ifornia mal ty : A SPECIMEN O F \ M E N D M E N T S CANDIDL T PROPO S E D ; TO T II E TOM FILER of a Work, which he calls, ''The CHURCH- HISTORY of ENGL A N A from the Year 1500, to the Year 1688. By CLKROPHILUS ALE7HES. f!i tc tronnlla fffeL'it fadiltiuh feKfetitia?, [Hijisri.r'] ;:-^i el rn;;:Jacii>;:i, error h:ur^>n<> --.I. Si anttm it.-: f- -.'/// Scrturarum fi:>:;lart.:;i Hllonarum Eccic* Jiafticcirum~\ nebulas falfitatis rijicerc TJ/A'////, cymfiuji- L O N D O N: Printed in the YE A R M DCC XT.. I, i i I R F AX i.,." c ilS^P OST cf t]id ^ Remarks :/|. ; T~ M^>-|! ,,.,-.- ,.,-'(- -r--. ^ ir . 1 T :.*-' iVi I v^si \. C; C \% ri-.^Cll Li C'Jil:<.QlU Ui.UC i,;-;, _ .;! j .-"Yj ! i^ v/hils iincc. 1'he uhliili- ..- them has been cblay'd in EMre5lv.tio.i of t!:c Thliv. A\;!..'n.; of t!i; Compiler. '1'h.u no: uppc:irini;.; fo ibo:: us wa c i:na f .ih^,!. ir l:.i. LL-L-II w thought proper to Pah! The PREFACE. without flaying any longer for his Lift. Befides other Reafon?, this alone is Sufficient, that it is high Time to re- medy the Harm he has already done. To avoid [lie Often tation, or un- r.cceilarv Trouble of fiilinc the Con- V? text cr Margin with needlefs Quota- tions, 1 fhall not cite my Authors, excepting on foine particular Occa- sions. Eat the Header may -be aflbred, that great Care has been taken tc fpeak. all along, in Facts I have occa- lion to mention, upon c r ood Autho- J J D iity. F. Mere, Bart:li and 'JiKencj, liave been moftly follow'd, where I do not exprefly quote other Authori- ties. Thofe three Hand in the Com- >.ik-r'jj I>ii>. It will be fo eaiy, by the Index We PREFACE. Index of thofe Authors, to find the Perfons and Facets fpoken of, that it would be very fuperfluous to be often quoting Book, Section, and Page, And I am under no Apprehenfion of appearing to have related any thing material,, without good Authority. Referring to the Authors here men- tion' d, muft needs be to the full as fatisfactory, as the Compiler's referring to, Diaries beyond Sea. For tho' fuch Diaries juflly claim, in many re- fpecls, a great Credit, yet fuch Writers as have been name..!, arc alfo of great Credit. They aiib had. the Perulal of Diaries, and other good Memoirs, and may much mere eafiiy be confulted, than the Diaries abroad, or Miimifcripts, in private Hands, 11 Me PREFACE. If 1 have been miilaken in any thing, I ihall moft readily corredt, or recall it ; in the mean while, I am very fure I have not mifreprefented :inv thins knowingly. But if any " C- O J * rlir.Jl reply to theie Remarks, with mere general, tho' Tragical Excluma- tions, or with Comlck Sneer, and .Banter (the common, and inofl eafy Reft.-gcs in a bad Caufe) I ihall fcarce throw fo much time away as to teii them they have laid nothing to the Purpofe. Juil: as the kill Sheet of theie Papers w r as putting in the Piefs, I heard an uncertain Rumour, that the Compiler's Third Volume began to be publiih'd. If it uelervcs any No- tice. The P R E F A C E. tice, 1 ihall take another Occaiion to Remark upon it, without any farther Delay of pnbliihing this prefent Specimen. nfr.'WvM T II 1-. T II E CONTENTS. SECTION I. 'The Introduction, Reafon, and Defign of thcj'e REMARKS. Page i SECTION II. Amendments arc requifite in ahnoft cverv Page of yen r Work. 7 SECTION III, Remarks on your 'Title, Preface, and Catalogue of Authors. j 7 SECTION IV. Tour pref fit Work compared with your former Pamphlets. 27 S E C T I O N V. Remarks ubon vot/r Account of the BKI- i *- .' TI^H, SAXON, and NORMAN Periods. The CONTENTS. Periods^ and ctLer Articles of your frft Bc:k. Page 37 SECTION Vf. Of y cur LIVES //.' your ^\'cond t find RECORDS in your Ikird Bock. 45 SEC '10 N MI. Upon your 5 ,nd and Third Parts, farilcula* , en tic L^'l' of Dr. CLI:- NOCK. 48 S K C T I O N VIII. Remarks ^cn \citr Relation if tl:? E.NGLieH Cdlcgc c.t ROME, being fat un,i-:r tie Cars of tie TUSUITS^ ^7 ij V -^ J SECTION IX. Far tier P.-:r/hv!-.s en your Account of tbe ROMAN CtUcge. Cj SECTION X. C.<2 \mr Life cf Fc.tL^r THOMAS DAKi;Vi.-i!ir.L. 73 The CONTENTS. REMARKS on the SECOND VOLUME. SECTION XL On the Two Firft Articles of the Se- cond VOLUME. Page 76 SECTION XII. COLLEGES founded abroad. 80 SECTION XIIL The WISE ici i Affair. 85 SECTION XIV. and Defign of theje REMARKS, O U know, Sir, who it v/as that under the Name ofdntbofiy Harmer* publiih'd a Specimen of Errors in Burnefs Church- Hi ftory of the pretended Refor- mation. Perhaps from the Likenefs of the Title prefix'd to thefe Papers, you will B imagine 2 A Specimen of shnendmenfo imagine I would imply, that you deferve no more to be regarded as a fair Hiftorian, than .Bqrnet. And truly fuch will moft certainly be your Character in that refpect (tho* you are very different from him in other things) unlefs you make proper A- mendments to your Work. By this frank Beginning, you will eafily perceive I have no Defign to flatter you upon your Performance. But I can fin- cerely affure you, it is alfo far from my Thoughts, to do you any Injuflice in the Following Remarks. And you know me fo well by the Name of C L E R o p H i L u s ALETHES, that you cannot apprehend I have taken it, to have the fecurer Opportu- nity of abufing you under the Cloak of a fictitious Name. Inftead of the leaft De- fign of any Wrong to you, or to any others, my Intent is chiefly to put you in a way of doing to a confiderable Body of Religious Men, that Juftice, which you have not done in your W 7 ork, as it now Hands. You know too, no doubt, that William dc St. Amour > and Odo of Doway, with fome others, laid their Heads together to compile a Book againft the Religious of St. Domi- -nick and St. Francis , and what fort of a Book it was in general. But perhaps you are not particularly acquainted with what Pope '^Candidly 'Propofed, &c. 3 Alexander the Fourth fays of it, in the Bull he publiih'd on that Occafion. He there calls that Book pernicious, deteftable, execrable, full of Deceits, Detractions, Falfities, and Lies againft thofe, who by their ardent Zeal, did great good in the Church, &V. As fuch it was, by that great and holy Pope, condemned to be Burnt. And accordingly it was, both at Rome, and at Paris. The chief Author of it was de- prived of all his Benefices, and St. Lewis Kins; of France banifh'd him out of all his O Dominions. This is not mention'd to imply an odious 'Companion between you, and thofe ftig- matized Authors. But their Fate may well make you reflect, that, without running into fo great Excefies as theirs, there arc other Ways of very grievoufly injuring Re- ligious Orders, which may call for a great Atonement. It has been, Sir, very generally fuppofed, that you was the Author of certain Pamph- lets printed particularly in the Year 1/15, which were very injurious to the JESUITS. I could heartily wifh you Innocent in the Cafe , fince certainly nothing can juftify fuch Writings, or cxcufe the Author from the Obligation of making publick Satis- faction to the injured Perfons, For tho* it B ?. 4 A Specimen of Amendments was very vifible that thofe Pamphlets were written in fuch a Strain of an evil Spirit, that they could do little harm among good and judicious Readers, yet the Impreffion they might make on weak and ill-difpofed Perfons, the Scandal, which fuch Spleen and Falfides could not but give to others, muft needs leave a heavy Charge upon the Authors in the other World, if they do not endeavour to fatisfy for them in this. When thofe Pamphlets appear'd, fome were pleafed to defire I would anfwer them. One of the Reafons which made me wave the Propofal, was the Hopes I had that the Author would foon Repent, and by his own Retractation, make any other Anfwer needlefs. I am very forry that I have been hitherto difappointed in that Expectation. However, I have had the Pleafure to find I was right in thinking that all moderate Judges would highly condemn the Author, and that the Pamphlets themfelves would, in a fhort time, fink into Contempt and Oblivion. The like Reafons would make me wave writing any Remarks upon your prefent Work, if it was not to be fear'd, that Mif- reprefentations and injurious Hints, inferted into fo large a Work, and under the fpe- cious Title of a Ckurch-HiJlory^ might be more Candidly Propofed, &c. 5 more lading. Efpecially being written with lefs Appearance of a virulent Spirit, than thofe Pamphlets. Tho' at the bottom, kfs violent Writings may prove moft per* nicious by infufing an Infection, that is not fo eafily guarded againfr by many. Thus, even fhort., parting, fly Innuendoes do more harm than violent Writings, and open Re- vilings. In this Senfe I would take the Words of Synejius ( Epift. 44. ) Nulli enfe. I will not enquire what you mean by immediately adding, there are fome common Notions of Truth grafted by Nature, or Whether you mean innate Ideas, or have examined Candidly Propofed, &c. 21 examined whether there are properly any fuch Ideas. If there are, it is certain they cannot be put in Confufion. They may, by improper Education, fail of being carried on in a right Progrefs to Knowledge, but the Notions themfelves, grafted by Nature, cannot be put in Confufion. Their Light is too clear, their Strength too great, to be clouded or diforder'd. You will be apt to lay, that fuch Re- marks are mere Criticifms, not to be heeded. This Reply might in fome Mea- fure be allow'd, jf you did not very fre- quently fall into fuch Faults. But where a Writer, like you, often ufes a turn of Ex- preflion that might impofe on common Underftandings, it is fitting Readers mould be warn'd, lelt they be drawn into a wrong Eiteem of the Writer, by his pompous Exprefiions, which, when examined, are either Falfe or Empty. It is particularly fitting you mould have fome Hints to exa- mine many of your Exprefiions now at leaft, fince you fcem to have confider'd them fo little before. You may be fully afiured that great Numbers of fuch Defects, are to be found all over your Work. This may well be expected from obfcrving, as every judicious Reader eafily may, that few Lines of your Preface are free from them. Thus 22 A Specimen of Amendment* Thus even in the very next Lines you fay : " Religion is an Enemy to Partiality;; " And they that make it the only Teft of ' ,Hiftorical Fads, may be laid to labour ct under invincible Prejudices in Favour of " themfelves." Not to examine other De- feds of thefe Lines, it may be prefumed that faying Religion is an Enemy to Partia- lity, and immediately adding the Word And, this fame and means a Connection, and fuch a Connection as implies a Confe- quence. And the Confequence muft be, that becaufe Religion is an Enemy to Par- tiality, therefore thofe who are influenced by Religion in judging of Hiftory, are under invincible Prejudices. A ftrange Confequence ! But often in your feeming fine Sayings, Lcgick is quite loft. Truth of Hiftory is no lefs often loft by your failing to obierve the Rule you give in the fame Page, that in Party-difputes we ire to weigh the Bag, as ivell as the Goods that are expofed to Sale. It is to be fuppofed you mean by this odd ExprefTion ( for your Meaning is often left to be guefs'd at) that we muft consider the Author, as well as the things he relates. Had you done fo, your Work would not have been fo ftrange- ly tinctured by the violent Writers you -often fellow. And while Readers have great Candidly Propojed, &c. 23 great Reafon to think you the Author of the Secret Policy, &c. They will have abundant Reafon to be very cautious of minding your Accounts. And now, Sir, drawing nearer to my chief Defign in thefe Papers, I lhall pro- ceed (omitting feveral Remarks that might .be made) to the ninth Page of your Pre- face. There you fay, the bare Reporting of our Fore-fathers Contentions, does not prove any Inclination to quarrel upon the fame Subjett. This is only true where the Relation is fair, and impartial Where it is otherwife (as yours will appear to be) it gives great Sufpicion of an unfound Wri- ter. Efpecially in one that has grievoufly fail'd Jn .that kind before. You fpeak in the next Page, of ycur being true in your Relations of thofe Matters, to Authentick Records, and then add, fo let every one tajle of the Fruit of their Managment. Agreed on : Provided it be their own Ma- nagement, and not yours. What may be expected from you in this kind, may be previoufly judged, from the Excufe you lay in foon after for your Ornif- fions. Many great Omiflions might be fhewM in ycur Work, of Benedicfins., Carthufmns, Fryars , and other Regulars, But as my Engagement here is on account 01 24 the Engli/h Provincial, you fpeak of fome People perhaps reckoned in a -pretty good Form amongft the intelligent Part of Man- kind , who are very unwilling to write the/n- felves out of Credit. It feems you are not of this unwilling Number. For you have been writing yourfelf out of Credit with all intelligent Perfons , and it may be fafely C 4 afrirm'd 32 A Specimen of Amendments affirmed you will never gain Credit with them, till you retradt your othcrWorks, and make great Amendments to your prefentr. As to a certain Fatality of Birth, which you fpeak of in thofe Letters, I know no more what you mean, nor can I any more make Senfe of it, than of what you there fay of a certain Affair, that you cannot di- vine what would be the IJJue, tho* you was not ignorant what was like to be the Event of it. Some may be apt to fay in your favour, that indeed the Pamphlets mentioned are horrid ; that as fuch they will ever be de- tefted by all good Men ; that the Author of them will be ever accounted a fecond Watfon ; that therefore it cannot be fuffici- ently wonder'd at, that you have not openly and plainly difown'd or retraced them : Yet ftill they will add ; may it not be thought that you have in fome Meafure retracted equivalent^ a great Part of thofe Pamphlets, by what you y in fevcral Places of your Church-Hiftory ? For in this you give fuch a Character of the JESUITS, whom you had fo violently nf- perfed before, as clearly is inconfirtent with thofe former Afperfions. Is not this equi- valently a Retractation, and fufficient r To fuch Friends of yours, or to your- felf, if fa you fhould endeavour to appeafc your Candidly Propofed, &c. 3 3 your Confcience, it muft be anfwer'd, That Inconfiftence and Retractation are very different things. They are fo far from being equivalent, that inconfiftent Calum- nies often enhance the Mai ice of the Writer. You are moreover to reflect, that many have read your Pamphlets, and been preju- diced by them, who will never go through your tedious Hiflory. Again, this Hiftory tho* it often contradicts, yet it often chimes in with thole other Pieces. And if con- tradictory Accounts were to be thought a fufficient Retractation of Calumnies, your Pamphlets retract themfelves. For they are ftlf-contradictory. And fo is your Church-Hiftory too. In thole, as well as in this, you own the Perfons, whom you calumniate, to be Men of Virtue and mo- ral Worth, you declare you will not al- perfe them in thofe moral Refpects ; yet at the fame time, you charge them with fuch a Conduct as every one muft fee is abfo- lutely inconfiftent with Virtue, Probity, and moral Worth. Can there be a greater felf-contradiction ? Even H 7 atfon contra- dicts himfelf in the like manner : Yet hs did not dare to enter upon Eternity without a further Retractation. If what the JESUITS did (and fo they did by your Accounts ) in a whole Series of C 5 Attempts 34 -d Specimen of Amendments Attempts upon the Rights of the Clergy t if continual Injuries done to the Clergy, if perverting Funds, and turning them to their own Ends, contrary to the Intent of the Founders, if domineering over, if flandering, if rendering the Clergy con- temptible, if oppofing the divine Institution. of the Hierarchy > it feducing Catholicks in England, and Protestors and Popes at Rome^ by frequent falfe Informations, by- injurious Characters, by plotting, tricking, deceitful Ways, if thefe things, I fay, are as you reprefent them, it is impofllble the JESUITS you thus reprefent, mould be Men of Virtue and Worth. They m-uft have been, not only occafionally, but very habitually, Knaves and Villains. If the Injuries you complain of were flight, and done fo harmlefly as not to hinder the JESUITS from being Men of great Virtue, why do you complain fo heavily ? Such Complaints upon flight Matters, and done in fuch a way as not to be contrary to Virtue and eminent Worth, muft either be a meer Farce or fomethino; worfe. *_> If here you would pretend, that this way of arguing will equally defend thole, who oppofed the JESUI TS in the Points you chiefly infift upon, fmce they alib ( you fay ) have a Right to be thought Men Candidly Propofed, &c. 35 of Virtue, the Anfwer is very eafy. In fome Cafes there may have been fuch. Doubts as leave room for Excufes on. both Sides. In others, there could not. Now, Sir, be pleafed to obferve. Watfon. begg'd pardon, at his Execution, for the Injuries he had done to theSoci E T Y. And fo did alfo Mr. Clark. Mr. Copley took a Journey to Rome (fee Bartoli. 1. 6. cap. 1 6. ) purpofely to Retract there, before the Protector and Pope Clement VIII. the In- juries he had done to the SOCIETY, and in particular to F. Parfons. You place Bagfhaw ( Secret Policy, p. 1 4. ) with Watfon^ in the Rank of fuch violent Men againft the JESUITS, as ought not to be minded. Some of thofe, who had oppofed F. Weft on in Wisbicb, repented and join'd with him. Others who continued to op- pofe him fliew'd by their Apoftacy, and other ftrange Proceedings, how little room there is to excufe them. As to thofe, who oppofed the Soc i E T y in the Government: of the Roman College, feveral of them by their future Difafters, into which their Dif- ordcrs caft them, leave no room for excufe ; but much room to wonder you mould feeni willing to be- their Patron. Others of them (as Mr. Hngbss, Banks, Bdl, Floyd, ixc,; repented ot' the Injuftice they had done 36 A Specimen of Amendments done to the Soc i E T Y ; and upon full En- quiry into Matters, the Popes have ftill con- tinued the JESUITS in the Government of that Seminary. Thefe fhort Inftances, which \vill be made fully clear in the Sequel of thefe Remarks, plainly fiievv a great Dif- parity between the JESUITS, and their Adverfaries in general. As to fome few Gf Particulars among their Adverfaries, what- ever tolerable Excufe can be brought tor them, I mall be always mod willing to embrace it. I will add here but one Reflection more with regard to your Pamphlets, particularly your Secret Policy. Some Men of Preju- dice and Levity, may perhaps have been p leafed with your flirting Stile. But you inuft remember, that as few things make a Man have, in the main, a more difii- greeable Countenance, than afneeringLook, tho'' it may make one fmile at firft Sight, fo nothing makes a Writer more contempti- ble at the Bottom, than a fneering Stile in ferious Matters, however it may fur- prife a Reader into a Smile at firft. Nor is any Method of Writing more eafy to Men that will indulge Ill-nature, or more defpicable when it comes to be ferioufly examined. SECTION Candidly Propofed, &c, 3^7 SECTION V. Remarks upon your Account of tic BRITISH, SAXON, and NORMAN Periods ', and other Articles of year frjl Book. YO U begin it with telling us, very folemnly, that both Hijlorians and Moralifis (to whom you might have / \ <* O added all the World befides) obferve, that feldom any confiderable Alteration happens without fome previous Difpofitions. This is full as trivial, as it is true. And perhaps, as trite as the Obfervation is, it may well be thought a great Novelty to find you making it an Introduction to an Account of our Church- Affairs, even from the earlieit Times of our Chriilianity. Yet fo it is, you fay, becaufe they might probably be a kind of Introduction to that furpri/ing Revo- lution of Henry the Eighth. Not to ob- ferve, that the more probable it is that they were fuch an Introduction, the lefs furpri- iing that Revolution would be, you might (upon the Reafon you mention) have car- ried us up to Adam. But, let it be granted, tho' upon a better Reafon than what you here mention 3 that 1C 38 A Specimen of Amendments it might be proper to give an account of the Times you fpeak of, yet why, Sir, do you prefently fay, that fome are pleafid to conjecture, that St. Peter came into Great- Britain ? It ftands upon too good Autho- rity to be called a Conjecture at Pleafure. You add, that fome make St. Peter, others St. Paul, others St. Jofeph of Arimatbea, the firft that founded Chriflianity here'; and that all thtfe Opinions may be main- tain* d without any Lucnfiftency. Is there no Inconfiilency to maintain that one of them was the firft, tho' another, that came after, was the firft ? You often thus overlook the proper Senle of your Exprefiions. To proceed to a few other Queftions upon your ftrange Abridgement : Why did you omit to give an account of the Saints t/r/a/jand Winefrede? When you come to fpeak of fome other Perfons (as Margaret Queen of Scotland, whom fo you Name, without the Title of Saint} you fay it would be an unpardonable Omijjion, not to take Notice of them. How will it be par- donable to have omitted thofe two Saints that are fo eminent in our Church ? I be- lieve you are the firft, and will be the laft, that will be guilty of fuch an Omiffion. Why do you feem fo willing to deny ; page ii.*) that St. Aujtin and his Com- panions Candidly Propofed t &c. 39 panions fent by St. Gregory the Great, were Benedict in Monks ? What could make you in (innate that they were of the Secular Clergy ? A few Lines before, you was pleafed to call the Heptarchy by the Name of the (Economy of our Ancejlors. This is juft as fine as if you mould tell us, the Divifion into Ridings is the prefent (Economy of Torkjbire. But fince you are fond of that Word, and often ufc it, give me leave to ask what was your (Economy in the Cafe of St. Auftin and his Companions ? There is no appearance at all that they were of the Secular Clergy , and there is a conftant Tradition that they were Monks. You may find in Alford (An. 596. Num. 26.) Reafon to think they w&ctBenedifins -, particularly as it is well known, when in fome other- Parts of England the Rule of St. BencdiR was received, whereas no other time is known of its firft being received in Kent^ but at St. Aiiftin*s bringing it thither. Not to mention the joint Teftimony of our four Eminent Antiquaries, Cotton, Selden, Cambdcn and Spelman. You come again to this Point (pzgs 13.) particularly with regard to St. Lawrence* and you quote Mr. Collier for your Notion. You ought to have confidered that his Ar- gument here, is very trifling. He takes it from 40 A Specimen of Amendments from the Author, or Authors, of the^f////- quit cites Britannic<. Thus I fpeak, becaufe I will not here enquire whether that Work is to be attributed to Parker, or Jofceliw, or both. (By the by, you might have laid fomething of this, fince you pretend to give a critical Account of Authors. ) But it may feem ft ill more ft range, that you, or Mr. Collier, mould mind fuch a Work { fo full of vile Prejudices againft Monafticks) in a Cafe of that kind, and efpecially where the Argument infifted upon, is fo very in- fignificant. It is this: That venerable Beds fays, Lawrence a Prieft, and Peter a Monk, were fent to Rome by St. Aitftin. But how obvious is it to obferve, that, fince there are other Proofs (fee F. Alford An. 619. n. 2.) of his being a Monk, thole Words only mean, that one oi them was in Priefts Orders, the other not ? St La-ivrence then being thus fpecifted by his Prieftly Cha- racter, no more proves that he was not a Monk, than it is a Proof that Beds himfelf was no Monk, becaufe often called a Prieft. Here then, as in many other Places, you feem to take your Materials at random from any Authors, and think it enough if they chime in with your Preju- dices. And thus, I own you often make me think of what Dnden fays of Sbadwell* He Candidly Propofed, &c. 41 He fagot ted his Notions as they fell. And if they Rhinfd and Ratted all was well. There are many other Faults in your Abridgment. But haftening to what is nearer to my main Defign, I will only ob- ferve, that it is in fome Things too long, in others too fhort. Particularly in your Account of the Foundation of Monafteries you fcarce give any more than a dry Enu- meration of them, omitting generally fuch Things as ought to be chiefly infilled upon by a Church-Hiftorian , that is, the Virtues and remarkable Examples of the Perfons, who founded or inhabited thole Holy Places. And will you give me leave to ask, how fuch Foundations, which are fo great a Part of our Chwch-Hiiuory in for- mer Ages, were a probr,bh Iniroduftion to their being detnolifhM by Een-;y the Eighth ? There appears little Probability of their ever being fuch an Introduction, unlcis you will bring it from this wife Remark, that he could not fo impioufly h,;v~ deitroy'd them, if the Piety of our Anceilors had never railed them. The Affair of the Divorce has been dif- culTed by fo many Writers, and is com- mon I y fo well known, that there was not the Icafl Occafion for your being fo profufc- upon 42 A Specimen of Amendments upon it. And yet, profufe as you arc, r might have been more compleatly clear'u, even from the Authors you quote. The like may very juflly be faid of your Article concerning the Supremacy. But in particular you muft give me leave to wonder how you could think (page 93.) that the Ambiguity of the Title of the King's Head- flip, left room for a Spiritual Supremacy elfe where. You fay indeed, c.s feme ex- pounded it. But you mould have faid, It was plain their pretended Expofition was inconfiftent with the King's manifeft De- mand of that Title. It is farther very won- derful you fhould fay (after your quoting feme Prcteftant Writers concerning his Su- premacy ) that you will not pretend to de- termine whether thefe Divines have wiftaken the Cafe of the King's Supremacy. What can you mean by fuch fhuffiing Exprefilons ? Is it not manifefb that he claimed a full Su- premacy, as full as ever the Pope did, even in Spiritual Matters ? Your fourth Article, of the Difiblution of Monasteries, might eafily have been much improved, even from the Authors you cite. But among other Amendments in this Article, you muft be particularly minded to correct your Approbation of Mr. Collier^ in what he fays (as you quote him Candidly Propofed, &c. 43 him here page 113.) that the Popes annex- ing Tithes to Monafteries, was an En- croachment 9 and down-right Popery. Is this- your Compliment to the Popes ? Or will you adopt it as yours? It is alib hoped, you will take Notice how ftrangely you itep out of the road of your Hiftory here, to complain of the Popes for granting Ex- emptions to Religious. Can you think it becomes you feldom to Ipeak of Popes without complaining of their Proceedings r Was you relblved thus to imitate Ditpin ? Even he would fcarce have faid what you do here, that the Catholick Clergy have Re af on to think themfehes hardly dwelt with. By whom ? By Popes. And how long ? For many Ages. It is hoped again you will be more careful of your Expreflions hereafter. You will perhaps tell me, that in the next Page you fpeak with great Refpect of the Pope, where you fay, he thought himfelf obliged to take Notice of King Henrfs Behaviour in the manner that became the 'Dignity and Office of a Supreme Paflor. This you fay with regard to the Bull of Pt?///the Third. It will therefore be well it you can make this appear confident with what you {aid (page 99.) of that very Bull. At the fame time it will be aifo requifite you fhould explain what you mean by faying 44 full of in other re- fpects (and affuring you again, there are in it vaft Numbers of almoft every kind) .you ought, when firft you began to fpeak of thole Religious, to have done it with a better .Appearance at leaft, of common Equity, than you do in the Life of Dr. Cle- ficck. It may well be asked, how you came to place .this Life in your fir ft Volume : Efpe- cially fince the Affair of the Roman College being taken from him, and put under the Government of the JESUITS, happen'd in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Was it that you might, even in this Volume, fhew what the JESUITS were to expect from you in the next, wherein a great Stickler for your Work was pleafed to fay, You would give them their own ? You pretend to take your Account of that Affair from original Letters of Dr. Allen, Lewis, &c. Jn point of Method thofe Letters mould therefore have been placed in this Volume. But you have can: them off to the next -, and truly they do fo plainly confute the Account you here give of that Affair, that it may well be thought you did not dare to place them near it. Tlii.s will be made very apparent when I come Candidly Propofed, &c. 5^ come to examine them in the Order where you have placed them. Before I canvafs your Account of th.ic Affair in this Volume, I will ftate it fairh - fully from F. Bar toil, a Man famous icr his elegant" Pen, great Exadtnefs, and Mo- deration in relating' fuch Matters in tlv: leaft offenfive manner. Dr. Clenock was a Man of a very vir- tuous Life, but, it feems, without perceiv- ing it, he was led away by Partiality to the feven Welshmen his Countrymen, who were then in the College ; and even in iuch a manner, as proved very difobliging; to the three and thirty Englijh^ who were iir the fame Seminary. The natural EfTec*: of this, was a gradual Rife of Diiiatisfac- tibn and Difunion. And becaufe the Evg UJJo found they could not have a Rcdreli of their Grievances from the Doctor, dry had Rccourte to the Cardinal Protetici'., by repeated Memorials. The Cardinal, at. firif, as it is natural and right, 'till Mat- ters are fully clear'd, was for the Doctor, whom he had made their Superior ; and the more becaufe the Cardinal was llrongly influenced by Dr. Lc-iajs^ a Man jullly in great Efleem, and who was very much for Dr. Cli'neck his Countryman. But the Env~ l{ffj bcin^i (avcur'd with :he Great Good-- > ' O 54- -A Specimen of Amendments will of Biancbetti, Matter di Camera of Gregory XIII, prefented their Reafons by him to His Holinefs. Upon this, the At- tiiir was carefully difcufs'd. At length, on account of the bad Example it might give, ffpccially in a College newly erected, if the Oppofition of Subjects to their immediate .Superior fhould Ice in to be countenanced, the Cardinal prevailed fo far, that the J\ngIiJ/3 were order d either to fa bin it to Dr. CIcKcck, or to leave the College. They immediately relblved to depart. it was at the Beginning of Le ;;/, a proper rime to have the neceffary Expences for their Journey recommended, by the moil .mincnt Preachers, to the Charity of the Faithful. They did it accordingly with great Zeal. The Cafe, thus known all over (he City, made a great Noile ; and Rowe in general fpoke in favour of the Englijb, while "F.Piilma, and others of the SOCI- ETY, fo moved the Pope, that he called thole Seminaries to him, comforted them v/ith the molt tender Exprefnons, \vhick were often interrupted with his paternal Tears. Then, fending them back to the College, he order'd them to write down, each of them a-part, and under Oath, whofe Government they thought in the fight of GOD, was beft for them. Every one ot Candidly Propofed, &c. 55 the three and thirty defired, as they bad done before they were on their Oaths, to be under the Fathers of the Soc i F. T Y. The firft who wrote down his Oath de ferves to be particularly mcntion'd iu regard to his eminent Merit. It was Mr. Sherwin, who about two Years aft;. 1 -- ib highly honour'd the Church by hi 1 .; glorious Death. Theie were his Words: / RUDOLF ii us SHERV/IN call GOD, the Searcher cf Hearts, to ii'ilnef.', thai c/ily the Regard to the greater Honour C/GOD, and the Good of my Country^ induces -me. to judge, that the Government cf this Semi nary JJjould be committed to the Fathers o ? the SOCIETY. And it is what I humlij petition. The General of the SOCIETY was un- willing to undertake the Charge. Hut the; Pope (being alfo earnestly prefs'd by Billing Godwetl, as you call him, tiio' others gene- rally call him Gohkveil, and all the chii.i' of the Englijh in Rome] ibni; iiirn an rx- prefs Command to undertake it, -And ih?. College was accordingly put under tiu; Care of the JEST; ITS: And not long .liter there happen'd an unexpected Event, which highly contributed to convince the \Vorld, that the EngliJJj Seminaries were actuated with a good Spirit in the main of D - rhis- ^--' * fc A**J ;6 A Specimen of Amendments rhis Affair. For when, by the Advice of F. Parfons^ the Pope order'd an Oath to be framed, by which the Seminaries were :o engage themfelves to go upon the Mil- lion in England^ when lent by their Su- periors, what happened ? Only the Icven Wclfbim>i refufed to take die Oath, and vrere all difmiffed from the College, while every one of the ILnplilh cheariully em- * O MT J braced the Oath, and the firft of them again was Mr. Sher^in, who did it with remarkable Empbafis and Zeal. It pleated GOD to give fuch a Blefling to the CoHcg -i under the Conduct of the SOCIETY, as railed an univerfal Admira- tion of the Zeal and other Virtues of the Serninarifts. One Inftancc Hull here fuf- iice , that in the Space of thirteen Years, .no lefs than three hundred Kngliflj, many of them Perfons of confiderable Note, who came to Rcme out ot Curiofity or Bufincis, were converted to the Cafholick Fairh, by liie pious Examples and Difcourfes of tliois in the Seminary. How different an Afpect lias this Affliir, thus related, from your Account ? J:: C T I O N Candidly Propofed, &c. 57 SECTION VIII. Remarks upon \'our 'Relation of tic i ^ -> ENGLISH College at ROME, being put under the Care of tie JESUITS. ALMOST every Line of this Ac- count betrays you to be cither a very inconfiderate or a very partial Writer. I will leave you to judge whether I wrong you or not in this AiTertion, when you hive confider'd the following Remarks. You place Pope Gregory's turning the Hospital into a College in 15/8. But in Peregrin? s Eidtariwn (as I am inform'ci, for I have it not by me) the Bull for erect- ing it into a College is dated Novo Ak,'. Maiji i 579. I am further a {Tared, that by the fame Bull? the Pope committed the mo- delling of the College to Cardinal Mw:< O *-' the Protector. You are pleated- to fay, the; Pope employed tii'o eminent Clergymen, Dr. Allen and Dr. Le\vis to model it. Thofc i'V/o- great Men did, no doubt, contribute very much towards promoting the Work., But the modelling of it was properly corn mitted to the Protector ; nor was it they, but the Prate ctor that employ 'd two JESUITS, one as Procunilor, the ether as Prefix?: - 58 A Specimen vf Amendment* For k was to him that the Bull fays, the Nomination of Mailers and Prefects was committed. The two JESUI TS, you lay, were bugelj necejfary becaufe they were Italians y and well acquainted with the Language and Cuftoms of the Country. Were none but JESUI T s acquainted with thofe ? This could not therefore be the Reafon why JESUI TS were chofen. The Reafon (fince you muft be told it) was the great Opinion the Pope, and other eminent Judges, had ot the JESUITS Talents for the Education ot Youth. It is therefore an odd Expreflion of yours, to lay, the Government of the College fell into the Hands of the JESUITS. That ExprefTion imports rather a Cafualty, than either Merit in the JLSU i TS, or Pru- dence in the Pope. This would not be taken Notice of, were not you often un- happy in your ExpreiTionSj when you fpcak of Po P E s and JESUITS. In your next Words you tell us, that tbt JESUITS reaped a double Advantage l-y tbc Change. Firft, c fhe Juniors of their Order had a Maintenance^ and an Opportunity cj improving themfihes, ly being made Tutors to the Clergy and, quafi, Profe/crs. Theft Words, the Juniors of their Order ', naturally imply Numbers i whereas in Reality there were Candidly Prop'ofed, &c. 59 were no more than two. As to your Ex- prefTion of, qiiaji, ProfeiTors, you fliall enjoy the Delicacy of it,, without being fo much as asked what you mean. But if the J E s u i T s had in that an Opportunity of improving themielves, it was allb an Opportunity of Improvement to the Clergy. As to the Maintenance, it is the very fame with that of the Students. Where could the Clergy be fupplied with fuch Tutors at an eafier Rate ? You mould alfo have added, that they are furniuYd by the SOCIETY with eminent Matters, who have neither Salary, nor Maintenance from the Clergy. Cer- tainly they may have Thanks for it. In the mean while let Dr. Allen tell you his Sentiments of the Mailers and Govern- ment of the SOCIETY, particularly with Regard to the Seminaries wherein the ;/?- O o lijh were educated. He calls them (in his fine Apology) ibc mojl celebrated and excellent ''hackers and Governors of Youth, tbe.t htive bi'cn cither in that prefent, or federal former Ages : That the Pope in almoft all the Colleges founded for different Nations, for the Government of them^ makes i Matter is, that the more frequent the Re- monftranccs have been, the more nume- rous are the Proofs of the JESUITS good * C3 Conduct, fince, notwithftanding fo many Attempts, they have been fo long conti- nued in the Charge by fo many Popes. If you will, according to the ufual Cant of the Polemics of the SOCIETY, attribute their Continuance, not to Merit, but to their Crait and artful Power, you will not make any better Compliment either to the Popes, or thdr M in liters. It \vill b'j u]uivalei>t/y iaviny;. Candidly Propofed, &c. 6^ faying, that fuch as yon are wife enough to difcover and fee through all thofe Arts, which the Popes and Cardinals (alas!) are too weak to difcover: To make you, if poffible, fpeak, or think better in the Cafe, be p leafed, Sir, to confider alfo thefe farther' Particulars. The Education of Clergy by Religious Men is fo- fir from being juilly called Heterogeneous with regard to the Engllfb in particular, that^ it is rather Icfs fo with regard to them, than to other Nations. For even mod of our Protelrant Hitro- rians obferve, that Monafteries were gene- rally the Schools of Piety and Learning even for the Clergy. If in England^ and other Parts, the Church had thought fuch an Edu- cation highly improper, it would never have thought fo often, as it has done, of drawing Religious from their Convents to __ Bifhopricks. To give Infiances of this, from one only Order, I'rithemius fays there have been, to his time, above five thoufand Bilhops of the Btnediftins. See F. Flatus in his excellent Work of the Ilap- DiueCs of a Reli^ict^ Slate, Ch. 20. B. 2. And * - J o + you would do well, upon many Accounts, to-pcrufe that whole Work with due Care. As to tlie SOCIETY, confider that it is their proper /'/.'// ;.Y/J to form. Peri'bna for 66 A Specimen of Amendment* for Catechifing, Preaching and Millions. Are not thefe proper Functions for a good Clergyman ? Are not the JESUITS by the Council of Trent, and Bulls offeveral Popes, declared to be of the Clergy ? And it is hoped, you will not think worfe of them for being Regular Clergy. Some indeed, fays Pius the Fourth in his Breve to the Archbifhop of Mqyance, 1564, were very uneafy at his putting the Seminary, he had newly erected, according to the Decree of the Council of Trent ^ under the Care ot the Soc i E T Y . But he exprefly fays alfb, that he did it with the Approbation of all the Cardinals, and that thofe, who were un- eafy at it, were blinded vjiih Emy. Shall I defire you farther to reflect, that Clement the Eighth called the Society Brachium dex~ trum Ecchfue ? And, as he continued the Engli/h Seminary under the Care of the Society, which he honour'd with no lefs a Title than that of the right Arm of theChurch, fhall I ask what Hand you would have the Clergy conducted by, if you difiike their being led by the right Arm of the Church ? It is to be hoped, Sir, that a due Con- fideration of what has been here alledged will make you correct your Thoughts (or, if you think right) your KxprciTions at leaft, in regard of the Soc i L r y . SEC- Candidly Propofed, &c. 67 SECTION IX. Farther Remarks on vour Account of / .., the ROMAN College. BEFORE I proceed to examine the Remainder of your Expreffions re- lating to this Point, I cannot omk giving you an Extract of Cardinal AllcrS^ Letter on this Subject. He there fpeaks with that Love and Efteem of the SO- CIETY, particularly with regard to their having the Conduct of the Englifo Semi- nary at Rome, as will ever be a great An - tidote to your way of exprefiing yourfeif, Hear what he fays to the General of the Soci F. T Y, and fure you will blufh to find how you differ from his Spirit, or from his Language at leaft, if not from his Senti- ments. He begins with faying , If my P^n las been long Jtlcnt, yet neither my oivn Sold, nor ibe. Hear is of mine, ever ccafe to our common J/jrd, for you end your moft cbcfen Hock, He then adds : I'he Obligations we Ja^-je to your mojl holy Society ba'ce ercr been oj all others the moji ancient, tbe mojl acceptable, a/id mojl advantageous to us. l i irjl tit \ .ovain, ibcn at Do way, and fnal'y ai Rome, rujjl 68 A Specimen of Amendments of us were preferred ly your Counfel, Cha- rity, Coin fort and Authority. So that next tc GOD, and our holy Father Gregory, and bis chief Minifters, our Country is chiefly indebted to you. He then adds, that the Soc i E T Y'S taking Care of the Engliflo Se- minary at Rome is a moil fingular Obliga- tion, and that, as nothing is more de&r to him than the Salvation and holy Education of thcje Touths^ fo he could not but teftify the weft intimate Joy of his Heart for fo great a Benefit. All this could not fatisfy his grateful Soul. He goes on to affirm, '* That he had *' always endeavour'd, as much as poffible, " that thofe under his Care fhould be ** chiefly educated by no other than your " Studies, Inftitutes and Manners ; than " which, there is nothing more expedite to *' Learning, more fincere to Truth, or " more adapted to the Zeal of gaining u Souls. And they themfelves, by I know 4 < not what Inclination, but a divine one, " as I take it, have moft willingly every c ' where frequented your Schools, and " imitated your Manners." He then con- cludes, filling himielf # weft Jincere Lovtr of him and his, and begging earneflly, that the SOCIETY will continue the Care o! that Scniirurv iiv part-icul\r. How Candidly Propofcd, &c. 69 'How well did this Letter deferve a place in your Records ? You might eafily, and /ery likely have met with it. See in it, now at lead, what was the Spirit of that great and good Man, and of that rifing Body of Clergymen, whereof fo many foaled [heir Faith with their Blood. Such will ever be the Spirit of the beft of Men. This Spirit of Love and Union, between the Clergy and the Society, is what GOD feenYd to defign mould be cemented by the joint Blood, particularly of Sherwin^ Cam- pan and Brian t. The firft a Clergyman, the fecond a Jefuit, and the third, as I may fay, both one and the other. The firft again of the Reman College, the fecond of Do.way, the third of Both ? Happy Patterns of Concord, between thofe Bodies ! Unhappy thofe, who have, or ever will be guilty of making any Breach in fo holy an Union ! When therefore you fay, that from this Education under the JESUITS has flow 'd an hereditary and often a fcandalcus Fa"ion among thofe ^ who Jhould be united in the fame Inttreft, I hope you will confider better of your Expreffion, and amend it. Your \Vords here naturally imply, that there was fuch a Faction between the Clergy and the JESUITS. This, fpoken indefinitely ^ is very injurious 70 A Specimen of Amendment* injurious to both thofe Bodies, but certainly very falfe. Such Fad ions are what all good Men muft deteft. Moreover the Expreflion imports, that the Faction you mention, flows from the nature of the Education, which the Popes have continued fo long. Thus you repeat your injurious and highly difrefpectful Attacks upon that Supreme Authority. And indeed you would do well to confider, what a ftrange Idea of you it rnuft give to others, if you think the Spirit of the SOCIETY, which fuch eminent Perfons as I have mention'd, think fo com- mendable, is the Source of fuch Factions. BeGdes, while others generally retain a Love and Efteem of the Soc i E T Y from their Education under it, what Idea muft you give of thofe, who draw from thence fuch contrary Sentiments ? In a Word : the Inconveniency, you here mention, does not flow from the Education, but from the diiorderly PafTions of thofe, who are fo unfortunate as to draw Evil from Good. You conclude with faying, tbo* Charity ought to overlook fuck Confederations, yet tbe general Rules to good (Economy ivil! net permit Ptrfons of different Interefts to make up one and tbe fame Body : And many think it Prudence to dry up fuch Sources of Ccn- tcft. A few Queilions upon thefe Words Candidly Propofed, &c. 71 will, I hope, put you in a way of duly coniidering them now, while Charity in- clines one to hope you did not ponder them before. And Firjl^ Why do you here make thofe Perfons of different Intercfts, who were two Lines before to be united in the fame Inter eft ? Secondly, Since the Perfons, you fpeak of, are in the College, Mailers, and Scholars, Subjects and Supe- riors, and all tend to one and the lame End, that is, the good of Souls, what i> there in the Rules of good (Economy, that will not permit them thus to make one and the fame Body ? Thirdly^ Upon what grounds do you pronounce, that an Educa- tion, ib long continued by the Supreme Au- thority, is what the Rules of good CEco- nomy will not -permit ? Fourthly, What Rules again permit you to imply, that the Supreme Authority is fo imprudent as to continue a Source of fcandalous Faction and Conteft ? Fifthly, Ought you not to have laid, that the pretended Source of Con- tefts would foon be dry'd up, if Subjects would duly fubmit to their Superiors P If thefe Hints will not bring you to exprefs yourfelf better, it would be in vain to multiply them. But if your Ex- prelfions are not merely the Effects of In- confideration, and your Thoughts are really Rich 72 A Specimen tf Amendments fuch as your Words imply, I cannot but apply to you what St. Aujtin fays upon ano- ther Occafiun ; Can fuch Monfters of Thoughts rife in your Heart, and not cover you with Conlufion ? H the Queen chief Governor^ iiillead of Hcs.d of th-c Cmirch, was a Qualification of the Oath of Supremacy. It is manifestly na Qualification of ir, and it is evident, fhc could no more be the one, than the other. In the next Pd^e you fay, fh?v V/CTC-: for reducing; matters to the ui'iie 1 1/;-; ^_U - were' in under Ediv<.ird VI. ar,,l } immediately add, thev corrected the mon-prayer-book. Reducing it to t Form, and yet altering it, \-i far from Accuracy. You prelc quote Ecbard^ laying, the f.v/VY ration made againft $\zC&rpord! Prfjcvcc^ in King Edward's fecond Book, ; //>i dtilm Allegiance in its full Extcnfioii^ i:;nbc:f! rendering the Spiritual Fewer Infignifictini ; } feeing, that the Execution oj ibc latter ((< pends upon outward Actions. This feerns, in your way of faying it, to be brought as an Argument again ft the Pro-- teftants, who, as you cxprefs it, fircfii;/^ jl'ill to maintain a Spiritual Independent \ , cr Headftjip in their Clergy. You had quoted Mr. Collier'?, Words juil before, that, If the Pa 'pal Suprt'i-ih'-.n is rtftrairfd to M^ii- ttrs purely $]>iri'Uii J , tbcf^ i-.:lo maintain ;/, bays roc/in enough for tlcir Allegiance, And in Face, Allegiance is fully required., and given in Catholick Countries to Suvc reigns, while the ipiritual Supremacy ii no lefs fully believed. Norc,.i;i one choo^..- but wonder, at leaft, wiiat fort of" a Ca- tholick Divine he can be, who nukes ii a Query, whether, or rather implies, thji full Allegiance to Sovereigns is net con iiftent with the Belief of a iplrtua! Head fhip in any, who are not alib temporal Sovereigns. Several other Faults might be oblerved in thefe two firll Articles of this Volume^ but I pals them ever to come tc the next, F. 4 S E C- So A Specimen of Amendment SECTION XII. COLLEGES founded abroad. SPEAKING (Article 3.) of thofe, who concurr'cl to promote the Col- leges of D Gin: ay and Rbeims, you make mention oi fcveral others, but are flrangely iilcnt of the JESUITS Concurrence. You might have known from Ear toll (lib. i. cat). 10., that the Penfion given by Gre- gory XIII, was particularly at the Intreaty of Father Mercitrianus General of the So- CIETY. Did not Gratitude require fome Notice fhould be taken of this ? The fame Author would have inform M you, that,, when the Gentlemen oi LV:;<-/}' College were obliged to retire to hbeims, they were kindly invited to Pont a Mujjon by the JESUITS, v.ho promifed them all their beil Endeavours for their Relief. 'I'his again, and ieveral other Tokens of the SOCIETY'S Concern for them, might .i'fo, in a grateful Return, have been men- non'd. You have fecn (Section 9.) the grateful Sentiments of Dr. Allm in Inch regards. Ett me here mind you of the like Senti- ments of Dr. Martin exprefs'd in liis Ea- ter to his old Friend F. Edw. Cam-if.};* Candidly Propofed, &c. 81 v/bere he exprefly tells him, that the Pen- fion of Gregory XIII, was chiefly procured by the General of the SOCIZT y, with a mofl affectionate Concern and Induflry. He adds : IVe (of the Englijh Clergy) who have hitherto had as great a Reverence for that SOCIETY, as for any, npon account of its moil holy Deferts, no-iv obliged to them by a' J ' J O w/ faigular Benefit, muft love, embrace, and reverence them much above all others. Such was the Spirit of thofe great Men % and fuch will be that of all good Clergy- men, and of all true Lovers of the Clergy,. How you came to be filent on fuch an Oc- cafion, you would do well to confider : And ftill farther, how you came to fpeak, as you here do, of the Roman College, and in other Places over and ever. For you are full 6f Repetitions. I will only obferve upon this Occafion, that you fay. Dr. Allen, but chief y of Dr. Lewis, Arch- deacon of Cambray, that the Pope thought proper to make fome Alteration in the Ufe of the Honfe i which ivas, to make it a College for the Education c/Englifh Clergy- men. Here you fpeak of the Change made by the Bull for erecting that Houfc into a College. In Dr. Cleiwck's Life, you called ;bis Change, an overthrowing the origin al 5 Intuit J<2 A Specimen of Intent of the Founders. There you made it a Complaint againft the JESUITS-, here, it is by a different Inftigation. Does an im- partial Hiftorian thus vary, and fo foon ? Unlefs, perhaps, by the Word Inftigation (ask is commonly ufed to import no Good) you would join Dr. Allen and Dr. Leic-is in the Accuiation of perverting (together with the Pope and the JESUITS) the ori- ginal Intent of the Founders. You add, that Dr. Lewis had the Liberty of making choice of a Prefident, and pitched upon Dr. Clenock. But in this Doctor's Life, you told us he was ap- pointed Prefident by the Pope, cr wore immediately by the Cardinal Pratt El or. This is not confident. But let it pafs, as well as your prefently culling St. (Jincr's College a Grammar-School. For tho', to judge by your fecret Policy, it might lee.m ufed as a flight- ing Expreiiion, you give that College a great Commendation foon after, in thefe Words : // has always been in great repute, a'-id much eftcevfd for well-grounding their Students in Ciajjick Learning, whereby they were feted for higher Studies in other Col- fi'gfs. And I willingly fuppofe you mean, t-ho' you have omitted to mention it, that they are alfo fitted in it with a proper Kducaiion of Piety, A Candidly Propofed^ &c. 83 A little before you faid, that the Col- leges of Valladolid, Sevil, and St. CWr's Ovvc their Rile to the Zeal and Induftry of F. R. Parfons, a Jefuit, and were all dc- figned for the Education of young Clergy- men; the Englifh JESUITS, as yet > not being form* d into a difiinft Body. Here a grateful and impartial Writer would have taken fo fair an Opportunity of obl'erv- ing, how much the Clergy owes to the Zeal and Induftry of the JESUITS, and particularly of F. Parfins^ without adding, that the Engli/h JESUITS were not, : commonly fup~ 8 4 A Specimen of Amendments plied v:itb Novices from thofe Colleges, has no worfe Meaning, than that iuch was iheir pious Conduce, as ro infpire feveral of thofe under it, with a LX-firc of cm- bracing their State of Life, while at the lame time they kirninYd fo many others to the Clergy. Nor do I know in w hat- other Senfe St. Gmer's particularly can be called a College defigrrd for the Education of young Clergymen. But as your Words fccm to imply, that the College of St. Oder's was founded by a wrong Application of what was de- f.gn'd for the Clergy, I am lorry yon force me to remark how unjuft fuch In- jinuations mult appear to all equitable Perfons. "What the SOCIETY, and par- ticularly F. Parfcns, did for the Clergy, makes this Charge not only full of in- juftice, but of Ingratitude allo. It is farther unaccountable in you, bccaufe you cannot v/ell be ignorant of the Letters of the 'King of Spain written in 1^93, to Count Manifold Governor of the Netherlands^ to PJchiirdct Prefident of the Council, and to iheBilhop-ancl Magistrates of St. Omcr\ to promote the Foundation. From which ''.'.. citers it plainly appears, that there was r,o Mifapplication in the Caie, and confe- qucntiy, that you; Infyauation is intirc.J/ groundlcfs, Candidly Pr&pofed, &c. 85 SECTION XIII. The W i s B i c H AJj'air. UNLESS you can help me out very much, it will not be pofllbJc to give Ib good a Turn to what you lay (Art. 5.) of this Affair. As your Work is full of Repetitions, Ib here you repeat again fuch Exprefiions of the Roman Se- minary being put under the Care of the Soc i E T Y , as you ought never to have ufed. Several of them ieem to hang upon your Pen, by a very inveterate Habit, from your former Writings. Many Arguments, you fay, were, and full are made ufs cf, Ggainft this Heterogeneous Education of tbt Clergy. It has been already obferved, that the more Remonftrances have been made again It it, the more are the Proofs that the Popes, who continue it, judge other- wile of it. Will you fpeak out, and rather condemn the POPES, than not condemn the JESU i TS ? You add : As tbt Clergy are great Suf- ferers by tic (jLccnor.iv, (o the Conveniences are. no iefs to llvfc, that bai-c them in SuL- jetiion. What do vou mean r Is it not the Pope's College? Is no: the Government, he h.;5 cftabli'h'dj his CEcojjomy ? Has b.c not 36 A Specimen of Amendments not a right to act as he docs ? Is he not a proper Judge of what CEconomy to ufe, iince you are fo fond of that Word ? Can it found well in you, to lay the Clergy are great Sufferers by his CEconomy ? If your Words have any better Senfe or Meaning, pray inform us what it is. for it does not appear what die can be their natural Im- port. And why do you fay, the JESUITS have the Clergy in Subjection ? The Sub- je&io.n is no other than what the Pope has appointed. Would you not have them fub- ject to his Orders ? Why do you dill add the following Words I s It is no fmall Advantage to the JESUITS, to have the Management of the Temporals belonging to the Clergy ; And, en the contrary^ no lefs Difadvantage to the: Clergy to be documented by Perfons of a different Interejl in the Controusrfiss of Life. You fhew, in Dr. Allen* s Life, a juft Rc- fentment at thoie, who represented his Foundation of 'Do-i^ay College, as a Pro- ject to have the fingering of Money, given for mere publick Uies. Why do you give any fuch Infinuation againil the JESUITS? Their Management of thoie Temporals lies dole under the Pope's Eye. And they., it fetms, look upon the JESUITS with a very different Eye from yours, They think Candidly Propofed, Sec. 87- It no Difadvantage for the EngHJb to be documented by thoie, whom they chufe for the documenting almoft all other Nations in the Papal Colleges. And what Difad- vantage is it to be taught by fucli eminent Mailers, as thofe at Rome are known to be ? Your Phrafe of documenting has no very kind Look. For I prefume that when you laid (page 1 2.) Several Englifh Proteilants were documented at Geneva y that docu- menting Word, however finely you may think it founds, was not to give a favoura- ble Idea of the Geneva Education. Nor do I know what you mean, by making; the J ESU i TS and the Clergy be of different Intereils in the Controversies of Life. Can- i rove-fas of Life may, for any thing I know, be a pretty Phrafe, in lome Occa- fions : but here, it wants to be explain'd. The Clergy and JESUITS are indeed dif- ferent in lome re i peels ^ and lo are all Men. But their Intereft is the lame in re- fpect ot Education, Piety and Learning, W r hat follows is ftill more ailoniming, The Effiffis of tins kind of Education ap- pear* d very vijibly, you fay, in the fcan- dalous Rupture at Wisbich. Thefe Words, if you pretend to fpeak properly, muft mean, that the fcandalous Rupture here froke a of, was the natural Efeft of that Education 88 A Specimen of Amendments Education. For, an accidental Effect, or an Effect flowing from the Pcrverfenefs of ibme, who had been under that Educa- tion, is no Proof again it that kind of Edu- cation. Bad Effects may thus fk>w from the belt of things. Now, Sir, if you mean, that the Education of Clergy by Jj- SUITS produces naturally fuch- Effects, tell me- \vh;it worfe could be laid by the, rankeft Malignity ? If you meant it for an ac- cidental Effect, by the Pcrverfenefs offome, who made ib bad an ufe of a o;ood Edu- CJ cation, you are here again very unhappy in your way of expreiing yourielf. If you really would infinuate, that luch fcandalous Ruptures are to be attributed to the Edu- cation, which is not only by the Ap- pointment and Approbation of Popes, but a lib continually under their Eye, what muft your Eye be ? Can you think that luch an Education, as produced many of the molt eminent ot the Clergy, can be juitly taxed as the natural Caufe of the wortt Effects ? Can you then avoid re- flecting, that fuch Men wonder from a- bove what could run you into fuch Prc- iudiccs ? They knew, they efteem'd, (hey loved the Soc i r. T Y ; and therefore, while you nidge ib differently of it from thole Candidly Propofed, 6cc. 89 Cornelius, &c. what can you expect fhould be judged of you ? But as I have already done in the Affair of the Roman College, to here, before I examine your Account of the Wisbicb Af- fair, I will ftate it fairly, as it is re- lated by Bartoli and Juvency. It was thus in fhort. The Catholick Prifoners in Wif- vich-Cajlle being allowed a greater Liberty after fome Years, than had been granted them before, began to live as in a regular Community, called by a Bell to prefixt Regulations of Prayers, Studies, Meals, and other regular Methods of Life. Thus the PJace grew into a very celebrated Fame ail over England, till an unhappy Divifion arofe. Three were the chief Authors of it. The firft had been fent away from Rome for his Misbehaviour, and, contrary to th? Pope's exprefs Order, procured to be made a Doctor of Divinity, more by Money than by Learning. Soon after his coming into England, he was feized and lent to Wisbich. There he was prefently ior playing the Doctor. An unfortunate die, of one linking a Prieft, happening in ths Prifon, he gave fuch a Dec i (ion upon it r that F. IFcJlon was obliged to oppote it. The Oppofuion enraged the Doctor, and he flew inro cxcefiivc Rev il ings of the holy Man. go A Specimen of Amendments Man. The fecond in the Faction was i Doctor of ' Pbyfick, aCatholick in ProfefTion, but turbulent and fcandalous in his Man- ners. He, who had given the Blow to the Pried, was the third, formerly a Pref- byterian Parfon, now a Catholick, but little alter'd, efpecially as to Excefies of Drink and Anger. To thefe three, ten more join'd by Degrees. And they ran ( the' not all equally) into iiich Irregularities, as obliged the other nineteen, for Confcience Sake, and the Honour of Religion, to feparate from them. To fix their Regularity, it was thought proper to chufe a Superior, Eighteen of them unanimoufly agreed in chufing F. JVefton. His Humility made him abfolutely refufe the Place. F. Garnet^ being earneftly prefs'd to oblige the holy Man to accept of ir, prudently refuted to confent, that he ihould accept either the Authority, or Title, or Place of a Supe- rior, allowing them only to let him b-, if they fo pleafed, their Director in their Studies, and regular Methods, and this too no farther than to give his Advice when defircd, without fo much as having any diftinguifh'd Seat in their Meetings. Yet upon this, which hid fo little of the very .Shadow of Superiority, ftrange calumni- ating Candidly Prcpofed, 6cc. 91 -iting Outcries were made, of F. Weftoifs Ambition, and the monftrous Abfurdity ot a Religious Man being the Superior of the Clergy. Their Clamours reach'd even to Rome, This obliged the eighteen to reprefent the Truth of the Matter to Clement VIII, .From their joint Teftimony, we have fe- veral fuch Particulars of F. Weften (which I Jfhall give you when I come to his Life) and ihew him in fuch a Light as will, I hope, make any one afliamed to join with thofe, who at firft were pleafed to afperfe him. At length his Patience and Prayers, toge- ther with thofe of his eighteen Compani- ons, wrought the Repentance of four of his Adverfaries. Of the other nine, two fied from the Caftle ; the feven others divided into four different Parties. One became an Inltrument of the Bifhop of London in fomenting Divifions among Priefts , ano- ther openly apoftatized, and became a Parfon i the Phyfician was flruck with ths Lois of his Speech and of his Wits, the very D.iy he was putting an end to a ma- licious Book again ft F. Wcfion, and died without any Siga of a Chriitian or Pe- nitent. Let any compare this Account with your.% and they will calily obibrvc where tluy are to 92 A Specimen of Amendments ro caft the Blame. And you may be ver? fure, that no one will think you of equal Credit, in an hiftorical Capacity, with the Authors, from whom I have taken it. But to facilitate ftill farther your Amendment, I will now add a few Remarks on what you fay of it. Fir/I, you tell your Readers, that Jome of the young Miffisners? ii'bo had bee* educated under tbs JESU i TS, ivere pcrfuaded by one F. Wefton (one of that SOCIETY', and the only JESU i T in \Visbich Prifon ) to admit cf certain Rules How could you croud fo many Faults into fo few Lines ? Not only fome of the young, but allb of the elder Miflloners, educated in feveral Places, admitted of the Rules. Nor was f.Wefton the only JESU IT in that Pri- fon. There were three others. Nor can it be imagined what Crime you would make it in him, to perfuade the Admittance of of fuch holy Rules ; or what Fault in the Education under the JESUITS, that it dif- poied feveral to fuch pious Regularity. Secondly, " Dr. ll^^lam, Mr. Me- " tr.am, Mr. JjJirf, and others- of the an- i{ cient Miilioners, that were Pri loner?., " apprehending, that this new Scheme " would be a means of dividing them into i^J is t to whom he had given leave to draw it up as he plea fed, and fignecl it without reading it over. Can iuch ilrange Accufations need any further Rciutation than merely to be related? Could anything L:C more injuri- ous to the Frotefior, and. tlic Pope? for both declared, that the lirlt conilitiulvc Letter was made by th;i Protecior, and by the Authority of his Iloiinels. And here, Sir, let me ask you, how yon could, call a icw uaeafv, clifaUbikd Men, r.n;l 102 A Specimen of Amendments Men of fuch Proceedings, by the Name of the Clergy ? Can any true Lover of the Clergy think of you otherwife than as one, who, either out or" very Ill-will, or great Inconfideratenefs, would make the .Prejudices of a few, and the ; r ft range Proceedings, rafs under me Name of the Body of the Clergy ? That venerable Body has always had a iar greater reg\r>. rcr Pro- teclors and Popes, and for the SOCIETY too. Now to go on with your Words. Cardinal Cajctan thougbt himfelf fuf- fidenily empowered by tke Jlrengib cf his Proicfftrfi.'ip to eftabli/h this new kind cf (Economy. You mule give your Readers leave rather to believe the Pope than you. He declares in fevend Briefs on this occa- f:on, that what the Cardinal ordei'd, was by his Authority, and alttr mature Deliberation, This, and ftveral other Particulars will be evidenced when I tome to your Records. 1'his Matter Icing carried on privately , ivitho::!j a Provincial Body, &c. They had the Government of thofe Colleges many Years before they were a Provincial Body. And :i : at pv.ve them the fame Opportunities of ti-i-wiiig fuch to ITC of their Order, ib to icrm a Provincial Body, as to keep up u.cir Province after it was formed. You n.uit alib be defired to interpret ( lor it is ;iot very intelligible again) wnat you mean by i'.-.ying, that the Increafe of the Soc i }: r v, vy h.^ing the Care c-r '.hvie CoJle^/.-:., . no A Specimen of Amendments lejjens the Number and Reputation of the Clergy. Every good Clergyman , and every good JESUIT, will certainly, upon every juft Encreafe of either of thofe Bodies, heartily rejoice, and \vifh them a farther Encreafe, and fay, Prater nojler cfl^ crefcat in mille millia. You prefently add : I'he College at Rome bad the fame Succefs, as that of Rbeims? under Dr. Allen. This cannot be under- ftood of that time only, while it was under Dr. Clenock. For that was fcarce a Year. And meaning it of the time it was under the JESUITS, it is ftrange you could call their Education Heterogeneous. For the fame Effedts are not from Heterogeneous Caufcs. And when you fay, it was a great Grief to Dr. Allen, when he heard of the Animofities and Divijions among the Stu- dents there, upon account cf the Change cf Government i you mould have laid, that Dr. Allen did not attribute any of the Blame to the JESUITS, nor diiapprove of their having that Government. You have feen the contrary above (. 8, 9.) and mail ice .it flill farther from your own Records. What can you then mean by laying, he reconciled the Minds of the Students as far as the Caufe would bear ? The Catife you reprdl'at to be the Government of the Candidly Propofed, &c. in the JESUITS. And this, in the Sentiments of Dr. Allen i not only would bear a Re- conciliation of Minds, but was the mojl in- timate Joy of his Heart. They are his own Words. Learn then to correct yours. Richard Bluet, (page 59. ) I would wil- lingly have laid nothing of him, if you had not made fuch an Excufe for him, as im- plies a heavy Accufation of others. In the A flair of the Archprieft you own he ap pearM very warm. It is a very ibft Term, confidering how he behaved. lie -was charged by the contrary Parly with holding a Correspondence with the Mini/try* in order to fuppor! the Caufe of the appealing Clergy, What you call the contrary Party, were the Archprieft and the far greateft Part of all Catholicks. They ought not therefore to be called a Parly. c fhis was fo repre- fentcd at Rome, and proved very prejudicial to the whole Body of the Clergy. No, Sir, not to the Body of the Ckrgy, but to thoie of that Body, who employ'd fuch Men as Bluet, &c. And when you call that Charge againil him an Afperjlcn, I leave you to confider how far you rn iy b^ charged \vith afperfing others in the Cafe. John Bridgwatcr. f/v^v 60. ) You are plc.tiecl to fay thatdlegambe's omitting, that h'v became a jii^uiTj makes \tdubious. You H2 A Specimen tf Amendments You might eafily obferve, that Alcgambe makes no other mention of feveral being of the So c i E T v, than by placing them among the Writers of that Order. F ami anus S trade., for Inftance, is no othervvife there. Will you thence infer it is dubious whether he was a JESUIT, or not? It were to be \vifn\l you had not omitted to take Notice of feveral, that were JESUITS ; and the/ you fpeak or others, yet you do it without mentioning that Particular. I would not have ftopped to take Notice of your doubt- ing of Rridgwater* had I not alib thought it a proper Occafion to mind you of your having omitted feveral Particulars, which elder ved to be mention'd from his Concer- tatlo. And how much better would the pious Letters ofwra/#, Erlant, I'ljirkiU, &c. have itood in your Records, than many of the infigni Scant Pieces you luve given a place to ? But truly you feern, tho' you cite the Conccrtaiio often, at the bottom of your Pages, to have read it negligently. Cbriftopher Bci^ibc^'j. ( tcgc 6j.J This Gentleman, no leis than Mr. Bluet, fhould have been palled over in deep Silence by me, if you had not laid be i':as employed Ly the Clergy in fowe Affairs abroad, efpc^allj at Rome, c r /i:crrti:ng tbc Arrburieil. It \<\ rcaliv -. great [-.v : u:y you ^o ::-e tier^y -:i ' iltth Candidly Propofed, &c. 113- fuch Affairs. They em ploy 'd themfelves indeed, and were employ'd by fome of the Clergy againft the far beft and greater! part ot their Body. You add : / cannot o;nit an Qi>f creation, that fome ba-ve been pkapd to make concerning Mr. Bagfhaw and F. P;.r- Ibns. The Obfervation is, that they were both warm in their Tempers, had frequent Contejls at Oxford, and after their Con- vcrfion. I know not why you could not omit this Obfervation, but I know you ought either to have omitted it, or to have alto obfcrved, Fir/I, That, whatever F.Par- jons was, before his Convention, he was afterwards remarkable for his Prudence and Calmnefs. And i: will be a great Pleafure to me, I do allure you, if you can prove as much of Bagfiaiv. But I am lure ir cannot be from his Conduct in the Aiiair of lyisbicb and of the Arcbprlejl. And 6V- condly. The Contefts, F. Parfons had at Oxford^ were with Proteftants, that found he was a Catholick at the bottom, that he inftiikdCatholick Principles into his Pupils, and was for maintaining the keeping an- cient Fads, and other old Practices of Ca- tholick Times, and that he was about leaving Oxford, to go abroad and proteis himielf a Catholick. If any one, who j:\rhaps was allb a Cacholick at the bottom, joined 7 1 ' : Specimen cf Amendments r> the Conf fts againft F. Parfons, v ,-as envied for having thrice as many P'ipiis as others had (lee F. Mire 1. 2. ?~ : a;n. 7," and if inch was Mr. Bagjhatv^ his Contefts with F. Parfons at O.Y/W will do him no Crc ' : t, But I willingly leave fuch Cornparifbns, and im really averfc from touching upon ih.r;"! 3 bu;: \vhere your unhappy P. ;, cb'ig-'s me to it. lUcbxrd Bc.;":'c*. (fage6S.) Here you firft fay, that many of [he ancient Doctors and Proidlcrs leaving the College, the Stu- dents were iindcr a NccrjjUy of frequenting the JESUITS Schools, and an Englijh Jeluit was appointed to be the common ConfefTor of the Dcw.y College. Soon after you call thefe t\\\ngs Encroachments. Where is the Impartiality, or where is the Senfe, in making that an Encroachment, which juft before you faid was a Necejfity ? You conclude this Life with faying, the Defect in Dr. Barret's Government was common iy more taken Notice of to his Difadvantage, then e juflice wight allo^ of. It is much to be \\ifhM you had often confider'd ]io-,v commonly your ExprefTicns are more than Juftice allows in other Cafes. Even juft before, you had faid, the Clergy were great Sufferers in their Reputation by the Manage- ment of Dr. Worthhigtcn and F. Pc.rfms. Would Candidly Propofcd, &c. 1 r 5 Would you bs io urmut as to hy all the Blame on them ? The World is too well acquainted with their Virtue and Merit to believe fuch wrong Infinuations. SECTION XVI. f the Li^cs of AT/: HA D D o c K, BACK WORTH, BUSTHARD, CoR- NELIUS, STAPLE TON, HARDING, FILCOCK, and METHAM. I CHART) Haddock, (page 69.) He is taken Notice of, you lay, in the Records, to have been a leading Perfon in oppofing Dr. CUnock, and giving up tbe Roman College to the JESUITS. You fhould have added, tliat theDcfire of having it put under the JESUITS, was not only his, but alfo that of Cardinal Allen > his near Relation. Nay the Cardinal lays ex.- predy, the committing tbe Havfe to tbe So- c i E T y , z<;0s all our T)-;Jlrcs, lie had par- ticularly named Briftow, Baity, Welb, and Martin. This, and more firJi Particulars I fhall obferve to you from your own Re- cords, which one cannot but wonder you fhould leem to have never confider'd, where you (peak of that Affair, Mr.Sfanoin was lull 1 1 6 A Specimen of Amendm^its full as leading a Perfcn in it, as Mr Had- dock. All the Englijh joined wit,: 'nc-m. EvenAf#/&, Giffard^ and fuch other" u: as to what you call giving the College : 'o .'fa JK SUITS, this mud be called onf? c our Oddities of Exprefiion, at lead. riv. Dc- firc of having it put under the j:; ITS Conduct was theirs, and thi g^.enu ivc- queft of the Clergy, and others. B.i: the doing it was the Pope's. Mark Bucki^orib ('page 72 J and Jobn Eujlbard. ( ps.ge '/j-J 'i'he fnit cf clv-ii: I only mention here, to obferve that you call him a Clergyman, arid take no I\oticc of his being .a Benediffin : And the Second, becaufe you fiiy, tJ^e JESUIT Toilers lake 710 Notice tf him. This is a plain Millake. For what you mention of him is more particularly taken Notice of in F. Mare, lib. i. n. 20. where, though he calls him Bur- Jl&rd, he clearly means the fame Perfon. And of Mr. Buchvwtb you fhall foon hear more, when I come to the Life of Mr. Fikock. John Ccrneli:'.;. (page 73.) It is very drange, that you take no Notice of his entering into the SOCIETY. In one of his Letters from Priion, he gives Thanks to GOD for the Favour of being admitted to take the three Vows of the Soc i E T Y, to which he had before confecratcd himfelf by a Candidly Propofed, &c." 117 a -particular Vow. In another Letter he cxprefics the fingular Comfort he found upon thus having consecrated himielf to GOD. He profefTed him I el f a JESUIT juft before his Death, publickly at the Place of Execution. You could not be ignorant of his dying a JESUIT. How came you not te mention it ? And how came you to omit thefe following Particulars of this ad- mirable Man ? His whole Behaviour, after he was feized, confirmed the great Opinion People had already of his eminent Sanctity. After his Condemnation, he converted a Felon who was condetnn'd for his Crimes. And of two Perfons who came to pervert him, the holy Man touch'd one of them fo much, that he afterwards became a Catholick. When F. Cornelius was now going to be executed, after three other Catholicks who were put to Death for their Religion, he firil kifs'd their Feet with great Reverence, then having pray'd in Silence on his Knees, he kifs'd the Ground, and rifing up with a ehearful Countenance, he tenderly embraced the Gallows, and repeated with a loud Voice the Words of St. Andrew, good Crofs, long defired, folicitonfly (ov.gbt for, and no\2) at length happily found ! Being forbid to mak any Speech to the People, he obey'd, and j 1 8 A Specimen of Amendment and only profefs'd himfelf to be of the SOCIETY of JESUS, pray'd for his Perfecutors, for the Conversion of the Queen, and of all, who were fo unhappy as to be out of the only true Church. He was executed in the feven and thirtieth Year of his Age. The firfb Fruits of his Apoftolical La- bours, in the Million, were feen in theCon- verfion of his Mother. He had rnoft ar- dently begged it of GOD. Many were the other Converfions he wrought, and particu- larly of no lefs than thirty whole Families. He prcach'd (wherein hisTalent was admi- rable) at lead twice every Week, befides Holidays, and catechized for a whole Hour every Day, befides other private Inductions of a Spiritual Life. Such was his Charity for the Living. Nor was it lefs for ths Dead. Several were his firft Actions of the Day, in order to put him in mind to pray for the Souls in Purgatory ; fuch as faying theDeProfundis for them, when he waih'd his Hands, begging GOD to clcanfe and refrefh their fuffering Souls. Four times a Week he laid Mafs for them, adding fre- quent other Prayers, Alms, and Aufterities for their Relief. This his Devotion was flill more enliven'd by a wonderful Appa- rition of the Soul of Lord S tour ton to Candidly Propo fed, Sec. 119 implore hie Prayers for his Releafement out of Purgatory. Full of the moft tender Love for others, he was no lefs rigorous to himfelf. In fo much, that F. Garnet , under whofe Spiritual Direction he was, even before his making the Vows of the Soc i E T Y, was forced to moderate his Aufterities. No lefs remarka- ble was his Spirit of Prayer, in which it is no wonder fo holy a Man fhould be found quite ahforpt, and with his Face ihining with Rays of heavenly Light. From this Abridgment of the Life of this moil holy Man, you will eafily fee ho\v defective you have been in your Ac- count ot him. 'Thomas Si (if let on. (fags 84.,) Where you fay, it was at Cardinal Allen* j Perfuajion, that Dr. Staple ton forfook the Novicefhip of the Soc i E T Y, fince you have not, give me, at lead, leave to add : Cardinal Alien, having fo great an Efteem and Love, as you have feen, for the Soc i E T Y, could no" perfuade him to forfake the Novictfhip out: of any Diilike to the Order \ nor did Sta- ple ton ever forfake the Eileem and ArTeccion h.s had for the SOCIETY. You laid j a ft b-jfore, that he feenfd to have the grtateft Affection for the JESUITS. Would you knew what were I; is Sentiments in regard Oi 120 A Specimen of Amendments of the Soc i E T Y after he left it ? Let it llif fice, at prefent, to give only two Inftances. In a Letter to the General of the SOCIETY, May 5, 1587. thus he fpeaks: " That 1 " have not quite loft the Grounds of a " Spiritual Life, which I laid in the Novice - " fhip of your Soc i E T Y, this Univerfity cc can, I think, bearWitnefs, having hear'd c< me preaching the Word of GOD afli- " duoufly for iome Months. Which La- " hour I know not whether I fhould have lc ton's Words, not mine. And whatever you may think of the Prophecy, you fee at lead, what were Stapkton's Senti- ments of the SOCIETY, tho* his Health :iui not permit him to continue in it. I hvill only add here, that as no one queftions f he great Efleem which Sfafkfvi's Works aave univerfally gain'd, nor that BeUarmiit is indebted to them for ieveral things, fo it is very plain, that yourExpreffion of his DeliC s much too large. For to fay, Bcllarx:ix is ndebted to him for what he has publiftfd 'onceming the Chur-:l\ ^Tradition, and Scrip- rtTc', implies alrnoft i total I)ebt. If you In qua Roniani Pont-'ficc-", potiti pace EC- . lefej ie coritincbuut, - ir? A Specimen of Amendments are even moderately verfed in their Works, you mud needs know it far otherwife. Thomas Harding, (page 95. ) I cannot but take Notice in patting, that here fpeak- ins; of Catholick Divines difowning from C3 tJ the Beginning the Validity of the new En- glijh Ordinations, you lay, / own they have not been fo explicits in the Reafons of their Opinion and Praftice, as might be wijtid. But they, who have confider'd the Works of thofe Divines, more than you feem to have done, find them in the main very ex- plicite. This I have fhew'd fully in the Remarks upon Le Courayer^ and, if it were necefiary, could do it (till farther. Roger Filcock. (page 106.) You take no Notice of Ivs being a J E s u i T, or of Mr. Backworih being a BenediEtin. Your Work therefore wants a confiderable A- mendment in regard to thofc, and the following Particulars, whkh you have un- accountably omitted, in the Lives of thefe two holy Men. They were to united in their Affections, and in their Deaths, that they well deferve to be join'd here. F. Filcock came into the Million with a Heart not only full of Apoftolical Zeal, but idfo of an ardent Dcfire to confecrate himfelf to (TOD in the SOCIETY of JESUS. After a little more than two Years of his Labours Candidly Propofed, 6cc. 123 Labours in the Million, he was admitted, While the great Spiritual Comfort he thence found made him redouble his zealous La- bours, he was taken and caft into Newgate^ with F. Back-worth. At his Trial, tho' not convicled, but only fuppofed on Conjec- tures, to be a Prielt, he was condemn'd, as F. Back-worth had been a few Hours be- fore, much after rhe fame Manner. This holy Monk, a little after his Trial, when feveral Parfons came to pervert him, re- jected them with fuch Words as made him fear his Sharpnefs might have given fomc Offence. Wherefore, when carried back to Prifon, he wrote to a Friend, begging him not to be offended at the Words he had uled in {peaking to the Parfons, fince they proceeded from hisDeteftation of their fa lie Religion, in which they had milled him for two and twenty Years. He then proceeds to tell him, that he had been converted to the Catholick Faith eight Years before by that holy Man of rhe SOCIETY ofJ&SUX, F. George, a Fleming ; and that, if he knows any thing of Spiritual Matters, or has done any good, he owes it in great rneafure to him : That he had for two Years been under the In- structions oi the prudent and venerable Dr. Barrel : Thar, to all the Fathers ot .he ho'v SOCIETY of Jl*SUi>\ whom 124 -^ Specimen of Amendments he calls moft deferring Men and of admirable Virtues, he returns the greateft Thanks -, whom, fays he farther, I reverence from my Heart, and always love, and wifh others did the lame ; adding, that F. Fil- ccck who, he fays, was his particular and intimate Friend before their being then Prifoners together, and whom he calls that blejjed and ftout ConfeJJor^ and a Man of uncommon Virtue, was alfo moft patient, of excellent Humility, Devotion and Charity, The next Day after this Letter ( which was Feb. 27, 1601. 0. S. ) they were bound together on the lame Sledge. As foon as they began to be dragged through the Dirt to ^Tyburn, F. Backwwih began with Joy to intone thofe Words of the Pfalmift, bis is the day the Lord has made, let us exult ; and Father Filcock, with the fame Chearfulnefs, added, and let us rejoice in it. And they continued ail the way with Exprefiions of equal Piety and Joy. Being come to Tyburn they beheld there Mrs. Line, who had been hanged juft be- fore for her Religion, crowning her holy Life with fo happy a Death. Mr. Back- "-zorth, who was firft taken from the Sledge to follow her noble Example, when he crime near her, with great Reverence he kiiTed the Hem of her Garment, praifing litT with molt pious Words. Then turning Candidly Propofed, 6cc. 129 to the People, he made a Profeflion of his Faith with fuch aGenerofity of Spirit, that; they fhew'd a greater Inhumanity to him at his Execution. Fie was a tall and ftronpj Man, that naturally might have continued hanging a confiderable while before the Halter ftrangled him. Yet icarce was h : turn'cl off the ladder, but they held up the Weight of his Body, that he inipjir: not be difpatch*d too icon : So that when immediately they cut the Rope, and ripr up his Bowels, he was ib much alive as to cry out, O (TOD htii-e Mcrw on MS. L'non hearing thefe Words, his holy Companion F. Fiicock fpoke aloud to him, reminding him of Heaven, which would ibnn be the lie ward of his Patience. F. Filccck foo:: follow'd him with that lame Generofity oi ; Soirir, wherewith he had cncourajied l.is A ' C blefled Companion. Thefe, and other fuch Particulars VOM nvg'it eafily have had froin leveral \Vricer; -, and how could you on;!; them? c l'bo->r:at Me I lain, f pc.fj. 109. ' you here mean by thefe \Voiv. , coiuits, I la'jc me! v.-iii. tell v? - ffiitied avion* toe f ]: .s u i i .s befor Would you inHr.ua' e i ; : i? only private Account whi^ Or would you ha--e you v 1 ; his ^26 A Specimen of Amendment * his being a JESUIT ? Why otherwiie fo my in a thing, which one may affirm could fcarce efcape your Knowledge ? More, Bar- loli, Juvcncy, fhew it plainly. From them- you might have had the following Particu- lars, which as I know not how you -could be ignorant of, fo I much Ids know how you came to omit them. He had been a matter of twelve Years in the SOCIETY when he died. Molt of the Years of his Million he was in different Prifor.Sj and Jaftly in that of IVisbhb, where, you juftly fay, he i':as a kind of Oracle among bis Brethren. But he was fo tar from being again ft the regular Methods brought into Wisbicb Caftle (as you v/as pleafeci to fay above) thnt Jirvcncy cxprefly Ipeaks of him as a chief Author of the Re- gularity. His fufiering in Prifon continued for ffi'cnteen Years at lead. He was even Jdi: out of the Lift of the f evenly Priefts, who were fent out of Prifon into Baniili- inent in 1^85. \?.'ffi r ejlcn^ who lived fome v ;."ears with him in Wisbicb Caftle, ipeaks of his great Knowledge in Philofophy, Divinity, Langunges, Hiftory and Anti- quities. Gre;it Qualifications, but nothing in Companion of his Virtue.-. In one of the four Years of his being in the < Tc\vcr, he cither conceived., or revived a greal Dsfirj Candidly PropoJ'ed, &c. 127 of entring into the Soc i E T Y of j'ES US. At the tiril Opportunity lie wrote to his intimate and holy Friend F. T. Diirly'lirt^ then at Paris, who reprefented Mr. AJV tbanfs Defire and Merits lo well co liu: General, that he obtained the Favour, and was admitted into the Soc i L T y , tlie fourth of May, 1570. The change of his Priion:; gave him new Occafions of Suffering, bu;: new Occafions aifo or doing good by tli;; Example of his Life, and by frequerr: Engagements \vith Proteftant Miniiterf;, to \vhom he bcc.;rnc a 'J 'error by ing. He ended his S.iiibring anc about the fixtieth Year of hi-; June, 1592, languiHiing a\vay icventeen Y'ears Imprifonmcnt, ferings but to m:: lail fuii of i\ feaions and Expreflions ot GOD, till he expired withou fions or Agony, and \vith t:!; of Death, which i'eerns to !- our Loi . f 1 2 8 A Specimen of Amendments SECTION XVII. Upon the Lives of Mr. PAGE,BRIANT, MUSH, COTTAM, MARTIN, and . SHERWIN, S Page. (?age 12.) You arc pleaied to fay, Alegambegri'W/kfr. Page a place in his Catalogue \ but I do not find he was ever admitted among the J E s u i T s : Neither does Alegambe affirm it. You might as well lay, that Alegambe does not affirm it of F. Filcock, whom he places i'.iil before Mr. Page, in his Catalogue of Martyrs of the Soc i E T Y. And it muil be own'd you look with ftrange Eyes into \vhat regards the JESUI TS, if you do not find that Mr. Page was admitted among rhem. BartoU, to mention no others, would have informed you of that, and the follow- ing Particulars, which you have unaccoun - tably omitted. He was converted to the Catholick Faith by F. Gerard. Soon after, he was ardently defirous to be of the Soc i E T v. Hereupon, abandoning the near ProfpeCt of a confide- ruble Marriage, he went abroad, where Dcir.g made Pried, he came over into the .Million, r.r.rl ?.ftf.-r new Proofs of his Spirit and Candldk Propofed, &c. 129 and Conftancy, he was admitted into the Novice (hip by F. Garnet. At his Execution he not: only made a Profefllon of his Faith, but alfo gave particular Thanks to Goo, that he was a Novice of the SOCIETY of JESUS : And at the very Moment of his pronouncing that iacred Name, he was turn'd off the Ladder, as he behaved ail along in thofe laft Moments with remarka- ble Piety, Tranquillity, and Courage. The lame Author takes Notice of a par ticular Inrlance in F. Pfige^ which b very inftructive, and a very proper one in a Church- Hiftorian. He had continued a confiderable while in great Tranfports of Joy at the Thoughts of his approaching Happinefs of dying for his Religion. But after fome Hours, as he had found the wonderful Effects of Grace, Co GOD was pleafed (for his, and other Peoples In- itruction ) to let him ice the Weaknefs of Man without the particular Iniluence of divine Affiftance. He therefore permitted F. pjge to be fei/.ed with a great Dejection of Mind. But as GOD deiign'd, not to abandon, but to inftrud: him, lie loon re- ne\v'd in him his former Tranquillity, and prelerved it in him to the F.nd, Alexander Briant. (pa?? 114.) Why ck you licre fay, that a little 1-efjre bi* Dwtb-, G c, h<: 1 30 A Specimen &f Amendments he dcfircd to be of the Soc i E T y , \virhour. adding, that lie liad firmly refolved it above two Years before ? This lie declares in his Letter to the Fathers of the SOCIETY. The Letter is in the Conctrtaiio. If you would not allow it a place in vour Records, v/hy at lead would you not give ibmcHint oi thei'b Particulars from it ? He there jpeaks with great Fervour of the Motives we have to give ourielves entirely ro GOD, and that GOD is no where found fo fecurely, as among thofe, who are united in his S ~TV ice, and where every thing is done by Obedience ; that accordingly he had, for above t\vo Years pad, firmly reiblved to enter into the Soc i E T v . He then adds ; that the Day before they tortured him ngain, being full of heavenly Comfort and Sweetnefs, eipecially at the liicred Names oi' JESUS and MART, while he was laying the Rofory, it occurred to him that now was a proper time to confirm his purpofc with a folcmn Vow. He recom- mended the matter very carneiily to GOD, and having made the Vow, he was perfua- ded, that the Comfort and particular Help he found in his Sufferings, was a fenfible Token of his Vow being acceptable to GOD. He then relates that the laft time they tortured him, which was done with Candidly P rope/fed, &c. 131 greater Cruelty than ever, he fcarce felt any Pain at all, but rather a Relief from his former Pains, while he meditated On the Paffion of CHR IS r with great Tran- quillity of Mind. He concludes with io - lemnly promiling Obedience to the Superi ors of the Soc i E T y . You might have added from the Concer- tatio, that while they thrutl Needles under Mr. Brian?* Nails,, he laid the PJlihn Jl#/>- rsrc \vith a very chearful Countenance. begging GOD to pardon his Torturer;., That after having been molt cruelly' ftretch'd on the Rack, he was call into a Dungeon, where he lav fifteen Davs de- O ' - j privecl of Motion and theUfe of his Limbs, in exceflive Pain. That when the Crofs lv.: had made, was IhatchM out of his Hand;}, he Hiid, Yuu fotil never for ct it from ?;.> Heart, il>o > you do it from my ILir.ds ; and I will fad my Blood for him, ivho firfl Jbc.i bis for me upon a Croj'. Excu!e n:e for' asking again, how fuch farticuLirs could be omitted in a voluminous Wcrk of Church- J-Iiftory ? John Mujh. (^iigs 115.) It ii very iur- prizing to find you here laying, that he gave an Inirance of his Xeal and Prudence in the IVislhh Affair. Ft,r tb? be (fay you ) iifpssr'd warm for the laterfft of the Clergy., 132 A Specimen of Amendments yet he ii'as of a reconciling Temper ', as far as tie Pretenjibiis of ethers feemed rational in regard cf their Adverfaries . Sure, at kaft, fome Pieces, wherein you own Eag- kcrjj was concerned,, under the Name of Mitjh y are no favourable Inftances of his reconciling Temper. And what you call the Interetl of the Clergy, was indeed not the Caufc of the Clergy, but ol a few, and firft at lead, of a very few dilTatisfied Men of that Body, and never the Cauie of the Clergy in general, 'Thomas Cot taw. (fageiiG.} You fay, Alfgambe gives an Account, that Mr. Cot- l.im was admitted into their SOCIETY when he was Priibner. Bartoli would have inform M you better, with an exp re fs Caution of luch Miftakes concerning F. Cot tarn :. He would have afitired you of his being admitted into the Noviceihip at Rome, April 8, 1579 : That he was converted both to the Catholick Faith and to a pious Life by Mr. Pour.d, to whom in a Letter- he returns his ardent Thanks : That his great Defire, upon his entering into the SOCIETY, was to go to the hi dies : But That he was lent to his Native Air, being /alien into a Confumption -, and was made I'ncft a: Rl;h::s. Of theft:., and other Par- ticulars Candidly Propofeaj &c. j 3 5 ticulars of his Virtues and Death, you might have feveral Inftanccs and Circum- fiances in that Author. Gregory Martin, (page 121.) The fame Author juit mentior/d, v/ould have alib told you (lib. 4. r#/>. 2.) that F. Parfons was very felicitous to promote the Rbeimj 'Tcjlamcnt tranilated by Mr. Martin ; and that he came on that Account to Rbciins, with Mr. Gilbert^ bringing a thoufmd Crov/ns towards the Expenccs of ihe Edi- tion, at the very time he was at great Charges in erecting and employing a Frefs he had procured or Roan> for printing. CV tholick Books for England. It was thb, aided to other Endeavours of the So c i ET Y in promoting the Zeal of the Clergy, that railed thofe Sentiments of Love and Gra- titude, you have feen above (.12.) in Dr. Martin, in regard oi the JESUITS-, even ar^js all others . They are his Words, Sir, not mine. As to your obierving, that 'Dr. Martin rii\ii\l and kept up with Cam- p:an in Learning (and the like you take care to mention oi ionic other Clergymen } I can afiure you that: thofe, who cheriili moft the Memory ol Cdinpiar,, heartily re- joice to obierve with what able Men Provi- dence then furniflrd his Church, while thcv hivv iiib the Comtbrt re oblerv-:, that thoi-; 1*4 si Specimen of Amendments great Men were alfo remarkable for their Love to Campian and his SOCIETY . Ralph 8bcr\i'in. (page 131.) Give me leave to fay, that the great Veneration, I have long been taught to have for this great Man, makes me wonder you did not add fome farther Particulars. As for Inftance : That as foon as he was loaded with Chains, the whole air of his Countenance fhew'd rather an Extafy, I mull call it, than an uncommon Joy, while he ardently (for ardour of Spirit was his proper Character } c,avc Thanks to GOD for vouch'afing to v-J iJ make him fo happy as to fuffer for his Sake. In every Motion of his, on this Oc- cafion, their was fuch an air of Generofiry and Piety, as oiufed Aftonifhment even in Prot-eftants that beheld him. And he him- fclf writing foon after to F.Parfons, {peaks of the rattling of his Chains as tbe facet eft Harmony be ever beard. The lame generous Spirit conftantly appeared in him during the nine Months of his Imprifonment, and particularly on the Rack, to which they put him with great Cruelty twice wuhin four Days. The Day before his Execution., in the pious Letter to Mr. John Woodward his Uncle, he exprefsiy fays, I never found fo f.n dijl urlfd a Tranquillity of Mind, kavir* :aft ell my Sins iniQ tbe precious Wounds oj Candidly Propofed^ cc. 13;. tf.'.y Saviour. And when the Executioner called him, he not only follow'd cheat-fully, but embraced him mod tenderly, and kified his Hand all covered with the Blood of F. Cawpiiin, with fuch an Act of Reverence as was extremely moving. Then getting into the Cart, not only with Intre- pidity, but with Joy, he made a moft pious and inilainecl Speech to the People, exhort- ing them to the Catholick Faith, giving Thanks to GOD for the Honour of dying for it, pardoning his Enemies, and praying for all ; and receiving the Halter about his Neck with fuch a fmiling Countenance, fuch a Joy fparkling in his Eyes, as in- creafed the Admiration of all. In fo much that upon his being turn'd off, even the Proteitants cried out aloud, O good Sher- win, GOD receive your holy Soul. And the Conccrtatlo takes Notice that he was turn'd olf with thele Words in h is Mouth, J^tTS 1 , JEVUS, JESUS, i>t to vie a JESUS. S E C.T I O IN 7 XVIII. Lhes of BAR N F, s, SMITH, CA M- PIAN, RASTAL, ami WES TON. ^fOlIN Barnes, (fags 134.) In the Lifc J of this unhappy Man, you are pleated to r.v/, be "jigorovjly attacked the loofe Ca- j^6 A Specimen of Amendment* fuifts upon the Suljcff of Equivocations. If by vigoroujly you mean violently, you are right. But if you mean he has done it with ftrong Rcafons, Raynaudi will difa- buie you. If again by the loofe Cafuijls you mean all, who hive maintain'd the ufe of Equivocations in fome Circum (lances, you may fee farther in Raynattdi t what a num- ber of great Men you aiperfe under that loofe Denomination. If you mean particu- larly Parfons and Lcfliiu, their Virtue and Learning are fo well known, that they have nothing to fear from fuch Writers as you. It is very loofe Cafuiftry to think it lawful to afperfe fo. great Men by fuch un- deferved Names. I hope this was not your Defign. But certainly, upon Notice, you ought to explain yourfelf better. Nicholas Smitb. (page 137.) Here again you would do \vell to explain what mult be uaderfiood by your laying, he was ap- pointed Confeflbr in the Do\vay College by the Contrivance of F. Parfons and Dr. Wor- ibington. You add, indeed, that it was jointly with the Concurrent cf Cardinal Cajetan the Prctc"or. It fcerns then they had good Authority to fupport their Con- trivance, as you are pleated to call it. But. rnethinks it is not a vuy refpectful Word v.-i;r. recrird to the Protector, it leaft, what- Candidly Propoftd, Sec. 1^7 ever Freedom you might think fit to take with the two others. Edmund Campian. (page 137. ) You com- plain, that F, Afore omits many Particulars wherein the Honour of the Clergy may feem to be concerned, viz.. that Cai/ipian took Degrees, and was Profeffor in the Engiijh College of Do-way, before he became a JESUIT. If F. More omitted iuch Parti- culars defignedly, as the Honour of the Clergy may feem to be concerned in them, he is unexcufable. But he appears to be a Man of far other Principles, than to be guilty of any fuch Defign. Bar toll and other Writers take Notice of the Particu- lars he has omitted. Give me leave, by way of a Specimen for a Supplement to your OmifTions concerning this holy Man, :o fugged to you the following Particulars. The Year of his Birth ( 1540.) was the very Year wherein theSoc i E T Y of JESUS was confirm'd. lie was not quite thirteen Years of Age when he made a Latin Ora- C5 tion before Queen Mary, to the Admira- tion of the Hearers, with equal Commen- dation of a moil graceful Elocution, and Vivacity of Wit, join'd with Singular Mo- defty. Three Qualities for which he was always romrnciious. Such was the early Kcpututio;! of his Eloquence .' which had no Y "I - 1 J) 8 A Specimen of Amendments no lei's of the moft manly Strength, than of the moft elegant Beauties) that thofe, who were remarkable (or Oratory, were called Campianifts, He fhew'd the fame Excellency of Wit and Solidity in the higher Studies, while his humble, graceful and amiable Behaviour, join'd with a virginal Modefty, gainM him the Love of all. You fpeak very handfomly of thefe Qua- lifications of "P.Campian, and conclude, that kis Char after, in all other Refpeffis, is becom- ing a Man of the moft exalted Merit. It is a pity you did not defcend to the following Particulars, as they are the mod: proper Farts and Beauties of a Church-Hi ftory, It was particularly by his intimate Friend, the holy and learned Mr. Gregory Martin,, that he was made deeply fenfible of his un- happy conforming to the Times. He foon began to atone for it by withdrawing from England^ by long Prayers, and Penances, and by fuch a Conduct of Life as gain'd him the Name of Angel, the Year lu: lived in Ireland , and the fame Character he kept to the lad. Providentially efcaping the Purfuivants, he paffed to Z)6-::vn-, advancing in Learning and Virtue, during the two Years he continued there. But flill the Tortures of his Conference, particularly for having received the pretended Order of Deacon Candidly PropofeJ, &c. 139 'Deacon in the new Church of England, never ceafed till he enter'd into the SOCI- ETY of JESUS. While he was praying with great Fervour, and a torrent of Tears., to know the Will of GOD as to his Choice, of a State of Life, he heard an in wart i Voice, bidding him go to Rome, and al- luring him the Will of GOD fhould b-.: there made known to him. This he hearJ: in ib unuial a manner as left him no Doubt: of its being the Voice of G OD. He there- fore immediately obey'd the Call, under- took the Journey on Foot, begging all the Way on the Road, till he arrived at Rome towards the- end of the Year 1572 -, where he foon found himfdf called, by the fame Voice of GOD, determinately to the SO- CIETY of JESUS. The Cardinal of St. Cecily, admiring his Talents, and Virtues, made him large Pro- miles to take care of his Fortune. But: underftanding his Defio;n of entering into C> O ' -' _ the Soc i T Y, he highly commended him for it. And the general Congregation ot the JESUITS, then fitting at Rome, proved a favourable Occafion to his Defire. He was foon admitted,, and lent to the Novice- (hip in Bohemia, where a conftant Tradition remains, that our Rlcffed Lady, appearing to him, g.ive him a wonderful Sign of his future 140 A Specimen of Amendments future fealing his Religion with his Blood. Such Favours of Heaven were eafily credible in one of Caspian's mod holy Life. So holy it was. that his Spiritual Father, with whom he lived for eight Years, had fo great an Opinion of his Sanctity, that he thought himfelf unworthy to be under the Feet of his Difciple Campian: For that was his Ex- preffion in his Letter to the General, upon the News of Campian's Death. Thefe, and many other Particulars, which you might eafily have found in Bartcli, and other Writers, might well have claim'd and found a place in your Work. John Rajlal. (page 141.) How Alegambe (for I have rot Southtyel by me) came to make no mention as you fay, of this learned \Vriter, I know not. But if he makes no mention of him as a Writer, he and others mention him for his Virtues, and particularly lor his offering himfelf as a Victim to GOD for the Life of that great and holy Man F. Peter iicff of the Account fign'd by their own Hands, and fent to his Holinefs. And they par- ticularly mention, that nothing could be a more undeferved Calumny than to charge Y.H^efton with Ambition, fince (for io they exprefs themfelves) from England to the remoteft Indies^ there could not be found a Man of truer Humility. His Adverfaries, feven in Number, and four of them, at leaft, fuch as one may well wifh to have remain'd jn perpetual Oblivion, Continued to exercife the Paticnrr G' Candidly Propojed, &c, 145 of this holy Man. Some of them went fo far (a lamentable thing) as to intimate to the Miniftry, that F. Weft on, and his Co nions were engaged in a treafonable Cor- refpondence with Cardinal Cajetan the Pro- tector, and others. Upon this the Father and three others, Mr. Giles Archer, Cbri- Jiophcr Scuthvort, and Thomas Pound , were conducted to London, and imprifon'd fepa- rately in the Tower. Great were the Harcl- fhips F. W?flon (of whom only I am here engaged to i peak ) fuffer'd there till the Death of Q^een Elizabeth. In the Begin- ning of the next Reign he was banifh'd. When he came out of the Tci-jer, vaii: Numbers both of Proteflants and Catho- licks Hocked to fee a Man of ib great Fame for his Sandity. The twelve Years he fur- vived, alter his Baniftiment, were moftly fpent at Valladolid, in governing the Englijb Seminary there. Both there, and wherever he chanced to be, he was held by all \\\ the higheft Veneration for his eminent Sand'ity. Aniwerable to his Life was the Holinefs of his Death, which happenM the ninth of April, 1615, the fixty fix'h Year of his Age. His Exequies were folemnly performed in moll of the Churches of Val~ iadsiid, and his Funeral Oration by one of 'he molt celebrated Preachers of the Age. H Theft 146 A Specimen of Amendments Thefe Particulars you have entirely o- mitted. Where then do you hope to pafs for an impartial Man ? And theie Particu- lars (tho' they are but a Sketch of his Merits) duly confider'd, one may well ask again, how any, who are not of a very un- happy Difpofition, can poflibly Jay the Blame of the Wisbicb Diflentions on fo holy a Man. And here I cannot omit what Eartoii relates of the Keeper of that Prifon. Upon reading the ^uodlibets of Ifatfon^ When he came to what is there faid of F. Wefton^ he flung the Book away in a Rage, curfing both the Book and the Au- thor, that could tell fuch Lies of a Man, whofe Life, as he himfelf could teftify, having been aWitnefs of it for many Years, was mod irreprehenfible and holy. SECTION XIX. Lives of SOUTHWELL, WALPOLE, P O U N D. -JDOBER7 Southwell, (page 148. ) Could you tli ink it enough to fay he was a Man of fingular Parts, that he was ten times fcverely tortured, and at his Execu- tion fncw'd an entire Refignaticn to the Will of GOD, Few Mens Lives deiervecl a Candidly Propojed, &c. 147 a fuller Account. Your Work here then again, wants a confiderable Supplement, Be pleafed to take the following Hints to- wards doing Juftice to fo holy a Man. In his firft Infancy he was taken out of his Cradle by a Gypfy^ but foon found again. He afterwards gave daily Thanks to GOD for the Favour of being brought back to all the Advantages of an Education fo different Irom what would have been his Misfortune, if he had been carried quite away by fuch a Vagabond Creature, And fo lively was the Senfe he had of this Favour, that it alib prompted him to a fin gular Gratitude to the Woman, who found him again and brought him back. For, when atterwards he came into the Million, he carefully enquired after her, and con- verted her to the true Faith. He had alib the Comfort of reclaiming his own Father, who had been unhappily induced to go to the Proteftant Churches, tho* in his Hearn he continued a Catholick. A lively Wit join'd with Solidity of: Judgment, Agreeablencfs of Perfon and Be- haviour, a great Sweetnels of Devotion and Piety, were conipicuous in F. Soutbivtii's. tender Years, and continued fo all his Life. About fixteen Years of Age he conceived a moil ardent Defire of coniecrating himfelf H ?. to 148 A Specimen of Amendments to GOD in a Religious Life. For about three Months he was dubious in his Choice between the Order of the Cartbujians and the JESUITS. GOD was pleafed to deter- mine him to the SOCIETY by a clear In- fpiration. It may feem ft range it fhould happen, but it often does happen, that the Doubt of many in chufing a ftatc of Life, is between thofe two Orders fo very diffe- rent in many refpecls. But as the Carthu- ficns were great Friends to the SOCIETY from its firil Beginnings, fo there has ever fince been a great mutual Love between thofe two Orders -, and it will be generally found, that none arc more fit for an active and zealous Life, than thofe who have a Love of Solitude. Nothing can better exprefs F. Southwell's ardent Defire of being admitted into the SOCIETY, and his Grief at the Delay of it, than his own Words fet down in F. More, I. 5. n. 14. Few Inftances can be feen of fo ingenious, fo folid and fo noble Sentiments, exprefied with fuch admirable Force and equal Sweetnefs, by or.e of fixteen Years of A*ge , and he was then no more. I would willingly tranfcribe them, and other pious Writings of this moll holy Man, of which [ have by me a confiderable Number in a Manufcript taken from his own Original Papers, Candidly ProfofeJ, &c. 149 Papers. But they are too many to be here inferted, and his Life exprefled them better than any Words. For, equal to his ardent Defire of being admitted into theSoc I E T y, i_7 was his Fervour in it to the end of his Life, particularly in moft vehement Detires of luffering and dying for CHRIST. He was admitted at Rome, but his Health obliged Superiors to lend him to Tourn^v, where he made the greateil part of his Novicefhip. And being lent back to Rome, he was admired by all for his great Wit, and equally reverenced for his emi- nent Virtues. The: Influence of them was vifible in the Eu^lijb Seminary-, while he was Prefect there. From thence he w.;, fent into the Million. Pie re he was tiril with Lord Vanx, \vhom F. Pardons had brou^h into the Church a lew Years before ; nr/j then with the Countefs of Ariwdd. o:.< Years after, he was caft into Prifon, and ten times mod cruelly tortured, as he de- clared at his publick Trial. He bore pjt with f.ich Conftancy, as made Cecil fpeal: of his Patience with, the greatcft Alton ifli- ment. After fufierino; for three Years more ^-t in Prifon, he was brought to his Trial. He there behaved with the gre.-.rdl Chearful-' nets of Mind and Looks, und o\vn\i th,.' his Heart leaped ienfibiv \vith [uy at t!v: H '< ' rho'-ihts i^o A Specimen of Amendments Thoughts of his drawing fo near to the Happinefs of dying for CHRIST. Upon hearing his Condemnation, he lifted up his Hands to Heaven with a mofl ferene Coun- tenance, giving thanks to GOD, and pray- ing ardently for the Authors of his Death. Being carried back to Prilbn, the Difcourfe he had there with a Parfon, determined the Keeper, already much moved with the Fa- ther's holy Life, to become a Catholick. The Day after his Trial, being called ro his Execution, he joyfully and tenderly embraced the Man who brought the happy Call ; and while they were tying him to the Sledge, he cried out. my GOD ! fo great an Honour for fuck a vile Worm of the Earth as I am ' Thefe Words he pro- nounced with fuch Sweetnefs and Courage, as caufed in the Hearers a great Aftonifh- ment. The fame Refoludon and Pitty he Dievv'd to the laft, when with the Words of CHRIST in his Mouth, Tnto your H finds 1 commend my Spirit, and much about the age of C HRIST, he ended his Life the 21 ft of Feb. 1594. O. S. Henry Walpole. ( Ibid. ) Perhaps you might think the Difputes of F. Walpole^ during his Imprifonment, about Religion, might be too long for your Work, tho' you have filled it w;ih many tilings much kh Candidly Propofed, &c. 151 lefs to the purpofe. But you might, at leaft, have added in fhort, that when he was but one and twenty Years old, the Virtues of F. Campian, v/hom he had care- fully obferved during his Difputes ia the; I'oiver, his Trial, and Execution, nude fo deep an Imprellion on his Mind, th.it lie ufed to fay, all the Good he had was o\v- ing to F. Campian's Example. And upon it he foon conceived a great Defire of to! lowing him in the Soci ETY, and dying for his Faith. You mention his A^emp;, to mike Proielytes. You might have added., that no lefs than twenty young Gentlemen of good Families were converted by hi;r., and in particular his Co u fin Edward IVal- pvie, who, bred up a rigid Presbyter:^-., became a zealous Catholick, and after gre.,': Sufferings, enter'd into the SOCIETY, Li- bour'd forty Years in the Million, and die.i (aged 79.) with fingular Piety and Tra:.- quillity of Mind. Of the three Brothers or' F. Henry, who were moved by his Example to enter into the Soc i T Y, you afterwards mention two. The other, whom I do not remember, that you fpeak of at all, was Chriftopber, who being lent into Sj^ain., lived fourteen Years there, a great Ex- ample of religious PerlcC'-ion. I \vill only add, upon your laying, l : J-L:vr-y \vai fever.:! H 4 tiiuci ic. 2 A Specimen of Amendments times put upon the rack, you might have laid it was no lefs than fourteen times. Thomas Pound. ($age 153.) One cannot but wonder you mould be fo fhort on his Life, fince few Perfons in your Work (very few) could furnifh. more Examples of Virtue, and more proper for an Ecclefi- aflical Hiftory. But, alas! It is your fre- quent Fault to be fhort in iuch Matters, as you are much too long in others. I will not ask why you take no notice of his being a JESUIT, tho' he was one for many Years. But how could you omit to fpecify the following Particulars ? You might cafily have done it from feveral of the Authors named in your Lift. From the moment GOD was pleafed to give him true Sentiments of the Vanity of the World, he continued a mod exemplary Life for forty fcven Years, full of Virtues and Sufferings for his Religion. Upon his firil Change from a courtly to a pious Life, he went from his own Home, and in a folitary Room in the Houfe of a Catholick Relation, lie began a Courfe of frequent and molt aullere Fafts, little Sieep on a hard Bed, riling at Midnight to Me- Citation, then reai'r g ipirit.ual Books, till at break of D.iy he relumed his Medita- tions, which he continued for three or four Hours Candidly Prcpofed, &c. 153 Hours. A great part of the Day he fpent in reading the holy Fathers, wherein he took great delight as long as he lived -, and in the Evening he betook himfelf again to Prayer. Having fpent two Years and fomething more in this iolitary Life, only attending to his own Soul, he was- moved to leave that great Retirement, and ipend fome Hours of the Day in the Help of others, re- fervins; his ufual Hours cf Ni^ht for \~) O Prayer, and without abating any tiling of his penitential Auftcrities. I>y his Words and Example he railed a new Fervour in many Catholicks. Many, that were waver- ing, he confirm'd in their Faich ; and brought back ieveral that had fallen fro^i it. A particular Gift of Eloquence, ani- mated with that Spirit of GOD, which uli'd his Heart, gave a wonderful Efficacy to his Words. To all thefe ways of helping his Neighbour, he added large Alms, parti- cularly to thole, who were in Prifon lor their Religion. Admired by all for this Courfe of Life, he dill defircd to confecrate himfelf rrore clofely to GOD, and therefore made a Vow, that the feventh Year after his Converfion ro a better Life, he would enter into Prieft's" Orders , thinking that Tim? was the leaf!? 1 54 A Specimen of Amendments he could employ in fatisfying ior his paft Faul s, and preparing for fo holy a State. In the mean while, meeting with fome Lcfters of MifTioners of the SOCIETY of JESUS from the Indies, admiring their Labours, and the Succefs GOD was pleafed to give them, he found himielf moved to a wonderful Love of the SOCIETY, and an ardent Defire of being admitted into it , tho* he had never yet fecn any one of it, or any body that could perfonally give him a particular Account of the Nature of its Inftitute. But not long after, he met with a Prieft, by name Henry Aharo lately come from Rome, who gave him an ac- count of the Order in many Particulars of it, which were fo much to Mr. Pounds liking, fhat his Defire to be of it was greatly inflamed. *_> J Having difpofed his Affairs accordingly, and going to pafs the Seas, and thence to Rcme to the Genera 1 of the SOCIETY, he was taken and car; into Prifon for his Faith ; where his other Sufferings (as he fent Word to the General) were nothing re the Grief of his finding himfelf deprived of the Happinefs of being as yet admitted HI to the SOCIETY. Several rirr.es he re- new'd his Petition, and the Favour was granted him in 1578, Incredible was the Com for. Candidly Propofed, Sec. 155 Comfort he received from this happy News, and great the Support it was to him in all the following, and long Sufferings of his Life, which he bore with fuch extraordi- nary Patience and Magnanimity of Mind, as proved not the Wonder only, but the Conversion of many. Thus, when a Smith was going to fatten heavy Chains upon him, the holy Man bent down to kite them i whereupon the Smith b^ing unhu- manly exafperated, lifting up a Part of the Fetters, gave Mr. Pound fuch a Blow on the Head, as made his Blood trickle down apace ; at which, with the greateil Tran- quillity of Countenance, but with ardent Affeclion, he faicl : O that it wre the Will of my GOD, that for jo good a Caufe I might have the Hafpinefs to Jhed the lajl Drop of my Blood ! Thefe Words, fpoken, with a Countenance fo undifturbed, at fo great and fo fuclden an Injury, aftonifh'd the Smith and made him ask Mr. Pound on what Grounds he was ib confident of his being in the true Religion. The holy- Man gave him fuch Reafons, and with fuch Efficacy, that the Smith became a Catho- lick, was call into Prifon, and there died in a very pious manner tor his Religion. And indeed Mr.Pi?:/, by his groat read - ing of the holy Scripture and Fathers, and 156 si Specimen of Amendments not only frequently perufing feveral Books of Con trover fy, but alfo converfing upon thofe Subjects with feveral Priefts in h's different Prifons, and particularly with F. IV eft on fwhofe Pupil, lays he in one of his Letters, I was in Wisbicb-Caftle] he became fo able a Manager of fuch Sub- jects, as to be a Terror even to eminent Proteflants, in fcveral OccaGons of that Nature. But to omit many other remarkable Par- ticulars of this great and holy Man, I fhail conclude with only adding, that to his thirty Years Sufferings in di ill-rent Prifons, he join'd fo great and continual voluntary. Mortifications, that the General of the SOCIETY was forced to fend him or- ders to ufe them more moderately. He continued his virtuous Life till the fifth of March) 1615, when GOD called him to the Reward of h's Labours. He died in the fame Room where he was born fevenry fix Years before. SEC- Candidly Propofed, See. 157 SECTION XX. Lives of Mr. GILBERT, THROCK- MORTON, HART, and MORGAN. QEORGE Gilbert, (page 162.) Here again, Sir, I will not ask why you take no Notice of this holy Man being of the SOCIETY, nor of the following Par- ticulars. But, if it was out of Ignorance, why do you then make a Parade of Au- thors in your Lift, whom you have not read ? If it was Forgetfulnefs, how comes your Memory to fail you ib often, cfpeci- ally in what regards the JESUITS ? If it was for Brevity lake, how comes it that you chufe to be fhort in fuch edifying Accounts as ought to be the chief Part of a Church-Hiurory, while you are fo long in many other things, either little or no- thing to the purpofc ? Be it as ic will, I cannot but fugged to you the following Supplement to the Life of this moil hoi/ Man. He was bred up a Proteftant ; but when he began to perceive his Errors, he fcon advanced to embrace the Truth, and both in Faith and Addons became an admirable Example to the beft and oldsil Catholick:-;. His Polite and enga^inG, Behaviour o-ain'd i **-J W i* him. 158 A Specimen of Amendments him the Love, and his Freedom from Vice, the Efteern of all, that were ac- quainted wuh him. The Delight he took, even from his Childhood, in reading good Books, happily difpofed him to his Con- verfion. Being frill farther difpofed to it at Paris ) by the pious F. J^erbyjhire^ he v/ent to Rome, and was there instructed more fully, and taken into the Church by Father Parfcns. Returning into England not long after, his Zeal in converting Pro- teftants and confirming Catholicks was fo great, and GOD gave fuch a BlefTing to it, that one, who was intimately acquainted with him, laid, That the Number of Changes wrought by him, would fill a large Volume. The Care he took in affifting the MifTioners was fuch, that F. Parfons writing of him to Pope Gregory XIII, laid, If we have done any Good in England^ we owe it, next to GOD, to Mr. Gilbert. His Zeal made him be fo narrowly fought for by the Miniftry, that F. Par fans per- fuaded him to leave England. While he watched a fate Opportunity, he was forced to hide himfelf for fcveral Days in a ibli- tary Grot. Tenderly brought up, and in ail the Conveniences of a plentiful Eftate, he there fuffer'd much in Body ; but in his long Prayers, both by Day and Night. Candidly Propojed, &c. 15^ GOD filled his Soul with fuch fpiritual Sweetnefs, tnat he ufcd to fay, it was the happieft Part of his Lite, Pie left England the End of" May, 1581, and coming to Rheims he was received there with the greareit Veneration and Love by Dr. Allen. And by that uniformity of Spirit, which was very great between Dr. Allen and F. Parfons, the former wrote to F. Agazzari, almoft in the very lame Words, as the other had done to the Pope, that, it any one of the Englijb Nobility and Gentry had highly deferved of the Clergy, of the SOCIETY, and of the Church, it was Mr. Gilbert. His Intent in going to Rome, was to- put himfeif intirely into the Hands of the General of the SOCIETY. Claudius Aquaviva, who had formerly petition'd with great Zeal to be fent into the Eng~ lijb Million, was then General. Upon due Confideration he thought it not proper as yet 7 to admit Mr. Gilbert into the So- CIETY. He placed hi in in the Engliflz College, where he was an admirable Exam- ple or Obedience and all Virtues, inflam- ing the Englijh Catholicks at Rome, and particularly the young Seminarifts, by his lively and penetrating Diicourfes of GOD, and ft ill more by his Example. He had iii^de a Vow of Chuftity, and guarded it fo 360 A Specimen of Amendments fo exactly with the ftrickeft Cuftody of his Eyes, and Modefty of his whole Comport- ment, that he was loved and reverenced by all as an Angel-, guarding it Kill' farther with Difciplines, Hair-mirts, Fafts, and other Anfterities, accompanied with frequent and long Meditations of lour cr five Hours daily, particularly on the facred Pafiion of Chrift, and praying a great part of the Night be- for the molt BleJJed Sacrament, communi- cating on z\\ Sundays and Holy-Days. And as fucn a Life could not fail of being ad- mired, fo it often drew others to fpeak in his Praife. Bat when ever they did it ia his Prefence, fuch an humble Blum cover'd his Face immediately, that not to encreafe his Uneafmefs, they were forced, out ot Compafllon, to drop the Difcourfe. The great Examples of his Virtues con- tinued to his laft Breath, and his Obedi- ence in taking very naufeous Medicines was rewarded by an admirable Vifion he had of our Blejjed Lady, to whom he was fingu- larly devoted. After he had received the laft Sacrament, he fpoke to the Semina- rifts, who were weeping round his Bed, with great Affection. Ceafe you;- Tears, faid he, yen i^bo kave fo great and happy a Profpect of dying for your Faith, i::biU 7, unworthy in wt Candidly Propofed, &c. 161 Bed. Then devoutly kitting a Crofs of Wood, which the holy Mr. Briant had made in his Prifon, and carried in his Hand to his Trial, he broke out in fuch ardent Expreflions of the Happinefs of Martyr- dom, as both railed the moft vehement Sentiments of Zeal, and redoubled the Tears of all around him. Particularly when fpeakingof his dear Friend F. Cain- pi an, he broke into thefe Words ; IViib "jchom alas ! I was unworthy to join r/iy Blood in fo glorious a Death. When upon this, F. Agazzari return'd to him with Authority from the General to admit him into the Soci E T Y, he firft gave thanks to GOD for the Favour, and immediately added, la Sinner, vow to you my Go D , in the prefence of the Blejfed Virgin MARY, and fill the Saints, Poverty, Chaftity, and Obedience in the SOCIETY of JESUS. Then after having for ibrnc while continued in his pious AffecTions to GOD, he expired with fuch a holy Tran- quillity, that no Alteration appeared in the Sweetnefs of his Countenance. All Ron?., in a manner, and in particular the Pope exprefb'd a great Concern for the Lois of ib rare an Example. He was buried, ac- cording to his defirc, in St. Andrew*^ the Church oi the Novicefhip, in 15^3. 1 62 A Specimen of Amendments Edward 'Tbrockmorton. \ do not remem- ber, that yon have fo much as mention'd this holy young Man, tho 5 he was fo emi- nent in Virtues, and fo like Mr. Gilbert^ both in that, and in his dying in the Soc i E T Y. He was fo great an Example to the Seminarifts of the En^lifh College o J cj at Rome where he died, that his Life is flill read there, as an admirable Pattern, as Bartcli obferves , adding, that his whole Life is in the Hiftory of Bifhop Tepes, which you have placed in your Lift of Au- thors. William Hart. Upon the Life of this holy young Man, which you give at large, fc.ge 105. you forgot to mention what Bar foli obferves of him here, that he earn - eftly defired to rcfemble thofe two former young Men in being admited into the SO- CIETY. But it plcafed GOD to reward his Virtues with the Happinefs of a glori- ous Death for his Faith, before he ob- tain'd his Petition, which he often re- peated, even after he was lent from R.VWS for his Health , and particularly by the Mediation of Dr. Allen , who fas Bartoli very juftly expreffes it) was fo iwitrtibli and dear to the SOCIETY. While you mention Mr. Hart's being generally allow'd to be a Perfon of fingular Parts and Piety, arid Candidly Propofed, &c. 163 and not inferior to Campian, either as to his Pen, or Fluency of Difcourfe, it would have been very proper to have added how much he defired to be of the fame Order. Thomas Morgan, (page 176 ) Willingly would I caft a fhade over the Mifconducr of this Gentleman. This could not be done if I ihould particularize upon the ac- count you give of him. All I will fay iliall only be, that I am aftonifhed what could give you fuch a Byas, as to feem not only to take his part again ft the JE- SUITS, but even charge them with a de- teftable Crime againft him, or at leaft to leave it a doubtful Cafe. Having faid, the JESUITS were thought: to be no Friends to him, lut much the contrary, you prefently add, but whoever his Rnemies were, they were refolded not to let him efcape in this manner. This Expreffion (especially in u Writer who has fhew'd an unfriendly bent) is much the fame as if you had faid, Whe- ther it was the JESUITS or others , and naturally implies, that you cannot or will not determine, whether it was they or nor, that would not let him efcape. And what is it they would not let him efcape? Truly no ieis than an Aflailination, as you re- late it, attempted by one who grievoufly wounded Mr, Morgan. Nay, you exprefiy add, 164 A Specimen of Amendments add, the JESUITS interfofed in favour of Air. Gage ( who wounded him, and whom you term the Ajjcfyn ') which made fome fufpeft them in ike Affair. And all you lay, in favour of the JESUITS, is a nicer gene- ral Sentence, that all Perform uncharitably difpofed) are but too apt to put fucb a C?.n- Jinifticn upon the Occurrences of Life. Not all Perfons uncharitably difpofed, Sir, but only fuch as carry their uncharitable Difpo- fitions to the greateft Extremities. And it might well be expected, that a charitably difpofed Per Ton, efpecially in a Church- Hiilory, would have faid more particularly, that it was very plain the JSEST.M TS had no hand in fo great a Crime. This mishit < ' O the rather have been expected from you, fince it rn.iy well be fuppofed, that you are not ignorant how much Dr. Allen ihared \vith the JESUITS, in the Animofities of "Mr. Morgan againft them. As I am unwil- ling to lay any more of this Subject, fo I am forry you obliged me- to fay fo much.. -"Candidly 'Propofed, 6cc. 165 SECTION XXI. Of your Records placed under ^uecn ELIZABETH'S Reign PASSING over a great number of other Faults, in what you call Lives in this Part, I come now to the Records, as you are pleafed to term them. A great many of them are very needleis. fome mud be remark'd upon, in order to iiiggeft to you a better Ufe of them here- after, fince you have by no means made a right Ufe of them hitherto. Records are ufuaily placed, by other Authors, to confirm the Accounts they had given in the Body of their Hiftory. But in yours it providentially happens, that (how- ever you may have defignM them) they plainly confute many things, you advanced in your Hiftory. And they put me in mind of what St. Auftin obferves of the Jews carrying the Books of Scripture to their own Confufion, and to eftablifh the Chriftian Faith. Propterea Jud^i adbuc funt t ut lilros nojlros portent in confufionem fuam Proferimus ergo codices ab inimicis Judaeis, ut confundamus inimicos ir.fideie;, Codiccm portat Judasus, unde crcdat Cbrif- tianus, St. Auguftin in Pfalm Ivi. Thus you carry thofe very Records, which are the Juftification 1 66 A Specimen of Amendments Juftification of the JESUITS, and the Confutation of your Hiftory. Thus in the Letter of Dr. Lewis (page 225 ) that great and moft hoiy Man Mr. Sberwin is the firft of thole, who went to offer a Supplication to the Pope in the Affair of putting the Englijh College at Rome under the Care of the Soc i E T Y . The Doctor adds indeed, that the Pope at firft ingoroufly refohed, that they mould ab- folutely obey Dr. Clencck, or go away. And no wonder, fmce it is a common Rule in Government, to fupport the actual Supe- riors till Complaints appear fully made out, and Realbns for a Change are clear'd up. You may obferve too, by the bye, that Mr. Mufh ( whatever he was afterwards ) appears in Dr. Lewis's Letter as one of the chief Doers in the Change. The Doctor alfo fays, that the Cardinal Protector had re- folved to give abfchttely to the JESUITS the Care of the Manners, Studies, and Dif- cipline of the Seminary, and the Diftribution of deaths, and other NeceJJaries for the Scholars. A plain Proof that he did not think them blameable, or Authors of Dil 1 turbances. Dr. Leivis goes on to fpeak with great and tender Concern of the Af- fair, and not without Complaint, that fome of the young Men were ungrateful to him, and Candidly Propofed, &c. 167 and miftook his good Meaning and good Offices on that Occafion. Nor is it to be fuppoied, that an Affair of that nature could be carried on without fome Faults or Mill. ikes, even in thofe, who were right In the main, and were fupported by the Pope in what they chiefly aim'd at ; which was to be under the Care of the Soc i E T Y. The next Letter is from Mr. Haddock, a near Relation of Dr. Allen , and to him. You Stile it an Account of the Revolution in the Englijh College at Rome^ wherein he was a Perfon chiefly employed by the Male- contents. You have already feen, by your own Records, that Mr. Sberwin was no lefs engaged in it, if you will needs call it a Revolution. And thofe, you hear call MalecontentS) were maintained in their De- fire by the Pope's Decifion. One might alfo have expected, that, if you would over- look the Merits of Mr. Shcrwin and others, yet for the fike of Mujh^ Giffard and fome fuchj you might have ufed a fofter term than that of Makcontents. The Letter it- fclf confirms many of the Particulars I re- lated of that Affair from Bartoli, and gives a quite different Idea of it from what your Account fuggefts. To come now to the Letter of Dr. Allen to Dr, Lewi* : The whole Letter breathes the Character i'68 A Specimen of Amendment Character of the prudent, the good and the pious Man. It is the greater pity you ieem to have confider'd it fo little. He tells Dr. Lewis i that he had confulted with Dr. Brijlow, Webb, Baily, Martin^ and others, about the whole Affair, to fee what they liked or mifliked in it. This I men- tion that you may confider what great Men of the Clergy he means in what he adds ; which is, that eftabliming the JESUITS in the Government of the College, made /#, / ajjure you, a double Eafter ; that the Requeft of having the JESUITS for Go- vernors there, feemed to all our Nation ruoji lawful , and godly : That, tho' the Diforders were exceedingly mifliked, yet tbe commit- ting tbe Houfi' to tbe Soci E T y was all cur Defires. And he calls this a happy Refolu- tion. Here, Sir, give me leave again to fay to you in St. Auftin's Words, Attende loquenti tibi per os tuum i-eritati. Hearken to the Truth from your own Mouth, that is, from your own Records. And let me ask a Que- ftion or two. Firft, Whether you can pof- fibly think, that one Reader in a hundred will believe you have been duly careful in drawing your Accounts, as you pretend, from fuch original Writings, \\hile here they lee you overlooking what is fo ma- terial* 'Candidly Propofed, &c. 169 terial, and fo clear in the very Records you have tranfcribed. Secondly^ Whether you can poilibly think, that every fenfible and impartial Reader will not fay, O how widely cloes this Writer differ in his Sentiments or the JESUITS from Dr. Allen y and all the chief of the Clergy ! But certainly every wife Reader will know, very readily, where to cad the Scales between theirs and this Compiler's Opinion. You 'would do well alfo to take nctice that Dr. Allen ^ in hi* Pcftfcript here* mentions Mr. Cot tarn's en- tering into the Soc i E T / ; and this Letter J5 of May 12, 1579. Next to this Letter, you place a ftrangc 'kind of Supplication to Dr. Lc^ls, after Cardinal ////,v;'s Death. There are under ir die Names of a great Number of Semi narifh. Yet you muft allow me to call it :L very ilrange one. Firft^ They declare any l-'oreigner, and consequently the Protector., to be a Perfon unlit to have the Power or" giving Faculties, becaufc that Pov/cr re- quires a Knowledge of the State of the ). **~-> JZngUJh Million. But fure they might con nder, that tlvj Peribn, whom the PODC thought fit to make Protector, was very ifkelv to know what Faculties were to be !ven. Secondly. Having alfo fignined, that. 'he Protector was moreover unfit bccaulc I h>; 170 A Specimen of Amendments he hearken'd fblely to the JESUITS, they declare the JESUITS are moft unfit to have that Power. And why ? Becaufe, fay they, Ever fmce they have undertaken our Caufe, there have never been wanting Emulations in England, and private Difccrds between them and cur Priefts. On the contray, it is manifeft, that between the JESUITS and Clergy there was great Concord. A few uneafy Men are not to be minded. But Thirdly, From whence came thole Emulofi- ties andDifcords ? They tell you the Spring, and only Spring was, that the JESUITS did, what? Why truly, took more Care of their cii'n Family than of ours, and obtained mere ample Faculties and Privileges for them, than cur Priffts ever had. Here you may well obferve they lay, there was no other Caufe for Emulations and DifTenfions. And it is very plain this could be no juft Caufe. The JESUITS could not be emulous upon ac- count of their being more favour'd than others. And while the Pope and Protector thought it proper to give them fuch parti- cular Faculties, thofc muft anfwer for the Difcords, who raife them upon that, and that only Caufe. Pope Pius the Fourth, in his Bull, in 1561, had Hud, that upon Conlideration of their Dclerts he had judged the JESUITS were to be particularly fa- vour M. Candidly Propofed, &c. ij\i vour'd. And if other Popes judged them to deferve particular Faculties, it is very cdd they fhould-be quarrell'd with for being thought fo deferving by the fupreme ALL- thority in the Church. Fourthly, Thefe Supplicants add however, that the JESUI TS gave no fmall Satisfaction to all in the Go- vernment of ths College. A great Commen- dation. But I do not infill upon it, while they fhew themfelves to be fo improper Judges in other things, if this Supplication is genuine. I fay, // it is genuine. For tho' you lay the Original is in Doivay Col- lege, yet it has no Date, and by your own Account, both in your Chronological Table, and in your Lives, Dr. Lewis died before Cardinal Allen ^ tho' this Supplication fup- pofes the contrary. And the whole Tenor of it is llich, as can be no Credit to thole, whofe Name it bears. The like I affirm of the Piece to which you give the Title of An Account cf tbs original Caufc of ths Difturbances of the Roman College, as it is given by Dr. Cle- nock Prefident. It is undated, unfigned, and only a, Copy, and whoever attributes ic to Dr. Clcnock, does him nor, I do allure you, any Honour. For it iru'kes him lay, that from the time of the Dilturbance Cot" which whether the J E s u i T s were th 3 / 2 A Specimen of Amendments Caufe, he leaves it doubtful ) the JESUITS took no Care at all of tbe Difcipline and Manners of the Scbc'zrs ; and this is fo highly improbable in itfelf, fo contrary to all Accounts, and to all that the Pope, the Cardinal Protestor, Dr. Allen ^ and the moft eminent of' the Clergy fay of the JESUITS, ib contrary to what appears from Mr. Sber- ic/w's and others Opinion of them, that it is a Shame to attribute fuch a Piece to Dr. Clenock. To come now to what you call Records cf tbe Ard^ricfl, it is obfervable, that many of them are very obvious, cafily met with in fevcral Books. And yet you very gravely refer the Header, to Copies of them, in Doiiay College. While Copies of them are fo publick, it is a Jell to talk of Copies of them in fuch Places, as if there you had found by your great Refearch, what you know may be readily met with in a hun- dred other Places. But wherever you met v, kh them, you have by no means made a due ufe of them. For In Cardinal Cejefp.n's Letter, by which Mr. BlackiccU is conftituted Archprieft, you ought to have obfcrvcd, /'/>/?, That the Cardinal exprefsly fays, he acted in it ac- cording to the ly'ill cf ibc Pope. How then could you fay, lie did it by virtue of h Protectorfhi Candidly Propofed, &c. 173 Prote&orfhip ? Secondly, He exprefsly fays, the Fathers of the Soc i E T Y of j E S US labour'd both at Rome and in other Places tor tlu good of England, with great In- duiVry, and without either having, or pre- tending to any Power over the Clergy, or to give them any Trouble, or Moleila- tion ; that confequently it feems to be ^ mani/eft Fraud of the ZKT/7, that any Cat he - lick Jhould raifc or exercife any Emulation a- gainft them, fines on the Contrary^ th.y ought to be the mere bad in all L^j? and R.:- r :;rcnce, the r.iore. they embrace Priejls an.l others ":d--b greater Alacri'y, ii'Ub gold (jf- fees, <^:ib Bi'nefi:^ mid n Chanty truly fa temal. Why taen do you fuggefc, th-.tt the JESUITS were guilty of pretending to a Power over the Clergy, and of doing im:; ," Injuries to them : Did you phce thi:i Pieco in your Records to let us ice, that you and the Protector were very uiiierMit i;; yo\;r Sentiments ? Th- Cardinal morcc^ver, i:i his iLc:cncl Letter, declares the Archprieil: v/as inftituted by his HolineiVs Urdcr and CwiKund ; he exprefsly calls i: an Ordina- tion and Stellate of the S:>prt'ine Piifter -, thus feme be^an to raifj Contentions and bdl Ccn^cntides, to call in Queftion the Orders of Superiors. The Name, he gives thofe Opponents, is that of tv:,n:dtuoiis Difturl-crs. 774 -A Specimen vf Amendment * Having theft- things before you, how is ic pollible you could write of that Affair as you have done . p Your next Piece is a very ftrange one. You call it the Proteftation of Mr. Mufh, cne of ibe chief cf the Appellants. You date it Mc.rcb the eighth, 1599. The Ap- peal is dated November 17, 1600. As yet. therefore MvJi:) was no Appellant, but only a Protejler. And what doth he protest againft r The Archprieft's Authoriry ; for that mofr grievous Scandals r.nd Conten- tions had arifen on that Occafion from its fir ft Promulgation : And for that many Priefts affirmed, that Power was not cf the Pope's Inftitution. A notorious Miftake, to fay no more of it. For, Sir, be pleafed to obferve ( you ought to have done it be- fore ) that the Cardinal's fecond Letter, dated November 10, 1598, fays, he was ex- treamly delighted to underftand by Letters of the Archpriefb, of his Affiftants, and not a few other grave Men, the juft Joy, find common Approbation of that Subordina- tion , i-jhich his HoUnefs^ upon rncfl jujl and pious Caufes, had taken care to ba\'e ivfti- tutcd. He adds, that the prompt Obedience of fill good Priefts had alio much rejoiced his Holincfs. But Mr. Mv.fo, it feems, pro- teds, that many Pricfb, u])on the firll Pro- mulgation Candidly Propofed, &c. 175 rnulgation of it, aflerted the contrary to what the Cardinal (ays all good Priefts ao 'knowledged, and joyfully approved. How came you, as indeed you do in your Account of this Affair, to feern much inclined to join with Mr. Mufi againft the Cardinal, Pope, and the common Approbation of all good Priefts ? You ought to have obfcrvcd, thai the Scandals, Mufh fpeaks of, did n-ot proceed from the Authority, buc from the Difobedience of the Oppofers ; and that, as it is certain the Oppofers at iirlt were- few, fo their Pretences were very frivolous. Upon the next Piece you give us, I mint defirc you to remember, you had told us that injurous Characters were fent to Roma of Mr. Bijbop and Mr. Char nock. When therefore you give here the common I Bet- ter of the Cardinals, Cnjeian and Bc/'glefr, in the Caufe of thcfe two Gentlemen, who would not expect thole Cardinals ihouiu fay fomething to clear them, if they had been injured r Yet all, tha: the ] /.ttter fiy--, is only, that liaving hearci and rxamuu\[ the Caufe of thole two J ; riclt. -, v, ho had been confined by tkc Pof-t'i CorM/iand, they judged it b}- no inciin? convenient tor the; Caule of England, that the fud Pri^fls fnould foon return thi:hcr. 'i'lien tlu \ order, under a Precept of Obedience, arid 176 A Specimen of Amendments Pain of Sufpenfion, in the Name of hii Holincfs and their own, that thofe two ihould not return to England without a ipecial Leave, but fhould remain in the mean while quietly and peaceably in fome Catholick Countries prescribed to them. 1 leave you tofhew what you can here find to prove that injurious Characters had been f~nt of them. Thcfe Cardinals were ap- pointed Judges in the Caufe. Equitable r:s they were, they would have laid fomc- rhing as I obferved above, to clear thofe Gentlemen, if they had found them in- jured. And pray tell us, how in the Title of this Piece, you ftile thofe two Appeal- hints. It is dated April, 21, 1599. The Appeal is dated the following Year, No- r j?wl'zr 17 ; nor are their Names among the Appellants. To pals now to the Briefs of Clement the Eighth in the Affair of the Archprieft, you ought to have obferved, that his lio- 'linefs in the firft (as you place it) lays, that Cardinal Crjctan inilituted the Authority and Perfon of the Archprieft by the Com- v??Jf.or, of his Holinefs ; that it was done by mature TlsUi'tralicn* that many joyfully obeyM :', that oniv a few { in the Latin it is /ion- #//-5j; oppofed it, that he did not think ii 1 . the kc.il, that any Dcfcrente was to be had Candidly Propofed, Sec, 177 had to their Appeal, and that they aught to bai'2 obeyed : And in the iecond Bricj\ you ought to have remarked, that altho' tor Peace fake the Pope commands the Archprieil not to treat with the JESUITS about the Government of the Clergy, yet. he adds, that he orders this, Not that w* fafpeft any Jinifter ( Doings) or L-i'il of tbofc Religious, whom we know to be led with a fine ere Zeal of Piety, and to feel- the tbin^ that are of God, bid that we think this con- venient for maintaining Peace and Qjiet in that Kingdom among Catbolicks ; i-jhich thofe i'ame Religious of the So c 1 1-: T v have judged to be true and expedient. How many Mii- rcprefentations might you have avoided, if you would have taken notice of luch Par- ticulars. Remember hereafter, there is no writing a Hiftory with any Credit, unieis luch Pieces are accurately weigh'd and As to your Records of Ordinal-: ;, I will only fay, that if you was refolved ro gi\c t'ne World your own DifTertation on that Subject, you might have printed it feparately... But it had no Title to make ib largo a Part of your Records, or to be any Record ac all. Befides, you mult give me leave to tell you, there are many Defects in your Difil-r.atio:), And as to your I * A Specimen of Amendments U.cc.ords^ \vhat occafion was there for the Reafons why the Council of Trent is not received in France, in Points of Difcipline ? But if you would needs go out of your way to do it, why would you do it fromlb bad an Author as Du Pin ? SECTION XXII, Remarks on your Lives of Mr. 13 j SHOP J * DIGBY, HARRISON, BIRKET^ WATSON, and BLACK WELL. IT v/ould be a great Mifcake in you,, Sir, to think I had no ether Remark;} to add, either on the Records or other Parts of your Work under Queen Eliza- beth's Reign. But finding that even a Speci- men of your Faults lea-is me already to a greater length than I defign'd, I omit many things. And for the fame Reaion, I pa's over many under the Reign of King J Mies the Firft. But what I mall cblerve upon fome of your Lives, in this Part of your Work, will fufficiently open to you an extenfive View of Supplements and A- mendmentSv William Bijhop. (f age 361.) Here, as in fc\e;a! other i^ivis, 1 will lor the lake of Expedition Candidly Propq/i'd, ' &c. ijg Expedition and Brevity quote your Words without any Turn of Introduction, and fubjoin a few Notes upon them " a " Difpute happening between the Archpricft " and federal eminent Mm of the Clergy " 1 have already (hewed you it was not at firft a Difpute, but a Difobedience : Not properly of feveral^ but of fe\v : Not of eminent Men, if you mean it of them in general, but Men of a quite different Sort. For, I prefume, you will not aflert fuch as Watfon and Clark to be your emi- nent Men. And whereas you fpeak as if Mr. Bifbop and Charnock went to Rome in Favour of the Appellants, 1 have fhew'd, that the Appeal was a Year after their Jour- ney to Home " they v:cre taken into Cujloh fo tbe Pfol(8or>s Ordtr." Oil mould have added the Pope's Order. -Having one Key or other got fret fr^n their Confinement. 1 b.ave told you what way. It was with great Refr.ric9.ions ; and I might have ad.bd, it was through F. Pnrfons InterceHion, that greater Severity was not uied ; the Pope bc-jng very ir.uch oilended at them, and looking upon them as turbulent Per fans and ibt Heads cf a fcftieus Party^ even as you cxprefs the Caulb of their 1 180 A Specimen of Amendments I take no notice of the Proteftation of Allegiance iign'd by Mr. Bifhop, for Reafons which you will eafily guefs. But I mull not omit to fhew you how unaccountable a Writer you are when you add, that when the intended Match with Spain feem'd a proper Juncture to fend a Bifhop into England^ then all former Difficulties I'anfocd a-n-ay^ and icerc regarded ratber as domefttck Coni:i/'icnces, tban Matters v:crtby of Confederation. Explain yourfelf, and exprefs your Mind better. For I pre- iumc you would not fay the Pope deferrM fending Bifiiops, and fo long, upon Mat- ters not worthy of Confederation. And if at length he lent a Biihop, and this very Pcrfon, it was when the Age of fevcnty Years, and other Methods of Conduct, had altered the Opinion formerly had oi this Gentleman. What you quote of a Monk faying, that Mr. Bijbop had been unworthily treated by ibofe who were cmdcus-, ihould not have been mention'd by you, till you had reflected, that the Treatment he met with, was from the Protector and the Pope. If after this you would IVill approve of it, one muft needs lay you treat his Holinefs very unworthily. Ercrard Digh. (page 364. ) I only juit raeution this Gentleman to mind you, that Candidly Propojed, &c. 181 that it would have been no more than a common piece of Juftice in you, to have taken notice, that he publickly declared, that the JESUITS, particularly F. Gerard, with whom he was mod intimate, were neither engaged in, nor acquainted with the Gunpowder Plot. William Harrifon, (page 368.) What: do you here mean by faying, he defign'd to make the Clergy Independent , and acid- ing, which they bad new been cither at Doway or on the Mijfion fence Cardinal Allen' j Dzceafi ? It you mean, as all your Readers will generally think from your uiiial ways, independent of the JESUITS; then all wife Readers will think you are under a ftrange Bias. H/y'/, Becaufe if you mean Dependency in their Education, k was what that great Cardinal was fo lar from difapproving, that he highly ap- proved of it. And Secondly^ Sure you think they were, in other refpects, iufficiently independent of the JESUITS from thci time of Clement the Eighth^ Bull in 1602. And this was a dozen Years before Mr. Har- rifon was made Archprieft. 'Thirdly^ You had laid juft before, that he was upon fo good Tcrris with the JESUITS, that be, apprehended no Oppcjl-'.cn frcr>: thai ^--'i'- it-r, Confsquently he chd lice apprehend they 1 8 2 A Specimen of Amendments th:y were for having the Clergy Depen- dent. Fourthly, As to your faying, he r&- fofoed to put in Execution, and ftriffly, the Orders fent from Rome, that the JESUITS Ihould not be advifed with, nor interfere in Matters belonging to the Clergy, it is very plain you can have no Reafon to infinuate^ that his Predeceflbr did not put thole Orders ftridtly in Execution ; but there was great reafon for an impartial Man to obferve (and you do not) that thole Orders were what the JESUI TS thought convenient for Peace fake, and that the Pope did not give them out of any finifterSuipicion of thejnsu i TS, but that he declared the contrary. If you will infmuate any fuch Sufpicion, it will only be a new Proof of your often clafhing with hisllolineis. Infine, as to the Petition, which you tell us was fign'ci by Mr. Harri- fon and his twelve Afiiftants, we (hall con- ficler it when we come to your Records. George Birket. (page 37/-J In due Me- thod (but that is what you often overlook/ this Gentleman Ihould have been placed before Mr. liarrifon^ who was his Succef- for. The Words you here quote of St. Ber- nard of being fixt fo to one Order, as to be unit til ivitb ail by Charity ^ well deferve your ierious Meditation. And then you will very prob.iblv think, that among the Letters of Mr Candidly Propofed, &c. 185 Mr. Birket in your Records, you ought to have given a Place to that, wherein he fpeaks with the higheft Commendation of F. Cam- pi an, F. Parians i and of the Soci E T Y. As you may ice, when you amend your Work, which wants it to very much, in Bar tolt\ /. 4. cap. 8. William IVatfon. (page 379.) In fpeaking. of his asking Pardon of the JESUITS at his Death, you lay it was for the Books he had publifh'd againft them, in relation to their Encroachments upon the Rights of the Clergy. You often feem to be very much haunted with that Man's railing upon fancied En- croachments of the JESUITS. In your Book of their Secret Policy^ you did it almoft as wildly as Wat fin himfelf. The Fit returns upon you often in this prefent Work, tho* ibmething more moderately. Here indeed you own, // was very jit /;?/ Watfon_/Zw#/:/ make a Dif claim of thai Po.JJion, and federal groundlefs Afperfions uttered upon that Occa- fan. This is the lead you could fay of his Writings ; and the leair, you can fay ol your own, is to difclaim feveral groundiels Afperfions you have alib utter'd againft the JESUITS. Nor is it enough, that with regard to Waifon you here add, there is no reefer, to think) what the Jiimj Hiftorians 184 -A Specimen of Amendments Mr, Watlbn in this Plot of Sir Walter Raleigh'^, purpofely to get rid of a t rouble - fome Adverfary, and pay bim borne for tbe many Affronts be bad offered them. You ought to have allb obferved, that nothing can be more urijuft, and even ridiculous, than fuch a Fancy of fome Proteftant Writers. You ought to have added a clearer Diteitation of it ; as well as of Watfotf's Writings, which every one of common Equity, and common Senfe mull needs abhor. What I fay of his Writings I mean par- ticularly of his Quodlibets. For it is the only one I have read through. It is fuch a piece of Spleen, join'd with fo muchDulnefs, as can fcarce be equalled. The chiei Flowers of his Eloquence are to call the JESUITS, not mere Knaves, but Atbeijlical^ Diabolical, otc. They are his Elegancies \\\ almoft every Leaf. Yet have I feen this Book, wretched as it is, quoted againft the JESUITS, as of Moment again!! them, becaufe written by a Clergyman, and he ioin'd with others. It would indeed be very aftoniming, that others fhould join with him, if it could be thought they ap- proved his Writings. You are fenfible he prejudiced their Caufe by his Pafilon. In- itu.id glTafnon, you inigh; well luve faiti, Candidly Propcfed, Sec. 185 his Rage. For one, who had b>2en an Enemy to the JESUITS, but was after- wards reclaim'd, confefTed in three of his Letters (which we dill have, fays Rartoli, lib. 5. cap. 1 6.) that Watfon\ Book had in- duced him to betray a Catholick Prieft into the Hands of the Government, and that Watfon himfelf not only commended him for it, but alfo told him, it was very lawful (inch was his Cafuiftry} to betray all that favour'd the JESU i T s , and that the Death of three excellent Priefts, tfichburn, Page, and pyatkinfoiti who were executed for their Religion, was attributed to that unhappy Man : Of whom I would not have fpoken thus, but as it is requifite to prevent the Imprefiions fome might take from his Writings, unlefs they were forewarn'd how little he is to be heeded. George Black-ivdl. (page 380.^ You call him a Creature of the JESUITS. So Wat- fon had called him before you. It teems, in your Stile, every Clergyman that loved and eilcem'd them, Hands fair to be called their Creature. For there is no manner of reaibn to call Mr. Black-ivell lo, but what may equally fix that Title upon Mr. Sherivin, Allen, Stapleton, &c. You own that F.Par- fons for fome time encouraged the Clergy hi t86 A Specimen of Amendments He always encouraged them in what he thought was right. Yet afterwards cer- tain Reafons prevailed ivitb him to carry on tbs Project of an Arcbpriefl. Confidering your Stile, it is to be fear'd, that certain Reafons here means Encroachments, and Politicks. Such Imaginations feem to haunt you. But the true Reafons were from his SubmifTion to the Pope. And this ought to have made others obey. The chief of the Body of the Clergy complained mightily that they were impcfed upon, being never ad- vifed with, much lefs confcnling, Firft, It has been already fhew'd, they v, ere but few, and not the chief of that Body. Secondly, It was by the Pope's Order. Muft either you, or they call his Ordination an I?Kpojj- tion . ? Efpecially fmce his Holinefs often declared in the moft folemn Manner, that he did it upon mature Deliberation. Thirdly t Could they, or can you, with any Decency, complain of fuch Orders becaufe fuch and fuch particular Perfons were not advifed with ? Muft they prefer ibe to the Pope the Perfons he muft confuk ? Or mult the Su- preme Paftor cxpcdt the Confent of every uncafy Man ? But thefe things have been already confidcr'd, and I am forry you force me, to repeat them again, at leaf! in fliort. Jn Concli'fwn he took the Oath, and fever al, Candidly Propofed, &c. 187 fevered, loth Clergy, Regulars, and Lay men followed his Example, You fhould have added, but not of the JESUITS. They were again (I it from the very firfr, and the Pope confirm'd their Opinion. SECTION XXIII. On your Lives of Mr. CHAMBERS* CLEMENT, NEWMAN, and WORTHINGTON. JPOBER? Chambers, (page 381.; The Confequence of the Vifit, wherein this Gentleman was join'd with Dr. Clement, in 1612, was redeeming the Clergy from fever al great Oppreffions they had lain under for federal Tears. What were thefe great Op- prefllons ? Tell us, and as far as we fee Caufe, we will grieve for the Oppreffed, and rejoice at their Relief. You tell us in the Life of Dr. Clement fome of them. And there we will conficler the Caie. In the mean while, be pleafed to reflect, that to make People great Opprejjors of the Clergy, and for federal Tears, is a hard Cenfure. A good and moderate Man might have fiid that the Clergy were, by that Vifit, put J.'ito a new Method in fome things, which was 1 8 8 A Specimen cf Amendments was thought more convenient, all new Cir- cumftances confider'd. But a good Hifto- rian would not have called the former Me- thods by the Name of Oppreffions. For by whom,infine, were thcfe things, which you. call Oppreffions. brought in ? By the Pope, by the Protector, the Clergy themfelves ; partly as proper, partly as nectfiary in thofe Times ; as you will now fee. Ctffar Clement, (pc.ge 388.^ No one doubts of his being an able Man. But who can forbear fmiling to hear you make fucli a myfterious Piece, flich a ftretch of Poli- ticks, as you do, of his managing theVifit of DoWiiy College? Alas! Sir, there was no need of Politicks in the Affair. What you call playing the Clergy's Game artfully^ and fanning his thread of Politicks fo fine y is quice out of die Cafe ; and fcarce any one but you would have found place for them here. Such out of the way Fancies are a lamentable Weaknefs. For your Recovery in the prefent Cale, let us confider your Expreffions here, more particularly, the* in iliort. : the College being under tJ: : s 'DlrcLlion, federal Alterations r ^ere mc.de I'ery -prejudi- cial to tbt Clergy. The Direction here fpoken of was the Prefidentlhip of Dr./F" thofe y ii'ho oppofed Mr. Newman, fought more their own Convenience than the Goal of the common Caul's. One mult be very How in believing, that a charitable Founder would judge ib uncharitably or thole, who had been ib long remarkably zealous for the common Caufe, in the Opinion of Popes, Proteclors, and the moll eminent of the Clergy. 'Thomas Worthing! on, I /tf.gv 391. ) In the former Life you repeated, and much K. ^ J. ,' Effefh of Refenhnent) hit of Zi<;.', Ii. vvill be impofilble to reconcile all this v/iih v. h.a: you have faid of him at other rimes. N,;v it cannot be reconciled with what you lay of him here, that bis Attempts upon ibc /./ I'ertics of tbi Clergy, Icib in .be Coli(^s (md upon tbc. Miffion, appear to me at', undeniable 1- all) co^f.nnd by all the Record* K 2 1 i'98 si Specimen of Amendment^ I can meet ivith^ as ^ell as by the natural, IJJue of bis Politicks. I will not pretend to underftand what you mean by the natural Iffue of his Poli- ticks. But I am fu re, the I flue or Err efts of his Zeal for the Clergy was fuch, that no- Man ever did them more good. I am far- ther lure, and have proved this too already, that the beft Records fnew, that he was very far from Attempts upon their Liberty. You feem to aim at reconciling his Zeal, and Piety with what you call his Attempts upon the Liberty of the Clergy, by faying, The very left of Men have, in all Ages ^ been r.ccuftonfd to oppofe one another inhere per- fonal and domeftick Inter eft li-as concerned. But you mould reflect they did not, they could not confidently, with being the beft of Men, oppofe one another by a Series of enfnaring Contrivances, falle and in- jurious Characters, deceiving of Popes, mifreprefenting Matters out of private In- terefl, contrary to publick Good, &c. Yet this is what you muft mean by F. Parfons Attempts, if you mean them with reference to the Affairs you fpeak of in other Places. You faid alio, a little before, / take the Liberty to !a:< him \':ith i-:lat lias b:i;na,i Injury to a gre Candidly Propofed, &c. 190 many ivortby Miffioners, vibe have an equal Right to a clear Character. You do indeed take a great Liberty to tax him. And tho* no Body pretends to make F. Parfons ex- empt from ail human Failures, as you pretend they do, yet I affirm, and with great Truth and Juftice, and have already proved, and Hull do it flill farther, that your Complaints of him are very ground- lefs. Take, for inftance, what he did in the Affair of Mr. Bifoop and Mr. Charnock. It is plain F. Parfons cannot be jullly taxed, without taxing the Protector and the Pop:--, under whole Orders arid Lyes he acted. And if you had been pleated to place ;a your Records, as it wdl deicrved ir, the Letter he dictated a little before his D_ath to Mr. Lirket, your Reader would have there feen him proteiling in a moil edifying Manner, and when he now w.i; in fo near a View ot the Judgment oi Go ;; , that c ' he lends that Letter in Tcftimon) 44 of that Charity and perfecc Love, wnu c which he embraces, and ij.d co>: Us >:'>} ; ' embraced them all in Chriit j'ES L ."' . " That he leaves the \Vorlcl v/ich tiie. '' fame Djfue of ihcir Love, Peace am:. Ci Union among themielves, an;i 01 their " pertect Correfpondence with ali tiioie ol " the SOCIETY, which he ahvays /'v: " in his Life time. And cha: there never K 4 ' was 20 o A Specimen of Amendments " was to his Knowledge, either in him- " felf or any other JESUIT, any Defire " of Superiority, either over the Arch- " prieil, or any of the Clergy, but that " they all aimed at a perfect Correfpon- " dence. " Thefe were his Sentiments; And upon them I wifh you would ask yourfelf the two or three following Que- ll ions. Have I not own'd him to be a very virtuous Man ? Could a pious Man, or any one but a Reprobate, die with fuch Protections in his Mouth, if he had for a long Series of Years been attempting upon the Liberties of the Clergy ? Purfue fuch Queftions, Sir, in your pri- vate Thoughts, and to do farther Juft ice to 'i;is great and holy Man, this cheif Friend and Coadjutor of Cardinal Allen, confult hart oil and others, and fee what Additions, what Amendments are wanting to your Vv'ork, with regard to him. Behold him particularly calling in his laft Moments for the Cords, with which his dear Friend r . Campian had been itretch'd upon the Rack, killing them with Reverence, putting them about his Neck, and breaking out into iuch pious Words, us made nil around him burft into a torrent of Tears. Behold him expiring in the moil holy Sentiments. Behold him, inline, buried in the fame Church near Cardinal Allen \ Providence thus ordering Candidly Propofcd, &c. 20 r it, that as in Lite they were united in Love, and in their mutual Endeavours for the Caufe of GOD, fothey fhould not be fepa- rated after D.ath. And then imagine you hear St. Aitftin faying to you : Ijlos aj'picc^ 'ijlos enibefce, ijlis parce a -i-el tibi potil:s, ne Reef or & Habitator illorum tibi for it; non far cat. Contra Jul. Pel. 1. i. c. 2. Look on them, blufh when you behold them, fpare them, or rather fpare yourfelf, left perhaps he that ruled them, and dwelt in. them, mould not fpare you. L T pon fpeaking of F. Par fens as the chief Coadjutor of Cardinal Allen ^ I can- ;vot but fubioin the very Words of thaC great Cardinal, from which I took that ExprefTion. In a Letter to Dr. Ba:i\ y thus he fpeaks : " My Promotion is vtrv " acceptable to you , but by hoW much < the more you rejoice at this out of Kind- " nefs to me, by Ib much the more all\o:-^ *' to whom I am fo dear, arc obliged bi, '-'- a new Ty- ot Loiis and Gralilad: to " the \':bolc SOCIETY, and namely to AS Fit^rbert. (pag has been necefiary to obierve to you, that a great Defect of your prefent Work is, to have omitted fuch In fiances, and par- t.culir lixarnples of Sanctity, as are tiie properefl Bufmefs of a Church-Hiftorian, Mow defective you have been on that ac- count in the Life of this holy Man, you ilu.il loon find. But before I Aiggeft a Sup- plemer; Candidly Propofed, &c. 203 plemcnt of what you have not faid of him, I mud (hew how ftrangely you fpeak in what you lay of him. I will quote fome of your Kxp re (lions, and fubjoin, a lew Remarks. 1'be Clergy had dif cover 1 d^ that Mr. Fitz- herbert bad conftanily confulted F. Paribns an. I vritten, have nothins; or ^ O the myfterious kind you fpeak of. In the mean while, you muft be warn'd again, that you write as ii your Cafe was very like than. of Perfons under a clifmal panick Fright. To them a Shadow or a Shrub in the Dusk of the Evening, and a glimmering Moon- light, is moil certainly a Giant or a Spirit. To you, with a Head lull ol ftranee No- J O tions of Defigns, Contrivances, and my- fterious Steps of the JESUITS and their Friends, every thing is a Plot. And if a good Man becomes a J ESI; IT, you cry, he pulled off the Mask, and imagine he h.id been lor nuny Years myfterioufiy in - 20 6 A Specimen of Amendments triguing againft the Clergy. Thcfe ground - lefs Terrors give your Hiftory a ftrangc wild air. Give me leave farther to ask, what you would think of one, that fhould Ipeak of Dr. Clement, as you do of Mr. Fitzherbert. Stippofe I fhould fay (which I am very far from either faying or thinking) that the Doctor was difcover'd to have been playing artfully the Clergy's Game, and having, by fpinning a fine Thread or Politicks, and by myflerious Steps, made the JESUITS neglect their Intereft, he a: length flung off the Mask, &c. I prefume you here re- member your own v/ays of fpeaking. But fay, what would you think of one, that ihould Ipeak fo in the Cafe or Dr. Clement ? And to make you more fenfible how un- accountably you fp;ak in the Cafe of Mr. Fitz-hsrbtrt^ be pleafed to reflect, that he was, after he became a JESUI T, made Rector of the Engliflj Seminary, and go- vern'd it with great Satisfaction of all for near two and twenty Years. If he had been fuch a Man as you reprefent him, that is, one who by underhand Correspondence, and fuch Dealings as wanted a Mask, had been ir.juring the Clergy for many Years, would the JESU i TS have been fo unwife as tu :nake him Rector of a Seminar v of the Candidly Propofed, &c. 207 fame Clergy ? Could he have govern'd it with fo great Satisfaction, for fo many Years ? Upon flinging off the Mask he muft have appear'd (if there had been any Truth in what you infmuate) too odious a Man to have been chofen Rector, or have govern'd that Seminary fo long with fuch general Approbation of Popes, Protectors, and Subjects. But the Truth of the Matter is, he was quite a dirFerent Man from what you re- preient him, as to any unworthy Politick Tricks j both in his Nature, and in his Writings (as appears in his excellent Books of Policy and Religion] he cleteited them. And tho' he was remarkably prudent, yet was he no lefs remarkably candid ; even ib far as to be can -lid rather to an F.xcefs. In a \Vord, iuch v, r as his Sanctity, that it will certainly be aftoniihing to find you could characterize, in the way you do, a Perfbn, whom all good Men admire. And how can they chute but admire him, while the Favours ha received from GOD were fo imguhr, as will now appear by mentioning u few Particulars. From his tender Years GOD infpired him with a great Devotion to our waft Blfjfed Lady. This increaied with his Age, Hence., when iurcc twenty Years old, he made. 2o8 A Specimen of Amendments m.idc a Vow of daily reciting her Office. He afterwards added other Obligations in her Honour ; as of fading on all Vigils of her Feafts, and even abdaining on thole Days from Eggs, Fifh, and all Whitemeats,, reciting her Beads every Day, and twice on Saturdays, and faying the whole Rofary, and going to Confellion and Communion on her Feads. After the Death of his Lady, he made a general Confeffion to one of the SOCIETY, and on the Feaft of the Annunciation, in 1588, he vowed Chaflity in Honour of the moft BleiTed Virgin, and in 1601, on the Feaft of her Nativity, he moreover made a Vow of entering into Pried's Orders, that he might more entirely confecrate himfelf to the. Service of GOD and his BlefTed Mother. .Accordingly he was made Fried at Rome. the following Year, on the Vigil, and lung his fird Mafs on the Feaft of her Annuncia- tion. Pie moreover made a Vow of daily reciting the Office of the Holy Ghoft* and other Prayers in Flonour of the mod $ Idled TR \ N i T Y, and of his particular Patrons. In 1606, on the F'ead of the Ajjuwption he made a Vow of living and dying in the SOCIETY of JESUS, and was admitted into it on the Fead of her A'^YvV/v. Thui his Devotion to ourBlcfla! Candidly Propofed, &c. 20 q Lady appeared in his chufing her Felt iva! Days for the greateit Actions of his Lite, Ib to have his holieft Refolutions confirrnM by her Interceflion. And by this he con- tinued in the SOCIETY till his Death, with a general Opinion of being a Man of very eminent Perfection. GOD began to lead him to Sanctity by very early Steps. He was fcarce fix Years old when he received fuch a particular Light of Faith, that he would frequently look up to Heaven, contemplating with great Admiration, the Attributes of GOD, and particularly his Eternity. About ten Years of Asre he was much addicted to O Alms-giving, often hiding his Meat to give it to the Poor ; and his Fails at that Age were fometimes indifcrect, not having as yet any fpiritual Director. About twelve Years of As;e he heard feveral things of the O O JESUITS and their Inilitute, and began rrom that time to have a great E(teem of them, and a Love lor fuch as were well affected to them, and at the fame time he conceived an ardent Detire of Martyrdom. Among the feveral mod affectionate Sen- liments, which GOD raited in his Heart from his tender Years, remarkable were i hole he had upon the Suggeftion, which his pious Mother g.ve him about preparing 2io A Specimen of Amendments for his firft Communion. Pic was then icarce pail t^n Years of Age, when going into the Fields and there thinking of the Greatnefs of that Myftcry, and begging of GOD to prepare him for it, he burft out into vehement Tears of Devotion. Suck Sentiments were frequent in him all his Life. And, to omit other Particulars of that Nature, when he was in Spain, it pleafed GOD to imprint in his Mind fuch a clear Representation of C II R I S ? cruci- fied, that it was continually in his Thoughts in a very lively manner, without Inter- mifTicn for feveral Days. At another time, reading the Life of St. Benediff written by St. Gregory the Great, lie was diffolved in Tears, and pad the greateft part of the Night in admirable fpiritual Comfort and Sweetnefs of Devotion. The like heavenly Vifitations were much rr; ore irtquent and copious after his entering L:o the SOCIETY. Among many fuc'n, when on the Night of our BleiTed Saviour'^; Nativity he was communicating the Scmi- r,.irifrs r.t Rtnie^ fuch a Torrent of Tears burft from him, that he was not able to go on in giving the Communion, or to iir.g the remaining part of the High- Mafs, and could icarce finiili the Prayers in a low Voice. This pious Vehemence or affectionate Candidly Propofed, &c. 2 1 1 affectionate Devotion continued for two or three Days together, tho' he was much grieved, that fuch Favours fhoukl happen to him inPublick. In this Tenour of Sanctity he continued to the Age of eighty feven, when he died in a moft pious manner, an- iwerable to fuch a holy Life. Let me now ask you, Sir, whether iuch a Man deferved to be reprefented in the way you have done it ? You fay in- deed (and in repeating it, I would willingly make the beft of it) that you (peak fo, not -with any Dejtgn of defraying from tbt Merit of that worthy Per fan, or that he t'.cttd contrary to the Suggestions of a good Confidence. Alas! I fear you \vill not be able to make any thing of this but a plain Self-contradiction. It is, at beft, telling your Reader, that he mud not mind what you had been faying. You had been re- prcfenting him as playing an unworthy Part, inlinuating, that he betrny'd the Trull he ow'd to the Clergy while he was Agent for them, that he violated the Pope's cxprefs Orders, and that it was not till alter many Years that he pulled off the Mask. And then to fay, you would not detract from bis Merit, mud be; either taken for a Self-contradiction, or it muft add to the indignation of thoil% who are acquainted with 212 A Specimen of Amendmercts with the Merit of this great and holy Man, while <"hey ice you treat him fo unworthily. SECTION XXVI. On your Lives of F. O L D c o R N , Br. OWEN, and F. GERARD. J7D WA R D Oldcorn. (page. 415. ) I will the rather Tugged to you a pro- per Supplement to yourvery fhort Account of this holy Man, becaufe it will give you ;;n opportunity to fpeak of St. Winefrede in a manner, that may help you to make fome amend'; for your faying nothing of her in the Abridgment of the Church*- t^j Hiilury o! Eaglimd down to Henry the Eighth. F. Gulc'jrn (other wife often called Hall'] l..id lived fixteen Years at Henlip a Sear oi the Ablngdon Family. There he was i-'-i/'d, arid being carried to London , was tortured five Times, and once for five Hours together with great Barbarity. The l/.me Courage, with which he bore the Torture, he fhew'd at his Death. His Servant Ra J {>b /Ifiley ( not Oiven as you Gill him } v/as executed juft after him. und died with the like Piety and Cou Candidly Propofed, &c. 2 1 ? rage, imitating the Example of his holy Mailer, who after a Profefilon of his Faith, and of his Innocence from the Treafon laid to his Charge, recommended himfelf to GOD, to the moft Bkjjcd Virgin^ to St. Hierow-i and St. Winefrede^ and was executed in the forty fifth Year of his Age, April 7, 1606. After which from the Place where his Heart and Bowels were burnt ; there arofe a lively flaming Fire for fixteen Days together, never extinguifh'd either by the Confumption of the Matter near it, or by the heavy Rains that fell during that Time. Even Proteftants own'd it to be fupernatural, and Catholicks judged it to be a providential Mark of the Father's Merits during the fixteen Years of his Million in thole Parts. To the great Labours of his Apoflo- lical Functions all round li^orcejler, he added great Aufterities of Difciplines, Hair-fhirts, Watching and Fatting, which he continued fome times for three Days to- gether. Thefe Aufterities and Labours, befides his great Application to Study, im- paired his Health fo far, that a Vein break- ing in his Breaft, he had like to have died by the lofs of Blood. Nor did he re- cover it fo well, but that every Year, about the fame time, he was feked with fuch 214 A Spec men of Amendments fuch a Weaknefs as to be fcarce able to {land -, and the Palate of his Mouth was fo far canker'd that it was not naturally curable without fuch an Operation as he fear'd would fo affect his Speech as to make him unfit to preach, in which GOD had given him a fingular Talent and Ef- ficacy. He refolved therefore to have recourfc to his Patronefs St. Winefrsde^ and ro make a Pilgrimage to her Well. In his Journey thither, he lodged at a Houfe where there was a Stone, that had been brought from St. Winefrede* Well. After he had faid Mafs, he took the Stone, and kneeling down, he nut it in his Mouth with great Reverence, begging the Saint's Interceition ; and in half an Hour's time found himfeli perfectly cured of the cancerous Ulcer in his Mouth. Fie continued his Pilgrimage to give thanks to GOD, and found himfeli fo recover'd of his Weaknefs, that he re- turn'd home as ftrong as he had formerly been. Thus was GOD pleafed to honour St. Wintfrede, and reward the Father's De- votion to that great Saint. John O-iven. You have but juft men- tioned this holy Man, and that too under a Miftake. Yet fuch was his Virtue, that one might have expected, from the proper nature Candidly Propofed, Sec. 215 nature of your Work, a larger Account of him. Especially as it is very fitting, in a Church-Hiftory, to take Notice of edify- ing Examples not only in Priefts, and other Perfons of a liberal Education, but alfo of Peribns, who, in a lower State of Life, were eminent for their Virtues. The Force of divine Grace mines particularly confpicu- ous in fuch Examples. Great was this holy Man in this kind,, tho' for the remarkable Smallnefs of his Stature, he was commonly called little John. He had ferved F. Garnet for eighteen Years or more, with admirable Afliduity, A great Number of MifTioners owed their Preservation, and confequently a Share of their Apoftolical Works, to the wonderful Ingenuity of Br. Owen in contriving, and making Hiding-places for them. He work'd at making fuch Places with great Labour, O CJ * but with equal Joy, while he was thus contributing to the fpiritual Help of Souls. And as he looked upon fuch Works as (acred to the Service of GOD, he never undertook any of them without nrfl going to holy Communion, and in working at: them he was continually raifing his Mind to GOD. I called him Brother Oiven, becaufe, as BartoH obferves, he was conftantly look/d upon 2 1 6 A Specimen of 'Amendment 3 upon according to the beft Accounts of thofe Times, as being a Lay-brother of the SOCIETY, many Years before his Death. And his Virtues Ihewed not only the religious Man, but the perfect one in his State. To long Prayers by Night and Day, and to his hard Labours, he added great and voluntary Aufterities, a moil punctual Obedience, and an heroical Pati- ence. Great allb were his other Virtues ; and the Perfon, to whom he gave a full ac- count of his Life from his Youth, tefti- fied that he ever preferved a moft un- blemifh'd Purity , which was particularly owing to the Love of Solitude and Re- collection, and a moft exact Guard of his Senfes. The Minifbry rejoiced very particularly at the News of his being feized, hoping to make him difccver the .Hiding-places he had contrived for Priefts. To this effect, they tortured him fix different Days, and on one of them for feven Hours together. At length, upon their increafing their Cruelty, he expired upon the Rack. To conceal the odious Barbarity, they publifh'd a more barbarous Report, that he had murder'd himfelf. But feveral Peribns well inform'd of the Truth, gave publick Teftimony of his invincible Courage, and thai 'Candidly Propofcd, &c. 217 that he not only died on the Rack, but during the whole time, never ufed any other Words but of iingular Piety, and moft frequently theie : O Lord Jefus give me your Grace, and with my Torments en- creafe my Patience. Even the Keeper of the Prifon, and thofe, who were employ'd in torturing him, own'd that he died on the Rack, and that never any one died with, greater Generofity, or fhew'd a more Chri- ilian Spirit in ib great Torments. How well, Sir, did .ib great an Example defer ve to be remember'd ? John Gerard, (page 419.) Nor is it lefs ilrange you have been fo dry and fhort on the Life of this great and holy Man. Ear- toli (and you can hardly find a better Judge of fuch Matters) fpeaks of him as one Ib excellent in Virtue and fo admirable, especially in leading others alfo to Perfec- tion, that he fcarce had an Equal. The unfortunate Walfai told Mr. Atkinfon (from whom Mr. Rlackwill had it in a Letter) chat the Afperfions he had caft upon F. Ge- rard, he not only knew to be ialfe, but that they were not at all likely of fuch a Man i and that he had caft them upon him in hatred, and as it were in Punifhment of his being a JESUIT. On the other hand f- there 2i8 A Specimen of Amendments there is no need, I am fure, of any parti- cular Love for the SOCIETY to engage any one, that writes a Church-Hiftory of England, to fpeak of F. Gerard at large, and with fingular Commendation. Lee thefe few Particulars ferve you for a Speci- men. Upon refufing to go to the Proteftant Church, he left Oxford, and three Years after obtain'd Leave to go to France. He fix'd at Rhsims, not in the Seminary, but in private Lodgings. This was a Diiadvan- tage to him in point of Studies, but he improved it to his Advancement in Spirit, by fpending a great part of his time in reading the Works of St. Bernard and St. Bonai'enture, thofe two great Matters ot Perfection. While he was thus employ'd, It fo pleafed GOD, that he became ac- quainted with a pious young Man, who had been for ibme while a Novice in the SOCIETY, but was fcnt back to his na- tive Air for the Recovery of his Health. From converfing with this young Man, F. Gerard conceived a great Defire of en- tering into the SOCIETY, and learnt the Method of mental Prayer, in which they both fpent daily feveral Hours. After having continued thus for three Years at Rbeims, Candidly Propofcd, &c. 219 Rbeims, he went to Paris, there to meet F. Parfons, by whofe means he hoped to obtain the Happinefs of being admitted into the SOCIETY. But F.Parfons ad- vifed him to return firft into England to fettle his Concerns there, that they might be no Hindcrancc to him afterwards. Slaving accordingly let tied them in about a Year\, time, he went to Rome, where having llu- died Conn-overly and moral Divinity in. the Englijtj College, he was ordain'd Prieil, .and on the Ajjumption of our Blefled JLady in 1588, was admitted into the SOCIETY. Being fent into the Million, it was with great Difficulty, and not without remarka- ble Inilances of divine Protection, that he came to London *, and afterwards through the whole Courfc of his Miflion in feveral Parts of England, fcarce any Man was evei more beloved and rcfpe6led, or proved more efBcacious in bringing great Numbers, not only to the ivi:c F.urh, but to Perfec- tion , and many or them of considerable Families. Kven while in Prilbn, lie gain'd feveral Souls to GOD ; who, alter his three Years Impriibnment, was plealed to exer- iie his Patience farther. I know not how ou came to fay, be ii\is tortured, as it r.> ild. It is very certain he was racked with 1 / -> great c 22O A Specimen of Amendments great Cruelty. The firft time for five Hours, fo barbaroufly, that he fainted away eight or nine times through the Vio- lence of the Pain. They renew'd the Cruelty the next Day to fuch a Degree, that when they took him down, feveral prefent thought he was dead. And yet when he was fomething recover'd, they put him again on the Rack the fame Day, till a farther Apprehenfion of his dying made the Governor order him to be taken down. After he had bore it all with moft herokk Courage and Patience, of the fix Months, he continued in Prilbn, he fpenn one in the fpiritual Exercifes of St. Ignatius ', and the reft in frequent and long Prayers, both by Day and Night, in frequent and fevere Difciplines, a continual Hair-fhirt, and other voluntary Aufterities. In a Word, the whole remaining Courfe of his Life gain'd him the Opinion of eminent San&ity. SE C- Candidly Propojed, 6cc. 22-1 SECTION XXVII. Of Mr. B E N N E T, II U N T 3 tlfld BROW N. HITHERTO I have fhcw'ci how faulty your Work is, partly i;i wrong Expreflions, and partly in wrong Omifiions in the Lives or the JESUITS you have memion'd. Betides a great many more Initances \vhich might Lx- given of llich as are fpoken uf by you, I could add a great many or the Soci E T v, of whom you have laid nothing at aJl, tho' they deferved it as well as moil or' die Perfons you mention. But flnce I hairen to the End of my prefent Work, I mall con- tent myfelf with giving you a few Inilanc?s in the three Perfons named in the Title ol this Ariick, John Benwt. Since you fpeak of tsvo others both named John Eennc:, hoxv car-v.: you to omit their Namelake, of whom I ant going to Ipeak ? He was born in I'lunfhir-:. Tho' he was no great Scholar (which is mention'd upon Account of what follows ) yet he was eminent for other Gifts he had iirum GOD, particularly of a moil admirv L > b!e 222 A Specimen of Amendments ble Meeknefs, Affability, Devotion, and ;>ngelical Modcfty. Thefe Qualities were the more conspicuous in him as being a very beautiful Man, of a Temper never difcom- pofed by any Occurences of Life, of a great and generous Courage, joined with fingular Sweetnefs and Humility. By thefe happy Difpofitions he made a great number of Converts in Worcefterfhin^ till he was im- prifon'd in Flint Cattle. While there the Bilhop of St. Afaph difcourfed with him upon Religion, Cbrijfo Promife of afllfting his Difciples, on fuch Occafions, appear'd remarkably verified in F. Ben-net, who con- futed the Bifhop with fuch a ftrength of Arguments and Anfwers, as was far above his natural Capacity and Learning. When he was brought to his Tryal, and bid to hold up his Hand, he did it with undaunted Couraee, faying; with great Relb- o j y o o lution, but, with equal Sweetnefs, here it ;s in I'eftimony to Jt'-ics end Gentiles. Bcir>< lent back to Prifon, he was tortured ior nine Hours together, which he bore with- out a Groan, or Complaint, or the leall Difcompofure in his Anlwers. Ten Days ..iter, fcarce yet r,b!c to ftir, and in con- nnuni and great Pain by liis former Torture, he \vas- thrCvitncv.1 acain with th.e Kack.. When Candidly Propofed t 5cc. 22.^ When the Officer told him he had Orders from Court to do it, if he continued obil;- nate, and I, faid the holy Man, havf: Orders from the Lord of the Court, rind oi th/ Univerfe, not to fear thofe, uho can kill the Body only, and not the Soul, b-ut to fear only him that can call both Body and Soul into Hell. And the next Day he was racked more cruelly than bclore, b \uinc_, it with unfnaken Courage; ?.nd bc-):i: carried back to Prifon, he was fenc not lonp ; after to I^nda: , and f;om thence into B.i - niihment. When he came t.o /iir. ; ;;;j. tho' ib fu'l of Merit, yet luch was his Mumility tiu.'. he thought Iiimielf unworthy to hop;-., that the General of the Soci ET v \vou!J admit him, without tlvj Inrerceilicn 01 others, and particularly of Dr. B<;r>rt, who was now Prefident under Dr.. Allu:. ] le cntcr'd into the Xovicefnip at Vtrdiw^ tii^ fixth of Scpicml','-,', I-7S6. Being fix and thirty Years old. lie lived thirty ninr Year; after, and of thcfe ipent thirty fix in the- Million again, labouring with ail the Vigour ot a young Man, till the (evenly Iccond Year of his Age, when he ciicd on the Nfili-j;!\ of our Bleu'ed I/idy, in io great. and general an Opinion of Sanctity, that L 4 it 224 -^ Specimen of Amendments it may be well hoped you will give him a, place in the Amendments and Supplements of your Work, which at prefent it wants extreamly. '^Thomas Hunt. Here again, fince you Jpeak of three others of the Name of Hunt, it is ftrange you fay nothing of this excel- - lent Millioner. He was born in Rutland- fljire. Twenty Years of his Life, in the SOCIETY, were fpent in Germany^ when being lent into the Miffion here, he fpread the fame Odour of Sanctity as he had done abroad. He was a Man of ancient Sim- plicity, and ever retain'd the Candour of infancy. From his tender Years he imbibed Sentiments offo great Piety and Goodncfs, that when a very young Boy, he fpent a great part of the Night in Prayer for his Father whom he had feen in a Paffion, and fearing he fhould die in Anger, he roie up, and going to his Father, begged he would be appeafed, that thus, laid the little Child, both you and I may fleep with a quiet Mind. As he grew up he increafed in Virtue, fhiil retaining, as I laid, all rhe amiable Candour of a Child. When any one cor.fukcd him about worldly AiFairs, he own'd his Ignorance in iuch Matters, iiddinir, they were nor tbi table to his ftats or Candidly Propqftd, &c. 22_j oF Life. Great was his Induftry in bring- ing in pious Difcourfes, particularly from the Saints Lives. One of his frequent Maxims was, that conftant Order and a fixt Diftribution of Time for all Actions of the Day, was an Imitation of a happy unchangeable Life in Heaven. Another was, that all Affections become fweet when cor.fider'd as fanctiiied, and as k were tinged, with the Blood of Cbrijl. A Life regu- lated by fuch Maxims gain'd him a greater Authority than is to be had from the molt eminent natural Talents. And it was in EfTe.t, not Eloquence but Sanctity, that: gave a wonderful Force to his Words, even in Cafes where prudent and eloquent Ad- vice is feldom heard. Thus, when he law People in angry Quarrels, he would fail upon his Knees and beg them to be ap peafid, with fuch a candid Simplicity, and yet fuch an authoritive Goodnels, as icarce any could refift. Sentiments of Humility and a moil tender Devotion were particularly confpicuous in him to his Lift; Moments, wherein his Behaviour highly confirm'd the Opinion of Sanclity he had univerfally gain'd by the whole Tenor of his Life. He had often foretold, that as he was born, fo lie mould die 01 a Sunday. It I- 5 happ-n'd 226 A Specimen of Amendments happen'd accordingly, when with admi'- rable Sweetneis he expired on February 10, 1602. Wnlic.m Brown. He was Uncle, Brother, and Nephew to Perlbns of no lefs Quality than the Viicount Mount agues. But he was ftill more nobie by his Virtues. He pre- ferved his Baptlfmal Innocence free from any Mortal Sin. Being moved with a pi- ous Defign of going, to our Blefled Lady's Chapel at Lor si to, he called in his way at the Seminary of St. O;;;rr*s. The Fathers there perfuadcd him to (lay a Day or two, that he might receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. Immediately after being confirm'd, he was infpired with a Rcfolu- tion to make the fpiritual Exercifes of St. Ignatius. In them he took a Refolution of entering into a Religious State. But un- tietermin^d as to a particular Order, he returned into England^ and having fettled his temporal Concerns came back to St. O- wfr's, and refolved to become a Lay- brother m the SOCIETY. In that humble State he tlaily advanced in Virtue, and feem*d to have entirely forgot the Nobility of his Birth, being always moft tenderly addicted to embrace the meaneft Employments of his preien: Calling. For many Years he was conftantly Candidly Propofed, &c. 227 conftantly near two Hours every Day, in the meaneft Work of the Kitchin. The inward Joy he found in performing the humblcfh Offices, appeared in his Looks, which mew'd he was fenfible there is nothing more noble or more fotisfactory, than flich humble Works, undertaken and carcfullv performed for the Love of GOD. In the midft of iiich Labours he frequently found Opportunities of reading fome few Lines, at lead, in Tkomas a Kempis ( which he al- ways carried about him ) to meditate upon while he was at Work. His Education, and his Nature had framed him fo little to la- borious Works, that nothing but the Love of GOD could have carried him through fuch a Courfe of Life. As the Spirit of GOD refts particular!}* upon the Humble, fo it iiiuftrated the Mind of Br. Brown, tho* otherwife he was rather illiterate, with mod admirable Lights, and influenced him with the fublimeft Motives, in all his Actions. In ib much, that when one of the Fathers was fpeaking to him of the Reward of his Labours in Heaven, lie replied with a wonderfully fervent Candour, Believe we, gccd Father, for twenty Tears paji I have not found myfdf moved with- .;vy thin* but the Lo\e cf GOD, Great was 22S A Spsciaun of Amendments his Gift of Prayer, i-n which he always fpent two Flours in the Morning, and two or three in the. Afternoon, and upon his Knees, when not hinder'd by the corporal Labours of his Offices. As to other pious Practices, he was fmgularly devout to the. raoft BlefTed Sacrament, and to our Bleffed Lady. But nothing was more admirable in him. than the moil confront Tenor of the laborious and pious Lite he continued for three and twenty Years in the SOCIETY, and concluded with a rnoft pious End, the fifty ninth Year of his Age, in 1633, Augufti 20. Could any. thing be more proper for a Church-Hiftory than fuch Examples ? And yet many more fuch Inftances of youc itrange OmiiTions I could produce, if they would not lead me into a much greater- length, than I have propofed to myfelfin. {he prcfent Work,. S E C- Candidly Propofed, &c. 229 SECTION XXVIII. Remarks upon the RECORDS of your- FIFTH PART. YOUR Records alone here take up almoft as much as all the Articles, and all the Lives of this whole Part. It has been already obferved how 'eafy a way this is to (well a Work into a vafb Bulk. You may well imagine, from feveral Places of the foregoing Remarks, that I could add many more on feveral of the Pieces you have placed here. But a few Inftances mail liifHce, and thofe from that Article only, which you call Records of the JESUI TS. Letters of F, Parfons. You obferved in his Life, that his Letters are written in a Cbriftian Stile. Thcfe you have here, are a plain Proof of his Goodnefs, "Wifdom, Franknefs, and Friendship to the Clergy, and far from any appearance of a Man, that was plotting againft their Liberty and In- tereft. So that, inftead of fupporting, they really confute what you have laid of hin/. You will there find he was fo careful to avoid giving Offence to lorn? uneo.fy-.Men of 230 A Specimen of Amendments of the Clergy, that he defires (Letter 3.) Mr. Birkec will not name him, tho' the Subject he writes of, was by the Pope's Order. In the fourth Letter he fays, *' I have been ever a Favourer of this Mo- " tion for Bifhops. " And Letter 5. " I " do proteft unto you, that I do not only " protect and favour it, but alfo defire it. " And Letter 8. " In very deed no Man is " fo fimple, but Teeth that the Accufation . W. Harrifon, Archprieft, and his Af- Jean's, Dccenib. 20, 1619. Upon this pretended Candidly Propofed, &c. 233 pretended Memorial, be pleafed, Sir, to obferve Firft, That you do not mention where you had it. No, not fo much as a Copy of it at Doivay is quoted in your Margin. Secondly, It is in a more modern Stile than for thole Days, and there is par- ticular realbn to defire you will obferve the (Economy of the Stile. Thirdly^ It is con- trary to the Sentiments of Dr. Harrifon. In his Life you own him to have been on fo good Terms ycith the JESUITS, that hs ap- prehended no Oppojition from that Quarter. If fo, it muft needs be laid, that by this pretended Memorial he threw off the Mask moft egregioufly. For in it the JESUI TS are treated moft injuriously. Fourthly, He is here made to fpeak of them in a way that is flatly contradictory to the Character given of them by Dr. Clement. Fifthly, It is little better, from the Beginning to the End of it, than a down-right Reproach to precedent Popes for putting and keeping the JESUITS in the Government ot the Roman and other Colleges of the Clergy ; and of the Pope, to whom it is pretended to be addrefs'd, for continuing them in that Government, of which this Memorial makes fo loud and frightful Complaints. In a Word : It i> fo ftrange a Piece, that the moil ,234 -^ Specimen of Amendments mod favourable thing to Dr. Harrifon* and his Affiftants, is, to conclude it is not genuine. This I will abfolutely con- clude of it, till you bring undoubted Proofs that it was really theirs. And if fuch can be brought, I promife to give you fuch Remarks upon it, as will make you yourfeif, and any, who have a Con- cern ior their Credit, \vifh it had not been theirs. At prefent I will only take notice, that after the mofb unjuft and grievous Com- plaints againft the Practices of the JE- SUITS in the Government of Clergy-Ss- minaries, it adds : This kind of Practices being detefted by St. Charles Borromeus (of fious Memory) among the JESUITS, to ifhofs Care he had committed the Seminary in M;hn, hs remmed them. Here, Sir, to let you fee how little reafon thefe pretended Memorialifts had to fpeak in fuch a man- ner, ojve me leave to refer you to the fpiri- tual \Vorks (they can fcarce fail to do you a great deal of good) of that moil holy Man, F. Lancicius. He will tell you (To?::, i. fage 803.' that the firft remark- able Steps of St. Charles to his eminent Sanctity, were from the fpiritual Excrcifes of St. Ignatius, under the Direction of the Fathers Candidly P'ropo fed, &c. 235- Fathers of the SOCIETY. Under the; r Direction he continued to make them twice every Year. And thr/ at prefent, I have not at hand the Hillory of the So- CIETY by Saccbimts, yet I very well re- member he relates, that the JESUITS were under fome Difplcafure of the Pope, for a while, upon account of F. John 7A- ; y 3 3 -^ Specimen of Amendments have confider'd a little with rhemfelves, how ill, and how unworthily he has managed his Work, they will prefently change their Opinion. But if they will not, there is no Reafon to defpair fo much of the Senfss of Mankind, as to fear left they fhould periuade any one into their Opinion. I will therefore conclude thefe Remarks with fuggefting fome proper Advice to both. And firfl to the Compiler. It is vifible you have been induftrious to fee off your Work with a great Number of very coniiderable Men of the Clergy. No- thing could be more juft. So deferving a Body juftly claims extraordinary Commen- dations. But they ought to have been given without Injuitice to others. It is no lefs vifible you have been careful in obferving who among the Clergy, or other Bodies, have had a Part of their Education at Qoway. This again was highly juft. And I can afiure you I always have, by the Grace of GOD, and ever mall, I confide, by the fame, rejoice at every thing that makes to the Honour of that Seminary of Learning, Piety and Martyrdom. But then .illb Equity required, efpecially in a general Hiftory, that due Notice mould have been raken of others, who fhared in the Educa- tion of fuch deferring Men, Yc.s Candidly PropofeJ J &c. 239 Yes, Sir, in this refpedt, Equity re- quired you fhould have obferved how many of the Perfons you fpeak of, had a Part or" their Education under the SOCIETY. Of theie you ought to have given a general View at leait, by obferving Fir/I, That Cardinal Alien (See . 9.) always endeci- : i}our*d, as much as pqffibk, that thofe under his Care, fhould chiefly be educated under the SOCIETY, and themfehes, fays he (give me leave to repeat the Words) by I know not what Inclination, but a divine one, as I take //, have mojl willingly every where frequented your Schools (he fpeaks to the General ) and imitated your Manners. Secondly, That the Seminarifts vfDo'way, for many Years frequented theji su i TS Schools, and were under their Direction in Spirituals, while their ConfefTarius was one of that Order. Thirdly, That many, from time to time, both before and after that Period, were under the JESUITS in the Colleges oi Rome, Valladolid, Sevil, St. Omer's. Upon thefe and the like Confederations it appears, that whatever Notion teme may run away with, from feveral places of your Work, yet thofe who attentively confider the Matter, cannot but fee how GOD has been pleated to bids the SOCIETY with wonderful 240 A Specimen of Amendment* wonderful Succefs in the Education, not only of the Members of the SOCIETY itfelf, but alfo of great Numbers of the Clergy and other Orders, even if thofe only be confider'd of whom you have fpoken. On the other hand, it will alfo be found, that a great many JESUITS owe Part of their Education to the Clergy. And hence every good Man will infer, how great an Union there ought to be between thofe two Bodies, fince GOD has been pleafed to have their mutual Obligations be fo clofely interwoven; and that all who have the true Spirit of the Clergy, or of the So- CIETY, or are true Friends to either of thofe two Bodies, muft carefully avoid any thing that may prejudice their mu- tual Concord and Love, and confequently all invidious vying of Merits between them. This I am fo fully convinced of, that if I was confcious to myfelt of having iaid any thing in thefeRemarks, that entrenches upon that Charity and Regard, which the Clergy fo juflly deferves, I do allure you I would much more readily call my Papers into the Fire, than ever confent to their ap- pearing in Publick, or even in Private. Thefe were my real Sentiments in writing Candidly Propc/cd, 6cc. 241 them. They are io in concluding them. And I have aim\l at nothing but a iul 1 Defence. And you, Sir, otight ferioufly to con- iid.er whence it has happen'd that you have fallen into fuch K:-;prdno;is and iuch Omi.Tions, with regard to the JESUIT?:, as have been observed in this Specimen, if it \vas by mere Inconiideratenels, you may well be ailonifiVd, that io great an in- coniidcrateneis fhould have continued upon you ior ib many i'cars. And then it \vilt ; ver be \our Duty to own you are lorry to iind, !H)\v at ka'l, upon a Review o! /our Work, that it is unhappily ; : .:cu a.-> may, \vi:h ibme Readers, prove, \'ery pre- judicial. You will coniequently be o- n'igeci to corrc:! your Faults, or, at leail t:o o\vn in genera', that no one ought te, mind you in any thing pro aJiei..! to tl:^ - : ) : i L; T Y , any farther than they find. reafon from better Authors iincc you ha\'e r/ritccn ib thotightldlly in mai-y ;... . things, as to cieierve no Credit in them. But if it is by Partiality and Pr. judiee, :a- iher than by mere v/ant ol C a;ion. rhat: you have been io lauity, you v, ;ar more obliged to make Atc.-eiT:, [] a manner as may p;v\ ; J..J.2 A Spcchr.cn of Amendments Readers from being wrongly influenced by your Work, as it now Hands, or re- pair the Harm it may have clone to thole-, who have been in if- guided by it. Talk as much as you pleafe of loofc Cafuijis, none, I am fure. can excufe you. from this Obligation,. Now, Sir, with regard to the F t r:-(,urcr;- of your Work, I will introduce the pro- per Advice to them, with a Quotation from Sr. Aujlin, as I have in the Advice to- you. Speaking of 'Dwatijls, who were brought into the Church, he fays, many of them gave Thanks to COD, that had taught them by what they found upon Ex- perience, how vain and empty Alperfions Lad been call upon his Church by lying. Fame. (J&e!ias Deo, qiri expert os docv.it da* fama jarta^irii. Applying thefe Words to the prcfent Cafe, it may well be hoped, that (everal upon finding by thefe Remarks, how vain and empty Alperfions have- been Gait upon the J L s u i T s, will thank GOD for thus recovering them. Others vvho iiave carelefsly fwallow'd any new. f >r conn"rm'd themielves, by your V/ork, :n their former Prejudices, ought to con- ikler how criminal it is- to be eafilv lea into n Candidly PropofeJ, 6cc. 243 Belief of what is prejudicial to the Credit of a fingle Perfon, and much more to that of many, or a whole Body of Reli- gious Men. It will not excufe them to fay they have taken their Notions from fudi Writers as you. It is a Duty of Charity, and of Juftice too, in luch Cafes, not to aifenc till they have confdcr'd what may be laid. in Defence of the Party concerned. If they have permitted thcmfelve.s to Ix-almoit foleiy acquainted with Perfons or Writings, tha: * O 3 fpeak ill or the JESUITS, if they find a malign fort of Joy when they meet wick anv thincr a&iinft them, if thev have been s tj - _ * ,/ apt, either not to enquire, or to mind bu" little, or a fort of Unwillingncfs to ponder v/hat has or may belaid in their Defence., it is plain they cannot be excu fed. It is no lefs certain, that thofe, who 'iave encouraged or promoted vour \Vork, o ;po;: L;ettcr Information of tlu Pre- it may do, be obliged to m.ik-j dio' at rli'Il, upon Promife and I lopes you would manage Matters we)!, they aiigh: lawilillv recomniend your Work, ind proinc- 1 : ; >" i^^'licarion 01 ir, vc-t upon 2.A*i A Su'cn.'ii.'n sf Amendments. &,c. i i j. v/ y iincing hew 111 you have anfwer'd fucli .I'romiies, cr Mopes, they ought, at lead, to ilg'.yjfy their Concern ior having by their .Authority, Commendation, or other Means, contributed to it ; and put a flop, as far as they well can, to the Milchief it may do by their want of duly declaring them- i elves again ft it. For vny own part, if I have done any Iru;ry to you, Sir, or to others, if I have mifreprefentcd, or mifundcrftood any Words cr FaJts, I iineerely declare, as I did in the Preface, it has been unknowingly -, and that, upon Notice of it, I will make all the Satisfaction tor it, that can be required. .Bat at the fame time, it you or any others, -\iil be cavilling at thefe Papers, if in Con- verfation, Writi.ng, cr Printing, they inn into mere general Outcries, or indeterminate Complaints, or into Sneers cr Satyr, I Ihail not be idle enough to mind them. And as I heartily \viih you had not given me any occafion for thefe Ivemarks upon your \Vork, fo I ftill remain your real well- wither C L r. n o r n i L u s 13 O O K S lately Piiblljl:cd. '\ 'he LIVES of S A I X T S, with other Knits of the Year, according to the RVH.IH Oiien- i!.;i-. Written in fy/n;/,?' by the Reverend Father PETER R 1 B A D E N E I !' , /, i'ridl of the Society of JESUS. Trunflated into // ^ ///,'!> In- !''. P. F.kj; 'i'he lecond Edition corrected and ;:mei.ded. lu Two lVii't'5. Ft/'/y. The IT I S T O R Y of the C II U R C H <..f /'.' PA .Y. \Yriticn origh:a!lv in French ': y Moivil i ; //. 7 J7/;/; cA iT. And" no.v trndlited into E^.'i'Z bv A". A". I:i I'\vo A'ohimes. ^frrfy. LIFE of St. JOHN FRdXCIS REGIS, of the Society of JESUS. WrrUjr, hi #/<:/< bv E. r/lLLWM D'-AUBE\-TOX, of the ihaie Societ}'. Tr:ir.;i:ited into ^A./J b ; A CHRIS T TAX D I R E C T O R Y, vv.kl ins; Mfii to their Eternal Salvation. j)ivided into Thre/ Booh- : 'J he ilnl whereof appertjiniug to Ivefclution, i:> contiii'.i'd in this Yclume, divid-J i; o r r\\'o l\-"t- ; , and fet io'tli tiow aci'iin \vi;l; Correfltoiis r.nd Additions. Ry ROBE R -. ;;;-; r,v-, : v ;n I'jCHJ ':/) L'' A' 52", uhc . th V'f.u- i i--::' ; . V^ i;ii t\vo -. v .--. " "' The DOCTRINE of AN T I QJU'I T Y concerning the M O t T B L E S S E I' E U- C H A R I S'T plainly they'd, in A N S \V E R to -Mr. J O H N S O JY's Book of tuu Biopsy Sa- crilke. Octavo. The Manner of Performing the N O V E N A ; or, the Nirr. Days DEVOTION to St. FRz'NCIS XJyERIU of the Society of JESUS, and Apoftle of Indi.i. As al.o the DEVOTION of the Ten /)/'. /iW.r to the iame SAINT. Duodecimo. DEIS M and C H R I S T I A N I T Y fairly confider'd, in four Dialogues. To which is added a filth upon Latitudinartan Cbriftianity : And tv. o Letter?;, to a i-riLTid uron a Book Intitkd, The Moral Pbi/ofophcr. Bv ****** ~D:iodecimo. hi tie P R E S S, printed in T W O; VOLUMES OCTAVO. A S E E E C T C O E L E C T ION of C .' -7 H O L I C K S E R M O N S j Preach'd in Engljjh, betbre their Majciiies King JAM E S II.. M.4"P.'r (^lecn-Confon, CATHERINE Queen- .Do\\'ager, at U'jndjb)\ St. Jawes't, Whitehall, and, Somerfet-HwifC) Sec. l^y the Reverend Fathers AVK.AV. DORMER, LEVISOX BETHAM, EI.LIS, METCA'I.FE, ^' X ' GlFFARD, PKRSALI , ; .hl.AKi:, tiOPDKN, p CODRINGTON, HA I, I., \ Vt ' >N ' C R O S S , H V M K H R STONE, ^ A R R A N ' DARE-LI., JSNKS, SCARISBRIKE. 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