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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35904	A Dialogue between Tom and Dick over a dish of coffee concerning matters of religion and government.		1680 (1680)	Wing D1337; ESTC R27858	17,023	35

or before he has any opportunity and then he is past telling Tales Tom. But won't your great men deceive them at last Dick. Not till they have fully done with them and then are not so generous as Cits great Men before they dare not for their own Interest and besides they have always Spies upon their actions and behaviour and if such a one spits but awry he 's gone he 's then like a Crackt Tool to be flung aside and when he has done what he was intended for he becomes like a Wornout-Tool fit only for the Fire or to take a Dance with COLEMAN at Tyburn Tom. I am well satisfied as to this point and thank you that you are so free with me for I should be much troubled if you should come behind Cit in any thing well I think I am fitted now for your service I pray you get me some place or other and let me be a perpetual working-Tool Dick. As most of your Capacity are for our Fools are such incorrigible Tools they never wear out therefore you need not be afraid of being laid aside Tom. But have you as much Christian Liberty as Citt And Freedom from all Humane Laws and only subject to the immediate Commands of God and the Spirit though against the Written Laws Divine and Humane and the Commands of Kings and Governours Dick. Yes sure more than Citt has For we have a better way by half than to pore in the Scriptures or to hearken to the Motions of the Spirit which may be irregular therefore we have our Infallibility at Rome who like the Sun disperses his Beams that is the Priests who carry his Infallibility all the World over And so instead of waiting on the Spirit that sometimes is sullen and won't speak we go but to the next Priest and he gives all the Christian Liberty that Citt so much brags of And having his Priestly and Infallible Licence overthrowing the Government is no Treason taking up Arms against the King no Rebellion robbing the Reformed Bishops or the Heretical Presbyterian Churches no Sacrilege taking away Abby and Church-Lands so long setled on Lay men by Authority of Parliaments no Oppression taking away Estates no Robbery Imprisoning Racking Burning and Tormenting persons no Tyranny and all this under the Name and Notion of Religion no Hypocrasie forcing Oaths contrary to ones Conscience Perjury and Blasphemy no Impiety and the blowing up of the King House of Lords and Commons Compassing and Contriving the Death of their Sovereign or Stabbing and Shedding the Sacred Blood of Princes no Murther Tom. Very good live and learn I say before you inform'd me I thought Citt had been the most Publick Man in the World and had been best furnished with Principles to Act and bring about his Designs of any other but I see you are even with him though he bragged he had more Villanies than the Jesuites Dick. I tell thee he is a very Bragadocio For all those things he takes upon himself and which perhaps some of them have made use of he had from the Jesuites School I tell thee man they are in all Shapes and become all to all to promote the Cause Tom. But a word as to Oaths Citt says they are excellent at Swearing Dick. Nay then if they surpass us at Swearing or at Forswearing either I 'le be bak'd For look you they swore but once in a Year or two and they were only bare Oaths now we swear our people once a Week and seal it with the Sacrament a Knack Citt hath not when ever we have a Design on Foot besides the Christian Liberty that is granted ours to to take all Oaths besides our own and to reckon them none For to swear by a Protestant Bible is no more obliging than if one had swore by the Alooran Tom. I think now I am fully instructed and fit for your purpose Dick. Stay I heard you repeat a Golden Sentence of Citts I will also furnish you with one or two that you ought still to have in mind Tom. O I love Sentences pithy short Memorials and fit to be wrote down in my Common-place Book Dick. They are these First Asperse boldly something will stick To dye for Treason at Tyborn is the ready way to be Sainted at Rome To commit Murther and to dye for it is the best way to become a Martyr To deny the Guilt of Crimes at the last Gasp and to profess Innocency is a Sign of Grace and Jesuitical Fortitude That the Pope exercises more Authority than God who pardons not Sinners without Repentance whilst the Pope gives Indulgence for Sins to be committed for Mony for a 1000 years to come To commit Murder Adultery Theft Drunkenness and the like are great Sins unless advised or consented to by the Priest and for the Good of the Cause To murther an Heretick is no more Sin than to kill a Dog To stab an Excommunicated Prince or other Magistrate is the best way to become a Romish Heroe and to have Elegies wrote in his Praise To have any Trouble or Remorse of Conscience before or after the Commitment of such Sanctified Murders is to fall from Grace and to merrit Pennance Tom. Very Good I see Citt has not all the Golden Sentences these will I put down in my Book Dick. You must believe these as your Creed have them by Heart and as perfect as your Pater-noster or Ave-Maria Tom. But what Employment have you now Dick. I am a Knave by Profession and therefore cannot want Employment but the chiefest thing that I get Money now by is Scribling all sorts of Pamphlets that may make for Our Cause Damning the Presbyterians to the lowest Pit of Hell Lampooning and Dialoguing and Lettering the Plot into Ridicule Tom. But are you well paid for it Dick. Better paid than you think for and I have a Bag by me to pay you too if you go about your Business handsomly We have already almost brought it about to make the People believe there is no Plot. Be sure you be diligent in promoting that Belief and bespatter the Evidence all you can call them Rogues Vagabonds Debauch'd Fellows Perjur'd Lying Inventive Knaves and Rascals Fellows kept out of Charity and released from Goals any thing that may beget an Odium of Them and the Common Enemy Tom. But whom mean you by the Common Enemy Dick. You are a Blind Fool if thou see'st not that why all that oppose setting up of Popery whether Church of England-men Presbyterians and the rest of the Heretical Fry by what Titles or Denominations soever for they are all Hereticks and alike to us Tom. Then 't is not only the Presbyterian Protestants that you aim to overthrow Dick. No No though we pretend That yet we aim also at Root and Branch Tom. What is that Dick. A thorow Reformation of the Whole A setting up the Mass in its Splendor and the retrieving all our Church Lands as fully and wholly as they were before