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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26596	A moral discourse of the power of interest by David Abercromby ...	Abercromby, David, d. 1701 or 2.	1690 (1690)	Wing A83; ESTC R6325	62,955	218

Irregularities but upon a fair prospect of some very considerable advantage for themselves and this is chiefly the maintaining of the People in their blind Obedience to the Authority of their Church which notwithstanding all her pretences to Infallibility holds it to be both lawful and useful for Men to make their Spiritual Exercises in an unknown Tongue though this be such a piece of blind Obedience as would make us say to God in our daily Addresses we knew not what since the imaginary general Intention of the Church they pretend to be sufficient in this case could never supply the particular want of Knowledge in what relates immediately to the good of our Souls Now how Antichristian soever you may judge it to be to keep the Scriptures that are God's Letters Patents to all Mankind from the common people Yet the Papists are oblig'd through a principle of Self-preservation to condemn the common use of so dangerous a Book as they call the Scripture And I confess it to be so for them as mentioning no where the fundamental and distinguishing Articles of Popery the Infallibility I mean and Universality of the particular Church of Rome the Transubstantiation of the Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ that are now in Heaven the Lawfulness of Image-Worship Relick-Worship of Prayers to the Saints and for the delivery of the Souls pretended to be in Purgatory c. If the people were made sensible that these things were not reveal'd in the Word of God they would without any longer delay shake off the insufferable Yoke of Popery since they might soon understand by the daily perusal of the Holy Writ that these and the like new coin'd Articles are meer humane Inventions and not God's reveal'd Word The Papist then I fancy how foolish soever you may think him acts wisely and according to the great Law of Self-preservation in not allowing the people to read the Scripture because the common use of this Divine Book would prove the utter ruine of the Romish Church for the Reason I just now hinted at ARTICLE XXXIX 1. Men generally more concern'd for their own Reputation than for the Honour of God 2. A Young Lady severely used by her own Mother and upon what account 3. The late Prince of Conde's Reflection against the French Bishops Though Fathers and Mothers vertuously enclin'd can hardly bear with the irregular and sinful Actions of their Children yet 't is observable that they are much more concern'd for some sins they commit than for some others though perhaps more heinous and more grievous in their own Nature As for instance How many take little or no notice of their Childrens Drinking Swearing Gaiming Stealing c. who nevertheless use them with the utmost Severity if they chance to commit such sins of frailty as may occasion either disgrace or shame to themselves or their Familes This I can give you a sufficient proof of by what I have once observed my self in the behaviour of a very precise and godly Lady towards the best of her own Daughters though look'd upon by her as the very worst because she had been overcome by the fair words and reiterated promises of a deceitful Lover The Young Lady having liv'd till then in great Reputation among her Neighbours was thought a true Pattern of Vertue and Modesty by all that knew her Whereas her Sisters were known to be guilty of lying drinking of detracting of all Mankind to say nothing of their insufferable Vanity and Pride of their Gaiming late and early or rather whole Nights and whole Days and of many other immoral Exercises of that kind for which their godly Mother never so much as once check'd them in good earnest though upon the first discovery of her Eldest Daughters Misfortune she fell upon her in such a fury that had she not been rescued out of her hands it was generally believ'd she had murder'd her You may easily think I design by this short passage to tell you that such as are meer pretenders to Vertue mind always more their own Concerns than those of God Almighty whom yet they seem to honour so much with their lips as to check and condemn all such as make not so great a show of Godliness as they upon all publick occasions commonly do The sins of the Sisters I was speaking of were sins indeed against God but the Fault committed by the Ladies Eldest Daughter was something else as being a disgrace and a stain to the Family and that I fancy this Old Lady was chiefly if not only concern'd for or that her Daughter by this unhappy accident had lost that which did best qualifie her for a rich and honourable Match What happen'd lately in France is somewhat a-kin to what I have been discoursing of since it lays open to the World such as are but seemingly concern'd for nothing more than for the Honour and Glory of God The Famous Moliere had written a Comedy intituled Tartuffee against Bigots Hypocrites and all sorts of meer Pretenders to Religion but with so little applause from such as knew themselves to be guilty that the Bishop of Autun the chief Man as it was reported aim'd at in the Play assisted by some of his Brethren complain'd to the French King of the Wrong done them by Moliere who having inform'd the Prince of Conde of their whole proceedings gave his Royal Highness occasion to say That several Treatises had been dispers'd up and down the Kingdom to introduce Atheism which the Bishops took no notice of because there the Honour of God only was concern'd but that now they appeared with a greater Zeal than was requisite against Tartuffee because their own Reputation seem'd to lie at stake ARTICLE XL. 1. Interest the frequent Cause of Ingratitude 2. King Charles the Second's Behaviour towards his best Friends 3. Lewis the XIV highly oblig'd by the French Hugonots Such as forget or reward not the good done 'em by their best Friends and Benefactors are generally thought either to be guilty of or not to scruple much at any other Crime according to the old saying Si ingratum dixeris omnia dixeris Yet the Power of Interest is so absolute and so arbitrary as to cause Men sometimes not only to forget their true Friends but likewise to promote and enrich their greatest Enemies What Obligation Charles the Second had to the Cavalier Party in England Scotland and Ireland 't is too well known to be told again in this place How many both Noblemen and Gentlemen stood up for him in the worst of Times to the hazard and loss of their Lives and Fortunes suffering patiently till he came home again the greatest Extremities that Oppression and Want could expose them to Who had not thought but that upon the Return of King Charles to England they had been all nobly rewarded for their past Services and Sufferings for their constant loyalty and daily endeavours to set things again upon their first