A Real Vindication OF Dr. B— From the Base and Scandalous Affronts put upon him, in two late Scurrilous Pamphlets, entitled, The last Words and Sayings of the true Protestant Elm-Board; Together with a true Relation of a Conference between Dr. B— and the said Board: And A sober Vindication of the Reverend Dr. and the harmless Board; lately clew'd together in a profane pasquil, &c.  
WHat a degree of Atheism, profaneness, and Irreligion, are the Men of these licentious times arrived to! That they dare, not only in private, but even publicly and in Print, scandalise, vilify, and expose to the rash censure of every Individual person, the Learned Doctors, and Reverend Prelates of our Church, the Pillars and Susteiners of the Protestant Religion: Nay further to redicule Scripture Phrases and Sentences, use them in their common discourse, change and vary them according to their own private fancies and Imaginations: What the next step will be, let every impartial Man judge; certainly with the heretic Salvetus even to deny that person by whose Inspiration those holy writs were delivered unto us. A sufficient proof of the most part of this charge, is very conspicuous, in these two Scurrilous Pamphlets against that worthy Divine D. B— A Man that hath very well deserved of this ungrateful Nation: One that hath been very officious in his Calling, always administering Spiritual Consolation to his Christian Brethren, one that hath both writ and preached sufficiently for the strengthening of all weak in the Faith; one who is an Honest Man, a true Divine, and a good Christian; whom none but Ignorant, Atheistical, or Popish persons can blame or quarrel with: little better can we judge that Profligate Varlet, the prejudiced Author of this Atheistical Libel to be. In the front we have A Relation of a Conference between Dr. B— &c. And why a Relation of a Conference? Because forsooth there was published not long since, a Book entitled; A Relation of a Conference between Dr. Stillingfleet, Dr. Burnet, and some Gentlemen of the Church of Rome. It is an old saying and a true, Touch a galled Horse back, and he will winch: Which I guess is my Authors case. The Drs. having laid open the abominable errors and Superstitions of his Mother Church: But to proceed, he tells you a Story of the ancient stock of this true Protestant Elm-board; A word I believe he hath a great Antipathy against, by reason he joins it to so despicable a thing as an old rotten Elm-board. And choose rather to be martyred in Smithfield. A sport he greatly wishes for: Oh how it would delight him to see Martyrs once again tied to the Stake, with Fire and Faggot, in that ancient Popish-Protestant-Slaughter-house. Now he is come as far as the Dr. Then the Reverend Scot Dr. B—  
An Appellation though here put Irronically, may be fitter applied to our Doctor, than any Monk, friar, Jesuit, Cardinal, or Pope of them all. So remarkable for disturbing the Sick. Now may we plainly see his Jesuitical Malice; he vexes, because the Doctor like a Deciple of Christ, visits the Sick Persons before their departure out of this World, fitting them for a better. The Salamanca Doctor was designed to be sent for. A great Eye-sore to the Papists: by reason of his discovery of their Hellish D●signs, whilst at Room, Validolid, St. Omers, Salamanca, &c. But Doctor B— 's visit prevented it, who upon his first entrance saluted the Board with a Holy Kiss; not on his to, I hope: and said, Be of good comfort, my Brother suffer patiently, your Reward is great, thou shalt be the Royal-Oak in Paradise: and when thou shalt have left off this Touch-wood Tabernacle, thou shalt be as one of the Cedars of Lebanon, &c. What profaner speech than this, could even Hobbs himself feigned or composed? O the Male volence of Atheism and profaneness! But to descant upon the words Royal-Oak: why Oak? because you are speaking of an Elm-board; Oh the sottishness and stupidity that Ignorance and Malice hurries a man into! Again, The Doctor being a professed Enemy to all Ceremonies: how so I pray? I am sure he Conforms to the useful and necessary Ceremonies, Established by Law in the Church of England. To all Ceremonies, I must confess he is a professed Enemy, not in the least approving of those innumerable and Superstitious Ceremonies in use in the Roman Church. As for his Queries, what things are more unlikely? is't then he makes the Doctor say, Doctor shall the Duke of M— be King? A thing he neither cares nor hopes for: Doctor, shall Scotch Kirk Government e're prevail in England? What more improvable then this? for should that be, the Doctor would be in far worse case then he is; Doctor, shall we ever have a Parliament? Then which my Author f●ars and dreads nothing more. With three more Pallry Queries, not worth taking notice of, and altogether insignificant; till at last he makes the Doctor speak the truth, saying, Doctor you are a Papist, and so farewell, I will not absolve you; Not thinking he hath power to pardon any Man's Sin. Last of all, the Royal-Oak-Elm-board speaks. Board, Pray then Doctor, do not shame the World with a Narrative of my Life. Oh! how angry the Man is at the Doctor's Writing the Life of that Worthy Penitent, the E— of R— he is sorry that the World should know, how many and how great Sinners, our Church of England Divines, under God, can Convert; To the utter shane and disgrace of the Romish Doctors, who pervert more proselytes to Sin, then convert them from it. The other PAMPHLET, looking like a Puppy of the same Bitch; being nothing else, but as the former, a continued LIBEL of Revilings and bitter Invectives, against the Doctor, 'twill be all together vain to answer it, being one and the same thing with the former: These I have run over( altogether without the Doctor's knowledge) merely for the undeceiving some of the credulous Multitude, who never yet heard of the famed of this our learned, worthy and reverend divine. And I hearty wish we had none amongst us inferior to the Doctor: in Knowledge, Devinity, Doctrine, and good Conversation. Then might we have abundant plenty of Good Writers, Good Preachers, Good Livers: then would our Clergy in General be free from all Aspersions and Calumnies whatsoever, except of Ignorant and Malicious Persons; which even the Holy Apostles themselves, were not free from.   

LONDON, Printed for D. N. 1682.