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world_n	church_n	militant_a	triumphant_a	2,228	5	11.7299	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41504	The horrid, direful, prodigious and diabolical practice of the Jesuits discovered fully laying open the means, manner and circumstances whereby they inveagle and seduce inhumanely some unwary Protestants to the utter ruine and damnation of their souls : seasonably offered for the good of three nations / by E.G.	E. G.	1679 (1679)	Wing G12; ESTC R25090	4,863	18

THE Horrid Direful Prodigious AND DIABOLICAL PRACTICE OF THE JESUITS DISCOVERED Fully laying open The Means Manner and Circumstances whereby they inveagle and seduce inhumanely some Vnwary Protestants to the utter Ruine and Damnation of their Souls Seasonably offered for the good of the Three NATIONS By a Lover of the Church of England E. G. LICENSED Feb. 20. 1679. LONDON Printed for A. C. 1679. THE Horrid Direful Prodigious AND DIABOLICAL PRACTICE OF THE JESUITS Discovered c. THis Narrative was wrote several Months ago but then such was the Papistical Interest that it was thought it would be lookt upon as a Ridicule and an aspersion design'd and though many were well knowing then and those consequently of a growing and spreading evil yet it could not be thought convenient to have this true Narrative blasted But now thanks to Providence England hath no Puppies in the least Blind all can see therefore this truth may receive an acceptance fit for its Integrity The Jesuits have plaid their pranks in all unfortunate places to which they could get admittance but this Novelty for ought I know is one of the most pernicious Engines most perverting Machine and destructive Instrument that ever could be used to damnation of Mortals Souls I was a little more shy in putting this to the World though I had it from the hand of one whose veracity was as dear to him as his Life and now will find equal credit with the ingenious as it can merit A Person of Quality being in some stress beyond Sea found the Inquisition so severe that he was forc'd to consult a Jesuit to whose neat and clear conveyance into England he stands oblig'd for his Life Some years had past before he met this same person again and observe how things may happen Beyond Sea this person was in as great Authority as most of his Order and as much Reverence paid to his Dignity but so now he is met in the Streets of London in the Habit of a Costermonger crying Pippins by reason of the croud that then hapned he had an opportunity fully to view this old Acquaintance hesitations and struglings feiz'd and surpriz'd him but a recollection following oblig'd him to pretend to buy some of the Fruit and because it was not convenient in the Street he desir'd the Cryer to walk into a House that was hard by being of his Acquaintance and having got him into a Room he imbrac'd him very cordially as one would do the person that had preserv'd his Life calling him by his name to which he return'd he was no such man and knew not him that caress'd him but the Gentleman reply'd he should be the ungratefullest Man in the World if he did not know one and serve him that had given him his Life not without some danger to his own he added no disguise could change a Face that made such impression in his Heart so urged him with such sudden and home Memorandums that after several Evasions the Jesuit considering what obligations the person lay under to him lest worse should follow freely declar'd he was the person suppos'd which he should not have confess'd to any that would not have priz'd his Life as his own The Gentleman reply'd if he was not generous he must be grateful and bade him be as secure as he could wish He was doubly engaged First as a Gentleman to whom a secret was committed Secondly as a person to whom he owed his present being as an instrument of providence but sayes he Father in the name of Goodness what makes you in this posture He was then a little tardy and shy in his Answers and being interrupted by the busy Drawer he defer'd further inquiry until he had presented the Jesuit with three or four Cups of thanks which prov'd a Key to open his mysterious mind for he told him in short he might know by his Profession and Order that he was Educated to be a Labourer in Christs Cause to omit no opportunity to Proselyte the World to boggle at no difficulty to run all hazards try all means universally to establish his Kingdom you must note our institution first was to be Christs Militia for the Church of Rome found it ought to have a Lifeguard Militant that it might be Triumphant we are not only bred to School Divinity the Titular Arts and Philosophy but to all sorts of Mechanick Professions Theorically but the Gentleman reply'd That was no Answer to his Question what made him assume such a strange Habit He answered what I last said is more to the purpose than you yet apprehend but to be plain with you under this Coverture I have liberty to discourse the Plebeians and the Gregarians and to model them into such Principles as is suitable to my Ends for such must be the Instruments to reduce England to its Pristine Religion and Happiness we have interest enough in the great ones men of Brains will adhere to them when occasion serves but for the stiff-necked herd multitude or rabble Enemies to sense and reason they must be wrought upon by such operations as suit their passions which gives Life to the glympse of that knowledge they measure things by literature and reason they abominate as Atheistick The Gentleman then said which way can you work upon them You are so much my Friend said the Jesuit that I will tell you because I am sure I can depend upon you my Trade here is to infatuate and Fanaticallize the Souls of the aforesaid Droans whose humming and number may croud us into our design for with a Powder which dissolves undiscernably in any liquor drunk by any Man Woman or Child I can erase out of their mind the memory of any thing heretofore most familiarly known to them and nothing will appear but the naked passions which their temperature necessitated them to according to which I infuse Notions which commonly cleave to them during Life nay it may be it becomes so inherent that it is transmitted to Posterity Do you convert them all Papists sayes the Gentleman No no that will not do my business we never concern our selves with any but Leading Men whom others are glad to follow as proud Apes You cannot tell how this Powder divests them of all their former thoughts and leaves nothing un-eradicated but the simple passions Those I find addicted to Love I turn them to Ranters and possess them with Amorous Affections where I find Admiration prevalent I clap in Notions strangely mystical make them Praeadamites and the like where I find disgust and distast reign those I make Independents where Antipathy aversion or reluctancy domineer those I turn to Anabaptists where I find boldness and audacity there I fix the Pelagian Opinion where I find anger and revenge there I place perpetual animosity and Execration who go under the name of Muggletonians where I find mirth and comical airyness I make them everlasting Scepticks where I find confidence I teach presumption of which sort