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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97184	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.	Warner, John, 1628-1692.	1681 (1681)	Wing W912C; ESTC R229731	86,710	95

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