in the case of M. Baxter These returns I may expect from one that hath so many good Qualities of his Celebrated Times In this way he can write on for ever for such proceedings are most suitable to his parts and virtues By them he will make himself the admiration of Envious Fools but the scorn of the wise and intelligent which latter he hath sufficiently done already And therefore I shall leave him to the Applâ—â—dâ— of hiâ— Friends and the Contempts of the Friends of vertue and wisdom after I have justified my self in a thing which is like to be objected by this Antagonist I am told he will Answer all that I have produced out of his writings to shew the Hypocrisie of his pretenses for Monarchy and the Church of England by recharging me with compliance with those Times An Answer befitting such a Writer and let him make the most of that charge My great fault was that I was born in that unhappy season and bred in those dismal daysâ— But can he accuse me of any thing I ever said or did that was Disloyal Did I write a Defence of the Cause of Regicides and Vsurpers â— or Defame Kingly Government or blaspheme my persecuted Soveraign or promote Anarchy and publick ruine If M. Stubbe cannot prove any of thâ—se as I daâ—e him to offer at it He cannot recriminate And his charges of this kind will bâ— contemptible â— and like all the rest He had best write against me for coming into the world in an ill Time and for being born a Child â— I have not the least offence besides to answer forâ— in reference to the Government â— except what I apologized for before the recital I have made of his former Trâ—asons and Impieties I have now done for the present with M. Stubbe But must add this to some silly sneaks who think he hath written things not to be answer'd â— That Impudence and non-sense are the most troublesom things to answer in the world I have prov'd alreadyâ— and shall yet more fully shew that the Argumentative part of his Book against me is so far from being unanswerable that it cannot deserve any other Answer then a smile and silence For most of that he saith is lamentably inconsistent and impertinent He tells us He sends the things to the Press that were suggested as he travell'd and one may judge by their incoherence that he rid upon a trotting Horse upon which I leave him pursuing the Virtuosi and add this Advertisement If any man hath a design to write his Life and further to describe this Sir Hudibrâ—s and his Steed He will do well to hold his hand a while For M. Stubbe's Friend M. Cross hath writ a Book call'd Biographia which gives Rules how Lives are to be writ This will be printed if the Licensers will permit the good man to spoil so much paper and so make himself publickly ridiculous And the Hâ—storian had noâ— best begin till he hath M. C. directions for fear he transgress the Rules and incur the lash of the Methodical Pedant This Book it seems is intended to correct the Learned and pious Dr. â—ell for his way of writing the Life of Dr. Hammond and 't is M. C. revenge upon that excellent person for his denying Licence to the scurrilous and non-sensical Book he writ against me I have not heard many particulars of it but only this He calls that Reverend Divine who hath been long Doctor of Divinity presides over the chief Colledge of Oxford is Dean of that Diocess and hath govern'd the Vniversity as Vice-Chancellor with singular wisdom diligence and applause I say he calls that venerable man Iubenis and I believe that name of diminution doth not go alone but the Reverend person from whom I had this lighted on that by chance as he cast his eye upon the Disputer's Papers which he carrieâ—h about for a shew 'T would be well for an old man I know if he had this excuse of being young for his weakness and puerilities for which there can be no Apology made except he confesâ— himself arriv'd to his second childhood And so I take leave of him out of pity and for ought I know for ever FINIS ADVERTISEMENT Concerning the ERRATA and some passages liable to be mistaken THat M. Stubbe may not trouble himself to write more Animadversions on the Errata of the Press I give notice That when I speak of his Reporting the Design of the Royâ—l Society to be laid by a Iesuite p. 2. or 3. It should be by a Fryar The mistake was the persons that told iâ— me who said a Iesuite thinking it seems That Campanella was of that order In Dr. More 's Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is seâ— instead of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I know not whether the mistake be the Printers or Transcribers 'T was not mine I never writ out that Letter There are several other small errors I took notice of in running over my Printed Papers as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pigmy which should have had no Comma between and the like But I have not my Book now at hand to note them particularly and therefore must lye at M. Stubbe's mercy But these following things were noted while my Papers were by me to prevent mistake P. 174. When I say It must be granted that two pair viz. of Spectacles ordinarily hindâ—r 〈◊〉 sight I would not be understood 〈◊〉 they do so when used by those of Greatâ—â— Age. For two pair to them have but the power of one P. 178. When I say Telescopes represent â—â—jects as they arâ— only in larger proportiâ—ns I mean as they are for figure and only represent them larger then they appear to the 〈◊〉 eye P. 179. When I grant what M. Stubbe saith that in the longest Tubes the Colours of Objects are more remiss whatever he meanâ— I would not be understood as if the length of the Tubes made the remissness oâ— the Light for that is caused by the number of the Glasses or â—he darkness of their metal Books Printed for and sold by James Collins at the Kings-Arms iâ— Ludgate-street neer the West end of St. Paul's and at the Kings-head in Westminster-Hall A Discourse of the Religious Temper and Tâ—ndencies of the modern experimental Philosophy which is profest by the Royal Society To which is annext a Recommendation and Defence of Reason in the affairs of Religion By Ios. Glanvill In octavo Observations upon Military and Political Affairs â— Written by the most Honourable George Dâ—ke of Albemarle c. Published by Authority In folio A Private Conference between a Rich Alderman and a Poor Country Vicar made Publick Wheâ—ein is discoursed the Obligation of Oaths which have been imposed on the Subjects of England With other Matters relating to â—he present State of Affairs In octavo Praxis Medicinae or the Universal Body of Physick Containing all Inward Dâ—seases incident to the Body of Man Explaining the Nature of every Disâ—ase with Proper Remedies assigned to them Very useful for Physicians Chiâ—urgeons and Apothecaries and more â—specially for such who consult their own Health Written by that famous and learned Physician Walter Bruell In quarto The Christians Victory over Death A Sermon at the Funeral of the most Honourable George Duke of Albemarle c. in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter's Westminster on the 30. of April 1670. By Seth Lord Bishop of Sarum Preached and Published by his Majesties special Command In quarto The Episcopacy of the Church of England justified to be Apostolical from the Authority of the Antient Primitive Church And from the Confessions of the most famous Divines of the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas Being a full Satisfâ—ction in this Cause as well for the Necessity as for the Iust Right thereof as consonant to the Word of God By the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Morton late Lord Bishop of Dâ—resme Before which is prefixed a Preface to the Reader concerning this Subject by Sir Henry Yelverton Baronet In octavo
his Spirit and Genius out of his own publish'd Writings I come next to II. HIS Designs of these I shall briefly give his own Account out of his latest Books They were if we may believe him the securing and promoting the Interest of the present Monarchy Pref. against Plus Vltra p. 4. Protestant Religion ibid. and the Church of England Title Pref. c. against Dr. Sprat School-Divinity p. 1. against Plus Vltra Universities p. 1.2.13 In order to the carrying on these great Intendments He design'd further to make the Virtuosi really ridiculous and odious to the Kingdom Pref. p. 4. to avenge his Faculty upon M. Glanvill and by Sacrificing that Virtuoso to publick Obloquy to establish general Repose and Tranquillity Pref. p. 3. Smile not ô Tres-haute tres-agreeable Comediants Pref. 6. M. Marchamont Stubb is the PILLAR of MONARCHY and the PATRIOT of PROTESTANT Religion But you must not ask how long he hath been of this Loyal and Religious Inclination He hath no longer a Concern for Sir H. Vane Disc. of Choc You may choose whether you 'l admire Him now and yet be no Enemy to all that is good and virtuous nor is he concerned for the other Patriots of the long Parliament and Army that were to be so famous when the Worthies of Greece and old Rome should cease to be mention'd ut supra Tower-Hill and Tybourn have alter'd the Case The Good old Cause ceaseth to be the most glorious in the World and Monarchy to be the Norman Yoke more intolerable than the Aegyptian Bondage Our Kings are not now a Succession of Usurpers nor is Their Government the most dismal Part of Egypt We hear no more of Charles Stuart and his Bishops compared to the Inquisition nor of executing Iustice upon the late KING No the Interest of the present Monarchy and the Church of England are now the Cause the glorious Cause and next to the Good old one no doubt the most glorious that ever was M. Politicus is better informed his Eyes are opened and now Monarchy may be as good a Government as M. Harrington's Model that was so like the Pattern in the Mount and General MONK may be as good a Patriot as Sir H. Vane and the Rumpers Thus we hear Sir Hudibras is turn'd zealous Royalist and our Sir Marchamont will pay the Comical Wits for the Prejudice They do the present Monarchy and the Church of England HOW like it is 1. that the Interest of Monarchy should be one ground of M. Stubb's Quarrel with the Virtuosi we have seen already or if it do not yet fully appear from what hath been recited before give me leave to propose to your further Consideration a Paragraph of his in the Beginning of his Vindication of Sir H. V. p. 1.2 The Age saith he wherein we live hath been all Miracles and the coming forth of the Woman out of the Wilderness hath been attended with so many Wonders that a pious Heart can never want imployment in its Contemplation We have seen and our Eyes bear witness of the Actings of our God the overturning of a Monarchy setled upon the Foundation and Vsage of many hundreds of Years strengthened by what Humane Policy could contribute to its Establishments and what of Buttress a complying Clergy could assist it with out of the Pulpit Yet have we seen a Change so brought about by our Iehovah that he may in extraordinary Acknowledgments be proclaimed wonderful Counsellour the mighty God the everlasting Father Prince of Peace We have seen the most glorious Cause in the World accompanied with no less Success and the Lord in his Mercy to us and Iustice to them hath bound our Kings in Chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron such as wherewith they had formerly opprest the good People of this Land This Honour have all his Saints Psal. 149.9 Vengeance hath he returned upon their heads and their own Shame hath covered them The true anointed ones of the Lord have appeared for their sakes hath he rebuked Monarchs and the former have repeated the Fruits of that Holiness and Sacriety whereunto the latter vainly pretended In this Strain he goes on in imitation of the reformed Style of those Times which is not Canting but the holy Language of the anointed ones for whose sake our King was bound in Chains and our Nobles in Fetters of Iron And are we not to believe that this Anointed Rumper is a Zealot for the Interest of the present Monarchy We have his word for 't and he hath told me that he can say more for Monarchy than all the Virtuosi No doubt It would be very much if M. Stubb could not say more for any thing than the Ignoramus's He knows the man that useth to brag what he can say for MAHOMET and what an Inclination he hath to write the Life of that Brave Fellow And if Turcism were among us I know where the Alcoran would have a Defender and one that can say as much for it as for Monarchy or the Church of England if he may be credited himself but of that no more now We have seen some things whereby we may judge how dear the Interest of Monarchy is to our Anti-Virtuoso and how much Reason we have to believe that to be one ground of his Quarrel with the Royal Society LET us inquire next 2. how probable it is that he should be kindled against them by the Consideration of the Church of England and Religion There was a time you know when the Church of England was in a worse Condiâ—ion than it is in now and Religion in a more ruinous Posture Independents Anabaptists Fifth Monarchy-men and Quakers were as formidable People to both as the Virtuosi and all things were fallen under their destructive Power What did this pious Vindicatour of the Church of England and Religion in that unhappy season No doubt his Zeal burnt like fire and he was sensible then as he is now Pref. p. 4. that he ought not to be silent Then it was that his Light broke out of Darkness that disclosed Truths little less admirable than those Sir H. Vane discover'd that were the most glorious that have been witness'd to these 1500 Years and more ut sup They are proposed modestly in Queries for he tells us They are from one who desires to lie low in his own eyes But the Testimonies and Proof are all for the Heterodox Part for which he declares he had the most esteem â— and that he had a tender Regard to those who made the Subject of those Queries their Assertions These passages make part of the Preface to the first but are in the Conclusion of the second Edition which I now use We shall see in these Queries how he shewed his Friendship to Religion and the Church of England in the Time of their greatest Extremity The first Query is this Q. 1. Whether there be any certain or peculiar Name in the New Testament that signifies a Minister or
any Name whence an Office may be convincingly inferr'd If there be not as there is just Cause to doubt whether the present Ministers are not to blame while they pretend to an Office and Function grounded upon Divine Right which hath no other Foundation than the Hay and Stubble of Humane Invention p. 12. In the second Query thus they are too large for me to transcribe all Q. 2. Is it not an Act of Arrogance in them who would be the Apostles Successors in ordinary ordinary Ambassadors from the most High to assume a Name of greater Latitude than that of Apostle or Ambassador extraordinary or at least is it not as absurd as if the Ant should assume the single Name of Animal and the Lacquey that of Servant p. 3 4. Query 5. Thus. Q. 5. Whether the present Ministry supposing them generally Presbyterians or Episcoparians do not pretend to be Ministers of the Church Catholick whether there be any mention of such a Church in Scripture or in any antient Creed of the first Ages and whether Luther did not place in stead thereof in his Creed the Christian Church whether any body can tell what is the determinate meaning of that Word whether the Ordainers and Ordained now-adays deal conscientiously in giving or receiving and acting really by Virtue of a Power from and over the Catholick Church whilst the Existence and Signification thereof is so controverted amongst themselves and others p. 19. Q. 6. Whether Ecclesia which is a Word signifying a Church be not a Law-Term deduced from Free-States in which Common-wealths the supreme Popular Assembly acted organized by the Archon and Proedri as a Church formed and presbyterated by a Minister and Elders which did not rule but preside p. 27. Q. 7. Whether such a Sense of the Word Ecclesia or Church doth not unchurch all the Parochial Churches in England and unminister all their Ministers ibid. Q. 8. Whether the Ministers do well to derive their Succession unto Christ by the means of Antichrist p. 29. Q. 9. Whether the Arguments of the firstâ— Reformers about their Vocation do not justifie any that shall take upon them to preach p. 52. Q. 20. Whether the first Christians had any Churches or did not assemble only in Private Houses whether their Want hereof can be attributed to their being under Persecution since they never made that Excuse for themselves to the Pagans who objected it to them p. 106 107. Q. 21. Whether Christianity it self be not termed Heresie in Scripture Whether Tertullian do not frequently call the Christians a Sect and whether the Christian Emperours do not so likewise in their Constitutions even against Hereticks whether the Meeting-Places of the first Christians were not termed Conventicles p. 107. Q. 22. Whether if there were Heresies in the Apostles days and Schisms it doth follow that there are any Hereticks and Schismaticks now when there are nâ— Apostles p. 108. Q. 23. Whether they used in the Primitive times to bury in Places such as we now call Church-Yards and whether the introducing of such a Custom had not a superstitious Original p. 110. Q. 24. Whether if to preach publickly be to teach as it is now practis'd the Apostles did ever teach publickly p. 112. Q. 25. Whether the Division into Parishes was not introduced by the Pope Dionysius and whether the Antient Christians payed Tithes if they did whether they did not pay them as Alms ibid. Q. 29. Whether the Predecessors of the Protestants and those who have so honourable a mention in our Books of Martyrs and other Writings for witnessing against Popish and other Antichristian Abuses did allow of Tithes and their Divine Right p. 120. Q. 30. Whether they had the Vse of Bells in the Primitive Times and whether the Bells in England that remain ever since the Reformation have not been popishly and superstitiously Christned p. 138. Q. 31. Whether it were not an Act of Superstition in former times to build Churches and Chappels in the Form or Fashion of a Cross whether it were not a Sin of the like Nature in Antient Times to build their Churches East and West that so the People might bow and pray towards the East And whether both these Superstitions have not been renewed and practised lately in one of the Reformed Colleges of Oxford viz. Brasen-Nose College as in the Margin p. 139. Q. 42. Whether the Ministers do well to go in black or the Vniversities to command it p. 147. Q. 43. Whether there were not of old amongst the Iews a sort of men called Cheramims or black Coats whether those were the People of God and whether the Translatours of the Bible did well to conceal the true meaning of this Word by putting another for it or the very Word it self in English Letters p. 148. Q. 47. Whether those things which had a good Original and Vse if they be not still necessary or commanded by God when once they have been abused to Idolatry and Superstition are not quite to be abolished p. 149. Q. 48. Whether the Singing of David ' s Psalms be a part of Divine Worship whether that Practice was introduced in England for a spiritual End or only to preserve the Estimation and Knowledge of the laudable Science of Musick p. 151. elsewhere called Fidling Q. 41. Q. 50. Whether it be not a very great Abuse put upon the Independents to say that they or their Tenents came from Amsterdam Do not the Doctors that are got among them their Stickling for the upholding the present formalized University and a Tithe-receiving Ministry whom yet not long ago they stiled abominable and Parish Priests and their Demeanour toward the Quakers in Oxon agreeable to a persecuting rather than a persecuted Spirit sufficiently acquit them from having any Affinity with those other Pretious Souls p. 156. Q. 53. Whether it be a peculiar Practice of our modern Anabaptists and Quakers that they will not swear no not before a Magistrate or whether it were not an Opinion of the Waldenses Antecessors of the Protestants p. 166. What sort of Persons these Queries were intended to gratifie 't is very easie to apprehend But lest those Friends he had a mind to make should be so dull as not to perceive it He writes an express Apology for the Quakers beginning at p. 55. continued to p. 92. In which he tells us that he durst not condemn the Quakers whether they reprove openly or walk naked through the Streets denouncing Woes and Menaces p. 91. and he goes on It is a sufficient Argument for me that what God bids is not undecent nor do they any thing for which they have not a like Example and possibly resembling Commands Did not the Protestant Martyrs so disturb the Popish Priests as the present Ministers are disturbed and that when the Laws were against them Yea many of the first Christians dealt so with the Heathens and their Priests ib. And again p. 92. If Balzac or Rutgersius had written his Character
A Praefatory ANSWER TO Mr. Henry Stubbe The Doctor of Warwick WHEREIN The Malignity of his Temper The Hypocrisie of his Pretences The Falshood of his Reports AND THE Impertinency of his Arguings Quotations In his ANIMADVERSIONS ON PLVS VLTRA Are discovered By JOS. GLANVILL A Rod for the Fools back Sol. London Printed by A. Clark for I Collins at the Kings Arms in Ludgate-street near the West-end of S. Pauls and at the Kings Head in Westminster-hall 1671. PREFACE WHen I am ask't the reason of M. Stubbe's fierceness against the ROYAL SOCIETY and the favourers of that Institution my usual answer is There are creatures that will bark against those who never hurt or provoked them and ' â—is in vain to askâ— Why 'T is the nature of those Animals and that 's the only account can be given M. Stubbe hath kept a noise ever since he could open against all men except M. Hobbs and the Republicans and all things but Quakerism and Democracy He hath faln with a vehemence suitable to his nature upon Monarchy Ministry Universities and Humane Learning provoking all men to whom those interests were dear But perceiving he had the fate of old Alexander Ross to be despised by those he had affronâ—ed and seeing that no one thought him worthy of Confuâ—ation he turns about and confutes himself he puâ—s on a mighty zeal for those things which he had endeavour'd to wâ—rrey and there being nothing of note left which he had not assaulted before he falls at last upon the R. S. with his usual noise and vehemence He clamours that this Institution is destructive to Monarchy Church of England Universities and all ancient Literature and follows his confident accusations with loud outcâ—ies and restless importunities and numerous reproaches persecuting that illustrious Company with such wild ravings and impetuous eagerness as if it were an Army of Painims that had invaded us and he the only man that saw the danger and was concern'd for the common safety By his earnest noise he frights some that know not the nature of the Creature and hath possest divers who are not well informed concerning the Institution of the ROYAL SOCIETY with terrible apprehensions of it This is all M. Stubbe haâ—h or câ—n do his main force is in the boldness and vehemence of his accusations his pretences of proof are contemptible and ridiculous and can perswade none but those he hath scared into an incapacity of right judgment For this reason I have thought it requisite to begin my answer in an account of his temper and genius out of his own Writings and when that is known his greatest force is disabled for his impudent censures will be no longer heeded in which his chief power lies And therefore it is not here as in ordinary cases when reflections that expose the person signifie little to the cause But on the contrary the Representation I have made of this Adversary is one of the most proper services can be done it and if I should say nothing else it were an Answer For he that proves an Accuser to have been a continual Pâ—st to his Neighbours a constant Slanderer and malicious Teller of untruths doth enough to assert his Vindication against his enemies unproved accusations I say I thought â—it to endeavour this fiâ—st since by it I shall break that part of his strength which consists in those slanders and contempts which he pours upon the Experimental Philosophers aud after that his Other Arguments â— will prove like Swords of Flags and Spears of Bulrush as will appear in that part where I make tryal of their strength This my design of which I have now given the reason might 't is like be some occasion of the figment over which he so couragiously insults viz That the Uirtuosi intended to write his life when I dare say there was never more thought of â—o this purpose than some such collection out of his Writings and I have made and therefore he might have forborn the Complements of mean spirits and pitiful ridiculous Mechanicks which he bestows on them on this occasion For there are none of those Gentlemen but scorn to be so dirty impertinent and so like M. Stubbe as to meddle with any passages of his Life which do not tend to the weakening him in that unworthy cause in which his pride and spight have engaged him But he is resolved he saith to prevent the Virtuosi and to write his Life himself and 't is like the Comical Wits will thank him for a story that would ouâ— do Guzman and Don Quixot But alas they are not to expect it he is too modest to do himself right What he hath done as to his Life is a Deâ—ence of those passages that he apprehended most â—bnoxious and I shall here animadvert upon his Apology by which he thinks he hath prevented that part of my account which relates to his egregious exploits in the late times Let us consider that a little and see what his defence signifies IT might have been expected from one that hath trampled on the ashes of his Martyr'd Sovereign defended and adored his Murtherers stiled all our Kings a Succession of Usurpers endeavour'd the extirpation of Monarchy and the planting a Democracy of Independents Anabaptists Fiâ—th Monarchy men and Quakers in its room That hath represented the meekest justest and best of Kings as an hateful Tyrant and called our now Sovereign an Usurper that hath written maliciously against Ministry Universities Churches and Humane Learning and vindicated the Quakers and the rest of the wildest and most dangerous Phanaticks I say it might have been expected that such a man as this when he would be thought a Convert should renounce those horrid villanies and humble himself by deep professions of repentance and declare his shame for those abominable treasons and impieties and beg pardon of God and good men for those detestable enormities But these were below the gallantry of M. Stubbe's spirit he hath another method to express his repentance he falls with his old rage upon his Majesty's Institution out of a pretended concern for Monarchy and Religion The King he phancies hath erected a Society that will undermine Monarchy and those Bishops and Divines that are imbodied in it are managing a design to overthrow Religion therefore M. Stubbe stands up in a mighty zeal and defends Monarchy against the KING and Religion against the DIVINES no doubt with a purpose to do a mischief to both This is ONE way of his repentance to act as much as he dares for the same ends he served before And ANOTHER is to justifie himself in all that he hath done which in a swaggering insulting way he impudâ—ntly attempts in the Preface to his Book against the History of the Royal Society and he hath done it so that 't is hard to say which is the greater crime his confest wickedness or his Apology The sum of it is this He served his Patron Sir Hen. Vane by whom
the Vindication of M. Cross But I must go on with the Catalogue of his Works The next is An ESSAY in DEFENCE of the good old Cause The most glorious Cause in the World accompanied with no less Success p. 2. of the second Alphabet And a VINDICATION of the Honourable Sir Hen. Uane whom not to honour and admire is to be an Enemy to all that is good and vertuous p. 7. second Alphabet from the false Aspersions of M. BAXTER A Philistim Shimei Rabshakeh p. 11. 2d Alph. A LETTER to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate which is to consist according to His Model of Independents Anabaptists Fifth Monarchy-men and Quakers excluding all PAPISTS PRELATICAL and PRESBYTERIAN Persons p. 61. A LIGHT SHINING OVT OF DARKNESS a Book against Ministry p. 1 2 3 4 c. Vniversities p. 92 93. and 139 140. School-Divinity and Knowledge of Tongues 94 95 96. Humane Learning p. 101 102. Aristotles Philosophy p. 105. Publick Churches 106. Church-yards 110. Division into Parishes and Tiths p. 112 113. Bells 138. Vniversity Habits and Degrees p. 14.2.143 Black Coats p. 147. Gowns 148. Respect of Persons Complemental Addresses and your Servant p. 163. Swearing before a Magistrate p. 165 166. Containing also an express Apology for the Quakers p. 55.56 I quote from the second Edition An ACCOVNT OF CHOCOLATA by which he wholly obligeth Manking Pref. p. last An ACCOVNT of M. GREATARICK who wrought real Miracles p. 8.10 And did things that never man did except Christ and the Apostles p. 27. These miraculous things he wrought by the Temperament and Composure of his Body p. 11. And antient Miracles and modern ones have been wrought by the efficacy of a corporal Touch p. 11. This of M. Greatarick did not indeed always succeed and there were some Diseases as well as some Devils which even the Apostles could not cast out p. 5. A CENSVRE upon certain Passages contain'd in the History of the Royal Society which he saith are impious and pernicious p. 1. contrary to the Analogy of Faith and Scripture p. 36. a Congeries of gross Vntruths tending to the Dishonour of God and the Destruction of the Protestant Religion introducing a Popish Implicit Faith or something that in effect is the same but attended with more ridiculous Circumstances p. 40. directly contrary to the Constitutions of our Church and better becoming a Socinian from Poland and Amsterdam than a Divine of our Church p. 53. Hath not Religion and the Church of England think you an excellent Champion in this DEFENDER of M. Hobbs Sir Hen. Uane and the Quakers But lastly He hath writ a SPECIMEN of SOME ANIMADVERSIONS VPON THE PLUS ULTRA OF M. GLANVILL in which he proves That the Antients were able to cure cut fingers as particularly Podalirius and Machaon in Homer and Galen compounded several Medicines to that purpose as Diapalma Tripharmacon and another hard word p. 3. and again 159. That 't is a very difficult Iourney to the Moon and a great way p. 175. and many other things that are as much to his purpose as these as will be shewn in the Sequel For the present I only say concerning this Piece in general That with a great deal of Noise and Labour the Animadverter hath proved nothing For all his Force is imployed either against Castles in the Air of his own raising or incidental passages that are little or nothing to the Cause I undertook and of no concern to the main body of my Book And yet I must confess that when I compare this Adversary with my other Antagonist M. Cross I think there are acknowledgments due to him for the Reading and shew of Learning that I find in his Discourse and I may say of it as one did of an impertinent Disputer that was very brisk and fluent in his Argument Bene disputat sed nihil ad rem But the Papers of my other Assailant deserve not as much as this For they contain nothing but opprobrious Names gross Falshoods and contemptible Puerilities no Learning nor any shew of any but such as a Boy of 18 would despise Thus briefly and in general of the Writings of this Aggressor out of Them I now come to give you some more particular Accounts of his Spirit and Temper And because I resolve to abstain from all Expressions that look like the Rhetorick and Civility of M. Cross and his Champion M. Stubb I shall not give those hard Names to the Qualifications I discover that every man else will think they deserve But only make a kind and sober Enquiry after some of the remarkable Virtues he discloseth in his Works I shall only insist here on two And because he tells his Reader in the first Page of the Preface to his Light shining out of Darkness Edition the first That HE IS ONE THAT DESIRES TO LIE LOW IN HIS OWN EYES I shall begin these Enquiries by taking notice 1. OF his singular Modesty This is exceeding eminent in every Leaf of his Writings In his Attempts while but a Boy upon the Reverend Dr. Wallis and M. Baxter and now he hath made it more remarkable by his Assault upon the Royal Society His Majesties Institution and an Assembly consisting of Persons of the greatest Honour Gravity and Learning while he is yet but a young Country Physician as he styles himself in his Preface against my Book Plus ultra And above all it is notorious what a modest man this is in his early Oppositions of MONARCHY and Proposals of a MODEL for the GOVERNMENT of three Nations and Extirpation of those Antient Laws which had had been made and confirmed by the Wisdom of so many Kings and successive Parliaments in his Impugnations of MINISTRY VNIVERSITIES CHVRCHES HVMANE LEARNING and all ORDERS and CONSTITVTIONS whatsoever as Popish and Antichristian But let us take a view of his singular Humility and Lowness in his own Eyes in some Expressions in his Writings I shall recite a few Instances among numerous others which for Brevity I must omit by which you may judge how he excels in this Virtue In the first Page of his Book against Dr. Wallis in Defence of M. Hobbs He expresseth himself to his Friend in these words I have pen'd a further Discourse upon that Subject which you may suppress from going any further if you find that my early Repute abroad doth not call for the Publication nor the Applause of the Ingenious whose Praises were the more to be regarded because they were directed to the Piece which was publick not the Author that was concealed It seems he had writ an Anonymous Book which he tells the World raised him an early Repute and the Applauses and Praises of the Ingenious Very modest And as lowly is that other Saying p. 5. If I find the Doctor produce more Grammars against us I will allow him two to one and venture my Reputation against his no Credit Great Odds M. Stubb ' s Reputation that early
Book had made him angry he was now become obstinate and he goes on In that famed Work I encountred with so many illiterate Passages that the Credit of our Nation seemed concern'd in the Refuting it Yea he adds that the Interest of the present Monarchy the Protestant Religion and the Emolument of each private Person was concerned And when these were at stake was it fit for M. Stubb to be silent His Zeal for the Credit of the Nation Monarchy and Religion would have destroyed him if it had not had vent He must speak or burst And all this Zeal was kindled by a sense of Duty as we may believe for he tells us He ought not to be silent and those that know him may think 't were impossible â—e should But for an Instance or two more DES-CARTES his Book De Homine is ridiculous p. 18. And the MATHEMATICIANS in a Cluster are reckon'd with the Illiterate p. 115. Let illiterate Persons and Mathematicians be swayed against plain Proof by these Arguments Any Arguments will sway Mathematicians For They seldom if ever prove Metaphysicians Religieuse or otherwise of tolerable Ratiocination p. 17. For the Geometricians either reject as false frivolous and indemonstrable those Reasonings and Studies according to which Humane Affairs are regulated or else ignorantly run into Whimsies and phantastical ways of arguing ibid. And therefore the Mathematicks in general are concluded less necessary and inutile ibid. What pity 't is now that Aristotle should be a Geometrician as p. 18. And how come the Mathematicks to be so inutile as they were just now p. 17. when in this 18th 't is said That Aristotle supposeth his Scholars not ignorant in Geometry since without that Knowledge they could not understand his Analyticks nor that part of his Ethicks where he illustrates Iustice by Arithmetical and Geometrical Proportions Well! The Methods of Ratiocination laid down by Aristotle are general as to publick and private use p. 17. Those Methods cannot be known without Geometry according to Aristotle himself p. 18. and yet Mathematicks are inutile p. 17. For M. Stubb to rail at that in one Book which he cries up and defends in another we must allow him He affirms and denies what comes into his head next to serve his present Spight and Interest and we are not to look for any more Consistency in his Books than in his Dreams But some would expect that the same Treatise or at least the same Leaf should be consistent with it self This may chance to happen but he hath good Luck when it doth For he tells us in his Prefaces that he sends away some sheets before others are written and a man may judge by his Writings that he no more remembers what he pen'd last Week than what he dreamt last Night was Twelve-Month But the most pleasant Complement of all is behind In the Preface to his Book against me p. 3. He calls the Virtuosi Prattle-boxes and p. 1. mentions one who as 't is usual saith he with that sort of Virtuosi instantly usurp'd all the Discourse and no doubt he made hast But where did that wonderful Virtuoso dwell that could usurp the Discourse when M. Stubb was present Certainly 't was one of the most nimble among the Prattle-boxes there cannot be such another in the whole Set One would wonder what M. Stubb should be doing when the Virtuoso usurp'd the Discourse He tells us this was done at a Person of Honour's Table and that it was at the very Beginning of Dinner it appears in that the Gentleman usurp'd the Discourse instantly So that we may judge that M. Stubb's Teeth would not give his Tongue leave But as soon as that was at Liberty he paid the barbarous Opiniatour p. 3. for usurping his Province If M. Stubb had hated all Vsurpers as he doth the Vsurpers of Discourse we had never had a Defence of the Good old Cause But why should he be so much concerned about this sort of Usurpers Their Discourse can no more be heard in the lurry of his than a soft Voice can amidst the Clutter and Noise of a Mill So that he hath no need of the Wax and Wooll he prescribes against the buzze of the Prattle-boxes his Tongue will better defend his Ears from that danger though I cannot promise that it will never expose them to other and worse Hazards And he is never like to meet such an Vsurper of Discourse as the Virtuoso at the Person of Honours Table did except the Doctor of Warwick could meet Harry Stubb of Christ-church Thus I have given some Account of the rare Civilities of the Courtly Anti-Virtuoso and upon review of them I cannot but wonder that this man who had so early a Reputation abroad as he told us and was so applauded by the ingenious should sully his Fame by the Choice of such pitiful Adversaries Dr. Wallis was ignorant grosly ignorant intolerably ignorant ignorant in his own Profession M. Baxter no Scholar at all not skill'd in Latin Greek or Hebrew Ecclesiastical History or Philosophy a Whiffler in Theology and Glow-Worm in Literature Dr. Sprat's History Illiterate and Nonsensical The Virtuosi Prattle-boxes and Ignoramus's and I ignorant of every thing What means this Man of Renown to choose out such despicable Adversaries Why doth he disparage his Puissance by imploying it against such feeble Foes what poor Quarry are these for such a Noble Bird of Prey He told us heretofore that it was Zeal for the Cause and now 't is the Interest of Monarchy Protestant Religion the Church of England and Vniversities that have engaged this publick-spirited man to so great Condescensions and how much reason we have to believe that these were the true Motives to his Assaults we shall see by and by I shall now shut up this Head by taking notice what a fit Second this is for M. Cross They are nobile par and extremely alike in sundry particulars of their Genius and Performances only it must be confess'd that M. Stubb hath as much the more Learning as he is guilty of the less Scurrility And indeed the Civilities of this kind which the Physician of Warwick hath bestowed upon all his Adversaries are not equal to those my other Antagonist hath liberally given me singly And though I pass immediately from looking over the Collection of Complements I have presented you from M. Stubb yet when I cast my eyes from it upon M. Crosses Papers a Transcript of which I have I cannot choose but bless my self and cry out in astonishment For there is scarce a word of Reproach in the Dictionary but he hath found it for me yea he hath made divers that are span-new to serve his purpose and ventured upon Barbarisms to miscall me by when all the usual Names of Disparagement and Infamy were spent But I shall have a fitter place to reckon with that Billingsgate Oratour I return to his Patron M. Stubb and having given you a short Representation of
of the Antient Christian the Quaker would not have stood in need of an Apology Whether these Passages and the Discourse were more intended to recommend the Quakers or to make the first Christians Protestants and Martyrs contemptible and ridiculous by the Comparison Let those that know M. Stubb and have ever heard him discourse about Religion judge For my part I am satisfied 'T is a pleasant Passage and to the same purpose which I meet in his Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane p. 36. He tells M. Baxter that it was ignorantly said of Him That the Quakers had no being in the World till a few Years ago and in contradiction to it he saith As to the Generality of their Opinions and Deportment I DO AVOW it out of as sure and good Records as any can be produced that they can plead more for themselves for the first 270 Years then M. Baxter for the present Orthodox Religion laid down in the SAINTS EVERLASTING REST or the CONFESSION of the Assembly You may please to mark that he speaks not of any particular Opinions of M. Baxter and the Assembly which have less to be said for them out of primitive Antiquity than the Quakers but of their Religion And when M. Stubb hath proved what he hath here Avowed men are like to have as good an Opinion of Christianity as he can wish And how good a one that is I am loth to call in the Vouchee he cites for M. Cross viz. general Fame to testifie He declares it too frequently in the whole Contexture of his Light out of Darkness and since in his Account of Greatarick he gives hint enough of the Degree of his Faith Christ Iesus and his Apostles appeal continually to their Works those miraculous ones they performed as evidencing the Divineness of their Commission and the Truth of their Doctrines and M. Stubb tells us p. 10. That all Religions have had their real Miracles and so let them dispute or fight it out as they can Miracles must be tried by Truth not Truth by Miracles ibid. But how the Truth shall be tried viz. that of a Divine Commission or Authority 't is not for the Interest of one of his Principles or rather of his no Principles to tell us And when he hath taken away the Testimony of the Spirit in Miracles he knows well enough what will become of Christianity This he endeavours here by many very odd Suggestions M. Greatarick did things miraculous p. 8. and these he performed by the Temperament and Composure of his Body p. 11. So that Healing Miracles are the Effects of the Effluvia of a particular Ferment p. 11. And so Christ Jesus shewed nothing of Divinity in curing Diseases by his Touch. Yea M. Greatarick is mated with Him and the Apostles p. 26. He did the things that never man did but Christ and his Apostles He cured Diseases by the Temperament and Composure of his Body ut sup but no man ever did so besides only the Son of God and his Disciples had the Priviledge And yet p. 10. this in express Words is plainly contradicted for we hear there of others that did the same things with Christ Iesus and M. Greatarick The Alexicaci Salutatores or Bensedevios that cure by anointing with Spittle and by breathing and stroaking of the Patient p. 10. And in Turky also and Africk they have Persons of the like Qualifications ibid. But 't is nothing for M. Stubb to affirm Contradictions and I wish that were the worst could be justly laid to his Charge I have a great deal more to say of his Friendship to Religion which I keep for a Reserve He tells us p. 15. of his Book against my Plus Vltra That Mahomet taking advantage of the Brutal Lives and Ignorance of the Catholicks depending upon the Patriarch of Constantinople did advance the Sect of Christians called Mahometans I wish some do not think that a certain Defender of Religion and the Church of England is a Christian by the same Figure as are those Disciples of Mahomet If a man of Learning and tolerably in his Wits endeavour to make the first Christians Martyrs and Reformers like the Quakers in their Opinions and Deportment He cannot be supposed primarily to design the Crediting those distracted Enthusiasts but to vilifie all Christians except some of M. Stubb's sort called Mahometans and our Defender of Religion knows well enough that the Testimonies he alledgeth to prove those sick-brain'd People to be like all the best Christians will prove as much that the best Christians were like Them and so a more desperate Enemy than the Quakers is gratified How far he intended this let those conjecture who have heard of his Kindness and Concern for M. Hobbs And how far he designs the promoting the Interest of Religion and the Church of England let the most charitable man alive judge upon the whole I but 3. he tells us how much he is for School-Divinity and how far some great matters of Faith are concerned in it we derive great Benefits from Controversal Divinity for the Quieting the Conscience and Convincing our Adversaries and whoever hath any sense of these must detest the Enterprise of M. Glanvill Non Plus p. 1. This He did because he had a Value for the Peace of his Conscience which is to be setled by School-Divinity But how different from this was his Opinion of it when he writ against M. Baxter Then School-Divinity was apt to create everlasting Disputes rather than Rest and made no part of the Rest of the Primitive whether Christians or Antichristians these are his Words p. 18. M. Stubb had another way to quiet his Conscience at that time but now School-Divinity is the only Expedient And whereas in the same first Page of his Book against me he tells us The Distinction of the Trinity of Essence and Personality the Hypostatical Vnion of the two Natures in our Saviour and the meritoriousness of his Death which depends thereupon are undermined with School-Divinity In that he writ against M. Baxter he saith of it That it is an upstart Study unknown to the purer times model'd and profess'd by that Order which now manageth the Inquisition and was at first erected for the suppressing the Truth in the Albigenses p. 13. M. Stubb in his last Book greatly applauds Metaphysicks if he can find any Distinctions in that Learning to solve his own Contradictions he shall have my Vote for the greatest Metaphysician in the World He doth so directly and in terms every where almost affront himself that I cannot possibly write more point-blank against him than Harry doth against Stubb and some think that if he be let alone the next time he scribbles he 'l reduce even his last Book to a Non-plus and confute this also as he hath already done by most of his other Writings The Truth is M. Stubb hath wanted an Adversary to appear publickly against him and therefore he hath challeng'd and provoked all