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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51305	Letters on several subjects with several other letters : to which is added by the publisher two letters, one to the Reverend Dr. Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's, and the other to the Reverend Mr. Bentley : with other discourses / by Henry More ; publish'd by E. Elys.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1694 (1694)	Wing M2664; ESTC R27513	57,265	148

I have demonstrated in my Latin Papers against Iansenius and Calvin whose Followers I hope will for the future be the more enclin'd to relinquish those wretched Opinions seeing them in the company of so many Hellish Conceits of that most horrid Monster the Father of the Leviathan By his saying That Men can have no Passion nor Appetite to any thing of which Appetite God's Will is not the Cause Chap. 21. he plainly gives the greatest Encouragement to the Workers of Iniquity to entertain a favourable conceit of the grossest Enormities of their wicked Lives Chap. 34. He talks perfectly like one in Bethlehem Apparitions quoth he though no real Substances but Accidents of the Brain yet when God raiseth them supernaturally to signifie his Will they are not unproperly term'd God's Messengers that is to say his Angels What does he think of the Angel we read of 2 Kin. 19. 35. And it came to pass that night that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand and when they arose early in the morning behold they were all dead corps This was a pretty stout Accident of the Brain that could slay in one night 185000 Men. No doubt there was an Angel an Evil one in the Brain of T. H. without such an Assistant he could hardly have hammer'd out so many Diabolical Imaginations Near the Conclusion of this Chapter he has a Lucid Interval But says he the many places of the New Testament and our Saviour's own words and in such Texts wherein is no suspicion of corruption of the Scripture have extorted from my feeble Reason an Acknowledgment and Belief that there be also Angels substantial and permanent I pray Reader observe these words Have extorted from my feeble Reason see how he discovers his Cross Humour and Averseness from a due compliance with the Judgment of the Church of God He reproaches his Reason for falling under the power of a Great Truth which he had such a mind to oppose By these words in the same Chapter Where by the Spirit of God is meant God himself he provides a Sophistical Evasion for himself and his Disciples in case he or they shall be charged with the Macedonian Heresie That young Students may not be impos'd on by persons more likely to deceive them than T. H. by their perverse Interpretations of Texts of Scripture wherein there is express mention of the Spirit of God I shall most earnestly beseech them to peruse these Books of the admirable Saint Basil viz. Adversus Eunomium Lib. de Spiritu Sancto And I desire that in all their Discourses concerning the Nature and Operation of the Holy Ghost they would be ever mindful of those words with which he concludes his third Book against Eunomius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. As for that wicked stuff which he delivers Chap. 42. in a pretended defence of his cursed Assertion That we ought to deny our Saviour before Men if we be commanded by our Lawful Prince it has such a smell of Brimstone that I abhor to recite it or say a word to any one that undertakes to vindicate him herein But the Lord rebuke thee His calumniating of the Holy Martyrs makes their Wounds as it were to bleed afresh and this will make his Memory to look horrid and ghastly to Posterity To his wicked Paradoxes concerning the word Church and Power Ecclesiastical I shall oppose these words of the most Learned and Pious Mr. Herbert Thorndike in his Review of his Discourse of the Right of the Church in a Christian state p. 40. Seeing that the Church is a Society Community Corporation or Spiritual Common-wealth subsisting by the immediate Revelation and Appointment of God without dependance upon those Christian States wherein it is harbour'd as to the Right by which it subsisteth and the matter wherein it communicateth it followeth of necessity that it is endowed with Rights correspondent to those wherein the Soveraignty of States consisteth The Power of the Sword is the Principal of Rights into which the rest are resolv'd when they are enforc'd to have recourse unto it for the execution of that which becomes requisite to make them available And the Church hath the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God which is used two manner of ways as the Sword is either to subdue Strangers or to cut off Malefactors Chap. 34. T. H. has these Mad Expressions Substance and Body signifie the same thing and therefore Substance incorporeal are words which when they are joyned together destroy one another as if a Man should say an incorporeal Body But Chap. 25. he has a Lucid Interval To worship God says he as inanimating or inhabiting such an Image or Place that is to say an Infinite Substance in a Finite Place is Idolatry Here he acknowledges that God is a Substance Infinite and consequently Incorporeal This Acknowledgment the force of so great a Truth to use his own words extorted from his feeble Reason Haec est summa delicti nolentium recognoscere quem ignorare non possunt Tert. Apol. Chap. 46. He puts Hell and Purgatory together as if the Existence of one were no more credible than of the other What is all the Legend says he of Fictitious Miracles in the Lives of the Saints and all the Histories of Apparitions and Ghosts alledg'd by the Doctors of the Church of Rome to make good their Doctrine of Hell and Purgatory the power of Exorcism and other Doctrines which have no warrant neither in Reason nor Scripture In the 44th Chapter he has provided a comfortable state for the Reprobate after the Resurrection instead of that state of ineffable Torments which all true Christians acknowledge to be signified by the Torments of Hell The Reprobate says he shall be in the estate that Adam and his Posterity were in after the Sin committed The Wicked says he in the same Chapter being left in the estate they were in after Adam's Sin may at the Resurrection live as they did Marry and give in Marriage and have gross and corruptible Bodies as all Mankind now have and consequently may engender perpetually after the Resurrection as they did before Are not these pleasant Conceits for that sort of Men who would fain have the Fear of Hell removed out of the way whilst they turn every one to his course as the Horse rusheth into the Battel But the fear of Death and Hell they shall never be able to shake off let them do what they can Haeret lateri lethalis arundo And now I doubt not but the ingenuous Reader will concurr with me in the Indignation I conceive against the most intolerable Impudence of a late Writer who pretends to set forth an History of the Life of T. H. He tells us we are all mistaken the Black-Moor is exceeding White Controversias quidem The logicas says he p. 167. maximè aversatus est Quicquid autem ad