Selected quad for the lemma: tradition_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	church_n	good_a	scripture_n	2,095	5	5.9073	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30334	A defense of the reflections on the ninth book of the first volum [sic] of Mr. Varillas's History of heresies being a reply to his answer / by G. Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing B5774; ESTC R8180	61,277	160

little unacquainted with the Laws of England for I have discovered his Ignorance in other things that are less pardonable yet he is so uneasy at this that he cannot bear my saying that such matters were above men of his form and upon that he says he does not know whether he or I has studied the Law most and no more do I but I am sure if he was long at that Study he has spent both his time and his money to very little purpose and if he is no better Lawyer than he is Historian I doubt he will hardly ever recover the Money that he laid out on that Study I assure him I will not compare with him in any thing and I do not know a greater Injury that can be done me in such matters than to be put into a comparison with him But to convince his Reader of his Learning in our Law he gives us another long Quotation out of Florimond which is all the rest of this Article LX. He justifies his saying that Audley the Chancellour was meanly born he cites an Author that had mentioned the mean-birth of a Chancellour and says this was necessary for the History to shew what a sort of men King Henry imployed but what needs all this I had only said that the raising a man of a mean-birth to that post ought not to be taken notice of as a very extraordinary thing since it is very ordinary to see men of the Profession of Law raised upon their merit to that Dignity If he had been to write that Audley's life I acknowledge he must have mentioned his Birth but since his Hero Chancellour More was of no better extraction I am not yet convinced of the Importance of this Reflection and Mr. Varillas will do wisely for himself not to examin too anxiously the birth of the Chancellours of Europe for this last Age but in conclusion a Quotation of Florimond's comes to set all right yet even in it Audley is not said to be a Churchman so here the Eccho did not repeat but speak LXI Here again Florimond is brought out with the honorable Character that Mr. Varillas assumes of being his Eccho which must pass for one of his Sublime Strains But here I must explain one part of my Book for some have mistaken my Reflections in one point as if at every time that I speak of Mr. Varillas's Religion I had meant of the Religion of the Church of Rome but they do me wrong for I mean it only of his Religion in particular according to the notion that he gives us of it that it enslaves a mans powers so far as to hinder him from examining whether what he writes is true or false All the rest of his Article is a sequel of such Impertinences that I grow weary to examin them as well as the Character that he gives his Florimond as an Author that is worthy of Credit against whom the English have never excepted But if they have always excepted against Sanders who is copied by him than there is no reason to expect that we should have any regard to him His Excuse for his turning the Affairs of Amours so ill is like himself this it seems went to his heart for tho I have destroyed his credit as a Writer of History yet there is some comfort left if he may be still considered at least a good Author of Romances LXII He thinks It is the chief of all the Qualities necessary for the writing of History to be able to describe the Intriques of great men in the matters of Amour and it he has not that as he reproaches me for denying it to him since I had allowed him all the good qualities of a Historian except that of Truth those who praise his works chiefly in this point are much deceived and then he justifies himself with a Quotation out of Florimond I will not dispute much with him whether the quality of setting forth Amours is the Principal one of a Historian tho I do not deny but in a Reign of much Dissolution this is necessary but I will add that this is the hardest to be found out unless one has lived in the time for those are matters in which as it is easy to slander so the only persons who know those Secrets are very shye of writing them and are generally men of Pleasure themselves and not much given to writing I have already satisfied Mr. Varillas by my retracting the praises that I had undeservedly given him but I find he would let that of Truth go and would compound the matter if he might but have the other Qualities allowed him but now I am worse-natured and will allow none of them to him and I as little believe what he says of the Praises that some give his works on that account as I do his other Quotations After this he calls me the rashest of all men this from any man but him would have put me in some disorder but I know his way of writing now too well to be alarmed at any thing he can say One should have thought that I had robbed Churches or coined money or done some very hardy thing to deserve to be called the rashest of all men but all is safe for my only Crime is that I had denied an Assertion of his so modestly as only to say I had never found it in any Author upon which he pretends to infer That to justify this I must say two things the one that I have read all Books whether printed or Manuscripts the other is that I have forgot nothing of that which I have read which two things says he very gravely are not found in any one man without a miracle Tho I should have thought that neither the one nor the other could be found in any man without a miracle and now is it not evidently made out that I am the Rashest of all men LXIII Here again comes the often named Voucher and after that comes another piece of our Authors reasoning I had shewed him that King Henry when he pretended to obtain his Divorce had argued upon the principle of Tradition which is so much considered in the Church of Rome and that it had been made out that the Tradition of the whole Church all down to Cajetans time was clearly of the King's side since the degrees of Marriage prohibited in Leviticus had been considered in all the Ages of the Church as Moral and Indispensable Laws so I had added that according to the Principles of the Church of Rome his Marriage with his Brothers Wife was Unlawful He reproaches me for this since I am of a Religion that rejects Tradition absolutely But still it made the Kings cause good against that Church which makes Tradition the only sure Expounder of Scripture for if the Tradition was here of the King's side then all Cajetans Reasoning against it was no more to be considered than according to themselves