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A51305	Letters on several subjects with several other letters : to which is added by the publisher two letters, one to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's, and the other to the Reverend Mr. Bentley : with other discourses / by Henry More ; publish'd by E. Elys.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1694 (1694)	Wing M2664; ESTC R27513	57,265	148

Pietatis exercitia au●●o●os Mores conferret plurimi fecit To adorn the Memory of such a Man as T. H. what is it but to provide that the Corps of one that dyed of the Plague may lye in state that People coming to behold it may contract the Infection If this Author go on to publish any more Books to as ill purposes as he has done this whatever height of Learning and Eloquence he may attain unto by the continuance of his Studies he will certainly deserve no better Character than that which was given by Velleius Paterculus to C. Curio Hist. lib. 2. Homo Ingeniosissimè Nequam Facundus Malo Publico Most just is the severity of the Censure past upon this most Infamous Writer by the most Reverend Archbishop of Armagh The catching of the Leviathan Chap. 1. Thus we have seen how the Hobbian Principles do destroy the Existence the Simplicity the Ubiquity Eternity and Infiniteness of God the Doctrin of the Blessed Trinity the Hypostatical Union the Kingly Sacerdotal and Prophetical Offices of Christ the Being and Operation of the Holy Ghost Heaven Hell Angels Devils the Immortality of the Soul the Catholick and all National Churches the Holy Scriptures Holy Orders the Holy Sacraments the whole Frame of Religion and the Worship of God the Laws of Nature the Reality of Goodness Justice Piety Honesty Conscience and all that is sacred I shall most earnestly entreat those young Students in Divinity who shall cast an Eye on these Papers that they would read all that has been written against T. H. by this most Renowned Archbishop and hy the Right Reverend Father in God the late Bishop of Salisbury and by the Reverend and Learned Dr. H. More Dr. Sharrock and Dr. Cumberland Other excellent Men have abundantly confuted his Wicked Errors but I have been chiefly conversant in the Writings of those I have here mention'd I cannot but recite a few Lines of my Lord Bishop of Salisbury's excellent Sermon concerning the Sinfulness Danger and Remedies of Infidelity which T. H. would not acknowledg to be a Sin The Author of the Leviathan Cap. 41. p. 286. tells us in plain terms That we do not read any where in the Scriptures that they which received not the Doctrin of Christ did therein sin And again That the Injunctions of Christ and his Apostles Men might refufe without Sin Now concerning this Assertion I cannot chuse but say that had I not been acquainted with the Works of that Author especially those relating to Religion I should exceedingly wonder at i● because it supposes Men never to look into their Bibles which is the thing it would perswade In the 21st of Matthew our Saviour asks the Iews this Question Did ye never read in the Scriptures such a thing A Question which I must repeat to the Asserters of this Doctrin Did they never read in the Scriptures the Sinfulness the Danger the Hainousness of Infidelity Surely he that runs may read it His Lordship 's Exercitatio in Thomae Hobbii Philosophiam printed at Oxford 1656. prov'd a most effectual Antidote against the Plague of the Hobbian Errors which at that time began to spread most dreadfully Since I had fitted these Animadversions for the Press there came to my Hands a Book entituled An Answer to a late Book publisht by Dr. Bramhal late Bishop of Derry called The Catching of the Leviathan I wish some Learned Man would publish a Reply to it to vindicate the Honour of that most renowned Prelate If the Charge I have brought against T. H. in these Animadversions be true that Monument of his Reputation which some may conceit to have been erected in this Book will most certainly in the Judgment of all Men fall to the Ground the weakness whereof in one particular I shall here demonstrate He affirms That Atheism is a Sin of Ignorance and he conceits that he sufficiently exposes the most Reverend Archbishop by this pitiful Sophism If it be not a Sin of Ignorance it must be a Sin of Malice Can a Man malice that which he thinks has no Being Answ. To have an Aversion to the Notion or Conception of a Being Infinite in all Perfection is to Malice or Hate GOD And such an Aversion is the grossest Atheism T. H. supposes that there is a GOD and from this Supposition it must needs follow whether he would have it so or no that all Rational Creatures are capable of the foresaid Notion So that an Aversion to it can proceed from no other Cause but only the Pravity of the Will perverting the Undertaking T. H. pretends to Believe the Holy Scriptures Now it is written This is the True Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World The True Light is GOD It is written God is Light If the True Light enlightneth every Man that cometh into the World Atheism is not only the Not Seeing of Him but an Aversion to Him no Sin of Ignorance but of Malice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I shall not make any other Apology for the sharpness of my Stile but this That it is not enough not to Consent to the Hobbian Errors but we must Hate them with a perfect Hatred I have no more to do at present but only to recite those words of the blessed Psalmist with reference to every one of the Disciples of this most Impious Sophister which I us'd in public with reference to him not long before his death Arise O God maintain thine own cause remember how the foolish men blasphemeth thee daily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 EPITAPHIUM R. SH LL. Doctoris Hic Iacent Reliquiae Viri Incomparabilis Roberti Sharrock Qui Iacentem Suscitavit Philosophiam Practicam Atheismum Triumphantem Debellavit HOBBII SPINOSAe caeterorum Ejusdem furfuris homuncionum Placita Specie quâdam Eruditionis insignis ostentata Quam sint Stolida quam Improba Clarissime Demonstravit Virtutum Vitiorum omnium Veras ac Vivas Effigies depingens Horum Odia Illarum Amores In Animis Prudentium Lectorum Flagrantissimos Accendit Striptis Varii Argumenti Elaboratissimis Usque ad Consummationem Seculi Apud Doctos Pios permansuris Famae Suae Exegit Monumentum Aere perennius Clarissimi Viri Domini GEORGII MACKENZI Epitaphium A. D. 1691. Ingenio Magno ac Verâ Pietate refulget Illius Egregii Candida Fama Viri Cum nihil Hic fuerit Quo se ingens flamma foveret Ignea Mens Terras linquit Astra Petit. A LETTER to the Author of a Pamphlet Entituled The Doctrine of the Trinity Placed in its due Light Non eloquimur magna sed vivimus SIR THO I acknowledge That you deserve the Character of a Person Ingenious and Learned yet since you deny the Catholic Faith whilst you pretend to be a True Son of the Church of England I must say you do not deserve the Name of an Honest Man I doubt not but any Learned and Impartial Reader that believes the Holy Scriptures were written by

I thought so much of the goodness and power of God that I did not so much consider the incapacity of the Creature If it please God I live to finish the present Task I am taken up with it is likely enough I may write such a Practical Treatise in English which I have long since call'd the Safe Guide but whatever becomes of me I doubt not but God will stir up those that will assist his true Church and the main ends of Religion Nothing more for the present but that I am Dear SIR Yours Affectionately Hen. More Jan. 2. 1671. SIR I Have receiv'd yours of Nov. 10. I was so full of business that I was fain to defer the answering of it till now I told Dr. Cudworth what service his Sermon did you on that place of Scripture you mention That saying of Plotinus you have pickt out with Judgment it is very significantly exprest and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is that wherewith all men are in a manner always hurried scarce any attending to that which is more inward in the Soul her self and truly Moral and Divine Plotinus is raised to a great price it seems I bought one when I was Iunior Master for 16 shillings and I think I was the first that had either the luck or courage to buy him As for my Latin Translation my Theological Volume is now in the Press and I hope it will be finish't within this year or thereabout When this is out I intend God willing to set upon my Philosophical Writings to Translate them which wiil excuse me the going on in my Enchiridion Metaphysicum But I shall I believe in an Epistle give some brief Account of what I should have done if I had gone on whereby nothing new shall be lost I pray return my affectionate service wishing you both a chearful Christmass and an happy New Year I take leave and rest Dear SIR Your Affectionate Friend to serve you Hen. More C. C. C. Decemb. 27th 1673. SIR I Deliver'd your enclosed Book to Dr. Cudworth after I had run it over my self he returns his thanks to you for it who has also run it over but has not had leisure to observe things so closely and districtly as to spy out those points you intimate that you differ from him in I think you would do well distinctly and expresly to signifie them to him or me I asked him about his Second Volume but he says He hath so many both Colledge Occasions and Domestick that he cannot yet tell when he shall be in readiness to send the Papers of his Second Volume to the Press I wish you all good success in your competition for your Lecturers place in St. Clements and should be glad to hear that you have sped There 's good pious and useful sense in your Verses but that passage in which there is a Star and refers to Gregory the Great is notwithstanding dark and obscure to me Your Letter to the Chancellor of Denmark has things in it not unsuitable to his Condition and fit to be thought on in all Conditions For he that makes it not his business to enlarge his own Will and Desire is a real Prisoner in his inward Man tho' his outward be free to go where he will Whoever permits himself in any sin or is captivated with any thing but the love of God and true Vertue is his own Prison and Jailour And in those things therefore every Man is sincerely and impartially to examine himself and forthwith to break the Bands and Cords of whateverVanity he finds himself held with and cast them from him that he may become the faithful Servant of Christ whose service is perfect Freedom Thus with my kind respects committing you both to Gods gracious keeping I take leave and rest Your Affectionate Friend to serve you Hen. More December 2d 1678. SIR I Beg your pardon that I have not return'd my Thanks for your civil and pious Letter at this time it being almost a Quarter of a Year since I receiv'd it But I have been much taken up in business and have but so much leasure as to excuse my self Your Citations out of Savanorola are pertinent and pious and certainly he was a ve-Holy Man But Picus Mirandulanus has dress'd up his Life so that it looks like one of the rest of the Roman Legends He knew more than those Times would bear and 't was his honesty and courage that he would die in what he knew to be true I am glad you find so much benefit in being persuaded of that main point of Faith in the assistance of Christ's Spirit for the subduing our Corruptions There is little hope of any progress in the ways of true Holiness without it And they that have it possess a Jewel if they make right use of it and not entertain it as a true Notion only but as an indispensable Principle of Life that will remind us perpetually That it is long of our selves if we be not as we should be for as much as we are assur'd there is in readiness so powerful a supply of Strength and Grace from Christ if we will sincerely set our selves to resist our Spiritual Enemies As for the Query you put to me I think you are a little too early in forecasting about such things Let us speak what is true and do what is just and righteous and make it our business to kill and consume all remainders of Corruption in our Souls and Bodies in that condition we are and God will give us Wisdom when the time of suffering comes to do what is most behooffal No man can give Advice at such a distance either to himself or any one else I am sure I cannot what he is to resolve of But in general the safest way is that in which there is the greatest Self denyal and that no interest of his own stands in competition with the interest of Christ's Church and Kingdom Thus commending you to God's gracious Guidance and Keeping I take leave and rest Your Affectionate Friend and Servant Hen. More C. C. C. Feb. 2. 1681. SIR YOurs of Iune 23d came to Cambridge first but in my absence from thence was sent me to London which I brought with me hither again but I have been in such an hurry of business both at London and here since my return that I had no leasure to look out your Letter and peruse it till now I am glad you are so much gratified with my Philosophical Volumes The Copies in Quires is my Gift to you but if you will indulge so much to your own proneness to lay out your mony that way as to pay for the Binding you may follow your own humour in that if you be so minded The same party that you say declared to that French Gentleman that I wrote not satis terse I have heard from other hands that he has much commended my Latine Style So that these things are as mens Humours take them and searce

I know you have good Nature enough to pardon this hasty Scrible from SIR Your most humble Servant RO. SHARROCK July 21. 1662. In Obitum DOCTISSIMI Viri FIDELISSIMI AMICI THOMAe PIERCE S. T. P. Decani Sarisburiensis SAnctus Amor Mihi Te cum tot conjunxerit Annos Tu certe nec jam Morte Revulsus eris Morte mori vostra videor Doctissimi Amici Hac ratione etiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1691. GReat Good and Just could I but rate c. Montross Iustitia Bonitate ingens Si quantus in imo Corde Mihi Dolor est Si Qualia Fata ferebas Aequo Animo possem Factis ostendere Flerem Quae Totum Obruerent Lachrymarum Flumina Mundum Sed cum suppetias poscat Vox Sanguinis Alta Non quas ARGI Oculi sed quas praestare BRIAREI Vis Manuum poterit Cantus Tuba clara Sonabit Funebres Titulos Defuncti Sang●●●e Scribam A Letter to the Author of a Book Entituled An Enquiry into the Constitution Discipline Unity and Worship of the Primitive Church Reverende Domine QUis quis es Erudite Vir Mihi certè videris esse Rerum in Ecclesiâ Novandarum Avidus Nos Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Inimicum esse judicamus istius modi hominem qui cum Professus sit semetipsum esse Ecclesiae Anglicanae Filium hominibus Anglicanis Persuadere Velit ut animum inducant Credere non adeo esse Necessarium Orationis Dominicae Usum ut eum existimat Ecclesia Anglicana Si tu Mecum non Consentias in omnibus quae in hac Dissertatiuncula exaravi Te rogo per istum quem in Proefatione Tuâ Professus es Candorem ut mittas mihi aliquam à Te Scriptam Oppositionem Ex Collisione Adversantium Sententiarum Veritas clariùs Eluscesoet Vale. Reverende Domine DIssertatiunculam quam mihi misisti perlegi ac in toto meo Libro me contra Patres quos citâsti aliquid soripsisse non memini sed è contrario ad probandum Dominicae Orationis usum eosdem Patres aut saltem aliquos eorum in testes adduxisse Non sum Domine Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Inimicus Perfectioni Orationis Dominicae assentior nec aliter rerum in Ecclesiâ Novandarum avidus nisi ut Lites Nostrae componantur Ecclesiae nostrae Divisae unitas tandem reddatur Hoc quidem nitar Deum Pacis semper invocabo ut det Pacem in diebus nostris ut caeptis Amorem Unitatem quaerentium Benedicat Vale. Nov. 4th 1692. Honoured SIR I Thank you for your Letter in which you shew so great Candour and Civility That I hope your Design is not so ill as I feared it was tho I am very averse from several of your Assertions particularly that concerning the LORD'S PRAYER viz. that the Primitive Church did not always use it in their Solemn Worship To which I Answer That it cannot be prov'd That any Bishop of the Primitive Church or any one of the Inferiour Clergy with the Allowance of his Bishop did ever undertake to perform the Publick Worship of Almighty God without the Use of the LORD'S PRAYER Some of the greatest Enemies of the Church of Christ in this Kingdom are those Men who pretend to be True Ministers of the Gospel without true ORDINATION and in their Congregations never use the LORD'S PRAYER I shall here recite some of my own Words that have been published in two several Papers It is most evident that those Men are guilty of Abominable Iniquity who endeavour to seduce any People from the Communion of the CHURCH of ENGLAND in which the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Religion are so clearly and fully exprest and those most important Expressions so frequently repeated That Persons of the lowest Intellectuals who do not Rebel against the Light in frequenting our Religious Assemblies may more easily attain to the Knowledge of All Things that are necessary to their Salvation than by Hearing or Reading the best Sermons that have been or shall be preached by any of the Nonconformists to the End of the World which Assertion is as Evident as it is That any Illiterate Persons may more easily meditate on Truths plainly exprest and frequently suggested to their Remembrance than Collect the same Truths out of divers large Discourses if they were therein implyed So that it can hardly be imagin'd how any Man can be in any thing more serviceable to the Destroyer of Souls than by Teaching People to dispise Our CATECHISM and COMMON PRAYER SIR If you sincerely desire the Peace of the Church I beseech you by the Meekness and Gentleness of our Lord Iesus Christ That you would deeply consider what I have here written in Conscience of my Duty at all Times and in all places to love the Truth and Peace Your faithful Servant E. E. Nov. 26th 1692. SIR I Shall not give you the trouble of any Preface to what I shall write in Vindication of this most important Truth That the Primitive Church in the Publick Worship of Almighty God did always use a Liturgy or Form of Sacred Words namely the LORD'S PRAYER the PSALMS and the GLORIA PATRI You say That Origen prescribing a methed of Prayer speaks not a Word of the LORD'S PRAYER De Oratione Sect. 22. I Answer That in the former part of his Treatise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He speaks very much of the LORD'S PRAYER and plainly shews That 't was us'd by all Christians in their Religious Assemblies I Pray SIR bestow your second THOUGHTS upon these Words Page 66. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 132 133. He plainly shews That in what he speaks of the LORD'S PRAYER he would be understood to have Respect in a Special Manner to the PUPLICK WORSHIP 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 4. Contra Celsam Edit Spenc. pag. 178. He speaks expresly of COMMON PRAYERS in which he certainly implies the LORD'S PRAYER of which he discourses so largely in his Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 How great Regard the Primitive Christians had to the Gloria Patri is manifest by that Holy Aspiration of Polycarpus which you cite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. And by those Words of Origen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Page 135. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 You say As to these prescribed FORMS there is not the the least mention of them in any of the Primitive Writings nor the least Word nor Syllable tending thereunto that I can find which is a most unaccountable Silence if ever such there were but rather some Expressions intimating the contrary as that famous controverted place of Iustin. Martyr who describing the manner of the PRAYER before the Celebration of the LORD'S SUPPER says That the Bishop sent up Prayers and Praises to God with his utmost Ability 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apol. 2. that is That he pray'd with the best of his Abllities Invention Expression Judgment and the like Answ. This famous place of Iustin