of this Baron Hene one of his Majestie 's Justiciaries in Ireland assured a Person of Honor that one John Curphy a Papist Condemned for a Burglary in the Year 1671. at the time of his Execution did peremptorily Deny the Fact and made solemn Appeals to God of his Innocency Yet the Contrary was thus Discovered After he had Hung some little time the Rope by Chance brake so he fell down a little Stunned Yet some Seed of Life remaining in him he was brought to his perfect Speech Hereupon Terror was so deeply imprest upon his Conscience for Lying though counted a Venial Sin before that he was forced to Confess the Fact and after some time given him for Repentance he was Executed as he deserved Thus you see that Impudent Impenitent Malefactors at different Seasons have different Sentiments of God's Omniscient Justice for Forging Lies deliberately to make the World believe that they are Innocent God is concerned in the Honor of his Justice to Vindicate his Omnisciency in some strange Discovery of such Matchless Impostors who can hardly Repent in the time of Dying Indeed it is not probable they should who Entayl upon themselves a Voluntary Curse by their pertinacious Dissimulation and their Lying Artifices These Men are of late Commenced such profound Doctors in all Treason Rebellion Cruelty and what not which may destroy a Protestant Government that they out-strip all former Monsters of Impiety Had this Unparellel'd Villainy been Effected it would have been Celebrated for a Meritorious Act in Contriving a Speedier and more Effectual Method for the Propagation of the Romish Perswasion This is not the Truly Antient Apostolical Faith but a Mushrom of Fancy started up out of an Affectation of Superstitious Novelty and cherisht or spred by the Boundless Ambition of Earthly Pomp and Grandeur How can any Man who hath not quite Extinguisht all Sparks of Reason and Ingenuity Embrace such a Religion which any Idiot may be Ashamed to Live in and Afraid to Dye in For it is a Miscellany of Blasphemies and all Absurd Opinions yea of all Impieties Hereby it comes to pass that at last they are not able to put any Difference 'twixt Light and Darkness Truth and Falshood nor to distinguish Righteousness from Violence and Injustice nor Piety it self from the Extremity of Prophaneness I have done with the Discovery of the Falseness of their Appeals Let us now see whether their Faith and Charity in Dying were of any Better Stamp The Jesuits False-Faith in Dying Detected to be Fancy and Presumption HOw many False Martyrs hath the world afforded who while they Courted Death Sacrificed only a Sturdy Body to a Stubborn Mind to keep up some Heresy in Repute Jesuits count this a brave Resolution yet it flows from the Inconsiderateness of a Sleepy secure Conscience They weigh not the after-claps of Death nor Dread the future Assizes of the Universal Judgment Hypocrits will as confidently commit and commend their Spirits into the Hand and Bosom of Christ as if they had been Washt in his Blood and changed into his Image Jesuits who are a Faithless Generation cannot really make use of the Sheild of Faith to Blunt the Sting of Death or to Quench the Fiery Dartings of Despair into their Hearts For that Faith which they pretend to is rather Carnal fancy and presumption than any well regulated Resignation of their Souls to the Conduct of the Scriptures as imbraced by a firm Belief Such Resignation flowing from a Right-bred Faith is Divinely grounded on the Sacred Authority of God Alone who is the Architype of Truth But Jesuits do not believe the Scriptures to be a perfect Rule of Faith and of the practicals of Christian Self-denyal If they esteemed the Sacred Records able to make the Man of God Compleatly wise unto Salvation then Consequently they must needs be the strongest and only Sheild to overcome the Inordinate Love of Natural Life and the Slavish fear of a Violent Ignominious Death Such a frame can never be attained unless the Purity of the Scriptures which are Divine in their Original and Authority be Assented to and Imbraced with a Faith Divinely subjected to them I must receive and defend Divine Truth to the very Death not because I believe it with an Humane Faith as giving more credit to the Churches Tradition which Consignes the Scriptures to be Canonical than to the Authority of Divine Revelation If so I ground my Faith for Eternal Life upon an Vncertain Opinion or at best upon the Rash and bold Assertion of some Pope or Council who say and unsay Decree and Abolish the same Constitution in a Breath Thus the jesuits-Jesuits-Faith which is meerly or chiefly Humane in the very essence and formality of it because the Church or Pope determines So or So can never reach to the Spiritual pitch and excellency of that Divine Faith which being grounded on the Sole Authority of Divine Revelation can only Justify and Save a mans Soul and Consequently can only afford true courage and comfort in Dying But Jesuits never had their Hearts purified by believing and obeying the Truths of Christ as such for then they would have their Affections more in Heaven But spending their Conversation chiefly among Machivilians of their own Tribe and Order to promote a Secular Interest rather than to Subject themselves to the Rules of the Blessed Jesus whose name their Society Blasphemously pretends to they cannot have any Experimental Tast of the powerful joys of the World to come Their confidence therefore in Dying cannot be Hearty and Ingenuous It flows cheifly from the Effort and vigor of natural courage not from a Super-elevated Principle of Unfeigned Faith which takes a prospect of Eternal Life not only beyond the pleasing Accomodations and Advantages of this present World but also beyond the Torments of Death that so God himself may be Glorified All in All and not only a Saint-like Cannonization be Ambitiously aspired unto which without real Holiness is but the Dream of a Fools-Paradise Are not such men under the delusion of a strange Phrency and Spiritually bewicht who put on an Artificial courage and zeal in sealing a false Religion with their Blood only out of a fond Ambition to avoid Purgatory on the left hand and that the Pope may immediately Canonize them for Heroical Champions in defending the pride of his Tripple Crown Jesuits account this to be justifying Faith to Eternal Life firmly to Assont to all the Popes determinations as Infallible when oftentimes Popes have been persons neither of common Truth nor Honesty but Atheists Hereticks Conjurers Sodomites yea Incarnate Devils Platina in the Life of John the 13th Constan Concil Sess 11. Art 5. Benedict 9. vide Baronium anno 1034. N. 3. Yet the unwritten Traditions or Fancies rather of these wicked Monsters must be Imbraced as Objects of justifying Faith by all such who expect not to be sent to Purgatory when they Dye But Can Jesuitical Martyrs for the Pope's
that when I exhorted him to take a strict Review of his Sins that so being deeply humbled for them he might obtain some hopeful Prospect of their Pardon He replyed That he had endeavoured to search out whatever might provoke the Lord to desert him and suffer him to fall under the fatal Sentence pronounced upon him He said He had been Guilty of Sins enough for which he was thus severely punisht Among the rest he instanced in this That he had wronged one in a Twelve-penny matter but he was now so troubled about it that he had made Restitution since his Condemnation although he was in extream want of Necessaries for his present Subsistence I Commended this in him but withal told him That there was one Crime committed by him for which he could never make any Satisfaction viz. The Murthering of Sir Edmund yet that upon his true Repentance Christ's Blood-shed was All-sufficient to wash away the Stain and Reproach of this most Prodigious Wickedness He still stood out in a peremptory Denyal That he knew any thing of it more or less And in the usual Canting Language affirmed That he was as Innocent of it as the Child unborn Which Words may admit of an Equivocation For the Child unborn is Innocent as not being Capable of committing or declaring the Heinousness of such a Crime But though Hill was Capacitated for it with all imaginable Principles of Jesuitical Subtilty yet his deepest Sophistry appeared in pretending to be as Innocent as the Child unborn viz. In this Sense Innocent as not able to declare his Guiltyness of the said Murther For so he might be unable in respect of an Oath of Secresie which was the Seal of his Impenitency Or he might think to Evade the Confession of it by this Equivocation viz. I am as Innocent of the Fact as there is Truth in this That the Child unborn is here present reserving this Supplement of the Assertion unto himself And then it being unriddled in plain English it comes to thus much I am as Innocent of the Fact laid to my Charge that is There is as much Truth in affirming This as there is in the Childs being present which is yet Unborn For there is not Truth in either I did fear that some such Equivocation might shroud it self under Hill's flat Denyal of the said Murther Therefore I told him That his Ingenuity in Confessing a pecuniary Wrong and making Restitution could not demonstrate any sound Repentance unless he took the Shame of this Murther upon himself by a free Confession of it For a sincere Penitentiary dares not conceal any sin though of never so Ignominious a Nature He replyed That he had taken Shame to himself in confessing his doing Wrong and that he had violated the Integrity and Peace of his Conscience for a very Trifle Therefore I could not think he denyed the Murther laid to his Charge that he might maintain his Reputation But to Confute this Plea I knew a Fellon who deny'd the Robbery for which he was Condernned yet probably to insinuate into me a good Opinion of him he Confest that he once Robb'd a poor man going to Market but being afterward troubled in his Conscience for so doing he inquired out where the person wronged Lived and sent him double Restitution because happily said he the poor man losing of his market might have gain'd as much as I sent him by selling the Provisions which he was carrying thither Thus some will pretend to be Ingenious in Confessing hidden Crimes and yet will stand out in denying such which are proved against them This is but a counterfeit remorse On the day before Hills his Execution he discharged me of farther attendance because he said he would be in greater retirement to fit himself for his Death now so neerly approaching whereupon I took leave of him and he prayd God to reward me for all my Visits of him VIII Mr. Berry BErry the Porter of Summerset-house was one of the Murtherers of Sir Edmunbury Godfrey and was Executed some time after Hill and Green He willingly admitted me to Visit him for many days somtimes twice in the same day I found him dejected at the first yet afterwards he was reduced to a more composed frame I observed that he had some books in his Chamber of all which I took an inspection and found no popish Author among them I told him that I much approved of his Care in the Choice of those Books especially of the Bible to be his Associates and Guides in his solitary Confinement Then I advised him to search his Heart-state God-ward and to consider for what special sins God had deserted him to fall into so shamefull and notorious a Crime as the Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey who had Demonstrated himself to be a worthy Patriot of his Country He replyed that he knew nothing of it neither before nor after and that he was no way Accessary to the guilt of it I said I could not give Credit to him in that For the Crime was cleerly proved against him I did not much urge him to confess it at that time fearing I might provoke him to be more shie of imbracing any future Visits or Advice I bent my Discourse to fit him for his approaching Death and from Scripture Demonstrated that immediatly after the Souls expiration every one is presented by Angels Good or Evil according as their state is in which they dye before the dreadful Tribunal of Christ the most Impartial righteous Judge of all men And that of what nature the sentence which then past was of it was irrepealable Therefore he could not be too circumspect in trying his heart-frame which is naturally deceitful For if his faith and repentance the only qualifications and evidences of a future happy State were not solidly built on Christ as the Rock of Salvation after his being adjudged there could not be any retrieval of the Sentence though it were to the Eternal banishment of his Soul from the bliss-making Vision and fruition of the God of Glory This awakned him to some Remorse for the sins of his Life I then proceeded to advise him not to venture to die in the the Romish Perswasion For this could not produce solid nor lasting tranquillity in any Conscience perplext and defiled with the guilt of the least sin In as much as Papists build their hopes of future happiness on corrupt Principles viz. they mix the belief of the falsities of the Apostatical-Trent-Council with the Articles of the Apostolical Creed which can never cement into any consistency of Truth either in matters of Faith or Practise I did undertake to discover the notorious absurdity of some popish Opinions in doing which he was not only very attentive but said he did not believe many things which the Doctors of the Romish Church Teach as necessary to be embraced for Articles of the true Faith I told him I hoped that he was not stubborn in that Heresy having declared
may Endeavour it Or Thus The Child Unborn is Really Innocent but cannot Protest it I may and do protest it yet have it not Really to protest Nor is the Child Unborn really Innocent True It cannot be Charged with any Injurious Fact yet is It not Innocent because the Rectitude of Human Nature or that Original Righteousness which ought to be in It by the Law of its Primitive Creation in Adam the Root and Common Trustee of Perfect Righteousness for his Posterity is by his Apostacy justly wanting in every Child There is in the Nature of the Child Unborn a Seminal Aversness to God and a Propensness to all Evil. Therefore to affirm That they were as Innocent as the Child Unborn was as much as to say That They were Guilty before God for So is the Child Vnborn Yet the Council of Trent hath Determined as an Article of Faith That in Baptism all the true and proper Nature of Original Sin is quite abolisht Upon That account They say God himself cannot bind any One to Repent of it any more than of an Innocent Harmless Thing Council Trident. Sess 5. cap. 4. Soto ibid. So these Malefactors being now about to Receive as they presumed the Baptism and Crown of Martyrdom thought this would immediately wash away the Guilt and Stayn of their Bloody Crimes yea Repair the Integrity and Peace of their Conscience after a False avowing of their Innocency Possibly they reputed themselves Innocent because they were Arraigned before a Protestant-Court of Judicature which they counted Incompetent to take Cognizance of their Crimes and so were Innocent in That Respect Or themselves esteemed It a Meritorious Act to Murther Hereticks This De Graffiis proves out of their Own Church-Laws Graff lib. 2. cap. 11. Numb 12. Barronius also Commends the Murthering of Protestants as having Forfeited their Lives by the Sentence of Excommunication pronounced against them Yearly Suarez an Eminent Author in the Fourth Chapter of his Sixth Book against the King of Great-Britain saith That if the Pope Deposes a King without giving Express Commission to Kill him In That Case he Cursedly saith It belongs only to his Lawful Successor if he be a Catholick or if He will not do it then it belongs to the Common People to do it Yea generally Bellarmine Becanus Francis de Verona Ribadinera Gretzer Eudaemon-Johannes and Emanuel Sa all which amount to more than only Mariana as Mr. Gawen untruly Alledged These maintain That the Pope hath Power to Chastise yea Kill Heretical Princes From the Deposition of Henry the 3d. by Sixtus the 5th ensued the Parricide Committed by Jaques-Clement For the which the said Pope gave Thanks to God in open Consistory This Oration was Printed at Paris by Nicholas Nivelle and Rollin Thierri with Approbation of three Doctors viz. Boucher De Creil and Ancelin Or it may be they pleaded their Integrity because they Acted by and under the Pope's Commission who as they believe can Legitimate the worst of Crimes so as to make them become Real Virtues This Assertion I believe no more than I do that Rapper of the Popish Miracle pretended to be wrought upon this Occasion A Polonian Gentleman speaking slightly of the Pope at Dinner among his Friends the White-Bread next to him became presently as Black as Ink But upon his Penitential Recanting it turned Whiter than it was before Thus their Appeals are of as much Credit as their Fabulous Miracles Or it may be they Pleaded their Integrity as their Holy Father the Pope assumes High Names of Sanctity being himself of a clean Contrary Disposition Thus a Cruel Pope takes the Title of Clement and Malefacins will needs pretend to be Boniface This is to be Innocent per Antiphrasin by the Rule of Contraries But that it may not seem strange that Dying-Criminals will falsly avow their Innocency my self in my late Experience as Ordinary of Newgate have known some Malefactors Condemned for Murther and Burglaries to have gone out of the World with a Notorious Asserting of their Integrity although they had twice or thrice Confest to me with some seeming Remorse that they were justly Condemned for the said Crimes I do believe that the Jesuits have been their Tutors Patterns and Patrons in such Abominable Untruths I shall more closely Convince all Unbyassed Persons that these Five Jesuits could not be Innocent Their Witnesses from St. Omers were Votaries Trayn'd up in their Religion and sworn at their Entrance into the Colledge to obey their Superiours Instructions Therefore some of them being askt by the Honorable Court of Judicature What they could averr as to their own Knowledge about a very Material Question replyed That they were not Instructed to Answer that Point Which demonstrates that they were Fore-taught as Parrots what to alledge in other Respects to have invalidated Doctor Oates his Testimony Yet were they Heard with Wonderful Patience and Candour Nay the Jesuits themselves when they made their Own Defence did offer nothing of any considerable weight but meer Sophistical Evasions why the Court should not proceed to pass Judgment upon them At their Execution What Self-Imprecations did they use as if they would by These as a Magical Conjuration Charm the Publick Spectators to give Credit to their Lying and Atheistical Appeals Yet these Disturbers and Underminers of Human Society before they were turned out of the World thought it Necessary to Charm the Secret-biting-Accusations of their Consciences with Father Whitebread's Absolution which they Received in all probability when they Whispered together This they Reserved till Now as a Presumptive Purgation of all their Crimes and as a Safe Ticket or Transport unto Heaven They counted Atheistical Lyes to be St. Peter's Keys to Open Paradise unto them Or a most Dextrous Artificial Pick-lock to screw themselves into a Good Opinion with the Credulous Vulgar People But as that Witty Pope said when he Sprinkled Holy-Water on Romish Novices and they Expected Miraculous Effects He who will be Deceived let his Superstitious Conceit be Rewarded with a Cheat So say I Let Papists be deluded with false Protestations who believe a Religion stufft with Lyes and Blasphemies But let not any Protestant be so Infected as to Resigne their Reason and Resolve their Faith into the Conduct of their bare Assertions who Promote their Church by all Deceivableness of Vnrighteousness How are Popish Novices in a blind Zeal hurryed on by such Sophisters to perpetrate the most Notorious Assassinations of Princes and not to Boggle at This as if it were a Vertue highly Meritorious Thus do such Bigots gratify the Blood-thirsty Humor of the Scarlet Whore and Eâ—ecute the Fury of the Romish Beast And yet when Jesuits are Justly put to Death for Villainous Treasons they dare protest that they Dye Martyrs for the Cause of their Blessed Jesus whom they Crucify afresh not only by the Hands of an Idolatrous Mass-Priest but in the Persecution of the Professors of his pure Religion I will give some proof
Religion retain a firm Belief that they shall be Canonized for Saints Yes For Graffius Bellarmine and other Divines have found out a compendious way to Salvation For by Forming the Signe of the Cross with Three Fingers to signify the Mystery of the Sacred Trinity by drawing the Cross from the Fore-head to the Navel to signify that the Son of God Descended from Heaven into the Bowels of his Mother and then drawing the Cross line from the Left-Arm to the Right Hereby the Cause of the Incarnation is Exprest viz. Christ came from Heaven to Earth that we who had deserved to be placed amongst the Goats at his Left-hand might be removed to his Right-hand amongst the Sheep Behold What Mysteries of Faith Mother Church hath taught Her Eldest Sons yea all her Novices that by these Exact Moods of Forming a Cross without the Knowledge of any thing besides even this alone may be sufficient for Salvation This is All the Faith necessary for a Roman Catholick and when by such Admirable Conduct of the Cross he hath but Once believed he need never more trouble Himself with Faith while he Lives So Bonacina Tom. 2. in 1. Precept Disp 3. Q. 2. N. 16. Graff Decis Part 1. Lib. 1. Cap. 24. N. 3. You have seen the Admirable Efficacy of a Jesuits Faith in Signing himself when Dying with the Sign of the Cross Now view the Effects of their Hopes Jesuitical Hopes of Divine Mercy and Salvation at Death Detected to be False and Vain ALL Rational Hope of Salvation is Divine in its Original and Foundation this will not make them Ashamed who are Possest of it Rom. 5.5 It is not like the Spiders-Web because it hath God in Christ for its Foundation 1 Col. 27. Christ in You the Hope of Glory But now Popish Doctrine is opposite to Christ in all his Offices as making him to be an Insufficient Saviour Thus they joyn Pennances as necessary Additions to Christ's Infinite Satisfaction for Sin as if he had Merited to take away only the Fault or Offence and had left the Sinner himself to compleat the Redemption of his Soul by satisfying for the punishment of Sin in Self-invented and Self-imposed Severities upon the Body How doth this derogate from Christ's Infinite Redeeming Love in making a full and perfect Satisfaction for All Sin and the Appurtenances thereof in respect of Persons truly Justifyed Besides Romish Doctrine over-throws another part of the Foundation of true Christian Hope which is the Alone All-sufficiency of Christ's Meritorious Intercession Thus they joyn with Him Suffragans and Coadjutors in this part of his Priestly Office as if Himself were not a pityful and faithful High-priest as God-man solely and sufficiently prevalent with his Father to Obtain whatever we can Ask according to His Will But Papists pray amiss to Saints and Angels who know not their particular Distresses nor the Thoughts of the Heart which Ascend to God directly in Prayer He only can Hear the Suppllcations of Millions at the same time and Supply the Wants of All Creatures Therefore they are Guilty of Idolatry and Blasphemy in their Orlsons And Can such Sacriledgious Derogation from God's Honor ground any real Hope of being Heard or Supplyed with the Necessary Means of Salvation So far are such Prayers from giving the least Hope of Eternal Life 2. True Hope hath the Promises of Free-Grace in Christ for its Support which Promises are only Yea and Amen in Him to Christians that are sincere in their Obedience But Popish Doctors assert that the Highest or most Necessary Duties of Christianity are only Counsels which they are at Liberty to imbrace or not so as to make them practical Thus they dispense with the Necessary Duties of Religion in which the very Essence Life and Power of it consists As they fancy Divine Precepts to be but Arbitrary Duties so to such Christ's Promises of Eternal Life become as meer Cyphers because they do dispense with his Laws when and as themselves please to be partial in their Obedience That only is a Lively Hope of Salvation which makes the Possessors of it to purisy their Hearts as God is Pure which is fruitful in Obedience and active in the wayes of Holiness which Girds up the Loyns of the Mind by avoyding all Impediments and making use of all Expedients in the Christian-Race thus the Hope of seeing and enjoying God doth strenuously work up the Heart to a Conformity in Holyness Such an Hope only can be a firm Anchor in all Extremities But Popish Hopes as the Spiders-Web are soon swept away like Vanity Yea there is no Hope of Remedy to Recover such to a Salvable State who study to be Ignorant and fear to know the Latitude of God's Will lest they should be Obliged to follow it How dangerous is an Implicite Faith viz. to believe Only as the Church dictates though she teach Points contrary to the Purity of the Christian-Institution How can that Faith which is grounded on the Authority of the Pope and consequently which is meerly Human as moulded to his Determination produce any solid Hope of Eternal Life Hope is the Daughter or Twin-Sister of Faith Therefore As the Nature of This is so Hope is True or False Such blind Bigots who hold their Souls in this Miserable Captivity cannot rationally think them Redeemed by the Blood of Christ while they reject that Saving Light which is offered to them What then shall we think of Jesuits who sin against Conviction that they may uphold a Carnal Interest If any persist in This they Sin damnably and cannot have any real Hope of Salvation The like we may affirm of such who to Preserve their Trading and Worldly Accommodations in Popish Countries quench the Sparks of True Convictions in themselves These Persons are Ashamed or Afraid to Confess Christ's intire Truth in the Purity thereof against all Romish forged Innovations although These betray Men's Souls insensibly to Perdition Such persons who for State-Interest viz. to gain Favour or Wealth suppress the Sentiments of Christ's pure Religion and receive the Mark of the Beast though not in the Fore-head openly yet closely in their Hand This Anathema from God may justly take hold of them that they shall be blinded and hardned to believe Romish Lies according to that Just Sentence 2 Thess 2.11 That They all may be Damned who Believe not the Truth once profest but Reject it Or refuse to be informed of the Danger of Heretical Tenets when Means of Conviction are offered because they Demonstrate hereby That they have Pleasure in Vnrighteousness Now Popish Religion is the Greatest Seminary of Viciousness and all Impiety For Doth not the Council of Trent Establish this That Attrition only which is but a slight Grief for Sin from meer slavish Fear of Hell or Shame without any Love to God is a sufficient Demonstration of Repentance to Eternal Life so that the Sacrament of Penance be joyned with it Yet this Sacrament of Penance
on which they say the stress of Sinners Salvation depends is a meer Human Invention God hath promised nothing to it upon Popish Terms neither can a Man build any rational Hope upon It that it will secure him from Damnation They affirm That the Sacrament of Penance infuses All saving Graces when Men are Dying This is a Rare Device by which Debaucht Persons may escape Hell at last without True Repentance There was never any Heresie more monstrous and pernitious than this of the Trent-Council which makes all Sins Safe and all Duties Needless by a Knack of very Easy Use and New Invention viz. Absolution upon the meer Profession of any slight Grief for Sin though the Motive be but Natural and the Grief it self in the next Degree to Nothing The Premises considered I cannot see how Papists can rightly Ground their Hopes for Salvation which is to be attained by Faith in Christ alone as it purifyes the Heart to an Obediential Hope of Glory Jesuitical Charity Counterfeit in Life and Death I Do suspect the Jesuits Charity in Dying could be no Better than their Faith For according to the Truth and Strength of This which is the first Radical Grace Implanted is proportionably the Genuine Nature and Extension of Christian Love Now if the Jesuits Faith be Vnsound as I have Demonstrated I cannot see any reason why their Charity should be of the right Scriptural-stamp How could these Jesuits sincerely Forgive their Enemies Is Self-denyal this Grand Master-piece of Christianity so easily practised by Anti-Christian Spirits Yet they would make us believe that they heartily Forgave their Enemies as themselves expected Forgiveness from God But such Sophisters use to Forgive their Just Accusers in a Complement as they believe themselves to be Forgiven of God in a Dream I suspect that their Reconciliation to their Adversaries was as Mystical as their Faith is Dubious For if they require an Implicite Faith only to believe whatever the Church Virtual viz the Pope dictates why should their Charity be more expressive and distinct viz. in Comprehending such Persons who designedly as themselves asserted sought to take away their Lives Is This the Charity of the Roman Church to Condemn all Protestants to Hell while in a fond-mistaken Compassion all Her Own Faction though never so prodigiously Wicked are Canonized for Saints Yea Why doth the Pope that Merciful High priest permit so many Souls to lye broyling in Purgatorian Flames when he ought with a more fervent Charity and at a more easie price to Redeem them thence How could these Jesuits sincerely Forgive their Enemies who fancy a strange Mock-Forgiveness of a Sinner by the God of Truth This they do to colour and palltate their own Hypocritical Reconciliation Their Blasphemy is this That God in Pardoning Sinners forgives the Offence but not the Punishment This must be satisfyed For In and By Themselves This makes way for fraudulent Reconciliations For the Malicious Person may alledge the Example of God Himself who while he pretends to Remit an Injury yet Reserves in his Heart Seeds of Wrath for a Crop of Future Revenge For he will say Would you have me more Merciful than God! Herein I have followed His Example We are too much inclined to Revenge we need not seâ—k Devices to prove that God Invites us there unto These Men pretend Meekness of Spirit but it is Malice Raked up in Embers till they find a fit Opportunity to be Revenged in Earnest and with a fuller Interest I cannot see thorow the Mists of their Impostures nor can I Reconcile their Hearts and Words together when almost in the same Breath they Revile and Condemn their Judges of Injustice Virtually they Supplicated for the Avenging of their Blood as wrongfully spilt while in those very Appeals which they made to God they asserted themselves to be as White and Innocent as Innocency it self I have Read of Apollonius Thyanaeus that when he Pray'd he had his Sword lying drawn before him as ready to take Vengeance on his Enemies though this were the only Expedient to cut off Mercy from himself Do not Popish Doctors maintain That it is Lawful to Kill any one who only Reviles us This they count not Revenge but a Regular Self-Love yea a very Just Care which the Injured Person Owes unto Himself At the Least he may Repair his Honor by the Swords-point of Recrimination Doubtless they who hold That we owe No Express Act of Love to God Himself all our Life-long and that the Intention and Desire only of Loving Him when we are Dying fulfils our Duty in this Respect could have but Little or No Charity for their Enemies This is really the Merciful Temper of Romanists to wish That by One Blow in the Destruction of His Majesty they had readily dispatcht Three Nations because they will not stoop to the Yoke of Anti-Christian Heresie and Tyranny How Diabolically did these Malefactors presume to Clear themselves by clapping One Lye gravely upon Another First They asserted their Innocency though Convicted and Righteously Condemned Then to testify their Innocence by their Meekness they pretended to Forgive their Enemies while by a Jesuitical Back Blow they endeavoured to stab their Reputation and Invalidate their Testimony by false Recriminations Now it is alike Absurd for a Malefactor convicted by Law to presume to Clear himself by Calumniating of another as for one really Innocent to bear a False Testimony against himself This is Vnnatural and against Regular Self-Love but the Other is Natural to a Corrupt Heart though it be Diabolical I will prove the Absurdity of the First-mentioned Artifice by instancing in a True Example of the Latter viz. An Innocent Woman bore false Witness against Her self that she was the proper Murtherer of a Child which was destroyed by its own Mother The Devil suggested to this feign'd Criminal that it was impossible she could have a broken Heart for Sin unless she were publickly Hanged and. so shamed into a Penitential Frame The Woman closed with this Self-cruel Design Indicted her self and Pleaded Guilty of the Murther But the Judge observing her modest and penitential Behaviour could not think that she was the Real Murtherer Therefore he urged her not wilfully to cast away her own Life by palliating and pâ—rsonating of anothers Crime She frequently affirmed that she Killed the Child Yet at last God was pleased to discover Satan's Stratagem So the Mother who was the proper-Criminal was sought for and Apprehended but the Other was set at Liberty with some Râ—buke and Pity of her Folly This strange Occurrence a Person worthy of Credit Related to my self upon his own Knowledge as he attended the Iudge in his Circuit Now Why is it not probable that the Devil might as designedly Animate these Jesuits to assert their own Innocency by darting Calumniations against their upright Witnesses to Confirm them in their Impenitency The Charity of these Jesuits towards their Enemies is the more to be suspected because their