CAP .15. touching Antichrifl. 737, Feather ) to make no confcience at all to cog and diflemble, to to lye and to fame in every thing they take in hand, fo it make for their Mafters advantage. For this purpofe they toile and canvafe the Miracles ofIgnatius, andofthat fweete darling of yours Xaveriu, whom you are fo brag of, as if he were the principal! ornament and glory, not onely of your Iefuiticall order, but even of the wholePo- pith Religion; in your fourth book of the Marks of the Church Chap 14. And it is no marvel(indeed,that Xaverius wrought all that rabble of admirable exploits among the Indians which Maphcus Pi bademeirus and 'M fel /in:1s talke of fo; feeing he was far enough off from havinghis matters examined and defcried,whenhe was among them in'fiuh remote. places. It is more tobe marvelled at that 5e di- ed an ordinary death,and that he was -not taken.up and carried away . with a fiery Chariot, that he might be referved to copse at laft with Henoch and Eli u to diftroy Antichrist. Do you -give any credit to thofe Indian writings,who may remem- ber if you will,that late del ïne ofthe Jefuits,in Pettingout a book ro this effect; that it might rumour out among the people,and perfwade them that Theodore Bezn (that Arch-enemy of the Pope and all Po- pery) was dead and buried, and that before his Taft gafpe, he was conVerted to your Remii} Keligion, by the meansof oneof his own fide;that many other ofthe Citizens of Geneva being moved with his example, did renounce their former errours, and did embrace Popilh Doctrine with all theirhearts? It cannot flip out of your me niory neither as I ftippofe (for fuch a matter could not but come to your knowledge, as was bruited abroad by common report,) that- Theodore Reca being as marvelloufly railed up from the dead,w rote a book in Latin and French,wherein he ingraved the incredible impu- dency ofyour 3cfuites, as it were upon a publike Pillar, in the view òf all the Chriftian world. Therefore you may now declaime as loud and as long as you,will upon the Indian miracles qf Xaverius, fecing your notorious pranks andpollicies be now laid open to the view of all Europe. It would. have been an endlefle labour for me to launch into the main SeaOf all your lying wonders,, and therefore: I chofe rather to inftance in one or two of them that. were both: Chronicled for the inoft famous As andMonuments ofy outJefuits, as alto that were more frefh in the minds and memories of men,the/ many other that were worn out ofmemory, as they be almoft out' moth-eaten books. Wherefore your Pope doth in fo lively a mar_ referable Antichrit both in the multitude and falfhood of
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