I Am confident that you, and the rest of your so­ciety are not insensible of the insolent affronts, the true Catholicks of late yeares have endured, and these, since your predominance in the Univer­sity, have bin aggravated severall wayes: I am sorry that your frustating the expectations of your reall well-wishers (I meane the Roman Catholicks) have forced me to brand you with the title of an ill dis­posed Governor, and enemy to that true Church, whereof you ought to be a prime Member.

It is strange that you should be guided by the giddy brains, and illiterate perswasions of puny fellowes, whose Learning hath bin admired, and discretion unparallel'd in the University of Oxford.

[Page]It is not to be denyed, but that this College was sounded, and consecreted to the studies of religions men, whose good workes here on earth might me­rit happinesse, and in the world to come make them shine forth as the Sun in the kingdome of their Father.

But your society have made it a den of Theeves by robbing the Natives of this kingdome of their priviledges (yea their Birth-rites) and extirpating those, whose lights would so shine forth to this Kingdome, that all the world might see their good workes, and the blessed Saints by their servent pray­ers intercede for the wellfare of all the Inhabitants to Almighty God.

You may, I am sure, will curse the time that you arrived safe in Ireland, if you doe not speedily curb the arrogancy of your Associats, who daily prate against our Catholick Religion, and in their pulpits abbrobe the authority of our Church, and holy Fa­ther the Pope.

But what needs there more: had we not conceived better hopes, this warning-piece had not gone off. Be wise and charitable to your selves at length; if not to us (for it begins at home) wee need it not. The God of charity hatd heard our prayers, & hath not stopped his eares to his distressed Militants here on earth: his battell we sight, we feare no bad event the cause being his owne.

[Page]He cannot forsake us, because hee cannot leave himselfe.

But I will keepe no longer from you, what in my duty I must impart: prevent now a course, if not too late, from your forsaken Mother the Church of Rome. It is already gone forth I feare, if our last let­ters have not prevailed: but his Holinesse, who if without offence I ma speake, being as mercifull as his Father of Heaven is mercifull, hath in his last good Letters inclosed this, which accept, and consi­der of.

Sir, This needs no interpretation, his holy mea­ning (who as yet I am sure never erred) is already decipher'd in characters of bloud. A poore begin­ning of Christs revenge, unlesse according to all Christians desire the issue prove more successefull; for we heartily wish, and indeavour if you persist, as I may use that accussed Hereticks word in the Scottish cause, to extirpate you both root & branch; dreame not of other Assistants, although policy may persivade you: your cause in your owne con­sciences is wrong, witnesse our happy proceedings so prosperously, so succesfully atcheived.

[Page]There are not a few wise men assembled in Eng­land to whom these affaires are open.

Were they as truly pious, as wise, making the Palace of Westmihster a true old Roman, not a Christian Senate, they would not Heathen-like so hastily contrive their, and your owne ruines; and as the true Copies of those former Tyrants joy in the bloud-shed of so many Catholicks whose sepa­ration from the body cannot please, unlesse their miserable, and never too much to be lamented Car'Kasses be on their publicke Gates exalted, and ex­posed a ridiculous object to their posterity.

This alone is a sufficient warrant for all our un­just miscalled cruelty: and hee that hitherto hath furnished us with 30000. will treble the number, since he hath promised never to faile those who really call upon him.

For we appeale unto his Almighty Throne, that neither poverty, sicknesse, or calamity true Mothers of Rebellion, together with unequall Taxations, or impositions, those first fruits of murmuring. have caused our resistance, but onely the cause of Christ, and his vilisied Church, as before the dread­full seate of Judgment we hope one day to answer, is, an ever shall be an occasion, now, and at all times, of the hazarding of our goods, lives, and fortunes, toward the confusion of Gods perfect Enemies.

[Page]So with onely this, I leave you. Feare not him that can destroy the body, but him that can de­stroy both soule and body eternally,