A rod for Trepidantium Malleus, or A letter to Sam. Reconcileable Keith, George, 1639?-1716. 1700 Approx. 21 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 15 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2006-02 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A47170 Wing K201 ESTC R216624 99828349 99828349 32776 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A47170) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 32776) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1951:13) A rod for Trepidantium Malleus, or A letter to Sam. 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Quakers -- England -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800. 2005-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-09 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-11 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2005-11 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-01 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A ROD for Trepidantium Malleus , OR A LETTER TO Sam. Reconcileable . Clodius accusat Moechos . Simulata sanctitas duplex iniquitas . LONDON , Printed , and sold by M. Fabian at Mercers Chappel in Cheapside . 1700 A ROD FOR Trepidantium Malleus , OR A LETTER TO Sam. Reconcileable . SIR , COMING not long since into a Coffee-house , I happen'd to seat my self at a Table with three or four that were very eager in Discourse , and I soon found you was the Subject . One that pretended to have read your Books , and had enjoy'd some of your Conversation , would not be persuaded but that the glimps of Knavery was easily discoverable through your Fool 's Dress , and that there lay some bad Design lurking at the bottom ; whilst another thought it was too natural to be a Disguise , and that you had no occasion for a Mask to act that part : a third , to reconcile the other two , would needs have you a Compound of both . These Comments drew from me my Opinion , which was , That you had too much Learning for a Fool , and too little Wit for a Knave , but was stark staring Mad , had got off your Shackles , and deserted the College . And to this , upon mature deliberation , they seem'd to assent , and very affectionately began to pity your Condition . What thanks I shall have for my pains , I know not , I doubt but little ; especially should you chance to be of the same mind with one not long since try'd for Murder , who when some of his Friends would have insinuated to the Court , that he was non compos mentis , in order to save him , contradicted it , and was very angry at the Reproach ; he stood upon Rep — and would rather be hang'd than be thought a Mad man ( I 'm sure had I been one of his Jury , I should have found him so ) and if you are in the same Case with that Gentleman , ( notwithstanding all your Invectives against the Party ) you 'l be found a rank Antinomian , for you will be out of the reach of the Law. And now I 'm mentioning the Antinomians , by the way I cannot but give you a hint of your horrid Character of Dr. Crisp ( whose Memory deserves respect for his Piety ) and your abominable ridicule of the Work of Conversion , in Salem Ben Sholomoh the Jew , in such fulsom Language , that he that has the largest extent of Charity , can hardly judg you to have undergone the Operation . And indeed that Consideration takes off some of the surprize raised by your scurrilous , base and profane Reflections upon the Administration , and Administrators of an Ordinance of God. If they are in the wrong , they ought to be us'd with Candor , and Civility , and not to be burlesqu'd , and so scandalously reproach'd with ill Language , and false Stories , especially by one who has express'd so great a Respect for ' em . Ludere cum Sacris , was ever abhorr'd by all meer Moralists ; and shall one of the Ministerial Function be guilty of it ? A Man that would be thought so mightily gifted that way , that he takes the Liberty to find fault with , and run down almost , all as parcel of Pulpit Quacks : One that will undertake to bring up a Boy of twelve Years old to preach better than most of the Baptists about the Town , &c. And sayst thou so Sam ? Then thou art like some clumsy-heel'd Dancing-masters , that can teach their Scholars to perform better than themselves ; for thou never didst mount the Pulpit in thy Life yet , without proving the truth of a saying that is often in thy Mouth , viz. That it is not so easy a thing to Preach , as some people think it to be . Perhaps you will not believe me , neither indeed can I reasonably expect you should , when I consider the good Opinion you have of your self ; but , Sir , tho Self-conceit may have a very prevalent sway in the Concavity of your Cranium , 't is strange it should sprout out in such Self-applause as both your Books and Discourses are continually larded with ; especially , that being one of the great Crimes laid upon Mr. Baxter by your self , and for which you so severely lash'd him . Pray read over that part of your Book against Baxter which touches upon that Subject , and learn to chastize your self thro the sides of another . I remember some time since , when Mr. Jacobs said , The Baptists went down into the Water with the Women only to feel 'em , &c. your Spirit was very warm , and you mighty zealous in upbraiding him for it , and could say , ( nay , and print it too ) none but a Debauchee would have been guilty of such stuff : so that your last Book calls you Debauchee to your Face , and we dare believe it in that , tho not in many things else . I could not have expected from a Man of your Years ( and a Conjunction Copulative too ) such things as are charg'd upon you , had I not heard that your Wife ( and in that she 's a happy Woman ) must lie alone ( and has done ever since her Reign ended , and your Tyranny began ) you having something to teach the young Men in Bed. Either Physicians are in the wrong , when they say 't is unwholsom , or some People don't do well to advise the young Men to lie upon their Backs , with their hands by their Sides , whilst they read Lectures upon some of the outer parts , and set the poor things a gog ( by their negative Advice ) after what they might happily otherwise not think of ; but I hope they have wit enough to consider who they make their Confessor . How old ? how many times ? when last ? &c. are questions to be very cautiously answered , notwithstanding a promise they won't tell . In short , Sir , there are some things buz'd abroad concerning you that are almost incredible , and hardly to be imagin'd should be done by such a one as you would be thought , or indeed by any other that had not laid a Caustick to his Conscience , or gotten the Fly-flap of Formality to keep away the Flies from stinging it . What Man but your self ever had the Face , or could be imagin'd impudent enough to appear in the World against the pretended immodesty of an Ordinance ( as you have done ) unless he could wipe himself clean from such Reflections as have oft and again been cast upon you Sir Flog-well , and still stick close to you ? Good Pedagogue , you can never pretend your Discipline ( as you call it ) is for the Correction of your Scholars , but rather calculated for the Meridian of your own Diversion ; for what Punishment is there in the stroak of a Feather , or why should you ring the Bells , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5. upon the Boys Bums ? Prithee , why so many at once ? one such Object is enough at a time ; so many , one would think , should distract your weak Opticks , and make you as wild in your Senses , as you are in your Understanding . And indeed , Sir , I cannot forbear finding fault with your Method as well as your Manners , and censuring your Prudence as well as your Modesty ( I don't say Chastity ) 'T is highly reasonable to think , that young Men of twenty or thirty years of Age , should better be wrought upon by Persuasion , than Bum-brushing . But remembring you are a mighty lover of Stories and Verses ( which , as they are surreptitiously scrap'd up here and there , are as odly jumbled together , and profusely and blunderingly flung away , without Design , and to no end in your Books ) be pleas'd kindly to accept of such as may chance to drop from my Pen. A certain Apothecary sends his Man to administer a Clyster , that was prescrib'd by a Physician , for a Gentleman his Patient , who was sorely afflicted with the Head-ach ; the man enters the Gentleman's Chamber , who demands Who 's there ? answer is made , the Apothecary . What has the Doctor order'd me ? A Clyster , A Clyster ! quoth the Gentleman , you Villain , you Rascal , the Doctor 's a Fool to send a thing to put in my A — to cure my Head , and so drove him out of the Room . What Lines of Communication you have found out between the Head and Tail of a Scholar , I know not ; but it seems very preposterous to suppose , that diminishing the podicical Covering , should increase the Understanding . I doubt Birch-Clysters don't work kindly : A Patient's Fancy does very much assist the Doctor 's endeavours ; and therefore I doubt you have but little success in your Practice , because your Patients cannot be persuaded into a good Opinion of their Physick , for they have a natural aversion to pain . I find you are one of Co — atch's followers , your Medicines are all Acids . And now , Sir , having considered your Case , I find Distraction the best excuse I can make to my self and others , for these enormous excursions of your nonintellectuals ; which makes me a little commiserate your Case , and heartily advise you in your very next interval , to read Dr. Echard's Letter to the Author of Hieragonisticon , and use his Prescriptions ; they exactly hit your Case ; pray don't neglect it , delays being dangerous : He says you must avoid all hot things , as Coffee and Tobacco ( and I believe not without reason , for they are apt to dry up the Brain , and when things are too dry they will crack ) but above all you must avoid writing Books , till you find the Distemper pretty well asswag'd , and then too but moderately , for fear of a Relapse . But if you can't forbear till then , pray whatever you write in your fit ( which is but all you write ) read over in an interval before it goes to the Press , and then I doubt not they will all receive their fate as truly ( tho not as duly ) as if they were burnt by the hands of the common Hangman . Indeed some of those already publish'd have answered the end propos'd , and have prov'd good Physick . A Friend of mine lays 'em in a convenient Place , where the reading one Leaf is a gentle Purge , and then 't is sent after the Operation ; the fittest use they can be put to . And , Sir , was there no other reason why they should suffer , but because they are too bold and saucy with their Author , that was enough : for while they are Jesters to others , they make a jest of him . You seem in all your Writings to drive very hard for the Buskins ; but , I must tell you , they are too noble an Ornament to adorn your Farce ; for what you write is as much below that reproved Author , as a Bartholomew-fair Droll is below Seneca's Tragedies . I must acknowledg you have hammer'd hard for a little Wit to divert the World , and therefore the World 's very ungrateful it won't accept the Will for the Deed ; and 't is really very hard that you should print Books at your own Charge , and be at the Expence both of Purse and Brain to please , and all in vain : yet you have this comfortable Solace in the experience you have gain'd , you have found out the best way of putting off your Books of any Man in England . I am told , that when you was , not long since , chewing the Cud , without dividing the Hoof , in Noah ' s Ark ( as you call it ) you was telling a Story of a Man that cry'd Pears , twelve , sixteen , twenty a Penny , and none would buy , till at last he cry'd Pears for nothing , and then he soon empty'd his Basket ; so ( said you ) is it with my Books . Why Sam ! what an unhappy Fellow art thou to lay the Rod in the way thus ? For who , do you think , won't reply , the reason why the Pears would not sell , was , because they were not good ? I remember a Passage I once met with in a Dramatick Poem call'd , The Folly of Priest ▪ craft . Father Politico ( who bears the Character of a plotting , intriguing Priest ) orders his Man Manuel to read the Intelligences which he had receiv'd out of the Country , what Men there were in the several Counties that were fit Tools to work with , in building up the Catholick Cause ; and among the rest , There is a Fellow of a broad Face , and no Brains , the want of which is supply'd by a great stock of Impudence , which enables him to rail against Popery in Billingsgate Language , without two grains of Sense or Reason — He gets a good quantity of Money in the Year , and preaches in a little Shed at the end of his House . Then mark him down ( says Politico ) and send an hundred Pounds to make his Shed bigger ; there are more converted to us by hearing bad Sermons against Popery , than by hearing good ones for it . Whether this is worthy the Consideration of your Antagonists , must be left to them , and how far the Story reacheth their Case . But I am very apt to think , should they be at the Charge of printing all you write ( rather than you should be silent ) it would prove for the good of the Cause you oppose ; and one of your Books against any Opinion , will make more Converts to it , than ten good Books writ for it . I find , old Ishmael , you are resolv'd to keep us in uncertainty to what Party you belong , and make us think you are a Man of no Religion , by your quarrelling with all as wrong . I did believe you a Presbyterian ( if any thing ) till I met with those scurrilous Sarcasms upon the two great Men of the Age of that Persuasion , Dr. B — s and Mr. H — w. 'T is mean and pitiful to rake the Ashes of the Dead , as you do of the Doctor , ( you know the old saying , De mortuis nil nisi bonum ) but 't is intolerable to stamp 'em with Falsities . I can find no truth in what you would insinuate , tho I have often endeavour'd it , and can make no shift to free it from the name of a Lie , but that it is too gross to deceive . And I doubt not but you thought your self a fitter Man to speak to the King , in the name of the Dissenters , than he that did it ( whom the World knows to be a learned Man , and needs no Encomium from any but his own Works ) as you have often implicitely seem'd to assert . That would have been the ready way to have reviv'd the obsolete name of Fanatick , and to have given the King just cause to reflect upon on the Liberty given to Madmen , as he must have judg'd them by their Representative . You needed not to have taken the trouble to acknowledg your self a Man of but little Prudence , as you do in the thirty second page of your second New-Years-Gift , for I never yet could meet with the Man thought you had any . You tell us a Story , that a Quaker Woman coming into a Church , and disturbing it by her speaking , was ask'd by a Boy , Who sent her there that Day ? she reply'd , God ; No , said the Boy , then you would not have spoken so many things contrary to the Scriptures ; neither can I imagine the Devil sent thee , for I thought he had more wit than to send such a Fool about his Work : and the Quaker never disturb'd 'em afterward . Who sent you I cannot determine . but I wish the recital of your own Story may have the same Effect upon you , and keep you from making any farther disturbance by your foolish Scrible . Could you look a little into your own Constitution , that would mightily help towards it , for there — You 'd find Your Body made for Labour , not your Mind . I fear , should it come to be known who is the Author of this Letter , by any of the Judicious , I shall incur their Displeasure ; most are apt to think that you aim at nothing more than the honour of being thought worth answering , and would be glad of having any thing writ against you , to introduce something more of your incontinent Scrible into the World. Should it prove so in this , I heartily beg their Pardon , and hope I shall never again be guilty of Midwifeing any of your Brats , or be the Cause of provoking you to plague the World with more of your Stuff . Indeed if you 'l be as good as your word , I need not much fear it in this Cause , for you tell us , That you never intend to write one word more upon this Subject ( that is , of Baptism ) unless a Reply by any worthy Divine or Scholar of theirs makes it necessary . Can you think , or suppose , a worthy Divine , and a Scholar , to be without any thing else to do , than to trouble his Head about you ? and till then you cannot expect any one should ; besides , Man , such a one would as much scorn to draw a Pen against thee , as a well bred Gentleman to draw his Sword upon a naked Cit. I understand you threaten very hard any that shall dare to appear in Print against you , and yet you see 't is done . In the name of him you shall happen to pitch upon to rail at , as the Author of this Letter , I send you defiance in six Lines of Sir Carr Scroop to my Lord Rochester , upon his Lordship's having written something against him . Rail on poor feeble Scribler , speak of me In as bad terms as the World speaks of thee : Sit swelling in thy Hole like a vex'd Toad ; Thy Venom , and thy Malice spit abroad ; Thou canst hurt no Man's Name by thy ill word , Thy Pen is full as harmless as thy Sword. Philosensus . POSTSCRIPT . PErhaps some who may chance to peruse this Letter , may cavil at , and find fault with the Method I have taken , and the Stile I have used in writing to the Quakers Beetle ( head ) . Those that do , I desire to accept of this for Answer ; I have endeavour'd , as much as I could , to imitate the Gentleman , and fight him at his own Weapons , and therefore I have foisted in several Stories ( and some of them abruptly ) that I might come as near I could to my Copy . And if I 'm accus'd for being so severe upon him , take his own Reason for the same thing , in his Book call'd William Pen and the Quakers , either Impostors or Apostates , &c. page 61. Quacks and Juglers , and foolish pretenders to any thing , are not to be treated as wise and sober Men ; Answer , says the wisest of Men , a Fool according to his Folly , lest he be wise in his own Conceit , Prov. 26.5 . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A47170-e90 Second New Year's Gift , p. 14. and so on . 2d Friendly Epistle to G. Keith , p. 15. &c. 2d Friendly Epistle , p. 30. 2d New Year's Gift to the Crispians , p. 13 , 14. 2d Friendly Epistle to G. Keith , p. 19. 2d and last New Years Gift to the Crispians , page 11. 2d New Years Gift for the Crispians , p. 35 , 36. William Pen and the Quakers , either Impostors or Apostates , p. 30. 2d Friendly Epistle to G. Keith , fol. 20 , 34 ▪