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A49336	A letter to Edw. Stillingfleet, D.D. &c. in answer to the epistle dedicatory before his sermon, preached at a publick ordination at St. Peter's Cornhil, March 15, 1684/5 together with some reflections upon certain letters, which Dr. Burnet wrote on the same occasion / by Simon Lowth ...	Lowth, Simon, 1630?-1720.	1687 (1687)	Wing L3328; ESTC R2901	83,769	93

that you have in some particular passages of this Book declared your self in a different manner than is here represented I answer My business is not to reconcile every contradiction in your Book that were imposible These Tenents which I have here given an account of are what you have deliberately determined setting your self on purpose thereunto and which is more repeated in your Preface at least the most considerable of them which tho' Printed in the head of the Volume yet is always composed last and a sure indication of the Sense of the Author I have observed your own rule in the like case by which you give your judgment of St. Jerom who had some little flights against Truth and his constant opinion as you have here for it and against yours pag. 278. I would fain know whether a Man's Judgment must be taken from occasional and incidental Passages or from designed and set Discourses which is as much as to ask Whether the lively representation of a Man by Picture may best be taken when in hast of other business he passeth by us giving only a glance of his Countenance or when he purposely and designedly sits in order to that end that his Countenance may be truly represented And I must hence conclude that you are as much for those particular points because giving a glance of your Countenance towards them as passing by as you have concluded St. Jerom to have been for the Divine Right of Episcopacy which you then certainly believed him not to be Thirdly I come now in the last place to consider what satisfaction you have made for these your Heterodox defamatory Tenents thus in opposition to the Doctrines Laws Discipline and Practice of our Church together with your vainer and ill-natur'd jealousies and fears that you have insinuated against our Bishops their Power and Office as hazardous to Kingdoms together with your defamations of our most eminent Doctors some of which first promoted our Reformation and sealed it with their Blood others zealously defended and maintained it against all manner of Dissenters The late account that you have given to my Lord of London of your Irenicum is a strong prejudice against you that you are still satisfied with that performance I am sure that acknowledgment and retractation which the reason and equity of things and the Laws of God and Man require at your hands is not to be met with there You are so far from it that you justifie what you have written concerning Episcopacy and by the greatest of humane authorities For you say If you have erred therein it was with a most excellent Prince and a true Friend to the Church of England whose sufferings could never make him warp from what his Conscience and Judgment directed King Charles the First And thus when you have slander'd all our Princes and Bishops since the Reformation to amend the matter you here make the unparallell'd King Charles the First and elsewhere all our present Bishops of your party What thanks the latter will give you I know not but scarce any good Man will forgive you the fixing so bold a Slander on the former Nor can your Friends of the Presbytery take it well at your hands that you should attempt to perswade the World they brought that Glorious Martyr to the Block for being a Presbyterian But the asserting the same thing over again you think to be proof enough against me especially if it be eek'd out with some ill Language I have had this account of Dr. Pocklington a noted Divine of our Church in the days of the blessed Martyr just now mentioned That when he was accused and censured for delivering in a Sermon probably that which he Preached before the Lord Bishop of Lincoln at his Lordship's Visitation at Ampthill in the County of Bedford Aug. 17. 1635. called Sunday no Sabbath some Tenents concerning the Lord's Day which were thought to be Heterodox or rather thought convenient that they should be declared so by a Faction which then prevailed by reason of their compliance with the Puritan Party his Penance was to make a Recantation which he began thus If Canto be to Sing Recanto is to Sing again and so went on with a defence of his Sermon If you designed your Epistle Dedicatory for the same purpose that he was enjoin'd to Preach a Second Sermon your performance is the same or a Singing the Second Part to the same Tune it being only a Self-justification And for the better seeting it off I am brought for the foil whom by the embellishments of your Wit and Oratory you abundantly represented as a Knave and a Fool Malicious and Ignorant and this is the whole subject of it But notwithstanding I have considered that the Epistle was written in a great Passion and indeed it is mostly a discharge of your Choler upon me and designing to be as favourable to you as I can I have set my self to a particular examination of your other Writings which were made publick since the date of your Irenicum to the time that my Book of Church-Power was put into the Press which was September 1683. when your thoughts may be supposed more calm and your Meditations less disturbed For if since you have made any notable retractations I am not in the least concerned in them But alas little of amends is to be found here either in some instances you have offered nothing like a satisfaction in others nothing plenary and as might be expected form a person of your Learning Dignities and Quality in the Church I do therefore thus farther charge you and produce your self for my alone evidence 1. That you have made no satisfaction for the Manuscript which you have Printed and thereby done so much injury to our Church in general in the days of King Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth and to our most eminent Doctors in particular In all your works there occurs not one word that mentions it much less that either by confession sorrow or satisfaction makes any thing like an amends for it And tho' it may be disputed whether any one of these alone are sufficient yet where there is no one of them to be sure is no repentance Nay you are so far from any remorse or sense of the black guilt that is upon you for this great and groundless Scandal that you have to your utmost made it more publick and authoritative For it was by you delivered to Dr. Burnet as he owns in his Preface and Printed by your order in his Collection of Records with the Title of Doctor Stillingfleet's Manuscript and with the approbation of both Houses of Parliament and this was Eighteen Years after the first publication of it in your Irenicum a sufficient time for Second Thoughts and your continued fixed Judgment is thereby notoriously made known to all Men. And so this vagrant illegitimate Script without any date of its own as to time without any original to make it a Record all

Reformation had been a more apt and proper Epithete Furthermore I will appeal to the whole World whether it be not more pardonable to imitate a King in his laudable Actions and Policies performable by him as a Man than to resemble him to so base and abject a person as a Postillion is known to be The Doctor very well knows that this is one rule always to be observed in taking a Metaphor That it be not from any thing filthy or sordid especially when the Translation is to Kings and it is very much to his disrepute that he who values himself at so great a rate for his stile and oratory should so grosly fail in the common and known rule of a Similitude And yet I will not be over rash and impute all to his mistake The intimacy that he says he had with Mr. William Petit Councellor of the Inner-Temple and that he had his Assistance and Directions as to the Laws and Customs of this Nation in writing his History of the Reformation give some suspicion that he might have no very high thoughts of our Kings Mr. Petit's late Printed Book indicates too much of his Temper and his choice of Doctor Burnet for the digesting and publishing his Collections argue too much of Doctor Bunnet's also and there 's no question to be made but that they consulted together as in order to the composing of the History of the Reformation of the Church so for the writing of that History of the Reformation of Kings which Mr. Petit a little after published under the Title of The Ancient Rights of the Commons of England c. in the Preface to which he delivers this as an undoubted and authentique story Apud Britannos populus magna ex parte principatum tenet pag. 4. and pag. 6. De minoribus rebus principes consultant de majoribus omnes Among the Britains the People have the Government for the most part The Princes consult concerning the lesser things but All concerning the greater And further says That Parliaments were instituted to hear and determine the Complaints and the wrongful Acts of the King the Queen and their Children Now all this very well agrees with the Metaphor of the Postillion and we may also hence conclude That it was not from the Doctor 's principles of Government but some other particular interest which is easily discerned that he publickly declared at the King's-Bench in Westminster-Hall He did not believe that part of the late most hellish Plot against the Person and Dignities of our late Sovereign King Charles II. of blessed Memory which was laid for seizing his Person and giving him only some due Chastisement Your disingenuity to your Superiors in the Church is as great as your injustice to King Charles the First of which an higher instance cannot be given than to represent them as Patrons to your Errors because they have been civil to your Person There is I see great care to be taken of treating some Men with common kindness And the arguing seems more particularly unbecoming those of your Complexion or Moderation whose temperamentum ad pondus or just mixture consists in this viz. To indulge every Man in his particular judgment and treat him with a fair converse when retaining quite different sentiments from him And I am very confident that your self will take it very ill from that Man which shall call you Phanatick because you have trimmed for them and drawn up a scheme of comprehension and had so frequent meetings with them at Doctor Burton's Chamber Besides the grand Case at the King's Bench-Bar at Westminster-Hall last Summer has made it fully appear That a Man may be under a heavy guilt and yet such be the circumstances as to persons and things that his Superiors cannot with prudence call him to an account and retribute to him his condign punishment nay farther so hard may the necessity be as to enforce from them a civil treat and with more especial kindness You plead That before the Church was re-established you received Episcopal Orders from an excellent Bishop of this Church which may be true and I question not but that it is But it is no proof that you were then an Episcopal Divine Several in those days took that prudent way upon this consideration because tho' some denied a Presbyter to be a Bishop yet all own'd a Bishop to be a Presbyter and consequently must accept of your Ordination The divine appropriated Right of the Bishop and singular Power enstated on him by Christ might not be considered by you in that action And in the last place you are very unjust to me in adding to all your other Calumnies this one viz. That I am therefore so severe unto you and enhaunse your supposed crime because an Offender my self as if it were some atonement for my own miscarriages to be always finding fault with my Brethren And tho' this Scandal be of less concern to the publick than those other which you laid upon the Royal Martyr and your Church Governors yet it is every way as groundless and false Whatever my other failings have been yet I dare appeal to and do provoke my greatest Enemies to produce one instance wherein I have declined or warped from any one publick duty interpretable to be incumbent upon me as a Subject or a Church-man But those Men that answer Books by Reproaches and purge themselves by Recriminations must be allowed to make use of all the Topicks that are within that compass and to improve their design by the general advantages it tenders to them A method used by your predecessor Dr. Burnet who after this manner discharges his Gall upon me You are pleased to acquaint the world That you received Episcopal Orders in the late Confusion and think it sufficient to vouch your early Zeal for our Church and Episcopacy I can say more That in the year 1658 I was made a Deacon by that most worthy Father and reverend Prelate Brian then Lord Bishop of Sarum and within that year had the further Power of the Priesthood conferr'd upon me And by virtue of this power I served the Church in the daily Ministrations according to the Rubricks and Law established but not protected among us the secular Power being disenabled to do it by reason of that most horrid Rebellion which was then prosperous I served the Church when she was not able to reward me when without a prospect of it and have had the honour to attend Mr. Peter Gunning at Exeter Chapel with the Chalice One that then look'd the Tyrant in the face 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Strom. 4. p. 480. and whom the Church of God in antient times would have placed among her most renowned Martyrs tho' he died in his Bed full of years and honour but the other day being Lord Bishop of Ely. And thus I have answered those little pleas you have given in for your self and wiped off those Calumnies that you laid upon me