A88587:171
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 1. Did not your heart give your hand the lye when you wrote these words? doth not your Conscience tell you that there is not the least syllable in Mr. Loves Sermon tending to this, that the King was the Troubler of England, as Achan was of Israel?
Answ. 1. Did not your heart give your hand the lye when you wrote these words? doth not your Conscience tel you that there is not the least syllable in Mr. Loves Sermon tending to this, that the King was the Troubler of England, as Achan was of Israell?
2. Doth not Mr. Love clearly express himself whom he meant by those Achans who were to be cut off; and that but three or four lines before those words you quote of Achan, where he saith that there are many malignant humours to be purged out of many of the Nobles and Gentry of this Kingdom before we can be healed? but there is not in that place, nor in 13 pages before▪ any one word about the King; and what is said of him in p. 16 and 19. is not in the least disparagement to his Royal person and authority, as I made appear before.
2. Doth not Mr. Love clearly expresse himself whom he meant by those Achans who were to be cut off; and that but three or four lines before those words you quote of Achan, where he saith that there are many malignant humers to be purged out of many of the Nobles and Gentry of this Kingdom before we can be healed? but there is not in that place, nor in 13 pages before▪ any one word about the King; and what is said of him in p. 16 and 19. is not in the least disparagement to his Royall person and authority, as I made appear before.
3. The phrase by any grammatical construction cannot be referred to the King; for he wished that the State Physicians would resemble God to cut off those from the land that had distempered it now had it been meant of the King he would have wished that they would have cut him off (not those off) that distempered