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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02465	A lye is no scandal. Or a vindication of Mr. Mungo Craig, from a ridiculous calumny cast upon him by T. A. who was executed for apostacy at Edinburgh, the 8 of January, 1697.	Craig, Mungo.	1697 (1697)	Wing C6799A; ESTC R174378	11,849	17

yet it 's clear that according to himself one of them must of necessity be so This being as Logicians term it Argumentatio ad hominem Where I must extol the goodness of God in that when the wicked even mine Enemies and my Foes came upon me to eat up my Flesh they stumbled and fell Psal 27 2. My second g●neral Obse vation is that he doth not positively affect that I was as deeply engaged as he but leaves me to reckon with God and my Conscience i● I was not so As if he had said I have a Suspicion For th● a that Mr. M. Craig was once so as I am however ground o● be it so or not I leave it to God and his conscience this suspicr● if they clear him I clear him To which I sub on see Sect some but they have sufficiently cleared me and 3. Cons 8. will clear me in the day of general Judgment be fore Men and Angels Ergo according to the most Genuin● sense that his words can admit of considered with their Circumstances I am sufficiently cleared And although this Phrase may be admitted for an affirmation in more trivial affairs where there is no ground of Jealousie that the Person speaking is either capable or willing to Sophisticat● yet it is not so to be let pass if we consider Thomas Aitkinhead'● dexterity in that Art Especially seing that from the sequel of my discourse b. I shall make it apparent that he had a design to put a blur upon the World in 't ei-Sect 3. ●ther through malice or mistake And now I appeal Con. 8. to any competent and unprejudic'd Person if ever two propositions were more repugnant or if ever the oracles of the Heathen Daemons were more equivocal But admitti●● all which I have observed to be null yet I shall prove both the parts of his Calumny to be false in the two following Sections SECTION II. In which the first part of the Calumny is demonstrated to be false HIs position here is that I did cast abominable aspersions on him in my Satyre of which he was innocent● I contradict it thus I laid nothing to his Charge in that Satyre of which he was not guilty That I may prove my Assertion observe 1 that all that I mention of him in that Pamphlet may be devided into two parts 1 a relation of some ridiculous and airy Fancies in Philosophy and Chimestry reduced into five heads 1 Of the Chimaerical vertues or properties which he attributed to his Aurum potabil● as he termed It. 2 Of his design of inventing a way to keep Commerce betwixt the Terestial Glob and the World which he imagin'd to be in the Moon 3 Of his new and extraordinary Way of making the Philosopher Stone 4 Of his rediculing the received and self evident principles of Reason 5. Of the Extravagant and Blasphemous power Which he attributed to Man's Imagination That all these and many other Wild Effects of unbridled and daring Ignorance Were his common discourse almost every one who had any acquaintance of him can Testifie I shall Instance some viz. Mr Patrick Midleton Mr. Adam Mitchel Mr. Hugh Cravefaord Mr John Neilson c. Moreover that about Imagination was an Arucle of his Lybel and sufficiently proven against him The second part is a general Information of his Extravagancies in Divinity without so much as naming any thing in particular because I looked upon it as little less than Blasphemy to name them again when not called thereunto and that the Epithe s whereby I designed them there were very congruous to the things lybelled against him non that ever heard his Lybel can deny Now that he was guilty of these I have no more to say but that after a due and punctual process of Law whereby every thing contained in his Lybel was sufficiently proven together with several Articles which were not Lybelled by Witnesses who heard them in different places and at several occasions uttered by him in the Spirit of Malice and Bitterness with frequent Repetitions without any Provocation yea contrary to the found Admonitions of those who with abhorence were his Auditors he was Capitally punished for them Observe 2ly That it is to his Extravagancies in Divinity that his Words have more special Reference which I Collect from the two Epithets he gives them viz. Abominable and Hellish and likewise from the strain of his Speech Where he endeavours to Lenefie his Guilt by attributing it to a love of Truth inherent in his Nature tho non that ever heard him on these points could perceive that it flow'd from such a Principle And really I cannot see how cursing and railing against Holy and tremenduous misteries Which Man's Wit cannot Comprehend can consist with love of Truth or how a high Conceit of a Man 's own Wit above all others and a rejecting of all Instructions th●● could be given him as if he were above the possibility 〈◊〉 having further Light in the knowledge of things can cous●●● With the Character of a Philalaethes And yet both these in the highest degree were his Properties Observe 3ly That as we may Collect from the former observation this doth not only Reflect upon me b●● likewise upon the rest of the Witnesses who Testified th●● he was guilty of such abominable and Hellish Notions Ye● and upon the Wise and Grave Judges too as if they eithe● had given ear to Calumnies or admittted incompetent Witnesses against him Whereas never was a Process mo●● punctual never a more unanimous consent of Witnesses who heard them at different occasions as we said before yea of a great number of Witnesses Who Were called together many were strangers one to another Observe 4ly That this Contradicts the former part o● the speech in which he declares that since 10 or 11 Years o● Age he was guilty of this Apostacy for which he suffered These things being premis'd I make the falshood of hi● position apparent thus either his position or mine must b● false the one being the contradiction of the other But that mine is not false is evident from the former Observations Ergo. His is false which was to be demonstrated And this in the opinion of any judicious Person is sufficient to debilitat the Credit of the other part of his Calumny For how is it to be thought that a Man vvould stop to ly● in so private a Business as my Reputation vvho had the impudence to call these things abominable Aspersions or Calumnies that vvere so generally knovvn of him and legally proven against him I might here take notice that he promises to vindicat his Innocence from these things and yet does it not for he says not a word more upon that point And if by Vindication he mean only the bare asserting of hi● Innocence which indeed is a Notion of vindication not a white strang●r than the Person that spoke it then by the same Rule the bare asserting of my Innocence from what he layes to my