POST-SCRIPT.
IN your Answer to the Looking-Glass, &c. p. 2. You say, If the Author thereof was questi∣oned about the Books quoted, he would be hard put to it for Proof. In strictness of Law it might be so; for so it was in the Trial of John Lilburn at Guild-hall, — 49; and the Trial of the Bishops lately. Yet, thus much in Reply: That if you will own which of them are yours, and which are not; then the Publisher of the Looking-Glass, &c. will come forth, and (before any indifferent Persons equally chosen,) prove those Books you shall deny, to be also yours; and upon their satisfaction, you shall own your selves, guilty as of Per∣jury, as you have declared, That if your solemn Yea and Nay might be taken in lieu of an Oath, that your untruth or breach of word should be punishable as Perjury. Treatise of Oaths, pag. 166.
And as for the Columns you cavil at, as being misplaced; in the Manuscript the lesser Column was put on the right hand of every Page; but the Printer saying, when one of the Columns was so much lesser than the other, as that was, then it was usual to put it on the outside; and so it was Printed: However, seeing the Direction-word at the lower end of every Page, was a sufficient Guide to each Column; it was Baseness in Geo. White∣head, (who is said to be the Pen-man of that Paper,) for such a Mistake, if it had been re∣ally so, to call the Author Fool and Knave for so small a Matter.