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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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Book burned I can give him an old Rule for this Animosity Igne pereat qui fumum vendidit and pity it should be obsolete as long as such Authors as he kindle those Flames in their own Works which shall consume them the silly Phaenix will be burning her own Nest For any thing I know his Friend Baldwin anticipated my Wish to make his Book sailable Palace-Yard the Bookseller knows makes a thing Sell incomparably I confess my Expressions were sometimes troubled and storming sometimes serene calm and moderate Here my Words fall like Hail there like softer Snow and with Mr. Observator's leave and a shallow-brain'd Sciolist's Favour I rather judge it a piece of Art than a Fault or abusive Language to vary the Idea or Character of my Speech now to smooth a Period then to thunder according to the quality of the Subject and my satyrick Design on notorious Scandals Scandals and Reproaches of two great good and just Kings Their Fame is traduced of our Church Her Peace is disquieted and our Jerusalem rabbled by Sectaries into an Uproar of Dissention How liberal was Propertius in bestowing his artful Curses on the Baiae that kill'd Augustus's Nephew And where is the Abuse or Imprudence in taunting those with impassionated Satyr who kill'd Caesar himself Those whose Principles either oblige them to apologize for the heinous Fact or to write it down to eternal Shades of Oblivion Those who could frame a Panegyrick for Busyris a Vindication for Nero with varnished Tenents pleasing Delirium's Shifts and Disguises put such a face on the Matter as to accuse Innocence without guilt of Calumny and Cruelty Detraction and Inhumanity Those lastly who would put all England into a doubt not only to raise Vulgar Mens wonder but to win a popular Belief that what they called Justice was better executed on their Sovereign than it had been if omitted Here I shall take liberty for one Digression on our Reformling pag. 28. Neither St ns J. G. G. nor John A-styles are over-passionately concerned for King C.'s Death Not over passionately that is in our Idiom not passionately enough They are Democritus's to day King Charles the Second's Restauration suppose we is to morrow then they are Heraclitus's This is like the Saints Gibbrish of Grantham Page 27. Excess of Joy and Sorrow are equally dangerous neither would I have Men revel till their Faces are all on Illuminations on this nor weep into Funeral Marble on that occasion Passions are to be suppressed when they rise against reason But the Moralist is not for rooting them out but moderating them we must not take away diversity of Tunes in Musick but reduce 'em to good Order and so make up a Harmony till such as our Reformling I do not say Pigs play upon Church Organs Page 17. Another Paradox is advanced pag. 59. That those who had been for the Parliament were the great Instruments in bringing King Charles 1. home again It may be so He that hath not so wise and worldling a Foresight as to save his own Bacon is the greater Hog of the two The truth of it is not upon Record and their subsequent Actions never verified the Report for they were always nibling under-board at Kingly Power afterwards and mouthing under the Rose at Despotick Prerogative and Penal Laws His Challenge to disprove what he says of King Charles 2 pag. 13 14. of his Observations is huffing brave It is more Honour to refuse than accept such Provocations but I durst dispute it upon a Pillory with him and he that lost the Prize should pay the Excise of his Ears or the Poll of his Head However he reproaches him while his Miscarriages as a Man ought to be obliterated in the Ashes of Oblivion and rak'd up in the Embers of an ardent and mutual Affection for his Memory as a good and peaceable and merciful King for he might put all the Blood he unlawfully spilt in his Eye and never see Mercy and Indemnity the worse for 't Now because Scripture bids him not Curse nor I presume revile slander traduce the King in his Thought he does it in Print and saves the Letter of the Text Because Majesty is sacred it must be prophaned with a private Reign A Novel intituled so which those of his Cabinet never knew any thing of where he is falsly Romanced into the Murder of the Earl of Essex Incest and I know not what Aspersions Justly then hath Fancy given Satyr Teeth and may they now bite like a Badger's till they meet What bad Decoctions of Stile must he stomach with who in his undigested Rifts would call Sarcasm the very Purity and Nettetee of Rhetorick abusive Language Nevertheless says the high and mighty Observator The Author of The Reformer Rack'd has broken all bounds and rules of Humanity with Mankind and perhaps never was there in a Pamphlet so much Nonsense and so much of abusive Language as in this But what can be expected from a Man who in his second Page looks upon Calvinism as an Heresie as damnable as Socinianism Arrianism and Anabaptism Such a Champion of our Church deserveth I am sure to be taken notice of some other way than by an Observator especially if it has stolen out with no License from Authority as I may reasonably presume it has Here the Erroneous and Reviling Philistine is upon me but the least peble of an Argument drawn from clear Reason Truth as naked and unarmed as David may humble or sink into the Goliah's Forehead and convince him if he were more brazen'd than he is How Magisterially does he pronounce me in a State of War with Mankind Let him be assured I am none of Hobbs's Creatures though I think Self-preservation is almost arrived at his pitch and state of it since I see most Men now a-days possessed with a specious pretended necessity of Defence where no Offence is half so much given as unfairly taken and some are affrighted with Fantasms Fears and Jealousies of their own Wind-mill or Quixotian Fancies standing upon their own Guards never so unjustly It would have made his Position good upon me to have proved every Swordsman that carries Toledo dangling at his side was in such a Duelling Frolick who never drew it in Anger or unsheathed for Inhumanity The Pen was never yet reckoned a Weapon of War but by the strained Metaphor of a Paper-fight or Writing Combate Exit Enter Reformling pag. 7 8 9 10 11. The Reformer Rack'd was an unmerciful Title yes if I had misconstrued his Principles or misrepresented his Vagaries made him confess or depose Things upon that Titular Rack different from his Intentions or Perswasion though he brings himself off pag. 26. with the Equivocation of a Not Guilty King Charles 1. Racking is a hard Word Suppose I had entituled my Pamphlet The Reformer Booted and Thummakin'd But the gude Covenant would na allow that misleard Lownery na na Billy It must be a strong Imagination
Arbitrary and Magisterial were their own proceedings while they pretended to be doing nothing else but preventing the Arbitrary Power of another How many Honest and Loyal Gentlemen did they force to do the Penance of falling down and Worshipping them for speaking Blasphemy against their Authority while Treason against a higher Power past unquestioned How crosly and resolutely did they always deny His Majesties just Demands though they were to be employed for the Nations security And at last how saucily would they have cried down the King by debarring him of the priviledge of the meanest Subject making it unlawful for any one to turn his Creditor though on never so good security This is not the moity of what might be said but perhaps in this case 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Vetus Fabula only wanted the Curtains drawing and Parliament Candles lighting of being acted on an Oxford Theatre and the Novi Historiones with some of the Veteres too perhaps had played their Parts of the like Tragedy over again if they had been so successful as not to have been hissed off before they came to Prologue to 't However the Reformling will have King Charles the Second to be beholden to his Party for his Restoration and peaceable injoyment of his Royalty and certainly he was just as the Father Dotard was beholden to the Son who flatter'd him into a Settlement and then burn'd his House about his Ears for his Daddy to rost his Eggs with Our Sons of Faction could love uproars and Bonefires too but that they hate Rumps and it looks too much like Sacrificing to the Genius of Restauration At an Election of a Member for the approaching Parliament at Oxon The Loyal Pudsey and Whorewood Candidates it is pleasantly storied of a brisk Mechanick in the Van of a Tumultuous Crowd who hearing a Graduate exclaiming no Round-head no Round-head reparteed him with no Square-head no Square-head when all the University knew they were for no Head at all or at best not for a Crown'd Rowly-Head I am afraid I shall be tedious on the face and complexion of his Pamphlet but if length be not the Picture of him it is his best Character at a Vindication or one of his Sixteenthly Beloveds Now I cannot imagine what he would be at have done or prevented the Pope is not like to be Lord Mayor next Year nor King JAMES to be in his Throne again the next Moon Popery is out of Doors he needs but give it an Alms or send the Cripple to the next Constable Authority will take care of it But it may be he has an extraordinary knack at Reforming he may have as good and Religious a God-piece as King Henry the Eighth and can Whistle a better Tune too in Divisions that would make the Rabble Dance a Common-wealth Morisco The Reformer needs but lead up the Figure of three four Heptarchy or a hundred the Piper's paid Cut the first Caper and protest he wishes England as well as the Duke of Burgundy once did France when he swore He lov'd France so well that for one King he wish'd she had twenty and then you are all of a Litter quoth Lambert Let me tell you Lylly's Grammer comprehended a great deal of policy in it's Neutram modo mas modo vulgus but it is Aes in presenti that must carry on the business effectually to persection and what not The Mobb love variety and every Body knows what is as good for a Sow as a Pancake A Fartical Raskal that bid a KING kiss his Posteriors I conceive and presume saving J.G. G's presence would make an excellent Tool for his Arsie-Farsie Reformation At this rate every Wat Tyler or Jack Straw with a fair Wind and auspicious opportunity will be invading and matching Politicks with King and Council and if the Green-pated Reformer Heads but well and puts Liberty and Property and the Old State Quibble of Personal and Politick Capacity into the Mouth of the Moabites the Man STUART may be cut off and the King ne're the worse hurt A Second Oliver may chance to drop out of the Clouds and then defiance to the Powers of the Earth our Soveraign Lord the People are as assuredly as the Rebels against King John the Army of God Any New Coin gains acceptance with the Lower Mobb from its Stamp of Novelty and if the upper sort of Mobb mints it but with a popular Appâ—ause Vogue and Reputation it has Credit Justice and Authority enough to abide their Test The next thing our good Gentleman does is as wise as he can make Solomon not Solomon him to call his Adversary a Fool and the worst of the sort a self-conceited Fool Surely if Robin Wisdom sets not up for an Author and Fools not the rest of Mankind the Press cannot blame him for it But the would-be Solomon presently starts a Fool out of the Proverbs before he enters the Field no if he had not been besides the Bush Page 18. and had had the good luck to have thrown his UTINAM SAPEREM soon enough in his tail as the No vice-hunter carries Salt to catch the Hare with he had taken him too and might have Sounded his Triumph of the Prey at the first View Many a one has had the fortune to Course the Hare and catch the Witch He mistakes his Fool and his Game And well remembred Wise man of Gotham how the Scot tuke the Tartar and the Tartar prov'd the Conqueror I might have dwelt longer upon his Title-page sufficiently answer'd him and never have gone farther than the Porch But curiosity prompts me to shew his Guests what better entertainment or welcome they and I must be treated with in the House At the Threshold then I shall only premise a gross injury done me and soberly good morrow his passionate ELDERSHIPS scandals and misconstructions of me For in my Remarks or Reflections Page 12. which I allow him to take in the worst sense on his Observations I fully declared my propo's and design which he has run Counter to with a full cry almost throughout his Vindication only coldly chopping on 't here and there The Mungrel-hound often flings off and runs a back-scent But a worse Nose than his might have taken the right Game and made a truer chase of it A false pursuit never obtain'd the least Quarry Having waved the Divinity of his King-killing and traducing Pamphlet let the unbiass'd Judge if it is fair play to be bid keep close to the Text ho Religion is the Province of our Learned Clergy there were eleven Apostles for one Judas and we have Orthodox Divines enough to confute his Schismatical Doctrine though too many follow their Master like Peter at a distance in secular Persecutions and it is well if more do not deny him In all Don Quevedo's Visions Judas was the only Man in Hell for selling his God but there was a number for buying of HIM But I never intended to meddle with those matters