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A67650	A revision of Doctor George Morlei's judgment in matters of religion, or, An answer to several treatises written by him upon several occasions concerning the Church of Rome and most of the doctrines controverted betwixt her, and the Church of England to which is annext a treatise of pagan idolatry / by L.W.	Warner, John, 1628-1692.	1683 (1683)	Wing W912; ESTC R14220	191,103	310

English Iesuits Ciuilitys to their country men 2. Their manner of living Which the Doctor approues of highly commends D. Morley The Lord Viscount Neubourg ... D. Morley coming to the Iesuits Colledg ... found Father Darcy with the Lord Andover 1. He received them very courteously to satisfy their curiositys ... very frankly made vs 2. a larg narratiue of their manner of liuing lodging diet together with the hours of Rising studying eating recreations of all the spiritual hours exercises they were bound vnto 3. Things all of them in their seueral kinds for the substance of them very commendable worthy the imitation Revisor I easily beleiue that F. Darcy very wel deserved this publick testimony of his kindness 1. because he is known to haue been very ciuil to all men 2. Because I am informed that it always was still is the custome of the English Iesuits to receiue courteously do all good offices for their country men in all places where they meet them this not only to persons learned or noble whose qualitys or qualifications may claim it as due but also to others on no score distinguishable from the meanest which all those can testify who by design or chance pass by their Colledges And their kindness to their countrymen in distress hath not been like that of those who Iames 2.15.16 Seing their brother or sister naked and destitute of dayly food say vnto them depart in Peace be you warmed filled But they haue giuen them those things which are needfull to the Body I will not mention any whose names necessitys are scarce known but in their neighbourhood Was Bedlow a Prisoner in Spain at Valladolid the Iesuits there labour to procure his liberty Was Dangerfeild condemned to be hanged in the Low-countryes The Iesuites leaue no stone vnmoued to saue his life Was Oates in want of all things necessary for food rayment He finds the Iesuits purse open hand stretcht forth to his releife this he hath found in England Spain Flanders as long as there was any hopes of his amendment And althô very often this Iesuitical kindness meetes with a Tru-Protestant gratitude yet they continu still the like good offices so these proceed not from the compassion of some tender harted Iesuits but from the spirit of their order which they suck in with the milk of Iesuitisme confirm by practice cherish with hopes of eternal rewards What Hospitals haue they not visited where they heard any of their dearest countrymen lay sick Into what Dungeons haue they not procured entrance if an English-man were cast into them what sickness so loathsom as to make the Iesuits nauseate the sick or so infectious as to fright them away what house for infection so shut vp from commerce with all men as to exclude the Iesuits And what danger so great as to deter a Iesuit from running into the middle of it to releiue an English man in distress How many of them haue destroyed their health how many haue lost their liues in these works of Mercy And how little haue the suruiuing Iesuits been deterred from the like workes by the euils befallen their Brethren hanging over them selues Haue we not seen the famous fable of Pilades Orestes so renowned amongst the Pagans out don by a Iesuit who being indicted by the name of a Benedictin then present he chose rather to vndergo the sentence of death than to cleere himself by discovering the mistake by that bringing the tru Benedictin into danger The sentence was not executed it is tru but that doth not diminish the esteem due to the Iesuits heroical resolution to suffer death himself rather than auoid it by occasioning any danger to another He saw death an ignominious death according to the world before his eyes not to be auoided but by a Reprieue which he had nether meanes to sollicit for nor hopes to obtain considering how punctually such sentences had been executed on others not withstanding all endeavours to get them suspended So his permitting the Verdict to be brought in the sentence to pass vpon him without making vse of so certain so obuious so euident a meanes to trauerse it was to thrust his neck into a halter only to hinder his neighbour's danger of it Was not this very litterally the perfectest charity for one to giue his life for another 2. Whence proceedes this Zeal of souls this alacrity to encounter any danger how great soeuer or difficulty except that one of offending God by sin in these pious attempts Answer from their education the practice of their whole life from their entry into the Society At their entrance knowing how little it would avail them to gain the whole world with the loss of their souls in imitation of him who being rich for their sakes became poor for his sake they renounce all they haue all they hope for in this world Their first two yeares or Nouiceship is spent in meditating on the life doctrine death of God made Man which aimes at nothing else but the good of souls And all their other exercises are to confirm them in the contempt of themselues the loue of god aboue all things of their neighbour as them selues in this Zeal of souls At their entrance into the Nouitiate they are obliged to make for a whole month the spiritual Exercices in which they consider first for what end they all men were created Viz to serue god in this world enioy him in the next That all creatures what soeuer Heauen Earth Beasts Birdes Fishes are designed as seruants to man on his way to eternal bliss that euen those blessed Angels so much our superiours in nature are but our seruants being all Heb 1.14 Ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heires of Saluation That all that God man Christ-Iesus did preacht suffred Heb. 5.7 In the days of his flesh was designed for that same great end To saue souls Now if god himself the only competent Judg of the valu of souls esteemes them so much how can we set too great a price vpon them who wil regret any paines taken for their good who hath before his eyes the trauels the hunger thirst the preachings other labours of the Son of god who wil be abasht at any danger in pursuit of so great a good who sees with the eyes of Faith Christ crucifyed shedding the last drop of his bloud suffring death to purchase by it the life of souls This in the Exercices After that monthly Recollection conversation with only god his blessed Saints their whole employments are such as may prepare them for that great work the greatest of all divine workes as S. Denis says To cooperate with God in the Conversion of souls Do they pray It is to vnite themselues the closer to Almighty God that so they may be fitter instruments

you a father of the Protestant Church publish those betwixt your Penitent you And J heare that some persons of your Communion haue found that they had not made their Confessions themselues to Mute fishes Witnesse Capt. Hinde Catholickes haue indeed printed a letter of a Preist to my Lord of Stafford something written as is beleived by her R. H. but nether of these comes home to the point of this letter For what was written by her R. H. was probably designed to be seene at least it was not written to her Confessor nor was that letter to my Lord of Stafford by his Confessor it myght probably did come from one who never saw him nor knew of him but onely that he was preparing for Death Another reason why I was surprized at the syght of this letter is that it doth in a manner confirme the Report of her being a papist Now this lady being by alliance entred into the Royal Family making a very eminent figure in it I thought shee should haue beene partaker of that priviledge that none should publish their being Papists for if this be Treason by law when sayd of the head of that Family it ought to be held a hainous offence when spoken of others Besides this we learne in Tobie 12.11 That it is Good to reveale the secrets of God to conceale those of the King So that whereas Divines are permitted to dine as deepe as they can into Divine mysterys as to those of the King they are to remember that Qui scrutator est Majestatis opprimetur a gloriâ He that pryes into Majesty shall be opprest with glory Prou. 25.27 Death to the foole hardy 2. The booke called Anti Haman p. 309. hath these words There seemes to be as much difference betwixt the spiritual food which souls receiue in the Catholick Church that of Protestants as there is betwixt the nourriture a child receives sucking a breast stretched with milke that he gets by sucking a moistned finger We haue an occasion here to see whither this judgment be well grounded Two things are remarkable in the instructions which Ministers giue to the souls vnder their direction as appeares by their sermons spiritual bookes 1. A horrour hatred of Popery 2. A slyght touch of some holesome Catholick Truths yet so handled as not to moue considerably the soul for feare it moue them too far For example they speaking of some former sins the sorrow for them the purpose of amendment the preventing God's judgments by judging our selves appeasing his wrath by Penitencial workes they do it well yet knowing that those points are meere Popery to prevent their passing over to it they added an Antidote which destroyes all they had sayd One instance shall suffice Dr Hewit Repentance Conversion p. 51. hath these words we must confesse to men that both privately publickly according to the quality of the sin This is catholick Doctrine now he corrects it For though we condemne Auricular Confession as a trick of state Policy yet we allow exhort all Christians to a tru voluntary sincere Confession of their sins to the Bishop superintendents of the Church Thus he Now what is Private Confession but Auricular Confession Yet to the one he exhorts the other he condemnes or rather he approues condemnes the same thing vnder different names And what is this but to build with one hand pull downe with the other to plant roote vp the same thing To teach in Churchs as tru Protestant evidences depose in Courts plaine Downe ryght contradictions Now what can a soul do hearing this if she be truly desirous of salvation Practice those Truths They bring her to Popery Then they cannot seriously practice what you teach This inward combate seldome ceases till they leaue the Protestant Communion for either they become immediatly Papists if the loue of vertu overcomes or Presbiterians if the hatred of Papists prevailes by the helpe of a Morose nature Thus the surest tyes to Protestaney seeme to be 1. a carelessenesse of what is to come in the next world 2. a Presumption of God's goodnesse 3. Temporal motiues of all sizes All which are insignificant to a soul that prefers her eternal concerne before her temporal resolues to advance in vertu an Earth that shee may be more gratefull to her celestial spouse in Heaven 3. For this reason the report of the change in Religion of her R. H. easily found credit with me Of which report you speake p. 4. 5. God had giuen her a serious desire to serue him as he would be served I heard she was earnest in pursuing what she thought was for his glory attentiue in her Devotions exact in performing what seemed to be the will of God for the good of her soul that though her Fortune was exceeding greate yet she would rather forgoe it all then hazard her soul that Jewell being too precious to be compensated with any thing God had Giuen her an extraordinary good vnderstanding say you p. 14. with which she could easily discerne betwixt what was Tru what onely Seemed to be so Whence without any helpe of Bookes or instructions of men by only Hearing the discourse of Religion which is the most common in England will be so till men talke themselues either out of all Religion or into a good one either into Atheisme or Popery she myght easily discover that the devil was not so vgly as he was painted that somethings were charged on vs which we did not hold that what we really taught was not Blame worthy soe on both sides we were jnnocent And probably she myght declare so much being vnwilling to heare vs wronged Which gaue you occasion to say p. 4. that shee Declared in favour of Papists grounded that Report of her being one Then you spend several pages in proving how fatal a like Report had beene to her Father-in-law K. Charles I. what prejudice it had like to haue done to Charles II. altho both were jnnocent of that Crime averse to the Religion Which confirmes what I sayd how dangerous it is to entertaine that animosity against Popery which enables knaues to compasse the ruin of honest men even the King himself with only traducing him or them as Papists how jnnocent soever they be averse to that Religion D. M. p. 12. It is Impossible to silence this Report of your being a Papist vnlesse you your self appeare in it vpon all occasions declare your detestation of it c. Rev. How insignificant this remedy would haue proved appeares by its successe in the late King's time Whose declarations of that nature even at the Communion could not silence his Enemyes nor check a like report D. M. p. 15. None shall ever be able to proue that either we omit any thing necessary to salvation or teach any thing destructiue to it Rev. Your Schisme is