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A42823	A præfatory answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, the doctor of Warwick wherein the malignity, hypocrisie, falshood of his temper, pretences, reports, and the impertinency of his arguings & quotations in his animadversions on Plus ultra are discovered / by Jos. Glanvill.	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.	1671 (1671)	Wing G821; ESTC R23393	87,889	234

History of Salt-Petre 'T is like he understands that Tree He experimented something more than ordinary of it at Oxford and perhaps if he had right done him he would have more experience of another Tree But I must not stay to remark here He gives out That he will make the Lord Bishop of CHESTER smart and writ to one as I am credibly told that he was making inquiries into his Lordships Learning parts and qualifications for a Bishop How fit is he to be a visitour of Bishops But to confine my self to what is printed He gives notice in the Preface of his Legends of several Books more that he hath coming in pursuance of the Projects of his former Particularly he threatens one against my LETTER concerning ARISTOTLE a Design suitable to the Grandeur of M. Stubbe's mind That short Discourse was first only a private Letter written when I was not 23 years of Age and printed six or seven years ago Let the mighty man in the glory of his conquests insult over an essay of a green youth and take six years time to write against two sheets of Paper which for ought he can tell the Author by this time disrellisheth himself But the truth is I do not know whether I have any reason to do so or not having not read it over since Whatever other faults there may be in the Composure I 'm sure there is no Lying as M. Stubbe chargeth it according to the usual way of his civility I reported no matter of Fact concerning Aristotle or his Philosophy but from some good and approved Author though perhaps I should find trouble now in the particular citations because I want the opportunity of those Books that I then used and I have lost the Notes that I took from them Whether it will be worth my Labour to answer what M. Stubbe shall write against that young exercise of my Pen. I cannot certainly foresee but I shrewdly guess Perhaps the sole consideration of my youth when I writ it will excuse more faul●s than M. Stubbe's wit and spight together can discover or as much as pretend to find there If he confutes that Letter with the like Ignorance and impertinence as he hath used in his Animadversions on Plus Ultra T will be answer enough to print it again The Lyes he pretends it guilty of will I may expect be disproved by some that are so indeed for his Authors must sp●ak what he would have them say and he tells a gross one in the few words in which he mentions the design of confuting me when he saith that I have never as much as read over Diogenes Laertius which were impossible he should know though it were true I only take notice further concerning this that according to that little cunning which I mentioned before He would fain draw in the Royal Society to be concern'd in that Letter of mine That so his intended Triumph might be greater and the Virtuosi prejudiced by his pretended advantages against it The Letter forsooth is joined to the Edition of my Sc●psis Scientifica which bears the Arms and is dedicated to the Royal Society Pref. to Leg. That Book was indeed Dedicated to the Society but I was not then a Member of it And are Patrons of Books responsible for their imperfections If so 't were very bad news for the modest Dr. Willis to whom the cleanly discourse of Chocolate is directed The Prefixing the Societies Arms to my Dedication was the Stationers conceit and the mention of it puts me in mind of a ridiculous offence that was once taken against another Book of mine The Printer had set a flourish at the beginning over the Dedication 'T was a Cut of Henry 8. lying by a Tree which some took for an emblem of Protestantism coming out of his Codpiece Just such Arguments M. Stubbe useth to prove that the Royal Society have a design to reduce us to Popery And I remember when the Theatre at Oxford was newly built he very sadly told me and made a deal of tragical talk about it That They had pictured God the Father in the midst of the Cieling in the shape of an old man when the figure he meant was but a Mythological picture what particularly I have forgot I wonder this was not insisted on to prove that the Society designs Popery no doubt it had been as good a one as any he hath produced But I am a little stept besides my design of presenting some Instances of his rare modesty and civility in his last Books I shall now do it briefly He calls the Royal Society Trojan Horse Pref. to Camp and an illiterate Company p. 21. The Members of it Great Impostors Pref. 10 C. Fopps Pref. to Leg. and poor Devils in his Letter to Sir N. N. viz. Sir Nicholas Nemo And p. 21. in his Postscript speaking of the overthrow of the Royal Society He expresseth himself thus which not only all Doctors but all good men o●ght to endeavour That the disasters of the late Dutch War the Plague and Fire of London were less inconveniences than their perpetuity That these calamities admitted some remedy hereafter but the evils they are likely to occasion us would never be corrected by any humane Providence and I doubted not whether God would support us by his Prudence when they had debauched the Nation from all piety and morality as well as civil wisdom This was he saith part of the purport of another Discourse of his about the errors and cheats of the Virtuosi I now begin to repent that I have troubled my self so much with this hot-headed Impertinent for I perceive that no one is so fit to answer him as the Keeper of Bedlam I begin to pity him and to wish that The Colledge of Physicians to requite him for that grandeur he saith he designs for them would prescribe somewhat for him For certainly there is much ground to think that the phansie of his supposed great exploits hath blown him up to a great distraction Let us hear how he swaggers on It is said that my Animadversions on M. Glanvill contain little of matter to which I answer That they contain enough to have made twenty Uirtuost famous and would h●ve acquired them a memorial of ingenious and noble experimentators They contain enough to shew the Ignorance of that person who had so insulted over all Vniversity-Learning and particularly over the Physicians They contain enough since they contain more then They All Knew and think I have done great service to the Learned in shewing that these Virtuosi are very great Impostors To the Reader in Camp Again in the Dedication of his Legends to the Vniversities thus I have stooped the Talbots their Supporters for them and if ever They hunt well hereafter this Age knows whom they are obliged to In a Letter to Dr. Merrett which is after inserted He rants thus If you will proceed with them you must be trampled on with Them● who are irrecoverably

granted that two pair ordinarily hinder the Sight though in M. Stubb's old Gentlewoman and young the Case is different and if I had allowed the Consequence this had been enough to have carried M. Cross's Cause against the two Glasses in Telescopes Thus I must be ignorant because I was not impertinent But doth M. Stubb think that every one is unacquainted with Opticks who doth not know that double Spectacles mend the Sight in some whose Eyes are weak or dis-affected Must all be Ignoramus's that have not met with the old Gentlewoman his Acquaintance and the young Gentlewoman that he knows with Cataracts in her Eyes who use two pair of Spectacles or must he needs be ignorant that meeting two false Propositions in a Syllogism contents himself to deny one and that the denial of which most evidently tends to the nulling the Argument and rendring it ridiculous I propose not these Questions to justifie my own Knowledge but to represent and shame M. Stubb's childish trifling and malicious Impertinence 12. As to the large Discourse that follows concerning Telescopes I shall treat fully on the Subject and answer the Animadverter's Cavills in the Book where I particularly examine his Authorities and in that all other things which are worth an Answer shall be consider'd For the present I take notice that this whole Discourse is an elaborate Impertinence for he proves not that Telescopes are no late Invention nor yet that they are not Helps for Knowledge He pretends indeed to shew that their Reports are sometimes uncertain but yet will not be understood totally to discredit the use of Telescopes in celestial Discoveries as he cautions p. 47. And so what he s●ys is impertinent to the main Business though it may seem to confute some passages of mine concerning those Glasses But let M. Stubb urge all he can for the f●lliciousness of Telescopes a Sceptick will produce as much to prove the Deceitfulness of our Eyes and I 'll undertake my self to offer such Arguments against the Certainty of Sense as M. Stubb with all his Sagacity shall not be able to answer But how comes M. Stubb to say in the Entrance of this Discourse p. 29. That he was sure M. Boyle is in the same errour with M. Cross Let us see upon what ground he built his Confidence in this first Instance by which he impugns Telescopes Why M. Boyle complains that when he went about to examine those appearances in the Sun call'd Maculae Faculae solares he could not make the least Discovery of them in many Months which yet other Observators pretend to see every day yet doth M. Boyle profess that he neither wanted the conveniency of excellent Telescopes nor omitted any circumstance requisite to the Enquiry Thus the Animadverter and hence he is sure that M. B. is in the same errour with M. C. That Telescopes are fallacious Let this be an Instance how this Swaggerer quotes Authors and let the Reader look into the place cited from M. Boyle If he do so he will see That that Honourable Person saith nothing there that tends to the proving the Deceitfulness of Telescopes much less that he believes them fallacious I have not the Latin Translation of those Essays but in the second Edition of the Original English I find the Discourse to which M. Stubb referrs p. 103. where the excellent Author imputes it not to the Glasses that he could not for several Months see the Macul● and Faculae solares but seems a little to blame those Astronomers who have so written of the Spots and more shining parts as to make their Readers to presume that at least some of them are almost always to be seen there which he conjectures was occasion'd by their so often meeting such Phaenomena in the Sun ib. But these for many months our Learned Author could not discover by his Telescopes not because of their Fallaciousness but for that during many months they appeared so much seldomer than it seems they did before These are the words of that Honourable Gentleman ubi sup And now how doth it appear hence that M. Boyle is in the same errour about the Deceitfulness of Telescopes with M. Cross Is it sure that he thought those Glasses fallacious because he could not see the Maculae and Faculae in the Sun when they were not there what are we to expect from this man in reference to the other Authors he cites when he so grosly and impudently mis-reports so known a one of our own who is yet alive and sees how maliciously the Caviller perverts him I shall examine his carriage to other Writers in my next Book and in that shew that most of the Arguments he brings to argue the Fallaciousness of Telescopes prove only the Diversity and Changes of the Mediums and of the celestial Phaenomena not the Deceit of those Glasses But I am concluded to be altogether unacquainted with Telescopes as well as ignorant of Opticks p. 46. because I say That They alter the Objects in nothing but their Proportions by which I meant that they make no Alterations in the Figures of Bodies but represent them as they are only in larger proportions And I am ignorant in Telescopes for saying so For 1. Some Telescopes invert all Objects and 2. the Dioptrick Tubes represent the Light and Colours more dilute and remiss 3. Some represent some Objects greater 4. Some no bigger or rather less 5. Some Objects are magnified but not so much as others These are Arguments of my Ignorance or M. Stubb's Impertinence For my Ignorance I have told M. Stubb that I am ready to confess a great deal more than he can prove me guilty of And whether he hath shewn it here as he pretends let the Reader judg If some Telescopes invert all things that 's nothing to his purpose for I spoke of the ordinary Tubes Nor is there any change of the Figure of Objects when they are inverted Though in the largest Tubes the Light and Colours are more remiss yet that makes no alteration of the Object and I said the Glasses alter'd the Objects in nothing but their Proportions Though some Objects in some Tubes are represented no bigger or rather less than they otherwise seem yet that 's nothing against what I say For Telescopes ordinarily magnifie 'T is their remarkable property and that for which they are used and though some Objects are not magnified as much as others yet they are confess'd to be magnified and that 's sufficient or though some are not 't were nothing as I just now observ'd I note these obvious things as my eye runs over my Adversaries Book They are enough to justifie what I said and to shew M. Stubb's Impertinence I shall discover it further when I come to consider these things more deeply I represent the easiest matters now that all Readers may see what a pitiful Caviller this man is that boasts such mighty matters and counts all men ignorants and Fools but himself

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 Appl●●d● of hi● 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 days● 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 ● or Defame Kingly Government or blaspheme my persecuted Soveraign or promote Anarchy and publick ruine If M. Stubbe cannot prove any of th●se as I da●e him to offer at it He cannot recriminate And his charges of this kind will b● contemptible ● 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 ● I have not the least offence besides to answer for● in reference to the Government ● except what I apologized for before the recital I have made of his former Tr●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 ● That Impudence and non-sense are the most troublesom things to answer in the world I have prov'd already● 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 Hudibr●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 H●storian had no● 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. ●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 carrie●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 confes● 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 Roy●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 i● me who said a Iesuite thinking it seems That Campanella was of that order In Dr. More 's Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is se● 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 hind●r 〈◊〉 sight I would not be understood 〈◊〉 they do so when used by those of Great●● Age. For two pair to them have but the power of one P. 178. When I say Telescopes represent ●●jects as they ar● only in larger proporti●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 mean● I would not be understood as if the length of the Tubes made the remissness o● the Light for that is caused by the number of the Glasses or ●he darkness of their metal Books Printed for and sold by James Collins at the Kings-Arms i● 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 T●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 ● Written by the most Honourable George D●ke of Albemarle c. Published by Authority In folio A Private Conference between a Rich Alderman and a Poor Country Vicar made Publick Whe●ein is discoursed the Obligation of Oaths which have been imposed on the Subjects of England With other Matters relating to ●he present State of Affairs In octavo Praxis Medicinae or the Universal Body of Physick Containing all Inward D●seases incident to the Body of Man Explaining the Nature of every Dis●ase with Proper Remedies assigned to them Very useful for Physicians Chi●urgeons and Apothecaries and more ●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 Satisf●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 D●resme Before which is prefixed a Preface to the Reader concerning this Subject by Sir Henry Yelverton Baronet In octavo