The modest vindication of Henry VValker. In answer to certaine scandalous pamphlets, forged and vented abroad in his name (withou[t]: his privity.) Against which, as also the authours thereof, together with the popular aspersions of many other turbulent spirits, he doth protest; and before almighty God, clear himselfe to all the world. Walker, Henry, Ironmonger. 1643 Approx. 15 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A96992 Wing W377 Thomason E85_39 ESTC R5839 99872907 99872907 125354 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . 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Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Early works to 1800. 2007-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-04 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2007-04 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE MODEST VINDICATION OF HENRY VVALKER . In answer to certaine scandalous Pamphlets , forged and vented abroad in his name ( without his privity . ) Against which , as also the authours thereof , together with the popular aspersions of many other turbulent spirits , He doth protest ; and before Almighty God , clear himselfe to all the world . MAL. 3. 16. Then spake they that feared the Lord , every one to his neighbour , and the Lord hearkened , and heard it , and a booke of remembrance was written . Augustin in Psal . 31. prae . Vnusquisque audiat , & sicut sibi conscius fuerit , ita vel doleat corrigendus , vel guadeat approbandus . Let every one heare , and as he is conscious to himselfe , so let him either grieve being to be corrected , or rejoyce being to be approved . LONDON , Printed in the Yeare of our Lord , 1642. The Epistle Dedicatorie ▪ O Pierce my heart with fervent love of thee ! The beauty of thy face , Lord , let me see ! Rise from thy cloudy Eastern cloysters black , Spread forth thy glorious beames and be not slack , To thawe my Icie heart , which sinne hath frosen , Assure my conscience , Lord , I am thy chosen . And thou my Sovereigne , Charles , all Europs splendor , Thine enemies terrour and true Faith's Defend●r , Thy love preserv'd my life , not heathenish fate , In thy Majestick face , true Princely state : When malice plotted mischief everie houre , Thy clemency prevented all their power : That God which grac'd thee with a Royall Crowne , Crown thee with grace , thy Honours with renown . * All you poore soules whose eares have been abused , With scandalous reports and eyes traduced With charmes of turbulent spirits ; new take and view , This Declaration honest , plain , and true . Per Henry Walker Cantab. The modest Vindication of Henry Walker . IT is an ancient saying of the learned . If a man would be in safety , and partaker of happinesse , he must of necessity have good friends , or sharp enemies , that the one by good and wise admonition , or the other by notable injuries may cause him to withdraw himself from doing of evill . They from the instinct of nature , but we by the Law of God are taught to govern our selves with the reason of a true Academicall prudence , who being Christians are bound to shew forth the effect of that title which we beare . And I pray God , that I ( with the Philosophers industrious Bees ) may gather the driest , and most precious hony of faith , and patience , from the bitter time of these my troubles , not desiring revenge , ( for that would hurt me more then them ) but praying for their conversion who causelesly have sought my ruine , bequeathing unto them Antistines blessing : even all the good in the world , except valour , which may make them rashly to venter upon my life . And I could heartily wish , that all those who have spued out their envy against me , may , ( by humble contrition before Almighty God ) empty their soules of that wickednesse wherewith they appeare herein to be replenished ; Concerning a foolish ridiculous Pamphlet of Tobie & his dog , put by the authour into Taylours hands , and ( by him ) bastardly fathered upon me , hoping thereby to advance the profit of the presse : As also another , ( as false as foolish ) of my life and conversation , composed by , and printed for those who never knew a reason of what is therein maliciously forged : with Sermons printed , pretended to be mine : and many other inveterate fictions so farre from modesty , Religion , or humanity , that ( however some poore soules may be traduced to believe them yet ) upon mature deliberation , I am confident , that any rationall understanding may easily perceive the guilded poyson of invective lyes wherewith I am therein maligned , by such who have not onely fathered their own filthinesse most impudently upon me , but have so farre abused others , that they have gloried in the vast conceit of prevailing to make such men odious to the world , who indeed are happy patternes of Piety : amongst whom I am no wayes worthy to be named , though their enemies have now beene mine . Nothing is worse ( saith a Reverend Father ) then to hate men whom they know not , though they deserve to be hated . But what would that good man have said , had he now lived to see Religion thus maligned , and Peace violated , whereby so great a destraction is raised , both in Church , and state ? the setling whereof who can expect whilst so many are seperated from , and will not be reconciled to God ? for ( as Bernard saith ) how shall mans Peace be ratified before God , when Gods glory is violated with men : his worship despised , his faithfull Ministers contemned , and the fruit of the Altar , and the meat of it not regarded ? Mal. 1. 12. Concerning the Petition to the Kings Majesty , for which the Law hath passed on me , I doe not , neither did I ever deny , that the written copie was mine , with which how the printed Pamphlet agreed , and wherein it differed , I passe by it with a modest silence : the law hath passed on me , and I freely submit to the censure of the Court of Justice , knowing the truth of Augustine his words , Iustice and Peace , are two friends . Yet can I not passe by the providence of God herein , rendring thanks to my dread Soveraigne , that his gracious Majesty would be pleased to cast the eyes of his clemency on so poore a subject , ( when so distressed ) to limit the fury of my adversaries ; which gracious favour of his hath obliged my subjection to the highest pitch of Loyalty : and soared my affection so high , to love and honour him , that could I lay downe my life to do him service , I should think my death a blessed sacrifice . And thus much I can safely , and ingenuously protest before Almighty God , ( and let my best thoughts fade , and hopes of blessing vanish , if my pen dissemble with my heart ) that the uttermost of my intents ( therein ) extended no further then the glory of God , the honour of His Majesty , and the peace and tranquility of the Church and State ; being confident , that as England was under his Royall father of blessed memory , so is it under His Royall Majesty the happiest nation in the world , in a Prince endued with true Majesty , and piety ; humble in spirit , diligent in heart , affable in speech , valiant in battell , mercifull in government , the Princely qualities commended in David by Ambrose . Who doth not know the lustre of the Throne to be so glorious in His Majesties pious Reigne , that all the Princes in the world , in their greatest glory , are but as shadowes before His splendor ? O Royall Soveraigne , how art thou worthy to be honoured , worthy to be loved , worthy to be desired of all that come unto thee , saying we are thy bones ? &c. And concerning those clamorous speeches , which are rumored abroad , that I should throw the said Petition into His Majesties Coach , upon what grounds or by whom it should be raised I cannot tell , neither can I say any thing of it , onely thus much I can ingenuously protest , that I am not onely innocent , but ignorant of any such act , and so farre cleare , that I am absolutely free from all such intention in my self , or privity in others : I tooke none of them from the Presse , because I then apprehended danger in what was printed , and had the Printer put out what I forbad to print ( yet never writ ) that which was chiefly questioned had not beene printed : But for my part because I was not charged with it , neither heare it reported by any credible person of their owne knowledge : I doubt the truth of it : yet thus much I say , that if any man did presume to doe it , it must needs be censured an high attempt , and worthy of condigne punishment . But that which strikes me into the greatest admiration , is , to think upon what grounds the imagination of any mans judgement should apprehend mine to be tainted with Brownisme , or faction ; yet have some malitious turbulent spirits branded me for a Separatist , and scandalized me with preaching in Conventicles , when as God knowes I am so cleare from any such action , that I was never yet a member of any separated congregation : I pray God so to heare my prayers , as I have been a faithfull member of the Church of England , established by the Lawes of the Land , and free from conventicling with Papists , Brownists , Anabaptists , or any factious Assemblies whatsoever ; I have still laboured to practise that grave advice of Augustine , which teacheth me not onely to assemble in divine worship with the Congregation my self , but also to bring those into Gods House which remained under my roofe . I deny not , but I have , and still doe desire , and hartily pray to God , that there may be a Reformation of such things in the Church as by Authority shall be found fit to be reformed , according to that direction which God himselfe prescribeth in his holy word , yet with this caution that it is not for private persons , but belongs to authority to regulate the differences , and dissentions both in Church , and State , to the guidance whereof every subject is bound to submit because they are the powers ordained of God , Rom. 13. Therefore I say no more of that , onely thus much ; I cannot but take notice what great cause we have to give thanks to Almighty God , that we have so Religious a King , whose splendour shines brighter amongst the glorious starres of His prudent Senatours in the two Honourable Houses of Parliament then all the Princes in the world . When can we expect a through Reformation if not now ? Should Gods poore saints expectations in England now be thwarted , how would their glory then be vailed ? but God be blessed their hopes , though deferred , are not lost , for the glory is not departed from Israel . Others question my calling , which was never yet questioned by Authority , stumbling at my former life , because mechanick , to so holy a function . Give me leave to speak plainly , because truly , it is well known where I was born , that I was bred a Scholar , though taken from the Schoole to the shop ; I returned again to that in which I most delighted , namely , learning ; and remained a student in Queens Colledge in Cambridge , till not onely by a Certificate from the said Colledge , but also by a Testimonie under the hands of severall able Divines I was held fit to be received into Orders ; after which being examined by the Arch-Bishops Chaplain of these Diocesses , I gave him such satisfaction of my fitnesse that he subscribed examinavi ▪ & approbavi , whereupon the Arch-Bishop gave me a f●●t , under his own hand which produced Letters dimissary out of the Court : Then repairing to the Arch-Bishop of York , then B●shop of Lincoln , I was presented to him by a Minister , who supplied the Arch-Deacons place ; and from the said Bishop received the charge of a Deacon , and he laid his hands upon me , at which time almost twenty more Students of the two famous Universities of Cambridge , and Oxford , were also received into Orders . And moreover I am resolved to appeal to Authority so soon as opportunity wil permit , by whom if I be not held fit , & to whom if I give not good satisfaction , I will freely submit to their censure , calling upon God to direct both thē & me . Me thinks I heare those words of S. Augustine ( as it were ) sounding in mine eares , O homo ! in praeceptione cognosce quid debeas habere , in correptione tua te vitio non habere , in oratione quid vis habere . In English thus , O man ! acknowledge in everie precept what strength thou shouldest have , in every reproofe what strength by thine owne fault thou wantest , and in everie prayer , whence thou mayest have what thou wantest . Lord grant , that I may so pray , so know , and so practise that I may glorifie thy name , honour my King , doe my duty , practise love , know my self , and discharge my conscience before Almighty God , and all the world , which that I may do , God of his infinite mercy assist me with his holy Spirit . Amen . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A96992-e120 God. The King. People . Notes for div A96992-e420 The Cinick Philosopher Xenophon . As Theophr●stus saith . As Lisander Admirall of●● of the Laced●moians be●●●i reviled with many bitter speeches said to him who offered him that inj●●●ry . ●hil iniquius ●●am ut ode●●t homines ●●●os ignorant ●●omsi res me●●ur odium , ●●ertull . ●●aenam mo●●stabit pax ●●minum co●● Deo , si to apud ho●●nes non po●●tua esse sua ●●ria ? 〈◊〉 Epist . 〈…〉 . 1. 12 ●●●gust . on 〈◊〉 . 8 5. pleased 〈◊〉 Majesty to 〈◊〉 a speciall 〈◊〉 to the ●ges , not to ●●●ddle with life , or any 〈◊〉 or mem●●● of my body Humilisspir sedulus cor●● facilis assat●●● &c Forcis i● praelio , mans●●erus in imper●● &c. merito 〈◊〉 go expetirus estab univer●● populo , ut omnes ad eum venirent d●●centes , ecce nos ossa sua , &c. Ambros. lib. ● Offic. cap. 7. ●●dduce eos 〈◊〉 domum ●ei tecum , qui 〈◊〉 in domo 〈◊〉 recum . ●ugust . epist . ●0 . Rom. 13.