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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
An Advertisement concerning two Allegations in Lilies Postscript.
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.
But of that Romish School-Divinity, which he wishes derived from Rome into our Universities, he thus speaks, I follow the Discourse of mine own heart, in the deep Tracts of School-Divinity (the Title of Doctor Profundus, belike, he may challenge) the strength and marrow whereof I find after long use to be superlatively strong and useful, above the marrow and strength of Lions; although the crassipelles thick-skinned Preachers (such are all ours to this Dr. Subtilis, that he may have Scotus his title too) dabbling and wading in the shallow, think 1shallowly of it. Of the latter, to wit, The spiritual Magazine of Mystical Divinity, as he termeth it, thus; The defect 2hereof hath rendered the leaders of these wretched and leaden people (thus he reckons our Protestant people in comparison of ⟨p. 67⟩the Papists) wretchedly deficient, and altogether sinking within themselves. Where as hereby they might have made better and stronger use of their strong (or strange rather) imaginations (mere humane fancies) as the mystical Divines have taught; Such, to wit, as play and sport themselves with Gods sacred Oracles, and exercise their wanton wits, in writhing and wriggling them to and fro, [Greek or Hebrew], like some Puppets, or Engines, artificially framed, that with screws and devices may be turned into what shapes and figures men lust; That which he, and some other of his strain, yea, to many of our Novelists among us to frequently practise, and whereof in these his writings he hath given such absurd, immodest, irreligious and ridiculous Patterns and Instances, as were sufficient to make any modest, religious, ingenuous, or judicious persons to loath and abhor it: Not unlike herein to that great French-man, a man otherwise of eminent parts, who 3commending to Scholars and Students this kind of study, propounds withal for a Sample such a piece of a fantastical Jew, as would make any pious Christian mans stomach to rise within him at the reading of it. But of such stuff we have to much among us already; which even the soberer sort of Popish Writers themselves mislike; and we are well content it rest where it is, wishing it rather exiled wholly from us, and the monopoly of it confirmed and confined unto those of the Romish Synagogue.