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spirit_n	angel_n	body_n	soul_n	8,225	5	5.5180	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75503	Apology for Mr. Walker fully vindicated in a conflict with the author of the Reflections on the Apology. The Reflector's intellectual endowments, learning, and morals display'd. This paper, having waited above three months for the true narrative of the siege of Derry, is now publisht, chiefly, for the diversion of such as have read the Apology.		1690 (1690)	Wing A3545A; ESTC R223512	27,810	15

QVERY IX I pass the Reflector's it seems on the Ninth Query and pass to his I dare boldly say only could wish he had subjoyn'd any thing which every body would believe whereas now I can perswade no body no not himself to believe any thing he says attests contests or protests against the Apology I have before observ'd the Reflector can act the Woman's part as well as the Man's and here he gives you a pat Instance for laying aside his bold Challenges Averments c. in the Rhetoric of a distressed Lady he thus makes his moan Little did I think over to see the Spirit of William Prynn reviv'd Little did I think that Spirits could be seen by the Reflector who cannot see the plainest English Characters in Print I likewise thought that Bodies vested with some colour were the Objects of sight but now I remember the Ingenious Dr. H. Moor somewhere ascribes some kind of I know not what Body to Spirits and with Reason ridicules the Schoolmens idle Debate about a Thousand Angels dancing the Galliard on the point of a Needle keeping a decorum without breaking their shins or jostling one another out of their places But leaving this to the Philosophers I cannot yield William Prynn's Spirit reviv'd till the Reflector has prov'd the Soul dies which neither the Old Hereticks nor Muggliton of late could ever prove And though I should grant all this yea that the Reflector had the Courage to look William Prynn's grim black stern terrible Ghost in the Face which no body will grant me what then What tricks did the Specter play The Reflector tells us he has scurrilously revil'd by the Apologist's Pen the Function and Person of the Bishops If the Reflector allude as I think he must to Mr. Prynn's Timothy and Titus on-Bishop'd which he challenges the two Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and York to Answer the Reflector has very unhappily reviv'd the memory of that Book For tho' there be some Arguments in it inconclusive there are many more which as none that I know of have attempted to Answer so shall I believe any ever will solidly when I see it not before As to the Reflector's Charge of Scurrillity Calumny and his demand to specifie particular Persons and Actions after he has read them in the Query and made his wise Reflections on 'em he speaks indeed like himself and shall anon have a due Answer Mean while let him know that the Insinuation respecting the three 〈…〉 to be prov'd by men of good 〈◊〉 and unsuspected Veracity tho' I must withal declare nothing short of a just Resentment of the manifest and very injurious misrepresentation of the Dissenters in the Printed Narrative and the Arch-Bishop of T. his concern therein could have extorted that ungrateful Account of these great Prelates from me at this time Come we next to that passage that respects the Arch-Bishop of Dublin this with the former relating to Mr. Cairns accounted for are the only instances impeach'd of falshood in the Apology Tho' the back-side Advertiser has the Front to say 't is full of Lies I have before said that neither of these passages are in the Original Copy of the Apology but this being in the Printed Paper I shall Account for it as I have for the former The Reflector says that what is here suggested he 'l by and by recalling his Art call it Averment concerning the Arch-Bishop of Dublin is a positive falshood How proves he the falshood The Commissioners appointed for distributing the Charity c. being Interrogated and the Books search'd it evidently appears he has not received one penny But Reflector your Interrogations and Search are besides the purpose For can I suppose you ignorant that what money either that Arch-Bishop or some other Bishops receiv'd of that Fund falls not under the Cognizance of the Commissioners nor is inserted in the Book you mention And I 'le for once direct you to a shorter and eafier Method to disprove the Suggestion 'T is but your going to the Arch-Bishop and prevailing with that is when you find his Grace at leisure to give you under his Hand that neither his Grace nor any other Person in his Name by his Order with his Privity or Consent has receiv'd nor signifi'd his expectation of receiving any money out of that Fund for his Subsistence since his arrival And when such Cerrificat is procur'd which will be a business of Deliberation because momentous it will no more prove the Suggestion a positive falshood in the Insertor than your Interrogations and Search a positive Fallacy in you The words of the Apology are these The Arch-Bishop of Dublin has receiv'd of our Publick Fund of Charity to distressed Protestants from Ireland not above a Thousand Pounds that be i.e. the Book-seller can bear of Now Reflector improve your Grammar and Logic if any man alive can transform a plain truth into a positive falshood you can and try whether you can squeeze out of these words any other meaning than a Suggestion which you still your self call an Averment of the Insertor's having heard that the Arch-Bishop receiv'd the mention'd Sum. That the Insertor 〈…〉 ●tive a truth as I 〈…〉 any 〈…〉 yours a positive falshood QVERY X. In his Reflections on the Tenth Query he says I own my self of the Presbyterian Perswasion tho' he neither in terms read nor by Logical consequence can infer from any thing in the Apology what Perswasion I 'm of However I own he has done me a greater Honour than he has done the Church of England in pretending himself as well her Champion as one of her Sons Nor am I offended at his suspecting me to be a Disciple of William Penn for therein he seems to suppose me his own Condisciple there being that I know of not a Man in England the Reflector so much imitates in style as W. P. Either of 'em has English Rhetoric enough for two Orators but both too little Logic Natural and Artificial for one fresh man He further suspects the Apologist to be a Disciple of Ignatius Loyola which is monstrous strange Sure he forgot the fag-end of his famous Paragraph and the Backside Advertiser his Friend This frequent self-contradiction in the same Pamphlet verifies the Old Saying That some men had need of a good Memory However I 'le be kind to the Reflector and Advertiser and will secure 'em from all suspicion of Jesuitism The Christian World knows to its cost that Blasphemous Seat entertains very sew Fops or Ignoramuses and tho' those two Gentlemen especially the Reflector may vie for Courage against Sense and Reason and his own Conscience too with the hardiest of 'em yet I that know them durst not venture his Conduct against a Novice of that Sect. The Reflector proceeds and suggests That the Apology charges the Bishops with bestowing two or three Years premeditation for one Consecration-Sermon This seems to be the sense of his words which I am not willing to impeach