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A69915	A plea for the Non-Conformists giving the true state of the dissenters case, and how far the Conformists separation from the Church of Rome, for their Popish superstitions and traditions introduced into the service of God, justifies the Non-Conformists separation from them for the same : in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Calamy, upon his sermon, called, Scrupulous conscience, inviting hereto : to which is added, A parallel scheme of the pagan, papal and Christian rites and ceremonies : with a narrative of the sufferings underwent for writing, printing and publishing hereof / by Thomas De Laune.	De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.; Danson, Thomas, d. 1694.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Eikōn tou thēriou.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Narrative of the sufferings of Thomas Delaune.	1684 (1684)	Wing D893; Wing D891; Wing D892; ESTC R12757	93,215	122

over all Ecclesiastical affaires as well as Civil was called Pontifex Maximus or high Priest to whom was given Divine Honour and prostration at his Feet And as head of the Church or high Priest had first Fruits Annates Oblations c. payd him and also a Purpurate Synod or Princes in Purple to assist him The Pope of Rome presiding by the Policie of Hell over all Ecclesiastical affaires clayming the Civil also is called Pontifex Maximus or high Priest to whom Divine Honour is given and prostration at his Feet And as Head of the Church and High Priest hath first Fruits Annates and Oblations c. payd him And a Purpurate Synod viz. Cardinals in Purple to assist him Neither Emperor Pope no● King but Christ himself to whom the Father has committed it having purchased it also with his own blood who as High Priest King is the alone Author and Institutor of it's Order Rule and Worship with all things that belong thereto and necessary to be Observed therein To whom Divine Honour is duly payd God blessed for ever the Government upon his Shoulders without any Catholick Vicar to assist Secondly it's Members Secondly it's Members Secondly it's Members The Members and partes of the Church were the partes of the Empire as divided into ten parts Hornes or Kingdoms And those ten Kingdoms distributed into Nations Provinces Diocess and Cures under respective Governors Civil-Military and Ecclesiastical The Members and parts of this Catholick Church are the parts of the Empire as divided into ten Hornes or ten Kingdoms And those ten Kingdoms distributed into Nations Provinces and Diocess and Parishes for the better Administration of Papal Juris diction The Members of the Christian Church are not any Empire Region City Diocess or Province but only such of the faithful or believers in all parts of the World who are called to visible Saintship and orderly put together into distinct Congregations as Christ has directed in the New Testament 3dly The Gods they Worship 3dly The Gods they Worship 3dly in Worshiping the true God only and truly Besides their Supreame God Jupiter or Jove whose name they derived from Jehovah the Governour of Heaven and Earth They had diverse inferior Deities Gods and Goddesses whom they divinely worshiped viz. Diva Vesta Juno or Luna the Queen of Heaven and Mother of God with Saturn Mars Venus Mercury Phaebus Beacchus Vulcan to whom they as their Numens Heroes or Intercessors built Temples erected Alatrs and Statues Dedicated Feasts and called the days by their names They had Doemons Ethereal and Tutular Gods and Goddesses to be applyed to by several Vocations Country's Cities Families Orders Sick Persons As Divus Neptunus for Mariners Divus pan for Shepherds Divus Pales for Husbandmen Diva Flora for the Curtisan Diva Diana for the Huntsmen Divus Esculapius for the Physitian Divus Bacchus for the Good fellow Divus Mercurius for Tradsmen They had gods for every Family Country City Decease as Cant sicat Era c. Besides in the Pontifex Maximus and Synod was placed the right of Apotheosis or God making viz. to create and Inrole some deceased worthy in the number of the Gods to whom Temples Altars Orders and Statues were appointed and Festivals in their names celebrated Besides the Supreame God Jehovah the Governour of Heaven and Earth they pretend to Worship they have diverse inferior Deities Gods and Goddesses whom they divinely Worship viz. Diva or Sancta Maria the Queen of Heaven and Mother of God with Divus Petrus St. Paul St. John St. Thomas St. Stephen St. Andrew c. To whom they as their Numens or Intercessors build Temples erect Altars dedicate Feasts paying also so much reverance to the Pagan Gods as to keep up their Names in the Day 's of the Week viz. Sunday Munday Tusday Wedensday Thursday Fryday Saterday They have also Tutular and Ethereal Gods and Goddesses to be applyed to by several Vocations Countrys Citys Families Orders Sick-Persons as Divus or St. Nicolas for the Mariner St. Windoline for the Shepherd St. John Baptist for the Husbandmen St. Magdaline for the Curtisan St. Hubart for the Huntsman St. Crispian for the Shoomaker c. The City Country Family and Physick Gods are innumerable St. George for England St. Denis for France St. Mark for Venice c. Gods almost for every Disease Besides the God making power that is in the Pope and Cardinals to canonize what deceased worthy they please and to appoint them Temples Altars Orders Festivals Though there be that are called Gods whether in Heaven or in Earth as there be Gods many and Lords many But to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him And one Lord Jesus by whom are all things and we by him 1 Cor. 5. 6. Make no mention of the names of other Gods neither let it be heard out of thy Mouth Ex. 23. 13. Thou snalt have no other Gods besides me thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaveu above or Earth beneath Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a Jealous God Ex. 20. 4 5. What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols For ye are the Temple of the living God Wherefore come out from amongst them and be ye seperate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing c. The things which the Gentles Sacrifice they Sacrifice to Devils and not to God and I would not that you should have Fellowship with Devils 1 Cor. 10. 20. Rev. 18. 4. 2 Cor. 6. 16. 4thly The places of their Worship 4dly The places of their Worship 4dly In it's Worship respecting place Temples or Fanes both rich and magnificent they built in the names and dedicated to the honour of their Gods As the Temple of Jupiter the Capital of Rome was dedicated to him Vesta the Q. of Heaven and Mother of God had a Temple and Nunnery dedicated to her And so had all the rest of the Gods Saturn Mars Venus Diana Minerva Neptune Apollo c. Yea one to all the gods called PANTHEON They build their Temples East and West Worshiping towards the East By their Auguri and Auruspices With many Frayers Ceremonies and Solemnitys they consecrated first the Ground and then the Temple upon which it was built Altars were erected in them and sumptiously adorned and Statues placed in them with lighted Candels which they Worshiped A Feast of Dedicaiton was Annualy kept to the Honour of the Daemon the Temple was dedicated to which after their Rligious Rites were over was spent in Revelling and Jollity And This as Gods House they pay'd great Reverence to They Enjoy'd the Temples of the Heathen only new consecrated and dedicated them to their own Gods to whom they gave new Nams at their Christnings As St. Saviours for Jupiters St. Mary's for Vestas Temple And so for the rest of their Gods St. Peters for Apollos

Church of God because then we give unto a Creature that service which is due unto God only Cont. Maxim lib. 1. Arg. 11. de Spir. Sancto Erasmus upon Austin 's words hath in the Margent marked thus This is done now to each one of the Divi or Saints viz. not a Church erected without such a Dedication Pope Vitellia●us brought in Organs and other Musical Instruments into the Church about the 8 th Century Bell de bon oper lib. 1. c. 7. Rogation-week or Gauge-days were Ordained by Pope Leo 444. as saith Platina Massaeus and Polidor Virgil. Pope Zacharias in the year 737 Ordained Priests Gowns Tippets and Four-corned Caps Chron. Achil. Faseicul Temp. Pope Boniface Ordained Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays Fasts as saith Platina And that Anno 425 Pope Boniface Ordained Vigils or Saints Eves Fasts as Polidor Virgil and Pantaleon affirm To which is called the Apostles Creed was not as now in our Liturgy known in the Primitive times but has past great alterations 1. It is manifest the Fathers in the first Ages do give us the Creed in other words not one of them giving us this Form for above 300 years after Christ Ignatius Irenaeus Origen Tertullian write the Churches Faith but none of them in this form 2. We have Bishop Vsher that great searcher into Antiquity giving us an account of the Additions made to it in his Dissert de Symbol p. 16. viz. Maker of Heaven and Earth was a new Addition not in the ancient Copies 2. Conceived is added the old form is Born of the Holy Ghost 3. the word Dead is added 4. Descended into Hell is added 5. the Name of God Almighty to the Articles of Christ's sitting at the right hand of God 6. Catholick is added to Holy Church 7. Communion of Saints is added And 8. Life everlasting is added And which Additions faith Bishop Vsher were not made at once but at several times And the Bishop affirms that the Nicene was as Confidently and more Anciently called the Apostles Creed As for the Athanasian Creed Quicunque vult c. fathered upon Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria in the 4th Age It appears to be otherwise and to have no such stamp of Primitive Antiquity as Dr. Burnet Hist of Reform Part 2. B. 1. p. 167. informs us viz. That they went according to the Received opinion that Athanasius was the Author of that Creed which is now found not to have been Compiled till near three Ages after him Secondly It doth appear that what was of pure Antiquity and in use in those first Centuries viz. 2 3 4 are either not used or blotted out of the Liturgies having been heretofore in use The Protestant Reconciler Part 1. Chap. 8. from pag. 261. to 299 gives an account of the Ancient Rites and Ceremonies in use amongst the Ancient Churches and Fathers now laid aside viz. Love-feasts Kiss of Charity Deaconesses Praying standing from Easter till Whit sunday Dipping or Plunging the Baptized yea the Trine Immersion Deferring Baptison till Easter and Whitsunday Exorcism Sufflation Anointing the Sick Chrism White Garment Milk and Honey to the New Baptized giving the Eucharist to the Infant from the 3d to the 12th Century mingling Water with the Sacramental Wine All eating of one Loaf in the Supper to send the Eulogiae or Broken Bread to the absent to receive standing or in a Table Gesture to pray for the Dead c. All which are Rejected And many of these though in the first Common-Prayer in Edward the Sixth's time laid aside as the said Author p. 298. tells us concluding thus Hence we may see how vainly 't is pretended that these Ceremonies were retained or imposed to manifest the Justice and Equity of the Reformation by letting their Enemies see they did not break Communion with them for meer Indifferent things or that they left the Church of Rome no farther than she left the ancient Church as saith Dr. Stillingfleet When 't is manifest saith he that we left off praying for departed Saints the Vnction of the Sick the mixing Water with the Sacramental Wine the Chrysm Exorcism the anointing the baptised Person Crossing the Breast and at the Consecration of the Eucharist and the baptismal Water with many other things which were retained in the ancient Church and in the Liturgy of Edw. 6. Thus you see that notwithstanding the great cry of Symbolizing with Primitive Antiquity and not at all with Rome that the latter appears to be as true as the other is false their Litnrgies Rites and Ceremonies being as said a Composition of Pagan Papal Inventions with some Novel Additions of their own and Primitive Antiquity almost wholly excluded And it is very observable to consider what Alterations have been made in Edw. the Sixth's Liturgy to gratifie the Papists as omitting that Clause of the Letany FROM THE BISHOP OF ROME AND ALL HIS DETESTABLE ENORMITIES and that in the Commination CURSED BE THE WORSHIPPERS OF IMAGES and have left out that Exhortation which is condemned as a most vile abomination in their usual Masses where People Gaze but do not Communicate Secondly In the next place it will appear that as we do not Symbolize with Antiquity in our Rites and Ceremonies that we do symbolize in most if not in all of them with Popery though so positively denied by the learned Which is manifest first by the several particulars before mentioned for as the Church of England doth not symbolize with Primitive Antiquity therein as it is plain they do not if our Authors speak true so they do fully symbolize with Popish Novelty as the proofs make manifest both in Kneeling at the Altar Cross in Baptism Surplice c. Secondly This symbolizing with Popery in our Rites and Ceremonies appears by what is fully owned and acknowledged by Parties themselves The principal part of Worship both as to matter and manner performed in the Church of England is contained in the Rubrick or Service-Book by Law established which in the beginning of the Reformation in H. 8. time was no other than the Romish Liturgy some parts only being translated into English viz. the Creed Pater-Noster Ten Commandments and Letany Edw. 6. went further translating it all into English yet retaining the same Service word for word except some alterations for so Mr. Fox tells us in the King and Councils Letter to the Devonshire men about the alteration of their Mass-book who by the Instigation of their Priests had been stirred up to Rebellion wherein it is thus told them as recorded Act. Mon. 2 Vol. p. 1189. As for the Service in the English tongue it perchance seems to you a New Service and yet indeed it is NO OTHER BUT THE OLD THE SELF-SAME WORDS in English for NOTHING is altered but to speak with Knowledge that which was spoken with Ignorance only a few things taken out so fond that it had been a shame to have

and People with Musick without the least divine Authority for such Song-Praying The Resolver goes oh p. 43. Our Brethron surely will allow of reading the Scriptures as they do viz. Epistles Gospels Psalms To which we say We do surely allow of reading the Scriptures but not as they do especially in those Epistles Gospels and Psalms which are given us in the Liturgy for the following Reasons First Because the Epistles Gospels and Psalms in the Service-Book are mis-translated being taken from the corrupt vulgar Latine-Bible which is so extream faulty and so much complained of by the learned both Protestants and others Secondly Because what they call Epistles and Gospels are so curtal'd and mangled that they become quite another thing than the Evangelists intended in the Gospels or the Apostles in their Epistles altogether ruining the scope and connexions in divers places as may be instanced in numerous particulars if need were Thirdly Because they have been the Inventions of the Popes who have so adulterated Christs pure Worship and Service to patch up their Idolatrous Mass-Service which Gregory called the Great compleated as before fixing and appropriating the Epistles Gospels and Psalms to the Mattins and Even-Songs throughout the Year as the Romish Calendar whose Copy 't is suspected we imitate writes after Fourthly That whilst it is supposed we may be instructed in the Lessons ordered to be read upon the so called Sundays and Holy-Days through the whole Bible they have omitted so much of the Canonical Scriptures as the greatest part of Leviticus Ruth Chronicles Nehemiah Esther Canticles Lamentations Amos Obadiah Jonah Nahum Zephaniah Haggai The second Epistle to the Thessalonians the second and third of John and most part of the Revelation instead of which several parts of Apocryphal Writings are read which are esteemed by the Learned to be fabulous and savouring of the too much adored Vanities of Gentilism Fifthly Because they have omitted all the Original Titles or Inscriptions of the Psalms which are part of the holy Scriptures which have so great a tendency to unfold the mysteries in the Psalms and instead of them retain the Popish Latino Titles printed over our English Psalms Sixthly because of those additions which are made to the Scriptures therein as to the 14 Psalm 3 whole verses which are not in any of the Original Copies and Gloria patri to the Conclusion of several Psalms ordering it to be said at the reading of every Psalm contrary to Deut 4. 2. Prov. 30. 6. Rev. 22. 18. Seventhly because the Epistles and Gospels are ordered to be sung as well as said without the least warrant or direction from the Scriptures Eightly because it is ordered in the Rubrick to sit at the reading of the Epistles and to stand up to bow and scrape and Respond at the Gospel without any warrant or direction from the Scriptures Ninthly because of the disorderly chopping interchanging of Scriptures by way of Colloquy betwixt the Priest and People viz. The Lord be with thee must the Priest say And with thy Spirit must the People say Open our Lips must the Priest say And let our Mouths shew forth thy praise must the People say And bandying so often the Kyrieeleison and Christeeleison Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us betwixt Priest and People for which no Rule of direction from Gods Word but expresly found in the Mass-book How faulty the Liturgy appeared in many of these things to many learned Episcopal Divines is manifest by that Paper which was drawn up Anno 1641. Touching Innovations in Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England together with Considerations upon the Common Prayer and subscribed by Arch-Bishop Vsher Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln Dr. Prideaux after B. of Worcester Dr. Browning after B. of Exeter Dr. Hacket afterwards Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Dr. Ward Dr. Featly c. and presented to the then Parliament wherein they gave 35 Exceptions against several things in the Liturgy And amongst others against the corrupt Translation of the Epistles and Gospels and Psalms against the Apocryphy enjoyned to be read in the Lessons against singing of Service against adding Gloria Patri to the Psalms against the Hymns taken out of the Mass-Book viz. Benedicite omnia opera c. against Priests Vestments enjoyn'd as were used 2d E. 6. against the sign of the Cross in Baptism which they say might as well be omitted as the Oyl which was heretofore its concomitant afore they went always together against prohibiting times of Marriage c. Another Objection which should have been spoken to before and which we he 〈◊〉 add is this viz. That it may well be supposed that the Nonconformists are very humerous in their groundless and unnecessary scruples whilst they are offended with the Church for that her Ancient and Reverend Practice of Bowing at the Name of Jesus enjoyn'd in the 18 th Canon and for which they have that positive direction and Command Phil. 2. 10. to warrant it It is very true they are indeed offended at that piece they conceive of voluntary Humility and Will-Worship because there is no more ground for Bowing at the mentioning of that Name either from that or any other Scripture than for Crossing our selves when that Name is named For first if it be a Command as supposed universally to bow at the mentioning those Syllables and that Name Jesus then are all both in Heaven Earth and under the Earth Mer Angels and Devils obliged thereto whenever that Name is mentioned be it either by a Wicked mans blasphemously swearing by it or a drunken Priests prophanely muttering it or the mentioning Jesus the Son of Syrach or Bar Jesus the Conjurer And secondly if the supposed Command must be understood to relate to the naming the Name of our Blessed Redeemer it must then be considered which of his Names must be meant because he hath many Names in Scripture as Christ Immanuel Jehovah Wonderful the Everlasting Father Saviour Redeemer Son of God Prince of Peace King of Kings Lord of Lords c. Any of which being much more properly to be understood here than this of Jesus because it is at the name of Jesus viz. some Name of his and not the Name Jesus that is to be bowed to Thirdly Neither can that Name be supposed to be meant here because it relates to a name the Father gave him after his Death Suffering and Exaltation as the words make manifest and therefore not that name Jesus which was given him at his Circumcision before his said Suffering and Exaltation Neither fourthly can this sense be admitted as a literal Command that all must bow the Knee at that Name because at the same time all and every one which make that reverence with the knee are enjoyn'd with their mouths to declare that he is the Lord to the glory of God the Father for they are joyn'd together and why is not one perfor●●d ●s well as the

other Therefore fifthly It doth necessarily respect another thing than Reverencing the syllables of a Name viz. that Power Authority and Soveraignity which the Father gave him in Glory as a Reward of his Suffering which he himself declared after his Resurrection Mat. 28. That all Power was given him in Heaven Earth Ephes 28. This bowing in the Name of Christ in this place being by the Prophet Isa 45. 23 24. explained a Subjection of all to the universal Authority that he shall exercise Name often signifying Power in Scripture Deut. 26. 19. Gen. 6. 4. Psal 44. 5. 20. 1. 7. And therefore is this very Subjection mentioned in the Text of a universal bowing the Knee to his Authority referred to the Judgment day when all both Men Angels and Devils must be subject to him Rom. 14. 11. And it is observable that the words are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the Name not at the Name of Jesus viz. In his Power and Authority being not a Command but a Prophesie when it shall be fulfilled and accomplished when there shall be that universal subjection to the Soveraignity of Christ That every Tongue shall confess that he is Lord to the Glory of God the Father as the after words mention And which shall be when he shall exert that Power that is inherent in him to subject all Nations to his Authority when he takes to himself his great Power and reigns when the Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of our Lord when upon his Vesture and his Thigh shall a Name be written KING of Kings and LORD of Lords and when all shall be gathered before him in the Judgment Day Which I conceive is the true genuine sense and meaning of these words and no such thing as a superstitious bowing at the Syllables of that Name intended which has been so universally practised and enjoyned to the just Offence of the Conscientious who have not an implicit Faith to believe as the Church believes Fifthly Their symbolizing with Popery in Impositions and Persecutions of Dissenters Have and ●o the Papists violently impose their Rites Services and Ceremonies and cruelly prosecute and persecure the Dissenters by Confiscations Imprisonments and Death it self Do not we by our Sanguinary Laws and Executions of them do the very same and whereof not one word of warrant in all the New Testament And how agreeable such a practice is to the Lamb-like Nature of Christs and his Disciples and Followers as also the Doctrines and Sentiments of many of your own Worthies as well as the Suffrage of several of our Kings and Parliaments judge you And whereof I beg leave to give you the following Instances viz. we shall begin with the famous Jewell who notes it out of Chrysostom Homil. on Mat. 19. Doth the Sheep ever persecute the Wolf no but the Wolf the Sheep so Cain persecuted Abel not Abel Cain so Ishmael persecuted Isaac not Isaac Ishmael so the Jews Christ not Christ the Jews so Hereticks the Christians not Christians Hereticks Whereby saith Jewell he plainly implyes That Persecution for Conscience sake is a very Unchristian or ANTICHRISTIAN Sympton And smartly again in the same Homily He that is a Persecutor is no Sheep of Christ's but a Wolf which saith he a Man should make any man afraid to feel any persecutive motion arise in his breast as being Indications of a Cainish Imaelitish and Wolfish Nature and a certain sign that he is none of the Sheep of Christ The learned Dr. Moore in his Preface to the Mystery of Godliness hath many plain and pertinent passages to this point asserting That it is an Antichristian use of Church-Government to direct it to the upholding of useless or mischievous Opinions scandalous Ceremonies and ensnaring Inventions of men And what is it saith he but a Notorious Specimen of Pride thus to force others to acknowledge by making them profess to be of their Opinion And what but Injustice and barbarous Cruelty to afflict men for what they cannot help and in what they do not sin And what but plain Rebellion against God to wrest his Scepter out of his hand by which he ruleth in the Consciences of men and to usurp this Empire to themselves And again lastly saith he A mutual Agreement in bearing with one anothers Dissents in the Non-fundamentals of Religion is really a greater Ornament of Christianity than the most exact Uniformity imaginable it being an eminent Exercise of Charity the flower of all Christian Graces and the best way I think at the long-run to make the Church as uniform as can justly be desired Thus far the Dr. To this purpose also the great Chillingworth in his 4th Chapter Sect. 16. speaks thus This presumptuous Imposing of the senses of man upon the words of God and the special senses of men upon the general words of God and laying them upon mens Consciences together under the equal penalty of Death and Damnation This vain conceit that we can speak of the things of God better than in the words of God This Deifying our own Interpretations and tyrannous Inforcing them upon others This restraining of the Word of God from that latitude and generality and the Understandings of men from that liberty wherein Christ and his Apostles left them is and hath been the only foundation of all the Schisms of the Church and that which makes them Immortal the common Incendiary of Christendom and that which tears in pieces not the Coat but the Bowels and Members of Christ Ridents Turta nec dolente Judaeo Take away these walls of separation and all will quickly be one take away this persecuting burning cursing damning of men for not subscribing to the words of them as the words of God let those leave claiming Infallibility who have no title to it and let them who in words disclaim it disclaim it also in their Actions In a word take away Tyranny which is the Devils Instrument to support Errors and Superstitions and Impieties in the several parts of the world which could not otherwise long withstand the power of Truth I say take away Tyranny and restore Christians to their just and full liberty of Captivating their understandings to Scripture only and as Rivers when they have a free passage run all to the Ocean so it may well be hoped by Gods blessing that Universal liberty thus Moderated may quickly reduce Christendom to Peace and Unity These thoughts of Peace saith he I am perswaded come from the God of Peace and to his blessing I commend them This Book of Mr. Chillingworths was Licensed by R. Bayly Vicechancellor of Oxford Dr. Purideaux Reg. Profess Dr. Fell and Dr. Stradling And Dr. Stillingfleet most excellently in his Irenicum to the same purpose tells us in the Preface That Christ who came to take away the Insupportable Yoke of the Jewish Ceremonies certainly did never intend to gall the Necks of Disciples with an other instead of it

perfect representation of that horible place which you describe when you mention Hell But after two days and nights without any Refreshment the unusualness of that society and place haveing impaird my health the constitution of which at the best is very Tender and Crazy but I am now in the press-yard a place of some sobriety tho still a Prison Some few days after I sent the following Letter to Sr. Thomas Jenner and on the Eighth of December by my Wife another to you the words of the former were these To Sr. Thomas Jenner Knight Recorder of London Sr. You know I was Committed Prisoner first to the Compter in Woodstreet then to Newgate by your warrant In my Mittimus tis said that I refused to give Bail which is a mistake for being asked by you whether I would give Bail then I said I could not it being so late at Night when I had no opportunity to send to such as would Bail me and being askt whether I would give Bail the next Morning I saie I knew not whether ' I could or not because I was not certain whether such to whom I might have made Application would do it or not This was no Sullenness nor Obstinacy in me but what my Real apprehentions then were Some Friends of mine Freemen of theis City went afterwards to be my Bail but they were told you were not at home They made thereupon an application to Sr. William Turner who referd them to you It is said in the Warrant that I confessed I was the Author of a Libel Entituled A Plea for the Nonconformists wherein are contained things dangerous to the Government which thus much and no further is true I confessed before you that I delivered a Manuscript of my own writing to one John How with that Title in order to be Printed and that if the Print agreed with the Manuscript I would own it otherwise I could not because the misplacing of a Stop the misprinting of a Lettor or Syllable or some other Errators of the Press would alter the sence even to contradiction of what was intended to be discussed which was not as my Indictment wors it in a form of aggravating terms but in order to a plain disquisition of such things as Dr. Calamy from Pulpit and Press invited Dissenters to inquire into as you may see in his Book called A Discourse of a Scrupulous Conscience There is nothing of matters Relating to the Civil State in what I am Charg'd with for I am not concern'd with that but if the Guid's of the Church as Dr. Calamy calls the Benificed men of the Church of England will make publick Chalenges they should receive Objections without punishing the Objectors whose Supposed Crime is only for obeying them and that you know Sr. is disagreeable to Justice If any thing I have done falls within the lash of English Laws Fiat Justitia But I am satisfi'd I have done nothing in this point unbecoming an honest Subject a Scholar a Gentleman and which is worth all a Christian I Commit the whole matter with Respect to this Dispute to that Supream Legislator who is without Exception just and who will judge all that are S ubordinate to him which is all from Sr. your Servant Thomas Delaune To Dr. Benjamin Calamy These Sr. In your Printed Cermon Intituled Scrupulous Conscience you know you gave a fair invitation to such as differ from you to examine what each party viz. Conformists and Nonconformists say for themselves with respect to the Rites and Ceremonys which the Guides of the Church impose on their Members and by Penal Laws upon their Protestant fellow Pubjects the Nonconformists Without doubt your call to such pre-supposed a Reply by which you expected that there may be either an Opportunity given to you and your Brethren to Rectifie what Scrupulous Consciences Misunderstand or that there may be some Relaxation procured of the severity they undergo if their Dissent appears to be warranted by that only Rule of Faith which Dr. Stillingfleet and other Eminent Conformists call the BIBLE If you did not expect an Answer or thought that none for fear of the Act of Vniformity c. would make any return to your Call what can a man of Reason judge but that it was a Florid Declamation or a Triumphant Harangue a meer mockery and ensnareing of poor Scrupulous Consciences when they must be so muzled that they must not Exhibite the Causes of their Doubts Sir you know that 't is unequal to Gag the Respondent when the Oponents mo●th is at liberty or to Manacle the assaulted when the Challenger Flourishes a Manacing Sword Vpon that publick Call of yours I adventured to examine with the most diligent search I could make what each of the said parties say for themselves and this not out of any Litigious principle that Pruritus Disputandi now too fatally grown Epidemical but to give such as are Concern'd occasion to investigate these disputed matters to the very foundation to the clearing up of truth in a juncture when it can never be more Seasonable What was digested was intened to be sent you in a Manuscript with some modest Inferences and inquiries but upon Recollection I judged it would more Answer your End viz. Publick Information to have such Arguments as are producible by the Dissenters as Publick as the Invitation you gave them from Pulpit and Press It being equal that the Answer should be as spreading as the Objections I am far from the Vanity of pretending to be your Competitor in the faculties of the Schools I cannot judge of them any otherwise then as unserviceable to Christian Religion unless Tinctured with that Grace Derivative only from the Sanctifier of all Gifts which I hope you partake of I am one of the meanest of the Flock yet not below the regards of the Sheepherd of Souls who is no Respecter of Persons and whose Example such as call themselves his Ambassadors ought to follow And therefore though some who pin their faith upon Canonical Sleevs may censure me for opposing or if I may use a Millitary metaphor taking up the Gantlet against a man of your figure yet I can take up my satisfaction in this that it was not Pride nor a popular Itch much less the love of a Brison influenced me to become an Answerer of your Scrupulous Consciences I could heartily wish as a mercy to these Nations that all Religious Differences were Composed by Evangilioal Rules and that all who own the Name of Christ would serve him with one heart and with one soul and not tear each other to pieces which by consequence must expose them as a Prey to such as gape for their Destruction If the Sanctions of Christ in the Old and New Testament ought to regulate the modes of his Worship and that we are under an indispensible Obligation to Obey that Magna Charta of Heaven then let us either quit the name of Christians or act according to