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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60496	The narrative of Mr. John Smith of Walworth ... containing a further discovery of the late horrid and popish-plot ...	Smith, John, of Walworth.	1679 (1679)	Wing S4127; ESTC R15413	45,689	42

in danger by a Conspiracy against his Sacred Life malitiously contrived and industriously carried on by the Seminary Priests and Jesuits and their Adherents who think themselves under some obligation of Conscience to effect it and having vowed the Subversion of the True Religion amongst us find no way so likely to compass it as to wound us in the Head and kill the Defender of the Faith And besides what the last Parliament declared to that purpose did not the House of Commons of the Parliament which was then sitting when the Plot was first discovered with the Approbation of the House of Lords resolve That that House was of Opinion that there hath been and still is a Damnable and Hellish Plot contrived and carried on by Popish Recusants for Assassinating and Murdering the King and for Subverting the Government and rooting out and destroying the Protestant Religion So that now upon the whole matter He that dare assume the boldness to tell us that the King laughs at the Plot as a ridiculous and ill contrived Story doth Brand the King the Lord Chancellor and Two Parliaments for a company of Impostors And if this be not enough to stigmatise such Rascals for the worst of Slanderers and overthrow their credit with all Mankind surely nothing in this World can be alledged more effectual to do it Thirdly need we more to satisfie us that there is any thing to be expected from men of a Papal Complexion by lies and calumnies if we will but consider that after they had inhumanly murdered Sr. Edmund-bury Godfrey fastned divers slanders upon him before he was found and afterwards endeavoured to impose plain impossibilities upon our Faith namely that he had killed thimself when the place where he lay the manner of his laying and many other circumstances uncontroulably demonstrated the contrary so at last one of these scandalous and villainous Scriblers dare now solemnly avouch That he was an entire Friend to the Popish Party and that he had performed the utmost service in their behalf that friendship it self could suggest Can there be any thing said more effectual at once to convince this Fellow of being a Slanderer or to disabuse those men of little understanding that are inclined to believe him in any thing he says than that he should offer to obtrude upon the Faith of Englishmen that Sr. Edmund-bury Godfrey was a Papist or at least a very friend to the Papal Party It were to abase the patience of all who knew that worthy Gentleman and are masters of Sense or Honesty to offer to prove that Sr. Edmund-bury Godfrey was a Protestant or that he was far enough from supposing himself inrolled in the number of the friends of the Popish Faction Alas poor Gentleman as he little dreamed that a professed Member of the Church of England and a liberal Asserter of the Protestant Doctrine and constant Reliever of the necessities of those that were of the Reformed Religion but one as himself frequently related that expected to be the first Martyr under the Popish Rage should be consigned down to Posterity as the Cordial friend to those avow'd Enemies of his own Religion or a principal Confident of those Bontefeus of the Kingdom for whose peace and safety he was a watchfull Magistrate Nothing allyed to truth can be expected from such who after they had barbarously Murdered an innocent Gentleman do by robbing him afterwards of his honour credit and reputation assassinate him a second time It is a great effect of the Divine Wisdom to give up Impostors to the venting some palpable falshoods that the easie and credulous World may be the better fortified against those other reports which they cannot so easily disapprove For they who are found wilfull and evident Slanderers in some things ought not to be credited in any thing unless it be accompanied with better Credentials than the authority of their Testimony These few Remarks are sufficient to take off the credit of those Popish Scriblers that have attacked the Reputation of the Kings Witnesses and slandered the Justice of the Nation so a reply being preparing to all the particular instances in which they are slandered may discharge me from calling those Pamphletters to a further Account Yet forasmuch as I do not think it enough to have these Advocates section XII of the Plot proved meerly to be Slanderers I shall therefore moreover show that the Papists may not only be publick Defamers with a Consistancy to their Religion but that the Doctrines of their chief Casuists instruct and incourage them to be so And this I shall perform in a brief consideration of two Particulars First in that they teach the Members of their Church to be under no obligation to speak Truth either to or of Hereticks but that they may calumniate them without the fear of guilt or Divine wrath It is the common opinion of the Jesuits in all their Scholastick and Casuistical Writings that it is no sin to Calumniate those who speak ill of them or the Roman Church They are under no moral Obligation to Hereticks but may cheat them without dishonesty violate Oaths made unto them without perjury rob them without theft kill them without murder and lie to them or concerning them without the violation of the measures of Truth or Justice Nor is it any ways strange that while they may meritoriously destroy us they should with innocency defame us For by the same Principles that no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks no Faith is due to them When we meet with such Maxims as that Servants owe no fidelity to Heretical Masters nor Children obedience to Heretical Parents nor Wives conjugal duty to Heretical Husbands nor Subjects loyalty to Heretical Princes ought we after this to be surprised upon finding it established as a received Doctrine at least of the Jesuits that they may innocently slander and defame Hereticks of whatsoever quality and degree And as by the knowledge of their Principles in this matter I can make a shift to understand Balsec Cocleus Sanders c. in their virulent and slanderous Books against Calvin Luther and other blessed Reformers without finding my self obliged to believe them in any one word they speak to the defamation of those whom they accuse so by the same means I judge my self conducted not to give credit to any Papist speaking to the prejudice of an Heretick unless I be otherwise assured of the Truth of what he declares But secondly if you will add to this that they are countenanced by the maxims of their Divines to defame any one of what Religion soever he be that doth them an injury we may then be fully armed against all Impressions of disbelieving the Plot that the late Scriblers are designed to raise or beget In all the Casuistical Divinity of the Jesuits there is hardly a case wherein they do so unanimously conspire and agree as in this That it is lawfull to invent crimes to ruine their credit who speak