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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90146	A balm presented to these nations, England, Scotland, and Ireland to cure the wounds of the bleeding Protestants, and open the eyes of the deluded papists, that are ignorant of the truth ... or, A seasonable antidote against the errors of popery and pernitious [sic] doctrines of the Church of Rome ... By T.O. ...	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing O31B; ESTC R42274	8,035	25

Praying her Divine worship and in their Rosary and other books Blaspemously Attribute to her what Prophets have foretold of or Ascribe to our Saviour tho' God has declared himself a Jealous God and that he will not give his Honour to another And now to make this seem no Idolitry they have taken away the fourth Commandment and devided the fifth into three to make up the number As for their Crucifixes Beads Relicks Holy Oyl Holy Waters Agnus Dei's Blessed Roses Pardons Indulgences Absolutions c. They are altoge●her new and only the Immentions of tourzening Priests to pick the pockets of the simple layity having by that means rather reduced Popery to a Trade than a Religion and as for Auricular confssion it was as all Authors of our Church agree to get into the Cabinet Councils of Princes that so they might the better in all places carry on the interest of Rome tho' to the hazard and ruin of those Princes in whose bosoms they ly like snakes till many times they sting them to death holding no blood shead a crime that is spilt to ear●y on the interest of their Church this Fatally felt Henry the Second of France who was without any provocation kill'd with a Consecrated Daggar in his Royal Tent Surrounded with his Army by one Clement a Jaccobin Moak sent for that purpose tho' under a fained pretence of delivering a Message and altho' this King was of the Romish Communion yet the Pope was so far from dissembling it that he Magnified the Villany and Cannonized the murtherer By the like fate and encouragement fell Henry the fourth of France who was stabbed by Raviliack a Ruffain as he was passing the streets in his Coach and we may fear they had too great a hand in the Barbarous Murther of King Charles the first c. But should I pass into the bloody field of their many fatal Massacres Private Murthers Violation of Faith Leagues and Daths it would amaze and startle the reader to think so much wickedness should be in men professing Christianity or so much as owning the name of Christ and the better to colour their persidiousness when they contrary to the Letters of safe conduct given them had burnt the two famous Bohemian Martyrs Huss and Jerome they go a decree passed in the Councel of Constance that no Faith is to be kept with Heretick and such they account all that are note o● their Church a tast of which Queen Mary gave us who after she had promised us Religion and Liberty was prevail'd with by the wicked Councils of the Priests to 〈◊〉 a raging Persecution be the reward of those who had Seated her on the Throne In which during her Reign suffer'd for th● confession of a Good Faith five Bishops Twelve Divines Eighteen Gentlemen Eighty four Artificers One hundred Husband men servants and labourers Twenty Sir Wives Twenty Widdows Nine Uirgins two Boys two Infants in all two hundred Eighty seven all of them burnt alive besides Sixteen that dyed in Prison seven scourged as unmercifully as T. O. and a great many that were found Languishing and Released by Queen Elizabeth From which Cruelty and Crucl men God of his mercy as he has at present most Miraculoussy done preserve and keep these and all other Protestant Kingdoms and unite our hearts in the defence of the true Faith and Religion for the sake of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Amen A Prayer for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion against Popery c. O Lord God great and Glorious whose Eys Run too and frow threw the Earth to behold the ways and Actions of the Sons of men look upon us thy unworthy servants and ●ut of the multitude of thy tender mereys sence about with thy Almighty Arm the Uine that thy own right hand has planted water it with the dew of heaven that it may spring and grow up to thy Glory suffer not the wild Bore of the forest to Root it up nor the little foxes to pluck off its render Branthes Guard thy Church in the Purity of Religion and soundness of Doctrine against the rage and malice of our enemies and keep her her in perpetual safety for we of our selves are nothing but our help alone resteth in thee O God through the Merits and Meditation of Jesus Christ our Blessed Lord and Saviour Amen A Prayer of thanksgiving for our Late Miraculous Deliverance from Popery c. BLessed be thy holy name O Lord God of Israel who out of the multitude of thy never failing Compassion has interposed thy mercy and made bare thy Almighty Arm to save us from the Jaws of the Lyon and the Paw of the Bare that were Roaring against us and ready to devour us we offer in all humility our tribute of praise and thanksgiving to thy Divine Majesty for all thy loving kindness to wards us but more especially for Miraculously saving us at this time from the Malice and Cruelty of our implacable Enemies which we beseech thee to continue towards thy Church and People that we may ever praise and Magnifie thy Holy Name Amen French Persecutions Or what Protestants must expect from Papists if they get the power over'um THe Popes of Rome when they had no power and were not arrived at their Greatness were indeed against Persecution but when they had once arrogated to themselves a Spiritual power that commanded the Temporal and at length incroached upon the Civil Justice in all Kingdoms where the Roman See by the insinuation of the Clergy could gain Credit then and not till then the bloody Banner was displayed but to particularize upon the many bloody Murthers and Massacres would be too tedious It is not unknown to English Protestants that France has been the Scourge of Christendom especially that part of it professing the Gospel in its purity wherefore the better to give them a light into what must be expected if ever a Popish power prevail I shall instance some of their Cruelties In the Reign of Charles the ninth though the papists and even the King promised the protestants the greatest security imaginable yet when they had made them supine or fearless of the Danger by many Oaths and promises not only by chance but by the Kings immediate Order and Decree they were Murthered and Massacred throughout the whole Kingdom Women were Ripped up alive young Children dashed against the Pavement Embrio's torn from the bleeding Womb Hoary Hairs stained with Blood Churches Robbed Houses Fired Women Ravished Virgins Deflowred and then Murthered with the most exquisite Torments And before this stream of blood stopped at which the Pope extreamly rejoyced and stiled it The Triumph of the Church Two hundred thousand of all sorts Ages and Sex were slain beside a greater number that were obliged to lcaye the Country and all they had behind them The like has hapned at other times but more especially renewed in time of this present King Lewis who set on by the Priests first put out an Edict or proclamation That all persons within his Dominion should turn Roman-Catholicks Whereupon all Officers that refused were turned out of places of Trust even from the Waggoner to the greatest Courtier But this the priests thought too Gentle tho' thousands of Familes was Ruined thereby whereupon they proceeded to set the Dragoons to Quarter upon them at Discretion and to use them with all manner of Rigor so that coming into the Towns where the protestants lived and getting knowledge of their Houses they Intruded themselves crying Turn Catholicks or be Killed And when they had thus opprest and plundered them eating up all their Provisions they fell upon their Persons torturing them by hanging up some by the Heels in smoaking Chimneys ducking others in Wells till almost stified keeping some from sleeping by frequent ratling Kettels and brass Pans over their heads pricking and tossing them from one to t'other till they had made them distracted and them force them to sign an Abjuration their Children they took from them and thrust them into Monasteries making one Gentlewoman after they had ravished her before her Husbands face kill him by putting a Rapier into her hand and forcing it into his body but perceiving that this would not do whilst the Ministers remained they committed many of them to the Gallies others they banished sending them away without their Wives and Children whom they retained to bring by force to the Roman Religion those that attempted to escape were many of them surprized and put into dark Dungeons where for want they miserably perished their Relations that attempted to relieve them being reduced to the same Condition The Pope all this while encouraging this wickedness which how near such usage comes to primitive Christianity which according to the word of God is all Gentleness and the dictates of the Prince of peace our ever blessed Lord and Saviour I leave to the Protestant Reader and conclude From Popery and its Tenents Good Lord deliver us seeing even the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel FINIS