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A54939 A letter from Moses Pitt, to the authour of a book, intituled, some discourses upon Dr. Burnet, now Ld. Bp. of Salisbury and Dr. Tillotson, late Ld. A.B. of Canterbury occasioned by the late funeral sermon of the former upon the latter. Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654-1696.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Tillotson, John, 1630-1694. 1695 (1695) Wing P2307; ESTC R7270 27,662 34

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Heroick Piety and Vertue Do you not think Sir but the Lives of our Cooks Crooks and Rolles would not be very useful and acceptable to our Lawyers and also the Lives of our Harveys Willis and Lowers to our Physicians and our Bacons Hales and Boyles to our Philosophers I appeal how acceptable the Life of Sir Matthew Hales written by our present Bishop of Salisbury has been to this Nation I must beg the Bishop's Pardon for inserting one Expression here of that good Man Sir Matthew Hales which I believe he has not in his Life I have living Authority for it unto whom he said it That when he published the Life of Pomponius Atticus he did suspect that the World would believe that he therein wrote his own And now Sir I cannot forbear telling you what I lately Read as I remember in Diogenes Laertius who giving an Account of the Life of one of his Philosophers That as for natural Philosophy he had no Esteem of and altogether neglected it but he was so intent on and studious of moral Philosophy that he did not allow himself time to comb his Head nor pair his Nails Sir I am of opinion that either of our three great Philosophers were as eminent for moral Philosophy as Diogenes Laertius his Philosopher ever was as is evident by my Lord Bacons Essays Moral and Divine my Lord Chief Justice Hale's Contemplations Divine and Moral and Mr. Boyle's Occasional Meditations c. yet they were not such Slovens as to neglect combing their Heads or pairing their Nails neither were they such Cinicks as to neglect Natural no nor Experimental Philosophy as their Learned Works published to the World demonstrate Thus I end this Subject As for the late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. John Tillotjon you have not called me to give my Testimony of him therefore I leave it to his Learned and Pious VVorks which are already published to the VVorld and also to his intimate Friends to vindicate him which I believe they will readily do And Sir I hope you will pardon me for telling you now and then a Truth which is to the Purpose and the Matter we are speaking of when I first came to live at my House in Dukestreet Westminster I was several times robb'd at last I discovered the Felon whose Name was Benson he was one of my Laborers he had not only stolen Lead but had also gotten into my House which was the same House I afterwards let to the then Lord Chancellor Jefferies and when he was in he broke the Handle of a Pick-Ax by his endeavouring to break open one of the Inner-doors but could not which Handle of the Pick-Ax we found the next Morning but he opened a Trunk or Trunks c. and stole Cloaths Linnen and Plate c. as soon as I discovered him he fled for it but some days after he was taken by some of my Workmen and brought to me as soon as he saw me he fell on his Knees and confest the Fact and his Confederate and begging me pardon Multitudes of People being by as it 's usual upon such Occasions urged me to send for a Constable and carry him before a Justice of Pcace that so he might be sent to Goal I told the People I would not do that for if I did he might be hanged and I would not have my Hand in the Blood of any Man except for Murther for it was my Opinion that nothing but Blood did require Blood and therefore said I Benson I freely forgive thee but take care be never guilty more of the like Crimes lest thou shouldest not fall into the Hands of so merciful a Man as I am Not long after this for some other Crime he was hanged out of the Martial-Sea-Prison in Southwark This Story I do not tell any way to reflect on you but for Caution to some that read this my Letter and also my own Opinion that if a Law against Thest as also Perjury and Forgery were made correspondent to God's own judicial Law to his People of Israel of making sour-fold Restitution it would be a greater Terror to this sort of miserable People than hanging or standing in the Pillory I have many Arguments to prove this my Assertion but I forbear and leave it to our Parliament now assembling Sir I would have you weigh and consider that Place of Scripture you quote in the 45 Page of your own Book it 's 1 Tim. 1.9 10. And whereas you say But the House by the Interest of the Duke's Friends who increased much upon that Discovery In Answer to this I must tell you good Men are apt to be mistaken and wicked Men are given up to believe Lyes for the Truth of which I could besides the Instances mentioned in Scripture tell you of some Modern Examples to this purpose the Consequences of which have been very mischievous I could mention a Passage which I can prove by living Witnesses of a National Concern but I forbear till it 's proper Season And further you go on and say made him testifie what he since saith created Horrour in him What Horrour this Created in the Bishop he can best tell but I will assure you Sir if this Case had been mine I should father have rejoyced by reason the Story of suppressing the Dedication was falfe so far as I know believe or can remember Now Sir I have given you my Testimony as to this Passage in your Book which concerns the Bishop of Salisbury's suppressing his Dedication to his Book call'd his Vindication of the Authority c. of the Laws of Scotland And I have done it with Integrity and Simplicity and as near to Truth as in Words I could express it And this I have done as I believe I must answer it before our Great God who is a God of Truth and knows the Hearts not only of the Bishop and You and my Self but of all Men. As for all other Passages in your Book I have nothing to say to them I leave them to the Bishop who is of Age and very well able to answer for himself And now Sir give me leave before I conclude this my Letter to tell you something of the now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury I tell it you on my own Knowledge and I have also other living Witnesses to prove it And I farther declare I publish it without his or any of his Friends approbation or knowledge and when he did this great Work of Charity he then obliged me to secrecy as to the Persons that had the Benefit of it and therefore I shall not now name him by that Denomination you have given him in the 2 d. Pag. of your Preface I will give it you in your own words which are The Remarks on the late Funeral-Sermons c. The Letter to the Authour of the Funeral-Sermon at VVestminster Abby These Discourses not to mention others long since Printed will let Posterity see what kind of Man our Preacher and his Heroe
mighty Things are concerned in this Passage of yours that is Truth and a Good-name the latter of which Solcmon tells us is better than precious Ointment And for the former Truth it 's an Attribute of our great and good God and it 's the Duty of all Men to imitate God in this Attribute and That Man is worse than the Beasts that perished that is not a Man of Truth and Truth makes a Man as bold as a Lion Ask the Lawyers what plead for they will tell you for Truth Ask the Ministers of all perswasions what they preach and they will tell you Truth Ask all Writers of Books in all Arts and Sciences what they have written and they will tell you Truth You your self say in this your Book speaking against Dr. Burnet You say you could produce more Instances out of Beedle's Life to shew how apt he was to write his own Inventions for true History and thereby impose upon the World and you believe you have brought enough for that purpose and hope you have thereby convinced all Lovers of Truth more than of Men's Persons how unsase it is to take things upon Trust from him page 33 and Sir I find you your felf so much a Lover of Truth as you pretend at least that I hope you will not be angry with me for declaring the Truth in this Passage you your self appeal to me in between the late Duke of Lauderdale and the now Lord. Bishop of Salisbury mentioned in the 18th and 19th Pages of your said Bock And Sir I shall speak the Truth so as you are pleased to express it in the 1st and 2d Pages of your Presace to your said Book So as it may serve to inform and entertain inquisitive Searchers after Truth And then you go on and say speaking of Dr. Jo. Tillot son late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Dr. Gilbert Burnet now Lord Bishop of Salisbury Against whom you say you have been provoked to draw up two several Charges or Informations which somewhat blomish their Honour so you hope you have proved them in every part by very good Evidence And as some Trials are longer than others according to the Number and Length of Depositions so if this Book of mine which contains as it were so many Depositions against them hath proved longer than I would have had it that is none of my Fault And you farther say you know very well it will be called a Libel and a Defamatory Libel but you care not for that since many excellent Books were so miscalled in the Times of our former Usurpations which detected the ill Men of those Times and their Hypocrisies and Imquities to the World The same thing have I done lately in a Book called The Cry of the Oppressed printed 1691. Wherein I have detected many Men by Name now hving some of them in great splendor of Oppression Extortion Bribery Perjury Blusphemy and several other the like Crimes and there has not to this Day Nav. 1695. any one of the Passages therein mentioned been contradicted and I still challenge any one therein accused to clear himself from those Villanies I therein charge him with for I am still ready to prove on them all the Matters of Fact I have therein related thus hold is Truth And then you go on and say and I agree with you and so I believe will all good Men. And besides to speak properly and justly of the Nature of a Libel all Books onght not to be so called which expose Men's Reputations but such only as expose them falsly injuriously and out of pure Malice But this Book though in some things it blemishes the Fame and Reputation of these Men yet it doth it truly justly and deservedly and so far am I from bearing the Person of the one or the Memory of the other any Malice that had I been acted by that evil Passion I could have written against them both much sooner and have been better provided to write against them now Men that do ill things openly and with an high hand though under never so splendid Pretences ought to hear of them especially when they go about to make Saints and Heroes of one another with a Design to cover their own Iniquities and deceive the People When this happens to be the Case Charity to the People's Souls and the Love of the Publick obliges all Lovers of Truth and Righteousness to unvizard such Men and expose them in their true Appearance before their credulous and deluded Admirers As to this last Paragraph so far all good Men will agree with you but how far the World will believe you as to these two popular Divines as you are pleased to call them when I have told my Matters or given my Deposition as you your self are pleased to term it I leave it to judgment And as I have endeavoured in the following Discourses to do so by these two popular Divines so I assure the Reader I have done it purely upon these generous Motives wishing with all my Heart that neither of them had given so many and publick Provocations to undeceive any part of the World by writing such severe Truths So much I have taken out of your own Preface and now Sir I will go on and give you the Truth of this Matter you mention in Page the 18th and 19th of your Book as touching that Passage of the Dedication of Dr. Gilbert Burnet's Vindication of the Authority c. of the Laws of Scotland to the Duke of Lauderdale as far as I know or can any way call to my Remembrance And this I do as in the Presence of the Great God who is the God of Truth and the True God and of Angels and of Men and that without any Respect to the Person of the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury Dr. Gilbert Burnet with whom I have had no Conversation neither by word of mouth not by writing or otherwise since he lest England in King James's Days otherwise than that very soon after I printed my Cry of the Oppressed which was in 1691 or before I believe I might send him as I did several other of the Bishops and Judges c. a Letter with one of my said Books but I never received any Answer from him neither directly nor indirectly only Mr. Richard Chiswel the last Time but one that I saw him told me that the Bishop ask'd him how I did and that he was sorry for my Misfortunes but whether Mr. Chiswell did this in a Complement I know not neither did it affect me neither doth the Bishop know of what I now write neither have I or any Person for me any way applied my self to him about this or any other Matter although very much urged to it by some of my Friends since he came into England with King William Neither has he the said Bishop applied himself to me neither by himself or any Friend that I know of to declare my Knowledge in this Matter neither is