The Mystery of Iniquity, Letter
From our Camp at Newrie this fourth of November 1641. Philem Oneale. Rorie Macguire. To all Catholiques of the Romish Partie both English and Irish, within the Kingdome of Ireland, we wish all Happinesse, Freedome of Conscience, and Victory over the English Hereticks, who have for a long time tyrannized over our bodies, and usurped by Extortion our Estates.
BE it hereby made known unto you all our Friends and Countrey-men, that the Kings most excellent Majesty (for many great and urgent Causes him thereunto moving, reposing trust and confidence in our fidelities) hath signified unto us by his Commission under the great Seal of Scotland, bearing date at Edingburgh the first day of this instant October 1641. and also by Letters under his signe manuall, bearing date with the said Commission, of divers great and heinous astronts that the English Protestants, especially the Parliament there have published against his Royall Prerogative, and also against our Catholique Friends within the Kingdom of England; The Copy of which Commission we have here sent unto you to be published with all speed in all parts of this Kingdome, that you may be assured of our sufficient warrant and authority herein.
THE COMMISSION.
CHARLES by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the faith▪ &c. To all our Catholike Subjects within Our Kingdome of Ireland, greeting. Know ye, that We for the safeguard and preservation of Our person, have been enforced to make Our abode and residence in our Kingdom of Scotland for a long season, occasioned by reason of the obstinate and disobedient carriage of Our Parliament in England against VsUs, who have not onelyonly presumed to take upon them the government and disposing of those Princely Rights and Prerogatives that have justly descended upon VsUs from Our Predecessours, both Kings and Queens of the said Kingdome for many hundred yeares past, but also have possessed themselves of the whole strength of the said Kingdome, in appointing Governours, Commanders, and Officers, in all parts and places therein, at their own wils and pleasures, without Our consent, whereby we are deprived of Our Soveraignty, and left naked without defence. And forasmuch as we are (in Our selfe) very sensible, that these stormes blow aloft, and are very likely to be carried by the vehemency of the …rotestant Party a Pu…itan in another copy.into Our Kingdome of Ireland, and endanger Our Regall power and authority there also: Know yee therefore, that we reposing much care and trust in your duties and obedience, which we have for many years past found, Doe hereby give unto you full power and authority to assemble and meet together with all the speed and diligence that a businesse of so great a Consequence doth require, and to advise and consult together by sufficient and discreet numbers, at all times, dayes, and places, which you shall in your judgements hold most convenient and materiall for the ordering, setling, and effecting of this Great work, (mentioned and directed unto you in Our Letters) and to use all politick wayes and meanes possible to possesse your selves (for Our use and safety) of all the Forts, Castles, and places of strength and defence within the said Kingdom (except the Places, Persons, and Estates of Our loyall and loving Subjects the Scots) and also to arrest and seize the Goods, Estates, and Persons of all the English Protestants within the said Kingdom to Our use: And in your care and speedy performance of this Our will and pleasure we shall perceive your wonted duty and allegiance unto VsUs, which we shall accept and reward in due time. witnesse Our selfe at Edinburgh the first day of October, in the seventeenth yeare of Our Reigne.
This Deponent maketh Oath, that about the middle of November last, living then in the Parish of Saint Michans, neare Dublin, being accompanied with one master Stapleton of Dublin aforesaid, Gentleman, they happened into the company of a Popish Priest, commonly called Father Birne, who being formerly acquainted with the said master Stapleton, desired to drink with him at a Ta…ern called the Bull, upon Merchants key in Dublin, where … of the injuries and troubles of the times, the Priest answered, that the Irish (not enduring to have them called Rebels) had sufficient warrant for what they did, and stood strongly in defence of their actions; and presently to justifie his words, produced a writing, according to the tenour of the premises mentioned in this writing abovesaid; whereof the Deponent desired a Copy, and he willingly yeelded unto it, and thereupon he wrote this Copy out of his literatim, in the presence of the said master Stapleton, who is now living in Dublin.
This is the true copy of that Commission, with the annexed Warrant and Deposition (for I will conceale nothing in a businesse of this importance) as it came to my hands in a paper thus endorsed: A copy of the forged Commission in Ireland, published by those traiterous Rebels, Sir Philemy Oneale Knight, Rory Maguier Esquire, and others, with their lying perswasi…n to seduce and stirre up the whole Romish Party to Rebellion, wherein may be seene how heinously his Majesty is abused and the Parliament unjustly taxed by the …apists.
This last clause I take for granted, but as for the rest, give me leave to try whether the inside or the outside of my paper be the tiuer. And this I shall doe with all due respect both to the King and Parliament, that his Majesty may see that there was some fire in the midst of all the smoak, and that the jealousies of his people, concerning the Irish businesse, were not altogether groundlesse; as also that the King may have a sit occasion to ab…ure this Commission, and cleare himselfe of the aspersions cast upon him, with respect thereto, and chastise (as his Majesties phrase is) those wicked fellows (but I crave mercy, they are not my fellows, they are owned Subjects, but I, and the rest of the Parliaments friends proclaimed Rebels) And that the more full and particular satisfaction may be given (for discourses and protestations will not be taken any longer for payment) I shall give all the Arguments I can to prove the reality of it.
First therefore let us consider the time (a materiall circumstance) when this Commission is dated that is the first of October 1641. in one copy, and the fourth in another, (no great difference) the Massacre beginning the 23. of the same month, which was presently after the Conferences at White-hall with the Lord Muskerie and his fellows, who returned into Ireland the same month his Majesty went for Scotland, leaving the Lord Dillon, who was presently after sent with the Queenes Letters, requesting or requiring his being made Counsellor of Ireland, to his Majesty then at Edinburgh, where it is said this Commission was signed with the broad Seal of that Kingdome, being not then setled in the hands of any Officer who could be answerable for the use of it, but during the vacancy of the Chancellors place, intmsted with Marquesse Hammilton, and by him with one master Iohn Hammilton, the Scribe to the Crosse Petitioners in Scotland, and sometimes under the care of master Endimion Porter; a very fit opportunity for such a clandestine transaction. And let it not be omitted, that presently after the date of this Commission, Dillon, Butler, and divers other Irish Commanders, of which the Court was then full, were dispatched for Ireland by his Majesties Licence, not without the just suspition of By-standers.
The Commission it selfe, for the grounds and language of it, is very suitable to other dispatches and writings under his Majesties name, expressing much bittemesse against the Parliament, and jealousie of the diminution of his Prerogative, which was alwayes his great feare. But I shall be unwilling to fetch the least proofe from the matter or stile of the Commission the Argument is not so beggarly as to necessitate a Petitio Principii.
Let us go on to examine the grounds, why such a thing should be forged, and why such a thing should be granted, and see which are the more probable.
I know no ground why such a Commission should be forged. It was not to make his Majesty odious, for in all their writings they expresse all tendernesse of his honour, and forwardnesse of their obedience particularly in the forementioned Assembly at Kilkenny, where, next after the Article for the injoyment of all the Priviledges and Immunities of the Romane Church, as in the ninth yeare of Henry the third, the Oath of Allegiance to his Majesty is established, (its likely according to the agreement of the Reconciliation with a Salvo to the Sea of Rome) and their constant and generall professions of loyalty (now so well confirmed by his Majesties expressions to them, and their contributions to him) do clearly evince, that they had not so much ill will to the King, as to raise such a scandall of him. And more especially, though a Commission might do them some advantage, yet the forgery of one could not but be prejudiciall, it being a necessary ingagement of his Majesty in his owne justification, to have used the utmost of his skill and power against them, as to have staid with his Parliament and prevented a war in England. But though a forged Commission might be unprofitable, yet a reall one I wonder not should be demanded though a stranger to the Mystery would wonder it should be granted.
First, that hereby the King, whom they knew in his own disposition apt enough to start from his Expressions upon an advantage, might be firmly bound to them and their proceedings, as also that the more backward Papists, who were more good natured then to rebell against a King whom they had …ound so propitious, and more wary, then by such Rebellion to forfeit their Estates, which under him, with the advantage of their Religion, they doubted not to enjoy, might the more easily be brought in.
If it be objected, this might be done by a forged Commission▪ I answer, not so well; Forgery is an unruly help, being often requited with the double hinderance of a discovery. Papists, though sometimes they delude us, they deale freely, especially in a common Catholique Cause, with one another. And what end such fraud could have upon the Protestants, unlesse a little to amaze them at first, & then exasperate them, I cannot conceive. However it is, be assured that Oneale and Mac-…arty beare so high upon this Commission, that they have offered Major Monro, and the Scots in V…ster, an appeale to the King which have the truer Commission, and which are the better Subjects, and according to that determination to quit or hold their employment if the Scots would mutually promi…e the same.
But sure, sayes my honest Reader, who thinks other men meane as well as he, this cannot be. Why not? as well as that Commission for the cutting thy throat at London, much after this …enour and pasted in the same private manner. But how can it stand with his Ma…estes Protestations against them, under the name of wicked and detestable Rebels, with his Declaration against any toleration of Religion there, or … of the Lawes in force against Recusants, with his Pr…clamation of Rebellion against then, dated …anuary …. 1641. directly opposite to this Commission?
It were heartily to be wished, that his Majesty had …ept his word as well with the Protestants as with the Popish Faction. There passed one Article in the Treaty of marriage with the Queen, which through the care of Canterbury, and the paines of Windebank, hath been better kept then any Protestant Protestation. The words of which Article are faithfully translated out of the French copy, to this effect: The 27. Article is, That the King of Great Brittaine, having regard unto the prayer of the Lady, and … testifie his affection to her, shall grant unto his Catholique Subjects the security of their lives and goods, so that they shall not be troubled for making profession of the Catholique Religion, they rendring unto him that obedience and fidelity they ow… unto him, to which they shall not be thought deficient for refusing to take any Oath, or doe any act contrary to their Religion. But it is answered, It concernes his Majesty most to look to that, how his words and warrants agree: yet we will be so bold, in a Cause of so great consequence as the imminent danger of the Protestant Religion, as to examine some of his Actions, and see whether they have been more suitable to the Commission, o… Proclamation.
The Proclamation it selfe though in its nature opposite yee in its time and circumstances was too suitable to the Commission, being deferred from the latter end of October to the first of January, and then so sparingly printed, so warily published, as if it had been under the controll of some former Act whose leave must first be craved. But his Majesty hath reason to expresse violence against these his Catholike Subjects, or to chastise them at least, for they went beyond this Commission, though supposed reall; that gave but a Yard, they took an Ell: though they were allowed to sei…e the goods, estates, and persons of his Majesties Protestant Subjects, yet they were not allowed to cut their throats, (unle…le the private Letters concomitant can help out at such a pinch) and their very transgression in this matter might justly occasion and provoke the title of mercilesse wicked Rebels. But to return to Actions, the best Commentaries upon words; it is to be feared they will be found more agreeable to the Commission then the Proclamation, as may be discerned in the unanswered Remonstrance of the rise and progresse of the Grand Rebellion in Ireland. For instance, What shall indifferent men think of his Majesties withdrawing himself from his Parliament, declared by the then reall, though now pretended Parliament, to be a great obstruction to the prosperity of the Irish undertakings? Of his raising war against his Subjects here, the greatest service that could be done to the pretended rebels there, being a diversion of that strength, and a distraction of those Counsels that should have suppressed them? Of his granting passes for notorious Papists, as Butler, the sons of the …ord Nettersfield▪ and others, to go thither, for which see the Declaration of Parliament March. 16. 1641. and, if you will the Answ March 19. The stopping of provisions going to the supply of the Army against them taking away the horses prepared by the E. of Leicester for that service, as appears by his complaint in a printed letter to the Earl of Northumberlana? Of the free accesse of those that have been active in that Design to his Majesties camp and Court? Of his putting in demu…res to the Bill of pressing souldiers, and deniall to the sending ships for that service?
It must not be denied that his Majesty was earnest in pressing care of that businesse of Ireland upon the Houses, and passed some things to the advantage of it, and (in a message of the 8. of April 1642.) spared not to offer his going in person to chastise those wicked and detestable Rebels, with the renouncing of all other Ends, (but if his Majesty had continued in that angry minde, hee might with ease have chastised them, when they came over to him, as they have done …ince plentifully.) I wish I had many more such actions to repeat. But it must be considered, there was a Proclamation that required some countenance, and could not well have lesse then it had: but I forestall no mans judgement, but leave the impartiall reader to the weighing what hath been said, and what hath been produced upon Oath in the Declaration of the Commons, Iuly 25. 1643. And if the ballance be equall, I shall only cast in some scruples of the late Cessation, which, unlesse the beame be false, will make the Commission weigh down the Proclamation.
1. First the scruple of &c. in the nomination of the parties in this Treaty. Is his Majesties Title of Defender of the Faith come to an intricate &c. Y…s, and good reason, for the other party, with whom his … treats upon equ…ll terms, are content with an &c. and are called His Romane Catholique Subjects now in armes, &c. whereas it should have b…en added according to the Acts of K…lkenny, for the Exaltation of the Holy Roman Catholique Church.
2. The scruple of their sudden transformation from monstrous mercilesse Rebells into Subjects conj…yned with other his Majesties good Subjects. What shall the … of Scotland thinke of this, who hardly obtained the l…ke retractation when they defended the P…orestant Religion, or the Parliament of England, and their Adherents, who cannot yet finde that favour. But yet, Mopso Nisa datur quid non speremus, &c. His Majesty sure had thoughts of this dishonourable recancation, when hee was so loth to publish the Proclamation against them.
3. The third scruple is …ersecute, for that is the word in the Irish coppy, not pros…cute; A license granted to …! …ure the Bishops had a finger in this Article, and that Persecuted Protestants should expect no protection from his Majesty, nor any of his forces, against the Parsecution of the Papists, but rather have occasion to feare the joyning of the forces the King shall have interest in, in the Pers…cution, as is desired by the Catholiques, to whom no such trifle must be denied, is to me a sad story.
4. The fourth scruple, that these Catholique Subjects shall have liberty to send such Agents to his Majesty, as th…y shall thinke fit from time to time. Priests and Iesuites not excepted.
If the Scales be not yet turned, take the whole Cessation, and the thirty thousand eight hundred pound, and that will … weigh it downe to the ground. But I have much … leave the contemplation of this Cessation, Let us take a second view,
1. Of the time wh…n it was granted, mo…t seasonably when the P…pish party was driven to great Extremities for want of victual, …nd had b…en in greater, had nor the Forces raised and … by the Parliament b…en seduc…d into a disaff…ction to their service.
2. O… the Grounds, all Acts of importance that are to passe the eye and censure of the world use to come armed against a…l Exceptions with a preamble, shewing the ground and necessity of them: How comes it to be here …mitted, that we have neither real▪ nor *This discovery was p…nned upon the sight of the na…ed Cessation, as it came from …reland before the short cove…ing of the Grounds and Motives, &c. which are not so considerable …s to occasion …ny alteration unlesse of the …ord pretended.pretended causes and considerations but a downright Ces…ation, or rather Accommodation as Souldiers judge it. Was it such broad…ced iniquity that no mask neit…er in Oxford nor Dublin would fit it? Was it neither for the preservation of the Protestant Religion▪ nor affection to the ancient and native …ingdom of Scotland, nor for the reconciling of the Distractions of the Kingdome of England: Since those dull contrivers could f…nde no matter for a foundation give us leave to …upply. Seing the Catholike cause (which the King of England is induced to serve either nakedly or cloathed with this pret…rce o… upholding his Powe… and Prerogative, which is suggested to be invaded and endangered by the Puritans there) is now very much concer…ed in the due ordering of the affaires of Great Brittain a…d Ireland. And whereas the Irish Catholikes have given so good t…stimony of their approved zeal and cruelty in massacring near two hundred thousand Hereticks and may hereafter do the li…e service in England and Scotland, if in this their pre…nt extremity they may be respited and relieved. And whereas it is of very great consequence that the Papists and all that will upon any pretence or for any advantage, adhere to them in this Cause▪ be firmely united together against the Puritans and their ad…erents, whether in Eng…and or Scotland: It is concluded and accorded betwixt the two Etcaetera's, that a Cessation o… Armes the like was never heard of, should bee agreed on, from whence the Catholike Cause and Party may expect these Advantages.
1. Free importation of Armes, Ammunition, Victuals and Provis…ons of all kinds, and free accesse of any of their Con…ederates …rom any part of the world.
2. … tran…portation i…to E…gland, or other parts, of such suppli…s which s…all be necessary for his Majesties service against the Puritans and Pa…iament t…ere.
3. The strengthning the Popish party with the Union of the indifferent Protestants, and consequently weakning and dividing the Adversary, upon whom the whole strength may bee now turned.
4. Either an advantage to ruine the Scottish Army in Ulster, if they refuse the Cessation, and stay, or if they withdraw, an opportunity to settle Ireland, and among England or Scotland, as occasion shall be.
5. That some usefull Prisoners (as the Earl of Antrim who was then in hold) might be released.
6. That there shall be a Reserve of Wood-Kernes, whom this Cessation shall not reach, who shall kill and spoil at their pleasure, th…se who may be presumed disaffected to the Catholike Cause.
And thus have I made bold to represent to the world this horrid gastly Monster of the Irish massacre, and (I hope more to the worlds benefit then my own content) raked in this sink of iniquity. The Evidence is furnished▪ Let the diligent impartiall Reader, and the Conscience of mankinde, make a judgement upon it.
But seeing the discovery and foresight of mischief is but half a wise mans work, (which now every body pretends to, and I for company) Let us study in a few words to declare the best Rules of prevention to this Inundation of Tyranny and Popery, which from the Romish Sea is like to overwhelm us; The prud…nt man foresees the Plague and hides himselfe.
Many rules both of Piety and Policy might be laid down upon the grounds of Scripture, Reason, and Experience. But since the most of them are so well summed up in that solemne League and Covenant agreed on and entred into by these two Nations of England and Scotland; I will not scatter them, but propound the deliberate Entrance into that Covenant, and the faithfull pursuance thereof to be the most Religious and reasonable way, to unite and strengthen the too much divided party of true Protestants against these Conspiracies discovered, which are likely yet further to enlarge their bounds.
There are some, it may be, who stand off for want of the Kings consent. We want not good authority, though such is our unhappinesse, that for the present, his concurrence is rather to be wished then hoped. In the mean time let not the Truth and Gospel of Christ be sacrificed to the Counsels and Consederacies of evill and unreasonable men. Especially, when they who have a great share in enacting and conserving those Lawes by which our Religion is confirmed, have engaged themselves and their authority with us; Neither let us be startled at the noise of a Proclamation, that turns Religion into Treason▪ and Union into Sedition. Proclamations are neither the Laws of England, nor yet of the Medes and Persians which alter not, but may be retracted either with some difficulty, as that against Scotland, or more ease, as that concerning Irel…nd.
Others there are who are not strangers to the present affaires, but there is something that …its nearer them then Religion or publike Liberty, which they are loath to adventure by such an engagement in this declining State of the Parliament affaires, and therefore study an ungodly and unprofitable Neutrality. To these men I wish a sound mind and a changed heart, to … first the Kingdome of God: Let such con…ider, that if he who was the Way, the Truth and the Life, prescribed the true way to life, they are in the false, his rule in such cases is, He that saves shall lose. And let them know further, that they will one day have more need of protection from God, then his Cause hath now of theirs, when they shall (without repentance) receive this repulse, Goe to the gods whom yee have served.
Me think it should not be in vain to spend a word or two upon that more t…mperate party of them, who are now unhappily engaged against the Parliament in this wretched Cause. Sure there are some to whom the Counsels of the Digbies, and the insolent carriage of Prince Rupert, & his Harpyes, are little lesse odious, then these courses which the two Houses of Parliament are constrained to. There is yet place for Repentance (God send Grace:) And if the sense of their own honour, which they take so much paines to bury in the ruines of their Countries Liberty, nor yet of the honour of God▪ which if not their intentions, yet certainly their▪ Actions desperately strike at, in this apparent danger to Religion, yet let the consideration of the issue of that work they are about, supposing their prevailing (not so probable as they may conceive) a little move them. Will it not as much trouble them to see the Kingdome governed (as now one part of it is) by a Spanish Popish …unto, as by an English Protestant Parliament? To see their beloved moderation swallowed up in the violence of that desperate Iesuiticall party that rules at the Court, as in the supposed Severity o… those Councels, Civill or Ecclesiasticall; that govern at the City. Let such men be assured that their Ends▪ unlesse such as are consistent with Tyranny and Popery, must give way to the predom…nant▪ Interest which will be sound to be that of the Feminine Planet in the Issue, when they have served, they shall like uselesse Instruments be laid aside, and dis-regarded.
Certainly the intentions of those who are drawn in to this Popish confederacy are so different, that I am confident if they prevaile against us, their Quarrels will be as many and bitter against each other, as now against the Parliament. Vices are opposite and destructive, not only to vertue, but one to another. Me thinks these Gentlemen, who pretend to justice, peace, moderation, and something of Religion, should think themselves but ill associated, in the midst of such prophane plundering companions, to which they are not so much companions as subjects. Sure they cannot be well at ease to see the first fruits of this Irish Cessation presented to their union, but how then can they endure▪ when his Majesties Reregard of his Romane Catholique Subjects, shall be brought over with their hands full of the b…ood of more then 100000, offencelesse Protestants, whom they have cruelly massacred? Sure the apprehensions of this cannot but shake their Prerogative faith, and make them appreh…nd them…elves in more danger from their confederates, then t…eir supposed …. I… this labour to them be lost, I am sorry, but g…ad it was …o more.
… me …peak to them who are counsellable that is, …hose who in the trut… a…d uprightnes…e o… their Hearts have …ntred into this … and … engaged … to the pres…rvation o… … … …nd Libe…ty; such must labour …or sted… in … … ▪ lest out medicin… prove our poyson.
Let none of us go about to deceive our selves with unprofitable Treaties, or hopes of a yet impossible Accommodation, but cheerfully and faithfully accomplish a speedie and firm Union with the Councels and strength of Scotland (which will encourage not onelyonly religious but wise men to joyn with us) it being beyond a reasonable expectation that by our own strength or wisdom we should extricate our selves from this growing calamity in which we are daily more and more involved. It now becomes every man to wind up his thoughts to a Christian resolution befitting the present necessities and Condition of the Church of God, and walk worthy of it, and let the Lord do what seemeth good unto him.
I might now make my self a great deal of more work, and create some trouble to my Reader, if I should after this satisfaction I have given to my own heart and the friends of this Cause of Religion, go about to satisfie the world, and answer their severall quarrels with this undertaking, but I will be more mercifull to the Reader, and more just to my self then to accuse my self by excuses. OnelyOnly I will give you a taste of that which I am like to have plenty.
The first Question will be Who is this? I answer, it matters not who, but what. The next is a position, Sure he was a mad-man thus to provoke Maiesty it self, did he ever learn that verse in Homer.
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Yes but he hath, and that in Iob too. In such a cause as this, let me not I pray you accept any mans person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. I hope to see the day when I shall be accounted a better subject to the King then he that accuses me. In the meane time I am satisfied with being a good subject to the Kingdom, & no Traitor to the Church. If I have incurred any danger, it is to shew thee thine, if a good Protestant. But there need not have been so much bitternesse used which often disadvantages a good Cause? It is the language of the times, and not mine. A filthy ulcer must have a sharpe lance; the massacre of Ireland is a bitter cup. Quis temperet invectivis? Here are many things produced in this Treatise that are but slender proofs? Then take them altogether. Altogether are but a rap…idy scraped up out of the Parliament Declarations, and such scandalous pamphlets, as Plain English, and the English Pope? Truth is a common inheritance, and now so scarse that I was glad to take it where I could find it. Tush I can tell mrre of these affairs then this Discoverer? Then tell them, or tell me, and I will. But Mercurius Aulicus will be sure to meet with you? This is no time to be afraid of Court Bull Beggers, but if he meet with me he must go out of his way: I tell truth, he tels lies.
But I have now done; and it may be done that which hath provoked almost every body, but my own conscience, which witnesses with me that I have not written any willing or negligent falshood, nor (to my best understanding) any unseasonable or unnecessary truth. There is no man but will stand in need of some charity, I shall find it from them that have it; from those that have it not, I will not expect it. There are other Mysteries in this world of Iniquitie, carried on by them who under the pretence of Service do the greatest dis-service and dishonour to the Cause of Religion and Liberty, which must either be amended or not concealed: let other men do their share, as I have done mine, and the world will certainly be either honester or wiser.
This Discourse cannot be better concluded then with that which is the earnest and constant request of the Author to the Lord God of Hosts, the God of Israel, that seeing wisdom and might are his, he would vouchsafe wisdom to the Councellors, courage and constancy to the Souldiers, willingnesse to the people, and faithfulnes to all those that have or shall engage themselves in this great Cause so infinitely valuable beyond the estates and lives of all that undertake it. To him be glory, and peace upon Israel.
FINIS.
Imprimatur hic Liber
Decemb. 12. 164…. IOHN VVHITE.
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