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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56281	Remarks of A. Pulton, master in the Savoy, upon Dr Tho. Tenison's late narrative with a confutation of the doctors rule of faith, and a reply to A. Chresners pretended Vindication.	Pulton, A. (Andrew), 1654-1710.	1687 (1687)	Wing P4207; ESTC R5578	30,730	54

BOOKS lately printed for Richard Chiswell THE Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be That Church and the Pillar of That Truth mentioned by St. Paul in his First Epistle to Timothy Chap. 3 Vers 15. 4o. A Short Summary of the Principal Controversies between the Church of England and the Church of Rome being a Vindication of several Protestant Doctrines in Ansswer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled Protestancy destitute of Scripture Proofs 4o. Two Discourses of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead An Answer to a late Pamphlet Intitutled The Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England concerning one Special Branch of the King's Prerogative viz. In Dispensing with the Penal Laws 4o. Preparation for Death Being a Letter sent to a young Gentlewoman in France in a dangerous Distemper of which she died The Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late Book entitutled An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome A PRIVATE PRAYER to be used in Difficult Times 8o. REMARKS OF A PULTON MASTER in the SAVOY UPON Dr Tho. Tenison's LATE NARRATIVE With a Confutation of the Doctors Rule of Faith. AND A REPLY TO A. Chresners pretended Vindication Published by Authority London Printed by Nathaniel Thompson at the Entrance into Old-Spring-Garden near Charing-Cross 1687. To the Parishioners of St. Martins in the Fields and St James Westminster Gentlemen YOur Learned Pastor the Reverend Dr. Tenison having been pleas'd to his printed Account of a Conference had between Him and Me on the 29th of September last in which he has not only notoriously mis-represented the Matter of Fact but also stuff'd his whole Narrative with several false Aspersions reflecting not only on my particular Person but also on the whole Society whereof I am a Member and on our Holy Mother the Catholick Church of which I profess my self an unworthy Son The Dr. I say having been pleas'd to this Account to prefix an Epistle to you fraught with malitious Insinuations and Calumnies You will not I hope think me guilty of too great Presumption if endeavouring to clear my self from the false Accusations brought against me I though a Stranger making Appeal to you before whom the Dr. has laid his Charge and expect from your Judgement and Candor however prepossest with a good Opinion of the Dr and a Prejudice against both my Religion and Order a fair and equitable Hearing The Dr. begins his Epistle to you with a Complaint of many false Reports and Papers industriously spread by some of the less sincere and less generous Romanists Now as I protest an utter Abhorrence of all such unworthy Proceedings so I cannot easily believe any Catholick to have been guilty of them without some more sufficient Testimony than the Dr's Word of whose insincere and disingenuous Actings his Account is a most apparent Evidence And that Letters sent both into the North and West of England bearing date the very day of the Conference and importing that there were at least Eight or Ten Jesuits put to Silence by the force of one Dr's Arguments manifestly shews that the Dr. is not the only person who has Cause to complain of false Reports or Reason to fear That unworthy Ends would be serv'd on the Credulous The Dr. to excuse the Bitterness not to say Scurrility of his Expressions tells you a story of a Person one of whose Names as he Words it was Gubbard who in the time of the Rebellion against King Charles the I. Recommending himself to the Committee at Norwich as a Man Who had a zeal for the same Cause in which they were engag'd took Possession of the Living of Mondesly out of which the Dr's Father was Ejected for his Loyalty That after a few years he Preach'd up Purgatory and other such Points in so open a manner That the Committee turn'd him out again and that in a little time he as it were vanish'd away By this story which the Dr. ushers in with his having a Motive to severe Language towards that sort of men meaning Catholick Priests which few have besides and closes with the Impression it made upon him when he was young and the raising his Suspition and Indignation ever since he would insinuate that this Gubbard was some Jesuit or Catholick Priest which he pretends to prove by his changing his Name his Favour with the Committee and his Preaching of Purgarory Catholick Priests sometimes change their Names thereby the better to shelter themselves from the rigorous Severity of the Sanguinary Laws executed on them by meek-hearted Protestants only in respect of their Function yet if it be consider'd that this is frequently done by other Persons on far different Motives and Occasions it will seem very ridiculous to infer from thence that the Person mention'd by the Dr. was a Priest Nor yet will his Preaching of Purgatory and such other Points evince him to have been a Romanist much less a Priest if it shall be consider'd how many far stranger Opinions were in those days of Liberty vented in the Pulpit and that many years have not pass'd since a very Learned Member of the Church of England Dr. Thorndike Prebend of Westminster and dying in her Communion desir'd an Ora pro animâ to be Engraven on his Tomb. Now to shew how great Favour the Priests and Jesuits found with the Committees of those Times I take the Liberty to inform the World that my Father had six Uncles Jesuits and yet was not only himself committed to Prison by the Rebels for his Religion and his Loyalty to his King but his House was also for a long time possess'd by a Committee Minister and two of his Brethren were for three years Educated in another Committee Ministers house at Kettring in Northamptonshire where they were oblig'd being under Age to go to Schismatical Service though it pleas'd Almighty God of his Infinite Mercy to reduce them afterwards into the Bosom of his Spouse the Catholick Church out of which none of our Family ever dy'd Nor do I believe any one Family in England was more frequently Pillag'd or more severely Sequester'd than Ours yet I bless God I am so far from having my Indignation thereby rais'd against that Party or entertaining any Hatred towards them that I rather glory in our having had occasion to suffer for our King and our Religion I here therefore Challenge the Dr. and his Adherents to make it appear that this or any other Committee Minister was either a Jesuit or Priest of the Roman Church or else must take leave to say that his vending such like scurrilous Suspicions and Surmises at this time of day seem directly to aim at that of which I am unwilling to think him guilty Having return'd this Answer to what is most material in his Epistle I leave you Gentlemen to judge whether he has been so Just or Fair as he pretends or

so to do and extol all that joyn themselves to it though known to be Sacrilegious and little better than Atheists in their Lives The Dr. speaks of great Boasting on the Catholicks Conf. p. 3. side as though the Dr. durst not meet A. P. of which A. P. never heard but from him nor can the Dr. ever bring any Witness who will be able to make out that A. P. gave the Challenge So much he might have said to the Youth that if his Master were offended at his Change he would endeavour if his Master so desir'd to give him satisfaction But he never nam'd any Dr. or Minister in the Kingdom much less assign'd Place and Hour as the Dr. has been pleas'd to give out And for A. P's Party he knows none he had except the Youth who to his knowledge had nothing to do in the whole Affair What jugling Mr. V. or his Wife or both may have us'd to make the Parties meet A. P. knows not and as on the one side he will never decline any fair Conference though he has been twice disappointed waiting in vain a Minister of the Church of England So on the other he will not easily appoint any unless the Conditions hereafter set down be punctually observ'd 'T was agreed says the Dr. on all sides that Ibid. there should be little Company and no noise First There was no agreement made in order to any Particulars before the Parties met if made then why was it not kept Shall I tell you because the Dr. saw his own Party to be at least six to one and therefore Mr. V. would not harken to A. P. desiring the Chamber might be clear'd so that the whole matter of Fact contain'd in this Paragraph is very notoriously mis-represented by which the Dr. would cunningly insinuate that the Catholicks are forward in carrying on this Cause and willing to be bickering with the Church of England The Dr. affirms That A. P. came in with Nine Confer p. 4. or Ten after him Now a Gentleman zealous for the Truth will allow a Guiney an Head for every one that shall be prov'd to have been of A. P's Company Invitation or Appointment more than Mr. M. In order to which the Reader is desir'd to consider the Testimonies alledg'd at the end of these Remarks If a third Gentleman unknown to A. P. or some others of which A. P. knows nothing should casually come in he has nothing to answer for that and Mr. V. may thank himself who had buz'd the Conference abroad whilst A. P. knew not so much as at which end of Long-Acre Mr. V's House was The Dr. adds that presently after he came in 〈◊〉 He espied in the Room a Priest in a yellow Peruke one from my Lady St. John 's of Long-Acre whom he supposes to be a Priest and one in a plain Band who as was said came with him Were not this from a Grave Dr. I should not spare a severe Reflection upon it since every part of the Assertion is false And there are two Gaineys deposited in A. P's Hands for him who shall find out this yellow Peruke which was there presently after A. P's coming in this suppos'd Priest of my Lady St. John's or the Gentleman in the plain Band and prove them to be Jesuits or Priests or in the least to have medled with the dispute There was indeed one in a yellow Peruke but he came not till the Evening stay'd not above half an hour and spoke not one Syllable to the Dr. or relating to the Conference Now the Reason why the Dr. has so mis-represented this meeting is because he was asham'd that all the Kingdom being fill'd with the noise of Eight Ten and Fifteen Jesuits silenc'd by him and that his Friend Mr. V. and his Wife being known to be the prime Authors and spreaders of these stories the sham should in the end be discovered And therefore he would give some colour and ground for these false reports by setting forth Jesuits under distinctive signs viz. yellow Perukes plain Bands c. with these Salvo's It is said it is suppos'd whilst the Dr. is conscious he had to deal but with one Jesuit and another he esteems as good as one Where mark that even the Dr. himself never makes the yellow Peruke or plain-Band-Gentleman speak one word through his whole Narrative though trim'd up with all the advantageous though little sincere flourishes imaginable But let us grant these supposed so to have been truly Jesuits how will the Dr. make out the second part of the story viz. of so many being silenc'd by him Now A. P. being vers'd in the Doctrine of Equivocation as the Dr. is pleas'd Confer p. 4. to hint has an Evasion for him Eight Jesuits were silenc'd that is some not known of in the crowd besides a yellow Peruke and plain Band c. stood silent before the Dr. Nor do I see how it can any other way be made out For what relates to Scholars pressing at the p. 4. door A. P. assures the World he never spoke a tittle of this Affair to any Scholar as you shall see attested anon and that one having A. P. knows not by what means heard thereof and asking leave to go he absolutely refus'd it And that meeting two in Long-Acre he was offended at them and sent them presently home Nor was there any one who came near the Chamber only six or eight at most all living there abouts who flock'd to the Street door where a numerous Crowd was assembled As for what he says in his 5th Page I refer the Reader to what Mr. M. intends to publish in his own behalf The Dr. in Page 6th Begins his Artifice of inverting Confer p. 6. and confounding the whole Order of the Conference leaving out the Discourse concerning Luther's Contradictions which was a Preamble and not the main Subject as he would make the World believe so to cast a mist before their Eyes that they may not consider the stress of the prime Question in debate To A. P's urging What assurance the Church of Ibid. England could give that she had the true Word of God He answers that these Discourses tend to Atheism to which A. P. gives his assent and grants the whole to wit that those who will not believe Transubstantiation can never be oblig'd by the Dr's Rule of Faith to believe the Trinity neither word being there The Texts of Scripture relating to either being equally lyable to Cavilling And the one being as repugnant to the apparent Principles of Discourse as the other to the Arguments of Sense Now woe be to them who have open'd this door to Atheism by teaching the People they ought to believe no farther than they see whence they bid adien to all the hidden and secret Mysteries of Faith which are essentially obscure in their Object though clear in their Motive He brings next that which was truly premised Confer