LORD
bee
mercifull
unto
me
,
heale
my
soul
,
for
I
have
sinned
against
thee
.
PSAL.
xli
.
THis
day
(
right
Honourable
,
Reverend
,
and
Welbeloved
,
in
our
common
Lord
and
Saviour
Christ
Jesus
)
is
keeped
very
solemne
and
holy
,
by
these
who
equalize
;
yea
prefer
some
of
their
fabulous
saincts
dayes
,
to
the
Lords
owne
day
,
in
respect
of
the
relation
they
Bartholomew
,
who
being
excoriat
,
should
have
suffered
martyrdome
on
such
a
day
;
but
of
You
is
solemnized
,
to
the
end
Yee
may
behold
a
poore
wretched
sinner
,
pull
off
and
that
immaculat
Lambe
,
who
taketh
away
the
sins
of
the
world
.
I
know
that
my
presence
for
this
action
will
be
no
small
subject
of
admiration
to
you
all
that
heare
and
see
me
this
day
,
for
truelie
,
I
finde
it
to
my self
,
so
that
I
may
justly
say
with
the
Apostle
,
I
am
made
a
spectacle
unto
the
world
,
and
to
Angels
,
and
to
men
.
To
the
wicked
world
a
spectacle
of
indignation
and
hatred
,
for
quiting
it
,
and
taking
me
to
the
precious
blood
of
my
Saviour
Christ
,
To
the
good
Angels
,
at
the
conversion
of
a
sinner
:
To
men
,
Now
to
give
satisfaction
in
some
measure
to
your
admiration
,
I
will
let
you
understand
the
cause
thereof
,
that
is
,
my
cursed
life
in
Poperie
,
and
how
it
hath
pleased
my
gratious
God
to
convert
me
from
it
,
exponing
these
few
words
of
the
royall
Prophet
,
Lord
be
mercifull
unto
me
,
heale
my
soul
,
for
I
have
sinned
against
thee
.
In
which
words
yee
may
perceave
,
that
the
Prophet
having
gone
astray
,
touched
with
remorse
of
conscience
,
first
he
returneth
to
his
God
with
unfeined
repentance
,
and
beggeth
pardon
for
his
sins
,
Lord
be
mercifull
unto
me
:
Next
,
because
his
soul
was
deadlie
wounded
,
he
prayeth
earnestlie
for
the
health
of
it
,
heal
my
soul
;
And
thirdlie
,
he
gives
the
reason
of
his
petition
,
for
I
have
sinned
against
thee
.
In
imitation
of
this
mightie
King
,
now
turned
a
humble
supplicant
,
I
minde
,
Godwilling
,
to
show
you
these
things
following
.
1.
How
I
have
wounded
my
soule
,
and
sinned
,
by
following
of
Poperie
,
I
have
sinned
against
thee
.
2.
How
it
hath
pleased
God
of
his
only
mercie
to
heale
my
soul
in
his
own
time
:
Heale
my
soul
3.
I
shall
crave
pardon
first
of
God
,
then
of
my
deare
Countrey-men
,
in
Scotland
,
of
you
that
bee
heere
present
,
and
of
all
these
who
professe
with
sinceritie
the
reformed
Religion
,
according
to
Gods
written
word
,
saying
,
LORD
be
mercifull
unto
me
:
4.
And
lastlie
,
I
shall
answere
to
some
idle
objections
against
this
my
sincere
confession
,
and
heartie
resolution
.
Concerning
the
first
point
,
the
words
containe
foure
things
worthie
of
consideration
;
1.
The
person
that
hath
sinned
,
in
the
word
(
I
)
2.
The
person
against
whom
the
sin
is
committed
,
in
the
word
(
thee
)
3.
The
sin
it self
,
in
the
word
(
sinned
)
and
4.
the
madnesse
of
a
sinner
,
to
oppose
himselfe
agoinst
so
strong
a
partie
as
GOD
,
in
the
word
(
against
)
Neither
will
I
insist
upon
the
word
(
have
)
supponing
this
confession
of
the
Prophets
,
and
mine
to
be
of
bygone
sins
,
whereof
remorse
of
conscience
draweth
us
to
a
confession
;
nor
minde
I
to
be
curious
,
exponing
the
literall
,
anagogicall
,
tropologicall
,
or
other
senses
of
the
words
;
because
I
intend
only
to
make
a
relation
of
my
life
in
Poperie
,
with
an
abjuration
of
the
same
,
and
not
a
preaching
,
knowing
that
no
man
should
take
that
calling
upon
him
,
but
he
who
was
called
of
God
,
as
was
Aaron
.
But
to
come
to
the
words
,
this
particle
(
I
)
first
showeth
the
qualitie
of
the
person
that
sins
,
I
that
am
a
King
,
quoth
the
Prophet
,
have
sinned
against
thee
,
which
consideration
doeth
likewise
aggravate
my
sin
;
for
I
may
say
,
I
who
was
brought
up
of
honourable
parents
,
with
a
most
religious
Minister
of
Gods
word
,
for
the
space
of
six
years
have
sinned
,
renouncing
that
Heavenly
doctrine
which
I
learned
of
them
;
I
who
had
exponed
my
life
in
the
wars
,
to
all
hazards
whereto
that
calling
is
subject
,
sundrie
years
in
Germanie
,
for
the
overthrow
of
Poperie
;
was
not
a
year
out
of
the
wars
,
till
in
my
travels
passing
through
Italie
,
I
was
made
a
prey
in
Florence
,
by
an
English
Jesuite
,
called
Thomson
or
Gerard
,
both
to
his
religion
and
profession
.
This
word
may
likewise
serve
for
reproof
to
those
who
delight
more
in
descriving
their
neighbours
sins
,
than
confessing
their
owne
,
forgetfull
of
our
Saviours
words
,
Judge
not
;
that
yee
be
not
judged
,
for
with
what
judgement
yee
judge
,
yee
shall
be
judged
.
And
thereafter
,
Thou
hypocrite
,
first
cast
out
the
beame
out
of
thine
own
eye
,
and
then
shalt
thou
see
clear
lie
:
to
east
out
the
moat
out
of
thy
brothers
eye
.
The
second
thing
considerable
heere
,
is
the
person
offended
,
against
whom
I
have
sinned
,
and
this
is
God
Almightie
,
for
against
GOD
are
all
sinnes
which
are
committed
either
mediatly
or
immediatly
;
against
thee
only
have
I
sinned
;
and
done
thïs
evill
in
thy
fight
.
The
words
may
serve
for
confutation
and
admonition
;
confutation
of
the
Papists
errour
,
who
confesse
their
sins
to
earthly
men
,
and
not
to
God
,
receiving
forgivenesse
of
their
Priest
.
I
said
(
and
not
to
God
)
whereat
I
know
they
will
take
exceptions
,
but
they
need
not
,
for
millions
of
them
confesse
,
who
scarcelie
know
any
other
God
but
the
Priest
,
who
hath
his
stile
booke
of
interrogatories
,
where
to
they
answere
,
and
thereafter
are
absolved
;
moreover
,
although
they
know
GOD
,
yet
I
am
perswaded
,
that
confessing
to
the
Priest
,
they
confesse
not
to
GOD
,
because
GOD
desires
not
the
Priests
help
,
for
he
sayeth
Come
unto
me
all
ye
that
labour
,
and
are
heavie
loaden
,
and
I
will
give
you
rest
,
&c.
and
yee
shall
finde
rest
unto
your
soules
.
And
the
Royall
Prophet
sayeth
,
I
acknowledged
my
sin
unto
thee
,
and
mine
iniquitie
have
I
not
hid
,
I
said
I
will
confesse
my
transgressions
unto
the
LORD
,
and
thou
forgavest
the
iniquitie
of
my
sin
.
The
●poore
Publican
said
not
,
Ghostlie
father
,
but
GOD
be
mercifull
unto
me
a
sinner
:
And
John
giveth
us
this
assurance
,
that
,
if
we
confesse
our
sins
,
he
is
faithfull
,
to
forgive
us
our
sins
,
and
to
cleanse
us
from
all
unrighteousnesse
.
Thirdlie
,
all
the
Jesuits
that
ever
have
written
scholastick
divinitie
,
agree
in
one
voice
,
that
the
remission
of
the
confessed
sins
to
the
Priest
,
is
done
by
the
contrition
of
the
heart
,
which
contrition
must
preceed
(
as
they
confesse
)
the
Priests
absolution
,
either
by
prioritie
of
time
,
or
of
nature
▪
and
therefore
,
absolution
,
and
confession
of
,
and
to
Priests
are
altogether
unnecessarie
,
except
it
be
to
informe
that
Man
of
Sin
of
all
his
clients
intentions
of
heart
,
and
actions
whatsoever
;
for
they
must
confesse
to
their
Parish
Priest
all
their
thoughts
,
words
,
and
deeds
,
once
at
least
in
the
yeere
,
under
the
paine
of
eternall
condemnation
;
or
else
to
gather
in
moneyes
by
restitution
,
almes
;
penance
for
great
sins
to
the
Cloisters
,
and
such
like
ends
:
but
heere
I
will
not
insist
upon
the
knaverie
of
auriculare
confession
,
hoping
in
GOD
to
let
it
be
better
known
heereafter
to
the
world
.
They
serve
for
admonition
of
my
ingratitude
towards
my
good
GOD
,
and
gratious
Lord
,
against
the
Lord
I
have
sinned
,
who
elected
me
to
glory
,
before
the
foundation
of
the
world
;
who
created
me
in
time
,
to
thy
owne
similitude
and
likenesse
,
If
when
we
were
enemies
,
we
were
reconcealed
to
GOD
,
by
the
death
of
his
Son
,
much
more
being
reconciled
,
we
shall
be
saved
by
his
life
.
Thirdly
,
I
must
relate
the
sins
themselves
which
I
have
committed
against
this
gratious
GOD.
Alace
LORD
,
I
have
sinned
against
thee
,
neglecting
that
precious
time
of
my
youth
,
wherein
I
imployed
more
my
understanding
to
learning
,
then
my
will
to
pietie
,
attending
rather
to
become
a
good
scholler
then
a
good
Christian
,
conferring
more
with
Aristotle
,
and
his
followers
,
than
with
Christ
and
his
Apostles
;
I
have
sinned
by
curiositie
,
exposing
my self
in
forraine
Countries
,
especiallie
in
Italie
,
to
occasions
in
conference
,
and
disputing
with
the
Jefuits
,
who
knew
cunninglie
how
to
circumveene
me
,
and
can
worke
their
owne
ends
;
I
have
sinned
by
weake
and
inconstant
facilitic
,
yeelding
too
soone
to
their
alluring
delusions
;
I
have
sinned
using
too
much
diligence
in
drinking
the
cup
of
their
pestiferous
doctrine
,
the
space
of
nine
yeeres
,
both
in
Italie
and
France
,
where
I
studied
three
yeeres
to
their
deceitfull
philosophie
,
foure
yeeres
to
their
sophisticall
divinitie
▪
and
two
yeeres
to
their
hypocriticall
superstition
,
or
superstitious
hypocrisie
,
in
their
Novitiate
at
Rome
;
I
have
sinned
,
desiring
so
earnestlie
after
my
studies
to
returne
to
my
countrey
,
for
seducing
of
others
,
as
I
had
beene
seduced
my self
,
using
all
the
tricks
and
conceats
which
the
wit
of
man
,
or
hell
could
affoord
me
,
to
deceave
the
Godly
:
True
it
is
,
that
I
had
rare
masters
in
this
calling
,
and
good
help
to
performe
my
duetie
,
to
wit
,
an
ample
power
to
difpense
with
all
things
both
to
my self
and
others
:
I
have
sinned
,
imploying
my
wits
and
travels
to
seduce
GODS
elect
,
the
space
of
two
or
three
years
,
for
the
most
part
,
in
the
North
,
amongst
my
friends
,
in
,
and
about
Aberdeene
,
Elgin
▪
and
Ban●ff
;
as
likewise
in
Cathnes
,
where
I
lived
more
as
an
yeare
Chamerlane
and
Baillie
to
my
Lord
of
Berriedail
;
(
this
office
I
made
choice
of
,
that
by
the
frequent
varietie
of
people
I
might
worke
my
owne
ends
,
without
suspicion
.
)
I
have
sinned
by
wresting
of
Scriptures
,
perswading
others
to
believe
that
whereof
I
had
no
evidence
in
GODS
word
,
I
have
sinned
,
distilling
my
braines
to
finde
out
meanes
,
make
great
journeyes
to
obtaine
them
,
and
propone
them
to
high
personages
,
for
the
extirpation
of
GODS
true
religion
in
Scotland
;
I
have
sinned
;
by
not
living
so
duerifully
to
my
GOD
these
three
yeeres
bygone
,
(
for
so
long
time
have
I
beene
a
seeming
member
of
the
true
reformed
Church
of
God
)
as
became
a
true
and
sincere
reformed
Christian
These
,
and
many
more
are
the
grievous
sins
wherewith
loaden
,
with
the
Publican
,
I
stand
afar
of
,
not
worthie
so
much
as
to
lift
up
mine
eyes
unto
heaven
,
but
smitting
my
breast
,
say
,
GOD
be
mercifull
unto
me
a
sinner
.
Fourth
,
and
lastly
,
the
word
(
against
)
drawes
me
to
a
consideration
of
my
madnesse
,
opposing
my self
against
so
strong
a
partie
as
God
.
What!
knew
I
not
that
it
were
hard
for
me
to
kicke
against
the
pricks
?
Knew
I
not
poore
Nadab
,
and
Abibu
,
Aaron
,
were
destroyed
for
offering
strange
fire
?
And
there
went
out
fire
from
the
Lord
,
and
devoured
them
,
and
they
died
before
the
Lord
.
Knew
I
not
,
that
Vzzah
was
smote
to
death
,
for
laying
his
hand
of
good
intention
to
uphold
the
Ark
from
falling
,
being
shaken
with
the
oxen
that
drew
it
?
And
the
anger
of
the
Lord
was
kindled
against
Uzzah
,
and
GOD
smote
him
there
for
his
errour
,
and
there
he
died
,
before
the
ark
of
GOD.
Knew
I
not
that
Corah
,
Dathan
,
and
Abiram
,
although
they
were
Levits
,
were
swallowed
up
quicke
for
murmuring
against
Moses
?
And
the
earth
opened
her
mouth
,
and
swallowed
them
up
,
and
their
houses
,
and
all
the
men
that
pertained
unto
Corah
,
and
all
their
goods
.
Knew
I
not
thy
almightie
power
,
by
the
Prophet
speaking
this
of
thee
?
And
I
will
shake
the
heavens
,
and
the
earth
,
and
the
sea
,
and
the
dry
land
?
Knew
I
not
that
thou
art
the
GOD
of
hosts
,
having
infinite
multitude
of
Angels
for
thy
souldiours
,
with
all
the
rest
of
thy
creatures
,
as
instruments
of
thy
just
wrath
,
and
indignation
against
sinners
?
O
intolerable
madnesse
of
mine
!
This
all
,
and
much
more
I
knew
,
and
yet
persisted
in
my
wickednesse
against
so
strong
a
partie
.
O
infinite
Ocean
,
and
superaboundant
treasure
of
mercie
!
What
shall
I
say
?
I
poore
naughtie
worme
,
yea
,
dust
,
opposed
my self
to
that
great
GOD
of
heaven
and
earth
,
by
such
kinde
of
grievous
sins
,
and
hainous
crimes
;
as
idolatrie
,
taking
away
of
his
glorie
,
spoiling
him
of
his
offices
,
taking
upon
me
his
authoritie
,
by
forgiving
of
sins
,
and
such
like
;
and
yet
he
out
of
his
Fatherly
love
desisted
not
to
do
me
good
,
preserving
me
from
many
perils
and
dangers
,
both
in
pest
,
wars
,
and
travels
:
roborating
my
memorie
to
receave
,
and
keep
great
diversitie
of
languages
,
and
strengthning
my
understanding
to
learne
the
experience
,
and
government
of
diverse
kingdomes
,
and
Countreys
.
Lord
,
I
continued
to
offend
thee
,
and
thou
continued
to
blesse
me
;
Deare
Saviour
,
who
will
consider
these
wonderfull
works
of
thine
on
mee
,
and
not
likewise
confesse
with
me
,
that
thou
art
,
a
father
of
mercie
and
GOD
of
all
comfort
?
That
not
only
by
nature
,
but
also
by
miscariage
I
was
a
childe
of
wrath
,
but
GOD
,
who
is
rich
in
mercie
,
for
his
great
love
wherewith
he
loved
me
,
even
when
I
was
dead
in
sins
,
bath
quickned
me
.
Now
truely
I
see
most
loving
Father
,
〈◊〉
wilt
have
〈◊〉
.
on
whom
thou
wilt
have
mercie
,
and
wilt
have
compassion
on
whom
thou
wilt
have
compassion
:
And
consequentlie
,
I
may
proclame
the
Lord
,
the
Lord
God
mercifull
,
and
gratious
,
long
suffering
,
and
abundant
in
goodnesse
and
truth
:
and
David
,
that
thy
tender
mercies
are
over
all
thy
works
.
For
most
meeke
father
,
although
I
have
most
grievouslie
sinned
against
thee
,
yet
thou
hast
beene
most
mercifull
unto
me
,
Glory
,
Honour
,
and
Praise
,
be
unto
thy
holy
Name
therefore
.
This
my
Confession
and
acknowledgement
of
the
mercies
of
GOD
towards
me
,
are
not
done
by
me
to
courage
others
,
in
the
continuance
of
their
sins
:
For
that
same
GOD
,
who
out
of
his
free
mercie
,
spared
me
for
a
time
,
he
destroyed
with
thunder
Thou
hast
overcome
O
Gililean
:
and
suffered
Judas
to
enter
into
desperation
,
at
the
sight
of
the
greatnesse
of
though
your
sins
be
as
skarlet
they
shall
be
as
white
as
snow
,
though
they
be
red
as
crimsone
,
they
shall
be
as
woole
;
Yet
Christ
Jesus
,
the
master
of
all
Prophets
sayeth
thereafter
,
but
except
yee
repent
,
yee
shall
all
likewise
perish
;
GOD
,
is
mercifull
,
so
is
He
likewise
just
.
That
worthie
Doctor
Austine
sayeth
,
Humanum
est
peccare
,
Diabolicum
perseverare
,
&
Angelicum
resurgere
:
It
is
a
humane
thing
to
fall
in
sin
,
a
devilish
to
persevere
therein
,
and
an
angelick
,
or
supernaturall
,
to
rise
from
it
.
Therefore
,
having
in
the
first
point
of
this
discourse
showne
you
,
how
it
hath
pleased
God
to
suffer
me
to
fall
by
humane
fragilitie
,
and
devilish
perseverance
in
that
monstruous
sin
of
Poperie
:
In
this
second
I
will
,
Godwilling
,
let
you
understand
,
how
it
hath
pleased
God
to
raise
me
up
,
from
that
Lithargie
of
superstitious
idolatrie
,
and
heale
my
soul
wounded
with
Poperie
,
which
was
the
second
thing
proponed
by
mee
in
the
beginning
.
Upon
these
words
,
Heale
my
soule
,
I
might
expatiat
my self
,
and
amplifie
this
discourse
largely
,
with
two
considerations
▪
First
,
inquiring
wherein
consisteth
the
health
and
perfection
of
mans
poore
wounded
soule
;
and
secondly
,
considering
the
nature
and
properties
of
the
soule
which
is
healed
,
touching
the
first
,
I
might
have
to
doe
with
three
sorts
of
persons
,
morale
Philosophers
,
scholastick
Divines
,
and
erroneous
Papists
.
Showing
the
first
,
that
the
perfection
,
health
,
and
happinesse
of
our
soul
doth
not
consist
in
worldly
pleasures
,
riches
,
sensuall
lusts
,
carnall
concupiscences
,
adoption
of
morall
vertues
,
speculation
,
or
contemplation
of
Gods
creatures
,
or
in
the
dominion
of
the
soule
of
man
over
his
owne
passions
,
as
many
of
them
have
had
these
severall
opinions
.
Discoursing
with
the
second
,
and
trying
,
whether
or
not
that
eternall
felicitie
,
and
happinesse
of
our
soules
,
doeth
consist
in
the
actions
of
the
understanding
,
or
of
the
will
,
or
of
both
,
and
in
what
kinde
:
And
refuting
the
third
in
four
points
;
first
,
Letting
them
see
their
errour
,
when
they
imploy
their
Saints
at
Rome
,
Loret
,
Galatia
,
and
where
they
think
expedient
for
health
to
their
soule
,
besides
Christ
,
or
betweene
them
and
Christ
:
2.
Showing
them
,
that
the
Sacrament
of
Baptisme
is
not
so
absolute
a
salve
,
but
it
leaveth
behinde
it
the
root
and
seed
of
sin
,
fomitem
peccati
.
3.
Demonstrating
to
them
,
that
mans
good
works
,
although
they
be
tokens
or
symptomes
,
yet
are
they
not
the
cure
and
salve
of
the
health
of
mans
poore
wounded
soule
:
And
4.
That
,
that
true
meane
of
the
health
of
our
soule
,
Repentance
,
is
not
to
be
defiled
by
their
auricular
confession
,
and
execrable
satisfaction
,
but
is
to
be
understood
of
a
broken
and
contrite
heart
,
applying
by
faith
the
deare
merits
of
that
precious
blood
of
Jesus
Christ
,
to
our
poore
wounded
souls
.
But
all
these
points
of
doctrine
,
with
their
severall
spirituall
observations
and
uses
,
I
remit
to
an
other
time
and
place
,
giving
them
Augustines
resolution
for
all
their
questions
,
Creasti
nos
Domine
propter
whose
end
is
destruction
,
whose
god
is
your
belly
;
and
whose
glory
is
in
your
shame
,
who
minde
earthly
things
,
looke
and
consider
neerely
(
for
it
concerneth
eternitie
)
if
yee
expect
the
health
of
your
soules
,
from
these
your
particular
gods
and
idols
,
or
whence
the
Apostle
expecteth
it
,
when
hee
sayeth
,
For
our
conversation
is
in
Heaven
,
whence
also
we
look
for
the
Saviour
,
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
:
And
the
Prophet
in
my
text
,
LORD
be
mercifull
unto
me
,
heale
my
soul.
Take
heed
I
say
,
take
heed
,
least
it
be
said
to
you
sometime
,
as
the
Apostle
said
to
the
Romans
;
what
fruit
had
yee
then
in
those
things
,
whereof
yee
are
now
ashamed
?
for
the
end
of
these
things
is
death
:
Or
as
Christ
our
blessed
Saviour
said
,
what
shall
it
profite
a
man
,
if
he
shall
gaine
the
whole
world
,
and
losse
his
own
soul
?
or
what
shall
a
man
give
in
exchange
for
his
soul
?
That
which
I
might
have
spoken
of
the
nature
and
properties
of
the
soul
,
I
passe
for
the
present
,
remitting
the
courteous
Reader
to
the
commentaries
upon
Aristotles
books
of
the
soul
;
And
coming
to
my
particular
,
I
will
show
you
how
it
hath
pleased
God
,
in
his
owne
appointed
time
,
to
heale
my
soule
from
the
pest
of
Poperie
.
And
therein
I
finde
two
things
to
be
remarked
,
the
time
,
and
the
causes
of
this
my
restored
health
.
As
for
the
first
,
it
is
evidently
known
,
that
the
Lord
hath
his
owne
time
in
calling
of
soules
,
Calling
some
about
the
third
,
some
about
the
sixt
,
some
about
the
ninth
,
and
some
about
the
eleventh
houre
.
Peter
,
and
some
other
of
his
Apostles
he
called
,
when
they
were
busied
mending
,
and
dressing
their
nets
:
Others
,
as
Matthew
waiting
upon
their
customes
,
Augustine
:
Some
by
publicke
preaching
,
as
the
most
part
of
all
Christians
,
and
others
by
private
discourses
,
as
the
Queene
of
the
Ethiopians
Eunuch
:
Neither
can
GOD
;
For
it
is
not
of
him
that
willeth
,
nor
,
of
him
that
runneth
,
but
of
GOD
that
sheweth
mercie
:
Who
in
his
owne
time
,
without
any
of
London
:
the
first
lives
in
Clarkenwall
,
the
second
in
Drurie-laine
;
the
one
is
provinciall
and
superiour
of
some
five
hundreth
Jesuits
in
England
,
the
other
a
prime
Scholler
,
and
Courteour
.
Others
go
thus
,
for
perverting
of
Kings
and
kingdomes
,
as
with
Sigismund
,
late
King
of
Pole
,
they
went
as
Hyducks
,
or
infantrie
,
into
Sweden
,
for
the
perversion
of
that
people
,
which
being
detected
,
the
King
and
they
were
thurst
out
of
Musco
,
who
taking
them
in
after
that
same
manner
,
lost
his
life
and
his
empire
,
as
his
wifes
brother
in
law
,
Constantine
Koribut
Duke
of
Visniovits
in
Pole
related
to
my self
,
and
that
hee
had
suffered
three
yeeres
imprisonment
for
it
in
Musco
,
which
maketh
him
detest
the
Jesuits
ever
since
.
Some
of
them
go
for
their
own
re-establishment
as
P.
Peter
Cotton
,
to
get
themselves
in
again
in
France
,
after
they
were
banished
,
for
attempting
to
kill
,
and
for
wounding
King
Henry
the
fourth
:
This
is
no
calumnie
,
for
one
was
execute
in
Paris
,
and
all
banished
out
of
France
,
and
a
pyramide
of
ignominie
erected
against
them
,
where
the
treature
was
execute
,
for
this
businesse
.
Some
go
dayly
thorow
Venice
,
dealing
with
ambassadours
,
and
making
friends
to
get
in
there
againe
;
others
to
acquite
by
indirect
wayes
the
favour
of
Kings
,
for
they
seeke
no
more
but
presence
and
accesse
to
pervert
resist
the
Devill
,
and
he
will
flee
from
you
,
Beware
of
false
prophets
,
which
come
to
you
in
sheeps
cloathing
,
but
inwardly
are
ravening
woolves
.
And
thou
Britaine
especially
Scotland
,
my
deare
countrey
,
the
purest
portion
of
Christs
Church
in
the
world
this
day
,
assure
thy self
,
and
I
assure
thee
,
for
I
know
it
,
that
thy
good
people
are
as
sheepe
in
the
mids
of
woolves
,
be
yee
therefore
(
heads
and
members
thereof
)
wise
as
serpents
Casting
out
this
bound
woman
and
her
Son
,
by
the
execution
of
the
Law
,
of
Paul
,
to
wit
that
God
did
call
him
being
a
persecuter
,
brought
up
among
the
learned
at
Gamaliels
fleet
,
knowing
all
their
plots
and
conspiracies
against
Gods
elect
,
he
might
better
being
converted
give
antidots
again
their
poyson
;
for
it
he
had
done
somuch
out
of
blinde
zeile
,
for
the
defence
of
his
Fathers
traditions
,
much
more
would
he
for
the
true
service
of
GOD
,
wish
that
he
were
an
accursed
from
Christ
for
his
brethren
.
Even
so
thinke
I
truelie
that
my
deare
Saviour
have
dealt
with
me
,
not
calling
me
when
I
entred
to
their
errours
,
nor
when
I
was
drinking
in
their
pernicious
doctrine
,
neither
when
I
was
imployed
to
worke
the
mysterie
of
iniquitie
against
the
true
Church
of
God
:
but
when
I
had
learned
all
their
tricks
,
plots
,
conspiracies
,
devices
,
and
inventions
,
for
the
extirpation
of
Gods
true
religion
;
that
being
brought
up
at
Vrbanus
feet
,
and
knowing
their
malice
,
I
might
the
better
with
Gods
grace
provide
remedics
against
their
pernicious
designes
;
and
as
I
had
taken
great
paines
for
the
atchieving
of
their
malitious
ends
,
much
more
should
I
labour
now
in
Christs
vineyeard
,
for
the
edification
of
Christs
mysticall
body
the
Church
.
The
The
second
thing
that
I
proposed
,
was
,
the
causes
of
the
health
of
my
Soul
;
and
these
are
four
,
materiall
,
formall
,
finall
,
and
efficient
;
the
first
is
the
soul
it self
taken
specificative
,
the
second
is
the
same
soul
taken
reduplicative
,
ut
sanata
,
as
healed
;
the
third
or
finall
,
is
that
eternall
joy
and
felicitie
,
for
the
which
before
time
God
hath
elected
,
and
in
time
created
,
not
only
me
,
but
all
these
likewise
who
serve
him
with
true
sinceritie
;
which
felicitie
the
Apostle
thus
describeth
:
the
eye
hath
not
scene
,
nor
eare
heard
,
neither
hath
entred
into
the
heart
of
man
,
the
things
which
God
hath
prepared
for
them
that
love
him
.
The
fourth
and
last
is
threefold
,
principall
,
meritorious
,
and
instrumentall
.
The
principall
efficient
cause
of
the
health
of
my
soul
was
the
blessed
and
holy
Trinitie
,
it
being
an
action
ad
extra
,
and
all
such
are
common
to
the
three
persons
of
the
Trinitie
,
as
Divines
teach
.
The
meritorious
was
,
the
pretious
blood
of
my
sweet
and
loving
Saviour
Christ
Jesus
,
for
it
is
through
this
only
oblation
that
we
are
made
holy
,
and
have
eternall
redemption
.
By
His
will
we
are
sanctified
,
through
the
offering
of
the
body
of
Jesus
Christ
,
once
for
all
.
For
by
one
offering
hee
hath
perfected
for
ever
them
that
are
sanctified
,
and
their
sins
and
iniquities
will
hee
remember
no
more
;
now
where
remission
of
these
are
,
there
is
no
more
offering
for
sin
.
And
the
Apostle
Peter
sayeth
,
Nei
her
is
there
salvation
in
any
other
,
for
there
is
none
other
name
under
heaven
given
among
men
,
whereby
we
must
be
saved
.
The
whole
new
Testament
proveth
this
trueth
;
and
yet
the
force
of
errour
is
so
great
,
that
they
who
live
in
that
Sodomitish
Babylon
,
do
not
perceave
it
,
but
run
headlong
to
other
cures
for
their
wounded
soules
,
than
to
the
meritorious
blood
of
that
immaculate
Lambe
,
who
taketh
away
the
sins
of
the
world
.
Away
then
,
away
,
depart
from
me
all
yee
workers
of
iniquitie
;
away
yee
that
flee
for
cure
of
your
Souls
,
to
your
Ladies
,
I
tell
you
,
except
yee
repent
(
of
these
yee
shall
all
likewise
perish
.
Paul
,
yee
rejoice
in
nothing
but
Jesus
Christ
,
and
him
crucified
.
Remember
that
it
is
momentanie
which
delighteth
,
and
eternall
which
tormenteth
.
Take
heed
,
that
when
yee
shall
compeere
at
that
great
day
,
with
your
souls
ulcerat
,
by
your
idolatrous
superstition
,
crying
for
cure
,
that
Christ
the
only
Physitian
of
souls
answer
you
not
,
I
never
knew
you
,
depart
from
me
yee
that
worke
iniquitie
:
Or
as
hee
sayeth
in
another
place
,
Depart
from
me
yee
cursed
into
everlasting
fire
,
prepared
for
the
devil
and
his
angels
.
Now
God
of
his
goodnesse
open
your
eyes
,
and
let
you
understand
the
intolerable
wrongs
which
yee
doe
to
his
divine
Majestie
,
his
Church
,
and
your
owne
souls
,
that
doing
unfeined
repentance
,
yee
may
efchew
his
fearfull
judgements
.
I
come
now
to
the
third
efficient
cause
,
calledinstrumentall
or
second
cause
,
whereby
God
wrought
this
wonderfull
cure
in
me
.
If
any
man
expect
here
of
me
the
decision
of
that
philosophicall
question
of
Gods
concourse
with
the
second
causes
,
for
the
production
of
their
effects
,
being
necessare
for
the
understanding
of
that
contraversie
,
de
authore
peccati
,
of
the
author
of
sin
:
I
pray
him
excuse
my
brevitie
,
and
addresse
himself
to
the
interpreters
of
Aristotles
treatise
,
de
causa
efficiente
:
But
to
our
purpose
.
No
man
can
doubt
,
but
the
Lord
as
he
is
infinitely
mercifull
in
the
conversion
of
sinners
;
so
is
he
infinitely
wise
and
rich
,
in
the
externall
meanes
which
he
imployeth
for
that
use
:
I
speak
not
of
the
internall
▪
meane
of
the
conversion
of
a
sinner
,
which
according
to
Divines
is
gratia
praeveniens
,
and
gratia
excitans
,
a
preveening
and
stirring
up
grace
,
quae
operatur
in
nobis
sine
nobis
,
which
worketh
in
us
,
without
our
help
,
as
Augustine
the
Lord
turned
,
and
looked
upon
Peter
,
&c.
and
Peter
went
out
and
wept
bitterly
:
Others
as
the
woman
diseased
with
the
issue
of
blood
,
by
touching
his
garment
,
receaved
present
health
both
of
body
and
soule
.
Samarit
an
woman
▪
patience
,
and
miraculous
passion
,
as
the
thief
upon
the
crosse
,
Some
by
touching
and
feeling
his
pretious
wounds
,
as
the
Apostle
Thomas
:
Others
by
extraordinarie
courses
,
as
Apostle
Paul
:
Neither
need
we
enquire
for
any
reason
of
these
proceedings
of
Christ
,
but
that
that
O
the
depth
of
the
riches
,
both
of
the
wisdome
and
knowledge
of
God
,
how
unsearchable
are
his
judgements
,
and
his
wayes
past
finding
out
,
for
who
hath
beene
his
counsellour
.
As
for
the
externall
meane
,
or
instrumentall
cause
of
my
conversion
to
GOD
,
and
recovered
health
of
my
soul
,
it
was
truely
the
reading
of
holy
Scripture
,
after
this
forme
,
It
fell
out
some
three
yeers
ago
(
or
thereabout
)
in
Cathnes
,
that
after
I
had
ended
my
ordinarie
superstitions
,
as
Breviarie
,
Masse
,
Beeds
,
and
suchlike
trash
,
I
used
commonly
to
read
a
chapter
of
the
Bible
;
and
one
day
reading
these
words
of
Paul
,
Beware
least
any
man
spoile
you
thorow
philosophie
,
and
vaine
deceat
,
after
the
traditions
of
men
,
after
the
rudiments
of
the
world
,
and
not
after
Christ
;
and
so
foorth
to
the
end
of
the
chapter
,
I
was
presentlie
seazed
with
a
doubt
against
Poperie
;
that
the
Apostles
admonition
was
,
that
Gods
children
should
beware
of
them
;
and
that
the
same
time
I
was
illuminate
with
an
extraordinary
light
,
whereby
comparing
the
words
of
the
Apostle
with
their
doctrine
and
actions
,
I
was
convicted
in
my
minde
to
define
Poperie
to
bee
a
superstitious
masse
of
policie
,
under
pretext
of
religion
:
And
examining
more
narowlie
I
found
these
foure
points
,
philosophie
,
vaine
deceat
,
or
sophistrie
,
traditions
of
men
,
and
the
rudiments
of
the
world
,
to
be
the
foure
pillers
wherupon
that
Babylonish
tower
of
Rome
doth
stand
;
or
else
the
foure
wheeles
whereupon
that
fyrie
cart
of
superstitious
masses
and
heathnish
idolatrie
is
drawn
thorow
the
world
and
will
be
drawn
,
till
it
please
God
,
to
consume
that
Man
of
Sin
with
the
spirit
of
his
mouth
,
and
destroy
him
with
the
brightnesse
of
his
coming
.
I
might
(
and
minde
Godwilling
heereafter
)
demonstrate
,
that
all
the
contraversies
betweene
papists
and
us
,
may
bee
easily
brought
to
these
foure
monstruous
heads
of
poperie
,
but
for
the
present
I
will
only
indicat
some
few
;
Their
transubstantiation
is
grounded
upon
that
Logicall
treatise
of
the
Quantitie
,
where
they
destroy
the
nature
of
quantitie
,
to
build
their
breadie
god
,
their
justification
by
works
,
and
their
free
will
are
built
upon
that
physicall
question
of
Gods
concourse
with
the
second
causes
in
Aristotles
treatise
of
the
efficient
cause
.
That
high
question
of
predestination
,
upon
the
foreknowledge
of
good
works
,
standeth
upon
the
decision
of
that
Logicall
question
,
de
futuris
contingentibus
,
of
contingent
things
to
come
;
their
fundamentall
ground
of
all
papistrie
,
the
popes
hierarchie
is
built
upon
Aristotles
politicks
,
and
taught
in
the
Jesuits
morall
philosophie
.
Moreover
,
their
popes
infallibilitie
is
but
vaine
deceit
and
sophistrie
,
as
likewise
,
their
absolute
necessitie
of
baptisme
▪
dispensation
with
solemne
vowes
,
judging
of
Gods
word
,
and
the
like
;
In
a
word
,
their
five
bastard
sacraments
,
with
all
their
superstitious
rites
and
ceremonies
,
sacrifice
of
the
masse
for
the
quicke
and
the
dead
,
canonization
of
saints
,
invocation
of
angels
and
saints
departed
,
worshiping
of
images
,
relicts
,
and
crosses
,
dedication
and
consecration
of
churches
,
altars
,
and
dayes
,
baptizing
of
bels
,
and
ships
,
blessing
of
holy
water
,
and
sprinkling
of
it
upon
men
and
beasts
,
to
gaine
moneyes
(
as
at
Rome
on
S.
Antonies
day
,
is
done
to
all
the
horse
and
beasts
in
the
countrey
whereby
the
monks
get
that
day
to
entertaine
them
well
in
their
leacherous
idlenesse
,
till
that
time
twelve
month
)
All
these
I
say
,
and
the
rest
of
that
stinking
tr●sh
,
depend
and
hang
upon
these
three
pillars
,
vained
ceit
or
sophistrie
,
traeditions
of
men
,
and
the
rudiments
of
the
world
,
which
to
blinde
poore
soules
,
maketh
them
bring
in
that
new
found
distinction
of
Gods
word
,
written
and
unwritten
.
And
as
for
their
philosophie
,
for
by
that
which
I
have
above-mentioned
,
their
owne
great
pillar
Albertin
,
a
Jesuite
,
hath
set
out
three
volumes
in
folio
,
where
he
showeth
all
their
scholastick
Divinitie
,
and
controversies
of
religion
to
be
grounded
upon
the
principles
of
humane
philosophie
.
O
base
and
sandie
ground
,
for
articles
of
faith
,
and
matters
of
salvation
!
O
wise
philosophers
,
or
rather
that
other
foundation
can
no
man
lay
,
then
that
is
laide
,
which
is
Jesus
Christ
?
And
that
the
wisdome
of
the
world
is
foolishnesse
with
GOD
:
for
it
is
written
,
He
taketh
the
wise
in
their
owne
craftinesse
.
And
againe
the
Lord
knoweth
the
thoughts
of
the
wise
that
they
are
vaine
.
Now
if
any
man
ask
me
,
wherefore
I
left
Papistrie
?
I
answere
before
my
GOD
,
as
the
Lord
shall
save
me
in
that
great
day
,
when
all
secret
thoughts
shall
be
revealed
,
that
no
carnall
thought
,
or
worldly
rentation
did
move
me
to
take
this
resolution
;
but
only
,
that
after
serious
examination
,
and
reading
of
Gods
word
,
by
conference
with
Jesuits
in
Pole
,
and
Ministers
in
diverse
countries
,
although
neither
of
them
knew
me
to
have
beene
a
Jesuite
,
I
found
that
Papistrie
was
built
upon
this
sandie
foundation
of
Philosophie
,
sophistrie
,
traditions
,
and
the
rudiments
of
the
world
,
and
not
upon
that
invincible
rock
Christ
Jesus
,
And
therefore
I
resolved
to
come
out
of
Babylon
,
that
I
should
not
be
partaker
of
her
sins
,
and
that
I
should
not
receave
of
her
plagues
:
And
hid
my self
in
the
clift
of
this
rocke
,
that
is
in
the
wounds
of
my
deare
and
only
Saviour
Christ
Jesus
,
denying
all
other
meane
of
salvation
,
but
that
which
is
written
in
his
holy
word
,
adjoining
my self
to
the
true
reformed
Church
of
God
,
in
Scotland
.
Whereof
if
any
man
aske
the
reason
of
adjoining
my selfe
to
the
Church
of
God
in
Scotland
,
rather
then
to
another
church
,
as
England
or
Germanie
:
I
answere
them
,
that
I
minde
to
use
a
part
of
the
Physitians
counsell
,
who
give
for
a
singular
antidote
,
against
the
pest
of
the
body
three
things
to
observe
,
that
is
,
citò
,
longè
,
tardè
;
which
is
somuch
,
as
whosoever
will
bee
free
of
the
bodily
pest
,
let
him
go
soone
away
from
the
place
infected
,
next
go
far
away
;
and
thirdly
,
to
stay
long
away
,
that
the
place
be
well
cleansed
before
he
returne
:
so
say
I
,
whosoever
will
be
free
of
that
spirituall
pest
of
Antichrist
let
him
use
three
things
,
citò
,
longè
nunquam
,
that
is
,
let
him
go
soone
away
from
it
,
next
far
away
;
and
thirdly
never
to
return
back
againe
to
it
:
And
because
the
Church
of
God
in
Scotland
observeth
best
this
infallible
rule
of
any
of
them
all
,
being
farrest
from
all
popish
superstition
,
and
neerest
to
apostolicall
puritie
,
therefore
I
have
adhered
thereto
,
and
not
to
any
of
the
rest
.
And
because
reading
of
the
Scripture
was
the
occasion
,
and
instrumentall
▪
cause
of
this
my
recovered
health
;
I
exhort
,
by
the
tender
mercies
of
Christ
,
that
every
man
take
some
paines
every
day
to
read
a
portion
of
Scripture
;
especially
yee
blinded
papists
,
to
whom
it
is
a
mortall
sin
to
read
it
,
more
than
the
Alcoran
,
except
yee
have
a
dispensation
,
for
both
are
alike
forbidden
,
read
the
Scriptures
often
,
and
yee
shall
surely
finde
comfort
to
your
souls
,
so
that
yee
read
them
with
prayer
and
humilitie
,
and
not
for
contention
,
as
wee
used
to
read
them
:
For
all
Scripture
is
given
by
inspiration
of
God
,
and
is
profitable
for
doctrine
,
for
reproof
,
for
correction
,
for
instruction
in
righteousnesse
,
that
the
man
of
God
may
be
perfect
,
througly
furnished
unto
all
good
works
.
An
other
reason
which
did
confirme
me
in
this
my
godly
resolution
,
was
,
I
could
finde
no
warrand
in
Scripture
for
poperie
;
and
yet
I
preased
to
strain
the
Scripture
,
and
throw
it
to
my
purpose
,
but
could
never
satisfie
mine
owne
conscience
:
As
for
example
,
that
fundamentall
point
of
their
tyrannous
hierarchie
,
of
Peters
being
at
Rome
,
by
what
right
the
popes
serve
themselves
heire
to
Peter
,
more
than
the
Churches
of
Antioch
and
Alexandria
,
which
are
more
ancient
Churches
then
that
of
Rome
,
that
Peters
succession
is
tyed
to
the
towne
of
Rome
,
jure
divino
,
as
I
was
taught
by
them
,
that
of
the
popes
infallibilitie
,
notwithstanding
their
contradictions
one
to
another
in
fundamentall
things
,
his
usurped
authoritie
upon
Gods
Scriptures
,
and
mens
consciences
,
and
all
their
traditionall
trash
,
have
no
true
warrand
in
Gods
word
:
Yea
,
I
wonder
that
learned
men
,
who
know
this
silence
of
their
opinions
in
Gods
word
,
should
remaine
in
Babylon
any
longer
;
for
we
are
commanded
to
search
the
Scriptures
,
as
they
which
testifie
of
Christ
.
The
Apostle
Peter
sayeth
,
That
we
have
a
more
sure
word
of
prophecie
,
whereunto
yee
do
well
that
yee
take
heed
,
as
unto
a
light
that
shineth
in
a
dark
place
,
untill
the
day
dawne
,
and
the
Day-star
arise
in
your
hearts
.
O
poore
soules
that
ly
caught
in
these
snares
(
and
you
conformists
who
run
post
to
them
)
know
yee
not
,
that
praestat
obedire
Deo
quàm
hominibus
,
Wee
ought
to
obey
GOD
rather
then
man
:
And
Peter
and
John
answered
and
said
unto
them
,
Whether
it
be
right
in
the
sight
of
God
to
hearken
unto
you
then
unto
God
,
judge
yee
:
That
is
as
much
to
say
,
as
when
the
obedience
towards
God
,
and
that
towards
man
,
not
altogether
conforme
to
that
of
Gods
,
are
put
in
ballance
against
other
,
that
there
is
no
question
which
of
them
we
should
make
choice
of
.
God
commands
thee
to
search
the
Scriptures
,
and
the
pope
commands
thee
not
to
read
them
,
under
the
paine
of
mortall
sin
:
God
ordaineth
thee
to
take
the
cup
at
the
Communion
;
the
pope
commands
the
contrarie
:
GOD
commands
thee
that
thou
shalt
not
make
any
graven
images
,
&c.
the
pope
commands
thee
to
have
,
use
,
and
worship
them
.
GOD
sets
thee
at
Christian
libertie
,
from
the
ceremoniall
law
,
and
rudiments
of
the
world
,
the
pope
binds
thee
with
that
infinite
number
of
his
tyrannous
lawes
:
For
they
(
the
pope
and
his
councel
)
binde
heavie
burdens
,
and
grievous
to
be
born
,
and
lay
them
on
mens
shoulders
but
they
themselves
will
not
move
them
with
one
of
their
fingers
.
Look
about
thee
,
and
consider
the
miserable
estate
thou
art
in
;
be
not
terrified
with
boasting
,
to
declare
thee
an
heretick
or
a
rebell
;
resolve
thy self
constantly
,
and
say
with
I
am
not
ashamed
of
the
gospel
of
Christ
,
for
it
is
the
power
of
God
unto
salvation
,
to
every
one
that
believeth
:
And
in
another
place
,
But
this
I
confesse
unto
thee
,
that
after
the
way
which
they
call
heresie
,
so
worship
I
the
GOD
of
my
Fathers
,
believing
all
things
which
are
written
in
the
Law
and
the
Prophets
:
And
heerein
do
I
exercise
my self
;
to
have
alwayes
a
conscience
void
of
offence
towards
GOD
,
and
towards
men
.
I
speak
nothing
of
their
brutish
and
Sodomitish
life
,
worse
then
that
of
the
Pagans
,
described
by
the
Apostle
,
which
although
it
▪
be
not
universall
thorow
all
the
popes
dominions
;
yet
it
is
common
and
notorious
in
the
privie
chamber
(
that
is
Italie
)
of
that
Babylonish
whoore
,
as
is
known
to
the
world
by
relation
,
and
to
me
by
auricular
confession
.
Neither
touch
I
that
superstitious
and
hypocriticall
life
in
publick
of
their
ghostly
Fathers
,
and
their
odious
licentious
lives
in
their
private
cloisters
and
chambers
.
I
know
my
old
fellowes
,
the
Jesuits
will
exime
themselves
from
this
my
censure
,
casting
it
upon
the
bellygod
friers
,
pretending
puritie
from
such
things
in
themselves
;
but
let
a
judicious
man
consider
their
dayly
good
entertainment
,
weekly
feasts
in
their
houses
of
pleasure
in
the
fields
,
and
their
frequent
banquets
upon
their
saincts
dayes
thorow
the
year
,
the
goodnesse
of
their
wines
;
that
they
are
young
,
noble
,
and
gentle
,
quick
witted
youths
for
the
most
part
,
having
thereafter
great
notice
of
sins
by
auricular
confessions
and
almost
hourely
familiar
conference
with
women
of
all
conditions
,
both
publickly
and
privately
,
and
then
judge
what
they
are
,
or
what
they
may
bee
.
The
third
point
which
I
proponed
in
the
beginning
,
was
to
crave
pardon
of
these
my
rehearsed
errours
.
What
then
shall
I
render
unto
the
Lord
for
all
his
benefits
towards
me
?
I
will
take
the
cup
of
salvation
,
and
call
upon
the
name
of
the
Lord
,
I
will
pay
my
vowes
unto
the
Lord
,
now
in
presence
of
all
his
people
.
My
vowes
are
first
to
crave
humble
pardon
at
God
almightie
,
as
I
do
from
the
bottome
of
my
heart
,
crying
with
the
Prophet
David
,
Lord
be
mercifull
unto
me
,
heal
my
soul
,
for
I
have
sinned
against
thee
:
And
with
the
forlorne
childe
,
Father
,
I
have
sinned
against
heaven
,
and
before
thee
,
and
am
no
more
worthie
to
be
called
thy
son
,
make
me
as
one
of
thy
hired
servants
.
Againe
,
O
Lord
,
truely
I
am
thy
servant
,
I
am
thy
servant
,
and
the
son
of
thine
handmaid
▪
thou
hast
loosed
my
bonds
,
I
will
pay
my
vowes
▪
unto
the
Lord
,
now
in
the
presence
of
all
his
people
,
Craving
pardon
at
my
Countreymen
in
Scotland
in
generall
,
at
You
,
right
Honourable
,
Reverend
,
and
Welbeloved
in
Christ
Jesus
,
that
be
here
present
,
and
all
these
wheresoever
they
be
,
that
professe
the
true
reformed
religion
,
according
to
Gods
word
,
for
the
scandall
which
I
have
given
you
and
them
,
by
living
so
long
in
poperie
,
requesting
you
to
pray
my
sweete
Saviour
for
the
remission
of
these
my
enorm
sins
,
and
that
as
his
divine
Majestie
hath
begun
this
good
work
in
me
,
likewise
he
will
be
pleased
to
perfect
it
,
and
I
shall
never
cease
to
cry
,
Lord
be
mercifull
unto
me
,
heal
my
soul
,
for
I
have
sinned
against
thee
.
And
with
the
same
Prophets
saying
I
will
conclude
this
point
,
Blessed
be
the
Lord
,
who
hath
not
given
me
as
a
prey
to
,
their
teeth
,
my
soul
is
escaped
,
as
a
bird
out
of
the
snare
of
▪
the
fowlers
the
snare
is
broken
,
&
I
am
escaped
:
my
help
is
▪
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
,
who
made
the
heaven
and
earth
.
Fourth
and
lastly
,
against
thus
my
sincere
confession
,
and
cordiall
resolution
,
there
bee
three
sorts
of
persons
who
oppose
themselves
,
some
friends
,
enemies
some
,
and
some
adiaphorists
.
The
first
proceede
out
of
love
and
zeale
,
the
second
out
of
malice
and
rage
;
the
third
out
of
policie
and
craftinesse
,
to
every
one
of
these
three
classes
must
I
answere
,
before
I
closse
this
my
abjuration
.
The
first
sort
then
may
say
,
that
it
is
heard
to
believe
,
than
I
,
who
was
so
fullie
possessed
with
poperie
,
can
be
truely
converted
in
my
heart
,
having
so
many
allurements
and
occasions
of
tentations
to
continue
slave
to
the
purpurat
whoore
,
and
therefore
it
were
good
to
try
me
,
before
I
be
trusted
.
My
answere
is
first
,
that
I
had
many
snares
to
hold
me
fast
in
poperie
;
one
was
that
I
was
obliged
by
their
tyrannous
Lawes
,
to
reject
and
cast
away
any
doubt
that
came
unto
my
minde
against
the
Romish
profession
,
under
no
lesse
paine
than
mortall
sin
,
and
eternall
condemnation
,
no
lesse
than
the
thoughts
of
murther
,
treason
,
filthinesse
,
leacherie
,
&c.
Where
it
is
to
be
remarked
that
the
Turks
do
only
forbid
hearing
,
or
disputing
of
any
other
religion
but
their
own
,
under
the
paine
of
death
,
which
they
and
we
thinke
very
heard
;
but
these
Romanists
are
much
worse
,
condemning
both
body
and
soul
to
hell
eternally
,
for
a
thought
only
against
their
profession
;
This
snare
is
the
strongest
wall
of
Poperie
:
Another
snare
is
,
that
which
intangleth
the
Doctors
and
learned
men
,
who
examining
the
doctrine
of
their
church
,
and
finding
their
conscience
touched
with
the
evidencie
and
trueth
of
Gods
word
,
resolve
that
these
tentations
proceed
of
weaknesse
of
their
understanding
;
and
therefore
conclude
,
seeing
their
church
can
not
(
as
they
alleadge
)
erre
that
the
resolution
of
the
church
is
only
true
,
and
Gods
true
light
inspired
in
them
,
but
only
tentation
of
Sathan
,
and
so
preoccupied
with
a
prejudged
minde
,
continue
in
their
errour
,
This
is
the
secondwall
of
that
babylonish
tower
,
I
speak
nothing
of
riches
,
and
pleasure
,
contentment
of
minde
for
worldly
things
,
for
it
is
knowne
that
the
Jesuits
(
whereof
I
was
one
)
have
the
most
contented
life
in
this
world
of
any
men
whosoever
,
and
therefore
if
I
had
looked
to
my
particular
commodities
more
than
to
the
light
of
Gods
word
,
and
my
own
conscience
which
did
presse
me
,
I
had
never
come
out
of
poperie
.
Secondlie
,
I
answere
,
that
it
is
no
wonder
if
they
do
not
give
me
full
trust
as
yet
,
because
Paul
,
a
chosen
vessell
to
beare
Christs
name
before
the
Gentiles
,
and
Kings
,
and
the
children
of
Israel
,
was
not
trusted
in
the
beginning
,
yea
,
neither
did
Ananias
believe
Christs
then
Ananias
answered
,
Lord
,
I
have
heard
by
many
of
this
man
,
how
much
evill
he
hath
done
to
thy
Saints
at
Jerusalem
.
What
reason
then
should
they
have
to
trust
me
poore
sinner
,
a
stranger
in
a
manner
to
them
,
untill
they
try
me
:
In
the
meane
time
I
request
these
my
friends
to
suspend
their
judgements
for
a
time
,
seeing
exitus
acta
probat
,
the
event
prooves
the
deeds
,
And
take
by
their
fruits
yee
shall
know
them
:
And
pray
for
me
,
that
as
I
was
a
persecuting
Saul
,
so
I
may
bee
a
preaching
Paul
.
The
second
,
my
deadlie
enemies
for
rage
and
despight
that
I
have
left
them
,
will
(
I
know
)
spew
out
all
the
venemous
poyson
that
malicious
hearts
can
invent
,
especiallie
that
I
have
not
left
the
Jesuits
,
but
that
for
my
odious
and
detestable
life
I
have
beene
cast
out
from
among
them
.
To
these
I
answere
,
first
,
that
benifaciend●
ne●lnem
timeo
,
doing
well
I
am
feared
for
no
man
:
Secondly
,
their
evill
speeches
and
misreports
,
are
an
evident
token
,
that
Christ
my
loving
master
favoureth
me
,
giving
me
occasion
(
although
innocent
)
to
suffer
calumnies
as
he
did
;
he
was
both
God
and
Man
,
and
yet
he
was
said
to
cast
out
Devils
in
Beelzebubs
name
.
And
that
he
had
a
devill
.
That
he
was
a
eater
and
drinker
and
keeper
of
companie
with
publicanes
and
sinners
;
What
then
should
I
expect
,
poor
sinfull
wretch
,
from
viperous
tongues
,
but
all
what
hell
can
devise
against
me
?
Thirdlie
,
I
answere
,
that
they
wrong
themselves
much
more
than
me
,
objecting
thus
,
for
either
they
must
make
me
vitious
,
and
casten
out
before
I
came
into
the
countrey
,
or
when
I
was
in
it
or
else
since
I
went
out
of
the
countrey
.
Not
the
first
,
because
it
were
great
imputation
to
their
own
order
,
to
send
vitious
men
to
be
Apostles
(
as
they
call
them
)
and
convert
souls
amongst
their
enemies
,
who
could
,
and
would
spy
all
their
actions
.
Moreover
,
it
is
known
by
all
these
who
know
them
,
that
the
first
thing
they
looke
for
in
a
missioner
(
such
as
I
was
)
is
a
godly
life
and
conversation
,
otherwise
the
Generall
doeth
not
give
them
their
Letters
patent
;
which
I
receaved
,
and
did
let
not
only
them
,
but
many
others
in
Scotland
,
see
;
neither
without
it
had
I
beene
receaved
and
imployed
by
the
superiour
in
Scotland
,
as
I
was
;
which
he
cannot
deny
,
so
many
of
all
conditions
,
both
,
in
and
out
of
Scotland
knowing
it
.
Secondly
,
for
the
time
that
I
was
in
the
countrey
,
concerning
my
life
and
conversation
,
I
submit
my self
to
the
censure
of
these
,
both
Protestants
and
Papists
,
with
whom
I
lived
at
that
time
,
and
to
the
Letters
which
the
Superiour
receaved
in
my
favour
from
the
noble
man
with
whom
I
lived
;
neither
suppose
I
had
beene
vitious
,
could
the
Superiour
in
Scotland
,
cast
me
out
of
his
order
,
for
as
the
reception
into
their
order
,
is
proper
actions
to
their
Generall
;
so
likewise
is
the
dismission
,
for
he
only
can
absolve
from
their
vowes
these
that
are
dismissed
.
Moreover
,
if
I
had
beene
such
as
I
know
out
of
malice
they
will
call
me
,
they
had
surely
admonished
me
as
their
custome
is
;
but
before
my
God
I
say
it
,
I
was
never
reproved
of
the
superiour
;
or
any
other
,
all
the
time
I
was
in
the
countrey
,
but
for
going
to
the
churches
,
in
Scotland
;
and
exposing
my self
and
them
to
danger
,
by
going
openlie
thorow
the
countrie
.
Finallie
,
if
they
had
cast
me
out
,
they
had
not
entertained
me
so
kindlie
at
my
departure
out
of
Scotland
,
as
they
did
,
for
then
the
Superiour
gave
me
Letters
to
go
for
Doway
,
and
there
teach
the
youths
of
the
College
their
controversies
,
and
heare
their
confessions
,
moneyes
to
carrie
me
there
,
and
three
of
his
Jesuits
after
kinde
entertainment
in
this
Town
convoyed
me
a
myle
off
my
journey
:
These
all
were
signes
of
love
,
and
not
of
outcasting
from
their
Societie
,
and
they
and
I
know
them
to
be
of
veritie
:
Wherefore
I
remit
all
to
God
,
let
Him
be
Judge
betwixt
mee
and
them
.
As
for
their
misreports
,
I
care
no
more
for
them
than
for
the
winde
that
bloweth
,
I
being
known
both
in
Scotland
and
abroad
,
as
well
as
any
of
them
,
both
great
and
small
.
Thirdly
,
since
I
went
out
of
Scotland
last
,
they
could
not
cast
me
out
of
their
order
,
because
since
,
I
was
never
in
any
house
of
theirs
,
nor
keeped
companie
with
them
;
And
as
for
my
life
and
conversation
ever
since
,
I
am
sorrie
,
it
was
not
so
good
as
became
a
reformed
Christian
;
yet
whatsoever
it
was
,
they
had
nothing
to
doe
with
it
;
and
there
be
many
worthie
Cavaliers
,
both
at
home
and
abroad
,
in
whose
companie
I
have
lived
this
time
bygone
,
who
know
that
my
life
was
neither
scandalous
to
my
profession
,
shamefull
to
my
Nation
,
or
any
wayes
disgracefull
to
my
particular
calling
of
a
Souldiour
.
The
third
sort
that
is
adiaphorists
,
or
CONE-formists
,
out
of
their
craftinesse
and
policie
,
say
,
that
they
know
not
what
to
judge
of
me
,
for
charitie
urgeth
them
to
believe
me
,
and
prudencie
forceth
them
to
beware
of
me
;
and
there
they
stand
in
doubt
,
as
that
father
whom
they
paint
betweene
Christ
Marie
,
knew
not
what
side
to
turn
himself
●o
,
Positus
in
medio
,
quò
me
vertam
nescio
;
hinc
pascor
à
vulnere
hinc
lactor
ab
ubere
.
On
the
one
side
I
perceive
Christs
wounds
,
on
the
other
Maries
paps
;
heere
I
am
nourished
with
the
milk
of
a
virgine
,
there
I
am
fed
with
the
bloud
of
a
Saviour
.
Charitie
bids
them
judge
not
,
and
they
shall
not
be
judged
;
Prudencie
commands
them
not
to
trust
before
they
try
.
All
this
is
good
,
but
what
tryall
can
they
bring
in
against
mee
?
Have
they
any
thing
to
object
or
say
against
this
my
resolution
and
declaration
?
Yes
,
say
they
,
because
in
respect
of
the
extreme
policie
of
Jesuits
,
it
may
be
that
out
of
policie
I
have
beene
sent
out
by
them
,
to
the
end
I
may
set
Reformists
and
CONE-formists
by
the
ears
together
,
whereby
the
Papists
and
Jesuits
may
the
more
easily
overcome
both
,
and
I
received
in
againe
with
them
,
may
be
thought
to
have
done
great
service
to
the
church
of
Rome
:
The
reason
which
moveth
them
to
judge
thus
is
,
because
(
say
they
)
these
who
are
converted
,
and
come
out
of
the
Romish
church
,
use
commonly
to
take
them
to
a
church
,
which
endeavours
to
draw
Protestants
and
papists
to
a
conformitie
,
selecting
out
the
best
of
both
;
because
not
in
extremitie
,
but
in
mediocritie
consisteth
vertue
.
This
discourse
formed
by
a
not
reformed
Minister
of
this
Town
,
and
related
to
me
by
a
sufficient
Gentleman
,
to
whom
it
was
spoken
,
containeth
three
things
in
it
:
1.
The
Jesuits
policie
,
whom
they
suspect
might
have
sent
me
out
:
2.
The
end
of
my
out-coming
,
that
is
,
to
stir
up
dissention
betweene
Reformists
and
CONE-formists
:
And
thirdly
,
a
question
of
my
adjoining
my self
rather
to
the
reformed
Church
of
Scotland
,
than
to
that
of
England
or
Germanie
.
These
bee
their
politick
arguments
,
to
which
I
must
answere
,
and
then
finish
this
discourse
.
To
the
first
then
I
answer
,
that
I
have
touched
something
alreadie
of
the
Jesuits
policie
,
in
sending
out
their
sect
▪
mates
like
grashoppers
through
the
world
;
And
now
I
answer
againe
,
that
these
who
argue
thus
,
know
not
the
Jesuits
policie
well
;
for
surely
they
never
send
out
any
of
policie
,
to
detect
their
owne
policie
,
neither
doeth
their
policie
reach
that
far
,
as
to
permit
and
dispense
with
these
whom
they
send
out
,
to
renounce
and
abjure
the
Romish
doctrine
,
and
professe
the
direct
opposite
thereto
,
as
I
have
done
.
It
is
true
,
that
they
have
dispensation
among
Protestants
,
to
live
as
Protestants
;
among
Lutherians
,
Arrians
,
Henricians
,
and
the
like
,
as
they
do
,
for
life
and
conversation
that
they
may
seduce
them
,
but
not
for
their
doctrine
.
They
ground
this
forme
of
dissimulation
upon
the
words
of
the
Apostle
,
I
am
made
all
things
to
all
men
,
that
by
all
meanes
I
might
save
some
:
A
specious
pretext
indeed
,
which
blinds
the
eyes
of
many
poore
souls
;
but
if
they
would
look
neerer
,
they
could
easily
discover
the
nakednesse
of
it
,
and
see
clearly
they
pretend
one
thing
▪
and
intend
another
:
Wherefore
(
I
pray
you
)
doe
the
Jesuits
flocke
so
thicke
to
Mexico
and
Peru
,
that
new
Spanish
treasure
,
but
not
so
to
Scythia
or
Tartarie
and
Volinia
,
to
England
and
Holland
in
droves
,
to
Scotland
and
Sweden
but
scattered
ones
;
to
great
townes
where
they
onlie
dwell
,
and
not
to
dorps
and
villages
where
ignorance
abounds
?
The
reason
is
,
that
they
pretend
zeale
,
and
intend
gold
;
they
pretend
to
gaine
soules
,
and
intend
to
gaine
riches
.
It
is
true
,
they
are
cunning
tradsmen
,
and
can
worke
well
according
to
their
owne
wayes
,
but
they
must
have
a
good
fat
Subject
to
worke
upon
;
and
this
for
the
Jesuits
policie
.
The
second
shall
bee
answered
after
the
third
.
To
the
third
then
I
have
likewise
answered
before
,
and
now
answere
againe
;
First
,
because
I
finde
the
reformed
Church
of
GOD
in
Scotland
to
bee
furthest
from
Popish
idolatrie
,
and
neerest
to
Apostolicall
puritie
.
Secondlie
,
because
that
I
was
never
,
am
not
,
neither
ever
(
God-willing
)
shall
bee
a
lukewarme
Laodicean
;
especially
To
him
that
overcommeth
,
will
I
grant
to
sit
with
mee
in
my
Throne
,
even
as
I
also
overcame
,
and
am
set
downe
with
my
Father
in
His
Throne
.
What
madnesse
(
I
pray
you
)
were
it
in
a
Mariner
,
for
to
come
out
of
a
sunken
ship
,
to
enter
into
another
which
is
sinking
,
and
may
have
a
tight
one
?
In
a
prisoner
relieved
out
of
a
low
pit
,
to
cast
himselfe
into
free
ward
,
having
his
libertie
in
his
option
?
In
a
sensible
man
fled
from
a
pestiferous
towne
,
to
reteere
himselfe
to
another
where
the
same
sicknesse
hath
taken
encrease
,
when
hee
may
have
with
great
ease
a
palace
of
pleasure
,
voide
of
all
kinde
of
suspicion
of
any
infection
whatsoever
?
None
truely
(
I
thinke
)
would
bee
so
madde
,
and
destitute
of
judgement
,
but
he
,
who
going
out
of
this
valley
of
miserie
,
to
the
heavenly
mansions
,
would
stay
,
and
take
in
purgatorie
for
his
winter
quarters
.
Yet
they
say
,
that
it
were
well
done
to
conforme
to
a
middle
religion
between
Protestants
and
Papists
,
because
extremeties
are
to
be
avoided
,
and
mediocritie
embraced
,
To
these
I
answere
,
that
if
they
had
studied
their
Logick
as
well
as
their
Politicks
,
they
had
known
,
that
of
the
four
logicall
,
oppositions
,
there
is
one
called
Contradictoria
,
which
will
admit
no
middes
,
Inter
propositiones
contradictoria●
non
datur
medium
;
such
is
the
state
of
the
matter
between
us
and
Rome
,
they
say
that
we
are
hereticks
,
we
deny
it
,
they
can
not
prove
it
,
seeing
we
believe
the
Scriptures
which
are
given
by
divine
iuspiration
,
and
are
able
to
make
the
man
of
God
perfect
unto
all
good
workes
.
We
say
that
the
Pope
is
Antichrist
,
they
deny
it
,
but
we
can
prove
it
,
out
of
the
prophet
Daniel
the
Apostles
Paul
,
and
John
,
and
so
foorth
in
all
the
rest
of
controversies
,
betwixt
them
and
us
,
so
that
there
can
be
no
composition
,
no
more
than
betwixt
light
and
darknesse
,
God
and
Beliall
;
For
Christ
saith
plainlie
,
He
that
is
not
with
me
,
is
against
me
,
and
he
that
gathereth
not
with
me
,
scattereth
abroad
.
Therefore
there
is
no
mediocritie
heere
.
And
the
reason
of
this
is
,
because
as
the
Apostle
averreth
,
there
is
but
One
Faith
,
in
respect
of
its
formall
object
,
Gods
written
word
,
the
authoritie
whereof
is
from
the
Author
,
God
himself
and
so
is
divine
,
and
what
is
contradictorie
to
it
,
is
not
divine
,
nor
to
be
believed
to
salvation
:
And
therefore
no
meeting
nor
trysting
with
Rome
.
If
it
be
said
that
the
Papists
believe
many
points
common
with
us
,
as
the
Trinitie
,
Incarnation
,
&c.
and
therefore
that
they
must
have
faith
,
and
so
faith
will
not
be
indivisible
:
I
answere
,
that
they
have
a
materiall
faith
,
as
Turks
and
Jewes
likewise
have
,
but
not
a
formall
faith
;
which
depending
upon
the
authoritie
of
God
,
revealed
unto
us
in
his
word
only
;
and
no
other
faith
can
be
profitable
for
salvation
.
The
second
branch
of
this
politick
objection
is
,
their
doubt
of
my
out
coming
from
Rome
,
to
wit
,
that
it
was
to
stir
up
diffension
betwixt
.
Reformists
and
CONE-formists
,
for
the
Papists
and
Jesuits
profite
,
To
these
I
answere
,
first
,
that
their
Critick
spirits
proceed
more
out
of
Philosophicall
,
and
Mathematicall
,
than
out
of
Christian
or
Thologicall
grounds
,
in
this
their
censure
of
my
sincere
proceedings
;
Philosophie
teacheth
them
that
,
Quic
quid
reciptur
,
ad
modum
recipientis
recipitur
,
whatsoever
is
receaved
,
it
is
receaved
according
to
the
measure
of
the
receaver
?
And
Mathematicians
in
their
Opticks
teach
that
the
visible
speces
passing
from
the
object
to
the
organe
which
receaveth
them
,
take
upon
them
the
colour
of
the
mids
where
through
they
passe
,
which
daylie
experience
confirmeth
;
and
therefore
,
according
to
their
dispositions
and
affections
they
judge
of
me
,
as
their
passions
transport
them
,
but
not
as
Christian
charitie
exhorteth
them
,
for
the
Scripture
teacheth
that
it
is
Christ
that
justifieth
,
who
is
he
that
condemneth
.
Secondlie
,
I
answere
,
that
as
God
is
my
witnesse
,
they
wrong
me
pitifully
,
for
,
as
the
Lord
knoweth
,
I
desire
one
Lord
,
one
Faith
,
one
Baptisme
,
not
only
in
Britaine
,
but
likewise
thorow
the
whole
world
,
and
that
we
think
alwayes
the
same
,
till
we
all
come
in
the
unitie
of
faith
,
and
of
the
knowledge
of
the
Son
of
God
,
unto
a
perfect
man
,
unto
the
measure
of
the
stature
of
the
fulnesse
of
Christ
;
That
we
hencefoorth
be
no
more
children
tossed
to
and
fro
,
and
carried
about
with
every
winde
of
doctrine
,
by
the
slight
of
men
,
and
cunning
craftinesse
whereby
they
ly
in
wait
to
deceave
.
Now
to
let
you
see
that
my
conversion
is
not
to
make
dissension
betwixt
you
,
I
will
brieflie
let
you
understand
how
the
Papists
ly
in
wait
to
deceave
you
:
And
that
it
may
be
seene
that
I
am
not
partiall
,
I
speake
to
all
the
three
Kingdomes
of
Scotland
,
England
,
and
Ireland
;
minding
to
show
you
all
three
that
Papists
ly
in
wait
to
deceave
you
by
two
meanes
,
seminaries
,
and
pensions
;
yet
it
is
first
to
be
remarked
that
the
ground
of
both
is
that
Councell
in
Rome
,
called
,
Congregatio
de
propaganda
,
or
rather
extirpanda
fide
,
a
congregation
of
propagating
(
or
rather
)
extirpating
of
Faith
.
This
Congregation
hath
a
most
sumptuous
Palace
in
Rome
,
and
extreme
rich
;
the
members
of
it
,
are
the
Pope
,
as
head
of
the
Church
,
his
nephew
Cardinall
,
Francis
Barbarine
as
his
Lieutennant
,
diverse
others
Cardinals
,
the
Generals
of
severall
Orders
,
the
great
Master
of
the
inquisition
,
and
some
Doctors
all
as
judges
;
they
conveene
every
fryday
,
or
ofter
as
they
please
,
the
end
of
their
meetings
is
to
finde
out
meanes
to
bring
all
people
and
Nations
under
the
popes
dominion
,
for
thus
end
they
have
sundry
meanes
,
such
as
their
Seminaries
of
diverse
nations
,
and
their
pensions
.
The
Semenaries
are
furnished
with
youths
out
of
their
severall
Countries
,
by
Jesuits
,
who
have
the
care
of
them
;
These
youths
are
of
two
sorts
,
the
one
called
Convictores
,
because
they
pay
for
their
entertainment
,
and
these
are
Noble
,
Barons
,
and
Gentlemen
Sons
,
sent
thither
by
their
popish
parents
,
to
be
brought
up
for
diverse
ends
:
The
other
are
called
Seminarists
,
and
these
have
their
food
,
raiment
,
studies
,
books
,
&c.
all
the
time
of
their
studies
out
of
these
colleges
;
with
condition
,
that
after
they
have
stayed
three
moneths
in
one
of
these
Colleges
,
they
must
make
a
vow
to
take
priesthood
upon
them
,
and
to
returne
to
their
severall
Countries
,
when
they
shall
be
found
fit
,
by
the
Jesuits
their
Masters
;
to
the
end
they
may
seduce
others
as
they
were
seduced
themselves
;
And
therefore
after
their
studies
,
they
are
sent
into
the
countrie
,
furnished
with
all
things
necessarie
,
as
apparels
,
moneyes
,
masse-graith
,
and
the
like
,
as
they
are
thought
of
,
and
have
moyen
at
Court
▪
Of
their
seminaries
,
there
be
five
of
our
nation
out
of
the
countrie
,
at
Rome
,
Paris
,
Madrid
,
Doway
,
and
Brounsberg
;
and
one
promised
by
the
Emperour
in
Osnabruck
,
which
the
Swedens
keepe
for
them
;
of
Irish
some
,
and
many
and
great
of
English
.
These
Seminarists
Jesuits
,
and
other
Priests
,
send
their
relation
every
year
of
all
what
passe
in
the
countrie
,
spirituall
or
temporall
,
to
the
foresaid
congregation
,
wherein
all
treasons
,
massacres
,
and
other
bloudie
mischiefs
are
hatched
,
as
the
the
histories
of
England
,
France
and
Spaine
can
testifie
.
This
presupposed
as
an
assured
truth
,
I
spake
first
to
thee
Scotland
,
my
dear
countrie
,
that
thou
wrongest
thy self
mightily
,
to
suffer
these
scismes
and
divisions
in
thee
,
which
are
now
with
great
pitie
to
bee
seene
,
and
shame
to
be
heard
:
That
every
one
of
you
saith
,
I
am
of
Paul
,
and
I
of
Apollo
,
&c.
Is
Christ
divided
,
was
Paul
crucified
for
you
,
or
were
yee
baptized
in
the
name
of
Paul
?
One
sayeth
,
I
am
a
Covenanter
,
another
,
I
am
not
.
What
meanest
thou
,
not
covenanter
?
wilt
thou
not
subscribe
the
contract
which
thy
Parents
Godfathers
,
and
Godmothers
,
as
thy
spirituall
tutors
made
for
thee
at
baptisme
,
and
promised
to
make
thee
subscribe
the
same
,
being
of
perfect
age
,
seing
it
is
for
God
and
his
truth
only
.
God
is
partie
contracter
,
the
angels
were
witnesses
,
and
hell
fire
the
penaltie
;
take
heed
,
and
fight
not
against
God
,
for
as
he
is
Al-seeing
,
so
is
Hee
Almightie
;
and
as
Mercifull
,
to
have
spared
thee
so
long
,
so
is
Hee
Just
,
to
punish
thy
inexcusable
wilfulnesse
.
But
some
will
say
,
that
there
be
great
doctors
not
Covenanters
,
and
wherefore
may
they
not
likewise
stand
out
as
well
as
these
learned
men
.
I
answer
first
,
that
they
are
but
few
,
and
to
my
judgement
(
for
I
have
discoursed
with
some
of
them
)
not
the
learnedest
of
the
kingdome
,
brought
up
in
a
town
which
was
never
yet
cleansed
from
poperie
,
and
where
I
have
seene
an
hundreth
at
Masse
in
one
time
within
this
few
yeeres
:
Secondly
,
these
Doctors
suppose
they
be
both
good
and
learned
,
(
as
I
know
some
of
them
are
)
shall
not
answer
for
thee
in
that
great
day
,
wherein
there
shall
be
had
no
respect
of
persons
;
for
assure
thy self
,
that
Anima
quae
peccaverit
,
ipsa
punietur
,
The
soul
that
sinneth
,
it
shall
be
punished
.
Thirdly
,
what
if
these
Doctors
would
maintaine
poperie
,
and
hinder
a
reformation
,
as
their
predecessors
have
done
,
would
thou
follow
?
God
forbid
:
that
the
doctors
of
that
same
town
proceeded
after
this
kinde
in
the
time
of
the
reformation
,
it
is
manifest
by
And
shortlie
after
the
Lords
summoned
the
principall
learned
men
of
the
realme
foorth
of
the
univesities
of
S.
Andrewes
,
Aberdeene
,
Glasgow
,
and
other
parts
,
to
give
a
reason
of
their
faith
;
and
among
other
,
these
of
Aberdeene
tooke
upon
them
to
dispute
with
John
Knox
,
John
Willock
,
and
M.
Goodman
.
Neither
is
it
to
be
thought
,
that
the
historian
a
stranger
,
wrote
any
thing
out
of
partialitie
in
this
point
against
that
town
,
more
as
against
any
other
of
the
kingdome
,
hee
being
alike
stranger
unto
all
.
My
counsell
now
to
you
that
are
Covenanters
,
is
,
Qui
stat
,
videat
ne
cadat
,
Let
him
that
thinke
hee
standeth
,
take
heed
least
he
fall
;
for
the
crown
of
glory
is
only
for
him
that
overcometh
,
Qui
perseveraverit
usque
in
finem
,
hic
salvus
erit
,
He
that
shall
endure
to
the
end
,
the
same
shall
be
saved
.
Yeeld
not
in
a
word
,
a
syllab
,
a
jote
,
least
thou
scandalize
thy
weak
brother
,
and
give
occasion
to
Rome
to
stand
and
expect
thy
returne
,
she
not
so
much
as
beginning
a
motion
towards
thee
:
For
they
seeing
your
novations
of
Bishops
,
Deanes
,
Doctors
,
kneeling
at
Sacrament
,
crosse
in
Baptisme
,
and
the
rest
of
these
articles
,
were
in
assured
confidence
,
that
yee
were
turning
to
them
againe
,
and
used
commonly
to
say
,
See
so
faine
as
they
are
to
creep
in
to
us
again
,
which
did
confirme
all
our
people
,
and
made
sundrie
of
yours
to
follow
us
.
If
these
points
,
which
sometime
by
the
most
part
were
thought
allowable
,
did
so
much
harm
to
Gods
church
,
what
their
English
masse
,
canonicall
inquisition
,
and
the
rest
of
that
,
almost
banished
,
trash
had
done
,
if
they
had
not
beene
preveened
by
that
Al-seeing
God
,
judge
yee
.
And
finally
,
grant
thou
nothing
that
Rome
desireth
of
thee
,
for
it
hath
no
warrand
from
God
,
and
thou
knowest
no
conformitie
to
be
admitted
betweene
God
and
Dagon
;
hold
fast
then
that
which
thou
hast
least
another
take
thy
crown
from
thee
.
And
to
you
not
Covenanters
I
say
,
that
of
your
Bishops
I
never
saw
any
but
one
;
neither
would
I
mourn
,
albeit
I
never
saw
more
of
them
in
Scotland
;
and
I
am
their
friend
or
enemie
,
as
they
are
Christs
:
yea
,
more
I
say
,
if
yee
knew
as
well
as
they
and
I
know
;
even
the
draughts
that
are
drawn
against
you
,
the
strength
and
policie
of
your
enemies
without
,
and
your
inward
enemies
,
against
this
poor
church
of
God
,
I
am
cercertainly
perswaded
that
yee
would
all
subscribe
that
worthie
Covenant
,
before
that
yee
went
out
of
this
Church
,
or
else
I
would
hold
you
as
internall
papists
;
for
there
bee
both
internall
and
externall
.
I
perceive
you
all
curious
to
demand
me
a
question
,
if
modestie
could
permit
you
to
speak
,
to
wit
,
what
is
this
that
I
know
more
than
other
men
,
let
us
(
say
ye
)
understand
it
,
and
we
will
yeeld
to
reason
.
To
this
lawfull
question
I
answer
,
that
I
know
more
than
any
Protestant
in
Scotland
of
this
businesse
;
for
I
was
imployed
in
it
,
the
year
of
God
1632.
and
gave
in
(
among
other
points
of
my
commission
)
a
petition
to
the
foresaid
Congregation
at
Rome
▪
and
else
where
,
desiring
them
to
advise
upon
the
meanes
,
for
the
reduction
of
Scotland
to
Rome
;
diverse
were
proponed
by
these
politick
heads
,
who
studie
only
to
destroy
Kings
and
pervert
kingdomes
;
of
many
,
these
few
were
most
considerable
:
First
,
that
they
should
all
imploy
their
wits
for
the
perversion
of
his
Majestie
,
our
Soveraigne
Lord
,
and
contribute
for
the
levying
of
an
armie
,
under
pretext
of
giving
assistance
to
some
confederate
Prince
,
and
therewith
to
force
libertie
of
conscience
:
This
opinion
was
rejected
as
dangerous
,
till
all
things
were
surer
,
and
their
faction
stronger
:
2.
That
if
they
could
not
attaine
to
their
purpose
with
his
Majestie
,
they
should
endeavour
to
get
two
Jesuits
in
our
Prince
his
service
,
for
his
Graces
instruction
,
and
education
in
poperie
:
3.
That
pensions
should
be
given
by
mediate
wayes
,
through
the
Vniversities
,
and
other
parts
where
they
might
work
their
ends
:
4.
Yet
this
was
all
thought
little
of
,
by
one
of
our
Countriemen
,
who
advised
them
to
set
their
whole
mindes
for
the
perversion
of
England
;
which
being
neerer
to
them
in
points
of
doctrine
,
forme
of
service
,
worship
,
and
ecclesiasticall
government
,
they
might
work
surer
,
and
with
greater
hope
of
prevailing
,
then
with
his
Countriemen
,
whom
he
assured
to
be
of
a
stubborn
nature
,
dangerous
to
be
dealt
with
,
and
great
Puritans
,
directly
opposite
to
the
church
of
Rome
:
And
therefore
nothing
more
should
be
desired
of
them
,
but
conformitie
in
matters
of
religion
with
England
,
which
the
English
church
would
gladly
wish
,
as
if
she
were
a
mother
church
whereof
others
did
flow
;
neither
could
his
Countriemen
deny
it
,
in
respect
of
his
Majesties
Supremacie
,
and
of
the
union
of
the
two
Crowns
and
Kingdomes
,
that
they
both
might
have
but
one
Lord
,
one
faith
,
one
baptisme
,
&
one
King
.
For
the
execution
of
his
counsell
,
he
proponed
mutuall
intelligence
to
be
procured
betwixt
England
and
Rome
,
which
shortly
after
was
begun
by
an
Italian
priest
,
a
great
politician
,
well
versed
in
the
French
tongue
,
called
Il
Signor
Gregorio
,
who
stayed
more
as
an
year
and
an
half
in
London
for
that
effect
,
and
with
whom
I
conferred
in
his
owne
ludging
,
in
the
Convent
garden
at
London
,
and
with
two
great
men
of
our
nation
,
and
now
continueth
there
himself
,
with
great
grudge
to
both
the
kingdomes
,
seeing
this
mutuall
intelligence
was
never
heard
of
betwixt
Rome
and
us
,
since
the
Cardinals
Wolsey
and
Polus
dayes
▪
neither
is
it
necessarie
,
as
Statesmen
may
see
.
Now
,
not
Covenanter
,
is
thy
curiositie
satisfied
?
This
I
know
,
and
more
,
looke
thou
to
it
in
time
;
and
bee
not
one
of
these
,
who
for
vanitie
or
other
ends
will
bee
thought
singulare
against
Gods
cause
,
and
thy
owne
promise
in
baptisme
.
And
I
will
end
this
discourse
,
that
my
enemies
say
not
that
I
minde
to
put
dissension
betwixt
Protestants
and
CONE-formists
,
letting
our
neighbours
England
and
Ireland
see
some
of
the
dangers
wherein
they
stand
of
that
Romane
antichrist
,
and
his
congregation
de
extirpanda
fide
.
First
then
,
yee
stand
both
in
danger
as
well
as
we
,
of
these
our
related
dangers
;
especially
of
that
mutuall
intelligence
between
Rome
and
England
.
2.
Of
your
Countrie
mens
affection
to
Rome
,
if
they
be
papists
,
for
alleadged
rights
of
the
popes
upon
you
both
,
the
one
called
Peters
pennie
,
the
other
called
Peters
patrimonie
.
3.
Your
extreame
great
number
of
Jesuits
and
other
Priests
,
extending
in
England
to
five
or
six
thousand
,
so
that
they
are
striving
among
themselves
,
and
writing
books
against
other
(
which
I
my self
carried
to
Rome
)
for
Bishopricks
in
your
Church
.
As
for
Ireland
it
hath
fifteene
papists
bishops
alone
.
This
is
a
great
danger
.
4.
Your
populous
multitude
of
Papists
in
you
both
,
extending
to
many
thousands
,
so
that
I
am
of
that
minde
,
that
in
England
the
people
(
if
not
alreadie
)
may
shortlie
desire
a
Generall
Assemblie
,
for
libertie
of
conscience
.
5.
The
education
of
your
Nobilitie
at
schooles
in
forraine
countries
,
who
having
drunke
in
the
doctrine
of
iniquitie
from
their
tender
age
,
are
both
more
perverse
in
themselves
,
and
more
dangerous
,
bringing
in
their
friends
and
neighbours
,
by
their
Priests
to
perdition
with
them
.
6.
That
which
is
to
be
lamented
of
all
,
that
you
have
good
lawes
,
both
of
you
,
against
Papists
,
and
very
good
reason
to
execute
them
▪
but
alace
,
money
break
them
,
granting
to
all
Papists
a
pecuniall
libertie
of
conscience
▪
and
present
banishment
to
all
these
poore
reformed
Christians
,
who
will
not
conforme
with
you
,
and
that
which
is
to
be
laughen
,
or
rather
weeped
at
,
that
yee
would
blinde
peoples
eyes
with
your
searchers
,
going
on
the
one
side
to
apprehend
priests
,
and
punish
papists
;
and
on
the
other
side
;
to
have
your
customers
to
receave
moneyes
,
and
give
discharges
for
libertie
of
papistrie
,
O
God!
who
doth
not
evidentlie
perceave
these
monstruous
dangers
,
and
not
oppose
himself
with
all
his
power
to
them
,
if
there
remaine
but
a
sponk
of
true
Christianitie
in
him
?
Truelie
,
who
doth
it
not
,
I
must
of
necessitie
think
him
an
internall
papist
.
The
last
danger
of
all
the
three
kingdomes
is
Pensions
,
whereof
we
may
consider
four
things
.
1.
The
giver
▪
2.
The
persons
to
whom
they
are
given
.
3.
The
quantitie
of
the
summes
.
4.
And
the
end
wherefore
they
are
given
.
There
is
certainlie
pensions
given
in
the
Countrie
,
for
priests
and
intelligencers
,
and
out
of
the
Countrie
,
for
Semenaries
and
correspondents
of
these
intelligencers
;
but
to
come
to
the
particulars
.
1.
The
givers
are
the
house
of
Austria
,
and
the
foresaid
Congregation
,
de
extirpanda
fide
.
2.
The
persons
to
whom
it
is
given
in
Scotland
,
to
my
knowledge
are
the
Priests
(
whereof
I
was
one
)
the
man
that
goeth
for
it
,
and
the
thesaurer
or
keeper
,
I
know
the
names
and
residences
of
the
rest
;
and
had
set
them
down
heere
,
if
I
had
not
declared
them
sufficiently
by
writ
alreadie
:
And
if
there
be
given
pensions
to
any
other
as
to
these
,
the
superiour
with
his
counsellours
and
the
Treasurer
know
it
,
for
me
I
know
not
;
but
this
I
am
assured
of
,
that
there
was
more
sent
into
the
country
,
than
was
bestowed
upon
the
foresaid
persons
.
3
The
quantitie
in
cumulo
is
best
known
to
them
,
I
being
none
of
the
Superiours
counsellours
,
in
respect
of
my
travels
for
the
mission
,
the
quantitie
that
we
who
were
Priests
gote
,
was
an
hundred
crowns
in
the
yeer
from
Rome
,
and
eighteene
pence
every
day
from
Spaine
,
besides
our
purchase
by
our
Masses
,
Confessions
,
and
Pardons
,
which
was
more
or
lesse
,
conforme
to
out
imployment
,
and
the
persons
with
whom
we
dealt
.
4.
Lastly
,
in
a
word
the
end
of
these
gifts
is
pretended
zeal
and
piety
,
but
truely
intended
Hierarchie
of
Rome
,
and
Monarchie
of
Spaine
,
which
may
appear
by
the
deposition
of
M.
George
Ker
,
and
the
Jesuits
Abercrumbie
,
Crighton
,
and
Gordoun
,
with
three
Noblemens
letters
intercepted
with
him
,
and
registrat
in
this
town
,
the
year
of
God
1592.
by
his
pensions
given
to
us
,
and
his
pretended
rights
over
our
native
countries
.
If
this
be
not
an
evident
danger
to
suffer
so
many
forraine
Princes
pensioners
in
your
bosome
,
God
see
to
it
in
his
own
time
;
and
give
me
grace
that
I
may
follow
my
sincere
and
heartie
resolution
,
that
at
the
houre
of
my
death
,
I
may
say
wirh
the
Apostle
,
I
have
fought
a
good
fight
;
I
have
finished
my
course
,
I
have
keept
the
faith
,
hence
foorth
there
is
laid
up
for
me
a
crown
of
righteousnesse
which
the
Lord
the
righteous
judge
shall
give
me
at
that
day
,
&c.
And
I
shall
be
surely
one
of
these
,
to
who
my
blessed
Saviour
shall
say
in
that
day
,
Come
yee
blessed
of
my
Father
;
inherit
the
kingdome
prepared
for
you
from
the
foundation
of
the
world
.
To
this
gratious
Father
,
with
his
blessed
Son
▪
and
the
holy
Ghost
,
be
all
power
praise
,
and
glory
,
honour
,
and
dominion
,
for
ever
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.