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A78034	Vindiciæ veritatis: truth vindicated against calumny. In a briefe answer to Dr. Bastwicks two late books, entituled, Independency not Gods ordinance, with the second part, styled the postscript, &c. / By Henry Burton, one of his quondam-fellow-sufferers.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1645 (1645)	Wing B6177; Thomason E302_13; ESTC R200279	28,751	40

in your scoffing scurrilous malicious bitter biting yea bloody language in which faculty as facile princeps you do so tripudiate and glory But in your last Book which you style but how justly A just Defence c. you would seem to teach us another rule to walk by which it seems you had not then learned when you writ your Postscript We ought not say you per latus unius totam gentem perstringere you tel the Liev. Colonel that he should not have condemned the whole Councel for a few but should have singled them out and by name have aspersed them And why did not you then rather call me by my name as your brother Burton as our brother Prynne hath done then to hale me out by my great white basket-hilted beard as some hideous Monster or ridiculous spectacle to the world And whereas ibid. you adde that you have written nothing in your books against the Independents wherein you can be convinced of a lie For say you I write nothing in my books against the Independents but what upon my own knowledge I can affirm to be true yea depose it too Now to go no further then this one instance of your dealing with mee aliâs your brother in fathering upon mee such a damnable and diabolicall glosse being the spurious brat of your own brain What say you Do you know it of your own knowledge to be so that because I set that Scripture in the front of my book therefore my meaning was hereby to perswade the people and make them believe that they have good warrant and ground to fight against their Christian brethren for the maintenance of their own Whimsies They be your own words and you may take the whimsies in to boot Now did I ever so perswade the people or make them believe so Nay I will put it to your own conscience as hoping you have so much left whether in your conscience you can so much as once imagine that your brother could ever have the least thought that way or the least word tending thereunto wherein I challenge that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the accuser of the brethren himself whose Scholar I wish not you to be As for that other passage of your said book pag. 39. to let passe many other as touching your Independent-Pastor it is as false as slie do you and your reverend brother try it when you will An Appendix WHerein is touched the main point of difference between the two Parties Classicall or Nationall and Congregationall Our brother Mr. William Pryn whose latter books Truth triumphing c. and A fresh Discovery c. I have meerly God is my record out of tendernesse to the present state of things forborn to answer hath sundry times in those books objected principally those words in my Vindication concerning Christs kingly office over the Churches and consciences of his people as in Truth triumphing pag. 112 113. and in his Fresh Discovery pag. 4. in these words Mr. Henry Burton in his Vindication of Churches commonly called Independent c. The Church is a spirituall kingdome whose only King is Christ and not man it is a spirituall Republique whose only Law-giver is Christ and not man A spirituall house whose only builder and governour is Christ A spirituall Corporation whose only head is Christ and not man No man or power on earth hath a kingly power over this kingdome no earthly Law-giver may give lawes for the government of this Republique no man can or ought to undertake the government of this communion of Saints no humane Power or Law may intermeddle to prescribe rules for the government or form of this spirituall House NOT COVNCELS NOT SENATES This is Christs royall Prerogative which is uncommunicable to ANY TO ALL THE POWERS ON EARTH He addes my words pag. 60 61. Wee challenge you to shew us any Parliament Councel Synod ever since the Apostles that could or can say thus It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and us so to determine controversies of Religion to make and impose Canons to bind all men c. shew this to us at this time and wee will obey But if you cannot as you never can never let any man presse upon us that Scripture that Synod Acts 15. which hath no parallel in the whole world and so is no precedent or pattern for any Councels Synods Parliaments Thus our brother sees down the words here and there with capitalls as if so many capitall crimes But the worst of all is that he ranks them under the head of his first Section containing divers seditious scandalous libellous passages against the Authority and Jurisdiction of Parliaments Synods and temporall Magistrates in generall in Ecclesiasticall affaires in the late writings of severall Independent New-lights and Firebrands so runs the Title of the Section under which hee marshals those my words as if Christ could not be sole King Lord and Law-giver over his own spirituall Kingdome in the soules and assemblies of his Saints but this doctrine must needs be seditious scandalous and the writers thereof libellous against civill authority yea firebrands and what not How more equall was the Heathen Emperor Domitian though the Author of the second Persecution who though he laboured utterly to extirpate and extinguish all the naturall kindred of Christ because hee heard that Christ was a King fearing thereby the overthrow of his Empire yet understanding afterward by two of Christs neerest kinsmen brought before him being but poor men and who got their living by hard labour in husbandrie how that Christ was a King indeed but his Kingdome was not of this world but heavenly the Emperor hereupon as the Story saith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ceased the Persecution against the Church by calling in his Imperiall Decree I wish our brother would more seriously consider not only of this famous example of an Heathen Emperour but also upon what sound reason it is grounded as namely upon such a distinct specificall difference between these two Kingdomes the celestiall and the terrestriall as that in no sort they may be confounded or compounded into one terrene kingdome unlesse you will set up a Papall power an Harmophrodite-government with Ecce duo gladii hîc Behold here two swords which the Pope caused to be carryed before him in solemn procession the two first dayes of his new erected Jubilee And for my challenge alledged by him it stands good still till hee can prove those words in the end of his Truth triumphing true where your words are we cannot but in Christian charity expect and believe that all the Assembly and Parliament resolve on may have inscribed on its front IT SEEMED GOOD TO THE HOLY GHOST AND VS And then again you must prove your reason good whereupon you inferre this conclusion namely because there be in the Parliament and Assembly at least some true Nathaniels and Stephens filled with the Holy Ghost

Note all the places forecited with many more throughout the New Testament and all ages where the Gospel in its purity and power is preached But one thing more I must not passe without a note How doth our Brother make good his exclamation Was it ever beard of either in the Christian or Pagan world that it was ever permitted to Preachers to have all the Pulpits in a Nation to preach a divers doctrine c And is it so indeed Have we all the Pulpits in the Kingdome I hope your Brother T. E. by his pen and preaching and you by your pen will take an order for that that wee shall not have all the Pulpits no nor any at all with your good will Witnesse that late mis-●ule at your towne of Colchester upon your Books and T. E. his preaching And therefore this may be placed among your Grolleries And for the Jewish Synagogues tolerated among the Heathen if we may not have the Pulpits good now envie us not our Synagogues Be not worse to us then the heathen were and are as you give us sundry examples pag. ibid. 138. Page 140 you call the people of the Presbyterian Independent Congregation a company of wild geese But wee are not yet come to your Postscript Where Pag. 14. you call them silly goslings following the old goose Yet here you acknowledge that the Elders have oftentimes great abilities of wit and scholarship learning and eloquence which in your Postscript you universally strip them of except onely two for breed The rest of your Booke to the end being all along overgrowne with nettles stinging upon every touch and the sharper still the neerer it drawes to the Postscript as Worse then * Diotrephes or the Pope * most diabolicall Tyranny Lording it over Gods Clergies * Fellows of Gotham Colledge not knowing their Prim●r in Politicks nor their Catechisme in Divinitie and the like we gladly passe ove● untouched as being all prickles and no pith Onely one sharper then all the rest I may not be unaware of which you call the weapon of the left hand namely the sword which you would have the Magistrate to take up to suppresse our Brethren the Independents as you style them calling that man a Ninny and a man unworthy to sit in Counsell in any State that should say with Gamaliel Refraine from these men for if their worke or Counsell be of God yee cannot overthrow it lest yee be found fighters against God and so let them goe on to doe mischiefe For herein say you Gamaliel spake neither as a wise man nor as a Christian Thus our Brother drawing neere the end of this his Booke hath drawne it so low neere the bottome that the very lees of it begin to run atilt and that remaines is reserved to be powred forth in the Postscript The Postscript THis whole Postscript is a very C●nto farrago or hodge-podge of invectives sarcasmes scurrilous scoffs incendiary incentives to stirre up the State and all sorts of people to root out and cut off all those that are of the Independent way as they call it I shall onely note some of his passages all along to prevent if it may be the nauseousnesse of the Reader by brevitie And first in his Defence against calumnies being in way of a Preface to his Postscript Page 2. They affirmed saith he that I was the greatest Incendiary in the Kingdome and that they would prove it and page 4. they calumniate me as the greatest incendiary of the Kingdome which they accused me of before they had seene my Booke and I have been freed from that reproach by both Houses of Parliament who adjudged all my sufferings unjust Answ. But now they may bring your Booke for a proofe and witnesse whether you be not one of the greatest Incendiaries in the Land And for this I shall quote but two places as two witnesses for confirmation hereof The first is in your Preface pag. 28. They alwayes meaning the Independents have the sword now in their hand and they thinke their party strong enough to encounter any adverse and opposing party and they professe they care not how soone they come to cutting of throats and speake of nothing but the slanghtering and butchering of the Presbyterians And therefore there is just cause given us to thinke we may expect better quarter from the very enemies then from the Independents The second witnesse is Postscript pag. 45. That they were all resolved to have the liberty of their Consciences or else they would make use of their swords which they have already in their hands Now these two witnesses of your owne want but a Judge judicially to pronounce sentence whether these words be not of an incendiary nature and that in a high degree For who so blind as doth not cleerly see these fiery flashes and flames to fly in the face of that Army which God hath honoured with many crownes of admirable victories both at Yorke at Nasby and at Lamport with the recovery of Leicester Bridgewater Bath c. so as God hath made this despised Army the Preservative of Citie and Countrey the * Repairer of the breach the restorer of the paths to dwell in But doe they professe the butchery of the Presbyterians Produce them bring your witnesses These words are not to be borne But I leave the judgement thereof to the wisdome and justice of the Parliament whose former freeing of you extends not to cleare your words from being incendiary And further to discover your spirit against those Worthies in the Army you goe about to eclipse the glory of that famous victory at Marston m●ore For speaking contemptuously of it you say Some of the Independents stood to it in the battle of Yorke when other of them run away for they ran as well as others and if they be not lyers all the other Independents had run away too and left the field if they had known what had happened in the other parts of the Army So you with many other words of elevation and slighting that party by whose noble prowesse and undaunted courage God was pleased to give the victory and even then when a great body of the Army deserted the field And whereas you say they saw not the flight else they would have fled too for company if say you they be not lyers or if you say true But I can produce those that were actors in that battle and are no Independents that affirme there was no running away at all of those whose valour you so vilifie yea though they did perceive how the matter went with some as when a whole body flies a thing with no great difficulty to be discerned The rest of your vilifications so much exaggerated upon these men are so nauseous as every ingenuous Reader will loath them And notorious is that you say as by experience I know not any Independent in England two onely excepted that doe not as maliciously