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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56079	A Protestant antidote against Popery with a brief discourse of the great atheisticalness and vain amours now in fashion. Written in a letter to a young lady. By a Person of Honour.	Person of honour.	1673 (1673)	Wing P3820; ESTC R220564	36,838	182

will require a much wittier Pen than I pretend to be Matter of and a larger Volume than I design to trouble you with but this Character which indeed merits volumes of praises I am sure I can give you without needing wit or abusing of time and if I could here cast up the summe total of all the vices that your Sex are either guiltie of or scandaliz'd with which I 'le assure you are more than a few their number might be tedious to read but need not be disagreeable for you to hear since by naming all those faults they are infected with I should but tell all those you are free from But Madam my design is now to remove my Batterie and change my Scene of Writing as you have your place of Living and to level my Discourse not at the vices and pleasures of London nor the pastimes of the Court but at your Country Neighbours the Woods and Mountains of Macroome which renders it a place much fitter to exercise your patience than satisfie your delight were you of the humour of most Ladies but all know you are not onely an Excellent woman but an Extraordinary Wife I mean in Goodness for 't is rare now to meet a Wife that 's not extraordinary for you take as much satisfaction in the cares of well managing and improving your Estate as most other Ladies delight in the lavishing theirs so that I can truly say you have not onely brought your Lord a large summe of money for your Portion but a continued increase of Rent by your Industrie And I am sure Madam if you were now ask't as the Philosopher was Where was his home you would answer now as he did then My home is still where my chief business is so that now your chief concerns and Family which is still the good Wives Treasure being at Macroome I must conclude your heart is there also A place where in lieu of London crowds of good Company swarms of divertisements you must prepare to meet with and do penance to your self among the Flocks of Priests and Fryers against whose Popish insinuations and infectious perswasions I here present you a small but necessary Collection of Arguments to carry about you as a preservative in your own Religion and an Antidote against theirs and though I cannot pretend this pocket Pistol is a sufficient Battering piece to beat down their infallible Church yet I doubt not but it will at least be a sufficient Life-guard to defend you and your Chamber against their assaults They are most of them argumentative reasonings I pickt out of Mr. Chilling-worth as one that reasons best and satisfies me most of any I ever read and knowing you want a Collection of choice flowers I heartily wish that these I have gathered out of his Garden and here sorted and made up to present you in a Nosegay may serve you against the unpleasing savour of Popish Doctrine and I wish they may not altogether degenerate from the common nature of flowers which the Naturalist tells us grow larger and better by being transplanted so that I hope you will not find them the worse nor like them the less for being transplanted but receive these Arguments just as you do your Rents without caring whether your Tenants have the Money out of their own bags or borrow it so you have it to supply your occasions Truly Madam I have taken some pains and spent much time in reading the Discourses of the Papists against our Religion and though I have consider'd their Arguments without the least Byas or antedated prejudice yet I can give no better a Character of them than I do of ill Dealers the more I have to do with them the worse I like them they savour much of self-interest teaching Church Government before Gospel Obedience witness their holding Marriage a greater crime in a Priest than Fornication the one is but forbid by their Churches Law which they all know is disputable the later by the Law of Christ which they cannot but know ought to be past all dispute And truly Madam if you please to admit your reason to make but a short progress into the Popish Religion you shall find much to create your wonder but little to satisfie your reason or belief for the Gospel of Christ is the Gospel of Truth and therefore ought still to be pictur'd naked as Truth without any Art of Roman Dresses which are onely obscure shadings of the true light of Scripture by making dark Paraphrases on the plainest Gospel Commands which in all reason ought to be plain enough for the meanest capacity for God forbid it should be otherwise for the meanest Christian must be saved or damned for keeping or not keeping them and sure God's Justice will never send persons to Hell for not doing what they could not understand was his Will they should do that were such a cruelty as if a man should torment his servant for not doing his Errant when he knew he did not understand his Message yet the Papist must not take these plain Gospel Commands as such but as they are distill'd in the mysterious politick Lymbeck of the Popish interest indeed Mystery and Obedience is so interwoven in that Religion that Papists must take what their Priest tells them as men do wives for better for worse and must marry their Faith to their Churches infallibility which allows that onely to be Gospel which their Church sayes shall be not what the Apostles write is so for the Papists must obey the Pope though no where commanded in the Gospel but must not read the Gospel though they are commanded there to do it Nay when once the Papist can but touch the small Needle of any ones reason with the Great Loadstone of the Harmonious Doctrine of a necessary Obedience to their infallible Church then they make such follow it to every point of the Compass be it good bad or indifferent and so they sail all their life in a Trade-wind of ignorance and superstition and must belive their Priests words before their own senses in the plainest objects of them as in the Miracle of Transubstantiation where you must have eyes and see not hands and feel not but must believe in a moment real Bread and Wine to be turned into perfect Flesh and Blood though you cannot see the least change whatsoever yet they are bound to belive their Priest before their eyes smell or taste nor dare their Priest say that the consecrated Bread which they esteem the real Body of Christ will be less mouldie or more uncertain of corruption after Consecration than before and the jeast of it is that at the same time the Papists believe that Miracle they also believe this Scripture That God will not suffer his Holy One to see corruption And though for these and many other reasons I cannot believe this Transubstantiation-Miracle yet I cannot but admire this Miracle that belongs to Transubstantiation which is how the Pope can