like and Pierus l. 19. de Rana says that the frog hath bloudy red eyes and that it hath a double liver properties of hereticks their eyes are bloody looking with eyes of flesh and blood upon the misteries of Religion the power of the Pope looking with eys of blood upon the power of absolving given to the Priests seaven Sacraments the Real Presence all they look on with eyes not of faith but bloud Two livers also hereticks no fasting no austerity of life no mortification no pennance but still eat drink take pleasure fare well still increasing blood in their two livers the seat of blood for to pursue lust and concupisence and an unbridled appetite of their flesh and blood and which must breed and nourish pride the source and nursery of heresie according to S. Austin diversae diversis locis sunt haereses sed una mater superbia genuit it is said that the Camel is not accustomed to drink before he troubles the water so heresy never enter'd into any kingdom but by troubling the Republicks with dissentions civil broils quia dominationem spernunt Majestatem blasphemant ut serpentes humiliter irrepunt blande capiunt molliter ligant latenter occidunt with their Serpentine cur praecepit vobis deus speaking to Adam and Eve so hereticks are like serpents cur tot praecepta cur tot jejunia cur diebus veneris carnes vetitae cur tot in Ecclesia ceremoniae cur quomodo corpus Christi in exigua panis specie c. Are not these serpentine interogations all their stir is but from sence from flesh and blood for honor for plausible exteriority Did not Melancthon the first follower of Luther tell his Mother at the point of death that the protestant was plausibilior but the Catholick Religion securior whereupon his Mother sent for a Roman Catholick priest and died in the bosome of the true Church for salvation haec plausibiliòr illa securior Did not a Gentleman say Si bonum est cum Luthero vivere haud bonum est cum Luthero mori and did not Luther himself say Martine Martine jam agis voluptuose sed quid erit post haec A Soveraign connter-poyson Document 4. S. Cyyrian the great Doctor writing to some of the Ethnicks touching the lives and studies of Christians speaks thus Philosophi sumus factis non verbis nec magna loquimur sed vivimus that is we are philosophers in our actions not in our words nor do speak great things but practise them It seemes this holy man thought it much fitter for a Christian to exercise himself in Vertuous actions then in diving with curiosity into the Nature of things Andrew Sall When I consider your present miserable state and deplorable condition I cannot abstain from tears you have been heretofore known and counted a philosopher both by words and deeds you spoke great things and did likwise practise them But alas alas lately there is seen and perceived in you a strange and sudden alteration and change I ask quomodo obscuratum est aurum mutatus est color optimus thren 4. you seem awhile ago pure precious gold how come you metamorphosed and chang'd so as no shaddow could vanish halfe so soon now not gold sed fuligo dross and rubbis quomodo mutatus est color optimus heretofore a religious priest an Embassadour for atonement of grace and mercy a preacher all those superexcellent prerogatives graces and beauties defaced what a living member of the glorious Congregation of Jesus become a dead child of error heresies darkness and suddenly become the scorn of boys and Lackies sure this cannot be mutatio dextrae Eccelsi ah poor Andrew That exquisite torment used in antient times by Tyrants to their Captives hath some imperfect weak resemblance of your poor souls present condition they used to fasten living men to dead bodies joyning their hands their feet their mouths their eyes and all their other parts with those of dead putrid carcases Corpora corporibus jungebant mortua vivis Let us consider what were the thoughts of those miserable wretches who though living were by this union hindred from exercising any the actions of life and notwithstanding their natural aversion from stench rottenness and corruption were yet forced to converse only with them exchanging all the happiness of life to entertain those dismal objects which presented them with nought but ghastliness terror all this Andrew is an imperfect representation of your state you cannot but perceive your living body to be fastned to a loathsom dead soul and so by that unhappy union you are hindred from exercising any actions of grace or vertue yet are forced to converse only with the Father of darkness notwithstanding your naturall aversion from him and this for your sacrilegious Apostasy and revolt from the mother Church in which you had an unerring Guide Rule and Judge leading you to true faith the high path to laudable actions of grace Sanctification and eternal felicity oh mutatus est color optimus and this unhappiness befell you through the perverse and wicked choise of your blind will for what the soul is to your body such in a manner I may say is Gods divine Grace to your soul all the members of your body by the operation of the soul are alive do move and stir and exercise their several functions which when the soul is separated from your body all those members are as dead as a stone no member can stir or move nor exercise its function even so when your soul is bereaved of Gods grace as it is at present by black Apostasie then your soul is dead to all goodness all the faculties and powers thereof cannot exercise their function in order to eternity vertue or sanctity you are quite blotted out of the book of life and society of Saints you have no more communication with the blessed and celestiall Congregation of the Church-militant you have forfeited your claim and right to heaven you cannot enjoy as formerly those internal ineffable joys blessings and consolations which the true constant servants of God your fellow-travellers and fellow-labourers in the vineyard of Christ have and your brethren hourly do taste and enjoy Corpora corporibus jungebant mortua vivis Oh wretched Andrew it had been more advantageous and of more pleasure to you to have your living body fastned to a rotten putrid carcase then to have your soul fastned to darkness and lothsomnesse of cursed heresie and apostasie Now do but consider the infinite advantage prerogative and dignity of your former happy state and compare it to your present deplorable cursed and most black state before you were vir Apostolicus now apostata vilis dictus before a most resplendent star in the firmament of the true Church now an obscure dusky and abominable ignis fatuus leading your self and ther 's to precipices of eterna◠perdition before a Religious priest now an◠accursed Judas before conferring life of grace on others now you are
pulled into peeces then let go its gripe yet according to Pierius valer lib. 25. cap. 21. when a little sweet water is poured down upon it then immediately he will let loose what he kept fast O pittiful Andrew did not you of late by your subita dissessio prove like this fish who could imagin that you should be so enchanted as to let go your fast gripe and forsake your so gracious so amorous so obliging and so glorious master saviour and benefactour O execration O blindness O execration the moâ—t black that ever the sun look'd on how could such folly and madness creep into your brain oh aqua dulcis the perfum'd sweet water of Camas was tasted by you poor Anarew by which you became miserably intoxicated amus'd charm'd and quite undone confregisti jugum rupisti vincula dixisti non serviam Jer. 2. lo the sad effects of your aqua aulcis conferring eating drinking sporting with Arch-hereticks against the express will of your Superiours at Camas you expos'd your self willfully to the imminent danger of being ensnar'd by dangerous soul-hunters and fowlers alas Inventi sunt in populo iâ— pii insidiantes quasi aucupes laqueos ponentes pedicas ad capiendos viros sure you met with a dextrous fowler at Camas who by fair language sweet plausible insinuations darting at your weak simple heart beams of great promises and allurements of full content gold liberty pleasure promotion to smoâ—ky honour making use in a most dextrous manner of subtil and crafty methods of deluding you struck through your wavering and instable soul with aqua dulcis which has been your bane bringing you to feed you self and others with false appearances instead of truth and brand you with a perpetual blot of infamy to all prosterity and fix an everlasting guilt upon your soul and your now liberty the Meteor which by glittering brightness of deceitfull light dazles your eys unwarily and like a wandring fire misleads you in your search for true happiness through the blind paths of Apostasy ignorance and folly drawing yet into the dangerous precipices of all impiety and infamy de scelere ad sceluâ— What false appearance soever of content at prâ—â—ent this way holds forth to your deluded minde vae impio in malum c. Oh Andrew how come you to prove like the clouds which obscures the sun that raised them take this gerogliphick and consider how when the sun doth spread her radiant beams chasing darkness from the face of the earth which dark clouds envying as it were at so bright light they begin to endeavour to disluâ—tre the beauty and resplendency thereof what are the clouds but gross earthly vapours raised by the rays of the sun up to the superiour Region where they are condensed and made dark clouds and yet they obfuscate and endeavour to endarken their maker O ingratitude thus you ungratfull wretch do begin to wage war with God your maker and infinite benefactor who raised you Andrew Sall from nothing to great honour and dignity as to be a religious man a priest a legat a star a guide a phisitian of souls and what is it that you return to his divine majesty for all those blessings and favours oh is it to bandy against him and use his blessings for to dishonor his holy name is it to war furiously against his faith to make him a lyar in your pulpit by your lyes and forgeries your malicious crying down the pape prayers to Saints the real presence and your lowd bawling up creeping Protestanisme O ingratitude and madness to rip up the bowells of your mother his spouse the Roman Catholick Church calling her whore superstitious c. is this your gratitude ah poor Andrew all your bawlings and railings recoiles upon your own self quid prudentis est cum possit nolle nocere quid stulti proprium non posse velle nocere you are not able to annoy or beat down the glory and lustre of the Catholick Church nor impede the glorious trophies and daily mervelous growth thereof know that Christ is still at hand for to defend his flock and Church from the venom of Apostats his eyes are fix'd on them alwaies ready to beat down and destroy all arising Enemies what became of Julian the Apoâ—ate for attempting to persecute the true Church all the world knows it what became of Luther Calvin c. and of all the rest of your cursed fellow-laborers in the totter'd silvestrial vineyard of protestanisme Florimundus will tell you they all came to a most wofull and execrable end haec te tremenda moveant terreantque Andrea Reclaim therefore in time Andrew begin to make a speedy retreat open your eyes veiled with a fatal scarf of impudency shut not the eyes of your understanding against the pure heavenly ways of Gods true doctrine for your salvation imitate that brave Avicena a man of a most super-excellent wit yet by unhappiness of birth rank'd in the infernal Sect of Mahomet coming to consider how his false prophet had placed the beatitude of the life to come in sensuall pleasures and contentments of the body was asham'd of it and so shurnk from his prophet that he might not betray his reason the laws Mahomet gave did consider beatitude and misery only within the limits of the body Oh Andrew forsake your protestant Sect which as you well know in your Conscience doth place all happiness in the pleasures honors liberty and contentments of the body and obstructs all means and ways to vertue to sanctity piety mortification c. and doth stifle the fear of a living and dreadfull God Oh Andrew do not betray your Reason nor your conscience shrink away from your darkness and apostasie reclame and be converted like a great Pollititian lately by this Dilemma Either there is a living God and a severe Judgment after this perishable life or no if there be none such yet if I believe that there is it cannot prejudice me at all but it will rather very much avail me for it will move me to embrace an honest moral Christian like life if there be and yet I shall not believe it rather flatly deny any such thing what infinitly great torments and flames must I expect for this my perfidiousness blasphemy and horrid contempt Further either there are rewards for good works of the Just and Vertuous after this life or no and likewise if exquisite torments be prepared for the impious by God as by the light of nature we may without question believe or no If there be none at all yet to believe hope and fear such a thing cannot hurt me but rather forward me to the practise of vertue and honesty c and if there are really such to be expected and that I shall not believe it and so live wickedly and licentiously what other can be expected but eternal flames among the damned The Almighty Andrew illuminate your understanding and inflame your heart for to renounce your
carnal childish sences and to turn your self to your mother the Roman Catholick Church wherein only is true faith Religion grace and true comfort to be found opus annorum multorum perdidisti arise and rouse from your dismall Apostasy An Appendix IN the great and most important affairs of faith all on all sides agree that they are bound on pain of damnation to believe all truths sufficiently propounded to them as revealed of God and to obey and submit to that Guide Rule Judge and Authority which God hath instituted and appointed to teach and govern them the reason is because whosoever denies any thing sufficiently propounded to be revealed by God denies Gods veracity and makes him a lyar No protestant can shew any other reason why by denying the Trinity and unity or the Incarnation Gods veracity is denied and God thereby made a liar but because the Trinity and Incarnation are sufficiently propounded as divine Revelations therefore the Real Presence prayer to Saints the Papes Supremacy auricular confession purgatory c. being without doubt as sufficiently propounded in the Scripture as those mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation by denying which Gods Veracity must be also denied and so God made a lyar See in chap. 16.12 when the spirit of Truth is come he will guide you into all truth but all truth excludes all errours and this for ever which was to be longer then the Apostles were to live If you Andrew enquire by what means this teaching shall be by whom all people shall be taught all truths and shall be preserved from all errours S. Paul will tell you Eph. 4.11 He gave some Apostles succeeding in full Apostolical authority some Prophets expounders of the prophets some Evangelists preachers of the Gospel some Pastors and Teachers to what end for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ for what time or how long till we all come in the union of faith now Andrew you may ask will these secure us the very next verse tells you that henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro with every winde of doctrine by the slieght of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lie in wait to deceive as you lately have been most shamefully by the slieghts of Satan and his Instruments pride lust and avarice hurried away from Christs unerring Church wherein only are manifestly seen unfeigned miracles sanctity of life efficacy of doctrine admirable repentance of sinners conversions of people and Nations unity stability perpetuity uninterrupted succession of lawfull pastors which cannot be found in your protestant sect these are such heavenly marks as are impossible for God to affix unto a lie which is as impossible as to set his hand and seal to the confirmation of falshood according to the Rule of Gamaliel If it be of God it will hold the faith of Roman-Catholicks holds and daily grows more numerous in her proselites when the unsteady wavering protestant pitiful sect daily changes like the Camelion from one false doctrine to another which occasioned the most illustrious Marquesse Badensis from a Lutheran to become a Roman-Catholick the same instability of hereticks scoffed and laugh'd at by Fredericus great Duke of Saxony at a time being questioned by a familiar friend what did his Lutherans believe he answered quid hoc anno credunt scio quid vero credituri sint anno sequenti nescio nec ipsimet sciunt no wonder having lost their ground their rule their un-erring Judge the Roman-Catholick Church some years past the protestants in England according to their first institution did observe the Lent exactly and also were accustomed to fast from meat on Frydays Saturdays but alas all that is forgorten all is chang'd nothing permanent among them but persecution of the Roman-Catholicks yet to observe the Lent and to abstain from meat the forty days of Lent withal on Frydays and Saturdays would much conduce to the weal-publick for the growth of cattle and for the comfort of poor people meat being so excessive dear for not observing the fasts on those holy times not speaking of the infinite comfort and encreaâ—e of blessings both to soul and body which daily accrew to Kingdoms where the Lent and Frydays and Saturdays are duely observed and fasted in the Roman-Cath Church Now Andrew I conjure you in the bowels of Charity to learn by heart that most heavenly lesson of Christ Jesus viz. Learn of me for I am meek and humble of heart in order to this remember S. John 4.6 We are of God He that heareth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth us not hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of errour Andrew nothing was required to distinguish those two spirits but to hear or to refuse to hear the Apostolical Teachers Lo S. Paul saith Faith comes by hearing it will be as necessary now for you to hear in these our times those that are lawfully commissioned to teach as it was in the time of the Apostles Come along therefore return to your Mother your true un erring guide fly away from Babylon and save your soul begin to curse the day that you began to curse and dishonour your true Mother in imitation of that great Heresiarch Calvin who consuming with intolerable stench from vermine cryed out aloud saying Maledicta dies qnae primum studio scriptioni falsae me adduxit Bolsecus in vita Calvini haec te horrenda moveant terreant from appearing against truth and the faith of Christ for vain oftentation for sordid gain for to please men and displease the all-seeing God O Andrew how come you to forsake your true mother the Roman-Catholick Church which is the womb of your beginning and bosome of your repose and fall into the cruel hands of a false mother and harlot I pray observe 3. Reg. how two harlots came to Solomon for to decide the controversie between them about a living child the one alledging it was hers and the other also alledging the childe belonged to her the King said bring me a sword and they brought a sword before the King and the King said divide the living childe in two and give half to one and half to the other then spake the woman whose the living childe was for her bowels yerned toward her son saying O my Lord give her the living childe and in no wise slay it but the other the false mother said let it not be mine or thine but divide it then the King out of his wisedom said give her the childe slay it not she is mother thereof because she has true love to her childe and will not have it divided your soul is a childe which is claim'd by two Mothers the Roman-Catholick Chhrch and the pretended Church of Protestants how shall we finde out the true mother from the false one by Solomons dividatur infans let the childe be divided in two the