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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27214	Some observations upon the apologie of Dr. Henry More for his mystery of godliness by J. Beaumont ...	Beaumont, Joseph, 1616-1699.	1665 (1665)	Wing B1628; ESTC R18002	132,647	201

SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON THE APOLOGIE OF Dr HENRY MORE FOR HIS Mystery of Godliness By I. Beaumont Master of St Peters Coll. and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 3. 9. CAMBRIDGE Printed by Iohn Field Printer to the University 1665. CVM pridem procurante quodam Bibliopola Cantabrigiensi in lucem prodierint perniciosa dogmata eaque non pauca cum Magistratuum Iure Ecclesiae Anglicanae doctrina ipsaque Christiana Fide nimium pugnantia sub specioso tamen vocabulo Mysterii Pietatis ea propter ne incautiores Tyronum in hac Academiâ animi fortè Corrumpantur virusque latius serpat opportunae istae observationes Antidoti ergo Imprimantur OBSERVATIONS UPON Dr MORE 's APOLOGIE FOR His Mysterie of GODLINESS MY chief purpose being to shew the Invalidity of the Drs Apologie touching the Ten Objections made against his Mysterie I shall trouble the Reader only with some few brief Notes upon what the Luxuriant Author hath premised before his particular Answers to those Objections First then in his Preface to his Reader he saies No ingenuous person will think the Repute of the Proposers any thing diminished by this just but necessary Recovery of mine own though I have so fully cleared the Objections and that out of the very Treatise they are raised For the Learning Parts and Judgement of the Proposers are so confessedly eminent to all that know them that nothing but want of leisure of reading my whole Treatise and comparing one place with another could have put them in a capacity of mis-understanding those passages they have objected Here he confidently pretends to have cleared all the Objections and kindly speaks a good word to save the Objectors credit His Confidence concerning his Performance will soon appear ridiculous enough and his Courtesie to the Objectors no less insolent For before he has fairly acquitted himself he falls to apologize for them and what 's that Apologie but under pretence of Courtesie to brand them for busie medlers in taxing an innocent Author before they have duely considered his book But by this trick he would at once slily evade the whole Business and make his Reader believe that the Question in controversie is what is the Result of his Opinions upon Comparing the several Parts of his Book one with another Whereas the Objector only challengeth him for delivering false Doctrines in the places cited in the Objections If he has different Doctrines in other places let him answer for enterfering with himself In the mean while the Objector knew not which of such repugnant Doctrines Dr. More did in his heart allow but this he knew that false Doctrines broached in any part of his Book were truly scandalous and deserved to be Objected against However I make no great doubt but the Doctor will finde by this following Assertion of the Objections That the Proposer of them had both leisure to read his whole Treatise and to compare one place with another As for his Intimation by which he vainly affects to make his Apologies Conquest the greater That the Objectors were many and eminent for Parts Learning and Judgement in both those Particulars he abuses his Reader for the Objections were drawn up and framed by one Person not by divers and that one I can assure him very far from eminence in Learning Parts or Judgement yet as mean as he is he hopes to make it appear that the Doctor doth nothing less then Clear those Objections by this Apologie But did he in earnest account his supposed Objectors to be Eminent for Learning Parts and Judgement how then could he think that Men eminently learned and judicious could have charged him with writing Doctrines seditious desperate and heretical in the Book wherein as he vaunts in this Preface there is nothing but sound and true for his excuse he makes for them will neither serve his turn nor theirs seeing Men confessedly eminent for Learning Parts and Iudgement cannot be supposed to pass such a Censure before they had fully read and particularly Compared the parts of his Book He adds Wherefore Reader whilst thou perusest the ten ensuing Objections with my Answers thereto thou art not to phansie thy self a spectator of a Battel betwixt professed Enemies but of an amicable Concertation betwixt such as are real friends as well one to another as for Truth her self They of the one part shewing nothing but a due zeal and commendable jealousie touching the Doctrines in my Mystery of Godliness that it may appear to all that there are none other there delivered but such as are sound and true and my self on the other part as diligently demonstrating that I have committed no errour in what I have written and that the places objected against have nothing in them contrary to Scripture Reason or the acknowledged Faith of the Catholick Church The Objector is indeed no professed enemy to Dr. More but to his gross and dangerous errours he is as hearty an enemy as the Dr. can imagine and accordingly he was well content that a friend should privately acquaint him with the Objections and christianly admonish him to retract and satisfie the University where his Book was conceived to have done the most mischief by renouncing his erroneous Doctrines which might have been done in a few ingenuous words and more then so would not have been required But the Dr. would needs draw these private Objections to the publick stage and here in his very entrance you see how he struts quite forgetting humane frailty and common modesty What he has got by it may appear in these ensuing Observations The Concertation which he proposes to his Reader betwixt the Objectors and himself is wonderous pretty namely that they on the one part zealously indeavour to make it appear that he has deliver'd no Doctrines but such as are sound and true and that he on the other part diligently demonstrates that he has committed no errour in what he has written that is Both he and they are doing one and the same thing and proving Dr. More to be perfectly Orthodox Does not this look like a conflict betwixt two Parties yet for such his Reader must account it and withall he must be content to swallow it for true that the Objectors zeal aimed at no other end then what the Doctor here assignes But I who best knew my own intent can assure him of the contrary for being clearly satisfied that the Doctors book swarm'd with dangerous errours my Zeal was kindled to object against it and I doubt not but he will find by what follows that I never meant whatsoever he is pleased to tell his Reader to endeavour the proving that there are no Doctrines in his Book but sound and true Yet in his jolly conclusion of his Preface he tells us that the Result of this Collision is A farther recommendation to the World of the Usefulness of the above said Treatise so resolvedly fond is he of that Book though