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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96901	Soft answers unto hard censures: relating, I. To a book printed without licence. A full accompt given thereof. II. To my particular calling: 3 offences relating thereunto removed: and the dutie of visiting families and schooles is pressed upon magistrates and ministers, whose duty it is to visite there, enquiring how the governours and governed, do answer their relations, the one commanding, the other obeying in the Lord. III. To the offence given by a book called an Anti-apologie, which I have said, is a great offence to the church of God; and that they, who write as Mr. Edwards does, too many by two, have offended their lord and master, more than Moses did, when he said, ye rebels, for which unadvised speaking (yet the people were little better) though he would, he could not compound with his lord God almighty. ... / By Hezekiah Woodward.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1645 (1645)	Wing W3504; Thomason E268_2; ESTC R212399	14,831	17

proceeding there to the Dictates of right reason and method of charity all along that he may follow peace and pursue it in that way pleasing in his own eyes but he shall never undertake it while the world stands It is my judgement indeed upon such proceedings And I shall be of the same judgement till I die And then also I shall not retract it or repent of what I have done touching that matter And this I have fully declared and faithfully But the half of my papers are restrained I may set them at liberty in due time for what ever the Censure is against those papers yet the truth is they serve to declare the truth and to maintain peace as may appear in due time But I was saying that surely these men must repent of their doings loath themselves for the actings of their own spirit before their labour 2 Cor. 5 9 Philotimoumetha if they feel the weight of that word in the Apostles sence can be accepted with the Lord and with His people So I have said and I do not doubt but thousands of a more refined judgement than my self will say the same with are But therefore am I charged I le let petty charges go that 1 I hold for a telleration of all Religions 2 And with th●… that hold for an universall libertie of conscience 3 That I speak evill of dignities set my self as they do who now call themselves Independents but are not unlesse neither to fear God nor reverence Man bee to bee Independent against the powers which are of God Parliaments Councels Synods To the first I have spoken to the second I shall speak here 2 That I hold with those who think they may hold to what opinion they will live as they please do what seems good in their own eyes It is their conscience so to do the doings and actings thereof And the Magistrate hath nothing to do there And this is my opinion also I hold for universall liberty of conscience I answer no but I do not The Lord knowes I abhorre that opinion As it is commonly understood construed pressed forced I abhorre it as a bloudy Tenet indeed and the most destructive to Church and State that possibly Satan could have suggested or Satans Adversaries the godly could have forced against their friends the children and servants of the High God which is that we may walk every man his own way pleasing in his own eye live as we list stand up against the Law and Gospell-priviledge Infants birth-right stand up against the Lords day too deny the due sanctification thereof yet the Magistrate hath nothing to do with us for it is our conscience so to do and our judgement Oh abhominable Conscience say we It is our famie a meer conceit sute what ever it is it is not conscience for they that hold to that opinion have n● conscience at all And it will appear that conscience they have none by some eminent actions flowing from that licentious conscience whereby the way of God is blasphemed and others enticed to seatter their wayes and to walk in by-paths where the Magistrate ought to meet with them and oppose them while they hold their foot in their 〈◊〉 way of sinne and Death There the Magistrate has to do with them in wayes apparently evill and must punish them before the Sun Indeed the Magistrate has no power over the conscience I think no sober man ever said That Man has power there It is an inward thing and an invisible Hand it is That can reach unto it and perswades there But when the evill effects of this licentious conscience do appear then Must the Magistrate appear against it and them And that is all I will say concerning my cleering touching that matter The third particular of the Charge It is against those who standing single and alone are worth ten thousand of my self And indeed an heavie charge it is But it is but a mans charge he I will speak of him single though he is plurall hath charged his brethren very heavily though with weight of words onely Hard and devouring he hath spoken much and proved nothing at all nothing by all his Allegations and Quotations Notwithstanding that which he hath suffered from the hand of the wicked and the honourable esteem he hath in the hearts of the Godly shall compound for all his hard words against his brethren But truly how he will compound this Matter with his God is a question to me Now I do remember and he will remember it also Numb 20.8 That a better man than he MOSES having offended but once in the like manner could not compound with his God touching that matter vers 10. Thus we reade God spake unto MOSES saying vers 12. speak unto the rock MOSES did contrary he spake unto the people and smote them with his tongue ye Rebels said he Indeed such they were Psal 106.32 but MOSES had no warrant to call them so not to speak so unadvisedly with his lips But so he did speak and God was angry with him And O how fain Moses would have compounded the businesse but he could not compound with God his Lord and Master would not be intreated no not by that most faithfull servant Moses because he spake unto the People saying ye Rebels That was all and a Truth it was yet an unadvised speaking with his Lips and he could not compound for it It commands our marke and saddest thoughts upon it And then it will be matter of so trow to us who have spoken so unadvisedly once and again calling them Rebels who are not so and Presumptuous sinners before the Lord Whose daily Prayer is as in charity we are bound to think Keep thy servant Lord from Presumptuous sinnes Let not those have dominion over me Surely the thoughts of Moses story his going-crosse to the command of God will make our hearts sorrowfull because we have charged our Brethren So and so ye Rebeli and ye teach others to be Presumptuous sinners before the Lord. A grievous Charge but matter of great comfort it is to all that are so charged but are the faithfull of the Lord and do abhorre evill all that which is presumed against them matter of great comfort unto these For so were all the faithfull of the world charged before them That they were troublers meant to Rebell chief enemies against Kings and their Kingdomes so the best men in the world have been charged by the worst men of the World Yea their LORD and Master Himselfe He was so charged That He was an enemie to the Powers which were of God Luk. 23 23. And the more blamelesse He was found to be the more * fierce the chief Priests were against Him and the more vehemently they accused * Him till they prevailed with Pilate so as he delivered Iesus not to the justice of the Law but to their * will the injustice thereof to do unto him as they

upon them too who we may be perswaded in our souls rather then they would hold-forth a Doctrine contrary to the minde of God would hold their faces under a Milstone there to be grovnd as corne in the Mill Yet so and so they are charged These are the reasons which constrained me to write as I have done If I had any aimes and ends of my owne as possible I might have the Lord shew them unto me and sanctifie the counsell of my friends touching that matter and if not them then a prison for truly I desire to under-stand my way and if contrary to the Good word of God then to returne speedily and take shame to my selfe for my erring from the good way and wandring in by-paths to the disturbing the peace of the Church which should be sought for and persued by all meanes warranted in the good Word of God And the Lord humble them on what side soever if they have persued peace after a manner not comely for Christans If so I have more then a jealousie it is so The Lord shew them it that they may be humbled for it in deed and Truth And now I feel my self plucked by the eare and charged with this Crime so I call it and accout of it of Breaking the Churches peace blowing the Coale of Contention and so helping to kindle it to a greater flame The least suspicion this way is grievous to me but I am not suspected only so I am charged ●… And so I come to the second part of my Charge which relates to my particular calling offences taken against me in Reference thereunto are three 1 That I abide not in the place God has set me keeping my selfe to my proper worke there while I meddle with matters without the verge of my Calling And 2 with some losse or hinder rance to my progresse therein And 3 in matters too high for me above the Spheare of my Activity I answere If my practise can be justly blamed here then a double Blame belongs to me because it is cleare against my judgement and the charge I know God has laid upon me My judgement is That a man out of his place is like a bone out of joynt he troubles the peace of the Civill Body as that Bone does the peac and quiet of our Bodies The Charge is In the place wherein God has set him there let him abide doing his proper worke with all Diligence in all faithfulnesse for such an one a man is as he is in his Relations As he stands there in an Answerablenesse to the severall duties thereunto belonging And here I am compelled to speak of my selfe And yet not of my self for that were not comely But of the Grace of God with me but a common grace neither By his Grace assisting me I have kept my standding served my Generation done the workes proper to my calling in all sincerity and faithfulnesse as knowing my self called by God and bound thereunto in my Obligations to man And so I have these twenty yeers and more in much weaknesse yet according to the Abilities God supplied me with contended against the stream and strongest-tide of evill Customes in the most schooles in point of Doctrine and Discipline for there is a little Church or should be so tendred and accounted of And evill practises in the parents house whence the Children come too ordinarily with the Name of God in their mouthes which they heard not of till they heard their parents sweare by that Terrible Name Ah Lord But I have said enough for if that be all which children for the most part learne at home and bring to schoole with them as sure enough it is all but not all the evill Then Ministers may teach from their Pulpits and Masters in their Schooles till their tongues are spent and spirits wasted and do as little good worke as little Reformation as now is discerneable More of of this in my 5th Section For look about with all your eyes and tell your self if you can where can you see it Though we have entred into Covenant with God touching that matter yet certainly that we call Reformation is like a Common-wealth we have only heard of or that placce which is no where Vtopia and no where will it be found till it be found in Families We poor folke do talke of Reformation and some faint velieties wishings and woulding we have that way We wish that the Church were Reformed and the Kingdomes all three Alas we do but mock our selves for God is not mocked Reformation cannot be while Families are like the Sluggards field quite neglected There is the evill the very head-spring thereof Family-neglects The unanswerablenesse to our Relations there in all the Duties belonging thereunto And this evill in Families I have done my utmost to discover And have with enlarged affections to our prosperity there unfolded the duties proper to the parents care there and all to set that private house in order * In a book called the childes Patrimonie And this service I have concluded to bee proper to my Station the greatest piece of service I was possibly able to perform whereby to serve this Generation and that which is to come For till this private-house bee better ordered there will be no good order neither in Schooles not Colleges nor Churches neither Indeed the Masters in their Assemblies Colledges and Schooles do stand but as Cyphars there without a figure put to them If they stand alone the parents or Governours of families not with them joyning together in their watchfull care and contributing their double diligence which parents will never do till they be told their duty better from the pulpits Nor told-onely but till the Magistrates and Ministers both go together hand in hand prescribing orders to families their due observation of them according to the Minde and Word of God And here if the command and charge of God might prevaile with the Ministers of the Law and Gospel I mean Civill and Ecclesiasticall To do their Duty in visiting Families and Schooles I would direct their course unto Mr. Grantham to visit his Family and scoole in the first place after him whom else they please The Ministers may enquire there how things are whether as Fame reports them and as the cry is gone-up against him in this City Enquire they may What manner of servant he is to God and himself And what manner of Master he is to those intrusted to his charge And how Answerable he is to that great Trust the charge of Bodies and Soules too and his undertakings touching that matter I mean how responsable he has been in deed to parents when they have come to him and spoken in the old Fathers language Redde Depositum I have intrusted my childe my earthly Treasure into your hands I have deposited him there come give an account of your Trust and mine what has been your care over him What cure have you