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death_n	die_v	sin_n	soul_n	22,606	5	5.7136	4	true

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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

means which he made use of to confirm him in his way assured him for the chiefest satisfaction that he would save him without the help of any Sacraments This I had from the Prisoners own mouth In all which finding no doubt less satisfaction than he had received from the Priest for the opposite way he declared to him his mind which was to die in the Roman Catholic Faith wherein he plainly saw better warrants for Salvation That very night after Prayers and Instructions he made his abjuration and was reconciled in presence of five persons after being several times questioned whether he had yet any doubt in those Points of Religion which he then professed and often warned that none can dissemble with God and that in matters of Conscience and Religion dissimulation is Damnation to which he constantly answered that being upon his Death it was no time for him to dissemble The night following being Execution Eve after having had twice Prayers and Instruction upon the dispositions necessary for the due Receiving of the Sacraments of Penance and the most Blessed Eucharist he made a general and as it was manifest by his manner of declaring a sincere Confession of all the Sins of his Life produced many Acts of Contrition and detestation of his sins besought God Almighty with Sighs and Tears through his Infinite Mercy and the Inestimable Merits of Christ to forgive him his former offences with repeated protestations of his stedfast resolution to offend him no more not only for the small time he had to live but also if he had many years after which he humbly beg'd Absolution which was given him by the Priest having before renewed his Profession of Faith. Upon Execution day in the Morning after Prayers Instruction and Confession of some things which by a more serious reflection he found upon his Conscience he received the Blessed Eucharist protesting that he firmly believed what he saw so plainly and so often inculcated in the express words of God viz. that it was the True and Real Body and Blood of Jesus Christ Being brought to the place of Execution the Priest examined him about his immediate disposition for Death he told him that seeing it was the will of God he was willing to suffer that ignominious one and besought God to accept of it in satifaction for his sins After which he recited the Lords Prayer the Belief and Prayed out of a Catholic Prayer Book of which he made use during the time of his preparation for that last passage the Priest made him renew in brief his Profession of Faith excercise several acts of Hope Charity and Contrition after which he gave him the Absolution all which lasted near upon half an hour which was a more than sufficient time to recant if he had any inclination thereunto having moreover the Ordinary by him in the same Cart. The Rope being fastened to the tree The Priest asked him what he had to say to the Assembly he said in plain and distinct terms to the hearing of many to whose Conscience I appeal that he was sorry for his sins desired all to take Example by him that he died a Roman Catholic begg'd the Prayers of all good Christians at that moment to which he added that he desired all Roman Catholics if any then present to pray for his Soul after Death If this be to die a Protestant our Zealot has reason to hope as he says he does that this young Man died an excellent one but if the hope he has of his own Salvation has no better grounds I would advise him in time to look out for some better But as the Devil is always busie especially in these last moments in tempting Souls there happened then an accident which I suppose together with his own inveterate malice has occasioned this Mans odious Pamphlet The dying man being last of all minded to declare then in public as he often did in private that he died in Charity with all the World he fixed his Eyes upon some Person whom I suppose he knew in the Assembly upon which he shed a flood of Tears and in great Emotion broke forth into these Words I freely forgive the whole World except that Rogue N. who is the only cause of my Death for I die wrongfully and with that he began to revile the Person named to prevent which the Priest who needed not to run to him as this Man relates for he was actually standing with him put his Hand upon his Mouth and his Hat between him and those Objects whose sight caused in him that transport and put him in mind of the Instructions before given him the absolute necessity of forgiving all and made him sensible if he excepted one he could expect no forgiveness from God Almighty who never forgives those that forgive not To this the dying Man reply'd that what he had so rashly said was not out of hatred to the Person named but out of love to some there present his meaning being to warn them not to confide in the said Person However the Priest for greater Security made him renew his Acts of Charity and Repentance and in particular detest what he had said lest any rancour might have been the cause thereof after which he reiterated the Absolution and made him declare again to the Assembly how he freely forgave all naming expresly him whom he had before excepted whom then he prayed God to bless and prosper Which being done the Priest committed him to God gave him the Benediction and retired Now as to the matter of Fact by which this Pamphleteer pretends to evidence clearly his supposed Imposture I appeal to that cloud of Witnesses to which he refers us who have been not only Spectators afar off as he seems to have been but also auditors both in this and other Occasions of the kind whether either from this last or any other who preceded him in like circumstances they heard one word in that public place as much as tending to recant or any way able to justifie this Mans odious Calumny and I doubt not but amongst so many there will be found some unbiass'd Persons who will be so just to their own Conscience as to declare the truth of what they have heard and no more After all I leave it to the impartial Reader to judge what Reasons other than pure Malice could induce this Man to publish such an odious Aspersion and who by all this shews himself to be the Pharisee and whether those who no doubt for want of better means fly commonly to lies and calumnies to maintain their Cause ought not if they were but Christians nay as he says if they were but Men to be ashamed of such petty tricks Whether also the Preparations above mentioned be not sufficient Dispositions for a good and happy Death especially in a Church wherein Salvation was never yet denied to be had even by the most learned and understanding Members of the Church of England whose Doctrin and Principles this Man shews himself to be ignorant of when all his Pamplet is grounded upon impossibility of Salvation for those who die in the Communion of the Roman Catholic Church in which he will doubtless be disown'd by the chiefest of his own Party but thus he proves it to be true by his own Example that Ignorance the blind guide of the blind is always bold c. Further I leave it to any understanding Man who as much as pretends to any true Religion whether one tho in his heart a Protestant which in this business is not as much as granted yet dying with all the Preparations above mentioned belonging to another Church with public Protestations even at the hour of his Death of his real sincerity in that Communion should not rather be esteemed to die a Heathen than any thing of a Christian and therefore rather to be disowned than gloried in by all Protestants if they are such as think external Profession and Practice any thing material to their Religion according to these Words of Christ Whoever denies me before men I will deny him before my Father which is in Heaven And therefore I hope this Gentleman will cease to glory any further in his vain and groundless hope of that young Man's dying as good a Protestant as his fellow Sufferer Sinah Jones whom he canonizes as a true Elect. In fine he exhorts his pretended true Pastors to visit those places wherein men are more subject to temptations if he had added Poverty Famin and all other sorts of Miseries even Death for want of Bread he had done well but I suppose himself to be one that never took notice of any such things before and therefore to be one of those of whom our Saviour speaks who bind heavy burdens and lay them upon other mens shoulders but will not move them with a finger of their own Yet I am glad that his Pastors learn no worse Examples by Catholic Priests whom they usually paint with the foulest colours even that of Idolatry of all Crimes the most detestable than the due Exercise of their Functions and the Practice of those Works of Charity to which it seems those of his own Party have been heretofore unaccustomed otherwise what need had they to be called upon thereunto by the grave Exhortation of this pitiful Pamphleteer By which it appears who are the true Pastors and who the Cheats according to the criterium which our Savior himself hath left us Ex operibus eorum cognoscetis eos You shall know them by their works FINIS

Rome But this I suppose is the least of his care so he may make Catholic Priests contemptible by false Insinuations he cares not what dirt he throws in his own Mothers Face But finding no Advantage by his Dilemma he now proceeds to a Demonstration which he calls Dioti a thundring one indeed and which promises more to the Auditors than what he performs For Premisses of this Demonstration he brings in the first place Mr. Smith the Ordinaries Relation of the Confession and Behaviour of Sackvil Herbert Pritchard Grevil and Snipe executed at Tyburn the 16 of December last I stand not to question what this Relation contained tho I am credibly informed that it was not very sincere yet at least there should have been left out of it the Confession and Behavior of Pritchard and Grevil both having been brought up in the Catholic Faith and therefore unlikely to have made any Confession to the said Ordinary unless they would fain perswade us that Persons brought up in the Roman Catholic Faith would forsake it at the hour of Death as if elsewhere they hoped to meet with better Security for their Souls a thing of which I know no instance nor believe the Author of the Pamphlet can give any true one I say true for finding him very expert in inventing things no better grounded I doubt not but if he undertook it he would suppose many whereas on the contrary nothing is more frequent than for Protestants when they are in fear of Death to embrace the Catholic Faith. As for Sackvil Herbert and Snipe if their Confession and Behavior had been sincerely related the World would be convinc'd how great an Impostor this Man is who attaints them after Death with the foul aspersion of feigned Conversion But whatever this Relation was I leave it to any Man of Sence to judge how insufficient it is to form a Demonstration Dioti unless to this Ordinary be ascribed that Divine Prerogative which to the Universal Church of God they deny For a second Premiss he brings a Reason no less ridiculous than the former I saw says he no such evidential tokens of a thorow Conversion in the dying Men at the place of Execution A rare way to satisfie those to whom he hath promised a Demonstration Dioti which is as much as to say upon my bare assuring you to have seen no evidential tokens of Conversion you are to hold for an undeniable Truth that there was no real one But yet in this his Moderation may be commended if compared with his former Insolence inasmuch as he assures us not to have seen any evidential tokens of the contrary of which if he had seen I do not say evidential but even the least appearance he had not failed to have taken hold of it and rather increased than diminished as he did upon what happened to David Davies To tread therefore in his own steps having particularly insisted upon this last I also ne ultra crepidam will go no further But at the same time let the World take notice that the vindication of this Person is an Apology for all those who to my knowledge preceded him in the same way for if there be any Difference ' it s rather in the accidental than material part Now as well for the justification of this dead Man who can speak no more for himself as also the Satisfaction of all weak and credulous Persons who perhaps would give credit to this so false a Calumny and not without reason be scandaliz'd at such inhumane and rather heathenish than Christian Proceedings which this Man hath so diabolically invented I think my self in Duty and Conscience bound to give a true and ingenuous Account of this young Mans conduct in his Preparation God to witness that my Design herein is not to decline from the Truth which if I happen to do it will be rather for want of Memory than out of an intent to conceal one jota thereof moreover that I relate nothing but what for the most part I have seen quorum pars magna fui This David Davis then whom this Man attacks even in his Grave having received Sentence of Death at the Old-Bayly upon Munday the 16th of January last in the Morning was visited by the Ordinary that same day in the Afternoon what Conference he had with him I know not but this I know from himself that he was strictly charged not to admit of any Catholic Priests to Discourse withal as being sure no doubt that they had too convincing and strong reasons to make out the justice of their cause to be withstood by dying persons who already walking upon the borders of endless Eternity and surrounded with the frightful shades of Death ought then or never to lay aside all human respects and regard no other concern but that of finding the securest nay the only there being indeed but one way to save their Souls But the Prisoner knowing then no better was easily persuaded without further examining the great consequence of that weighty business to promise to perform what was given him in charge upon which he was removed from his Fellow Convict and lockt up in a private Room thereby as I suppose the better to secure him from all occasions of any such Discourse as had been forbidden him That same Afternoon resorted to the Prison one of those Eagles of Prey as our Zelot calls them Eagles indeed but whom neither profit prejudice or any other sinister end but only that love and tender compassion which true Christianity obliges them to have for those inestimable Preys which cost no less than the precious blood of Christ induce to fly into those loathsom and dismal places where nothing can be met with agreeable to flesh and blood He came then to the Prisoner not yet knowing what persuasion he was of and there had a Discourse with him for above an hour of the absolute necessity of true Faith and the great importance of dying in the only way which Christ hath prescribed for Salvation by which tho' with much ado he was persuaded not to precipitate a thing of so great a consequence without further examining which he promised to do and thereupon one of his own Bibles being given him he found many things which soon made him more suspicious of his way Next morning being visited by the same Person again he told him that to his great satisfaction he had spent the best part of the night in Reading and seriously pondering upon those places of the Bible to which he had been directed He had instructions given him then and in the Afternoon following upon the due and necessary preparation for a good Death and upon most of the points of the Catholic Religion by which he was more and more confirmed so far that he declared he was resolved to be reconciled in case he could not get better satisfaction and more convincing proofs from his Minister who when he came amongst many other