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A30442 A free but modest censure on the late controversial writings and debates of the Lord Bishop of Worcester and Mr. Locke, Mr. Edwards and Mr. Locke, the Hon[ora]ble Charles Boyle, Esq., and Dr. Bently together with brief remarks on Monsieur Le Clerc's Ars critica / by F.B., M.A. of Cambridg. F. B. 1698 (1698) Wing B59; ESTC R3091 24,181 32

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A FREE BUT Modest Censure On the late Controversial WRITINGS and DEBATES Of The Lord Bishop of Worcester and Mr. Locke Mr. Edwards and Mr. Locke The honble Charles Boyle Esq and Dr. Bently Together with Brief Remarks on Monsieur Clerc's ARS CRITICA By F. B. M. A. of Cambridg LONDON Printed for A. Baldwin in Warwick-lane 1698. A free but modest Censure on some late Debates c. IT is an odd Humor in some men to cry down all Books that look towards Polemicks and they imagine they sufficiently disparage this period of Time we are cast into by saying it is an Age of Controversies If they dip into an Author and find he is upon the Dispute they presently lay him aside and will have no more to do with him because he is a wrangler and hath fastned on an Adversary to debate the case with him It may be observed that these who pretend to be such peaceable Souls are generally of the number of the indifferent and question whether there be Truth on either side or on any side But those who believe there is and think as with reason they do that Truth is worth the contending for have an other apprehension of those Writings that are Controversial and know them to be of great use in the World And therefore we find that some of the best Writers that were extant in all Ages have entred these Lists and have thought it absolutely necessary to appear as Champions in defence of an assaulted Verity The main Disputes of late have been about those Points which have reference to the Trinity but I will pass by the professed Socinians whose Writings and Discourses have been examin'd and sifted by some of the Learnedest men of our Church as the late Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishops of Worcester Glocester Sarum the Dean of St. Pauls Dr. Wallis Dr. Edwards Dr. Williams Mr. Edwards and others All which have performed their parts extremely well but with some difference and variety and there have been infinite descants on their several Attempts which are now almost worn off and forgotten and I will not call those Disputes back again and renew the battel My design is to offer a few Remarks upon some other Controversies that have been started of late wherein one or two of the forementioned Combatants are ingaged as well as other fresh ones who have more lately appear'd on the Stage and have invited a great number of Spectators to observe them The first is an ingenious Gentleman who tho he hath not professedly listed himself into the Socinian Camp seems at least to be a friend and well-willer to that Cause and is again befriended and well esteemed by that party and some think is set on work by those that favour them He hath had the fortune to light on two shrewd Adversaries the one a Reverend and Learned Prelat the other a worthy and Learned Priest of the Church of England both known by their Writings on divers Subjects The first took occasion in the close of his Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity to reflect on some Passages in the Essay of Human Vnderstanding as some ways prejudicial to the Doctrine of the Trinity and other Mysteries of the Christian Faith and accordingly these Passages had been made use of as his Lordship of Worcester observ'd by another Writer to confront and oppose those Sacred Mysteries for that zealous opposer of Mysteries setting up with the other Gentleman upon the same Stock and being Joint-partners in the same Principles contends that we cannot be certain of the Truth of any thing unless we have clear and distinct perceptions of it and therefore where these are wanting there is no Certainty for all certainty of Knowledg depends upon Reason and Reason depends on clear Ideas which are inconsistent with Mysteries It is the managing and applying of this Notion of clear and distinct Ideas so as to make them the sole foundation of Knowledg Reason and Certainty that the foresaid excellent Prelat hath been pleased to examine and disprove in the 10 th Chapter of the Vindication of the Trinity And afterwards in his Answers to Mr. Lock 's Letters this Opinion of Mr Lock for Mr. T. took it from him is narrowly serch'd into accurately discussed and fully baffled by his Lordship who hath proved that clearness of Ideas is not the only basis of Reason and the consequence of that Certainty but that it is possible to be certain of the truth and reality of a thing without clear and distinct Ideas of it and some other Principles and Assertions of Mr. Lock concerning the Ideas of things are shewed to be very precarious and groundless and the mere Creatures of his own Fancy This the Reader will find performed with great solidity and depth of Mind together with the mixture of divers fine Thoughts and Conceptions concerning other matters bordering on that Subject with great variety of reading And this more particularly I have observed and I see others agree with me in it that the Reverend Bishop hath all along proved that Mr. Lock contradicts himself and apparently thwarts his own Notions which is as ill a thing as can be said of any Writer But that whereby his Lordship hath most obliged the World is his accurate anatomizing of this Gentleman for his Lordship is one that dives into Men as well as Books Accordingly he hath given us this double Character of him that he is a great Sceptick and that he hath an inclination to overthrow some of the chiefest Articles of the Christian Faith This is a high Charge but that Learned Pen proves it to a tittle shewing out of several plain and direct Passages in Mr. Lock 's Book of Human Vnderstanding that he takes away all certainty of Knowledg that as he confesses himself he hath no Idea of a Man and that he industriously labours to make it out that there is no certainty that we are Men. Essay of Human Understanding Book 3. Chap. 6. Book 4. Chap. 7. His Lordship goes on further to shew out of his Letters that from his Notion of Ideas he can't possibly prove a God And truly if the Idea of a man was boggled at by him it was to be expected that he would advance further and scruple the Idea of a Deity Moreover the Bishop makes it evident that Mr. Lock is enclined to hold no other Principle in man than Matter and then if there be any Idea of a God we know what it must be for he that is for a Corporeal Soul will with Mr. Hobbes maintain the Notion of a Corporeal Deity The same Learned Pen acquaints us from his foresaid Letters to him that he denies the Identity of the same Body at the Resurrection with that which died He makes it appear from the same Papers that he questions the two Natures in Christ and that he disbelieves the Trinity and Incarnation and in another place yea in divers he shews that he denies the certainty of all