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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64639	Perez Uzza, Or, A serious letter sent to Master Edm. Calamy, January the 17th, 1663 touching his sermon at Aldermanbvry, December the 28th, intimating his close design, and dangerous insinuation against the publick peace : with some queries he is to answer, for the satisfaction of the world.	Udall, O.	1663 (1663)	Wing U17; ESTC R23555	20,153	32

to follow their own business So the honest people 2. the Deacons 3. we the inferiour may set our heart at rest and leave the publick cares to publick breasts wrapping up our selves within an innocent privacy and looking to our selves and the flocks over which the holy Ghost hath made us overseers while our Elies our Prince our Rulers our Arch-Bishops Bishops have many sad thoughts of our Church openly threatned and secretly undermined by the old practices of Papists and the new attempts of some of the separation though we here hug our selves here in peace quiet and great content committing the world to the care of God and his servants and attending onely on that part of it hereof we have a care and not without call looking further Object He sate alone thinking with himself he had that peace within which he wanted abroad that composure and quiet he wished in the kingdome he enjoyed in himself he went not among the vulgar to incense them against the misgovernment who were of themselves apt enough to be untoward and troublesome to stir them up to add the misery of domestick sedition to a foreign war here he suits and confines his thoughts to his own breast and if any man hath a faith of this nature the evidence of things not seen he ought to have it to himself Vi more quod sua natura tranquillum sit ventorum vi agitari atque tribori sic populum sua sponte placatum hominum seditiosorum vocibus ut violentissimis tempestatibus citari Tul. Orat. cap. 1. fol. 14 sect 46 Really Mr. Calamy I blessed my self in the late calm and serenity of the Church after its great settlement in Law when upon a sudden this attempt of yours raised the usual storms of murmuring complaint whispering speaking evil of dignities fears jealousies and discontent and that general discomposure for which you will be one day sorry When the people hear evil tidings they murmur Object 6. Exod. 33.2 A Text they say quoted by Mr. Calamy They say you observed that the old man was not troubled what became of his sons so the Ark was safe O Mr. Calamy if he was so carefull of the Church as to neglect his own as indeed Mr. Calamy we are not to seek our own opinion esteem or advantage but the good of the Church how much more carefull ought we to be of the Churches peace in in which our own is involved In the peace thereof you shall have peace how much more carefull ought we to be that we disturb not the peace of the Church in whose trouble we are sure to be ruined O Sir if not for our own yet for our childrens sake for alas what have these done yea for their sakes that are yet unborn let us follow the things that make for peace He took more care of his children c. O if you will be so unnatural to your wives and children as to part with their livelihood and maintenance rather then with your own singular opinions and imaginations learn from your own observation of Eli not to disturb the peace of the Church that you may come again to a capacity to provide for the necessities of your families then and not till then shall I see the peace of the Church when we have all learned to deny our selves our own wisdome honour and interest and seeks his own but all the great things of publick peace and good Object 7. I hear you observed that the Ark was an holy place for Gods presence and now I hope poor souls will learn from you if not from us that some things may be holy with a relative holiness i. e. so dedicared to an holy service that they may not be profaned to a common use what is separated unto God that call not thou common or profane and that our God who is every where by his presence in heaven by his glory in hell by his justice in the world by his providence in the consciences of men by his law and fear in the hearts of his people by his grace and Spirit was in the Ark as you say in the Tabernacle and Temple as the Scripture saith is in our Churches too by his presence and blessing And now I hope you will perswade your people that these places are holy and that they are no other than the houses of God that they may take heed to themselves when they come to the House of God And as they do well in keeping the Sahbaths times dedicated to God so they would do well in reverencing the Sanctuaries the places devoted to his service Now I hope Sacriledge may be a sin and it may be accounted once again a sin to devour that which is boly and after vows to make enquiry And I hope none of you will any more repine to see the Lord served in the beauty of holiness When you say the Ark was holy I hope you think places of Gods special manifestations of himself are holy too and that we ought to compose our selves to Reverence in those places where we set our selves as in the presence of God Object 8. This holy Ark you said as I am informed was the Type of the Church for as the Ark so the Church preserves the Scripture and is the pillar and ground of truth And I hope you will hear the Church therefore and you will teach your people that if they heard not the Church they are as the Scripture saith as publicans and sinners O Sir away with all private suggestions and opinions and submissively yield to the Rules the Church delivers as it delivered the Scripture If the Church took care to preserve the Scripture oh fear not that she will enjoyn any thing contrary to the Scriptures and if you believe her not for her own sake yet believe her for the Scriptures sake which she preserves Oh charge her not too rashly with errour whose care as you say it is to preserve the truth the Church preserved the truth five thousand years before Presbytery was heard of and it may preserve them many years more when Presbytery shall be heard of no more Object 9. The Ark I am told you said was a Type of the Ordinances of Christ for as God communicated himself then by the Ark so he doth now by the Ordinances O then why do those of your way separate themselves from the Ordinances why are the Congregations in London so thin as I am told they are It may be you say because their Ministers are removed into corners O did they come formerly to hear men or did they come to hear God Did they come to hear the Word as it was the word of this or that man or did they come to hear it as it was and is still the word of God I hope they did not go to hear men and if they went to hear what God would say unto them is not he the same as yesterday so to day as for ever and

If they are against no Law every one of them apart how are they against a tender conscience that hath alwayes an eye upon a Law and peace be upon them that walk according to this rule if to read a good Prayer-book be no where forbidden how is it a sin and if it be no sin how doth it trouble a tender conscience deny your selves and you shall have complacency and satisfaction enough to your thoughts and wishes in Heaven if you should be as that man sad at this saying and goe away grieved O then submit at least to our Saviours last Lesson to the man Take up the Crosse and follow Me. Sometimes I think and it 's no little pleasure to observe the innocent emanations of our souls and the harmlesse springing of our thought pure as the morning cleer as the first dawn of day when we are composed with quiet tranquility and peace with our God our conscience and with all the World 〈…〉 sometimes I think I heare you a sked by sober men as Agrippa was by Saint Paul believe you the Prophets believe you the Scripture that enjoyes obedience to Magistrates and those under them in Church and State for 〈◊〉 under and peace do you believe the primitive practise of the Church of God lead by the spirit of God in all ages do you believe the decrees of Counsels do you believe the holy sayings of the Fathers we know you do believe them and you considering how neer we come to what the Scripture teacheth concerning obedience decency and order and edification what the Catholick Church before Popery was heard of practised say as Mr. Vines c and others would say you have almost perswaded us to an uniformity to order to decency to obedience for if ancient History may be believed and if humane evidence may be of any use which it must be of or else we have nothing sure for if Laws were not as we are told they are by men our estates are lost if deeds are not such as they are witnessed our Lands are forfeited and if we in the World live onely to deceive and be deceived we are undone the Catholick Church before Popery kept up two things that were its glory uniformity and sincere obedience and if honest and knowing men may be believed the reformed Churches keep up an uniformity among themselves and obedience even to their Popish Princes and methinks I hear the sober men say as Saint Paul we would to God not only you but all Christians this day were not only almost but altogether such as we are except onely our unhappinesse that we are looked upon as enthralled our selves and as those that would enthrall others whereas we desire onely that all men may be free from all prejudices interest and partiality to know what they ought to do and to do what they know we desire only that Kings may be free to command according to their conscience subjects may be free to obey according to their conscience and that none may perswade the World that Kings sin commanding what they think in their conscience is good and that Subjects sin in doing those things when commanded which they think in their conscience are not in themselves evill As we would all the truths of God were received not in Word but in Power in the holy ghost and in much assurance so we would that great truth of obedience which our Religion teacheth with most evidence Inforceth with most motives and presseth with most power of any Religion in the world viz. of obedience and uniformity were owned among us so freely that Christian Kings and Princes might entertain our Religion as their interest and all Christian people might entertain it as their peace and composure This is all the harm we wish this is all the evil we think we are thus harmlesse thus innocent in our thoughts towards you Amidst these pleasing thoughts of you at once my duty and delight that I might not know that undisturbed calm here below which I look for above behold an unpleasing message is brought me this week and I know not by what correspondence whatever you speak or do is suddenly spread abroad throughout the Kingdom that you had 1. In contempt of the authority of a full and free Parliament which you once cried up as the only power of God ordained in this Nation 2. To the disturbance of a quiet Government under which we began to lead peaceable and quiet lives in all godlinesse and honesty 3. To the offence of a gracious Soveraign many waies indeared to you 4. To the grieving of many a poor soul which expected you of all men should shew a pattern of humility meeknesse and obedience and the misleading of more who have that reverence for your person that by your example may be induced to your miscarriage to the great trouble of your Dtocesan who is hereby in a streight betwixt the sad choice of either seeing you punished so as not becoming a man of your Coat and Order or of winking at you against the grand establishment of the present Parliament and you know what it is to protect delinquents from Justice you preached I am afraid by making use of that way to incense the people for it is observed that preaching and printing undid you will provoke the Magistrate to do as King Edward the sixth did who ordained that whereby of late by reason of certain controversious and seditious Preachers his Majesty out of the love he bare to the quiet of his Subjects inhibitted all men from preaching in any open audience unlesse they were licenced by the Lord Protector or my Lords Grace of Canterbury yea by bringing the abomination of sedition that makes desolate into the holy place you will make the Magistrate as much afraid to open the Church doors to you as to open Janus his Temple as much afraid to hear the Gospel as the Israelites were to hear the Law equal the terrour the thunder the fear under both Christian Princes will look upon Lords daies as daies of Sabbaoth of Hosts and armies and noise than of Sabbath of rest and peace and when preachers truly lift up their voices like Trumpets to tell people of their former transgression but to incite them to commit new ones I am afraid that you call cause men by these courses to abhor the service of God and so by your fault the Word of the Lord be precious in our daies and there be no open vision You preached I hear Mr. Calamy the 28. of December when the Kings thoughts were full of favour towards you and all your friends were resolved of obedience and patience that in so doing they might put to silence the ignorance of foolish men where the Nobility and Gentry had their eyes upon your carriage and behaviour in order to a further clemency or severity O Mr. Calamy a wise man knoweth time and judgement and the men of Issachar had understanding in the times knowing what