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A34533	A discourse of the religion of England asserting, that reformed Christianity setled in its due latitude, is the stability and advancement of this kingdom.	Corbet, John, 1620-1680.	1667 (1667)	Wing C6252; ESTC R19414	29,523	57

the succesful execution thereof is received at Rome with joy and triumph as the Murtherers in the Parisian Massacre were highly extolled by the Pope and rewarded with such spiritual Graces as his Holiness useth to bestow SECT V. That wheresoever it finds Encouragement it is restless till it bears down all before it or hath put all in disorder MAy we judg by these things how a Party devoted to the See of Rome are to be trusted and cherished in a Protestant Nation who mind the securing of themselves and their posterity from the sharpest Persecutions especially considering the Third Branch of the Charge That in any State where they find advantage or fit matter to work upon they are restless till they bear down all or put all in disorder Popery hath its formed Combinations and se●led Correspondencies over all Christendom under the Supreme Direction and Government of the Congregation at Rome for the propagation of the Faith which sent over swarms of Seminary Priests Jesuits and Fryars of all sorts who made their Hives in England The several PARLIAMENTS of the later times of King James represented to the King how the Popish Recusants had dangerously increased their Numbers and Insolencies having great expectation from the Treaties with Spain and the interposing of Foreign Princes for Indulgence to them how they openly and usually resorted to the Churches and Chappels of Foreign Ambassadors their more then usual concourse to the City and their frequent Conventicles and Conferences there how their children were educated in many Foreign Seminaries appropriated to the English Fugitives what swarms of Priests and Jesuits came into the Land many Popish and Seditious Books licentiously printed and dispersed From which Causes as from bitter Roots most dangerous Effects both to Church and State would follow For the Popish Religion is incompatible with ours it draws with it an unavoidable dependance upon Foreign Princes it opens a wide gap for popularity in any who shall draw too great a party it hath a restless spirit and will strive by these gradations If it once get connivance it will press for Toleration if that should be obtained it must have an Equality from thence it will aspire to a Superiority and never rest till it hath wrought the subversion of true Religion In the several PARLIAMENTS of King Charles the First not one Publick Grievance was more insisted on then the Growth of POPERY In the Third PARLIAMENT of that King at a Conference between the Lords and Commons about Popish Recusants one of the Principal Secretaries of State spake thus Give me leave to tell you what I know That These now both vaunt at home and write to their Friends abroad they hope all will be well and doubt not to prevail and win ground upon us And a little to awaken the Care and Zeal of our Learned and Grave Fathers it is fit that they take notice of that Hierarchy which is already Established in competition with their Lordships For they have already a Bishop consecrated by the Pope This Bishop hath his subalternate Officers of all kinds as Vicars General Arch-Deacons Rural Deans Apparitors and such like neither are these nominal and titular Officers alone but they all execute their Jurisdiction and make their ordinary Visitation throughout the Kingdom keep Courts and determine Ecclesiastical Causes and which is an argument of more consequence they keep ordinary intelligence by their Agents at Rome and hold correspondencies with the Nuncio's and Cardinals both at Bruxels and in France Neither are the Seculars alone grown to this height but the Regulars are more active and dangerous and have taken deep root They have already planted their Societies and Colledges of both Sexes They have setled Revenues Houses Libraries Vestments and all other necessary provisions to travel or stay at home nay even at this time they intend to hold a concurrent Assembly with this Parliament In Ireland a Popish Clergy far more numerous then the Protestant was in full exercise of all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction by Arch-Bishops Bishops Vicars General Officiats and a Vicar Apostolical And they had a special Cardinal at Rome for their Protector Among other Projects a Consultation and Overture of reconciling England and Rome was set on foot Some of Eminency in the Church of England gave advantage to the Project by declaring That only the Puritans among the Protestants and the Jesuits among the Papists obstructed the Peace of Christendom Some prime Agent of the Pope made a solemn offer of a Cardinalship to Bishop Laud at the time of his translation to the See of Canterbury Sancta Clara presumed to dedicate his Book to the King wherein the Articles of the Church of England were examined by the Roman Standard and distorted to the sense of the Council of Trent The Pope had Three Nuncio's Panzani Con and Roseti successively residing in England to work upon this State by advantage of the Project of Reconciliation This Faction had many Irons in the Fire and many strings to their Bow They had their Agents in Court City and Country They had their Spyes in the Houses of great men and such as kept continual watch over them that had the chief sway of Publick Affairs Their work was to raise and foster Jealousies between the King and His People to cast things into the hurry of Faction Prejudice and confused Motion And whether the Court or Popular Faction prevailed they thought it equally advantagious to their Designs which was to unsettle the present State and work Mutations Such Incendiaries are the Factors of Rome and such busie Engineers in the Confusions of Christendom Can any that considers the foregoing passages doubt of the powerful and special Agency of the Court of Rome in the Commotions that followed A Venetian Agent in England intimate with Nuncio Panzani and privy to all his Negotiations made this Observation If one may make judgment of things future by things past this Realm so divided into many Factions in matter of Religion and that of the Catholick increasing daily will in time be troubled and torn with Civil Warrs SECT VI. The PAPISTS pretension of Loyalty and Merit in the King's Cause Examined THE great Plea and boasting of the Romanists is Their pretension of Merit in the King's Cause The truth is the Papists knew that the PARLIAMENT was fully bent and deeply engaged against them and therefore despaired of any good to themselves by a direct and open compliance with them whatever undiscerned influence they might have on their Counsels So that Necessity made them to serve the King in that Warr. And they brought neither Success nor Reputation to His Majesties Affairs nor did He care to own their Assistance more then as justified by the present necessity And they have little reason to upbraid the Protestants with the scandal of that Warr for whatsoever was alledged in defence thereof by the PARLIAMENT and their Adherents as much hath been written by very Eminent School-men and Doctors

being found unmoveable the Pope published his Declaratory Sentence against Her by which all Her Subjects were absolved from the Oath of Allengiance and an Anathema denounced against those that thence forth obey Her The Popish Rebellion in the North breaks out Many horrid attempts of Violence upon Her Majesties Person were plotted one after another for many years together as that of Dr. Story of Parry of Arden and Somervile of Throgmorton of Babington and his Complices besides the concurrent Commotion in Ireland In these several Treasons many of the Seminary Priests were forward and active The great and setled Design was the advancing of the Queen of Scots to the Crown of England wherein were ingaged the Pope and Spaniard and French King and Duke of Guise in conjunction with the English Papists making use of her Title to set on foot those many desperate Enterprises against the Queen After the death of the Queen of Scots they raised a new Title to the Crown in the House of Spain The memory of Eighty Eight will be an everlasting Monument of Papistical Cruelty and Treason Cardinal Allen the first founder or procurer of the Foreign Seminaries a person admired as well by the Secular Priests as Jesuits penned a Treatise with all the Rhetorick he had to excite the English Catholicks to joyn with the Spaniards Among the Forces in the Low-Countries prepared for this Invasion were seven hundred English Fugitives After the Spanish Armado was dissipated the Jesuits had not done They would have stirred up the Earl of Derby to assume the Title of the Kingdom they plotted the poysoning of the Queen by Lopez her Physician they excited Villains to dispatch her by bloody hands and they never left soliciting the King of Spain till he twice attempted another Invasion In those times Parsons his Book of Titles was famous wherein he set up divers Competitors for the Crown preferring the Infanta before all others and slighting King James his Title as having but few Favourers and little accounted by Catholicks The Roman party could be provoked to these mischiefs by no other impulse then the impetuous zeal of their Superstition Some of their own did then publsh to the world their important Considerations to move all true Catholicks to acknowledg That the proceedings of Her Majesty and the State with them since the beginning of Her Reign had been mild and merciful In the several times of those mischievous designments though some priests were executed yet those that were found moderate in their Examinations obtained Mercy and a great number of them that by Law were obnoxious to death were spared from that extremity and only banished It is true that certain Secular priests did impute all those Treasons to the Jesuits and their Adherents and fully charged them with all the aforefaid matters of Fact in terms of highest aggravation acquitting all other Catholicks But it must be noted that the Jesuits were in greatest reputation and had the predominant influence upon the English Papists in general and as appears by the Seculars loud Complaints had such a power of disposing the Alms collected for their prisoners and other sufferers that such as complied not with their purposes were debarr'd of relief and pined for want And by their counsels the Foreign Seminaries those Nurseries of Disloyalty were wholly swayed And 't is observable That the agrieved Seculars never published their pretended abhorrency of these Treasons till they were over-past and themselves being driven to despair by the Jesuits potency were forced to take shelter under a great Prelate of the Church of England The same Spirit of Disloyalty was as active and vigorous in that Kings time who at his first entrance found himself excluded from Title to the Crown by two Papal Breves the ground-work of that Infernal Plot of matchless Villany and Cruelty the GUNPOWDER-TREASON After the defeat of which horrid Conspiracy the Projects of Rome proceeded not in such down-right Rebellions which always miscarried but in ways more secretly undermining Religion and as truly destructive to the Interest of King and Kingdom SECT IV. That it Persecutes all other Religions within its reach THE second Branch of the Charge against Popery is That it persecutes all other Religions within its reach In the Church of Rome for many by-past Ages the Meekness of Christ and the Dove-like nature of his Spouse hath not appeared but the Cruelty of that great Whore that was drunken with the Blood of the Saints and of the Martyrs of Jesus All that cast off her yoke and disown her pretended Infallibility are with her no better then Hereticks though they intirely own all the Articles of the Christian Faith received by the ancient Church And Hereticks are esteemed more vile then dogs and it is held meritorious to abuse and torment them Her Laws have made their punishment to be the sharpest kind of death Burning alive inexorably inflicted By this Romish Wrath and Fury were Three hundred Martyrs sacrificed in Queen Maries time for not believing the Sacramental Bread to be turned into the Substance of Christs Body against the most clear and distinct perception and reason of all Mankind But can humane Nature hear without horror the report of that direful Consistory called the Holy Inquisition established in those Countries where Popery is in full sway Doubtless that Church whose Religious Orders in a solemn and Sacred Judicatory shall commit such horrid Outrages as are indeed acted by those Infernal Judges upon pretence of Justice and Piety must needs be a School of Universal Cruelty for all her Adherents The Popish hath outgone the Pagan Cruelty What Treachery and Villany hath been acted What barbarous Indignities have been offered in ways as immodest and shameless as outragious and merciless upon pretence of zeal against Hereticks What varieties of strangely-devised Torments have been inflicted upon the Servants of Christ without sparing Age Sex or Condition Nor hath such work been done onely in our Age or Country but in all Ages successively and Countries universally that were imbued with Romish Principles Witness the huge slaughters of the Waldenses the persecutions of the Bohemian Brethren and of many others throughout Christendom in the former Ages And since Protestant-Reformation how have the Romish Zealots filled Europe with the slaughters of Christians within their reach in France Germany Spain Italy England Scotland the Netherlands In Ireland Piedmont and Poland their Cruelty is fresh in memory And the slain cannot be numbred for multitude they were killed by Thousands Ten thousands Hundred thousands at one and the same Persecution And the Tragedies have been acted where the Name of Protestant was well known yea where Protestants were under the shelter of the Law For the Jesuits uncessantly stir up the Princes to fall upon their people against Law and without provocation given and after things have been setled to break their Agreements with them And the Pope himself is the Contriver or Applauder of these Mischiefs and