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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48010	A letter from a gentleman to his friend Concerning the second edition of the declaration against Antinomian errors, &c. lately published by Geo. Griffith, Matthew Mead, Stev. Lobb, Richard Taylor, John Nesbitt.	Gentleman in the city.	1699 (1699)	Wing L1402; ESTC R219242	7,970	17

according to Instruction no doubt the Publication of their First Edition without their Names gave out that those Errors were of such Consequence that except they had more fully weighed their Collection of Answers to them their Design would have prov'd abortive And they must then have inevitably expos'd that Learning and Zeal poor and blind as it is wherewith they have for some time amus'd ignorant well dispos'd People Add to this another short Remark which will yet expose their Combination somewhat more They call it a Second Edition whereas in Truth it is very much questioned whether many of the first Impression found vent and 't is generally thought that the Advertisement to which these five Names are affix'd is stich'd by the Bookseller to their Declaration which with a new Title Page is all the Alteration it has undergone 2. We cannot but note that they have hereby oblig'd the World with a taste of that Learning which they account sufficient for themselves and their Churches too For being throughly convinc'd of the Ignorance and Inability of their respective Flocks to assert their own Principles as the last Subscriber of the Five very sagaciously has asserted they like true Champions by their single Prowess have defended that Cause which none oppos'd and confuted those Errors which no body holds or charges them with 3. Hereby they demonstrate to the World how happy the present Constitution of their Churches is since the Pastors can so easily ravish from the People that Authority Order and Discipline which all of them when first they were called to their Charge found them in and place it alone in themselves which makes me judge without any breach of Charity that they have found their Lording over God's Heritage so sweet and so profitable that they would not be very much averse upon the first Overtures of a Treaty to attempt to make the two Sticks one again And then they may exercise Despotick Power without control beating their People with a heavy Hand But 't is high time to come to the other part of their Advertisement which shuts up in these goodly Phrases We whose Names are hereunto subscribed to the and the truth of Matter of Fact may appear to the Conviction of every Reader do declare that excepting two or three Ministers who go under the same Denomination with us to whom we thought not fit to communicate the said Declaration all the Pastors of Congregational Churches in and about this City did consider and unanimously express their Approbation of it And here Sir for brevity sake I shall slightly pass over the awakard Style this Sentence as well as the former is express'd in Have these great would-be-Representatives of all the Congregational Churches in and about London with all their Academick Literature attain'd to no more Judgment in their Mother Tongue than scarce to be able to write true English This indeed would be a diverting Subject to paraphrase upon had I not matters of greater Moment to communicate to you which will expose their Honesty somewhat more than their harsh English does their Accuracy I will not in what I shall say take the method most of them do in their Pulpits when they either force a Text to speak what it never intended by their impertinent Glosses and Distinctions or constrain it to go with them much longer than the Subject will bear but I will give you in short my Division of the above quoted Advertisement according to the Genuine Interpretation of the Words which will unfold to us what Doctrine is contain'd in them Then let us see how Magisterially these Donns open themselves We whose Names are hereunto subscribed to the end the Truth of matter of Fact may appear to the Conviction of every Reader do declare c. It will not be impertinent to spend a few thoughts upon the Consideration of who these We are that so presumptuously take upon them to be universal Dictators and from the vain supposition of their own Merit and Renown to convince every Reader of the Truth of matter of Fact Little Scrutiny made into the Merit of these Rabbies will easily shew how much Credit we ought to give to what they assert and what Influence it will have upon all Men of Sense The Two first Subscribers then as we find them rank'd in order are G. G. and M. M. whom I put together not for any Resemblance they bear to each other for they are in some Respects as opposite as the two Poles but because the first of them was by a piece of Policy natural to the second decoyed to affix his Name to this Narrative tho' he has since confess'd he did not understand the Intreague and therefore I shall have nothing more to say of him And the rather because I 'm credibly informed Mr. M. gave Directions that unless Mr. G. sign'd the Paper first his Hand should be blotted out by which Stratagem the good old Gentleman was ensnared and the odium of his being found in such Company falls intirely upon his Betrayer whose design herein I shall not pretend to unriddle but leave it to be guess'd by you and others who have a clear insight into this Man of Design only I must add that I 'm apprehensive his engaging to support himself and others in Practices no way warrantable will revive a Report which has been whisper'd about the Town of a certain House and Garden surreptitiously obtain'd from the true Proprietors Step. Lobb Richard Taylor and Iohn Nesbit bring up the Rear and are the Persons whom I shall next entertain you with Mr. T. I must in Justice defend from Censure and acquit him from any sinister Dealings in this Affair he being probably influenc'd by the Perswasions of Crafty Men to whose Wiles the Easiness of his Temper leaves him expos'd to his own great Disadvantage and the Encouragement of their Insults Mr. L. you have heard much of in the last Reign and not a little in this tho' upon other Accounts Then a Politian and a mighty Courtier being a Secretioribus to the late Tyrant Now a rough and surly Divine fighting his betters with his Pen the common Scribler of what the Synod meeting at Pinners Hall alias Amsterdam Coffee-house alias a House in Moor-Fields please to employ him in One while drawing his Dagger in secret another while fighting the whole Synagogue at St. Hellen's with his Brandish'd Sword in publick This Man of Contention with his Friend Mr. N. were the great Promoters and Inditers of this Pamphlet these two are intimately acquainted with all the steps relating to this quarrelsome Declaration This poor Wretch Mr. N. is least of all to be excus'd for that he discovers his want of Common Civility which should teach him to be thankful to a Nation that has put Money in his Pocket and set the Beggar on Horse-back who now in requital would ride over the Necks of his Benefactors but possibly he may have found some Encouragement for what he