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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91933	Diapoliteia. A Christian concertation with Mr. Prin, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Harrington, for the true cause of the Commonvvealth. Or, An answer to Mr. Prin's (perditory) anatomy of the Republick, and his true and perfect narrative, &c. To Mr. Baxter's (purgatory) pills for the Army: and his wounding answer to the healing question. With some soft reflections upon his Catholick (or rather Cathulactick) key; and an examen of the late petition of the sixth of July to this Parliament. In all which we have a most necessary vindication of the cause; of the honourable persons now in Parliament and Council, from the venome and vilification of their pens. By Joh. Rogers, thorugh grace kept (under many sufferings) a faithful servant to Jesus Christ, his cause and the Commonwealth.	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?	1659 (1659)	Wing R1806; Thomason E995_25; ESTC R207812	125,898	138

men for Mr. B. to call upon them in power to heat the furnace seven times hotter then it is already or then HE hath done it for so many of the dear servants of Christ makes me amazed And when I excogitate the matter I profess I cannot but presume the case to be much altered with him since he wrote the SAINTS REST when so neer as he thought his Dissolution wherewith I with others was so much affected To write now for the SAINTS RUINE when so neer as we thought a Persecution wherewith we are as much afflicted and may say with the Prophet They have made ready or kirbu applied their hearts like a FVRNACE in their treachery and insnaring bearbam They have been all made hot as an oven jecammu katannur viz. by such as are ever putting in of fuel And it is easie to discern how much his STUDY of CONTROVERSIES has invenom'd his spirit destroyed his charity and delivered him up into the very CONTROVERSIE of STUDIES which without a Retractation will stand as a Monument indelible to his dishonour As if his only work now had been to weave a web like the Spider to catch flies in and then to poyson them The good Lord pardon him and shew him more grace and mercy then he would others before the day wherein the Auditor-General shall cast up his accounts Yea shew him O God what spirit he was of when his PEN was so gangrened against thine innocent ones Thus far for the GANGRENA which filleth all the Avenues and Hollows of his KEY Now for the Scandalum MAGNATVM Whereof not only Mr. B. but a many others by imitation are egregiously guilty for good men may have their Apes as well as Bad who follow nothing more aptly then mocks and mowes and the most unseemly actions such as these of unjust aspersing the Persons of the most incomparable wisedom worth and abilities under God's in the whole Nation which he knows is a Scandalum MAGNATVM and a great crime both in Law and Gospel the punishment thereof hath been so severe both in the Roman Commonwealth and others as I dare not name it lest it should be thought that I did desire it They fix their defamatory Venome and maligne aspect upon the Lord Fleetwood Lieutenant General Ludlow Sir Arthur Hesilerig Sir Henry Vane Sir James Harrington Lord Bradshaw Col. John Jones Mr. Reynolds Maj. Gen. Lambert Major Salloway Mr. Scot and such others both in Parliament and in Council as they conceive have been or are the most Active and eminent Dignitaries in our Orb Whose sparkling virtues and Twinkling lustre like STARS above the upper Region out-shine all such clouding eclipsing Reproaches of the lower Region nihil speciosius est in Victoria quam Virtute Vincere saith Erasm and nothing is like this viz. to overcome EVIL WITH GOOD as the Apostle saith vice with virtue and influences from the Coelum Christallinum of most orient worth and dignity When Demochares who was Demosthenes's Nephew heard a company of people traducing the Worthies of those days 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he What do ye prate for ye malignants for ye exceed the worst that ye can say of them And the truth is should we ask these cruel Calumniators what they mean by this malediction of ALL or of the BEST every man of them must answer for his Malevolence with Zoilus that was called the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for his barking Rhetorick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I speak as evil as I can because I cannot do the mischief that I would and this is so apparent as is not with reason to be denyed but that like Cadmus whom Dr. Sutton tells us of they have sowed the teeth of the Serpent ut ex iis homines Armati prodierent that out of them might arise ARMED MEN of the same breed to execute their design which doubtless is much like to that upon poor CICERO if they could effect it put on by M. Antony and others after all his singular services for the Commonwealth to have him so cast out of esteem as none might plead for him who pleaded for them and the Publick unto his death Cum ejus salutem nemo defendisset qui per tot Annos Publicam Civitatis Privatam Civium defenderat and when they had so done it is a rueful Tragedy to tell how he was murther'd who for the COMMON GOOD was so free to give up his life that he put his Head out of the Litter for his Assassinates to cut it off which Popilius Lenas did with a most ungrateful cruelty seeing CICERO but a little before had saved him from the Gallows I wish the Parliament might in time perpend it lest such Acts of Mercy should prove Acts of Cruelty to themselves and the Publick But Virtus Virtutis eget fultura non satis est jecisse fundamenta Parietes extulisse mediana Cubicula Separasse Sine Tecto c. saith STRADA lib. 3. prelect 3. plantin 2. Virtue must be supported by Virtue in the Commonwealth and it is not enough to lay the fonndation build the walls divide the chambers but to set up a covering and shelter for their principal Rafters from the injury of the Weather too But Mr. B. who is culpable for all this and conscious of the interest as well as of the principal is pleased to pitch upon Sir Henry Vane with the greatest Virulency not without his harsh reflections upon all the rest and as many as sat at the trial of the late King whereof Sir H. V. was none a man of such eminency for piety and prudence honour abilities self-denials and sufferings in the service of Christ and of his DEAR Country as is not so meet to mention whiles he lives lest it come to his ears and prove a snare and lest I fall under the suspition of flattering any man which the Lord knows I dare not knowingly do but with Elihu say as Job 32. 21 22. Let me not NOW accept any mans person face or countenance Al●na essa pene ish neither let me SIRNAME ve al Adam lo akanah or give flattering titles unto ADAM i. e. man in his highest excellencies that as man he is capable of So ENOSH signifies often man in a more corrupt state but ADAM man in a more refined renewed and excellent consideration Psal 56. 1. with 11. and 58. 1 2. and 49. 2 12 c lest if I SIRNAME him akanah my Maker megnat issaeni should a LITTLE cut me off Besides I am sensible what Temptations a poor creature is proclive unto when he comes to be tickled with praises that are indeed due to the testimony wisdom grace or any other excellency of God in such Earthen Vessels which makes me very wary of what I might say and beseech God I may go no further then to what I must say or is of necessity for the truth Seeing as the Apostle saith Not he whom