AFter twelue full months that this Treatise leyes by , ready for the print , it comes to light ; too late in the Authors opinion ; better late than never , in the judgment of others ; and som perhaps will say , better never ; each one as he fancies ; but the booke , which is a Debitor Sapientibus & Insipientibus , to the Wyse and foolish ; goes neer hand to please both : to the foolish who would not have it come out ; it's som satisfaction , that its come out so late ; to the Wyse , who so earnestly desired it , it's a satisfaction , that it comes out , tho later than they expected it . They who liked the former Treatise , probably will not mislike this : the blind with ignorance or prejudice will like neither . As it has met with a forreign Printer who vnderstands not the language , so it may vnluckily meet som Homely Reader who vnderstands not the sense of it ; the First has been so ingenuous as to confess his Erratas , and give you a Catalogue of them in the end of the book ; but I do much fear● the second will not be so humble , as to acknowledge his Ignorance : Pardon the first , and Pray for the second .

THe plausible outside and faire cunning dress of I. S. his discourse in his Vnerring Vnerrable Church , saies our Dr in the first Page of his Repley , has put him to the trouble of searching into its hidden diseases by Incisions and Dissections of Anatomy : he has spared vs this labor I thank him , the distemper of his discourse appears so visibly in its exterior parts that wee need no Incisions or dissections to lay it open : but since he has play'd the part of a Chirurgion , let him give me leaue to act that of a Physitian and present him a Doss of Pills , which shall have nothing of bitterness , but what Truth carries with it to ill temper'd Pallats . Those rude expressions , Scurrilous , Impudent , Lyar , Impostor , Profligatly bold , and such flourishs ( wherwith his book is thick set ) become very well the cause he defends , which is of no better Alloy ; yet it cannot but surprise me , to see him promise in his printed sermon such a gentle temper , challenging only to a sober exchange of Scripture and reason ; and in his late book I find him so peeuish and boysterous , that he yields to none of his Reformed Writers in their acustomed style ; but Alas ! he who broke thofe sacred tyes which he had to God and his Church ; its not to be admired he infringes bonds of a smaler seyse : I confess I am apt to believe this coyn is not of our D rs stamping ; nor yet of any school man of that noble Universitie of Oxford , as som do imagin ; doubtless it must have bin fetcht from Billingsgate ; but our Dr is to be Blamed for permitting a book so filthily worded to be publisht in his name , without any thing that might be a baite to the attention of an ingenious Reader , but injuries , tales of Popes , Fryars , parities of turnips , rotten apples , and Spanish Proverbs , saluting Modestie a far of in his 13. Page ; Pardon me , o Sacred Laws of Modestie , and this complement being made , he bids Modestie A Dieu , and no more news of it in all his booke , but rattles and scolds beyond measure without any thing that relishs a scholler , or an answer to his Antagonist ; but som little words heer and there ( like few grains of corn in a heape of chafe ) without any connexion , or sense , either to enervat his Adversari's arguments or establish his own Doctrin ; that you would think it's som old book made to som other intent , and a new Title given it , for to make it an answer to his Adversaries .

And this is the strain of Protestant Writers , the vnhappiness of their cause , and the goodness of ours being such that they cannot better their own , nor worse ours , but by passion in lieu of reason , and invectives and calumnies , insteed of solid arguments ; in which art the two late Champions which Ireland has given to the Church of England , Dr Egan and Dr Sall , do so excell , that none but the first could parallell the second : and I cannot but admire the particular study which Dr Sall seems to make of tredding the footsteps of the other , as if he did striue , to copy out his actions ; Dr Egan cast of his habit and became a Protestant ; Dr Sall soon after did as much ; Dr Egan goes to England to reape the benefit of his change in Religion ; Dr Sall runs after him to do the like ; Dr Egan preachs and prints his sermon , Dr Sall must do no less ; Dr Egan takes the degree of Bachiller in the Universitie of Oxford ; Dr Sall must have that of Doctor in the Colledge of Dublin ; Dr Egan styles himself Confessor General of Ireland ; Dr Sall think's Irish Titles to be too mean , and fetchs them from Spain , Lector of Moral Theologie in the Royal Colledge of Salamanca &c. God bless the couple ; its no smale glorie and comfort for the Church of England to have got them , and I wonder why they begin to be wearie of them .

But tho he be very bitter all along in his book , in no where does his irascible facultie appear so sharpe edged as in the defence of his imaginary Titles of Professor of Divinity in Tudela and Palencia in Spain ; Lector of Moral Divinity in the Royal Colledge of Salamanca ; Professor of Controversies in the Irish Colledge of Salamanca : He will prove me a Lyar , and a Profligatly bold Impostor for disputing him these Titles ; and how ? marry by an Epigram made to his praise by a Prince ; By Testimonial Letters of the great credit he had in Spain ; by a Letter of a Venerable Prelat written in his commendation , and by a Lycence vnder the Inquisitor General's hand for to reade prohibited books , in quality of a Lector of Controversies in the Irish Colledge . I beseech you good Reader ask him has he kept the testimonial letters of his Priestly Ordination ; it's a thousand to one if he has not lost them ; but the testimonial letters of his great credit and empty Titles he has carefully preseru'd . But that you may see how farr he is from proving me a Lyar , and a Profligatly bold Impostor ; remember , I pray , what he advanced in his printed , Sermon and observe what his testimonial letters import .

In his Sermon he told vs he was Professor of Controversies in the Irish Colledge and his Auditory were Spaniards , french and Irish : will not any who reads this , and knows not the D rs humor , conceive that this Professorship of Controversies was som public imployment , attended by so great an Auditory ? I replyed there was no professor of Controversies in the Irish Colledge with Spanish and french Auditors ; and this I do again auerr , and will prove it ; for I do not deny but that either he , who is there in the office of Rector , or som other Iesuit who lives with him , ( commonly he is alone ) has the Title and name of Lector of Controversies ; but this is but an empty Title , ( as the Duke of Lorrain is called King of Ierusalem , ) and never yet had any other exercise , but to teach half a douzen lads , Collegians of the Colledge ; and this very slender exercise itself , it has it but very seldom ; but never yet was it seen , or permitted that any extern Schoolars either Spaniards , french , or Irish should enter into the Colledge to be taught : as I write this I receive a letter from the Rector of the Irish Colledge of Salamanca , a Man of credit for his virtue and learning ; he writes thus in answer to my letter . Some time there has bin in this Colledge the Title of Professor of Controversies , but a meer Title without any exercise , because the imployment of that Person , was only to repass and expound to the youth of the Colledge , their Dictats , which they write in schoole ; nor was it ever permitted that any extern schollar should com into the Colledge to be taught , but only the Domestic Schollars of the house : somtimes perhaps , he that was in that imployment did reade som lesson out of Bellarmin or Becan , which Mr Sall might have don ; but as for to have bin Professor of Moral Divinity in the Royal Colledge of this town ; ther's no such thing ; for there was never yet any Professor of Moral Divinity in it : as for to be Lector of Divinity in Tudela and Palencia ; in Tudela there never was any Divinity taught ; but there is there a Master of Cases of Conscience , whose Auditory never exceeds the number of four or fiue , and commonly he has none : in Palencia ther's no Divinity taught that euer I could hear of . Thus goes the letter from the Irish Colledge of Salamanca , and you may see , that Dr Sall's censure against I S. of Profligat boldeness and a Lyar , has more of good English than of truth and common civility .

His testimonial letters of his great credit prove just nothing ; for Example , a Prince forsooth made an Epigram in his praise ; suppose that be true ; what then ? do not wee all know the priviledges of Poets and Painters ? a Prelat banisht , meets him in Pāplona in Spain , and expecting he might be of som service or comfort vnto him in that strange Country , he writes in his commendation , what he would have him write , and he thought might availe for to stop him there ; what does all that amount vnto ? That the Prelat was desirous to haue a friend and Country man in that Citty ; and seeing him teaching Divinity , without any further examin believed him a brave man : His lycence vnder the Inquisitor General's hand for reading heretical books as being Professor of Controversies ; proves , at most , that he had that Title ; but saies nothing of the exercise of it ; which was no more but to be a Pedagogue , as wee have said , to half a douzen Collegians , and saies nothing of the Spanish and french Auditorie : Our Dr tells vs there are Several Iesuits now living in Ireland , who were Students in Divinity , when he was a Professor of Moral Theologie and Controversies in Salamanca , who did see him sit with the other Lectors of Divinity examining yearly their sufficiency for promotion . Never did man speake less truth and with more courage ; had not misfortune frustrated , or at least delayed our hopes , of seeing that witty Treatise entituled Haudkins Letters , the product of an exquisit judgment , and of a no less learned man ; we should have an exact and pleasant account of the D r ' s great imployment and credit in spain : but since he has cited som Jesuits now living in Ireland for spectators of his glorie in Salamanca ; I will declare what they depose , and I have that satisfaction of their truth and sinceritie , that I am sure they would not for any passion either impose vpon me , or diminish of any mans credit : two of them knew him in Salamanca , and so far from shouldering with the Lectors of Divinity in the Royal Colledge , that his credit did not reach to be thought worthy , to carrie their bookes ; never was he of so much credit as to be either invited or permitted to argue , as much as in their Domestic Theses ; never was there any Moral Divinitie taught in the Royal Colledge ; nor Controversies in the Irish Colledge but as we mentioned before ; never was he a Coexaminator with the other Lectors of Divinitie , but in one occasion , that some Lectors of Divinitie being absent in the time of examen , they honored the Charge of Rector of the Irish Colledge which he had , by calling him to be one of the Examinators : and if of this little accidentarie substitution he be so full , as to reckon himself among the Examinators , and to cope with the Lectors of Divinitie of that Royal Colledge ; likly , if at any time , some one did consult him in a case of Conscience , when he was in Salamanca is all the ground he has , for to call himself , Lector of Moral Theologie in the Royal Colledge ; and by this Rule , if he has heard any on's Confession in spain , he might haue called himself Confessor General of Spain with as much reason as his friend Egan stiles himself Confessor General of Ireland .

But will you see how this man , who so mightily magnifies himself , speakes of others ; not well , to be sure ; for self admirers , are ordinarily despisers of others : in his 5. chap. he touchs that ridiculous Consecration of his first Protestant Bishops at the Nags-head Tavern in Cheapside , and saies , it's a slanderous fable invented by Papists , long since refuted , and lately revived by a Person of a greate calling , to his shame and confusion ; being convicted of impostures by B. Bramhal : And dare you , Dr , to charge a Person of so great a calling with impostures ? a Person of so knowen honor and reputation , with shame and confusion ? if , to have given signal testimonies of his Duty to his exiled Soveraign in the most renowned Courts of the world ; if , to have the whole Royal family for Panegyrists of his Loyaltie and good services , be a shame ; you may accuse him of it : if , to have had Rome and Portugal for admirers of his Wit and learning ; if , to have given to the world many learned Treatises ; if , to have been the only man named in the last proclamation for the banishment of Prelates and Regulars be a confusion , and not a proof of his merit , that he was singl'd out , as the David of our Camp ; if this be a confusion , you may charge him with it : if to be honored and esteemed by the best of Catholics and Protestants ; and hated by none , but by the worse of both , be a shame and confusion ; you may charge him with it : if to have been esteemed and aplauded in the Communitie , wherof he was once a Member , and from which nothing , but an indispensable necessitie of the Church , and king's service could separate him ; which he no sooner performed , and the Charge he now has , was offered him ; but he religiously sacrific'd that Eminent charge in the hands of the superior to God , earnestly asking to return to that Communitie ; which was denied most prudently , because it was knowen his Eminent Talents would shine with more luste to the glorie of God , and benefit of the Church in that great imployment , than in a priuat life ; if you call this a shame and confusion , you may charge him with it ; but to call his convincing discourse of the Nullity of your Clergy , his shame and confusion , and your B. Bramhal's weake Repley a conuiction of his impostures , is to betray your judgment , to be an injust balance of what is honorable , glorious , judicious and wittie .

And truly you have given no smale testimonie of this , in that great Title you give your Booke ; The Catholic Apostolic Church and faith of England : as you hope to be saved , Dr , did not you laugh , when you were writing that Title ; if the frights of a byass'd conscience can permit you to laugh ? when first I viewed it , and met in the Frontispice of the book , The Theater of Oxford , I thought it was a Comedy acted in that Universitie ; but since that he will have it pass for a serious discourse of Religion , wee must demonstrat how ill qualified his Church is for to carrie so glorious à Title ; and tho this has been sufficiently evidenc't in my former Treatise , and my arguments in no wise answered ; yet I will again so enforce the truth in this Rejoynder , that my impartial Reader will I hope be convinc't that the Roman Catholic Religion : is the true Catholic , Apostolic Religion ; and that Christ has no Church on earth , if there be not an Unerring Unerrable Church , and as I , to shun a tedious repetition of what I formerly said , do omit the strong arguments of my former book , which convincingly prove the points heer handled ; so I hope my Reader for to be fully satisfied , will not be content with reading this Treatise , but will also cast an eye vpon the former : As neither passion nor prejudice has any share in my intention , so I hope my Reader will lay both aside in the perusal of my endeavors , which aime at nothing but his spiritual advantage , as being