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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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A bad beginning seldom comes to a good end. Where yet the Gloss upon the place goes further then the Text, and saith, Vix. 1i. Nunqam. Scarce ever, that is, Never. And the great Philosopher to the same purpose sticks not to say, [Greek or Hebrew] 2[Greek or Hebrew]. It is impossible; but that that which is faulty at the first, should prove il at the last. And that ancient Father, and stout Champion of Christ, Athanasius, seconding Aristotle herein, yea, going further yet then he, [Greek or Hebrew] 3[Greek or Hebrew]. That that hath a bad beginning, can never be deemed sound in ought, as being all stark naught. And Seneca therefore, from Bio an ancient Greek of great note, thus determines the point, Let every man set it down for a position, 4and know it to be an undoubted truth, which Bio sometime said, Omnia hominum negotia similia init iis esse; That all mens affairs will prove good or bad, according as their beginnings are. And yet more expressly and particularly to our present purpose, I sidore the Egyptian, one of Chrysostoms chief 5Scholars, [Greek or Hebrew]. He that in the beginning swerveth from the truth, will in his proceedings roll further away from it, and end at last with some foul and shameful catastrophe or other. Lily therefore beginning his charge thus with a notorious lie, foretelleth those that read him by what they find in the front or forehead of it, how little truth they may look for in the residue of his ensuing relation, and that as it begins, so the progress of it shall be, and the close answerable to either.
A bad beginning seldom comes to a good end. Where yet the Gloss upon the place goes further then the Text, and saith, Vix. 1i. Nunqam. Scarce ever, that is, Never. And the great Philosopher to the same purpose sticks not to say, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉