A85827:54
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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Here let me more particularly, as from God, and in Gods Name, entreat you, to have a special regard of observing Gods Sabbaths. You that are to see them observed by others, ought you not much more to observ them your selves? Your carriage is a kind of censure; that all men fix their eyes upon; that most men shape their courses by. If others then shall see you riding in your Circuits on the Sabbath, will they not think within themselves? And why may not I ride as well on the Sabbath to a Fair, as the Judg may to the place of Assize? If they shall be warned to appear before you for some hearing, by themselves, or by their Counsel upon the Sabbath, will they not be ready to argu from the works of your calling, to the works of their own? And why may not I as well be about my work, as they about theirs? And in truth (to speak plainly as the thing is) why may not a Smith as well work at the Forge, or an Husband man at the Plough, as a Judge sit to hear Civil Causes on the Sabbath? The one hindereth the Sanctification of it, as well as the other.
Here let me more particularlie, as from God, and in Gods Name, entreat you, to have a special regard of observing Gods Sabbaths. You that are to see them observed by others, ought you not much more to observ them your selvs? Your cariage is a kind of censure; that all men fix their eyes upon; that most men shape their courses by. If others then shal see you riding in your Circuits on the Sabbath, wil they not think within themselvs? And why may not I ride as wel on the Sabbath to a Fair, as the Judg may to the place of Assize? If they shal be warned to appear before you for some hearing, by themselvs, or by their Counsel upon the Sabbath, wil they not be readie to argu from the works of your calling, to the works of their own? And why may not I as wel be about my work, as they about theirs? And in truth (to speak plainlie as the thing is) why may not a Smith as wel work at the Forge, or an Husband man at the Plough, as a Judge sit to hear Civil Causes on the Sabbath? The one hindereth the Sanctification of it, as wel as the other.
And if it be alleged, That the one is (as before was proved indeed) more specially Gods work. So were the repairing of a Church, which yet the Mason or Plumber may not work about on the Sabbath; no more then Besaleel or Aholiab might