POSTSCRIPT.
REader,
please to take notice, That the chief (or greatest part) of the foregoing foul Defamations, Slanders, &c. now Recharged upon the Author of them, are Detected and Refuted in our Answers to him; The one Entituled, Innocency against Envy. And the other, The Contentious Apostate and his Blow Refelled: And in this brief Ad∣dition, wherein he is Recharged. Some may wonder why I do be∣stow so much Labour to Answer such a disingenuous scornful Person, that makes no more Conscience of what he writes and publishes to de∣fame others, and will not see when he is Answered and Refuted, nor acknowledged his apparent Errors, and reproachful Falshoods, but in∣stead thereof still add more, and evade Matters of Argument that pinch him, where he is not able to give a Rational Reply. I confess my Endeavours seem fruitless as to himself; and if it were not that the Truth is concerned, he might Mock on, Rail on, Lye and Forge on against me, and I could easily pass it by with Silence and Pati∣ence, till the Lord arise to plead my Cause, as I doubt not but he will do for his Name's sake.
And Reader, observe in the said Contentious Apostate and his Blow Re∣felled, page 3. l. 11. to read [And he into the Gallery] the word He being omitted, varies from the Sense intended, though in some it was cor∣rected after printed, but in others omitted.
To the Vicar of Milden Hall's Challenge, which F. Bugg boasts of, To shew him a president for womens distinct meetings ••art from the men. I answer, 1. That there were Deaconesses in the primitive times, he grants. 2. He neither argues nor brings any president to prove it unlawful for such Deaconesses to meet distinct. 3. There were such godly Elder-women and Widows in the Primitive Church, as were given to Prayer and Supplication, and concerned in a Gospel Ministry, as Teachers of good things, to Instruct the younger women, and such Deaconesses*as did also Minister to the Saints, and took care of (and attended) the Sick and Impotent†, and who in their old Age were (to a considerable number) taken special care by the Church; Therefore 'twas lawful for them, and such sometims to meet together apart from the men, in order to dis∣charge such their Christian Duties. 4. And for a President for Women's distinct Meetings,
