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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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Answ. 1. Is it not enough for you to walk in the Counsel of the ungodly, and stand in the way of sinners, but will you sit in the seat of the scornful also? what contemptuous and contumelious calumnies are these which you cast on the grave, godly, and learned Ministers of London? could it not suffice ⟨p. 35⟩your scornful and revengeful heart, to say that scripture, justice, and reason had left them, but impudently to affirm that civility and common honesty had left them also? The Lord rebuke thee, thou false and deceitful tongue.
Answ. 1. Is it not enough for you to walke in the Counsell of the ungodly, and stand in the way of sinners, but will you sit in the seat of the scornfull also? what contemptuous and contumelious calumnies are these which you cast on the grave, godly, and learned Ministers of London? could it not suffice ⟨p. 35⟩your scornfull and revengefull heart, to say that scripture, justice, and reason had left them, but impudently to affirme that civility and common honesty had left them also? The Lord rebuke thee, thou false and deceitfull tongue.
2 Whereas you say they do dispossess the Scriptures of their true, natural and genuine meaning, all that I shall say is this, if you had named the men who, the place where, the time when, and what particular part of the Scripture that is which they have dispossessed of its true natural and genuine meaning, I should then have been ready to have given you a fuller answer, but 'tis your manner to raise a general slander when you have no particular proof.
2 Whereas you say they do dispossesse the Scriptures of their true, naturall and genuine meaning, all that I shall say is this, if you had named the men who, the place where, the time when, and what particular part of the Scripture that is which they have dispossessed of its true naturall and genuine meaning, I should then have been ready to have given you a fuller answer, but 'tis your manner to raise a generall slander when you have no particular proofe.