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A42823	A præfatory answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, the doctor of Warwick wherein the malignity, hypocrisie, falshood of his temper, pretences, reports, and the impertinency of his arguings & quotations in his animadversions on Plus ultra are discovered / by Jos. Glanvill.	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.	1671 (1671)	Wing G821; ESTC R23393	87,889	234

Book had made him angry he was now become obstinate and he goes on In that famed Work I encountred with so many illiterate Passages that the Credit of our Nation seemed concern'd in the Refuting it Yea he adds that the Interest of the present Monarchy the Protestant Religion and the Emolument of each private Person was concerned And when these were at stake was it fit for M. Stubb to be silent His Zeal for the Credit of the Nation Monarchy and Religion would have destroyed him if it had not had vent He must speak or burst And all this Zeal was kindled by a sense of Duty as we may believe for he tells us He ought not to be silent and those that know him may think 't were impossible ●e should But for an Instance or two more DES-CARTES his Book De Homine is ridiculous p. 18. And the MATHEMATICIANS in a Cluster are reckon'd with the Illiterate p. 115. Let illiterate Persons and Mathematicians be swayed against plain Proof by these Arguments Any Arguments will sway Mathematicians For They seldom if ever prove Metaphysicians Religieuse or otherwise of tolerable Ratiocination p. 17. For the Geometricians either reject as false frivolous and indemonstrable those Reasonings and Studies according to which Humane Affairs are regulated or else ignorantly run into Whimsies and phantastical ways of arguing ibid. And therefore the Mathematicks in general are concluded less necessary and inutile ibid. What pity 't is now that Aristotle should be a Geometrician as p. 18. And how come the Mathematicks to be so inutile as they were just now p. 17. when in this 18th 't is said That Aristotle supposeth his Scholars not ignorant in Geometry since without that Knowledge they could not understand his Analyticks nor that part of his Ethicks where he illustrates Iustice by Arithmetical and Geometrical Proportions Well! The Methods of Ratiocination laid down by Aristotle are general as to publick and private use p. 17. Those Methods cannot be known without Geometry according to Aristotle himself p. 18. and yet Mathematicks are inutile p. 17. For M. Stubb to rail at that in one Book which he cries up and defends in another we must allow him He affirms and denies what comes into his head next to serve his present Spight and Interest and we are not to look for any more Consistency in his Books than in his Dreams But some would expect that the same Treatise or at least the same Leaf should be consistent with it self This may chance to happen but he hath good Luck when it doth For he tells us in his Prefaces that he sends away some sheets before others are written and a man may judge by his Writings that he no more remembers what he pen'd last Week than what he dreamt last Night was Twelve-Month But the most pleasant Complement of all is behind In the Preface to his Book against me p. 3. He calls the Virtuosi Prattle-boxes and p. 1. mentions one who as 't is usual saith he with that sort of Virtuosi instantly usurp'd all the Discourse and no doubt he made hast But where did that wonderful Virtuoso dwell that could usurp the Discourse when M. Stubb was present Certainly 't was one of the most nimble among the Prattle-boxes there cannot be such another in the whole Set One would wonder what M. Stubb should be doing when the Virtuoso usurp'd the Discourse He tells us this was done at a Person of Honour's Table and that it was at the very Beginning of Dinner it appears in that the Gentleman usurp'd the Discourse instantly So that we may judge that M. Stubb's Teeth would not give his Tongue leave But as soon as that was at Liberty he paid the barbarous Opiniatour p. 3. for usurping his Province If M. Stubb had hated all Vsurpers as he doth the Vsurpers of Discourse we had never had a Defence of the Good old Cause But why should he be so much concerned about this sort of Usurpers Their Discourse can no more be heard in the lurry of his than a soft Voice can amidst the Clutter and Noise of a Mill So that he hath no need of the Wax and Wooll he prescribes against the buzze of the Prattle-boxes his Tongue will better defend his Ears from that danger though I cannot promise that it will never expose them to other and worse Hazards And he is never like to meet such an Vsurper of Discourse as the Virtuoso at the Person of Honours Table did except the Doctor of Warwick could meet Harry Stubb of Christ-church Thus I have given some Account of the rare Civilities of the Courtly Anti-Virtuoso and upon review of them I cannot but wonder that this man who had so early a Reputation abroad as he told us and was so applauded by the ingenious should sully his Fame by the Choice of such pitiful Adversaries Dr. Wallis was ignorant grosly ignorant intolerably ignorant ignorant in his own Profession M. Baxter no Scholar at all not skill'd in Latin Greek or Hebrew Ecclesiastical History or Philosophy a Whiffler in Theology and Glow-Worm in Literature Dr. Sprat's History Illiterate and Nonsensical The Virtuosi Prattle-boxes and Ignoramus's and I ignorant of every thing What means this Man of Renown to choose out such despicable Adversaries Why doth he disparage his Puissance by imploying it against such feeble Foes what poor Quarry are these for such a Noble Bird of Prey He told us heretofore that it was Zeal for the Cause and now 't is the Interest of Monarchy Protestant Religion the Church of England and Vniversities that have engaged this publick-spirited man to so great Condescensions and how much reason we have to believe that these were the true Motives to his Assaults we shall see by and by I shall now shut up this Head by taking notice what a fit Second this is for M. Cross They are nobile par and extremely alike in sundry particulars of their Genius and Performances only it must be confess'd that M. Stubb hath as much the more Learning as he is guilty of the less Scurrility And indeed the Civilities of this kind which the Physician of Warwick hath bestowed upon all his Adversaries are not equal to those my other Antagonist hath liberally given me singly And though I pass immediately from looking over the Collection of Complements I have presented you from M. Stubb yet when I cast my eyes from it upon M. Crosses Papers a Transcript of which I have I cannot choose but bless my self and cry out in astonishment For there is scarce a word of Reproach in the Dictionary but he hath found it for me yea he hath made divers that are span-new to serve his purpose and ventured upon Barbarisms to miscall me by when all the usual Names of Disparagement and Infamy were spent But I shall have a fitter place to reckon with that Billingsgate Oratour I return to his Patron M. Stubb and having given you a short Representation of

31. The true Anointed Ones of the Lord Vind. of Sir H. V. p. 2. Honest and faithful Souls Pref. to Good old Cause p. 16. and infinite more of such Elogies he bestows upon them But nothing of all this is Fanaticism nothing like my Canting in calling some of Aristotle's Dictates Heathen Notions This brief Specimen I have given you of M. Stubb's best kind of Civilities I shall now offer you some further Account of those of the First Sort. Dr. WALLIS you know is a Person of great and deserved Fame for Learning both at home and abroad upon that excellent man M. Stubb first fastned in a Defence of M. Hobbs against him I had occasion before to touch some instances of his Courtships bestowed on this learned Doctor then I promised more and with the particular Quotations of those This I intend now briefly In the Preface He tells his Reader That the Doctor is one who hath so merited by his Scurrility and Obscenity that his English Writings may become Appendixes to Pasquil ' s Iests or the merry Tales of Mother Bunch p. 1. The Doctor is one of his Comical Wits no doubt And p. 2. he saith one of us two is grosly ignorant viz. either Dr. Wallis the man of no Credit p. 5. or M. Stubb one of early Reputation abroad p. 2. Let the understanding Reader judge which it is and that he may not mistake our Author kindly directs his Judgment p. 6.49 and second Part p. 1.3.5.8 In which and other places he chargeth the Doctor with Ignorance Want of Learning intolerable Ignorance and Ignorance in the Principles of his Profession So that the Reader if he be not grosly blind must needs see which of them two it is that M. Stubb thinks to be grosly ignorant And further to express his Civility and favourable Opinion of the Doctor he saith He hath afforded us nothing hitherto but Falsities and Falsifications p. 5. calls him peevish Doctor p. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pigmy p. 20. Witty-poll p. 24. Quacksalver and Mountebank p. 25. Critical Bravo p. 49. Tender-fronted Theologue p. 5. of the second Part Contemptible Adversary p. 8. Scribe among the Pharisees Iourny-man to Adoniram p. 9. Full of Impertinencies Paralogisms and Gibberish in Divinity So notorious a Falsificatour and Teller of Vntruths so void of Humanity in this Contest and ordinary Civility That I can scarce hold saith he from telling you You are of your Father the Devil ib. And he goes on to mind the Doctor of his Pride Ambition and Disgraceful Speeches against the Godly Party and that Remnant the Army which under the Conduct of the Lord of Hosts upheld the Cause ibid. Thus briefly of some Civilities towards Dr. Wallis the First of those Comical Wits whom M. Stubb undertook to make ridiculous and odious to the Kingdom to speak in his Phrase Let us see next with what Ingenuity and Fairness he carried himself towards M. BAXTER in his Defence of Sir H. V. against Him This Reverend Divine was another of those he resolved to sacrifice to publick Obloquy as he hath done me Pref. of N. P. But let us see what way he takes to do it his old Method no doubt and so we find it Let us hear him Rhetoricate then One that is no Scholar at all not skilled in Latin Greek or Hebrew not versed in Ecclesiastical History or Philosophy c. But a meer Glow-Worm in Literature who borrowed his Light from the Darkness of the Night and the Ignorance of those he converseth with p. 32 33. of the Pref. to Good old Cause Whifler in Theology p. 33. one that transcribed Aulicus and the Grub-street Pamphlets to frame a Legend for the Catholicks of Kederminster p. 32. A Philistim or Shimei or Rabsha●●h Vind. of Sir H. V. p. 11. whose Language against the Vanists may justly deserve that Reply of Michael to the Devil THE LORD REBUKE THEE ibid. Tedious impertinent p. 13. State-Tinker p. 37. Retailer of other mens Readings and Quoter of Quotations p. 43. His Discretion cannot be so little but his Abilities are less ibid. He chargeth him with Ignorance in the Preface to the Good old Cause and which is very pleasant he saith he remits it to others to demonstrate the Charge And before I have done with him I shall make him wish he had taken the same Course in reference to the Virtuosi He saith p. 18. of his Vindication of Sir H. V. That he may suppose M. Baxter is totally ignorant of Syriack and Arabick and that his Skill in Hebrew is as little which he referrs to M. Robertson to prove and thereupon he takes it for granted insulting in these following Words Dare He boast unto the World what time he spent in Impertinencies viz. Reading the Fathers and Schoolmen p. 13. and yet be ignorant of that which is almost the Unum Necessarium in his Function viz. Hebrew But why M. Harry must that be the almost Vnum Necessarium to M. Baxter's Function which not one of the Fathers in the Nicene Council whose Creed is so famous understood as you tell us in your Apology for the Quakers p. 85. of Light out of Darkness But Hebrew and other Langu●ges shall be necessary or not as the saying this or the Contrary will serve his turn And 't is pretty to see how he chargeth M. Baxter with Ignorance in Syriack and Arabick which he saith are of great Vse for the Vnderstanding the Scripture ibid. p. 18. and yet implicitely affirms Quer. 13. of his Light out of Darkness That the Knowledge of Tongues leads us to many Senses of Scripture and to put our Trust in Man and again Qu. 18. That the first Christians were ignorant of Humane Learning and Heathenish Authors and that it was not only the Effect of Julian the Apostates Malice but Christian Prudence that went about to keep the People of God from reading Heathen Writers And yet these two Books speaking such contradictory things bear date the same Year onely indeed the Designs were very different and M. Stubb was to serve a divers Interest in them in the one to recommend himself to the Quakers and other wild Fanaticks and in the other to vent his Malice against M. Baxter And things in his Divinity must be affirmed or denied as there is occasion He is still consistent with one Principle Self But never was yet steady to any other Besides the Civilities mention'd I might recite innumerable others but I must hasten from this head Therefore of some few more briefly He calls Sir K. DIGBY That eminent Virtuoso the Pliny of our Age for Lying p. 161. of his Animad upon Plus Vltra and yet p. 20. he lays much stress upon the Authority of Pliny He styles the excellent History of the R. S. a nonsensical and illiterate History p. 173. And Pr. p. 4. He saith he observed the Tendency of it to be so pernicious that if the first Provocation viz. that which he had from my