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The life and death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, minister of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, M.A.
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Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.
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1672
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Wing S6277; ESTC R34633
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against Mr. Tho. Wilson Minister of Otham in Kent April 29. 1635. in the Archbishops Court with his Answers thereunto presented May 28. 1635. I. ARTICLE CAnonical Obedience due by Oath taken at your Institution into your place RESP. 'T is true as I understand the Oath it is according to Cannons by Law established in the Church of England and as it is propounded in omnibus licitis honestis II. ART That the Minister must have popular Election as necessary to hold his place RESP. I never held such an opinion neither privately speak nor publickly Preached such a Tenet III. ART That there is little comfort to a Minister instituted and inducted without approbation of the people as you know and believeth are still of this mind challenging Mr. Cragge the Competitor of the Rectory before Mr. Barrel with what conscience he could come without their call RESP. I know and believe the contrary viz. that a Minister inducted according to the Cannons and Custom of the Church of England may with good conscience discharge the place neither do I think fit my Parish should chuse their Minister nor did I depend on their call but came in away approved by the Church of England this I said to Mr. Cragge before Mr. Barrel the people liked me and I desire to love them and that it is a good incouragement for a Minister to take pains among such a people and he will have little comfort who knows he hath neither love of the people nor the people but comes out of love to himself for the profits and his maintenance as Mr. Barrel helped him to answer that was his end IV. ART Conventicles held in my house and other private houses in the Town of Otham within this two years and used exercises of Religion by Law prohibited expounded Sermons read and expounded Scripture to selected Proselytes to the number of twenty of six present RESP. I deny holding of Conventicles and using exercises of Religion by Law prohibited and the name nature or number of Proselytes but this hath been my practice with my Family in my own house to examine them what they remembred and to help them where they could not remember and I did teach Gods Word unto them diligently as I conceive I was and am bound by Gods Word Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thy House Deut. 6 6 7. Uses moreover I took it to be my duty as I could to teach by way of exhortation and conference from house to house what I had taught in publick that I might keep back nothing that was profitable as I am instructed to do Acts 20. 20. Paul bids the Minister look to his duty in private towards every member of the Church by his example as Iunius de natura Ecclesae citet Libro cap. 2. de Officio Pastoris Acts 20. 20. So that what I had delivered in publick I might as occasion was offered deliver in private This is not prohibited by any Law either Statute or Cannon that I know but is commanded of God as I am a Christian in his Word to teach others Let the words of Christ dwell in you richly Teaching and Admonishing one another Col. 3. 16. And it is injoyned by Authors and Fathers Zanchy in Col. 3. 16. That the duty of teaching is not only in the Church publickly but to be much set by and used in houses privately and Christians be bound to teach mutually and privately Chrisostom Archbishop of Constantinople on Gen. Hom. 2. commands let the Husband tell what we say that the Wife and Children and Servants may learn and the House be a Church that Sathan may be banished again Hom. 6. Let your speech be spiritual let one take the Bible in his hands and his Neighbours being called together let him water their mind and his own with Godly speech Again Hom. 8. I will I pray you all to be Teachers and not only Hearers of our words but carry our Doctrine to others Further more Hom. 10. He that studieth to teach his Neighbours and Brother doth him a good turn and God will reward him and by repeating our sayings he will hold them better adding we may at home after Dinner take the Bible to profit and to feed the soul with it Lastly Hom. 14. I intreat you all that go hence become Teachers and Admonishers confer with your Neighbours of the things which we have now said Caesureus Arcletensis Episcopus de cura animae Hom. 20. teacheth he that can retain all that we say let him thank God and what he retaineth let him always shew it to others adding let people afterwards repeat what they have heard in a Sermon saying Christians ought for their own good to seek and ask if need be also to give rewards that some may read over again Gods Word unto them V. ART Within four chiefly two years last to permit Novellist of Maidstone to the number of 30. or 10. and lead them riding or going and in some private houses Collected or cause to be got together afore Supper 60 50 or 40. persons repeated Sermons expounded Scriptures and afore it and after it made tedious extemporary Prayers full of Tantologies delivered scandalous Doctrine to the perverting and corrupting sundry of his Majesties Subjects RESP. I protest against such Doctrine and such effect on any as to be corrupted and perverted I deny the number or nature of persons and my Leading any or Collecting any or causing any to be gathered together I have no power to restrain any from hearing Sermons and it may be their Surties for their parts and duties did call upon them to hear Sermons I was upon occasion of my Family lodging and sojourning at Maidstone necessarily to go home and I have no reason to shun the way home for any company in which I knew no ill a way home being not denyed me and afterwards I examined my Family what they did call to mind of the Sermon as a Master ought to do also I prayed at all times according to the thing of a day in day and I took it to be no sin 1 Kings 8. 59. And I am taught to exhort comfort and edifie others as Crysostom in Homily cited applyes that 1 Thes. 5. 11. Babington Bishop of Worcester saith on that fourth Commandment besides the hearing of the Word on the Sabbaoth it is our duty and a Godly exercise fit for the day amongst our selves or with our Pastor to confer of what hath been said that he may expound it as we read was done by Christ to his Disciples when they were alone he expounded all thing unto them Mark 4. 10. and 34. So I have answered as well as I could when any thing was asked me by any for I durst not be dumb when I could satisfie them that did not understand and yet did desire to know the will of God VI. ART Refusal to read the Kings Declaration