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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01389	An answer to Dr. Jacques vindication, against Master Kirkwoods defamation		1698 (1698)	Wing A3357A; ESTC R172339	10,233	16

say you had Work enough to do at home Alas see we not too too many going abroad when it were fitter they should be employed within their own doors But I know Topical Arguments are of no Force with those who think their bare word should pass for a Demonstration which is all the Doctor can pretend to in this and many other Points of his Paper We shall leave off to start any more Questions thô hundreds all alongs this Paper offer themselves very appositely to our Consideration and come to some other Things of greater Moment at least more pertinent to our present purpose And first We appeal to any indifferent and unbyassed Person that will seriously consider this whole Affair with all its various Circumstances whether or not Mr. Jaque acted like himself in requiring that Woman to be gone who in such a Surprize brought forth a Child in his own House to his own Son as the common report went Was it not we say his Duty as a Christian much more as a Minister of the Gospel in that place and Father to the Person so calumniated by common Fame as is pretended to have vindicated him in a legal manner from these horrid Aspersions that went up and down the whole Country of him And if it was his Duty so to do no person ought to blame Mr. Kirkwood for what he sayes in his Book relating to this Affair As to other things in this Paper 't is needless to be at much pains to give them any return most of them being altogether impertinent others in so general and ambiguous term that the best Answer is a flat Denyal Some not only gross Falshoods but manifest Lies And in not a few one may very well grant the Premisses and yet deny the Inference We need not travel far into it to find out Instances Lo one in its very Front The words are The like of Mr. K ' s. Pamphlet all things being considered was never writen in any Language by any Perswasion being both Prophane Blasphemous and Obscene We may safely grant you that never before this time such a Book was writen Because never any person had such an Occasion or such a Subject to write on Never we say was such a Judicature on Earth and acted such things as that which sat at Kelso 24. September 1695. Of which at large from the 8. Sect. to the 22 Part 3. We shall also confess that there are some Words in Mr. Kirkwood's Book which may give Offence to a Modest Ear and therefore may be called Prophane or Obscene for both these words may pass here as one thô the Doctor makes a difference by interposing a third and that without any ground Yet we positively assert that Mr. Jaque and his Elders are justly blameable upon that head and not Mr. Kirkwood They most falsly inserted these words into his Libel and have recorded them in all the Registers of the Kirk of Scotland and publish'd them by Word and Write far and wide through the Kingdom to disgrace him And may not he repeat their Words for his own Vindication And further know that it were very easie were we not hastening to a close to shew you from this Paper a vast number of abominable Lies But we shall content our selves with this one which may well pass muster for all the rest The Doctor 's words are The Honourable Pious and Learn'd Nobility and Gentry of this Ancient Kingdom who favour the Church Judicatures with their presence and assistance as Ruling Elders are not exempted from Mr. K ' s. severe and false Censures of Partiality Injustice Envy Malice Ignorance and Falshood Now know that the very contrary is again and again repeated in his Book And that not transciently or by the by But brought in as ' t●●re with an OES in express Terms prefixing to it a Title viz. A necessary Caution Page 79. Pray sayes Mr. Kirkwood do not mistake us as if we were charging ALL the Members of the Syond as guilty of the above-mentioned Crimes No No We are far from that ALL the Worthie Gentle men Sir John Home Sir John Pringle and others with a good Number of the People did what lay in their power to stop the Carrier of the furious multitude but were not able Especially when it came to a Vote where a Dunce can do as much as much as a Solomon And page 128. are these words As to the many Honourable and Worthy Gentlemen the Ruling Elders Mr. Kirkwood here declares them altogether Innocent and free of having any hand in the Sentence past against him Yea how frequently in his Book does he lament and bemoan his sad misfortune that Gentlemen sat not his Judges page 49. We must not here omit sayes he to tell you that we are far from ascribing these wild and exorbitant Actings to every Member of the Committee No No Not to the half of them These Worthie Gentle-men above nam'd would certalnly have abhor'd to sit amongst the Actors of such gross Enormities Alas alas he adds It has been Mr. Kirkwood's great Misfortune ●hat Gentle-men kept not Diets Many never came and some very seldom Now good Reader do you not think the Doctor has been bewitch'd At least hudgely demented and blinded with the Passions of ●xcessive Malice Envy Revenge and such like Prejudices which ●ave instigated him to write against the very Light of the Sun at ●oon-tide By this one Instance you may conjecture what kind of Paper the Doctors is if duely compar'd with Mr. Kirkwood's Book To conclude These most scurrilous affected and bombast words ●herewith the Doctor 's Paper is as 't were cram'd viz. The Crazie●eaded Pamphleter The Vacuum of his Cholerick Brain He has the ●ickets in his Understanding c. deserves no Answer except to be ●ught at or retorted upon himself with far greater Reason than he 〈◊〉 a most malicious manner would throw them upon another Such ●ords may perhaps amuse the Vulgar Reader whose capacity seldom reaches further than the out-side of things But Men of Understanding who can discern the true Use and Importance of words will laugh at such silly empty and frivolous Notions and Chimera's of a Pedantick Mountebank and not the grave Expressions of a Learned and Skilful Professor of Medicine For in effect whosoever shall narrowly consider this whole Affair will palpably see that the Doctors Intellectuals are mighty shallow if we may judge of the Tree by its Fruit So that upon just Ground it may be said that he not olny has the Rickets in his distorted and decrepit body in a very eminent manner But that they are flown up into his empty brain and there have begot such a strange Vertigo or Giddiness in his Noddle that it made him run round two Kingdoms with another Man's Wife hanging by his tail giving out to all persons whethersoever he went that sh● was a Chaste and Pure Virgin The Doctor concludes with this old Saying Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat applying it to Mr. Kirkwood But with his leave he may upon better Ground take it to himself since he openly acknowledges that he is guilty of the height of Imprudence and Folly And that not in a single Act or two but in a long continued Serie● of a vast number of various kinds of most horrid and wicked deed● amounting to no less in the Sense and Judgement of his old Father than that unpardonable Sin against the HOLY GHOST So tha● GOD it seems has quite robb'd him of all his Intellectual Facultie● leaving him nothing in their Room but a Chimerical Vacuum 〈◊〉 use his own word as a fit Receptacle for all sorts of malign Spirits For certainly no good Quality can lodge with excessive Folly an● Imprudence if we may apply with a little Variation that Saying 〈◊〉 the Moralist Nullum Numen adest nisi sit Prudentia FINIS