of Councils Provincial and General of many Popes of all the chief Fathers both Greek and Latine particularly of the four great Fathers of the Latine Church whereas on the other side there was not one Father nor Doctor alledged And tho' Mr. le Grand pretends only that the Canons of some Provincial Councils against Incontinence and some passages out of Tertullian S. Basil and S. Ierome upon Virginity and against second Marriages were alledged Here I am sure the Reader will censure him for the want of somewhat that is more important to an Honest Man than great Capacity For the Canons of those Councils and Passages of those Fathers speak expresly of the degrees of Marriage forbid in the Book of Leviticus And tho' he names only three Popes whose Letters were cited to the same purpose he passes over the chief of them with Relation to England Gregory the Great in whose time the Saxons were Converted to the Christian Faith who gave an express Instruction to Austin the Monk to annul all Marriages with a Brother's Wife And this being a Rule setled in England when the Christian Religion was received in it it was consider'd as one of the chief supports of the King's Cause and therefore if Mr. le Grand had desired to have the Reputation of a sincere Writer he ought not to have passed it over nor ought he to have passed over all that was said against the Pope's Dispensing even with the Laws of the Church and much less with the Laws of God Nor that other Branch of the King's Plea that the Church of England according to the Council of Nice ought to judge this Matter and that it did not belong to the Pope If Mr. le Grand is a true Son of the Gallican Church he cannot disown those Principles and at least if he would be esteemed a sincere Historian he ought not to have passed them in silence But if he was defective in his account of the King's Plea he adds as much of his own to the Queens For he has pickt up a great many instances in History that were never mentioned in the Books to of that time and yet they all amount to no more but shew that these Rules of the degrees of Marriage were not at all times observed with the same exactness But the Church is Govern'd by Rules and not by Examples And all that he saies of the Law in Deuteronomy appointing the Brother to Marry his Sister-in-Law when his Brother dyed without Children had been ever looked on in the Christian Church as an exception from the general Law that belonged only to the Iewish Nation with relation to their Succession which being taken away under the Christian Religion the Laws in Leviticus which have been ever considered in the Church as Moral Laws must now take place Universally In short if any man will be at the pains to compare the Books that were Written upon this matter and the Accounts that are given of them by Mr. le Grand and by my self he will soon see which of us have Writ with the greatest sincerity and I will not envy Mr. le Grand's Opinion of his own Capacity so long as an unbiassed sincerity is acknowledged to belong to me 4. p. 222. Mr. le Grand tells us that the Parliament abolished the Oath which the Bishops were bound to sware to the Pope at their Consecration and drew a new one which they should make to the King. Here he gives me just Reason to say severer things than he may be willing to hear for in the Parliament the two Oaths that the Bishops swore both to the Pope and to the King were Read and it appearing that they contradicted one another they being both of the nature of an Oath of Homage which can only be made to one Superiour all that the Parliament did was to Repeal the Oath to the Pope and to let the other to the King remain in its full force I have given an undeniable Instance that the Oath to the King was in all former times made by the Bishops in a Record which I put at the head of my Collection of Instruments and which Mr. le Grand may have seen for tho' these Instruments have not yet appeared in the French Translation yet Mr. Bulteau has my Work in English where all these Records are In that Cardinal Adrian not only renounces all Clauses in his Bull that were contrary to the King's Prerogative or to the Laws of England but swears fidelity to the King in the same terms in which our Kings have continued ever since to have Homage Sworn to them by their Bishops And the Oath to the Pope as it was a Novelty not known before the twelfth Century so it contains in it so many wide and indefinite Clauses that it seems very hard to reconcile the taking of it either with the Doctrines of the Gallican Churches or with that Subjection which all Bishops owe their Lawful Prince since it is plain that is an Oath of Homage to the Pope 5. Mr. le Grand sets himself with no small force p. 244. to 257. tho' not with equal success to give Cranmer the worst Character that he could make for him He accuses me for endeavouring to make him pass for a Gentleman but tho' I knew he was one yet I said not a word of it for I thought that was too inconsiderable a thing to have a place among the Honours that belong to the Memory of that Great Man. He cannot believe that he was in Germany when by Warham's Death he was named to the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury And thinks that he could not have stayed seven weeks there after he had the News of his intended Promotion since he was present at the King's Marriage with A. Bolen Nor can he allow my saying that the thing was slowly set forward since there passed but three Months between September and Ianuary in which he was preconised at Rome Nor can he believe the Provincial Synod of Canterbury judged the matter of the King's Marriage Here are Errours enough for Mr. Varillas himself In Cranmer's Printed Tryal he appeals to his Judges who were all Witnesses of that Matter that he had unwillingly accepted of that See and that he had delayed his return out of Germany after he had the News of the King's Intentions for seven Weeks and this was passed over by the Bishops that judged him without any answer which was a plain acknowledgment of the Truth of it 2. There were twelve Weeks between Warham's Death that fell out the 23 of August and the King's Marriage on the 14th of November So allowing two weeks for the Currier to go to him ther is room enough for his seven weeks delay But our Author to turn five Months into three shuts out both September and Ianuary out of the account tho' both ought to be included And the Sentence of Divorce bears expresly that both the Provincial Synods of England had judged
the 16th of April in which he gives an account of the Bishop of Paris's passing thro' that Town who told him how precipitated the Sentence was that the Pope was indeed for a delay and if that had been granted only for six days the King would have submitted but the Imperialists would hear of none tho' when the Courier came a day after they were sorry for the hast they had made By all these Indications it appeared plainly that the Court of Rome was governed in this matter only by Political Motives and Maxims and therefore according to the Maxims of the Gallican Church set forth lately with so much Zeal by Mr. Talon in a matter of much less moment the King of England had no Reason to have any great Regard to the Judgments or Thunders of that Court. But as I hold my self infinitely obliged to Mr. le Grand for the Present he made me of so valuable a Book which affords me so many Confirmations of the most important parts of my History so I am extream sorry that he has been so far wanting to himself as to suppress them and that he has put me on so uneasie a thing as to make use of a Present that he made me so much to his disadvantage But in this case I must say magis amica veritas And tho' he thinks me to be extreamly jealous of the Honour of my Writings p. 2. yet if the Concerns of Religion did not enter in this case I could more easily abandon my own But I will not pursue this Censure further at present nor am I yet sure whether I will write more upon this Subject or not for till I see his other three parts and till I know what effects this has I can form no Resolution as to that matter In the mean while I beg your Pardon both for giving you so great a trouble and for addressing it to you in so Publick a manner For since I Censure a Book already Printed I thought it was necessary to do it in this manner I am Sir with all possible Respect At the Hague the 10th of May 1688. Your most Humble and most Obedient Servant G. BURNET A CENSURE OF Mr. DE MEAUX's HISTORY OF THE Variations of the Protestant Churches Together with some further Reflections on Mr. Le Grand SIR YOU ask my Opinion of Mr. de Meaux's long expected Work And I will give it freely It seems he intends to let the World see that he can set forth the Reformation with as much Sincerity as he had formerly shewed in setting forth his own Doctrine and that he can shew as much Art in making the one appear Black as he had done to make the other appear Fair. Some of my Countrymen have of late exposed him in so severe a manner that his Credit in England was so much sunk before this new attempt that he has made upon it that there was no need of this Work to destroy it quite The truth is great Respect is due to his Age and Character But if he will lay himself too open and take so much pains to make himself be known he will compass it at last A Man of his Wit and Softness of Expression should have held himself to general Speculations in which a lively Fancy and a good Stile might have helped him out even when Truth failed him But of all the Men I know he should have avoided the most to meddle with Matters of Fact. For the gentlest Censure that can be past on his Performances that way is that some others furnish him with Extracts which he manages to the best advantage but without examining them Yet when Mr. Larogue had shewed him or at least had shewed it to all the World if he would not see it that there was not one single Passage of all those which he had with so much Pomp produced for justifying the taking away the Chalice that was either sincerely or pertinently made use of by him and it seems Mr. de Meaux himself was convinced of it since I have not heard that he has yet said one word to justify himself He should not have ventured again tho' he has returned with a particular degree of assurance to say in this Work that in the Primitive Church Men received the Sacrament either in the one or the other Species He may now perhaps say that he never Read Larague's Book with the same Truth that he writ to England that he had never seen F. Crasset's The Truth is Reason is a tame thing which bends easily to a Man of Wit and Fancy But Facts are sullen things they are what they are Wit has no place there but Boldness and Confidence can supply all defects Yet since Mr. de Meaux found that his under-work-men had dealt so ill with him he should have been more cautious in trusting them for the future And since even his most solemn Protestations have been laid open to the English Nation as having more of an Air of assurance than of a scrupulous Regard to Truth in them he ought to have taken a little more care of himself and of his Friends in England who have ill Success enough already in what they themselves have writ and in some small aid which he has sent them and therefore it is too cruel in him to give new occasions to those who will be sure to make the best of all that is given them for shewing the weakness of a Cause which how prosperous soever it may be in the hands of Dragoons yet has never had worse success than of late in England The Calumnies of Cochlee Florimond de Raimond and other Writers of the last Age were already revived and put in more Modern French by Maimbourg and Varillas who have not failed to tell the Tale over again in the best Language and with the best Grace they could so that it was a little below Mr. de Meaux's Greatness to come after them in a design which has succeeded so ill with them It is true he has much more Wit and gives a better Air to the Malice that he bears the Reformed Churches who have done nothing to provoke him if it was not that they chuse rather to take that to be Doctrine of his Church which they found both in the Decrees of their Councils the Publick Offices and the Chief Writers of Controversy that have explained those Matters ever since the Dispute was first set on foot than the new Tour that he has thought fit to give it In short he is in ill Humour because his Exposition was not successful enough to save his Church the Infamy of the Dragoons Hinc illae lachrimae and therefore he has now gathered together all that the Writers of the last Age had set forth and added to that all the Extracts that his tools could furnish him with that so he might Triumph over us with as much Scorn as Malice He mixes all along with it the Flowers of a melting and
his own Country For in this I will frankly acknowledge my Errour without pretending to excuse my self from the term in which Mr. de Thou had expressed the King of Navar 's Imployment praeses regni now this seemed to answer to the English term of Protector of the Kingdom in whom the true Regency lies tho' there is another Imployment among us in the Minority of our Kings of him who is the Governour of his Person which is independent on the other And has been oft in another hand upon which a Famous Dispute arose between the two Brothers in Edward the 6th's Minority Yet I confess frankly that this is only an excuse and not a justification But whereas Mr. de Meaux reproaches me for citing the Opinions of the Lawyers of France against the Regency of a Woman and charging it as an impudence in pretending that the Kings of France were not Majors till they were twenty two Years of Age against an express Ordinance of Charles the Fifth 1474. which has ever been held for a Law thro' the whole Kingdom without contradiction as he assures us In this he shews how little he has examined the Matters of that time and how carelesly he has Read Mr. de Thou It would indeed appear that he has only turned to that place which opens the Business of Ambaise for he cites Mr. de Thou's Words relating to the Opinions that were given by the Lawyers of France and Germany and the Resolutions of the Protestant Divines which is in his twenty fourth Book But if he had Read his twenty third Book in which the Administration of Affairs under Francis the Second is set forth he had found all that which I cited concerning the Opinions of the Lawyers of France For he gives us a large Abstract of a Book that was writ in the end of October 1559 against the share that Women and Strangers had in the Government proving also that the Kings of France were not of Age till they were 25 years Old and that tho' Charles the Fifth had made a Constitution for his Son 's being Major at fourteen and had also by his Will named Lewis of Bourbon to be his Regent in our English Sense the Government of the Kingdom being left to the Duke of Anjou yet no Regard was had to this for the young King was put into the hands of the Duke of Anjou and the very name of the Regency was taken from the Duke of Bourbon and the King was not declared to be Major till he was twenty two years of Age And the Historians of that time do expresly say that the States declared him Major at that Age because of the Gracefulness of his Person and the Love that was generally born him The Reader may if he pleases Read the rest of the Extract that Mr. de Thou gives both of that Book and of Mr. du Tillet's Answer and of the Reply made to du Tillet and it is plain that Mr. du Thou favours the side of the first Book and Censures Mr. du Tillet as much as became so Impartial an Historian to do And in Conclusion he saies that upon the occasion of the Disputes that followed in Charles the Ninth's Minority the Chancellour Hospital took care to have the Decree inserted among the Royal Edicts And thus it appears that Charles the Fifth's Edict was of no Authority according to the Constitutions of France as long as their Antient Laws were in force But it may now pass for a Law in a Nation where tel est nostre plaisir is the measure of the Government And by this it may be judged whether Mr. de Meaux or I have read Mr. de Thou or reported this matter according to the Laws of France more exactly But Mr. de Thou is too Impartial a Writer for a man of Mr. de Meaux's Temper and indeed the French Nation has gone in so entirely into all the Notions of Slavery in this Age that they seem not only to have forgot their Antient Liberties but even to be uneasy when any others put them in mind of them I will now put an end to all that I was to say at present with Relation to Mr. de Meaux But since he has thought fit to insinuate what performances were expected from Mr. le Grand I will add somewhat relating to him tho' I cannot yet give him such a Copious Answer as I find is expected from me Both my Books and Papers are in England so I cannot do what I intend till I am furnished with some helps that I hope to receive e're long yet to let Mr. le Grand see that I have not forgotten him I will give you here some Essaies of his Sincerity He has Published a Volume of Letters and other Pieces which he gives as the proofs of his Work tho' not above a third part of them belongs to the Subject in hand In short he got many Letters in his hand writ from England which he resolved to Print that so he might raise both the Bulk and the Price of his Book A big Book makes an Impression and People think when they see much Bulk that there is much said And yet even of these Letters some were Published by me and others were Printed before And the greater part has no Relation neither to the Affairs of the Divorce nor any other of the Affairs of England but contain only Advices concerning the Affairs of Europe and the Commerce between the two Crowns in their common Concerns He has also given for the most part only the Letters that were writ to the Great Master without giving us those that were writ to the King or the Secretary of State in which we might hope to find the Copious Accounts of the State of Affairs whereas the Letters writ to other Ministers contain only private Advices that are offered to them but whether Mr. le Grand ever saw these to the King or not I do not know tho' it is probable that those who preserved the one would likewise have taken care of the other He has not given us the Series of the Letters that were writ from Marseilles during the Interview which he ought not to have suppressed if they fell under his Eye But besides all the Defects and the Excesses of that Volume Mr. le Grand is liable to a severer Censure for the Abstracts that he pretends to give from them I shall name but three In the first of all that he has put in his Volume of Proofs one should have expected some exactness for many are apt 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