reguard the ceasing therefrom or any commands of God requiring it so long as his guides and leaders that pretend to have the keys of Heaven in their hands assure them that if but an hour or two before their deaths they confess their Sins and are sorry that they have endangered their Souls thereby and be a little attrite or troubled for them receiving absolution from the Priest and their extreme Unction they may by the vertue of the Sacraments to convey grace ex opere operato be secured against damnation and be eased too in and freed from their Purgatory pains if they be but bountiful to their Church and its Priests by the benefit of their devotions and the Saints Supererrogations so that by this first part of the Touch-stone they appear clearly convicted of being far from being an Infallible Church yea or a true and right Church of Christ especially if we also take in what some of them assert and their doctrine of probability therefore makes safe for all to believe viz. that no man is bound of necessity to love God but that is a work or frame of more perfection without which observing their Church Orders and receiving their Sacraments they may be saved Surely by our Saviours doctrine to love God is the first and great Commandment and that they that teach that men may be saved though destitute thereof cannot be under the commendation of keeping Gods commandments 2. And as much faulty are they with reference to the other branch of the character of the true Church opposed to the false Church or the Beast and his Image worshippers namely the keeping the faith or testimony of Jesus which they keep not that corrupt it and add their mixtures to and with it as the false Apostles kept not the faith of Jesus though they might hold as truths all the Articles of the Creed and teach them to others while they added thereto the necessity of being Circumcised and of keeping the Law of Moses unto Salvation no more than they would be commended for keeping for any ones use good and wholsome Wine commited to their custody and charge who would indeed deminish nothing of it but yet would mix with it some of those Stygian Waters which had a poysonous nature in them or other poysons whereby they might be made deadly to them that drink thereof such a Person might indeed plead that he had kept by him all the Wine deposited with him and took nothing of it away yea and that he gave out again all that other keepers of it who keep it Pure and give it out such as it is given do and something more but I suppose with no likement or commendation of him that commits it to him for the benefit of those that will drink of it just such keepers that is to say corrupters of the faith of Jesus are the Papists and their Church They retain with them indeed the whole Bible and all the Gospel and Gospel truths therein but so as to keep them in their Bibles from the generallity of the People that they may not read or hear them read to them yea and they retain with them and possibly Preach to the People and Teach them all the Articles of the Creed at least in an unknown Latin Tongue or if they also interpret them yet to be sure they teach them many other things as matters of faith necessary to be believed by them as much as any of the said Articles though they be quite different from all that Christ and his Apostles delivered to the Church to be believed by us as for instance they teach that God the Father and Christ and the Holy Ghost are one God in three Persons to be believed on and called upon by Men but they corrupt that with this addition of their own that the Saints also are to be called on and that they ought to believe on them to receive help by their intercessions being worshiped by them they teach that Christ is the Son of God and the Saviour of the World that he dyed for our Sins and offered up a Propitiatory Sacrifice to God for the whole World but then they add and mix of their own therewith that their Priests can do dayly make him of a Wafer and offer him up as an effectual unbloody sacrifice for the quick and dead to and that they ought to believe and expect to receive the forgiveness of their Sins through their Sacraficing him a most horrible impiety and indignity to his Cross and Passion and the alone virtue and efficacy thereof and a monstrous addition to and corruption of the faith once delivered of God to the Saints in his Apostles doctrine They hold and teach that Christ is risen from the dead and ascended into Heaven and sits at the Right Hand of God but they mix therewith and teach their Children and Followers to believe that the same very real Body that suffered and is in Heaven is also dayly in the Host at their Mass and is hung up in the Pix or Box that they put him into and that they carry up and down when they please in Procession and that they really tear him with their Teeth and eat him Lib. de Natura Deorum and therein they do what the Heathen Cicero abhorred to think of in their Pagan worship for he said quem tam amentem esse putas qui illud quo vescatur Deum credat esse that is who thinkest thou is so mad as to think that to be a God that he eats or is fed with those Papists are so mad as to think and teach so they hold and teach that there is a Heaven to reward the righteous and a Hell to Punish the wicked and so our Saviour delivered in his faith or testimony but withal they add that there is a third place between both called Purgatory wherein Souls that are not fit for Heaven when they dye may be purged by enduring pains and torments there and that the Pope hath the keys of this place to and can let Souls out of it c. And this Christ never taught nor his Apostles they believe and teach that there is a Holy Ghost and that he is to be believed in but they teach also corruptly that he is confined as it were to them of the Church of Rome and that their determinations or the determinations of their Popes out of St. Peters Chair are his infallible Oracles to be as much believed and held as fast as or more than the sayings of the holy Prophets Apostles in the Scriptures They teach that there is a holy Catholick Church but they add and mix with that also this Poysonful Doctrine that the Church of Rome only are that Church and that men are to resolve their faith into its sayings and conclusions and that the Pope is the visible Head of the whole Catholick Church and Christs Vicar on earth they teach a Communion of Saints but they teach also
reasons both 1. Of the continuance of so many still to cleave to her after she hath been so detected 2. Of the falling of any to her after so great and long a discovery of her and declining from her 1. To the first of these with respect to her self and those that are more properly the constitutive and essential parts of her the Church as distinguished by her self from the Laity or people adhering to her and especially the Court of Rome she being as she is called and as we have shewed a Whore a Harlot it fares with her as it doth with other Whores that is as such a one that is a Whore getting gain and profit to her self by her Whoredom and finding pleasure and sweetness therein is hardned against the discoveries of her false practises and usually goeth on impenitently in her Trade because of the profit and gain accruing to her thereby and especially if She be Courted by great and rich Persons or Princes they give her considerable gifts of Riches Honours and Dignities and makes but a Tush at the Laws Threatning Punishment or Death for such practises she finding no effect or Execution of them for a long time to appear against her by occasion whereof She flatters her Self that it will be never otherwise with her than it is but that She shall always escape punishment So fares it with this Adulterous Church she hath found and finds so much gain and profit of worldly Interest Riches Honour Dignity accruing to her since her trucking with Kings and Princes and Emperors and obtaining of them to be owned and honoured in all her pretensions as the Catholick Church the Church that all persons ought to comply with and submit to and that her Head and Bishop should be taken to be the Vicar of Christ the highest power on earth that it s no marvail if She repent not of her so sweet and gainful a Trade but by all means endeavours to keep up her credit that she may be still so courted and caressed and if she hath gotten a wound that hath threatned her life that she endeavours to get cured and to recover her Pristine strength which if she do recover we expect she will follow her old trade of Strumpetry and Blood-shedding as hard or harder than ever that so she may secure her self if possible from the threatned punishment and judgment ordered of God and denounced in his Name against her by us which maugre all her power and pollicy she shall not be able to escape for strong is the Lord God that judgeth her the brightness of whose appearing that Man of Sin shall not be able to endure To this purpose that she may recover her Pristine strength and vigour and follow her accursed Trade with the greater fervour or fury her Politicians as so many Physitians are at work very hard beating their brains and using all their skill and Industry to make her whole again and wo to us for a while if her disease be cured and the Beasts deadly wound be healed for then will be indeed accomplished more fully that which is written in Rev. 13.15 16 17. but in the mean time there are many cleave to her and have all along cleaved to her Because 1. Many of them are kept from or have not the opportunity of seeing and hearing what is evidenced against her though perhaps they have heard some rumour of the Gospel Preached to them that dwell on the Earth and of the Fall of Babylon in part from her Pristine power and splendour many are kept in ignorance both of the Scriptures and of the Sermons and Discourses in Writing of the Protestant parties and many neglect to inquire into them and so come not to know what is evidenced against her her Pandors or Merchants setting themselves to keep them in Ignorance and Error to keep up their own grandeur and worldly Interests 2. The cunning Sophistry and deceits of her Priests and Jesuits men of a seared Conscience and stiff Impudence who like Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses from or in his discovering the truth of God to Pharaoh and the Egyptians do stand against the truth and the Preachers of it and the discoverers of the Romish Frauds and Impostures prevail much with many who are apt to resolve their faith into their learning subtlety authority and appearing Piety and wisdom even as the slights of James and Jambres prevailed with Pharoah and many of the Egyptians so as that though they hear and may hear or read the discourses of the learned Protestants wherein they have detected their abuses yet they do not seriously Ponder or weigh them or are blinded from discerning the truth by the mists they cast before them 3. Worldly interest holds in many both of the Kings and Greater Persons their interest being interwoven with those of Rome and where the Kings and Princes of the earth commit fornication with her they do by their Laws in many places made against them that reject her Communion and their rigour and cruelty deter many from listening to and considering what is said against her yea and they keep out such discoverers or discoveries of her lewdness that otherwise would be afforded to them as was predicted in Rev. 13.15 16 17. and where their Laws are not so cruel yet by their bad examples and their indulging their favours to her followers they keep in many from listening to what would tend to withdraw them from her the most of men not searching so much with sincere endeavors after what is true and right as minding and resting in what is uppermost in the world and worshipping in truth its Power and Grandeur which I take to be that which the Holy Ghost in the Apocalyps calls the Beast more than any other God besides 4. The dependance that the younger persons have upon the Elder or others related to them the Children upon their Parents and Kinsfolks and Friends one upon another and the respect they have one for another is some cause also of many being detained therein being carryed away with such as they have such dependance upon or respect unto especially the being Educated under such Principles as have been maintained by and transmitted to them from their Ancestors and Progenitors for many generations proves a powerful motive to retain and not reject those principles what ever may be offered to detect and discover the evil of them few being so redeemed from the vain conversations received by tradition from their Fathers and Forefathers or from the Earth and Men even from earthly affections and from their respects to and dependances on men by the Blood of Christ minded and regarded by them as it hath been shed for them as to renounce all such respect to Fathers and Forefathers earthly affections and dependance on and respects to men and to follow after Christ singly and sincerely where-ever he by his Word and Doctrine would lead them or so as to make such due and diligent
THE Church of Rome Unmask'd OR HER FALSE PRINCIPLES Briefly Detected TOGETHER VVith some Reasons of so many retaining or returning to Communion with Her and the great danger of everlasting Destruction That such Persons especially after separation from Her return to Her Communion do run themselves upon Written by a Learned Divine by way of Letter to a Friend in the Country Prov. 4.14 15 16 17. Enter not into the way of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men Avoid it pass not up it turn from it and pass away For they sleep not except they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall For they eat the Bread of wickedness and drink the Wine of violence I heard a voice from Heaven saying Come out of her from Babilon my people that ye be not partakers of her Sins and that ye receive not of her Plagues For her Sins have reached unto Heaven and God hath remembred her Iniquities Rev. 18.4 5. LONDON Printed for Isaac Cleave at the Sign of the Star next door to Searjants-Inne in Chancery-lane 1679. The Fallibility and Falshood of the Church of Rome briefly detected and made manifest SIR SInce Providence cast me so luckily into your company and acquaintance your affable carriage and obliging civility hath stirred up in me both towards your self and your relations no small affections and affectionate desires of your best welfare and happiness and therefore having heard not without grief that the Roman party have endeavoured to seduce you or them into their communion I have not been a little exercised in my heart with desires to prevent or rescue you therefrom being well assured that the Factors for that communion are Deceitful workers evill doers such as the fruit and product of their Principles in them who are snared with them is no less than imminent danger of if not inevitable destruction And indeed I cannot but bewail that any ingenuous persons brought up under the light of the Scriptures and of Protestant doctrine should have attained to no greater understanding and better judgment thereby than to be imposed upon by persons guilty of so much corruption in their Religion as that a man with half an eye as they use to say if not careless to use and improve it for his own welfare may easily discern it but yet I know their subtilties are great and their insinuations strong where they can get admission to obviate which I shall indeavour a little to help you against them and to let you see wherein the Roman Church and the men of her communion are so dangerously erroneous and corrupt that it behoves all men as they love their souls to avoid them And first her claim of Infallibility is a most palpable errour and miscarriage for which she hath neither any good ground nor colour for what though Christ hath said that he will build his Church upon the Rock and that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it yet that affords no more ground for the Roman Church or any officer in her to assert her or his infallibillity than for any other Church for granting that by the word It is meant the Church built upon the Rock and not the Rock it selfe upon which he builds it though the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cam it being a relative agrees in gender with and may therefore be referred indifferently to either of them yet its Christs Church indefinitely and generally that our Saviour asserts that of and the Church of Corinth the Church of Ephesus the Churches of Galatia and the rest mentioned in the Scriptures yea and beyond what are their mentioned were every whit as much the Church or of the Church of Christ as the Church of Rome that is they were all equally and indifferently members of the same Catholick or Universal Church when they were first planted and when the Apostles wrote to them and they were all one as well as another by the Apostles ministry and by Christ as going forth with them built upon the same Rock and so they were under the same promises and in the same state of safety for all of them conjunctly made up that Church which was and is the Church of Christ in its Catholick and Universal capacity and yet we see the other Churches might possibly and did actually erre very grosly as is evident in what is said of the Church of Corinth 1 Cor. 15 12 2 Cor. 11.2.3 and the Churches of Gallatia Gall. 1.6 and 3.1 2 3 4 10. and 5.2.3.4 and where now I pray are the Churches of Asia Ephesus and the rest have none of them failed or erred grieviously what promise made our Saviour to the Church of Rome more than to any of them nay he made such to some of them as to that of Philodelphia of Keeping her in and from the hour of temptation that should come upon all the earth as we no where find the like made unto Rome Rev. 3.8.9.10 oh how would Rome have boasted her self had such a thing been directed to her or to her Angel if there be any such to her where is it written or recorded And yet the gates of hell shall not prevail against Christs Church namely so as to ruin it Christ hath will have a Church in the World Maugre all the power and malice of hell yea and he may have part of it among those Churches in Asia and Graecia that are yet lest in being though under great oppressions and not free from corruptions for they whoever they be that heartily believe Jesus to be the Christ so as sincerely to imbrace his doctrine and be followers thereof to the best of their skill and power and keep singly thereto they even the whole company of them whoever they be or how much soever outwardly disperst are Christs church the Church built upon the Rock against which the gates of hell shall not prevail And such there are not only if there be any such at Rome and under her jurisdiction but more purely and less corruptly in divers parts of the world that are no members of her If it be said as I know it is by them that Christ gave a more peculiar priviledge to the Church or Bishop of Rome than to any other Church or Bishop belonging thereto as to infallibility in that it is built upon St Peter as its Bishop the Bishops thereof being his successors To that I say that the Scriptures know or use no such language as the Churches or any Churches being built or founded upon St. Peter Yea St. Peter himself tells us that the true Believers and so consequently the Church comes to Christ the living Stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and precious and are built upon him so us to grow up into a spiritual house an holy Priesthood c. not making any mention of their coming to himself that is to Peter and being built upon him 1 Pet. 2.4
seeing Pope Julius the second in his expedition against the French some ages since threw them into the River Tyber saying because St. Peters Keys would not do his work he would betake him to St. Pauls Sword how doth it appear that he and his Successors did not thereby loose them forever When did Christ make any new ones and give to him or those that suceeded him But herein also her excessive pride appears in that her Bishops challenge both St. Peters Keys and St. Pauls Sword nay both Swords both the Civil and Sacred or Ecclesiastical for I think the truly Spiritual they care not much for at least as to any true right use thereof that is they challenge Dominion in Temporal matters usurp upon the rights of Kings Princes and to exercise a power in disposing of Thrones and Scepters and making Civil Wars as well as to rule over all Nations in Church matters Never was there any Chuch or company of People in the World ranting it so highly and carrying it so aloft as this Church and her Bishops have done ever since they obtained of Phocas the high Honour he conferred upon them to make them an amends for approving him in the Murther of his Master in setling the dignity of Emperor upon him and this suits well with the description of my story of Babilon too in the Revelations where she is represented as mounted upon a Stately Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns as being both exalted and supported therein by and yet ruling and ordering the Imperial Power Sitting upon many Waters that is ruling over many Nations People and Languages gallantly deckt and making all Nations drunk of the Cup of her Fornications glorifying her self in stead of God and Christ and saying I sit as a Queen as the Lambs wife the Catholique Church to whom all in all estates owe honour and subjection and am no Widdow Infallible not forsaken of Christ and so shall see no sorrow the City that ruleth over the Kings of the Earth Revel 17.1 2 3 4 18. and 18.7 Surely if pride go before destruction and a haughty mind before a fall then it cannot be but so proud and Luciferian a Church must needs fall too If the Angel of the Church of Laodicea because of his high boastings that he was rich and increased with goods growing thereby lukewarm was threatned to be spewed out of Christs mouth and what was said to him was said to the Churches by the spirit as implying that any of them falling into the like temper must be so dealt with except they repented how can it be but that this Church hath long since met with that doome seeing shee for a long time hath been far more Proud and Highminded than that Angel was and no less lukewarm or indifferent for the honour of Christ so she may be but the Queen and Empress especially also seeing she obstructs the way against her repentance by pleading she is Infallible and so needs no repentance justifying by her Priests and Jesuits her self and her practices in all these vile and filthy miscarriages doing therein as was noted before like Jerusalem of old that would not acknowledge that she had transgressed and scattered her ways to strangers and had not obeyed Gods voice but would against the most notorious and palpable evidences of her guilt yet say she was not polluted she had not gone after Baalim or other Lords and Masters besides her own proper God Even so it is with this proud imperious Chuch she will lift up her self against all charges and will not own her self guilty of Idolatry or corrupt in her faith worship but will boast of her being the Church the Catholique Church the Infallible Church talk of her Antiquity Universality Unity challenge all the Apostles Prophets Martyrs Confessors Ancient Doctors Councels to be hers when indeed in truth in their true and genuine Doctrines the Apostles Prophets Primitive Doctors and Councels all condemn her It is true she may in many things boast of her Antiquity and so may the Devil and his Followers who also can shew as great an Universality and Unity for should he be divided against himself as our Saviour saith his kingdom could not stand Luk. 11.18 but non omne quod antiquum est verum est sed quod primum not all that is ancient though of great latitude and extent and at unity with itself but that that is the first that is true and right So God was the first and before the Devil and his truth was before error and falshood and the Articles of the Christian faith were long before any noyse was heard of the Popes Supremacy or being Christs Vicar or of his having derived the Keys or the Power over the whole Church from St. Peter or of the Doctrine of Purgatory or Transubstantiation or their Merit of our works or of Works of Super-errogation or of the Cup being denyed to the People or of the Latine Service or Prayers injoyned in an unknown Tongue or of the Worship of Images or Invocation of the Saints or of whatever else is properly Roman as distinguished from all other Professors of the Christian Religion Which are so many gross and horrid Errors into which she is fallen and from the charge of guilt wherein she cannot clear her self But though she wash her with Nitre and take much Sopâ— yet they are and will be marked before the Lord as He said sometime to Jerusalem Jer. 2.22 and therefore also being so fowly fallen into Error and Iniquity and not confessing and repenting but justifying her self and saying in despite of all the most evident convictions that she is innocent it cannot be but that what God threatned to Israel will also be her portion and that in a far more dreadful and severe manner that is that he will plead with her and execute upon her all the terrible Judgment written in Revel 18. So as she shall be thrown down into the Pit of destruction with great violence even by the mighty hand of God so as she shall be found no more at all because she instead of owning her guilt and repenting of her Idolatries Blood-shed Pride and all her other Enormities saith she is innocent and her lying false Prophets dawb her up with their untempered Mortar and see for her vain and foolish things instead of discovering her iniquity to turn away her misery Yea they see for her as Jerusalems false Prophets did for her false buthens and causes of banishment of her and all that cleave to her for ever from Gods presence Jer. 2.32 Lam. 2.14 Rev. 18.2 and she loves to have it so For if any be convinced of her Errors and protest against them being converted from them they seek if possible to murther and destroy them As many have proved and as Mr. Anthony Aegan tells us they have endeavoured diverse ways to do to him since his conversion from them and protests against them and endeavours
inquiry and search into the truth as it is in him that they might understand it and be led and guided by it And then 5. The just and righteous Judgment of God it is to harden both this Harlot and her Adherents for their unfaithfulness in seeking after or not admitting the truth of God but either slightly neglecting the inquiry after it or against evident shinings of it closing their eyes lest they should see with their eyes or hear with their ears or understand with their hearts what they see would tend to convert them from their gainful and delicious interests and enjoyments Even as Gods Judgments were upon Pharaoh and the Aegyptians to harden them for as Pharaoh and the Aegyptians hardning themselves and doing wickedly against Israel were left of God to their hardness or hardened by him that he might glorify himself on them in their destruction so it is with this falsly Infallible but truly inflexible impenitent Church he gives her and her Adherents up to their own hearts lusts and to walk in their Idolatrous and bloody ways to fill up the measure of their iniquities that he might glorify himself in executing upon them the Doom and Judgment that is written concerning them 6. Though also some occasion of hardning this Church and some advantage her subtle Factors take to harden people in their obstinate cleaving to her from the too great divisions found and by them also fomented among us Protestants with the too much iniquity also practised among us and some harsh Principles about Gods Decrees of Reprobation in some among us Whence they possess the minds of her Followers that they are in a better state more at unity and perhaps many of them less outwardly vitious though not their generality and more devout than they should be should they forsake their Communion to embrace ours Yea and they can aggravate our divisions represent them as if they were the just judgment of God upon us for deserting her Communion though that be as false as and no truer than that the Divisions Feuds and Wars among us Christians both Papists and Protestants are the just judgment of God upon us for casting off Heathenism or for not turning Jews or Mahumetans 7. To which add the fair paints and cunning carriage of this Harlot for as it is with other Whores they may and often have as handsom bodies as comely faces as smooth carriages as good parts and witty winning behaviour as honest Women and chast Matrons Yea sometimes they may in some of those things if not in all exceed them and being rich or richly maintained may and often have as costly apparel as rich ornaments and Jewels as other honester persons nay and where they find defect of beauty can supply it by art painting their faces with such fresh lively colours as shall make them seem young and youthful when in truth and underneath they are black and deformed Even so this Romish Church being a rich and subtle Harlot is not void of many taking and winning matters wherewith she sets forth her self to draw or keep in Lovers and trims her way to seek love as the Prophet said of the Adulterous Church that did precede her Jer. 2.33 Yea to her may well be applyed that of the Prophet Nahum to the bloody City That she is a well-favoured Harlot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Mistriss of witchcrafts that selleth Nations through her whoredoms and Families through her Witchcrafts Nah. 3.4 For it is true that she hath in her Persons indued with great natural parts and endowments Men of learning and policy and that she hath many good gifts from God by Jesus Christ wherewith she might and ought to serve and please him Yea she hath Jewels of his gold and of his silver as it were which he in her better state was pleased mercifully and gratiously freely to impart unto her But as it is the fault of Harlots to abuse the gifts of God men to dishonest arts and ends so it fares with this Church also for she doth as Jerusalem did before her of whom the Lord saith That she took of her garments namely that he had given her for he found her naked and in her blood and decked her high places with divers colours and played the Harlot thereupon And she took her fair jewels of his gold and of his silver and made to her self Images of a male and committed Whoredom with them and she took her broidred garments and covered them and set his Oyl and his Incense before them and his meat which he gave her even fine flower and oyl and honey wherewith he fed her she set it even before them for a sweet savour c. Ezek. 16.16 17 18 19. Even so we may say of this Church that she serves her Idols with the gifts of God and makes use even of the truths that she hath received from Christ and his ordinances to make up an Image of them as mixed with her inventions a frame of Religion which she worships and causeth all to worship Yea and she decks her self with her natural parts and gifts Moral Virtues and acquired Sciences and with many things which she hath received from God But not that she might singly serve Christ therewith but to seek love from the Kings and Princes and people of the World to commit fornication with them and many are taken and led captive with these her ornaments that is with her Learning seeming Devotion Charity and Piety which are all made use of subserviently to the grand design of making her self a Goddess or an Object of worship by the poor simple Souls that she that way deludes and as artifices of drawing them to commit adultery with her With such things she paints and guilds over her self to inamour men of her and make them her Vassals that she might inrich her self though with the spoil of their Souls As in a vision was forerepresented by the Holy Ghost concerning her in Rev. 17.4 while the holy man saw her as a Woman arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and deckt or gilded with Gold and pretious Stones and Pearls having a golden Cup in her hand in which she gives forth her abominations Signifying hereby what a gawdy Church she would be in her appearance and worship and how she would be adorned with many fine glittering and rich colours the better to inamour the Kings and people of the Earth on her Yea and as crafty and witty Whores can conform themselves to the different tempers of their Paramours the better to work upon and captivate and keep their affections so it is with this wiley Church and her Panders For those that are melancholly or of a more grave sober temper or religiously inclined she can entertain them with Books of Devotion formes of Penance rules of Mortification and many learned Discourses that may suit their humors but yet so as they must take in therewith her Superstitions and she hath her