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A50573 A Memento for English Protestants ... together with a preface by way of answer to that part of the Compendium, which reflects on the Bishop of Lincoln's late book. Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English. 1680 (1680) Wing M1658; ESTC R9391 45,461 60

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Neighbours as those Doctrines he charges upon her really and heartily assented to must needs make them He hopes possibly that Humane Nature it self in some may check at their harshness and a particular sweetness of temper of others very much allay the Malignancy of their Poison and hinder them from having their full effect upon the Understanding at least such an effect as is justly to be dreaded from them when they seize upon the minds of melancholy Recluses or sink deep into the affections of her ignorant hot-headed Devoto's those Christian (a) A Sect of Religious Murderers among the Turk● See an Account of them in Tav … ni●r's Six Voyages pag. 199. Faquirs For the Promise he makes us at last in imitation of the Bishop's (b) Compend pag. 79. That he himself will turn Protestant if the Bishop shows him but one single Paragraph in all his Book in relation to their dangerous Principles that he has not fully answer'd c. I will be so civil to him at parting to let him know be need not be in any pain about it for though the Condition of his Obligation be not in the least measure nor is ever likely to be perform'd yet I can assure him there 's no body intends to take any advantage of the Forfeiture Though he has been so far from answering every single Paragraph of the Bishop's Book that he has not in truth answer'd one single word of it to any purpose as I have already show'd him yet we will not be so unmercifully rigorous to require a Person of his Form of Parts to turn Protestant and force him to be a reasonable man and a good Christian against his Conscience no no let him stay where he is we are not at all fond of his Company and the Religion he has will best suit with his Wit I have now done with the Compendianist and shall enlarge this Preface no farther but to joine with all good English-men in offering up my hearty prayers to God Almighty that He would still preserve the Preotestant Religion among us and continue to render fruitless the contrary Endeavours and Contrivances of wicked and unreasonable Men fallacious Writers and Traiterous Plotters that He would keep the most knowing and best civiliz'd Nation in the World from falling again under the Barbarisme of Popery from being opprest by the Tyranny and cumber'd with the Weight of this huge unwieldly Masse of Nonsense and Puppetry This farce of Ceremonies this Counterfeit Christianity this Enemy to true Learning and free Philosophy this Discourager of Trade and useful Industry this Troubler of agreeable Conversation and reasonable Living this Prohibiter of good Sense and this Extinguisher of good Nature in a word this Un-Christian and this Immorall Religion or rather this new Species of Irreligion which by her Doctrines of dispensing with Oaths and absolving from all manner of Crimes upon slight and ridiculous Penances as well as by those the Bishop of Lincoln has convinc'd her of has not only overthrown the Foundations of real Goodness and true Piety but even of necessary Faith and common Honesty loosen the very Bands and Ligaments and undermining the Props of Civil Communities Errata in the Preface Page 1. Line 11. for grand read great Ibid. l. 17. for those r. these p. 3. l. l. 9. r. Compendianist and so in all other places where that word is us'd it being mistaken throughout the whole Preface p. 4. l. 17. after these words Does he expect to be believ'd upon his bare word the sence is left imperfect by omitting these which follow viz. Vpon the honour of a Popish Controvertist which the Reader is desir'd to add p. 10. l. 5. r. and Decretals Ibid. l. 30. for these r. those l. 36. for shew r. shame Many other Errors there are in the Printing which for their too great number I will not trouble the Reader with though in many places the Style is not onely prejudic'd by them but the sence corrupted and debas'd In the French Massacre p. 2. l. 5. for Son r. Cousin In the Irish Massacre p. 2. l. 25. dele not In Q. Maries Reign p. 2. l. 7. for hath r. had Ibid. l. antep dele by l. ult for Winchester r. Worcester AN ACCOUNT Of the Chief Passages of the MASSACRE IN The Valleys of Piedmont in the Year 1655. WHEN the following Sheets had passed the Press and the Preface was ready for it a certain Gentleman who had set me on work to collect and publish them signified his desire that I should add one Sheet concerning this Massacre but because it may be though most proper to conclude with Domestick Occurrences and because the notice of my Friends desire came too late for placing this Sheet next after the Irish Massacre where in reference to Time it should have been plac'd I was oblig'd to put it in the Front Before I come to treat of this Massacre in particular it will be necessary to give you an Account of the Antiquity of the Reformed Churches in the Valleys of Piedmont with the causes of this and other Persecutions which have been raised against them by the Bishops of Rome since the first Apostacy of the Roman Church As for their Antiquity I affirm that the Christian Religion which was planted in Italy by S. Paul has ever since been retained in the Primitive Purity of its Fundamental Doctrines and Divine Worship in the Churches of Piedmont to this day And for the Proof of this Assertion I must acquaint you that though many of their most ancient Records and other Authentick Manuscripts were destroyed by Popish Perseeutors in the years 1559 and 1560 yet a great number no less Authentick divers of which are now to be seen in the University of Cambridge were most wonderfully preserv'd and give as full and clear a Testimony to this Truth Besides we have the concurrent Testimonies of the most eminent Popish Authors who were the bitterest Adversaries of these Churches and yet which is almost miraculous they have by a strange over-ruling Providence unwittingly confess'd in many places of their Writings this Antiquity for the concealing of which and to make the World disbelieve it those very Books were purposely written and design'd To demonstrate these Particulars by some Instances I must inform you that it is a Truth generally received by all those who profess to be vers'd in Ecclesiastical History that before the Year 800 the differences between the Roman and Reformed Christian Churches were not publickly establish'd by any General Councils or Decrees in any part of Italy As for the first 500 years after Christ there cannot so much as one clear Sentence be produc'd out of any one Father or Council for the Papists against the Protestants In the next Century viz. in the Year 600 Boniface the Third of that name Bishop of Rome with the consent and approbation if not instigation of the Usurper Traitor and Murderer Phocas the Emperour took upon him the Title