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A54939	A letter from Moses Pitt, to the authour of a book, intituled, some discourses upon Dr. Burnet, now Ld. Bp. of Salisbury and Dr. Tillotson, late Ld. A.B. of Canterbury occasioned by the late funeral sermon of the former upon the latter.	Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654-1696.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1695 (1695)	Wing P2307; ESTC R7270	27,662	34

but he refused it and said also his Partner Hill should not or would not do it neither on Jan. 3. following B. Hinton died he could not die in his Bed but lay on Jan the 2 d. and 3 d. on a Trundle-bed just in the same place where He and his Creditor and I had the Dialogue here related neither could he die there till he was put into that Chair he rose up out of when he appealed to the Great God he could not pay 20 s. per Week aforesaid and his Nurse whose Name is Rebecca Trowel that was with him when he died and helped to strip him and put him into his Coffin was the very Woman that about a twelve Month before begged 2 d. of him for the Woman that was brought to bed as afore related and there was also assisting to her one Mr. Richard Sandy a Barber-Chirurgeon living in Southwark who was also by us when the Nurse begged the 2 d. as aforesaid He had vast Riches by him at the time of his Death in Gold Silver Jewels c. although he had some time before swore himself not worth 10 l. for to get off by the Act for Release of Prisoners they that would be further satisfied in this Story may inquire of Mr. Reginald Heber who lives in the Temple and may be found most Mornings and Evenings at the Temple-Church at the Hours of Prayer Now Sir I have told you and the World what experience I have had of the present Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Charity for by it he has fed the Hungry cloathed the Naked relieved and released the Prisoners and therefore do you not think Sir that Blessing does not belong to him and all such charitable Persons which our Dear Lord and Saviour has pronounced Come ye Blessed of my Father enter into my Kingdom for when I was an Hungry ye fed me when I was Naked ye cloathed me when in Prison you visited me Lord say they When saw we thee Hungry and fed thee Naked and Cloathed thee and in Prison and visited thee In that saith our Saviour You have done it to the least of my little ones you have done it to me And I hope it may be said of this great and good Man what I heard Dr. William Bates say of my Lord Russell they are the same Persons you mention in your Book when an Object of great Charity was represented to him that my Lord gave 50 l. Dr Bates praising him for it my Lord replies Doctour I thank God my Heart is as large as my Purse so I have found the present Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and I hope it will so continue I would not have you think that I flatter him far be it from me I speak nothing but what I know to be Truth and if I knew as much of you as I have here related of the Archbishop I would publish it as freely if I had the same Opportunity as I do this Sir I would not have you in the least think that this good Man the present Archbishop has given his Alms or blown a Trumpet to be seen and to be praised of Men. No he knows nothing of what I here write you but if you be displeased at what I have here by my own Experience and Knowledge related of him you must thank your self for it for if you had not called on me to attest what you were pleased to relate as touching the Difference between the late Duke Lauderdale and the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury and at the same time spoken slightly of the Archbishop these great Acts of Charity of him had been buried in Oblivion as to Men but Sir would you have me act the part of an ungrateful Man which is one of the worst sorts of Men when I have so fair an Opportunity from your self to tell the World the good Works of this Charitable great Man that so they may glorifie our Father which is in Heaven and I hope Sir you your self are of the Opinion of St. James who tells you That pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction And was it not Cornelius's Praise that he gave much Alms to the People and did they not come up into remembrance before God And does not Job when his three Friends contended with him glory in that he delivered the Poor that cried and the Fatherless and him that had none to help him and caused the Widow's Heart to rejoyce and that he was Eyes to the Blind and Feet to the Lame and was a Father unto the Poor But I stop my Pen lest I be censured Sir I have one reason more why I so much commend this great and good Man's Charity which is I want Imployment I have told you my Circumstances and therefore I would willingly be your or any other charitable Person 's Almoner as I have been this present Lord Archbishop's And I will assure you Sir what Moneys I shall be intrusted with upon such Account shall be disposed of with the Wisdom of a Serpent and the Innocency of a Dove in feeding the Hungry cloathing the Naked supporting the Oppressed relieving and releasing the Imprisoned all this shall be done with a chearful heart and pleasing Countenance my Labour and my Time shall also be given into the Bargain this is the darling Imployment I should covet whilst I have a Being in this World and therefore Sir if you or any other charitable Person will intrust me as the present Lord Archbishop hath already done you or they shall hear of me at Mr. Lewis Prescot's Chambers in Searle's Court in Lincolns-Inn Number 4. Sir I must further beg your Pardon if I acquaint you with one Story I find related in Dr. Franklin's Annals of King James the First which is all Invention and therefore ought to be detected which none living that I know can do it better than my self It 's related in the 33 d. Page of that Book unto which I refer you it being too large a Romance to be incerted here it 's of a strange Murther at Penrin in Cornwall committed by a Father and Mother upon their own Son and then upon themselves The Truth of which as he tells you was frequently known and flew to Court in this guise but the imprinted Relation which was but a Ballad conceal their Names in favour to some Neighbour of Repute and a Kin to that Family and saith he the same sense makes me silent also But Sir being one time in Conversation with one Mr. Tho. Melhuish a Merchant born in that Town and that lived there most of his Days he drawing towards 80 Years of Age when he died and left one Daughter which is now a Baronet's Lady in that County I ask'd him about this Story of Dr. Franklin's who told me that he had before heard of it but saith he it 's all Invention the occasion of which was this There was some Cornish-men

and thereby I should have saved the Charges of composing so many of the last Sheets but I was disappointed in my Expectation and so I was forced to make wast Paper of all them supernumerary Sheets So by this misunderstanding between Mr. Angus and my Self I lost my Authour the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury for which I cannot in the least blame Dr. Burnet as you call him what I have here wrote as far as Mr. Adam Angus is concerned in this Paragraph is Truth And now Sir I have done what I can to refresh my Memory I will own what is Truth and disown what is not so far as you appeal to me in your Book page 18 and 19. for I find you lay a great stress on this Book of Dr. Burnet's Vindication of the Authority Constitution and Laws of Scotland For except Terent. in Prolog ante Eunuchum it 's the only Authour or Book you quote in the very Title Page of your Discourses and you quote Page the 4th of the Doctour's said Book the Words are as followeth Remember how severely he that was Meekness it self treated the Scribes and Pharisees and he having charged his Followers to beware of their Leaven it is obedience to his Command to search out that Leaven that it may leaven us no more And when any of a Party are so exalted in their own Conceit as to despise and disparage all others the Love the Ministers of the Gospel owe the Souls of their Flocks obligeth them to Unmask them Sir this Quotation of yours is True for I have compared it only you have a The between Love and Ministers more than is in the Doctour's Book but that 's not material the Reason why I am so critical is because I write as if I made an Affidavit before a Master in Chancery For Livy the Famous Roman Historian saith if my Memory fails me not That he that writes a Lye for Truth is the greatest of perjured Persons and he gives a good Reason for it because he imposeth upon Generations to come But I believe your chief Reason for quoting this Book more than any other of the Bishop's Works except his Funeral-Sermon on the Late Archbishop Tillerson is upon the Account of the Dedication to Duke Landerdale Now you say Sir Not long after the printing this Book at Glasgow this is true that this Book was printed at Glasgow and that in the Year 1673 and that it was dedicated to the Duke of Landerdale then High Commissioner of Scotland that the Dedication is in substance what you have printed though not printed exactly word for word For in your first Paragraph you say that he tells the Duke How worthily he bore that Noble Character with the more lasting and noble Characters of a Princely Mind in the Dedication it is inward Character and so likewise you say and praises him for the long uninterrupted Tranquility that Kingdom had enjoyed under his wise and happy Conduct whereas in the Dedication it is and under whose wise and happy Conduct we have enjoyned so long a Tract of uninterrupted Tranquility This I now say I find true by the said Book which I have now in my Hand at the writing of this Passage but what have I to do with the Dedication as to the difference of the Expressions Let the present Bishop of Salisbury look to that he being most immediately concerned I go on then you say He that is you mean as I take it the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury brought a great part of the Impression to London where he sold it to Mr. Moses Pitt Indeed Sir if you remember this Passage so well you have a good Memory and you must have been a very familiar Acquaintance of mine at that time that you should know my Transactions and Dealings for indeed I do not remember that the Present Lord Bishop of Salisbury Dr Gilbert Burnet did bring a great part of the Impression of his said Book Entituled A Vindication of the Authority c. to London Neither do I remember he sold it as you say to me Moses Pitt that I had some of them I believe but of whom I do not at this great distance of Time remember and therefore in this particular must refer my self to Mr. Angus who tells me that I had them from some Bookseller out of Scotland in Barter for some other Books and then you go on and say And not long after that again He I presume you mean the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury came to him that is as I understand it to me Moses Pitt to desire him with great earnestness to sell the Copies of it without the Dedication Sir I assure you I do not remember any thing of this Paragraph but do believe the contrary that the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury did ever come to me to desire me with great Earnestness or otherwise to sell the Copies of it without the Dedication neither do I remember I ever sold one Copy without the Dedication to any Person whatsoever as to what you say For by this time the Duke had fallen out with him and discarded him for some Arts and Qualities he had observed in him Indeed Sir I have heard that as you and others might likewise hear that the Duke and the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury did fall out but what the Ground of their Quarrel was I was not privy to neither can I tell for what Arts and Qualities the Duke discarded him he can I presume if he he pleases give you the best Account of this Transaction and therefore to the Bishop I leave it and proceed You say Mr. Pitt gave him very good Reasons why he ought not to do so and particularly told him he could not honestly sell an imperfect for a perfect Copy Sir if this Story of yours had been true I should have I hope acted the honest Part as you here relate but Sir though my Oppressions on me have been and are great by reason of false Oaths by which I have lost my Estate of about 1500 l. per Annum c. an Account of which you will find in my Book called The Cry of the Oppressed and have been a Prisoner ever since the 18th Day of April 1689. which was but a Week after King William and his late Queen Mary was Crowned and have Multitudes of Enemies upon the Account of contending against my own Oppressors and the Oppressors of the Creditors of Benjamin Hinton late of London Goldsmith Banker and Bankrupt there being now at this time a Bill of 349 Sheets pending in Chancery against fifty Defendants for the Discovery of the said Bankrupt's Estate which is unjustly kept from the Creditors which I hope will be proved and as we have laid it in our Bill to the Value of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pound or some such great Summ And now Sir I have cause to suspect that by reason of declaring the Truth in this Matter as you your self own I can

testifie if living I shall raise to my self Legions of Enemies however Truth I will own seeing you have called me so fairly to it and if you and your Party be disobliged I will say in my Dear Lord and Saviour's Words whom I will imitate and follow so far as He is to be imitated by poor Mortals Am I your Enemy because I tell you the Truth It 's Truth you have given me a very fair Character with which a great many Men in the World would have pleased themselves with and parted with Truth and not declar'd it and liv'd and hug'd themselves with the vain Conceit of the World 's believing them honest Men and that they had a good Name in the World but I for my own part must part with that Character of a good Name though it be better than precious Ointment when it stands in competition with Truth and therefore I must undeceive you and the World I do not remember neither do I believe that there ever was any such Passage as you have related or that I ever gave the Bishop any such good Reason you mention and so farewel a good Name when it stands in competition with Truth And then you go on and say Upon which He I suppose you still mean the Lord Bishop of Salisbury was angry and threatned Him I presume you mean my self Moses Pitt with the Loss of all the Favours he intended to do him in his Trade This Sir is so very harsh an Expression that it 's not to be supposed I could forget it if the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury had said it to my dying Day but I declare I do not remember neither do I believe he the Lord Bishop of Salisbury ever said it or any thing like it Then you say This Mr. Pitt can testifie if he is living I hope you are now fully satisfied I am living and who knows but the Great and Good God has preserved my Life and the Life of Mr. Angus also hitherto to glorifie his Name in declaring and testifying the Truth in this particular Matter Indeed Sir I own a Prison is a living Grave and he that by Charity takes a Man out of Prison does a Work next to raising the dead some Account of this shall be given of one of those great Men you mention in your Book towards the latter End of this my Letter As for my being in the Land of the Living it had been no hard Task for you to have satisfied your self either by your Bookseller or Printer or both for I presume that most I was going to say almost all but I consider before whom I speak of the Master-Booksellers and Printers in London personally know me or have heard of me and the Oppressions I am under so that they could soon have satisfied you I was living wh n you penn'd this Passage But say you if he is not it can be attested by an honourable Person who heard him solicite Mr. Pitt to this base and unworthy practice It 's True it had been a base unworthy Practice of the Lord Bishop of Salisbury I believe he himself would own it provided it had been Truth But Sir I wish you had nam'd whose Acquaintance this Honourable Person is that can attest this that he heard the Bishop solicite me whether of the Bishop's or of your own or of Mine or of all or either of us and when it was and where it was And if he can put it into my remembrance by naming Tokens and Circumstances or any way whatsoever whereby I may call it to my Memory and remember the thing so as to attest it I will assure you Sir I will observe what my Lord Bacon directs in this Case in his Moral Essays Alway turn to the Pole of Truth so that if this you write of the Lord Bishop of Salisbury's be a Truth and I be fully in my Conscience convinced of it as I am now convinc'd it is false I will then Recant Repent Confess and Publish to the World my great Sin and beg Pardon of God and You for it But Sir I have often been thinking who this Honourable Person should be that can attest this it cannot be the late Honourable Robert Boyle Esq who was that worthy I want proper words to express my self Gentleman that brought my Lord Bishop of Salisbury and me first acquainted and recommended me to print for him and we have been in Conversation together but he is dead so he cannot be the Person Sir I wish we had this great Man I mean Robert Boyle's Life wrote fully by a good Pen and though it were by the present Bishop of Salisbury whom you so much despise it would be very acceptable to the Great and Learned Men of the World Sir I cannot think but of one Honourable Person more that I had at that time the Honour of a familiar Acquaintance with but I think it not proper for me at this time to name him but if I should I should do it with as much Respect and make him in my opinion as great a Heroe as the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury has made the late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury as you have exprest it in your Preface for indeed he is the Gamaliel unto whom I do own I had the best of my Knowledge in Authours of Books and the Subjects they wrote on he being a Man of gentile and universal Learning but I forbear to speak his due Commendations lest you and the World should think I flatter him but I will assure you that I do not remember that ever the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury and him and my self were ever in Conversation together but I do own that the present Lord Bishop of Worcester Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet with this Person of Honour and my self have been in Conversation together and this Person of Honour was the Spoaksman and I have reason to believe that his Lordship had then a great Honour and Respect for him and did value him as one of his chiefest Acquaintance and did present him with one of his Books soon after they were printed and I have several times in King William's Reign met with this Honourable Person passant in the Street and we saluted each other after a friendly Manner and therefore he could not be ignorant of my being in the Land of the Living And then Sir you go on and tell the World But though Mr Pitt would not consent to sell the Books without the Dedication yet he was content to let him have them again and then they came abroad without it Sir as to this Paragraph I do not believe neither do I remember that ever I did consent to the Sale of one of the Books without the Dedication neither do I believe or remember that ever I was content to let him have them again or that he ever had them again from me or that ever they came abroad without it And then you tell the World again And so hard it was till

it was privately Reprinted to get one single Copy with it that I profess I could never get such a one till a Gentleman presented me with one out of his private Study As to the private Reprinting of the said Dedication I know nothing of it and as to your not being able to get one single Copy with it I know nothing of but I believe if you had come to me for it I should have been able and very willing then to have furnished you with one But as to your being presented with one by a Gentleman out of his private Study I know nothing of this Then you go on and say And when he delated his Patron to the House of Commons Sir A. Forrester his Grace's Secretary told me That after the utmost Diligence he could get but on single Copy with the Dedication though he would have purchased more at any Rate to shew the Geutlemen of the Honourable House what kind of Man his Evidencer was that would publish such things in the Commendation of the Duke after he knew a See his Vindication in his xviij Papers as he pretended he had a Design of bringing in an Army out of Scotland for the spoiling and subduing of England As for Sir Andrew Forrester I knew him and if he had applied himself to me I believe I could have sold him what he had a mind to buy As for the Cause or Ground of the Quarrel between the Duke and the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury I knew not till you had printed it in this your Book neither am I any way concern'd in it The present Lord Bishop of Salisbury has most reason to know this Matter of Fact best and therefore I leave it to him to declare the Truth of it to the World it being his proper Province Then you go on and tell the World This Discovery of the Dedication and his suppressing of it coming to be known made all the House curious to see it And he foreseeing what use would be made of it against him was willing to decline his Noble Undertaking But the House by the Interest of the Duke's Friends who increased much upon that Discovery made him testifie what he since saith created Horrour in him and how much Reputation he got by it I need not now tell the World I am sure many of the Duke's greatest Enemies looked upon it as an horrible Lye not thinking the Design or the Discovery of it if he had designed it consistent with so much Wisdom as he was Master of above most great Men of his time Really Sir as to the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury's suppressing of his Dedication to the Duke I do not know nor remember any thing at all of it nor of all the House I presume you mean the House of Commons curious to see it and then you go on and say And how much Reputation he got by it I need not now tell the World Neither Sir have I need now to tell the World what Reputation you have got by printing this Story on the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury and appealing to me to attest but leave the World to judge Then as for your saying I am sure did you at that time call to mind you were giving your Deposition in this Matter and that in Print which is the most publick Record Many of the Duke's greatest Enemies looked upon it as an horrible Lye These words horrible Lye is such a harsh Expression that its being said off-hand and rashly has cost many a Man's Life and if it has been of so mischievous Consequence when spoken in Heat and Passion and although sometimes it might be justly and truly said and that without Scandalum Magnatum How much more provoking is it when it 's not only spoken but printed and that against a now Peer of the Land which cannot be supposed to be done in Heat and Passion as you your self plainly declare in the Preface to your said Book but all the World must judge it must be done falsly injuriously and out of pure Malice contrary to your own Declaration in the said Preface I will assure you Sir I do not say this to provoke the Bishop any way to revenge himself on you far be it from me but on the contrary if I could have the Honour of advising his Lordship I would give him the same Advice I would take my self by revenging my self by a frank free and hearty Forgiveness of you for both he and you and I must know who hath said Vengeance is mine and I will repay it 's the Great and True God Himself that said it And further Our Dear Lord and Saviour saith Blessed are you when Men revile you and persecute you and speak all Manner of Evil against you falsly for my Name 's sake for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you And shall the Bishop then be angry he is thus persecuted I will assure you Sir if this were my Case as it 's the Bishop's I would observe Our Dear Lord and Saviour's Direction to rejoyce and be glad for great is their Reward in Heaven that are so reviled and he has also told us that Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain Mercy these are words of Truth and by our words we shall be justified and by our words shall we be condemned But it 's not my Province to preach to the Bishop neither I presume Sir to you I only further tell you I my self have been scandalized even to the Danger of my Life vide The Cry of the Oppressed page 125. and I do confess I did sue my Adversary in an Action of Scandal and had Damages given me as is in that Book related but I will assure you Sir I did not do it out of any way of Revenge for the Injuries he has done me as related in that Book but only purely to vindicate my Reputation which is as dear if not dearer to me than my Life he having then at that time newly thrown me into Prison And having now this fair Opportunity I do as in the Presence of God Angels and Men declare That I am willing to forgive my Oppressors as to Injuries done my self by imprisoning my Body for almost seven Years and robbing me of my Estate by false Oaths and all other personal Injuries whatsoever As the Great True and Merciful God forgives all Sinners that is upon their true Repentance Confession and Restitution as far as they are able which are the same Terms I my self desire forgiveness from God or Men wherein I have offende But for their Blasphemies Perjuries and other Criminal Sins wherein the Honour of our True God is concern'd it 's not my Province to pardon and if they are at any Time hereafter prosecuted for it it shall not be in Revenge but purely that Justice may run down our Streets like Streams and Rihteousness like mighty Rivers and that the Honour of our True God may be vindicated to the

Heroick Piety and Vertue Do you not think Sir but the Lives of our Cooks Crooks and Rolles would not be very useful and acceptable to our Lawyers and also the Lives of our Harveys Willis and Lowers to our Physicians and our Bacons Hales and Boyles to our Philosophers I appeal how acceptable the Life of Sir Matthew Hales written by our present Bishop of Salisbury has been to this Nation I must beg the Bishop's Pardon for inserting one Expression here of that good Man Sir Matthew Hales which I believe he has not in his Life I have living Authority for it unto whom he said it That when he published the Life of Pomponius Atticus he did suspect that the World would believe that he therein wrote his own And now Sir I cannot forbear telling you what I lately Read as I remember in Diogenes Laertius who giving an Account of the Life of one of his Philosophers That as for natural Philosophy he had no Esteem of and altogether neglected it but he was so intent on and studious of moral Philosophy that he did not allow himself time to comb his Head nor pair his Nails Sir I am of opinion that either of our three great Philosophers were as eminent for moral Philosophy as Diogenes Laertius his Philosopher ever was as is evident by my Lord Bacons Essays Moral and Divine my Lord Chief Justice Hale's Contemplations Divine and Moral and Mr. Boyle's Occasional Meditations c. yet they were not such Slovens as to neglect combing their Heads or pairing their Nails neither were they such Cinicks as to neglect Natural no nor Experimental Philosophy as their Learned Works published to the World demonstrate Thus I end this Subject As for the late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. John Tillotjon you have not called me to give my Testimony of him therefore I leave it to his Learned and Pious VVorks which are already published to the VVorld and also to his intimate Friends to vindicate him which I believe they will readily do And Sir I hope you will pardon me for telling you now and then a Truth which is to the Purpose and the Matter we are speaking of when I first came to live at my House in Dukestreet Westminster I was several times robb'd at last I discovered the Felon whose Name was Benson he was one of my Laborers he had not only stolen Lead but had also gotten into my House which was the same House I afterwards let to the then Lord Chancellor Jefferies and when he was in he broke the Handle of a Pick-Ax by his endeavouring to break open one of the Inner-doors but could not which Handle of the Pick-Ax we found the next Morning but he opened a Trunk or Trunks c. and stole Cloaths Linnen and Plate c. as soon as I discovered him he fled for it but some days after he was taken by some of my Workmen and brought to me as soon as he saw me he fell on his Knees and confest the Fact and his Confederate and begging me pardon Multitudes of People being by as it 's usual upon such Occasions urged me to send for a Constable and carry him before a Justice of Pcace that so he might be sent to Goal I told the People I would not do that for if I did he might be hanged and I would not have my Hand in the Blood of any Man except for Murther for it was my Opinion that nothing but Blood did require Blood and therefore said I Benson I freely forgive thee but take care be never guilty more of the like Crimes lest thou shouldest not fall into the Hands of so merciful a Man as I am Not long after this for some other Crime he was hanged out of the Martial-Sea-Prison in Southwark This Story I do not tell any way to reflect on you but for Caution to some that read this my Letter and also my own Opinion that if a Law against Thest as also Perjury and Forgery were made correspondent to God's own judicial Law to his People of Israel of making sour-fold Restitution it would be a greater Terror to this sort of miserable People than hanging or standing in the Pillory I have many Arguments to prove this my Assertion but I forbear and leave it to our Parliament now assembling Sir I would have you weigh and consider that Place of Scripture you quote in the 45 Page of your own Book it 's 1 Tim. 1.9 10. And whereas you say But the House by the Interest of the Duke's Friends who increased much upon that Discovery In Answer to this I must tell you good Men are apt to be mistaken and wicked Men are given up to believe Lyes for the Truth of which I could besides the Instances mentioned in Scripture tell you of some Modern Examples to this purpose the Consequences of which have been very mischievous I could mention a Passage which I can prove by living Witnesses of a National Concern but I forbear till it 's proper Season And further you go on and say made him testifie what he since saith created Horrour in him What Horrour this Created in the Bishop he can best tell but I will assure you Sir if this Case had been mine I should father have rejoyced by reason the Story of suppressing the Dedication was falfe so far as I know believe or can remember Now Sir I have given you my Testimony as to this Passage in your Book which concerns the Bishop of Salisbury's suppressing his Dedication to his Book call'd his Vindication of the Authority c. of the Laws of Scotland And I have done it with Integrity and Simplicity and as near to Truth as in Words I could express it And this I have done as I believe I must answer it before our Great God who is a God of Truth and knows the Hearts not only of the Bishop and You and my Self but of all Men. As for all other Passages in your Book I have nothing to say to them I leave them to the Bishop who is of Age and very well able to answer for himself And now Sir give me leave before I conclude this my Letter to tell you something of the now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury I tell it you on my own Knowledge and I have also other living Witnesses to prove it And I farther declare I publish it without his or any of his Friends approbation or knowledge and when he did this great Work of Charity he then obliged me to secrecy as to the Persons that had the Benefit of it and therefore I shall not now name him by that Denomination you have given him in the 2 d. Pag. of your Preface I will give it you in your own words which are The Remarks on the late Funeral-Sermons c. The Letter to the Authour of the Funeral-Sermon at VVestminster Abby These Discourses not to mention others long since Printed will let Posterity see what kind of Man our Preacher and his Heroe