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hand_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	6,232	5	10.0779	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10046	The defence of truth against a booke falsely called The triumph of truth sent over from Arras A.D. 1609. By Humfrey Leech late minister Which booke in all particulars is answered, and the adioining motiues of his revolt confuted: by Daniell Price, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford, chaplaine in ordinary to the most high and mighty, the Prince of Wales.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.; Leech, Humphrey, 1571-1629. Triumph of truth.	1610 (1610)	STC 20292; ESTC S115193	202,996	384

fierce as a tyger in tongue poysenous as an aspe in eie deadly as a Cockatrice in hand bloudy as a Lyon O avoide the heate of a Iesuite he is hell fire heaping powder breathing fire writing blood c Reip. geren praecept Plutarchs speech is true that fire beginneth not commonly in publike and sacred places but often breeds first in a private house by some snuff of a candle among straw and after sets on fire Churches and Temples so the stinking snuffes of candles that fall among quarrelling papers in the study of a male content if they be not quenched may fire Gods Church Take care that you be not so inflamed Mr LEECH And though divers of my best friends whose intreaty in any other matter might haue prevailed with me dissuaded me from this enterprise as being to full of perill fearing the violence of the time and the manifold dangers that by this resolution I stood likely to expose my selfe vnto yet ten thousand such like motiues of terrour could not detaine me nor deterre my resolution For a higher hand then humane euen the hand of heauen so ouerruled me commanding nay countermaunding all my affections that way that partly the pure zeale and entire affection which I euer bare vnto the blessed Fathers being wholy indebted vnto them for that little which I haue and partly my devoted loue vnto many of that Vniversitie whome I could not patiently suffer to be thus perverted in so main a doctrine tending to all Religious piety and lastly the perfit hatred that from my innermost soule I ever conceiued against Puritanisme the very bane of ancient Christianity these I say and the like motiues to recollect thē altogether could not suffer me without the shipwrack of all conscience to fit still and to be silent whilst God his eternall truth Christ his holy direction and the perpetuall tradition of the Catholike mother-Church were so publikely impugned and so notoriously prophaned ANSVVER Importunity of friends could not withdraw you manifold insuing perills could not touch you yet the d Booke of Canons agreed vpon with the Kings Maiesties licens in the Synod at London 1603 Canon 53. Canon provided against the publike contradiction of Preachers in the pulpit should haue staid you You attribute your act to the hand of heauen very rashly Howsoever e Senec. quicquid agimus quicquid patimur venit ex alto as the Poet well noteth yet that by the hand of heauen you should be moued so much to magnify the arme of flesh that whereas God f Iob. laieth folly on his Angells you will lay such perfection of glory on his mortall creatures it may seeme strange It was not the direction of the hand of heauen Your motiues commanding and countermanding you were as you say first your entire affection vnto the Fathers 1. Mot. your mother the Church should haue been dearer vnto you then all your Fathers her peace more thē their credit her maintained religion rather then out of thē your conceited opinion But you would vncouer nakednesse in the Fathers where there is none the Fathers disclaime your position for illegitimate I knowe you boast that you haue read all the Fathers and I thinke you haue seene all the world but the one in a mappe the other in a modell In this your tract when you bragge so much of reading the Fathers it calleth to my memory the distinction of g Goron Goronides concerning readers some are spunges which draw vp all with out distinguishing others are houre-glasses which receiue and powre out as fast as they fill others are bagges which retaine only the dregges of the spices and let the purest escape 2 Mot. others like Sieues only retaine the best I reckon you in the first number Your second motiue was your devoted loue to many of that Vniversity whom you could not suffer patiently to be thus perverted in so maine a point of doctrine tending to all religious piety Did ever any point that you preacht gaine any such beleef applause acceptance as that you should imagine that many would haue been perverted but for the opening thereof by you Or was that so main a point tending to all religious piety which served for no other vse but the induction of Monkery when as Monkery it selfe is but the privation of vertue the life of vice the habitation of darknesse stoue and stews of filthines 3 Mot. lethargie of drowsinesse dormitory of prophanesse and profession of idlenesse Your third motiue was the perfit hatred that from your innermost soul you conceiued against Puritanisme which you call the very bane of ancient Christianity For Puritanisme if there be any sparke of conscience or religious feare of God in you confesse how idely you traduce those reverend Fathers that opposed your doctrine These were no Motiues Temptations were your motiues which you obeyed by the Tēpter you were drawn to runne from God from the truth from your Country from your selfe Mr LEECH 1. Reg. 26. Therefore as Abishai out of his loue to his annointed king said vnto David Benefield with all his compeeres when he ment by one blow surely laid on to end all quarrels betwixt Saule and him let me strike him but once yea naile him to the earth with a speare seeing God hath thus closed him into thy hāds I wil strike him no more even so to apply the wordes only for I iustifie not the intēded fact of Abishai my loue vnto the king of heaven when I purposed by one other blow soundly given to end this controversie forced me to cry within any hart let me strike him but once I will strike him no more ANSVVER Your abuse of Scripture is so cōmon through out your booke that I admire it not only here 1. Sam. 26.8 in your wresting of that place of Abishais speech Let me strike him but once and naile him to the ground Impar congressus Achilli it was a very vnequall match Abishai vnworthie to strike a king and Abishag the fathers ignorāce as the word importeth vnworthy to deale with a Doctor First I marvaile you woulde offer to strike seeing S. Paule hath bounde all clergie men to the peace 1. Tim 3.2 2. Tim. 4.10 and to the good behaviour But Demas is fallen away and forgetteth S. Paule But if you would strike think you that this Paper-gun can strike downe such a worthy of Israell Caedars stir not at such blasts strong martialists fall not at such blowes Giue me leaue to catechise you in the intended fact of Abishay to kill Saule Doe not you iustifie it Take heede least you bee put out of cōmons againe Are you one of those Israelits that spake Ashdod and Hebrew Do not you iustifie that horid fact of that tragike fury who hath lately murthered that most illustrious and Victorious Prince the French King which howsoever that blood shall ever cry for vengeance being an act h Seneca in