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A51061	A moderate expedient for preventing of popery and the more effectual suppression of Jesuits and priests, without giving them the vain-glory of pretending to martyrdom / by a person of quality.	Person of quality.	1680 (1680)	Wing M2324; ESTC R13081	19,352	14

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He that forbeareth to sow his ground in expectance of good Winde or a favourable Moon commonly hath a poor Crop and a lean Purse So shall it fare with this State if private Whisperings of discontented persons that never learnt to speak well be too nicely regarded yet ought they not to be slightly set at nought lest our Credit grow light even in the Ballance of our dearest Friends The Papistical Libels inform against us as if we were desirous to grow fat with sucking of their Bloud the very Walls of their Seminary Colledge at Rome are bedawbed with their lying Phansies and in every corner the Corner-creepers leave some badge of their malicious Spleen against us crying out of Cruelty and Persecution But if the penalty of Death be changed into a simple indurance of Prison what Moat can they finde in our Eyes to pull out or with what Rhetorick can they defend their obstinate Malipertness which with repaying us ill for good deserve to have Coals of Indignation poured upon their heads Visne muliebre confilium said Livia to Augustus let Severity sleep a while and try what alteration the pardoning of Cinna may procure The Emperour hearkened to her Counsel and thereby found his Enemies mouths stopt and the malice abated Some there are perchance that will term this Clemency Innovation and vouch the Precedent of that City who permitted none to propound new Laws that had not a Cord about their necks ready for Vengeance if it were found unprofitable But let such Stoicks know that there is great difference between the penning of a new Law and advice given for the manner of executing it neither by their leaves are all Innovations to be rejected for divine Plato teacheth us That in all Common-wealths upon just grounds there ought to be some changes and that States-men therein must behave themselves like skilful Musicians Qui artem Musices non mutant sed Musices modum 5. That an evil Weed groweth fast by example of the new Catholicks increase is cleerly convinced But he that will ascribe this Generation simply to his Majesties Heroical vertue of Clemency argueth out of the fallacy which is called Ignoratio Elenchi Was not the Zeal of many cooled towards the last end of Queen Elizabeth's Raign hath not the impertinent heat of some of our own side bereft us of part of our strength and the Papacy with tract of Time gotten a hard skin on their Consciences Parva metu primo mox sese attollit in altum But if we will with a better insight behold how this great quantity of Spawn is multiplied we must especially ascribe the cause thereof to their Priests who by their Deaths prepare and assure more to their Sect than by their Lives they could ever perswade It were Incivility to distrust a Friend or one that hath the shew of an honest man if he will frankly give his Word or confirm it with a sacred Oath But when a Protestation is made upon the last gasp of Life it is of great effect and possesseth those that cannot gain-say it upon their own knowledge The number of these Priests which now adays come to make a Tragical Conclusion is not great Yet as with one Seal many Patents are sealed so with the loss of a few Lives numbers of wavering Spirits may be gained Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae And though these Priests having indeed a disadvantageous Cause are in very deed but counterfeit Shadows of Martyrs unto a true understanding yet will they be reputed for such by those that lay their Souls to pawn unto their Doctrine with whom if we list to contend by multitude of Voices we shall be cryed down without all peradventure For the gate of their Church is wide and many there are that enter thereinto 6. By divers Means it is possible to come to one and the self-same End seeing that then the sum of our well-wishings is all one namely That Popish Priests may have no power to do harm it is not impertinent to try sundry paths which may lead us to the perfecting of our Desires Politicians distinguish Inter rempub constitutam rempub constituend according to the several natures whereof Statists are to dispose of their Counsels and Ordinances Were now the Rhemists and Romulists new-hatched out of the shell the former course of Severity might soon bury their Opinions with their Persons But since the Disease is inveterated variety of Medicine is judiciously to to be applied The Romans did not punish all Crimes of one and the self-same nature with extremity of Death For some they condemned to perpetual Prison and others they banished into an Island or some remote Countrey Even in the case of Religion they were very tender to dip their fingers in Blood For when Cato was Consul and it stemed good unto the Senate to suppress with violence the disordered Ceremony of the Baechanals brought by a strange Priest into the City he withstood that Sentence alledging that there was nothing so apt to deceive men as Religion which always presents a shew of Divinity and for that cause it behoved to be very wary in chastizing the Professors thereof lest any indignation should enter into the Peoples mindes that somewhat was derogated from the Majesty of God Others more freely have not spared to place Religion I mean that Religion which is ignorantly zealous amongst the kinds of Frensie which is not to be cured otherwise than by time given to divert or qualifie the fury of the Conceit Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum Howsoever in valuing the power of a City or strength of Arguments quality and worth is to be preferred before number Nevertheless where the uttermost of our force is not known it imports much to have it conceived that the Multitude stands for us for Doubts and Suspicions cast in an Enemies way evermore make things seem greater and more difficult than they are indeed We have by God's Mercy the Sword of Justice drawn on our behalf which upon short warning is able to disunite the secret Underminers of our Quiet we have a King zealous for the House of the Lord who needeth not to fear less Success in shutting up of Priests than Queen Elizabeth had in restraining them in Wisbich-Castle where lest their factious Spirits should grow rusty they converted their Canker to fret upon themselves and vomiting out Gall in Quodlibets shewed that their Disease was chiefly predominant in the Spleen What Tempests they have raised in their Colledge at Rome their own Books and many Travellers can witness the storm whereof was such that Sextus Quintus complained seriously of the vexation which he received oftner from the English Scholars than all the Vassals of his Triple Crown And untruely is the Magistrate noted of Negligence or overmuch Severity that lays wait to catch the Foxes and the little Foxes which spoil the Vineyard though afterwards without further punishment he reserve them to the day wherein God will take

have survived the possibility of that glory if any such hope had remained neither is it to be presumed that being in Prison he would ever have conceived that we durst not touch his Reverence or that the Law was remiss which had justly condemned him and loft his life to the Kings mercy It was the distance of the place and not persons that interpreted the sending over Seas of the Priests to be a greater Argument of their innocency than of his Majesties forbearance for had Father Parsons himself been Coram nobis his song would rather have been of Mercy than Justice It is truely said that we are all instructed better by Examples than Precepts Therefore if the Laws printed and Indictments recorded cannot controul the Calumnies of those that wilfully will mistake Treason for Religion by the execution of two or three of that backbiting number I doubt not but the Question may readily be decided Namque immedicabile vulnus ense recidendum est ne pars sincera trabatur To dally with pragmatical Papists especially with those that by their Example and Counsel pervert his Majesties Subjects I hold it a point of meer Injustice for what comfort may the good expect when the bad are by connivance freed to speak and emboldened to put their disloyal thoughts in execution For explaining therefore of my meaning it is necessary to have a regard unto the nature of the Kings Liege-people that are to be reformed by example of Justice and other Forraigners who will we nill we must be Censurers of our Actions It hath been truely observed that the Nations of Europe which are most remote from Rome are more superstitiously enclined to the dregs of that place than the near Neighbours of Italy Whether that humour proceed from the complexion of the Northern bodies which is naturally more retentive of old Customs than hotter Regions or that the vices of the City seated on seven Hills are by crafty Ministers of that See concealed from the vulgar sort I list not now to discuss but most certain it is that the people of this Isle exceed the Romans in zeal of their Profession insomuch that in Rome it self I have heard the English Fugitives taxed by the name of Pichiapetti Inglesi Now as our Country-men take surer holdfast of Papal Traditions than others so are they naturally better fortified with a Courage to endure Death for the maintainance of that Cause for this Climate is of that temperature out of which Vegetius holdeth it fittest to chuse a valiant Souldier where the heart finding it self provided of plenty of Bloud to sustain sudden defects is not so soon apprehensive of death or dangers as where the Store-house of Bloud being small every hazard maketh pale cheeks and trembling hands Angli say antient Writers bello intrepidi nec mortis sensu deterrentur And thereunto Botero the Italian beareth witness in his Relations of many Strangers Therefore coming out of Forraign parts among the Rarities of England desired to see whether Report hath not been too lavish in affirming that our condemned persons yield their bodies to Death with cheerfulness And were it not that by dayly experience we can call our selves to witness of this truth I could produce the Reverend Judge Fortescue who in commendation of our English Laws made suitable as he well observeth to the inbred conditions of the Inhabitants of this Soyl avoweth that the English people in tryal for Criminal Causes are not compelled by Tortures to confess as in other Nations it is used for as much as the quality of the English is known to be less fearful of Death than of Torments For which cause if the Torments of the Civil Law were offered to an innocent person in England he would rather yield himself guilty and suffer death than endure the horrour of lingring Pains Insulani plerumque fures saith one and so true it is that this Country is stained with that imputation notwithstanding that many are put to death to the end that others by their fall might learn in time to beware If then it doth appear that Terrour prevails not to keep men from Offences which are condemned by Law and Conscience what assurance can there be to scare those who pretend to be satisfied in their minds that their Sufferings are either expresly or by implication for matter of Religion and health of their Souls In such a case to threaten death to English men Quibus nihil interest humive sublimive putrescant is a matter of small consequence Purpuratis Gallis Italis aut Hispanis ista minitari To a setled resolution of death menaces to prolong a wearisome life prevail much more in such cases Rightly did Clement the Eighth consider that by burning two English men in Rome for supposed Heresie he rather impaired his Cause than bettered it insomuch that many present at the resolute death of Mr. Marsh who was brought to dust in Campo di Santa Fiore spared not to proclaim him for a Martyr carried away of his Ashes for a Relique and wished their Souls in the same place with his which News brought to the Popes ear caused him as it was bruted about in Rome solemnly to protest That none of the English Nation should publickly from that time forward be consumed with Fire On the other side if we read the Volumes written of their Priests Constancy their Martyrologie or Kalendar of Martyrs and Path-way of Salvation as it were chalked out unto the Papists by sacrificing their lives for the Pope we shall finde that by taking away of one we have confirmed and invited many whereof I could give particular instances if I thought any scruple were made in that point As for forraign parts which hold with the Papal Supremacy it is cleer that they will be severe and partial Judges in this cause For albeit that here in England it is well known to all true and loyal Subjects that for matter of Roman Doctrine no mans life is directly called into question but that their disobedience in reason of State is the onely motive of their prosecution nevertheless where a great Canton of Christendom is rooted in a contrary opinion and things in this world are for the most part esteemed by outward appearance this Land cannot escape malicious scandals neither shall there be want of Colledges to supply their Faction with Seminaries Therefore again and again I say That if the state of the Question were so set that it were possible by a general execution of the Priests and their Adherents to end the Controversie I could in some sort with better will subscribe thereunto but seeing I finde little hope in that course I hold it safer to be ambitious of the Victory which is purchased with less loss of Bloud and to proceed as Tully teacheth his Orator Who when he cannot wholly overthrow his Adversary yet ought he to do it in some part and with all endeavour to confirm his own party in the best manner that may be