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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

the Son of the best and biggest Jupiter Pray read pag. 2. of his before-cited Observations Mr. Walker was the man whose Prodigious Actions no Age nor History can parallel and which create credibility even in the most improbable Romances Thus I have in the Apology and in this Vindication both confirm'd by the Reflector plac'd it beyond all Suspicion though one Case-hardned Nego would have serv'd the turn that Mr. Walker wrote not that Narrative And yet lest it should be turn'd into an Old Almanac before it has serv'd its Year and the Purchase of the Copy break the Printer I 'le put the Reflector into a method that may a little retrieve its Reputation with ignorant i. e. the greater number of Readers for some time Let him Purchase two Witnesses with the following Qualifications First they must be no Gown-men therefore no Women Clergy-men nor Lawyers they may were Coats but not of the Souldiers Fashion lest they be suspected of having serv'd the Colonel in Derry and to have been suborn'd They may wear Cloaks but not of the same Fashion with Knights lest they have a Pall under them the Presbyterian Cut will do best of any Being thus array'd they must appear in the Lower House of Convocation i. e. when they shall sit next and standing before the Prolocutor's Chair after they have turn'd up their Whiskers and gravely strok'd their Beards Tacto quinetiam collari Penulae Presbyterianae minimè vero paginâ Sacrâ nè si fortè manus in librum Tobit aperto nimirum codice delaberetur jurarent per creaturam quod ne fiat jure Canonico veteri gravi cautum est poena they must hold forth and solemnly 〈…〉 Glass in his left and Pen 〈◊〉 mouth write that Narrative five Pound of the 〈◊〉 Thousand will precure him two Witnesses thus ●●alified in London or Westminster I proceed with the Reflector who page 10. taxes ●ny sincerity in a very weighty point The Apology supposes the Bishops advice to the Citizens was deliver'd immediately before locking the Gates whereas he assures us 't was some hours after This is a very momentous circumstantial mistake I therefor thank him for Correcting it But by his misapplication of the Term Sincerity and that of Calumny a little before the Reflector seems to be as much a Stranger to the Notion of the Moral and Theological Vertues as he is practically conversant in their opposite Vices I wonder he should so much mistake the Notion of Sincerity the most comprehensive or rather the form of all Graces and Vertues when as I shall all along to the end of this Pamphlet shew there is neither Vertue nor Vice so familiar to him as the opposite Vice of Sincerity whereof in his subsequent Words he gives us an Instance where he charge me with the partial ascription of the credit of looking the Gates of Derry intirely to Mr. Irwin Whereas the Apology expresly saies page 14. Mr. Irwin with some others of his Fellows locked all the Gates The Reflector page 15. owns the truth of the passage related of the Bishop of Derry It is true says he the Bishop left the City being not able to influence the Citizens with his Doctrin But what then Why so many words and so much notice taken of this singl Action Well pleaded Reflector on behalf of the Bishop What then Reflector Because I would hope your Question preceeds more from pitiable Weakness then from unpardonable Malice to the King an Kingdoms I will tell you had the Bishops Doctrin taken place and Derry been surrendred to Tyrconnel what Power or Policy Humanely Speaking could have prevented King James his being in undisturb'd Possession of all Ireland before the first of May last Not Inneskilling I trow not our Army that Arrived in Ireland in nine Months after locking Derry Gates And if that King had then been possest of Ireland how easily might he by Transporting but a third of his Army last Summer recover Scotland too What could have retarded his Progress in that Kingdom but that great body of Presbyterians in the West of Scotland as their Brethren did in the North of Ireland What the consequence would have been in England before this considering what Interest King James had then horresco referens still has in this Isle all good Men dread and detest So much in answer to your wise Query My temptation to mention the Bishop's Speech was the affinity of some of the Crimes falsly charged by the Narrative on Mr. Osborn with the Bishops Doctrin and after departure from Derry Of Mr. Osborn I need not shall not now say any thing but as to the very Reve●● 〈…〉 that I am beyond all scruple perswade 〈◊〉 ever his Speech and subsequent demeanour supposing a compliance in the Citizens had proved pernicious to Ireland and dangerous to the three Kingdoms yet what he said and did in that juncture was the consequent of the Dictat of a real not pretended Conscience which is the proximat rule of all both Religious and Moral Actions that as Universal suffrage gives him the character of a very Learned Exemplarily-Pious Industrious Preaching Prelate so I firmly believe him as Loyally affected to the present Government of a Temper as moderate Pacifick as fit an Instrument to reconcile and unite divided Protestants as any of his Gown This much I sent to the Press after the Apology but it came too late The Reflector proceeds But what Could he find never a Text in Scripture pat to his purpose but must sully the cleanness of his Apology by a prophane Heathen Poet Yes I could find one in the Old Testament Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour And another somewhere in the eighth of Saint John the Evangelist But I made a scruple of sullying indeed prophaning Scripture with the subject of the Apology in which nothing occurred properly Sacred except a Ceremony the Arch-Bishop and Gown and I could not find so much as one name of any of the three in Sacred Code For the 1 Cor. 14. ult 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the only Scripture in the New Testament alledg'd for the Ceremonies was by Mr. H. Jeans a Presbyterian Minister twisted out of the great Hamonds hands and I am afraid it will never be retriev'd unless Dr. Beveridg make it the Text for his next Concio ad Clerum but had your pretty Story of the Cloak and Pall been Printed before the Apology I could have prevailed with the Apostle Paul to vouch for the Cloak and I could have turn'd the Pall into Parchment and then it would bear a Sacred stamp tho' the Arch-Bishop I mean the Knight remained prophane I mean lay still The Reflector subjoyns it is a far fetcht allusion he means my lines out of Juvenal and as justly and patly I may retort from Verses of the same Author Scilicet horreres majoraque monstra putares Si mulier Vitulum vel si bos ederet agnum Juven Sat. 2. Monstrous patly Reflector and

the little squabbles by and by ill natur'd Subjects 〈…〉 he bestows 〈…〉 in Answer 〈…〉 Mr. Wrs. N. 〈…〉 Apology on the whole and in vindicating one Non-conformist than the Apology in vindicating as far as was then proper the whole party including also his one Mr. B. will be eas'd of his trouble about the Clergy c. when he has read his mistake of the Party he supposes reflected on corrected in this Pamphlet When he says I perfectly Copi'd Mr. Wrs. Example he both wrongs me and injures himself For I have said nothing against any Conformists but what I 'm more capable than willing to prove Mr. Wr. has said nothing against the Dissenters but what Mr. B. has made his business to disprove How then I can be said to have copied Mr. Wrs. Example I see not In the subsequent Period he tells us He sees so little good from takes so little delight in these illnatur'd Subjects that he 'l give no occasion for new heats by examining their truth or justice on either one hand or the other an excellent Resolution I confess in a Person that had not administred occasion for new heats But in Mr. B's Circumstances 't is as if he seeing two Men quarelling should lay about him on both hands till he were out of breath and being a little recover'd shou'd tell 'em Gentlemen I shall give no occasion for new heats by examining the justice of your quarrel on either hand But above all passages in Mr. B's Conclusion I 'm amaz'd at his summoning the Apologist to make reparation to the Public for the harm he has done by his unseasonable Reflections If in that comprehensive Term Public the Government be included it surpasses my skill to reconcile Mr. B. to himself who but a few lines before acquits the Apologist of any Reflections cast on the Government I could also tell him from Persons of eminent figure and comprehensive knowledge in public affairs but as much Strangers to the Apologist as Mr. B. the Apology is so far from doing harm that it has done good service to the Government By suggesting in some of the Queries several momentous points which had not been done by any before in Print and was the Interest of the Government and Kingdoms to be inform'd off and further inquir'd into I cou'd say more of that Pamphlet were it not my own If by Publick Mr. B. mean the Subjects of these Kingdoms Loyally affected to the present Government studious of an Union of Protestants he will not find the least Reflection cast upon any one of ' em It remains then that by Public be understood the Disaffected to the Government and Public Weal a fourth I cannot 〈…〉 eminent Sons of 〈…〉 or England I will ●harge therefor against the Apology might have been spar'd as being both unkind in him in it self unjust and of no service to the Public Nor can I admire the reason or modesty of his inference from that groundless charge i. e. that the Apologist make a Panegyrick on the opposite Party before conviction of wrong in an high degree done 'em and demonstrative evidence too of their extraordinary both merit and quality such only being the proper Objects of a Panegyrick But I forgive Mr. B. who no doubt expects to find his own Name in the Catalog of the Worthies of the Moderate and Sober Clergy Con and Non whose Carriage he tells us in the next period will furnish our two Panegyricki with materials enough And tho I somewhat scruple to say with Mr. B.'s the venerable Mr Wr. his excellent Pen which Epithets Mr. Wr. himself cannot think seriously bestow'd nor wou'd Mr. B.'s be thought to speak Ironically Yet least Mr. B. shou'd hereafter tax the Apologift with ill Humor and that I may also demonstrat my Zeal for the Union of Protestants I hereby promise to accomplish his wish in Writing a Panegyric on my opposit party that is the Church of Rome including the Head all Protestants disaffected to the present Government and who have been in any former or in the present Reign are obstructers of the Union of Protestants and the Peace of these Kingdoms These only have I reflected on these only are my opposit party these will afford me plenty of Materials for a Panegyrick Omitting therefore the first six Centuries of Christianity I shall comwith mence the seventh in which Gregory Bishop of Rome furnisht England with the first Metropolitan i. e. Augustin the Monk who subjected the Church of England to that of Rome being himself install'd in the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury by two of the Saxon Kings who by arm'd force cut off 1200 of the poor Monks of Bangor in one day for refusing Subjection to the Bishop of Rome and to receive Augustine for their Arch-Bishop His most eminent Successors Anselm but especially St. Thomas Becket with several other Bishops to the beginning of the Reformation I shall signalize with Characters and Elogies answerable to their eminent Qualities and Services to the Church and State In the Reign of King Henry VIII I shall omit nothing of the high Merits of Cardinal Woolsey in Queen Mary's Reign Bishop Bouner Bishop Gardiner and others of Eternal Memory In Queen Elizabeth's Arch-Bishop Whitgift who by his letters and Counsels prevail'd with Her 〈…〉 ●●jesty reserv'd to Herself and wou'd by no means submit to the Scan of a Parliament Such were the Reformation of Religion the making of War and Peace the Succession to the Crown the Queens Marriage By which methods says the Historian the Reformation was for an intire Age obstructed in England Of all Bishops I design the highest Encomiums for Arch-Bishop Laud whose incomparable Wisdom in the Conduct of our Church he gave eminent Instances off in the latter end of King James's Reign and fully display'd in the Reign of Charles I. But my Rhetorical Flowers I shall reserve for those that Acted on our Theatre in the two last Reigns and in this Reign only for the Bishops of Scotland the Bishops and Clergy of England having universally of late given ample demonstration of their Loyalty to their Present Majesties can therefore with no colour of Truth or Justice be included in the object of my design'd Panegyric All this I shall deliver in a Stile as much sublimer than the Apology as it is above those dreggs of sense in the back-side Advertisement But before I put Pen to Paper on this Subject I expect Mr. Wr. will from the Press oblige himself to be equally generous in Writing a Panegyric on my party the matter whereof I will if he require it furnish him with And that the Reflector make a Panegyric on the Apologist who in this Paper has demonstrated the truth of the Apology and every Period against it in the Reflections false and many of 'em Self-contradictious I wou'd also hope that Mr. Boyes who has given the Precept will likewise give the Precedent of a Panegyric on Mr. Wr. whom he has so severely reflected on in page 2 and 23. which I read with Indignation Legem sibi dixerat ipse What follows in Mr. Boyes Conclusion I dare say both Parties will in those general Terms subscribe to For my own part I am so averse to the humor and principle of those who wou'd set the Protestant Religion on the narrow Pedestal now I understand that hard word of a Party that I sincerely promise to dedicate my little all to promote the Union of Protestants Their Majesties and the Kingdom 's Interest I should in the last place encounter the Advertisement at the end of Mr. Wrs. Vindication this noisom Page brings to my thoughts the great Chamier a Presbyterian Divine Beza's Successor whose Panstratia is not equall'd by any performance extant of any one Divine in these Kingdoms against the Church of Rome This great Man some where says he us'd to visit the Schoolmen as Strangers do a Princes Palace where being entertain'd with all the grateful 〈…〉 of this Page and shall not here rob the Advertiser of the honour of Triumph in his refined Stile tho' I could name men of Sense two or three who have impeach'd of Nonsence his Only that he wou'd be glad as incoherent with the preceding words of Battology to pass his tautologys his Not worth the notice any farther notice and all in one Period for the whole Page is no more The only lines Printed on behalf of Mr. Wr. Narrative that bid at a masculin Stile are the Dedication Yet in Page 1. line the last but is at best Impertinent in Page 2. Could ever make them think of surrendring is mean Grammer the Period which begins but as the whole this should then is mean Sence In Page 3 but that since for that because more is such a stile as 〈…〉 the Answer 〈…〉 Advertisement you may read in Arist●● Anim. Lib. 45. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS ERRATA in this VINDICATION IN Page 1. Column 1. Line 15. at 5000 l. shut the Parenthesis l. 25. at Hannibal put a Colon. Column 2. l. 8. r. Catastrophe p. 2. c. 1. l. 5. r. Fersons l. 25. for end r. could not be p. 6. c. 1. l. 5. at Narrative add a Period l. 45. after arriv'd insert not c. 2. after in insert the. p. 7. c. 1. l. 5. after Man insert in c. 2. under Query 4. l. 13. r. generously p. 8. under Query 6. l. 5. r. fairest l. 19. r. Sacramental c. 2 l. 10. r. represented p. 9. c. 1. under Query 8. l. 6. r. 50000 or 100000 Men. c. 2. under Query 9. l. 2. after pass write too p. 10. c. 1. l. 33. r. Books l. 37. after with insert him c. 2. l. 26. r. Sect. p. 11. c. 1. l. 9. after of dele the. Lesser faults the ingenious Reader will pardon if not Correct in passage ERRATA in the APOLOGY IN Page 2. line 16. for Ingenious read Ignominious p. 3. l. 7. after with place a Colon. p. 4. after already put a Semicolon p. 16. l. 8. at any put a Colon. l. 9. for to read do l. 14. read quid p. 17. l. 18. at Europ insert so l. 24. dele a Cypher p. 19. l. 16. read Vtopia p. 21. l. 2. read say p. 23. l. 28. after only insert as it p. 24. l. 24. dele been p. 25. l. 28. at discomfiture close the Parenthesis

very modestly said of your self but whether the following Distic had not been more pat let the Reader judge Observator eram sum non vir non Cacodaemon Non bos non Mulier sed pro re quilibet horum 〈…〉 till you make go● that 〈◊〉 one in your first Paragraph till then not a 〈◊〉 London or London-Derry will purchase them at a Cann of Ale per dozen Proceed we next to my Ten Queries which the Reader will do well to take a view of in the Apology and next of the Reflectors wise Remarques on them QVERE I. I give the Reflector my devout thanks for confirming the grand import of the First Query I likewise gratefully accept his pains in correcting in words at length the carless Printers additional Cypher though the simplest Reader must observe the mistake But he having yielded the number of the Vlster Scots last year to amount to an Hundred Thousand in the same Paragraph to suggest the Service of those in Derry and Inniskilling was performed by Gentlemen of another Nation and Perswasion bespeaks him a Man of a very hard Fore-head but somewhat a Phlegmatic brain for as the suggestion in the latter part of the Paragraph subverts the concession in the former so the appeal to all concerned in those two places for proof of it is an instance of confidence paralell'd only in those two already quoted out of his Observations But 't is very probable he writ his Reflections with a Steel Pen which gives him so much advantage of me that use only a Goose-quil His insinuation of a design in the Apologist to create differences and jealousies between the two Nations the Church of England and Dissenters is a Calumny I detest and shall anon fully purge my self off QVERY II. The Reflector instead of giving a direct Answer to the second Query his invention failing him fondly hopes to mislead the Reader by a very pleasant I say not ridiculous Question i. e. Whether the Presbyterian Perswasion be the Logical Property of a Scotch-Man Whether Presbyter and Scot be terms convertible To which I answer Categorically no for the fourteen Bishops Excommunicated in Thirty-Eight by the National Assembly in Glasco were all Scotch-men as I am inform'd and the fourteen cashir'd by Parliament last year I think are all Scotch-men yet no Presbyterians I further answer King James the Sixth who was a Learned Prince and well understood the Logical property of a Scotch-man took it seems Presbyter and an honest Scot understood of the Clergy for terms convertible for when some bold Scot presumed to ask His Majesty why he would make ill men Bishops He answered as I have often heard from grave Men of that Nation by his Saul he was forced to make Knaves Bishops for he could not get one honest man in Scotland that would take a Bishoprick Now I confess I pay 〈…〉 honest Bishops that 〈…〉 Son and Grandsons he would 〈◊〉 himself with 〈◊〉 demonstration they would give him that Presbyterian is not the Logical property of an honest Scotchman And yet will I venture the Apology against your Reflections that is ten to one with the Bookseller that the Case being fairly stated as in the Apology you find and dare not so much as scratch at it the twentieth Soul of any Rank or Nation in the North of Ireland that have any real rast of Serious Religion falls not to the Churches share There is therefor not one word of pertinent truth in your Answer being intirely besides my Question QVERY III. The third Query is a dark riddle to the Reflector I profess I cannot help it for I neither have nor know where to beg buy or borrow a light or clear Riddle Nor dare I be so unmerciful to my self as to be at the pains to unriddle this Query having had task enough to prepare nine Questions all spig-and-span-new for the Reflector and his Learned Club to resolve without being at the drudgery to answer 'em my self But in charity to the Reflector do advise him hereafter not to quote unnecessarily I say not Impertinently that distinction between the Personal and Politic Capacity of a King till his improv'd Judgment and Learning qualify him to refute it and then I 'm confident he will let it rest till he has gone first to his own rest or last receptacle Nor will I accept his witty forsooth Application of it as a sufficient evidence that he ever understood conscentious fighting much less actually did conscientiously fight for King Charles or his Sovereign QVERY IV. Whether the same or a different Genius inspired the Reflector when he wrote his Remarks on the fourth Question and his first Paragraph I cannot divine if a different then without question his evil Genius suggested the former and his good the latter but if one inspired both to be sure it was one of the Elfs of that pragmatical Legion he drove to the Northern Regions which brought seven Spirits more robust than it self to avenge the affront on the Reflector Omne malum a Septentrione In his first Paragraph he makes the Apologist guilty of what not towards his Sovereign here he says of him he i. e. the Apologist so generally absolves our gracious Soveraign but I do assure the Reflector I shall not absolve him nay I impeach him of and retort upon him the same Crimes i. e. his most rudely irrationally but very bluntly treating his Sovereign The Impeachment consists of two Articles First He makes his Sovereign a Transgressor for where there is no Transgression there can be no Absolution Where by the way I would know of the Reflector 〈…〉 England If the former 〈◊〉 ridiculous has he made himself by ridiculing the distinction between the Kings Personal and Politic Capacity or Charles and Sovereign The Second Article is his Innuendo of the Kings receiving Absolution i. e. Pardon from a Subject Both Articles are prov'd by his own words now quoted I might add a third That he affirms Absolution given without inquiring whether the Absolver be a Priest or no. I might further impeach the Reflector of palpable prevarication for in the same Sentence wherein he makes me an Absolver of my Sovereign the City of London and the Dissenters I expresly Absolve the Moderat Conformists which he studiously conceals Therefor the Church of England which he civilly says I maliciously intend to cast the guilt and odium upon can be no other than the Immoderate Conformists to whose bounty I recommend the Reflector for a reward of his good Service Nor will I impeach his Ergo as illogically inferred because he seems to have borrowed his Mode of Syllogizing from the before mentioned King James his Dogs who at a fault thus argued with their noses the Hare did not run this way nor that way tarbox the third way QVERY V. VI. The Reflector being agreed with me in the Fifth Query I must attend his resolution of the Sixth I appeal to the Reader whether in his Reflections on