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Some cursory reflexions impartially made upon Mr. Richard Baxter his way of writing notes on the Apocalypse, and upon his advertisement and postcript / by Phililicrines Parrhesiastes.
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SOME
CURSORY
REFLEXIONS
Impartially
made
upon
Mr.
Richard
Baxter
His
WAY
of
Writing
Notes
ON
THE
APOCALYPSE
,
And
upon
his
Advertisement
and
Postscript
.
BY
PHILILICRINES
PARRHESIASTES
.
Dan.
12.
10.
Many
shall
be
purified
,
and
made
white
,
and
tried
:
But
the
wicked
shall
do
wickedly
,
and
none
of
the
wicked
shall
understand
,
but
the
wise
shall
understand
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
Walter
Kettilby
at
the
Bishops-Head
in
St.
Paul's
Church-yard
.
1685.
THE
PREFACE
.
READER
,
THat
thou
mayst
not
misinterpret
what
is
well-meant
,
nor
think
me
over-severe
in
exposing
the
odd
and
indeed
impious
Carriage
of
R.
B.
in
his
manner
of
demeaning
himself
in
his
Pretence
of
Writing
Notes
upon
the
Apocalypse
,
I
will
give
thee
a
brief
Account
what
moved
me
to
make
these
Reflexions
on
this
surprising
Performance
of
his
.
I
did
deeply
resent
the
gross
Injury
he
has
done
,
First
,
To
the
Spirit
of
Prophecy
in
the
Holy
Scriptures
,
and
consequently
to
the
whole
Church
of
Christ
,
to
which
it
is
to
be
a
Guide
,
and
is
indeed
a
marvellous
strong
Bulwark
against
Atheism
and
Infidelity
.
Secondly
,
and
more
peculiarly
,
To
the
Church
of
England
.
And
lastly
,
To
that
Industrious
and
Faithful
Member
thereof
,
Dr.
H.
M.
who
has
so
sincerely
laid
out
his
Pains
(
having
no
Bribe
in
his
Hand
from
any
Party
,
but
the
meer
Moments
of
Naked
Truth
to
sway
him
)
in
explaining
the
Visions
of
the
Apocalypse
and
Daniel
;
and
that
,
as
for
the
good
of
the
Church
in
general
,
so
particularly
for
the
just
Interest
of
the
Church
and
Crown
of
England
,
as
well
against
all
Fanatical
Fury
,
as
against
all
the
Finenesses
of
Rome
.
And
what
an
enormous
Outrage
the
first
is
,
we
may
easily
conceive
from
hence
;
That
by
the
same
slight
that
he
slurs
the
Intelligibleness
of
the
Visions
of
the
Apocalypse
,
all
the
Prophecies
of
the
Scripture
may
be
slurred
and
made
useless
,
as
having
no
certain
Sense
at
all
,
because
Men
have
presumed
to
expound
them
differently
.
Which
plainly
is
to
destroy
the
main
Strength
and
Glory
of
our
Christian
Religion
,
and
that
Support
which
is
in
such
an
extraordinary
way
peculiar
to
it
;
no
Religion
in
the
World
being
so
confirmed
by
Completion
of
Prophecies
,
as
it
is
.
Which
Completion
of
Prophecies
does
not
onely
strengthen
the
Christian
Religion
,
but
is
an
assured
sign
of
the
Truth
of
Natural
Religion
also
,
That
there
is
a
God
,
and
Providence
,
and
Spirits
or
Angels
,
and
an
Immortal
Spirit
in
Man
,
and
a
Life
to
come
.
All
which
Advantages
R.
B.
gives
away
in
an
unaccountable
Freak
of
Scepticism
,
and
an
affected
professing
(
after
an
operose
proposing
of
the
diverse
Interpretations
of
Writers
on
the
Apocalypse
)
that
he
knows
not
which
is
true
.
The
sense
of
which
dealing
,
to
any
man
that
is
not
shallow
witted
,
must
needs
seem
an
Ostentation
of
his
singular
Nasuteness
,
that
when
others
are
such
Fools
as
to
think
they
understand
these
Prophecies
,
he
discerns
that
they
are
plainly
Unintelligible
,
and
so
in
an
overweening
conceit
of
his
own
Perspicacity
and
Discernment
,
proudly
tramples
upon
all
the
Learned
and
Pious
Endeavours
of
such
as
have
attempted
to
find
out
the
genuine
sense
of
these
Holy
Oracles
of
God.
Would
any
one
take
the
pains
so
operosely
to
set
out
his
own
Ignorance
to
the
World
in
good
earnest
,
but
that
his
blind
and
haughty
Heart
did
project
therein
an
esteem
to
himself
of
a
peculiar
Knowledge
,
viz.
That
nothing
at
all
is
to
be
known
in
Scripture
Prophecies
?
His
ineptness
to
which
Studies
,
it
's
likely
,
made
the
doughty
Rationalist
divert
to
other
Theories
,
and
employ
his
fiery
unquiet
Spirits
to
the
framing
a
Method
of
Theology
,
and
so
to
entertain
young
Students
with
a
Sack
stuffed
full
of
an
infinite
Number
of
dry
Chips
,
sine
succo
&
sanguine
,
unless
besprinkled
here
and
there
with
the
Blood
of
Priscian
'
s
broken
Pate
.
But
this
is
something
extra
oleas
:
Let
us
pass
to
the
second
Injury
propounded
.
And
this
is
against
the
Church
of
England
,
whom
he
could
not
but
know
to
be
an
express
Declarer
against
the
Idolatries
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
as
is
plain
out
of
the
Homilies
,
and
to
apply
some
Visions
of
the
Apocalypse
to
the
Case
:
Which
is
very
rationally
done
,
it
seeming
incredible
,
if
not
impossible
,
that
that
Book
of
Visions
setting
out
the
State
of
the
Christian
Church
from
its
Beginning
,
to
the
End
of
the
World
,
should
omit
the
Visionary
noting
of
such
an
huge
Degeneracy
in
the
Church
as
Idolatry
,
and
bloody
Persecution
for
not
submitting
thereto
.
Whence
our
Church
of
England
observing
Visions
so
easily
and
naturally
interpretable
that
way
,
could
not
miss
of
applying
them
to
the
Present
State
of
Things
,
and
declare
the
Church
of
Rome
,
Babylon
,
out
of
which
God's
People
are
warned
to
depart
.
Which
Voice
is
a
most
plain
and
solid
Iustification
for
our
separating
from
the
Church
of
Rome
.
Now
for
R.
B.
to
make
it
such
an
heinous
thing
to
interpret
any
of
the
Apocalyptick
Visions
against
such
gross
Enormities
of
the
Roman
Church
,
and
to
make
such
a
Tragical
deal
ado
about
it
,
as
if
it
were
such
an
Inflamer
of
the
Rage
of
the
Romanists
,
that
they
would
destroy
all
those
that
presumed
to
make
any
such
Application
;
this
Demeanour
of
his
seemed
to
me
to
proceed
out
of
a
malicious
Pique
against
our
Church
,
as
if
he
would
cry
Hallow
to
the
Pontificians
,
to
worry
the
Church
of
England
,
and
devour
it
.
Which
,
as
it
is
a
salvage
Injury
to
our
Church
,
so
it
is
a
gross
Indignity
offered
to
our
English
Romanists
,
who
are
Men
of
a
more
humane
spirit
,
and
not
prone
to
take
any
more
offence
at
our
Churches
conceiving
their
Church
to
be
prefigured
by
the
City
of
Babylon
,
than
we
do
take
at
their
deeming
us
Hereticks
,
which
is
as
Criminal
a
Reproach
as
can
be
charged
upon
any
Person
.
But
though
these
be
the
Terms
of
Theological
Disputants
on
each
Side
,
yet
Neighbourliness
and
Good-nature
washes
them
out
of
the
remembrance
of
both
.
And
the
fair
Interpretation
of
these
two
severe
Terms
,
Babylon
and
Heretick
,
may
be
onely
this
,
That
the
one
Party
is
resolved
never
to
return
into
Babylon
,
out
of
which
God's
People
are
bid
to
depart
;
nor
the
other
to
forsake
Rome
,
for
danger
of
becoming
Hereticks
,
till
God
shall
give
better
Light.
But
in
the
mean
time
,
though
they
cannot
join
in
a
Religious
Society
,
nothing
hinders
but
that
they
may
accord
in
common
Offices
of
Civility
and
Humanity
,
and
of
hearty
Neighbourliness
one
towards
another
.
And
now
,
thirdly
,
and
lastly
;
For
the
Injury
done
to
Dr.
H.
M.
besides
what
he
suffers
in
common
with
the
Church
of
England
,
there
seems
a
particular
Spite
vented
against
him
in
R.
B.
his
demeaning
himself
thus
in
what
he
has
writ
in
reference
to
the
Apocalypse
;
he
moving
a
many
sleeveless
Questions
,
unseasonably
,
to
ensnare
him
,
and
entangle
him
:
When
as
there
is
none
of
them
,
but
if
wilful
blindness
,
and
natural
ineptitude
to
these
things
,
be
no
bar
,
R.
B.
might
fully
satisfie
himself
out
of
what
the
Doctor
has
already
written
.
But
that
which
R.
B.
seems
to
desire
to
perstringe
most
in
the
Doctor
,
is
his
great
confidence
of
the
Truth
of
his
Interpretations
in
the
most
concerning
Visions
:
Which
R.
B.
his
unacquaintedness
with
clearness
of
Conception
,
makes
him
the
more
wonder
at
.
For
certainly
those
that
conceive
things
clearly
and
distinctly
,
will
be
confident
of
the
Truth
they
discover
,
whether
they
will
or
no.
But
men
that
have
a
turbid
and
tumultuary
Fancy
and
Conception
,
may
read
much
,
and
write
much
,
and
be
certain
of
nothing
when
they
have
done
;
or
if
they
seem
to
themselves
so
to
be
,
may
prove
grosly
deceived
,
as
undoubtedly
R.
B.
was
in
his
making
the
Soul
of
Man
Fire
.
Which
Dream
of
his
(
and
all
men
dream
waking
,
till
their
pure
Intellectual
Faculties
be
sufficiently
excited
,
out
of
the
dull
Sopour
they
are
held
in
by
this
Terrestrial
Body
)
proceeded
in
all
likelihood
from
the
furious
fiery
Complexion
of
his
very
Body
,
and
over-heated
Spirits
;
and
I
wish
the
Annotator's
Digression
,
that
exposes
R.
B.
his
Folly
,
in
medling
with
Theories
he
was
not
able
to
master
,
may
not
have
stuck
in
his
Stomach
,
and
so
instigated
him
to
take
this
opportunity
of
Revenge
.
But
as
for
the
Doctor
's
Confidence
,
and
his
profession
thereof
in
Matters
that
tend
so
much
to
the
good
of
Mankind
,
to
the
good
of
the
Church
in
general
,
and
more
particularly
to
the
good
of
the
Church
and
Monarchy
of
England
,
I
shall
sufficiently
consider
that
,
and
the
Reasons
thereof
,
in
my
Reflexions
;
and
my
Preface
has
run
out
further
already
than
I
intended
.
But
by
this
time
I
hope
I
have
declared
enough
to
prepare
thee
with
candour
to
peruse
what
I
have
cursorily
writ
,
for
the
justly
exposing
the
rude
and
vile
Dealings
of
R.
B.
with
the
Prophecies
of
Scripture
,
with
the
Church
of
England
,
and
particularly
with
the
Doctor
,
a
faithful
and
dutiful
Son
thereof
;
that
what
of
Mirth
,
or
Satyr
,
or
Sharpness
of
Reproof
thou
meetest
with
,
thou
mayst
be
the
less
surpris'd
thereby
,
but
interpret
all
things
candidly
.
And
if
thou
chance
to
be
pleased
,
I
freely
tell
thee
,
It
is
more
than
I
my self
am
,
who
take
no
pleasure
in
such
Contrasts
;
but
Necessity
extorted
it
from
him
who
is
an
earnest
Lover
of
Truth
and
Sincerity
,
and
a
professed
Foe
to
all
Hypocrisie
and
Guile
:
But
in
the
mean
time
,
as
thou
art
also
a
Lover
of
Truth
,
From
his
Study
in
Alethopolis
,
March
28.
A.
D.
1685.
Thy
Hearty
Friend
,
and
Humble
Servant
,
Phililicrines
Parrhesiastes
.
ERRATA
.
PAg.
3.
l.
20.
for
Corruption
read
Corruptions
.
Ibid.
l.
29.
for
ch
.
v.
1.
r.
ch
.
1.
v.
1.
p
4.
l.
18.
for
Names
r.
Pains
.
p.
9.
l.
11.
for
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
r.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Ibid.
for
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
r.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
p.
11.
l.
11.
for
have
an
r.
have
made
an
.
p.
19
l.
22.
for
the
World
r.
this
World.
SOME
CURSORY
REFLEXIONS
,
&c.
The
ARGUMENT
.
The
Occasion
of
Parrhesiastes
his
Writing
these
Reflexions
.
R.
B.
his
preferring
an
affected
ignorant
Pride
before
humble
and
useful
Knowledge
.
The
Weakness
and
Ignorance
in
his
Performance
on
the
Apocalypse
,
a
flat
Contradiction
to
the
Physiognomy
of
his
Picture
before
his
Book
.
Not
want
of
Sagacity
,
but
Rashness
and
Laziness
,
has
made
R.
B.
such
a
puzzled
Creature
in
the
Meanings
of
the
Apocalypse
.
An
Apologie
for
R.
B.
his
bringing
in
several
Interpretations
on
the
Apocalypse
,
while
ignorant
himself
where
the
Truth
lies
.
His
Discretion
in
not
deciding
,
his
Iudgment
being
so
grosly
faulty
where
he
does
.
The
onely
commendable
good
Stroke
in
his
Notes
on
the
Apocalypse
.
The
Disease
of
Scripturiency
in
R.
B.
taken
notice
of
.
His
indigested
Reading
of
many
Writers
on
the
Apocalypse
,
and
disingenuous
Presumption
in
flurring
them
before
he
understood
them
.
His
unskilful
denying
the
Calling
of
the
Jews
.
A
swarm
of
crawling
Difficulties
that
the
Exposition
of
Dr.
H.
M.
is
unconcerned
in
.
Some
approvable
Passages
in
R.
B.
his
Advertisement
.
His
absurd
if
not
impious
Humour
,
in
acknowledging
the
Degeneracy
of
the
Church
to
the
height
,
and
yet
denying
it
to
be
predicted
in
the
Apocalypse
.
Seven
unapprovable
Particulars
noted
in
the
said
Advertisement
.
An
Answer
to
the
said
Particulars
.
Certain
Passages
in
his
Postscript
.
The
Tediousness
of
his
Writings
.
His
uncharitable
Conceit
of
the
Pontificians
,
as
if
they
bore
such
an
ill
mind
against
the
Church
of
England
,
for
the
interpreting
some
part
of
the
Apocalypse
of
the
Degeneracy
of
their
Church
.
That
this
looks
like
a
mischievously
intended
Dog-trick
in
R.
B.
against
our
Church
.
His
courting
of
Mr.
Gadbury
to
cast
his
Nativity
,
by
dropping
in
the
mention
of
David
Blundel
and
Pope
Jone
in
his
Postscript
.
Mr.
Foulis
his
Opinion
of
the
Story
of
that
Female
Pope
.
That
the
Church
of
England
'
s
Cause
depends
not
on
such
Trifles
.
A
serious
Advertisement
to
R.
B.
his
Followers
,
and
to
all
other
Sectaries
.
AFter
I
had
the
Opportunity
of
perusing
in
MS.
Dr.
H.
More
his
Paralipomena
Prophetica
;
so
it
hapned
,
that
a
Friend
of
mine
gave
me
notice
,
and
also
procured
me
the
sight
of
what
Mr.
Baxter
had
done
upon
the
Revelations
;
of
whom
I
having
heard
heretofore
,
what
a
confident
Man
he
was
of
the
unintelligibleness
of
that
Book
,
though
I
was
assured
of
the
Vanity
of
that
Confidence
,
yet
I
thought
he
had
studied
that
Sacred
Writing
with
that
Care
and
Searchingness
,
that
he
was
able
to
find
such
Flaws
in
what
Mr.
Mede
and
Dr.
More
have
writ
,
that
it
might
give
the
Doctor
just
occasion
to
enlarge
his
Paralipomena
,
in
clearing
such
shrewd
Difficulties
as
R.
B.
was
able
to
propose
,
and
rectifie
,
if
any
thing
were
amiss
in
the
Doctor
's
Interpretations
,
by
what
R.
B.
had
searched
out
by
his
anxious
Diligence
.
But
things
have
fallen
out
quite
contrary
to
my
expectation
,
there
being
nothing
either
in
his
Notes
on
the
Revelation
,
or
in
his
Advertisement
or
his
Postscript
,
offered
as
Difficulties
,
but
such
as
with
reading
either
Mr.
Mede
or
the
Doctor
,
(
if
R.
B.
his
Parts
be
not
very
low
sunk
)
he
might
easily
satisfie
himself
in
.
But
I
perceive
it
was
never
his
Intent
to
be
satisfied
in
these
Studies
,
preferring
an
affected
ignorant
Pride
,
before
humble
and
useful
Knowledge
;
nay
,
before
the
Glory
of
God
,
and
a
due
Acknowledgment
of
his
Care
and
Providence
over
his
Church
,
in
setting
out
the
State
thereof
from
the
Beginning
of
it
to
the
End
of
the
World
;
which
is
incredible
but
he
should
do
in
this
Volumn
of
Visions
,
the
Apocalypse
,
which
begins
with
the
Church
,
and
reaches
to
the
Day
of
Judgment
,
according
to
R.
B.
his
own
acknowledgment
.
Wherefore
that
there
should
be
no
Visions
touching
the
great
Degeneracy
of
the
Church
,
and
of
the
late
Reformation
from
such
gross
Corruptions
,
which
R.
B.
himself
confesses
that
they
deserved
greater
Punishments
than
the
Beast
and
False
Prophet
mentioned
in
the
Revelations
,
(
Advertis
.
p.
10.
)
is
a
thing
incredible
altogether
,
nay
,
I
may
say
,
impossible
.
Nor
can
all
the
Wars
,
Persecution
,
and
Victories
of
the
Church
,
prefigured
in
this
Book
,
be
restrained
to
the
Pagan
Empire
,
and
the
Times
of
the
Primitive
Christians
:
A
thing
which
R.
B.
disowns
,
on
Apoc.
ch
.
v.
1.
where
,
says
he
,
I
cannot
conceive
those
two
Learned
Mens
Exposition
(
meaning
Grotius
and
Dr.
Hammond
)
who
make
the
Apocalypse
an
History
in
a
Prophetick
Stile
,
and
say
,
that
most
or
very
much
of
it
was
done
before
it
was
written
:
And
yet
to
slur
the
Learned
and
Pious
Labours
of
Mr.
Mede
,
he
equally
,
if
not
more
,
inclines
to
their
two
senses
of
the
Prophecies
,
than
to
the
other
.
So
inconsistent
is
he
with
himself
.
And
indeed
he
has
quitted
himself
so
sorrily
and
triflingly
,
if
I
may
be
so
free
as
to
censure
the
Writings
of
one
who
has
writ
so
much
,
that
some
toying
Wit
may
be
tempted
to
fansie
the
weakness
of
his
Performance
,
and
professed
Ignorance
,
a
flat
Contradiction
to
the
very
Physnomy
of
his
Face
prefixed
before
his
Book
,
whose
vast
,
eminent
,
arched
Nose
promises
no
small
reach
of
Wit
,
and
comprehension
of
Understanding
:
But
behold
the
Todcaster
.
Prodigy
,
—
Lignosum
structum
sine
flumine
Pontem
.
an
huge
,
massie
Nose
,
devoid
of
all
Sagacity
under
it
.
But
to
vindicate
R.
B.
and
his
Nose
from
any
such
slur
,
though
he
makes
nothing
of
flurring
the
Learned
and
Pious
of
others
;
it
is
not
that
he
wants
either
Nose
or
Wit
to
find
out
the
true
Sense
of
the
Book
of
the
Apocalypse
,
which
he
slurs
,
together
with
the
best
Intepreters
,
not
to
say
the
Spirit
himself
that
writ
it
,
in
making
the
Sense
thereof
so
desperately
uncertain
and
unintelligible
,
and
so
to
signifie
nothing
:
but
he
has
been
,
according
to
his
own
Confession
,
either
rash
or
lazy
in
the
matter
,
(
Advertis
.
p.
1.
)
Forty
four
years
ago
,
says
he
,
I
studied
it
,
I
doubt
,
too
soon
,
(
so
do
I
,
or
at
least
that
you
did
it
too
carelesly
)
;
and
then
he
reckons
up
several
Authors
which
he
read
,
names
some
,
and
intimates
more
.
And
amongst
those
he
names
,
are
Mede
and
Potter
;
and
after
that
he
read
Mr.
Durham
,
Dr.
More
,
Grotius
,
and
Dr.
Hammond
,
but
withal
he
confesses
he
did
it
superficially
.
So
that
rightly
to
plead
his
Cause
,
it
was
not
for
want
of
Nose
or
Wit
,
but
due
and
seasonable
Industry
to
master
the
Books
he
read
,
or
for
want
of
good
luck
or
direction
to
betake
himself
to
the
best
Writers
in
the
Kind
,
or
the
best
Pieces
of
their
Writings
,
that
has
rendred
him
such
a
puzzled
Thing
as
he
professes
himself
.
I
appeal
to
him
,
if
he
ever
was
fully
Master
of
Mr.
Mede's
Synchronisms
.
I
dare
say
,
his
desultory
and
tumultuary
Phancy
would
never
be
fettered
to
so
close
Animadversion
.
But
if
he
had
with
patience
and
steadiness
of
Mind
applied
himself
to
the
Synchronistical
Part
,
so
as
thorowly
to
have
understood
it
,
it
is
impossible
but
he
should
have
avoided
this
foul
Scepticism
touching
these
holy
Visions
.
But
without
this
Synchronistical
Skill
,
and
the
Knowledge
of
the
Prophetick
Style
,
to
pretend
to
understand
the
Apocalypse
,
or
to
judge
whether
it
be
intelligible
or
no
,
is
as
fond
,
as
to
pretend
to
give
the
true
and
certain
Meaning
,
or
to
be
able
to
judge
whether
the
said
Meaning
can
be
given
,
of
a
Greek
or
Latin
Author
,
while
one
is
very
raw
and
ignorant
in
the
Lexicographal
Part
,
and
quite
devoid
of
the
Skill
of
Grammar
or
Syntax
.
And
this
has
made
R.
B.
that
he
can
onely
(
having
read
a
World
of
Authors
to
no
better
purpose
)
,
in
stead
of
informing
the
Judgment
of
him
that
peruses
his
Notes
,
onely
distract
his
Mind
with
abundance
of
variety
of
Opinions
,
not
able
to
decide
which
is
Truth
.
Which
is
such
an
impertinent
Stuffage
of
the
Mind
,
that
the
Understanding
is
not
thereby
perfected
,
but
burdened
;
and
serves
for
no
use
,
unless
for
R.
B.
his
vain
Ostentation
of
having
read
so
many
Books
,
though
he
has
concocted
nothing
:
Like
Marriot
of
Grays-Inn
(
as
I
remember
)
,
who
was
a
prodigious
Eater
,
but
neither
a
stronger
Man
,
nor
a
better
Lawyer
,
for
being
such
an
Helluo
Ciborum
,
as
this
other
,
Librorum
.
But
not
to
be
wanting
to
R.
B.
in
any
just
Defence
that
may
excuse
the
matter
;
his
producing
all
along
so
many
several
Opinions
,
is
not
altogether
useless
:
For
though
he
himself
cannot
decide
what
is
true
,
yet
the
Reader
may
;
and
for
this
end
he
sets
down
so
many
Opinions
,
that
others
may
decide
what
is
true
.
Which
is
something
like
the
Story
a
Friend
told
me
,
of
one
Robbin
,
an
Hind
in
a
Country-Gentleman's
House
,
that
could
no
read
a
Letter
on
the
Book
,
but
yet
was
earnest
with
the
Gentleman's
Son
,
a
young
Scholar
,
that
went
to
School
,
and
could
write
well
,
to
teach
him
to
write
.
To
which
the
young
Scholar
saying
,
Why
,
Robbin
,
thou
canst
not
read
;
to
what
purpose
therefore
is
it
to
learn
thee
to
write
?
O
Master
,
says
he
,
do
but
teach
me
to
write
,
I
will
get
some
body
else
to
read
it
.
So
R.
B.
has
got
the
Faculty
of
Writing
and
Reading
,
or
rather
of
Reading
and
Writing
of
multifarious
Opinions
,
but
he
must
leave
the
Office
of
Spelling
out
which
is
the
truest
,
to
some
other
.
That
also
further
recommends
his
great
Modesty
,
in
that
he
so
seldom
takes
upon
him
to
decide
;
forasmuch
as
when
he
does
it
the
most
peremptorily
,
to
any
indifferent
Man
he
must
needs
seem
to
do
it
most
injudiciously
;
as
in
that
of
the
Vision
of
the
Seven
Churches
having
a
Prophetical
meaning
:
This
,
says
he
,
being
impossible
to
be
proved
,
is
rather
to
pretend
another
Revelation
,
than
to
expound
this
.
This
is
very
pertly
and
magisterially
spoken
.
But
the
Doctor
with
no
less
than
Twenty
solid
Arguments
,
in
his
Exposition
of
the
Seven
Churches
,
has
so
demonstrated
there
must
be
a
Prophetical
Sense
of
that
Vision
,
that
he
may
well
challenge
R.
B.
or
any
more
able
than
he
,
to
confute
them
if
he
can
.
And
Apoc.
5.
13.
he
dogmatizes
there
again
,
and
tells
us
,
those
under
the
Earth
are
the
Antipodes
,
on
the
other
side
of
the
Earth
.
As
unphilosophically
as
magisterially
decided
!
The
Antipodes
are
no
more
under
the
Earth
,
than
we
are
;
both
being
above
and
equidistant
from
the
lowest
Center
of
the
Earth
.
But
this
is
pardonable
in
a
Person
so
little
conversant
in
Philosophy
.
And
now
to
shew
how
impartial
I
am
,
I
will
take
notice
of
something
that
is
commendable
,
and
that
I
would
recommend
to
the
rest
of
his
Fanatick
Brethren
,
such
especially
as
fansie
Monarchy
and
Political
Government
inconsistent
with
the
Reign
of
Christ
,
or
his
Kingdom
.
And
it
is
his
Note
on
Apoc.
c.
12.
v.
10.
Now
is
come
Salvation
,
and
Strength
,
and
the
Kingdom
of
our
God
,
and
the
Power
of
his
Christ.
Note
,
says
he
,
If
Christian
Kingdoms
be
so
honourable
,
and
called
the
Kingdoms
of
God
,
and
the
Power
of
Christ
,
and
the
Fall
of
Devils
;
let
them
better
consider
it
,
that
cry
them
down
under
the
name
of
National
Churches
,
and
would
have
Churches
onely
to
be
some
gathered
out
of
the
Multitude
.
This
is
the
onely
remarkable
sincere
Stroke
that
occurs
in
all
his
Notes
on
the
Revelation
,
so
far
as
I
can
remember
,
if
he
be
therein
sincere
,
and
heartily
contradict
his
Opinions
and
Practices
in
former
times
.
To
pass
by
therefore
the
mawkish
,
raw
,
and
dough-bak'd
Fancies
that
are
scattered
in
his
Annotations
on
the
Apocalypse
,
I
proceed
to
his
Advertisement
,
where
I
will
use
all
possible
brevity
that
can
be
.
I
have
already
noted
out
of
the
first
Page
,
how
unseasonably
,
according
to
his
own
Confession
,
some
Forty
years
ago
he
betook
himself
to
the
Study
of
the
Apocalypse
.
I
doubt
,
too
soon
,
says
he
;
and
I
do
not
doubt
but
too
negligently
.
But
then
,
says
he
,
I
read
Brightman
,
Napier
,
Pareus
,
&c.
and
after
that
,
Mede
,
Potter
,
and
many
more
,
besides
Dounhamus
de
Antichristo
,
Broughton
,
and
other
such
;
and
also
the
Answerers
of
Bellarmine
.
He
conversed
with
his
Fellow-labourer
Mr.
Stevens
,
(
during
the
Schism
against
the
Church
of
England
)
who
has
written
of
it
,
and
was
much
upon
it
in
his
Discourse
;
but
I
durst
not
be
drawn
to
a
deep
Study
of
it
.
And
when
since
I
read
Mr.
Durham
,
Dr.
More
,
&c.
and
Grotius
,
and
Dr.
Hammond
,
and
many
Annotators
,
I
confess
Despair
,
and
more
needful
Business
,
made
me
do
it
but
superficially
.
This
is
his
own
Account
of
his
Preparedness
to
write
on
the
Apocalypse
,
when
he
having
scambled
through
a
multitude
of
Authors
carelesly
and
superficially
,
he
was
,
for
any
certain
sense
of
the
main
and
most
weighty
Visions
of
that
Divine
Writing
,
as
unresolved
of
the
Truth
of
things
,
as
when
he
first
began
.
So
that
having
nothing
to
deliver
to
satisfie
the
Understanding
Reader
,
or
confirm
the
Faith
of
them
that
want
a
Guide
;
yet
,
as
if
he
laboured
under
the
Scripturient
Disease
even
to
a
Tenesmus
,
could
not
forbear
to
write
on
the
Apocalypse
,
though
he
had
nothing
to
write
.
Wherefore
,
according
to
his
own
confession
,
the
Case
stands
thus
;
That
his
Mind
wanting
those
Faculties
,
which
in
the
Bodily
Nourishment
answer
to
the
Concoctive
and
Expulsive
Faculty
,
which
secernes
that
which
is
Exerementitious
from
what
is
good
Nourishment
;
he
wanting
,
I
say
,
this
secerning
Faculty
,
was
not
edified
by
the
reading
,
or
rather
gutling
up
so
many
Books
as
he
has
hastily
read
,
being
not
able
to
distinguish
betwixt
what
was
sound
Food
,
and
what
was
to
be
sent
packing
and
egested
as
course
Excrement
.
And
therefore
,
as
he
has
taken
them
in
,
so
he
has
put
them
out
all
alike
,
or
rather
vomited
them
up
altogether
without
any
Digestion
or
Concoction
;
contrary
to
the
Boast
of
that
considerate
Writer
,
that
excused
his
slow
Performances
with
an
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
I
am
not
of
the
number
of
those
that
vomit
,
but
that
weigh
accurately
what
they
publish
to
the
World.
This
I
declare
,
to
the
end
that
no
man
may
be
so
foolish
as
to
think
the
Apocalypse
really
the
less
intelligible
for
R.
B.
his
not
understanding
it
,
after
his
reading
so
many
Authors
about
it
,
in
his
tumultuary
and
superficial
way
:
When
as
intended
Concealment
,
as
well
as
certainty
of
Revealment
,
was
the
measure
of
the
framing
of
the
Visions
of
the
Apocalypse
.
And
as
they
are
not
to
be
understood
by
the
lazy
,
perfunctory
,
or
prejudiced
Peruser
of
them
,
and
of
their
best
Interpreters
;
so
are
they
clearly
and
certainly
to
be
understood
by
those
who
with
diligence
and
humility
,
by
those
who
orderly
and
methodically
set
themselves
to
study
them
,
as
Mr.
Mede
to
his
everlasting
Commendation
did
.
And
therefore
he
first
published
his
Clavis
Apocalyptica
,
a
little
Book
,
but
of
vast
moment
for
the
right
understanding
of
the
Apocalypse
.
R.
B.
should
have
first
so
fully
understood
that
Book
,
as
that
he
might
be
able
to
judge
whether
his
Synchronisms
would
hold
or
not
:
This
is
the
course
the
Doctor
took
,
whereby
he
was
enabled
as
to
be
assured
of
the
truth
of
most
of
his
Synchronisms
,
so
to
reject
his
placeing
of
the
Vials
before
the
Seventh
Trumpet
and
rising
of
the
Witnesses
,
which
was
an
unlucky
mistake
of
Mr.
Medes
,
and
which
therefore
the
Doctor
has
rectified
in
his
Synchronistical
Scheme
,
which
R.
B.
may
see
in
his
Epilogue
placed
after
his
Exposition
of
the
Apocalypse
,
where
he
defends
the
rest
of
Mr.
Medes
Synchronisms
against
the
Allegations
of
R.
H.
which
small
Treatise
,
that
Epilogue
,
I
suspect
R.
B.
never
read
,
no
not
so
much
as
superficially
.
But
if
he
had
read
it
diligently
,
and
made
himself
Master
of
it
,
it
is
impossible
I
think
he
should
remain
so
ignorant
of
these
Apocalyptick
Points
as
he
pretends
he
is
.
It
is
the
firm
ground
the
Doctors
Exposition
stands
upon
,
and
we
may
safely
challenge
R.
B.
to
enervate
it
if
he
can
.
But
to
read
an
Author
superficially
,
and
then
to
slight
him
,
is
like
the
Villany
of
those
Men
that
insinuate
themselves
into
the
company
of
such
as
they
have
a
mind
to
have
a
pretence
of
saying
of
them
what
they
please
.
And
thus
has
R.
B.
served
the
most
Pious
,
Serious
,
and
Learned
Performances
of
the
best
Interpreters
of
the
Apocalypse
.
But
what
a
Wooden
Soul
this
R.
B.
has
,
one
may
further
discern
(
pag.
4.
)
by
his
huge
averseness
from
the
calling
of
the
Iews
,
and
his
marvelous
weak
arguing
against
it
:
And
yet
his
strait
and
narrow
Mind
hugs
her self
in
this
cold
and
crudled
Infidelity
.
And
indeed
R.
B.
seems
to
me
not
only
to
have
a
Wooden
Soul
,
but
a
Stony
Heart
,
which
neither
the
Authority
of
the
Ancient
Church
,
which
generally
held
that
there
would
be
such
an
illustrious
calling
of
the
Iews
towards
the
end
of
the
World
(
as
you
may
see
in
Cornelius
a
Lapide
upon
Rom.
11.
25.
)
nor
those
many
Predictions
of
the
Ancient
Prophets
,
which
plainly
imply
as
much
,
nor
that
noble
Discourse
of
St.
Paul
in
the
eleventh
to
the
Romans
about
this
Point
,
have
been
able
to
pierce
,
for
the
admittance
of
so
glorious
and
gracious
a
Catastrophe
of
Gods
Providence
towards
his
own
peculiar
People
the
Iews
,
who
have
suffered
so
great
and
durable
Calamities
and
Severities
of
Affliction
from
Him
,
who
yet
is
stiled
the
God
of
Abraham
,
Isaac
,
and
Iacob
,
and
is
said
to
have
an
everlasting
Covenant
with
that
People
.
To
let
go
those
several
pertinent
Passages
in
the
Old
Testament
,
we
will
only
set
before
the
Eyes
of
R.
B.
what
St.
Paul
says
,
Rom.
11.
25.
For
I
would
not
,
brethren
,
that
ye
should
be
ignorant
of
this
Mystery
,
that
blindness
in
part
is
happened
to
Israel
,
until
the
fulness
of
the
Gentiles
be
come
,
and
so
all
Israel
shall
be
saved
.
Here
Israel
in
both
places
is
evidently
opposed
to
the
Gentiles
,
and
Israel's
being
detain'd
in
unbelief
for
a
time
,
till
the
fulness
of
the
Gentiles
come
in
,
opposed
to
the
Gentiles
Belief
.
And
this
is
called
a
Mystery
,
a
great
Arcanum
of
Divine
Providence
,
concerning
which
the
Apostle
breaks
out
into
those
expressions
of
profound
admiration
,
v.
33.
O
the
depth
of
the
riches
,
both
of
the
Wisdom
and
Knowledge
of
God
;
how
unsearchable
are
his
Iudgments
,
and
his
Ways
past
finding
out
.
That
this
belongs
to
such
a
shriveled
account
as
R.
B.
gives
of
this
Chapter
,
is
a
thing
incredible
.
So
that
I
wonder
with
what
Face
he
could
put
out
his
Notes
on
this
Chapter
to
the
Romans
,
after
he
had
perused
those
of
Sam.
Clark
;
who
has
given
so
easie
,
Natural
,
and
Genuine
Sense
of
the
said
Chapter
all
along
,
and
of
whom
R.
B.
himself
gives
this
Testimony
,
that
he
is
a
person
of
great
Judgment
,
Piety
,
Integrity
and
Meekness
,
Humility
I
suppose
he
means
,
and
he
should
have
remembred
in
the
perusing
his
Notes
on
this
Chapter
,
that
God
resisteth
the
Proud
,
and
gives
Grace
and
Wisdom
to
the
Humble
and
Meek
.
The
want
of
which
made
R.
B.
impatient
of
being
better
instructed
by
his
Iunior
.
But
that
a
Man
so
operosely
and
affectedly
professing
himself
for
Peace
and
Love
should
be
content
that
God
should
be
so
irreconcileably
in
Wrath
toward
the
Nation
of
the
Iews
,
as
to
leave
them
in
the
lurch
for
ever
,
after
so
many
splendid
Predictions
and
Promises
by
his
Prophets
,
is
a
sign
that
there
is
little
in
the
bottom
of
that
Principle
in
him
,
but
that
it
is
onely
an
Hypocritical
boast
thereof
.
But
I
have
run
out
further
on
this
Theme
than
I
intended
.
R.
B.
his
crude
Indigestion
of
the
many
Books
he
has
read
,
has
filled
the
fifth
,
sixth
,
seventh
,
eighth
,
and
part
of
the
ninth
Page
of
his
Advertisement
with
a
number
of
Objections
,
first
bred
in
his
Brain
,
and
after
scattered
on
the
Paper
,
like
so
many
little
crawling
Worms
or
Serpents
;
but
such
as
can
sting
none
but
himself
,
or
such
as
are
as
ignorant
or
more
ignorant
than
himself
:
They
are
about
the
Whore
,
and
the
Beast
,
and
the
like
;
and
he
renders
his
Reason
of
producing
these
pretended
Difficulties
,
pag.
9.
I
mention
,
says
he
,
what
I
have
done
,
to
tell
you
why
I
understand
not
the
Revelations
.
But
by
this
I
plainly
understand
,
that
he
has
not
at
all
consider'd
the
Doctor
's
Exposition
of
the
Beast
and
the
Whore
,
though
he
pretends
to
have
read
his
Books
.
For
not
one
of
this
numerous
Fry
or
Swarm
of
Difficulties
do
in
the
least
enervate
his
Exposition
of
the
Apocalypse
.
But
he
raises
Difficulties
against
such
Authors
,
or
Passages
in
them
,
as
are
most
obnoxious
to
delude
and
seduce
the
ignorant
.
This
seems
to
me
very
disingenuous
Dealing
.
But
now
,
from
his
tenth
Page
,
to
the
seventeenth
,
there
are
miscellanious
Matters
scattered
in
him
,
of
a
different
Interpretation
,
some
better
,
some
worse
.
The
better
sort
are
such
things
as
these
:
That
Popes
and
Papists
,
that
allow
all
those
things
which
he
sets
down
as
the
Miscarriages
charged
on
that
Church
,
(
pag.
10.
)
are
liable
before
God
to
greater
Punishments
than
the
Beast
and
False
Prophet
mentioned
in
the
Revelations
,
&c.
And
,
That
Love
is
Christ's
Work
and
Character
,
and
Hatred
the
Devil
's
;
and
that
we
must
avoid
all
unnecessary
Division
,
Wrath
,
and
Hatred
.
And
,
pag.
11.
That
we
must
not
call
every
thing
Antichristian
that
displeaseth
us
,
or
that
the
Church
of
Rome
has
used
,
or
doth
use
.
And
,
p.
15.
To
own
Christ
and
his
Gospel
,
and
to
murder
Thousands
or
Millions
in
his
Name
,
for
not
obeying
the
Pope
in
professing
Transubstantiation
,
is
incomparably
a
more
aggravated
Crime
,
than
the
most
bloody
Pagan
Persecution
was
.
And
,
(
p.
16.
)
Christ
has
one
diffused
visible
Church
over
the
World
,
and
the
Pope
made
another
by
Usurpation
and
Rebellion
,
which
was
Regnum
in
Regno
,
as
any
Rebel
might
do
that
could
get
Strength
to
set
up
a
Party
in
Power
,
to
call
himself
King
in
some
part
of
a
Kingdom
.
Such
an
Antichristianity
as
this
,
says
he
,
I
make
no
doubt
but
the
Papacy
became
guilty
of
.
And
I
will
insert
here
what
he
says
in
his
Notes
on
2
Thess.
2.
I
can
easily
see
many
and
great
Points
in
which
Popery
is
contrary
to
the
Word
of
God
;
and
I
am
most
moved
by
such
Moral
Arguments
as
Dr.
H.
More
useth
in
his
Mystery
of
Iniquity
;
he
means
that
Part
which
is
called
Idea
Antichristianismi
.
But
to
return
to
his
Advertisement
,
pag.
16.
where
he
says
,
Let
them
prove
that
Popes
have
not
been
Antichrists
,
that
can
;
it
's
none
of
my
Work.
But
if
you
are
never
so
sure
that
it
is
he
indeed
,
pull
him
not
down
by
calling
Truths
,
Duty
,
or
Things
lawful
,
Antichristian
;
nor
by
telling
men
,
that
all
Protestants
are
Idolaters
or
Antichristian
,
if
they
forsake
not
the
Communion
of
all
our
Parochial
Protestant
Churches
,
that
the
Papists
may
re-enter
into
them
as
deserted
Garrisons
,
&c.
Now
let
any
man
judge
what
an
Humorist
this
R.
B.
is
,
who
allowing
that
such
things
are
found
in
the
Papacy
that
may
well
furnish
out
an
Antichrist
,
and
that
are
worse
than
Pagan
as
to
the
matter
of
Persecution
;
and
whose
Constitution
is
such
,
that
those
that
act
accordingly
,
deserve
greater
Punishment
than
the
False
Prophet
and
the
Beast
mentioned
in
the
Apocalypse
;
and
intimates
,
that
the
Doctor
's
Idea
of
Antichristianism
is
a
right
Representation
of
such
Points
of
Popery
as
are
contrary
to
the
Word
of
God
;
and
yet
will
not
acknowledge
this
strange
Degeneracy
of
the
Church
to
be
prefigured
in
a
Book
of
Prophecies
,
the
Apocalypse
,
which
was
writ
on
purpose
to
set
out
the
State
of
the
Church
from
the
Beginning
thereof
,
to
the
End
of
the
World.
What
can
be
more
incredible
?
As
many
as
acknowledge
the
gross
Superstitions
,
Idolatries
,
and
most
salvage
Persecutions
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
yet
deny
that
they
are
prefigured
in
the
Apocalypse
,
seem
to
envy
Christ
the
Glory
of
so
faithfully
and
punctually
predicting
the
State
of
his
Church
;
and
the
Church
yet
unreformed
,
such
an
excellent
Help
to
her
Reformation
;
and
the
whole
Church
such
a
special
Corroboration
of
their
Faith
in
God
and
Christ
,
and
of
a
Divine
Providence
that
watches
over
the
Affairs
of
Men
,
and
of
his
Church
especially
;
and
seem
peevishly
to
obscure
that
Privilege
that
Christianity
has
above
all
other
Religions
in
the
World
,
the
Visions
of
Daniel
and
the
Apocalypse
clearly
understood
,
being
the
peculiar
Strength
and
Glory
of
our
Christian
Religion
.
And
therefore
I
must
consess
it
has
raised
my
Zeal
and
Indignation
against
R.
B.
his
mawkish
Notes
on
the
Apocalypse
,
which
look
more
like
prophane
Buffonry
,
to
rogue
and
abuse
so
Sacred
a
Writing
,
than
a
Business
of
any
edification
to
the
People
of
God.
And
for
R.
B.
his
Care
that
those
things
should
not
be
called
Antichristian
that
really
were
not
so
,
that
was
one
of
the
Ends
of
the
Doctor
's
writing
his
Idea
of
Antichristianism
,
as
himself
has
declared
in
the
very
first
Chapter
thereof
.
And
what
he
speaks
for
Christian
Love
,
and
against
unnecessary
Division
,
O
that
Mr.
Baxter
had
had
those
Sentiments
about
Forty
years
ago
,
and
that
he
had
been
as
tender
of
unnecessary
dividing
from
the
so
well
constituted
Church
of
England
,
as
he
would
now
make
shew
he
is
from
the
Church
of
Rome
;
certainly
he
might
enjoy
a
more
peaceful
Conscience
,
and
serene
Mind
.
But
I
take
no
pleasure
in
raking
into
such
a
Sore
.
The
things
I
like
not
in
some
of
these
eight
last
Pages
,
are
such
as
these
.
(
1.
)
He
intimates
,
p.
10.
That
they
that
interpret
Babylon
of
Rome
Papal
,
turn
Religion
into
Love-killing
Faction
;
and
they
that
believe
such
an
Interpretation
,
hate
and
abhor
all
Romanists
merely
because
they
are
such
,
nor
have
any
Evidence
for
their
Opinion
,
but
that
such
or
such
a
Private
Teacher
has
told
them
so
.
(
2.
)
He
conceives
,
That
this
interpreting
the
usual
Places
of
the
Revelations
,
(
p.
11.
)
of
the
Papacy
,
that
all
Romanists
are
tempted
thereby
to
hate
us
and
destroy
us
.
(
3.
)
To
make
such
Interpretations
as
these
,
is
to
add
to
the
Sense
of
the
Book
,
and
to
incur
the
Curse
thereof
,
Rev.
22.
18.
the
Plagues
written
in
the
Book
.
(
4.
)
He
says
,
The
Sense
must
needs
be
uncertain
,
where
five
of
the
wisest
are
of
four
minds
.
(
5.
)
I
blame
not
modest
Conjectures
,
saith
he
,
if
men
will
but
confess
their
uncertainty
when
they
are
uncertain
,
nor
use
their
Interpreting
to
kindle
a
partial
,
hating
,
dividing
Zeal
.
(
6
)
I
confess
,
saith
he
,
I
am
less
able
to
expound
Prophecies
than
Daniel
,
who
yet
thus
concludes
,
ch
.
12.
8.
And
I
heard
,
but
understood
not
.
Then
said
I
,
O
my
Lord
,
what
shall
be
the
end
of
these
things
?
And
he
said
,
Go
thy
way
,
Daniel
;
for
the
words
are
closed
up
and
sealed
till
the
time
of
the
end
.
And
yet
,
he
says
,
he
makes
no
doubt
but
the
Revelation
is
God's
Word
,
though
he
understands
it
not
.
(
7.
)
And
lastly
,
pag.
12.
To
them
that
say
▪
saith
he
,
The
Pope
is
the
Beast
,
the
Whore
of
Babylon
,
the
Man
of
Sin
,
the
Antichrist
,
you
have
a
shift
of
the
contempt
of
his
Words
,
as
of
a
controverted
,
uncertain
thing
;
but
who
knoweth
not
that
the
plain
Law
of
God
concludeth
,
that
the
Proud
,
the
Worldly
,
the
Malignant
,
the
Idolatrous
,
Murderers
,
Persecutors
,
Liars
,
the
Enemies
of
Christ's
Gospel
and
serious
Godliness
,
are
Satan's
Slaves
,
and
shall
not
enter
into
the
Kingdom
of
God
?
There
is
something
of
Good
mingled
in
some
of
these
Sayings
;
but
little
Good
intended
,
so
far
as
I
discern
.
But
I
shall
briefly
answer
to
each
Particular
.
To
the
(
1.
)
first
,
I
say
,
Here
R.
B.
bewrays
an
ill
Nature
(
as
they
that
have
the
Jaundies
,
things
seem
to
them
yellow
.
)
I
know
by
experience
the
contrary
,
and
the
Doctors
Interpretations
of
the
Apocalypse
,
of
the
truth
of
which
I
am
sufficiently
confident
,
though
they
make
the
Papal
Corruptions
concerned
in
the
Vision
of
the
Beast
,
the
Whore
and
False-Prophet
,
yet
I
never
had
the
more
hatred
or
disgust
against
the
Romanists
for
that
.
But
as
for
their
Corruptions
,
I
thought
their
being
shewn
them
in
those
and
the
like
Visions
to
be
so
lively
prefigured
,
were
the
most
likely
way
to
make
them
reflect
on
their
Condition
,
and
seek
timely
by
an
orderly
Reformation
to
amend
it
,
those
Interpretations
ever
avoiding
the
least
shew
of
encouragement
for
such
a
Reformation
as
is
to
be
carried
on
by
Popular
Tumults
and
the
Sword
,
and
suggesting
also
that
the
most
effectual
Instruments
in
the
Hands
of
Princes
and
Prelates
will
be
those
that
he
calls
the
Philadelphian
Church
,
who
are
made
up
of
Loyalty
to
their
Prince
,
be
he
of
the
Reformèd
or
Unreformed
Religion
,
and
of
an
hearty
sincere
Love
to
all
Christendom
,
and
to
Universal
Mankind
.
This
Spirit
Aromatizes
the
Doctors
whole
Interpretation
of
the
Apocalypse
.
But
there
are
some
Diseased
Persons
that
cannot
bear
the
scent
of
sweet
Odours
.
Grosser
Minds
are
for
a
Gross
War
,
and
Gross
Revenge
,
which
is
Diametrically
opposite
to
the
Doctors
Interpretations
.
Which
it
may
be
therefore
,
R.
B.
being
of
a
more
Iron
,
Martial
Spirit
,
may
be
the
more
averse
from
,
if
Age
has
not
,
as
he
pretends
,
mellowed
him
into
a
better
Mind
.
And
as
for
such
Interpretations
as
concern
the
Papacy
,
that
they
are
onely
the
dictates
of
some
private
Teachers
,
the
Antichristianity
of
the
Papacy
was
the
general
Doctrine
of
the
Reformed
Churches
.
And
R.
B.
upon
his
Private
Spirit
adventuring
to
be
a
Separative
Guide
,
has
thus
bewildred
himself
and
his
followers
.
Whenas
this
Antichristianity
of
the
Church
of
Rome
is
a
Doctrine
own'd
by
the
Church
of
England
,
and
Jewel
against
Harding
was
ordered
to
be
placed
in
every
Parish
Church
.
And
the
main
things
of
this
kind
are
so
plain
,
that
ordinary
People
are
able
to
understand
them
,
and
not
believe
them
onely
because
the
Reformed
Churches
say
so
.
To
the
(
2
)
second
,
It
seems
to
me
to
be
a
piece
of
uncharitableness
in
R.
B.
that
he
should
have
such
an
harsh
opinion
of
the
Romanists
,
when
they
cannot
but
see
,
that
it
is
not
any
malice
in
us
Protestants
,
but
the
Natural
Interpretableness
of
the
Apocalypse
that
way
,
that
we
use
those
Prophetick
Scriptures
to
defend
our
own
Religion
,
and
convince
them
of
the
errour
of
theirs
.
For
my
own
part
I
think
better
of
them
,
nor
can
I
(
who
have
so
often
admired
those
Divine
strains
of
Morality
in
that
Pagan
Emperours
Meditations
,
M.
Antoninus
,
notwithstanding
his
Idolatrous
Religion
that
could
not
debase
his
noble
Nature
,
)
forbear
heartily
to
imbrace
that
Virtue
,
Piety
,
Faithfulness
and
Generosity
that
shines
forth
in
any
Romanist
in
despight
of
his
Romanism
that
cannot
suppress
it
.
These
horrid
conceits
of
R.
B.
of
Hatred
and
Murder
from
the
Papists
on
this
account
are
effects
of
Melancholy
and
Old
Age.
If
the
Doctor
be
Murdered
for
speaking
Truth
in
the
behalf
of
the
Church
of
England
,
he
will
find
good
Company
in
the
other
World
,
and
be
bid
welome
by
that
glorious
Martyr
of
our
Church
,
the
Pious
,
Wise
,
and
Virtuous
Charles
the
First
;
or
rather
our
Blessed
Lord
Jesus
,
who
was
Martyr'd
and
Crucified
for
us
,
will
be
ready
to
receive
those
that
conscientiously
suffer
for
maintaining
his
Truth
and
Honour
.
Ye
believe
in
God
,
believe
also
in
me
,
saith
he
,
in
my
Fathers
House
there
are
many
Mansions
.
If
it
were
not
so
I
would
have
told
you
.
I
go
to
prepare
a
place
for
you
,
and
if
I
go
and
prepare
a
place
for
you
,
I
will
come
again
and
recieve
you
to
my self
,
that
where
I
am
,
there
you
may
be
also
.
As
certainly
as
Christ
himself
after
his
sufferings
enjoys
any
thing
in
the
other
State
,
he
that
Conscientiously
suffers
for
him
,
will
thereupon
be
happy
in
the
other
World.
And
who
would
not
adventure
all
in
one
Bottom
with
him
to
whom
the
Prophecies
of
old
have
given
such
ample
Testimony
(
besides
the
History
of
his
Miracles
,
and
that
Stupendious
Volume
of
Visions
the
Apocalypse
imparted
by
him
to
his
Church
)
and
whom
so
great
a
part
of
the
World
acknowledge
to
be
the
Son
of
God
and
Saviour
of
Mankind
?
Certainly
Divine
Providence
is
more
benign
and
faithful
,
than
to
lay
such
a
train
as
to
entrap
the
most
intelligent
and
sincere
to
the
loss
of
their
lives
in
the
World
(
as
it
fared
with
the
Primitive
Martyrs
under
the
Pagan
Dragon
,
and
with
some
hundred
thousands
under
the
healed
Beast
)
if
there
be
no
Recompense
for
such
sufferers
in
the
World
to
come
.
To
the
(
3
)
third
,
If
to
make
such
Interpretations
as
R.
B.
counts
uncertain
,
which
yet
may
be
true
,
according
to
his
own
account
,
for
ought
he
knows
,
be
to
add
to
the
Book
,
and
incur
the
Plagues
written
therein
,
what
does
his
Buffonry
incur
in
his
Notes
,
that
takes
away
in
a
manner
all
that
is
writ
of
chiefest
concern
for
the
Instruction
and
Amendment
of
the
Church
,
Roguing
all
the
most
useful
Visions
,
and
indeed
all
in
a
manner
(
casting
away
also
the
Prophetical
Sense
of
the
Seven
Churches
)
into
a
meer
sapless
and
useless
Unintelligibleness
?
Let
him
scape
the
Plagues
as
well
as
he
can
,
he
will
certainly
incur
the
loss
of
all
the
precious
Promises
recorded
in
this
Book
.
To
the
(
4
)
fourth
,
I
answer
;
It
is
meer
Sophistry
,
and
such
as
whereby
all
Philosophy
and
Religion
would
be
taken
out
of
the
World.
There
is
the
Christian
Religion
,
the
Jewish
,
the
Mahometan
,
and
Pagan
.
Here
any
Three
disagree
from
the
Fourth
;
therefore
they
are
all
Uncertain
,
or
False
.
But
besides
this
,
there
is
a
general
Consent
of
Protestant
Interpreters
touching
those
Visions
that
concern
the
Corruptions
of
the
Papacy
,
viz.
That
they
are
concerned
therein
,
though
some
expedite
the
matter
better
than
others
.
And
Grotius
his
way
,
and
Dr.
Hammond's
,
is
meer
:
Novelty
;
and
they
may
be
both
excused
for
so
strangely
straining
their
Wits
for
such
Glosses
.
For
Passion
edges
the
Invention
,
Hatred
as
well
as
Love.
And
Grotius
was
deeply
sensible
of
what
he
suffered
from
the
States
of
Holland
,
and
Dr.
Hammond
more
highly
and
nobly
concerned
for
that
Outrage
which
was
done
to
the
most
Vertuous
and
Pious
King
,
and
best
Constituted
Church
in
the
World.
To
which
Villany
and
Misery
the
Vulgar
Expositions
of
the
Apocalypse
were
made
use
of
,
which
frighted
the
good
Doctor
into
another
way
.
But
the
usual
Protestant
way
,
well
rectified
,
does
infinitely
more
Service
to
the
Crown
of
England
,
and
the
Church
,
than
such
forced
,
incredible
Glosses
,
such
as
R.
B.
himself
is
able
to
confute
,
though
he
be
so
staggering
that
he
can
stand
to
nothing
.
To
the
(
5.
)
fifth
,
That
men
should
confess
their
uncertainty
,
when
they
think
themselves
uncertain
,
I
easily
admit
.
But
I
do
not
think
it
fair
,
that
any
trouble
themselves
,
much
less
the
World
,
with
what
they
are
conscious
to
themselves
is
a
meer
Conjecture
.
For
this
makes
but
a
rumble
and
babble
in
the
Minds
and
Mouths
of
Men
,
and
makes
them
think
,
because
they
read
much
,
and
write
much
,
they
are
learned
and
knowing
,
when
there
is
nothing
but
Noise
and
empty
Fancy
and
Ignorance
at
the
bottom
.
Assured
Knowledge
,
and
useful
,
is
the
firm
Food
of
the
Soul.
Uncertain
Fancies
and
Opinions
are
no
more
than
superfluous
and
noxious
Humours
in
a
bloated
Body
.
For
my
part
,
I
should
make
a
conscience
in
abusing
the
World
with
such
Trash
.
And
therefore
the
Doctor
has
openly
declared
,
especially
for
the
main
and
most
useful
Parts
of
his
Exposition
of
the
Apocalypse
,
that
to
him
it
is
most
certain
and
undoubted
Knowledge
.
And
his
Confidence
thereof
he
hath
publickly
professed
,
both
at
the
end
of
his
Epilogue
annexed
to
his
Exposition
of
the
Apocalypse
,
and
also
in
his
Preface
to
his
Exposition
of
the
Visions
of
Daniel
,
Sect
42.
And
he
hath
invited
and
provoked
all
that
he
could
,
to
find
what
Flaws
they
could
in
his
Expositions
:
And
how
he
hath
quit
himself
against
S.
E.
the
Remarker
,
let
the
World
judge
;
and
also
how
well
he
further
makes
good
what
he
hath
writ
,
by
his
Paralipomena
Prophetica
.
Every
one
is
bound
,
before
he
publishes
a
thing
,
to
study
the
Point
so
throughly
,
that
he
can
discern
whether
it
will
amount
any
further
than
to
a
Conjecture
,
or
whether
it
is
a
firm
and
solid
Truth
;
and
then
if
it
be
also
useful
,
to
impart
it
to
the
World
;
and
the
more
useful
,
with
the
greater
expression
of
confidence
,
he
being
assured
of
the
Truth
.
And
the
Doctor
's
Exposition
of
the
Apocalypse
being
so
apparently
useful
,
for
the
shewing
the
Excellency
of
the
Constitution
of
the
Church
of
England
,
it
being
the
most
choice
part
of
the
Completion
of
the
Prophecy
of
the
Rising
of
the
Witnesses
,
a
Church
that
had
the
Honour
to
be
so
learnedly
defended
by
the
Royal
Pen
of
King
IAMES
the
First
of
Blessed
Memory
,
and
to
be
witnessed
to
by
the
Sacred
Blood
of
that
Glorious
Martyr
King
CHARLES
the
First
,
the
most
Pious
and
Vertuous
Prince
that
ever
sway'd
Scepter
in
Christendom
;
a
Church
renowned
for
singular
Loyalty
and
Love
of
Monarchy
,
insomuch
that
King
CHARLES
the
Second
(
whose
late
Death
we
all
still
lament
,
though
we
are
abundantly
comforted
in
so
Gracious
a
Successor
)
was
heard
to
say
,
That
the
Church
of
England-Men
were
the
best
Subjects
in
the
World
;
and
lastly
,
such
a
Church
as
our
present
Gracious
Soveraign
King
IAMES
the
Second
(
whom
God
grant
a
Long
,
Peaceful
,
and
Prosperous
Reign
over
us
)
,
though
(
for
our
Sins
,
I
fear
)
of
the
other
Religion
Himself
,
yet
has
graciously
promised
to
maintain
and
support
;
this
doing
,
of
His
Own
most
Noble
and
Free
Mind
,
which
was
the
onely
thing
that
could
with
Reason
and
Equity
be
desired
.
But
thus
has
His
Heroical
Spirit
found
the
Opportunity
to
remonstrate
to
the
World
His
Right
to
the
Crown
,
not
onely
by
Lineal
Descent
,
but
Personal
Merit
.
I
say
therefore
,
That
the
Doctor
's
Exposition
of
the
Apocalypse
tending
to
the
winning
of
Men
to
such
a
Church
as
this
,
where
not
onely
Truth
and
Purity
of
Worship
,
but
Loyalty
and
Monarchy
is
secured
against
Republicanism
,
Blood
,
and
Rebellion
;
so
that
he
has
disarm'd
the
Fanaticks
from
either
Pretense
of
Right
,
or
Hints
of
Time
,
to
plot
their
mischievous
Designs
,
he
having
demonstrated
the
1260
days
to
be
passed
,
and
the
Rising
of
the
Witnesses
but
a
partial
Fall
of
Antichristianism
.
Which
things
tend
naturally
,
as
I
conceive
,
to
the
keeping
of
the
Crowns
of
Monarchs
on
their
Heads
,
and
their
Heads
on
their
Shoulders
.
And
therefore
I
say
,
the
matter
being
of
so
mighty
moment
,
I
hope
R.
B.
will
excuse
his
Novice
(
who
yet
is
somewhat
older
than
himself
,
though
he
write
70.
)
whom
he
would
tutour
and
instruct
,
if
he
cannot
be
so
demure
and
modest
as
he
would
have
him
to
be
,
in
matters
that
are
so
plain
to
him
,
and
of
so
mighty
importance
for
the
Peace
and
Security
of
Princes
against
the
Fanatical
Rabble
,
who
are
as
mad
against
Iesus
Christ's
Vicegerents
,
as
the
Iews
were
against
Iesus
himself
,
who
would
have
no
King
but
Caesar
;
nor
these
any
Monarchs
but
a
fictitious
King
Iesus
of
their
own
,
and
domineering
Presbytery
,
or
shattered
Anarchy
.
I
will
not
be
so
uncharitable
as
to
think
R.
B.
seeing
the
Fanatical
sort
of
Men
so
disappointed
by
the
Doctor
's
Exposition
,
from
hatching
any
Evil
against
the
Church
of
England
and
Monarchy
out
of
the
Apocalypse
,
has
been
so
peevish
as
to
represent
the
Book
,
as
much
as
in
himself
lies
,
utterly
unintelligible
,
that
because
they
can
breed
no
Mischief
our
of
it
,
it
may
prevent
its
doing
any
Good.
The
thing
looks
over-suspiciously
on
it
.
But
I
leave
that
to
the
search
of
his
own
Conscience
.
The
latter
part
of
his
fifth
Particular
concerns
not
the
Doctor
,
whose
Expositions
are
onely
for
the
evincing
of
Truth
,
and
the
convincing
of
the
Conscience
,
against
Killing
and
Slaying
by
the
Arm
of
Flesh.
He
is
for
no
Division
as
to
Civil
Society
,
nor
for
Re-union
of
Protestants
with
Papists
in
Religion
,
till
they
be
better
Reformed
in
Doctrine
and
Worship
.
But
R.
B.
expresses
himself
so
odly
in
these
things
,
as
if
he
insinuated
himself
Popishly
and
Protestantishly
affected
in
one
Breath
.
Such
a
way
of
Writing
,
to
me
smells
very
mustily
of
Juggles
and
Hypocrisie
.
And
now
,
(
6.
)
To
that
freakish
and
impertinent
Application
of
that
Passage
of
Daniel
,
I
oppose
the
very
following
Verse
in
that
Chapter
:
Many
shall
be
purified
,
made
white
,
and
tried
,
(
ver
.
10.
)
But
the
wicked
shall
do
wickedly
,
and
none
of
the
wicked
shall
understand
,
but
the
wise
shall
understand
.
Now
whether
it
be
the
want
of
Holiness
or
Wisdom
in
R.
B.
or
both
,
that
he
understands
so
little
in
Daniel
and
the
Apocalypse
,
I
leave
him
to
consult
his
own
Heart
therein
,
and
to
consider
what
a
pleasant
thing
it
is
to
Flesh
and
Blood
to
be
a
Segregative
Rabboni
,
and
to
be
applauded
by
a
Sect
,
though
wise
and
good
Men
understand
as
little
the
Reason
why
,
as
he
understands
Daniel
and
the
Apocalypse
.
But
while
he
acknowledges
the
Apocalypse
to
be
the
Word
of
God
,
and
yet
to
be
unintelligible
,
what
is
it
but
to
reproach
God
and
his
Word
too
at
once
?
Daniel
tells
us
better
News
:
The
wicked
shall
not
understand
,
but
the
wise
shall
understand
.
And
yet
this
vain
R.
B.
affects
the
esteem
of
more
than
ordinary
Wisdom
,
in
pretending
not
to
understand
these
Visions
;
else
why
does
he
take
the
pains
to
ostentate
his
Ignorance
,
and
so
in
effect
to
glory
in
his
Shame
?
And
,
(
7.
)
to
the
last
,
I
say
,
The
Romanists
do
more
familiarly
elude
all
those
Charges
of
Idolatry
,
Murder
,
Persecution
,
Lying
,
and
the
like
,
charged
upon
them
from
Reason
and
Scripture
.
For
to
these
they
will
answer
;
but
since
this
demonstrative
way
by
Synchronisms
,
that
so
plainly
prove
that
those
Visions
which
the
Ancient
Fathers
interpret
of
Antichrist
,
necessarily
fall
into
the
Times
of
the
Papacy
,
they
have
,
so
far
as
I
know
,
ever
had
the
Discretion
to
decline
answering
.
Indeed
R.
B.
tells
us
,
That
the
Arguments
he
has
writ
against
Popery
in
eight
or
nine
Books
,
the
Romanists
have
not
answered
;
he
,
like
a
Suffenus
,
fancying
they
forbear
to
answer
them
till
he
be
dead
or
disabled
;
when
questionless
it
is
because
they
slight
them
;
or
else
,
why
is
it
that
they
have
answered
the
ablest
Champions
of
our
English
Church
,
(
who
yet
meddle
with
no
Prophecies
)
and
thus
declined
the
answering
him
?
When
the
Writings
of
these
,
excel
those
of
R.
B.
as
much
as
the
richest
Arras
,
the
meanest
Kedderminster-Stuff
,
as
one
wittily
has
made
the
Comparison
.
This
Conceitedness
of
his
Performance
I
meet
with
in
his
Postscript
,
which
I
have
read
over
,
thinking
to
meet
with
something
new
;
but
it
is
but
Crambe
bis
cocta
,
and
his
Seventeen
Questions
so
poor
,
that
the
meanest
Capacity
,
that
has
any
kind
of
propension
to
these
Studies
,
may
easily
satisfie
himself
,
by
consulting
the
latest
Writers
touching
these
Points
.
To
read
R.
B.
his
Writings
,
is
as
tedious
to
me
,
as
to
walk
upon
unsound
Ground
,
Quagmire
,
or
Quicksand
,
Arena
sine
calce
;
and
therefore
I
will
give
my self
no
longer
a
Fatigue
:
though
I
cannot
but
take
notice
,
how
again
he
harps
much
upon
that
jarring
String
,
where
he
supposes
the
Romanists
so
brutish
and
salvage
,
that
they
will
kill
and
murder
all
such
as
from
the
Prophecies
of
Scripture
conclude
their
Church
Antichristian
;
when
as
himself
cannot
deny
,
but
what
they
hold
and
practise
,
is
so
.
What
Disease
of
Ferocity
has
so
tinctured
the
Mind
and
Fancy
of
R.
B.
that
he
should
have
such
horrid
Conceits
of
the
Pontifician
Party
in
England
?
When
as
they
and
our
Church
of
England
Men
,
both
of
highest
and
lowest
Degree
,
have
lived
in
all
Civility
,
Kindness
,
and
Neighbourliness
,
for
these
many
years
,
notwithstanding
their
difference
of
Religion
,
though
the
Romanists
in
the
mean
time
,
according
to
the
Language
of
their
Church
,
could
not
but
deem
us
Hereticks
,
of
what
Quality
soever
we
were
,
Noble
or
Simple
:
When
as
yet
no
Phrase
,
neither
proper
nor
symbolical
,
imports
a
Man
a
more
vile
,
detestable
,
and
criminal
Wretch
,
than
an
Heretick
,
with
them
;
they
adjudging
them
also
to
the
worst
and
most
reproachful
Punishments
,
such
as
the
most
execrable
Criminals
are
adjudged
to
:
And
yet
I
am
certain
our
Church
of
England
Men
have
not
at
all
been
enraged
or
provoked
against
the
Romanists
,
for
all
this
.
Why
then
should
R.
B.
have
so
uncharitable
a
Conceit
of
the
Romanists
,
(
they
are
Men
,
or
rather
English-men
,
as
well
as
we
)
that
they
should
be
so
enraged
like
Wolves
and
Tygers
against
the
Church
of
England
Men
,
though
they
,
keeping
to
the
Style
of
their
Church
,
must
deem
the
Constitution
of
the
Romish
,
as
R.
B.
himself
does
,
Antichristian
;
and
that
this
State
thereof
is
predicted
in
Scripture
?
This
looks
as
if
he
still
retained
his
inveterate
spite
against
the
Church
of
England
,
and
even
now
in
his
grunting
and
groaning
condition
,
as
he
represents
himself
,
as
if
he
had
one
Foot
in
Charon's
Boat
,
yet
would
shew
us
a
Mischievous
Dog-trick
at
the
last
,
and
excite
the
Roman
Wolves
(
as
he
Fancies
them
,
he
Cloathing
them
in
his
own
Skin
,
or
as
much
as
he
can
transfusing
his
own
mischievous
Spirit
into
them
at
his
hour
of
death
)
to
tear
us
and
devour
us
.
—
Quanquam
media
jam
morte
tenetur
,
Non
tamen
abstinuit
—
So
fierce
and
unreconcileable
an
hatred
does
he
bear
(
or
acts
so
as
if
he
did
bear
it
)
to
our
Church
,
that
the
approach
of
the
extinction
of
this
life
cannot
extinguish
it
.
But
having
once
injured
the
Church
,
he
knows
how
,
and
not
the
Church
him
,
he
seems
desirous
to
follow
his
first
blow
with
repeated
strokes
even
to
his
last
Breath
.
The
Finis
rei
in
this
carriage
of
his
,
or
Natural
Tendency
,
is
truly
such
:
but
whether
it
be
Finis
Personae
,
I
leave
to
his
own
Conscience
to
examine
.
I
will
note
but
one
thing
more
in
this
Post-script
,
which
is
his
mentioning
David
Blundel
and
Pope
Ione
;
which
I
should
have
omitted
,
but
that
it
put
me
in
mind
of
what
fine
sport
Mr.
Gadbury
makes
on
that
Subject
in
his
Cardines
Coeli
,
&c.
which
would
make
a
Man
suspect
R.
B.
to
have
let
drop
this
in
his
Post-script
to
please
Mr.
Gadbury
,
whom
he
seems
humbly
to
beseech
to
give
him
a
Cast
of
his
Skill
in
Calculating
Nativities
.
For
if
not
,
why
does
he
conclude
his
Advertisement
thus
?
London
,
1684.
Nov.
12.
Natali
Authoris
.
Aetat
.
suae
70.
It
is
true
,
he
has
not
set
down
the
Hour
of
his
Birth
:
But
Mr.
Gadbury
,
by
Animodar
,
Trutina
Hermetis
,
or
Accidentia
Nati
,
by
any
one
of
these
,
as
well
as
by
the
rest
will
rectifie
the
Time
to
a
Cows
Thumb
,
and
then
will
find
in
a
trice
some
Cardinal
Sign
in
the
Ascendent
of
this
great
Man
,
R.
B.
which
of
all
the
four
is
least
likely
to
be
Libra
,
he
having
writ
so
much
,
and
weighing
so
little
what
he
writes
:
Or
if
it
be
Libra
,
it
may
denote
,
that
in
his
Balance
the
moments
of
Reason
for
all
different
Expositions
of
the
Apocalypse
are
of
equal
weight
with
him
,
even
as
the
Sun
at
his
entrance
into
Libra
makes
the
Day
and
Night
equal
.
But
as
for
Mr.
Blundel
and
Pope
Ione
,
I
will
refer
Mr.
Gadbury
,
or
any
other
judicious
Reader
,
to
Bishop
Iewel
against
Harding
,
from
pag.
348
,
to
pag.
353
,
and
to
Mr.
Foulis
his
History
of
Romish
Treasons
and
Usurpations
,
pag.
180.
who
at
last
concludes
thus
,
As
for
mine
own
Iudgment
,
I
shall
wrap
it
up
without
Partiality
or
Passion
,
in
this
,
That
I
am
so
far
from
being
satisfied
with
the
Reasons
brought
against
the
being
of
such
a
Woman
Pope
,
that
I
may
fancy
those
that
assert
a
Pope
Jone
afford
better
Authority
,
Testimony
and
Arguments
,
than
those
that
deny
it
.
And
as
Cook
in
English
has
sufficiently
answered
Floromondus
and
the
rest
,
so
does
Maresius
in
Latine
,
and
Congnard
in
French
abundantly
confute
David
Blundel
,
though
a
Man
of
great
Reading
.
But
be
it
this
way
or
that
way
,
it
shall
never
trouble
me
,
and
so
let
every
Man
think
as
he
pleaseth
.
To
which
I
easily
say
,
Amen
.
For
the
Church
of
England's
Cause
against
her
Opponents
,
whether
Romanists
or
Fanaticks
,
depends
not
on
such
Curiosities
.
I
find
my self
concern'd
to
say
little
more
than
to
advertise
seriously
Mr.
Baxter's
followers
,
and
in
them
all
Sectaries
,
what
a
dreadful
and
dangerous
thing
it
is
to
separate
from
an
Authentick
Church
,
reformed
to
the
Pattern
of
the
Symmetral
or
Primitive
Ages
,
and
to
follow
the
guidance
of
a
Private
Spirit
;
and
I
shall
pray
God
,
that
Mr.
Baxter
may
repent
sincerely
,
as
of
his
former
enormous
sins
against
the
Church
of
England
,
and
the
Crown
or
Sacred
Monarchy
thereof
,
so
likewise
,
that
he
may
become
really
sensible
and
ashamed
of
his
present
Crooked
Versuteness
and
Hypocrisie
,
and
of
Rogueing
and
Abusing
the
Divine
Visions
of
Iohn
and
Daniel
(
which
the
Lord
Iesus
out
of
his
Faithful
Care
and
Providence
has
procured
of
his
Father
for
the
Guidance
and
Instruction
of
Christendom
)
by
this
his
rude
and
profane
Buffonry
.
FINIS
.