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Some discourses upon Dr. Burnet and Dr. Tillotson occasioned by the late funeral sermon of the former upon the later.
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Hickes, George, 1642-1715.
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make a Cloak of Religion for Covetousness Ambition and Cruelty They will both Lye Murther Rob and Rebel for holy Church and Religion and there never yet was any Holy League Covenant or Association to begin or carry on Rebellion under the holy Pretence of Religion wherein the Ring-leaders were not Atheists or Enthusiasts and of the Two it is hard to tell which hath done most Mischief in any Kingdom and especially in ours But the Enthusiast makes the more plausible and taking Hypocrite of the Two he can sooner melt into Tears and more naturally counterfeit the Spiritual Man among the People and transform himself with a better Grace into an Angel of Light And one cannot but suppose that he had a great Dose of Enthusiasm in him when he undertook to perswade the late unhappy Princess to invade her Father's Kingdom against the Light of Nature and the Principles of her Education and that he season'd his Perswasives with the Salt of Pharisaical Tears pretended to be shed in Commiseration of the Church of England For it is well known that he hath Tears at Command as Enthusiasts of all Religions have He wept like any Crocodile at Mr. Napleton's Relation of the barbarous Usage which the King met with at Feversham And pray Mr. Napleton said he still wiping his Eyes carry my Duty to the King and let him know my Concern for him Which puts me in mind of a Story that I have heard of that Master-Enthusiast Cromwel who when a Gentleman came to entreat his Excellency That he would give leave that he might have a Lock of the Beheaded King's Hair for an honourable Lady Ah! no Sir saith he bursting into Tears that must not be for I swore to him when he was Living that not an Hair of his Head should Perish I beg my Reader 's Pardon for this Digression of Enthusiasm though I hope it is not altogether impertinent to my Undertaking and now return to shew by other Examples how apt our Preacher or Historian call him which you please is to write his Phansies and Inventions for true History and that he is very little if any Thing at all behind Varillas in this Fault which a Man of Letters especially a Divine that desires to have a lasting Reputation ought to avoid as much as a Tradesman that values his Credit ought to take care not to sell Counterfeit or Sophisticated Goods In his first Volume of his History of the Reformation p. 209. he tells us of Two original Letters the one in Italian and the other in English which the Lady Elizabeth not yet Four years of Age wrote to Queen Jane Seymour when she was with Child of King Edward and that they were both writ in the same hand that she wrote all the rest of her Life These are Two strange and incredible Things First That a Child not yet Four years old should have learned a foreign Language to such a Degree of Perfection as to be able to write Letters in it and Secondly That she should write then so well as never to mend or alter her hand after And to these Two I may add those pretty waggish Conceits in the English Letter which he hath there set down with this marginal Note Her Letter to the Queen not yet Four years of Age. In this Letter she Compliments her Highness upon the Pain it was to her to write her Grace being with Child and then after many other Passages which could not be the first Blossoms of a Child as he thinks these Words follow I cannot reprove my Lord for not doing your Commendations in his Letter for he did it and although he had not yet I will not complain on him for that he shall be diligent to give me knowledg from time to time how his busy Child doth for if I were at his Birth no doubt I would see him beaten for the trouble he hath put you to Now I appeal to any considering Man whether those look like the Conceits of a Child not yet Four years old And none certainly but an Historian so rash and phanciful in his Writings as he is would for this Reason have thought that this Letter was written to the Queen And had he taken time enough to reflect and considered his (a) Q. Eliz. was born Sep. 7. 1533. Cath. Par died in Child-bed of her Daughter in the beginning of Sep. 1548. Record better he would have found that her Highness was not the Queen but Catherine Par and my Lord not the King but the Lord Admiral to whom she was married and by consequence that the Lady Elizabeth was then Fifteen years of Age. How many Lashes must poor Varillas have had without mercy if he had been guilty of such a Blunder I know saith he in his (b) P. 29. Reflections upon him There are a Sort of Men that are much more ashamed when their Ignorance is discovered than when their other Vices are laid open since degenerate Minds are more jealous of the Reputation of their Understandings than of their (c) I suppose he means Sincerity Honour And whether this Discovery touches the Reputation of his Understanding or his Honour most I leave him to judge From hence I pass to Bishop Bedel's Life of which he saith in the Preface That his Part in it was so small that he can scarce assume any Thing to himself but the Copying out of what was put into his Hands by Mr. Clogy And in the (d) P. 175. Book he saith again That Mr. Clogy is much more the Author of it than he is For this we have only his own Word which I profess signifies little with me But to know what was his and what Mr. Clogy's he hath left us to Conjecture though I think few that know his way of Writing will so much as doubt that the Romantick Passages which I am going to cite out of it and which are obtruded upon the World for true History are his own Inventions and not Mr. Clogy's But however though they were Mr. Clogy's he is answerable for them for letting them pass unobserved and unchastised into the World But if they are his own as I am confident they are then let Men of the greatest Candor judge what Censure is fit for a Man that would write his own Imaginations for truth though he had declared in the Preface That Lives were to be written with the Strictness of a severe Historian and not helped up with Invention and that those who do otherwise dress up Legends and make Lives rather than write them To deceive and at the same time to declare against deceiving is double Imposture and Imposition in an Historian But Bishop Bedel it seems was worthy for whom our Historian should dispense with the Laws of History as he (a) 13 Eli. 12. did with an Act of Parliament upon a certain Occasion for reading the 39 Articles It is manifest from the Bishops Letters That he was a Latitudinarian in some