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A58453	A letter from a gentleman to his friend in London in confutation of the scurrilous libell of an anonymus [sic] blackloist [sic], against the reverend and learned P.R. up the occasion of his Latine epistle of the clergie's obedience to the sea apostolick. With an inclosed to the libeller himself.	T. R.	1660 (1660)	Wing R86; ESTC R217716	17,104	53

in that kinde though far short of the heighth you raise it to unto a noble person who knowing well with what particulars he might soon be confounded advised him for his own credit's sake to hold his peace A Lay Gentleman at this person you would asperse his refusall to pay him some money which he had yet no order to give him by injurious language provoked him to some words of choler and thereupon also made complaint unto the said Pastor who for his too hasty crediting the Gentlemans report against his brother became a day or two after so sorry that of his own accord instead of the testimonial commendations he had formerly given him as the manner was he would needs bestow new ones with an inserted clause importing his having been misinformed and that he not onely acknowledged him free from the least blemish in all his comportment but most worthy of the commendations he then gave him in writing under his hand This testimony and more yet upon the same occasion will be produced when any worth the satisfaction shall require it And all this was so farre from an expulsion as your impudence would perswade us that this person lived not then at St. Sulpice but went thither onely sometimes to help them as he did still a long time after this at their earnest request and being oblieged by the Pastor's new civilities who in testimony of his further affection made his own brother being the Lord Chancelour of France his grand Audiencer procure him the great Seal for his naturalization gratis with an intent to obtain for him soon after as great a Benefice as the limitation of his Patent for naturalization could admit of Yea moreover procured him priviledged Faculties for extraordinary extent of Jurisdiction over all that Diocesse As that most illustrious Lord Archbishop of Roven and Primate of Normandy did afterwards of his own accord inviting him thereunto give him equal faculties to his own Vicar Generall To say nothing of the most illustrious Lord Bayny his Holinesse his Nuncio since made Cardinal his swearing him one of his Assessours to examine the Witnesses and frame the Interrogatories about the validity of the Duke and Duchesse of Loreine their Marriage wherein I hear he laboured with great applause and satisfaction of the Nuncio And all this after your pretended notorious slander and he that will dare own his name which you do not to the deniall of it will be proved a notorious lyar Now having abundantly cleared my friend I will not go about to charge yours the Doctor though your officious over-clawing him puts the world in minde of the reports they have often heard of him I have heard the person I here vindicate speak civilly enough of your Doctor neither have I heard him complaine that your Dr. had personnally disoblieged him onely that his crossing your Doctor 's endeavours to recommend Blackloisme to us by such factious Pamphlets hath hitherto reflected more upon the writings and but moderately enough upon the writer Yet because your indiscretion for which I believe you will have little thanks from your Doctor obligeth me to it I must needs tell you that besides what I have heard I have seene Letters under another vertuous deserving Church-man's hands who was all this while at Paris representing the Doctors mannaging of those Almes you mention farre more to his discredit then you do both for the manner and the persons they were bestowed upon yea warning him of blemishes more openly spoken of and of a farre worse Nature than any you have endeavoured to asperse my friend with I will conceale the particulars until I be called upon to make good what I say But before I leave your Doctor I must take notice that you do not so much as offer to clear him of the ficklenesse and inconstancy he is by my Author charged with for his subscribing in publick to the condemnation of Jansenisme to the high dissatisfaction of his owne party and then owning that Heresie still in private to regain their good wills and that in his pittifull Epistle thereupon to the Pastor of St. Nicholas he so played the John of both sides that his Epistle and he were commonly hissed at Perhaps you meane this for one in this place where you are pleased to play the Encomiastes saying Those two learned and famous Epistles As you do also in the next leaf on his Preliminary Epistles to his Commentary on the New Testament of which you onely saw the first leaves Surely you are mistaken it was his Preface which gave him the sirname of Dr. Preface the Book whereto we have for many years in vain expected and of which in a Modern Poets words we may sing A Preface to no Book a Porch to no House We see the Mountain but where 's the Mouse Dr. P. R's disallowing the Provincial Letters as being so many infamous Libels condemned by his Holinesse together with the other Treatises in the same Decree is a testimony of his Obedience to the said Decree which you and yours will not obey You call the Doctrine those Libels strike at Profane and Antichristian I pray you how Sacred and Christian is that Casuists Doctrine who teaches you the straine of this your brave Epistle and to allow of and praise an English Edition of those Libels bearing in the very Frontispiece an open blasphemy against Gods Saints As for Arnauld you know not what you say nor so much as why you stile him Doctor we have heard that after that his Letter excusing Jansenius and the Jansenists from Heresie was solemnly condemned in the Sorbon he was disgracefully cashiered the said Sorbon and had his title of Doctor taken from him in the Yeare 1656. the last of January Do you hear my friend that it was since restored unto him You cavil even at a man's ingenuous confession that when he writ his Epistle he had not yet seen your Masters Tabulae Suffragiales He hath perused them since to my knowledge and I believe will in due time give your Master a good account of them In the interim I must give you this accompt of your great Master the Trinobant in mine own and those many of my acquaintance their names who have read his Books that besides the useless froth we meet with all along we finde his pride and self-conceit now grown to so high a degree of madnesse that we wonder your selves do not perceive it and binde him But I wonder you should insert among your Masters Praises that you are sure Dr. P. R. will never understand his Tabulae Suffragiales where you make that his glory which is the disgrace of all good men and writers obscurity Yet that I may not be wanting either to your or his deserts give me leave to tell you you have in this Paragraph summ'd up all that can be said of him in these few words He is not to be understood and he hath extraordinary and exotick opinions The first being an

venome so weakly and groundlesly You do well also not to believe that he is a Prevaricator for no honest man would believe you And if those others you speak of are ashamed to own that belief before any person of honour I pray you be you ashamed of them also and of your acquaintance with them And I wish I could as easily acquit you of a malicious designe in your carriage towards him that you were not the hireling of some Pursevant whom by this open discovery of his Name and Person you endeavour to assist that by the ruine of so worthy and learned an Adversary you might leave an open field to your baffled and run-away Champion Blackloe Good Sir begin to read his piece once more and if you cannot for an example in the first dozen lines or more show us that palpable lye or slander or scolding injustice or railing reproach or at least ridiculous impertinency know what a fellow you are that dares say that there are not three lines in the whole piece without some of this And how guilty will your Reader finde your self of all this when you begin so timely You say he deserves not to carry their Books after them You say right for we cannot see how having ever made the good use we know of the best Books why he should be condemned to read such naughty Books as your friend's are but his zeal for our good makes him read them to discover their venome to us lest they might infect us Besides the bulk of your Masters comes will never I am sure oppresse his shoulders whose stomack accustomed to solid Learning will easily digest his Pigge-wiggin Divinity into sippets Here again you do the Pursevant a pleasure The party you write against doth not so much to his worst adversaries he names but one and him by two letters onely If he names one or two of his friends at length as you do him it is with their consent I am sure you had not his consent to do so Poor man though you conceal your name yet least it come out at last why have you no more care of your credit then to discover so much ignorance since you professe to have some knowledge in the ordinary passages of the world as to think that a man cannot leave being a Jesuit without Apostacy We see even Princes both Temporall and Spirituall Prelates Doctors Preachers and other persons of eminency and honour often do it with the world's esteem and continuance of mutual charity betwixt them and the Society But because you think no ignorance can befall your friend Mr. White from whom you raked this with his other durt you were the bolder in shooting your bolt Your owne Pamphlet and your friend's Mr. White 's gives you the open lye since with the utmost of your fury and filthy language you cannot fasten the least blemish upon any part of his life even in the two or three particular passages in matter of fact wherewith you go about to do it here he hath so fully and so openly heretofore cleared himself to all your confusions that I extreamly wonder how like unknown Owls out of your Ivie-bushes you dare flie at a person whose life hath been so open and so esteemed by persons of all degrees both highest and lowest For the satisfaction of those who know him not I shall anon take notice of your two or three fabulous calumnies Besides the baldnesse of your stile all over I take notice that all your slanderous Epithers and Adverbs run along barking in couples as notorious and foul reproaches basely and unworthily abuseth frivolous and foolish Lines lewd and licencious Pen and so all along But all this will never bite No not your often calling him poor wretch can no more wrong him then Hugh Peters with whom you jump in that Reviling Expression take heed you jump not home after him did his sacred Sovereign How simple is your malice here as if it were a disparagement to teach those Schools which in course both Princes and Prelates and whosoever was of that Society taught And I pray you who of your best friends did not the like at Doway Though any man that reads the bald expressions of your Masters White and Doctor H. H. would never think they had put foot into a Grammer-School whose Rudiments they are not worthy to read to Boyes Your foolish jearing his Majesties Army in calling them the brave Blades of the Land makes it likely that you are one of those Levelling Coxcombs who cared not much for that Cause and so envied those you durst not aspire to follow and appear with this worthy person whom you now sharle at was a constant comfort to the best Catholick Nobility and Gentry with their Officers and Souldiers with open hazard of life in such encounters where you my friend who dare not now own your name durst not then shew your face his wounds and imprisonment for that Cause and in the performance of his noble charity have gotten him that esteeme you will never deserve without your becoming another creature then you seem to be And that with such success that many Honourable persons in their last agony owe their Reconcilement to him the neglect of which duty argues in your friends as little charity to the dying as their Doctrine expresseth to the dead who instead of such Heroick acts of Fortitude are sneaking in holes where they strain all their forces to gain some filly woman whose purse out-weighs her wit to contribute to the maintenance of their Chimerical Chapter Your Ex-Jesuit being cast out and being a Desertor shows your non-sense and contradiction if a Desertor which implieth freely parting how cast out or forced to depart The twang they retain if you understood what you say is their especial adhering to the Pope and zeal against Heresies and profane Novelties which they were particularly bred to in the Society which with their indefatigable charity hath carried them through so many dangers both by sea and land to the Conversion of millions of Souls in both the Indies whilst your party in the mean time imitating the incorrigible malice of some of those barbarous people against the Spaniards refuse Heaven because you are sure to finde Jesuits there and to that end use all your wiles to pervert those souls whom they with other Clergie Secular and Regular have with so great pains gained to God You say the world takes c. You mean the sensless world whereof you are one and in this also chuse rather to run blind after your Master White then to inform your self of those who could have told you and you might clearly have gathered as much out of sundry places of the Epistle it self which no way agree to the worthy Lord Abbot you name that the person meant by M. G. is a vertuous and learned Cleargy-man in Monmouthshire And your apish following of Blackloe in his very mistakes how simple soever makes you call the Author