Sermons, Sacraments: and so all the Ordinances of God
are prostituted, with the greater reverence to enchant, and
binde the confederates.
Next, they are instructed in the more refined myisteries
of Equivocating and Mental reservation, which they are to
practise upon occasion; and so before hand they proportion
their Actions accordingly: For; all their Letters must be superscribed,
and subscribed without any name, but only with
a Single Letters, or some dark Character, which none but
themselves understand. Their Instructions and Dispatches
Likewise must pass un-figned without any names of the conspirators;
that if occasion be, every man may swear he never
had a hand in any, and if they receive any in the same manner,
only one man must see and read them, that the rest (if
occasion be)may swear they never received, saw, or read them:
by which means they suppose themselves secure, it being a
hard matter to prove, that ever they heard them when they
were read, hoping by this way of collusion to elude the course
of Justice. And so like wise for monies, the Sum Contributed
must be brought by the party, sealed up in a paper, and laid
down and left upon the Table in the room appointed, that
both the contributor may swear he never paid a penny to any
man, and the disposer, that he never received a penny of any
man. This was sufficiently manifested by Mr. Loves Trial; so
that if you please to allow him a grain of Equivocation, you
will the less wonder at his impudence, both before the Counsell
of State, and the High Court of Justice.
Yet this is not all that the Proselites are bred up to: For,
they are adjured (in case of discovery) not only never to confess
when they are examined: but if they cannot avoid confessing,
then by no means to signe the Examination: and if
they chance to be produced in Court to give Testimony, they
are to avoid it, if they can; or to mince the business with Equivocation;
or else utterly to refuse to testifie the Truth: and
all this under pretence of Conseience; which principles being
allowed; it is impossible that any Commonwealth can be
secure, or that justice (which is the Foundation of Commonwealths)