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Title:  Antapologia, or, A full answer to the Apologeticall narration of Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Nye, Mr. Sympson, Mr. Burroughs, Mr. Bridge, members of the Assembly of Divines wherein is handled many of the controversies of these times, viz. ... : humbly also submitted to the honourable Houses of Parliament / by Thomas Edwards ...
Author: Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647.
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Churches to meet on the Sabbath day in private houses at the times of the publique Assemblies, whereby great tumults and combustions have been and may be occasioned in the streets? And is it a due respect to peaceable and orderly Reformation to preach publiquely upon points in difference, and for a Toleration of di∣vers Sects and opinions? And lastly, is that a due respect to the peaceable and orderly Reformation of this Church and Site, to see in Churches (where you, and other Ministers of your way have preached) great tumults and disorders committed by your fol∣lowers against the use of any part of the Lyturgie, and yet never to reprove them for it, nor to teach them to expect and wait till the Parliament would settle things▪ which of you have preached against the tumults in Churches, or the Lay-preaching, or the ga∣thering of Churches by the people? We have had a sprinkling of a little Court holy-water for a colour in one or two Sermons against some who say we have had no Churches, no Ministers, &c. with which the eyes of many men who have not studied the controver∣sies, neither understand them have been blinded; and by which you have the more readily drawn some either to your Church-way by your pretended moderation, or to plead for you against the asper∣sion of Brownisme. But what have you either done really; or for∣borne for the peaceable and orderly Reformation of this Church and State, have not all the notorious and visible disorders in our Churches (since this Parliament) both in Citie and Countrey (which have wrought such great disgusts in many (though unjust∣ly) against the Reformation and the Parliament, that as old Iacobaid to Simeon and Lvi, Ye have troubled me; to make me to stincke amongst the inhabitants of the land, and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me; and ay me, &c. so might Reformation and Parliament speake) been committed by your followers, and men of your way and om∣munion▪ yea many of them in your presence, when some of you have been to preach (for as for the rigid Brownists and Abap∣tists they come not to our Assemblies at all.) O the great advantage and gaine the common enemie hath made amongst many of these things, and the great losse and hinderance the Re∣formation and Parliament hath sustained by them. What that 0