The Missionarie's Arts Discovered: or, An Account of their Ways of Insinuation, their Artifices and several Methods of which they serve themselves in making Converts

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London: Printed, and Sold by Randal Taylor, 1688. With a Letter to Mr. Pulton, challenging him to make good his Charge of Disloyalty against Protestants. And, an Historical Preface, containing an Account of their introducing the Heathen Gods in their Processions. [viii], xxiv, 96pp., 4to. With the initial leaf of imprimatur and errata. An excellent copy in later wrappers. First edition, a full and quite vituperative attack against a the same Jesuit schoolmaster who so exercised Astley Cressener, for which see elsewhere in this catalogue. Pulton had argued that in the last century Protestants had raised more rebellions and murdered more monarchs than Catholics had done “in Seven Ages before throughout all Christendom.” Wake here ranges throughout Christendom, including its colonies, to demonstrade Catholic perfidy, and gives a three-page, closely-printed in double columns, bibliography of works cited to prove his point. Wing W246A.

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