A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England / [Henry Stubbe].

  • Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.
Date:
1671
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Credit: A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England / [Henry Stubbe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    what troubles OrUen did occafion in the Church, what divifioas and Herefies ififued from Him, and his way of expounding Scri¬ pture, is a thing fo notorious upon record, that lam amazed to fee that Dr. More's works fhould meet with a Licencer, and not rather the Author, and his Zany GLANVIL finke under Ecclefafical Cenfures. The commendations by which You in the conclufion of the Philofophiclf Cabbala endeare Pythagoras and his followers to the efteem of all men,are fuchas may betray the Unwary to believe them True: though to afcertain you one thing, I believe never did man more Abufe Hiftory, Argue Worfe, or lejfe under]?and what he flid, then 7ou doe. And twas upon that con]deration! gave you the Elogy of PIOUS, but not of Learned : This was the matter that exafperated Youj To be PIOUS, was no Character for a 'Uirtuofij to undeceive the world herein you refolved to turne Zyer -7 I did not without fome fcruple give you that other Title : I doe now Recal it. You wonder that any man of piety and Virtue fhould own the MechanicVPhilofophyft being fuch as no True re¬ ligion can allow of : yet have Jugled infavou of them that doe, and endeavoured to oppofe Hifn that had with fo much peril contefted therewith. You mention with Praife for Virtue and Learning thofe that have Alferted it., I Hiall here reprefent unto the world your Harangue in behalf of4Des-C artes. “ The unmannerly Superftition of many is fuch, that they/will “give more to an accuftomed Opinion, which they have either ta¬ ken up themfelves, or hath been conveyed unto them by the confi- “dence of fome private Theologer, then to the Authority of either that Pytha ^ Fathers, Churches, Workers of Miracles, or what is beft of all, the ras^i/Empe- “ moft folid Reafons that can be propounded ; which if they were docks, and A- “ capable of, they could not take offenfe at my admittance of the baris did Mira.-« Carte fan Philofophy into this prefent cabbala. The Principles, “ and the more notorious Conclufions thereof, offering themfelves “ fo freely, and unaffe&edly, and fo aptly and fittingly taking their “ place in the Texty that I knew not how with judgement and Con- u fcience to keep them out. “ For I cannot but furmife, that he has happily and unexpefted- “ ly light upon that,which will prove a true reflauration of that part “ of the Mofdeal Philofophy, which is ordinarily called Natural, “ and in which Pythagoras may be juftly deemed to have had no “ fmall infight. And that Des-Cartes may bear up in fome likely “ equipage, with the fore-named noble and Divine Spirits, though “ the unskilfulnefs of Men commonly acknowledge more of Su- “ pernatural Affiftance in hot unfetled Fancies, and perplexed Me- ‘lancholy, then in the calraan4 diftinft ufe ©f Reafon; yet for “ mine