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A87434	Le dragon missionaire, or, The dragoon turn'd apostle being a dialaogue between a French Protestant-gentleman, and a French dragoon, wherein the new-way of convverting hereticks by dragoons is very lively and truly represented : to which is annexed a letter of Monsieur Jurieu to a French gentleman of quality, upon his dragonary conversion / translated out of the original French ; suppressed in the the late reign, but now re[pr?]inted ...	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.	1686 (1686)	Wing J1201; ESTC R43871	21,022	27

according to her Principles I must not believe in God but only upon the Faith and Credit of the Romish Church that is she treats the true God as Pagan Rome was wont to deal with her false ones She makes him depend upon the good-liking of Man Yea what is more she lifts up her self above God for she will be believed upon her word but allows not that God should be believed upon his So that instead of those words which so emphatically preface many passages in the Prophets Thus saith the Lord we must put Thus saith the Church From whence it is apparent that the Church of Rome believes in its self for if the reason why we are to believe any thing be not because God hath said it but because the Church saith so it follows that the Church believes because she wills or commands her self to believe and consequently she must be the Foundation and Rule of her own Faith Another thing very wonderful in this Principle of hers is that when any of the Members of this Communion hath a desire to know what it is that the Church requires him to believe he must content himself and acquiesce in the testimony of one sole person viz. of the Pope a Bishop or his own Curate and when any one of these tell him that this is the Doctrin of the Church he must acquiesce in what he hath said for if he should not there is no way remaining for his satisfaction but one viz. That the Church must be perpetually assembled in an Oecumenical Council for to resolve him what he ought to believe and what not And thus these Gentlemen that won't allow me to believe all the Prophets and Apostles together nay nor God himself speaking to me in the Scriptures yet will have me believe a single Curate or a single Bishop And that this is their plain and full meaning is so apparent that if any particular person should pretend to make any difficulty so to do or to reject the slightest of those Decisions which his Pastor assures him to be the Determinations of the Church they would prosecute him even after his Death and condemn him to the very Torments of Hell And now pray tell me whether any thing can be imagined more Exorbitant than this Tyranny of the Church and Clergy of Rome or any Slavery to be compared with that of her Votaries The Canon beginning with these words Si Papa d. 40. c. 6. Carries this Tyranny and this Slavery to that pitch as to affirm That if the Pope should carry the Souls of men in great flocks to the Devil he must be let alone without presuming to controll or contradict him By vertue of this Authority it is that the Church of Rome doth set up and establish new Mediators which in a manner saith Bellarmin may be called our Redeemers she Ordains an infinite number of new Devotions invents new Mysteries as that of Transubstantiation a new Sacrifice of Propitiation that of the Mass creates a new Ministry that of the Pope and his Cardinals founds new Religions those of the several sorts of Monks makes new Laws those of Tradition institutes new Sacraments viz. Confirmation Auricular Confession Orders Marriage and Extream Vnction She dispenseth with the Laws of God with the Obedience of Children to Parents and of Subjects to their Princes She adds to the Commands af God those of the Church that is her own She takes from the Commands of God viz. the second she allows what God forbids suffering publick Stews and forbids what God permits in forbidding Marriage and Meats yea what is more she commands what God expresly forbids viz. the worshipping of Images and forbids what he expresly commands viz. the Communion under both kinds See here Sir enough to make up a Letter and enough also to convince you of your horrible fall in quitting our Religion and embracing that of Rome I won't make it my task to dispute with your Wit and Reason nor before Men I l'e only dispute with your Conscience and that before God I therefore adjure you by your Conscience and by God who sees all things who must judge you one day to answer me truly to some Questions I shall put to you Are you fully satisfied in the Abjuration you have made Are you throughly perswaded in your heart as your new Religion obligeth you to be that the Religion you have quitted is Heretical Schismatical and Damnable and that on the contrary that of Rome is the onely true and saving Religion Do you believe in good earnest that Jesus Christ hath indeed granted to the Pope all the Authority he boasts of and takes to himself For in case he attributes to himself that which in no wise belongs to him he can be no other than a false Pastor and an Vsurper Do you believe firmly that in the Mass there is made a Transubstantiation viz. a change of the substance of the Bread into that of the Body of Jesus Christ and of the substance of the Wine into that of his Blood and that he is present in Body and Soul in the outward species or appearance of Bread and Wine and that he is to be adored there tho' it be as impossible to be assured that he is there indeed as it is to know the bottom of the heart of the Priest that Officiates upon whose intention this whole Mystery depends and consequently the Faith of those who believe that a Wafer is the true God the Creator and Redeemer of the World Can you possibly be ignorant that the Pope is Antichrist and Rome Babylon and that the Spirit of both the one and the other is the Spirit of Lyes of Cruelty and Impurity That the God of the Church of Rome is the God of the Mass and that that God is no better than an Idol which she worships most religiously together with an infinite number of Idols more That the said Church acknowledges no other Authority besides her own that she exalts her word above that of God and that she exerciseth a tyrannical power over the Consciences of men In a word can you be ignorant that all what that Religion teaches different from ours which are the very things they have particularly oblig'd you to embrace as necessary to Salvation are so far from being contain'd in the Gospel that they are most clearly and strongly condemn'd and forbid there And can you imagine that there is any Salvation for you in the state you are in viz. that of Hypocrisie whilst you p●etend to believe what you do not believe and to worship from your heart and freely when you do not do it but against your will as knowing it to be Idolatry whilst you externally comply with all the Worship of the Church of Rome serving with her by the worship term'd Doulia which is the word in Gal. 4.8 those things which by nature are not Gods Have you so wholly forgot the Gospel that you do not remember that the portion

from a Priest and a Bishop from a Bishop D. Alas Sir you are mistaken there are more Devils and Dragons than I forasmuch as they are the Master-Dragons and the Princes of Dragons and for us we do nothing but by Vertue of their Mission and by the Spirit and Authority they communicate unto us Lewis the Great is he not the Head of the Gallican Church G. As for that what you please Sir but in the mean time behold here a new kind of Mission and a Call so altogether extraordinary that I think you are obliged to prove and confirm it by some Miracle D. And so we do every day and what is more I do intend to work a Miracle here in your presence yea upon your own person G. How so D. Why the Miracle is this That I shall assuredly make a Catholick of you in spight of your Teeth and make you go to Mass notwithstanding all the resistance you can make to the contrary These Sir are our Miracles altogether unknown and unheard of till now and which far surpass those of Jesus Christ and his Apostles G. The Prodigies you speak of are a sort of Miracles indeed but such as derive from the Red Dragon from whom you hold your Mission and you are those Waters which he casts forth after the Woman that fleeth into the Desert D. Fair and softly Sir I pray you take too much liberty Do you know of whom and to whom you speak When you speak to a Dragon and of the King of Dragons the greatest King upon Earth yea the God of this World You ought to speak with the greatest Respect imaginable And Sir I tell you once more to your Teeth that I will convert you in spight of you We have already drawn down and cast headlong into our Bottomless Pit the third part of the Stars in the Huguenot Heaven and shall you think to resist us No Sir know you must come down thither as well as the rest for it is written That the Beast that is a Dragon-King according to the language of St. John who ariseth out of the bottomless Pit shall make war with the Witnesses of the Gospel and shall overcome and slay them Don't you already see the execution of this Sentence Don't you see their dead bodies lying in the Streets of our great City For indeed there is no more life in them and they are no more than dead Carkases G. Alas Sir this pitiful and frightful Spectacle makes me melt in Tears and would to God you had only slain the bodies of your Enemies D. Our great Master and King resembles God in this and we as well as he kill both Body and Soul together G. If you would be pleas'd to prosecute the History of the Destiny of those dead Witnesses you shall find that after three daies the Spirit of Life shall re-enter into them and that they shall arise from the Ground where they now lie slain D. O Sir the meaning of that is That of bad Catholicks and Hypocrites as they are now they shall become true and zealous Catholicks G. I believe the same but not in your sense D. Well I think we have now disputed enough of Conscience and that you cannot but be cleared of all your Scruples think therefore of Converting your self and that without delay G. In the Name of God Sir do not go about to force me to betray my Conscience nor to bend my Knees before the Calves of Dan and Bethel D. You are a Fool to talk so I don't desire you to Worship any thing but the Holy Sacrament which I am sure is neither Cow nor Calf G. But it is Bread and Bread is inferiour to a Calf forasmuch as it is a living Creature D. I grant it but the Calves of Dan were Gold or Brass or some other like matter and Bread is better than all that G. You would then have me to Worship Bread D. Not at all but the Body of J. C. hid in the Bread or in the presence of Bread which Bread is the Image or Symbol of the same G. But still if it be no more than Bread I cannot Worship meer Bread D. You must believe and firmly imprint in your Imagination that the Body of Christ is there and in case you have not command enough over your own Spirit to make it believe this then you may adore J. C. whilst you prostrate your self before the Sacrament in like manner as you might do at the sight of a Crucifix G. If I might be suffered to declare and protest that I Worship neither the Bread nor the Wine in the Sacrament and that I don't believe that Christ in his proper substance is hid in them I should make no difficulty of doing what you say D. If that be all that hinders you to become one of us the business is done Go to Sir I give you leave to declare and protest what you please provided you be no longer Huguenot or Schismatick G. Ay Sir it were well if the Bishops were of as easie a temper and composition as you are but without that nothing can be expected D. I dare engage my word all this will be granted you upon condition you 'l but go to Mass G. I cannot believe that for after all their promising and permitting us whatsoever we demand they will have us believe all the Church believes and that without exception D. You are mistaken Sir they have something else to do than to trouble themselves about what you believe or not believe they are satissied when you only tell them you do believe G. Forasmuch as I can perceive then the Thing required of us is that we be Lyars and Hypocrites D. I can't say anything to that but at the most it it but a Trifle and meer Formality and deserves not that you should so subtilly canvass it Besides we are sufficiently convinc'd that when you say you believe you do not speak the truth G. Why that is the thing which so much the more surprizeth me for if it be so you are altogether inexcusable in obliging us to make Declarations which you know are only made from the Teeth outward and we cannot but sin in making those Declarations under what pretext soever for in doing so we deny the Truth and betray our Conscience D. Well and what if you do Do not the most part of your Ministers sign the Confession of Faith of your Churches and the Synod of Dort yet without believing all that is contained in the same yea notwithstanding that they are for usniversal Redemption or Arminians or even Socinians also C. I can scarcely believe what you tell me But besides Sir it is the Law of God which alone must be the Rule of our Actions and not the Examples or Conduct of Men. D. Sir I must return upon you as before that you stick at a meer Nicity and Formality for my part I should be loath for so small a matter to hazard my Estate my

pleaseth A Spirit who when it pleaseth him walks on the Ti●er the Pau and the Thesin goes a Foot rides on Horse-back in a Coach or in a Chariot may be shut up in a Portmantle a Packet of Letters or any thing you please Spirit of Submission of Faith and of Blind Obedience Spirit Roman Catholick enter thou into this Body and Soul possessed by the Devil of Calvinism in the Name of St. Francis of St. Dominick and of the Patriarch Ignatius Loyola G. Ah Sirs cast as much Holy Water as you please upon me but don't beat me with the Sprinkler D. We do this that the Water may the better enter into your Body and extinguish the Fire of Heresy G. Nay if you be resolved to kill me with blows at least let me not languish under your hands but dispatch me forthwith I beg of you D. Not so we are forbid to kill you but we shall so plague you if you be not presently converted that Death will seem sweet to you in comparison of the Sufferings we are prepareing for you They place the Gentleman before agreat Fire and hold his feet to the burning Flames and so burn them by degrees the violence of which Suffering makes him fall from himself bringing him to the fire again they demand of him whither he be willing to go to Mass D. What are not you yet converted and will not you go to Mass G. Ah Sirs how would you have me to go now you have burnt my Feet and Legs D. We will either carry you or cause you to be carryed G. O Lord Jesu have pitty on me and strengthen me D. I find we must once more approach you to the Flame that you may be more enlightned They bring him to the Fire as before and begin again to burn his Feet he faints under the extremity of the Torture and saith G. Take me away and do with my Body whatsoever you please D. What shall we carry you to Mass G. Whither you please to a Mosque if you think good D. Did not I tell you I would do a Miracle here and that I would convert you whither you would or no. The Glory of all be render'd to the Great King of Dragons to his Holy Father Confessor and all other Subordinate Instruments in this Great Work A LETTER OF MONSIEVR JVRIEV To a French GENTLEMAN Upon his Changing his RELIGION SIR I Have been so afflicted and astonished with the stroak of your Fall that tho' I feel my self obliged to reach you my hand for to raise you again yet have I not been at liberty to do it till now I begin only a little to recover my self from my Astonishment but my Affliction still continues and will till you return from whence you have gone astray I know Sir that you have been surprized and that for your overthrow there hath been employed the Name the Orders and Soveraign Power of the King the Ability the Caresses the Instances and the Authority of his greatest Ministers the Numbers the Force the Quartering and Havocking of Souldiers the Disguisements condescention and credit of the most famous Prelates the example of Cities and whole Provinces And last of all the fairest promises and the most terrible threats and that besides all these you have flatter'd your self with many other thoughts not necessary for me to dive into And indeed upon the review of all these it is no more a matter of so great astonishment to me that such a throng of extraordinary Objects have surprized and dasht you out of Countenance a less thing often does it But now that your surprize and terrour ought to have ceased you ought also to recover your self from the disorder into which they have cast you Let us Sir in cold blood and at leisure consider a while and take a view of the Religion you have forsaken and of that which you have newly embraced That which you have forsaken acknowledges no other Father but God nor other Head besides Jesus Christ nor other Spirit but that of the Father and the Eternal Son The onely Object of all its Devotions of its Faith Love Hope and acknowledgment the onely Source and foundation of its Joy and Salvation is the said ever blessed and adorable Trinity It hath no other Rule of its Doctrine Maxims and Conduct but the Holy Scripture Its Ministers attribute no other power to themselves except that of Teaching the Gospel and to press the Observance of it by their Word and Examples as meer Teachers and Directors without pretending to any power over the Consciences Bodies or Estates of their Disciples Nay more than that recommending very carefully to them to examine whatsoever they hold forth to them by the Rule of Holy Scripture and forbidding to believe them any further than they find them conform to the same To this purpose they neither speak themselves nor make God speak to his People but in a known Language and with all their might continually press the reading and study of the Holy Word In a word the Religion you have renounced is nothing else but the sincere and true Profession of the Gospel That which you have now embraced is quite of another Nature for to give you a Draught of it in little It is a Religion of which the Pope is Father and Head and Rome the Mother and Nurse Concupiscence its Spirit and Heart a Wafer its God the Worship of Creatures its Devotion it s own Authority the highest Law whose Ministers are Lords and absolute Princes and its Votaries so many Slaves which are continued in Slavery by hiding the Law of God from them by speaking to them in a Barbarous Tongue by prescribing to them a superstitious Worship and frighting them with the Fantasmes of this World and that which is to come And to speak to you more frankly and to call things by their own Names the Father Bridegroom and Head of the Church of Rome is the Antichrist her Mother is Babylon and her Spirit is the Spirit of Lyes of Murder and impure Lusts her God is an Idol her Worship Idolatry her Soveraign Power Tyranny her Ministers Tyrants and her Votaries so many unhappy Wretches whose Liberty Repose Estates yea Bodies and Souls are sacrificed to that Cruel and Insatiable Beast of the Revelation The Bounds I have set my self of keeping within the narrow compass of a Letter will not allow me to enter upon any ample Demonstrations and large Deductions of what I have just now in few words hinted yet they leave me room enough to convince you if any love of Truth or desire of your own Salvation be left with you I take or granted as an avowed Truth that the Pope is the Head and Father of the Church of Rome wherefore nothing remains for me to prove but that He is the Antichrist and this I 'le endeavour with this one Argument which contains as many more as it consists of Parts and is of unquestionable Truth If the Characters which