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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88587	A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the ministers of London, from the scandalous aspersions of John Price, in a pamphlet of his, entituled, Clerico-classicum or, The clergies alarum to a third war. Wherein his king-killing doctrine is confuted. The authors by him alledged, as defending it, cleared. The ministers of London vindicated. The follies, and falsities of Iohn Price discovered. The protestation, vow, and the Covenant explained. / By a friend to a regulated monarchy, a free Parliament, an obedient army, and a godly ministry; but an enemy to tyranny, malignity, anarchy and heresie.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1649 (1649)	Wing L3168; Thomason E549_10; ESTC R204339	63,269	85

A MODEST and CLEAR VINDICATION Of the Serious Representation and late Vindication Of the Ministers of London from the Scandalous Aspersions of JOHN PRICE In a Pamphlet of his Entituled CLERICO-CLASSICVM OR The Clergies Alarum to a third War WHEREIN His King-killing Doctrine is confuted The Authors by him alledged as defending it cleared The Ministers of London vindicated The follies and falsities of Iohn Price discovered The Protestation Vow and the Covenant explained By a friend to a regulated Monarchy a free Parliament an obedient Army and a Godly Ministry but an enemy to Tyranny Malignity Anarchy and Heresie Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you Mat. 5. 11 12. You fight for the recovery of the Kings Royall person out of the hands of those misereants and reinstate Him in His Royal throne and dignity that both he and His Posterity may yet flourish in their Royalty so that notwithstanding all contradictions you fight for your King John Price in his Spirituall Snapsack for the Parliaments Souldiers p. 8. London Printed for Stephen Bowtell and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Bible in Popes-head-alley 1649. To the Reverend and learned Ministers of the Gospel within the Province of London subscribers of the Serious Representation and late Vindication REVEREND SIRS YOu are those whom I honour and love in truth for the truths sake that dwels in you and is so faithfully promoted by you Many besides my selfe rise up and call you blessed for that Serious Representation of your judgments c. and seasonable Vindication of your persons and Ministry which were lately published in print T is true 't is your lot that you who are Embassadors of peace are now lookt upon as men of contention they who once counted your feet beautifull say now the mark of the Beast is on your forehead yea they who would have pulled out their eyes to have done you good are now so filled with prejudice and passion that they would pull out your eyes to doe you hurt this is the best requitall the more you love the less you are loved of them though the people are in such a distempered Phrensie yet I know this provokes your pity not your fury I perceive you are made the But of Satans malice because you make the glory of God and good of souls the mark you aim at in the course of your Ministry the Devill will not let you be at rest because you will not suffer the sins of the times to be at quiet Since the publication of your Letter and Vindication there are many scurr●lous Pamphlets spread abroad which labour to stain the integrity of your hearts and the truth of your testimony among the rest there is one written by John Price which is stuffe● with such falsities absurdities tautalogies calumnies and animosities with such railings and revilings as if he were of the race of Rabs●ekah or the linage of Shime● the Lord rebuke him and clear you He presents you to the world as guilty of malignity perjury hypocrisie as wanting Ministeriall abilities and void of the ingenuity that becomes Ministers of the Gospel as men of falshood deceit dissention and what not but what you are It may be your comfort to consider that so persecuted they the Prophets who were before you Elijah was called a troubler of Israel in the Old Testament Paul a mover of sedition in the New When I considered what August said that a Ministers good conscience is sufficient for himself yet his good name is necessary for others I thought fit to endeavour the Vindication of your names and Ministry from those unjust aspersions cast upon you by many sons of slander your names which are as precious oyntment poured forth spreading the sweet savour of the knowledg of Christ in many places will not want sons of Belzebub as so many flies to corrupt them yet this may be your confidence that although they make their mouths as open sepulchers to bury your names and reputations in yet there shall be a resurrection of names as wel as bodies at the last day at which time all your reproach shall be wiped away and your Revilers made ashamed who have fasly accused your good conversation in Christ This is the prayer and confidence of him who is 〈◊〉 CHRIST-LOVER I HOPE and a Lover of you in him Dated this 13 March 1648. from my house about the middle way between Whitehall and Whitechappell A MODEST and CLEAR VINDICATION Of the Serious Representation and late Vindication Of the Ministers of London from the Scandalous Aspersions of JOHN PRIC● In a Pamphlet of his Entituled CLERICO-CLASSICVM OR The Clergies Alarum to a third War John Price WOULD one imagine that you who thought your self once so good an Alchymist as to extract * honey out of the rock should now such poyson out of a flower I cannot compare you to a Bee unlesse for your sting but to a Spider for sucking poyson from that savory and serious Representation and late Vindication of the Ministers of London against whom you have spit so much of your venome I shal not return you rayling for rayling slander for slander but in a spirit of meekness indeavour to discover your sin to recover your soul Before I shal take a survey of your book in particular I shall give you this observation in the generall That either I was not my self when I read your book or you were not your self when you made it The latter I am induced to beleeve upon this ground in your book you declare your judgment for taking away the li●● of the King and blame the Ministers of London for expressing themselves to the contrary now had you been your self undoubtedly you would not have declared your self for killing the King in this book yet professe against it in another made by you when you were of a more sober sp●●it In your book entituled * A Spirituall Snapsack for the Parliament Souldiers you speak to them in these words You fight for the Recovery of the Kings Royall person out of the hands of these mis●r●ants and re-instate him in his Royall Throne and Dignity that both Hee and His Posterity if God will may yet flourish in their Royalty so that notwithstanding all contradictions you sight for your King 〈◊〉 forbear to descant upon your words he that will compare your two books together must think you if not out of your wit● yet at least out of your way Oh that I might reclaim you that is all the hurt I wish you Passing by your slanderous Title and Epistle I come to a particular survey of your book it self You say The Letter writers are as they say Ministers of the Gospel so the false Prophets of old