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A39266	Mr. Hobbs's state of nature considered in a dialogue between Philautus and Timothy to which are added five letters / from the author of the Grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy.	Eachard, John, 1636?-1697.	1672 (1672)	Wing E57; ESTC R24940	99,899	324

Village and for a need I could tell you the rest and never use either forge file or hammer And now me thinks ex pe●● 〈◊〉 would do much better for me than for you if you had not got it away first Parson slip-stockin say you quitted the stage long since so he might perhaps but if he did I 'le swear he came again for the man died but a little before Easter last and the triangular heart of man say you is as old as Pauls Let it be as old as it will but for all that I 'le lay a pot and a cake that I 'le shew it in a Sermon printed within these seven years and bring you at least three or four men that have preached it within the same compass of time I profess Sir you had a great deal better not be altogether so forward to charge people with flams and whiskers when as the great rappers are wholly upon your own side I do acknowledge that I added Silvestrem ten●i to quicken a little hic labor hoc opus and per varior casus Which methought went off but heavily alone and I do suppose that the points of the Compass are not in the Original and no body but a Child could have thought they had and I care not much if I let you know besides that amongst that which I quoted I did mistake one word and if you had but hit on 't then Boccaline had been a Rogue to purpose I shall not help you in the case make it your business all that I shall say is this that it was since the Conquest And thus Sir I have given you my reasons why I do not at present answer your Book and I desire that the same may serve why I never intend to answer it nor any such the Preface I must confess were I not in great hast might deserve some little peculiar respect for the sake of two as pretty pretty objections as ever were devised I shall only reverentially mention them and keep the same awful distance from them as from the rest of your Book not daring to meddle with such impregnable pieces The first horrible absurdity that I have committed is this viz. That I should pretend as I do in my Preface to have a special reverence for the Clergy of England and yet go about to give reasons in the Book why some of the Clergy are contemned and besides which is far worse should put in the word Contempt into the very Title Page which is I know not how many Leagues off from Reverence Now say you let all the men in the World make these things hang together Yes let them for I don't intend to try The next absurdity that you catch me in is this viz. that I ought not to have enquired into what I did because it was done either for the information of my self or of others for belike there 's no back-door to make any escape at If of himself what need was there of its being printed Could not he have locked up himself close in his Study and there have enlightned and clarified his own understanding Or could not he have gone into a Grove and there for his own information have said it over softly to himself and come home again with his lips close shut It remains therefore as plain as can be that he must needs print his Letter that others might read it and if so then would I fain understand whether they knew of it before or not if they did then this is full out as idle and absurd as to inform himself and if they did not then your only design must be to unhinge the Government for 't is just like a firework in the powder-room it blows up all into confusion and brings in Sedition and Schisme as thick as Hogs go to Rumford Sir you must needs excuse me that I cannot stay to reply to this because there 's a new Brother of yours with a deadly hard name that I must say two or three words to and therefore in great haste farwel T. B. R. L. is well and presents his service to you A LETTER To T. D. The AUTHOR of Hieragonisticon OR Corah's Doom From T. B. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt for Nath. Brooke at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1672. A LETTER c. Devonshire Jan. 20. 1671. Sir UNderstanding that you are very much concern'd for my wellfare as appears at large by several places in your Letter and having not the convenience to let you know so by the Gazette according as you desired these are only to acquaint you that thankes be to God I am in very good bodily health at the present writing hereof wishing that you had been as well in your witts when you writ your Book My Wife remembers her love to you and thanks you for sending me to the Devil Bette had sent you a cake but she poor child was 〈◊〉 with an ague about the last aequinox wherewith she is so valde dilacerated that she has parum left but skin and bones We durst not venture upon the Iesuits powder lest the Ague should have gon out and the Devil and the Pope should have enter'd in Last Market day wheat was three shillings a Bushell at Exeter But tush not a word of the Captain Because the Dun Cow went a maskarado last night and is not as yet returned Upon the foruth of this month our neighbour Geofrey's barn was eclipsed ab ovo ad mala And the night before Widdow Wamford was vulpeculated of her brood Goose. latet anguis in herbâ The Turkie Cock growes very melancholy Sed fortiter occupa portum Mr Davis does not at all question but he shall get a Decree in Chauncery You may possibly hereupon think Sir that I have read your Book but if you doe you are much mistaken For so long as I can get Tolambus's History of mustard Frederigo's devastation of Pepper and the Dragon with cutts Mandringo's Pismires rebuffeted and retro-confounded Is qui nil dubitat or a flie-flap against the maggot of Haeresie efflorescentia flosculorum or a choice collection of the elegancies of F Wither's Poems or the like I do not intend to meddle with it Alas Sir I am so unlikely to read your Book that I can't get down the Title no more than a duck can swallow a yok'd Heifer How is it Hieragonist●con Or but hold let me see tush have a care latet anguis not a word vulpes tread softly there 's a Bear once more no Iesuits Powder Hieragonisticon Sir without the Or is more than I can digest these twelve months And whereas you subscr●be your self T. D. You ought to have gon on E. F. G. H. I. K. c. but I pray Sir was not Hieragonisticon enough for your Heliogabaluship● was not that sufficiently confoundative debellative and depopulative but you must put in or Corah's Doom If you had had such a

and Brimstone it self who pulling out of his Magazine four or five Sermons concerning the existence of a God the Authority of the Scriptures Providence c. and raking together an hundred or two of names for me and all the curses in the Bible he bundles up all this together and in as dreadful black as ever was branded upon wool-pack he writes Hieragonisticon or an Answer to my two Letters I looked Sir upon some few Pages and I find all this comfort for my self an Vniversal repaganizer Popeling a worshipper of the beast Loyolite Iesuited Pandor Herod Iudas Pilate Antiscripturist Antichrist Antiprovidentialist Atheist to whom Sir I have said very little but only told him that he was mad and that I was not singular for the rest of the world did think so Perhaps Sir you may have a mind to know how it is possible that a Sermon for Providence should be against me and how he should get it in or any thing like it If you remember Sir speaking somewhere in my first Letter concerning the great convenience of a tolerable maintenance for the Ministry it is there said that people should not be suffered to take away from God's Priests what he had designed them lest some thereupon should think that he seemed to take no care of them Upon which he springs forth Say you so What are you there abouts Nay even off with your Maskarado and profess your self a right down Atheist or Antiprovidentialist which if you do then by the grace of God I 'le pull out one of my best Sermons concerning Providence and so shamefully rout you as never Heathen was r●uted and so away he goes proving Providence as hard as ever he can I hear Sir of eight or ten Answerers more that may possibly come out this Spring if it be seasonable and warm but if they do I shall make some interest to get my reply into Muddiman's Letter or to stand at the bottom of the Gazette amongst the strayed Horses and Apprentices For you know Sir I have nothing more to say unless it may be here convenient Sir to beg so much room in your Letter as to desire those if there be any such who are still offended at what I said concerning Allegories to read one place of Scripture as well as another and when they have read and well weighed what is said by St. Luke c. 8. v. 9. That his Disciples did not understand the Parable of the Sower and not understanding desired the meaning and as the Learned D r Hammond notes Christ answered that he did it on purpose as a punishment to those that had had clear means and perspicuous expressions and manifestations that seeing they might not see that is clear means was n●w denied unto them and none but parables was allowed as ● punishment of their former obduraion against hi● means As also upon what occasion it was that our Sa●iour said St. Matth. 13. 14. And seeing they shall see and not perceive i. e. as the same Doctor observes being an obstinate people they shall not receive so much profit as otherwise they ●ight things shall be so aenigma●ically and darkly represented to them 〈◊〉 that they having before shut their eyes shall now discern but little and what follows v. 15. For this peoples ●●art is waxed gross c. i. e. speaking still of making use of Parables and this is a just judgment of God's upon them for their former obduration and obstinacy in that they would not see nor hear heretofore I say when they have considered of these and many such like places of Scripture and after all they shall still think that they have as much reason to punish their Anditors as 〈◊〉 Saviour had some of his Nay to torture them with Allegories ten times more remote from common apprehension I have nothing to say to them but only to leave them to their own way and understanding But it is time now Sir to take my leave of you and setting aside all fashionable conclusions I desire that I may do it with what Bishop Saunderson says in his first Sermon ad Aulam which possibly may do some body or other more good than any complement could ever have done you service He speaking Sir of making use of Rhetorical Ornaments and Elegancies in popular Sermons says thus That as such things are sometimes very allowable useful and approved of by Scripture it self if it be discreetly and sparingly done and counts those uncharitable and unjust that in general condemn all such Rhetorical Ornaments as savouring of an unsanctified spirit So says he I confess there may be a fault this way and in young men especially before their judgements are grown to a just ripeness many times there is For as he continues affectation in this as in every thing else is both tedious and ridiculous and in this by so much more than in other things by how much more the condition of the person and the nature of the business require a sober serious grave deportment Those Preachers therefore by a little vanity in this kind take the readiest way to bring both their own discretions into question and the sacred word they handle into contempt that play with words as children do with a feather I have been mistaken by some but however I hope you will always think that I am Sir Your most humble Servant T. B. A LETTER To B. O. The Publisher of M r HERBERTS Country Parson From T. B. LONDON ●●inted by E. Tyler and R. Holt for Nathaniel Brooke at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1672. A LETTER c. Honour'd Sir I Received your fifth Paragraph as you call it long since wherein you tell me that I am the Author of a scandalous Book and if I had the very next day sent you word back again that I am not the Author of any such Book I had given you just as full an answer as you have given reasons that I am so For that great service Sir that you have done the Church and are able still to doe it I have a very great respect for you but I doe much wonder that you would not a little defer calling any Book scandalous till you had thought of some better ways to make it appear so or have told me what you meant by scandalous For you know Sir the word has been taken in so many sences that there has been a time when Almond butter has been counted rebellion minced Pye Idolatry and if a little Wine were put thereunto it was as ill as worshipping the host and to eat Custards with spoons was abominably scand●lous but to be engag'd in Sack-posse●t up to the eyes with Ladles was Christian Orthodox and Brotherly Therefore when you say that that Book is scandalous if you mean that it puts men in mind of their follies that it abates the glory of some mens preaching that some people now are longer making their Sermons if you mean that some