A88587:54
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. General accusations are no certain proofs: si sufciat accusare, qui• erit innocent? if you mention the time when, the place where, and the Ministers who did call the Parliament an Apostatizing, Covenant-breaking Parliament (for I know none did so) I shall then blame them, and acquit you therein.
Answ. 1. Generall accusations are no certain proofes: si sufciat accusare, qui• erit innocent? if you mention the time when, the place where, and the Ministers who did call the Parliament an Apostatizing, Covenant-breaking Parliament (for I know none did so) I shal then blame them, and acquit you therein.
2. Notwithstanding your slanders, 'tis well known what submissive and christian respects to Authority, especially the Parliament, the Ministers of the Presbyterian judgment have expressed; yea if the Lords and Commons should sit full and free in Parliament, though in some things God might leave them to act sinfully, yet would the Ministers live quietly and submissively, if not in doing what they command, yet in patient suffering what they inflict; and not express such a spirit of Turbulency, as many have done in the imprisoning of the chief Magistrates, altering of our Laws, and putting the whole Land into a conflagration.
2. Notwithstanding your slanders, 'tis well known what submissive and christian respects to Authority, especially the Parliament, the Ministers of the Presbyterian judgment have expressed; yea if the Lords and Commons should sit full and free in Parliament, though in some things God might leave them to act sinfully, yet would the Ministers live quietly and submissively, if not in doing what they command, yet in patient suffering what they inflict; and not expresse such a spirit of Turbulency, as many have done in the imprisoning of the chief Magistrates, altering of our Laws, and putting the whole Land into a conflagration.