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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75419	An answer to Doctor Chamberlaines scandalous and faslse [sic] papers.	Philalethes.	1649 (1649)	Wing A3357; Thomason E605_5; Thomason E597_3; ESTC R205847	5,306	8

AN ANSWER TO DOCTOR CHAMBERLAINES SCANDALOVS AND FASLSE PAPERS Philalethes K. June .28 LONDON Printed in the year 1649. An answer to Doctor Chamberlaines Scandalous and false Papers SOme men have such an itch to quarrell that rather then want enemies they will fight with their own shadow or make them of straw tear them in peeces and glory in the conquest amongst all that have disturbed our peace none have troubled themselves more to lesse purpose then that learned Gentleman Doctor Peter Chamberlaine who to his great renown as he supposeth hath given ample testimony of his wit and learning in divers famous two peny volumes to all posterity I have not so much leisure as to take a particular survay of him nor his works nor indeed will it be worth my labour nor any mans time to read onely a touch of both as they come in my way and conduce to what I have in designe This Doctor Peter was born and bred amongst us in Black-friers as he tels us in print in one of his papers extracted from the Ioines of I know not what great French Mounsier as he proclaimeth to the world in another with Glendours in the welsh Chronicle boasting of strange meteors and constellation at his nativity none of all which makes him the wiser man or better Physitian his Father for ought I ever heard was a good honest Barber-surgeon by his knack in midwifery got a plentiful estate which with his art he left to this young gentlman who slipt out of his swadlin-clowts into the Doctors chair by a strange impuls devouring all the arts in an instant got his degree before the world was aware on 't and at Nineteene was made a very reverend Doctor I will not uncover his nakednesse nor give you any particulars of the vain profusenesse of his younger yeers whereby he spent and trifl'd away a considerable estate left him and lost a very fair way of practise his present condition sufficiently evidencing it and sealeth the trueth of that divine saying he that troubleth his own house shall inherit the winde at last finding by sad experience that his fathers coffers had a bottom which could not be beaten in time into his beleife he cast about and falls upon severall projects and devices for the support of his present garb and greatnes and the first if I mistake not was that same trick of Physical Simony to share in his Apothecarie gains but scorning the poor pedling way of justice Long in the law or his Brother Fludd in his own art he maketh him allow him the one half of all he taketh yet bars all the charge and trouble as was proved at the bar of the house of Commons in the beginning of the Parliament as good be a knave for a pound as a peny but this devise took not he got a great deale of shame this trick furthered not his already decreasing practise his next was to get himself created vicar generall of the Midwives in city suburbs for the maintaining a garb fitting the greatnesse of this place he would have a groate for every childe borne within his jurisdiction for which he would have kept good orders and rules amongst them set up a lecture and himself a been reader unfolded the hard places and passages Aretine and Aristotles Problems and in all things that concerned womens busines have been a very ready necessary young man but the midwives as most women are being wise enough already scorn'd to learn from a man that had no more beard then themselves refused subjection to him and set up some other hand-some-handed young physikers in the same trade by which means the Doctour his practise more and more declin'd the fool the porter and some coach-horses are fain to go to grasse and himself brought to such straights that invention must to work for some other device for a subsistance which was to go into the Low-Countreys and teach them the art of draining of caching salting conditing stock-fish new stores for young Fry the rare trick of dancing on the high rope and shooting water in a Crosse-bowe but for all this nothing comes the butter-boxes liked not his physiognomie and held fast their money and the Doctor is fain to returne to his old quarters whereat his first coming allarms the whole kingdom with his lamentable cry from Ramah children brought to the birth and none to deliver complains of want of self love shewing how many infants are lost for want of his knack that he will do it upon lower terms then formerly without any grief or pain tells us he is in great want brought to his first principle and nine children in the bargain but all this doth nothing neither in the sixth therefore he turns independant joyns with Doctor Homes and for a little while walks very soberly but finding the old blade his Rival in womans matters he conspires against him endeavours to throw him out and puts himself in the saddle what end was made of that busines I know not but the Doctor hath quitted those quarters and now turnd Anabaptist as Corah Dathan Abiram wil be famous in some congregation to make way for his advance like the fencers of old he resolves to challenge the most famous Master of the Science beaten or not it skild not he will bring such judges as shall certainly give sentence for him or in case of extremity make such tumults as shall turn to his advantage but to be serious a little he pitches upon old Doctor Gouge and in a letter of January 27. desireth leave to preach in his pulpit which he calleth speaking in publike or to dispute this question in publike whether is the sprinkling of infants an ordinance of God or Man Doctor Gouge returns him answer that admitting private men to vent heterodox opinions was not hastily to be yeilded unto but he would advise of it and give an answer in convenient time upon this this pamphleter thinks he hath got the advantage desired and sends amongst us in print a most vaine unchristian like lying letter in which he begins thus being converted I thought it my duty to strengthen my brethren truly Sir your carriage in this busines gives no testimony at all of any true reall conversion there is that notorious pride imprudent undiscret boasting palpable falsehood which some men even in a naturall condition would not express and a man converted would not dare to be guilty of but he goes on tells us he had an impulse of the Spirit which he at first strugled with and so forth certainly Sir this could not possibly be from the spirit of God the fruit of which is love joy peace long suffering gentlenesse but the manifest works of the flesh which are hatred variance emulation wrath strife sedition heresie desirous of vain glory provoking one another had you been guided in this act by the Spirit of God how could that false assertion passe from you in print that to your