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A42823	A præfatory answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, the doctor of Warwick wherein the malignity, hypocrisie, falshood of his temper, pretences, reports, and the impertinency of his arguings & quotations in his animadversions on Plus ultra are discovered / by Jos. Glanvill.	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.	1671 (1671)	Wing G821; ESTC R23393	87,889	234

his Spirit and Genius out of his own publish'd Writings I come next to II. HIS Designs of these I shall briefly give his own Account out of his latest Books They were if we may believe him the securing and promoting the Interest of the present Monarchy Pref. against Plus Vltra p. 4. Protestant Religion ibid. and the Church of England Title Pref. c. against Dr. Sprat School-Divinity p. 1. against Plus Vltra Universities p. 1.2.13 In order to the carrying on these great Intendments He design'd further to make the Virtuosi really ridiculous and odious to the Kingdom Pref. p. 4. to avenge his Faculty upon M. Glanvill and by Sacrificing that Virtuoso to publick Obloquy to establish general Repose and Tranquillity Pref. p. 3. Smile not ô Tres-haute tres-agreeable Comediants Pref. 6. M. Marchamont Stubb is the PILLAR of MONARCHY and the PATRIOT of PROTESTANT Religion But you must not ask how long he hath been of this Loyal and Religious Inclination He hath no longer a Concern for Sir H. Vane Disc. of Choc You may choose whether you 'l admire Him now and yet be no Enemy to all that is good and virtuous nor is he concerned for the other Patriots of the long Parliament and Army that were to be so famous when the Worthies of Greece and old Rome should cease to be mention'd ut supra Tower-Hill and Tybourn have alter'd the Case The Good old Cause ceaseth to be the most glorious in the World and Monarchy to be the Norman Yoke more intolerable than the Aegyptian Bondage Our Kings are not now a Succession of Usurpers nor is Their Government the most dismal Part of Egypt We hear no more of Charles Stuart and his Bishops compared to the Inquisition nor of executing Iustice upon the late KING No the Interest of the present Monarchy and the Church of England are now the Cause the glorious Cause and next to the Good old one no doubt the most glorious that ever was M. Politicus is better informed his Eyes are opened and now Monarchy may be as good a Government as M. Harrington's Model that was so like the Pattern in the Mount and General MONK may be as good a Patriot as Sir H. Vane and the Rumpers Thus we hear Sir Hudibras is turn'd zealous Royalist and our Sir Marchamont will pay the Comical Wits for the Prejudice They do the present Monarchy and the Church of England HOW like it is 1. that the Interest of Monarchy should be one ground of M. Stubb's Quarrel with the Virtuosi we have seen already or if it do not yet fully appear from what hath been recited before give me leave to propose to your further Consideration a Paragraph of his in the Beginning of his Vindication of Sir H. V. p. 1.2 The Age saith he wherein we live hath been all Miracles and the coming forth of the Woman out of the Wilderness hath been attended with so many Wonders that a pious Heart can never want imployment in its Contemplation We have seen and our Eyes bear witness of the Actings of our God the overturning of a Monarchy setled upon the Foundation and Vsage of many hundreds of Years strengthened by what Humane Policy could contribute to its Establishments and what of Buttress a complying Clergy could assist it with out of the Pulpit Yet have we seen a Change so brought about by our Iehovah that he may in extraordinary Acknowledgments be proclaimed wonderful Counsellour the mighty God the everlasting Father Prince of Peace We have seen the most glorious Cause in the World accompanied with no less Success and the Lord in his Mercy to us and Iustice to them hath bound our Kings in Chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron such as wherewith they had formerly opprest the good People of this Land This Honour have all his Saints Psal. 149.9 Vengeance hath he returned upon their heads and their own Shame hath covered them The true anointed ones of the Lord have appeared for their sakes hath he rebuked Monarchs and the former have repeated the Fruits of that Holiness and Sacriety whereunto the latter vainly pretended In this Strain he goes on in imitation of the reformed Style of those Times which is not Canting but the holy Language of the anointed ones for whose sake our King was bound in Chains and our Nobles in Fetters of Iron And are we not to believe that this Anointed Rumper is a Zealot for the Interest of the present Monarchy We have his word for 't and he hath told me that he can say more for Monarchy than all the Virtuosi No doubt It would be very much if M. Stubb could not say more for any thing than the Ignoramus's He knows the man that useth to brag what he can say for MAHOMET and what an Inclination he hath to write the Life of that Brave Fellow And if Turcism were among us I know where the Alcoran would have a Defender and one that can say as much for it as for Monarchy or the Church of England if he may be credited himself but of that no more now We have seen some things whereby we may judge how dear the Interest of Monarchy is to our Anti-Virtuoso and how much Reason we have to believe that to be one ground of his Quarrel with the Royal Society LET us inquire next 2. how probable it is that he should be kindled against them by the Consideration of the Church of England and Religion There was a time you know when the Church of England was in a worse Condi●ion than it is in now and Religion in a more ruinous Posture Independents Anabaptists Fifth Monarchy-men and Quakers were as formidable People to both as the Virtuosi and all things were fallen under their destructive Power What did this pious Vindicatour of the Church of England and Religion in that unhappy season No doubt his Zeal burnt like fire and he was sensible then as he is now Pref. p. 4. that he ought not to be silent Then it was that his Light broke out of Darkness that disclosed Truths little less admirable than those Sir H. Vane discover'd that were the most glorious that have been witness'd to these 1500 Years and more ut sup They are proposed modestly in Queries for he tells us They are from one who desires to lie low in his own eyes But the Testimonies and Proof are all for the Heterodox Part for which he declares he had the most esteem ● and that he had a tender Regard to those who made the Subject of those Queries their Assertions These passages make part of the Preface to the first but are in the Conclusion of the second Edition which I now use We shall see in these Queries how he shewed his Friendship to Religion and the Church of England in the Time of their greatest Extremity The first Query is this Q. 1. Whether there be any certain or peculiar Name in the New Testament that signifies a Minister or

Reputation abroad against the no Credit of Dr. Wallis He must needs be certain that would lay such a Wager Well! The Geometry-Professor of Oxford is a Person of no Credit and the Young man of Christ-church attaqu'd and weakned it This he tells us he had done in his Preface p. 3. He valiantly attaqu'd nothing and made it as weak as Water And sooner he had done it but for a good Reason 'T was long saith he ere my Laughter upon the reading of Dr. W. would permit me to use a Pen ibid. And what should the man do while the Fit of Laughter was upon him As soon as he could for Laughing he assures us he prepared for Triumph And being then rather to proclaim my Victory than to gain one I supposed I might have a greater time to prepare for Triumph than had been otherwise necessary to the Dispute ibid. p. 3. Well! But what need of so much Triumph and such Preparations for it if this Adversary were so ridiculous He tells us in the words that follow Nor do I now go about to Triumph over the single Doctor The Conquest is too mean no doubt modest Harry But over all those whose Interest or Ignorance may lead them to approve his Writings who are numerous at least and since the Vogue of the People will have them deserving too I have thought them worthy the Passion of thy affectionate Friend and Servant So he concludes to the understanding Reader But that Friend of his may ask that since the Approvers of the Doctors Writings are numerous and they have the Vogue of the People for deserving too How should it come to pass that He is a Person of no Credit as p. 5. and a contemptible Adversary as p. 8. second Part. If he had made his Address to the Courteous instead of the Vnderstanding Reader some of that sort probably might not have observed this Fit of Forgetfulness And he that doth must pass such slips over or he 'l find work enough for his Patience on this Account as well as others in the Writings of the Vndertaker But 't is not my business to note any of these here His Modesty and the Lowliness of his Mind for which he would have recommended himself to those meek ones of the Earth Lambert's Army and the Committee of Safety are my present Subject of these but an Instance o● two more He tells us in his Preface to his Animadversions on my Book p. 5. That The Comical Wits so he pleaseth to call the Fellows of the Royal Society were so alarm'd at the Specimen of his Animadversions on Dr. Sprat and M. Glanvill that They imployed all their Artifices to divert him Great Sir GVY how that Host trembles before Thee How do their Spirits fail and their Courage sink at thy Summons How They weakly fly to Artifices to put by thy formidable Force when they have not strength to stand before it Well may They fear that redoubted Arm that hath slain so many Monsters Antichrist and all his Limbs Monarchy Churches Vniversities Ministry and the rest This Pigmy Troop cannot stand under one Blow of thy more than Herculean Club. Therefore the Cowards mean Spirits pitiful Mechaniciens as with valiant Despight he calls them endeavour to wave the Combat by disingenious Proceedings ibid. contrary it seems to all generous Laws of Chivalry They treacherously design he tells us not only upon his Fortunes but Life They cannot be secure while He is above ground Well! But he knows his Advantages and assures us that They are at his Mercy The Obligation as he saith would be lost in sparing them He resolves therefore to take the daring Counsel and though they should oppress him by treacherous power it would be said That he fell their Uictor and their Martyr ib. p. 5. Thus dying Samson pluck'd the House upon the Philistims And no doubt M. Stubb is as much a Victor as he is like to be a Martyr For what a Conquerour is He in Title-Pages and Prefaces With what ease doth he get Victories Vidi Vici He only laught at Dr. Wallis and prepares for Triumph as soon as the Merriment was over He dispatch'd a Specimen of Animadversions against Dr. Sprat and M. Glanvill and presently the Royal Society are at his mercy and I for my part am reduced to a Non-plus in his first Sentence and designed for a Sacrifice to publick Obloquy in the second leaf of his Preface It seems he hath the Wind of publick Fame in a Bag and can direct Reputation or Reproach as he pleaseth The general Sense of Mankind depends upon his Pen which is none of the common ones to which from henceforth I am to be given up as he threatens p. 2. Now I see with how much reason he saith That the Expectation of all men was impatient to see his Animadversions Pref. p. 7. No doubt 't was that they might know what they were to judge of the Virtuosi He hath at last obliged Mankind with them as he promiseth to do by his Observations about Chocolata Disc. of Choc Pref. p. last and now he expects without Question that the Comical Wits should be odious to the Kingdom as he tells us he designed to make them Non-plus Pref. p. 4. The Kingdom 't is like will love and hate as he would have it He gives the Stamp of odious or amiable and the Character is indelible This Sir is a short Description of the modest man that was so low in his own Eyes when he stood before his Patrons of the GOOD OLD CAVSE And from this remarkable Virtue of his we may pass to an Enquiry about another as eminent viz. II. HIS Civility and dutiful Demeanour towards his Betters of this He gives great Instances in his Expressions towards all sorts of Superiours Concerning our KINGS he saith That Their whole Succession was a continued Usurpation Pref. to the Good old Cause p. 2. Of the Glorious KING CHARLES the MARTYR That All his evil Council did ride upon one Horse ibid. And adds That the Patriots of the Long Parliament and Army executed Iustice upon Him Vind. against M. Baxter p. 59. Our present SOVERAIGN he styles an Usurper and mates him with Cromwel in the infamy of that Title For speaking of the Day of the Tyrants Death He saith It was famous for the Vanquishing of one and the Death of an other Usurper against M. Baxt. p. 53. And every one knows That was the third of September the Day also of the Kings Final Overthrow at Worcester And in his Letter to an Officer of the Army p. 14. speaking of a Cloud out of the North which he saith was more dreadful to tender Consciences than the Romish Inquisition He adds That in comparison thereof the Return of Charles Stuart and his Bishops would prove a moderate Desire In which Expression he thought no doubt he had rais'd the Dreadfulness of that Cloud to the most Hyperbolical Height possible and much beyond the Comparison with