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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. 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.
He says pag. 88. that the whole story and all the particular of it are true, and there is nothing false in it from first to last.
He sayes pag. 88. that the whole story and all the particulare of it are true, and there is nothing false in it from first to last.
Ans. What impudence is here, when his only witness to that story says what I have said in denying that which is page 79. is true; and M. Edwards still will aver, that all the particulars of the story from first to last hath nothing false in it. In that story he tells you of a meeting concluded of upon the occasion of Nicols his opinions, where I and M. Greenhill were; when as still it is affirmed again, and his only witness he hath, acknowledges there was no such meeting, neither I nor Master Greenhill never knew of such a meeting. And he confesses that he did mistake. If he should find such mistakes in me, in his mouth they would be lies. There is something related, which surely is either true or false: but true it is not, for he confesses there was a mistake, and yet he boldly says that all the particulars of his relation are true, there is nothing false from first to last. What a man is this M. Edwards? he can relate a business, he can mistake in his relation, report that to be that never was, and yet all he says is true. Cast him where you will, he falls upon his legs.