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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69620	The Jesuite countermin'd. Or, An account of a new plot carrying on by the Jesuites: manifested by their present endeavours (under all shapes) to raise commotions in the land, by aspersing his Sacred Majesties counsels and actions. Also the reasonableness of modesty in subjects in judging the concerns of their prince.	Br., J.; Bradshaw, John, 1602-1659, attributed name.	1679 (1679)	Wing B4087; ESTC R19773	29,228	40

man 't is sufficient in the eye of the Vulgar who measure all Accomplishments by their own and think him a very valuable man who exceeds them in such ordinary trivial matters though they slight and contemn Persons of higher Endowments because they are above their narrow Apprehensions but the other they will esteem fit for any thing even to manage Kingdoms if need be and their estimation will be encreased if to their natural sagacity in some things there be added a Confident Deportment in reference to higher Concerns Thus Coblers by being sharp active Fellows and by a little Converse with History have gained sometimes on the Vulgar so as to be raised by such disorderly Rabbles to high preferment only on the account of their loud ratling out of hard Names of places and great men in foreign Countries such Pedantick Tricks have recommended many to the unskilful as very able men well versed in Political Affairs and he could not be thought less than a States-man who would embellish his Discourse with those lofty Strains wherein either some of the Polish Iskis Eskis Oskis or Vskis made up each Period Such sublime pedantry as this is often adopted by the amaz'd Vulgar for sublime wisdom whereas in the truth it is but the garish display of a volatile Fancy and because that effeminate faculty is for the most part predominant among the lower orders of Mankind they are snatched into a consent and sympathetical adherence to any thing that is tinctured with it Thus the slight and unsolid Rhetorications of an ordinary confident Critick dragg the supine Vulgar into the filth of Censoriousness and civil blasphemy of things they know not making them to set their Mouths against the Heavens and with a Train of their impudent Lyes like Lucifer the Father of Lyes to dethrone the Stars if it were possible And these are somewhat a kin to those whom in the Fifth Page of this Treatise I call by the Name of State-Fanaticks a whimsical race of people that the Jesuites seduce by infusing into them an inchanting Ferment a Hotch-potch of State-Heresies drawn from Casuists Civilians and corrupted Divines Not that I think every one that talks about these things to be vers'd in the whole System of such Jesuitical Doctrines for as I have above said many illiterate persons may gain the Credit of being Statesmen among the Vulgar by some Pedantick Tricks as voluble discourse confident deportment and the like who yet may be altogether devoid of any smattering in that other Learning but yet there are too too many whose Fancies being parturient verifie that in the Civil Law which my Lord Verulam observed of Philosophy a little of which will make a man an Atheist for these Semi-Civilians like those Philosophasters sit down contented with that small discovery the first Stage gives them in the Law of Nature and Nations and so make false conclusions couching the most copious Hypotheses and Questions within the narrow limits of their Inchoate knowledge especially being blinded by their seducing Guides the Jesuites and falsly perswaded that all Secular Science was contained in that Fragment they were acquainted with like the Rusticks who think the utmost limits of the World extend no farther then the Margin of the visible Horizon whereas if they had the patience to go on and their Understandings were not darkned they would find that each step enlarged their prospect till they had gone over the whole Sphere of Political Wisdom returning to the Point whence they set forth where they might recollect with themselves that as in all Orbs so in this Circle of Humane Learning there was a vicissitude of Superiority that is they who have compleated their Knowledge and finished their Disquisitions in the truth may yet remember how variously they have altered their opinions of things according to the strength or weakness of Arguments occurring in their way and therefore ought not to be dazled into a hasty implicite Assent to any thing by its vigour and flashy light without examining or making a Scrutiny whence the Ray proceeded whether from Heaven or Hell for that has its counterfeit Beams also To make my meaning more plain It is well known that many Mechanick persons of otherwise jejune Intellects will yet pretend to a smack in that spurious mixture of Democratical Policy that is pickt out of some Heathen Writers some Papists and not a few Protestants and all Incorporated into one Mass and Informed by that Soul of Atheism and Heresie Mr. Hobbs These Mechanicks I say will insist on the Notions of Natural Liberty and Supremacy in the people and such like stuff having Imbib'd these Principles either immediately from Books or from their Converse with men who have read those Books which though they have gone Incognito for good Orthodox Protestant Writings yet are oftentimes discovered or at least may very reasonably be suspected to bethe Product of a Jesuites Brain However it is certain such Books are written and entertain'd by many seeming intelligent persons and no question but the Jesuites have seconded them with their personal Insinuations among the Gentry so that these Heresies are grown almost Epidemical and therefore by consequence the whole Land must needs incur the Pestil ential Infection hence proceed all those heart-burnings and their evil effects such as bitter and unfavoury Expressions belch'd out against His Majesty and his Proceedings enough to make any other Prince Nauseate the unmannerly and ungrateful Vulgar but our Gracious Soveraign has from his first Inauguration to the Throne habituated himself to Clemency and unparallel'd benign Candour to his Subjects never revenging himself for all the barbarous cruelty his Father or Himself have undergon But I forget that it is an Essay I am writing and yet I have no reason to do so the very Immethodical Style might put me in mind of that And indeed were I not conscious of its being Commensurate to an Essay I would beg the Readers excuse for Publishing so confused a Collection of Thoughts However this I may say That though it be void of Symmetry yet that deficiency is made up in the multitude and validity of its Arguments which though scattered without Order in the Discourse may yet be reduced to it by the active and sagacious mind the disjoynted parcels being by that penetrating vertue setled and by Intellectual Ligaments united in their proper respects and uses to the design of the whole SCHEME POSTSCRIPT THat the seeming Extravagancies in the Style of this Essay may be the more readily excused by the Intelligent The Author thought himself concerned to add a word or two to what he had said in the Preface to the Reader for he is bold to profess his Hopes that this Short Discourse though in never so odd and exotick a Dress may find Acceptance with some as others concerning the same Subject only digested into a different form are entertained by their proper Genius for there are certain Occult Attractives in all Treatises which will captivate the Minds of those men who are prepared with a Correspondent Gust and all this results from the various Idiopathies in lapsed Mankind which are apt to Incurvate the Choice of Right Reason and to transport them in their Choice by Impulses from peculiar Springs in the inferlour partial Faculties of the Soul whether there fixed by Nature Education Providence or Chance And since this is so why should I be loth to venture this Piece abroad upon a misprision of it s being Impolite or whimsical and so unpalatable to the Nice Genius of this Age that loves to luxuriate in those delicious Graces of Speech which the French call La cadence des periodes I say why should the unsuitableness of my style by being reflected on hinder me from publishing this Essay since it is commonly experienced that the most ornate Treatises and those of the sweetest relish to some are found by Experience to be Nauseated by others And what matter is it for the Style provided there be truth at the bottom FINIS Maimon More Nev. Part. 2. cap. 41. Sci●o quod omnium eorum Prophetar qui Pro betiam sibi factam esse dicunt quidam eam Angelo alicui quidam vero Deo Opt. Max. ascribant attribuant licèt per Angeli ministerium quoque ipsis ob●igerit c. Vide Smiths Select Discourses See the Notes on Dr. More 's Poems