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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97110	A vvhisper in the eare of Mr. Thomas Edwards minister. By VVilliam VValwyn marchant. Occasioned by his mentioning of him reproachfully, in his late pernitious booke, justly entituled the Gangræna.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1646 (1646)	Wing W694; Thomason E328_2; ESTC R200666	12,778	17

themselves and lesse itksome to the people lesse disturbant to the Common-wealth and thus you may see how through mis-information you have taken me for an enimy that have alwaies approved my self your reall friend in all things I apprehended iust and thus you may see how dangerous a man I have been that in all these publick differences have done no man hurt by word or deed nay at all the meetings I have frequented whether at Salters hall the wind mill or else-where I never heard any man named reproachfully but I openly shewed the unfitnes thereof alwaies advising that if any man had ought against any particular person that he should make it known to those that by law had aright to take notice thereof and that we should be very cautious in thinking evil of any man upon report and hearsay especially of any in authority The truth is I have been and am of opinion that it is not good for the Common-wealth that the ministers should have any power or iurisdiction put into their hands o● that it were good for the ministers themselves the same having so often proved their ruine and the disturbance of the people but do conceive it more safe for them and more for the quiet of the people that they be freed from all other employments except preaching and administring the publick worship of God according as the Parliament shall ordain for I look upon you as ministers ordained by the State and so are to do as they conceive is most agreeable to the word of God and most beneficiall to the generallity of the people in setling whereof you may advise but are not to urge or be importunate for more power then they see good and it lesse beseems you to grow passionate and to move others to be importunate and by preaching and printing to labour to make their faithfull friends odious unto them and to magnifie your desires above their own intentions and so to beget emulations and parties threaten iudgements and desertions and turning the scriptures against them and all others that oppose or fulfill not your will as if they were opposers of the will of God which you take upon you to know with the same confidence as the bishops and prelates did and in the very same manner and application of Scripture No interpretation was good but theirs no ministers the ministers of Christ but whom they ordeyned by imposition of hands no government discipline or worship agreeable to the Scriptures but theirs no opinion sound but what they allowed all were sectaries and hereticks whom they pleased so to denominate those that opposed them were seditious disturbers of the peace a viperous brood enemies to the state and subverters of all order and government and by all means to be extirpated if any pleaded conscience they conclude them obstinate and thus it is with you expresly so as Mr. Edwards his Gangraena is indeed but a new edition of Prelaticall doctrine with some additions appliable to the present times and his Clergies immediate interest but trust me this is extreamly preiudiciall to your party for there is no moderate Presbyterian that can excuse this and hath beene a hindrance to me in arguing for a publick ministry besides you soar so high in dating expressions as if you presumed upon some other way of obtaining your desires then by allowance of Parliament which may loose you many friends there and occasion them to think they have through a mistaken compassion fostered a frozen snake in their bosomes that no sooner finds heat and strength but falls into his serpentine hissing and stinging his preserver you have also lost many of your friends abroad by this unchristian nominating men and women in your Gangraena and many more you will loose when they shall consider that you have not taken the known Gospel way of first admonishing of them but upon bare report as it were to post them reproachfully to the view of the world they cannot deem this as the proceeding of a minister of Christ but rather as a violent hast to do your owne work trust me I cannot but impute the great abatement of your sect the falling from you of so many iudicious persons and the daily great increase of othes sects to no one thing more then to your inconsiderate rashnes violent railing and adventuring on unheard of waies to compasse your ends for when I have prevailed with some through debate and argument to come to out publike Churches and to hear your sermons they have found there such abundance of passion sweat and labour not to beget children unto Christ by preaching the sincere Gospel of Christ but to revile and reproach and make odious conscientious well affected people because of difference in iudgement whereby they have been much discouraged from frequenting those places affirming that all the accusations you bring against others are expresly and visibly due to your selves if but indifferently weighed as where you charge others with pride ambition covetuousnes effeminacy obstinacy cruelty delicacy of pallate and the like they have demanded of me with a positive vehemency whether these were not to be found in you rather then in those you have condemned for those vices blaming me very much for going about to excuse the same insomuch as I verily beleeve you have no enemy like your self and am perswaded if you would forsake all corrupt interests and would consciensciously set your selfe to do the worke of Christ to labour in his word and Gospel out of a pure mind and not for filthy lucre if you would make it evident by your actions that you seek not ours but to win us to God that you would thereby prevaile more in one halfe year towards your owne comfortable establishment then you shall in an age by all your by-waies and policies therefore leave them and betake your self to the work of Christ whilst it is called to day the night of ignorance I presume is past with you O that truth and this my plain dealing might beget or awaken Conscience in you and provoke you to cast of the works of darknes and to put on the armour of light and henceforth to walk honestly and not in strife and envying but to walk in love as Christ hath loved nor is it meet you should esteeme your self a Christian untill you find your soul possessed with the spirit of true Christian love which doth no evil to his neighbour and therefore is the fullfilling of the Law What though you could prevail as you endeavour to work the ruine of all that oppose your iudgement or ends Would it be peace in the latter end no assure your self it would be a sulphurious bitternesse and horror of conscience and therefore sit downe and seriously consider what you are resolved to do weigh your intentions in the even scales of love touch and prove them with the touch stone of love if you would be esteemed a disciple of Christ it must bee knowne by love now