A88587:158
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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2. In your list of Protestant Divines, I find one Popish Priest, whom you call Junius Brutus, aliàs Parsons the Jesuit, as I shall prove when I come to answer your allegation of him.
2. In your list of Protestant Divines, I find one Popish Priest, whom you cal Junius Brutus, aliàs Parsons the Jesuit, as I shall prove when I come to answer your allegation of him.
3. I have good reason to believe that you borrowed most of your quotations not from the Authors themselves,1 but from a Popish writer (supposed to be Toby Matthews) his lies and slanders against Protestant Divines you take up for undoubted truths. He rails on Bez• p. 82. and saith that the book entitled Vindiciae contra tyrannos by Junius Brutus was his, p. 105. & against Zuinglius, p. 81. & p. 115. against Knox, p. 134. and Goodman his associate, p. 134. brands Pareus in p. 225. rails on the Wieliffs and Waldenses, p. 250. These are most of the Authors quoted by you, whom he represents unto the world, as Rebels against, & murderers of Kings & Princes; yea doth impudently affirm, that the Protestants have deposed more Kings in 60. years; then was by the means of Catholics in 600. Ibid. p. 226. Now is it for your credit to gather such broken scraps, and tortured collections from so infamous an Author? That which induceth ⟨p. 40⟩[…] ⟨p. 41⟩[…] ⟨p. 42⟩me to believe that you had these quotations not from the Authors themselves, but from that Popish writer, is this. 1. In reading those Authors I find some of them to be of a quite contrary mind to that which you allege them for. 2. Those very men, and that matter almost in terminis is quoted by that Popish writer; and may not this give some ground to believe what I assert?