS