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authority_n	peter_n	pope_n	successor_n	2,110	5	8.9988	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04344	The Iesuits downefall threatned against them by the secular priests for their wicked liues, accursed manners, hereticall doctrine, and more then Matchiavillian policie. Together with the life of Father Parsons an English Iesuite.	James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.	1612 (1612)	STC 14459; ESTC S107692	49,357	86

and given to stirres factions and seditions even whiles he was an hereticke what banglings had he with Creswell Scot Gibbons Holt English Alphonso an Italian and a number more of his Societie What contētions had he with Reverend Bishop of Cassana with Doctor Barret President of the College at Doway with Gifford with the Reverend Priest Mr Middleton with manie others of qualitie and due respect And as he had a special gift in canvasing and wrangling so in detractions and calumniations which are neighbour vices he was exceedingly well versed Wee need say no more he was the most impious detractor on Earth that ever lived from whom nothing came but detractions calumnies and sclaunders the best weapons the Iesuits haue to defend themselues and wound their opposits in the speedingst place they can Lastly to draw to an ende because I haue dwelt too long vpon this vnfortunate subiect the generall conceit of all that haue ever throughly conversed with him is this that he is of a furious passionate hot chollerick exorbitant working humour busie-headed and full of ambition envie pride rancour malice and revenge wherevnto through his latter Machiavillian practises may be added that he is a most Diabolicall vnnaturall and barbarous butcherlie fellow vnworthy the name nay cursed be the houre wherein hee had the name of a Priest nay of a Religious person nay of a Temporall Lay-man Iesuited nay of a Catholick nay of a Christian nay of a human creature but of a beast or a Divel a violatour of al Laws a contēner of al auctoritie a staine of humanitie an impostume of all corruption a corrupter of all honesty a Monopolie of all Mischiefe Thus haue you briefly the life of Father Robert Parsons the Iesuit faithfully collected out of the Relations of sundrie Reverend Priests who as I trust make a conscience of lying and detest from the bottome of their harts that absurd and hitherto vnheard of doctrine of dissimulation Equivocation and hypocrisie if their report bee true as I am in conscience perswaded it is for the most part then wo worth the Iesuits and principally Father Parsons whom they haue arrained of so many treasons petty Treasons Felonies villanies I know not what if false they which are so fowly mistaken in matters of fact how may they safely be trusted in a matter of faith which concernes the losse or gaine of a mans soule For my part though I do rather incline vnto the Priests thā vnto the Iesuits as ever taking them to be the farre honester men yet seeing one of the chiefest of them which was accounted whiles he was living a very Ecclesiasticall Macchabe against the Spaniard a blessed confessor towards God and a good Patriot for his Country whose integritie confidence of his heart was such as was reported that it was never but with the right who made this solemne protestation in his Bookes that not all the Art that either the Divell or the Puritans or Iesuits haue should bring him within the compasse of a treasonable or treacherous thought against God his Soveraigne or the Commonwealth of this land but in life and in death he would by Gods grace bee as loyall a subiect as any the English soile affords then the which none more loyall to their Prince in any nation to be found who to manifest his farther hatred of Treason and his loyaltie to his Prince and Country writ an Antiperistasis to Parsons Doleman and conceaved the forme of an Oath in effect the same with the Oath of Allegiance which was afterwards enacted in Parliament to distinguish the loyall from the disloyall Papists seeing I say this Reverend and loyall Priest was within few yeares after indicted convicted and executed for high Treason against his Soveraigne I could wish that all such as religiously feare God honor their Prince from the bottome of their hearts would consent to beleeue nether nother For questionles as long as both Priests and Iesuits doe constantly maintain this absurd Paradox and blasphemous doctrine as a solid certaine Article of their faith that the Pope is the onely Prelat that cannot erre in deciding a controversie or doubt in faith and Religion and that all the world else may erre in deciding of such doubts Princes cānot rest secure of their subiects nor the subiects certaine of performing their obedience either to God or their Soveraignes For example the king cōmands his subiects to take the Oath of Allegiance God forbiddeth his servants the Worshipping of Images there are many honest Papists in this land I nothing doubt that of themselues are in conscience so fully perswaded of the truth of both these precepts as well the affirmatiue as the negatiue as that they will professe to liue and die in this beliefe yet let the Popes definitiue bee brought vnto them viz you shal not take the Oath of Allegiance you shal worship Images they wil waxe pale turne colour and be ready to sweare and abiure their former opinions though never so wel grounded on Fathers Councels reason and auctorities For why Councels may erre and Fathers may be deceived al the Prelats Superiors in the world may faile none vpon Earth is warranted from erring but one and that one is the Pope and this Pope is Christs Vicar and Peters Successor and he hath decided it thus ergo so it is his auctoritie is an infallible rule of truth This is the Popish doctrine and this is the Papists beliefe the foundation stone of all Poperie a most absurd doctrin which hath not it proofe either from testimonies of Scripture or consent of Fathers but not to dispute the case being from our purpose nor to detaine you any longer my exhortation shal be vnto al the Popish Recusants of this land that as they feare God and haue a care of their salvations they wil not be too credulous to trust their Priests or Iesuits but rather suspect the Iesuits for Parsons and the Priests for Watsons sake for the wicked life of the one and the miserable death of the other may giue vs pregnant cause of suspicion that al is not true that either of them both shall say though it be spoken tanquam ex tripode vel in cathedra that is resolutely and definitiuely Our Lord Iesus preserue vs all vnto his saving Grace Deo soli sit gloria * Aug. 19. Mat. 8.9 Mat. 15.14 * This true Catholique faith without which no mā can bee saved which now I doe willingly professe and hold I the same N. doe promise vow and sweare to hold confes most constātly by Gods help intire vncorrupted even to the last end of my life to procure as much as shall lie in me that my subiects or those of whō I shall haue care in my office shal hold teach and preach the same So God help mee and these holy Gospels of God A Profession of the Catholike faith