Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

But it is no wonder at all to me, that the Poor Book has met with some that have thought it proper to let the World see, that they look upon it as an Object for their Enmity. And among these none has more Signalized the Enmity, or more put the Third Chapter of Genesis in Execution, than one John Oldmixon, in a Book Entitled, The English Empire in America.

But it is no wonder at all to me, that the Poor Book has met with some that have thought it proper to let the World see, that they look upon it as an Object for their Enmity. And among these none has more Signalized the Enmity, or more put the Third Chapter of Genesis in Execution, than one John Oldmixon, in a Book Entituled, The English Empire in America.

Tho' I have had first and last, such a Number of Pamphlets thrown at me, that if I had been Vulnerable, I might appear stuck as full of Darts as the man in the Signs of the Almanac; yet, upon considering the sorry and filly Stuff which they have Consisted of, and the Despicable and Stercoreous Quality of the Scribblers, and Remembering that Lies have no Legs, and what I had Learnt about the Treating of Insolent men with Humility, and Angry Men with Meekness; I have still thought, the Twenty-sixth of the Proverbs and the Fourth, a full Answer to them: Sile, et funestam dedisti ⟨p. ix⟩Plagam! I have had so much Better Work to spend my Precious Time in, that I don't call to mind, I have ever once yet, Published a Direct and Formal Answer to any of them all, but instead thereof and once for all, I gave to the Public my, True Way of Shaking off a asper. Yea, and I would now also have Excused Oldmixon too, (with as much Disdain as I have done, a Dirty and a Drunken STREET, or a Whiting that can spawn a Volume of Lies at once without Blushing at them; Or the rest of the Unregardable Sons of Darkness) if the Venerable Person for whom I am now doing an Act of Piety, had not been Assaulted by him with such rude and coarse Indignities, that I must have been a very Dumb Son indeed, if I did not break my Silence upon it.

Tho' I have had first and last, such a Number of Pamphletts thrown at me, that if I had been Vulnerable, I might appear stuck as full of Darts as the man in the Signs of the Almanack; yet, upon considering the sorry and filly Stuff which they have Consisted of, and the Despicable and Stercoreous Quality of the Scriblers, and Remembring that Lyes have no Legs, and what I had Learnt about the Treating of Insolent men with Humility, and Angry Men with Meekness; I have still tho't, the Twenty-sixth of the Proverbs and the Fourth, a full Answer to them: Sile, et funestam dedisti