GE Konoklastys@, in Answer to a Book [By J. Gauden] Intitled, GE K N Basiliky, with Many Enlargements, by R. Baron, with a Preface, to Which Is Added, an Original Letter to Milton (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1770 Excerpt: ... stian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor; and that our Saviour himself coming to reform his church, was accused of an intent to invade Caesar's right, as good a right as the prelate bishops ever had; the one being got by force, the other by spiritual usurpation; and both by force upheld. He admires and falls into an extasy that the parliament should send him such a " horrid proposition," as the removal of episcopacy. But expect from him in an extasy no other reasons of his admiration than the dream and tautology of what he hath so oft repeated, law, antiquity, ancestors, prosperity, and the like, which will be therefore not worth a second answer, but may pass with his own comparison, into the common sewer of other popish arguments. "Had the two houses sued out their livery from the wardship of tumults," he could sooner have believed them. It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative. And had he also redeemed his overdated minority from a pupilage under bishops, he would much less have mistrusted his parliament; and never would have set so base a character upon them, as to count them no better than the vassals of certain nameless men, whom he charges to be such as " hunt after faction with their hounds the tumults." And yet the bishops could have told him, that Nimrod, the first that hunted after faction, is reputed by ancient tradition the first that founded monarchy; whence it appears that to hunt after faction is more properly the king's game; and those hounds, which he calls the vulgar, have been often halloo'd to from court, of whom the mungrel fort have been indeed; the rest have not lost their scent, but understood aright, that the parliament had that part to act which he had fa..