A85827:117
A discourse apologeticalA discours apologetical
A discourse apologetical; wherein Lilies lewd and loud lies in his Merlin or Pasquil for the year 1654. are clearly laid open; his shameful desertion of his own cause is further discovered; his shameless slanders fully refuted; and his malicious and murderous mind, inciting to a general massacre of Gods ministers, from his own pen, evidently evinced. Together with an advertisement concerning two allegations produced in the close of his postscript. And a postscript concerning an epistle dedicatory of one J. Gadburie. By Tho. Gataker B.D. author [sic] of the annotations on Jer. 10.2 and of the vindication of them.A discours apologetical; wherein Lilies lewd and lowd lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the yeer 1654. are cleerly laid open; his shameful desertion of his own cause is further discovered; his shameless slanders fullie refuted; and his malicious and murtherous mind, inciting to a general massacre of Gods ministers, from his own pen, evidentlie evinced. Together with an advertisement concerning two allegations produced in the close of his postscript. And a postscript concerning an epistle dedicatorie of one J. Gadburie. By Tho. Gataker B.D. autor [sic] of the annotations on Jer. 10.2 and of the vindication of them.
London: printed by R. Ibbitson for Thomas Newberry, 1654
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And I may truly and boldly avow it, That during all the time of mine abode in this place, what in maintenance of my Family, (nor was either my self or any of mine ever noted for excess, either in daintiness of fare, or in costliness of attire) in affording a competency to an able Assistant for me in the Work of my Ministry, (whereof three of 1eminent parts have within these few years, not long one after another deceased, and some other yet survive) and •o a young Scholar to write out divers things for me, whereof some lie still by me, and some are abroad; in enlarging of my House, which was somewhat scanty, (but is now very near as large again as I found it, as may be guessed by the number of Chimneys in it, which were no more than four, when I came to it, the Doctor making only a Summer-House of it, and are now no less then twelve) for the more convenient lodging of mine Assistant and Scribe, and a Student one or two, such of our own Country as had left the University, and were fitting themselves for the Ministry; or Strangers, that from foreign parts came over, to learn our Language, and observ our Method of Teaching, (whereof I was seldom without some, and might have had more, had my House been ⟨p. 51⟩more capacious) and gaining a room of more capacity for the bestowing of my Library; in reparations of my dwelling House, and the Wharf before it, which was no small charge; in furnishing of my self with Books, which to a Scholar and Minister at as the tools of his trade; in relief of the poor, wherein I shall spare to speak what I added voluntarily in a constant course (besides what upon emergent occasions) unto that I was assessed; in these and the like put together, with what went to the higher Powers, Civil and Ecclesiastical, as before; I spent, Communibus annis, one year with another, all that ever I received in right of my Rectory, as by proof sufficient I could make to appear.
And I may trulie and boldlie avow it, That during all the time of mine abode in this place, what in maintainance of my Familie, (nor was either my self or anie of mine ever noted for excess, either in daintiness of fare, or in costliness of attire) in affording a competencie to an able Assistant for me in the Work of my Ministerie, (whereof three of 1