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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36354	The new plot of the papists to transform traitors into martyrs faithfully exposed to publick view.	J. D. (John Dormer), 1636-1700.	1679 (1679)	Wing D1924; ESTC R29740	7,328	16

dying men and say that when they declare themselves innocent as the child unborn c. The meaning is they are innocent because they have had the Priests absolution for it although the Fact was committed by them This piece of subtle Nonsence does mightily please both the seducing Commentatours and their seduced party But first it is false that a man is innocent because he is absolved One commits Treason and hath the King's Pardon is he therefore innocent clean contrary a Pardon is rather an argument of the crime committed and does no more but remit the penalty For no pardon or absolution can make that thing not to be done which is done Besides no Roman Catholick according to the doctrine of his Church can swear he is innocent in any sence by reason of his absolution because no man can evidently know without a particular revelation that he is reconciled to God or whither in his sight he be worthy of love or hatred but all men are still bound to work their salvation with fear and trembling Since then no man can swear a thing which he does not evidently know how therefore in this suppositious sence of innocence which supposeth the Fact committed is it possible they could swear they were innocent whence it is manifest that our executed men did with their last breath deny in the presence of God and men according to their own words the very Fact it self viz. the composing and conspiring the death of the King and did assert their innocence not by vertue of an absolution but by pleading non est factum There is yet another shift I think a very unchristian one made use of by this sort of men to obscure the truth and evade the force of our argument They say that after our dying men had first lustily forsworn themselves in the declaration of their innocence then for the last Act of this Tragical Farce as their charity represents it the Priests laid their heads together and absolv'd each other and all was right again and so away they pack'd for another world Deus non irridetur It is hard to say whither the impiety or the impossibility of this Story be greater it is such a mockery put upon our merciful but just God to abuse and affront him upon presumption of his Pardon that I wonder how the fiction and invention of it could enter into the thoughts of a Christian As for the impossibility of it certain it is those Jesuits who were the teachers of others could not be ignorant of the Doctrine of their own Church set forth in every Catechism and in their Councel of Trent viz. That no absolution is available to a sinner which is not preceded by a sorrow and detestation of the sin by him committed and by a firm purpose of transgressing no more Now since it is impossible voluntarily to do a thing and at the same time to detest it and since without a detestation and abhorrency of their sin they could not hope for any benefit from an absolution how then can those dying men with any appearency of reason be thought to make use of this wretched artifice to cheat the world and manifestly to damn their own souls more-over they could not be ignorant that God Almighty is at no time obliged to give a revolted Sinner the grace of Repentance much less will he do it at that very moment when such sinner shall pervert the mercy of his Redeemer into a motive and incentive of Rebellion against him and so make a Poyson of the Antidote All the premisses being duly weigh'd is there not some reason a litte to hesitate and to doubt at least whether Mr. Oats overpower'd by the two prevailing Motives first of revenge against the Jesuites for not receiving and entertaining him any longer and next of procuring a subsistance which he then wanted may not have invented that voluminous History of his Plott which to all people knowing in the world hath the perfect air of a Romance and whether Mr. Bedlow Prance and Dugdal exalted from Goales to the glorious titles of the Kings Evidence and saviours of their Countrey may not also have been tempted by the good success of their Leader Mr. Oats and by indemnity and rewards to take upon them this gainful Trade of swearing especially since there are no visible concurring circumstances nor matters of fact extant and appearing to give any solidity to this aicry Plott but all is made out purely by the dint of swearing and only corroberated by the credulity of the people Set now against this the Oaths and Protestations of so many dying men the reputation of those who are yet living and accused of whom many have been eminent as in their quality so for their service and suffering in behalf of their King and Countrey And after all this will it not become every sober man to pause a little that their feet may not be too swift in shedding of blood let something be left to God's manifestation and let us not trust wholly to the Revelation of Oats Bedlow Prance and Dugdal in a case of blood and perhaps of innocent blood But before I proceed any further upon this Subject I must warn my Reader that I no wayes arraign the Justice of the Nation or the Votes of both Houses in relation to this Plott For according to the Informations at first brought before them of so horrid and bloody a Conspiracy they acted then like good Patriots and like themselves in their zealous prosecution of it in order to the bringing the partyes accused to a just and legal Tryal But then again far be it from any man to believe that those Honourable Patriots are more desirous of punishment to be inflicted and of blood to be shed then of Truth to be discovered and since there is such a sin in the world as Perjury so exterminating to mankind and of so dangerous a Nature that it hath even the Law and Justice itself to back and protect it till such a time as it is detected and lifted out by the sagacity and discernment of able Judges and since in our present cast there are pregnant symptomes and indications superven●●●● of that Civil Plague It well may become the prudence and Justice of all our Magistrates in general after so much blood as hath been already shed upon the bare testimony of these men without any real discovery of the things by them sworn either by matter of Fact extant and apparent or by the confession of any of the persons Executed soberly to weigh and examine whether this legal way of murdering men if that be the case by false Oaths ought not to be as narrowly sifted and as exemplarly punished in the Perjurers as the crime of Rebellion should that be true in the Trayters Now in the last place to convince all those whose hearts are not of Pharo's temper and whom the violence of Passion has not totally deprived of all exercise of reason I shall