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A01576 The foot out of the snare with a detection of sundry late practices and impostures of the priests and Iesuits in England. VVhereunto is added a catalogue of such bookes as in this authors knowledge haue been vented within two yeeres last past in London, by the priests and their agents. By Iohn Gee, Master of Arts, of Exon-Colledge in Oxford. Gee, John, 1596-1639. 1624 (1624) STC 11701; ESTC S103001 57,356 118

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according to that of Saint Augustine Quare nos decepistis Quare tanta mala falsa dixistis Et erubescunt humanae infirmitati non erubescunt inuictissimae veritati Aug. ser 22. de verb. apost Why did you seduce vs Why did you tell vs so many false things more regarding the weaknes of men than the inuinciblenesse of Truth Yes sure Necesse est cùm dies Iudicij venerit c. saith Saint Cyprian Cyp. l. 1. ep 3 to your charge the losse of so many soules for which Christ gaue his life will one day bee laid and a strict account exacted Many wauing Babes were carried away with the blast of your deceits beaten and broken against the rock of errour many I say whom Saint Paul tearmeth Paruulos fluctuantes vnconstant yong-ones not so much swelling with pride as deceiued and tossed with the rage of your Imposture But my beloued Country-men let not fuch vipers eat out your hearts let not the ignis fatuus of their preposterous zeale mis-lead you but discouer the hypocrites and send them home to hell where they were hatched For they that dare thus dally with God no marnell though they bee bold with your soules consciences your children and your estates and all that belong to you Many a poore Gentleman that cannot rule his wife I knowe is faine to weare their mark in capite and somewhat they must haue in marsupio though the other lie for it in carcere They must bee fed with the daintiest cheere the best wine the best beer the chiefest fruits that can bee got when oft-times the poor husband is fain to slink away hungry to his rest In the end they proue Plagiarij stealing away their children and sending them beyond the seas to their vtter ruine and ouerthrowe This is too common a practice Some friends of mine One M. Dutton a Lancashire Gentleman haue felt the smart thereof The Priests practice with a yong man in London I think it will not be amisse to insert how they dealt with a yong man heer in London who is Grand-childe to the Archbishop of York about the end of February last They perswaded him what a fine life it would bee to liue beyond the seas and withall told him that if hee would go-ouer to one of their Colledges he should want no maintenance and for that he was not fully grounded in their religion he was referred to one to conferre withall It fortuned that he came to that man that must indoctrinate him while I was by I smelling their knauery could not rest quiet till I had found out the yong man and inquired his businesse with the Priests with whom I had seene him often conuersant who presently tould mee their project and acquainted me that he must suddenly take his iourney o Saint Omers But my self discouering vnto him diuerse of their cheats and tricks and assuring him that he should finde the case altered if he went out of England the young man being very ingenuous was deterred and I hope will haue no more familiarity with them Some of the Priests Agents dealt in the same sort with a very pretty modest Youth one Henry Syluester sonne to the no lesse worthy than famous Poet Iosuah Syluester the Translator of Du Bartas who being a scholar at Suttons Hospitall neere London was drawn to such places as the Priests often frequent and there had books bestowed on him They inueigled and wrought so farre with him that he consented to bee sent beyond the seas And away they had packed him but that their plot was in time discouered Many others haue they of late daies seduced but I hope their Kingdome is now almost at an end As for you who haue occasion to liue neer the wals of these Aduersaries and it may bee sometimes of necessity must conuerse and haue some commerce with them take heed you be not corrupted by them Haue no fellowship with the vnfruitfull works of darknes though with the workers Be like vnto the Riuer Arethusa which passeth through the Sicilian Sea and yet takes no saltnes Virg. eccl vlt. Liue blamelesse in the midst of a peruerse and crooked generation Phil. 2.15 And let me now speak vnto you who are my Brethren of the Ministery and should in regard of your office and example be as Angels in the Fi●mament of the Church Perceiue you not how heresie begins to spread as that of Arrius in the daies of Athanasius Soz. eccl hist Serpit vt Gangrena it creeps as a Gangrene and yet mourn you not for our Sion in her widow-hood nor pray for the peace of Ierusalem Behold you not the ranke of our hollow-harted Neuteralists who think the time is come to pull downe our Culuer-house our little Church How often hast thou heard them O God though they whispered vnto themselues say of the enemies of our peace Why are the wheeles of his Chariot so long a-comming Iud. 5.28 Expectarunt diem They haue long lookt for a day I hope they will but expect till their very eyes drop out of their heads Againe vnderstand you not how laborious and vigilant our Aduersaries now are forbearing no time sparing no paines to captiuate and destroy Witnesse the swarmes of their bookes which you may heare humming vp and downe in euery corner both of City and Countrey I speak it with griefe and in this respect cor meum tanquam cera liquescens my heart is as melting wax I verily beleeue they haue vented more of their pamphlets within this Twelue-month then they did in forty yeeres before They haue Printing-presses and Book-sellers almost in euery corner And how doe they by this meanes put their poore Disciples vpon the tenters selling that book for forty or fifty shillings which they might affoord for eight or ten that for ten which they might afford for one For instance I referre you to the Cat alogue in the latter end of this book I speak this by the way to discouer their extorting policie who make a Treasury for themselues by these means and raise no small summes of money You are those whom God hath set vp as Lamps in his Sanctuary to giue light vnto those that sit in darknesse in the shadow of death to guide their feet into the way of Truth hide not your glory vnder a bushell let not your beauty be eclipsed but as the Spirit to the Angel of Philadelphia Hold that which you haue Reu. 3.11 Stand with your loines girt Ephes 6.14 Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and remember that Vincenti dabitur To him that ouercommeth shall it be giuen Reu. 3. Nec paranti ad praelium nec pugnanti ad sanguinem multo minùs te●giuersanti ad peccatum sed vincenti ad victoriam Bern. Not to him that prepares to fight nor to him that resists to bloud much lesse him that shewes his back in cowardice but to him