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A lively picture of Lewis du Moulin drawn by the incomparable hand of Monsieur Daille, late minister of Charenton.
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Daillé, Jean, 1594-1670.
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Religion and do laugh at the imputative righteousness of Jesus Christ at Justification by Faith and have preached that Heathens may do good works as meritorious and well pleasing to God without the grace of Jesus Christ c. as the Alms and prayers of a devout Cornelius p. 85. Which are accusations that have not one word of Truth in them but were suggested to him by his own inraged imagination which most unjust hatred to us to use M. D. 's words again hath disturbed or by his unconscionable jealousies to speak in Mr. Baxter's phrase which will not let him understand aright For I am as sure there are no such Divines not one much less a Cloud of Witnesses to these things as I am that Amyraldus was no Patron of the Jesuits M. Daillé no Arminian Mr. Baxter no Papist and that they are not persecuted who are suffered to write even such Books as this without any punishment But I will leave those Divines as I said to purge themselves if they think fit or turn him over to the Author of the Friendly Debate who can I fancy if he will attempt it make this Lewis repent at least of this that he hath mentioned his Book with such reproach When it is visible in my poor opinion it is nothing so sharp and severe upon the N. C. as M. Daillé is upon their Champion L. du Moulin And yet such is their partiality of which I pray God they may all repent they never speak of M. Daillé but as of a holy Man of an excellent temper who is highly reverenced by all the Party but generally condemn the other as a prophane and scurrilous Writer an Enemy of the People of God and I know not what O the power of studium causae as M. Daillé calls it zeal to serve the cause and affection to a side I beseech again the Father of lights to give them a better mind and us all grace thoroughly to search and try our ways and to see and acknowledge our errors That 's a good Prayer will some perhaps be apt to say who dislike all the rest and we have a wish for you as you have for us that you would see and reform the present error that is among you in accusing us of intending to destroy the Government Is not that as great an out-cry every where as this of du Moulin's I answer sincerely there are many I believe very jealous of you and declare it freely But their suspicions are raised by such kind of writings as his which clearly demonstrate they think that the Dissenters at least such as He intend to stir up the hatred of the People against the Men of our Church as much as against the Papists if not more For He mentions the Lord Castlemain p. 26. with far more respect than he doth our Divines the consequence of which can be nothing else than an indeavour to pull us in pieces But for my part as I said before I am willing to hope the main body of N. C. are not so disposed though there be factious spirits among them too many that would thrust them forward to our and their own destruction They understand better and are better inclined I hope than to pull down a well setled Government when it is apparent as I have noted above they can set up none in the room of it And the best Demonstration they can give of this will be to disown such Writers as L. du Moulin by some publick Declaration and therein assure us that they mean not to disturb the Church of England as it is established but will heartily joyn with us against the Papists to uphold and maintain it desiring only to have their own just liberty under that Government which they will highly deserve when they have contributed to its support As for the project of Lewis du Moulin it is as vain as himself for were the Ceremonies which he most unconscionably reviles as Popish removed out of the way it would not make up the breach but the main body of Non-conformists would still remain divided from us because they will not admit of a prescribed form of Prayer Nay He himself I have too much reason to believe would not be satisfied unless the Articles of the Church of England be expounded to the sense of Mr. Calvin which will never down with very great numbers of the Dissenters no more than with them among us against whom he hath spit out all this venome But I must not inlarge upon this subject having other business that expects me now that the Twelve days are expiring In the midst of which I told you his Book first coming to my hand I imployed the remainder of them as you see in giving this short account of it and of him Who may thereby be convinced that we are not so ill taught as to spend our time in the Play-house or with a Pack of Cards which he would have you believe is the common divertisement of our Ministers p. 36. though I think that had been far more innocent than to be writing such Books as his For therein I should at the worst only have done a little harm to my self whereas his business is to abuse the Nation with false reports nay to poison it with destructive opinions and t◠slander those Divines as men that satisfie themselves with the profession of a superficial piety p. 35. who are most laborious in their studies devoutly attend the Divine Service and make it their business by Word and Writing to do good to Men. Jan. 6. 1679. THE END * De Sp. Sancto Cap. 30. ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞
the greatest men without consideration judging of them meerly by their according with him in all things There was a little difference between his Father and Amyraldus which was sweetly composed as soon as they came to talk together and to the joy of all good men they were not only perfectly reconciled but the common Friends of both and of the kindred of this Lewis published the very kind Letters which passed between them Now what doth this vain man and great admirer of such a Father He presently falls upon Amyraldus as M. D. tells us and singles him out from all others to pour forth upon him omne virus c. all the venom and bitterness of his slander and evil speaking He rakes up again all that they like good men had resolved should be buried and forgotten and is very angry also as if it were an intolerable crime that he could see no body in all France that would raise a tumult and storm together with him against those that were of Amyraldus opinion How could a man more clearly and petulantly condemn the judgment even of his own Father or oppose his will and rescind his Acts as much as lay in him And if you would briefly know how he treated Amyraldus and so the less wonder at his virulent declamations against our Divines M. D. tells us he calls his doctrine Fanatical Heretical Arminian and that is as bad with him if not worse than Popery worthy to be interdicted and anathematiz'd This is another demonstration that railing is his peculiar gift wherewith his ill nature and rancor hath abundantly endowed him and that when he is in the fit of his fury he cares not what words he uses but pours forth as was said before omne virus the whole venome that is in his heart upon the least occasion For he hath nothing worse to say of a man than that he is an Arminian unless he add the word Socinian whom it appears by a passage in his late Account of the Church of Englands advances towards Rome he abominates more than he doth a Papist For speaking there Pag. 9. of the bad Instruments that have filled England with their Books for these Fifty Years last past he says they might have been pardoned if they had only relished of Popery and had not been infected with the venome of Arminianisme Pelagianisme Socinianisme and the Maximes of Mr. Hobbes Behold here now a new instance which I cannot omit of the partiality and ungoverned passion of this most vain man Who instances there in the Books of Dr. Heylin Mr. Thorndike Bishop Taylor Archb. Bramhall c. and would perswade us they are of that pestilent nature though they abhorred Pelagianisme and Socinianisme c. more than himself and maintained their doctrine to be that of the Church of England not of Arminius But lets Mr. Andrew Marvell pass quietly for an innocent Writer nay extols and admires him so much as to call him pag. 88. that Great man though he hath in a most scurrilous manner abused the Venerable Council of Nice and expressed therein the very dregs of Socinianisme or something else no less Heretical For this great man of his has told the World that the Nicene Council imposed a NEW ARTICLE or Creed upon the Christian World and called that explication which they made of the Ancient Belief concerning the Son of God this being the very thing they insisted on that they made nothing New but only declared what had been always received from the beginning a Gibberish of their own imposing a Cant wherein they forced others to follow them and in plain terms represents those Fathers who were there assembled as a company of pitiful Dunces who gave sentence as their Chaplains directed them This is that Mr. Marvell whom he and others so much praise but had he been of our side should have been condemned to the Pit of Hell Consider I beseech you what dreadful out-cries should we have heard had any person among us said any thing like to this blasphemy This very Lewis would have called him that great Villain or that great Devil or such names as I cannot invent But out of sweet Mr. Marvell's mouth it is received without any indignation He may be a Socinian or at least an Arian or perhaps believe Nothing and he has not a syllable to say to him Nay he praises him and as if he were some Heroe sets a mark of his very high esteem upon him Mr. Marvell is not only a Great man but that Great man For what I pray what is the cause of this strange difference that he can see no fault in him and nothing but faults in others But only this that Mr. Marvell is one of his own gang a man for his tooth a great giber and biter whose work it was to rail at the Church of England In such a great man as this how should he see any thing amiss This one new-found Vertue dazled his eyes and made him overlook all his Vices Which is a further demonstration that the judgment which this Lewis du Moulin passes upon any person is not worth a straw nor deserves the least regard For he judges of men as he loves or hates and he loves and hates according as they agree with him or differ from him in some opinions Of which he is so fond that he will magnifie the very worst of men if they be of his mind but vilifie the best as we saw just now in the case of Amyraldus if they be of another And what a faculty he hath in this and how large a Conscience to take the liberty to say any thing against those with whom he is displeased will appear more fully in the remaining part of the Character which we find of him in M. Daillé Who leaving the consideration of the respect this Lewis had to his Father and looking into the Disputation it self wherein he pretended to give a stab to M. D.'s cause could find nothing in his Invective though he carefully examined it but a great heap of lies impostures calumnies and railings together with a little sprinkling of histories and fables Which censure of M. Daillé's is the perfect and most exact Character of his late Invective against the Church of England And the fountain also from whence such filthy streams flow is the very same now that it was then viz. His Studium causae to use M. D.'s words which I may render his zeal for the cause in conjunction with the highest degree of rashness which suggested to him such abundance of lies and impostures that to the title of Professor of Histories which then he had might well be added and of Fables Of the first of these his lying M. D. gives many instances and this among the rest that he confidently affirms M. D. had changed his opinion of which he was X. Years before as if he knew his mind better than himself and had rather be listed among the Arminians than