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A44658	A twofold vindication of the late Arch-bishop of Canterbury, and of the author of The history of religion the first part defending the said author against the defamations of Mr. Atterbury's sermon and ... : the charge of Socinianism against Dr. Tillotson consider'd ... : the second containing remarks on the said sermon ... : and a word in defence of the ... Bishop of Sakisbury, by another hand.	Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3006; ESTC R9361	74,122	190

chosen and the special care of his miraculous Providence and the little spot of Ground by them inhabited blessed above all the Earth SIR 'T IS to no purpose to tell the World what mov'd me to write this Pamphlet yet for my own sake I am contented that they know what did not It was not a desire of your Favour I had that before and was in no danger of losing it it was not any Command from Sir R. H. he hardly knows my Face needs none of my Defence and I heartily beg his Pardon for the Sawciness of the Attempt it was not to get Bread but that proves it self for I conceal my Name that I may not lose my Curacy yet could the Age bear plain dealing as well from a poor Priest as from a generous Poet I would soon be known for tho no Man who has so little is so little concern'd about getting more yet I am not of so poor a Spirit neither but that I could pati divitias suffer to have my Commons mended You call'd to my mind t'other day I thank you this excellent Proverb Wisdom is good with an Inheritance take me a disputing the Inspiration of the Author and tell my Friends a kind Wish is too good for me As to the Reasons and Arguments which I have used against the Libeller I doubt not but that they will appear to the impartial Reader plain strong and convincing but whether my Readers be impartial or biass'd 't is all one to me I shall be as well satisfied in angring a Zealot for Priest-craft as in pleasing an honest Enquirer after and Lover of Truth My Stile is careless but I hope intelligible it should have been quick and sharp but you forbad it wherein you were to blame For 1. The lewd Libeller is the most virulent and audacious that ever wrote 2. His Friends among us that are most fierce for securing the Trade of Priest-craft are least concern'd for the Honour of God in restraining vile Immoralities 3. I never yet knew nor heard of a Zealot for Priest-craft but the same was as the Libeller an Impugner of the Right and Title of King William to the Crown Now Sir what do you think of your self that would have me deal gently with Men that blaspheme both God and the King Do you think your good Nature will bear you out I hope you are not hedging in an Interest against the Return of Popery and Slavery which since the Reduction of Namur even the Jacobites are grown weary of expecting I know not what to say to you but for once since I have comply'd with the excess of your Humanity if the World will forgive my fault I will forgive yours nay and be so liberally obliging to you as to lend an Ear to your softer Counsels another time So fare you well Nov. 4. 1695. A REPLY TO THE Anonymous Edinburgh Libeller Wherein the Honourable Sir R. H's History of Religion is vindicated from the invidious and unreasonable Exceptions of Priest-Craft Also some Right done to that great and good Man Dr. Tillotson late Arch-bishop of Canterbury And a Word offer'd in Defence of his surviving Friend the Eminent Bishop of Salisbury Printed in the Year 1696. HAving lately had sight of a Libel said to be printed at Edinburgh and forg'd by a true Son of the Church so the Author would have it believ'd I congratulate Sir R. H. the being plentifully rail'd at in so good Company as the late Arch-bishop a Prelate of the most consummate Worth that ever sat on the Throne of Canterbury and the learned Bishop Burnet to whose singular Merits the English may well forgive the flagitious Attempts of hundreds of his Country-men provided there be never an Edinburgh Libeller among them Were I the Praeceptor intrusted with the breeding of a hopeful young Gentleman to season his tender Mind with the sound and honest Principles of holy Religion I would have him carefully read Arch-bishop Tillotson's Sermons To acquaint him with the nature of the English Government to instruct him in the true Interest of his Country and to let him into the Differences between the Romanists and the Reform'd I would put into his Hands no Book sooner than Bp Burnet's exact and faithful History of the Reformation and to teach him to distinguish Truth from Falshood that so he might happily conjoin the Christian and the Philosopher which is impossible to be done but by a free use of Reason and an unaw'd Examination of the Grounds of what is commonly receiv'd Sir R. H. should be none of the last Examples which I would propose for his Imitation for as every Man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own Lust so every Man is cheated when he is misled by his own Credulity That part of the infamous Libel on which I shall chiefly reflect is call'd a Supplement A Supplement bless us and yet the two former carried convitiorum plaustra Waggon-loads of Slander such store of Lies quantum in Acheronte mortuorum est the dead may as easily be numbred I will make him swallow some and let things take their course for who can forbear his Amen to the Bilbo-prayer Rumpatur quisquis rumpitur invidia Let Envy burst the Male-content with its rank poisonous Plethory When Caiaphas told the Chief Priests and Pharisees It is expedient that one Man should die for the People he prophesied tho he did not know it and his words were true in a sense which he never intended So our true Son but of the Lord knows what Church I am sure of no Church under the King of England's Dominions speaks more Truth in his first Paragraph than in all his Work beside Some of his words are these The History of Religion gives a like account of Religion as Dr. Tillotson and quotes him with great Applause as the true Pattern of Orthodox Divinity and much in the Doctor 's Stile and Air. If Sir R. H. in his History gives such an account of Religion as the ABp does in his Sermon what good Christian or what but morally honest Deist would offer to open his Mouth against it If the honourable Lay-man quotes the venerable Prelate with great Applause as the true Pattern of Orthodox Divinity who but an inveterate Schismatical Non-juror would be so contemptibly foolish as to accuse him of want of Reverence to Priests because of their Character and if the History of Religion be wrote in the Stile and Air of the Arch-bishop then all ingenious and discerning Men will confess that it has beside the usefulness of its excellent Matter all the happy accession of winning Ornament which Wit and Words can give it Naturalists say that venomous Serpents carry their Antidote with them but this foolish pestiferous Animal presents his Antidote first so that his Poison is like to have no effect on his Readers Sir R. H. he lastly saith ridicules all Reveal'd Religion and turns it into what he calls Priest-craft Whereas 't is that

has a good degree of Charity to the Poor and as great of the Vertue of Liberality to the Learned I can inform him of your Compositions to the Theater which made your younger Years so famous and of the unanswerable Defences you have since made for the Nation 's Rights against Arbitrary Power and Tyranny I dare not I confess tell him of your Posts of Trust and Honour for he will be unreconcileably alienated when he knows that to all your other Naughtiness you are a Williamite too He takes for his Text the words of Solomon Prov. 14.6 A Scorner seeketh Wisdom and findeth it not From hence he would raise an Invective a Sermon he calls it against you and the History of Religion A Man would wonder how this Text should make for Popery and Persecution or against the Patrons of Sincerity and Liberty in Religion But what is there so remote or hid from others that a Student cannot discover it Father Atterbury is able I doubt not to prove from this Text or to disprove any Proposition in Euclid For Students do not hold themselves obliged to reason accurately and closely as other common Men must but by leaping over some intervening unsutable Propositions may skip from Tumult to King Pipin or what is as good from Historian to Scorner Yet methinks since this Gentleman had a mind to declaim before the Queen against the History of Popish Jugglers and Cheats he should have shown his Zeal in some other way rather than in a Sermon or from a Text of Holy Scripture for of all Abominations there is none so detestable as to wire-draw wind and bow the sacred Text to argue against it self that is to patronize Impostures and Deceits In the Prosecution of his Text so pat as every one sees to his purpose he falls to considering what may be the Reasons why the Scorner seeketh Wisdom and findeth it not One of the Reasons he offers is very marvellous it is this because the Scorner saith he pag. 12. is a Man of quick and lively Parts Such Men saith he further there are apt to give themselves a Loose beyond plain Reason and common Sense I know not I confess what he means nor I believe can all the Students of christ-Christ-Church interpret it to me But be that as it will the thing he aims at in that whole Page is that quick and lively Parts are marvellous Hinderances in the Quest of Wisdom and Truth according to him the only hopeful Candidate of Wisdom is a Sancho Pancha But it will not yet go out of my Mind nor can I keep my Eye off it that a Court-Chaplain should have so little Government with him that so soon as he had read a Book against Popery and Persecution he should from the Pulpit and in the Royal Presence attack the Author in such Terms as these He has written the History of Religion and were I not withheld by Religion I would write his History What! is it such an Offence at this time of day to write a few Sheets against Popery that no Person of Honour must put Pen to Paper on that Subject on pain of being libelled by her Majesty's Chaplain for that 's the unquestionable Meaning of writing his Life But he is withheld he says from writing this Life by Religion By what Religion Sir Would you have us to think after you have defamed him in such Language as this and to such an Auditory 't is from Conscience and Love of your Brother that you do not libel him to the unsignificant Rabble It is evident then that you have hypocritically feigned a religious Tenderness to which you are an utter Stranger must we be obliged to call it your Religion your Charity and Tenderness that you are content not to write his Life to the common Herd when you have actually pointed at him in a sacred Place and Exercise in the Presence of the Prince and most illustrious Personages of the Kingdom And for whom is it that you counterfeit this pious Tenderness For an Anonymous Writer for one you do not know For as to Report and the Whispers of those sagacious Men who so certainly know all Authors they are so oft mistaken that except it be here and there a Student no body heeds them or rather every Body abhors them I am amazed that any Man especially a Man of Learning and Wit should utter so many Follies and Contradictions in a Pulpit and also oversee them all again when he prepared his Notes for the Press For Instance He asperses an honourable Person in the very highest degree in the Royal Presence and yet 't is meer Religion he says that withholds him from writing his Life to the common People That is he has swallowed the Camel and is now grievously straining at the Gnat. Again He has an Inclination to libel or as he calls it write the Life of the Author of the History of Religion and yet this Author is nameless that is utterly unknown to Father Atterbury and his whole Fraternity Again He saith this Book is directed against all Religion and every thing in Religion and yet the very design of the Book is this that ' t is a shame that so many have had no Religion but their Belly and their Profit and a Pity that others are persecuted only for Religion and Conscience towards God Once more He saith that the thing which the Scorner seeketh for is Wisdom and yet he adds he finds it not because he has quick and lively Parts That is according to this Student the Scorner seeks for what he has and he misses it because he possesses it It is well that the Student's Sermons are so short as they always I observe are for these are such flat and direct Contradictions that if there were many of them they would too much expose the Preacher to the Contempt of his very meanest Hearers I have done with Father Francis for the present only this Sir I shall promise you that when he is disposed to try his Hand in writing Lives he shall have the Satisfaction to see his own Picture drawn in such lively Colours as Time shall not easily deface Sir I think I shall not need to mind you that you ought not to be in the least disturbed at the Sawciness of an obscure Academick For being bred as they are among mean Companions and comparing themselves only with Under-graduates Servitors and Gippoes when they first appear abroad in the World the poor Wretches always make themselves ridiculous by not knowing themselves and their Rank in the World They think that all Mankind has that Reverence for them which their Sizers and College-Servants are forced to show them and from hence when they get into the wooden Box instead of the Apostolical Reprove and Exhort they fall to Porterly Reproach and Scandalize On the contrary I doubt not you will always be pleased and happy in the Recollection of the immortal Services which you have done the Royal