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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.
Yet am I well assured, that he cannot free himself from the just charge of practising Jesuitical tricks, in sending out his Emissaries, who (according to the Proverb in common use wi•h the Arabs, Qi afferunt ad te▪ auferunt â te, they that bring tales to thee, carry tales from thee) to underfeel and undermine men, repair to them with counterfeit errands (which he denies not to 1have procured to be done) and return back from them feigned answers, and false reports, unless they have been coine•, or forged rather by himself, and then fathered upon them.
Yet am I well assured, that he cannot free himself from the just charge of practising Jesuitical tricks, in sending out his Emissaries, who (according to the Proverb in common use wi•h the Arabes, Qi afferunt ad te▪ auferunt â te, they that bring tales to thee, carrie tales from thee) to underfeel and undermine men, repair to them with counterfeit errands (which he denies not to 1have procured to be done) and return back from them fained answers, and falsreports, unlesse they have been coine•, or forged rather by himself, and then fathered upon them.
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He writes himself Rich. Carpenter Independent.1
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