it doth not follow hence that Episcopacy and Presbytery stand upon equal terms and though both proceeding upon the same suâ—position do equally complain yet that part which really suffers wrong doth justly complain And if he please now to set his Tables right again I am apt to think that he will give it on the Episcopal side But there is something farther for which the Presbyterian my justly complain though this Author had cast such a mist before his own Eyes that he could not see it For the Presbyterian in the general Notion asserts a great Truth and it is not his fault that he pleads a divine right of Church Government but that he takes it out of those Hands wherein Christ and his Apostles left it to commit to those to whom it was never intrusted and thus licks up Aerius's Vomit Now in this case Mr. Lowth had proved the Presbyterian concerned as well as the Episcoparian For when the Author of the Irenicum to avoid the Argument from the Superiority of the Apostles and their Jurisdiction over the Pastors of the Church by an Act of Christ had pleaded That it must be farther proved that it was Christ's intention that Superiority should continue in their Successions or it makes nothing to the purpose To this Mr. Lowth replies That at this rate of Arguing though the Apostles by an Act of Christ were invested with the ministerial Authority yet it must be farther proved That it was Christ's intention that the same power should continue in their Successors or it makes nothing to the purpose for a setled Ministry and the same Argument which overthrows a Superiority of Churchmen for want of an express of Christ's intention overthrows the very Ministry it self both having the same bottom and alike promises And here the Episcopal Man was not left alone to complain but the Presbyterian might honestly put in for a share And this indeed was a fatal Argument for it overthrew the whole project of the Irenicum for if you well observe you will find the Scheme of that Author to lie thus He asserts in general a divine Right of Government or that it is the Will of Christ that his Church should be Governed one way or other but then as for any particular Form of Church Government he doth not think that Christ or his Apostles erected any with an Obligation of its continuance but that it was left to some body I know not who to establish the particular Form according to the necessity convenience and circumstances of Times Places and Persons and from time to time to new mould and change the same as they should find cause yet always containing themselves within the bounds of what the Author thinks lawful I grant that he is not always true to this but the whole Work seems to be bottomed upon this supposition and for his inconsistencies he himself may take care of them Now the Argument here used hath undone himself and is levelled not only against the divine Right of any one particular Form but against the divine Right of a Ministry and all Church Government whatsoever Neither do I know to what purpose we should wrangle whether the House shall be built in this or that Form or Shape when it doth not appear that we have any Right or Authority either to build any at all or to enter any formerly built And now let any man judge whether this was an effectual way of arguing either for the re-establishment of the Church of England or for mens complying with it But tho this be enough to prove what Mr. Lowth hath alledged yet it is untruly said of the Letter-maker that this is all For Mr. Lowth had accused the Author of the Irenicum that notwithstanding his Pretence of the Mutability of Church Government he had invested the Presbyter with the full Power of Order and Jurisdiction and that he had perpetually fixed him by divine Right unalterable and he there proves his Charge p. 29. and you may find several other things in Mr. Lowth's Letter to this purpose to which I refer you for they having received no Answer I am no further at present concerned for them only I think this a very unlikely way of perswading the establishment of the Church under Bishops and leave you to judge let the Author's Design be what it will whether the Book do not carry on the Design which Mr. Lowth pretends I fear I grow troublesom to you but now my Hand is in I am resolved to follow this Author to see if he have done the reverend Dean any better Service in the remaining part of his Letter And the next thing he falls on is the Business of a Recantation And here supposing what I had read in the former part of the Letter would have been of the same piece with what followed I expected to have met with strange tragical Exclamations and that the unreasonableness of the Demand should have been bitterly cryed out against But I was quite disappointed and he is clear too quick for us for he saith That a Recantation hath been already made and that as publick as the Error Scandal and Offence and too before the Demand was made This Language I confess surprized me It seems then that Mr. Lowth and the Dean were agreed and did not know it What pity is it that such a Noise should be made all over the Kingdom and such Disturbance among Church of England Men about a Quarrel between Two Peasons who are both become of the same Mind But is it not a stark Shame that when Mr. Lowth is acknowledged to be in the Right and the Dean hath receeded from his former Tenets to come up to an Opinion which Mr. Lowth hath always maintained he should be reviled and exclaimed against in all places for this with as much Fierceness and Bitterness as if he had set the Church on Fire At least those who confess thus much ought to condemn the Practice as Unreasonable And if this be true I think the Quarrel ought to be at an end But now I am afraid to read on least in looking after the Proof of this I should meet with a second Disappointment and I find all to amount to little better than a meer Say so And indeed much thus it happens For tho I am willing to perswade my self that the Learned Dean is really and truly of another Mind and hath quitted many of the loose Opinions of the Rector of Sutton yet this Author is so Unfortunate in the Proof of it that he hath done him no small Diskindness And the First thing which he cites from the several Conferences is so far from a formal Retractation as he would bear us in hand that it is indeed only a scurvy Palliation of the matter and I am sorry there to find this Assertion That what Proposals he makes about tempering Episcopacy they were no other than what King Charles 1st and Mr. Thorndike had made before him How No
Lowth seems to me a thing utterly unaccountable but from the Churches abounding with Men of Latitudinarian and Erastian Principles who are resolved to maintain the positions of the Rector of Sutton though the Dean of St. Paul's pretend to disclaim them and therefore I think Mr. Lowth might well call it an unlucky Book And yet no one living can believe this who admits the Character which is given of the Book It might be compared saith our Learned Author to one of those Trees that are thick hung with plenty of Fruit of several growths some ripe some green some in the blossom and some in the bud which altogether affordeth a very pleasant Prospect argue an exceeding luxuriency and fertility in the Soil and may be all brought to perfect Maturity in their due time God forbid that all these should come to perfect Maturity for what can this Fruit be but the several sorts of Church Government mentioned in the Iraenicum There a curtailed kind of Episcopacy is coldly and faintly allowed Presbytery strongly pleaded for Independency much favoured and if my memory fail me not in the matter of Tithes there is a spicing of Anabaptistry and Quakerism Now certainly Episcopacy must be the present ripe Fruit and therefore fit to be cropp'd and no doubt but Presbytery as green as it is will be quickly ready for its place Independency though in the bud yet upon occasion is a very great grower and ripens apace and will soon be endeavouring to lend the Presbyter a lift and others that are only in the blossom upon these incouragements will doubtless come on as fast as they can now would it not be a brave World to see all these come to perfect Maturity i. e. to thrust out one another to take their place by turns and run round by the help of some of J. O's Providential Revolutions I cannot tell what else to make of this Orainge-Tree Similitude and if any one can give a kinder and more natural Interpretation of it I should be glad to hear it If the Author had said of the Fruit that it was some Ripe some Rotten I think he had given a much truer though nothing so glorious a Character I have formerly read the Book and truly my thoughts of it then were that in all my Life I had never seen so many ill things so confusedly put together and the best excuse that I can make for it is to plead our near Twenty Years Confusions the variety of Opinions which then got in Vogue the prejudices which prevailed and the great disadvantages most Men laboured under as to their Studies who were forced to lanch forth into the World before his late Majesty's Restauration But if any Man plead for it in downright terms at this time o' th' Day he deserves to be casheired not only out of the Church of England but the Society of Learning But for this I had best look to my self for the Author of the Letter assures us that the Bishops were of another mind and that the Prudent and Reverend Governors of our Church did admire the performance Well then there is no help for such as I unless we can shelter our selves under such Imprudent and Irreverend Governors as did not admire it So perhaps the Letter-Maker may think and that he is safe now he hath set the Bishops on their Backs who shall dare to open their Mouths against the Iraenicum And yet for all this I am nothing concerned for I have learn'd that there is a great deal of difference betwixt admiring and approving and we more often admire Mens Folly and Wickedness than their Wisdom and Goodness I shall easily grant that considering the Time the Person and his Age there is much in that Book to be admired and perhaps more to be censured and I hardly think that the Bishops have a better Opinion of that Book than the Dean professeth to have himself who for some Years of late hath been sick of it But it would be the strangest Paradox in the World that they should be so desperately enamour'd on a Script which Sacrificeth their whole Order to the pleasure of the Magistrate or the Mobile and actually degrades them into the Rank of Presbyters What will such Insinuations make men think of our Bishops It is insufferable Impudence thus covertly to expose the highest Order in God's Church But let the Reverend Bishops look to themselves for our Author thinks he can prove what he saith and tells us that the great Sufferers for Religion and Loyalty had such an Opinion of Mr. Stillingfleet and that doubtless upon the account of the Iraenicum that they made choice of him to undertake the Defence of the Conference with Fisher And what of all this Doth it thence follow that they approved the Iraenicum I rather think the contrary I suppose our Author may have heard of Mr. Prynn a Man of a restless Spirit and unsetled Judgment who spared no Times or Persons Now because they could not tell what to do with him but put him to the Records in the Tower to employ his busie Mind will our Author conclude that they applauded all he wrote But to bring an instance yet nearer to our Case of all the Schismaticks that ever assaulted the Church of England possibly none will be found more Inveterate nor yet more able and learned than T. Cartwright and yet some of the Governors of our Church thought sit to put him upon Writing against our Country-men at Rhemes And I suppose their design was to sweeten his bitter Spirit by such an honour done to him and to win him what they fairly could or at least to divert a direct War upon the Church and to hinder his making the People run mad at which he was an excellent Artist 'T is true that his ill Principles stuck so close to him that his Performance did not answer expectation and other hands were forced to be set on work but if this Author had been then living it seems he would have hence concluded that not only all the Bishops but even Archbishop Whitgift himself who had wrote against him did approve of what Cartwright had wrote before and he had done the Bishops no mean favour if he had not made them all Fanaticks Something more perhaps may be said in behalf of the Rector of Sutton for the Irenicum though a pernicious Book yet did vouch thus much for its Author That he was a Man of luxuriant Parts and indefatigable Industry and being he seemed himself to be unsetled who shall accuse the Wisdom of our Governors for endeavouring to take him off before he was too far gone and to employ him in an honourable Work which might at once oblige him and better instruct him And he that had maintained an ill cause with so good appearance of Learning might reasonably be thought to manage a good one with much more advantage And I am apt to think that this course had totally secured him
other If there be not some Propositions which when you please go for Proposals in the Irenicum relating to Episcopacy which King Charles 1st and Mr. Thorndike were they living would abominate I will never more pretend to any common Understanding of what I read As for our glorious Martyr it is very hard to say what Concessions any man could have made who had been reduced to those miserable Straits which he was by the most impudent and barbarous Rebels And yet thus far I am confident that nothing stuck more close to him than his Opinion concerning the Government of the Church by Bishops nothing rendred him more suspected both to the Presbyterian and Independent nothing was a greater Obstacle in all Treaties nor was any thing pleaded for by him with more Vigor and Smartness But I will trouble you no farther on this Account because I know that the blessed King Charles and judicious Mr. Thorndike will be vindicated in this Point by another Hand But I could not forbear smiling at a pretty Fetch of this Author who when he had cited the King's Proposal as he calls it from the Deans Epistle Dedicatory and made his Comment upon it immediately adds This is very consistent with the Practice of the First Ages and this I take to be the same that by Law is established in our Church Surely the Dean did himself much wrong to talk of tempering Episcopacy For let him say what he would he was for it just the same that it is now And do you not think that our Author had good Eyes who could discover how Episcopacy hath been all along by Law established just according to the Proposals in the Irenicum I should commend him at a dead Lift but that he over does it so unmercifully Some other passages indeed this Author cites which seem to imply some kind of retractation and I am â—pt to believe that the Dean really intended them with reference to some things which he had formerly alledged in prejudice of the Church of England but then what the particulars are we are left to guess And I remember I have read of an old Hob-Nail'd Axiom that dolus versatur in universalibus And for any thing contained in those Expressions any Man upon occasion may easily get of them and each Party as the Tide turned might apply them to their own advantage for any thing that could be said to the contrary without a more particular Explanation from their Author But to put the whole matter out of Dispute this Author at last descends to particulars and instances in three things wherein lies the main Charge i. e. the Manuscript the Power of Church Officers and Episcopacy And if this be satisfactorily done I know no reason but that the Quarrel should die but instead of that I rather meet with idle Cavils than fair Answers As to the Manuscript the first thing charged is the altering the general Method of it and of this he in some measure clears the Dean and lays it upon Doctor Burnet and undertakes to give the reason of it But whatever might be the reason yet it is confessed That it was altered and no Record ought to be altered upon any reason whatsoever without Forgery and therefore Mr. Lowth spake Truth and ought not to be abused at this rate upon that account And though this Author tells us how easie a matter it is to put it in its first Order yet I believe many might have been to seek in it had not this Contest given occasion for the fuller explaining the mysteries of it And for my part I like not of mens doing thus unwarrantably and worse of their giving reasons for it The other charge in reference to the Manuscript is That they have left out Bishop Cranmer 's Subscription to Doctor Leighton 's Opinion concerning Church Power by which he retracted his former erroneous Judgment This the Author acknowledgeth to be so soul a thing that it would leave those without any excuse who should be proved guilty of it but he quarrels Mr. Lowth's proof and finds no less than four mistakes in it and if he had pleased he might have made them fourscore and I know not who could have contradicted him for the Manuscript is to be seen only by choice Friends and whilst they keep it so close to themselves they may say what they please of it without any bodies being able to disprove them But if there had been so many mistakes they cannot fairly be laid at Mr. Lowth's â—â—or for he doth not pretend to have seen the Manuscript but took it upon the credit and relation of Doctor Durel late Dean of Windsor and therefore at him the Argument ought to have been levelled And yet I do not see how the Dean of Windsor can be blamed not only because they took no notice of it in his life time nor in the least offered to disprove him but also because that learned person doth intimate that he had perused the Manuscript and followed his own Eye sight in what he wrote And it is farther considerable that Mr. Lowth gave notice of this by Letter whilst the Dean of Windsor was living All this while no mistake was heard of but now the Dean is dead and can tell no Tales here are four of a cluster But until this Author's Reputation can out-weigh that of the Dean of Windsor's which I think it will not do in haste amongst all disinteressed persons it will remain a Quaery where the mistake lies and give a suspicion of Jugling I was in hope that we had now done with this Mushroom Manuscript which surely either sprung out of the Ground or like the Trojan Palladium or Image of Diana fell down from Jupiter for I can yet learn nothing further of its Pedigree than that it came by Providence But this Author is not content to maintain the abuse of it unless he may also justifie the publication of it and most basely and unchristianly insinuates as if Mr. Lowth were a Man for Fire and Fagot meerly because relating a Story out of Livy he seems to dislike it I wish the Author would consider with what manner of Spirit he wrote that Paragraph I am ashamed of the malice of it Surely this Livy is an Vnlucky Book too I have heard the Story told That during the long Parliament-Rebellion an honest Loyal Gentleman was soundly Plundered and carried Prisoner to the next Rebel Garrison those Janizary Troopers finding Titi Livii Patavini Historiae Romanae Principis to lie in his Parlour and they had just so much Latin and Sence as thence to conclude him a Roman Catholick But though Mr. Lowth hath met with such hard usage for a slight insinuation of his Thoughts I will run the hazard of telling you more plainly that I think the Manuscript to have been much sitter for the Fire than for the Press nor can I think to what end it was published unless to scandalize our Reformation or to expose
discoursing about the State of Men in the Isle of Pines And he gives a reason of his Assertion to this effect That as no Man ought to limit God's Power and Mercy in extraordinary Cases so neither ought any to enlarge them where God by his revealed will hath set bounds and limits and consequently that the promises and assurances of Salvation ought to be given to none out of the Church where God hath a Church as to her Offices and Administrations in actual Being and Settlement But quite contrary hereto upon this supposition of antecedent Belief the Dean infers That a Man may be in a State of Salvation in his single and private Capacity apart and out of all Church Society and Ecclesiastical Communion though he live where it is to be had which utterly overthrows any necessity of attendance to Ordinances and all Church Communion And to prove this Mr. Lowth cites several passages out of that Book Now if this Author will not see how this Opinion can be destructive of Church Power he must be blind still for me but then he will be very ill able to disburthen the Dean of those consequences wherewith Mr. Lowth hath loaded him and indeed supposing the Truth of the charge the Dean himself can never be able any other ways to do it than by quitting the Opinion And thus this Book not doing the Business is laid aside to make way for The Answer to several Treatises wherein the Dean as our Author saith has reduced the Authority of the Governours of the Church to three Heads And to much purpose if it be arbitrary whether men shall enter or continue in any such Society But we will suppose them obliged which is so much more than I need grant to the foregoing Principle that it is rather directly against it and then the first Two Heads may be easily allowed only it is objected that what the Dean gives with one Hand he takes away with the other and by his unconstancy both in Opinion and Practice hath undermined his own Positions To this the Author says nothing nor will I urge it further but quietly take what is at any time well given The Third Head is An Authority of proposing Matters of Faith and directing Men in Religion And this is such a cautious mincing Expression that I cannot tell what to make of it nor where to find any distinct Authority in it For as for proposing I do not know but that any private Person upon a just Occasion and in a lawful manner may do the same And if any thing of that nature be pretended to be peculiar to the Clergy yet Proposals in their own Nature are so far from inferring an Authority to command their Reception that they rather imply a Power in those to whom they are proposed at Discretion to reject them and so in the issue gives the Authority to the People But that I may do him no wrong besides the proposing Matters of Faith there is also mentioned an Authority of directing Men in Religion And truly this is a very liberal Grant which allows as much to the Church as was given to the Statues of Mercury which of old were set up to direct Passengers in their Way and leaves men much at like Liberty to regard either I think this far from a Power to make her Declarations Law. And yet our Author with his accustomed Confidence affirms That it is plain that here is an Authority to Command attributed to the Church and a Power to enforce her Commands by inflicting of Censures c. But to what matters this Authority reacheth he durst not acquaint us for fear this great Mountain should dwindle into a Mole-hill For as the Matter is here laid the Exercise of what he calls the Power of the Keys must be limited to the Churches Authority in making Rules and Canons about Order and Decency For in other matters she can only propose or direct which is so precarious a sort of Authority that I see not how her Censures can be justifiable where it extends no farther And thus he hath made some kind of Fence about the Church against Schismaticks but laid her open to all manner of Hereticks And thus far I cannot find that abundant Satisfaction which he tells us we must be convinced has been made for any former Mistakes For as for what he repeats concerning the Treatise of the unreasonableness of Separation it hath received its Answer already and I am not willing to follow this Man through all his Vagaries who is willing to say any thing but to the Purpose We are now come to the last thing which is Episcopacy as to which it seems Mr. Lowth had charged the Dean that he had not asserted it in the number of those Institutions and Practices Apostolical which are perpetual and immutable To prove the contrary we are bid to look into the Discourse of the unreasonableness of Separation But why should he send us to look that which he could not find himself And I have another Reason why I shall not follow the Advice because I have looked long ago and could not find it Though otherwise I had no mean esteem of the Book And here it is very observable that all the Dean's Treatises fail our Author We may if we please go pore out our Eyes in the unreasonableness of Separation but not one word is thence cited and no other Book so much as mentioned And for his last Refuge he is forced to fly to the Ordination Sermon and Epistle which ought not to be admitted for Proof the Controversy being what was done before and the Performance of that acknowledged And had the Dean's Wrath suffered him to have the Ingenuity to acknowledge what he had the Honesty to retract and had he not disparaged so excellent a Sermon with that inconsiderate angry Epistle I am apt to think he had heard no more of Mr. Lowth unless in respect and kindness But when he endeavours to agree with Mr. Lowth in the Sermon and loads him with Crimes and Reproaches in the Epistle I think he gave him a just Provocation in that manner to defend himself And yet here Mr. Lowth hath granted more than our Author knew how to prove For he is so unlucky that he would tempt one to think that he had rather a design to expose than vindicate the Dean In the Epistle Dedicatory which he is mightily pleased to call the Two-Penny Paper the Dean as he saith tells us That he does now think much more is to be said for the Apostolical Institution of Episcopacy than he at that time apprehended that is when he wrote the Irenicum and I believe the Dean did mean honestly but our Author did unadvisedly to write this passage because it comes not up to the Case For how much that more was or whether it was enough to prove Episcopacy of Apostolical Institution is not expressed And it is well known that very much is often said for
a thing and yet it doth not mount to a just proof And though I should grant more than I need viz. That Episcopacy is here acknowledged of Apostolical Institution yet that doth not imply it to be perpetual and immutable as he would perswade us 'T is true that it happens to be so in this case but he is more beholden to his luck than any good Cunning for being in the right for his consequence is not simply good because the proposition is not universally true That whatsoever is of Apostolical Institution is perpetual and immutable Neither is his distinction between Apostolical Practice and Institution of any force here For there were Institutions as well as Practices Apostolical which related to matters temporary and of indifferency And amongst several of these he might have found Episcopacy herded in the Irenicum though Mr. Lowth here mentions only the order of Widows And I have known some persons who have refused to eat black Puddings alledging for themselves that Text Acts 15. 29. which sure our Author will not deny to be an Apostolical Institution and had he been acquainted with them do not you think that his way of arguing would have excellently enabled him to convince them of their Folly He ought not therefore barely from the Institution to infer the immutability but rather from the terms of the Institution the design of the Author the nature of the Thing or the constant judgment of the Church to have proved it to have been of that sort of Institutions which are unalterable There only remain two more passages and those cited from the Ordination-Sermon in one of which the Dean mentions the consent of the Ancients in the other the judgment of the Church of England concerning Episcopacy Now though I believe the Dean did use their Authority both to express and confirm his own sence yet in strict arguing it will not follow that he must be of the same mind For it is well known when Doctor Owen readily granted what was the Opinion of the Fathers concerning Schism and yet at the same time knock'd them all down at a Blow most Magisterially and indeed most Impudently asserting That they were all out But since enough might have been fetch'd from that Sermon which speaks home and to the present purpose nothing of this ought to be urged in prejudice of the Dean though it discover the injudiciousness of our Author in his choice and how miserable a Defender he makes when he becomes any thing serious For my part in a Case of this Nature I am so far srom upbraiding any Man with what he publickly disown'd and much more for the very disowning of it as the Dean complains that I think he hath attained to a greater measure of that Vertue so peculiar to Christianity Self-denial than is usual among Men who can prevail with himself to do it and certainly a particular honour is due unto him for it But then I ought to be so just to Mr. Lowth as to say that upon the best search I could make I could not find any thing that could fairly amount to such a thing till that Sermon was published And though the Dean following his judgment in the Sermon depart from the Irenicum yet in the Epistle gratifying his displeasure he takes too much pains to defend it And being he there causelesly falls so foul upon Mr. Lowth I think he might justly defend himself in proving what he had formerly wrote to be true And indeed he has very hard measure for as to the Tenets controverted I do not find that any accuse Mr. Lowth to be in the wrong and it is somewhat odd at one and the same time to acknowledge the goodness of his Cause and rail against his Person As for the Epistolizer he pretends to no more in the Dean's behalf than to prove that he had publickly disowned his juvenile Mistakes which if he had done he might well have charged Mr. Lowth with disingenuity but failing in his proof it returns upon himself For certainly nothing can be more disingenuous than for a Man to clamour against another for maintaining the Right whilst he himself hath the confidence at the same time to defend the wrong As for the Ordination-Sermon I grant that it gives much Satisfaction to the matter of Episcopacy but not in Mr. Lowth's particular Case which was concerning what the Dean had wrote and done before However I am glad that some Satisfaction comes at any time and I hope it will prove a means to sopite the Quarrel and that when men meet in their Judgments they will not maintain a War for the sake of their Passions for I am ready to perswade my self that he who hath thought fit to assert the immutability of Episcopacy will not devest Church Officers of that power which will render them uncapable of performing their Trust I had now done with the Letter but that there remains some scattered passages which though they reach not the merits of the Cause yet are very Scandalous and therefore some cursory Notice may be taken of them He often accuseth Mr. Lowth of dealing severely and coursely with the Dean and therefore thinks he hath just cause to expose his ill Manners as he calls it though he doth it much after the same rate that Diogenes trampled on Plato's Pride To this I return that I have often observed that Mankind bears nothing with more impatience nor thinks of any thing with greater bitterness than Contempt A real Injury or considerable Damage doth not touch them half so near the quick And possibly upon a due examination good reason may be found at the bottom of this Now Mr. Lowth had dealt fairly he had privately acquainted the Dean with his Intentions he had promised upon honest Conditions to expunge his name out of his Book but to this he received no other Answer than scorn and some foul Play. And it is likely that this mighâ— make his Pen somewhat the keener Besides he is in nature no great Courtier and we Countrymen are accustomed to plain dealing or as our Polite Epistolizer phrases it Hob-nail'd Proverbs to call a Spade a Spade and an Error an Error And though it may be no great Crime in a justifiable Case for men to act like themselves yet perhaps it might be very displeasing to this Author who writes at that capering rate as if he had been bred at a Dancing School and at this time kept one Mr. Lowth had requested That if an Answer was returned to his Letter it might be done in a Scholar-like way i. e. by Argument Upon this our Author huffs and swaggers and pours out such a deal of Filth and frothy Stuff as would turn a Man's Stomach he is clearly for cashiering the Man not arguing the Case And indeed I think he might be very excusable for not answering like a Scholar who throughout his whole Letter never gives us any occasion so much as to suspect him to be