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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41506	The six book-sellers proctor non-suited wherein the gross falsifications, and untruths, together with the inconsiderate and weak passages, found in the apologie for the said book-sellers, are briefly noted and evicted, and the said book-sellers proved so unworthy, both in their second beacon-fired, and likewise in their epistle written in the defence of it, that they are out of the protection of any Christian, or reasonable apologie for either / by John Goodwin.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1203; ESTC R8425	15,328	24

brand of scurrilous I shall follow the copy which the Apologist tells me and oh that the tidings were true his Friends the Beacon-Firers have set me in an ingenuous acknowledgement of their errour in using such tartness of language in their letter to me But it is not so much their tartness of language that I complain of but their numerous falsifications untruths and undue suggestions against me in which kind I am not conscious to my self that I ever wronged any man Item p. 9. He further chargeth me with saying something himself saith not nor I think well knoweth what in favour of all cursed and damnable Doctrines onely he means he saith for the toleration and against the suppression of them Another most un-Christian aspersion and scandalously untrue I never spake any thing in favour of any cursed or damnable Doctrines either known or suspected for such by me but have continually upon all occasions both in publique and private faithfully and with the best of my understanding testified against them Yea I am so far from pleading for a toleration or against a suppression of them all that I never pleaded in either kind for so much as one of them Yea my soul is aggrieved within me that the Ministers both in City and countrey whether it be out of consciousness of their inability to doe any thing to purpose against them or out of an unworthy remisness in the case have been so little active as they have been in inlightening the world with the knowledge of the truth which is the onely way to heal the darkness of the Apologists accursed and damnable Doctrines in the world I confess I have laboured to disswade men from fighting the battails of God and of the truth with unhallowed weapons from plucking up the tares in such a way which cannot but endanger the plucking up of the Wheat also from applying such means for the cure which is like to enrage and strengthen the disease yet more The Lord Christ himself gives this Testimony to the Church of Ephesus that they could not and consequently did not bear or tolerate those that were evil Rev. 22. But doth the Apologist think that their non-beari●g or non-tolerating of them consisted in their fining confining or imprisoning in their burning or slaying them with the sword This is not the Christian but the Antichristian non-toleration The Christian non-toleration of vain talkers and deceivers was taught by Paul when he tells Titus that their mouth must be stopped Tit. 1. 11. And their toleration in such a sence as ever I pleaded for it by the Lord Christ himself when he said Let both grow together until the harvest Mat. 13. 20. But not weak and sinful men but the Lord Christ himself also it seems blessed for ever must give place to the High-Presbyterian interest and be arrested for pleading for a toleration of errors and damnable Doctrines Item p. 9. He chargeth me that in my {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I set my-wits and the Scriptures too on the rack to maintain the monster of universal liberty of conscience c. The spirit of the clients here again uttereth it self in the Proctor For 1. he cannot prove nor is it true that I either set my witts or the Scriptures on the rack for any end or purpose whatsoever 2. Much less is it true that I set either on the rack for the maintaining of any Monster If by liberty of conscience he means an exemption of any mans conscience from subjection unto God or Christ or any of their lawes or sayings I have always been so far from maintaining this liberty that I have still opposed it with all my might with my whole heart and soul If by it he means an exemption of the conscience from subjection unto men or their Doctrines or sayings 1. He gives it a scurrilous nick-name in terming it a Monster 2. The Scriptures need not be set on the rack for maintaining it they voluntarily yea zealously and with expresness of plea plead for it But whereas the Apologist makes mention of conscience here if in his tittle page where he confesseth himself to be nullius nominis instead of nominis he had put in conscientiae he had given a better and truer reason of his non-subscribing his name to his Apologie For I verily beleeve that his inward thought was not that he was a man of no name i. e. of no credit or esteem with men but that he was a man of too much credit to adventure it in the crazy bottom of such an Apologie Item p. 9. He confidently affirms that Mr. Edwards did answer my {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} satisfyingly and convincingly in the judgme●t of any impartial man And then insinuates a charge of disparagement against me that I never replyed hereunto and concludes my silence to be a confession that I cannot answer it yea is confident that this is the truth Surely the man dreamt either all or the greatest part at least of this fable I am so far from beleeving that the man he speaks of answered the book he speaks of either satisfyingly or convincingly that I cannot yet beleeve that ever he made any answer to it at all It is somewhat strange that such a book upon which the world should have such an eye as he importeth and which should be written particularly against me should never be so much as heard of by me within the compass of I know not how many years However how greedy of aspersing and calumniating doth this man shew himself to be who thus simply insults over me for not returning an Answer to such a book which he could not know that ever I had seen or heard of Solomon saith He that answereth a matter before he heareth it it is folly and shame to him Prov. 18. 13. But this man would have the world beleeve that my not answering a matter before I heare it is folly and shame unto me So that Solomon and he are of two minds Another book of the Author he speaks of intituled Antapologia the greatest part of it written in the same argument which Mr. Pryn a man of more learning I beleeve and of a more profound judgement then the Booksellers Proctor proclaimed unanswerable I did answer and this satisfyingly and convincingly in the judgement of any impartial man And if God stood by me to encounter and slay that Lyon I should have been able I question not by the same assistance to overcome that uncircumcised Philistine if the Goliath be indeed in vivis which I much question in whom the Apologist so much rejoyceth But in imposing upon me his will and pleasure what books I shall or ought to answer and what not whether my health strength or occasions otherwise yea or life it self will permit me to answer any or no he acteth the part of High-Presbytery to the life as his Book-sellers phrase is But all books written either by the Theologica facultas