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A25982 An answer to the vindication of Doctor Hamond against the exceptions of Eutactus Philodemius vvherein is endeavored to be cleared what power man hath ... / the author E.P. Ascham, Antony, d. 1650. 1650 (1650) Wing A3918; ESTC R339 17,643 22

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AN ANSWER TO THE VINDICATION OF Doctor Hamond AGAINST The Exceptions of EUTACTUS PHILODEMIUS VVherein is endeavored to be cleared What Power MAN hath 1. Over his own Liberty which is his ALL 2. Over his own Life for which he will give that ALL The Author E. P. LONDON Printed for Francis Tyton and are to be sold at the three Daggers in Fleetstreet near the Inner-Temple gate 1650. TO The Right Honorable the Lord BRADSHAVV President of the COUNCEL of STATE My Lord I Have presumed to affix your Lordships name to these few leaves not that I desire a Patrocinie for any thing in them but truth Quae premetur sed non opprimetur Had Dr. Hamonds Vindication been a mirror to reflect mine own ignorance upon me and had I had thereby so much light as to see my self in the dark I had quietly acquiessed and sate down under the Majesty and Authority of Truth But my Lord I finde it far otherwise not to charge this Doctors Abilities I am more then most suspitious if that could be of his candidness who is not onely satisfied in wounding the name of E. P. but takes thereby opportunity to vent his virulency against the present Powers Your Lordship and your Coassertors of publike Freedom and of the Liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may lie for a time under the staines of vile mens Tongues and Pens yet your Integrity and Resolutions to the hazard of your All will I hope one day receive the mark of Well-done by him who makes a narrower exploration then meerly into the Exterior actions of men My Lord The Government of a Kingdom is Prudentibus grave sed fatuis gratum the one loves it because he is filled with imagination onely of its sweet and beauty and the other fears it because he knows its weight and burden I may not but conjecture that many hate the present Powers some because they will others because they have not a share in the exercise of it so that on all hands you have enemies The Lord direct you and those now in Power with you in the Execution of the great Trust that lies upon you That you may not onely have the mark of an Honorable and Pathless act of Justice upon your Names but that it may smell sweet in the Nostrils of God and be pretious in the esteem of them that fear him This shall be the Prayer of 12. May 1650. My Lord Your willing Servant E. P. To the READER Reader LIfe for which a man wil give All that he hath and Liberty which is the Genus Generalissimum of that All into how many parts soever it be branched out are the two dearest properties of man essentially and necessarily annexed to his Being and yet even these have been invaded in a high manner and received most dangerous assaults of late Times by the hands of a Rebellious and Trayterous crew of profane and deceitful men whom God suffered to proceed to kill destroy and plunder and to teach to do so without any other Authority then the meer will of a Tyranical Magistrate Amongst the late Invadors of our Liberties there is none I dare say more peccant then Dr. Hamond in his way this man having more advantage to deceive then others because of his less profaneness and greater abilities then the generality of the late Kings adherents and the more ingenious part thereof taking up what he delivered with very little examination upon the account of his parts This is one of the men that would make the late Kings Will the Rule of Goodness when he himself intended it no other then the measure of his Greatness this is he that would have erected a Pambasilia for the late King though his professions were onely for a regulated Monarchy what wounds this man hath given to our Liberties thou wilt see in the following Leaves and though he had not power to compel the silly vulgar to be of his party yet I fear his principles have deceived too many of them that took up his advisoes without examining he being known to be leprous in his opinion and to have Laesa Principia in Polity as well as Religion and to have needed to be put into a Lazaret till he were cured of both I shall not desire thee to swear compliance and credulity to what thou wilt finde herein onely try and hold fast the good and give it thy Countenance the evil of it shall be beneath the Authors Connivance when he knows it to be so Thy Servant in the Lord E. P. The Introduction IT is a truth in it self and very obvious to knowing men that the use of language is for the expression of our conceptions and that these are caused by exteriour objects which are oftentimes such as do cause so violent an agitation of the Spirits that we may with but little skill in Phisiogmony see the Tipes and Signatures of mens affections in their Countenances and assure our selves of a better accompt from their faces when their passions are moved which do alwayes faithfully more or less imprint their characters in the exteriour parts of the body then we may expect from their tongues which can cover the deceiptfulnes of a false heart when yet the visage discovers its motions and designes for if a mans speech belye his heart yet his face shall belye his speech and the understanding can never so secretly work but the sences will perceive it I may not but conjecture that Doctor Hamond is better learned in this kinde of science then my self having vantage ground of me in years study and experience and yet he hath gone farther in discovering himself and his passions then thus in his Vindication against E. P. and contrary to his professed impassionateness hath so far betrayed himself as to transmit the Image and Character of the perturbation and passionate heat of his spirit by his Pen to the view of the world as his said Vindication will manifestly testify And I wish this parti-coloured Doctor that doth thus interlace excellent professions with so little adequateness of performance words of Moses in Terminis Exod. 21. 6. but whether they do not widely range from them I refer it to any man that hath his understanding about him upon compare to judge I conceived this Doctors affirmation to be but his explication of that place and beleeve the impartiall examiner of both places will easily finde it so and I must tell this Doctor for all this that he will alone lye under that Condemnation which saith he in his fifth Section E. P. hath put him and the Scripture under too good a Companion to be of that mans side that made and published the late Misterium Religionis recognitum which goodly stuff came out of this Doctors ware-house 2. The second advantage is not onely as imaginary as the other but palpably false and scandalous contrary to the Candidness and ingenuitie of a rationall man ' This Doctor saith that E. P.