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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40496	A friendly letter to Father Petre, concerning his part in the late King's government published for his defence and justification.		1690 (1690)	Wing F2224; ESTC R5400	19,576	33

him All Men must conclude them the most ridiculous People under the Sun that they would suffer the late King to give so many apparent signs of his Intention to bring it in which were more than sufficient to confirm a Nation jealour before of such a thing in the assured Belief that he was resolved to do it In answer then to these Objections against Father Petre and the Society the Undoubted and Absolute Guides of the late King's Conscience I say That I believe that Father Petre and his Brethren will conn them little thanks that go about thus to excuse them by making them such notorious Sots as to make such an appearance of bringing in Popery as made all People believe it and put them in care how to escape the dreadful Consequences of that Change And yet that the Jesuits shou'd never design any such thing They had not certainly so mean an esteem of the profitableness of having their Devoto possess'd of three such Kingdoms as to endanger his losing them only as the French express it De Guaiete de Coeur for nothing And I do very believe Father Petre that neither you nor any of your Brethren wou'd for all the World be robb'd of the Glory of having made such an Heroick Attempt to reduce these three Kingdoms to the Roman Catholick Religion And I dare swear for yonr Devoto that he wou'd not accept of these three Kingdoms again if he were fully satisfied that it were utterly impossible ever to make them Roman Catholicks as he nobly said to one of the Society He had rather die the next day after this Land was made Roman Catholick than Live and Reign fifty Years in Peace and Prosperity over Hereticks You have then no need of your foolish Friend's Excuses who wou'd make you as weak as themselves and rob you of that immortal Glory which you wou'd not lose to save your Lives a thousand times over of having once boldly and roundly attempted to bring the Roman Catholick Religion into England You are ready to avow this to all the World and are proud of it as indeed according to your Principles you have reason to be Neither will you stick among Friends as ingenuously to confess That it cou'd never have been brought in without horrible Bloodshed which you can very well justifie upon Rom. Catholick Principles and so still maintain your Title of Honest Men. For herein you proceed according to the greatest Authority in your Church which you ought always to follow and never to dispute For First You have the Authority of divers Popes that have almost continually exhorted Temporal Princes to use their Sword against Hereticks particularly of Innocent III. who turn'd the whole Croisade that was prepared against the Infidels that possessed the Holy Land against the Albigeois And of Pope Julius who advised Charles V. not to trouble himself with Colloquies and Disputes but to use his Sword against the Hereticks to cut them off And several of your Councils have declared That a Prince that does not use his utmost endeavour to destroy and root Hereticks out of his Dominion ought to be depriv'd And according to these great and infallible Authorities of the Roman Church the truest and most zealous Roman Catholicks have in all Ages acted So did Simon Montfort and as the Historian says 500000 Roman Catholicks with him in a Croisade against the Hereticks Killing Burning and Destroying all they could find in Languedoc and the Places adjacent 60000 Hereticks being but one Break-fast for them And what havock was made of them in succeeding Croisades Roman Catholick Historians sufficiently declare What has been done by Catholick Princes especially by the Dukes of Savoy and by the most Christian Kings the eldest Sons of the Roman Church whenever they were such Rom. Cath. as they ought to be the World is not ignorant They have made whole Rivers of Heretick's Blood stream through their Countries So did the glorious St. Charles IX in the Paris Massacre So would St. Garnet and his Accomplices have done here in England and more too if they had not been unluckily prevented in the great and pious Design of the Powder-Plot for which he is painted in the College at Rome with a Glory about his Head What cheerful Bonfires did St. Mary of ever blessed Memory make of Hereticks in her Reign And thus acted those true Roman Catholicks in Ireland and so indeed must every one that is a true Roman Catho lick act whenever he has opportunity if he does not he is false to his Principles and not truly what he professes to be And 'pray What hurt in all this Are not the Enemies of GOD and his Church to be destroyed And do we not believe in our Consciences all Hereticks to be such Nay indeed is it not a Kindness to stubborn Hereticks themselves speedily to cut them off that they may not increase their Sins and consequently their Damnation That they may no longer impiously oppose Holy Church That they may not Infect others with their Leprosie of Heresie And that they may not breed a Spawn of Hereticks fit only to fry in Hell-fire In designing then to bring in the Roman Catholick Religion into England and in order to that designing to kill all stubborn Hereticks that would not submit to it Father Petre and the Society did but what was the Duty of all true Roman Cotholicks and according to their Principles acted like right honest Men. There may seem indeed to lie some Objection against their Prudence in the Management of this Design in that they shewed their Design too soon before they were ready to Complete it To which it may very well be answered That if the matter be rightly considered it will be found that this was indeed more their Misfortune than their Fault The Philosophers say That Nature makes every thing in Perfection according to the Capacity of the Matter it works in And we know the best Workman if he has but bad Tools and cross Stuff to work on will make but indifferent Work Let those that blame the Management consider impartially what they themselves would or could have done in all their Circumstances These poor Men had been gaping for an Opportunity to bring in Popery near an hundred years and when they had the fairest opportunity that ever they had or hoped for and the like to which they could never expect again wou'd you not have them make the best use they cou'd of this Opportunity Was not King James thought by every one to be a Man on whose Life there was little dependence and of whom it was unlikely there should be any Catholick Heirs to live to succeed him And did not the insolent Hereticks threaten them every moment what work they would make with them if once he should fail So that their Lives and what was much more dear to them their great Design depended wholly upon the single crazy Thread of the late King's Life And did not these Men that