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A censure of Mr. Judas Tull his lampoon
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Trepidantium Malleus.
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more than twenty 6. I am very glad when I can get a good Usher which sometimes I have had a Considerable Time Then I only teach Learning and Discipline I leave to him And I wish I could always so speed I should not endure those pains I sometimes do 7. No Schollars live more pleasant then mine do I have often said it and can prove it 1. That not one Sickly Lad ever came to me but he grew Healthy Of which I have now one great Instance 2. Never a Vile Boy whom none could Tame or make bad only at a Common Rate but hath been sober Another such Instance is now with me As great as ever was known 3. No Dunce who could do nothing in many Years ever stay'd here but Learned Considerably One as much like a Natural as was possible for one to be that was none in a few Months made and talk true Latin often according to Rule A Blind Person from his Infancy That the Reverend Mr. Maudit takes care of and commonly Examins every Saterday in the afternoon since July last hath Learned as Lillys Grammar Cato Fables Ovid de Tristibus So a Great way in Ovid Metamorphosis Erasmus Formulae Loquendi almost Memoriter Nomen Clatura so and other Books Hath construed many Scores of Chapters in Latin in the Old and New Testament Hath made not only good Epistles but Theams above 2 Months Talk true Latin Commonly all day And Occasionally Learned the Kings of England with Remarkable Passages in their Reigns The Twelve Caesars out of Leigh Saterday Nights and Sabbath Day Nights All Clarks lives in Quarto and many Divinity Books Much more have some Learned in the Time and he had if not blind These things are not done in a Corner Come and see May I say to all Sober Men I know Not to others that on a design shall deny what they confess here Alas Had I given this Poor un-imployed Mercenary Jack so much Money to write against them as they gave him to write against me he had soon done it He cares for no Cause but for Money but I must Learn that Rule Pitty the Poor I stopt a Severe Letter he wrote to Dr. Ker for what he did to a Young Man and Justified the Doctor As for other Stories shewn up and down in the Lampoon which I have not yet seen I confess 1. I have answered W. C. his Trepidantium Malleus Intrepidanter Malleatus and B. C. the Quaker to their Confusion and the Satisfaction of all Men and this Accuser too Let him say what he will I care not to be told of Intervals from Fits from them that have none from theirs Roaring when he ran to hear Oh Men condemned to dye was it in that Terrible Fit he feared his Turn would be the next Sessions He Rambles like this Brother Mr. Minge Make Water did he so when Dipt as well as others In the Title he Names only my News Years Gift Occasional Passages there This is to Satisfie the Wise Bapts that shall say This is no Answer to the Epistle to Mr. Keath In the Epistle he mentions The Three Particulars in my Epistle That John declares he Plunged no one c. This is to Satisfy the Mob that shall say why is not that Epistle Answer'd Was ever such a Vile Trick done till Mr. Make Water wrote 2. This Judas had a hand in Socks and Buskins against Mr. Alsop where he is call'd Lunatick Madman Graceless Person as well as I. 3. For my Religion I have pleaded Old Protestanisms against Innovators The Crispians said I had written well against the Baxterians they said I had written well against the Crispians and the Anabaptist said I had done well against both And they both now say I have written unanswerably against the Anabaptists And the few good Old Protestants in London say I have done well against them all Ob. But have I not done what I blamed M Jacob for saying against the Bapts No nor never thought what he said See my Apology It is not convenient now to Name I dare Challenge any Man to tell what Baptist ever wrote so faverably of the Bapts as I in that Epistle to Mr. Keath Tho I confess I am sorry none of them talk with half that Indignation against their Bristol Reformer and Sister Roe as against me for my Necessary mentioning it For my part I speak it Soberly I do believe The Three Dippers lately discovered and many more have done somtimes what the reforming Bristoll Rogue did and I will give this reason The other Sisters were silent and made no Confession till Mrs. Roe told all Now had she been silent too the thing had continued as a secret I challenge any Bapt in that City to deny the story And because the learned Bapts in this City appear not in Print knowing they cannot answer my Epistle and therefore imply a Minge and a Tull. I am sorry I am forcced to Challenge them an to open Disputation about the Three propositions in that Epistle That John the Baptist declares he plunged No Man c. And also about my Three propositions in this Book but if they will deny the Second I will not swear to it For I grew weary of Fools or Knaves Minge cannot hide his folly and ignorance Projicit ampullas sesquipedalia verba Hor. de Arte Poet. One would think every word in Mat. 3.11 were against plunging J. John that opened the way for the Gospel and its plain simple Administration could he bring in a Yoke worse then Circumcision Must this be taken away that signifies mortification of what all are inclin'd to for a thing that tends to and too often ends in Uncleanness Indeed Indeed John if thou didst plunge I cannot well understand thy Words nor Luke the best Grecian neither Baptize Not Bapt or Plunge for after much consideration I now declare ' its my Opinion that Baptizo never signifies to Plunge in all the New Testament You What plunge the tender Sex What those that had Pains in the Teeth c. With Water Not in it for some might say Minge Minge and if St. Francis whipt the Devil till he made him roar for pissing in the holy Pot as the Papists Fable what do they deserve who thus do in the Water of Baptism Shew your selves Men O ye Transgressors Dippers say it if you dare that God works such a Wonder to stop the Fountains of Nature in you all in your Dippings But if you say this is but an Argument a posteriori not a priori I Answer jocularly I believe you find some of you in the Water it is from both Thus have you like the Woman in the time of King Solomon took away a living Child and put a dead one in its Place taken away true Baptism and put in Plunging not as in a clean Place indeed but sometimes as in a Jakes where they are dipt in Waters of more sorts than one Away filthy Beasts 1. What good News would there be for Physitians and Apothecarys should plunging prevail which Heaven forbid Come away Mr. Doctor One is grown deafish Come Mr Apotheccary Another is a Barking as if he would bring up his Heart Come my Wife my Daughter she will die by this Cold as others have done How is it so many Bapts look pale more than others I was told before I saw the Lampoon which I saw not till all afore written was done that there was Tulls Hint of Sodomy which he had privately hinted also what will they invent next Several things I should say and do about some other matters are such mistakes My Friends are angry with me that I reply'd and expect a promise I shall not do it again This being say they a Trick to divert you from your Invinceable Arguments against Plunging for such Mr. Fuller Mr. Woodhouse Mr. Shower Mr. Keith and others say they are I close all O God if ever I abused my Body with Mankind this way hinted or ever once did any thing that had a tendency thereunto or ever abused my Body with any Womankind either Let this Sin be as the unpardonable Sin never to be forgiven in this World nor in the World to come Amen Amen These Men as Fame says have sometimes confest they could not charge me with bad Morals but only with imprudence A high Commendation from such Infamous Persons FINIS
A CENSURE OF Mr. Judas Tull His Lampoon NAT. Tull One of the most infamous Names in the City whose Life is as a continued Vacation and though a Man professing the Study of Law all the Year with him is out of Term. His whole Work is to do Nothing or worse than Nothing to Lampoon Ministers Mr. Alsop and Mr. Williams in particular with Storys to my knowledge he never believed nor heard but were the Result of a fruitful pregnant Invention In short his Life is a System of Iniquity he would betray his best Friend and Master too for less than Thirty Pieces of Silver with Judas his elder Brother unless the Mony be told by Pence and this after Vows and Protestations repeated often of Fidelity to me all his Days He is a Man tho' of the best Wit yet the worst Morals Thus is he like Nebuchadnezzars Image his Head of Gold and Feet of Clay The monstrous Fables he told of others as well as my self is one Reason among many Why so many Loath his Conversation Let him never Repeat o'er the Creed in Company least they that hear him should disbelieve it as much as himself thinking nothing true that he says I have heard of a Seaman that was thought to be dead being to be thrown over-board says he I am not dead Said one I do not believe him he was ever such a lying Rogue This is the Monster the Bapts have chosen when Minge wrote like a Jack-Pudding to Lampoon me like a Buffoon They found the one feeble at arguing and therefore imployed this stoutly to Rave to get a Penny A Club of them treated him from Night to Night to make a Libel against me How sent they him away Not a fresh Man sure He thinks he hath too much Wit Were these Plungers plung'd into their Liquors No but the Liquor were poured down a-main It is well the Custom here is pouring else were they plunged in they would drink up a River In Johns Baptism That they then talked of there is nothing belongs to them but O Generation of Vipers A perpetual blemish to them and their Cause Nat. Tull of whose Atheism and Madness all the City hath long rung is a Chrispian Bapt. his Father was a Lay-Speaker among them In some Swearing Company tho' restrain'd before others Judas hath sworn at such a rate no Gallant could out do him this he could not deny when reprov'd by some of us For Drunkenness he can continue from Morning till Night Wo to you of this Club that thus puts the Bottle to his Mouth For another Sin how shameful is it when talking of the open common Whoredoms of Mr. T. to say in all this You do but draw my Picture This I will give an Oath I and others heard him say For Idleness who will trust him I once employ'd him in a Law business pittying his Poverty and after he received my Money he served me such a Trick that it is no wonder the Bapts themselves never care to employ him except it be in Lampooning the true Baptists What he did with his large Patrimony and afterwards went up and down like a second Cain What attempts he made against his own Fame talkt much of I once spared no pains nor cost upon him hoping his Reformation on fair Promises but some men were true Prophets who told me I would repent it He about two Years since being poor desired me to get him a Place and after some sad Reflections That he had forgotten his Philology said he could wish to become a Boy again and desir'd me to help him I consulted his Brother who told me that he could not govern himself but must be in subjection when I tryed him a few days and entertain'd him freely and gave him a great number of valuable Books I told him he was a forward Youth and needed no Discipline here but if he play'd the Truant and was unnecessarily absent at learning time I would put him off but said I what if you come in Drunk You must be strapt To which he consented But tho he as well as some others once never were like to have one strap for his Book yet he muched so often I grew weary of him And perhaps he thought should he be strapt as often as Drunk it might sometimes be more than once a day When the poor Old Woman dyes to whom he is said to be an intolerable Burden who shall take care of him will he not go up and down ready to stink for want of good Linnen like a Brother Pot-Companion Nat. Tull as all know was once a great Advocate for me about the wonderful success of my continued pains with a few and my Discipline also I being paid according to success What he told the Dean himself is well known He being sometimes at my House Day and Night but now unsays all and the occasion was I found him lately as drunk as drunkenness it self and so abusive that I thought his Conversation intolerable A great Grecian among the Bapts before their great Men on the Examination of a Lad what he had done in ten Weeks took me by the hand and said I beg your pardon I must confess I have ridicul'd the Wonders told of you All is true but how such great Work is done in so little time I cannot imagine I will hereafter be as great an Advocate for you as I have been a Censurer In answering vain Objections against me there is no end who shall judge a Man's Actions that knows not his Circumstances I am paid sometimes more then ten Pounds for one Years learning only besides Table But now to the Libel In short Judas thou and many know tho' some doe not 1. that Mr. Williams Mr. Woodhouse and others appointed a Meeting at my House about Storys set on foot by Mr. B. concerning the Son of Mr. S. two years since about Learning and Discipline All said never were greater Lies told than those against me I satisfy'd others that send for me or come fairly to me This is well known 2. What Methods I take I can do my great work by not without and I have tryed all All is done to more than the satisfaction of the best I educate let their Years be what they will Who regards them in Westminster Winchester and many famous Schools He that comes to me must speak Latin or Greek in Common discourse when he is able c. 3. I have consulted Aged Ministers and learned Gentlemen for Advice 4. Mr. Benjamin Keach a Bapt told me that all the Bapts were satisfied when I wrote them a Letter about an ignorant Boy a Preacher of theirs of unparalle'ld Imprudence 5. I meet with those of many Years more than twenty that cannot read an English Chapter and Psalms well nor talk common Sense Yet greedy after Learning They and their Fathers too desire they may be govern'd as others are Some of ten Years old are more wise and orderly than some of