The application of redemption

This Canonical Institution, is the erecting of an Engine of Cruelty, to rack mens Consciences, and pick mens Purses to satisfy their own greedy covetous desires; and to set up their Lawless Sovereignty in the hearts of such, who have captivated themselves to their Directions and Counsels: for thus they have a noose upon mens Consciences, and hold men between hopes and fears, leaving them between Heaven and Hell, as they suit their minds. If they please their Humours, then they pardon them, and pull them out of Hell: If they satisfy not their expectations in giving so much for good use, or paying so much yearly to further the Catholic Cause, then their sins are such, to Hell they must go, they cannot be acquitted: This made their Drudges even weary of their lives, as never seeing an end of their misery, nor knowing what would become of their souls: And it's that which is called by John in the […], The torment of a Scorpion when he stings a man, Rev. 9 6. That men shall seek death, and […] not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them. And holy and judicious Brightman expounds it of this sting, That the Jesuits keep men upon the rack of this Confession, never knowing what will be come of their souls, nor an end of their misery, further than it suits their conceits. And the Popish School who were more ingenuous, have delivered in their Judgments, from these unnecessary burdens, ⟨p. 627⟩which the Jesuits as hard Task-Misters, have laid upon other mens […], and which they will neither […] nor move the least finger to […] any ease.

This Canonical Institution, is the erecting of an Engine of Cruelty, to rack mens Consciences, and pick mens Purses to satisfie their own greedy covetous desires; and to set up their Lawless Soveraignty in the hearts of such, who have captivated themselves to their Directions and Counsels: for thus they have a noose upon mens Consciences, and hold men between hopes and fears, leaving them between Heaven and Hell, as they suit their minds. If they please their Humors, then they pardon them, and pull them out of Hell: If they satisfie not their expectations in giving so much for good use, or paying so much yeerly to further the Catholick Cause, then their sins are such, to Hell they must go, they cannot be acquitted: This made their Drudges even weary of their lives, as never seeing an end of their misery, nor knowing what would become of their souls: And it's that which is called by John in the , The torment of a Scorpion when he stings a man,