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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49644	A letter to a friend, touching Dr. Jeremy Taylor's Disswasive from Popery. Discovering above an hundred and fifty false, or wretched quotations, in it.	A. L.	1665 (1665)	Wing L4A; ESTC R213944	35,526	47

A LETTER To a Friend touching Dr. Jeremy Taylor 's Disswasive from Popery Discovering above an Hundred and fifty False or Wrested Quotations in it Psal. 26. 12. Mentita est iniquitas sibi Printed in the Year 1665. The Publisher to the Reader MEeting with this Letter I thought it worth the publishing as a means in the interim till the Book it self be Answered to give the Admirers of Dr. Taylor and of that Book some cause to lessen their great Opinion of him and it and the Cause it maintains For indeed after that Juel Mornay Morton Potter and other of the prime Protestant Controvertists had been found so guilty of this Fault of False Quotations and been so cryed out upon by our Catholick Writers for it and the Protestant Cause had suffered so much shame and prejudice by it who could have expected it in Dr. Jeremy Taylor a man so Eminent among them for Place Learning and Abilities in Controversie and who therefore it might be presumed would not discredit himself or his Cause by Quoting any thing upon Trust or Varying from his Author 's either Words or Sense Or though he might be incurious in this kinde when he wrote onely as a Private Divine or in a book of Devotion as ex gr when in his Book Of the Life of Christ he tells a story out of S. Gregory and cites the very Book and Chapter How S. Herminigilda chose to dye rather then she would receive the B. Sacrament from the hand of an Arrian Bishop when many Punies of our Clergy nay many of our ordinary Women could have told him that the person there mentioned by S. Gregory was not Herminigilda a Woman but Herminigildus a Man and Prince of Spain Yet in such a Work as this to which as himself saith he was appointed by a Synod of the Protestant Irish Bishops and published with design to Convert all the Catholicks of that Nation and entertained with that applause here in England as it hath been already in a short time twice or thrice Re-printed who could think but he would have been most exact in his Quotations which therefore since he hath not but sometimes quoted Books that never were or that in the places quoted have not any least syllable to the purpose they are quoted for and frequently quoted them in a Sense they never dreamt of yea and divers times by adding curtailing or otherwise altering them misquoted the very words themselves of all which the ensuing Letter will give sufficient instances What can be said or thought of it but that had it been possible for him to have upheld his Cause otherwayes he would never have used such sinister practices If it be said that divers of the Exceptions are little material be it so but then the least that is will be a false or wrested Quotation and help to shew the insincerity of the Author If it be said that divers of them are perhaps but Errors of his Pen or of the Press onely it may be so but till they appear to be so they are justly charged In fine if it be said that many of them are not so much as pretended to be False but Wrested onely 't is true but then 1. These also will be of avail to my end as well though not as much as those that are false 2. Of False Quotations and where cannot be supposed any Error of his Pen or the Press there are enow though all the other had been omitted in the Letter to my end namely for instance in some of the chief onely these six and forty viz. 8. 12. 14. 16. 17. 26 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 34. 36. 46. 47. 50. 53. 56. 57. 58. 61. 71. 76 77 78 79 93. 114. 115. 116. 118. 130 136. 137. 139. 140. 143. 144. 147. 149. 150. 152. 153. 155. 156. If any one therefore shall take upon him to justifie Dr. Taylors Quotations to save labour and time let him in the first place justifie these or which six of them he thinks the most justifiable and try it first in them and by their success let judgement be made of all the rest Vale. Errata Page 6. line 21. in the break insert 16. Page 21. line 15 in the break dele 48. A Note of above an Hundred and fifty False or Wrested Quotations in Dr. Jeremy Taylor 's late Disswasive from Popery sent by a Catholique to his Friend SIR WHen I told you Dr. Taylors Disswasive beside other faults in it was full of false or wrested Quotations you wondering at it desired of me a Note of them which I here send you of some which I have observed by examining those Authors which I could come by here And I doubt not but most of his other also would be found ejusdem farinae if the Authors were examined In the Preface 1. AGainst unwritten Traditions taught by the Church he quotes Tertullian as speaking against all Traditions absolutely I adore the fulness of Scripture if it be not written let Hermogenes fear the woe that is destin'd to them that detract from or adde to it when had he set down the words sincerely it would have appear'd he spake onely of one point taught by that Heretick painter not without but against express Scripture viz. that God made the World of some preexisting matter Igitur in principio fecit Deus coelum terram Adoro Scripturae plenitudinem quae mihi factorem manifestat facta In Evangelio verò ministrum atque arbitrum rectoris invenio Sermonem An autem de aliquâ subjacenti materiâ facta sint omnia nusquam adhuc legi Scriptum esse doceat Hermogenis officina si non est scriptum timeat vae illud c. Therefore saith he in the beginning God made Heaven and Earth I adore the fulness of Scripture meaning of this Text as to this point which manifests to me both the maker and the things made And in the Gospel I finde the Word both the minister and arbiter of God But whether all things were made of some subjacent matter I never have yet read Let Hermogenes's shop shew that it is written viz. his Doctrine that the World was made of some matter If not written let him fear that woe c. 2. Against the same he quotes three places of Basil as saying thus Without doubt it is a most manifest argument of infidelity and a most certain sign of pride to introduce any thing that is not written c. Whereas in two of the places quoted S. Basil hath no such words and in the third he spake onely of certain particular Heresies devised by Hereticks not without but against express Scripture and which S. Basil there confuted not by Scripture alone but by Tradition also Whilst I was to fight against divers factions of Hereticks c. I thought it consequent to repress the blasphemies introduced by opposite sayings or sentences and

answer'd this in contempt of the authority of the Fathers urged by Nilus against the Pope's Supremacy when there was no such thing For the objection of Nilus there urged was not from Fathers but from Reason and it was onely to prove that the Pope ought to be subject to the Canons of holy Fathers because he had his Dignity from the Fathers and Popes themselves had made divers Canons and he were unworthy to be honoured as a Father if he contemn'd the Fathers To which reasons Bellarmin answer'd That the Pope had not his Dignity from the Fathers and that if he made Canons he could not binde himself and that if he be honoured as a Father by all he hath no Fathers in the Church but all Children and therefore he cannot be subject to them and that he contemns not the Fathers c. 125. He saith this speech of S. Cyprian in the Council of Carthage None of us makes himself a Bishop of Bishops or by tyramical power drives his Colleagues to a necessity of obediance c. was spoken and intended against Pope Stephen to reprehend him for his Lording it over God's Heritage and excommunicating his brethren and this his chastising of Pope Stephen for this usurpation was also approved in him by S. Augustin when S. Augustin in the place quoted saith no such thing nor understood it as spoken against Pope Stephen but as spoken modestly and humbly to encourage the Bishops to deliver their Sentence without fear of excommunication and he interprets the words not to mean as if the Bishops were exempted absolutely from being judged by their Superiors but onely in such cases as that which were undetermined by the Church None of us makes himself a Bishop of Bishops c. What more meek what more humble Certes no authority should deterre us from inquiring what is true Since every Bishop c. I suppose he means in those questions which have not yet been discussed by the most eliquate perspection For he knew how great a profundity of Sacrament then the whole Church did by various disputation discuss and he made free the choice of enquiring that by examination the truth might be manifested For he did not lye or desire to catch his more simple Colleagues in their words that when they had discovered themselves to hold contrary to him he should censure them to be excommunicate This was it he approved in S. Cyprians speech and this was all he approved 126. Against S. Peters Primacy he quotes S. Chrysostom He did all things with the common consent nothing by special authority or principality when in that very place he most strongly asserted S. Peters Primacy as would have appear'd had the Doctor set down the words before and after Peter arising up in the midst of the Disciples said c. How fervent is he How doth he acknowledge the flock committed to him by Christ How is he Prince in the Chair and ever first begins to speak Now consider that also how he doth act all things by the common vote of the Disciples nothing by his own authority nor did he simply say we set up this man in the place of Judas And although he had a right equal to all of constituting him yet out of vertue or modesty congruently he did it not But deservedly doth he first exercise authority in the business as who had them all in his hand for to him Christ said Confirm thy Brethren 127. He saith Canus confesses That there is in Scripture no revelation that the Bishop of Rome should succeed S. Peter in his special authority But Canus saith not all out so but that it is not indeed per se there revealed And in the next words he saith That it is had out of the Gospel that the Pastor substituted by Christ in the Church after Peter hath all the ordinary power of Peter and all other priviledges granted to Peter for the Churches sake 128 129 130 131. He saith it is confessed by Cusanus Soto Driedo and Canus that this succession of Peter's Chair was not addicted to any particular Church nor can be proved that the Bishop of Rome is Prince of the Church which last is not confessed by any out of them and for the first Driedo saith to the contrary in the very place quoted Not rashly therefore but with pious faith we believe with the Fathers our predecessors that the Faith and Primacy of the Church and the Chair of Peter are inseparable from the Roman Diocess Sect. 11. 132 133 134 135. He quotes four Canons as shewing that private Mass is against the Doctrine and practice of the ancient Church of Rome and the Tradition of the Apostles and is also forbidden under pain of Excommunication when not one of them hath any such thing nor forbids the Priest to celebrate without Communicants but onely enjoyns the Deacons or people at due times to communicate with the Priest So C. Peracta When Consecration is done that is when the Priest hath consummated let all Communicate that will not be excluded from the Church for so the Apostles have appointed and so holds the holy Roman Church Which Canon yet meant not of the Lay-people who as appears by another Canon made within twenty years after were obliged to Communicate onely three times a year Christmas Easter and Whitsuntide when yet the Priests said Mass every day but onely of the Deacons who assisted at Mass. For so declares the Title of it Let the Minister who after Consecration contemns to Communicate be excluded from entring into the Church And so the Gloss Let all Communicate that is all who minister the body and blood So C. in coena Upon Maundy Thursday the receiving of the Eucharist is by some neglected which that it is to be received on that day by all the faithful except those to whom for great crimes it is prohibited the use of the Church demonstrates seeing even Penitents are on that day reconciled to receive the Sacraments of our Lords body and blood So C. Si quis If any one come into the Church and hears the sacred Scriptures and out of wantonness averts himself from receiving the Sacrament and in observing the Mysteries declines from the constituted rule of Discipline we decree such a one to be cast out of the Church So C. omnes fideles All the faithful who come to the Church in the sacred Solemnities of Easter Christmas c. let them hear the Scriptures of the Apostles and the Gospels but they that persevere not in Prayer whilst Mass is finished nor receive the holy Communion it is fit they be deprived of Communion as raising disturbances of the Church Chap. 2. Sect. 1. 136. He saith It is taught by Navar that though the Church calls upon sinners to repent on Holy-Dayes and at Easter yet by the Law of God they are not tyed to so much but onely to repent in the Article or danger of