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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54244	Truth rescued from imposture, or, A brief reply to a meer rapsodie of lies, folly, and slander but a pretended answer to the tryal of W. Penn and W. Meade &c. writ and subscribed S.S. / by a profest enemy to oppression, W.P.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.; Rudyard, Thomas, d. 1692. An appendix, wherein the fourth section of S.S. his pamphlet ... examined.	1670 (1670)	Wing P1392; ESTC R36662	46,879	75

Truth Rescued FROM IMPOSTURE OR A Brief REPLY to a meer Rapsodie of Lies Folly and Slander But a pretended Answer to the Tryal of W. Penn and W. Mead c. writ and subscrib'd S.S. By a profest Enemy to Oppression W.P. A Fools Lips enter into Contention and his Mouth calleth for Strokes Prov. 18.6 A Whip for the Horse a Bridle for the Ass and a Rod for the Fools Back Prov. 26.3 Printed in the Year 1670. To the READER I Take him to be an unhapy man that knows not an Enemy upon Earth and therefore judge my self not a little happy to be so ill reputed by S.S. that of all men I have reason to believe one of the most infamous Yet that I may be just to him as well as to my self I do beseech the Reader first to peruse his Fardle of Impostures and Abuse before thou read'st me lest thou shouldst think I have wrong'd him in citation So scurrilous so false and withal so ridiculous is he in his whole conceited Enterprize that but a little charity would make one think that no man could be so great an Enemy to Truth and to Himself Surely his Fondness of being in Print wholly blinded his discretion or else methinks he would have stopt't to give so great an evidence of his Folly One would have thought it Impudence enough to act such Tyranny without an Appology to defend it But as that 's an aggravation of his Gilt so let the man remember that Litera scripta manet I know it well become his Front and every part thereof bears exactly his resemblance 'T is pitty but all the Peoples Enemies should give as wise grounds of their abuse of them and their Laws as this Man has done I am concern'd in a double sence First in defence of my Conscience and therein the Liberties of my Country And next of the Reputation of my deceased Father by him injur'd beyond the instance of a Presedent or allowance of an Excuse Being then thus boysterously attaqu'd in my Religious Civil and Natural Capacity let not any wonder that I imply the force of all to my just defence And if I have so much credit with the Reader believe me I will without the least Scruple give him his compleat weight and measure for I desire not to hold my Life or Liberty on better tearms then whilst I am bold to justifie the Truth at any Cost against the false and peevish Essays of her Adversaries Truth Rescued from Imposture c. Part I. I Have to do with one who dares to profess himself a Patriot and that of so great importance to his Country as on his happy Cry of Miles noli regem ferire the Safety of King and Kingdom have their sole dependance But as I am perswaded that piece of Arrogancy was unexpected by most and his inability too notorious to admit any the least jealousie of such an Enterprize so has he given the greatest Stroke imaginable to himself and those he would seem to vindicate in offering at the poor Quakers for whom his weakness makes sufficient Appollogy and amongst them I am not the least that ought to account my self indebted The second discovery of himself is not less Incharitable then the first was Proud and Impudent He does not only take occasion to fall most foolishly upon our Tryal but as unwarrantably believes 't was I that writ it but should I grant him so much Faith for I believe him to have little I shall appeal to all impartial men If a bare Conjecture and more he proves not be ground sufficient for him to vent so many rank Reflections and that not only upon my self but my deceased Father It either argues he had better Intellegence in the following Pages or that his desire I should be Author of it had changed his Faith into a fancied Certainty which gives sufficient testimony of his Prejudice And as if he doubted there might have been another William Penn that might be an whole Quaker he is pleased to distinguish me from him with this diminitive Expression of William Penn the half Quaker thereby intimating how much worse he supposes half Quakers to be then whole Ones for none can think he said so out of Kindness to me when his Discourse not only singles me out for all Abuse but as not contented with that disturbs my Fathers Grave with his forg'd Aspersions and then places them to my Accompt But whilst I think not my self a little injured by his scurrilous Epethite believing he meant I was not a sincere but interested and turbulent One I heartily rejoyce that out of his own Mouth he has justified my Friends by preferring an intire Quaker before all half or mungril Ones yet if an half one be so fatal and heavy on the Shoulders of Oppressors that they do scarce dare to own their own Appologies how dreadful must an whole One be â He says in this Expression so much for us that he scarcely needs more against himself But because he believes I writ it therefore he can give it no other Name to use his own words but the Second Part to his Blasphemous Treatise called the Sandy Foundation shaken O egregious Nonsence This ridiculous Non sequitur either shews him to have been a man of a very stegmatick head or else that he has ill bestowed his time who can write no better sence yet for that these two Subjects are in the nature of them very different is manifest But perhaps he thinks it no small piece of Blasphemy to tell the World of the late irregular Proceedings at the Old-Baily Nor does he less wound his own Cause by acknowledging the Book entituled The Peoples Ancient and Just Liberties Asserted which designs to detect on what Foundation the Mayor Recorder c. did proceed to be the second part to the Sandy One manifestly implying theirs to be such His sense of my Faith or rather Disbelief of the Trinity is a wretched Mistake not to say a voluntary one for I never quarrelled the word Trinity it being borrowed of the Latine word Trinus in English Three but alwayes did and do believe the same But why should I insist upon a Point so abstruse and that to a man so unintelligent in more minute matters as that he hath not yet learnt a distinction betwixt Discourses of Civil Liberty and Divine Faith but ignorantly makes the one to be a necessary Consequence from the Supposed Mistake in the other I might here over-look his abusive Reflections upon me as Author of the Trial c. which he urges with no small Zeal by unconcerning my self in the matter But I confess to owe so much of Real Kindness to the Author and many parts of the Discourse that I shall gladly imbrace the occasion of making his Defence The Man resolving I must be the Author sets me up as such and then fights me or rather pelts Dirt at me He says that Penn does not blush to Vilifie

These words do no wayes justifie the Papists if these Libellers had but the least grain of Charity they would have construed the words cum grano salis as the Rule of Charity directs all words to be come strued And they will admit of no other construction but this viz. That if the Papists be so pollitick and prudent by their Inquisitian to maintain their false Religion surely it will be the Protestants prudence to find wayes for the preservation of their true Religion pag. 9. I have been very faithfull and patient in the recital of this poor Defence of which I can give no better Character then that t is like the rest 'T is manifest the words are granted I now hope they will not be longer dis-believed when confirmed by the hands of two Witnesses the Author of the Tryal and this priviledged S.S. But he says it ought to be construed cum grano salis with allowances and in the best sense which Counsel had been tollerable from any but from him that has shown himself so void of any and that which is the Master-piece of all his foolery is his ridiculous Construction he makes of it Himself as if that could be a good Way of preserving the Protestant Religion that is an Hellish ONE in the Papists But why an Hellish One Because it intends to force to an Hetrodox Religion and not rather by reason of the coercive barbarous Nature of the Punishment it self And can any think that an Inquisition to inforce Men to Confess to the Protestant FAITH is not equally Cruel with that of the Papists The Protestants would be so far from having any Advantage upon the Papists for the Inhumanity of his Inquisition that his own Practice would seem but The Second Edition of the Papists Cruelty It is not either of those Names that renders it more or less lawful but the Nature of the thing it self And had this Libeller but ever read the ancient Protestant Apollogies he might have better informed his peevish Mind of their Opinions The true Religion took ever Sanctuary to its own Innocency and Verity and not to the Dumb Materials of External Force But this Expression would make one think that under a Protestant Profession there lodgeth a Popish Spirit and that the same Interest which urged Spain to erect an Inquisition in the Recorders sence should obliege England to employ the same Hellish Tyranny to torture her poor Dissenters though Free-born Natives But if that were his Meaning and such Counsel should be taken it were endless to consider the unexpressible Miseries that would attend us All Law would be subjected to the zealous Anathemas of Ecclesiastical Officers and Religion speak no other Language then that of INQUISITION We have hitherto boasted much in the Self-evidencing verity of the Protestant Faith but this were to bring it justly into jealousie with all that having so long decryed Coercive Power should vehemently employ it to its own-promotion The Papists would not only have cause to believe the ground of primative Seperation was single Interest but an Example to their hand what measure they ought to meet to the Pootestants abroad which reduceth all Religion in a way of subserviency to the Government and Conscience to its Conveniency But this had been forgotten as well as it is forgiven had not the Inadvertency of S.S. brought it the second time upon the Stage Part III. A Vindication of my Deceased Fathers Reputation from the False and Unworthy Reflections of this Scandalous Libeller SInce to Disturb the Grave and Rake into the Ashes of the Dead was ever held detestable with Infidels we may on easie tearms inform our selves to what an ebb of Vertue this man has brought himself who is so dry of all Christianity that there remains not the least Drop of that vulgar Decency eminently in vogue with very Heathens For as with them such might justly be accus'd as were not disabled from answering for themselves so Death having dislodged the Persons of any their Charity esteemed it a protection to their Names from whence came that common Saying De mortuis nil nisi bonum Let us speak no ill thing of the Dead But though this be urg'd yet that it s as ill observ'd by S.S. I shall proceed to shew He takes occasion in the close of his defence of S. Starling to fall thus heavily upon me and my Father as if he could not do the one without the other But I suppose this wild rambling Colt W. Penn mistakes when he chargeth these things upon the late Lord Mayor he means his SEIR deceis'd Doubtless the Man was toucht What course Similitudes are these Did ever man so Brute himself in Print But I dispise his Drayish Terms and apply my self to scan the matter leaving him to wipe himself of that Dirt he thought to cast on others I had so little reason to doubt my Fathers constancy that in the sense debated I know few of greater 'T is true He was actually ingaged both under the Parliament and King but not as an Actor in our late Domestick Troubles his Compass alwayes steering him to eye a National Concern and not Intestine Wars and therefore not so aptly theirs in a way of opposition as the Nations His Service therefore being wholly Forrain He may be truly said to serve his Country rather then either of those Interests so far as they were distinct to each other and for this Evil I hope he may be held excusable But the Rayler proceeds Who from a Captain was made Oliver's High Admiral for his great Service in promoting that new Instrument Which is a Lye so impudent as both his Commission and Men of note can prove That First he made no such extempory leap as is suggested to have been his Recompence for promoting Crumwells Interest but past through many known Offices as of Rere-Admiral Vice-Admiral and Admiral of Ireland and Vice-Admiral of England before he had the General ship conferred on him And Secondly That Oliver was but then General himself and not proclaim'd Protector till several Moneths if not above a Year after the death of General Dean whom my Father immediately succeeded And therefore a very Forgery that for promoting that new Instrument he first was advanced to the Office of High-Admiral I would that this Libeller should know that from a Lieutenant he had past through all the eminent Offices of Sea-Imploymeâ—t and arrived to that of General about the Thirtieth Yeâ—r of his Age in a time full of the biggest Sea-Action that any Story mentions and when neither Bribes nor Alliance Favour nor Affection but Ability only could Promote I write not this to Vaunt it is below my Principle and Practise but to defend an abused Relation I could say no less He adds Who afterwards did eminent service for the English Nation at Hispaniola when he delivered the Flower of the English-Souldiery a Sacrifice to the Cow-killers This is an Untruth so manifest that no man making Conscience

the Kings Court and falsly Reproach the Kings Justices and revile all Methods of Law calling Indictments detestable Juggles and his a Romance Indictment and W. Mead his a Bundle of Stuff Penn designing in a popular way to subject the Laws making the Jury Judges both of Law and Fact If I had blusht it must either have been from mine own Guilt or by way of reflection from the Bench but as I was wholy innocent of that Crime which could have made me conscious so was there not Modesty enough amongst some of the Bench to blush at their Irregularities I detest that Aspersion of vilifying Law or reproaching the Kings Justices since the greatest Crime some observed against me whilst at the Bar was my frequent Demands of Right by those very Fundamental Laws I am charged to have contemned These are but meer Phrases of Abuse ready at every mans hand for his interest Indictments I Esteem not Juggles nor do I believe the Author intended so but that way of crouding most unnecessary and untrue Allegations under the pretence of Form of Law contrary to all Reason is no less This is explained by him and his own sence fully vindicated He therefore understood what he said when he compared the falsity of our Indictment to that of a Romance which however methodical yet is but meer Fancy still For those things being absent that render an Indictment true it will follow that such an Indictment is altogether incongruous â—â—d inapplicable It is an hard Case that men should so Nickname things as to call an honest Confidence Impudence and my asserting of the Supremacy of Fundamental Laws against their new Inchrâ—achments a subverting of them I Rejoyce to think that many were there present whose relation of that Transaction has done me the justice of a vindication and given our Tryal the Credit which it is utterly impossible for the endeavours of S.S. and his malicious Cabal ever to diminish or traduce He makes it a Capital Crime to assert the Jury Judges of Law and Fact but poorly shifts off those Arguments aptly used by the Author of the Tryal in defâ—nce of his position for farther satisfaction I referr the Reader to the Fourth Part of this Discourse He says I was commanded to the Bale-Dock for Turbulency and Impertinency I confess if I had been as Guilty as I was innocent of being so offensive they had been very incompetent Judges whose own passion rendred them so much what they say of me that many Spectators questioned If theâ— were themselves They that read the Tryal may quickly inform themselves of my kind of Impertenency and with the same trouble of their Billingsgate Rhetorick in Phrases so scurrilous that never did Men subject themselves to a more deserved Censure of want of common Civility then at our Tryal But the man breaks forth into an extatical Caution to those of the Long Robe lest we should assassinate their Persons at least besiege and rifle their Westminster Hall His words are these Now Gentlemen of the Long Robe look to your selves and your Westminster Hall And why Because that Juries are affirmed to be Judges of Law and Fact as if that were an overthrow to the Law that the most learned and honest of the Robe made an hearty Profession of in the sence urged But I appeal to those of the Long Robe as he stiles them whether such Arbitrary Proceedings as over-ruling all Pleas Verdicts Prisoners and Juries at the rate of the Old-Baily 1st 3d 4th 5th of September 1670. with their severe Rebukes and harsh Menaces be not more apparently destructive of the Fundamental Laws in the free course of them and practice of Lawyers then the Authors Assertion in his Discourse of the Peoples Antient and Just Liberties c. He urges this Caution to the Lawyers with no small pretence to Reason and Rhetorick For says he If that these learned Reformers of Religion shall likewise reform your Laws and Methods of Proceedings as doubtless they design it farewel then to your great Acquisitions c. But I must tell him that as he is an incompetent Judge of Religion that practices so little of any so I publish a plain Challenge to him and the old Man within the Curtain the Oracle of his Law Gibberish to produce an avow'd Instance by any Lawyer of the Irregularies and Arbitrary Actions they vainly attempt to defend And whether our well meant Plea for English Priviledge be most destructive of great Acquisitions or their unhinging thâ— well hung Laws of England to turn all Tryals upon the sole pin of Will and Power let the very Lawyer judge I affirm such give the justest ground of bidding farewell to all great Acquisitions that are so ready to welcome INQVISITIONS â—e ventures to urge the Great Charter and to give an Exposition as ridiculous as the other is fictitious his kindness for the Law being to kill it in palliating his real fear and abhorrence of all good Laws with his pretended respect for them But of this I will say little leaving it to an whole part by it self and proceed to consider the rest of his Wild Reflections His comparison of us to John of Leyden is ignorant and malicious Ignorant because he seems to know no better our Principles that utterly abhor to promote Religion by Blood Malicious because he slanders us without the least desert and seems not so much to heed the Truth as odium of his Comparison And but that it is a vulgar Trick to put the Woolfs Skin upon the Sheep and the Sheeps Skin upon thâ— Woolf I should enlarge upon his ugly Epithites Part II. S.S. his Answer to the pretended Calumnies of the TRYAL Considered HAving given my self a loose shake of the Calumnies of his first Section saving that part which concerns the power of Juries to be considered by it self I shall descend to examin his second if possibly I may find more of Truth Sence and Civility He pretâ—nds to so much Scripture and which is worse applies it to his own shame as to front his second Section with the 9th and 10th Verses of the Epistle of Jude Ver. 9. Yet Michael the Arch-Angel when contending with the Devil he disputed about the Body of Moses durst not bring against him a railing Accusation but said The Lord rebuke thee Ver. 10. But these speak evil of those things which they know not Upon this Text he preaches thus pag. 4. These People called Quakers if they are to be believed will tell they have this Angellical Spirit the Meekness of Moses the Patience of Job and all other Graces but the contrary appears fol. 57. of W. Penns Book vide this Passage But above all Dissenters had little reason to have expected that boarishâ— sierceness from the Mayor of London when they consider hâ—s eager prosecution of the Kings Party under Cromwels Government as-thinking he could never give too great a Testimony of his Loyalty to that new Instrument which makes

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