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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60790	Some cursory reflexions impartially made upon Mr. Richard Baxter his way of writing notes on the Apocalypse, and upon his advertisement and postcript / by Phililicrines Parrhesiastes.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.	1685 (1685)	Wing S4499; ESTC R3969	20,096	40

Doctor is his great confidence of the Truth of his Interpretations in the most concerning Visions Which R. B. his unacquaintedness with clearness of Conception makes him the more wonder at For certainly those that conceive things clearly and distinctly will be confident of the Truth they discover whether they will or no. But men that have a turbid and tumultuary Fancy and Conception may read much and write much and be certain of nothing when they have done or if they seem to themselves so to be may prove grosly deceived as undoubtedly R. B. was in his making the Soul of Man Fire Which Dream of his and all men dream waking till their pure Intellectual Faculties be sufficiently excited out of the dull Sopour they are held in by this Terrestrial Body proceeded in all likelihood from the furious fiery Complexion of his very Body and over-heated Spirits and I wish the Annotator's Digression that exposes R. B. his Folly in medling with Theories he was not able to master may not have stuck in his Stomach and so instigated him to take this opportunity of Revenge But as for the Doctor 's Confidence and his profession thereof in Matters that tend so much to the good of Mankind to the good of the Church in general and more particularly to the good of the Church and Monarchy of England I shall sufficiently consider that and the Reasons thereof in my Reflexions and my Preface has run out further already than I intended But by this time I hope I have declared enough to prepare thee with candour to peruse what I have cursorily writ for the justly exposing the rude and vile Dealings of R. B. with the Prophecies of Scripture with the Church of England and particularly with the Doctor a faithful and dutiful Son thereof that what of Mirth or Satyr or Sharpness of Reproof thou meetest with thou mayst be the less surpris'd thereby but interpret all things candidly And if thou chance to be pleased I freely tell thee It is more than I my self am who take no pleasure in such Contrasts but Necessity extorted it from him who is an earnest Lover of Truth and Sincerity and a professed Foe to all Hypocrisie and Guile But in the mean time as thou art also a Lover of Truth From his Study in Alethopolis March 28. A. D. 1685. Thy Hearty Friend and Humble Servant Phililicrines Parrhesiastes ERRATA PAg. 3. l. 20. for Corruption read Corruptions Ibid. l. 29. for ch v. 1. r. ch 1. v. 1. p 4. l. 18. for Names r. Pains p. 9. l. 11. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 11. l. 11. for have an r. have made an p. 19 l. 22. for the World r. this World SOME CURSORY REFLEXIONS c. The ARGUMENT The Occasion of Parrhesiastes his Writing these Reflexions R. B. his preferring an affected ignorant Pride before humble and useful Knowledge The Weakness and Ignorance in his Performance on the Apocalypse a flat Contradiction to the Physiognomy of his Picture before his Book Not want of Sagacity but Rashness and Laziness has made R. B. such a puzzled Creature in the Meanings of the Apocalypse An Apologie for R. B. his bringing in several Interpretations on the Apocalypse while ignorant himself where the Truth lies His Discretion in not deciding his Iudgment being so grosly faulty where he does The onely commendable good Stroke in his Notes on the Apocalypse The Disease of Scripturiency in R. B. taken notice of His indigested Reading of many Writers on the Apocalypse and disingenuous Presumption in flurring them before he understood them His unskilful denying the Calling of the Jews A swarm of crawling Difficulties that the Exposition of Dr. H. M. is unconcerned in Some approvable Passages in R. B. his Advertisement His absurd if not impious Humour in acknowledging the Degeneracy of the Church to the height and yet denying it to be predicted in the Apocalypse Seven unapprovable Particulars noted in the said Advertisement An Answer to the said Particulars Certain Passages in his Postscript The Tediousness of his Writings His uncharitable Conceit of the Pontificians as if they bore such an ill mind against the Church of England for the interpreting some part of the Apocalypse of the Degeneracy of their Church That this looks like a mischievously intended Dog-trick in R. B. against our Church His courting of Mr. Gadbury to cast his Nativity by dropping in the mention of David Blundel and Pope Jone in his Postscript Mr. Foulis his Opinion of the Story of that Female Pope That the Church of England ' s Cause depends not on such Trifles A serious Advertisement to R. B. his Followers and to all other Sectaries AFter I had the Opportunity of perusing in MS. Dr. H. More his Paralipomena Prophetica so it hapned that a Friend of mine gave me notice and also procured me the sight of what Mr. Baxter had done upon the Revelations of whom I having heard heretofore what a confident Man he was of the unintelligibleness of that Book though I was assured of the Vanity of that Confidence yet I thought he had studied that Sacred Writing with that Care and Searchingness that he was able to find such Flaws in what Mr. Mede and Dr. More have writ that it might give the Doctor just occasion to enlarge his Paralipomena in clearing such shrewd Difficulties as R. B. was able to propose and rectifie if any thing were amiss in the Doctor 's Interpretations by what R. B. had searched out by his anxious Diligence But things have fallen out quite contrary to my expectation there being nothing either in his Notes on the Revelation or in his Advertisement or his Postscript offered as Difficulties but such as with reading either Mr. Mede or the Doctor if R. B. his Parts be not very low sunk he might easily satisfie himself in But I perceive it was never his Intent to be satisfied in these Studies preferring an affected ignorant Pride before humble and useful Knowledge nay before the Glory of God and a due Acknowledgment of his Care and Providence over his Church in setting out the State thereof from the Beginning of it to the End of the World which is incredible but he should do in this Volumn of Visions the Apocalypse which begins with the Church and reaches to the Day of Judgment according to R. B. his own acknowledgment Wherefore that there should be no Visions touching the great Degeneracy of the Church and of the late Reformation from such gross Corruptions which R. B. himself confesses that they deserved greater Punishments than the Beast and False Prophet mentioned in the Revelations Advertis p. 10. is a thing incredible altogether nay I may say impossible Nor can all the Wars Persecution and Victories of the Church prefigured in this Book be restrained to the Pagan Empire and the Times of the Primitive Christians A thing which