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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36956	A vindication of Saint Ignatius (founder of the Society of Jesus) from phanaticism ; and of the Jesuites, from the calumnies laid to their charge in a late book, entitul'd, The enthusiasm of the Church of Rome by William Darrel ...	Darrell, William, 1651-1721.	1688 (1688)	Wing D270; ESTC R8705	31,024	53

That Faith. But if Zeal for our Church be a Crime our Adversaries must have Patience for there is no Hope of Repentance We glory in the Sin because we esteem it a Vertue And if any can disabuse us with Reason and Arguments we will thank them for the Favour But if they will needs endeavour to beat down our Zeal by accusing it to stop our Mouths with Morsels of Printed Paper upon my Word their Labour will prove extreamly unsuccessful I hope by the Grace of GOD we shall feel so great a Love for Christianity as to Forgive them so much Courage as to bear their most foul Aspersions without any other Concern than for our Adversaries Impiety We will never so far condescend to an Enemy as to revenge Wrongs done us upon our own Souls nor to be really Wicked because our back-Friends would have us be so Innocence I am sure stands for us and therefore we need not fear a Weak Defence unless it be our Misfortune to fall into the Hauds of Perjur'd Witnesses and of Old Ignoramus Juries for with such Persons Crimes pass current for Vertues and Innocence it self is a sufficient Ground to be brought in Guilty In fine I desire all not to be too forward to pass their Verdict against a Jesuite on the Authority of every Pamphlet which drops from the Print nay tho' you read in the Front Guli Needham with an Imprimatur We have seen His now Gracious Majesty declar'd Traytor in as great Formality and Titus Oats with the whole Inventory of Godly Narratives were usher'd-in with an Equal Solemnity Which being by the Publick Justice of the Nation null'd we ought to suspect Those which for the future shall be fram'd on the same Model To be seduc'd once may be a pardonable Weakness but to be drawn-in by every Malitious Sheet is a convincing Argument we are not unwilling to be Deceiv'd and whosoever is dispos'd to give Assent to every Lye without further Examen adopts them and so espouses the Sin as well as the Pain which will be Eternal in the Next VVorld unless he resolves to Repent in This. A VINDICATION OF St. IGNATIUS From the CHARGE of Phanaticism c. The INTRODUCTION AMong other Artifices where-with the Gentlemen of the Church of England recommend their Religion to ignorant and deluded Persons none has been more frequently made use of than the charging both our Church and its Members with such Crimes which derive their Being as well as Enormity from the inventive Brains of our Accusers The Badness of their Cause permits them not to descend into a Scrupulous Examination of the Merirs of it Every single Controversie hath been so often handled and so demonstratively determin'd against Them that it would be rash and disadvantagious to re-assume the Debate of those particular Questions Wherefore they have wisely judg'd it most secure for their Reputation to lay aside Reason and Authority and to take up no other Arms to defend their gasping Cause than Forgery and Railery the last Refuge of Desperado's To make my Charge good I will send my Reader to Two Pamphlets lately come out viz. The Art of Missionaries and The Enthusiasm of the Church of Rome In the First Forgery in the Second Impiety to call it no worse appear bare-fac'd in spight of Christianity For though indeed the Author of the Missionaries cites his Authorities yet many of them are of so profligate a Reputation that no Man who did not intend to put an Universal Cheat on Mankind would ever produce them but to condemn them A main Support of his Slanders is Dr. Burnet a Person long since out-law'd by his Country and hath not as yet learnt Repentance Nay he adds fresh Crimes to those of an older Date by flinging Dirt on his Sovereign and lending his Mercenary Pen to the Broachers of New Rebellions And shall he who flies in the very Face of his Prince be admitted as an Evidence against Catholick Subjects whom he professeth to abhor A great part of his other Authorities are of the same Stamp and Reputation only with this difference That Some at least have been burnt by the publick Hang-man and the Doctor 's with a great part of the Herd as yet only deserves the same Punishment In a word The Gentleman shou'd have taken into his List the Salamanca-Doctor's Narrative to make it compleat and to press his Accusation homer Now had this Pamphleteer first prov'd by credible Witnesses the Veracity of his Authors and withal been more sparing of his Billingsgate-Rhetorick his Accusation might have gain'd some Degree of Probability even in the Opinions of well-meaning Men till Catholicks had confuted it But first to Empanel a byass'd Jury and then to Condemn a Congregation of Men on its corrupt Verdict is so foul a Proceeding as not to be parallel'd but in the Transactions of Titus's Reign As for the other Gentleman Indeed he has taken a far more expedient way to bring our Religion into an Odium The Name of a Phanatick sounds harsh to an English-Man's Ear and therefore he doubted not but the very Imputation of Enthusiasm would raise the Hot-headed Mobile against us and turn the good Esteem of many Church-Protestants into an utter Execration of our Folly. The Reverend Dean of St. Pauls gave him the Plat-form of his Design and indeed all England could not afford him a more expert Master in the Science of Phanaticism For let People talk what they please Practice is the best Mistress and the Doctor wants not this Advantage When Phanaticism turn'd Trump it was the Doctor 's darling Religion and if we may guess at his Mind by the Fruit of his Brain his Writings Two fat Benefices are the chief Motives of Credibility which keep him in the Prelatick Communion Nay our Gentleman follows through his whole Pamphlet this Guide so close that he often treads on his Heels So that without any Injustice I may change the Tittle Page and christen the whole Book The Second Edition of Dr. Stillingfleet 's Folly. But to do him Justice I must inform my Reader That he hath heightned the Doctor 's Railery as well as Impiety and as much as I can guess hath spent so much Time in turning over Don Quixot as to have left none for the Scripture For had he the least insight into that Sacred Book or the least Tincture of Christianity he never durst have exercis'd his ridiculing Vein on the Sacred Counsels contain'd in that Holy Volume nor plac'd those Pious Men who follow'd them on the same Level with Phanaticks But what will not Men do when Passion blinds Reason When the pleasant Charms of Revenge cast Conscience into a Lethargy when they have Light enough to see their Errors and no Resolution to correct them Would the Gentleman peruse his own Lines in cold Blood I am perswaded he would blush at the Sallies of his Passion and confess he deserv'd those reviling Epithets he has so liberally flung on the Catholick