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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87841	An epitome or briefe discoverie, from the beginning to the ending, of the many and great troubles that Dr. Leighton suffered in his body, estate, and family, for the space of twelve years and upwards. Wherein is laid down the cause of those sufferings; namely that book called Sions plea against the prelacie, together with the warrantable call that he had to the work: and also, the hard and heavie passage of the prelates proceedings against him, in the high Commission, and Star-Chamber. And lastly, their invective speeches in the said Court of Star-Chamber; from the impeachment whereof, and the accusations charged upon him, he vindicates himself by a just defence.	Leighton, Alexander, 1568-1649.; England and Wales. Court of Star Chamber.	1646 (1646)	Wing L1024; Thomason E354_2; ESTC R201091	74,578	102

he intimateth nothing in these words but this That high and inveterate evils such as we labour of require much yains wisdome and skill for the curing of them 21 Lastly for all the things asserted by your Majesties Defendant in the said Book for the qualification of them from peremptory Assertion your Majesties Defendant hath recourse to that phrase in the Preamble to the Parliament page 3. As we conceive As for your Majesties Defendants offers in the Epistle to the Reader to make good the things asserted It is to be understood but quoad posse whereunto your Majesties Defendant shall in all loyal humility be ready to shew his best endeavour and where it hath been alwayes the practice of the Reverend Fathers of the Church to convince by reason and not prison your Majesties Defendant humbly desisireth that some of the Prelates would be pleased to take away his grounds and shew him better where if he be convinced by falshood or errour by sound reason your Majesties Defendant shall both heartily retract and humbly beg pardon As for the evils charged upon your Majesties Defendant in the said Information this your Majesties Defendants Answer as he hopeth shall cleere his innocencie This Defendant humbly confesseth the writing of the Book mentioned in the Information But this Defendant saith he did it beyond Seas out of his Majesties Dominions and that not out of any such malitious or seditious humor as is alleadged in that Information But being perswaded in judgment fearing in his apprehension that some great inevitable evil was toward us except by reformatiō it were prevented as the Book at large specifieth He was moved in Cōscience with the poor man in Ecclesiastes to set all his thoughts on work how under correction he might cast in a voyce for the safeguard of our Sion not being moved thereunto by any sinister respect as hatred or neglect of any or self-reflecting end but he intended only the Glory of God the honour of his Soveraign the good of the Nobility and of all his People Dominions For all which he is not only ready to neglect himself and his as hitherto he hath done but also if need be to sacrifice himself upon their service Further this Defendant saith that he intended the said Book only for the Parliament and therfore printed not so many Copies as are laid down in the Information almost by half the number Namely between five and six hundred which number as this Defendant conceiveth was not sufficient to shew the severall Members of both the Houses of that high Court of Parliament being a Body politick as this Defendant conceived to which the meanest Members of the Common-wealth might intimate their cares and feares concerning the dangers or deliverances of the Common-wealth being the Mother of us all and these pious Ends and Intentions this the said Defendant expresseth in his Preamble to the Parliament and sundry other Passages of the said Book leaving the successe unto God the Author and Moderator of all good Intents and Actions submitting also both himselfe and the Book unto the approbation and censure of that Honourable and High Court Neither did this the Defendant bring or cause to be brought any of the said Bookes or Copies into the Land but it was the Defendants speciall care rather to suppresse then to divulge them And this Defendant further saith he willingly and humbly confessed the composing of the said Book sub sigillo Mandati Regis under the favour of his Maj. special Command from whom as an Angel of God he could conceal nothing notwithstanding that the said Defendant was confident at that time that no creature could accuse him of composing of the said Book At which time this Defendant also professed that it could not stand with the honour of his Majesty that a humble and voluntary minde under the favour of his gracious Clemency should accuse or condemn though there were delinquency but that it should rather graciously protect or pardon and this this Defendant conceiveth to be free from from Principles of Divinity Maximes of Theames Rules of Reason and instances from our own and forraign Histories especially from the Kings of England and Scotland his Majesties Ancestors A touch whereof this Defendant humbly entreateth leave to deliver to this hon●rable Court Neither doth this Defendant wave the said Confession any wayes to reflect upon his gracious Majesty but since he is inferiour to no Earthly Power in all Royal Graces wherf he is the Ocean p●y moderat●● inenipatum tutela●● he hath recourse to the Sanctuary of His Majesties Royall Favour This Defendant further saith that he neither delivereth the things contayned in the Book nor undertaketh the answer afore the particulars laid down in the Information by way of peremptory assertion But this qualification still to be understood as is expressed in the Preface of the said Book to the Parliament page 3. As he conceiveth Further this Defendant saith that he is unstained to this defence or qualification of the things laid down in the Information by reason of his said Confession made under his Majesties speciall Command and taken by his Majesties Attorney-Generall For as this Defendant conceiveth that where there is confessio fracti there must be either defensio juris or agnitio culpae he is in all humility and duty to the truth put upon the best defence or qualificatiō in the said particulars that he can possible make but if this the Defendant hath erred in judgment as who may not c. upon the discovery of it by cleer and sound Reasons he shall be ready both heartily to retract and humbly to beg pardon For as the ingenuous and free Soule holdeth no Truth so weakly that any flax or affliction can fire it so it holdeth nothing so confidently but sound Reason may over-rule it As for the integrity of this Defendants affection to all from the highest to the lowest if his heart deceives him not he may take heaven and earth to witnesse of it Further this Defendant saith that by reason of the distraction of his Councel assigned he could not have them to meet or agree on putting in his Clause according to an Order from this Honourable Court he adventured to present this weak and informall Answer and that by reason this Defendant is not versed in this Element All which things this Defendant humbly offereth to the favourable consideration of this honourable Cout And so under favour he cometh to the particulars I had Counsell allotted who acknowledged the Equity of my Cause and freedome from Guilt but they durst not plead and so I was ordered to put in mine own Answer First began the A. G. Quam facile crat in absentem prostratun accusatorem acerbius agere an easie thing for a man of his place and gifts with nipping Scoffes to tryumph over an absent and prostrated man both under the immediate hand of God and the armed wrath of cruell Enemies If a man