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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65796	Mr. Blacklovv's reply to Dr. Layburn's pamphlet against him	White, Thomas, 1593-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1836A; ESTC R219979	25,125	33

supposal But most of all he wonder'd that the Doctor living amongst Catholicks should think there is but one particular Spirit in the Church Is St. Hierome of the same Spirit with St. Austin or did he not use another way against those who opposed him irrationally than St. Austin did Doth not every Regular order pretend a several Spirit under the common Spirit of God How carelesse then and over-seeing is this Doctor in his Discourses I proceeded and read the Doctors words how he was forced in a manner out of England to engage in the Government of the Colledge affairs and how not long after an Army of accusations was forged against him and presented to the Nuncio at Paris and from him remitted to Brussels and he after mature examination acquitted Mr. Blacklow when the Doctor said he was forced to that Government smil'd and asked me whether I thought the Doctor knew not that we understood how both himself and his Agents at Rome did accuse an innocent man whom both my Lord and the Clergy desired for the Office of Jansenisme and hinder'd all satisfaction to be received though the party professed neither to have read Iansenius nor to know what his Doctrine was As for the army of accusations he speaks of Mr. Blacklow wonder'd at the strange information the Doctor hath or at his vein in forging For first the Letter was never sent to Paris Secondly there were no accusations in the Letter it meerly informing the Nuntio of certain reports cast out against him and very prejudicial to his Colledge withall desiring his Lord to seek out the truth and amend them if he found them as was reported But what is most to the purpose is that those who wrote had good information of the truth of what they inform'd and some things were so evident that there was no possible denying them However he found means to cast a mist before the Internuncio's eyes which useth to be by getting Letters from men of Quality who know not particulars but commend the person in common By which any sleight answers usher'd in easily finde acceptance I read further how he conjectures these accusations came out of a Letter he wrote to the Assembly of 1653. and takes thereby occasion to tax Mr. Blacklow of a Letter to one before a printed book Mr. Blacklow answered that he wonder'd he could descend to that scrupulosity as to say he could conjecture any thing who had hitherto been so confident of the falsest and most groundlesse assertions that imagination could stumble on and that if his assurances be false his conjectures must needs be weak and so is this For the information sent to the Nuntio proceeded from the reports of those who came from his house and from pure pity of the evil Government of a place so important which they who wrote the Letter apprehended deeply For what he talks of the effects of the Letter to the Assembly concerning Mr. Blacklow he answered that they pleased him very well for they were these that they would not meddle with his Doctrine particularly because my Lord had forbidden them to do so till it were censured at Rome As for his Letter to the joynt-party who subscribed with Dr. Layburn whosoever reads the Epistle it self which he subscribed and Dr. Layburn has put in his Pamphlet will finde that he deserved a sharp reprehension which in the Letter sent to him is tempered with love and honour and so the party himself said by it that he had punished him sufficiently yet forsook not his friendship nor Mr. Blacklow his for he was a man capable of reprehension of wisdom worth and if the Doctor had been such he had had his share in it but taking him for a wilfull man and obstinate in his ambitious way he thought a touch of neglect was fitter for him I read farther concerning a Letter Mr. Blacklow wrote to my Lord some part concerning the Doctor and some part an Irish Bishop who lived and died here to which my Lord made answer and sent him a Copy of the answer some passages of which the Doctor hath set down here He added also a Letter which he conceived to be written against my Lord by Mr. Blacklow and sayes the Original is within his reach and that Mr. Blacklow denied the Letter to be his To these Mr. Blacklow replied that he should have set down the occasion of his Letter to my Lord which was that the Doctor had calumniated the whole Assembly of 1653. to my Lord of being contrary to his Authority and procured a Decree of dissolution without any former inquisition and after that he knew his information to be false yet by his Letters he maintained my Lord in the same opinion and so far inveigled him by his continual Calumnies that generally he neglected the advice of all others to follow his and waving to employ his Officers which were grave men employ'd young men whom the Doctor appointed him This was the occasion of the Letter Now judge you whether in this case he were not bound to speak plainly both to my Lord and his sentiments which by long experience he had of the Doctor which would not have seemed so harsh had the Letter appeared but my Lord as prejudiced gathered out those passages which set alone were invidious and in his Letter to him shewed some effects of passion more as he hoped than he had who was bound to expresse his sentiments in a private Letter to the Doctors Superiour Another piece of Legerdemain is that the Doctor having calumniated the whole Assembly and his Letter relating to this onely he layes disconformity in Doctrine to have been the ground of the difference between them about which there was no controversie between my Lord and him after the Letters above cited As for the Irish Bishop Mr. Blacklow said I wrote what he was informed of him and it was at his first coming when he as yet understood not the wayes of living in this place nor was in good correspondence with his own Order but after some time being better informed he changed his course and lived and died in the respects and love of all who knew him and particularly disliked my Lord's proceeding in publishing a private Letter of information to the parties of whom it was written saying it could not stand with good Government As for the Letter to the Nuncio he wish'd the Doctor had exprest what fault he findes in it Did it little concerne all all the Catholicks of England whether he had Authority over them or no Or was not Mr. Blacklow bound in conscience to get the difficulty cleared if he could Or did he presse any thing but to know the truth of a matter already passed Where then lay his blame His objection concerning his denying the Letter is answered thus He was informed by ocular witnesses that the Copy sent by the Doctor into England was corrupted and so had no reason to engage himself in quarrels upon

Doctrine say that he teacheth it more than others And so that man's Executrix being informed of the truth was so grieved that she bestowed something out of her own purse her Uncle's money being all distributed before And the truth is the interessed party would seem to conceive that they who hold the point of souls not going out before the day of judgement also pray that they may not go out of Purgatory before then for else what are their prayers worse than others and if they communicate no Alms it must be out of revenge and malice As for his noting that this was done whiles he was Superiour in England as the Doctor affects much to talk of his Superiourship and Grand-vicarship Mr. Bl. said he did not remember he was ever Superiour here though he did that he was joynt Vicar-General with another whom the Clergy had desired of my Lord for that Office But that to have a special service should make a man a Superiour he never heard no more than that being a Bayliffe makes a man master of the Tenants Nor did he ever hear that his fellow assumed so insolent a Title Proceeding forwards I came to two instructions he professes to give the Clergy which when I had read Mr. Bl. wondered at the arrogancy of the man who would undertake to instruct the Clergy in which there are so many able to instruct him He said he would not take notice of the sillinesses and mistakes contained in them which were not few besides the instructions themselves were such as none of his brethren could be ignorant of He added that whereas the Doctor talked of Novelties in Doctrine he was quite besides the Saddle making no distinction between Divinity and Faith and applying the Fathers speeches of Faith to Divinity Whereas as far as divinity is not demonstrated novelty is not onely lawfull but sometimes necessary for otherwise the Church should have no means to get out of errour and incertitude in Theological points and this novelty must begin by some one man But this he spake not in respect of his own Doctrine which was the ancient Doctrine as partly he had shown when he was forced to it partly could shew when like occasion offered it self He marked also that the Doctor lost his Text to have a gird at his Fellow-Vicar's Sub-deanship citing my Lord 's not making him such But he either did not know or dissembles that his Lordship being informed that the Sub-deanship he practised was no dignity but onely a deputation from the Chapter which belong'd to the ancientest Canon when there was no Election was content and professed not to meddle with that He noted also his jeering at the resignation of Deanship to him calling it a Legacie in articulo mortis whereas it was made before any suspicion of extraordinary sicknesse and long before the resigner's death as Mr. Fitton's own Letters testifie At last we came to the Postscript in which the Doctor professeth that in thirty years acquaintance he had never done Mr. Bl. any wrong To which Mr. Bl. reply'd that for their acquaintance he thought it was of some two or three and fourty years for he knew the Doctor a School-boy himself being then a man and in all this time he never complained of him before this last Letter though he heard for many years of the evil Offices he did betwixt my Lord and him and these later years both of his jeerings at good Tables in England and since in his own house and of a Ballad made against him whereof some verses had in them his accustomed jeers Nor if his last Letter had aimed no farther than the disgrace of his own person and not at the mischief of the publick would he have taken notice of it But to come to some of the reasons of the falling out on the Doctors part for Mr. Bl. said that on his he never fell out unlesse the answering his Calumnies be counted falling out the first he remembered was that after Dr. Kellison's death the Doctor's friends in the house proposing his preferment to the succession and wanting some money he procured a Letter from my Lord to possesse himself of a little summe that he knew to be in Mr. Bl. his dispotion and being refused grew so hot that he affronted the whole company in which were divers better than himself A second was that being disgusted he could not govern in Dr. Champney's time he would have brought in a PRAEPOSITUS who was designed a Kinsman of his whom he might govern and so have outed not onely Dr. Champney but my Lord and Episcopal power too Which design he conceived Mr. Bl. defeated and gave thereupon a bad Character of him to the Agent who resided then here for his Holinesse A third was his setting of odds betwixt my Lord and the whole Assembly of the Clergy which obliged Mr. Bl. to send his opinion of him plainly to my Lord as to his Superiour The fourth may be because the Doctor accounts him a Defender of the Chapter whereof though he professeth himself a Member to have present intelligence and a future hand in Government if he cannot get above it yet all his informations are to the disparagement of it though it cost him so many falshoods as also his discourses and Letters where he is confident And when he was in Authority waving it he cull'd out a meeting of his own to do some businesse he intended but failed of and now lately was upon the same design to waver the Chapter and send his Orders to the ancient Priests that is to whom he pleases and in this very Pamphlet strives to set division betwixt the consult in London and their brethren to take away that little order which is left among them Nor do we onely see his designs here to make himself Superiour but it is written also from beyond Sea by such as cannot be suspected to bear him malice that he by his Agents hath acted against Episcopal power and that he cares not what Authority be brought in so it lights upon his head and because he thinks Mr. Bl. may be a means to hinder this design therefore he is so violent against his Doctrine And so ended his answer to the Doctor's first part The second part begins with an accusation of Mr. Bl. his reproachfull language as calling him Mad-man and Sycophant and the Doctorss holy acceptance of such injuries Mr. Bl. hereupon asked me whether it were all one for a man to be indeed mad and to do some actions of a Mad-man or to call one a Sycophant and to say if he does so he is a Sycophant and affirmed that these were the sense of his words the first after proof the latter ushering in the proof As for the term of hissing Serpent it is a Scripture-expression of a calumniatour and so was but the varying of the phrase He added that he challenged the Doctor or any of his party to shew that he had written one word