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truth_n	know_v	let_v	lord_n	4,492	5	3.8057	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95939	A vindication of certaine citizens that lately went to the leaguer, then before Oxford, or, Their answer to some prevaricating passages, inserted in an epistle, lately published by William Dell, minister of the Gospel. Occasioned, by their attesting his delivering of certain positions, in a sermon at the leaguer, here set down, they being thereunto called by the House of Lords. Published by authoritie.		1646 (1646)	Wing V472; Thomason E344_14; ESTC R200964	9,495	18

To what purpose hath your furious fury all this while runne descant Phil. 3.19 Glory not in your shaine Is there no other way to accomplish a greater and more open discovery of the truth and to cause the beames thereof to be scattered in the Kingdome but by your curtaild notes Oh! what pitty is it that another and not your selfe did not write the forepart of this your Epistle Let another man praise thee and not thy owne mouth Pro. 27.2 a stranger and not thy owne lips Good Master Dell doe not conceive the children of the truth to be so dull but that they wil entertaine the truth where and by whomsoever it comes without asking you any leave Whither are you now roving You are gotten againe into the clouds and fall againe upon your paradoxes and because you will not too much tautalogize you have laid aside your before mentioned cunning and deceiving malignity and have found out Synonimaes for Designes and now you tell the world that wee betray our owne and our fellowes Cause and overthrow our owne and their ends We freely professe our ignorance herein we understand you not neither know we what to make of nor how to unfold these your ridiculous riddles but this we plainly from our soules pronounce and say Cursed be that person that shall think of oppressing the truth let it propogate and flourish and let all its enemies perish let it flourish yea we are confident it will flourish and that through slanders oppressions contradictions villanies and all other your reckoned up rascally rabble And this our confidence is built upon a strong foundation John 3.35 The Lord of heaven and earth having given all things into the hands of his Sonne Heb. 2.8 Col. 1.18 and having put all things in subjection under his feet so that at length hee shall most certainly have the preheminence for at the name and by the onely power of Jesus Christ Phil. 2.10 every knee shall bow of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth Let your thoughts of us be as meane and low as you please this is that great day and thing that we looke and long for Oh! now at length pitty your soule repent your railing 2 Sam. 16. 2 Kin. 18. act no longer Shimei nor Rabshakeh's part Be astonished and magnifie the omnipotent God that hath thus discovered the deceitfulnesse of your heart Jer. 17.9 and let our soules blesse the Lord that he the sole wonder-working God hath by his power and goodnesse out of this your intended evil towards us produced thus much unspeakable joy comfort to our spirits causing us through the riches of his mercy to cleer up our evidence for heaven and enabling us by the freenesse of his grace tovindicate our aspersed selves as to the world so we hope to your own conscience Cease therefore we beseech you to calumniate those that from their soules desire to look and walk heaven-ward We verily be leeve did you truly know us you would not suffer one mans whispering to be so prevalent with you as thus to alienate your affection from us Though we are strangers to you 1 John 3.14 we hope the Lord loves us Why should you injure and oppresse us Nay we are Brethren why should you not love us We wish that your * C. F. Informer were so godly a Citizen as you take him to be you will not deny that dissembled piety is double iniquity What think you of that godlinesse that is accompanied with drunkennesse to say no more of him though we might speak of pride lying backbiting but we are loath to brand him too much Could we insinuate into and fawne upon you as others doe then we think you would not thus condemne us Howsoever 1 Joh. 3 21. Mat. 12.7 since our hearts condemne us not why should you doe it And you have little reason to count us thorny hearers for that you find by experience that the Word is not choaked in us Mat. 13.22 As for that one among us that came to you he was not urged thereunto as you pretend neither doe you set downe either a true or full relation of that discourse that passed between him and you The truth is there was some such discourse as you have set downe concerning Presbytery and Independency and this was that wherein he rejoyced as seeming to you satisfied but you must needs remember that other matters were then spoken of Neither was he so satisfied as you would make the world beleeve and how could he or any of us be satisfied when as this your exposition tendeth much to division by extolling the Independent party and yet in private you wil pretend to put no difference between Presbytery and Independency and then evade it by going about to make us and others beleeve that your intentions were not according to your expressions And your Relater is much mistaken in this Christians stomack for his stomack hath been no other either concerning your selfe or this businesse then becommeth a Christian to have But of this particular and of this Christians more particular answer to so much of your Epistle as concernes himselfe singly you may perchance hereafter have a more full relation Thus having by the assistance and direction of our prudent and good God discharged our consciences and endeavoured to satisfie both your selfe and the world by fully answering every particular of your charge against us we doe heartily commend you to the grace of God earnestly entreating you to be no longer mistaken in us but to be convinced in your judgement that our study is for such we assure you is the bent of our soules the Lord pardon our sins our imperfections to live peaceably with you and all men Rom. 12.18 Heb. 12.14 as much as in us lieth and to acquire holinesse without which we are most certaine no man shall see the Lord. Sir we are according to your owne denomination in the end of your Epistle Christian Readers FINIS