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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.
Ad also, that absurd, immodest; unsavoury and irreligious scoff, wherein playing upon the word Kirk, not peculiar to the Scots, but common with them to the Dutch high and low, beside others, and framed from the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew], Gods-house; but he would have derived from [Greek or Hebrew], a tail, and abusing the terms used in the Greek version of the sacred Hymn; he saith of these black Knights of the blew Bonnet (as you heard him before stile them) that David gives a fair-foul Image of such Night-Ravens, 1Psal. 11. 2. when he saith, they shoot, as the Septuagint, [Greek or Hebrew] or as another would interpret it, in Scoticis tenebris, in the Scotch darkness of their souls. (Is not this a most detestable abuse of Gods Oracles? yet he adds) He that will please 2himself with this Northern point, may cheerfully do it, and yet not over-act. For they creep out of their holes in the darkest night, and run here and there in great multitudes, like that ⟨p. 87⟩living and busy dust on a Pismire-hill; every where carrying their Kirk behind them, that is, their [Greek or Hebrew], their ugly tail, which they wag and fawn upon the silly dull-eyed people, that kn•w not a head from a tail, with shaking the Kirk, the [Greek or Hebrew] of all Churches, which they would set over the Head, even to the ruin of thousands. And this scurrility so pleased him, that he must needs have it up again afterward with a further absurd toy annexed to it, where he saith, The Scotch Imp in his 3Pulpit-fort drives furiously in the quest of gain, [Greek or Hebrew] a tail, which putteth me in mind of the Kirk, is allied nearly to [Greek or Hebrew] vain lucre.
Ad also, that absurd, immodest; unsavorie and irreligious scof, wherein playing upon the word Kirk, not peculiar to the Scots, but common with them to the Dutch high and low, beside others, and framed from the Greek word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Gods-house; but he would have derived from , a tail, and abusing the terms used in the Greek version of the sacred Hymn; he saith of these black Knights of the blew Bonnet (as you heard him before stile thhem) that David gives a fair-foul Image of such Night-Ravens,