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<P>A PLEASANT CONFERENCE BETWEENE A POPISH RECVSANT, AND A PROTESTANT MAID.</P>
<P>By way of Que&s;tion and An&s;wer, Touching, &s;ome Pa&s;&s;ages in Religion.</P>
<P>By <HI>J. S.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, <HI>Aug.</HI> 20. Printed by T. FAVVCET. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A CONFERENCE BETWEENE <HI>A</HI> POPISH <HI>Recu&s;ant,</HI> AND <HI>A</HI> PROTESTANT <HI>Maid.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Que&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>_WHat is your Name?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI></P>
<P>ROVND-HEAD.</P>
<P>Que&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Who gave you this Name?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI></P>
<P>My Per&s;ecuters and Slanderers in my infamie, wherin J was made a won|der to Wi&s;e men, a jeering &s;tocke to Pooles, and an inheritor of the &s;corne and contempt of all the rabblement of Hell.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What did your Per&s;ecuters and Slanderers then for you?</HI></P>
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<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> They did Promi&s;e and vow three things in my name: Fir&s;t, that they will make me odious to all that be of their fraternity: Secondly, that they will worke my ruine and confu|&s;ion: And thirdly, they wi&s;h that GOD would &s;inke them many miles into Hell, if they doe not &s;o doe.</P>
<P>Que&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Do&s;t thou thinke that thou art bound to beleeve and be affraid of their threatnings?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI></P>
<P>I doubt not, but they &s;hall &s;inke as deepe in Hell as they doe de&s;ire, nei|ther doe I que&s;tion but their will &s;hall be accepted for the deed, according to their old tenit, but I am taught not to feare any but only him that is able to ca&s;t both body and &s;oule into Hell.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>But they that are against you are many in number, and great in Power?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Well, if God be for us, its no matter who is again&s;t us, let <HI>Pharaoh</HI> come, and <HI>Nebuchadnezer, Hamon, Ab&s;o|lon,</HI>
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 66 -->and <HI>Achittophell, Jezabell, Judas,</HI> and all other tray ors, the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels, the mad|men in the North, that &s;ight again&s;t them|&s;elves and &s;ome at home that have a mind to be nibling, as well as the re&s;t of the Serpent &s;eed, but they are limitted by an over ruling power, el&s;e wee had bin de|voured long &s;ince; therefore wee need not feare them though they were more in number, and their power as great as the Seaven headed Bea&s;t can make it.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Can nothing hurt you, what &s;trange creatures are you?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Per&s;ecution cannot, for that is our Livery or colours, which &s;hewes un|der whom we are Soldiers, the only way to hurt us, is to let us live at ea&s;e, for we are like <HI>Camomill,</HI> if we are trod on wee &s;hall &s;mell the &s;weeter and grow better.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>'Tis well you are &s;o confident, but ere it be long your faith is like to come to try|all, and then we &s;hall &s;ee what mettall you are made of, what can they not ca&s;t you in Pri|&s;on, put you in Pillories, cut off your Eares,
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 67 -->burne your Face, &s;trip you naked in fro&s;t and &s;now, kicke your Bibles and cur&s;e them, hang you, drowne, &s;tab you and &s;uch like?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> All this they may doe and yet not hurt us, but not without commi&s;&s;ion from GOD; now God will never hurt <HI>Round-heads</HI> if they be <HI>Sound-heads,</HI> God never intended hurt to JOB when he gave commi&s;&s;ion to Sathan to afflict his Car|ka&s;&s;e for the tryall of his Faith and Pati|ence, neither did he lo&s;e any thing there|by in conclu&s;ion; &s;o we it may be mu&s;t &s;uffer for a while, but in the end we &s;hall &s;ee who &s;hall have the wor&s;t of it.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>What have you done to the&s;e poore wretches, that they rage again&s;t you &s;o like Mad-men, doe not you v&s;e to Preach in a Tab as they &s;ay you doe?</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> What if we doe, is that &s;uch a capitall Crime that nothing but our ru|ine and confu&s;ion can make &s;atisfaction, the old <HI>Whore</HI> begins to &s;tinke, and &s;hee would faine father &s;ome of her Bea&s;tli|ne&s;&s;e upon us; they can not &s;ay, we u&s;e
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 67 -->to lay tubbes of Gunpowder under the Parliament Hou&s;e, but let them be doing, be that hath &s;et them a worke will pay them their wages, all this while they are meriting, and they will &s;hortly come to workes of <HI>Supererogation,</HI> let us not doubt but they &s;hall have a reward an&s;werable to their workes.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Well, looke to it Round-head, there's rods in pi&s;&s;e for you to be &s;ure, what think you of it:</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> We doe both thinke and know, that the rod of the wicked &s;hall nor alwayes re&s;t upon lot of the righteous, the Lord can cha&s;ti&s;e us with rods for our profit, and afterwards burne them in Hell, as they de&s;perately de&s;ire in their bla&s;phe|mous and cur&s;ed execrations: The Lord pre&s;erve <HI>Hull,</HI> as for Hell it is their portion, they wil ne|ver be quiet till they have it in full po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, in|deed they have well de&s;erved it long agoe, and without repentance they mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity have t.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>Doe they that are at &s;o great a di&s;tance from Round-heads, practi&s;e any thing that is ami&s;&s;e, far be it from them to preach in a Tub.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Indeed &s;wearing, cur&s;ing, oaths of the new f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hion, lying, whoring, is nothing, murthe|ring Hereticks, Sabbath-breaking, coveting Hereticks goods, ruinating whole Kingdomes
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 68 -->by trea&s;on, all this and more his Holine&s;&s;e can pardon, but hath never a Bull for &s;uch as preach in a Tub, they mu&s;t be cur&s;t with Bell, Booke, and Candle; &s;ee, &s;ee, their matchle&s;&s;e charitie, they brag of &s;o much &s;urly they will &s;hortly &s;poyle the fa&s;hion of their Chri&s;tianity, and prove downe-right devils.</P>
<P>Que&s;t. <HI>If you Round heads were once brought to ruine, they are like to prove admirable &s;ubjects.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> But &s;tay, we have a God that can pre|&s;erve us, ble&s;&s;ed for ever be his great and holy Name, for ble&s;&s;ing us with &s;uch a ble&s;&s;ed Parlia|ment, whom they call Round-heads, for dealing &s;o roundly with them; Let us not feare but that power that hath kept them hitherto, will keep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> them &s;till in di&s;pight of all the Dragons malice with all his wicked angels to help him; they that cannot willingly and freely dye with and for &s;uch a Parliament, are not worthy to live to enjoy &s;uch precious mercies, the Lord enable us to gird up the loynes of out mindes, and to bee &s;trong in the Lord, and in the power of his might the Lord pro&s;per our &s;weet Parliament, and en|able us all cheerefully to re&s;igne up out &s;elves to undergoe what&s;oever he in wi&s;dome knowes be&s;t for his ovvne honour and glory, for that is be&s;t for his ovvne people though vvicked men doe not &s;o thinke.</P>
<P><HI>Farewell Round head.</HI></P>
<P><HI>If I can beleeve all things are po&s;sible, for Faith will carry me where I &s;hall farewell for ever.</HI></P>
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