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A76759	A rejoinder consisting of two parts, the first entituled, The ballance, or, A vindication of the proceedings and judgement of Parliament and their ministers, in the cases of William (called lord) Craven, Christopher Love. : From the scandalous allegations and ironical reflections of Ralph Farmer ... in a late infamous libel of his, named, The imposter dethron'd, etc. ... Wherein the Commonwealth's case as to the one is briefly stated, and the treasons of the other are rehearsed as a looking-glass for the priests, and an awakening to England. : The second, Evil scattered from the throne, and the wheel brought over the wicked: in an examination of that part of The imposter dethron'd as is in way of reply to The throne of truth exalted, etc.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1658 (1658)	Wing B3004A; ESTC R170664	67,249	93

undertake to lead people the right way to salvation the ground of whose Ministry is no other then according to practice to speak from the Scriptures We pretend to no other we preend not to infallibility saith R. F. in which Satan pag. 34. are found the Devils and false Prophets and the certainty of whose speaking according to the spirit is no other then their speaking according to the Scriptures whose dictates he saith they are of which they are no more sure then were the false prophets and devils aforesaid who spake the words of Scripture and from the Scriptures and according to the words of the Scriptures and yet were reproved by Christ and his Prophets and Apostles for so speaking for it is not the words that are said nor the actions that are done but the nature in which they are said and done and from whence they proceed that renders them good and accepted before the Lord and there are but two natures the Divine and that which is in the transgression but two principles the one of life the other of death as is the root of either so is that which proceedeth from it and he that ministers can minister no other then that principle from which he ministers nor to any other then to that which is of the same principle whether of death or of life And as for the Scriptures they are for the Man of God to be read to be believed to be fulfilled to be practised they are the things of God not to be made a trade of for so much a year or to be talked or spoken of from or by the wisdom of this world no not in the words which mans wisdom but which the Holy Ghost teacheth Here his lips are covered Many horrible blasphemies I charged him with against the Father Son and Holy Ghost Many notorious lyes slanders and false accusations many filthy scoffs and profane jeers yea of the spirit many grosse absurdities confusions and contradictions line against line page against page one part of his Book against the other slaying and confounding one another and he them and they the end and drift of his work of which he is silent The justification of the Doctrine and Principles of the people called Quakers and of Geo. Fox from his foul calumnies and aspersions he hath not inform'd nor hath he endeavoured to quit himself of the instances of blood-thirstiness charged by me on him and his Generation nor of the assertion viz. The dog it is that bites the Lamb doth never Nor hath he said a word of the great Tumult and Sedition of which I charged him to be the chief stirrer up and principal mover nor of many things more in all which should I be particular time would fail me being the contents of the greatest part of my answer and with what jugling lying and sophistication he hath replyed to the rest and how little to the purpose I shall dissect and plainly make manifest Now when as Reason would that of these things aforesaid and the residue of my answer he should have cleared himself or have been silent and so to have done had been somewhat becoming the seriousness of man instead thereof as one forlorn and desparate h● falls violently on my person pouring forth at it the evil treasures not only of his own but the venemous hearts of those generations of whom and their Treasons he appeares a Patron and Advocate who are and he with them become mine Enemies for having been instrumental in the discharge of my Trust to the detecting and preventing their secret plots and bloody conspiracies against the Common-wealth and Treasonable Adherencies to the chief and declared Enemies thereof in the day of its general designment and greatest conflicts not considering that amongst wise men Recrimination is alwayes accounted an indicament of a bad cause and instead of making good a general charge particularly to asperse and personally to reflect is a very foule blemish And here having gained the Cause I might withdraw my Pen and sit down in silence till R. F. shall have quitted himself an honest man in print and have taken off what is laid by me on him in that my Answer it being reasonable that he whose honesty as to a Narrator I have so highly impeach'd whose Narrative in the material parts thereof I have so fully answered whose Ministry and Religion I have so manifestly overturned whose share in Christianity himself hath so openly renounc't should so do before he gain credit unto what he hath now wrote or receive from me thereunto a Reply But forasmuch as the level of his and the poysoned Arrows of the generation aforesaid who shoot under his cover is laid at my Reputation as to matter of Fact and for that his and their entrance unto me is made thorough the Authority of Parliament their High Court of justice and the Cause of the Nation for which all the blood hath been spilt in the late Wars and in regard the Parliament as is said have appointed to hear the Case of him whose Cause is the principal pleading of this Impostor at their next Sessions And because after all the vomitings up of his venemous filth he saith in his last page And now from he●ceforth let none of these Quakers trouble me I have done with this gen●ration but if they will be troubling let them know that I will not be troubled And as for any further Answers R●plyes Contendings or Debatings with them or him I declare this as my Goronis my farewell to quakerism And so I may stay a long day e're I appear for clearing of my Innocency and the justice of the State Therefore I shall waving in this place all other particulars immediately descend to engage him and his Confederates in his and their Two great Battalions the sum and end of his Work and the strength of his mischief viz. The case of William L. Craven Christopher Love in reference to My Selfe * I mention myself first because I am accused it being convenient that I clear my own innocency before I appeare in the vindication of others The State To the first viz. Cravens Case Ralph Farmer in his Sathan Enthron'd having vilely traduc'd me in the business of this man I judg'd it necessary for the satisfaction of all such as neither desired nor delighted in the defamings of others to declare my innocency therein which I then did and do again in these words I do Throne p. 102. declare in the presence of the Lord before whom I fear who searcheth the heart and tryeth the reins and bringeth every work to judgement That I am clear and innocent therein nor have I used nor do I know of any indirect proceeding in that whole business of Craven and Fauconer At this my declaration he raves exceedingly and is greatly moved singling it out in the front and discharging against it the wrath and fury of the invenom'd body of that his Reply well knowing that if that stand

A REJOINDER Consisting of TWO PARTS The FIRST entituled The BALLANCE OR A VINDICATION OF The Proceedings and Judgement of Parliament and their Ministers In the cases of WILLIAM called Lord CRAVEN CHRISTOPHER LOVE From the scandalous Allegations and Ironical Reflections of RALPH FARMER a pretended Minister of the Gospel at Bristol in a late infamous Libel of his named The Impostor Dethron'd c. Dedicated to the Former Wherein the Commonwealth's Case as to the One is briefly stated and the Treasons of the Other are rehearsed as a LOOKING-GLASS for the PRIESTS and an AWAKENING to ENGLAND The second EVIL scattered from the THRONE and th● WHEEL brought over the WICKED In an EXAMINATION of that part of the Impostor Dethron'd as is in way of Reply to the Throne of Truth exalted c. GEORGE BISHOP He that is first in his own case seemeth just but his Neighb●r cometh and searcheth him LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1658. To the sober READER TO shorten the ensuing Vindication and to give thee more perfectly to underst●nd the ground of the Contest between Ralph Farmer and my selfe I desire thee to take notice that it was not on my part for though he gave me many provocations who had not done him any wrong yet I began not with him but rather chose to abide in silence knowing the man then to have to do with such a one The beginning of the words of whose mouth is foolishness and the end of whose talk is mischievous madness as Solomon saith of the fool Eccl. 10. 13. And in the same purpose of mind I determined to have continued had he not in his Narrative of J. N's coming into Bristol c. charged the blasphemies there affirmed upon the truth of the living God and the many thousands of the friends thereof in this Nation scornfully called Quakers and me in particular with matter of fact as to my publique Trust which with more then ordinary Care Hazard and Faithfulness I have a witness in my conscience as well as amongst men to have honestly discharged In all which knowing the truth and those people and my self to be innocent and being assured that a principal cause of his vilifying of me was Geo. Fox his Letter sent unto and taken upon J. N. wherein the spirit that then led him that company and their actions was judged and denyed which being wrote with my hand he expected would be made use of and my Testimony therein for the clearing of those people from his slanderous imputations of detestableness and biasphemy and being sensible that the great design of the Devil in all was to dis-savor truth and to make it abhorr'd with those to whom the Relation should come I was pressed in spirit being a● Bristol during the time of this transaction and well inform'd in the truth of the particulars to make answer thereunto not purposely in reference to my own particular as if I were troubled but for the clearing of the truth that all who would might see it free of the monstrous apparel in which he had clothed it and that those that should notwithstanding shut their eyes might be left without excuse in the day that God shall judge the secrets of all hearts by the man Christ Jesus And that my Answer I stiled as it was viz. The Throne of Truth exalted over the Powers of darknes● c. Whereunto he being constrained to give up the Cause and being sorely plagu'd and tormented therewith and at the discovery of his wickedness he not onely falls upon me with all the rancor lodged within his malicious breast but having compassed the earth and rummag'd thorough the unclean bowels of the Nation and consulted with his black Generation he grovels up into his bottomless pit what false reports he could meet with among the Enemies of the State and Truth and having in his first seventeen pages bid defiance to Perfection the work of the Ministry for which Christ gave gifts unto men when he ascended up on high and to those who are made clean by the Eternal Word the blood of the New Covenant which cleanseth from all sin Christ Jesus the light of the World that lighteth every man that cometh into the World and to conversion from evil as of the Devil to shew himself whose Minister he is he casts up all again at me from the depths of darkness in the following 100. pages the whole of his Book which he calls such is the fervency of the heat of his scorched Tongue The Impostor Dethron'd who is proved to be the man Or The Quakers Throne of Truth detected to be Satans Seat of Lyes which is not true of it but is true of himself and his generation By way of Reply to a quaking railing Pamphlet written by Capt. Bishop The slanders are his own the Truth is mine entituled The Throne of Truth exalted over the powers of darkness So it is and so it shall stand over his head for ever wherein is briefly hinted the rottenness of the Quakers Conversion and Perfection in general It 's the state of his own stock whose root is rottenness and whose bl●ss●me is going up as the dust not of those people whose Rock is the Stone of Israel Exemplified in this busie Bishop The busie Bishop appears to be himself in the behalf of these mens Treasons what I did was in discharge of my Trust In special instanced in his practices against the Estate of the Lord Craven Life of Mr. Love The one adjudged by the Parliament the other by their High Court of Justice and my duty faithfully done in both long before I knew the thing that is reproach't a Quaker By occasion whereof this Truth is asserted viz. Jf we may judge of the Conscience Honesty and Perfection of quakers in general by this man in particular a man may be as vile a person as any under Heaven and yet a perfect Quaker Which being proved a Lye both in ground and conclusion this is affirmed of a truth made good viz That if the conscience honesty profession of the Ministers of England in general may be judged by Ralph Farmer and wh●● he writes in particular a man may be one of the vilest of mer yea a notorious Traytor and yet a professed Minister of the Gospel This is the summe of the Beast and the number of its Name with which as a Servant to the State I am now to encounter like as I answered the Narrative as a friend of Truth unto which I shall presently apply my self Bristol the 13th day of the 11th Month 1657. G. B. THE BALLANCE OR A VINDICATION c. BEfore I come to any new Engagement it is requisite that I first state the old and briefly shew what hath already been and how it is now and wherein a Reply is hitherto declin'd The great Question or Cause in controversie between Ralph Farmer and my selfe in his * Sata● Enthron'd Narrative

of all to some such thing of himself and me as is the intent and drift of the recitall and use made of this Paper now produced after his death and said by Ralph Farmer to be his which when living he withstood and chose rather thus by lingering crueltie to wast into death than by yeilding thereunto and so to make himselfe and others guilty who are innocent to live though in the possession of the largely promised Indemnitie Money and Libertie Now of this Tampering to corrupt him I was not onelie informed at White Hall from time to time as it was transacting but I have the Papers by me readie to make i● appear yea the original Letters subscribed and wrote all with the same hand of the copies of which and the Negotiations of that person and his outward qualitie he thus expresses Now Sir I have sent you a Copy of two Letters of which I have the originalls by me whereby you may perceive how they have been at me their spleen being at Coll. Joyce your self and others c. I have forborn to affixe his name in regard he is a Gentleman of qualitie Assoone as it is known that I have imparted it I shall be surely murthered which I am confident is far from your desire Now I am deeply engaged to secresie therefore should the Gentleman be summoned and I remain here where he hath a Brother Prisoner I say again I should be surely and out of hand murthered This Gentleman came in all haste to me assoon as he understood the Book mentioned their large offers to me before and since my tryal now this Gentleman ●●●●●ed with me before and since my tryal and said it could not possibly be but I had revealed it to you but I protested you knew not his name which I am sure you do not although I wrote to you of the matter in generall but I told him that indeed one went to you and told you of some large proffers were made me which in part pacified him J have the originall Letters subscribed with his hand and he is a Gentleman of worth and good descent And in the Postscript he saith as J shall answer it at the Dreadful day of Judgement to my knowledge J have not written one false matter or circumstance in this Letter Rich. Fauconer Besides the aforesaid J have among the rest a Paper of another whose name I shall forbear to mention who he sayes is a Gentleman of quality and an ancient and intimate acquaintance of his and who came to him and tampered with him in the same matter and told him that he could tel how to put a brace of hundred He o● ten expressed himself that he was offered some Hundreds a year if he would say he was Corrupted pounds into his Pocket concerning the Lord Craven And that a Parliament man assured him his said friend that if he would but subscribe who inticed him to it that the Lord CRAVEN would recover his Estate and how they were conspireing to have all his creditors to arrest him c with much more which J shall forbear further to repeat The poor man through extremity of misery though Chiefe Justice Rolls and the Judges of the Upper Bench saw cause to arrest Judgement which arrest of Judgement they never tooke off is languished and dead his blood will lye somewhere and be required for my part J am cleare 3. Those Passages J here protest before the Almighty God that J never nudertooke any imployment nor never any one mentioned it to me but J went over in a poor desperate condition supported by others And true J had done great services for them but not by imployment Renders the said Paper either very unlikely to be Fauconers or if R. F. and his fellowes will have it to be his yet that it is not truth and so the Paper is not to be beleived upon the account of the confession of a dyeing man for that he was imployed beyond the Seas to discover the designs of the enemy against the Common Wealth Lievt Coll. Joyce deposed in Court at the tryall as being discoursed with by him thereabouts before he went over and Lievt Coll. Joyce it was that brought him to me after he returned to give an account of the discoverie he had made beyond the Seas of their conspiracies and himself hath confest it under his hand in his Declaration aforesaid that he was imployed afterwards others can testifie against which so known a truth to himselfe and others and by him subseribed for Fauconer to protest affirme as aforesaid is most improbable and hardly to be supposed as the matter of the said Protestation and assertion appears to be most notoriously false which being so in these particulars so solemnly in words protested and affirmed what credit is to be given to the rest of the said Paper as of the words of a dyeing man pretended to be delivered under the sence as it saith of a touched conscience and from a soul woefully perplexed Upon the bare reputation of which viz. as the words of a dying man so sensibly exprest this Paper for the ends aforesaid is dropt into the world as truth to be beleived but is thus proved a lye and blasted And thus much concerning this pretended Paper Ra. Farmers main foundation of what he calls his evidence and indeed upon the matter the sum of it and to what I seem therein to be concerned For the other particulars which he endeavors to fix upon me as indirect dealing from certain passages out of the Book intitled the Lord Craven case c. pick't parceld and mangled by him and then set down as his other ground of what he calls his evidence for that purpose I need no clearer vindication than that very Book wherein is not onely related stated at large and argued that whole businesse of Craven and Fauconer but objections those very things which he layes to my charge answered in a short examination of a certain Pamphlet intitled A true perfect Narrative of the severall proceedings in the case concerning the Lord ●●aven c. The substantialitie and truth whereof he hath not by any thing that he hath said infirme nor can he refell yea those very passages as related by him considered abstractively from the particulars of the pretended paper which by horrible wresting he hath sought to make speak what they say not and then hath joyned them to those passages to force them if he could to pronounce the same which I have already cut off and answered cleare me sufficiently therefore I shall not being desirous to ease the Reader rehearse what he hath said therein nor further answer to it as I might though so to do would tend much to the infamy of him and my advantage but shall refer the unprejudiced Reader to the said Book the Pamphlet examined as aforesaid and that part of R F 's reply wherein are those passages upon serious consideration

do in the examination and discovery of those Treasons which had their influence to the actual shedding of the blood of Thousands and thirstingly sought to swallow the lives of the Parliament Council Army and its Friends in these Nations Or Ra. Farmer who hath thus appeared in the justification of these Treasons and calls the bringing of one a chief of them to execution and of others to the Bar of Justice a swallowing of the bloods and lives of men blood-thirstinesse and blood-sucking Whose are the malicious most spightful and cruel prosecutions whether mine as he presumes in order to the bringing such Blood sucking Treasons to light according to my duty and blood-thirsty Traytors to Justice or his in seeking to kill my good Name which is far out of his reach and to render me as vile a person as any under Heaven upon his presumption of my so doing Who are the Ministers of our Lord Jesus Whether those who Treasonably designe by Warre and Blood the ruine of their Countrey and the overthrow of a Common-Wealth and this in opposition to the Cause and People they once engaged in and with and in the behalf of the contrary and all its Abettors and Assisters or those whose Gospel was Peace on Earth and good will towards men Who are the Churches of Christ Whether such in which prayers were made for Kings and those in Authority that under them they may lead a peaceable life in all godliness and honesty or those in whom the Memory of them are said to be pretious who conspire the overturning and destruction of the Government under which they might lead a peaceable life in all godlynesse honesty and for that purpose had of them full liberty and large protection And lastly Whose Name shall rot perish or if it be remembred it shall be with abhorrency detestation Whether mine whose actions have been as aforesaid in the discovery of those Treasons or R. Farmers who in the behalf of those Treasons and his Brethren hath thus appeared and acred Thus much of his Charge in general and of the Treasons of Christo●her Love and his Brethren and Confederates and his spirit now alive in R. F. and that generation in whose behalf I am thus charged and accused and in discharge whereof I have been constrained thus to draw them forth as a LOOKING-GLASS for the PRIESTS and an AWAKENING to ENGLAND The ground of the Charge as it is laid down pag. 106. is this Viz. That I was a zealous prosecutor of Christopher Love UNTO yea AFTER death First After death for with this he begins as that which it's like he supposeth he can most positively prove and may best serve his purpose and for this his onely instance is the Book entituled Mr. Love's Case of and concerning which he saith and peremptorily chargeth me in these express words That you were a zealous prosecutor of Mr. Love unto yea and after death is so manifest that as impudent as you are you will not deny That you prosecuted him after death appears by what you published against him when he had no being to answer for himself wherein you endeavour maliciously to kill him twice and the latter with more cruelty then the former killing his good name what in you lyes making him a reprobate and an outcast from God and Glory I suppose you will own that piece called Mr. Love's Case printed by Peter Cole as wel as the other Books you publish't against him wherein you go about most unchristianly to undervalue debase and disparage that comfort and confidence he professed to enjoy in and at his death and this upon several accounts which I will not recount to avoid tediousness one onely I le mention to shew your spirit of envy and bitterness It is the Animadversions upon the first Section pag. 34. Mr. Love say you it 's more then probable was not onely vehemently exhorted encouraged importuned but even solemnly by all the sacred Interests of High Presbytery conjur'd by his Clergy Companions to dye like a valiant and resolute Champion of the Cause and not bewray the least grudging of any fear or repentance for any thing he had acted upon the service thereof lest it should be said of Presbytery Her glory was stained and betrayed by the Cowardize of her Fitst-born And pag. 38. Here we have the second part of the Theatrical Flourishes of Mr. Loves confidence Much might be animadverted but I forbear You have a strange spirit that his comforts and confidence in God trouble you And then you go on to charge him with hypocrisie and lying and other base imputations all along bespattering and bespotting and besullying him as you can even to his last I know what slight touches of charity you have now and then and at the close of that Pamphlet which are inconsistent with that you had charged him before as that he acted the part of a most unchristian Calumniator upon the Scaffold in the very approaches of death pag. 38. but pag. 46. You most unchristianly reproach him and his Doctrine as followeth Whereas in purging himself he means Mr. Love from the aspersion of lying he saith thus I hope you will believe a dying man who dares not look God in the face with a lye in his mouth intimating say you as if his being ready to dye was a bridle in his lips to restrain him from lying The truth is according to that principle of his That he who once truly believed can never by any sin or wickedness whatsoever lose the love and favour of God His being ready to dye in conjunction with a perswasion of his Saintship should rather be a temptation upon him to lye or commit any other wickedness then an engagement upon him to refrain lying Thus you I have done with that but I pray that you may find more favor and mercy from God then he found from you and to that end let him grant you Grace to repent of these spightful and most cruel persecutions This is his Charge Inference and Conclusion and every word of it which is a lye in every particular a heap of lyes and falshoods therefore I deny it all though he is so brazen-fac't as to say of me viz. As impudent as you are you will not deny it For I am so far from having wrote the Book aforesaid entituled Mr. Loves Case or from having the least hand therein that I do not certainly remember that ever I read it over but write it I did not nor had I any hand in it nor do I know who is the Author thereof yet how positively and with what confidence doth this impudent Lyar affirm it mine how oft about twenty times he falsly charges it on me with what bitter invectives and reflections and with what heigth of impudency and zeal as one whose life is concern'd and touch't and suffers in every word spoken of or thing done to that his dear Brother the sober may plainly read in these his

charge me positively by name Now either these words are Christop Loves as is said and pretended or R. Farmers If Christop Loves then he is one while saying he supposes at other times absolutely charging what before he only said he supposed and so he is not to be believed in what he saith in that his pretended book No not as the words of a dying man and if his words when dying be such at which time R. F. sayes what ever I say men are most serious and to be believed what are they when he is not in that condition and how to be accounted If they be not Christop Loves which I incline to believe then they are Ra. Farmers forgeries soisted after his death into what he saith are the writings of him who h● accounts his dear friend and Brother finished the last day but one before his death for whom he seems to be as zealous as for his life and being so forged foysted and sophisticated they are not to be considered or taken as Christop Loves writings but as R. Farmers forgeries and so not to be believed or answered Thy malice at my good name R. F. drew deep when thus to bespatter it thou plungest thy self into this Labyrinth But to proceed a little further What are those lies said to be in the said Pamphlet so supposed to be mine and so observed Why It will not saith R. F. page 111. be to any purpose to set down the particulars because my Reader hath not the book whereby to judge of the truth or falshood I shall therefore content my self to give you what observations Mr. Love ma●es on the man and his lying stories If this viz. to give the observations and not the thing to rehearse the conclusion and not the premises to charge so and so and yet to be silent wherein on purpose to reproach if this I say be fair dealing fit matter to reply unto or sufficient proof of such a charge let the reasonble yea my enemies themselves be Judges Is there any more yet Yea but like the former They viz. his NO BABES c. aforesaid advise me to re●d a book concerning Mr. Loves d●signs and his death written and pen'd by you and they say it will give the Reader further satisfaction But you have dealt as craftily in the printing of this as of the former printed so few kept or given so at your own pispose that I cannot get it page 106. Which being a lie and the book neither nam'd nor got nor seen by him and it together with the pretended further satisfaction therein being but matter of hearsay and that from his No Babes c. they did advise they say I shall pass it by as false and frivolous and not deserving a reply Thus hath this liar rusht as the horse into the Battel with his But yet what I finde from other pieces I have met with in this matter What matter the Antecedent is who did Trepan Mr. Love and some of that party the pieces and J have mentioned all of them say nothing ●hereof and of nothing nothing can be found nor nothing met with I will communicate to yo● and the world and this the rather to shew you what a● hypocrite y●u were in chargeing us Priests as in * I call ye not Priests in scorn its a lie scorning I deny and therefore thee and thy Generation of scornets but Priests ye are by profession who are Tythers and yovr old Ordination was by the name of Priest And tbe common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book hath it Priest and Clerk And page 37. in a scorning manner thou sayest of thy sel● Is it not pity that any man much more a Minister of the Gospel and if you will a Priest should c. scorn you call us with blood-thirstinesse and my self in particular as in Title of your Pamphlet you should have pul●'d the be●m out of your own eye before you reproacht us with a mote in ours I suppose here I have done though it be partly done already you will appear to be not only a blood-thirsty but a blood-sucking persion I say thus hath he rusht into this case as the horse into the battel but to what disadvantage the sober by what hath been said may easily perceive For neither hath he or any of his pieces so much as looked towards the matter viz. Who did Trepan Mr. Love c. which must be the matter or what he saith is inconsistent and non-sense Nor hath he made so much as one thing hitherto to stand as a beam or mote of blood-thirstinesse or blood-sucking in my eye as to any prosecutions of Christop Love before or afte● his death the work it seems he aimed at ●erga Versa but hath thus mist and hit himself so what he saith he hath found and communicated to me and the world from the other pieces which he saith he hath met with in this matter shews what a hypocrite himself is not me and an abominable vile person who hath charged me with blood-thirstinesse and blood-sucking and committed such wickednesse in the prosecution thereof as a mote in my eye but makes no such thing to appear and hath not first or at all pulled the beam of blood-t●irstinesse charged and proved not reproached that 's a lye by me on him and his Generation of Priests which he hath not otherwise then by this Recrimination attempted to disprove out of the eyes of himself and generation And here I might conclude this case for ought unto which I am obliged any further to reply But forasmuch as Ra. Farmer hath expresly charged me with practises of f●rgery in these Words v●z I shall discover the ground of your so easie an entertainment of the thoughts at least suggestions of forgery in me from those practises of forgery which I shall declare to have been really acted by you pag. 106. And for that the Committee for Examinations and one of the Members thereof in particular is accused reflected upon and scandalized as well as my self as in that his as he calls it Declaration thereof And because the design of what is so said is to blemish the credit of what should be made publike of those Treasons on the behalf of the Common-Wealth which the Author supposed would be and therefore so speaks and sollicitously beseeches the Reader not to believe any thing that should so be made And in regard the Charge relates to my trust and therein as to the lives of men lest I should seem to any to decline speaking because of guilt or to take advantage by the dis-reputation of another to cover what may be thought my own I shall speak to both his instances viz. Christopher Love though parcel of the foresaid attainted vindication and the nameless Letter though it come forth so and on the single credit of this Lyar soften by me proved Reprobate The first is this viz. That whilest he was examined he faith I did put in six or eight lines into his Examination