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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41811	A farther account of the Baroccian manuscript lately published at Oxford together with the canons omitted in that edition : in a letter to his friend in London.	Grascome, Samuel, 1641-1708?	1691 (1691)	Wing G1571; ESTC R18764	21,179	17

A Farther ACCOUNT OF THE Baroccian Manuscript Lately published at Oxford together with the Canons Omitted in that Edition In a Letter to his Friend in London Enquire after the Old Ways SIR YOu Surprise me with the Baroccian Manuscript but much more with the Account of the Credit it has gotten Its Admirers I presume take it to be an excellent Tract upon R. B's word and fancy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Providence was concerned in the discovery and Publication of this piece I must confess Providence has of late been thought very busie but I can assure you that Treatise was known in my time and despised too The Reasons you will meet with anon and after a short Examination I dare be confident you will confess it deserves no better usage The Editor endeavours to get some Reputation to this piece by fathering it upon Niaphorus Callisti a Man he says better skilled in Ecclesiastical History than any of the same Age. Now Sir you know this Age was the 13th Century a time not over-stockt with Church Historians of any Credit and therefore tho' he was the best of that Age yet the Censures of other Criticks may be just who say he was an idle Story-teller of little Judgment but much Superstition But not to quarrel about Niaphorus let us look upon the reasons why the Editor fancys him to be the Author of this Treatise 1st He says this Piece is found in a Book mark● CXLII amongst the Baroccian MSS in that Bodleian Library at Oxford in which Book there are some Historical Treatises and particularly a Catalogue of the Patriarchs of Constantinople under Niaphorus's name This is all true but the Editor should have observed that that Book is a bundle of several Treatises of several Authors and particularly that this Tract is written in a different hand from those to which the name of Niaphorus is affixt So that from the Book it self there is not the least reason to conjecture that Niaphorus compiled this piece He further saith that Niaphorus must be the Author because the Compiler may be suppos'd to live within the Patriarcha of Constantinople and about the time Niaphorus flourished There he says are no light conjectures And indeed Niaphorus is much obliged to him for giving him a title to all the nameless follys of that Age. But if the Editor would have shown himself a true Critick he would have compared the matter and stile of this Treatise with Niaphorus's History and then he would have found that Niaphorus had a better Pen more Judgment and Sincerity than this Collector At least he would have considered that a Favorite of an Emperor who mortally hated the Latins would not have used the Authority of the Bishops of Rome when he might have met with as great Examples in his own Church The best account I can give of the Manuscript is this The Compiler of it seems to be a Latiniz'd Greek and at the time when he wrote it he was a kind of a Tutor and this piece was a reading to his Boys so injudiciously compos'd and in so mean a stile that nothing but the Barbarity of the Age and the meanness of the Auditory can make any tolerable excuse for it To think it a Homily and pronounced in a Council of Bishops as the Editor seems willing to opine is to libel a Century for how can a Man disgrace an Age more then by supposing the Bishops the Men of Wisdom and Authority in it could patiently sit out such an indigested crude tale Had it still lain amongst the Boys it had been in its proper place but to bring it out to Men and triumph in the Discovery shows only that some do not know what Manuscripts are worth printing With this Character I should leave the Author but R. B. deserves a little more respect and therefore pray tell him when you see him next that the Oxford Copy of this Treatise is not the only Copy in the world Cotelirius had one of the same piece and had that great Man lived a little longer it would have been published and no doubt with the Canons at the end of it the Reason why these were left out in this Edition you will meet with in the Close of this Paper and then Providence had not reserved it for Mr. Hody's version nor R B's preface However the Church of England is now on fire and the Nethenim is ready with his Buckets and Ladders to put it out The first affront is to give the depriv'd Bishops adivce out of St. Clemens and perswade them to resign There would not be much need of this if the People were already free 'T is true St. Clemens not only advises the injured Presbyters at Corinth but tells them it was their real interest to with-draw but then this Council comes after a very severe Lecture to the People for their disobedience He tells them Sect. 1. their defection was impious and destable fomented by bold impudent Men and a great Scandal to Religion He admonisheth them to right their injured Ministers and tells them they had been diligent in their Office and were great Ornaments of the Church Sect. 44. he adds that they lay under a great Sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sect. 44. Nor is that venerable Father less Zealous in his Address to the People to adhere even after he had given this advice to the Presbyters Sect. 57. than to the Presbyters to recede from an obstinate Generation Yet I shall freely own the direction is excellent and who would more freely follow it then the ptesent Bishops were the case of the Church of England like that of Corinth But let us suppose that by such a recess the Laws of the Empire had been violated the Doctrines of the Church for which they had suffered Persecution the mockings of the wordly and the railing of the Proud exposed and that Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction which Christ settled on the Apostles and they delivered to their Successors betrayed and then would St. Clemens have advised them to with-draw Any man may answer that he was St. Paul's companion and therefore doubtless of his opinion who would not give place to Intruders 't is the Editor's word so much as for one hour Gal. 2. v. 5. The next advice comes from St. Austin and almost three hundred African Bishops who offer'd to resign their Bishopricks to preserve the Vnity of the Church and no doubt they had made a very good purchase But is there no way to preserve the Unity of the Church but the Resignation of the Injur'd Will not their Restoration do as well and would it not be a more Christian application to address the Intruders to make reparation and do right to God and Man at once the Injur'd may with-draw but the Injurious I am sure are bound to do it by greater and stronger obligations than those that come from African however venerable Examples But here Sir I