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John Osgood's Testimony.
I Having seen a Pamphlet, called, Tyranny and Hypocrisie Detected, in which my Name is inferred in pag. 17. say∣ing, That whilst I in general terms deny all, I do in particular deny nothing at all: I say, My Answer stated the Matter truly as it was, and many are the yet Witnesses that know it to be so; and to J. P. at his House, it was so proved to be, since the said Answer was printed. And as to his Query in pag. 28. What is become of the Integrity of J. O. that he should put his Name among such Men as these? I answer; As for these Men, I believe they would not affirm a thing with Pen or Toungue that they knew to be Untrue, as this Pamphlet basely insinuates; nor did I so much as in the least know of their Answer, till I saw it printed. And as for my Integrity, it is known unto the Lord, and to him have I approv'd my self in faithfulness, even in Reproving the Ex∣travagancies of him, that I believe was the Grand Informer to him or them that made this Pamphlet, and Sorrows many, the Lord knows, I have, and had for him, and, oh that he had not been above Counsel! then had he not been found Running the Race of Core, nor Furnishing with Spears the Goliahs of Gath, that this day Defie the Host of the Living God. How have they made the Haerts of the Uncircumcised Glad? How doth Aska∣lon Rejoyce, and Atheism say, Ah! ha! thus would we have it? How is this Pamphlet furnished with Scoffs, as Foxonians, King Fox, and Ironically, Oh Innocent, Holy, Harmless People! Well, the Righteous, Terrible, Dreadful God will Avenge for these things. What, thought the Apostle said, There where those things amongst the Corinthians, that were not so much as to be named among the Heathens; what must be their Portion, that unto the Heathens made known this, and thereby the God of the Christians Blaspheamed, and the Way of Truth Reproached, as it is at this day? But with this sad Difference, some of them, that now are Agents in this Work, have Tasted of, and Witnes∣sed