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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88105	Light for smoke: or, A cleare and distinct reply by Iohn Ley, one of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, to a darke and confused answer in a booke made, and intituled The smoke in the temple, by Iohn Saltmarsh, late preacher at Brasteed in Kent, now revolted both from his pastorall calling and charge. Whereto is added, Novello-mastix, or a scourge for a scurrilous news-monger.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.; C. D. Novello-mastix.	1646 (1646)	Wing L1883; Thomason E333_2; Thomason E333_3; ESTC R200742	90,377	128

victory onely of your own abusive allegation or interpretation thereof Smoke Pag. 59. I did confider who was engaged a Parliament c. and had I not highly valued them I had not ventured so farre in my Quere Light Not so farre as to oppose retard and reproach the Church Government wherein they were so farre so publiquely engaged is this to value them to value them highly if such be the price you set upon such Honourable Patriots I shall never be ambitious of your good acceptation nor solicitous of your estimation of me whether the rate you set upon me be pretious or vile Smoke Pag. 59. I considered the fatall troubles which attended the Magistrates engagements with the Ministers Light If the Ministers engagements in Religion be right it is a happinesse that Magistrates be engaged with them and therefore on the one side promised as matter of great joy and glory to the Church that Kings should be unto it as nursing Fathers and Queenes as nursing Mothers Isa 49.23 and on the other required as a dutie to pray for Kings and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet life in all godlinesse and honesty 1 Tim. 2.2 and in all Ages to this day the orthodoxe party have much desired the Patronage of Princes and civill States in their Religious ministrations as a meanes to propagate the Gospel in the power and puritie of the Ordinances of Christ and if the Parliament should which the Lord forbid yeeld to such a toleration of Religions as you propound I would know whether you would not desire the security of State for that licence you lust after if any should oppose you therein and would you not have the power that granted it engage so farre as to make it good unto you and to suppresse those who would debarre you of the libertie allowed you We know the spirit of your partie by their speeches and some practises so well that we doubt not of this and we have cause rather to beleeve that you would not waite upon the Magistrates leisure to right you in such a case if you had power for more speedy remedy in your owne hands Smoke Pag. 59. And I considered the bloud which hath beene poured out by Nationall compulsion of teader consciences Light In what Nation doe you meane if in England as I suppose you doe either onely or chiefly I confesse that in the time of Popish Tyranny there was much blood poured out of the ve●●es of such as had tender consciences so tender that they could endure death more willingly then Idolatry And I deny not but the domination of the Starchamber and the High Commission were very Tyrannicall and injurious to tender consciences and very bloody especially the Starchamber to the porsons of such as came under their censure for I have read the reports of the cruel usager of Mr. Prim●● Dr. Bastwick● and Mr. Burton and truly Sir I could not but be affected with compassion towards Mr. Lilburne and with indignation towards his persecutors though he have often bewrayed a bitter spirit by many disdainfull contumelies against them upon the reading of the late Relation of his sufferings proved before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres Feb. 13. 1645. wherein it is testified that a Pag. 3. he was whipped from Fleet bridge to Westminster so cruelly that the cords bruised his shoulders and made them swell as bigge as a penny leafe and wheales on his backe bigger then a Tobacco-pipe and that the Warden of the Fleet caused him to be gagged in such a cruell manner as if he would have torne his jawes in pieces But did not the Parliament so farre abominate the Tyranny of these Courts as utterly to depose them and to exclude the Bishops out of the House of Peers and will you compare their engagements for the puritie and unitie of a reformed Religion and Government with the intolerable-Tyranny of such mercilesse oppressours And for the tender consciences so much so plausibly pleaded for by you and your partie many who had good meanes to know Sectaries and no bad minds to mis-report of them finde that for a few tender consciences among them there are many leprous ulcerous blinded hardned and cauterized consciences to which if the State should be so tender as you would have them it would be cruell to farre better Christians SECT XXVIII What a Trumpeter Mr. Saltm is his reproach of the Parliament plaine enough though rather implied then expressed A challenge of him to prove his insinuated suggestions of Treason Blasphemie c. in my Examination of his New Quere Smoke Pag. 59. ANd like a spirituall watchman I could not but blow my Trumpet Light The premises considered your Trumpet is as the Trumpet of Sheba the sonne of Bichri sounded to sedition a Sam. 20.1 Smoke Pag. 59. And for my comparison of Papists and Prelates I appeale to the world if there be any reproach whether it be not in the Interpreter rather then in the Authour Light For my comparison of Papists and Prelates If you compare Papists and Prelates it is not so great a reproach to Prelates for the most part to be matched with Papists as for the Presbyterians to be likened to the worst of either as you make the comparison but you should have said further for my resemblance of such as desire and endeavour the speedy setting up of Government to Papists and Prelates for so you made it in your Quere p. 8. I appeale not to the world that is too wide a compasse for a Iudicatory as well as for a Church but to the ingenuous and impartiall Reader whether the Parliament making as much haste as they can to finish the Governement that they may establish it by their civill Sanction be not implicitly taken into that imputation and let him judge also whether the reproach be in the Authour or in the Interpreter Smoke Pag. 59. If it be lawfull say you to draw in consequent conclusions and then father them I could prove you to speake Treason Blasphemie Idolatry Atheisme Heresie nay Independency which some of you may thinke worse Anabaptisme Separation which would seeme to be as hatefull to you but I judge you not in any such sort nor had I spoken so farre now but in a just vindication Light If it be lawfull why should you doubt of it but that it is lawfull If I have any premises which you can make parents to bring forth such corrupt and criminall conclusions spare me not Sir nay I challenge you to lay downe your antecedent in my words and bring in your consequent of Treason Blasphemie Idolatry Atheisme c. out of them which if you can doe by any faire and unforced deduction I will take you for an unerring Oracle and follow you with an implicit faith with punctuall observance and imitation of you whithersoever you goe through all your vatiations of Heresie and Schisme though you ramble all over the Catalogue of them