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A vindication of the English Catholiks from the pretended conspiracy against the life, and government of His Sacred Maiesty discovering the cheif lyes & contradictions contained in the narratiue of Titus Oates. The 2. edition with some additions: & an answer to two pamplets printed in defence of the narrative. Jtem a relation of some of Bedlows pranks in Spain, & Oate's letter concerning him.
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Warner, John, 1628-1692.
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court the sober part of the Parliament we neede not informe externes how things are carryed in England relating to Papists the publicke Gazets speake enough to disgrace ten Nations I think it our duty to let you in England know what opinion the learned world abroade hath of your proceedings Cease to accuse Innocents these will be silent If you continu to condemne vs as Traitors althô we are not such we satisfy the vtmost rigour of the Law by suffring the Death of Traitors in obedience to the King as Christ his Apostles did in obedience to the Emperours But to require of vs that we should owne our selues Guilty when we are not so to be offended that we should attest our Innocency is more then any Law Divine or Humane requires it is what the Pagans neuer exacted of the Primitiue Christians nor the Iews of Christ COURTEOUS READER THE Pamphlet I here examin is singular in its kind It is an Original for its Authour found none to copy I hope none will ever copy him No Work of the Ancients so like this Tru Narratiue as Lucian's Tru History both are alike Tru per Anti Phrasin Yet there are these differences betwixt them that the Tru history is Witty the Tru Narratiue stupid that delights this greiues that Laughs this bites that as Innocent as a lie can be this as malicious as the Father of lies could desire Lucian in that intended only to recreate those who neuer did him any good Oates in this designs the ruin of those who neuer did him any hurt but intended him much good if his bad nature had been susceptible of good aduice J. P. p. 7. He does well to confesse it is an Original for then we are sure it is Authors owne Answer I grant it is owne not only as to the composure or forme but also as to the matter which he is as much Author of as Homer of what he relates in the battel betwrixt the frogs mice or Heliodorus of what he writes in his Aethiopica I never saw the Man soe can know nothing of him but by heare say his Workes which discouer sufficiently his better part his soul In a Pamphlet (a) Scand Magn. p. 24. his Phisnomy is sayd to be an Index to all Villany that any Man of Letters may as plainly read ROGVE in his face as in his Brother Bedlow's shoulder It is certain that he being presented with many others to receiue the Sacrament of Confirmation to the Bishop of S. Omers his Lordship stopt when he came to Oates vutill he heard he belonged to the English Colledg was presented by its Rector The stop was noted by all present The reason of it he was pleased to declare afterwards viz that he doubted whether Oates's hart was prepared to receiue the Holy Ghost the spirit of loue in whose face he perceiued signes of great malice J. P. He Berogues the man he neuer saw vpon trust the more knaue he for pains for he is not certain of it Answ J am certaine the Author cited by me says it that is enough for me who vouch him for my warrant professe I speake only on his word He stiles himself Doctor of Diuinity says he commeneed Doctor at Salamanca Which cannot be for 1. he neuer was at Salamanca 2. none but Preists are admitted to that degree in Catholick Vniuersitys he neuer was Preist He writ to the Archbishop of Tuam to giue him Holy Orders (b) Attest A. but was refused by reason of the very ill Character which his Gracec had of Oates's life manners for which he was afterwards expelled the Colledge of Valladolid 3. He neuer had learning sufficient for any degree in a Catholick Vniuersity At Valladolid from the 18. of October when schooles begin till his dimission soon after he went as a scholler to Logick At S. Omers he was put to Rhetorick in that school there were many better schollers then he althô by reason of his age superiors did not exact of him that attendance in schools punctuality in Themes as of others Now is it probable that one who had commenced Doctor in Salamanca to that intent had performed his Exercises in Philosophy Diuinity with applause should be put to begin his Logicke amongst the Iunior sophisters or learn Humanity amongst schoole Boys His Doctorship Papists Treason were both hammered on the fame Anuil his owne Brain the one by his Pride the other by his Malice J. P. p. 8. q. The Doctor says to the first he was at Salamanca Answer Had you accepted the challenge of the accurate Autbor of the compendium of the trialls sent to Salamanca you myght haue discouered whicher says Truth if you found he had been there you had shewed one truth which we gainsay But that is not your businesse He told the lesuits at S. Omers that he had beene Burser of S. Iohn's Colledge in Cambridge I think the best indeed the only way to know whither he sayd tru would be to consult the Colledge itself If you know any better impart it to vs. J. P. He says to the second one who was only a Clericus minor was made Doctor Answ He may as well be a Clericus minor Preist as a Iesuit Preist the Clerici minores being a Congregation consisting Cheifly of Preists as well as the Society J. P. to the third he says our Graduats in our Vniuersitys are Dunces Blockheads Ignoramus's Ergo he could not rejected for insufficiency Answ He neuer was proposed for a Degree nor euer was thought fit for it He began his Logick at Valladolid his Rhetorick at S. Omers the schollers of those whome you call Dunces were his masters is it likely that the Iesuits should procure him to be made Doctor of Diuinity after send him to schools amongst the schole boys to learne the first principles of Phylosophy or his Grammer J. P. Fenwick's papers witnessed before the Lords that the Charges of his commencement were payd by the Society at London Answ shew this I will yeild the whole cause Let me tell you Sir that this is an vntruth deserues to be ranked with those of Oates Few such would qualify you for a King's euidence deserue a Pension if you haue none yet it is want of freinds not merits Anonimus p. 7. Our Attestations run vpon negatiues and ought to haue no effect vpon the Positiuity of an Oath Answ Suppose Oates should positiuely sweare he was on such a day at yorke before the Mayor Aldermen in the towne-house where he heard them speake Treason by shewing the Attestations first of the sayd Persons others present that he was not seene there by any secondly by producing those of some at London who saw him would not his false Deposition be sufficiently confuted Doubtlesse if the Accusations regard a Protestant Now because this accusation falls on Papists how
The finger of God is heere It hath found credit Indeed our Nation or a great part of it hauing rejected many Diuine sauing Truths reuealed by the H. Ghost the spirit of Truth preacht by the Apostles the Doctors of Truth handed down to vs by the Church the Pillar of Truth deserues such blindness as to beleiue improbale Lyes suggested by the Deuil the Father of Lyes desiuered by you who are a faithfull Disciple of that Faithlesse master to whose instructions of Lying you haue always adhered in whose school you are such a Proficient that no hystory to my remembrance furnishs your equall Hear the Apostle Quia charitatem veritatis non receperunt vt salui fierent ideo mittet illis Deus operationem erroris vt credant MENDACIO Vt iudicentur omnes qui non crediderunt veritati sed consenserunt iniquitati Because they receiued not the loue of Truth that they myght be saued therefore God shall abandon them to the Working of Errour illusion so that they shall beleiue a LYE that all may bee Iudged damned who would not beleiue the Truth brt consented to this vnjustice 2. Thessal 2.10.11 Narrat p. 62. Titus Oates Clerk maketh Oath that the Information set down in these Papers containing 81. articles all written subscribed by his own hand are tru in the whole in euery particular thereof 7. September Titus Oates Obseru Here is a Periury not vnlike to Hobs's Leuiathan for he represents this as one Body composed of many thousands of Persons so is this one PERIURY Composed of many thousands of Periuryes You swear all you haue sayd is tru we know will prooue all is false You stand alone in asserting the Truth of this Oath we shew its falshood by many Witnesses To you lying Perjury is as familiar as eating or Breathing our Witnesses are of vnblemisht Reputation You story is incredible morally impossible ours euidently probable morally certain your Tale is euery day changed as being the Ofspring of your fancy hauing no substance but from it ours always the same as being grounded on reall Facts In fine all your Art though directed by some more Wise then your self seconded by Bedlow such fellows could neuer make out the Truth of any one materiall point questioned by vs nor the Falshood of any materiall point alleadged in our Defence So the lying spirit doth euidently discouer it selfe in your Narratiue the spirit of Truth is as cleerely seen in our Apology We suffer with Truth we suffer for Truth Truth will free vs Veritas Liberabit vos Ioan. 8.32 J P. 40. Not finding what to say to this Chapter is content to let it passe Yet he very wittily as he thinks retorts the Wise man's saying vpon me for says he there is some Truth in Homer's Aesops fables ergo there is some Truth in this Plot. What say you Courteous Reader to this Is this not a man who can draw oile out of a Pumice stone proue the snow is Black well J will grant them alike tru The truth in Homer's fables is that they are vntru storys of the Gods that of Oates's Narratiue is that they are vntru storys of God's seruants Those had all their Being from the Poet these had theirs from the Deponent those are sacrilegious vntruths of God these are a sacrilegious taking God to Witnesse Vntruths Jn Aesop's Fables vnder false storys of Beasts Birds are couched some Passions of men moral directions precepts these are wanting in the Narratiues vnder which is couched only Oates's ground lesse spyght to those who neuer did him any hurt an endlesse malice of the implacable enemys of the Catholick Church That Noble-man spoke a great truth who sayd We who haue no Religion are going to Persecute those who are thought to haue some Yet in Aesop there is one fable much like their proceeding with vs viz that a wolfe accused a Lamb of troubling the water with which he was to quench his Thirst And althô the Lamb replyed that could not be because the place where he drunk was much lower then that where the Wolfe was yet this play was ouer born the Lamb sentenced to Death worryed Anonimus tells we p. 35. I bewray my nest But he is very much mistaken I do only shew what he some factious spirits doe to the defiling of it Jf this be a fault Daniel was to blame who trauerst the sentence of the wicked Iudges past vpon chast Susanna Hester is vnexcusable in pleading the Innocency of her Nation after a solemne sentence had been pronounced against it by Assuerus All the Christians are to be condemned who assert the Innocency of Christ his Apostles notwithstanding their conuictions condemnations by the Supreme Magistrates of those times Are we returning to the Pagan superstition when Rapes thefts murthers Adulterys were consecrated when committed by those men whom the credulous vulgar adored as Gods Doth God Alm-contrary to scripture admit of any distinction of Persons Is not his Law Common to all And if it be broken by any how great soeuer may not he be minded of his Duty Nay is there not an obligation imposed on all Church men others to mind them of it with that Respect which is du to their calling was Nathan was Elias were the other Prophets blame worthy who admonisht Dauid Achab others Princes Preists People of their faults How shall we excuse S. Paul's second Chapter to the Romans our B. Sauiours rebukes of the Scribes Pharisys the writings of the Prophets Moyses in which are recorded the sins of the People of God Are all these foul birds that bewray their own nest Jf so which are the clean Where will these men's extrauagancyes end To what absurdityes will they lead their silly Disciples When they shall shew vs greater Authority then that of the Holy Scriptures greater precedents then those of Christ his Apostles the Prophets better rules of morality then those of God his Diuine spirit we will own our selues Guilty althô we are not so But not till then CHAPTER X. A word of Aduice to the Deponent I Haue followed you through all your wandrings with greater tediousnesse then may be imagined finding no entertainment all the way but euident vntruths infamous perjurys sometimes some insipid lests It hath been some labour to examin all the particular Facts you mention when Persons concerned are at so great a distance Yet I haue gone thorough all willingly for the publick satisfaction for a cleer conuiction of such as though there was some fire where there was so much smoke if still there are any such in the world I hope it may be for your own good too who by this discouery of so many shamefull Periuries being disabled to follow the trade of a Witnesse may be obliged to take to some more honest though lesse gainfull way of liuing This may be