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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54939	A letter from Moses Pitt, to the authour of a book, intituled, some discourses upon Dr. Burnet, now Ld. Bp. of Salisbury and Dr. Tillotson, late Ld. A.B. of Canterbury occasioned by the late funeral sermon of the former upon the latter.	Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654-1696.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1695 (1695)	Wing P2307; ESTC R7270	27,662	34

mighty Things are concerned in this Passage of yours that is Truth and a Good-name the latter of which Solcmon tells us is better than precious Ointment And for the former Truth it 's an Attribute of our great and good God and it 's the Duty of all Men to imitate God in this Attribute and That Man is worse than the Beasts that perished that is not a Man of Truth and Truth makes a Man as bold as a Lion Ask the Lawyers what plead for they will tell you for Truth Ask the Ministers of all perswasions what they preach and they will tell you Truth Ask all Writers of Books in all Arts and Sciences what they have written and they will tell you Truth You your self say in this your Book speaking against Dr. Burnet You say you could produce more Instances out of Beedle's Life to shew how apt he was to write his own Inventions for true History and thereby impose upon the World and you believe you have brought enough for that purpose and hope you have thereby convinced all Lovers of Truth more than of Men's Persons how unsase it is to take things upon Trust from him page 33 and Sir I find you your felf so much a Lover of Truth as you pretend at least that I hope you will not be angry with me for declaring the Truth in this Passage you your self appeal to me in between the late Duke of Lauderdale and the now Lord. Bishop of Salisbury mentioned in the 18th and 19th Pages of your said Bock And Sir I shall speak the Truth so as you are pleased to express it in the 1st and 2d Pages of your Presace to your said Book So as it may serve to inform and entertain inquisitive Searchers after Truth And then you go on and say speaking of Dr. Jo. Tillot son late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Dr. Gilbert Burnet now Lord Bishop of Salisbury Against whom you say you have been provoked to draw up two several Charges or Informations which somewhat blomish their Honour so you hope you have proved them in every part by very good Evidence And as some Trials are longer than others according to the Number and Length of Depositions so if this Book of mine which contains as it were so many Depositions against them hath proved longer than I would have had it that is none of my Fault And you farther say you know very well it will be called a Libel and a Defamatory Libel but you care not for that since many excellent Books were so miscalled in the Times of our former Usurpations which detected the ill Men of those Times and their Hypocrisies and Imquities to the World The same thing have I done lately in a Book called The Cry of the Oppressed printed 1691. Wherein I have detected many Men by Name now hving some of them in great splendor of Oppression Extortion Bribery Perjury Blusphemy and several other the like Crimes and there has not to this Day Nav. 1695. any one of the Passages therein mentioned been contradicted and I still challenge any one therein accused to clear himself from those Villanies I therein charge him with for I am still ready to prove on them all the Matters of Fact I have therein related thus hold is Truth And then you go on and say and I agree with you and so I believe will all good Men. And besides to speak properly and justly of the Nature of a Libel all Books onght not to be so called which expose Men's Reputations but such only as expose them falsly injuriously and out of pure Malice But this Book though in some things it blemishes the Fame and Reputation of these Men yet it doth it truly justly and deservedly and so far am I from bearing the Person of the one or the Memory of the other any Malice that had I been acted by that evil Passion I could have written against them both much sooner and have been better provided to write against them now Men that do ill things openly and with an high hand though under never so splendid Pretences ought to hear of them especially when they go about to make Saints and Heroes of one another with a Design to cover their own Iniquities and deceive the People When this happens to be the Case Charity to the People's Souls and the Love of the Publick obliges all Lovers of Truth and Righteousness to unvizard such Men and expose them in their true Appearance before their credulous and deluded Admirers As to this last Paragraph so far all good Men will agree with you but how far the World will believe you as to these two popular Divines as you are pleased to call them when I have told my Matters or given my Deposition as you your self are pleased to term it I leave it to judgment And as I have endeavoured in the following Discourses to do so by these two popular Divines so I assure the Reader I have done it purely upon these generous Motives wishing with all my Heart that neither of them had given so many and publick Provocations to undeceive any part of the World by writing such severe Truths So much I have taken out of your own Preface and now Sir I will go on and give you the Truth of this Matter you mention in Page the 18th and 19th of your Book as touching that Passage of the Dedication of Dr. Gilbert Burnet's Vindication of the Authority c. of the Laws of Scotland to the Duke of Lauderdale as far as I know or can any way call to my Remembrance And this I do as in the Presence of the Great God who is the God of Truth and the True God and of Angels and of Men and that without any Respect to the Person of the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury Dr. Gilbert Burnet with whom I have had no Conversation neither by word of mouth not by writing or otherwise since he lest England in King James's Days otherwise than that very soon after I printed my Cry of the Oppressed which was in 1691 or before I believe I might send him as I did several other of the Bishops and Judges c. a Letter with one of my said Books but I never received any Answer from him neither directly nor indirectly only Mr. Richard Chiswel the last Time but one that I saw him told me that the Bishop ask'd him how I did and that he was sorry for my Misfortunes but whether Mr. Chiswell did this in a Complement I know not neither did it affect me neither doth the Bishop know of what I now write neither have I or any Person for me any way applied my self to him about this or any other Matter although very much urged to it by some of my Friends since he came into England with King William Neither has he the said Bishop applied himself to me neither by himself or any Friend that I know of to declare my Knowledge in this Matter neither is