A letter to Dr. Fowler vicar of St. Giles Cripplegate in answer to his late vindicatory preface by William Newbery & William Edmvnds.

A letter to Dr. Fowler vicar of St. Giles Cripplegate in answer to his late vindicatory preface by William Newbery & William Edmvnds.

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A LETTER TO Dr. Fowler, &c.

[Page] A LETTER TO Dr. Fowler, &c.

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Reverend Paſtor,

UPON Peruſal of a Preface to a Sermon upon Slander, under your Name, We the Subſcribers of this Paper found you as hard upon us in the Preſs, as you uſe to be in the Pulpit. And therefore for the Satisfaction of the World, and the Diſcharge of our Selves, we have reſolv'd upon the Publiſhing of this Addreſs.

You are pleaſed to mention a Certificate given us, and your Repentance for it. Let it not trouble you, Sir, for the Certificate has done you no harm, and us no good: For a Great Man told us, That it would ſhake the Credit of our Loyalty; and ſo we laid it aſide, as a Thing we were not Proud of. The Words were, That we were Peaceable, and Chriſtian like temper'd Men. And truly, when your Hand was in upon Certifying, we had a mind to Try, If you would do it for Loyal Men, as well as for Others.

Your Opinion of us, we perceive, is much alter'd ſince you gave us that Character; though the World will witneſs the Juſtice we have to the Title of it, and ſtand in Admiration at us, for Bearing from your Self, and your Aſſiſtant, all the Satyrs, Invectives, and Comminations againſt us, that have been vented in the Pulpit, without praying the Juſtice of the Law to hold your Hand.

Beſides this, It hath been your Practice to Diſcourſe of us both, with Great and Small, as Monſters of Spight and Malice; which is a Charge, that we ſhall in Charity divide betwixt your Self and your Aſſiſtant.

And for our own Vindication, We do Appeal to All that know us, and our Conſciences do bear us Witneſs, that we never oppos'd you out of any Ill-Will to your Perſon; but only to put a ſtop to ſome of your Latitudinarian Deſigns and Practices, by a Due Courſe of Law.

And ſince we are forc'd upon this Way of Clearing our Selves, we muſt Impute the Cauſe now Depending, to your own Irregular and Unwarrantable Proceedings in your Office, which have Engaged us to Appear, as we do, for the Honour and Defence of our Mother Church. [Page] And if this be an Act of Spight and Malice, then we are Guilty; and our Crime is, the Service of the Eſtabliſhed Church.

Your Preface goes on in the Praiſe of Mr. R. W. and Mr. S. The former of theſe you Repreſent for a Truly Loyal Conforming Man, and our Proceedings againſt him to be Spightful and Malicious.

We ſhall not Reflect upon his being a Souldier under Colonel Hacker, and ſo continuing till near the Kings Reſtauration; A noted Conventicler, and one of Doelittles Congregation, till he came to be Churchwarden of Cripplegate.

We ſhall not Reflect upon his Rude, Trifling, Antick Geſture, at the Church, in the time of Divine Service, which appeared no other to the Congregation, than a Ridiculing of the very Office, as well as the Performance of that Holy Duty.

We could tell you, Sir, That ſince his Certified Conformity, which we account upon, as the Date of his Converſion, we never heard, that he ever gave the Church Service one good word, or ever Attended to it with that Reverence as he ought to do.

We preſume you are no Stranger, Sir, to a Paſſage of His at a Ward-Moot Inqueſt. Where a Motion was made to begin the Work, with Reading the Morning Prayers. Your truly Loyal and Conforming Mr. W. oppoſed it, Calling it an Innovation. I hope, Mr. W. (ſay's one) you will not call the Prayers an Innovation, I mean, ſays Mr. W. the bringing of them into the Queſt is an Innovation. To which one Replyed: That it was generally uſed in all the Queſts in London, and had been uſed in Cripplegate too before Mr. W. was born. Whereupon Mr. W. flew from the Table, crying, They that will have a May-pole, ſhall have a May-pole. And as the reſt were Riſing to go to Church to Prayers, Mr. W. got him to the Fire in the Chamber, ſaying; You that are ſo hot in Zeal, that can be warmed by Prayers, may go into the Church; As for my part, they never warmed me in all my Life; I'le ſtay and warm my ſelf by the Fire. And if I had thought this, that you would have had Prayers, I would have beſpoke ſome Fidlers this Morning, that I ſaw at Tom Charnley 's, (an Alehouſe-Keeper); For Prayers without Muſick do's not do well. And during the whole Seſſion, he never went with the Queſt to Prayers, though he was a Member of it.

The Report of this Scandalous Rudeneſs being told in the hearing of Mr. Recorder, he was pleaſed to examine the Matter, and to appoint the Reporters of it to come to the Seſſions at Guild-Hall, and there to Deliver their Information upon Oath; which accordingly they did. And the Recorder Ordered an Information to be Exhibited againſt Mr. W. for Depraving and Ridiculing the Church Service. But by great and powerful Sollicitation on his behalf, there was a Noli Proſequi granted, before the next Term; not for the Baſeneſs of the Cauſe, as you would have People believe, but for other Reaſons, not ſo proper for this Occaſion.

Another Inſtance of Mr. W's Affection to the Church may be this. The Alderman of the Ward Ordered the Preſenting of all Conventicle Houſes. In purſuance whereof a Motion was made in the very ſame Queſt. Upon this up ſtarts Mr. W. and called it, A Spiteful and Malicious Motion: For who could prove the Proprietors of Conventicle Houſes. To which it was replyed, That they would be eaſily found out. Why then, [Page] aith Mr. W. make what Preſentments you will, For my part I will never ſet my Hand to them.

A Word more now, with your Favour, to his Loyalty, He was as Active a Stirrer in the Tumultuous Elections at Guild-Hall as any Man; and Polled always on the Factious ſide. He was All in All with his Friend Bateman (at preſent Priſoner for the Conſpiracy) to get Hands to a Seditious Petition. And whoever refuſed it, he Branded him for a Papiſt; Particularly Mr. Newbery, now Deputy of the Ward. And this muſt be no part of the Quarrel you are pleaſed to Mention.

The Steeple was ſo Crazy it ſeems, that on the 29th of May, Mr. W. would not let the Bells be Rung, for fear it ſhould fall. And yet upon Shaftsburie's Ignoramus Jury, the Steeple was ſtrong enough to bear it. He himſelf, as Churchwarden, ordered the Bells to be Rung, and made a Bonfire at his Own Door, for Joy, at the Deliverance. Its very true, Sir, that he was Tallow-Chandler alſo to your Good Lord and Maſter, and that we hope was the Ground of your Certifying Mr. W. to be a truly Loyal Conforming Man.

As for Mr. S. Your Commendations are well beſtowed on him; For he is your Grand Informer, a Talebearer betwixt you and your Pariſhioners, a very Buſy-Body in other Mens Offices and Affairs. And for his Reputation, There is not a Curate in England, that either Studies leſs, or Uſurps more upon his Neighbours.

We do not diſlike him indeed, Sir, for his Sermons upon Reſtitution, as you would be thought to Imagine; For they were Preacht before we ever bore Office in the Pariſh. And ſo we could not be Inſtruments of Waſting the Poors. Stock, which moſt Untruly, as well as Invidiouſly, you intimate in your Preface But if you will allow a Falſhood to bring Truth to light, we ſhall now tell you the Story of thoſe Sermons.

It was Mr. S's Hap one Day to be chopping of Logick with a Pawn Broker in the Pariſh, who Reproving Mr. S. for ſome Ill thing he had done, Mr. S. was much Offended at him, inſomuch that he fell upon the Mans Calling the next Sunday in the Pulpit, with the Doctrine of Reſtitution; where he Denounc't Damnation, againſt Uſury, Extortion, and Oppreſſion.

But this Treatment is no News from Mr. S. to our Pariſh and Officers, and our Great Slander and Damage. For by theſe Calumnies, He has diverted the Charity of divers of our Good Benefactors, and gotten the Mony into his own Hand, whereof he gives no Account.

He makes a great Noiſe indeed, how much the Poor are obliged to him, and yet by your Favour and His, the Number is much encreaſed, and the Taxes conſiderably raiſed, ſince he came amongſt us.

He had once a Project of ſetting up a Nurſery in the Pariſh to leſſen the Charge, and bring poor Children up to Learning. To this end he got the Benevolence of ſeveral Good People, and Eighteen pence a Week of the Pariſh for every Child he took, being the very Price they were kept at before. He ſtockt his Nurſery with about twenty of theſe Children, who as they went every Sunday Morning to Cornhill Lecture, gave the Spectators to underſtand, that they were Mr. S's Charity-Children But inſtead of being Taught, theſe Poor Children were let out to Cooks Shops, Spinning-Wheels, or the like, at Twelve pence or Eighteen pence a Week, and were ſo ſcantly fed, and naſtily kept, that the Churchwardens or Overſeers, took them away to their old Maintenance, and ſome of them dying, it was not thought convenient to give the Searchers the View of their Bodies.

This ſhall be made good (whenever Mr S. pleaſes) to any Court of Juſtice, without any need of his Prophaning the Pulpit with Ribaldry, and Scandal againſt his Neighbours.

And therefore, Sir, as you value your own Credit and Ours, be no longer led by Mr. S. into theſe uncharitable Miſtakes; Curates do not behave themſelves [Page] thus in other Pariſhes. And its hard for Cripplegate, to be the only Curate-Ridden Pariſh in London.

Many of his Sermons are not only Perſonal Invectives, but ſome of them ſo Broad and Courſe: That the Men he Intends, are Pointed at by the Congregation. But its well▪ if he does not play the Muggleton, and pronounce them Damn'd.

We have born theſe Indignities thus long, more out of Reſpect to the Holy Function, than to the Curate; and we do joyntly deſire you would keep him to his Text, and adviſe him to Preach Jeſus Chriſt as becomes a Miniſter of the Goſpel. But the main Buſineſs is yet to come. The Cauſe depending in Doctors Commons, betwixt your ſelf and One of us.

The Sum of your Preface on that Matter, is partly Accuſation, partly Excuſe. And the Printing of it might have bin ſpar'd, after ſo many Private Diſcourſes and Publick Preachments upon that Subject, wherein you have made us, and ſome others of our Neighbours, a Parcel of Lewd, Vicious, Prophane, Scandalous, Debauch't Fellows. Wherein the whole Pariſh, and all that know us, and will ſpeak Truth, will appear to our Vindication. Sir, you ſhould do well, to lay your Certificate and your Sermons together, and Reconcile this Character to the other. In the mean while deal with us as a Gentleman, a Chriſtian and a Miniſter. You are pleaſed to Inſinuate, That we are Netled at your Preaching Impartially againſt certain Vices, which make Loyal Conformiſts a Diſgrace to the King and the Church. Now the Truth is, Thoſe Vices are rather chargeable upon your ſort of Loyal Conformiſts, than upon any of the King's and Churches, that we know of. And the ſcope of your Preſent Deſign is this, There is a Heavy Charge ſworn againſt you at Doctors Commons; And one of us is the Fair and Open Proſecutor of it. So that if you can either Blaſt us in our Credit, or diſable us in our Fortunes, from going thorough with it, you do a great part of your Work. And upon this Conſideration, you have not left a Stone unturned to Defame us with Perſons of Honour, and to Diſparage us in our Dealings with our Cuſtomers and Tradeſmen, to ſay nothing of your Reflection upon the Alderman of the Ward for chuſing ſo Vile, Scandalous, and Debauch't a Creature, as you have Repreſented his Deputy to be. Who is ſo ſenſible of theſe Indignities, that he is reſolved in the firſt place to acquit himſelf, and afterwards to Reſign on St. Thoma's Day next Enſuing.

For the beſt Words you can beſtow on him and others are theſe; Enemies, Malitious Enemies, Implacable Spirited Men, Wretched Lyars, Vile-Slanderers, Vicious Debauch't Men, not known whether Papiſts, Contrivers of Miſchief, Deprav'd, Forſaken of Divine Grace, &c. And whoever compares the Doctrine of your Sermon, with the Practice of the Preface and Concluſion, will hardly believe one and the ſame Wiſe Man to have bin the Author of them. Or that the Deſign of Chriſtianity and of your Preface, had one and the ſame Father.

The firſt Viſible Change of your Countenance and Carriage towards us was (as we have Good Cauſe to Remember) juſt upon our Suppreſſing ſix or ſeven Conventicles in the Freedom Part of the Pariſh; And after that, upon our Endeavours to Purge the Veſtry of ſome very Ill Men, (which by your and Mr. S's Artifice had bin lately Introduc'd) your Countenance ſeem'd to be further altered towards us. The one of theſe was an Anabaptiſt; Another, an Anabaptiſt Preacher; the Third an Elder of Griffith's Congregation, and a Conſpirator; and the Reſt of the ſame Leaven, and who could never be Admitted by your Predeceſſor the Biſhop of Glouceſter.

It's, Sir, you know, a Populous Pariſh, and we thought it our Duty to the Government to do what we did. We Petitioned His Majeſty in this Affair, and obtain'd a Gracious Reference to Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Recorder: And you your ſelf were preſent, with a great many more of the Pariſh, at a full Hearing before Mr. Recorder and the Alderman of the Ward; where you were urged again to clear the Veſtry of thoſe Men. Your Reply was, That they were New Converts, or upon Coming over, and ſober Men; and that you thought in time [Page] hey might prove uſeful Perſons to the Government. To which the Alderman made Anſwer, Truly Doctor, if they are ſuch, you ſhould have made ſix or ſeven years Tryal of them before you brought them into the Veſtry▪ But at length▪ after much ſtrugling, you deſir'd them to withdraw themſelves from the Veſtry in ſuch a manner, that every Body ſaw your Heart went along with them, even when you parted with them.

You ſpeak of Articles Exhibited againſt you, and you ſay, That the Firſt (for Obſtructings Preſentments) had nothing like▪ a Proof of it Produc'd in Court; but in this we Remit our ſelves to the Law.

You cannot but remember, Sir, how Fierce you were upon the Deputy in Doctors Commons, Exclaiming, What had a Deputy of a Ward to do to meddle with Preſentments? and Threatning him, That if the Churchwardens Preſented thoſe whoſe Names he had given, you would Preſent the Churchwardens for Perjury, and Him for not coming to Church on Holy-days.

We muſt mind you likewiſe, Sir, of your Suppreſſing the Order appointed to be Publiſh'd for the Preſenting of all People that did not come to the Sacrament; and of your calling it, A Device to make the Clergy Odious.

You told the Churchwardens (you ſay) That, they ſhould Preſent Impartially, and not gratifie any Mans particular Pique or Diſguſt. If your meaning was, They muſt Preſent All, or None, there muſt then be no Preſentments at all: For how ſhould they take Cognizance of at leaſt Thirty thouſand Souls in that Pariſh? So that ſince All could not be taken notice of, why might not the ſame Prudent Courſe ſerve in Cripplegate, as well as in all other Pariſhes; that is, to Single out the Heads and Ring-Leaders of the Faction, which would probably bring the Inferior Sort of Diſſenters into better Order? This Courſe was commended by Dr. P. in Eighty two and Eighty three, and in ſeveral places had good Succeſs.

We need ſay no more to Prove the Good-will you had to the Obſtructing of Preſentments: So that now we ſhall briefly ſet before you the Inconveniences that followed upon your Backwardneſs to Preſent.

The Warmth which you were pleaſed to expreſs toward the Covering and Protecting of Phanaticks, preſently made Cripplegate a Sanctuary for the Diſſenters, and brought them out of other Pariſhes into Ours, as if they had Fled from Perſecution into a City of Refuge. They themſelves owning and declaring, That they ſhould not be Moleſted with us, for any Church Matters or Sacraments.

As for the Second Article, concerning your Adminiſtring the Sacrament to Excommunicated Perſons, there needs no farther Proof, than your own Anſwer to the Libel in Court, and your own Confeſſion and Declaration in your Preface.

It's ſomething however, that the Excommunicates were Notorious Diſſenters, and choſen (by your Intereſt and Influence) Churchwardens in the Lordſhip part of the Pariſh, contrary to the Liking of the Loyal Men in that Veſtry. Nay, there are ſome that ſay, You were reſolv'd they ſhould be Churchwardens, for this very Reaſon, That they would make no Preſentments.

After this they were Cited to take the Churchwardens Oath, which they peremptorily refuſed to do; and thereupon a Sentence of Excommunication was Pronounc'd againſt them in the Court, in Form: And an Inſtrument for Publiſhing the ſame in the Church was ſent to you, which for ſome time you laid by, according to Good Advice, (as you ſay) and afterwards Admitted theſe Perſon's to the Sacrament, being Actually Excommunicated and before they were Abſolv'd; though after they had Receiv'd, you did your Beſt to have them Abſolved. Let any Man make an Excuſe for this Ʋſurpation, if he can. No, ſay you, there is no need of it; for I have made a ſufficient Apology for it my ſelf in theſe Words of my Preface.

I had leave to defer the Publiſhing of that Excommunication; and the Sacrament was given them before it was Publiſh'd: And I had then great Aſſurance, that Excommunications can take no Effect till they are Publiſh'd: And what I did, was done upon the Beſt Advice I was capable of Having; and I rely'd upon the AUTHORITY OF MORE THAN ONE ECCLESIASTICAL JUDGE. And [Page] the ſame Article had been Exhibited againſt many other Divines beſides my Self, had they been ſo unhappy, as to have had in thoſe Pariſhes any People of ſuch Venemous Spirits as I am Infeſted with: So that, if this were a Fault, it was a Fault of moſt Excuſable (if I may not ſay) Invincible Ignorance.

You muſt now give us leave, Sir, to make ſome Remarks upon your Apology. Firſt, We find that Doctors Commons and Dr. Fowler are divided upon the Queſtion: They are poſitive that it's a Fault, and the Doctor is doubtful; for you ſay, If it be a Fault.

Secondly, It ſeems not to ſtand with the Honour of your Dignity in the Church, to pretend Ignorance in a Point of the higheſt Nature in our Church Diſcipline.

Thirdly, Your Defence is only Crimination, and you ſhould not have brought your Adviſers upon the Stage; but rather have kept that Secret behind the Curtain.

Fourthly, You ſhould have ſpar'd them for the ſake of the Ten Pounds Coſt you boaſt of, and ſome other Reaſons: For it's a New thing, for a Criminal, who Confeſſes the Fact, to be Clear'd; and the Accuſer, or Proſecutor, that makes Good his Charge, to be Puniſh'd.

Fifthly, The Many Divines you ſpeak of are Men that we never yet heard of.

Sixthly, We will leave the World to Judge, whether the Fault lyes in the Venemous Pariſhioners, or in the Peeviſh Miniſter.

Seventhly, We take your Slanders the leſs ill, becauſe you make no Bolder with us, than with Our Eccleſiaſtical Judges, and many of our Divines, nay, with our Mother Church it ſelf, in giving the Church of Rome the Advantage of Throwing a Reproach upon us, which we believe She never had before, ſince the Bleſſed Reformation.

For what will they ſay, to ſee ſuch a Doctrine ſo Authorized, and a Parochial Miniſter in the Church of England take more upon him than the Pope of Rome; that is to ſay, in Admitting of Excommunicated Perſons to the Communion before they are Abſolv'd?

Sir, As we have done you no Wrong all this while, ſo we will now do you this Right in the Story about the Election of Common Council Men, to Declare, That we believe you were no ways concerned in it; but that the Greater part of it belongs properly to Mr. S.

And now to Conclude, We cannot but Obſerve what an unlucky Hand you have had at Vindications: You wrote one againſt Bunnion the Tinker; Another for Breaking the Church-Windows at Glouceſter, and making uſe of the Trinity in the Seal, that was Idolatry in the Glaſs. This Preface of yours is the Third; and we do not know, but that this Letter of Ours may Produce a Fourth.

If all this be for your Health, and by way of Preſcription, as (a Wag ſaid) now and then to take a luſty Doſe of Vindication Pills to Purge Choler, we wiſh you good ſpeed. We would do this in better Terms, but Letters and Vindications are none of our Talent.

You were pleaſed to beſtow a Couple of Latin Verſes upon us at the end of your Preface; it's poſſible they may be ſomething againſt our Church, but we underſtand them not.

We preſume however, that they will do as well at the End of a Letter, as at the End of a Preface; And therefore we ſhall conclude with them, Deſiring, that if your Book comes to a Second Edition you would bleſs the World with your Crippling Verſes in Engliſh.

Hoc mihi pro certo quod ſi cum Stercore certo,

Vinco, ſeu Vincor, certe Ego Maculor.

Sir, We ask your Pardon for the Freedom we have taken to Vindicate (according to your Certificate,) Sir,

Your Peaceable and Chriſtian-like Temper'd Pariſhioners and Servants,

WILLIAM NEWBERY, Deputy.

WILLIAM EDMUNDS.

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[Page] A LETTER TO Dr. FOWLER, Vicar of St. GILES CRIPPLEGATE.

IN ANSWER TO HIS Late Uindicatory Preface.

By

WILLIAM NEWBERY, & WILLIAM EDMƲNDS.

Yspys y dengys y dyn,

O ba radd y bo ei wreiddyn.

LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1685.

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A letter to Dr. Fowler vicar of St. Giles Cripplegate in answer to his late vindicatory preface by William Newbery & William Edmvnds.

Newbery, William.

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1685

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