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A66213	The missionarie's arts discovered, or, An account of their ways of insinuation, their artifices and several methods of which they serve themselves in making converts with a letter to Mr. Pulton, challenging him to make good his charge of disloyalty against Protestants, and an historical preface, containing an account of their introducing the heathen gods in their processions, and other particulars relating to the several chapters of this treatise.	Wake, William, 1657-1737.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing W246A; ESTC R4106	113,409	130

Books we call in question are such as have Evident Characters of Forgery in them and which are suspected by the learned Romanists themselves we fairly propose our Objections to be answered which generally have that Weight as to convince the more knowing of our Adversaries we decry all such shifts as this Gentleman mentions while any one that looks into the second Chapter of the following Discourse will find that it is a Rule among those of his Communion to invent some favourable Exposition or deny the Authority and genuineness of the Author The Charge shews so much impotent Malice which would fain be doing some mischief that I am apt to believe it is rather an insinuation of some furious Missionary than the real product of Mr. Meredith's Pen who seems more zealous than spitefull in his erroneous Profession and knowing no better may perhaps be prevail'd on to publish anothers pretended Observation which neither he nor any for him can make good If they can it is incumbent on them to prove it by as full Evidence as I have given of their being guilty of this dis-ingenuous Artifice I know the Methods of these Gentlemen too well to let any thing pass which may be liable to an Exception without preventing it if they would fairly answer a Discourse I would wait till they publish their Objections but the trick of running about and casting virulent Reflexions upon particular Passages in private makes it necessary for me to give the reason why I affirm that the cause of the great bitterness against the Waldenses was their freedom in taxing the vices of the Pope and Clergy I could demonstrate the truth of it from what is acknowledged by themselves of those poor people who could deserve such Treatment upon no other account seeing according to Rainerus their bitter Enemy they were blameless in every thing but that they spoke against the Roman Church and Clergy but I will confirm my Assertion with the Authority of the Sieur du Haillan in his History of Philip the Second who affirms that tho' they had some ill Opinions yet they did not irritate the Pope and Princes and Clergy against them so much as their freedom of Speech did which brought upon them an universal hatred and caus'd so many abominable Tenets to be falsely imputed to them This Testimony coming from a Roman Catholick of his Quality both confirms my Observation and shews the Original of those Misrepresentations and Calumnies we labour under that they are purely in prosecution of their Doctrine which avows the lawfulness of slandering another to preserve ones honour a position which is own'd and defended by their greatest Casuists and which they reduce into practice upon all occasions as I have proved in the third Chapter § 3. Thus they dealt with Molinos a few Months since at ROME insinuating that his design was under the pretence of raising men to a higher strain of Devotion to wear out of their minds the Sense of the Death and Sacrifice of Christ and attempting to perswade the people that he was descended of a Jewish or Mahometane Race and carried in his Blood or first Education some seeds of those Religions to which they added several immoral Crimes tho' they were asham'd to insist upon them in his process so that their slanderous Reports have gain'd but very little Credit They have been so kind of late as to let us see who they were that first devised those noisie Calumnies that most of the Clergy of our Church were Papists by appearing barefac'd and endeavouring to prove that the whole Controversie lay between the Dissenters and the Church of Rome since when one of their greatest Champions hath put on the disguise of a Dissenter and attempted to perswade us that the Learned Answerer of Nubes Testium held several Popish Principles and that it would be all one to joyn with the Papists or the Church of England but he was soon discovered by his ingenious Adversary and so expos'd for his wretched Artifice that if he had not a face of an unusual Composition he would blush to appear in publick after such a shamefull trick which I hope will make our Brethren the Dissenters more cautious how they entertain such Surmises of those men who so learnedly and successfully oppose Popery when they who would be thought the onely true Protestants are content to sit still and be lookers on I expect to have the Decree of the 2d of March 1679. opposed to it and to have a great many hard names bestowed on me for daring after that to lay such Doctrines as are condemn'd in it to their Charge But besides that this Decree is an unanswerable Evidence that those Doctrines were taught by the Jesuits and other Casuists it is notoriously known that these Censures are so little regarded that they are almost contemptible The Apologist for the Decree of the Senate of Venice against the Jesuits tells us that on this side the Alps the Censures of the Roman Congregation are so little valued that every person is at liberty to read those Books which they condemn whose practice in this point is defended by Gretzer That in Spain they have an Index of prohibited Books peculiar to themselves whereby those Books are frequently allowed which are forbidden at Rome and many others which are permitted there are censur'd in it but at Venice they observe neither Index nor do they admit of any of the Roman Decrees which indeed are in themselves of no moment being often grounded on mistakes and misconceptions by which the best Books are sometimes prohibited and condemned So that Doctor Holden assures us that among all thinking and sober men there is little or no regard had to them And it is impossible to be otherwise when a Book shall upon the most strict Examination be twice approv'd and yet afterwards condemned as contrary to the Faith which is the Case of Doctor Molinos at this time whose Treatise intituled the Spiritual Guide was in the year 1675. printed with the Approbation of the Arch-Bishop of Rheggio the General of the Franciscans D'Eparsa a Jesuite and Qualificator of the Inquisition and two others and received with great Applause in all places even of the Present Pope himself who lodg'd him in his Palace and gave several marks of a great esteem for him and when his Book and the Discourses of the now Cardinal Petrucci were afterwards upon some complaints brought before the Inquisition and severely examin'd they were again approv'd and the Answers which the Jesuits had writ censured as scandalous but upon the Interposition of the French King the same Treatises were condemn'd by that very Court which had approv'd them Molinos publickly expos'd and sentenc'd to perpetual imprisonment Cardinal Petrucci under disgrace and the Pope himself so far suspected that some were deputed by the Inquisition to examine him so Heretical were those Opinions now which but a

as if we allow'd them in their full latitude they can be to us Thus the Considerer upon the Spirit of LUTHER spends much time and pains to prove that Luther's Doctrine was not of God because he relates several Arguments which the Devil us'd against the Mass thereby attempting to drive him to despair because he had for many years been a Romish Priest upon which Mr. Pulton puts this question Now I ask whether the Doctrine delivered by the Spirit of untruth can be from the Holy Ghost Now tho' we tell these Gentlemen that Luther spoke this by way of parable yet seeing that they are deaf on that ear let it be for once allowed that it was a Real Conference and all they can draw from it is either that knotty question of Mr Pulton Whether the Doctrine delivered by the spirit of untruth can be from the Holy Ghost or that Luther could not be an Holy Man because the Devil was so often with him which is the great Argument of the Oxford Considerer and Mr. Pulton himself in the tenth page of his Remarks As for the Question I find in the Gospel the Devils themselves bearing testimony to our SAVIOUR that he was Christ the Son of the living God acknowledging him to be the Holy One of God and an whole Legion of these unclean spirits crying out what have we to do with thee Jesus thou Son of God And when to St. Paul the spirit of Divination bore the same witness That he was the servant of the most high God and shewed the way of Salvation nay I find also that God made use of the evil spirit's Testimony for the Conversion of many when the Sons of a Jew undertook to call upon a man who was possess'd the name of the Lord Jesus saying we adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth the evil spirit answered Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are ye And the man in whom the evil spirit was leap't on them and overcame them And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus and fear fell on them all and THE NAME OF THE LORD JESVS WAS MAGNIFIED of which the following verses give particular Instances Now the same Answer which Mr. Pulton will make to an Heathen putting the same Question in this case will give full satisfaction to that which he puts to us for if it be a good evidence to prove the Doctrine of LVTHER false because the Devil owned the truth of it the conclusion will hold as firm against the Deity of Christ and Truth of the Gospel which the Devil was forced to confess And if the second inference concludes against Luther what shall we think of their admired St. Anthony to whom the Devil frequently appear'd and using an articulate voice spake to him acknowledging that he had often attempted to corrupt him but was not able nay that he was seldom without the company of the Devil either beating him or discoursing with him the Author of that Life informs us in a multitude of Instances and yet for all this the Papists will maintain his Saintship so that the Devil's molestation is no Argument against Luther or his doctrine and there is hardly any of their noted Saints whom the Writers of their lives do not affect to represent to us as persons from whom the Devil was seldom or never absent Nor is it any wonder these Gentlemen should be so busie in scandalizing our Divines though the reflexion falls as severely upon their own Canoniz'd Saints when they have so little consideration as to charge us with those things which others of their own writing at the same time and on the same Subject do acquit us of an instance of which we have in their frequent cries that the Exclusion Bill was managed in the House of Commons by the Sons of the Church of England and that the Rebellion was to be laid to their Charge that if we look to the excluding Party they were five to one Church of England men so that our Church must take the shame of all those things to her self these loud Clamours have made more noise in the world than all their new Tests and Instances of the Church of England's Loyalty which I shall examine in another place But to the comfort of our Church her Adversaries agree not together so that she needs no vindication but what she is able to bring from her greatest enemies therefore one of them tells the Dissenters that they were the Actors not onely in 48. but in the business of the Rye and the West too and one who pleads the very same cause assures us that the Dissenters appear'd so rigorous in choosing their Representatives that they carried it for three Parliaments successfully against the Church of England and it was in those three Parliaments that the Exclusion Bill was promoted and stickled for which is a clear demonstration that the Exclusioners were not five to one of the Church of England But as these Gentlemen contradict themselves in this point so by the same assertion they overthrow their great work of perswading the Dissenters that the Church of England never was nor never will be willing to ease their Consciences by a Comprehension when by affirming the Exclusion Parliaments to have been compos'd of Church of England men they give themselves the lye seeing all the world knows it was in those Parliaments that the Bill of Comprehension was promoted As they will coin immoral Actions for us so likewise with the same sincerity they make a great complaint of our FALSIFICATIONS when he that examines into the matter will find no such thing thus the Vindicator of Monsieur de Meaux fills part of a page with a list of his ADVERSARIES Falsifications and Calumnies c. of which you may judge by this instance That ingenious Gentleman tells us that Mr. de Meaux had affirmed that the denying of Salvation to Infants dying unbaptiz'd was a truth which never any one before Calvin durst openly call in question this the Vindicator calls a corrupting the Bishops words which are these the Lutherans believe with the Catholick Church the absolute necessity of Baptism and are astonish'd with her that such a Truth should be denied which never any one before Calvin durst openly call in question now I APPEAL to all the world whether it be not the same thing to affirm that Baptism is absolutely necessary to Salvation and that those who dye unbaptiz'd are not sav'd for if it be absolutely necessary then without it there can be no Salvation and whoever asserts that denies Salvation to those who have it not let our Vindicator then defend himself from the imputation of Calumny which I lay to his charge in this particular the calling that a Falsification and Corruption which is the true meaning of the Bishops words I shall end this head with two Instances of their