Magna veritas: or, John Gadbury, (student in physick and astrology) not a Papist, but a true Protestant of the Church of England / Published for the satisfaction of all such as know not the said John Gadbury and yet give credit to all kinds of scandals and falshoods that pass upon his much injured reputation since his late unfortunate confinement.

  • John Gadbury
Date:
1680
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Credit: Magna veritas: or, John Gadbury, (student in physick and astrology) not a Papist, but a true Protestant of the Church of England / Published for the satisfaction of all such as know not the said John Gadbury and yet give credit to all kinds of scandals and falshoods that pass upon his much injured reputation since his late unfortunate confinement. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [4] fo near a loyal Cathedral, and among loyalhearted per forts' ■ I mu ft have been taken notice of for fuch } and my difcour- fes muft, at one time or other, have betrayed a foul or /pi¬ nt within me, fit and adapted for fo wicked a purpofe. But yet the contrary is fufficiently known of me. —Nay, had I been an Enemy to His Maje/ly,my converfation would have been among perfons Anti-Monarchical , and of difloyal and treacherous Principles and Opinions. Where¬ as I have no near converfe or concern with any man of ei¬ ther a Fanatich^ or Papijlical perfuafion at all ; but do chiefly correfpond and accompany with fuch loyal and religi¬ ous perfons, who are not afraid or afhamed to own the Inte- rejl of His Royal Majejly, and that of the Church of Eng¬ land. And, we know, it is an allowed Proverb, —Homo cognofcitur ex fociis. Thirdly, If what I have faid be not yet enough to acquit me from the guilt of all knowable Crimes againft my Liege Lord and Soveraign, then let all my Writings fince His Majefties moft happy Reftauration ( and before alfo ) be examined by any impartial and un- hiaffed Judg , and I dare affirm that they will all be found to ftand up, and fully to juftifie for me. I fpare to mentis on any thing of my hawing been always on His MajeftieS and His moft Glorious Father’s fide in the late unhappy Wars. For, could I have done more (in fo good and fo juft a Caufe ) than I did, or was able to do at that time, it had been but my dury, and fuch as my Birth and Allegiance bound me to, as indeed they do every fubjefl of what de¬ gree foever. §. 9. And here I would have tranfcribed fundry pages of my own Loyalty, out of my feveral Annual Labours, for the better corroborating of the prefent Argument^ and the compurgating of my innocency as to the matter in que- ftion jbut that I conceive the fame is fo well known to all perfons generally , and believed too, by every body but thofe that are envious and malicious ( whofe eyes 1 pray God to open ) that there is fcarce any need thereof. Be- fides, I am in a great meafure herein prevented by the kind pains of a worthy, cordial (though as yet to me an unknown ) Friend, in his publifiling an ingenious, acute, but moft ;uft and true Anfwer to a wicked, nay a murther- oufly 1