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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62922	The new design of the papists detected, or, An answer to the last speches [sic] of the five Jesuites lately executed viz. Tho. White alias Whitebread, William Harcourt alias Harrison, John Gaven alias Gawen, Anthony Turner and John Fenwick / by Ezrael Tongue.	Tonge, Ezerel, 1621-1680.	1679 (1679)	Wing T1878; ESTC R28884	5,708	8

THE NEW DESIGN OF THE Papists Detected OR AN ANSVVER To The LAST SPECHES OF THE Five Iesuites lately Executed VIZ. Tho. White alias Whitebread William Harcourt alias Harison John Gavan alias Gawen Anthony Turner and John Fenwick By Ezrael Tongue D.D. LONDON Printed for Robert Boulter John Hancock Ralph Smith and Benj. Harris 1679. Courteous Reader TWO very different Opinions are continually past upon the late Executed Jesuites and their Traiterous Accomplices some upon just grounds as they are well satisfied they may disclaim against them not only for the Horrid Treasons of which they were Convicted and more especially for their Damnable Impiety invoking at their last hour the Dreadfull Judgement of Gods Eternal Wrath after that of mans Justice impendent upon their Heads and Souls if they were not Innocent as a New born Child from the Crimes fully proved against them to the satisfaction of Judge Jury and a numerous Judicious Audience Others contrariwise either admit or suppose they may be Innocent or require clearer proof or doubt of their guilt and that because of those Imprecations which seem to others the highest aggravations of exalted Villany 1. Because all desperate Villans do not only generally but universally practise the like Protestations of their Innocency at Death and rarely Confess their Accomplices or betray them which their Confessions might do 2. These people even in harsher terms practise and teach their Disciples and Penitents so at their Execution to deny all and protest Innocency endeavouring to increase an Odium on Protestant Magistrates and Government and to make all Flagitious Persons of their Church for want of better pass for real Martyrs As on the contrary it turns to their very great advantage because nothing more advances a Cause or Doctrine than a Holy Life and a Patient Death of them who own it As nothing more prejudices Religion than many Criminals Executed in Publique and their vitious Lives who profess it This is therefore one of the most Hellish Matchivillian Pollicies of Rome To turn Arguments into Objections and Objections into Arguments or change by their Artifices Traytors into Martyrs and Martyrs into Traytors or Hereticks 3. Their Confessions at this time beside the Scandal which is a Crime so Heinous with them that all grosser Vices are tollerated whereby to avoid would endanger their Chiefs in Custody hazzard the whole frame of their Design discourage its Conductors and Followers quail their Hopes and Faith disarm their Worthies betray their Fame expose to the hate of all Posterity all their Orders and Religious gain or utterly defeat the whole Plot and loose the Charges and Counsels bestowed on it 4. We ought more to admire at the obstinate adhesion of so many where they Lodged Conversed c. none coming to Impeach them or for to see the Truth Testified against them except Sarah Haine Mr. Jenison Bedlow Dugdale and Prance 5. The Impudence of those who testifie Warner and Oates beyond the Sea Ireland in Warwickshire Wales c. than which nothing is known to be more false 6. The vast hope of having the Wealth and Power of these three Kingdoms to Protect Serve and Promote them and their Designs 7. The never to be recovered Opportunity of an Heir Presumptive of the Crown bigotted into their Superstition if now lost or discouraged But let me now hear the Words of their flourishing Orator Gavan Thus he Brazens it out As for Mr. Oates and Mr. Dugdale who I call God to Witness have brought me by false Oathes to this untimely End I Heartily Forgive them This passage if it had been inserted before his Renunciation of Equivocation Pardon Absolution Dispensation c. I confess I am not so well read in their Morals as to know how by their own Rules to Digest it for as it is a Lye it must necessarily require some Absolution or somwhat Equivalent though it had been as he believes it for the best Cause ever any Man in his Condition did Lye or Sin venially and one nimble Cross if his hands were not tyed might Salve it for ought I know And perhaps some Pater-Nosters of his Dignified Auditors as Bundel Caryl c. their Confessors or some others might secure this poor Soul from passing the Dreadfull Gulf of Purgatory At worst their Affection and Passion in Martyrdom for so excellent a Cause and Design and Baptisme in Blood did Salve all the by-past Infant Sins Infirmities or Defects of these New-born Martyrs If any of the Learned Romanists can help me more Candidly to Interpret this mans Words I desire his Assistance and Pardon for intruding into Mysteries scarce ever so practised as by these Master-Polititians and Divines in this present Case I cannot but acknowledge this Gavans whole Discourse very Artificially Composed For what he affirms of his Innocency and no Guilt of any Crime that needed not any Pardon c. for the Fact was Meritorious in his Words therefore there were no Equivocations so farr And had he said Dugdale's and Oate's Oathes had been Malicious he might have been more Candidly Interpreted as one who Judged they had Gain or other Worldly advantages to prompt them to what they Swore but to say they were False in such particular matters of Fact as his own Conscience Testifies with them to be true For this if his obstinate Death direction of his intention for Catholique good or some other Salvo which occurrs not to me at present amongst their many Pious Frauds help him not I see not but that he is highly Perjured and his Soul lost desperately only he may possibly with the Irish-Tory-Murderer Repent Feel and find Mercy in the Rope which that my Charity may not be Inferiour to his I wish to the worst of these Villains though towards us we should long ere this had not Heaven blasted their Designs have found their tender Mercies to have been most Barbarous Cruelties But that the True Sense and Artifice of Mr. Gawen's Speech may be rightly understood we must observe the Method of it and the Principles of the Author For the Method He doth no where positively deny any matter of Right or Fact charged against him or his Fellows nor that the Pope hath Right unto or hath resumed the Kingdom of England or that he hath Excommunicated or Deposed the King or delivered to the Secular Arm the People of England to be destroyed by the French c. He doth only implicitly deny the Matters of Fact sworn by Oats and Dugdale when he calls their Oaths false But in this his Assertion he promises not any Sincerity nor renounces any Equivocations nor Absolutions c. So that he seems purposely and very craftily to have waved that Protestation where it most needed and to have usurped it where he had no need to relieve himself by it For certainly he might very well say as he believed That he was not Criminal in what he did in obedience compliance and concurrence with his Holiness and the General of