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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41591	An amicable accommodation of the difference between the representer and the answerer in return to his last reply against the papist protesting against Protestant popery.	Gother, John, d. 1704.	1686 (1686)	Wing G1325A; ESTC R201691	19,896	44

AN Amicable Accommodation OF THE DIFFERENCE Between the Representer AND THE ANSWERER In Return to his Last Reply against The PAPIST Protesting against Protestant Popery Permissu Superiorum LONDON Printed by H. Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel 1686. AN Amicable Accommodation OF THE DIFFERENCE Between the REPRESENTER And the ANSWERER HERE is a strange Voluminous ado about the Papist Misrepresented and Represented First almost Twenty Sheets by way of Answer to it then Ten in a second Reply and now Fifteen in a Rejoynder And after all this pother and noise the upshot of the Matter is come to this That the Word Misrepresented is an improper Expression That the Character of a Papist Misrepresented cannot be called a Misrepresentation in a strict and proper sense as our Antiprotester has it often in his last Reply where yet he owns the proving this to have been the main drift of his former Ten Sheets and a great part of these last Fifteen Surely he has taken a great deal of pains but to what purpose I expect to hear in other Ten Sheets yet to come for really I do not yet know that I am much concern'd whether it be a Misrepresentation in a strict and proper sense or no. And therefore since he has pitch'd upon so civil a way of confuting my Book I think I may in return to his Civility and without wrong to my Cause grant him the whole of his Pretensions and then sit down and smile with him a while to see how being so near of a mind we have yet been so long clashing Quills as Adversaries I am really for Peace and a good Correspondence and upon a serious Consideration of this last Answer having great reason to think that the most considerable part of the Contention between us has been about a Word and for want of a fair Understanding I 'le endeavour to lay open my Mind farther to him so to remove all Misrepresentation from between us I hope he 'll pardon the Expression tho' it be not in its strict and proper sense and by this means accommodate our Affair without letting it swell farther into a Quarrel of yet greater Volumes And First To take up the Matter from the beginning If he had duely consider'd all I said in the Papist Misrepresented and Represented he might very well have excus'd entring the Field against me For tho' I there complain'd of Papists being Misrepresented to the World that their Faith is expos'd in a Disguise and many things imputed to their Belief and Doctrine which they disown and abominate Yet in all this Complaint I nam'd no body I advanc'd no Accusations against any particular Party And tho' I could have fill'd my Margins with numbers of Authors urging much blacker Calumnies than I there inserted yet still I suppress'd all Names consulting Modesty and in regard of Peace Now what need here of any singling themselves or a Party out to Engage with me I left every body to to their own Conscience and had those who felt themselves touch'd conceal'd the Sting within their own Breast there had been still a Peace betwixt us If a Man wipes the Dirt off his Face that has been thrown at him in the Street I hope he may do it without any affront to the Passers-by His Complaint in general of being abus'd is only a Natural Right those that are innocent need not be much concern'd to clear themselves from the Charge and such as are guilty avoid all Quarrel if they but hold their Tongues The Papist therefore Misrepresented and Represented might very well have pass'd without moving of Choler if those who will have themselves not concern'd at all had not been too much concern'd to wipe off the Imputation This had been a means of preserving a mutual Peace from the beginning But Secondly Tho' contrary to this Method much Dust has been rais'd and not without some Heat in the Quarrel yet I am still persuaded our Differences may be compounded if a fair Condescension can win any thing upon my Adversary and he 'll allow me to purchase his Good-will by almost an entire Submission to the Chief of his Pretensions I 'le beg his leave to state the Occasion of our Debate and the Reader shall soon see how much I can oblige him by my yielding The Occasion of my writing the Papist Misrepresented and Represented was this I found that the People in England had a very false Notion of Popery or of the Faith and Doctrine of Roman Catholicks that there was scarce any one Article of their Creed any one Practice of their Church which was not falsly drawn in the Imagination of the Vulgar either blackned with Calumnies or disfigur'd with prejudic'd Interpretations or malicious Misconstructions that hence arose so great a hatred against all of that Communion that the Comprehensive Precept of Loving ones Neighbour seem'd now to admit with the Zealous of a necessary Exception against all of that Profession and the Design of rooting out Popery a sufficient Dispensation for the violating all other Duties both to God the King and our Neighbour This Uncharitable Temper I could not but look upon as ill becoming a Christian Name and that to endeavour to remedy it would not be only acceptable to Catholicks but even to Protestants too who I presum'd would be as willingly prevented from doing an Injury to their Neighbours as the others would be willing not to be injur'd it being a greater Concern of a Church not to do an Injury than to receive one For the removing therefore this Scandal from Christianity and hindring Men from maligning and railing against their Neighbours for the false Conceits of their own Imaginations by what means soever taken up by them I thought it no ill Expedient to declare sincerely what is really the Faith of a Catholick and to shew more clearly how different it is from what it is vulgarly said to be I drew out two Descriptions or Characters of Popery the one being an Idea of Protestant Popery or as it is generally conceiv'd by Protestants and painted in the Imagination of the Vulgar of that Communion The other being a Draught of the Faith of Roman Catholicks as deliver'd and prescrib'd by their Church The former of these Characters I call'd A Papist Misrepresented and the latter A Papist Represented And I thought these Titles justifiable enough in as much as the one describes a Papist otherwise than he really is disfigur'd with false Colours and artificially turned into a Monster by a deform'd Dress thrown over him by such who through ignorance or malice are willing to render him Ridiculous While the other sets him out divested of this Bug bear Habit and shews him in his own genuine Shape and Complexion This inoffensive proceeding of mine as I thought and meant it pass'd not long without an Adversary who proclaim'd to the World that he had Answered and Confuted the Book But what and