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Mr. L'Estrange refuted with his own arguments being a reply to his late impertinent pamphlet entituled L'Estrange no papist : in farther justification of the informations sworn against him, before the lords of the secret committee / by J.P., Gent. ...
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and shall be always ready to justifie And more then that he admires at Mr. L'Estranges Confidence to call the Everlasting God to Witness the attest of his publick Impositions upon the World But the slight Comparison of his coming down the Chimney upon a Broomstick shews the levity of his Invocation Now as to the probability of the Matter First saith he I had no discourse with Fletcher but in the hearing of the other two and to those two I dare appeal if he dares but say who they were As to the first Assertion Mr. Fletcher affirms it to be false for that the other two Gentlemen were at the one end of a long Table and Mr. Fletcher and Mr. L'Estrange at the other at a competent distance and consequently divided into several places and discoursing of distinct matter As for his Appeal because he is in such a daring humour we will â—ell him the Name of one of the Gentlemen who was there and perhaps took more notice of his Auricular Confessions then he was aware of his Name with his addition is Doctor Frye Now we must tell him where the Doctor lives too or else Mr. L'Estrange will make him a Nullitie as he has done Mr. Anderson's Acquaintance he lives therefore in Black Fryers very near the Water-Stairs where he is very well known and where Mr. L'Estrange may attend him for the Julip of his so unquestioned acquittal Secondly I must be two great Fools in one to speak a thing so imprudent that had no relation either to the Company or the Occasion As for Mr. L'Estranges Folly or whether he be one or two Fools we shall not trouble our selves with it nor whether he borrowed this Argument from Gawen the Jesuite at the Sessions-House But considering that it is the Custom of most people now a-days to preach over their Cups and to slip out of all other Discourses into that of Religion at the Tavern there might be occasion given enough for the Discourse and Discourse enough upon the Occasion notwithstanding all Mr. L'Estranges Improbabilities Thirdly In case I had said it in so harmless a fashion c. So then at length here 's a Confession of the whole matter wire-drawn out of him But what he means by confessing himself to be a Catholick of Rome in a harmless fashion by confessing himself to be of that Church in a harmless fashion and by hoping to see others return to that Church in a harmless fashion or how the saying of words in a harmless fashion can make those words void is somewhat of a Riddle But now you see what sort of Engin it is which he makes use of to shove off all Objections made against him he swears and stares and hectors in a harmless fashion and then you are oblig'd to believe what ever he says to be true in a harmless fashion But lastly it is my comfort that Mr. Fletcher of all the world is is the man to make me a Papist of whom no man living could ever make any thing The Assertion is very general and very positive and properly enough becoming Mr L'Estranges impotent precipitancy and shews how little heed there is to be given to a rash and inconsiderate Censurer But suppose him to be onely a moral honest Man and that Mr. L'Estrange dares not deny 't is enough to do his business Nay suppose him to be one of the midling sort a man of no more then a strip'd Reputation yet the Oaths of such a one is sufficient to serve Mr. L'Estranges turn Is this the Famous L'Estrange that ownes such Trifles as these His Populus ridet multumque torosa Jnventus Ingeminat tremulos naso Crispante Cachinnos At these the common Vulgar laugh the very Boys Sneer up their Noses and deride his Toys Mr. Prance 's Invention I find is quite jaded so put to 't to make a Twelve-penny Book on 't that he 's fain to Thunder a matter of twelve folio Pages in Observations upon Philo-L'Estrange and Pragmaticus and all the Edge of his Indignation is as still turn'd upon me that Heav'n knows am innocent of the thing as I was born How innocent he was born it matters not He should have done well to have made the Earth as knowing as the Heavens in this particular Especially having so many good Friends that for old acquaintance sake would have spar'd him room for such a short Advertisement in any of their Weekly Intelligences But be it whose it will it runs in his Stile contains his own Principles pursues his wild and rambling Conceits and smells of the same Hemp with all the rest of his Pamphlets against the Plot and it's Discoverers His Name is to it the known Name of Roger L'Estrange Esq and it is said to be printed for his Bookseller And therefore since the Brat is laid to his Charge he is bound to keep and maintain it For otherwise by his own Rule unless he can produce the Author and tell us where he dwels we must adjudge all other Authors Nullities but himself However he says there is in it one Terrible Pinch against him Mr. L'Estrange says in his Discovery upon Discovery Now Doctor I do positively averr that there was not one Church of England-Man in the Parliament Army To which it is answered that a Metropolitan of England served in the Parliament Army with a command of Horse and thence inferr'd now what becomes of L'Estranges positive averr To which Mr. L'Estrange replies that the Covenant was an Abjuration of the Church of England and the opposing of Bishops and the Common-Prayer was the Test of the Party and that an Episcopal man being once dipt is no more a Church of England-Man than a Renegade that hath renounced the Christian-Faith is a Christian Truely Mr. L'Estrange had better have let this Argument alone for he only speaks out of the abundance of his Heart but not out of the Abundance of his Logick In the first place he does not make it out that ever the Arch-Bishop took the Covenant neither does it appear by any thing from Mr. L'Estrange but that he might make use of the Liturgie of the Church of England at the same time So that it may be said indeed that he assisted the Long Parliament as a Rebel but that did not make him cease to be a Church of England-Man And thus the Bishop of Munster when he assisted the French King was a Rebel 't is true to the Emperor who was his lawful Prince nevertheless he was of the Church of Rome and Bishop of Munster still So in the Archbishop the effect must remain because the cause was not taken away The cause of his being made Arch-Bishop was the Kings Favour but the King had not un-Arch-Bishop'd him and therefore being still an Arch-Bishop he was still a Church of England-Man In the second place He mistakes in Fundamentals For Episcopacy is not the Church of England 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de omni but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
Mr. L'Estrange REFUTED With his own ARGUMENTS BEING A REPLY To his late IMPERTINENT PAMPHLET ENTITULED L'Estrange No Papist In farther Justification of the Informations sworn against him before the Lords of the Secret Committee By J. P. Gent. Allatres licet usque nos usque Et gannitibus improbis lacessas Certum est hanc tibi famam negare Nam te cur aliquis sciat fuisse Ignotus pereas miser necesse est Matt. l. 5. Ep. 60. LONDON Printed for R. Baldwin in the Old-Baly 1681. Mr. L'Estrange REFUTED With his own ARGUMENTS SUrely Mr. L'Estrange you must either dote or else your Parliament-scar'd Senses are not yet returned to their Lodging For certainly you seem to have left them behind yee at the Hague as if you had laid 'em in pawn for some odd score Here 's a Piece of Gallimawfrey indeed a silly Oglio of Fiddle-cum-faddle and feeble threats as void of Salt as a Witches Feast Lord Mr. L'Estrange that you should be no better a Marksman than so You have been aiming at five Affidavits or rather Informations this five Weeks and yet have not come near the Mark by the full length of your Bow For Heavens-sake leave off your scribling wash that same demangeson of yours in Spring Water or Fasting Spittle every Morning and kill that which else will kill you Otherwise you will certainly expire with a Goose Quill in your hand and the last blasts of your Breath will be L'Estrange No Pa for e're you can say pist you will dye with a twang of Conscience A man would wonder how such an Obsolete Quondam as Mr. L'Estrange should pretend to be a Judge of Sence and Grammar Let any man of Sence and Grammar but look upon his last Right Worshipful Garden of Eloquence his nonsensical defence of himself and see where he can find those Tulips and Gillow-flowers of Sence and Grammar which he believes himself so much the Master of A man may perceive him indeed to be nettled to the Quick which causes him to flounce and fling and huff and ding and rant and swagger evade and shift and fence and falsifie as if he were not onely a Papist but a Jesuite but for any Answer to the purpose becoming a Person of Sence and Grammar there is not the least appearance of it 'T is to be fear'd that Mr. L'Estrange hides his Candle under a Bushel least others should be enlightened by his transcendent Gifts of Sence and Grammar But hold a little what 's this we have got here L'ESTRANGE NO PAPIST In Answer to a LIBEL Entituled L'ESTRANGE A PAPIST And why a Libel Oh! the reason is plain because it is a Book that touches the Copyhold of the most male-content and right Worshipful Roger L'Estrange Esq Otherwise it seems very strange that he who had been a Licenser for so many years and a Justice of the Peace too for some short time should be so ignorant what a Libel is Had he read my Lord Cooke his Lordship would have told his Worship at the latter end of his fifth Book that A Scandalous Libel in writing is when an Epigram Rime or other writing is compos'd publickly to the defamation and contumelie of another whereby his good Name and Reputation may be prejudicsd Which Definition includes both falshood in the Matter and Malice in the Person As to the Matter of the Book which he calls a Libel it is Matter sworn before some of the greatest persons in the Nation a selected Committee of the Nobility appointed to Examine that and matters of the same Nature To which his Plea of Dismission at the Council-Board is no Plea as has been already said and as is apparent by the fresh President of the Lord Chief Justice himself a Person in a higher Station then ever Mr. L'Estrange is like to be And for the malice of the Persons there is no reason to imagin it when every one is bound to discharge his Conscience when call'd to that end by a lawful Authority If Mr. L'Estrange will give the world the first occasion by villifying traducing and undermining the Evidence of so great Discoveries as have been lately made to think him a Papist he is no Libeller that calls him so because there is a shrowd probability that the thing may be true but more especially when it is confirm'd by the Oaths of credible Testimonies and the words of his own mouth And therefore I must needs tell Mr. L'Estrange that his Title is a miserable piece of pedantic ignorance And why in a Letter to a Friend He can as well be whipt as leave Dialoguing or Lettering it As if his sorrows wanted a Companion though in Nubibus But it looks so like prating and gossiping that 't is no wonder he uses it so much He begins Sir So far am I from being troubled at the Box of Libels you sent me that you could hardly have made me a Present more to my honour and satisfaction For what greater honour to a man that has any Sense either of vertue or common Honesty than to be made the Mark of the Common Enemies of God and of all good men the Common Enemies of the King and of the Church and in one word the Enemies of Religon Truth Good-Manners Order and Government the Vomit in short of all the Jayles about the Town and the very Scandal of reasonable Nature This is the Just Character and the Qualitie of these People according to the very Letter But where 's the satisfaction you 'l say of seeing men turn'd into Beasts the Spirit of Blasphemie enduing humane State and managing the cause of Hell in the Name of the Almighty and in the stile of the Gospel Of seeing the Spirit of Contumacy Violence and Slander not onely flying in the face of Gods Anointed and insulting over Apostolical Institutions with scorn and triumph but animated also to those outrages by all the temptations and encouragement of Popular applause Impunity and Reward Non est hic Cynicus cosme quid ergo Canis The Squire is in one of his Lunatick Paroxysms and I cannot fancy otherwise but that when he wrote these two Paragraphs he foam'd at the Mouth like a mad Dog and that he thought a Pinch of his Fangs at that time would have prov'd as venomous as the gripe of an unworm'd Cur. Here 's such a Rhapsodie of Malice and imbitterment as if he durst not encounter his Foes till he had fix'd the Bastions of his fury and indignation to protect him from their great shot You may wonder perhaps what makes this vast distinction between this Altitonant Squire and those Sons of Earth those miserable Titans which he so despicably contemns But the reason is plain They never were acquainted with that Eminentissimo Signior Rolando di Pipino alias Rowland Pipin the Truss-maker Now 't is a Maxim that he who was so dearly and intimately acquainted with Rowland Pipin as Roger L'Estrange Esquire is above all the rest of Mankind However to