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A75503	Apology for Mr. Walker fully vindicated in a conflict with the author of the Reflections on the Apology. The Reflector's intellectual endowments, learning, and morals display'd. This paper, having waited above three months for the true narrative of the siege of Derry, is now publisht, chiefly, for the diversion of such as have read the Apology.		1690 (1690)	Wing A3545A; ESTC R223512	27,810	15

to engage the Chief Citizens in the same Cause some of which accompany'd him to the Guard-House the same Night joyn'd with him in giving Encouragement and Direction to those Juniors He with others wrote that Night to several Gentlemen in the Country solliciting their Concurrence and effectual Assistance He also Discours'd the Bishop but without effect This Account I have from good hands and do Appeal to any Competent Judge whether it do not justifie the attributing to Mr. Cairns the equivalent at least tho' not the same which the Insertor in somewhat a Rustic style Complements him with But Mr. Osborn's Vindicator transcends the Reflector and all others on this head and says pag. 26. the Apologist ascribes that to Mr. Cairns as single which he always own'd was done by joynt-consent with others Ascribes where Either in the words now vindicated or no where Ascribes what The Honour of that first Action How is that possible when nothing is attributed to him till after locking the Gates which sure was the commencement of that first Action Ascribes to him as single Strange when all is ascrib'd to him in conjunction with a plurality To give Mr. Cairns the first room of either Citizens or Gentlemen of chief Note that first influenc'd countenanc'd and concur'd with those Juniors mention'd is no more than his due unless the meer locking the Gates engross all the Honour of that Action But to infer hence the Apology ascribes that Honour to him as single when it first makes him but one tho' a Chief and Leading Man of the first Actors and next mentions him relatively to a multitude and both in part of one Period is a new mode of deducing Consequences I never before this heard of Nor can I divine what the Gentleman infers his as single from unless it be the Infertor's in special Mr. Cairns that is especially chiefly or principally Mr. Cairns I cannot else understand it But then how all or any of these Synonimous terms can mean Mr. Cairns as single exclusive of all others has puzl'd my Grammar and Logic and some Learned Men I have consulted about it do therefore submit this inference with the Explication I have now given of that Paragraph to the unprejudic'd Reader to whom I shall give no further trouble in perusing what I had prepar'd in Vindication of my first Plea for C. Walker being reliev'd in part by Mr. Osborn's Vindication and now superseded by the true Narrative last week Printed Shall therefore pitch next in pag. 9th of the Reflections and make bold to reckon with the Reflector for his Leesing-making For having quoted these words of the Apology It will be found the Interest of Church and State to Repeal the Act of Scandalum Magnatum as it respects that Order i. e. of Bishops he thus subjoyns That is to say to abolish Episcopacy and seclude them from the House of Lords I knew a Verbose Man who would ever begin his Elucidations and Expositions with a That is to say who tho' he never had a word to the purpose yet often spake truth was therefore by one half less unhappy than the Reflector who rarely stumbles on either What Episcopacy and Scandalum Magnatum reciprocal terms Must they stand and fall together If they do I cannot 〈…〉 my Vote for abolishing ●●●●●opacy because I would not abolish Presbytery which is or should be the same Bishop and Presbyter are made the same by two Apostolical Acts both Prior to the Act of Scandalum Magnatum The first Act Apostol Cap. vices commate 17o. compar'd with Verse 28. where our English Translators being by the Canons I suppose oblig'd to maintain a distinction of Order as well as Degree jure divino between Bishop and Presbyter translated the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Bishops by the word Overseers which with submission to their since-improv'd textual Learning was ill done for the most negligent Curate with greatest over-sight inspects his Flock and in a sense is the greatest Overseer The second Apostolical Act is that cited by the same Apostle Paul Epistle to Titus commate 5o. compar'd with Verse 7th I might add several more from both St. Paul and St. Peter but these two are sufficient to prove Bishop and Presbyter identifi'd by Apostolical Sanction which to me is a Jus Divinum But pray Reflector take notice when I say these Apostolical Acts are Prior to our Acts of Parliament I mean tempore not dignitate or authoritate For I am not ignorant that our Religion in England which holds also in Church-Government is call'd the Establish'd Religion on the account of the Authority deriv'd to it from Acts of Parliament but am withal assur'd that the present Parliament whatever may be said of any former pays a great deference to Apostolical Acts especially when cited with such convincing Evidence as I have these two My Second Plea for Col. Walker consisted in this i. e. That Mr. Walker's Ecclesiastic Superiours and chiefly that very Reverend Prelate from Ireland who receiv'd Col. Walker into his Coach at Barnet and under whose Conduct he was observ'd to Compile his Narrative are the Principal Authors of the Misrepresentations charg'd on his Narrative And do's the Reflector essay to disprove it No he dares not deny it nor so much as name the Plea but diverts the Reader from taking any Notice of it by a pleasant Story The Apologist's Informer mistook it seems Sir Robert Cotton's Coach for the Arch-Bishop's but the Reflector assures you the Coach was Sir Robert Cotton's for says he I saw it And then as if the Plea deriv'd all validity and strength from this Circumstance he subjoyns very Comically So that if Sir Robert Cotton be an Arch-Bishop he carries a Cloak over his Pall and stands in need of a Dispensation for his Lay-Habit I have heard of a Padder that us'd to wear a Bishop's Gown and Sleeves over a Buff Coat as often as he examin'd the Travellers Pockets Being at Long-run catch'd the Gentleman was hang'd whether the Sacred Vestures were hang'd with him or were consecrated anew and apply'd to their Sacred Use I cannot say for I saw it not as the Reflector says he did this Action But I never till now heard of a Knight in a Pall nor an Arch-Bishop in a 〈…〉 ●ector's Fancy elevated him 〈…〉 bit above Mercury but what retur●● 〈◊〉 Arch-Bishop has made him for having lodg'd with his Grace as Principal Author the Failures of Mr. Walker's Narrative as did the Apologist I know not I on my part hereby render him my hearty thanks for having sav'd me the labour of confirming my second Plea Nor is the Reflector less kind in confirming my first Plea for Col. Walker tho' in somewhat a preposterous Method and where he little intended it That first Plea consisted of seven Arguments evincing that Col. Walker neither is nor can be Author of that Narrative And here the Reflector neither affirms Mr. Walker wrote it nor denies the contrary

this and the following Queries he has not given me the farest advantage as well as highest provocation to treat him as an open enemy of common Civility and Morals Yet in the whole has he proved so kind to me so unkind to himself tho he intended neither that I very gratefully resent both Observe how here as under the former Query he conceals my more generous absolving Act since such he 'l have it of the Church of England both Clergy and Laity having also concealed my Question he gives three of his own instead of an Answer to that one of mine To all which I answer in a word that Dissenters cannot be said to be in an equal capacity with other Protestant Subjects to embarque in any Publick Service while the Sacrament Test continues in force I must therefore desire the Reflector not for shame I come too late for that but for security to his remaining credit to retract this injurious Calumny of his QVERY VII My Seventh Query runs thus whether if all Protestant Subjects were equally forward with the Dissenters for the Service of the King Kingdoms and Protestant Religion the many effects there mention'd of inestimable consequence to their Majesties and Kingdoms would not follow but the Reflector 〈…〉 to the Dissenters a●one 〈…〉 ●●renthesis are excluding other Protestant Subjects What exclude other Protestant Subjects when the express scope of the Question is to include them What else were this but to exclude my own sense and intendment from the Query and to include non-sense and contradiction Now would I know whether the Reflector when he thus misrepresented my Question in a sense repugnant to the very Grammer of my words did understand their litteral sense or not if the latter I both pardon him and heartily pray for an advance of his intellectuals But if the former then I freely allow him an overmatch for the most Ingenious and Learned of Mankind that confine themselves to Truth for the Matter and Reason for the Rule of what they write and therefore I yield him the Buckler And to his forreign and far fetched double Question First Whether I do not take Major General Ludlow to be a Dissenter I Anwser I take him for neither Dissenter nor Assenter because dead in Law and at present not in or of the Kingdoms Cannot divine why he mentions him on this subject unless it be an expectation of meeting with somewhat in my Answer that may purchase him the honourable Office of an Informer But I shall frustrate his hopes His Second Query is Whether I did not tacitly glance at M. G. L. to have the chief Conduct of the Army or Navy A tacit glance I had thought taciturnity respected the Organ of Speech glancing that of Sight But now I think on 't the ingenious Cowley somewhere tells us of words that weep and tears that speak and so I pass it To the Question I answer Categorically I neither have seen or had any Correspondence by Letters or otherwise with M. G. L. while he was last in England nor had him once in my thoughts that I can remember while I was scribling the Apology But the Reflector says that what he insinuates in his double Query is reported to be the declar'd Opinion of the Apologist Reported by whom by the Reflector or a Knight of the Post If he finds a third Person and of a different Genius I 'le be content to suffer for M. G. L. But that I may Oblige the Reflector with something his Invention may enlarge upon and Metamorphose into various shapes I 'le adventure to tell him that if M G. L. had gone for Ireland in the Quality of Major-General of our Army under the Auspice of King William last Year and landed any time before the last of May with a Thousand Horse ten Thousand Foot with Arms for Twenty Thousand more nothing but the unfitness of Protestants there for a Deliverance could have prevented his Reducing and Subjecting that Kingdom entirely to the English Crown and driving all the French and Irish into the Boggs or Sea The Reason supporting my Opinion is That the Rebels of Ireland in the last Rebellion were subdu'd and that Kingdom reduc'd only by the Rebels of England i.e. the Army of the rump-Rump-Parliament as the Reflector calls it and the Irish Rebels stand not in such dread of treble the number of any that serv'd 〈…〉 either English or Scotch in Ireland so heartily engage in that Service with Major-General Kirk as with Major-General Ludlow But remember Reflector I speak of what M. G. L. might atchief last year not this For after the Parliament's Addressing to the King as you have it for his Apprehension I can promise nothing for him but that he shall be hang'd if we can catch him handsomly on English Ground Nor shall he have any thing from me but my Prayers which even my Enemies share in that he may Repent you know the Apostle tells us it is the Divine Will that all men come to Repentance And that he may obtain Mercy as our Liturgy teaches me to pray That it would please thee to have mercy on all men and he must be a Man and a stout sturdy Fellow too that prov'd such a K killing Rebel QVERY VIII The Reader may observe how the Reflector improv'd the same Art here he us'd in his Reflections on the former Query for he tells you Reflections pag. 16. it seems to be intended by the connexion of the Apologist's Discourse that those five Thousand or ten Thousand Men at the Head of whom General Schomberg might have perform'd such wonderful Exploits should consist wholly of Dissenters It seems good Reflector to whom Not to Angel or Man I 'm well assur'd not to Angels no not to the laps'd Tribe for even these retain their Rational Faculty can read and understand English not to any man in his Wits for the quite contrary sense is as plain as words can make it not to any man out of his Wits for if such cannot apprehend the plainest sense much less an obscure yea impossible which no Grammar nor Logic can give any colour to which the Reflector gives my words I conclude therefore the Reflector's it seems seems so to neither Angel nor Man wise or otherwise Ergo not to the Reflector himself I remember Thomas Aquinas in his Sums begins his Resolutions of all Queries with a Videtur in English it seems But if the Reflector tacitly glanc'd at him he is none of the happiest in imitation for Aquinas prefixes his it seems to an Heterox Opinion he finds or supposes in his Antagonist and having refuted it he substitutes the Opinion he takes for Orthodox and confirms it But the Reflector conceals the true substitutes an Heterox and then exposes it that is it seems would murther my Legitimate Off-spring place in their room the spurious Births of his own Brain and oblige me to maintain the supposititious Brats It seems 〈…〉 in defiance of 〈…〉 Angelical Intelligence