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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	judge_v	see_v	2,008	5	3.5601	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48004	A letter from a gentleman in the countrey to some of his friends at London shewing from the principles of the Jesuits that their protestations at their death is no argument of their innocency.	N. N., Gentleman in the countrey.	1679 (1679)	Wing L1395; ESTC R9615	6,710	9

a true and solid Judgment of mens actions with respect to their future and Eternal Condition is not to be made according to our Principles who make the Judgment but according to theirs whose actions are to be Judged of That may seem very hurtful and pernicious to the Soul in the Judgment of one man which is believed to be most beneficial and advantageous by another therefore they are like to mistake this case who in charity judge hard to believe that to be true of the Papists because our Principles would reckon it abominable If their plain acknowledgment did not put it beyond doubts perhaps it might be reckoned as great a breach of Charity to believe that these men could think that the words of a Priest could convert Bread and Wine to the Flesh and Bloud of Christ and not only so but unto the very Godhead so that what was formerly real Bread doth become in an instant by the Breath of a Priest though the most debauched profligate Villain living that true and omnipotent God who created all things and that blessed Lord Jesus Christ who is the great Mediator and that therefore to that Wafer which both Reason and Sense assures us is still the same is due all the Worship Adoration Reverence and Subjection we owe to Almighty God Now if we may suppose and that without breach of Charity as surely we can that Wise men that men who in a sence may be called good men such as believe there is a God such as really labor for the Salvation of their Souls seek to avoid many sins yea all they Judge such for that end and study earnestly to mortify themselves I say If such can believe this and for this end as judging thereby to please God and go to Heaven firmly perswading themselves they should offend God and endanger the Salvation of their Souls if they did otherways I would willingly know of sober men what thing can be so strange but the Wisest men may be supposed to do it for this end having once drunk in a Principle that in so doing God will be well pleased with them If then it can be demonstrated that these Jesuits upon Principles received and from their very entring into that Profession drunk in by them might really and even as Wise men so circumstantiated believe that such their Protestations at their Death though contrary to the Truth of matter of Fact was pleasing to God and the way to advantage their Souls then it will be no strange thing to conceive nor no harsh thing to judge this might be done by them To make this then appear I shall propose some few things out of their great Father Ignatius Loyola his Instructions and Rules to them in his Epistle to his Brethren at Portugal He recomends to them to excel not in Fastings and Watchings as the other Monks but in the renowned simplicity of a blind obedience which obliged them to subscribe without condition to the Orders of their Superior albeit he should have but little Counsel or Prudence to defend these his Orders Moreover to offer themselves by this obedience altogether in Sacrifice renounce willingly to all their own right for to enslave themselves and give themselves up to the Conduct of the same Superior as they would do to that of Divine Providence from whence he Concludes that it cannot be denied but such an Obedience comprehends not only the execution to do that which is enjoyned and the will to do it cheerfully but the judgment to make appear right and true so far as the will can by its force bow the understanding Injunctions and Sentiments of the Superior adding moreover That this renowned simplicity of blind Obedience is lost if we move this Question to our selves viz. Whether they command right or not and therefore we must confirm our selves in this resolution that whatsoever the Superior Commands is the Ordinance of God himself And as they ought to apply themselves with all their courage and affection to believe what the Catholick Faith proposes so also they ought to be carried by a certain impetuous blindness of the will to do whatsoever the Superior says being desirous to obey without any disquisition or search whatsoever believing it was thus that Abraham carried himself when he received the Commandment to offer up his Son In short That they force and subject their Will and Judgment And in the 6th part of his Constitutions there are the same precepts he wills That they obey when they have but a sign of the will of their Superior without any express Commandment that they ought to perswade themselves that those who live under obedience ought to suffer themselves to be carried and governed in the Divine Providence by their Superiors as if they were a Cadaver which is transported any ways or in any manner as men please and as the Staff of an Old Man which serves him to hold in his hand every where and in what thing or manner he pleases to use it and that they be perswaded that whatsoever the Superior has Commanded is just rejecting and overcoming as by force by a blind obedience all their own Opinion and Judgment that may be to the contrary that in service they resign up their own Will and Judgment and have no Judgment of their own Having thus shewn in the express words of Ignatius the Constitution of the Jesuits which by Oath they do oblige themselves to fulfil I will in charity suppose that these Jesuits who Suffered at Tyburn did honestly and sincerely enter into this Society as being greatly perswaded in their minds that thereby they would glorify God and advantage their own Souls and that accordingly they looked upon such Rules as the most effectual means for accomplishing that end their judgment and understanding being no less fully possest with the Faith thereof than with the Faith of Transubstantiation Infalabillity or the Supremacy of the See and Bishop of Rome which all understanding men know to be firmly believed by all real Roman Catholicks as that which is a Faith necessary to lead to Heaven and that many both Wise and Serious men among them have and do live and die in this Perswasion The case being then thus may it not rationally be judged that upon Discovery of the Plot the Superiors of these Jesuits as well for preserving the Interest and Honor of their Religion as for delivering themselves from the imputation of so odious a Fact did command these Jesuits or at leastwise give them some sign by which they might understand it was their mind they should solemnly declare in as full and ample words as could be conceived that they were as innocent as Children unborn of all they were charged with for the more full and expressive the words were there lay the greater mystery both of concealing the Plot and jumbling mens minds concerning it in which case is it any wonder that these men did very readily and cheerfully herein comply with the