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A52246	Foxes and firebrands, or, A specimen of the danger and harmony of popery and separation wherein is proved from undeniable matter of fact and reason that separation from the Church of England is, in the judgment of papists, and by sad experience, found the most compendious way to introduce popery and to ruine the Protestant religion.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.; Ware, Robert, d. 1696. Foxes and firebrands. Part 2.	1682 (1682)	Wing N104; ESTC R7745	85,255	246

But the wiser sort will look to their Claws and clip them The Solemn Rites of Coronation have their ends and utility yet neither direct force or necessity they be good admonitions to put Kings in mind of their duty to God but no encreasement of their Dignity For they be God's Anointed not in respect of the Oil which the Bishop useth but in consideration of their Power which is ordained of the Sword which is authorized of their Persons which are elected by God and endued with the gifts of his Spirit for the better ruling and guiding of the people The Oil if added is but a Ceremony if it be wanting that King is yet a perfect Monarch notwithstanding and God's Anointed as well as if he was In-oiled Now for the Person or Bishop that doth Anoint a King it is proper to be done by the chiefest but if they cannot or will not any Bishop may perform this Ceremony To condition with Monarchs upon these Ceremonies the Bishop of Rome or other Bishops owning his Supremacy hath no authority but he may faithfully declare what God requires at the hands of Kings and Rulers that is Religion and Vertue Therefore not from the Bishop of Rome but as a Messenger from my Saviour Jesus Christ I shall most humbly admonish your Royal Majesty what things your Highness is to perform Your Majesty is God's Vice-Gerent and Christ's Vicar within your own Dominions and to see with your Predecessor Josiah God truly worshipped and Idolatry destroyed the Tyranny of the Bishops of Rome banished from your Subject and Images removed These acts be signs of a second Josiah who reformed the Word of God in his days You are to reward Vertue to revenge Sin to justify the Innocent to relieve the Poor to procure Peace to repress Violence and to execute Justice throughout your Realms for Presidents on those Kings who performed not these things The old Law shews how the Lord revenged his quarrel and on those Kings who fulfilled these things he poured forth his Blessings in abundance For example it is written of Josiah in the Book of the Kings thus Like unto him there was no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart according to-all the Law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him This was to that Prince a perpetual fame of dignity to remain to the end of days Being bound by my Function to lay these things before your Royal Highness the one as a reward if you fulfil the other as a judgment from God if you neglect them Yet I openly declare before the Living God and before these Nobles of the Land that I have no Commission to denounce your Majesty deprived if your Highness miss in part or in whole of these performances much less to draw up Indentures between God and your Majesty or to say you forfeit your Crown with a clause for the Bishop of Rome as have been by your Majesties Predecessors King John and his Son Henry of this Land The Almighty God of his mercy let the light of his countenance shine upon your Majesty grant you a prosperous and happy Reign defend you and save you and let your Subjects say Amen God save the King After his Majesties Coronation and the death of King Henry the 8th several of the foreign Protestant Clergy wrote to his Son King Edward and to that Honourable Councel whom his wise Father had carefully nominated for to instruct and advise that hopeful Prince amongst whom Mr. John Calvin was one as appears by his Letters to Archbishop Cranmer yet extant and Printed amongst others of his Epinies in which he offers his service to assist that King in the Reformation of the Church of England but King Edward and his Council refused his proffer The parties instrumental for disswading of this Prince from these offertures of Calvins and the reasons why he was not admitted to be one in this Assembly were not known until about the 9th year of his Siller Queen Elizabeth her Reign about which time Sir Henry Sidney some time Lord Deputy of Ireland and one of her Majssties Honourable Privy-Council having then the liberty to view the Papers of State within her Majesties secret Closet he happen'd to find a Letter directed to the Bishops of Winchester and of Rochester These two Bishops were Gardner and Ponett dated from Delph which he in a manuscript of his own afterwards in the custody of the most learned Dr. James Vsher late Primate of Armagh which was after transcribed by Sir James Ware and is now entred in a manuscript of that Knights number xliiii Running in this manner following Memorandum taken out of Sir Henry Sidney his Book called the Romish Pollicies numb 6. pag. 37. in fol. a manuscript with Archbishop Vsher Her Royal Highness giving me the freedom to search the affairs of State ever since her Royal Fathers denying the Jurisdiction of the See of Rome Sir Henry Sidney's words amongst other of his discourses within this Book amongst others of this sort I found a Letter directed to the Bishops of Winchester and Rochester part of the Contents being for my purpose be these as they were translated out of the Low-Dutch Edward Son of Henry the Heretick King of England by his crasty and politick Councel hath absolutely brought in Heresie which if not by art or other endeavours speedily overthrown and made infamous all other foreign Hereticks will unite with your new Heresies now amongst your selves lately planted and so have Bishops as you have and it is the opinion of our learned men now at Trent that the Schisms in England by Edward's Council established will reclaim all the foreign Sects unto their Discipline and thereby be one body united For Calvin Bullinger and others have wrote unto Edward to offer their service to assist and unite also to make Edward and his Heirs their chief Defender and so have Bishops as well as England which if it come to pass that Heretick Bishops be so near and spread abroad Rome and the Clergy utterly falls You must therefore make these offertures of theirs odious to Edward and his Council Receive N. S. and E. L. from Rotterdam their lessons are taught them take you their parts if checked by the other Hereticks for these be for Rebaptizing and not for Infant-Baptism Their Doctrine is for a future Monarchy upon carth after death which will please the ordinary kind well and dash the other that rageth now amongst you Reverend Fathers it is left to you to assist and to those you know are sure to the Mother-Church From Delph the 4th I de of May Anno Christi 1549. D. G. Her Highness one day discoursing of matters in this kind Queen Eliz. opinion at the sight of this Letter I told her of this Paper at the sight whereof she was startled the Letter being amongst her Sisters papers which caused her to express these very words I had rather than a years

raising these Divisions and Separations and that they judge this the most effectual way to introduce Popery that they hate out Bishops and Prayers and delude innocent and unwary people into a dislike and hatred of them that there is no way to discover them but by their sowing these Seeds of Separation and Sedition and that therefore it is the Interest of all true Protestants to unite with the Church of England and thereby give that deadly blow to the Romanists which the Bishop here seems prophetically to foretel and to quit these Separations which otherwise will hazard the ruine of the Protestant Religion by the Introduction of Popery Thus have the Romanists dealt with us and perswaded many to break down the Walls of our Church to make room for the Wooden Horse of Reformation whose Belly is charged with more Sects Opinions and Divisions than that which conquered Troy was with crafty Greeks All the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James they were busie in preparing the materials and undermining the Foundations of the Church of England but in the Reign of King Charles the First thinking themselves strong enough by the assistance of the Factious they had raised to effect their designs they gave Fire to the Train and with the pretended fears of Popery and Tyranny they first set Scotland next Ireland and then England into the flames of a most horrid cruel and unnatural War which they managed by the strength and power of Dissenters from the Church of England To confirm the Truth of this I will give the Reader an account which I find in Mr. Rushworth's Historical Collections Rush Hist Col. pag. 970 971. a Book much valued among Dissenters who tells us of a Proposition made to the King of Spain and discovered about the time that the Spanish Armada came upon the Coast of England in the year 1639. where among other passages discoursing of an Enterprize upon Scotland which was then in an high Ferment of the Covenanters against the King Bishops and Common-Prayer the Proposer thus argues that there could be no Fleet set out so strong as to attempt them by Sea except all the Kingdom contribute to it which says he Cannot be done except all the States joyn of which we of the Confederacy shall be the greater Part and so the Enemy shall forthwith be forced either to give Liberty of Conscience to the Catholicks or put themselves in danger of losing all Observe first The Scots had no enemies but the King or as they pretended his evil Counsellors particularly Canterbury and Stafford who all run the same Fate which the Papists in Habnerfield's discovery of their Plot had contrived for them Secondly Liberty of Conscience was the ground of the Quarrel Thirdly They of the Confederacy were the greatest part of the States but it is evident the Covenanters were the greatest part of the States for they had turned out the Bishops at that time and if there be sense in the Words or truth in the Relation it gives a remarkable glimpse of Light into this dark Vault and imports a secret confederacy against the King and Church of England between the Papists and Covenanters and that that formidable Armada was designed for the assistance of the Covenanters and the next page gives not only a greater Light but a clear vindication of the King from any such complyances with the Papists as were suggested and made the foundation of the War As for the King of Great Britain adds he If he will not give Liberty of Conscience he shall be reduced to it with no little damage Now who were they that pressed for this Liberty of Conscience and did reduce these Nations to it all people know And a little after he urges this design from the danger if the King of England being Confederate with all the Hereticks of Holland and Germany Enemies of God and Spain should be able to carry on his Pretensions and Title to the Crown of France add to this that there is no improbality that they who would treat with France and Richelieu as was proved the Covenanters did by a Letter written by the Lord Lowdon to the French King would make no difficulty to do the same to the Spaniard then the most Potent Monarch of Europe and which confirms the Opinion I do not remember the Scots made any complaint of this great Fleet as designed against them But that which makes the thing plain is the discovery which was made to Sir William Boswell by Andreas ab Habnerfield which was communicated first by Sir William to my Lord of Canterbury and by him transmitted to the King then at York Novemb 1640. The whole is printed by it self Rush Hist Col. pag. 1314. and in Rushworth's Collections and is too long here to insert but the principal parts and matter of the Plot was this That there was a design on Foot by the Papists against the Life of the King and the Archbishop That to effect this the Scottish Commotions were raised and fomented by the Jesuits that they exasperated the English Dissenters by the severity used against Pryn Burton and Bastwick and the Scots by the Fears of Popery upon the Imposition of the Common-Prayer Book that Cuneus or Cou the Pope's Legate and Chamberlain a Scot Chaplain and Almoner to Cardinal Richelieu were the great Negotiators of this Conspiracy and that the design was to embroil these Nations in a Civil War The Troubles came on so fast as may well be supposed precipitated for fear of a further prosecution of this discovery that the Archbishop lost his Head for refusing a Cardinals Hat and opposing the Scottish Covenanters and the King this because he would not give away the Crown and pull down the Mitre by granting Toleration And however the following Distractions and Rebellion stifled the further prosecution and discovery of this Plot yet the Tragical Event justified the Truth of the Discovery What the consequences of these Proceedings would have been if Providence had permitted those Usurping Powers to come to any firm Establishment God only knows but a Tyranny in the Church like that of the Papacy is most suitable and natural to the-Tyrannical and Arbitrary Government of Rebels Regicides and Usurpers But God miraculously restoring our Gracious Sovereign King Charles the Second to his Throne and the Church of England to her pristine Splendor we were in a State of Tranquility till of late years But the Papists envious of our Happiness began or rather continued to leaven the disaffected party of men in Church and State against both and how far they had driven on their designs for a second Revolution few people can be strangers the old Stories were revived and new ones minted to raise fears and jealousies of Tyranny and Popery to set us altogether by the Ears The Scots were animated to a Rebellion and did actually break out into a form'd Rebellion the Dissenters were busie every where to calumniate the Bishops and Church

1560 a strict Bull issued out of Pope Pius the 4th commanding all the Learned of the several Orders of that Church to find out proofs and reasons for perswading of Subjects to break their Oaths of Allegiance with their Kings and Princes and to gloss this device the better he dispenced with several of the learnedst of the Franciscans Dominicans and of the Society of Jesus to Preach amongst the Protestants of England nay with some of them to marry saying that the Marriage of England established by the Queen and her Clergy was no Marriage but plain Heresie All these so dispenced were to give monthly intelligence if from France to the chief Cities there if from Spain or from other Territories to those places and for fear any of these should be disswaded from their Orders others were sent to discover them if they found their inclinations so bending before they came to be fully resolved to turn this one Andrew Mr. Gibbons a Scotch Frier assured me who was sent for this purpose and betrayed one John Gyles who was then a recanting at the City of Glocester but Gyles ingeniously confessing all the contrivance and desiring proof might be brought who was his accuser Andrew Mr. Gibbons was summoned to appear and to proceed but Andrew suspecting that himself was catch'd straitly seemed to go but pretending to go into his Lodging for some papers to give the Bayliffs of Glocester went out the back-way and so took Horse and fled into France and came to Paris what became of John Glyes I did not enquire How the Penitents thoughts were when he searched after these writings first and how he altered his opinion after Still being desirous to search after all Indulgences Absolutions and Dispensations for Oaths Allegiance and for Rebellions to strengthen the Church of Rome supposing thereby to have made my self a Fortune and to be esteemed well of by the Clergy and Laity of Rome I for the most part made it my purpose to collect all things of this nature these being some of my Collections Paul the Third granted an Indulgence for Harlots to use their bodies with any men Paul the 3d. his Indulgence for Whoring and Adultery for money and to trade in this Sin as I found by his Bull in the third year of his Papacy granted upon the pretence that the flesh being so unruly a member could not be mortified although several Laws had been made against those evil sins yet the Sin was to be excused with those who could not consist in the state of Chastity provided the man gave a certain fee to the spiritual See and that the woman paid a yearly Revenue also and entred her name in the Registry to pay her fees accordingly which was to be gathered weekly this was pretended to go for the redemption of Slaves and Prisoners of the Roman Religion either with Turk or Heretick Every House or Stewes appointed for this purpose to have an Iron-Trunk or Box fastned in the Wall of these Stewes wherein the party thus inclined was before he could be permitted to take his pleasure to put in his summ through a slit in the said Box And three Testees were to wait on these Houses weekly to take out what summs there were thrown in whereof one third part was for the House the Whores were to have another third part and the See of Rome another third part at this time it being calculated that the Registry contained in Paul the Thirds days 45000 Harlots that paid him Tribute and that by Pius Quintus his Papacy it encreased to the number of 64360 Harlots paying him weekly Tribute and all those who went to any secret Whore were to be excommunicated if they were so catch'd until he had paid seven-fold the rate of the Whore's permitted which was seven Julies so permitted An Indulgence was granted by this Pope for to kill any that followed Luthers opinion The Popes Pardon for killing a Lutheran a thousand years pardon for his Sins besides the honour to be enrolled by the name of Rome's faithful Souldier This Pope Paul by his Bull entred at Paris runs Pope Paul's Indulgence to Rebels c. Englished thus Whereas we find the Hereticks now concord in the Administration of the Sacrament of the body of Jesus We grant full remission of Sins to those our Sons of our Mother Church that shall stop or hinder their union amongst Hereticks We also absolve all Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance unto their Heretick Kings Princes or States as they be enemies unto the holy See of St. Peter All men from their tye of Matrimony with Heretick Wives or Wives from their Heretical Husbands Also all Children from their Parental obedience either to an Heretick Father or Mother Also We absolve all Parents not giving to their Heretick Children their Benediction or Portion either to give their Estate to the next Catholicks of the Mother Church a-kin to the Family or to give or to dispose of it to any other persons use Paul the Third the Servant of the Servants of Jesus Christ and to Fernesius our Trusty and Faithful Son and Champion for the Holy See of St. Peter the Blessings of the Holy Trinity attend on the Person of our Well-beloved Son Fernesius of St. Peter of St. Paul of the Mother of God The Benediction of the holy Host of Heaven of the Arch-Angels Angels Saints Patriarchs Prophets Apostles and holy Martyrs assist thee and those fighting under thee in our holy Cause Paul the 3d. his Indulgence granted to Fernesius who went to fight against the Protestants in Germany We grant to thee our Son and Faithful Souldier Fernesius a true and plenary Pardon for all thy sins committed or to be committed by thee or any other fighting under thee fighting for the holy Cause of St. Peter our Predecessor of this See of Rome We will and command the Arch-Angels and Angels to carry into Heaven the Souls of those our Souldiers that shall be slain in Battel for our Holy See of Rome fighting in so just a cause immediately upon their Expiration not suffering or enduring the least pain of Purgatory Also an Absolution of sins of one hundred years to all the Children of those dying or being slain in this our holy Cause against the Hereticks and Enemies of our Holy See of St. Peters 4th I de June in the third year of our Pontif. Paulus Tertius Julius the Third continued the Council of Trent Beneventum that Archbishop upholds so doing and we find in the Universities of Paris a piece of a Letter of this Julius written to Casa the Archbishop of Beneventum wherein he returns him thanks and absolves this Bishop for a Book written by this Casa defending the sin of Sodomy Which I do heartily lament that I took not a Copy thereof but can assure that I saw that Letter and the Books name specified therein for Toleration and defence of Sodomy The Jesuits of Paris their opinion

prefixed time appointed and plotted by the Irish Papists to rebell in the year 1641. found with other papers at the taking of Droghedah after the Rout of Remines My Lord IF you can procure a Patent for the City of Dublin to make their Mayors Lord Mayors as well as London This Letter directed to the Lord Viscount G. their policy will be to offer the Catholick Aldermen to become free of the same none being so proper to consult herein as Alderman Jyans who must declare to the Table of Aldermen the great affection your Lordship hath for that City and also tell them how you are going over and shall tell His Majesty how much they be his faithful Subjects and in case they would accept of your Lordship you would honour their City to become their first Lord Mayer and so procure them Letters Patents for that Dignity and that it may remain upon Record how a Noble Peer of the Realm became the first Lord Mayor thereof This being broken unto them and his Majesties Letters procured for the passing of this Patent the work is in a manner perfected We be in a fair way ere long to asswage Heresie and her Episcopacy for Exetor's Book hath done more for the Catholicks than they could have done themselves he having written that Episcopacy in Office and Jurisdiction is absolutely Jure Divino which was the old quarrel between our Bishops and King Henry the 8th during his Heresie then disputed upon which Book doth not a little trouble our Adversaries who declare this Tenent of Exetor's to be contrary to the Laws of this Land You will see a great Oke fall speedily which formerly shaded poor Ireland's Glory All is like to prosper here so I hope with you there You shall have no more from me till we meet at London which I hope will be shortly Your Lordships Humble and True Servant at call T. White London Feb. 12. 1639. Copia vera ab Originale Vt fuit cum Hen. Midensis Episcopo In the year 1640. See Mr. Prynne's demonstration shewing how the Papists contrived the late Kings Murther and the then Rebellions in Scotland and England George Con a Scotch-man being then the Pope's Nuntio Prynne's Rome's Master-piece pa. 18. Sir William Boswell being then Agent for his Majesty at the Hague having intelligence of a Plot then advising by the Jesuits and the Church of Rome to take off his Majesty in case he would not tolerate their Religion wrote this discovery unto William Laud then Archbishop of Canterbury who immediately shewed the same to his Majesty The Papists upon this account and also remembring the overthrow he gave to Fisher the Jesuit thought they could not accomplish their evil design unless they took away this Pillar of the Church also then under a dissenting disguise they cast aspersions on this holy Father knowing nothing could make him more odious to the Commonalty than to say that he was a Papist or endeavoured to bring in Popery thus continuing in the gall of bitterness until he was cut off also Rome having accomplished her desires thus far now begins to aim at a higher strain His Majesty being about this time in great distress wanting Moneys and other necessaries to support him against Romish and Puritanical policies made his application to those Subjects whom he knew he might confide in who served him faithfully to the uttermost of their abilities yet several Judas's sprinkled amongst them betraid them with their kisses for it is well known as we shall afterwards make it appear from sufficient Authors how Rome ordered her affairs under-hand For to propagate this Plot of hers she divides her Emissaries thus She sprinkles some of her Tribe amongst the faithful of the Church of England and suffers them openly to declare themselves Protestants yet with Oaths and Protestations to pretend to serve their King Then with the dissenting party she Jesuitically disguises her self into a Puritanical dress to serve the adverse party hereby the better to find out the intentions of Kings and Princes and so to play her Game accordingly by which means they brought the Head of that glorious Kingly Martyr to the Block To prove that Rome was the chief Instrument to draw the Subject into this horrible Engagement we will begin to bring that Reverend person Dr. Du Moulyn for one of our Authors who in his vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant Religion writes thus When the business of the late bad times are once ripe for an History How Rome contrived the late Kings death See Dr. Dumoulyn pag. 58 59. and Time the bringer of Truth hath discovered the mysteries of Iniquity and the depths of Satan which have wrought so much ruine and mischief it will be found that the late Rebellion was raised and fostered by the arts of the Court of Rome that Jesuits professed themselves Independent as not depending on the Church of England and Fifth Monarchy men that they might pull down the English Monarchy and that in the Committees for the destruction of the King and the Church they had their Spies and their Agents The Roman Priest and Confessor is known who when he saw the fatal stroke given to our holy King and Martyr flourished with his Sword and said Now the greatest enemy that we have in the World is gone To confirm what this Reverend Divine hath written we entreat the Readers to cast their eyes on these words which Mr. Henry Fowles specifies in his History of the wicked Plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints pag. 14. His words being thus When the late King was murthered Prynne's brief necessary vindication pag. 45. Mr. Henry Spotswood riding casually that way just as his Head was cut off espied the Queens Confessor there on Horseback in the habit of a Trooper drawing forth his Sword and flourishing it over his own head in triumph as others then did At which Mr. Spotswood being much amazed and being familiarly acquainted with the Confessor Another testimony shewing how Rome contrived the death of the late King rode up to him and said O Father I little thought to have found you here or any of your Profession at such a sad spectacle To which he answered that there were at least forty or more Priests and Jesuits there present on Horseback besides himself The resultancy of this Story is home and pat and for the truth of it I refer you to Mr. Prynne Other Authors could we cite but to rational men knowing these two be sufficient proofs for our vindication we shall proceed no further for a testimony yet we shall desire the Reader to consider how so soon as these Priests and Jesuits had perfected this evil fact to take off the malignity of it from themselves they hit it in the teeth of the dissenting Party to this day therefore as a warning to the dissenting Party we shall desire them to consider how they were gull'd and brought into this ignominy The Papists in a