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Reflections upon Mr. Johnson's notes on the pastoral letter by William Gallaway ...
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Gallaway, William, b. 1659 or 60.
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REFLECTIONS UPON Mr. Johnsons NOTES ON THE Pastoral Letter REFLECTIONS UPON Mr. Johnson's NOTES ON THE Pastoral Letter By WILLIAM GALLAWAY A. M. Chaplain to the Officers of their MAJESTIES Sea Train LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers Hall MDCX IV. THE INTRODUCTION HE who enters the Lists with the Famous Mr Iohnson tho he hath no Lords and Commons to Patronize his Book may justly expect a Clear Stage and Fair Play and cannot be deny'd to Arm himself and fight with the same Weapons his Enemy makes use of tho they should be Impudence and Vanity I have been long convinc'd that lofty promising Titles or prefixing the Names of Great Patrons add nothing to the intrinsick Value of any book Nay I have seen the King's Arms flourish'd on a Quack Doctors Bill which hath been scarcely read through before apply'd to its proper use Nor am I fond of presenting these following Reflections to Mr. Iohnson's Patrons because it looks so like Mrs. Iames whose crasie Example my waspish Adversary hath so often imitated I am sure had he left out his own often repeated Merits scurrilous Reflections and impertinent Stories they would have been oblig'd to him and might have read the empty swell'd Book with as little trouble as her Half-Sheetâ— Who hath not seen or heard A Killing noisy Bombastus make a great figure in Lincolns-Inn-Fields speak mighty things of himself but at the same time to amuse his gaping Admirers he always provides a Zany who is to be plaguy satyrical and witty â—â—is no matter on whom or what subject so it pleases and by that means the Powder of Post goes off the better Be it known unto all men that I am an English Freeman as well as Mr. Iohnson and will assume the liberty of being as dogmatically proud and Phantastical in my following Reflections as he in his Notes The different conceptions of other mens reasonings are as moulds to Metal the self same Ore run into the mould of an Angel shapes an Angel or into the mould of a Devil represents a Devil As for my own part I can see nothing in the Pastoral Letter with my Politick Spectacles but what is rational and tends to promote the publick good by perswading an Universal complyance to tbe present Government Mr. Iohnson in his own distorted and forc'd Sense represents it as a Vial of mischeif pour'd forth on the Nation Upon which account I 'le examine how far his rambling Notes make good the Charge But by the way when our waggish Noter had luckily thought on the word Bewitch'd I wonder he did not think himself so because whilst only fighting with the Windmils of his own brain he wildly fancies that at the same time he mauls the Bishop Perhaps I have mix'd some sharp reflections with my private thoughts for which I have only this to say Is there not Iust Cause REFLECTIONS UPON Mr. Johnsons NOTES ON THE Pastoral Letter 'T IS the Usual but plausible way of some men when they have express'd their utmost malice dipp'd their pens in the blackest Ink just to wipe their mouths and then write and miscall themselves Civil and good natur'd to a fault Mr. Iohnson of all men in the world might have spar'd himself that Hypocritical pains Because His Notes plainly speak his own true Character Our Noter in his first line seems to insinuate as if his bare touch were as fatal as the Devills nothing follows it but Leprosie or Death But the Doctrine in the Pastoral Letter will live because his Impotent efforts and weak Notes have not power sufficient to destroy it His sulphurouâ— stinking Ammunition is but like the Chymical Pulvis fulminans which makes a roaring noise but without doing the least execution But I advise you as your Friend Mr. Iohnson I would by no means have you take a Wyth into your hands least when I have reflected your Mountanous Rhodomontadoes into nothing but meer noisy boastingâ— you should employ it to A particular use not at first design'd Besides 't is A dangerous weapon in any mans hands who is generally suppos'd to be Non Compos Mentis Who could have Imagin'd that the topping Mr. Iohnson the All destroying Mr. Iohnson should condescend so low as to have A controversy with or to rake in the Ashes of A senseless Book without Station or Cardinals Horse top knots But by your favour amongst all your law let us have no Abindon Law don't hang the book first and then Judge it afterward He proceeds now to tell us and without blushing too that The design of it was to make men swear to the Government at any rate and because only the Iacobites stood out against the Oath of Allegiance and were dissatisfied with it the Government is made Iacobite or what they will that these men may swear upon their own terms I begin to perceive our Noters cloven foot already I mean Ex pede Herculem The Bishops deâ—ign if we may beleive his own words in the Pastoral Letter page the 2d was to offer such motives and reasons to his Clergy as might Answer and satisfy all scruples and objections that might arise concerning your Allegiance which was due to the King and Queen lest by their Example of Nonswearing the minds of the people should be distracted and so consequently alienated from the Government So that Mr. Iohnson hath either ignorantly but I rather beleive willfully misrepresented the plain design of the Bishop which was to make the Government all Williamite and that it was the duty both of Clergy and Laity to comply with it What is nothing to the purpose needs no answer Neither am I at leisure having so many pages before me to follow Mr. Iohnson in his wild goose chace I don't know Dr. Sandcrofts Heirs and the Late Bishop of Ely's Letter is not the Pastoral Letter Now Oracle To bring men into this Government with their Iacobite Principles along with them is to let so many Vipers into its bosome The Bishop was Expelling these Poysonous Principles he was perswading their Complianceâ— But how could they comply without Conviction Unless Mr. Iohnson would have them though unconvinced swear at any rate and so be perjur'd When Men swear 't is presum'd they are convinc'd If so then their former Principles are quitted they are no longer Iacobites The Bishop would have all Men swear to the Government and if Men will act contrary to its Interest after they have taken the Oaths they are to be censur'd as guilty both of Perjury and Treachery 'T is my Opinion that the Iews who Crucify'd our Saviour were not so highly guilty as Iudas who kiss'd and at the same time betray'd him I 'le assure you Mr. Iohnson the Bishop only designs to catch the good Fish in his Drag-Net notwithstanding you modestly tell us he is resolv'd to catch them all good and bad and to make them swear at any rate to effect which he endeavours to
Real Necessity supercedes and is superiour to all Law The Court and Country agree very well together and may equally make use of the Maxim So that the Subject of these Two Pages as of divers others are but as feathers to stuff out our Noter's bulky book And now I leave it to the Judgment of the impartial and unprejudic'd Reader whether Mr. Iohnson hath either answer'd or destroy'd the Bishop's Reasons and Topicks offer'd to the Non-Iurors He hath posiâ—ively affirm'd many things but propos'd no one Argument to prove That bare Possession doth not entitlâ— a King to our Allegiance or that Desertion is not a suffiâ—ient Argument to transfer it or that Allegiance is indiâ—feasible So that upon the whole matter he hath only forced and misrepresented the Bishop's Dâ—sign and Sense and hath endeavour'd to confirm and continue the Non-Iurors in their Opinions if they will not come up to his own As to the remaining part of his book which is a kind of confus'd Narrative or Invective against former mistakes and mismanagements and of scurrilous Râ—flâ—ctions of his own I do not see any good can be intended or proceed from it Nor is this or any other a proper time to rake into and revive the expiring Differences and Divisions that have been amongst us Nor can it any ways promote but visibly tends to obstruct the publick good Come come Mr. Iohnson we complain of our fore fathers and censure former Transactions and succeeding Generations will do the same by us in that we have been too much addicted to our own private humours and Interests instead of laying aside all foolish Animosities and joyning hand in hand to act seasonably as well as vigorously against the common Enemy But there always was and is and ever will be Fools and Knaves and Madmen who did not do not and will not see the true Interest of their Country Some Men who prefer their own ungodly gain private Revenges and Picks who don't care whether the floating Island sink or swim if they do not sit at Helm tho unable and incapable to steer the least Cock-boat But notwithstanding all this Men had always different Sentiments of things and 't will be for the most part found as equally impossible to perswade a considerable number of men tho the matter be in a manner obvious and plain unanimously to assent to the how and what is to be done as to do it Mr. Iohnson's angry and peevish because all Men did not see with his Eyes and judge by his Sentiments when at the same time they know him to be subject to Error and Passions as well as others and they who are imperious and supercilious in their Positions and Dictates must expect to meet with Opposition and Reflections No meer Man was ever in the Right in every thing he did or said unless we will be so Phantastically credulous as to believe him to be possess'd with an Almighty Attribute of Infallibility yet humane Nature apologizes for all that 's mistaken through weakness and misapprehension without Perversity and Obstinacy Let Mankind jar and quarrel the World rubs on in its Old Course One Generation passes away and another comes and there is nothing New under the Sun In our late Reigns the Bullet hath had its swing both ways but in all Reigns the Moderate Men have preserv'd â—his Nation on its true Basis and defeated the designs of all Achitophels whilst Whig and Tory have been manag'd and out-witted by those who were Enemies to boâ—h and laugh'd behind the Curtain as the French did formerly at the Dutch and us who were both bubbled by the same methods to behold their designs carried on by turns with a bitter but imprudent Zeal 'T was the Observation of that great Statesman and Soldier the Duke of Rohan That England was a great Beast and could not be destroy'd but by its self and therefore the French King being no Fool in Politicks thinks he can do nothing so much to his own advantage and our prejudice as to divide us and hath sent over these following Instructions with his Lewidores to his Emissaries here amongst us and all under the disguise of Pity and Compassion for the miserable condition we labour under The first thing they buz in your Ears is The Church the Church Oh the Church Now I would know of any man in what danger the Church is at this time when it has the same Laws to support it the King and Qâ—een Zealous Professors of its Doctrine and Discipline and in a manner the whole Body of the Nation especially all those in Employments of its Communion 'T is true the Law hath given the Dissenters Liberty of Conscience and 't is the Opinion of Wise Men 't will lessâ—n their Number howsoever their Mouths are stopp'd and by this means we are more united and our Chariâ—y is more enlarg'd towards each other I dare be bold to affirm that were our Lives as generally sound and good as our Doctrines few of the wise and sober amongst them would dissent from us and I have observ'd in those Parishes where the Ministers honestly and conscientiously discharge their Duties there are but few Dissenters But we have some amongst us so wise as to think the way to rescue the Church out of its contriv'd danger is to bring Father Peters back with French Dragoons to be Shepherds to take care of our English Flocks which is the true meaning of their conceal`d design The next doleful Topick is the Taxes the Taxes But commonly they complain most who pay none 'T is true the Taxes are great but was there ever more occasion than now Is our Religion our Liberties our Properties dear at any price No Miser but will part with some of his Money to Purchase these because it gives him a sure Title to the remaining part and makes him live easy Compare our Condition with that of the French our Taxes are given by our own Consents no forc'd Impositions no grinding Arbitrary Gabells our Money is not call'd into the Exchequer at a low rate New-coin'd and Paid out for more than 't is Current New Offices and Officers are noâ— Establish'd to Oppress the poor People these are preâ—sing Miseries we only hear of and our Enimies endure We are told the Nation 's Impoverishâ—d â— our Money is all Transported abroad But how doth this appear Is the Luxury visibly less than formerly There is little sign of Poverty when Buildings Furniture Equipage Cloaths all things that are Costly and Expensive are to be seen every where Land keeps up its Price notwithstanding its Taxes and there is nothing to be Sold a Bargain but there 's a ready penny for it Nor is it an Indication of Scarcity of Money when above a Million is subcrib'd to the India Company in some short time and almost a Million Voluntarily Advanc'd in two Months on a Lottery Fund What a prodigious quantity of Plate and Iewels is there in the Nation at this time