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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65419	A vindication of the present great revolution in England in five letters pass'd betwixt James Welwood, M.D. and Mr. John March, Vicar of Newcastle upon Tyne : occasion'd by a sermon preach'd by him on January 30. 1688/9 ...	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.; March, John, 1640-1692.; Welwood, James, 1652-1727.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1310; ESTC R691	40,072	42

are much more guilty of casting an indeleble blot upon the Noble Progenitors of the Prince of Orange the High and Mighty States of Holland c. who will have a Reformation introduced amongst them by a Rebellion I am not at leisure to vindicate all the Protestant Countries but it will be a sufficient answer to your bold challenge to inform you that the States of Holland give another account of their revolt from the King of Spain assuring us that the constitution of the Government of the Netherlands was such as allowed them to defend themselves against the Incroachments of their Prince but the Constitution of the English Monarchy is different for the 12 and 13 Statutes Car. 2. forbid the Subjects to Levy any War offensive or defensive In the close you question my prudence in timing my discourse no better this perhaps may be a complement in Scotland and therefore let it pass but Sir I must tell you I have always Preached this Doctrine on Ianuary the 30th ever since I came to Town and formerly it hath not been thought improper for that sad occasion but received with good approbation If the times be changed Truth is not and English Ministers of all Men ought not to be time servers In that Sermon I follow'd the dictates of my own Conscience and though I have read as much Politicks as my Neighbours yet I have always thought and do still think that honesty is the best Policy You desire a Copy of my Sermon and with great modesty threaten me with a full Answer but Sir from the little Specimen you have given me of your skill in Divinity I find you are one of another Profession and therefore I question whether it will quit cost to trouble you but since you tell me that Doctor Burnet is the Author of that Pamphlet I took notice of in my Sermon and I hear that you have some acquaintance with that great Man to shew my just veneration for that Learning he is master of I shall not refuse to send him a copy of it in case you can prevail with him to vindicate those positions he lays down there I do assure you I should be very well content to be honestly rid of an error I can promise my self no great advantage by If you are in love with scribling and think fit to communicate your thoughts concerning those two points which are more agreeable to your Profession viz. An succus Pancreaticus sit causa principalis morborum an clarissimus Harveius fuerit primus inventor circulationis sanguinis both of which I deny though affirmed by several of your Learned tribe I may possible gain more by your Learning in Physick than I have by your skill in Divinity Be pleased to take in good part this hasty scrible and pardon the faults thereof by which you 'l oblige SIR Your humble Servant John March. To the Reverend Mr. JOHN MARCH Vicar of Newcastle Newcastle February 13th 1688 9. SIR I Expected the Copy of your Sermon but I have received a Letter and that of such a strain as bespeaks you no Apathist I take no notice of your direction but to tell you that if you had taken the degree of Doctor in any University of England you would have found the good manners in any civiliz'd Nation of Europe to be design'd as such and albeit no Man has a greater Veneration for the two great Luminaries of Oxford and Cambridge then I yet the University where I commenc'd Doctor would take it ill to be placed in a much lower degree Letting this pass among a great many expressions that smells of a redundancy of Choler be pleased to take this Answer to your Letter as it lyes divided in your Numerical Paragraphs First You are pleased to say you knew not that Doctor Burnet was the Author of that Pamphlet the inquiry into the measures of Obedience and though you had yet you have not treated him so ill as he has treated his Soveraign Prince To which I answer that whether it be his or not it matters not in this case since common fame makes it so and ev'ry body in this place believes it And that you likewise thought so would appear from that expression in your Sermon yea Doctor Burnet himself cannot instance above three hundred Martyrs in Q. Maries days the word himself being emphatick enough to oblige your Hearers to believe you took him for the Author of that Pamphlet as you call it That you design'd that great Man in your kind Epithets and the Person unknown appears plainly by your calling the inquirer a Man that has made a great bustle in the World giving so scurril a term to the Doctors justly acquired fame And if it was not he pray be pleas'd to condescend whom else you meant And I must tell you this is not the first time you have spoken unkindly of him When you talk of the Doctor his ill treating of his Soveraign Prince I doubt not but you incline that others should share in this imputation since the Nobility and Gentry of the Nation have treated the King worse by their actions in your sense than ever Dr. Burnet himself was capable to do by his Pen. And I assure my self that as Conscience and Love to Religion oblig'd these Noble Patriots to what they have acted so the same Principle did actuate the Doctor to what he has wrote Secondly You quarrel me for minding you of the scurrilous Epithets you gave the Inquirer and tell me I ought rather to have refuted the Reasons against him The truth is I was in the wrong to quarrel with such Epithets since they seem to be congeneal with your Nature But as to the Refuting of your Reasons as my Memory is not the worst so I confess 't is none of the best which makes me loath to trust it with any Methodick Systeme of the slender arguments you used so as to satisfie my self in a Categorick Answer to them But if you had wish'd for a Refutation you might have occasion'd it by a Copy of them And if I had not at least endeavoured to Answer them I would have been to blame for breach of promise Thirdly You tax me with a mistake in saying that you maintain'd Passive Obedience to be the Sentiment of all the Protestants in Europe To this I answer that if I had not evinc'd to you that it was not their opinion perhaps your charity would have permitted me to lye under that mistake still And if it be a mistake I am not in it alone for a great many of your Hearers perswade themselves you said so But I cannot but take notice how unwilling you are that the Protestants abroad should share in your darling Tenet of Passive Obedience and your unkindness to them herein supprises me the less seeing it is not the first time you have unchurch'd them upon the account they were not so constitute as the Church of England But the value I have of them