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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91066	The proper and most effectual cure of Popery, both real and mistaken, in the nation		1705 (1705)	Wing P3666A; ESTC N40249	2,514	4

The Proper and most Effectual CURE of POPERY Both Real and Mistaken In this Nation IT is certain and apparent to all considering People that the greatest Troubles with which this Nation and indeed most part of Europe have been afflicted for more than 150 Years last past have proceeded from or been promoted by the Controversies concerning such Matters of Religion as are commonly called Popery And it is an certain and apparent that all those Controversies arose from or were occasioned by the Usurpations Corruptions and Scandals of the Papacy and Papal Faction of which many of the most learned and truly religious Persons in all Nations complained long before So that it cannot be denied that there was great need of a Reformation when what is now so call'd was begun And it is also certain that tho' a Free General Council was earnestly desired both by Princes and People by Laity and Clergy for an orderly Reformation it was more than 20 Years delayed before any Session could be had and then was continued and kept on foot for 18 Years more before it was concluded and so managed the while that instead of reforming or composing Differences much of the Matters complain'd of were established and the Differences made irreconcileable while the Authority of that Council is maintained a Council which consisted but of 270 Prelates in all in all that time and of them 187 Italians most very ignorant and but 83 not a third part of all other Nations and some only Titular and mere Agents for the Papacy divers indigent Pensioners to the Pope and but part and no great part of those at most Sessions Such was this Free General Council But it is as certain and apparent again on the other side that that necessary Work of Reformation was so disorderly managed that it remains a very imperfect Work and not without much Deformation in all Parts where it has been promoted to this day And tho' the Fault of this may in great measure be justly chargeable upon the Perverseness and Obstinacy of the Papal Faction yet so it is and is apparently so even by the Differences and Contentions which are continued or rather daily increased among all the Pretenders to Reformation tho' all are ready to join against the Papists as their Common Enemy So that these two Parties are like two Mastiffs worrying one another and neither can get the Victory because equally match'd by reason of Faults on both sides and something of Truth on each side which supports them And neither will be perswaded to see or if they do see to reform what is amiss on their side that Truth alone might prevail The Faults are on the one side Papal Corruptions and Innovations maintained as Catholick Truth which is Real Popery distinct from what is truly Catholick on the other Catholick Truth opposed as Popery which is Mistaken Popery and the irresistible Truth between them both what is truly Catholick This neither can withstand and therefore so far as it is retained is the Strength of that Party against the other and where it is intirely retained without Mixture tho' by never so small a Party cannot be resisted with any Evidence of Truth or sound Reason or opposed with any thing but Force and Violence or Falshood Lies and Calumnies Of this I my self by the Grace and secret Conduct of God have had considerable Experience and given a sensible Experiment and such a Manifestation of his Truth against the Corruptions on each side as neither have been able to gainsay or resist The one side have not been able to resist the Power of Truth but with most shameful Lies and Calumnies one of the greatest Evidences of a powerful Conviction nor the other to maintain or defend their own Cause by true Catholick Principles or other than false and sophistical Arguments as I have already in part made appear in my True Account c. and shall more fully to undeniable Conviction if I may have that Encouragement which is but reasonable and necessary It is true violent Prejudice against Mistaken Popery hath brought forth no less Mischief Scandal Shame and Confusion in these Nations than real Popery hath in other parts of Europe But it is Real Popery continued amongst us which has been the Original and is the continued Incentive of that Prejudice and Jealousie which hath produced these violent Proceedings And therefore tho' a just and compleat Cure of this Prejudice against Mistaken Popery would of it self be the most effectual Cure of the Real not only in these Nations but in our Neighbours even France it self yet since that is hard to be removed while the other remains there is a Necessity that the Application be more effectually to that of Real Popery and that compleatly effected will of it self allay the Prejudice and facilitate the Cure of the other also This Necessity is brought upon us by the Craft and Policy of the Papal Faction and their Agents who know very well that if those Faults on our side were healed they should have nothing against us nor be able to withstand so compleat and prevalent a Testimony against them And this is the true reason why divers Zealotes for the Roman Faction who were sensible of this Secret look'd upon King Charles I. and Arch-Bishop Laud and others as their greatest Enemies because they were sensible of the Mistake and desir'd and endeavour'd as far as the Madness of the People would permit to have it rectified which these Zealotes well know would have greatly indanger'd their Cause by leaving them nothing solid and defensible on their side to support it And this was not the least part of the Project of the Representer my Visitant in his pretended Letter from a Dissenter to the Divines of the Church of England in order to a Vnion who indeavour'd thereby not only to gratifie his own Private Revenge by representing the learned Divine of the Church of England who had detected and answered his stolen Wares as a Papist in Disguise but to promote the publick Service of the Faction by reviving and exciting the old Jealousie and Prejudice which had before been so serviceable to it And for the same reason it was that divers of them have treated me not as a Friend but a most dangerous Person to them And this Consideration ought to move all serious Antipapists to beware of this Prejudice lest they inconsiderately promote their Designs while they think to oppose them as Mr. Baxter has rightly observed they often do The true Reason Why all the Means hitherto used have been no more effectual is because they have been too violent and unnatural and not so skilfully apply'd as they ought to haven been Their Nobility and Gentry and the rest of the Laity are Persons of as much Sense and Reason and Honour and Virtue as others And if there was but opened a fair Retreat to them and then the Deceitfulness of their Principles sufficiently explain'd we should then find them as willing to be eased of the Burthens as the Nation of the Trouble of the Emissaries And two things very reasonable and easie to be granted would inable any Person well qualified to do this Work effectually of which an Account will be ready to be given to whom it is proper of desired