Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	good_a	king_n	subject_n	3,003	5	6.4581	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65051	The vindicator vindicated, or, A sur-rejoynder on behalf of Sir Thomas Player, &c. against the calumnies of H.B. alias N.R. alias P.K. alias S.P. in a late pamphlet learnedly entituled An answer in defence of a reply.	H. B., Citizen of London.	1686 (1686)	Wing V538; ESTC R655	5,449	4

The Vindicator Vindicated OR A SUR-REJOYNDER On behalf of Sir Thomas Player c. Against the Calumnies of H. B. alias N. R. alias P. K. alias S. P. in a late Pamphlet Learnedly Entituled An ANSWER in Defence of a REPLY 'T IS not without some violence to my own Inclinations that I come once more to take notice of this mans Impertinencies Excuse me therefore Readers if I appear not over-serious Where I have to do with one so compleatly Ridiculous For why must we needs use syllogismes to confute the Brayings of an Ass or come forth with Sword and Buckler to Duel the Knight of the Windmills and Attacque a Scarcrow of Beanstalks and Bulrushes In truth were it not to remove certain mistakes too boldly spread by Ill-designing people and too unwarily swallowed by some well-meaning Citizens more than out of any regard to the merits of his trifling Pamphlet I should have left the Angry man to talk alone and enjoy the glory of the last word which he shews himself so eager to obtain though in spight of Reason and with the intire forfeiture of all the small Remains of his Discretion Our pretended Citizen begins this second paper in the stile of Splitting-Dick as if he would have us take him for some small Label of the Law or smatterer in Clerkship But he offers at it so woodenly that the veriest Fac-simile-Dulman the sillyest Three half-penny Hack in all Chancery Lane would be asham'd on 't The said H. B. for further Answer Taken to the Exceptions in the said Vindication answers and sayes If either of the Giants in Guild-Hall can make sense of this I 'le burn Wests Presidents and give him my Green Bag into the Bargain Nay so accomplisht he appears in his own Craft as not to understand the very terms us'd in the process of a Suit in Equity For his first Libel which he meant for an Answer he call'd a Replication and this which according to his reckoning should have been a Rejoynder he misnames an Answer But his Defects of Wit and Law are made up with a surplusage of Confidence and Ill-nature The first cast of his skill being an Ill-favour'd squint on Sr. Tho. P. who he sayes might as reasonably have taken him for a Jew as a Priest or Papist What Sr. T. took him for or whether he ever vouchsafed him the honour of his generous thoughts is to me unknown 'T is indeed somewhat improbable that he should be a Priest because commonly that Tribe shew themselves cunninger Knaves and write with more Art and Learning but that he may be a kind of Mungrel an indifferent well-willer to the Red-Letter a mercenary Tool that would be an Advocate for Popery for ten Groats there are still some violent suspicions For why should we not suppose him a Janus in opinion that wears a couple of names H. B. in the Front but N. R. in the Rear of his Pamphlet and yet 't is probable neither of them so much as the initial letters of his true Appellation If he be one of our principal Citizens and really of the Church of England as he alledges why all this Shuffling and Masking Or who but one that is a favourer of Papists at least would go about to divide us in such a juncture with groundless surmises and scandalize so Noble a Gentleman only for his zeal to the Protestant Religion 'T is true he would cloak himself under the Church of England but how many of late pretend to her Honourable Livery only that they may wound her more unsuspectedly Tuta frequensque via est sub Amici fallere Nomen He would by this maliciously insinuate as if Sr. T. were Author of the paper called The Vindication but can he hope to make any people in their wits believe it In vain Sir in vain you aspire to the Honour of such an Opponent Aquila non capit Muscas That Gentleman has other business than to trouble himself with Domitians fly-flap or regard the barkings of every Cerberus The Vindication was written as the Notes of his Speech were printed wholly without his Consent or Privity For being satisfied with the Testimony of a good Conscience he valued not your slanders yet 't was thought a duty owing to Truth and the Honour of the City which in general you had aspersec That the same should be exposed by a meaner hand who has no other obligations to that worthy Knight than what every true Protestant must gratefully own Our Author next observes That in the Opinion of the Fanaticks the Popish Plot cannot be suppressed without their Help Tell us O thou Man of mickle Observations when they told you so and yet I am glad to hear they are so ready to help towards it when 't is Necessary The water being disturb'd he sayes they put in their Hooks and Lines and Nets to catch the Fish the Government 'T is a dainty Allegory the very Cream of his Rhetorick and so let it pass But why was not he so Loyal especially when I challeng'd him to it to discover some of these dangerous Hook-and-Line-Men We all do or should know 't is the old Fisher-man at Rome and his Journey-men that are now busily Angling and sure when an Inundation is so palpably threatned it will become every good Subject that asserts the Kings Legal Prerogative and the establisht Religion to endeavour to support the Banks and I wish some whose Duty and true Interest 't is to maintain them did not go about to undermine them and by unseasonable Breaches let in the Popish Torrent In his last he charg'd Sir T. P. with three foolish Ill-designs now he says but two and undoubtedly next Edition they will be dwindled into none at all Yet for publick satisfaction I cannot but take notice of two things industriously spread to that Gentlemans disadvantage 1. That he should be concern'd in promoting Mr. J. for Sheriff 2. That he broke promise in not appearing before the Lieutenancy Sept. 18. Now if both these should happen to be found mistakes what have they next to object As to the first 'T is most certain and ready to be proved That Sir T. was so far from having any hand in that design that he endeavoured all he could to discourage it and as soon as ever he heard the least intimation thereof which was but on the Friday Evening earnestly desired several of Mr. J.'s friends to desist telling them If they had an intent to prejudice the said Mr. J. as much as in them lay they could not take a more expeditious course to effect it Now if they would afterwards proceed is it not most unreasonable that he should be burthened with the acts of others or mis-represented by reason of an Accident which though unluckily happening the same day he was so remote from advancing that he opposed it And here by the way Though I am wholly a stranger to Mr. J. nor intend to be his Advocate yet finding Sr. T. unjustly reflected