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A77638	The naked vvoman, or a rare epistle sent to Mr. Peter Sterry minister at Whitehall; desiring him to shew the causes or reasons of his silence, in that he neither by his ministeriall office, charged the magistrates that were present to redresse, nor so much as shewd any sign of grief or detestation, as became a sincere Christian; against that most strange ans shamefull late act of an impudent woman, in the midst of his sermon on a Lords day at Whitehall chapell, concerning the resurrection, before the chief states of this nation. A satisfactory answer he returned; which with a lving acceptance thereof, are here also printed; very worthy the observation of all, both sexes and degrees of people in these nations.	Brown, David, fl. 1650-1652.; Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing B5014; Thomason E681_20; ESTC R206796	18,211	23

sins against him for which he was cast out of Worcester house from the States service which I both procured for him taught him and kept him in it two years after he was deposed until he got great riches and notice of discoveries to my own great prejudice through his deceitfulnesse and the best recompence I received for all I was Excommunicated which as one of Gods chief Ordinances he and his Confederates most unjustly used as a weapon of unrighteousnesse whereby to execute their malice against me even to their own sin and shame for as Solomon saith As the Swallow and Sparrow by flying doe escape so the curse that is causlesse shall not come And besides all these whereof I have the particulars and many other worthy matters ready for the Presse I and my Family once even upon an occasion also of a Sermon where there were about 2000 people gathered to a Fair neer Greenwich where we had a house and dwelt in the Summer time and we being a long time warned according to the penalties then imposed to come unto the antichristian worship of that high-place where there was a high Altar erected for the late Queen at last went thither on that day which is unjustly called St. Lukes day before the eys of all those Kentish and other Malignants although to our great damage and danger of our lives both in tearing the Surplice to pieces and witnessing to the full all their spirituall evils without either fear or favour as that faithfull Prophet whom God sent from Judah to Bethel did deliver his Message against King Ieroboam's practice in offeriug sacrifice there contrary to the word of God so that his salt did not lose it's savour but still contiuued good But in regard I affect brevity howsoever I be oftentimes driven otherwise either for conveniencie or necessity and that it would be needlesse to carry water to a spring as it must be sometimes carried to a Pump though I have had for many years divers both higher and greater matters in debate with the chiefest of your profession I therefore conclude with those pretious words of the Apostle Paul to the Philippians 4. 8 9. Whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue or if there be any praise think on these things Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the God of peace shall be with you in whom I desire to be From my house this 19th of the 8th moneth called October 1652. it being that great Brick house with the Barn at the North end of Soho in the fields streight up Hedge lane from Charing Crosse where I expect your answer in writing within a fortnight that for generall satisfaction it may be Printed with this Letter which after the time is expired I intend to doe howsoever Yours as you are his and do clear your self in this DAVID BROWN SIR I would have written to you so soon as I heard of this business were it not that I have been sick ever since as I was a little before For Mr. Peter Sterry Minister at his Lodging in Whitehall THE ANSVVER TO THIS EPISTLE SIR YOu charge me in your Letter for being in the Pulpit and being silent there at the time when a very great offence was committed in the Congregation You all along take that for granted which is altogether a Mistake namely that I understood the present Fact Wherefore to remove this Mistake and to inform you rightly will be at once your Satisfaction and my Vindication Vpon this account I shall give you a plain Narration of those passages which relate to my self I was in the midst of my Sermon when I saw at one end of the Chapell a great disturbance among the people with a sudden fear I cast my eye on the other end where I saw in the midst of the crowd a Woman as I guest b● her head bare to the middle of her back the rest of her being hid from my sight in the throng Hereupon I turned to the disturbed people to quiet them by telling them that there was no danger that it was a mad-woman onely that occasioned the Stir No other imagination upon that sudden glance entred into my Spirit Before I could again turn my eye towards that place the VVoman was suddenly carryed out by Souldiers who alwayes keep a court of Guard close by the door of the Chapell It was when I came down out of the Pulpit that I first was acquainted with the Truth of that Story which for the monstrousness of it seemed incredible to me untill it was confirmed by many hands Sir I appeal to those who hear me in publick how farre in a constant course upon all occasions how far after a more particular manner in the first Sermons which I preached after that enormous Scandall I have declared my self against the heynous evill of such Practises and those corrupt Principles which lead to such Practises I doe not therefore think it needfull for me to say more in a private Letter seeing I say so much so frequently in Publique I had much rather that the good savour of my Name should arise freely from the precious Oyntment of Christs Love in his Providence of the Spirit of Christ in my Life in my Doctrine than from my own Endeavours concerning it Only as a Christian I have thus far taken this care to give to you who are a professed Brother in Christ that satisfaction which you have desired from me Having therefore kindly thanked you for that zeal to the glory of our Lord Iesus for that respect and love to me which you expresse in yours Letter Praising you for the heat of your affections so farre as you are carefull to joyn it with Light I commend you to the grace of God and rest October 31. 1652. Your faithfull Friend and Servant in Christ Peter Sterry For Mr. David Brown at the New great Brick house at the North end of Soho in the Fields streight up Hedge lane from Charing Cross The EPILOGUE to Mr. Peter Sterry Minister being cleared of that negligence wherewith he was charged SIR I Have received your Answer to my Epistle whereby for mine own part as one honest man should trust another I am sufficiently satisfied even as I was also of a discreet Military Officer who at the same juncture of time commanded the guard when the impudent woman before that high Assembly appeared and I hope that all the people of these united Nations who have either so much christianity as to trust a Christian or wish in other matters to be trusted themselves or have heard or may happen to hear or read of this businesse as it is in this small volume both questioned and answered or have been otherwise informed yea or have so much moderation and discretion as to submit unto such circumstances as are grounded upon reason cannot chuse but rest likewise satisfied even with those probable causes or reasons of that silence wherewith in the Epistle you are so strictly charged which are in your answer so evidently expressed yet that no man mistake me I do not professe to speak or write infallibly but trust every honest man as I would be trusted by all honest men for revealed things belong to us but secret things to God and therefore it 's justly said That man judgeth by outward appearance but God judgeth righteous judgement Howsoever as King Solomon saith He that rebuketh a man shall find more favour afterwards than he that flattereth with his lips and that a reproof entreth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool Prov. 28. 23. 17. 10. so the truth and validity of both which parables I have found by that discretion moderation and affection yea and both thankfulnesse and commendation which out of your ingenuity you are pleased in your modest answer to use and expresse towards me though a very weak instrument of God for the peoples satisfaction and your good according to the first words of that divine Author Pro. 15. 1. howbeit I charged you as a most negligent Christian even to the very utmost of my evidence which from divers famous people I heard and so far as to them in such a tumult appeared And as concerning the difference of your judgement or practice from the separated Churches mentioned in the New Testament whereof I gave you a hint both in the beginning and midst of what I wrote a few words being sufficient to the wise so still in brief I wish from my heart seeing the most sincere Christians do but know practice believe and prophecie only in part that none of all our endeavours who are but weak in respect of others may tend in the least to the quenching of the Spirit or despising of prophecie but to prove all things hold fast that which is good and abstain from all appearance of evill chiefly by exact obedience to Gods heavenly call even in comming quite out of Babel touching no unclean thing and offering all our gifts and sacrifices in Sion which is the perfection of beauty where God hath promised his own glorious presence in the sincere practice of all his holy Ordinances For to speak impartially which we are bound alwayes to doe as those who come short of the mark have very great need to strive forwards and forget what 's behind so have they as great need who stand very near it alwayes to take heed lest they should fall backwards from it so that I argue not for any immunity in regard of stability concerning totall separats though I conceive that to be the very height of Religion but that all who have the title of Christians may both attain thereunto and persevere therein without apostacy or decling See Heb. 10. 26 c. and 2 Pet. 21. 22. Which excellent duties if we could but fervently desire to perform and earnestly beseech God for the gracious assistance alwaies of his blessed Spirit to strengthen and lead us into all truth then doubtless as Paul prayeth for the Church of the Thessalonians The very God of peace would sanctifie us wholly and preserve our whole Spirit soul and body blameless untill the comming of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom I rest Your faithfull friend to serve you in all duties of love David Brown FINIS

design to his utmost power after he was gone and in reference thereunto upon his and the Bishops of both Nations urging that grosse Service-Book in that Nation untill the rest of that poysonable stuff should have followed all the cruell Wars throughout all the three Nations which have been almost ever since have proceeded Furthermore it may be upon good grounds imagined that this antient Preacher not only intended to have given his best advice to his Flock as his last Will and Testament even to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free and not to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage but likewise as touching his own grievous failings to have intreated them That they would be pleased out of their tender compassion towards his everlasting weal to adde their fervent prayers to his for mercy and reconciliation to him through a lively faith laying hold on the all-sufficient merits of Iesus Christ before he should goe hence and be seen no more and to have besought them that as they hoped to be saved at the great day of Retribution never to make his nor any other mens wanderings their examples to reiterate and follow but altogether as so many terrors like Sea-marks or Beacons set on Rocks for ships to avoid and eschew And concerning the event of what great diligence his friends and acquaintances howsoever very numerous and powerfull did use to have obtained the Licence before mentioned both of superiour and inferiour powers they being often reproved for so high an attempt which then was so hot in prosecution after they were long delayed at last they were absolutely refused whereupon in great grief but I hope with such godly sorrow as through Christ he found mercy God himself favourably accepting the will for the deed and private repentance when publick is hindered by man he finished his course By whose example even from the beginning to the ending of his Ministery all of us yea the best of us have very great need to observe that we ought not upon any kind of terms preferments promises bribes now called gratuities fears terrors threatnings losses yea or persecution it self though inflicted in the highest degree that either Sathan or his Instruments can devise to deny Christ before men and that by walking contrary to the purity of his Gospell if we any wise aim at the glory of God and salvation of our own soules at the great day of his glorious appearing and confessing us before his heavenly Father but to work out our salvation in fear and trembling and to make our calling and election sure by wel-doing chiefly in performing all and whatsomever our duties both spiritual and temporal to our utmost in due time even whiles it is called to day and not boast off untill to morrow because we know not what a day may bring forth for time is one of the most precious jewels under the Sun and upon the well or ill spending of time dependeth Eternity either of weal or wo But to conclude all these first particulars tending to the dehortation of all people from such a shamelesse attempt as is here with great detestation witnessed against and insist also in another sort thereof before we adhere to the matter it self wherein I shall be as brief as is requisite if King Solomon who wrot by the inspiration of the Spirit did not only say That a word in his place is like Diamonds of gold set in pictures of silver but likewise did direct every man who hath received knowledge either to doe or devise any temporal work for the benefit of the Common-wealth not to delay the same but to accomplish it with all their power then how much more ought those who are intrusted with any kind of charge to perform their duties to their utmost chiefly when they are either spirituall or tend to any spirituall use Yea and he also giveth such a strong reason as can admit of no opposition For saith he there is neither work nor invention nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest And as in one respect modestie be sufficient to make any sincere Christian both very much grieved and perplexed only to mention that most presumptuous and impudent act both for matter and manner as it came to passe even by one of the female sex whose duty was to have been most shamefac'd chiefly as it tendeth to open universall avowed and allowed wickednesse though I know by undoubted proof that all such absurd things are utterly abhorred by divers both of those Worthies that sit at the helm and of those also who under God defend them by the sword so in another respect howsoever necessity may seem to require an expression both of the matter and manner thereof because the same may be a speciall means to move both that strange-like woman and such others as be guiltie either of that shamelesse act or the like unto a godly sorrow for I hear there are many sprung up of late in and about this sinfull City yet in regard of the wicked and profane sort who as Solomon saith make a mock of sin it s far more expedient as I conceive that it be henceforth concealed than any more chiefly in Print revealed even to avoid imitation as it s said there was no particular law made forbidding any man to kill his Father but in generall that no man should doe any murther And that Sir you and I may know one anothers mind in order to the satisfaction both of me who in stead of a better doe here write unto you for that purpose and of many thousands of others who have only heard of your name in that particular and daily after so long delay do ardently expect the same yea and doubtless will be very ready henceforth both to speak and respect of you according as you shall be able and willing to clear your self by your punctual answer concerning your so countenancing with silence such a notorious evill as I much doubt if any record can parallel Again you know its upon divine record That Queen Vasthi the wife of King Ahasuerus though a Heathen as well as he so preferred her modesty sobriety and chastity above all other earthly things she could lose that she absolutely refused at an inconvenient time to humor the King her husband so much as to vouchsafe to come unto that incomparable Feast when he was merry with Wine amongst the midst of his chief Princes Nobles and People though in a very solemn manner he himself sent not only his chiefest Officers but likewise the Crown-Royall for her even to shew his Princes Nobles and People her beauty for she was fair to look on and doubtlesse had the richest both jewels and ornaments as well as apparell wherewith to deck her self that the world could afford her husband being so great a Monarch that he had a hundred seven and twenty Provinces under his jurisdiction and command yea and of such a noble and ingenuous