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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29412	The life of Monsieur Des Cartes containing the history of his philosophy and works : as also the most remarkable things that befell him during the whole course of his life / translated from the French by S.R.; Vie de Monsieur Des-Cartes. English	Baillet, Adrien, 1649-1706.; S. R.	1693 (1693)	Wing B451A; ESTC R10642	153,068	292

and Customs of our Church upon which Philosophers and Wits do usually play and make sport the respect that he entertained for the Gospel-Ministry of the Protestant Divines never made him utter a word that smell'd of Complaisance or favour for Schism or Heresie The Caution whereto he had confin'd himself upon his first entrance into Countries professing a different Religion had made him so discreet and reserved that he scarce ever opened his Mouth without edifying nor without causing some impressions of respect and esteem for the Religion he profes●'d His carriage and behaviour was no less edifying than his discourse he did not make all the Duties requisite to a true Christian to consist in an inward worship only as most part of your Philosophers do no he was extraordinary careful to accompany it with all the exercises of a good consciencious Catholick nay and he acquitted himself of all his Obligations as exactly as one of the humblest and plainest of Believers would have done He frequented more especially the Sacraments of Pennance and Eucharist with all the dispositions of a contrite heart and humbled spirit as far as is permitted to refer our selves to the honesty and truth of Confessors who had the cure of his Soul in Holland and Sweden His adhering so closely to the whole Body of the Church whereof himself was a Member was kept up by a sincere submission to its authority without any reserve He declared no small deference for whatsoever bore the Character or but the Name of the Holy See He harboured very great esteem for the Sorbonne that is to say for the whole Faculty of Divinity in Paris that he respected as the Depository of the Key of Science Knowing that the Key of Power was in the hands of the Pope and of Bishops which made him firmly believe that his Conscience should be secure so long as he should have Rome and the Sorbonne on his side His Submission to the Holy See did extend even so far as to have some respect for the Roman Inquisition although he was no where in a Praemunire whereby to become liable to its lash He was not ignorant of the difference one ought to put between the Pope's Authority and that of the Congregation established at Rome for prohibited Books yet did he not fail to testifie respect for it and to say out of Civility that it's Authority had little less power over his Actions than his own Reason had over his Thoughts and he took all measures necessary not to write any thing that might incurr its displeasure it is more than probable that this Congregation would have spared him if it could have got clear from the Intrigues of a particular Author who had cunningly slipt one part of his Works into the Index Expurgatorius amongst a Catalogue of other Books prohibited by a Decree of the 20th of November 1663. X. It is possible they could not devise a more specious pretence to censure and reject him than that of Novelty which men believes might have amounted to a Crime this perhaps amongst all those they could impute to him is the only one wherewith they could most reasonably have charged him To speak the truth he did not so much boggle at Novelty as they do who fondly adore the Ancients he judged that in Philosophy where the business is only the research of natural Truths that have not hitherto been Discovered it might be pardonable to employ new means especially since the Ancients have had the ill luck not to discover them to us Besides his Spirit was not of the temper of those upo● whom two or three Thousand years are capable to impress a Veneration for Error He was sure that the ancientest things that have been received by Posterity were new at their first appearance and if Novelty had been an Obstacle to their Reception one should never have received any thing into the World But since men are engaged upon honour not any longer to confound Novelty with Falshood nor Antiquity with Truth Envy that could not endure that Monsieur Des Cartes should pass Scot-free hath gone about to change the Scene and invert this order to bring him in guilty his defenders that pleaded his Cause that they might retort the Objection of Novelty did take upon them to make appear that his Opinions were not so Novel as they would make them and that several of them had been defeated before him those that envied him who thought all to be new till that time were not wanting to make their best advantage of this Overture and have been ready to accuse him for having robb'd the Ancients nay and the Moderns too who went before him for it is the opinion of some that he stole his Method of Algebra from one Harriot an Englishman The multitude of those who seem to have had before him sorry Sentiments resembling his may very well serve to inhaunce the value of his Philosophy and serve to let men judge of the importance of the new things he hath superadded both to Correct or Perfect that which was but only rudely drawn or but ventured at before his time without any Method without any Principles But this signifies nothing to prove him to be the Plagiary of so many Authors the most part of which it is well known were utterly unknown to him This Multitude I say makes us the more inclinable to believe that he found out more than all these Philosophers put together and that he hath been more happy and successful than them all in matter of Probability and Solidity for the establishing his Principles and the curious Connexion of his Consequences His System is in all respects so compleat and so well furnished that one must not think it strange that whatsoever hath been the most plausibly fancied by both Ancients and Moderns is there couched and rectified that there is little need of feigning that he borrowed it from their Writings Monsieur Des Cartes agreeing to what is commonly objected that what he said might possibly have been said by some other before him judged that his Case was the same with a man whom they should tax for having plunder'd the Alphabet and Dictionary because he might not have made use of any Letters that were not in the former nor of any words that were not found in the latter But he adds further That those who should please to own and acknowledge the neat Concatenation of all his Conceptions that do so necessarily follow one another would be induc't presently to confess that he might be as innocent of the Felony laid to his charge as an excellent Oratour that might be condemned for a Plagiary of Calepin or old Evander for having borrowed Words from the one and Letters from the other The main and only difficulty that remain'd to be removed out of the way by the Cartesians consisted in alledging that a man comes a Day after the Fair in his Invention of a thing when it hath been