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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24241	The Account examined, or, A vindication of Dr. Arthur Bury, Rector of Exeter College, from the calumnies of a late pamphlet, entituled, An account of the proceedings of the Right Reverend Father in God, Jonathan, Lord Bishop of Exon, in his late visitation of Exeter College in Oxon		1690 (1690)	Wing A171; ESTC R6590	18,655	38

THE Account Examined OR A VINDICATION OF Dr. ARTHVR BVRY RECTOR of EXETER COLLEGE THere will shortly be Published an Impartial Narrative of the Proceedings of the Rector and Fellows of Exeter-College in relation to Mr. Colmer's Expulsion and the Bishop of Exeter's Visitation c. THE Account Examined OR A VINDICATION OF Dr. ARTHVR BVRY RECTOR of EXETER COLLEGE FROM THE Calumnies of a Late Pamphlet Entituled An Account of the Proceedings of the Right Reverend Father in God Jonathan Lord Bishop of Exon in his Late Visitation of Exeter College in Oxon. LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Randall Taylor near Stationers-Hall MDCXC A VINDICATION OF Dr. ARTHVR BVRY THE Rector of Exeter College c. THE major part of the Fellows of Exeter College needeth no other Apology for their Proceedings in relation both to Mr. Colmer and the Visitor than a Plain Honest Narrative But the Rector needs to be justified not only against the Visitor's Sentence but likewise against the Calumnies of a Pamphlet that representeth him to the World as worthy to be Expell'd not only from the Government of his College but from the Society of all Mankind without the help of an Excommunication To take particular notice of every gross Falshood and malicious Insinuation were to transcribe a great part of it But two Cardinal Errors must not be past by because upon them the whole Affair is pretended to have turned 1. Mr. Colmer's Expulsion is not imputed to his Guilt but to the Opposition which he made to Sir Kingston's Election to the Chaplain-fellowship 2. And the Visitation not to his Lordship's willingness to judge of Mr. Colmer's Appeal or assert his own Jurisdiction but to the necessity of freeing the College from an intolerable Rector who on his part did not oppose it out of faithfulness to his duty but to divert an enquiry into those Actions which could neither be denied nor defended The former of these will in few words be confuted and the latter by that very Account which the Author himself giveth of it 1. With the Former he solemnly beginneth his Account p. 15. but in so confused a manner as plainly betrayeth his Ignorance concerning Elections in Colleges yea and concerning the behaviour of the present Fellows of This very College For had he known that three if not all the four of those who now consented to the Expulsion of the Rector owe their Places in it to his kindness he must know that he could be no more secure of commanding Sir Kingston 's vote than any other man's and did he understand the business of an Account he could not think the Rector needed one Vote to make the division of the College equal when he had the majority on his side The truth of the Story is plainly this Dr. Reynel late Fellow of C. C. C. recommended to the Rector a young man of his College whom he admired for his singular acquaintance with Books the Rector therefore upon examination finding this to be true had a particular eye upon his Manners and as he found him otherwise unblameable so he observed him to be one of the very few that were constant at monthly Communions When the Chaplain-fellowship was shortly to be vacant he received a Letter from the Chapter-Clerk of Exeter informing him That the Dean and Chapter in whose Gift that place is had for this time given him the nomination of it he therefore promised it to Sir Kingston Which Mr. Colmer understanding went himself and then got as many as he could of the Fellows to write to the Dean and Chapter praying them not to nominate Sir Kingston who on his part got a greater number to write a contrary Letter in his favour whereby and by the Rector's mediation he obtained the place Such an Affront put upon a Rector by a Batchellor of Arts the Libeller judging of the Rector's mind by his own thinks sufficient to make him declare That he would upon that account compass Mr. Colmer 's Expulsion but this revengeful malicious Old Man as some-body charactered him was so far from it that he gave him not the least reprimand in word or countenance yea whereas he had now time to take his Degree of Master of Arts but could not have it without the Rector's consent and the denial of it would make him sick of his Fellowship which would not be so advantageous to him as the hindrance of his Practice of Physick would be prejudicial the Rector was so far from denying it that he did not put him to the trouble of asking it but consulting his then supposed Modesty frankly gave him his Letter to the Sub-Rector themselves being then in Devonshire whereby he had his Degree nor did he afterward change his Countenance toward him till he found him named Father of a Bastard 2. The other Cardinal Falshood viz. That the Visitation was held on purpose to free the College from an intolerable Rector is sometimes contradicted by the Accomptant himself particularly p. 11. His Lordship was sworn to preserve the Rights of his See and This of receiving Appeals and Visiting of Exeter College was not only one of them but so much the more necessary to be preserved as his Lordship's Diocese hath a more than ordinary relation to That College Again The enormous Crimes of the Rector are sometimes made the Cause of the Visitation and sometimes the discovery of them are gloried in as the Effect of it Were it fit to follow the Author's Example by exposing him for his notorious Falsehoods as he hath laboured to do the Rector for his pretended Crimes he hath been very liberal in giving occasions but this were to honour the Scribler with a supposal That the Reader would think it worth his time to know what kind of thing he is We shall therefore so far only take notice of him as may suffice to clear the Rector from the Crimes objected which come under two Heads Heresy and Immorality 1. Concerning his Heresy thus talketh the young Man that is not of standing sufficient to study Theology P. 22. Not long before this time an Heretical Book entituled the Naked Gospel was Published by Dr. Bury wherein he endeavours to confute the Divinity of Christ and to expose it Dr. Bury denieth that he can properly be said to have Published that Book and again he professeth that he never denied the Divinity of Christ He declareth his Faith to be no other than that of the Church of England and renounceth any word which in that or any other Book may seem to contradict it Yea he thinketh manifest that the Author of that Book is so far from denying the Divinity of Christ that he plainly asserteth it and that in many places which for brevities sake may here be omitted One if a plain one being in this case sufficient And such an one we meet in Chap. 11. in the comparison which he there maketh between the Full Assurance of a Christian and the Faint Hopes of a