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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59833	Observations upon Mr. Johnson's remarks, upon Dr. Sherlock's book of non-resistance	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing S3305; ESTC R9591	14,732	24

unchangeable the same yesterday and to day for ever What you seem to conjecture some few lines after may for ought I know come to pass Committunt eadem diverso Crimina Fato And though we are indeed guilty of Misnomers now it is to be hoped we shall not be always so but may enjoy the Priviledge we claim from Adam of giving things Names proper to their Natures Mentiri nescio Librum Si malus est nequeo laudare poscere Besides the holy Scriptures pronounce a dreadful Wo to all such as call Good Evil or Evil Good. There are some persons in the World who will not thank you for the unseasonable mention you make of Sheriffs de Facto and not de Jure I am afraid there is a spice of Malice or Discontent upon some Disappointment that made you furnish us with such an ill natur'd Hint provoking us to an undutiful Enquiry what things there are else at present in the World that are de Facto and not de Jure and how many and great things depend upon the Solution of that Question no less than what the Authority is of that Court which you say for I have no Acquaintance there The Black Guard can make amongst themselves every day pag. the 17th of your Preface Surely he that writes as you do must measure things as you do by Success I am not without hopes that God will indeed restore Justice to this lost Nation and make it run down like a mighty Stream for otherwise as appears by the repeated choice of Sir P. W. and others there are a Set of men must have the Priviledge of destroying this Church and Nation in 89 only to justifie their having done it once before in 48. Hoc Ithacus velit magno mercentur Atridae And then every honest Man could repeat and truly apply one of the greatest Lines in the World. Victrix Causa Diis placuit sed Victa CATONI Now Sir I have run through some if not most of the material Passages in your scurrilous Preface and upon the whole matter it plainly appears that you hate even the very Name of King since you have as rudely treated though more covertly the Title of King William as you have done the Person of King James and the boldest freedom that the late private Pamphlets are furnished withal comes very short of that with which you have treated the late proceedings Would not a man think you a great Courtier when you tell us the Convention did not choose King William as the Persians did Darius by the ' neighing of a Horse page the 3d. to their immortal Honour But you were resolved that their Election should not want what Confirmation could be given it by the same Instrument wherewith Samson and you have slain your Enemies There are other things that need corrections but neither the Times nor you can bear them now but in reference to them I must only say as the Governour did to St. Paul Go thy way for this time when I have a more convenient season I will send for thee And after all it would grieve me very much were I conscious to my self that I had measured even to you the same measure that you measured to your once at least lawful King and I should be very sorry that ever I descended to read your Preface fearing the infection of the Example I cannot though but for half an hour put on ill Nature enough to write up to that pitch of Satyr you have both deserved and provok'd and am but hardly reconcil'd to my very Ink because like you 't is made of Copperass and Galls but I dare not give way to the farther progress even of a just Indignation nor had I spoke so far or in the least engag'd my self either with your Book or you could I have stood unconcern'd at the sight of a degenerous Son like Nero ripping and like the Vulture preyng upon the Bowels of his two tender Mothers the University and the Church And here indeed I must break out and say if Grief though silent have a Voice if Anguish without a Tongue be vocal if Sorrow be loud to Elah or the Groans of an expiring Church and a Consumptive Monarchy can be accented if a mighty Amazement and Consternation of an honest Mind but reasonably solicitous for my own and for the Publick safety may be allowed to have any Emphasis then the Injuries which Religion and Kings suffer from such Doctrins and such Men as these can never want Arguments nor Orators and he that pleads this Cause shall sooner be at a loss where to begin than what to say Inopem me Copia fecit These are Miscreant Persecutors of Crowns who will not permit the Primitive Christians to wear those glorious Rewards of their Martyrdom any more than they will let them sit quietly upon the Heads of Kings you take as much pains to justifie as the Apostles did to clear themselves of the Imputation of being Men whose Religion taught them to turn the World upside down and therefore before you undertake to answer Dr. Sherlock you should do well to answer Christ and his Apostles in their Doctrin and Practice and the truly Primitive Christians in their Writings and Examples you should confute the Apologies of Tertullian and Justin Martyr and the Writings of the first and best Reformers the Articles of the Church of England in general and in particular the Canons of 40. you should answer Bishop Usher Sanderson Hammond and a whole Cloud of Witnesses in the late Rebellious Times the Judicium Oxoniense drawn up by Sandersou the Decretum Oxoniense drawn up by Dr. Jane the Present Regius Professor you should answer Dr. Scot's Sermon at the Assizes of Chelmesford if you are not at leisure get him to do it himself the forementioned Letter to the Lord Russel Dr. Falkner Sir Robert Filmer the Learned and Brave Judge Jenkins Dr. Hick's Jovian in answer to your Julian and all the Acts of Parliament that lodge the Supremacy and Militia in the King alone This when you have done fairly and acquitted your self according to the Merits of the Cause you shall know more of my mind But let me advise you to be sincere in your Quotations candid in your Inferences close in your Arguments impartial in your Determination and very modest in your personal Reflection envy no Man who knows more pity every man who knows less than your self triumph over the Infelicities of no Man of what kind soever they be especially such as are occasion'd by endeavouring to keep a Conscience void of Offence towards God and Man Shun all Prevarications in Religion and Misrepresentations of Persons and Things it is disingenuously and barbarously done by the Author of the History of the Convention He pretends word for word to quote Mr. Collier's Desertion discuss'd and yet in the twenty first Section he has foisted in the Word Popish apply'd to Judges and Justices and at once deprav'd his meaning and weakned the force of his Argument and nothing can be a greater evidence of a bad Cause than making it stand in need of Lies and Forgeries to support it without which they could never have driven their Master away Criminibus terrere novis spargere Voces In vulgum ambiguas quaerere Conscius Arma. FINIS