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A30473	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	Three letters concerning the present state of Italy written in the year 1687 ... : being a supplement to Dr. Burnet's letters.	1688		.xml	application/xml	51794	1076	47	THE CIRCULAR LETTER , Put in English Most Eminent , or Most Reverend Lord : THIS Holy Congregation , having received Advertisement , that there are some in divers places of Italy , that by little and little are erecting , or perhaps that have already erected , some Schools , Companies , Fraternities , or Assemblies , under some other Denomination , either in Churches , Chappels , or in private Houses , under the pretence of Spiritual Conferences ; and these consisting either only of Women , or only of Men , or of both Sexes together , in which some Spiritual Guides , that are unacquainted with the true way of the Spirit , in which the Saints have trod , and that are perhaps men of ill designs , do under the pretence of leading Souls by the Prayer of Quietness , as they call it , or of Pure Inward Faith , or under any other name , in which tho in the beginning that they carry men , by Maxims that are of the highest perfection , yet at last they by certain principles , that are ill understood , and worse practised , do insensibly infuse into the minds of the simple , divers grievous Errors , that do break out into open Heresy , and to abominable Practices , to the irreparable prejudice of those Souls , who out of their single Zeal to serve God well , put themselves in the hands of such simple Directors , which is too notoriously known to have fallen out in some places . It is true , it was hard to find it out : for those who have been in Rome , know with how much caution all people there talk of matters that are before the Inquisition : those are like the Secrets of state elsewhere : of which a man cannot talk much without incurring some Inconvenience ; and there is no Inconvenience that is more terrible at Rome , than the falling into the hands of the Inquisitors : for besides the Danger that a man runs , if the suspitions are well founded , the least ill effect that this must have , is the cutting off all a mans hopes of Preferment ; for what a Suspition of High Treason is elsewhere , the Suspition of Heresy is at Rome ; and where there are many Pretenders , and there is so much to be expected , you may imagine that Hope and Fear working at the same time so powerfully , it must be very hard to ingage such persons as probably know the secret of things , to trust themselves upon so tender a point , to strangers .	cache/A30473.xml	txt/A30473.txt
