Reputation abroad against the no Credit of Dr. Wallis He must needs be certain that would lay such a Wager Well! The Geometry-Professor of Oxford is a Person of no Credit and the Young man of Christ-church attaqu'd and weakned it This he tells us he had done in his Preface p. 3. He valiantly attaqu'd nothing and made it as weak as Water And sooner he had done it but for a good Reason 'T was long saith he ere my Laughter upon the reading of Dr. W. would permit me to use a Pen ibid. And what should the man do while the Fit of Laughter was upon him As soon as he could for Laughing he assures us he prepared for Triumph And being then rather to proclaim my Victory than to gain one I supposed I might have a greater time to prepare for Triumph than had been otherwise necessary to the Dispute ibid. p. 3. Well! But what need of so much Triumph and such Preparations for it if this Adversary were so ridiculous He tells us in the words that follow Nor do I now go about to Triumph over the single Doctor The Conquest is too mean no doubt modest Harry But over all those whose Interest or Ignorance may lead them to approve his Writings who are numerous at least and since the Vogue of the People will have them deserving too I have thought them worthy the Passion of thy affectionate Friend and Servant So he concludes to the understanding Reader But that Friend of his may ask that since the Approvers of the Doctors Writings are numerous and they have the Vogue of the People for deserving too How should it come to pass that He is a Person of no Credit as p. 5. and a contemptible Adversary as p. 8. second Part. If he had made his Address to the Courteous instead of the Vnderstanding Reader some of that sort probably might not have observed this Fit of Forgetfulness And he that doth must pass such slips over or he 'l find work enough for his Patience on this Account as well as others in the Writings of the Vndertaker But 't is not my business to note any of these here His Modesty and the Lowliness of his Mind for which he would have recommended himself to those meek ones of the Earth Lambert's Army and the Committee of Safety are my present Subject of these but an Instance oâ— two more He tells us in his Preface to his Animadversions on my Book p. 5. That The Comical Wits so he pleaseth to call the Fellows of the Royal Society were so alarm'd at the Specimen of his Animadversions on Dr. Sprat and M. Glanvill that They imployed all their Artifices to divert him Great Sir GVY how that Host trembles before Thee How do their Spirits fail and their Courage sink at thy Summons How They weakly fly to Artifices to put by thy formidable Force when they have not strength to stand before it Well may They fear that redoubted Arm that hath slain so many Monsters Antichrist and all his Limbs Monarchy Churches Vniversities Ministry and the rest This Pigmy Troop cannot stand under one Blow of thy more than Herculean Club. Therefore the Cowards mean Spirits pitiful Mechaniciens as with valiant Despight he calls them endeavour to wave the Combat by disingenious Proceedings ibid. contrary it seems to all generous Laws of Chivalry They treacherously design he tells us not only upon his Fortunes but Life They cannot be secure while He is above ground Well! But he knows his Advantages and assures us that They are at his Mercy The Obligation as he saith would be lost in sparing them He resolves therefore to take the daring Counsel and though they should oppress him by treacherous power it would be said That he fell their Uictor and their Martyr ib. p. 5. Thus dying Samson pluck'd the House upon the Philistims And no doubt M. Stubb is as much a Victor as he is like to be a Martyr For what a Conquerour is He in Title-Pages and Prefaces With what ease doth he get Victories Vidi Vici He only laught at Dr. Wallis and prepares for Triumph as soon as the Merriment was over He dispatch'd a Specimen of Animadversions against Dr. Sprat and M. Glanvill and presently the Royal Society are at his mercy and I for my part am reduced to a Non-plus in his first Sentence and designed for a Sacrifice to publick Obloquy in the second leaf of his Preface It seems he hath the Wind of publick Fame in a Bag and can direct Reputation or Reproach as he pleaseth The general Sense of Mankind depends upon his Pen which is none of the common ones to which from henceforth I am to be given up as he threatens p. 2. Now I see with how much reason he saith That the Expectation of all men was impatient to see his Animadversions Pref. p. 7. No doubt 't was that they might know what they were to judge of the Virtuosi He hath at last obliged Mankind with them as he promiseth to do by his Observations about Chocolata Disc. of Choc Pref. p. last and now he expects without Question that the Comical Wits should be odious to the Kingdom as he tells us he designed to make them Non-plus Pref. p. 4. The Kingdom 't is like will love and hate as he would have it He gives the Stamp of odious or amiable and the Character is indelible This Sir is a short Description of the modest man that was so low in his own Eyes when he stood before his Patrons of the GOOD OLD CAVSE And from this remarkable Virtue of his we may pass to an Enquiry about another as eminent viz. II. HIS Civility and dutiful Demeanour towards his Betters of this He gives great Instances in his Expressions towards all sorts of Superiours Concerning our KINGS he saith That Their whole Succession was a continued Usurpation Pref. to the Good old Cause p. 2. Of the Glorious KING CHARLES the MARTYR That All his evil Council did ride upon one Horse ibid. And adds That the Patriots of the Long Parliament and Army executed Iustice upon Him Vind. against M. Baxter p. 59. Our present SOVERAIGN he styles an Usurper and mates him with Cromwel in the infamy of that Title For speaking of the Day of the Tyrants Death He saith It was famous for the Vanquishing of one and the Death of an other Usurper against M. Baxt. p. 53. And every one knows That was the third of September the Day also of the Kings Final Overthrow at Worcester And in his Letter to an Officer of the Army p. 14. speaking of a Cloud out of the North which he saith was more dreadful to tender Consciences than the Romish Inquisition He adds That in comparison thereof the Return of Charles Stuart and his Bishops would prove a moderate Desire In which Expression he thought no doubt he had rais'd the Dreadfulness of that Cloud to the most Hyperbolical Height possible and much beyond the Comparison with
A Praefatory ANSWER TO Mr. Henry Stubbe The Doctor of Warwick WHEREIN The Malignity of his Temper The Hypocrisie of his Pretences The Falshood of his Reports AND THE Impertinency of his Arguings Quotations In his ANIMADVERSIONS ON PLVS VLTRA Are discovered By JOS. GLANVILL A Rod for the Fools back Sol. London Printed by A. Clark for I Collins at the Kings Arms in Ludgate-street near the West-end of S. Pauls and at the Kings Head in Westminster-hall 1671. PREFACE WHen I am ask't the reason of M. Stubbe's fierceness against the ROYAL SOCIETY and the favourers of that Institution my usual answer is There are creatures that will bark against those who never hurt or provoked them and ' â—is in vain to askâ— Why 'T is the nature of those Animals and that 's the only account can be given M. Stubbe hath kept a noise ever since he could open against all men except M. Hobbs and the Republicans and all things but Quakerism and Democracy He hath faln with a vehemence suitable to his nature upon Monarchy Ministry Universities and Humane Learning provoking all men to whom those interests were dear But perceiving he had the fate of old Alexander Ross to be despised by those he had affronâ—ed and seeing that no one thought him worthy of Confuâ—ation he turns about and confutes himself he puâ—s on a mighty zeal for those things which he had endeavour'd to wâ—rrey and there being nothing of note left which he had not assaulted before he falls at last upon the R. S. with his usual noise and vehemence He clamours that this Institution is destructive to Monarchy Church of England Universities and all ancient Literature and follows his confident accusations with loud outcâ—ies and restless importunities and numerous reproaches persecuting that illustrious Company with such wild ravings and impetuous eagerness as if it were an Army of Painims that had invaded us and he the only man that saw the danger and was concern'd for the common safety By his earnest noise he frights some that know not the nature of the Creature and hath possest divers who are not well informed concerning the Institution of the ROYAL SOCIETY with terrible apprehensions of it This is all M. Stubbe haâ—h or câ—n do his main force is in the boldness and vehemence of his accusations his pretences of proof are contemptible and ridiculous and can perswade none but those he hath scared into an incapacity of right judgment For this reason I have thought it requisite to begin my answer in an account of his temper and genius out of his own Writings and when that is known his greatest force is disabled for his impudent censures will be no longer heeded in which his chief power lies And therefore it is not here as in ordinary cases when reflections that expose the person signifie little to the cause But on the contrary the Representation I have made of this Adversary is one of the most proper services can be done it and if I should say nothing else it were an Answer For he that proves an Accuser to have been a continual Pâ—st to his Neighbours a constant Slanderer and malicious Teller of untruths doth enough to assert his Vindication against his enemies unproved accusations I say I thought â—it to endeavour this fiâ—st since by it I shall break that part of his strength which consists in those slanders and contempts which he pours upon the Experimental Philosophers aud after that his Other Arguments â— will prove like Swords of Flags and Spears of Bulrush as will appear in that part where I make tryal of their strength This my design of which I have now given the reason might 't is like be some occasion of the figment over which he so couragiously insults viz That the Uirtuosi intended to write his life when I dare say there was never more thought of â—o this purpose than some such collection out of his Writings and I have made and therefore he might have forborn the Complements of mean spirits and pitiful ridiculous Mechanicks which he bestows on them on this occasion For there are none of those Gentlemen but scorn to be so dirty impertinent and so like M. Stubbe as to meddle with any passages of his Life which do not tend to the weakening him in that unworthy cause in which his pride and spight have engaged him But he is resolved he saith to prevent the Virtuosi and to write his Life himself and 't is like the Comical Wits will thank him for a story that would ouâ— do Guzman and Don Quixot But alas they are not to expect it he is too modest to do himself right What he hath done as to his Life is a Deâ—ence of those passages that he apprehended most â—bnoxious and I shall here animadvert upon his Apology by which he thinks he hath prevented that part of my account which relates to his egregious exploits in the late times Let us consider that a little and see what his defence signifies IT might have been expected from one that hath trampled on the ashes of his Martyr'd Sovereign defended and adored his Murtherers stiled all our Kings a Succession of Usurpers endeavour'd the extirpation of Monarchy and the planting a Democracy of Independents Anabaptists Fiâ—th Monarchy men and Quakers in its room That hath represented the meekest justest and best of Kings as an hateful Tyrant and called our now Sovereign an Usurper that hath written maliciously against Ministry Universities Churches and Humane Learning and vindicated the Quakers and the rest of the wildest and most dangerous Phanaticks I say it might have been expected that such a man as this when he would be thought a Convert should renounce those horrid villanies and humble himself by deep professions of repentance and declare his shame for those abominable treasons and impieties and beg pardon of God and good men for those detestable enormities But these were below the gallantry of M. Stubbe's spirit he hath another method to express his repentance he falls with his old rage upon his Majesty's Institution out of a pretended concern for Monarchy and Religion The King he phancies hath erected a Society that will undermine Monarchy and those Bishops and Divines that are imbodied in it are managing a design to overthrow Religion therefore M. Stubbe stands up in a mighty zeal and defends Monarchy against the KING and Religion against the DIVINES no doubt with a purpose to do a mischief to both This is ONE way of his repentance to act as much as he dares for the same ends he served before And ANOTHER is to justifie himself in all that he hath done which in a swaggering insulting way he impudâ—ntly attempts in the Preface to his Book against the History of the Royal Society and he hath done it so that 't is hard to say which is the greater crime his confest wickedness or his Apology The sum of it is this He served his Patron Sir Hen. Vane by whom
the Vindication of M. Cross But I must go on with the Catalogue of his Works The next is An ESSAY in DEFENCE of the good old Cause The most glorious Cause in the World accompanied with no less Success p. 2. of the second Alphabet And a VINDICATION of the Honourable Sir Hen. Uane whom not to honour and admire is to be an Enemy to all that is good and vertuous p. 7. second Alphabet from the false Aspersions of M. BAXTER A Philistim Shimei Rabshakeh p. 11. 2d Alph. A LETTER to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate which is to consist according to His Model of Independents Anabaptists Fifth Monarchy-men and Quakers excluding all PAPISTS PRELATICAL and PRESBYTERIAN Persons p. 61. A LIGHT SHINING OVT OF DARKNESS a Book against Ministry p. 1 2 3 4 c. Vniversities p. 92 93. and 139 140. School-Divinity and Knowledge of Tongues 94 95 96. Humane Learning p. 101 102. Aristotles Philosophy p. 105. Publick Churches 106. Church-yards 110. Division into Parishes and Tiths p. 112 113. Bells 138. Vniversity Habits and Degrees p. 14.2.143 Black Coats p. 147. Gowns 148. Respect of Persons Complemental Addresses and your Servant p. 163. Swearing before a Magistrate p. 165 166. Containing also an express Apology for the Quakers p. 55.56 I quote from the second Edition An ACCOVNT OF CHOCOLATA by which he wholly obligeth Manking Pref. p. last An ACCOVNT of M. GREATARICK who wrought real Miracles p. 8.10 And did things that never man did except Christ and the Apostles p. 27. These miraculous things he wrought by the Temperament and Composure of his Body p. 11. And antient Miracles and modern ones have been wrought by the efficacy of a corporal Touch p. 11. This of M. Greatarick did not indeed always succeed and there were some Diseases as well as some Devils which even the Apostles could not cast out p. 5. A CENSVRE upon certain Passages contain'd in the History of the Royal Society which he saith are impious and pernicious p. 1. contrary to the Analogy of Faith and Scripture p. 36. a Congeries of gross Vntruths tending to the Dishonour of God and the Destruction of the Protestant Religion introducing a Popish Implicit Faith or something that in effect is the same but attended with more ridiculous Circumstances p. 40. directly contrary to the Constitutions of our Church and better becoming a Socinian from Poland and Amsterdam than a Divine of our Church p. 53. Hath not Religion and the Church of England think you an excellent Champion in this DEFENDER of M. Hobbs Sir Hen. Uane and the Quakers But lastly He hath writ a SPECIMEN of SOME ANIMADVERSIONS VPON THE PLUS ULTRA OF M. GLANVILL in which he proves That the Antients were able to cure cut fingers as particularly Podalirius and Machaon in Homer and Galen compounded several Medicines to that purpose as Diapalma Tripharmacon and another hard word p. 3. and again 159. That 't is a very difficult Iourney to the Moon and a great way p. 175. and many other things that are as much to his purpose as these as will be shewn in the Sequel For the present I only say concerning this Piece in general That with a great deal of Noise and Labour the Animadverter hath proved nothing For all his Force is imployed either against Castles in the Air of his own raising or incidental passages that are little or nothing to the Cause I undertook and of no concern to the main body of my Book And yet I must confess that when I compare this Adversary with my other Antagonist M. Cross I think there are acknowledgments due to him for the Reading and shew of Learning that I find in his Discourse and I may say of it as one did of an impertinent Disputer that was very brisk and fluent in his Argument Bene disputat sed nihil ad rem But the Papers of my other Assailant deserve not as much as this For they contain nothing but opprobrious Names gross Falshoods and contemptible Puerilities no Learning nor any shew of any but such as a Boy of 18 would despise Thus briefly and in general of the Writings of this Aggressor out of Them I now come to give you some more particular Accounts of his Spirit and Temper And because I resolve to abstain from all Expressions that look like the Rhetorick and Civility of M. Cross and his Champion M. Stubb I shall not give those hard Names to the Qualifications I discover that every man else will think they deserve But only make a kind and sober Enquiry after some of the remarkable Virtues he discloseth in his Works I shall only insist here on two And because he tells his Reader in the first Page of the Preface to his Light shining out of Darkness Edition the first That HE IS ONE THAT DESIRES TO LIE LOW IN HIS OWN EYES I shall begin these Enquiries by taking notice 1. OF his singular Modesty This is exceeding eminent in every Leaf of his Writings In his Attempts while but a Boy upon the Reverend Dr. Wallis and M. Baxter and now he hath made it more remarkable by his Assault upon the Royal Society His Majesties Institution and an Assembly consisting of Persons of the greatest Honour Gravity and Learning while he is yet but a young Country Physician as he styles himself in his Preface against my Book Plus ultra And above all it is notorious what a modest man this is in his early Oppositions of MONARCHY and Proposals of a MODEL for the GOVERNMENT of three Nations and Extirpation of those Antient Laws which had had been made and confirmed by the Wisdom of so many Kings and successive Parliaments in his Impugnations of MINISTRY VNIVERSITIES CHVRCHES HVMANE LEARNING and all ORDERS and CONSTITVTIONS whatsoever as Popish and Antichristian But let us take a view of his singular Humility and Lowness in his own Eyes in some Expressions in his Writings I shall recite a few Instances among numerous others which for Brevity I must omit by which you may judge how he excels in this Virtue In the first Page of his Book against Dr. Wallis in Defence of M. Hobbs He expresseth himself to his Friend in these words I have pen'd a further Discourse upon that Subject which you may suppress from going any further if you find that my early Repute abroad doth not call for the Publication nor the Applause of the Ingenious whose Praises were the more to be regarded because they were directed to the Piece which was publick not the Author that was concealed It seems he had writ an Anonymous Book which he tells the World raised him an early Repute and the Applauses and Praises of the Ingenious Very modest And as lowly is that other Saying p. 5. If I find the Doctor produce more Grammars against us I will allow him two to one and venture my Reputation against his no Credit Great Odds M. Stubb ' s Reputation that early
granted that two pair ordinarily hinder the Sight though in M. Stubb's old Gentlewoman and young the Case is different and if I had allowed the Consequence this had been enough to have carried M. Cross's Cause against the two Glasses in Telescopes Thus I must be ignorant because I was not impertinent But doth M. Stubb think that every one is unacquainted with Opticks who doth not know that double Spectacles mend the Sight in some whose Eyes are weak or dis-affected Must all be Ignoramus's that have not met with the old Gentlewoman his Acquaintance and the young Gentlewoman that he knows with Cataracts in her Eyes who use two pair of Spectacles or must he needs be ignorant that meeting two false Propositions in a Syllogism contents himself to deny one and that the denial of which most evidently tends to the nulling the Argument and rendring it ridiculous I propose not these Questions to justifie my own Knowledge but to represent and shame M. Stubb's childish trifling and malicious Impertinence 12. As to the large Discourse that follows concerning Telescopes I shall treat fully on the Subject and answer the Animadverter's Cavills in the Book where I particularly examine his Authorities and in that all other things which are worth an Answer shall be consider'd For the present I take notice that this whole Discourse is an elaborate Impertinence for he proves not that Telescopes are no late Invention nor yet that they are not Helps for Knowledge He pretends indeed to shew that their Reports are sometimes uncertain but yet will not be understood totally to discredit the use of Telescopes in celestial Discoveries as he cautions p. 47. And so what he sâ—ys is impertinent to the main Business though it may seem to confute some passages of mine concerning those Glasses But let M. Stubb urge all he can for the fâ—lliciousness of Telescopes a Sceptick will produce as much to prove the Deceitfulness of our Eyes and I 'll undertake my self to offer such Arguments against the Certainty of Sense as M. Stubb with all his Sagacity shall not be able to answer But how comes M. Stubb to say in the Entrance of this Discourse p. 29. That he was sure M. Boyle is in the same errour with M. Cross Let us see upon what ground he built his Confidence in this first Instance by which he impugns Telescopes Why M. Boyle complains that when he went about to examine those appearances in the Sun call'd Maculae Faculae solares he could not make the least Discovery of them in many Months which yet other Observators pretend to see every day yet doth M. Boyle profess that he neither wanted the conveniency of excellent Telescopes nor omitted any circumstance requisite to the Enquiry Thus the Animadverter and hence he is sure that M. B. is in the same errour with M. C. That Telescopes are fallacious Let this be an Instance how this Swaggerer quotes Authors and let the Reader look into the place cited from M. Boyle If he do so he will see That that Honourable Person saith nothing there that tends to the proving the Deceitfulness of Telescopes much less that he believes them fallacious I have not the Latin Translation of those Essays but in the second Edition of the Original English I find the Discourse to which M. Stubb referrs p. 103. where the excellent Author imputes it not to the Glasses that he could not for several Months see the Maculâ— and Faculae solares but seems a little to blame those Astronomers who have so written of the Spots and more shining parts as to make their Readers to presume that at least some of them are almost always to be seen there which he conjectures was occasion'd by their so often meeting such Phaenomena in the Sun ib. But these for many months our Learned Author could not discover by his Telescopes not because of their Fallaciousness but for that during many months they appeared so much seldomer than it seems they did before These are the words of that Honourable Gentleman ubi sup And now how doth it appear hence that M. Boyle is in the same errour about the Deceitfulness of Telescopes with M. Cross Is it sure that he thought those Glasses fallacious because he could not see the Maculae and Faculae in the Sun when they were not there what are we to expect from this man in reference to the other Authors he cites when he so grosly and impudently mis-reports so known a one of our own who is yet alive and sees how maliciously the Caviller perverts him I shall examine his carriage to other Writers in my next Book and in that shew that most of the Arguments he brings to argue the Fallaciousness of Telescopes prove only the Diversity and Changes of the Mediums and of the celestial Phaenomena not the Deceit of those Glasses But I am concluded to be altogether unacquainted with Telescopes as well as ignorant of Opticks p. 46. because I say That They alter the Objects in nothing but their Proportions by which I meant that they make no Alterations in the Figures of Bodies but represent them as they are only in larger proportions And I am ignorant in Telescopes for saying so For 1. Some Telescopes invert all Objects and 2. the Dioptrick Tubes represent the Light and Colours more dilute and remiss 3. Some represent some Objects greater 4. Some no bigger or rather less 5. Some Objects are magnified but not so much as others These are Arguments of my Ignorance or M. Stubb's Impertinence For my Ignorance I have told M. Stubb that I am ready to confess a great deal more than he can prove me guilty of And whether he hath shewn it here as he pretends let the Reader judg If some Telescopes invert all things that 's nothing to his purpose for I spoke of the ordinary Tubes Nor is there any change of the Figure of Objects when they are inverted Though in the largest Tubes the Light and Colours are more remiss yet that makes no alteration of the Object and I said the Glasses alter'd the Objects in nothing but their Proportions Though some Objects in some Tubes are represented no bigger or rather less than they otherwise seem yet that 's nothing against what I say For Telescopes ordinarily magnifie 'T is their remarkable property and that for which they are used and though some Objects are not magnified as much as others yet they are confess'd to be magnified and that 's sufficient or though some are not 't were nothing as I just now observ'd I note these obvious things as my eye runs over my Adversaries Book They are enough to justifie what I said and to shew M. Stubb's Impertinence I shall discover it further when I come to consider these things more deeply I represent the easiest matters now that all Readers may see what a pitiful Caviller this man is that boasts such mighty matters and counts all men ignorants and Fools but himself
in the case of M. Baxter These returns I may expect from one that hath so many good Qualities of his Celebrated Times In this way he can write on for ever for such proceedings are most suitable to his parts and virtues By them he will make himself the admiration of Envious Fools but the scorn of the wise and intelligent which latter he hath sufficiently done already And therefore I shall leave him to the Applâ—â—dâ— of hiâ— Friends and the Contempts of the Friends of vertue and wisdom after I have justified my self in a thing which is like to be objected by this Antagonist I am told he will Answer all that I have produced out of his writings to shew the Hypocrisie of his pretenses for Monarchy and the Church of England by recharging me with compliance with those Times An Answer befitting such a Writer and let him make the most of that charge My great fault was that I was born in that unhappy season and bred in those dismal daysâ— But can he accuse me of any thing I ever said or did that was Disloyal Did I write a Defence of the Cause of Regicides and Vsurpers â— or Defame Kingly Government or blaspheme my persecuted Soveraign or promote Anarchy and publick ruine If M. Stubbe cannot prove any of thâ—se as I daâ—e him to offer at it He cannot recriminate And his charges of this kind will bâ— contemptible â— and like all the rest He had best write against me for coming into the world in an ill Time and for being born a Child â— I have not the least offence besides to answer forâ— in reference to the Government â— except what I apologized for before the recital I have made of his former Trâ—asons and Impieties I have now done for the present with M. Stubbe But must add this to some silly sneaks who think he hath written things not to be answer'd â— That Impudence and non-sense are the most troublesom things to answer in the world I have prov'd alreadyâ— and shall yet more fully shew that the Argumentative part of his Book against me is so far from being unanswerable that it cannot deserve any other Answer then a smile and silence For most of that he saith is lamentably inconsistent and impertinent He tells us He sends the things to the Press that were suggested as he travell'd and one may judge by their incoherence that he rid upon a trotting Horse upon which I leave him pursuing the Virtuosi and add this Advertisement If any man hath a design to write his Life and further to describe this Sir Hudibrâ—s and his Steed He will do well to hold his hand a while For M. Stubbe's Friend M. Cross hath writ a Book call'd Biographia which gives Rules how Lives are to be writ This will be printed if the Licensers will permit the good man to spoil so much paper and so make himself publickly ridiculous And the Hâ—storian had noâ— best begin till he hath M. C. directions for fear he transgress the Rules and incur the lash of the Methodical Pedant This Book it seems is intended to correct the Learned and pious Dr. â—ell for his way of writing the Life of Dr. Hammond and 't is M. C. revenge upon that excellent person for his denying Licence to the scurrilous and non-sensical Book he writ against me I have not heard many particulars of it but only this He calls that Reverend Divine who hath been long Doctor of Divinity presides over the chief Colledge of Oxford is Dean of that Diocess and hath govern'd the Vniversity as Vice-Chancellor with singular wisdom diligence and applause I say he calls that venerable man Iubenis and I believe that name of diminution doth not go alone but the Reverend person from whom I had this lighted on that by chance as he cast his eye upon the Disputer's Papers which he carrieâ—h about for a shew 'T would be well for an old man I know if he had this excuse of being young for his weakness and puerilities for which there can be no Apology made except he confesâ— himself arriv'd to his second childhood And so I take leave of him out of pity and for ought I know for ever FINIS ADVERTISEMENT Concerning the ERRATA and some passages liable to be mistaken THat M. Stubbe may not trouble himself to write more Animadversions on the Errata of the Press I give notice That when I speak of his Reporting the Design of the Royâ—l Society to be laid by a Iesuite p. 2. or 3. It should be by a Fryar The mistake was the persons that told iâ— me who said a Iesuite thinking it seems That Campanella was of that order In Dr. More 's Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is seâ— instead of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I know not whether the mistake be the Printers or Transcribers 'T was not mine I never writ out that Letter There are several other small errors I took notice of in running over my Printed Papers as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pigmy which should have had no Comma between and the like But I have not my Book now at hand to note them particularly and therefore must lye at M. Stubbe's mercy But these following things were noted while my Papers were by me to prevent mistake P. 174. When I say It must be granted that two pair viz. of Spectacles ordinarily hindâ—r 〈◊〉 sight I would not be understood 〈◊〉 they do so when used by those of Greatâ—â— Age. For two pair to them have but the power of one P. 178. When I say Telescopes represent â—â—jects as they arâ— only in larger proportiâ—ns I mean as they are for figure and only represent them larger then they appear to the 〈◊〉 eye P. 179. When I grant what M. Stubbe saith that in the longest Tubes the Colours of Objects are more remiss whatever he meanâ— I would not be understood as if the length of the Tubes made the remissness oâ— the Light for that is caused by the number of the Glasses or â—he darkness of their metal Books Printed for and sold by James Collins at the Kings-Arms iâ— Ludgate-street neer the West end of St. Paul's and at the Kings-head in Westminster-Hall A Discourse of the Religious Temper and Tâ—ndencies of the modern experimental Philosophy which is profest by the Royal Society To which is annext a Recommendation and Defence of Reason in the affairs of Religion By Ios. Glanvill In octavo Observations upon Military and Political Affairs â— Written by the most Honourable George Dâ—ke of Albemarle c. Published by Authority In folio A Private Conference between a Rich Alderman and a Poor Country Vicar made Publick Wheâ—ein is discoursed the Obligation of Oaths which have been imposed on the Subjects of England With other Matters relating to â—he present State of Affairs In octavo Praxis Medicinae or the Universal Body of Physick Containing all Inward Dâ—seases incident to the Body of Man Explaining the Nature of every Disâ—ase with Proper Remedies assigned to them Very useful for Physicians Chiâ—urgeons and Apothecaries and more â—specially for such who consult their own Health Written by that famous and learned Physician Walter Bruell In quarto The Christians Victory over Death A Sermon at the Funeral of the most Honourable George Duke of Albemarle c. in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter's Westminster on the 30. of April 1670. By Seth Lord Bishop of Sarum Preached and Published by his Majesties special Command In quarto The Episcopacy of the Church of England justified to be Apostolical from the Authority of the Antient Primitive Church And from the Confessions of the most famous Divines of the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas Being a full Satisfâ—ction in this Cause as well for the Necessity as for the Iust Right thereof as consonant to the Word of God By the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Morton late Lord Bishop of Dâ—resme Before which is prefixed a Preface to the Reader concerning this Subject by Sir Henry Yelverton Baronet In octavo
his Spirit and Genius out of his own publish'd Writings I come next to II. HIS Designs of these I shall briefly give his own Account out of his latest Books They were if we may believe him the securing and promoting the Interest of the present Monarchy Pref. against Plus Vltra p. 4. Protestant Religion ibid. and the Church of England Title Pref. c. against Dr. Sprat School-Divinity p. 1. against Plus Vltra Universities p. 1.2.13 In order to the carrying on these great Intendments He design'd further to make the Virtuosi really ridiculous and odious to the Kingdom Pref. p. 4. to avenge his Faculty upon M. Glanvill and by Sacrificing that Virtuoso to publick Obloquy to establish general Repose and Tranquillity Pref. p. 3. Smile not ô Tres-haute tres-agreeable Comediants Pref. 6. M. Marchamont Stubb is the PILLAR of MONARCHY and the PATRIOT of PROTESTANT Religion But you must not ask how long he hath been of this Loyal and Religious Inclination He hath no longer a Concern for Sir H. Vane Disc. of Choc You may choose whether you 'l admire Him now and yet be no Enemy to all that is good and virtuous nor is he concerned for the other Patriots of the long Parliament and Army that were to be so famous when the Worthies of Greece and old Rome should cease to be mention'd ut supra Tower-Hill and Tybourn have alter'd the Case The Good old Cause ceaseth to be the most glorious in the World and Monarchy to be the Norman Yoke more intolerable than the Aegyptian Bondage Our Kings are not now a Succession of Usurpers nor is Their Government the most dismal Part of Egypt We hear no more of Charles Stuart and his Bishops compared to the Inquisition nor of executing Iustice upon the late KING No the Interest of the present Monarchy and the Church of England are now the Cause the glorious Cause and next to the Good old one no doubt the most glorious that ever was M. Politicus is better informed his Eyes are opened and now Monarchy may be as good a Government as M. Harrington's Model that was so like the Pattern in the Mount and General MONK may be as good a Patriot as Sir H. Vane and the Rumpers Thus we hear Sir Hudibras is turn'd zealous Royalist and our Sir Marchamont will pay the Comical Wits for the Prejudice They do the present Monarchy and the Church of England HOW like it is 1. that the Interest of Monarchy should be one ground of M. Stubb's Quarrel with the Virtuosi we have seen already or if it do not yet fully appear from what hath been recited before give me leave to propose to your further Consideration a Paragraph of his in the Beginning of his Vindication of Sir H. V. p. 1.2 The Age saith he wherein we live hath been all Miracles and the coming forth of the Woman out of the Wilderness hath been attended with so many Wonders that a pious Heart can never want imployment in its Contemplation We have seen and our Eyes bear witness of the Actings of our God the overturning of a Monarchy setled upon the Foundation and Vsage of many hundreds of Years strengthened by what Humane Policy could contribute to its Establishments and what of Buttress a complying Clergy could assist it with out of the Pulpit Yet have we seen a Change so brought about by our Iehovah that he may in extraordinary Acknowledgments be proclaimed wonderful Counsellour the mighty God the everlasting Father Prince of Peace We have seen the most glorious Cause in the World accompanied with no less Success and the Lord in his Mercy to us and Iustice to them hath bound our Kings in Chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron such as wherewith they had formerly opprest the good People of this Land This Honour have all his Saints Psal. 149.9 Vengeance hath he returned upon their heads and their own Shame hath covered them The true anointed ones of the Lord have appeared for their sakes hath he rebuked Monarchs and the former have repeated the Fruits of that Holiness and Sacriety whereunto the latter vainly pretended In this Strain he goes on in imitation of the reformed Style of those Times which is not Canting but the holy Language of the anointed ones for whose sake our King was bound in Chains and our Nobles in Fetters of Iron And are we not to believe that this Anointed Rumper is a Zealot for the Interest of the present Monarchy We have his word for 't and he hath told me that he can say more for Monarchy than all the Virtuosi No doubt It would be very much if M. Stubb could not say more for any thing than the Ignoramus's He knows the man that useth to brag what he can say for MAHOMET and what an Inclination he hath to write the Life of that Brave Fellow And if Turcism were among us I know where the Alcoran would have a Defender and one that can say as much for it as for Monarchy or the Church of England if he may be credited himself but of that no more now We have seen some things whereby we may judge how dear the Interest of Monarchy is to our Anti-Virtuoso and how much Reason we have to believe that to be one ground of his Quarrel with the Royal Society LET us inquire next 2. how probable it is that he should be kindled against them by the Consideration of the Church of England and Religion There was a time you know when the Church of England was in a worse Condiâ—ion than it is in now and Religion in a more ruinous Posture Independents Anabaptists Fifth Monarchy-men and Quakers were as formidable People to both as the Virtuosi and all things were fallen under their destructive Power What did this pious Vindicatour of the Church of England and Religion in that unhappy season No doubt his Zeal burnt like fire and he was sensible then as he is now Pref. p. 4. that he ought not to be silent Then it was that his Light broke out of Darkness that disclosed Truths little less admirable than those Sir H. Vane discover'd that were the most glorious that have been witness'd to these 1500 Years and more ut sup They are proposed modestly in Queries for he tells us They are from one who desires to lie low in his own eyes But the Testimonies and Proof are all for the Heterodox Part for which he declares he had the most esteem â— and that he had a tender Regard to those who made the Subject of those Queries their Assertions These passages make part of the Preface to the first but are in the Conclusion of the second Edition which I now use We shall see in these Queries how he shewed his Friendship to Religion and the Church of England in the Time of their greatest Extremity The first Query is this Q. 1. Whether there be any certain or peculiar Name in the New Testament that signifies a Minister or
any Name whence an Office may be convincingly inferr'd If there be not as there is just Cause to doubt whether the present Ministers are not to blame while they pretend to an Office and Function grounded upon Divine Right which hath no other Foundation than the Hay and Stubble of Humane Invention p. 12. In the second Query thus they are too large for me to transcribe all Q. 2. Is it not an Act of Arrogance in them who would be the Apostles Successors in ordinary ordinary Ambassadors from the most High to assume a Name of greater Latitude than that of Apostle or Ambassador extraordinary or at least is it not as absurd as if the Ant should assume the single Name of Animal and the Lacquey that of Servant p. 3 4. Query 5. Thus. Q. 5. Whether the present Ministry supposing them generally Presbyterians or Episcoparians do not pretend to be Ministers of the Church Catholick whether there be any mention of such a Church in Scripture or in any antient Creed of the first Ages and whether Luther did not place in stead thereof in his Creed the Christian Church whether any body can tell what is the determinate meaning of that Word whether the Ordainers and Ordained now-adays deal conscientiously in giving or receiving and acting really by Virtue of a Power from and over the Catholick Church whilst the Existence and Signification thereof is so controverted amongst themselves and others p. 19. Q. 6. Whether Ecclesia which is a Word signifying a Church be not a Law-Term deduced from Free-States in which Common-wealths the supreme Popular Assembly acted organized by the Archon and Proedri as a Church formed and presbyterated by a Minister and Elders which did not rule but preside p. 27. Q. 7. Whether such a Sense of the Word Ecclesia or Church doth not unchurch all the Parochial Churches in England and unminister all their Ministers ibid. Q. 8. Whether the Ministers do well to derive their Succession unto Christ by the means of Antichrist p. 29. Q. 9. Whether the Arguments of the firstâ— Reformers about their Vocation do not justifie any that shall take upon them to preach p. 52. Q. 20. Whether the first Christians had any Churches or did not assemble only in Private Houses whether their Want hereof can be attributed to their being under Persecution since they never made that Excuse for themselves to the Pagans who objected it to them p. 106 107. Q. 21. Whether Christianity it self be not termed Heresie in Scripture Whether Tertullian do not frequently call the Christians a Sect and whether the Christian Emperours do not so likewise in their Constitutions even against Hereticks whether the Meeting-Places of the first Christians were not termed Conventicles p. 107. Q. 22. Whether if there were Heresies in the Apostles days and Schisms it doth follow that there are any Hereticks and Schismaticks now when there are nâ— Apostles p. 108. Q. 23. Whether they used in the Primitive times to bury in Places such as we now call Church-Yards and whether the introducing of such a Custom had not a superstitious Original p. 110. Q. 24. Whether if to preach publickly be to teach as it is now practis'd the Apostles did ever teach publickly p. 112. Q. 25. Whether the Division into Parishes was not introduced by the Pope Dionysius and whether the Antient Christians payed Tithes if they did whether they did not pay them as Alms ibid. Q. 29. Whether the Predecessors of the Protestants and those who have so honourable a mention in our Books of Martyrs and other Writings for witnessing against Popish and other Antichristian Abuses did allow of Tithes and their Divine Right p. 120. Q. 30. Whether they had the Vse of Bells in the Primitive Times and whether the Bells in England that remain ever since the Reformation have not been popishly and superstitiously Christned p. 138. Q. 31. Whether it were not an Act of Superstition in former times to build Churches and Chappels in the Form or Fashion of a Cross whether it were not a Sin of the like Nature in Antient Times to build their Churches East and West that so the People might bow and pray towards the East And whether both these Superstitions have not been renewed and practised lately in one of the Reformed Colleges of Oxford viz. Brasen-Nose College as in the Margin p. 139. Q. 42. Whether the Ministers do well to go in black or the Vniversities to command it p. 147. Q. 43. Whether there were not of old amongst the Iews a sort of men called Cheramims or black Coats whether those were the People of God and whether the Translatours of the Bible did well to conceal the true meaning of this Word by putting another for it or the very Word it self in English Letters p. 148. Q. 47. Whether those things which had a good Original and Vse if they be not still necessary or commanded by God when once they have been abused to Idolatry and Superstition are not quite to be abolished p. 149. Q. 48. Whether the Singing of David ' s Psalms be a part of Divine Worship whether that Practice was introduced in England for a spiritual End or only to preserve the Estimation and Knowledge of the laudable Science of Musick p. 151. elsewhere called Fidling Q. 41. Q. 50. Whether it be not a very great Abuse put upon the Independents to say that they or their Tenents came from Amsterdam Do not the Doctors that are got among them their Stickling for the upholding the present formalized University and a Tithe-receiving Ministry whom yet not long ago they stiled abominable and Parish Priests and their Demeanour toward the Quakers in Oxon agreeable to a persecuting rather than a persecuted Spirit sufficiently acquit them from having any Affinity with those other Pretious Souls p. 156. Q. 53. Whether it be a peculiar Practice of our modern Anabaptists and Quakers that they will not swear no not before a Magistrate or whether it were not an Opinion of the Waldenses Antecessors of the Protestants p. 166. What sort of Persons these Queries were intended to gratifie 't is very easie to apprehend But lest those Friends he had a mind to make should be so dull as not to perceive it He writes an express Apology for the Quakers beginning at p. 55. continued to p. 92. In which he tells us that he durst not condemn the Quakers whether they reprove openly or walk naked through the Streets denouncing Woes and Menaces p. 91. and he goes on It is a sufficient Argument for me that what God bids is not undecent nor do they any thing for which they have not a like Example and possibly resembling Commands Did not the Protestant Martyrs so disturb the Popish Priests as the present Ministers are disturbed and that when the Laws were against them Yea many of the first Christians dealt so with the Heathens and their Priests ib. And again p. 92. If Balzac or Rutgersius had written his Character