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A fair character of the Presbyterian reformling's just and sober vindication of his observations upon the 30th of January, and the 29th of May, in defence of the reformer rack'd. Being an answer to J.G.G.'s new vile rant, and the Weekly Observator's invidious and false reflections on it.
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to signifie a Dogma or an Opinion good or ill strictly taken it signifies in the Schools an Opinion contrary to sound and fundamental Principles of Religion Hence the Theologue's Axioms Non quilibet Error facit Haereticum Non omnis Schismaticus est Hareticus Wolleb Th. Christ pag. 137. Schismaticus est qui salvo fidei fundamento à ritu aliquo Ecclesiae petulanter ambitionis studio discedit But he goes on aut enim erratur meaning ab Haeretico in fundamento ut fit ab Arrianis Marcionitis quorum illi Deitatem hi vero humanitatem Christi negant aut circa fundamentum qualiter Errant Pontificii docentes transubstantiationem quâ naturae humanae Christi veritas tollitur aut praeter fundamentum quales Errores à Paulo faeno ligno c. assimilantur 1 Cor. 3.12 And in fine that CALVINISM is Heretical in a larger Acceptation and in the stricter sense of Heresie PRAETER FUNDAMENTUM I assert Through the Labyrinths of Logick is not the easiest way to Heaven nor overmuch Curiosity the readiest course to search out Truth by Nevertheless if they will have Recourse to their Ante-Predicaments and consider that it is only * Aristotle's Organon Analogum per se positum quod praesumitur stare pro famosiore analogato and but make out Their Calumny of Nonsense upon my Assertion by proving à Consilio that there cannot be assigned any reason of an analogical Dependance or Similitude between CALVINISM and ARRIANISM c. Cur conveniant in nomine Haereseos I will recant my Error as willingly as he that makes as common a Trade of Begging Pardons as of Writing pieces of Scandal What Impertinence is it for Them to say I look upon CALVINISM as an Heresie as damnable as Socinianism Arrianism and Anabaptism when the Distinction and Degrees of their Wickedness is manifested in the Cadence of the Sentence where I allot the Destruction of the Fundamentals of our Religion to Arrianism Socinianism or Anabaptism and the Abolition or Abrogation of our Lawful Ceremonies only to Calvinism or Commonwealthism So the Physician may prescribe to his Patient against Pease-Pottage Livers Lights Hasty-Pudding Wine Cherries they are bad for him in a Fever and unwholsome Food in a sanebrisk Constitution yet he would not have all these dislik'd with an equal Disgust But to give Mr. Observator a more sensible Example of his Misunderstanding if I mention ATWOOD Bellwood Wellwood Elwood or any other ill Wood yet perhaps I should never find such a special Stick as he nor mean to bring the rest into equal Disgrace of Prodigality and Profuseness of Pen Tongue or Estate with Him Their great Concern for Unity in Religion they may imagine will justifie them in branding me with Nonsense and abusive Language This is pretty Sophistry with a witness as Quiblers when strain'd and have little more to say make use of a true Proposition to infer and quirk in an Erroneous Conclusion Fallacies are difficultly detected but easily refuted and solved after a Discovery Pettifoggers will still be citing Law as quick and voluble as Mercury to authorize their Injustice Barretry and Vexations The Observator's Religion I surmise is reformed according to the fundamental Articles of Scold of Railery How should we expect an Harmonicon in Discords a Peace or Reconciliation with those Zealots who are so madded with Spirit and I know not what of Bigotry of Persuasion that they are fitter to pick Straws in Bedlam than to Preach or Lecture an Union about the Nation One is for shoving the heavy ars'd Christian to Heaven or making high-heel'd shooes for the Dwarf in Christ Another wildly harangues that if we have not better Success with our Arms against Turkish Lewis the ensuing Campaign he will conclude that God is turn'd Jacobite Bâ—verley Burgess But he prayed that he would rather stand Neuter and have no more to do in our Camps than the Kings of Sweden and Denmark A third found King William out in the Revelations but not till some time after the Prince of Orange landed at Torbay while the poor Revelationer mistook the Fleet-prison for God's Cabinet This is their Triumvirate of Frenzy and the Presbyterians Gullery The Reformling pag. 36.69 repeats Were it better to wrap up our Gospel-Talents in an idle Napkin of Silence and Oblivion than to preach and Evangelize the Jews out of the pale of the Christian Church Reform Rack'd p. 19. for a piece of uncharitable Monstrosity Was the Messias crucified the Lord of Eternal Life put to Death And do not the Jews disbelieve the whole History Must they not be told they are no Christians then That they are of the wrong side of the Hedge or Pale Yet if the Unbelievers will come over we are willing to lend them a hand and think it no Trespass That they would come in and welcome is the meaning of my Evangelizing them out But he handles the Napkin as if he had got the Glander with a Horse-pox to him and makes no better use of it than the Widow in Don Quevedo throwing Snot about the Mourning-Room He might as well have busied himself about computing how many Bushels of Flegm would go to manuring an Acre of Land as in sniveling at me and misrepresenting an idle Napkin of Oblivion and Silence might as well have said they had washed their hands cleaner than Pilot in a Laver of Repentance and that the Jews and Moorish Infidels whose Religion lies not in their Skins I confess were now as fair Christians as any in Europe To call Mr. Observator a Bankrupt of Reason as well as Estate would be but Fleet-Language and he may keep his Tongue a prisoner to his Heart there too his Pen to his Ink-Bottle his politick Thoughts to his Head for he 's indebted more to the News-monger for acceptance and perusal of Mercurius Britannicus than ever he will be able to repay with Wit or Policy But if Observatoring is his Livelihood I shall give him free leave to have a fling at me when he pleases no to make me his Jack-a-lent as many Throws as he will if he can make a penny on 't And if I suffer a Shrove-Tuesdays persecution to get him a Mess of Cock-broth will not he dye me with Red for a Martyr of my own Folly in his Diary How Authoritatively he Lords it over the High-Churchmen with Bluster Rancour and Bile He can find nothing but Priest-Craft among them can hear nothing from the Pulpit on the Day of King Charles 's Martyrdom but Invectives railing Accusations and abusive Language instead of Christian Exhortations to Repentance Union and Charity and his appealing to all the Sermons that have been published on that Subject is notorious just such another Appeal to prove HIMSELF mendacious as SOME BODY brought to prove Himself a Cuckold He romances yet a little farther and calls me a Champion of our Church Christendom had but seven I thank him for the honour of an Eighth Champion and return him a SAPIENTUM OCTAVUS for that How Magisterial he is with his pennyworth of Licensed Scribble Page 19. and the Reformling Pedant with his Lash of Punishment in dealing with me not by Argument but Remonstrance not by their vaunted Moderation but Menace of having me made an Example and our Church purged of me too And had they the power of Executing the arbitrary By-Laws of their Sic volo's Cross and Pile whether they would make any Bones of Difference whether I or the Cause I satyrically wrote for and still espouse with the same unblunted edge should drop and perish But the Observator's Mercury has not cured my itch of Writing it tickles the more and I shall never sollicit them to a Cessation of the innocent Arms of Pen Ink and Paper let Them rally again as soon as they can accoutre They cannot disturb my Reputation and Sedateness so long as they cannot plunder or sequestre me of this Humour Alte non temo humili non Sdegno The Cynick vied Conquests with the Great I neither fear the High nor disdain the Low For I esteem it no Disgrace to be censured by those whom I would account it no Credit or Applause to be favoured by Should an Observator commend my Travels I should call my self in question and task my Thoughts with a stricter Scrutiny whether I had not sat all my Life in the Chimney-Corner and never got farther out of the Smoak than the home-bred Girl that was got on to the top of a high Mountain and cry'd Whoo Father Here 's another World A Man should never publish any thing but only read his own Composures to his own Ears and make Wall-Lectures of them if he were afraid of awaking Envy When the time of Paper-Kiteing comes about and highflown Observators make up most of the giddy Airy thing I shall not truckle under any other Wing but Truth 's let him take me up like a Chicken or Gizzard prey upon me Hagard-like and whistle the Insolence of his false Triumph to the Publick Nevertheless one Courtesie I must beg of my Adversaries when the Clumsy Mercury and the Reformling decypher my Intentions not to tell a Tale of a Tub not to make me intend what they please not to adapt such foreign Idea's to my Words and Phrase not to put such a vast difference between my Text and their Commentaries and lastly not stupidly or maliciously to wrest my Sense and put me to the trouble of being my own Interpreter again for I have only given Them a fair MARFORIO for their PASQUIN FINIS
that were too high for me or handling of Controversies in Religion which required an Ordained Pen. I have often thought of the Story of the silly Ass that carryed the Goddess Isis so long to and from the Temple that at last he began to take State upon him and would needs play the Goddess So I have gone a long time to the Church of England by Law Established and I never yet could call the Preacher God Almighty's Spiritual Merry Andrew or the Lecturer Gods after-noon Jester A Libertine or Atheist may banter his Soul and jest with his Salvation I never thought the Minister in the Surplice an Owl in an Ivy Bush as Islington Cook had it in the days of Oliver's Gospel And I do not yet see any reason for Schism and Dissention Neither am I able to be the tottering Churches Atlas nor to Sampson it down with the strength of Conviction and Division Believe me Reformling I am in the same humour with the modest Lay-Countrey man who coming up to London did not aspire to a Mitre or think to set his Foot at next step of Preferment upon St. Pauls Thus far you see the Front of our Just Sober and Wise VINDICATOR yet enter and his Inner Rooms are no better Furnished At first Salute he begins like a Proclamation opens his Rhetorick and declares as it were for a Kingdom The Mountain is in labour and nascitur Sooterkin Ridiculous Page 1. I not out of any peevish humour and the Verb his great AUXILIARY have taken the freedom comes trotting in jaded seven or eight lines I had like to have said MILES behind His words of Truth and Soberness hang-an-arse too in the mid-way to the journeys period and seem unwilling to come up to his undefiled Worship and say Amen But he hath found out a sore about me and hath an Hospital for the Wounded on the first floor if the Patient will not start take wing or fly out as if he were about curing a Butter-fly which Domitian had unmercifully run up to the Hilts nor make a noise while he handles and probes the unsoundness as if he were about to salve the crackt pericranium of a Wasp in a Honey-pot Let him resolve to crush the Cockatrice-Egg of his own hatching lest in the end it prove a hissing Scrpent to himself The Duramater of his own Brain stands in need of the Physician and I wish the same Gentleman Chirurgeon would be sensible of his own Errors and so become Achillean to cure the Wounds which himself hath made in our Church and State In the next place are his Combustibles Room enough for the Fire of Foxes Tails which shall do no more harm than in Judges 15. Chapter I wonder to see him so much in love with Foxes and Fire-brands A Book called so our burned Child dreads not the Fire He would pun a Man to Death and the shades of Ghosts almost with Lovalist Page 22. LOYOLIST to derive me from LOYOLA a few ap's from a Hellish Pedigree But I will assure him the POPE is none of my Soveraign Lord though such as J. G. G. are Ignatians i.e. Fire-brands to all the World beside Rome may well laugh at the Grinder when she has the Grist Neither do I think Martial's rule an axiom for my Pen Parcere personis dicere de vitiis For I look upon the sly Jesuite and Barge-sainted Fanatick with my own as well as anothers Eye as two dangerous Philistine Foxes that carry between their Tails that Brand of confusion The Lawful deposition of Supream Magistrates Hill at Cambridge prayed Deposc him O Lord who would Dâ—pose us Assem Man p. 14. If their Faces be contrary they are coupled by the Tails and although they may not tug with the same Oar Their Faces look one way against White-hall and Lambeth it is no great matter whether they Row and are bound for Rome or Geneva-hey Here he plays the Doctor upon me again with capouring and vapouring of the Spleen and low parts which cause great fumes and disturbances in the Head And are the Natural Members then subject to the Higher Powers Would he be willing that his Head should ake till he professed this politically If he will agree to 't the Colledge surely must make much of him for his new Invention and honour him like Harvey for a Circulation The Government should call him good Subject stroak him and buy him Monumental Ginger-bread as Clieveland uses the Rebel Scot. Oh! that he could be clawed into a retraction of Noll's Arts and Practices that he would pur and pur while we rub off his Old Mange Then we should hear no such scrieking and catter-wauling against our Church-Order But I am afraid Sir Empirick Presbyter understands not the Nations Pulse Vena Basilica nor the Basilick-vein to make a Politick Phlebotomy and will be working upon the superfluous Humours till he wasts and consumes the very Vitals What signifies this among Friends The Quack and the Sexton are Cater-Cousins still if one can but kill as fast as the other cuts out Oblivion for the Murder Page 1.14 Acts of Parliament will perpetuate Divisions else the Reformling means nothing by laying that scandal at the Parsons Door for Preaching on the Anniversaries of Rebellion and Murder the blessing of Peace and Right for nothing and nothing to purpose in every Ninnys Logick is all one the Saddle on the right Ass is this 〈◊〉 is the English of it we keep up a Church by Law against the Presbyterians and till we line their Purses with her Revenues and Equipe 'em with Cloaks out of our Vestiary they are resolved never to Unite or Mount our Altar Baptistery or Pulpit for they cannot ride Triumphantly else Page 66. and we shall never be eased of the burden din or eternal Clack of their dissenting Faction That our Anniversary Fast and Thanksgiving chiefly disgusts continues or perpetuates their division and Schism I will believe when I see them throw their Carolus a Carolo Money out of their Pockets and hold it Superstitition to carry Britania's Picture about them If the Reformling can give me one probatum of the Truth of Paracelsus's Doctrine That to eat Creatures alive will perpetuate Mans Life I may probably be induced to swallow a less absurdity that our Anniversary Worship wherein in the Creature his Dialect is no otherwise concerned than as a Heinous Sin was committed and a providential blessing was bestowed upon HIM does occasion immortal hatred and Schism which he Englishes perpetuate Divisions Page 37. I am amaz'd to hear the Lawfulness of Preaching Page 42. the blackest Rebellion down to its Grand-fire and right re-inthroned Justice restored up to the King of Kings controverted by any but the Imps and Zanies of Infernal Empire This is the all of our Worship on the Royal Anniversaries and yet dissenting obstinacy says we may as soon meet upon a needless Point as this or center in Union