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A03332	The apology of Theophilus Higgons lately minister, now Catholique VVherein the letter of Sir Edvv. Hoby Knight, directed vnto the sayd T.H. in answere of his first motiue, is modestly examined, and clearely refuted.	Higgons, Theophilus, 1578?-1659.	1609 (1609)	STC 13452; ESTC S114948	30,879	65

which your dealing is not simple but double Leauing therefore the formes of theis protestations as calumniating exaggerations for euermore there is ❀ 4. Reg. 4.40 Mors in olla some euill herb in your best pottage I answere that it was my promise and resolution to suppresse that booke But how Respectiuely vpon the opinion and hope of my returne which comming not to passe according to my just and necessary desire I was and am in conscience and in reason acquitted from that promise Heere also you must obserue that M. Etkins was at S. Omers in May and that this Booke was suppressed vntill † It was thē first commited to the presse October ensuing whereby you may perceiue that till I was in despayr of returne I gaue it not leaue to issue forth into the publick view 20. Farther I was yet prouoked hereunto by many and grosse indignities of some my Betters whom I alwayes honoured of some my Equalls whom I alwayes loued of some my Inferiours whom I neuer offended of many strangers whom I had wronged no more then Sir Edward himself and this he will confesse was in a very meane degree 21. Finally charity vnto my self to vindicate my name from reproach charity vnto others to draw them out of the snare of death and aboue all my gratitude vnto my Lord for his great mercy did vrdge inforce and impell me vnto that course 22. I come now vnto the THIRD and last remonstrance of my perjury viz. g pag. 18. Your Wife and Creditours are throughly acquainted with many such your voluntary and intended perjuries as vpon your next reply shall be more particularly specified vnder whose name so euer you meane to couer it 23. You see that I come vnmasked into your presence I borrow not the face of any man to couer my shame Specify therefore if you please and if it be an act of Cheualry to be an Index-maker of other mens liues spare me not Vtere tuo judicio nihil enim impedio But yet * Terēt And. Act. 1. Sc. 2. Ne temerè facias neque tu haud dicas tibi non praedictū CAVE Let discretion be the vsher of your action and temember that TAKE HEED is a fayr warning 24. Now to your accusation It may seeme strange that neither your Charity preuayled with you nor Philosophy taught you to deale more sparingly with my Intention which being not a transient but an immanent act inhering in the will is knowen certainly vnto none but vnto God alone by whom also it may be communicated vnto others by reuelation or represented by vision according to his pleasure 25. But it is a more vnchristiā and vnknightly part to make my WIFE a witnesse against me specially without any iust cause which the Lawes themselues permitt not or exact not in cases of greater importance Howbeit my charity toward hir will make me vncharitable toward you Wherefore Sir I belieue you not Your wrongs against me teach me that you may wrong hir so that accepting your testimony in this case I should make a forfaiture of my reason 26. As for my Creditours I confesse vnto you that vpō probability or hope or supposed certainty of receiuing moneyes I haue been sometimes deceiued and they consequently by me I confesse vnto you farther that neere vpon my departure I was more liberall in my promise vnto one man then I should haue been And thus Sir Edward also is now become my CONFESSOVR who I doubt not for my plainenesse and syncerity will giue me a speedy absolution and a gentle pennance 27. Heere courteous Readers the Scene of criminall accusations is done Wherefore I will take the Actour aside his part being ended and in a friendly manner I will addresse my self to intertayn him with a new discourse §. 4. A kind expostulation with Sir Edward vpon the former wrongs and a charitable interpretation thereof 1. SIR EDWARD there are three things which I esteeme very deare pretious the safety of my Life the honesty of my Name the saluation of my Soule The first may be the second is the third neither is nor may be in your power The first I will submitt vnto the benignity of my Souereigne to giue or take it the third standeth at the mercy of my Lord to saue or destroy it the second remayneth at the charity of others to suffer wrong or to obtayn right For as in this particular cōcerning my Name you are actiue and I passiue so the Reader is vncertayn vnto vs both either to pronounce me guilty or you injurious 2. But I haue vnfolded and he may now behold your SIFTING Paragraph vnto which if I should giue the due aspiration * Iudic. 12.6 Shibboleth for Sibboleth you might and he would pardon my just boldnesse therein 3. For FIRST my Innocency in the things themselues pleadeth effectually for my defence and your reproof SECONDLY my Innocēcy also toward your owne person which I neuer offēded by hand mouth or heart in deed word or thought THIRDLY our vnequall quality saith that a noble Knight should not thus intreate a poore Scholler since you should be as farr from doing me a wrong with a Pen as I am vnable or vnfitt to answere it with a Sword For howsoeuer you speake of your h pag. 4. lin 3. often employments with both yet I and I know not your mind also would rather choose with i Plutarch in Eumen. Eumenes to beare pen and paper then with Neoptolemus a sword targett FOVRTHLY the māner by which your matter is caried proclaymeth that you were more willing to disgrace my name then able to resolue my doubts 4. I sayd and I shewed that the euidence of Scripture the rule of Apostolicall Traditiō the practise of the ancient and VNIVERSALL Church the consent of Fathers the vntruths of some chief Protestants did strōgly induce and perswade me first to a just suspitiō thē to a necessary rejectiō of my late Protestanticall faith And least the Answerer of my discourse should * First Motiue pag. 94. throw dust into the ayre with more contention then profitt as you haue done I preuented such exorbitant courses and prescribed the due true and absolute method which he must obserue viz. to oppose and to prooue a CONTRARY assertion vnto each particular in my discourse as that Prayer for the dead descended not from the Apostles that the Vniuersall Church in S. Augustines time euen by his owne testimony did not referr Prayer for the dead vnto the SOVLES and to the soules remayning in a temporall payn c. 5. Theis things you should haue fairely and orderly refuted taking the particulars in their place and course as they were plainely and methodically represēted vnto you in my MOTIVE Thē there had beē charity in your paynes and judgement in your fact But you making a digression in your very ingresse sift the causes of my Alienation not such as I deliuer but such as you