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A   M  T   N   T   0   R  : 

O  R,    A 

DEFENCE 


o  F 


Milton's  Life. 


CONTAINING 

I.  A  general  Apology  for  all  Writings  of  that  kind. 

II.  A  Catalogue  of  Books  attributed  in  the  Primitive 
Times  to  J  E  s  u  s  C  H  R  i  s  T^  his  ApofHes  and  other 
eminent  Perfbns  :    With  feveral  important  Remarks 
and  Obfervadons  relating  to  the  Canon  of  Scripture. 

III.  A  Complete  Hiftory  of  the  Book,  EntituVd,,  Icon 
Ba/ilike,   proving  Dr.  G'AUDEN,    and   not  King 
CHARLES  the  Firft.,  to  be  the  Author  of  it  :  With 
an  Anfwer  to  all  the  Fafts  alledg'd  by  Mr.  W  AG- 
s  T  A  F    to   the  contrary  $    and  to    the  Exceptions 
made  againft  my  Lord  A  N  G  L  E  s  E  Y'S  Memorandum, 
Dr.  W  A  L  K  E  R'S  Book,  or  Mrs.  G  A  u  D  E  N'S  Nar 
rative,,    which  laft  Piece  is  now  the  firit  Time  pub- 
lifh'd  at  large. 


DI qu'ibm  impzrium  eft  animarum,  iimbr^qnc 
Et  Chaos,  &  Pulegcthon,  Loco.  Nccte  taccntia  late, 
Sit  mihifas  audit  a.  Loqui  ;  Sit  nnmine  vcftro, 
Panders. res  4Jt4  terra  G?  caligine  mtrfas.  Virg.  JEn.  6. 


London,  Printed,  and  are  to  be  Sold  by  the  Book- 
fellersof  London  and  Weflmlnfler.  M.  DC.  XC.  IX4 


Errors.  Amendments, 

Pjgej.  line  l(.  bofe  tbofe 

1C.              5.  Cbrift  bis  Chrifl,  bis 

2,1.             4.  Ceretum  Ceretium 

57.           19.  Copbtic  Coptic 

48.              5*  °f  of  *be 

5;,           15.  Mattbies  Mattbiat 

57.           15*  E*  wp/tf  example 

65.  1 5-  w^/  ^tf  fe  «*#/ 

66.  17-  Uttffius   .  Ittifrtus 
23*  bop  d  o  bop*d  to 

5.  Cfafcienct*  Ccnjciencs 

20.  fotntime  Somtime 

151-           16.  ^^  &* 

137.             8.  Mediations  Medit&tions 

*  In  the  Margin  of  Pag.  57,    after 
JC  id  //i.  3.  and  iai'.eid  ot/r/  read  fifth. 


THE 

^AUTHOR 

T  O    A 

I      F  R  I  E  N  D. 


i 


Vublic  is  fo  feldom  in- 
terefted  in  the    Debates  of 
and  I   am  fo 


little  concern  d at  the  Malice  or  Mi- 
flakes  of  my  Adversaries,  that,  with 
out  lorn  better  Motive ,  /  would  never 
prefume  to  trouble  the  World  with  any 
thingmerely   perfona/.      But  if  the 
Subjeft  in  queftion  be  of  extraordinary 
Weight  and  Consequence,  and  that  on 
the  certain  Decifion  of   it  fhould  de 
fend  the  Tranquillity  of  a  confident- 
ble  number  of  People •,  then  I  think.  & 
Man  /5  indifyenfably  obligd  to  ay- 
year  for  the  Truth  3  and  fo,  while  be  s 
endeavoring  to  ferve  others^    ?io  body 
will  fay  he  ought  to  negleft  his  own 

Defence. 


Defence.  Whether  the  Treatife  I  now 
fend  you  be  oftlm  Nature,  it  fabmit- 
ted  to  your  equal  Judgment  :  And 
zinlefs  I  really  defign  d  a  Nobler 
End  by  it  than  the  Justification  of  one 
Per/on,  neither  you  nor  any  body  elfe 
foould  lofe  your  time  in  reading,  no 
more  than  I  my  felf  would  be  at  the 
Pains  of  writing  it,  which  yet  Til 
count  the  higheft  Pleasure  if  I  un 
der  ft  and  it  has  never  Jo  little  con 
tributed  to  the  Satisfaction  of  a  Gen 
tleman  of  fuch  undifyuted  Learni?ig 
and  Merit. 

March  50.  1699. 

J.  T. 


AMTN- 


AMYNTOR: 

O   R,    A 

DEFENCE 


O  F 


WHEN  I  undertook 
to  write  the  Life  of 
the  moft  celebrated 
MJLTON,  I  was  far  from  ima 
gining  that  I  fhould  ever  (much 
lefs  fo  foon  )  be  obliged  to  make 
an  Apology  in    juftification  of 
fuch  a  Work,  both  harmlcfs  in 
it  felf,  and  greatly     defir'd  by 
the  World.     There  was  no  po- 
fitive  Law    or   Cuftom  againft 
publifhing  the  particular  Hiftory 
of  this  extraordinary  Perfon,con- 
B  fide- 

V 


2  AMYNTOR. 

fider'd  in  any  refpeft  whatfoever: 
for  theLives  of  Good  Princes  and 
Tyrants,  of  Orthodox  and  He 
retical  Divines,    of  Virtuous  and 
Wicked,  of  Public    and    Private- 
Men,  are  indifferently  perns' d  by 
every  body^  of  which  it  would 
be  fuperfluous   to   alledge   Ex 
amples,  the  thing  being  fo  com 
monly  known  by  all  that  have 
learnt  to  read.  Nor  without  fuch 
a    Liberty   could    we    poilibly 
form  a  true   Tafte,  or  have  any 
certain   Knowledg    of   Affairs, 
fince  the  Excellence  or  Imper- 
feftion  of  all   Matters  beft  ap 
pears  by  oppofing  'em  to  one 
another.      And  I  was  fure  (which 
I  find  was  no  Miftake  )    that  the 
Learning    and     Sentiments     of 
JOHN    MILTON  were  too  con- 
fiderable  not  to  deferve  the  high- 
eft  Commendation  or   Diflike, 
according  to  the  Judgment  or 
Affe<5tion  of  the  Readers. 

SINCE 


AMYNTOR.         3 

SINGE  therefore  it  was  e- 
qually  lawful  for  me  to  write 
whofe  Life  I  pleas' d  (  when  my 
Hand  was  in)  the  firft  Charge 
againft  me,  one  would  think, 
fhould  have  bin  ,  that  I  had 
not  fairly  reprefented  my  Hero. 
But,  very  far  from  that,  the  great 
Crime  whereof  I  am  arraigned, 
eonfifts  in  telling  more  than 
fom  People  would  have  me$ 
or  difcovering  Truths  not  fit  to 
be  known  $  and  the  Manner  of 
my  Relation  is  to  them  altogether 
as  offenfive  and  difpleafing  as  the 
Matter  of  it.  ?Tis  ftrange  that 
Men  fhould  be  found  of  a  Judg 
ment  weak  enough  to  make  a 
Crime  of  fuch  Proceedings  in  a 
Writer,  who  labors  to  keep  him- 
felf  wholly  independent  from  the 
Fears  or  Engagements  of  any 
Party  ;  and  who  profefs'd  in  the 
very  beginning  of  his  Book,  that 
'c  being  neither  provok'd  by  Ma- 
"lice,  nor  bnb'd  by  Favor,  he 
B  2  would 


4          AMYNTOR. 

"would  as  well  dare  to  fay  all 
c  that  was  true,  as  fcorn  to  write 
"any  Falfhood.  But  the  rude 
Oppofition  with  which  I  have 
met,  notwithstanding  fuch  plain 
Declarations,  convinces  me  more 
than  ever  how  much  I  was  in  the 
Right  by  following  the  peculiar 
Method  I  propos  <d  to  my  felf 
in  compiling  M  i  L  x  o  N'S  Life , 
and  which  I  partly  declared  in 
thefe  Terms :  '  In  the  Characters 
c  of  Sedts  and  Parties,  Books  or 
4  Opinions,  I  (hall  produce  his 
c  own  Words  as  I  find  'em  in  his 
:  Works  5  that  thofe  who  approve 
c  his  Reafons,  may  owe  all  the 
c  Obligation  to  himfelf  5  and 
cthat  I  may  efcape  the  Blame 
*  of  fuch  as  may  diflike  what  he 
c  fays.  Now,  what  could  be  more 
impartial  than  this  ?  or  more  like 
ly  to  fecure  me  from  all  Imputa 
tions,  whatever  ihould  be  the 
Reception  of  MILTON  from 
the  Public  ?  Yet  if  by  adhering 

re- 


AMYNTOR.  5 

religioufly  to  this  Rule  fo  loud 
a  Clamor  was  raifed  againft  me, 
it  is  apparent  how  much  worfc  I 
might  exped:  to  be  treated,  had 
I  trod  in  the  common  Road.  For 
if,  like  moft  Hiftorians,  I  had  in 
my  own  Words  (tho3  with  never 
fo  much  Candor )  related  the  A- 
dtions  or  Sentiments  of  my  Au 
thor,  my  Adverfaries  would  pre- 
fently  have  told  the  World  that 
this  was  not  the  true  MIL  TON, 
but  one  of  my  own  Creation, 
whom  I  promted  to  fpeak  what 
I  durft  not  own  5  and  by  whofe 
Mouth  I  had  publifh'd  all  thofe 
Opinions  which  I  would  recom 
mend  to  other  People.  Well 
knowing  therefore  the  ordinary 
Temper  and  Artifices  of  thcfe 
Men,  I  did  partly  on  that  Account 
produce  his  own  Words  to  obviat 
their  Sophiftry  and  Calumnies, 
their  two  principal  offenfive 
Weapons  5  and  alfo  to  fpare  my 
fclf  the  Pains  of  Quotations  af- 
B  3  terwards 


6  AMYNTOR. 

terwards,  to  prove  I  had  nei 
ther  injur'd  him  nor  abus'd  my 
Readers.  Befides  this  particular 
Regard  to  them,  I  am  alfd  of 
opinion  that  this  is  the  beft  and 
only  good  way  of  writing  the  Hi- 
ftory  of  fuch  a  Man.  And  had 
the  Ancients  always  follow'd  it', 
our  Modern  Critics  would  have 
been  lefs  exercis'd  to  dilceni 
their  real  Sentiments  5  nor  wou'd 
they  be  fo  often  oblig'd  to  ex- 
amin  whether  they  underftood 
or  mif-reprefented  their  Authors. 
BUT  mftead  of  any  Objecti 
ons  like  thefe,  I  am  exprefly  told 
that  I  ought  not  to  meddle  with 
M  i  L  T  o  N'S  Books,  nor  to  re 
vive  his  Sentiments  ,  or  the 
Memory  of  thofe  Quarrel's  where- 
in  he  was  engag'd  5  which  is 
only,  in  other  Words,  that  I 
ought  not  to  write  his  Life  at 
all.  For  what,  I  pray,  is  the 
principal  Part  of  a  Learned  Man's 
Life,  but  the  exaft  Hiftoiy  of 

his 

»  ,1  )*•!•: 


AMYNTOR.        7 

hisBooks  and  Opinions;to  inform 
the  World  about  the,  Occafioiu 
of  his  writing,  what  it  contained, 
how  he  performed  it,  and  with 
what  Confequences  or  Succefs? 
I  have  no  Reafon  from  my  own 
fecond  Thoughts,  the  Opinion 
of  better  Judges,  or  the  Fortune 
of  the  Book  ,  to  be  d<ifTatisfi'd 
with  my  Conduct  on  this  Occa- 
fion.  And  had  this  Method,  as 
I  faid  before,  been  ftndly  ob- 
ferv'd,  we  might  have  more 
Knowledg  and  fewer  Critics. 

A  Y  but,  fay  thefe  Gentlemen, 
you  have  made  an  Inroad  on  our 
Perfuafion,  and  diredlly  attacked 
the  facred  Majefty  of  Kings,  the 
venerable  Order  of  Bifhops,  the 
beft  conftituted  Church  in  the 
World,  our  holy  Liturgy,  and 
decent  Ceremonies,  the  Autho 
rity  of  Councils,  the  Teftimony 
of  the  Fathers,  and  a  hundred 
other  things  which  we  profound* 
ly  refpetf:  and  admire  :  no? 
B  4  are 


8  AMYNTOR. 

are  we  the  only  Sufferers  5  for 
almoft  all  other  Secfts  and  Parties 
have   equal    Reafons    of  Com 
plaint  againft  you.     Well,  be  it 
fo  then  3  but,  good  Sirs,  betake 
your  felves  for    Reparation    to 
JOHN    MILTON-    or  ,  if  he  is 
not  to  be  brought  to  cafie  Terms, 
defend  your  Caftles  and  Territo 
ries  againft   him  with  all  the  Vi 
gor    you    can.     For,    I   afTure 
you  I  am  no  further  concerned 
in  the    Quarrel   than    to    fhew 
you  the  Enemy,  and  to  give  a 
true     Account  of  his     Forces. 
And  all  this,   if  you  were  of  a 
peaceable  Difpofition,  you  might 
learn   from   th^fc  plain   Words 
in  the  Conclufion  of  the  Life : 
?Tis  probable  that  you  (as  well 
'as  I,  or  any  other)    may  difap- 
'prove    of    Mi  LIONS"  Senu- 
\  rnents  in   feveral  Cafes  3     but 

*  I'm    fure,   '  you  are  far    from 

*  being  difpleas'd    to    find   ?em 
;  particulariz'd  ia  the    Hiftory 

-  of 


AMYNTOR.         9 

'  of  his  Life :  For  we  fhouldhave 
'  no  true  Account  of  Things,  if 
'Authors  related  nothing  but 
'what  they  lik'd  themfelves  : 
'One  Party  would  never  fuflfer 
'  the  Lives  of  T  A  R  o.u  i  N,  or 
c  P  H  A  L  A  R  i  s,  or  S  Y  L  L  A  ,  or 
c  C  &  s  A  R  to  appear,  while  a- 
'  nother  would  be  as  ready  to 
c  fupprefs  thofe  of  CICERO, 
c  of  C  A  T  o,  of  T  R  A  j  A  N,  or 
'BRUTUS.  But  a  Hiftorian 
'ought  to  conceal  or  difguife 
'  nothing  5  and  the  Reader  is 
c  to  be  left  to  judg  of  the  Virtues 
'  he  fhould  imitat,  or  the  Vices 
'he  ought  to  deteftand  avoid. 

THIS  might  ferve  fora  fuffi- 
cient  Anfwer  to  all  that  has  bin 
yet  objected  to  M  i  L  T  o  N'S  Life, 
if  any  Reply  were  thought  ne- 
ceiTary  :  For  the  trivial  and  fcur- 
rilous  Libels  of  mercenary  Fel 
lows  I  ihali  never  regard,  they 
being  already  fufficiently  ncgle- 
6ted  by  the  World,  and  making 

them- 


io        AMYNTOR. 

themfelves  as  little  by  this  Pra: 
<5tice,  as  any  of  a  more  vindi- 
6tive  Temper  could  defire  :  Be- 
fides,  that  to  anfwer  'em  in  their 
own  Dialed:,  I  mud  firft  learn  to 
fpeak  it }  which  is  abfolutely  con 
trary  to  my  Genius,  and  below 
the  Dignity  of  Human  Nature, 
fince  no  body  openly  approves  it 
even  at  Billing/gate.  I  fhall  as  little 
confider  the  cenforious  Tongues 
of  certain  more  Zealous  than  Reli 
gious  People,  who  judge  of  Or 
thers  by  their  own  narrow 
Schemes,  and  defpife  all  Knowr 
ledge  in  comparifon  of  their  pri- 
vat  Imaginations,  wherein  they 
exceedingly  pleafe  themfelves  5  a 
Happinefs  nobody  envies  them. 
Nor  fhould  I,  if  that  were  all,think 
my  felf  concerned  in  making  a- 
ny  Return  to  the  obliging  Com 
plements  of  thole  Gentlemen  who 
(Is  Father  PAUL  formerly  faid  of 
himfelf )  remember  me  oftner  in 
their  Sermons  than  in  their  Pray 
ers 


AMYNTOR.        ii 

ers ;  tho5  fom  of  them  are  apt 
to  fay,  that  when  they  mention 
Turks,  Jews,  Infidels,  and  He 
retics  ,  they  do  not  forget  me, 
But  when  I  am  openly  accused 
before  the  greateft  Affembly  in 
the  World ,  the  Reprefentative 
Body  of  the  People  of  England, 
let  the  Charge  be  never  fo  frivo 
lous'  ip  it  felf,  or  to  be  flighted 
on  any  other  Occasion,  yet  fuch 
a  Refpedt  is  due  to  the  Dignity 
of  thofe  to  whom  it  was  exhibi 
ted,  that  I  hold  my  felf  obliged 
to  convince 'em  of  my  Innocence5 
and  to  remove  all  Sufpicion  far 
from  me,  of  what  in  its  own  Na 
ture  is  acknowledged  to  be  Cri 
minal,  or  by  them  might  be  repu 
ted  Indecent. 

T  H  E  Matter  of  Fad  is  this  • 
On  the  Thirtieth  of  January,  Mr, 
OF  SPRING  BLACKBALL,  who 
ftiles  himfclf  Chaplain  in  Ordina- 
vary  to  Hit  Majefty,  Preacht  a  Ser* 
mon  before  •  the  Honorable 

Houfe 


12        AMYNTOR. 

Houfe  of  Commons  5  wherein, 
after  exclaiming  againft  the  Au 
thor  of  MILTON'S  Life,  for  de 
nying  Icon  Bafilikg  to  be  the  Pro 
duction  of  King  CHARLES  the 
Firft,  he  purfues  his  Accufation 
in  thefe  Terms.  c  We  may  ceafe 
c  to  wonder,  fays  he,  that  he 
c  fhould  have  the  Boldnefs,  with- 
c  out  Proof,  and  againft  Proof,  to 
c  deny  the  Authority  of  this  Book, 
:  who  is  fuch  an  Infidel  as  to 
c  doubt,  and  is  fhamelefs  and  im- 
c  pudent  enough,  even  in  Print, 
c  and  in  a  Chriftian  Country,  pub- 
c  licly  to  affront  our  Holy  Rcli- 
c  gion,  by  declaring  his  Doubt, 
:  that  feveral  Pieces  under  the 
c  Name  of  Chrift  and  his  Apoftles 
L  (he  muft  mean  thofe  now  re- 
£  ceiv'd  by  the  whole  Chriftian 
[  Church,  for  I  know  of  no  o- 
£  thcr)  are  fuppofititious5  tho' 
*  thro'  the  remotencfs  of  thofe 
c  Ages,  the  Death  of  the  Perfons 
c  conccrn'd,  and  the  decay  of  & 

''ther 


AMYNTOR.        13 

c  ther  Monuments  which  might 
c  give  us  true  Information,  the 
c  Spurioufnefs  thereof  is  yet  un- 
€  difcover'd.  Here  is  indeed  a 
Charge  of  a  very  high  Nature,  I 
will  not  fay  in  his  own  mean 
Language,  an  impudent  and  a 
fhamelefs  one  $  tho9  if  it  be  not 
better  prov'd,  I  cannot  hinder 
others  from  calling  it  what  they 
pleafe,  or  the  thing  deferves.  But 
before  I  proceed  to  make  Ob- 
fervations  on  it,  I  fhall  infert  the 
intire  Paffage  of  my  Book,  which 
he  has  taken  the  liberty  of  a- 
bridging,  and  fo  joining  the 
Words  of  two  widely  different 
AfTertions,  as  if  they  were  but 
one.  About  this  little  Artifice 
however  I  fhall  make  no  difference 
with  him  5  for  I  can  eafily  deter- 
min  our  Controverfie,  without 
ufing  all  the  Advantages  I  might 
otherwife  take. 

AFTER  ftating  the  Proofs 
therefore  that  Dr.  G  A  u  D  E  N,  and 

not 


i4        AMYNTOl 

not  King  CHARLES,  was  the 
true  Author  of  Icon  Bafilike,  1 
added  a  very  natural  Obfervati- 
on  in  the  following  Words. 

When  I  ferioufly  confider  how 
c  all  this  happened  among  our 
c  felves  within  the  Compa-fs  of 
:  Forty  Years,  in  a  time  of  great 

Learning  and  Politenefs,  when 
c  bothParties  fo  narrowly  watch' d 
c  over  one  anothers  Adtions , 
c  and  what  a  great  Revolution  in 
£  Civil  and  Religious  Affairs  was 
c  partly  occafion'd  by  the  Cre- 
£  dit  of  that  Book,  I  ceafe  to 
:  wonder  any  longer  how  fo  ma- 
c  ny  fuppofititious  Pieces  under 
c  the  Name  of  CHRIST,  his  Apo- 
c  ftles,  and  other  great  Perfons, 
c  fhould  be  publifh'd  and  ap- 
c  prov'd  in  thofe  Primitive  times, 
:  when  it  was  of  fo  much  Impor- 
c  tance  to  have  ?em  behev'd  5 
:  when  the  Cheats  were  too  ma- 
'  ny  on  all  fides  for  them  to  re- 
c  proach  one  another,  which  yet 

'  they 


,AMYNTOR.       15 

c  they  often  did  3  when  Com- 
c  merce  was  not  near  fo  general ' 
c  as  now,  and  the  whole  Earth 
c  entirely  over-fpread  with  the 
c  Darknefs  of  Superftition.  I 
c  doubt  rather  the  fpurioufnefs  of 
'  feveral  more  fuch  Books  is  yet 
c  undifcover'd,  thro  the  remote- 
c  nefs  of  thofe  Ages,  the  death 
c  of  the  Perfons  concern'd,  and 
c  the  decay  of  other  Monuments, 
c  which  might  give  us  true  In- 
c  formation.  Here  then  in  the 
firft  place  it  is  plain,  that,  I  fay, 
a  great  many  fpurious  Books 
were  early  father'd  on  CHRIST,  his 
Apoftles,  and  other  great  Names, 

Eart  whereof  are  ftill  acknow- 
:dg'd  to  be  gcnuin ,  and  the  reft 
to  be  forg'd,  in  neither  of  which 
AlTertions  I  could  be  juftly  fup- 
pos'd  to  mean  any  Books  of  the  N. 
Teftament,  as  I  fliall  prefently  e- 
vince.  But  Mr.  BLACKBALL  affirms, 
That  I  muft  intend  thofe  now  re- 
ceivd  by  the  whole  Chrifiian 

Churchy 


\6         AMYNTOR. 

Church,  for  he  i&ows  of  no 
A  cogent  Argument  truly  !  and 
clearly  proves  his  Logic  to  be 
juft  of  a  Piece  with  his  Read 
ing.  I  admire  what  this  Gentle 
man  has  bin  doing  fo  long  at 
the  Univerfity,  that  he  fhould  be 
fuch  a  great  Stranger  to  thefe 
things.  But  now  I  find  a  Man 
may  be  a  very  good  Divine 
without  knowing  any  thing  of 
the  Fathers,  thoj  a  Layman  is 
always  referred  to  ?em  when  he 
ftarts  any  Difficulties ,  which 
makes  him  fooner  acquiefce  and 
fwallow  what  he  cannot  chew 
than  get  Information  at  fo  dear 
a  rate.  But  had  Mr.  BLACKBALL 
been  difpos'dto  deal  ingenuoufly 
with  me,  he  might  fee,  without 
the  help  of  the  Fathers,  that  I  did 
not  mean  the  Books  of  the  New 
Teftament,  when  I  mentioned 
Suppofititious  Pieces  under  the 
Name  of  CHRIST  ,  fince  there  is 
none  afcrib'd  to  him  in  the 

whole 


AMY  NT  OR.          17 

•whole  Bible  3  nor  do  we  read  there 
that  ever  he  wrote  any  thing, 
except  once  with  his  Finger  on  the  Joh.  s.y. 
Ground ,  when  he  acquitted  the 
Woman  taken  in  Adultery  :  And, 
for  ought  appears  to  the  contra 
ry,  Mr.  BLACKBALL  may  deny 
that  to  be  any  Writing,  becaufe 
he  knows  not  what  it  was  5  yet 
fom  German  Divines ,  as  well 
read  as  himfclf,  have  prefum'd  to 
tell  us  the  Contents  of  it ,  and 
came  almoft  to  excommunicating 
one  another  in  their  folemn  Di- 
fputes  about  this  weighty  Affair. 
To  this  Negative  Argument  from 
the  Silence  of  the  New  Teftament, 
we  may  add  the  Pofitive  Teftimony 
of  St.  AUGUSTIN  and  St.  JE- 
R  o  M  y  whereof  the  former  affirms, 
That  the  Lord  himfelf  wrote 
*  nothing,  which  makes  it  necef 
c  fary  we  fhould  believe  thofe  who 

*Dicic  AugufrinusjfdeConfenfu  Evangel.  1.  r< 
c.  7.)  quod  iple  Dominus  nihil  Icripleric,  ucaliis 
de  illo  icribencibus  necefle  fit  credere. 

C  s  have 


18          AMYNTOR. 

c  have  written  of  him  :  And  the 
latter  fays,  c  That  f  our  Saviour 
c  left  no  Volum  of  his  own  Do- 
c  drrin  behind  him,  as  is  extra- 
:  vagantly  feign'd  in  moft  of  the 
c  Apochryphal  Pieces. 

NOW  to  convince  all  the  World 
that  I  did  not  intend  by  thofe  Pie 
ces  the  Books  of  the  New  Tefta- 
ment,  as  well  as  to  ftiew  the  Rafh- 
nefs  and  Uncharitablenefs  of  Mr. 
B  L  A  c  K  H  A  L  L'S  Aflcrtion  ,  I  ftall 
here  infert  a  large  Catalogue  of 
Books  anciently  afcrib'd  to  J  E  s  u  s 
CHRIST,  his  Apoftles,  their  Ac 
quaintance,  Companions,  and  Con 
temporaries.  Of  thefe  fom  remain 
ftill  entirely  extant,  which  I  fhall 
mark  in  their  Places.  We  have 
feveral  Fragments  of  others  pre- 
feiVd  by  the  Fathers  3  and  all  that 
is  left  us  of  the  reft  are  only  their 


1  Salvator  ntiHuni  volumsn  docShir.se  fv.x  pro- 
propritim  dereliquit,  quod  in  plerifq;  Apochry- 
phomai  dcliranienu  conPingunt.  Hieronym.  in 
Commencar.  ad  Ezschklis,  cap,  44. 

bare 


AM  INTO  R.          i9 

bare  Titles.  I  constantly  refer  to 
the  Books  wherein  they  are  quoted, 
that  every  body  may  inform  him- 
fclf  of  the  Fact.  And  after  the 
Catalogue  is  ended,  I  {hall  diftin- 
guifh  the  Books  which  the  Anci- 
cients  alledg'd  as  the  genuin 
Works  of  the  Apoftles  or  A- 
poftolic  Men ,  from  thofe  that 
they  rejected  as  the  Forgeries 
of  Heretics  3  which  is  a  good  Argu 
ment  however,  that  they  were  re- 
ceiv'd  by  fom  Party  of  Chriftians 
to  countenance  their  Opinions. 
Next  I  defign  to  name  thofe  Pie 
ces  of  whofe  Spurioufnefs  I  doubt 
ed,  tho'  their  Authority  is  ftill  re- 
ceiv'd  5  andfo  conclude  this  Point 
with  fom  material  Obfer  vat  ions. 


C    2 


zo  AMYNTOR. 

bi-l;ayi  ^basjin.C 

A  Catalogue  of  Boofy  mention 
ed  by  the  Fathers  and  other 
Ancient  Writers,  as  truly  or 
falfely  afcribd  to  JESUS 
C  H  R  i  s  T  his  Afofllet^  and 
other  eminent  Perfons. 

I.  Of  Books  reported  to  be  written 
by  C  HR  1ST  himfe/f,  or  that 
particularly  concern  him. 

S  Letter  in  anfrrer  to  that 
of  Abgarus  King  of  EdeiTa. 
Eufcb.  Hift.  Ecclef.  1.  i.  013. 
You  may  alfo  confult  Cedrenus, 
Nicephorus,  ^onftantinus  Porphy- 
rogennetus  in  the  Manipulus  of 
CombefifiiMi  p.  79,  &c.  extant. 
2.  The  Efijlle  of  Chrijl  to  Peter  and 
Paul.  Auguftin.  contra  Fau- 
ftumi  1.  28  c.  13. 

5.  The    Parables    and    Sermons    of 
Chrift.  Eufeb.  Hift.  Eccl.  J.  3.  c.  39. 

4.  A 


AMYNTOR.         ii 

4.  A    Hymn    which   Chrift  fecretly 
taught  bis  Afoflles  and  Difciples, 
Auguftin.  Epiit.  253.  ad    Cere- 
turn  Epifcopum. 

5.  A  Book  of  the  Magic  of    Cbrift, 
Auguftin.  de  confenfu  evangeli- 
co,  J.  i.  c.  £,  10.      If  it  be   not 
the  fame  with  the  Epiftle  to  Pe 
ter  and  Paul. 

6.  A  Boo^  of  the    Nativity   of  our 
Savior  ,  of  the   Holy    Virgin  his 
Mother,  and  her  Midwife.     Gcla- 
fius  apud  Gratianum,  Decret.  i, 
part.  Dift.  1  5.  c.  3.    But  I  believe 
this  is  the  fame  with  the  Gofpel 
of  James  $    whereof  in  its   due 
Order. 


II. 


r.  An  Epijlle  to   Ignatius  :  Which 
is  now  extant  among  h  s  Works. 

2.  Another  Epiflle  to  the  Irhabi  arts 
of  Medina  :  To  be  read  a 
the  fame  Ignatius*  Woi  ks, 


22          AMYNTOR. 

3.  A  Book,  of  the    Nativity  of  the 
Virgin  Mary,   Ufually    publifh  d 
with   St.  Jerome's  Works. 

4.  Another  Book,  about  the  Death  of 
Mary,  is  faidby  Lambecius  to  ly 
unpubliftul  in  the  Emperor's  Li 
brary,  T.  4.  p.  131.  .3 

•5.  We  fhall  not  infift  on  the  Book 
of  Mary  concerning  the  Miracles 
of  Chrifti  and  the  Ring  of  King 
Solomon. 

"I'.  HI-  PETER.  -;i^iiii 

1.  The  Goffel  of  Peter.     Origen.  T. 
1 1.  Comment,  in  Mat.    Hieron. 
in  Catalog.  Scnptor.  Ecclef.  c.  i . 
Eufeb.  Hift.  Ecclef.  1.  3.  c.3,  25. 
Idem,  1.  6.  c.  1 2. 

2.  The  Atts  of  Peter.     Eufeb.  Hift. 
Ecclef.  1.3.  c.3.    Hieronym.   in 
Catalogo.     Origen.    Tom.    21. 
Comment,  in  Joan.     Ifidorus  Pe- 
lufiota,!.  2.  Epift.  99. 

3.  The  Revelation  of  Peter.      Clem. 
Alex,  in  Epitom.  Theodot.      Eu 
feb, 


AMYNTOR.  23 

feb.  Hift.  Ecclef.  1.3.0  25.  ^  1.  6. 
c.  14.  Idem,  1.  3.  c.  3.  Hieron- 
in  Catalago,  c.  i.  Zozomen- 
Hift.Ecclef.l./.c.ip. 

4.  The  Efiflle  of  Peter  /o  Clemens, 
is  ftill    fhewn  in    the    ALthiopic 
Language  by  the   Eaftern  Chn- 
ftians.     Tilmont,   Hift.    Ecclef. 
Tom.  i.  part.  2.  pag.  4^7.     And 
he  has  it  from  Cotelerius.     The 
Efiftle  of  Clemens  to  James,  is 
publifh'd  in  the  Clementines. 

5.  The  Dofirine  of  Peter.     Ongen, 
in  praefat.  ad  libros  principiorum 
Gregor.  Nazian.  epift.  1 6.      Eli- 
as  Levita  in  notis  ad  Nazianzeni 
Orationem  ad  civcs  trepidantes. 

6*  The  peaching  of  Peter  (if  it  be 
not  the  fame  with  his  Do<5trin) 
Origen.  Tom.  14.111  Joan.  Idem, 
in  praefat.  ad  Libros  principio 
rum.  Clem.  Alex.  Stromat.  1.  i. 
&  1.  6,  &c.  Ladlant.  1-4-c.  21. 
Autor  libri  de  baptifmo  Hiereti- 
corum  inter  opera  Cypriani, 
Joan.  Damafcen.l. 2. parallel,  c.i  6. 
C  4  8.77* 


AMYNTOR. 

7.  The  Liturgy  of  Peter,    publilh'd 
by  Lindanus  at    Antwerp  in  the 
Year  1588.,   and  at  Paris,  Anno 

1595- 

8.  The  Itinerary,  or  Journys    of  Pe 
ter   ( mention' d  by    Epiphanius, 
Hxref.  30.  n.  15.  and  by    Atha- 
iiafius  in  his  Synopfis  of  the  Scri 
ptures  5)  I  believe  to  be  the  fame 
with   the    Recognitions  of   St. 
Clement  ftill  extant ,  wherein  U7e 
have  a  very  particular  Account 
of  Peter's  Voyages  and   Perfof- 
mances. 

jp.  The  'judgment  of  Peter.  Hie- 
ronym.  in  Catalogo,  c.  j. 

''     %        IV.  ANDREW.      \( ^ 

j .  The  Go/pel  of  St.  Andrew.  Ge- 
lifiusin  Decreto,  &c. 

2.  The  Affs  of  St.  Andrew.  Eufeb. 
Hi  ft.  Ecclef.L  3.  c.  25.  Epiphan. 
Hoeref.  47-  n.  j.  Item,  6\y  63, 
47.  Philaftnus  in  Hxref.  8, 
pelafius  in  decreto  ^  &  Turri- 


AMYNTOR.         25 

bius  Afturicenfis  apud  Pafchafi- 
um  Quefnerum  inter  epiftolas 
jLeonis  magni,  p.  45?. 

V.  JAMES.    ;:/V/    •: 

The  Gofyel  of  St.  James,  or  his 
Protoevangelion.  Origen,  Tom, 
1 1 .  Cortiment.  in  Mat.  Epiphan, 
Ha^ref.  30.  n.  23.  Euftathius  An- 
tiochen.  Comment,  in  Hexae- 
mer.  Epiphanius  monachus  in 
notis  Allatii  ad  Euftathium. 
Multa  ex  hoc  Evangelio  mutu- 
afTe  Gregonum  Nyffenum,  taci- 
fo  Jacobi  nomine,  monet  Alia- 
tius  ibid.  This  Book  is  now  in 
Manufcript  in  the  Library  of 
Vienna,  as  is  faid  by  Lambecius,  I. 
5.  p.  130.  Father  Simon  fays, 
he  has  feen  two  Manufcript  Co 
pies  of  it  in  the  King  of  France's 
Library.  Nouvelles  Obfervati- 
cns,  &c,  p.  4.  It  was  printed  by 
Neander  and  alfo  by  Grynxus  in 
the  firft  Yolum  of  his  Orthodoxo- 
graphs,  2.  The 


AMYNTOR. 

2.  The   Liturgy  of     St.  James    is 
printed  in  the  fecond  Tome  of 
the  Bibliotheca  ^utrum,  at  Paris, 
Anno  1 624. 

3.  We  mention' d  before  The  Book. 
of  St.  James  concerning  the  Death 
of  the  Virgin  Mary  5    but  there 
want   not    Reafons  to  believe 
John,  and  not  James,   to  be  the 
Author  of  it. 

Vwbj    VI.  JOHN. 

1.  The    Affs  of  St.  John.     Eufeb. 
Hift.  Ecclef.  1.  3.  c.  25.  Epiphan. 
Haeref.  47.  n.  i.   Auguftm.   1.  i. 
contra  adverfarios  legis  &   pro- 
phetarum.      Turribii    Scnptum 
inter  Epiftolas  Leonis  magm  3  & 
Phot,  in  codice  22^. 

2.  Another  Gofpel  of  John.  Epiph. 
Hxref.  30.  n.  23. 

3.  The  Itinerary,    or  Voyages  of  St. 
John.     Gelafius  in  decreto. 

4.  The  Liturgy  of  St.  John.     It  was 
together     with    feveral    others 

printed 


"  ,AMYNTOR.  27 
printed  in  Syriac  at  Rome.  See 
Father  Simon  in  his  Supplement 
to  Leo  of  MoJena. 

5.  We  fpoke  twice  before  of  St. 
John  or  St.  James  's  Boo&lout  the 
Death  of  the  Virgin  Mary. 

6.  The   Traditions    of    St.  John. 
Eufeb.  Hift.  Ecclef.  1-  ;.  c.ult. 

}  -  ~  T  j  '   \  '  •")  '  '  'n  *'•          '  j  "•  r  j  >  f  r  f  n  T^ 

-  :  -.  i  t  v.  -'    •    •  v-     -v^    ***  *  •*• 

VII.    PHILIP. 


i.  e   of  St.  Philip.  Epiphan. 

Haeref.   26.    n.    13.    Timotheus 
Presbyter  a  Combefifio  editus  in 
tomo  fecundo  Audruarii. 
The  Atts  of  St.  Philip.   Gelafius 
in  Deceto. 

...»  >  A  V  ?i't^\\vACN!\"  *blVX. 

VIII.   BARTHOLOMEW.^   " 


2.  7"/>e  Gq//?e/  of  St.  Bartholomew, 
Hieronym.  in  prolegom.  Com. 
in  Mat.  Dionyfius  Areopagita  de 
Myftica  Theologia,  cap.  i. 

IX.  THO- 


28          AMYNTOR. 
*?«     IX.    THOMAS. 


.  Thomas.  Origen. 
in  Homil.  ad  Luc.  Eufeb.  Hift. 
Ecclef.  1.  3.  c.  25.  Nicephor.  in 
Stichometria.  Ambrof.  in  Com 
ment.  ad  Luc.  Auguftin.  contra 
Fauftum,  1.  12.  c.  j$.  Cyril.Hie- 
rofolym.  Catech.  4.  6.  Gelafius 
in  decreto. 

2.  The  Afts  of  St.  Thomas.  Epiphaa 
H#ref.  47.  n-  1  .  Idem,  Hxref.  6  1  . 
n.  i.  Auguftin.  contra  Adimant. 
Idem,  1.    i,    de  fermone   Dei. 
Idem,  contra   Fauftum,  1.    12. 
c.  7p. 

3.  The  Revelations    of  S.  Thomas. 
Gelafius  in  Decreto. 

4.  The   Itinerary  of  St.  Thomas*  Ge 
lafius  in  Decreto.  Nicephor.  in 
Stichometria. 

5.  The  Bool^of  the  Infancy  of  Chrift  by 
St.  Thomas.  Epiphan.  Ha^ref.  34- 
n.  1  8.  Nicephor.  in  Stichometria, 
Gelaf.    in    Decreto.  Lambecius 

fays, 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R, 

fays,  that  this  Book  lies  in  Ma- 
nufcript  in  the  Library  ofVienna, 
Tom-  7-  p-  20.  Father  Simon 
writes  that  there  is  a  Manu- 
fcript  Copy  of  it  in  the  French 
King's  Library  5  NouveUes  Ob- 
fervations,  <&c.  It  was  printed 
two  Years  fince  in  Latin,  and 
Arabic  with  learned  Notes  by 
Mr.  Syke  at  Vtrecbt. 

X.  MATTHEW. 

The  Liturgy  of  St.  Matthew.  Tom. 
27.  Bibliothecse  Patrum  Lugdu- 
nenfis.  Natalis  Alex,  in  faeculo  i. 
part  i.  c.  ii.  art.  i.  Gerardus, 
torn,  i  •  Conf.  CathoL  There  is 
alfo  a  Liturgy  attributed  to  St. 


XI.  THADD&VS.    , 

i.  The  G  off  e!  of  St.  Tbadd<xt*s.  Ge- 
lafius  in  Decreto, 

P 
XII 


30  AMYNTOR. 

^  XII.  MATTHIAS. 

i.  The  Gofpel  of  St.  Matthias.  On- 
gen.  Homil  i.  in  Luc.  Eufeb. 
Hift.  Eccles.  I.  3.  c.  25.  Hiero- 
nym.  in  prolegom.  ad  Comment. 
in  Mat.  Ambrof.  in  Comment. 
ad  Luc.  Gelaf.  in  Decreto. 

2-  X6e  Traditions  of  St.  Matthias. 
Clem.  Alex.  Stromat.  1.  7. 

XIII.     P  AV  L, 


S/.  jP^^/.  Origen. 
1.  j.  c.  2.dePrincipiisJdem,  torn. 
2  1.  in  Joan.  Eufeb.  1.  3.  0.3.  Hift. 
Ecclef.  c.25.Philaftnus,H^ref.88. 
T/^^  >4<3s  o/  /^^/  ^TZ^/  Thee  la. 
Tertullian.  de  Baptifmo.  c.  17. 
Hiercnym.  de  Script.  Ecclef.  in 
Paulo  &  Luca.  Auguftin.  1.  30. 
contra  Fauftum,  c;  4-  Gelafius  in 
Decreto.  Nuper  Editus  eft  hie 
Liber  Oxonii.  Epiphan.  Haeref^ 
78.  n.  i  £.  Extant. 

*  The 


AMYNTOR.          31 

3.  The  Efiflle  of  Paul  to  the  Laodi' 
ceans.  Tertullian  adveffus  Mar- 
cion.  1.  5.  c.  17.    Hieronym.   in 
Catalogo,  c.  5.  Philaftr.  inHceref. 
883Theodoret.  torn.  8.  Haeref. 
47.  n.  9.  &  alibi.   Legatur  eti- 
am  Theophyladtus.  extant. 

4.  A  third  Efiflle  of  Paul  to  the 
Thejfalonians.   2  Thef.  2.  2. 

5.  A  third  Efiftle  to  the  Corinthians, 
and  a  fecond  to  the  Ephefians.   i 
Cor.  5.^.  Ephef.  3. 3. 

6.  The  Efiftles   of  Paul  to  Seneca, 
with    thofe   of  Seneca     to    Paul. 
Hieronym.  in  Catalogo^    c.  12. 
Auguftm.  de  Civitate  Dei,  L   6. 
c.  10.  Idem,  in  Epift  54.  ad  Ma- 
cedonium.  extant. 

7.  The  Revelation  of  St,  Paul.   Epi- 
phan.  Hxref.  38.11.  2.  Zazomen. 
Hift.  Ecclef.  1.  7.  c.  19.  Auguftin. 
Trad:.  5*8.  in  Joan-  Theophyladt. 
in  SchoL  ad  2-  ad  Corinth-  Mic. 
Glycas.  annal   part  2-  Gelaf.  in 
Decreto.  Zozomen-  Hift  Ecclef 
l'7ff^;i^ 

8.  The 


32          AMYNTOR. 

8.  The  Poaching  of  S/.  Paul  Clerrt- 
Alex-  Stromat.  1-  6-  Ladant.  L  4' 
c.  21.  Autor  etiam  Anonymus  de 
non  iterando  Baptifmo,  a  Rigal- 
tio  in  obfervationibus  ad  Cypri- 
anum  infertus< 

9.  Saint  Paul's  Narrative  concerning 
the  charming  of  Vipers,  reveal' J  to 
him   by  St.  Michael  in  a  Dream. 
Lambeciut  fays,  that  there  is  now 
a  Manufcript   of   this  Book  in 
the  Library  of  Vienna,  Tom.  5. 
p.   103. 

10.  The  Anaba'ticon  of  Saint  Paul, 
wherein    he  relates  what   he  faw 
when  he  was  fnatchd  up  into  the 
third  Heavens-     Epiphan-  Hxref. 
38.  n-  2. 

11.  Som  would  infer  from  his  own 
Words,  that  he  wrote  a  Gofyel  5 
In  the  day,  fays  he,  when  God  fhall 
judge  the  Secrets  of  Men  by  Chrijl 
Jefus     according    to    my    Gofyel. 
Rom-  2-  16- 

'"  /t  XIV.  Of 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.          33 

XIV.  Of  the  Go/pels  of  Judas  Ifca- 
not,  of  Eve,  and  Abraham, 


i.  That  none  of  the  Apoftles  might 
be  thought  unable  to  write  a  Go- 
fpel  we  find  one  alkdg'd  by  the 
Caianites,  a  Se<5t  of  the  Gnoftics, 
under  the  Name  of  Juc/as  ifcari- 
ot.  Epiphan.  Haeref.  38.  Theodo- 
ret-  1.  i.  de  Hseret-  Fabul-  c.  15. 

2-  Nor  fhould  we  wonder  at  Ju- 
dass  being  an  Author,  when  we 
read  of  the  Prophetical  Gofpel  of 
Eve.,  whom  the  Gnoftics  recko 
ned  a  Patronefs  of  their  Opinions, 
and  to  have  received  extraordi 
nary  Knowkdg  and  Light  in 
her  Conference  with  the  Serpent. 
Epiphan-  Hseref.  26.  n.  i. 

3.  The  Sethians,  another  fort  of 
Gnoftics  ,  fhew'd  an  Apocalypfe 
under  the  Name  of  the  Patriarch 
Abraham  5  not  to  mention  his 
learned  Pieces  of  Aftrology,  nor 
the  Books  of  Adam  believcl  by  the 
D  Jews. 


34          AMYNTOR. 

Jews.  Epiphan-  Haeref-  30.  n.  16. 
Ifidor.  Pelufiot  1-  2.  Epift.  5^. 

4-  The  Prophecy  of  Enoch,  which  St. 
Jude  quotes,  is  for  the  rnoft  part 
fhll  extant,  and  was  believM  to  be 
Genuin  by  feveral  Fathers,  who 
alledg  it  in  defence  of  the  Chrifti- 
an  Religion-  Origen.  contra  Celf. 
1.  5.  Idem  de  Principiis-  Tertulli- 
aa  de  habitu  Muliebri,  c^&c- 

5.  The  Teftament  of  the  twelve  Pa 
triarchs,  the  A/umption  of  Mofes, 
the  Boo^of  El  dad  and  Medad,  the 
tPjalms  of  King  Solomon,  the  Reve 
lation  of  Zachary,  and  the  Vifion 
of  Ifaiah  5  but  I  forget  that  1  am 
reciting  the  fpurious  Books 
of  the  Chriftians,  and  not  of  the 
Jews,  who,  when  there's  occafi- 
on,  will  afford  as  large  a  Cata 
logue- 


XV-  Of 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.          35 

XV.  Of  the  Gofpe/s  of  the  Hebrews 

and  the  Egyptians,    with  few 

general  Pieces. 

1.  The  Gofpel  of  the  twelve  Apoftles. 
Origen-HomiL  i-  in  Luc.  Am- 
brof  in  Proocm.  Commentar.  in 
Luc.  Theophyladb  Comment-  in 
cap-   i-  v.  i-  fecundum  Lucam, 
&c-  But  this  Piece  was,  I  believe, 
Originally  the  fame  with 

2.  The  Gofpel  of  the  Hebrews.  Ignat. 
in  Epift.  ad  Smyrnaeos-Clem-  Alex 
1.  i.  Stromat.  Origen-  tra<5t.  8-  in 
Matt.   Idem,  Homil.   14.  in  Je- 
rem.    &  in  Comment,  ad  Joan. 
Epiphan.   Hctref- 30-  n.  13,    22, 
&c.     Hieronym.     in   Catalogo 
Script-  Ecclef-  c.  4.  &  alibi  Paf- 
fim-      This  Gofpel  feveral  have 
maintiin'd  to  be  the  Original 
of  St.  Matthew- 

3-  The  Gofpel  of  the  Egyptians,  Clem. 
Rom-  Epiit  2-  ad  Corinth-  c-  1 2. 
Clem.  Alex-  1-  3- Stromat.  Id- ibid 
D  2 


AMYNTOR. 

Origen.    Homil  in    Luc.  Epi- 
phan.  Hxr  f.  62.n-2- 
The  Afoftles  Creed \  tho'  of  late 
Years  it  begins  to  be  cali'd   in 
queftion. 

The  DoRrine  and  Conftitution  of 
the  Apoftles.  Eufeb.  Hift.  Ecclef. 
1-3-  c.  25.  Athanaf.  in  Synopfi. 
Epifhan.  Harrcf.  80.  n.  7.  45.  n. 
5.  70-  n-  io.  75.  n.  6.  Idem  in 
Compendiana  fidei  expofitione, 
n-  22.  Inccrtus  de  Aleatonbus 
inter  Scripta  Cypriani-  There 
are  A^a^t/  and  At^a^^A/at,  or  Do- 
drnnes,  both  attributed  to  every 
cne  of  the  Apollles  iingly,  and 
alfo  to  their  Companions  and 
jmmcdiat  Succeflors,  too  long  to 
infert  particularly.  Thcfe  Do- 
dlrins  were  bound  with  the  o- 
ther  Books  of  the  New  Tcfta- 
mcnt,  as  appears  by  the  Sticho- 
metry  ct  Ncephorus  and  An  aft  a- 
fins  5  the'  it  was  not  always  pre 
tended,  that  they  were  Original 
Picas,  but  rather  Collections cf 

what 


A  MY  NT  OR.         37 

*  '    ;  '  *  ' 

what  the  Companions  and  Sue 
ceflbrs  of  the  Apoftks  either 
heard,  or  pretended  to  hear  from 
their  own  Mouths- 

6-  We  need  not  produce  our  Au 
thorities  for  the  Canons  and  Con- 
ftit2ttions  of  the  Apoftles,  fince  fo 
many  learned  Members  of  the 
Church  of  England  have  written 
large  Volums  to  prove  5em  ge- 
nuin. 

7.  The  Precepts  of  Peter  <m/Paul. 
This  Book  lies  in  Manufcript  in 
the  Great  Duke's  Library  in  Flo 
rence  ,  if  we  believe  Ludovicus 
Jacobus  a  Sancfto  Carolo  in  his  Bi» 
bliotheca  Pontificia,  1.  i.  pag. 


8.  The  prefent  Cophtic  Chriftians 
have  a  Book  of  Docftrins,  which 
they  believe  was  compos  d  by 
the  twelve  Apoftles,  with  the 
Afliftancc  of  St.  Jaul,  &c. 

£.  The  Gofpelof  Terfeflion-  Epiphan, 
Hxrcf.  26.  n-  ^. 

D  3  io.  The 


38          AMYNTOR.  % 

10.  The  Affis  of  all  the  Apoftles,  writ 
ten  by   them/elves.  Epiphan:  Hx- 
rcf- 30.  n.  16*    Ifidor.  Peluf.  1.  2- 
epift.  29-  Varadatus  in  epift.  ad 
Leonem  Imp-    Tom-  4-  Concil. 
Labbad-    col-  978-     Jo-  Ma/ala, 
Chronograph-  1-x. 

11.  I  he  Itinerary  of  all  the  Afoflles^ 
as  well  as  of  every  one  of  'em 
fingly,  was  formerly  extant. 

XVI-   Of  the  Writings  of  the  Difci- 

cifles  and  Companions  of  the 

Apoftles* 

O  F  the  Books  afcrib'd  to  the 
Difciples  and  Companions  of  the 
Apoftles,  and  which  are  ftill  extant, 
fom  are  thought  genuin  and  ojf 
great  Authority  at  this  time :  Every 
one  were  approved  at  fom  time, 
or  by  fom  Party  :  And  yet  I  am 
of  Opinion ,  that  it  is  the  ea- 
iieft  Task  in  the  World  (next  to 
that  of  (hewing  the  Ignorance  and 
Superltition  of  the  Writers)  to 

prove 


AMYNTOR. 

prove  them  all  Spurious,  and  frau 
dulently  impos'd  on  the  Credulous. 
Thofe  I  mean,  are  the  Epiftles  of 
Clemens  Romanus  to  the  Corinthians, 
his  Recognitions,  Deoetals,  and  o- 
ther  Pieces  bearing  his  Nanae  :  All 
the  Epiftles  of  Ignatius  3  the  Epiftle 
of  Polycarpus  to  the  Philippians, 
with  his  other  Writings  3  The  A6ls 
of  the  Martyrdom  of  Ignatius  and 
Polycarpus  3  The  Paftor  of  Her- 
mas^Thc  Epiftle  of  Barnabas  3  The 
Works  of  Dionyfiw  the  Areopagite  5 
The  Epiftle  of  Marcellus,  Peter's 
Difciple^to  Nereus  and  Achitteus,  and 
his  Treatife  of  the  Conflict  ojf  Pe 
ter  and  Simon  Magus  3  The  Life  of 
Saint  John,  by  Prochorus  3  The  Pe 
tition  of  Veronica  to  Herod  on  the 
behalf  of  C  H  R  \  s  T  5  The  Pa/lion 
of *  Timothy  by  -Poly  crates  3  The  Paf- 
fions  of  Peter  and  Paul  in  two 
Books  by  Li?ius  3  The  two  Epiftles 
of  Martial  of  Limoufin,  and  the  Life 
of  the  fame  by  A.ureliamts  3  The 
Gofpcl  of  Nicodemus  3  The  Hifto- 

D4  rj 


40  AMYNTOR. 

ry  of  the  Apoftolical  Conflict  by 
Abdiat)  who  isfaid  to  be  appointed 
firft  Bifhop  of  Babylon  by  the  Apo- 
ftles  5  The  Paffion  of  Saint  Andrew 
written  by  the  Presbyters  of  Achaia  $ 
The  Epiftle  of  Evodius,  entituf  q 
the  Light  5  the  Altercation  of  Ja- 
fon  and  Papifcus  5  The  Ac5h  of  77- 
tus  composed  by  Zena,  St.  Paul's 
Companion,  with   a  multitude  of 
other  Acts  and  Patfions.     The  Go- 
fpel  of  Barnabas,  the  Revelation  of 
Stephen,  the   Paflion  of  Barnabas, 
and  the  Epiftles  of  Jofefh  the  Ari- 
mathean   to  the  Britons  are    quite 
loft  3  and  were  they  extant,  would 
probably    appear  to  be  as  foolifh 
and  fabulous  as  the  reft. 

XVII.  Of  Pieces  aUedgd  in  favor  of 
Chriflianity ,  which  were  forgd 
under  the  Name  of  Heathens. 

i.  The  Works  of  Trifmegiftus  an4 
Afc/efius.  extant* 

2.  The 


AMYNTOR.         41 

2.  The  Books  of  Zoroafter  and  Hy- 
ftafpes. 

3.  The  Sibyllin  Oracles  cited  fo  fre 
quently,  and  with  fiich   Autho 
rity  by  the  Primitive  Fathers,  that 
*   Celfus   takes    occafion   from 
thence  to  nick-name  the  Chrifti- 
ans  Sibyllifls.  extant. 

4.  The  Letter  of  Pontius  Pilat  to 
Tiberius,  with  the  Speech  of  Ti- 
berius  to  the  Senat.    extant. 

5-  The  Epiftle  of  Lentulus,  giving 
a  Defcription  of  the  Perfon  of 
CHRIST,  extant. 

6.  The  Epiftles  or  Orders  of  A- 
drian^  Antoninus  tPius,  and  Mar 
cus  Aurelius ,  in  favor  of  the 
Chriftians.  extant  in  Juftin 
Martyr,  &c-  &c-  &c- 

*  Origen.  cpntr.  Celf  1.  y. 


HERE'S 


42          AMY  NT  OR. 

H  E  R  E'S  a  long  Lift  for  Mr- 
BLACKBALL,  who,  %is  probable,  will 
not  think  the  more  meanly  of  him- 
felf  for  being  unacquainted  with 
thefe  Pieces  5  nor,  if  that  were  all, 
fhould  I  be  forward  to  think  the 
worfe  of  him  on  this  Account :  but 
I  think  he  is  to  blame  for  denying 
that  there  were  any  fuch,  becaufe 
he  knew  nothing  of  ?em ;  much 
lefs  Ihould  he  infer  from  thence, 
that  I  deny'd  the  Scriptures  5  which 
Scandal  however,  becaufe  manifeft- 
ly  proceeding  from  Ignorance,  I 
heartily  forgive  him,  as  every  good 
Chriftian  ought  to  do. 

T  O  explain  now  therefore  the 
feveral  Members  of  the  PalTage  in 
MILTON'S  Life  :  In  the  firft  place, 
by  the  fnurious  Pieces  I  meant,  tho' 
not  all,  yc  good  parcel  of  thole 
Books  in  the  Catalogue,  which  I 
am  pcrfuaded  were  partly  fcrg'd  by 
fom  more  zealous  than  difcreet 
Cfirflmns,  to  fupply  the  brevity  of 

the 


AMY  NT  OR.        43 

the  Apoftolic  Memoirs ;  partly  by 
defigning  Men  to  fupport  their  pri- 
vat  Opinions,  which  they  hop'd  to 
effect  by  virtue  of  fuch  refpe&ed 
Authorities :  And  fom  of  ?em,  I 
doubt,  were  invented  by  Heathens 
and  Jews  to  impofe  on  the  Cre 
dulity  of  many  wel-dipos'd  Per- 
fons,  who  greedily  fwallow'd  any 
Book  for  Divine  Revelation  that 
contain'd  a  great  many  Miracles , 
mixt  with  a  few  good  Morals,while 
their  Adverfaries  laught  in  their 
Sleeves  all  the  while,  to  fee  their 
Tricks  fucceed,  and  were  n vetted 
in  their  ancient  Prejudices  by  the 
greater  Superftition  of  fuch  Enthu- 
fiafts. 

IN  the  fecond  place,  by  the 
Books  of  whofe  Spurioufnefs  I  faid 
the  World  was  not  yet  convinced, 
tho'  in  my  pnvat  Opinion  I  could 
not  think  'em  genuin,  I  meant  thofe 
of  the  other  great  Perfons,or  the  fup- 
pos'd  Writings  of  certain  Apoftolic 
Men  (as  they  call  'cm)  which  are 

at 


44  A  M  Y  N  T  O  R. 

at  this  prefent,  as  well  as  in  an 
cient  times,  read  with  extraordina 
ry  Veneration.  And  they  are  the 
Epiftle  of  BARNABAS,  the  Paftor  of 
HERMAS,  the  Epiftle  of  POLYCARPUS 
to  the  Phil/pplans,  the  firft  Epiftle 
of  CLEMENS  ROMANUS  to  the  Corin 
thians,  and  the  feven  Epiftles  of 
IGNATIUS.  Thefe  nre  generally  re- 
ceiv'd  in  the  Church  of  Rome,  and 
alfo  by  moft  Proteftants  $  but  thofe 
of  the  Church  of  England  hwc  par 
ticularly  fignaliz'd  themfclves  in 
their  Defence,  and  by  publishing 
the  correcfteft  Impreflions  of  them. 
The  Ancients  paid  them  the  higheft 
Refpeft,  and  reckoned  the  firft  four 
oPem  efpecially,as  good  as  any  part 
of  the  New  Teftament.  The  Epi 
ftle  of  BARNABAS  is  by  ^  CLEMENS 
ALEXANDRiNiis,and  ORIGEN,  not  only 
reckon5  <i  gcnuin,  but  cited  as  Scrip 
ture  3  tho5  he  fays  in  exprefs  Terms, 
That  the  Afoflles,  before  their  Con- 
verfion,  were  the  greateft  Shiners  in 


*  airofmt.l.2.&  5.Coacra  Cdll.i.de  Princfp.  1  3 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.        45 

Nature  $  which,  if  believ'd,  would 
rob  us  of  an  Argument  we  draw 
from  their  Integrity  and  Simplici 
ty  againft  Infidels,  to  fay  nothing 
now  of  the  many  other  ridiculous 
PalTages  in  BAKNABAS.  ThePaftor, 
or  Vifions,Prccepts,  and  Similitudes 
of  H*KMAS  (who  is  fuppos'd  to  be 
the  Perfon  mention'd  by  PAUL  in 
his  Epiftle  to  the  Romans)  is  cited 
as  Canonical  Scripture  by  *  IREN^ 
us,  CLEMENS  AIEXANDRINUS,  ORIGEN, 
and  others,  and  was  for  fuch  re- 
ceiv'd  by  feveral  Churches,  tho' 
I  think  it  the  fillyeft  Book  in  the 
World.  The  Epiftle  of  POLYCAR- 
PUS  (the  fupposd  Difciple  of  St. 
JOHN)  was  read  in  the  Churches  of 
Afia,  and  is  quoted  by  f  IREN^EUS, 
EUSEBIUS  and  others.  The  Epiftle  of 
CUEMENS  RoMANiis(whom  they  would 
have  to  be  the  fame  that's  mentioned 
by  PAUL  in  his  Epiftle  to  the  (Phi: 

*  Adveili  H*re(!  1.  4,  c.  ;  Stromjt,  1.1.2.4.5* 
princip.  1.  i.  c.  ;.  1  i.  c  i.  Homil.  10.  in  Hof.fic 
al  bi  paffim.  t  L.  i.  contr.  Haeref  Eufeb.  Hift. 
Ecclel!  1.  4/c.  14.  Phot,  cod,  ia<5. 

/ippians) 


AMYNTOR. 

lippians)  is  cited  by  *  IREN;EUS? 
CLEMENS  ALEXANRINUS,  ORIGEN,  Eu- 
SEBIUS,  and  others.  The  Epiftles  of 
IGNATIUS  are  quoted  by  f  IK^N^US, 
EUSEBIUS,  with  feveral  more  5  but 
particularly  by  *ORIGEN,  who  fays, 
that  in  one  of  'em  he  found  it  ve 
ry  elegantly  written,  That  the  Vir 
ginity  of  MARY  wot  a  Secret  to  the 
Devil  5  which  '\Virginity  ^  with  her 
Delivery,  and  the  Death  of  our  Lord, 
IGNATIUS  fays,  were  Three  famous 
Myfteries  wrought  in  the  Silence  of 
God.  Thefe  Words  may  be  now 
read  in  the  Epiftle  of  IGNATIUS  to 
the  Efhefians.  Now  thefe  are  the 
Books  of  whofe  Gcnuinnefs  and 
Authority  I  took  the  Liberty  to 
doubt,  notwithftanding  the  better 
Opinion  which  is  entertained  of  'em 
by  others.  My  prefent  Bufinefs  is 

~*  Contra  hfcerd.  1.  }.  c.  ?.  Stromat.  1  1,4,  5, 
6.  DePrincip.  L  a.  Hift.  Ecclef.  1.  3.  c.  16, 
26.  1.  4.  c.  11,  23.  f  Contra  H^rei]  1.  5.  c. 
18.  Hift.  Ecclef.  1.  ;.c.  36.  *  Hom?l.  6.  in  Luc. 

t^EAa^t  r  etf^PTCfc  T«  rti«j/©-  T«T«  W    Trafavia.  Mct&ctf, 

-  '  " 


)L)  0   TVYJHVf   tUJWy  OUOlUf        0  SttVAT-  T» 

cy  iwuj.  ©g»  i^ct^^.     Ep.  ad  Ephef. 


not 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.          47 

not  to  infift  on  this  Subje<5t,  but  to 
clear  my  iclf  of  an  Imputation, 
which  I  thought  no  body  could 
infer  from,  my  Words.  Yet  fince 
many  were  lefs  knowing  than  I 
imagin'd,  tho'  Mr.  BLACKBALL  alone 
has  the  Candor  of  ptibliihing  his 
Weaknefs  to  the  World,!  aflfure  'em 
all  that  I  alluded  to  thefe  Books  5 
and  I  hope  they  will  be  juft  enough 
in  allowing  me  beft  to  explain  my 
own  meaning,  and  prove  fo  ten 
der  of  their  own  Reputation,  as  to 
confider  well  of  it,  before  they 
cenfure  me  another  time. 

BUT  tho5  I  will  not,  as  I  faid, 
enter  now  into  a  particular  Dif- 
cutfion  of  thefe  Writings,  yet  I 
fhall  offer  one  thing  to  the  Confi- 
deration  of  their  Defenders.  Either 
they  really  believe  the  Epiftles  of 
BARNABAS  and  CLEMENS  (for  Exam 
ple)  to  be  theirs,  or  to  be  fuppo- 
fititious-  If  not  theirs ,  there's  a 
fpeedy  end  of  the  Difpute ,  and  I 
have  attain'd  my  End  without 

more 


48          AMYNTOR. 

more  Argumentation.  But  if  they 
think  'em  genuin,  why  do  they  not 
receive  ?em  into  the  Canon  of 
Scriptures,  fince  they  were  the  Com 
panions  and  Fellow  laborers  of  the 
Apoftles,  as  well  as  St.  MARK  or  St. 
LUKE  ?  If  this  Quality  was  fuffici- 
ent  to  entitle  the  two  laft  to  Infpi- 
ration,  why  fhould  it  not  do  as 
much  for  the  two  firft  ?  And  if  this 
be  not  all  the  Reafon,  pray  let  us 
know  the  true  one,  having  never 
heard  of  any  other-  To  fay,  that 
tho?  the  Books  are  authentic,  yet 
they  ought  not  to  be  received  now 
into  the  Canon,  becaufe  the  An 
cients  did  not  think  fit  to  approve 
'em,  is  but  a  mere  Evafion  :  For 
'tis  well  known,  that  till  after  Eu- 
SEBIUS'S  time,  neither  the  fecond  E- 
piftle  of  PETER,nor  thatofJ^MEs,  or 
J  u  D  E,  with  fom  others  ,  were 
approved  as  Canonical  ;  and  yet 
they  were  afterwards  received  by 
the  whole  Church.  Wherefore  then 
may  not  we  as  well  at  this  time  e- 

ftabliih 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R,          4j? 

ftablifh  the  Epiftles  of  Ci£M£xNsand 
BARNABAS  ,  if  they  be  undoubtedly 
theirs,whichl  fhali  be  perfuaded  their 
Patrons  believe,  when  they  quote 
?em  as  Scripture,  and  then  I  know 
where  to  have  them,  and  how  to 
deal  with  'em-  But  of  this  enough- 
I  S  A I D  above,  that  by  the  fpu- 
rious  Pieces  I  meant  only  a  great 
part  of  the  Books  which  are  recited 
in  the  Catalogue  $  for  others  of 
5em  do  not  feem  to  deferve  fo 
mean  a  Rank  :  and  I  am  fo  far 
from  rejecting  all  thofeBooks  of  the 
New  Tef lament  which  we  now  re 
ceive,  that  I  am  rather  felicitous 
left,  as  in  the  dark  Ages  of  Pope- 
ry,thofe  we  commonly  callApochry- 
phal  Books,  were  added  to  the  Bi 
ble,  fo  at  the  fame  time,  and  in 
as  ignorant  Ages  before,  feveral  o- 
thers  might  be  taken  away  ,  for 
not  fuiting  all  the  Opinions  of  the 
ftrongeft  Party.  Nor  is  it  unworthy 
obfervation,  that  moft  of  thefc 
Books  are  condemned  by  the  Decree 

E  of 


5o  AMYNTOR. 
of  Pope  GELASIUS.  How  many  true 
and  fpurious  Gofpels  or  Hiftories  of 
CHR.IST  were  extant  inSt.LiiKE's  time, 
God  knows  5  but  that  there  were 
fcveral  may  be  evidently  infer5  d 
from  his  own  Words,  who  tells 
LUC.I.I,  THEOPHII.US,  that  many  had  under 
taken  the  fame  Work  before  him, 
and,  as  if  he  alluded  to  fom  fpuri 
ous  Relations,  aflures  him,  that 
he'll  write  nothing  but  what  he  re- 
ceiv'd  from  fuch  as  had  a  perfect 
knowledg  of  thofe  Matters  from 
the  beginning.  That  there  fhould 
be  firft  and  laft,  but  juft  the  num 
ber  of  Four,  I  never  heard  of  any 
that  went  about  to  demonftrat,  ex 
cept  UEN/EUS  the  fam'd  Succefforof 
the  Apoftles ;  and  he  pofitivcly  *  af~ 

*  Fmna  &  vera  eit  noitrade  illis  oftendo  ;  Nequeau- 
rcm  plura  numero  quam  haec  funt^neque  rurfus,  paucio- 
ra  capir  cfle  Evangelia.  Quoniam  enim  quatuor  regiones 
mundi  funt  in  quo  fumns,8c  quatuor  principales  Spiritus, 
&  difTeminaca  eft  Ecclefia  fuper  omnem  terram  ;  colum- 
na  autem  &  firmamentum  Ecclefiae  eft  Evangelium  8c 
fpiritus  virae  ;<:onfequcns  eft  quatuor  babere  earn  colum- 
nas  undique  flames  incorraptibilitatem,&vivificantes  ho- 
niines. — His  igiterfic  fehabencibus  vani  omnes&c  indo- 
(Tti,  &  infuper  audaces,  qui  frnftrantur  fpeciem  Evange- 
lii :  &  vel  piures  quam  di&x  fane,  vel  rurfus  pauciores 
inferunt  peribnas  Evangelii.  Adverfus  H#rcf.  1.  3.  1 1. 

firms, 


AM  YNTOR.          sf 

firms,  that  there  cannot  be  more* 
nor  fewer  than  Four  Gofpels : c  For? 
fays  he,  '  there  be  Four  Regions  of 
c  this  World  wherein  we  live,  with 
c  Four  principal  Winds,  and  the 
'  Church  is  fpread  over  all  the 

Earth :  But  the  Support  and 
c  Foundation  of  the  Church  is  the 
c  Gofpel,  and  the  Spirit  of  Lite  : 

Therefore  it  muft  folio  w,that  it  has 
:  Four  Pillars,blo wing  Incorruptibi- 
c  lity  on  all  fides,  and  giving  Life 
c  to  Men.  Jhen  he  corroborats 
his  Argument  from  the  Four  Che- 
rubims,  and  the  Four  Faces  in  EZE- 

KIEL'S    VlflOll,     to  wit,   of  a  Lyon,  Ezek.6, 

an  Ox  ,  a  Man,  and  an  Eagle  5  6,  10. 
which  is  the  Reafon,  by  the  way, 
why  the  Four  Evangelifts  are  paint 
ed  with  thcfe  Emblems  in  the  Mafs- 
Book  and  in  our  Common  Pray'r- 
Book.  So  he  concludes  at  laft,  That 
c  they  are  all  vain,  unlearn'd,  and  im- 
c  pudent,  who  after  this  would  afTert, 
c  that  there  were  more  or  fewer  than 
c  4  Gofpels.  Where  wemayobferve, 
E  2  that 


52  AMYNTOR. 

that  Mr.  BLACKBALL  has  the  War 
rant  ot  an  anc.cnt  Father  for  gi 
ving  hard  Na  IKS  to  fuch  as  con 
temn  precarious  Rcafomng  :  And 
indeed  it  is  but  too  manifeft  to  be 
deny'd ,  that  ro  Order  of  Men 
have  more  violated  the  Rules  of 
Decency  and  Civility  in  their  Wri 
tings,  than  thofe  whole  Bufinefs  it 
is  to  teach  others  Modera 
tion,  Patience ,  and  Forgivenefs  5 
nor  was  there  ever  any  Caufe  more 
defended  by  the  Dint  of  Calumny 
than  that  of  Religion,  which  leaft 
needed  it  of  any  other. 

SEVERAL  of  thefe  Books  where 
of  I  now  treat,  are  quoted  to  prove 
importantPomts  of  the  ChnftianRe- 
ligion  by  the  moft  celebrated  Fa 
thers,  as  of  equal  Authority  with 
thofe  we  now  receive  $  and  the 
Teftimony  of  thefe  Fathers  was  the 
principal  Reafon  of  eftablifhing 
thefe  in  our  prefent  Cannon,  and  is 
ftill  alledg'd  to  that  purpofe  by  all 
that  write  in  defence  of  the  Scrip 
tures. 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.         53 

tures-  Of  fo  much  weight  is  this 
Teftimony,  that  EUSEBIUS  *  rejefh 
the  Acts,  Gofpel,  Preaching,  a'-d 
Revelation  of  PETIEL  from  bei  g 
Authentic,  for  no  other  Reafon,  b t 
becaufe  no  Ancient  or  iMod  mVV  > 
ter  (fays  he)  h  js  quoted  PL  oofs  out 
of  them-  Bur  herein  TU^B^US  was 
miftaken  5  for  the  contrary  ap 
pears  by  the  Tcflimonies  maikt  in 
the  Catalogue,  and  which  any  bo 
dy  may  compare  with  the  Origi 
nals.  In  another  place  he  f  fayr, 
That  the  Gofpels  of  PSTF.&,  THO 
MAS,  MATTHIAS,  and  flich  Lkc%  With 
the  Afts  of  ANDR?\V,  JOHN,  ana  the 
other  Apofties  are  fpurious ,  be- 
caufe  no  Ecclefiaftic  Writer  from 


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v  ZvcLiykhtov,  7071  Afy»|U  Vov  cav  r*  f^v 

T  X-*A»««Vvr'ct 

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H$ic<>?z,,  ILil  o  2>t 

E  3    .  the 


54  '        AMYNTOR. 
the  time  of  the  Apoftles   down  to 
his  own,  has  vouchfaPd   to  quote 
them,  which  is  absolutely  falfe  of 
fom ,    as  we   have   already  Ihewn. 
So  that    JVfr.  BL^CKHALL  is    not  the 
only  Man,  I  find,  who  makes  his 
own  Reading  the  Meafure  of  all 
Truth3  and  a  Thoufand  to  One  but 
now  he  justifies  this  Practice,   fince 
he  can   prove  it   from  Antiquity, 
and  he  has  got  the   Authority  of 
fo  great  a  Father  on  his  fide.  Had 
EUSEBIUS   found  any  of  thefe  Pie 
ces  cited  by  the  precedent  Ortho 
dox  Writers,  he  would  have  own' d 
them  as  the  genuin  Productions  of 
the  Apoflles,    and  admitted   them 
(as  we  fay)  into  the  Canon  $  but 
having  met  no  fuch  Citations,  he 
prefently    concluded    there    were 
none,  which  made  him  reject  thofe 
Books :  And,    I  fay,  what  I  have 
already  demonstrated,  that  Proofs 
were  quoted  out  of  fom  of  'em 
long  before,   fo   that  they  might 
(till   belong  to  the  Canon  for  all 
EUSEBIUS.  TO 


AMYNTOR.  55 

TO  thefeConfiderations  twoOb* 
jedtions  may  perhaps  be  made.  Firft, 
It  is  unlikely,  they  11  fay,  that  Eu- 
SEBIUS  Ihould  not  have  read  the 
Ancients  $  nay,  that  the  contrary 
appears  by  his  many  Citations  out 
of  them  5  and  that  confcquently 
thofe  Works  of  the  Fathers,  which 
we  have  now  in  our  Hands,  are 
not  the  fame  which  were  read  in 
his  time,  or  that  at  leaft  they  are 
ftrangely  adulterated  ,  and  full  of 
Interpolations.  With  all  my  Heart :~ 
But  then  let  us  not  be  urg'd  by  their 
Authority  in  other  Points  no 
more  than  in  this,  fince  in  one 
thing  they  may  as  well  be  alter'd 
and  corrupted  as  in  another  }  and 
indeed  ,  by  a  common  Rule  of 
Equity  (being  found  chang'd  in 
fom  places)  they  ought  to  be  fo  re 
puted  in  all  the  reft,  till  the  con 
trary  be  evidently  prov'd. 

THE     fecond    Objedion    is, 

Thataltho'  thefe  Pieces   have  bin 

acknowledged  to  be  the  Writings 

E  4  of 


AMYNTOR. 

of  thofe  Apoftles  whofe  Names 
they  bear,  at  certain  times,  and  in 
fom  Churches,  yet  they  were  ex- 
prefly  rejected  by  others.  To  this 
I  anfwer,  That  there  is  not  one 
fmgle  Book  in  the  New  Tefta- 
ment  which  was  not  refus'd  by 
fom  of  the  Ancients  as  unjuftly 
father'd  upon  the  Apoftles,  and 
really  forg'd  by  their  Adverfa- 
ries  3  which  as  no  body  thinks  it 
now  a  good  Reafon  to  difap- 
prove  them,  fo  I  fee  not  how  it 
fhould  any  more  conclude  againft 
my  Opinion.  But  becaufe  the 
various  Sefts  of  thofe  early 
Days  did,  like  us,  condemn  one 
another  for  damnable  Heretics  5 
and  the  admitting  or  refufing,  the 
framing  or  corrupting  of  certain 
Books,  were  fom  of  the  Crimes 
which  were  mutually  imputed,  I 
fhall  now  infift  only  on  the  Epi- 
ftle  to  the  Hebrews,  that  of  JAMES, 
the  fccond  of  PETER,  the  fecond 
and  third  of  JOHN?  the  Epiftle 

ol 


AMYNTOR.         57 

of  JUDE,  and  the  Revelation. 
Thefe  feven  Pieces  were  a  long 
time  plainly  doub-  *  Let  thc  third 
ted  by  the i  And-  ana  twenty  firft 

eiltS,      particularly      Chapters  of  the  EC- 
,rr  .  ckfiaftical   Hiftory 

by  thole  whom  of  EufMut  be  con'_ 
we  efteem  the  fuited.wfthwhatSt. 

fnnnAffl-  niff  •    anrl       Jerome  has  written 

onthefameSubjear. 

yet  they    are    re- 
ceiv'd  ,    (not  without    convincing 
Arguments )      by    the    Moderns. 
Now,  I  fay,  by  more  than  a  Pa 
rity  of  Reafon,  that  the  Preaching 
and  Revelation  of  PETEK  (for  Ex- 
mple)  were  received  by   the  An 
cients,  and  ought  not  therefore  to 
be  rejected    by    the  Moderns,   if 
the  Approbation   of   the    Fathers 
be  a  proper  Recommendation  of 
any  Books. 

THE  Council  of  Laodicea^ 
which  was  held  about  three  hun 
dred  and  fixty  Years  after  CHRIST, 
and  is  the  firft  AiTembly  wherein 
the  Canon  of  Scripture  was  effo- 
bliflbt,  could  not  among  fo  great  a 


58  AMYNTOR. 

variety  of  Books  as  were  then  a- 
broad  in  the  World,  certainly  de- 
termin  which  were  the  true  Mo 
numents  of  the  Apoftles,  but  ei 
ther  by  a  particular  Revelation 
from  Heaven,  or  by  crediting  the 
Teftimony  of  their  Anceftors, 
which  was  always  better  preferv'd 
and  convey9  d  by  Writing  than  by 
Oral  Tradition,  the  moft  uncer 
tain  Rule  in  Nature ,  witnefs 
the  monftrous  Fables  of  Papifts, 
Rabbins,  Turks,  and  the  Eaftern 
Nations  both  Chriftians  and  Ido 
laters.  But  of  any  extraordinary 
Revelation  made  to  this  Coun 
cil  we  hear  not  a  Word  $  and  for 
the  Books  I  defend,  I  have  the 
fame  Teftimony  which  is  ufually 
alledg'd  in  the  behalf  of  others. 
However,  I  (hall  not  be  too  hafty 
to  make  a  final  Decifion  of  this 
Matter  with  my  felf,  leaft  I  incur 
the  dreadful  Curfe  which  the  Au- 
21.  thor  of  the  Revelation  pronoun- 
'•?-  ces  againft  fuch  as  ihall  add  or 

take 


AMY  NT  OR. 

take  away  from  that  Book.      Let 
Mr.  BLACKBALL  be  afTur'd,  that  if  he 
muft  needs  have  me  to  be  a  Here 
tic  I  am  not  unteachable,    tho5  1 
would  not  have  it  reputed  Obfti- 
nacy  if   I   Ihould    not   furrender 
without  fatisfadtory  Reafons.     In- 
ftcad  therefore  of  cenfuring  and 
calumniating  (which  ought  not  to 
be  reckoned  Virtues  in  any  Order 
of  Men,    and   leaft  of   all  in  the 
Ministers  of  the  Gofpel)    let  fuch 
as  are  better  enlighten' d  endeavor 
to  extncat  the  Erroneous  out  of 
thefe  or  the  like  Difficulties,  that 
they  may  be  able  to  diftinguifh  tru 
ly,  and  that  in  fuch  an  extraordi 
nary  number  of   Books,    all  pre 
tending  equally  to  a  Divine  Ori 
gin,  they  may  hav€  fom  infallible 
Marks  of  difcerning  the    proper 
'Rulejeft  they  unhappily  miftake  the 
falfe  one  for  the  true. 

HOW  neceflary  it  is  to  have  the 
Canon  of  Scripture  fet  in  its  due 
light,  we  may  learn  from  the 

an- 


60          AMYNTOR.  I 

Ancient  as  well  as  our  Modern  Un-  Ij: 
believers.  C  E  L  s  u  s  *  exclaims  a-  (l 
gainft  the  too  great  Liberty  which  L 
the  Chriftians  (as  if  they  were  (n 
drunk,  fays  he)  took  of  changing  cj 
the  firft  writing  of  the  Gofpcl  ,'• 
three,  or  four,  or  more  times,  that  j  * 
fo  they  might  deny  whatever  was  (c 
urg'd  againft  5em  as  retraced  be 
fore.  Nay,  as  low  down  as  St. 
A  u  G  u  s  T  i  N  5s  time,  was  there  not 
a  very  confiderable  Se6t  of  the 
Chriftians  themfelves,  I  mean  the 
Mitnichaans,  who  fliewed  other 
Scriptures,  anddeny'd  the  Genuin- 
nefs  of  the  whole  New  Teftament. 
One  of  thefe  call'd  FAUST  us, 
after  fhewing  that  his  Adverfanes 
difapprov'd  of  feveral  things  in  the 
Old  Teftament,  thus  purfues  his 


«f 

c&  -f 

(&Hlf*.t9  IV 

f  y««&»/.  Origen.  !•  2.  contra  Celf? 


fAr 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.        61 

t  Argument :  c  You  think,  fays  he, 
f  that  of  all  Books  in  the  World, 
c  theTcftament  of  theSon  only  could 
c  not  be  corrupted  ,  that  it  alone 
c  contains  nothing  v/hich  ought  to 
c  be  difallow'd  5  efpecially  when  it 
^appears,  that  it  was  neither  written 
Vby  himfelf  nor  his  Apoftles,  but 
c  a  long  time  after  by  certain  ob- 
'  fcure  Perfons,  who,  left  no  Cre- 
c  dit  fhould  be  given  to  the  Sto- 
'  nes  they  told  of  what  they  could 
c  not  know,  did  prefix  to  their 
c  Writings  partly  the  Names  of 
4  the  Apoftles,  and  partly  of  thofe 
*  who  fucceetled  the  Apoftles  5  af- 
4  firming  that  what  they  wrote 
themfelves  was  written  by  thefe  : 


t  Solius  filii  pucads  teftamentum  non  potuifle 
corrumpi  ;  folum  non  habere  aliquid  quod  in  ie 
debeac  improhari :  praeiercim  quod  nee  ab  ipfo 
fcriptum  confiar,  nee  ab  ejus  apoftolis:  led  lon- 
po  poft  tempore  a  quibuidam  ince'ti  nominis 
^iris,  qui,  ne  iibi  non  haberetur  ficks  fcribenc:hus 
112:  nefcirent,parrim Apoflolorticn  noniina^partim 
;o>  u  n  qui  Apoltolos  lecbti  videientUuScripto;  uin 
uorumlroatibus  indiUeiunt,  allcvaan^s  tecua- 

Where- 


62  AMYNTCHl. 

'  Wherein  they  feem  to  me  (con- 
c  tinues  he)  to  have  bin  the  more 
c  hainoufly  injurious  to  the  Difci- 
c  pies  of  Chrift,  by  attributing 
c  to  them  what  they  wrote  them- 
c  felves  fo  diflbnant  and  repugnant5 
c  and  that  they  pretended  to  write 
*  thofe  Gofpels  under  their  Names, 
c  which  are  fo  full  of  Miftakes,  of 
c  contradictory  Relations  and  Opi- 
c  nions,  that  they  are  neither  cohe- 
c  rent  with  themfelves,  nor  confi- 
c  ftent  with  one  another.  What  is 
c  this  therefore  but  to  *  throw  a 
c  Calumny  on  good  Men,  and  to  fix  I 
c  the  Accufation  of  Difcord  on  the 
<  Unanimous  Society  of  CHRIST'S 
c  Difciples  ?  The  fame  F  A  u  s  x  u  $ 

dum  eos  le  fcripfilTe  qux  fcripferint.  Quo  magis 
mihi  videntur  in-juria  gravi  affecifle  difcipulos 
Chri(li,quia  qu«  diflbna  iidem  &  repugnantia 
fibi  fcriberenr,  ea  referrent  ad  ipibs,  &;  iecuri- 
dum  eos  haec  fcriberefe  promitterencur  Evange- 
lia,  qux  tancis  fint  referta  erroribns,  tantis  con- 
trarietacibus  narrationam  fimul  aciencentiarum, 
uc  nee  fibi  prorfus,  nee  inter  ie  convenianr.Qi.iid 
ergo  aliud  eft  quam  calnmniari  bonos,  &  Chrifti 
Difcipulorum  concordemccerum  in  crimendevo-  {  ! 
care  difcordice.  duguftin.  contra  Fauft.  1.  51.  c.  2. 

a  lie* 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R. 

a  little  after  accufes  his  Adverfa- 
ries,  who  had  Power  enough  to 
be  counted  Orthodox,  in  thefe  ex- 
prefs  Words  :  *  'Many  things 
£  were  foifted  by  your  Ancestors  in- 
'  to  the  Scriptures  of  our  Lord, 
'  which,  tho?  mark'd  with  his  Name, 
c  agree  not  with  his  Faith.  And  no 
'wonder,  fince,  as  thofe  of  our 
'Party  have  already  frequently 
c  prov'd,  thefe  things  were  neither 
'written  by  himfelf  nor  his  Apo- 
'ftles  :  but  feveral  Matters  after 
'  their  Deceafe  were  pick'd  up 
€  from  Stories  and  flying  Re* 
c  ports  by  I  know  not  what  Set 
'  of  Half-Jems  3  and  thefe  not  a- 
'greeing  among  themfelves,  who 


*  Multa  a  majoribus  veftris  eloquiis 
Domini  noftri  inferta  verba  funt,  qu^  nomine 
fignata  ipfius  cum  ejus  fide  non  congruunt »  prx- 
lertim  quia,  ut  jam  faeps  probatum  a  nobis  eit, 
nee  ab  iplo  hac  funt,  nee  ab  ejus  Apoftolis  fcri- 
pta  :  led  mulca  poft  eorum  affumclonem  a  nefcio 
quibus,  &ipfis  inter  lenon  coneordantibus  Semi- 

iSj  per  famas  opinionefque  comperca  funr, 

ne- 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R. 

*  neverthelefs  publifhing  all  thefe 
'  Particulars  under  the  Names  of 
c  the  Apoftles  of  the  Lord,  or  of 
c  thofe  that  fucceeded  them,  have 
c  feign'd  their  own  Lyes  and  Errors 
c  to  be  written  according  to  them. 
Since  therefore  the  Manicb<ta?is 
rejected  the  whole  New  Teftament, 
fince  the  Ebionites  or  Na^arens, 
(  who  were  the  oldeft  Chn- 
ftians)  had  a  different  Copy  of 
St.  MATTHEW'S  Gofpel,  and  the 
Marcionites  ,  had  a  very  different 
one.  of  St.  L  u  K  E'S  5  fince  St. 
JOHN'S  was  attributed  toCBRiNTHus, 
all  the  Epiftles  of  St.  PAUL  were 
deny'd  by  fom,  a  different  Co 
py  of  ?em  fhewn  by  others  5 
and  that  the  feven  Pieces  We 
mention'd  before,  were  rejected  a 
long  time  by  all  Chriftians,  al- 


Qiii  tamen  omnia  eatlem  in  A poftolorum  Domi 
ni  conferences  nomina,  vel  eorum  qui  fecuci  A* 
poftolos  viderentur,  errores  ac  mendacta  ftia  (s- 
cundum  eos  fefcriptlife  mencici  funt.  Auguftin. 
ibid.l.  35«c.  3. 

moft 


J 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R. 

i  (  moil  with  univerfal  Confcnt ,  it 
i\\  had  much  more  become  Mi. 
BLACKHALL'S  Profdfion  to  appear 
better  acquainted  with  thefe  things, 
and  commcndably  to  fpend  his 
time  in  preventing  the  Mifchievous 
Inferences  which  Heretics  may 
draw  from  hence,  or  to  remove 
the  Scruples  of  doubting  but 
fincere  Chnftians>  than  fo  pub 
licly  to  vent  his  Malice  againft 
a  Man  that  never  injtir^d  him  , 
and  who  appears  fo  little  to  de- 
ferve  the  Imputation  of  Increduli 
ty,  that  his  Fault  (if  it  may  be)  does 
rather  confift  in  believing  more 
Scripture  than  his  Advcrfaries. 

WHAT  need  had  MI\BLACKHALL 
to  inform  that  Auguft  Aflembly 
how  little  he  knew  of  the  Hifto- 
ry  of  the  Canon  ?  A  Hiftory  of 
the  greateft  Importance  ,  as  well 
as  containing  the  moft  curious 
Enquiries  5  and  without  an  exadfc 
Knowledge  whereof  it  is  not  con 
ceivable  that  any  Man  can  be  fit 

F  to 


66  AMYNTOR. 

ro  convince  Gainfayers,  or  to  de- 
monftrat  the  Truth  of  the  Chri- 
ftian  Religion,  which,  I  fuppofe 
he  will  not  think  fit  to  deny  is 
one  of  the  principal  Duties  of  a 
Minifter.  How  little  foevcr  he 
knew  before,  he  cannot  be  ignorant 
any  longer  that  there  wrere  a  Mul 
titude  of  other  Pieces  attributed 
to  CHKIST  and  his  Apoftles,  be- 
fides  thofe  now  received  by  the 
wrhole  Chriftian  Church.  He 
might  at  his  Leifure  have  Iearntv 
fo  much  from  the  Fathers,  or  at 
leaft  from  others  that  had  ittidy'd 
'cm  5  fuch  as  RIVET,  Father  SIMON, 
Du  PIN,  IITTGIUS,  Dr.  CAVF,  ERNESTUS 
GRABIUS  who  has  lately  pub- 
lifh'd  fbm  of  thofe  Fragments  at 
'Oxford ,  and  feveral  others  3  tho' 
he  has  occaiion  d  me  to  prefent 
him  now  with  a  much  larger  Ca 
talogue  than  was  publifh'd  by  a- 
ny  of  thcfe.  I  could  add  more 
not  there  mentioned ,  and  other 
Authorities  for  thofe  which  are 

there  : 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.  67 

there  :  but  I  have  already  don 
more  than  enough  to  prove  a 
thing,  whereof,  till  the  laft  thirti 
eth  of  January,  I  thought  few  Lay 
men  wholly  ignorant,  much  lefs 
any  one  of  the  Clergy.  Indeed  I 
never  thought  the  Biftory  of  our 
Canon  fo  impartially  handled,  or 
fo  fully  clear'd  as  a  Matter  of 
fuch  great  Importance  defcrves^ 
and  I  defpair  of  Mr.  BLACKHALL'S 
giving  the  World  any  Satisfaction 
in  their  Doubts  concerning  it.  But 
I  hope  fom  abler  Perfon  of  his  Or 
der  may  particularly  write  on  this 
Subject  3  which,  if  I  fee  neglected 
alfo  by  them,  I  fhall  think  it  no 
Intrufion  on  their  Office  to  under 
take  it  my  felf  :  and  if  I  ever  write 
it,  I  promife  it  fhall  be  the  faireft 
riiftory,  and  the  only  one  of  that 
cind  that  ever  appear'd  3  For  I 
hall  lay  all  the  Matters  of  Fa6t 
ogether  in  their  natural  Order, 
without  making  the  leaft  Remark  of 
ny  own,  or  giving  it  a  Color  in 
F  2  favor 


68          AMYNTOR. 

favor  of  any  Sed:  or  Opinion  , 
leaving  all  the  Word  to  judge  for 
themfelves,  and  to  biuld  what  they 
pleafe  with  thofe  Materials  I  fhall 
furnifh  'em. 

I  CONCLUDE  this  Point  with; 
one  Obfervation,  to  fhew  with  what 
Malice  I  am  treated  by  fome  Peo 
ple,  while  others  pafs  with  them 
for  the  moil  Orthodox  Men  in 
the  World,  who  have  faid  mfinit- 
ly  more  in  plain  and  dircdt  Words, 
than  they  could  infer  with  all  their 
Art  from  a  few  Exprellions  of  mine, 
and  which  the  moft  ignorant  of 
my  Adverfaries  could  make  no 
more  than  Infmuation  at  the  worft. 
I  talkt  of  fpurious  Pieces,  and  have 
now  as  \vell  fhewn  what  thofe  Pieces 
were,  as  put  a  Diftindtion  between 
'em,  and  fuch  as  I  thought  genuin. 
But  let  us  hear  .what  a  Peifonfays, 
who,  were  he  as  much  given  to  the 
World  as  many  of  his  Friends, 
would  make  a  more  confiderable 
Figure,  considering  his  great  Ser 
vices 


AMYNTOR.  69 

vices  to  the  National  Church,  and 
the  Refped:  he  reciprocally  re 
ceives  from  it  3  I  mean  the  famous 
DODWELL,  who  alone,  tho'  a  Lay 
man,  underftands  as  much  of  Ec- 
ckfiaftic  Hiftory  as  the  Divines 
of  all  Churches  put  together.  His 
Words  are  thefe  :  *  4  The  Cano- 
c  nical  Writings  lay  conceal'd  in 
c  the  Coffers  of  privat  Churches  or 
c  Peribns,  till  the  later  Times  of 
TRAJAN  •  or  rather  perhaps  of  A- 
c  BRIAN  5  fo  that  they  could  not 
1  com  to  the  Knowledg  of  the 
c  whole  Church.  ;  For  if  they  had 
'  bin  publifhM ,  they  wou'd  have 
c  bin  overwhelmed  under  fuch  a 
c  Multitude  as  were  then  of  Apo- 
c  cryphal  and  Suppofititious  Books, 
'that  a  new  Examination  and  a 

*  Lacicabant  ufque  ad  recentiora  ilia,  (euTra- 
jini,  leu  etiarn  tortaffc  Hadriani  tempora,  in 
privatarum  ecclefiaram,  (euetiam  hominumS:ri- 
nils  fcripca  ilia  Canonica,  ne  ad  EccJcfise  Catho 
lics:  noriciam  pervenirenc.  Aut  fi  in  pubiicura 
fortafle  prodiiifent,  adhuc  tamen  tanta  Scripro- 
rum  ApOwi'yphoi-uni ,  PfiuUepigraphorumciue 
F  ?  S-ie^i 


7o  AMYNTOR.  1 

'  new  Teftimony  would  be  ncccf- 
\  fary  to  diftinguifh  'em  from  thefe 
^  falfe  ones.  And  it  is  from  this 
'  New  Teftimony  (whereby  the  ge- 
'  mini  Writings  of  the  Apoftles 

*  were  diftinguifh'd  from  the  fpun- 

*  ous  Pieces  which  went  under  their 
c  Names,)  that  depends  all  the  Au- 
c  thority  which  the  truly  Apoftolic 
6  Writings  have  formerly  obtai/i'd  , 

*  or  which  they  have  at  prefent  in 
'the  Catholic  Church.      But  this 
p  frcfh  Atteftation  of  the  Canon  is 

*  fubjedt  to  the  fame  Inconvenien- 
c  cies     with    thofe    Traditions  of 
f  the  Ancient  Perfons  that  I  defend, 
£and  whom  IREN^US    both   heard 


turba  obruebantur  3  ut  ab  iis  internofci  non  pof- 
lenr,  quin  novo  opus  eflet  examine,  novoque  Te- 
ftimonio.  Et  ab  illo  novo  teftimonio,  JJLIO  fa- 
ftuni  eft  ut  ab  Apocryphis  faifoque  Apoftolorum 
nomine  infigniris  Scripra  eorurn  genuina  di- 
itinguerencur,  pendet  otnnis  ilia  quam  deinceps 
obtinebanr,  &  quam  hodieque  obtinent  in  EC- 
eleiia  Catholica  Scripta  vera  Apoftolica,  A'utori- 
b$.  Atqui  recentior  ilia  Canonjs  atteftatio  iif- 
Hern  erat  incornrnqdis  obnoxia,  quibus  &C  noftr^ 
,  quos  vidit  Iren^us  audivitquej "'  Tradi- 

' 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.         71 

€  and  faw :  for  it  is  equally  diftant 
c  from  the  Original,  and  could  not 
c  be  made,  except  by  fuch  only  as 
c  had  reacht  thofe  remote  Times. 
c  But  'tis  very  certain,  that  before 
c  the  Period  I  mentioned  of  TRA- 
c  JAN'S  time,the  Canon  of  the  Sacred 
c  Books  was  not  yet  fixt,  nor  any 
c  certain   number    of    Books  re- 
c  ceiv'd   in  the  Catholic   Church, 
c  whofe  Authority  muft  ever  after 
c  ferve   to    determin    Matters    of 
*  Faith  3  neither  were  the  fpurious 
c  Pieces  of   Heretics  yet  rejected, 
c  nor  were  the  faithful  admonifht 
c  to  beware  of  them  for  the  future. 
c  Likewife  the  true  Writings  of  the 


tiones ;  erac  enim  ilia  tanto  incervallo  ab  origi- 
ne  reniota,  nee  plurium  elfe  porerat  quam  eorum 
qui  etiam  remotiora  ilia  cempora  attigerant. 
Atqui  certe  ante  illam  Epochani,  quani  dixi 
Trajani,  nondum  conilitutus  eft  librorumSacro 
rum  Canop,  nee  receprus  aliquis  in  Eccidia  Ca- 
tholica  librorum  osrtus  numsrus,  quos  deindo 
adhibere  oportuerit  in  iacris  fidei  caulis  dijudi^ 
candis,  nee  rejedi  Ha:re:icortim  Pfeudepigraphi, 
mor.itfve  ftdeles,ut  ab  eorum  uiu  deinde  cavcrenr. 
Sic  aiicsin  vera  Apo^oiorum  Scripca  cum 
F  4  '  Apo 


72          AMYNTOR. 
c  Apoftlcsus'dto  be  fo  bound  up  in 
one  Volum  with  the  Apocryphal, 
[  that  it  was  not  mamfeft  by  any 
Mark  or  public  Cenfure  of  the 
Church,  which  of  'em  fhould  be 
c  preter'd  to  the  other.   We  have  at 
c  this  Day   certain  moft  authentic 
c  Ecclefiaftic  Writers  of  thofe  times, 
as    CLEMENS   ROMANUS,    BARNABAS, 
H£KMAS,    IGNATIUS,    and   POLYCAR- 
L  PUS,  who  wrote  in  this  fame  Or- 
c  der  wherein   I  have  nam'd  9em3 
'  and  after   all  the   other  Writers 
c  of   the  New   Teftament,   except 
JUDE  and  the  two  JOHNS.     But  in 
*  HERMAS  you  fhall  not  meet  with 
c  one  Paifage,  or  any  mention  of 


Apochryphis  in  iifdem  Volnminibus  compingi 
folebanc,  ut  nulia  prorfus  nora  aut  cenfura 
Ecclefias  publica  conftaret  qux  quibus  effent 
anceferenda.  Habemus  hodicque  horum  tem- 
porum  Scriptores  Ecclefiafticos  lucclentiffimos 
Clementem  Romanum,  Barnabam,  Herrnam , 
Ignatiunij  Polycarpum,  qui  hoc  nitnirum  fcrip- 
ieriat,  quo  iiios  nominavi  ordine,  omnes  reliquis 
novi  Tdtam-^nci  Scriptis  (excepris  Judae,  & 
Joannts  ucriafquej  juniores.  Ac  novi  Tefta- 
meuti  in  Herma  ne  quijem  ununi  locum  in- 

'the 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.         73 

c  the  New  Teftament  :  Nor  in  all 
'  the  reft  is  any  one  of  the  Evange- 
'  lifts   calFd  by    his    own    Name. 
1  And  if   fomtimes  they   cite  any 
'  Paffages  like  thofe  we  read  in  our 
4  Gofpels,  yet  you'll  find  'cm  fo 
c  much  chang'd,  and  for  the  moft 
c  part  fo  interpolated,  that  it  can- 
c  not  be  known  whether  they  pro- 
'  duc'd  them  out  of  ours,  or  fom 
:  Apocryphal   Gofpels :  nay,    they 
c  fomtimes    cite  Paffages,   which  it 
:  is  moft  certain  are  not  in  the  pre- 
c  fent  Gofpels.     From  hence  there- 
c  fore  it  is    evident,  that  no  dif- 
c  fcrence    was    yet    put    by    the 
'  Church  between  the  Apochryphal 


reneris.  Apud  reliquos  ne  unutn  quidem 
E'/angeliftam,  nomine  fuo  compeilatHm.  EC 
ti  quos  locos  fone  proferanc  quibus  iiniilia  in 
noitris  leguntur  Evangsliis  ;  ica  tamea  illos 
muracos  uc  plurimum  interpolatolque  reperies, 
uc  fciri  nequear  an  e  noftris  illos,  an  ex  aliis 
produxerinc  :Apocryp!iis  Evangeliis.  Scd  &  A- 
pocryplid  adhibent  iidem  aliquoties,  qux  cercuni 
eii:  in  tjodiernis  non  habesr  Evangeliis.  Uc 
inde  con  (let  "nuiliuu  adhuc  inter  Apocryphos 

'aad 


74  AMYNTOR. 
c  and  Canonical  Books  of  the 
c  New  Teftament  3  efpecially  if  it 
c  be  confider'd,  that  they  pafs  no 
c  Cenfure  on  the  Apochryphal,  nor 
1  leave  any  Mark  whereby  the  Rea- 
c  der  might  difcern  that  they  at- 
c  tributed  lefs  Authority  to  the 
:  fpurious  than  to  the  genuin  Go- 
c  fpels  :  from  whence  it  may 
'  reafonably  be  fufpefted ,  that  if 
c  they  cite  fomtimes  any  PafTages 
£  conformable  to  ours,  it  was  not 
c  don  thro"  any  certain  defign,  as  if 
c  dubious  things  were  to  be  con- 
'  firmed  only  by  the  Canonical 
*  Books  5  fo  as  it  is  very  poffible 


Omomcofque  novi  Teftamenti  libros  conftitu- 
turn  eils  abEccleili  tiifcrimen,  pracfercim  (i  8ci!U 
quoque  accedat  obfcrvatio  quod  cenfuramnullam 
Apacryphis  adjungant ;  fed  n&z  aliatn  aliquajii 
nocam  unde  podic  ledor  colligere  minus  illos 
Apocryphis  tribuifte,  qqam  veris  tribuerinc  E- 
vangeliis.  Inde  prona  eit  fafpicio  fiqua  forte 
loci  produxerint  cum  noilris  confentiencia,nulio 
tamen  certo  id  factum  effe  coniilio,  quo  conPti- 
tucum  fuerac  res  dubias  e  Canonicis  eiTe 
conftrrqandas  i  fierique  adeo  polfs  ut  & 


AMYNTOR.         75 

c  that  both  thofe  and  the  like  Paf- 
1  fages  may  have  bin  borrowed 
c  from  other  Gofpels  befides  thefe 
:  we  now  have.  But  what  need  I 
c  mention  Books  that  were  riot  Ca- 
'  nonical  ?  when  indeed  it  does  not 
c  appear  from  thofe  of  our  Canoni- 
c  cal  Books  which  were  laft  written, 
c  that  the  Church  knew  any  thing 
'  of  the  Gofpels,  or  that  Clergy- 
c  men  themfelves  made  a  common 
c  life  of  3em.  The  Writers  of 
c  thofe  times  do  not  chequer  their 
Works  with  Texts  of  the  New 
Teftament,  which  yet  is  the  Cu- 
c  ftom  of  the  Moderns ,  and  was 
c  aifo  theirs  in  fuch  Books  as  they 


(imilia  ex  aliis  tamen,  quam  quae  habemus, 
depromta  fuerint  Evangeliis.  Sed  quid  ego  li- 
bros  mcmorem  rninime  CanonicosP  Ne  quidcm 
e  Canonicis  ipfis  receiitioribiis  conftat  Ecclefia: 
innotuiile  Evangelic,  atque  Ecclefiafticisin  uiu 
iuiffe  vulgari.  Non  folent  illius  asvi  Scriptores 
novi  Teihmenti  locis  Scripra  fua  velut  opere 
teiTellato  ornare,  qui  tamen  recentiorum  mos  eft, 
gui  ^  fcas  er^t  in  illis  quas  agnoicebant  ipfi 

-  ac- 


76          AMYNTOR. 

c  acknowledged  for  Scripture  3  for 
'  they  mo  ft  frequently  cite  the 
c  Books  of  the  Old  Teftament, 
c  and  would  doubtlefs  have  don 
t  fo  by  thofe  of  the  New,  if  they 
c  had  then  bin  received  as  Cano- 
c  nical.  St.  PAUL  cites  a  Saying  of 
20. £  our  Lord  in  the  A6ls  of  the  A- 
'  poftles  3  which,  if  he  had  it  out 
c  of  any  Writing ,  was  not  cer- 
:  tainly  out  of  thefe  we  now  have. 

The  Gofpels  continued  fo  con- 
c  ceaFd  in  thofe  Corners  of  the 

World  where  they  were  written, 
:  that  the  latter  Evangelifts  knew  no- 
c  thing  of  what  the  Precedent  wrote: 
4  Otherwife  there  had  not  bin  fo 


Scripturis:  Veterisenim  Teftamend  libros  pro- 
ferunt  faepiffime,  proUtiri  procukiubio  6c  novi 
Teftamenti  Scripta,fi&il!a  foiflbftt  in  Canonem 
recepta.  Effacum  Domini  noitri  proferc  Sanctus 
Paulus,  Act.  20:  55.  Illud  ft  c  Scripto  aliquo  pro- 
duxit,  non  cane  ex  aiiquo,  quod  habemui,  Evan 
gelic.  Sic  lacueranc  in  illis  terrarum  angulis,  in 
quibus  Scripta  fueranr.  Evangelic,  ut  n<^  quidem 
refciverint  recentiores  Evangeliftae  quid  IfcripflO 
ient  de  iiidem  rebus  an.riquioies.  •  AHref  force 

"ma- 


AMYNTOR.  77 

'many    apparent   Contradictions, 
4  which,  almoft  fince  the  firft  Con- 
4  ftitution  of  the  Canon,  have  ex- 
4  ercis'd  the  Wits  of  learned  Men. 
<  Surely  if  St.  LUKE  had   feen  that 
c  Genealogy  of  our  Lord  which  is 
c  in   St.  MAT-SHEW  ,    he  would  not 
4  himfelf  have  produced  one  whol- 
*  ly    different     from     the    other, 
4  without  giving  the  leaft  Reafon 
c  for  this  Diverfity.     And  when  in 
c  the  Preface  to  his  Gofpel  he  tells 
c  the    occafion    of   his   Writing  3 
4  which   is,    that  he  undertook  it, 
4  being  furniiht  with    the   Relati- 
'onsoffuch  as  were  Eye-witnef- 
4  fes  of  what  he  writes,  he  plainly 


ne  tot  efibnt  wwrwAvn,  qua:  fere  a  prima  ufque 
Canonis  conlHcutione    Eruditorum    Hominum 
ingcnia  exercueriiu.      Certe    Sand:us    LUCAS  fi 
Genealogiam   illam  Domini  in  Mattharo  viJiflfct, 
non  aliam  ipfe,    nihilque  feie  habentem  com 
mune,  prcduxifTet,   ne  quidem  minima  confiiii 
tarn  diverfi  edita  ratione.     Et  cum  nova:  Scripti- 
onis  edit  in  praefatione  caufam,  quod  Spfe  *vniflw 
narnationibus   adjutus  earn  faerie  aggreffus,    id 
plane  innuit  deftitutoshoc  fubfidio  iuifTe  viforum 

cin- 


78          A  M  Y  N  T  O  R. 

'intimats,  that  the  Authors  of 
:  the  Gofpels  which  he  had  feeri, 
c  were  deftitute  of  this  Help  :  So 
c  that  neither  having  feen  them- 
c  felves  what  they  relate ,  nor 
c  with  any  Care  or  Diligence 
'  confulted  fuch  as  had  feen  them, 
:  their  Credit  was  therefore  dubi- 
c  ous  and  fufpedled  ;  whence,  it 
c  muft  necefTanly  follow,  that  the 
Writers  of  thofe  Gofpels ,  which 
c  LUKE  had  feen,  were  not  at  all 
:  the  fame  with  our  prefent  Evan- 
c  geMs.  So  far  Mr.  DODWFLL  5 
and  ( excepting  the  Genuinnefs 
of  the  Epiftles  of  CLEMENS,  BAR 
NABAS,  and  the  reft  3  for  they  are 
inconteftably  ancient)  I  agree  with 
him  that  the  Matters  of  Fad:  are 


a  fe  Evangeliorum  au&ores,  ita  nimimm  non 
fuilTeipfbsrtJr^^  utneqaideniccJTo^^  cum  cura 
aliqua  &  fe  luliute  confulu^rint,  vaciliare  proinde 
merir6que  dubiam  eorum  fuilfe  fidem  i  ut  pland 
alios  tuiiib  nsccfFi  (it  E-/angdicae  Hiftoris  Scri- 
tores  a  Lucd  vilos,  a  noftris,  quo^  habaaius^  E- 
vangeliftis.  Dffirt.  i.  in  Inn.  $$.  38,  39.  . 

all 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.        79 

all  true  $  tho9  I  am  far  from  draw 
ing  the  fame  Inference  from  'em 
as  he  has  don,  that  there  is  an  e- 
qual  Proof  for  Epifcopacy  as  for 
the  Canon  of  Scripture,  which  is 
the  Teftimony  of  the  Fathers  of 
the  Second  and  Third  Centuries  5 
and  that  the  Difciplin  was  better 
known,  and  preferv'd  than  the  DQ- 
d:rm  of  the  Apoftks.  Whoever 
has  an  Inclination  to  write  on 
this  Subject  is  furnifht  from  this 
Paflage  with  a  great  many  curi 
ous  Difquifitions,  wherein  to  fhew 
his  Penetration  and  Judgment,  as 
how  the  immediat  SuccefTors  and 
Difciples  of  the  Apoftles  could 
fo  grofsly  confound  the  genuin 
Writings  of  their  Mailers,  with 
fuch  as  were  falfly  attributed  to 
them  3  or  fince  they  were  in  the 
dark  about  thefe  Matters  fo  early, 
how  came  fuch  as  followed  ?em  by 
a  better  Light  5  why  all  thofe  Books 
which  are  cited  by  CLEMENS  and  the 
reft  fhould  not  be  counted  e- 

qually 


8o  AMYNTOR. 

qually  Authentic  5  and  what  ftrefs 
fhould  be  laid  on  the  Teftimony 
of  thofe  Fathers,  who  not  only 
contradict  one  another,  but  are 
often  inconfiftcnt  with  thcmfelves 
in  their  Relations  of  the  very  fame 
Fac5ts  3  with  a  great  many  other 
Difficulties,  which  deferve  a  clear 
rdblution  from  any  capable  Per- 
fon  ,  tho?  none  may  fafely  propofe 
'em  but  Mr.  DODWELL  ,  who  I 
heartily  wifh  were  always  as  free 
and  unprejudic'd  as  he  is  really 
learned. 

THUS  have  I  defended  and 
explained  my  felf  againft  Mr. 
BLACHALL'S  Accufation  :  nor  do  I 
queftion  but  I  have  given  entire 
Satisfaction  to  all  impartial  Men, 
and  lovers  of  Truth.  But  there's 
another  fort  of  People  whom  I 
defpair  of  ever  contenting.  Thefe 
never  fail  of  finding  in  the  Wri 
tings  of  their  Adverfary,  not 
wrhat  is  there,  but  what  they  have 
a  mind  fhould  be  fo,  to  reprefent 
Xi;  him 


AM  YNTOR.          8 1 

him  odious  or  dangerous.  All  the 
Proteftations  in  the  World  can 
figmfie  nothing  with  them  $  nor 
is  it  more  fafe  than  otherwifc  to 
prove  the  contrary  of  what  is  laid 
to  one's  Charge  3  for  they  are  far 
gacious  enough  to  difcover  the 
hidden  Poyfon  of  every  Word, 
and  will  be  fure  to  give  loud 
warning  of  the  Danger ,  to  ihew 
where  the  Snake  lies  in  the  Grafs, 
and  to  tell  what's  in  the  Belly  of 
the  Trojan  Horfe.  But  1  fhail  not 
be  in  great  pain  how  fuch  People 
apprehend  me,  if  I  have  the  Hap- 
pmefs  to  pleafe  the  moderat  and 
difcerning  part  of  Mankind 


G  The 


82  AMYNTOR. 

The  Complete 

HISTORY 

O  F 


R.  BLACKBALL  ,  who ,  by 
a  public  Provocation , 
would  needs  engage  me 
3n  a  Controverfie  about  fpunous 
Books,  has  not  confined  me  to  ex- 
pofe  the  Impoftures  of  Antiquity 
alone,  tho?  it  be  pretty  plain,  that 
this  is  Employment  enough  for 
one  body  5  but  he  likewife  accu- 
fes  me  of  not  being  more  favora 
ble  to  a  Modern  Sainty  as  he  is 
pleas'd  to  ftile  King  CHARLES  the 
Firil.  c  That  excellent  Book , 
which,  he  fays,  was  composed  by 
c  himfelf  in  the  time  of  his  Di- 
\  ftrcfTcs,  will,  he  fuppofes,  be  an 

'  ever- 


AMY-NT  O       f    . 

c  everlafting  Evidence  of  his  pro 
\  firing  under  his  Sufferings  to 
'  after  Ages,  notwithstanding  the 
\  Endeavors  that  have  bin  for- 
[  merly  us'd  to  prove  it  fpurious, 

and  the  Confidence  of  a  late 
I  Writer  ( the  Author  of  MIL- 
\  TON'S  Life)  averting  it  to  be  fo, 
*  without  either  producing  any 
c  new  Evidence  for  the  Proof  of 
'  his  Affertion  5  or  offering  one 

Word    in   anfwer  to  thofe  juft 

and  rational  Exceptions  that  had 
'  bin  made  before  to  thofe  only 

Teftiinonies  which  he  infifts  up- 
\  on  to  prove  it  a  Forgery  5  or 

making  any  Exceptions  to  thofe 
c  later  Evidences  that  have  bin 
c  produced  to  prove  it  Authentic. 
Whether  this  Book  was  compos'd 
by  himfelf  is  our  Bufinefs  at  pre- 
fent  to  enquire,  and  fhall  be  quick 
ly  determined  :  for  as  to  his 
improving  by  his  Sufferings  I  will 
not  deny  what  I  hope,  and  Cha 
rity  commands  me  to  believe.- 
G  2  The 


84  AMYNTOIL 
The  Reafon  why  I  produc'd  no 
new  Evidence  to  prove  the  fpuri- 
oufhefs  of  Icon  Bafilike  was,  be- 
caufe  1  thought  the  old  onesfuffici- 
ent.  I  vouchfaf  d  no  Anfwer  to  the 
Exceptions  made  tothofe  Teflimo- 
nies,  bccaufe  I  neither  thought 'em 
juft  nor  reafonable.  And  I  would 
not  difcufs  the  Fads  that  have  bin 
fince  allcdg'd  to  prove  the  Book 
Authentic,  bccaufe  I  intended  not 
before  to  write  a  juft  Diflertation 
on  this  Subject,  and  fo  was  not 
obliged  to  mention  all  the  Par 
ticulars  relating  to  it.  If  Mr. 
BLACKBALL  does  not  think  this  An* 
fwer  fa tis factory,  I  ilia  11  make  a- 
mends  now  for  all  former  Omif- 
fions  3  and ,  being  very  defirous 
to  content  him,  will  follow  that 
fame  Method  he  was  pleas'd  to 
chalk  me  out  in  his  Sermon. 

I  N  the  firft  place  therefore ,  to 
make  this  Difcourfe  complete,  and 
that  the  Evidence  of  the  feveral 
Parts  whereof  it  conflfls,  may  the 

better 


AMYNTOR.  85 

-* 

Io  [better  appear  by  laying  5em  all  to" 
n.  jgether,  I  lhall  here  infert  the  Ab- 
Jftract  which  I  made  of  Dr.  WALK- 
QJIK'S  Book  in  MILTON'S  Life,  with 
ANGLESEY'S  Memonandum^  and  the 
other  Teftimonies  3  I  lhall  fecond- 
ly  give  particular  Anfwers  to  the 
Exceptions  that  have  bin  made  to 
all  thefe  Pieces  :  And  Mly,  ftiew 
the  invalidity  of  the  Facfts  which 
are  alledg'd  to  prove  King  CHARLES 
the  Firft  was  the  true  Author  of  Icon 
Bafilike.  I  have  not  undertaken 
this  Work  out  of  Affection  or 
Oppofition  to  any  Party,  nor  to 
refled:  on  the  Memory  of  that  un- 
fortunat  Prince,  whofe  officious 
Friends  are  much  more  cbncern'd  3 
but  to  clear  my  felf  from  a  pub 
lic  Charge ,  and  to  difcover  a 
pious  Fraud,  which  deferves  not 
to  be  exemted  from  Cenfure 
for  being  the  Contrivance  of  a 
Modern  Bilhop,  no  more  than 
thofe  of  the  ancient  Fathers  of  the 
Church. 

G  3  THB 


86  AMYNTOR. 

THE  Relation  of  the  whole 

Fad  in  MH-TQN'S   Life  is  after  this 

manner      '  In  the  Year  1686,  Mr, 

*  MULMNGTON  hap'ning  to  fell  the 

c  late  Lord  ANGLESEY'S  Library  by 

:  Auction,  put  up  an  Ikon  Eafili^e^  \ 

4  and  a  few  bidding  very  low  for  it, 

;  he  had  leifure  to  turn   over    the 

:  Leaves ,   when  to  his  great  Sur- 

€  prize  he   perceiv'd  written  with 

•  the     fame    noble    Lord's    own 

'  Hand ,   the   following  Memoran- 


KING  CHARLES  the  Se 
cond,  and  the  Dukg  of 
York,  did  both  (in  the  lap 
Sejjionf  of  Parliament , 
16751  ivben  I  jheyfd  them 
in  the  Lords  Houfe  the 
Copy  of  this 
wherein  are  forq 
and  Alterati- 


oftf  written  with  the  lals, 

\  ?si        $&"•    •••'.'  •  i'2    *>•'      '  ^         ''  '     y>  . 

/Cwj 

?;*  iv.Ug 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R.        87 

King  CHARLES  theFirft's 

own  Hand)     affure   me  , 

that  tbis  was  none  of  the 

Jaid  King's  compiling,  but 

made  by  Dr.  GAUDEN  Bi- 

Jhof  of  Exeter  ;    which  I 

here  infert  for  the  unde- 

ceivin?  of  others  in  this 

o      / 

fomt,  by  atteftirtg  fo  much 
under  my  own 


ANGLESEY. 

This  occafion'd  the  World  to 
'  talk  5  and  feveral  knowing  the 
c  Relation  which  the  late  Dr.  AN- 
c  THONY  WALKER,  an  E/fex  Divine, 
*  had  to  Bilhop  GAUDEX,  they  in- 
'quir'dof  him  what  he  knew  con- 
1  cernmg  this  Subject  5  which  he 
c  then  verbally  communicated  to 
f  them  :  But  being  afterwards 
f  highly  prpvok'd  by  Dr.HotLiNGs- 
G  4  WORTH'S 


• 

88          AMYNTOR. 
c  .WORTH'S  harfh  and  injurious  Re- 
c  flections,    he  was  oblig'd  m  his 
c  own    Defence  to    print   an   Ac-  > 
c  count  of  that  Book,  wherein  are  I 
;  jhfficient  Anfwers  to  all  the  Scru-  ] 
'  pics  or  Objections  that  can   be  j 
(  made,    and    whereof  I   here  in- 
:  fert  an  exadt  Epitome.     He  tells 
fr  us   in  the   firrt   place  ,    that  Dr. 
c  GAUDEN    was    pleas' d  to  acquaint 
'  him  with  the  whole  Defign,  and  ] 
:  jfhew'd  him     he  Heads  of  divers  I 
Chapters,  witli    fo^  others   that] 
c  were  quite  finiiVd  :  and  that  Dr. 

c  GAUDEN  asking    i?s  Opinion  of  the  I 

.          .        . 

thing  and  he  declaring  his  Di£  . 
•  fatisfadlion  that  the  \  7  orld  Ihould  I 
:  be  fo  impos'd  upon,  GAUDEN  bid 
L  him  look  on  the  Title,  which  was  -j 
c  the  King's  Portraiture  3  for  that  no 
c  Man    is  fuppos'd    to    draw   his 
4  own  Pi6ture.     A  very  nice  Evafi- 
c  on  !    he    further    acquaints    us, 
c  that  fom  time  after   this,    being 
4  both  in  London,  and  having  din'dj 
v  togcclKr,    Dr.  GAUDEN  took  him 

c  along 


AMYNTOR.         89 
along  with  him  to  Dr.  DUPPA  the 
Bifhop  of   Salisbury    (  whom    he 
made  alfo  privy    to  his  Defign) 
to  fetch  what  Papers  he  had  left 
before    for  his  perufal,     or  to 
ihew  him  what  he  had  fince  writ 
ten  :  and  that  upon  their  return 
from    that  place,    after    GAUDEN 
and  DUPPA  were  a  while  in  pri- 
c  vat   together,    the    former   told 
c  him    the     Biihop     of    Salisbury 
c  wifh'd  he  had  thought  upon  two 
c  other  Heads  ,    the  Ordinance  a- 
c  gainft  the  Common  Pray'r  Book, 
c  and  the  denying  his  Majefty  the 
6  Attendance    of    his   Chaplains  5 
4  but  that  DUPPA  defir'd  him  to  finifh 
c  the  reft,  and  he  would  take  upon 

•  him  to  write  two   Chapters   on 
c  thofe  Subje<5ts,  which  according* 

*  ly  he  did-     The  reafon,  it  feems, 
c  why    Dr.  GAUDEN   himfelf  would 
c  not  perform  this,  was,  firft,  that 
c  during  the  Troubles  he  had  for- 
cborn   the    ufe    of  the  Liturgy, 
'  which  he  did  not  extraordinarily 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R. 

"admire 3  and  fecondly,  that  he 
:  had  never  bin  the  King's  Chap- 
6  lain ,  whereas  Dr.  DUPPA  was 
'  both  his  Chaplain  ,-  his  Tutor, 
'  and  a  Bifhop,  which  made  him 
c  more  concern'd  about  thefe  Par- 
c  ticulars.  Thirdly,  Dr.  WALKER 
c  informs  us  that  Dr.  GAUDEN  told 
'  him  he  had  fent  a  Copy  of  Icon  Ba- 
c  filike  by  the  Marquifs  of  Hartford"} 

*  to  the  King  in  the  IJle  of  Wight  5 
c  where  it  was,  we  may  be  fure,  that 
c  he  made  thofe  Corrections  and  Al- 
^tcrations  with  his  own  Pen,  men- 
f  tion'd    in    my  Lord    ANGLESEY'S 
c  Memorandum :  and  which  gave  oc- 
c  cafion  to  fom  then  about  him  that 
c  had  accidentally  feenr  or  to  whom 
c  he  had  fhown  the  Book,  to  believe 
'  the  whole  was  his  own.     Fourth* 
c  ly,  Dr.  GAUDEN,   after  the  Refto* 
c  ration,  told  Dr.  WALKER,  that  the 

*  Duke  of  Tork  knew  of  his  being 
c  the  real  Author,    and  had  own  <i 
'  it  to  be  a  great  Service  5  in  con- 

*  flderation  of  which,  it  may  be, 

cthe 


AMYNTOR.         9i 

c  the  Bifhoprick  of  Winchester  ^  tho' 
£  he  was  afterwards  put  off  with 
c  that  of  Worcefler  was  promised 
:  him.  And,  notwithstanding  it 
•-  was  then  a  Secret,  we  now  know 
c  that  in  expedition  of  this  Tran- 
c  flation,  the  great  Houfe  on  Clap- 
'  ham  Common  was  built  indeed 
c  in  the  Name  of  his  Brother  Sir 
:  DENYS,  but  really  to  be  a  Manfion- 
c  houfe  for  the  Biftiops  of  Winche- 
c  fler.  Fifthly,  Dr.  WALKER,  fays, 
c  that  Mr.  GAUDEN  the  Dodror's 

-  Son,  his  Wife,  himfelf,    and  Mr. 
5  GIFFORD  who   tranfcrib'd  it,    did 
"  believe  it  as  firmly  as  any  Fad: 
c  don    in    the    place  where    they 
:  were  5   and  that  in  that  Family 

*  they  always  fpoke  of  it  among 
'  chemfelyes  (whether  in  Dr.  GAU- 
c  DUN'S  Prefence  or  Abfence)  as  un- 
J  doubtedly  written  by  him,  which 
c  he  never  contradidrcd.  We  learn, 

'  Sixthly  that  Dr.  GAUDEN,  after 
f  part  of  it  was  printed,  gave  to 
f  Dr,  WALKER  with  his  own  Hancf 

'what 


92  AMYNTOR.  v-. 
4  what  was  laft  fent  to  London  ; 
4  and  after  fhewing  him  what  it 
;  was,  feal'd  it,  giving  him  cautio- 
c  nary  Directions  how  to  deliver 
c  it,  which  he  did  on  Saturday  the 
:  2^dof  December,  1648.  for  Mr. 
£  ROYSTON  the  Printer,  to  Mr.  PEA- 
£  COCK  Brother  to  Dr.  GAUDEN'S 
c  Steward,  who,  after  the  Impref- 
c  fion  was  finifh'd,  gave  him,  for 
c  his  Trouble,  fix  BOOKS,  whereof 
€  he  always  kept  one  by  him.  To 
*  thcfe  Particulars  Dr.  WALKER 
c  adds,  that  the  Reafon  why  the 
c  Covenant  is  more  favorably  men- 
c  tion'd  in  Ikon  Bafili^e,  than  the 
4  King  or  any  other  of  his  Party 
c  would  do,  was  becaufe  Dr.  GAU- 
'  DFN  himfdf  had  taken  it  :  That 
c  in  the  Devotional  part  of  this 
c  Book  there  occur  f.veral  Ex- 
c  prclilons  which  were  habitual  to 
c  GAUDFN  in  his  Prayers,  which  al- 
:  ways  in  privat  and  public  were 
c  conceiv'd  or  extemporary  5  and 
6  that  to  his  Knowledge  it  was 

c  Dr. 


AMYNTOR.  93 

*  Dr.  GAUDEN,  being  beft  acquain* 
c  ted  with  the  Beauty  of  his  own 
c  Sayings ,  who  made  that  Colle- 
c  ction  of  Sentences  out  of  Ikon 
c  Bafilike-)  intituFd,  Apophthegma- 
c  ta  Caroliniana.  Thefe  and  fom 
:  Obfervations  about  the  fame  in- 
c  dividual  Perfons  variation  of  Stile 
c  on  different  Subjects,  with  the 
f  facility  and  frequency  of  perfo- 
c  nating  others ,  may  be  father 
c  confider'd  in  Dr.  WALKERS  Ori- 
c  ginal  Account-  In  this  conditi- 
c  on  ftood  the  Reputation  of  this 
'Book,  till  the  laft  and  finifhing 
c  difcovery  of  the  Impoftufe  was 
c  made  after  this  manner.  Mr. 
c  ARTHUR  NORTH,  a  Merchant  now 
'  living  on  Tower-hill ,  London,  a 
'Man  of  good  Credit,  and  a  Mem- 
£  ber  of  the  Church  of  England, 
c  marry'd  the  Sifter  of  her  that  was 
Wife  to  the  Doctor's  Son, 
c  CHARLES  GAUDEN,  who  dying,  left 
c  fom  Papers  with  his  Widow,  a- 
'  mong  which  Mr.  NORTH,  being 

c  con- 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R. 

c  concern5  d  about  his  Sifter  in  LawV 
:  Affairs ,  found  a  whole  Bundle 
c  relating  to  Ikon  Bdfilike  :  Thefe 
c  Papers  old  Mrs.  GAUDEN  left  to 
E  her  darling  Son  JOHN,  and  he  to 
[  his  Brother  CHARLES.  There  isr 
c  firft  a  Letter  from  Secretary 
c  NICHOLAS  to  Dr.  GAUDEN.  2.  The 
c  Copy  of  a  Letter  from  Bifhop  I 

*  G AUDFN  to  Chancellor  HYDE5\vhere,  I 
c  among  his  other  Deferts,  he  pleads 

c  that  what  was  don  like   a  King,  I 
c  Ihould  have  a  Kinglike  Retributi- 
c  on  5  and  that  his  defign  in  it  was 
c  to  comfort  and    incourage   the 
c  King's  Friends,  to  expofe  his  E- 
4  nernies ,     and    to    convert  >  &c.-  \ 
c  There  is,   3.  The  Copy  of  a  Let- 
cter  from  the  Bifnop  to  the  Duke 
c  of  Tork^  wherin  he  flrongly  urg- 
c  es  his   Services.       4.     A   Letter 

*  under    Chancellor    HYDE'S    own 
'Hand,  dated  the   ijth  of  March, 

\66\.  wherein  he  exprefles  h;s 
c  imeafinefs  under  the  Bidiop's  im- 
€  portunity,  and  exctifes  his  inabi- 

'  lity 


AMYNTOR,  5*5 
4  lity  yet  to  ferve  him  :  but  to 
c  wards  the  Conclufion  it  contains 
'  thefe  remarkable  Words  :  The 
c  Particular  you  mention  has  indeed 
c  bin  imparted  to  me  as  a  Secret  $  / 
£  amforry  I  ever  knew  it :  and  when 
4  /'/  ceajes  to  be  a  Secret,  it  wiUfleaje 
c  none  but  Mr.  MILTON.  There  are 
'  other  Papers  in  this  Bundle,  but 
c  particularly  a  long  Narrative  of 
'  Mrs.  GAUDEN'S  own  writing,  irre- 
c  fragably  fhewing  her  Husband  to 

*  be  Author  of  Ikon  Bafilike.      It 

-  intirely    confirms    Dr.  WALKER'S 
c  Account,   and  contains  moft  of 
c  the  Fadis  we  have  hitherto  rela- 
1  ted ,    with    many  other  curious 
c  Circumftances    too  long  to    be 
c  here  inferted,  yet  too  extraordi- 
c  nary  not  to  be  known  3  wherfore 

I  refer  the  Reader  to  the  Origi 
nal  Paper,  or  to  the  faithful  Ex 
tract  made  out  of  it  before  fe- 
veral  learned  and  worthy  Perfons, 
and  which  is  printed  in  a  Paper 
intituFd,  Truth  brought  to  Light. 

'Thus 


96          AMYNTOR. 

Thus  came  all  the  World  to  be 
c  convinced  of  this  notorious  Im- 
:  pofture  ,*  which  as  it  was  dexte- 
c  roufly  contnv'd,  and  moft  cun- 
c  ningly  improv'd  by  a  Party 
:  whofe  Intereft  obliged  ?em  to 
c  keep  the  Secret,  fo  it  happen'd  to 
c  be  difcover'd  by  very  nice  and 
c  unforefeen  Accidents.  Had  not 
c  GAUDEN  bin  difappointed  of  Win- 
'  chefter,  he  had  never  pleaded  his 
:  Merit  in  this  Affair  5  nor  would 
c  his  Wife  have  written  her  Narra- 
1  tive  ,  had  Kingi  CHARLES  the 

Second  beftow'd  one  half  Years 
c  Rent  on  her  after  her  Husband's 
c  deceafe5  which,  upon  her  Peti- 
:  tion,  and  confidering  her  nume- 
c  rous  Family,  none  could  ima- 
c  gin  fliould  be  refus'd.  It  was  a 
c  flighter  Accident  that  begot  a 
c  a  Confeffion  from  two  Kings, 
c  and  CHARLES'S  own  Sons.  And  I 
<  doubt  if  any  other  than  one  of 
c  Mr.  MILLINGTON'S  great  Cunofity, 
c  and  no  Bigotry,  had  the  difpo- 

<fal 


A  M  Y  N  T  O  R. 
c  fal  of  my  Lord  ANGLESEY'S  Books, 
'  we  fhould  never  have  heard  of 
c  the  Memorandum.  Had  not  Dr. 
c  HOLLINGWORTH'S  indifcreet  Zeal 
(  provok'd  the  only  Man  then  a- 
live  who  had  any  perfonal  know- 
c  ledg  of  this  Bufmefs,  Dr.  WALKED 
c  had  never  publifh'd  his  Account  5 
c  nor  would  the  whole  Difcovery 
c  be  fo  complete,  without  the  leaft 
1  Intricacy  or  Queftion ,  without 
c  Mr.  NORTH'S  Papers. 

THIS  is  the. complete  Hiftory  of 
Ikon  Bafilike^  %s  it  is  fuppos'd  to 
be  a  Forgery  5  and  we  muft  next 
proceed  to  examin  the  Exceptions 
made  to  it,  as  they  are  collected 
by  Mr.  WAGSTA*  in  his  Vindicate 
of  King  CHARLES  the  Martyr.  To 
begin  with  my  Lord  ANGLESEY'S 
Memorandum,  'tis  urg'd,  that  it  does 
not  particularly  exprefs  by  the 
Date  whether  it  meant  the  laft 
Seilion  of  Parliament  before  the 
writing  of  it,  or  the  laft  Seilion  of 

H  the 


5>8  AMYNTOR. 

the  Year  75.  when    it    is    plain 
that    he    meant  the  laft  or  Win 
ter     Scflion  ^    and    that   it     was 
therefore    the    immediat     Seffion 
preceding  the   writing  of  this  Me 
morandum.      To  fay  that   there  is 
no  Witncfs  to  it  is  a  very  fingular 
fort  of  Objection,  when  his  Lord- 
/hips  Relations,  and  all  that  have 
feen  this  and  his  other  Writings, 
own  it  to  be  his  Hand.     It  is  not 
likely  that    there  were  any  Wit- 
nefTes  of  the  Royal  Brother's  tel 
ling  him  their  Opinionof  Icon  Bafi- 
lil<e :  Nor  is  there  any  thing  more 
common  than  for  learned  or  great 
Men  to  leave  fuch  Memorandums 
in  a   Book  concerning  the  Author 
of'it  when  it  was  a  Qiteftion,   or 
about  any  other  Secret  relating  to 
it,  which  they   thought  they  had 
difcover'd  $    and  yet  'tis  a   thing 
unheard  till  now,  that  they  were 
dcny'd  to  be  theirs  whofe  Names 
they  bear,  becaufe  the  Day  of  the 
Month  was  not  mentioned,  nor  the 

Names 


A  M  Y  N  T  O R. 

Names  of  any  Witneffes  added, 
when  the  Hand  was  confeft  to  be 
the  fame  with  their  other  Writings. 
Many  inftances  of  this  kind  appear 
in  the  Books  of  Mr.  HAMDEN  late 
ly  fold,  and  whereof  I  have  fom 
to  fhew,  as  in  the  Book  intituPd, 
Afollonii  Grail* ,  he  writes,  that 
LANSBERGIUS  was  the  Author  of 
it,  of  whom  he  there  gives  a  Cha- 
rafter. 

I T  is  no  juft  Exception  to  this 
Memorandum ,  that  my  Lord  AN 
GLESEY  did  not  communicat  the 
Contents  of  it  to  any  of  his  Friends 
or  Relations :  for  tho*  the  Two 
Royal  Brothers  imparted  the  Se 
cret  to  him,  it  does  by  no  means 
follow,  that  they  intended  he  (hould 
publifh  it  to  the  World.  And  flip- 
pofing  they  did  not  oblige  him  to 
filence,  yet  'tis  probable  that  his 
Lordfhip  was  not  very  fond  of 
being  clifturb'd  by  the  Clamors  of 
fom  Churchmen  ,  who  carry'd 
things  fo  high  at  that  tim:,  that 
H  2  I 


ioo  AMYNTOR. 
I  do  not  believe  they  would  par 
don  fuch  a  Difcovery  to  either  of 
the  Brothers  themfelves.  There 
was  never  any  poor  Prince  more 
notorioufly  abus'd  by  many  of  thofe 
he  took  for  his  beft  Friends  than 
CHARLES  the  Firft.  They  put  him 
on  all  thofe  unhappy  Meafures 
which  prov'd  his  Ruin  in  the  end. 
And  as  they  made  ufe  of  his 
Temper  to  ferve  their  own  Pur- 
pofes  when  he  wras  alive,  fo  they 
did  of  his  Name  for  the  fame 
Rcafon  after  his  Death.  They  were 
not  concerned  fo  much  for  his  Ho 
nor,  as  their  own  Intercft  3  and 
having  contriv'd  this  Forgery  to 
carry  their  Caufe,  they  thought 
themfelves  afterwards  oblig'd  to 
fupport  it.  Mr.  WAGSTAF  affirms 
that  tf  ere  is  no  frefu ration  that 
the  Pvoyal  Brothers  communicated 
thisAtfair  to  any  otherPerfon  befides 
my  Lord  ANGFLSEY,  which  is  a  ne 
gative  Argument,  and  proves  no-' 
thing.  'Tis  pollibk  enough  that 

mi 


AMYNTOR.          ioi 

my  Lord  ANGLESEY  himfelf  told  of 
this  to  others,  tho'  they  may  be 
fince  dead,  or  are  not  willing  to 
tell  it  again.  If  the  Royal  Brothers 
had  fpoke  of  it  to  no  body  elfe,  it 
follows  not  that  a  Secret  was  ne 
ver  committed  to  one,  bccaufe  it 
was  not  to  more  $  as  if  it  were  ne- 
cefTary  for  a  Man  to  call  Witnef- 
fes  that  he  imparted  a  Secret  to  his 
Friend.  But  we  ihall  prefently  al- 
ledge  more  than  a  Prcfumtion, 
that  both  King  CHARLES  the  Second 
and  the  late  King  JAMES  dcclar'd 
their  Opinion  to  other  People  be- 
fides  my  Lord  ANGLESFY,  that  Icon 
Bafilike  was  not  their  Father's 
Book. 

By  fuch  nice  Cavils  a- 
gainft  the  Memorandum  we  can  ea- 
fily  judg  of  the  Exceptions  we 
may  expect  to  Dr.  WALKER'S  Ac 
count.  That  GAUDEN  hop'd  o 
make  a  Fortune  by  this  Book,  as 
well  as  to  promote  the  Caufe  of 
the  Church,  ought  by  no  means 

H  3  to 


io2          AMYNTOR. 

to  be  counted  ftrange  3  for  who  is 
it,  pray,  that  ferves  the  King  any 
more    than   God ,     for    nought  ? 
Have  not  moil  of  the  Bifhops  and 
other  Clergymen  of  thofe  times, 
that  either  liv'd   depriv'd  here  in 
England ',    or    that    accompan/d 
CHARLES  the  Second  in   his  Exile, 
pleaded  their  Loyalty,  and  magni 
fy  d  their  Services  at  the   Reftora- 
tion,  as  many  others  would  cjue- 
ftionlcfs  do,  if  King  JAMES  fhould 
ever  return  again  ?  Were  not  great 
Perfons  employed   to    folicit    and 
make  an  Intereft  for  them  ?  And, 
in  a  Word,  are  not  Divines  ob- 
ferv'd  to  make  the  fame  Steps,  and 
take  the  fame  Meafures  that  all  o- 
ther  forts  of  Men  do  to  get  Pre 
ferment.     I    Ihould    rather  doubt 
that  Dn  GAUDEN  was  not  the  Au 
thor  of  this  Forgery,  if  he  had  not 
expc<5ted   a    Reward  for  it  from 
CHARLES   the  Second  5  for  'tis 
certain,  that  the  Credit  of  Icon  Ba- 
filike  contributed  more  to  his  Efta- 


AMYNTOR.       103 

blifhment  than  any  other  fingle 
Motive  whatfoever.  But  'tis  well 
known  that  this  Prince  was  not  the 
kindeft  in  the  World  to  hrs  Fa 
ther's  Friends,  who  would  too  of 
ten  forget  his  own  $  and  that  it 
was  not  the  Intereft  of  fom  People 
to  have  this  bufinefs  unravell'd, 
tho?  their  impolitic  Conduct  has 
bin  fince  the  occafion  of  divulging 
what  every  body  fufpeded  be 
fore. 

THE  Immorality  of  this 
Forgery  is  urg'd  as  an  Argument 
againft  it  $  and,  if  it  could  by  a- 
ny  means  hold  Water,  is  indeed 
an  Argument  worth  a  Million, 
Then  it  would  clearly  follow- 
that  becaufe  it  was  a  moft  immo 
ral  thing  to  ly  for  God,  and  to 
forge  Books  ,  Epiftles ,  or  the 
like,  under  the  Names  of  CHRIST 
and  his  Apoftles,  there  were  there 
fore  never  any  fuch  Pieces  3  and 
j  that  becaufe  it  was  an  ill  thing  to 
feign  Miracles,  or  to  deftroy  Mens 
H  4  Lives 


io4         AMYNTOR. 

Lives  for  the  Advancement  of  Re 
ligion,  there  never  was  therefore  a- 
ny  Prieftcraft,  nor  any  of  thefe  in 
famous  Practices  known  in  the 


World.  But  if  the  contrary  be  as 
clear  as  the  Day,  I  believe  Men 
might  be  found  that  would  make 
as  bold  with  the  Name  of  King 

CHARLES,  as  others  have  don  with  *{v 

that    of   King  JESUS.      Mr.  WAG-  jj 

STAF   knows  ,     tho'  Mr.  BLACKBALL  "  t 

does  not,  that  TEO-ULLIAN  *  tells  t  j 

us  of  a   certain  Presbyter  of  Afia,  f 

who  when  he  was  accus'd  of  having  ( 

forg'd  a  Book  containing  the  Tra-  J 

vels  of  PAUL  and  THECLA,    confeft  a 

the  Facft,  and  alledg?d  that  he  did  f 

it  for  the  love  of    PAUL  ,    and   I  I 

fay,  that  Dr.  GAUDEN  wrote    Icon  \ 

Bafilike  for  the  Church's  fake,  the  1 

King's,  and  his  own.  i 


*  De  Baptifmo,  c.  17.  etiaip  Hkro  lym.inCa- 
talogo  Scriptqr.  Eccl;f. 


I 


AMYNTOR.       105 

A  S  for  the  plaufible  Accounts 
given  in  that  Book  of  the  King's 
Secret    Intentions,    his    particular 
Trobles,  his  Remorfes  of  Confci- 
ences,  and  the  like,  it  is  very  ri 
diculous  to  alledge  ?em  as  an  Ar 
gument  of  the  Genuinnefs  of   it, 
when  the  Book  was  written  for  that 
very  end.    For  the  Defign  of  the 
Author  was  to  give  fuch  a  Color 
to  all  the  King's  Addons,  and  to  tell 
fuch  fine    things  of   his  gracious 
Purpofes,  as  would  beget  a  better 
Opinion  of   him  in  the  Readers 
Mind,  and  move  his  Indignation 
againft  the  Parliament,  or  Compaf- 
fion  of  his  Misfortunes.     But  that 
Dr.  GAUDEN   has  frequently   made 
the  King's  Thoughts  to  contradict 
his  Actions,  is  evident  to  any  Man 
that   has  both  read    Icon   Bafilike, 
and  the  Hiftory    of  thofe  times  : 
And   this  Subject  is  thro'ly  hand 
led  by  JOHN    MILTON  in   his   Icono- 
clafles,  to  which  I  refer  thof?  who 
want  Satisfa£tion? 

BUT 


106          AMYNTOR. 

BUT  there  is  an  Objection  ftill 
behind,  and  as  ftrong,  be  fure,  as 
any  of  the  reft,  which  is  that  Dr. 
WALKER  did  not  fee  Dr.  GAUDEN 
write  this  Book,  nor  tells  us  that 
it  was  in  his  own  Hand.  But  I 
believe  Mr.  WAGSTAF  is  the  on 
ly  Man  living  that  queftions  whe 
ther  Dr.  WALKER  meant  Dr.  GAUD- 
EN'S  own  Writing ,  when  he  fays, 
that  before  the  whole  was  finiiht 
Dr.  GAUDEN  was  pleas'd  to  acquaint 
him  with  his  Defign,  and 
ihew  him  the  Heads  of  diverfe 
Chapters,  with  fom  of  the  Dif- 
courfes  written  of  them,  and  that 
Mr.  GUBFOB.D  tranfcrib'd  a  Copy  of 
it.  This  is  all  that  can  be  faid  of 
any  Author  in  the  World  :  and  if 
Dr.  WALKER  had  faid  more  expref- 
ly,  or  rather  fuperfluoufly,  that  it 
was  likewife  D.  GAUDEN'S  Hand 
writing,  we  ftiould  then  have  bin 
told,  that  it  was  a  Tranfcript  from 
the  King's  Copy  in  the  Hands  of 
Mr.  SYMMONDS,  of  which  more  here 
after.  W  E 


AMYNTOR.        107 

W  E     proceed    now   to   thofe 
ieces     commonly      call'd      Mr. 
)r'  JNoRiti's  Tapers,  he  being  the  Dif- 
s  coverer.      Chancellor  HYDE  in  his 
lat  tetter  to  Dr.  GAUDEN,  tells  him,  as 
•     as  faid  before,  *  That  the  Particu- 
lar  he  mentioned  had  indeed  bin 
imparted    to   him  as    a    Secret, 
which  he  was  forry  he  ever  knew  5 
and  that  when  it  ceaft  to  be  a  Se- 
cret,    it  would  pleafe    none  but 
Mr.  MILTON.     Was  there  no  other 
[Secret  in  the  World  but  this,  fays 
Mr.  WAGSTAF,    that  the  divulging 
of  it  would  gratify    Mr.  MILTON  ? 
Yes  doubtlefs  5  but  I  believe  not 
one  that   would  pleafe  none  but 
Mr.  MILTON,  as  the  Chancellor  ex- 
prefTes  it  :  For  he  having  particu 
larly  queftion'd  the  Genumnefs  of 
this  Book,  and  offer'd  a  fair  Proof 
of  the  Spurioufnefs  thereof  from 
intnnfic  Evidence  only,without  any 
further  Light  3  would  be  extreamly 
pleas'd  to  find  his  Reafomngs  and 
Judgment  confirmed  by  undeniable 

Mat- 


io8  AMYNTOR. 
Matters  of  Fa6t  Nor  does  any 
indifferent  Perfon  in  the  World  un- 
derftand  this  PafTage  otherwifethat 
weighs  Dr.GAiiDEN9s  Pretences  with 
Mr.  MILTON'S  Concern,  and  confi- 
ders  that  Mrs.  GAUDEN  put  this  and 
the  other  Papers  relating  to  Icon  B a- 
filikf  in  one  Bundle,  together  with 
her  own  Narrative,  for  the  Informa-  \ 
tion  of  her  Son.  Befides  that  all 
thofe  who  ever  faw  other  Writings 
of  the  Chancellor  own  this  to  be 
his  Hand,  and  particularly  his  eld- 
eft  Son,  the  prefcnt  Farl  of  CLA 
RENDON,  as  Mr.  WAGSTAF  himfelf 
acknowledges. 

BUT  he  fays,  That  my  Lord 
'  CLARENDON,  (from  whom  he  had 
1  it  in  a  Letter)  by  leave  of  the 

King  and  Queen  preparing  to  at- 
c  tend  his  Father  in  France  in  the  be- 
c  ginning  of  the  Summer,  i  £74,  his 

Lordfhip  went  firft  to  Farnbam  to 
'  the  late  Bifhop  of  Winton  the  i4th 
c  of  May ,  and  among  fever?! 
*  things  he  had  in  Charge  from  the 


AMYNTOR.         109 

Bifhop  to  his  Father,  he  bad  him 
tell  him,  that  the  King  had  very 
ill  People  about  him,  who  turned 
all  things  into  Ridicule  3  that  they 
endeavor'd  to  bring  him  to 
have  a  mean  Opinion  of  the  King 
'  his  Father,  and  to  perfuade  him 
'  that  he  was  not  the  Author  of 
'  the  Book  which  goes  under  his 
'  Name.  And  (when  after  his 
c  Lordfhip's  Arrival  in  France,  the 
c  joth.  of  the  fame  Month,  he  had 
'  delivered  his  Father  thefe  Particu- 
'  lars  among  others)  to  that  con- 
c  cerning  the  Book,  his  Father  re- 
'  ply'd,  Good  God !  I  thought  the 
c  Marquifs  of  Hartford  had  fatis- 
c  fyd  the  King  in  that  Matter. 
From  hence  Mr.  WAGSTAF  would 
infer,  that  my  Lord  Chancellor  did 
not  believe  any  other  befides 
CHARLFS  the  Firfl  to  be  the  Author 
of  Icon  Bafili/^e,  and  that  he  won- 
dred  any  ihould  go  about  to  induce 
CHARLFS  the  Second  to  question  it. 
But  for  my  part  I  think  it  very  plain 

on 


no        AMYNTOR. 

on  the  contrary,  that  he  believ'd 
King  CHARLES  the  Firft  not  to  be 
the  Author  of  that  Book,  and  won- 
dred  that  King  CHARLES  the  Second 
fhould  not  underftand  fo  much 
from  the  Marquifs  of  Hartford^ 
who,  as  Dr.  WALKER,  and  Mrs. IE 
GAUDEN  inform  us,  was  the  Perfbn  \  c< 
that  carry'd  the  Manufcnpt  to  the  rj 
King  in  the  IJIe  of  Wight,  and  foi!  i 
next  to  Dr.  GAUDEN  himfelf  wasfe! 
beft  able  to  convince  his  Son  of  .:j 
the  Truth-  Moreover,  how  could  o 
the  Bifhop  of  Winton  imagin  that  ^ 
the  ill  People  about  CHARGES  the  Se-  ^ 
cond  could  bring  him  to  doubt  d 
of  his  Father's  being  the  Author  of  f 
Icon  Bafilike,  if  he  really  knew  it  $ 
to  be  written  by  him  ?  when  upon  a 
this  Suppofition  he  was  rather  ca-  r 
pable  of  fatisfying  all  thofe  who  ( 
had  any  Scruples  in  this  Affair. 

A  S  for  Dr.  GAUDEN'S  great  Ser 
vices,  and  his  faying  in  a  Letter 
to 'the  Chancellor,     That  what  was    ; 
c  don  like  a  King,  Ihould   have  a 

King- 


AM  YNTOR.        in 

c  Kinglike  Retribution,  Mr.  WAG- 
STAF  fays  that  thofc  are  Myfti- 
cal  Exprdlions,  and  that  by  them 
he  might  probably  mean  a  Book 
he  wrote  againft  the  Covenant,  and 
a  Vroteftation  he  publiiht  againft  the 
King's  Death,  neither  of  which 
could  be  term'd  fuch  extraordina 
ry  Services,  when  many  others  had 
don  the  fame,  and  more  :  much 
lefs  could  it  be  faid  that  either  of 
thefe  Books  was  don  like  a  King, 
or  cfefervd  a  Kinglike  Retribution  5 
whereas  Mr.  WAGSTAF,  and  thofe 
who  arc  of  his  Opinion,  maintain 
that  the  the  Stile  and  Matter  of  Icon 
Baft  I it>e  are  fo  like  a  King's,  that  no 
Subject  could  poflibly  write  it :  but 
a  Multtiude  of  others  agree  with 
me,  that  the  Stile  is  infinitely  liker 
that  of  a  Do<5tor  than  a  King. 

LASTLY^  It  is  objected  that 
Dr.  WALKER'S  and  Mrs.  GAUPEN'S 
Teftimonies  contradict  one  another. 
But  how  ?Dr.  WALKHR  fays,  that  Dr. 
GAUDEN  told  him  he  did  not  know 

if 


ii2         AMYNTOR. 

if  CHARLES  the  Firft  had  feen  the 
Book  :  but  Mrs.  GAUDEN  affirms, 
that  the  Marquifs  of  Hartford  told 
her  Husband  the  King  had  feen  and 
approved  it,  both  which  Affertions 
are  confident  enough  together. 
For  Dr.  GAUDEN  might  be  ignorant 
that  the  King  had  feen  it,  when  Dr. 
WALKER  askt  him  that  Queftion, 
who  perhaps  never  mentioned  it  to 
him  again  in  their  Difcourfes  about 
this  Matter,or  might  eafily  forget  it, 
as  he  fays  he  did  feveral  other  Parti-  j 
culars,  little  forefeeing  he  fhould  : 
ever  be  oblig'd  to  make  this  Dif- 
coveiy  :  and  befides  we  muft  up 
on  all  Accounts  allow  his  Wife  to  f 
know  more  Circumftances  of  this 
Bufinefs,  as  of  mod  others,  than 
his  Friend.  The  next  fuppos'd 
Contradiction  is,  that  Dr.  WALKER, 
lays  Dr.  GAUDEN  once  told  him,  af 
ter  the  Reftoration,  that  he  did  not 
pofitively  and  certainly  know  if 
King  CHARLES  the  Second  knew  he 
*wwtzlconBafili/<e,tho  he  bdiev'd 

he 


I  •••'"'•  AM  YNf  OR.  ii  j 
lie  might,  bec^ufe  the  Duke  o 
7br4  did,-  who  own'd  it  to  have 
bin  a  feafonable  and  acceptable 
Service.  But  Mrs.  GAUDEN  af 
firms,  that  her  Husband  acquain 
ted  the  King  with  it  himfclf,  which 
is  very  true.  But  pray  let  us  exa- 
min  at  what  time.  After  his  Dif- 
courfe  with  Dr.  WALKER  moft  cer 
tainly:  For  does  {he  not  in  clear 
and  diredt  Terms  fay,  that  it  was 
in  his  laft  Sicknefs,  which  prov'd 
Mortal  to  him  5  and  that  the  Rea- 
fon  of  it  was,  becaufe  hefaw  fom 
Perfons  who  were  privy  to  it  de- 
fire  nothing  more  than  to  have  it 
concealed,  which  he  was  not  wil 
ling  it  fhould  be  in  confederation 
of  his  numerous  Family,  to  whom 
it  might  fomtime  or  other  do  fea 
fonable  Service  ? 

NOW  that  no  Miftakes 
may  be  occafion'd  hereafter  by 
imperfed  Fragments  of  Mrs. 


n4  AMYNTOR.          j 

DEN'S  Narrative,  and  that  this  Af 
fair  may  be  fet  in  the  cleafeft 
Light,  I  (hall,  before  I  proceed  to 
the  Examination  of  the  pofitive 
Teftimonies  produc'd  for  the  King, 
infert  the  Narrative  here  at  large, 
ask  was  exadly  copy'd  from  the 
Original,  to  which  the  curious  are 
refer'd. 


AMYNTOR.         115 

--,}   * 

*  Mrs.    g  A  V  I)  E  N's  '• 

NARRATIVE. 


M 


Y  Husband  underftand- 
ing  the  great  Value  and 
Efteem  the  People  had 
of  CROMWELL  and  of  others 
in  the  Army,  occafion'd  by  the 
high  Opinion  which  they  had  of 
their  Parts,  and  Piety  ;  he  being 
alfo  well  allur'd,  that  one  of  the 
mainDcfigns  of thofe  wicked  Poli- 
ticians,  was  to  Eclipfe  his  Ma- 
jefty  that  then  was,  as  much  as 
€  might  be,  and  to  give  a  falfe 
'  Mifreprefentation  of  him  to  the 
World  5  he,  that  he  might  do  his 
'  Majefty  right,  did  pen  that  Book 
'  which  goes  by  the  Name  of  the 
(  King's-Book.  The  Title  which 
c  he  gave  it  then  was  Sufpiria 
'  Regalia  3  and  the  Defign  was 
4  to  have  it  put  forth  as  by  fom 
I  2  'Per- 


i\6  AMYNTOR. 
'  Perfon  who  had  found  the  Pa- 
c  pers  in  hisMajefty's  Chambers  at 
k  Holmeby,  being  by  chance  left  or 
c  fcatter'd  there.  And  to  this  pur- 
'  pofe  he  had  prefixed  an  Epiftle, 
c  which  might  be  fuppos'd  to  be 
c  written  by  that  Perfon,  who  ha- 
c  ving  found  them  by  that  AcciJ 
c  dent,  thought  it  not  fit  to  con- 
c  ceal  them.  His  Defign  alfo  in 
'  the  Book,  was  to  give  fuch  a 
c  Character  of  her  Majefty  to 
£  the  World,  as  her  great  Worth, 
c  extream  Merits  ,  and  aclmira- 
c  rable  Endowments  deferv'd.^ 
£  when  my  Husband  had  writ  it, 
1  he  Ihew'd  it  to  my  Lord  CAPE^ 
c  who  did  very  highly  approve  of 
1  it  5  and  though  he  thought  it 
c  would  do  very  well  to  have  it 
c  printed,  yet  he  faid  it  was  not  fit 
:  to  do  fo  without  his  Majefty's 
^  Approbation  5  and  to  come  to 
c  fpeak  to  his  Majeity  in  private 
c  was  then  impoflible,  in  regard 
*  of  the  ftrict  Guard  which  they 

<  kept 


AMYNTOR.          117 

c  kept  about  him.  Immediately 
c  after  this  there  was  a  Treaty  with 
'  his  Majefty  at  the  Ifle  of  Wight, 
:  whereupon  my  Husband  went  to 
:  my  Lord  Marquifs  of  .  Hartford 
:  that  then  was  ,  and  to  him 
'  delivered  the  Manufcript ,  and 
c  he  delivered  it  to  the  King  at  the 
c  1/le  of  Wight,  and  likewife  told 
c  him  who  the  Author  was.  When 
c  my  Lord  Marquifs  returned,  my 
c  Husband  went  to  him,  to  whom 
c  my  Lord  faid,  That  his  Majefty 
;  having  had  fome  of  thofe  Elfays 
L  read  to  him  by  Bifhop  DUPPA,  did 
'  exceedingly  approve  of  them, 
c  and  asked  whether  they  could  not 
'  be  put  out  in  fome  other  Name. 
The  Bifhop  reply'd,  that  the  De- 

-  fign  was,  that  the  World  fhould 
c  take  them  to   be  his  ?  Majefty "s. 

Whereupon*  his  Majefty  defied 
c  time  to  confidcr  of  it  5  and  this 
L  (fays  my  Lord)  is  all  the  Account 
[  I  can  give  of  it :  What  is  become 

•  of  the  Manufcript   1  know  not, 

I  3  c  and 


u8          AMYNTOB,  1 

c  and  what  will  become  of  his  Ma- 
c  jefty  God  knows.     Upon  this  my 

*  Husband   told  my    Lord   Mar- 
cquifs,  That,  in  his  Opinion,  there 
:  was    no   way    fo   probable    to 

*  fave  his  Majefty's  Life,  as  by  en- 
c  deavouring  to  move   the  Hearts 
c  and  Aftedtions  of  the  People  as 
1  much  as  might  be  towards  him  5 
c  and  that  he  alfo  thought    that 
c  that  Book  would  be  very  eflTe&u- 
c  al  for  that  purpofe.      Then  my 
:  Lord  bad  my  Husband  to    do 
4  what  he  would,    in    regard    the 
c  Cafe  was  defperate.     Then    im- 
4  mediately  my  Husband  refolv'd 
c  to    print  it  with   all  fpeed  that 
'  might  be,  he  having  a  Copy  of 
c  that  which  he  fcnt  to  the  King, 
*  and  that  he  printed  was  juft  the 
1  fame,  only   he   then  added,  the 
c  Ejfay  upon  their  denying  his  Ma- 
1  jefty  the  Attendance  of  his  Chap- 
c  lains,  and  the  Meditation  oj ~  Death, 
'  after  the  Votes  of  the  Non-ad- 
4  dre(Tes,  and   his  Majefty's   clofe 

lav 


AM  YNTOR.       up 

'  Imprifonment  at  Caritbrook.  Ca- 
\  file.  Now  the  Inftrument  which 
'  my  Husband  employed  to  get  it 

printed,  was  one  Mr.  SIMMONDS, 
'  a  Divine,  and  a  great  Sufferer 
'  for  his  Majefty  $  and  he  got  one 
c  Mr.  ROYSTON  to  print  it  5  which 
c  ROYSTON  never  knew  any  thing 
c  but  that  it  was  of  his  Majefty 's 
c  own  penning  :  my  Husband  did 
c  then  alter  the  Title  of  it,  and 
'  call'd  it  Icon  Bafilike.  Now 
1  when  it  was  about  half  printed, 

they,  who  were  in  power,   found 
the  Prefs  where    it  was  printing, 

and  likewife  a  Letter  of  my  Huf- 

bands,  which  he  fent  up  to  the 
Prefs  $  whereupon  they  deftroy'd 
all  that  they  then  found  printed, 
but  could  not  find  out  fronl 
whence  the  Letter  came,  in  re 
gard  it  had  no  Name  to  it.  Not- 
withftanding  all  this,  my  Huf- 
band  attempted  the  printing 
of  it  again,  but  could  by  no 
means  get  it  finilh'd  till  fom  few 
I  4  '  Days 


i2Q         AMYNT01L 
'Days  after  his    Majefty  was 
'  ftroyed.    .When  it  was  com  out, 

•  they    who  were   then  in    Power 
c  were  not  only  extremely  difpleas'd 
c  at  it,  biit  alfo  infinitely  folicitous 
'  to  find  out   the  Author  of    it , 

•  thinking  if  very  improbable  that 

'  his  Majefty  fhould  write  it,  in  re- 

'  gard  of  the  great   Difturbances 

c  and   Troubles  which    for  many 

;  Years  he  had  fufter'd  :  or  at  leaft 

5  impoffible  that  he  fhould  have  writ 

'  it  all  3  for  after  the  Attendance  of 

'  his  Chaplains  was  deny'd  him,  and 

5  he  a  clofe  Prifoner,  they  well  un- 

c  derftopd  that  he  could  not  write 

c  any  thing  without  their  Difcove- 

'  ry.  They  alfo  took  that  very  Ma* 

fc  nufcript  which  my  Husband  had 

'  fent  his  Majefty,  and  faw  that   it 

c  wras  none  of  his  Majefty's  Hand- 

•  •  writing?      Upon    this    they    ap- 
c  pointed  a  Committee  to  examin 

*  the  Bufinefs  5  of  which  my  Huf- 
band  having  notice,  he  went  pn- 

in  the  Night  aw^y  from  his 

own 


AMYNTOR.       121 

f  own   Houfe  to  Sir  JOHN  WENT- 
c  WORTH'S,  who  liv'd  near  Yarmouth, 

•  and  him  he   acquainted  with  the 
c  Bufmefs,  and  the   great  Danger 
c  he  was  then  in  :   when    Sir  JOHN 
c  did  not  only  promife  to  conceal 
•c  him,  but  alfo  to  convey  him  out 
c  of  England,  it  being  in  his  Pow- 
c  er  to  give  PafTes  to  go  beyond 

•  Sea.     About  this   time  Mr.  SYM- 
c  MONDS  was  taken  in  a  Difguife  5 
c  but  God  in  his  Providence  fo  pr- 
f  der'd  it,  that  he  jfickncd  immedi- 

•  atly,  and   dy'd  before  he   came 
c  to  his  Examination  :    nor  could 
c  the    Committee    find    out    any 
c  thing  by  any  means  whatever  5 
:  which  altered  my  Husband's  Re- 
(  folutions  of  going  out  of  England. 
''  Now,    befides  thefe  Circumftan- 
c  ces,  to  ailert  the  Truth  of  what 
c  I  fay,     I  can  produce  fom  Let- 
c  ters,  which,  I  am  fure,  will  put 
'  it  out  of  all  Difpute.My  Husband 
'continued  at  Bockjng till  the  return 
f  ofhis  Majcfty   King  CHARLES  the 


122          AMYNTOR. 

c  Second  5  and  upon  his  Refto- 
1  ration ,  knowing  his  Princely 
c  Difpofition,  did  not  unjuftly  ex- 
c  ped:  a  fuitable  Reward  for  his 
c  Endeavors  to  ferve  his  Majefty 's 
6  Father  and  himfelf  in  that  Book. 
1  And  meeting  with  Dr.  MORLEY, 
c  he  fell  into  Difcourfe  how  fenfible 
€  he  was  of  the  great  Service  which 
4  he  had  don  his  prefent  Majefty 
'  and  the  Royal  Family,  in  compo- 
c  ling  and  fetting  forth  that  excellent 
c  Piece,  calFd  the  Kings  Boo^  and 
c  al/o  afTur'd  him,  that  it  had  bin 
c  very  effectual  not  only  at  home, 
c  but  abroad,  to  move  the  Hearts 
c  and  Affe6tions  of  People  towards 
c  his  Majefty,  inftancing  in  feveral 

*  Perfonswho  weremoft  exceedingly 
c  affected  with  it  j  and  fo  advanta- 
4  geous   he  faid  it  had  bin  to  his 

*  Majefty ,    that   according  to  his 
4  great  Merit,  he  might  have  what 
c  Preferment  he  defir'd.     Dr.  MOR- 
L  LEY  alfo  told  him,    That   he  had 

*  acquainted  Sir  EDWAKD  HYDE  with 


AMYNTOR.       125 

the  Bufinefs,'  and  that  he  did  ve- 
much  commend  and  admire 

it  :  but  we  have  not  (faid  he)  ac- 
c  quainted  his  Majefty  with  it,  but 
c  did  afTure  him,  that  his  Majefty 
c  did  fet  a  high  Value  upon  the 
'  BQQI^  and  had  commanded  Dr. 
€  EARL  to  tranflate  into  Latin  $ 
'  fom  having  taken  the  Pains  to 

*  put  it  into  other  Languages  be- 
c  fore.    My  Husband  being  encou- 
c  raged    by  this  Difcourfe  of  Dr. 
c  MORLEY'S,  and  fhortly  after  meet- 
f  ing  with  Dr.  SHELDON    (who  he 
c  knew  was  not  ignorant  that  he  was 
e  the  only  Author  of  the  foremen- 
c  tion'd  Book)    he  told  Dr.  SHEL- 
f  DON,  that  fince  he  had    bin  in- 

*  form'd  that  his  Majefty ,    out  of 
4  his  Princely  Difpofition  ,    would 
c  (without  doubt)  when  once  ac- 
c  quainted  with  it,  reward  that  Ser- 
c  vice  which  he  had  endeavored  to 
c  do  his    Father  and  himfelf  5   he 
c  thought   it  moft  convenient  for 
c  himfelf,  and  alfo  that  he  mi  she 

'be 


124        AMYNTOR.  " 

c  be  ferviceabletohis  Majefty  in  the 
1  Diocefs  of  London  (a  Place  where 
1  he  was  well  known)  if  it  would 
1  pleafe  his  Majefty  to  make  him 
c  Bifhop  of  that  See.  Dr.  SHELDON 
c  was  pleas'd,  with  a  great  deal  of 
c  Gravity  to  tell  him  that  was  a  great 

Leap  at  firft.  Whereupon  my  HU& 
c  band  defifted,  and  was  refolv'd  to 
c  leave  his  Preferment  to  God's  dif* 
c  pofe.  Soon  after  this,  the  King  be- 
c  ing  ftill  ignorant  of  what  he  had 
'  done,  he  was  by  the  Mediation  of 
i  a  Perfon  perfectly  ignorant  of  his 
c  Merit  as  to  thisMatter5madeBiihop 
c  of  Exeter  5  all  the  considerable  Bi- 
1  fhopricks  being  otherwife  difpos'd 
c  of  Not  long  after  this  it  pleas'd 
c  God  to  vifit  my  Husband  with 
c  an  Infirmity ,  which  he  had 
c  great  caufe  to  fear  would  (as  it 
c  did)  prove  mortal  to  him.  This 
c  made  him  refolve  to  acquaint  the 
'  King  with  the  whole  Matter, 
'  and  the  rather,  becaufe  he  iliw 

•  fom  Perfons  who  were  privy  to 


AMYNTOR.         125 

it,  defir'd  nothing  more  than  to 
have  it  conceal'd,  and  bury'd  in 
Oblivion  :  but  my  Husband  was 
not  willing  it   fhould  be  fo,  in 
regard  he  had  at  that  time  four 
Sons    living  3     and    they      ( he 
thought)  if  he  fhould  die,  might 
be  capable  of  his  Majefty's   Fa- 
vour.     Befides,  the  Duke  of  So- 
merfet  was  dead,  and   the   Bifhop 
of  Winchefler     (the  Perfon    who 
was   beft   able  to  atteft   it)   was 
very  ill.     Thefe   Confiderations 
made  him   go   to   his  Majefty  3 
and  having  the  Opportunity  of 
difcourfing     privatly  with  him, 
he  told  him  the  whole  Matter  as 
I   have  related  it,    and   for  the 
:  Truth  of  it,  appeal'd  to  Dr.  DUP- 
PA,    then     Bifhop   of  Winchefler^ 
and   formerly  his  Majefty's   Tu- 
tor.     The  King  then  was  pleas'd 
c  to  entertain  fom  Difcourfe  with 
c  my   Husband  about  it,  and  faid 
c  that  he  did  often  wonder  how 
his    Father  fhould    have    gotten 

4  Time 


i2<S        AMYNTOR.  ^ 

:  Time  and  Privacy  enough  in  his 
Troubles  to  compofe  fo  excel- 
c  lent  a  Piece,  and  written  with  fo 
c  much  Learning. 

B  Y  the  Extract  that  was  pub? 
lifh'd  of  this  Narrative  it  ^wqulc( 
feem  as  if  it  were  fomwhaMong- 
er  5  but  this  is  all  that  came  to 
my  Hands,  two  WitnefTes  atteft- 
ing,  that  as  far  as  it  goes,  it  is 
exaftly  conformable  to  the  Ori 
ginal.  What  Accident  hinder'd 
the  reft  (if  there  be  any  )  from 
being  copy'd,  I  cannot  certainly 
tell  5  tho',  when  ever  I  com  by  a 
true  Information,  I  fhall  (if  Oc- 
cafion  be)  publifh  my  Knowkdg. 
of  that  Particular,  in  an  Appendix 
to  this  Book.  The  Subflance  of 
what  remains  in  the  Abftradt,  is, 
That  when  King  CHARLES  the  Se- 
'cond  (as  we  faw  but  now)  was 
"made  acquainted  with  this  My- 
*  ftery,  he  gave  a  Promife  to  Dr. 
of  the  Biftioprick  of  Win- 

cbefter ; 


AMYNTOR.        127 

cbefter  5  and  that   the    Duke   of 

7br4  had  alfo  aflur'd   him  of  his 

Favor  :  That  upon  Dr.  DUPPA'S 

Death,  tho'    Dr.  GAUDEN   put  the 

King  in  mind  of  his  Promife,  he 

was  only  made  Bilhop  of  Wor- 

cefter,     Dr.  MORLEY   having   ob- 

ain?d    the    See    of    Wincbefler  : 

'  That  her    Husband  dying  foon 

c  after,   Mrs.  GAUDEN  petition'd  the 

£  King,  (hewing  that  ihe  was  left 

£  a  Widow,  with  four  Sons  and  a 

'Daughter 5    that  it  cofther  HuC- 

c  band  200 /.  to  remove  from  Exe- 

c  ter  to  Worcefter  5  and  pray'd  his 

c  Majefty  to  beftow  the   half  years 

c  Rents  upon  her ,  which  he  deny'd, 

4  artd/gave  themto  another. 

'WE  learn  further  from  Dr. 
WALKER,  that  immediatly  upon 
Dr.  GAUDEN'S  Nomination  to  the 
Bifhoprick  of  Worcefter,  he  told  him, 
that  waiting  upon  the  King  the 
next  Morning  after  the  Bifhop  of 
Wincbefters  Death,  he  found  a 
remarkable  Alteration  in  him,  his 

Ma- 


128         AMYNTO'K. 

Majefly  being  penfive  and  out 
of  Humor  $  m  which  Temper  he 
ftill  found  him  for  two  Mornings 
after :  But  having  leafnt  the  third 
Day  that  my  Lord  Chancellor  had 
by  all  his  Intereft  prefs'd  the  King 
to  beftow  Winchefler  on  Dr.  MOR- 
LEY,  he  prefum'd  to  tell  his  Ma- 
jefty  how  uneafie  he  pcrceiv'dt 
him  to  be  between  the  Honor 
of  his  Word  that  he  fhou'd  fuc- 
ceed  his  Friend  Dr.  DUPPA,  and 
the  '  Importunity  of  thbfe  who 
follicited  for  Dr.  MORIEY  5  and 
that  therfore  he  moft  willingly 
released  his  Majefty  of  his  Pro- 
mife.  Here,  continues  Dr.  GAUDEN, 
the  King  ftopt  me,  and  vouch- 
faf 'd  to  embrace  me  in  his  Arms, 
with  thefe  Expreflions  3  My  Lord,  I 
thank,  you  5  and  it  may  not  be  long 
*ere  I  have  Opportunity  to  fcew  you 
how  l^indly  I  take  it.  And  in  the 
mean  time  you  /ball  have  Worce- 
fter  5  and,  to  make  it  to  you  as 
good  as  1  can,  att  the  Dignities 


AM  YNTOR.  125* 
of  that  Church  (I  kfiow  not  how  it 
comes  to  pafs)  being  in  my  Difyo- 
fal,  1  give  you  the  difofing  of  them 
all  during  your  time,  that  you  may 
"prefer  your  Friends,  and  have  them 
near  about  you. 

I  T  was  an  ordinary  thing  with 
King  CHARLES  the  Second  thus  to 
forget  his  Promifes ,  which  made 
him  frequently  uneafie,  and  occa- 
fion'd  Sir  WILLIAM  TEMPLE  (whom 
he  had  ferv'd  after  this  manner)  to 
fay  of  him  in  his  incomparable 
Memoirs ,  That  this  Temper 

*  made  him  apt  to  fall  into  the  Per- 
4  fuafions   of    whoever     had    his 

. c  Kindnefs  and  Confidence  for  the 
c  time,  how  different  foever  from 
'  the  Opinions  he  was  of  before  : 
c  and  that  he  was  very  eafie  to 
'  change  Hands ,  when  thofe  he 
c  imploy'd  fecm'd  to  have  engag'd 
c  him  in  any  Difficulties  j  fo  as  no- 
c  thing  lookt  fteddy  in  the  Conducft 

*  of  his  Affairs,  nor  aim'd  at  any 
'  certain  end. 

K  THUS 


130  AMYNTOR. 

^  '  >X"" 

THUS  we  have  don  with  the 
Narrative  of  Mrs.  GAUDEN,  who 
was  often  heard  to  relate  the  fub- 
ftance  of  it  to  her  Friends  and  Re 
lations,  and  who,  when  Dr.  NI 
CHOLSON,  then  Bifhop  of  Glocefter, 
did,  on  her  receiving  of  the  Sacra 
ment,  put  the  Queftion  to  her, 
affirm'd ,  that  her  Husband  wrote 
that  Book,  which  feveral  now  li 
ving  in  that  City  do  very  well  re- 
•member- 


W  E  come  at  length  to  the  laft 
Period  of  our  Labor ,  and  that  is 
to  fhew  the  Invalidity  of  the  Fads 
which  arealledg'd  to  prove  CHARLES 
the  Firft  was  the  true  Author  r  of 
Icon  Bafilike.  And  the  firft  Evi 
dence  we  fhall  hear  is  his  own  Son 
andSucceffor,CHARLEs  ILwho  grant 
ed  his  Letters  Patents  to  Mr.  ROY* 
STON  for  printing  all  his  Father's 
Wcrks,  and  particularly  this  Piece, 

which. 


A  MY  NTT  OR.        131 

fays  Mr.  WAGSTAF,  contra* 
tradids  what  he's  believ'd  to  have 
faid  to   my  Lord    ANGLKSFY.      But 
with  his  good  leave  the  Conclu/i- 
fion  does  not  follow  :    for  thefe 
Letters  were  iflifd  out  in  the  Year 
6oy  before  Dr.  GAUDEN   gave  the 
King  true  Information ;  and  it  was 
in  75,  that  he  told  his  Opinion  to 
my  Lord  ANGLESEY  long  after  he 
was  convinced  that  his  Father  had 
not  written  the  Book.     But  if  King 
CHASES  the  Second  haddilTemblcd 
his  Knowledge  of  this  Affair,  it  had 
not  bin  at  all  a  thing  inconfiftcnc 
with  this  Character  >   but  a  Piece  of 
hisGrandfather's  boafted  Kingcraft, 
and  which  he  pra&ic'd  on  many  lefs 
pardonable  Occafions.     Have  noc 
Princes  in  all  Ages,  as  well  as  other 
Men,  bin  allow'd  to  keep  things 
fecret  which  it  was  not  their  Inte- 
reft  fhould  be  known,   and  which 
are  commonly  call'd  by  the  Name 
of  State  Myftenes  ?    How   many 
Juggles  are  us'd  by  the  Eaftcrn  Prin- 
K  2  ccs 


ij2        AMYNTOR. 

ces  to  beget  an  extraordinary  Opi 
nion  of  their  Perfons  in  the  Minds 
of  their  Subjects,  who,  by  the  force 
of  fuch  fantaftical  Stones ,  carry 
their  Refpedt  even  to  Adoration  ? 
But  what  need  I  go  .out  of  Eng 
land  for  Examples  ?  When  our 
own  Kings  have  for  fo  many  Ages 
pretended  to  cure  the  King's  Evil, 
by  meerly  touching  the  aflfedted 
Part  $  and  this  Power  of  Healing 
is  faid  to  be  communicated  to 
them  by  the  Blefling  of  King  ED 
WARD  the  Confejfor,  one  of  the 
weakeft  and  moft  Prieft  ridden 
Princes  that  ever  wore  a  Crown. 
All  the  Monkiih  Hiftorians,  and 
particularly  the  Abbot  of  Rievalle, 
who  wrote  his  Life,  have  given  us 
a  large  Catalogue  of  his  Miracles: 
but  I  wonder  why  our  Princes  have 
not  alfo  pretended  to  reftore  Sight 
to  the  Blind  3  for  this  is  alfo 
affirm5  d  of  King  E  D  w  A  R  D'S 
Wonder  working  Touch.  'Tis 
ftrange,  that  a  Proteftant  Bilhop, 

ihould 


AMYNTOR.          133 

fhould  compofe  a  Form  of  Divine 
Service  to  be  read  on  this  Oc- 
cafion,  when  he  might  as  warran- 
tably  believe  all  the  other  Legends 
of  thofe  dark  and  ignorant  times. 
If  I  did  perfuade  my  felf  that  King 
CHARLES  the  Second  (who  is  faid 
to  have  cur'd  very  many)  was  a 
Saint,  it  fhould  be  the  greateft  Mi 
racle  I  could  believe.  But  King 
WILLIAM,  who  came  to  deliver  us 
from  Superftition  as  well  as  from 
Slavery,  has  nowabolifht  this  Rem 
nant  of  Popery  :  For  it  is  not,  as  his 
Enemies  fuggeft,  becaufe  he  thinks 
his  Title,  which  is  the  beft  in  the 
World ,.  defective,  that  he  abftains 
from  Touching  5  but  becaufe  he 
laughs  at  theFolly,and  fcorns  to  take 
the  Advantage  of  the  Fraud.  So 
much  for  the  Letters  Patents  of 
CHARLES  II.  and  we  fhall  confider 
thofe  of  the  late  King  JAMES 
in  their  due  order. 

THE   next   Witnefs   fhall   be 

Major  HUNTINGTON,  who    (  as  Sir 

K  3 


AMYNTOR. 

WILLIAM    DUGD ALE  relates    in  his  * 
^  fhort  View  of  the  Troubles  of  England) 
did,  thro'  the  Favor  of    General 
FAIRFAX,  reftore  to   King  CHARLES 
the  Firft,  after  he  was  brought  to 
Hampton-Court,  the  Manufcnpt  of 
Icon  Bafilike  written  with  the  faid 
King's  own  Hand,  and   found  in 
his  Cabinet  at   Nafeby   Fight.     By 
the  way,  they  ihould  have  faid,  for 
the  Grace  of  the   Story,    fart  of 
the  Manufcrift  $    for  a  good  deal 
of  the   Book    was  written    after 
wards,    be   the  Author  who  you 
pleafe.    And  they  Ihould  have  told 
us  likewife  how  General  FAIRFAX 
durft  fend  one  part  of  his  Papers 
to  the  King,  when  he  fent  the  reft 
to  the  Parliament ;  or,  fince  they 
would  make  us  believe  he  was  fo 
kind  to  the  King,  why  he  did  not 
reftore  him  all  the  Papers ,    when 
'tis  very  evident,  that  thofe  which 
the  Parliament  ordered  to  be  pub- 
lifh'd   were   infinitely    of   greater 
and   made   him    a 
world 


AMYNTOR.       135 

world  of  Enemies,    which  obliged 
the  Author    of  Icon    Bafilike    to 
write  a  Chapter  on  this  very  Sub- 
jecft  5  whereas  the  Papers  in  que- 
ftion  would  probably  mollify  fom 
of  his  Oppofers.     But  now  when 
all  is  don,  tho3  General  FAIRFAX 
was  afterwards  againft  putting  the 
King  to  death,  yet  he  was  not  at 
that  time  difpos'd  to  grant  him  any 
Favors,  and  afted  with  as  hearty 
Zeal  againft  him  as  any  in  the  Na 
tion,  which  appears  by  all  the  Hi- 
ftones  of  thofe   times,    as    well 
as  by  his  own  and  the  Memoirs  of 
the  Lord  HOLLIS.     As  for  Major 
HUNTINGTON    Dr.   WALKER    affaires 
us,      That  he  told  him,  when   he 
c  heard  fuch  a  Book  was  publifh'd 
c  and  confidently  reported  to  be  the 
c  Kings,  all  he  faid  was  that  he  fure- 
c  ly  belicv'd  thofe  were  the  Papers 
c  he  faw  him  fo  ufually  take  out  of 
c  his  Cabinet,    and  that  he  never 
'  read  one  Line  or  Word  of  them. 
This  and    Sir  WILLIAM  DUGD ALE'S 

K  4  Tefti: 


AMYNTOR.      V 

Teftimony  are  diverfe  from  that  of 
Mr.  RICHARD  DUKE,  of  Otter  ton  in 
Devon,  who  writes  the  following 
Letter  to  Dr.  GOODAL,  famous  for 
his  Zeal  on  the  behalf  of  Icon  Ba- 
filike.  c  Sir,  I  confefs  that  I  heard 
c  Major  HUNTINGTON  to  fay  more 
c  than  once,  that  whilft  he  guard- 
?  ed  CHARLES  the  Firft  at  Hdmby- 

•  Houfe  (as  I  remember)  he  faw  fe- 
c  veral  Chapters  or  Leaves  of  that 
c  great  King'sMeditations  lying  on 
c  the  Table  feveral  Mornings,  with 
c  a  Pen  and    Ink  with  which  the 

*  King  fcratch'd  out  or  blotted  fom 
Lines  or  Words  of  fom  of  them. 

t  Upon  which  I  muft  alfo  confefs 
4  that  I  concluded  they  were  origi- 
c  nally  from  the  King  3  but  others 
1  have  drawn  a  contrary  Argu- 
'  ment  from  the  King's  correcting 
'  the  Papers.  Yet  I  put  this  under 
4  my  Hand,  that  the  Major  told 
c  me,  that  he  did  fuppofe  them 
!  originally  from  that  learned 
t  Prince,  which  is  the  Totum  that 


AMY  NT  OR.       137 

f  can  be  intimated  from,  Sir,  your 
c  humble  Servant  RICHARD  DUKE. 
Then  one  Mr.  CAVE  BECK  writes 
to  Dr.  HOLLINGWORTH  That  Ma- 
c  jor  HUNTING*  ON  at  Ifjwich  af- 
c  fur'd  him  that  fo  much  of  the 

-  faid  Book  as  contain5  d  his  Maje- 

•  fty's  Mediations  before    Nafeby- 
5  Fight  was  taken  in  the    King's 
c  Cabinet  $    and   that    Sir    THOMAS 
c  FAIRFAX  deliver' d  the  faid  Papers 
'  to    him,    and    order'd   him    to 
4  carry  them  to  the    King  5    and 
c  alfo  told  him,  that  when  he  de- 
'liver'd  them  to   the    King,    his 

*  Majefty  appear'd  very  joyful,  and 
'faid    he  eftcem'd  ?em  more  than 
c  all  the  Jewels  he  had  loft  in  the 
f  Cabinet.     This  Major  HUNTING- 
TON  was  a  ftrange  Man  to  vary  fo 
often  in  his   Story,  and  to  tell  fo 
much  more  or  lefs  to  every  body 
that  enquired  of  him  3     but    in 
deed 'tis  no  great  Wonder  thatthefe 
Gentlemen  Ihould  fo  widely  differ 
from  one   another,    both  as    to 

Time 


i38          AMYNTOR. 

Time  and  Place,  as  well  as  to 
Matters  of  Fa6t,  when  Sir  WIL 
LIAM  DUGDALE  has  printed  under 
Major  HUNTINGTON'S  Name  quite 
another  Story  from  the  written 
Memorial  out  of  which  he  had 
it.  In  his  Jlwrt  View  he  pofitive- 
ly  fays,  as  we  read  before,  that  the 
Manufcnpt  was  written  with  the 
King's  own  Hand  :  But  in  his 
Warrant  for  this,  it  is  only  faid, 
as  Mr.  WAGSTAF  himfelf  acknow 
ledges,  that  all  the  Chapters  in  it 
were  written  by  the  Hand  of  Sir 
EDWARD  WALKER,  but  much  corre 
cted  with  Interlineations  of  the 
King's  Hand,  and  that  the  Prayers 
were  all  fo. 

NOW,  to  fliew  further  how 
cautioufly  People  fhould  rely  on 
Sir  WILLIAM  DUGDALE,  and  Hifto- 
rians  like  him,  we  fliall  produce 
another  remarkable  Inftance.  In 
the  Book  before-quoted,  he  ex- 
prefly  writes,  That  Mr.  HERBERT 
did  often  fee  the  Icon  Bafilike  while 

he 


AMYNTOB,       i39 

he  waited  on  the  King  in  the  JJIe 
of  Wight ;  wheras  all  that  Sir  THO 
MAS  (for  he  was  Knighted  after 
the  Reftoration)  has  faid  in  the 
Manuscript  which  Sir  WIILIAM 
perus'd,  and  wherof  Mr.  WAGSTAF 
has  printed  an  Abftra<5t,  is,  that  he 
'  had  there  the  Charge  of  the  King's 
c  Books  5  and  that  thofe  he  moft  read, 

*  after  the  Sacred  Scriptures ,  were 
'Bifhop  ANDREWS'S  Sermons,  HOOK- 
c  £R'sEcclefiafticaI  Policy ,  VILLA  LP  AN- 
c  DusonEzEKiEL,  SANDY'S  Paraphrafe 
c  on  the  Pfa/ms,  HERBERT'S  Poems, 

*  the   Tranflation  of  GODFREY    of 
c  BuUoign  by    Mr-  FAIRFAX,  of  OR- 
4  LANDO  FURIOSO   by  Sir  JOHN  HAR- 
c  RINGION,     and    SPENCER'S     Fairy 
c  Queen  (to  which  he  might  have 
c  added  PEMBROKE'S  Arcadia. )    And 
4  at  this  time  it  was,  as  is  prefum'd, 
c  (continues  Sir  THOMAS  )    that  he 
c  composed  his  Book,  call'd  Sufpiria 
c  Regalia,  publiih'd  foon  after  his 
c  Death,  and  entituFd,    The  Kings 
c  (Portraiture  in  bis  Solitudes  and  5V//- 

'  ferivgs 


I4P      AMYNTOR; 

'ferings:     which   Manufcript  Mr. 

'HERBERT     found     among    thofe 

c  Books  his  Majefty  was  pleas' d  to 

c  give  him,  thofe  excepted  which  he 

€  bequeath' d  to  his  Children  here- 

c  after  mentioned.     In  regard  Mr, 

c  HERBERT  5     tho'  he  did  not  fee 

c  the   King  write  that    Book,   his 

£  Majefty  being  always  privat  when 

c  he  writ  5  and  thofe  his   Servants 

c  never  coming  into  the  Bed  Cham- 

cber  when   the   King  was  privat, 

c  til  he   calFd  $     yet    comparing 

c  it  with  his  Hand-writing  in  other 

c  things,  he  found  it  fo  very  like  as 

c  induces  his  Belief  that  it  was  his 

c  own,  having   feen  much  of  the 

:  King's    Writings  before.       Here 

Sir  THOMAS  only  prefumes  the  King 

might  write  the  Book  in  the  Ifle  of 

Wight,  and  directly  fays  he  never 

faw    the   King  write  it,    nor  the 

Book  it  felf  till  after    his   Death  5 

but  Sir  WILLIAM  affirms  from  thefe 

very  Papers  (for  they  are  faid  to  be 

written  at  his  Requeft  by  Sir  THO- 

M4S 


v  AMYNTOR:      i4r 

MAS  )  that  he  often  faw  it  in  the 
I/le  of  Wight  when  he  waited  on  the 
King  in  his  Bed-Chamber.  9Tis 
to  be  obferv'd,  that  the  Title  of 
Sufpiria  Regalia  is  as  agreeable  to 
Mrs.  GAUDEN?sNarrative,  as  the  reft 
of  the  Particulars  are  different  from 
Sir  WILLIAM'S  Relation. 

BEFORE     we    examin    the 

Force  of  Sir  THOMAS'S  Teftimony, 

we  muft  firft  confider  what  is  faid 

by  Mr.  LEVET,  who   attended  the 

King  at  the  fame  Time  and  Place. 

In  fhort,   he  fays,      That  of    his 

'own   certain    Knowledg  he  can 

c  depofe   the    Book  was  truly  the 

c  Kings,  having  obferv'd  his    Ma- 

c  jefty  oftentimes  writing  his  Royal 

c  Refentments  of  the  bold  and  in- 

(folent  Behavior  of  his    Soldiers 

4  when  they  had  him  in  their  Cu- 

c  ftpdy  :  That  being  nominated  by 

'his    Majefty  to   be    one  of  his 

*  Servants  during  the  Treaty  in  the 

'IJle  of  Wight,  he  had  the  Happi- 

c  nefs  to  read  the  fame  oftentimes 

•    in 


42i        AMYNTOR. 

*  in  Manufcript    under  his  Majc- 
'fty'sown   Hand,   being  pleaf'd 
4  to    leave    it    in    the    Window 
cof    his      Bed-Chamber  :      And 
c  that  when  the  King  was  removed 
'  to  Hurft-Caflle,  he  had  the  Charge 
'of  this  Book,  and  a  Cabinet  of 

*  other  Papers,   which  at   the  faid 
c  Caftle  he  deliver'd  again  to  his 
c  Majefty  5     where,  by  the  way  , 
he  does  not  inform  us  if  the  Book 
was  diftin6tly  given  him  from  the 
Cabinet,  or  that  he  only  conclu 
ded  it  was  in  it.     Here  are  feveral 
very    obfervable    Circumftances  : 
As,  Firft,  that  altho'  Mr.  HERBERT 
who  was  of  the  King's  Bed  Cham 
ber,  never  faw  him  write  a  Sylla 
ble  of  this  Book,    his   (Majefty , 
he  fays ,  being   always  in  privat, 
when  he  wrote,  and  his  Servants 
never  coming  into  his  Bed-Cham^ 
bertillhe  call'd})    yet  Mr.  LEVET, 
a  Page  of  the  Back  Stairs,,  often 
faw  him  write, knew  what  he  wrote, 
and  could   read  the  Book  when  he 

pleas'd- 


AMYNTOR.        143 

pleas' d  Then  that  the  King,  who 
is  faid  to  value  this  Book  more 
than  all  his  Jewels,fhould  fo  carelef- 
ly  leave  it  in  his  Bed-chamber  when 
he  was  abroad,  and  where  Mr. 
HERBERT  and  others  ,  nay  the  ve 
ry  Soldiers  might  fee  it  as  well 
as  Mr.  LEVET,  is  not  very  likely. 
And  laftly,  that  the  King  fhould 
have  fo  much  leifure  to  mind  this 
Book  during  a  Treaty  with  his  Sub- 
jedrs,  or  would  lofe  any  time  in 
writing  of  it,  when  the  Bufinefs 
in  agitation  concern'd  no  lefs  than 
his  re-eftablifhment  or  Abdication, 
is  not  credible  5  befides,  that  there 
is  nothing  particularly  written 
concerning  the  Infolence  of  the 
Soldiers  in  all  Icon  Bafilike.  And 
I  have  talk'd  with  Perfons  of  Qua 
lity  and  good  Reputation  now  a- 
live,  who  had  much  more  of  his 
Majefty's  Company  and  Confidence 
in  the  IJle  of  Wight  than  Mr.  LEVET 
cither  lhar'd,  or  could  reafonably 
cxped:  5  but  yet  they  neither 

dreamt 


i44         AMYNTOR. 

dreamt  of  this  Bufinefs  then,  nor 
believ'd  a  jot  of  it  afterwards,  as 
well  knowing  how  the  King  fpent 
his  time  in  that  place.*  But 
now  fuppofing  Mr;  LEVET'S  Re- 
lation  to  be  all  true,  yet  it  is 
very^Trom  amounting  to  a  Proof, 
that  King  CHARLES  the  Firft  yas 
Was  the  real  Author  of  Icon  Bafilike^ 
which  is  the  Point  in  queftion  5  and 
not  whether  he  interlin'd  or  tran- 
fcrib'd  it,  which  he  ought  to  have 
don,  if  he  had  a  mind  it  fhould 
pafs  for  his  own  :  befides  that  Dr. 
GAUDEN  fent  it  to  him  for  that  ve 
ry  purpofe,tobecorre6ted,allow'd, 
or  laid  afide,  as  his  Majefty  ihould 
think  fit.  But  tho'  the  King  in  all 
reafon  might  ,  and  I  really  be 
lieve  did  ,  corre<St  or  interline  a 
part,  and  perhaps  tranfcribe  the 
whole  Book  3  yet  I  can  by 
no  means  be  perfuaded  that  he 
could  find  Leifure  enough  to 
write  fo  many  Copies  of  it  in  his 
Solitudes  and  Sufferings,  in  the 

midft 


AMY  NT  OR.         145 

mid  ft  of  Treaties,  in  the  Hurry 
of  Removals,  while  he  meditated 
his  Efcape,  and  was  ftnctly  obferv'd 
by  his  Guards.  But  thcfe  Gentle 
men  tell  us  of  as  many  Copies,  as 
the  Papifls  (hew  Heads  of  St.  JOHN 
BAPTIST,  cr  Quarts  of  the  Virgin 
MARY'S  Milk-  Mr.  HERBERT  had 
one  left  him  by  the  King  for  a 
Legacy;  CHARLES  the  Second  (as 
Dr.  CANARIFS  writes  to  Mr.  WAG- 
STAF)  {hew'd  another  to  Mr. WOOD, 
a  Commifhoner  from  the  Scoti/h 
Kir^  at  Breda-.,  and  who  knows 
which  of  thefe,  or  whether  it  was 
either  of  them,  that  Mr.  LEVET  de- 
hver'd  to  the  King  at  Hurft-Ca- 
ftle  ?  But  why,  in  the  Name  of 
God,  is  none  of  thefe  ever  iince 
produced  ?  How  came  this  Prince's 
Autographs  to  be  thus  neglected, 
when  his  Day  is  fo  ftndtly  ob- 
ferv'd  ?  This  is  a  Piece  of  Re- 
fped:  that's  ufually  paid  to  lefs  con- 
fiderable  Perfons .5  and  I  believe  ei 
ther  of  the  Univerfities,,  would  rea- 

L  diljr 


AMYNTOR. 

tiily  give  Five  Hundred  Pounds 
to  have  fuch  a  Copy  plac'd  in  their 
Library,  tho'  if  they  had  the  Ma- 
nufcript,  it  would  make  nothing 
at  all  for  their  Purpofc. 

1O   cDT.'  H.   '          -  •  •  -  •' 

N  O  W  let  us  confidcr  the 
the  Force  of  all  thofe  Teftimo- 
nies  join'cl  together,  which  is,  that 
one  faw  the  King  write  he  knew 
not  what,  but  belie  v'd  it  might  be 
this  Book  3  another  obfervM  him 
writing  his  Refentments  againft 
the  rude  Behavior  of  the  Soldiers, 
and  fo  was  ready  to  depofe  of 
his  certain  Knowledge,  that  Icon 
Bafilike  was  his  own  ;  a  third  -pre- 
fumes  the  ; King  might  write  it, 
becaufe  he  read  a  great  many 
Books  5  and  they  unammoufly  con 
clude,  that  he  was  the  genuin  Au 
thor,  becaufe  the  Book  was  writ 
ten  with  his  own  Hand  5  all  which 
Teftimonies,  conlklering  the  Pre- 
mifes,  prove  no  more  nor  lefsthan 
that  the  King  could  write  and 

read, 


AM  YNTOR.  147 

read,  which  was  never  deny'd  by 
any  that  I  know. 

I  T  is  further  urg'cl  by  the  Ad 
mirers  of  this  famous  Book,  that 
Mr.  ROYSTON  had  it  to  print  as  from 
the  King,  in  which  all  fides  are  a- 
greed,  and  iignifies  nothing  to  the 
Merits  of  the  Caufe  5  for,  be  fure, 
the  Bookfeller  was  not  made  privy 
to  the  Secret.  And  as  for  the  A- 
nonymous  Authors  of  two  Books 
which  are  alledg'd  by  Mr.  WAG- 
STAF,  we  (hall  hear  and  examin  them 
when  they'll  pleafe  to  tell  us  their 
Names,  tho'  all  they  have  to  fay  is 
anfwer'd  already.  When  Dr.  HOL- 
JLINGWOR.TH  tells  us  who  are  his 
fufficient  Witnefles,  we  fhall  like- 
wife  confider  their  Evidence  3  for 
fuch  Affirmations  muft  go  for  no 
thing  in 'proving  a  Fad:  of  this 
Nature,  and  may  well  ferve  for 
a  Flounfn  ,  but  Hot  for  an  Ar 
gument,  no  more  than  feveral  more 
Afieruons  of  his  concerning  this 
Matter;  which  were  exploded  by 
other  Hands,  and  not  defended  by 
Mr.  WAGSTAF.  L  2  MR. 


148  AMYNTOR. 

M  R.  LE  FLA  Mmifter  of  Fin- 
clnngfidd  writes  to  Dr.GooDAL,  that 
one  WILLIAM  ALLEN,  who  collected 
his  Ty thes  for  two  Years,  and  was 
formerly  a  Servant  to  Dr.  GAUD- 
HN,  affirmed  to  him,  c  That  the 
c  Doctor  told  him  he  had  borrowed 
c  the  Book,  and  was  obliged  to  re- 
'  turn  it  by  fuch  a  time  5  that 
1  (befides  what  other  time  he  might 
c  imploy  in  it)  he  fat  up  one  whole 
:  Night  to  tranfcribe  it  5  that  he 
c  fat  up  in  the  Chamber  with  him, 
'  to  wait  upon  him,  to  make  his 
1  Fires,  and  fnuff  his  Candles  : 
c  and  Mr.  LE  PLA  thinks  (for  he's 
c  not  pofitive)  it  was  from  Mr. 
*  SYMMONDS  of  Raynethathc  faid  the 
c  Dodlor  had  borrowed  the  Book. 
Dr.  HOLLINGWOKTH  has  formerly  af- 
firm'd  this  Story  of  SYMMOXDS'S  , 
who  indeed  aflifted  afterwards  in 
printing  the  Book  at  London  5  but 
was  fo  far  at  this  time  from  liv 
ing  atRayne  in  the  Neighborhood 
of  Bocking  where  Dr.  GAUDEN 
dwelt,  that  as  Dr.  WALKER  {hews, 

Mr. 


AMYNTOR.       i4j? 

Mr.  SYMMGNDS  was  long  before 
fequeftred  for  his  Loyalty,  fled  to 
the  King's  Quarters,  and  one  Mr: 
ATKINS  plac'd  in  his  room  by  the 
Parliament.  Nor  is  it  credible  that 
Dr.  GAUDEN,  whether  he  meant  a 
a  Fraud  or  not,  fhould  give  an 
Account  of  his  Studies,  much  lefs 
difcover  the  Secret  of  this  Book 
for  no  Reafon  in  the  World,  to 
never  fo  trufty  a  Servant,  efpeci- 
ally  to  one  that  was  to  look  after 
his  Fire  and  fnuff  his  Candles. 

NOW  we  com  to  the  late 
King  JAMES'S  Letters  Patents  to 
Mr.  CHISWEL  for  Liberty  to  print 
his  Father's  Works  5  for  they  are 
urg'd  as  an  Argument  that  he 
thought  Icon  Bafilike  genuin,  tho' 
this  Book  be  not  fpecially  menti- 
on'd  in  thefe  Letters,  which  are  ge 
neral,  and  refer  not  tothofeof  his 
Brother  in  60.  But  here  I  muft 
beg  Leave  to  relate  a  Story  that 
will  give  fom  Light  to  this  Matter. 
In  the  Year  1677,  *hc  Houfe  of 
Commons  having  voted  two 
L  Moatrs 


iso         AMYNTOR. 

Months  Tax  for  the  more  decent 
Interment  of  CHARLES  I.  and  to 
raife  a  Monument  for  him ,  Mr, 
CHISWEI^  being  Mr.  RQYSTON'S  Son 
in  law,  thought  of  a  Project  that 
would  anfwer  the  End  of  the  Parli 
ament,  and  not  be  unferviceable  to 
his  Father,  with  whom  he  was  con- 
cern'd  in  Trade  :  and  it  was,  that  a 
Part  of  that  Sum  might  be  appro 
priated  towards  bearing  the  Charge 
of  an  ImprdTion  of  the  King's 
Works,  wherof  every  P^rifh  in  Evg- 
land  ihould  be  oblig'd  to  have  a  Co 
py,  and  to  chain  it  in  the  Church  • 
which,  in  his  Opinion,  would  prove 
a  more  glorious  and  lafting  Monu 
ment  than  any  could  be  framed  of 
Brafs  or  Marble.  This  Thought  was 
very  well  lik'd  by  feveral  greatMcn 
of  the  Church  and  State,who  fhew'4 
themfelves  ready  to  promote  it  $ 
and  he  did  not,  we  may  imagin, 
ipare  any  Coft  or  Labor  to  have 
it  ilicceed,  tho?  'tis  well  known 
how  little  CHARLES  the  Second 
himfelf  encourag'd  ic.  But  the 

Dn 


AMYNTOR.          151 

Diftrufts  arifing  afterwards  between 
the  King  and  People,  the  Heats 
in  Parliament,  and  particularly  the 
Popifh  Plot,  broke  this ,  and  all 
fuch  Defigns  to  Pieces  :  So  that- 
there  was  no  farther  Mention 
of  any  Monument  for  his  Father.; 
But  when  the  Duke  of  Tor^ 
mounted  the  Throne,  and  had 
given  AfTurances  of  his  Favor  to 
the  Church  of  England ,  Mr, 
CHISWEL  thought  again  of  revn 
ving  his  Project,  and  employed 
Sir  ROGER  L'  ESTRANGE  to  procure 
him  only  King  JAMES'S  recommend 
datpry  Letter  5  for  he  did  not 
expect  any  thing  from  Parlia 
ment  as  before,  only  fuggefted 
how  agreeable  this  would  feem 
to  the  King's  Defign  ( if  it  were 
real)  of  begetting  a  Confidence 
of  himfelf  in  the  Church.  This 
Requeft  the  King  refbrd,  giving 
for  his  Reafon,  that  Icon  Bafilik? 
was  not  his  Father's  Book  ,  and 
he  could  not  therefore  in  Con* 
fcicnce  recommend  it  as  his. 

L  4  Mr. 


i52  AMYNTOR. 

Mr.    CHISWEL     being    informed  of 
this  Rdblution  by  Sir  ROGER,  an- 
fwcr'ci,   that   he  thought  he  could 
accornmodat     the    Matter  :     For 
fince     the   publifhing  of  the  reft 
would    fignifie     nothing  without 
the  Addition  of  Icon   *Bafilike,  he 
would  remove   it  from  the  Front 
where  it  flood   in  the    former  E- 
diticn,  and    place   it  in  the   Rear 
after    Finis,   as  Books  of   uncer 
tain  Authority  ufe    to    be     print 
ed.  To  this  the  King  confented,  on 
condition  fom   Exprcffions  which 
he  thought  injurious  to  the  Monar 
chy  Hiould    be    left    out  :     with 
which   Mr,  CHISWEL  faid  he  could 
by  no  means  comply,    as  being  a 
difingenucus  Practice  towards  any 
Author,  and  a  great  Abufe  on  the 
Public  $  but  propof  d  ,  as  another 
Expedient,  that  thofe  Words  fhould 
be    put    within    Crotchets.      And 
thus  Icon  Bafihke  ftands  now  prin 
ted  after  the   End   of  the   fccond 
Part  of  the  King's  Works    of  the 
of  8^3    by  Mr-  CHIS^ 


I        AMYNTOR.       153 

WFL  ,  who  told  me  this  Story 
himfelf,  not  to  gratifie  or  injure 
any  fide,  but  as  a  Matter  of  Fa6t, 
wherein  he  was  perfonally  con- 
cern'd  5  and  from  whence  he  draws 
no  manner  of  Inference.  The  Royal 
Brothers  faid  the  fame  to  feyeral 
others  befides  my  Lord  ANGLESEY, 
and  particularly  to  fom  eminent 
Perfons  now  living,  who  told  me 
fo  much  themfelves,  with  a  Liber 
ty  of  mentioning  their  Names , 
which,  after  all  that  has  bin  offered, 
I  fee  no  Neccffity  of  doing. 

THAT  nothing  may  be  wanting 
I  fhall  in  the  laft  place  confider 
what  is  objected  to  the  Prayer 
uf'd  by  the  King  as  his  own  in 
the  time  of  his  Captivity  5  but  L% 
with  very  fmall  Variation,  the  fame 
that  is  faid  by  PAMELA  to  a  Heathen 
Deity  in  Sir  PHIUP  SYDNEY'S  Arcadia. 
This  Difcovery,  as  we  faid  before, 
was  firft  made  by  MILTON  in  his  7- 
conoclaftes.  But  Dr.  GILL  affirms, 
That  his  Patient  HENRY  HILL  the 
'  Printer  faid  it  was  put  "in  by  a 

c  Con- 


154  AMYNTOR. 
'Contrivance  of  MILTON  ,  who 
1  catching  his  Friend  Mr.  Du  GARD 
(  printing  an  Edition  of  Ic0n  Bafili- 
4  £?>  got  his  Pardon  by  BRADSHAW'S 
c  Intereft,  on  Condition  he  would 
c  infert  PAMELA'S  Prayer  to  bring 
'Difcredit  on  the  Book  and  the 
€  Author  of  it.  I  wonder  at  the 
Eafinefs  of  Dr.  GILL  and  Dr/ BER 
NARD  to  believe  fo  grofsa  Fable, 
when  it  does  not  appear  that  Du 
GARI>  ,  who  was  Printer  to  the 
Parliament,  ever  printed  this  Book, 
and. that  the  Prayer  is  in  the  fe- 
cond  Edition  publifh'd  by  Mr. 
ROYSTQN,  whofe  Evidence  is  al- 
ledg'd  to  prove  the  Genuinnefs  of 
the  Book.  And  if  the  King's 
Friends  thought  it  not  his  own, 
what  made  them  print  it  in  the 
firft  Impreffion  of  his  Works  in 
Folio,  by  ROYSTON  in  62,  when 
MILTON  could  not  tamper  with  the 
Prefs  *  Or  why  did  they  let  it  pafs 
in  the  laft  Impreflion  in  Folio  by 
Mr-C^iswELin  the  Year  86,  whe 
all  the  World  knew  that  it  w 


AMY  NT  OR.       155 

long  before  expofd    in  Iconocla- 
ftes  ?  After   this    I   need  not    go 
about  to  (hew  that   Dr.  GILL  had 
no  Reafon  for  the  great  Opinion 
he    entertain' d    of   HENRY  HILL  , 
and    how   little  he  confulted    his 
own  Reputation  by  averting  that 
no  Man  was  better  vers'd  in  the 
fecret  Hiftory  of  thofe  times  ;  that 
he  was    intruded  with    Intrigues 
by  the  great   ones   of   that    Go 
vernment,  who,  as  all  the  World 
knows,  manag'd  their  Affairs    af 
ter  another  rate.     Nor  will  I  m- 
fift    upon  his  turning   Papift    in 
King  JAMES'S  time  to    becom     his 
Printer,    as  he  was    OLIVERS  be^ 
fore,  or  any  other    Circumftance 
to  Jelfen    his     Credit ,     fince    it 
appears  that  what   he    averr'd   js 
inconfiftent  with  Matter  of  Fad;, 
Mr.  ROYSTON,  and  not  Du    CARD, 
having    publifh'd   the    Celebrated 
Prayer  which  I  add   in  this  Place, 
|aid  Parallel  with  the  Original 


The 


AMYNTOR. 


The  Prayer  of  King  CHARLES, 
K  ftil'd  A  Prayer  in  Time  of 

Captivity,  Printed  in  pag.^4. 
lv  of  his  Works,  1686  ;  andal- 

ib  in  Icon  Baplify. 


Voveerful   and    Eternal   Gody 
to  whom  nothing  is    fo  great 
that  it  may  refift,    or  fo  fmatt   that 
it  is    contemn  d\      loo^    upon    my 
Misery  with  thine  Eye  of  Mercy  ^  and 
let  thine   infinite  Power  vouchsafe  to 
limit  out  fom  proportion  of  delive 
rance  unto  mey   as  to  thee  Jnatt  feem 
moft  convenient.      Let  not  Injury^   0 
Lord,  triumph  over   nie^  and  let  my 
Fault   by   thy    Hand  be    corrected  5 
and  mak*   not    my   unjujl    Enemies 
the  Minifters  of  thy  Juftice.      But 
et^     my  God  ,     //    in  thy    Wifdom 
this   be    the  apteft  Chaftifement  for 
my    2tnexcufable    Tranfgreffions  ,     // 

this 


AMYNTOR,        157 

The  PRAYER  of  PAME 
LA    (to  a  Heathen  Deity) 
In  Pembroke's  Arcadia.,  pag. 
348,    1674.  »i*^™ 

O  All-feeing  Light,  and  Eter 
nal  Life  of  all  things,  to 
whom  nothing  is  either  fo  great 
that  it  may  rdift,  or  fo  fmall  that 
it  is  contemn'd,  look  upon  my  Mi- 
fery  with  thine  Ey  of  Mercy,  and 
let  thine  infinite  Power  vouchsafe  to 
limit  out  fom  Proportion  of  Deli 
verance  unto  me,as  to  thee  fhall  feem 
moft  convenient.  Let  not  Injury, 
O  Lord,  triumph  over  me,  and  let 
my  Faults  by  thy  Hand  be  corre- 
£tcd  ,  and  make  not  mine  unjuft 
Enemy  the  Minifter  of  thy  Juftice. 
But  yet,  my  God,  if  in  thy  Wifdom 
this  be  the  apteft  Chaftifement  for 
my  unexcufable  Folly ,  if  this  low 

Bon- 


AMYNTOR. 

this  ungrateful  Bondage  he  fittefl 
for  my  over -high  Defires ,  //  the 
*Pride  of  my  (not-enough  humble) 
Heart  be  thus  to  be  broken,  0  Lord, 
I  yield  unto  thy  Will ,  and  cheer- 
fully  embrace  what  Sorrow  thou  wilt 
have  me  fuffer  $  only  thus  much 
let  me  crave  of  thee  ( let  my 
Craving ,  0  Lord  be  accented  ofy 
fence  it  even  proceeds  from  thee  ) 
that  by  thy  Goodnefs ,  which  it  thy 
felf^  thou  wilt  fuffer  fome  Beam  of 
thy  Majefty  fo  to  jhine  in  my  Mind, 
that  /,  who  in  my  great  eft  Affli- 
ftions  acttnowledg  it  my  nobleft 
Title  to  be  thy  Creature^  may  ft  ill 
depend  confide?itly  on  thee  :  Let  Ca 
lamity  be  the  Exercife,  but  not  the 
Overthrow  of  my  Virtue.  0  let  not  their 
-prevailing  Power  be  to  7?jy  Deftrufti- 
on  5  and  if  it  be  thy  Will  that  they 
more  and  more  vex  me  with  Tunifh- 
ment,  yet,  0  Lord,  never  let  their 
Wickedness  have  fucb  a  Hand , 
but  that  I  may  ft  ill  carry  a  pure' 
Mind  and  ftedfaft  Refolution  e- 

ver 


AMYNTORJ         i5j? 

Bondage  be  fitteft   for  my  over- 
high  Defires,    if  the  Pride   of  my 
not-enough     humble     Heart    be 
thus  to  be  broken,  O  Lord,  I  yield 
unto  thy  Will,  and  joyfully  em 
brace  what  Sorrow  thou  wilt  have 
mefuffer  5  onlydius  much  let  me 
crave  of  thee  (let  my  Craving,  O 
Lord,  be  accepted  of  thee,  fmce  e- 
ven  that  proceeds  from  thee)  let  me 
crave    even  by   the  nobleft  Title 
which  in  my  greateft  Affliction  I 
may  give  my  felf,  that  I  am  thy 
Creature,  and  by  thy  Goodnefs, 
which  is  thy   felf ,  that  thou  wilt 
fuffer  fom  Beams  of  thy  Majefty  to 
ihine  into  my  Mmd,that  it  may  ftill 
depend  confidently  on  thee.     Let 
Calamity  be  theExercife,but  not  the 
overthrow  of  my  Virtue  5  Let  their 
Power  prevail,  but  prevail  not  to 
Deftrudtion  3  Let  my  Greatnefs  be 
their  Prey  :  Let  my  Pain  be  the 
Sweetnefs  of  their  Revenge  5    let 
them  (if  fo  itfeem  good  unto  thee) 
vex  me  with  more  and  more  Puniflv 

ment 


4^0        AMYNTOR. 

ver  to  ferve  thee  without  Fear 
or  Prefumtion,  yet  with  that  hum- 
Confidence  which  may  befl  p/eafe 
thee  $  fo  that  at  the  laft  I  may  com 
to  thy  Eternal  Kingdom ,  through 
the  Merits  of  thy  Son^  our  a- 
lone  Savior  ,  JESUS  CHRIST. 
Amen. 


AMYNTOR.       161 

ment :  But,  O  Lord,  let  never  their 
Wickedncfs  have  fuch  aHand,  but 
thai  I  may  carry  a  pure  Mind  in  a 
pure  Body  $  and  faufing  a  while  5 
and  O  mod  graaous  Lord,  faid 
Jhe,  whatever  becomes  of  me, 
preferve  the  Virtuous  MUSK 
D  o  R  u  s. 


M 


AMYNTOR. 

CONCLUSION. 

T  HOPE  by  this  time  I  have  fa- 
JL  tisfy'd  Mr.  BLACKMAIL,  fince  I 
have  not  only  laid  together  the  firft 
Testimonies  concerning  this  Mat 
ter,  but  alfo  anfwcr'd  the  Excepti 
ons  that  were  made  to  thole  Te- 
fti monies,  and  difprov'd  the  frefh 
Evidence  which  was  producd  on 
the  behalf  of  Icon  BafiliJ^e.  But  if 
he's  offended  at  my  Performance 
hj  may  thank  hirmfclf  ,  feeing 
without  his  caufelefs  Provocation  I 
had  never  written  a  Word  more 
on  this  Subjedt;  as  I  fhall  not  do 
hereafter,  unlefs  for  as  juftifiable  a 
Rcafon  :  For  notwithftanding  I 
may  not  antVer  every  Scribler,  yet 
Til  be  mifreprefented  and  abtis'd  by 
no  body  worth  my  notice. 

INDEED  Mr.  BLACKBALL  is  not 
the  firft  who  has  occafion'd  Con- 
troverfiesby  a  Thirtieth  of  January 
Sermon.  Every  body  hxnvs  how 

much 


AMYNTOR. 

much  the  Obftrvation  of  that 
Day  was  abus'd  in  the  two 
laft  Reigns  by  forvil  Flatterers, 
who,  not  content  to  run  ftameful 
Parallels  between  the  Sufferings 
of  our  Savior  and  the  King 
(wherein  the  latter  was  often  made 
to  exceed  )  they  taught  the  Peo 
ple  t^e  ridiculous  Dottnn  of  Paf- 
five  Obedience,  as  they  allow'd  the 
Prince  an  Unlimited  and  Defpotic 
Power.  This  rendered  thofe  Per- 
fons  juftly  odious  to  the  Nation, 
and  made  fober  Men  frequently 
wifh  that  fuch  an  Opportunity  of 
doing Mifchief  might  be  taken  a- 
way  from  thofe  who  fail'd  not 
to  improve  it  to  the  utmoft.  It 
was  likewife  obferv'd  how  much 
thofe  Sermons  contributed  to  raife 
Animofities  and  Feuds  in  the 
Kingdom,  and  to  continue  the  fa 
tal  Dirtindtions  of  Names  and  Par 
ties,  which  every  good  Man  fhould 
defire  might  be  aboliih'd,  or  bu- 
ry'd  in  eternal  Oblivion.  Befides 
M  2  that 


1*4  AMYNTOR. 

that  for  many  weighty  Reafons 
fuch  Days  ought  not  to  be  perpe 
tuated,  or  otherwife  in  a  little  time 
ours  will  be  as  full  as  the  Roman 
Calendar :  wherfore  I  readily  ap 
prove  of  the  learned  Bifhop  of 
Salisbury  $  Opinion,  That  our  De 
liverances  fhould  wear  out  the  Me 
mory  of  fuch  tragical  Accidents, 
which  no  body  pretends  to  juftify  . 
and  indeed  I  think  Jt  very  reafona- 
ble  (if  our  Legiflators  be  of  the 
fame  Opinion)  that  the  Comme 
moration  of  his  prefent  Majefty's 
Landing  to  deliver  us  from  Slavery 
on  the  Fifth  of  November,  fhould 
hereafter  take  place  of  the  Thirtieth 
of  January.  Other  Holydays  have 
bin  recommended  to  a  conftant 
Obfervation,  tho?  they  are  fince 
grown  into  difufe,  or  are  legally 
abolilVd,  which  the  bcft  Friends  of 
the  Clergy  ckfire  may  be  the  Fate 
of  that  Day  cut  cf  their  refpect 
to  the  Church  :  For  thefe. Sermons 
do  constantly  put  the  People  in 

mind 


AMYNTOR.        1*5 

mind  of    that  Set  of    Men  who 
preach' d  'em  out  of  their  Liberties 
in  former  times  5    and  the  honeft 
Clergy  themfelves  are  ftili  under  an 
unhappy  Neceflity  of  faying  many 
things,  that  (let  'em  think  what  they 
will)  are  not  extremely  pleafingto 
the  Body  of  the  Nation.     The  De- 
fcendants  of  thofe  concern' cl  in  that 
Ad:,  and  many  of  'em  far  from  ap 
proving  it,  conceive  themfelves  un 
kindly  us'd  in  moft  of  thofe  Dif- 
courfes  5  nor  are  the  Posterity    of 
the  greateft  RoyaMs  in  a  better 
Condition,  if  that  be  a  National 
Guilt  that's  never  to  be  expiated,tho5 
neither  they    nor  their  Anceftors 
confentcd  to  it  5  to  fay  nothing  of 
the  frequent  Intermarriages  and  o- 
thcr  Tyes  between  both  the  Parties. 
I  F  the  Extravagancies  of  thofe 
Sermons  had  terminated  with  the 
late  Reign,    few  People,   perhaps/ 
would  trouble  themfelves  now  a- 
bout  what's  part,  unlefs  conftrain'd 
to  it  by  fom  officious  Chaplain :  But 

they 


166         AMYNTOR. 

they  cannot  endure  to  hear  the 
Members  of  the  Parliament  of  40 
fo  infamoufly  branded,  considering 
how  lately  they  were  obliged  them- 
felves  to  aiTert  their  Laws  and  Li 
berties  againft  the  Martyrs  Son, 
who  violated  and  broke  them  at  his 
Pleafure  :  And  in  this  Senfe  ma 
ny  were  of  Opinion  that  King 
CHARLES'S  Blood  lay  heavy  on  the 
Nation,  which  made  them  for  the 
cafe  of  the  fame  to  lhake  off  the 
Burden  of  King  JAMES. 

SOM,  who  otherwife  Honor  the 
Memory  of  King  CHAFES  the  Firft, 
are  angry  to  hear  him,  inMr.BiACK- 
HALL'S  Language,  calFd  the  be  ft  of 
Kings,  and  the  beft  of  Men  3  when 
they  confider  efpecially,  that  the  A- 
poftles  were  Men,  and  that  feveral 
Perfons  among  the  Gree/^  and  Ro 
man  Heathens,  did  infinitly  excel 
him  in  all  Moral  and  Heroic  Vir 
tues.  As  for  Princes,  if  good 
Manners  could  not  make  Mr.Bi.ACK" 
HALL  except  the  prefent  King,  Ju- 

ftice 


AMY  NT  OR.       167 

fticc  at  kaft  might  well  oblige  him 
to  do  it.  King  WILLIAM  has  never 
difpcns'd  with  exprefs  Laws  in  fa 
vor  of  Popifh  Recufants.  He  never 
protected  any  of  his  Chaplains  a~ 
gainft  the  Parliament  for  preaching 
up  Arbitrary  Power.  He  never  re- 
quir'd  Soldiers  to  be  try'd  by  Mar 
tial  Law  in  time  of  Peace  3  nor 
levy'd  Loans  or  Ship  mony  contra 
ry  to  Law,  much  lefs  impnfon'd, 
fin'd  or  banifh'd  fuch  as  refused  to 
pay  thofe  illegal  Taxes.He  does  not 
countenance  any  SISTHORPS,  MAN- 
WAKINGS,  or  MOUNTAGUES  to  teach 
his  Subjects  Non-Refiftance,  or  to 
compliment  himfelf  with  Arbitrary 
Power.  He  is  fo  far  from  fending 
for  Foren  Troops  to  cnflave 
the  Nation,  that  he  readily  lent 
thofe  away  which  he  kept  here  by 
Law,  as  foon  as  he  underftood 
the  Kingdom  had  no  further  need 
of  their  Service.  He  does  not 
ufe  to  imprilbn  Members  of  the 
Houfc  of  Commons  for  ufing 

that 


1*8          AMYNTOR. 
that  Freedom  of  Debate  which  is 
EfTential    to     their    Conftitution. 
He   never  threaten9  d     to    betake 
himfelf  to  other  Councils  than  his 
Parliament    (as  CHARLES  the   Firft 
did)   faying  that  Parliaments  were 
in  his  Power ,  and  that   he   might 
grow    ,  out     of     Love     with    them. 
Nor  is  it   known   that    he    went 
into  the  Houfe  of  Commons   to 
demand  any    of  their   Members  $ 
no    more  than  he   has   feiz'd  the 
Cuftoms  without  anyAcft  to  impow- 
er  him.     He  never  promis'd    (as 
King  CHARLES  did  in  a   Letter  to 
his   Queen)  that   he  would    take 
away  all  the   Penal  Laws    againft 
Roman  Catholicks  as  foon  as    he 
(hould   be   able,     nor  any  thing 
elfe  of  this  nature  :  For  thefe  are 
only  a  few  Inftances  ,  not  to  black 
en  that  Prince,    but   to  (hew   how 
little  fom  fort  of  People  feem  to 
value  his  prefent  Majefty  for  gc- 
neroufly   reftoring   the    Conftitu 
tion,  and  for  fo  willingly  palling 


AMYNTOR.          1 69 

many   excellent    Laws  for  enlar 
ging  or  fecuring  the   Liberty    of 
his  Subjects  $    as  well  as   f(*r  al 
ways  paying  fuch  a  Deference  to 
Parliaments,    which    he  not   only 
affembles  willingly,    but  likewife, 
according  to  ancient  Cuftom,  an 
nually.     In  ihort,   if  King  CHARLFS 
the  Firft  was  the  bed   of  Kings, 
the  late  King  JAMES  is  not  half  fo 
bad  as  I  think  him  :  Nor  is  there 
any  Doubt,   if  a  fecond  Reftorati- 
on    ( which  God    and    all    Free 
men  forbid)  fhould   ever  happen , 
but     that    the      Abdication-Day 
would  be  appointed  as  a  perpe 
tual   Faft.     What   Mr.   BLACKBALL 
thinks  of  difpenfing  with  the  Laws 
and  acting  without,    or  contrary 
to    them,  we  may  guefs,  when  he 
fays,  That  King  CHARLES'S  greateft 
Enemies,  could  not  charge  him  with 
any  Vice  or  Immorality  -    as  if  only 
Whoring,    Drinking,  or  Swearing 
were  immoral  Practices. 

SINCE  this  King  (who  truly 
N  war 


i7o        AMYNTOR. 

was  not  the  word)  muft  needs  be 
counted    the  beft  of  Men,    I  do 
not  much  wonder  that    Mr.  LONG 
of   Exeter    was   for    having  loin 
Portions  of  his    pretended    Book 
read  in  the  Church  for  the    fur 
ther   enlightning  of   our   Under- 
ftanding  :  Nor  that  Dr.  PERINCHUF 
ihould  tell  us  in  his  Life  how  fom 
purchased  Chips  of  the   Block  on 
which  lie  was  beheaded,  and   Par 
cels  of  the  Sands  difcolor'd  with, 
his  Blood,  as  alfo  fom  of  his  Hair/ 
Hoping,    continues  he  ,    they  would 
be  a    means    of  Cure  for  that  Dif- 
eafe,    which    our     Enghlh    Kings , 
through  the  Indulgence  cf  kind  Hea- 
yen,     by    their     Touch    did  usually 
heal :  And  it  was  reported  that  theje 
Reliques ,  experienced ,  jailed  not  of 
the  Ejfeff.     Now  who  can    laugh 
at  the  Popiih   Legends,     and    be 
ferious   when  he    reads   this   Paf- 
fage  ?  Wheras,   if  there,  was  ever 
any  Power  in  England  of  curing 
jhe    King's  Evil,     it  was    plainly 
ed  in  the  People,  BB- 


AMYNTOR.       171 

BEFORE  I  conclude,  I  muft  re- 
mark,that  tho  his  pretended  Friends 
were  fo  ready  to  father  fuch  Books 
on  CHARLES  the  Firft     wherein  he 
had  no   Hand,  yet  they    induftri- 
oufly  left  out  of  his  Works  a  Letter 
to    Pope  GREGORY  XV,    whereof  I 
can  prove  him  as  evidently  to  be 
the  Author    as  CICERO    or  VIRGIL 
may    be    entitul'd  to   the  Philip- 
picks  and  the    ALneids.      There  is 
an  interpolated  Copy  of  it  in  the 
firft  Volum  of    RUSHWO&TH'S  Col 
lections  :  It  is  rightly  inferted  in 
the    Quano    Edition   of  a    Book 
call'd  Cabala  ,      or    Myfterics    of 
State  :  It  is  alfo  in  the  Italian  Mercury 
of  VITTORIO  SIRJ  :  in    Du  CHESNF'S 
French  Hiftory   of  England ,  Scot 
land  and  Ireland :    and    in   feveral 
Spanijl)  and  Italian  Authors-     Pope 
URBAN  VIII   mentions     it    in    the 
Letter  which  he  likcwife   fent  this 
Prince,  with  another  to  his  Father 
King  JAMES  5  both  which  may  be 
read  in  RUSHWORTH'S    Collections. 

Now 


172        AMYNTOR 

Now  was  not  the  omitting  of  this 
Letter  a  notorious  Fraud,  fince 
that  it  alone,  with  thofe  Letters 
which  the  Parliament  publiih'd 
to  difgrace  him  ?  and  a  few 
Pieces  befides,  make  up  all  his 
genuin  Writings  5  For  as  to  thofe 
Meflages,  Proportions,  Declarati 
ons,  Treaties,  and  other  public 
Papers,  which  fill  that  bulky  Folio 
they  call  his  Works,  whoever  takes 
them  to  be  his,  is  likewife  capable 
of  believing  he  was  the  true  Author 
of  Icon  Eafllike. 

THIS  is  all  I  had  to  write  con- 
cvrning  this  famous  Book,  not  to 
rcfledt  on  the  Memory  of  CHARLES 
the  Firft  ,  but  in  my  own  Vindica 
tion  3  being  a  Liberty  not  deny'd 
me  by  Equity  or  Law ,  and  which, 
if  I  neglcdfced  to  improve,  I  fhould 
be  more  pnjuft  to  my  fdf  than  my 
Adverfaries  ,  whofe  Malice  I  fhall 
readily  forget,  and  heartily  pray 
God  to  forgive. 


F  I  N  I  -S. 


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