the Arch-Bishop with a command that he and no other should Licence the Sermon the Bishop in pure obedience to his Majesties command no doubt would have declin'd the Office and shifted it off to one of his Chaplains alleadging very dutifully It was an occupation that his old Master King James did never put him upon but in the end being urg'd to Licence it himself he fram'd several Reasons why he could not consent unto it to which Mr. Murrey two or three dayes after having particularly acquainted the King with the objections brought an answer from his Majesty But this not satisfying the Arch-Bishop he dismist him with a desire that his Majesty would be pleased to send the Bishop of Bath and Wells to him that so he might by this means make known his Scruples But Mr. Murrey returning after one or two dayes more told him the King did not think fit to send the Bishop of Bath to him but expected he should pass the Book While these things proceeded thus slowly the Arch-Bishop tells us the minds of those that were Actors for the publishing of this Book were not quiet at Court that the thing was not dispatcht and therefore one day the Duke of Buckingham said to the King Do you see how this business is defer'd if more expedition he not used it will not be Printed before the end of the Term at which time it is fit that it be sent down into the Countries Which so quickned the King that the next message which was sent by Mr. Murrey was that if the Bishop did not dispatch it the King would take some other course with him Whereupon finding how far the Duke had prevailed he thought fit to set down in writing his Objections wherefore the Book was not fit to be publisht which he did and sent them to the King These Bishop Laud was commanded to answer in Writing and upon this the Arch-Bishop flies out into a Rage and taxes Laud so severely as the Animadverten tells us Pag. 286. So difficult was it for that incomparable Prelate to fulfil the Will of his Royal and not incur the displeasure of the Arch-Bishop who had not only contemptuously refused to conform to the Command of his Prince after so many urgent repeated invitations but justified his refusal in Writing and well might we expect that they who undertook an Answer should not escape his sharp Censure for besides that possibly Abbot who as 't is evident from his Narrative had no mean opinion of himself might conceit his Scruples unanswerable In so doing they seem'd to disarm him of all just pretenses and to call in question his wilful Denyal And accordingly he lays it on with a Vengeance upon Bishop Laud for this man says he who beleives so well of himself fram'd an Answer to my Exceptions this was that which stung him but to give some Countenance to it he must call in three other Bishops that is to say Durham Rochester and Oxford try'd men for such a purpose Why he that believ'd so well of himself though he thrust not himself upon the undertaking but was call'd to it by his Master should call in three other Bishops to his help I understand not Well the Confutation seem'd so strong that the Bishop of Durham and the Bishop of Bath for reward of their Service were sworn of the Privy-Council And in the end the Arch-Bishop persisting still in his Refusal notwithstanding that many things upon his motion were alter'd in the Book or expung'd out of it insomuch that he seems unwilling that his refusing to sign the Sermon should be judg'd by the Printed Book He was by the Kings Command which in the Animadverters modester Phrase is the under working of his Adversaries removed from Lambeth to Foord in Kent and afterwards sequestred and a Commission past to exercise the Archiepiscopal Jurisdiction to Mountain Bishop of London Neal Bishop of Durham Buckridge Bishop of Rochester Houson Bishop of Oxford and Laud Bishop of Bath and Wells who as our Animadverter says pag. 291. but falsly from thence arose in time to be Arch-Bishop for Abbot as all know was before his death restor'd again and Laud took London in his way to Canterbury The Approbation of the Sermon refus'd thus by Abbot it was carried to Mountain Bishop of London who Licensed it As for the Story of Doctor Woral his Chaplain who advis'd with a Gentleman of the Inner-Temple concerning his own Licensing it Rushworth has told us that it was Mr. Selden and it is enough we know the man His Expostulation with the Doctor was not unlike him if ever the Tide turn'd a civil expression that for if ever the Government chang'd he might come to be hang'd for it But Mr. Selden in this appear'd more scrupulous then Abbot himself who seemed not to disallow so much of the â—rinted Book as that any man from that should take a measure of his refusing to sign it And it is observable that the Loan being demanded of the Societies and Inns of Court the Benchers of Lincolns-Inne received a Letter of Reproof from the Lord of the Council for neglecting to advance the Service in their Society to return the Names of such as were refractory Historical Collections p. 422. With what justice now can the Animadverter call this an Ecclesiastical Loan and tell us that part of the Clergy invented these Ecclesiastical Laws instead of the Common Law of England and Statutes of Parliament for the whole Quire saith he sung this Tune pag. 294. and yet pag. 304. he makes us believe they sung so many different Tunes as the Presbyterians never invented more for one Psalm For there was Sibthorps Church and Mainwarings Church Montagues Church with many more and all this whether more ignorantly or maliciously 't is hard to say for 't is manifest this Loan the King was advised to by his Privy Council in 1626. Nor was Bishop Laud nor any of those Bishops that Arch-Bishop Abbot calls tried Men then of the Council for Durham and Bath were not sworn Councellors till 1627. So that he might have sparâ—d that Invective against the Clergy and Bishop Laud pag. 294 295 296 301. were it not impossible for him to speak well of any but the Tradesmen and the Forreign Divines That Bishop was so far from being a Principal in the matter of the Loan that he was no otherwise an Accessary then as he was employ'd by his late Majesty in drawing up the Instructions for the Clergy and penning an Answer to Arch Bishop Abbot's Exceptions and as to his undermining the Arch-Bishop Abbot himself seems to acquit him in telling us that all the water which afterwards so wet him flow'd from another Fountain For the Picture of Bishop Laud which the Arch-Bishop has drawn with so black a Coal and this Gentleman has Copied 't is done by too ill a Hand to be thought to resemble the Life and what may serve to convince us of the partiality of
breeding and drawn in to mention Kings and Princes and even our own whom as he thinks of with all duty and reverence which will appear by the sequel so he avoids speaking of either in jest or earnest least he should though most unwillingly trip in a word or fail in the mannerlyness of an expression Thus being conscious to himself that he should offend he thought it a point of discretion as well as good Manners to ask Pardon before hand For it is very hard for a Private man that has seen no Kings but those in the Rehearsal to frame any other address to Princes then such as might become King Phys and King Ush of Branford And accordingly so it happens for p. 310. speaking of the Laws against Fanaticks Hence is it that the Wisdom of his Majesty and the Parliament must be expos'd to after Ages for such a Superfaetation of Acts in his Raign about the same business This is so high a Complement that he has pass'd upon the King and Parliament that I cannot but admire how one of his Private Condition and Breeding could arrive to this Degree of Court-ship especially considering how well it agrees with what our Private Courtier saith pag. 242. where he tells us these Kings have shrew'd understandings and he is not a Competent Iudge of their Actions Fie fie that 's too modest Sir you wrong your self too much not a Competent Iudge O' my word Sir but you are a great Iudge This Humility does not become such great Wits as are Princes Companions 'T is too low a Condescention for any Gentleman of Archees Robe This Familiarity with great ones is a Priviledge entail'd upon your Place and was confer'd upon you with your Cap. Little better do I like his Animadversion pag. 320. in these words If the Fanaticks by their wanton and unreasonable opposition to the ingenious and moderate Discipline of the Church of England shall give their Governours too much reason to suspecâ— that they are never to be kept in order c. Whom does he mean by our Governors The King No for he is a Single Person A pretty Artifice to shut the King out of that Text Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers the Parliament or the Bishops Mark whether there be a King and Bishops sitting in this Exclusive Parliament of his This Quere methinks might better have become those Times of which Mr. Digges he who wrote a Book of the Unlawfulness of Subjects taking up Armes against their Soveraign excepting no Causes as too good If Forreigners says he shall inquire under what Form of Government we live the answer must be we live over a King And having taken this Liberty with Princes and Senates no wonder if the Gentleman presume to treat the Bishops Peers Privy-Councellers are his Fellows with a little more Freedom Though for what reason he treats the present Clergy with so little Respect may be hard to say yet as for Bishop Lauds particular and his course usage of him I think I could give a guess what mov'd him to it Not that I believe as some that his Quarrel might be the same with Archees who they say was exasperated against the Bishop because he was whipt at his procurement for taking too much Liberty a Crime much like what is charg'd upon this Gentleman or as others that he or some of his Family came sometime in danger of a Star-Chamber Censure and hazarded losing their Ears but rather upon better Consideration that there might be no greater occasion for this Picque then those several Cringes and Genuflexions which the Arch-Bishop as he thinks introduced in the Church or rather restor'd and this I must confess is sufficient ground for a Grudge for it is an unreasonable thing that the Church should expect that every man of how private a Condition and Breeding soever and however unpractis'd in the Graceful Motions and Inflections of his Body should be conformable to the Genuflexions and Cringes of the well-bred Ecclesiasticks Every man has not had the good Fortune to be train'd up at the Dancing-School nor so happily Educated as to pull off his Hatt and make a Leg with an Air. And would they have these men expose themselves by not Conforming to the Ceremonies of the rest of the Congregation or betray their Breeding by an aukard Bending of their Bodies or an unsightly Bow proclaming at every Rustick Scrape that they have not been initiated by a Dancing Master in the common Rudiments of Civility No I am confident that many of the English Protestants and especially those of a private Breeding are so averse from this that they would decline coming to their Churches at all first As I have known some People somewhat wanting in the little Decencies of Behaviour avoid Conversation and appearing in Publick These Persons naturally affect a plainness of Fashion and a Homeliness in Worship And such a Diversity of Motions such quick Interchanges of Gestures distract and confound them Besides that they are like the unquiet Variety of Postures of one in a sick Bed and and really they consult their ease and what is more their health which is not a little indanger'd by being too Ceremonious and many a violent Cold occasioned by a Citizens sitting bare-headed all Service-while without the Defence at least of a pair of Broad-fring'd Gloves laid a cross well knowing that their Betters rather then incommode them in such a Case will desire their Worships to be Cover'd Several other Occasions there are that for Conveniency sake may require a Dispensation as if a fat Burger lye under an inevitable necessity of breaking Wind in a Sister'tis not civil to call it any thing but venting a Sigh at the wrong end shall not this tender-conscienc'd Man be permitted to strain a point of Decorum because 't is in the Church rather then hazard a fit of the Colick Another thing is that one Man may have an Antipathy against Wine that comes out of a gilt Chalice and another against Bread deliver'd to him by the Hand of one in a Surplice and will the Priest be so uncivil as to cram it down the throat of that puling Christian The Clergy certainly cannot be so rude and in an affair of Conscience to exact this compliance Since great Persons out of Civility will condescend to their Inferiors and all Men out of common humanity will yield to the â—eak We may add to what we have said before should any more flexible then the rest and more inclinable to the Superstitious practises of the Primitive Christians be contented to bend their stubborn Knees or to bow their Bodies to the East as oft as is requir'd might not such Gentlemen as our Author be at a loss and he that was so far out in his Situation of Geneva through pure Devotion it may be to that Place direct his mistaken Reverence towards the West which though it were neither Vice nor Idolatry yet might perhaps occasion more sport
THE TRANSPROSER REHEARS'D OR THE Fifth ACT OF Mr. BAYES's PLAY Being a POSTSCRIPT to the ANIMADVERSIONS on the PREFACE to Bishop Bramhall's Vindication c. SHEWING What Grounds there are of Fears and Iealousies of Popery OXFORD Printed for the Assignes of Hugo Grotius and Iacob Van Harmine on the North-side of the Lake Lemane 1673. A POSTSCRIPT TO THE ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE PREFACE TO Bishop Bramhalls Vindication THE Author of the Animad-versions upon the Preface to Bishop Bramhalls Vindication c. if it be not too great a favour to call him an Author that writes a Book upon a Preface having posted up a Play-Bill for the Title of his Book And here by the way we cannot but congratulate his honourable employ and question not but to hear of his being prefer'd from writing of Bills for the Play-houses to penning of Advertisements for the Stage-Coaches and Bills for the Pox and after a proficiency therein to be admitted upon the next vacancy to form Draughts for the Arithmetick and Short-hand-men and frame Tickets for the Rope-dancers and the Royall-Sport of Cock-fighting that so he may arrive in a short time to be Author of most of those ingenious Labours which curious Readers admire at Passing times in their passage between White-hall and Temple-bar I say this great Author of Play-bills having in conformity to his promising Title Transposed the Rehearsal or at least all of Mr. Bayes his Play extant four Acts. I thought it was great pitty so facetious and Comical a work should remain incompleat and therefore I have continued it on and added the Fifth the Argument of which and its dependance on the other Four I shall give you an account of after a preliminary examination of the Characters and Plot in our Authors Transpos'd Rehearsal But before I proceed to either of these it will not be unnecessary to consider on what bottom he has erected his Animad-versions and this I find to be no other then the Preface to Bishop Bramhalls Vindication which is as much as to say here is a House wrought out of a Portal 'T is pretty I confess and exceeds the power of common Architects But what follows is more strange that 100. pages the Preface is no more by his computation should be foundation sufficient enough to support his mighty Paper-building of 326. Now 't is very probable that which gave the principal hint to our Authors Rehearsal Transpros'd was the near accord he observes betwixt the Preface and Mr. Bayes his Prologue P. 14. and here I cannot but applaud his admirable dexterity that could extract four Acts of a Farce from a single Prologue but such is the singular felicity of some Animadverters and of ours amongst the rest in their illustrating of Authors that they have heighten'd and refin'd some of their Notions not only above all others but above even the intentions of the dull Authors themselves A rare Art and followed so well by some of our Translators of French Farce that some of them have been luckily mistaken for Authors For instance the Writer of the Preface had said He could not tell which way his Mind would work it self and its thoughts now this our Improver of Verity according to his peculiar excellence P. 12. resolves into Prince Volscius his Debate betwixt Love and Honour and tells you more of the Authors mind in Verse than he could do himself in Prose And this feat is perform'd by no other Magick then Regula Duplex turning Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose alternativà See what Mâ—racles men of Art can do by Transversing Prefaces and Transprosing Playes But to go on with our Prologue so the A imadverter will warrant me now to â—â—ll the Preface our Critick hath found a 〈◊〉 in it and what 's that It has no Plot. 〈◊〉 â— Pâ—â—logue without a Plot It is impossible tiâ— a cross-graind objection this 〈◊〉 not easily evaded had not our Criâ—â—laid Mock-Apologist and answered 〈◊〉 P. 11. the Intrigue was out of his head which is very civil I gad Another weighty exception against oâ—r Pâ—ologue is that it is written in a Stile part Play-Book and part Romance p. 22. Which of these two is Gazett for that the Animadverter says is our Authors Magazine this is more unpardonable than the former for what can be a higher Indecoâ—um than a Prologue written in Play-Book stile But that we may the better understand the pertinencâ— of this Remarque we must desire the Reader to observe That the Writer of the Preface had said That the Church of Ireland was the largest â—cene of the Bishops Actions Now it will go very hard but this Passage will be condemn'd for one guilty word or two for Histories are Playes without Scenes and without Action and these two words being neither of the Historians Profession nor Divines the Bishops Historian must of necessity be cast unlesse he have any hopes of benefit of Clergy however we hope before Sentence be past the Animadverter will inform us what words are of the Clergy and what of the Layity which in Holy Orders and which not and then their several Divisions which Catholick and which Schismatical and amongst them which Classical Congregational and of inferiour Sects whethà r for Church of Ireland he would read Congregation for Scene Diocess or Pulpit and for Actions Spiritual Exercises or Labours But if at last the Animadverter intend by Play-Book-Stile whatever is written above the common elevation unlesse he would have the Priest and the Poet write in two distinct Languages I see no reason to allow him that the Priest should make use of a less refin'd and polisht Stile than the Poet. If after all this any one should be so impenitently inquisitive as to demand a reason why our Prologue Critick would have a Prologue with a Plot and not written in Play-Book-Stile he will answer him no doubt because 't is New From the Prologue pass we to the Rehearsal Transpros'd in which the Characters the Action and the Humour offer themselves to our consideration The principal person concerned in this Farce is Mr. Bays whom our Transproser makes to be of the same Character with the Writer of the Preface for which he alledges these following reasons pag. 15 16. First Because he hath no name or at least will not own it Good Secondly Because he is I perceive a lover of elegancy of Stile and can endure no mans Tautologies but his own Good again and therefore I would not distaste him with too frequent repetition of one word Very good I-faith But chiefly because Mr. Bays and He do very much symbolize in their understandings in their expressions in their humours in their contempt and quarrelling of all others and all that though of their own Profession Then less chiefly Because our Divine the Author manages his contest with the same prudence and civility which the Players and Poets have practised of late in their several Divisions there 's a bob for the Play-House And lastly
whole party if you could then perswade every particular person of them that you gave him no provocation I confess this were an excellent and a new way of your inventing to conquer single whole Armies To see the superfetatious Miracles of Art here in the Accumulative Vertues of a single Hero He ranges his multiply'd self Horse and Foot in battell array he places all his Cannon with fewer hands than Briareus by 98. and in the same breath sounds a Charge with as many Trumpets as mouths and gives the Signal to himself to fall on this you may boldly challenge for your non ultra it is as high as you can go So now come in Thunder and Lightning that is the Bishops Historian in those two shapes and this way of making one Person represent a Dialogue between two is very artificial indeed yet this is perform'd with a little alteration of the voyce for besides the diversity of dress and posture that of the Tone and Accent is no less considerable in an Actors Representation of many Persons at one and the same time 't is but ratling in a big and hoarse voyce I am the bold Thunder then squeaking in a shrill and tender the brisk Lightning I and the business is done this now if you mark it is extraordinary fine and very applicable to the Bishops Historian for he saith Some that pretend a great interest in the holy Brotherhood descry Popery in every common and usual chance a Chimney cannot take fire in the City or Suburbs but they are immediately crying Iesuits and Fire-balls Now what does our Transproser do but transverse this thus I strike Men down I fire the Town Where by the way it is a marvel our Author when he call'd his Book the REHEARSAL TRANSPROS'D forgot to add the PREFACE to Bishop Bramhall's Vindication TRANSVERS'D that double Elegancy would have been as pretty as two Flowers growing on one stalk And this I mention the rather because I sind he is a profest Critick in Titles for pag. 308 309. observing by chance the Title age of this Book A Rationale upon the Book of Common-Prayer of the Church of England by A. Sparrow D. D. Bishop of Exon. With the forme of Consecration of a Church or Chappel and of the place of Christian Burial by Lancelot Andrews late Lord Bishop of Winchester sold by Robert Pawlet at the sign of the Bible one would have thought that Sign might have atton'd for all in Chancery-Lane This he tells us was an Emblem how much some of them neglected the Scripture in respect to their darling Ceremonies So that the Animadverter cannot be better employed next than in writing another Book of Animadversions upon Title-Pages And because it is a Task so agreeable to his Genius I could wish if all other preferments fail the Gentleman might be advanced to the Office of Title-Licenser then Robert Pawlet and Iames Collins might shut up their Shops for any trading in Rationales or Ecclesiastical Policies and if he shall appear sufficiently qualified to discharge this trust I would have him removed next or if he please Translated to the greater Dignity of revising Prefaces if he be not averse from that because Prefaces as well as Epistles Dedicatory fell under the inspection of Arch-Bishop Laud. But seriously had not our Author Entituled his Pamphlet the REHEARSAL TRANSPROS'D we could have given it a more express Name unless there be some mystery more than ordinary couch'd in the word TRANSPROS'D which is the REHEARSAL TRANSSCRIB'D for in Transcribing more Verses of the REHEARSAL than he hath Transpros'd his Play-Observations seem rather to have answer'd the latter Title Besides his Verses before cited pag. 170. of his Animadversions I strike men down I fire the Town Pag. 62. He has hal'd in the two last Verses of the Song which the two Kings of Brainford sing descending in the clouds for a Couplet in a Song gives a better Ragoust to a Controversial Discourse then Bacon to an Olio or St. Auâ—tin to a Sermon Pag. 12. His Animadversion on these words of the Writer He knows not which way his mind will work it self and its thoughts amounts to no more than this that our Clergy-man was taken violently with a fit of Love and Honour and being sick of Prince Volscius his disease there was no other cure but this Charm Go on cries Honour tender Love says Nay Honour aloud commands pluck both Boots on But safer Love does whisper put on none And though the Writer protested He was neither Prophet nor Astrologer enough to foretell what he would do the Animadverter being both tells us it is precisely For as bright Day with black approach of Night Contending makes a doubtfull puzzling Light So does my Honour and my Love together Puzzle me so I am resolv'd on neither Though the Verses come in to no more purpose then one of Bayes his Similes Again for Bayes his Verses will serve for all occasions as well as his Prologue for all Plays pag. 202. he has borrowed these from the singing Battle Villain thou lyest Arm Arm Valerio Arm The lye no flesh can bear I trow If Mr. Bayes as you tell us pag. 17. was more civil then to say Villain he might have taught his Actors better manners All these besides the two last verses of the event of the Battle you have diligently Collected and for the most part faithfully transcribed unless in these last recited where for Gonsalvo in the Rehearsal you have put in Valerio and by the alteration of that one word have made it your own just so Mr. Bayes us'd to do with many a good notion in Montaign and Seneca's Tragedies yet though your Title promise us so fairly you have not Transpros'd three whole Verses in all your Book But be it the Rehearsal Transpros'd or transcrib'd or if you will Reprinted for your Pamphlet is little else but a Second Edition of that Play and Mr. Hales his Tract of Schism though methinks you might have so much studied the Readers diversion and your own as to have exercised your happy talent of Rhyming in Transversing the Treatise of Schism and for the Titles dear sake you might have made all the Verses rung Ism in their several changes I dare assure you Sir the work would have been more gratefully accepted than Donns Poems turn'd into Dutch but what talk I of that then Prynnes Mount Orguil or Milton's Paradise lost in blank Verse But as it is you give us quotations of whole Books like him who wrote Zabarella quite out from the beginning to the end professing it was so good he could leave none behind how like is this to our Transcriber yet whatsoever I omit I shall have left behind more material passages before his Edition of Hales p. 176. It is no absurdity now to say your Text is all Margent and not only all your Dishes but your Garnish too is Pork And thus much for your Regula Duplex changing Prose into Verse and Verse
I might add that many Stories there are of Subjects who have in all humility condescended to bear with the Infirmities of their Princes remembring your rule that Great Persons do out of Civility condescend to their Inferiâ—urs nay have been proud to imitate them even your Alexanders followers bore their heads sideling as their Master did and Dionysius his Courtiers would in his Presence run and justle one another and either stumble at or overthrow whatever stood before their feet to show that they were as pur-blind as he So much for his design against Monarchy There is a deal of Plot yet behind but now it begins to break Page 224. he says In the late Kings time some eminent Persons of our Clergy made an open defection to the Church of Rome And instances him that writ the Book of Seven Sacraments which had been pertinent indeed had he writ of Seven Sacraments all necessary to Salvation But how can this man imagine that we should believe that some eminent Persons of the Clergy in the late Kings time made an open defection to the Church of Rome when he does not believe himself for p. 297. he cannot think that they had a design to alter our Religion but rather to set up a new kind of Papacy of their own here in England Then this was the reason it seems why Archbishop Laud gain'd Hales from Socinus you great wit confess'd when bassled by that Prelate that he understood more then Ceremonies Arminianism and Manwaring and many besides of considerable Quality from the Church of Rome but none of greater note then Ch llingworth for this it was that he twice refus'd a Red-Hat and no wonder a Cardinal-ship could not tempt him when he design'd an English Popedome But to prove this Surmise of his groundless we need go no farther then the Reconciliation which the Arch-bishop labour'd betwixt us and Rome for the compassing of which amongst other Articles propos'd the Tope was to be allow'd a Priority This Accomodation notwith standing your Wisdom censures as a Design impossible to be effected was in so great a forwardness once that it was thought nothing but the Opposition of the Iesuites on the one side and the Puritans on the other could obstruct it as the Popes Nuncio affirm'd to be written by the Venetian Embassador expresses it And indeed the Pragmaticalness of these two had made the Breach much wider then at first else the more Moderate of each party by distinguishing betwixt the Doctrines of private Men and the Confessions of either Church might easily have adjusted those Differences and so have laid a lasting Foundation for the Peace of Christendome And as for all our Authors idle talk of Infallibility and Secular interest he shows he has clearly mistaken the whole matter for 't was not an Agreement with the Court but with the Church of Rome that was propos'd in this Mediation But the Gentleman is wonderful pleasant for who knows says he pag. 35. in such a Treaty with Rome if the Alps would not have come over to England No I would not they should for they have stood ever since the Flood at least and I am a great enemy to the removing of ancient Land-marks England might not have been oblig'd lying so commodious for Navigation to undertake a Voyage to Civita Vechia That need not neither Sir and though t is pity this Conceit should have been lost yet there is a better way then this for since our Island is so conveniently situate for Trading had there been a good Correspondence maintain'd betwixt the Catholick Merchants and ours they mght more easily have drove on the Traffick interchangeably exporting our Religion in Cabbages and importing the Roman in Oranges and Lemons So that there was not that necessity of Englands lying at Dover for a fair Wind to be Shipt for Civita Vechia For besides that Transportation of Kingdomes is somewhat more troublesome then Removing House such a little Spot of Ground as this Island would soon have been missing in the Map had it been mov'd out of its place and so have occasion'd many Disputes in Geography Who knows too if the English had once broke up House and pack'd up their Goods and their Lands to be gone but some of their Neighbours might have follow'd their Example and the Hollanders after they had given their old Landlord the King of Spain warning might have flung up their Leases and in time the Nethâ—rlands would have been to be Let. And though his Catholique Majesty might possibly be provided with better Tenants for these 't is said have not paid him a farthing since the Duke of Alvâ— distrain'd last for Rent yet if all these new Planters should not have had Elbow-room in St. Peters Patrimony his Holiness I fear would have been put to the trouble of building some Cottages upon the Wast or at least of making a Law against Ecclesiastical Inmates to have secur'd his Parish from an unnecessary Charge Certainly had Mr. Author been one of the Commissioners for draining of the Fennes he could not have argu'd more profoundly against the cutting of the Ecclesiastick Canal pag 30. he compares it with those Attempts in former ages of digging through the Separating Istmos of Peloponnesus and making Communication between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean But since he is so averse from any Commnnication with Rome he might have done well to forbid any correspondence between their Elements and ours Who can tell at how great a distance every Breath of moving Air may continue articulate Especially if vocaliz'd in Sir S. Moreland's Trumpet Nay why may not those Birds that sojourn with us half the year when they fly thither for Winter Quarters sing strange stories in the Italian Groves and those the learned in Ornithology understand How if those Winds that whistle near our Coasts should whisper Tales there and strange Secrets may be discover'd by the Roman Eaves-droppers if they lay their Ears to the ground What does he think of a Communication between Rivers for it may so happen that the Protestant Thames may at some time or other mix with the impurer streams of Papal Tyber and hold some kind of Intelligence in their pratling Murmurs when they both discharge into the Sea there may be another Communication too this way between the Roman Piss-pots and the Reform'd I am somewhat unwilling I must confess to venture too far into these Depth's for fear of being plung'd past recovery I leave them therefore to be fathom'd by this Gentlemans Plummet He has been over Shoes already ay and over Boots too He has waded through the Leman Lake and the River Rhosne and knows every Creek and Corner in each better then any of the Water-Rats or Natives p. 55. he tells you that the River ducks under ground such is its apprehension a very apprehensive River indeed least the Lake should overtake it that is to say the Lake stands still as fast as the Current can run So great
close to be heard but amongst all none we so loud as a Junto of Wits that had seated themselves near our Author while they were ingaged in a very warm dispute the Man of Observations draws out his Table-book 't is his most dangerous Tool making all this while as he minded nothing but no sooner had the Wits spoke of the Designes and Enterprises of the Bishops of Cologne and Strasburg Oh ho says he are you there abouts I think these are Bishop Bramhalls fellows or any an enterprising Bishops of 'um all pop he slaps them down and makes them his own and as they went on with the Attempts of the Bishop of Munster So there 's another I shall â—it'em for Bishops now I warrant you and pricks him down Bishops he knew they were and enterprising designing Bishops but never minded whether their Enterprises or Designes were of the same nature with Bishop Bramhalls or whether they acted in the like Capacity If the Readers cannot find out that themselves ev'n let 'em alone for Bayes Resolv'd it seems he was come what would to drag them by main force into his Book and he has thrust 'em in accordingly by head and shoulders two of them in one place but of this he repents him afterwards and says he was too prodigal of his Bishops but if the Gazett Commentators had furnished the Man with any more you should have had them freely and what can be more reasonable Where the Writer of the Preface tells us that Bishop Bramhall finished all the glorious designs that be under-took This says he might have become the Bishop of Munster though he we all know has not accomplish'd all his designs but our Author had never another Bishop left and he must stop the gap or no body therefore to bring himself and his Bishop off he tells us it might have become him before he had raised the Siedge from Groningen Nay then it is well enough if it might have become him at all But if yet you think these Bishops are not like Bishop Bramhall he can dress up Bishop Bramhall like these Bishops and because his reputation and Innocence were Armour of Proof against Tories and Presbyterians he arms him with a good old Fox mark here is Innocence with a Sword by its side and let any one judge now whether Bishop Bramhall in our Authors accoutrements be not very like the Bishops of Cologne Strasburg and Munster Ditto for we are yet in the Gazettstyle and our Scene is still in the Coffee-house We have advice that the French after a small dispute forcing the Dutch from their Post gained the passage over the Bettuwe c. I foresaw this all along says a Vertuoso this is Momba's and DeGroots doings to leave this passage open and ungarded My life for yours replys another supping up his Coffee and scalding his chaps for hast this is a Plot I plainly see 't a Plot of the Arminian Party this has been a brewing any time this Thirty years and upwards thus it always has been and thus it always will be as long as any of the Race of Barnevelt and Grotius are left alive I gad Sir and you speak a great deal of Truth says our Coffee-house Notary whose hand was moving all this while these Arminians are the rudest ill bred'st persons and all that in the whole world There has been a party of 'em in England that shall be nameless of such a Pontifical stiffness as if they were Companions for none but Princes and Statesmen forsooth Well I 'le say no more they shall know what a Satyrist I am I 'le Lampoon and print'em too I gad So out he goes leaving the Arminian and Calvinistical Wits to fight it out at Argument It is not easie to imagine now with what pleasure our Author takes a review of his Forces drawn out in their Notional Parade Here 's a fantastique Bishop Bramhall accoutred like a German Prelate at the head of the Irish Army there a Fairy Grâ—tius making a Bridge for the Enemy to come over while those Churches seated on the frontier of Popery take Alarm at their march Thus having rais'd and rang'd in order his Martial Phantômes he sets them a fighting through all the Tropes and Figures of Rhetorick He knew this way of resolving controversie into Eccleâ—iaâ—tical Combat and deeds of Chivalry would delight a muse and all that Besides he had a politick fetch or two in it for these Warlike Nâ—â—ions and arm'd Ideas being terrible to him he conceived they would be no less to others and that no answerer would have the courage to engage such a Rhetorical Souldier unless he were able to give him battell in all the Metaphors of War But alas it is not every Fight in Puppet-Shows strikes a terrour in the beholders nor are Armies figured in the imagination so dreadfull And though I will not deny that these hostile Shapes and Military Figures which our Romancer had quarter'd in the three Ventricles of his Capacious Brain his Memory Fancy and Iudgement being transform'd into Fortification and Garrison might raise such â—umults in his Sconce so far invade his civil Peace as to make the Gentleman startle at his own dreams yet to those who consider that these are but the fumes of Melancholy such Visionary Battalia's are no more frightful than thosefighting Apparitions which Exhalations raise in the Clouds But to indulgeour Author in the love of his Chimerical conceits struck blind with his own daz'ling Idea of the Sun and admiring those imaginary Heights which his fancy has rais'd Since even timerous Minds are Couragious and bold enough to shape prodigious Forms and Images of Battels dark Souls may be illuminated with bright and shining thoughts As to seek no farther for an instance the blind Author of Paradise lost the odds betwixt a Transproser and a Blank Verse Poet is not great begins his third Book thus groping for a beam of Light Hail holy Light Off-Spring of Heav'n first born Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam And a little after thee I revisit safe And feel thy Sov'raign vital Lamp but thou Revisitst not these eyes that rowl in vain To find thy piercing Ray and find no dawn So thick a drop Serene hath quencht their Orbs Or dim suffusion veil'd No doubt but the thoughts of this Vital Lamp lighted a Christmas Candle in his brain What dark meaning he may have in calling this thick drop Serene I am not able to say but for his Eternal Coeternal besides the absurdity of his inventive Divinity in making Light contemporary with it's Creator that jingling in the middle of his Verse is more notoriously ridiculous because the blind Bard as he tell us himself in his Apology for writing in blank Verse studiously declin'd Rhyme as a jingling sound of like endings Nay what is more observable it is the very same fault which he was so quick-sighted as to discover in this Verse of Halls Toothless Satyrs To teach each hollow
Thâ—ramenes his Shoe must fit all feet saying that the style confines on the Territories of Malmsbuâ—y and then that 't is part Play-book and part Romance which of these come nearest Mr. Hobbs his Language and in short forcing in a wretched Tale Rhyming to the Isms and Nesses making three or four miserable Quibbles and at last pronouncing in sum of all that what the Adversary has wrote is nothing but Railing which indeed in this Gentlemans sense is nothing but Argument for so he calls Railing in the Street if the greatest Disciples of Prattle shall not approve of these for Reasons convincing and powerful enough to carry the Cause let 'em ev'n look for better somewhere else when they have done light Tobacco with the Book the Coffee-man will be no great loser by it and for any requital of their own loss of time 't was a sign they had little to do when they first began to read it if they are bilkt in their expectation who bid 'em expect great matters from one that performs so little Now to our business for methinks I hear some say the Plot stands still but I may answer with Mr. Bayes What is the Plot good for but to bring in fine things To proceed then to the Plot and Designe of the Transpros'd Rehearsal which was the next thing propos'd to be examin'd In this Farce there is a several designe for every Scene for sometimes he tells us that he accounted it a work of some Piety to vindicate the Bishops Memory from so scurvy a Commendation as the Writer of the Preface has given and by this it should seem that he has written a Vindication of the Bishop from the Ecclesiastical Politicians Vindication and yet elsewhere he says that Bishop Bramhall so he might like Caesar Manage the Roman Empire at it's utmost extent had quite forgot what would conduce to the Peace of his own Province and Country And again that he cannot look upon these undertaking Church-men however otherwise of excellent Prudence and Learning but as men struck with a Notion and craz'd on that side of their heads and so he thinks the Bishop might much better have busied himself in Preaching you can never magnify that enough in his own Diocess and disarming the Papists of their Arguments instead of rebating our weapons then in taking an Oeâ—umenical care upon him which none call'd him to and as appear'd by the sequel none conn'd him thanks for And after proceeds to instruct him whom he believes to have been a very great Politician a great Politician but a little craz'd in chalking him out a better way for Accommodation with the same absurdity as he who read Hanibal a Lecture in the Art of War These if they are Commendations I am sure are scurvy ones And as scurvy as those are which the Writer of the Preface has given the Bishop you envy him even those for p. 22. you tell us these improbable Elogies a pretty word that for scurvy Commendations are of the greatest disservice to their own design For any worthy man say you may pass through the World unquestion'd and safe with a moderate Recommendation but when he is thus set off and bedaub'd with Rhetorick scurvy Rhetorick and embroider'd so thick that you cannot discern the ground c. find no fault Sir when your Picture comes to be drawn you shall have no reason to complain the Colours are laid too thick there are many Wrinckles and Chaps we will not fill up with the Paint of Art indeed to shape a smooth and well proportion'd Visage for a Satyrists Crooked Body would be as preposterous a sight as a young Whores face on the neck of an old Baud. But if the last passage be not envious enough what think you of that p. 37. a zealous and resolute Asserter as the Bishop was of the Publick Rites Solemnities of the Church those things being only matters of external neatness could never merit the Trophies that our Author erects him Thus both the Ecclesiastical Polititian and the Animadverter have vindicated the Bishop that is both differently vindicate a different Bishop Bramhall the one magnisies a Bishop whose Reputation and Innocence were Armour of Proof against the Tories and Presbyterians the other a Bishop with a Sword by his side You see now that the Gentlemans moderate Recommendations are infamous and base Reflections He allows the Reverend Prelate no Elogiums but Ironical and his Modesty it is his own Bull is all impudent In one place he saith he finds him to have been a very good natur'd Gentleman and one that comply'd much for peace-sake and in another that the Mediating Divines under these our Bishop is comprehended who were not yet past the Sucking-Bottle seem'd to place all the business of Christianity in persecuting men for their Consciences He was as much a Persecuter as the Brethren are Saints 'T were endless to recount all the inconsistencies and contradictions throughout his Book and it were an easier task to reconcile the Animadverter and the Ecclesiastical Politician then the Animadverter with himself Well either this Author is several Men or at least one Man in several minds Sitting he is a Nonconformist and Kneeling a Conformist Every distinct Inflexion of his Body and every new wrinkle in his Forehead produces an answerable Distortion within His Laughing Face sooner then a light touch of a Pencil can change it is turned to a Crying Nay on one side of his Face he often Smiles and looks very gravely on the other Each turn of his Countenance proves him a Cheat and each cast of his Eyes calls him Hypocrite He pretends to look directly on the Writer but squints on Bishop Bramhall and casts a Sheeps-Eye at Bishop Laud and all the Loyal Clergy The Ecclesiastical Politician was too mean a Conquest for him who design'd more then an Ovation-Triumph our Author therefore the Nonconformists Dimock throws down his Gaunâ—let and in the names of Iohn Calvin and Theodore Beza bids a general Defiance to all the Miter'd Heads in England daring them or any of their dead Predecessors to maintain their Ancient Rights and Dignities which he is ready to oppose to the last drop of blood It is a bold Challenge but no body will accept it none will engage so Heroick a Champion who has given proofs of a Soul as large as that which animated Alexâ—â—der Ross at his greatest dimensions though he merited no less then the name of Alexander the Great for combating the Worthies by Troops and of whom it might be more justly sung then once of Oliver The Worthies are like Nine-Pins let Him go And down they all come at a Tip and Throw Every Age is not constellated for Heroes such Prodigies are as rarely seen as a New-star or a Phaenix Once perhaps in a Century of years there may arise a Martin-Mar-Prelate a Milton or such a Brave as our present Author Every day produces not such Wonders Men that mark out Epocha's
Bishop No King seems to imply For though Royalty and Priest-hood which antiently by right of Primogeniture concenter'd in one the same being Law-giver and Sacrificer see here Mr. Author the Kings Right to the Priestly Office and the Clergies Interest in making Laws were in succeeding ages deriv'd to different Persons their Interests yet were not divided with their Persons But as the Royal and Sacerdotal Dignity have the same Original and antiently Prince and Priest had one and the same Name so though differently Branch't now yet as springing from the same Root they flourish and decay together So regularly is the Religious State incorporate with the Civil that the Image of Episcopacy like the Statuaries in Pallas Target seems so riveted in Monarchy that none can attempt defacing the one without breaking the other Nay those who have been taught by Calvin and Beza to demean themselves so irreverently to the Fathers of their Church have learn'd from such Apostles as Knox and Buchanan to whom duller Mariana might have gone to School to pay as little Obedience to the Fathers of their Country This is evident from these Opinions That the Kings Personal and Politique Capacity are distinct and so they fought for his Crown when they shot at his Person That the Original of Government is in the People and that he derives his Soveraignty from their Consent and not from Succession and by consequence is no King before he is Crown'd and his Style should not run Dei â—â—atia but Populi Consensu That he is greater then his Subjects singly and apart but lesser then them altogether that is as Mr. Digges speaks a Father is greater then this or that Son but less then all his Children together That there is a Co-ordination of the three Estates but this is moderate others go farther and tell us the King is subordinate to the other two Estates under whom he governs Nay Milton holds that the Legislative Power is in the Parliament exclusively and the Executive only in the King And that the Supreme Magistrate is accountable to the Inferior and though Paraeus's Book was burnt for this yet Mr. Baxter in his Holy Common-wealth maintains he may be call'd to an account by any single Peer Now because they have been too liberal and confer'd too large a Power in Civil Affairs on their Soveraign they will be sure to retrench it in Spirituals O they can never give enough to the Lay-Elders for they admit Lay-men to intermeddle in Ecclesiastical Matters though they exclude the King upon that account Therefore Bishop Bramhall speaking of the Scotch Disciplinarians in his Fair warning to take heed of their Discipline saith Besides those incroachments which they have made upon the rights of all Supreme Magistrates there be sundry others which especially concern the King of Great Brittain as the use of his Tenths First Fruits and Patronages and which is more then all these the dependance of his Subjects by all which we see that they have thrust out the Pope indeed but retained the Papacy The Pope as well as they and they as well as the Pope neither Barrell better Herrings do make Kings but half Kings Kings of the Bodies and not of the Souls of their Subjects They allow them some sort of Judgment over Ecclesiastical Persons in their Civil Capacities for it is little according to their Rules which either is not Ecclesiastical or may not be reduced to Ecclesiastical But over Ecclesiastical Persons as they are Ecclesiasticks or in Ecclesiastical Matters they ascribe unto them no judgment in the world Here he cites the Vindication of their Commissioners wherein they say It cannot stand with the word of God and that no Christian Prince ever claim'd or can claim to himself such a Power So that that great Prelate whoever he was be he amongst the Living or the Dead or in the World of the Moon that said The King had no more to do in Ecclesiastical matters then Jack that rubb'd his Horses heels may retract his Aphorisme since he is out-shot in his own Bow by Synods and Presbyteries for according to them Jack that rubbs the Horses heels if he be but a Lay-Elder is Supreme in Ecclesiastical matters Though why our Author would have his Adversary write a Book in defence of that Aphorism who had reserved the Priesthood and the exercise of it for the King I see not unless it be to vye him and see him and re-vye him in Contradictions This Figure now is lost to any man that is not a Gamester Upon considering all I am afraid that Reformation is Tinkers work making two holes for stopping one and therefore I am sorry that this Gentleman is employ'd in pulling Pins out of the Church for though the State should not totter he may chance to pull an old House upon his Head And really he has undertaken a desperate Vocation and there are 20 other more honest and painful ways by which he may earn a Living Not that I would have him to do in Ecclesiastical Matters so much as to rub down a Bishops Horses heels for fear my Iack should take himself for a Gentleman if he rides sometimes though it were but to water his Masters Horse Besides cleansing a Stable were it the Augean being a matter only of external neatness can never merit the Trophies of Hercules For neither can a Iustice of Peace for an Order about Dirt-Baskets deserve a Statue Nor for the same reason would I have him Chimney-Sweeper to the City though to give him his due he ought to be consider'd by them the next Offices they have in their disposal for taking such a care of their Chimneys and their Consciences None of their painful Pastors can admonish them better of their duty or their Interest Fear God Honour the King preserve your Consciences sweep 'em rather they 're fouler then your Chimneys follow your Trades and look to your Chimneys not forgetting the Crickets this is well enough for a Belmans Song instead of Look to your Fire Locks and Candle Light But Chimney-Reformation is somewhat below the man and there are many other Callings more advantagious and beneficial then crying Chimney Sweep Ay or then Card-Matches and Save-alls or the more substantial Mouse-Trap-men many I say there are of a more Orthodox Invention then these and less distastful to the sanctified ear of English Protestants witness the London-Cryes of the late blessed Times when The Oyster-Women lockt their Fish up And trudg'd away to cry No Bishop And some for Brooms old Boots and Shoes Cry'd out to purge the Commons House Instead of Kitchen-stuff some cry A Gospel Preaching Ministry And some for Old Sutes Coats Cloak No Surplice nor Service Book Well since Bishops must down and to be sure then down falls Popery I think the fairest way to rid our hands of them is for Mr. Animadverter to put his Book in the hands of the Itinerant Gospellers that travel up and down with two penny Books and
anon with such melancholy divertisements as angling in the Lake for Trouts And making many an Amorous Comparison between his Heart and the silly Captives his innocent Prey His fishing lines you may conceive fram'd of a no less delicate contexture then old Ioan's Hair the Mode of wearing Hair-Bracelets was scarce in use then or else you had heard of that To be short after he has carv'd his Mistresses Name with many Love-knots and flourishes in all the Bushes and Brambles and interwoven those sacred Characters with many an Enigmatical Devise in Posies and Garlands of Flowers lolling sometimes upon the Bank and sunning himself and then on a sudden varying his Postures with his Passion raising himself up and speaking all the fine things which Lovers us'd to do His Spirits at last exhal'd with the heat of his Passion swop he falls asleep and snores out the rest If this Argument shall require a Key I shall only say I call not the Church of Geneva old for any other reason then that Antiquity in Mistresses is reckon'd a Deformity Besides I think it would have been an high Indecorum to have supposed Mr. Calvin's Widow younger then the Chandlers And for Conferring the Honour of Prince Pretty-man on our Author I shall alleadge such Reasons as these because they Symbolize in their humour and not a little in their Expressions in their Contempt and quarrelling of all others that are not in love with the same Mistress and lastly in the choice of their Mistresses And first for their Symbolizing in their humour and expressions Our Author begins very briskly with Love and Blazing Comets but in the middle of his Book as Prince Pretty-man in the height of his Rapture he grows heavy and dull and a Lethargy at length seising on his Spirits by that he comes to page 263 he falls asleep having first bid Mr. Bayes Good Night but before you can speak a Simile of eight Verses over him whip he starts up and cryes Good Morrow which is all out as well as It is Resolv'd Add to this that his Snip-Snap Wit hit for hit and dash for dash is pure Prince Pret and Tom Thimble As to their Symbolizing in their Contempt and quarrelling of all others that are not in love with the same Mistress his whole Book is a Demonstration of their admirable Agreement in this point of Singularity Hectoring all that are not equal adorers of Mr. Calvin's charming Dowager though he himself would sooner have a Passion for a Whale then any other Mistress but his own And for the choise of their Mistresses the Prince quits that Chloris whom Gods would not pretend to blame for old Ioan the Chandler's Widow and this Gallant no less preposterously espouses the sluttish Mother Church of Geneva before our Church with all her Ornaments and Decorations preferring the Blue and White Aprons before the Glories of her Yellow Hood and Bull-head admiring most the Wrinkles of a homely Widow and the Beauties of the Grub-street Gossips her Ragged Daughters and Grand-Children Now'tis but a little walk to Geneva and to invite you thither I dare undertake for your Welcome That you shall have good Chear there and good Company And besides your other Entertainments there you may shoot with the Arbalet or play at Court-boule The Divines there are notable Good Companions They are incomparable Pall-mall-Players And very good Bowlers too no doubt would they were as honest Men But though we have Geneva in the Wind I am afraid we had need of a better Guide then our Noses else we shall ne're come thither And for Strangers to ask the way would be the readier means perhaps to set'em out of it If we enquire of some they 'le tell us it lies South of the Lake if of other they say it lies West and Geographers are in as many Stories as the Country People In this uncertainty of Information what Course shall we steer shall we consult the Oracle We must go then to the Transproser He 'l direct us sure as Wisards to lost Cattle Navigators may be taught to sail by him truer then by the Compass He has breath'd the Aire of as many Countries as the Travelling Gâ—eek and Pious Trojan And may more justly challenge the Honor of Citizen of the World then that wise Philosopher A Geographer born and bred even from his Cradle Rockt from his Child-hood on the Sea's Coriat himself was not a truer Traveller And what one sung of him is with more justice due to our Author Some say when he was born O wondrous hap First time â—e piâ—t his Clouts he drew a Map If we ask his Advice then he 'l bid us Steer to the West and yet those that have Travell'd as far as Geneva in Mercator Botero c. cry to the South of the Lake Must we then correct Maps no rather our Compass and add a New Point of this Pilot's Invention call'd South and by West Well fain I would have saluted Mr. Calvin's House and paid my obeysance to his Threshold But since the Way is so difficult and my Guides unresolv'd I have no great Maw to it I shall only therefore leave a Ticket for his Assignes It is an Enquiry concerning certain things laid to the Charge of that harmless honest Divine In which if I could receive any Satisfaction from them I should gladly acknowledge the Obligation and be more ready for the future to pay a just Veneration to his Memory The one is a Story of an Italian Marquess which because I am affraid it tends not much to his Honor and there is a paltry Book on purpose set out concerning the whole matter I shall forbear to recite here The other a scurvy Report of one Servetus who after he had been confuted by the English Bishops and so dismist where were the Pillories Whipping-Posts Gallies Rods and Axes that are the Ratio Vltima Cleri was more secreetly handled by Mr. Calvin lighted into the other World by Fire and Faggot add these two to all the rest and together they are Ratio Vltima Calvini for which reason Bellius Eleutherius and their fellows styl'd him a Bloody Man and the villanous Montfort drew Calvin's Picture not in a Gown and Cassock but in a Helmet Back and Breast belted and armed like a Man of War this shew'd more noble then Bishop Bramhalls Metaphorical Armor Nay to go further he was burnt and as if the World might not know for what his Books too But what makes the Case somewhat the worse Grotius and two or three unlucky Fellows lighted unhappily upon some of them and would bear us in hand that there were no such Crimes there as Calvin imputed to him Serveti Libri noâ— Genevae tantum sed aliis in Locis per Calvini diligentiam exuâ—ti sunt fateor tameâ— unum me exemplum vidisse Libri Servetiani in quo certè ea non reperi quae ei objicit Calvinus sayes â—rotius in his Votum pro Pace I have