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written by anotherJesuit , William t ^ icy , 5 Vfb o was living at Oxford wbenlve wrote it : to this was affixed a piece by the same ail * tbor , which he called " Heautomaphia : Mr . Chillingworth against himself /'
The effect pi these pamphlets seems not to have satisfied the Catholic party , for in 1652 , that is , fourteen years after the appearance of Chillingworth ' s book , Knott published a format answer
m 4 to . consisting of nearly a thousand pages , entitled , " -Infidelity unmasked ; or , the Confu - tation pf a Booke published by Mr ..-William Chillingworth , under
this title , Tbe Religion of Protestant s , a safe Way to Salvation . " u J $ * islast book ' ' of Knott ' s , says Des jif aiaeaux-t- " is but a
comrnent on the former pamphlet . The ^ sanae aspersion ? and calumny ape brought in and enlarged uppaj without any regard to Mr , Chi 1 lingwo ^ rth ^ s answers and decl& ^ lWHs ; ' / As to his arguments they ai ;^ eoars e , ra . ml > Ung , intricate : and in that respect , this la ^ t composure of Mr . Knott is
, i - . . . .. - . . . . ... .. to the number of sheete * , and good reason . Therefore you have purchased w $ th yewr purse a title of honour to yr > ur worlce above a pamphlet , therefore he will not call it a pamphlet , but I may , who take by waigbt of wit and substance
tlfatc ^ mke and paper , pp . ] i , 12 . Sec DeaMaizeaux , pp . 243—245 . r . Wijliim £ acy , a Yorkshire many was educated at the English College at Rome ,, and entered the society of Jejttitis in the y ^ ar j 611 , the 26 th of hi $ 1
a ^ c . ; ifrto rib less tfaah s& years he wa ^ * W * $ y ' btnpUftd W promoting the Itotr ^ an Cathijiib ^ Reti ^ idn in England , tK ^ gh hUlj f ^ Wi $ pfteti i > danger . He died at 6 kford , August $ f , , 4673 , worn wgtft With labour and pl ^ igV . fiil'liolh Script . $ < h ; . Jesu . p . 315 , t Life , ut sup . p . 259 .
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much inferior to his book against Dr . Potter * called Charity Maintayned The controversy " was considered
by Protestants to be nearly at an end ; the only answer made to Knott was contained in the preface to an 8 vo . edition , in 1653 , of Smith ' s translation of DaiUe ' s
Apology . This author says that after rmich inquiry he had not heard of two in England that had had the patience to read Knott ' s book over ; and playingalittlewith
the title of it , he remarks that the Jesuit may well unchristen it , and recal that sTriypoL < prix The Confutation of Mr . Chillingworth ^ s book , reserving only the rest , Infidelity unmasked : and that in relation tb
hitnself . Silently , but effectually , the principle of The Religion of Protestants has been settling itself in the minds of the English people ; now and then a semi-popish or political churchman has been found tt >
sneer at it , J but it is too evidently reasonable and Christian to be directly and openly attacked ; and it may be considered as having obtained its final triumph , in the establishment of the Bible Society ,
f Professor Marsh intimates in one of his pamphlets in the Bible Society controversy , that ChiHingworth * s famous saying will not stand the trial by the test of orthodoxy in the Church of England- Be it so : let the Professor look to the consequence .
A versatile prelate , Hare , the author of " Difficulties and Discouragements , & . c . * ' whom honest Will . Whiston regarded as a sceptic * under episcopal raiment , had before pronouncfed of
ChitHhg \^ ofth , alloUring him at . the saihetime to be " an excel ^ eht writer , *' that % i Httle cah be cttpcctcddta tnah whoL is % jr his own arguments pushed so hottic Iti the ^ fert ce he Wdtilcf ttlake' of ProtesUntiton , that ht hath nothingldfc
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1 Brief Memoir of Mr . Chillingworth . 507
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1814, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2439/page/7/
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