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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52134	Mr. Smirke; or, The divine in mode: being certain annotations upon the animadversions on The naked truth : together with a short historical essay, concerning general councils, creeds, and impositions, in matters of religion / by Andreas Rivetus, Junior, anagr. Res Nuda Veritas.	Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.	1676 (1676)	Wing M873; ESTC R214932	95,720	92

him hand and foot and thrown him into the Thames betwixt White-hall and Lambeth for experiment laying so much weight too on him as would sink any ordinary man and nevertheless he swims still and keeps above Water So dangerous is it to have got an Ill Name once either for speaking Truth or for Incantation that it comes to the same thing almost to be Innocent or Guilty for if a man swim he is Guilty and to be Burnt if he sinke he is Drowned and Innocent But therefore this Exposing must surely be to condemne the Author as he has done his Book already to the Fire for no man stands fairer for't as being first Heretick and now Witch by Consequence and then the Devil sure can have no more power over the Animadverter Yet when I consider'd better that he does not accuse him of any harme that he has suffered by him in person but that it is the Church which may justly Complain of him and having done her so much mischiefe therefore it is become a Duty to Expose him I could not but imagine that it must be a severer Torment For if our Church be bewitched and he has done it Huic mites nimium Flammas huic lenta putassem Flumina fumiferi potasset nubila Peti Though I never heard before of a Church that was Bewitched except that of the Galatians Gal. 3. 1. Whom Saint Paul asks O foolish Galatians who hath Bewitched you taking it for evident that they were so because they are his very next words they did not obey the Truth And that was a Naked Truth with a Witness the Apostle teaching that Christ is become of none effect to them that from their Christian Liberty returned to the Jewish Ceremonies Gal. 5. 4. But therefore I looked over the Canons the Rational the Ceremonial the Rubrick imagining the Exposing mention'd must be some new part of our Ecclesiastical Discipline that I had not taken notice of before and I should find it in one or other of the Offices But I lost my labour and 't was but just I should for being so simple as not to understand at first that to Expose a man is to write Animadversions upon him For that is a crueller Torment then all the Ten Persecutors and which none but this Clergy-man could have invented To be set in the Pillary first and bedawb'd with so many Addle Eggs of the Animadverters own Cakle as he pa●…ts him with How miserable then is the man that must suffer afterwards sub 〈◊〉 le●…to Ingenio To be raked and harrowed thorow with so ●…usty a Saw So dull a Torture that it contains all other in it and which even the Christian Reader is scarce able to indure with all his Patience Had he been a man of some accuteness the pain would have been over in an instant but this was the utmost inhumanity in whoever it was that advised whereas several witty men were proposed that would have been glad of the the imployment to chuse out on purpose the veryest Animadverter in all the Faculty This it is to which the Author is condemned And now that I know it and that it is an Office a Duty to which our Church it seems has advanc'd the Animadvertur I wish him Joy of his new Preferment and shall henceforward take notice of him as the Church of Englands's Exposer for I can never admit him by any Analogy to be an Exposito●… It is no less disingenuously then constantly done of the Exposer in this same p. 1. To concern the Author in the Non-Conformists that may have reflected any where as if there were Socinian or Pelagian Doctrines Allowed to be preached and maintained in the City Pulpits For the Author hath not in his whole Book the least syllable that can be wrested to any such purpose Only it serves the Adversaries turn as he thinks to preingage the whole Clergy and Church of England against him if they were so simple and by giving him an odious Badge and jumbling them altogether to involve him in all the prejudices which are studioufly advanced against that party But neither have I any thing to urge of that nature further then because he will out of season mention these matters to observe that our Church seems too remiss in the Case of Socinus and Volkelius who had many things to great value stolen from them by a late Plagiary but as yet have not obtained any Justice or Restitution But seeing the Exposer is thus given to transforme not only the Author but his words and his meaning it is requisite to state this Chapter in his own Terms as men set their Arms on their Plate to prevent the nimbleness of such as would alter the property The sum of what he humbly proposes is That nothing hath caused more mischief in the Church then the establishing New and Many Articles of Faith and requiring men to assent 〈◊〉 them with Divine Faith For the imposing such on Dissenters hath caused furious Wars and lamentable Blood-shed among Christians That it is irrational to promote the Truth of the Gospel by Imposition which is contrary to the Laws of the Gospel and break an evident Commandment to establish a doubtful Truth For if such Articles be not fully expressed in Scripture w●…ds it is Doubtful to him upon whom it is Forced though not to the the Imposer If it be fully expressed in Scripture Words there needs no new Articles but if not so and that it be only Deduced from Scripture Expressions then men that are as able and knowing as the Imposer may think it is not clearly Deduced from Scripture But there is nothing more Fully Exprest or that can be more clearly Deduced from Scripture nor more suitable to Natural Reason then that no man should be Forced to Believe Because no man can Force himself to believe no not even to believe the Scriptures But Faith is a work of peculiar Grace and the Gift of God And if a man Believe what is Clearly Contain'd in Scripture he needs not believe any thing else with Divine Faith To add to or deminish from the Scripture is by it unlawful and lyable to the Curse in the Revelation If the Imposer answer he requires not to Believe it as Scripture he doth if he urge it to be believed with Divine Faith If he say he requires it not to be Believed with Divine Faith he does if he make it necessary to Salvation There is no Command nor Countenance given in the Gospel to use Force to cause men Believe We have no Comprehensive Knowledge of the Matters declared in Scripture that are the Prime and Necessary Articles of Faith therefore it is not for any man to Declare one Tittle more to be Believed with Divine Faith then God hath there Declared He cannot find the least hint in the Word of God to use any Force to Compel men to the Churches established Doctrine or Discipline and from Reason there can be no motive to be Forced