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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34722	Serious considerations for repressing of the increase of Iesvites, priests, and papists without shedding blood written by Sir R.C. and presented to King James of happie memory.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1641 (1641)	Wing C6497; ESTC R30275	19,787	48

with all endeavour to confirme his owne party in the best manner that may be 4. He that forbeareth to sowe his ground in expectance of good winde or a favourable Moone commonly hath a poore Crop and a leane Purse So shall it fare with this state if private whisperings of discōtented persons that neverlearnt to speak well be too nicely regarded yet ought they not to be slightly set at nought lest our credit grow light even in the Ballance of our dearest friends The Papasticall Libels informe against vs as if we were desirous to grow fat with sucking of their Blood the very walls of their Seminary Colledge at Rome are bedawbed with their lying phansies and in every corner the Corner-creepers leave some badge of their malicious spleen against vs crying out of cruelty and persecution But if the penalty of death be changed into a simple indurance of Prison what moate can they find in our eyes to pull out or with what Rhetorick can they defend their obstinate malipertnesse wch with repaying vs ill for good deserve to have coales of indignation powred vpon their heads Visne muliebre consilium said Livia to Augustus let severity sleepe a while and try what alteration the pardoning of Cinna mayprocure The Emperour harkened to her Counsell and thereby found his Enemies mouthes stopt and the malice abated some there are perchance that will terme this Clemency innovation and vouch the Precedent of that City who permitted none to propound new Lawes that had not a Corde about their necks ready for vengeance if it were found voprofitable But let such Stoyicks know that there is great difference between the penning of a new Law and advise given for the manner of executing it neither by their Leaves are all Jnnovations to be rejected For divine Plato teacheth vs that in all Common wealths vpon just grounds there ought to be some changes And that Statesmen therein must behave themselves like skilfull Musitians Qui artem Musices non mutant sed musices modum 5. That an evil weede groweth fast by example of the new Catholiques increase is cleerely convinced But he that will ascribe this generation simply to his Majesties Heroicall vertue of Clemency argueth out of the fallacy which is called Ignoratio Elenchi Was not the zeale of many cooled towards the last end of Queene Elizabeths Raigne hath not the impertinent heate of some of our owne side bereft us of part of our strength And the Papacy with tract of time gotten a hard skinne on their Consciences Parva metu primo mox sese attollit in altum But if we will with a better insight behold how this great quantity of Spawne is multiplied we must especially ascribe the cause thereof to their Priests who by their deaths prepare and assure more to their sect then by their lives they could ever perswade It were incivility to distrust a friend or one that hath the shew of an honest man if he will franckly give his word or confirme it with a sacred Oath But when a protestation is made upon the least gaspe of life it is of great effect and possesseth those that cannot gain say it upon their owne knowledge The number of these Priests which now a dayes come to make a Tragicall conclusion is not great Yet as with one Seale many Pattents are Sealed so with the losse of few lives numbers of wavering spirits may be gained Sanguis martyrum semen Ecclesiae And though these Priests having indeed a disadvantagious cause are in very deed but counterfeit Shadowes of Martyrs unto a true vnderstanding yet will they be reputed for such by those that lay their soules to pawne vnto their Doctrine with whom if we list to contend by multitude of voyces we shall be cryed down without all peradventure For the gate of their Church is wide and many there are that enter thereinto 6. By divers meanes it is possible to come to one and the selfe-same end seeing that then the some of our welwishings is all one Namely that Popish Priests may have no power to doe harme It is not impertinent to try sundry pathes which may leade vs to the perfecting of our desires Politicians distinguish Inter rempub constitutā rempub constituend According to the severall natures whereof Statists are to dispose of their Counsels and Ordinances Were now the Rhemists and Romulists new hatched out of the shell the former course of severity might soone bury their opinions with their persons But sithence the disease is inveterated variety of Medicines is Judiciously to be applyed The Romans did not punish all Crimes of one and the selfe-same nature with extremity of death For some they condemned to perpetuall Prison and others they banished into an Island or some remote Country even in the case of Religion they were very tender to dip their fingers in Blood For when Cato was Consul and it seemed good vnto the Senate to suppresse with violence the disordered Ceremony of the Bacchanals brought by a strange Priest into the City He withstood that Sentence alleadging that there was nothing so apt to deceive men as Religion which alwaies presents a shew of Divinity And for that cause it behoved to be very wary in chastizing the professors thereof lest any indignation should enter into the Peoples mindes that somewhat was derogated from the Majestie of GOD Others more freely have not spared to place Religion J meane that Religion which is ignorantly zealous amongst the kinds of Frensie which is not to bee cured otherwise then by time given to divert or qualifie the fury of the Conceit Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum Howsoever in valuing the power of a city or strength of Arguments quality and worth is to be preferred before number Neverthelesse where the uttermost of our force is not known it imports much to have it conceived that the multitude stands for us for doubts and suspitions cast in an Enemies way evermore make things seeme greater more difficulty thā they are indeed we have by Gods mercy the sword of justice drawne on our behalfe which upon short warning is able to disunite the secret Vnderminers of our quiet we have a King zealous for the house of the Lord who needeth not to feare lesse successe in shutting up of Priests then our late Queen had in restraining them in Wisbich Castle where lest their factious spirits should grow rusty they converted their Canker to fret upon themselves and vomiting out gall in quodlibets shewed that their Disease was chiefly predominant in the spleen Whattempests they have raised in their Colledge at Rome their owne bookes and many Travellers can witnesse The storme whereof was such that Sextus Quintus complained seriously of the vexation which he received oftner from the English schollers then all the Vassals of his Triple Crowne And untruly is the Magistrate noted of negligence or overmuch severity that layeth waite to catch the Foxes and the little Foxes which spoile the Vinyard