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The Trial and determination of truth, in answer to The best choice for religion and government
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Government therein establish'd Be you unbyas'dly true to that Church lay aside all those unhappy Feuds and Animosities which these English Jesuits the Dissenters have rais'd amongst you Meet often understand one another maintain a friendly Correspondence with all that have any Favour for this Church Agree as one Man in every Publick Election And let those who are to serve in Parliament be sure constantly to attend on that Trust repos'd in 'em not to receive the Honour only but faithfully to do the Service for which they are chosen not by absenting or any inadvertency to leave the Church to the Mercy of those Men who whilst their Master is roaming about sit still there seeking whom they may devour Let all honest Churchmen favour and encourage the Conformable Clergy set a good Example to their Tenants and Neighbours to fill the Churches Serve your King and Country with all chearfulness Let no Mans Estate or Quality raise him above the Care of seeing Justice duly administred lest by forcing the Government to find Magistrates and Juries among inferiour illiterate and ill-principled Men you venture your Rights and Liberties Estates Religion and Lives more valuable than Ease in very dangerous Hands Nothing can be carry'd against you nor to the prejudice of King or Church if you appear for your selves and them Remember once more that Dissenters are ever for dividing of you and by your Divisions to encrease their own Party that so often as you differ on any Publick Occasions so often you disable the Church and weaken your own Interest Can it be any Fault to use the same Policy for preserving the Best Churoh in the World which the several Sectaries use to advance themselves by They unite and besides that they rarely lay out any Money but with those of their own Party So the Donatists upheld their Separation from the Church and kept their Party fast together by Trading only within themselves by employing none to Till their Grounds or be their Stewards but those that wou'd be of their Side nay sometimes hiring Persons by large Sums to be baptiz'd into their Party as Crispin did the People of Mapalia How evident is the same Policy among our modern Quakers It needs neither Proof nor Observation Independency was a Faction not matter of Conscience needy broken decay'd Men who knew not how to live and hop'd to get something became Sticklers for it Thus it was in the Late Times and thus it is Now. Look into the Trading Part of the Nation and he must be an heedless and indiligent Observer that does not take notice how Interests are form'd and by what Methods Parties and Factions are kept up How many thousands of the poorer sort of Dissenters depend on this or that Man for their Work Livelihood and Subsistence how many depend on others for Trade and Custom whom accordingly these Leading Men can readily produce to give Votes and encrease Parties on all Publick Occasions And which is no less remarkable what very small Encouragement any Man finds from them that once deserts 'em and comes over to the Church of England If we that are Gentlemen and all that wish well to the Church wou'd cease to enrich our Opposers by Trading or Dealing with them but wou'd unanimously agree to Encourage our Friends by dealing with no others We shou'd never lose the Day at any Election nor need any more Laws to bring Men to Church For the Dissenters wou'd soon grow weary of their ungainful their unprofitable Separation Here ends the TRIAL Court Huzza Huzza Church and King Church and King THE EPILOGUE WHen truest busie Fame all o'er Such Rumours spread ne'er heard before From Stew or Pit from Carp and Cage Unless in Conventickling Age Old Putt and Tickler slily came I an ancient Town with fine new Name Thinking at sight to have subdu'd The noisie talking Multitude Or by their known Dissimulation To Milk or Ride the Corporation Else if in Charter but one Flaw To make all void by Dint of Law But Good Old Cause the Devil 's in 't And Members too appear'd in Print Prevailing Truth that plaguy Book With this Impartial Jury took And Stranger yet the Cause when try'd 'T is thought not one forswore or ly'd Safely I swear Whoever writ it Did to all Sorts and Sizes fit it Left nought untouch't not am'rous Oak Disguising Periwig or Cloak Bold Pyrate Chamber-Practice Rape Cou'd not that Author's Pen escape The Sober Party justly fitted Lost is their Cause the Church acquitted Cast and condemn'd the Whiggs are crost With Grief and sore Amazement tost 'T is vain to boast of Innocence Or colour Vileness with Pretence Say ye Sir Say ye one Saint cry'd We never more shall stem the Tide Not all our Violence and Spite Can take away the Churches Right If Judge Sincere and Jury Loyal We 'll never move for second Trial. How well-advis'd the Bell-man lurks Shunning to try his Water-works While some perhaps of blest intent Are doom'd to suffer Banishment Be gone then Hotspurs cross the Main Freach up Presbytery in Spain Why shou'd your Bond of Conscience be By Inquisition 's Danger free Bewitching Elymas no more Thy Thievish Porringor adore Tell Pope this Truth Thy Cant and Whine Are Friends to Rome Then he 'll be thine There great Reward thou maist obtain Till Mischief sends thee back again Mouth who canst bellow bray or bark And speak all Lingua 's of the Ark Go among Wolves and Tygers go On these thy mighty Gifts bestow Creatures of Reason better know Let Maggot never turn to Fly More generate or multiply Lest he proud Swarms of Insects breed That may this Sheepish Nation bleed Ne'er out of Fleece once shew thy Head Till we conclude The Maggot 's dead Ponteus purge Presbyter John Much griev'd with Superstition Swell'd with a Tympany of Pride And damn'd ill Qualities beside Give him a swinging Dose repeat Till thou hast made the Cure compleat However carry on the Cheat. Friend Henry Thou of all the rest Deserv'st to be accounted Best Stay Friend Thou hast the Churches Voice The Wise and Good applaud thy Choice No Church-Whiggs or Dissenters Crew None but the honest Church-man's true None else give God and King their Due FINIS Sal. lib. 3. Sir H. Ch. See the Case of Elections stated * Case Vid. Case Errour 1. Errour 2. Errour 3. Errour 4. Errour 5. Errour 6. Errour 7. Errour 8. Errour 9. Errour 10. Errour 11. Errour 12. Errour 14. A new Poem In Imitation of Hudibras D. Crisp p. 274 275. Ruth on Dan. 6. xxvi before the Commons in the Year 43. 2 Tim. 4. 5. Vid. Catalog and Discovery of Errours Vid. View of Troubles 2d Part Edw. Gan. Edw. Gangr Jenkyns Serm. 46. 1648. Vid. The Lawfulness of hearing the Publick Ministry by Mr. Nye Mr. Robinson c. See Mr. Corbet 's Nonconformist's Plea for Lay-Communion Mr. Marshal Hist Indep Dionysius the good Bishop of Alexandria Vid. Euseb l. 6. c. 45. Cypr. de Unit Eccl. fol. 181 182. Synecdoche est cum totum ponitur pro parte aut pars pro toto Numerus singularis pro plurali Numerus pluralis pro singulari Vossius lib. 4. c. 6. Lev. 20. 27. 1 Kings 22. 22. Isa 19. 14. Mar. 9. 25. 2 Th. 2. 11. Joh. 14. 17. Rom. 1. 4 18. Eph. 4. 3 4. 1 Cor. 4. 12. Isa 11. 2. 1 John 4. 6. Heb. cap. 5 6 7. Impudentia pro telo Ignorantia pro scuto Exod. 39. 10 11 12 13. A Vindication of the Presbyterian Government 1649. p. 130. Instit lib. 4. Sect. 10 11 12. fol. 349. Matt. 15. 6 7 8. Vid. Aug. Ep. 173. ad Crisp * Scydromedia
Ark wherein were preserv'd the Clean and Unclean And without Vanity I may speak it though we have too many wicked People belonging to the Church of England yet there are at the same time a far greater Number of truly pious Christians that live up to the Strictness of Religion to be found in the Communion of this Church than amongst all the Dissenters in the whole Kingdom As for the two places in Scripture produc'd for your Separation read like truly Wise Men consider the Coherence and Design of them and it will plainly appear that by the first Text is meant That Christians in the Church of Corinth shou'd not meddle with Unclean and Abominable Practices that were us'd by the Heathens in the Worship of their False Gods These they were not to touch to have no Fellowship with them in these but rather to reprove them that is in Judgment to condemn by Word to reprove and in Conversation to avoid them So that this is nothing at all touching the Duty of one Christian communicating with another though it has too often been so abus'd and mis-interpreted And for the second Text it is certainly to be understood also of Idolaters and according to most Interpreters of the Roman Idolatrous Polity and is a Command to all Christians to forsake the Communion of That Church lest they endanger their own Salvation by Communicating with her in her Idolatrous Worship And if this be the true Sense of the Words it abundantly justifies our Separation from the Roman Church but affords not the least Plea for Dissenters to separate from Ours And now I pass to THE SENTENCE YOU Latitudinarians Presbyterians Independents Seekers and Quakers You have had a fair and impartial Tryal upon an Indictment for your Opposing and unjustly Separating from the Church of England The Jury has brought you in Guilty You stand condemn'd by many Laws of this Realm You are condemn'd by the Holy Scriptures you are condemn'd by the Practice of the Church of Christ for above 1500 Years together and by that of all Reform'd Churches who were zealous for Episcopal Government us'd Liturgies and Publick Forms of Prayer had Festival Commemorations of Saints not to pray to 'em but to praise God for 'em had their Rites and Ceremonies in their Publick Worship more in Number and more liable to Exceptions than those us'd in our Church at this Day You are separated from a Church that was planted by our Lord and his Apostles water'd with the Blood of Holy Martyrs and redeem'd by the Blood of the Holy JESUS You are withdrawn from a Church that proposes no sinful Terms in all her Communion a Church wherein a Man may be as faithful a Servant of the True God as Loyal a Subject to his Prince as Honest a Man in his Dealings as good a Neighbour and as firm a Friend as can be found in any Church or Society of Men in the Christian World Therefore You Sir Anthony ' Squire Mouth Maggot and Ponteus with all the rest who are obstinate Opposers of so Excellent so Incomparable a Church You must go to the Place from whence your many Erroneous Opinions came Rome or Geneva there to be dealt with according to your Merits And the Lord have mercy upon your Souls Here follow their several CONFESSIONS Sir Ant. Here now behold upon my bended Knees I confess the Justice of the Court ask Mercy of this abus'd Corporation and bid Adieu to it and all my silly and credulous Votaries in these mournful Words Good People I own that our Rise was unjust Our Fall the Desert of Deceit and of Lust Squire O Pan aliique Dii Dat mihi ut intùs Sim pulcher I know not what God can be a Friend to me I invoke them all that tho' I appear in the darkest Colours to the Worlds Eye I may not always suffer the gloomy Storms of an evil Conscience nor be continually frighted with the Deformities of my Soul Siccinè perpetuo cruciantur crimina Luctu Hic turpem spectate virum ludibria Fati Ah scelus Ah Facinus me vix mercede potitum Sub Veneris Ouercu Threnis mea Musa reliquit I who once was a great Man amongst Poets Historians Linguists Orators especially in the Opinion of the Fair Sex have scarce a Word left to plead in my excuse I must withdraw Time and true Repentance may do much but 't is impossible I can presently retrive my lost Reputation and what signifies a Chair of State without it I 'll then make a Vertue of Necessity in this Publick Place abdicate my Office and with all Humility resign That which I cannot hold Farewel Scydromedia when I am gone Farewell for ever Judge I heartily wish that All Dissenters wou'd make such ingenuous Confessions as these two Gentlemen have now made However I shall in another Place fairly represent this their Civil Behaviour towards the Court to gain 'em a Reprieve and if possible a Pardon The first I do the latter I dare not promise Quak. Verily Friends our Light within us our Personal Light we have trusted to like an Ignis Fatuus has led us upon many perillous Boggs and amazing Precepices and there left us Presbyt Ah Brethren I that have often preach'd Hell and Damnation to others enough to scare People out of all Sense as well as Religion am now under the Sentence of Condemnation My Soul alas is like a glimmering Candle in a dark deceitful Lantern a Lantern I say whose Sides are all Dark I can give but little or no Direction to the People I have a small Degree of Light or Comfort now left to support me And Oh! I must expect less when I come to die Indep My Spirit is like very like may well be compared unto I say 't is like a poor venemous disturb'd Spider in a broken Cobweb it makes all the haste it can to escape the Broom of Impartial Justice Seeker 'T is as plain as the Sun in a Cowcumber that there are some few good meaning People among the many Sorts of Dissenters I have sought pry'd and narrowly look'd into them and truly have never been able to fix in any of their Persuasions to my content Since I foolishly departed from the Church of England in vain have I pursu'd what is not to be had in Error and Schism namely True Peace and Satisfaction of Mind Judge I observe our Phanatical Canters are very unlucky at Simile's and after all their Juggling when they come to be serious to make a right Discovery they 're at a loss Then they cry out Alas Sirs how sadly have we been cheated misled and deluded nay almost inevitably ruin'd our selves and others by forsaking the Church of England And I need use no more Words to advise the Dissenters to return speedily to that Pillar and Ground of Truth which cannot deceive them The SPEECH to the CHURCH ALL you Gentlemen Lovers of the Church of England of that most sound incomparable Religion and