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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54649	The Pharisee unmask'd in a new discovery of the artifices used by Roman Catholic priests to convert prisoners both at and before the time of execution.		1687 (1687)	Wing P1970; ESTC R26877	8,204	14

THE Pharisee Vnmask'd IN A New Discovery OF THE ARTIFICES Used by ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS TO Convert Prisoners both at and before the Time OF EXECUTION Published with Allowance LONDON Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel And are to be sold at his Printing-house on the Ditch-side in Black-Fryers 1687. THE Pharisee Vnmask'd IN A New Discovery of the Artifices used by Roman Catholic Priests to Convert Prisoners both at and before the Time of Execution WE see now a days a sort of Men who like the Crow in the Fable with painted Plumes and smooth Exteriors cloak for a time the pernicious Sentiments of their deluded Souls but at the first opening of their mouthes are presently discovered by their harsh and ill boading Tone The late most Royal and Gracious Declaration of Indulgence granted by the wisest and best of Princes as the sweetest and most efficacious means to re-establish Love Union and good Intelligence amongst all his loving Subjects is their common Stumbling-block which they no sooner hit against but they clearly shew who and what they are And tho it has the general Applause and Approbation of Christendom and all well-meaning Subjects yet they like venemous Spiders endeavour to asperse it with the Poyson with which they themselves abound What other reason can there be for this than that being too much used to bloody Executions and to the bitter and doleful Groans of their fellow Subjects sinking under the weight of the cruellest Persecutions the Musick was so sweet and pleasing to 'em that now they are pinched to see a Period put to those Severities which have been the cause of it One would think that all Pamphlets to this purpose should now cease but here up starts when least thought of a new Zealot revived as if it were from a deep Trance or awak'd from heavy dumps who sorry it seems not to have sooner acted his Part upon that public Stage invents a rare Stratagem to get his place among the Actors Tyburn a place more fit for Mourning than for Mimick and poor dying or rather dead Persons must needs be the Subject of his Scene Since freedom of Conscience says he hath been so liberally granted every minute Opinion has been emulous of Proselites You need no more Expressions we understand full well your meaning and what you would be at It is that Freedom of Conscience and not the making of Proselytes that touches you to the quick that venemous humor which it hath engendred in your heart has been too long fermenting and is now grown so ripe that it must needs break out And who can but admire this Actors drifts to cover his malice and the deep rancour of his Heart with the plausible and specious pretext of tender Love and Compassion to his fellow Christians Such are those false Prophets of which we are advifed to beware who comes in sheeps cloathing yet in their hearts being ravenous wolves by good words and fair speeches deceive the simple This Man would perswade the World that in this he is only concern'd for the Souls of his fellow Christians yet cannot pass without a severe Reflection upon Freedom of Conscience which is not only always emulous as he says but also most efficacious for making Proselites because it gives way to Truth to shine forth with all her splendor who thus appearing in her purest Robes and rich Attire is able to clear and open the bemisted Eyes of her Spectators if not diverted by such false Guides or overmaster'd by such specious tho false Pretexts as he alledges there needs no Force nor Threats when she so appears she alone triumphs and gains the day Then again our Actor not yet fully rous'd from his dumps or if awake blinded by his Passion confounds himself and betrays his own Cause whereas as he pretends out of tender Love and Compassion for Christian Souls he inveighs against Freedom of Conscience as the cause of making Proselytes and yet at the same time would have the World believe that such Proselytes are made by Force and Threats Now where Freedom of Conscience is what use can there be for Force or how can Threats prevail where Liberty ensures and bears the sway How come you great Zealot to mistake so soon is it that the heat of your pretended Love and Compassion for Christian Souls perverts your Sence and Reason to that degree that you perceive not manifest Contradictions even in your first Periods But alass you care not by what means so by any either right or wrong you attain your ends viz. to raise a cloud of dust to disturb the sight of those poor deluded Members of your Party whom by too many and too sad Experiences you know to be more apt to give Credit to scurrulous Pamphlets tho stuft with lies so they lay any Aspersions upon Catholics than to the most Authentic Traditions of the universal Church of Christ and the Doctrin of the most eminent and famous Lights of the Primitive Times these Doctors with them do pass for doting Fools and their Works for Engins forg'd by Papists to impose upon simple Men whilst such Pamphlets they embrace and hold for undoubted Truths It is this easiness of his Party to adhere to new Inventions which proved too fatal to so many in later Ages that encouraged this Man to divulge so ridiculous an Imposture and laying aside all Fear of God not to scruple to calumniat others with most notorious Falsities So verifying by himself and others his Associats in that Trade that there are now indeed another sort of fishers of men than what our Savior made who with other baits than that of the Gospel angle souls and lead them blindfold to eternal ruine and thus subdue more by falshood than they convince by Truth and Reason But there is a generation of men who he says call themselves Priests who have subdued more by Force than Perswasion and caught more Souls by a Dilemma than they have confuted by true Logick The Dilemma he here speaks of I suppose by what he said before consists of Promises without Performance on the one side and of Force on the other that of Promises without Performance has so blunt a point that himself lays no stress upon it and for the other of Force which is a sharp point indeed as it little agrees with that Liberty of Conscience which his Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant to all So the eagerness to keep up the Power of Persecution by hindring the abrogating of the Penal Laws and Tests manifestly shews to whom that Horn belongs But why does he say A Generation of Men who call themselves Priests Does he then believe them not to be truly such If so what becomes of the Hierarchy of the Church of England which pretends no other Origin of that Priesthood and Ordination she claims above all other Reformed Churches but the Validity of that in the Church of