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A42823	A præfatory answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, the doctor of Warwick wherein the malignity, hypocrisie, falshood of his temper, pretences, reports, and the impertinency of his arguings & quotations in his animadversions on Plus ultra are discovered / by Jos. Glanvill.	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.	1671 (1671)	Wing G821; ESTC R23393	87,889	234

of the World viz. Alexandria and the adjacent Countries This the Virtuoso could not see because so much History was above his reach p. 16. and the Reasoning is as much above it as the History He next quotes another passage of mine relating to the same business viz. That since the minds of Christians are enlightned with the Raies of the glorious Gospel they have less reason to bow down to the Dictates of an Idolater and an Heathen Hence M. Impertinent concludes that we must bid farewel to the Rhetorick and other Works of Aristotle which I had afore recommended and he adds that we must shake hands with Seneca Epictetus and Plato p. 16. This follows like the rest because we may not bow down and give an implicit Veneration to an Heathen Authority Therefore we must bid farewel to all the Works of those Authors As if there were no Difference between using their Works and servilely adoring them 8. He perstringeth a passage cited out of Plato 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and what I add viz. That The Universe must be known by the Art by which it was made Here I am sent to answer Dr. More 's Dialogues where he explodes the Mechanism of Nature ibid. p. 16. Before I descend to the particular Answer to this I take notice that M. Stubb runs up and down and flirts from some things to others which have no Coherence among themselves or in my Book He falls upon my Discourse about Philosophical Instruments and then without any occasion given suddenly steps back against a passage in my Preface that hath no relation in the world to his Discourse as p. 10. In the same Paragraph he leaps forward again to the 124. page of my Plus Vltra and largely confu●es a Sentence or two there The next Motion is back to a passage p. 25. that had nothing to do with what he was saying and so every where he writes as he dreams But to omit other Instances of this here I come to shew the Impertinence of this last Cavil By Plato's Saying I understood no no more than that God made all things in Number Weight and Measure and I suppose that Mechanism may be used as far as it will go Now Geometry assists men in mechanical Disquisitions which are helps for the Knowledge of Nature and Causes This was all I intended for I do not believe that all the Phaenomena are merely Mechanical So that Dr. More 's Dialogues do no way oppose my Sense He explodes not the Mechanism of Nature as M. Stubb tells us but such a Mechanism as is supposed to suffice for all the Effects of Nature without help from any immaterial Agent This may be seen easily by those that read the Book and endeavour to understand it But M. Stubb reads by Indexes and Catches which is enough for the purposes of a Caviller Having thus explained my meaning I need not be concerned in what he adds in his Review p. 170. c. For all his Arguments are impertinent in reference to my sense and I may take occasion ex abundanti hereafter to prove that they are trivial and childish in reference to any other For they can do no execution even upon the mere Mechanical Hypothesis But 9. to let that alone now I cannot forbear noting here the intolerable Impudence and Lying of this man p. 173. where he goes on with the Impertinence he begun p. 16. He tells us there That his Opinion had been amply maintain'd of late by Dr. Hen. More in opposition to what the Royal Society lays down in their History viz. That Generation Corruption Alteration and all the Vicissitudes of Nature are nothing else but the Effects arising from the meeting of little Bodies of differing Figures Magnitudes and Velocities Than which Opinions saith he there can be nothing more pestilent and pernicious and Dr. More albeit a Member of this Society heretofore for be allows nothing to it now yet a pious one professeth that this Mechanical Philosophy inclines to Atheism neither would he approve of those Deductions as necessary but ridiculous when I upbraided him lately with that nonsensical and illiterate History Upon my reading of this Paragraph I resolved to write to Dr. More to know whether he had deserted the Society or whether those other passages were true I writ accordingly and that learned Doctor was pleased to return me the following Answer in which you may see the insufferable Impudence of this Prodigious Romancer A Letter from Dr. More to I. G. giving an Account how M. Stubb belies him p. 173. SIR I Thank you for yours which I received by the hand of your Friend and Neighbour M. C. Before I received your Letter I had not read half a Page in your Antagonists Book for I had only seen it once by chance in one of our Fellows Chambers but had no leisure as yet to read it my time being taken up with other matters And therefore I was wholly ignorant of those passages p. 173. till your Letter gave me an occasion to enquire after the Book and to read all there that concerns my self At which I must confess I was much surprised especially at that particular passage which was pointed me to by another Letter from a Friend the day after yours that passage I mean wherein he makes as if I were not still a Member of the Royal Society but had left it grounding his Assertion upon this Reason For he allows nothing to it now It was a great marvel to me that he should pretend to know better than my self whether I be still of the Royal Society or no. For I take my self still to be of it and I am sure I have not left it And as for the Reason he would build his Conclusion upon in that sense as it will seem to sound to all men at the first reading namely That I allow them no Respect nor have any Esteem for them now it is grosly false For the great Opinion I have of their experimental Philosophy I have at least two moneths ago amply testified in my Preface to my Enchiridion Metaphysicum when I did not at all dream of any such passage of your Antagonist concerning me in his Book And do particularly note how serviceable their Natural Experiments in matter are to the clear Knowledge and Demonstration of the Existence of immaterial Beings So far are they from tending to Atheism And 't is invidiously done of your Adversary to commend me for Piety with an unworthy and odious Reflection on the Society as if men were less pious for being thereof whenas I dare say there are as pious Persons of that Society as there are out of it and it is a gross mistake in him that he looks upon that Mechanick Philosophy which I oppose to be the Philosophy the Royal Society doth profess or would support But the Philosophy which they aim at is a more perfect Philosophy as yet to be raised out of faithful and skilful Experiments in

been the course he hath taken I represented the Contents of his Book in a private Letter to Dr. Ingelo that afterwards coming to a Friends hands in London was printed by him and call'd the Chue Gazett for M. Cross lives at a place call'd Chue It was printed but there were not an hundred Copies of it and those all given into private hands that his shame might not be made publick In that Letter I presented a Collection of some of the Names he had call'd me which were as foul and scurrilous as the most ill-bred Ruffian could have vented in a distemper'd Huff I recited about sixteen of his gross Falshoods which were the broadest and silliest that ever were framed for they were so pitifully contrived that every one that knows me knew most of them to be false and he himself could not but know that they were notoriously untrue yea some passages of things he had said which he publickly denied again in his Book and with most solemn Invocations of the name of God have been attested to his face So that I am as much astonisht at the prodigious Indiscretion of this marvellous man as at his matchless Legends And in him I see an Instance how far Rage and Malice will carry a proud and intemperate Spirit He did not know nor care what he said so he could gratifie his wild Passion against me If ever you chance to light upon that Paper you will see that this Censure is sober and true In the same Letter I discovered the contemptible Impertinency of his Book which doth not as much against mine as M. Stubb did when he confuted the Errata of the Press I give a Specimen also of the Learning he shews in Schoolscraps and little ends of Verse and Childrens Phrases which are all the Reading he discovers These things are in brief represented in the Gazett and much more largely in a Latin Account of his Performance which I have ready by me After my Letter was abroad to divert his Trouble and Disorder he fell into a fit of Rhiming and writ scurrilous Ballads to abuse me further upon this occasion he was so given to versifying that he could not write a Note but it must be in Meeter As for instance sending to a Neighbour Minister to preach for him he presents his Request thus Good M. Battin You speak good Latin And so you do English too Your Neighbour Cross Is taking Horse And you must preach at Chue With such Poetry as this my Praises and those of the City of Bath were celebrated And so taken he was himself with his vein that I have heard he used to vaunt how much he was in a Poetick Dispensation above Hudibras But the likeliest course he ever took was the ingaging M. Stubb in his Quarrel He hath a Pen that is always ready to be retain'd in pay M. Cross as I was told by the Animadverter himself sent him his Book which he then despised and said even to me that he was an old that had been asleep these forty years and knew not what the World had been doing But 't is like M. Stubb did not know then what Advantage might be made of M. Crosses Friendship by one that would undertake his rescue The Reverend Disputer after this caress'd and courted him highly treated him at Bath and entertain'd him divers times with dear welcome at his House so that at last he was fastned How like these two are in their Genius's and Performances I may have an occasion to shew in a parallel What Assistance M. Cross can afford his Friend in the Cause against the Royal Society he shall not want I am told that he is doing that which is sutable to his Temper and Abilities viz. collecting the Legends that Himself and his Confederates have made and driven about concerning one of those they call the Virtuosi to furnish M. Stubb with them worthy work for a second Cobler of Glocester But their Labour will be lost and worse That Person despiseth their malicious Figments and will make some body repent the infamous Project And now while I am speaking of Legends I remember one by which I have been much abused to the GENTRY of WILTS as if I had spoken rudely and injuriously concerning them You Sir are of that County and I owe a Iustification of my self to you and those other ingenious and worthy Persons who have heard the Fable The occasion of the the false Report which 't is like you have been told was this I commended an Honourable Gentleman of your County and particularly for his Skill in Mathematicks adding that I knew none other in the parts where I was then being not in Wiltshire so acquainted with those Studies or to that purpose This hapned to be mistaken and mis-reported and after coming to the ears of some whose Tongues are their own they formed it into that abusive Falshood that went about I know you cannot believe me guilty of any thing so rude or if I were capable of such Folly or Incivility I should not have vented it against Persons by some of which I have been so highly obliged And when there are not Three Gentlemen that I know there for whom I have not a very great Honour and Esteem And particularly for your self I have all that Respect and Value which so many and so great Accomplishments both intellectual and moral as you eminently possess can claim from one that is sensible and obliged by innumerable Civilities to be SIR Your Affectionate Humble Servant Jos. Glanvill Postscript MR. Stubbe being resolv'd to charge the Enemy home as he told us hath publish't two other Books since that against me The First he calls LEGENDS NO HISTORIES against Dr. Spratt and M. Henshaw The other he names CAMPANELLA REVIV'D design'd to prove That the Royal Society is managing projects to introduce Popery In these worthy works I cannot tell which I shall admire most his impudence or his impertinence The former will sufficiently appear in the bare recital of some of his expressions which I shall present for a Taste The other vertue will require Animadversions which I suppose the Gentleman concern'd may bestow upon the Legends and the other Pamphlet I may perhaps take an occasion to examine The shorter work I undertake now as a Supplement to my Account of M. Stubbe's modesty and civilities And the First thing I take notice of is That this doughty man of Warwick sends publick Defiances before-hand to those he intends to assault and as I have read somewhere of the Great Turk in the pride of his puissance gives solemn warning where he intends to make War 'T is unbecoming his mightiness to surprise an Enemy He therefore informs M. Evelyn and Dr. Merrett what he intends against them Camp rev which is somewhat less it seems then he could do should he give himself the trouble For he saith he could make M. Evelyn ' s account of the Birch Tree appear as ridiculous as the