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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29112	The cause of the innocent pleaded, his accusers pretended charge confvted, their unparallel'd actings, ungospel-like dealings, and unrighteous proceedings against their pastor, declared, or, Truth breaking forth, through the mist of clouds and slanders published by Samuel Bradley ...	Bradley, Samuel.	1664 (1664)	Wing B4126; ESTC R37453	47,126	59

scorned to be taught his duty by any Member in the Congregation and sometimes he would incompass them with fained Flatteries and Repentances and yet in the mean time fly out into those foul breaking parts that indeed he was become a Burden to us Also of some of those petty things we have also at large to be brought forth if desired by any And if you adde to all this his carriage while we were dealing with him at one time breaking out into very wicked reviling and contempt as He had brought up a Bird to pick out his Eyes a Brother that then spake Black-mouth Foul-mouth said he had spit the Devil all day And at another time vilely scoffed at the Work of the Lord being acquainted he should be cut off scoffingly said It would be cut and dried by and by And as a further Evidence of his Hardness and Implacableness under all when it was told him he was cut off he makes that the time of his liberty as he said to some present with him Now he had his liberty to go and preach the Gospel unto the world And gives out that he is wronged and yet he hath made his Appeal to the Churches and cannot be heard and now makes his Appeal to God and questions not but in a Twelvemonth he shall make Us and the Churches to know their Evil. This being but a brief Copy of those many grand evils for which our Brethren before and now have cut him off and cast him out for the destruction of the flesh And so now bear our Testimony against all his evil and all his Adherents and set our Hands to the Truth of it Brothers Glyde Minzes Johnson Morlie Bentlie Senior Hackney Cook Potter Jones Lane Green Aston Bentlie Junior Sisters Abigail Fich Mary Hackney Elizabeth Hackney Anne Bear Elizabeth Haten Gibbes Laurence Winter Potter Stirrup Ellengray Grove Bentlie Scales Robinson The Reader may take notice That Robert Bentlie Junior whose name is set down to this pretended Charge did declare to Thomas Rose That he did never set his hand to any such thing So that what may this be called but plain deceit and it is abominable not onely in the sight of the Lord but good men also and a sin punishable by the Judge to counterfeit a mans name and bring him in as a Witness to their pretended Charge when he was in no capacity so to be as being then no Member of the Church A farther Discovery of their Uncharitable Proceedings followeth A brief Account of the Ungospel-like Dealings and Unrighteous Proceedings of John Glyde Benjamin Minzes John Johnson and the rest of the Dissenting Members with them manifested against their Pastour Samuel Bradley as followeth UPon the 5th day of the 5th month 1663. at a Brothers house namely John Glyde was the Church meet and continued all that day with one accord preaching the Word and in Prayer yea Breaking of Bread with gladness and singleness of heart and praising of God at the close of the day a Letter of Recommendation was read in order to send me forth to preach the Gospel and the Letter being read they with one consent assented and immediately signed the same and gave me up unto the Lord his Work and Service with endeared Manifestations of Love at our parting The week following I took my journey and at the evening of the same day I entered upon the work finding a door opened by the Lord after the Lord's Work was there accomplished I travelled farther into the Country where I found the Lord's harvest to be very great and did continue in the Work by night as well as by day finding the People exceeding thirsty hungry after the Means of Grace where much work for the Lord might have been done had not false Reports Reproaches put a stop thereunto After eight or nine dayes had been spent in this Service quite contrary unto my own expectation I was by providence returned back again to London and at my return there was such news presented unto me that I was struck into some kind of amazement to hear of that distraction that was in the Congregation and of their Resolutions concerning me The next day being the first day of the week they were resolved to meet about me Truly my soul was much grieved to consider what a sweet and heavenly Posture I left them in about eight or nine dayes before and to hear of such a sudden alteration I being weary riding very hard for to reach London that day and hearing nothing of it before I came I lying down upon a bed being over-whelmed in my spirit with grief and sorrow at last the Lord was pleased for to revive me again with these words I will not leave thee comfortless these words were set home with such power through Grace I was refreshed and satisfied again and set down my resolution by the help of the Lord to go the day following and make my appearance to the Church that I might understand how things were The first day being come and the Church meeting at the place aforesaid where I left them in such a sweet harmonious posture they had begun before I had entered the meeting after the first brother had ended his prayer the second began to speak Benjamin Minzes by name and his way of speaking was in such a sad railing reviling manner as many can witness who were in the hearing thereof that did admire at my patience to hear my self reviled at that rate A little of his reviling Language is here repeated That a hundred pounds was a great deal of money to betray the People of God and for a piece more he would do much but let them go and do as Judas did hang themselves for their labour and that he that should joyn with a Trapan when he doth come to preach here I would turn my back upon him and let him preach unto the walls Benjamin Minzes when the heat of his blood was over did not go untold of it to colour over his wickedness and deceit makes this reply thinking to shift it off but it will not do He did not name Sam. Bradly This covering is too short to cover over his evil for besides the testimony of his own conscience I have many undeniable arguments to prove it against him but for the present I shall omit it Again Benjamin Minzes did in the bitterness of his spirit further declare openly unto all sorts of People Advising to serve them as Samuel did Agag hew them to pieces Saying also that they had power to cut off and cast out Where we may plainly see he stirred them up to cut off their Pastor before they had given him so much as a hearing and this is that they call their just dealing And after J. G. had done preaching B. Minzes made another speech to the People as if what he had said to them was not sufficient to make them one with him in his wicked design tells them on purpose

ran into the Cave of Adulam to save himself from Saul Thirdly Our Lord himself when he was hunted and threatned by the Jews removes from Jury and walks to another place to save himself Fourthly Paul the great Apostle of the Gentiles was let down in a Basket to save himself Have we such a cloud of Witnesses and many more of the Servants of Christ besides Christ himself that did use means to save themselves and will these people bring it as a Charge against me Hear you may see the insufficiency of their Charge And as to the Word Sorrow for what to a Brother I had spoken will they bring it as a Charge against me for so doing having some just ground for what I did To tell you the truth I had some jealousie upon me concerning a person as these persons have had jealousie upon them concerning my self and to deal ingenuously when I was convinced I had no just grounds of jealousie I was sorry for the same and so should they for I appeal to the Consciences of these men whether they have any just grounds to be thus reporting of me for a Trappan if not let jealousie no more remain for it is that fire that will burn up all love and they will do well to try whether it has not burnt up all that tender affection which once they had to me Oh Friends I say to you all yet notwithstanding though there hath such a great cry past through this Nation about S. Bradley's being such a person and it is found a Bradley though not the same a man to my knowledge I never saw in all my life and as it hath been proved altogether what Reason can be given that their loves should not be renewed again Oh how should I rejoyce to see that day seeing it is so be ingenuous to acknowledge your fault with sorrow and grief of heart considering how God's Name and Truth hath been greatly reproached the Work of Conversion stopped the hearts of many of the Pretious Sons of Sion grieved and all by your means bla●zing through the Nation that which you see cannot be proved but at last is found to be a mistake as if there were no more of that name but my self So that hitherto your pretended Charge appears to be none but a heap of untruths and scandals 7. Par● He stands guilty of opening the nakedness and dealings in the Church-secrets in his publick preaching Ans These following Particulars are distinct from the former They are things raked up and put together to fill up the number These things at the first sight seems to bear weight but when they are examined there is no such matter Now I must confess I am much grieved that they have put me so unvoidably upon it to rake up old Matters and must be forced to bring those things forth to publick view that will render those persons to be unsound not being able to bear with sound Doctrine Though they have committed this folly to publick view I will promise to favour them as much as I can for though they have not so much love left in this storm the Accuser of the Brethren hath raised to cover their Pastors infirmities They shall see I have some left in me to cover much of theirs and seeing they have brought me upon the publick Stage I must be forc't to give some reply though short I must needs say to the grief of my heart I could not Preach to any Soul-searching-matter but should be accused by one or other yea though I have laid my matter down in general terms being willing so far as I could as it stood-with a good Conscience to give as little offence as I might but let me be as careful in this matter as was approveable in the sight of God yet some or other of them would still be offended that for a quarter of a year together and more before they had made this Breach I was so burthensom as they called it in my Ministry that it could not be borne by them when some being offended came to tell me that I spoke unto them My answer to such was If they could experience what I said it was to them and this they call the Secrets of the Church This Particular and my brief reply I shall leave it to my Brethren in the Ministry for to consider whether I was blame-worthy in this matter Again That it was frequently desired by two brethren to forbear such passages shewing how dishonourable they were to God and grievous to them he solemnly engaged never to do the like again nevertheless at the very next Meeting he had of his own appointing of which he had two or three a week besides the Church-Meetings he did publickly declare that his Church did stop his mouth so that he durst not for displeasing of them preach those truths he would Ans Whether this be a fair way of dealing let such as are truly godly be judge in this Case for these Persons to speak at this rate After all breaches and differences were made up and forgotten and were sweetly reconciled together and with a joynt consent had sat down at the Table of the Lord in a Heavenly and Gospel manner and they to send forth their Preacher with a Letter of Recommendation to the Churches of Christ throughout the Nation according to the order aforesaid and yet of a sudden in eight or nine dayes time such a scroul as this should be drawn up against him and spread through the Nation and never come unto the sight of their Pastor till a twelve-month after is such a wonder to me that the like was never seen or heard of since the Creation of the World but as touching the Brethrens desire to the best of my remembrance it was accomplished they manifesting themselves to be very apt for to quarrel at every turn with me and to be falling out for peace-sake I yielded to such a thing bearing with their weakness who would indeed be often doing amiss and found out of the Gospel way but could not bear to be reproved for it yea I say for their peace sake I yielded to their desires with grief of Soul I declare it in maintaining of their peace I broak my own in tying up my self from making improvement of my Ministry and exercising part of that power I had received from the Lord to reprove as well as to exhort and comfort it is no small trouble to me that they force me to rip up their weakness at this rate in such a publick way which now cannot be well avoided they having published my Charge abroad For Truth 's sake I must speak a little though nothing nigh to what I could relate but this that I have done is not to render them odious as they have done their Pastor but rather that the Truth might appear on my part that so things may be compared together both what I can say for my self as well as what they have writ