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B. L.

C. L.

CHAP. VII.

Of the Discourses written on the occasion of Mr. Thomas
Godden's Conference with Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, the
Dean of St. Paul's.

85. A Letter to Mr. [Thomas] G[odden] giving a true account of
the late conference at the dean of S. Paul's. Imprimatur
Guil. Needham, Martii 12, 168.

pp. 8, 4to Lond. 1687 See Cat. 47. Contin. p. 40. Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1070. This letter is signed E. S. i.e. Edward Stillingfleet, and dated March 7, 168. Thos. Godden was president of the English College in Lisbon, where he took the degree of D.D. in 1656. In 1678 his servant Hill was executed for the murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey (Burnet, Own Times, vol. i. 445, sq.) After this he was almoner and chaplain to the queen dowager, and died about Dec. 1688. Ant. Wood says (Ath. Oxon. loc. cit.) "We may here take notice that Dr. Tho. Godden before mention'd who (as Dr. Stillingfleet saith [Pref. to the Defence of his Discourse and against a Book called Catholics no Idolaters] was the most considerable adversary that had appeared against him) was born, as I have been informed in London of the same family with Sir Adam Browne of Surrey (his right surname being Browne) bred in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, where he was bach. of arts, but leaving the English church he went to Lisbon in Portugal, where spending some time in the English coll. he was sent on the mission to England,” &c. I believe however that his real name was Tilden, see Ath. Oxon. ed. Bliss vol. iv. col. 93.

Gee calls him Mr. Peter Gooden (Cat. p. 9) which I believe is a mistake; and tells us that he had a conference with Dr. Claget about Transubstantiation, Feb. 21, 1686, which was published under this title, The sum of a conference on Feb. 21, 1686, between Dr. Claget and father Gooden about the point of transubstantiation, 8vo Lond. 1689. Also published at the end of Dr. Clagett's Seventeen Sermons preached on several occasions. This was Dr. W. Clagett of Eman. Coll. Cambr.

J. H. T.

86.A letter to the D. [ean] of P. [S. Paul's] in answer to the C. L. arguing part of his first letter to Mr. G[odden]. Anon. By pp. 36, 4to Lond. 1687

Mr. John Sergeant, or Sargeant.

See Contin. p. 40. Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1069. This Sergeant, alias Smith, was a secular priest, see Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 247 and 1068. But he seems to have also gone by the name of Holland, and he wrote his book called "Sure Footing in Christianity Examined” under the name of George Hughes. He was a native of Lincolnshire and had been a Sizar of S. John's Coll. Cambr. and A.B. of that University, and was for some time secretary to Dr. Tho. Morton Bp. of Durham. In 1642 he seceded to Romanism and went to the English Coll. of Lisbon; and was in 1652 sent back to England as secretary to the secular clergy of the Mission: in which employment he remained to his death in 1707. He was accused of heretical opinions by Peter Talbot, tit. Abp. of Dublin. See Stillingfleet's nature and grounds of the Certainty of Faith (No. 95 infra) p. 4 sq. against which charge he defended himself in a book entitled Vindicia contra Pet. Talbotum &c. 8vo 1678. John Sergeant wrote against Bramhall under the initials S. W. from which some have given him the Christian name of William, but Wood (loc. cit.) and Dodd (Ch. Hist. vol. iii. part viii. bk. ii. art. 5, pp. 472 sq.) call him John. And in this controversy with Stillingfleet his initials are J. S. See the new edition of Bramhall's Works (Anglo Cath. Libr.) Life p. xxviii vol. ii. p. 358 note. J. H. T.

Other works of this voluminous Roman Catholic author will be noticed hereafter.

87. A letter to a Friend reflecting on some passages in a letter [of C. L. Mr. John Sargeant] to the D. of P. in answer to the arguing part of his first letter to Mr. G. [Anon.] By Clement Ellis M.A. Rector of Kirkby in Com. Notting.

pp. 31, 4to Lond. 1687 See Cat. No. 49. Contin. p. 40. Ath. Oxon. vol ii. col. 970. [See No. 86.]

88. A second Catholic Letter against the reflections of Dr. Stillingfleet's defender. By Mr. John Sargeant. 4to Lond. 1687 See Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1069.

C. L. 89. The Reflecter's defence of his letter to a friend, against the furious assaults of M. J. S. in his second Catholic Letter. In

four dialogues.

pp. 72, 4to Lond. 1688 Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1069.

See Cat. No. 53. Contin. p. 42.
This is anon. but is evidently by Clement Ellis, the author of No. 87.
J. H. T.

C. L. 90. A second Letter to Mr. G. in answer to two Letters lately published concerning the conference at the D. of P. Imprimatur Guil. Needham. April 22, 1687. Anon. By Edw. Stillingfleet, D.D. pp. 44, 4to Lond. 1687

T.C.D.

See Cat. No. 48. Contin. p. 40. Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1069, where however there is nothing about this second letter of Stillingfleet, which was written not against Sargeant (Nos. 86, 88 supra as Peck states) but against Mr. M. who had been present at the conference with Godden, and who seems to have published two letters in defence of Godden, of which Peck makes no mention. But Wake (Contin. p. 40) notices them thus: "In return to this [i.e. to Stillingfleet's first letter, No. 85 supra] Mr. M. who was with Mr. G. at the conference returned a letter or two to Dr. Stillingfleet concerning the conference; and these produced a second from the Dean of S. Paul's, called &c. A copy of one of these letters, under the initials E. M. [i.e. Edw. Meredith] is in Trin. Coll. Library, Dublin, with this title, A letter to Dr. E. S. concerning his late letter to Mr. G., and the account he gives in it of a conference between, Mr. G. and himself. 4to, Lond. 1687.

There must also have been another letter, as Stillingfleet distinctly speaks of two in his title-page, and in his book more than once, as p. 36, "The Author of the first letter desires information," &c.; p. 40. For as the Author of the first letter well observes, "I love to spare my own pains. But I took the opportunity of your Absence. Herein Mr. M. did me injury;" which words seem to make Mr. M. author of this letter also. And yet in his opening sentence p. 3, he speaks of "two gentlemen who have appeared in print so lately." At all events it is evident that the second letter to Mr. Godden (which is dated April 21, 1687) had no reference to Sergeant's letters; which Stillingfleet afterwards answered in a distinct book. See No. 95 infra. J. H. T.

91. A third Catholic letter in answer to the arguing part of Dr. Stillingfleet's second letter, &c. [Anon.] By John Sargeant. 4to Lond. 1687

See [Contin. p. 40] Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1069, from whence this title is copied, for Peck does not appear to have seen any of Sargeant's letters. Wake speaks of a fourth and fifth Catholic Letter, and says expressly (Contin. p. 41) that the fifth was so called. They are not given by Wood under that name; and hence Peck suggests that the two tracts, Nos. 93 and 94, although not called "Catholic letters" in the title he has given, may nevertheless be those referred to by Wake. See his note after No. 94. J. H. T.

I have been furnished with the following titles, which prove Peck's suggestion to be groundless: "The fourth Catholick letter in answer C. L. to Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermon (as infra) addrest to his Auditory," 1688, 4to. "The fifth Catholick letter in reply to Dr. Stillingfleet's [pretended] Answer about the 40th part of J. S.'s Catholick letters, addrest to all impartial readers," by John Sargeant. 1688 4to. "Your second falshood is that Dr. St. has reply'd to my first Four Letters: and this is a most notorious Banger. For, first, it is shown in my fifth Letter Page by Page to every Examiner's Eye, from Page 154 to Page 173, that he has omitted so much as to take notice of (much more to Answer) Thirty Nine parts of Forty of my First and Third Letters." A Letter to the Continuator of the Present State of our Controversy. Laying open the Folly of his extravagant Boasting, and the Malice of his Willfull Forgeries. By John Sergeant. (Ad. calc. Continuation, see No. 438 infra.)

92. Scripture and Tradition compared; in a Sermon preached at C. L. Guildhall Chapel, Nov. 27, 1687. By Edward Stillingfleet, D.D. and Dean of St. Paul's. pp. 32, 4to Lond. 1688

See Cat. No. 50; [Contin. p. 40;] Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1069. In
the preface to this Sermon, Stillingfleet says: "I intend, God willing,
to publish in a little time a full answer to J. S. his Catholick Letters,
so far as I am concerned in them." See No. 95. Works, vol. i.
p. 393. J. H. T.

See also Sermon xiii. vol. i. p. 176, The Reformation justify'd,
Acts xxiv. 14.

S

C. L. 93. An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's sermon at Guildhall Chapel, 27 Nov. 1687. By Mr. John Sargeant.

4to

See [Contin. p. 40;] Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1069; [where Wood says: "This was going to press the latter end of January the same year [viz. 1687], and I think it was printed in qu. but I have not seen it." I have not seen any copy of it, nor do I know whether it was ever published.] J. H. T.

"He owes me a full Answer to my Fourth Letter laying open the vanity of his insignificant Guildhall Sermon; to which he has hitherto said nothing." In A Letter to the Continuator, p. 12. The original title is as follows, "The Fourth Catholick Letter in Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermon, Preach't at Guild-Hall, November 27th, 1687. Entituled, Scripture and Tradition Compared, Addrest to his Auditory. pp. 35, Pref. v. 4to Lond. 1688.

94. The nature and grounds of the certainty of faith. By Mr. John Sargeant.

See Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1069. These two last pieces, I conceive, make up Mr. Sargeant's fourth and fifth Catholic Letters to Dr. Stillingfleet, spoken of in the Continuation of the present Controversy, p. 41. However quære.

I know not where Peck got the title of this last book, for which I can find no authority. It is not mentioned in the place of Ath. Oxon. to which he refers; and I think it must have been taken from the title of No. 95, on the presumption that J. S. had written a book with a corresponding title. But this I believe is a mistake. J. H. T.

The following works of Sergeant relate to the subject here under consideration, the Rule of Faith: Sure-Footing in Christianity, or Rational Discourses on the Rule of Faith. With short Animadversions on Dr. Pierce's Sermon (viz. The Primitive Rule of Reformation, pp. 341-90 in his Collection of Sermons, 4to Oxford 1671); also on some passages in Mr. Whitby and Mr. Stillingfleet which concern that Rule: (viz. Whitby's Romish Doctrines not known from the Beginning. Lond. 1662, 4to. Stillingfleet's Rational Grounds of the Protestant Religion, &c. Lond. 1665.) A Discovery of the groundlessness and insincerity of my Lord of Down's Dissuasive, being the

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