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A30334	A defense of the reflections on the ninth book of the first volum [sic] of Mr. Varillas's History of heresies being a reply to his answer / by G. Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing B5774; ESTC R8180	61,277	160

A DEFENCE Of The REFLECTIONS On the Ninth Book of the First Volum Of Mr. VARILLAS's History of Heresies Being a REPLY to his ANSWER By G. BURNET D.D. Amsterdam Printed for J. S. 1687. The AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT I Do not think it necessary to write any thing in the way of Preface to so short a Book but since there appeared a long Preface before the French Translation of my Reflections to which Mr. Varillas has made some sort of Answer The same worthy Person having given himself the trouble to translate likewise my Reply thought it necessary to say somewhat in Defence of his former Preface I have translated that into English since it gives a further discovery of Mr. Varillas's sincerity The Translator's PREFACE Put in English I Had accused Mr. Varillas in the Preface which I had set before Dr. Burnet's Reflections that he had in his History of Heresies contradicted several things which he had affirmed some years before that in his History of Wickliaffianism for tho the two first Books of the former are indeed the same work with the latter as to the main parts of them yet several considerable Alterations were observed to be between them many things being left out in the History of Heresies which were in that of Wickliffianism To all this Mr. Varillas answers in a few words and says 1. That the History of Wickliffianism was printed without his knowledg 2. That his Name was not prefixed to it 3. That tho it contained indeed several things that were taken from him yet it contained others that were none of his 4. That he not only never owned that Book for his but that he moved to have it suppressed and that at his Instance an Order of Council was granted for suppressing it and for fining the Printer in 600. Livres From all which he concludes that he is not at all accountable for any thing that is in that Book and that no Inferences ought to be drawn from it to his prejudice It is true that it cannot be proved that Mr. Varillas sold the Copy to Certe the Merchant of Lions but it is certain that he pay'd dear for it and that the Copy that was sold him was very clean writ and that there were some Marginal Notes writ upon it by another hand tho these were not indeed of great Consequence The Stationer was also so much scandalised when he saw that Iohn Hus was represented so advantagiously and that the Council of Constance was so ill spoke of that he intended to have altered the Copy a little but in that he was not left to his Liberty The Book was printed and sold publickly both at Lions and Grenoble for some considerable time and it passed generally for Mr. Varillas's Book both among the Roman Catholicks and the Protestants The more moderate of the Roman Catholicks recommended the Book to the Protestants as an Evidence to convince them that there were Writers in their Church that even in Matters of Consequence durst say the Truth very boldly Nor was it then so much as pretended by any person whatsoever that there were any Passages foisted in which were not of the Authors Writing The Book was not only looked on as writ by Mr. Varillas in the remoter Provinces but even in Paris it self it past for his and this report went so current that Mr. la Rogue spoke of it in his Iournal last year as a thing of which no doubt had been made for he tells us That Mr. Varillas begins his two first Books with the History of Wickliff of John Hus and Jerome of Prague which had already appeared in several Impressions under the Title of the History of Wickliffianism So that it is certain that the Order of Council which Mr. Varillas procured against the Printer of Lions for suppressing that Book made no great noise at Paris otherwise the Author of the Iournal would have heard of it The Preface that was set before the Edition at Lions is indeed writ by one who says that the Author would not give his consent to the printing of the Book and for that reason he does not set his Name before it but he does not say a word of any Additions that are made to it tho he shews himself to be both so zealous for his Religion and so full of esteem for Mr. Varillas that it is not probable that he would have suffered any Additions to be made especially such as those that were marked in the former Preface On the contrary tho he says he will not answer but that there may be some Faults in the Printing yet he affirms that none will be found that contradict the Truth of the History I will not be so malicious as to say that it is probable this Preface was of Mr. Varillas's own composing since it is not likely that there are many besides himself that think so well of him as the Writer of that Preface does and the Artifice of Printing Books by the Authors themselves and yet in the Name of another as if their consent was not obtained is so common that Mr. Varillas may think that he escapes well if he is not charged with fouler and more inexcusable Impostures than this is But it is certain that all those Additions which Mr. Varillas does now reject and writ in the same stile with the rest of the work and no man that is acquainted with his way of writing will think that if he had intended to have said those things which he now disowns he would have expressed himself in other Terms And besides all this he cannot think it is enough to say that there are some things in the History of Wickliffianism that are taken out of his Book since the whole Body of the Work is word for word the same excepting those alterations So that if he would express himself with any sort of sincerity he ought to have said that these two Books weere indeed his But since he does not think fit to own those passages that are now struck out he ought only to have added that some Additions were put into the former Editions without his knowledge instead of setting this matter down so indefinitly as he has done by which he pretends to cover himself and to disavow whatsoever passages are abjected to him as he shall think it convenient for him to do But it is now a little too late for Mr. Varillas to make use of this Excuse and let him say what he will he must at least justify himself for a●l that is in his History of Heresies An Ingenious Author has lately shewed him that he has now rendred himself accountable for the former Book even with all the Faults that were in it Let him defend himself as he can but let him not fancy that he will escape a second time by casting the blame of the Faults that are now in this Edition as well as they were in the former over on the Printers or Book-sellers As for

of the Narration makes me believe that Mr. Varillas denies this with the same sincerity that he affirms other things why did he call him a Gentleman without adding any other Description of his Quality for let him say what he will of the Honour of that Title yet all the world knows that when a man is upon such an occasion qualified barely as a Gentleman that it is understood that he has no higher rank nor any particular distinction and that which comes after this that by this Marriage the Queen grew contemptible to all her Subjects shews that even tho Simple were not to be found in the Paris Editions yet it must be understood But because Mr. Varillas will pretend to know the Scottish Story he offers to recriminate In short those who sent him that Story of my life have also furnished him with some Errors for which he charges me in such heinous terms as to call them Faults of vast importance which the meanest of all the little Schollars at Edinburgh would have avoided I ought to fall a trembling here for I know there would be no quarter for me if I fell into Mr. Varillas's hands yet all these dreadful words come only to this that she whom I called the Lord Darnley's Grandmother proves to be his Great Grandmother and that she whom I call Isabel was Margaret And are not these justly to be aggravated with such severity as to say that these were Faults of the grossest sort against the first Elements of the History of my Countrey I forgive Mr. Varillas for magnifying those mistakes since he can meet with no other and I do not find my self a whit troubled if writing in Holland where I had not the requisites of Books or Papers I did not carry the race of the Family of Lennox so exactly in my memory but that I might mistake so far as to call a Great Grandmother a Grandmother and there having been a famous Lady Isabel Dowglas if I mistook Isabel for Margaret this is no great matter But he charges me with a third because I said that the Branch of the Lennox's came out of the Family of the Stewards before the Crown came into it by Marriage whereas he tells me I should have said at the same time since the first of the Family of Lennox was Brother to him that married the Heir of the Crown If I had said long before he might have challenged me for it but the younger Brother being born before that Marriage and not being descended from it I used all necessary caution in my words my design being only to shew that the House of Lennox by the Paternal descent had no relation to the Crown after this our Author to make some reparation to the Royal Family reckons up the Honours that some Branches of the House of Lennox had in France as that they were Marquisses Counts of Aubigny Viceroys of Naples Admirals of Sicily and Mareshals of France tho to make up this Catalogue of honour the same man runs Charles the fifths fate to be subdivided into two or three Dignities But Mr. Varillas ought to know that the Dignity of the K. of England's birth is too great a thing to receive any addition by the Imployments that those of the Family of Lennox might have merited in France So mean a man as Mr. Varillas who has nothing in his thoughts but the smiles of Versailles fancies he gives a lustre to one of the greatest Kings in Europe when he says that some of his Family served in France which rather lessens his Race than exalts it As for his Impudence in putting the Crown of Scotland instead of the Crown of England and his making me say that the Lord Darnley might have been a dangerous competitor to Mary Queen of Scots for that Crown when not only my words but the whole series of the Discourse shews that I meant only of the Crown of England was already observed It will indeed bear a repetition for it is a remarkable instance of Mr. Varillas's sincerity and shews how safely the world may rely on his word He shews his Ignorance again in saying That his Marriage of the Queen of Scotland was the first cause of the change of Religion in Scotland The change of Religion was made before the Queen came out of France and so was setled some years before this Marriage and this was rather a step towards the subverting of the Religion then established since the Lord Darnley lived and died a Roman Catholick IV. What he says to shew that the greatness of Queen Maries spirit does not contradict the character that He gives of her is so poor that I will not examin it the subject is too tender to admit of it as well as what he says is too dull to deserve it V. He gives a long Citation of his own words by which it does not appear that I supprest any thing that needed to be told by me if this Book had been printed two years sooner than it was I should have believed that Mr. Varillas was in Pension to some body else than the King of England by the pains he is at to justify the putting a Bastard into the Succession of the Crown for I do not believe that at this time any body thinks him considerable enough to be corrupted 2. His alledging that I had accused him as if he had said that the King had composed whole Volums on this subject is another mark of his sincerity for it is visible I had said no such thing 3. The Proofs he brings to justify what he had said of the baseness of the Race of the Tudors from some Strangers and Harpsfield one of the worst of our Writers are not to be put in the ballance either with Polider Virgil's Testimony or the more Authentick Evidences that I had given particularly in my Appendix to which he says not a word 4. There is a great difference between saying that the Tudors were not Gentlemen and the denying that he was a fit match for a Queen-Dowager And tho Mr. de Courteney is perhaps of a higher degree of Nobility than I pretend that the Tudors are yet I believe he would be thought an unequal match to a Queen Dowager of France so tho the Tudors might perhaps drive up their pedigree to Cadwaller yet they had been for some Ages reckoned only as one of the best Families of W●les and this puts an end to all that trifling of his when he pretends to argue against his Birth by saying that if he was so descended he was an equal Match to the Queen Dowager 5. There might be very good reasons that might make the Queen conceal her Marriage all that was possible even tho Tudor had been ever so good a Gentleman for she being a Queen-mother and having a Son newly born which gave the prospect of a long share in the Government she had reason to hide her Marrying a Gentleman had he