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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78034	Vindiciæ veritatis: truth vindicated against calumny. In a briefe answer to Dr. Bastwicks two late books, entituled, Independency not Gods ordinance, with the second part, styled the postscript, &c. / By Henry Burton, one of his quondam-fellow-sufferers.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1645 (1645)	Wing B6177; Thomason E302_13; ESTC R200279	28,751	40

and impla●ably hate the Presbyterians as the mortallest enemies they have in the world Now surely were all the Presbyterians in England of your spirit though the Independents would not maliciously hate you as Presbyterians yet cause you would give them sufficient to beware of you as of their mortallest enemies in the world And you boldly conclude saying It is a meere faction and the most Pharisaicall proud envious and malicious sect that ever sprung up doing all out of an arrogant faction as cunning as Gypsies c. Now the Lord rebuke the rayling Rabshakees Pag. 4. He commends the Kings Cavaliers for brave Gentlemen and he found more favour which he doth ever acknowledge for a singular courtesie then ever he found from Protestant Gaolers Was it that you discovered unto them some of that bitternesse of spirit against the Independents or some courtly compliance with Papists preferring them before Independents or Protestants that made those Popish Cavaliers so much to applaud you But doe the Independents accuse your Booke as worthy to be burnt by the common hangman and that you are crased in your braine Surely there is so much fire in the bowels of your booke as in the Trojan horse that a wonder it is it hath not all this while set it selfe on fire with it selfe like that tongue in James 3. the whole frame of nature And for your braine you may doe well to use your physicall inspection Page 7. Neither have I say you forgot that I was a sufferer or am now a persecutor of the Saints as they calumniate mee It were well if you would forget forgoe to be a persecutor of the Saints and that upon your repentance God would forgive you as those Saints are ready to doe There is no greater persecution then that of the tongue and pen sharper then swords and speares No sorer persecution then Esaus scoffs and the Jewes tongue-smitings But most transcendent from a brother a companion in tribulations a familiar friend Et tu Brute And yet all your scoffs and hard speeches and bitter reproachings of those whom you must needs confesse to be Saints will not amount to the least Item of persecution That were pitie What thinke you of the like speech the late Prelate of Canterbury used in his * Booke to the King God forbid saith he that I should perswade persecution in any kinde or practise it in the least Did this protestation trow you cleare him from being a notorious yea unparalleld Persecutor Witnesse both your eares and mine But you doe but oppose the Saints heresies and novelties in Religion But must that needs be heresie which you account heresie Or that noveltie which appeares so to those that measure things rather by custome then truth And doe you not no lesse oppose vilifie disgrace jeare and scoffe at their persons Doe you not call them * Beasts * Grolls Puffoists Wild geese Old geese a company of Jugglers Sticklers against Parliament and Presbytery a generation of cunning and crafty jugglers cunning deceivers and fighters against God violaters of all the lawes of God and Nature the most dangerous sect that ever yet the world produced a company of ratts among joyn'd stooles Despisers of Magistracy a generation of men not worthy to give guts to a Beare Moone-calves All the Independents put together have not so much learning as any one of a thousand other Ministers A Wheele-barrow such as they trundle White-wine-vinegar on fitter for them then a Coach Stirring up all along Magistrates and People to cut them off making them odious to the Scots speaking nothing but daggers and daring and what not Now is all this no opposing of the Persons of those you call Independents To conclude all You tell us a story of some that fight against their Christian brethren and to that end in the frontispices of their Books set downe Christs words Mat. 10. 34 35 36. Thinke not that I am come to send peace on the earth I came not to send peace but a sword c. Well what of this Out of which words misunderstood say you they would perswade the people and make them believe that they have good warrant and ground to fight against their Christian brethren for the maintenance of their owne Whimsies But Brother who is this you speake of Who hath done thus They What they You put it in the plurall In their frontispices You know Dolosus v●rsatur in universalibus But is it in any more then one onely frontispice And have more then one done it And what one You describe him pag. 44. as not knowing his name but one who is no Novice Younker and fresh-water Souldier but a grave man with a great white basket-hilted beard Why Brother what needed all these periphrases and circumlocutions You might much more honestly ingenuously and candidly have said My brother Burton then thus slily and disgracefully to take him by the beard or Serpent-like to come behind him and bite him by the heele But this is not all How comes it that you fasten upon your Brother such a false glosse as that he should perswade the people and make them believe that from Christs words they have good warrant and ground to fight against their Christian brethren Brother I must needs here challenge you of extreame violation not onely of brotherly charitie but even of the Lawes of common humanitie Doe you out of no other ground but meere malice as all the world must needs judge hatch a Cockatrice-egge a senselesse whimsie in your own braine and then lay your dead childe by mee and take my living childe from mee as you have done in framing your own false sense and putting it for mine and taking my true sense and making it your owne Brother What 's become I say not of your brotherhood but of your manhood Or did you thinke to cover your selfe with your owne Cobweb that the palpable nakedness of your shiftless and shameless affront should not be seene Surely this is enough not onely to discover the hollow of your heart but the shallow of your braine and to bring in the verdict of the whole Universe that you are a man not onely whose heart is divided but whose head is c. salve it as you can Now the Lord Jesus Christ reprove you for this and give you repentance for this your more then unnaturall dealing that I may not say diabolicall certainly not Christian even your best friends being Judges And for the grollery and dotage you put upon your brother ibid. and pag. 45. as abusing the Scripture when your self most grossely abuse both it and him assure your self your brother is not yet come to that dotage but for all your vauntings on your part and vilifying of his he dare through the help of Christ deale with Dr. Bastwick hand to hand as neither admiring your learning nor envying your Roman buff wherein your chief strength most lyeth except