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A42823	A præfatory answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, the doctor of Warwick wherein the malignity, hypocrisie, falshood of his temper, pretences, reports, and the impertinency of his arguings & quotations in his animadversions on Plus ultra are discovered / by Jos. Glanvill.	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.	1671 (1671)	Wing G821; ESTC R23393	87,889	234

Ingratitude as these ingenuous Adversaries would fain fasten on me 'T is true indeed I have opposed the Peripatetick Physiology and made some Remarques on Aristotle But when I have done thi● I have declared also that I intended only to persuade men off from implicit Adherences to Aristotle's bare Word and Authority not to discourage the Reading of his Works or receiving any useful Informations from Him To dissuade capable and ingenious Spirits from fixing upon the Peripatetick Notions as the immoveable Foundations of Truth and Certainty without enquiring into God's Works or any other of the Methods of Natural Knowledge not to dishearten the Youth from studying those Hypotheseis the uses of which in the Vniversities I have acknowledged So that the Academical Education is not at all concerned in what I have said and intended only for men who were past those preliminary Studies To this purpose I have spoken in my Defence against the Learned White in my Letter concerning Aristotle and also in my Plus Vltra If for all this I must be reckon'd as an Enemy to the Vniversities who can help it But let M. Stubb and his Confederate M. Cross think what they please I care as little what they think as they do what they say and as little for what they say as for the Hoo Hoo of the next broad-faced Bird that sits in an Ivy-bush And I believe most that understand them value their Thoughts and Sayings at the same rate as I do But because there are those that do not know this rare pair of Authors and so may be in danger of believing them I solemnly protest that I have a just and most sincere Esteem for those Venerable Seats and Fountains of Learning The Vniversities and do most cheerfully own and am ready to celebrate the great Advantages they afford for all sorts of Knowledge and I verily believe that the other Members of the Royal Society have like Sentiments of them But now whether Their Defender M. Stubb be so much their Friend as those their pretended Enemies and Vnderminers is to be our next Enquiry In the Management of it I assure you as I did once before that I shall not fly to Fictions and bold Slanders after the manner of this Antagonist and Legendary M. Cross but as I have done all along take accounts from his publick Writings Let us consult then his Light out of Darkness and in that we shall see his Affection to the Vniversities in a season when They needed no Enemies viz. in the short Reign of the Medley-Iunto that consisted of those whom M. Stubb would have had our perpetual Senators Independents Anabaptists Fifth-Monarchy-Men and Quakers ut supra His 32d Query in that Book is Whether the Primitive Christians had any Universities or other Schools of Learning than such as Origen did catechise in at Alexandria And he concludes his Citations thus Nor indeed have I ever heard of an University of the Albigenses or Waldenses and Bohemians p. 139. Again Qu. 33. Whether Antient Times and those not very antient neither record any more than that of Bologna Paris and Salamanca and whether Christianity at that time were not of farther Extent than the Kingdoms those stood in p. 140. And Qu. 34. Whether it were not the Design of the Reformers in King Edward the sixth's days to put down Universities whether the Dean of Christ-church had not a Design to reduce Oxford to one or very few Colleges p. 140. Well! If the Primitive Christians and the Predecessors of the Protestants had no Vniversities Antient Times since them had but four And the first Reformers among us designed to put them down What must we think our Friend of Vniversities would have his Patriots conclude The Answer to this Question will be clear enough in the following Queries Qu. 35. Whether the Rise of our present fashion'd Universities and University Habits was not from Dominicans an Order instituted by the Pope to suppress the Waldenses those Predecessors of the Protestants whether this be the Spot and Attire of God's Children and whether they have not the Spirit as well as Garb of Persecutors and man of Sin p. 142. His Masters answer No doubt and so down with this Limb of Antichrist Qu. 36. Whether the Institution of Doctoral Degrees be not novel and accounted Antichristian by the Reformed Churches in Scotland France Holland Switzerland and the Calvinists in High Germany And whether they have any in those Countries or any constant peculiar Habits in their Vniversities p. 143. He answers That Forein Divines have told him That the Reformed Churches esteem them as Antichristian ibid. and adds That the Degree is as Popish as the Divinity whereunto it referrs A Divinity erected in 1220 and which is acknowledged to have been the Subversion of Christianity A Doctor that is no Teacher he is a dumb Dog an insignificant Piece of Formality in the Vniversity reserved by the Reformers as it were upon such grounds as Constantine in the demolishing of Statues preserved some Heathen Idols that Posterity might know what Beasts their Fathers had worshipped p. 143 144. O excellent Patron of Universities How did his anointed ones those pretious People of the Cause hug him for this goodly Language Well! but if this be not enough he is resolved he will have their Favour Therefore have at Antichrist again Qu. 37. Whether there are not in our as well as other Antichristian Universities beyond Sea the same or rather more popish idolatrous and superstitious Habits Ceremonies and Customes Nay whether they do not rather exceed them in Pomp as well as Number His Answer to the Queries follows thus Here I am ready to cry out Come and see Come and see Not John the Baptist in the Wilderness nor John the Divine in Pathmos but our Theologues in their Pontificals at Oxon view their Habits their Ceremonies their Processions the Respect due to them by Statute and you will find that PETITION from the well-affected in Oxon was not groundless which desired the Abrogation of them p. 145. We must give the Lie to general Fame as he speaks Non Plus p. 20. or believe that M. Stubb was the Author of that Petition I remember there is as rare stuff in it as any here but I have not that Paper by me nor do I need it I have more than enough if I were to write a Volume of this Proteus But he goes on ibid. Come and see the Scarlet-Whore represented in a Glass multiplying Doctors Come and see the Difference between Presbytery and Popery since they apply that Expression to Democracy so often let me style them in comparison of the Romish Antichrist the more many-headed Beast if the other strive to make the Kings of the Earth drunk with the Cup of Fornication These catch at Crowns and half-Crowns Make good Sense of this Piece of Wit who can I cannot guess except this be it Presbytery is worse than Popery because Rome only makes the Kings drunk

the Inquisition And whether that may not go for a Civility to his Majesty since He is return'd by happy and miraculous Providence with his Bishops which he prates of p. 21. of his late Book against me let the Reader judge To set off the Advantages Aristotle had for the compiling of his History of Animals he speaks of the greatness of Alexander his Impatience to effect his Purposes his Generosity in acknowledging Services his Vnderstanding what was done and omitted And then our Author intimates That the Royal Society have not such a PATRON in the KING as ARISTOTLE had in ALEXANDER How much Respect and Affection to his Majesty was meant by this Comparison let those think that consider the approved Loyalty of this Defender of the Good old Cause And having spoken of his Civility to our KINGS if you do not like that sort I may here acquaint you that he had another kind for Sir Hen. Uane and his Accomplices in the Cause which in M. Stubb's Opinion was the most glorious in the World p. 2. against M. Baxt. These conducted us in our Way to Freedom p. 3. and a glorious Freedom they led us to for by their Help we were delivered from the Norman Yoke Pref. to Good old Cause p. 10. And how heavy and intolerable that was he expresseth ibid. in these words I often communing with mine own Soul in private use to parallel our Bondage under the Norman Yoke and our Deliverance therefrom to the Continuance of the Children of Israel in Aegypt and their Escape at last from that slavish Condition This put him in mind to compare our Deliverers forsooth to MOSES and 't was not he saith One Moses But many illustrious Personages whose Memory he prophesies shall live when that of Thrasybulus Timoleon Epaminondas Brutus Valerius or any Worthies Greece or old Rome could ever boast of shall cease to be mention'd against M. B. p. 3. What a Seer was M. Stubb Their Memories live and will no doubt continue as long as the Records of Tybourn And till all Trading fail there Those Patriots of the long Parliament and Army who executed Iustice upon the late KING shall never cease to be mention'd Thus he celebrates the Illustrious Regicides And of Sir H. Uane he saith That not to have heard of him is to be a Stranger in this Land and not to honour and admire him is to be an Enemy to all that is good and virtuous Vind. of Sir H. V. against M. B. p. 7. and adds further that he is one whose Integrity whose Vprightness in the greatest Imployments hath secured him from the Effects of their Hatred in whom his sincere Piety Zeal for the Publick and singular Wisdom may have raised Envy and Dread ibid. And in the following Page he assures us That Sir H. hath discovered the most glorious Truths that have been witness'd unto these 1500 Years and more in a manner as extraordinary I mean saith he not in the persuasive words of Humane Wisdom not in the Sophistry of School-Learning not as the Scribes and Pharisees but as one having Authority and in the Evidence and Demonstration of the Spirit viz. like Christ Iesus and the Apostles working Miracles for the Evidence and Demonstration of their Doctrines So that here Sir Harry is advanc'd to a kind of Equality with Christ and the Apostles as They elsewhere are brought down by him to a Level with M. Greatarick in his Miraculous Conformist And now Sir H. Uane being a Person of such a Character we need not wonder That Respect should be due to him from all the World as he tells us it is in the Preface to his Vindication And little less in his Opinion is due to M. Harrington for the Commonwealth-Model in his Oceana of which he saith in the Preface to his Good old Cause p. 16. I admire his Model and am ready to cry out as if it were the Pattern in the Mount And p. 26. he declares his Judgment for the promoting M. Harrington's Model In the Praises whereof saith he I would enlarge did I not think my self too inconsiderable an humble Fit to add any thing to those applauds which the understanding Part of the World must bestow upon him They must and can not chuse since M. Stubb hath profest to admire it and which as he goes on though Eloquence it self should turn Panegyrist he not only merits but transcends 'T is pity but M. Stubb had made some Provision in his Elogy for the Change of times as no doubt he would could he have foreseen That his Eloquence might have had an occasion to turn Panegyrist for Monarchy The wary Modesty of M. P. had been worth his Imitation here who concludes some of his immortal Poetry with this excellent Distich This was the Opinion of William P. in the Year of our Lord one thousand six hundred thirty three But who could have thought that a Nation delivered from the Vassallage of the Norman Yoke would again have chosen a Linsy Woolsy Monarchy Vind. of Sir H. V. p. 42. rather than the Pattern in the Mount Who would have dreamt that we should have preferr'd Charles Stuart and his Bishops ut supr to the PATRIOTS of the LONG PARLIAMENT and ARMY that executed Iustice upon the late King Vind. of Sir H. V. p. 59. That the same should befal us as did the Children of Israel after they had cast off Pharaoh ' s Yoke Vind. of Sir H. V. p. 3. Yea that at last we should return not to Goshen but the most dismal parts of Aegypt rather than proceed to our Felicity p. 5. These things were so far from being likely that notwithstanding all the Discouragements the Good old Cause met with which are parallel'd to those befel the Israelites in their Iourney p. 4. yet our Prophetick Rumper heartens himself in these Words I assure my self that these are but the Pangs of that Birth in which we shall at last cry out a Man-Child is born p. 4 5. For Confirmation of which he adds that God will not lose his own Mercies and all is but as the wandring Iews in the Desert or as the going back of the Sun upon the Dial of Ahaz ten Degrees which was a sign of Recovery to disconsolate and languishing Hezechias p. 5. and so he grows confident of the final issue of things and the Prisoners of Hope shall receive double Satisfaction and the ransomed of the Lord shall return ib. This is the man Sir that cries out in Astonishment at my Puritanism and Fanaticism p. 11. of his Book against me because I call some of the Aristotelian Doctrines Heathen Notions But I have not yet done with his Courtships of his Friends of the Cause Those I have mention'd concern the GRANDEES and PATRIOTS The People in common have their share also of his Favours These he calls the good People the Salt of this Land Pref. to Good old Cause p. 32. The faithful Ones Pref. p. 30. The Honest Party p.

his Spirit and Genius out of his own publish'd Writings I come next to II. HIS Designs of these I shall briefly give his own Account out of his latest Books They were if we may believe him the securing and promoting the Interest of the present Monarchy Pref. against Plus Vltra p. 4. Protestant Religion ibid. and the Church of England Title Pref. c. against Dr. Sprat School-Divinity p. 1. against Plus Vltra Universities p. 1.2.13 In order to the carrying on these great Intendments He design'd further to make the Virtuosi really ridiculous and odious to the Kingdom Pref. p. 4. to avenge his Faculty upon M. Glanvill and by Sacrificing that Virtuoso to publick Obloquy to establish general Repose and Tranquillity Pref. p. 3. Smile not ô Tres-haute tres-agreeable Comediants Pref. 6. M. Marchamont Stubb is the PILLAR of MONARCHY and the PATRIOT of PROTESTANT Religion But you must not ask how long he hath been of this Loyal and Religious Inclination He hath no longer a Concern for Sir H. Vane Disc. of Choc You may choose whether you 'l admire Him now and yet be no Enemy to all that is good and virtuous nor is he concerned for the other Patriots of the long Parliament and Army that were to be so famous when the Worthies of Greece and old Rome should cease to be mention'd ut supra Tower-Hill and Tybourn have alter'd the Case The Good old Cause ceaseth to be the most glorious in the World and Monarchy to be the Norman Yoke more intolerable than the Aegyptian Bondage Our Kings are not now a Succession of Usurpers nor is Their Government the most dismal Part of Egypt We hear no more of Charles Stuart and his Bishops compared to the Inquisition nor of executing Iustice upon the late KING No the Interest of the present Monarchy and the Church of England are now the Cause the glorious Cause and next to the Good old one no doubt the most glorious that ever was M. Politicus is better informed his Eyes are opened and now Monarchy may be as good a Government as M. Harrington's Model that was so like the Pattern in the Mount and General MONK may be as good a Patriot as Sir H. Vane and the Rumpers Thus we hear Sir Hudibras is turn'd zealous Royalist and our Sir Marchamont will pay the Comical Wits for the Prejudice They do the present Monarchy and the Church of England HOW like it is 1. that the Interest of Monarchy should be one ground of M. Stubb's Quarrel with the Virtuosi we have seen already or if it do not yet fully appear from what hath been recited before give me leave to propose to your further Consideration a Paragraph of his in the Beginning of his Vindication of Sir H. V. p. 1.2 The Age saith he wherein we live hath been all Miracles and the coming forth of the Woman out of the Wilderness hath been attended with so many Wonders that a pious Heart can never want imployment in its Contemplation We have seen and our Eyes bear witness of the Actings of our God the overturning of a Monarchy setled upon the Foundation and Vsage of many hundreds of Years strengthened by what Humane Policy could contribute to its Establishments and what of Buttress a complying Clergy could assist it with out of the Pulpit Yet have we seen a Change so brought about by our Iehovah that he may in extraordinary Acknowledgments be proclaimed wonderful Counsellour the mighty God the everlasting Father Prince of Peace We have seen the most glorious Cause in the World accompanied with no less Success and the Lord in his Mercy to us and Iustice to them hath bound our Kings in Chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron such as wherewith they had formerly opprest the good People of this Land This Honour have all his Saints Psal. 149.9 Vengeance hath he returned upon their heads and their own Shame hath covered them The true anointed ones of the Lord have appeared for their sakes hath he rebuked Monarchs and the former have repeated the Fruits of that Holiness and Sacriety whereunto the latter vainly pretended In this Strain he goes on in imitation of the reformed Style of those Times which is not Canting but the holy Language of the anointed ones for whose sake our King was bound in Chains and our Nobles in Fetters of Iron And are we not to believe that this Anointed Rumper is a Zealot for the Interest of the present Monarchy We have his word for 't and he hath told me that he can say more for Monarchy than all the Virtuosi No doubt It would be very much if M. Stubb could not say more for any thing than the Ignoramus's He knows the man that useth to brag what he can say for MAHOMET and what an Inclination he hath to write the Life of that Brave Fellow And if Turcism were among us I know where the Alcoran would have a Defender and one that can say as much for it as for Monarchy or the Church of England if he may be credited himself but of that no more now We have seen some things whereby we may judge how dear the Interest of Monarchy is to our Anti-Virtuoso and how much Reason we have to believe that to be one ground of his Quarrel with the Royal Society LET us inquire next 2. how probable it is that he should be kindled against them by the Consideration of the Church of England and Religion There was a time you know when the Church of England was in a worse Condi●ion than it is in now and Religion in a more ruinous Posture Independents Anabaptists Fifth Monarchy-men and Quakers were as formidable People to both as the Virtuosi and all things were fallen under their destructive Power What did this pious Vindicatour of the Church of England and Religion in that unhappy season No doubt his Zeal burnt like fire and he was sensible then as he is now Pref. p. 4. that he ought not to be silent Then it was that his Light broke out of Darkness that disclosed Truths little less admirable than those Sir H. Vane discover'd that were the most glorious that have been witness'd to these 1500 Years and more ut sup They are proposed modestly in Queries for he tells us They are from one who desires to lie low in his own eyes But the Testimonies and Proof are all for the Heterodox Part for which he declares he had the most esteem ● and that he had a tender Regard to those who made the Subject of those Queries their Assertions These passages make part of the Preface to the first but are in the Conclusion of the second Edition which I now use We shall see in these Queries how he shewed his Friendship to Religion and the Church of England in the Time of their greatest Extremity The first Query is this Q. 1. Whether there be any certain or peculiar Name in the New Testament that signifies a Minister or