A POSTSCRIPT OF Advice from GENEVA, To be added to each of Mr. Care's several Volumes of Advice from Rome.  Hanc maximam seu regulam habent Calvinistae licere pro gloria Christi mentiri, Osiander in Epit. etc. Centur. pag. 796. 
TO go along with Mr. Care in his Method and Design of exposing the Papists, I think it will be but a very necessary and equal piece of Justice, to give the world an Abstract or short view of the Lives, Deaths and Doctrines of some of the first and principal Reformers of the Calvinian or Puritan Sect; In the doing whereof, I shall purposely avoid the Testimony of any Popish Author, and make use of others of great Reputation for Learning and Integrity: To begin then with Mr. John Calvin, as the principal Establisher of that Reformation in Geneva, and several other places (though the same had been set on foot before by Zwinglius, who was slain in the Sedition occasioned by his Doctrine in those of Tigure and Berne, against Rhodolf King of the Romans, as Gualther confesseth in Apologia pro Zuinglio, & operibus ejus.) The Life and Death of John Calvin was writ by Hierom Bolseco, Doctor of Physic, who lived in Geneva with him; and in the beginning of his Book printed Anno 1577. he makes this solemn Protestation: [I am here, for the sake of Truth, to refute Theodor Beza 's false and shameless Lies in the praise of Calvin; protesting before God, and the holy Court of Heaven, before all the world, and the Holy Ghost itself, that neither Anger, nor Envy, nor Evil-will, hath made me speak or write any one thing against the truth of my conscience. But in regard that (upon the scandal he took at the manner of Calvin's life) he afterwards became a Catholic, I shall rather choose to present the Reader with a short draught of it, in the words of Conradus Schusselburgh, a man of principal estimation in the Protestant Church, and no less enemy to the Pope than was Calvin; who in his Theologia Calvinistarum, lib. 2. fol. 7. writes thus: God in the Rod of his Fury visiting Calvin, did horribly punish him before the fearful hour of his unhappy death; for he so struck this Heretic (so he termeth him, in regard of his conceived Doctrine concerning the Sacrament, and God's being the Author of Sin) with his mighty Hand, that being in despair, and calling upon the Devil, he gave up his wicked Soul, Swearing, Cursing and Blaspheming; He died upon the Disease of Lice, and Worms, increasing in a most loathsome Ulcer about his Privy-parts, so as none present could endure the stench. These things are objected to Calvin by public writing; In which also horrible things are declared concerning his Lasciviousness, his sundry abominable Vices, and Sodomical Lusts, for which last he was by the Magistrate at Noyon (under whom he lived) branded on the shoulder with a hot burning Iron. Thus far writes Schusselburgh of Calvin. Now as concerning Theodor Beza, another principal Reformer of that Sect, though his life be likewise written by Dr. Bolseke, and his Book dedicated to the Magistrates of Geneva, wherein he chargeth him with many great and heinous Imputations, best known to themselves; and that even in Beza's life-time, purposely (as he says) he might be able to answer for himself; Yet I shall wave his Testimony, further than confirmed by other learned Protestants, as Conradus, Schusselburgh, and Tilmannus, Heshusius, who charge him with writing those obscene and licentious Poems of his Candida & Andebertus; in which he debateth whether sin he may prefer; and in the end, concludeth with preferring the Boy before his Candida; Orbi notum est quam salax fuit Beza qui publicatis poematibus paidastrias suas celebrare non erubuit, Galliae probrum, simoniacus, sodomita, omnibus vitiis coopertus. As for John Bale, Peter Martyr, and Bucer, with others of that Reformation, they began with the breach of their solemn Vows of Obedience and Chastity, flying from their Monasteries, and marrying vowed Nuns; And as to other their enormous Actions and Doctrines, I shall refer you to the two Books of dangerous Positions, and a survey of the pretended Holy Discipline, writ by Dr. Bancroft Archbishop of Canterbury, and to Dr. Sutcliff his Answer to a Libel supplicatory, out of whom I shall only present you with some few of their Doctrines, viz.  
I. That Temporal Princes may not by God's Law have Supreme Authority in the Church, or Ecclesiastical matters, but only their Presbytery.  
II. That the People have the same power to punish, put down and destroy Princes that offend, that Kings and Princes have over any particular man.  
III. That the Ministers of the Presbytery chosen by themselves, may Excommunicate, Arraign and Depose their Prince, when they see him govern amiss.  
iv That the Ministers (with the People) may require of the King to have true Preachers; And if he be negligent, they may provide themselves, and may maintain and defend them against him, and all others, and curb the King in his Excesses, where need is.  
V That the whole Ecclesiastical Government of the Protestant Church now in England, (to wit) by Bishops, Archdeacon's, Deans, and the like, is unlawful, wicked and Antichristian; whereof ensueth, that all Ministers ordained by them, are unlawful, and all their actions are only actions of mere Laymen; and consequently, That they have no lawful public Ministry at all.  
VI That all Ministers ordained by the Authority of the Bishops, and coming afterwards to be of the Puritan Sect, must renounce before the Presbytery and Classes, his former Vocation and Ordination, and take another by their Allowance, and Imposition of Hands.  
VII. That the Parliament of England hath no Authority to meddle in matters of Religion, nor to determine wha● Religion is to be admitted, or not; but only this belongeth to their Presbytery of Ministers.  
VIII. That they only are the true Church of God that be of this Presbytery, and all other to be damned that are not of it.  
For the horrid effects and consequences of these Doctrines, we need not go to look for them into other Countries, tho' all Modern Histories yield plentiful Examples; our own Kingdom of England affords us too late and direful Remembrances of them, and the barbarous Murder of the best of Kings occasioned thereby, will never be forgotten; Nor do I think that any Sect, no not that of the Circumcellians themselves, so terrible in old time, and namely to St. Augustine, either is, or can be thought so perilous or pernicious to Kingdoms or Commonwealths, as is this of the Puritans, where they may have Power.  
Now, for a Conclusion, instead of a Courant, I shall give the Reader a short view of the great change in the general morality of Christians, occasioned by the Doctrine and Practices of these pretended Zealous Reformers, in the very words of their Brethren abroad; as Luther, Calvin, Melancton, Brutius, Bucer, Eberus, Wigandus, and divers others; and at home, of Mr. Jeffrey and Mr. Stubbs, and the Puritans mild Defence, faithfully extracted out of the Treatise of the Protestant private Spirit, chap. 9 §. 8. subdivis. 4. viz. Under the Papacy men were Religious, and given to the practice of good works; but that the Professors of your Gospel, relying on their Justification by only Faith, are become careless of good works, dissolute, proud, envious, malicious, disdainful, covetous, ambitious, that your eyes ought to gush out with tears, to behold the misery of your supposed Church, the great Ignorance, the superficial Worship of God, the fearful Blasphemies and Swearing in houses and streets, the dishonour of Superiors, the Pride, Cruelty, Fornications, Adulteries, Drunkenness, Covetousness, Usuries, and other like Abominations; that Youth amongst you becomes daily less tractable, and more bold to commit those Vices, which in former times men of years knew not; That instead of Fasting, you have brought in Bibbing and Banqueting, and instead of Praying, Swearing; And finally, that you equal the Jews in Hypocrisy, the Turks in Impiety, and the Tartars in Iniquity; And lastly, your learned Brother Eberus, in his Praefat. Comment. Philip. in Ep. ad Cor. sticketh not to say, That in regard of the enormous wickedness of your Ministry and Church, any man may justly doubt whether you are the true Church.  
Whoever desires to see more stuff of this nature, may peruse a Book entitled Pasquil of England unto Ma●tin junior; or the other of Pasquil and Marphorius; and Dr. Sutcliffs Answer to a Libel supplicatory; from which, and several other Authors of that kind, the ingenious Reader may easily collect how obvious and facile it is for any party to recriminate, by raking in the Dunghill of personal errors and defects of former ages, and exposing all he finds, without regard either to the credit of Authors, or falsity of their Assertions, often contradicted by others of the same times, of much better esteem and reputation; and what scandal must necessarily follow thereupon to all Christians, even to the introducing of Atheism and Infidelity, as it happened on the like occasion to David George, Professor at Bazil; Bernardine Ochine, a man highly commended by Calvin; Neuserus, chief Pastor of Heidelburgh; Almanus, a Zwinglian, and some others, who out of hatred to Popery, and scandal taken at the Lives and Doctrines of their own fellow Reformers, renounced Christianity, and became Jews, as you may see in Schusselburgh his Thelogia Calv. & Osiander Cent. 16. From consideration of the great mischiefs and ill consequences of this way of exposing, (as Mr. Care is pleased to phrase it) he, or whoever else is the Author of The Weekly Packet of Advice from Rome, may easily conclude what fruit or advantage he is like to reap from his laborious Collections, more than the loss of his time, and the exposing to the world his own malice and folly, for, Turpe est Doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum.  

SOME QUERIES For Mr. CARE to Chew, Relating to His Ignoramus-Iuries,  
I WHether or no Magna Charta, and the rest of our Laws, are more careful in preserving the Life and Reputation of the King, or of the Subject? If of the former,  
II. Whether some men now in power must not think the Lawmakers Fools, or acknowledge themselves Knaves?  
III. Whether if an Insurance-Office for Commonwealth-malefactors were set up, the City security would not be the best?  
iv Whether the Money that used to be spent in Hospitality by City-Magistrates, might not be laid out more to the Honour of the City, in rewarding True-Protestant-Evidences and Ignoramus-Juries?  
V Whether some late Officers did not forbid Wine at their Tables, lest their Friends drinking too much should tell truth?  
VI Whether a Perjured Pillory▪ d Thief, Beggar, Fool or Knave, be not as good Evidence against a Whig, as against a Papist?  
VII. Whether, had it not been for People so qualified, we had ever known of a Popish-Plot?  
VIII. Whether if the last Long Parliament had sat this time, we had ever been blessed with Narratives, Ignoramus-Juries, or True-Protestant-Informations?  
IX. Whether if the same Evidence should swear the same things against the Pope, and against a True-Protestant-Peer, a Jury (by care and industry) might not be packed, to save his Holiness, rather than lose a Friend?  
X. Whether when Hell broke lose by Heaven's permission, upon this Protestant City the Devil did not employ the Whigs as well as the Papists? Or,  
XI. Whether he did not reserve the former for greater purposes, viz. to blow up the sparks of Rebellion, and serve on Juries?  
XII. Whether if an Highwayman was to be tried by a Jury of his own Gang, they would not act more like brute Beasts than rational Creatures, if they found the Bill?  
XIII. Whether there is not just ground for suspicion of Gild in the Prisoner, when his Friends are forced to pick up Jurymen (contrary to custom) from one end of the Town to the other?  
XIV. Whether he that made a Scandalous and Seditious Speech (to say no worse of it) publicly in the House of Peers, may not be supposed to speak Treason privately?  
XV. Whether some people who deserve not, yet are sorry they have a Just and Merciful Prince?  
XVI. Whether if an Angel from Heaven should descend, and testify a Design by the fanatics against the Government, this Scripture should not be brought to invalidate his Evidence; Stand fast in the Liberty whereunto ye are called?  
XVII. Whether the same Jury would not (upon the Devil's Testimony) find a Bill against another sort of People?  
XVIII. Whether a True Protestant believes Perjury to be a Sin?  
XIX. Whether if the Indictment against some late Criminals had been found, and they Executed for the Treason therein contained, (viz. Conspiring the Death of the King) a Vote of a late House of Commons had not been violated, wherein 'tis resolved, That if the King come to any unnatural Death, they will Revenge it on the Papists?  
XX. Who is the Author of these Queries?  
Ignoramus.  
FINIS.