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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60124	A second vindication of the magistracy and government of England by way of an answer to the several replies &c.	Shower, Bartholomew, Sir, 1658-1701.	1689 (1689)	Wing S3658; ESTC R37550	16,902	8

that the Authority of the Defender doth challenge a Vindication and the word of a Priest says that it needs one both shall have an answer presently But first it is remarkable that this new Reply hath got a License when none of his other elaborate Works could procure one however it is possible that the Licenser may hereafter renounce or retract his Allowance in this case as he hath done in several others already when his Superiours are acquainted with the Contents and Tendencies of that to which he hath given his Imprimatur for it is not to be supposed that Ministers of State will ever be so incurious of their Masters Honor and the Rights of his Crown as to approve their diminution when once they perceive it The single Point which the Advocate for Magistracy assumed to maintain was that the Indictment in question was Legal and Good sufficient both for matter and form and did warrant the Judgment which was pronounced upon the Verdict that affirmed its truth This seems the principal Assertion in that Paper which whether his Presidents and Authorities Arguments and Reasons are sufficient to prove the Reader must judge That the Cases he cites are truly reported for so much as he uses them none can deny and that the Law is with him upon the whole matter shall be further evinced But since that Sheet hath made some noise amongst angry Men which was little expected by him that wrote it it will not I hope be thought impertinent to spend a few Paragraphs upon the boisterous and blustering invectives and remarks made against its Author in a pretended Reply In his Vindication therefore I shall observe the Temper the Wit the Guess the Reason the Religion and lastly the Law of that Replication As to the Temper it seems to be writ under some disappointment for the Author doth in every Sentence declare his Passion and plainly tells us that he was then discomposed but whether his displeasure were conceived at a past or present Chief is not so easie to determine to expose his fury it is enough to repeat his Epithets of Daring Bold Impudent Presumptuous Base Ingenerous Insolent c. and all this despised by his reputed Author and smiled at by the real one He is pleased to call the Sentence and Execution a plain Murder which if so sure I am that he is bound in Conscience to Prosecute an Indictment against the Judges the Recorder the Grand and the Petit Jury the Witnesses the Clerks the Sollicitors the Goaler the Sheriffs and the Executioner for they were all concerned either as Accessories or Principals and demerit a Halter if the Repliants Opinion be Law but it is observed amongst Honest Men that none of these Parties shew any fear on 't and the reason they give for it is because the Indictment was as good as their Jurisdiction and the concurrence of those two makes them as safe as an Act of Indempnity can do but all this was Passion As to the Wit on 't most of his Readers are at a loss where to find it unless it be in his English Verses which do so hit the sense of the Original and contain such strong and pregnant flights of English Poetry that some of his Readers have compared them even with Sternhold and Hopkins and others are of Opinion that they do not come short of the Essays of the two Grays-Inn Poets one of which Translated Grotius de Veritate Christianae Religionis and the other Coke upon Littleton into Rhime but the generality do declare that for height of Fancy Propriety of English and exactness of Rhime he hath much out-done all those but for my part I believe that last Rhapsody was added not so much for the Ingeny sake as to menace the Answerer with a design to Sacrifice him whensoever an occasion should offer it self and consequently to do what the whole Book complains of but that Advocate is not so much a Coward as to be afraid on 't As for the Guess it is very cunning and argues more Figure Knowledg than true Judgment in Styles Modes Dialects or Peculiarities of Speech or Writing for he will have the Author of that Sheet to be the Author of the Antidote though he never saw it till he had the misfortune to have read the Defence and his particular Idioms are as different from those of the Antidote as they are from those of the Defence but this is all guess He will have it one of the Council of that Tryal because he hath put Council before Court a Cunning Man would have guess'd the contrary as supposing it done fallendi gratia for the sake of disguise but he may be assured it was mere accident that occasioned that fault He will have it to be the then Sollicitor because of his Reputation which is supposed to be touched in that Defence but his Readers think that that Gentlemans Figure for Learning Honor and Vertue is so far above the reach of a little Pamphlet that all the virulent Reproaches of the Reply cannot Sully it nor is it in the power of any Tongue or Pen to prejudice his Character in the World but however it is prudent to suppose to my self an eminent Adversary that if a Foil be my fortune it may be the easier But since we are at guessing the World guesses that he who wrote the Reply did write the half Sheet called the Justification and it is really sportive to read the Justifier commending the Defender for a learned worthy Person and the Repliant doing the same good Office for the Justifier and almost in the same words commending him nay he spends an whole Page in the most fulsom praises upon that Small Bulk Author and rejoyces that the Work was done to his Hands which is a very pretty jest It is at most but R. for A. and A. for R. and R. A. still which is much better than the contrary practice of which some Authors have been guilty As to the Reasoning part the Reader must excuse my brevity for in truth there is very little in it of that nature however a few remarks may quicken and revive that faculty against the next turn The Advocate owns it to be writ in answer to his Defence ergo it Reflects upon the Nations Wisdom He expresses a resentment at my Lord Russels engaging in such a weak and Criminal Enterprise ergo he Reflects upon the Nations Justice He names the Lord Russel though with the most tender Appellations that could be used ergo he Reflects on that Lords memory He vindicates the Indictment as good ergo he justifies all the Proceedings in that Case He argues that the Sentence was Legal upon such a Verdict ergo he is against the Reversal He puts a Case offers a Point and makes a Proof on 't ergo he is transcendently impudent These and such like are the inferences and do demerit a Laugh As to Religion I see none in it unless it be in the mention of