After this new disappointment he printed and distributed to members of parliament The Sad Case of Clement Writer, who hath waited for reliefe therein since the fourth December 1640.
In 1652 the Worcester committee for sequestration were enjoined by Thomas Fowle, solicitor for the Commonwealth, to examine into his case against Lord Coventry,[4] but the dissolution of parliament in December again prevented his obtaining hearing.
[5] By 1647, Edwards proceeds to say, he had become "an arch-heretique and fearfull apostate, an old wolf, and a subtile man, who goes about corrupting and venting his errors; he is often in Westminster-Hall and in the Exchange", making it "his businesse to plunder men of their faith; and if he can do that upon any it fattens him—that's meat to him".
[6] Edwards asserted that Writer had a large share in Man's Mortalitie, an anonymous tract usually attributed to Richard Overton, in which heterodox doctrines were propounded concerning the immortality of the soul.
Baxter added that in conversation with him Writer urged that "no man is bound to believe in Christ who doth not see confirming miracles with his own eyes", anticipating David Hume's argument.
[7] In 1657 appeared Fides Divina: the Ground of True Faith asserted (London), which is probably by Writer, although he refused to acknowledge to Baxter that he was the author.