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A postscript of advice from Geneva to be added to each of Mr. Care's several volumes of Advice from Rome.
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Ignoramus.
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Wing P3024; ESTC P144
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the Puritans mild Defence faithfully extracted out of the Treatise of the Protestant private Spirit chap. 9. § 8. subdivis 4. viz. Vnder the Papacy men were Religious and given to the practice of good works but that the Professors of your Gospel relying on their Justification by only Faith are become careless of good works dissolute proud envious malicious disdainful covetous ambitious that your eyes ought to gush out with tears to behold the misery of your supposed Church the great Ignorance the superficial Worship of God the fearful Blasphemies and Swearing in houses and streets the dishonour of Superiours the Pride Cruelty Fornications Adulteries Drunkenness Covetousness Vsuries ond other like Abominations that Youth amongst you becomes daily less tractable and more bold to commit those Vices which in former times men of years knew not That instead of Fasting you have brought in Bibbing and Banqueting and instead of Praying Swearing And finally that you equal the Jews in Hypocrisie the Turks in Impiety and the Tartars in Iniquity And lastly your learned Brother Eberus in his Praefat. Coment Philip. in Ep. ad Cor. sticketh not to say That in regard of the enormous wickedness of your Ministry and Church any man may justly doubt whether you are the true Church Whoever desires to see more stuff of this nature may peruse a Book entituled Pasquil of England unto Maâ—tin junior or the other of Pasquil and Marphorius and Dr. Sutcliff's Answer to a Libel supplicatory from which and several other Authors of that kind the ingenious Reader may easily collect how obvious and facile it is for any party to recriminate by raking in the Dunghil of personal errours and defects of former ages and exposing all he finds without regard either to the credit of Authors or falsity of their Assertions often contradicted by others of the same times of much better esteem and reputation and what scandal must necessarily follow thereupon to all Christians even to the introducing of Atheism and Infidelity as it happened on the like occasion to David George Professor at Bazil Bernardine Ochine a man highly commended by Calvin Neuserus chief Pastor of Heidelburgh Almanus a Zwinglian and some others who out of hatred to Popery and scandal taken at the Lives and Doctrines of their own fellow Reformers renounced Christianity and became Jews as you may see in Schusselburgh his Thelogia Calv. Osiander Cent. 16. From consideration of the great mischiefs and ill consequences of this way of exposing as Mr. Care is pleased to phrase it he or whoever else is the Author of The Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome may easily conclude what fruit or advantage he is like to reap from his laborious Collections more than the loss of his time and the exposing to the world his own malice and folly for Turpe est Doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum SOME QUERIES For Mr. CARE to Chew Relating to His Ignoramus-Iuries I WHether or no Magna Charta and the rest of our Laws are more careful in preserving the Life and Reputation of the King or of the Subject If of the former II. Whether some men now in power must not think the Law-makers Fools or acknowledge themselves Knaves III. Whether if an Insurance-Office for Commonwealth-malefactors were set up the City security would not be the best IV. Whether the Money that us'd to be spent in Hospitality by City-Magistrates might not be laid out more to the Honour of the City in rewarding True-Protestant-Evidences and Ignoramus-Juries V. Whether some late Officers did not forbid Wine at their Tables lest their Friends drinking too much should tell truth VI. Whether a Perjur'd Pillory d Thief Begger Fool or Knave be not as good Evidence against a Whig as against a Papist VII Whether had it not been for People so qualified we had ever known of a Popish-Plot VIII Whether if the last Long Parliament had sate this time we had ever been bless'd with Narratives Ignoramus-Juries or True-Protestant-Informations IX Whether if the same Evidence should swear the same things against the Pope and against a True-Protestant-Peer a Jury by care and industry might not be pack'd to save his Holiness rather than lose a Friend X. Whether when Hell broke loose by Heavens permission upon this Protestant City the Devil did not employ the Whigs as well as the Papists Or XI Whether he did not reserve the former for greater purposes viz. to blow up the sparks of Rebellion and serve on Juries XII Whether if an Highway-man was to be tryed by a Jury of his own Gang they would not act more like brute Beasts than rational Creatures if they found the Bill XIII Whether there is not just ground for suspicion of Guilt in the Prisoner when his Friends are forc'd to pick up Jury-men contrary to custom from one end of the Town to the other XIV Whether he that made a Scandalous and Seditious Speech to say no worse of it publickly in the House of Peers may not be supposed to speak Treason privately XV. Whether some people who deserve not yet are sorry they have a Just and Merciful Prince XVI Whether if an Angel from Heaven should descend and testifie a Design by the Fanaticks against the Government this Scripture should not be brought to invalidate his Evidence Stand fast in the Liberty whereunto ye are called XVII Whether the same Jury would not upon the Devils Testimony find a Bill against another sort of People XVIII Whether a True Protestant believes Perjury to be a Sin XIX Whether if the Indictment against some late Criminals had been found and they Executed for the Treason therein contained viz. Conspiring the Death of the King a Vote of a late House of Commons had not been violated wherein 't is resolved That if the King come to any unnatural Death they will Revenge it on the Papists XX. Who is the Author of these Queries Ignoramus FINIS