Profound in all the Nominal 155 And Real ways beyond them all : For he a rope of fand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist, And weave fine cobwebs, fit for fcull 160 Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. He could raise scruples dark and nice, 165 The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd; Only hear his lectures; that when at Paris, his arguments and authority carried it for the immaculate conception of the Bleffed Virgin, fo that they appointed a festival on that account, and would admit no scholars to degrees but fuch as were of this mind. He was a great oppofer of Thomas Aquinas's doctrine: and, for being a very acute logician, was called Doctor Subtilis, which was the reafon alfo that an old punfter always called him the Lathy Doctor. Ver. 155, 156.] Gulielmus Occham was father of the Nominals, and Johannes Dunfcotus of the Reals. Thefe two lines not in the two first editions of 1664, but added in 1674. Ver. 157, 158.] Altered thus in edit. 1674, and continued till 1704. And with as delicate a hand, Could twist as tough a rope of fand. When they throw out and mifs the matter. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit; 190 'Twas Ver. 181. Several of the Ancients have fuppofed that Adam and Eve had no navels; and, among the Moderns, the late learned Bishop Cumberland was of this opinion. Ver. 189.] Mr. Butler is very exact in delineating his hero's religion; it was neceffary that he should be fo, that the reader might judge whether he was a proper person to fet up for a Reformer, and whether the 3 religion 'Twas Presbyterian true blue; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant faints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; And prove their doctrine orthodox, 195 200 Which' religion he profeffed was more eligible than that he endeavoured to demolish. Whether the Poet has been just in the pourtrait must be left to every reader's cbfervation. Ver. 193, 194.] Where Prefbytery has been establifhed, it has been ufually effected by force of arms, like the religion of Mahomet: thus it was established at Geneva in Switzerland, Holland, Scotland, &c. In' France, for fome time, by that means, it obtained a toleration much blood was shed to get it established in England; and once, during that Grand Rebellion, it seemed very near gaining an establishment here. : Ver. 195, 196.] Upon thefe Cornet Joyce built his faith, when he carried away the King, by force, from Holdenby: for when his Majefty afked him for a fight of his inftructions, Joyce faid, He fhould fee them pre fently; and fo drawing up his troop in the inward court," Thefe, Sir, (faid the Cornet) are my in"ftructions." Ver. 199, 200.] Many inftances of that kind are given by Dr. Walker, in his Sufferings of the Epifcopal Clergy. Which always must be carry'd on, For nothing else but to be mended:. 205 210 215 220 All Ver. 207, 208.1 The religion of the Prefbyterians of those times confifted principally in an oppofition to the Church of England, and in quarreling with the most innocent customs then in ufe, as the eating Christmas-pies and plum-porridge at Christmas, which they reputed finful. Ver. 213, 214.] They were fo remarkably obftinate in this refpect, that they kept a fast upon Christmasday. Ver. 215, 216.] Added in 1674. All piety confifts therein In them, in other men all fin: Rather than fail, they will defy 225 That which they love most tenderly; Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge; And blafpheme custard through the nose. 230 Like Mahomet's, were afs and widgeon, To whom our Knight, by fast instinct 235 Had got th' advowfon of his confcience. We mean on th' infide, not the outward: Then liften, Sirs, it follows thus. 240 H's Ver. 235, 236.] Dr. Bruno Ryves gives a remarkable inftance of a fanatical confcience in a captain who was invited by a foldier to eat part of a goofe with him; but refused, because, he faid, it was ftolen: but being to march away, he who would eat no ftolen goofe, made no fcruple to ride away upon a stolen mare; for, plundering Mrs. Bartlet of her mare, this hypocritical captain gave fufficient teftimony to the world that the old Pharifee and new Puritan have confciences of the felf-fame temper, "To strain at a gnat, and swallow ❝ a camel. |