I Give you a Good. morrow, Sir, and am your moſt humble Servant; I have Orders from the King, together with my Comrades, to Viſit you, and to exhort you in his Name to become a good Catholick, and to re­concile your ſelf to the Roman Catholick Church, from which you have ſo un­juſtly ſeparated your ſelf, for to embrace a Religion, which an Age ago, was not in being; and which never had any other Fathers beſides a company of mi­ſerable, Apostates: And in caſe you refuſe to comply with this Propoſal, we are further Impowred to live with you at Diſcretion, and to conſume and devour all that belongs to you, to the very Walls and Timber of your Caſtle.

I will not ſay you are very Welcom, foraſmuch as you are charged with ſuch a ſevere Commiſſion; I ſhall only tell you, that I cannot, neither have I the leaſt thoughts to oppoſe my ſelf againſt his Majeſty's Or­ders, who may diſpoſe of my Goods and Eſtates, yea of my Body alſo, ac­cording as it ſhall ſeem good unto him: Wherefore, Sir, I here abandon my Houſe and Goods to your mercy, make waſte and devour as pleaſes you beſt: I have but one Favour to beg at your hands, which is, that you would permit me to leave you abſolute Maſters of my Houſe, and by re­tiring my ſelf to give you the free and peaceable poſſeſſion of it.

What? Sir, Do you refuſe then to obey his Majeſty, who deſires no­thing but your Good and Welfare both temporal and eternal? He requires nothing of you but your Converſion; and you need only to ſay, that you are willing to become a Roman Catholick, and you have ſatisfied him, and we ſhall be oblig'd to diſlodge and leave you at your liberty,

I am willing to believe that the King is animated with abundance of Zeal for the Salvation of his Subjects; but I cannot believe that he deſires I ſhould Damn my ſelf, at the ſame time he is ſo zealous to ſave me: He is too-clear ſighted to be ignorant that whatſoever is done againſt a man's Conſci­ence,2 is a great ſin. Neither can I perſwade my ſelf, that he deſigns to make a company of Hypocritical Catholicks; For if I, in the condition I find my ſelf, ſhould turn Roman Catholick, I ſhould commit that which my Conſcience re­preſents to me as a moſt enormous and crying Sin; and at the beſt, I ſhould be no more than a Counterfeit Catholick, who as oft as he ſhould go to Maſs, could do no other than deteſt it, together with the Idol therein Adored. And do you think the King would be well-pleaſed to have that which he eſteems his God, and which is the higheſt Object of his Adoration, to be thus continu­ally blaſphemed? Once more, Sir, therefore I beg of you, to give me leave to re­tire my ſelf, and to leave you ſole Maſters here.

You ſpeak too boldly, Sir, concerning the Religion of your Soveraign; how dare you treat him with the Title of Idolater, that is in plain terms, a Damn'd Perſon, for Idolaters ſhall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. Pray, Sir, be a little more cautious, and conſider that you ſpeak to Dragons; that is, to the zealous Miſſionaries for your Converſion: but don't go about to deprive us of your dear preſence, for the King commands us to oblige you to keep us good and faithful company, as long as we ſtay in your Houſe, and we intend to continue there, as long as there's any thing for us to ſpend and live upon; yea, what is more, till you have Declared and Signed that you are willing to become a Roman Catholick. Think therefore ſeriouſly of your Salvation, and of diſcharging Us as ſoon as may be; Obſtinacy is the ſole and diſtinguiſhing Character of Hereſie; pray, Sir, don't you fall into it, nor oblige us to puniſh you for it.

I would with all my heart I could do what you exhort me to, without offending God, or wounding my own Conſcience.

The King requires not that you ſhould wound your Conſcience, when He wiſhes you to become a Catholick, for he wills at the ſame time that the Truth be cleared up to you, and that all the Doubts and Scruples which trou­ble your Conſcience, be taken away: But withal, you muſt keep your ſelf in a teachable Frame, and not wrangle about Nicities, as your Miniſters do, who never will give way, nor grant any thing. Are you willing, Sir, that we ſend for a good Monk, who is not far off, and is able to remove and anſwer all your Scruples? He is a Reverend Father, of the Order of the Bare-foot Carme­lites, and is known by the Name of Father Cherubin, becauſe of his Charity, Purity, and Angelical Knowledge. Indeed he cannot chooſe but be a moſt able man, for he underſtands the Arabick and the Perſian Languages to a Miracle, and has long ſince (as 'tis ſaid) converted thouſands of Mahometans to the Chriſtian Religion: He'l relate to you an infinite number of Miracles wrought by vertue of the Holy Scapulary, which you may receive from his hands, and with it enjoy all the Priviledges and Immunities of that Holy Order.

I beſeech you, Sir, ſend for no Monks to my Houſe, for they are all perfect Viſionaries and ignorant Fellows: And you, Sir, who ſo highly commend the Scapulary, do you wear one your ſelf?

No, Sir, for ſeeing it muſt be always worn next one's Skin, I ſhould fear leaſt Vermine and the Order might breed in it, and infect my Body, which, to tell you the truth, is not too ſound already. And be­ſides I love not many Vocal Prayers, and Faſting much leſs; neither do I give any great Credit to all thoſe Miracles which are told in fa­vour of the Holy Scapulary: I have known a Captain of Dragons who wore it continually, and attributed to it the Vertue of having ſaved him from many Dangers: Upon a time when he was in the Trenches, and ex­horting one of his Comrades to take it on the firſt occaſion, a Muſquet­ſhot from the Enemy pierc'd him through and through, and drove part of the Scapulary into his Heart, ſo that he died upon the place; But how­ever it's likely that the Scapulary, or its Shade, accompanied him into the other World, and afforded him the priviledge of not continuing any longer in Purgatory than the next Saturday after. Well, Sir, ſince you do not affect Monks, we will take care you ſhall be inſtructed by a Learned Jeſuit, whom we'l ſend for, if you think good.

I don't fancy the Jeſuits any more than the Carmelites; And if I muſt needs be inſtructed (tho' I do not ſee my ſelf to ſtand in need of it) I find you knowing enough in theſe matters for me to confer with; and the Complement you made me at your firſt entrance, makes me ſuſpect you may be ſome Monk or Jeſuit in the Diſguiſe of a Dragon, and that to the end you might not fright us Protestants too much, who cannot bear the ſight of a Monk in his Cowle, without believing him a Devil in Maſ­querade. Thoſe good Fathers, you know, are Omnis homo, they become all to all, and put themſelves into what Figure or Diſguiſe you pleaſe, the better to act their part, in returning to the Boſom of the Holy Mother Church, and reuniting to her, the Children ſhe had loſt. Pray tell me frankly, Sir, Are not you a counterfeit Dragon, but a true Jeſuit?

Not in the leaſt; tho' to tell you the truth, I have been worſe than a Jeſuit.

How ſo, I pray?

I have been for ſome years a Proponent or Candidate for the Ministry; but having found, after a diligent Application of my ſelf to the Study of Controverſies, that both the Proponentiſme and Ministry of the Pretended Re­formed Religion, were but a meer Vanity and prepoſſeſſion of Spirit; and above all, a thing very pernicious to the Church, whoſe Peace they di­ſturb with a thouſand frivolous Diſputes, which deſtroy the very Eſſence4 of Religion; viz. Piety and Charity. In a word, having found that Pro­teſtantiſme had none of the beſt Principles, I turn'd Catholick, and became a Souldier, ſuppoſing that in this ſtation I ſhould prove more uſeful to my King and Country, than in acting a Preacher, and bolſtering up the people in an Error. This makes me ſtill retain a ſmatch of thoſe things that formerly were my ſtudy and employ.

Since it is ſo, we have no need of Monks nor Priests; foraſmuch as you cannot but know, better than they, what the things are which pinch Protestants moſt, and is the very Remora of their Converſion.

It is true what you ſay, Sir, only I have forgot to diſpute in Mood and Figure, as a Sorbonist or Father Jeſuit might do.

All the better for that; theſe modal Argumentators, and men of Syllogiſms confound all with their Sophistry, Ergoings, and Distinctions: And indeed, for the moſt part, they are no better than meer Pedants, and inſupportable to all ingenious men.

Be it ſo; However (ſince you put me upon it) I will endeavour to prove that you ought to become a Catholick, and that with this Syllo­giſme: If your Ancestors did without juſt ground ſeparate themſelves from the Romiſh Church, then it is your duty to return to her again. But your Ancestors have without juſt grounds ſeparated themſelves: There­fore, &c.

I defie the whole Sorbonne, and the Gentlemen of Port Royal, to ar­gue more exactly. I perceive now it will go very hard with me, and that I muſt prepare my ſelf for a very rude Shock, who have to deal with a Dragon, and a Proponent converted, both at once; but Patience, in an­ſwer to your Syllogiſme. I ſay, that my Ancestors had great reaſon to ſe­parate themſelves from Rome, foraſmuch as they ſaw, they could not be ſa­ved in caſe they continued in her Communion.

We muſt never ſeparate our ſelves from the true Church upon any pretext whatſoever; for without the Church here is no Salvation: And the Church of Rome is this true Church, foraſmuch as ſhe alone hath been always viſible, and the moſt extended and comprehenſive of all others. Now it is apparent that the true Church muſt needs be the moſt viſible and moſt extended of all others that are called Christian.

I don't ſee but that the Greek Church is every whit as comprehenſive as the Romiſh Church, and hath in all times-been as viſible as it. But where have you learnt that the true Church muſt always be viſible and moſt comprehenſive?

Of St. Augustin, where he Diſputes againſt the Donatists.

Don't you know that St. Augustin was a man, as you and I, ſubject5 to Error; and that he himſelf elſewhere exhorteth us to give heed to no other Authority beſides that of the Divine Scriptures? And you who are ſo ready to jump with him in this Point, would you be as willing to believe with him, That Infants dying without Baptiſm, and without the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ, are damned as much as the Devils themſelves and Reprobates?

No ſurely, but however it muſt be granted, that without the Church there is no Salvation; and conſequently the ſame muſt needs be always viſible, that men in all times may enter into Communion with it, and ſo be ſaved.

The Scripture no where ſaith ſo: It is without Jeſus Christ that there is no Salvation; And as for the Church, true it is, That we are to enter into Communion with it, but that is, when we can ſee and find it; and all thoſe whom the true Church doth caſt out of her Communion upon juſt grounds, are in a ſtate of damnation.

What? Sir, Will you ſuppoſe then that the Church of God can pe­riſh and ceaſe upon Earth?

By no means, for Jeſus Christ will always have his faithful Ones to the end of the World; yet that hinders not but they may be oft hid from the Eyes of men and unknown to them.

How is it poſſible then, that men in all times ſhould be ſaved?

By means of the Goſpel, which the Divine Providence will take care ſhall be preſerved upon Earth till the end of the World; and by the owning of thoſe Christian Truths, in which all Christians do agree.

You are very ſubtile; but in the mean time you cannot deny but that your Church and Religion are but of Yesterday, ſince they were never heard of in the World before Luther and Calvin.

Pray be pleaſed to look upon this Book, open it and read it.

Why? This is the New Testament.

And there, Sir, you have the Authors of my Church and of my Reli­gion; I hold it from Jeſus Chriſt and his Apoſtles, and from their firſt Succeſſors.

That cannot be, Sir, for your Miniſters came not that way; they are without Succeſſion, or any lawful Call; and they have either made themſelves Pastors, or have been Ordained by the People.

Not ſo, for the greareſt part of them came from the Church of Rome, and ſo preſerv'd the Call they received there, and the reſt were confirmed and approved by them. In a word, we find that Jeſus Christ hath com­mitted to Believers the Authority of the Miniſterial Function. But you Mr. Dragon, who are ſo ſharp upon others, from whence pray do you6 come? And from whence do you derive your Miſſion?

From Father la Chaiſe, and from Monſieur Maimbourg, formerly a Je­ſuit, and from the whole Body of the Clergy.

But, Sir, the perſons you name are no Dragons; and a Dragon muſt deſcend in a right Line from another Dragon; as amongſt you, a Prieſt derives his Authority from a Prieſt, and a Biſhop from a Biſhop.

Alas, Sir, you are miſtaken, there are more Devils and Dragons than I; foraſmuch as they are the Maſter-Dragons, and the Princes of Dra­gons; and for us, we do nothing but by Vertue of their Miſſion, and by the Spirit and Authority they communicate unto us. Lewis the Great, is he not the Head of the Gallican Church?

As for that, what you pleaſe, Sir; but in the mean time, behold here a new kind of Miſſion, and a Call ſo altogether extraordinary, that I think you are obliged to prove and confirm it by ſome Miracle.

And ſo we do every day; and what is more, I do intend to work a Miracle here in your preſence, yea upon your own perſon.

How ſo?

Why, the Miracle is this; That I ſhall aſſuredly make a Catholick of you in ſpight of your Teeth, and make you go to Maſs, notwithſtanding all the reſiſtance you can make to the contrary. Theſe, Sir, are our Mi­racles altogether unknown and unheard of till now, and which far ſurpaſs thoſe of Jeſus Christ and his Apoſtles.

The Prodigies you ſpeak of are a ſort of Miracles indeed, but ſuch as derive from the Red Dragon, from whom you hold your Miſſion, and you are thoſe Waters which he caſts forth after the Woman that fleeth into the De­ſert.

Fair and ſoftly, Sir, I pray,; you take too much liberty. Do you know of whom, and to whom you ſpeak? When you ſpeak to a Dragon, and of the King of Dragons, the greateſt King upon Earth, yea the God of this World: You ought to ſpeak with the greateſt Reſpect imaginable. And, Sir, I tell you once more to your Teeth, that I will convert you in ſpight of you. We have already drawn down and caſt headlong into our Bot­tomleſs Pit the third part of the Stars in the Huguenot Heaven, and ſhall you think to reſiſt us? No, Sir, know you muſt come down thither as well as the reſt: for it is written, That the Beast, that is, a Dragon-King (accord­ing to the language of St. John) who ariſeth out of the bottomleſs Pit, ſhall make war with the Witneſſes of the Goſpel, and ſhall overcome and ſlay them. Don't you already ſee the execution of this Sentence? Don't you ſee their dead bodies lying in the Streets of our great City? For indeed there is no more life in them, and they are no more than dead Carkaſes.

Alas, Sir, this pitiful and frightful Spectacle makes me melt in Tears; and would to God you had only ſlain the bodies of your Enemies.

Our great Maſter and King reſembles God in this, and we, as well as he, kill both Body and Soul together.

If you would be pleas'd to proſecute the Hiſtory of the Deſtiny of thoſe dead Witneſſes, you ſhall find that after three daies the Spirit of Life ſhall re-enter into them, and that they ſhall ariſe from the Ground where they now lie ſlain.

O, Sir, the meaning of that is, That of bad Catholicks and Hypocrites as they are now, they ſhall become true and zealous Catholicks.

I believe the ſame, but not in your ſenſe.

Well, I think we have now diſputed enough of Conſcience, and that you cannot but be cleared of all your Scruples; think therefore of Con­verting your ſelf, and that without delay.

In the Name of God, Sir, do not go about to force me to betray my Conſcience, nor to bend my Knees before the Calves of Dan and Bethel.

You are a Fool to talk ſo, I don't deſire you to Worſhip any thing but the Holy Sacrament, which I am ſure is neither Cow nor Calf.

But it is Bread, and Bread is inferiour to a Calf, foraſmuch as it is a living Creature.

I grant it, but the Calves of Dan were Gold or Braſs, or ſome other like matter, and Bread is better than all that.

You would then have me to Worſhip Bread.

Not at all, but the Body of J. C. hid in the Bread, or in the preſence of Bread, which Bread is the Image or Symbol of the ſame.

But ſtill if it be no more than Bread, I cannot Worſhip meer Bread.

You muſt believe, and firmly imprint in your Imagination that the Body of Chriſt is there; and in caſe you have not command enough over your own Spirit to make it believe this, then you may adore J. C. whilſt you proſtrate your ſelf before the Sacrament, in like manner as you might do at the ſight of a Crucifix.

If I might be ſuffered to declare and proteſt, that I Worſhip nei­ther the Bread nor the Wine in the Sacrament, and that I don't believe that Chriſt in his proper ſubstance is hid in them, I ſhould make no difficulty of doing what you ſay.

If that be all that hinders you to become one of us, the buſineſs is done: Go to, Sir, I give you leave to declare and proteſt what you pleaſe, provided you be no longer Huguenot or Schiſmatick.

Ay, Sir, it were well if the Biſhops were of as eaſie a temper and8 compoſition as you are, but without that nothing can be expected.

I dare engage my word all this will be granted you, upon condition you'l but go to Maſs,

I cannot believe that, for after all their promiſing and permitting us whatſoever we demand, they will have us believe all the Church believes, and that without exception.

You are miſtaken, Sir, they have ſomething elſe to do than to trou­ble themſelves about what you believe, or not believe; they are ſatisſied when you only tell them you do believe.

Foraſmuch as I can perceive then, the Thing required of us, is, that we be Lyars and Hypocrites.

I can't ſay anything to that, but at the moſt, it it but a Trifle and meer Formality, and deſerves not that you ſhould ſo ſubtilly canvaſs it. Beſides, we are ſufficiently convinc'd, that when you ſay you believe, you do not ſpeak the truth.

Why, that is the thing which ſo much the more ſurprizeth me; for if it be ſo, you are altogether inexcuſable, in obliging us to make De­clarations, which you know are only made from the Teeth outward, and we cannot but ſin in making thoſe Declarations, under what pretext ſoever, for in doing ſo, we deny the Truth, and betray our Conſcience.

Well, and what if you do? Do not the moſt part of your Miniſters ſign the Confeſſion of Faith of your Churches, and the Synod of Dort, yet without believing all that is contained in the ſame; yea notwithſtanding that they are for usniverſal Redemption, or Arminians, or even Socinians alſo.

I can ſcarcely believe what you tell me: But beſides, Sir, it is the Law of God which alone muſt be the Rule of our Actions, and not the Ex­amples or Conduct of Men.

Sir, I muſt return upon you as before, that you ſtick at a meer Ni­city and Formality; for my part I ſhould be loath for ſo ſmall a matter to hazard my Eſtate, my Honour, and my Life to boot.

You argue very politickly, but a Chriſtian muſt not reaſon ſo: Our Lord doth not permit us to do the least evil, that good may come of it. Be­ſides, there are many other things in your Maſs which are a great offence to me: As firſt it is Celebrated in a Tongue I don't underſtand, and ſuppoſe I d•d underſtand ſomething of it, moſt of the people underſtand no Latin at all. The Saints are Invocated, and God is prayed unto, with the Inter­vention of their Merits, which are put into conjunction with thoſe of J, C. and yet we know that J. C. alone is our Mediator, Advocate and Interceſ­ſ•r with God, and that it is by him alone and his Merits, that we have Ac­ceſs9 to the throne of Grace. The greateſt Saints that ever were, have ſtood in need of this interceſſion, and have been ſaved by it alone: And if this was not ſo, yet what reaſon have we to pray to thoſe that are dead, who neither ſee nor hear us, as being out of the Commerce of this World, and far removed from us. Moreover your Maſs is a Sacrilegious Communion, for the Aſſiſtants are invited to it, but upon Condition that they do not preſent themſelves to Receive, and to thoſe that do pre­ſent themſelves, they give only the one half of what J. C. commands ſhould be given and taken. In a word there is no going to Maſs without kneeling, or ſeeing others kneel before Images; which is a thing expreſly for bid by the divine Law. Now if any one be preſent at Maſs, he muſt either do all theſe things himſelf, or at leaſt partake with the Sins of thoſe that do them.

That the Latin uſed in the Maſs may be no rub in your way, it will be tranſlated into French, for the uſe of the People: Nay it is promi­ſed that the Maſs ſhall be publickly celebrated in our Mother Tongue to comply with your weakneſs; and as for Prayers addreſſed to Saints, if they do no good, at leaſt they do no hurt, and all other things in the Maſs which may offend pious and tender Ears will be altered; nay more, it is promiſed that the Cup ſhall be given to thoſe who demand it, provi­ded always, that none be ſo bold to demand it on his own private Autho­rity. I'll ſuppoſe with you that it is an unjuſt thing to refuſe the Cup to the Laity; however, ſuffer it as a piece of injuſtice and oppeſſion; are you to anſwer for the Sins of your Superiors? Celebrate the Lords Supper if you pleaſe in your own Houſes, but do it ſo as the Curate may not perceive it, for otherwiſe we ſhould be charged with a ſecond Miſſion to perfect your holy Converſion. What you alledge of Images offends me as well as you, and I could wiſh I had Orders to rid the Church of them, as I have to clear your Houſe of whatſoever is good to eat, drink, or make mony of, which if I had, I proteſt to you, I would ſoon diſlodge them all, without ſparing ſo much as one of them; wherefore in the mean time to free one ſelf from the Guilt of this Idolatry, it is enough to inveigh againſt Ima­ges, and as far as lyes in our Power to bring them into diſlike and deteſta­tion with others, and more than this you are not oblig'd to. See there Sr (if I miſtake not) all your ſcruples removed, and doubts reſolved; I hope therefore you are ready and willing now to become a Catholick?

You take them away indeed very much like a Cavilier, but let me tell you, not at all like a Chriſtian.

Well I have no more to ſay to you; and therefore do ſummon you once more in the Name of the King my Maſter to become a Catholick. What do you believe his Majeſty is damn'd?

Pray Sir don't turn your diſcourſe that way; if you were in Turky, and that a Turk ſhould beſpeak you to become a Muſulman, with this Em­phaſis, what do you think his Highneſs is damn'd? would you be pleaſed with this Diſcourſe? The King believes he does well in following the Re­ligion he profeſſeth; and as for me, I ſhould think I ſin'd if I follow'd the ſame, or profeſſed the ſame againſt my Conſcience. Pray Sir, would you your ſelf be willing, that others ſhould force you to become an Huguenot in ſpite of your Teeth?

Alas Sir how good and ſimple you are! as for our parts we are for any thing that pleaſeth the King, and if the Great Lewis would think fit to embrace the Alcoran, we would readily comply with it; we blindly follow the Or­ders and Will of that Auguſt Monarch, who is as infallible as either his Father or his Mother; for he is the eldeſt Son of the Holy Father the Pope, and the Holy Mother the Church, and he ſhall be ſo in ſpite of all thoſe that envy him, be it Flemings, Hollanders, Engliſh, Germans, booted, ſpur'd, arm'd, Cap a Pie, or whoſoever elſe you pleaſe.

All theſe Titles are denyed him in all other Parts, except here in France.

No matter for that, we are in France, and do not trouble our ſelves about Strangers: But enough of this diſcourſing, I ſummon you a third time in the Name of the King to become a Catholick.

I have been ſo long ſince.

Roman Catholick, I mean.

Is it not enough then, to be a Catholick?

No, you muſt be a Roman Catholick; and I have Orders to make all of your Houſe to become Roman Catholicks, beginning with you, and ending with the Dag and Cat, which we will bring along to Maſs, that they may keep you company there, but you ſhall march firſt at the head of them.

Whither do you think to flee, you muſt obey either willingly or by force. Hither Comrades, come help to bind this obſtinate Heritick, I think the Devil is in him, pray caſt abundance of Holy Water upon him, let the holy Father Mogileon be ſent for, the ſpiritual and carnal Fa­ther of ſo many Children in France, and out of France, and who knows how to exorciſe the Magdalens of this Age, better than any Auſtin Fryar or Carmelite in Europe.

Mogil. I exorciſe thee Creature Huguenot, by the H. God by the true God, by the living God, and by him who ſhall come to judg the World by Fire; unclean Spirits of Luther, of Zuinglius, of Calvin, and of Beza, who art come hither through the Woods and Forreſts of Germany, over the Mountains of the Alpes, the Rocks of Switſer-land, the Vallys of Luzer­ne and Agronne, and the peſtilent Lake of Geneva; Spirit of Schiſm, Sedi­tion, and Apoſtacy, depart at this very inſtant out of this Body, deſign'd to be fill'd with the Holy Spirit which proceeds from his Holyneſs, which ſpeaks nothing of it ſelf, and inſpires nothing but what his Author plea­ſeth: A Spirit, who, when it pleaſeth him, walks on the Ti•er, the Pau, and the Theſin, goes a Foot, rides on Horſe-back, in a Coach, or in a Cha­riot, may be ſhut up in a Portmantle, a Packet of Letters, or any thing you pleaſe; Spirit of Submiſſion, of Faith, and of Blind Obedience; Spirit Roman Catholick, enter thou into this Body and Soul, poſſeſſed by the Devil of Calviniſm, in the Name of St. Francis, of St. Dominick, and of the Patriarch Ignatius Loyola.

Ah Sirs, caſt as much Holy Water as you pleaſe upon, me but don't beat me with the Sprinkler.

We do this, that the Water may the better enter into your Body, and extinguiſh the Fire of Hereſy.

Nay if you be reſolved to kill me with blows, at leaſt let me not languiſh under your hands, but diſpatch me forthwith I beg of you.

Not ſo, we are forbid to kill you; but we ſhall ſo plague you, if you be not preſently converted, that Death will ſeem ſweet to you in compariſon of the Sufferings we are prepareing for you.

What, are not you yet converted? and will not you go to Maſs.

Ah Sirs! how would you have me to go, now you have burnt my Feet and Legs?

We will either carry you, or cauſe you to be carryed.

O Lord Jeſu have pitty on me and ſtrengthen me.

I find we muſt once more approach you to the Flame, that you may be more enlightned.

Take me away and do with my Body whatſoever you pleaſe.

What? ſhall we carry you to Maſs?

Whither you pleaſe, to a Moſque if you think good.

Did not I tell you I would do a Miracle here, and that I would convert you whither you would or no. The Glory of all be render'd to the Great King of Dragons, to his Holy Father Confeſſor, and all other Su­bordinate Inſtruments in this Great Work.