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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65796	Mr. Blacklovv's reply to Dr. Layburn's pamphlet against him	White, Thomas, 1593-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1836A; ESTC R219979	25,125	33

Mr. Blacklow's Reply to Dr. Layburn's Pamphlet against him SIR I Return to you with a second part of the same Tune a Pamphlet of Dr. Layburn's against Mr. Blacklow and his Reply Having gotten a Copy of it I carried it to Mr. Blacklow who as soon as I had told him what it was lamented himself saying to me You know my endeavours have ever been to make a clearnesse and show a rationality both in Faith and Divinity as St. Peter commands us to be ready to do and must I now when mine Ague gives me small or no leasure be employ'd in retorting the Pot-gunshot of this Drs. Well since it is God's disposition read what you bring But I professe my conscience being witnesse to my words that were it not that through ambition he seeks to ruine the Clergy hoping by such indirect and unhandsome means to make them stoop to accept him for their Superiour all his calumnies against my person should not make me open my mouth to answer them But this hath been our long quarrel that I have resisted his ambition and for this he seeks other pretences against me This being said he held his peace and I began to read nor had I read six lines but Mr. Blacklow exclamed Jesus what information hath this Dr. Or what insolence is it to publish so patent an untruth against seven or eight of your chief men about London upon pure ghesse For order to communicate my answer was neither granted nor asked but the hint which occasioned me to do so was taken out of his Letter in which he ordered that the said Letter should be sent to all your Brethren Nor was my answer kept from him by me but two Copies given by my self to a friend of his to the end to have them sent to him if his friend had not so much friendship for him as to send it it was not my fault Then I read some two leaves without farther reflexion than that Mr. Blacklow noted that they were spent in the commendation of his own patience the effects of which he desired to see in his actions saying that till that was done words were but winde Besides the good Dr. took Pilate for Christ in citing those words non es amicus Caesaris as a reproach against our Saviour which were spoken to Pilate as every Childe knows so that according to this learned mistake he calls Pilate here p. 5. his Divine master and very sadly and soberly tells us he will strive to imitate him in his injurious reproaches Being come to the 8th page the first objection presented it self which was that Mr. Bl. had approved divers scandalous opinions and would not recal his fact for the intreaties or reasons which were brought him Mr. Bl. reply'd that the story passed thus One of the learnedst and gravest Regulars of the Kingdom had written a book which clash't with another written by a Cosen of the Drs. and the Dr. thought by his friendship to make Mr. Bl. recal his subscription for his Cosen's credit and not being able to do it revenged himself by this groundlesse aspersion For the book hath been justified both in England and beyond Seas nay in Rome it self Wherefore the Dr. hath little reason to offend the party and all his order which maintains it by attributing to it divers scandalous opinions which is a notorius calumny I read farther how my Lord had commanded him to suppresse Mr. Bl. his new Divinity To which Mr. Bl. answered that this depended upon the proof For my Lord in his Letter to him which is yet in his hands dated June 22. hath these words I have been so far from commanding Mr. Laybourn to cry against your book I desired him to suppresse all speech against it as I assure you is true and I hope he will not deny And in his Letter of the 6th of July these what apparent ground you had to write that I had commanded Mr. Layburn to cry against your books was no true ground seeing I commanded him the contrary And afterwards in the Letter Divers Saints and Learned men have salvâ charitate dissented in their opinions even in matters of Divinity and so may you and I do if we will and God willing it shall be so on my part When he had read me these words he added you may by this see how true his pretence was of impugning me in obedience to my Lord's commands and whether my Lord moved him or he my Lord And I remember to have heard that when a friend objected this order of my Lord 's to him he answered my Lord is a weak man By these passages also in his Letters is seen clearly that my Lord judged my Tenets to be onely different opinions in Divinity not meriting such zealous impugnation which the defining Doctor like a new Law-giver to all Christians so confidently pronounces to be Heresies and makes that calumny of his own a seeming pretence for his zeal but in reality a Cloak for his too apparent malice I read farther how for executing this command of my Lords Mr. Bl. was so incensed against him that he cry'd him down in divers companies and the ordinary character he gave him was that he was an illiterate man not able to say Bo to a Goose Mr. Bl. reply'd that the Doctor cared not how unlikely his tales were so he said somewhat that might passe amongst those who knew no more of the businesse than they found in his paper For all that know Mr. Bl. know that he is so far from haunting either good tables or great companies that he can be drawn to neither and besides he is very sparing in his speeches of the Doctor by reason of the place he holds and rather ready to defend him against the many blames those who come from his house lay upon him unlesse it be to those to whom it belongs to see them amended As it happen'd in the Character he speaks of which he wrote to his Superiour and does not think that he used it in any other occasion I read further how he had written Mr. Bl. a civil Letter and put two places of St. Austin in it and concluded that that spirit was not from God which was opposite to St. Austin's spiri● but that his good advice produced little fruit in Mr. Bl. Mr. Bl. answered that the Doctor took care he should not profit by it nor be troubled with answering it for whether perhaps he writ such a Letter or no to show up and down amongst his friends to let them see how gravely he could advise and how learnedly transcribe two places out of St. Austin for which he seems here to prize himself so much yet Mr. Bl. affirms that the Letter was never sent to him and that he should have shew'd how those places of St. Austin came to his purpose as well as have meerly transcribed them and then have left the application of them that is all they were brought for to his own