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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25313	A præfatory discourse to a late pamphlet entituled, A memento for English Protestants, &c. being an answer to that part of the Compendium which reflects upon the Bishop of Lincoln's book : together with some occasional reflections on Mr. L'Estrange's writings.	Amy, S.	1681 (1681)	Wing A3032; ESTC R16932	26,021	36

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 Dissu●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