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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 will ye see him treading more exactly in the steps of that more eminent mount ain-bellied (as he calls him) Proteus or Vertumnus, to whom his Censurer he saith, compared him, and to whom for bulk of body and belly he vicissim compares that Censurer of him? where he makes his confession, as he would do it he saith, and it were upon his death-bed; I most heartily deny (saith he) and defy, renounce, abhor and protest against, the 1presumption, pride, and avarice of Popes, their Nephews and Cardinals; the deceitful dealing of Priests, Jesuits, Monks and Friars; and against all other Doctrines, that bear the true ⟨p. 68⟩mark and haecceity of corruption. Would not Spalatensis think we questionless, Yea, Cardinal Bellarmine, or Baronius himself, have said as much? and much more, what there follows? For immediately in the very next words, he spends a whole page and 2more in a transcendent commendation of the Papists, for their faithful conservation of the Sacred Articles of Catholic and Apostolic Doctrine, their well-ordered Zeal, admirable and most ravishing Devotions, Deiform Intentions, Heroical acts of Virtue, Fastings, Prayings, Recollections, Meditations, Introversions, Aspirations, Humiliations, Mortifications, Abnegations of themselves, &c. As if all true Zeal, sound Devotion, and sincere Piety, or the highest strains thereof at least, were wholly cloistered up in the Popish Monasteries among their Votaries (of whose Acts with us what they were Bales two whole Books may show, and what they are, and have been elsewhere, the testimonies of their own Writers, in Illyricus his Catalogue, and Wolfs Memoralia, may sufficiently inform) or were to be found in the Romish Church, if not alone, yet in a far greater eminency then in any other. All which things, he saith, he doth most 3humbly embrace, receive, approve, with all his soul, heart, and spirit; and he will never believe that the Tree (to wit, the Church of Rome, and its Superstitious Orders of Monks and Friars) is corrupted in the Root, Heart, and Substance, which brings forth such heavenly fruits. For as for what he solemnly professeth elsewhere, that he bleeds in his spirit, and is ashamed 4