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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
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Mr. Gataker formerly a stiff Prelate, preaching impudently for the Liberties or Sports of the Sabbath, viz. Cards, Dice, &c. Afterward in hope of Bishops, Deans, or Chapter-Lands, a pretended Presbyterian; since its decay, the poor m•n is mute, &c. For what followeth will be best fitted to his after-charge.
Mr. Gataker formerlie a stiff Prelate, preaching impudentlie for the Liberties or Sports of the Sabbath, viz. Cards, Dice, &c. Afterward in hope of Bishops, Deans, or Chapter-Lands, a pretended Presbyterian; since its decay, the poor m•n is mute, &c. For what followeth wil be best fitted to his after-charge.
Principiis omen inesse solet. Beginnings are deemed ominous. Ad limen offendere, or, In portu impingere. For a man to trip at the threshold, when he is going abroad, and a ship to strike on the bar, or run on ground, when it is setting out to sea, have been by old said Saws, pronounced to be but bad signs, and to bode little good. This charge therefore appearing with an apparent lie in the foretop, gives no good presage of that, that ensueth: For when or where was Mr. G. ever a Prelate, can Lily tell, think we? or any man else? and how could he be a stiff Prelate, that never was any? This is therefore a manifest, and conspicuous falsehood to begin with; and as the Greek Tragedian sometime said.⟨p. 13⟩ [Greek or Hebrew].1 That which goeth for a ruled Case in the Civil Law, Malum principium malus finis seqitur. A bad beginning is wont to bring forth a bad end. And the like is entered as an Axiom in 2the body of the Canon Law, Principio q[…] sunt inchoata malo, vix est ut bono peragantur exitu. Those things that are ill begun scarce ever end well. According to that, Rarus principii est exitus bonus mali.