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MADAM,-Twere in som measure ridiculous to sue to Tis very observable that since the first propagation of Christian Faith noe heresie started up but God was pleasd at the same time to rayse a champion or som first founder of an order by whose doctrin & pious endeavors the contemporary heresie has bin always at long run overthrown and that I may not run far back for instances wel known to your Male from your reading and observation I'l onely observe that the Arian heresie was suppressd by St Athanasius & the pelagian by St Augustin and that much about the same time that Luther and Calvin layd the sandy foundations of the heresies now reigning, God in his infinit wisdom was pleasd to cal St Ignatius de Loyola to be his Champion & with how much good success the Society of Jesus has opposd the false doctrin of Luther & Calvin in their rise & progres is wel known to al observing and impartial Judges & we have reason to hope the sayd heresies wil in time owe their overthrow under God to the learning Virtue and Zeal of the said Society and one shud think the father of heresies the Devil forsees & feares it, in as much as he has sette his instruments the Rebellious Schismatics and their ambitious ringleaders in this Kingdom at work these late yeares to destroy our present gracious sovereign (whom God long preserve) and his few Catholic subjects & the Jesuits especialy as if the Devil owd them a particular spight; But men propose and God disposes & directs when he pleases the meanes used by men to Ends quite contrary to their Designs which we evidently see in the Examples of Monthe King more good than harm by their Devilish attempts fastning him more firmly in the throne from which they meant to remove him & letting the world see what miracles the Almighty cud work to protect his vicegerent & favorit Even so it is to be hopd the Catholic religion wil gaine a hundred fold more by the bloody effects of sham plotts & the perjury of complicated Villains than it has lost by the untimely death of Martyrs whose blood hath bin lately shed or rather sown in this Kingdom and wil without doubt in due season bring forth a plentiful & glorious crop for sanguis martyrum, semen Eclesiæ; the true church being like unto the palm tree which the more it is kept under trod upon & depress'd the more gloriously it grows thrives & flourishes & I do not despayr but wee 'I find this in a short time verified in England. but how? Not by the violent & bloody meanes of fire & sword, Smithfield fagots, inquisitions & armies domestic & forreign as Shaftsbury & the rest of hells Emissaries maliciously insinuated: how then? our dread & dear Sovereign who has sufferd a kind of martyrdom for his religion offering himself up a liveing sacrifice for it to the insatiable rage of his irreconcileable enemies, wil by the grace of God & his powerfull good example draw over som leading men of the Nobility from darknes & prejudice to the true light & love of the onely true religion & others wil from time to time follow, & your Malies unfeigned exemplary devotion wil work the same effect on som of the first rank ladies; And wo be to the subjects that wil not follow the daylie moveing examples of such a King & such a Queen for it is not with your Matie & the King as it was with Solomon & his outlandish wives who withdrew his heart from the worship of one true God to many fals ones, but your Matio has by your great zeal sincere devotion & frequent exhortations confirmd & kindled the Kings zeal & pietie which must of necessity produce a good effect in this Kingdom where the Nobility has bin ever inclin'd to be of the Princes Religion as a malicious comoner wel observ'd when the bill of exclusion was under debate & the fear of a change of this kind, the Kings haveing a standing armie, som few Cathol. being in military employs, The French Kings vigorous proceedings against the Hugonots & the Popes late letter to that King applauding his way of converting Hereticks have put this Nation into such a ferment that the King and governmts safety can be no way secure but by keeping a good standing armie on foot nor is the gros of the armie now in England to be much relyd on for I understand by the few Catholic officers and Soldiers dispersed among them that they talk very dissafectedly since the last Sessions of Parleament as if the old bugboar Poperie were breaking in upon them, so that a Catholic Armie is to be wish'd for which canot be rays'd in England or Scotland for if al the serviceable Catholics in both Kingdoms were joynd in one body they were but a handful compar'd to the several Sectaries, so that upon y main Ireland is the onely Kingdom where his |