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A61076	Reason against rage being some animadversions upon a late scurrilous libel, prefix'd to a sermon preach'd nine and thirty years ago; and dedicated in these words, (viz.) to Mr. Serj. Powlett, recorder of the City of Bristol, and Mr. Robert Yate, mercht. Together with an occasional discussion of some particulars relating to persecution, and liberty of conscience. To which is subjoyn'd, a brief application, made by way of advice, humbly offered to all the inhabitants of the City aforesaid. By Thomas Speed.	Speed, Thomas, b. 1622 or 3.	1691 (1691)	Wing S4906; ESTC R220758	23,658	33

Murther and Adultery in the matter of Vriah and Bath-Sheba ‖ 2 Sam. 12.13 'T was this that kept Joseph chast by which he withstood the Temptation of his unchast Mistress And although he might probably have committed folly with her with much security from punishment by his Master and with worldly Advantage from his Mistress yet hearkening to the Counsel of this his inward Guide he gave a repulse to the Tempter saying * Gen. 39.9 How shall I do this great Wickedness and sin against God Some of the Ancient and Pious Philosophers knew this though by another Name calling it their ‡ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Synteresis which filled their Souls with a continual aversation to that which was evil and a proclivity to that which is good Let this Synteresis which according to the Scriptures we call the Measure of * Rom. 4.7 God's Grace his Holy † 1 Cor. 12.7 Spirit the ‖ Joh. 1.9 Light of Christ Jesus in Man's Conscience Let this I say be your daily Monitor Let it be in your Hearts as a flaming Sword to stop you in the way to that which is evil and as a continual prompter of you to all acts of Holiness Be diligent in searching the holy Scriptures Bestow your vacant hours rather upon them than upon Plays and prophane Interludes And particularly let me recommend to you the frequent and serious reading of the second third and fourth Chapters of the Proverbs of Solomon That which beautified Timothy's Childhood will no less grace your Youthful Years And that knowledge which was able to make him * 2 Tim. 3.15 16. wise unto salvation can if with honest and humble hearts ye wait for Divine Instruction do the same for you Be constantly upon your watch knowing that the Enemy of your Soul's peace is continually near you Live so as that Death may not surprize you at unawares But that if summoned in the flower of your Age you may be able cheerfully to give up and say Lord we are ready And if you are spared until gray Hairs become your covering ye may reflecting upon your by-past Lives lay down your hoary heads in peace Remember O remember that the end of the just man's Race only is Peace † Isal 37.37 Isa 26.7 which is not to be obtained but by walking in the just man's path that leads to it which is Vprightness Let no man deceive you nor deceive your own precious Souls I intreat you ‖ Gal. 6.7 Such as you sow such you shall certainly reap If you sow to the flesh to worldly pleasures and vanity ye shall reap to your selves sorrow and anguish But if ye sow to the Spirit to Righteousness and Holiness ye shall reap the Fruits of Peace and Joy unspeakable The worst of men which hates a good man's life will yet covet the * Numb 23.10 good man's end But let me close my friendly Counsel to you with this great Truth That if you would die the righteous man's death you must indispensably live the righteous man's life or you will assuredly deceive your own Souls Finally When all Ranks and Orders of Men Old and Young High and Low Magistrates and People shall live in the faithful discharge of their Duty of Fear and Service towards God and of true Love and Forgiveness one towards another Then shall the City of Bristol justly be stiled as Jerusalem of old once was the † Neh. 11.1 holy City the ‖ Psal 48.8 City of our God the * Isa 1.26 City of righteousness the faithful City And now that Holiness to the Lord may be written upon her Gates that Mercy and Truth may ever be found within her Walls and Righteousness and Peace within her Borders † Amos 5.24 That Judgment may run down in her Streets as Waters and Righteousness as a Mighty Stream That that doleful Lamentation which Christ with Tears once took over languishing Jerusalem may never be justly taken up over the City of Bristol saying ‖ Mat. 23.37 38. If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy Peace But now they are hid from thine eyes That the bright Sun-shine of Heaven's Bounty and Blessings both Spiritual and Temporal may never be eclips'd over her That all her Inhabitants from the least to the greatest may know the Lord their Redeemer And that they may fully understand those things which do concern their Happiness in this World and their Eternal Happiness in that Kingdom which shall never have an end is the hearty and fervent Prayer of Your Faithful Friend and Fellow-Citizen Thomas Speed FINIS

Reason against Rage Being Some ANIMADVERSIONS UPON A late Scurrilous LIBEL Prefix'd to A SERMON Preach'd Nine and thirty Years ago And Dedicated in these Words VIZ. To Mr. Serj. Powlett Recorder of the City of Bristol and Mr. Robert Yate Mercht. TOGETHER With an Occasional Discussion of some Particulars relating to Persecution and Liberty of Conscience To which is subjoyn'd A brief Application made by way of Advice humbly offered to all the Inhabitants of the City aforesaid By THOMAS SPEED He that is first in his own cause seemeth just but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him Prov. 18.17 Knowing this first that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts 2 Pet. 3.3 Nihil magis praestandum est quàm ne pecorum ritu sequamur antecedentium gregem pergentes non quò eundum est sed quò itur Seneca de vit Beat. London Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-Yard in Lombard-street 1691. To the Honest-hearted Impartial READER HAd not my Indisposition through Age together with some emergent Diversions prevented it I had sooner appeared to obviate the Envy of my causless Adversaries and to disperse those Fogs of false Suggestions by which they have craftily endeavoured to cast a Mist before the Eyes of their well-meaning but unwary Readers Read what I have written without prejudice and having begun let me desire thee to bestow a little time out of thy vacant Hours to read it throughout lest by a transient taking up a Sentence here and a Sentence there thou shouldest happen unintendedly to do me or my Adversaries wrong for want of a full and a sedate comparing of Things with Things and Times with Times relating to the Matters in difference betwixt us Reason against Rage I Once thought that I might have pass'd the remainder of my Life in silence and not have had occasion to appear to the World in Print but that meeting lately with a malicious Libel contriv'd and publish'd on occasion of the late Election of Members of Parliament for the City of Bristol on purpose to expose and if possible to draw into popular contempt the two Candidates my self and other the sober Citizens that gave their Votes for them I thought my self obliged to appear in Print for the clearing of the Innocent the fixing the evil upon the Evil-doer and the undeceiving of all those well-meaning Citizens who through too much credulity may without due examination had of men and things conceive an inward displeasure against such as have not deserv'd it In all cases where a man is accused as a criminal it 's adjudg'd both just and reasonable that he should know both his Crime and his Accusers My Crime is not expresly mentioned in the venemous Indictment but is therein so plainly implied that I am fully satisfied what it is but the Names of my Accusers I must not know being hid under the Letters N.D. N.K. J.E. S.W. And why so Were you ashamed to own that in publick under your Names which you had maliciously framed in private You know it 's an old received Maxim * Veritas non quaerit angulos Truth seeks not corners but is bold and bare-faced He that hath Truth on his side need not be ashamed to own it Possibly when you seriously had reflected on what ye had written you thought it unbecoming any ingenuous and sober-minded men as well you might publickly to be known to be the Authors of so deformed a Libel whose Contents are fitter to be turn'd into a Song to be sung by a Crew of Drunkards at an Ale-bench than to be exposed to the view and perusal of any judicious and serious Readers And therefore I shall be content at present that your review of the foulness of the birth of your own begetting may pass as an Apology for the concealment of your Names But Sirs although you have kept me ignorant of your Names by your Expressions I clearly discern your Spirits * Exungue Leonem The Lion cannot be hid where his Claw is seen And therefore be not offended if I deal plainly with you for flatter you I dare not and tell you that that Spirit which writ that scoffing Paper and reprinted that Sermon thirsteth after Blood and would rejoyce to have mine and the Lives of other the peaceable Dissenters in the City of Bristol be offer'd up as a sacrifice to your implacable envy and revenge 'T is the same Spirit of Persecution that but a few Years pass'd drove many religious worshippers of God according to their several perswasions into corners whilest Debauchery and Prophaneness walk'd to and fro in the open Streets without controul What levying of Fines was there What spoiling peaceable Neighbours of their Goods What sierce Prosecutions of them by Indictments in Courts of Justice How zealously active were they who were possess'd with this Spirit in roving running and hunting after religious Meetings searching Houses prying into all Creeks and Corners but suspected for that Exercise haling such as they found if above such a number either praying to Almighty God or seriously discoursing about their Souls concerns before the Magistrate as if there had been then no other crime more hainous and more deserving to be punished by Authority than Peoples worshipping the God that made them in that manner which they believed was most acceptable to him And more particularly 't was this Spirit that then hurried many innocent and peaceable Inhabitants of this City without any regard to Age or Sex into the noysom Goal of Newgate where they were treated by those that cast them in more like Dogs than like Christian Men and Women What generous spirited person is there who delighting in Dogs would not in case of any of their sickness not only allow but command their Keeper to let them out of their Kennel into the open Air in order to their recovery But this benefit was denied to the languishing bodies of several of these innocent sufferers who lay throng'd together in that miserable manner in that unwholsom Prison ready to be stifled for want of Air to breath in and convenient room for Rest that the sense of their sad condition would have drawn tears from hearts of Flint Their Complaints were spread abroad in the City and the Cry of their Barbarous Usage was great Which though it had no influence on their Persecutors to move them to pity yet it begot so much compassion in the hearts of some sober Citizens all or most of whom are yet living as that they went to view the Prison and inquire into the distressed condition of their suffering Neighbours who upon strict observation made touching both did like merciful men give the following Certificate under their Hands viz. We find the said Goal is very noisom in general and void of out-let for Air and therefore unfit to contain so great a number of Prisoners as we now find therein being One hundred twenty and five close Prisoners besides the Keeper and

thing to fall into the hands of the living God And if that consideration stop not the mouths of all scoffers at the Spirit let them always carry in remembrance that dreadful Sentence pronounced by the Lip of Truth saying † Mat. 12.31 32. Whosoever speaketh a word against the son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the world to come I am now come to account with you my nameless Adversaries touching my Crime and my Punishment You expose me towards the close of your nauseous Libel under the scoffing denominations of the Ancient Pious and Learned Author Ancient I confess I am Piety I love and hope shall continue a lover of to the end of my days but of that Learning which I know you intend I do pretend to have but a very small share chusing rather to be learned in that Doctrin which Christ Jesus taught his Disciples when he said ‖ Mat. 11.29 Learn of me for I am meek and lowly True Humility and Self denial I do esteem of infinitely beyond all the Learning that 's acquirable in any or all the Academies in the World But wherein consists my transgression Only in this that being a free-born Englishman and a Freeman of the City of Bristol I did presume without the leave of those who would be Rulers over Mens Consciences as well as their Civil Rights to give my Vote for the Election of two Persons to sit in Parliament both whom I have known for many Years past to be and do understand now they are well esteemed in the City and of the Communion of the Church of England and had they not been of that Communion I should not for several Reasons have given my Voice for them And now before I proceed farther I will nakedly declare what consideration prompted me to Vote at all or as I did having not appeared but once before that I do remember on the like occasion in all my life-time It was not God is my record out of any the least inward prejudice against the two persons that were chosen both whom I have known from their youth upwards and do not remember that ever I had any depending difference or dispute with either of them or they with me But having understood that both before and at the time of the Election several Expressions were dropt by some in the City which I doubted to be Symptoms of designed Endeavours at least to rescind and annul the late Act of Indulgence to Dissenters I thought my self obliged to manifest my sober dissent from those who declared themselves to be spirited for Persecution And now before I proceed farther I desire the considerate Reader to observe how hard the envy of my ranckerous Enemies was put to it to find out an Arrow sufficiently invenomed to shoot at me which rather than they would miss of they were fain to look back and search for one that had lain rusting in the Quiver for near Forty Years past by which they do implicitly though not designedly tell the World how inoffensive my Conversation hath been in the City of Bristol that during so many Years past their quick-sighted Envy could meet with no wrong Steps I had made nor justly accuse me of any Publick Misbehaviour in the City either towards the Government under which I have lived or towards my Fellow-Citizens with whom I have so long conversed with which they might hope to blacken or sully my Reputation My Offence is that I did dare to give my Voice at the Election without License My Punishment must be because none more proper could be found to have an Information exhibited against me for what I spake Nine and thirty Years ago A person doth a Lawful Act in the Year 1690. for which jure vel injuria right or wrong he must be condemned Why so because of words that were spoken in the Year 1651. Rare Justice Admirable Ingenuity Pray Sirs recollect your selves and reflect upon your method of proceeding Can you suppose that any thinking and sober-minded Readers will esteem it any Fruit of your Piety or Prudence or will they not rather conclude it to be the Fruit of your Burning Rage and Fury to charge the Sayings or Sentiments of a Person which were uttered and expressed so many Years pass'd thereby to punish him for a pretended Offence now newly committed I doubt not but there was both a Tertullus and an Ananias in the Consult among the Contrivers when this malicious Epistle was framed Pray then let them both be ask'd when a man is indicted as a Criminal in any Court of Justice and upon tryal is found not guilty by his Jury and consequently is acquitted by the Judge would it be adjudg'd a legal or a righteous act in any men that should appeal to the Judge and say We desire that sentence of condemnation may notwithstanding be pass'd upon this person for that tho' we are convinc'd he hath done no evil in doing that for which he stood indicted being the same that we our selves have done yet we remember that about forty years ago this man was very heterodox in his opinion touching the Government that now is both in Church and State Would not such a Tertullus with all his quaint Oratory be hiss'd out of a Court of Justice for such his illegal and nonsensical pleading Deep Malice and Subtilty were in conjunction when this fiery Meteor of an Epistle was brought forth and the Sermon reprinted touching both which I now come to a more strict reckoning with my Adversaries N. D. N. K. J. E. S. W. 1. Are you not Men of brazen foreheads who durst affront and run upon that Act of Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion which King Charles the Second so many years since granted and published to all his Subjects * 12. Car. 2. cap. 11. ☜ which was given to this very intent that no Crime whatsoever committed against him or his Father should hereafter rise up in judgment or be brought in question against any of his Subjects to the least endamagement of them either in their Lives Liberties Estates or to the prejudice of their Reputations by any reproach or term of distinction Of what outragious Spirits have you then manifested your selves to be that rather than not be some way revenged upon a person that never did you the least wrong and upon whom you can charge no pretended new crime but my voting as before you would not stick to tear off that stamp of Amnesty which the King had fix'd upon that healing Act and thereby give the World to see that Acts of King and Parliament standing in your way are no more than Sampson's green Wit hs whilest you are in the execution of your malice upon the men of your fierce anger You do hereby also give demonstration what you would be at had you but a Law to back you when as you dare so