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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    But had you not need, toconfider well before-hand, Whether-it bp lawful or convenient for your felftomaftFirebrands, left fome ihouldiajl upon your own Houfe or Li e ad^ and you not be able to quench it. Yet it you have a Mind of BiUingfgate-Stujf^ let me as a Friend advife you, not to be too rafh, but look to it *, that it he for the Honour or God, and the Service of the Church, and your own Reputation •, and that it be true.* and wellattefted• remembring, your own, and every other Man:s Name and Reputation is an another Man’s:Hand and Power. And .that there have been, 'and are evil 'Surmifings, and groundlefs Sufpi toons, which are mifthievous, and of ill coniequence ^ and that many a Good Man hath fuffered unjuftly, and been heavily burthened under it, tho’ innocent •, as the Learned Hooker, that wrote the Ecc/e/IaJh'cal Pohcy\ &c. and that if it be not true^you can make no Reftitution. And fuppoling it fhould be true, it may be it was fecret, and not fcandalous; and it may be (if Perfons be old) it’sdong fince repented of, and never reiterated. Thefe evil 'Surmiles and invidious Retentions, are an Indication of a cortupt'hnd rotten Heart, and of a weak Caufe •, and the Perfons whofe Catrfe;arid in whofe Excufe you1 Threaten, cannot be Juftified by a Recri¬ mination: and this might beget a Recrimination with betters in lome angry Perfons, that might think themfelves touched. And indeed it’s to be lamented, that theremay he found too many. Inftances. ■ There are fome yet living, no mean.Clergy-Men, guilty in that kind. And if I loved: a Stink, df s eafy to tell you of one that was worfe than Gr\ and- L. t-hat never Married-the Party. And in another Caie,to Parallel y our Story of Mr tPtndlebury^ (as true, as-that he Married liis Wife with¬ out Parents confeiit,) whofe Name lives, and will, when others fhall be written in the Earth. I ean-tellyou of qpe, who gave himfeU the Title of A. M. toRis Patron, when on Enquiry he proved Undergraduate. But I hope he hath long lined! repented of:dll v and 1 hear he Preaches well.and lives well v and therefore ill not give lo much .as one.Letter of his Name. 'But there-is another*01d' Stallion , that could not be extent with his oWn Wife, that neither lived eaftej nor cautc \ but his Milcarriage was Brought unto, and Sworn before a Juftice of Peace. But alas 1 what s all this to the Matter in Hand ? LT1 leave him.alfo without a Letter, to ftand 'Of falfto hisown Mifter ^ the. Lord-give hi m Repenta ace. Yet I am grieved to think, what: Work: ilidrSn.:ifa.s this makes-among '■the Prophaue • -what Sport they make rover their Glais and.Cups,; and hence take cccafion toleflen their own.Crimesyand'grow Impudent • and make a Mock Of their own-and others Sins •, which is, or ihould be, the -Grief all Good Men. For My Own Part, I fear GOD,.<but Tear not r.any of ycMi fRMeUic-ns. ■ ' C I I A P.