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A27170 The holy inquisition wherein is represented what is the religion of the Church of Rome, and how they are dealt with that dissent from it. Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723. 1681 (1681) Wing B1574; ESTC R13764 91,990 274

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THE Holy Inquisition Wherein is Represented What is the RELIGION OF THE CHURCH OF ROME And how they are dealt with that Dissent from It. LONDON Printed for Joanna Brome at the Gun at the West End of St. Pauls Church-yard 1681. TO THE Right Honourable AND Right Reverend Father in God HENRY Lord Bishop of LONDON One of the Lords of his Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council My Lord THough with great zeal and prudence you use all the power which your Birth and Dignities have given you for the defence of the true Christian Religion as it is amongst us professed and established yet I hope this short account of what is most contrary and most destructive to it will not displease you I know your Lordship understands what is here treated of far better than I do but so doth not the Common People they may receive information from these Papers and will likely do it the more freely if you shall permit them to go abroad under your Name For it is generally acknowledged that we owe much of our preservation to your Care and Christian Courage and that you did stand in the gap when our Enemies were pressing to come in upon us My Lord the watchfulness and labours of your Sacred Order to preserve the face of a Church and as much Order and Discipline among us as the iniquity of the times can permit is a greater service to the Protestant Interest than many are apt to believe For our Adversaries expect not to prevail but by breaking of us and dissolving those bonds of Government which keep us united well knowing that those sheep are an easie prey when scattered abroad which under the guidance of their proper Pastors are safe and impregnable I have therefore endeavoured by what I have said of the Superstitions and cruelties of Rome to persuade such as are averse to them that their duty and interest oblige them to joyn with our Church which professing nothing but the pure and Primitive Religion of our blessed Redeemer makes use of none of those bloudy and violent Methods wherewith the Papal Religion and Authority are preserved and whose dangers and persecutions on both hands are for the best Cause in the world even for her faithful Allegeance to God and the King I shall rejoyce if what I have designed for the common good be beneficial to any And if the humble offer I make of it to your Lordship be favourably accepted However I shall ever pray for the peace and prosperity of our Jerusalem And that God would long preserve you to advance his glory and be an Ornament and Support to this Church Remaining My Lord Your Lordships most dutiful and obedient Servant L. B. THE PREFACE IT cannot but grieve every Lover of peace that is every good man to see our distractions We fear many things and have reason to fear yet many more especially when we consider how grievously God is provoked to bring upon us the worst of evils I design not to represent those crying sins that call for destroying vengeance upon us or to make declamations against them but it is for my purpose to note that the deforming a most pure and pious Reformation and the disturbing and weakening an equitable and happy frame of Government doth not only call for ruin but actually brings it breaks down the fence of our safety and so makes way for those Erroneous and Tyranical impositions we fear and foresee There is cause enough to believe that the Romish Party hath all along since the Reformation and doth still continue to widen our breaches and to foment our divisions there are many instances of it related by several credible Witnesses and some of them sworn too but that which most of all confirms it is that it is much their interest to keep us from ever having a happy peaceable and well-setled Church a constant and beautiful Order amongst us and that they certainly will not s●●ck at dissembling and acting the part of zealous and sc●●pulous Dissenters to promote the ruin of them whom they would out right massa●r●e and burn had they power so to do Some of our Seperatists are so ungrounded and have so poor an interest in the w●rld that they must of necessity yield and fall were they not supported by the power and policy of a stronger Party and the moderate sort of them are so near us that we could not but joyn and unite together were it not for their interposition whose great concern it is to keep us asunder that they may have room to come in at the void urguarded space betwixt both Whether or no it shall succeed as they would God alone knows they have great hopes and we cannot but have a dread upon us but however by breaking us to pieces they revenge our breaking of Communion with them and they likely tempt some to believe that we separated from the Church of Rome upon the same grounds as the Separatists have to leave the Church of England They will now and then draw a parellel betwixt both Cases and confidently assert that we can urge nothing against our Schismatick but what they may urge with as much reason against our Reformers It is no small advantage to their Cause if they can work in Dissenters as great an abhorrence for our Liturgy and Divine Service as for the Latin Mass and so bring them to an indifference as though there were hardly any choice betwixt both This will lessen the Odium under which they lie deriving part of it upon our Church and withal is a preity sure way to bring men bach again to Rome So that if I were a Jesuit I would as Lewis Moulin and some such as he so cry out upon the Superstitions bloudy Persecutions and Idolatries of the Church of England and by that means drive men so far from it that when things tend towards a change the people might either be undetermined what Party to take or even prefer Popery to so deform a Reformation as they should believe ours to be And accordingly it is easie to observe that those Sectaries are not far from Rome which are farthest from the Church of England The Jesuits Schools abroad are full of our Youth in the Low Countries in France in Spain and at Rome the English Seminaries are perpetually fitting up young men to carry on the great work of reducing this potent Island to the See of Rome Once every year they are sent over in numerous Sholes from those Colleges not directly and openly to preach Popery they are too wise to go that way to work but by other means to promote its restauration acting such parts bare-faced or in a disguise as they are enabled by their Genius and interest such to be sure as shall conduce to the disturbance and destruction of that Church and Government which now keeps them out Hence I make no question proceeds the beginning or the continuance of our divisions and the frequent insulting over us upon this