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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26149	An answer to some considerations on the spirit of Martin Luther and the original of the Reformation lately printed at Oxford.	Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732.	1687 (1687)	Wing A4146; ESTC R4960	53,756	88

Adversary acted up to this Remark of Hospinian's the bulky book we have now before us would have lain within a very little compass But to go farther and yield him what he do's not ask What if Hospinian should have said in other places that Lr. waver'd in the point of the Sacrament do's it follow that he really did so because one of differing sentiments and that would any wayes have drawn Lr. over to his party has said it or can we conclude upon Ls. instability as our Author has done because in a single notion no wayes fundamental an Enemy writes that he had some doubtings This is such a way of reasoning as is answer'd only by being despis'd However 't is pretty odd to see instability and fluctuation in opinion so earnestly charg'd upon Lr. by such as have liv'd half their days in a poyse between two Churches and write even now when the Scales are turn'd with so much waryness and reserve that a body would not think 'em heartily of any But Lr. condemn'd his Brethren of the Reformation § 22. 25. 26. too not without their returning the Censure There was eagerness I confess on both sides but this is far from laying a blot upon Lr. It argues him a very honest man who had such a zeal against Error as not to suffer it in a Friend and is an undenyable evidence that he took not upon him the character of a Reformer in opposition to a Party as has been falsly suggested since where truth was concern'd he equally oppos d All. The debate Perhaps between him and the Sacramentarians as they are call'd was manag'd with a fierceness not exactly warrantable but it must be consider'd that the best men of antiquity have been guilty of such excesses Have we forgotten the feud of Hierome and Ruffinus of Epiphanius and Chrysostome of Victor and the Greek Bishops whom he excommunicated for a trifle Or to go higher did not Paul and Barnabas when sent out together by the Holy Ghost dispute with that vehemence about a very little point of conveniency that they were forc'd to break company These infirmities are such as Christians of the first rank have fallen into and the proving Lr. guilty of 'em is the proving him a Man and no Angel How far either he or any other Reformer might go in this quarrel out of a Love of victory and the shame of being baffled it concern's not me to determin I am satisfy'd with what the Apostle has told me that some preach Christ out of Contention and strife yet so they preach and so we believe But what will my Author leave unobjected against Lr. when p. 67. he makes it his crime that he defy'd and abus'd even the Devil whereas Saints he says are usually more modest and go no farther then a bare imperet tibi Dominus A pretty way of calling himself Saint for 't is his own familiar phrase But upon the same principle we must deny him to be one for Saints are usually more modest then to call themselves so We are now to have a tast of the male dicency of Ls. Spirit §. 33. from his book against Henry the 8th a fault which I cannot but wonder to find objected by such men who every day make bolder with the names of both him and his Royal Issue I shall not wholly defend his carriage here since he himself has condemn'd it All the Truth in the world on one's side can never justify an unmannerly expression But it must be consider'd when a King of such repute for learning enter'd the Lists against him what a noise this action made and how some weaker Protestants must needs be startled by it L r. therefore that he might fix his followers thought himself concern'd to take up a brisker air of assurance and shew a particular undauntedness in the cause of Truth when it had so mighty an Opposer But here he overacted his part his passions when once let loose were too impetuous to be manag'd the native plainness of his Country and the privacy of his own Education which had not been much acquainted with greatness carried him beyond the respects due to a Crown'd Head and brought out such blunt Truths from him as neither Friends nor Enemyes could tell well how to approve But the party was even with him Sr. Tho. More took up the quarrel a man as they tell us much a Christian much a Gentleman and naturally of great mildness and candor who yet forgot himself so far in this Answer to Lr. that he has there thrown out the greatest heap of nasty Language that perhaps ever was put together The book throughout is nothing but downright Ribaldry without a grain of reasoning to support it and gave the Author no other reputation but that of having the best knack of any man in Europe at calling bad names in good Latin Tho' his passion is sometimes so strong upon him that he sacrifices even his beloved purity to it Haec est he says Domini Doctoris Posterioristice qui quum sibi jam prius fas esse scripserit Coronam Regiam conspergere conspurcare stercoribus an non nobis fas erit posterius hujus posterioristicae linguam stercoratam pronuntiare dignissimam ut vel mejentis mulae posteriora lingat suis prioribus c. p. 72. I forbear to instance any farther if the Reader has a mind to see railing in it's perfection let him open any one page of his book and he 'll have a glut of it But perhaps the bad treatment which Lr. had before receiv'd from one Sovereign Prince might urge him to talk the more disrespectfully of another The style of Edicts we know is generally calm and majestic yet Charles the 5th after the Dyet of Worms put out such a blustring one againg Lr. as even modest Papists have condemn'd Constat says he hunc unicum non hominem sed daemonem potius figura specie humana cuculloque Monastico indutum c. Ulemberg confesses that this decree was by some thought too sharply penn'd but these were only the ignorant he says for others very well knew that Maximilian once saw a Devil sitting upon his Cowl a Rayn ad An. 1521. As for the heat with which he treated his other adversaries 't was sometimes strain'd a little too far but in the general was extremely well fitted by the Providence of God to rowse up a people the most phlegmatic of any in Christendome Europe lay then under a deep Lethargy and was no otherwise to be rescu'd from it but by One that would cry mightily and lift up his voice with strength Besides Printing and Letters had just then peep'd abroad in the world and the restorers of Learning in Italy taking the advantage of the Press wrote very eagerly against one another so that Invectives were in those dayes the fashionable way of writing If Lr. therefore mingled a little Gall with his Ink in his books of Controversy he follow'd