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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26001	Some generall observations upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book, and way of wrighting with a vindication of St. Ignatius Loyola, and his followers the Iesuits, from the foul aspersions he has lately cast upon them, in his discourse concerning the idolatry, &c. : in four letters, written to A.B.	Ashby, Richard, 1614-1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing A3942; ESTC R7040	65,474	73

submit their judgments to the judgment of the Church when ever she pleases to deliver the truth If this had been well considered by the Dr. he would not have taken so much pains to prove so great a Paradox as that there is as much union amongst Protestants as Roman-Catholicks In the interim the Church is careful to prevent all inconveniences which arise sometimes out of the heat of such eager disputes by severely forbidding both Parties to presume to censure one anothers Tenets and this under pain of excommunication and other penalties for this amongst obedient Children is sufficient to keep them in Peace and Unity for whatsoever they hold of the Popes infallibility they all agree that obedience and submission is due to his Authority upon pain of being accounted Schismaticks for not yielding obedience to the common Pastor and Head of the Church Protestants have no such way either to suspend or end their disputes but must of necessity wrangle it out to the Worlds end for want of a living Judge of Controversies What the Dr. adds of the Jesuits holding a strange opinion of the Popes infallibility in matters of Fact is most false for they differ not from any other Catholick Divines as I have often told you Lastly for their perswading the People to defend the immaculate Conception with Fire and Sword and with their Blood with which he concludes his 5th Chapter it needs no Answer his Author has no credit as having been burnt at Paris for a Libel by the Kings order as I have told you And now I promise you I will tire you no more with my long Letters having clearly and freely given you my sentiments concerning all the Drs. slaunders and objections against the Jesuits Farewel Postscript SIR I have yet a Word or two to add upon the Receipt Perusal of two Books since the writing of this Letter The first is a compendious Account of the mission of China given at Rome this very Year 1672. to the sacred Congregation de propagandà fide by Father Prosper Intercetta the Jesuits Procurator from that Kingdom By this it appears that the Jesuits do not alwayes find that commodious entertainment in China which the Dr. dreams of for this Author witnesses that they commonly beg their sustenance of Neighbouring Europeans and have not been without their Persecutions For Anno Dom. 1664 four of them were clapt up close Prisoners with three Chains a piece tyed to their Necks three to their Hands and three to their Feet the cheif of these F. Adam was sentenc'd to a cruel death though the Execution was hinder'd by a terrible Earthquake and other dreadful signs from Heaven which made the People cry out great is the God of Christians the other three were condemned to have 40 Bastinadoes and all the rest were forc'd out of their 41 Residences and 159 Churches and banished ●nto Cantons and there kept Prisoners nor have we yet news of their Releasement though the last Letters from Pekin of the 23 Novemb. 1670. give great hopes of more liberty then ever to Preach our Christian Faith since the honourable Reception of the Portugal Embassadour in that Court It also appears to be false what the Dr. affirms of other Religious being kept out of the Kingdom by the Iesuits for the same Author tells us that before the late persecution the Dominicans had 21 Churches and 11 Residences and the Franciscans 3 Churches and 1 Residence Lastly this Author reckons up 254980 converted by the Iesuits alone from the Year 1581. to 1667. not from Laces and Ribbands but from Idolatry to the worship of Christ crucified The other Book I mentioned contains a second Answer to the imfamous pretended Letter of the Bishop of Angelopolis drawn out of his Annotations upon St. Teresa's spiritual instructions translated out of Spanish by Francis Pellicot Almoner and Confessour in the Queens Court and Printed in Paris by George Josse at the Crown of Thornes For there the Translator who professes an intimate acquaintance with the said Bishop in his Preface does not only deny him to have been Author of that scandalous Letter to the Pope but produces three other Letters of his written some Years after his contest with the Iesuits highly in their commendation as you may see when you please And farther in the Bishops life he shews how he retracted what he had unadvisedly done against them in opposing their Priviledges out of the Bishops own words which here follow We are often so wedded to Palafox Annotat to the 56 Ep. of St. Teresa false perswasions which self Love suggests to maintain a bad Cause that it is hard to root them out of our imagination and reduce our selves to the truth This evil is very familiar with us and I dayly experience it in my self and particularly in a certain Cause for why should I not publickly acknowledge my Errour since I offended in the sight of the whole World I say it happened in a thing of this nature that I found certain Reasons to oppose my Adversaries the Iesuits which seem'd to me good and holy but really were not so but the effects of a vain and presumptuous Spirit For I found afterwards with the help of divine light that the thing which I believed was from God was quite contrary to his service And this false belief of mine sprung from my self love my passion my pride my vanity and my presumption What better Apology can be made for the Iesuits than this humble Confession and Retractation of the Bishop FINIS