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Mysterious clouds and mists, shunning the clear light, a little further disclosed in a…Mysterious cloudes and mistes, shunning the cleer light, a little further disclosed in a…
Mysterious clouds and mists, shunning the clear light, a little further disclosed in a short answer to Mr. John Simpsons long appendix, entitled, Truth breaking forth through a cloud and mist of slanders, wherein the charge of slander, so far as it concerneth, both himself and some others, is taken of and removed / by Tho. Gataker ...Mysterious cloudes and mistes, shunning the cleer light, a little further disclosed in a short answer to Mr. John Simpsons long appendix, entituled, Truth breaking forth through a cloud and mist of slanders, wherein the charge of slander, so far as it concerneth, both himself and some others, is taken of and removed / by Tho. Gataker ...
London: printed by E. Griffin, 1648
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Only two evasions he hath, not to refel my report; but to wipe that of from himself, which he is, it may well be, now in part ashamed of.
Only two evasions he hath, not to refell my report; but to wipe that of from himselfe, which he is, it may well be, now in part ashamed of.
The former is, that *some did either through ignorance, misapprehend, or through malice misreport, what he had delivered; and that to clear himself concerning the first branch of it, he had in a Sermon at Algate, taught the contrary▪ as for *the other three, he can either affirm, or deny them all.
The former is, that *some did either through ignorance, misapprehend, or through malice misreport, what he had delivered; and that to clear himself concerning the first branch of it, he had in a Sermon at Algate, taught the contrary▪ as for *the other three, he can either affirme, or deny them all.
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And indeed it hath been well-observed formerly concerning divers, who have taught about this City, wherein people, Athenian-like, too much affect novelties, that endeavouring to draw Disciples after them, by broaching of new-fangled fancies, they have been wont to deliver their tenets in such ambiguous terms, that albeit their followers acquainted with their canting language, understood what they intended in them; yet they might, by some colourable glosses, and nice distinctions newly-minted, make them seem to be no other, then what the sound, and Orthodox held.