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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31663	An impartial account of the Portsmouth disputation with some just reflections on Dr. Russel's pretended narrative : with an abrigdment of those discourses that were the innocent occasion of that disputation / by Samuel Chandler, William Leigh, Benjamin Robinson.	Chandler, Samuel.; Leigh, William.; Robinson, Benjamin, 1666-1724.	1699 (1699)	Wing C1933; ESTC R24745	96,620	125

AN Impartial Account OF THE Portsmouth DISPUTATION With some Just REFLECTIONS on RVSSEL's Pretended Narrative By Samuel Chandler William Leigh Benjamin Robinson With an Abridgment of those Discourses that were the Innocent Occasion of that Disputation LONDON Printed for Iohn Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultry and Abraham Chandler over-against the White Hart-Inn in Aldersgate-Street and are to be Sold by A. Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1699. To the Honourable Major General Earl Governor Colonel John Gibson Lieutenant Governor of His Majesties Garison of Portsmouth and the Worshipful Henry Seager Esq Mayor of Portsmouth Honourable Sirs WITH Hearts full of Loyalty and Thankfulness to our Rightful Sovereign King William we humbly lay these Papers at your Feet who procur'd for us a Grant from his Majesty publickly to vindicate the Common Cause of the Reformed Churches and settle the wavering among us in the belief and practice of those truths which tend very much ●o the advancement of Early Piety and Reli●ion We appeal to you the Honourable Go●ernour and Worshipful Mayor as to Disin●erested Persons and most proper Judges of ●he Truth and Impartiality of our Account ●hich is what was taken by the Pens of the ●cribes without any material alteration We ●hankfully acknowledge your Condescending Goodness in Honouring us with your presence and preventing disorders during the time of disputation May you still continue maintainers of Justice and discipline in your respective Posts May your Names be transmitted to Posterity as Glorious Reformers of a corrupt and degenerate Age in conformity to the Injunctions and Example of our Gracious King May others be excited and influenc'd by your Example May these hopeful beginnings be carry'd on that there may be no prophane Swearers or Debauchees in your Streets and Vice and Wickedness may be put out of Countenance and not able to shew its Head This is and shall be the constant Prayer of Your Honours Oblig'd Humble Servant SAMVEL CHANDLER To all the Pious and Sober amongst them that deny or doubt of Infant Baptism Brethren-in our Lord THE matters in difference betwixt you and us are not so great as the angry and uncharitable on either side wou'd make 'em seem there may be some we doubt not both with us and you that do Hereticate and Damn each other on the Account of their disagreeing Judgments about Baptism Nor is it to be wonder'd at if those who are strangers to all serious Religion should put the respective differing Opinions in the place and stead of it But we were willing here to let the World see there are with us and we Charitably hope with you also those that are both of a sounder Judgment and of a much better Spirit We are perswaded there are many amongst you who tho you do dissent from us in some lesser matters yet are agreed with us in the most important and concerning things Wherever there are real Christians on both sides in any Controversie as we make no question but there are in this it is most certain the things wherein they are agreed are greater far greater than any wherein they can differ When all the great substantials of Christianity are out of doubt both with you and us that which shall afterwards remain as a disagreed or doub●ed thing on either side must needs be Comparatively very small and not worthy of the Heat and Zeal too commonly laid out upon it And we must profess for our own parts tho wherein we differ from you we are verily perswaded the truth is on our side yet reckoning it to be only truth of an inferior Nature it has not been without regret that we have been engag'd in this Contention The Disputation it self was not what we sought or was forward to it was not we that gave the Challenge Nor when given would we have accepted it had it not been so circumstanc'd as that our refusal wou'd most probably have redounded to the detriment and dishonour of what we believe to be the Truth Many especially the more injudicious part of the Auditory before whom the Challenge was given not being likely to judge otherwise than that what we maintain wou'd not bear a publick hearing shou'd we have declin'd a Disputation which we were so publickly provok'd to And for this Publication of it 't is what we are alike passive in The World shou'd have had no after-trouble about that Disputation might we have been the choosers But since your Dr. Russel has abus'd the World with a most false and unfair Account of that matter we are necessitated in our own defence as well as that of the Truth to Publish the ensuing Papers We wou'd not therefore that either what was said by us at the Disputation or is further added in these our Reflections shou'd be misunderstood by you This is not work that we take pleasure in but what we have been constrain'd to And if any Reflections shou'd occur that may seem too severe we wou'd here declare they proceed not from displeasure against the whole Body of those whose sentiments agree with yours nor against any one barely for that reason But we cou'd not but manifest a just indignation against the Egregious falsehood and uncharitableness of him that publish'd the late pretended Narrative And we desire that no one of the Pious and Sober amongst you wou'd apply to your selves what was only intended as a Rebuke to him or those who are too like him Nor will the rest of you we hope take it ill from us that we expose as it deserves that which is so base tho' it be found with a Person that pretends in the present Controversie to fall in with you You will not you cannot once imagine that his Concurrence with you in this Point of Baptism will hallow or excuse all that deceit and falsehood that appears in him Nor can you your selves like it that he shou'd endeavour to support your cause with lies This being premis'd we are in hopes the following Papers if they shou'd do no good amongst you may at least be look'd into without doing hurt So far as they report matters of fact we can boldly and without fear of being put to shame appeal to the All-knowing-God and to the Numerous Assembly who were Witnesses that they are undisguised Truths And so far as they contain Matters of Opinion on one side or other we leave you and all others to judge for themselves Yet as we have already intimated we wou'd not that the matters contended about in these Papers shou'd be over-magnified on either side Or that it shou'd be suppos'd we differ further than we do And 't is a much greater pleasure to us to offer any thing that may tend to narrow and lessen than to Enhance the differences there are betwixt you and us After we had been tir'd with an unpleasing contention we therefore as a refreshment to our selves undertook this more delightful service here to attempt so far as may be