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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62842	An apology for Mr. Toland in a letter from himself to a member of the House of Commons in Ireland, written the day before his book was resolv'd to be burnt by the Committee of Religion : to which is prefix'd a narrative containing the occasion of the said letter.	Toland, John, 1670-1722.	1697 (1697)	Wing T1761; ESTC R10393	18,667	54

their mutual Peace and Security against the Violence or Fraud of others And as reasonable it was that they should agree upon certain Rules or frame Constitutions which were to be the known Standard of every bodies Actions and might serve for the Decision of all their Differences That there should be Magistrates or indifferent Persons appointed to preserve those Laws and see 'em put in execution not leaving every Man to be his own Judg is not less reasonable still And that all due Honour and Obedience should be paid to those Governors by their Subjects is likewise most highly reasonable so that I fancy we must necessarily conclude all just Dominion to be founded in Reason At length comes from the North a finish'd Master of such Politicks and he doubts not but Mr. TOLAND after all is a Iesuit But his Book utterly destroys all the Principles of Popery and Superstition That 's nothing for Iesuits to unsettle us will preach against their own Religion Now if Mr. TOLAND be a Iesuit he 's certainly the most dangerous of the Order and begun extremely betimes He was not sixteen Years old when he became as zealous against Popery as he has ever since continu'd and by God's Assistance always will do From Redcastle near Londonderry he went in 1687. to the College of Glasco in Scotland and upon his departure from it the Magistrates of that City gave him Recommendatory Letters wherein they took particular notice of his Affection to the Protestant Religion The day before the memorable Battle of the BOINE he was created Master of Arts at Edenburgh and receiv'd the usual Diploma or Certificate from the Professors Then he came into England and liv'd in as good Protestant Families as any in the Kingdom till he went to the famous University of Leyden in HOLLAND to perfect his Studies and upon his return from thence lodg'd in a private House at Oxford till about two Years ago he came to London where 't is well known his Company and Conversation were the farthest in the World from being Iesuitical Notwithstanding the whole series of his Education as well as his own Genius did thus run in the most opposite Channel to Popery yet in Ireland that malicious Report gain'd upon some few because his Relations were Papists and that he happen'd to be so brought up himself in his Childhood which was no more an Action of his own than that he was born there So his Countrymen treated him in this respect like his Majesty's good Subjects of Guernsey who when they are in France are call'd English Rogues and in England French Dogs The last Effort except the charge of Socinianism to blast him was to make him pass for a rigid Nonconformist Mr. TOLAND will never deny but the real Simplicity of the Dissenters Worship and the seeming Equity of their Discipline into which being so young he could not distinctly penetrate did gain extraordinarily upon his Affections just as he was newly deliver'd from the insupportable Yoke of the most pompous and Tyrannical Policy that ever enslav'd Mankind under the name or shew of Religion But when greater Experience and more Years had a little ripen'd his Judgment he easily perceiv'd that the Differences were not so wide as to appear irreconcileable or at least that Men who were sound Protestants on both sides should barbarously cut one anothers Throats or indeed give any disturbance to the Society about them And as soon as he understood the late Heats and Animosities did not totally if at all proceed from a Concern for meer Religion he allow'd himself a latitude in several things that would have been matter of scruple to him before His Travels increas'd and the Study of Ecclesiastical History perfected this Disposition wherein he continues to this hour for whatever his own Opinion of those Differences be yet he finds so essential an Agreement between the French Dutch English Scotish and other Protestants that he 's resolv'd never to lose the benefit of an Instructive Discourse in any of their Churches upon that score and it must be a Civil not a Religious Interest that can engage him against any of these Parties not thinking all their private Notions wherein they disagree worth endangering much less subverting the Publick Peace of a Nation If this makes a Man a Nonconformist then Mr. TOLAND is one unquestionably And so he is if he thinks the Dissenters ought not to be molested in their Goods or Persons nor excluded from any of their Native Rights because they have a different Set of Thoughts from him or others so long as none of their Principles are repugnant to good Government He believes them likewise to be a true and considerable part of the Protestant Religion for they have demonstrated themselves to be stanch Patriots notwithstanding any Error or Weakness whereof they may be guilty in his Judgment But this same reason will prove him as sound a Member of the establish'd Church of England being perswaded the narrow Sentiments of a few about Communion is not any profest Doctrin of that Church nor would there be any Separation from it in this Realm were all others of his mind 'T is visible this Declaration is not made to curry favour with one as many do while in their Hearts they are devoted to the other side But Mr. TOLAND's Opinion being frequently demanded as to this Point he now delivers it once for all for he will never condescend to court any body of Men with preference to all others further than he sees ground for it and to this as his settl'd Judgment he 's resolv'd to adhere tho it should hazard the inevitable ruin of his Fortune or Reputation with all Parties Atheism is now become so common an Accusation in every Person 's mouth who is displeas'd at the Rudeness of others for not complimenting him with their Assent to his Opinions that altho in it self it be the most atrocious and unnatural Crime whereof a reasonable Creature can be guilty yet is it not otherwise minded than as a word of course which indicates a world of Inconsiderateness and Rancor When Mr. TOLAND us'd to be traduc'd in Ireland for Deism with many other Opinions and his Friends demanded of his Accusers where they made those Discoveries in his Writings the ready Answer always was that truly they had never read the Book and by the Grace of God never would but that they receiv'd their Information from such as were proper Judges of the thing O how inseparable is Popery from Ignorance And what is the source of all Popery but Implicit Belief where-ever it is found As to what the Author of the Letter to a Convocation-man says of a Congregation de propaganda Infidelitate no body needs be asham'd of so good Company as the present Bishop of Salisbury the late Archbishop of Canterbury and the Commons of England themselves whom he not only libels with most false and vile Insinuations but even his Majesty's own Person as