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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60256	The slaughter-house, or, A brief description of the Spanish Inquisition, in a method never before used in which is laid open the tyranny, insolence, perfidiousness, and barbarous cruelty of that tribunal, detected by several examples and observations / gathered together by the pains and study of James Salgado, a converted Spanish priest ...	Salgado, James, fl. 1680.	1682 (1682)	Wing S381A; ESTC R22786	24,890	72

THE Slaughter-house Or a Brief DESCRIPTION OF THE Spanish Inquisition IN A Method never before used In which is laid open The Tyranny Insolence Perfidiousness and Barbarous Cruelty of that TRIBUNAL Detected by several Examples and Observations Gathered together by the Pains and Study of JAMES SALGADO a Converted Spanish Priest who beareth in his Body the Prints of their Inhuman rigors HEB. 11.33 Obturaverunt Or a Leonum LONDON Printed by T.B. for the Author To the most Serene and Mighty CHARLES the II. By the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. May it please your most Excellent Majesty I Should condemn my self as an Offender if I carried this short Description of the most Unjust Court viz. the Spanish Inquisition to any other Sanctuary than your Sacred Feet What I have here drawn is the Portraict of those Inquisitors who denied me and others the Liberty of our Conscience and choice of our Religion and threatned my Life for being true to my Saviour my Conscience and the hopes of Heaven To you Great Sir I dedicate them who are the Defender of my Life and of the Liberty of my undissembled Conscience I have found what Multitudes have heard the Royal Clemency and Favour you bear towards afflicted Protestants France and other Nations are your Witnesses and I a Spaniard rescued first from the Errours of Popery next from the Cruelties of the Inquisition and flying to your Royal Clemency as to the Tutelar of Distressed Converts and Protestants implore your acceptance of this Piece a Witness of that Divine Zeal which you always express towards True Religion and the Professors of it among whom God hath mercifully made me one and your Sacred Majesty hath preserved me under your Government and Protection for which and for the many Royal Favours done to Protestants continual Prayers are and will be made for your Majesties Long Life Prosperous Reign and Eternal Happiness by all the Churches of God and more particularly as by duty more especially thereunto bound by Your Majesties most Devoted Suppliant James Salgado To the Reader Kind Reader I Judge it not very needful to stop thee with a long Preface which is but the first part of it's following Dsicourse what I have written here I have written with an upright heart I neither design an injury to the Inquisition nor a praise to my seuf Thou mayst peruse and imploy it to thine own profit and in thy Christian Candour think favourably towards Thine James Salgado THE Slaughter-house LEST any one should surmise I am writing this short Story out of any private respects I do in the entrance thereof solemnly protest before God before men That I will not say ought contrary to truth or sincerity No● hath my passion moved me to write in remembrance of the cruelties tho' great which I suffered in the Inquisition The sol● cause of this my purpose is to discover that devilish Policy that my Reader may more clearly know it and the more cautiously avoid it As for my Person I am a Spaniard by Birth and with my Mothers Milk I suck'p in the Romish Religion and at length was Ordained Priest Discerning at last the vanities and multitude of the Superstitions of the Roman Faction thro' the healing influence of the heavenly Illumination I was cured and came over to the Reformed The Account of my Conversion I have given in a small Book Entituled The Romish Priest Converted to the Reformed Religion I will not therefore cloy my Reader with this The Reformed need not my Arguments to confirm them and the Papists will not give them a reading to convert them moreover since mens Sentiments are various I will not much intermeddle with Doctrinals but rather leave each one his liberty I purpose now to draw in lively Colours the Slaughter-house of the Spanish Inquisition and so to hang it out that the well-meaning Reader may be gained by it For tho' all sho'd know that there is a Spanish Inquisition and that it is merciless yet these very persons may possibly not know the particulars which I have known from Authors most worthy of Credit and from my own experience these I will briefly expose to view The first occasion of my Conversion was the Disagreement I saw among so many and so great Divines of the Popish Party in a Point whose certainty is judged to be that on which the whole of our Faith doth depend Some do much doubt the Infallibility of a General Council for so much as they suppose it doth not rely on a Divine Revelation but as Occam reports it they proceed by a common influence assisting them Occam 9. Lib. 3. Tract 3. C. 8. and according to their own Sentiment s He farther doth peremptorily determine Idem Tract 2. p. 2. C. 10. That Pope and Cardinals are not the Rule of Faith but if they should presume to determine any thing against the Rule of Faith contained in the Scripture they must not be followed herein but ought to be reprehended for it by Catholicks Yet (a) Lib. 3. 24.9.5 Durandus (b) L. 1. dis 1.9.1 art 4. Gregory of Ariminum and some others say That our Faith is ultimately resolved into this That that the Church is governed They mean infallibly governed by the holy Ghost On the other side Valendensis prefers the Scriptures before the Catholick Doctors Doct. fid C. 2. Ar. 2. L. 37. Catholick Bishops the Church of Rome and a General Council it self and he affirms Our Faith rests on the Scriptures alone so while I turned over their Books I found them Combating each other and saw as Lucan words it The Roman Eagles equal match'd contend And stubborn Arms each other still offend This irreconciled War caused me to entertain the doubts of the truth of Papal Religion I saw the greatest part of them did resolve their Faith into human Opinion while the Learnedst whom I read did agree with the Reformed as I well perceived Thus as the more deep search into every truth ordinarily ariseth from some previous suspicion so my doubting was occasion of my Conversion To the utmost of my power then I studied suspending my assent from either Part and compared each Matter Cause and Argument with its Opposite untill at length by this means the part which the Reformed held appeared unto me more plain and clear This notwithstanding I was so possessed with the Praedetermination of the Church that I retained a secret doubt whether I who am much inferiour to many might lawfully search into these Controversies This Doubt stuck with me till I had certainly discovered the Schoolmen allowing to every Christian that judgment which they call a Judgment of certain Knowledg which can declare the Truth The Reformed call it a Judgment of Discerning when I had found this I came to a calm temper and the wavering of my mind ceased I did thereupon firmly resolve with my self since the