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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25960	The arts and pernicious designs of Rome wherein is shewn what are the aims of the Jesuits & friers, and what means they use to obtain them, to the prejudice of this nation and the future involving it in misery, together with some proposals to prevent the same / by a person of their own communion, who turned romanist about thirty years since.	N. N.	1680 (1680)	Wing A3895; ESTC R16343	30,211	46

contrary to Truth and Charity However such as they are in order to receive your further Counsel and Direction concerning them I take the Boldness to present them to You in the plain Form that followeth THE PVBLISHER TO THE READER BE pleas'd good Reader to take notice that in pursuance of some Verbal Discourse had with two Reverend Persons of the Church of England some Years since deceased Mr. Thorndike Mr. Thresscross the following matters were first committed to Paper in or about the Year 1668. at which time it was much fear'd and talk'd by many as if some misunderstanding would have happened betwixt the King and Parliament upon occasion of the then late Dreadful Burning of the City and the Writers intention was so far as it lay in the power of such a private Subject to endeavour by giving a timely Warning to all Persons concern'd to prevent if possible so great inconveniences and mischiefs as would undoubtedly have followed such a Breach in order to which prevention he was also willing for his part that his Sentiments should have been made publick at the time when he first declar'd them But that Cloud by the good Providence of God and the wise proceeding of Parliament scattering as it were of it self and Serenity of State returning Those Reverend Persons above named whose further encouragement and assistance to speak the truth was of necessity to have been afforded to the Publication of them judg'd it not fit to hinder the quiet composure of things by casting in ought that might move dispute minister talk or serve to keep on foot publick jealousies and discontents So they have lain ever since in the same private Manuscript in which they were first drawn up But as it happens by the same Permission and order of Divine Providence the face of publick affairs beginning now again to change so much to the worse and the present state of things so evidently confirming and fully justifying those General fears suspicions and jealousies which the Writer of these following Propositions professes to have had and to have laboured under a long time together to the end that our great and high-contrasting Animosities do not hurry us unawares into irremediable Evils the Author hath now a second time given his consent to their Publication in the same form and manner and without any great alteration from what they were in the first Copy Verily judging the Contents if well and duly consider'd may with God's blessing going along with them serve in this juncture of time as so many seasonable Retentives to hold us back from running so hastily and headlong to our own ruine or as so many gentle suffusions to correct and cool the vehemency of our distempered heats It is therefore both by the Author and Publisher heartily wish'd and desir'd that his private Thoughts hereby made publick might be so happy as to come to the knowledge and be thoroughly reflected upon by all the good People of this Nation and particularly I cannot but prompt to them those Propositions which concern and shew the means of Cementing our Unhappy differences and thereby frustrating the hopes and Designs our Enemies have upon us by reason of them which are Propp 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32. Those also that discover and lay open the various and subtle practices of our great Enemy the Roman Consistory and its Emissaries to kindle and keep up Dissensions amongst us and by means of them in fine to subject us not so much to the obedience of True Religion which they neither regard nor care for but only for their Interests sake as to their own arbitrary Wills Pride Tyranny and Superstitions Which likewise if God permit and that moderate Counsels take not better place with us they will infallibly effect first or last Nothing can hinder or prevent them but our own timely Uniting and joyning together hearts and hands Counsels and Interests Affections Endeavours and All whatsoever we have or can make use of for common defence in such manner as is hinted in the above-mention'd Propp 24 25 26 c. But for their practices see Propp 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 17 18 19 20 23. And finally that we do not omit to consider what is said concerning the Jesuits immense Wealth most unlawfully gotten and rak'd together and of its perilous importance to all Princes and States whatsoever where they have the like advantages and do practise the like industries for the amassing wealth in a clandestine and less perceived way Neither do the Monks or other Religious I suppose fall much short of their proportion in each kind that is of having and possessing excessively-superfluous Mammon or Riches and of avaritious industry diligence and desire to get more For this as relating to the Jesuits especially see Propp 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 41. And for the Interest and Power the Consistory and they Viz. the Jesuits Monks and Friers have also now gained and do at present hold and drive on out of Christendom that is in the Turkish Persian and Chinese Empires see Propp 48. to the end of the Discourse Now concerning the Author or Writer of the following matters there needs no more be inquir'd or said of him than what himself confesseth in the Title-page viz. that he is as to matter of Faith and Religion of the Roman-Catholick Communion but yet a Loyal Subject and one that hates all kind of disloyalty whether in opinion or practice as much as any Protestant in England of which he is also ready at all times when requir'd to give the best assurance he can and the utmost that the Law requires of the Subjects of this Nation being indeed one whose private condition considered cannot easily be thought to have any design in publishing these his Sentiments more than to be under God some little means of helping to prevent the manifold Confusions troubles miseries devastations and bloud-shed which those hasty and precipitate Counsels that some are found too ready to advance partly out of a mistaken zeal for Religion which is in truth meer animosity and haughtiness of spirit and partly for their own private ends will certainly in short time bring upon his native Country far more grievous than any they have yet felt or seen in War And therefore prayeth that his good and dutiful Intentions being accepted his oversights in case any such be found to have slipt his Pen worthy of remarque may receive a mild censure and be look'd upon as the Effects for so they are I appeal to God of a most pure and intense affection for the good of this Nation in general and in particular for the Health and Well being of his Majesties Royal Person for his safety and preservation from all dangers publick or private and for his long happy and peaceful Reign over us likewise as duty requires for the health and happy return when it shall be safe for him of his Royal Highness and in the mean time for