there ought to be some changes and that Statesmen therein must behave themselves like skilfull Musitians Qui artem Musices non mutant sed Musices modum That an ill weed grows fast by the example of the new Catholiques increase is cleerely convinced but he that will ascribe this generation simply to his Majesties heroicall vertue of clemency argueth out of the fallacy which is called Ignoratio Elenchi Was not the zeale of many cooled towards the end of Queene Elizabeths raigne Have not the impertinent heads of some of our owne side bereft us of part of our strength and the Papacy with tract of time gotten a hard skin on their consciences Parvametu primo mox sese The Church is most zealous when persecution is most fresh in memory when those times forgotten we fall to loath that which we injoy freely attollit in altum But if we will have a better insight behold how this great quantity of Spawne is multiplyed we must especially ascribe the cause thereof to their Priests who by their deaths prepare and assure more to their Sect then by their lives they could ever perswade It were incivility to distrust a friend or one that hath the shew of an honest man if he will frankly give his word or confirme it with a sacred Oath but when protestation is made at the last gasp of life it causeth a greater effect and possesseth those that cannot gainsay it upon their owne knowledge The number of those Priests which now a daies come to make a Tragicall conclusion is not great yet as with one seale many Patents are sealed so with the losse of few lives numbers of wavering spirits may be gained Sanguis Martyrum In this case the question is not so much of the truth of it as who shall judge and what censure be given semen Ecclesiae and though their Priests having a disadvantagious cause are indeed but counterfeit Martyrs to a true understanding yet will they be reputed for such by those that lay their soules in pawne upon their doctrine with whom if we list to contend by multitude of voices we shall be cryed downe without peradventure For the gate of their Church is wide and many there be that enter thereinto By divers meanes it is possible to come to one and the selfsame end In the first yeare of Qu Elizabeth it was easier to subdue popery then now for then they feared to irritate the Estates not knowing how far sincerity might extend Now knowing the worst they are resolved agere pati fortia seeing that the Sum of our willingnesse and well wishing is all one namely that Popish priests may have no power to doe harme it is impertinent to try sundry pathes which way to lead us to the perfection of our desires Polititians distinguish Inter Rempublicam constitutam Rempublicam constituendam according to the severall natures therof Statists are to dispose of their counsels and ordinances Were the Rhemists and Romulists new hatcht out of their shell the former course of severity might soone bury their opinions with their persons but since the disease is inveterated variety of medicine is to be applyed but judiciously The Romanes did not punish all crimes of one and the selfe-same nature with extremity of death for some they condemned to perpetuall banishment in prison and others they banisht into an Island and some remote Countrey In case of religion they were tender to dip their finger in blood for when Cato was Consull and it seemed good to the Senate to suppresse with violence the disordered Ceremony of the Bacchanals brought into the City by a strange Priest hee withstood their sentence Vulgus est moresum animal quod facilius duci potest quam cogi alleadging there was nothing so apt to deceive many as Religion which alwaies pretends a shew of Divinity and therefore it behooves them to be very wary in chastising thereof lest any indignation should enter into the peoples minde that something was derogated from the Majesty of their god Others more freely have not feared to place religion which is ignorantly zealous amongst the kindes of phrensie which is not to be cured otherwise then by time giving to direct or qualifie the fury of the conceit Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum Howsoever in valuing the power of a City as therein strength of arguments quality and worth is to be preferred before number Neverthelesse where the uttermost of our feare is not knowne Many Partizans encourage the faint hearted and where an enemy cannot pre vaile against number his thoughts are not how to offend but how to make a safe retreate it imports much to have it conceived that the multitude stands for us For doubts and suspitions cast in an enemies way evermore make things greater and more difficult than they are indeed We have by Gods mercy the sword of Justice drawn in our behalfe which in short time is able to disunite the secret underminers of our quiet We have a King zealous for the house of the Lord who needeth not to feare lesse successe in shutting up of the Priests then our late Queen had in restraining them in Wisbitch Castle where lest factious spirits should rust they converted their canker to fret upon themselves and vomiting out their gall in Quodlibets More Priests may be shut up in a yeare then they can make in many shewed that their disease was chiefly predominant in the spleene what tempests they have raised in their Colledge at Rome their owne bookes and many Travellers can witnesse the scorne whereof was such that Sixtus Quintus complained seriously of the vexation which he received oftner from the English Schollars then from all the vassals of his Triple Crowne And truly is the Magistrate noted of negligence Desire of Innovation is rash and contentious and therefore can hardly agree of a head or overmuch security that laies not wait to catch the Foxes the little Foxes which spoile the Vineyard as without further punishments reserving them to the day wherein God will take account of their stewardships For if Aristotles City deemed to be a society of men assembled to live well be the same which in our Law hath reference to the people in peace so long as we taste of the sweet of the peaceable government we cannot say but that we live well and that the consisting of men not of walls is happily governed and guided An oath is of force so long as it is thought lawfull when that opinion is ceased it doth more hurt than good An Oath is but a weake band to hold him that will for pretended conscience sake hold no faith with Heretiques or by absolution of a Priest thinkes himselfe at liberty to flie from any promise or protestation whatsoever therefore when I remember that Watson the Priest notwithstanding his invective against the Jesuits gained liberty to forge his trecherous inventions and had others of his society
a happy turne Without reformation in this point Popery will still encrease but as all vertuous enterprises are difficult so this most intricate But I finde it to be full of difficulty there is provision made to avoid Popish School-masters but there is no word against Popish School-mistresses that infect the silly Infants while they carry them in their armes which moveth me to suppose that the former proposition to examine how children and servants are brought up and truly to certifie the life of Communicants and Recusants will be the readiest meanes to let his Majesty know the yearely increase of the Church in every Diocesse A wise housholder will cast up his reckoning to see what losse or profit he hath made in a yeare and whosoever shall send his children or any his Majesties subjects to bee placed in Monasteries and Seminary Colledges or Popishly to be brought up in forreine parts I wish that for punishment both the one and the other might be defranchised of the priviledges due to naturall Subjects so far forth as any good by the Lawes might descend to them but not be exempted from the penalties thereof or the Regall jurisdiction of the Crowne I know that contradiction is odious and makes a man seeme ambitious to be thought more understanding than others In which case the Spaniard uses to terme him only presumptuous whom he would call foole if civility would beare it But my defence I hope shall serve to revive my former protestation that I discourse by way of proposition rather than arrogance in defining any thing The law which took immediate notice of an offence gave a quick redresse and corrected the poore as well as the rich with pardon therfore may it be permitted that the penall Law of twelve pence inflicted on him that would not give a reasonable excuse for his absence from Church on Sundaies was one of the best Ordinances that hath been hitherto enacted but while we sought to make new Statutes savouring of more severity we neglected the old and were loath to execute the new For it is a certaine rule that whosoever in policy will give liberty and yet seeme to suppresse a crime let him procure sharpe Lawes to be proclaimed which are necessary only for the times and cause occasions to be put in execution but not to be an ordinary worke for every day in the weeke Sharpe Lawes that stand upon a â—long processe after a manner seem to dispense with a vice daily use teacheth us likewise that it is lesser grievous to punish by an old Law than a new Forasmuch as truth it selfe without it be praised seldome gets credit and its hard to free the people from suspition that new Lawes are not rather invented against the particular persons and purses of men than against their manners By force of which reason I am induced to conceive that the old use of the Church contained in good nurture and Ecclesiasticall censure much more prevaile to nuzzle Popery than any fresh devices whatsoever Neither doe I thinke it blame-worthy to affirme that our cause hath taken harme by relying more on temporall than spirituall forces for while we trusted that Capitall punishments should strike the stroke we have neglected the meanes which would for the most part have discharged the need of such security The oath of Allegiance is not offered generally to servants and meane people The allegiance to God ought to precede the temporall obedience for if the first may be obtained the second will follow of it selfe who if they had taken the oath of Absolution of a priest might recoile from it and change their opinion at leisure without any ready meanes to discover their Lieger demeanes That oath will not be often prest and to them that shift from place to place how can it be tendered The principall Papists now cover themselves in the crowde of the multitude but if we can discover the affection of the multitude they will easily be unmasked and being singled from the rest they will be ashamed of their nakednesse Which under correction of better judgements may be effected if every new commer to inhabite a towne and servant newly entertained within a weeke or fourteene daies be caused to repaire unto the Minister This course will discover more than the oath of Allegiance and prevent many from falling off by reason of the quicke discovery there in presence of the Churchwardens and other honest men to subscribe unto such briefe and substantiall articles confirming Faith and Allegiance as shall be according to Gods Word and Justice ordained to distinguish the Sheepe from the Goates In forreine Countries every Host is bound to bring his guest before an Officer there to certifie his name with the occasion of his comming and intended time of abode in those parts and in case he staies longer he must again renew his licence so curious and vigilant also they are to keep their Cities from infection that without a Certificate witnessing their comming from wholsome places they may not escape the Lazzaretto No lesse watchfull ought we to bee to prevent the contagions of our soules As long as houses lodgings in London are let to Papists the Priests shall bee received and from thence the Countrey infected than other Nations are of their bodies every thing is hard and scarcely pleasing in the beginning but with hope some such course may be readily put in execution I propound this rather as matter for better heads to worke on then peremptorily to be insisted upon in the same termes Yet lest any man charge me with temerity that when I desire to know the multitudes inclination by the meanes aforesaid I satisfie my selfe with the Parrets language pronouncing it knowes not what I thinke it not impertinent to put them in minde that I have hitherto required instruction both precedent and subsequent and am ever of the minde that though all this cannot be done at once If we can prevent the increase of Papists these that now live must either bee reformed or in time yeeld to nature and then shall a new age of Christians succeed and by education made religions yet it is necessary alwaies to be doing our best knowing that not to goe forward in Religion is to goe backward It is not the outward obedience of comming to Church that discovers the inward thoughts of the heart it is the confession of the tongue must utter these secrets and where the Curate is insufficient or the Parish great I would they had Chatechists to assist them maintained by the Priests of the Recusants which pension being collected for good cause will free us from scandall though it grieve them to pay the speciall army wages against their owne Stratagems surely in giving them way in petty matters they are growne Masterfull on their party Plato affirmes that the popular state proceeds from the licence which people take to make immoderate applauses in the Theatres
benefacere tantundem est ac bonis malefacere To be a right Popish Priest in true English sense is to beare the character of a disloyall degenerate of his naturall obedience towards his Soveraigne whom if by connivency he shall let slip or chastise with a sleight hand in what immunity may not treacherous delinquents in lesser degrees expect or challenge after a sort in equity and justice If there were no receiver there would be no theeves Likewise if there were no harborers of these Jesuites its to be presumed they would not trouble this Isle with their presence Fellowship in misery easeth griefe and by a clamor of a multitude justice is many tiâ—â—â—es condemned and rigor must be extended against the receivers that the Jesuite may be kept out of doores were it then indifferent Justice to hang up the accessory and let the principall goe free to suffer the Priest to draw his breath at length whilest the entertainer of him under his roofe submits his body into the executioners hands without doubt if it be fit to forbeare the chief it would be necessary to receive the second offendor Reputation is one of the principall arteries of the Common-wealth which Maxime is so well knowne of the Secretaries of the Papacy that by private forgeries and publique impressions of calumniations they endeavour to wound us in the vitall part Howsoever therefore that some few of that stampe being better tempered than their fellowes in defence of their present government have not spared to affirme that Tyranny is unjustly ascribed thereunto forasmuch as freedome of conscience after a sort may be redeemed by money It is not good to set a price upon that which being sold repentance is to the seller Notwithstanding there want not many Pamphlets of their side who opprobriously cast in our teeth that converting the penalty inflicted upon Recusants and refusers of the oath of Alleagiance is gone from the Kings Exchequer to a particular purse Surely we cannot presume that those Libellors should be disswaded from spitting out their venome malitiously against us when they shall see their Priests mued up without further processe of Law Warinesse is to be used with those Quines totamservitutem pati possint nec totà libertatem For either they will attribute this his calme dealing to the justice of their cause the strength of their parts or patience or that no act of time hath discovered our Lawes importing over-much sharpnesse in good policy to be thought fitter for the abnegation of their non-sense then repealed by a publique decree Most men write good turnes in Sand and bad in Marble Moreover it is thought by some that if their Seminaries be only restrained that they may prove like snakes kept in ones bosome such as Bonner Gardner and such of the same livery shewed themselves to be after liberty obtained in Queene Maries daies and if the lives of their ghostly Fathers agrieve them its probable they would take armes sooner and with more courage to free the living then to set up a Trophee for the dead Fugitives that crave succor use to lie much in favor of their cause and power Howsoever the Jesuits band is knowne in their native soile to be defective in many respects which makes them underlings to the Protestants as in authority armes and the protection of Lawes which is all in all neverthelesse they insinuate themselves into forraigne Princes favouring their parries with promises of strong assistance at home if they may bewell backt from abroad to which purpose they have delivered the inhabitants of this Realme into foure Sects whereas ranking their troopes in the first place as due to the pretended Catholikes they assume a full-fourth to their party and of that part again they make a subdivision into two portions namely of those that openly renounce the established Church of England and others whose certaine number as yet cannot be knowne because they frequent our Service and Sacraments reserving their hearts to their god the Pope The second party they allot to the Protestants It is a signe When a faction dare number their side they conceive an opinion of sufficient strength to attempt some innovation who retaine yet as they say some reliques of their Church The third ranke and largest was left unto the Puritans whom they hate deadly in respect they will not hold an indifferent quarter with Papists The fourth and last maniple they assigne to the Polititians Huomini say they senza Deo senza anima Men without feare of God or regard of their owne soules who busying themselves in matters of State retaine no senfe of religion No doubt if the authors of this partition have cast their accounts aright we must confesse that the later brood is properly to be ascribed to them Discontented mindes in beginning of tumults will agree though their end be diverse For if the undermining of the Parliament house the scandalizing of the King in print who is Gods anointed and the refusall of naturall obedience be markes of those that stand neither in awe of God nor conscience well may the Papists boast that they are assured of the first in number and may presume of the last in friendship when occasion shall be offered A multitude is never united in grosse but in some few heads which being taken away converteth their fury against the first movers of the sedition For the preventing of which combination it is a sure way to cut off the heads that should tie the knot Or at least brand them with a marke in the forehead before they be dismist or after the opinion of others to make them unwelcome to the feminine sex which now with great fervency embrace them like unto certaine Germanes in Italy who calling themselves Publicans were marked with a hot iron in the forehead and whipt being thrust out in the midst of winter with a prohibition none should receive them and dyed of hunger and cold These are for the most part arguments vented in ordinary discourse by many who suppose a Priests breath to be contagious in our English aire Others there are who maintaine the second part of the question with reasons not unworthy of observation Death is the end of temporall joyes but it may no way he accounted the grave of memory Therefore howsoever it is in the power of justice to suppresse the person of a man the opinion for which be suffered conceived truly or untruly in the hearts of the multitude is not subject to any sword how sharp or keene soever I confesse the teeth are seen that bite only out of the malice of a singular faction Rooted superstition being violently handled doth grow more wary not lesse obstinate but when poison is diffused through the veines of a Common-wealth with intermixtures of a blood good and bad separation is to be made rather by patient evacuation then present incision The greatest biter of State is envy joyned with
the thirst of revenge which seldome declares it selfe in plaine colours untill a jealousie conceived of personall danger breake out into desperate resolutions Henâ—â— comes it to passe that when one malecontented member is grieved the rest of the body is sensible thereof If Conspirators have one sympathy of minde the conspiracy is never sufficiently suppressed so long as one of them remaineth Neither can a Jesuit or a Priest be cut off without a generall murmuring of their followers which being confident in their number secretly arme for opposition or confirmed with their Martyrs blood as they are perswaded resolve by patience and sufferance to glorifie their cause and merit heaven Doe we not daily see it is easier to confront a private enemy then a society or corporative and that the hatred of a State is more mortall then the spleene of a Monarchy Therefore except it be demonstrated that the whole Romane City which consists not of one brood Opinion setled in a multitude is like Hidras head which must be cured by fearing not by letting blood but of a succession of persons may be cut off at the first stroke as one entire head I see no cause to thinke our State secured by sitting on the skirts of some few Seminaries leaving in the meane time a multitude of snarlers abroad who only shew their teeth but waite for opportunity to bite fiercely I will not deny but whom we feare we commonly hate provided alwaies that no merit hath interceded a reconciliation For there is a great difference betwixt hatred conceived against him that will take the life and him that may justly doe it and yet in clemency forbeares to put it in effect for the latter breedeth a reverent awe Clemency is a divine justice and worketh supernaturall effects whereas the former subjects to servile feare alwaies accompanied with desire of innovation And though it hath been affirmed of the Church of Rome Quod pontificum genus semper crudele Neverthelesse out of charity let us hope that all devils are not so black as they are painted Gorticus axiom polit some or perhaps many of them there are whom conscience or in default thereof pure shame of the world will constraine to confesse that his Majesty most gratiously distinguisheth the throne of Popery from the active part thereof as being naturally inclined Parvis peccatis veniam magnis securitatem Tacit. in vita Agricalae poena semper sed poenitentia aliquando contentum esse Mistaking of punishment legally inflicted commonly proceeds from fond pitty and the interest which we have in the same cause both which beget blinde partiality When traitors in mifchiefes will not choose the least it argues they are desperate and breathe nothing but extremity of mischiefe Admit then that the Papall side affecting merit by compassion may be nearely touched with the restraint of their Seminaries I cannot be denied I hope except they had the hearts of Tigers that in humanity they will prefer their ease of durance before the rigor of death And albeit that Parsons Bellarmine and the Pope himselfe constraine their spirituall children to thrust their fingers into the fire by refusing the Oath of Alleagiance Notwithstanding we have many Courts Judiciall testimonies and printed Bookes that the greater part of them are of the. The bane hunters minde who would have rather seen his dogs cruell acts then have felt them to his owne cost Garnet himselfe also in one of his secret It was a precept of Machivell to put on the maske of religion which is now become a popish aphâ—risme Letters laments that after his death he should not be extolled amongst the Martyrs because that no matters of Religion were objected against him yet in his demeanors it plainly appeared that he would gladly have had the possibility of that glory if any such had remained neither is it to be presumed that being in prison he would ever have conceived that we durst not to touch his reverence or that the Law was remisse that had justly condemned him and left his life to the Kings mercy It is the distance of the place So it pleased Parsons to cavill of whom it may be truly said Malus malum peiorem peiorem esse vult sus similem not Parsons that interpreted the sending over the Seas of their Priests to be a greater argument of their innocency than of his Majesties forbearance for had Parsons himselfe been Coram nobis his song would rather have been of mercy than justice It is truly said that we are instructed better by examples than precepts Therefore if the Lawes printed and enditements recorded cannot controlle the calumniations of 2023. of that back-biting number I doubt not but that the question may be readily decided Namque immedicabile vulnus Esse recidendum est ne pars syncera trabatur To dally with pragmaticall Papists especially those that by their examples and counsels pervert his Majesties subjects To bestow benefits on the bad maketh them worse and vilifies the reward to the vertuous I hold it a point of meere injustice for what comfort may the good expect when the bad are by connivency freed to speake what they list and emboldened to put their disloyall thoughts in execution For example therefore of my meaning it is necessary to have regard to the nature of the Kings liege people that are to be reformed to the example of justice and other forreiners who will they nill they must be observers of our actions It hath truly been observed that the Nations of Europe which are most remote from Rome are more superstitiously inclined to the dregs of that place then the nearer neighbours of Italy whether the humor proceed from the complexion of the Northerne bodies which is naturally inclined to old custome more than Southerne regions Or that the vices of the City seated on seven hills are by crafty Ministers of that Sea concealed from the vulgar sorts I list not now to discusse but most certaine it is that the people of this Isle exceed the Romanes in zeale of their profession insomuch that in Rome it selfe I have heard the English fugitives tasked by the name of Pischia petti Inglisi Knock-breasts hypocrites Now as our countrimen tooke surer hold of Papall traditions from others so are they naturally better fortified with a courage to endure death for the maintenance of the cause For this Climate is of that temperature out of which Vigetius holds it fittest to choose a valiant soldier where the heart finding it self provided of plenty of blood to sustaine sudden defects it is not so soon apprehensive of death or danger Valour is overcome by meeknesse but being too much suppressed turnes to unbridled fury as where the store-house of blood being small every hazzard maketh pale cheekes and trembling hands Angli say ancient writers bello in trepidi nec mortis sensu deterrentur And thereupon Botero the Italian beares witnesse in
people still retaine a sense of the Romane perfume The cause is that the formall obedience of comming to Church hath been more expected than the instructions of private families A man is said to know so much as he remembreth and no more and wee remember what we learne in our youth therefore if we would be wise when we are old we must be taught yong Publike Catechisme is of great use but the first elements thereof are to be learned at home and those which we learne of our Parents stick more surely in our mindes What was the cause that the Spartans continued their government so many revolutions of time without mutation Histories record that learning their country customes from their infancy they could not be induced to alter them and in this our native soile we perceive that common Lawes which relie on ancient custome are better observed than late Statutes of what worth soever they be So doth it fare with the olde people who being seasoned with the olde dregs of Papisme will hardly be drawne from it till the learning of the true faith be growne to a custome I will prescribe no orders or officers to effect this Such as the Princes house is such is the state of the commons for the most part so that a Prince by a survey of his owne house may have an â—aime how the common-weale is affected But I suppose the ancient laudable course of the Bishops Confirmation will not be sufficient to fulfill so great a taske The Ministers ought and must be the principall and immediate hands to give assistance to so gracious a worke and in case any be defective in this duty the reverend Bishops may take notice thereof in their visitations Perhaps it might be thought a hard taske to constraine old people to learne the A B C. of their Christian beliefe By the lawes we are the tithingmen which give account for ten housholds some such office might do good in this case for I hold the breaking of the saboth to be the ruine of our religion But howsoever it be I hold it no incivility to prepare people of all ages for the kingdome of heaven by the order contained in the booke of Common Prayer or Sundaies and Holy-daies halfe an houre before Evensong the Curate of every Parish ought to examine Children sent unto him in some points of their Catechisme and all Fathers Masters and Mothers should cause their Children and Apprentises to resort unto the Church at the time appointed there obediently to heare and be ordered by the Curate untill such time as they shall learne all that in the said Booke is commanded And when the Bishop shall appoint the Children to be brought before him for their Confirmation the Curate of every parish shall send or bring in writing the names of those children in his Parish which can answer to the questions of the Catechisme And there ought none to be admitted to the holy Communion It were fit also they learned how to distinguish the common grounds of Popery whereby the Priests deceive your people nor be confirmed untill such time as he can say the Catechisme Many times I have stood amazed to behold the magnificence of our ancestors buildings which their successors at this day are not able to keep up But when I cast mine eyes back upon this excellent foundation laid by the grave Fathers of the Church and perceive their Children neglect to build upon it with exceeding marvaile I rest almost besides my selfe For never was there better ground-plot laid which was seconded with lesse and worse successe It was not the hanging up of the Bull of Pius Quintus on the Bishop of Londons doores He that knowes not the true cause of an evill cannot help it but by chance which is a dangerous guide of a State for the forbearing to hang up Priests hath wrought the A postacy but the idlenesse and insufficiency of many Teachers conspiring with the peoples cold zeale that have been the contrivers of this unhappy web Vntill the eleventh yeare of Q. Elizabeths raigne a Recusants name was scarcely knowne The reason was because the zeale begotten in the time of the Marian persecution was yet fresh in memory And the late persecutors were so amazed with the sudden alteration of Religion that they could not choose but say Digitus Dei est hic in these there was an emulation betwixt the Clergy and the Laity and the strife arose who should shew themselves most affectionate to the Gospell Ministers haunted the houses of worthy men where Jesuits now build their Tabernacles And Countrey Churches were frequented with the best of the shire Where good men are afraid to call vice by the proper name it is a signe the vice is common and great persons whom it is not safe to anger are infected with it the word of God was precious and prayer and preaching went hand in hand together untill Archbishop Grindals disgrace and Hatfields hard conceit of prophecies brought the flowing of these good graces to a still water and the name of a Papist smelt ranke even in their owne nostrils and for pure shame to be accounted such they resorted daily to our English Churches and exercises But when they saw their great Coripheus Sanders had slily pinned the name of Puritans upon the sleeves of the Protestants that encountered them with most courage and perceiving that the word was pleasing to some of our owne side that tooke hearty grace to set little by the service of God and duty to their Soveraigne If these mens zeal had been put to imploy it selfe otherwise and a taske set them to do some good they might have been reformed or made harmelesse by diversion Therewith started up amongst us some that might have been recommended for their zeale if it had been tempered with discretion who for ruining the authority of the Magistrate tooke upon them in sundry places and publikely to censure whatsoever agreed not with their conceit with which crosse tumults vented in Pulpits and Pamphlets most men grew to be frozen in zeale and in such sort benummed that whosoever as the worthy Lord Keeper Bacon observed in those daies pretended a little sparke of earnestnesse he seemed no lesse then red fire hot in respect of others Headstrong passions are not easily subdued yet must they not be suffered to grow to a faction Discretio perlegem distinguere quid sit wee must lay the burthen in the right place And as some things fare the worse for an ill neighbours sake dwelling besides them so did it betide the Protestants who seeking to curb the Papists or reprove an idle drone was incontinently branded with the ignominious note of a Precisian And which winde brought plenty to the Popes Well And there will most men grinde where they see appearance to be well secured If without great inconveniency the children of Papists could be brought up out of their company that were