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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52139	The rehearsal transpros'd, or, Animadversions upon a late book intituled, A preface, shewing what grounds there are of fears and jealousies of popery	Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing M878; ESTC R202141	119,101	185

his first Book was a mee●… mistake before he were come to years of discretion For as in Law a Man is not accounted so till he hath compleated 21 and 't is but the la●… minute of that ●…ime that makes him his own Man as to all things but Conscience I mean for as to that many are never sui Juris so though the distance of Bayes his Books was but betwixt 1670 and 1671 yet a year nay an instant at any time of a man's life may make him wiser and he hath like all other fruits his annual maturity It was so long since as 1670. p. 33. that this Universal Unlimited and Uncontroulable Power was the natural right of Princes 〈◊〉 to Christ firmly established by the unalterabls Dictates of Natural Reason Universal Practice and consent of Nations that the Scripture rather 〈◊〉 than asserts the Ecclesiastical and so the Civil Jurisdiction of Princes 'T was in 1670. p. 10. That it was absolutely necessary and p. 12. that Princes 〈◊〉 that power to bind th●…ir Su●…cts to that Relegion that they apprehend most advantagious to Public●… Peace c. So that they derive their title from Eternal Necessity which the Moralists say the Gods themselves can not impeach His Majesty may lay by his Dieu and make use only of his Mon Droit He hath a Patent for his Kingdom under the Broad-Seal of Nature and next under that and immediately 〈◊〉 Christ is over all Persons and in all Causes aswel Ecclesiastical as Civil and over all mens Consciences within his Majesty's Realms and Dominions Supream Head and Governour 'T is true the Author sometimes for fashion-sake speaks in that Book of Religion and of a Deity but his Principles do necessarily if not in terms make the Princes Power Paramount to both those and if he may by his uncontroulable and unlimited universal Authority introduce what Religion he may of consequence what Deity also he pleases Or if there were no Deity yet there must be some Relgion that being an Engine most advantagious for Publick Peace and Tranquillity This was in 1670. But by 1671. you see the case is altered Even one night hath made some men gray And now p. 238. of his second Book he hath made Princes accountable ay and to so severe an Auditor as God himself The Thrones of Princes are established upon the Dominion of God And p 241. ' T is no part of the Princes concernment to institute rules of Moral Good and Evil that is the care and the Pre●…ogative of a Superiour Law-giver And p. 260. he owns that if the Subjects can plead a clear and undoubted preingagement to that higher Authority they have a liberty to remonstrate to the equity of their Laws I do not like this Remonstrating nor these Remonstrants I wish again that Mr. Bayes would tell us what ●…e means by ●…he term and where it will end whether he would have the Fanaticks remonstrate but they are wary and asham'd of what they have done in former times of that nature or whether he himself hath a mind to remonstrate because the Fanaticks are tolerated That is the thing that is the business of this whole Book and knowing that there is a clear and undoubted preingagement to the higher Authority of Nature and Necessity if the King will persist in tolerating these people who knows after remonstrating what Mr. Bayes will do next But now in summe what shall we say of this man and how had the King been served if he had followed Bayes's advice and assumed the power of his first Book He had run himself into a fine Premunire when now after all he comes to be made accountable to God nay even to his Subjects And by this means it happens though it were beyond Mr. Bayes his forcast and I dare ●…ay he would rather have given the Prince again a power antecedent to Christ and to bring in what Religion he please he hath obliged him to as tender a Conscience as any of his Christian subjects and then good night to Ecclesiastical Policy I have herein indeavoured the utmost ingenuity toward Mr. Bayes for he hath laid himself open but to too many disadvantages already so that I need not I would not press him beyond measure but to my best understanding and if I fail I even ask him pardon I do him right 'T is true that being distracted betwixt his desire that the Consciences of men should be persecuted and his anger at Princes that will not be advised he confounds himself every where in his reasonings that you can hardly distinguish which is the Whoop and which is the Holla and he makes Indentures on each fide of the way wheresoever he goes But no man that is so●…er will follow him lest some Justice of Peace should make him pay his five shillings beside the sc●…ndal and it is apparent to every one what he drives at But were this otherwise I can spare it and 't is s●…fficient ●…o my purpose that I do thus historically deduce the reason of his setting forth his Books and shew that it was plainly to remonstrate against the power of his Prince and the 〈◊〉 that he hath taken of governing to set his Majesty at variance not onely with his Subjects but with himself and to raise a Civil-Wa●… in his Intellectual Kingdom betwixt his controulable and his uncontroulable Jurisdiction And because having to do with a wise man as Mr. Bayes is one may of●…en gather more of his mind out of a word that ●…rops casually than out of his whole watchful and serious discourse when he is talking of matters of Policy 〈◊〉 that require caution I cannot slight one passage of Mr. Bayes page 656. Where raging bitterly against all the Presbyterians and other Sects and as much against the allowing them any Tenderness Liberty Toleration or Indulgence he concludes thus Tenderness and Indulgence to such men were to nourish Vipers in our own Bowels and the most sottish neglect of our own quiet and security and we should deserve to perish with the dishonour of Sardanapalus Now this of Sardanapalus I remember some little thing ever ●…ince I read I think it was my Justine and I would not willingly be such a Fool as to make a dangerous 〈◊〉 that h●…s no foundation For if Mr. Bayes in the Preface of his Defence to excuse his long 〈◊〉 before it were brought forth places it partly upon his recreations I know not why much more a Prince should not be willing to enjoy the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of this life as well as to do the common 〈◊〉 But I am thinking what Mr. 〈◊〉 meant by it for every similitude must have though not all yet some likeness Now I am sure there were no Nonconformists and ●…byterians in Sardan●…lus his days I am ●…re also that Sardanapalus was no Clergy man that he was no ●…ject but he was one of the 〈◊〉 Crea●…ures that instead of ●…cising his Ecclesiastical power delighted in spinning till some body

Debates Now though this had very much of probability I had yet a further Conjecture that this J. O. was a Talisman signed under some peculiar influence of the Heavenly bodies and that the Fate of Mr. Bays was bound up within it Whether it be so or no I know not but this I am assured of without the help either of Syderal Magick or Judicial Astrologie that when J and O are in Conjunction they do more certainly than any of the Planets forbode that a great Ecclesiastical Politician shall that Year run mad I confess after all this when I was come to the dregs of my phansie for we all have our infirmities and Mr. Bayes his Defence was but the blewJohn of his Ecclesiastical Policy and this Preface the Tap-droppings of his Defence I reflected whether Mr. Bayes having no particular cause of indignation against the Let●…ers there might not have been a mistake of the Printer and that they were to be read in one word Io that use to go before Paean that is in English a Triumph before the Victory Or whether it alluded to 〈◊〉 that we read of at School the Daughter of Inachus and that as Juno p●…rsecuted the Heifer so this was an He-Cow that is to say a Bull to be baited by Mr. Bayes the Thunderer But these being Conceits too trivial though a Ragoust fit enough sor Mr. Bayes his palate I was sorced moreover to quit them remarking that it was an J Consonant And I plainly at last perceived that this J. O. was a very Man as any of us are and had a Head and a Mouth with Tongue and Teeth in it and Hands with singers and Nails upon the●… Nay that he could read and write and speak as well as I or Master Bayes either of us When I once found this the business appear'd more serious and I was willing to see what was the matter that so much exasperated Mr. Bayes who is a Person as he saith himself of such a tame and softly humour and so cold a complexion that be thinks himself scarce capable of hot and passionate impressi●…ns I concluded that necessarily there must be some extraordinary Accident and Occaon that could alter so good a Nature For I saw that he pursued J. O. if not from Post to Pillar yet from Pillar to Post and I diserned all along the Footsteps of a most inveterate and implacable Malice As oft as he does but name those two first Letters he is like the Island of Fayal on fire in three●…ore and ten places You see Mr. Bayes that I too have improved my wit with reading the Gazettes Were you of that Fellows diet here abour Town that epicurizes upon burning Coals drinks healths in scalding Brimstone scraunches the Glasses for his Desert and draws his breath through glowing Tobacco-pipes Nay to say a thing yet greater had you never tasted other sustenance than the Focus of burning Glasses you could not shew more flame than you do alwayes upon that subject And yet one would think that even from the little sports with your comfortable importance after Supder you should have learnt when J. O. came into play to love your Love with an J. because he is Judicious though you hate your Love with an J because he is jealous and then to love your Love with an O. because he is Oraculous though you hate your Love with an O. because he is Obscure Is it not strange that in those most benign minutes of a Man's life when the Stars smile the Birds sing the Winds whisper the Fountains warble the Trees blossom and uuiversal Nature seems to invite it self to the Bridal when the Lion puls in his Claws the Aspick layes by its Poyson and all the most noxious Creatures grow amorusly innocent that even then Mr. Bayes alone should not be able to refrain his Malignity As you love your self Madam let him not come neer you He hath been fed all his life with Vipers insteed of Lampres and Scorpions for Crayfish and if at any time he eat Chickens they had been cramb'd with Spiders till he 〈◊〉 so invenomed his whole substance that t is much safer to bed with a Mountebank befoe he hath taken his Antidote But it cannot be any vulgar furnace that hath chafed so cool a Salamander 'T is not the strewing of Cowitch in his Genial-Bed that could thus disquiet him the first night And therefore let 's take the Candle and see whether there be not some body underneath that hath cut the Bed-Cords There was a worthy Divine not many years dead who in his younger time being of a facetious and unlucky humour was commonly known by the name of Tom Triplet He was brought up at Pauls-School under a 〈◊〉 Master Dr. Gill and from thence he went to the UuiversityThere he took liberty as 't is usual with those that are emancipated from School to tel Tales and make the Discipline ridiculous under which he was bred But not suspecting the Doctor 's intelligence comming once to Town he went in full School to give him a Visite and expected no Iess than to get a Play-day for his former acquaintance But instead of that he found himself hors'd up in a trice though he appeal'd in vain to the Priviledges of the 〈◊〉 pleaded Adultus and invoked the mercy of the Spectators Nor was he let down till the Master had planted a Grove of Birch in his back side fot the Terrour and puplick Example of all Wags that divulg the Secrets of Priscian and make merry with their Teachers This stuck so with Triplet that all his life-time he never forgave the Doctor but sent him every Newyears-tide an Anniversary Ballad to a new Tune and so in his turn avenged himself of his jerking Pedagogue Now when I observed that of late years Mr. Bays had regularly spawned his Books in 1670. the Ecclesiastical Policy in 1671. the Defence of the Ecclesiastical Policy and now in 1672 this Preface to Biwop Bramhal and that they were writ in a stile so vindictive and poynant that they wanted nothing but rime to be right Tom Triplet and that their edge bore always upon J. O. either in broad meanings or in plain terms I begun to suspect that where there was so great resemblance in the Effects there might be some parallel in Effects there might be some parallel in their Causes For though the Peeks of Players among themselves or of Poet against Poet or of a ConformistDivine against a Nonconformist are dangerous and of late times have caused great disturbance yet I never remarked so irreconcileable a spirit as that of Boyes against their Schoolmasters or Tutors The quarrels of their Education have an influence upon their Memories and Understandings for ever after They cannot speak of their Teachers with any patience or civility and their discourse is never so flippant nor their Wirs so fluent as when you put them upon that Theme Nay I have heard old Men otherwise sober peaceable and