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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62900	The principles of the Papists by which their leaders put them upon bloody and treacherous practices, plainly demonstrated by the Scriptures to be most erroneous and wicked. And a few better principles briefly laid down, for them (or others) to meditate on, tending to a peaceable life among men, &c. And also a few quæries left them last of all, to satisfie their consciences in. Partly for the sakes of those among them whose consciences have some tenderness in them, and are not quite feared: partly also for those who through ignorance are too much inclining to them. Also there may be some service of these things to others. By a lover of truth, mercifulness, plain-heartedness, humility and fidelity, W. T.	Tomlinson, William.	1679 (1679)	Wing T1850; ESTC R221759	49,364	105

so do ye unto them this is Christ's Doctrine and the sum of the Law and the Prophets Mat. 7.12 Ponder this you destructive Plotters Jesuits Priests Confessors c. Would you have others seek your ruine Would you have others to lye to you to deceive you till they could destroy you Are your Consciences so far seared or your Understandings blinded that you are not able to judge aright in this case concerning your selves and then concerning others Or do you see these things viz. that you do those things which you would not have done to you and yet in defiance of Christ's Doctrine will continue to go on in doing so Consider your ways and take warning you will find it hard kicking against the pricks How far are you from doing as you would be done by when as you use them despitefully that harm you not 9. The Ministers of Christ they used only spiritual weapons for the propagating of the Church of Christ The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but yet mighty being spiritual saith the Apostle and so they were such as reached the Understanding and Conscience to bring down high imaginations and every thought into obedience to Christ 2 Cor. 10.4 The Pope's Ministers seek to propagate their Church with carnal weapons such as cannot inform the Understanding and Conscience therefore they are altogether unlike the true Ministers of the Gospel in their way In what rank of the Ministers of Christ then will you appear that use such weapons for your work when every man's work shall come to tryal 10. Christ Jesus sets before us the example of our heavenly Father to follow in doing good against evil that we may be worthy to be accounted his Children Mat. 5.44 45. How far then are they from doing good against evil that do evil to them that seek not their hurt How shall we account them Children of our heavenly Father 11. We are to follow men as they follow Christ 1 Cor. 11.1 Because he left us an example that we should follow his steps 1 Pet. 2.21 Hence we may infer That it 's needful that men know the Scriptures that they may be acquainted with the life and conversation of Christ and so knowing his spirit and life they may be able thereby to judge of the steps of those they follow for otherwise how shall they judge of mers steps by his Is not this the reason then why you leaders of the Papists keep your people from the free use of the sincere Scriptures of truth that they being ignorant thereof you may lead them as you please 12. Christ Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life the faithful and true Witness whose words were so established in truth that though Heaven and Earth pass away yet his words shall not pass away Mat. 24.35 Solomon also witnesses that the lip of truth shall be established for ever but a lying tongue is but for a moment How long then will your deceitful tongue bear you out whose words are full of lying and slandering reports and whose oaths are full of equivocation and mental reserves to make your tongue utter to the Understandings of men a false thing Is this the lip of truth that belyes the Mind Is not speech given for this end to utter the Mind Where have you any example or precept or consent for this deceit either from Christ or any of his followers Who then that would follow Christ can follow you Are not you to be turned away from as persons leading out of the footsteps of him that was and is the faithful and true Witness I shall not multiply more These few Principles if men did live in them as they ought to do if they be Christians how peaceably how securely how comfortably might they live together in the World though of several perswasions in many points of outward observations about Worship But what peace what security what rest can men have among those who are bloody-minded and deceitful and treacherous giving themselves up to speak lyes in hypocrisie who are among men as Beasts of prey among the Flocks as Lions lurking in their dens watching for the prey If there be any room left in your hearts ye Romanists for consideration of your ways I entreat you for your own good ponder with your selves a little and consider your latter end and the Judgement that will follow when the impartial Judge will bring every thing to light and render to every man according to his deeds done in the body What plea will you then have when he shall say to evil doers Depart from me I know you not ye workers of iniquity The wickedness now of the foregoing Principles of the Papists being laid open and upon good grounds rejected and some better Principles according to Scripture set before them yielding more peace among men and in a man 's own Conscience also and better hopes of future happiness I shall now touch a little their great Bulwarks or Props whereby they uphold this their Kingdom of darkness upon these rotten Principles And they are these two principally namely Cruelty and Ignorance and these are like two Arms wherewith they hold fast their Subjects There be many other things accompanying these as Lyes Slanders Defamations scornings of others proud boasting of their Antiquity and of their Succession to those whose lives and spirits they have quite deserted wrestings of truth and true reports making people believe falshoods false glosses put upon their own wicked actions and designs to do mischief and a great deal of such like stuff they raise a mist with to blind peoples eyes What a pudder did they lately make about the Death of that Worthy Godfrey whom they most barbarously murthered in Somerset-house covering their Cruelty every way by turning it upon his own head as if he kill'd himself or as if he were kill'd by Robbers c. But God infatuated them in the action and made it manifest that neither he himself had done it nor was he kill'd by Robbers for they that rob by the High-ways take away Money not only Writings And for killing himself they could not make that hang together neither for he could not fall upon his own Sword after he had broke his own Neck and how could he break his own Neck after he had faln upon his Sword or how could he do both at once as some would have excused it Yet these and such like Forgeries how did they fly about and were backed with that confidence that they dazled the minds of many especially of great persons among whom the Papists most conversed Thus they manifest their Kingdom to be a Kingdom of Crnelty backt with lyes and falshoods and other works of darkness But Godd hath been pleased to force out the truth of this bloody action from some that were privy to it and could relate the circumstances of it so that it 's blazed upon the house-tops in spite of all their windings and turnnigs to hide it Their