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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

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

declared before his death And who it was trepanned Sir John Gell into a misprision of Treason And lastly Who did trepan Mr. Love and some of that party These questions are proposed by those who are No Babes in the world and yet honest and they say this Bishop can if he will give satisfaction in You know George what these things mean and I know what the last means and they advise me to read a book concerning Mr. Loves designs and his death written and penn'd by you and they say it will give the reader further satisfaction Thus this lyar begins the case of Christopher Love and these are the very first words therein as they lie together not a vvord omitted page 105. 106. The last Questions follow But let me ask you Were these all whose blood you thirsted after Did you not write a Letter to a friend of yours in Bristol from White-Hall that until Calamy and some others of the Priests were dealt withal as Love was it would never be vvell I hope I shall one day get that book of yours which you wrote against him mentioned before viz. A short Plea for the Common-wealth Those who have seen it tell me it most fully sets forth the fiercenesse and bitternesse of your spirit not only against him but that you shew your rancour and malice therein against many of the servants of Christ whose names are yet precious in the Churches and the memorie of whom shall live when your name shall rot and perish and if it be mentioned it shall be with abhorrencie and detestation as infamous as poor Fawconers is Thus he ends page 115. Replie This is the head and the tail of this Bloody Monster whose bellie I have alreadie cut out and the feet on which it goes viz. I was desired to ask you who did Trepan c. by those who are no Babes in the world and yet honest these questions are proposed and they say this Bishop can give satisfaction in and they advise me to read a book c. And were these all whose blood c. Did you not write a Letter c. that until Calamy c. Here 's the middle and both ends brought together I shall proceed presentlie to dispatch the two ends as the middle and so finish this case First the aforesaid Collonel Andrewes and Collonel Gell were the earlie men of this generation who conspired against the Commonwealth one of whom viz. Collonel Androws their High Court of Justice cut off which stroke and that upon Christophrr Love c. it seems this lyar and his No Babesin the world and yet honest fee● and call the discoverie of their treasonable conspiracies a trapanning of one into a design for which he lost his life and the other into a misprision of a Treason Christopher Love and his Brethren and Confederates were the nex● who were discovered to take up where they left and to design and act the Treasons aforesaid for which Christopher Love was beheaded as hath been declared This he and his No Babes c. call a trepanning likewise Who did trepan Mr. Love and some of that party saith he so that in the Treasons aforesaid he and they were the root of the matter was in them otherwise into what were he and they trepanned and why is it demanded who did trepan c. How comes he and they then to be innocent men and all the ado aforesaid to be made in their justification the lamentation of his death and the admiration o● them as precious Doth not this lyar and his No Babes c hereby shew themselves to be No Babes in wickednesse Do they not shew themselves to be in the same spirit and one with what that spirit brought forth Those who are concerned may hereof take notice and consider whether the discoveries of such high Treasons and the eminent execution of Justice on some of the chief actors therein should be thus publikely arraigned and grossely abused especiallie by one who pretends himself to be a Minister of the Gospel Is not the Armies fighting against and destroying those who appeared in the field to act the same and of as high a nature as the discoverie and execution of some of those by Sentence from a Court of Justice who conspired the action Can the one then be reproached and traduced and the other clear Sithence the cause was one and the same and the enemy and the end of his designes and the deliverance to them who fought in the field as to those who sate at the Stern And this I say to the Army either lay down the cause● and confess your selves guilty of all the blood spilt in the war or let that be reproved as it deserves which thus spits in the face of it and of you and of those who acted with you and of their Authoritie and Justice from whence you received your Commission Next consider the ground bottom and foundation of all these clamours of this lyar and his high accusations of me as aforesaid Is it any thing of his own knowledge or that he hath seen or read under my hand or doth he name his Informers or advisers Nay but I was desired to ask you who did trepan c. These questions are proposed by those who are No Babes c. and they say this and they advise me to read a book c. but I cannot get it and th y say it wil give the reader satisfaction c. I hope I shall one day get that book c. those that have seen it tell me so and so And let me ask you Did not you write a Letter c. This and such like is all that he hath produced as certainty in this whole matter and whethet it be a sufficient ground bottom and foundation or indeed any at all for such his clamours charges and accusations let the reasonable judge Lastlie in answer to the Questions to the first and second I had nothing to do in the execution of Collonel Andrewes nor the misprision of Collonel Gell nor in the discoverie of either of their Treasons nor in that whole businesse nor can I give so much as a particular account of them So this lyar who hath asked and those other who he saith desired him to ask these questions of me on purpose to render me as a person who hath made it my trade thirstinglie to design the shedding of the blood of men and the ruining of estates have shewn themselves what No Babes they are in malice and wickednesse and how exceedinglie dishonest not only thus to insinuate but to affirm that I can if I will give in this satisfaction and how impudent this lyar is as to say positively to me You know what these things mean That is to say that I am the man that ●repanned them as aforesaid and that I do know my self to have thus designed who am thus free as hath been declared To the third I know not of any man that in the

Treaty Furthermore That if the King and his Privy Council could not agree there he would remove the Treaty to Breda at last cast himself on the Scottish Commissioners Accordingly an Agent was pitch't upon and resolved viz. Capt. Titus who is sent from these to Jersey and one hundred pounds raised amongst them to bear his charges Where he spake with the King Libe●ton the Scotch Commissioner Tels him from what party in England he was sent represents the Presbyterian party considerable had assurance Letters from the King to the Ministers and Presbyterian partyhere That he would give satisfaction to the Scots That to that end the Treaty was removed to Breda whither he advised them to send Commissioners and that he took notice of their non-compliance with the present powers This Treaty being ended Capt. Titus hearing that the Council of State understood that he had been at Jersey dares not go to England but sends a Letter amongst other things for one to come to him to Callice to receive the account of his Agency Upon the reading whereof these agree and send one of their confederacy to Callice who having received of Capt. Titus the account of transactions returned and to those who sent him gives the relation thereof and the Copy of the Kings Letter aforesaid the original being sent to Ald. Bunce in Holland for fear of miscarriage and Titus his Narrative also in Writing which were all of them then communicated Also that Titus was in debt having borrowed some money of Jermyn This occasioned the drawing of a * Note Commission enabling their Lord Willoughby of Parham Ald. Bunce Major General Massey and Capt. Titus to treat in the Name of the Presbyterian party in England with the King at Breda and to assist their brethren the Scots and when it was moved by some What power they had to send a Commission It was answered The King had sent to them so to do and they had also many secluded members whose Authority they look'd upon to be better then those at Westminster which together with instructions thereunto annext are sent by Mason P●rcy's servant who came hither on purpose to give the King of Scots an account of proceedings and at Graves-End had those Papers brought him by three of the correspondents Letters also were drawn and sent to the Queen Perey and Jermyn Willoughby Massey Bunce c. to forwatd the Agreement and to act as authorized and Titus had more money The business being thus put into a likely way of issue private * No●● Fasts were by them appointed to pray for a blessing in the Treaty and for the continuation of the agreement afterwards and Percy wrote to them to lend 10000 l. to the King as that which would add much to the agreement with how it might be raised one of the Ministers moved a way viz. The Ministers thus to move their friends Sir you shall give me 20 30 40 50. l. c. for a charitable use but you shall not ask me wherefore but because they were not assured of the Kings giving satisfaction it was forborn This Treaty having produced the end designed the King sends his Letters to several of the * The substanc● to this effect To acquaine the said Ministers with his Majesties agreement with the Scots and with what he would do for satisfaction in matter of Religio● and Presbyterian Government here in England That confidence of their assistance was one motive that induced his Agreement That they would now join heartily with him and the Scots in the endeavour of his restitution And that they having influence not onely upon their Parishes but also on other parts of the Kingdom would stir up not onely their several congregations but also other places where they had interest to join likewise with his Majesty for that purpose and that they would privately pray for him and his good success The Ministers to whom to be delivered to Edm. Calamy James Cranford Christo●●er Love and VVilliam Jenkins to be by them communicated to to the rest of the Ministers in and about the City of London Ministers That if Note they could not live quietly in England they should come to him Three or four of them also he desired for his Chaplains and gave instructions to his General Agent to treat them civilly to give * Letters to them and the Presbyterians in the City from him and to press them to action But the Scots having got the King into their hands through the mediation and influence of these and so served their ends deale with them otherwise For though they did prepare as they promised at Breda to raise armes to put him in the Throne of England yet not Massy Titus nor the English whose interest in the Presbyterian party in England was made use of to bring the King and them together were considered Of this Massey and the rest complain to those here who very ill resented it and thereupon sent a long Letter to the Kirke and Committe of Estates complaining thereof attributeing it to their pride laying open in what condition they were which with much more was wrote with white ink in a Table Book and sent to Scotland Dunbar Fight followes after which great Rout most of the Kirke party the Scots being in need of their help court these here again and the Kirke and Estates and Massey wrote to them by Sea and Land signifying the cause of the Rout adviseing them to stand fast to the cause and Covenant desireing money and 3. or 5000 Muskets and Cases of Pistolls and Massey and Titus particularly pressed for mony because of their wants These Letters the correspondents aforesaid received considered of and agreed at that present to raise about three hundred pounds to send to Massey and Titus which the correspondents performed by 5. and 10. pounds c. a man and Letters were also by them returned to the Kirke and Committee of Estates and Massey Hereupon the Correspondencers begun to have life again the Scots preparations to be in the Feild are signified hither advice also to those here to Caution Stedfastnesse Timeing of a Party seasonably here and to write to the Kirke for Union c. These here return the same Cautions to them and advise Massey to take heed how he came into England and that he bring with him a strong party And from Scotland came hither returns of the Receipts of the money aforesaid and of the Letters to the Kirke and State afore-mentioned how seasonable they were how much union they effected how it brake the designs ' of the adverse Party and how considerable it made them And waies of settling intilligence were also signified and made use of At length in March 1650. 1651. came an answer to what was signified in the Table Book aforesaid by Coll. Bamfeilds man which gave an account of the State of Sco●land and in the same Packet Letters came from Bayly their former Correspondent

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

Expressions And by this single instance had I said or should I say not a word besides such may judge Whether ever man of a more impudent face flinty forehead seared conscience vile and lying spirit hath appeared in Print And whether he fears God or regards man or cares what he saith or doth or is to be believed in any thing he affirms This is Ralph Farmer This is my Enemy without a Cause This is he that writes against Perfection of Satan enthron'd in his Chair of Pestilence and then calls it Quakerism in its exaltation of the Impostor dethron'd and stiles it The quakers Throne of Truth detected to be Satans seat of lyes of the Rottennesse as he blasphemously reproaches of the quakers conversion and perfection in the general exemplified in this he saith busie Bishop in special instanced in his practises against the Estate of the Lord Craven life of Mr. Love who saith By occasion whereof this Truth is asserted viz. If we may judge of the conscience honesty and perfection of the quakers in general by this man in particular a man be as vile a person as any under heaven and yet a perfect quaker Whether I or he be the man of whom the substance of this may be said and on whom it is found Reader judge This is he that so abominably arraigns reflects upon and traduces the Acts and Judgements of the highest Judicature and Court of Justice in the Nation in the most weighty executions one of them as England hath brought forth and so highly reproaches the proceedings of them their Council of State Committee Court of Justice and Ministers aforesaid This is Cravens Advocate in whose behalf he reviles and abuses as hath been said in hope of and in order to the retrival of his Estate and then dedicates it to him for Patronage in a Light Lying and Frothy Epistle This is the Champion of Edmund Calamy Christopher Love and his Brother Traytors and Confederates as aforesaid and of them called Ministers of the Gospel whose Names he saith are yet precious in the Churches This is he for the b●aring testimony against whose deceit and speaking and writing in the Name of the Lord many have suffered long imprisonments and some have been whipt This is he that hath poured forth all this filth rage at me that talks of making An Agent in the Marches of Wales of the Machivillian Maxime LYE Calumniate slander and do it boldly and with confidence and some of it will stick it will take with some or other of the Hebrew Proverb If all enter not yet hal will of a common-lyar a shameless fore-head a profligate spirit a most supernaturally and God-forsaken hardened heart and seared conscience c. Ralph Fa●mer who calls himself A servant of that Josus Christ who was crucified at Jeru●alem 1600 yeers ago whose blood he villanously falsly saith the quakers who witness it and its cleansing trample under foot this instance proves it true of himself as a c●mmon thing and who is called and calls himself a Minister of the Gospel A Minister of the Gospel get thee gone to thine own place the Gospel denyes thee the children of Light spue thee out No marvel after all his Trades he took upon him this Name and turned thither to shelter him dost thou say to me Turn Turk man or become a Jew to whom thou sayest the Name and Gospel of Christ and Christian is odious Turk and Jew shall rise up in Judgement against thee shal condemn thee This is some of the ground-work on which he saith pag. the last his Discourse and Discovery is founded and that he is well assured that it will stand firm and thereforesaith As for any farther Answers Replies contendings or debatings with them or him I declare this as my Coronis my farewel to quakerism What sayest thou now R. F. Were they No babes in the world and yet honest as thou expresses pag. 106. Who advised thee to these things Thus much of the prosecution of Christopher Love after his death the killing him after he was dead most falsly charged upon me as aforesaid by this Lyar Ralph Farmer For those before his death he saith page 108. As for the persecu●ion of him in his l●f● and of his Tryal I shall not enter upon th● st●ry of So as to proof that 's given up as the other is taken down Where is then the hypocrisie with which he chargeth me for accusing the Priests and him in particular with Blood-th●rs●inesse the More as he saith in th●●r ey● before I had pulled out th● B●●m blood-thirstinesse blood-sucking in mine ow● I shall not enter upon the story saith he c. And yet in the next page 109. he enters upon the story of that upon which he said before he should not enter and spends several pages therein saying to palliate the matter I shall not as I said engage to the whole of your prosecutions against him when as he hath said no such words but the contrary viz. I shall not ●n●er c. So his own hand-writing proves him a lyar a belyar of his own Record Doth not wil not this man say any thing Well seeing he wil enter upon the story that he chooses rather with his own Pen to Register himself a false man to posterity then to miss it What 's then the part of my prosecutions as he saith against him to which he will engage for it concerns me to sift this matter and in what pieces finds he it Why in a Book written and published sayes he by Mr. Love himself and yet finished but the last day but one bef●r● his death ●he Title of it thus A clear and necessary Vind●ca●i●n c. What is that to me to prove prosecutions Why I desire you saies he to take notice that there is a lying Pamphlet put forth entituled A short Plea for the Common-wealth ●n which there are many gross lyes especially in things that rela●e to me Well what of all that Why saith this liar pag. 111. 112. He supposes Capt. Bishop wrote the lying Book He supposes Supposition is no proof nor sufficient ground to charge nor reasonable matter for a Reply nor shall I therefore make any thereunto But to come nearer the matter and to search thy bowels R. F. they are the words of thy Epistle for a real discovery that the world may no longer be deceived with a windy conception If Christop Love did suppose I wrote it and so sayest thou page 111. and also the words which thou sayest are his page 113. Then how comes I in the enumeration of those pretended lies and the observations thereupon said by thee to be Christop Love 's to be expresly charged therewith page 111. in these words Another thing he charges him with is a loud lye c. and page 112. Where he further sayes he Bishop charged him c. no less then four times in the space of twenty eight lines page 111 112. Doth he

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-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