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soul_n	alive_a	body_n	dead_a	4,124	5	6.9287	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89543	An ansvver to a lawless pamphlet entituled, The petition and articles exhibited in Parliament against Doctor Haywood, late chaplain to the Bishop of Canterbury. By R.M.	R. M.	1641 (1641)	Wing M69; Thomason E172_27; ESTC R13527	9,694	23

of them using to come to Church And of those they could not make up 100. taking so great advantage of the Doctors long absence and soliciting al persons against him whereas the parish consisteth of above 5000. Communicants numbers whereof are Noblemen Knights Gentlemen and worshipfull Citizens as greatly interested in the affairs of the Church as much ingaged in conscience to complain if they thought the parish not well served as any of the Petitioners if not more The Petition it selfe To the Honourable Knights Citizens and Burgesses c. T Is worth observing in this Petition first that they touch not the Doctor any way for his life nor his frequency in preaching or residing amongst them none of all which they would have spared if they had found any colour to accuse Secondly where they charge him with popish doctrine in his sermons t is wel known he hath preached in the Parish Church of St. Giles within this five yeers since hee was first Parson neer upon 200. Sermons neither fails hee any week being in health and not otherwise cald away among all which Sermons they except but against three two of them preached about two yeers since the third more then a twelve-month ago And it can hardly bethought if at any other time he had preached what these men could have excepted against they would have failed to have inserted it But for the Sermons to satisfie the world the Doctor hath thē word for word as they were delivered writtē and heere willing to promise for him sith they are thus publikely traduced they shall God willing as soon as may be bee publikely set forth for every mans reading and he takes God to witnesse that hee will not alter nor adde nor diminish a word from the coppie by which he preached them The particulars of the Sermons In the meane time the better to cleer these accusations hee hath given me certain passages of the Sermons complained of to set downe verbatim as they were spoken and definitively uttered as his own opinion which many that heard them will witnesse to be so And let any man judge by those passages whither it be possible for the Doctor so far to contradict himselfe in one and the same Sermon as to say what these Petitioners would make him Out of the Sermon preached April 21. 1639 upon Whose soever sinns ye remit they are remitted Yea What hath man then the authority of imprisoning or releasing the conscience Hath Christ put off his power given it to his Apostles Hath the Father committed all judgement to him that he may commit it to them and set them as it were in Gods Throne to pronounce sentence of life or death upon sinners as they list No not so A power though Christ hath granted yet it is not an absolute power and independent but ministeriall onely and subservient He hath not given over what is proper to himselfe but onely honoured men to serve under himselfe c. Out of the Sermon preached Iune 7. 1640. upon Which now of these three thinkest thou was neighbour to him which fell among theeves c. Thus miserably wounded he lies in the way to eternall Perdition Adam and all mankind with him Halfe dead because though his body be alive his soule is dead in sin and as it were corrupted Though he have some little motion to good yet hee is utterly unable to fulfill it c. Out of the Sermon preached Ianuary 20. 638 upon Jesus said unto her woman what have I to doe with thee For what concernes the Holy mother of our Lord I must speake freely I cannot see how it can any way advance the honour of our religion to cast dirt on her honour or to wrest all places in the Gospell to the worst sense that may bee made onely to shew her guilty of sin and not much holier then other women Sure I am wee may be far from adoring her far from invocating her and cloathing her with Gods honour and yet confesse her spotlesse and blamelesse from any fowle sinfull touch as preserved by that holy Spirit that chose her for his Mansion By sinfull touch I meane not Originall guilt nor lighter slips but grose actuall crimes and therein have St. Austin and many ancients to second me c. Out of the Sermon first mentioned preached Aprill 21. 1659. upon VVhosesoever sinns ye remit c. And yet not as if no sinner could be forgiven but what the priest forgives Let me not be so mistaken God is mercifull at all howers and hath not bound up his grace in such fetters But because in great and weighty ones that wound the conscience deeply there he would have our soules humbled not onely before him but before his Ministers Where this may possibly be done and without perill this would be done where not we goe not to limit Gods infinite goodnesse he hath other wayes of remitting then we imagine c. Let any one judge by these passages which vvere uttered definitively and not as an others opinion whether the Doctor could so contradict himselfe as in the same sermons to teach what these Petitioners charge him vvith And let it vvithall be noted that his Auditory at all the foresaid Sermons vvas very large full and Judicious not one of which ever told the Doctor of any offence taken at the said Sermons or at any other preached by him Neither vvere these Petitioners by the Doctor or any of his friends heard to find fault vvith these Sermons till some yeere or tvvo after they vvere preached viz. in December last after this present Parliament had long sitten Particular erroneous Doctrines contained in a Book intituled An Introduction to a Devout Life It seems these Petitioners wanted matter to furnish up their charge against the Doctor that they have brought in this Book called in by authority and burnt five yeers agoe And by whose meanes vvas it called in but by the Doctors own complaint first finding divers popish passages touching invocation of Saints re-inserted after he had dashed them out The Book is well known by all that know the latin original to be a very pious work excellent well worth the translating and publishing in any language abating onely some usuall superstitious passages touching invocation of Saints amongst those kind of people c. for it was made by a papist it had been divers times before translated into English though the Doctor then knew not so much But knowing it in many things a godly treatise and a booke that might doe much good if well purged hee bestowed his paines the more willingly on it and never misdoubting the honesty of the translator that brought it to be licenc'd one Christopher Barrows as hee called himselfe who came recommended to the Doctor by letter from a speciall friend after the Doctor had kept the booke with him some halfe a yeere and strooke out all passages contrary to our Religion hee gave it licence in November 1636.