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A58980 A second letter to Dr. Burnet Lowth, Simon, 1630?-1720. 1684 (1684) Wing S2287; ESTC R8788 4,947 9

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the Second part of your Plea touching your Marginal Note upon the last Question about extreme Unction you seem to set forth that by publishing Cranmer's Subscription to the Opinion of Leyghton upon that Point you have given us sufficient grounds to believe that he Subscribed in all other Points and that therefore you have been Faithful To this I say Sir that you are utterly mistaken For in regard that you have New Methodiz'd and Canton'd out and Scatteringly dispos'd of Leyghton's Paper Cranmer's Subscription to him in the last Article is no clear Argument that he was of Leyghton's Judgment in every Article beside nor could you believe that your Reader would take it so unless you had given this kind of Notice on the Margent over against every one of Leyhton's Resolutions This and This and This Resolution of Leyghton's Bishop Cranmer Subscribed to and thus you ought to have done if you would have dealt Clearly and Sincerely considering that you took upon you to Methodize Leyghton's Paper after your own way What you say that by this art of Reasoning I may pretend that my Subscription belongs only to the last line in my Letter is impertinent and of no force For should you Sir Retract your Error as Bishop Cranmer did His should you Subscribe at the bottom of my Letter G. Burnet and should some Vagrant Pedler at last carry this Letter into Scotland in broken shreds and piece-meals would your Hand to the last little script of Paper clearly argue that you were of my Opinion in every particular This would hardly satisfie the Loyal Clergy there of your Repentance and Ingenuity though they would be very glad to see it Pray Doctor let me intreat you seriously to consider this one thing These Manuscripts were in the Hands of Dr. Stillingfleet when he wrote his Irenicum and what think you Did Cranmer's Subscription to Leyghton upon the last Point of Extreme Vnction satisfie Dr. Stillingfleet that he was of Leyghton's Opinion in all other Points Answer this Question clearly and like an Honest Plean-dealing Man To prevent Cavil I desire you to believe that I do not speak with any the least Reflection upon that Learned and Excellent Person nor is Dr. Stillingfleet's name to be mentioned by me without due Respect and Honor I know what his Opinion was when he wrote that Book but such are his Merits and the great Services he hath done on each Hand that they out-weigh a single Error of his younger years especially since he hath been so Just and Ingenuous as to Retract it But since that great Man hath like Archbishop Cranmer own'd his mistake I hope he will not take it amiss from me if I mention it and you know it was this That no form of Church-Government is Necessary but that it depends upon the Wisdom of the Magistrate and Church For proof hereof among other Arguments such as they be he particularly insisteth upon the Judgment of Cranmer without taking any notice of Cranmer's Changing his Opinion Vid. Irenic a pag 386. ad p. 393. or of his Subscribing to the Judgment of Leyghton tho Cranmer's Subscription at the end of Leyghton's Paper and under the Article of Extreme Vnction was under his own Hand in Dr. Stillingfleets Manuscripts Now will you say that Dr. Stillingfleet was satisfied by Cranmer's Hand to one Article of Extreme Vnction that he was of Leyghton's Judgment upon the Point of Church-Power You cannot say this without doing that worthy Person irreparable injury for you must accuse him of great Vnfaithfulness for urging an Opinion of Cranmer's which he was satisfied in his Conscience by Cranmer's Subscription that Cranmer altered and changed upon second and more Mature thoughts You must say if you will do Dr. Stillingfleet Right that he was not satisfied by that Subscription of Cranmer's to that Article and if He who had the Originals in his custody and had considered the thing so much was nevertheless Vnsatisfied and Deceived well may all other Men be so too I do not see how you will be able to get over this difficulty and therefore you must be contented to give us leave to think that because you have mangled the Originals in copying them out by taking notice of Cranmer's Subscription to one Point only you have dealt Vnfaithfully and was willing either to Lead the World into an Error or to Leave Men in one I think the substance of your Letter is now fully Answer'd If still you conceive that you have been unkindly used by some tart expressions I pray consider what high Provocations you have given That you a Foreigner who have been so Pragmatical and Turbulent in your own Country after so much mischief done by you There should at last Thrust your self in among Vs and lend your Assistance to Factious Spirits against Our Church which is so well constituted and might be quiet were it not for such as you And moreover that you should presume after such a Contemptuous and Insolent manner to treat the Regular Members of our Church who by their Oaths and Duty are bound to maintain our Constitutions this not to speak of many things more is such an unpardonable Indignity and an Argument of such intolerable Pride Arrogance and a Factious Spirit that you have reason to Bless your good Fortune if you escape only with a Flea in your Ear. As to that expression in the former Letter which you are pleased to call a Lewd Reflection on the whole Nation of Scotland you palpably wrest the meaning of it to a wrong Construction a Faculty which Mr. Ferguson and Dr. Burnet have in a eminent degree It was not a Touch upon the Scotch Nation but upon the disingenuous dealings of some particular Scotch Men the Author of that Letter having a true Honor much more than Dr. Burnet for those many Loyal Persons who of late have so industriously shut the back-door against a Rebellion there while some Scotch Ministers and others were fomenting Treason and Rebellion in our own Nation Much less may you look upon it as a contempt of the King whom we Honor next to God or of the whole Royal Family which God preserve or of that Blessed Martyr as you justly call him of whom the World was not Worthy I give you ten thousand Thanks and am your most humble Servant for that one single expression Blessed Martyr I have no more to add unless it be to advise you if you think it worth your time to Return upon me that you Calumniate not Men's Morals as you did so unworthily in your last Letter lest you provoke some Body to follow your own Example in writing Lives Indeed it is Improper and Indecent to write any Man's Life before he Dies yet sometimes a character may be as safely written upon one Man's Face as upon another Man's Grave-stone especially when the Forehead is Like the Marble that upon occasion Sweats but never changeth Colour Farewel I and a great many more good Men should be heartily glad that your next Letter to me were dated from Edinburgh there it would quickly appear whether you or I have the greater Honor for the Scotch Nation FINIS London Printed for R. Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1684.