“May it please your Grace,“Mr.Atterburyhas lately forc’d a Dedication upon you, which favours too much of Presumption or Design; he has presum’d to surprize you with an unexpected Address, and appears very indecently before your Grace, because he has taken no care to express upon this Subject a due Respect and Reverence to the Governors in Church and State, such as is suitable to the Christian Religion, and his particular Function: The Reports and Authorities in his Book are Fruits of other Mens Collections, not the immediate Effects of his own Searches intoRegistersandRecords; he imperiously summons your Grace and my Lords the Bishops to an immediate Compliance upon pain of being pronounc’d Betrayers of the Church——This, my Lord, is the Character of the PersonI set upagainst; but as for me, Iam quite another sort of Man, I am very well bred, a great Antiquary, beholden to no body,some Wits and merry Folks call me a Tool and a Play-thing(Pref. p.8.) But I assure your Grace, that what Freedom soever I may have taken in taxing the Vices of the inferiorClergy, (p.77. 188.) and in reflectingupon the ambitious Designs of dignify’d Presbyters(p.196.); yetI am however tender and dutiful in treating the Governors of our Church(p. 78.); especiallythose of them who are of the Ecclesiastical Commission for Preferments, (p. 311). I have a very great Respect and Reverence for every body that will give me any thing; and how resolute soever Mr.Atterburymay be, your Grace may do what you please withYour Grace’s most humbleand obedient Servant,WHITE KENNET.
“May it please your Grace,
“Mr.Atterburyhas lately forc’d a Dedication upon you, which favours too much of Presumption or Design; he has presum’d to surprize you with an unexpected Address, and appears very indecently before your Grace, because he has taken no care to express upon this Subject a due Respect and Reverence to the Governors in Church and State, such as is suitable to the Christian Religion, and his particular Function: The Reports and Authorities in his Book are Fruits of other Mens Collections, not the immediate Effects of his own Searches intoRegistersandRecords; he imperiously summons your Grace and my Lords the Bishops to an immediate Compliance upon pain of being pronounc’d Betrayers of the Church——This, my Lord, is the Character of the PersonI set upagainst; but as for me, Iam quite another sort of Man, I am very well bred, a great Antiquary, beholden to no body,some Wits and merry Folks call me a Tool and a Play-thing(Pref. p.8.) But I assure your Grace, that what Freedom soever I may have taken in taxing the Vices of the inferiorClergy, (p.77. 188.) and in reflectingupon the ambitious Designs of dignify’d Presbyters(p.196.); yetI am however tender and dutiful in treating the Governors of our Church(p. 78.); especiallythose of them who are of the Ecclesiastical Commission for Preferments, (p. 311). I have a very great Respect and Reverence for every body that will give me any thing; and how resolute soever Mr.Atterburymay be, your Grace may do what you please with
Your Grace’s most humble
and obedient Servant,
WHITE KENNET.
But forDrollery, the Reverend Dr.Southoutdoes evenChrist-Church, and fills all his Performances with it, and throws it out against the Enemies of the Church, and in particular against the late Dr.Sherlock, whom he thought fit to single out. I shall select some Passages from his Writings against the said Doctor, which cannot but entertain the High-Church Orthodox Reader, and reconcile him to aDrolleryso well employ’d.
He stiles hima great good Man, as a certain poor Wretch, meaningPrior, calls him.
Again, he says[122], “There is hardly any one Subject which he (that is Dr.Sherlock) has wrote uponPopery excepted, that he has wrote both for it and against it. Could any thing be more sharp and bitter against the Dissenters than what this Man wrote in hisAnswerto theProtestant Reconciler; and yet how frankly, or rather fulsomly does he open both his Arms to embrace them in his Sermon preach’d before the Lord Mayor onNovember4, 1688. Tho I dare say, that the Dissenters themselves are of that Constancy, as to own that they were of the same Principles in 88 that they were of in 85; but the Truth is, old Friendships cannot be so easily forgot: And it has been an Observation made by some, that hardly can any one be found, who was first tainted with a Conventicle, whom a Cathedral could ever after cure, but that still upon every cross turn of Affairs against theChurch, the irresistibleMagnetismof theGood Old Cause(as some still think it) would quickly draw him out of theGood Old Way. The Fable tells us of aCatonce turn’d into aWoman, but the next sight of aMousequickly dissolv’d theMetamorphosis, cashier’d the Woman, and restor’d the Brute. And someVirtuosi(skill’d in theuseful PhilosophyofAlterations) have thought her much a Gainer by the latter Change, there being so many unlucky Turns in the World, in which it is not half so safe and advantageous towalk upright, as to beable to fall always upon one’s Legs.”
Again, Dr.Southsays[123], “When I consider how wonderfully pleas’d the Man is with these two new started Terms (Self-consciousnessandmutual Consciousness) so high in Sound and so empty of Sense, instead of one substantial word (Omniscience)which gives us all that can be pretended useful in them, with vast Overplus and Advantage, and even swallows them up, asMoses’s Rod did those pitiful Tools of theMagicians: This (I say) brings to my mind (whether I will or no) a certain Story of a grave Person, who riding in the Road with his Servant, and finding himself something uneasy in his Saddle, bespoke his Servant thus:John(says he)alight, and first take off the Saddle that is upon my Horse, and then take off the Saddle that is upon your Horse; and when you have done this, put the Saddle that was upon my Horse, upon your Horse; and put the Saddle that was upon your Horse, upon my Horse. Whereupon the Man, who had not studied the Philosophy of Saddles (whetherAmblingorTrotting) so exactly as his Master, replies something short upon him;Lord, Master, what need all these words? Could you not as well have said, Let us change Saddles?Now I must confess, I think the Servant was much in the right; tho the Master having arational Head of his own, and being withal willing to make theNotionofchangingSaddles moreplain,easyandintelligible, and to give a clearer Explication of that word (which his Forefathers, how goodHorsemensoever they might have been, yet werenot equally happy in explaining of) was pleas’d to set it forth by that more full and accurate Circumlocution.”
He says[124],The Author, Dr.Sherlock, is no doubt aGrecianin his Heart! And the tenth Chapter of theAnimadversionsis one continued Banter upon theDeanfor his Ignorance inGreekandLatin, and even his Inability to spell: All which hecloseswith saying, “That St.Paul’sSchoolis certainly an excellent School, and St.Paul’s Church a most noble Church; and therefore he thinks that he directs his Course very prudently, and happily too, who in his Passage to such aCathedral, takes a School in his way.”
Again, he says[125], “He cannot see any new Advantage that the Dean has got over theSocinians, unless it be, that the Dean thinks histhree Godswill be too hard for theirone.”
After citing several Scurrilities of the Dean[126], (who it must be confess’d, appears therein a great Banterer also of Dr.Southand his Performance) the Dr. says, “These, with several more of the likeGravel-LaneElegancies, are all of them such peculiar Strictures of the Dean’sGenius, that he might very well spare his Name, where he had made himself so well known by his Mark; for all the foregoingOyster-Wive-Kennel-Rhetorickseems so naturally to flow from him, who had been so long Rector of St.Botolph(with the well-spokenBillingsgateunder his Care) that (as much a Teacher as he was) it may well be question’d, whether he has learn’d more from his Parish, than his Parish from him.—All favours of the Porter, the Carman, and the Waterman; and a pleasant Scene it must be to see theMaster of the Templelaying about him in the Language of the Stairs.”
To the Dean’s Scoff, thatthis Argument, &c.was worth its weight in Gold, tho theDeanfears it will not much enrich the Buyer, the Doctor replies[127], “What is that to him? Let him mind his own Markets, who never writes toenrich the Buyerbut the Seller;and thatSelleris himself: and since he is so, well is it for his Books and his Bookseller too, that Men generallybuybefore theyread.”
In requital of the scurrilous Character of aningenious Blunderer, Dr.Southsays[128], “He must here return upon him the just Charge of animpious Blasphemer, and that upon more Accounts than one; telling him withal, that had he liv’d in the former Times of the Church, his Gown would have been stript off his Back for his detestable Blasphemies and Heresies, and some other Place found out for him to perch in than the Top of St.Paul’s, where at present he is placed like a true Church Weather-Cock, (as he is) notable for nothing so much, asstanding high and turning round.”
Again, he says[129], “And so I take my leave of the Dean’sthree distinct infinite Minds, Spirits, orSubstances, that is to say, of histhree Gods; and having done this, methinks I see him go whimpering away with his Finger in his Eye, and the Complaint ofMicahin his Mouth,Ye have taken away my Gods which I made, and what have I more[130]? Tho he must confess, he cannot tell why he should be so fond of them, since he dares undertake that he will never be able to bring the Christian World either to believe in, or to worship aTrinity of Gods: Nor does he see what use they are likely to be of, even to himself, unless peradventure toswear by.”
Again, the Doctor says[131], “The Dean’s following Instruction to his Friend is certainly very diverting, in these words, where the Animadvertercharges the Dean with Absurdities and Contradictions; turn to the Place and read it with its Context, and tell me what you cannot answer, and I will; to which he would have done well to have added,If I can. But the whole Passage is just as if he had said, Sir, if you find not Contradictions and Absurdities enough in my Book to satisfy your Curiosity that way, pray come to the Fountain-head, and consult me, and you shall be sure of a more plentiful Supply.”
Again, upon the Dean’s “Frequent reproaching the[132]Animadverter with the Character of aWit, tho join’d with such ill-favour’d Epithets, as his witless Malice has thought fit to degrade it with, as that he isa spiteful Wit, awrangling Wit, asatirical Wit, and theWitty,subtle,good-natur’d Animadverter, &c.the Dr. says, that tho there be but littleWitshewn in making such Charges; yet ifWitbe aReproach(be it of what sort it will) the Animadverter is toojustto return thisReproachupon theDefender; and withal, understands himself, and what becomes him, too well, either toassumeto himself, or so much as toadmitthe Character of aWit, as at all due to him; especially since he knows thatcommon Sense(a thing much short of Wit) is enough to enable him to deal with such an Adversary. Nevertheless, there are many in the World, who are both call’d and accountedWits, and really are so; which (one would think) should derive something of Credit upon this Qualification, even in the Esteem of this Author himself, or at least rebate the Edge of his Invectives against it, considering that it might have pleas’d God to have made him aWittoo.”
XVII. As things now stand, it may easily be seen, that Prosecutions forRailleryandIronywould not be relish’d well by the Publick, and would probably turn to the Disreputation and Disgrace of the Prosecutor.
ArchbishopLaudhas always been much censur’d for his malicious Prosecution ofWilliamsin theStar-Chamber; among whose Crimes I find the following laid to his Charge:[133]That he said all Flesh inEnglandhad corrupted their Ways; thathe call’d a Book intitled, A Coal from the Altar (written by Dr.Heylin, for placing the Communion-Table at the East-end of the Church, and railing it in)a Pamphlet; that hescoffingly said, that he had heard of a Mother Church, but not of a Mother Chapel, meaning the King’s, to which all Churches in Ceremony ought to conform; thathe wickedly jested on St.Martin’s Hood; thathe said the People ought not to be lash’d by every body’s Whip; thathe said, (citinga National Council for it)that the People are God’s and the King’s, and not the Priest’s People; and that he doth not allow Priests to jeer and make Invectives against the People. And I humbly conceive, that such Matters had much better be suffer’d to go on in the World, and take their Course, than that Courts of Judicature should be employ’d about them. A Sentence that imply’d someClergymencorrupt, as well as someLaymen, of whomLaudwould only allow to have it said, that they hadcorrupted their Ways; aJestupon St.Martin’sHood, which, according to Ecclesiastical History,cur’d sore Eyes; and aRidiculeupon a High-Church Book ofHeylin’s, by calling it a Pamphlet, tho it was really a Pamphlet, as consisting of but seventyPages in Quarto; seem lesswickedand hurtful than disturbing, fining, and undoing Men about them. And the having some Concern for the People, that they should not be used as the Priest pleas’d; that thePeoplebelong toGodand theKing, andnot to the Priest; and thenot allowingthePrieststojeer and make Invectives against the People; seem all Errors fit to be born with.
ArchbishopLaudwas also thought guilty of an excessive Piece of Weakness in the Punishment of[134]Archibaldthe King’s Fool, by laying the Matter before the Privy-Council, and occasioning him to be expell’d the King’s House for a poorJestupon himself; who, as he was a Man at the Head of the State, should have despis’d such a thing in any Body, much more in aFool, and who should never have been hurried on to be the Instrument of anyMotionagainst him, but have left it to others; who upon the least Intimation would have been glad to make their court toLaud, by sacrificing aFoolonly to his Resentment.
XVIII. I could have entertain’d the Reader with a great Variety of Passages out of the Fathers of the Church, whose Writings are Magazines of Authority, and urg’d upon us upon all Occasions by Ecclesiasticks, and are particularly full ofBurlesqueandRidiculeon theGods and Religionof thePagans; in the use whereof they are much more unanimous, than in the Articles of theirCreed. But that being a Subject too great and extensive for a Digression, I shall content my self with the few following Reflections; which will sufficiently evince, that theTasteof the Primitive Christians was like that of the restof the World; that they could laugh and be as merry as theGreeksand otherPagans; and that they would take the Advantage of thePagansweak Cause, to introduceRidicule, which always bears hard upon Weakness and Folly, and must load them so as to prevent a Possibility of their being remov’d by anotherRidicule.
These Fathers have transfused into their Writings all the Wit and Raillery of the antientPaganWriters and Philosophers; who it is well known wrote a great deal to turnPaganisminto Ridicule; most of which now exists no where but in the Works of the Fathers; all Books of that kind being lost, exceptCicero’s Books ofthe Nature of Gods, and ofDivination, and the Dialogues ofLucian; both which Authors have been of great use to theFathersto set them up forWits,Droles, andSatirists. For a Specimen how well these antientPaganscoulddrole, and how much beholden we are to the Fathers for recording their Drolleries, the most remarkable, I think, are someFragmentsof a Book ofOenomausconcerning thePagan Oracles, cited and preserv’d by[135]Eusebius; who has given us occasion to[136]regretthe loss of this Work, as one of the most valuable Books written by the Antients on the Subject ofOracles, tho those Books werevery numerous. And it is to be observ’d, that this Book and a great many, perhaps a[137]thousand more, were publish’d inGreece, where the Imposture ofOraclesgreatly prevail’d, and great Wealth flow’d in, not only to the Priests of theOracular Temples, but to all the Inhabitants ofGreece, and especially to those who lived in the Neighbourhood of the severalOracular Temples; who made a great Profit from the rich Travellers, that came from all Parts of the World to know their Fortunes. This shews the great Integrity and Fairness of the oldPagans; who would suffer not only their supposed standing Revelation to be call’d inquestion, but a Revelation that brought in as much Money, as the Chapels, Churches, and Shrines dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, or to any of the Saints, do in theRomanChurch, without calling any Man to Account for the Liberties they took; who, as far as appears, were not expos’d[138]to any Dangerthereby. It is also to be observ’d, that the merry[139]Epicureans were none of them ever prosecuted, andthatEpicurushimself died quietly atAthensin a very great old Age.
But the Book, which the Fathers made the most use of, was that arch, fly, and drolling Performance, now lost, ofEvemerus, which he intitled,A sacred History: wherein he gave anhistorical Accountof theBirth,Country,Lives,Deaths, andBurialsof theGods. This Work was translated intoLatinby that arch WagEnnius, who himself has most ingeniouslyridicul’dseveral Impostors or very grave Persons, in a remarkable Piece of Poetry, which I shall give my Reader inEnglish.
“I value not a Rush theMarsianAugur,“Nor Country-Fortune Tellers, nor Town-Star-Gazers,“Nor jugling Gypsies, nor yet Dream-Interpreters:“For, not by Skill or Art, are these Diviners;“But superstitious Prophets, Guessers impudent,“Or idle Rogues, or craz’d, or mere starving Beggars.“They know no way themselves, yet others would direct;“And crave a Groat of those, to whom they promise Riches:“Thence let them take the Groat, and give back all the rest.
XIX. Wherefore I cannot but presume, that an Attempt to make aLawto restrainIrony, &c. would prove abortive, and that the Attempt would be deem’d the Effect of a very partial Consideration of things, and of present Anger at a poor Jest; which Men are not able to bear themselves, how much soever they abound inJests, both of thelightandcruelkind, on others: tho for my own part I concur heartily with you inmakingsuch aLaw, and in leaving it to a Person of yourEquityto draw it up, craving only the Liberty to propose an Amendment or Addition,viz.that you would be pleas’d to insert a Clause to preventIrony,Ridicule, andBanter, from invading the Pulpit, and particularly to prevent pointing outPersons of Men[140]from thence, and reviling them, as also reviling whole Bodies of Men: For whatever is immoral in Print, is, in my Opinion, immoral in the Pulpit. Besides, these things seem more improper in the Pulpit, than they can be in Print: because noReprisalscan be made in the former, as in the latter Case; where they, or the Fear of them, may give some Check to the Disorder, and reduce things to a tolerable Temper and Decency. If, in order to justify my Motion, it could be thought necessary or proper here to give a Detail of ridiculing and ironical Passages, taken from Sermons against particular Men, and Bodies of Men, and their Doctrines, you cannot but know how easy it would be to fill a Volume with them, without going to Authors, who have occasionally produc’d abundance of them. And I will only mention here a Passage in aVolume of Sermons, just now publish’d, of a well knownHigh Divine, the Reverend Mr.William Reeves, made famous by hisTranslationof someApologies of the Primitive Fathers, which gain’d him the Applauses of a great manyHigh Men, and particularlyHickes,Dodwel, andNelson, &c. and a Recommendation from the last to the Queen, who in the latter end of her Reign made himChaplain in Ordinary, and obtain’d for him a considerable Preferment. This Gentleman, attacking BishopHoadley’sSermonofThe Kingdom of Christ, says[141], “In these last Days we have been taught to be as indolent and unconcern’d as possible in the Service of God: A notedNovellist[Bp.Hoadley] among many other oddEngines, hath invented one, to pump out all Devotion from Prayer, and make it aVacuum. Instead of the old fervent, affectionate way of Worshipping, he hath substituted a new Idol, a Vanity, a Nothing of his own,a calm and undisturb’d Address to God.——TheArrowsandbitter WordsMr.Haleshath levell’d againstRomeonly, our Right Reverend hathpointed a-new, and shot them full against the Church he superintends, and with all the Force of inbred, fanatick Fury. And by this time surely it is well known, that he is a verywarm Manin every thing, but hisPrayers.”
XX. Instead of addressing the foregoing Papers to you, I could have address’d them to several others; who of late have thought fit to recognize the Right of Men, to examine into, and judge for themselves in all Matters of speculation, and especially in Matters of mere Religion, and to publish their Reasons against any Opinions they judge erroneous, tho publickly receiv’d in the Country where they live, provided they do itseriouslyandgravely: which is a noble Progress in Truth, and owing to that glorious Liberty, and Freedom of Debate, that we enjoy under our most excellent Princes; and which extorts it even from them, who, to have some Credit in the World, are forced to own, what would discredit them to go on to deny, among all who have any degree ofVirtue,Sense, andLearning. But I was determin’d to address my self to you, as a Person of more remarkableModerationthan ordinary in yourLetterto Dr.Rogers: And one, who had, long before, in yourDefence of the Constitution in Church and State; in answer to the Charge of the Nonjurors, accusing us of Heresy and Schism, Perjury and Treason, “valu’d[142]and commended the Integrity of the Nonjurors in declaring their Sentiments:” and who, tho you justly charge those of them you write against, “as attacking us with such uncommon Marks of Violence[143]as most plainly intimate, that no Measures are intended to be kept with us by them in the Day of their Prosperity, who in the Day of their Adversity, even when they are most at Mercy, cannot refrain from suchragingProvocations; but when reduced to the Necessity oftakingQuarter, profess most plainly they will never give it:” Yet as to these Enemies, who would destroy our Church and State, and[144]“revive upon us the Charge ofHeresyandSchism,PerjuryandTreason, Crimes of no small figure either in the Law or in the Gospel,” you only say, that “if you may have leave to borrow a Thought from[145]one of their own most celebrated Writers, you would tell them, thatthe Blood and Spirits were made to rise upon such Occasions: Nature design’d not, thatwe should be cold or indifferent in our manner of receiving, or returning, such foul Reproaches.” This is great Moderation, and such as I heartily approve, being dispos’d to forgive the Punishment due by Law to any Fault, when the Non-execution of it will not overturn the Government. And I am willing to hope, that since you can think that such bitter Adversaries to you, as these licentiousJacobitesare, should only be smartly replied to, and not be prosecuted by the Government, you will, upon Reflection, think, that a merry, good humour’d Adversary should be treated as well.
Tho I have endeavour’d to defend the Use ofRidiculeandIrony, yet it is suchIronyandRidiculeonly as is fit for polite Persons to use. As to the grossIronyandRidicule, I disapprove of it, as I do other Faults in Writing; only I would not have Men punish’d, or any other way disturb’d about it, than by a Return ofRidiculeandIrony. This I think fit to conclude with, more to prevent Misrepresentation from others, than from you; whom I look on to have too much Sense and Integrity to mistake or misrepresent me.
I am Yours, &c.
FINIS.
Footnotes:
[28]Page337.
[29]Pag.302.
[30]Page301.
[31]Pag.307.
[32]Stillingfleet’sAnswer to several late Treatises, &c.Page14.
[33]Pag.71.
[34]Vindication of the Answer to the Royal Papers.p.105.
[35]Preface toUnreasonableness of Separation.p.62.
[36]Rule’sRational Defenceof Nonconf.p.29.
[37]Preface toStillingfleetstill againstStillingfleet.
[38]Preface to a Discourse ofMiracles wrote in theRomanChurch,&c.
[39]SeeStillingfleet’s Second Vind. of the Protestant Grounds of Faith,c.3.
[40]Edwards’sNew Discov.p.184-215.
[41]Ecclesiast. Hist.cent. 8.p.196.
[42]Vind.p.199.
[43]SeeShaftesbury’sCharacteristicks, Vol. I. p. 61.
[44]Memoirs de Trevoux,An.1707.p.396.An.1717.p.1200.
[45]Trapp’sPopery truly stated,p.123.
[46]Preface.
[47]Heylin’s History of the Presbyterians,p.391.
[48]Wottonon theMisna, p. 118.
[49]Freeholder, Nº 30.
[50]Freeholder, Numb. xlv.
[51]SeeCicero de Officiis,l.1.c.30.
[52]SeePatrick’s Friendly Debate, Part 1,p.139-141. 5th Edit.
[53]Preface toThe State of the Roman Catholick Religion,p.11.
[54]De Divin. l. 2. c. 25.
[55]Rog. Hoveden, Pars ii. p. 520.
[56]1Kingsxviii.
[57]Psalmii. 4.
[58]Gen.iii. 22.
[59]Archæolog. Philos.l.2.c.7.
[60]Shaftesburyin Charact.Vol. 3.andWhitchcot’s Sermons: Vol. I.
[61]Shaftesbury’sCharacteristicks, Vol. I. p. 71.
[62]Page307.
[63]How usefulLestrange’sObservators,which were design’d to expose the Dissenters to Contempt and Persecution, were deem’d to the Church at the time they were publish’d, may be judged of by Bp.Burnet,who says[in hisEighteen Papers,p.90.] “Another Buffoon was hired to plague the Nation with three or four Papers a Week, which to the Reproach of the Age in which we live, had but too great and too general Effect, for poisoning the Spirits of the Clergy.”
[64]In this Work the Dissenters and Low Churchmen are sufficiently rally’d and abus’d, and particularly theFree-Thinkers,whoseCreedis therein represented as consisting of these two Negatives, No Queen and no God.Examiners, Vol. 3. p. 12.Mr.Addisontells us[Freeholder Nº. 19.] “theExaminerwas the favourite Work of the Party. It was usher’d into the World by a Letter from a Secretary of State, setting forth the great Genius of the Author, the Usefulness of his Design, and the mighty Consequences that were to be expected from it. It is said to be written by those among them whom they look’d upon as their most celebrated Wits and Politicians, and was dispers’d into all Quarters of the Nation with great Industry and Expence.——In this Paper all the great Men who had done eminent Services to their Country, but a few Years before, were draughted out one by one, and baited in their Turns. No Sanctity of Character, or Privilege of Sex exempted Persons.——Several of our Prelates were the standing Marks of publick Raillery.——”
[65]In hisEcclesiastical Policy,hisDefence and Continuationthereof, and hisReproof toMarvel’s Rehearsal transpos’d.
[66]In hisFriendly Debates.
[67]In his six Volumes ofSermons,and in hisBooksof theTrinity.
[68]In hisDiscourse of the Knowledge of Christ,&c. hisDefences of Dr.Stillingfleet’s Unreasonableness of Separation,and hisAnswerto theProtestant Reconciler.
[69]In his Translation ofDryden’sAbsalomandAchitophelintoLatinVerse, whereby he was first flush’d; and in hisConvocational Controversy,and in his numerous State Libels.
[70]In hisSermons, Rights of the Church,and especially hisCharacter of a Low-Church-man,drawn to abuse BishopFloyd.
[71]Of this, the Trials ofPennandMeadbeforeHowel,and ofBaxterbeforeJefferys,are Master Pieces; of which last you have an Account inKennet’sCompleat History ofEngland, Vol. 3d. and of the former inthe Phœnix,Vol.I.
[72]Snape’sVindication againstPilloniere. p. 50.
[73]Id.p. 63.
[74]The Stage condemn’d, p. 2.
[75]Popery truly stated,p.127, 128.
[76]Pag.75, 76, 77, 79, 81, 112, 113, 120, 122, 124, 125.
[77]Sermons, Vol. III. p. 299.
[78]Rule of Faith,p.347, 348.
[79]Seep.57.
[80]Pag.59.
[81]Pag.57.
[82]Burnet’sHistory of his own Times,p.674.
[83]Ib.p.792.
[84]Ibid.p.740.
[85]Ibid.p.683.
[86]The Protestant Mouse speaks.
[87]Boyer’s Life of QueenAnne, in the Annual List of the Deaths,p.65.
[88]AClergymanpreach’d thus to hisAuditory:“You haveMosesandAaronbefore you, and the Organs behind you, so are a happy People; for what greater Comfort would mortal Men have?”SeeWalker’s Sufferings,&c. p.178.
[89]See the ArticleHeylin, inWood’s Athenæ Oxon.
[90]Burnet’s Hist.p. 100.
[91]Characteristicks, Vol. I. p. 259.
[92]Burnet.ibid.
[93]Page 177.
[94]Burnetp.95.
[95]Kennet’s Register, p. 258.
[96]Ibid.p. 516.
[97]Burnet’s Hist.
[98]Kennet’s Register, p. 111.
[99]Burnet’s History, p. 107.
[100]See the Bp. ofBangor’s Preface to theAnswerto theRepresentationof the Lower House of Convocation.
[101]Ward’s Life of Dr.Henry More,p.120.
[102]Ibid.p.122.
[103]See the several Lives of him.
[104]Life lately printed, 1726. p. 99.
[105]Burnet’s Hist.p. 95.
[106]Temple’s Works, Vol. II. p. 40.
[107]Collection of authentick Records, Vol. II. p. 1099.
[108]Second Letter to the Bishop ofLondon,p.3, 4.
[109]History, p. 260.
[110]Mat.xxvi. 67, 68.
[111]Elwood’s History of his own Life, &c.p.318.
[112]Remarks on some late Sermons, &c.p.34.
[113]Pag.52.
[114]Answer toState of the Protestants inIreland, &c.p.108.
[115]Pag.120, 121.
[116]Preface, p. 14.
[117]Pag.11, 24.
[118]Pag.1.
[119]Pag.4, 11, 12, 13, 19.
[120]Appendix to Parliamentary Original, &c.p.14.
[121]Some Remarks on the Temper of some late Writers, &c.p.33.
[122]Preface to Animad.p.12, 13.
[123]Animad.p.114.
[124]Ibid.p.332.
[125]Ibid.p.348.
[126]Tritheism charged,p.2, 3.
[127]Ib.p.108.
[128]Ibid.p.170.
[129]Ibid.p.281.
[130]Judg. 18.24.
[131]Ib.p.285.
[132]Ibid.p.299.
[133]Fuller’s Church History, Cent. 17. B. 11. Sect. 89, Parag. 10.
[134]Rushworth, Part II. Vol. I.p.471.
[135]Prap. Evang.l. 4. p. 209-234.
[136]Fontenelle, Historie des Oracles. I. Dissert. c. vii.
[137]Euseb. Id. l. 4.
[138]Baltus, Suite de la Reponse a l’His. des Oracles,p.283.
[139]Ibid.
[140]Bp.Hoadley’s Answer tothe Representation,&c. Pref.p. 12.
[141]Page91.
[142]Page2.
[143]Page1.
[144]Page4, 5.
[145]Mr.Collier.