Excerpt from Antidotum Lincolniense, or an Answer to a Book Entituled, the Holy Table, Name, and Thing, &C., Said to Be Written Long Agoe by a Minister in Lincolnshire, and Printed for the Diocese of Lincolne, A⁰. 1637: Written and Inscribed to the Grave, Learned, and Religious Clergie of the Diocese of Lincoln, the Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
And yet it all there piafiaudet (for (0 they mull be thought in fogravc amini/ler) did aime at nothing clfe, than toad vance the reputation of his hot] Tahle the anfwering of his Work had been more proper for another Advctfary. The holy Table hath no enemies in the Church of England; and there fore he is faine to Hie to Rome, to finde out (come that are afloa ared ofthe name ofthe Lord: Tah/e. Butfo it is, that under ti’ pretence offetting up his holy Table, this Minifler hath difper fed throughout hisboolte. Tuch principles of fat’tion, chi/me, and Jifohedience that even that Yahle alfois marl: a/nare to thofe, who, either out of weaknelie, or too great a llomack, do greedily devoure what ever is there fet before them. So vene mous a difcourl’e requires an Antidote a timely and a prelcnt Antidote, before the malignity ofthe poyl’on be dill’ufed too far; and therefore I thought fit to provide one rcady, and to in fcribc itunto ou, the learned and religious Clergie of thel) ft oflinc. Ihr whom, and for whole ufe alone, that worthy Work of his, whofoever he be, mull be pretended to be printed. Yet fo, that any others may be made partakers olit, whole judgmentoe ali’ec’iions have been, or are dill pered by To lewd a pta ’tifer; who cares not if the Church werein a combuliicp.
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