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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

as also by countermined platformes in practicall conspiracies for else whereto tended a Blanke importing treason wherevnto many were requested to subscribe their new Spanish Doleman to which day for the delay of it they giue the daily pox their treasonable plots for surprizing the Lady Arbella for solliciting Earle Ferdinando to rise against her Maiestie for entertaining Yorke and Yong in the plot for firing her Maiesties storehouses and to flie with ships and all into Spaine c. And the like in Scotland For by their doctrine of Prince-killing haue they not enioined one for penance to murder his Soveraigne and doe they not hold it for sound doctrine that if one of them be commanded to murther an annointed Prince he must doe his endeavour and none hath beene wanting as lately enough in the murther of the last French king and latelier might haue beene seene in the now regnant in our own deare Soveraigne sundry times by the Iesuiticall hand had not Gods hand beene the stronger Three or foure of them were esteemed Martyrs in Englād but they died rather to their shames for their sinnes than to Gods glory if her Maiestie and the State would take them at the worst they might all bee iustly condemned for erroneous and traiterous persons For out of the Jesuits docttrine certainely there is nothing else but treacheries treason and conspiracies and hence it must needes followe that there is not a Iesuit in all England but hath a smacke of impietie irreligiositie treacherie treason and Machiavillian Atheisme and it cannot be but as long as there is one Iesuit left in England there wil be mutinies treason conspiracies and factions do what Pope or Prince or any other is able to do or say to the contrary All their plots and conspiracies wherof I am fully perswaded there are a great many yet lie hidden and vnknowne tend herevnto this is it that makes their bookes so full of plots exasperations and conspiracies against the Church and common weale that causes their mony to fly so fast over the Ocean two thousand pounds intercepted in one yeare going over to prepare for an invasion for an exploit in time to come But how hath God favored these prevaricators Pharisees and Conspirators against God and their country these massacring butcherlie buyers and sellers of their deare countrymens bloud Their hopes of the English Nation were vaine and their Catilinian coniurations and conspiracies were not sanctified nor blessed by the hand of God Gods hand was ever the stronger and to conclude their evill successe shewes that God was not pleased with them The 61. Proposition Murderers of Kings Popes Cardinals c. THe Iesuits and their seditious faction do broach publish such a kinde of doctrine that subiects are no longer bound to obey wicked Princes in their temporall Lawes and commandements but till they be able by force of armes to resist them A most dangerous doctrine most vnfit to be published in this age By this doctrine the Iesuits murdered Henry the third and writ a discourse against him de iusta abdicatione H 3. as if it had beene hatched in hell practised against divers kings in France defeated the Polonian of his kingdom and here in England haue sought to compasse their wicked purposes by Norfolke Stukely Saunders For all which and many mo traiterous practises the Iesuits are at this day an odious detestable Generation But though they seeke to murder wicked Princes and propose rewards to such as kill tyrants yet it may be they will spare Popes Cardinals Bishops surely no they grow as bad as bad may be namely to the outraging of that which is most holy and if there be as there are shrewd suspitions in Rome cōcerning the death of two Popes two Cardinals and one Bishop already I make no question at all but that if hereafter any Pope shall crosse their plots and purposes the Iesuits wil haue such a figge in store for his Holines that shall do so as no Rubarbe Angelica Mithridate or other medicine or Antidote shall expell the venim poison and infection from his heart nor any bezar perle gold or vnicornes horne long preserue his life after it The 62. Proposition In Doctrine they turne all topsie turuie THey plunge themselues over head eares into Ecclesiasticall affaires with such audacity and obstinacie as they haue turned all topsie turvy The 63. Proposition By hereticall Positions OVt of the Iesuits doctrine certainely therein is nothing els but fallacie vpon fallacie errour vpon errour one contradiction encountring an other all nothing A Iesuit mainetained this most vile Atheall and heathenish assertion that one that is not a Christian may be Pope of Rome and an other Iesuit openly and for sound doctrine maintained it first to his Auditors in the Schoole at this instant openly in the Inquisition doth viz non est de fide credere hunc Romanum Pontificem esse Christi vicarium that it is no matter of faith to beleeue that this or that Pope of Rome is Christs Vicar To let passe their erroneous doctrin concerning their Generals infallibilitie of truth for deciding of matters their absurd Paradoxes of Equivocation The Iesuits every way in printed Books in writen copies or Manuscripts and most of all in privat conference haue taught contrarie to the beliefe of the Romane Church and therefore it is no marvell if in materiall points of catholike faith they oppose against the Angelicall Doctour and be therefore at this present in dighted before his Holinesse by the Dominicans in Spaine for Pelagians and sundry other kindes of Hereticks as also for impostors by the Sorbonists of Paris and all other French cleargie as we credibly heare The 64. Proposition By extravagant opinions NEver was there any religious order that tooke their course that held such phantastical extravagant exorbitant irregular opinions as they do The 65. Proposition Approving of the Stewes Fa Weston and Archer charged by Doctor Norden for defending the Stewes to be lawfull and very necessarie to be as lawfull as the Pope himselfe as if they had made as it seemeth a verie league with Hell against truth The 66. Proposition Abuse of Confession THEY abuse this sacred seale for the managing of worldly businesses herevpon it is reported that the Pope sent a precept or a decree to the Religious houses in Rome thereby prohibiting vnder great penalties that any should vse the knowledge of a mans estate in the Sacrament of confession to any Politicke ende or matter in any external affaire whatsoever but the Iesuits delayed their obedience herevnto and so they make confession a cony-catching or cousening tricke or slight to picke a man or womans purse nay to get all their lands by it and yet

vnmasking his violent nature of whom Cardinall Allen held this opinion that he was a man very violent and of an vnquiet spirit and said that his turbulent head and lewd life would be a discredit to the Catholicke cause and no marvel if we obserue either his words or Actions how they haue alwaies since his interdealings in State affaires tended to most cruell barbarous and butcherly designements as by the sequel of his life shal more plainely appeare And first for orders sake I intend to note vnto you his discomposed writings and afterwards his exorbitant or extravagant and lewde Actions not comprising al for that were impossible would aske a wider volume but comprehending some of the chiefest in each kinde The Bookes which he composed were partly of Religion partly of State of Religion as his Resolution c. of State as his Green-coat Philopator c. the former sort were very commendable and worthy workes indeed not only in the iudgements of Papists but of a very learned and iudicious Protestant who hath published some of them in print with open profession of some small additions where the Auctor or Translatour rather was found to goe amisse but the later sort are condemned by diverse learned writers in sundry passages of their bookes and nether Protestants nor Papists haue allowed them The best and first Booke which he writ and which won him all the praise was his Booke of Resolution which he premised and divulged respectiuely as an exordium to all the rest of his seditious Pamphlets and lying Libels to breed in mens minds an assured opinion of his Religion pietie and devotion and yet not to heap more praises vpon him then he iustly deserues he was but a Collector or a Translator at the most the Booke not of his owne absolute invention but taken out of other Auctors his praise was for wel translating of it close coutching and packing it vp together in a very smooth stile and singular good Method and alack alack as all men knowe it is easie to lay fine threads together when they are gathered to a mans hand and as easie to translate a worke almost verbatim out of peece-meale Copies into his mother language The true praise to say the truth of this worke was due to Granada that laid the platforme to Fa. Parsons hand and gaue him the principall grounds matter thereof and which also was deserved by Mr Brinckley for the penning as diverse report When he had made an end of this Book he made an end also therewith of devotion sinceritie honest dealing For after the publication of this worthy work he more beat his braines about State matters then about the exercise of a Religious life and happy had he beene as one wisely obserues if his pen had staied here gon no farther but when Religion was once wordlefied in him and that State matters and the designing of kingdomes had so great a part in his studies then he shooke hands with all shamefastnesse and bid all truth and modesty farewell and began to furnish the world with sundry bookes of State touching Succession after the death of the Queene and Reformation vpon the Conquest of this Land and such like and see the wilinesse of this Fox his turnings and windings here there these Libels the contents whereof were wholly infamatory came not forth with his name or any knowne liverie he either concealed his name or gaue thē such names as it pleased him to devise for which cause some Papists haue little cause to thanke Mas Parson and namely Mr Doleman in whose name hee set out the Booke of Titles notwithanding that hee detested the contents of it which might haue brought him in great danger This Booke was set forth against the whole State entituling most traiterously the Spanish Infanta to the English Crowne and the king Catholike as some thinke and spare not to say was privie to the setting forth of this lucklesse labour now this was Parsons policie and forecast if the Booke had beene commended as it neither was nor deserved it then who but Fa. Parsons should haue beene the Father thereof but now that many exceptions are taken vnto it hee good man is not the Auctor of it his name is not Doleman and gladly hee would shift and wash his hands of it but all the water betwixt this and Rome will not serue his turne so to do and thus much be spoken of his Doleman There followes or rather as some thinke goeth before a railing Booke of one Andrew Philopater alias Robert Parsons written in accusing or reprooving some one or many of all her Highnes Nobles and civill Magistrates What opinion trow we haue the best learned Papists of this Booke Some hold it to be a most seditious treacherous and infamous Libell and worthy of Father Parsons fraught til it almost burst againe with al Iesuiticall pride and poyson some to be a most vnpure and loathsom booke against the State take one example for all in this Philopater the Auctour very peremptory slie and saucie as his manner is very bold lie affirmeth that when kings do deflect from the Catholike Religion and draw others with them Liberos esse subditos c posseque debere si vires habuerint huiuscemodi hominem dominatu eijcere I wil not English the words for very shame Let vs go on forwarde to the examination of some of his other Bookes Was not his Greencoate alias his Leycesters Common wealth a famous booke Yes verely as Bookes in the Law are called famosi Libelli For it was an inormous Libell written against one of the Peeres of this Land Wherein the Malapert or Resolute Iesuit keepes his old wont to resolue vs peremptorily that a different Religion is a barre to inheritāce He might haue left such scoggerie as he hath set out in this Book to Tarleton Nash or els to some Puritan Mar-prelate or other like companions Next followes his Booke of Reformation which vnder reformation was Father Parsons Babell that is his castle in the aire wherein he prescribes Rules to al Estats here you see he is no changeling the same man that he was before or rather growne more audacious and impudent and wel he might considering that these orders were begunne in their deepe Iesuiticall Court of Parliament at Stix in Phlegeton and suggested thence into Father Parsons sconce being ended and compiled into a full and complete volume by him and his Generall intituled The High Court of Reformatiō for England Wherin are sundry wise Acts contained Amongst the rest that the Iesuits Capuchins only should liue there that Bishops must be Pensioners Abbey-lands thus thus disposed he also hath his Legem Agrariam limiting the Nobilitie and Gentry how much they should spende with a number of the like senselesse fooleries al