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A54279	A looking-glass for the Quakers: in two columns wherein they may in part see themselves, and may be seen by others. Vide, audi, judica. The first column is, what they formerly published against the Papists; and the other column is, what they published on their behalf, when uppermost. Phil. Anglus. Licensed, May 14. 1689.	Pennyman, Joseph.	1689 (1689)	Wing P1428; ESTC R221427	14,228	12

ever indulge your cruel Persecuting Whipping Racking Inquisition Murdering Spirit whose Popes Faith Church-Government and whole Religion was founded and are maintained by Inhuman Bloodshed as your own Histories plainly manifest Who gave life to these things but the Devil who was a Murderer from the beginning Thus have you Papists through many Generations been always shedding the precious Blood of those whom God in every Age raised to testifie against your Superstitions and Will-Worship Therefore Woes from God Almighty to that Romish Whore who has corrupted the Nations and sits upon a Scarlet-coloured Beast full of Names of Blasphemy drunk with the Blood of Saints and Martyrs of Jesus The hour of her Desolation is nigh and in the Cup which she hath filled shall it be filled to her double for strong is the Lord God of Hosts who judgeth her pag. 56. See A Seasonable Caveat against Popery c. by W. Penn. WE hope it may not be too late to militate for Truth against the dark Suggestions of Papal Superstition to vindicate that of the REFORMATION from the quaintest Stratagems and most unwearied Endeavours of Romish Emissaries to put both it and us into their Inquisition We know they have so far Mastered their Ancient Fierceness and Masked their Sangum Looks with those more modest and familiar that though we need not more Reason than before we need more Skill and Caution or else we may too fatally experience the force of that Vulgar Proverb Laugh in thy Face and cut thy Throat They are grown so Complaisant that none seem more exasperated at Persecution than themselves whilst the very Fathers of it decrying the fierceness of it in some Countries whose Incendiaries they were and still are and imputing all the Blood of poor Protestants to some unwarrantable Civil Score thereby abusing the Magistrate with their own Conspiracies Nay for all their venerable Esteem of the Popes Infallibility they have not stuck to Censure his Roaring Bulls though procured by their own means and all that might express their New Tenderness that many unacquainted with their Practices are ready to believe them what they say themselves to be whose Moral is to have two Strings to their Bow to be Ambo-dexters and furnish't with Meanings to sute the Compass of ALL Occasions pag. 3. I stand amaz'd how any Man of Sense can be a Papist when the only Demonstration of his Religion must be his not understanding it pag. 14. In those frequent Bulls for Massacres which can no more be denied than Light at Noon day by which People have been stirred up upon the Promise of Forgiveness of Sins Redemption from Purgatory and Eternal Salvation or dreadful Denunciation of Eternal Damnation to Enterprise that Work of Murdering many Hundred thousands of Men Women and Children without any Legal Presentment Trial or Conviction But the Consideration of these things are out of fashion in England that many Embrace them upon their present Disguises and not in their true Sanguinary appearances pag. 30 31. To conclude If we would not receive a Thief till he has Repented let the Papist first Recant his Voluminous Errors but above all let us have good Testimony of his Hearty Sorrow for that Sea of Blood-shed in England France Holland Ireland Spain Italy Savoy Switzerland and Germany of many Hundred thousands of Poor Protestants that for pure Conscience could not Conform to their most Exorbitant Practices as well as new Doctrines imposed upon them such Inhuman and Barbarous Inventions and Cruelties as no Age could ever Parallel and are the only Demonstration of their Wicked Wits that lived in that Age and that not only upon the Parties themselves but their poor Innocent Babes For that English Protestants should so far neglect these weighty Considerations as to be Gull'd and Cheated out of their Religion purchas'd them by their Martyr'd Ancestors and be persuaded to embrace that old Bloody Apostatiz'd Church again with all her Slavish as well as Ridiculous Superstitions is a Crime so offensive to God and intolerable to Men as the time hastens that the very Stones of the Streets will rise up in Judgment against them p. 35. Thus have I undertook thô with much brevity an enervation of the Romans Faith at least a detection of their Craft their horrid Cousenage and present way of Insinuation among the People p. 36. Qu. Whether in case they could not be conform'd unto they would allow a Toleration were they powerful Whether in case they should say Yes we ought to believe them since it is one of their most Sacred Maxims not to keep Faith with Hereticks as was seen in the Case of those of the Alpine Vallys J. Hus c. and in that they have in all Ages brought so great a Deluge of Blood upon the European World p. 37. Qu. Whether it be the Interest of the English Nation to subject her-self to a Popish Yoak considering the incomparable Bloody Massacres of that sort of Men in several Reigns p. 38. See England 's great Interest in the choice of Parliament-men c. PRay see that you chuse sincere Protestants Men that don't play the Protestant in Design and are indeed disguis'd Papists ready to pull off their Masks when time serves You will know such by their Laughing at the Plot disgracing the Evidence admiring the Traitors Constancy that were forc'd to it or their Religion and Party were gone beyond an Excuse or an Equivocation The contrary are Men that Thank GOD for this Discovery and in their Conversation zealously direct themselves in an opposition to the Papal Interest which indeed is a Combination against good Sense Reason and Conscience and to introduce a blind Obedience without if not against Conviction and that Principle which introduces implicit Faith and blind Obedience in Religion will also introduce implicit Faith and blind Obedience in Government so that it is no more the Law in the one than in the other but the Will and Power of the Superior that shall be the Rule and Bond of our Subjection This is that Fatal Mischief Popery brings with it to civil Society and for which such Societies ought to be aware of it and All those that are Friends to it p. 4. See Their project for the good of England Dedicated to the Parliament c. THe difference between Protestants and their Dissenters is purely Religious they hold the one common Civil Head and mostly about Church-Government and some Forms of Worship c. But as to the Papists under Correction the case is alter'd for thô it be mostly manag'd on the side of Religion the great Point is merely Civil and should never be otherwise admitted or understood For want of this Caution Protestants suffer themselves to be drawn into tedious Controversies about Religion and give occasion to the Professors and Favourers of that Way to exclaim against them as Persecutors for Religion who had reprobated such severities in the Papists to their Ancestors When in reality the difference is not