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A60790	Some cursory reflexions impartially made upon Mr. Richard Baxter his way of writing notes on the Apocalypse, and upon his advertisement and postcript / by Phililicrines Parrhesiastes.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.	1685 (1685)	Wing S4499; ESTC R3969	20,096	40

himself so odly in these things as if he insinuated himself Popishly and Protestantishly affected in one Breath Such a way of Writing to me smells very mustily of Juggles and Hypocrisie And now 6. To that freakish and impertinent Application of that Passage of Daniel I oppose the very following Verse in that Chapter Many shall be purified made white and tried ver 10. But the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Now whether it be the want of Holiness or Wisdom in R. B. or both that he understands so little in Daniel and the Apocalypse I leave him to consult his own Heart therein and to consider what a pleasant thing it is to Flesh and Blood to be a Segregative Rabboni and to be applauded by a Sect though wise and good Men understand as little the Reason why as he understands Daniel and the Apocalypse But while he acknowledges the Apocalypse to be the Word of God and yet to be unintelligible what is it but to reproach God and his Word too at once Daniel tells us better News The wicked shall not understand but the wise shall understand And yet this vain R. B. affects the esteem of more than ordinary Wisdom in pretending not to understand these Visions else why does he take the pains to ostentate his Ignorance and so in effect to glory in his Shame And 7. to the last I say The Romanists do more familiarly elude all those Charges of Idolatry Murder Persecution Lying and the like charged upon them from Reason and Scripture For to these they will answer but since this demonstrative way by Synchronisms that so plainly prove that those Visions which the Ancient Fathers interpret of Antichrist necessarily fall into the Times of the Papacy they have so far as I know ever had the Discretion to decline answering Indeed R. B. tells us That the Arguments he has writ against Popery in eight or nine Books the Romanists have not answered he like a Suffenus fancying they forbear to answer them till he be dead or disabled when questionless it is because they slight them or else why is it that they have answered the ablest Champions of our English Church who yet meddle with no Prophecies and thus declined the answering him When the Writings of these excel those of R. B. as much as the richest Arras the meanest Kedderminster-Stuff as one wittily has made the Comparison This Conceitedness of his Performance I meet with in his Postscript which I have read over thinking to meet with something new but it is but Crambe bis cocta and his Seventeen Questions so poor that the meanest Capacity that has any kind of propension to these Studies may easily satisfie himself by consulting the latest Writers touching these Points To read R. B. his Writings is as tedious to me as to walk upon unsound Ground Quagmire or Quicksand Arena sine calce and therefore I will give my self no longer a Fatigue though I cannot but take notice how again he harps much upon that jarring String where he supposes the Romanists so brutish and salvage that they will kill and murder all such as from the Prophecies of Scripture conclude their Church Antichristian when as himself cannot deny but what they hold and practise is so What Disease of Ferocity has so tinctured the Mind and Fancy of R. B. that he should have such horrid Conceits of the Pontifician Party in England When as they and our Church of England Men both of highest and lowest Degree have lived in all Civility Kindness and Neighbourliness for these many years notwithstanding their difference of Religion though the Romanists in the mean time according to the Language of their Church could not but deem us Hereticks of what Quality soever we were Noble or Simple When as yet no Phrase neither proper nor symbolical imports a Man a more vile detestable and criminal Wretch than an Heretick with them they adjudging them also to the worst and most reproachful Punishments such as the most execrable Criminals are adjudged to And yet I am certain our Church of England Men have not at all been enraged or provoked against the Romanists for all this Why then should R. B. have so uncharitable a Conceit of the Romanists they are Men or rather English-men as well as we that they should be so enraged like Wolves and Tygers against the Church of England Men though they keeping to the Style of their Church must deem the Constitution of the Romish as R. B. himself does Antichristian and that this State thereof is predicted in Scripture This looks as if he still retained his inveterate spite against the Church of England and even now in his grunting and groaning condition as he represents himself as if he had one Foot in Charon's Boat yet would shew us a Mischievous Dog-trick at the last and excite the Roman Wolves as he Fancies them he Cloathing them in his own Skin or as much as he can transfusing his own mischievous Spirit into them at his hour of death to tear us and devour us Quanquam media jam morte tenetur Non tamen abstinuit So fierce and unreconcileable an hatred does he bear or acts so as if he did bear it to our Church that the approach of the extinction of this life cannot extinguish it But having once injured the Church he knows how and not the Church him he seems desirous to follow his first blow with repeated strokes even to his last Breath The Finis rei in this carriage of his or Natural Tendency is truly such but whether it be Finis Personae I leave to his own Conscience to examine I will note but one thing more in this Post-script which is his mentioning David Blundel and Pope Ione which I should have omitted but that it put me in mind of what fine sport Mr. Gadbury makes on that Subject in his Cardines Coeli c. which would make a Man suspect R. B. to have let drop this in his Post-script to please Mr. Gadbury whom he seems humbly to beseech to give him a Cast of his Skill in Calculating Nativities For if not why does he conclude his Advertisement thus London 1684. Nov. 12. Natali Authoris Aetat suae 70. It is true he has not set down the Hour of his Birth But Mr. Gadbury by Animodar Trutina Hermetis or Accidentia Nati by any one of these as well as by the rest will rectifie the Time to a Cows Thumb and then will find in a trice some Cardinal Sign in the Ascendent of this great Man R. B. which of all the four is least likely to be Libra he having writ so much and weighing so little what he writes Or if it be Libra it may denote that in his Balance the moments of Reason for all different Expositions of the Apocalypse are of equal weight with him even as the Sun at his entrance into Libra makes the Day and Night equal But as for Mr. Blundel and Pope Ione I will refer Mr. Gadbury or any other judicious Reader to Bishop Iewel against Harding from pag. 348 to pag. 353 and to Mr. Foulis his History of Romish Treasons and Usurpations pag. 180. who at last concludes thus As for mine own Iudgment I shall wrap it up without Partiality or Passion in this That I am so far from being satisfied with the Reasons brought against the being of such a Woman Pope that I may fancy those that assert a Pope Jone afford better Authority Testimony and Arguments than those that deny it And as Cook in English has sufficiently answered Floromondus and the rest so does Maresius in Latine and Congnard in French abundantly confute David Blundel though a Man of great Reading But be it this way or that way it shall never trouble me and so let every Man think as he pleaseth To which I easily say Amen For the Church of England's Cause against her Opponents whether Romanists or Fanaticks depends not on such Curiosities I find my self concern'd to say little more than to advertise seriously Mr. Baxter's followers and in them all Sectaries what a dreadful and dangerous thing it is to separate from an Authentick Church reformed to the Pattern of the Symmetral or Primitive Ages and to follow the guidance of a Private Spirit and I shall pray God that Mr. Baxter may repent sincerely as of his former enormous sins against the Church of England and the Crown or Sacred Monarchy thereof so likewise that he may become really sensible and ashamed of his present Crooked Versuteness and Hypocrisie and of Rogueing and Abusing the Divine Visions of Iohn and Daniel which the Lord Iesus out of his Faithful Care and Providence has procured of his Father for the Guidance and Instruction of Christendom by this his rude and profane Buffonry FINIS