The English concord in ansvver to Becane's English iarre: together with a reply to Becan's Examen of the English Concord. By Richard Harris, Dr. in Diuinitie.

D^r. HARRIS Reply.

HEre haue we the Iesuit lying in his byrdlime: Wherin, the more he struggleth, the worse he is enwrapped; and whence he seeks to go out, by going out of his wits, saying it was his coniec∣ture

from no consequent of reason. As though euery coniecture reasonable, doth not leane vpon some rea∣son probable. If therefore his coniecture was groun∣ded vpon no reason, it followeth, that he with his con∣iecture, was vnreasonable. But with what face (vnlesse hee be extreamely ignorant in the very petite rules of Logick) can hee deny it to bee a consequent, standing vpon two Propositions, reduced by himselfe into forme Enthymematicall. The later (the Conclusion) inferred vpon the former, containing the Medium in it, viz. a new name imposed, with the particle-note of infe∣rence or consequence, viz. Igitur (therefore) & hauing his forerunner-watch-word colligimus (wee gather) gi∣uing warning of a consequent to follow.

Now then, draw out this reason into his full syllo∣gisticall forme; it will runne, and can runne no other∣wise, than thus:

What thing soeuer hath a new name imposed vpon it, that thing is new. Hence the Iesuit assumed thus:

But the Kings Supreme power in the Church, hath a new name, Suprematus, imposed vpon it. Ergo, the Kings Su∣premacy is new.

And I thence assumed thus:

But Christ, in respect of his Deity, had in the Nicen Councell a new name, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, imposed vpon him.

Ergo, Christ, in respect of his Deity, or Christs Deity, was then new.

The Iesuit, beeing invery great streights, and not a∣ble to beare the stroake of this argument, (for, the for∣mer, or Maior proposition, is his own. The later pro∣position, called the Minor, or Assumption, hee durst not deny. The forme is rightly syllogisticall. To deny

the Counclusion, is against all rules dialecticall. To grant it, is hereticall.) creepeth into a bench-hole, and then laugheth, & saith: It is ridiculous to compare one Thom∣son, a priuat man, vvith so many Fathers in the Nicen Councell, representing the Church; that it should be as law∣full for Thomson, as for them, to impose a new name.

Could any man imagin, that Martin Becan, a father Iesuit, and a publique Reader of Diuinitie, should be so vnlearned a slugge, as hee palpably heere shewes him∣selfe to be? Truly, if a Cambridge Sophister had aun∣swered so, he should haue beene either corrected in the Schooles, or hissed out of the Schooles. For, let the like arguments be framed thus:

Euery man is a liuing creature. The king is a man. Therefore the King is a liuing creature.

And thus:

Euery man is a liuing creature. The Kings scullian is a man. Ergo, the Kings scullian is a liuing creature.

If any silly fellow vsing Becanes words should with Be∣can answer thus; It is ridiculous to compare the Kings scul∣lian, vvith the King: should he not, as a ridiculous asse, be ludibriously exploded?

These, as the other, syllogismes, respect not Quis; who is a man, or who gaue the new name: but Quid; whether hee be a man; whether it be a new name im∣posed. Nay, rather thence the argument runneth vp∣on the Iesuit, with greater force, thus: If the impositi∣on of a new name vpon a thing, by a priuat man, shall inferre the thing to be new; much more shall the im∣position of a new name vpon a thing by publique au∣thority,

conclude that thing to be new.

Now it is time that I answere his Question heere proposed, viz. Why I vse that consequent against the Iesuits (thus: The name of the Iesuiticall Sect is new. Therefore that Sect is new.) which my selfe misliked? I answer, If he had well obserued those my words be∣fore going, viz. ••llud fortasse rectius: hee should easilie haue perceiued, that I misliked that consequence, as it is indeed most childish and ridiculous: yet by the way of Sarcasmus, ironically I vsed it, to thump Iesuits there-withall; because their Sect, & the name of their Sect, is new indeed.