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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69802	The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, A farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor in his two books about the Surey demoniak in a letter to himself.	Carrington, John, d. 1701.	1698 (1698)	Wing C642A; ESTC R173402	30,143	34

it as S. Clara who makes the Articles of the C. of E. agree with the Articles of the Council of Trent and it seems may also lawfully pray for the Turk and Pope and say to God That it may please thee to keep and strengthen them in the true worshipping of thee c. And according to Mr. T. as the best means to reclaim them from their false VVorship Your last thing observable is P. 23. where you justify your self for all your ill Words and hard Speeches from the Examples and Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles Really Mr. T. this is a Boldness that some tender-hooft Men as they call them in derision would startle and boggle at What compare your self with Christ and his Apostles I 'll say this when you know Mens Hearts as Christ did when you have the Spirit of Discerning as the Apostle had you shall have my consent to call Men Hypocrites and Insincere c. Provided always you be not too hasty as some of the Disciples were Luke 9. 54 55. and be sure it be in a Good Cause Gal. 4. 18. and that you have a Call to it lest some of your Brethren should blame you for arrogating to your self from Tit. 1. 10 13. that which they account the proper Work of your Diocesan And if you have a Mind to assume the Authority of Christ to call Men Satan for it seems you 'll allow Peter to have a Devil tho' Dugd. none It may possibly be as good a warrant for others to call you a Devil that is a False-Accuser or Slanderer 2. Tim. 3. 3. CHAP. VI. ANSWER to P. S. I Am now arrived at your P. S. and you produce Two Letters to Justify the R. R. the L. B. of C. c. and Mr. Gr. Mr. T. whatever you insinuate I have a tenderness for the Reputation of that worthy Person and therefore when I understood that a Lover of him had sent him Word That it was not for his Honour to suffer W. C. c. I hoped it might be a sufficient Caution And therefore in the Lev. I did lay the Blame where I think it still lies viz. On those that should have been more Faithful to him and I am the more confirmed in my Opinion by these very Letters you produce in Justice to the B. and to Mr. Gray For in the first Lett. who this R. T. is or who His Worship is I am not concerned But I suppose he is not the Presbyterian Party you spake of at P. 11. At whose Request the B. admitted G. to the Order of Deacon But whoever he is I doubt he is Partial he told the Bishop of Gr's Crime but did he tell him of any Satisfaction he had made for so Publick a Scandal Yes he turned Conformist and all on a Push skipped over to the C. of E. doubtless by immediate Inspiration by the Hopes of better Preferment than among Dissenters Is this Satisfaction This R. T. reflects on Dissenters and therefore cannot be thought their Representative to the B. But he formerly Observed I perceive he 's a Man of Observation and may be an Observable Man too when some weak or debauch'd Minister served in the Place there was but little Reflection A Debauch'd and no Reflection it may be not by his Society but there might by Dissenters sorrowing and mourning for what they could not Reform Nor when a weak Minister truly a weak Minister might be Pious and Godly and might do his best and then Charity forbad Reflection But now Mr. Gray a very able Minister sure this is some fit Judge he was not reflected at Thirske no they knew nothing of him but as he appeared to be a zealous Dissenter 'Till he had a Design for Mot. and Conformity And what then They reflect on him that is they called to Mind his former Offence for which he had never testified any Repentance Let 's see then what the next Letter will do for this is Small Game the Letter is Mr. Gray ' s own 1. But is this fair to admit a Man to be Witness in his own Cause Altho' Upon the severest Examination as to his Morals P. 11. of the Letter Would he Accuse Himself This marrs the Proof 2. This very Letter of his is a Ground of Suspicion 1. He acknowledges not the Justice of his Censure 2. He calls the telling of his Faults Calumnies belched out against him 3. He saith for ought I know a manifest Untruth that the B. of Ch. is struck at for his sake 4. He falsly suggests the Cause of divulging his Crime For was it not divulged where he was not known before and how could it be divulg'd where he secretly sculk'd 5. He falsly and spitefully reflects upon Dissenters and says he might have lived quietly if he had not Conformed 1. But did he Live quietly when he was a Dissenter without Censure for his Sin 2. Had they not cause to reflect on him who in so long time never signified his Repentance to them that Censured him 6. He charges Dissenters roundly with a Position I never heard nor read and have reason to suspect his Veracity However doth Recriminating Justify him 7. He saith he fears it's Malice more than Matter What Impudence is this Is it Malice who gave thee Authority to Judge Mens Hearts More than Matter Was there not a Cause was not the Crime open notorious scandalous and yet no Matter Now Mr. T. are these things Signs of Repentance and of an humble and broken Spirit And yet after all if the Man be sincerely a true Penitent and Live well and Preach well I shall say The Lord give a Blessing and Success to his Labours for the Conversion of Sinners and the Edification of Saints So far am I from envying any Pious Holy Minister whether of the Ch. of Engl. or Dissenters and very heartily will obey your Canon Gal. 6. 1. But Mr. T. you have a strange Comment upon that Text. I will not say you reflect upon my Friend this is honest tho' if he be a Man named to me I am confident no Man living but my self can be sure who he is you call your Friend but your Friend himself no not the Transcriber of the Levite It 's supposed he is as much as the Scots Man interested in the Lenity of this Canon It 's supposed Here was doubtless some Reluctancy But out it comes Mr. ● I was astonished when I read this a Story came into my Mind of a French B. taken by the English in Armour The Pope sends to the K. of England to release his Son Whereupon the K. sends his Armour to the Pope and ordered this Question to be asked Is this thy Son's Coat To which the Pope answered He 's not my Son but the Son of Mars and leaves him to the K. to do with him what he pleased I 'll refer it to your Diocesan to apply it And for my self I have need enough of Indulgence of Paul's Canon yet not in Gray's Case I Appeal to the Righteous Judge of all the World But for you my Friend if I were your Diocesan I would Reprove you sharply but I 'll do it in the Spirit of Meekness For ought you know you have one way or other wounded more innocent Persons than Samson did with the Jaw-bone For there are many Conjectures of the Author of that which is called Lanc Lev. Some say it's Sir such a One and Name others a Learned and moderate C. of E. Man others M. D. and others a Bookish Country Gentleman others Father it on no fewer than Five or Six Dissenting Ministers and name all according to each Man's Fancy So many as these are you have exposed them and their Reputation Besides occasioned the Sin and Censures of so many as believe any of these to be the Author who live some of them 20 Miles distant from one another Now how many may from hence be filled with Unchristian and Uncharitable Surmises of innocent Persons especially such as are willing to believe any thing that 's Ill of the Dissenter Good Sir retire and think what you have done For I profess I never heard the least Charge of this nature against any that are reputed Authors and as I know my self Innocent to I believe are all the rest And read the Author of 〈…〉 of the Government if the T●ngue and The B. of C. of Revenge and the Lord give you a more meek humble and charitable Heart MAY 20. 1698. FINIS