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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26596	A moral discourse of the power of interest by David Abercromby ...	Abercromby, David, d. 1701 or 2.	1690 (1690)	Wing A83; ESTC R6325	62,955	218

great encouragements they meet with from the Papists For if a Protestant be not well vers'd in his own principle and able to confute the Popish Errours a not extraordinary Preferment a Sum of Money the Favour of a Prince either hop'd for or enjoyed will prove convincing Arguments to him of the Truth of Popery and of the falshood of the Protestant Doctrine The Popish Priests in King James's Reign observing how impossible 't was to make the people believe the being of an Infallible Visible Judge of Controversies in the Church since no such thing is countenanc'd either by the Scriptures or by General Councils as likewise that they could not work them into the belief of the strange Mystery of Transubstantiation destroying the very Foundation of all Humane Certitude the Testimony of our Sences and consequently the Fundamental Proofs of Christ's Passion Death Resurrection Ascension yea and of his being real Flesh and Blood if the constant Testimony of Seeing Feeling Touching Tasting deceive us as the Papists tell us they do in the Consecrated Bread and Wine The Priests I say having learned by Experience how blunt their Arguments were against understanding Protestants betook themselves to the only method they could hope success from viz. to the proposing of great Rewards from King James upon the first occasion and from both King and Pope by the Mediation of his Nuncio then residing in London in case they had to do with Church-men And 't was generally observ'd that such as went that way to work were more successful than those who undertook to argue the case with their Adversaries because their Arguments being generally meer Sophisms laid always open the Weakness of the Arguer as well as of the Argument But many more yeilded to the stronger Reasons from Interest Worldly Grandeur and such other advantages as the Churchmen of Rome are us'd to propose to hook men into the bosome of their Church And indeed I often wonder how it comes to pass that they make so few voluntary Converts since they propose so great advantages to such as come over to them upon what account soever But on the other hand if I knew not by my own Experience the almost irresistible impression of Divine Grace and the great force of the discovered Truth I should far more wonder that a Roman Catholick could ever resolve to turn Protestant because new Converts are generally either coldly receiv'd by Protestants or seemingly mistrusted by such as having nothing but the out-side of the Christian Religion are disposed to think others as great Hypocrites as they know themselves to be So that if an understanding and learned Roman Catholick turn from Popery to Protestancy his Conversion to be sure is sincere because he is not allured to our side by any Temporal Advantages to be expected from us who commonly take so little notice of new Converts that we let them often want Necessaries if they cannot do for themselves But if a knowing Protestant surrenders himself to the weak Popish Arguments I question not in the least but that he has some considerable Interest in prospect For why should we think that a man would pull out his Eyes lay aside the use of his Reason submit to an implicite Faith and turn a Fool for just nothing ARTICLE XXIII 1. The mean and irregular Conduct of some Persons of Quality 2. The Design of their Intimacy with some Men. 3. The Ingratitude of Tradesmen To say no more of this matter though a great deal more might be said of it let us consider in this place another kind of Irregularity occasion'd in some Nations and particularly in this very Kingdom we live in by the influence of Riches and Money upon some mens minds who by reason of the great Fortunes they are born to should have the less value for what they possess so much of or at least should not behave themselves so meanly as to make their Equals and familiar Companions such as have no other thing to recommend themselves to the World but what they have got by very injust and shameful means as Dicing Carding Cheating Swearing to say nothing worse if worse can be said Do they not give us just grounds to think they keep such Men Company in hopes of getting from them the ill gain'd Penny by the same methods it was at first got For what other end can they propose to themselves in courting them in a manner at the rate they usually do They cannot sure be in love with their Ingenuity unless we reckon Swearing Cursing Damning Sinking c. pieces of real Wit They can pretend no kindness to them neither upon the account of their civil and obliging behaviour since there is no rudeness but such men are commonly guilty of nor upon the account of their Noble Extraction because having generally sprung out of the lowest Tribe of Mankind without either Friend or Allie better than themselves They buoy themselves up into the world by an inexhausted stock of Impudence which they should rather be undervalued than esteem'd for They must then be fond of conversing with such Men so often and so familiarly upon some other accounts as either because they are able to pay largely their share in pulick Entertainments to the lessening of the charges of the Company or in order to bring them back to their first low condition again by gaining from them what they before had sharp'd from others and when this is done his Lordship knows no more his Old Friend and inseparable Companion in Gaming Feasting Drinking c. whom a little before he was wont to salute kiss and hug in every corner as his Bosome-Friend and Equal but now the case being altered he becomes on a sudden like most men upon such occasions not much fond of the Company they can get no more by The Lawyers Physicians and generally all Tradesmen behave themselves much after the same manner for their own ends all attending courting and omitting no kind of respect towards such as they hope to draw in to be their Customers Yea the proudest Dealer knows how to bow cringe and flatter if by this smooth way so contrary to his unhewed Temper he hopes to hook you into an unreasonable price for his Goods glorying at the same time and boasting of his Wit or rather Wickedness to make perhaps an Hundred Pound at the Years end of every Fool 's Penny For some silly Tradesmen take sometimes the liberty to lend this Character to such as thinking them honest men trust to their Words or pay them small Sums without taking their Receipts wherein they are not so much in the wrong as one would imagine at first for considering their daily knavish and deceitful proceedings with honest and well-meaning men 't is the height of Folly to deal with them but upon a supposition of their being all what some of 'em really are down right Knaves whatever may be their pretences to and reiterated Protestations of Honesty Sincerity and fair