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e
LIFE
o
f
the
L
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L
Shifmatical, nor Seditious; but
a
People that quietly
followed
their
hard Labour,
and learned the
Holy
Scriptures, and
lived
a
holy, blamelef
Life, in
Humility and
Peace with
all
Men,
and never had any
See}
or
feparaced
Party
among them, but
abhorred
all
Fa&ion and Sidings
in
Religion, and
lived
in
Lore
and
Chrisiían
U-
nity. Yet
when the
Bishop was
gone, the Dean came and preached about three
hours or near, to cure them of the Admiration
of
my Perfon ;
and
a
month
after
came again
and preached over the fame
, per
wading the People
that
they were
Presbyterians and Schifmatical, and were
led
to
it
by
their over valuing
of
me,.
The
People
admired at the
temerity
of
thefe
Men,
and really
thought
that
they
were fcarce
well
in their Wits, that would
go on to fpeak things
fò
far
lion
truth
of Men whom
they never knew, and
that
to their own
faces.
Many
have
gone
about
by
backbiting to make People
believe
a
{fame
report
of
others
:
but few
will
think to
perfvade
any to believe
it
of
themfelves,
who know
themfelves
much
better than the Reprover troth. Yet
betides
all
this,
their Ledturers were to go
on
in the
fame Drain, and one
Mr. Pitt (who
lived in Sir 7obn
Packi
gton's Houle,
with Dr.
Hammond) was
often
at this
work (being
of the Judgment
and Spirit
of
Dr.
Gunning
and Dr.
Pierce)
calling them Presbyterians
,
Rebellious, Serpents, and
Generation
of
Vipers, unlikely
to
fcape the
Damnation
of
Hell, yet knowing not
his
Accufttion
to
be
true
of
one Man
of
them ( For there
was
but
one,
if
one
Presbyterian in the
Town,
but plain honeft People,
that minded nothing
but Pie
-
ty, Unity,
Charity,
and
their Callings). This
dealing (instead
of
winning
them
to the Preacher)
drove
therm
G0171
the
Lecture, and then (
as
I raid)
they accufed
the People
as
deferting
it,
and put
it
down.
§
2
a.Forthis ordinary Preacher
they
fat
up one
of
the
.bet
parts they could get
`
A
mod (0
war
far
from what
his
Patrons
fpake
him to he)who wasquickly
a
weary
and went
fcer
away
And
next
they
fee
up
a
poor dry
Man,that
had been
a
School-
malternear
us,
vandal
Y-
Y
P P
Y
and after
a
little time
he
died:
And
fince
they
have
taken
another
Courfe,and
fét
up
young Man
(tire
lief
they
can
get) who taketh
the contrary
way to the fief,
and
over
-
applaudeth me
in the
Pulpit
to them,
and
fpeaketh well
of
then,,
and ufeth
them kindly
:
And they are glad of
one
that
path
fome
Charity.
And
thus
the
Bishop hash
used
that
Flock,
who
fay
that
till
then
they never knew
fh well
what
a
Bishop was,
nor
were before
fo
guilty
of
that
dillike
of
Epifcopacy,
of
which
they
were
f,
frequently
and
vehemently
accufed.
I
hear
not
of
one
perfon among
them,
who
is
won to the Love of Prolacy or Formality
fince
my removal.
§
253. Having parted with
my
dear Flock
(I
need
not
fay,
with mutual fenfe
and
tears)
I left
Mr. Baldwin
to
live privately among
them, and
ovedèe them
in
my
Dead, and ville them front
!louse to
Houle;
advifing
them, notwithftanding
all
the lujuries they had received,
and
all
the Failings ofthe Minillers that preach-
ed to
theta,
and the Defects
of
the prefent Way
of
Worfhip,
that yet they
fhonld
keep to
the
Publick
Affemblies,
and make
ufe
of
furls
I
-Ielps
as
might be
had in
Pablick, together with their
private Helps
:
Only
in three
Cafes
co
abfent them-
fives
;
r.
When
the
Minifler
was
one that
was
utterly infutficienr,
as
not
being
able to
reach
them
the Articles
of
the Faith and
Effentials
of
true Religion ( fuch
as
alas,
they
had
known to their furrow).
2.
When the
Minifer
preached any
1-
lerefie, or Doctrine which
was
direâly
contrary
to any Article
of
the Faith, or
receffary
par
t
of
Godlinefs.
3.
When in the Application
he
let
himfelf gainll the
Ends
of
his
Office,
to
make
a
holy Life feem odious, and
to
keep Men from
it,
and to promote the Interelk
of
Satan
:
Yet
not to take every
bitter
Reflection up-
on themielvesor others, occaltoned by difference
of
Opinion
or Interest, to
be
a
Efficient
Cause
to
fay
that
the
Minifer
preacheth
agamf
Godlinefs, or
to with-
draw
themfelves.
§
254.
When I
was
gone from
them, I
wrote not
a
Letter to them pall once in
a
year,
fell
it fhould
bring
Suffering upon
theta (the
Cade
alto
why I removed
my
Dwelling
from
them
was, becaufe
they apprehended
themfelves
that my
prefence
would have been their
ruine,
as
to Liberty
and Ellates
)
:
For
had
they but recei-
ved
a
Letter
from me, any difpleahng
thing that they
had done, would have been
imputed to
that.
As
for
infante,
not
long after, there came
out the
Aa
that
all that had any Place of
Trull
in Cities, Corporations or
Countreys,
fhould be
put out,
uniels
they declared
that
they held [That
there
it
no
Obligation lying
upon
them,
or any other
pert
n,
from
the
Oath
called The Solemn League
and
Covenant
jr
Here-
upon
all
the
Thirteen
Capital
Burgeffes, Bailiff;
Justice, and
all,
favo
one
that
had been
an Officerin the King's Army, were turned out (though Ifuppole never
any more titan two or three of them took the
Oath
and Covenant
themfelves)
;
and
alma
all
the
25 in£eriour Burgeffes
were turned out with them. Whereupon