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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25324	Ananias and Saphira discovered, or, The true intent of a pamphlet called Omnia comest[a] a Belo in a letter by way of answer.		1679 (1679)	Wing A3048; ESTC R11808	6,884	18

strictest scrutiny be made to heal the broken and purge out the corrupt But to cut off the thing abused with him that does abuse it the Office with him that is entrusted with it is neither Sober Just nor Rational And whenever it was so done you will find it in all Ages to have been done in a tumultuous and rash way and by such disorders as have cut off the Just with the Unjust when it has succeeded well to none but the violent So that for the sins of the people such things may come to pass but I beseech you never let it be imposed upon us as a prudent or justifiable proceeding Ananias and Saphira were ten times juster than this man of Belus For they only kept back part of what they had not yet parted with Whereas this Gentleman would take away not of his one gift but what our Ancestors either found already bestowed or themselves of pious intention gave to the honour of God and his worship But to conclude that you may be truly convinced out of whose Quiver this Arrow comes take the Deposition and Evidence of Dr. Oates in his true Narrative of the Horrid Plot where you will find the Papist to be the manager of all this Controversie And indeed what party else can benefit by it For when the Clergy are brought low and despicable distracted with Sects and Heresies Scattered Rent and Divided What mischiefs are they not exposed to Can the Pope and all his Conclave direct us an easier way to fool our selves into their hands The words of the Doctor are these Art 1. Richard Strange Provincial John Keins Basil Langworth John Fenwick and Mr. Harcourt Jesuits did write a Treasonable Letter to one Father Suiman an Irish Jesuit at Madrid in the Kingdom of Spain in which was contained their plotting and contriving a Rebellion in Scotland of the Presbyterians against the Episcopal Government In order to which they had employed one Matthew Wright and William Morgan and one Ireland to go and Preach under the notion of Presbyterians and give the disaffected Scots a true understanding of their sad state and condition in which they were by reason of the Episcopal Tyranny exercised over them and withal to tell them they had now a fair oppoctunity to vindicate their Liberty and Religion and that it could be done by no other way but by the Sword Art 2. Other Letters from the Jesuits to Father Leshee the French Kings Confessor in which they told him that they had stirred up the Presbyterians in Scotland to a Rebellion and that twenty thousand would be in Arms if His Majesty of France would break with the King of England Art 22. A Letter for Whitebread Provincial Father Mico c. That they had received Letters from Scotland in which they were informed that the people would rise to oppose Duke Lauderdale and the Royal Party and also that they would endeavor by themselves their Agents and their Purse to provoke the Scots against the English Art 25. Their designs the Jesuites say in another Letter went on well in Scotland Art 35. Upon a Conference of the Jesuits by order of the Provincial they are to send new Messengers into Scotland to promote the Commotions there and inform the people of the great Tyranny they lay under by reason of their being denyed Liberty of Conscience and that not being to be procured but by the Sword they must take that course to purchase their Liberty By which means said the Fathers so assembled we shall weaken both the Presbyterian and Episcopal Faction Art 43. That two new Messengers were sent into Scotland one by the name of Father Moor and the other Father Saunders alias Brown with instructions to carry themselves like Nonconformist Ministers and to Preach to the disaffected Scots the necessity of taking up the Sword for the defence of Liberty of Conscience These the Deponent saw dispatched and ordered to go by Father Harcourt in the name of Thomas White Provincial Art 50. They renew their hopes of success in Scotland upon assurance of the Papists there that they would keep up the Commotions to their utmost Art 51. They own that the Provincial had taken great care to keep alive the difference betwixt the disaffected Scots and Duke Lauderdale c. and likewise to beget a difference betwixt the Dutch and the Prince of Orange Art 54. That one Matthew Metbourn Mr. Penny Mr. Mannock c. meeting upon Thursday and Sunday nights at a Club are employed by the Jesuits to vilifie the House of Commons and go about the City of London to incense the people against them and against the Bishops of the Nation Art 55. Mr. Jennison boasted that he had put several out of love with the Kings interest and would so continue Art 73. The Fathers in Scotland write that their party was ready to joyn with the disaffected Scots and that one Westby was destroyed by one that was servant to Lovel the Jesuit for endeavouring to detect the Rebellion with its Authors and Contrivers to the Council in Scotland Pag. 64. § 6. They would weaken and divide the Kingdoms by Civil Wars and Rebellions as in the late Kings time Pag. 67. § 1. They would charge the King with Tyranny and designs of Oppressing governing by the Sword and without Parliaments § 4. They would misreport and raise false News of the Kings affairs § 6. They would disturb Trade § 7. They would disaffect the Kings Subjects by Seditious Preachers set up sent out maintained and directed what to Preach in their own or other private or publick Conventicles and Field Meetings And now see whether the Church of England or others work most for the Popish Interest You shall know them by their Fruit. FINIS