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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.
I remember, that while I lived in the City, there was one Hen•ch Clapham, that had been sometimes a Separatist at Amsterdam; but afterwards coming over and pretending to be converted by Judge Anderson a professed enemy to all Puritans, became then as furious a Preacher and Writer against the Presbyterians 1as ever he had been against the Prelates before, as well in the Pulpit, as in his Pamphlets; whatsoever the subject matter was otherwise, just in the same manner as this man doth, ever anon scoffing and girding at them. And his scurrilous carriage in this kind growing so gross and unsufferable, that he came at last to be convented in the High Commission Court, B. King, when he was to pass his censure upon him, spake to this effect, that there were two sorts of people that justly deserved a sharp and severe censure, the one was of those that brought the Pulpit upon the stage, the other of those that brought the Stage into the Pulpit; and these latter (in which rank he reckoned the party then to be censured) were well worthy of as deep a brand as the former. And truly in either of these kinds, which the Bishop observed, Mr. Carpenter hath not failed to play his part. In the former when he was among the Papists and Jesuits abroad; For so himself informs us, that when he made a Latin Play among the Jesuits, he acted the part of a Minister, and preached upon the stage (telling us 2with all on what Text he preached) moving excessive laughter at •veri• word; as also, that at Rome he composed a Play of a mixture of English and Latin (such as his Sermon no Sermon 3is) wherein he p•r•onated a Minister, much profaning the words and phrases of holy Scripture: And again, that at Rome 4he acted the part of a Minister, a Changeling, a T•rk, and a ⟨p. 88⟩