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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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That which Gregory wrote to Mauritius, 1concerning the ambition of the Prelatical Patriarchs of Constantinople, may be as truly said of our present Clergy men, exclamare compellor, ac dicere O tempora! O mores! &c. that is, I am compelled to cry out, Oh times! Oh manners! behold in all the parts of Europe, Townes are destroyed, Castles overthrown, Provinces are spoiled, no labourer inhabiteth the land; notwithstanding the Priests who should lye in a•he• upon the ⟨p. 7⟩ground weeping, they are seeking to themselves names of v•nity, &c. Greg. lib. 4. Epist. 323.
That which Gregory wrote to Mauritius, 1concerning the ambition of the Prelaticall Patriarchs of Constantinople, may be as truly said of our present Clergy men, exclamare compellor, ac dicere O tempora! O mores! &c. that is, I am compelled to cry out, Oh times! Oh manners! behold in all the parts of Europe, Townes are destroyed, Castles overthrown, Provinces are spoyled, no labourer inhabiteth the land; notwithstanding the Priests who should lye in a•he• upon the ⟨p. 7⟩ground weeping, they are seeking to themselves names of v•nity, &c. Greg. lib. 4. Epist. 323.
- 1Pag. 4. l. 19.
Answ. 1. Who would have thought that John Price had studied Pope Gregory? That he that cries out against all ordained Ministers, as having the mark of the Beast, should study the language of the beast?