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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92948	A modest vindication of Mr. Seton's address and petition, to his Majesties High Commissioner, from the cavils and misconstructions of Anonymus	Seton, George, 1676-1762.	1697 (1697)	Wing S2649A; ESTC R232207	5,679	13

Iohn Carter Brown Library Brown University GARDED A Modest Vindication of Mr. Setons Address and Petition To his Majesties High Commissioner from the Cavils and Misconstructions of Anonymus I Am not at leasure to triffle with the 〈…〉 Author of the perplexed and ●edious Reflections on my short Sermon in behalf of Charity and my most earnest and humble Petition for a Brotherly Conference I have studied our SAVIOUR's Sermon on the Mount and I hope I have profited something at His School who when He was Reviled Reviled not again my Intention is not to amuse the World with Parades unbecoming a Churchman nor to do any thing that may purchase me the Character of a Sounding Brass or Tinkling Cymbal I have read the Causes of the decay of Christian Piety and other good Books written in good Language but I was never at Billings-gate nor am I versed in its rude Dialect I know how Haman pleaded against the Jews and the Fauning Orator Tertullus against the great Doctor of the Gentiles the Rapturous Encomiast on Heavenly Charity I know also how the Arch-Angel managed the Contraversie betwixt him and a very ill Competitor But I never thought it worth my while to bestow spare hours on such trash dirty pamphlets as the Presbyterian Eloquence and the Wicked Answers to it I have long been one of these Mourners who bewail the sad State of Christendom and the miserable Divisions of this Kingdom in particular and the fierce Animosities among Us Churchmen which make the Atheist flout Us the Theist and Socinian lift up his Head and the Romish Missionary bless himself with swelling Hopes and Triumph in Secret and warm himself at the fire kindled in Our Bowels I have been sometime in this Place at the desire of Persons of different Ranks and Characters who are enclined to hope that as upon more Occasions than one I have conform to my Slender Capacity done some little Services to my King Countrey and Holy Religion so I might by GOD's Blessing prove Instrumental at this Season to beget a good Understanding betwixt contending Parties I thank GOD for it I have hitherto Laboured with some good Success I find diverse Pious and Learned Men amongst my Presbyterian Brethren I find fellow Mourners for the Distresses of Our Zion I find his Grace my Lord Commissioner deserves higher Characters than all the Eloquence I could command has as yet given him I find he is not to be taught Manners by the Author of the Reflections and that he does not think it unworthy of his while or Serious Thoughts amidst all the important Cares he is loaden with to listen to the Friendly and privat Conferences of Men of different Perswasions in little Matters The King himself finds Leasure Inclination amidst the rugged Toils of Warr to regrat Our unkindly and unseasonable Contentions and he wishes them at an end And there are more of his chief Ministers than one who design to serve GOD Faithfully and their Royal Master and their afflicted Countrey therein I want not overtures of Peace and Union such as the Generality of this Nation or at least those whose Hearts GOD hath touched shall in time be well pleased with I seek Peace and pursue it and there are on both sides who join cordially their Helping Hands to me I expect a fair Conference and a good Issue through the Blessing of GOD on it and I Labour without Wearieness to have all things Right disposed to that Effect And I will not be interrupted by the nameless Scribler but I can and will Pray heartily That GOD may inspire him with a more Christian and Charitable Temper If at a more Seasonable Juncture It shall be found expedient to vindicat my se●● and my Brethren as to our past conduct in some remarkable steps of dubious co●struction the little Pen that has been imployed sometimes in harder busieness ma● by the aid of Divine Grace be able to give the world Satisfactory accounts in thes● and other Matters not fit to be touched at this occasion Thus sat I had Written upon sight and with some tender Sense of unkind usage but upon second thoughts and finding I had one spare Hour more at my disposal and being such a Penitent as I ought to be For the fuller satisfaction of the Autho● and others I think fit to add in the followi●● Paragraphs a particular Confession o● the Sins that I and those of my Perswasion are Tashed with or if so you please t● Construct it to lay aside the Authors high Sounding Envelop and fast of Genera● words and the Stage and … ce and all false Logick and Erring Divinations and to set His Church in a true Light and the Society thar prove Schismatick to it 1mo To dispose the most Opinionative Readers to hearken without prejudice t● the Contents of my Adress and Petition when published and to speak Truth of my self and my Brethren I Denominate us well Affected to the Peace of this Church But I have cry'd aloud and not spared I have lifted up my Voice like a Trumpet and declaimed against the Sins of GOD's People and his Select Office-Bearers and that is to have Jacob's Voice and Esau's rough Hands 2do I Adorned my Paper with some Scriptur al Eloquence But as Bishop Stillingfleet in the Preface to his Iraenicum so I unluckily named Procrustes whose Character every one is not acquainted with and that smelled too rankly of the Stage and of unsanctified Heathen Learning and after such Language of Ashdod no Wise or Good Man could take me to be a Minister of the Gospel 3tio With some Emotion of Mind and a Passionate Zeal I have Commended the Beauty of Charity and Magnified her as a Divine Physician and I thought I had Saint Paul on my side but that was only a fancy 4to Charity is a Stranger to the World or she is not if she be I was a Fool to speak Good of her For I might be sure to be beaten for my pains if she be not there was neither Truth Charity no● Wisdom in my complaint 5to To say or so much as to insinuate that there is any Pride or Partiality o● Malice amongst these Church-Men who have the Government now Lodged in thei● Hands or that there are any Errors in their Conduct prejudicial to Peace and Unity is a false assertion and to tell them of it openly who can resent to purpose is no Wisdom 6to Though I have often expostulated in private with warm men on both sides concerning the mischief that Springs from our Divisions though some Mans Memory more Charitable than the Authors may be so kind as to remember that in the Committee at Aberdeen Anno 1694 I earnestly pressed a Friendly conference with some of the Members telling them in Express words that the Devil and the Jesuits had Triumphed too long in our Divisions and that she was not the True Mother who cryed to divide the living Child And tho my serious