A78005:28
A vindication of Mr Burroughs, against Mr Edwards his foul aspersions, in his spreading…A vindication of Mr Burroughes, against Mr Edwards his foule aspersions, in his spreading…
A vindication of Mr Burroughs, against Mr Edwards his foul aspersions, in his spreading Gangræna, and his angry Antiapologia. Concluding with a brief declaration what the Independents would have. / By Jer: Burroughs.A vindication of Mr Burroughes, against Mr Edwards his foule aspersions, in his spreading Gangræna, and his angry Antiapologia. Concluding with a briefe declaration what the Independents would have. / By Jer: Burroughes.
London: printed for H. Overton, 1646
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Ans. Truly I did mention those words, such a meeting, such a man, often, on purpose that the Reader might know that all I intended was in reference to that meeting, and to Nicols as concerned in it; But he says my equivocation lies in this, that I would put the whole story upon that meeting.
Ans. Truly I did mention those words, such a meeting, such a man, often, on purpose that the Reader might know that all I intended was in reference to that meeting, and to Nicols as concerned in it; But he sayes my equivocation lies in this, that I would put the whole story upon that meeting.
Ans. If M. Edwards were not resolved to shut his eyes, he might see that I only meddle with that of the story that is mentioned in such a page, namely page 79. I say all that is false, but if there be any thing true of the story in another page, I meddle not ⟨p. 8⟩with it: If I had said all the story had been false, without limiting it to that page, M. Edwards had had room enough to have ruffled in, and yet he ruffles as if I had said so, and would make the world believe I did say so.
Ans. If M. Edwards were not resolved to shut his eyes, hee might see that I onely meddle with that of the story that is mentioned in such a page, namely page 79. I say all that is false, but if there be any thing true of the story in another page, I meddle not ⟨p. 8⟩with it: If I had said all the story had beene false, without limiting it to that page, M. Edwards had had roome enough to have ruffled in, and yet he ruffles as if I had said so, and would make the world beleeve I did say so.