A88587:184
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.
A fourth Author you quote is Junius Brutus supposed by good Authors to be Beza's works,1 in his book called Vindiciae contra Tyrannos, &c.
A fourth Author you quote is Junius Brutus supposed by good Authors to be Beza's workes,1 in his booke called Vindiciae contra Tyrannos, &c.
- 1I. P. Pag. 33. l. 30.
Answ. 1. Indeed if you count the Popish writer supposed to be Toby Matthewes to be a good Author, who made that book entitled the Image of both Churches, Jerusalem and Babylon (by P. D. M.) He saith it was Beza's works pag. 105. and yet herein he was no more ingenuous then you were; for saith he, if it was not Beza's it might be Hottomans, pag. 107. and pag. 111. Do you ⟨p. 49⟩deal candidly with so Orthodox a Divine as Beza was, to receive the slanderous reports of Papists against so zealous a Protestant? The same Author who said that Beza made that book called Vindiciae contra tyrannos, 1affirmed also that Beza usurped another mans parish, that he was the husband of another mans wife, &c. the one is as true as the other. 2. It may be made demonstrable that Beza was not the Author of that book, which goes under the name of Junius Brutus, for can it be imagined that so sober and learned a man as Beza was, should be so inconsistent to his own principles, to write one thing in one book, and the quite contrary in another? throughout all the veins of his writings, he calls for subjection to Magistrates, but not a word of deposing or murdering of Kings, which is the whole drift of that book called Vindiciae contra tyrannos. 2