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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46334	Some observations upon the life of Reginaldus Polus Cardinal of the royal bloud of England sent in a pacquet out of Wales, by G.L. gentleman, and servant to the late Majesty of Henrietta Maria of Bourbon, mother to the present King.	Joyner, William, 1622-1706.	1686 (1686)	Wing J1160; ESTC R16025	27,100	144

our religion in a copious manner afford us Yet al this has produc't no considerable effect nor any thing to be put in parallel with those pretious reliques of Antiquitie richly embellishing with a pleasant variety for the most part trivial temporal and profane subjects In our French travels you remember the common Sermons much deceiv'd our expectation with their long repetitions tedious circumlocutions and ayerie expressions under which there was no solid sense or fundation of matter methodicaly dispos'd wherin the antients were admirable which defect made the words as it usualy hapens flye and flutter about our ears with a great deal of insignificancie Which however are pour'd forth with a confident readines and a great volubilitie the Preacher never otherwise appearing arm'd and provided than with his hankerchief insted of prompting papers so contrary to the custom of the English who are nothing inferior in wit and of a better memorie At our return home having seen King Charles the first in his writings often complaining and ascribing his ruine to the Pulpit we presumptuously thought to have retriv'd the antient Eloquence rising amongst us there again in a formidable Majestie For the admirable effects of this renoun'd facultie being known to be good and bad we have here seen the latter higher and of a more cursed nature than what Antiquity can shew For where shal we find among them so great and vertuous a Prince soberly murdred with cold hands in Publique so incomparable a Queen and numerous issue either miserably wandring banisht or imprison'd in fine the Religion and State wholy subverted by the voluntary swearers to defend both Now to this vast demolishment and downfall of three Kingdoms if you imagine in fancie to find proportionated Enginers you wil be much deceiv'd For Hugh Peters the chief Architect among them had in his looks behavior and discourse more the fashion of a Buffoon then the face habit and autoritie of one of the antient Orators As for the rest of his Brethren we wil passe them over in silence as being his inferiors and for our own credit sake that the nature and paultry condition of our Antagonists may the better remayn indiscover'd T is strange to think how a noble Kingdom acquir'd by the invincible hands of so great a Conqueror should in proces of time fal thus by the wretched tongues of so vile mercenary and ignominious Gowmnen There was nothing more foolish or frivolous setting aside the Treason in form and matter than their disconcerted Sermons nor indeed more ridiculous unless it was the action and pronuntiation which was with an odious noise and utterance through the nose yet appearing very musical and grateful to their most attentive pressing Congregations Their general custom was to pick out of the Scripture some obscure Text which they mangled insted of dividing into fragments and certain diminutive particles which were converted at last into so many positive points strangely pricking tickling the currupted fancies of their Audience In whose opinion and judgment they would often destroy al Prelacie and Popery in the same breath Which by vertu of former Scriblers in this kind was as easily done as the body of their Sermons compos'd out of Common places and Concordances Their Epilog and terrible Peroration was usualy included within the seven hils of Rome there furiously baiting the horn'd beast and Antichrist Which however many times were their best friends and assistants at a dead halt and stand when al their Hebrew Grec and Latin and their last uses doctrines and applications fail'd them Which sort of sorry shifts and poor inventions to waste time are only the lazy customs of these latter dayes unpractis'd by the Antients Whom we cannot sufficiently admire with their artificial methods somtimes analytique somtimes of an opposite nature and somtimes mixt yet ever producing admirable effects Which subtile wayes were very wel known and practiz'd by my Lord Bacon and are the hidden reason why so may of his discourses instruct improve and please the readers in general like a legitimate piece of Architecture very often surprizing incomprehending and ignorant fancies which can give no reason of their ocular delight and satisfaction Some of these discourses therefore have past the Alps and found approbation in an Italian dress from the exquisit judgments of that Country Whereas t is best for most Sermons to rest satisfyed with the applause of their first Audience whether it be in City Court or Country The open light and air are very improper and hazardous for them as being usualy Creatures of a week fabrique and constitution somthing not unlike in nature to the fading compositions in Musick of our dayes which scarce ever survive the Author and so disorderly thrust one another out of date that the younger stile gets place Which ever fals out contrary in the just and lawful productions of noble spirits wherein we alwayes see precedence in antiquity rather giving autority and prerogative than causing any kind of detriment or deminution However I hear of late that there are started up among us excellent Preachers of al Religions who with choice matter curiously elaborated and with a free noble delivery sett of with looks and gesture suitable to the subjects and passions represented are likely to work marvelous effects and reduce again the happy first dayes of King Charles the first Which appears the more probable in that I understand these worthy persons are for the excelent moral and pacifique doctrine of the old Grec and Latin Homilies having laid aside al Controversies which are most improper for Pulpits and serve rather to irritate than heal or compose our minds too much already fester'd and exulcerated with so many late seditious contentions of al sorts We are onely fit now for a peaceable quietnes like such patients to whom the prudent Physitian prescribes a weathering repose alone with the use perchance of some waters to purge and wash away certain scurvy malignant humors The matter of Controversie has bin drain'd to the bottom on all sides and hands ever since my Lord Bacon's dayes as he himself testifies So that now there 's nothing left but filthy lees and dregs for new Operators And therefore like a sage Lawyer as wel as great Philosopher he disswades any father progres in such contentions fruitles and endles in a Countrie where there is no Tribunal of judicature erected or wil be admitted by either sex If any by reason of the difficulty and varietie find themselves unfit for those noble profound sciences which he often proposes yet have an itchy buisy spirit which must be in some action there are many other more ingenious occupations and employments to take up their time of leisure if aptly follow'd as the various and delightful operations in Chymistrie and so many excelent inventions and practices lately discovered at home and abroad in Experimental Philosophie with several other accessory and subservient parts of 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