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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