A88587:26
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. Poor London indeed, and it is like to be poorer before you have done with it; I could tell who have made themselves rich, and the City poor.
2. You would have said more truly, if you had said thus, London of late hath made her Prophets poor, rather then the Prophets made London err.
2. You would have said more truly, if you had said thus, London of late hath made her Prophets poor, rather then the Prophets made London erre.
3. You say her Prophets make her err, had you named the men, and particularized the errors, it would have been more credible and demonstrable; but general accusations are no proofs; I am sure one Prophet of your own hath vented more gross and pernicious errors in one year, then can be fastened upon all the subscribers throughout the Course of their Ministry. None of the subscribers ever held that the English Scriptures, or that book called the Bible, is not the Word of God; that no writings whatsoever, whether translations or originals, are the foundation of Christian Religion; that a natural man had free will and power to do good supernatural; that those without the Gospel written or preached have sufficient means for believing; that the sun, moon, and stars are the Apostles of Christ to preach the Gospel unto them: But these, with many others, have been invented by Mr. J. Goodwin, as may appear in his Hagiomastix, and by Divine Authority of the Scriptures, quoted in the Testimony of the London Ministers, against errors, &c. I would fain know whether any or all the subscribers have taught any error that carries the least proportion to any of these; let the world then judge what Prophets they are that make London to err.