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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="testimony">
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<HEAD>The Sober Mans VINDICATION, Di&s;covering the True Cau&s;e and Manner how Dr. Chamberlen came to be Reported Mad:</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Which Scandal they propagated throughout <HI>England, Wales</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the &s;ame fal&s;e Report was met with in <HI>Scotland, France</HI> and the <HI>Low Countries.</HI></HEAD>
<Q>He that hath an Ear to Hear, let him HEAR.</Q>
<P>I PETER CHAMBERLEN, a Servant of the Mo&s;t High, through the Mercies of Je&s;us Chri&s;t&punc; Fir&s;t Phy&s;ician to the Royal Progeny, and in Ordinary to His Sacred Maje&s;ty: To Di&s;charge My Con&s;cience towards God, my Duty, Love and Faithfulne&s;s to my Royal Ma&s;ter, to the Parliament, and to my Na|tive Countrey.</P>
<P>Do Te&s;tifie, in Pre&s;ence of God, Angels and Men, that the WOES given me to Denounce again&s;t the Bloody City, again&s;t the Presbyte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ean Mini&s;ters and Lawyers, and again&s;t the <HI>Idol</HI> Parlia|ment, the <HI>Bloody Parliament,</HI> when they had ALL the POWER in Their Hands, and thought Them&s;elves IMMOVEABLE and SECURE: Sending it with the Sign of the <HI>Bloody Arm</HI> to the Lord Major, and to the <HI>Speaker</HI> that then were, God hath (in part) <HI>Fulfilled,</HI> to the <HI>Amazement</HI> of the World. Becau&s;e they De|&s;pi&s;ed Warning from the Lord, and Coun&s;el to SAVE Many Thou|&s;and LIVES and SOULS: Calling Publick things Private, and Private things they called Publick, Branding Me with the Report of Madne&s;s, which <HI>Fools</HI> and Others Believe, and report to this Day. But God hath returned the Madne&s;s on their own heads, though it was my portion then for Di&s;obedience, becau&s;e (to avoid the Cen&s;ure of Madne&s;s) I did not per&s;onally Proclaim the Woes with a Naked Bloody Arm, and Bare feet, from the <HI>Royal Exchange</HI> to <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;ter-Hall.</HI></P>
<P>Now let all men Judge, whether the <HI>Woes</HI> are not come to pa&s;s in a great mea&s;ure. When the City was brought under the Power of the Sword? Her Magi&s;trates Di&s;grac't, Di&s;plac't, and Others in Their room, at the Lu&s;t, and Plea&s;ure, or Di&s;cretion of the &s;tronge&s;t Weapon? But they are not yet <HI>Burnt</HI> or <HI>Ma&s;&s;acred</HI> (as &s;ome Feared, and Others Maliciou&s;ly reported they &s;hould be) by Ana|bapti&s;ts: What they may be by Others of their Own Chu&s;ing, if they repent not, is not for me to Determine.</P>
<P>Were not &s;ome <HI>Woes</HI> fulfilled on the Presbyterian Mini&s;ters, when Some were Beheaded, Some forced to recant for their Lives, and Many turn'd Independents: and All at this day in Pre&s;ent Danger of Per|jury for Compelling Their Scotti&s;h Covenant?</P>
<P>Were not al&s;o the Lawyers Termes made Vacation, the Inns of Court De&s;olate, Inhabited by a few Women and Landre&s;&s;es, and Lawyers Gownes Threatned to be Hung up by the Scotti&s;h Co|lours?</P>
<P>But were not the Woes fulfilled mo&s;t of all again&s;t the PAR|LIAMENT &s;o often Pieced and Made up till it became like Sir <HI>Francis Drakes</HI> Ship (&s;carce one Planck left of the Old One) yet at la&s;t broken up, then Whi&s;tled for again by the Souldiers, and Broken up again, and by Some of Them&s;elves, with others, revil'd into the Stinck and Scorn of a Rump? Are not All their Members Scattered; their Names Blotted with Ignominy, Some Impri&s;oned, and Some brought to the Grave in Blood and Sorrow?</P>
<P>Not that I dare Judge them Greater Sinners than Tho&s;e, on whom the Tower of <HI>Shilo</HI> fell: for the Words of our Saviour are,</P>
<Q><HI>UNLESS YE REPENT, YE SHALL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH.</HI></Q>
<P>The <HI>Arm</HI> of the Lord is not &s;hortned. There is yet a <HI>Cup</HI> of <HI>Trembling</HI> in the Hand of the Lord.</P>
<P><HI>Many great Works may yet be done, which are not.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>I SWEAR</HEAD>
<P><HI>(with my Right Hand lift up towards Heaven, in All fear and Awful Reverence) By HIM that LIVETH</HI> for <HI>Ever</HI> and <HI>Ever.</HI> That <HI>Made Heaven, Earth</HI> and <HI>Sea,</HI> and <HI>All</HI> that Therein is.</P>
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<ITEM>1. THREE THOUSAND LIVES a year may be SAVED.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. THE PLAGUE (monaced by A&s;trologers) PREVEN|TED.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. DISTEMPERS of the NATIONS HEALED.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. THE Numerous POOR MAINTAINED.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. AND &s;ome GLEANINGS of the HARVEST and VINTAGE <HI>(which might have filled the King's Coffers)</HI> IMPROVED.</ITEM>
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<P>If His Maje&s;ty and Parliament, Judge the&s;e things Publick, or Ne|ce&s;&s;ary; They have more Right and Power to Command My At|tendance (who am in &s;ubjection and but ONE) then I have Abili|ty, Wi&s;dom, or Polity, to know their Lei&s;ure, and to Solicite them ALL (who are MANY, and in HIGH PLACES.) But if I be not Credited, and for WANT of them any Judgements happen, Their own Con&s;cience will Clear me before the GRAND TRIBUNAL; where we mu&s;t All Appear.</P>
<CLOSER><HI>To God</HI> onely <HI>Wi&s;e</HI> and <HI>Good</HI> be All <HI>Glory.</HI></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>AMEN.</CLOSER>
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<Q>FEAR GOD. HONOUR THE KING.</Q>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>From my Cottage over again&s;t the Low Conduit by the Church in Coleman|&s;treet,</HI> <DATE>1662.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>London, Printed by Jane Clowes, 1662.</P>
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