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The Jesuites policy to suppress monarchy proving out of their own writings that the Protestant religion is a sure foundation and principle of a true Christian / written by a person of honor.
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Derby, Charles Stanley, Earl of, 1628-1672.
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Wing D1088
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THE JESUITES POLICY TO Suppress Monarchy Proving out of their own WRITINGS THAT THE Protestant Religion IS A SURE FOUNDATION AND PRINCIPLE OF A True Christian Written by a Person of Honor. LONDON Printed for William Cademan at the Pope's Head in the Lower Walls of the New-Exchange 1678. To all Supreme Powers by what Titles soever Dignified or Distinguished i. e. To Emperors Kings Sovereign Princes Re-publicks c. TO You Gods Vice-gerents on Earth over all Persons whether Ecclesiastical or Temporal next under god within Your own respective Dominions Supreme Governors I conceive fittest to Dedicate and Direct the ensuing Papers to You Most Illustrious they address themselves as to persons most concern'd in the Subject they treat about whereby is endeavored the Vindication of Gods Honor wherein as his Vice-gerents You are highly concern'd also Your own Supreme Powers and Authorities which in former Ages and yet still in the Doctrinal part have been often Invaded by the Bishop of Rome and their Abettors amongst whom the Jesuites have been still in the Front as the principal Champions against You and for those Bishops from whom all Anti-Monarchical Principles have proceeded under the veil and cover of other Religions as Quakers Anabaptists Independents c. which several Sects have been Abetted by several of the Roman Clergy thereunto Authorized and commanded by the Bishops of Rome to prevent a Reformation amongst themselves always a terror to them and the better to dâ—vide the Reformed Churches over the World according to that Maxim Divide Impera whereby they have not a little impeded the Christian Profession in the Inlargement of the Kingdom of Christ and thereby given occasion to the Enemies of God the Turks c. to Blaspheme and enlarge their Dominions and Territories hereby the Isle of Rhodes and Candie has been lost to the Eternal reproach of the Christian Profession for while Christians are disjoyned the common Enemy takes the advantage which by a happy Vnion ho would lose I shall here add a few particulars out of the History of France in the Life of Lewis the Thirteenth Fol. 1295. Vpon occasion of the Murther of Henry the Fourth of France by Ravilliac the words be these This wicked Murtherer confessed no other motive of his crime but the Book of Mariana a Spanish Jesuite which Book by a decree made by the Colledge of Sorbonne and confirmed by a Sentence from the Courts of Parliament was for that cause condemned to be publickly burnt before our Lady Church in Paris the tenor of the Sentence was The Court the great Chamber the Turnelle and the Chamber of the Edict being Assembled having seen the decree of the faculty of Divinity assembled the Fourth of this Month of June according to a Sentence given in May last upon the renewing of the censure in matter of Doctrine made by the said faculty in the Year 1413. Confirmed by the Holy Council of Constance that it is an Heresie full of Impiety to maintain that it is lawful for Subjects or Strangers upon any pretence or cause whatsoever to attempt against the Sacred Person of Kings and Sovereign Princes the Book of John Mariana Intitled De Rege Regis Institutione Printed as well at Mentz as in other places containing many execrable Blasphemies against the Deceased King Henry the Third of most happy Memory the persons and Estates of Kings and Sovereign Princes and other propositions contrary to the said decree upon the conclusion of the Kings Atturney General the matter being propounded the said Court hath and doth ordain that the said decree of the Fourth of this present month of June shall be entered into the Registers thereof and heard at the instance of the Kings Atturny General and read every year on the like day on Sunday in the Parishes of this City and Suburbs of Paris it doth also ordain that the Book of Mariana shall be burnt by the Executioner of Justice before our Lady Church in Paris forbidding all men of what Estates Quality and Condition soever they be upon pain of High Treason to write or cause any Books to be Printed against the said Decree and Sentence it doth also enjoyn that Copies taken out of the Originals of the said Decree and this present Sentence shall be sent unto the Bailewicks and Seneshaushes of this Jurisdiction there to be read and published after the accustomed manner and form And moreover at Evensong in Parishes in Towns Suburbs and other Burroughs the first Sunday of June enjoyning all Bayliffs and Seneshalls to proceed to the said publication and the substitutes of the Kings Atturny General to have a care of the Execution and to certifie the Court of their Diligence Vpon A Declaration or Letter from one Cotton the Jesuite to the Queen Regent to wipe off that Aspersion from their Society An Answr is framed unto it by the name of Anti-Cotton which you will find in Fol. 1298. The words be as follow Anti-Cotton the Doctrine of Jesuites for Murthering Kings Francis Ribadinera writing of the parricide of James Clement he saith forasmuch as the resolution Henry the Third took upon him was the advice of a Polititian and a Machiavilist not conformable to the rules of our Saviour behold the reason that by the judgment of God the said Henry was kill'd by a young Monk and dyed by the stroke of a Knife Carolus Scribanius a Flemish Jesuite who calls himself Clarus Bonarscius in his Book Entituled Amphitheatrum honoris sayes that if it so fall out that a Denis a Machonidas or an Aristotimus Monsters of their Age oppress France shall not the Pope have absolute power to animate against them some Dion Timoleon or Philâ—poemen that is to say tamers and suppressers of Monsters And afterwards speaking of a Tyrant wasting France will no man sayes he take Armes against that Tyrant wasting France Will no Pope set free that Noble Kingdom from the stroke of the Axe He cites Bellarmine who although he condemneth Treason against Princes yet in ambiguous terms he seems to approve it by commending Garnet the Jesuite in these words Wherefore was Henry Garnet a man unmatchable in all kinds of Learning and Holiness of Life so punished in the highest Degree but only for that he would not detect that which with a safe conscience he could not And the same Author in his Book De Pontifice Romano sayes the Pope may dispose of Kingdoms taking from one and giving to another as being the Superior Prince Ecclesiastical and the Jesuite Gretzer sayes we are not such Dastards as that we fear to affirm openly that the Pope of Rome may if necessity so require free his Catholick Subjects from their Oath of Obedience if their Sovereign intreat them Tyrannically yea he adds in the same place that if the Pope do it discreetly and warily it is a meritorious work after all this he quotes the Doctrine of Tolet Mariana and John Guignard a Jesuite Priest residing in Paris who had written a
thing to say to confirm me in my new-taken resolutions pray proceed for I am ready to hear you Ortho. In obedience Sir to your lawful desires I am ready to give you the satisfaction you now require to add therefore to what I have already urged I shall a little insist upon one particular in the beginning of our Discourse and that is where you plead so much that no Papist ever was against the Late or Our present King You are Sir now convinced as you have already declared what therefore I now say is rather to Confirm than Confute you because you are now one of us And thus I begin The Rebellion of the Irish is already mentioned therefore no more of that But I shall give you this further instance upon His Majesties-Restauration it was observed that when the Army formerly Rebellious were enjoyned to take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance that in every Troop of Horse and Foot-Company one Man or more did refuse to take those Oaths at first that refusal was attributed to the Republicarian or Anti-Monarchical humour and disposition but upon further inquiry and disquisition it was found out that those persons so refusing to Swear were Papists and more than that Roman Priests And this leads me to another Story I conceive proper to relate unto you and that is concerning a supposed Quaker under the habit of a Cobler that was a Tub-Preacher famous he was a long time during the Rebellion but by some that had been Travellers in Popish Countries was detected to be a Romish Priest and thereupon was forced to flie Caco Sir I thank you for this addition this puts me in mind of something of this nature which I have heard was discovered by Famous Dr. Hammond which as I take it was thus This worthy Divine was reading a piece of Chrysostom in a Booksellers Shop two Men in the habit of Soldiers being in the Shop one of them looks over the Doctors shoulder into that Book and turns the Greek into English with as much ease as if he had read English the Doctor being a little surprized turns about to the Translator saying I did not expect to see such a Scholar in that habit Sir says the seeming Soldier or Fanatick you are mistaken for I am no Scholar 't is true I understand all Languages but that is by the gift of the Spirit not attain'd unto by Industry or Humane Learning Hereupon the Doctor tries him in all Learned Languages and finds his Soldier exact in all of them at last he tries him in Welch and there the Spirit of Darkness forsakes his Disciple and leaves him in the dark it seems for at that time at least the Church of Rome for this Militant Gentleman was a Roman Priest wanted a Miracle to understand Welch for the support of his Doctrine so Truth overcame a Lye Ortho. I have heard that Story you now relate I am glad to see things of this nature so well imprinted in your memory I shall ever account our present meeting happy since it hath wrought so good an effect upon you What our Saviour enjoyned St. Peter upon his Conversion every person so Converted is to imitate When thou art Converted strengthen thy Brethren is Our Saviours Precept and to our Powers we are obliged to observe it And therefore now being disabused your self I make no doubt but you will disabuse others and so Noble Convert fare you well for this time Caco Pray Sir let 's not part yet but give me leave to ask you some Questions as concerning the Sacrament and some other things whereby we may confirm one another in the right Orthodox way Ortho. I am willing to wait your own leisure and give you what satisfaction I can and being you are pleased to mention the Sacrament I will relate to you a Story I met withal lately in a Book of Travails writ by one who had been a Romish Priest In Short his words are these One day as I was saying Mass after the Consecration of the Bread being with my Eyes shut at the Mental Prayer which the Church of Rome calls her Memento for the Dead there came from behind the Altar a Mouse which coming about came to the very Bread or Wafer-God of the Papists and taking it in his Mouth ran away with it not being perceived by any of the People who were at Mass for that the Altar was high and the People below it but as soon as I opened my Eyes to go on with my Mass and perceived my God stoln away I looked about the Altar and saw the Mouse running away with it which on a sudden did so stupifie me that I knew not well what to do or say I thought if I should take no notice of the mischance and any body else should I might be questioned by the Inquisition but if I should call to the People to look for the Sacrament I might be but chidden and rebuked for my carelesness which I thought might be more easily born than the rigor of the Inquisition whereupon I turn'd my self to the People and call'd them to the Altar and told them plainly that whilst I was in my Memento Prayers and Meditations a Mouse had carried away the Sacrament and that I knew not what to do unless they would help me to find it out again the People called the Priest that was at hand who presently brought in more of his Coat and as if their God by this time had been eaten up they presently prepare to find out the Thief as if they would eat up the Mouse that had so assaulted and abused their God They lighted Candles and Torches to find out the Malefactor in his secret and hidden places of the Wall and after much searching and inquiry for the Sacrilegious Beast they found at last in a hole of the Wall the Sacrament half eaten up which with great joy they took out and as if the Ark had been brought again from the Philistines to the Israelites so they rejoyced for their new-found God whom with many Lights of Candles and Torches with joyful and solemn Musick they carryed about the Church in Procession my self upon my Knees shaked and quivered for what might befall me expecting my Doom and Judgment and as the Sacrament pass'd by me I observed the marks and signs of the Teeth of the Mouse as they are to be seen in a piece of Cheese gnawn and eaten by it This struck me into such a terror that I called to my best Memory all Philosophy concerning Substance and Accident and resolved within my self that what I saw gnawn was not an Accident but some Real Substance eaten and devoured by that Vermin which certainly was fed and nourished by what it had eaten Philosophy well teacheth Substantia cibi non accidentis convertitur in substantiam aliti The Substance not the Accident of the Food or Meat is converted and turned into the Substance of the thing fed by it and alimented Now