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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88100	A discourse concerning Puritans. A vindication of those, who uniustly suffer by the mistake, abuse, and misapplication of that name. A tract necessary and usefull for these times.	Ley, John, 1583-1662, attributed name.; Parker, Henry, 1604-1652, attributed name.	1641 (1641)	Wing L1875; Thomason E204_3; ESTC R15236	40,576	60

forth after her to overtake her The Bishop of Downe in Ireland in his Visitation speech 1638 endevours to make it credited that Puritans have increased since the Reformation by degrees both in number and malice but the contrary is most apparently true Dissent in Ecclesiasticall Policie about Ceremonies and other smaller matters being not of the substance of Religion first gave occasion to raise this reprochfull word Puritan in the Church but since that time mens minds being better satisfied peace being more firmly setled about those indifferent things the more few Puritans remayned and the more moderately those few became inclined the more furiously their enemies raged against them Bastwick Prin and Burton the only men which Law can take hold of are Names now as horrid in the World as Garnet Faux Ravilliack Precisians have now wonne the Scene from Jesuites Poysoning of Emperours massacring of Provinces blowing up of Parliaments are all now growne into oblivion and drown'd in the stories of Ceremony-haters Howsoever as amongst Antipuritans so amongst Puritans it must be confessed there are some differences to be observed Some Puritans thinke all Puritans alike to be loved and all Antipuritans alike to be hated but sure there is truer affinity in minde betweene some which are Puritans and some which are not then between some Puritans and others or some of the contrary opinion and others Paul unconverted equally opposes Peter as Simon Magus does and in regard of this joynt opposition both are unanimous but even in this opposition both have their opposite ends Magus opposes maliciously for ambition and lucres sake but Paul ignorantly seeking thereby the same Gods Honour whom Peter serves in a truer way Therefore in regard of the mayne end there is more unity and consent betwixt Paul the persecuter and Peter the persecuted then betwixt Paul and Magus though both persecuters of the same cause The like is now visible in England for every man which is an Antipuritan is not so for the same Reasons some have more of malice others are more ignorant some are pestilent Engineers and through the sides of Puritans knowingly stab at Purity it selfe others are but Engines misimployed or by their own blind zeale misled and these perhaps whilst they persecute Gods children imagine they doe God a gratefull service therein In Samaria from an unkindly mixture of Israelites and Syrians a strange heterogeneous of-spring different in Religion from both did arise and the like is now in England nay it may be said here as it was in Constantines dayes There are almost as many Religions as Opinions and as many Opinions as Men Papists have their differences Protestants theirs therefore needs there must be many more differences where Papists and Protestants live so confusedly blended together For examples sake how many differences have we even about indifferent Ceremonies and that meerly amongst Protestants Some men loath Ceremonies out of antipathy to Popery which too superstitously extols them others again admire them for Antiquities sake which before Popery innocently yea and perhaps profitably for those infant times of the Gospell used them These two sorts of men though different are not dangerous Again some men are thought to disrelish Ceremonies out of stomack to that autority which commands them but if there be any such I think they are very few and scarce visible to the eye of man Others on the contrary give reverence to them for Poperies sake which depends so much upon them and I feare there are many such amongst us Againe some men stand devoted to Ceremonies as they are the lightest things of the Law like the Tythers of Mint and Annis in the Gospell embracing them instead of weightier matters and none are more unmercifull then these to scrupulous minded men Others in the meane while account all things of the same moment both great and small pretending to spie some faults and some truths on either side and therefore they hold it indifferent to assent to either or dissent from either in any point whatsoever But the wisest sort conceive there may be errours on both sides but not alike grosse and pernicious and therefore such eschew the wrong and apply themselves to the right in either side yet neither honour nor despise either side alike And these instances shew that all men doe not professe or condemne Puritanisme alike or from the same ends and yet in the Chaos of this Country as things now stand Frigida cum calidis pugnant humentia siccis Mollia cum duris sine pondere habentia pondus I could wish therefore that all well meaning men would take notice of these things and affect by reason not passion for since some good men are Puritans and not all and since some ill men are Puritans and not all this ought not to be a rule of love and hatred in all cases alike That which is most objected to Puritans is fury faction and hypocrisie if I see these in a man reputed no Puritan yet to mee Hee is a Puritan and if I see not these in a man reputed a Puritan as to mee He is no Puritan If Gracchus be invective against Sedition I censure him by his actions uot by his words and if Cato be accused of mutiny I censure him by himselfe not by his accusers I condemne none meerly because condemned by others for it is usuall for the Wolfe to sit on the bench condemne the Lambe at Bar for that which is most proper to the Wolfe most unnatural to the Lambe and yet this proves the Wolfe the more a Wolfe and the Lambe the more a Lambe I cannot but professe it there is nothing more scandalizes me at this time then to see Puritans being so few in number so despicable in condition so harmlesse in example so blamelesse in opinion yet sentenced and condemned in judgment as if they were the greatest Incendiaries and the only Innovators in the Christian World Doctor Heylyn a violent pamphleter against Puritans calls Burton the great Dictator of Puritans and the Law hath past upon him with great severity yet Burtons crime was that Hee wrote against Altar-worship and it was adjudged that his style was seditious It is not manifest that his intention was seditious therein and if it was so it is manifest that He was most vaine and absurd therein as our State is now establisht and as our King is generally revered They which pretend great danger to the King likely to ensue out of such paper machinations as these may have three mischievous ends therein First that they may be thought the only solicitous men of the Kings safety Secondly that they may disparage the common peoples loyalty Thirdly that they may crush their adverse Puritanicall party but it is thought they which pretend most danger hereby to the King doe least believe themselves and therefore they doe spin that disaffection and division out of the sufferings of Burton which his attempts could never have effected Let us then