Clarior e tenebris, or, A justification of two books, the one printed 1680, under the title of The Grand inquest, the other in April 1682, under the title of The royal favourite cleared with several other reasons in vindication of His Royal Highness ... / by J.G. of the Inner-Temple, Esq.
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- Clarior e tenebris, or, A justification of two books, the one printed 1680, under the title of The Grand inquest, the other in April 1682, under the title of The royal favourite cleared with several other reasons in vindication of His Royal Highness ... / by J.G. of the Inner-Temple, Esq.
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- Garbrand, John, b. 1646 or 7.
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- London :: Printed for Thomas Dring ...,
- 1683.
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- Garbrand, John, b. 1646 or 7. -- Grand inquest.
- Garbrand, John, b. 1646 or 7. -- Royal favourite clear'd.
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"Clarior e tenebris, or, A justification of two books, the one printed 1680, under the title of The Grand inquest, the other in April 1682, under the title of The royal favourite cleared with several other reasons in vindication of His Royal Highness ... / by J.G. of the Inner-Temple, Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42155.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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TO THE READER.
Courteous Reader,
YOƲ may wonder to see me in Print, thrice upon one Subject, and question me, why not all at once, as well as to feed you with these farther Expectances? Reader, I must give you this for an Answer; diseased Minds are like sickly Bodies; if you give them not Preparatives, the Di∣stemper and the Application together may ruine the Patient: But to satis∣fie you, Britannia begins to mend, and in a little time 'tis to be hoped will be in her right Wits again: especially,
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since she is so much abated of her too credulous Opinions, and finds by experi∣ence, that the dictates of her own Con∣science runs counter to what she has been, as it were, forced to believe from the mouths of her Dissenting Bre∣thren. There were many Symptoms of this craz'd Distemper, appearing long before these sullen humours broke forth, which were discernable by the foulness of her Stomach, and her continual vo∣miting of Gall and Sedition against the Government: And even then the Di∣stemper run so high, it seem'd the Seed∣time to Hellish Plots, and Mother to Rebellion: And then she brought forth, and put out to Nurse this mali∣cious Opinion, That the Duke was a Papist (when he was praising God in the Bosom of our Church, and profes∣sing
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himself her Champion) which Ba∣stard Brat she would have laid at ano∣thers door, because she knew it was unlawfully begot, and that she might be called to a severe account for so great a Scandal. But soon after, Bri∣tannia discovered her self, which has given me the farther occasion to Print this last Treatise, and I hope it will make our Paths more plain and easie; and receive that candor from, as is in∣tended to the present Government, by him, who is a well-wisher to his King and Countrey.
Vale.