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A42857	Magna veritas, or, John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology, not a papist but a true Protestant of the Church of England published for the satisfaction of all such as know not the said John Gadbury and yet give credit to all kinds of scandals and falshoods that pass upon his much injured reputation since his late unfortunate confinement.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing G87; ESTC R11482	10,596	17

MAGNA VERITAS OR JOHN GADBURY Student in Physick and Astrology NOT A PAPIST But a True PROTESTANT OF THE Church of England Published for the satisfaction of all such as know not the said JOHN GADBVRY and yet give Credit to all kinds of Scandals and Falshoods that pass upon his much injured Reputation since his late unfortunate Confinement For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me they have spoken against me with a Lying Tongue Psal 109.11 LONDON Printed by A. M. and R. R. 1680. JOHN GADBURY Student in Astrology and Physick Not a PAPIST but a PROTESTANT of the Church of England c. § 1. AS the Egyptians in their Hierogliphicks painted Death like a Goddess with a Sycle in her hand bearing this Motto Nemini parco I spare no man so we find it true of Afflictions those black Harbingers of the grim King of Terrors They spare none neither there being no man free from them at one time or other Howbeit it is not the manner but cause of Afflictions which imbitters them and renders them painful and uneasie If we suffer for righteousness sake i. e. innocently and by the wickedness of false and malicious men a blessing attends upon our sorrows which will certainly change our Cross into a Crown and procure us an heavenly content beyond the measure of our terrene troubles and adversities § 2. Afflictions are our School-masters and often bring us to God It is good for me saith holy David that I was afflicted for now I have known thy statutes And indeed it is my sufferings principally that have made me to cast mine eyes inward and seriously to examine mine heart how or wherein I have offended against the Majesty of the King of Heaven that this sad Judgment under which I now labour is come upon me § 3. I never was in love with a Pharisaical humour or temper for indeed what hath a poor mortal to boast or to be proud of but yet as the case now stands I may I hope in the strength of Truth and Modesty affirm without being subject to any severe Censure That as for my actions between man and man I bless God they are as little to be taxed as any man 's of my degree or quality I have lived now fifty and two Solar Revolutions in this troublesome World and which I esteem almost miraculous have been so happy therein as never to have had any Law-suit with any man excepting one and that was in behalf of two Orphans committed to my charge and had I not then contended for them they poor wretches altogether unable to help themselves had been exceedingly injured of their Right § 4. As to any Spirit of Contention or Contradiction c. whereby the world is commonly governed and guided I appeal to the Neighbourhood among whom I have lived whether I have ever been guilty of yeilding to any such and whether my demeanour hath not been rather peaceable and preserving than any way dissurbant or troublesome to any of them It is true some scribling differences I have had but I never began a quarrel with any man and men that are assaulted must forfeit their reason if they do not defend themselves Nay I bless and magnifie the God of Heaven who by his good Angels hath so happily conducted me in all my actions of this life that I can justly interrogate with good old Samuel Whos 's oxe have I taken or whose ass have I driven aside or whom have I wronged of a shoo-latchet or a thred Let those that know me speak whether I have not been rather helpful than hurtful to the people among whom I have at any time lived or resided § 5. If this truth be distrusted I am sure the Keepers of the Prison where I am confined will be so just as to witness the same for me from the many sad complaints they almost dayly hear from several poor people of my Neighbourhood by reason of my unfortunate restraint whereby I am incapacitated and debarred from doing the common good I was constantly accustomed to do though I confess it was no more than my duty as a man but much more as a Christian for non nobis nati sumus and even the brute beasts that perish would be as valuable as mankind were it not for these distinguishing acts of our Charity and Reason towards people in distress § 6. Albeit I must and do acknowledg that God's chastising hand is never either upon a Person Family or Nation for nought He is a Just Judg and the punishments he permits to befall poor mortals do naturally imply a guilt in the person afflicted Sin is the common cause of suffering and the Just man falls seven times a day though he by God's Mercy and Providence do rise again and meet a restoration of his former state Yet I say Sin is cause of all punishment and certainly some great and secret sin I must have committed against the God of Heaven that he hath thus permitted nay perhaps commissioned his afflicting Angel thus sorely and severely to buffet me § 7. But for any known or open sin committed either against my dread Soveraign his Person Crown or Dignity or against the Church of God as established in England under Him I openly profess and declare That I am not either wilfully or knowingly whatever I may be ignorantly viz. by an unfortunate concealment of what I thought others ought to have revealed guilty of any in the least and yet I have searched the very secretest corners of my soul as narrowly as it is possible for humanity to do for a discovery of any such latent unloyal or irreligious guests And if in my scrutiny I have passed over any dangerous angle or lurking-hole without a thorow disquisition I humbly beseech God of his great mercy and goodness to illuminate my troubled soul and lead me to a perfect and exact discovery thereof and help me to find the black inhabitants therein residing if at least there be really any to the end I might first eject them their possession and afterwards repent me throughly that ever I gave either being or harbour to such destructive Inmates § 8. That I have not knowingly committed any Crime against His most Sacred Majesty or the Government although I know it is very hard and difficult for any man to prove a Negative I have first God and his holy Angels and a clear Conscience to evidence for me Nay I can most truly say I have not erred against His Majesty so much as in a thought Secondly All my Actions and Expressions among my Neighbours and Acquaintance are most remarkable arguments on my behalf in this matter and which I am sure will be justified to my advantage if occasion require it For were I really guilty of any thing of that kind living so near a loyal Cathedral and among loyal-hearted persons I must have been taken notice of for such and my discourses

must at one time or other have betrayed a soul or spirit within me fit and adapted for so wicked a purpose But yet the contrary is sufficiently known of me Nay had I been an Enemy to His Majesty my conversation would have been among persons Anti-Monarchical and of disloyal and treacherous Principles and Opinions Whereas I have no near converse or concern with any man of either a Fanatick or Papistical persuasion at all but do chiefly correspond and accompany with such loyal and religious persons who are not afraid or ashamed to own the Interest of His Royal Majesty and that of the Church of England And we know it is an allowed Proverb Homo cognoscitur ex sociis Thirdly If what I have said be not yet enough to acquit me from the guilt of all knowable Crimes against my Liege Lord and Soveraign then let all my Writings since His Majesties most happy Restauration and before also be examined by any impartial and unbiassed Judg and I dare affirm that they will all be found to stand up and fully to justifie for me I spare to mention any thing of my having been always on His Majesties and His most Glorious Father's side in the late unhappy Wars For could I have done more in so good and so just a Cause than I did or was able to do at that time it had been but my dury and such as my Birth and Allegiance bound me to as indeed they do every subject of what degree soever § 9. And here I would have transcribed sundry pages of my own Loyalty out of my several Annual Labours for the better corroborating of the present Argument and the compurgating of my innocency as to the matter in question but that I conceive the same is so well known to all persons generally and believed too by every body but those that are envious and malicious whose eyes I pray God to open that there is scarce any need thereof Besides I am in a great measure herein prevented by the kind pains of a worthy cordial though as yet to me an unknown Friend in his publishing an ingenious acute but most just and true Answer to a wicked nay a murtherously design'd Libellous sheet of Paper wrote lately against me and this contrary to His Majesties late Royal Proclamation which forbids all libelling against any kind of persons c. and called Observations upon the strange and wonderful Prophecies of Mr. John Gadbury c. under the title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who hath therein most humanely and obligingly vindicated my much wounded Reputation for which so courteous and by me unexpected a kindness I hereby return him my very hearty thanks and wish I knew him as to this particular friendship that I might more fully acknowledg his generous and endearing Civilities § 10. But then secondly as I have committed nothing knowingly against the King or the Government so neither have I ever done any thing against the Church of God as it is established in England of which Church I do and ever did and always shall acknowledg my Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second to be the Supreme and none else upon earth besides Away with such Anarchical Creatures who longing to be undone would fain introduce even against common sense a Foreign Head over a Domestick Body § 11. I have taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and am ready so to do again if Authority think fit to require it And it is my plain and positive opinion That those men which shall refuse the taking of such oaths as are enjoined by the Law do not deserve to receive any protection either from the King or the Law For it would be strange and little less than monstrous in true Policy that a Soveraign Prince shall generously oblige himself by an Oath as at the Coronation is customary to protect and preserve his people in their just Rights Priviledges and Properties and that the subjects should upon any pretence scruple to take such Oaths of Fealty and Allegiance as by the Law is provided for the declaring their duty and obedience to him again Such Obligations are purely reciprocal and may be termed Oaths of Vnity as well as of Fidelity whereby both Prince and people are married together and Quos Deus conjunxit nemo separet accursed be those that shall endeavour to dissolve the bond § 12. I do and ever did honour the Reverend Clergy of the Church of England and esteem it my duty so to do And I bless God I have most commonly frequented the Service of the Church and am sorry from my soul if at any time I have omitted any duty thereunto belonging I always reverenc'd my Spiritual Guide and with all willingness paid him his Dues as knowing it to be a performing of the Law of God and Man and justly enjoin'd to all mankind as well under the Gospel as under the Law I was born baptized and bred a Protestant of the Church of England and by Gods Grace afforded to me I intend so to dye and although I have been falsely reputed a Papist by many malicious Enemies who being as much void of Conscience as Kindness care not how untruly they scandal me I do most solemnly profess the contrary having never in my whole life been a member of any other Church than that of the Protestant Church of England as it is established now by Law § 13. I never yet had any acquaintance with any Popish Priests as such in all my days and if any such have at any time happen'd to be in my company it hath been beyond my knowledg I never was at Mass in my life nor did I ever incline to any Popish Tenets or Principles as they stand in opposition to the Principles of my Mother the Church of England I have read that most Reverend Prelate Archbishop Laud's Book against Fisher as animated thereunto by the Divine Writings of our late Pious Soveraign King Charles the First of ever blessed memory As also the Works of the Pious and Judicious Bishop Saunderson and Bishop Williams's Best Religion I have likewise very carefully consulted Dr. Jeremy Taylor 's Dissuasive from Popery both Parts As also the thrice learned Dr. Pieree his most excellent Sermon before the King entituled The primitive Rule of Reformation Neither have I forborn to peruse the Learned Labours of Dr. Stillingfleet Dr. Tillotson Dr. Henry More Dr. Butler Mr. Pelling cum multis aliis c. of the Church of England against Popery and do profess my self to be so fully satisfied with them as to keep me close to the Church of England under which I have been educated in every thing relating to Faith Doctrine or Discipline as also to a full and absolute renunciation of all Popish Errors Idolatries and Superstitions whatsoever More especially of that damnable and most horrid Error and Opinion of Murthering Kings God's Vice-Roys on earth whether theirs or any other pretended Christians who in this come not short of