or our Scorn This Prodigal has left his Father's House and spent his Substance and would be eating Husks abroad with Swine rather than the fatted Calf with his Father It had been enough for Mr. Lock to have preferred him as he does to Grotius for I known no Man of that mind but himself but to esteem of his Abilities beyond those of our blessed Saviour and all his Apostles put together betrays a Judgment more bewildred than the Fancies of Bedlamites are in Dreams But the Author of that Letter knew very well that this Request would undervalue both the Perfection and Authority of the Scriptures and he had his Cue set him I doubt not as well as his Forerunner the Author of the Growth of Deism It was not fit for that Author who was sent out first by the Party to try the ways to Ride at all Adventures and therefore he glased a little in the Acknowledgment of the Truth of Christianity The Author of the Letter that comes after him now the Road is beaten Rides somewhat brisker up against Revelation with his If 's and And 's as If the History of the Gospel be true And if the Pretences of Christianity be well grounded c. And if this comes off as well as the former I doubt not but in a little time we shall have a Third spur up full speed in the face of the Christian Religion and tell us plainty That 't is a meer Forgery and a piece of Priest craft and that the Romans did but Right when they punished Jesus Christ the Patron of it with the Punishment of a Slave For let them pretend what they will of their belief of Christianity this is their design and the Morals of Plutarch or Tully or Seneca or Mahomet are altogether of as good Authority with them as the Scriptures For if once you come to talk with them of the mysterious Efficacy of the Sacraments of the great Ends of our Saviour's Manifestation in his Birth Life Death Resurrection and Ascension which are the great Characteristicks of the Christian Religion they take their leave of the Scriptures there and you had as good tell them a Tale out of the Legend of the Sleepers and they will believe it as soon These they cry out upon as unintelligable Mysteries not that they are so but are obvious to the Capacity of any Honest and Ordinary Christian but they do not fall within their Scheme and what they will not believe they will not understand Sir said I what you have said puts me in mind of what the Author of the Growth of Deism saith Page 28. That he cannot frame to himself an Idea How the Body and Blood of Christ are verily and indeed received in the Sacrament when we say there is no other Body there but that of the Bread The Men of the Church of England tell me indeed says he that they mean it in a spiritual sense but he had tried he said and found it impossible to form an Idea of a Body verily and indeed in a spiritual sense 'T is true replied my Friend he does so and with Ignorance enough of the Doctrine of the Church of England and the great Ends of our Saviour's Sufferings For by these words That the Body and Blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken by the Faithful is meant no more than that all those Blessings and Benefits which were purchased for us by the Body and Blood of Christ are communicated to all Faithful Receivers in and by those Elements of Bread and Wine which are the Real but Mystical Body of Christ Now however this Man for want of a right Faith of the great Ends of our Saviour's Death cannot said he form to himself an Idea thereof yet as there is no Christian of common capacity but may frame to himself a very congruous and familiar Notion of what the Church of England means in this Point so is there of Faithful Receiver but from the Real Presence of the Invisibe Power of Christ's Spirit quickning and enlivening his Soul by his spiritual Graces and Workings in and by the faithful Reception of those Elements but can give an Experimental Testimony to the truth of it Upon what my Friend had said I told him I was verily satisfied now that these men did intend to reduce all Religion to Deism but pray Sir how do you make it appear that without a standing Revealed Rule Mankind will quickly sink into Atheism or Idolatry To which he replyed Easily enough and in a few words The best way Sir says he to judge what would be if such things should happen is by reflecting on what has been when they did happen Now Sir said he if ever there were any True Deism in the world it was in Adam's time yet if we will believe Maimonides he tells us in the beginning of his first Book of Idolatry that Idolatry began in the days of Enos which was but two hundred and thirty five years after the Creation scarce in those days the Infancy of a man After the General deluge a Judgment on all Mankind for this their scandalous Apostacy to the days of Abraham are not reckoned quite three hundred years in which time the Infancy also of this second World Idolatry had not only prevailed amongst the Ignorant sort of people but amongst the wisest and learnedst of Men. For Historians make Zoroaster contemporary with Abraham who first started the Worship of two Beginnings And if Zoroaster lived in Abraham's Time we may reckon him but a third Generation from Adam Abraham being born threescore years before the Death of Noah Noah above five hundred before the death of Methusalem and Methusalem two hundred and forty before the Death of Adam Now if a Man of those great Parts Wisdom and Learning which Zoroaster is said to be of and who could doubtless write as good a Moral as our Author was so ridiculously imposed upon by the Devil as to believe and worship two Beginnings what gross Idolatry must the more Ignorant of Mankind lye under think you in those Days Thus Sir said my Friend I have in a few words shewn you the speedy Apostacy of those Original Deists from Almighty God in the very Infancy of Times after the Creation and after the Flood and yet those Primitive Deists had several great advantages which the Deists of these later Ages cannot pretend to As first of all Sir said he They had the advantage of Tradition and thereby an easie means of a right Information and themselves in the knowledge of God and his Worship from Adam the Patriarchs and their own Fathers 2ly They had the advantage of Angelical Messengers and Messages which God vouchsafed them in those days before he had given them a standing revealed Rule for the better discovery of himself and his Will to them And lastly They had this advantage also that besides those Heavenly Annunciators of his Will God did constantly in all Ages raise up a Noah a
make against the Church of England are directed by this Author's Hand Or be the Arguments whose they will the Malice 't is plain is purely his Judas I do not know Sir how my Friend may like this Dealing but if you will not be led I cannot drive you you must take your own Way Tim. Then Sir to what you said last I reply that notwithstanding what this Author hath said blessed be God the Throats of the Clergy of the Church of England are pretty well yet but how they would be if this Author had his full Swinge at them I cannot tell But pray Sir by your leave a little Did the Difference between the Church of England and the Dissenters in Bishop Laud's Time shew the young Traveller upon his Return that they were both Cheats Pray what then Sir must a young Traveller think now upon his Return of the Deists when he shall read their bitter and malicious Invectives also against the Church of England Will he not think that they now as well as the Dissenters formerly are contending with the said Church about Power and that there is Knaves-Craft as well as Priest-Craft and that Deism is as very a Cheat as they say the Christianity of the Church of England is In short Sir our young Traveller seeing all Christian Churches exploded by these Men and in the mean time observing so much Malice and Bitterness in their Writings against all Perswasions but those of their own Sect pray Sir what must this young Gentleman do if this Man's Argument be good but turn Atheist and leave them all Once more Sir what if our young Traveller upon his Return should find an Army of Factious Republicans in Rebellion against the King and Parliament and the King and Parliament in Maintenance of their just Rights and Laws in Arms against them Must the young Traveller presently conclude that this is only a Contest for Power and that the King and Parliament are as very Cheats as those Rebels And that their Controversie at bottom only is How they shall make the best Market of the People Will he conclude that Government is nothing but a Piece of Kings-Craft and that Government and Governours are Cheats both alike Will he conclude that as by reason of the zealous Contest between Archbishop Laud on the one Part and the Presbyterian Kirk on the other he will be of no Religion so by reason of these Controversies between the King and the People he will live under no Government Will he therefore betake himself as if this Man's Argument be good he must to Hobbs his Natural State of Independency and like a Bear or a Wolf retire to Caves and Dens and bid Defiance to all Mankind Or will he not rather as he ought and as he will if he have made any Improvements in his Travels Arm himself in defence of the King and Laws of the Land against those Factious and Ambitious Rebels whose only design is to be uppermost themselves But to let this pass Sir that which troubles me most is to hear this Author so positively affirm the Church of England to be but one Great Bulk of Imposture and that all her Priests to a Man except Mr. Johnson are so many Knaves and Cheats At this Rate Sir he must believe the Church of England to be the Church of Hell as well as the Church of Rome and for all as I can see by this Charge must have a great many more Devils in her than she has Judas Why truly Sir my Friend does verily believe the Church of England so to be and so he will call her assoon as he can do it with the same security he now does the Church of Rome Nay Sir I tell you further that he believes all setled Churches in Christendom so to be For he tells you plainly Page 27. That 't is the trick of all setled Churches to take away the Use of Mens Reason to render them Slaves and Vassals to their Dictates and Commands and what are these pray that do so but Churches of Hell But particularly as to the Church of England he has proved it to a Demonstration that she is so Arrant a Cheat that she has no other Ends than to make her self Rich and Great Tim. If this be proved Sir I am his Convert But pray Sir does this Author mean that the Church of England Cheats us of the Use of our Reason because she does not teach us to believe that one of his Friends Page 25. or rather indeed himself can write as good a Moral as our Saviour Judas We will let that pass at present Sir if you please and examine this Author as near as our discourse will permit page by page and if I do not demonstrate to you that he has made it clearly appear that all setled Christian Churches are but so many Cheats but more particularly the Church of England I also with the rest of the Fools will give up my Reason to them Timotheus If you do Sir I am your Proselyte and will take this opportunity to recover the Use of mine Judas We will begin with the Church of England Sir I told you that the main end of that Church was to make Themselves Rich and Great nay that they do as my Friend says even Rival the Sovereign Power For the proof of this see Pages 6 7. The Bishop's House says my Friend like that of the King 's must be called his Palace he must keep up his Claim to the Miter and Crosier to Vie with the Crown and Scepter The Title of the King's Courts is Anno Regni nostri of the Bishops Anno Consecrationis nostrae In short is the King Enthroned The Bishop is Enthronised Has the King a Divine Right So has the Bishop c. And now what think you Sir Is not this Argument a plain Demonstration of the Ambition and Pride of the Bishops Is it not worth its weight in Gold as scarce as Mony is now Tim. It may be Sir for all as I know and yet not be worth much neither Judas Why do you think 't is of no weight Sir Tim. Undoubtedly of very great and strength too The whole Convocation must needs sink under the Burden of it Another such Barrel clapt under the Church of England would blow her up infallibly But now I think of it Sir this Argument puts me in mind of two other sorts of Men who if this Man 's Reasoning be good seem as dangerous to the State as the Bishops and Clergy And you might do well the next time he comes up to the sitting of Parliament to advise him to take them a little into his Consideraton Judas Pray who are those Sir Tim. Why the Nobility and Lawyers especially the Lord Chancellor and the Twelve Judges Judas But pray Sir how do you think my Friend may make this out for if it can be done I can promise for him for next a Priest he hates these Men at his Heart
all these divisions amongst the Deists he says he does still believe there is a God And if so Sir pray why may not the Christians believe there is a Trinity though some of them may differ in what we must believe concerning it I remember Tully says somewhere That nothing can be a more weak and ridiculous Charge than such a One which by Changing the Name only a Man may turn upon His Adversary Thus changing the word Christianity into Deism I may say to the Author of that Letter shall I set my self to seek out a system of Deism amongst their endless Disputes Let them first agree upon it amongst themselves when that is done it will be time enough for me to consider what they say And truly it will not be good Manners for us to go before Them considering what a strong Palpitation of Heart the Clergy's desire of Precedency caused in your Friend the Author of the Growth of Deism Page the 19. I confess because we are naturally most jealous of that we most love I do not much blame your Friend for being angry with the Clergy if they do Rival his Mistress But however Sir if one sawcy Fellow of them had once in his Life it may be stept before Him yet he ought not methinks like an Italian to carry his Revenge down to the whole Body to which he stands related for his sake only Judas But pray Sir was not that pertinently alledged to prove the Pride and Insolence of the Clergy and could he give a better Instance of it than that A. one of his Majesties Chaplains did in the Pulpit at Whitehall abuse the Author 's Honourable Friend S. R. H. for writing a Treatise wherein with great Learning and Acurate Judgment he distinguish'd between Religion and Priestcraft For to tell you the truth Sir once more I think the Honorable Sir R. H. and my Friend to be the best Distinguishers in the World So that 't is great Pity but that Sir H. R. at least having like an Old Roman fought so stoutly in the Defence of the Liberty of his Country and his Gods and wholly vanquish'd the Priests of this Nation it is Great Pity I say but that he like them should have his Honorable Cognomen and as they had their stiles of Scipio Africanus Pompeius Magnus c. So he also should have of H-us Discriminator Tim. With all my Heart Sir I am no more a Rivaller of Titles than I am of Sovereignty But to return to our business I remember Sir that Pages the 18th and 19th this Charge you mention of Love of precedency in the Clergy with a great deal more is said and laid against them by this Author Particularly that they do not allow of Sir Matthew Hales his Notions nor will they suffer us to take any thing for Religion that is distinguished from their particular Interest And Page the 19th That a Man's Churchmanship will not appear by any Mark so well as by the Hatred he bears to all Dissenters and in Conjunction with a deep aversion to all the Ancient Rights and Just Liberties of his Native Country Judas And what Answer Sir can you make to this Charge Tim. No more than this Sir that it is so grosly and scandalously false that this Author gives us thereby undoubted Reason to believe that the Accomplish'd Traveller he mentions Page the 6th was none Other than Himself who having got an ugly Habit when he was Young could never leave it since For he might with the same Truth and Charity have charged the inhumane and bloody Barbarities committed by his Forefathers in Dr. Cave's Seculum Arianum upon the Church of England or have brought in the other Arm of Arsenius and have Sworn that he was murdered again by the present Archbishop of Canterbury as have laid those things as he has done to the Charge of that Church However Sir this I must needs say in his Honour that I think no Man living ever kept closer to his Text than this Author I think he ought to have Precedency in that Respect of all the Clergy of England For for uncharitable Censures idle and loose Consequences unchristian Leasings joyned with incomparable Spite and Malice he ought not only to have Preference of the Church of England but of all Mankind Living I never heard of his Peer Shimei was an Ass to him He could only Rail and Curse but he had never Travelled and so was unacquainted with the great Accomplishment of impudent Lying He was ignorant of that Noble Maxim Fortiter calumniare aliquid adhaerebit Judas But pray what can you say to A's abusing the Honourable Sir R. H. for his Excellent Treatise Tim. Who this A. is or wherein he has abused this Honourable Person I cannot tell but I presume he is of Age and can Answer for himself And as for the Honourable Sir R. H. his Book whoever he be also for I am no Cunning Man at Cyphers I have not seen it and so can give no Account of it But I am apt to think that the Niceness of these Mens distinguishing Faculties lies more in their Pockets than it does in their Heads and that the Bishops deadly Sin of Priestcraft lies chiefly in this That they have a little Mony in their Purses and a little Land belonging to their Bishopricks But truly Sir I cannot but say to you first of all That if these Bishops could use their Mony to no better purposes than some of these Honourable Distinguishers have done it were great Pity they should ever have any Secondly I say Sir that if this Author would have had us believe that his Friends are such nice Distinguishers in other folks Matters he ought in order thereunto to have given us good Proof of their Distinguishing with a little more Honour than some of them are said to have done in their own And lastly Sir pray give me leave to tell you that sometimes through an inveterate Wont or Habit a Man may wholly lose his Distinguishing Faculty Thus there was an Honourable Knight in or near the last Age so wonted to Errantry that at last he could not Distinguish between a Wind-mill and a Gyant and there may be Another for all as I know in this that may have been so long accustomed to the Stage that he may think the Priesthood Religion and all things else to be Counterfeit and may not be able to Distinguish between the New Testament and a Play Therefore Sir let these Men put what Value and Estimate they please upon their Distinguishing Faculty yet I do not intend they shall measure my Opinion of it by theirs Judas Stay Pray Sir You are Riding on the wrong side of the Post and must turn back again I am afraid you do not care to hear what I mentioned before of the Church of Englands prevarication in the Matter of Non-Resistance which was formerly as my Friend tells you Page the 12th the Shiboleth of their Church as the De
Facto Title is now none being promoted to Dignities but such as come in upon that Title whereby they proclaim War against King William himself by allowing him only a De Facto Title as the Principle of their Obedience Tim. We will come to the De Facto Title by and by in the mean time we will talk a word or two to the Doctrine of Non-Resistance or Passive Obedience Although this Doctrine of Non-Resistance was never the Shiboleth of the Church of England yet it always was and is still believed by all the true and understanding Members thereof although not in that extravagant Latitude that some Men would have stretcht it unto However as a very Judicious Gentleman observes in his True Notion of Passive Obedience stated who was far from subscribing to the late bewildred Notion of some Men of Non Resistance It is no wonder says he whilst the bloody and distracting Consequences of the unjustifiable Proceedings against Charles the Firstlay fresh in Mens Memories and when there was a Ground of Suspicion that the same Tragedy was again designed in Charles the Second's Time if the Imaginations even of the most understanding were warmed in Opposition to such Principles and Practices and by a well designed Zeal were carried on to enlarge the Notion of Non-Resistance beyond the Limits their cooler Reasonings would Allow However therefore Sir there might be some few Men in the Late Reigns of warm Zeal and hot Constitutions who observing those Evils above menzioned did extend this Doctrine to an unruly Latitude yet were there many more of cooler Thoughts and Complexions who never allowed it or believed it in that Latitude And although they have sometimes when they thought there was great Occasion Preached the Doctrine of Non-Resistance themselves yet they did never stretch it beyond its due Bounds and Measures But only taught That we were bound either Actively to submit to the Laws of the Land or if we could not in Conscience do it then Passively to submit to the Penalties rather than Resist For they were fully of Opinion That Humane Laws are and ought to be the Measures of our Obedience to our Governours though Christ's Laws must be the Measures whether this Obedience ought to be Active or Passive And this is the Notion of Passive Obedience which upon the best Judgment I can make is contained in the Sermon of Obedience in our Homilies If our Author can make more or less from thence let him do it and thereby prove what he says it is Page the 12th A Sacred Record of the Injustice of some of those who concurred in the late Revolution Thus Sir you see though some Hot and most of them some few excepted unthinking Men mistook themselves in this Point yet were there a great many Others of more Cool and Sober Thoughts that stood their Ground and still maintained the Right And whether the Judgment of the Church of England be to be taken from the first or last of these let any Reasonable Man judge And now I have dealt pretty well Sir I trust with this Author 's great Giant the Doctrine of Non-Resistance I hope we shall do well enough with his Man of Straw that follows Judas Do you call the De Facto Title then a Man of Straw Tim. The Halt and the Maimed are little better and one would think by this Man 's Writing that he did verily believe the Clergy of England did extend their Doctrine of Non Resistance to Him as well as the King For no Man surely would have brought only the Blind and the Lame into the Field if he had thought he should have met with any Opposition Judas Good Sir methinks this Charge of the De Facto Title seems to be sound and whole and of great strength Can you deny Sir but that this is now what Non-Resistance was formerly the Shiboleth of the Church of England And that none are promoted to Dignities but such who come in upon this Title as is said Pages the 12th and 13th Tim. I will tell you a Story Sir I have heard it reported of the Witches of Lapland that they knew very well when the Father of Lyars tells them a Loud One by a Noisome Stench such as they are not able to endure which follows immediately upon it If the same should happen to his Sons in England How offensive must some Mens Neighbourhood be There would be no living within some Furlongs of them If this Author had not contracted a great deal of Confidence to say no worse in his Travels how is it possible he should tell the World that the De Facto Title is the Shiboleth of the Church of England He may as well tell us that the Jure Divino is so of an old Republican For the Unanimous Association of the Clergy in defence of his Majesty as Lawful and Rightful King of England plainly shews the contrary Judas But pray Sir how comes it to pass then that there are none preferred to Church Dignities as my Friend says but such as come in upon the De Facto Title Tim. This were a Question worth asking if there were the least shadow of Truth in it But he that has the Confidence to tell us this groundless this ridiculous Story will tell us in the next place of the Cabbage and Caldron Judas Why Sir was not the King made to pay Fifteen Hundred Pounds a Year to Dr. S. for a De facto-ship only Page 13. Tim. This Man will force us to speak out in spite of our Teeth and to tell him plainly to his That if ever Impudent Lying come to be Rewarded in proportion as he says Title-Making is he cannot fail to have Sixteen Thousand Pounds a Year at least And then 't is to be hoped he will keep Mr. Johnson from Starving But here before I go any further I cannot but Remark that when this Author is laying about him in his mad Fits he makes no Conscience where his Blows light so that if he can but down with a Church-man or two he does not care if the King fall with them For who that had any Regard to the Honour of his Majesty would reflect so basely on his Wisdom and Government Who I say that had any Honour for the King could represent him to the World as a Prince of that Weakness and Simplicity to give the greatest Price for that which is worth Nothing at all Nay for that which is worse than Nothing worse than the worst of Titles when he had much better as he says of his own before and by which he opens a Door not only to let in King James but to Turn himself out at also at the same time And what is worst of all to suffer Dr. S. to force him to do all this Judas Why has not Dr. S. done it Sir Tim. Bless me What a D. of P's have we gotten that the King at the Head of an Hundred Thousand Men should be afraid of him He must be
more than Jesuite Sir that can bring this Story under the Doctrine of Probability Rablais would have Blush'd to have put it into his History of Grangousier and Nothing can Match the Impudence of him that told it but the Folly of him that believes it Judas But Sir Can you deny that Dr. S. set up a De Facto-ship Tim. If we do allow he has is therefore the De Facto-ship the Shiboleth of the Church of England This Man Reasonings keeps equal Pace with his Stories and his Logick and Ethicks are just of a Measure So impossible is it for any Man to Apostatize from Christianity except he first turn Renegade to all Honesty and Truth Judas But pray Sir are there any of the Clergy preferred but such as come in upon the De Facto Title Does not my Friend tell you plainly there are not Tim. Truly Sir if your Friend makes no more Conscience of what he does than what he says his Neighbours that live near him had need to keep their Mounds in good Repair If there be any likelihood of Truth in this Charge Sir why does not this Man produce the Subscriptions required of the Clergy to this Title in order to their Preferment What will he answer to their Unanimous Associations mentioned before in which they own King William to be Lawful and Rightful King of England c. Will he tell us that none of these Associators were preferred Bless me how many vacant Dignities be there then at this time in the Church of England Enough sure to tempt an Infidel to turn Christian or an old Republican to turn Churchman and be of the De Facto ship But now we are talking of Title-making pray Sir what Title would this Man be pleased with The Jure Divino Title he Laughs at the De Facto he Rails at that of Conquest he says is Cut off by Parliament the Matrimonial Title is dead Pray what Title is it Sir that this Man would have Judas He tells you Sir Page the 28th That one of his Friends saw with his own Eyes our Great and Gracious King accept the Crown of England as the Gift of the People Tim. One of his Friends saw that is himself saw Very well Sir and so the King's Title to his Crown must stand upon the Sandy Foundation of the Will of Himself and some few Republican Demagogues Pray Sir who leaves a Loophole for King James his Right now And not only for His but for any other Man or Body of Men as well as King William when these Men shall think fit to find a Crack in his Covenants When it shall be wholly in their Power which shall be Uppermost the Head or the Rump Pray Sir who Rivals the Sovereignty now The Jure Divino Bishops that say God makes the King or this Man that says He makes Him Who Rivals the Sovereignty now Sir Those Church-men that Tay if you will believe all that his Majesty holds his Kingdoms by his Sword or this Man that says He holds them from his Grant But now I think on 't this passage of our Author satisfies me very well why he called the Church of Rome the Church of Hell Page 22. It being now manifest that the Pope has been a damnable Usurper for some Hundreds of Years that Prophecy of Jer. 1.10 being never meant of Him but Personally of our good Author who is the Holy Father of whom it is said I have set thee this day over the Nations and over the Kingdoms to root out and to pull down to destroy and throw down to build and to plant Judas But by your leave Sir my Friend shews plainly Page the 11th the great Reason the Church of England have to maintain this De Facto Title for thereby they kill two or three Birds with a Stone Tim. Do they so Sir then they sate a little nearer together than your Friend has laid his Stories But I have shewn you just now that the Church of England may carry her Ammunition home again for he himself has killed them already Judas Well Sir let them be De Facto Men or what they will it is plain they are Enemies to the Government Tim. Pray Sir how does this appear Judas From their being great Friends to the Jacobites who are so and yet these Jacobites find such Favour with the Bishops that if the Livings they lose are in the Bishops Gift he shall present any Friend which the dispossessed Jacobite shall recommend Now what can be more by them desired than to enjoy the Profits of their Livings and put in what Curate they please as is said Page the 9th Tim. This is another Taste of our Author 's Travelling Accomplishments But oh these Bishops these pestilent Bishops How heavy do they lie upon many a good Man's Stomach How Sick do they make this good Author What Convulsions what Vomitings do they cause in Him Even to the casting up of his Christianity and all Truth and Honesty with it What great Pity is it that the King and Government will not destroy this Pestilent Race of Men who have been a Part Constitutive of it little more than a Thousand Years that this good Author may recover his Health again But pray Sir If there be any Bishops guilty of this Man's Charge why did he not Name them Why did he not tell us who they be and where they live Why did he not produce the Bonds of Resignation they have taken from the Curates and the Articles they agreed on He has kindness enough for them to have done it if he could But alas Sir if he had descended to Particulars he knew well enough that those Bishops would quickly have vindicated themselves and exposed both the Falseness and Malice of his Charge He knew that Knaves-Craft lay safest under Generals and that the unthinking Multitude would swallow this Pill whole as he gave it them and since abusing of the Clergy was the Text he was to Preach on he was resolved not to wander from it And whether this was done by false and malicious Invectives groundless and scandalous Stories weak and absurd Consequences it was all one so it was done This was the Author's great Aim and this was keeping to his Text. Rem Rem quocunque modo Rem Thus Sir you see this heavy Charge improved by the highest Aggravations is the issue only of this Author 's bewildred Brain and that there is no hurt done but what his unchristian Calumniations have done to himself Judas But pray Sir let me urge a Supposition to you made Page 15. Suppose the King should bestow a Bishoprick upon a De Facto Doctor and this Doctor should there find his old Acquaintance Dr. H. and being a Stranger in his Diocess should be willing to instruct himself in the Characters of Men from the good Doctor would it not fall out so that the Clergy of the Diocess must be used well or ill as the most open and notorious Enemy the Government