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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    [8] fo I have among all kind of Opinions, a« any man of a popular pra&ice cannot avoid. But it would be very hard* nay exceedingly unjuft, if I (liould therefore be reputed as a man guilty of all Opinions. I have laboured fomewhat in matters of Controverfie, for my own fatisfa&ion , and have oftentimes read much more than perhaps I have un- derftood. I have endeavoured to follow St. Paul*s Rule clofely, viz. Omtiia probate, quod bonum eft tenete, Prove all things, but hold fajt that which is good ', and therefore have not refdfedto read Books of all Opinions, under the bur¬ den of which our Englijh World is too uneafie 5 and of which unneceffary Ware the Shops, Markets, and Fairs a- mong us are too full fraught in thefe our unhappy days. God in his good time heal ouY Divisions, and once more re fore us to unity and good order. 6. Again, had I befen a Papifl, or Popifhty affeSled, why (hould I not have (hewn it upon fo remarkable an oe* cation as in the (to me) mofi unfortunate fichnefs and burial of my dear Wife, but lately deceafed (vfc. fcaree four Months before my fad Confinement) why (hould I not rather have had Popijh priefis, than thofe of the Church of England, to have performed all Chrifiian Offices proper t6 h<£ a t fuch aj time, as to pray by, arid for her, ahd to give her the holy Sacrament ? This had been a time in earneft tohave proved my inclinations and good Vtdlb tb popery , in cafe I following, under the hand of a Miitiflir of the Church of Engiafid, and Citrate Of the Parifti of St. Margaret's Wef min- jier, the Parifti of my; habitation and abode: A Copy whereof I did likewife annex to a Petition which I prefene- ed to His Majefiy and Privy-Council ( for their fa ti$f action) fince my unfortunate imprifonmeftf.117 J ip ii.. io >vaujniino'j a avsd C Imjr.Vibb brifi iii; iQ.fioni am Vy;vJ d aril ion ovt.rl I w rk ili > ;i'_v')\i joio diais>cJ ■ ,T\ a JO u,. f;,-iiv/on >iox; . imoai si rihfnofl srh 1.) -aoTiaq ii: r i