have already discours'd is more than enough to prove the present Point viz That the Monarchy of England has gotten by the Reformation and that no body but a man who either understands not or cares not what he sayes would affirm the contrary The Compendianist possibly may here object as he seemes to do pag. 77. lib 9. That popish Princes abroad are not sensible of these Inconveniences in their Religion nor do they perceive any such ill Consequences to arise from the Profession of it as the Bishop of Lincoln's Book and this Preface charges it with but altogether the contrary For Who sayes He find themselves so flourishing and great as they I suppose he speaks this of the French King for I know no other popish Prince that is at present either flourishing or great and if he means that Popery has been the cause of his Greatness I shall not dispute it with him but this I will affirme and maintaine against all the World That 't was neither his owne Popery nor that of his Subjects though every Body knows the French Popery is much gentler and more converseable sort of thing than the Spanish or Italian more plyant and submissive to the Civil Magistrate and more hospitable to Strangers and Dissenters and consequently lesse prejudicial to the growth of Power and the greatness of a State than the other The Priviledges of the Gallican Church and the Doctrines of the Sorbonne together with the manners of the people and the Exclusion of the Inquisition have a little qualified this pernicious Imposture and temper'd the Malignity of her Influence as the most destructive Plants do sometimes lose the Virulence of their poisons by a change of Soyle and Mercury it selfe by a mixture of Ingredients is rendred innocent Physick I grant therefore that Popery in some places and under some Circumstances of alloy may not absolutely hinder but it can never be the cause nor of it self in any degree contribute to the prosperity of either Prince or people for 't is plaine That the Principles it teaches and the Consequences it draws after it do evidently tend as I have already made appear to the lessening of the one and the impoverishing of the other indeed to the ruine of both and if Popery have not at all times and in all Places so bad an effect it must be attributed to some such causes as I have now mention'd which do in France serve to take out the sting of this monstrous beast this Spawn of the Old Serpent and prevent the Mischiefe which it is otherwise so apt to doe the Blast it would infallibly bring upon the ordinary fruites of good Government and the common ends of Civil Societies To conclude this point if any Prince or State happen by some favorable conjuncture and fortunate Accidents to be great with or rather notwithstanding Popery there is no doubt but they would be either of them much greater without it 'T is now left to the Reader to judge upon a due considerat ion of the Whole what an excellent Engine this Popery would prove to buoy up a sinking Monarchy and make it again emerge as the Compendianist calls it in his pedantical Latin phrase were ours in that desperate low condition to need it which I hope 't is far from or if it do at present decline I am sure no man in his right wits except this Author will say 't is for want of Popery What kind of men are those Protestants then who if we may take the Compendianist's own word for it would recommend to his Majesty in a case of extremity this dry antiquated Drugge this uselesse Lump of Formality and Foppery this discover'd Cheat this Insulter and Braver of Crown'd Heads this Usurper upon the Rights of Princes this Enemy to God's Annointed I say what kind of Creatures must these be They are certainly a Species by themselves and have not the same common Faculties and wayes of understanding with other Christian people if at least there be any such which I will not be overpositive in upon the Authority of this Writer for some of his stories are as unlikely to use his own words about the Plot as any Romance Extant But Protestants does he term them It is impossible Why will he abuse his Friends at this Rate and call them out of their Names I 'll warrant them they are as good Catholicks as himself Does he indeed thinke to put this upon us that Protestants are for the bringing in Popery He may as well hope to make us believe Transubstantiation it self 't is a Contradiction in Terms an errant Bull. However upon this occasion I cannot but reflect that I have sometimes met with a sort of ridiculous Animals commonly call'd Protestants indeed whose Heads are giddy and whose Brains turn round with the Notion of a Catholicke Church and a visible succession of Bishops ever since the Apostles Who run stark mad in love with reverend Words holy Places consecrated Habits and godly Gestures who have abundance of odde superstitious Zeale with not one grain of true sence Disciples of Heylin and Thornedike in a word a kinde of L'Estrange Protestants men who have listed themselves in our Service and rank'd on our side only to betray our cause and give our Enemies the Victory They seem to have no other designe in the Church of England than Sampson had in the Philistines Temple viz. to pull it downe upon our Heads and bury us in the Ruines Now what discourse these sort of men have had with the Compendianist I cannot tell nor am much concern'd I will not dispute but that 't is possible they may have acknowledg'd some such thing as he affirms for their Politicks are much of a pitch with their Divinity and I know they will say or confess any thing that tends to undermine and weaken the Protestant Faith and Interest though it be never so foolish and absurd Yet do they take it hainously ill to be thought Papists and particularly Mr. L'Estrange seems more than ordinarily disturb'd when he finds himselfe charg'd with this Imputation how does he fling and flounce in his late Pamphlets like a gaull'd Hackney who can neither bear the whipp nor mend his dull Dog-Trot But let him bestow the foamings of his Rage never so fast among the Rabble and in hasty uncorrect Libells throw about the eâ—pty Froth of his Anger Let him fret himself never so lean and talk like a mad man in the overboyling of his Passion Let him make never so many professions of a Protestant Faith and never so many Good-Morrows to the Church of England we shall still believe him a Papist while he soe notoriously promotes the Designes and serves the Interests of that Party I think nothing is plainer than that the great Endeavour of the Papists ever since the Discovery of the Plot has been by all kinde of means and artifices to turn off the Publick Odium under which they have so justly suffer'd as much
first took notice of as the chief ground of all his extravagant Raving against the Bishops Book viz. The concluding the Principles of a Religion from the Practices of her Professors Which is the very Dregs of Folly the last Running of Impertinence 'T is true the Protestant Religion i. e. the care of preserving it was no doubt the great Motive of doing what was done in every one of these three Cases but that is not here to the purpose for 't is not the Reason for which but the Authority by which a Prince is depos'd and the kind of Principle i.e. whether Civil or Religious 't is justifi'd upon that must condemn or acquit a Church of the Guilt of it though this man endeavour all along to insinuate the contrary by such a fallacious way of representing the Position charg'd on the Church of Rome as makes that seem to be the chief Point in the Controversy between her and the Bishop of Lincoln which is in truth no part of it viz. the Motive or end of deposing Princes But 't is not the Businesse of this little Pamphleter to state things fairly and reason clearly but to amuse the Reader and puzzle the Question a close way of arguing will not suit either with his Cause or his Understanding a good proof of which he gives us at the very first in these words If on the other-side sayes he the Bishop means that there have been Popish Doctors of the Opinion That Princes might be Depos d upon the account of Religion what Advantage I would fain know can that be to his Lordship or his Treatise since not only all the Prime Leaders of the Reformation c. Is it to be imagin'd now that a man should get so far out of his way unless he purposely design'd to ramble or write things so grossly impertinent to the matter he was treating of unless he studyed to confound it and render it as little intelligible as was possible This is properly playing at Cross Purposes which he very foolishly and very unjustly accuses the Bishop off when men talk what is foreign to the Question and wander from the business out of designe Never did any man take more true pains to understand a Discourse difficult in it self than he has to misunderstand the Bishop's which was plain and easy or at least to make his Reader do soe for he cannot be soe dull himself in this point as he would seem 'T is not possible that he or any man who has read the Bishop's Book should think it was the Bishop's meaning only to charge the popish Doctors with holding indefinitely That Princes might be Depos'd upon the account of Religion when 't is so palpably evident in a hundred places of his Book that he only brings their Opinions as a collateral proof of his Charge of their Church and Religion and that with a quite different Tenet as I have already show'd And as 't is the Roman Church and not the Doctors only or chiefly which the Bishop charges with holding that Princes may be Depos'd by her Authority not with holding indefinitely that they may be Depos'd upon the account of Religion So 't is the present popish Canon-Law the Bulls and Decretals of Popes and the Canons of General Councils which are the Testimonies he relies upon for the making good of his Charge and not the private Opinions of Popish Doctors though being cited out of Books licens'd and approv'd by that Church they are of considerable weight in the Argument Now what sayes the Compendianist to these strong and most convincing Proofs Why in fine as Mr. Bayes sayes upon another occasion he wont tell us He has not one word not one Syllable of Answer to them but passes them over with as deep a silence and as good a grace as if they were like most of his own not at all to the purpose This discreet and necessary Resolution being taken he bends all his little Wit and with a great deal of Chearfulnesse goes about to invalidate what the Bishop urges from the Writings of the Popish Doctors which yet the poor impotent Scribler is by no means able to do as I have made appear in my Answer to his Charge of Luther and Calvin The Attempt however was just as wise and as likely to satisfy reasonable men as if a General who had a great and well disciplin'd Army to fight with should neglect the Main Body and with his whole strength set upon the Forlorn Hope Before I proceed any farther I cannot but take Notice of a very extraordinary Passage which I meet with pag. 77. li. 12. Where the Compendianist would make the World believe That we our selves confess That our Monarchy is weaken'd by our Religion That Popery must be call'd back to support it and that Papists are hated by many on this Account all which is in it selfe so notorious a Falsehood and in him who could not but know the contrary so base a Slander of the Protestant Faith in general and of the People of England in particular that I am confident no true Protestant can read it without Indignation nor any sensible man without Astonishment at the strange Impudence of this prostitute Writer His Words are these Can it be said That the Monarchy has gotten by the Reforformation when Protestants themselves acknowledge and what desperate Enemies that has created us may be easily imagin'd that nothing but Popery or at least its Principles can make it again emerge or lasting Was there ever such a complication of Malice and Folly as this Period affords us There is a veine of impertinent arguing contrary to the known Rules of Discourse and shamelesse affirming contrary to the knowne Truth of Fact which runs through the whole Masse of his crude and indigested Pamphlet But this is a Nompareillo to use Mr Bayse's Phrase of want of Modesty and want of Sence one of his bold Strokes 'T is usual with him to tell Tales for Arguments and lay down confident Assertions in stead of Proofs but let him now rake together all the Dirt he can meet with and practise himself in Compendiums i. e. in lamentable ill reason'd lying Discourses Let him make Extracts of the Lives of popish Saints and abridge the Legends of Monks let him take short Heads of Mr. Cressy's Mystical Divinity in his Sancta Sophia and write Epitomes of the Controversies of the Schoolmen he shall never again be able to crowd so much Nonsence Libel and Untruth into so few Words as long as he lives Can it be said sayes he That the Monarchy has gotten by the Reformation c Prodigious Impudence Can any thing else be said with the least colour of Reason or Truth He cannot but know too that this has alwayes been said by Protestant Writers and prov'd beyond all contradiction except that of absurd and illogical men from whom Saint Paul pray'd to be delivered However since he will needs make a New Question of it I shall
as was possible from Themselves upon the Fanaticks and to stir up an ignorant outragious clamour against them the Presbyterian Plot sound in the Meal Tub and all the late Pamplets and discourses of the popish Agents are but so many continued and undeniable Proofs of this Now were L'Estrange their Pensioner as 't is not improbable but he is and as much ingag'd in their Service as Nevil-Payne he could not have more effectually assisted them in the carrying on of this base and Villanous Project than he has along done How earnestly has he labor'd to revive the Memory of forty in contemptof the Act of Oblivion and terrifi'd the people with groundlesse Apprehensions of a new Fanatick Warr How constantly has he patch'd up his loose Discouses with unseasonable thread-bare Comments on the Disorders of the late times and colour'd his malicious enmity to the Liberties of England with violent Invectives against Fanaticks Their Defamation has been the chief aime of all his Writings since the Plot the Burden of his overflowing Impertinence and the Common place Topick of his Railing Now let us suppose the Fanaticks as errant Devils as this Inquisitionman has a mind to paint them yet what have they done of late what new provocation have they given since his Majesties Restanartion nay since the PLOT I meane the Fanaticks of England that we should thus fall upon them Pell Mell without either Fear or wit Rhime or Reason I say what is the matter That just after the Discovery and in the midst of the Examination of a Horrid Popish PLOT we should all of a suddain be hounded on Fanatickes There is sure some Mystery in this Alas The Artifice is evident and grosse Who sees not that the Designe of it is to save the Papists from the growing Rage of the Peoples Hate with which their whole Faction was almost run downe and brought to a Bay by starting and inviting their Prosecutors to fresh Grame This it seems is the Under-PLOT to their great Tragedy and Mr. L'Estrange next to some Provincial Jesuite the chief Manager Can there be any Doubt then however he appear a Protestant in shew and Profession but that he is a PAPIST either in Principle or Interest if not in both and these Interest-Papists are the most dangerous ol all For his Panegyrick of the Religion establish'd and his high Expressions of Zeale for it with which at every turne he flourishes his Mischievous Pamphlets and guilds the poyson he would have the People Swallow they are like the Complement of Judas when he betray'd his Master and like the Courtesie of Joab when he murder'd Abner But God be thank'd Protestants now know him too well to believe in his Flatery or be wheadled to their Ruine by his soft Words His Writings have discover'd soe palpable an ill-Will to the true Interest of the true Protestant Cause and the Constitution of the Government for they are at present both wound up in the same Bottom and he has pursu'd his Malice with so restlesse a diligence and so furious a Zeal that he 's grown a Common Nusance to all good Englishmen and ripe for 〈◊〉 Correction I doubt not therefore besides what he may expect from a Parliament but some new Marvell will rise to bridle the Intemperance of his Mercenary Pen and put his poor prostitute wit out of countenance an Adversary who shall baffle him more notoriously than Mr. Bagshaw and persecute him worse than my Lady Boltinglasse who shall crush his little Plausibilities with a Masterly Reason and shame him into silence by the Justnesse of his Satyre I shall leave him then to the Fate of Bayes which he cannot long escape and to the severe Reprimands of his own Conscience that full confutation of all his Works and that only one too which he wants confidence to reply to and begging the Reader 's pardon for this long but perhaps useful Digression returne to the Compendianist And as to what concernes the present Argument between him and me I question not but upon an impartial weighing of what is here offer'd it will appear to every reasonable man That nothing is more perfectly opposite to our Civil as well as Religious Interests than Popery that nothing could be more prejudicial to the Mona rchy nor more fatal to the prosperity of England than if after having with soe just abhorrence spew'd up that filthy Load of Superstition and Idolatry with which she was so long oppress'd she should be forc'd either by conquest from abroad or by a Popish Succession at home to returne once more like the Dog to his Vomit or like the Sow when she has been wash'd to her wallowing in the Mire For his Objections of the Protestant Rebellion in Hungary the late Rising in Scotland the Murder of the Archbishop of Saint Andrews and that Home-Blow of his the Gazette Advertisement of The Tryalk of twenty nine Protestant Regicides they are of the same nature and grounded on the same pitiful Fallacy with those I have already answer'd and when he can shew us any Principle of the Prostant Religion that justifies Rebellion or Murder especially that of Princes or does but in the remotest degree encourage men to commit those Detestable Crimes I shall again consider them In the mean time let him not waste his Paper and tire his Reader with the Repetition of such fulsome Sophistry But perhaps it may not be amisse to give a more particular Answer to his Home-blow because he has such an opinion of its force and does so triumph with the conceit of his Victory I shall endeavour therefore to take him down in the height of his Rapture and shame his ignorant Malice The Reader will remember the Point he should prove is That Protestant Principles are destructive to Kings for those are the very words of the Introduction to his terrible Argument of Instances of Fact Now did the Twenty nine Protestant Regicides ever pretend to justifie their abominable Villany by any Principle of their Religion Nay did they not pretend the quite contrary and ground it wholly upon a Civil Authority Did they not argue the lawfulnesse and justice of it from a Power they fancied in the People to call the King to an Account for his Actions Though in this they were as absurd Logicians as the Compendianist has all along shew'd himself and reason'd not only against the very first Principle of Civil Policy but point blank contrary to the most fundamental Maxims of the Law of England which says That the King can do no wrong and therefore makes his Ministers questionable for the miscarriages in Government because he himself is in his own Person inviolable and sacred but this concerns not the present businesse These men I say as bad as they were had not the impudence to interest the Protestant Religion or any Protestant Church whatever in the guilt of their impious Treason by pretending to derive any Warrant or Encouragement for it from them or
For the Promise he makes us at last in imitation of the Pishop's That he himself will turn Protestant if the Bishop shews him but one single Paragraph in all his Book in relation to their dangerous Principles that he has not fully answer'd c. I will be so civil to him at parting to let him know he need not be in any pain about it for though the Condition of his Obligation be not in the least measure nor is ever likely to be perform'd yet I can assure him there 's no body intends to take any advantage of the Forfeiture Though he has been so far from answering every single Paragraph of the Bishop's Book that he has not in truth answer'd one single word of it to any purpose as I have already show'd him yet we will not be so unmercifully rigorous to require a Person of his Form of Parts to turn Protestant and force him to be a reasonable man and a good Christian against his Conscience no no let him stay where he is we are not at all fond of his Company and the Religion he has will best suit with his Wit His little Stroke of Common Place Arguments being now spent he is at last reduc'd to Story telling and the conclusion of his loose Ramble in this Paragraph against the Bishop is an incredible scandalous Tale about a Friend of his and Doctor Taylor by which he represents that late famous and worthy Divine not only as a Papist but a Knave and implicitely throws the same dirt upon the Bishop maliciously insinuating as if neither of them believ'd their own Books His words are these To conclude says He let me once more reminde his Lordship of his Promise and then tell him for I know he is a man of Parts what Dr. Taylor said to a Friend of mine concerning his Dissuâ—sive from Popery viz. That though 't were lik'd yet 't was but turning the Tables and he could write a Book twice as good This Story has the very complexion of a Popish Lye all the Lineaments and Features of 〈◊〉 Jesuitical Slander 't is a known Artifice of the Romish Agents when they cannot deal with their Adversaries Reasons to assault their Reputations by all kind of unjust Calumnies and impudent Forgeries and finding that the absurdness of their Tenets cannot be disguis'd to men who have the use of their Faculties their despaire to proselyte the Living sends them among the Charnel Houses to make Converts of the dead This is a trick they have perpetually put upon us ever since the Reformation all Protestants of any note who dye either in their Acquaintance or Neighbourhood are sure to be of their Faith after their Deaths though all their lives they abhorr'd it the Dead are as constantly reported theirs as if they had been Baptis'd in their Names according to the custome of the Primitive Corinthians or as is they were to be reckon'd natural Escheats to that Church which contrary to the Scripture prays for them and most commonly the dying too when they are no longer able to contradict their whispers are hook'd within the Toyls of their Vniversality no sooner does a man's Reason and his Sence begin to leave him but presently the Catholick Religion lays claim to him and indeed he is then most fit for that Communion and a proper Tool for Priests and Jesuites to work their ends by and Sanctify'd Rogues to make their Markets of Wheresoever the Carcase is there will these Roman Eagles be gathered together for their Prey Protestants cannot dye quietly in their Beds nor so much as rest in their Graves for the unwearied practises of the Popes Emissaries and the endless Persecution of their false Tongues who think it meritorious to Lie for the Propagation of their Faith and a piece of Godly Zeal to defame their Neighbours for the Honour of their Church But this is one of the small Games their ill successe has forc'd them to play at rather than stick out a despicable shift to keep up some little rest of Credit to their baffled Cause and would they observe any sort of Bounds in the Spoyl and Havock they make of mens good Names and their Invasions of the best and most lasting Property of Mankind in their Unchristian Violations of the Honour of the Dead Would these lawlesse Church Corsairs these desperate Picaroons for Popery robbe with modesty and be satisfy'd with making private men their Prize we should perhaps content our selves to despise their little Pyracies and laugh at their feeble Inroades But when they endeavour to sink our strongest Men of War and take our very Admirals in the Port when they will needs have our chief Leaders to be their Followers and our most famous Champions at the Wheels of their Triumphal Chariots when like the Tartar's Scotch Captive they will pretend to hold their Goalers Prisoners and erect their ridiculous Trophies upon the Tombes of their Conquerours When nothing will serve their turns but that Chillingworth himself must be believ'd to dye a Papist and Bishop King to be reconcil'd to their Church in Articulo mortis when Dr. Taylor must now after his Death be thought a Friend to Popery who in his life was both an Honour and a Defence to the Protestant Faith their impudence is intollerable and their Lyes grow mischievous 't is then necessary to expose the folly of their vain Pretences and warne the people of their large Dispensations I shall now appeale to the Judgement of any unprejudic'd man who has read Dr. Taylors Dissuasive from Popery and if he thinks there is the least probability that the Author of that excellent Book should say he could write one twice as good against Protestants or indeed any possibility that either He or any man else though never so willing should be able to do it I will hereafter believe that Jesuites can speak Truth and that Popish Controvertists may be sometimes in the right Dr. Taylors Relations and those who did particularly know him which I had not the happiness to do otherwise than by his Reputation and his Writings are able without doubt to say much more upon this Subject than I can pretend to and I question not but some of them will take care in convenient time to vindicate his Memory from soe foule a scandall as that of being a conceal'd Papist and of Writing what he did not think I shall therefore leave it to them whose proper concern it is not having at present the means to make any enquiry my selfe into the businesse In the mean time let us suppose this Story to be true which according to all appearance is next to impossible what is here pretended to have been said by Dr. Taylor was I perceive a thing said in private conversation and probably in great trust and confidence of the person to whom 't was spoke how to Print this to the World with Design to blast the Reputation of a Divine after his Death is such a piece of
honesty and good nature as is no where to be met with but in the Moralls of a Jesuite and the Christianity of a Romish Zealot For what is intended in this malicious Passage to reflect on the Bishop of Lincolne as if he were as bad a Hypocrite as Dr. Taylor is here represented to have been and could have writ if he had pleas'd a better Book on the Papists side 't is so witless a Libel such silly Slander that I think there is no need of answering it to any who have ever heard of his great Name and he must have liv'd very remote from Company who is in England a Stranger to that His Life is a sufficient proof of the honesty of his Writings and a full confutation of this and all other Lyes which the Instruments of Rome or Hell can invent to asperse him in vain do they think to answer him as they have done other men by reflections on his Person and to overthrow his Reasons by ridiculous Stories and absurd Romance these Argumenta ad Hominem which are usually their best Refuge will miserably fail them here they look like the frettings of a gaul'd Faction and do but betray an impotent Spite the Bishop of Lincolne's Honour is as much above the reach of their malice as their deserts and they may then hope to make the World think ill of him when they can so far cozen it as to be thought well off themselves 'T is true his Abilities are extraordinary enough to recommend almost any thing he would appear for though never so unreasonable and no doubt he knows how to write Sophistries as well as to confute them but we are satisfyed his Piety will no more suffer him to plead a bad Cause than his Learning will let him prejudice a good one Besides let them not flatter themselves the Knavery of theirs is now so palpably obvious their Religion has by long and constant delays grown so monstrously deform'd it has at last out-liv'd the help of Art The Writings of their best Witts and their most eminent Scholars have in my Opinion done it more hurt than good when they have adorn'd it all they can with strain'd pieces of Rhetorick out of the Fathers and daub'd it as much as possible with the forc'd Flatteries of Councils when they have set it forth in the specious colours of pretended Union and Universality and cover'd it all over with School-Distinction̄s what can an indifferent man conclude but that such vast paines would not nor need not be taken except it were to hide some notorious Defects such extream studyed Ornaments are evident proofes of great want of natural Beauty in a word this Spiritual Whore does but appeare the more Strumpet through the grosse Artifice of her Dress and the thickness of her Paint I have now done with the Compendianist and shall enlarge this Discourse no farther but to joyn with all good English men in offering up my hearty prayers to God Almighty that He would still preserve the Protestant Religion among us and continue to render fruitlesse the contrary Endeavours and Contrivances of wicked and unreasonable Men fallacious Writers and Traiterous Plotters that He would keep the most knowing and best civiliz'd Nation in the World from falling again under the Barbarism of Popery from being Opprest by the Tyranny and cumber'd with the Weight of this huge unweildy Mass of Non-sense and Puppetry This farce of Ceremonies this Counterfeit Christianity this Enemy to true Learning and free Philosophy this Discourager of Trade and usefull Industry this Troubler of agreeable Conversation and reasonable Living this Prohibiter of good Sense and this Extinguisher of good Nature in a word this Un-Christian and this Immoral Religion or rather this new Species of Irreligion which by her Doctrines of dispensing with Oaths and absolving from all manner of Crimes upon slight and ridiculous Penances as well as by those the Bishop of Lincoln has convinc'd her of has not only overthrown the Foundations of real Goodnesse and true Piety but even of necessary Faith and common Honesty loosening the very Bands and Ligaments and undermining the Props of Civil Communities FINIS * Rev. 17. 2 5 6. * Compend pag. 77. * Compend pag. 77. * Dr. Stillingfleet's Fanaticisme of the Church of Rome pag. 276. a Thuanus Hist l. 53. p. 837. b History of the Waldenses c History of the Irish Rebellon printed 1680. * Compend pag. 77. * Compend pag. 76. * Bakers Chron. * See the Compend pag. 76. * Compend pag. 78. * Compend pag. 78. * See Sanctarellus himself * See more of this in the Preface to the Jesuits Loyalty * Compend pag. 76. * A Sect of Religious Murderers among the Turks See an Account of them in Tavernier's Six Voyages pag. 199. †Compend pag. 79.