Protestation of George Lawrence, Title page – To the reader
Laurentius Lutherizans. OR THE PROTESTATION OF GEORGE LAVRENCE, Maſter of Arts, late Commoner in Oxford, and late Lecturer in the Pariſh-Church of George Buttolph-Lane, by Little Eaſtcheap in LONDON.
Againſt certaine Calumniations Aſperged on him by the Corrupt Clergie, and their Lay-Proſelytes, for ſome Particulars, Delivered in two Sermons, at Michaels Church in Corne-hill, and elſe-where, concerning our Nationall Proteſtation.
As it was declared, by way of Digreſſion, in a Third Sermon at the ſame Church, the 23th. Day of Januarie, in the Morning Lecture, Anno, 1642.
foreign. Chryſoſt. ad Scandalizatos.
Innocens inter ipſa Tormenta Fruitur Securitate, & cum poenam. metuat, de Innocentiâ gloriatur.
Hieronymus ad Demetriadem.
The mouth of the Wicked, and the mouth of the Deceitfull are againſt mee: They have ſpoken againſt mee, with lying Tongues.
David, Pſal. 109.2.
London, Printed for R Harford, in Queenes-head All… Pater-noſter-Row. 1641.
Courteous Reader,
I Am to certifie thee, that I was conſtrained, for the preſent, to commit this Paper to the Preſſe, for the Vindication of my ſelfe, and true Religion; having not as yet (according to the Deſires and Expectations of many Godly Divines, Worſhipfull Citizens, and Sincere Profeſſors) fully Digeſted, for the Preſſe, my Sermons upon our Engliſh Proteſtation.
LAVRENTIVS LVTHERIZANS.
MArtin Luther being infeſted with many Adverſaries, and amongſt the reſt, eſpecially with one Jacobus Hoſtraten, termed by him, Haereticorum ominium Haereticiſſimus, The moſt Hereticall of all Hereticks, who had falſely charged him with many Errours, and ſcandalous Accuſations, was neceſſitated to vindicate himſelf with this publike Proteſtation to be knowne of all.