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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B16717	Advice from a Catholick to his Protestant friend, touching the doctrine of purgatory ...		1687 (1687)	Wing A632; ESTC R7268	153,167	378

remarkable Sanchez Sanchez Opin Moral Par. 2. l. 3. c. 6. n. 13. maintains that a Man may swear he hath not done a thing which is really done by him by understanding within himself that he did it not on such or such a Day or before he was born or by making Reflections on some other Circumstances of the like nature and so the words spoken by him shall have a different meaning and imply no such thing as is said This is of general use and great convenience upon many emergent Occasions and is ever justifiable when a Man's Health Honour or Estate lyes at stake and may be injured Nay Filintius to confirm this says the Intention Filintius Tract 25. c. 11. n. 331. regulates and squares the the Action and for Encouragement of those who have wicked craft enough to furnish them with particular Reservations he alledgeth That to avoid Lying no more is required than to say simply they have not done that which in truth they have provided they have a general Intention to stamp the sence upon their Discourse which a Prudent and Discreet Person would do And indeed these their Equivocations did insert that Clause in the Oath of Supremacy among us here in England Without mental Reservation And this doubtless was the Reason that moved one to bestow on them that so much merited Title calling them Concinnatores mendaces the Polishers of Lyes their Tongues being whetted and sharp'ned to that purpose These are the Croaking Frogs the Amphibious Insects that live both by Land and Water in Church and State not a Kings Privy Council not a Ladies Chamber not a Lord's Closet not a House or Cottage nay not so much as a Soul but is daily haunted by these Spectres and evil Spirits not a Gentleman or Lady can cross the Seas but his or her name is landed before hand in the Jesuits Register It was not without cause that their Mecaenas and Patron Philip the second King of Spain baptized them Clerigos Negotiadores Negotiating or Trafficking Trading Clergy-Men and that Marcus Antonius Columna General of the Navy belonging to Pius the fifth in the famous Battel of Lepanto and Viceroy of Sicily did tell Don Alonso a noted Jesuit who endeavoured to be of the Council of his Conscience very plainly and roundly as well as truly Voi altri Padri di Giesu havete la mente al Cielo le mani al Mondo l'anima al Diavolo You Jesuitical Fathers have your thoughts seemingly in Heaven your hands on the Wealth and Riches of the World and your Souls with the Devil And this their griping for worldly gain and polling the rest of the Clergy one of the three Particulars before mentioned was the reason that a Reverend Divine did say tho the great Pan of Rome had committed the greatest part if not all his spotted-Sheep to the Pastoral charge of Arch-Bishops Bishops c. Pan curat oves oviunique magistros yet they yield them little or no profit because they are sheared to their hands especially by the Jesuits whom Reverardentius aptly termeth Vindiciae Sacrae Satyr M. S. in this respect Equites aurei Velleris Knights of the Golden Fleece And for this cause a Reverend Divine says that they want no maintenance what by traducing our Nation abroad and seducing our People at home their Bones are full of marrow and their Eyes swell with fatness for a Country Parson cannot make so much of a whole years Harvest as one Jesuit can get by an hours single Confession When two Jesuits presented their Petition to Duke Cezarini and made a Complaint to him that Father Oliva their General had been wrought upon by the insinuating Perswasions of Pope Alexander the seventh to part with some of their Lands for the sum of 100000 Crowns so covetous they were as by their good will to part with nothing that once came into their Clutches he gave them this witty and undeniable answer Those men who believe the Popes Infallibility as you do must by no means complain against him for if he be Infallible he can do no wrong nor be guilty of an irregular or injurious Action A Popish Writer of our Nation as he himself thought not Bishop Hall in his Quo Vadis as he hath the story out of Robert Pointz in his Preface to the Testimony of the real Presence unlearned complaining of the Abstinence of us Hereticks despairs of prevailing because he found it to be long ago fore-prophecied of us in the second Book of Chronicles c. 24. At illi Protestantes audire noluerunt it is well saith he that the Protestants were yet heard of in the old Testament as well as the Jesuits whose name one of their own found out by good hap Numbers Secar in Josua l. 1. c. 2. q. 19. Gresser contra Lernaeum c. 1. 26. ver 24. like as Erasmus found Fryars in St. Paul's time inter falsos Fratres Father Hayndius a Jesuit of thirty three years standing found this not to be the least of fifty two Complaints which he made against his own Society to their General Aquaviva that his Fellows did not blush to blemish their Order and stain their Honour by cogging of Miracles and cheating the Ignorant into a belief of them What fardles of Lies do they impose upon the Vulgar concerning their Indian Wonders Nay Cardinal Bellarmine is not ashamed to appear as their Voucher and dares maintain their Frauds and Cozenages affirming that his Brother Xavier had not only cured the Deaf Lame and Blind but also raised the Dead it seems he was so intent upon his new Divinity that he quite forgot his old Philosophy A privatione ad habitum non datur regressus while his Fellow Acosta who continued many years in those Parts pulls him by the sleeve and is down-right with him whispering so loud in his Ear that all the World may hear him Prodigia nulla producimus Acosta l. 4. c. 12. de salut Indic neque vero est opus Africk is at the best but barren of Novelties if compared to Rome and yet the World of Protestants must be branded with Incredulity if they will not be gull'd by their pious Frauds but let them remember if they are at leisure that simulata Sanctitas est duplex Iniquitas Counterfeit Sanctity is double Iniquity and one sin is made two when once defended Nay it is more than feared that they will not want Diabolical Delusions and Hellish Incantations rather than lose a Proselite which are so gross and frequently put in practice among them that it hath puzled the best Casuists to make a difference between their Magick and that which is Diabolical Hence it is that some of our weak People have been frightned out of the World upon their Death-Beds and scared into the Religion of Roman Catholicks Take this notable instance among many other from a famous Divine in France second to none for Learning and Fidelity who related it with his own