Remarks on Two Pamphlets Lately Published Against Dr. Middleton's Introductory Discourse; The One, Intituled, Observations on That Discourse in Answer ... Farther Opened, Or, a Defence of Dr. Chapma - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1748 Excerpt: ... REMARKS O N T H E J E S U I T-C A B A L. WHEN I sat down to examine this Defence if Dr. Chapman's Charge, I could not help amusing myself a while, with the quaintness of the Title-page-, which seemed to have undergone several corrections, and to have cost the Archdeacon no small pains, before it was reduced to it's present form. In the first Advertisement, which was given of it, in the public papers, the Title, if my memory does not deceive me, stood thus; the Jesuit's Cabinet farther opened, &c. But the notion of opening a Cabinet, being vulgar, and what every writer would use on such an occasion, was thought unworthy, it seems, of the Archdeacon's erudition, and changed therefore, as we now see, E 2 into into the more recondite phrase, es opening a Cabal yj. In the latter part also of the same title, some alteration appears to have been made, after the book was sent to the Press: for in that first Advertisement likewise, if I remember right, the Author of the Postscript was called a Scurrilous, as well as Declamatory Resmarker; whereas in the publication of it, the word, Scurrilous, is now omitted: from what motive, I cannot say; but certainly, not from any scruples on the Archdeacon's part: for y This change however was not made at once; nor would Cabinet have dipt so easily into Cabal, if it had not been prepared by some prævious emendation: and there is reason to think, that, in running over all the changes into which it might naturally be resolved, Cabala was his first choice, and inserted accordingly into the Title, while the book was yet in the Press; as a word, the best adapted to the profundity of his own erudition, as well as to that mystery of iniquity, which he was going to lay open. For about the middle of his piece, he refers us, as it w...