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A52130	A Common-place-book out of The rehearsal transpros'd digested under these several heads, viz. his logick, chronology, wit, geography, anatomy, history, loyalty : with useful notes.	Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. Rehearsal transpros'd.	1673 (1673)	Wing M869; ESTC R3584	13,677	64

the Kernel save only that the Cerebellum is much the softer substance but agrees in this that it is covered like the Kernel but since he is displeased with the thin shell about the Brain which I thought had been a sign of a good Head as it is of a good Nut I with him much joy of a thick Scull The Author being aware that the Cerebellum was empty raises the Hypochondria Page 50. into the Region of the Brain Beware Sir left some Quibler and Anatomist like one you know shall say that he has then guts in his Brains a Proverb expressing a Man of Wit and Parts I shou'd propound another considerable Instance of your Learning but that I am afraid of setting the Anti-Mathematician on your back I will only give such a hint as you and I and no other can understand You remember the Square-Cap Colledge-Quadrangle Round World and Quadrature of Circle How would Mr. Hobbs take it to be thus robb'd of his late Glorious Atchievements that an Vniversity Capper or any idle Fellow that turns or drinks about till the ground runs round with him shou'd as truly as he discover the Quadrature of the Circle Next come your Reports out of History which are choice like your new-found words Page 123. Julian himself who I think was first a Reader and held forth in the Christian Churches before he turned Apostate c. Well Sir if you miscarry in History as you had a casual slip in Anatomy I would advise you to renounce the use of all in Writing except Phansie and Censure It might be doubted whether Iulian were a Reader in the Church Socrates Scholasti●us says he was design'd Sozomen that he was judged fit though Theodoret affirms that he did publickly Read the Scriptures but except this be preaching and holding forth which certainly will not pass with you for a Sermon Iulian was never a Holder-forth To be a Reader as he was is no more than to be a Lay-Clerk in a Cathedral The business of Preaching was scarce permitted to Priests in the Primitive Church for though we find that the Readers at Alexandria did Interpret that is Translate to them the Scripture yet the Historian who relates this to wit Socrates adds that Arius was the first Priest who did ever in that City preach to the Assemblies of Christians but it may be Iulian did it in the Independent way as a Gifted-Brother and that would please your Client I. O. or else as a Reader he was of the Clergie and in Holy Order and thereby you gratifie the Papists It will do good service which way so ere it falls seeing both of them oppose the Common Enemy the Church of England But if you could place this Iulian in some Cure of Souls and had once discovered that he was either Parson or Vicar you wou'd easily conclude that he did Hold-forth You may conclude that you have done the business by the authority of Ammianus Marcellinus who in his 22. Book having spoken of the Christians immediately before adds Iulianus quinetiam Exvicario earundem partium nimius fautor c. which you thus construed Iulian from being a Vicar became too great a Favourer of that Party O brave Merry Andrew this I 'le warrant it pleases you But what pity it is in that Age of the Church there were neither Vicaridges nor Impropriations And further this Iulian was not the Apostate but a Deputy under Constantius turn'd out by Iulian the Emperour as is signified by Exvicario which word is by Marcellinus barbarously set as the Nominative in apposition to Iulianus as is evident in the next line where he calls Artemias the Exduce Egypti so that he seems to have learned his Accidence but not Grammar he thinks that where-ever he meets with the Preposition Ex the next Nown though part of the same word must always be the Ablative Case But I am now quite tir'd with these petty Criticisms so that for your farther satisfaction in the Grammatical part I refer you next see him to blind M. who teaches School about M●re-fields What think you of this sorry Latinist Marcellinus was he not fit to have serv'd as Latine Secretary about those Times when the Super-Reformists intended to have made Masters and Fellows of Colledges like Reformed Officers when the Gustices with a G of B shire set their marks to a Petition for suppressing Universities doubtless at that time when Latine was the Language of the Beast he might have kept in Office because what he wrote differ'd much from what the Beast bellow'd If you are not weary of hearing he shall present you with more History Page 204. He would not as Heliodorus Bishop of Trissa I take it that renounced his Bishoprick rather than his Title to the History of Theagenes and Chariclea If you dare believe a faithful Historian ancienter than any who affirms the contrary the Author of the Aethiopicks or the History of Theagenes and Chariclea was not Heliodorus but Theodorus not a Bishop but at large a Clergy-man which by his Translator is rendred a Priest not of Trissa but of Triva this account is given by Socrates but he says not a word of his renouncing his Office in the Church He only notes that he was the Ring-leader of that peculiar Custom in Thessaly that Priests should renounce their wives The first who affirmed that he preferred his Book above his Clergy was the fabulous Nicephorus one who when he does not steal invents either gross scandals or feign'd Miracles so that you may put up your Trumpery this Ware will not pass except with those who endure not to read the History of the Primitive Church because it is so unlike their own however it will make chat among the Brotherhood Iulian the Apostate formerly a Preacher of a National Church exchang'd his Faith for Idolatry and Bishop Heliodore chose rather to be silenc'd than condemn his vain and frothy Romance But you afford your Friends better entertainment in pointing at some of the Church of England lately dead as if they were Popishly affected He who begs the Requiem had good cause it seems to bespeak the favour that his memory might be blessed as 't is hoped he is and that his good name might be at rest as well as his body for you have laid the greatest blemish in the World on him that he should accuse a Church of Schism before God and still live in the Communion and Ministery of the same it had been better that you had writ his own words immediately from his Book he says it with an If c. which he endeavours to disprove to be the reason of the Separation your leaving out the supposition and affirming it as an absolute assertion inverts his meaning utterly so that the accusation is like that of Serapion to St. Chrysostom against Severianus for saying that Christ was never incarnate whereas his words were that if Severianus died a Christian Christ was never incarnate But something is the

they tolerate Sports This Liberty is not I suppose desired by the Indulged no they have more Loyalty sure they have heard it Preached that it was the Wicked Book of Sports not a word of Rump and Army that brought the King to the Block As for Geneva had it not been that Democracie both in Church and State had made some amends you had been told ere now that it tumbled into the Lemane Lake or that it had been destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah By this time without doubt you have enough for a Title Page now make room for the Rehearsal or Animadversions The Book begins like a Course of University-Studies with Logick and before he hath done you will find him as Universally learned as the Renowned Knight in our English Poet. You have Page 1. a Dilemma against the Preface for being written after Declaration that he would write no more Now a Dilemma is otherwise called A two-horned Argument whereas most men would have believed that he could have made neither two horns nor one since he left the Colledge but here they are Beware of a cu●s'd Ox though his horns be short It had been unmannerly and false to call so great a Master of Wit a Bull. Now you wi●h your Preface look to your self What can you say in your own defence Do you plead with the Casuists that any man may dispense with his own Promise where the Non-performance prejudices no one According to this Rule you are gone for by writing again you have offended the sweet-temper'd Author of Evangelical Love You have affronted Atheism which is accounted by Ricaut a considerable Sect amongst the fatal Turks and which in this Town under the like Patronage of Leviathan and Absolute Necessity is not of a despicable strength But this is not all You have hereby provok'd my Author to waste much precious time in an Answer For he like the Humorous Lieutenant was taken up in great and Important Affairs of State The Parliament may sit in February and then the GOOD OLD CAUSE and The Work of all the Faithful in the Land require his Counsel in Cabals and his Speeches in Publick as the most sufficient States-man and exact Orator that their Party does afford Now would it not vex a man to be thus unseasonably diverted from the weightiest Business of this Nation and of one or two besides Certainly he has cause ●o complain in the words of his Old Masters Wife after the death of her Husband That the burden of three Common-wealths lies upon those shoulders I hope Sir he hath paid you off with his Logick and to shew you that he is good at more Weapons than one have at you with his Chronology Page 5. The Press that Villanous Engine invented much about the same time with the Reformation I suppose by his former kindness that he intends the Honour of the Reformation for Mr. Calvin who is placed in the Tables of Chronology to the Year 1550 and the Press was invented 1440 a Villanous Engine that it should be so much before the Reformer Now though we had but few hundreds to turn in we shou'd have brought Press and Reformation nearer together than as at present they stand 1●0 years distant but for one sinister Accident had not that hindred the Reformation should have been attributed to Luther who though he still took his Commons in a Monastery wrote against Indulgences in the Year 1517. Let not the weak Brethren mistake as if he had been a Persecutor of the Sober Party it was only against the Popes Indulgence which was a sort of good natur'd Liberty of Conscience for men to sin Scot-free paying only for it a small Rent of Acknowledgment to his Holiness That which must for ever exclude Luther from this glorious Title of Reformer is That he was not contented Page 295. with three Ceremonies but he had the Table se● Altar-wise and to be called an Altar Candles Crucifixes Paintings c. so that Calvin is your Man so useful an Instrument that I could wish for the sake of my Author he had been heard of but one hundred years sooner But if you make the worst of it what signifies this in comparison of so many thousands as the World is old and if you set it over against Eternity he is not so much as one moment out in his Computation But since this Chronology is a dry Study and Printing very laborious he makes a facetious transition from the Printing Press to the Wine Press If his thirsty Wit be so pretty what may we expect from his new Wine Here it comes Page 64. He was the Cock Divine and Cock-Wit and walked among the Hens Oh how I love to see much made of a little Some pretending Wits are so lazy that they will take no pains with a Joke except it will come easily they let it alone they like unskilful Carvers of a Calfs head cannot find the best bits but our Author rather than miss any will break his own brain He is in splitting Jests as famous as those celebrated men in their several Professions of whom one is called Doctor Tear-Text the other the Pick-Lock of the Law Another Piece of the same Wit is Page 10. where he tells us of contrary Assignations where the Phansie is up and Breeches down with the rest of which Modesty forbids to make a Rehearsal his excuse must be that of Hilkiah the Quaker for his plain Song of Window-woing He said it when the vain Spirit was upon him Whatever he says ill now he recants Page 65. He declares that he does not hear for all this that he practised upon the Honour of Ladies This is very charitable and true but if this accusation had been just the candor of the Vindication had been wonderful The jealous Fellow in Green-street was not so favourable to the Blew-Gown whom he caught in that Posture with his Wife for like an ill-bred Clown he used him untowardly and so that it is a shame to tell Thus far my Author hath shewed a kind of Apothegmatical short Wit now to shew that he can offer somewhat more stately and large he performs the fear of Aristotle's Rarefaction that is he gives you much of extension upon a little of matter He takes but two letters I. O. and with these alone he writes from Page 80. to 91. Never did Bow-Bells ring more Changes than these well tuned two Say but what you would have and here it is I. O. is a Talisman though the Owner thereof is neither Conjurer nor Cunning Gipsie I. O. is Paean Daughter of Inachus Iudicious Iealous Oraculous Obscure This is an Abridgement of the Design carried on through 10 Pages excepting some stragling digressions One is his advice to the Alphabet to fetch a Warrant from Justice Bales against the Prefacer I think he had better advised them to another except they meet with his Clerk at home for since the Justice left practising Law he hath almost quite forgot

of that which they endeavour'd to overthrow but if they will please in this accusation to pass by the Chief person that ever appeared in Arms against them they expect to have the Civility acknowledg'd by his Heir But it may be thought perhaps that I am too severe and uncharitable to the Author and put too harsh a sense upon his words as if he were an Advocate when he only plays the Historian that he only tells us their pretences not as if they were just grounds or that he defends these things as a good Cause of War 'T is true indeed he says only that it was too good a Cause to be fought for Now according to Natural Logick whatsoever is too good is good enough and more to spare As if I should say of the Transproser in the course way of speaking wherein he treats others that he was too much a Knave to be trusted with any Office in the Kingdom this would include that he was Knave enough Now we speak of imployment in the Commonwealth he is sure to be excluded from many places for refusing to declare that it is not lawful upon any cause whatsoever yea though it be too good a cause to take up Arms against the King But to sweeten the harshness of what he last gave he adds the Arms of the Church are Prayers and Tears It is true indeed but the Adversaries of the Church have other Arms yet they use the saying to good purpose and sing this in mens ears till they have lull'd them asleep where they intend to make an an onset It hath been observ'd that this very sentence was the subject of a Papist's Book in Q. Elizabeths reign to make the Governours more secure whilst they were restless Yet this Author pretends so much respect to Government that he fairly warns Princes of the danger which may ensue again if they invade Religion and Liberty Page 304. The fatal Consequences of that Rebellion can only serve as Sea-marks unto wise Princes to avoid the Causes It only serves for Princes he was not sensible that the People were losers For his own part he does not find that he had cause then to complain but as for Princes to them they stand as Sea-marks they shew that if they touch there abouts they shall be split as sure as if they dasht upon a Rock as they love themselves let them avoid giving the People these Causes of a War What if they will not take fair warning why then they must take what comes How much better might he have assign'd as the cause of the War A wanton Pride of the People bred out of Prosperity and long ease infected with a touch of Levelling Principles deriv'd over to their Politicks from the New Models of Church Government He might farther have demonstrated that these materials were wrought by Aemulation and Covetousness Not forgetting that some Grandees ordered the Puritan Lecturers like Apothecaries to make up according to their prescriptions a Bolus with some counterfeit drops of Gods Glory that the Well-meaning multitude might more glibly swallow the Poison I have now upon the matter done with you Let me only advise you as a Friend suddenly to clap up a Peace with the Government upon this single Article that neither might suffer by the other As to what you have wrote against the Author of the Preface the most part has either been answered to your Principal I. O. or else needs none Or if it seem so to require it carries a solution near the difficulty What you object against the Church of England is Rehearsal and as it hath been repeated oft by several so has it been oftner confuted Let me leave you with a passage in History and the consideration in how many Circumstances this is and may be your case The short of it is thus Eutropius the Eunuch was a busie Solicitor with the Civil Magistracy to have a Law made against the Priviledges and Power of the Church not long after it happen'd that he was utterly ruin'd by the very same contrivance which his malice against Ecclesiastical Politie had framed THE END