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A64639	Perez Uzza, Or, A serious letter sent to Master Edm. Calamy, January the 17th, 1663 touching his sermon at Aldermanbvry, December the 28th, intimating his close design, and dangerous insinuation against the publick peace : with some queries he is to answer, for the satisfaction of the world.	Udall, O.	1663 (1663)	Wing U17; ESTC R23555	20,153	32

false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. And I pray teach them wherefore if they shall say unto you behold he is in the desert go not forth behold he is in the secret chambers or meetings believe it not Object 16. The people of God you said were much troubled because of the misery of a nation when the Ark is departed A Gentleman to whom words of this nature were communicated and I am loath to write this of my self that where is you said ●o be to that nation when the Ark is gone said wo be to that nation where the Ark of Presbytery for it s followed and attended with war sedition bloud ruine and confusion and O that sad experience did not confirm this in England Scotland and other places Insomuch that the foreign Churches the men of Ashdod of the Ark say this way shall not abide with us let it be carried about to Gath to other Churches as Scotland and in those places it was attended with very great destruction and they send it to England and the English cried out they have brought this way hither to slay us and our people and the King Lords and Commons in Parliament say send this way to its own place that it slay us not and our people for there was a deadly destruction throughout the whole Country that came along with it and the hand of God was very heavy here And the cry of the Countrey went up to heaven destruction and misery saith he is in their way and the way of peace have they not known Obj. 17. I was glad indeed to hear you say That the people of God must needs tremble when the Ark is in danger because of their accessariness to the loosing of the Ark for to deal plainly with you is the Church in danger your disturbances cause it doth Popery break in upon us the breaches you made upon Law and Government open the way to it doth prophanenesse prevail O you have made serious holiness odious by goodly pretences and unworthy practices doth not the Magistrate watch over Papists It s because your dangerous attempts makes him wholly intent upon you doth he indulge them you say men must have liberty of conscience do we want Ministers why did you withdraw your selves is the nation divided against it self who hath occasioned it have we lost our first love why do you by depraving the first Reformation cause us to loose our first love Do the people run beadlong to the Garlick and Onions of Egypt you mean Popery and have not you forced them to do so by crying down every thing that was established for Popery that the people have nothing upon which they may settle themselves but Popery if they stay with us they are in Babylon say your party if they go over to you you are antichristian say the poor Libertines where ever they are in an orderly established way they are in Popery and if all that is orderly and settled be Popery to hear Papists we will go if all decent worship and regular Government be Popery the Popish people shall be my people their God shall be my God where they die I will die and there be buried do poor discontented souls desire to return to the Church of Rome Is it not because they of the separation say there is no true Church in England Object 18. But you were plain it seemes at last and told them it must not be denyed but the Arke was in danger to be lost If you meane Presbytery which we never had established there is no harmedone If you meane the Church of England with her Doctrine Discipline Worship Rites and Ceremonies as established by Law it 's well you have forewarned us the King and Parliament I hope will take you at your words and will take care to secure the Church upon such foundations as the Gates of Hell cannot prevaile against well Sir I leave with you that of Eccl. 3.11 with you He hath made every thing beautifull in his season yea he hath set the World in thine heart so that no Man can find out the work that God maketh from the begining to the end who know what is good for a Man in this life all the dayes of his vaine life which he spendeth as a shadow for who can tell a Man what shall be after him under the Sun the thing that hath been it is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and Sir there is no new thing under the Sun is there any thing whereof it may be said be hold this is new it hath been already of old Time which was before us Mr. Calamy I know whatever God doeth it shall be for ever nothing can be put to it nor any thing taken from it and God doth it that men should fear before him That which hath been is now and that which is to be hath already been and God requireth that which was past Object 19. I was informed you told your people that in their own concernments they were very sensible But in the concernments of Religion very careless If you intended to raise a sedition which I hope you did not I am sure the providence of God never called you to it you could not take a better course then to add to civill grievances which you know the people murmure against Religious jealousies and feares O when Religion which should restraine the multitude provokes them to sedition to what excesse of riot do they run 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. inde furor vulgo its naturall for men to think nothing little in the case of Religion so that they can hardly perswade themselves they can be angry enough in the case of a Diety a discreet man will never stirre up the people in the defence of any point of Religion for their force when stirred up will destroy all religion you know the late popular tumults were not so easily ellayed as they were raised by you you know when the multitude had served your humours in pulling down Episcopacy they served their in overthrowing you It 's more proper to tell the people of their duty then of their danger our businesse is to discover to the people the state of their souls let those that are in Authority shew them the state of the Government as who attend upon this very thing and for the people let them stand still and see the salvation of God let them peaceably walk with God and God will watch over them let them keep Religion every one in his heart and Religion will keep its self in the Church Object 20. I hear you said We had enjoyed the Gospell these hundred yeares and above It 's true we enjoyned the Gospell these 1400. yeares as we can make it appear against the Papists from the several men that in all ages were eminent for their adherence

to the Word of God and to the Testimony of Jesus And truly I would not have the Papists hear that we have a Gospel only of an hundred year old but it 's as true that you were never contented under the Gospel We have had the Gospel these hundred yeares and yet we have had admonitions supplications warnings prophesyings remonstrances ever since you have never been contented since we left Popery and if you gone complying with the Popish underminings whose great designe is by our divisions to bring us back againe you will never be quiet untill we return to Popery againe Object 21. When I was told how you challenged any Scholler to shew where any Nation enjoyed the Gospell for an hundred yeares together it put me in mind of a witty Gentlemans answer to one that asked what if a Papist should aske a Presbyterian where his Religion was 200. year ago he might answer I know no more where it was two hundred year ago then where it will be two hundred year hence but not to allow my self even a sober mirth on so sad an occasion this puts me in mind of Bishop Halls solemne offer That if any man living can shew any one lay Presbyter that ever was in the World till Farell and Viret or any Presbyterian Discipline till Mr. Calvin set one up let me saith he forfeit my reputation to shame and my life to justice Object 22. A wicked prophane drunken Ministry you say will never settle the Arke you say others say an envious ambitious seditious unlearned factious will never settle the Arke you would not hear the one O speak not the other if you had known any such you had done well to tell them of it that they might amend and not the people that they might be incensed this publique censuring and backbiting may provoke those that do amisse it will never reforme them this had been better told the Magistrate who might regulate the Ministry and not the people who as you know and have at other times complained being too much prejudiced against them which take this occasion to have them the more would to God Mr. Calamy you could bear with us a little in our folly and indeed bear with us I demand in the 〈◊〉 of the English Clergy who have been so distrusted so disconntenanced so dejected so despised so desolated so depressed wherein did they come short of the best of Presbyters were Presbyters good Preachers so were they before them were Presbyters able Writers they more were Presbyters devout Men so are they were Presbyters zealous opposers of Popery so were they were Presbyters of unblamed lives so are they were Presbyters Martyrs they more were Presbyters Instruments in the first just and orderly reformation they more were Presbyters hospitable and charitable they more who was more down-right then Bishop Latimer more holy then Hooper more severe then Farrar more Grave then Arch-Bishop Parker more pious then Grindall more candid and charitable then Whitgift more pious and prudent then Bankroft more holy and moderate then Abbat more publique spirited then Laud who was more Venerable then Bishop King who a greater Schollar and better Man then Bishop Andrews who more virtuous and judicious then Bishop Lake who more profound then Bishop White who more moderate then Bishop Overall who more exact then Bishop Davenant who more usefull then Bishop Field who more honest then Bishop Bilson who more Saintly then Bishop Fetton who more devoutly then Bishop Carleton who more conscientious then Bishop Finhouse who more meek and peaceable then Bishop Hall who more innocent then Bishop Patter who more honest then Bishop Winniffe who more renowned then Bishop Vsher who more excellent then Dr. Himmond who more meek holy and judicious then Mr. Hooker who more Heavenly then Mr. Lyford c. who more compleit then Bishop Brownrig Not the thousands more living and dead in our memory some spots we have among us and so have you some miscarrages and they that have not let them throw the first stone at us Object 23. You added I am told these expressions to the rest O that God would encourage our Nobles and Magistrates that they might be solicitous to settle the Ark Your meaning here Mr Calamy is as the Arke under a covering the King and his Nobles in Parliament have setled the Arke Ordinances the Church would you have the Nobles unsetle them again the Government is setled would you have the Nobles oppose it what a Barons Warre we never heard of a settlement these hundred yeares that you were satisfyed with O when will it once be yes you would be contented but that the Ark is set in the House of Dagon whom you call Dagon we worship as the God of our Fathers in the Lord Jesus Christs as for the Dagons of Popish Images and of new Imaginations with which indeed our Ark is incompassed we hope to see them fall down suddainly before the Ark the English Church Orthodox in Doctrine devout in Worship orderly in Ceremonies strict in Discipline and safe under Authority and here we set up our Pillar of gratitude with the sacred Inscription Hitherto the Lord hath helped us onely I shall leave with you these Questions to be resolved as in the light of God for the satisfaction of your conscience which you have by this action at least discomposed and of the Nation whose peace and tranquility you have disturbed 1. Quest Whether you do not think in your conscience as you have often declared that the Church of England is a true Church enjoying all Ordinances and Priviledges necessary to mens salvation 2 Quest If so as you all confessed whether the Ark which you say is a Type of the true Church be not a Type of the Church of England 3 Quest The Ark being a Type of the Church of England whether it be now in danger being newly established by publick Authority 4 Quest If it be in danger as now established whether this danger proceeds not from your open opposition and private endeavours against it and whether it be just in you to create the Churches danger and then increase it by suggesting to the people feares and jealousies of its being in danger 5 Quest Whether or no you ought in Conscience to put us to these dangers only for few opinions which none own but your selves and your selves understood not an hundred year agoe or against a few Ceremonies and points indifferent which your selves submitted to twenty yeares agoe 6 Quest And indeed whether the Church of the Living God doth so depend upon a few mortal Men such as you are who lately left the Ministry that upon the removal of a few singular Men it is in danger of being lost or if it doth so far depend upon them whether they could in Conscience hazard the ruine of the Church rather then declare that they disown the former miscarriage and they would lead peaceable and quiet lives under the present Government If there had been enjoyned a great thing would they not have done it much more when they were commanded onely to Wash and be Cleane and to serve God as some of them had done as decently and orderly as their Brethren 7 Que. Whether now with twenty yeares feares jealousies and imaginations we have been almost run out of all Religion Church Ordinances and publick Tokens of the visible of God the Nation had not best resolve to lay aside all private suggestions and to proceed to such a stable settlement as that we may say Return to thy Rest O Lord with the Ark of thy strength Well Master Calamy there will come a time when three words uttered with meeknesse and charity shall receive a far more blessed reward then three thousand Volumes written with disdainfull sharpnesse of wit and with malicious partiality you are a man Master Calamy you may erre and mistake your discipline may be suppressed some opinions of yours may be disowned you may be laid and yet the Church of God stand upon the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles and Pastors Jesus Christ himselfe being the Corner-Stone Thus much I thought became the respects I always beared you and the kindnesse I had for your far former sobriety and moderation for indeed Sir I am Your affectionate Friend in our common Saviour O. Vdall FINIS