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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18107	The vindication or defence of Isaac Casaubon against those impostors that lately published an impious and vnlearned pamphlet, intituled The originall of idolatries, &c. vnder his name, by Meric Casaubon his sonne. Published by his Maiesties command.; Is. f. vindicatio patris. English	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.	1624 (1624)	STC 4751; ESTC S107684	28,694	88

THE VINDICATION OR DEFENCE OF ISAAC CASAVBON AGAINST Those Impostors that lately published an impious and vnlearned Pamphlet Intituled The Originall of Idolatries c. vnder his Name By MERIC CASAVBON his Sonne Published by his Maiesties Command ¶ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie 1624. TO THE MOST HIGH AND POTENT MONARCH IAMES By the grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Most gracious Souereigne THat which I haue here in a few dayes written for the Defence of my Father I acknowledge to ●aue proceeded from your Maiesty as the first Author of it who beeing so highly offended at the iniury which Casaubon's name receiued that by your Royall authoritie the deceitfull plotters of it were duely punished I thought it would be some reproach to mee if a Sonne should conferre nothing to the pious vindicating of his Father And yet it is not so much the defence of him that I haue here vndertaken as the vindicating of the Truth it selfe which your Maies●y hath so much disdained though in a good cause to haue beene so ill handled by a furious and inconsiderate writer Our Aduersaries shall be more indifferent to you ●ereafter if your Royall Maiestie be offended with the forgeries which they bring to maintaine a bad cause when You are so much offended with the falshoods that are brought against them by others that would otherwise seeme to haue vndertaken the defence of a good cause And though such may please themselues with their owne fancies whom any thing wil please that maketh for the vpholding of such a Religion as they professe yet it was most proper for your Sacred Maiestie whose Learning and Loue of purer Relig●on are of equall eminencie both to detect and to shew your Royall indignatiō against these Impostors that were cloaked ouer with so faire an appearance Surely happy is our Cause that hath ●uch a Defender For who can now doubt of the Truth of that doctrine which must haue nothing to defend it but the Armes of Truth it selfe Where●ore I present vnto your Maiestie with all humility that which I haue here written for the Truth not onely because You were so graciously pleased to accept it before it came to publike view but chiefly that I might oppose the Authoritie both of Your Sacred Power and exquisite iudgement against those Impostors that durst presume to offer a falseintituled Pamphlet to the patronage of our most Noble and Gracious Prince God long preserue your Maiesty the greatest of Kings to flourish with all kind of happines for these your Kingdomes and his Churches benefit Your Maiesties most humble Seruant and Subiect MERIC CASAVBON TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS AND MIGHTIE PRINCE● CHARLES PRINCE OF WALES c. May it please your Highnesse I Ha●e ende●uo●red a● my d●ety was to free my Father from that ●●spicio● of impi●ti● and ignor●●ce which the late Booke falsly attributed vnt● him had well-neere brought him into And I doubt not but by this meanes I haue obtained so much of all men as hereafter not to doubt but that Casaubon hath beene much abused to haue such a preposterous birth fathered vpon him Yet to little purpose were all that I could say or doe if in the meane time this m●sked Pamphlet should passe through all mens hands vnder your Highnesse Authoritie such being the impudence of this Impostor that hee durst venture to inscribe it to your Highnesse Patronage the better to deceiue the world But since without all question your Highnesse is so farre from patronizing such kinde of men that You detest as well their fraudulent dealings as the impietie of the Booke it selfe I presumed of Your Gracious acceptance if I should present vnto You this Defence of my Father against them that such Impostors may know how vainely they haue sought for patronage of their forgeries from Your Highnesse Authoritie which they shall perceiue You haue bestowed vpon the Defence of the Trueth God grant vnto Your Highnesse as to the most glorious of all Princes a life of many and many yeeres with his perpetuall and fauourable assistance of You in all things Your Highnesse most humbly deuoted MERIC CASAVBON THE DEFENCE AND VINDICATING of IS CASAVBON Against those Impostors that lately published an impious and vnlearned Booke intituled The Originall of Idolatries c. vnder his name VNto how great and various iniuries the names of well-deseruing men are subiect after their death I would it had been my hap to haue learned any other where then to haue had such neere experience of it at home I was in good hope my care had been at an end in answering their sundrie calumnies that being of a contrary part set vpon my Fathers name like open enemies yet these inasmuch as they professed themselues his aduersaries and were cleane opposite against him in the case it selfe seemed to bee the lesse dangerous and not so much to be feared But now I must haue to doe with other manner of men that pretending nothing lesse then any malice or hatred against him haue vnder faire shews of good-will most grossely abused his estimation credit But the lessesuspicion there is of an iniury the greater is the iniury done to a man and the more hainously to be accounted of Not many weekes since there was a Booke published vnder the name of Isaac Casaubon Which for the Argument was not altogether vnlike those workes of his that he had partly published already and partly vndertaken to write as I shall shew hereafter And for the place who would imagine that any thing should come foorth in Print at London to Casaubon's disgrace where as long as he liued hee was so much esteemed of by his Maiestie and the chiefest of the land and now hee is dead I hope I may say his memory is precious to all honest men And besides for him that procured the booke to be set foorth hee is so profuse in his praise that a man would thinke hee meant him no small addition of glory by his large commendations But if you once reade the booke it selfe you shall soone see it is such kinde of stuffe as cannot bee imagined to haue been my Fathers without his great shame and infamie being a Pamphlet full of such grosse ignorance malignity and most insolent desire of nouitie in Religion Surely the Author of it deserues the name of a Schismatike that I may say no worse and whosoeuer hee was is worthy to bee punished for such a one as being no lesser enemy to the Church of England then hee is iniurious to my Fathers good name But that the Reader may wonder the lesse at it it is no new thing for bookes of nouell and vnsound doctrine to bee fathered vpon such men that be free from error and sound in their opinions Euery one of the worst and vilest Heretikes were wont to vse this craft long agoe to maske vnder other mens