The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery; unjustly charged on them, by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his two books about the Surey demoniack. In a second letter to himself.

  • Carrington, John, -1701.
Date:
1698
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Credit: The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery; unjustly charged on them, by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his two books about the Surey demoniack. In a second letter to himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from the Charge oj tyc. *5 Your laft thing obfervable, is P.23. where you juftify your felf for all 'your ill Words' arid hard Speeches s from the Examples and Doftrine of ChriCl and his Affejtles, ■ Really Mr. T. this is a Boldnefs that fame tender-hooft Men (as they call them in derifion) would ftartle and boggle at. What,compare your felf with Ghrifl and his Apoftles? I’ll fay this,when you know Mens Hearts zsChrifldid , when you have the Spirit of Difcerning , as the Apoflle had; you (hall have my confent, to call Men Hypocrites and lnfineere, &c. Provided always you be not too hafy, asfome of the Difciples were, Luke 9. 54, yj. and be fure it be in a Good Caufe, Gal. 4.18. and that you have a C all to it ; left fome of your Brethren Ihould blame you for arrogating to your felf, from.75V. 1. 10,13. that which they account the proper Work of your Diocefan. And if you have a Mind to aflume the Authority of Chrifiy to call Men Satan, (for it feems you’ll allow Peter to have a Devil, tho’ Dugd. none,; Ic may poftibly be as good a warrant for others to call you a Devil; that is, a Falfe-Accufer,or Slanderer. 2 Tim. 3. 3.. H A P. V L ANSWER y to P. S. , t .* » • : i . : K V I . 1 ; . * •. § ' } : : > . * l i *i • * • I Am now arrived at your P.S. and you produce Two Letters, to Jufti.fy the R R. the L B. of c. &c. r and Mr. Gr. _ . Mr. T whatever you inlinuate , I have a tendernejs for the Reputation 01 that worthy Perfon ; and therefore when I underftood that a Lover of him had lent him Word, That it was not for his Honour to fuffer W. C. <&c. I hoped it might be a fufficient Caution, And therefore in the Lev. I did lay the Blame where I think it lull lies: On thofe that Ihould have been more Faithful to him ; and I am the moie confirmed in my Opinion, by thefe .very Lesters you produce, in Jufhce to the B. and to Mr. Gray. For in the firft Lett, who this R.T. is, or who HdlVorfeip is, I am not concerned ; But I fuppofe he is npt the Presbyterian Party you fpake of at P. 11. At whop'Requeff, The B. admitted G- to the Orderof Deacon. . , ^ But whoever he is, I doubt he is Partial ;he told the Bijhp of Gr s ^rime,but did he tell him of any Satisfaction he had made, for fo Pubhck a Scandal . Yes, he turne Conformist, and all on a Pufti skipped over to the C. of E doubclefs by immediate In- (biration, by the Hopes of better Preferment than among Diftenters. Is this Satisfaction . This R. T. refleas on Difenters, and therefore cannot be thought their Re prefect at ive But he formerly Obferved, (I perceive he’s a Man of Obfervation, and may be an Obfervable Man too,) when feme weak or debauch'd Mmifter ferved m the P ace, t on e was u little Reflection : A Debauch'd, and no Region; it maybe not by his there might by Difenters, ftrrpwing and mournpg, for what they could not Reform. Nor when a weak Minift&r j truly a weak Mmifter might be Pious and Godly , and reflefeZ Thitske /’no. ^ *** °f him- buj “ is, they called to Mind his former Offence, for wh,ch he had never cefttfied a,1Le^s fee thn/what the next Letter will do , for this is Small Game ? the Letter is Mr; is°this fair to admit a Man to be Witnefs in his own Caufe ? Alt ho’, Upm the Jevereft Examination, .astohit Morals, P. H- of the Letter, Would he Accufe Himfelf. This marrs the Proof. ro r. . This very Letter of his,is a Ground of Suipicion. _ - ^ « 1 a.. H: r noi (uv* t> He acknowledges not the Jufhce of his Cenjure, a;