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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35559	A letter of Meric Casaubon D.D. &c to Peter du Moulin D.D. and prebendarie of the same church concerning natural experimental philosophie, and some books lately set out about it.; Letter of Meric Casaubon to Peter du Moulin concerning natural experimental philosophie	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.; Du Moulin, Peter, 1601-1684.	1669 (1669)	Wing C805; ESTC R17546	22,974	40

A LETTER OF MERIC CASAUBON D.D. c. TO Peter du Moulin D.D. and Prebendarie of the same Church Concerning Natural experimental Philosophie and some books lately set out about it ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SACRA CAMBRIDGE Printed for WILLIAM MORDEN Bookseller 1669. Honoured Brother YOu have not forgotten I dare say it is not so long since where and when you were pleased to bestow a Visit upon me two young Universitie men being then with me and you came with a book in your hand and delivered it to me with a smiling countenance which as soon as I had opened the book I did interpret having already contested with you more then once about the same matter as though by it you hoped to stop my mouth for ever I cannot say you did intend it so really but so I did interpret it then but it did fall out much otherwise For after I had opened it by the very Title of it I was much confirmed in my former opinion and professed it so to you which occasioned much discourse between us until I was weary and as my condition is now somewhat spent Ever since that what I now write hath been in my mind and I have had thoughts to impart it to you long before though still somewhat hath diverted me The matter in agitation between us I need not tell you I know was whether this way of Philosophy of late years much cried up in London and elsewhere was as set out by some more likely to prove advantageous or prejudicial if not destructive to good learning by which I mean not excluding natural Philosophy what in former ages of the world and by many to this day by you also I make no question hath been and is accounted true solid useful learning which hath been cherished and countenanced by Kings and Princes and Publick States in their generations in all places of Europe hitherto and hath gotten credit and admiration to the Owners and Professours of it during their lives and after their death immortal fame But before I enter upon the business I must make my way by removing of a block which I meet with artificially laid by some to fright us in our progress and hinder the freedom of our enquiry It is this Whether it be not a breach if not of Allegiance yet of that respect and reverence we ow to the Royal Founder to except against any thing that is done or written by any who profess themselves of the Royal Society I should not make such a question but that I find just occasion as I conceive I do not well understand the full extent of that speech used by some to diminish the Royal Society Diminutio in the Civil Law you know is a very comprehensive word and reacheth to many things Were it but a breach of good manners and civility or as they speak want of modesty and breeding I would be loth to be guilty of it But God forbid that such reasoning should pass for current in good earnest That his Majesty would so far encourage any kind of learning as not onely to be the FOUNDER but style Himself the PATRON also of such a Society is an act well becoming the magnanimity of a great King and to be entertained with humblest acknowledgements by all that pretend to learning But to interest that Sacred name in every thing or any thing that is done or written by any that have the honour to be of that Society though commended to us under the title of good and profitable learning I think is not justifiable neither is the whole Society as I conceive concerned except it be owned by express authority of the whole body in what is done by any one or more members of the Society it being very possible that many who even in those things that concern learning and knowledge in general are of different judgements and opinions may yet agree in somewhat sufficient to justifie their title to this Royal Foundation Give me leave to insist a little for it is a tender point upon the danger or unreasonableness of such remote inferences Daily publick Prayers you know were at first instituted by Primitive Christians as the most immediate service of Almighty God grounding not onely upon the practice of the Church under the Law but also upon the words of St Paul I exhort therefore c. for kings and all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty and that the peace and welfare of kingdoms the honour and safety of Kings and Princes did very much depend on the due and daily performance of that Service was so general a belief in those days of exemplary piety that we read of heathen Princes and Emperours who though not Christians otherwise yet have had so much faith and Christianity as to commend their safety to the Church upon that account This if you please you may find out of good records of antiquity sufficiently proved and attested in a little Treatise Of the use of Daily Publick Prayers written by me somewhat hastily to help a learned Bishop against a pack of bold and confident Adversaries sent by me to the late Reverend and learned Archbishop of Armagh and by him at the request of that learned Bishop shortly after sent to the Press In England beside the authority of such Precedents and of St Pauls Exhortation or institution that such a Service is established by the Authority of Kings who also may in some respect because of those many Cathedrals of their foundation where it is most duly and solemnly performed be styled Founders of it in this kingdom and Parliaments who knoweth not Now to pass by the consequence of the Royal Authority and what the wilful contempt of it may amount to I ask The honour safety and prosperity of Kings according to the belief of those Primitive Christians whom all true Christians profess to honour and reverence being so much concerned in those Prayers would it be charitable hence to infer that none love the King truly and study his safety but those that love and frequent them when not otherwise lawfully let or hindred That some hate and forbear them upon that account factious men otherwise and Fanaticks or openly schismatical I make no question but to make a general conclusion of it when we know that the same effect may proceed sometimes from very different causes would argue I think great want of judgement and discretion and as great if not greater of charity With much more reason I conclude that a man may write against the opinions of some of the Royal Society yea and censure them as they may deserve without any reflection at all upon the Royal Founder or Royal Society in general In the next place what made me judge of the Book as I did at the first opening of it by some words in the Title-page though probably I might tell you then yet I will