An after-reckoning with Mr Saltmarsh: or, An appeal to the impartiall and consciencious reader, and lover of truth and sincerity, against his last paper, called An end of one controversy, or an answer or letter to M. Leys large last book.: Written by L.M. a student in divinity.

A brief Animadversion upon the mad Pamphle∣ter, composer of the Persume &c. who out of two letters C. D. by a rare spel of Daemonology hath raysed Cerberus Diabolus, yet withall, to give the devil his due, A word of Apology for him against the posted reproach put upon him by Iohn Saltmarsh, and Giles Calvert.

THe unsavoury Pamphlet called a Persume came out with such a stinck, that those that had not lost their sence of smelling cryed Fye upon is, & stopped their noses at it; and if it had been written against me I would have thought it worthy of none other Answer, then such as I finde in Elian which the Ephori of Lacedaemon made to the Clazomenians, when with soot they had soyled their seats of Iudgment; which was that they caused to be proclaimed throughout the City, that,h it should be lawfull for the Clazomenians to doe undecent things.

Yet though neither I non C. D. (who hath so foundly scourged him that it could not be but he must snarle and howle like a dog under the whippe) meddle with him any

more, he cannot passe without a last from the hand of a Mo∣derate adversary, the Moderate Intelligencer, who (though they be both of one trade (viz. Newsmongers) is in his weekly Intelligence as farr above this Perfumer, the scribler, of miscalled Perfect Passages and Perfect Occurrences, as the most artificiall tayler is above the most bungling botchet in the City. And he hath shaped him a Censure in these termes,i A pamphlet came out on Monday last called A perfume against the sulpherous &c. sayd in the title to be written by Iohn Salt∣marsh, is put out wrongfully in his name, and is none of his. Shall we never be ridd of these Mountebanks and Imposters? who when they have not braynes to publish any thing of worth, feign frothy titles, when no such thing is in the Book; but to put the name a∣foresayd to so ridiculous a peice as this, argues the Author to have needed long since to be cut of the simples.

For feare lest thisk worthy writer M. Iohn Saltmarsh should receive reproach by such a senselesse pamphlet, or Giles Cal∣vert his Stationer sustain losse by disreputation of his papers in time to come, this Antidote was posted up in severall places for publike view, A pamphlet came out on Monday, April. 19. 1646. called A persume against the sulpherous &c. sayd in the title to be written by Iohn Saltmarsh, is put out wrongfully in his name, and is none of his. Giles Calvert.

Which is enough for a supersedeas to any ingenuous man for any further Reply unto it, for such a one may very wel dis∣dain to answer that which such an Author disdaynes to own. Yet, to say the truth, both M. Saltmarsh, and M. Calvert did the fellow wrong; and because I see he is so silly that he can∣not tell how to make his own defence himself, I will helpe him out.

He sayth for himself, that M. Saltmarsh can blears him shat he writ his name and Title, and with that it was licensed; and that the Printer acknowledged his fault. The more unwise man he, and no wiser are they (M. Saltmarsh and M. Calvert not excepted) who so grossely mistook the title page of the Pam∣phlet; which makes not M. Saltmarsh the Author of the Per∣fume, for his name is not brought in till the letter end of the

page, presently upon the Smoke in the Temp. which was writ∣ten and Printed with the name of John Saltmarsh, and is ac∣knowledged both by himself and his Stationer to be his. So, you see here is need of more Light to disp••ll the darknes of this Perfume now, as well as of his Spoke before.

FINIS.

Notes

• h

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. ••elian, var. hist. l. 2. c. 15 p. 5••.
• i

  Moderat. In∣tell. Numb. 59. p. 405.
• k

  Brevibus Gy aris & carce∣re dignus.