Explanatory NOTES UPON A Mendacious LIBEL CALLED Concubinage and Poligamy DISPROVED Written by a nameless Author in answer to a Book writ by J. B. as being a Scurrilous LIBEL as not fit to be stiled an Answer AS May appear by a Catalogue of Notorious and Villainous Lies and Billingsgate Raileries and Dunghil Language to be shewed therein By J. B. B. D. Mat. 7.6 Give not that which is holy unto Dogs neither cast ye your Pearls before Swine lest they trample them under their Feet and turn again and rent you Chap. 5.13 If the Salt hath lost it savour it 's henceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be troden under foot of Men. Rev. 21.8 But the fearful and Abominable Whoremongers and Liars shall have their part in the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimstone LONDON Printed for the Author And are to be sold by most Booksellers in London and Westminster 1698. THE PREFACE COncubinage Disproved And a Marriage of one Man with one Woman maintained together and at once is a pretty sort of a Paradox which R. Baldwin's Champion undertakes to manage in his Pamphlet so entituled For without Concubinage Marriage cannot be Essentially Consummated and Marriage without Concubinage cannot generate So as it is a Riddle not easy to be resolved how this nameless thing the Epicene Salisal Author came into the World without Concubinage and so by Consequence without Marriage Consummated and by consequence by Whoredom and that not in bed but in the field or on the bare Floor without lying together by a Vagrant Seed suck'd into the Womb thorough an Hopsack Now Concubinage claiming from Concubinatus and from Concubo means no more naturally and in plain English but meerly a lying together of two Bedfellows whether Children Men Women or Man and Wife But whether this Author of R. Baldwin's was more Knave or Fool I must leave it to be determined by them that know him and his Wife for one he must needs be who asserts without any distinction That no Concubinage can be lawful and by consequence that no one Man and his one only Wife can lawfully Concubinate or lye together in bed which cannot possibly be true But supposing the Grand-Jury of London who were unhappily drawn in by this Anonimous Daemonides or Stolidides choose you whether who Published them in his Title Page and in the Gazette of Monday Feb. the 7th how that they presented John Burler for Printing and Publishing a wicked Pamphlet in justification of Concubinage which may become hurtful to divers Families c. did understand the Concubinage thus justified to be nothing else but the same thing which is now a daies known by the name of keeping a Mils as this nameless Varlet falsely suggests it is in his Book written after the guise of the old Serpent with a purpose to deceive Be it known therefore to the Gentlemen of that Jury and unto all the World that the Author of that Book is a Pestilent Deceiver and an errand Slanderous Liar For the said J. B. in his Title Page justifies none but such a Concubinage as is first plainly lawful so as is first all Concubinage in a natural sense in its self without unlawful mixtures and all Concubinage in order unto generation so far as it is ased according to the prescript Forms mentioned in God's word And 2ly such also as is of Necessity where Marriage according to Law cannot conveniently or posibly be had Vnder which Conditions Miss keeping Whoredom and Adultery are utterly disclaim'd and shut out And as for Poligamy there is not one word mentioned thereof in the whole Tract And as for any matter of double Concubinage as it was in use in times of holy-Writ this pretended Author hath spoken of it only so far as to justify a single Concubinage in a Case of Necessity and left it at the disposal of Authority at their pleasure to continue or restrain it If these things be not thus let my little Book of the State of the Case be examined and if one tittle be found otherwise let me bear the blame of the Jury and this Railer But be it true as I have here asserted then let the Jury-men condemn him that misled them And let this Daemonides be branded for a Scarrilous and Scandalous Liar and let R. Baldwin be noted for a Publisher of such Stuff Now be these things so and are the Premises such and at this rate then follows in Conclusion That this malicious Scribler hath shot at Rovers and written only against Adultery Fornication and Miss keeping yet hath condemned lawful Concubinage and by Consequence sacred Marriage also which without Concubinage can is no such thing Whence follows that his whole treatise called Concubinage disproved is nothing to the purpose And besides it is a Poetical sporting upon God's Word and the holy Doctrines thereof stuffed with abundance of Railing Ribauldry and Lies as may appear by what follows And what soever can be found of any weight by way of objection unto what I have written of the lawfulness of Concubinage shall be fully answered in a little Tract by it self THE INTRODUCTION FAithful are the Wounds of a Friend saith the Wiseman And in truth they are good for they are like the Chastenings of the Lord which are by no means to be dispised Pro. 3.11 But the kiss's of an Enemy are dangerous they are earnest but too eager to be trusted Ch. 27.6 Had I trip'd in the least Syllable of what I had Published how kindly would I have received the correction of my friendly Reprover But to be treated as a justifyer of Poligamy of which I had not mentioned one word in favour thereof And to be proclaimed a friend of Whordom and Adultery against which I have declared my perfect abhorrency I can liken to nothing nearer then to the malitious Jewish Pharises who slandered our Saviour the most temperate man in the world as a glutton and a Winebibber Mat. 11.19 For to be spightfully lash't in the dark by a man invisible Daemonides a child of the Divel the Father of Lyes with suppository slaunders suborned as real truths Feels like nothing so neat as those envenom'd wounds of him who like a roaring Lyon walketh a bout vagrantly wandring and seeking to devour all that comes in his way and saying he hath no pike against him he never saw him and yet however whether Friend or Foe whether right or wrong down with him The truth is so soon as I saw the title Page of a secret Author with R. Baldwin at bottom thereof I soon imagined what I had to do with for this was the Publisher of that Scandalous and malicious Book intitâ—â—ed The secret History of the Reigns of King Charles the Second and King James the Second Printed in the year 90 and nameless both of Author Printer and Publisher however there I bought one at R. Baldwin's house in the Old-Baily of his Wife and saw Piles of them
their wives had received into bed in their absence The proud Servants in warlike manner appeared in the field against their masters returned home from Foreign Conquests But the brave Masters not once drawing a Sword shewed only their hand whips which the dastardly Servants no sooner saw but their hearts were in their Mouths and they all took to their heels Whence I reckon that no dispute can be fitter answer for a common liar then to post up his lyes for which School boys were wont to be well whipt whence remains no more to meddle with his dunghil froth savonly to take notice in a word or two of his villainous and causeless Raileries In his Epist Dedi p. 5 Sir saith he this Notion appears to me so very foul and horrid that I think there can be no better advice given you than that of the Apostle to Simon Magus Act 23.22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thoughts of thy heart may be forgiven thee c And again in p. 7 of the same he further rails saying Then as to the opinion that the world entertains of you it cannot be supposed to be favourable The worst of men abominate a lewd Clergy man you confess your self to be accounted such there is no way left but to confess and forsake Much after this rate the villainous Bradshaw the belwether of the high court of Justice after he had railed on the most innocent King Charles the first as a Tyrant a Traitor a Murderer very gravely gave him much such Council as this puny wrech gives me see the trial And after this rate at Billingsgate the veriest whores usually cry whore first and will strain their throats saying thou Thief thou Whore thouSlut and the most modest commonly carry away the greatest load of this sort of dirt What I am of a blasphemer foul horrid a Sorcerer or a lewd Clergy man they who know me will hardly believe such a black-mouth'd wretch and they who know me not will as uneasily believe the words of a man of darkness who is ashamed of his name Our Saviour in such a case tho' the High-priest charged him with blasphemy and rent his cloaths in contempt of him and the People scorned him and spit on him yet like a dumb sheep before the shearers answered not a word Mat. 26.65 66 67. Ch. 27 14 And it matters not that I say any more for that the searcher of all hearts knows the truth of all cases of railery and will revenge it Shall a man turn again and talk to a Dog that barks or kick again when an Ass begins and kicks first He compares me to an avowed Debauchee a play house Beau p 1 And upbraids me with titillution and making provision for the flesh and want of prayer c. unto which of the Saints wilt thou turn saith he p 11 12 Even so Eliphaz the Temanite upbraided Job Ch. 5 1 and 154 But he belied him he chargeth me with down right Lust and compares me with John of Leyden p 18 And thus the hired Orator Tertullus said of St Paul we have found this man said he a pestilent Fellow and a seditious man and a great ringleader of Schism Act 24 5 and yet all he said was meer stuff and downright lies And now what shall I say to these things Should I answer him in his own language wisemen would say of me that I am like him and yet something must be said saith the wissman lest he become wise in his own conceit pro 26 4 5 thus have I said enough as to his railery next of the abundance of his scribble about nothing to the purpose The promised designe in the Title pa was 1st to disprove Concubinage and Poligamy 2ly To assert a Divine Instistution of Marriage between one Man and one Woman only 3ly To answer a Book writ by John Butler B.D. for which he was presented And 4ly to prove that his Book was worth one Shilling But little or meer nothing of any of these 4 things hath he performed Now upon these four subjects he hath scribled over in his Book and Ep 110 pages or near 7 Sheets of paper whereof most of it consists in idle wast of Paper to little or no purpose as fit for no mans use but Soap boilers Tobaccosellers Grocers and such like people as have more use for the paper than the writing therein For first I have collected thereout a Centiloquy of lies which together with the circumstances thereto appertaining may take up three parts in four of his Book Now out of all these besure can be collected no proof for any of his four Subjects Had they been printed together as a little book I have seen when I was a School Boy called an hundred merry tales perhaps it might have fetch'd a penny a Book but what 's one penny towards twelve And yet these are filthy lies and not worth the name of merry tales Or had they come forth as Aesop's Fables as so many imposible stories but yet containing moral truths it might have saved his leaves from lighting Tobacco at least or had it savour'd of Ovid's Metamorphosis as a monstrous and bouncing Romance yet graced with poetical story it might have pleased some people who have nothing else to do but to read now and then a line and so sit down and laugh But these are the worst sort of lies like the Devils stories told for truth on purpose to deceive Now the fourth part of the Book besides the lies is much of it taken up in Raileries And no People of fashion care to hear scoulding excepting the trade drivers at Billingsgate but then the mischief is the book is not calculated for that Meridian and yet we have sometimes 3 or 4 pages together of nothing but Railery the lies also are all for the most part stufft with railery so as Railery is the greatest lecture in the whole book Now besides all this we have much of Tautology and non sequitur's taking up a deal of room and besides all these we meet with many pages together of rambling discourse of no use at all but to stop bottles as particularly from 68 to the end is of very small use excepting that the Bear took a pleasure to lick her own Whelps I here say the Authors name is Salt But if so it has lost its savour and they say too it is of the Epicene Gender both He and She in good time FINIS
bound up to be sold and several of them sold off before my Face which Book being stuft with invictives against two Kings and filled with malicious Lies Take a taste of one or two of them as follows That the Lady Castlemain seduced from her Loyolty to her Husband and enticed into the Arms of the happily restored Prince Which was not only Adultery but Incest in the Lord 's Anointed it being the opinion of several Persons who had reason to know more than others did that she was his Sister by the Mothers side as being begotten by the E. of St. A. upon the Queens body after the Death of C. the First These are the very words in the Hist p. 22 and are as false as Scandalous or that a Child begotten of the Queen his resent Majesties Grand-Mother or Mothers Mother after the Death of C the first on the 29th of May 1660 could not be above eleven years of age current and therefore not be ripe for Child bearing Another Story is annex'd p. 23. of the same Coin saying of K.C. the second And having no less Adulterously begotten a Daughter upon the Lady Wood he joyned her in holy Wedlock to one of his Sons whom he had begotten after the same Legitimate manner upon the body of the Dutchess of Cleaveland And this is another suggestion of Satan as impossible to be prov'd true as the first was certainly false And now from a nameless lying Author published by this thorow pack'd Publisher of Lies is come forth another such a pack of Lies under pretence of an Answer to a small piece of Mine with my name thereto Which how candidly I have performed according to the truth of the Case and the genuine sense of God's holy word I humbly refer to the scarcher of all Hearts and the judgment of good Men to be determined But meeting with this pretended Answer utterly void of all solid matter and stich'd up with meer Lies and Railery I can conceive no way so expeditious to clear my Garment of this vile wreches dirt cast upon them then by taking off the Skum and the Dregs from off his stinking puddle that it may appear when is made what an heap of filth and dung he hath piled together and what a small spoonful of clear matter shall appear left behind A Centilogy of downright LIES A Lye consists of three Conditions 1st It must be something that is false 2d The Author must know it to be so and 3d he must utter it with a purpose to deceive There may be therefore falshoods that are not lies as are all things spoken ignorantly and for want of better knowledg a Man thinking he speaks true when it is not so yet when a Man does so rashly and spightfully and with a purpose to deceive In many cases such a falsehood may be tantamount unto the worst of lies And because I cannot have any true measure of this nameless Authors knowledge I shall muster up all lies and falsehoods in the same scrol Lye 1. That I have been at a great deal of pains to write an Apology for the modish practice of keeping a Miss Epist Ded. p. 1. It may appear upon search that in my whole tract I have not wrote one syllable of keeping a Miss or of any thing tantamount thereto that I have Apoligised for 2. That in my p. 34. I have generously done it as it were commending it from the pulpit as sacred and holy p. 2. Epist D. It is apparent to be seen that in that page or else where no such thing is to be found 3. That Miss and Concubine are Synonimous Words Epist ded p. 3. This is false for that Concubinage is properly no more but a lying together of two in a bed and lawful Concubinage is either the same with Marriage or if out of or besides the Marriage bed is no farther justified by me then God's word does justify But the Miss being a new word is counted significant of a woman kept meerly for pleasure and wantonness and not as a lawful Concubine for the sake of issue 4. That I have vindicated the liberty of Poligamy p. 3. Epi. de There is not one word of Poligamy vindicated in all my Book but contrarily an exception that I own it not 5. That I make every Man a judge in his own Case by adjudging Martha Perkins to be an unjust Desertrice p. 3. Ep. d. I adjudged her not at all but she by her desertion adjudged both me and her self 6. That I took Mary Tompkins into her bed p. 3. Ep. D. It was not her bed after she had wilfully obstinately forsaken it by desertion 7. That The Concubinages of the Patriarches was a disputed practice not founded upon any positive command p. 3. E. D. This is false holy-writ saying the contrary Exod. 21.10 11 and Hos 3.1 2 3. 8. That God's making use of Children of Concubinage to be instruments of his Glory is no satisfaction to Reason or Conscience without a Revelation p. 4. E. D. This false for that God's acceptance is good proof without Revelation 9. That An holy Seed in Malachy insinuates strongly that Concubinage is unholy p. 4. E. D. This false because the son of Hagar and sons of Keturah by Abraham and the sons of Bilhah and Zibpah by Jacob were all of them of the Seed of Concubinage and yet were holy 10. That there is not the least vestige of Concubinage allowed in the new Testiment p. 5. E. D. This false as appears in our Saviours Case 11. That I have blasphemously reflected upon the conception and birth of our Saviour p. 5. E. D. This false for that he cannot name one word that I have spoken thereof contrary to the holy Text. 12. That I am guilty of prophane Allusions about the same p. 5. E. D. No such to be prov'd 13. That My Notions appear very foul and horrid p. 5. E. D. And yet no such foul or horridness can be made appear 14. That no better advice can be given me than that of the Apostle to Simon Magus Act. 8.22 Repent of this they wickedness c p. 5. E. D. And yet he can name nothing of me like the case of Simon Magus 15. That Had I taken the Apostles advice to Timothy I would never have been guilty of such a practice or advanced such principles p. 5. E. D. And yet no practice nor principles can be charged against me contrary to that advice of the Apostle 16. That Concubinage had its rise from Cain's Family p. 6. E. D. This false Poligamy had so but not lawful Concubinage 17. That My Wife says she deserted me because I had got my Maid with Child aforehand p. 6. E. D. This is a Lye for that the Woman had deserted above one year before any such charge And she named not the time of her desertion 18. That I make no scruple of breaking my marriage Vows to God and my Wife p. 8 9. e. d. This false