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Show T,!Jlth j{efcu•d Jtom Iinpoftilre, VoL. 1. Blafphemous Ex_preffions againft God, and bir Tabernatk, and tbofe rbat J.weU in Heaven. But betides, his very Words carry fuch.Weaknefs and Confufion wirh them, that I will eafily from thence infer, A Vindication of our Li,ghr and Friends. ,And 'that Light which is (as they fay) t~en be Jo~.r ~or fay it, which {m~ plies, tbat be thinks (we lye, at leafl are mifln!un) Wlthm them (by wh1ch they pre aaed afld fpeak, 35 they pretend) rvbicbfuppofis that be believer we are not reaTlyjo alled, (lOr do we fpeak b) ir, only . that wi make it our Pretrnce) is the Spirit of the Devil, the Father of Lyes. I£ I undetlland liim, or his Words, this is the Genuin an4 true Confiru£\ion of them That Light, that is in rbtllf-, is the Spirit of rbe Devil, the Father ~j L]ts; yetl wo,'tJay it;- and I bdi~ve il's their Prettnce to /4J tbey all or ;peak 6yir. If \his been't the very Senfe of rhe Words, none can be ; and if this Senfe doth not virtdlCate our Lit,ht. in his own Thoughts, from heing Diaboli· c:al1 and Ur, from being led by fnch a lying Spirit, let the Underllanding Reader judge. 1n (hort, this I mull and will fay, by the Knowledge of that Light, and {or ir; V,at as it gives Man tbe true Difurning, WFit,bt, and Meaj11re of fpirftual Tbingr, with their Differencer; f'! can no .Man have JJ.crtj1 to God, in any Dt~ty.o_r .AOion of his Life, nor /eel tr11e Petue with him, or the cleanjing Benefit of the Blood of Jefin Cbri}l ( toho it God over aU, hlej}td. for evermore) hut a1 be comes to he direOeJ and gt~ided hy it., to kuptbe OJmmandt o/God, and bimJeif unJporudfrom the World. Jlut Trouble and Remorfe of Spirit ever was, and ever will be the Portion of fuch, as rc .. bel againll it. !n bim u·m Lif<; and his Life the Light of Men; If ye """ in the Light, tube i1 in. the Light, ye fhaU have FeUowjhip 011e with dlfq. tber, and the Blood of ]eJtn jh{lll cleanfe you from aU Sin. More might be faid of this Particular, but I am perfwaded, here ise· nough tofatisfie the Confciences of all unbya.ft Readers . "T.he former Part relating to his Denial of the Charge ofDifioyalty and temporizing, agajnft him they call Sir S. Sterling; I fhaJI fo far take in~Q my Contideration, in Defence of the afperfed Author of the Tryal, as to tell this Parafite Libeller ...only what the World fays of him, and particularly the City of London, which if not true, it's both little to the Purpofe, and he is the more belyed ; but firft we will hear the Defence. I think it necefi'ary (fays t.Ys Apologift) in his Vindication, to defire the courteops Reader, to enquire of Sr. Ed. Deering, Dr. Wbircock, Mr. Chriflopber Flower, and Francis Pemberton, Efq11iru of the Middle Tem~ pic; who can hear Witnefr of his Loyally at Cambridge, in the Years 1643, 'lfj(~J·intheYem, 46, 47, 48, 49· beapply'd himJrif totpeStlldyofthr LafO.r, and could not he admiued _to the Bar, becauJc he ·Utterly rcf11jed to .f/tUfcribe the cur Jed Ingag~menr: Witnefs, Corneli11s Hooker Efquir~ Jfi· d)o. Jacob Efquire, botb Barrifler.r ofGrcys·lnn, and his Contemporaries. We want the Confequence. What ? Was he therefore no Tempotizer ?. NOthing lefs. Not that the Reputation of the Perfons n:uped muU therefore qe impeacht, or leffened. J)ut fOme are ready to afk, whyS. S. t'hould think it fit to name fo mJ~ P,y 'Perfons, in his Defence, and yet omit to infert a C-ertificate from :rny One of them: Their Tefiimonies are at belt, but in Emhr)'O(IInhorrt to us) nor is it poffible they fhould be Wimeffes of all the .Afii011s "[his Lif~. But _granting what is faid, to be true: Was. he accufed of Tempo1izing when a Boy at Cambridge> Ahbough methinks it's indifcreetly ~ed, th:H we fbould alk of Dr. Whitcock, if he were not compelled to leave the Univerfity (Loyalty being out of Fafhion.) who remained a M:.~ft.er of a Colltdge there. 1 do not mention it to fpot that Doaor; for I kuow none' of that Coat of a more univerfal Temper, and worthy of being efreemed Lealned; but todett:Cl this tidlculous Scribltr of lnad\'ertency. Vo~;,. I. Truth Refcued from Impofturl!. 493 . 1 mull confeiS the firll he refers to, I have an experienced Knowledge cf. t67o. and to whom I efteem my _felf obliged by many high lnllances of Kindnefs j ~ which, n'bt fo much tU hu own Evennifs o/Temper,- would make me enrer· · rain more favourable Thoughts; but as he is cite.c\ to determine a Cafe not timed _to the Ch_arge, fo is he wholly fil~nt in the. Matter: And though hi; Name, wtth me, gaves the moftofReputauon, to h1s· whole I".uagraph; yet llJod non Lego, non Credo.. . . Nor is the lnfianceofbemg at Greys· Inn, ~fteemed material to tl}e Pur· .pofe, it being of later Times, to Which the Refl.e8:ion quarrClled witli )las no Relation, and therefore overlookt ar frivolous to this Occafion though fome fay, they talk as if there were no fuch Matter. ' But he hopes, to~upi?lY t~.i~D~h:a, whh th~sgenetal and dubious Addition; From 1650. unttl brs Ma}tjftes Reflauratton, be wm" Trader in tb~ Cit]; and bow be demeaned hbnfelf, ht thofe Cromwellians Tinur, nil that htew him, w~/J witnrfs b~ walkt .Antipodes, to rbe Geni11s of thiJI .Age, to the enrlangermg of bzs Life and E/latt. pag. 6 • .Anfw. That this is a' gefleral. Reference, is manifeft, and of whom tO enquire he does not tell us; Would he have us fend co enquire who knew him then, in Order to know what h'e Was then ; fome think it might have. been as cheap for S. S. to .particularize on~ in thofe ten Years Time of Loyalty, which was to the Pu'Y·ore, wh'o inft:rnced fo many before, to no Putpofe; this leaves a ftronger jealoufie tharr before. but with rrone lefs then the §luakcrs, becaufe none are lefs concerned in the Marter. llut that he was this invincible Royalifl~ he gives us this Inftance .. . liis .Majefty being hy God's Providence rejfored, bt UJ4! efl~eme4forbi.r Lotalty, a}it Perfon to be of the ]Mry, '1f'On the King's Judger; ond pajfel a 11for upon no lefs, than Eighteen of thofe a.lfa/ftndting Traytors ut how unwife, if not difloyal, thisExpreffion is1 fome think may cOncet ·n the King, at le3il his Juftices to confider: at if that thofe Per{ons had ndt been condemned by indifferent Men, fwayed l)y th;e only Fqrce and Senfe of Law, but fuch as a>ere therefore ef/eemed fit to be of the ]ur)', be: ctiufe overfly principled, in Point of ]11dgment and .Affe£lion. I boldly atfirnr it a RefleiHon fo indifcr.eet and malignant, that ir deferves <J Ch~ck feve .. rer, than any Expreffion in the Difcourfe, enrituled, The Pe'!fle's ancient ~djujl Liberties nfferred; and that not more from the King'sjuliites, than tfue Perfon he would be thought to vindicate. ~After all that he has faid, the .dpo!ogift thinks it need/if$ [artbtr to vinJicnf~ his Loyalty, jince never l)11tfizoned hy any, hut tbofe Jceptical Qpakers, wbofe B11jinefs is to afperfe our Rtligion, Laws, and all Men, tbnt are 'not of their Cwjel Principles. Therefore he makes this Offer: that i/W. P. can mah out that the late Lo;d Mayor, roerammged any of the King's Friends, either in Body, Goods, or food Name one PtnR}, that be_jhall Reftore to the Gentltman, wbofoever be i, a Tbo11jand Pounds, for roery pentty-wortb of Wrong. Bur lis I do affure this Llhel1er, that fome of eminent Rank, and no {!._1111'" i:trs (as be is pleafed to term them) were the firft that took Occafion t~ fpenk of that Perfons temporizing; and therefore queftion'd by others; fo is it an Afperfion wickedly _gtoundlefs, that we defame Laws, Religion, and all Men, that are not of our Principles, fince we have ever been on thefuffering Hand, and ftil} proclaim it as one of our fund:rmental Points of Doftrine, to live peaceably and inofFenfively, which we have not only done (notwithftanding all Provocations) but refolve, in God's ~rrengrh, to continue the fame paffive People we have ever been. Befides, I would fain know, why above others, this OfFer fbould be made to William Pum ; perhaps the Author of rhe Libel, thqught him fo great ~ Child, as to be infnar'd into fuch Reflefiions, as would fubjed bim to the lafh of His Sir Samuel, for a Defamer r bat as 1 have learnt more Prudence. fo indeed more Religion. . . . . . . !abhor the ufe of Scurrility in !lead ofReafon, and fo (hould thiS L11ie!ler, of fupplying the DefeCls of his Caofe by Railing. , W•r• |