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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28274	Mr. Blackall's reasons for not replying to a book lately published entituled, Amyntor in a letter to a friend.	Blackall, Offspring, 1654-1716.	1699 (1699)	Wing B3049; ESTC R12919	7,533	26

Mr. Blackall's REASONS For not Replying TO A BOOK Lately Published ENTITULED AMYNTOR In a LETTER to a Friend The Second Edition LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1699. Sir BY your so much urging me to think of Writing somewhat by way of Answer to Amyntor it seems to me that you have not yet read the Book but only dipt here and there in it and because you saw my Name frequently mentioned think there must needs be something in the Book that bears hard upon me and which I am concerned in Honor to make some Reply to I desire you therefore first to read over the Book very carefully if you have not yet done it and after that to consider those Reasons which I shall now give you why I have no thoughts at present of Writing any Answer to it and then I make no doubt but you will be of my Mind viz. That it is altogether needless for me to give either my self or the World any more trouble about this Matter In Amyntor there is first a general Apology for Writing Lives whether of good or bad Men. But in this part of the Book from p. 1. to 11. you will see plainly I am not concerned The next part of it from p. 11. to 81. was indeed occasioned by a Passage in my Sermon before the House of Commons and therefore you with others may think perhaps it lies on me to reply to it But when you have read it over I believe you will be of another Mind because you will easily perceive that the Author and I are at last well enough agreed in that Point wherein we seemed most to differ The Matter of Fact is this He had said in the Life of Milton that many Supposititious Pieces under the Name of Christ and his Apostles and other great Persons had been Published and Approved by some I suppose he means not by all in the Primitive Times And to this Observation because by my little Reading I knew there was much of Truth in it I made no Exception But he had said moreover that he doubted the Spuriousness of several more such Books was yet undiscovered thro' the Remoteness of those Times c. And this Passage I found fault with as what proceeding from the Mouth of a Person in high Esteem as I had heard with some Men for his great Parts and Learning might give occasion to them and to others not so well read in Antiquity as they took him to be to think that some of those Books which are received by the whole Christian Church as Parts of Canonical Scripture are of very uncertain Authority because as I then said I knew of no other Pieces under the Name of Christ and his Apostles the Spuriousness whereof had not been discovered and I charged him with Infidelity if indeed he did doubt of the Authority of these Books and with Immodesty for so openly Affronting the holy Religion Professed and Established among us by declaring this his Doubt in Print But he sayes now that I was mistaken in my Censure because the Books which he meant viz. In this last Passage which I excepted against as well as in the former or else all that he Writes from p. 18. to p. 43. is nothing to me nor to the Purpose are either some Books the Spuriousness of most of which has been discovered many hundred Years ago and which are few of them now extant a large Catalogue whereof he has given us from p. 20. to p. 42 and it seems it was only my foolish Mistake to think that the word yet when he sayes the Spuriousness of these Books is yet undiscovered did refer to this present Year whenas indeed it was meant by him to refer to some time many Years since past and gone or else he meant the Books ascribed to certain Apostolick Men particularly the Epistle of Barnahas the Pastor of Hermas the Epistle of Polycarpus to the Philippians the first Epistle of Clemens Romanus to the Corinthians and the seven Epistles of Iginatus And I can't imagine now what you would have me reply to this for whether he did mean these and only these Books in that Passage which I excepted against none can certainly tell but himself if therefore he sayes he did mean only these and not the Books of the New Testament how can I contradict him All that I could say to this if I had a mind to reply to this part of his Book would be only to give the World the Reason that made me think he meant not these only but likewise some of the Books of the New Testament which was this that he having spoken before of Supposititious Pieces under the Name of Christ and his Apostles as well as of other great Persons it was very reasonable to think that when immediately after in the same Period he speaks of several more such Books the Spuriousness of which is not yet discovered he had meant several some at least of all the sorts before mentioned that is some under the Name of Christ and some under the Name of his Apostles as well as some under the Name of other great Persons For how should I know what he meant by such Books but by looking back and seeing what Books he had spoken of before And finding that he had there spoken not only of Books under the Name of other great Persons but likewise under the Name of Christ and his Apostles what could I understand by such Books but some Books under the Name of Christ and his Apostles as well as some under the Name of other great Persons And if he did not mean so or would not have been thought to have meant so he ought I think to have distinguish'd and have made that Passage which I excepted against an intire Sentence by its self and have said plainly that tho' he thought some Books Spurious which some others believed to be Genuine they were only some pieces that had been sacribed to the other great Men but not any of those that were received as Pieces of Christ or his Apostles and if he had Written his Mind thus clearly I should no more have excepted against this Passage than I did against the former But he says If I had been disposed to deal ingenuously with him I might have seen without the help of the Fathers which he supposes I know nothing of that he did not mean the Books of the New Testament when he mentioned Supposititious Pieces under the Name of Christ since there is none Ascribed to him in the whole Bible nor do we read there that he ever wrote any thing except once with his Finger on the Ground when he acquitted the Woman taken in Adultery But I wonder this should be urged by a Man that has so very lately written the Life of John Milton for by the same Argument I might prove that Paradice lost and other late Pieces Ascribed by this Author as well as