Independency Further Proved to be a Schism, Title page – Errata
INDEPENDENCY Further proved to be a SCHISM. OR, A Survey of Dr Owens Review of his Tract of Schiſm;
With a Vindication of the Authour from his unjuſt clamours and falſe Aſperſions.
By D. Cawdry Preacher of the VVord at Billing Magn. in Northamptonſhire.
LONDON, Printed for John Wright, at the Kings Head in the Old-Bayley. 1658.
To the Reader.
HOw unpleaſing and diſtaſtfull the undertaking of the following Rejoynder was, and is, to me; not onelyonly God, and mine own conſcience, but alſo ſome ſpeciall friends, can witneſſe for me: And that the rather, becauſe I cannot (if I would not wrong my Cauſe, and my ſelf) but diſcover ſome perſonall weakneſſes, or forgetfulneſſe of my reverend Adverſary, upon his denyals of ſome things, which (if there be any truth in reports) were known to be true. I could have heartily iſhed, that the reverend Doctor had ken more time, than the ſpare hours of four or five daies, when he was preſſed with more then ordinary occaſions of ſundry ſorts; and deferred the examination of mine till further leaſure, when his ſpirit was more ſedate and ſerious: For I perceive, he was in ſome paſſion, (which quickned that haſte) at my Tract, comming out at that time, (a little before the publick Act) and that did caſt a miſt upon his judgment and memory, which cauſed this abortive birth. I conjectured by his Epiſtle, what I might expect in his Treatiſe, the heads whereof were theſe: 1. My manifold miſtakes. 2. My preſumptions, upon my own principles. 3. My caſting reproaches on them, with whom I had to do, &c. All which are anſwered in my following Diſcourſe, and therefore ſpared here. One thing he prepoſſeſſes his Reader with; That he expect not any thing from this Tract, but what is neceſſary, for the refutation of the Book, whereunto it is oppoſed; which is leaſt …f all performed. Complaints there …re good ſtore, of perſonall wrongs, many times repeated, from one end of the Book to the other; but little or nothing ſaid to the vindication of his Cauſe, againſt the Argumentative part of mine; as many others have obſerved. He further ſaies, He forbears all re-charge on the Preſbyterian way; as to the differences in judgment and practiſe among themſelves, which are more and greater, then any this Author hath found amongſt them. Truly it cannot be denyed, but there …re too many differences amongſt …s, in judgment and practice, (who cauſed them, I forbear to ſay) but with this difference, from them and theirs, that ours are betwixt man and man, one man and another; theirs are in one and the ſame man, differing from, and contradicting himſelfe, in a ſhort ſpace of time, as hath been made appear elſe-where. Another thing he would have his Reader expect, (the waiting for which, hath cauſed this delay of mine, at leaſt in part) A vindication of Mr. J. C. from ſome unjuſt (ſo he calls them) imputations of mine. Truly there wa… nothing imputed to him, but his inconſtancy in his opinions, and ſelf-contradictions, (as now to th… reverend Doctor) out of his own Writings. I heard of that Diſcourſ… above three years ſince, in the hand of one of the Brethren; and intended then, by him, to be publiſhed (as it is now promiſed, or rathe… threatned, by the reverend Doctor to caſt a ſlurre upon me, (as it i… thought) which why it is thus lon… ſilenced, I will not conjecture. Onel… I wiſh thoſe, that intend to rake i… the aſhes of the Dead, to conſider, …hether they ſhall deſerve any …hanks for their labour. I have no more to ſay to his Epiſtle, referring the reſt to the Tract it ſelf. Farewell, and love Truth as well as Peace.
Errata.
PAge 5. line 4. à fine, read propagate. p. 8. l. 15. r. that. p: 12. l. 5. for them, r. him. p. 13. l. laſt, r. invented. p. 38. l. 5. à fine, r. Anabap. p. 41. l. 2. à fine for eaſie, r. caſe. p. 50. l. 11. à fine after not, put in at. p. 52. l. 17. after ſaid, put, in. p. 55. l. 2. after brand, put in our. Ibid. l. 3. after is, put in (no.) p. 71. l. 5. for ſingular, r. ſignifie. Ib. l. 8. à fine, r. ſeceſſion. p. 72. Matth. 18. in Marg. that Note ſhould have ſtood higher, about the middle. p. 73. l. 3. à fine after to, put in be. p. 166. l. 10. r. exceptions. p. 109. l. 8. à fine, r. formally and the ſame. l. 3. à fine. p. 111. l. 1. for his, read this.