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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51828	Two discourses the first, shewing how the chief criterions of philosophical truth, invented by speculative men, more eminently serve divine revelation, than either philosophy or natural religion. The second, manifesting how all the foundations of the intellectual world, viz. reason, morality, civil government, and religion, have been undermin'd by popish doctrine and policies. By Tho. Mannyngham, M.A fellow of New Colledge in Oxford, and Rector of East-Tysted in Hant-Shire.	Manningham, Thomas, 1651?-1722.	1681 (1681)	Wing M510; ESTC R216239	26,124	193

TWO DISCOURSES THE First shewing how the Chief Criterions of Philosophical Truth invented by Speculative men more Eminently serve Divine Revelation than either Philosophy or Natural Religion THE Second manifesting how all the Foundations of the Intellectual World viz. Reason Morality Civil Government and Religion have been undermin'd by Popish Doctrines and Policies By Tho. Mannyngham M. A Fellow of New Colledge in Oxford and Rector of East-Tysted in Hant-shire LONDON Printed for Will. Cademan at the Popes Head in the lower Walk of the New Exchange in the Strand 1681. To my very Worthy and Ingenious Friend Mr. Thomas Palmer one of the Honourable Members of the last and of this present House of COMMONS Worthy Sir I beg leave for these Discourses to appear under the Authority and Friendship of your Name as containing in them some general Remarks and Hints in Learning which I suppose may not be altogether unsuitable to your Genius to your natural Inclination for variety of Thought with some Decency of Epression The greatest part of what I now present you was the effort of my younger Years and therefore may appear to some to contain more of the warmth of Temper and Imagination than of the cooler serenity of Reason and Judgment to discover rather a wild Range in Learning an Innocent Revelling in Philosophy than any mature Research into Principles and the Cognizances of Truth any compleat Victory and Final Triumph over Authors But let the Opinions of Men be what they please I hope they will not deter you from Patronising the success Though in relation to this former Discourse I may without much Vanity promise you some security since it has been already approved by much better Judges than perhaps are left to condemn it I am now Sir retiring from the World and that which always was its brightest Scene to me your delightful Conversation and am therefore willing to leave you and perhaps a few more of my Friends some little Image some faint Remembrance of me in the Essays of my younger Studies I must confess I have now another Tast of things than what I formerly had partly my experience in the World and partly the new Ferment of Humors in our Nation having taken from me all the Remains of an Innocent Ambition By the providence of God and the free unconditionate generosity of that Noble and Loyal Patriot Sir John Norton I am comfortably placed in an agreeable station in the Church and am now passionately desirous to collect my self to be known to few to be envy'd by none If ever I had any esteem among some either through chance or the Conspiracy of Friends I should now be glad to have my Name as Friendly neglected as it was first raised for I always accounted a great Reputation and a great Infamy to be equal Afflictions and the unknown untalk'd of Man to be only Blest Yet though I am entring into the solid Peace and Contentment of private life I leave you Sir engaged in the highest Sphere of Counsel and Action but I leave you under a deep sence of the Interest and obligation of the best Religion in the World a Religion out of which no good and wise Subject of this Nation can be desirous to live and in which even Repenting Atheists choose to Dye I leave you also guarded with the Hereditary and chosen Principles of Loyalty and Honour with all the Natural and Acquired Blessings of Temper and Improvement especially with that Law of Kindness in your Soul legible even in the outward characters of your Composure which will hardly ever suffer you to Err much either in a Publick or a Private Life it being very difficult for a person of large Affections of great Modesty in Conversation of sharp and quick Reflections in solitary thought ever to become Seditious in State or Habitually loose in private Manners And O! that such an amicable sweetness of Disposition as gently reigns through all your Actions and designs were every where mingled with the Policy of our Kingdom and that the Wisdom of our great Assembly were every where temper'd with such an Healing Meekness then Peace and Love and Union might distil like Balm upon our Nation then might we speedily recover our Secular Glory to the Admiration and Terror of our Forreign Observers then might we strike down our Errors in Religion as the Priests did heretofore the Sacrifices at the Altar not with the Hast and Fury of Anger and Revenge but with that deliberate strength that wise and solemn delay which proceeded wholly from a Conviction and Sense of Duty and Devotion then might our Magistracy govern by Love our Religion by Charity and all our Policies unite into the Everlasting securities of Peace and Friendship which is the hearty Prayer of him who desires to be known by no greater Title than that of Your most Faithful and most Obedient Friend and Servant Tho. Mannnygham A DISCOURSE Concerning TRUTH HE who has had the Curiosity to observe our Modern Scepticism and been any thing acquainted with those looser Doctrines which almost universally occur wherein restless Consciences have endeavoured with all the little Arts of specious Sophistry to work out to themselves a Stupefaction rather than a Quiet a Charm than a Satisfaction may readily reflect how Natural Theology erected chiefly on Natural Philosophy the great Diana of this Mechanick age is now become the only refuge of all those who pretend to establish their irreligion by Argument and Syllogism For downright positive Atheism has found but very few serious and declared Abettors has sometimes sprung from the fumes and madness of Wine and Lust has been the distemper of an Hour the Paradox or Rant of heated Conversation not an Opinion or a morning thought and for the most part has been rather sworn up than asserted Christianity had that Serpent Philosophy to deal with in its very Cradle and through all its strength of Centuries has received its fiercest assaults from that Monster By vain Philosophy so rigorously condemned in the Epistles the Learned generally understand the Gnostick Theology composed for the most part of Pythagorean Principles and that the Epicurean and Stoical Sects were as malitious as any in the Apostles times the Disputes of St. Paul recordedin Acts 17. v. 18. sufficiently inform us Not long after this that Man whom Origen so rationally and so perspicuously answered declaim'd against the whole Bible with all the Artillery of invective Eloquence and false reasonings deduced from a commixture of Barbarian and Grecian Placits Then Hierocles Julian c. but particularly their Ancestor Porphyry whom some of the Fathers counted it Religion to Curse sought by all the darkest methods of Hell to lessen and destroy the Authority of the Holy Bible For according to that imperfect account which we find of those fifteen Books he wrote against the Christians he is recorded there to have jeered at it for a mean simplicity of Style and for innumerable repugnancies to have