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The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on…
The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on Jeremiah 10. ver. 2 and the Vindications of them, as also of the new-come out discourse apologetical) : wherein is showed the manner and order of the disposing of his estate, with the certain legacies given to friends, together with the manner of burial of his aged corps without superficial rites or ceremonies.The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on Jeremy 10. ver. 2 and the Vindications of them, as also of the new-come out discourse apologetical) : wherin is shewed the manner and order of the disposing of his estate, with the certain legacies given to friends, together with the manner of burial of his aged corps without superficial rites or ceremonies.
S.l. : s.n., 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Item I give unto Mr. Kelly [a Scotch Presbyter] now, or lately Reader of Cripplegate my Lottery, [for which very thing could I have wished my self hung up to the ears in a Scotch Ordinary when I was writing it] and part of my Vindications of my Annotations, which I bequeathed to Bourn, wherein I have comprised two irrefragable reasons, plainly proving Presbytery, Tithes, Railing, and Non-sense, to be all alike, Jure Divin•.
Item I give unto Mr. Kelly [a Scotch Presbyter] now, or lately Reader of Cripplegate my Lottry, [for which very thing could I have wished my self hung up to the ears in a Scotch Ordinary when I was writing it] and part of my Vindications of my Annotations, which I bequeath'd to Bourn, wherein I have comprized two irrefragable reasons, plainly proving Presbytery, Tythes, Railing, and Non-sense, to be all alike, Jure Divin•.
Item, I Bequeath the whole stock of my Impudence unto Ralph Farmer (the Lay-Levite of Bristol, which together with his own) will surely enable ⟨p. 4⟩him (Proteus-like) to assume all shapes, and to run through as many professions, as the wandering Jew is said to have done Countries, here to play the Scribe, there the Chemist, in a third place the Priest, to be Aliquis in omnibus, nullus in singulis, A Saint in one place, a Devil in another, a Cheat every where, always, Impudeus innocuum quotidiè persequitur, yet glory himself in the title of a godly Minister, a painful Pastor, a powerful teacher, notwithstanding he never saved the soul of a louse, and deserved the tithe of a Nit for his Quacking.
Item, I Bequeath the whole stock of my Impudence unto Ralph Farmer (the Lay-Levite of Bristoll, which together with his owne) will surely enable ⟨p. 4⟩him (Proteus-like) to assume all shapes, and to run through as many professions, as the wandring Jew is said to have done Countryes, here to play the Scribe, there the Chimist, in a third place the Priest, to be Aliquis in omnibus, nullus in singulis, A Saint in one place, a Devill in another, a Cheat every where, alwayes, Impudeus innocuum quotidiè persequitur, yet glory himself in the title of a godly Minister, a painfull Pastor, a powerfull teacher, notwithstanding he never saved the soule of a louse, and deserved the tythe of a Nit for his Quacking.