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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51158	A letter to the Honourable Sir Robert Howard, occasioned by a late book entituled, A two-fold vindication of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and of the author of The history of religion by Al. Monro ...	Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?	1696 (1696)	Wing M2441; ESTC R3506	15,495	30

of nothing in the Solemnities of Worship but what is founded upon express Divine Institution to be the source of all Bigottry and Enthusiasm God is to be Worshiped and that in Unity and Society If this be allowed several Rites and Ceremonies must be Practis'd and enjoin'd which have no Institution but in the Prudence and determination of our Superiours If the angry Gentleman read this little Book that I have named he may then be more able to pass his Decretory Sentence how far the Contemptible Professor is of Mr. Knox's Principles He or his Neighbour I do not now remember which of the two not only lashes me as being tainted with those Principles of Sedition and Confusion that were so warmly Propagated by Mr. Knox but he says that all the Episcopal Clergy of Scotland tho' they forsook Mr. Calvin and Mr. Knox in the question about Church Government yet in points of Doctrine they have varied nothing at all from Mr. Knox Author of the Reformation there If this Man's knowledge in Theology was equal to his skill in our History he would certainly make the saddest figure that ever appear'd that is to say he would be all over Innocence in its true Original and Insignificant Notion so much below a Cypher that there is no Room left for him in Arithmetick Therefore he may be advised to let the Clergy of Scotland and their Doctrine alone they are not yet so low after all the oppressions and contradictions of sinners that they have endured as to want an Apology against the Railings of an inconsiderate Calumniator who knows as little the Persons that he thus bespatters as he does the Author of the Charge of Socinianism c. Let him read Dr. Forbes Bishop of Edinbourg his Considerationes Modestes and then let him tell me whether he was in all points of Doctrine of Mr. Calvin or Mr. Knox's Sentiments And he was a Person whose Character and Learning was more likely to make Disciples amongst the Clergy of Scotland than the two Reformers that he is pleased to name Nevertheless Calvin ought to be mention'd with honour because of the purity of his stile and other extraordinary accomplishments Some of our Clergy may have their differences amongst themselves about the Doctrine of Predestination and Freewill but then this is no reproach peculiar to Scotland these are Common Places in Divinity that divide not Churches from Churches but Men from Men. Those questions have been disputed in all Ages and will remain dark to the end of the World even to the Socinians themselves who pretend to banish all mysteries I believe the Infinite Incomprehensible Power of God and that he is the first cause of all things in him we live move and have our Being I believe him also infinitely Good and that he loves us better than we can do ourselves and that he governs the World by Laws just holy and excellent I Worship him under this Idea of Original Goodness and Power and I am very sure that none of the true and necessary deductions from these two great Attributes can be at variance with one another If I who am but Dust and Ashes neither can see nor happily explain their agreement in all Minute instances it is my Ignorance and Weakness The Good I do is from God the Evil altogether from my self And this is a short Confession of what I think all Men ought to adhere to in those Intricate and abstruse questions of Predestination and Freewill I am not now inclin'd to enter into any particular disquisition concerning the Original of Sacrifices nor had I ever the least thought of writing Animadversions on any Sermons Publish'd by the Late Archbishop Tillotson most of them as were Printed before the Revolution I read with great satisfaction and those that since appear'd I only read some of them as I met with them accidentally in the Booksellers-shops being not in an humour to buy New Books when I knew not how long I could keep such as I had formerly purchased Then your Philosopher recommends to me that I should read Spencer and Outram I love him the better that he converses with such Authors who are as much above the Common Level of Systematick Writers as their Learning exceeds his own modesty and good nature The former Author draws a Picture of me in little I am not concern'd much to view it tho' the Lineaments and Features had been more true but as they are extreamly ugly and extravagantly false he may lay it up in his own Closet to entertain himself with it when he is in his Hypochondriack fits The first stroaks of his Tableau are Historical and terminate only in my Person and such as the Author of the Charge of Socinianism is not at all concern'd in In the mean time I think my self oblig'd to give him no account of any part of my life unless I knew him better And if I did perhaps I might still continue in the same resolution He accuses me to have charged the late Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Sarum and the Author of the History of Religion of Socinianism And he adds this most accurate Reason because I mistake the Doctrine of the Church and the Arguments she useth for the Socinian Doctrine and Reasons Whether any of those Gentlemen now named were or are Socinians is more than ever I intend to enquire It is a very new thing to me to hear that the Church useth Arguments for the Socinian Doctrine and Reasons It is true one of his eminent Authors accused me of being the Author of the Charge of Socinianism in the Month of December last a mercenary malice and profound ignorance were but some of the vertues he allowed me I heartily forgive him those precipitate ramblings I have suffered since that time some things more terrible than the disdainful stroaks of his Pen I am apt to think that his Credulily led him into this mistake It is the unhappy lot of most who are advanced to Eminent Stations to be haunted with Sycophants false Accusers Lyars and Tale-bearers If they guard against the malignity of such Vermin their Vertue is more than ordinary and if they do not hear with both their ears they are certain plagues to human Society But one of the most surprising and impertinent stroaks of your Author's Libel is that he charges me to have accused your self of ingratitude to K. James for I never heard of your name until this Book was put into my hands by one of my Friends And I am as much qualified to write the lives of all the Irish Kings before the Conquest as I am to give any tolerable account of any part of your selfe As for your Book entitled the History of Religion I never saw it until the 6th of April 1696. So far have I been from writing any Animadversions upon it And if did they should be very short And I had rather communicate them to your self than print against an Author that