Sober vindication of the Reverend Dr. and the harmless Board

A Sober
OF THE
,> Reverend DR’ and the Harmlefs BOARD4
Lately Clew’d together in a
I! Profane!
a nd
Turn’d out in that undecent Familiarity into the Street,
and expos’d to the Mercilefi Hooting?, and Popifh Jibes
pf Tantivy Coffee-Houfes, and Tory Club? -, together with
an .Aplogy for the truly Worthy Patron of Wit and
m F. S..:r /A ^
Dear Protoftant Reader,
N this degenerate Age, tyhen all manner of Profaneneis, Atheifm, nay,
Hobbijfp it felf prevails, it is no wonder that fo Reverend a Vindicator
of the Reformation, and the Rights of Princes, who all that know him,
or have, ever converfed with him, may be eafily fatisfied did never read
Hobbs j and upon occafion, (corns to make ufe of any Arguments of his,
or any like them. It is no wonder, I fay, that aPerfon thus Qualified in his
Parts, and Eminent in his Virtues (not to mention his Gratitude to his Late
Countryman and Patron, the D. of L. for that is known even beyond the
Orcades') (hould be obnoxious to the Scandalous Pens of the Enemies of that
Reformation, which it is feared will never be a Through Reformation , till he
arrive at his Bieffed Ends, and fuffer Martyrdom for what he has done to¬
wards it.
But to do him what Juftice we can, as well as the poor Board, that is bale-
Jy abufed, with him: It is well known by all its Neighbours, the worthy In¬
habitants of Kent Street, that the Board is not dead yet, but as much alive and
ierlfible of Popifi Perfecutions as ever : And as for its being born at Barn-Elms,
it is well known too, that it was never born at alT, but grew up after the man¬
ner of other Trees, Ay marry did it. And whofoever fays, that it was aDref-
(er-Board in the Kitchin of Sheriff I muft beg leave to tell him,, he
knows as little what belongs to Sh. B—L as Sh. B—knows what belongs
to a Kitchen. N !■ ■.. • iU c.;': /; ■ o?.! ! j- > -
And whereas in the Second Paragraph the Author is pleafod to term him a
Reverend Scot, I defire he (hould explain himleli, whether Ijie meant a National
or Perjonal Reflexion: If a National, we have nothing to fay to him, let him
look to it 5 but if a Perfonal 5 and that thereby he means his late Apoftolicai
Vifitation to the £ of iL It is well known he was fo far from difturbing him, v
that he was never admitted to the Sick-Bed of that Noble Peer, but for his
Diverfion^ and never left him, but in a cheerful and merry Difpofition of
mind, in fpite of the macerated Condition of his Body^j many other Doll or s
^though of another faculty (then about him) can, if they pleafe, tefiifie. Nor is the
filly Reftefrion upon his Brother Dr. T. 0. of more Moment: For that Wor¬
thy Divine, let his^Enemies fay what they .will, never did (wear through an
Inch