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A92790	A seasonable caution to apostate Protestants: or, mercy and judgment at once visible wherein you'l find heart refreshing mercy to the firm Protestants; and soul ruining vengeance on the rotten time-serving ones that turn papists. Verifying, in the very letter, that promise, whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake, shall find it: Mat. 16. 25. (as here the true Protestants did, who gave themselves up for dead men, rather than turn papists to save their lives; and yet were miraculously saved: when, at the same time, the rotten unsound Protestants, who, at that pinch, turn'd papists to save their lives, yet perished. Written by Mercurius Hibernicus, an ey-witness of the Protestants miseries, and of the papists treacheries in Ireland; from whom expect several sheets to the shame of popery.	Mercurius, Hibernicus.	1680 (1680)	Wing S2220; ESTC R222959	4,782	1

But what I pray Do'nt you think the others that separated from you good Catholicks No said the stedfast Soldiers because they never own'd themselves as such till now and they do it for fear of Death I verily believe it said the Commander for I thought as much before Then turning to the rest of his Officers and Souldiers he said Them yonder meaning those that separated are but Counterfeit Catholicks and the Rogues do it only to save their LIVES and to abuse us for they will run away the next Opportunity Therefore by GOD they shall dy every man of them and the other for standing so bravely to their Principles shall live and whom I would sooner trust upon any occasion than the other or any such Time-serving Rascals as they are In short he put all the Revolters to the Sword and saved the other for their brave Resolution and not only so but sent them with a safe Conduct to the next English Garrison having as many of his own sent in Exchange that had been Prisoners By this noble Act the said Commander won great Applause amongst the English Now consider this all ye that think to save your Lives and Estates by temporising and basely ante-dating your Religion or dirtily complying with and fawning upon every base pitiful the most of them are no better Papist before hand as if ye would forespeak Friendship as I am too sure many do And possibly you that are next to removed but one little step from them may find some favour for a very little time from them till you and them if they can by any idle foolish pretence get you to assist them against such as are more zealous against their Idolatries But when their work is so far done then they will more easily cut you off too for the least step of Reformation since Qu. Maries daies their Soul hates even as the purest worship For I can liken them to no better a Crew than Rogues and Thieves that live in an honest place who will carry it very fairly among the Neighbourhood to have som●●●dies good word at a pinch so they make to some one party to shelter under them and the●● only Polyphemus's Courtesy will be yours that is to dy last when you have seen the Throats of others cut your own turn comes next There are Seven sorts that above all others are most likely to turn Apostates viz. The Covetous the Ambitious the Self-lovers the Over-nice the Formalists the Ignorant and the Fearful See Rev. 21. 8. Mat. 10. 33. Mark 13. 13. Rev. 2. 10. 25. 1 Cor. 16. 13. Phil. 4. 1. 1 Cor. 10. 12. These 7 include the first three abovenamed and are wrapt up in the word HYPOCRITE and amongst them there are divers great Professors even of all sorts who as well as the loose ignorant debauch'd prophane Protestants for fear or favour may joyn with the Papists against sincere Protestants as the Lutherans joyned with Papists against the Calvenists An. 1567. and about the 10 year of Q. Eliz. especially when allured thereto by the curious Arts of Jesuites and their Proselytes the P●●ltring Baites of Profit and Preferment Seconded by the lusty tho feigned Promises of some principal Papists and their Agents But God can and perhaps will bring it so to pass That such revolting Wrethes may be served as they above mention'd or if not so yet they cannot escape Vengeance for I am confident they will perish by one means or other perchance by the hands of true Protestants And for my own part I do profess if God will make use of the Arm of Flesh in our defence I would sooner give quarter to French or any other outlandish-Papist than any English Apostate whatsoever Laity or Clergy that should joyn in Arms with them or our domestick or home-born Papists against the Protestants Cause And I write this with an heart that never yet feared the greatest or the proudest Papist in the World who have been at the routing of such almost an hundred times in my junior daies and therefore I think I should know the better how to deal with them now if they will needs force us to it by falling upon us first for till then we will not stir one foot Let them otherwise provoke us never so much as they have done very often and do daily besides burning of London Southwark c. But as crafty Fowlers as they are they shall not catch old Birds in the Chaff ☞ Be steadfast 1 Cor. 15. 58. stand fast 1 Cor. 16. 13. For In all Gods Armory there 's no defence for the Back the Runagade the Apostate must everlastingly perish O Apostate bethink thy self betimes True Protestants will rather chuse to dy Than Christ or their Religion deny And bravely persevere come what will come But Hypocrites will bow the Knee to Rome Ev'n these 7 Monsters which I nam'd before Would Popery if it were up adore Notwithstanding all this Let us and all that think they stand beware lest we fall 1 Cor. 10. 12. as they may without Divine Assistance Self-Confidence being a most dangerous Rock on which many have split even in this present Age Remember the Apostle Peter and the Apostate Pendleton in the Book of Martyrs LONDON Printed by Th. Dawks living in Black fryers Sold by Langly Curtis in Goat Court on Ludgate-hill Where also may always be had 1. Godfrys Murder made Visible containing the Cruelties of the Papists therein 2. A Chronology of Popery shewing When and Who brought in their Fopperies 3. Packs of Cards illustrating the Plot with a Book to explain them 4. The Beggars Petition to Hen. 8. against Popery shewing Reasons enough why the King did throw off the Popes Authority 5. Dr. Otes's Vindication for discovering the Plot tho the wicked Papists rage at him for it 6. Romes hunting match for III Kingdoms 7. Englands Calamity foreshewn from the Growth of Popery 8. Dr. Salmons Dispensatory 9. Dr. Salmons Horae Mathematicae or Soul of Astrology containing an account of Nativities by Inspection only without Calculation and of the evil of the next succeeding years c. 10. Famous Mr. Rich's Absence supplyed by a Key to his Short-hand Table faithfully discovering the whole Art in that Method he taught his Scholars together with the reserv'd Rules in their proper places the Table being little worth without this Key as also that all Books of this Art in Mr. Rich's Name are Counterfeits and for the Truth hereof he appeals to Mr Rich's Scholars The Papists Method in spreading their Pamphlets and Pestilent Books is this When the People come to Confession every Priest injoyns those that confess and expect Absolution to buy such Books as promote holy Mother Churches Interest and that they lend them to the poor sort their Neighbours and others and this they must do either as a Meritorious Act or as a Penance for some fault

A Seasonable Caution to Apostate Protestants Or Mercy and Judgment at once Visible Wherein you 'l find heart refreshing Mercy to the Firm Protestants and Soul ruining Vengeance on the rotten Time-serving ones that turn Papists Verifying in the very letter that Promise Whosoever will save his life shall lose it and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it Mat. 16. 25. as here the true Protestants did who gave themselves up for dead men rather than turn Papists to save their lives and yet were miraculously saved when at the same time the Rotten unsound Protestants who at that Pinch turn'd Papists to save their lives yet perished Written by Mercurius Hibernicus an Ey-witness of the Protestants Miseries and of the Papists Treacheries in Ireland from whom expect several sheets to the shame of Popery NOW are the Daies doubtless whereof Christ and his Apostles forewarn'd us That there should be a departing or falling away from the Faith 1 Tim. 4. 1. 2 Pet. 3. 3. Jude 18. and that because of Iniquities abounding the love of many should wax cold Matth. 24. 12. Cold for Christ and the true Christian Religion Nay They shall even deny Christ 2 Pet. 2. 1. 2 Tim. 2. 12. And these things with many more are come to pass at this very day And this hath proceeded from the cursed design of the JESUITES and the rest of the Romish Faction who debauch many great Ones and they by their wicked Example which almost carries the sorce of a Command with it the whole Comonalty by deluding them with pretences of Venial sins and Pardons c. For is not Whoring Swaring Drunkning Lying Aequivocating c. become as a mighty Stream overflowing the whole Land thereby fitting us for some worse Judgment if the Plague the Fire and other Punishments we have had do no good upon us Therefore be steadfast How dreadful is it to consider and what a sure Token of approaching Judgment is it to see I. Many quandam zealous Protestants grown of late so cold colder since the PLOT than before so narrow spirited and basely timorous thinking 'tis a great piece of discretion and that they shew an emphatical piece of Wisdom That when Discourse is raised in Company concerning POPERY they will either shift it off with a Drool force some other Discourse or sneak away in hopes to save their Bakon cujus contrarium verum est so that really they are asham'd or half afraid to own themselves Protestants Shewing not so mch zeal for the true Worship of the true God as a Turk does for Mahomets or a Heathen for his Idol hereby declaring that they have sat under a dead Ministry of whom God hath said They shall not profit the People Those that never felt the Power of God under an Ordinance in turning them from all Sin and shewing them the desperateness of their Condition without Christ a holy Life c. will turn to any the worst of prevailing Religions especially to that which tollerates Sin as Popery do's nay makes it meritorious as murdering Kings burning Cities c II. Others are so pusillanimous so dirty and dastardly That they dare not own the Truth when they hear it traduced and impugned by men popishly affected when e'n the Spirit of God and their own Consciences prompt them to speak as if they were asham'd of Christ See Mark 8. 38. and with Spira desperately quench and resist the Motions of the Holy Ghost and if any put them to it by Interrogatories they 'l answer with an Equivocation or an Italian shrug Know they that dare not Speak for Christ will hardly either Do or Suffer for him These are light Wheat that will soon be blown aside if the Wind rises a little especially if Euroclydon blow hard III. There is also another sort who tho they will talk pretty freely concerning the PLOT c. yet their words are so cunningly and artificially placed as if they were coin'd on purpose Yea their Expressions are many times so ambiguous and savoring of the JESUITS canting Querks that the wisest Man alive can hardly tell what to make of them and all these three aim at the same thing viz. hoping by Silence Indifferency and Neutrality to find favour of the Papists if they should get uppermost which is the greatest Folly imaginable as I could evince by many woful Examples in the Rebellion in Ireland where they were most egregiously perfidious promising the Protestants quarter but in stead thereof murdered them in cold Blood And this one Relation shall serve in stead of many whereby you may see if you will what you are to expect when they have the Sword c. Take it faithfully as I receiv'd it from Captain Edward Leventhorp and others DUring the late Wars in Ireland A Castle well mann'd with English Protestants being suddenly and straightly besieged by the Enemy in so much that in few daies they were reduced to so great Extremity that they must of necessity either starve or yield to the Mercy of the merciless and implacable Papists whose tender Mercies are Cruelty as all along the Maryan Dayes the Troubles in Germany and the Irish Rebellion hath been proved Hereupon the Day and Hour being appointed whereon they should march out of the Castle without any thing save only their wearing Clothes These Noble Souls I call them so for their Magnanimity for the Cause of Jesus Christ came out of the Castle and as soon as ever they came forth so soon were they surrounded by the Enemy as you see in this Figure who with drawn swords in their hands waited only for the Word of Command to fall on and cut them in pieces whilst the other poor Souls were upon their Knees one while calling upon God for Mercy and another while crying to their Enemies for Pity but the Papists had sworn the Ruine of them all and had done it too if GOD by a strange and wonderful way had not prevented it For just as the Commander was about to give the Word to fall on and spare none of the English Soldiers GOD I say put it into the Commanders mind to ask them one Question first and it was this He demanded if there were any Roman Catholicks among them if there be said he let them draw out and separate from the rest who were to stand still The Word was no sooner out of his Mouth but out came three or four and confest themselves Roman Catholicks and withall antedated their Religion after them came half a dozen and at the heels of them half a score more and divers others after them and all acknowleding themselves Catholicks ante-dating as the first did Whereat the Popish Commander turn'd about and smil'd and when no more would come he asked the rest that stood Firm If they were resolv'd to dye PROTESTANTS They like true Christians Heaven born Souls indeed answered That they would not change their Religion to save their LIVES Say you so Quoth the Popish Commander