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A97089 A brief answer to the many calumnies of Dr. Henry More, in his pretended Antidote against idolatry. Shewing that no prudent person can, upon any rational ground, be deterr'd from returning to the communion of St. Peter's chair, by any of the doctors best and strongest evidences to the contrary. Walton, John, 1624-1677. 1672 (1672) Wing W675A; ESTC R225655 39,521 109

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A BRIEF ANSWER TO THE Many CALUMNIES of Dr. HENRY MORE IN HIS Pretended ANTIDOTE AGAINST IDOLATRY Shewing That no prudent Person can upon any Rational Ground be deterr'd from Returning to the Communion of St. Peter's Chair by any of the Doctors best and strongest Evidences to the contrary Printed in the Year 1672. Advertisement THe Reader may please to take notice that what is here presented was written about two Years since without any thought or intention as then for the Press only at the request for the satisfaction of some worthy friends But now whereas besides Dr. More Dr. Stillingfleet hath thought it not below his Name and Abilities to descend to the like foul and injurious calumnies in his late Book Concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome the present juncture and concern of the affair may seem to render discourses of this nature no less necessary than seasonable for the undeceiving of the many unfortunately-misguided Souls whose Leaders to speak favourably seem not to understand what themselves Object This I say because I know no other more civil construction or indeed possible vindication such as it is of their many failings As for Dr. Stillingst et I shal not forestall the intentions of better and abler Penns so much as to step aside to any particular digression against him Nor indeed do I meet with any thing considerable in him relating to this Subject which may not easily be answered out of this reply to Dr. More both of them joyning in a like treble charge of Idolatry against the Adoration of the Eucharist Invocation of Saints and the due honor and veneration of Images BRIEF ●NSWER TO THE Many CALUMNIES of Dr. HENRY MORE IN HIS Pretended ANTIDOTE AGAINST IDOLATRY Shewing That no prudent Person can upon any Rational Ground be deterr'd from Returning to the Communion of St. Peter's Chair by any of the Doctors best and strongest Evidences to the contrary DOctor Henry More is a Person whose Learning and Parts have brought Him into a Name amongst the Professors of the refined Arts and Sciences Fame speaks Him a great Philosopher And his publick works are said to avouch no less Nay some have passed so far in favour of his Character as to term him The great Restorer of the Platonick Cabbala And truly if this be so I conceive the Gentleman had done himself a great deal of right if he had still kept to his own Element for as much as his late unlucky engaging in Controversial Disputes cannot but prove a blot to his former undertakings for the learned World must needs acknowledg that Dr. More the Controvertist is much degenerated from Dr. More the Philosopher He hath lately set forth an Exposition of the Seven Epistles to the Seven Churches of Asia The whole Piece is of a pure Romantick strain wherein the Authors fancy being broken loose from the command of Reason and leaping over all boundaries of Church-Authority and the Faith of his Ancestors runs on at Elevenscore as if he were upon a warm sent giving chase to some of his Platonick ideas To this he has adjoyned a pretended Antidote against Idolatry with Application to the Council of Trent and for the putting a stop as he phrases it to the Romish infection His most formidable Weapon is that harsh and unmanly Rhetorick called railing His phrase is rough and clogged with much dirt which he throwes too bountifully upon Persons which never deserved it at his hands His Objections are bold uncivil irreligious not without a deep tincture of Geneva And therefore were it not that the Opinion of his supposed abilities may cast a favourable reflection upon all that issues from his brain and gain credit to his Antidote amongst his vulgar Zealots to the irreparable dammage of their Souls his work might have lain neglected as without a Reader so without an Adversary But in regard the Doctor has prefixed his Name to the Book as Author and that a great Name is a great Argument with some to evince the truth of the contents and that no Doctrine is so absurd but may spread under the professed Patronage of a fam'd Divine therefore some things must be said by way of Rejoynder to the Antidote lest some unwary Readers seeing the Doctor so full gorg'd against Popish Idolatry and repeating his invectives almost in every Page with endless tautologies should tamely suffer themselves to be born down the stream with big words and think all is Gospel and well-grounded that falls with so much noise and confidence from the mouth of a Doctor And indeed I am already informed that some well-meaning Protestants who have a great kindness for the Author and no less a value for the Work have call'd for an Answer to it with a kind of insulting accent as conceiving that no such Answer could be given They poor Souls thinking that surely the Doctor would never have been so positive in his assertions if the strength of his evidences were not such as might bear all the stress he lays upon them Wherefore seeing the concern of Souls is at stake whom he seeks by a pernicious wile to seduce venting Poyson guilded over with the specious title of an Antidote the design of these few Pages is to summe up briefly the Doctors Arguments allowing to each a due reflexion and to represent the nullity and inconclusiveness of all that is material in Him as to his foul and odious charge of Idolatry drawn up against his and our common Mother-Church The First Section Containing an Answer to his First Chapter THere are two ways in general says the Doctor of discovering what is or ought to be held Idolatry amongst Christians the one divine declaration the other clear and perspicuous reason And accordingly he spends his first Chapter in explicating what Idolatry is according to divine declaration And his second pretends to declare What Idolatry is according to the determination of clear and free reason These are the Titles of the two first Chapters The first of which to the end he might give us a Treatise Girt up in the most close and convictive method that may be for so speaks his Preface he thought good to divide into ten several Conclusions as Principles of his ensuing Discourse To each of which I shall speak singly by it self taking them in the same order they lie The first Conclusion tells us That as in civil Governments it is the right of the Supreme Power to define and declare what shall be or be held to be treason and punishable as such so it is most manifestly the right of God Almighty who is also Infinitely good and wise to define and declare unto his People what shall be or be held to be Idolatry To this Conclusion I only return this brief Remark That the learned Simile wherin the Doctor spends very many words might well have been dispensed with without any offence to Logick or impeachment to the Authors judgment For the Simile seems to aim