A
REASONABLE
DEFENCE
OF
THE
Seasonable
Discourse
:
OR
,
A
Reply
to
a
Treatise
called
,
A
full
Answer
and
Confutation
of
a
scandalous
Pamphlet
,
&c.
THe
Seasonable
Discourse
shewing
the
necessity
of
maintaining
the
Established
Religion
in
opposition
to
Popery
,
having
not
long
after
its
coming
abroad
into
the
World
,
been
replyed
unto
,
under
the
title
of
a
full
Answer
,
it
was
to
be
hoped
that
there
would
be
seen
at
once
put
together
,
all
that
could
be
said
in
defence
of
the
Roman
Cause
:
and
possibly
so
it
is
.
However
upon
perusal
it
appears
,
that
the
Book
made
good
its
Title
,
by
being
full
only
of
emptiness
and
railing
;
and
besides
,
hath
the
disadvantage
to
be
encumbred
by
a
particular
quarrel
,
which
it
seems
the
Author
before
had
managed
in
the
defence
of
the
Loyalty
of
his
Party
.
Therefore
at
his
first
setting
forth
upon
his
Controversie
,
he
falls
into
passion
,
that
any
thing
should
be
wrote
in
a
matter
wherein
he
happens
to
have
dealt
,
without
a
particular
regard
to
him
:
as
if
all
mankind
were
bound
to
read
whatever
he
wrote
,
or
that
impertinencies
were
to
be
adverted
to
in
a
Discourse
which
pretended
to
be
seasonable
.
What
the
Authors
triumphs
are
in
his
Catholick
Apology
,
and
his
Reply
to
the
Answer
of
it
,
I
am
not
here
concerned
to
account
for
;
he
will
find
that
done
else
where
:
my
business
shall
be
to
vindicate
that
Discourse
in
defence
of
the
Establisht
Religion
and
Laws
,
which
our
Author
,
according
to
his
great
civility
and
duty
,
is
pleased
to
complement
under
the
name
of
a
Scandalous
Pamphlet
.
The
first
exception
he
takes
,
is
at
its
pretence
to
be
seasonable
;
and
his
reason
is
,
because
his
Majesty
put
out
his
gracious
Indulgence
of
Popery
,
and
other
Sectaries
,
which
also
confounded
the
designs
of
foreign
Achitophels
,
and
united
England
as
one
man
,
without
the
least
murmur
in
our
streets
.
Had
this
been
wrote
before
the
last
Session
of
Parliament
,
we
might
have
taken
it
for
one
of
our
Authors
natural
streins
of
Rhetorick
,
which
of
course
pass
with
him
for
demonstrations
;
but
after
that
his
Majesty
had
recalled
it
,
boldly
to
tell
us
that
none
were
aggrieved
but
Pulpit-Rabshekahs
,
is
Language
becoming
them
,
who
not
long
since
attempted
to
blow
up
the
Parliament
and
King
together
,
and
stand
in
defiance
of
Majesty
and
Law
.
But
after
all
,
it
so
happens
,
that
ever
since
that
this
indulgence
is
withdrawn
;
we
have
as
vigorously
as
before
pursued
the
War
against
the
force
as
well
as
machinations
and
designs
of
foreign
Achitophels
,
without
any
murmur
but
what
proceeded
from
a
few
scribling
Rabshekahs
:
and
therefore
I
may
reasonably
hope
,
that
notwithstanding
our
Authors
charge
,
who
will
needs
make
me
a
Dutchman
,
I
may
,
without
the
help
of
an
Act
for
Naturalization
,
be
an
Englishman
again
.
I
have
(
not
long
since
)
read
in
a
desperate
Book
wrote
against
Henry
IV
.
of
France
,
in
the
time
of
the
Civil
War
,
entituled
,
De
Justâ
Reipub
.
Christianae
in
reges
impios
&
haereticos
authoritate
;
an
odd
Paradox
attempted
to
be
proved
at
large
in
a
Chapter
of
above
40
Pages
,
P.
19
●4
.
&c.
that
the
Hugonots
of
France
were
no
longer
Frenchmen
.
By
parity
of
reason
it
may
be
our
case
here
,
and
no
Protestant
deserves
the
name
of
an
Englishman
:
If
upon
this
score
it
be
that
I
am
out-law'd
,
I
must
bear
the
calam●ty
as
well
as
I
can
;
being
to
suffer
as
in
a
very
good
cause
,
so
also
in
exceedingly
good
company
.
Our
Author
having
thus
unfortunately
combated
the
Title
of
my
Book
,
the
next
Attaque
is
against
my
manner
of
expressing
the
excellency
of
the
Faith
of
the
English
Reformed
Church
,
with
the
erroneousness
of
the
Roman
.
And
this
he
overthrows
by
saying
,
he
will
be
bound
to
describe
the
Faith
of
any
Christian
Congregation
in
the
World
,
in
the
very
same
Words
.
We
will
admit
that
any
Christian
Church
may
be
so
described
;
but
how
well
such
a
Picture
will
represent
its
Pattern
,
any
sober
man
will
easily
judge
.
I
am
sure
the
being
bound
,
and
offering
to
lay
Wagers
,
is
a
very
incompetent
decision
of
Controversies
:
and
indeed
no
body
besides
one
of
our
Authors
Kidney
,
would
disparage
the
credit
of
the
39.
Articles
,
the
Catechism
and
Liturgy
of
the
Church
of
England
,
in
the
affair
for
which
they
are
brought
;
the
description
of
its
Faith
.
For
be
they
whatever
our
Author
,
or
any
other
perverse
man
would
have
them
,
they
are
certainly
the
most
authentick
evidence
that
can
be
given
of
what
our
Church
professes
.
And
as
to
the
tricking
out
of
Popery
,
which
he
so
much
dislikes
,
opposing
his
crude
sentiments
concerning
real
Presence
,
Infallibility
,
Purgatory
,
&c.
't
is
sure
more
reasonable
to
take
the
measures
of
Popery
from
the
dictates
of
the
Council
of
Trent
,
and
other
publick
determinations
referred
to
by
me
,
then
what
one
or
two
private
men
will
,
to
serve
a
present
turn
,
declare
to
be
their
Judgment
or
Opinion
.
't
is
true
,
Cardinal
Bellarmine
is
quoted
sometimes
by
me
;
and
so
soon
as
his
authority
,
and
those
who
go
along
with
him
,
shall
be
allowed
to
have
no
greater
force
,
then
the
angry
single
assertion
of
the
Bishop
of
Ossory
,
we
will
shew
him
how
far
we
will
be
parties
to
the
injury
of
bringing
in
a
rival
pretension
to
that
of
his
holiness
,
in
being
Antichrist
.
But
our
Adversary
tells
us
,
and
we
see
it
plainly
in
every
period
he
writes
,
that
Religion
is
not
his
Calling
;
and
adds
,
that
his
pains
is
saved
in
writing
about
Religion
,
because
I
magisterially
tell
what
mine
own
is
,
without
defending
it
;
and
no
otherwise
disprove
his
,
then
by
wrong
stating
it
:
that
is
,
give
an
account
of
both
the
one
and
the
other
,
from
the
authentick
writings
of
each
;
therefore
he
entreats
the
good
Reader
never
to
believe
such
a
detractor
,
&c.
How
far
his
Petitions
may
be
prevalent
in
lieu
of
Arguments
,
I
shall
not
determine
,
but
offer
a
more
just
request
unto
the
Reader
,
that
he
believe
neither
of
us
;
but
look
to
matter
of
Fact
,
and
the
reasons
alledged
by
both
,
and
only
believe
himself
:
for
under
our
Authors
favour
,
notwithstanding
his
peremptory
asseveration
;
I
neither
assume
to
my self
,
nor
desire
to
have
given
me
,
the
priviledge
of
being
an
Interpreter
or
a
Judge
.
And
so
for
the
present
,
the
Idolatry
of
the
Mass
,
the
sacriledge
of
robbing
the
Laity
of
half
the
Sacrament
,
and
all
the
holy
Scriptures
;
the
addition
of
new
Articles
to
the
Creed
,
the
praying
to
Saints
,
and
adoration
of
Images
,
with
the
other
abominations
of
that
Church
,
are
upon
our
Authors
Passport
,
to
march
off
in
peace
.
He
advances
next
to
the
fourth
Paragraph
of
my
Discourse
,
and
by
his
dextrous
method
of
dispatch
,
confutes
the
whole
Section
;
which
from
unquestionable
History
,
and
downright
matter
of
Fact
,
the
writings
of
the
most
celebrated
Authors
of
the
Roman
Profession
,
the
Bulls
of
Popes
,
and
Canons
of
Councils
admitted
by
the
Church
of
Rome
for
universal
,
demonstrated
how
destructive
Popery
is
to
the
interest
of
Kings
and
their
Governments
,
by
gravely
calling
in
for
Umpires
Solon
and
Lycurgus
;
who
,
he
says
,
would
expect
that
Protestant
Princes
should
after
this
fair
story
,
abound
in
all
affluence
and
power
,
and
live
longer
then
Nestor
,
whilest
those
of
the
Catholick
Model
,
are
but
Tenants
at
will
to
the
Pope
,
&c.
Here
our
Author
,
if
there
be
any
sense
in
what
he
says
,
supposes
that
Protestant
Princes
cannot
suffer
any
harm
from
Papists
by
the
one
priviledge
of
their
having
thrown
off
the
Papal
yoke
,
and
that
no
sickness
or
accident
is
to
have
liberty
to
kill
where
his
Holiness
spares
.
But
by
our
Authors
good
leave
,
Solon
and
Lycurgus
would
make
no
such
inferences
,
should
they
by
a
Poetick
Fiction
,
or
if
you
please
(
for
't
is
the
same
thing
)
by
a
Popish
miracle
,
be
revived
,
and
enjoyned
a
Pilgrimage
to
these
Western
parts
of
Europe
,
they
would
have
seen
a
Protestant
Prince
in
France
,
amidst
the
solemnities
of
his
marriage
,
entertained
with
the
massacre
of
30000
of
his
Friends
and
Servants
,
his
own
Bedchamber
not
being
an
Asylum
,
Meser
.
in
An.
1572.
the
Butchery
committed
in
cold
blood
in
a
time
of
Peace
,
and
begun
in
the
dead
of
night
;
against
not
only
the
expectation
,
but
also
the
solemnest
promises
of
security
;
so
that
at
once
were
violated
all
Laws
of
Nations
,
Nature
,
and
Religion
,
all
those
genial
and
hospitable
Rites
which
were
held
sacred
by
the
most
barbarous
of
Heathens
,
by
a
new
prodigy
of
cruelty
sent
forth
into
the
World
for
the
propagation
and
glory
of
the
Roman
Catholick
Faith
;
which
Act
,
notwithstanding
all
its
guilt
and
horrour
,
became
the
publick
exultation
,
not
only
of
the
Court
of
the
Catholick
King
:
but
the
sacred
Conclave
of
his
Holiness
,
and
above
all
,
his
Holiness
himself
.
They
would
have
seen
the
self
same
Prince
not
only
assaulted
in
the
Field
by
open
violence
,
but
attempted
in
his
person
,
and
that
more
then
once
by
his
loyal
Roman
Catholick
Subjects
;
and
when
he
had
quitted
his
Religion
,
and
hoped
for
more
security
;
at
last
destroyed
by
the
desperate
hand
of
one
of
that
Churches
Votaries
.
Or
if
the
before
mentioned
Solon
and
Lycurgus
had
gone
forward
to
the
British
Islands
,
they
would
have
there
beheld
a
Protestant
Queen
pursued
with
greater
fury
by
her
Popish
Subjects
;
scarce
a
year
of
her
long
reign
past
without
some
new
attempt
upon
her
life
by
War
,
Cambd
.
Eliz
.
Speed
,
Baker
,
&c.
by
Dagger
,
or
by
poison
.
And
had
they
staid
for
some
time
with
us
;
they
would
have
seen
her
Successour
designed
to
death
with
his
Royal
Family
,
his
Nobility
and
Senate
,
the
representative
Power
,
and
real
strength
of
his
whole
Realm
,
by
a
strange
compendium
of
ruine
,
all
of
them
in
one
short
moment
to
be
destroyed
by
the
perpetually
loyal
Roman
Catholick
Saints
and
Subjects
of
his
Kingdom
.
After
all
,
though
the
case
be
plainly
thus
,
our
good
man
appeals
to
experience
the
truest
informer
of
mankind
,
and
to
make
out
an
incontrolable
proof
of
the
greatness
and
security
of
Popish
Princes
,
he
points
out
to
one
nameless
King
of
Spain
,
and
one
as
nameless
King
of
France
,
and
so
proportionably
(
that
is
some
one
of
)
the
Papal
Princes
ranting
like
the
Grand
Seignior
,
if
they
please
in
their
own
Dominions
,
&c.
When
,
or
how
it
pleases
these
Monarchs
to
rant
,
we
are
not
told
;
nor
what
comes
of
ranting
(
if
his
Holiness
chance
to
be
concerned
in
it
)
at
the
long
run
.
We
will
suppose
the
ranting
King
of
Spain
,
whom
he
means
,
may
be
Charles
the
V.
for
he
we
know
made
bold
to
imprison
the
old
Gentleman
;
but
in
the
mean
time
there
was
very
little
ranting
in
the
case
.
Hist
.
Courc
.
Trent
,
p.
44.
Spondan
.
in
Anno
1529.
The
Emperour
sadly
complains
of
the
misfortune
to
his
neighbour
Princes
,
and
in
his
own
Dominions
orders
solemn
Prayers
and
Masses
to
be
said
every
where
,
for
his
rescue
and
delivery
;
and
when
all
was
done
in
good
sober
earnest
was
content
to
knock
under
the
Table
,
and
marry
his
daughter
to
his
Holinesses
Nephew
,
Spond
.
ibid
.
Meser
.
Anno.
1529.
Alexander
Medices
.
But
there
is
one
more
circumstance
which
should
not
be
concealed
from
our
Author
;
that
if
Charles
the
V.
was
able
to
master
the
Pope
,
it
was
by
the
strength
of
an
honest
German
Army
,
Spond
.
ibid
:
consisting
almost
wholly
of
Protestants
.
And
therefore
thus
far
we
see
no
great
exploit
done
by
the
Spanish
ranting
against
the
Pope
.
Let
us
see
next
whether
the
French
be
more
lucky
Hectors
.
The
sturdiest
that
I
know
,
was
Philip
the
IV
.
who
when
Boniface
the
VIII
.
had
wrote
an
insolent
Letter
to
him
,
directs
an
answer
as
follows
:
Philip
by
the
Grace
of
God
King
of
the
French
,
to
Boniface
bearing
himself
as
Pope
,
little
health
,
or
none
at
all
;
Let
your
great
Foolship
understand
that
in
Temporal
affairs
we
are
subject
to
no
man
,
&c.
But
praise
at
parting
,
he
that
was
so
hot
at
hand
,
was
not
long
after
cold
in
the
mouth
:
For
though
he
had
the
luck
to
escape
the
thunder
of
Pope
Boniface's
Bulls
,
M●se●
.
An.
1303
&c.
(
who
excommunicated
him
,
released
his
Subjects
from
their
allegiance
,
and
gave
his
Kingdom
to
the
first
occupant
)
and
what
is
more
,
took
him
Prisoner
at
Anagnia
;
yet
after
four
days
durance
,
the
Burgers
beat
the
French
out
of
their
Town
,
and
gave
the
Old
Gentleman
an
opportunity
to
go
in
peace
to
Rome
;
where
though
soon
after
he
died
,
and
thereby
released
the
King
from
that
personal
quarrel
,
yet
was
the
Surviver
fain
to
make
fair
weather
with
his
Successors
in
St.
Peters
Chair
,
Benedict
II
,
and
Clement
V.
to
the
latter
of
whom
he
did
the
honour
to
lead
his
Mule
by
the
Bridle
;
for
which
complement
he
had
like
to
have
paid
very
dear
,
being
hurt
by
the
ruine
of
the
Wall
at
Lions
,
near
which
they
passed
,
as
was
his
Brother
Charles
:
yet
they
escaped
better
then
the
Duke
of
Britanny
and
the
Popes
brother
,
who
were
killed
in
the
service
.
But
after
many
troubles
,
he
himself
was
rid
by
the
Popes
Legates
,
who
drew
him
to
make
a
most
dishonourable
Peace
with
the
revolted
Flemmings
,
and
perished
by
an
untimely
death
;
having
before
he
left
the
World
,
the
grief
of
being
the
last
of
his
Family
,
and
of
seeing
his
three
daughters
,
by
Judicial
Process
,
openly
convicted
of
Adultery
;
and
lastly
,
to
find
himself
the
most
hated
and
abominated
person
in
his
whole
Kingdom
.
It
were
very
eafie
to
instance
in
some
other
Kings
of
France
,
who
have
taken
the
liberty
to
speak
big
,
upon
the
confidence
of
the
liberties
of
the
Gallican
Church
;
particularly
Henry
III
.
excommunicated
first
,
and
after
murdered
by
James
Clement
a
Monk
.
Which
Fact
Sixtus
Quintus
then
Pope
,
commended
in
the
Consistory
,
as
a
rare
,
noble
,
and
memorable
deed
;
a
Fact
done
not
without
the
providence
and
appointment
of
God
,
&c.
But
we
shall
ever
find
that
the
Pope
hath
still
met
an
opportunity
to
cut
their
recurrent
nerves
,
and
spoil
their
ranting
:
leaving
a
more
durable
triumphal
Pillar
in
memory
of
his
Victories
over
France
,
then
that
which
was
lately
raised
in
Rome
to
its
dishonour
.
After
this
very
long
and
equally
insignificant
discourse
,
our
Author
makes
a
conscience
of
troubling
Solon
or
Lycurgus
,
or
his
Reader
,
to
travel
beyond
the
Seas
for
examples
of
the
splendour
and
greatness
of
Popish
Princes
,
and
refers
us
to
Henry
the
VIII
.
who
was
esteemed
over
all
the
World
ten
times
more
considerable
before
,
then
after
his
revolt
from
Rome
,
&c.
All
the
World
is
a
large
Word
,
and
soon
said
by
our
Author
:
that
comprehensive
Theatre
for
men
,
will
I
fear
scarce
ever
be
of
the
same
mind
with
this
most
improbable
Doctor
.
In
the
mean
time
if
there
was
any
decay
in
that
Princes
Reputation
or
Interest
toward
the
end
of
his
Reign
,
an
accident
which
happens
to
almost
every
Monarch
in
his
declining
Age
,
Persons
as
wise
every
whit
as
our
Author
,
have
assigned
very
different
causes
of
it
,
from
what
is
by
him
produced
,
As
1.
Herbert
Baker
,
&c.
The
removal
of
Wolsey
,
;
2.
The
incumbrances
which
his
frequent
Marriages
and
Divorces
brought
him
;
And
3.
(
what
it
would
have
become
our
Author
to
have
thought
of
,
)
the
Thunderbolt
of
the
Capitoline
Jupiter
,
the
Bull
of
Paul
III
.
followed
by
a
dangerous
Rebellion
in
Lincolnshire
,
where
20000
men
were
in
Arms
against
him
.
This
seconded
by
another
of
double
the
number
in
the
North
;
followed
by
a
third
,
fourth
,
and
fifth
:
and
if
he
that
had
so
much
work
cut
him
out
at
home
,
was
not
at
leisure
to
appear
much
abroad
,
we
know
who
is
to
be
thanked
for
it
.
But
our
Author
closes
this
Section
,
by
saying
,
that
nothing
can
be
so
ridiculous
,
as
the
foolish
pretence
of
his
Adversary
,
that
the
persons
of
our
Princes
are
safer
then
under
Popery
;
when
every
body
knows
that
since
the
Reformation
there
have
been
but
three
Protestant
Kings
,
and
that
all
of
them
are
reputed
to
have
come
to
violent
and
extraordinary
deaths
.
To
gratifie
our
Author
,
I
will
shew
him
something
more
ridiculous
by
far
;
even
his
own
dearly
beloved
Argument
.
For
,
not
to
insist
on
what
is
intimated
before
,
that
his
Holiness
has
not
the
Keys
of
Death
,
though
he
pretend
to
those
of
Heaven
,
and
his
own
Kitchin
,
Purgatory
;
and
men
may
go
out
of
the
World
,
though
not
sent
upon
his
errand
,
I
will
offer
him
a
parallel
Story
.
A
person
of
his
Church
,
very
wise
,
and
of
great
devotion
,
designs
a
Visit
to
our
Lady
of
Loretto
,
his
Friend
tells
him
that
the
Passages
are
beset
with
Troops
of
Bandetties
,
who
lately
murdered
a
great
Prince
in
his
way
thither
,
soon
after
killed
another
,
then
a
third
and
a
fourth
,
and
so
on
,
and
attempted
besides
very
many
more
,
who
hardly
escaped
their
hands
.
No
,
says
our
Votary
,
this
cannot
be
,
for
I
knew
three
men
that
purposed
to
go
thither
,
and
two
of
them
were
poisoned
in
their
Inn
,
and
a
third
was
murdered
by
his
Servants
,
before
his
own
dores
.
The
Parallel
is
so
evident
,
that
I
am
sure
,
though
our
Author
does
not
,
every
body
else
will
comprehend
it
.
I
will
not
question
our
Author
why
only
the
three
Protestant
Kings
are
mentioned
,
and
we
hear
nothing
of
his
Adversary
Queen
Elizabeth
in
this
account
of
our
late
Princes
.
He
takes
her
it
seems
for
a
she
Nestor
,
whom
none
of
the
attempts
of
his
Party
could
rid
out
of
the
way
.
But
then
as
to
his
observation
of
the
poisoning
of
Edward
VI
.
and
King
James
,
as
it
is
plain
,
that
were
it
true
,
't
is
nothing
to
the
purpose
;
so
,
as
luck
would
have
it
,
't
is
utterly
false
;
Godwin
in
Edw
.
p.
253
.
●aker
,
&c.
●
.
R.
cont
.
of
Martin
,
p.
363.
our
Historians
either
not
mentioning
the
suggestion
,
or
at
the
same
time
they
do
so
,
confuting
it
.
The
Fable
of
the
Nosegay
and
Black
Plaister
being
fitted
for
such
weak
persons
that
have
used
their
understandings
to
submit
to
Tales
and
Legends
,
or
such
malicious
ones
,
who
tell
a
lie
first
,
and
then
make
it
an
Argument
why
they
should
be
Rebels
:
and
we
cannot
but
remember
of
what
particular
use
the
story
of
the
Black
Plaister
was
in
the
last
War
.
The
best
on
't
is
,
notwithstanding
all
Romish
Designs
both
in
Scotland
and
in
this
Nation
,
taking
in
the
Gunpowder
Treason
into
the
bargain
,
King
James
lived
to
a
fair
Age
,
and
sober
men
will
not
wonder
if
an
Ague
at
that
critical
season
,
without
the
help
of
a
Plaister
,
could
kill
him
.
Surely
in
this
Argument
it
would
have
been
exspected
from
our
Author
,
to
have
controled
my
allegations
,
and
shewed
that
none
of
those
persons
,
who
I
say
were
destroyed
or
ill
handled
by
Popes
,
were
so
dealt
with
;
and
that
all
the
Bulls
that
I
produced
are
forgeries
.
But
this
meek
Reasoner
hath
a
fairer
expedient
,
and
tells
us
,
That
he
for
his
part
lays
not
such
abominations
to
the
charge
of
any
Religion
,
but
to
the
pravity
of
humane
nature
;
which
is
also
the
cause
that
his
Party
is
so
abused
by
the
Unprincipled
Incendiary
,
meaning
my self
,
for
were
I
not
wicked
in
the
highest
degree
,
I
would
never
have
grounded
any
argument
upon
the
vices
and
scandals
of
Popes
,
when
I
know
their
Infallibility
is
no
Article
of
Faith
amongst
Papists
.
Well-fare
a
man
that
writes
Controversie
without
a
grain
of
Logick
.
He
is
very
kind
however
in
the
first
place
,
to
let
me
know
,
whether
I
will
or
not
,
what
the
learnedest
Doctors
of
the
Church
of
Rome
are
far
from
understanding
,
that
the
Popes
infallibility
is
not
matter
of
Faith
among
them
.
But
to
wave
this
,
and
behold
the
quintessence
of
Demonstration
,
my
Author
for
his
part
lays
no
such
abominations
to
the
charge
of
any
Religion
,
therefore
no
body
else
must
.
Therefore
the
Papists
are
abused
by
the
Unprincipled
Incendiary
,
who
sets
down
plain
matter
of
Fact
.
And
again
,
the
Popes
of
Rome
are
not
infallible
;
therefore
it
is
safe
and
eligible
to
submit
unto
their
yoak
,
though
they
are
never
so
tyrannous
and
debauched
.
We
are
no
more
bound
to
believe
the
Pope
unerrable
,
then
is
the
Chancellor
of
France
,
or
any
Lieutenant
Criminal
of
Paris
that
the
King
can
do
no
wrong
;
therefore
it
is
still
safe
to
submit
to
the
Papacy
,
&c.
Once
more
our
Author
,
and
somebody
else
that
would
be
nameless
,
Abominate
the
Popes
ill
actions
,
as
they
admire
their
good
ones
;
and
cannot
but
think
that
all
Christians
ought
to
be
subject
to
these
Prelates
in
spirituals
:
Therefore
every
one
besides
,
must
be
as
good
natured
as
they
,
and
be
enslaved
to
him
in
his
spiritual
and
temporal
tyrannies
.
Whoever
hath
use
of
a
Rope
of
Sand
,
let
him
apply
himself
to
this
Artist
;
for
certainly
the
World
cannot
shew
his
fellow
in
tacking
incoherent
things
together
.
Accordingly
he
goes
on
and
takes
me
to
task
for
quoting
Bellarmine
,
Suarez
,
Turrecremata
,
Perron
,
&c.
who
say
,
that
the
Pope
may
depose
Kings
,
and
for
inferring
thence
the
danger
of
that
Religion
which
teacheth
these
Doctrines
.
Here
a
solemn
appeal
is
made
,
Is
not
this
,
Reader
,
urged
like
the
man
of
Parts
I
ever
took
him
for
?
Well
,
It
seems
all
Readers
knew
what
opinion
the
worthy
Answerer
always
had
of
the
Author
of
the
Seasonable
Discourse
:
but
I
hope
before
we
part
,
they
will
not
be
to
seek
what
opinion
they
are
to
have
of
him
,
and
the
Religion
he
defends
.
In
the
next
words
he
says
,
I
will
cut
my
own
throat
,
do
what
one
can
to
hinder
it
.
This
is
proved
by
another
appeal
,
For
did
not
all
the
Bishops
of
England
that
were
consulted
with
,
except
one
,
declare
to
his
Majesty
,
that
he
might
lawfully
comply
and
assent
to
my
Lord
of
Straffords
death
,
&c.
This
shall
not
yet
make
me
say
,
that
our
Protestant
Doctrine
teaches
Murder
;
or
that
acting
against
conscience
for
humane
advantage
is
warrantable
,
though
the
opinion
of
so
many
Prelates
is
,
comparatively
more
considerable
to
the
English
Church
,
than
a
thousand
to
the
Catholick
.
It
is
truely
very
much
he
should
not
make
the
inference
he
talks
of
,
for
it
would
be
in
all
points
as
good
as
any
he
hath
hitherto
produced
:
but
we
must
follow
him
in
his
own
way
.
Where
,
first
,
upon
hearing
this
Story
as
he
tells
it
,
one
would
think
that
a
Synod
of
all
the
Bishops
of
the
three
Kingdoms
had
been
convened
,
when
alass
the
total
sum
amounted
but
to
five
persons
in
all
;
and
the
question
was
not
what
our
Author
falsly
sets
it
:
But
to
use
Mr.
H.
L'
Estrange
his
words
(
which
generally
the
Writers
of
K.
Charles
I.
life
,
exactly
accord
with
.
Ham
.
L'
Estrange
,
p.
265.
&c.
Perench
.
p.
25.
)
The
Bishops
were
only
to
resolve
,
whether
the
King
might
,
his
Conscience
entire
,
pass
the
Bill
against
the
Earl
.
The
Bishops
determine
thus
,
That
the
matters
of
Fact
and
Law
,
were
to
stand
apart
;
for
the
first
,
his
Majesties
presence
at
all
the
proceedings
might
enable
him
to
pass
his
judgment
:
and
if
his
judgment
informed
him
that
the
Earl
was
guiltless
,
he
might
not
in
conscience
condemn
him
.
For
the
last
being
matter
of
Law
,
what
was
Treason
,
what
not
,
the
Judges
they
said
were
obliged
by
their
Oaths
to
direct
him
.
This
was
the
total
result
of
their
joint
opinions
.
There
was
indeed
a
Writing
put
into
his
Majesties
hand
by
the
Bishop
of
Lincoln
,
but
what
the
contents
thereof
were
,
he
never
imparted
to
his
other
associates
.
And
now
let
the
World
judge
,
if
all
the
Bishops
of
England
,
except
one
,
&c.
teach
Murder
to
be
lawful
,
or
that
acting
against
Conscience
for
humane
advantage
was
warrantable
:
when
of
the
whole
Order
there
was
but
one
single
person
who
can
reasonably
be
imagined
to
have
promoted
the
Earl
of
Straffords
death
.
What
is
suggested
by
the
Author
concerning
the
Archbishop
of
Armagh
,
is
a
great
and
manifest
calumny
;
as
appears
from
the
very
particular
account
of
that
transaction
inserted
into
the
History
of
Sir
Will
.
Sanderson
;
and
might
be
farther
evidenced
by
uncontrolable
proofs
,
if
there
were
need
of
them
.
After
this
unsuccessful
attaque
upon
the
Bishops
,
our
good
man
hath
somewhat
as
little
to
the
purpose
to
say
to
the
Lawyers
:
Do
we
not
find
that
several
of
our
learned
Lawyers
have
affirmed
that
this
or
that
was
a
Prerogative
of
the
Crown
,
when
other
as
learned
have
told
us
the
quite
contrary
?
Yet
the
Law
of
the
Land
is
not
to
be
called
false
,
&c.
Now
from
the
Premises
it
is
to
be
concluded
,
that
I
will
cut
my
own
throat
,
do
what
one
can
to
hinder
it
.
It
seems
a
little
difference
in
Opinion
concerning
some
branch
of
the
Prerogative
;
is
to
be
put
in
balance
with
dethroning
and
murdering
of
Kings
:
and
the
judgment
of
a
Lawyer
or
two
,
hath
the
same
influence
on
the
consciences
of
men
,
as
the
resolution
of
so
many
probable
Doctors
in
concurrence
with
his
Holiness
,
who
have
in
every
Age
filled
Europe
with
confusion
and
blood
.
Not
to
trouble
us
more
in
this
matter
,
our
Author
at
last
comes
to
an
issue
,
and
according
to
his
confident
manner
,
says
,
In
short
,
Reader
,
were
these
Schoolmen
,
which
our
Adversary
mentions
now
alive
,
they
would
tell
us
,
that
every
body
that
pleased
,
might
reject
their
fansies
.
Good
God
,
What
kind
of
men
were
Cardinal
Bellarmine
,
Perron
,
and
the
rest
!
who
handle
points
that
concern
the
lives
of
Kings
,
the
interest
and
duty
of
whole
Kingdoms
;
where
if
there
be
an
errour
,
it
engages
to
Rebellion
,
Treason
,
Parricide
,
and
other
the
most
enormous
crimes
that
can
be
acted
;
and
yet
these
are
such
trifling
fansies
,
that
the
Authors
are
not
concerned
whether
they
be
admitted
or
rejected
;
though
they
have
declared
them
also
to
be
de
fide
.
Whereas
't
is
added
that
Mariana's
Book
was
burnt
,
we
can
tell
also
where
't
was
not
;
nay
where
it
and
all
of
that
stamp
,
even
Sanctorellus
himself
,
St.
Amour
,
p.
129.
who
to
prove
the
Popes
power
in
deposing
Kings
,
urges
the
Text
of
the
Apostle
in
the
very
contradictory
to
what
he
said
,
that
it
was
to
edification
and
also
to
destruction
.
If
this
be
news
to
our
Author
,
he
may
have
it
more
at
large
in
St.
Amours
Journal
,
and
also
see
the
opinion
not
of
a
few
Doctors
,
Pag
.
448.
but
the
whole
Senate
of
Inquisitors
,
that
the
denial
of
the
execution
of
the
Popes
Jurisdiction
in
the
temporal
Territories
of
Princes
,
without
they
give
leave
,
is
Heresie
.
As
to
his
shrinking
these
high
flown
Writers
to
10
or
12
,
when
all
the
World
knows
that
Bellarmine
reckons
up
72.
and
others
rise
to
much
higher
numbers
;
if
the
issue
be
put
to
number
,
so
that
what
side
most
Writers
are
of
,
shall
pass
for
the
Doctrine
of
the
Roman
Church
,
we
will
not
decline
the
issue
,
notwithstanding
the
Musters
of
Father
Carron
,
and
the
Author
of
the
Controversial
Letters
.
After
all
these
misadventures
,
our
Author
hath
the
confidence
to
make
another
appeal
to
his
Reader
,
and
tell
him
,
that
he
sees
how
little
my
allegations
either
from
the
practises
of
Popes
,
or
writings
of
a
few
Doctors
made
against
the
Papists
,
make
against
them
;
since
the
Author
and
some
other
disown
those
opinions
,
&c.
The
Reader
does
abundantly
see
what
hath
been
said
on
both
sides
,
and
will
be
sure
never
to
take
inferences
from
his
hands
,
who
hath
so
ill
luck
at
them
.
But
I
pray
if
the
claim
and
prescription
of
600
years
,
I
mean
,
ever
since
the
days
of
Hildebrand
,
and
the
Writings
of
the
most
celebrated
Doctors
in
all
that
time
signifie
nothing
,
to
evidence
the
danger
of
Popery
;
because
forsooth
this
does
not
speak
the
Doctrine
of
the
Church
;
what
is
replied
to
the
determinations
of
Oecumenical
Councils
where
his
Holiness
presided
?
I
hope
if
the
Infallibility
be
not
vested
in
the
Doctors
,
nor
the
Pope
,
nor
Councils
apart
;
yet
if
any
thing
be
declared
in
a
General
Council
with
the
concurrence
of
the
Pope
,
this
will
pass
for
the
Doctrine
of
the
Church
;
unless
perchance
the
new
Scheme
in
behalf
of
the
Nurses
and
Mothers
have
utterly
supplanted
the
Authority
of
the
Fathers
of
the
Church
.
In
proof
hereof
the
Seasonable
Discourse
produces
the
Council
of
Lateran
,
of
Lyons
,
and
of
Constance
,
all
which
are
allowed
for
General
.
But
to
this
our
prudent
Answerer
says
not
one
single
word
,
and
betakes
himself
to
his
old
Topick
of
the
loyalty
of
his
Party
;
concerning
which
since
he
will
have
it
so
,
let
him
expect
his
answer
from
the
rejoinder
of
the
Antiapology
.
Our
Author
having
run
himself
out
of
breath
in
his
zeal
to
his
loyal
Party
,
comes
next
to
tell
me
,
that
I
need
not
have
troubled
my self
with
the
ungrateful
Topick
of
the
Popes
Excommunicating
and
Deposing
Kings
,
seeing
Popish
Princes
fear
as
little
the
loss
of
their
Dominions
as
the
Protestants
;
and
that
I
(
sensless
as
I
am
)
know
that
ever
since
the
Reformation
,
the
Pope
hath
given
away
but
two
Kingdoms
,
England
and
France
,
which
thanks
be
to
God
belong
still
to
the
owners
,
whilest
those
that
call
themselves
Protestants
have
deposed
the
absolute
Princes
of
Scotland
,
Denmark
,
Sweden
,
&c.
In
the
first
place
I
do
not
think
our
Author
hath
been
admitted
to
the
Cabinet
Council
of
either
Popish
or
Protestant
Princes
,
to
know
what
they
do
,
or
do
not
fear
.
And
,
Secondly
,
't
is
an
inference
very
worthy
our
Author
to
conclude
,
such
a
mischief
is
not
feared
,
therefore
there
is
no
danger
,
when
every
body
,
besides
our
Author
,
knows
that
no
ruine
is
so
fatall
as
that
which
is
contemned
and
overlooked
.
But
the
following
inference
is
more
remarkable
,
the
Pope
hath
done
all
that
in
him
lies
,
to
divest
the
Kings
of
France
and
England
of
their
Dominions
,
yet
by
Gods
blessing
they
hold
them
still
;
therefore
there
is
no
danger
from
the
Pope
.
Further
yet
,
Some
that
call
themselves
Protestants
have
been
guilty
of
Rebellions
;
therefore
the
Church
of
England
,
who
both
in
her
Principles
and
Practices
is
confessedly
free
from
any
such
disorders
,
is
equally
guilty
of
them
.
And
lastly
,
what
suits
exactly
with
the
rest
,
Matthew
Paris
and
other
Catholicks
,
complain
of
the
intolerable
tyrannies
of
the
Pope
;
therefore
't
is
a
fault
in
us
to
complain
of
them
:
or
,
which
follows
as
well
,
those
tyrannies
are
very
fit
for
us
to
call
upon
our selves
,
when
by
Gods
blessing
we
are
freed
from
them
.
Now
at
last
we
have
attended
our
Author
to
the
end
of
his
second
head
.
After
some
scorn
of
my
Politicks
,
he
addresses
to
them
,
forgetting
to
say
one
syllable
in
defence
of
putting
whole
Nations
under
interdict
;
that
they
who
happen
to
displease
his
Holiness
,
should
have
no
publick
Offices
of
Religion
for
several
years
together
;
this
our
Full
Answerer
slides
by
in
silence
,
and
arrives
,
as
he
sayes
,
to
his
Politicks
.
And
first
he
destroys
my
profound
Observation
(
Pag
.
18.
)
that
says
Popery
will
be
destructive
to
the
Laws
of
the
Land
.
This
he
laughs
out
of
countenance
,
by
saying
that
the
Lawyers
are
very
good
Catholiks
already
,
for
they
declare
that
the
King
,
and
by
parity
of
reason
,
the
Pope
,
&c.
can
do
no
wrong
;
that
their
Common
Law
is
oral
Tradition
,
that
an
unknown
tongue
is
fit
and
laudable
;
that
Clients
must
pay
blind
obedience
.
But
since
a
Rowland
for
an
Oliver
is
the
word
;
I
must
beg
leave
to
add
one
maxime
of
Law
more
,
The
King
never
dies
,
and
therefore
never
any
Papist
murdered
any
King
,
or
ought
to
be
punished
for
attempting
what
was
in
it self
an
impossibility
.
But
our
merriment
is
upon
the
sudden
turned
into
fury
;
Who
can
have
patience
,
says
our
meek
Reasoner
,
with
this
piece
of
formality
,
that
durst
urge
such
a
foolish
insignificant
argument
,
that
Popery
will
prejudice
our
Law
and
Lawyers
,
when
as
not
only
they
,
but
all
that
can
read
,
know
what
learned
rich
and
eminent
persons
,
both
for
power
and
dignity
,
we
have
had
formerly
of
this
Profession
:
the
like
at
present
being
seen
in
France
,
Spain
,
Italy
,
and
other
places
,
&c.
It
is
a
hard
matter
to
deal
with
a
man
who
will
bear
one
down
,
and
perswade
him
against
the
most
evident
truths
in
the
World
.
There
is
scarce
an
ordinary
School-boy
,
who
does
not
know
that
most
of
the
Judicatories
of
England
were
,
till
the
Reformation
,
commonly
in
the
hands
of
Priests
and
Canonists
;
and
that
when
ever
Popery
comes
in
,
it
will
probably
be
so
again
.
However
it
is
most
manifest
that
the
greatest
part
of
the
Grist
will
be
carried
to
another
Mill
;
first
the
Ecclesiastical
Courts
at
home
,
and
then
by
appeals
to
Rome
abroad
.
I
can
with
very
little
recollection
at
any
time
reckon
up
about
twenty
Earls
,
Viscounts
,
and
Barons
,
which
since
the
time
of
King
Henry
VIII
.
threw
off
the
Pope
,
(
excluding
the
interval
of
Q.
Maries
reign
)
were
raised
to
the
Peerage
of
England
from
the
Law
;
and
I
can
reckon
up
hundreds
,
who
have
gained
estates
thereby
,
which
might
qualifie
them
for
the
like
dignity
.
But
I
have
not
in
all
History
met
with
one
instance
of
that
strange
secret
which
our
Author
tells
us
is
known
to
every
one
that
can
read
,
of
rich
and
eminent
persons
to
be
set
in
balance
with
the
other
.
But
he
proves
his
Paradox
by
the
greatness
of
the
French
,
Spanish
,
and
Italian
Lawyers
;
a
point
which
I
have
no
reason
at
all
to
grant
him
,
but
only
because
if
it
were
true
,
it
proves
nothing
at
all
to
the
purpose
:
for
quietness
sake
it
shall
be
,
for
once
,
as
he
pleases
.
But
the
Argument
runs
thus
;
The
Civil
and
Canon
Lawyers
are
great
men
abroad
under
Popery
,
therefore
the
Common
Lawyers
of
England
will
be
so
too
.
The
Gentlemen
of
the
Long
Robe
,
who
upon
the
double
obligation
of
their
Country
and
Profession
,
are
the
assertors
of
the
Laws
of
England
,
are
not
so
foolish
as
to
desert
their
interest
and
duty
upon
those
lamentable
pretences
that
are
here
offered
.
And
therefore
I
shall
no
longer
insist
upon
this
head
,
but
proceed
to
the
following
.
Where
my
Adversary
undertakes
to
confute
,
that
is
,
derides
and
rails
against
my
second
wise
Observation
,
(
p.
20.
)
that
Popery
will
resume
all
the
Lands
alienated
since
the
Reformation
from
the
Church
.
Whether
my
observations
be
to
be
called
wise
or
foolish
,
is
,
I
hope
,
to
be
determined
by
somewhat
besides
our
Authors
pleasure
;
who
appears
,
and
no
body
can
help
it
,
secure
and
unconcerned
at
the
mention
of
resumption
of
Church
Lands
.
We
will
not
suppose
him
thus
unconcerned
because
he
hath
not
much
to
lose
,
and
therefore
impute
it
to
his
confidence
of
obtaining
such
advantages
,
in
case
of
a
change
,
as
may
abundantly
recompence
him
.
We
know
very
well
that
such
considerations
prevailed
with
some
men
about
the
time
of
his
Majesties
restauration
,
and
may
as
well
in
any
other
revolution
.
The
Pope
,
he
tells
us
,
is
not
such
a
child
,
as
to
give
a
thing
and
take
a
thing
;
whether
the
old
Gentleman
may
not
,
at
least
in
this
particular
,
be
twice
a
child
,
we
are
not
secure
by
our
Authors
assertion
;
especially
since
another
sort
of
persons
besides
Ideots
and
Infants
,
meddle
with
things
which
belong
to
them
.
And
were
not
our
Author
furnished
with
a
convenient
talent
of
incogitancy
,
he
could
not
but
know
how
in
all
Ages
Popes
have
done
so
:
usurped
not
only
on
the
Estates
of
private
men
,
and
Dominions
of
Princes
,
(
and
,
not
to
go
for
instances
beyond
those
which
were
before
his
eyes
in
the
Seasonable
Discourse
,
where
he
finds
his
Majesties
Dominions
disposed
of
several
times
over
)
but
on
the
acts
of
preceding
Popes
;
the
doing
which
is
justified
by
as
good
Canon
Law
as
is
to
be
found
in
the
Decretals
.
I
instance
in
that
which
occurs
next
,
where
his
Holiness
breaking
through
the
Decree
of
a
Council
,
and
his
Predecessors
to
boot
,
Cap.
innotuit
nobis
,
de
ele●…
tione
,
&
cle●…
ti
potestate
.
declares
peremptorily
,
That
though
the
Lateran
Council
and
Pope
Alexander
had
decreed
a
nullity
to
be
in
the
Acts
there
specified
,
yet
the
power
of
dispensing
is
not
taken
from
the
succeeding
Pope
,
since
that
could
not
be
intended
by
them
,
who
could
not
prejudice
the
right
of
the
Successor
,
who
was
to
have
the
same
power
that
the
other
had
:
and
it
is
a
known
rule
that
par
in
parem
imperium
non
habet
.
If
the
Act
of
a
preceding
Pope
could
bind
the
Successors
,
I
fear
me
,
't
would
go
but
ill
with
our
Lay-Abbots
;
for
Pope
Symmachus
is
very
positive
,
that
it
shall
not
be
lawful
for
the
Pope
to
alienate
the
Lands
of
the
Church
in
any
manner
,
Canons
non
li●…
cat
,
11.
q
.
2.
or
for
any
necessity
:
but
the
Gloss
sets
all
streight
again
,
and
says
,
that
the
Successor
is
not
bound
,
it
being
certain
that
no
mortal
can
judge
the
Pope
.
So
that
I
doubt
our
Author
has
not
divined
aright
,
what
the
Popes
opinion
of
his
obligation
would
be
,
in
case
of
a
revolution
:
yet
however
,
without
intending
it
,
he
hath
told
us
his
own
,
by
his
Story
of
Mrs.
Ven
:
viz.
that
the
possessors
of
Church
Lands
have
no
better
right
,
then
Mrs.
Ven
had
to
a
Cavaliers
Estate
;
and
how
well
Mrs.
Ven
kept
hers
,
't
is
not
hard
to
be
informed
.
But
our
Author
tells
us
,
such
a
resumption
must
be
either
by
Act
of
Parliament
,
or
by
the
Pope
:
an
Act
of
Parliament
cannot
be
had
,
and
the
Pope
will
not
do
it
:
the
latter
,
the
Popes
good
will
,
we
have
seen
how
far
it
is
to
be
depended
on
;
the
former
part
our
Author
fortifies
with
this
reason
,
that
it
will
be
against
the
interest
of
all
the
members
,
to
pass
such
an
Act.
It
falls
out
unfortunately
for
our
Author
to
write
in
an
Age
where
revolutions
have
furnished
matter
of
Fact
,
which
is
a
pestilent
Argument
of
the
possibility
of
an
event
;
only
those
that
are
armed
with
infallibility
having
confidence
enough
to
deny
,
that
what
hath
been
,
may
be
.
Having
therefore
an
eye
to
what
hath
passed
heretofore
,
let
us
examine
this
grand
security
our
Author
gives
the
Lay
Abbots
from
the
interest
of
the
members
of
Parliament
not
to
consent
to
a
restitution
to
Holy
Church
.
First
of
all
,
what
certainty
have
we
that
the
Members
of
Parliament
,
upon
such
a
revolution
,
shall
be
all
or
most
chosen
out
of
Lay
Abbots
?
did
we
find
the
late
Purchasers
,
or
that
sort
of
men
,
carry
so
many
elections
in
the
choice
of
this
present
Parliament
,
which
was
as
free
and
uncontroled
as
any
ever
was
,
or
will
be
?
or
did
we
rather
find
that
the
humour
of
the
People
went
quite
against
that
sort
of
men
?
Yet
farther
,
What
if
upon
such
a
revolution
as
must
be
supposed
if
Popery
should
once
prevail
in
this
Kingdom
,
none
should
be
eligible
but
under
certain
qualifications
?
The
late
Times
furnished
us
with
one
of
fearing
God
,
and
hating
covetousness
;
which
interpreted
by
a
Roman
Casuist
,
might
easily
be
brought
to
signifie
such
as
had
not
,
or
would
not
retain
Church
Lands
.
If
those
terms
be
not
expressive
enough
,
new
ones
would
not
be
long
in
finding
,
to
take
the
place
of
the
Oaths
of
Allegiance
and
Supremacy
at
the
Parliament
dore
,
which
upon
such
a
change
must
avoid
.
What
if
one
should
desire
the
Author
to
consider
,
that
many
ways
may
be
found
out
to
prevail
with
the
most
eminent
and
leading
men
?
Besides
that
,
the
zeal
in
delivering
up
Church
Lands
will
so
recommend
them
to
those
that
shall
be
then
in
power
(
and
who
those
may
be
,
God
knows
)
that
it
will
be
like
the
merit
of
an
old
Cavalier
at
the
Kings
restauration
,
qualifying
them
for
all
the
good
things
of
the
Land
.
What
if
one
should
farther
desire
the
Author
to
call
to
mind
,
that
the
long
Parliament
it self
,
at
the
last
when
they
saw
the
humour
of
the
Nation
run
toward
it
,
were
plainly
desirous
,
and
contriving
to
bring
in
the
King
?
(
I
mean
when
the
secluded
Members
were
amongst
them
)
though
there
was
not
one
man
there
who
had
not
forfeited
his
neck
by
the
Law
of
the
Land
,
(
and
that
is
as
sensible
an
interest
as
Abbey
Lands
)
and
yet
the
Kings
good
words
,
the
humour
of
the
Nation
leading
toward
it
,
and
the
hope
of
meriting
by
being
of
the
forwardest
,
made
many
men
not
only
suffer
it
,
but
by
opposing
the
Faction
then
in
possession
,
run
some
hazards
to
promote
the
Kings
restauration
.
He
that
shall
peruse
our
Records
and
Acts
of
Parliament
,
will
find
that
every
Faction
,
when
prevailing
,
hath
had
no
great
difficulty
to
get
Laws
made
for
their
purpose
.
Those
Lay
Abbots
,
who
will
prevent
Acts
for
resuming
Church
Lands
,
must
in
their
several
capacities
use
their
endeavour
to
prevent
the
growth
of
Popery
in
the
Nation
.
If
once
that
over-spread
this
Kingdom
,
it
is
beyond
folly
to
rely
on
the
Acts
of
Parliaments
under
which
they
now
claim
.
Our
Author
,
for
our
farther
security
,
tells
us
the
Pope
gave
consent
to
alienate
Lands
at
Venice
for
the
War
against
the
Turk
,
and
for
an
end
he
supposes
not
unlike
it
the
setling
a
distracted
Kingdom
,
dispenced
with
it
here
also
.
The
Lay
Abbots
are
obliged
to
him
for
putting
the
alienation
of
Church
Lands
here
upon
an
equal
foot
with
those
at
Venice
.
It
is
the
first
time
I
have
ever
heard
any
of
that
Religion
give
so
great
an
approbation
of
it
:
and
yet
even
in
this
kindness
of
his
,
there
is
a
latent
sting
;
he
doth
not
mean
that
the
first
alienation
had
the
Popes
allowance
,
he
speaks
only
of
what
the
Pope
consented
to
in
Q.
Maries
days
,
as
he
calls
it
,
(
i.e.
)
reclaiming
a
distracted
,
i.e.
in
their
sense
,
an
heretical
Kingdom
.
When
the
Seasonable
Discourse
doubts
whether
,
that
not
having
the
effect
,
for
which
it
was
designed
,
it
will
not
be
interpreted
a
condition
not
accepted
of
,
and
therefore
no
longer
obligatory
.
Our
Author
answers
only
by
his
censure
,
which
he
is
pleased
to
bestow
on
it
,
as
a
transcendent
confidence
to
alledge
as
an
instance
that
there
remains
no
obligation
from
the
Kings
offer
at
the
Isle
of
Wight
,
to
lease
Church
Lands
for
99
years
,
since
not
accepted
,
as
certainly
no
offer
obliges
unless
accepted
.
He
is
pleased
to
say
with
some
derision
,
that
none
but
the
Author
of
the
Seasonable
Discourse
fansies
the
Pope
cannot
be
tied
to
an
agreement
as
well
as
other
Governours
.
The
Seasonable
Discourse
had
told
him
,
that
the
Pope
acting
for
the
Church
,
would
in
a
favourable
conjuncture
,
find
himself
obliged
to
rescind
whatever
had
passed
prejudicial
to
it
;
the
impossibility
whereof
,
I
do
not
find
him
demonstrate
:
and
I
have
shewed
him
as
good
Canon
Law
as
is
in
the
Decretals
,
that
the
Pope
can
be
loose
from
this
Act
of
his
Predecessors
,
had
it
been
more
formal
then
it
was
,
whenever
he
pleased
.
But
my
good
man
brings
up
his
reserve
of
the
Treaty
of
Munster
,
upon
which
so
many
Papist
and
Protestant
Princes
,
Noblemen
,
and
Gentlemen
,
have
either
Bishopricks
,
Abbeys
,
or
the
like
,
confirmed
to
them
by
the
Pope
.
But
if
after
all
this
there
be
no
such
matter
,
Instrum
.
Pacis
.
Notitia
rerum
Imperii
Romano
Germanici
per
Phil
.
And.
Burgoldensem
.
p.
91.
6
Innocentii
X.
Declaratio
nullitatis
articulorum
nuperae
pacis
Germaniae
,
&c.
ex
Typogr
.
reverendae
Camerae
.
Apostol
.
Anno
,
1651.
if
the
Pope
have
been
so
far
from
confirming
these
grants
,
as
to
protest
against
them
by
his
Legate
Cardinal
Cheigi
in
the
Treaty
;
and
afterwards
in
a
particular
Bull
damned
them
to
the
Pit
of
Hell
:
what
shall
we
say
to
the
honesty
and
credit
of
our
Author
,
with
his
impertinent
Broadside
from
the
Maltese
Gallies
?
But
(
not
to
insist
on
our
Authors
customary
frailty
of
being
mistaken
)
as
to
our
present
business
,
suppose
the
Popes
equally
obliged
with
other
Governors
,
I
do
not
find
the
Author
hath
answered
any
thing
to
those
words
,
in
Pag
.
21.
of
Season
.
Disc
.
Acts
of
Resumption
are
not
things
unheard
of
in
ours
,
or
in
foreign
Stories
.
Nor
to
the
instance
of
the
present
French
Kings
method
of
resuming
the
Demesnes
of
his
Crown
,
p.
22.
no
contemptible
Argument
of
fear
to
the
Lay
Abbots
,
since
our
Author
does
not
pretend
the
Pope
more
easily
or
more
strongly
to
be
tied
then
other
Governors
.
The
Glance
he
is
pleased
to
give
at
the
Fee-farm
Rents
,
however
intended
by
him
,
furnisheth
a
pregnant
argument
how
doubtful
men
are
of
the
title
to
alienations
of
that
nature
(
though
purely
lay
without
any
scruple
or
pretence
of
Sacriledge
by
any
body
)
since
it
is
evident
that
whilst
they
were
exposed
to
sale
for
ready
money
,
scarce
any
would
deal
for
them
,
and
they
remained
unsold
,
till
the
method
of
doubling
orders
,
did
a
little
help
;
but
that
which
made
men
earnest
indeed
to
buy
them
,
was
the
stop
upon
some
of
his
Majesties
other
payments
,
which
made
men
to
resort
to
this
as
the
most
eligible
in
this
conjuncture
;
which
I
suppose
may
have
been
the
greatest
inducement
to
those
Princes
he
is
pleased
to
speak
of
in
Germany
,
to
accept
of
a
settlement
of
their
Church
Revenues
,
as
the
best
terms
they
could
at
that
time
obtain
;
though
they
were
to
undergo
all
the
Curses
of
Pope
Innocent
X.
Bull
,
particularly
against
them
,
and
all
the
studied
execrations
of
the
Bulla
Coenae
,
that
most
solemn
and
devout
preparative
among
the
Romanists
for
the
charities
of
Easter
;
and
the
Decree
and
command
of
the
Council
of
Trent
,
Sess.
25.
c
.
20.
establishing
all
the
sacred
Canons
,
all
General
Councils
,
together
with
other
Apostolical
Ordinances
,
(
that
is
,
Bulls
of
Popes
,
)
made
in
favour
of
Ecclesiastical
persons
,
and
Ecclesiastical
liberty
,
and
against
the
violators
thereof
,
&c.
The
easiest
effect
whereof
to
those
of
the
Roman
Communion
,
must
be
the
paying
a
round
fine
at
every
absolution
;
and
at
the
time
of
death
being
awed
with
the
terrors
of
Purgatory
,
till
a
liberal
sacrifice
to
the
Popes
Coffers
,
promise
a
release
from
his
Holinesses
Kitchin
.
I
desire
this
Decree
of
the
holy
and
Oecumenical
Council
of
Trent
last
mentioned
,
may
be
well
weighed
and
considered
;
for
if
all
Bulls
in
favour
of
Ecclesiastical
persons
and
liberty
be
here
established
;
and
none
of
these
Orders
were
founded
,
but
by
Priviledges
and
Bulls
from
the
Pope
;
one
need
not
make
much
scruple
what
will
become
of
these
Parliament
Acts
which
vacated
them
,
so
soon
as
a
fair
opportunity
of
declaring
in
the
case
shall
present
it self
.
But
farther
yet
,
Supposing
the
Pope
equally
tied
with
other
Governours
,
may
he
not
plead
that
the
Law
doth
relieve
the
King
against
his
own
Act
,
when
he
hath
been
deceived
in
his
grant
,
obtained
by
undue
suggestions
.
't
is
not
to
be
doubted
,
but
if
Popery
should
prevail
,
his
Holiness
would
expect
the
same
equity
of
our
Law
;
and
I
believe
the
Lay
Abbots
do
not
desire
to
put
their
Estates
to
that
issue
before
a
Jesuited
Jury
,
whether
the
Pope
were
deceived
in
his
Concessions
in
Q.
Maries
days
.
The
points
in
Law
which
may
rise
from
the
penning
the
Acts
of
Suppression
of
Religious
Houses
,
intimated
in
the
Seasonable
Disc
.
our
Author
,
according
to
his
way
of
full
answering
,
fairly
passes
over
.
My
next
misdemeanour
,
for
which
I
am
to
have
due
correction
,
is
my
quotation
of
a
passage
in
the
Traitte
Politique
,
which
after
a
great
deal
of
insipid
contumely
that
was
intended
for
wit
,
and
fills
up
the
room
of
sense
,
is
not
at
all
pretended
to
be
misrecited
by
me
;
only
I
am
first
very
ridiculous
to
think
the
Interest
of
the
Regulars
so
considerable
a
thing
.
Well
,
since
it
must
be
so
,
and
I
am
never
to
be
believed
,
let
us
take
the
opinion
of
Campanella
in
the
case
,
as
good
a
Polititian
I
dare
say
as
our
Author
is
likely
to
be
in
haste
.
If
(
says
he
)
all
Princes
with
their
People
should
join
their
forces
to
destroy
the
Popedom
,
〈…〉
●…
e
Monarch
.
●…
isp
.
c
.
18.
●●
.
they
would
never
be
able
to
compass
it
.
Let
him
but
set
out
a
Crusade
,
all
the
Religious
,
of
which
there
are
many
millions
,
would
all
run
to
arms
,
able
to
resist
and
terrifie
the
whole
World
with
their
Tongues
and
Swords
.
But
should
we
take
them
for
meer
Abbylubbers
,
that
had
much
rather
eat
then
fight
,
't
is
plain
to
every
man
of
sense
,
what
interest
they
have
in
setting
on
others
that
have
better
Metal
:
not
to
tell
of
their
dexterities
in
poisoning
and
stabbing
,
by
that
compendium
superseding
the
use
of
War
and
Armies
.
But
secondly
,
As
to
the
absurd
Parallels
of
the
Hugonots
and
the
Mogul
,
out
of
which
our
Chymist
in
reasoning
draws
a
plain
Conclusion
,
that
I
have
ruined
the
Church
,
and
am
a
Traitor
,
't
is
such
a
piece
of
childish
folly
,
that
in
meer
respect
to
the
Reader
,
I
will
not
expose
him
for
it
.
Let
any
honest
man
that
hath
not
travelled
himself
out
of
his
Religion
and
Wits
,
and
love
of
his
Country
,
seriously
read
the
Section
referred
to
by
me
;
and
freely
judge
whether
it
be
that
unconcerning
piece
of
Nonsense
't
is
represented
.
Our
Author
after
this
calls
me
to
account
for
my
third
Observation
which
stirs
up
my
zeal
against
Popery
,
The
preservation
of
Trade
,
with
the
value
of
Lands
and
Rents
.
It
cannot
be
denied
but
the
Author
hath
given
good
evidence
of
his
skill
,
when
he
comes
to
examine
the
arguments
of
inconvenience
to
Trade
,
Rents
,
and
Riches
of
the
Nation
,
supposed
to
follow
the
admission
of
Popery
:
but
the
dexterity
lies
in
knowing
what
he
could
not
answer
,
and
so
diverting
the
Discourse
to
another
subject
:
For
example
,
It
was
objected
that
the
encouragement
Popery
gave
to
idle
persons
by
Monasteries
,
&c.
would
withdraw
many
hands
from
Work
and
Trade
.
The
Author
to
prove
this
false
(
as
if
he
were
playing
at
Cross
purposes
)
tells
us
,
some
have
affirmed
Deanaries
,
Prebendaries
,
&c.
did
so
also
.
Doth
that
make
the
objection
any
thing
less
true
?
none
can
deny
,
but
if
all
the
hands
in
England
were
imployed
in
working
,
more
work
might
be
done
:
And
if
for
other
good
reasons
it
is
found
fit
to
set
apart
some
for
other
uses
,
Judges
,
States-men
,
Divines
,
&c.
doth
it
therefore
follow
it
is
good
to
have
a
refuge
for
all
the
lazie
People
in
a
Nation
to
be
idle
in
,
without
being
any
way
useful
,
much
less
necessary
to
the
publick
?
But
if
the
Reader
find
not
that
argument
convincing
,
he
hath
plenty
of
others
as
good
,
so
the
number
shall
supply
for
the
weight
;
for
to
prove
that
Monasteries
do
not
withdraw
hands
from
Work
and
Trade
,
he
tells
you
,
many
Protestants
have
and
do
lament
the
want
of
them
:
Ergo
.
That
Mr.
Stow
saith
it
was
a
pitiful
thing
to
hear
the
lamentation
in
the
Country
for
them
,
when
they
were
put
down
:
Ergo
.
But
who
do
you
think
lamented
them
?
Probably
,
those
who
by
their
suppression
were
forced
to
work
and
take
pains
for
their
living
,
which
before
they
did
not
.
The
Author
of
the
Seasonable
Discourse
had
unfortunately
overshot
himself
,
and
said
,
That
he
thought
the
Celibate
of
Priests
,
and
the
admitting
Nuns
and
Religious
Orders
would
be
an
hindrance
to
the
increase
in
People
:
the
Answerer
convinceth
him
of
his
mistake
by
a
Proverb
,
(
I
think
of
his
own
making
)
viz.
That
nothing
furnishes
the
Gallows
and
the
Bawdy-houses
like
Parsons
children
:
Ergo
,
the
Celibate
,
&c.
doth
not
hinder
the
increase
in
People
.
His
inferences
are
so
lovely
,
that
I
can
by
no
means
pass
them
by
.
Certainly
no
body
but
our
Author
in
an
Age
when
several
of
the
Nobility
and
prime
Ministers
of
State
,
are
and
have
been
Sons
of
Clergy
men
:
when
the
Sons
of
so
many
Earls
and
Barons
,
not
to
mention
the
Gentry
,
are
actually
in
Holy
Orders
,
and
more
in
the
Universities
are
Candidates
of
them
:
and
on
the
other
side
,
when
persons
of
the
vilest
extraction
,
in
the
Church
of
Rome
are
notoriously
known
to
have
risen
to
be
Cardinals
and
Popes
:
I
say
,
no
body
besides
our
Author
,
would
have
objected
the
mean
birth
of
our
Clergy
as
a
reproach
unto
us
.
I
am
sure
no
Christian
,
who
is
the
Votary
and
Disciple
of
the
blessed
Jesus
,
who
for
our
sakes
made
himself
of
no
reputation
,
and
put
on
the
form
of
a
Servant
,
and
chose
Fishermen
and
Tent-makers
for
his
Apostles
,
would
with
despight
and
scorn
(
had
the
thing
been
true
,
as
it
is
in
the
general
very
false
)
objected
an
humble
Fortune
or
mean
Birth
to
those
who
serve
at
his
Altar
,
and
succeed
to
his
Apostles
in
their
ministration
in
holy
things
.
Had
I
my
Authors
eloquence
in
Exclamations
,
I
might
here
cry
out
on
the
Unprincipled
man
.
But
to
pass
this
,
however
here
is
an
excellent
effect
of
the
marriage
of
the
Clergy
,
which
I
did
not
before
think
of
;
they
provide
matter
for
the
Exercise
of
Justice
(
which
would
else
be
quite
out
of
use
)
and
give
sufficient
supply
to
the
Bawdy
Howses
,
without
laying
a
necessity
on
those
of
any
other
extraction
to
be
debauched
.
How
should
one
do
to
convince
this
Author
that
there
were
Whores
and
Thieves
when
Priests
did
not
marry
?
or
that
there
may
be
now
of
other
extraction
then
Ministry
.
I
shall
not
pretend
to
the
priviledge
of
making
Proverbs
:
but
I
am
sure
it
is
become
the
vulgar
observation
,
that
the
Whores
and
the
Thieves
almost
of
course
seek
an
Asylum
at
Rome
,
whose
first
beginnings
were
owed
to
that
sort
of
Inhabitants
.
If
we
should
search
Records
of
old
time
,
to
see
what
Thieves
had
been
condemned
or
executed
in
those
days
,
our
Author
has
an
answer
for
that
too
;
for
neither
the
Judges
nor
the
Juries
supposed
to
condemn
them
,
were
infallible
;
as
he
is
pleased
to
say
even
of
the
Pope
himself
,
when
he
finds
an
argument
cannot
be
otherwise
avoided
;
and
the
Reader
will
easily
believe
our
Author
thinks
the
Pope
as
infallible
as
a
Free-holder
at
the
least
.
Despairing
therefore
of
convincing
him
by
any
arguments
of
mine
,
in
this
difficult
point
,
I
leave
him
to
his
own
meditation
resolving
to
comply
with
what
he
is
pleased
to
say
to
his
Reader
upon
this
very
subject
,
viz.
that
there
is
no
need
of
staying
longer
upon
it
.
And
yet
lest
he
should
think
himself
neglected
,
I
am
willing
to
offer
a
word
or
two
to
his
observation
of
Popish
Countries
being
as
populous
as
the
Reformed
;
in
which
,
if
circumstances
be
rightly
considered
,
the
Reader
will
find
cause
to
differ
from
him
.
For
he
will
scarce
find
a
Popish
Country
of
that
extent
so
populous
as
Holland
is
,
or
lately
was
.
If
the
Author
think
our
want
of
People
may
be
alledged
on
his
side
,
it
is
to
be
considered
that
we
have
been
for
a
long
time
wonderfully
drained
of
our
People
by
our
Plantations
,
besides
the
Wars
of
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
,
and
the
re-planting
of
Ireland
,
which
the
Author
ought
the
less
to
forget
,
because
we
are
obliged
to
those
of
his
Church
for
the
occasion
of
it
.
As
to
his
argument
of
taking
away
all
days
of
rest
,
it
will
not
follow
,
that
because
I
allow
it
reasonable
to
pay
Tithes
,
or
Easter
Offerings
to
the
Clergy
,
therefore
I
should
give
them
half
or
all
my
Estate
;
nor
the
other
way
,
that
because
I
will
not
give
them
all
my
Estate
,
therefore
I
should
not
pay
Tithes
.
The
moderation
of
many
things
makes
them
eligible
,
which
the
excess
would
render
perfectly
intolerable
.
The
next
of
our
Authors
dexterities
is
his
eluding
the
argument
used
in
the
Seasonable
Discourse
,
that
Fasting
days
would
be
more
numerous
,
and
therefore
less
flesh
eaten
;
and
thence
it
was
inferred
,
Cattle
abounding
would
be
cheaper
,
and
therefore
Farmers
would
not
pay
the
same
rent
for
Land
,
as
if
there
were
not
so
many
Fasting
days
.
Now
our
Authors
full
answer
is
,
Bishop
Andrews
in
his
Lenten
Sermons
commends
Fasting
,
and
so
do
many
other
Protestant
Divines
.
Therefore
though
there
should
be
more
Fasting
days
,
there
would
be
as
much
Flesh
eaten
,
&c.
It
is
unfortunate
our
Author
did
not
light
upon
a
right
way
of
arguing
at
first
;
for
if
he
had
,
it
is
probable
he
would
have
kept
it
up
,
as
well
as
he
hath
done
his
cross
purposes
;
in
which
being
once
engaged
,
he
would
not
be
so
wavering
as
to
depart
from
it
.
I
dare
not
undertake
for
a
Gentleman
who
thinks
he
follows
an
Infallible
guide
;
otherwise
I
should
have
been
tempted
to
give
the
Reader
hopes
,
that
when
any
body
should
write
against
the
lawfulness
of
Monasteries
,
or
of
Priests
continuing
unmarried
,
of
Holydays
,
or
of
Fasting
,
our
Author
would
then
give
us
his
arguments
of
their
convenience
or
inconvenience
as
to
Trade
,
Rent
,
or
increase
of
People
:
which
he
hath
been
pleased
wholly
to
omit
now
,
when
that
part
only
was
in
question
.
If
Spain
,
which
hath
Plantations
,
be
compared
with
us
,
we
are
much
more
populous
,
as
we
are
also
then
Italy
which
hath
none
at
all
;
't
is
true
France
exceeds
us
,
not
having
had
that
drain
of
Plantations
,
till
of
late
;
and
that
sparingly
in
respect
of
us
;
and
possibly
somewhat
of
the
populousness
of
France
may
be
owing
to
the
Reformation
,
those
of
that
Religion
,
furnishing
no
Nuns
,
Friers
,
or
Orders
of
either
Sex
obliged
to
celibate
.
I
have
heard
the
French
King
hath
had
some
consideration
of
suppressing
some
of
the
Religious
Houses
,
and
restraining
the
admission
of
persons
into
them
upon
this
very
account
;
whether
it
is
become
any
thing
more
then
a
project
,
I
cannot
say
.
The
next
thing
is
,
the
objection
from
Holy-days
,
as
an
hindrance
to
Trade
and
Work
;
but
because
I
have
the
ill
luck
never
to
be
believed
by
our
Author
,
I
will
set
down
the
very
words
of
a
devout
Catholick
,
Caramuel
Fund
.
Theol
.
52.
§.
11.
J.
Caramuel
,
and
let
the
World
judge
whether
I
am
that
impudent
affirmer
I
am
represented
.
In
the
Countries
(
saith
he
)
subject
to
the
King
of
Spain
,
besides
Sundays
,
and
Festivals
to
our
Lady
,
the
Apostles
and
other
Saints
,
there
are
the
peculiar
Holy-days
of
Cities
and
Thanksgivings
for
Victories
,
which
are
so
frequent
as
to
take
up
a
great
part
of
the
year
.
Under
the
States
there
are
no
Holy-days
besides
the
Sundays
.
Now
the
Catholick
and
Heretick
Cities
being
close
together
,
this
I
see
and
experiment
every
day
,
that
poor
men
who
have
a
charge
of
Wife
and
Children
,
cannot
in
four
days
gain
enough
to
maintain
their
Wife
and
Families
for
seven
;
therefore
they
run
over
to
the
Rebels
,
that
getting
more
there
,
they
may
live
more
advantagiously
and
plentifully
.
This
removal
occasions
four
necessary
mischiefs
:
1.
The
Catholick
King
loses
his
Subjects
.
2.
The
number
of
our
Enemies
is
increased
.
3.
Our
Enemies
are
enriched
,
the
Manufactures
of
our
Runaways
are
sold
to
us
,
for
which
our
money
is
sent
into
Holland
,
who
fight
against
us
with
it
.
4.
They
turn
Calvinists
.
Thus
he
.
And
I
think
his
words
are
a
sufficient
justification
of
mine
.
But
our
Author
I
expect
should
say
that
Pope
Urban
VIII
.
in
his
Bull
bearing
date
Decemb
.
22.
1642.
retrenches
the
number
of
Holy-days
.
He
does
so
indeed
,
but
under
the
soft
terms
of
Holy-days
of
obligation
universally
to
be
observed
;
but
even
then
,
under
our
Authors
correction
,
he
retains
Holy-rood
day
,
the
Assumption
of
the
blessed
Virgin
,
her
Birth
,
St.
Laurence
,
St.
Sylvester
,
St.
Joseph
,
St.
Anne
,
the
Guardian
Saint
of
the
Kingdom
,
as
also
the
Patron
of
the
City
,
Town
,
Parish
,
which
fall
not
within
the
number
our
Author
pretends
.
But
however
,
since
notwithstanding
Pope
Urbans
Bull
,
the
old
Troop
of
Saints
,
both
real
and
imaginary
,
those
I
mean
which
are
in
Heaven
,
or
Hell
,
or
never
were
at
all
,
(
which
notoriously
is
the
case
of
some
of
them
)
remains
in
the
Roman
Breviary
,
after
it
has
been
reformed
over
and
over
by
several
Popes
since
the
Council
of
Trent
;
our
Author
must
not
blame
the
Seasonable
Discourse
(
having
been
taught
by
him
,
that
Popes
Bulls
are
not
to
be
urged
in
proof
of
the
Doctrine
of
the
Church
;
and
therefore
will
hardly
Counterballance
Liturgies
)
though
he
had
laid
his
charge
to
the
most
comprehensive
extent
:
but
surely
't
is
most
plain
that
my
argumentation
is
firm
and
conclusive
,
That
the
increase
of
Holy-days
,
or
the
rigour
of
their
observance
,
which
is
all
one
,
is
so
far
prejudicial
to
Trade
,
as
there
is
an
increase
,
whatever
the
proportion
be
.
His
story
of
the
Reverend
man
,
who
would
mortifie
in
Capon
,
because
he
loved
Fish
better
,
may
when
't
is
equally
true
,
stand
besides
the
parallel
of
one
of
his
own
Tribe
;
who
in
great
devotion
to
the
Laws
of
the
Church
,
dipt
his
forbidden
flesh
into
the
water
,
and
by
his
fiat
(
which
we
know
of
course
works
greater
miracles
)
commanded
it
to
go
down
Pig
,
and
come
up
Pike
,
and
then
with
a
good
conscience
fell
to
his
Fish
.
Our
Authors
argument
for
the
imploying
Seamen
,
will
have
no
force
in
this
matter
,
so
long
as
it
is
known
how
many
Hollanders
fish
upon
our
Coasts
,
and
make
a
vast
Revenue
by
it
,
yet
are
under
no
other
outward
tie
then
that
of
frugality
,
to
keep
at
any
time
a
Fast
,
or
feed
on
Fish
.
Our
Author
goes
on
to
my
fourth
Observation
,
that
Popery
will
bring
to
private
persons
a
vast
expence
in
Masses
,
Dirges
,
&c.
I
expected
that
after
the
charge
of
so
large
a
sum
,
our
Author
should
have
made
use
of
his
Talent
of
Confidence
,
and
stoutly
denied
the
allegation
;
or
at
least
,
as
he
uses
to
do
in
a
case
of
exigence
,
put
on
the
Buffoon
and
fairly
laught
it
out
.
But
he
very
honestly
confesses
the
whole
matter
,
and
goes
about
to
justifie
it
,
because
Magna
Charta
gives
every
body
leave
to
do
what
he
will
with
his
own
.
Our
Author
hath
the
luck
to
surprize
his
Reader
in
every
thing
he
says
.
There
is
not
a
Grand
Jury
man
in
England
but
knows
that
there
are
several
scores
of
Statutes
that
restrain
men
from
doing
what
they
will
with
their
own
,
and
yet
they
were
never
till
now
charged
with
being
a
breach
of
Magna
Charta
;
I
would
fain
know
(
to
wave
other
instances
)
if
the
Statute
of
Mortmain
,
which
he
presently
mentions
,
do
not
induce
such
a
restraint
;
and
if
that
be
a
breach
of
Magna
Charta
.
't
is
a
known
rule
in
Law
,
that
the
Publick
is
concerned
to
take
care
that
private
men
should
well
imploy
their
Estates
;
and
all
wise
Nations
have
been
concerned
to
appoint
Guardians
and
Tutors
to
those
whose
weakness
or
prodigality
made
them
ill
managers
for
the
Publick
and
themselves
.
And
sure
't
is
but
an
ill
account
of
Popery
,
that
it
will
put
us
under
a
perpetual
nonage
;
and
unless
our
Authors
new
maxim
help
,
expose
us
to
be
begged
for
Fools
and
Idiots
.
His
next
argument
to
prove
that
Popery
does
not
drain
the
purses
of
its
Votaries
,
is
that
he
believes
the
Papists
of
England
and
elsewhere
,
have
as
much
money
in
their
purses
at
the
years
end
,
as
their
Protestant
neighbours
of
the
same
rank
and
estate
.
I
desire
this
may
be
remembred
at
the
next
complaint
of
persecution
.
They
are
indeed
shrewdly
hurt
by
the
tyrannous
Hereticks
,
who
crack
in
this
manner
,
and
offer
to
drop
Ginneys
with
their
Neighbours
.
But
Sir
,
if
Popery
prevail
,
the
burthensome
offices
,
from
which
you
are
now
exempted
,
will
fall
upon
you
as
well
as
others
;
nor
must
you
think
to
make
your
Priest
your
Caterer
or
Bailiff
any
longer
,
or
put
him
off
with
a
pitiful
salary
,
raised
out
of
Symony
,
which
in
this
case
his
Holiness
hath
made
lawful
for
you
.
The
World
,
believe
it
,
will
be
changed
;
his
Holiness
is
now
to
stroke
you
,
and
shake
his
Provender
;
but
if
he
gets
up
again
upon
his
old
patient
Beast
,
which
carried
him
and
all
the
load
he
could
heap
on
,
for
so
many
Ages
;
we
must
not
doubt
,
and
you
with
us
,
of
having
the
same
,
if
not
worse
usage
then
formerly
we
met
.
When
I
had
made
out
from
unquestionable
Records
the
intolerable
oppressions
and
incredible
sums
of
money
,
which
in
times
of
Popery
were
drained
,
and
even
screwed
from
us
,
I
closed
the
Paragraph
by
desiring
to
be
informed
what
was
,
or
may
be
exspected
to
come
back
in
exchange
to
us
,
besides
Parchments
full
of
Benedictions
and
Indulgences
;
store
of
Leaden
Seals
,
Beads
,
and
Tickets
,
Medals
,
Agnus
dei's
,
Rosaries
,
hallowed
grains
,
and
Wax
Candles
:
These
it
seems
our
Author
takes
for
very
sufficient
Barter
;
for
he
attempts
not
to
name
any
one
thing
which
is
to
be
added
to
the
Account
.
He
proceeds
to
my
fifth
Observation
,
p.
29.
which
nettles
me
when
I
think
on
't
,
't
is
Auricular
Confession
.
And
here
he
again
wonders
at
the
unprincipled
man
,
and
tells
us
,
that
Scripture
commands
it
by
these
words
,
confess
your
sins
one
to
another
.
There
be
some
who
would
reply
,
that
these
words
enjoyn
as
much
the
Priest
to
confess
his
sins
to
the
People
,
as
the
People
to
the
Priest
:
But
I
will
not
discourage
a
young
beginner
from
quoting
the
Scriptures
,
and
therefore
will
by
no
means
take
the
advantage
of
that
exception
:
but
will
flatly
tell
him
,
that
neither
this
Text
,
nor
any
other
in
the
Bible
,
nor
Canon
of
any
ancient
Council
,
Writing
of
Fathers
,
or
practice
of
the
Primitive
Church
gives
the
least
countenance
to
Auricular
Confession
.
For
proof
of
this
,
because
my
credit
is
low
with
him
,
I
shall
desire
my
Author
at
his
best
leisure
to
look
upon
what
is
said
in
the
known
Jansenist
Tract
,
De
la
frequent
Communion
,
proving
through
the
first
Ages
,
that
performance
of
the
Penance
did
precede
the
Absolution
:
which
Pecavius
●●plying
to
,
can
only
answer
,
that
those
instances
were
all
in
publick
penitences
:
but
is
able
to
produce
himself
not
one
instance
,
whether
of
Confession
or
Penance
where
't
was
otherwise
;
which
sufficiently
shews
that
this
present
Engine
of
the
Romanists
,
which
gives
Absolution
before
the
performance
of
Penance
,
is
a
meer
abuse
and
novelty
in
the
Church
.
His
excuse
for
the
sacred
seal
of
Confession
in
behalf
of
Princes
,
that
by
this
means
Priests
will
disswade
and
dehort
all
Subjects
from
traiterous
machinations
,
which
otherwise
would
be
concealed
from
them
,
is
such
a
piece
of
confidence
,
as
we
could
hardly
meet
elsewhere
,
but
from
our
Author
.
For
was
it
not
as
clear
as
noon-day
light
,
that
the
whole
design
of
the
Gunpowder
Treason
was
made
known
in
Confession
,
and
that
Absolution
was
given
upon
it
,
and
the
Sacrament
also
in
pursuance
thereof
:
and
for
the
keeping
secret
the
whole
matter
,
in
respect
of
the
Priest
as
well
as
the
Conspirators
?
Proceedings
against
the
late
Traitors
.
and
was
not
this
almost
the
only
Plea
which
Father
Garnet
made
at
his
arraignment
,
to
justifie
himself
for
not
disclosing
the
Conspiracy
?
when
't
was
withal
notorious
that
his
resolution
of
the
case
did
not
dehort
or
disswade
,
but
animate
that
hellish
enterprise
?
The
close
of
our
Authors
Apology
is
,
that
Auricular
Confession
may
be
abused
and
prophaned
,
as
is
the
reading
of
the
Scriptures
.
To
which
I
answer
,
that
the
Parallel
is
not
very
mannerly
or
apposite
;
but
yet
it
yields
a
very
good
argument
ad
hominem
,
The
Papists
,
because
the
Scriptures
may
be
abused
,
forbid
the
reading
of
them
;
therefore
since
,
as
't
is
notorious
,
Auricular
Confession
is
more
abused
,
let
that
be
forbid
likewise
.
Our
Author
proceeds
to
my
short
and
dull
glances
against
Indulgences
and
Pardons
;
I
never
intended
to
convince
by
strains
of
wit
or
railing
,
that
is
our
Authors
priviledge
,
the
weapon
which
I
use
is
plain
and
down-right
truth
,
which
he
above
all
mankind
that
ever
I
yet
met
,
hath
reason
to
be
angry
with
.
His
first
charge
is
my
quoting
Corn
.
Agrippa
;
He
may
himself
it
seems
,
with
a
good
grace
quote
Plays
,
and
the
Transproser
,
and
Dr.
Wild
the
Poet
,
and
Mr.
Pen
the
Quaker
,
and
transcribe
whole
Pages
at
a
time
;
but
the
very
naming
Cornelius
Agrippa
is
a
mortal
sin
in
me
.
Let
him
however
read
what
Naudaeus
hath
said
in
his
behalf
;
and
then
see
whether
he
be
to
be
put
in
the
same
form
with
Rablais
.
But
I
am
farther
accused
of
being
pleasantly
,
if
not
maliciously
ignorant
concerning
the
ancient
rates
mentioned
by
me
of
Fornication
:
which
imposition
the
Reader
must
know
,
was
only
a
pecuniary
Mulct
upon
some
transgressions
,
as
we
have
here
about
swearing
,
&c.
God
be
thanked
there
is
a
Law
against
Swearing
,
't
were
much
to
be
wished
that
there
were
some
against
Lying
:
since
you
will
out-face
me
in
every
thing
that
I
say
,
be
it
never
so
evident
.
I
pray
what
think
you
of
Claud
.
Espencaeus
?
Com
.
i●
Epist.
ad
Tit
cap
.
1
,
Digr
.
●
.
p.
67.
did
he
know
what
these
your
ancient
godly
impositions
were
?
or
will
you
have
some
deference
to
his
opinion
in
the
case
?
his
words
are
these
.
There
is
a
Book
publickly
set
to
every
mans
view
,
which
goes
off
as
well
now
as
ever
,
entituled
,
Taxa
Cancellariae
Apostolicae
,
which
is
exposed
and
prostituted
as
a
common
Whore
for
gain
:
whence
more
villany
is
learned
then
from
all
the
Institutions
and
Summaries
of
wickedness
:
there
is
license
granted
for
many
of
the
most
abominable
crimes
,
and
absolution
for
all
,
excepting
such
who
will
not
buy
them
.
I
forbear
their
names
,
they
being
(
as
one
expresses
it
)
horrid
in
their
very
sound
.
It
is
strange
that
in
these
Times
,
in
this
Schism
,
that
Catalogue
and
Inventory
of
so
many
foul
and
abominable
Villanies
,
so
infamous
,
that
I
verily
believe
there
is
not
a
more
scandalous
Book
in
all
Germany
,
Switzerland
,
or
any
other
place
which
hath
separated
from
the
Church
of
Rome
,
is
unsupprest
.
Yea
,
it
is
so
far
from
being
supprest
by
the
Treasurers
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
that
the
Licences
and
impunities
for
those
so
many
and
horrible
crimes
,
are
renewed
,
and
for
the
most
part
confirmed
by
the
faculties
of
the
Legates
,
&c.
And
now
the
Author
may
be
pleased
to
rub
his
forehead
a
little
,
and
with
good
confidence
go
on
to
tell
his
Stories
,
whether
he
made
them
himself
,
or
received
them
in
Confession
,
or
heard
them
at
the
Coffee-house
,
't
will
make
no
great
odds
.
The
reason
,
he
says
,
why
I
am
so
piquant
against
Popes
,
Cardinals
,
&c.
is
out
of
madness
to
see
that
none
of
my
Flock
will
trust
me
with
the
news
of
a
Gazette
,
and
't
is
a
common
saying
,
that
if
one
would
have
a
thing
bruited
abroad
,
't
is
but
telling
it
to
the
Parson
as
a
secret
,
who
will
not
fail
of
acquainting
his
wife
,
and
she
presently
,
the
whole
Parish
with
it
.
And
now
if
I
should
chance
to
have
no
Parish
,
nor
no
Wife
,
what
a
goodly
argument
would
be
here
spoiled
?
Well
Sir
,
the
Friers
and
Popish
Priests
Concubine
is
as
near
his
bosome
,
as
the
Protestant
Priests
Wife
:
and
you
know
't
is
a
more
celebrated
saying
than
that
which
you
just
now
alledged
,
that
the
Priests
have
a
Law
forbidding
them
to
marry
,
and
a
custome
for
not
living
chaste
.
But
in
reserve
comes
in
the
story
of
Simon
More
,
the
Preacher
to
the
Rebels
at
Worcester
,
who
betrayed
Hind
the
famous
Robber
:
and
he
is
set
out
as
a
Ghostly
Father
of
the
Church
of
England
,
and
a
sufficient
reason
why
no
body
will
unburthen
his
Conscience
to
any
Priest
of
our
Church
:
which
suggestion
,
whether
it
have
more
malice
or
folly
in
it
,
I
cannot
easily
resolve
,
but
I
am
sure
deserves
no
farther
answer
.
He
goes
on
to
the
last
Observation
,
which
makes
me
his
mortal
enemy
,
p.
32.
Self-preservation
,
to
avoid
Fire
and
Faggot
,
Massacres
,
Racks
and
Gibbets
,
the
known
methods
by
which
the
Romanists
support
their
Cause
,
and
propagate
their
Faith
,
&c.
all
which
,
he
says
,
are
at
large
answered
in
the
Reply
,
where
't
is
proved
that
either
the
allegations
are
false
,
or
are
no
more
to
the
Catholick
Religion
,
than
Judas
his
Treason
is
to
Christianity
.
I
have
given
him
my
word
,
that
I
will
not
meddle
with
his
Reply
,
else
I
should
tell
him
that
't
is
something
strange
that
Rebellions
acted
in
pursuance
of
the
most
probable
Doctors
resolution
of
his
Holiness
his
Bulls
,
and
decisions
of
Councils
,
should
be
so
wide
from
having
to
do
with
the
Catholick
Religion
,
unless
happily
what
passes
under
that
name
be
not
Christianity
.
But
he
goes
on
and
rails
at
the
poor
Albingenses
and
Piemonteses
for
being
open
Rebels
.
Good
Sir
remember
a
little
,
Were
the
Crusades
imployed
against
them
for
their
Rebellion
,
or
their
Heresie
,
that
is
,
dissenting
from
the
Roman
Doctrines
?
But
if
this
do
not
do
,
I
am
to
be
confuted
with
the
Quakers
complaints
against
our
persecuting
of
them
.
We
are
fallen
into
a
good
World
when
Papists
write
for
Toleration
,
and
make
Apologies
for
Quakers
.
In
fine
,
Our
Author
makes
a
grave
remarque
,
that
there
is
great
difference
between
the
Popish
and
Protestant
Party
,
who
as
soon
as
we
were
in
power
,
persecuted
them
their
elder
brother
.
I
would
very
fain
keep
my
word
,
and
since
I
have
promised
it
,
say
nothing
to
the
Topick
of
our
Authors
Reply
,
the
loyalty
of
his
Party
.
But
since
he
forces
me
to
it
,
I
must
beg
leave
to
remind
him
,
that
there
was
no
great
Persecution
in
Edw
.
VI
.
time
,
nor
for
the
first
11.
years
of
Q.
Eliz
.
nay
to
the
23.
of
her
Reign
,
and
for
that
time
I
hope
the
Protestants
were
in
power
;
Watsons
Quod
-
lib
.
p.
265.
yet
the
Papists
had
no
cause
to
say
that
they
were
persecuted
:
and
't
is
confest
by
their
own
Party
,
that
their
multiplied
Treasons
did
extort
all
the
severe
Laws
that
were
made
against
them
.
And
whereas
our
Author
wishes
that
the
Papists
in
England
had
half
so
much
favour
as
the
Piedmonteses
have
;
't
is
such
an
extremity
of
stupid
ingratitude
,
as
will
certainly
by
no
means
recommend
to
the
favour
and
indulgence
which
is
begged
for
in
the
next
period
.
If
the
English
Papists
,
who
live
on
their
Estates
in
all
freedom
,
affluence
,
and
plenty
,
and
as
our
Author
acknowledges
it
,
have
as
much
money
in
their
purses
as
their
neighbors
,
do
yet
complain
of
persecution
,
and
wish
to
be
in
the
state
of
the
Piedmonteses
,
who
live
in
that
desolate
poverty
,
that
nothing
but
the
luxury
of
cruelty
could
tempt
men
to
take
the
pains
to
destroy
them
;
we
must
not
hope
they
will
be
ever
satisfied
with
all
the
kindness
we
can
shew
them
.
But
to
satisfie
all
doubts
,
my
Adversary
,
as
if
he
came
Legate
à
latere
to
reconcile
the
Nation
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
gives
us
unquestionable
security
,
even
his
own
fair
word
,
which
we
have
seen
to
be
frail
enough
;
telling
us
that
he
declares
upon
the
faith
of
a
Christian
,
that
he
abominates
for
his
own
part
,
the
very
thought
of
bloud
and
persecution
;
and
that
he
verily
believes
the
Catholicks
of
England
would
not
touch
the
least
hair
of
any
Protestants
head
(
were
they
in
power
)
for
their
Conscience
.
I
will
be
so
charitable
as
to
admit
our
Author
may
abominate
or
believe
what
he
protests
he
does
;
but
we
cannot
but
know
that
he
has
a
faculty
of
changing
his
belief
;
and
he
cannot
tell
what
an
alteration
a
new
face
of
things
might
make
in
his
mind
.
In
the
mean
time
I
am
sure
we
have
no
reason
to
hope
that
all
the
Catholicks
of
England
,
however
transformed
of
late
from
what
they
always
were
before
,
as
our
Author
would
perswade
us
they
are
,
are
a
distinct
species
of
Christians
from
those
elsewhere
;
particularly
of
Ireland
,
for
whom
our
Undertaker
is
so
cautious
as
not
to
engage
.
So
that
we
must
resolve
that
St.
Patricks
benediction
is
transferred
to
us
,
and
the
most
poisonous
Jesuited
Viper
of
Ireland
,
that
eats
his
way
through
his
Mothers
bowels
,
(
for
I
say
our
Author
has
nothing
to
plead
for
them
)
so
soon
as
set
upon
the
English
Shore
,
loses
all
his
venoms
,
and
is
as
harmless
as
Innocence
it self
.
We
might
have
ended
here
,
but
that
our
Author
is
to
shew
one
piece
more
of
my
matchless
impudence
,
which
is
,
that
Del
Rio
informs
us
that
the
Powder
Plot
was
with
the
privity
and
direction
of
the
Pope
;
when
as
this
Author
published
his
Book
in
Feb.
1598.
(
for
then
the
License
for
printing
it
,
bears
date
)
which
is
seven
years
before
that
treasonable
machination
;
nor
hath
he
a
word
there
of
England
in
the
place
:
and
whereas
I
say
that
Clement
VIII
.
gave
order
that
no
Priest
should
discover
any
thing
that
came
to
his
knowledge
by
Confession
,
for
the
benefit
of
the
secular
Government
,
't
is
absolutely
false
;
for
his
Holiness
his
Precept
was
only
to
the
Superiors
of
the
Regulars
(
as
the
said
Author
expresly
tells
us
)
that
they
should
diligently
beware
of
making
any
thing
known
,
discovered
by
Confession
,
to
advantage
their
own
exteriour
Government
;
that
is
,
if
by
Confession
a
Superiour
came
to
know
the
natural
imperfections
of
a
Subject
,
as
his
lying
,
idleness
,
or
prodigality
,
&c.
he
should
not
therefore
put
him
out
of
his
Office
,
&c.
The
Gentleman
has
now
done
,
but
let
us
see
where
is
this
matchless
impudence
that
I
am
charged
with
?
Is
it
because
I
say
the
Gunpowder
Treason
was
with
the
Privity
and
direction
of
the
Pope
;
surely
that
cannot
be
it
,
for
that
hath
been
asserted
by
others
long
before
me
;
Cap.
5.
p.
113.
particularly
by
Bishop
Andrews
in
his
Book
against
Bellarm
.
who
says
that
his
Holiness
had
ordered
three
Bulls
to
be
in
readiness
on
the
other
side
the
Water
,
which
were
to
be
sent
over
and
published
in
several
parts
of
the
Nation
so
soon
as
the
blow
was
given
.
Or
possibly
the
fault
is
,
Disquis
.
Mag.
l.
6.
c
.
1.
§
2.
that
I
say
Del
Rio
informs
me
of
it
.
If
I
can
prove
that
an
ordinary
Jesuite
knew
of
it
,
and
that
some
years
before
,
I
hope
't
will
be
a
little
more
than
probable
,
it
was
not
a
secret
which
the
Pope
might
not
be
trusted
with
,
till
it
was
done
.
Now
whether
Del
Rio
knew
of
it
or
no
,
let
his
own
words
determine
.
The
case
he
puts
is
this
,
Whether
if
a
Confederate
discover
in
Confession
,
that
he
or
some
else
have
placed
Gunpowder
,
or
such
like
matter
,
under
such
or
such
a
house
,
and
unless
it
be
removed
the
house
will
be
blown
up
,
the
Prince
destroyed
,
and
as
many
as
are
in
,
or
are
going
out
of
the
City
,
will
sustain
great
mischief
,
or
run
an
extream
hazard
,
the
Priest
ought
to
reveal
it
,
which
is
determined
in
the
negative
.
't
is
true
here
is
no
mention
of
England
,
but
our
Author
,
I
dare
say
,
can
give
a
very
good
reason
why
that
particular
is
omitted
:
and
I
am
sure
there
are
all
other
circumstances
exactly
enough
to
ground
somewhat
more
than
a
loose
possibility
.
Now
if
the
matter
stick
here
,
I
can
produce
subsidiary
proofs
that
other
Priests
in
foreign
parts
did
know
of
the
design
some
time
before
it
was
to
be
executed
.
But
thirdly
,
It
may
be
my
impudence
lies
in
quoting
Del
Rio
for
this
matter
of
the
Gunpowder
Treason
,
who
wrote
his
Book
seven
years
before
that
treasonable
machination
was
to
be
put
in
execution
;
And
this
our
Author
has
been
very
curious
to
peruse
.
To
this
I
might
answer
,
that
't
is
no
news
for
Romanists
to
lay
their
Plots
as
deep
as
this
;
and
a
design
,
whose
motions
were
to
have
violent
fears
as
well
as
hopes
,
and
which
waited
for
the
convening
and
Session
of
a
Parliament
,
could
not
morally
speaking
,
have
a
ready
execution
.
But
what
if
our
Authors
suggestion
concerning
the
time
of
the
publishing
Del
Rio's
Books
,
notwithstanding
his
very
curious
perusals
,
be
absolutely
false
,
will
he
hereafter
have
the
face
to
take
himself
to
be
a
man
of
honour
;
or
expect
to
be
believed
in
any
thing
he
writes
or
speaks
?
The
truth
of
the
Story
in
plain
terms
is
this
,
The
first
edition
of
the
two
first
Books
of
Del
Rio
,
and
only
of
them
,
came
out
in
the
end
of
the
year
1599.
the
7.
of
the
Ides
of
March
,
for
so
Del
Rio's
Epistle
to
the
Bishop
of
Colen
assures
us
;
who
tells
him
That
he
puts
forth
a
Specimen
of
his
labour
,
and
a
kind
of
taste
of
the
succeeding
Feast
,
two
of
the
six
Books
which
he
had
written
:
and
this
he
did
because
the
approaching
time
of
the
Mart
,
and
other
delays
hindred
the
publishing
of
more
.
Let
my
Author
enquire
for
the
Lovain
Edition
printed
by
Gerard
Rivius
,
in
the
year
1599.
and
see
if
I
falsifie
.
And
this
a
man
of
any
tolerable
sagacity
might
have
discerned
in
that
very
page
which
the
Author
cites
;
for
there
the
Lovain
Censors
approbation
of
the
first
two
Books
stands
and
bears
date
,
Feb.
8.
Ann.
1599.
Now
does
any
body
use
to
print
the
four
last
Books
of
any
Work
before
the
two
first
?
So
much
then
be
said
to
the
first
part
of
our
Authors
diligence
.
I
am
now
to
shew
when
the
four
last
Books
of
Del
Rio
came
forth
,
and
particularly
the
last
Tome
,
in
which
our
present
concern
is
placed
.
And
for
this
let
the
Lovain
Edition
by
the
same
Gerard
Rivius
in
the
year
1600.
and
the
Dedicatory
Epistle
to
the
foresaid
Elector
of
Colen
,
dated
the
fifth
of
the
Calends
of
March
,
in
the
16.
secular
year
,
be
my
evidence
.
This
being
laid
down
,
let
us
now
cast
up
our
account
,
and
reckon
from
the
very
end
of
the
year
,
See
Proceedings
against
the
late
Traitors
.
1600.
to
the
first
year
of
K.
James
his
Reign
,
March
1603.
at
which
time
the
Gunpowder
Traitors
had
actually
confederated
,
and
I
would
fain
know
if
that
interval
make
seven
years
.
Our
Author
had
much
better
have
insisted
on
the
Discourses
of
Father
Garnet
to
the
Conspirators
;
that
he
(
good
man
)
perswaded
them
to
acquaint
his
Holiness
before
they
proceeded
;
who
accordingly
dispatched
Sir
Edmund
Baynam
on
that
service
.
But
they
are
strangers
to
the
artifice
of
that
Father
,
who
would
take
this
for
an
argument
that
the
Pope
was
kept
in
ignorance
till
then
.
And
besides
,
we
are
not
concerned
whether
the
Pope
knew
or
approved
of
such
a
Plot
3
years
,
or
3
months
before
it
was
put
in
execution
,
so
as
it
be
certain
that
at
the
later
term
he
did
know
of
it
.
And
therefore
if
these
probabilities
I
offer
from
Del
Rio
should
not
be
convincing
to
one
that
will
be
obstinate
;
there
will
be
nothing
gained
to
our
Authors
cause
,
so
long
as
there
is
other
evidence
of
his
being
privy
to
it
.
But
after
all
,
my
matchless
impudence
may
perchance
lie
in
the
application
of
his
Holiness's
Bull
to
the
secular
Government
,
which
the
Author
says
is
absolutely
false
.
Be
my
Errour
or
my
Impudence
what
it
can
be
,
I
am
sure
it
is
not
matchless
,
for
I
say
nothing
but
upon
the
credit
of
Del
Rio
,
who
quotes
this
Bull
of
Clement
V●II
.
and
answers
this
very
Objection
,
which
as
if
it
were
fire
new
▪
our
Author
is
here
pleased
to
urge
with
so
much
confidence
and
assuming
.
This
Sanction
says
Del
Rio
,
though
it
obliges
only
those
to
whom
it
was
directed
,
yet
it
sufficiently
shews
that
his
Holiness
approves
that
opinion
,
which
will
have
Confessors
behave
themselves
altogether
so
,
as
if
they
had
heard
nothing
at
all
in
Confession
.
The
Author
having
thus
happily
demonstrated
my
matchless
impudence
in
this
quotation
of
Del
Rio
,
he
comes
next
to
shew
my
want
of
integrity
,
in
the
mention
of
the
accusation
of
the
Bishop
of
Angelopolis
against
the
Jesuits
:
which
I
know
has
been
answered
to
the
full
in
the
late
Letters
against
Mr.
Stillingfleets
Idolatry
.
My
Author
is
wonderful
kind
in
making
me
know
ever
and
anon
things
that
I
am
a
most
perfect
stranger
to
.
I
know
indeed
,
that
a
confident
asseverer
has
the
face
to
say
that
the
Bishop
of
Angelopolis
Letter
was
forged
at
Port
Royal
by
the
Jansenists
;
but
he
should
have
told
us
farther
,
that
the
Bulls
of
Pope
Innocent
X.
and
the
long
decisions
in
the
cause
,
which
we
have
at
large
in
Cherubin's
Bullarium
,
Cherubin
.
Tom
.
3.
p.
286.
ad
301.
were
forged
also
.
A
man
a
little
better
versed
in
Books
and
things
than
our
Author
,
would
have
understood
that
this
groundless
cavil
was
many
years
since
suggested
by
F.
Annat
in
France
,
and
soon
after
,
beyond
reply
or
contradiction
,
refuted
by
the
Curez
of
Paris
.
Neufieme
Escrit
de
Curez
.
de
Paris
,
p.
878
But
every
thing
is
new
and
demonstrative
to
one
,
who
knows
no
better
than
our
Author
.
His
quarrel
with
Dr.
Du
Moulin
for
quoting
Mr.
Whites
Book
of
Government
,
when
not
only
that
,
but
all
the
other
works
of
that
Catholick
Leviathan
,
are
condemned
by
the
Pope
,
is
owed
to
the
same
original
,
the
not
understanding
what
is
talked
of
;
for
every
body
knows
that
Mr.
White
might
have
wrote
what
Treason
he
had
pleased
against
Princes
,
and
have
fared
no
worse
than
his
neighbours
,
if
his
Tabulae
Suffragiales
,
Tabu
.
Suffr
.
à
p.
102.
ad
273.
and
some
other
of
his
Writings
,
had
not
been
so
unfortunate
as
to
touch
his
Holiness
his
Copy-hold
in
the
point
of
Infallibility
,
of
his
being
Judge
of
Cantroversies
of
Faith
and
Purgatory
,
the
very
best
part
of
the
Papal
Revenue
:
and
thereby
rendred
heretical
all
that
he
had
wrote
or
could
write
hereafter
.
I
am
come
now
to
the
Postscript
,
which
being
nothing
but
a
heavy
repetition
of
what
has
been
said
before
,
requires
very
little
answer
.
Therefore
I
shall
only
say
,
that
if
the
members
of
the
Church
of
England
must
not
refute
or
oppose
treasonable
principles
and
practises
,
without
falling
under
the
imputation
of
Incendiaries
,
Persecutors
,
having
ill
natured
seditious
designs
and
the
Churches
being
conscious
of
its
weakness
;
't
is
to
be
doubted
there
are
really
such
designs
on
foot
,
as
cannot
well
consist
with
having
those
doctrines
and
practises
exposed
to
open
view
.
I
have
now
done
,
and
endeavoured
to
answer
every
thing
but
the
contumely
of
my
Author
.
Had
I
a
mind
to
have
requited
his
favour
,
and
been
his
Godfather
,
as
he
was
pleased
to
be
mine
,
he
must
needs
know
I
could
easily
enough
,
out
of
some
of
our
English
Plays
,
have
found
a
name
which
would
have
fitted
him
as
well
,
and
stuck
as
close
as
that
he
has
bestowed
on
me
;
but
when
all
is
done
,
what
is
a
Nick-name
,
the
crying
Sir
Pol
,
the
urining
at
St.
Mark
,
or
the
Tortoise
;
to
the
merit
of
the
cause
between
the
Protestant
and
the
Papist
?
I
cannot
think
our
Religion
and
Laws
,
our
Liberties
and
Lives
,
are
so
trivial
a
Prize
,
as
to
be
carried
by
a
Mastery
in
fooling
.
When
our
Author
shall
think
fit
to
write
with
the
sobriety
of
one
who
treats
of
Religion
,
the
civility
of
a
Gentleman
,
and
the
veracity
of
a
man
of
honour
;
he
may
look
for
a
respectful
and
modest
reply
;
otherwise
from
me
he
shall
have
no
more
trouble
,
for
I
am
not
at
leisure
to
throw
dirt
,
nor
will
I
be
a
Buffoon
for
Company
.
FINIS
.