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The Epif’cle Dedicatory.
THEREFORE I come before Your Lordfhip, not with the com-
mon timeroufnejs of a man that is fearful of‘oﬂending, po 3-1175), :5),
reafon o the little worth which maybe in the @réfent . heanak‘es 3 but
it is, my Lord, with the u'nreproachable ajfurance‘ of an innocent per-5' ‘

ﬁn, that does not helieve he is capable of difpleajing Tou',by7 beggiig

Tour Lord/hip’s rPatronage and proteélion of theﬂa Plain, and unde-
niable' Truths. ' ' ‘ a » .

THE rvery _Na7ne of MURTHER: and TREASQN ate;
naturally ﬁrike an horror into all Mankind, that are not, throug'h'de:
generacy and ﬂubborn willfulnej}, poﬂmed and finelled, by the veno-
mous corruptionof right Roman (Principles, f they. indeed change the
Man, and in this fence, may befaid to Work d'Creatiori 5 for they in-
fuje into him a new, but -a moﬂ Infernal temper, ﬁtCh a4 God-Ali
mighty never eleyigned jhould be in hi7n,\aiedﬁll"h'is-breaji mag;
the violent Rancgur “Mimi“ imaginable; :againﬂ thoﬂ hisfellmli-
Creatures, that; jhall, through tthepurit‘ 0 “their 'betteryn’ay, moﬂ
Evangelical Religion, butdatat‘ob'éh' n=ConfOrmiPcsto him :
though there is Nothing thatcdoes more palpably deteét the wickedne/E
of this their cruel fDeﬁgn, thanxthe odiouﬁzefs of thofe ways they take
(as they think happily) to ejﬁét it. ' i .‘ ﬂ

' gTIJE ﬁaflfiiths ‘ of the Church of Rome ”are hlgudy ones, 61

Inch as are dire'flly' contrary't'o't‘he Pﬁrdhféadﬁﬁgstmmﬁmf e
ofthe‘ChurCh‘ mall Ages 5 and; if blindly jib-110199615 Maﬁa” in???” ‘
expeét, but (Rebellion, Murther, Bloudjliédpfanii, all nannela‘tonfw
[1'07qu once they jhall hate the poner inthézrown handgﬁﬁelwe jha’ll
deny our ﬁibmtﬁton and. Obedience to’ the‘n‘i‘h~ hath'not‘Chﬁﬂendom
jufﬁciently experienced this“? whence haw proceededithe.jlaro‘yle3‘72!r -
Kingdomes, dreadful Warrs, horrid ._ Maﬂa'cres, the anojeunmm-
ble 'Irea ons, Daninable.’ ﬂats, and‘v‘C‘onﬂriracies, but from the i prin—
ciples offheﬂe Sons of Gain, whoﬁgre‘atiilelight it is to'walloﬁ’ti in the
Core of their Brethren,but by ~t'hein'a’cfc‘o‘iini‘edcur/ed HERE'HCKS
.cupon'tae [core of diﬂerence in V'Re’ligion ?' ' , ‘ "'- ‘ 1'_\-_”"

I jpeak this to the abominable jhame ofthofethat wipilhﬁér tobet‘qr‘
led Chrif’cians, and, as a highermark 9f Eminenc‘je twill 7501‘ {orient
them/Ehres with any Other name-than that‘r’oﬂ the holyﬂEﬁuSkidJ“
are become ﬂich Monﬂers' of JWen,’both as‘to ‘dﬁ'thiiiir of Réligion or
Morality,as cannot be paralell’d by Barbara/in it jelﬁWhat’ Icy}. ought
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ﬂzo'ula’ by‘aan‘} ”mean: come to attain if; K IN G , Lords; ' and
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“Anticnt'FathCI‘S wrote and contended for , wbicbalz’ tbe Re‘f0r~

med CI)U}‘ChC$ do own a72alpr0feﬂc, aml, morepartirularl}, tbat,
‘ipbiib,by.ourf07jerzaizt in Bapti we, wefolemaé/ babe obllgeilio '-
ﬁe—ep Obi/elves in, to ozzr’lives end. ~ 4 , ~ 7 x
M] L 0 R D your Pieios and Con/2am Z‘eal for tbe Prom-
"1139“ Religion -, .batb ever been. very remarkable; and it is ]b
771mb tbe more lilZPI’O‘Z/eCIIﬂOW ,- asyour Lore/sbiﬁfeei it in a 7720/2
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{Commons , ﬂ-oala’ be - tbe ﬁzeazzeﬂxeftbeir Subjcéts ,' aazlibe

The Epiﬁle Dediéamry.

‘ ' of [Wind hath heen in its Z)efenc'e,none can he, ignorant , of; ‘ whoare-
ac uainted with your Lord/hip, and who-willnot ﬁrﬂ'er their-Trepof-
12%011 to carry away their judgment heyond its due and juﬂ hounds .-

’ What others have, either unworthily quite deferted, or,which is next“
to as had, have heen a/hamed to appear 7721465714 the hehalfof, your ,
Lord/hi1) has made it your generous Concern, openly, as ithecoines a;
Chamfionfor the Truth, to ﬂand upfor, and boldly undertahe to vindim.

categand the Reaﬁm that has induced you to it,has heenJroin the certain.
hnowledge of your Lord/hi1), that upon theiﬁd‘vancement of the Trote-
ﬂant Religion,the leare of this Kingdom'doth chieﬂyde end.

A 5' you ha‘veheenyny Lor'aﬁthns affine, according to t, e. Greameﬂy
of your Tlace and Charaflerjor the (Peace and Happineﬁs ofyonr Conn.-
trey, you have fet a hra've Exam lefor all hone [t [Winds to imitate ,

frofortionahly to the meaﬁcre oft eirﬂe'veral Talents and (imam/fan. .

V) nus ces, for 0) Non nobis folum natifumus, fedparrimp‘acrie, é'c. And
0171." I thought I could no ways hetter acquit myfelf of my {Duty , than hy
this, of endeavouring topull off the Malgue, and reitiﬁe the judge.
ments of thofe that are not tooinuch biggotted to the Roman Commu-
nion; in convincing them ofthe Cruelty and Bloodinefsof their-Do-
(Shrine: and Trincifles, and hy‘ that means to inhance the Honour and
Credit if our own Religion,whi-ch is made up of Love and Charity, and
a fweet condefcen/ion and peaceahlene j} of Mind to all Men ‘; and

which only delights to ufe the gentle lenitieve of compa/Zionate per. '

fwd/ion. And certainly it is the. wwﬂpoh'cyr inthe Il/orld, and not

once to he named any part of the'Chri/x’ian Religion , To think that

by forcibly changing Reafo’nabie and Ancient Cuﬁoms, ever to be a-

ble to reduce Men to a fobcr and chearful Obedience: for as the

(f) Cicero in great 5141’,” of Eloquence fa)” '( ’t) Omnes Religione moventur, 8;

Verrem. Deos Patrios quos a Ma}onbus acceperunt‘colendos, ﬁbj dili enter 8:

~ .retinendos arbitrantur (which, with your Lord/hi1»? [9.67mi M2, I will

mahe hold to Engliﬂl for the heneﬁt of the nnlearned) “ ﬁll Men are

(*) For as “ moved with (U Religionﬂnd thinh that they ought to wor/hzf,and

this prcfcnt ¢_‘ diligently to retain thoje Gods, which they received from their
LordChan— “ Fore-fathers. . ‘

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Parliament 4 .
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and a pm, jeﬁies Kingdoms and Eomi'nions,

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{477 pm of diam to your Lord/hipfor fear of heing thought too fatal" ’iar and difre-
m Gwern- @eﬁffnl: I hejeech your Lord/hip gi've theje Truths a favourahle rece-
m‘”? ftionrand me the leave if adding one more (which hears too reat an

Honour to he in the leaft fuﬁai‘r’edMnd that is that I an in t e deepeﬂ
.jenfe of Humility , My Lord, .
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-mrienepughn to pore; dﬁﬁrrﬁgézggéidf to m 9, W991? 3be-é Watt! ,
,thbom :alhpotﬁbdxty of: mtnevmgn {hoqld-L, offer to fewer ; no ,

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gf’O kill, a-Manv, inz-many Cafes, that does. not, dimming?“ mg, -

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eminent F ather (1'):ﬂmfmfays,.lt 2's lzlwfﬂlifor e112,.Ece1eﬁg/iz’e}, (from; 5.,
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is'owrl-Hozzour , or 2" at
J (be. Community ‘,:. ‘Mtrqube 2': a Meméer , witﬁ a; mucb re}:-
Jon , a: tbere is for tbofe too: are oft/9e World to do live lg'ée. But
,as the Ingenious Louis de Mozztalze, in his (‘3 )_Provincia141;.‘et_ters, (g) L1}. 7‘
from whence I had Ieyeralof theprecedent Cafes , very notably fol. 15;.
l'Cmaka-npon the point , T/Jezt If Mem. Live: do depend meergy
ﬂow .z‘laer gueﬁz’orz; 'w/Jet/Jer may one prejodeees t/zez'r Reputqtiorz?
;He thine: them very iqfeewe ejit .éefo., for were , zfz't prove Ize'L-er
ﬂ) wed-£1): probable .., ”that any J a Community ée injured , toe)! are
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he a little after , A Map may, gait/.2 leﬂs‘ ,zjodzgizazfz'oo, fee [Jim-
[elf éaréarooﬂy Murdered, é}: perfom porpofely ﬁt to do it , 'I/Jom
3feel the eonfa'emz'ous Jteellerz‘os of Peoﬂle fretmdz‘gg to fDe'z/otlioo ;
when it is againft their own Canon‘s for Trieﬂs to mﬁdd,1¢...in.¥hc
Caufe of Blood. Andxf thefe inﬁances are nOt foﬂicient [‘0 prove
. how lawful they holdMurt/Jerto be, =pray letthis that follows con- .
. vince you , and it is delivered by no lefs aManthon (/9) ‘Leﬂz‘w, (5) L15. 2.
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my Chime be’ﬁIc/J..45:JM rt’ﬂﬂj‘ £11! 10' 0f , I" 562716 ’WPOf‘id $073117»?
géem [2; ﬁrm?) comﬂted , Maggot; oa'zerzot dz (cover It accordgng to
ﬂee way; of Muse. ~~§Bat thisodwnct fuﬂice chem , they go farther
«yet, andrcondude ," 1 not only that ,it is [awful to kill/onefortcon-
ytumedious‘Words (:ggndfuqhby their Doélrine, are accountedbut
«vernal; fault , .andﬁnxgone,mayygaommit thoufands of, them daily
and houcrly.‘~,¢if;th§yamill , ,- endocrine; hazard thansouls. in the leaft)
bur. for axﬁmple-geﬁure, .oroutward expreflﬁonof contempt. .Y'bere' (iuéidmm
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B 11 T it fee'ms alight thing—tethefe complexioned Men, this Val;
ty (as I'may call it) ,or ﬁngle way of Killing ; and gives them none,
Or very little fatisfaétion : it makes them not fuﬂicrently taken no-
tice of in the World , nor does it Ptamp any-conﬁderable F igu're upon
them Whereby to be particularly remarked. iAl'moPc-every common
Bravo and Blade of the Town , can boaﬂ he hat hzﬂ’a’ his man, and
with a ’ Damme in his mouth , c’an fay ,_ he harﬁat his [Ba] ,
to the @evz‘l. ' Thefe therefore {corn to be of the fame level With‘
them; they are for higher, and more tr‘anfcendent Aétio'ns ; to {weep
away whole 22722125, C‘ztz’es, Nations; to ﬁléoert Fundamental Laws,
change Governments , and to eat of Princes and rz‘ghtfal. Monarchs,
to ahﬁal'oe Sahjeﬂ: from their Natural and [worn Fidelity anal/111e-
geaace to thezr Legitimate .l‘o'z/eraigm , anata‘z’xfafeimo themthat‘ \

' ﬂamaahle and Trazter’ou: @‘oﬁrz’ae aad‘ Petition, "T hat their Ex-
eommam‘eated KINGS may lawfully , act only he defofea', hat mm.
d’rea’ hy any of them ; azia’ that inevitaéle , am! etemal damzatz'oez
will he the certain Fate If all thofe , who/hall 212 (my walk 059' them,
receive, defend, orfa'voar them: This is that holy and blelied Work,
as they term it, which is ﬁt‘for- their/ Inga-gements , WhiCh they {0
paﬂionately deﬁre, and which they f0 Religiouﬂy delight, to be im- ,
ploy’d in. And man may make good whatI lay to their-Charge ,' I

' willindeavour (thro Divine Afﬁﬂance,whofe bleﬂing-I moﬂ earneﬁ.
1y implore) from their own Books to fetch you plain and fufﬁcient
proofs for every part of the‘whole Allegation , and with all the bre-

‘ vity and neceffary fuccinétnefs that Ican. : , . '

 

H O W E V E R , That I may not feem over—zealouﬂy {wiftin my

Career, I think it will be convenient for me, ha word or two, before

Idefcend to what I promifed you , tolet you know , whom they are,

that With all imaginable Induﬁry they feek to treat‘with {0 much un-

generoufnefs , or rather (in better Englilh , and greater Truth) Bar-

barous Cruelty ; and, to give it you in one word , it is againﬂ HE-

R E TIC K S , even thofe that orfahe the" holy Re/zgz'oa of the

(Hill RCH qf R0 ME , or w oﬂte'ver does not come over to it;

thefe are fuch , who, in their eﬁeem , are not worthy tolive upon

the face of the Earth (whatever G O D Almighty may pofiibly think

of them) as being the Rubbilh and Oﬁlfcowring of it ; th’efe’are they,

whom , with {0 much violence , they perfecute and deﬁroy , ever

have done ﬁnce they have been of thofe Helliﬂt Principles, andever

will do, fo long as they have any, power to aa', and lhew themfelveS;

' and that you may fee they have Authority fufﬁcient for it , pleafe to

(b) 2a: 64‘ perufe the Canon that fays , (h) Non eaz'm e0: homz‘cidaa arhz’tramﬂ":

nouimft,‘ qua: adverfaa‘ Exemmaaicato: zelo Catholz‘ea Matrix ardeﬂtﬂ a 4'

Decztlifc' liquor eorum tacz‘a’aﬂe magma “ We do’not account them Mur-

32%“. :2” :‘ therers , who burning with the Zeal of our Catholick MOther the

£54,“.C“, ‘: C H V RC H , agamﬁ Excommunicategl Perfons , that” happen to
,,,,, 47. _ kill any of them. -

AND are not Men of fuCh Wicked and bloody Deﬁgns like-

the fatal Sir-ta: , or Dog-liar , which , when it tiles , yields for;
aps

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~ haps a little necdlefs Light , butwithaL burns up the Earth ; in-
ﬂames the Air ‘, :and putsnthe WOrld into-a, miferable- combuﬁion ? -
Asthe Reverend and Learned B‘iﬂldp (2') H d L L obferves ofit. (i) Shaking
Can theygbewtrue Religipiz‘zﬂ: , whobreath out .nOthing but horrid 0f the 01‘7",
Butchery andelaughter\againﬁs thofe that joynnotwith them in Tm? PM“
the fame Superﬁitious Forms .Of Doarine, and Werlhip? Or is it.

ﬁoﬂible forjthat to ”be apure and undeﬁled C H UR C H , which

has fromﬂts‘ beginning a and ﬁill. continues to hold, not only in

tbeﬂ , but 2'” jamxz too, the lawfzrlnefs of fuchdifmal Inhumanity,

as the immoderate fpilling of Chriﬂian Blood? For my part, if fuch

proteduife can be ’Warrante‘d againf’t me, fo as I may fa'fely rely on

It, ”null; then confefs my felf tobe a moﬁ abfolute ﬁranger to

the Daﬁgnsof the Golpelr, which to my underftanding , is the

juft reverfe and'oppoﬁte to all the precedent Difcourfe.

285

' WEL L , not to digrefs farther, thefe Men , HERETI CKS,

I mean , are fuch monftrous things in. the Eyes and Faith of the

Rom an-Ca‘tbolzcér, that not any Favour or Aﬁ‘egft'ion ought to

be 'fhew’dithem; Hear What their great Champion ,. Cardinal
'BELL 21R [WINE fays of them (k).H¢er.eticz' ﬂ quidmz (@135 L44
fwd} ﬁeri , fzmt from! dzréz'o e-xrz'rlzah'a'z' , ﬂ zzzilrm mm pqﬂam, icis, lié. 3.
quid ——~—-'ﬁz72t fbrtz‘orcs may, {9’ pence/21m :j/f , are 5 co: (Sella ag- cap. 22.
grediamur , plums ex ﬂoéz's cadantfgutzm ex i/lz'r .- tmzc quzeﬁ'm- I". I3‘59”
dam eﬂ. "‘ If it were poﬂi‘ble , to root out the Henri-(K’s (not any

in the World eitcepted, Whether K I-NGJ 01' E M TE R 0 R 5:840) .

a Without doubt'they are to be extirpated and cut off every Mothers

“ Child of‘them, . Is not here enough (furely toomuch) to evidence

hOW lawful they hold M Z} R TH E R to be? But then prefentl y

he ”comes " in with; ardelicate Salvo (thank him heartily for his

love§ That if it it cannot be done (if we willnot be fuch fools as

to hold {till our Threats to the drunken Knife with Blood , and

fuﬁ‘er our {elves to be.tortured as they pleafe, but ﬂlall make

fome head agarnft them ,. and, as he goes on ) may prove too hard

f‘fdr them , and there might be danger in Oppoﬁng us , then (and,

on my Word , 1t 18 a kindnefs with a witnefs) “ they are to lie ﬂill,’

“ and be qUIet; for it is a moft {candalous thing, as Well as it is .lhame-

ful , to be Worl’ted, and that by. HER E TI (3K5?

 

‘ N 0”] you {CB it is a 1’0th ﬁrﬂ laid down (16:71»? , That we ought ’

all to be mLirthered and deﬂroyed , midis there not reafon good for

it ? Are not Vermine to be killed at any timewhen they can be trapp’dz

And what 3‘5 T’W‘ﬂa’lts in their Opinions, but fuch as root up the

Common of that Earth,which they do fo eagerly ﬂrive for to get into

their POHCfHOﬁ? IWiU not however be fo adventurous to fay,or think

thereare‘ none among them of a‘ lefs {wage Temper and Difpoﬁtion‘,

but certain 1am, their Rengion, prompts them to all Aétions that (1) Cap. 3':
can be called herrible againf’t Troteﬂams , not only by the temptati- Cone. Lat.
”on of giving them their Lands andEﬂates for their pains; which as ["5 $14956”.
few as they have exterminated the H E‘ R E TIC K 8 they lhall have 3 m

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quz’ mm ekteruu‘uatu H E R ETI C I S , ﬂue ullzz coutmd'z‘éf‘z‘z‘ouefo]:
ﬁdeaut‘. Which Council is with them of as much forcea’s any‘o the
Revelations of the Holy Gholt: (m) C‘a‘u‘tz'lz'orum 3mm ’{uut 510i.
riturﬂzuﬁz' Oracula ;1 but alfo they compel them toit, Whether they
'will or no , as they lhall deﬁre“ to be reputed ChriftiaQST; etiam ﬂ:
cut reputari cu'z’uut (5' lauén'z'ﬁdelcs.‘ And who of them will dare '
to rebel again the Authority of that Church , which'has fuchﬂ-
udtbema’s in ﬂore to put out Upon all thofe who lhall but in the leaft
reﬁll or deviate from it? Ay, . but if they are not able toldeﬂroy us,‘
we are then fafe enOUgh: But how does that excufe them? We fay

‘ the Will to do an evil is altogether as bad, as the evil it felf done;

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Voluutzzsfucz'cua’z , f5 szum fafz‘um fuut ejufdem malz’tz'd: 5 but‘T‘a-~

palz'uswillbynomeans grant the KILLING of HERETICKS.

(whether KIN G S or EMP EROURS if fuch )‘ to be any Mur-
ther , but a lawful A CT , and Which ought by all good Chrifti—
ans (Roman Catbolz'cé: they mean) to be done ; becaufe they are
perfons odious to both G O D and M A N , for f0 they are declaA
red to be by the P O P E (whom they hold Infallible) and alfo by
their General Councils and approved Canon Laws: Now if .M V R;
THER be a LAW FVL ACT , then. where iSthe EVil? so
that (alas! ) they (land in need of no excufe at all, altho we are
f0 pur-blind , as to believe they do ;*becaufe\ we cannot fee {0 far.
as they. Nay , fays ( u ) Maﬂouur, Efzfcopos Romauosuepeccata‘
quidem ﬂue laude committere. “ It is impollible for Roméﬂy Trieﬂy
.“ to commit ﬁns without praife and commendation. But theylook
upon it fo far from ﬁnful , that they make account they are moved
to it by the Infpiration of G O D. ( a) Si ladmz'ciu’z’um Sampjbui:
quad ex fe malum a]? , iuterpretamur quad z’uﬂ’z‘uﬁu dz'm'uo jug: fa.
672m; , multo magi; omuejafz‘umfauﬁzﬂ‘mi Tatrz': z'uter nature deée.
mm in éouum .- Eé'ﬁquidcm fuerz't fafz‘um , w] aliuaéx femalum
interpretarz’ dcéemu: quad dz'vz‘uo zuﬂiuﬁu fa. “ If we impute the
“ Slaughter , fays he , which Sampﬁu made of the’T/Jilzﬂz'urs , to
“ an lnfpiration of GO D’s Spirit , much more are we bound to ill-9
“ terpret in the belt part whatfoever the Holy Father the P O P E
“ doth , if it be Theft, or any other thing , which of it felf is evil,
(as for Example , M V RT H E R , é'c. (j) )) We mull likewife
“ impute that to the lnfpiration of GOD‘S spirit. But perhaps
you Will fay as yet we have not proved upon them their K I N G'-
K I L L IN G Doétrine; pray let one @otation lupply all , andl
think it is fuch an one that is full home to the Point. (9 ) Regan.
excommum‘mtum iuyuue (@011: ml occidz' guiéufcuuquepqﬂe. z‘. e.
“ A King if once he be excommunicated, may be depofed or {lain by
‘.‘ any perfon whomfoever , and that with Impunity ;: t/Jerdbre It
u paﬂ' all manner of doubt éut t/Jat. t/J’qy bold it extreauzly lawful. .

AND this is fuﬂic‘ient to make clear the Truth Of the Point ,
that we (whom they call HER E TICK S) Ought de jure to be
Pa?!“ OUt Of this life . the by all' the imaginable variety'o‘f molt .ex-s
quﬁte Torments: .1 {ball now prove it defaﬁ‘o upon them, and f0 go
0.11 to my further buﬁnefs; with all the tolerably convenient expedi-
thﬂ 1 am able.

AND!

 

1.57.

' AN D. here I .lhalllhewﬂhat thejefuz'ted Papifts‘are fdllfout fuch ,
conﬂit‘jitfon’d Perfons as I have ,deferib?d them, :and ~,n‘otaj jot bet-:-
ter : "if they p‘rove'not worfe before I have donewith 'them.,‘;they
{hall be obliged to me for my Civility and‘Mo’deration', and‘lhall
have no c'aufein the leaft to be angry with me , unlefs they will
make Exceptions to the matter of Truth it felf. _

W H A T was theOfl‘ence of the Citizens of Tiaoloztfe and Aw'ga.
aria}: , when P O P E Gregory IX. fet Lewis thefremb King to War
againft them , and againft qumundm their Earl ',;' without C‘a‘ufe ,
but'only that of their Religion ; and where the {aid King died at the
Siege 2 How Cruel their Charity is, and hath' been in ‘all"Ages
(where they‘could prevail ) to ‘Prqteﬂaﬂts. , ,is too fatally and la-
mentabl known: What Slaughter did they make among the poor
Waldenjgs, as without any Provocation‘ on their‘ﬁde, .lo Without '
any Humanity on their own ? Sleiden allures us,(r)That‘ the Tape and (r) Sleidm
the ﬁnal by Mﬂerius , ﬂieWed' no refpea: to Age or Sex, no,- not Commﬁmi
to Women with-child; * and that no fewer than Eight hundred were "5° 16-.
cruelly Butcheredbythe Tenn/ﬂ: in one Town C'aérz'ers , beﬂdes the
many flaughtered at Mermdoll and elfewhere ; as alfo {even whole
Towns with the greateft Number of the Inhabitants were riza'rzf/Jered
and burnt in the faid Countrey of Troeeme: What hurt did the
poor True/{arts in the... Town of Vajb’ , who, being peaceably at
a Sermon, were miferably Cut and‘Slainﬂ, Men‘, Women, and Chile
dren,"by the Duke of Guzfe and hisArmed'So‘uldiers? How did
that bloody Duke 9’ Alma , of whom it may be {aid , as it was
of the Roman Emperor , Caligula , T/mt lye ﬁé'lfer ﬂmred my! Man
n: In: Rage? How , I fay, did he make his Boaﬂs, T/mt 2'72 tbefpace
of ﬁx year: be bad executed éy courfevofyuﬂz'ee (of Butchery he had
better and more truly fa‘id) . Ejg/jtcgﬁ 1/1014”,de ; and yet (312$!)
this wasfo {mall 21 fcantling with the Preﬁdent'of his Council, that ‘
he told hlm , He lead [ported t/ye Ne‘i‘therlands wit/J lair 2‘00 mac/.7
M676]- - BEﬁdCS,‘ there‘are other inﬁnite'EXamples, and conl'e-i
quently not numerable , of like Cruelty, in Calalriﬂ, quli'a’, Bo;
bemia , Germany , Piedmont, France, Filled/er: ,' Ireland, and the
manifold Barbarous and Bloody Deﬁgns againfl Eﬁglaha’, ever ﬁnce
the JE SUITS ﬁrl’t began to infel‘t this Nation; ,_wherein, as it
has been ingeniouﬂy obferv‘ed , there havenot palled four years to-
gether, without a mofl peﬂilent and pernicious Treaﬁm, tendin
to the Deﬂruaion of the KING, Alteration of Religion, Dillo-
lution of Laws , and the Subverlion of the whole State. And would
they deﬁre more f lain and evident FA C T to be alledged againﬂ:
them? .Pray for t e fuller Satisfaétion in this thing , b‘eﬁde Dr, ‘ ,
Fowlt': bi: HMO/7;] of war Relellzom and Treaﬂjm , read ( f) Dr: Fowlir:
The ungrateful Be aviour qf t/Je Tape/1’3, Trieji‘s audj'efuz'rr, 1‘0- (f) 5} Wt!!-
ward: the Imperial and Irdulgent Crown cf England .- a molt eX- D‘WWM-
"eellent and true Hiftory of their Temper and Carriage , towards 115). Mg:—
this Nation ,* efpecially from Qgeen Maries elegy: gtizto l/JlJ‘ ' preﬁnt '

Age; ,
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. - . , I H AVE been {omewhatythe longer upon tnis Firl’tI-leadl,beé

'caufe..,the Other following, having {0 near aLRelation to iti‘fm’aythe ‘

.betterbe contraéte‘d , and the Naturalne‘fs C as I may, call it_”)_‘_ of

theirfDependanceﬁn this , may be the mOre 'obvious angl'mani-

:feﬂ.

2. A N D now I come in the next place to {peak of M VR‘
TH ER and TR E A SON, as‘they do el‘teemit mayday; and I
wilh to G O D I were not able to ~~make it out: againﬂ: them“ {but
C alas I‘ ) [one mul’t be a perfeét ﬂran‘ger indeed to all their Principles

1 and ‘Praaices too", not to knew that this is a Currant Timer with

them. But I deﬁgn' not here a tedious Hiﬁo’ry of their A'é’rions ,
or I co'uld be large in the’Accompt: - I Would only“ give fome
lhort touches of things in a Preliminary Way », fuch, as I think,
cannot be well omitted , or whichl am fure, at leal‘c“,7are very
proper and pertinent to this prefent Subjee’t, and fo 11311611 with
all the allowable diligence I can , to What ﬁrl’t I prlneipallyin-
tended. ' ' '

PO P E RY , I mean JES VIT'ISME thich is the worn fort
of it) being a State-trick of Religion , on purpofe devifed to main-

‘tain Luxury , Pride , Pomp , and excelﬁve Ambition 5 with all the o-

ther gawdy Train of Worldly Honours , muft therefore confequent-
ly have Gain for the Chief Element of its Conﬂitution : and it was
impoﬂible it ever lhOuld have long continued , Unlefs there could be
fome way found , whereby the ‘l’rz‘ejz’s of it might be able to draw
over the greater part of the Cbrzfﬂz'cm Worldto an outward compli-
ance With them. This occaﬁoned their" eaﬁe and FleﬂLpleaﬁng
.Maximes , exaetly moulded to the Various Inclinations of General
Mankind , tho never- fo Debauchedly Loofe and Prophanely .LiCen-
tious. Thefe Cunnz'ﬂgfmftfmm knew there was no way like to this,
to keep uptheir Wealth , and prevent their Great Drama from be-
ing defpifed , and her Magniﬁcence from being deﬂroy’d : And
this would do their buﬁnefs to their utmol‘t will]; and if men
Would but 'rove liberal Of their Purfes to them , they refolv’d
with them elves not to be out-bid in Civility ,' but to do them e-
qual Reafon at leaﬁ , and give them fuﬂicient GratiﬁcatiOns , by
way of Return , in all Cafes they {hould demand of them. ‘ They
racked their Inventions therefore to pleafe them , and if, they had
a'mind at any time to Commit the greatei‘t‘of ﬁns and Worli of
Villanies , let them but be well paid lor their pains , and it lllOUld
go hard but they would ﬁnd out fomething or other , whereby to
make lawful and allowable all their eXtravagantly Lewd Deﬁres.
They ftudied (before) unthought of AbominatiOns , and made a
Book of Rates , in pure kindnefs and complement to 'them , to
{hew how ealily they might be ardoned of the grollel‘t lmpieties
immaginable. Had any committe Inceﬁ , or any 'other more No-
torious Sin , or would any be permitted to. do fuch things? Come
Sir , ’Tis but payingdown fo much Money ,~ and ou lhall fee
prefently where our Holy Fathers do allOw it. The H E RET I C K13

, Religion

 

Relioion is nice and fqtleamilh ,. made up‘of Bugl-be’ar Fears“, and
needieﬂy tender Scrupul‘oﬁties ;~ but ours is more free and courtly,
more manly andgenerous , more adapted to the feveral Difpo‘ﬁf-
tions of Humane Frailty : We know Men are butMen , and ‘can
be no more, whilit they are circumfcribedin Fleih ; and we
ought therefore to conﬁder , and bear with them as fuch. Hea-
ven is fo wife , that it hath regarded all our Inﬂrmities ,. and
what we are noc capable of avoiding thxough the Heat of our
’Tempers , it Will mercifully look oVer ,- and remit , through its
inﬁnite Goodnefs and C’Ompalﬁon of our Natures. BUt as (t )
Jam/r Sylvia: (afterwards made P0 P E ) tells us , Nz/az'l eﬂ
guod aéfque arg‘mto Romzmrz Curie dedzt; zfﬁzmanuum imp0ﬂl‘z'0,
ﬁ‘)’ Sfiritm fanﬁz' dam ‘vejzdmztm' , net peccatomm wm’a mﬁ mm;
7723:): impendz’tur.- “There is nothing, to be 'had from the
fG'Court of ROME without ready Cafh; the very Laying on
“, of Hands and the Gifts of the Holy Ghof’t are fold, nor can
i“ you have the Pardon of your Sins, unlefs you come asyzzcoé's Son's
“ did,with their Sacks of Com ,with Money in the Mouths of them.
, Which puts me in mind of a very pithy Line Mr. fDrgyc/m hasfome-
Where to this purpofe , for he fays ,

But Tow’rful Guinheycanﬂot ée tt'itbﬂood.

No it cannot-K tho hemcant it in another Senfe) by thefe Ros
man Slam/61mg?) tile/2’ Rule”, w/Jo with/bdrm ‘a’o lot-2e , Git/e
' 13,, as. the Prophet fpeaks. And can you thinkthat if they own
MURTHE R to b? lawful upon fuch trivial accompts asI have
mentioned , they Will deny the 72!ch 'of it ,' {0 long as ever
you pay. the accuﬂomary’ Fees ;, Moft fur’ely‘ no ; but you ihall.
hear , if my word may not, be of fufﬁcient Credit with you ,
what the, Learned szmouel ,‘ their llluftrious Defender , fays
of it ‘, in his Fundamental Tbc’olog}; and he gives you this for a
Cona/uﬂoi: of Chm/aﬂoat: , nay ., and that too of a Trig}; That
he not only may @072 certain occqﬂ'om‘ , £111 a 'Eetrat‘for‘, 6112‘
that tiger: are ﬁrm ,2 wizard” be is 0 B LI G E 2) to do it.
f‘ Etiam alz'qzrando 5D E B E T accident. And certainly none ,
without a ftrange Eﬁ‘rontery indeed , will contradict this , that {0
far as any man is Oéligéd to do a thing , {0 far it becomes new]:
jmy for him to do it; for the Oélrgat’z'on works and includes the

mtg/ﬂy.

B u T this {till only refpeéts particulars , I will now ﬂiew you
how 71:0:me they hold it to cut off whole Nations and. King-
doms , Princes and People , if Trotefz‘ants', whom they call HE-
R E T I C K S , and a Work too of fuch abfolute neceﬂity , that,
if it be‘in their power , the Tapalz’n: are damn’d if they do not;
. For whatelfe could engage them to’ be‘fo Barbaroufly Cruel , but
the very Spirit of their Principles? Are they not Men like the
rcft Of Mankind? Have they not the fame Palﬁons and Tem-

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pers , thefamelmpulfes of Tenderncfs and Pity in their Na-y

tures , with Others of different Judgments and Perfwaﬁons? {t
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a f tbir in the
Bf. of Lin-
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Principle:
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”is only their Religion that forces them to put off their Humani-

\ty , and makes them to bloody minded , 'as therein to be far worfe

than the Braﬂs that Parr/22. Take them out of that Charaéter,
and they are inall things, like unto the reft of their Fellow-Crea.
tures and Brethren; their Minds are Peaceable ,their Deport‘.
ments Aﬁ'able and Generous, and the grofs of their Tempers full
of a Sweet and Indearing Complacency ; but when once they are
lrawmd with the Myﬂt’ry ,of .7efuz‘trﬁﬂe , not Tygers- are more
fell and favage, than they in their Natures; they could cutoff
the whole Race of Humane Kind, that dare to diﬂent from them,
and they could call down ﬁre from brawn , nay, the very ﬂames
of Hell on all fuch that would not bend the Knee to their BA-
A L, and ad juft their Faith and Confciences to the [Wild Capri.
cio’s of their Idolatrom Eiztbuﬂazfms ; let ‘us fee how true lean
make this appear , and'I think I ﬂiall gain'the Point clearly 'u‘pon
them; and f0 may very Well afterWards delcend to my neXt Par-
ticular. - . ' - ' '

’T I 8 known -, they Own every thing tolbe necrﬂaryf, “that may
any ways further and promote their Catholique Religion : Hove
induf’triouﬂy have they walked to and fro over all theEarth , to
advance this their End and Deﬁgn .7 Now where any Nation or.
Kingdom is {o refolutely bent, as to abandon their Popilh Faith,
or rejeét theit Doétrine , and-walk 'direétly counter to their
P R I N C [P L E S and T E N E T S , nOtwithf’tanding all their
Labours and Aﬂiduitres to eﬂ‘eét the contrary ,- what other Way
have they'left them , by which 'to work their Wills and eﬂab‘liﬂt
their MaleS , but only by this laﬂ of Blood? Butjthe‘ (a) P OP E-
is G 0 Us Vicar here on Earth , and is {aperiourto allPower’s,
and as fuch is called by the Tapiﬂs D O M I N V S 'D E V S
N O S, T E R P AP A , Our. [on] God lbc'fPofe; andjit‘is there-
fore Neceﬂrzr} to Salvation to be fubjeét to the P OP E , and he
who aﬂirms the contrary, is no C‘bxzﬂz'mr ; as you 'may fee'in (w)
P511. M1)?!” dm , ‘Pﬂfx firéeﬂ}; a]? ale mceﬂitrztefalutzk', @‘nmé
rrdrz'rtm afﬁrm, 12071 pate/Z dz‘cz' [briﬂitlﬂm.' Now he being fuch, -
as they themfelves' have .delcribed him , what are his ﬂezztbrma’s
and Excommunications , but the giving up'of all , WhOm he calls
H E R E T I C K S , to Fire and Sword ', and utter Deﬁruétion 3
He commandstheir own Subjeéts (CathOIieks to be fure they muﬂ:
be) to rebel againfttheir HE RE TIC AL K IN G S,‘ and to
take Up Arms againﬂ them; and (if it be for the advance of the Ca-
tholick Caufe) to kill them Without any moreado ; for‘that is todo
God good Service, for fuch ate, an laid before , but Vermine which
oughtt'o be deﬂroyed: ( x ) qu‘a H E R528 1 S eﬂ‘ crime” 1706-:
t‘uréan; Reipublicar farm: 55 tmngaz‘lvtgz‘m, non'wz'tgm, , 91mm
furtam C5 bomicz'dlxm , . ﬁtwiﬁlﬁw Margit- Bécimm'. Nay; beﬁd'es',
their prcqﬂftj of. paying a blind Obedience'to" his H 0 LI N E 88
in all his Commands ; there is another "izc'ceﬂity as pfo'rcive Upon
them , Which is, becaufe every Perfo‘n "under the Sentence of Ex-‘
communication is a Member of the- Devil; a3‘(y) Limood,a

- ‘ " ~ very

. i l H i]
very great Canonii’c of our own, aﬂ’ures us; and no doubt but that

all fuch Creatures are very odious born to God and Man ," and,-
as they fay ,r ought to be taken away from the Society of Men; But

, _ if they lhould dare to be difobedient to him , they {hall incurr the

pain of the fame Excommunication'; and fo confequently , if they
lhould by any unhappy means chance to die beFOre Popilh Abfo-

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lution , are Eternally damned. And is not here then a very great ,

neceﬂzty (no lefs than the fake of their own everlaﬂing Salvati-
on, and. furely that is the greateft that'can be ) that obliges them

to cut off root and branch of Proteftant H E R ET I C K S , Kings ,

and PM?” 3 and not to let their eye {pare any (altho their Sove-
raign Prince) that are not Votaries to the Sea of R O M E 2 What
cOuld ﬂir the Roman Catholicks up‘to‘ that dreadful Rebellion and
Mallacre in Ireland, where in‘cOld ’Blood were murdered above
a Hundred thoufand T‘aotefz’ants , - without the ‘leaﬁ Caufe or Pro-
vocation, but only , as they f'alﬂy-"thought , 'the' z‘na’zﬁoenﬂéle
neeeﬂigy they lay under to kill H E RETI CKS , and by that
means to advance the Catholick’ Caufe. . '

T HE I R. ( z ) Lawsfays , That all the Sanctions of their A- (2.) Canon}
poflolicOl Sea , are as undeniable to, be received, as if St. Teler ﬁe owner. 2.?
had conﬁrmed them withhis own‘Mouth. But, put cafe that 4‘1}- 19-

any ﬂrouldquef’cion, if the Pope at fome time lhould command
a thing that was in its {elf unlawful (as no doubt but M L1 R-
THEB. and TREKSON are) whether then an ablolute
neeeﬂity lay upon them to obey fuch In junétions, 'it will imme.
diately be pail all peradvcntnre', that they ought in all things
to fubmit to his Will and Authority; for (a) Bellarmin‘e tells
them plainly , That in good Senfe Clm'ﬂ hath given to'Saint
Tetar the power to make Sin to be no Sin, and that Which is
no Sin to be Sin.‘ In éono Senfn ‘a’edzt Cbrz'ﬂns Tetropoteﬂatem
jaeiendi de peceato nonpeeealam , (6‘ de non peeeato feeeatnm.
And are not the Tapzﬂs then under the ﬂriéteﬂ: neeeﬂitjbima-
ginable, .to execute all his Decrees, be they never fo Barba-
rous and 1 Cruel ? If not, I do nOt underl’tan’d‘ what it is to be

a true Roman Catholique.

BU T. to inﬁance in a few 'Eiamples; Was not ‘P/Jz’lip,
Brother to Henry the Sixrh, and Son to Hederz’clé the 171211.,

( 4) Bali ‘
(arm. til. 43
de Pontiﬁce.
(MP- ! 3J1!
Barclaiilwg

called Barlarojfa (againﬂ whom the POPE was fo fet, that .-

hc {aid , C 5 Either be would bat/e Philip’s Crown, or Philip (011,5ng

{bould bat): is Mter) miferably ﬂain by Count Otbo in his

Privy Chamber , whom he ﬁirred up ? gAnd‘ Was not Henry Nauclg393g

the Seventh, commonly called of Luxemlnrg , 'after the P O 'P E
and his Cardinals oppoﬁng his Coronation , and {hrring up E-
nemies agai'nft him , at la/lI ‘Pozﬁ nedly a Moné‘ in the Sacrament?
Conradine”, the King of Naples and Sicily , being taken Prifoner

by Charles, Brother to the French King, 'waS'miferably pm; to "

Death by the POPE and his Counci ;' who being demanded
what was to be done, anfwered , ( e) The Lifeof Conardinebn
l t‘

P.319.

(c) ' Panel.
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1 86. Paral.

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French.

'Anno Cbri-v
ﬂi. 61 I.

(Q‘Greg. I.
I; I I. Epiﬂ‘.
36.1): Dr.
Du Maul,
Aufmr to
Plyilamx
Angli. p. 80.
and 81.

(b) Dinar/J.
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116. p. 1 17.

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t/ye fDeat/Jof Charles, rmdt/Je SDerztb of Cenradine'z'si'tbe Life of
Charles. King john of England, after he was deprived of- his
Kingdom by the P. O P E , and his Biﬂlops, was at hit too Poif‘oned
by a Monk. .‘71111‘6273 and Lawrence, the Dukes of Florence ,
by the [P O P E’s Praétities , Cmfcz'o é‘ adnueﬂte-Tontzﬁce ,- were
afraulted in the Church at the time of the Elevation of the Holt,
and the one grievouﬂy Wounded , and the other Murdered out—
right. And to name no more (d) Gemz'ez Otto , the Brother of
the- great Turk , being Prifoner , was _ Poifoned by the P O P E ,
hired thereunto by a~ Promife of C ) Two hundred tboufand

" Crowns , and the» Seamleﬁ ' Coat of Clarz'ff. ‘ What need there more

to prove this Alfertion, that it is utterly impoﬁible to introduce
and eﬂabliih the Roman Catholique’R‘eligion, ina Land to full of
the true Light of the Knowledge of yeﬁzs Cbrzﬂ as this, and of
Averfation to that other of Anne/armed” Idolatry , by any other
means than thefe of TREASONS and .MVRTHERS ; for
10 long as there are any throughly Troteﬁants livrng , there
willb'e the fame fenfe of things in them , and (f ) palpable
Reafon can never be eﬁ'aced. And if it be utterly impoﬂible o-
therwife to be effeéted; then, if they will compafs their ends,

they are obliged to an Indifjmaﬁzéle Neceﬂizy. '

T H I R D L Y ,, ,For the commendablenefs of it, you lhall fee

I will, quickly put it pal’t all doubting, by their own Writings
and. Confeﬂions. And to begin with one of the ﬁrl’t of them.
Gregory the Firl’t, hearing that Thom: had ﬂain the Emperor
Illaurz'tius his Liege Lord , having ﬁrlt killed his Children before
his Face, and that he had invaded the Empire , writ ‘a gratin
latory Epiﬂle to that Monfterin thefe Words (g) Benignzmtem
pietatis 'veﬂneizd Imperiale faﬂz’giam pervemﬂ? gaudemu: : Lee-l
tentur Carl}, E6 exultet term , (5“ de éem’gm’: aﬁzéus veﬂrir emi-
verﬁe Rez’pnélz’cepnpulus bilarefmt .- (2'. e.) “ We are glad that the
“ Benignityof your Piety hath attained to the Imperial Digni-
.“ ty: Let the Heavens rejoyce, and let the Earth be glad, and let
‘f all the people of the Common-wealth be joyful for your Gra-
“ cious Deeds. (la) The Prince of Orange being Murdered by
a Taft]? , he for the fame was highly commended by C 2) :5?me
the F rier‘. _ What was the Speech that P O P F 56351.”! @zutus
made to his Cardinals, upon theBarbarous Alfaﬂination of Henry
the Third of France , who was Stabb’d by 7(1th6’! 6187726” , 3
Dominican F rier ? What Retorick and Flourilhes did his Holinefs
ufe upon the dreadful Succefs of that Regicide .' He was tranfport—
ed at: it}, and became a Panegyrift for the caufe. And faysMa-
ring (0 of it, Specie [items in maﬁa: tradendleultro' quem beréz's
noxgzj; mea'z'mmm warm tegeéat fupm veﬁcam alé‘um vulva: z'igﬂz'x-
it.- f Iuﬁ‘gnem Am'mi conﬁdentiam .’ faeimrs Memoraéile—“mfo
Rage ingemﬂéi nomen fecz't. (I) “ Making a lhew of Delivering
“ Letters (to the KIN G) hegave Him a-deep wound above the
“ Bladder with a Poifoned Knife which he hidin his Hand. - 0 Ad-
“. mirable Conﬁdence of Mind ! 0 Memorable. Aétion! By Killing
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the K 1 N G he get to himfelf a Great Name; The Marriage of
Henry K I. N G of vadrre- with the Sifter of Charles the Ninth ,
King of France (which Tim the Fifth would never confentunto,
becaufe of their difference in Religion ; and which as foonr as ever

his Succelior Gregory the Thirteenth underﬂood by the Cardinal of
Lorram , that it was only intended for the deﬂruétion of Henry,

ahd the Proteﬁant Party, made him to give his Difpenfation’ for

the Celebrating of it : ) This Marriage, I lay, to which moﬂ of the x

' Proteftant Nobility Were Invited , tho it hada merry Day , yet

was clofed Up with one of the moﬂ Difmal Nights that'the Ears

of Man e’re heard oft-for- in the dead. time of the Night; the ac
CurfedPohiIhCut-throats , againﬂall Laws ofY Charity , Ju‘ﬂi‘ce,‘

nay Ingenuity and Humanity it {elf ,1 accOrding .to the Plotthey

had laid before , unexpeétedly , unfaithfully, yea Barbaroinﬂy,

and Devillilhly , butchered the undeferyingxgﬁ ‘ea , the obliging
Guel‘ts,“and then with'feral cruelty-proceede ‘in Bloodr,_i-~Until

they had difpatc‘hed Tome-Sixty thoufand harmlefs Souls? into ano-t

ther World; and yet'upbn the welcome Tydinigs hereOf unto "Rome,

(ﬁt) his Holinefs, together with the s. Cardinalsi there ”gave Solemn (,3) 77,34";
thanks to God for fuch aBleﬂing to the Roman Sea , and 'Chriftian Heme“.
World: 'andCardinal Urﬂn Was fen-t Legate into France , to pr'aife

the KING his Piety and Wifdom in that great Aétion ,and to n t
beﬁow’ Bleﬂings and 'Spiritual Graces upon atheilil' NG and ‘
the At‘ftors of that Bloody Tragedy. .As alfd“ you may; fee ' f: [
how (u) Morena: dOth claw PopeiGregoty the‘Tliirteenthto (, y 174514?)
his face} about it. 0‘: @iem illuizi- [mum lttitiie (5‘9 ‘51:!er mt Veggie;
tori: ', qieot'u , Beatzﬂinie_’Patex ,‘ hoe: ad te.'Mmtio allow; -$-eo Ozzy-325.9%
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wenerant 3 3’4”” “52W“! , ina'z'ﬁm rt te‘dupplic’e’ttioeteap‘edef '
Mi’ﬂi' When TWO" came over, to murther‘that forever; wot; 1
thy to be remembred (been Elizoéetb , one of the Cardinals. " ' ‘ ‘
writ thisLetter'to him; - I . .,. .. . ’

‘i.
1"”

SIR,"

with the Credence Mela/Ed , and warmth” prmfe your

‘ Good Diﬁwﬂtion and ReWut‘ion; which ,_ you write ,~

[ii/l bold: to tlze Service and Beneﬁt puélieé ; w/Jerein bis Holinej}
exbort: jar: to continue , and to bring to pal} that Whit/J youfro-
mifeu glad to 16: end you may ée the 'more aided 4y tlmt goo 6213
wt wine/7 batb induced you to this , {In} Bleﬂeet'neﬁ grantiyou ﬁt”
pardon andforgiveuef: of all your ﬁn: , asjoit requeﬂed ; aﬂ‘uring
you that éeﬂde: tbe Merit; whit/y you ﬂmll receive in Heaven ,
bi: Holineﬁ' will mate bimfeif afartber fDeétor to arknowledg
sour defer'w'n : in their]? manner that be may , andfo mac/J the
more ,, decay .e you lift f0 mac/J model?) in not pretending my tiring.-
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\ rPut t/éerefore z'n‘aft'yonr 19on and/boezonraéle ﬂaring/32‘s , and [one
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yon all-good nndbafpy Sneeeﬂv, ,   . - . -
From Rome ,..3.0 7m. 1584. ' - ., Yours to difpofer _
‘ 4 N. Cardinal Of Como. g

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de Veron. (batted: Deed ‘, who wounded Hemy the Fourth‘of France , in

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133 ' ftiﬁédbut eitollddram moﬂ noble. weed ,2 quned witﬁVeﬁne, anal

berated: tulle wmgared will: tbegreaz‘eﬁ‘ and mo]? comm/den '

deeds~1blzréver were done“, or are mentioned in any Stay. After- .

wafdé gas ’We allfknOW , that R IN G was murdered, 7by a ‘Po~: ,
pithifcrea-nt. . The Bookfays ,I]. Harinodiusand AriﬁOgiton, See.-

vola5 and Brutus, only for love of their Canning), bnving Ina lzglyt:

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{cm Am— Bunnrﬁirzm a: Jeﬁlit ', Hat/1,t36e,»Pope-no fbmaagaznflrtbe King of

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Mﬁwgg boﬂ’tba ammwanb inﬁeld; ,- and/ball no Thraﬁbulus hot/e.

Truemx‘gtm {gamma} 4—; .3174” there'ée noimanwto [daft/2e Sonln’zfer‘nfont/Jls,

pbnrch,cap. Bea/Z; the King of" France ? Well , to. proceed at little farther Yet,

10.12. 44; hearfwhatl'r ) ‘eMarmnn the Jefuite fays ,.. It is a whole/owe Me»:

(7) M47“? dimion'for Trina: togerfwadeJ/Jemﬁlvel, 21542: ifz/yey ofpreﬁ the:

”2‘ 1’2: " ' Common-wealth , and/grow intolemlle zlwrof/Jeir vices? (or much

P g. ' more fo in their Judgments thro their Hereﬁes) t/aey live upon no];

terms that they may be killed not only lawful/j, ént, ( and mark

In Bag. 64. what follows) will) 3100’ and commendations. All fnc/J yeﬂz’lent '-

WM 111% and deadly wood ., it 2': a glorions ﬂying to root out q‘tée—J’oez’eﬁr of

men. - It. is therefbre confeﬂ t/Jnt a Eran! (fuéh as he ac-

com'pts a P ROT ESTA NT K’I N G) , may éeﬂm , “W?“

éy openforee and. new: ,‘ are}! m’néln an alien]; nfon be: Tel/nee .-

(f ). Dr. (f); ﬁnd-2f they. that; 'bave :lz‘lled inz efcnpe , they are bononred

Whue “t dll-fﬁeinlwet Mer'nsgredl-Terfoﬂdgei tent-If ”/b‘zﬂfdﬂ 0”” 0"

My ’6" 5- thrirife, energize. a Sacrz‘ﬁce gratefulto G,od~ende. The P'rieﬂs.

P45. 1 - inmhtélrg/b- Rebellion were wont tagtfgllfrthe peeple thateit was

‘ the moﬁ commendable thing'T-the'y could do here upon‘eart’h :, , to

aﬁﬁmyqthc PIR’OT ES T A: N I S, for they were worfe'thanDogs;

my, they. "ilr"‘<§1’.‘Ef'IjkvillS2 and ferved the Devil ; and killing of fuch‘

wasm rare prcﬁrvative for-them againﬂ: the pains of Purgatory ,3

M‘Ihut‘the bodies of fuch.t.ha_t;ihou1d,'die in that quarrel,~ lhould

n0}: ‘beeold beforetheir Sculs-ﬂmuld afc‘endzup intoHeaven : “and

th'ISRWasit tha‘b‘made thofc Rebels {o courag'iouﬂy defperate in that

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difmal Maﬂ'acre. And if all this be not enough to convince any reg-
fonable , unprejudiced perfon of the truth of this Third Particu-
lar , Iknow not What would be. But ‘ . '

F 0 11 R T H L Y , and Laflly, I ihall-indeavour to prove T R EA-
SON and M UR THERA both of KING 8' and Teolole to be Me-
ritorious. The I/Voadetfttl Tower ofTapalHol/aeﬁ hath tramfarme
ed M u R T H E R into a very Chrzﬂz’aa and Vertaoas ﬂit , praﬁ
raided effecmlbr that a he the M V R T. E R of HE R E T I (3 Rs.
You Willﬁnd (t) that all H E R E TI OK 5 are Excommuni'eated
and Condemned , and the Etta-res Of thofe condemned are motif,-
cated. ; tom damnatorum eoaﬁfeeat'vr and the, Secular Princes
and. Lords-.arecompelled (if they! will not doit orherwife ) and
bound by folemn Oath : 1970139”? ’, ’With all their power , to in-
deavour 'to deﬂroy'the‘m all ,\ utterly; 11721422”be H (/15? R I TI.
C O J’ ‘ho‘tza ﬁde fro virthus extermfir‘r‘are ’ ﬁadearzt.‘, And this Bar-
barous Decree - was r we in execution in the "'days'of. that; P O P E;
for he imp-loyed armies againlt- the d/hz‘gwfe: ‘( thePr‘edecelTors

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948. .

of the P R0 T E 5 TA NIT-S; in Frame ) Who’deﬂroyed above . A

Two hundred thoufaﬁd' in the fpace Of a few Months. It wasex;
ecuted in the Age before this , in Frame; where f0 many Thou-
fands were freachoufly and Cruelly Marthered , that the Channels

ran down.;’-with Blood into the River , and this Was magniﬁed as '

a glorious AetiOn , honoured with a a. Triumph at R O M E ; and
the unparallell’d Bumhety .' was thought {0 meritorious , than:
Was rewarded. with. this? HiO‘LIAN-ESS his partiéular; Bleﬂlng ,-
and the 'pardon-of alltheir Sins. And thofe that will engage my,
fuch Aﬁsto' the utm‘oﬁr ( as their Church requires) are allured. by
the P 0 P E3 “ Of thol’edndulgences and PriviledgeS', Which were.
ﬁ‘ grantedto'the Adventurers for the Recovery of .‘ the HolyLand.
( 1!) Qatar H at}? E TI co R v M exterm'imm param-
‘eriat , :lla ‘gaadz‘aat irta'ulgetttt'a , z'ﬁoqae privilege ﬁat marziti 5
‘ quad aeeidentz'har in term? fantta {uh/[diam eoaeeeh‘tar. ( x;- .And
thefe are eXprelTed' in ‘an Afpendtx to that Council, to he fallpar—
dpngofall their ﬂm‘ here, and a greater meafure of [my hereafter.
At no lefs rate do they value the Blood and utter. Defﬁuaion'offuch
as we (whom they account H E R E T1 C K S) and'they do likewife
1 hink 8i fay,that the greater the Perfon- is who is M V R T H E R E D,
provided it belor the Good and Intereft of the Charch , the more
Meritorious is the Aa'ion‘; and confequently it ﬂaall meet with
greater Revvards in the Heavenly State. With what Pompous .Ce-
‘remonies- do.they hallow thofe Inflruments whichare'to do the
bleffed Work .2 By what charming Names do they call that Bloody
Wretch,who. is to be im loyed in the Horrible Buﬁnefs 2 No lefs than
Eleéted Sort ofGod, B ejfea’ V ejel, the Arm (y the Airing/arty to exe-
cute his 713/122: .' How do they blafphemouﬂy come before their Al-
tars, an with a feeming fervent zeal, prayto the God of Hea-
ven , That all the Saints may arzje 471d give place unto him ; and
that the Lord may appear to he his Strength , and to irzﬁtfe into
him the Beam: . f his Confolatz'oa .' .. How do they devillifhly
wheadle him into a belief that there is a Coeleﬂial Splendour

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lhining round his Head , and like the Skin of” Moﬁ"! his’Faeei, at); -
pearing with {0 great a Brightnefs , - that they are<_n,otcapab1e‘
of looking on him without! Trembling and Confu-ﬁon? How:
do they throw them‘felveszprol’trate at. his Feet -," and pre-
tend he is no longer a Mortal ,' but changed into'agl'Beity?! And
how do they. tellthe Credulous ‘Cully, that he will Shy {o glori-
ous an Aétion; he certainly freed from the .pains ofﬁl’urgatory,
and‘immediately tranﬂated into Paradife ,-,;and there be may;
low’d. up of Eternal Delights- and Satisfaﬂions ? And Wharfoevgrig'
{aid to them of their good Works and Meritsin their Lives , 1225.13

' dimim Bzovz‘us', E‘J’c. Saints them after their Deaths : 'He reckons

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the Traitors of the Gun-powder Plot amongth'e.Bminent-eﬁ-Martyrs-
for: the Church "and Religion; “andFather, (1y) ‘il’tzrﬁmi callsGa’ri
net, (Executed for ’High ﬁction; and ,the‘Gun-pobvder 'Conl‘pii-‘t
racy ). A71 Imi’ocmt Mm ,n wéoﬁtffered‘rmjuﬂly ; thgttﬁélgwd‘f}
Saint: szr,aﬁd}ircomflszrd tbeﬂzme we'tib anhafpyﬂhzﬁbydymg
ii: the @qureo] _7u/fzce. And KIN (3 341m”, whenhe came-t6 .
the Crown of England, M1} 1.4.111602;...1Decla'red tofhis' Parlia-J
them: there, in Ma) 19. 1603.. ThatonieT‘POint yr.hlchth‘e'l?ap'iﬂ§
Obferve in continual practice, was thfe'AlTaﬁinations: and M ViR‘J
THE.“ S of KINGS ’,.xthinkingiit nosﬁ-nt,; but ratheraa maltteit
of Salvation to do all Aétionsof Rebellion éa-nd' ' Hoﬂilityagainﬁg
their f Natural sovereign Lord ;,~ if he benonce aecurfed ,;.hisSu.bz
jeéts difchargeid oftheir Fidelity , '_ and, his’ Kingdom‘v‘given- as);
Prey by that‘I‘ripplpCrowned MONA R4C H , .xor rather Mom
ﬁer their Head ',, the P OP E. Tho outitrher .andimore prudent;
C 35;)? Qhrbﬁi'clerfa s, That'inWounding and Killing. a Prince, the
Traytor is guilty 'Oly Homicide, of Pnarr‘icidehofaChriﬁ-icide‘ C K I N G S
beingthe Anointed ,ofthe, LQYJd‘); nay;‘ofDeicidetooféthey beingggirf
Sacred, Writ called GOD St) ;.*Ihus._d0 the‘tlmpiduhﬁv’éﬁtfur by:
the ‘Allurements-of Merit-(1 as it. is laid ') inﬂame the", Courage's‘of

- th'efe daring Allaﬂins. But (crys out the-Learned and'Rev‘e‘rend

DrQJ‘tz'llMgﬂert') O éleﬂed 74/215! t/Jat ever My. Hayrﬂazmr [£20,21ch -

9 l7: aﬂmmdé/t Tirzgytor: and M V R T H E R ER 8 ; 07"..i‘ltdi 166}be

Motiwg £12} trite ‘Re/z'giorr/lyould [re made #33 Cuban/57116:" ﬁrth/i
touted ‘Prtzﬁzrrsl ‘And that they ﬂtould ufe it'as "a"~M.-antle-f'to
hide and cover (their hellilh Impieties, _. .T REAtSIQINIS ~. Md
Rebellion. Tlieir Gofpel feems like @ramis Laws;’to§bb’Wﬁt'iﬂ
Blood,- nay , and far worfe , for the :Souls 05 their? tAd‘verfaries
are as much hated by them as their Perfo‘ns: TIM ﬁfaiti zmr/mf‘z‘a
taélmeﬂv to; {me2 5d: been ﬂ) great, a's toawgﬂittéezr [Eternal
@eﬂrufﬁun gqﬂd flu} have been-wit/Ml ﬁxﬁlmd ,1 1215:- tb' (fifte-
2m; 1/st t/Jrirtzéomz’ﬁaélé, [Vi/b"; nqyram’fb far banal/2:3} me
from teﬂzfyz'ﬂgfaﬂjﬁrret ‘Deﬂgm of Meir. Salvation, Mat they
54728 puélz'cé/y prqyrdfor tbrzr'ﬂamnatz‘on ; and. after that they
714d éetrayed t/mt impious I/Vz/b in the City» of Caen; to tbe fam-
rlal of the w/Jole Court/.7; they Mtg/bed 129; afterward: to mdiﬂtam
at Paris , we): ﬁt their printed Booér, 'ﬁ; @idéolz'm! Km Afr’iozz .-
For by what lefsName can! call that, which is {o Anti-Evan-
gehcal? But they think (and in truthI fuppofe they reckon it

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a piece of good Manners in them too) it is no more, ﬁt‘fm-G'Oa‘
,to have fuch , whom they call HERETICKS in his-Glory,

then for them to be .peﬂered and troubled With them y'here on
Earth ; and therefore it is a Very Good and Merz'z‘orz'om' Work

in them, to reak their Vengeance on their Bodies ih this

World, and with the Devil might make a Mouth of their Ime-
mortal Souls in the next. Their very Spirit and Temper feems
only to be made upof Fire and T06 (as we fay.) Will anydare

to Oppofe and be contrary to us , efpecially, in their Doctrine -

and Principles, cry they in their'Hearts? It lhallcoft them clear
then; for, if it be pollible , we’ll link them down as low as
Bell for it , - and then much good may do them with their Stub;
bornnefs. And this is not only the Bruitifh Language of thefe
Jim: of BE‘LI AL, but thefe are their Aétions too , i and that
this Nation can teﬁiﬁe, almoft as well aslanyl- in .thc-.World.
How is every year the (a) Great Bull ofHolj Th‘u‘rfh’qy puhlilhed
at! ROME againft Chriﬂian - KIN-GS and States that are
HERET-ICK S ? And by that they are accurfed, and {0 ma

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be lawfully , n'ay, ought neeejfarily to be M V R T H E RE I) ; , '

and thofe {hall immediately be Saints that do fuch a~ glorious-
Work of'the Lord , as they call it. Nay ,, HERET lC'AL
K I N G S are fo accu’rfed by them , that even their Sons _- muft
feel the weight of their Anathema’s too , tho they partake not
in their Fathers Crimes; for H F, RES 1 E is a Leproﬁe, '13?
ex Lefro/is Tarentz'hus Leproﬂ gmerartur ﬁlz'z'. So that fay's,(h)
,Szmanm propter HVERES I/N Regz's , ”aﬁﬁrhtm Rex R6871“
”WNW, ® 5} .CQmmImiorze ﬁdelium dirt: proﬁrzftz'omhusjejm-
rater 9’ Rd E9, 57““ ﬁll? oi regret fueeeﬂz‘one pellrmtur, utroﬂer
Lupus [zzculente prohat. And can it be thought any thing lefs
than a work fufhcrently Meritorious , for Tapzﬂr thus todea‘l
With Princes, when they have all their Lands and Eﬂates gia-
ven them by the P OPE/himfelf, as the honeﬂt and jua Re.
Ward of their fuccefsiul Lab’ours? And that this is certain,
fee the (c) Conﬁitution of POPE Sorted-the Fourth, Sub-
fcribed by all the Cardinals , which declares, That all Trekzte:
and ‘Prz’mes, e'vetz KINGS and EMPERORS ,; fallen
into HERE S IE,- fhould he, and/hou/d he underﬂood to
he deprived of all their ‘Beheﬁces , State: , Kirga'om: , and
Empires , without farther @ecl/zrzztz‘on , and utzcczfahle‘to he
ref/fared to them , no hot hy the Apoﬂolich Jed; and their Goods,
States, Kingdoms, arid Empiret, ﬂmll he under/toad to he com-
mon , and to helortg to thofe Catholz'ehs that can get them. But
what is this 2 They hold it to be no ﬁne, Not to heep Forth
ate/lTeace , eat to ohfer've either 7?th or Harte/7) towards,
HER ETICKS; it is no deceit to Eqrti'vocate with. them
in rz' 'vzzte ﬂealz'izgs or fuhlich ﬂanfdﬂiom; ‘tz'sl‘ 720 who.
net]; to cheat them of what they have; no Terjury to hreah
Oaths with them 5 no Theﬁ‘ to Rah or 5130i] them; ”It: 710 In-
bﬁmam'ty to Burn their Hozrfe-s over their Head: , 120 M V R?-
THER to Kzllthem, altho KINGS and PRINCE SI;

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madarlgeta til-@6233” , mama, r'. lays a who E)»: (- r! )5 Anthonr‘bf I he
Papx’lﬁtfarrdproveis {it [too new them, from their own intake-rtﬂg‘j
- the Part/1‘s. ., writihg-‘U .-N6‘w¥.~if‘?i~t' be "no ﬁn’ to do any 0* melécthings ,-

theh'netieﬁai’ily’ -‘ be 'a9go'od‘ Nit-ion (f—o’r there is; land;
can "be"; onlyf'G'ood" and 'Evil Aétions )—’ and *ii‘ fo‘,"’753tlténiby
their-{agent {wﬁaffoever‘t v’ is ”Good is Mriv'roa‘zom ,ufaﬁcl‘r-«tlie-l‘é‘
thingsi‘fC‘M V RTHE R S and TR E AS 0 N 8‘ f0 c’i‘rtumﬂan.
away-Being Gd ' ~{itwould be‘Folly and Nonfenfe nm to think
th’ém “,Mei'itoriéﬁi'“; for, ray-the R/Mﬂﬁﬂ’ﬁ 5’71: MOﬂ (fa/25ft; at”;
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“Ven‘ly'n- Blellﬂednﬁs,‘ which the Seripture-calls, 77.53 Rfﬁtalrde
“"o'f‘ 11:? 7a]? "(16) is not given of Goal Gratis ,, but] is due to

' dradrOrtb. 9‘ their Good "\"V’orks; yea ,. God hath fet- forth Heayen‘to'sagc.
E‘Pl’“ 1:6'v“for our Goodr"Works. ~ And no Common Perfon ~18 to know

' \vhat4Good‘ andLEVill Works are , but as their .‘PI‘I'E'ﬂJ‘ inﬁrua'
‘therﬁ'. " Andﬁare the People to be blamed , if they lhonld chance
to*£rrfthrot \tliéit‘l—iTea‘chers Means and Fault? There“ is no
.regrowth:it:1th“thief-wetta-géand f0 they boldly Own it: For,_-
faiy-they ,- they iarernOt only ex‘cufed' for their Faults, when
theyithas wander with their Teachers , but t/yrz'r Oétdzeme
z‘b'th'Ta/i‘ors ‘oljerem 2's" Meritorious. Now , if" M V R-
THvE’IR'INGf-Of .HE RETI CKS ﬂiould really be a {in
( as -noneot‘ thorn will acknOwledge ) yet f0 long asthet‘frzrfﬂs

- -, and:,.J-E.S-V ITS “ lhall' tell‘them to the contrary , nay, {hall

.. cryt"1t"np as a 1'1ng Aétof piety ,' they are b0und to believe
them"? and {0 many M V R T H E‘ R S as the People ﬂiallcom-
mit on fuch a belief , and from the' pure Principle of “a blind,
ObediéUCe, {07 many Worthy and Holy. Aétions do they per-
form, and, bya neceﬂity of confequcnce, ’do merit accordingly.
Therefore how-great mul’t needs be theirReward in Heaven,
who 'lhall not only have their‘Hands embruedin a few; triﬂing,
petty M V R T H E R S ,, but lhall make whole Nations, and
Kingdoms fwim in-Blood, an’d lhall not {pare either 'Magi-
ﬂrates , Princes,~-or Kl N G S, if they dare be {0 prefum~
ptuOus, as to ‘owh- ‘a-contradiétory Opinion to theirs? “And
“ theyfcorn to receive Eternal Life at' Gods Hands , as a poor
“ Man receives. an‘wAlm's , far‘be that from them , it moves their
“ lndignation “to:think out, that they lhould expeft Eternal
“ Glory for GOds fake; they Will not {0 difparagetthemfelves,
“as“to have it in inch 9. beggarly way: They will have it‘ for
“their own fake, as that ‘whichihey fully del't4rvée , or 'elfe be
“without it; they will have itin a way more Glorious,‘ be-
?“ coming Perfons'of ”a tranfcendant WOrth; as Conquerors and
“ Tr‘iumphers, ’as Lawrels Which they have {wear fer, 77112914377:
-“falmézmjuis, fudorzém dréiz‘a‘an; and is‘due to their Merit: And
there is norhing in~'tlteir Accompt can exalt it more, than
'the way that [have been treating of. ‘ '
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_ I T H I N‘K this may very Well ‘fufﬁce, ‘ Without any farther tediohﬁ

nets, to make Clear the/Truth of my whole aflertion,.u howthe :Jeﬁii'té

“accompt MURTHER and TREASON to be Iawﬁl~5,.}{¢c4gﬂ"dr},5 ,_ game

’menolable', and meritorious sand therefore I {hall now? cometo that WhiCh

at ﬁrf’t Imainly intended, viz. to give them, and allvadherers t'oith'emg

fome ferio'us CONSIDERATIONS upon what I have (hid, fand'ftxco’n:

elude. ; .._ . ., ' ‘ 1W"
AND here let me ‘beg of you in the ﬁrl‘tplace to conﬁder what "21}h‘ig‘h‘ ‘

'and grievous oﬂ’ente .2 ' this of MURTHER and TREAS'ON-Lis, ,

in the eyes of that Allf'feei'ng, Heart-Earchin‘g God, ’ With Whom" they

have to do: .it is that-Which his Soul hates 5 for iteven ﬁrikes at {the

Majefty of God himfelf, .ﬁnce he creoteol Man cg‘ier bit more Image .€ it‘lis ~ ' .. in;

f0 t art-Offence, thathe poﬁtiVely commands it, that whoﬁeeer kil- Levit. 24.21;

[mﬁdl be put to Death, and bet/Jot is d WURTHE‘RERﬂJ‘oll

"SURE'LTbe. put to Deot‘b, and tbe Jeeiiger ﬂlbudﬂmll‘ﬂay 5252;; The Numb. 35g“:

Lifeof Man is the workmanfhip ofGo'El,‘ nay, ‘I may fay, "thefv’ery I33; ‘7’ '8’ —’9'

ﬁﬁion of hierorkmanlhip, and he'cannOt but cherifh, and have a

tender ‘ regard for that which was made in g the likenefs of Himfelfg {6

much as that in his great Council of-the Trinity, he fayes, «714472 isbé—

romeo: one, of‘UJ. That Was it WhiCh made Gaol lay dOWn in. an em refs

‘c‘ommandement engraven in Stene, THO?) SH/ILT JCOT KILL,

for When he ’maketb Inquiﬁtion for rBlond, (be ‘will remember tbem. i-And, pm," 9, [2:

(ayes be, S URSLT (to'put it for ever afterwards out of all peradven-

tux-e) tbe Blood of your liver will I require, at the bands of wer‘Be'aﬂ

will I require it, (f0 dear did God fet by it,that the very Beaft which did

but kill a Man, {hould nOt efcap'e unpunilhed,) and at the bond of man,

at tbe bond of every man’s rBrotber, will I require tbe life'of moi), land

wa/o jbeddetb mom’s blood, by man fbollbis blood beﬂaed 5 ( and here’s

the reafon ofit, and, believe me, ’tis a good one too,) for in the Image 601- 9. 5,6-

ofGod made be man. . This is to be, if you ferioully confidcr it; in the

greateft meafure unhke God himfelf, for he declares,‘ ﬁryie not’in me, mm, ,7, 4;

No.> what, not in that holy God, who is ofpurer - eye: tbaiz to-bebolol

Iniquit} with the leoﬂ approbation, and Whoisdayly and hourly provo-

ked by our great Tranf reiﬁonsg and {ball Man, who is 4 Wm;_' did

the Son ofmom tbot it 4 arm, as job expreiles it, be f0 offended, as to

leak this laft of revenges upon his Brother, and fellow-Creature? this

is to H in the face of that God that madeus, and to fupplant him in the

'deﬁgn he had of rendring us like to himfelf, in love, mercy, tender-

neﬁ, compaﬂion, éVc. And if to fave men renders us like unto our Hea-

venly Father, than do nOt we make our felves the Children of: the Di- ‘

vel, who was aMZJRTHERER from the beginning, in praéhﬁng the

‘maximes of the Divel according to the words of theBlelfed and Holy john. 3, 44;

JESUS? I deﬁre to {peak unto wife men, that will ferioully Judge of “

what I lay. But beﬁdes, '

 

 

IT is againft both the Doatrine and life of our deareﬁ Redeemer .-
. he would have merCy {howed to ﬁnners even to the end ' of the world,
. and Would have the Wicked n0t prefently to be cut off, but to remain
with the righteous, as appears by the parable of the Tares; fOr how
greata ﬁrmer foever a man may -be,we know not Whither his end {hallbje

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good, and Whither in the end; he {hall obtain mercy of God, Ck-mﬁ
bids. us be merciful 44 our heavenly Fat/re)" tr merciful .5. for. he lays, they
M receive were}; Now by an Argument ,e contrario ,‘ thofe that are
M, revengeﬁll, treachertms, bloud-thirfiy, mercilefs fouls, cannot
ﬁxpﬁél: but that in the lamegm‘eafure which they have meet-ed out to
others; 'it {hallsbefmeeted Ontgto them again; and that Gap! ﬂl‘ouldhave
no manner of Pity or Compa-fﬁOn for thofe that can be fo lavage, and
indeed, worfe than feral, towards their poor Brethren 5 for Beafis are
notfor deﬁroying their own-kind 5 no, they improve their fence better,
drand‘uch men do, their Reafbn‘,~whengthey do not: conﬁder that tholé
thm they, periécute, are of the flame ﬂelh, and Blond with themfelves,
and therefore it may be, I think ,L’Well, laid. to fuch What the Pr0phet
Iﬁu‘ab 27. 11. {hid in athhet-‘café,’ t/Jdt bet/Mt tiltade thew, willnot have mercy 072 #26722.
a B By the Law of 'C/Jrz'ft, we are obliged ,to give our lives for our Bre-
thrtfﬁ,'hoW'then can it be allowed that We .lhould kill them .> he lays,
" " ifbur-BrOther trelpaﬂes, we {hould privately .reproove him 5 if that
' Will not do: than take along with us one ortwo of the Beﬂ, and malt
W3 (bf his, and Ourﬁiendss if this avail n0t, then tell it to tbeC/Jurcb,
let the‘Paﬂors admonifh him 57 and if nOtlting can work upon him,what
' then .3» fhall We, piﬁol, - or poifon him, cut his throat, or torture him to
death? Inot‘hi' leis, but iflgbejzegleét to [tear the Cﬁurel), than have .720
ﬁllozvﬂiip with im, [mt let ' bit}! be unto thee 44 472 .Hedt/Jen rim”, and a:

_ waliczm. ~

I S ”here any thing of ﬁery heat, or immoderate excurﬁons of .paﬂion
013g»: , . ? Ghno, Cbrt/t is pallfweetnefs 5 his words and Doctrine are
all; ﬁne withtender expreﬁions of Love and Charity to Mankind;
read hisSerm‘on in the Mounts obferve his temper, and the whole
condué’tof his life, which was for our imitation, you {hall ﬁnd he was
continually doing good, and exerciﬁng a moft affeétionatecompafﬁon
to thOfe that hated him. ’Twas Death by the Law to commit Adulte.

§ ry, and yet when the woman that was taken in the very aét was
' brought before him, to hear what he would fay in that “cafes he does
not immediately fall foul Upon, her, and bid them go and execute the
rigour of their Law, but meekly and lovingly, and to their lhame and
conﬁlﬁon, bids them that were Without ﬁn, throw the ﬁrft ﬁone at her,
and When her informers were one, and {he Was left alone with him,
and befaid unto her, Worm”, w; ere are tho/e thine .Iemﬁrr, batty .720 mm
john 8. 10,11. condemned We ,2 andﬂteﬁid, 120 mm, Lord, ﬁle/it: fetid zmto her, ’ neither
do I tandem thee; go, aﬁeld/in no more. When they reviled him, fpit
upbn him, buffetted him, he Opened not his mouth; though he was
the Par: Leﬁ , and could have called to his Afﬁllance twelve Le-
gions 'of Angels, yet he bore all quietly, and patiently 5 nay, and af-

‘ tertallthe dreadful Agonies of his Cruciﬁxion, and the utmoﬁ extent
of their malice and wrath againft him, he breathed out his life with
this pailionate prayer for .thofe that perfecuted him, ﬂying, Fat/Jet for-
given/3e01, (he. then 8 t. Teter askedour SaviOur how often his Bro-
thErmigh't offend him, and he forgive him, he falls upon a Parable .
there, which {h0wes that every Chriftian ought to be merciful to his
Brother, how often {‘0 ever he offends againft him 5 becaufe we, fo of-
ten as We offend, ask mercy of God, wherefore, for. as. much as our

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Offence againft God is far more grieVOus, than-can: be any offence of
our Brotheragainli us, r’tis plain that we Ought/robe merciﬁil towards
our Brethren, if we will have mercy 'atGod’s handsNoW M'Z-JRTHER
was borhby the Doétrine and Life of Cbrz‘jt prohibited, audit was im‘.
pollible for. him to erre-in his .Doétrineor in his Life, for hewa’ssGod .5
and therefore it muft heeds .be...atzlawﬁtl, and a great/in, '_ Nay, haWHS

to far ﬁomfhaving any'goodthoughts’of this, mailman, Whom" . _

it but aogrjintitb bio“ (Bfw‘hr withouta 6431/3 fboll be in danger oft/ye judge
meet 5 mid wboﬁe‘oerﬂjeﬂﬁ} to. bir‘Brother Racha, .ﬂmll-Iye in dangers?“
the Cogneil, out wbofoe’oer foal! ﬁt]; "(and this is but a' Word (peaking)
thou fool, ﬂail [2e in'oldoge? Tof bell-ﬁre; What fhall Ethofe' then he in
danger of; that will accompt it nothing to kill their Brethren, but in

lo doing. {hall think ( if HE‘RETICKS) they doGod good fervice.

But again,-. ..

~ CONSIDER, is not: this’againftthe-very end Of the deIEent nfthe
Spirit, which was to ﬁll our hearts with Meeknels, .2 Love, and: Charis-
ty towardsall Mankind}; And is not this contrary to the Gofpel, whiizh
is a Gofpel 10f Peace; was not the Everlaﬁing Father the Princetof‘ ‘
Peace, and are no: we commanded to'feek peace and'purfue it? to fol-
low peace with all men,» and to live in Love and Peace? and to walk

' WOrthy OFthe Vocation 'Wherewith We are called, with- all Lowlinels

and Meeknels, with long fuﬁ'ering, forbearing one another in Love,
and indeafvouring to keep the-Unity .‘of the Spirit in the Bond of peace?
and is this to put on, ? as the Eleé’c of God, Bowels of mercy, Where
there is, or {hould he, could men have their Wills, nothing but Burn-
ing, Fag 'otting, Drowning, PrifoningyChaining, Famifhing, Hangi-
ing, RaC mg, Tormenting, and the like, Oh! Conﬁder in time, ml be
wife, leaf! God tear you in pieces, and thre be none to deliver. \

BESIDES, this does. by no means {how} the Excellency of the Hea—
venly Wifdoms For that confil‘ts in Purity, Peaceablenels, Eaﬁneﬁ to

, be intreated, Which is ﬂow to Wrath, and in forbearance, as Cbnﬂ’s

temper, was, which ‘is much magniﬁed by the Dignity of. his Perfon,
by the Power he had of‘doiig all things, andthe Holy-Ghoﬂ, which
every way gives us rules of Moderation, and mm of Cruelty and
Blood-(bed, as you may-fee throughout the Gofpcl. .

MOREOVER, conﬁder, You ﬁn ag‘ainf’t the Examples of all Good
men in Holy-Writ: [will begin with Moﬁr, that faithful Servant of
God, who, when the Peeple-of 1/2;an in his Abfence, had ﬁnned agreat
ﬁn, no leﬁ than committed Idolatry, made a Molten Calf, War/hipped,
and Sacriﬁced to it, what does he dog (and he was inﬂuenced by the

Spirit of God,) why he calls the people to him, and tells them, now rm. 1:. gm.
will I go up onto the Lord, pemdventure I fball make an .Jttonement for 3°? 3" 32'

joor (in. Am! Mofes returned zmto the Lord, and ﬁrst; 0/)! this People
bevelr'mzed a great (to, and have made them Godt of Gold : yet now, ift/Jou
wilt, forgive tﬁez’rLﬁizg and ifﬂot, blot we, I pm} tbee, out of to} Book
tactic/a t/sou lmﬁ written : he'does not think ofdcllroyitfiig them Root and
Branch, and‘in the greatnefs of their ﬁn cut them 0 , and {end their
Immortal Souls poll to H6115 no, but he himfclf would rather be Itilllfe

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'fuﬂ'erer, and feel the punilhment due .to them, than that God lhould

take‘the advantage againft them, and lay, the charge of their own ﬁn
upon them. Obferve likewif‘e‘ what job lays, to whom there was none

job ch. wing. like in all the Earth, a perfeét, and an upright man, one that ﬂared God,

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and efehewed evil, as 'Was God’s own charaé’ter of him. I have not re-
joyeed at the- Dtﬁrttétion { him that hated me, or lift up myﬁlf when evil;
found him; neither have ﬂtﬂered ‘my mouth to fin hy wi/hing a emfé ,
to his foul. No, he feared even to much as to Open his lipsagainft, not
only thofé that were enemies atohim, but againﬁ thofe that were 0p-
poﬁers of Gods he would pray: for fuch‘, as, were his lad comforters;
but though I1EP£TICKS to him, he never confpired their deaths and
mine, nor {0 mHCh aswrfhed thathod would fo far efpoufe his righte-
ous cauf‘e, as to cut them off hi‘mfelf. And if you ﬁnd, this under the
Law, can you expeft any léverer Doétrine from the Oeconomy of the
Gofpel? You know it is (aid, that the fruit ofRighteouﬁoeﬁ to mm in
Teaeeg and this is fuﬂiciently made good in the carriage of the Apo-
ftles. See that of St. ‘Panl towards the yew: : dOes he thunder out his
ll’lagnnm jaathana againll them, becaufe of their Areﬁive and obﬁinate
inﬁdelity .3 n0thingleﬁ, andhe calls God to witnefs, and to jufhﬁe What
he ﬁys 5 I jpeakthe. Truth in Chri/l, I lye not,.ymy C onfeienee alfo hearing
me W/itneﬁ in the Holy Ghojl," that I have great heaoineﬁ and continual
forrow in my heart 5 for I could wijh that my jélf were aeemjfedﬁ'om Chri/t,
rBrethren, my Kinfmen, according to the Flo/h. He deﬁred nor
their deaths, for he knew, to the grief of his heart, that they were by
no means ﬁt to die 5 but he could Wifh (he had f0 ftrange a fervency
of Zeal and Love, ‘for their fouls,) That he might be made a facriﬁce
to the juftice of God for them, and fo God would but convert and
ﬁve them, he could even have been content to have endured the eter-
nal wrath of his righteous vengeance due unto them. . What was the
carriage of St. Peter towards Simon Magm? he only rebuked him,
but he did not command him to be put to death, when he was guilty of
that great ﬁn, as to imagine the gift of the Holy Ghoft could be purcha-
fed with mony: fays St. ‘Peter thy money, perijh with thee, for that thou ﬁt -
poﬁﬁ the Gift ofGod to he bought with money, thonjhalt have neither part,
nor lot in thio‘ matter 5 thy heart it not 1711. before God, thereﬁre (mark

' here) repent thee of thy wickednq}; and pray unto God that this wicked '

thought of thy heart may he ﬁrgieentheea for I perceive thou art in the gall
of hitternefr', and in the bond of Iniqaity. Here was a grievous offence
in Simon Magoo, and St. (Peter gave him a harlh, and {harp rebuke,but
yet here were no thoughts of putting him to death : fo far from that
that he only gives him this ghoﬁly advice prefently to fall to prayer, and
to repentance, and if any thlng would provoke God to pardon and to
ﬁve him, thofe were the moﬁ probable and likely means to do it. The
time would fail me {hould I attempt to enumerate all the like roceeds
and carriages of the Holy Apoﬁles, Saints, and Martyrs of Go to their
fellow Brethren 5 I {hall conclude therefore this particular with his
Council, who intreats us, that a»: dear Children we would walk in Low,
and work them which do walk [0, and not walk according to theeom'ﬂ? of this
world, according to the Trina? of the Tower of the ./{ir, the Spirit that
now worketh in the Children of diféhedienee. But that above all things we
would haveﬁ’rvent Charity among our felter, for Charity covereth a .Mnlti-
mae of flm‘. FUR-

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FURTHERMORE, it is againl’c the very order of Prie/Zhood, - for
though it doth juftiﬁe the Judgments to death of the Laity, whereby
offenders are condemned to die,— yet are theg-fhemfel’xies interdiéted to
put in execution the fame Jun ments. The . rieﬁx ofthe old Law be; . _ 1
ing imperfeﬁ, when Pilate {Ex-i to them concerning Chriﬂ, ( whom [they fobyb.’ :3 vet:
had aCCuféd Worthy of d’eathQ take him nntoyon, and amending to your 0' . 3 °
\ Latvjndg hint, anﬁrered, that it may not lawﬁsl for them to pat any man to
Death. Whereby it plainly appears,-that our Prieﬂ: being muchpmor’e‘
perfeé’t, may nOtlawfully "give Judgment of death againlt any Offen4
dersg but yet notwithflanding, do not- our Roniiﬂ) Pricjtrclaim'e unto
themfelves the Power judicial upon oﬂ‘enders? although it be againﬂ?
their own very Canons for Prieﬂ: to meddle. in thecaule of-bloud. .
But not to tire out your Patience with a needlefs and unproﬁtable te-‘

diouﬁiefé, let me deﬁre’ you. /

IN the next place to eonfider, is not this the highel’t’ ‘pride im'a ina—'-
,ble to take upon you the Power'abfolutely‘ to deftroy, and = -nr--
ether KINGS, pull down Government, 'Alter the Religion that has been
for tome ages eftablilhed in 3 Kingdom, and lay all at your feet Wal-’
lowing in blond, that {hall not truckleto your Arbitrary Will, and, .
join with you to fer've Idol: of Silver and Gold, which are the worker Pﬂ 1154;. 4,5,
Ofneen: handy, which have months and ﬂea/(7101*, eiey, and fee not, earr, 6: 7’ 8' -
and hear not 5 nofer, and ﬁnell not 5 handy, and handle not 5 feet,and walk
not 5 nor ﬁeak the} through their throat 5 and when the}! that Ina/(e than
are like unto them, #6 is alfh every one that trufleth in them. * And What.
can be the fruit, and the reward offuch Almighty Arrogance, but what ' ' .
the APOmC St. Teter takes notice of and tells you, that if God ﬂ’dt‘é’d 2 Pet. 2. o. 4,).
77“ “83/167369 thdtﬁmied (that would fain have been God; themfézlves, sa' 5» 75 32 9”
and Were guilty of the lime damnable Ambition, that you now are IO’ 1” 12'
gmlty Oh) hilt €437 them down to hell, and delivered them into Chaim of I
darknefr, to he reﬁmed unto judgment, and fpared not the old world, hut
[’7'0’49 l7" 4 ﬂm’d ”P03 ”a (”id filmed the Citie: of Sodom and Gomorrha in-4
’0 afher, condemned them with an overthrow, mahing them an example an-
to thojé that aﬁerwardr ﬂyonld live ungodly, the Lord know: how (not on--
ly to deliver the godly out of 'l"i,);;.rpmn'om7 and us HERETICKS in yOur
eyes from all your hellilh and divellifh Confpiracies, MURTHERS-
and TREASONS,) but he knows alfo how to riﬁrve the nnjnf? to the .
d4}, ofjltdgmeﬁt to he pnnifhed, but chieﬂy them that walhafter the ﬂy]; in
the [aft 0 Zinc/canny}, and defpife Government, for preﬁtntptnow are
the}, and ﬁlf-willed, that are not afraid to fpeah‘evil of Dignitiet. Thejé,
”fixation hrnit (Bet/£575, made to he stahen and deflroyed, jpeak evil of
the thing: that the} under/hand not, and jhall utterly perijh in their own
corrnption. -

B E S I D E S,how unreafon’able a thing is it upon a P’olitick Account?
for it is impoliible to c0nvert any really to Anothers faith by force and
violence, and againli ones will: By {uch means n0t an Inﬁdel can be
made to believe in Chriﬂ, or be made a Chriftian 5 nordid ever Chrift
COFHC to deﬁroy by War and Bloodlhed any that believed not in him,
for he ﬁnd to his Difciples, when they would fain have had him to have

call’d down ﬁre from heaven, See. Ton know not what [pirittyon are of;
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the Son of man came not to cleﬂroj menh~ liner, hilt to ﬁoethem.‘ J Conﬁ-
der the very principles of Publique ﬁfety and tranquillity oblige you
nor to kill one anOt'her, for who then can ever be fecure of his own
life? ' ' ‘N \ . 'V

. BUT ﬁarther yet, let me bef‘eech you to conﬁder what KINGS are.
They are God’s peculiar anointed, whom he hath ﬁriétly charged us
not to touch. He hath communicated to KINGS his own Name. I
ﬁid Ton are GODS, not ﬂrbﬂantially or tﬂéntial/y, fo neither yet on the
, Other hand nfnrpatz‘zxe, by unjult Ufurpation, as the Devil, and the
23°05: 4;, TOPE, as you mayfee in thej’i cited Book 5 but poteflatioe, as having-
fmﬂfggufe, his power derived from God within his’Dominions and Territories.
Miner. 12. Our Soveraign is ‘ex cnjm'ﬂiiritn, as one {aid of ﬂexanoler, '770! 017171?!
ﬁiritum dncimm, the breath of our Nollrils, by whom we have our
Animation and Subﬁftance. Goal hath ordered KINGS and @EENS
to be his Vicegerents here on earth, to maintain andprelérve Religion
in it's purity, and hath conferred grtatnefs and WAj‘ESTI‘ upon
them, to make them Defenders, Nurﬁng Fathers, and Nurfing Mothers
of his holy Church: that all Atheifis and Polytheiﬁs, and all fuch as
break. the moral and eternal Law be correé’ted, chaﬁifed and reﬁrained,
upon which: accompt it is faid that. Rex efl Cir/lo: atria/inc tahnla’. And
* madam». to this purpofe the Regal Ofﬁce is thus deferibed in K KG 7" Edward’s
fell- cap-I 7401- Law, as it is cited in that worthy and learned Piece, called the King:
I Supremacy. Rex, qni Vicarimﬁrmmi Regir eﬂ ad hoc elf con flitntm, nt
regnum terrennm é popnlum Domini, c§~ ﬁrper omnia, janélam veneretnr
(0)1171” {69 Eccltﬁam ejw & regat, é~ ah injurioﬁs defendat. Nay, POPE (o) Elem
gggﬁgcgﬁ theriiuhimfélf writing to anina the ﬁrl’t Chriﬁian KING we read. of
Rm Britannia. in the world, {tiles him GOD’S Vicar within his .own Realms I will
nOt recite the whole Epiftle, but only what makes to my pre-
fent purpofeg fayes he, Ton have received of late through God’s mercy in
the Realm 0 (Britain the, Law anal Faith of Chriﬁ, Ton have wit/110;;
within the calm hath the part: of the Scripturer5 "out of their: by God’s
grace, with the Conncel of your Realm, make you a Law, and [if that Law
through God’rﬁiﬁrance Rule your Kingdom of Britain, (mark here) for
Ton be Gocl’: Vicar in your Kingdom : and he concludes thus, Theyﬂ.
might} God grant Ton to rule reel/your Realm of (Britain, that you may
Reign with him for ever, who/e Vicar Ton he in the Realm. Here is a dou—y,
ble acknoWledgement of the KING of Great Britain to be God’s Vicar .
Upon earth : {hall any then dare to lift up their hands agamft him, and
think to go unpunifhed.> How, oh ye Po es, do you degenerate
from the goodnefs of your holy Predecellor leatherinr, whofe Inge-
nuity and vertue you follow nor! whofoevcr toucheth KINGS, do, as
pmvcrbs. it were, touch the Apple of God’: eye, for by him KINGS reign, and
Prince: decree j‘uﬂice. Therefore we- are fo Far obliged not to confpire
againﬂthem, and deliroy them, that we are nor allowed by any means
to fpeak the leall evil, and unbecomin word of them: For {ayes 701g,
10b3,“, hit ﬁt to ﬂy to a KING, thou art wicke , and to Prince: ye are ungodly-P
He puts. it Eemingly by way of Qaeftion, but it is in truth a determi-
native ud ement pail all peradventure that we on ht not : What,
tho a I G may be in your acCompt a HERETICK, mull you pre-
fently goe, and lay violent hands upon him? God forbid: leave that to
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the Almighty, who Work} and none cattle“ for you ate told in the holy 39 g ,
Scripture, that the KING’S heart is. in the hands of the Lord, at; the Ri-é

oer: of Water 3 he tarneth it whitherfoever. he will, and therefore Ton '
fhonlel fear the LORD and the KING, and be fure not. to with the KING,

no not in your heart, and much leis betray and MURTHER him, by
damnable Councells, and wicked hands z'That‘ would be an offence

prime impreﬂionia, and confequently'ﬁne nominee, for it would be not

onlya MURTHER of the KING, but of the Kingdom, nonp‘Regie, ﬁat
. Regni. —-—Beﬁdes, it is‘a Rulenot capable of contradié’tion, thatby

. how much more excellent the Perfon is, To much the more heinous is
‘ the offence that is done unto him-r, as, to offend an ofﬁcer, is in the
eye of the Law more than to loffend'a private Subjeét 5 aMagiPtrate,
, morel’than'an inferiour Ofﬁcer, a Peer, ,more than a Magiﬁrate, fo'r

that IS Scandalnnz Magnatunz 5 a Prince more than a Peer, and a

M O N A R C H more than a Prince. Nay, , put the cafe that a KING

{hould be in the wrong, andfhould ”punifh thoiethat are in the right,

yet we 'ought' to pray for them, and not to lift up our .handsagainft

them, and much leis offer'to kill them, and all that adhere to them,

Read the Chapter in the margin, where You Will ﬁnd a PrOphet pray— , Kings 1;.
ing for an Idolater, and per ecuting KING, toreftore that very hand from the ﬁre
he had firetched out againlt him, to apprehend and imprifon him for t° the 7 V6"
Prophecying againli his Idolatrous Altar, by God his fpecial Command.

And did not Daniel likewifeperform this duty, that was a Captive

under Dariw, though a Pagan KING, an Idolater, an enemy'to the

Whole 76'me Nation, a Forreigner, of the rPerﬁan, not Maelmﬂ: race,
an‘impious Tyrant, PerlEcutor of himfelf, and an enemy to. the. True
, God, after he had by his own Decree, at the folicitation of his Prlnces,

0n purpofe to infnare Daniel,thrown him into the Lyon’s den?Yet,not~
withftanding all this, which might in the Judgment of ﬂelh and bloud
difoblige Daniel- from his dutiful Allegiance to, and prayer for Darizn',

his Life and Happineis 5 no fooner did KING Daria; come to the Ly-

on’s Den the next morning, crying with a' lamentable voice laying, 0

Daniel, Servant of the Living God, is thy God whom thou/5mg} contmn- Dan.6.2o,2I-
all} “[716 to deliver theeﬁ‘om the Lion: .3 the very ﬁrﬁ words Daniel ufed,

he brake forth into this molt Loyalrfalutation of and Prayer for him.

0 KING, line for ever, 6w. And am: before t ee, 0 KING, have I

done no hurt. He calls him KING, no leis than twice t ether, not

Tyrant, Inﬁdel], ( which is worle than HE RE T1 C a ) Perfe-

cutor, enemie of God , and his People. HOW much more then

{hould we pray for our own Hereditarie , Natural, Rightful KINGS?

and n0t endeavour to take away their Lives , Abfolve thelr Sub-

jeCts from their 'Obedience to then), Alter the. True Religion,

as it is, by Law eﬁablilhed, - and fubvert the Government, mine the

State, and bring in {hangers to invade it. Moreover, do but conﬁder

how mild and gracious our prefent KING bath (and f0 have his Pre~
deceﬂbrs) been to you here, and let that convince you that your ﬁn

againft him is the greater. For KINGS that are great, and alfo good,
' one ought nor to offend willingly by any means, Nay, though they were

{hangers to us, but if they make themlélves our Friends, and liberal
Beneﬁﬂors, Nature teaches us that they deferve f0 highly of us upon
‘ all accompts, that it would be the laﬁ ingratitude of all, but to thinkF
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'of doing any thing’ that may give them the leal‘c difpleafure. 'But to

1 Pam. 13,14.

1 Tim. 2. I, 2.

I Car. 1319* 5.

Plot and Contrive to kill thoie that have laid great obligationson us,-
that have giVen us,great Priviledges and Liberties in the way of a eon:
trary Religion to their own, this does {0 much the more aggraVate the
crime, and make ittto beCOme a AIom'irz/m borreaa’awg for all know
that Benefitia coriﬁ’rtmt- jz/a‘ et poteﬂatem Berrefaéfo‘riﬁ, aﬂd kindneiies d0
never lay ingagements on us to beecruel, blood-thirﬂy, and trea-‘
cherous many," but, above all, to Rich liipreme Benefaé’tors' as
KINGS. .. a , - A V ~ ,

' I CONSlDER again, we arecommanded by the Apoﬁle St. Peter to
f‘ubmit our fel'ves to KINGS let-them he never fuch H EREIYCKS, and
remember what-St:.Timotby (ayes, I exlsort jdlt'fberefére tbatfrff of all
(mark here) ﬂipplieatiom, prayers,-Itrteroe1/iom, and giving (filmy/{3 be
made for all men, ﬁrr King:, and for-all tbat are in ﬂtbority : Where
note the plurality and Univerfality of the word KINGS, inth‘e Plural,
and wt in the {ingular Number 5 and that Without any reﬁrié’rion of '
their perfonal qualiﬁcations, eXtending univerlally to all KINGS, and
excluding none, though Pagans, Idolaters,Hereticks, Schifmaticks, Ty-
rants, Oppreﬂbrs, Perfecu.tors,- ‘Mardererr, WiCkCCla prophane, .viti-
0113, or ﬂagi'tious, in any kind, for? which many might doubt Whlther
they ought to pray. But here the Queﬁzion-is put beyond all further
dif ute, for if we ought to pray for all men, then certainly for all
KFNGS, tho the Apoﬁle had-not snamed KINGS, for all KINGS
are men 5 and if. for ALL'that are in Authority, then certainly for ALL
KINGS being in Supreme Authority, and included by ﬂame, between
thofe‘ two Univerlals, JILL; WE 1V, and ALL IN All THO-
RITY.’ ~ '.

B UT fuppofe the Roman Catholick Religion (215 ridiculoufly it is
termed,eiz,.a particular Univerfal Religion)fhould be the true,and Pro-
teﬁantifme a falfe and Heretical 5 methinks, thiscannot rife up to be
a ﬁlfﬁcient motive for You therefore to M U- R T H E R, but a great
deal rather, to pity your Brethren that are of anorher and wron
perfuaﬁon and belief, and to bear with them: the Apoftle St. ‘Paul
advifes us, to as much, when he fa-yes, We then that are ftroag, vougbt'to
bear tbe Inﬁrmitie: of tbe weak, and not to pleafe our/8106: 5- ( by reaking 1
our Malice and revenge upon them) but let every one of w pleaje bir
Neigbboar for bit good to Edi/ieatioa. It is oblErvable What Saint Jig-
ﬂiﬂ ﬂies, that a Mail jbould alwaye: preﬁrt'e Cbarity m bia beart, (”21672
wbea be it obligedto do outwardly tbing: tbat to ,Mea feem very bar/b, am!
to ﬁnite tbem, tbougb’witb a rougb, yet an obligirrg fwerity 5 their Acb’é'dil- . _
tage, not their Deaths, and, it may be, damnation thereby both of
foul and body, being to be preferred before tbeir owzz jiztirfaﬁ'iom : Cha-
rity nee retia tendit, ﬂee bedere intendit, it neither does, nor defires
anorher’s harm, it commits no evil, it thinks no evil, faies the Apoﬂle :
no, but it cover: a multitude of ﬁm. Beﬁdes,‘ diviﬁons are arguments
of a ﬂefhy minds for you are carnal, faies Saint ‘Paul, for wbereao tbere
it" yet among you eat/yiag, ﬁriﬁ’, and diz'iﬂom , are you not e'arﬁal, and
walk 45 Wen? keeping up your particular Faé’tions and intereﬁs to
the mine both of your outward and inward Peace and Qgiet.

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CONSIDER in the next place, that totdo Injuﬂice in the name OF
God is only to palliate Cruelty with the vizard of Holinefs 5 and it is
greater than the cruelty it {Elf}, ﬁmzlota pz’etm eft’ duplex Irzz'quz'tao, it is
. more hateful to God and men to Murder one in the arms of Love,
and pretence of friendfhip, than to run a tilt at a man, and kill him
out of malice 5 the ﬁn ; of judo: received its aggravation by the betray;
ing kifs : 'there is not only the cruelty, but the Abuie of the 'name of
Virtue, under which it creeps, is hatched and {hrOWded5 the prolii-
tution of virtue to .the Bawd of vice, is the eVil. Sad will be the At;-
compt of fuch fouls, for they mull: be forced to live with the Salaam”:-
oler in theﬂames of divine wrath, which theie horrid cruelties purchaie
as their Inheritance 5. and yet for all this, What is thought had enough
to advance Popery ? Whrtherr, Treacherier, Plots, Perjuries : What {0
Cruel, blafphemous, and bloodyg, what f0 unnatural among men, or
criminal before God, which they {tumble at! if it may advance them
but one ﬁep forward to their Barbarous defires.‘ But I will, only
tell fuch faVage A/Iurtherer: what Dr. Gel! [ayes of them, that ~- for-the. G‘lf‘fe’m’”
portion of their cup, they {hall meet with a greater puniihtnent than m- °'
Hell it félf; which Will be“ the lake of ﬁre burning with ‘Brimﬁone, and . ‘ .' ,_ i
that, That is nor Hell, the 9‘ Text will put it out of all controverﬁe, " Ree-2.05.13.
Death and Hell delivered up the dead which were in them, (he. and death 1‘4" ‘ ' j
‘ and heﬂ were mi? trim the lake of ﬁre, am! who/Bearer. war, not formal written " ' I
in the book of Iiﬁ, and that the Where is one of thofe that {ball re:
ceive‘ this. .puniihmwt, ,’tis poﬁtively {aid in the nextChapter. fthtthe Rev-2L8.
ﬁarﬁdhwd uxbeliwz'oggod‘ the Abominable, and Murtherets, there‘ is the
name, jhall have their part in the lake which burner with re and. briMﬂone.
Thou, we): Thou, 0 God, art greatly to be feared, 4rd w', _my {hand in ﬁg, >9 PM“,
ﬁght, when once Thouare angry. ‘ _ . V ..‘ .

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AGAIN conﬁder, fome of your own men have been troubled in ,1. i ;
Confcience for rebelling againﬁ: thEir Princes. When * Gregory the mﬁ’Zf‘” "mm
the @venth had, afier he had depofed him, excommunicated the Egg.
peror Henry the fourth, (Imperatorem ipﬁzm’ anathemateinotavz't, Widow”? Plain i’;
prim omot. Regiez Admintftmtioneﬂ he tranﬂated the Empire toRudolph GYW' v L
Duke of S mm, but though he gave him the ire, he did net deli.-
ver it, for Rodolpb was {lain in Battle by the mperor: Rome was
taken by the Emperor, and Gregory died for grief. The laft words of
Rudogoh are remarkable: feeinghis hand cut off, he ﬁnd to the Bilhops
that had made him to take up Arms, Touﬁe my hand whichI had Iiﬁ up
to God with rm 04th of ﬁdelity to my Soveraz'gn, 710w punt/he’d ﬁ’ﬁgbﬁ”g
Traiterw/ﬂy again/Z him by your Inﬂigatioat. This was like joﬁph’s Bret 601442.21.
thren, who called to mind their ﬁn ag'ainft him, acknowledging the ,
juftdelért of that Diﬂrefs that was come upon thcmg (I!) for here it hiyiiifiiif
feems that the ‘PO‘PE’S command could not clear his Confcience of the to Mini. Au}.
crime oF Rebellion. - . ' ; . “cop-85-

CONSIDER further, that if we are commandedtolove our enemies,
who is there then that we are allowed to hate, and efpecially {o as to
perfEScute and deﬁroy them :9 Si Inimico: jubemur deligere, quem hobe~,
bimm odrﬂz e item [i [4%) wire”: re ﬁrre prohibcmur, rze dc ﬁzbfo parerﬁmar,
qm’m po/jnmw [alEre .3 And if We are nor permitted to hate their Bo-

dies, to Marther them, to be hire, much lefs, to do any thing that may
I _ hurt

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hurt their foulsg foras Wenas. the Martyr faid in his Torments, all the
world, if it were weighed in the rBallance, to not too he compared to the
worth and price of one foul. But you may alfo in a commOn perfecution,
take away fome oﬁ your friends, as well as Enemies, and likewife ma-
ny Innocents among thoie whom You accompt offenders; Now, were,
it to convert the whole Earth, it were not Iawfull to traduce, much lefs
to kill the Innocent, becaufe we mull~ not commit the leaﬁ evil to pro—
mOte the- greatef’tgood 5 for the Truth of God doth not ﬁand in need of
our lie, as the Scripture ﬁnes, for hio Glory. And it it a certain ﬁgn of
' a hard heart , and a graceleﬁ foul to heﬁcure and chearfull under. a known
(in: that man that can flee]? foundl}i after a Wurther, and that can give

' “merry check: to his“ Con jcience, hath an heart injenﬁhle of all goodneﬁ, and

' "may prove a ﬁt ﬁre-brand for Eternal ﬂanzeo. . .‘

AND now, after all thefe ferious reﬂeétions, can you blame our
_ Laws that are only; made in pure Necellity to fecure our (Elves P, not
out of-a’ny grudging pique or indignation to your Perlons, for as men
We refp’ec't you 5 but. Your Bloudy Principles force usto what we
a Vid. 5,, 1% do; Nay, Yourown * ‘Prieﬁ: have acknowledged the Juﬁice of our
min 0f the K- ‘Lawes a ainfi you," becaufe we. have fuﬂered fo much from you,
‘3; e 22%;” to William at/‘o'n', the Secular Trig/i, 4- (aid, that all the Suﬁering: brought
”Pa’itbe Tupi/ht here in England were the due Reward for their own de- '
merits: which anionic is as true now, as ever it was in his daies. The
‘ Seculars and Regulars in Queen Elizabeth’s daies, confeﬂed, that though
the} .dgfliked the feveriy: of her Lawr, yet they could not but acknowledge,
tbﬂth? State W great Cdlljé 1'0 make/ital), except tbeyﬂmuld 5471612783721
1W.CMﬁdt- themfelve: . careleﬁ, and though the Law: were very extreanz, yet the 05m-
3%,; 233;. ﬁon: of them were “0919’ outragiow, . and likewi e, that the execution of than
2:15an f.6 5. war not/o tragzeal, no man} did Write and eport,
» T0 clofe up all, having, here laid all thefe conﬁderations before
. _ y‘Ou, Ifcannot fay , as the Roma Epitomizer of his Hiﬁory did, in
i" ' ‘ ‘ 'hreoi'Itahella‘ totain ejno imaginenz amplexnoﬁtni, that in a {mall'compafs
‘ Ihave comprizedthe whole 5 but ratherquite- contrary, in ample tahnla
non dimidianz ejno imaginent amplexnoﬂnn 5 the halfof this ﬁn'of MUR-
' THE-Ry and TREASON hath not all this while been defcribed unto you;
but however in what I have dOne, it would be well if you would take
the advice of the Prophet, and tell Tour Children of it, and let Tour
3M- 1- 3. "children tell their Children, and their Children tell another generation, ﬂ)
my you take away the cell from the. mid/t of you 3- and other-o, when they
at» ”76“": 1'.» {24,3 ,, per/14p: mayfear, and do no more anyﬁreh wzchedneﬁ. '
MZM.CMP!T pro- ﬁ_-; _» 3 .
Z’Zﬁfgﬁﬁ; 7 LE T. us now . pray for the Peace of jerufzilenz, that Peace may he
545‘ frame”. within ‘fher Walla, and rPro/perity. within her» Palace: .3 they ﬂJ'all proﬁrer
Wm” mu" that Love her, and let us fear the L ORD, and the KING, and not

rum, domum tu-

tm , exercitw: meddle with thentthat are given to change. And for our * KING, let all

unites true Loyal ham- pray with me, ﬂying» Be were! W Hr» 0

Wham, orbm God, for Wenwould ﬁzrallow'hirn up , the): whet their Tongue: like a
ZZZ?” £0312; Sword, the}l Communeq‘laying Snare: prit'ily, and theyfa} who [hall ﬁe

er carom nota then: B thwjuddazl} would the} ﬂroot at hint, and fear not : lat do thou,

."j:;;p:€f:‘;1133:“ who halt hitherto kept him by thy miraculous Providence, ﬂill pre-
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ﬁrz’e bi: life ﬂow fear of tbe Enemie, bide bimerz tbeﬁcret Council of' '
tbe wicked, from tbe Iﬂﬂzrreét’ion of tbe Workers of Irzz'quity; deliver bitii
out oftbe Hand of the Wicked, out of Hand of tbe 'Unrz'gbteew' and era-a
el M4725 and let tbem‘ be aﬂmw'ed and conﬁunded tbzzt ﬁek after bi: Soul; ’
let tbem be turned backward and put to confttfz'oﬂ, tbat defire bis“ burtg fa
f/Jalltbe Rigbteow be glad in tbe Lord, and tmﬂ in bim, and all tbe up-
rigbt in beart ﬂmll glory. And now and hence forward from all Sediti—
on, Privy Conﬁiracy, and Rebellion , from all falfc Doblriize, , Hereﬂe;
and Scbz’fme 5 from bardmﬁ of Heart, and Contempt of thy Word and
Commmdmentx, Good Lord deliver us all. .xfmen. '

 

 

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