THE
TEARS
OF
THE
PRESS
.
THE
Press
might
be
employed
against
or
for
it self
,
according
to
the
Good
or
Hurt
its
Labors
have
spread
abroad
in
the
World
.
Look
on
them
on
the
one
side
,
you
will
confess
the
Tears
of
the
Press
were
but
the
Livery
of
its
Guilt
;
nor
is
the
Paper
more
stained
than
Authors
or
Readers
.
The
Invention
of
Printing
,
whether
as
mischievous
as
that
of
Guns
is
doubtful
:
The
Ink
hath
Poyson
in
it
,
the
Historian
as
well
as
Naturalist
will
confess
:
For
Empannel
a
Jury
of
Inquest
,
whence
Learning
or
Religion
hath
been
poysoned
,
and
,
Scribendi
Cacoethes
,
dabling
in
Ink
will
be
found
Guilty
:
For
,
Learning
hath
Surfeited
us
;
for
amongst
other
Excesses
,
that
of
Learning
may
Surfeit
us
according
to
Tacitus
,
and
this
was
true
before
Printing
,
when
the
Cure
of
the
Disease
(
most
are
sick
(
nisi
te
scire
hec
sciat
alter
)
of
Publishing
;
which
was
harder
by
reason
of
Laborious
Transcription
,
Vanity
or
Contradictions
,
Employing
the
Pen
even
then
.
Of
the
former
,
let
Dydimus
the
Grammarian
lead
the
Van
,
of
whom
Seneca
saith
,
Quatuor
millia
Librorum
scripsit
,
miser
si
tam
multa
supervacua
legisset
,
That
he
wrote
4000
Books
,
miserable
Man
if
he
had
read
so
many
Pamplets
;
and
in
those
Controversies
about
Homer's
Country
,
whether
Anacreton
offended
more
in
Incontinence
or
Intemperance
,
&c.
most
of
them
being
stuffed
with
such
,
or
Grammatical
Questions
:
A
Disease
continued
,
if
not
increased
since
Printing
,
two
much
declining
things
,
for
the
Declension
of
Words
.
Witness
such
laborious
Works
in
Criticisms
needless
.
(
I
asperse
not
the
wise
Choice
of
useful
Quaeries
in
that
Study
)
The
Result
,
it
may
be
,
of
many
Pages
,
is
the
Alteration
of
a
Word
or
Letter
,
its
Addition
,
or
Substraction
.
O
painful
Waste
Paper
!
How
empty
is
the
Press
oft-times
when
fullest
?
Empty
,
we
must
acknowledge
that
which
Vanity
filleth
,
as
we
may
well
think
,
when
it
issueth
some
Poetick
Legend
of
some
Love
Martyr
,
or
some
Pious
Romance
,
of
more
than
Saints
ever
did
,
or
some
Fool
,
busied
about
Government
,
in
the
Neglect
of
his
own
Affairs
and
Sphere
.
What
Pamphlets
these
Late
Times
hath
swarmed
with
,
the
Studious
Shop-keeper
knoweth
,
who
spendeth
no
small
time
at
the
Bulk
in
reading
and
censuring
Modern
Controversies
or
News
;
and
will
be
readier
to
tell
you
what
the
Times
lack
,
than
to
ask
you
what
you
lack
.
We
live
in
an
Age
wherein
was
never
less
Quarter
given
to
Paper
.
Should
Bocaline's
Parliament
of
Parnassus
be
called
among
us
,
I
fear
our
Shops
would
be
filled
with
Printed
,
Waste
Paper
,
condemned
to
Tobacco
,
Fruit
,
&c.
Hardly
any
Cap-Paper
would
be
in
use
,
till
that
of
Legends
,
Pamphlets
,
&c.
were
spent
.
How
justly
may
we
take
up
that
Complaint
in
Strad
.
lib
.
1.
Praelect
.
1.
wherein
he
brings
in
Printers
,
complaining
against
Riming
(
Poetick
they
would
be
called
)
Pedlers
into
the
Press
;
Quique
noctu
somniant
,
boec
mane
lucem
videre
illico
gestiant
,
already
what
Danger
are
we
in
of
eating
up
Antichrist
confuted
in
the
Bottom
of
a
Pie
?
Or
to
light
Tobacco
with
the
dark
Holdings
Forth
of
New
Lights
?
To
see
the
Antinomian
Hony-Comb
holding
Physick
(
at
the
Second
Hand
)
in
a
Stool-pan
sure
argueth
a
Surfeit
in
the
Press
,
that
thus
swarmeth
with
Vanity
or
Controversies
;
which
is
its
worst
Fault
,
as
being
the
Mischief
of
a
Sadder
and
engaging
Consequence
.
Alas
,
what
now
is
the
Press
but
an
Office
of
Contention
,
issuing
rather
Challenges
than
Books
?
When
Pulpits
grow
hoarse
with
Railing
,
then
doth
this
take
up
the
Quarrel
,
that
oft
admitteth
of
no
Arbitrator
,
setting
the
World
on
Fire
of
Contention
,
Schism
and
Heresie
;
introducing
Strife
,
Wars
,
and
Bloodshed
.
Alas
,
how
miserably
is
Truth
torn
by
Antilogies
,
and
little
better
than
Scolding
,
and
suffereth
more
by
this
Pen
and
Ink
War
,
than
by
Pike
and
Blood-shed
:
By
how
much
more
captivating
of
Assent
,
Sophistry
is
than
Success
among
reasoning
Souls
(
that
coming
nearer
Reason
,
than
Success
,
doth
Justice
)
And
we
know
Truth
is
oft
watered
by
Martyrs
Blood
,
receiving
more
Strength
from
the
Red-Letter'd
Days
in
an
Almanack
,
than
whole
Tomes
of
Pro's
and
Con's
.
And
what
Truths
,
Politicks
or
News
suffer
by
the
Press
,
is
Weekly
experienced
:
It
is
nothing
to
kill
a
Man
this
Week
,
and
with
Ink
,
instead
of
Aqua
Vitae
,
fetch
him
Alive
the
next
;
to
drown
two
Admirals
in
one
Week
,
and
to
buoy
them
up
again
next
;
so
that
many
of
those
Pamphelets
,
may
be
better
termed
,
The
Weekly
Bills
of
Truths
Mortallity
,
than
Faithful
Intelligences
of
Affairs
.
Nor
fareth
it
better
with
Peace
than
Truth
;
the
Feathers
and
Plume
seconding
the
Quarrel
of
the
Quill
,
from
Inveighings
to
Invadings
,
Declarations
to
Defiance
,
Remonstrances
to
Resistance
;
and
that
to
Blood
.
The
Press
rippeth
up
the
Faults
and
Disgraces
of
a
Nation
,
and
then
the
Sword
the
Bowels
of
it
.
What
Printing
beginneth
by
way
of
Challenge
,
its
Contemporary
Invention
,
Guns
,
answers
in
Destruction
Accents
.
And
the
enormities
of
the
Press
are
caus'd
partly
by
Writers
,
and
partly
by
Readers
.
Among
Writers
,
some
write
to
eat
,
as
Beggars
examine
not
the
Vertues
of
Benefactors
,
but
such
as
they
hope
or
find
able
or
willing
,
they
ply
;
be
they
good
or
bad
,
wise
men
or
Fools
,
so
do
they
beg
of
any
Theme
that
will
sell
,
true
or
false
,
good
or
bad
,
in
Rime
or
Prose
,
and
that
pitiful
or
passable
;
all
is
one
,
Ink
must
earn
Ale
,
and
it
may
be
Three
penny
Ordinaries
;
write
they
must
against
Things
or
Men
(
if
the
Spirit
of
Contradiction
prove
Saleable
)
that
they
can
neither
master
nor
conquer
;
sparing
neither
Bacons
,
Harveys
,
Digbys
,
Browns
,
&c.
though
naught
else
do
they
obtain
,
except
such
a
Credit
as
he
did
that
set
Diana's
Temple
on
Fire
,
to
perpetuate
his
Fame
.
Another
sort
are
discoverers
of
their
affections
,
by
taking
up
the
Cudgels
on
one
side
or
other
;
and
it
is
come
to
that
now
,
that
Author
scarce
paseth
,
that
writeth
not
Controversies
,
Ecclesiastical
,
Political
,
or
Philosophical
;
though
far
better
it
were
for
publick
good
there
were
more
(
deserving
the
Name
of
Johannes
de
Indagine
)
progressive
Pioneers
in
the
Mines
of
Knowledge
,
than
Controverters
of
what
is
sound
;
it
would
lessen
the
Number
of
Conciliators
,
which
cannot
themselves
now
write
but
as
engagedly
byassed
to
one
side
or
other
;
but
hese
are
Desiderata
vereor
semper
desideranda
,
hings
wanting
,
and
to
be
desired
(
I
fear
)
for
ever
.
A
Second
Cause
of
the
Enormities
of
the
Press
,
●re
Buyers
,
the
Chapman's
Vanity
,
and
weakness
of
Choice
,
maketh
the
Mart
of
less
worthy
Books
the
bigger
.
Such
is
the
Fate
of
Books
,
as
of
other
Ware
,
the
courser
the
Ware
,
the
more
the
Seller
getteth
by
it
:
Examine
the
Truth
,
and
it
will
●…
oo
evidently
appear
,
that
in
these
times
the
Book●…
eller
hath
frequently
got
the
most
,
by
those
Books
●…
hat
the
Buyer
hath
got
least
,
being
not
only
the
●…
uck
of
Rablais's
Bookseller
,
that
was
a
Loser
by
●…
is
Book
of
Seneca
,
and
Judgment
,
but
abundantly
repaired
by
that
Ingenious
Nothing
,
The
Life
of
Garagantua
and
Pantagruel
.
What
Age
ever
brought
forth
more
,
or
bought
more
Printed
Waste
Paper
?
To
read
which
,
is
the
worst
spending
of
Time
(
next
the
making
them
)
and
the
greater
price
given
for
them
,
and
far
above
their
Worth
.
But
the
Distemper
of
the
Press
being
so
various
and
hazardous
,
what
Cures
can
we
pro●…
ose
?
Why
truly
,
for
them
in
Fieri
,
no
such
Correcting
the
Press
,
as
breaking
it
;
but
the
chiefest
Help
is
Prophylactical
,
a
Care
preservatory
;
also
an
Index
Expurgatorius
of
Vanity
and
Whimsies
,
would
save
Paper
from
being
so
stained
,
and
would
keep
it
from
Burning
(
it
may
be
)
by
the
Common
Hangman
,
and
so
a
Nation
less
molested
,
idle
persons
better
employed
:
But
not
to
make
our
Eyes
sore
by
only
looking
on
the
Hurt
,
let
us
turn
them
on
the
Benefits
of
a
well
Employed
Press
,
and
then
we
shall
see
it
a
Mint
of
solid
worth
,
the
good
it
hath
done
(
and
yet
may
do
)
being
inestimable
;
It
is
Truth
,
Armory
,
the
Book
of
Knowledge
,
and
Nursery
of
Relegion
;
a
Battering
Ram
to
destroy
and
Overthrow
the
Mighty
Walls
of
Heresie
and
Error
,
and
also
communicative
of
all
wholesome
Learning
and
Science
,
and
never
suffering
a
want
of
the
Sincere
Milk
of
the
Word
,
nor
Piety's
Practice
to
be
out
of
Print
(
and
that
not
only
in
one
Book
)
constantly
issuing
out
Helps
to
Doing
,
as
well
as
knowing
our
Duty
:
But
the
worth
of
the
Ware-House
will
be
best
known
by
the
Wares
,
which
are
Books
,
which
will
herein
appear
;
which
also
no
prudent
man
will
deny
that
they
are
.
For
Company
,
good
Friends
;
in
Doubts
,
Counsellors
;
in
Damps
,
Comforters
;
Times
Prospective
;
the
Home
Traveller's
Ship
or
Horse
,
the
busie
Man's
best
Recreation
,
the
Opiate
of
Idle
Weariness
,
the
Minds
best
Ordinary
,
Natures
Garden
and
Seed-Plot
of
Immortality
;
Time
spent
needlesly
from
them
is
consumed
;
but
with
them
twice
gained
;
Time
captivated
and
snatched
from
a
Man
by
Incursions
of
Business
;
Thefts
or
Visitants
,
or
by
one's
own
Carelessness
lost
,
is
by
these
redeemed
in
Life
;
they
are
the
Souls
Viaticum
,
and
against
Death
a
Cordial
.
FINIS
.
The
Present
State
of
England
.
Set
forth
in
a
DIALOGUE
BETWEEN
Jehu
&
Ieroboam
.
Jehu
,
HOnest
Jerry
,
how
dost
?
Jerry
,
Oh
honest
!
very
good
;
but
I
'le
assure
thee
,
I
am
not
over-loaden
therewith
:
But
what
News
?
Ha!
Jeh
.
Ah
,
sad
News
indeed
!
Poor
England
is
Circumvented
with
Plots
and
Projects
,
for
its
Ruin
;
Rome
,
France
,
Hell
and
Devils
,
Combine
to
subvert
its
Prosperity
!
Jer
.
Come
,
come
;
with
all
thy
whyning
Hipocrisy
,
pretending
a
sincerity
of
kindness
for
thy
Country
,
but
in
very
Truth
intending
no
other
than
a
narrow
Spirit
and
Design
,
for
thy self
,
in
either
being
counted
what
thou
art
not
,
or
have
that
confer'd
on
thee
which
thou
never
deserved'st
.
Jeh
.
Well
mayst
thou
be
called
Jeroboam
;
for
as
on
the
one
hand
thou
revilstest
me
,
so
on
the
other
,
thou
art
an
irresistible
incentive
to
my
Passion
;
in
Reviling
me
,
thou
art
evil
in
stiring
up
my
Wrath
,
thou
thereby
art
a
cause
of
my
doing
Ill
;
I
tell
thee
my
Passion
against
thee
is
so
boiling
,
that
could
I
find
in
my
Heart
to
offer
thee
Violence
.
Jer
.
Do
thy
worst
;
but
I
have
touched
thee
to
the
quick
,
thou
art
struck
in
the
right
Vein
of
thy
odious
Hipocrisy
,
intending
all
John
does
,
is
for
Johu's
Fame
,
Promotion
,
or
Advantage
.
Jeh
.
But
Jerry
,
be
as
slight
and
frivolous
as
thou
wilt
,
in
very
Truth
,
I
must
tell
thee
,
that
England
,
at
this
present
,
is
in
no
good
Condition
.
Jer
.
Pish
,
Pish
,
Heed
not
every
pragmatick
Prater
,
that
hardly
any
more
than
a
Joynt-Stool
,
understands
the
sentiments
himself
delivers
,
with
respect
to
the
safety
or
the
danger
of
the
Nation
.
Jeh
.
A
way
Jerry
,
with
that
thy
scurrilous
Aspersion
against
our
Sagaces
,
even
those
who
are
Prudent
in
foreseeing
the
evil
that
is
coming
upon
us
;
be
it
known
to
thee
,
that
our
Nation
is
not
so
empty
(
as
thou
falsly
wouldst
perswade
me
it
is
)
of
Men
able
to
give
out
prudent
Sentiments
of
the
Aspect
of
Affairs
.
Nay
,
things
look
so
gloomy
,
as
that
an
half-Eyed
and
witted
Person
may
perceive
.
Jer
.
Ha
,
Ha
,
Every
prating
Coxcomb
,
having
no
more
Wit
,
than
my
Father's
old
Cap
,
tatling
in
a
Coffee-House
,
must
be
counted
Wise
even
to
a
States-man
,
though
speaking
as
much
Sense
and
Reason
,
as
a
Cobler
or
Carter
,
or
as
much
as
some
such
Fellows
are
usually
Endowed
with
:
Nay
,
some
of
them
,
it
may
be
,
of
no
higher
,
(
at
least-wise
,
not
much
higher
)
Function
.
Jeh
.
You
do
not
well
,
I
'le
assure
you
,
thus
to
scoff
at
every
one
Concerned
at
the
present
imminent
Danger
of
our
Nation
;
every
one
so
concerned
and
speaking
,
is
not
a
Fool
.
Jer
.
And
I
believe
,
no
Conjurer
.
Jeh
.
But
because
I
am
well
acquainted
with
your
thwarting
Temper
;
waving
this
Argument
,
let
us
between
our selves
seriously
confer
,
and
consider
for
our
Satisfaction
,
or
at
leastwise
my
own
,
if
thou
art
absolutely
unconcerned
,
whether
or
no
thy
Native-Country
prospers
,
or
Groans
under
the
most
burthening
Grievances
.
Jer
.
Jehu
,
I
am
perswaded
,
that
should
be
greatly
regarded
by
them
in
Place
and
Authority
,
whose
incumbent
Duty
it
is
:
But
knowing
thee
to
love
Applause
,
and
active
in
any
thing
whereby
thy
Itch
of
Ambition
may
be
gratifyed
;
pray
go
forward
in
thy
Discourse
.
Jeh
.
Those
in
Place
,
I
grant
herein
to
be
concerned
;
therein
thou
speakest
honestly
:
But
however
,
we
are
not
thereby
ingaged
to
an
absolute
Unconcernedness
,
whether
or
no
we
Flourish
or
Decay
.
And
as
to
thy
heavy
and
injurious
Loads
,
which
thou
imposest
on
me
,
I
tell
thee
,
Thou
art
here
thy self
guilty
of
that
Guile
,
whereof
thou
so
much
accusest
me
;
inasmuch
as
thou
(
I
am
perswaded
)
art
not
willing
to
touch
as
much
as
one
of
the
least
of
them
,
with
one
of
thy
Fingers
.
Jer
.
Say'st
thou
so
,
then
in
plain
English
I
tell
thee
,
take
away
applause
,
and
the
bottom
of
thy
Zeal
falls
out
,
and
then
it
will
be
cold
,
Jehu
;
but
Jehu
I
know
thee
,
in
vain
is
it
for
thee
to
endeavour
its
Covert
by
Lying
,
thou
greatly
affectest
Ostentation
,
it
is
the
very
Basis
of
thy
actions
;
thou
art
Cock-a-Hoop
for
this
Man
,
that
Man
,
this
Party
,
the
other
;
against
this
,
for
that
;
not
for
that
such
an
one
is
an
honest
Man
,
and
endeavours
the
Nations
good
in
the
preservation
of
Religion
,
to
which
Hypocritically
so
much
thou
pretendest
,
and
makest
a
noise
about
;
But
that
Jehu
,
Jehu
may
have
Acclamations
;
Oh
Jehu
is
an
honest
Man
,
and
a
good
Protestant
!
Jeh
.
Come
,
leave
thy
wonted
flouting
,
and
severe
censuring
,
by
looking
into
thy
own
Bosom
,
to
see
whether
no
vain
Glory
or
Ostentation
there
dwelleth
.
Jer
.
Say
on
,
what
thou
hast
in
mind
to
speak
,
feign
would'st
be
at
something
whereby
self-conceit
in
thee
may
be
tickled
,
but
know
that
I
'le
be
none
of
thy
Flatterers
.
Jeh
.
Well
,
but
dost
not
think
England
to
be
brought
to
a
low
Ebb
?
dost
not
think
it
to
be
in
danger
of
Popery
?
Jer
.
Do
not
talk
of
Danger
of
Popery
many
mens
brains
are
at
a
low
ebb
,
and
so
in
danger
of
Folly
.
Jeh
.
Why
certainly
thou
wilt
not
make
proclamation
of
thy self
to
be
such
a
Villain
,
with
this
discourse
thou
entertainest
thy
Tory
Companions
,
but
take
heed
to
what
thou
now
sayest
,
or
be
it
at
thy
Peril
.
Jer
.
Pish
Simpleton
,
I
deny
not
a
Popish
Plot
in
general
,
but
I
believe
we
make
more
noise
and
stir
than
needs
,
I
cannot
think
the
Papists
in
general
to
be
so
treacherous
,
therefore
why
should
we
be
so
obstreperous
?
Jeh
.
I
know
thee
well
to
be
a
decliner
to
that
wicked
Party
,
but
this
would
I
demand
;
if
in
very
deed
their
intentions
of
subverting
the
Government
,
and
extirpating
the
Protestant
Religion
,
are
clearly
manifested
,
and
that
by
an
harmonious
testimony
of
several
before
engaged
in
their
cursed
Designs
,
and
not
holding
a
Correspondence
together
at
that
time
,
yet
not
disagreeing
in
their
Depositions
,
but
unanimously
confessing
the
main
Body
of
the
Papists
herein
to
be
concerned
?
Jer
.
What
man
!
Every
Papist
in
England
,
Away
,
Away
,
be
not
so
credulous
.
Jeh
.
Some
Papists
I
exempt
,
in
saying
the
main
body
of
them
,
some
it
may
be
might
be
too
poor
to
be
trusted
.
Jer
.
Admitting
this
,
dost
not
think
the
Presbyterians
would
easily
be
induced
to
be
their
Coadjutors
?
Jeh
.
No
,
by
no
means
,
although
falsly
and
wickedly
accused
;
which
Sham-Plots
have
so
plainly
and
perspicuously
been
detected
,
insomuch
that
nothing
remains
to
be
said
,
but
Qui
vult
decipi
dicipiatur
;
who
is
more
Blind
than
he
who
will
not
see
?
who
shall
give
heed
to
that
wicked
Woman
Mrs.
Cellier
,
or
rather
Devil
Incarnate
?
Who
shall
believe
her
for
the
sake
of
the
Bloody
Blader
?
who
shall
give
heed
to
such
a
piece
of
Jesuited
antiquity
,
a
peerless
Match
for
Impudence
and
Confidence
?
Jer
.
Who
shall
give
heed
to
thee
,
so
opprobriously
defaming
?
hath
this
Woman
ever
injured
thee
?
Jeh
.
Yes
,
she
hath
me
,
inasmuch
as
she
contrived
the
subversion
of
the
Nation
in
general
,
and
so
consequently
of
me
,
as
I
am
a
particular
Member
thereof
.
Jer
.
Ay
,
thou
art
a
special
Member
thereof
,
no
more
caring
what
becomes
of
it
,
than
my
Dog
,
so
thy
fat
Carkass
be
not
starved
,
nor
thy
full
Coffers
exhausted
.
Jeh
.
Oh
most
uncharitable
Wretch
,
wouldst
afford
me
no
better
Comparison
than
that
of
a
Dog
,
in
my
love
to
my
Countrey
,
loving
nothing
but
my
Interest
,
and
what
tends
to
its
promotion
?
but
Jeroboam
,
I
know
thee
to
be
wicked
;
tell
me
I
pray
thee
what
is
thy
Opinion
of
famous
Mr.
Le-S
—
.
Jer
.
Oh
Mr.
Le-S
—
a
worthy
Gentleman
!
Jeh
.
Of
what
,
of
a
Rope
?
Jer
.
Not
as
much
as
thy self
.
Jeh
.
Mr.
Le-S
—
and
such
as
he
is
,
are
the
Rats
and
Mice
of
the
Kingdom
,
disturbing
and
devouring
;
but
he
has
lately
defended
himself
from
the
Charge
of
being
either
Papist
or
Jesuit
,
but
let
his
Works
Praise
him
.
Jer
.
Ay
,
and
they
do
it
better
than
thy
Prating
praiseth
thee
;
But
being
we
are
a
little
engaged
in
discourse
,
Prithee
what
dost
hear
of
a
Popish
Successor
?
there
is
a
mighty
noise
about
it
.
Jeh
.
Ay
,
and
no
wonder
,
for
if
to
such
an
one
we
were
in
Subjection
,
how
could
we
expect
our
Liberty
and
Property
to
be
in
safety
?
Jer
.
Ha!
Dost
not
think
him
to
be
endowed
with
Nature
,
to
love
others
,
or
at
least
himself
,
to
have
a
Prosperous
and
Quiet
Reign
over
peaceable
Subjects
,
though
in
Religion
differing
?
Jeh
.
No
verily
,
do
I
not
believe
any
such
thing
.
Jer
.
But
what
if
he
will
Promise
it
?
Jeh
.
I
will
believe
him
,
so
far
as
I
'le
credit
any
Man
on
the
Word
of
a
Papist
.
Jer
.
Why
Sir
,
a
Papist
;
what
has
no
Papist
,
dost
think
,
either
Truth
,
Conscience
,
or
any
thing
in
him
looking
like
Religion
,
or
Moral
honesty
?
Jeh
.
Ay
,
Ay
,
Religion
and
Honesty
too
,
abundance
of
it
they
have
,
(
that
is
)
such
as
it
is
:
their
Religion
instructs
them
to
Ruine
,
Kill
,
Massacre
Protestants
under
the
name
of
Hereticks
;
and
their
Honesty
is
to
be
faithfull
amongst
themselves
,
in
their
damnable
Plots
contrived
in
order
hereunto
,
though
it
be
managed
with
the
vilest
Perjuries
,
Lyes
,
most
false
Equivocations
,
and
wretched'st
Protestations
,
and
that
even
at
the
hour
of
Death
,
in
Vindication
of
the
Church
Catholick
.
Jer
.
Hie
,
Perjuries
,
Lies
,
Equivocations
,
and
false
Protestations
!
and
that
when
in
Punctum
Mori
,
at
the
hour
of
Death
,
just
entring
another
World
,
and
so
in
themselves
perswaded
,
and
to
us
professing
;
and
Christians
too
,
though
in
a
different
Party
from
thy self
,
would
at
that
solemn
hour
pawn
their
Consciencies
,
and
relinquish
their
hopes
of
a
better
Life
;
what
art
Mad
to
talk
thus
?
Dost
not
think
them
then
bona
fide
to
declare
the
very
truth
?
Jeh
.
Come
Jerry
,
be
not
Rash
and
Foolish
,
in
the
one
by
thinking
to
deceive
me
,
in
the
other
by
aiming
to
Vindicate
them
;
are
not
we
well
acquainted
,
that
whatever
is
by
them
spoken
in
defence
of
their
Church
is
Meritorious
,
and
any
Discovery
against
it
is
damnable
,
according
to
their
Religious
and
Honest
Doctrine
?
though
in
very
Truth
their
accounted
Merit
is
Damnation
,
and
a
faithfull
Discovery
may
through
Gods
Grace
be
a
means
of
opening
a
door
for
Mercy
.
Jer
.
But
with
all
thy
sence
,
prithee
what
expectations
of
Mercy
could
these
men
pretend
to
,
thus
dying
,
as
thou
with
all
thy
Charity
judgest
?
Jeh
.
Only
depending
on
a
Popish
Dispensation
,
which
as
they
say
,
gives
them
Absolution
,
as
doubtlesly
did
Harcourt
,
Whitebread
,
Gavan
,
Turner
,
Fenwick
,
&c.
and
my
Lord
Stafford
since
.
Jer
.
Pish
,
a
mad
Fellow
art
thou
,
to
feed
thy
Fancy
with
such
prejudicial
imaginations
;
what
dost
not
think
them
to
be
men
of
greater
sence
and
Prudence
than
so
?
Jeh
.
No
,
it
's
well
enough
known
,
notwithstanding
all
their
Sence
,
Reason
,
Wisdom
and
Prudence
,
that
they
were
Members
of
the
Romish
Communion
,
embracing
the
wicked
Tenents
of
that
Church
;
and
that
some
of
them
were
Priests
and
Jesuits
,
to
whom
it
's
natural
to
Equivocate
,
and
by
practice
can
manage
it
with
the
greatest
Facility
.
Jer
.
Thou
art
so
Obstinate
,
I
know
not
what
to
say
to
thee
;
for
me
to
go
to
perswade
thee
contrary
to
thy
received
Opinion
,
were
to
perswade
thee
to
believe
thou
art
not
a
man
in
substance
and
proportion
,
or
that
when
thou
shewest
thy
folly
,
to
perswade
thee
to
believe
that
therein
thy self
art
not
wise
;
two
arguments
of
equal
difficulty
to
manage
;
being
thy
fears
are
so
great
of
Popery
,
prithee
tell
me
what
thy
Thoughts
are
concerning
the
Blazing-Star
which
lately
appeared
;
does
it
not
presage
some
considerable
event
shortly
to
follow
it
?
Jeh
.
Yea
certainly
.
Jer
.
And
may
not
that
be
good
as
well
as
bad
?
may
it
not
signifie
that
the
D.
of
Y.
shall
reign
many
Years
King
of
England
,
in
case
he
survives
his
Majesty
that
now
Governs
,
whom
we
all
ought
to
pray
for
,
that
his
Reign
may
be
prosperous
and
long
.
Jeh
.
Ay
Jerry
,
I
believe
that
it
may
betoken
such
a
thing
as
thou
speakest
of
,
but
not
before
his
Head
and
Face
becomes
as
bright
as
the
Star
,
and
his
Beard
as
long
and
full
;
the
first
to
signifie
his
bright
Illustrous
Innocency
,
and
then
the
last
follows
in
course
,
viz.
his
long
reaching
Dominions
and
Rule
.
Jer
.
Well
for
all
thy
Scoffs
,
I
tell
thee
plainly
that
thou
art
a
Rascal
,
digest
it
as
well
as
thou
canst
,
I
believe
for
thy
part
,
if
thou
livedst
under
a
Popish
Government
sooner
for
thy
part
wouldst
Turn
than
Burn
.
Jeh
.
Burn
Popery
,
I
am
perswaded
if
ever
it
comes
into
these
Nations
,
it
will
not
be
,
Will
you
turn
Papist
,
or
have
your
Carkass
Fryed
?
No
,
but
to
Hack
,
Hew
,
Cut
in
pieces
by
sudden
Massacring
.
Jer
.
And
how
dost
think
this
will
come
to
pass
?
Jeh
.
Nay
,
how
should
I
tell
?
certainly
by
our
remisness
,
and
our
Enemies
Vigilancy
;
for
they
Watch
for
harm
,
whilst
we
sleep
in
security
as
we
vainly
imagine
.
Jer
.
What
is
requisite
in
Order
to
our
Enemies
disappointment
,
in
thy
Opinion
,
prithee
?
Jeh
.
Certainly
,
to
understand
our
own
Maladies
,
to
slight
our
Enemies
Smiles
,
not
to
suppose
them
to
rest
,
because
they
are
not
just
now
bussing
.
Jer
.
Well
,
come
we
shall
have
something
now
.
Jeh
.
And
well
too
,
thou
mayest
hear
me
if
thou
pleasest
.
Jer
.
Go
on
.
Jeh
.
If
we
understand
not
our
Maladies
,
we
can't
apply
suitable
Remedies
,
and
so
our
Disease
may
grow
incurable
;
now
the
greatest
Malady
infecting
England
is
Popery
,
which
would
be
brought
in
;
the
effectual
way
of
suppressing
thereof
,
is
indisputably
by
the
unanimous
consent
of
King
and
Parliament
,
together
with
good
Officers
,
and
Ministers
of
State
being
Elected
,
and
the
Cankered
Popish
turned
out
.
The
other
way
is
to
slight
our
Enemies
Smiles
;
better
is
the
Frown
of
a
Friend
than
the
Smile
of
an
Enemy
;
an
Enemy
smiles
on
us
with
his
Forehead
,
but
Murthers
us
in
the
interim
in
his
Heart
;
his
Smiles
are
Deceit
and
ruine
,
in
that
he
cunningly
looks
like
a
Friend
,
that
the
better
he
may
exert
his
Enmity
;
hence
many
are
deceived
,
and
most
infallibly
ruined
;
this
is
the
reason
why
his
intended
Mischief
appears
not
,
though
laid
open
never
so
clearly
,
by
reason
it
is
cloaked
under
a
consident
Smile
,
and
pretension
to
Amity
,
when
in
Reality
there
is
nothing
but
an
intention
of
Enmity
,
and
the
forest
and
grievous
hurt
.
By
our
resting
from
our
Vigilancy
against
them
because
not
alwayes
Stirring
,
is
dangerous
;
for
doubtless
they
lye
slumbering
that
we
may
fall
asleep
,
and
thereby
with
the
greater
advantage
they
arise
and
devour
us
:
But
it
is
time
for
me
to
depart
,
I
would
have
had
some
more
discourse
with
thee
,
but
the
time
permits
not
.
Jer
.
Why
,
art
Departing
?
then
I
say
Farewell
Mr.
Statesman
.
Jeh
.
Well
,
and
I
say
,
pray
be
not
such
a
professed
Enemy
to
thy Self
,
Nation
,
and
all
:
Do
not
make
it
thy
business
to
run
about
to
Disparage
the
Kings
Evidences
,
to
make
void
the
Plot
,
to
render
it
as
a
Ridicule
;
for
I
tell
thee
,
England
is
in
no
good
Condition
,
I
fear
.
Jer
.
And
so
I
believe
thy
Brains
are
,
which
run
a
wooll-gathering
,
to
I
know
not
what
.
Jeh
.
Some
other
things
I
had
to
say
to
thee
in
our
Discourse
,
but
I
wave
them
;
next
time
we
meet
,
we
may
(
by
Divine
leave
)
Discourse
further
;
at
the
present
,
Farewell
.
Jer
.
God
b'w'ye
.
FINIS
.