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Among the most elaborate replies to his work were: An Answer to a Letter of Enquiry into the Ground, etc.. 1671; A Vindication of the Clergy from the Contempt imposed upon them, By the author of the Grounds etc., 1672; Hieragonisticon, or Corah's Doom, being an Answer to, etc., 1672; An Answer to two Letters of T.B., etc., 1673.
To some of his opponents Eachard replied. Of his method of conducting controversy, in which it is clear that he perfectly revelled, I give a short specimen. It is from his letter to the author of Hieragonisticon: 'You may possibly think, sir, that I have read your book, but if you do you are most mistaken.
Alas, sir, I am as unlikely to read your book that I can't get down the title no more than a duck can swallow a yoked heifer' and then follows an imitation of gulps straining at the divided syllables of Hieragonisticon.
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