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love_n	believe_v	lie_n	truth_n	3,607	5	5.8982	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90688	Heautontimoroumenos, or, The self-revenger exemplified in Mr. William Barlee. By way of rejoynder to the first part of his reply, viz. the unparallel'd variety of discourse in the two first chapters of his pretended vindication. (The second part of the rejoynder to the second part of his reply being purposely designed to follow after by it self, for reasons shortly to be alledged.) Wherein are briefly exhibited, amongst many other things, the rigidly-Presbyterian both principles and practice. A vindication of Grotius from Mr. Baxter. of Mr. Baxter from Mr. Barlee. of Episcopal divines from both together. To which is added an appendage touching the judgement of the right Honourable and right Reverend Father in God, Iames Lord primate of Armagh, and metropolitan of Ireland, irrefragably attested by the certificates of Dr. Walton, Mr. Thorndike, and Mr. Gunning, sent in a letter to Doctor Bernard. By Thomas Pierce Rector of Brington.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.; Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.; Thorndike, Herbert, 1598-1672.; Walton, Brian, 1600-1661.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2181; Thomason E950_1; ESTC R207591	167,618	192

nakedly a Lie but this a Slander And this is capable of Degrees whether the slander be contumelious or only by way of obtrectation § 3. For that I may not suffer a possibility of doing mine enemy any wrong by laying more to his charge then I can certainly demonstrate whilst I say he hath arriv'd to the very top of this ladder on which so many have climb'd to ruine I will informe my self and my Reader with so much more of this subject as may help to preserve us from all mistakes and inable us to passe a righteous Judgement on Mr Barlee as to that which is the subject of this first chapter § 4. There are three or four wayes by which a man may be brought to believe his own Lie as well as to credit the Lyes of others For first a man may be sick of a Phrensie through some distemper in the brain or be transported by the strength of a windy spleen which may feed the fancy with strong and strange dreames Or secondly in revenge of his former wickednesse and continued enmity to the Truth he may by God's just judgement be wholly left unto himself and to the suggestions of the Tempter according to that of the Apostle 2 Thess 2. 10 11. Because they received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved even for this very cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie Or thirdly he may stumble into the stedfast belief of an arrant falsehood through the scandal of felix prosperum scelus his temporal prosperity in any lewd practise and this is likely to be meant by that of Solomon Because sentence against an evil is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to doe evill Or fourthly his case may be just the same which I have read in the works of that excellent Patriot the most wise Bishop Bancroft A man saith he may tell a lie so oft that forgetting himself to be the Author of it he may think he heard it from some person of credit and so believe it to be true And of this he the●e gives us two remarkable examples in the two Origins of Popery and Presbyterian●sme § 5. How this is pertinent to the Indictment of the grievous Malefactor who stands before us in this Arra●gnment I shall demonstrate so much the better if I give some Examples of this Assertion That a man many wayes may believe his own lie The first occurring to my memory is that which I find in learned Buxtorf and by him it is recorded out of Rabbi Mosche Ben Majemon who in an Epistle to the Rabbins of the City Marseilles makes this relation of one Eldavid That about 520. years agoe he gave himself out to be the Prodromus of the Messias and that he came to prepare the way before him Upon this his pretension many Jews flock'd to him as their Ancestors had done to Iohn the Baptist. But after the space of twelve months this confident Impostor was apprehended and being asked by a King of Arabia before whom he was brought to be examin'd what it was that mov'd him to do such things his answer was like that of the Scotish Presbyterians that he was moved to what he did by the Commandement of God And when the King again ask'd him what signe wilt thou give us whereby to induce us to a belief Eldavid presently replyed Cut my head from off my shoulders and a little after I will revive The King as he desir'd cut off his head but farre was Eldavid from making good what he had promis'd by either recovering his old head or by getting a new one And so he proved himself to have been a false Prophet But 't is likely the man was serious deceived not others untill his heart or his fancy deceived him because he was willing to be tryed by a decollation and dyed a Martyr to his Delusion I find another Example in the seditious Presbyterians of Queen Elizabeths dayes I mean Copinger and Wigg●nton and the rest of that Gang who having fasted and prayed both much and often to try what method God would put into their Hearts for the releasing of the Brotherhood as well as for the Reforming of Church and State at last they found in themselves an impetuous motion called by them and their brethren A Call from God to murder the Lords of the privy Councell and so to make an Insurrection against the Queen And to prepare the peoples minds for the readyer acceptation of their purposes they printed a pamphlet of pradestination as though by the Abuse of that Doctrin they meant to have laid their Intended wickednesse upon God they are the Authors own words as if he should have moved them to such ●ewd Attempts These things stand upon Record transcribed from the mouths of severall witnesses upon Oath such as were sharers in the conspiracy when openly examin'd in the Starr-chamber We have a third example in the Tyrant Dionysius who having spoiled the three Temples of Proserpina Iupiter and Aesculapius conceived his Sacrilege not only lawfull but godly too because the first did not drown him as he sail'd to Syracuse nor the second strike him with a Thunderbolt nor the third infest him with some great sicknesse And if with these great Instances of Self-deceit we call to mind and compare what we cannot but have heard of the man at Bristoll who thought himself to be the Christ and was worshipped as such by not a few both men and women and was so stifly wedded to this unreasonable Fancy that for all the whipping in London he would not admit of a Divorce but carried it with him into the prison and for ought I hear continues to embrace it untill this Instant and defends this whoredome of his Invention by pleading Testimony of Conscience and the inward witnesse of the Spirit if I say we compare this fourth example with the former I think I need not here add a fifth § 6. From what hath been said in the last two paragraphs it appears to be a thing possible that Mr. Barlee really might believe at least some part of his Inventions by which of the four wayes § 4 it doth not concern me to passe a Iudgement But that in some of his Falsehoods he hath been a most deliberate and wilfull sinner beyond the worst that I have met with in all my Reading or Converse I shall shortly manifest and evince not by perswasive Probabilities but by cogent Demonstrations such as shall wring out an Assent from the most incredulous of all his Friends I mean his Complices and Abettors Concerning some of his Falsehoods I will be bold to say that had he endeavoured for a wager or been brib'd by me with a Reward to frame his Calumnies so unproportionable to all the Rules and Arts of

maintainer of the same opinions with low-spirited plebeian mechanick Sectaryes an Angel of Darknesse an Apostate and a Wolf mischievous to God and his Church superciliously scornfull a great Delinquent and as an Herring-man the composer of a Play-book for my Iovial proselytes against the merry Time an able Jester playing upon him before Lords and Ladyes Inhuman Barbarous like him in whom the evill spirit was and like the Spanish Bulls falling upon their Drivers a facetious and most dexterous Roscius one of the three great wasps of the Nation one by whose Abilityes the Devil is adorned guilty of Socinianism true to the cruell Grotian design of extirpating the Protestants Calvinisticall of the Grotian Caball a filcher of his Parishoners of Schismaticall Practises against his Parish as infecting it with Arminianism Soci●…anism Pontificianism in part a carryer on of vile designes a fawning Tertullus an insolent Provoker a Tom Tell-troth of a malevolent design a breaker of St. Paul's Hand disingenuous unconscionable of a frontlesse Front and scornfull Spirit a notorious Lyar virulent proud slanderous and of furious indignation one whose very light is darknesse and who takes the Presbyterians to be more Knaves then Fools a great wanton full of malice and poysenous mischief a circumstantial rituallson of the Church a demure Junior justly called a Sorcerer one to whom the Anabaptists and Quakers are great Friends one who bewitcheth the people and deserves to be ranked among the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or witches a clamorous Brazen-fac't person of insufferable insolence one that hath lost his conscience with his eyes prodigiously Satyrical to a Miracle beyond imitation one who intended to gull the world and delude the Church a Monster of ingratitude of a stony and brazen fore●ead a Iuvenal Divine a wilfull Impostor setting up an Idol Fancy of Grace a Pope above all Councells except the Papall guilty of minor Atheism at least devoid of all Christian ingenuity as well as Grotius a gracelesse Person Grotius his Imitator a monstrous uncharitable Censurer as well as Grotius a Prevaricator without regard of conscience a master Railer one who recedes from Arminius to the worse towards rank Pelagianism and Socinianism whose Correct Copie begins and ends in Pelagianism and Semi-Pelagianism guilty of much Hereticall pravity irrational a Submortuarian an Apostolarian a Neophyte Antiscripturall a downright Pelagian in the very chief point deeply drencht with Massilianism of ridiculous shifts crafty insinuations supercilious Arrogance putting gulls and cheats upon his Mother the Church wretchedly and unconscionably abusive a great Practiser of Hypocrisy one whose Proselytes are but too great Approvers of Hobbs his Leviathan a maker of saplesse senselesse subitane Comments of Scripture a wofull Calumniator a Thrasonicall Boaster stubborn wormish Fancy intolerable extravagant an Helvidian Antiscripturist like the old Hereticks making their brains their Bible wanting honesty loud lying horribly wicked absurd foolish childish malicious frantick slanderous insolent scornfull ridiculous against whom the dreadfull judicial hand of God is highly lift up and again one who hath the just hand of God upon him and likely to be dementated by God for perdition a Manichee holding that which the boldest Jesuite would tremble to admit into his Creed one who flurts and flounceth at his Neighbour for want of Logick a gracelesse Traducer odious hatefull without shame or modesty or any the least love of the Truth one who hath drawn a Brawn upon his forehead and his conscience one who proclaimes his sin as Sodome and worse then Sodome with a stubborn mind which Sodom never did having a design highly Jesuitical rendring the soundest Protestants odious to make room for the Pontificians taken into his bosome basely abusive contrary to conscience blowing hot and cold like a Satyr of a lavish Tongue a broad conscience a crafty pate one whose Religion grows upon the stock of Policy far in the way to Rome like malicious persons guilty of the Plague and to shew that he goes out at the same Door which he came in at I am finally an Heretick to be rejected That these are all his own complements is so well known to as many as have had the patience to read his second book and so almost-impossible to be denyed by himself that I think it not needfull to mark the pages where they are written which would prove a greater trouble to the Printer and to the Corrector of the Presse then matter of satisfaction to any Readers But as I have them all in readinesse and given a view of them to many who have desir'd to be Spectators of so strange a SIGHT so if Mr. B shall murmur at my omission of the pages he shall not fail of them as soon as I know what he would have So far are these from being more then what his book hath afforded that they are only a sprinkling of his behaviour For a Gentleman in the Country having a great curiosity to know how much of the Volume might have been spent in meer railing if it were thrust up together took the courage for once to make a Tryall And the totall of his collection did amount to no lesse then eleven whole Pages in a spacious Quarto all as full as they could hold and overflowing the very margins Now had I the leisure to take account of all the like courtesies bestow'd on others for the 11. pages-full I spake of were all on me I leave the Reader to imagin how fine and slender his book would be if such large Collops were par'd away In the little account which I have given there is a greater affluence then he could meet with in his Textor's Epithets or in his Sylva Synonymorum It may be wonder'd at by some how a man of his diligence in the way he goes should forget this bout to call me Devil but in stead of that should chuse to call me an Angel of darknesse p. 7. The reason of it is very evident For he confesseth that before he was somewhat playsome and had ex●berances of passions but now he is reformed upon the admonitions of his Friends who did give him a Hint that he was somewhat over-heated therefore he gives them most solemn thanks He now mislikes the hare-brain'd fury of some men falsely called zeal He is for prudence and necessary moderation And therefore having before called my Copie of Notes a Noon-day Devil he is now contented to call my Person an Angel of Darknesse which amounts to no more then a Mid-night Devil which is not so bad as being a modester Devil then that which walketh about at Noon In his first Book indeed I was a Satanicall and Diabolical blasphemer nay an exceeder of the Devil himself in blasphemy and worse then Diabolically wittily wicked But that was one of his extravagances for which he will not defend himself And therefore now the world is mended to my unspeakable comfort and I am only a