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B20815	A non est inventus return'd to Mr. Edward Bagshaw's Enquiry, and vainly boasted discovery of weakness in the grounds of the churches infallibility also his seditious invectives against the moderate sincerity of Protestants, and savage cruelty against Roman Catholicks repressed / by a Catholick gentleman.	Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674.	1662 (1662)	Wing C6899	45,331	119

may follow is publick and threatning the whole Kingdom But the generality of Protestants me thinks have little reason to fear your clamours when they extend mercy to innocent persons And therefore those that by their Offices have an influence upon our Lawes and are able to abate the sharpness of them yea have thought fit to take it into consideration if they either out of complyance or fear of You forbear to do what Civil Justice and much more Christian Charity requires they must not expect that God will hold them innocent It will be a great mercy if he punisheth them in this world either in their estates persons or families 12. You know the Gospel Story I would to God You would make better use of it The Jewish Priests and Pharisees accused our Saviour of seditious doctrine and for that delivered him into the hands of the Romans What did they lay to his charge Art thou a King said Pilate that was his charge He assumes said they a power contrary to Caesars Our Saviour acknowledges that he was a King that he challenged a Supremacy of power and that he came to constitute a new Kingdom upon earth but it was a Kingdom not of this world it was a power purely spiritual so far from being prejudicial to Caesar that one of the fundamentall Lawes of this spiritual Kingdom was That whatsoever belonged to Caesar should be given to him not one dram of Civil authority should be taken from him The Romans were satisfied with his answer Pilate protested him innocent But all little purpose for the Pharisees make clamours they stir the people to sedition they threaten Pilate and the Text sayes the clamours of the Pharisees and people so wholly prevailed that our Saviour was delivered up unto their will to do unto him even what they pleased All that Pilate durst to do was to wash his hands and proclaim the violence used upon him but however he judged him to death and the Romans crucified him Now not any man will acquit Pilate though a greater damnation be due to the Pharisees Pilates crime was heynous but it was humane he would fain have done justice but he feared a sedition he had not the courage to suffer for Justice But the Pharisees crime was Diabolical and as they behaved themselves by crying out His blood be on us and our Children it became unpardonable both the temporal and eternal destruction of the whole nation was the reward of it But now consider who these Priests and Pharisees were that accused our Saviour of seditious Doctrine against Caesar They were the only Enemies that Caesar had in the whole Nation Josephus will tell us that the principles of their Sect were treason and Rebellion They only of all the Jews refused an Oath of Allegiance If our Saviour would have incited his followers to cast off Caesars yoke they would have joyned with him and have made him either their King or Protectour They had attempted several insurrections against Caesar and within a few years after put the whole State into an open bloody Rebellion which ended in their utter destruction Yet such power had these mens malicious suggestions as to make our Saviour be condemned as a Traytour His Disciples therefore must not think to be bettter used then their Master I mean by Pharisees 13. I suppose Mr. Bagshaw here is enough said to your Stating of that great Question of Infallibility as you have stated it And more then You will think enough to Your cruelty against Roman Catholicks If you have any suspition that we have not expressed our mindes clearly and satisfactorily enough Upon any exceptions You will please to make more shall be said And as touching what hath been here delivered about disowning a forreign power prejudicial to the State do not read it as the assertion of one single Roman Catholick But be assured that if ever these papers be offered to Your eyes to be read You will read that which has been approved and will be justifyed by many Worthy Persons of the same Religion persons of Learning Vertue and Authority who therefore can know and will be answerable for the conformable judgments of far greater numbers that depend on their Direction respectively 14. My desire now is that you would write no more against any Catholick Truth or Christian peace But if You cannot for Your life hold then I would as a friend advise you to get before hand a right notion and understanding of the subject you would write upon and however that You would forbear laying false crimes to the charge of Your brethren The condition of Roman Catholicks is sad enough And truly it is most unhandsome for those that are in a State of Uniformity with them to add to their sufferings To conclude if you think me worthy to be your Adversary in a Pen-quarrell let us not dispute about things in which You have no skill or that will not be profitable but rather wound blessed Christian Charity And if you will permit me to propose a subject in which you and your party are believed to have much interest and which if well debated would bring much good to thousands of souls in these Kingdomes my desire is it may be this Problem or Question which I told you has been taken into consideration in France viz. Whether Christian Subjects may by their Religion be allowed to defend by Armes against their Soveraign and lawful Authority their Opinions and Doctrines in case these be persecuted by them For my own part I make choice of the Negative And now I resigne you to the mercy of Mr. L'Estrange FINIS

mutually maintain one anothers quarrells On the other side I am not without suspicion that some even of my own belief and Church will think that it did not become a Catholike to busy himself with justifying the writings of protestants especially when he endeavours to shew that such Writers are no Catholicks though the particular points taught by them be real Catholick verities 22. Now to both these I must say that I never had the happiness to know or see either Doctour Gunning or Mr. Thorndike never was there any message or intelligence between us But my only Motive to write as I have done was to comply with that precept of God Pacem veritatem diligite Love peace and Truth As a true faithful English subject I could not see so professed a disturber of peace without reproving him As a catholick I could never hope what I am bound to desire and aim at that both truth and peace would find admittance into England by any endeavours either of Protestants or Catholicks till it was apparent what the true grounds of our separation are and this never will be known till other Sects be made to blush when they impudently and perniciously both to the Church and State call themselves English protestants and pretend to be judges of what is to be esteemed in the English Church Catholick Doctrine 23. Therefore for a conclusion of this argument touching your charge against Dr. Gunning and Mr. Thorndike I will once more protest that unless either the Civil or Ecclesiastical Authority do in time provide against such writers as you the whole Kingdom in a very short space will be in iminent danger to become a mere Babel For if it shall be permitted to such men to defame any English Doctour or Writer that shall not conspire in all the furious positions of Presbyterians Independents c. against the Catholick Church there will not be a Bishop or sober Divine in England that will not be at your mercy both for his fame and subsistence nay his life also when you can either raise a tumult or which is more dreadful a new Tribunal of Justice III. That Mr. Bagshaws attempt to render only the Roman Catholick Subjects in an incapacity of Toleration is in it self most groundless and in his mouth most ridiculously malicious 1. WEE poor Roman Catholicks could not but be strangely surprised to see such a Protestant of the Church of England as you Mr. Bagshaw are to become our Advocat and to beg our pardon saying How ill an opinion soever I have both of the Papists Religion Preface and of the unchristian waies they take to propagate it yet far be it from me to wish that amongst us they may suffer the same hard measure which I know by their Principles they are alwaies ready to inflict For so much do I desire their conversion which can never be sincere unless it be voluntary and unconstrained and so little fear their power of seducing since their greatest strength lies in the ignorance of their followers rather then in the cunning of their guides that I heartily wish all penal Lawes against them were utterly taken away For I never yet saw any Argument that could clearly evince why any sort of men who would profess a peaceable subjection unto the Civil Government might not in all their Civil Rights be protected by it 2. What a kind wish is here and a reason for it truly unanswerable Indeed here is Charity a point too high to be believed sincere Therefore to the end your Charity may be rational do not deprecate the inflicting of all punishment upon any if you can indeed prove that by the Principles of their Religion they are obliged to inflict the like punishment on others As for our Principles we protest unto you they are very innocent in this point Laws indeed have oft been made in Catholick Countries very severe against those that the Church calls Hereticks But they are none of the Churches laws they were not enacted by Ecclesiasticks but by Civil Governours only You know that by the Canons of the Church ever in force the Clergy under penalty of Irregularity are forbidden to have any hand either by Counsel or otherwise in blood And whatsoever Laws have been or shall be made by Catholick Civil Governours especially such as reach to blood if the Motive of them hath been pure Opinions of the Understanding not prejudicial to Government or any thing except a prudent mean to prevent Sedition or Rebellions justly apprehended we assure you they are not made by the Principles of Catholick Religion but against them 3. You will object the Spanish Inquisition But withall be pleased to consider that almost all the Catholick Kingdoms in Europe besides do abhorr the cruelty of that Inquisition and have often declared they will suffer the utmost extremities rather than admit it 4. This Charity of yours therefore was too excessive to be long-liv'd or deserving to be esteem'd sincere for you presently repent and revoke it whilst immediatly after you add I must confess there are two things which do much difference the case of the Papists from that of any other Religious Sect Preface this day in the World and which renders the Toleration of them very unsafe if not unwarrantable 5. How was it possible for one that wrote this cruel passage not presently to blot out what with the same ink he had written immediatly before The King and State are little beholding to you when you wish that may be done which is both very unsafe and unwarrantable and besides that may be done for Roman Catholicks which you say are the only Religous Sect in the World which it is both very unsafe and unwarrantable to tolerate you except not even the Fifth-Monarchists whose Religion forbids subjection to all Civil Governours whatsoever and commands by Fire and Sword to erect their new spiritual Kingdom of Christ which is to last a thousand years Let but Papists be excluded and all the monsters of Egypt are welcom to Mr. Bagshaw Yet he must know that if there had been no Papists in the World no other Sect among us had ever heard of Christ Behold the mercies of a Presbyterian or Independent I know not whether how cruel they are 6. And all this he writes to prevent the benignity of Protestants which he suspects may in some measure be extended as well to Roman Catholicks that suffered with them as to his own party that still grieve they had not swallowed up both He forgets what a converted criminal as if it were some honest Anabaptist or Quaker one that had been but now is no longer a murderer and seditious person said to his obdurat companion Dost thou not fear God since thou art in the same condemnation And we indeed justly But these Men what have they done But we should not much apprehend that his perswasion should prevail with persons that sure should now know us both were it not that