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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

any Name whence an Office may be convincingly inferr'd If there be not as there is just Cause to doubt whether the present Ministers are not to blame while they pretend to an Office and Function grounded upon Divine Right which hath no other Foundation than the Hay and Stubble of Humane Invention p. 12. In the second Query thus they are too large for me to transcribe all Q. 2. Is it not an Act of Arrogance in them who would be the Apostles Successors in ordinary ordinary Ambassadors from the most High to assume a Name of greater Latitude than that of Apostle or Ambassador extraordinary or at least is it not as absurd as if the Ant should assume the single Name of Animal and the Lacquey that of Servant p. 3 4. Query 5. Thus. Q. 5. Whether the present Ministry supposing them generally Presbyterians or Episcoparians do not pretend to be Ministers of the Church Catholick whether there be any mention of such a Church in Scripture or in any antient Creed of the first Ages and whether Luther did not place in stead thereof in his Creed the Christian Church whether any body can tell what is the determinate meaning of that Word whether the Ordainers and Ordained now-adays deal conscientiously in giving or receiving and acting really by Virtue of a Power from and over the Catholick Church whilst the Existence and Signification thereof is so controverted amongst themselves and others p. 19. Q. 6. Whether Ecclesia which is a Word signifying a Church be not a Law-Term deduced from Free-States in which Common-wealths the supreme Popular Assembly acted organized by the Archon and Proedri as a Church formed and presbyterated by a Minister and Elders which did not rule but preside p. 27. Q. 7. Whether such a Sense of the Word Ecclesia or Church doth not unchurch all the Parochial Churches in England and unminister all their Ministers ibid. Q. 8. Whether the Ministers do well to derive their Succession unto Christ by the means of Antichrist p. 29. Q. 9. Whether the Arguments of the first● Reformers about their Vocation do not justifie any that shall take upon them to preach p. 52. Q. 20. Whether the first Christians had any Churches or did not assemble only in Private Houses whether their Want hereof can be attributed to their being under Persecution since they never made that Excuse for themselves to the Pagans who objected it to them p. 106 107. Q. 21. Whether Christianity it self be not termed Heresie in Scripture Whether Tertullian do not frequently call the Christians a Sect and whether the Christian Emperours do not so likewise in their Constitutions even against Hereticks whether the Meeting-Places of the first Christians were not termed Conventicles p. 107. Q. 22. Whether if there were Heresies in the Apostles days and Schisms it doth follow that there are any Hereticks and Schismaticks now when there are n● Apostles p. 108. Q. 23. Whether they used in the Primitive times to bury in Places such as we now call Church-Yards and whether the introducing of such a Custom had not a superstitious Original p. 110. Q. 24. Whether if to preach publickly be to teach as it is now practis'd the Apostles did ever teach publickly p. 112. Q. 25. Whether the Division into Parishes was not introduced by the Pope Dionysius and whether the Antient Christians payed Tithes if they did whether they did not pay them as Alms ibid. Q. 29. Whether the Predecessors of the Protestants and those who have so honourable a mention in our Books of Martyrs and other Writings for witnessing against Popish and other Antichristian Abuses did allow of Tithes and their Divine Right p. 120. Q. 30. Whether they had the Vse of Bells in the Primitive Times and whether the Bells in England that remain ever since the Reformation have not been popishly and superstitiously Christned p. 138. Q. 31. Whether it were not an Act of Superstition in former times to build Churches and Chappels in the Form or Fashion of a Cross whether it were not a Sin of the like Nature in Antient Times to build their Churches East and West that so the People might bow and pray towards the East And whether both these Superstitions have not been renewed and practised lately in one of the Reformed Colleges of Oxford viz. Brasen-Nose College as in the Margin p. 139. Q. 42. Whether the Ministers do well to go in black or the Vniversities to command it p. 147. Q. 43. Whether there were not of old amongst the Iews a sort of men called Cheramims or black Coats whether those were the People of God and whether the Translatours of the Bible did well to conceal the true meaning of this Word by putting another for it or the very Word it self in English Letters p. 148. Q. 47. Whether those things which had a good Original and Vse if they be not still necessary or commanded by God when once they have been abused to Idolatry and Superstition are not quite to be abolished p. 149. Q. 48. Whether the Singing of David ' s Psalms be a part of Divine Worship whether that Practice was introduced in England for a spiritual End or only to preserve the Estimation and Knowledge of the laudable Science of Musick p. 151. elsewhere called Fidling Q. 41. Q. 50. Whether it be not a very great Abuse put upon the Independents to say that they or their Tenents came from Amsterdam Do not the Doctors that are got among them their Stickling for the upholding the present formalized University and a Tithe-receiving Ministry whom yet not long ago they stiled abominable and Parish Priests and their Demeanour toward the Quakers in Oxon agreeable to a persecuting rather than a persecuted Spirit sufficiently acquit them from having any Affinity with those other Pretious Souls p. 156. Q. 53. Whether it be a peculiar Practice of our modern Anabaptists and Quakers that they will not swear no not before a Magistrate or whether it were not an Opinion of the Waldenses Antecessors of the Protestants p. 166. What sort of Persons these Queries were intended to gratifie 't is very easie to apprehend But lest those Friends he had a mind to make should be so dull as not to perceive it He writes an express Apology for the Quakers beginning at p. 55. continued to p. 92. In which he tells us that he durst not condemn the Quakers whether they reprove openly or walk naked through the Streets denouncing Woes and Menaces p. 91. and he goes on It is a sufficient Argument for me that what God bids is not undecent nor do they any thing for which they have not a like Example and possibly resembling Commands Did not the Protestant Martyrs so disturb the Popish Priests as the present Ministers are disturbed and that when the Laws were against them Yea many of the first Christians dealt so with the Heathens and their Priests ib. And again p. 92. If Balzac or Rutgersius had written his Character

the Vindication of M. Cross But I must go on with the Catalogue of his Works The next is An ESSAY in DEFENCE of the good old Cause The most glorious Cause in the World accompanied with no less Success p. 2. of the second Alphabet And a VINDICATION of the Honourable Sir Hen. Uane whom not to honour and admire is to be an Enemy to all that is good and vertuous p. 7. second Alphabet from the false Aspersions of M. BAXTER A Philistim Shimei Rabshakeh p. 11. 2d Alph. A LETTER to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate which is to consist according to His Model of Independents Anabaptists Fifth Monarchy-men and Quakers excluding all PAPISTS PRELATICAL and PRESBYTERIAN Persons p. 61. A LIGHT SHINING OVT OF DARKNESS a Book against Ministry p. 1 2 3 4 c. Vniversities p. 92 93. and 139 140. School-Divinity and Knowledge of Tongues 94 95 96. Humane Learning p. 101 102. Aristotles Philosophy p. 105. Publick Churches 106. Church-yards 110. Division into Parishes and Tiths p. 112 113. Bells 138. Vniversity Habits and Degrees p. 14.2.143 Black Coats p. 147. Gowns 148. Respect of Persons Complemental Addresses and your Servant p. 163. Swearing before a Magistrate p. 165 166. Containing also an express Apology for the Quakers p. 55.56 I quote from the second Edition An ACCOVNT OF CHOCOLATA by which he wholly obligeth Manking Pref. p. last An ACCOVNT of M. GREATARICK who wrought real Miracles p. 8.10 And did things that never man did except Christ and the Apostles p. 27. These miraculous things he wrought by the Temperament and Composure of his Body p. 11. And antient Miracles and modern ones have been wrought by the efficacy of a corporal Touch p. 11. This of M. Greatarick did not indeed always succeed and there were some Diseases as well as some Devils which even the Apostles could not cast out p. 5. A CENSVRE upon certain Passages contain'd in the History of the Royal Society which he saith are impious and pernicious p. 1. contrary to the Analogy of Faith and Scripture p. 36. a Congeries of gross Vntruths tending to the Dishonour of God and the Destruction of the Protestant Religion introducing a Popish Implicit Faith or something that in effect is the same but attended with more ridiculous Circumstances p. 40. directly contrary to the Constitutions of our Church and better becoming a Socinian from Poland and Amsterdam than a Divine of our Church p. 53. Hath not Religion and the Church of England think you an excellent Champion in this DEFENDER of M. Hobbs Sir Hen. Uane and the Quakers But lastly He hath writ a SPECIMEN of SOME ANIMADVERSIONS VPON THE PLUS ULTRA OF M. GLANVILL in which he proves That the Antients were able to cure cut fingers as particularly Podalirius and Machaon in Homer and Galen compounded several Medicines to that purpose as Diapalma Tripharmacon and another hard word p. 3. and again 159. That 't is a very difficult Iourney to the Moon and a great way p. 175. and many other things that are as much to his purpose as these as will be shewn in the Sequel For the present I only say concerning this Piece in general That with a great deal of Noise and Labour the Animadverter hath proved nothing For all his Force is imployed either against Castles in the Air of his own raising or incidental passages that are little or nothing to the Cause I undertook and of no concern to the main body of my Book And yet I must confess that when I compare this Adversary with my other Antagonist M. Cross I think there are acknowledgments due to him for the Reading and shew of Learning that I find in his Discourse and I may say of it as one did of an impertinent Disputer that was very brisk and fluent in his Argument Bene disputat sed nihil ad rem But the Papers of my other Assailant deserve not as much as this For they contain nothing but opprobrious Names gross Falshoods and contemptible Puerilities no Learning nor any shew of any but such as a Boy of 18 would despise Thus briefly and in general of the Writings of this Aggressor out of Them I now come to give you some more particular Accounts of his Spirit and Temper And because I resolve to abstain from all Expressions that look like the Rhetorick and Civility of M. Cross and his Champion M. Stubb I shall not give those hard Names to the Qualifications I discover that every man else will think they deserve But only make a kind and sober Enquiry after some of the remarkable Virtues he discloseth in his Works I shall only insist here on two And because he tells his Reader in the first Page of the Preface to his Light shining out of Darkness Edition the first That HE IS ONE THAT DESIRES TO LIE LOW IN HIS OWN EYES I shall begin these Enquiries by taking notice 1. OF his singular Modesty This is exceeding eminent in every Leaf of his Writings In his Attempts while but a Boy upon the Reverend Dr. Wallis and M. Baxter and now he hath made it more remarkable by his Assault upon the Royal Society His Majesties Institution and an Assembly consisting of Persons of the greatest Honour Gravity and Learning while he is yet but a young Country Physician as he styles himself in his Preface against my Book Plus ultra And above all it is notorious what a modest man this is in his early Oppositions of MONARCHY and Proposals of a MODEL for the GOVERNMENT of three Nations and Extirpation of those Antient Laws which had had been made and confirmed by the Wisdom of so many Kings and successive Parliaments in his Impugnations of MINISTRY VNIVERSITIES CHVRCHES HVMANE LEARNING and all ORDERS and CONSTITVTIONS whatsoever as Popish and Antichristian But let us take a view of his singular Humility and Lowness in his own Eyes in some Expressions in his Writings I shall recite a few Instances among numerous others which for Brevity I must omit by which you may judge how he excels in this Virtue In the first Page of his Book against Dr. Wallis in Defence of M. Hobbs He expresseth himself to his Friend in these words I have pen'd a further Discourse upon that Subject which you may suppress from going any further if you find that my early Repute abroad doth not call for the Publication nor the Applause of the Ingenious whose Praises were the more to be regarded because they were directed to the Piece which was publick not the Author that was concealed It seems he had writ an Anonymous Book which he tells the World raised him an early Repute and the Applauses and Praises of the Ingenious Very modest And as lowly is that other Saying p. 5. If I find the Doctor produce more Grammars against us I will allow him two to one and venture my Reputation against his no Credit Great Odds M. Stubb ' s Reputation that early