in the case of M. Baxter These returns I may expect from one that hath so many good Qualities of his Celebrated Times In this way he can write on for ever for such proceedings are most suitable to his parts and virtues By them he will make himself the admiration of Envious Fools but the scorn of the wise and intelligent which latter he hath sufficiently done already And therefore I shall leave him to the Applâ—â—dâ— of hiâ— Friends and the Contempts of the Friends of vertue and wisdom after I have justified my self in a thing which is like to be objected by this Antagonist I am told he will Answer all that I have produced out of his writings to shew the Hypocrisie of his pretenses for Monarchy and the Church of England by recharging me with compliance with those Times An Answer befitting such a Writer and let him make the most of that charge My great fault was that I was born in that unhappy season and bred in those dismal daysâ— But can he accuse me of any thing I ever said or did that was Disloyal Did I write a Defence of the Cause of Regicides and Vsurpers â— or Defame Kingly Government or blaspheme my persecuted Soveraign or promote Anarchy and publick ruine If M. Stubbe cannot prove any of thâ—se as I daâ—e him to offer at it He cannot recriminate And his charges of this kind will bâ— contemptible â— and like all the rest He had best write against me for coming into the world in an ill Time and for being born a Child â— I have not the least offence besides to answer forâ— in reference to the Government â— except what I apologized for before the recital I have made of his former Trâ—asons and Impieties I have now done for the present with M. Stubbe But must add this to some silly sneaks who think he hath written things not to be answer'd â— That Impudence and non-sense are the most troublesom things to answer in the world I have prov'd alreadyâ— and shall yet more fully shew that the Argumentative part of his Book against me is so far from being unanswerable that it cannot deserve any other Answer then a smile and silence For most of that he saith is lamentably inconsistent and impertinent He tells us He sends the things to the Press that were suggested as he travell'd and one may judge by their incoherence that he rid upon a trotting Horse upon which I leave him pursuing the Virtuosi and add this Advertisement If any man hath a design to write his Life and further to describe this Sir Hudibrâ—s and his Steed He will do well to hold his hand a while For M. Stubbe's Friend M. Cross hath writ a Book call'd Biographia which gives Rules how Lives are to be writ This will be printed if the Licensers will permit the good man to spoil so much paper and so make himself publickly ridiculous And the Hâ—storian had noâ— best begin till he hath M. C. directions for fear he transgress the Rules and incur the lash of the Methodical Pedant This Book it seems is intended to correct the Learned and pious Dr. â—ell for his way of writing the Life of Dr. Hammond and 't is M. C. revenge upon that excellent person for his denying Licence to the scurrilous and non-sensical Book he writ against me I have not heard many particulars of it but only this He calls that Reverend Divine who hath been long Doctor of Divinity presides over the chief Colledge of Oxford is Dean of that Diocess and hath govern'd the Vniversity as Vice-Chancellor with singular wisdom diligence and applause I say he calls that venerable man Iubenis and I believe that name of diminution doth not go alone but the Reverend person from whom I had this lighted on that by chance as he cast his eye upon the Disputer's Papers which he carrieâ—h about for a shew 'T would be well for an old man I know if he had this excuse of being young for his weakness and puerilities for which there can be no Apology made except he confesâ— himself arriv'd to his second childhood And so I take leave of him out of pity and for ought I know for ever FINIS ADVERTISEMENT Concerning the ERRATA and some passages liable to be mistaken THat M. Stubbe may not trouble himself to write more Animadversions on the Errata of the Press I give notice That when I speak of his Reporting the Design of the Royâ—l Society to be laid by a Iesuite p. 2. or 3. It should be by a Fryar The mistake was the persons that told iâ— me who said a Iesuite thinking it seems That Campanella was of that order In Dr. More 's Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is seâ— instead of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I know not whether the mistake be the Printers or Transcribers 'T was not mine I never writ out that Letter There are several other small errors I took notice of in running over my Printed Papers as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pigmy which should have had no Comma between and the like But I have not my Book now at hand to note them particularly and therefore must lye at M. Stubbe's mercy But these following things were noted while my Papers were by me to prevent mistake P. 174. When I say It must be granted that two pair viz. of Spectacles ordinarily hindâ—r 〈◊〉 sight I would not be understood 〈◊〉 they do so when used by those of Greatâ—â— Age. For two pair to them have but the power of one P. 178. When I say Telescopes represent â—â—jects as they arâ— only in larger proportiâ—ns I mean as they are for figure and only represent them larger then they appear to the 〈◊〉 eye P. 179. When I grant what M. Stubbe saith that in the longest Tubes the Colours of Objects are more remiss whatever he meanâ— I would not be understood as if the length of the Tubes made the remissness oâ— the Light for that is caused by the number of the Glasses or â—he darkness of their metal Books Printed for and sold by James Collins at the Kings-Arms iâ— Ludgate-street neer the West end of St. Paul's and at the Kings-head in Westminster-Hall A Discourse of the Religious Temper and Tâ—ndencies of the modern experimental Philosophy which is profest by the Royal Society To which is annext a Recommendation and Defence of Reason in the affairs of Religion By Ios. Glanvill In octavo Observations upon Military and Political Affairs â— Written by the most Honourable George Dâ—ke of Albemarle c. Published by Authority In folio A Private Conference between a Rich Alderman and a Poor Country Vicar made Publick Wheâ—ein is discoursed the Obligation of Oaths which have been imposed on the Subjects of England With other Matters relating to â—he present State of Affairs In octavo Praxis Medicinae or the Universal Body of Physick Containing all Inward Dâ—seases incident to the Body of Man Explaining the Nature of every Disâ—ase with Proper Remedies assigned to them Very useful for Physicians Chiâ—urgeons and Apothecaries and more â—specially for such who consult their own Health Written by that famous and learned Physician Walter Bruell In quarto The Christians Victory over Death A Sermon at the Funeral of the most Honourable George Duke of Albemarle c. in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter's Westminster on the 30. of April 1670. By Seth Lord Bishop of Sarum Preached and Published by his Majesties special Command In quarto The Episcopacy of the Church of England justified to be Apostolical from the Authority of the Antient Primitive Church And from the Confessions of the most famous Divines of the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas Being a full Satisfâ—ction in this Cause as well for the Necessity as for the Iust Right thereof as consonant to the Word of God By the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Morton late Lord Bishop of Dâ—resme Before which is prefixed a Preface to the Reader concerning this Subject by Sir Henry Yelverton Baronet In octavo
lost To the same 〈◊〉 he speaks in his Epistle to Sir Nicholas Nemo p. 18. The removal of these viz. The Royal Society will not derogate from but illustrate the Kings renown and confirm England in the Reverence of his generosity and their Detestableness By the way what sense is this â— The Reverence of their Detestableness M. Stubbe saith in the Preface to his Legends That if there be any person worthy of his indignation that will justifie the rhetoricalness of the History of the Royal Society he will write about that and make the Comical wits renounce the Antient Orators as they do now the Philosophers A rare Censor of Rhetorick and Oratory this that doth not himself write Grammatical sense This I should offer to him if he were recover'd and fit to be discours't soberly with That I will shew more gross non sense in his writings than he can of pretended mistakeâ— in all the Virtuosi that ever writ I do not mean in the stupidity ignorance and incoherence of his reasonings only but in the frame of the very words But for a little more of his vapouring I have a thousand faults more to charge them with but I reserve them for another Treatise which if they do not submit to the Collâ—dge of Physicians and the two Universities I will publish In his Letter to his Friend Sir N. Nâ—mo p. 16. Submit O ye Virtuosi for fear of that dreadful Treatise If that be once publisheâ— you are more then irrecoverably lost For he hath told you you are so far gone already How he would have you submit he expresseth in Camp Rev. p. 15 viz. You must declare solemnly to the world that you understand nothing of ancient or modern Writers that is the best way he saith to secure yâ—ur credit from being thought Plegiaries and Cheats ibid. Non-sense again but that 's no News He adds if they would but get any one to teach them Latin and Greek â— it would have saved me some trouble as you will see in my Animadversions on their History Neither is this period true English If any one had taught M. Stubbe to write sense he might have saved me trouble as any one may see in my Animadversions on his But for a passage or two more As for M. Glanvill ' s Book it was perused by several of their members and corrected by them a broad falshood as I have shewn in my Preface and how much we are redâ—vable to a Society that could allow of that and would not at my reiterated importunities call it in or disclaim it let all Physicians judge Pref. to Camp And again p. 15. They might have appeased me Goodly would they have call'd 〈◊〉 these two Books viz. the HISTORY of the Royal Society and PLUS ULTRA but since they would not do that I suspect their intentions that they drive on Campanellaâ—â— project why else should they scruple at it If They will not call in and renounce all Books that offend M. Stubbe 'T is evident they drive on Campanella's projectsâ— There can be no other reason why they should scruple it Further in the Preface thus Nor would I have any man believe that there are so many eminent Physicians of the Royal Society for neither is the number of those admitted considerable I find 30 Doctors of Physick in the last years Catalogue and many if not most of them of the Colledge Few of note but have deserted it again The rest approve not of it so that all the talk will not amount to three understanding persons I am assured that 't is false that any of note except one or two have deserted it and M. Stubbe should tell us How those that remain have signified their disapproval Among several other very ingenious persons of the faculty of Physick I remember these of Note in the number of Fellows of the Royal Society Sir Geo. Ent Dr. Glisson Dr. Goddard Dr. Willis Dr. Whistler Dr. Walter Needham Dr. Iasp. Needham Dr. Clerk Dr. Allen Dr. Horshaw Dr. Merrett Dr. Croon Dr. Power Dr. Trustan one or two of these are understanding persons M. Stubbe saith not three would he tell us now which are the one or two that have understanding among them At this rate M. Stubbe makes the Colledge of Physicians as illiterate a Company as the Virtuosi And let any one in that famed body of Learned men be named in opposition to any thing he shall think fit to say and that person be he who he will shall be cast among the Fools and Illiterate I have more reason for this saying then I 'le mention here All the famous Doctors named excepting one or two are Prattle-boxes and Ignoramus's who can scape the lash of such a Tongue But I had almost forgot that to shew his candour and good nature he acknowledgeth some of the Society For he saith in the Preface to his Legends That he must be insensible of all merit that can derogate from Sir Rob. Moray Dr. Wren and Dr. Wallis and it doth not he tells us become any one that knows M. Boyle to think that he would abet a design to subvert Piety and the Protestant Religion It seems he allows Sir R. M. Dr. Wren and Dr. Wallis to be understanding persons and rather then leave out M. Boyle he shall be brought in too though but for a negative merit These are the excepted persons that have the honâ—â—r of some place in his favour The rest are Virtuosi and deserve all that contempt with which we depretiate the Illiterate and Fools But how comes Dr. Wallis that was branded by him with so many charges of illiterateness and ignorance and all things else of contempt as we have seen how comes this Gentleman now to be so highly in his Books It seems the Doctor is exceedingly improved in 10 or 11 years and hath got a great stock of merit since M. Stubbe writ against him or rather men shall have merit when M. Stubbe pleaseth and when he pleaseth they shall have none 'T is to be hoped that the rest of the Virtuosi in ten years more may get a little merit too and obtain from him at least a negative commendation And now what can any one think that reads these passages but that M. Stubbe is over-heated in his head This is the most charitable thought can be entertain'd of him I expect that hereafter he should make it his excuse and certainly 't will be a better Apology then that of serving a Patron I lately received a Letter of his which he writ to Dr. Merrett with a desire that I would print it in this Postscript 'T is very pleasant stuff and I here present it to the Reader for a little further entertainment A Letter from M. Henry Stubbe to Dr. Merrett Doctor of Physick and Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians Dr. Merrett HAving not yet seen your book wherein I am concern'd I cannot tell how far I am to resent it But I understand you are exasperated
Stubbe Russians and swaggering Hectors are not to be treated with gentleness and soft words and I know should I deal with this Antagonist in a way of lenity and smoothness it would incourage his insolence and make him phancy that he is feared I have therefore thought sit to express my self here with more smartness than I do allow of towards men of common civility and good manners and 't is not my passion but judgment prompted me to it And now lest it should be suspected that my dealing so much with M. Stubbe hath infected me with the spirit of detraction I shall next give him those acknowledgments that I think may be his due I confess therefore that he is a man that hath READ he was for some years Sub-librarian at Oxford and so by his imployment was chained among the Books from thence he got great knowledge of Titles and Indexes and by that can upon any occasion let out a great apparatus of Authors and fill his margin with Quotations this must be acknowledged and it is no small advantage for shew and vain-glory and by this means he will seem to have the better of any man he shall oppose among such as are not able or not concerned to examine how he useth his Authors and how he applies them But whoever doth this will find that notwithstanding his pretence to great Reading he reads by Indexes and only collects those passages from Authors which he can suborn to serve his mischievous purposes That he understands not or wilfully perverts the Writers he cites That after he hath swaggered with their names and recited several scraps out of their works his Quotations prove nothing but that M. Stubbe is malicious and impertinent and makes the sayings and opinions he fights against of all this I have given specimens of proof in divers of the ensuing sheets by which it will appear that this confident man is one of the most notorious Impertinents that ever writ a Book And whoever attentively considers his Writings and observes the way of his Discourse must needs see that whatever he pretends to reading he is extreamly defective in judgment and understands not the way of close coherent reasoning Nor indeed can it be expected from one of his temper of brain his head is red-hot and consequently his thoughts are desultory and flirting so that he affirms suddenly whatever comes into his phansie not considering how it agrees with what he said before what it makes for his purpose or how it may be well proved He hath not the patience to ponder any thing deeply nor the judgment and staidness to weigh consequences and therefore writes and speaks in a vein of infinite impertinence and inconsistency This I may be permitted to say here because I have proved it in the following Papers And now what can such a mans pretended Learning signifie It may make him proud and troublesom captious and censorious but will never inable him to serve the world with any useful informations Nor is any mans reading any further to be valued than as it improves and assists his reason where it doth not this 't is either a feather in a Fools cap or a sword in a mad-mans hand a vain glorious impertinence or an instrument of mischief But I perceive my Preface begins to swell and therefore I only add further That whereas M. Stubbe reports in several places of his Books that the Virtuosi contributed to my PLUS ULTRA I will acquit those Gentlemen from being concerned in the composure of a Discourse against which the impertinent Animadverter raiseth such a clamour and assure the Reader that this his report is false And whereas in his Book against Doctor Spâ—att he saith That some some saw my Papers remitted to me blotted and altered this affirmation is a gross untruth also or a contemptible impertinence If he means as he designed to insinuate that the Virtuâ—sâ— remitted them to me blotted and altered by them or any other person 't is a loud falshood No man except my Transcriber ever saw my Book till it was printed nor did I alter any one word upon any manâ— suggestion so that his report in that sense which would have signified to his purpose is a shameless Legend in an other sense indeed 't is true but impertinent my Papers were sent home to me blotted and altered but they were remitted by my Amanâ—ensis as I sent them to hâ—m blotted and altered by my own hand without any otherâ— knowledge or direction and what can malice make of this 'T is a pretty artifice I observe in M. Stubbe to intitle every thing any man doth in favour of the Royal Society to that whole Body or at least to a Club of the Viâ—tuosi that so if he gain any advantages over any private member it may redound to the disparagement of the Society and raise the glory of his performances and therefore I must expect that much of this following Account shall be imputed to the assistance and contributions that he will say I had from the Virtuosi But to prevent his belying those Gentlemen in this and the concerning them in any of my failures I declare I consulted none of them for any of these Reflections I did not submit my Copy to their alterations nor did they or any other person ever see these Papers till they were printed so that whatever wrath they kindle in him it ought all to be directed against me and I assure him I despise both his displeasure and his favour I had other things to have added here but I cast them into the Postscript and I advertise but this more That there is a late printed Letter of the Learned Doctor Meric Causabons written to Doctor Peter du Moulin upon the occasion of my Plus Ultra and containing some Reflections on it I have answered the Strictures of that Reverend man in a particular Discourse which I think to publish when I next reckon with M. Stubbe TO MY Much Honoured Friend Francis Godolphin Esq SIR I Was just upon the Close of a short Treatise of the Religious Temper and Tendencies of the Modern Philosophy when M. Stubb's Book against me came to my hands I was glad to see that this Adversary at last appeared in the open Light For I love not Sculking and base Assaults in the Dark I had much rather be call'd to an Account for any thing I have written before the Learned and Judicious than to be confuted in Corners among those whose Judgments are either prepossest or incompetent This latter hath for some time been my hard Fate For after M. Crosse's Fardel against me was rejected by the Licensers both at Oxford and London for its incomparable Railing and impertinence He endeavour'd to expose me among his Cronies and Confederates by the Manuscript Libel He carrried it about from place to place and like a Scotch Merchant opened his Pack at each House in his Circuit He told his Tales to every Country-Farmer and acquainted
every Mechanick with his mighty Deeds and Purposes So that for a time there was no other Subject handled on Ale-benches and in Coffee-Houses in all this Neighbourhood Besides which Practices He pelted me with Doggerel Rhimes innumerable and a pretended Answer to the Chuè Gazett was read privately to those that had a mind to hear such Stuff and so I was confuted But great Care was taken that I should not know in what for fear I should spoil the Triumphs and write a second part of the Legends of the Disputer Much after the same manner M. Stubb for a year and upwards dealt with me and divers excellent Persons with whom I am not worthy to be mention'd He travelled up and down to tell his Stories of the Royal Society and to vent his spite against that Honourable Assembly He took care to inform every Tapster of the Danger of their Designs and would scarce take his Horse out of an Hostler's hands till he had first let him know how he had confuted the Virtuosi He set his everlasting Tongue at work in every Coffee-House and drew the Apron-men about him as Ballad-singers do the Rout in â—airs and Markets They admir'd the man and wondred what the strange thing call'd the Royal Society should be till at last being informed by this zealous Patriot of Religion they saw clearly that They were a Committee of Projectors to bring in Popery He assured them that the first Design was laid by a Iesuite and discovered the whole Plot upon Religion which he declared his pious Resolutions to vindicate against this Dangerous Combination All this Time while he fought like his Masters of the Good Old Cause with vulgar Rumours which he raised he was impregnable There 's no contending with Spectres and Apparitions But at last he renders himself more palpable and consistent so that now he may be dealt with And since he hath made me the first Object of his fierce Wrath in this Quarrel with the Royal Society I shall endeavour to make my Defence and to disarm the Fury of this Guy of Warwick By which I hope I shall let the World see that this Hector is so far from being a competent Adversary for that Illustrious Company that all the Force his Rage and Malice can raise is not able to oppress or as much as hurt the least considerable Member of that Body This I intend in a full and particular ANSWER to his Book against my PLVS VLTRA and shall let this Man of Battels who is used to triumph before he strikes a blow see that he hath nonplus'd me no where but in his Title But my Affairs will not permit me to fall on that work so soon as I am willing you should have an Account of this Undertaker and therefore I shall now send you a few general Remarques concerning the Author and his Work By which you will perceive that it is not at all to be wondred at that he treats so many excellent Persons with such Insolence and Scorn so many Taunts of Ignorance Illiterateness and what comes next since I shall shew that this is his constant natural Style and hath always been his use in his early Oppositions of some of the most famous men of our Nation So that you are to reckon that the reproachful Characters he gives import only that the man is angry and ignorant and illiterate in his Mouth and Pen signifie but one that is not of his mind or at least not of that mind which he hath a present Humour and Interest to oppose And yet I must confess that after I heard of M. Stubb's Intentions of falling on my Book I expected more Railing and greater Vehemence more opprobrious Names and spightful Sayings because I knew the man and his Genius And though some perhaps can scarce apprehend a greater excess in these good Qualities then are to be met in this Piece yet I can very well conceive such as are incomparably greater having so lately been made acquainted with the Civilities of M. Cross in comparison to whom This Adversary writes like a Christian and a Gentleman and that you may see how much there is of these in this Author and judge of the other by Him I shall now immediately give you the Account of M. Stubb reserving that of M. Cross to another season That I may proceed distinctly I shall represent Him in 1. His TEMPER 2. DESIGNS and 3. MANAGEMENT of them in his last Book In describing these I shall not have recourse to such base Artifices as He and his Friend M. Cross have used against me viz. idle Legends and Fictions of their own Brains Nor shall I reflect upon those infinite Discourses he hath had in very publick places often and sometimes in my hearing from which a Character full enough might be drawn of him for I think it not generous or handsome to make them more publick than he hath done himself except I am unavoidably forced upon it But I shall take all my Accounts of the Undertaker out of his publisht Writings and give you him in his own Words nakedly as they are quoted to a Page In order to which I think fit to present you with a List of those Books he hath written with a short touch of the Subjects that are handled in them ONE of the First of his Essays while he was yet but a Youngster in Oxford was a DEFENCE of M. HOBBS against the Reverend Dr. Wallis the learned and famous Geometry-Professor of that University The Subject we have in the Account he gives of his Performance p. 18. of the second Alphabet where he saith he hath Proved irrefragably that Cum is the proper Preposition of the Ablative of the manner That praetendit scire is no Anglicism That he hath Demonstrated that Motus Magnitudo Consideravimus is good Latin as also that Propositiones falsae sunt multa ejusmodi is elegant That he hath evinced Tanquam to signify As if and that Tanquam si is not one word That he hath said so much about adduco that nothing is wanting but Pantagruel ' s Hug That the Professour may learn of him to put 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 together in Composition That N may come before a Labial and particularly before P That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a visible Point and used for a Mark with a hot iron These Exploits he hath done and these he saith are the Points he undertook to maintain Weighty matter for a publick Quarrel and so weighty it seems the Undertaker accounted it as to be worthy his Passion which broke out upon the Doctor in these Expressions of Civility 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pigmy Quacksalver and Mountebank Critical Bravo Witty-poll of no Credit lost to all Persons of Learning and a contemptible Adversary ignorant intolerably ignorant and a world more to the same purpose of which in its due place with the references to the particular Page How fit a man is this to undertake
the Vindication of M. Cross But I must go on with the Catalogue of his Works The next is An ESSAY in DEFENCE of the good old Cause The most glorious Cause in the World accompanied with no less Success p. 2. of the second Alphabet And a VINDICATION of the Honourable Sir Hen. Uane whom not to honour and admire is to be an Enemy to all that is good and vertuous p. 7. second Alphabet from the false Aspersions of M. BAXTER A Philistim Shimei Rabshakeh p. 11. 2d Alph. A LETTER to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate which is to consist according to His Model of Independents Anabaptists Fifth Monarchy-men and Quakers excluding all PAPISTS PRELATICAL and PRESBYTERIAN Persons p. 61. A LIGHT SHINING OVT OF DARKNESS a Book against Ministry p. 1 2 3 4 c. Vniversities p. 92 93. and 139 140. School-Divinity and Knowledge of Tongues 94 95 96. Humane Learning p. 101 102. Aristotles Philosophy p. 105. Publick Churches 106. Church-yards 110. Division into Parishes and Tiths p. 112 113. Bells 138. Vniversity Habits and Degrees p. 14.2.143 Black Coats p. 147. Gowns 148. Respect of Persons Complemental Addresses and your Servant p. 163. Swearing before a Magistrate p. 165 166. Containing also an express Apology for the Quakers p. 55.56 I quote from the second Edition An ACCOVNT OF CHOCOLATA by which he wholly obligeth Manking Pref. p. last An ACCOVNT of M. GREATARICK who wrought real Miracles p. 8.10 And did things that never man did except Christ and the Apostles p. 27. These miraculous things he wrought by the Temperament and Composure of his Body p. 11. And antient Miracles and modern ones have been wrought by the efficacy of a corporal Touch p. 11. This of M. Greatarick did not indeed always succeed and there were some Diseases as well as some Devils which even the Apostles could not cast out p. 5. A CENSVRE upon certain Passages contain'd in the History of the Royal Society which he saith are impious and pernicious p. 1. contrary to the Analogy of Faith and Scripture p. 36. a Congeries of gross Vntruths tending to the Dishonour of God and the Destruction of the Protestant Religion introducing a Popish Implicit Faith or something that in effect is the same but attended with more ridiculous Circumstances p. 40. directly contrary to the Constitutions of our Church and better becoming a Socinian from Poland and Amsterdam than a Divine of our Church p. 53. Hath not Religion and the Church of England think you an excellent Champion in this DEFENDER of M. Hobbs Sir Hen. Uane and the Quakers But lastly He hath writ a SPECIMEN of SOME ANIMADVERSIONS VPON THE PLUS ULTRA OF M. GLANVILL in which he proves That the Antients were able to cure cut fingers as particularly Podalirius and Machaon in Homer and Galen compounded several Medicines to that purpose as Diapalma Tripharmacon and another hard word p. 3. and again 159. That 't is a very difficult Iourney to the Moon and a great way p. 175. and many other things that are as much to his purpose as these as will be shewn in the Sequel For the present I only say concerning this Piece in general That with a great deal of Noise and Labour the Animadverter hath proved nothing For all his Force is imployed either against Castles in the Air of his own raising or incidental passages that are little or nothing to the Cause I undertook and of no concern to the main body of my Book And yet I must confess that when I compare this Adversary with my other Antagonist M. Cross I think there are acknowledgments due to him for the Reading and shew of Learning that I find in his Discourse and I may say of it as one did of an impertinent Disputer that was very brisk and fluent in his Argument Bene disputat sed nihil ad rem But the Papers of my other Assailant deserve not as much as this For they contain nothing but opprobrious Names gross Falshoods and contemptible Puerilities no Learning nor any shew of any but such as a Boy of 18 would despise Thus briefly and in general of the Writings of this Aggressor out of Them I now come to give you some more particular Accounts of his Spirit and Temper And because I resolve to abstain from all Expressions that look like the Rhetorick and Civility of M. Cross and his Champion M. Stubb I shall not give those hard Names to the Qualifications I discover that every man else will think they deserve But only make a kind and sober Enquiry after some of the remarkable Virtues he discloseth in his Works I shall only insist here on two And because he tells his Reader in the first Page of the Preface to his Light shining out of Darkness Edition the first That HE IS ONE THAT DESIRES TO LIE LOW IN HIS OWN EYES I shall begin these Enquiries by taking notice 1. OF his singular Modesty This is exceeding eminent in every Leaf of his Writings In his Attempts while but a Boy upon the Reverend Dr. Wallis and M. Baxter and now he hath made it more remarkable by his Assault upon the Royal Society His Majesties Institution and an Assembly consisting of Persons of the greatest Honour Gravity and Learning while he is yet but a young Country Physician as he styles himself in his Preface against my Book Plus ultra And above all it is notorious what a modest man this is in his early Oppositions of MONARCHY and Proposals of a MODEL for the GOVERNMENT of three Nations and Extirpation of those Antient Laws which had had been made and confirmed by the Wisdom of so many Kings and successive Parliaments in his Impugnations of MINISTRY VNIVERSITIES CHVRCHES HVMANE LEARNING and all ORDERS and CONSTITVTIONS whatsoever as Popish and Antichristian But let us take a view of his singular Humility and Lowness in his own Eyes in some Expressions in his Writings I shall recite a few Instances among numerous others which for Brevity I must omit by which you may judge how he excels in this Virtue In the first Page of his Book against Dr. Wallis in Defence of M. Hobbs He expresseth himself to his Friend in these words I have pen'd a further Discourse upon that Subject which you may suppress from going any further if you find that my early Repute abroad doth not call for the Publication nor the Applause of the Ingenious whose Praises were the more to be regarded because they were directed to the Piece which was publick not the Author that was concealed It seems he had writ an Anonymous Book which he tells the World raised him an early Repute and the Applauses and Praises of the Ingenious Very modest And as lowly is that other Saying p. 5. If I find the Doctor produce more Grammars against us I will allow him two to one and venture my Reputation against his no Credit Great Odds M. Stubb ' s Reputation that early
Book had made him angry he was now become obstinate and he goes on In that famed Work I encountred with so many illiterate Passages that the Credit of our Nation seemed concern'd in the Refuting it Yea he adds that the Interest of the present Monarchy the Protestant Religion and the Emolument of each private Person was concerned And when these were at stake was it fit for M. Stubb to be silent His Zeal for the Credit of the Nation Monarchy and Religion would have destroyed him if it had not had vent He must speak or burst And all this Zeal was kindled by a sense of Duty as we may believe for he tells us He ought not to be silent and those that know him may think 't were impossible â—e should But for an Instance or two more DES-CARTES his Book De Homine is ridiculous p. 18. And the MATHEMATICIANS in a Cluster are reckon'd with the Illiterate p. 115. Let illiterate Persons and Mathematicians be swayed against plain Proof by these Arguments Any Arguments will sway Mathematicians For They seldom if ever prove Metaphysicians Religieuse or otherwise of tolerable Ratiocination p. 17. For the Geometricians either reject as false frivolous and indemonstrable those Reasonings and Studies according to which Humane Affairs are regulated or else ignorantly run into Whimsies and phantastical ways of arguing ibid. And therefore the Mathematicks in general are concluded less necessary and inutile ibid. What pity 't is now that Aristotle should be a Geometrician as p. 18. And how come the Mathematicks to be so inutile as they were just now p. 17. when in this 18th 't is said That Aristotle supposeth his Scholars not ignorant in Geometry since without that Knowledge they could not understand his Analyticks nor that part of his Ethicks where he illustrates Iustice by Arithmetical and Geometrical Proportions Well! The Methods of Ratiocination laid down by Aristotle are general as to publick and private use p. 17. Those Methods cannot be known without Geometry according to Aristotle himself p. 18. and yet Mathematicks are inutile p. 17. For M. Stubb to rail at that in one Book which he cries up and defends in another we must allow him He affirms and denies what comes into his head next to serve his present Spight and Interest and we are not to look for any more Consistency in his Books than in his Dreams But some would expect that the same Treatise or at least the same Leaf should be consistent with it self This may chance to happen but he hath good Luck when it doth For he tells us in his Prefaces that he sends away some sheets before others are written and a man may judge by his Writings that he no more remembers what he pen'd last Week than what he dreamt last Night was Twelve-Month But the most pleasant Complement of all is behind In the Preface to his Book against me p. 3. He calls the Virtuosi Prattle-boxes and p. 1. mentions one who as 't is usual saith he with that sort of Virtuosi instantly usurp'd all the Discourse and no doubt he made hast But where did that wonderful Virtuoso dwell that could usurp the Discourse when M. Stubb was present Certainly 't was one of the most nimble among the Prattle-boxes there cannot be such another in the whole Set One would wonder what M. Stubb should be doing when the Virtuoso usurp'd the Discourse He tells us this was done at a Person of Honour's Table and that it was at the very Beginning of Dinner it appears in that the Gentleman usurp'd the Discourse instantly So that we may judge that M. Stubb's Teeth would not give his Tongue leave But as soon as that was at Liberty he paid the barbarous Opiniatour p. 3. for usurping his Province If M. Stubb had hated all Vsurpers as he doth the Vsurpers of Discourse we had never had a Defence of the Good old Cause But why should he be so much concerned about this sort of Usurpers Their Discourse can no more be heard in the lurry of his than a soft Voice can amidst the Clutter and Noise of a Mill So that he hath no need of the Wax and Wooll he prescribes against the buzze of the Prattle-boxes his Tongue will better defend his Ears from that danger though I cannot promise that it will never expose them to other and worse Hazards And he is never like to meet such an Vsurper of Discourse as the Virtuoso at the Person of Honours Table did except the Doctor of Warwick could meet Harry Stubb of Christ-church Thus I have given some Account of the rare Civilities of the Courtly Anti-Virtuoso and upon review of them I cannot but wonder that this man who had so early a Reputation abroad as he told us and was so applauded by the ingenious should sully his Fame by the Choice of such pitiful Adversaries Dr. Wallis was ignorant grosly ignorant intolerably ignorant ignorant in his own Profession M. Baxter no Scholar at all not skill'd in Latin Greek or Hebrew Ecclesiastical History or Philosophy a Whiffler in Theology and Glow-Worm in Literature Dr. Sprat's History Illiterate and Nonsensical The Virtuosi Prattle-boxes and Ignoramus's and I ignorant of every thing What means this Man of Renown to choose out such despicable Adversaries Why doth he disparage his Puissance by imploying it against such feeble Foes what poor Quarry are these for such a Noble Bird of Prey He told us heretofore that it was Zeal for the Cause and now 't is the Interest of Monarchy Protestant Religion the Church of England and Vniversities that have engaged this publick-spirited man to so great Condescensions and how much reason we have to believe that these were the true Motives to his Assaults we shall see by and by I shall now shut up this Head by taking notice what a fit Second this is for M. Cross They are nobile par and extremely alike in sundry particulars of their Genius and Performances only it must be confess'd that M. Stubb hath as much the more Learning as he is guilty of the less Scurrility And indeed the Civilities of this kind which the Physician of Warwick hath bestowed upon all his Adversaries are not equal to those my other Antagonist hath liberally given me singly And though I pass immediately from looking over the Collection of Complements I have presented you from M. Stubb yet when I cast my eyes from it upon M. Crosses Papers a Transcript of which I have I cannot choose but bless my self and cry out in astonishment For there is scarce a word of Reproach in the Dictionary but he hath found it for me yea he hath made divers that are span-new to serve his purpose and ventured upon Barbarisms to miscall me by when all the usual Names of Disparagement and Infamy were spent But I shall have a fitter place to reckon with that Billingsgate Oratour I return to his Patron M. Stubb and having given you a short Representation of
of the Antient Christian the Quaker would not have stood in need of an Apology Whether these Passages and the Discourse were more intended to recommend the Quakers or to make the first Christians Protestants and Martyrs contemptible and ridiculous by the Comparison Let those that know M. Stubb and have ever heard him discourse about Religion judge For my part I am satisfied 'T is a pleasant Passage and to the same purpose which I meet in his Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane p. 36. He tells M. Baxter that it was ignorantly said of Him That the Quakers had no being in the World till a few Years ago and in contradiction to it he saith As to the Generality of their Opinions and Deportment I DO AVOW it out of as sure and good Records as any can be produced that they can plead more for themselves for the first 270 Years then M. Baxter for the present Orthodox Religion laid down in the SAINTS EVERLASTING REST or the CONFESSION of the Assembly You may please to mark that he speaks not of any particular Opinions of M. Baxter and the Assembly which have less to be said for them out of primitive Antiquity than the Quakers but of their Religion And when M. Stubb hath proved what he hath here Avowed men are like to have as good an Opinion of Christianity as he can wish And how good a one that is I am loth to call in the Vouchee he cites for M. Cross viz. general Fame to testifie He declares it too frequently in the whole Contexture of his Light out of Darkness and since in his Account of Greatarick he gives hint enough of the Degree of his Faith Christ Iesus and his Apostles appeal continually to their Works those miraculous ones they performed as evidencing the Divineness of their Commission and the Truth of their Doctrines and M. Stubb tells us p. 10. That all Religions have had their real Miracles and so let them dispute or fight it out as they can Miracles must be tried by Truth not Truth by Miracles ibid. But how the Truth shall be tried viz. that of a Divine Commission or Authority 't is not for the Interest of one of his Principles or rather of his no Principles to tell us And when he hath taken away the Testimony of the Spirit in Miracles he knows well enough what will become of Christianity This he endeavours here by many very odd Suggestions M. Greatarick did things miraculous p. 8. and these he performed by the Temperament and Composure of his Body p. 11. So that Healing Miracles are the Effects of the Effluvia of a particular Ferment p. 11. And so Christ Jesus shewed nothing of Divinity in curing Diseases by his Touch. Yea M. Greatarick is mated with Him and the Apostles p. 26. He did the things that never man did but Christ and his Apostles He cured Diseases by the Temperament and Composure of his Body ut sup but no man ever did so besides only the Son of God and his Disciples had the Priviledge And yet p. 10. this in express Words is plainly contradicted for we hear there of others that did the same things with Christ Iesus and M. Greatarick The Alexicaci Salutatores or Bensedevios that cure by anointing with Spittle and by breathing and stroaking of the Patient p. 10. And in Turky also and Africk they have Persons of the like Qualifications ibid. But 't is nothing for M. Stubb to affirm Contradictions and I wish that were the worst could be justly laid to his Charge I have a great deal more to say of his Friendship to Religion which I keep for a Reserve He tells us p. 15. of his Book against my Plus Vltra That Mahomet taking advantage of the Brutal Lives and Ignorance of the Catholicks depending upon the Patriarch of Constantinople did advance the Sect of Christians called Mahometans I wish some do not think that a certain Defender of Religion and the Church of England is a Christian by the same Figure as are those Disciples of Mahomet If a man of Learning and tolerably in his Wits endeavour to make the first Christians Martyrs and Reformers like the Quakers in their Opinions and Deportment He cannot be supposed primarily to design the Crediting those distracted Enthusiasts but to vilifie all Christians except some of M. Stubb's sort called Mahometans and our Defender of Religion knows well enough that the Testimonies he alledgeth to prove those sick-brain'd People to be like all the best Christians will prove as much that the best Christians were like Them and so a more desperate Enemy than the Quakers is gratified How far he intended this let those conjecture who have heard of his Kindness and Concern for M. Hobbs And how far he designs the promoting the Interest of Religion and the Church of England let the most charitable man alive judge upon the whole I but 3. he tells us how much he is for School-Divinity and how far some great matters of Faith are concerned in it we derive great Benefits from Controversal Divinity for the Quieting the Conscience and Convincing our Adversaries and whoever hath any sense of these must detest the Enterprise of M. Glanvill Non Plus p. 1. This He did because he had a Value for the Peace of his Conscience which is to be setled by School-Divinity But how different from this was his Opinion of it when he writ against M. Baxter Then School-Divinity was apt to create everlasting Disputes rather than Rest and made no part of the Rest of the Primitive whether Christians or Antichristians these are his Words p. 18. M. Stubb had another way to quiet his Conscience at that time but now School-Divinity is the only Expedient And whereas in the same first Page of his Book against me he tells us The Distinction of the Trinity of Essence and Personality the Hypostatical Vnion of the two Natures in our Saviour and the meritoriousness of his Death which depends thereupon are undermined with School-Divinity In that he writ against M. Baxter he saith of it That it is an upstart Study unknown to the purer times model'd and profess'd by that Order which now manageth the Inquisition and was at first erected for the suppressing the Truth in the Albigenses p. 13. M. Stubb in his last Book greatly applauds Metaphysicks if he can find any Distinctions in that Learning to solve his own Contradictions he shall have my Vote for the greatest Metaphysician in the World He doth so directly and in terms every where almost affront himself that I cannot possibly write more point-blank against him than Harry doth against Stubb and some think that if he be let alone the next time he scribbles he 'l reduce even his last Book to a Non-plus and confute this also as he hath already done by most of his other Writings The Truth is M. Stubb hath wanted an Adversary to appear publickly against him and therefore he hath challeng'd and provoked all
May not I say that Columbus discover'd the new western World or that Fust or Gothenberg found out the Mystery of Printing or Flavius Goia the Compass except they had told me so themselves And if it be usual among the most unexceptionable Relaters to collect their Accounts from other Testifiers what can M. Stubb make of it if he could prove that I never saw most of the Authors I mention How much he himself is acquainted with the Books he quotes we shall anon find some things whereby to pass a Judgment Thus M. Stubb begins with a peremptory Assertion of a thing which is false in the Latitude of his Affirmation and which he could not possibly know whether in any more restrain'd sense it were true or not And his immediate next words contain another most gross and confident Falshood And all his Discourse about the Mathematicks and Mathematicians procured him no other Acknowledgments from a Learned and Reverend Prelate to whom he sent one of his Books than a Reprimand for intermedling with what he understood not ibid. I have heard from credible Persons that M. Ieanes the Polemick Writer who was well acquainted with M. Cross was wont to call any lusty by a name which for the sake of some worthy Persons I shall not mention on this occasion M. Stubb's Friend of Chuè knows what I mean He may do well to advise him to take care of such broad unconscionable Falshoods though I confess a man of his Practices is the most improper Person in the World for such a Service The Period I last quoted from M. Stubb is a gross Vntruth I sent my Plus Vltra but to one Bishop besides that Reverend Father to whom it was dedicated and that learned and excellent Person was so far from sending me a Reprimand to use M. Stubb's word that he was pleased to write me a most obliging Letter of Thanks And my own venerable Diocesan accepted of that Book and the Direction of it to him with a great deal of Candour and Kindness and never signified the least Dislike to me of it So that I should have wondred much at this Clause and divers others of like kind If I had not heard a Character of M. Stubb at Oxford and did not know Him and his Familiarity with M. Cross but now I shall not be surprised though every Sentence were a Legend But 2. he offers something for proof of his first Saying viz. that I never saw the Authors I mention as it follows ib. p. 2. who ever heard of such men as Maximus Palanudes Achazen and Orentius And who ever heard of such things as Errata of the Press If I had a mind to play at this little Sport and would retort I might ask him who ever heard of such People as the Abbigenses spoken of in his Vind. of Sir H. V. p. 13. or of such a man as Iâ—lice mention'd p. 113. of this Book No doubt he 'l lay the fault at the Printers doors And why did he not see that the Names he quotes from me are like Errours Doth he not know there were such Persons as Maximus Planudes Alhazen and Orontius and there is not one of these that differs more then a Letter from the Names over which he so much insults The latter he charitably supposeth to be a Mistake because he thought he could make the man ridiculous and disable him from signifying to my purpose but of that by and by If he could have found that the other two had been pitiful Fellows also as he pretends this was then Palanudes should have been corrected by Planudes and Achazen by Alhazen And 't is very strange that M. Stubb could not see that Achazen was a Mistake of the Press when as Alhazen stands within five Lines of him in my Book whar a blind thing is Malice when it hath no mind to see Well There were such men as Planudes Orontius and Alhazen and Vossius saith enough of the least considerable of them to justifie my transient mention of their Names Anno 870. eluxit Maximus Planudes qui Diaphanti Arithmeticen Commentariis illustravit Voss. de Scient Mathem p. 311. And even of Orontius he speaks thus celebre Nomen fuit Orontii Finei Delphatis qui Arithmeticae practicae publicavit Libros quatuor p. 316. But M. Stubb saith of him in Scorn He was so famous a Geometrician that when Sir H. Savil as I remember was to seek of an Instance of a pitiful Fellow this was the man he fixed on ib. p. 2. Would not any one from these Words and their Relation to those that go before conclude that I had reckoned Orontius among the Improvers of Geometry To what purpose else doth the Animadverter speak of him as a contemptible Geometrician But if he will look again into my Book he will see that I mention not Orontius under that head but name him and only so among the Authors in Arithmetick And have not I as much reason to say That M. Stubb never reads the Books he writes against as He to affirm that I never saw the Authors I mention But M. Stubb could not give his Studies so much Diversion as to consider what he said Well I name Orontius among the Arithmetical Writers and 't is an evident Argument I never saw him because he is a pitiful Fellow at Geometry Is this Logick old or new 'T is a sort M. Stubb useth often but I believe he can shew us nothing more pitiful in Orontius But if Vossius may be believ'd Orontius did not need so much of M. Stubb's Pity even in Geometry He tells us Anno 1525. ac 30 proximis claruit Orontius Fineus qui de Geometriâ scripsit Libros duos item Demonstrationes in sex Libros priores Euclidis Ad haec de Quadraturâ Circuli inventâ demonstratâ de Circuli Mensurâ ratione Circumferentiae ad Diametrum de multangularum omnium regularium Figurarum Descriptione aliáque de Sc. Math. p. 65. And that his Performances in these were not altogether so contemptible as the Anti-Virtuoso would insinuate we may see a Reason to think from the Place he held among the Mathematicians of his time according to the same Author Primus hic Matheseos regius in Galliis Professor fuit ibid. But let Orontius be what he will in Geometry M. Stubb is impertinent in what he saith about him and I am not concerned For the other Author Achazen in one Line but Alhazen within five Lines before Confidence it self hath not the face to deny that there was such a man or that he was a great Author in Opticks for which I mention his Name there where M. Stubb found Achazen to make a Wonder of You see Sir what an Adversary I have that will not suffer the misprinting of a Letter to escape him excellent Corrector of the Press What pity 't is that M. Cross had not found out these three Errata that he might have had something to say
History of Salt-Petre 'T is like he understands that Tree He experimented something more than ordinary of it at Oxford and perhaps if he had right done him he would have more experience of another Tree But I must not stay to remark here He gives out That he will make the Lord Bishop of CHESTER smart and writ to one as I am credibly told that he was making inquiries into his Lordships Learning parts and qualifications for a Bishop How fit is he to be a visitour of Bishops But to confine my self to what is printed He gives notice in the Preface of his Legends of several Books more that he hath coming in pursuance of the Projects of his former Particularly he threatens one against my LETTER concerning ARISTOTLE a Design suitable to the Grandeur of M. Stubbe's mind That short Discourse was first only a private Letter written when I was not 23 years of Age and printed six or seven years ago Let the mighty man in the glory of his conquests insult over an essay of a green youth and take six years time to write against two sheets of Paper which for ought he can tell the Author by this time disrellisheth himself But the truth is I do not know whether I have any reason to do so or not having not read it over since Whatever other faults there may be in the Composure I 'm sure there is no Lying as M. Stubbe chargeth it according to the usual way of his civility I reported no matter of Fact concerning Aristotle or his Philosophy but from some good and approved Author though perhaps I should find trouble now in the particular citations because I want the opportunity of those Books that I then used and I have lost the Notes that I took from them Whether it will be worth my Labour to answer what M. Stubbe shall write against that young exercise of my Pen. I cannot certainly foresee but I shrewdly guess Perhaps the sole consideration of my youth when I writ it will excuse more faulâ—s than M. Stubbe's wit and spight together can discover or as much as pretend to find there If he confutes that Letter with the like Ignorance and impertinence as he hath used in his Animadversions on Plus Ultra T will be answer enough to print it again The Lyes he pretends it guilty of will I may expect be disproved by some that are so indeed for his Authors must spâ—ak what he would have them say and he tells a gross one in the few words in which he mentions the design of confuting me when he saith that I have never as much as read over Diogenes Laertius which were impossible he should know though it were true I only take notice further concerning this that according to that little cunning which I mentioned before He would fain draw in the Royal Society to be concern'd in that Letter of mine That so his intended Triumph might be greater and the Virtuosi prejudiced by his pretended advantages against it The Letter forsooth is joined to the Edition of my Scâ—psis Scientifica which bears the Arms and is dedicated to the Royal Society Pref. to Leg. That Book was indeed Dedicated to the Society but I was not then a Member of it And are Patrons of Books responsible for their imperfections If so 't were very bad news for the modest Dr. Willis to whom the cleanly discourse of Chocolate is directed The Prefixing the Societies Arms to my Dedication was the Stationers conceit and the mention of it puts me in mind of a ridiculous offence that was once taken against another Book of mine The Printer had set a flourish at the beginning over the Dedication 'T was a Cut of Henry 8. lying by a Tree which some took for an emblem of Protestantism coming out of his Codpiece Just such Arguments M. Stubbe useth to prove that the Royal Society have a design to reduce us to Popery And I remember when the Theatre at Oxford was newly built he very sadly told me and made a deal of tragical talk about it That They had pictured God the Father in the midst of the Cieling in the shape of an old man when the figure he meant was but a Mythological picture what particularly I have forgot I wonder this was not insisted on to prove that the Society designs Popery no doubt it had been as good a one as any he hath produced But I am a little stept besides my design of presenting some Instances of his rare modesty and civility in his last Books I shall now do it briefly He calls the Royal Society Trojan Horse Pref. to Camp and an illiterate Company p. 21. The Members of it Great Impostors Pref. 10 C. Fopps Pref. to Leg. and poor Devils in his Letter to Sir N. N. viz. Sir Nicholas Nemo And p. 21. in his Postscript speaking of the overthrow of the Royal Society He expresseth himself thus which not only all Doctors but all good men oâ—ght to endeavour That the disasters of the late Dutch War the Plague and Fire of London were less inconveniences than their perpetuity That these calamities admitted some remedy hereafter but the evils they are likely to occasion us would never be corrected by any humane Providence and I doubted not whether God would support us by his Prudence when they had debauched the Nation from all piety and morality as well as civil wisdom This was he saith part of the purport of another Discourse of his about the errors and cheats of the Virtuosi I now begin to repent that I have troubled my self so much with this hot-headed Impertinent for I perceive that no one is so fit to answer him as the Keeper of Bedlam I begin to pity him and to wish that The Colledge of Physicians to requite him for that grandeur he saith he designs for them would prescribe somewhat for him For certainly there is much ground to think that the phansie of his supposed great exploits hath blown him up to a great distraction Let us hear how he swaggers on It is said that my Animadversions on M. Glanvill contain little of matter to which I answer That they contain enough to have made twenty Uirtuost famous and would hâ—ve acquired them a memorial of ingenious and noble experimentators They contain enough to shew the Ignorance of that person who had so insulted over all Vniversity-Learning and particularly over the Physicians They contain enough since they contain more then They All Knew and think I have done great service to the Learned in shewing that these Virtuosi are very great Impostors To the Reader in Camp Again in the Dedication of his Legends to the Vniversities thus I have stooped the Talbots their Supporters for them and if ever They hunt well hereafter this Age knows whom they are obliged to In a Letter to Dr. Merrett which is after inserted He rants thus If you will proceed with them you must be trampled on with Themâ— who are irrecoverably
against M. Starky about a Postscript bearing my name Sir There is nothing therein spoken positively but upon supposition If one may judge of your abilities by what you have writ against the Apothecaries then These words are not â—ctionable at least till the case be decided in Physick And 't is but fiâ—ting that you suspend your process till I appear against you in Print which I will do next Term and appeal in the judgment of the Colledâ—e or what Members thereof you 'l chooseâ— It is all one to me For whosoever differâ— from my judgment where I oppose you will but injure himself and betray his ignorance in Physick But Sir to let you see how civil I am to my own faculty if you will desert the ROYAL SOCIETY and endeavour to adjust the differences rather then to widen them betwixt Physicians and Apothecaries and joyn in the common interest and support of our profession against the Quacks and Virtuosi I will be ready so far to gratifie the desiresâ— of some of your friends and mine as to add aftâ—r the debate betwixt you and me upon the case That I do believe your haste and passion might occasion the miscarriage and that your abilities are not to be measured of by any single failure I beseech you consider the interest and honour of our profession in your quarrels and let us not out of passion against the Apothecaries destroy our selves and give advantage to the multitude of Quacks under the protection of the Royal Society and the pretence of making their own Medicaments You see with what success I have managed the quarrel in behalf of Physick against the Uirtuâ—â—t Desert these ignorant and insolent persons and let me not be blown up behind by the divisions of the Colledge the Grandeur whereof is my Design If you will comply herein I will treat you civilly enough If you will proceed with â—hem you must be content to be trampled on with them who are irrecoverably lost You sâ—â— what miserable Apologies the Wit of Dr. Spratt and the reviâ—ing of the Bishop of Chester hath produced What man of Common sâ—nce would associate with such Partisans 'T is your interest and 't is for your credit to abandon thesâ—â—atch doterels I know my advanâ—ages over that book of yours which I write against â—nd your repute will extreamly depend considering the odium you are under upon my â—ibility to you The world will laugh to see our pens revenge themselves in Westminster-Hall Let us not divert any eye from scorning the Royal Society That is the interest of every English man I 'm sure You may tell them from me that their dull Letter to me is answered and that I will bestow a Preface on Glanvill and the rest when that against you is publish't which is not yet gone to the Press because I attend the news of your depâ—rtment who I hear are upon disclaiming the Royal Society the Declaration thereof will be enough to make me Your very humble Servant H. Stubbe Warwick Aug. 16. 1670. Dr. Merrett sent me his Answer to this Letter and I had made it publick having his permission to do so but that my Postscript swells to too great a bigness Nor indeed doth it need any Deâ—â—ant to render it contemptible and ridiculous Only this I think â—it to insâ—rt out of the Doctors remarks That whereas the Quack of Warwick saith he hears He is deâ—eâ—â—ing the Royal Society to which he threatens and invites him The Doctor professeth his great and just esteem of that Honourable Assembly in the words that follow I shall save my self the labour of apologizing for the ROYAL SOCIETY whose repute with foreign Princes and learned men of all sorts witnessed by their pens and the imitation of the like Societies by themâ— The resort of Ambassadors to their Meetings and the many Books publisht by the Members thereof evidence to the world the ignorance and insolence of this pitiful Scribler He goes on owning his relation to them with great respect and though he confesseth that for a year or so he hath by his occasions been often diverted from their meetings yet adds that he hopes to frequent them more for the future Thus we see in another instance how impudently M. Stubbe romanceth in his Stories of persons withdrawing from the Royal Society He names but two of those he pretends to be declining from it viz. Dr. More and Dr. Merrett and I have I suppose presented such effectual confutations of his bold falshood from both these learned Gentlemen as would make any man blush but M. Stubbe I shall make no other remarks upon the recited Letter Every Reader will make enough for the credit of the writer He tells us in one of his last Books That he hath some vertues of the most celebrated times I hope he doth not mean veracity or modesty If he would let us know what the celebrated Times were in which the Qualities I have noted from his writings were Vertues 't would be a discovery and I 'le assure him none of the Virtuosi would take the honour from him of finding out the new vertues or being the most eminent in them But now I remember he hath already given hint enough for the discovery For in the Preface to his laâ—e Book of Chocolate He saith of Presbytery that it is malice and disingenuity heightned with all the circumstances imâ—ginable in men this 〈◊〉 Hell We know he celebrated the Times in which the Creatures and Supplanters of Presbytery reigned and there is no doubt but They abounded as mâ—ch with those good Qualities which he makes the essence of Presbytery as any men this side the place he speaks of And since Those were his celebrated Times we may learn easily what were the vertues and in how high a degree M. Stubbe pâ—ssâ—sseth â—hem he is blind that doth not see For my part However ignorant I am otherwise He hath sufâ—â—ciently informed me in this and there is no doubt but after what I have done in the foregoing Account I must expect further exercisâ— of his celebrated vertues towards me Iâ— his râ—ge and â—â—ight were â—o kindled only â—y a Cut finger How will he be inflamed by the wounds my representation of his impudence falshoods and impertitencies hath given him Let him now raise his malicious pride to itâ— most ridiculous height and spit his most spightful scorns and contempts upon me from it Let him set his cavilling invention on work for more falshoods and slandâ—rs to vilifie and debase me and call in his friend M. Cross to help him out of his Storehouse of Lâ—gâ—nds and Reproacheâ— Let him wrest my 〈◊〉 and confute his own dreams and the Eâ—â—ata of the Press to stuff up a Book of mâ—re folly and impertinâ—nce or which it may be he may think the wiser course Let him neâ— give me up to the Common pens as he threatens to be laught at and leave them to prove what he hath couragiously affirmed as he did