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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25576	An Answer to the Bishop of Rochester's second letter to the Earl of Dorset &c. by an English-man.	Englishman.; Charlton, Mr.	1689 (1689)	Wing A3390; ESTC R31265	19,150	70

share in one or two other Public Affairs of the late Times as obliges me to a second Defence Though I have always thought that next to the Committing Offences nothing can be more grievous to an Ingenuous Mind than to be put upon the Necessity of making Apologies Answer Upon what Terms the Powerful Earl of Dorset admitted your Person accepted and recommended your Plea is strange to none who have the Honour to know that Lord the Strength of his Unquestionable Judgment gave Way to the Object of his Compassion But if his Lordship had vouchsafed me leave to Publish such a Plea a Thought would have come in my Head that he put me upon my Country and the most I could hope from his Indulgence was that if they found me Guilty of Ignorance he would not Trouble himself to Charge me with more Understanding than my Present Circumstances required and from that Minute should have determined with what regard to move towards his Lordship in a Second For tho' Easy to be intreated is the very Note of Greatness and from the Consideration of Infirmity the worst of Men sink gently with them nor is Disdain to be seen in their Countenances without a Line of Charity Yet on the other side my Lord the Uncorrect Looseness of Argument Profanes Honour and Care is to be taken by Men of Talent least the Dignity of the Patronage lessen in the Presumption of the Client Not that the Gravity of your Pen ought to approach his Lordship with the Ceremony of an Ambassador nor yet my Lord after a Daub of vain Complement with such an Indifference or Negligence of Hand as if your Design was upon the Quality not the Authority you Address to A Meen between both agreeable to the Case with respect to the Person Soft but withal Masculine is far better Written to a Lord than It was my chance I know not How to have a share c. That Language cannot Usher an Apology with Reputation into the Opinion of the most Uncurious I fancy after one Letter with so much Ignorance in it such was my Unhappiness to have Share c. A Style more becoming your Condition my Lord than Chance or I know not how in another More pressing into the Good Nature of the English-man because the One has in it a Symptom of Reluctancy the Other of Force or Disaffection and Looks as if the Man was Still the same Inward which Heaven forbid but our Redemption against his Will had put him to the Necessity of Apology for his Share in the Enslaving Us. It was your Chance you know not how in your Sleep it may be to have a great many Papers Conveyed under your Pillow which made you Dream of Black-birds and Gold-finches of Goose Quills and Crow Quills Assassinations and Bow upon Bow where the Steeple of Bow brought in the Story of the Cross-Bow and a Thousand Fantastio Miscellanies the Ramble of a Mercurial Working-Brain And from the Natural Aversion you have to any Business that may Reflect Severely your Inclination rather leading you to the other Extream that is rather to Commend too much what in the least seems well done than to Aggravate what is Ill done by others For instance my Lord Tarentum in your Satyr upon the French Historiographer where you bring in the Presbyterians pleasing Themselves with Expectation of Religious Liberty from a Share they had in the Restoration of Charles the Second or Troubled at Forgetting the Promise of Breda and from the Innate Healing Quality you are indued with rather to commend too much what in the least seems well done than to aggravate what is ill done by others Charity all over you submit to honour them as thus far Contributory to the Blessed Work That if they had not Driven him Out he had never been restored From that natural Aversion you have to Reflect your Inclination we all know leading you to Panegyrick between sleeping and waking your Lordship Writ That which King James the Second Calling for the Papers and having Read them and Altered divers Passages not Telling Us what those Alterations are but no doubt for the Good of the Protestant Religion Caused to be Printed by his own Authority Perfectly against your Will as to be seen before the Book and in every Line of it your Lordship being wholly Passive and rather bearing a Share of Grief for the Victims than Contributing to the Fall of their Honours the Dearest part of Them after Dispatching their Bodies and Came Out under the Name of History deserving another Denomination And when the Benign Virulency of your Wit had pursued Men with Uncharitable Characters beyond Death with more Delight than Constraint of Mind Et quae Poeticis magis Decora Fabulis quam Incorruptis rerum gestarum Monument is tradenda fuerunt no sooner is the Artillery turned but you are in Passion for my Lord Russel you Lamented after you had been Fully Convinc'd by Discourse with the Reverend Dean of Canterbury of that Noble Gentleman's great Probity and Constant Abhorrence of Falsehood Delicate Words But that was a good while after you say such was your Ignorance of the Upright but Obscure Lord. Russel your Lordship who had liv'd so many Years about the Town could not be Convinced of his Probity till after he had suffered Martyrdom any more than you understood his Grace of Canterbury took Exception to the Legality of the Ecclesiastical Commission till after my Lord of London had been Cited Appeared had Answered and the Unjust Sentence past upon him Ignorance and Chance by your own Account have carried the Ascendant over the Last Scenes of your Life my Lord in a wonderful Manner But a Reader less Tender than your Answerer tho' he would not altogether disown the Philosophy that Accident governs the World Adding in Subordination to Providence for Chance makes Cases here Engaging Men for the better Connection in Support of Societies to Mutual Obligation by unexpected Standing in Need One of Another Yet by the Course of your Actions from the time of a Certain Sermon for which you had No Thanks and from whence such is the Curse of Variance between a King and Subjects the People receive the Banished from Court and the Court Embraces the Disregarded by the People some derive your Advancement and Others your Misfortune From that Hour my Lord to the day of the Bishops Tryal above Eight Years in a State of Ignorance and Chance as you carelesly alledge but of most Dangerous Observance as Sense interprets such a Reader my Lord would sooner imagine the Parts were made for the Sake of the Representer knowing how well they Suited his Genius to Describe them than that Chance brought your Lordship so often and so Artificially upon the Stage He that with a Common Eye looks into this your Second Letter shall find in it Expostulation no Apology Raised above that by the First Admittance Remorse Vanishes the least Shadow of Condescension to Chance and