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Show Truth _r·!fcuei. ft.olfJ 111\pQft\l.re,T Vo.J.. I. 167o. But bec3.ufe h~ ~lj~ves l,)'{ririr. thfrrfore be (an giVf it :no tuher Name ~ {io ufc his own Word•, Page 1.)_ h11t the Suon~ Pa~t to bts Blaf'PI;~mo~ Trenrife, called rbe Sandy FtJundattonjha~en. !' p egregtPQ.S Nonfenfe . Th1s ridiculous Non Je9.uirur either (hews hu~ to have bee~ a ~a;n of.a very Phlegmatick Head, or elfe that he .bas d) llefiowed hiS Ttme, who can write no better Senfe yeti for that• thefe (;WO Sub]Cas a.re m,}he Nature q( them "very different, is manifelt. But perhaps . h.e thmks a qP: fmaH Piece of BfflJpbemy, to tell the TVorld o.f -~be late Irregular Proceeding( at . the Old· Boily: Nor does he Jefs wound ~t.s own Caufe. ~y acknowl<dgtng t)lt'Bopk e"timled, The People's Anttent llttd Juft Ltberrzu .A..Derud, ~Which 1defigns to detefi on what Foundation, the Mnyor, Rrcordcr. etc. du~ pro~ ce~; , to be the 'recond Part to the Snndy 0(1e, manifefi:ly implying theirs to bej'~ch. . . . . . · fiis Senfe o~, rpy. Foitb, or rather Duteitef of the Trtntty ts a \\'retched ~iffake, not to fay a voluntary one;. for I neve~ qua!r.eHed ~l;le Word Trinity, it being borrowe~ of the Latm Word Trmus, 10 Enghrh. Tbrer, -but always 'tiid,and do· believe the fame. But Y<hY fhould I in fill ~pon a Point 10 abftrufe; 'I,Qd that, to a Man . fo'lttliritellig~nU!'-mbt? minute Mat~ers,l ~·' tlf.'t-h'e lia1h llot_yet~J.,rnt. a Difiin8:ion betwtxt D1fcourfes of CrvzLLi..kt.!J, and ..D.iJJiM.._Emb, but Ig· -noranr,ly mafes the one to be a necelfary Confequence, from the (Snrpnfed) Mifiake in the other. l 1 I might here over·look his abufive Refiec!l:ions upon me, JS Au~hor of tbt: Trial, fJ'c. (which he urges with no fmall Zeal) ~y unconccrnmg iJy Telf in the Matter : But I confelS to owe fo much of Re;~l Kmdnefs to tie .Author, and many Parts of the Difcoqrfe, that I fha!f gladly lmbrace ille Occifion of making· his Defence. • The Man refolving I mui\, he the Author, fets me up as fuch, and. then fights me, 'oi r~t'her pelts Dirt at me: He fays, (Page r.J that Penn d«s .110~ bl•fh to Vi~ilj t.b• K;ng's cOnrt, and fa/fly Reproach ,tpe King's J•fiim, tlf!il revile aU .Mer hods 4 Law, Ga!Jing lndilltpenn derejln/Jie Jugtltl ; anl !Jl(sJ! a,R011ltl'f.&t TlifiOment; and W. Mead, ~iJ, a Bundle of SruJI: (Page"2.) Penn defignufg, m a popular Way, to fu/ye{l rbe Laws, fllflktng the ]tiry . -ffttdges both of Lat» ond Fall.. . . · Ifl had 'bturh'd, it muft either have been from mme own Gutlt, or by ~Way .of ·.Refle8:ipn from the B~nch; but as I was Wholly innocent ~f tbat ·c;ritfe, which could have made me confcious ; fo was there not .JtJ.oJeftJ e'noUgh, ampngfl; .fome of the ~~n~h to hlll:fh at their Ir~~u/jlrjti~s •• ,, . · ,.[deteft that '.Afperfion, of Vlli/ymg Lap1, !lr reproacbmt t{~e Kmg s ]lljltpi{ ; fince the ~reate!! Crime 'fome obferved ~~ain!l; me, \\'l1i.lfi ~t the !jar, ~~ifs my fretpten{ Demands of Right, by thofe very fundat;nenr.al L2ws, I a.m. charged to have contemned, . .,. .. ·. . i! Thefe are but meer I'brafu of Abufe, ready at every Man's Hand fo1 litS lnterefi. n .. ·i•dillmenrs I efteem not Jyggles' Nor do I believe the _Author jnteQ~ed fp; ~ bpt that way of" crouding moft unneceifary and untrue Allegations, w)4q the Pretence of Form of Law, contrary' to all Reafqn, is no lefs: Tbis is explained 'by him, and his own Senfe fully vindicated. !~'Jfe th~refore ·~l1derftood. what he faid, '":hen he 'compared the. Falfity ~ ·<?dr ~'ld'{imtJ1t, 'o that of a Romance, whtch however -mcrhodtcal, yet1s Out meer Fancy jlill. For thofe Things being abfent tha~ render an In· 1ili-ament tme, it will follow that fuch an lndiOmem is a1..-ogerher incon. .. .gmous and inapplicable. It is an hard Cafe chat Men {houlp. fo l\'iclcf1tJ111t .Thlhgs, as to call an bottejl Confidence, Impudence;. and my affening of tbe Supremacy of Fundamtmal Laws, againft their new Incra{/cbmenu, a fub-verllng of' them; . - \ ~oice to think, that many were there _prefent, whofe Relarion of tbar TfanfaUlon -has done me the Juftice of a Vindication, and given our J;ry4( ~M Credit, which it is utterly ittlpolliblc for the Endeavours of S. S. and hi• )/Ja/itiOIII Cab•!, ever to dimini!h- 01 uaduce. . . Truth Refcuta frdm lmpofture. He makes it :1 C1pical Crime to aff'ert the ]4ry, ]11Jges of Lato anJ Fr1E1 hilt poorly fhifrs oft" rhofe Argumems aptly uied by rhe Author of th~ Trial in Defence of his Pofidon : For fintberS.adsfaEtion [ ·refer the Re3.· der c~ the fourth Pare of this Difcourfe. 1 He fays I was commanded ro the Ba!t·Dod for Turbulency and Imperti• nericy: 1 confers, .jf ·I had been as GuUty -as I was -Innvcet>t, of being f-o offenfh•e they had been very incompeteRt Judges, whofe own Paffion rend red the~ fo much wl'lat they fay of me, that many SP.e8::nors queftioned, If tlJey weretbemfeivu. · They th:it read rheTri•l may quickly inform themfelves of my Kind of Impertinency, ,and wnh rhe fame Trouble, of thetr B1Umgsgate Rbttorl~k1 in Phrafes fo fcurrilous, that never did Men fubjeEt themfelvcs, to a more defen•ed Cenfure of Vi ant of common Civilicy, than at our Trial. But rhe Man breaks forth into an Extatic:~l Caution, to thofe of the lo11g.Robe, left we (hould afi'afiinare their Perfons, at leafi bctiege and rifte their w,·[1minfler·Ha1J. : (Page 2.) His '.Vords are thefe, Now Gentlemen of rh~ Long~ Robe, look. tq. )'"ur fc/r;er, and yo«r Weftmioiter-Hall. And why? B.ecaufe thlll ]Mriet tll"# ·vrffirmed ro he Judges of Law and FnO; as if that were an overthrow to the Law, that the moil: learned and honefi of the Robe made an hearty Profefiion of, in the Senfe urged. But 1 appeal to thofe of the Long-Robe, (as He fiiles them) whether ful:h arbitrarY P,oc~edings', as ovf:r .. ru~ing all Pleas, Verdias, Prifoners, and Ju .. ries, at the R~te of the Old-Bady, lit, 3d, 4th, 5th, of September, J6Jc. with their fchre Rebukes and har!h Menace~ be lnot rr.ore apparently de· fl:ru8:ive of the Fundamental Laws, in the free Courfe of them, ami PraUice of La\Yyers; than the Author's Aifertion,. in hls Difcourfe of the People's .Ancient and Jufl Liberties, ~ &c. .. , He urges this C3'urioll to the Lawyers, . with no fmall Pretence to Rettfort and Rbetorick ; For fays he, If thqt thefe learned · Reformers of Religion, Jball likewife riforllt your Laws and lUetbqdr. of. Procetdings (tU doubt/eft they dcjign it) Jarewel then to your great iJ.c~uifiuonr, &c. . But I mult tell him, that as he is afi incompetent .Judge of Religion, that Prattices fo little of any, fo I publifb a plain Challenge to him, and the old Man within the Curtain (tht Oracle of hH Law Gibberijh) to pro .. duce an avow'd ln~nce, by any Lawyer, of the Irregularities and Arbitra· ry AC\ions, they vatnly attempt to defend. And w~cther our well-meant Plea, for Englijh Priviledge, be moll deftrUttive · of great Acquificions, or tbeir unhingin{ the well hung Laros of England, to t~rn :Ul Trials upon the fole Pin of Will and Power, let the very LaW Jeri JUdge. - I' affirm, fuch give the jufte!l Eiround of bidding farewell to all great Acq~ifiiions · that are fO"ready to welcome IN f<.V 1 SIT IO N:S • He ventuT~s'.to urge the Great CbDrur, ·ann· to give an ExpoGtion, as r~~ diculous, as the other. is 6C\itio~; his E.indnefs for the Law, b~ing ~o ~iU it, in palliating bU rea! Fear, and Abborrtnce of all t.ool L.w.r, rDttb hu pre-tended Re[peilfor them. · . · · ... ' . But of this 1 will fay little, leaving It to an whole Part by It !elf, and proceed to confider the Refi of his Wild Relletl!on:'- . . . His Comparifon of us to John of Uyden, IS Ignorant and mabctous. Ignorant becaufe he feems to know no better our Principles1 that utterly abhor to' promote Religion by Blood. Malieiam, becaufe he flanders u~, without the l~ft defert; and feemt nctfo _mu'b to heed tb~ Truth, IU Od1~ tml of his Comparifon: And but that lt IS .a vulgar Tuc~ to put the Wolfs Sk;n iipon tbeSbnp, and tbt: Shufs Shn upon tbt Woif,- I lhould enlarge upon h,. ugly Epithets. 1l r r PART, .• |