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A65318 A dialogue between Mr. Merriman, and Dr. Chymist: concerning John Sergents paradoxes, in his New method to science, and his Solid philosophy. By T.W. T. W. 1698 (1698) Wing W115; ESTC R219887 13,148 32

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A DIALOGUE BETWEEN Mr. MERRIMAN AND Dr. CHYMIST CONCERNING JOHN SERGENTS Paradoxes in his New Method to Science and his Solid Philosophy By T.W. LONDON Printed in the Year 1698. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN Mr. MERRIMAN and Dr. CHYMIST Concerning John Sergent 's Paradoxes in his New Method to Science and his Solid Philosophy Merriman WHAT you are hard at work Doctor well Does the Philosophers Stone appear yet You 'll never leave off till you have lost your Brains and your Money for generally this is the effect of your Study Poverty and Madness for I never knew any of you but dy'd Beggars tho' once perhaps Masters of plentiful Fortunes and this is enough to drive any Man out of his Wits Come come be advis'd by a Friend leave of this foolish Study lay aside this imaginary Philosophers-Stone and apply thy Wits in some thing that is substantial and advantagious Dr. Chymist Why faith Merriman I am almost weary on 't for after so many Years of hard Study and the throwing away my Money my Time and my Brains as thou say'st when I thought I was upon the point of having the Philosophers-Stone in my hand some unlucky Accident or other turn'd all into Smoak and I was to begin again Merr. What 's here the Method to Science and Solid Philosophy by J. S. ha ha ha Dr. Ay! Have you seen them They are ingenious Pieces I can assure you and the Author is a Man of parts he has found out that which no Man since the Creation cou'd find out but himself Nay nor never had been found out had not the Divine Providence made choice of him above all Men of the World to Midwife into the World this wondrous Child his Method to Science Merr. A wondrous Child indeed a wondrous Monster fram'd in his own Brain that has neither Head nor Tail ugly and deform'd in every part of it The Beats can lick their Cubs into some shape but he can never lick this Whelp of his into any Dr. Have you read the Book Merriman or do you only speak the malicious words of J. S's Enemies Merr. Yes I have read it and read it and studied to find out something of sense in it and still cou'd meet with nothing but Nonsense I 'll tell you it looks as if it had been writ by Oliver's Porter in Bedlam 't is just like a Quakers Sermon take it in pieces and you 'l find a great many good sayings in it but take it all together 't is a piece of Nonsense And this you call a wondrous Child and product of Mr. J. S's Brain and brought to light by the Divine Providence as he proudly and vainly tells us I must tell you Doctor the expression out of his his Mouth nauseates and smells rank of Blasphemy Dr. 'T is strange Merriman that because you cannot comprehend his Demonstrations that therefore you 'll run down the Book for Nonsense Merr. 'T is much more strange Doctor that you who wou'd be thought a Man of sense shou'd justifie and approve such Paradoxes as his Book contains Why what 's more nonsensical then to see a fellow in an Age of dotage with one foot in the Grave peep out and with a speaking Trumpet tell the World they are all Fools and Coxcombs that there is not one Man of Sense to be found in it and that there never was a Philosopher till J. S. appear'd and that he was sent by the Divine Providence to teach the World which was lost in ignorance the Method to Science Does not all this look like a Man come out of Bedlam who thinks every Man mad but himself And wou'd not one take him for the Ass in the Fable who had hid himself some time in a Pit and at last comes out very gravely in a Philosophers Cloak His Master ask'd him where he had been so long And he answer'd that all that time he had apply'd himself to the study of Philosophy and that he was become a very great proficient and Doctor but for all his boasting of his Science his Cloak was no sooner pull'd off but every one knew him to be an Ass and so he was severely chastiz'd for his lying and vaunting Dr. Come come Merriman this is all Malice and putting upon J. S. Why can you believe that a Man of his Sense Learning and Piety can be so senseless and pron'd as to run down all Mankind as sensless Animals that had never learnt his Method to Science Or that there never was any true Philosophy till he appear'd in the World Merr. Nay Doctor 't is far from Malice or putting upon him for I have Demonstration for what I say his own words Doctor and that is Demonstration enough Seeing Philosophy reduced to this lamentable condition Alass poor Philosophy and that solid rationality and all truth in natural Objects were thus in eminent danger to be over-run and born down by imaginary Conceits and apprehending that God's Providence had fitted and enabled me J. S. to redress such great Mischiefs O brave J. S. I thought it became me to reinstate Reason in her Soveraignty over fancy Sol. Phil. Ep. Ded. p. 8. and in the Preface he says Indeed I must own I have a high opinion of my Principles and my Method which Nature and God's good Providence have lay'd and established pa. 11. What think you of this Is not all this Luciferian Pride For my part I am so far from believing him to be appointed by the Divine Providence to be the Worlds Master and to teach them this New Philosophy that I begin to suspect him to have a Cloven Foot and that no body but the Devil set him on work Dr. The truth of it is he does infinitely abound on his own Sense and it was always his fault which has drawn him into a great many Follies which hath occasion'd him many disturbances I wish he had been advis'd and either have writ more modestly or not at all Merr. How is it possible Doctor for this Man to be advis'd who judges all other Men Fools and himself the only wise Man in the World He tells you that the World has been sufficiently pester'd already with Books of Philosophy nay Volums blown up to a vast bulk with windy and frothy Probabilities and petty inconclusive Topicks Preface to Solid Philosophy ibid. and who writ these vast Volums that contain'd nothing but windy frothy Probabilities only the greatest Wits and Masters in the World but 't is no matter they are all Fools co Mr. S. but behold now in this latter Age appears a wonder a Man that speaks no windy frothy Probabilities nor petty inconclusive Topicks but as often as He opens his mouth speaks Demonstrations and no Man can see them but himself Dr. Whose fault is that Mr. Merriman If Men will not see when the Demonstration lies before them that 's no fault of Mr. J. S. but if Men wou'd not be prejudic'd and wou'd but open their Eyes and look through Mr J.