A88587:13
A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the…
A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the ministers of London, from the scandalous aspersions of John Price, in a pamphlet of his, entitled, Clerico-classicum or, The clergies alarm to a third war. Wherein his king-killing doctrine is confuted. The authors by him alleged, as defending it, cleared. The ministers of London vindicated. The follies, and falsities of John Price discovered. The protestation, vow, and the Covenant explained. / By a friend to a regulated monarchy, a free Parliament, an obedient army, and a godly ministry; but an enemy to tyranny, malignity, anarchy and heresy.A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the ministers of London, from the scandalous aspersions of John Price, in a pamphlet of his, entituled, Clerico-classicum or, The clergies alarum to a third war. Wherein his king-killing doctrine is confuted. The authors by him alledged, as defending it, cleared. The ministers of London vindicated. The follies, and falsities of Iohn Price discovered. The protestation, vow, and the Covenant explained. / By a friend to a regulated monarchy, a free Parliament, an obedient army, and a godly ministry; but an enemy to tyranny, malignity, anarchy and heresie.
London: printed for Stephen Bowtell, 1649
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A MODEST and CLEAR VINDICATION Of the Serious Representation, and late Vindication Of the Ministers of London, from the Scandalous Aspersions of JOHN PRIC•, In a Pamphlet of his, Entitled, CLERICO-CLASSICUM OR, The Clergies Alarm to a third War.
A MODEST and CLEAR VINDICATION Of the Serious Representation, and late Ʋindication Of the Ministers of London, from the Scandalous Aspersions of JOHN PRIC•, In a Pamphlet of his, Entituled, CLERICO-CLASSICƲM OR, The Clergies Alarum to a third War.
John Price,
WOULD one imagine that you who thought your self once so good an Alchemist, as to extract* honey out of the rock, should now such poison out of a flower? I cannot compare you to a Bee (unless for your sting) but to a Spider, for sucking poison from that savoury and serious Representation, and late Vindication of the Ministers of London, against whom you have spit so much of your venom. I shall not return you railing for railing, slander for slander, but in a spirit of meekness endeavour, to discover your sin to recover your soul. Before I shall take a survey of your book in particular, I shall give you this observation in the general; That either I was not my self when I