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Execution , that it opposes not Civil Government in atiy out iostaace of it ;^ finled at London , 1685 , int 8 vo . Tfcis discourse h £ d befen seen in manuscript by the Dean and his friend Drr&iiUing&eet , who was also severely reflected upon in it for his Irenicum ;
and the author called upon them by a letter , printed afterwards in the preface to that book , to retract their own opinions , or to confute his . But the Dean of Canterbury did not think proper to take the least public notice of so confused and unintelligible a
writer , * whose styje is a mere jargon , though Dr . Hickes f is pleased to style him a very learned and orthodox divine , and his book an excellent one ; and King" James II . had so great a regard for him , as to nominate trim to
the Deanery of Rochester , in the latter end of October 1688 , which Mr . Iiowth could not obtain possession of , for want of the degree of Doctor of Divinity , before that King ' s abdication ^}
, " But it will be now requisite to see how the Dean ' s position , abovementioned , was received by the Nonconformists . Dr . Calamy ' account is , § that King Charles II . having slept most part of the time while the sermon was delivered ,, a certain nobleman
stept up to him , as soon as it was over , and said , ' Tis pity your Majesty slept ; for we had , the rarest piece of Hobbism that ever you h ^ ard in your life . Odds fish , he shall in your life . Odds fish , he shall
print it , then , answered thfe king , and immediately called the Lord-Chamberlain , and gave him his command to the Dean to print his sermon . When it came from the press , the
" Dr . StilliDgfleetmade some remarks on Mr . Lowth ' s book in his Epistle Dedicatory , prefix ^ to his Sermon , pr ^ acted at b pu ^ Hc OrcHoatiap at St . Peter ' s , Cornhill , March 15 tb , 1634 U 5 . To which Mr . Lowth replied in a letter to him , printed in 1687 , in 4 to . " €€ -f Some Discourses , p . 48 /*
'fl Wood . Fasti Oxon . Vol . II . col . ¦* i § Memoirs of the Life of Mr . John Howe , pp . 75 , 76 , edit . London . 1724 , in 8 vo . Dr . Calamy says , p . 78 , that the ^
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Dean sent it as a present ( a ^ s heusnaHy did most of the pieces uM ^ h be published ) to Mr . John Hov ^ e ; ? one of the most learned amonpr the 'Nonconformist ministers , and who had been chaplain to the ProtjeetonOlw ^ r-GromwelL * Mr . Howe immediately perused fed
it , * and was ^ aot a little * tE 0 ublto find a notion there of so 411-a tendency . Upon this he drew up a long ^ le tter , in which he freely expostulated with the Dean for giving such a wound to the Reformation , intimating to him , that Luther and Calvin , and the rest be
of our Reform ^ rsj were ( thanks to God ) of another mind . The Christian religion , says * he , both as to its precepts and promises , is already confirmed by miracles : and ; must it be repealed every time a wicked governor thinks fit to establish a false religion ?
Must - no one stand up for the true religion , till he can work -a -miracle ? He signified to him how ? much he was griev ^ i , that , in a sermon against Popery , he should plead the Popish cause against all- the Reformers ; and insisted upon it that we had
incontestable evidence of the miracles wrought by the apostles , and that we are bound to believe them , and take religion to be established by them , without any farther expectations . Mn Howe carried the letter himself , and delivered
it into the Dean ' s own hands ; and he , taking a general and cursory view ot it , signified his willingness to talk that whole matter freely over ; but -said they could not be , together where they were without interruption ^ aod there - fore moved , for a little jojtusn ^ y into
the country , that so they might have freedom of discourse . They ' accordingly agreed to go an <| dine , that day with ; the Ladv FaqconUerg , B , t Sujtton Court , aiid Mr . Howe read over the letter to the Dean , and enlarged upon the contents of-it as f they were
travelling along together in hia chariot Tile Dean at length fell to weeping freely , andsaid , that it was . tUemost unhappy thing that had a long time befaU ^ n . him ; and that he saw , what he' haa o ^ OT $ dr ym& \ mfa to ; be ? muintaiaed . But he told him . that it was
not his turn to-preach aa on ttmt day ; but the peraoii who was to liaive done that otiBm ^ mBi ^^ sent to J ^ " ^ b ' L 6 ^
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200 Original Ijettqrsof RichdratBaater , Willmm ^ enn and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/8/
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