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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42857	Magna veritas, or, John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology, not a papist but a true Protestant of the Church of England published for the satisfaction of all such as know not the said John Gadbury and yet give credit to all kinds of scandals and falshoods that pass upon his much injured reputation since his late unfortunate confinement.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing G87; ESTC R11482	10,596	17

must at one time or other have betrayed a soul or spirit within me fit and adapted for so wicked a purpose But yet the contrary is sufficiently known of me Nay had I been an Enemy to His Majesty my conversation would have been among persons Anti-Monarchical and of disloyal and treacherous Principles and Opinions Whereas I have no near converse or concern with any man of either a Fanatick or Papistical persuasion at all but do chiefly correspond and accompany with such loyal and religious persons who are not afraid or ashamed to own the Interest of His Royal Majesty and that of the Church of England And we know it is an allowed Proverb Homo cognoscitur ex sociis Thirdly If what I have said be not yet enough to acquit me from the guilt of all knowable Crimes against my Liege Lord and Soveraign then let all my Writings since His Majesties most happy Restauration and before also be examined by any impartial and unbiassed Judg and I dare affirm that they will all be found to stand up and fully to justifie for me I spare to mention any thing of my having been always on His Majesties and His most Glorious Father's side in the late unhappy Wars For could I have done more in so good and so just a Cause than I did or was able to do at that time it had been but my dury and such as my Birth and Allegiance bound me to as indeed they do every subject of what degree soever § 9. And here I would have transcribed sundry pages of my own Loyalty out of my several Annual Labours for the better corroborating of the present Argument and the compurgating of my innocency as to the matter in question but that I conceive the same is so well known to all persons generally and believed too by every body but those that are envious and malicious whose eyes I pray God to open that there is scarce any need thereof Besides I am in a great measure herein prevented by the kind pains of a worthy cordial though as yet to me an unknown Friend in his publishing an ingenious acute but most just and true Answer to a wicked nay a murtherously design'd Libellous sheet of Paper wrote lately against me and this contrary to His Majesties late Royal Proclamation which forbids all libelling against any kind of persons c. and called Observations upon the strange and wonderful Prophecies of Mr. John Gadbury c. under the title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who hath therein most humanely and obligingly vindicated my much wounded Reputation for which so courteous and by me unexpected a kindness I hereby return him my very hearty thanks and wish I knew him as to this particular friendship that I might more fully acknowledg his generous and endearing Civilities § 10. But then secondly as I have committed nothing knowingly against the King or the Government so neither have I ever done any thing against the Church of God as it is established in England of which Church I do and ever did and always shall acknowledg my Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second to be the Supreme and none else upon earth besides Away with such Anarchical Creatures who longing to be undone would fain introduce even against common sense a Foreign Head over a Domestick Body § 11. I have taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and am ready so to do again if Authority think fit to require it And it is my plain and positive opinion That those men which shall refuse the taking of such oaths as are enjoined by the Law do not deserve to receive any protection either from the King or the Law For it would be strange and little less than monstrous in true Policy that a Soveraign Prince shall generously oblige himself by an Oath as at the Coronation is customary to protect and preserve his people in their just Rights Priviledges and Properties and that the subjects should upon any pretence scruple to take such Oaths of Fealty and Allegiance as by the Law is provided for the declaring their duty and obedience to him again Such Obligations are purely reciprocal and may be termed Oaths of Vnity as well as of Fidelity whereby both Prince and people are married together and Quos Deus conjunxit nemo separet accursed be those that shall endeavour to dissolve the bond § 12. I do and ever did honour the Reverend Clergy of the Church of England and esteem it my duty so to do And I bless God I have most commonly frequented the Service of the Church and am sorry from my soul if at any time I have omitted any duty thereunto belonging I always reverenc'd my Spiritual Guide and with all willingness paid him his Dues as knowing it to be a performing of the Law of God and Man and justly enjoin'd to all mankind as well under the Gospel as under the Law I was born baptized and bred a Protestant of the Church of England and by Gods Grace afforded to me I intend so to dye and although I have been falsely reputed a Papist by many malicious Enemies who being as much void of Conscience as Kindness care not how untruly they scandal me I do most solemnly profess the contrary having never in my whole life been a member of any other Church than that of the Protestant Church of England as it is established now by Law § 13. I never yet had any acquaintance with any Popish Priests as such in all my days and if any such have at any time happen'd to be in my company it hath been beyond my knowledg I never was at Mass in my life nor did I ever incline to any Popish Tenets or Principles as they stand in opposition to the Principles of my Mother the Church of England I have read that most Reverend Prelate Archbishop Laud's Book against Fisher as animated thereunto by the Divine Writings of our late Pious Soveraign King Charles the First of ever blessed memory As also the Works of the Pious and Judicious Bishop Saunderson and Bishop Williams's Best Religion I have likewise very carefully consulted Dr. Jeremy Taylor 's Dissuasive from Popery both Parts As also the thrice learned Dr. Pieree his most excellent Sermon before the King entituled The primitive Rule of Reformation Neither have I forborn to peruse the Learned Labours of Dr. Stillingfleet Dr. Tillotson Dr. Henry More Dr. Butler Mr. Pelling cum multis aliis c. of the Church of England against Popery and do profess my self to be so fully satisfied with them as to keep me close to the Church of England under which I have been educated in every thing relating to Faith Doctrine or Discipline as also to a full and absolute renunciation of all Popish Errors Idolatries and Superstitions whatsoever More especially of that damnable and most horrid Error and Opinion of Murthering Kings God's Vice-Roys on earth whether theirs or any other pretended Christians who in this come not short of

them the very thoughts whereof I detest abhor and execrate as being not only against the very essence of all humane and divine Laws but is even the very doctrine of Devils and can have no other original or source but Hell it self § 14. I had well hoped that my having had a Relation to a most Reverend Prelate of the Church of England viz. the late most pious and learned Dr. Joseph Henshaw Bishop of Peterborough deceased about twelve years or upward together would have acquitted me from the false imputation of being a Roman Catholick in which time I had the honour of carrying his Lordships duty and service to the Kings most Excellent Majesty every New-years day and received His Majesties most gracious New-years gift to the good Lord Bishop again The truth of which His Majesties Jewel-Office and Pay-Office will fully evidence for me as having my name there to that very purpose from the later of which Offices I also annually received His Majesties most bountiful Reward as a Messenger for which I never forgot to leave my humble thanks to and a prayer for His Majesties long Life and happy Reign and for the same do still and ever while I have breath shall pray And surely had I been a Papist or any way inclined thereunto I could not have had so great and so long an Honour from so Reverend a Prelate of the Church of England as was this my good Lord and Patron And had not my most unfortunate confinement hindred I should have prayed a continuance of the same Honourable and to me most grateful and delightful Employment from the present Right Reverend Lord Bishop of Peterborough though as yet I have not the happiness of being known to him § 15. I must indeed acknowledg that I have some acquaintance with persons of the Romish Religion and so I have among all kind of Opinions as any man of a popular practice cannot avoid But it would be very hard nay exceedingly unjust if I should therefore be reputed as a man guilty of all Opinions I have laboured somewhat in matters of Controversie for my own satisfaction and have oftentimes read much more than perhaps I have understood I have endeavoured to follow St. Paul's Rule closely viz. Omnia probate quod bonum est tenete Prove all things but hold fast that which is good and therefore have not refused to read Books of all Opinions under the burden of which our English World is too uneasie and of which unnecessary Ware the Shops Markets and Fairs among us are too full fraught in these our unhappy days God in his good time heal our Divisions and once more restore us to unity and good order § 16. Again had I been a Papist or Popishly affected why should I not have shewn it upon so remarkable an occasion as in the to me most unfortunate sickness and burial of my dear Wife but lately deceased viz. scarce four Months before my sad Confinement why should I not rather have had Popish priests than those of the Church of England to have performed all Christian Offices proper to her at such a time as to pray by and for her and to give her the holy Sacrament This had been a time in earnest to have proved my inclinations and good will to Popery in case I had any at all for it but that I had none will most fully appear I hope to all reasonable men from the Certificate following under the hand of a Minister of the Church of England and Curate of the Parish of St. Margarets Westminster the Parish of my habitation and abode A Copy whereof I did likewise annex to a Petition which I presented to His Majesty and Privy-Council for their satisfaction since my unfortunate imprisonment Mr. Barthol Wormell's Certificate THese are humbly to certifie That John Gadbury of the parish of St. Margarets Westminster in the County of Middlesex Gent. did about the beginning of July last past take the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper at his own House in Brick-Court Westminster with his dying Wife Mrs. Elizabeth Gadbury from my hands In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand this tenth day of November 1679. Barthol Wormell Curate Vera Copia Nay further I cannot but acquaint the world that my good Father Mr. Oliver Gadbury was always a real Protestant and true subject of his Majesty and son of the Church of England and but few years since dyed such at Wornal in the County of Oxford where his Body now lyes interred his Soul being at rest with God § 17. And for a greater strengthning of this my present Argument or Assertion viz. That I am no Papist but a Protestant c. I aver that the very nearest of my most Honour'd Relations are very real and strict Protestants as Sir Thomas Curson and his Honourable Lady of Waterperry in the County of Oxford which said Sir Thomas is my Honour'd Vncle by my Mothers side and a person that I have very great reason to be careful how I offend either in my Religion or otherways he being not only my Vncle but very great Friend and so also is his vertuous Lady And I think nay am sure that both he and his Honoured Lady will most readily aver me to be a Protestant as knowing me to be such and to have gone to Church with them when at any time I have visited them in the Countrey and to have joined in prayers with them morning and evening as they most religiously and commendably use in their Families always § 18. But one thing more is urged and maketh a great noise against me which I may not forget to give the World some satisfaction in and that is an unhappy omission of the Feast for deliverance from the Gunpowder-Treason on November the Fifth day in my Almanack Unto which I can justly say Truth be my witness that I know not by what unfortunate accident it came to be left out but this I am sure of that it was not omitted wilfully or in design for I do and ever did own the Powder-Treason for a damnable and horrid Popish Plot as I also do the present wicked one under the black effects whereof poor England so sadly groans Neither can it be thought upon a just and reasonable consideration that I should leave it out of my Almanack purposely since what I wrote annually is ever subjest to the inspection and correction also of a Licenser who hath power to defeat my design of that purpose Nor can an Almanack-maker print what he please And if it be possible for a Licenser to pass by a thing so material without correction may not an Author be supposed to be besieged with the same Imperfections or humane frailties § 19. And here I cannot but with all duty and humility acknowledg the Justice of that severe reprehension of my good Lord Bishop of London to me about it at the Council-Table since his Lordship did not know but that I might