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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51061	A moderate expedient for preventing of popery and the more effectual suppression of Jesuits and priests, without giving them the vain-glory of pretending to martyrdom / by a person of quality.	Person of quality.	1680 (1680)	Wing M2324; ESTC R13081	19,352	14

4. He that forbeareth to sow his ground in expectance of good Winde or a favourable Moon commonly hath a poor Crop and a lean Purse So shall it fare with this State if private Whisperings of discontented persons that never learnt 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 Papistical Libels inform against us as if we were desirous to grow fat with sucking of their Bloud 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 us crying out of Cruelty and Persecution But if the penalty of Death be changed into a simple indurance of Prison what Moat can they finde in our Eyes to pull out or with what Rhetorick can they defend their obstinate Malipertness which with repaying us ill for good deserve to have Coals of Indignation poured upon their heads Visne muliebre confilium said Livia to Augustus let Severity sleep a while and try what alteration the pardoning of Cinna may procure The Emperour hearkened to her Counsel and thereby found his Enemies mouths stopt and the malice abated Some there are perchance that will term this Clemency Innovation and vouch the Precedent of that City who permitted none to propound new Laws that had not a Cord about their necks ready for Vengeance if it were found unprofitable But let such Stoicks know that there is great difference between the penning of a new Law and advice given for the manner of executing it neither by their leaves are all Innovations to be rejected for divine Plato teacheth us That in all Common-wealths upon just grounds there ought to be some changes and that States-men therein must behave themselves like skilful Musicians Qui artem Musices non mutant sed Musices modum 5. That an evil Weed groweth fast by example of the new Catholicks increase is cleerly convinced But he that will ascribe this Generation simply to his Majesties Heroical vertue of Clemency argueth out of the fallacy which is called Ignoratio Elenchi Was not the Zeal of many cooled towards the last end of Queen Elizabeth's Raign hath not the impertinent heat of some of our own side bereft us of part of our strength and the Papacy with tract of Time gotten a hard skin 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 Spawn is multiplied we must especially ascribe the cause thereof to their Priests who by their Deaths prepare and assure more to their Sect than 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 frankly give his Word or confirm it with a sacred Oath But when a Protestation is made upon the last gasp of Life it is of great effect and possesseth those that cannot gain-say it upon their own knowledge The number of these Priests which now adays come to make a Tragical Conclusion is not great Yet as with one Seal many Patents are sealed so with the loss of a few Lives numbers of wavering Spirits may be gained Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae And though these Priests having indeed a disadvantageous Cause are in very deed but counterfeit Shadows of Martyrs unto a true understanding yet will they be reputed for such by those that lay their Souls to pawn unto their Doctrine with whom if we list to contend by multitude of Voices 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 Means it is possible to come to one and the self-same End seeing that then the sum of our well-wishings is all one namely That Popish Priests may have no power to do harm it is not impertinent to try sundry paths which may lead us to the perfecting of our Desires Politicians distinguish Inter rempub constitutam rempub constituend according to the several 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 soon bury their Opinions with their Persons But since the Disease is inveterated variety of Medicine is judiciously to to be applied The Romans did not punish all Crimes of one and the self-same nature with extremity of Death For some they condemned to perpetual Prison and others they banished into an Island or some remote Countrey Even in the case of Religion they were very tender to dip their fingers in Blood For when Cato was Consul and it stemed good unto the Senate to suppress with violence the disordered Ceremony of the Baechanals brought by a strange Priest into the City he withstood that Sentence alledging that there was nothing so apt to deceive men as Religion which always 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 Majesty of God Others more freely have not spared to place Religion I mean that Religion which is ignorantly zealous amongst the kinds of Frensie which is not to be cured otherwise than 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 Nevertheless 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 Suspicions cast in an Enemies way evermore make things seem greater and more difficult than they are indeed We have by God's Mercy the Sword of Justice drawn on our behalf which upon short warning is able to disunite the secret Underminers of our Quiet we have a King zealous for the House of the Lord who needeth not to fear less Success in shutting up of Priests than Queen Elizabeth 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 What Tempests they have raised in their Colledge at Rome their own Books and many Travellers can witness the storm whereof was such that Sextus Quintus complained seriously of the vexation which he received oftner from the English Scholars than all the Vassals of his Triple Crown And untruely is the Magistrate noted of Negligence or overmuch Severity that lays wait to catch the Foxes and the little Foxes which spoil the Vineyard though afterwards without further punishment he reserve them to the day wherein God will take