A Sovereign COUNTERPOISON Prepared by a Faithful Hand FOR The Speedy Reviviscence OF ANDREW SHALL Late Sacrilegious Apostate.  
〈◊〉 will serve to inform the ignorant, to resolve the wavering, and to confirm the constant well-principled Roman-Catholick.  
Contrived by J. E.  Inventi sunt in Populo meo Impii insidiantes quasi aucupes, laqueos ponentes, & pedicas ad capiendos viros. Jerem. 5. Noli esse stultus, & ne impie agas multum ne moriar is tempore non tuo. Eccl. 7. 
Permissu Superiorum.  
Printed at Lonain. 1674.   

TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE Duchess of YORK.  
Most Illustrious Madam,  
THere is nothing in this world of more importance then to handle the affairs of Salvation with all earnestness; we well know we have an immortal soul which shall survive to all Eternity either in the bosom of Glory, or in the flames of the damned; nothing is so absolutely confirmed, as that none can be saved without true faith, and yet nothing by the malice of satan more controverted as the verity of true faith. This small Treatise contrived in haste for, and in vindication of, the verity of the ancient soulsaving faith of the Roman-Catholick Church, from the most mysterious and foul aspersions and rail of the ignorant overweening and over-byassed Sciolist Sectaries of this perverse age, confidently flies for to be sheltered under the wings of the most Renowned Patronage of your Eminency, a most rare honourer and vigorous practitioner of the heavenly Principles and tenants of the same ancient faith: what? an inestimable precious Jewel of fair, 〈◊〉 v● and rich Modena, more 〈…〉 to all height of beauty and 〈…〉 ●orth (whose Royal blood of in●●●●●ing nonour springs from the most glori●●●, most august, and most heavenly stock and ●oins of the Emperor of Germany, of that thrice noble and ancient house of Austria; and of the most Catholic Kings of Spain,) now to contract strong alliances with the useful and practical doctrine of the rare virtues of penance, humility, mortification, piety, charity and fasting, etc. all contradictory to flesh and blood? what? a tender young, beauteous, eminently great Lady, seen often daily paying the Religious homage of heart, hand, & knees to the Majesty of the Almighty, by frequent retreats to a sweet and undisturbed Conversation with heaven, and this in the Royal Court, is the fair sport of your beauteous mind, little regarding the transient vanities, guilded goads, and charming gaities, and allurements of a barren world, all which ends in folly and forgetfulness; O how mervelous is the power of solid virtue, when enchaced in pure beauty and glorious Extraction! Live then prosperously most pious Madam, and be still a bright orient star of the first magnitude, now auspiciously fixed in this Orb of Great Britain, shining, illuminating and warming (by your heroic and most examplar piety) frozen hearts in this cold for them Clime. Live then fortunatly prevailing Madam who (by God's sweet providence) has been heightened to so sublime merit, unparallelled worth and admired accomplishments of all perfections as to become the Peerless Consort of his Royal Highness James, that most gracious, mighty and most invincible Hero, now the unmated glory, the only moving Soul, and most victorious Tutelar Angel of Great Britain: Live long and prosperously, Great Madam, until you enjoy in your bosom (through God's blessings) a Princely Graff arising from so Noble, sovereign and glorious a stock, for the comfort and full joy and secure of Great Britain. Most serene Madam, this my Address is far from a Panegyrics, in enlarging upon the eminent splendour of your Endowments of mind and body; those I leave for a fit Subject of a higher Undertaking: Advance therefore Fair Madam your glorious progressions in virtues till you draw love and admiration even from your very Enemies (if any you can have.) I pray God to continue your Highness in all increasing prosperities, to bless your just designs, and to prolong your happy days, these shall be the daily vows of me, who beseeches your Highness to bestow one grace, which is, to permit me to bear all my life time the Title of your m● humble and most Obedient Chaplain a● Beadsman,  
J. E.   

To the Christian Reader  
THe restless and hellish labours of some Pseudo-prelates in compassing Sea and and for to make one proselyte, is very strange; whereas Apostates made their Apostles can be atle purchase to Protestants, and the loss of Roman-catholics much less, they having been ●ce dead and cankereaten branches that could ●r no fruit whilst united to the stock and much ●s now after their separation: Their endeavour is not to go far off and convert Pagans ●●●m the worship of Devils and dead Idols, to ●●ve the living God, but rather to pervert illuminated Christians, corrupt and evacuate ●verity and sovereignty of Christ's faith by ●vel devices, foul lies and forgeries, is their ●in ambition. The main reason therefore that ●t the Author upon the sudden contrivement this small Treatise, was seasonably to consul and give a check to the disingenuity, spite● malice, venom, and brawny-faced impudence of that renowned wight, vile Apostate, ●●d professed Enemy to Christ, Andrew sal: 〈◊〉 dash back all his shameless affronts, and ●●undering, bawling strains of profound and ●nderful nonsense in his late open and avowed ●●ty practices at Dublin, and elsewhere (all better stuff then old worn-out bold rail, ●●d false ignorant stories of superstition, idolatry, Sacrilege, etc. against the true mother church for salvation) into his own teeth: The viper is so swelled with venom and ree● that he must burst or spit his poison ag● Christ, taking the liberty to amuse h●●zing blind deluded drove into popular reputation, flushed with the vainglory he gained ●mongst Protestants, stubbornly struggles in●defence of that their daily dec●ying Sect, ●ther than quit the support of his pride and ●ceitedness: That God may preserve mercif●ly the sacred beams of his revealed faith in ● hearts of Roman Catholics, and secure th● from the wiles snares and pestilence of A●●stats that walked in darkness and destruction That the well-meaning may be cautious, c●ous, zealous and careful in observing and preventing inward motions, and that illusions ● not pervail over their understandings, insulate into their designs, or unawares poison the best resolutions. Finally that no Catholic his wits will intrust his soul, and its eternal ●terest to the blind conduct of such shallow Mountebanks, Impostors and runagate vagrant A●●stats, is the scope of the publication hereof have not affected to set understandings on ● rack by the Tyranny of strong obscure lines, ● mere itch of some vain wits of this Critic ag●such I wittingly wave: The Almighty give prosperous blessing to it, with internal, external, and eternal peace to Christ's sheepfold, the humble prayer of J. E.   


Of the Happiness of the Restoration of the Soul of man. 1. Document.  
THough we can never write, or conceive any thing worthily of the divine Essence, yet we ought to make so good use of the objects of this inferior world, as to study our sovereign Creator in them, proceeding from the effects to the search of the cause, which is the method of Philosophy, whereas the Theologue proceeds commonly from the cause to the effect. The Pagan Philosophers by the twilight of nature soared so high that they came to discover there was a primus Motor, an Ens entium, an optimus maximus, they came to know that he was ubiquitary and diffused through the Universe, to give vigour, life and motion to all parts though invisibly. Now then, no finite created intellect can form a quidditative apprehension of God, no, not the Angels themselves: there may be negative conceptions of him, as to say, he is immortal, immense, independent, simple, and infinite, etc. Or, there may be relative Conceptions had of him, as when we call him Creator, Governor, King, Lord, Redeemer, sanctifier, glorifier, etc. Or there may be positive conceptions of him as the chiefest Good, a pure Act: or he may be described by an aggregation of Attributs, as merciful, wise, omnipotent, etc. Among all these, one of the best ways to describe him is by abstracts, as to call him goodness itself, Justice itself, power, wisdom, piety and mercy itself; he being the Rule of all these; so as he is so incomprehensible, as neither the Eloquence of Plato the divine, nor the subtlety of Aristotle, whom S. Jerom styled the prodigy of nature, could comprehend, or define by positive terms the measure of Gods being or Essence; yet notwithstanding S. Dionis. Areopagita, de divinis nomi. said, Deus est convertens & reducens eos qui divinam in se corruperunt imaginem. God is so absolutely powerful, as that he knows how to convert a most perverse sinner: saying this, says more than to call him Creator; though we may think, that the gift of Creation is greater than that of justification, because Creati● est productio totius entis de non esse ad esse, doth presupose the thing to be created only with an objective being, drawing it out of the abiss of nothing; but Justification doth presuppose the thing to be justified, a part 〈◊〉 with a real physical being; yet the doctor's do agree in it that the Justification of a sinner is greater than the Creation, for the repugnancy of contraries; for it's a greater work and more difficult to direct, and reclaim one understanding misled, and chase away, or dispel the darkness wherein it is blindly involved, then to create the same of the new; and it's a more hard matter to soften or mollify a contumatious, obstinate, depraved, and rebellious will, then to create the same of new. S. Thom. 12. quest. 133. art. 9 says bonum gratiae unius majus est quam bonum naturae totius universi, because for to create a thing, the attribute of omnipotency doth suffice; but for to justify a sinner, and cause him return to God, and lost grace, requires all attributes, as omnipotency, mercy, wisdom, prudence, goodness, of God, etc. So as that the rebellious and most obstinate will of man renders the power of God doubtful, or dubious, ●ola voluntas humana facit dominium Dei dubium, all sublunary things obey God and his Saints, only the perverse will of man spurns at God, and disobeys him; was not the river turned into blood, obeying Moses? did not the Rocks obey him and yield water? did not the Sun obey Josuah, and stayed her course? did not the hungry Lions yield to Daniel? did not the whale preserve Ionas? did not the mule kneel down and adore the B. Sacrament in S. Antony of Padua's hand? in effect, all things becoming pliable to God and his Saints: sola voluntas humana is refractory, obstinate, and rebellious against God. And it is a very strange ponderation of the great Doctor Cirillus Jer solomitanus, saying, Quis potest eloqui Maris profunditatem? quod tamen intra suos limites se continet propter eum qui dixit huc usque progrediaris & non amplius, quandam lineam efficit in littoribus ut ostenderet intuentibus quod praefixos sibi limites non transgreditur. Lord? what a furious and violent Element is the Sea, it would overflow all the Earth, had it not been, that God gave a command to the contrary; yet the senseless Element strictly obeys her God, and withal leaves twice a day a sign or mark of her due obedience to him; leaving both morning and evening a line of foam and froth on the shore, that all who pass by, may take notice of her punctual obedience to her glorious maker. O what a main confusion must this be to rational Creatures endued with will and understanding, bred to education, learning, piety, virtue, and Religion; and yet will not obey God's commands; rather they will leave every day a signal mark of scandal, of disobedience, against Conscience, and the Religion they profess, neglecting the welfare of their Soul: sola volunt as humana facit dominium Dei dubium.  
The restauration of man from sin is a greater and more glorious work, then that of its first Creation, and its the utmost design of God in making the world. For God, having made all things for himself, and for the manifestation of his own Glory, as the wisest end which he could propound to himself, was not satisfied with the first work of Creation, though exceeding good and perfect, but as soon as it was finished, suffered sin to enter upon the stage, bringing death and hell along with it: now all the wits of men and Angels could not untie this knot, sin, till God came down from heaven and resolved it into this most glorious work of Universal Redemption, pardoning sin, as though it never was committed: and there is no other instance in the whole history of the World of any act of God, which doth so perfectly exercise all his Attributes, and manifest all his Glory, and consequently fulfil the end of Creation, more than the Justification of the sinner, in which God disposeth all things strongly and sweetly, attracting man to him, and to the prefixed end, calling, admonishing, illuminating, correcting, interiorly conversing with the heart, terrifying, instructing, etc. yet so as all is done without any Violence, because he works Still sweetly, and congruously to the liberty of free will, to wit, mollifying so sweetly the heart of man, that divine Grace is not refused by the flinty heart: which is attracted not violently, but voluntate & voluptate, with an internal kind of delectation, and so transmits' the soul so allected, infallibly to the final end for which it has been created, by a sweet efficaciousness, and with an efficacious Sweetness: and this is effected by such means and manner that S. Paul in consideration thereof, was constrained to say, O altitudo Sapientiae & scientiae Dei! etc. Alas! by what strange way was S. Paul attracted by a voice and by light; S. Peter by one look of Christ: by another way was Magdalen, by tears; the Samaritan thirsting after the water of life was drawn: S. Matthew sitting in telonio drawn; the thief on the Cross; Mary of Egypt from the Ordure of her libidinous lust; Pelagia from her prostitution, and sordid quest of whoredom; all these called away by several and unknown ways, to follow and pursue virtue, and the way to heaven; so as heretics and heinous Sinners, that sits in the shade of death are illuminated to apprehend their lamentable dark state, and look up to Eternity, and to the pure light of true life; making them, from the children of darkness to become the children of grace; and all this done by the infinitely great wisdom and Grace of God, without which, those sit in darkness of ignorance and infidelity, in the imminent danger of eternal death, having their heart and understanding obscure, so as that they are ignorant of God their Maker, ignorant of the way to heaven: ignorant of the final sovereign happiness for which they were created; and do not know themselves, nor that they are children of wrath, and obnoxious to death, being ignorant of their own insufficiency to good, ignorant of the necessity of grace and Regeneration, ignorant of Christ their Mediator, through whose sacred blood they are restored from death to life: but by pure rays of divine faith they come to know all these things, and begin to look after earnestly the way of Truth and of life, they implore grace, they invoke their Mediator, and seek after his soul-faving Science and heavenly knowledge, according to these words of S. Paul. 1 Corin. 4. ille qui de tenebris dixit lucem splendescere, ipse illuxit in cordibus nostris, etc.   

Of the true Essence of divine Faith. 2. Document.  
REason is most properly exercised in things of nature, and Faith, in matters of Religion; great wits set up reason instead of faith, and the light of nature against divine light, which is at once to deprive man of his highest felicity and faculty; and God of his greatest Grace: the same Word, without question, which created the world creates a belief in a spiritual understanding, by relying on a divine reavealing Authority. It's most certain, that God is said to Confound the wisdom and learning of the wise by Faith, which declared, that without believing they cannot be saved, and yet without a supernatural Grace they cannot believe; and as God is the chief good and perfect happiness of the soul, and the object of our beatitude, which cannot be comprehended by natural light or knowledge, therefore a kind of supernatural virtue is necessary, by which we may attain to his knowledge, which is saith, the highest knowledge we have in this world, by which the soul enjoys him, & by him, the most excellent gifts and graces, whereof it is capable: according to S. Paul ad Eph. 2.8. gratia Dei estis salvati per fidem, & hoc non ex vobis, Faith is that divine light by which we prepare our journey towards virtue and heaven; without faith it's impossible 〈◊〉 please God. By faith Roman Catholics do ●alk upon the grounds of the Church militant, where there is infallibly an infusion of habitual Grace, sanctification in its sacraments; and surely transcendent is their commendation for their faithful conservation of ●he sacred Oracles of Truth in all ages, to ●his day, for their well ordered Zeal, for their most ravishing devotions, deiform in●entions, their heroical acts of fasting, praying, recollections, meditations, in●roversies, their aspirations, humiliations, mortifications, abnegation of themselves, and their daily abdication of all transitory things; so as none in his senses can believe, that such a tree can be Corrupted in the root, which brings forth such heavenly fruits. Some properties we may observe of the doctrine of Faith, to be true, to be revealed of God, to be preached and delivered by the B. Apostles: The highest ground by which a man is persuaded that his faith is true, is the Authority of God speaking and revealing▪ the highest proof by which a man may be assured that his Faith is revealed, is the Authority of Christ and his B. Apostles, who delivered and preached the same as from God; and that from the beginning to this day it is practised without innovation or alteration, in all parts of the inhabitable world. The Apostles in the time of Christ conversing with them, had sufficient Fait● to prevail with their wills to command the● understanding into the belief of his being God and man, consequently an infallibl● faith; than it doth follow, that whatsoever he taught was to be assented unto as infallibly true, and that without being questione● by our weak and limited reason: And sur● this was very necessary for the true Church otherwise they could not have been sufficiently assured, that what Christ their Maste● taught them was true, and so it would no● have been a sin in them to have doubted 〈◊〉 This infallible assurance also, the Christian● that lived in the B. Apostles time, and after Christ Ascension enjoied; they had sufficient ground, without question, to induce them to a belief that the B. Apostles were infallible Guides and Teachers, and that whatsoever they taught and commanded, was as infallibly true, as if God had immediately spoken the same things, and no more to be doubted, contradicted, or disputed against, by vain and curious Reason (which doubtless were as strong and as good as ours) then the immediate words, command, or dictates of Almighty God; otherwise these who refused to hear and obey them, had beenin no fault; and it would have been an insufferable boldness in S. Paul to have required such an absolute submission to what 〈◊〉 taught, as to oblige Christians of his ●●●e, not to have believed, even an Angel ●om heaven, teaching contrary things to ●hat he taught them. Hence it is, that the remaining writings of the B. Apostles are by ●ll Christians esteemed as the word of God: ●nd this was mainly necessary, in the ages ●fter Christ, for the Church of God in the 〈◊〉. Apostles time, to have a living infallible way of direction, and this was the way to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of ●eace, & so become one body; with one heart; ●ot as sects divided, subdivided, & scattered ●●to as many parts, and sorts as now are, ●nd have gone to cuffs, raising civil war for ●he diciding of controversies, as we have seen they did, since they divided themselves from the holy Catholic Roman Church. Mark now those words Heb. 11.6. without faith its impossible to please God: and of Math. 16.16. he that believeth shall not be damned; and Eph. 4.5. there is but one faith, one Baptism, one Lord Jesus: the faith which is to save us and by the which we are to please God cannot be had but in one Church, and that of Christ; it cannot therefore be found in Sects, in contrary opinions, it being of necessity but one, & of contraries one only must be true; Do but observe, 2 Cor. 10.5. bringing into Captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; that this faith or believing was to be sealed in the understanding that the understanding was to submit, n● arrogantly to dispute: And that this Act 〈◊〉 believe, was a command, or precept of Al● mighty God, who will have his will obeye● by all his subjects, and the not obeying 〈◊〉 which is punished with eternal damnation; Lastly, consider, Hebr. 10.23. let us ho● fast the profession of our faith, without wavering, for he is faithful that hath promised That faith is truly divine, must be an infallible assent of our understanding, submitting itself obediently to believe the Revelations of God; for otherwise faith, & consequently all Religion may be no more than fancy, o● opinion, and then no ways certain; and if so, than no obligation. Now it must follow, first, that there must be some means appointed by God by which we may know this one true faith, from all false Sects, and opinions, whereas to require one to believe upon pain of damnation, & not to give him any means whereby he may know what to believe for salvation, in this Religion, or that sect, were to require him to walk without legs; these means must be infallible: for we cannot be brought to an infallible assent by fallible, and uncertain means, as God would not require us to assent to an Authority which may deceive us: then our understanding must of necessity submit to those ●eans under pain of damnation. O terrible! ●r if our understanding were at liberty to ●bmit or not submit to the means, by which ●ving Faith is conveyed unto us, it would ●en be no sin, not to believe, consequently ●od would not jnstly damn us for not be●eving; and withal, whosoever shall re●se to be governed by those heavenly ●eans, and the same authority that God ●ath appointed to govern us, he shall be a ●ebel against God, and a vile Traitor. Last●y, I say, that two men of two differing ●iths or beliefs cannot be saved, for both of ●hem, knowing that they are bound to be guided and governed by those means which God hath appointed, to convey saving faith ●o them, and one of them flatly refusing to submit, this person who refuseth must be guilty of disobedience, and refractoriness to God's Command, and consequently cannot be saved. And so to our present purpose, ignorant people by reasonable and earnest diligence (as it is very tolerable to humane frailty, and very possible and easy for them) may come by God's grace, to the true knowledge of these means, otherwise God would have appointed means, which would prove unprofitable to the end; and so, the far greater number of souls, for whom Christ died, would not be sufficiently provided for, by God's sweet providence, & 〈◊〉 that prophecy would prove also ineffectual Esay. 35. Say to them that are of a fear f●● heart, be strong: fear not, behold, your G●● will come, and save you, than the eyes of th● blind shall be opened, and the ears of th● deaf unstopped, etc. and one high way shall 〈◊〉 there, and a way, and it shall be called the holy way, that way-faring men, though fo●● shall not err therein. It cannot be denied b●● this wholesome doctrine is agreeable with all sorts of people, Apostats, sectaries, o● Dissenters from the Mother Church for it must be granted that there must be a way and a Rule, there must be means appointed there must be a governing power to judge and decide all arising doubts, and teach a● the world the true way and path to heaven with certainty: but when we come to find●● it out, all persons will agree, That they are obliged under pain of damnation to submit to it, receive it, and embrace it, and wal● according to it, as to the Apostles, if they were actually living, or to Christ himself 〈◊〉 and when you understand this Rule and guide, than you cannot but believe all and every article of faith, which we the Roman Catholics did all along, from the Apostles time, and this day, do unanimously believe, and practise; this is the main point which will allay all controversies, contests, wranglings, ammosityes and hatred between Roman Catholics, and all dissenters: the God ●f union and truth open the eyes, and illuminate the understandings of apostats, to ●ake right use of this my labour: Now I ●t them know, that neither private spirit, or natural reason of any man, can possibly 〈◊〉 this Rule, and Judge: for this must sub●it as a subject and Vassal to that Rule and ●udge, and it's always fallible, and strangdly ●t to mistake & mislead; which is against ●e nature of the true Rule and Judge to be: ●r if God should oblige us upon pain of damnation to submit unto, and to be governed and ruled by an Authority that might receive, and might teach for a truth what 〈◊〉 not, we should be bound to believe that 〈◊〉 true, which is not so; and yet be dam●●d, for not believing the truth: further, ●our private spirit or reason were to be ●is Rule and Judge, than it would follow ●●ntrary to the scripture, that it is not im●●ssible to please God without faith, for ●●ason would sufficiently teach us, how to ●ease God, yet it would be a breach of this ●ule, to believe what we do not understand; would likewise follow, that every pre●●nded Religion would be the truth, and 〈◊〉 contradictions would be true, and there would be not only one faith, but no faith 〈◊〉 all, but reason, above which faith is: for reason excludeth faith, and there 〈◊〉 scarce that man living, but his reason diffe● from another's understanding; & judgement differing as much as their faces: therefore none that follows his own Reason, could 〈◊〉 justice be condemned by God, and so 〈◊〉 ilation, all men would be saved, unle●● peradventure you will say, that in a bu●●ness of such main consequence, as the salvation of souls, our primate reason perswad● us to prefer the authority of such, as a● wiser than ourselves, before our own judgements, which is most true: But I then infe●● that Roman Catholics are the most rational, most learned, most wise, most godly most unbiased people now in the world, a● consequently have the best Religion, 〈◊〉 acting most conformably to reason in the belief; for they rely still on the authority 〈◊〉 General Councils, consisting of the able and most learned men of all Nations, whi●● is the greatest authority to be found 〈◊〉 Earth; especially having the assistance of t●● holy Ghost, visum est spiritui sancto, & 〈◊〉 bis, as it appears they have, both by th● testimony of the Scripture, and the consta●● tradition of all ages: Upon these ground we may be sure, that certainly God in h●● good providence had appointed a mo●● sure Guide, Rule, and Judge, to bring ma● to the infallible faith for salvation, the Reason and proud spirit; otherwise God is defective in necessaries, and that Religion were no more than fancy and opinion: and it is worth observation, how for the first two thousand years before any Scriptures were written, the visible Church of God was this Rule and Judge; was not, I pray, circumcision and other Rites brought in by Abraham, and practised by the Church then, without any Scriptures to try them by? what would you have said, if you had then lived? would you have disobeyed the then Church, and reject those ordinances, because then there were no Scriptures to warrant them: The Church of the Jews was so to the Jews, after that the Scripture was written, and this by the express direction of the Scripture, Deut. 17.8. Thou shalt come to the Priests, the Levites, and unto the Judge, and inquire, and they shall show thee the sentence of judgements, etc. and then, he that shall do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest or judge, even that man shall die; and even Christ whilst the Jews, his Church, was yet in being, gave directions, Matth. 22.2, 3. The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses chair, all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do: assuredly God would not direct them and punish them with death for not obeying an authority which might deceive and mislead them; would our Lord command the doing of whatsoever should be done by an authority, when that authority was capable of mistake? the Church therefore, and not the scriptures was the Rule, and Judge to them, they were to hearken to the priest, and Judge, upon pain of death.   

The happiness of Christian Religion. Document 3.  
REligion is a sacred virtue of a Superior and divine nature, attended with an awful respect to the worship of one Living God without any superstition in ceremonious observance, and withal it may be called the Law of the supreme King, commanding and directing that duty and worship which man owes unto him, and rewarding man with that true happiness which he may enjoy in him: the Athenians inscribed their Altar, To the unknown God, and their worship was as vain and ignorant, whom therefore saith the Apostle, ye ignorantly worship, him I declare unto you, where he plainly showeth the difference between heathenish worship of God and true Religion: it's true, they had some glimmering apprehensions of God, but they abused it with their Idolatry, and corrupted it with their lives: S. Paul directly encountered the Athenian Idolatry, plainly preaching to the people the doctrine of the Deity, of creation, providence, sin, Redemption, Repentance, Resurrection and the last Judgement: Thus Poets frame Religion according to their fancy, vain philosophers according to their imperfect Reason, statesmen shape it according to policy and Reason of state, but the sum and substance of true Religion is sincerely to honour, worship, love, fear, and reverence the living God, with heart, soul, and might; in the practice of virtues, which leads to Eternity of glory. Holy and ancient Religion is the Basis of the permanent felicity of kingdoms; and Religion is said a Religando, it binds hearts, wills, nowrisheth public societies, observes strictly laws: if it be changed, nought but confusion, disorder, darkness, discontent, disunion, discord, and animosities, can be expected to follow, all which Germany, England, Flanders, France, & Ireland, can by woeful experience publish. In all ages it was necessary to make open profession of Religion, in acknowledgement of humane and exterior worship to a Deity. S. Jerom doth advertise, That by Tradition of the Hebrews in the law of nature, the first begotten had right to the function of priesthood, offering sacrifice until Aaron's time: Adam by divine instinct instructed his Son Abel to offer sacrifice to God, to fear and love God, for when Cain said, there is no Judgement to come, no Judge, no other world but this, no reward for the Jult, no punishments for sinners, neither this world is governed by God's mercy; to whom Abel the defender of Truth replied, frator ne sic asser as erroniè est enim Judicium est Judex, est aliud saeculum, est ibi merces pro justis, & poena pro Impiis. Gen. 4. But in the Moysaical law, the levits were chosen priests, Num. 3. who had power to offer sacrifice to God, than Abraham, Jsaac, Jacob, Joseph, with 12 Patriarches; after these came Moses, Aaron, Josue, together with the 72 Elders that governed the People, with many Priests and Prophets, all exercising Religion, offering sacrifice: four hundred years after came David, Samuel and Nathan, with many holy Prophets; after God sent Jeremy, Ezekiel, Daniel, Zachary, Aggeus, Malachy, Nehemias', &c. for to preserve Religion, divine worship, Sacrifice, faith and Sacrament; now I ask, what's the reason that now under the holy law of the Gospel, Protestants have no sacrifice, the principal point of Religion? it is, because they have no Priests with true character, function, holy Orders, Mission, power, and authority, from above, but from the weak arm of flesh; therefore having no true Priests, no Religion, no Sacrifice, no Sacrament, no faith, but opinion and fancy; But the Roman-Catholick Church, the mother and Mistress of true faith, hath lawful Priests, Religion, Altars, Sacrifice, Sacraments, successive function of Priesthood, established by Christ, for the perpetuity of his Church, and comfort of his flock. O mercy and divine providence never to be duly pondered! now the infernal Dragon, a declared enemy to God, because he cannot come near him to hurt or offend him, he hurts man the Image of God, even as he that is an enemy to a father of a family, when he cannot annoy his person, endeavours to annoy his possessions, his fields, his children; so the devil, cast from Heaven by God, hath still enmity against him, but not being able to annoy God, he endeavours to destroy man God's image, to pervert him, to delude him and divert him from true Religion, alleging, that Christ's Church is not the true Church, that it's erroneous, superstitious, full of ceremonies, etc. You may read in apoc. 16. vidi prodire de ore draconis: I have seen coming out of the mouth of the dragon, the beast, the pseudo-prophet, three foul spirits like frogs; this dragon, this beast, this pseudo-prophet is Luther: the three frogs are understood by many Interpreters, the three perverse sordid Sects, which did flow from cursed Luther: the first, that of Anabaptists, whose first Author was one Rosmanus, before a Lutheran: the second that of Sacramentaries, the Author whereof was Corolostadius, from whom proceeded Zuinglius and Calvin: the third is that of Protestants, whose Author was Melanchton, or rather Henry the 8. for before his dismal Revolt from the Roman Religion, there was for 1500. years and above, no other Religion in England but the Roman Catholic Religion, flourishing most gloriously, in piety, learning, sanctity, prosperity and happiness, having had 22. Kings in the opinion of Saints, and no memory, dream or word of Protestant in England before his Reign. And not unfitly heresy is compared to frogs for sordidness, loquacity, and for importunity, for still you may hear the frogs in quagmires, with their harsh unpleasant and troublesome clamours night and day, to which the clamours of heretics is very like: and Pierus. l. 19 de Rana. says, that the frog hath bloody red eyes, and that it hath a double liver, properties of heretics, their eyes are bloody, looking with eyes of flesh and blood upon the mysteries of Religion, the power of the Pope, looking with eyes of blood upon the power of absolving given to the Priests, seven Sacraments, the Real Presence; all they look on with eyes, not of faith but blood; Two livers also, heretics, no fasting, no austerity of life; no mortification, no penance but still eat, drink, take pleasure, far well, still increasing blood in their two livers, the seat of blood, for to pursue lust, and concupiscence, and an unbridled appetite of their flesh and blood, and which must breed and nourish pride, the source and nursery of heresy; according to S. Austin: diversae diversis locis sunt haereses, sed una mater superbia genuit: it is said, that the Camel is not accustomed to drink before he troubles the water, so heresy never entered into any kingdom, but by troubling the Republics with dissensions, civil broils, quia dominationem spernunt, & Majestatem blasphemant, ut serpentes humiliter irrepunt, blande capiunt, molliter ligant, latenter occidunt: with their Serpentine cur praecepit vobis deus speaking to Adam and Eve; so heretics are like serpent's cur tot praecepta? cur tot jejunia? cur diebus veneris carnes vetitae? cur tot in Ecclesia ceremoniae? cur & quomodo corpus Christi in exigua panis specie? etc. Are not these serpentine interogations? all their stir is but from sense, from flesh and blood, for honour, for plausible exteriority: Did not Melancthon the first follower of Luther, tell his Mother at the point of death that the protestant was plausibilior, but the Catholic Religion securior, whereupon his Mother sent for a Roman Catholic priest, and died in the bosom of the true Church for salvation; haec plausibiliòr illa securior; Did not a Gentleman say, Si bonum est cum Luthero vivere, haud bonum est cum Luthero mori; and did not Luther himself say, Martin, Martin, jam agis voluptuose, sed quid erit post haec?   

A Sovereign connter-poyson. Document 4.  
S. Cyyrian the great Doctor, writing to some of the Ethnics, touching the lives and studies of Christians, speaks thus, Philosophi sumus factis non verbis, nec magna loquimur, sed vivimus, that is, we are philosophers in our actions, not in our words, nor do speak great things but practise them. It seems, this holy man thought it much fit for a Christian to exercise himself in Virtuous actions, then in diving with curiosity into the Nature of things. Andrew sal, When I consider your present miserable state and deplorable condition, I cannot abstain from tears; you have been heretofore known and counted a philosopher both by words, and deeds; you spoke great things, and did likewise practise them: But alas! alas! lately there is seen and perceived in you a strange and sudden alteration and change: I ask, quomodo obscuratum est aurum? mutatus est colour optimus? thren. 4. you seem awhile ago pure precious gold, how come you metamorphosed and changed, so as no shadow could vanish half so soon? now, not gold, sed fuligo, dross and rubbiss quomodo mutatus est color optimus? heretofore a religious priest, an Ambassador for atonement of grace and mercy, a preacher, all those superexcellent prerogatives, graces, and beauties defaced? what? a living member of the glorious Congregation of Jesus become a dead child of error, heresies & darkness, and suddenly become the scorn of boys and Lackeys sure this cannot be, mutatio dextrae Eccelsi: ah poor Andrew! That exquisite torment used in ancient times by Tyrants to their Captives hath some imperfect weak resemblance of your poor souls present condition; they used to fasten living men to dead bodies, joining their hands, their feet, their mouths, their eyes, and all their other parts with those of dead putrid carcases; Corpora corporibus jungebant mortua vivis; Let us consider, what were the thoughts of those miserable wretches, who though living, were by this union hindered from exercising any the actions of life; and notwithstanding their natural aversion from stench, rottenness and corruption, were yet forced to converse only with them, exchanging all the happiness of life to entertain those dismal objects which presented them with nought but ghastliness & terror, all this Andrew is an imperfect representation of your state; you cannot but perceive your living body to be fastened to a loathsome dead soul, and so by that unhappy union, you are hindered from exercising any actions of grace or virtue, yet are forced to converse only with the Father of darkness, notwithstanding your natural aversion from him, and this for your sacrilegious Apostasy, and revolt from the mother Church, in which you had an unerring Guide, Rule, and Judge, leading you to true faith, the high path to laudable actions of grace, Sanctification and eternal felicity: oh mutatus est color optimus; and this unhappiness befell you, through the perverse and wicked choice of your blind will: for what the soul is to your body, such in a manner, I may say, is God's divine Grace to your soul: all the members of your body, by the operation of the soul are alive, do move and stir, and exercise their several functions, which when the soul is separated from your body, all those members are as dead as a stone, no member can stir or move, nor exercise its function: even so when your soul is bereft of God's grace (as it is at present by black Apostasy) than your soul is dead to all goodness, all the faculties and powers thereof cannot exercise their function in order to eternity, virtue, or sanctity; you are quite blotted out of the book of life, and society of Saints; you have no more communication with the blessed and celestial Congregation of the Church-militant; you have forfeited your claim and right to heaven; you cannot enjoy, as formerly, those internal, ineffable joys, blessings, and consolations, which the true, constant servants of God, your fellow-travellers, and fellowlabourers in the vineyard of Christ have, and your brethren hourly do taste and enjoy; Corpora corporibus jungebant mortua vivis. Oh wretched Andrew! it had been more advantageous and of more pleasure to you, to have your living body fastened to a rotten putrid carcase, then to have your soul fastened to darkness, and loathsomeness of cursed heresy and apostasy: Now, do but consider the infinite advantage, prerogative and dignity of your former happy state, and compare it to your present deplorable, cursed and most black state: before you were vir Apostolicus, now apostata vilis dictus; before a most resplendent star in the firmament of the true Church, now an obscure, dusky, and abominable ignis fatuus, leading yourself and, there's to precipices of eternal perdition; before a Religious priest, now an● accursed Judas; before conferring life of grace on others, now you are left destitute, and naked; stripped of all light life, grace, blessing and goodness; before called by the hand of God to a most high and sovereign dignity and honour, now blindly fallen from that, most lamentably, to the devils jaws; before an obedient child, now factus liber● voti-fragus; before a chaste and Evangelical Missioner, now sacrilegus scortator; before reputed an honest man, questuosus mercator, now fugitivus Apostata, & seditiosus sectarius factus; before rasied from a Shall to be a Paul, a preacher of the word and penance, now turned to be a sal persecuting, & warring in a most furious manner against the heavenly fortress of true faith, the pillar and foundation of truth, and so become a wretched, jying and vile protestant; wallowing like a nasty sordid, and stinking sow in the mire of liberty, libidinous lust, pride, and concupiscence: retire retire, poor Andrew! to your interior man, have a care of your drooping soul, mind eternity;  

fieres si scires tuum tua tempora mensem,  
rides cum non sit forsitan una dies.   
Micheas understanding that he was robbed of his domestic Idols, ran after the Robbers, crying most lamentably, and being questioned, what was the matter with him? and why did he cry, mourn, and lament? he answered, my gods which I made for myself are stolen away, my priesthood, which were all my riches and comfort, Jud. 18. all what ever was dear unto me taken away from me, therefore why should I not mourn? I ask, if this wretch kept such a deplorable stir for having lost but Idols, he vainly imagined, that losing them he lost all that had been precious unto him; oh Andrew! why will you not grieve, cry, mourn, and with bitter tears lament, the loss of the true, living, and dreadful God, for the loss of divine grace; of your sacred function, of your fame and estimation, security of conscience, and the peace of your heart, the pledge of eternal glory? O madness! O blindness! oh woeful catastrophe of apostasy! Oh poor Andrew! you fell from the mother-Church, grounded not on sands or quagmires, as protestanism, into which you miserably declined: you imagine to impugn and beat down the glory, lustre and triumph of the same: alas! alas! all your venom you may spit, and bark like a mastiff, and fill the ears of your deluded audients with those ●ould railing, and lying empty assertions, calling the Roman Church superstitious, erroneous, the horrid beast, and the whore of Babylon, and such like, sapius & indies repetita in your tub-pulpits: but all signifies nothing but to heap judgements and confusion on your head: oh Andrew! all shall recoil upon you,  

Niteris incassum Petri submergere Navem,  
fluctuat, hast nunquam mergitur illa Ratis:   
you deserted a Church, in which only is Faith, Religion, priests, Sacrifice, Altars, Sacraments, and Real Remission, not only of original sin, but also of actual mortal sins, all which is excluded and exploded, and quite abolished by your protestant Sect, as it's proved in the Reasonable Reply to the seasonable discourse. you deserted a Church, out of which there are no sure inducements or means for salvation; for there can be but one true Church left by Christ, out of which no assurance of his doctrine, nor of the divine ordinance instituted by him for salvation: mark pray, what S. Joh. 10. says, erit unum ovile & unus pastor, there will be one fold and one pastor: one fold ordained by Christ, that is, one visible Congregation of men in a common union of one faith and government under one visible pastor, Universal Vicegerent of Christ, and undoubted Successor of S. Peter, with true Orthodox preachers, with all other sacred ordinances, obliging all faithful under pain of eternal damnation, to embrace, follow, and practise the same, with an absolute promise to maintain it to the end of the world by divine protection: but alas! poor Andrew! you well know in your Conscience that no other Sect or visible Congregation could yet have or enjoy these divine, and supernatural qualifications and heavenly perfections, but only the Roman Catholic Church, therefore the same and no other is the one fold, and one congregation, enjoying, without intermission, one Visible Universal pastor, in communion with one faith necessary for salvation. Further, this Church only hath a visible head, ●nder an invisible head, Christ, tu es Petrus & super hanc Petram, etc. the delivering the Keys of heaven to Peter is nought else but a full and sovereign power for to govern the Church, to him said Christ, pasce oves ●eas, & tu aliquando confirma fratres tuos; ●o one of the other Apostles were these words intimated, but to Peter only: heretics will reply, that all the Apostles received plenary power for binding and absolving; I answer, that the rest of the Apostles received immediately that power from Christ, yet the power of Peter has been more absolute and excellent, because he received that power as ordinary, which thereore did flow and doth pass to his Successors; the rest of the Apostles only received a delegate power, which do not pass to thei● successors, but is in them expired, and s● S. Peter's power was absolute and the highest, to which the power of the rest had al● ways as annexed to it a kind of subordination and subjection to Peter; to whom only Christ said, tibi dabo claves; pasce ovemeas, & agnos meos, confirma fratres tuo● against which the gates of hell shall neve● prevail; that is, neither Turks, Pagan's Jews, Heretics, nor wicked livers, shal● never beat it down: hence he is called caput omnium Ecclesiarum, potestate & authoritate Vniversalis Patriarcha, Mater omnium, summus Pontifex, Apostolicae sedis Antistes, Ecclesiae Pater, Rector & Caput; an● Justinianus the Emperor said of him, summi Pontificatus apicem apud Romam esse nemest qui dubitet, ad Romanam fidem perfidia no● habet accessum, because Christ said, rogav● pro se Petre ut non deficiat fides tua: and thi● moved S. Jerom to say, that true Religion cannot be conserved without the Empire o● a head, or great authority of an universals Pastor and Vicegerent of Christ; Ecclesisalus a summi sacerdotis dignitate depende●● without which there will be made daily in finite schisms, divisions and subdivisions i● kingdoms, as we may see now in poo● England: so as the true Church hath two heads, one invisible viz. Christ, fundamentum aliud nemo potest ponere praeter id quod posttum est, quod est Christus, who is fundamentum fundamentorum: but Peter is the second, cleaving to Christ, and placed on Christ: we believe in the first principal head or fundamental stone, Christ; the second, Peter, we only obey: Christ is the primary foundation, basis, and prop, of our faith, because we believe all those things to be true which he (as the first infallible verity) did reveal to be believed, we believe God to be one, and three, the word made flesh, and so forth; not that Peter, Paul, or John, or any Pape said so, or taught the same, but that the first verity, God revealed, propounded, and said the same, so as our faith is founded on Christ; yet because those matters revealed by Christ are not so manifest what they are; he therefore gave us a secondary fundamental stone, Peter, and his successors, who tells us, and propounds, what Christ revealed, and distinguishes such, from what was not revealed or delivered by him, and so our faith is grounded on both stones, but in a different manner; the one is but vice king or Vicar; but Christ the prime and principal stone, communicating to Peter his Epithet, though it has been analogice tantum: It is very remarkable what happened in the time of Stephanus intruded pape 7. according to Baron. anno. 897. how that Basilica Lateran▪ the prime Pontifical seat, impulsore Angelo malo, did all fall down to the ground, even from the high Altar to the very gate; the sanctuary only, in which was the Chair of the Pape being remained whole and entire; which strange accident doth manifest, that the true seat of glorious S. Peter can never come to ruin, notwithstanding that sanctity and grace in heads and members may sometimes fail: Because Christ Jesus that Eagle preserved the same, though he sits in heaven, in his glory, yet he still hath his sacred eyes fixed on the nest of his Church, to preserve it till doomsday; even as when the Eagle hath his little ones in the nest, fearing the poison of serpents, great enemies to his nest and his young birds, he flies up and down among the Rocks for to find out the precious stone called Aetites, or Eaglestone, which the Eagle places in his nest, which hat rare virtue against all venom: See Pierius valer. even so that glorious Eagle, Christ, left in his nest, the Roman-Catholick Church, his heavenly spouse, many precious Eaglestones, viz. many places of Scripture revealed by him, for to preserve the same always from the stinking breath and poison of accrueing heretics. Did not Christ place one Eagle-stone in the nest of his Church when he said, rogavi, Peter▪ thy faith shall never fail: and S. Cyprian lib. 3. epist. 3. said, that to the Roman faith perfidiousness could have no access: Another stone, Peter, feed my sheep, feed my lambs; which preserves Peter and his Successors till the end of the world to be Universal Pastors, Heads, and visible Vicars of Christ in his visible Congregation, from all malice, envy and venom of barking heretics. Are not the seven Sacraments proved and marvellously preserved from all venom by several Eaglestones in Scripture: Confirmation has that stone Act. 8.15, 17. Pennance and Sacramental Confession proved, and preserved by Matth. 18.18. and John 20.23. Saint James chapped 5. from the dangerous venom of heretics: withal observe Andrew, the terms of the Commission granted to Roman-Catholick Priests to absolve sins are so large and general, that without great temerity, that power cannot be restrained, only unto public and notorious offences; and when the Priest pronounces the Absolution in the Name, and by the power of Jesus, since he doth but follow the express terms of their heavenly Commission, the sentence than is repeated as given by Christ himself, in whose place they are appointed as visible Judges to the visible members of Christ's visible flock; so as it is the invisible highpriest, viz, Christ, who interiorly absolveth the penitent whilst the priest exerciseth the exterior Ministry. Extreme unction is confirmed and preserved from the infection of heresy by that stone placed by Christ in his nest, Jac. 5.14. Marriage likewise by that precious Eagle-stone, Matth. 19.5. and Eph. 5.32. Holy Orders established, ratified and preserved from all poison, 1 Tim. 4. and 2 Tim. 1. The Real Presence of Christ's Body in the Eucharist solemnly preserved from the venom and infection of heretical, figurative understanding by those Eaglestones, Matth. 26. Luke 22. ● Cor. 11.24. 26. O brave militant Church, O triumph of the pure nest of Jesus, where souls are saved, and conveied to the glory of the Triumphant Church, against this fortress of truth, against this Nest and Spouse of Christ; all what Andrew Shall, or fresher wits of the whole heap of Protestanism (begun disastrously by the shameful revolt of Henry the 8th. and moulded and made up by the arm of flesh) shall never prevail against it; and all that they say will be no more than so many several handfuls of execrable ashes taken out of the urns of condemned heretics, whose malicious contrivements are quite forgotten: that Roman Catholics are superstitious, erroneous, etc. is the only chief rope whereupon the Apostate sal dances the antic, and triumphs: which can never be proved: empty, aerial & groundless bare words can beguile none but weak licentious and fickle reeds, they will never prevail with any well-principled Christian;  

And though all tempests of the world assail  
Christ's faith▪ yet▪ 'gainst it hell cannot prevail.   
Andrew, eat your bread, hold your tongue, all you can say against Christ's sacred nest will signify nothing, but as mere scare-crows; it can avail you nought else but heap judgements on your crazy head and palsy hand: come along sweet Andrew, 'Tis worth your serious consideration to ponder the glory and splendour of Roman-Catholick Religion; Saul from a persecutor by the hand and call of Christ became a Preacher, an Apostle; what greater confirmation of Christian Religion, then to see Christ appearing to preserve his nest and his spouse from imminent danger, menaced by a cruel wolf Saul; the head preserves the members, the glorious Eagle preserves his little ones from the jaws of hell; the Scribes and Pharisees Math. 16. sought for signs from heaven, lo now a most rare and stupendious one, Christ in the air forcing Saul to become Paul, and a main witness of the truth of our Religion; here may be considered the strength and certainty of our faith; an enemy of the Gospel, Doctor of the Jews, to become in an instant, metamorphosed and quite changed from a wolf into a meek lamb and preacher of Christ's law: how come Saul like another Balaam to bless the people of God, who was sent to curse them? but that he was constrained by God so to do, and has been taught in our faith by Christ himself most wonderfully. O Andrew sal! this is no great comfort for you, who from a sal was raised to be a pressed, a preacher, like another Paul; now to become a Saul, a wolf, an enemy, a persecutor of Christ and his members, yea, even a murderer: Return back, call for mercy, be reconciled, come and receive grace: Saul an enemy received grace, was made a chosen vessel: O mercy never to be duly pondered! distrust not wretched Andrew! diffide not of God's goodness and mercy, nor of the efficacy of his divine grace: sal, Secutus es errantem sequere poenitentem Saulum? listen to God's calling, voice and illumination, stifle not the divine inspirations of God, vocantis, illuminantis, arguentis, castigantis; say cheerfully with S. Paul, Domine quid me vis facere! do not expect to be instructed by God; ingredire Civitatem; forsake your Court of Camas, come audi Ananiam, Concionatorem co●solatorem, amicum, & confessarium tuum fidelem.   

A Sovereign Caution to Roman Catholics, not to be troubled, or take scandal by Andrew Shall Apostate falling from his Religion. Documents 5.  
WHat Layman will not run and willingly embrace a plausible and easy way to heaven? sure we cannot be ignorant how stones fall naturally down to their centre, yet are with difficulty raised up; it's more facile to destroy and beat down a house then to build the same: Did not Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England and a glorious Martyr, make answer in this manner, to one who bragged much of the propagation of Luther's sect, saying, ad propositam vitae libidinem & licentiam, populum ruere, majus non est miraculum quam saxa deorsum cadere; take notice also how Socrates answered a certain common strumpet, who insulted and said, tu neminem ex amatoribus meis unquam valebis a me ab alienare; at ego quoties lubet tuos Auditores omnes a te voco, & add me traho; to whom the wise philosopher, mirum hoc non est, tu siquidem ad declinem voluptatis tramitem omnes rapis & trahis, ego ad arduum virtutis callem cogo, & impello, Aelian. lib. 13. the var. hist. Surely in Scripture, Esa. 1. heresy is called a whore, q●o●odo facta est meretrix Civitas fidelis; for even as the strumpet doth easily draw to her and ●educeth many, so doth heresy delude, charm and drag men daily to perdition, liberty and sin. The ancient Philosophers being questioned, why there were very many Epicures to be found, but very few peripatetics or Stoics; the reason they gave, was, that Stoicorum & Peripateticorum disciplina severior, & subtilior erat: Epicureorum autem laxior, & crassior. Hear what Lactantius lib. 3. de divinae Instit. c. 16. say, Epicuri disciplina multo celebrior semper fuit non quia veri aliquid afferat, sed quia multos ad populare nomen voluptatis, & libertatis invitat: nemo enim non in vitia pronus est, eaque vincere difficillimum est: and certainly those that become Apostates from Christ and his Religion, are plunged by the liberty of their flesh, and not of any good spirit: it's no hard matter to persuade a voluptuous Religious man, that Priests ought to marry, and that it is impossible to be chaste: it's not difficult to persuade those given to gluttony, that fastings are superfluous and needless, and that drunkenness is no sin, etc. did not Balaam advise the King B●l. c to place beautiful maids near the armies of the Hebrews, that so they might be alured to the sin of the flesh, and that the women should not at all consent to give the soldiers their will, unless they would become Idolaters, Numb 31. by which very many Israelites were deluded and perverted, and this was the only way to overcome them and their Army: what other way or means did Luther and Calvin use for to draw Proselytes after them, than lust, liberty, avarice, etc. how was Joannes Fredericus Duke of Saxony brought to be an heretic by Luther? it was thus: This Duke had an ambition to bereave the Family of Austria from being Emperors, which they enjoyed quasi jure haereditario; this his ambition he imparted to Luther, who persuaded the Duke to change his Religion, if he expected a change in the Empire, his hellish advice was embraced by the Duke easily, being full of envy, and an enemy to Caesar; thus the Duke by the advice of cursed Luther, raised an army against Charles the fifth, endeavouring to destroy him; but by divine providence, and the brave valour and conduct of the Emperor, the Duke was conquered and taken prisoner, and deprived of being Elector, which place and honour was conferred on Prince Maurice, in whose Family even to this day it holds: and assuredly nothing but pride, curiosity, an appetite of contradiction, arrogancy, avarice, ambition, usurpation of sacred gifts, voluptuousness, an aversion from severe discipline, luxury, an itching desire of novelties, and liberty of the flesh, are the baits that enchanted your soul from the firm standing in the true Church to the sink of heresy and a postasie. When any falls from Religion, the harm is very dangerous to him that falls, we cannot find that any of the B. Apostles or Disciples of Christ, nay, nor any of the weaker faithful did fall from their faith by the deplorable Apostasy of Judas: which cannot be but a signal providence of God towards his faithful; heretics imagines, that when any Doctor, preacher, or priest of ours runs to apostasy, from us, to their sect, that then our faith gins to be weakened, and that many more will follow; but this is a very foolish conceit, for many reasons: first, because that fall and deficience is no new matter, or unusual in the Church of Christ; whereas in all ages, and times there have been some that were permitted to fail, and fall into Apostasy, to the end, that by their deficiency, the Church should be excrcised, but never to fail, or fall away with them; whereas the same is not grounded but upon a firm Rock, Christ Jesus: for God almighty when one vessel is broken can make another, as Hieremia; observed c. 18 did not Judas fall off from Christ in that time, when he promised to draw all things to him? did not immediately the good thief ●orn, confess, and believe? though Peter ●denied his matter, the Centurion was con●rerted, revertumur percutientes pectora sua: therefore the ruin and fall of members of our Church, doth not at all shake our Church ●or faith. Who in the Greek Church was more famous than Crigines? Who in the Latin Church was more famous than Ter●●llian? each of these was a most ancient Doctor in the third age: and at first they proved most indefatigable and earnest overthrowers and persecutors of the Enemies of the Church, heretics: they were rare Doctors to a great many saints, Confessors and Martyrs, yet notwithstanding both fell from the Church into heresy; and the Church not in the least moved or weakened, for it: did not Sapricius in the time of Valerianus the Emperor, a learned and renowned priest (being dragged to martyrdom for his faith,) deny his faith, and offered sacrifice to false Gods? what shall I say of Osius the Master of Constantinus magnus, a most learned man, and one that was employed as Legate from the Church, oftentimes; did not he betray, the Nicene Council, become an enemy to the true faith, and an Arian? yet the Church stood permanent, and triumphant, so as when he fell; then the the Enemies of faith, the Arians were converted: and what Osius did deny, to wit, the divine substance in the Son of God, was confessed and restored, and maintained by the Arians, so as the very Emperor Constantinus did publicly preach avouch, and by public edicts, did cry down; and caused all to be demolished, wha● accursed Osius with his consorts did impiously maintain, see Baron. anno. 357.  
When the Seraphical S. Francis in the beginning of his holy Order was troubled that some of his children fell off from thei● vocation, and fearing that his Order should fall and decay; heard these words from Christ, why are you troubled Francis for scandal given by the fall of some of your Children? know that when one shall turn to their vomit, that I shall raise another or more in his place. S. Bonavent. in vita S. Francis. Much more the Church of Christ is to stand without interruption. Secondly, because it's no wonder that among so many holy, good, and virtuous Christians in the whole Church, there should be one or some reprobates: there is not that Community in which may not be found one scabby sheep or other: was not Cham a reprobate in the house of No? was not Ishmael one in the house of Abraham? in the house of Isaac, Esau? in the house of Christ, Judas? what wonder therefore can it be that in the Church so diffused and extended from west, to East; from North, to South, there be found some reprobates, runagates, and Apostates? this ●ur B. Saviour did often foretell, will the ●a want Merchants ships to sail, because ●●me ships are cast away? will not men ●●erefore not marry women because some ●re found to be strumpets? Thirdly, because ●ose that falls from the true Church do not ●ll for any real doubt in their faith, but ●ther through their depraved life and corrupt behaviour; and for to get more liberty ●nd freedom of sinning; and you may read ●1. Joan. 2. ex nobis prodierunt sed non erant ●x nobis; nam si fuissent ex nobis permansissent ●tique nobiscum: but now their exorbitant ●arriage, their pride, their incorrigibility ●nd refractoriness, their negligence, being weary of a spiritual religious life, their aversion from penance, and Mortification, uncupiscentia carnis oculorum & superbia vi●e, in effect manifest now, that they were ●ot of ours, and because they were not, they went away, becoming Apostates: what moved Origen to become an heretic? as Vincent. Lyrin. c. 23. contra haeres. writes, ●ut his pride, presumption of his learning, imagining foolishly that he was wiser than all the world? what caused Jovinianus to fall? but that he could not endure the rigour of obedience, and monastical life, he was too delicate: see S. Hier. lib. 1. contra Jovinian: therefore because such were chaff, or stubble, no pure clean wheat, no● wonder that they were huried away by the wind of temptation; hence S. Peter, Act. 1. ● said praevaricatus est Judas ut abiret in locum● suam: what was his place, which he expected, and was inclined to? was it to hang himself, or rather hell, to which, as to his last period, or term, he directed his paths and way? God therefore is rather to be glorified and praised, that he is accustomed to purify and purge his Church from such perverse putrified members, sic pereant peccatores: so as in no way the fall of Priests, to become accursed Apostats, can derogate any thing from the Sovereignty, and truth of our faith, but rather doth conduce very much to the manifestation and confirmation of the sanctity, purity, and permanency of the same: you may observe how the sea casts up on the shore dead carcases, even so our Roman Catholic Religion vomits up, and casts out, permissive, incorrigible, and reprobate dead members: it's most certain, that none departs from our Religion to the Protestant revolted Squadron, to the end that he may give himself more to prayer, retirements, fasting, mortification, purity of life, and conversation, no such matter; none falls for to forsake and contemn the honours, ease, comforts, and pleasures of the world, neither for to shun the snares and allurement ●f women, nor that he may the more abdicate, and renounce his own will, and re●gne the same to the will of his superior: ●ut rather for the contrary, they run from 〈◊〉, that they may enjoy more liberty, and ●●eedom for to follow and pursue their ●icked way and customs 〈◊〉 whereas, the Protestants sect received none from us but ●eer libertines, reprobate, refractory, ignorant and weak, effeminate outcasts▪ neither ever yet any of such infernal Imps has ●een listed in the catalogue of Saints: quia ●●ni ante macellum stanti non adjicitur nisi ●●o faeda & mutilis, even so God in his di●ine providence throw none into the devil's ●aws, which is heresy, but only such as are wilful reprobats and scandalous livers: ●herefore S. Paul Acts 20. gives us war●ing, saying, ego scio quoniam post discessio●em meam intrabunt lupi rapaces in vos non ●●rcentes gregi, etc. propter quod vigilate me●oria retinentes, etc. Sweet Andrew! how ●ame you to be enchanted from the truth of ●he revealed principles of the ancient and soulsaving faith of Christ, and become an heretic, which is the sink of all abomination, the most horrid and blackest sin that ever was committed? even the Heathen Philosophers by the only rays of pure Nature's light did abhor sin, in somuch that Aristot. 3. Eth. said, melius est mori quam faeere aliquid contra bonum virtutis; and Senec● said, Si scirem' Deum ignosciturum, tamen● p●●care nollem ob p●ccati t●rpitudinem: Did not the great S. Anselm say, that if of one side he saw sin, and on the other the flames of hell, and if he were to choose, he would rather throw himself into infernal flames than commit a heinous sin against God his Master, Redeemer, and glorifier and sanctifier: O rare expression! these great Philosophers seriously considering the base, vile, and abominable nature and malfce of sin, they could not endure the same; and without all question the nature and malice of heresy surpasseth the execration and malice of all imaginable sins whatsoever: for first it draws after it two main punishments, and just judgements, excecation and induration on man: it blinds and excecates the understanding, involving it into main darkness of sundry errors, and withal it indurates, and infatuates the will by woeful pertinacy, whereas faith being the gift of God which heretics contemn, and wilfully reject, by their obstinate pertinacy, believing some points in Scripture that are pleasing to them, others that displeases, they will not believe, vainly imagining it to suffice, to believe in Christ, and that he died for our sins, though they should believe no more; whence they assure themselves that any man of any Sect, believing in Christ, may be in his belief saved; whereas they all have one God and head, Christ: O false and deluded doctrine! Did not S. Thomas deny the article of the resurrection? Did not Christ Jesus require from him and all the faithful, to believe that article as necessary for salvation? who doubts it? therefore the same reason must follow in all other articles; and why is it necessary to believe that Christ resuscitated, and not that Christ's body and blood is contained in the Sacrament of the Eucharist? Doth not holy Scripture witness this 〈◊〉 Secondly, I say, Doth ●o● the Apostle ad Tit. 3. admonish us, haereticum hominum devitare, because he is subverted and condemned by his own proper judgement; you must not reply, that the Apostle meant him an heretic that rejects Christ, or what is contained in the symbol, for so indeed he would not be an heretic, that would reject all the holy Scripture, and all Sacraments; neither also he who would condemn marriage and meats, and place two distinct persons in Christ: yet such 1 Tim. 4. & 1 John 4. are held to be heretics. Thirdly, Did all antiquity hold, that an heretic could not be saved, which moved and excited them vigorously always to oppose heretics, confute, silence, and condemn them: wherefore has there been at all times General Councils of Learned Prelates convened, from all parts of the inhabitable world, and with great labour and expenses celebrated? but for to beat down and confute heresies, and damn them with anathema? why all commerce and familiarity with heretics forbidden? why very many Roman Catholics did rather suffer exile, loss of means, and limbs, torments and cha●ns, then subscribe to heretics? were not all these encounters in vain, foolishly, and injuriously done, if in those sects of heresy, salvation might be had or obtained? The reason is, that it would follow by good ilation, that the true Orthodox faith would be no better than the heresy of Arians, Pelagians, Nestorians, etc. whereas it's stated salvation to be had in any of these, as well as in the Roman-Catholick Faith, and consequently it would follow, all those ancient heretics were saved, because many of them did hold and believe the Apostolical Symbol, all which is most absurd; and that any should be saved by false faith; for false faith neither is, nor can be more available for salvation than no faith at all: and because the foundation of faith, viz. the reason of believing, in heretics is false and erroneous; therefore their faith is false also which depends on falsehood; for they believe their dogmata or tenants, either because their pretended Apostles, Luther and Calvin, etc. taught them, and these could not err or be deluded, or because by ●●eir own proper sense and judgement, they ●agine those to be contained in Scripture, ●nd this is false too; for one man alleges ●e same Scripture for this sect, and another pledges the very same for another different ●ct, because they understand it not; or ●●y believe sua dogmata, because some are ●●ght interiorly by a private spirit of the ●se of Scripture, & this likewise deludes, ●●cause for the most part all of them do brag 〈◊〉 boast they have the true spirit; yet they ●●ch and broaeh contrary things amongst themselves, which verily a good and right ●it can never do. Fourthly, as he who ●aks one precept, is said and held to be alty of all the precepts, viz. if one be an alterer, that he shall be damned, as well ●e that has committed sins against all the commandments of God, even so in like ●●ner, whosoever rejects and will not be●●ve one article of true faith, falls from sal●on no less then if he had rejected all ar●es; wherefore some in vain do wish or ●ect that the Church would remit some●●g of the articles of faith, to the end it 〈◊〉 come and agree in one with the late ●s, but that is impossible, for faith can re●e neither increase nor decrease, fides additamentum & incisionem nescit quia divine faith is like an hour-clock, her articles a●● made like the teeth of wheels, if you tak● away or pull one tooth, all the fabric 〈◊〉 machine fails and serves for nothing; therefore thrice happy are the glorious Saints 〈◊〉 heaven because they have a full vision a● fruition of the sweet face of God; blesse● are the faithful Christians here beneath though pilgrims & travellers, because the● do not see God, for by true faith shall com● that place where they shall see God face 〈◊〉 face for all eternity; and as S. Austin sai● Psa. 91. Vbi jam non dicetur nobis; cre● qu●d non vides, sed gaude quia vides; finially if every one might be saved in his own fait● than we should have no need of recourse 〈◊〉 Christ; it were enough some to be sent b● God that would preach the knowledge 〈◊〉 one God, according to the Apostle, ad G● 2. Si per legem justitia, ergo gratis Christ m●rtuus est: and withal the very Scriptu●● would prove false and in vain, which te●●● us Chant to be our Redeemer and Mediator, through whose sacred blood we a●● cleansed, through whose faith we ought 〈◊〉 be jusified, and in whose only Name 〈◊〉 ought to be saved; for then, if this we 〈◊〉 true, and that any one, in any faith may 〈◊〉 saved, than every humane faith and persuasion would have been sufficient for salvation: for the Turks, though they believe in ●e God, Creator and Remunerator of all, ●et they do not believe by any divine faith, ●t because Mahomet delivered it so in his ●coran, in which many mo●t false things ●e taught, as that Mahomet was the prophet 〈◊〉 God, etc. So likewise the Jews, what ●ey believe, they believe because their ●bbins do expound the Scriptures so to ●●em; yet notwithstanding all their grounds ●e vain, false, and most erroneous, because ●e Rule of their faith is mo●t false. The ●ain reason that moves some to say, that ●y may be saved in his faith, is, that they ●d it incredible, that all Jews and Turks, 〈◊〉 which very many do piously worship ●od, and live innocently and innoxiously, ●ould eternally perish, and that only for ●t believing in Christ; for this they may ●eade an excuse, by reason from their cra●e they were otherwise instructed, and ●●d according to their light and breeding, ●●d in what they could serve God, therefore ●e gates of heaven must not be made so narrow, as that that vast number should be ex●uded and not enter in, but all this signifies ●●thing; for if it is not incredible, that ●od hath left for so many thousand years' 〈◊〉 the world (the Jews only excepted) in ●e darkness of Idolatry, wherein for cer●●in they perished; so it is very easy for every one to persuade himself, the same t● have happened to the Jews and Turks; an● further, the Jews and Turks now-aday● have less plea to excuse them in not belie●ving in Christ then the Ethnics had in an●cient times, whereas the Jews and Turk● could seek and learn from the Christians li●ving amongst them the true faith of Christ which the Ethincks could not do, because they lived in darkness, and were hurried a●way by the common Custom, to follow and observe the Religion of their Ancestors To conclude, I say, that if there may 〈◊〉 found some that never heard a word o● Christ's Religion neither have had any kind● of impulses for to inquire and embrace th● same, such shall not be damned for infidelity, if none such sins they have committed either they will be illuminated by God● that they come to the knowledge of saving faith, or if they die in their natural innocen●cy, they shall incur only the poena damns not of sense, in the other world. If a prote●stant living and dying so, if he die in th● estate of innocency he shall enter into heave● because baptised in Christ. O Andrew return to your bleeding Mother, she is you● true Mother! while you remain abroad with the harlot you can have no quietness no comfort, no grace, no ease, no refreshment, no food but husks, being destitute 〈◊〉 the help of the Sacraments, which are the heavenly conduits through such divine grace is conveyed to Drooping souls, you are destitute of the true Word of God, of the prayers of the Church, the Congregation of faithful Christians, you are destitute of good and laudable examples: you are destitute of a dread sacrifice, destitute of faith, destitute of Religion: you have lost all devotion, all Mortification, and even the fear of a living God: consider your lamentable state, you are become one of a Sect, where there is no Guide, Rule or Judge or authority which God hath appointed for your direction, and to teach and continue true faith in the world: the Guide, Rule, Judge, and Authority which Roman Catholics follow, is such, and the same in effect is which the first Christians followed in the time of the Apostles, and in every respect, able and sufficient to execute its function, and indeed the only means imaginable, not only to teach and convey true faith, unto the world, but also to reconcile all differences arising in matters of faith, as also to evince & condemn all heretics & schismatics, & so establish that union that becomes the Church of God, which Christ Jesus our alwise Legislator hath settled in the world; and this Guide, and Judge which Catholic do follow, is infallible, and hath sufficient credentials from heaven to prove herself to be so, consequently that we are all obliged to captivate our understanding to the obedience of Faith.  

Adhortatio Paranetica ad Sacrilegum Apostatam Cassellensem.  
Salve Andrea, & me tantisper accipe?  
A roaring Lion, by Christ's most heavenly call,  
From Saul became a Gospel preaching Paul;  
Thou Shall from Priest, and preaching child of Paul,  
Beguiled, art turned to be a black cursed Saul;  
Your proud w●ll shaked off the yoke of Faith,  
Pursuing ●an n's lies, illusions and deceit.  
Lord! what's caitiff flesh when left to itself?  
Faith needs must wreck when m●n is his own shelf.  
How vain is humane confidence, how frail?  
Only Faiths true ways can our souls avail.  
Vae impio in malum retributio manuum ejus fiet ei. Isa. 3.   
Who cannot, Sir, but stand amazed and startle at your dismal fall from the true ancient Church of Christ? you a professor of Divinity (though of no solid intensive learning,) a Religious priest of a Society most renowned for learning, sanctity, piety, virtue and blessings, you a preacher of the word and penance; you who cleaved so fast to the Rock, Christ, now to be so easily, and so suddenly, by the s●ubtil wiles, cunning, crafty slight, and sophistry of crafty seducers, hurried away to a Religion false, tracherous, and destructive of salvation; and metamorphosed into the likeness of a loathsome and deformed villain, and now in your old age become like a child, against that wholesome advice of S. Paul, 1 Cor. 14. nolite pueri effici sensibus, children commonly never regards precious things; carts, coaches, and wheels made of earth, delights them more than the rich brave painted coaches of Kings, of great State and magnificence, for these little ones are only led by their senses; as you shall see a child break to pieces books of high esteem, and value, throw away precious gems and most noble Jewels, and take up a black coal, kiss it, and eat it, etc. such a little child, you Andrew sal, is become of late, when you made choice of darkness for light, black coals of heresy, apostasy, liberty, illusions, falsehood and sordid ways, and such as please your wretched blind senses, and shamefully condemn most solid, most precious and most sovereign things, as true un-erring faith, Religion, glorious virtues, Sanctity, grace, mortification, purity of life and conversation, devotion, fasting, prayers, contemplation, and sweet retirement, all which are leading to eternal glory. O stark blindness! hinc lacrimae! this wretched exchange sure must proceed from very gross ignorance, pride and carelessness: for the mind of man being the lowest among rational natures addicted to senses, and carnal actions, apprehends nothing perfectly, beside sensible, external, temporal things; as honour, riches, voluptuousness, pleasures, contentments, etc. and cannot apprehend spiritual and heavenly things, viz. the beauty of virtue, the pleasures and sweet enjoyments of eternal happiness, the beatifical vision and fruition of Gods most glorious face, the only source of full content, and never-ending felicity; I say, these things they apprehend but very weakly, and even in a confused and languishing manner; whereas the affection of the will still follows strongly, the apprehension; as when a man doth taste of the deluding sweetness of terrestrial happiness, he vainly imagines the same to be far greater than really it is, even so when one tastes a little of the roughness, difficulty, and loathsome bitterness of virtue, doth likewise fond imagine the same to be more craggy, intolerable, and loathsome then truly it is, and so falls back and desists from going forward in the quest & happy pursuit of solid virtue. O Andrew! non erit tibi amplius infans dierum & senex qui non impleat dies suos quoniam puer centum annorum morietur, Isa. 65. that is to say, if any old man be found of childish behaviour and becoming a puer centum annorum, and yet would prove a child in his senses, in a vicious life and conversation, that man shall not persevere in the Militant, to pass to the Triumphant Church, but shall be precipitated into everlasting darkness and flames: oh Andrea! haec te horrenda terreant, how come you in your old age to be so enchanted, and so miserably to revolt from a true anciently revealed Faith? how come you to fly wretchedly from Religion, piety, penance, and austerity of life? etc. but because you doted; you proved puer centum annorum, becoming a scandalous Apostate, a vile protestant, and a pitiful object of scorn to boys and lackeys: so as you may say with King David, 2 Reg. vivit Dominus quoniam filius mortis est qui hoc f●cit: The ancient Philosophers were accustomed to compare weak effeminate men, who easily would part with some most precious thing for a bubble or trifle, to a fish, called, polype, which cleaves so fast to a rock that it will be sooner pulled into pieces, then let go its gripe; yet according to Pierius valer. lib. 25. cap. 21. when a little sweet water is poured down upon it, then immediately he will let lose what he kept fast. O pitiful Andrew, did not you of late, by your subita dissessio prove like this fish: who could imagine that you should be so enchanted as to let go your fast gripe, and forsake your so gracious, so amorous, so obliging and so glorious master, saviour and benefactor? O execration! O blindness! O execration the mo●t black that ever the sun looked on! how could such folly and madness creep into your brain? oh aqua dulcis! the perfumed sweet water of Camas was tasted by you, poor Anarew, by which you became miserably intoxicated, amused, charmed, and quite undone: confregisti jugum, rupisti vincula, dixisti non serviam, Jer. 2. lo, the sad effects of your aqua aulcis, conferring, eating, drinking, sporting with Arch-heretics against the express will of your Superiors, at Camas, you exposed yourself wilfully to the imminent danger of being ensnared by dangerous soul-hunters and fowlers: alas! Inventi sunt in populo i● pii insidiantes quasi aucupes, laqueos ponentes & pedicas ad capiendos viros: sure you met with a dextrous fowler at Camas who by fair language, sweet plausible insinuations, darting at your weak simple heart, beams of great promises, and allurements of full content, gold, liberty, pleasure, promotion to smoky honour, making use in a most dextrous manner of subtle and crafty methods of deluding you, struck through your wavering and instable soul, with aqua dulcis which has been your bane, bringing you to feed you self and others with false appearances instead of truth, and brand you with a perpetual blot of infamy to all posterity, and fix an everlasting guilt upon your soul; and your now liberty the Meteor which by glittering brightness of deceitful light, dazzles your eyes, unwarily; and like a wand'ring fire misleads you in your search for true happiness, through the blind paths of Apostasy, ignorance and folly; drawing yet into the dangerous precipices of all impiety and infamy, de scelere ad scelu●, What false appearance soever of content at pr●●ent this way holds forth to your deluded mind, vae impio in malum, etc. Oh Andrew! how come you to prove like the clouds, which obscures the sun that raised them? take this gerogliphick, and consider, how when the sun doth spread her radiant beams, chase darkness from the face of the earth, which dark clouds, envying (as it were) at so bright light, they begin to endeavour to dislustre the beauty and resplendency thereof: what are the clouds, but gross earthly vapours raised by the rays of the sun up to the superior Region, where they are condensed and made dark clouds, and yet they obfuscate and endeavour to endarken their maker; O ingratitude! thus you ungratfull wretch, do begin to wage war with God your maker and infinite benefactor; who raised you Andrew Shall from nothing, to great honour and dignity, as to be a religious man, a priest, a legate, a star, a guide, a physician of souls? and what is it that you return to his divine majesty for all those blessings and favours? oh! is it to bandy against him and use his blessings for to dishonour his holy name? is it to war furiously against his faith; to make him a liar in your pulpit, by your lies and forgeries? your malicious crying down the pape, prayers to Saints, the real presence, and your loud bawling up creeping Protestanisme? O ingratitude and madness! to rip up the bowels of your mother, his spouse, the Roman Catholic Church, calling her whore, superstitious, etc. is this your gratitude? ah poor Andrew! all your bawl and rail recoils upon your own self, quid prudentis est? cum possit nolle nocere; quid stulti proprium? non posse, & velle nocere. you are not able to annoy or beat down the glory and lustre of the Catholic Church, nor impede the glorious trophies and daily mervelous growth thereof: know that Christ is still at hand for to defend his flock and Church from the venom of Apostats; his eyes are fixed on them, always ready to beat down and destroy all arising Enemies: what became of Julian the Apo●ate, for attempting to persecute the true Church? all the world knows it: what became of Luther, Calvin, etc. and of all the rest of your cursed fellow-labourers in the tottered silvestrial vineyard of protestanisme? Florimundus will tell you, they all came to a most woeful and execrable end; haec te tremenda moveant, terreantque Andrea? Reclaim therefore in time Andrew, begin to make a speedy retreat, open your eyes veiled with a fatal scarf of impudence; shut not the eyes of your understanding against the pure heavenly ways of God's true doctrine for your salvation? imitate that brave Avicena, a man of a most superexcellent wit, yet by unhappiness of birth ranked in the infernal Sect of Mahomet, coming to consider, how his false prophet had placed the beatitude of the life to come, in sensual pleasures and contentments of the body, was ashamed of it, and so shurnk from his prophet, that he might not betray his reason; the laws Mahomet gave, did consider beatitude and misery, only within the limits of the body: Oh Andrew! forsake your protestant Sect, which (as you well know in your Conscience) doth place all happiness in the pleasures honours, liberty and contentments of the body, and obstructs all means and ways to virtue, to sanctity, piety, mortification, etc. and doth stifle the fear of a living and dreadful God: Oh Andrew! do not betray your Reason, nor your conscience, shrink away from your darkness and apostasy? reclaim and be converted, like a great Politician lately by this Dilemma. Either there is a living God, and a severe Judgement after this perishable life or no: if there be none such, yet if I believe that there is, it cannot prejudice me at all, but it will rather very much avail me, for it will move me to embrace an honest moral Christian like life; if there be, and yet I shall not believe it, rather flatly deny any such thing, what infinitely great torments and flames must I expect for this my perfidiousness, blasphemy, and horrid contempt: Further, either there are rewards for good works of the Just and Virtuous after this life or no? and likewise if exquisite torments be prepared for the impious by God, (as by the light of nature we may without question believe) or not? If there be none at all, yet to believe, hope and fear such a thing, cannot hurt me, but rather forward me to the practice of virtue and honesty, &c and if there are really such to be expected, and that I shall not believe it, and so live wickedly and licentiously, what other can be expected but eternal flames among the damned? The Almighty, Andrew, illuminate your understanding, and inflame your heart for to renounce your carnal childish senses, and to turn yourself to your mother, the Roman Catholic Church, wherein only is true faith, Religion, grace and true comfort to be found: opus annorum multorum perdidisti; arise, and rouse from your dismal Apostasy;  

An Appendix.  
IN the great and most important affairs of faith all, on all sides, agree, that they are bound on pain of damnation to believe all truths sufficiently propounded to them, as revealed of God, and to obey and submit to that Guide, Rule, Judge and Authority which God hath instituted and appointed to teach and govern them; the reason is, because whosoever denies any thing sufficiently propounded to be revealed by God, denies God's veracity, and makes him a liar. No protestant can show any other reason, why by denying the Trinity, and unity, or the Incarnation, God's veracity is denied, and God thereby made a liar, but because the Trinity and Incarnation are sufficiently propounded as divine Revelations; therefore the Real Presence, prayer to Saints, the Papes Supremacy, auricular confession, purgatory, etc. being without doubt as sufficiently propounded in the Scripture as those mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation; by denying which Gods Veracity must be also denied, and so God made a liar. See in chap. 16.12. when the spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: but all truth excludes all errors, and this for ever, which was to be longer than the Apostles were to live. If you Andrew inquire, by what means this teaching shall be, by whom all people shall be taught, all truths, and shall be preserved from all errors? S. Paul will tell you, Eph. 4.11. He gave some Apostles (succeeding in full Apostolical authority) some Prophets (expounders of the prophets) some Evangelists (preachers of the Gospel) some Pastors and Teachers, to what end? for the perfecting of the Saints, for the work of the Ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: for what time or how long? till we all come in the union of faith▪ now Andrew you may ask, will these secure us? the very next verse tells you, that henceforth we be no more children, tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, as you lately have been most shamefully by the slieghts of Satan and his Instruments, pride, lust, and avarice, hurried away from Christ's unerring Church, wherein only are manifestly seen unfeigned miracles, sanctity of life, efficacy of doctrine, admirable repentance of sinners, conversions of people and Nations, unity, stability, perpetuity, uninterrupted succession of lawful pastors, which cannot be found in your protestant sect; these are such heavenly marks as are impossible for God to affix unto a lie, which is as impossible, as to set his hand and seal to the confirmation of falsehood; according to the Rule of Gamaliel; If it be of God it will hold: the faith of roman-catholics holds, and daily grows more numerous in her proselytes, when the unsteady wavering protestant pitiful sect daily changes, like the Chameleon, from one false doctrine to another; which occasioned the most illustrious marquis Badensis from a Lutheran to become a Roman-Catholick: the same instability of heretics, scoffed and laughed at by Fredericus great Duke of Saxony, at a time being questioned by a familiar friend, what did his Lutherans believe? he answered, quid hoc anno credunt scio, quid vero credituri sint anno sequenti nescio, nec ipsimet sciunt: no wonder having lost their ground, their rule, their un-erring Judge, the Roman-Catholick Church: some years past the protestants in England, according to their first institution did observe the Lent exactly, and also were accustomed to fast from meat on Frydays & Saturdays, but alas! all that is forgorten, all is changed, nothing permanent among them but persecution of the roman-catholics: yet to observe the Lent, and to abstain from meat the forty days of Lent, & withal on Frydays and Saturdays, would much conduce to the weal-public for the growth of cattle, and for the comfort of poor people, meat being so excessive dear for not observing the fasts on those holy times: not speaking of the infinite comfort and increase of blessings, both to soul and body, which daily accrue to Kingdoms where the Lent, and Frydays and Saturdays are duly observed and fasted in the Roman-Cath. Church. Now Andrew, I conjure you in the bowels of Charity, to learn by heart that most heavenly lesson of Christ Jesus, viz. Learn of me, for I am meek and humble of heart; in order to this remember S. John 4.6. We are of God, He that heareth God, heareth us, he that is not of God, heareth us not, hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error: Andrew! nothing was required to distinguish those two spirits, but to hear or to refuse to hear the Apostolical Teachers: Lo, S. Paul saith, Faith comes by hearing; it will be as necessary now for you to hear in these our times those that are lawfully commissioned to teach, as it was in the time of the Apostles: Come along therefore, return to your Mother, your true un erring guide; fly away from Babylon, and save your soul, begin to curse the day that you began to curse and dishonour your true Mother, in imitation of that great Heresiarch Calvin, who, consuming with intolerable stench from vermin, cried out aloud, saying, Maledicta dies qnae primum study & scriptioni falsae me adduxit: Bolsecus in vita Calvini, haec te horrenda moveant & terreant, from appearing against truth and the faith of Christ, for vain ostentation, for sordid gain, for to please men, and displease the allseeing God.  
O Andrew! how come you to forsake your true mother the Roman-Catholick Church (which is the womb of your beginning and bosom of your repose) and fall into the cruel hands of a false mother and harlot? I pray observe 3. Reg. how two harlots came to Solomon for to decide the controversy between them about a living child the one alleging it was hers, and the other also alleging the child belonged to her; the King said, bring me a sword, and they brought a sword before the King, and the King said, divide the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other: then spoke the woman whose the living child was (for her bowels yerned toward her son) saying, O my Lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it, but the other, the false mother said, let it not be mine or thine, but divide it; then the King out of his wisdom said, give her the child, slay it not, she is mother thereof, because she has true love to her child, and will not have it divided: your soul is a child which is claimed by two Mothers, the Roman-Catholick Chhrch, and the pretended Church of Protestants; how shall we find out the true mother from the false one? by Solomon's dividatur infans, let the child be divided in two; the Roman-Catholick Church cannot endure division; the soul must not be divided, it must cleave altogether to the true Mother-Church, Christ's spouse, the house and temple of God, the pillar and foundation of Truth: it must believe all the Seven Sacraments, all articles of faith, believe all tenants and revealed mysteries propounded as means for salvation; with S. Paul we captivate our understandings to the obedience of her true and un-errable faith; but the false Mother will have the soul divided in two, she is for division and for halfs, seeking to bring into the house of God an anarchy of the children of Belial, a division, a destruction of union and of Monarchical heavenly Government, dividatur infans▪ the protestants say, they have faith, but will have no works of fasting, watching, praying, penance, nor mortification, etc. they believe that their laic Minister doth abolish original sin in baptism, but will not believe that Christ left power to true and lawful priests to absolve from actual mortal sins; they will have the Lords Supper, but will not believe Christ's words, H●c est corpus ●●cum; the reality of his body in a most miraculous manner in the Eucharist; they will follow Scripture, but only what is pleasing to them, and what is contradictory to flesh and unbridled appetites they do reject and deny: these words per solam fidem, by bare faith you are saved, are welcome to them, but good works, maceration of the body, and austerity of life they cannot endure: erescite & multiplicabini pleases them, serviti ven●ri & libidini, etc. but other words of Scripture they will not li●ten to, as, fides sine operibus est mortua, poenitentiam agite; sic luceat lux vestra ut videat opera vestra bona; Regnum coelorum vim patitur & violenti r●piunt illud; castigo corpus m●um, & ad implco in carne mea ea quae desunt passioni Christi; these places of Scripture they will not follow; Is not this to divide the child? dividatur infans: they are altogether for division and confusion; they have Churches, but without lawful priests; altars, without sacrifice and religion: every religion either true or false, in all ages, had always a sacrifice as a protestative sign of acknowledgement of divine excellency and supreme majesty: In the Law of nature, from the very beginning, we find sacrifice begun by Abel. which after continued by the Patriarches, No, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob; In the written Law so many sacrifices according to Leviticus, and if we look upon Idolaters, the Gentiles, we shall find them given to many different sacrifices, so as a sacrifice is inseparable from the law, according to S. Paul, Heb. 7. saying, Translato Sacerdotio necesse est ut & leg is translatio fiat; S. Paul said that Priesthood being removed or translated, the law of necessity must be removed; if priesthood be abolished, the law likewise must be, for to every law or religion, sacrifice and priesthood is connatural, , and inseparable, being correlatives; for priesthood is in order to sacrifice established, and the law is ordained in order to sacrifice and priesthood, delivering precepts and ceremonies relating to priesthood; translato sacerdotio, etc. dividatur infans: the protestants they have our temples, but al●s! bare walls; no priests, no sacrifice; consequently no law or religion; therefore qui sine lege viv●nt, sine lege peribunt; they have sheep without pastors, pastors without mission, function, order, consecration, character, or true commission; Christians without grace by hand imposition, prophets without miracles, faith without works, and charity without effects: behold sal, excellent pieces, (forsooth) of a reformed Church to which you adhere; you see all is but division and subdivision; you separated yourself from the Catholic Church which acknowledgeth a visible head, an universal Pastor, Vice gerent of Christ on earth, established by the express words of Jesus Christ in S. Matth. 16.17, 18, 19 averred by all the holy Fathers, confessed by the continuation of a lawful succession, in the revolution of so many ages, without any interruption: and sal must blindly divorce and separate himself from it, withstanding the force of God's spirit: what will Shall be able to allege in his defence at the dreadful Judgement that expects him? ah! he will say, that he thought the protestant was the true and lawful Church: Miserable wretch! seest thou not that the memory of all ages, the consent of all Nations, the very ancient stones of temples bespeak thy damnation? what miracles hast thou seen or ever heard of wrought to this day among protestants? what Angel hath spoken to thee to remove to them? what sanctity and holiness of life hast thou noted in the authors of this sect, or in their deluded proselytes? wert thou Andrew so bereaved of humane understanding, as not to see palpably, that a pretended Religion which begun by breach of promises made to God, by the sacrileges and impurities of Apostates, by a general revolt against God, against King, against divine and humane laws, by the liberty, filth, and ordure of the carrion the flesh, by the dissolution of good manners, by blood, tyranny and furies, could take its source from the holy Ghost? didst thou not set before thy eyes the desolations of thy poor country, the robbing and profaning of Churches, God's houses, and the ruin and impoverishing of thousands of brave ancient Families, to take thence, and from no other their source and origin? Oh but you will say, I found that this sect had the Scripture of its side: ah lamentable illusion! to whom sal did the Scripture send thee if not to the priests and lawful Pastors? what said the Scripture, but that thou oughtest to keep the traditions, thou oughtest to obey the Church and Prelates; thou oughtest not to trust thine own judgement, thou oughtest to captivate thy understanding in matters of faith, and that it is better to believe with a holy simplicity then as you do, and question with a proud, peremptory, and vain curiosity? couldst thou be ignorant that the devils and all damned heretics had taken the same pretext of Scripture only to colour their ignorance, malice and apostasy, and that with passages which had a fairer show and appearance than those now of thy deluded deluding Ministers? and yet all that followed them are miserably damned, and so are you vile varlet, unless you sound a timely retreat, freely confessing you have erred as man, and protest you will not persevere in apostasy, mischief, and rebellion from the Church, the womb of your beginning, and bosom of your repose: Open thine eyes, poor beguiled Andrew, at least to the wonderful and heavy judgements of God which thou hast so long shut to thy duty, consider that the last verdict and sentence of thy unhappy sect is already written in heaven, and that it must soon yield and fall to nothing, as other blind heresies have done: what can hinder you Shall from returning to the bosom of the Roman-Catholick Church, which ceaseth not to stretch her arms and open her heart to your obedience and humble submission? are you afraid that Infidels will blame you of inconstancy in changing of your Religion? know you not that there is only sin, vice, and error to which you must want constancy? why should you blush at humane weakness, and not at withstanding and denying truth? was it a blemish to S. Paul to become an Apostle of a cruel persecutor? was it a shame to Constantine the Great of a heathenish Infidel to become a Christian? was it a blemish to Clovis the first King of France to be drawn to Christian religion by a woman? Finally, was it a shame to very many noble, learned protestant Doctors, and very many persons of quality, who daily return to the Roman-Catholick Religion? let us impute the many falls that happens, to the malice of the devil, and to the age we live in, and to the weakness of corrupt nature, but let us not grudge God the conversion of souls, which are the works of his hands: do not follow the course of the times, rather follow the light of your conscience: what matters it if the children of darkness, viz. protestants, judge ill of the children of light? Did ever the Sun blush for not being looked upon wishfully by blind owls and bats? who can justly blame you for having submitted wilful obstinacy to moderation, to truth, to virtue, to ways of grace, peace and sanctity? humane judgement to divine law, and for having followed rather infinite learned, holy, and conscientious brave men of all ages, than a handful of proud, unwarrantable, ignorant, rebellious and selfseeking spirits, that have no other Religion but back and belly, because they have moulded their souls merely of flesh and blood? we men have above brute beasts the resurrection of the body; we have above the devils, repentance to cry for mercy, to reclaim and acknowledge we are sinners: Is it possible that the sweet alluring, though deluding commodities and gilded pleasures of this fading world, and temporal blessings, shall as yet keep you back from returning? what can you hope more of this sect forsaken by God and men, though it should promise unto you mountains of gold? aught you peradventure for a false and deceitful representation of honours, goods, riches or momentany pleasures, to yield and deliver your soul to eternal pains, and render your name and memory hateful to all men living? Let not so great an illusion creep into your brain, now in the confusion and low ebb of reeling Protestancy: God means to sever the chaff from the good corn, to part true children from the unlawful and base born; the fire is kindled to try the brethren of gold and lead; faith is tried and sealed with the signet of tribulation, persecution and affliction; forsake the spirit of Satan which breedeth in you the spirit of error, lies, crimes, disorders, frantic fancies, and foolhardy conceits: yield, yield, sal, seek as much as you can, your glory in humility; obedience and submission of spirit to lawful powers, and be sure that there and no where else is the only holy way to truth, faith, religion, and salvation: In the name of God weigh at leisure these considerations of this Sovereign antidote; kick no longer against the goad; go no more to forge difficulties and illusions; you shall no sooner set your foot in the sheep-fold of the true Catholic Roman Church, with so many men of great note lately and daily converted (notwithstanding all penal Statutes, Proclamations, confisations, mulcts, sequestrations) etc. but all fantasies will vanish, you shall live in peace of conscience, and receive grace to your soul. But alas! I am afraid that it is now adays easier to bring to the sheepfold of Christ whole entire Provinces and Cities, then to convert one perverse obstinate heretic: The Atheists are converted, not by force of arms or compulsion, but by the preaching of the pure word of God, by miracles and virtuous examples of roman-catholics; but a perverse heretic is more pertinacious, because more presumptuous; neither by sound arguments, nor by miracles, nor conviction of the understanding, can be removed from his liberty of heresy; See what S. Jerome says, Facilius est furori Gentilium occurrere raptisque populos abestiali scientia ad fidei pietatem praedicando convertere quam quemlibet haereticum in sui perfidia dogmatis confidentem, ad fidem rectam revocare. This glorious Doctor says, that it is more facile to cure and restore to his sight one that is stark blind, having his eyes closed up and not open, than one that hath his eyes open, and yet can see nothing; his reason is, because he that hath eyes close needs no more than to open up his eyes, applicando activa passivus; even so it is with you Andrew: you have your eyes open, you believe in Christ, in the Scriptures, and that there is a heaven, and hell, etc. yet you cannot nor will not look attentively, or desire to be convinced, neither by reason, miracles, nor yet by the heroic brave examples of Roman Catholics: you are obstinate, you are like an owl that cannot see at noonday the Gospel: O excecation! O purblind execration! vae impio in malum, I believe I may be censured by some and thought to be too severe and sharp in this my expression designed only for to recover you a lost sheep from the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity; but let me tell you, that public scandal must have public and severe reprehensions to prevent utter ruin and perdition, both my zeal and indignation shall ever express itself both ways against any that gives scandal to Christ's flock, I am instructed to be rough by my sweet Jesus, who never was so invective against any, as the Scribes and Pharisees, the hypocrites of that age, and truly these my reprehensions are not so sharp out of any end but to show you, Andrew, your own guilt in order to your speedy reviviscence and repentance; such diseases as festers inwardly requires a faithful, though rough hand to search them, and to keep from grangreen: he that is fallen into a deep sleep of heresy, must have loud cries to awaken and rouse him: I desire you therefore to dissolve vincula colli tui? cumputruisti enim in oculis tuis placens tibi & placere cupiens oculis perditorum hominum, superbe derilantium in quorum ore ●aquei diaboli: fly from them Andrew, abhor ea quae te praeparant ad interitum, & appete ea nunc quae te foelicem perpetuo facere possunt: Learn from S. Paul, Non credere omni spiritui. Learn from Solomon, multos amicos unum autem habere conciliarium: Learn from Christ, Domum tuam supra Petram fundare: Learn from the Apostles to sail within that sacred Ship the Catholic Church, which can never be cast on rocks or errors, to suffer shipwreck; ad hanc a te turpiter derelictam Ecclesiam ut redeas, ego admoneo & exhortor gemebundus ne pernitiosis seductorum, & seducentium hominum vocibus temere credas, ne pro luce tenebras, pro die noctem, pro cibo famem, pro remedio venenum pro vitae mortem sumas? Andrew, call to your mind the inexpressible enormity of your Apostasy & rebellion; for what crime more abominable, quam adversas Christum stare, quam Ecclesiam ejus dissipare; quam contra unitatem Ecclesiae & concordem populum Dei haere●ice pugnare; quam fraternitatem & amicitiam Christi & sanctorum ejus per Apostasiam deperdere, Religionem veram, antiquam & sanctam blasphemando? Oh Andrew! reclaim, come along, enter into Peter's ship for safety; quam tu in baptismate ascendisti navigaturus in ea ad littus foelicitatis eternae: and from which through Satan's illusions te in mare magnum errorum praeceps ●rojecisti: forsoooth, because you could not by your poor reason or senses comprehend the wonders and many miracles in the blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, you threw yourself headlong most precipitously into an ocean of errors and deceit, foolishly as it were following the vain steps of Aristotle, who despairing of being able to find out the reason of the Sea's ebbings and flow, threw himself headlong into the main Ocean, saying, ensentium quia te non capio, ●u me cape. In all reason, I think it is apparent to every one, that the will and word of the Almighty, cannot or ought not to be subjected to such a poor pitiful thing as man is; man must be led by it, and not draw it to his pleasure, by adding or diminishing, chopping and changing as he lists: wherefore our blessed Saviour, when some, upon the doctrine of the real presence they had heard him deliver, doubted and asked him, with a quomodo, how can man forgive sin? and again, others said, how can he give us his flesh to eat? It is very observable, that our Lord never went about to satisfy their curiosity, or declare to them how or in what manner it might be done, it being indeed below the Majesty of God, to give his vile vassal a reason of his will, but he singly repeated again his assertion, without showing the probability or possibility thereof; verily, verily, I say unto you, unless you eat of the flesh of man and drink of his blood, you shall have no life in you: hereby giving us to understand, that the institutions and will of God, are not to be subjected to the understanding of man, but humbly to be accepted with submission and lowliness, as the will of that infinite supreme power, unto which man's understanding, and the whole creation is subjected. I contemplate you as becomes another Ionas in the midst of the tempestuous seas of Apostasy, heresy and rebellion: O utinam, utinam summus providentiae Pater qui projecto in mari Jona, piscem grandem praeparavit, dignaretur me nunc tibi merso in impietate tua loco piscis illiu● praeparare ut sicut animam tuam in ve●tre cordis mei per commiserationem porto, ●ta illam in aridum coelestis salutis portum evo●ere valuissem: O Andrew! Let me be to ●ou a whale to comfort and preserve your ●ul from utter ruin; be you another Jo●as, accelera veni, & deglutiam horrendum ●eccatum tuum, apostasiam tuam, fragilitatem ●uam, scandalum magnum datum injuriam per ●e illatam Deo vivo, & vivo, sanctis clero, po●uloque Hiberniae: accede confidenter, Andrea, & secure & pacate introducam te in conspe●tum offensi Creatoris Redemptoris & glorifica●oris tui ut misereatur tui? come along into the ark of sanctification and mercy, with the wand'ring pigeon, that returned, finding no rest abroad, and bring in your break that lovely green olive-branch, Credo unam sanctam Ecclesiam Catholicam; abide not abroad with the raven, feeding on stinking carrion; now I leave you to the sting of your conscience more cruel to you then hellish monsters; let it be to you (not what Menander confessed, saying, mortalibus cunctis conscientia Deus est) but a light, a guide, leading you to do good and decline evil; for Synderisis is a practical habit of the understanding, not only pointing to you what is good and laudable, but inclining you withal to the prosecution of the same: this resplendent light insinuates to you not to murder the souls of your brothers, by your false, erroneous, and damnable doctrine; it dissuades you from cursing your mothers it excites you to give no dishonour, affront, or the lie to Christ Jesus; Now I say to you what God said to Cain, si male egeris statim in foribus peccatum aderit; and know, that, poena tibi est inordinatus, & perversus tuus animus: and to conclude, do but observe what I say to you; there was a man (according as S. Ambrose doth relate, lib. 6. exam.) murdered and left dead, when many flocked together to see the cadaver, the Murdered man's dog, knowing the Murderer among the crowd, made at him, apprehended him, and laid hold of him, barking and biting, until he was constrained to acknowledge the Murder and his heavy guilt: oh Andrew! the horror of the heinous guilt of your Apostasy doth and shall perpetually, and most grievously by't you, sting you, and give you no rest until you be brought to acknowledge your horrid crime, and humbly cry, peccavi, Domine, miserere: which that you may do, and not be adjudged to the flames of the damned, shallbe the daily prayer of your afflicted friends.    

Of Humane Faith. Document 6.  
THe difference between divine and humane faith consists in this, that, divine faith is most perfect and hath God for its object, and is grounded upon divine Authority, which doth promise us with infallible, unerring, and undoubted certainty, to enjoy what we believe, and hope for; but humane faith hath no such object, ground, ●or certainty, but is only a moral, casual, and probable belief; as for example, ●f you Andrew, did verily believe that in heaven all great felicities which transcend 〈◊〉 our lower desires are to be found, what ●n hinder you but you should at least do as ●uch for obtaining those great felicities as for the lesser, the perishable; for if you ●ink you may gain them being a protestant ●ith bare faith without works of char●●●●liness, justice, penance, etc. than sure ●u have no faith at all; for you believe not ●at saying of S. Paul, Hebr. 12. follow peace ●●th all men, and holiness, without which no ●an shall ever see God: humane saith you ●ay have, but not divine, for if a man be●eves learning to be the only and 〈…〉 ornament and beauty of 〈…〉 may enable him to a fair employment in time & an honourable memory to succeeding ages, this if he believe really and hearty it hath power to make him endure great pains and labour, even catarrhs, gouts, and other diseases, to read and write till his eyes are weary, to despise the pleasure of idleness, or delightful sports, and even to un● dervalew whatsoever doth not cooperate t● the end of his humane faith, viz. the desin● of learning: now, what thing can he imagine so precious, so glorious, so honourable, an● so , as to enjoy the beatifical vision of God's eternal glory, and who but 〈◊〉 stark mad brainsick man, will not endeavour with all his power and faculties to fin●● out the means, helps, and ways, and not 〈◊〉 spare any labour, pains, or sufferings whatsoever, for to attain to such a happy State● O Andrew the prodigious stories of th● strict sanctity, severe disciplins, rigid mo●● tifications, and great sufferings of Roma● Catholics in all ages, as in your conscience you know; the ardour of their heavenl● zeal, their deiform intentions, their ravishing devotions, aught to be an abundant argument to shame your dulness, stupidity laziness, and supine negliglence, and convince you that such faith as that of Roma●●●●holicks is not humane but most divin● 〈…〉 more saintlike, more majestical, more reasonable, and more productive of pure sanctity and grace then the bare humane faith of protestants and all other Sectaries. O Andrew! when I to my grief understand you now serve your pseudo-prelate at Camas with such hazardous, slavish, and difficult service, with such undaunted courage, and resolution, because you believe him able to reward you, according to his promise to you before you revolted to him, though of his will you are not so certain; and yet you are so supinely negligent and incurious of your service to the great God (from whom you shamefully apostatised,) whose infinitely great power and will rewards all super-abundantly; for if you believe there is such a thing as heaven, and that every single man's portion of the glory there, is far better and infinitely more advantageous than all the riches, content, and pleasures of this barren world, it is morally impossible, you should thus blindly prefer little, before so incomparably great profit, and never ending happiness. I cannot tell what to say, but that you are charmed lothum comedisti. I believe you are not ignorant of a story of Homer in his Iliads, who says, that Ulysses his companions travelling towards their native Country, in their journey, they met trees bearing most fair and lovely apples called Lothos, which, for all the fruit was pleasant and of an excellent razed, yet it had a straying property, that chose that did eat of the same, became so drowsy, stupefied, lazy and forgettful, that they did not mind to give a step forward in their journey to their sweet native Country: whence comes lothum comedisti, as an adage: Oh Andrew, you are created for heaven, educated for heaven, you that have laboured for heaven many years in appearance to the world, thither you travail as the place and period of your peregrination; how come you not to mind your journey to give a step forward, to advance your conquest? why dost thou halt at Camas? how come you to be so sleepy and stupidly lazy, by heresy and Apostasy feeding on lothoes, vain pleasure, fair promises, deceitful wiles, and sweet venom of heretics? O Andrew! reflect, reflect, reclaim, reclaim, rouse up, arise, shake off your shackles and bonds of iniquity; take to your comfort what I have read in Scripture, how when the people of Israel were captives led to Persia, their Priests did hid and bury the holy fire which always did burn on the Altar in the Temple, under ground, in a valley: Many years after, Ne●mias employed priests for to find out the sacred fire, who found nothing but aquam cr●ssam, gross muddy water an mire, O prodigy! no fire but water and that muddy, and troubled! yet Neemias commanded the priests to lay the sacifice on the Altars to be offered to God and to sprinkle the sacrifice with the muddy miry water, which done, accensus & ignis magnus ita ut omnes mirarentur: O mysterious success! a holy Expositor says, what! before fire, out of that fire water was engendered! now water and of that fire engendered! O prodigy! what means this? but that for your comfort Andrew: ex igne divini amoris gratia compunctionis oritur, rursus ex compunctione Lachrimaram amor & ardour coelestis desiderii, mens nostra ad amorem Dei inardescit, sometimes from compuction of heart and from tears the love and desire of celestial things is engendered, and sometimes from the love of God, the grace of compunction, and tears are also engendered. Come along therefore poor Andrew! he that continually wallows with dirty swine in the mire must expect to be in the same filthy condition: the plague is not more spreadingly infectious then ill manners, liberty, evil company and heretics: ill example is more prevalent than precept, make therefore in time 〈…〉 men your example, lest you be made 〈…〉 example to others. It is related 〈…〉 t●e body of the Emperor Titt 〈…〉 on the funeral 〈…〉 (according to the Custom of those times) his heart (after the body was reduced all to ashes) did many times spring out of the flames, and being at last opened by such who wondered at the strangeness of the accident, it was found to be full of poison which hindered the operation of the fire upon it: and when the poison was washed away, than the fire wrought upon it, and was immediately consumed to ashes: oh Andrew sal! the flames and ardour of the divine fire of God's love cannot work upon your heart before the inward venom of heresy be washed and cleansed away by tears of compunction, calling sincerely upon sweet Jesus, saying, Lord, give me the gift of faith and true Religion; Lord, Jesus inflame my heart with thy love, oh Jesus, give me a clean heart from all self ends, self seeking, self interest and from all prejudicated opinion and insufferable overweening pride and malice. O Jesus, call me back from being such a fiery persecutor of 〈…〉 used Julian was: oh I 〈…〉 venous in malice, and 〈…〉 me not gangrene in 〈…〉 odiousness against this 〈…〉 car●bas me ego 〈…〉 Lord Jesus, open 〈…〉 see my 〈◊〉, and 〈…〉 help me out of my ignorance, Apostasy and folly: Jesus be a Jesus to me wretched sinner.   

Conclusion.  
SUre Protestants by countenancing honouring and advancing to preferment such Scandalous outcast Rubbish, do overthrow their pretended Religion; by these means and ways they seek to establish and strengthen the same: Andrew sal is admitted as a Minister and preacher among Protestants, yet he from that Protestant Sect received no new character, consecration or Jurisdiction, for that they had none to give; nemo dat quod non habet: therefore Andrew preaching and acting as a protestant-Minister, authorised only by the holy Orders he in the Roman Catholic Church received, it cannot be denied, but that they do own and acknowledge the Roman Catholic Church to be the only, true Mother of Salvation, which by many infallible proofs can boast of unfeigned priestly function, character, consecration, Mission, Succession, antiquity, sanctity, true Miracles, judgement and reason; all which is in no Sect to be found, but in the Roman Catholic Church: what honour therefore, profit, or proselits can accrue to the Protestants, by so much honouring and contenancing our poor Apostates made their chief Apostles? none, but rather great dishonour and shame; for how can any man in his wits believe, that such vile Runagates who proves faithless and perfidious to the living God, Religion, Conscience, and consecrated vows, ●an prove at all true, real, and faithful to a new-fangled, groundless, and inconstant Sect, moulded and framed by mortal men. It is worth observation to ponder, how there was an Orthodox priest very familiar with Theodoricus an Arrian King, who for to insinuate himself into more favour with the King, became an Arrian, which when the King understood, immediately commanded he should be put to death, saying, Si Deo vivo fidem non servavit quomodo mihi qui mortalis sum eam conservabit: and you may read in hister. tripar. lib. 1. c. 7. how Constantius a Gentile Father to Constantinus Magnus used a strange stratagem for to discover who among the Christians in his Court were his faithful friends from those that were not, he feigned to set up the worship of false Gods, and to banish from his Court and service all such that would not abjure Christian Religion, and embrace the established by him in his kingdom; upon publication whereof many revolted from Christian Religion, for to enjoy the king's favour, many continued constant to their principles; whereupon the King removed from his Court and favour all who proved unconstant and faithless to their religion, not daring in his prudence to trust those who were found perfidious to the living God, but those who stood steadfast to their faith and conscience, he embraced and employed in places of trust and honour. Hence it doth follow, that it is folly to expect that Andrew can be true, real, or faithful to Sectaries, that was not constant to God's true service, neither can he be instrumental to draw many proselytes after him in Ireland from the roman-catholics, who are brave, resolute, clearsighted Christians, most zealous of their ancient Religion, for which, and for not going to the Protestant Churches, against their conscience, they would not suffer imprisonments & forfeitures of estates, if they had not been absolutely certain, that all the Mysteries, and tenants of their ancient faith are purely revealed by God, and faithfully handed to them by their glorious and miraculous Patron and Apostle S. Patrick; and so they choose undauntedly rather to suffer the loss of all their means and brave estates, etc. then make in the least shipwreck of their Religion: and they be not ignorant how that it was not for any truth, perfection, or goodness in the protestant Sect that moved sal to revolt to it, neither for love of more virtues or more sanctity he deserted his true ancient Mother, but that it was rather for to enjoy more liberty, indulgence, more pleasure, more money, more content, and plausibility among protestants, occasioned his dismal separation: yet notwithstanding he will not (if he can) perish alone, he will furiously endeavour to gain proselytes, and will, out of ambition, pride and malice, envenom others though (I am confident), he will catch none but Novices only in both divine and humane learning, and such as are unsettled in Religion, and wild hair-braind lose livers, and idle vagrants: Therefore Andrew desist from preaching poor souls into just so much as shall beget their torture, let them rest where they find full satisfaction: Oh Andrew! desist from fight against God, who is the free disposer of his gifts, and especially of faith, do not expose yourself dangerously to the indignation of God? do not strive, to drive others and thyself to eternal perdition: without question you commit a most grievous sin when you endeavour by artifice of the devil to draw men to profess or act contrary to what their souls and consciences believes to be revealed and true; when you wound the weak consciences you sin against Christ, 1 Cor. 8.12. do not desperately preach or strive to whip Roman Catholics out of their true faith to a way that is but error and falsehood. Let me now Andrew close this Discourse with this; when Prometheus stole fire from heaven to animate & quicken his artificial bodies, the gods for punishment of so high a sacrilege, struck him not dead with a sudden thunderbolt, but (to be more deeply avenged) let him live to be tormented with vultures, continually gnawing on his liver: O Andrew! your horrid apostasy and sacrilege exceeds all crimes imaginable, so your punishment will be exceeding grievous; for in an unlucky time you steal away the heavenly fire of your sacred function, mission and character from God's service, and employ it (though to little effect) to animate and quicken that artificial, earthly, imperfect, dead body of protestanism: your fire is turned to black coals fetched from the infernal pit; to preach what in your conscience you believe untrue, I am sure is damnable, and to compel others to the same is nothing else but to drive them to renounce their sure-footing in Religion, and the essential part in them their reason; but let me tell you all your labour, poor contrivements, wretched ambition and oil will be wasted to no purpose; you do feel I am confident yourself tormented with vultures continually gnawing on your liver: nam sequitur superbos ultor a tergo Deus. Seneca. and withal, non existimes impune tibi futurum quod contra Deum pugnare tentaveris, 2 Mac. 7. My last advice to you is, from the holy Ghost, Eccles. 9 quodcunque potest manus tua operare instanter, quia nec opus, ne ratio, nec sapientia apud inferos quo tu pr●peras. ah dear Andrew, be wise, return to thyself, consider these things, work according to them, that you may be happy, according to the true prayers of  
Your true friend and wellwisher, in the best things, J. E.   
FINIS.   

A COUNTERPOISON For to Enchant that Enchanted, Enchanting Forsworn Wretch ANDREW sal APOSTATE. Miserably wand'ring in the Region of Nothing. Thou hast not lied to men but to God. Acts 5.