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A85827	A discours apologetical; wherein Lilies lewd and lowd lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the yeer 1654. are cleerly laid open; his shameful desertion of his own cause is further discovered; his shameless slanders fullie refuted; and his malicious and murtherous mind, inciting to a general massacre of Gods ministers, from his own pen, evidentlie evinced. Together with an advertisement concerning two allegations produced in the close of his postscript. And a postscript concerning an epistle dedicatorie of one J. Gadburie. By Tho. Gataker B.D. autor [sic] of the annotations on Jer. 10.2 and of the vindication of them.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing G319; Thomason E731_1; ESTC R202124	96,485	112

A Discours Apologetical WHEREIN Lilies lewd and lowd Lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the Yeer 1654. are cleerly laid open His shameful Desertion of his own cause is further discovered His shameless Slanders fullie refuted and his Malicious and Murtherous Mind inciting to a general Massacre of Gods Ministers from his own Pen evidentlie evinced Together with an ADVERTISEMENT Concerning two ALLEGATIONS Produced in the close of his POSTSCRIPT And a POSTSCRIPT concerning An Epistle Dedicatorie of one J. Gadburie By The-Gataker B. D. Autor of the Annotations on Jer. 10. 2. and of the Vindication of them LONDON Printed by R. Ibbitson for Thomas Newberry at the three Lions in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange 1654. The Contents of the ensuing DISCOURS LIlies Merlins meer Pasqils Page 1 His whole Answer as usuallie a peece of meer scurrilitie 1 6 His former grounds of his Art given by him deserted 2 6 Not a word of the good Angels that first taught it ibid. How uneqal a match for anie ingenuous person to deal with a Railer 3 By freqent railing and being railed at men grow shameless ib. In such bickerings no honor to overcome to be overcome no dishonor 3 4 Star-gazers for money can tell that of trifles which of weightier occurrents they cannot 4 Jacob Behmens writings of what stamp 4 A Northern Lilie prophesied of by him 5 Lilies immodest and scurrilous language unworthy regard 5 6 To what purpose Mr. G. qotes Autors Heathen and others 6 Some necessity imposed on him of answering some scandalous aspersions 7 A good name fo what worth and how much to be regarded 7 8 Yet a good Conscience to be preferred before it 8 9 No good duty to be omitted for fear of disgrace 9 A great grace to be disgraced for Christ ibid. Mark the Emperor tho a Stoick how careful to cleer himself from calumnies 9 12 From the imputation of Avarice especially 10 What care and caution Ministers ought to have in this kind ●0 The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how taken 1 Tim. 3. 6 7. Eph. 4. 27. 10 A common liars word no slander 11 Infamous persons defamation no infamie 11 Reproaches of such rather matter of praise their praises of dispraise Page 11 The falsest reports tho never so well cleared leav some sear oft behind 11 Most folk suspicious and prone to suspect the worst ibid. Mr. G● resolution to undertake this Apologie 12 Lilies former slanderous Charge 12 An ill presage to begin ill with a gross untruth especially 12 13 So begins Li●ie that Mr. G. was sometime a stiff Prelate 13 14 23 And that then he preached impudent●ie for Sabbath-sports 13 15 19 23 Of the three Names given the Day which most proper 14 15 Mr. Gs. constant cours of preaching for and pressing the due observation of the Lords day 15 19 22 23 The Lords Day no Day for complemental Visitations 15 Nor for entertainment of Clients 16 Nor for riding Circuits or hearing Causes 19 The change of the Lecture-times at Lincoln-Inne with the ground thereof 16 The Lords Day Gods Mart or Market Day 18 The Christian Sabbath 14 15 King James his book for Sabbath-sports 20 22 That Mr. G. preached in defence of it a notorious untruth 20 21 Mr. Gs. Treatise of Lots and the subject matter thereof 21 How far forth Cards or Dice are therein justified 21 22 No liberty therein for Sabbath-sports allowed but expreslie opposed 22 23 Another stander that Mr. G. turned Presbyterian in hope of Bishops and Deans lands 12 23 24 Mr. Gs. constant judgement both of Prelacie and Presbyterie 24 25 26 Men moderatelie minded suffer usuallie from extreams on either side 26 27 The frivolous pretended ground of Mr. G● re●ol● 27 28 Mr. Carpenters scurrilous Relation of the Presbyters birth and base condition 28 29 His Historical untruth of its first birth 30 Li●●us latter slanderous Charge against Mr. G. of covetousness Page 30 Seed of all sin in all but some more eminent then other 31 32 This of covetousness Mr. G. most disclaims 32 Freqent shifting of charges deemed a note of Avarice or Ambition 32 33 Mr. Gs. setled Ministerie in two Places onely for two and fifty yeer 33 His entrance into his place at Lincolns-Inne 33 34 His entertainment and ten yeers continuance there 34 35 His Salarie what it was there 35 Places elswhere refused during his abode there 36 38 Ingenuous dispositions what they deem of the good they do 38 39 Their joy when their kindness takes grief when it misseth 39 40 Mr. Gs. waving the Degree of Doctor 41 42. The general disposition of Mr. Gs. Auditorie at Lincolns-Inne not affecting noveltie or varietie 43 The occasion of his removal to Rederith 44 46 His chargeable entrance there 47 His continuance there upward of two and forty yeer 47 His means what for the first ten yeer 47 48 49 Tythe upon houses formerlie paid how came t● thee intermitted 48 49 How it or somewhat in lieu of it recovered 49 50 The whole sum with the Addition then agreed on far short of what Lilie saith he receivs 50 As much expended one yeer with another as the revenue of the place amounted unto 50 51 Means of enlargment elswhere offered and refused 51 52 His natural disposition of what frame and temper 52 53 Ambition and Avarice how far they prevail where they rule 53 54. Everie one his own first and chiefest Flatterer 53 The result of the premises concerning Mr. G. charged with either of these two Corruptions 54 55 Avarice deemed the peculiar vice of old age 55 56 Why compared to a root 55 Why it and pride to the spleen ibid. Why against reason for men to grow in old age more covetous 56 Of M. Gs. wilful silencing himself charged upon him by Lilie ib. His artendance at the Assemblie and receipts there p. 56 57 His sicknes that took him off from that attendance and for some time from his pastoral employment p. 57 The occasion of his necessarie surceasing to preach p. 58 His receipt of 200 l. a year a notorious untruth and what his receipts are p. 58-60 The reason of his retaining a Title with his desire to be rid of it p. 60 61 The sum of Lilies slanderous assertions andaspersions with a resolve of future silence p. 61 Lilies malicious and murtherous mind and motion to have the whole Presbyterie and Ministerie removed by a general massacre p. 62 63 In the Advertisement TWo Allegations in Lilies Postscript p. 64 The former of one Cleavland wherein the late Assembly at Westminster is traduced ibid. The latter parcel of a Latine Epistle which Mr. G. must English ibid. The A●tor of it sometime a Popish Priest ibid. By his own kind●ed suspected to be Popish still p. 65 By some other censured another Spalatensis ib. Retaining still divers Popish conceits and opinions p. 65. 66 His wishes concerning School-Divinity and Mystical Divinity p. 66 67 His renunciation of Popery with a transcendent commendation

why may not a Smith as wel work at the Forge or an Husband man at the Plough as a Judge sit to hear Civil Causes on the Sabbath The one hindereth the Sanctification of it as wel as the other And if it be alledged That the one is as before was proved indeed more speciallie Gods work So were the repairing of a Church which yet the Mason or Plummer may not work about on the Sabbath no more then Besaleel or Aholiab might about the work of the Tabernacle for the furtherance whereof God would not admit or give way to the least violating of his Sabbath Thus also there Yea but Mr. G. tho he pleaded so hard for restraint of work on the Lords day yet he preached as earnestlie for play and in particular if Lilie may be believed for Carding and Dicing upon the Lords day For so run the words of his charge here Preaching impudentlie for the Liberties or Sports of the Sabbath Cards and Dice c. Which parcel of his Charge being of the same stamp with the rest is not unlike some short skirt of a beggers coat made up of a few sory snips and shreds unhandsomlie stitcht up and il-favoredlie patcht together having reference in part to King James his Book of Libertie for Disports on Sundays and Holidays and in part to my Treatise of the Nature and Use of Lots but so blended together and entermingled the one with the other that they make a meer medley For as for the former King James indeed in the year 1618. the Sixteenth of His Reign publ shed a Declaration wherein he gave Libertie for some Disports that might be used on the Sabbath or the Lords day But what ones were they that therein he gave way to Cards and dice c. No There is not one word or title at all concerning them in the whole Book but they are expresly therein named these Dancings men or women May-games Whit sun-Ales Morrice-dances Rush-bearings setting up of May-poles and other sports therewith used These ar the Disports by name there designed wherewith leav is given and autoritie to solemnize and celebrate the Lords day An Act il-beseeming so prudent and understanding a Prince And such it may seem as afterward himself was ashamed of and unwilling to own For I have heard it reported that when a Copy of his Works gathered together newlie printed and richlie made up was presented unto him before anie of them should go abroad having upon the opening of it lighted upon this peice not without expression of much indignation he tore it out with his own hands and gave strict charge to have it done out of the whole impression where now none of it appears Which if it were tru for I dare not confidentlie avow it having it onelie by hear-say the greater and more grievous was the sin and shame of those great Prelates who whither to please the King and Court or to cross vex curb and ensnare the Conscientious Ministers not then onelie approved the practise but long after renewed afresh the memorie of it and pressed his Son King Charls to revive it again and to enjoyn the publishing of it by the Ministers of the Word in their several places upon pain of suspension which not a few of them sustained for the refusal thereof Now in defence of this Declaration and in justification of such Sports used on the Sabbath whereas this Lier affirms that I preached it is a most notorious untruth for neither did I ever speak write or preach word in defence or allowance thereof or of anie such Sports used on that day neither was that Declaration ever published first or last either by my self or anie assistant of mine Yea that I did in writing directlie oppose and expresly condemn it may appear plainlie by what was before related tho preached indeed before that Declaration came out yet printed at first two yeer after it Anno 1620. and reprinted without alteration of ought in the yeer 1637. But pass we on to the other Book here related to my Treatise of the Nature and Use of Lots which is girded at in the terms of Cards and Dice shuffled in under the disguise of Sabbath Sports there by to wind and screw in my Treatise within the verg and compass of the subject matter with allowance admitted in that other deservedlie abhorred Book Tru it is I acknowledge it and am not at all ashamed to own it that I published sometime a large Treatise of the Nature and Use of Lots having in the Pulpit before more briefly delivered somewhat of that subject and I published it the rather being by divers of my Reverend Brethren unto whom I had imparted the sum of what I had delivered encited so to do To refel the misreports that some other from whom in some particulars I dissented had raised concerning the Doctrine therein taught by me In this Discours I make it evidentlie to appear that a Lot in the genuine nature and ordinarie use of it and with extraordinarie without special commission and injunction we have nothing to do is no sacred matter nor divine Oracle and may therefore be used indifferentlie as wel in light and ludicrous as in more serious and weightie affairs And that in regard hereof Divisorie and Lusorie Lots ar lawful and warrantable Consultorie and Divinatorie unlawful and damnable And that it is therefore as wel a superstitious conceit on the one hand to condemn anie game in regard of a Lot used in it as it is on the other hand a superstitious and irreligious practise to make use of a Lot for the discoverie of Gods wil and purpose either what he would have done by us or determineth himself to do And in this judgment I stil rest having as occasion hath been sufficientlie and fullie as I conceiv refelled and answered the Arguments and Objections of all who have either published ought herein against me that ever came to my hands or by writing delt in private with me So as that I have not received anie further Replie from anie one of them yea I have so far forth convinced some of the greatest and most eminent among them that they have been enforced to relinqish and have refused to own that ground which together with the most of the other partie they had formerlie with much confidence built on to wit That in everie casualtie there is a special and immediate providence Seeing the palpable absurditie thereof plainlie discovered but in room thereof have endeavored to introduce another new conceit no less absurd then the former as may be seen in the Second Edition of that concerning Lots in English Chap. 4. pag. 52-59 and in mine Antithesis to Dr. Ames his Theses in Latine Nor do I anie further justifie anie Game Sport or Pastime depending either in part or in whole upon casualtie of which kind Cards and Dice indeed ar if they be anie way abused or found otherwise faultie save onelie that they ar not

therefore evil or to be condemned because there is a Lot in them Yea but tho I did not preach for Morrice dances and May-games yet I did impudentlie Preach for Carding and Dicing on the Lords day For so much do this calumniaters words import That I preached impudentlie for Sabbath sports as Cards and Dice c. So by his Et Caetera indeed shewing himself not unwilling to have those other also understood I need say no more here but sit liber judex Let my Book decide it that my Treatise of Lots I mean wherein that may be found which I shal here thence transcribe directlie opposite to either Chap. 9. where I give Cautions for Game in general Sect. 4. p. 293. 295. Pag. 293. Recreations are to be used as soberlie so seasonablie Recreation is good when it is seasonable when it comes in his du time els as it is with fish and fowl when they come out of season that is evil that is good otherwise Now then do men use Game and Recreation unseasonablie when they should and ought to be otherwise employed either in the works of their special Callings or about the holy things of God to wit as it foloweth more particularlie and fullie Pag. 295. when they should be tending the holie things of God either in publick or in private And thus it is a sin to follow game on the Sabbath as the Jews used to do and do yet to this day and as the Popish sort ar noted ordinarilie to solemnize their Festivals For this is not to sanctifie or consecrate the Sabbath as holie to the Lord. The Sabbath indeed is a day of rest but of holie rest of rest not to worldlie recreations but to heavenlie meditations of rest to religious and spiritual employments It is sacriledge therefore to folow game on the Sabbath at such time as we 〈…〉 ould be plying the service and worship of God it is time stoln from God that we spend so on our sports Which it were less sin therefore for us to spend on some serious affairs according to that which one of the Ancients wel saith Melius est Die Sabbati arare qam saltare Melius totâ die foderent qam totâ die luderent It were better for a man in such manner on the Sabbath to plough then to play and to dig and delv then to dance all day For the lighter the occasion of sinning is where all other things are eq●l the greater the sin is Where I cite also among others in the Margin the words of Robert Grosthed ancientlie Bishop of Lincoln on the Decalog Dies t 〈…〉 à Christiano expendi debet in operibus sanctis The whole Lords day Christian people ought to spend in holie employments And this as it was at first both preached Anno 1618. and printed Anno 1619. which was not long after that Book of Libertie or Licentiousness rather came abroad so it was in the yeer 1627. reprinted in a second Edition with Addition and Emendation of some things but without anie Retractation Subtraction Qalification or Alteration of ought in this point And let this therefore remain as an impudent calumnie of a shameless Sycophant upon record That Mr. G. Preached impudentlie for Libertie of Sabbath Sports But this saith he Mr. G. did formerlie when he was a Prelate Of some Province it may be in Sir Thomas Mores Vtopia where Mr. L. in a trance be-like being there one of his Auditors heard him preach thus But afterwards to wit since he either left or lost his Prelates place in hope of Bishops Deans or Chapters Lands he became a pretended Presbyterian He would at least have men believ that I was sometime Prelatical but have of late turned my coat or my copie and gaping after some fat gobbets of the Bishops or Deans Lands pretended to be a Presbyterian A calumnie as fals as its Father is or as his former Brat hath been convinced to be And such as he shall never be able to make good tho his Master that sets him on work joyn with him in it For my judgment concerning Church-Government it is the same stil that ever it was since I first began to enqire into matters of that nature A dulie bounded and wel regulated Prelacie joined with a Presbyterie wherein one as President Superintendent or Moderator term him what you please whether annual or occasional or more constant and continual either in regard of yeers or parts or both joyntlie hath some preeminence above the rest yet so as that he doth nothing without joint consent of the rest a module or patern whereof I am enformed to have been sometime represented unto the late King by two worthy persons men of eminent parts and moderate mindes the one a Prelate the other in some kind Prelatical which had it been accepted and established how advantagious it might have proved it is not for me to define but as is reported was then disallowed and rejected by some great Prelates and others by whom the King was most swayed Such a manner of Prelacie I say I never durst nor yet dare condemn But such a Prelatical power as was here constituted and exercised among us wherein Bishops and Arch-deacons were enabled and ordinarilie used by their Chancellors Officials and Surrogates mostlie meer Civilians assuming to them anie sorie felow in Orders to fit by as a cipher or a shadow to pass the highest and heaviest of all Church-Censures besides Civil Penalties in their Purses on the Persons both of Pastors and People and for trifles and trivial things meer matters of Ceremonie oft-times silence suspend and deprive while scandalous idle or insufficient ones were little regarded or looked after Visitations being by either usuallie held once onelie in a yeer and then rather of Cours and Custom or to receiv Procurations then to anie effectual Reformation of ought Such a Prelatical power so constituted and so executed I never could effect or approv and trulie much less when I came to see the manner of it which I had heard too much of before when living so long in a Pastoral Charge I never in all my time saw the face of a Bishop personallie present in Court or Arch-deacon but once tho both constantlie exacting Fees of us And observed how things were shuffled up when Presentments were made and in that manner managed without anie cours taken to bring anie Delinqent to a serious sight of or sincere sorow for his sin that their Visitations might wel be deemed to be held as one ancientlie complained Non tam morum qam nummorum gratiâ Rather to emptie mens Purses then to mend their manners And my judgment thus formed I accordinglie passed my vote and gave my consent with others for the removal of that Bodie of Government that was then established with us Yet which I then also did not forbear to profess as wel in deliverie of mine own sense as in endeavor to give satisfaction to others seeking to me for