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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47892	No blinde guides, in answer to a seditious pamphlet of J. Milton's intituled Brief notes upon a late sermon titl'd, The fear of God and the King preached, and since published, by Matthevv Griffith, D. D., and chaplain to the late king, &c. addressed to the author.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1279; ESTC R13799	10,710	20

NO Blinde Guides In ANSWER To a seditious Pamphlet of J. MILTON'S INTITULED Brief Notes upon a late Sermon Titl'd the fear of God and the King Preachd and since Publishd By Matthew Griffith D. D. And Chaplain to the late KING c. Addressed to the Author If the Blinde lead the Blinde Both shall fall into the Ditch LONDON Printed for Henry Broome April 20. 1660. NO Blinde Guides c. Mr. Milton ALthough in your Life and Doctrine you have Resolved one great Question by evidencing that Devils may indue Humane shapes and proving your self even to your own Wife an Incubus you have yet Started Another and that is whether you are not of That Regiment which carried the Herd of Swine headlong into the Sea and moved the People to beseech Jesus to depart out of their coasts This may be very well imagined from your suitable practises Here Is it possible to read your Proposals of the benefits of a Free-State without Reflecting upon your Tutours All this will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me Come come Sir lay the Devil aside do not proceed with so much malice and against Knowledge Act like a Man that a good Christian may not be affraid to pray for you Was it not You that scribled a Justification of the Murther of the King against Salmasius and made it good too Thus That murther was an Action meritorious compared with your superiour wickedness 'T is There as I remember that you Common place your self into Set forms of Rayling two Pages thick and lest your Infamy should not extend it self enough within the Course and Usage of your Mother-tongue the Thing is Dress'd up in a Travailing Garb and Language to blast the English Nation to the Universe and to give every man a Horrour for Mankind when he Considers You are of the Race In This you are above all Others but in your ICOMOCLASTES you exceed your self There not content to see that Sac●…ed Head divided from the Body your piercing Malice enters into the private Agonies of his struggling Soul with a Blasphemous Insolence invading the Prerogative of God himself Omniscience and by Deductions most Uuchristi●…n and Illog●…cal aspersing his Last Plet●…es the almost certain Inspirations of the Holy Spirit with Juggle and Prevarication Nor are the Words III fitted to the Matter The Bold Design being suited with a conform Irreverence of Language but I do not love to Rake long in a Puddle To take a view in particular of all your Factious Labours would cost more time than I am willing to afford them Wherefore I shall stride over all the rest and pass directly to your Brief Notes upon a Late SERMON Titl'd The Fear of God and the King Pr●…ch'd and since Publish'd by MATTHEW GRIFFITH D. D. and Chaplain to the late KING c. ANy man that can but Read your Title may understand your Dri●… that you Charge the Royal Interest Party thorough the Doctour's sides I am not ●…old enough to be his Champion in all particulars nor yet so Rude as to take an Office most properly to him Belonging out of his Hand Let him acquit himself in what concerns the Divine and I 'll adventure upon the most material parts of the Rest. but with this Profession that I have no design in exposing your Mistakes saving to hinder them from becoming the Peoples Your Entrance is a little Peremptory and Magisterial methinks but that shall be allowed you ' please you wee 'll see how Pertin●…nt it is and Rational I Affi●…md in the Preface of a late discourse Entitl'd The ready way to establish a free Commonwealth and the dang●…rs of readmitting Kingship in this Na●…ion that the humor of returning to our old bondage was instilld of late by some deceivers and to make good that what I then affirmd was not without j●…st ground one of those deceivers I present here to the people and if I prove him not such I refuse not to be so accounted in his stead TO the First give me leave to mind you that you make an Observation of things Past amount to a foretelling of what 's to come This Sermon was not Preach'd when that Humor you mention was Instill'd Next You 'll as hardly satisfie the people that you your self are no Deceiver as prove the Doctor one of those you meant And thus I 'll I●…stance KINGSHIP is your old Bondage RUMPSHIP ours Forgive the Term You were Then pas●… the One we are now God be thanked past the Other and should be as loth to Return as You. Yet you are Tampering to delude the People and to withdraw them from a Peaceable and Rational expectancy of good into a mutinous and hopeless attempt of mischief By your own Rule now who are the Deceivers We that will not Return to our old Bondage or you that would perswade us to 't Your next Paragraph talks of Purgatives Myrrh●… Aloes c. It may be an Apothecaries Bill for ought I know and I have no skill in Physique As little shall I concern my self in your unmannerly descant upon the Epistle which is the Business of your Second Page The Third conteins your Gloss upon the Text and that I shall examine The Text Prov. 24. 21. My son fear God and the King and meddle not with them that be seditious or desirous of change c. Letting pass matters not in controversie I come to the main drift of your Sermon the King which word here is either to signifie any supreme Magistrate or else your latter object of fear is not universal belongs not at all to many parts of Christendom that have no King and in particular not to us That we have no King since the putting down of Kingship in this Commonwealth is manifest by this last Parlament who to the time of thir dissolving not only made no address at all to any King but summond this next to come by the Writ formerly appointed of a free Commonwealth without restitution or the least mention of any Kingly right or power which could not be if there were at present any King of England The main part therefore of your Sermon if it mean a King in the usual sense is either impertinent and absurd exhorting your auditory to fear that which is not or if King here be as it is understood for any supreme Magistrate by your own exhortation they are in the first place not to meddle with you as being your self most of all the seditious meant here and the desirous of change in stirring them up to fear a King whom the present Government takes no notice of NOt to contend about the Large or Limited Sense of the word KING since 't is agreed upon at all hands to signify Supreme Authority and where a Single Person governs to denote the Monarch The issue rests upon this Point Is there or is there not at present any King of England You say No I 'm of another mind Compare our