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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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I let pass his scurrility for the present, related only here to present the Reader with a taste beforehand, of what he shall further hear more in the close; only this now. If it be as he saith, that the poor Presbyter is left so needy, nittie, bare, and worse then beggarly, without House or Land, or so much as a Wallet to go a begging with, but is utterly abandoned by his own parent, and left to the wide world to shift for himself; then sure I, who was never yet (I praise God) acquainted with shifting; what himself hath been, I know not: Tho he report as truly as some other things here, whereof that of the name Presbyter never acknowledged in the pretended sense, till bred and brought forth here: And how do they then, himself among others, fetch the pedigree of it from Geneva? that I should say, He came over hither, with never a penny in his purrs. But if it be, I say, as he saith, I surely must needs be either a stark fool, in pretending to Presbytery, or a stiff and fast friend to that party, or the former rather, because the latter, if preferment and lucre be the end of my pretension, in adhering still so close to it, and pleading so much for it, when it is in so low, bad, bare, base, dejected, and despicable condition, even below the Beggars Wallet.
I let pass his scurrilitie for the present, related onelie here to present the Reader with a taste beforehand, of what he shal further hear more in the close; onelie this now. If it be as he saith, that the poor Presbyter is left so needie, nittie, bare, and wors then beggerlie, without House or Land, or so much as a Wallet to go a begging with, but is utterlie abandoned by his own parent, and left to the wide world to shift for himself; then sure I, who was never yet (I praise God) acqainted with shifting; what himself hath been, I know not: Tho he report as trulie as some other things here, whereof that of the name Presbyter never acknowledged in the pretended sense, til bred and brought forth here: And how do they then, himself among others, fetch the pedegree of it from Geneva? that I should say, He came over hither, with never a pennie in his purs. But if it be, I say, as he saith, I surelie must needs be either a stark fool, in pretending to Presbyterie, or a stiff and fast friend to that partie, or the former rather, because the latter, if preferment and lucre be the end of my pretension, in adhering stil so close to it, and pleading so much for it, when it is in so low, bad, bare, base, dejected, and despicable condition, even below the Beggers Wallet.