but forgets in his fury to give the Reader one instance of any Forgery, or cliping of Text, Father or Council. He fhould not have forgotten to have done this, fince the World will be ready enough to believe that it was not for any good will that he did omit them, but that all the reafon was, that though he had malice enough to accuse them of it, yet that he wanted means to prove it upon them. But this accufation they find to be abfolutely neceffary, because our Men do fooften accuse them of thofe very things, and they are not for being behind-hand in fuch charges, true or false it makes no matter, the thing must be done to keep off some way or other fo feveré a blow. The Accufations run high on both fides, and the Reader bath this certain way of knowing where the guilt lyes, that the Church of Rome accufe us, but do not prove it, but our Men do not only accuse them, but prove it upon them.

For a clear Proof of this we need look no further than this Jefuit himself, who of all Men living should have kept his Pen from fuch an Accufation, fince he knows one that lyes under the fevere charge of many fuch things. This very Jefuit is the Perfon fo famous for the Controverfie about a Sermon of St. Austins betwixt him and One of our learned Writers, who did not only prove that that Sermon which the Jefuit had quoted in a Prayer before Sermon was a Forgery, but that the Authors he brought afterwards to defend himself with, were neither better nor worse than down-right Forgeries; I have given my self the trouble for the worlds fake of examining that Controverfie, and find that the 14th Sermon de Sanctis urged by the Jefuit is a * See the First and Forgery; that the 18th of the fame fort Second Letters to is a Forgery, that his S. Hieroms Sermon Lewis Sabran Je- * was a Forgery, that his Hephonfus was a Forgery, that his Mallion's Sermon was a Forgery, that his Story about Juvenal and Marcian the Emperour was a Forgery.

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And in a Controversie betwixt these two, not above a month ago, about Invocation of Saints, I find our Author charging the Jefuit with the fame things or worse, that his first Author was fuppofititious; Letter to Sathat he had not only clipt that Authors words, bran the Jefuit. but brought them in to prove that very thing, for the confuting of which the Author had himself intended them: that he had put down a Prayer to the Virgin Mary, as out of that Author, not a fyllable of which was to be found there; that the Jefuit had falfified his next quotation from S. Cyril; that his Nectarius upon Theodore was a Forgery; that his Prayers to the Virgin Mary from Methodius, from Ephrem Syrus, from Athanafius and from Leo were Forgeries; that Gregory Nazianzens Prayer to her was a Forgery; that his Proofs from S. Ambrofe, from Gregory Nazianzens Iambicks were Forgeries; that his Proof from the Council of Chalcedon was clipt and abused; that his Quotations from the Council of Laodicea, Gangre and Carthage were every one of them misrepresented, and abused ; I must confess I was amazed at fuch a mass of Forgeries in fo little room, and could not have thought it possible that Man that pretends to the least knowledge in Books could be guilty of fuch things, much less that this very Jefuit could have been the Man,who is fo very ready to accufe others (though most falfely) of it.

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He next falls upon particular men, and begins with Dr. Comber, whofe Book he says, was first fet forth by him in the time of the pretended Plot, and is fo full of falfe Quotations, that they can be produced by Dozens.

But these things should not have been afferted fo boldly, for the Author of that Book printed it first in 1674. which is four years fooner than our Jefuit (who it seems knows better than he will have it; and a third Edition of it with all the Quotations, was Licensed before the end of

1676.

1676. As for the dozens of falfe Quotations which the Jefuit fays are in that Book; let him produce them affoon as he pleafes, I can affure him, he shall not fail of an Answer, not only to them, but to thofe two his Friend the Reprefenter hath already attackt.

As for the Anfwerer to the Address, whom the Jefuit next tells us was run down for an ignorant Scribler, I will only tell him, that the Addreffer may very quickly hear from that worthy Perfon; who will convince them both, that we have no bad Caufe to defend, and that he is no unskilful Defender of it.

And now the Jefuit is got to Dr. Sherlocks Prefervative, where I shall take leave of him, and commit him to the Honeft Footman, who does here undertake him ; but before I conclude this, I think, it fit to give the Reader fome account of the Defence of the Doctors Book against the Jefuit, which I am here publishing.

It was brought to my hands by the young man himself, who had been directed to me by a Friend. The reafons of his writing it, and encountering the Jefuit, I believe I have gueffed before; and those that will peruse the Jesuits Paper, will I question not, be of my mind. He did with a great deal of Modefty, commit it to my Difpofal; I told him I would Print it, fince I was very well fatisfied with it. However, that the Reader may fufpect no fraud nor foul play, I do profess here upon the word of a Chriftian, that I have committed it to the Prefs as it was delivered me by the young Man himself, in his own hand-writing, without the addition, or taking away of one word, or altering one Sentence or Line, fo that the Reader will have it just as I had; excepting the falfenefs of the English, which is pardonable enough in a poor Servant, that was very young deprived of his Parents, and never had more Learning than to read English: however, upon this, I order'd the Bookseller to speak to his

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Compofitor at the Press, to correct the English as he fets

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I hope none will be angry that I encourage fo mean a perfon fo far, as to help his Book to the Prefs against the Jefuit, none of our Church will be angry, and none of theirs ought, fince they should remember, it is not fo long fince, that one of their Foot-Soldiers was for fighting a Pen-duel with the Reverend and very Worthy Dr. Tenifon, (whom the Jefuit in this very Paper could not avoid Slandering) and published a thing called a Book against that worthy person: the inequality betwixt whom is, I take it, far greater than betwixt my Writer and the Jefuit: and there is another greater difference in the business; for my man treats the Jefuit throughout with respect, and gives him no ill Language: Had the other done fo, it would as I conceive, have been no disparagement either to his Caufe, or his Profeffion.

And fo I commit the Book to the Perufal of the Reader, whofe favour I will not befpeak for it, fince it is fo able to Speak for it felf, and will only wish it good speed.

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Must not forget to advertise the Reader, that as to those Quotations out of Latin or Greek Authors, which the Young Man is far from understanding, as he declares in his Book, and therefore might juftly be fufpected to have been added by fome other hand; (Upon my enquiry) He told me he had that from Nicephorus, out of the Preface to White's Way to the Church, and the rest from Alliaco, Scotus and Tonftal out of the Book it felf, Digreffion 49th, numb.9. where I fuppofe any inquifitive Reader may find them.