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A47635 The transproser rehears'd, or, The fifth act of Mr. Bayes's play being a postscript to the animadversions on the preface to Bishop Bramhall's vindication, &c. : shewing what grounds there are of fears and jealousies of popery. Leigh, Richard 1649 or 50-1728. 1673 (1673) Wing L1020; ESTC R20370 60,432 152

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Th●ramenes his Shoe must fit all feet saying that the style confines on the Territories of Malmsbu●y and then that 't is part Play-book and part Romance which of these come nearest Mr. Hobbs his Language and in short forcing in a wretched Tale Rhyming to the Isms and Nesses making three or four miserable Quibbles and at last pronouncing in sum of all that what the Adversary has wrote is nothing but Railing which indeed in this Gentlemans sense is nothing but Argument for so he calls Railing in the Street if the greatest Disciples of Prattle shall not approve of these for Reasons convincing and powerful enough to carry the Cause let 'em ev'n look for better somewhere else when they have done light Tobacco with the Book the Coffee-man will be no great loser by it and for any requital of their own loss of time 't was a sign they had little to do when they first began to read it if they are bilkt in their expectation who bid 'em expect great matters from one that performs so little Now to our business for methinks I hear some say the Plot stands still but I may answer with Mr. Bayes What is the Plot good for but to bring in fine things To proceed then to the Plot and Designe of the Transpros'd Rehearsal which was the next thing propos'd to be examin'd In this Farce there is a several designe for every Scene for sometimes he tells us that he accounted it a work of some Piety to vindicate the Bishops Memory from so scurvy a Commendation as the Writer of the Preface has given and by this it should seem that he has written a Vindication of the Bishop from the Ecclesiastical Politicians Vindication and yet elsewhere he says that Bishop Bramhall so he might like Caesar Manage the Roman Empire at it's utmost extent had quite forgot what would conduce to the Peace of his own Province and Country And again that he cannot look upon these undertaking Church-men however otherwise of excellent Prudence and Learning but as men struck with a Notion and craz'd on that side of their heads and so he thinks the Bishop might much better have busied himself in Preaching you can never magnify that enough in his own Diocess and disarming the Papists of their Arguments instead of rebating our weapons then in taking an Oe●umenical care upon him which none call'd him to and as appear'd by the sequel none conn'd him thanks for And after proceeds to instruct him whom he believes to have been a very great Politician a great Politician but a little craz'd in chalking him out a better way for Accommodation with the same absurdity as he who read Hanibal a Lecture in the Art of War These if they are Commendations I am sure are scurvy ones And as scurvy as those are which the Writer of the Preface has given the Bishop you envy him even those for p. 22. you tell us these improbable Elogies a pretty word that for scurvy Commendations are of the greatest disservice to their own design For any worthy man say you may pass through the World unquestion'd and safe with a moderate Recommendation but when he is thus set off and bedaub'd with Rhetorick scurvy Rhetorick and embroider'd so thick that you cannot discern the ground c. find no fault Sir when your Picture comes to be drawn you shall have no reason to complain the Colours are laid too thick there are many Wrinckles and Chaps we will not fill up with the Paint of Art indeed to shape a smooth and well proportion'd Visage for a Satyrists Crooked Body would be as preposterous a sight as a young Whores face on the neck of an old Baud. But if the last passage be not envious enough what think you of that p. 37. a zealous and resolute Asserter as the Bishop was of the Publick Rites Solemnities of the Church those things being only matters of external neatness could never merit the Trophies that our Author erects him Thus both the Ecclesiastical Polititian and the Animadverter have vindicated the Bishop that is both differently vindicate a different Bishop Bramhall the one magnisies a Bishop whose Reputation and Innocence were Armour of Proof against the Tories and Presbyterians the other a Bishop with a Sword by his side You see now that the Gentlemans moderate Recommendations are infamous and base Reflections He allows the Reverend Prelate no Elogiums but Ironical and his Modesty it is his own Bull is all impudent In one place he saith he finds him to have been a very good natur'd Gentleman and one that comply'd much for peace-sake and in another that the Mediating Divines under these our Bishop is comprehended who were not yet past the Sucking-Bottle seem'd to place all the business of Christianity in persecuting men for their Consciences He was as much a Persecuter as the Brethren are Saints 'T were endless to recount all the inconsistencies and contradictions throughout his Book and it were an easier task to reconcile the Animadverter and the Ecclesiastical Politician then the Animadverter with himself Well either this Author is several Men or at least one Man in several minds Sitting he is a Nonconformist and Kneeling a Conformist Every distinct Inflexion of his Body and every new wrinkle in his Forehead produces an answerable Distortion within His Laughing Face sooner then a light touch of a Pencil can change it is turned to a Crying Nay on one side of his Face he often Smiles and looks very gravely on the other Each turn of his Countenance proves him a Cheat and each cast of his Eyes calls him Hypocrite He pretends to look directly on the Writer but squints on Bishop Bramhall and casts a Sheeps-Eye at Bishop Laud and all the Loyal Clergy The Ecclesiastical Politician was too mean a Conquest for him who design'd more then an Ovation-Triumph our Author therefore the Nonconformists Dimock throws down his Gaun●let and in the names of Iohn Calvin and Theodore Beza bids a general Defiance to all the Miter'd Heads in England daring them or any of their dead Predecessors to maintain their Ancient Rights and Dignities which he is ready to oppose to the last drop of blood It is a bold Challenge but no body will accept it none will engage so Heroick a Champion who has given proofs of a Soul as large as that which animated Alex●●der Ross at his greatest dimensions though he merited no less then the name of Alexander the Great for combating the Worthies by Troops and of whom it might be more justly sung then once of Oliver The Worthies are like Nine-Pins let Him go And down they all come at a Tip and Throw Every Age is not constellated for Heroes such Prodigies are as rarely seen as a New-star or a Phaenix Once perhaps in a Century of years there may arise a Martin-Mar-Prelate a Milton or such a Brave as our present Author Every day produces not such Wonders Men that mark out Epocha's