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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49317	Moral essays wherein some of Mr. Locks and Monsir. Malbranch's opinions are briefly examin'd : together with an answer to some chapters in the oracles of reason concerning deism / by Ja. Lowde ...	Lowde, James.	1699 (1699)	Wing L3301; ESTC R31564	81,257	196

Moral Essays Wherein some of Mr. LOCKS AND Monsi r. Malbranch's Opinions are briefly examin'd Together with an ANSWER To some CHAPTERS in the Oracles of REASON CONCERNING DEISM By Ja. Lowde Rector of Settrington in Yorkshire YORK Printed by I. White for Fra Hildyard and are to be sold by Brab Aylmer at the Three Pidgeons in Cornhill and Tho. Bennet at the Half Moon in St. Pauls Church London 1699. To the Right Honourable John Earl of Bridge-water Viscount Brackley Baron of Ellesmere Lord Lieutenant of the County of Bucks and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council My Lord TItles do not so much make some Men great as show them to be so Gold has an intrinsick value in it even before the Stamp thus the Honours of your Family and the Favours and Smiles of your Prince which yet are very great Happinesses are not the essential Ingredients of your more solid and intrinsick Nobility Vertue and Piety are the great Ornaments and Stability of the Throne it self nor is it a less Happiness to a Kingdom when Nobles inherit their Fathers Vertues together with their Fortunes Thus should I have look'd upon that long Train of Vertues which your Lordship takes more pleasure in practising than in having them recounted almost as hereditary to you if thereby I might not seem to lessen your personal Title to 'em and I hope you will give others leave to express what they are so intimately sensible of the great Benefit and Advantage they receive by such benigne Influences My Lord I shall not here attempt any thing by way even of your Lordships just Character because the greatness thereof and your own native averseness from all such Panegyricks do wholly discourage me herein so that this will be the p●culiar C●aracter of this Epistle Dedicatory that it comes as f●r short of the real worth of its Patron as others usually exceed ●t Only your Lordship must pardon me and others if in this declining state of Religion and Piety in the World we call in the Aids and Assistances of such Examples as are able not only to recommend the practice of Vertue to others but also to render it even Honourable in the midst of a perverse Age. But I am afraid that I am injurious to the Publick whilst I thus employ your precious Minutes if perhaps you vouchsafe to give this short Address the reading I shall now only take this Opportunity gratefully to acknowledge those many Favours which by the long Experience of many Years I have received from you it is to Your Lordship and Noble Family that I owe these happy Retiremenrs wherein I shall not be wanting to this part of my Duty to pray for your long Health and Happiness and that God would long continue your Lordship to us a great Example of all Vertues and a great instrument of publick and private Good This is and shall be the constant Prayer of My Lord your Lordships most obliged and most obedient Servant Ia. Lowde THE PREFACE PRefaces are now grown so customary that Readers generally think themselves neglected without 'em otherwise I should not have concerned my self herein the subject matter of these Papers not affording any great occasion for such an Address I hope thou wilt not impute it to any pragmatical conceitedness if I thus fill up some vacant Minutes not wholly taken up in the employment of a Country Cure with such Meditations as these Besides the Civility of Mr. Locks Answer on the one Hand and the concerns of Truth on the other did in a great measure call for some suitable Reply I did not indeed for some time think the Controversie betwixt him and me considerable enough to trouble either him or my self with these disputes and some perh●ps may think so still but so it happen'd that a friend of mine lately ask'd me whether I was really satisfied and convin●'d with what Mr. Lock had writ in his Preface in answer to my former Treatise I told him I was not whereupon he reply'd that then Mr. Lock had taught me in his late Controversie with the learned Bishop of Worcester that good manners requir'd me to acknowledge the honour he did me in taking notice of what I formely writ and that I was bound in Civility to represent the Reasons why I cannot bring my Sentiments wholly to agree with his for it seems a piece of ●ullenness and disrespect to remain dissatisfied and not acquaint those from whom they may most reasonably expect information why they are so And further when I consider'd that several others viz. J. S. and Mr. Becconsall had variously disputed those little Controversies betwixt Mr. Lock a●d me I humbly conceived I might be allow'd more fully to explain my Sense and Meaning therein and then leave the whole with the judicious and impartial Reader where it must rest at last Another design of these Papers is to shew the weakness of the Pretences and the inconclusiveness of the Deists Arguments I mean such as they themselves have of late made use of in their own Defence and I have the rather chosen to answer some of those short Letters in the Oracles of Reason both because I hope this may be done without any great tediousness to the Reader and also because this is not liable to any of those Objections that the dry method of the Scholastick Ob. and Sol. as it is sometimes call'd is liable u●to The Deists here plead their own cause and if it prove not so strong as was expected they have no Body to blame but themselves for it and if they think it has suffer'd by any personal failures they may at their own pleasure employ better Advocates I do not here pretend to advance any new Notions but only with as much strength and clearness as I can to defend the old and therefore I know what I here write is not like to meet with any general good reception in such a curious Age as this only I hope there may be some in the World who will not think the worse of Truth because it is gray headed Truth being always of the elder House for though Antiquity has not been so successful in ●inding out Hypotheses of Natural Philosophy yet I thi●k it has been more happy in setling Morality npon its true Foundations I am not for venerable Nonsense being preferr'd before new Sense nor yet am I for venerable Sense being slighted in respect of new Nonsense it is the greatest instance of folly imaginable to run out of one extream into anot●er and though the former Ages have been too much led by Authority and addicted to antient Errors yet it will not hence follow that all new Notions are true I am apt to believe that some Opinions now prevailing in the World owe their reception therein to the positiveness of their Patrons and to the silence of those of the contrary perswasion rather than to any strength of Rea● on ●hat would be found in 'em were they duly