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A33179 The Cities just vindication, or, A scourge for a vagabond libel intituled, Goodman Country to his worship, the city 1682 (1682) Wing C4329; ESTC R20092 6,356 4

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keep pace with them in Ceremonies and External Observations The Term Church-Papist is not new but older much than 41 and if we see a Jesuitical or Atheistical villain that merely for secular ends or to create disturbances vapours of his being a Son of the Church and yet endeavours to weaken the Protestant Interest whiffle over a Popish Plot against the Life of the King and divert the prosecution of the Traiterous Conspiratours c. how then can we more appositely express him than by the Title of a Protestant in Masquerade And though no Protestant holds it lawful yet 't is no wonder for a Rank Papist to swallow Oaths and joyn in outward Communion contrary to Conscience witness their Doctrine of Dispensations c. I shall onely give you the Testimonies of two Authors one a Papist when he wrote the other but late before come over from them and so neither unacquainted with their practifes the first a Secular Priest during their quarrel with the Jesuits in a Treatise printed Anno 1601. Intituled A Dialogue between a Gentleman and a Priest p. 97. has these words The Jesuits have freely permitted Catholicks to go to Church with Protestants and make no sin nor scruple of it thus no Law could take hold of them for who could be known to be a Catholick Gent. Did they grant this Liberty to all Priest In this sort they did it If one were a notorious known Catholick where be came then they taught it to be unlawful in that place to go to Church by reason of scandal and no otherwise but if one were not certainly known to be such a Catholick he might go without offence upon condition that if he heard any Heretical Doctrine preached which moved him to doubt in any point of Faith he should presently come to some of those Fathers to be resolved The second one John Copley a Seminary Priest converted from the Romish Church in a Book called Doctrinal and Moral Observations published Anno 1612. in his Epictle to the Reader thus expresses himself I must give you farther notice that there are in this Realm many dissembling Protestants there 's a Synonymous term for the Protestants in Masquerade who outwardly do all the acts of Religion belonging to this Church of England either to stay in their places in the Common-weatlh or to avoid the Penal Laws and yet in their hearts are resolved Believers of the Roman Faith egregiously dissembling both with God and men and practising most notorious equivocation not sticking to take Oaths receive Sacraments go to Church and commit many a like act directly against their Consciences and perswasion Thus you see by Catholick Testimonies what has been done and is there not as much reason for them to play these tricks now as ever Therefore let the Blister rise on that false Tongue that would wheadle us into too good an opinion of Popish Innocency Having thus laid open our Authors main design I have not only Answered him but two and twenty Pamphlets besides for they are all of a piece As for the rest of his Libel 't is fooling and impertinence Did the people in King Edward's or Queen Maries days first Model and Compile your Religion how then will you satisfie the Papists when they ask you where it was before Luther In Queen Elizabeths King Jameses and King Charles the First 's time people went to their Parish Churches Ergo there is now no Popish Plot nor any body that can make mischief under an honest pretence But how are you sure that if ever an Army of sixty thousand men get into the heart of our Kingdom they shall so easily Conquer it Perhaps you are North Country but I assure you I am West and our Volk are not of the opinion for if ever we catch you with your Threeschre Thousands be they French or Irish or any other Papists I or Scotish Presbyters either we will in defence of our King and our Religion send you all to Purgatory and then how will your Worship answer it for Beroguing and Bepoxing the Pope at this fate We will not vilifie any honest Church of England men but love and honour them yet we will implore God and the King that Popish and all other Treasons may be fully detected and punished Thus withing you to ●eep your self close and prevent if you can a smarter Answer shortly from the Pillory or the Whipping post I commit you to your destiny FVNIS