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<P>AN Apologeticall LETTER TO <HI>A Per&s;on of Q&V;ALITY,</HI> Concerning a Scandalous and Malicious Pa&s;&s;age, in a Conference lately held betwixt an Inqui&s;itor at White-Hall and M^r <HI>Anthony Sadler,</HI> Publi&s;hed in his <HI>Inqui&s;itio Anglicana.</HI></P>
<P>Written by JO. HALL Bi&s;hop of <HI>Norwich,</HI> in vindication of him&s;elf.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>N. B.</HI> and are to be &s;old at the Mari|gold in S. <HI>Pauls</HI> Churchyard. 1655</P>
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<HEAD><HI>To</HI> the Right Reverend Father in God, D^r <HI>J. HALL,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Norwich.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>R. R. Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WIth my re&s;pective remembrance: I cannot blame you, if you were much moved with that wrong which was &s;o publickly done to your name, in that mentioned Pamphlet; whereof we that are your friends are &s;o &s;en&s;ible, as that I have been advi&s;ed by divers of them to publi&s;h that Letter of Vin|dication, which you were plea&s;ed to addre&s;&s;e privately to me: whereunto I have been ea&s;ily induced to con&s;ent. For though I had at the fir&s;t receipt of it, purpo&s;ed to conceal it, as &s;uppo&s;ing it not needfull to take notice of that a&s;per&s;ion, which was thus ca&s;t upon you by a namele&s;&s;e Authour, well knowing that all wi&s;e men were &s;atisfied long ago, with that full De|fence
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that you made for your &s;elf, and which was &s;o effectually &s;econded by tho&s;e Reverend Bi&s;hops, and Learned Doctours, who were in the height of reputation for their profound judgement, and out of all danger of &s;u&s;picion of any Popi&s;h inclination: Yet now, perceiving that the le&s;&s;e judicious, and common &s;ort of people are apt to take offence at this imputa|tion, which is &s;o confidently laid upon you by &s;ome per&s;on that would &s;eem to carry authori|ty in his publick employment; I have thought it requi&s;ite to let this your &s;hort vindication to flie abroad (although thus late) for the &s;a|tisfaction of tho&s;e, who either have not &s;een the re&s;olutions and Apologeticall an&s;wers of tho&s;e Learned Bi&s;hops and Doctours, or who are not able to judge of the &s;tate of this que|&s;tion, rai&s;ed (as you have truly &s;aid, and Bi|&s;hop <HI>Davenant</HI> before you) out of a mere mi&s;con&s;truction of words, and not any reall difference in matter.</P>
<P>Sir, I hope I have done nothing herein that
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may be di&s;plea&s;ing to you; &s;ince what I have done hath been out of a zealous re&s;pect to your dear reputation, which herein &s;uffers too much in the weak opinion of vulgar readers. Commending all your &s;tudies and holy endea|vours to the ble&s;sing of the Almighty, I take leave, and am</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Nov. 20. 1654.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your much obliged friend to &s;erve you
H. S.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Brief LETTER OF APOLOGIE <HI>&s;ent by the R. D^r</HI> HALL B. N. <HI>to a private friend.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Worthy <HI>SIR,</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IN that &s;trange Pamphlet which I recei|ved from you ye&s;terday, you cannot marvell if I &s;tartled to meet &s;o inex|pectly with the name of Bi&s;hop <HI>Hall</HI> di&s;gracefully ranked with Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uites, and the man that was executed the other day. (for &s;o it hath plea&s;ed my unknown Accu&s;er, in his great charity, to range my unworthine&s;&s;e.) If my pale and wrinkled cheeks could be any whit capable of the tincture of &s;hame, you may well think what change of countenance the&s;e words mu&s;t needs have wrought in me. Lord, (thought I) what &s;o hainous crime is this, for which I am thus &s;hame|fully arraigned before all the world, now on the brink of my grave! For&s;ooth, Bi&s;hop <HI>Hall</HI> (as the re&s;t of tho&s;e meet complices) &s;aith, the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> is a true Church. [<HI>Grave crimen Caie Cae|&s;ar.</HI>]
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What an impotent malice is this, to &s;ingle out my name thus ignominiou&s;ly, from all the re&s;t of my profe&s;sion, for an odious Paradox; when I &s;ay no more, no other herein, then all the Orthodox Divines of Chri&s;tendome? How mu&s;t the reader now needs think, Sure this Bi&s;hop <HI>Hall</HI> is a man of corrupt principles, &s;ingular for his dangerous mi&s;|opinions, a greater friend to <HI>Rome</HI> then all his fellows? whenas the world knows that I have al|ready, about 28 yeares ago, clearly vindicated my &s;elf from this gro&s;&s;e mi&s;con&s;truction, and &s;hew|ed that, in my &s;en&s;e, there is no knowing Pro|te&s;tant Divine that agrees not fully with me. You remember that about the time mentioned, when, upon &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages of the Old Religion, then publi&s;hed by me, M^r <HI>Burton</HI> and &s;ome others boggled at that expre&s;&s;ion; namely, that the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> is yet a true vi&s;ible Church, though ex|tremely corrupted; and that the quarrell began to wax warm, and the Pre&s;&s;e to complain of be|ing pe&s;tred with oppo&s;ite Tractates: in a due care to lay this ill-rai&s;ed &s;pirit, be&s;ides my own full and &s;atisfactorie Apology then &s;et forth, I appeal|ed to other unque&s;tionable Divines, the Oracles of our Church; writing my publick letters to two famou&s;ly learned Bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hop <HI>Morton</HI> and Bi&s;hop <HI>Davenant;</HI> and to two eminent and
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approvedly Orthodox Doctours, Doctor <HI>Pride|aux,</HI> and Doctor <HI>Primro&s;e</HI> Pa&s;tor of the <HI>French</HI> Church; earne&s;tly de&s;iring them to declare their judgements freely and fully concerning this point. All which have not only in their publi&s;hed an|&s;wers declared this to be an undoubted truth, in the &s;en&s;e propo&s;ed, proving it by &s;ound and con|vincing rea&s;ons, and a&s;&s;erting it, not as their own private opinion, but as conceived by them to be the ju&s;t and common tenet of all Orthodox Divines and Churches: but withall affirming that tho&s;e men little know what prejudice they do to the Prote&s;tant cau&s;e, that hold the contrary. The in&s;tances whereof it were ea&s;y for me to give, were it not that I fear and hate to furni&s;h the adver&s;ary with weapons to wound our &s;elves. I wis, tho&s;e our enemies are quick-eyed enough to e&s;py their own advantages, and our expo&s;ed|ne&s;&s;e to the danger of &s;elf-wronging con&s;equences, without our intimation. The grave and &s;olid determination of tho&s;e godly and judicious Di|vines is &s;till extant in a thou&s;and hands: upon the publication whereof, the world then re&s;ted &s;a|tisfied, my &s;elf acquitted, the adver&s;ary &s;ilenced, and the controver&s;ie quieted, which is now thus uncharitably and unadvi&s;edly raked up from under the a&s;hes of a wi&s;e and ju&s;t &s;ilence.</P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="6">The truth is, nothing but a gro&s;&s;e and incon&s;ide|rate mi&s;take is guilty of this quarrell: The homo|nymy of this word True, (as ma&s;ter <HI>Blake</HI> in his an&s;wer to ma&s;ter <HI>Tombes</HI>) be&s;ides the fore-named authours (hath truly ob&s;erved,) makes all this &s;eeming difference. If we take a True Church for a true believing Church; &s;o the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> is far from a True Church: If we take a True Church for a Church truly exi&s;ting in a vi&s;ible profe&s;sion of Chri&s;tianity, &s;o it cannot be denied to be a True vi&s;ible Church. A thief is no True man, yet he is truly a man. So the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> though fal&s;e in too many of her Doctrines, yet hath a true vi&s;ible being. Her Clients vainly flatter her with the title of Catholick, or Univer|&s;all: we expect no thanks from her to &s;ay &s;he is univer&s;ally corrupted, yet a Church vi&s;ible &s;till. Tho&s;e gro&s;&s;e errours wherewith &s;he abounds, have marred her fir&s;t purity, but do not forfeit her out|ward Church-&s;hip. It were a &s;trange uncharita|blene&s;&s;e to &s;ay that a <HI>Romani&s;t</HI> is no Chri&s;tian&punc; though too many of their Tenets are ju&s;tly bran|ded for Antichri&s;tian. And where there is a &s;ociety of Chri&s;tians, not directly and ob&s;tinately de&s;troy|ing the Foundation, (though otherwi&s;e foul, and erroneous in opinion,) there cannot be denied a vi|&s;ible appearance of a Church. Let the Church of
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<HI>Rome</HI> then go for as erroneous, impure, fal&s;e in matter of opinion and practice, as &s;he is: &s;he cannot be denyed the face of a Church, how ever rotten at the heart. All which hath been &s;o judici|ou&s;ly, &amp; amply declared by tho&s;e learned &amp; wor|thy Conte&s;ts, whom I formerly mentioned, in their publick di&s;cour&s;es of this point, that I am confi|dent, if M^r <HI>Sadler</HI> had had lei&s;ure to have con&s;i|dered, he would rather have di&s;tingui&s;hed then denied, and the Que&s;tioni&s;t (who ever he was) would, upon &s;econd thoughts, have thought good to &s;uffer my innocent name to re&s;t in peace; whereas now, he hath both wronged me, and him&s;elf more, in drawing upon him&s;elf an o|pinion of either ignorance, or uncharitable|ne&s;&s;e, or both. God forgive him, I do.</P>
<P>Thus we too well &s;ee how apt nature is, even in tho&s;e who profe&s;&s;e an eminence in holine&s;&s;e, to rai&s;e and maintain animo&s;ities again&s;t tho&s;e who&s;e calling, or per&s;on they pre|tend to find cau&s;e to di&s;like; and perhaps al&s;o to brand with the black note of unju&s;t infamy, tho&s;e who concenter not with them in &s;ome lighter opi|nions, (although indivi&s;ibly theirs, in the brother|hood of the &s;ame mo&s;t holy faith, and meekly affe|cting to hold with them the unity of the &s;pirit, in the bonds of peace.)</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="7">Truly Sir, (to open my &s;elf freely to you) nothing hath more wounded my &s;oul, nor drawn deeper &s;ighs from me in &s;ecret, then to &s;ee that, whereas our dear and ble&s;sed Saviour hath &s;o vehemently encharged all his true di&s;ciples with the duty of mutuall Love; and his cho&s;en ve&s;&s;ell, with &s;o zealous importunity, cries down &s;trife, and con|tention, as arguing mere carnality, and utterly in|con&s;i&s;tent with the truth of Chri&s;tian di&s;po&s;ition and practice: yet no Grace is &s;uch a &s;tranger to us (for the mo&s;t part) as Charity; nor no imploy|ment &s;o univer&s;ally rife among&s;t us, on all hands, as quarrels and brawlings, both verball and reall, ari&s;ing commonly from fal&s;e &s;urmi&s;es and mi&s;|con&s;tructions; and proceeding (too often) not to the &s;cratching of faces, but to the ripping of bowels, and to the &s;tabbing of hearts; to the infinite &s;candall of the Go&s;pell of peace, and to the &s;port and triumph of <HI>Gath</HI> and <HI>A&s;calon.</HI> Now <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he God of peace, whom we all profe&s;&s;e to &s;erve, be plea&s;ed for his great mercies &s;ake, to pull out of our bo&s;omes all the&s;e roots of bitterne&s;s, and to compo&s;e our mi&s;-alienated hearts to perfect love and concord, to the glory of his great Name, and to the comfort of all tho&s;e that are faithfull in his <HI>Sion.</HI></P>
<P>Sir, you will pardon me, if I have thus pa&s;sionately
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enough unloaded my &s;elf (into the bo&s;ome of &s;o faithfull a friend) of my ju&s;tly conceived grief, to be thus &s;candalou&s;ly and cau&s;ele&s;ly traduced. Your love will both put the be&s;t con&s;truction upon the&s;e &s;udden lines; and where you meet with this blurre unde&s;ervedly ca&s;t upon my name, wipe it off with a ju&s;t and friendly vindication: where|in you &s;hall do an office worthy of the thankfull ac|knowledgement of</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Higham</HI> Nov. 5. 1654.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your unfeignedly devoted in all Chri&s;tian affection
Jo&s;. Hall&punc; <HI>B. N.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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