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A94234
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A pleasant conference betweene a popish recusant, and a Protestant maid. By way of question and answer, touching, some passages in religion. By J. S.
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J. S.
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1642
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Wing S81; Thomason E112_41; ESTC R20465
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A PLEASANT CONFERENCE BETWEENE A POPISH RECVSANT AND A PROTESTANT MAID By way of Question and Answer Touching some Passages in Religion By J. S. LONDON Aug. 20. Printed by T. FAVVCET 1642. A CONFERENCE BETWEENE A POPISH Recusant AND A PROTESTANT Maid Quest WHat is your Name Answ ROVND-HEAD Quest Who gave you this Name Answ My Persecuters and Slanderers in my infamie wherin J was made a wonder to Wise men a jeering stocke to Pooles and an inheritor of the scorne and contempt of all the rabblement of Hell Quest What did your Persecuters and Slanderers then for you Answ They did Promise and vow three things in my name First that they will make me odious to all that be of their fraternity Secondly that they will worke my ruine and confusion And thirdly they wish that GOD would sinke them many miles into Hell if they doe not so doe Quest Dost thou thinke that thou art bound to beleeve and be affraid of their threatnings Answ I doubt not but they shall sinke as deepe in Hell as they doe desire neither doe I question but their will shall be accepted for the deed according to their old tenit but I am taught not to feare any but only him that is able to cast both body and soule into Hell Quest But they that are against you are many in number and great in Power Ans Well if God be for us it s no matter who is against us let Pharaoh come and Nebuchadnezer Hamon Absolon and Achittophell Jezabell Judas and all other tray ors the Irish Rebels the mad-men in the North that sight against themselves and some at home that have a mind to be nibling as well as the rest of the Serpent seed but they are limitted by an over ruling power else wee had bin devoured long since therefore wee need not feare them though they were more in number and their power as great as the Seaven headed Beast can make it Quest Can nothing hurt you what strange creatures are you Answ Persecution cannot for that is our Livery or colours which shewes under whom we are Soldiers the only way to hurt us is to let us live at ease for we are like Camomill if we are trod on wee shall smell the sweeter and grow better Quest 'T is well you are so confident but ere it be long your faith is like to come to tryall and then we shall see what mettall you are made of what can they not cast you in Prison put you in Pillories cut off your Eares burne your Face strip you naked in frost and snow kicke your Bibles and curse them hang you drowne stab you and such like Answ All this they may doe and yet not hurt us but not without commission from GOD now God will never hurt Round-heads if they be Sound-heads God never intended hurt to JOB when he gave commission to Sathan to afflict his Carkasse for the tryall of his Faith and Patience neither did he lose any thing thereby in conclusion so we it may be must suffer for a while but in the end we shall see who shall have the worst of it Quest What have you done to these poore wretches that they rage against you so like Mad-men doe not you vse to Preach in a Tab as they say you doe Answ What if we doe is that such a capitall Crime that nothing but our ruine and confusion can make satisfaction the old Whore begins to stinke and shee would faine father some of her Beastlinesse upon us they can not say we use to lay tubbes of Gunpowder under the Parliament House but let them be doing be that hath set them a worke will pay them their wages all this while they are meriting and they will shortly come to workes of Supererogation let us not doubt but they shall have a reward answerable to their workes Quest Well looke to it Round-head there 's rods in pisse for you to be sure what think you of it Answ We doe both thinke and know that the rod of the wicked shall nor alwayes rest upon lot of the righteous the Lord can chastise us with rods for our profit and afterwards burne them in Hell as they desperately desire in their blasphemous and cursed execrations The Lord preserve Hull as for Hell it is their portion they wil never be quiet till they have it in full possession indeed they have well deserved it long agoe and without repentance they must of necessity have t. Quest Doe they that are at so great a distance from Round-heads practise any thing that is amisse far be it from them to preach in a Tub. Answ Indeed swearing cursing oaths of the new fâ—shion lying whoring is nothing murthering Hereticks Sabbath-breaking coveting Hereticks goods ruinating whole Kingdomes by treason all this and more his Holinesse can pardon but hath never a Bull for such as preach in a Tub they must be curst with Bell Booke and Candle see see their matchlesse charitie they brag of so much surly they will shortly spoyle the fashion of their Christianity and prove downe-right devils Quest If you Round heads were once brought to ruine they are like to prove admirable subjects Answ But stay we have a God that can preserve us blessed for ever be his great and holy Name for blessing us with such a blessed Parliament whom they call Round-heads for dealing so roundly with them Let us not feare but that power that hath kept them hitherto will keepâ— them still in dispight of all the Dragons malice with all his wicked angels to help him they that cannot willingly and freely dye with and for such a Parliament are not worthy to live to enjoy such precious mercies the Lord enable us to gird up the loynes of out mindes and to bee strong in the Lord and in the power of his might the Lord prosper our sweet Parliament and enable us all cheerefully to resigne up out selves to undergoe whatsoever he in wisdome knowes best for his ovvne honour and glory for that is best for his ovvne people though vvicked men doe not so thinke Farewell Round head If I can beleeve all things are possible for Faith will carry me where I shall farewell for ever FINIS