Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	church_n	doctrine_n	rome_n	2,813	5	6.6425	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46751	The narrative of Robert Jenison of Grays-Inn, Esquire containing I. a further discovery and confirmation of the late horrid and treasonable popish plot against His Majestie's person, government, and the Protestant religion, II. the names of the four ruffians, designed to have murthered the King, III. the reasons why this discovery hath been so long deferred, by the said Robert Jenison, IV. an order of His Majesty in Council touching the same ... : together with a preface introductory to the said narrative.	Jenison, Robert, 1648-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing J561; ESTC R11080	31,524	50

their Information Those Lessons being taught in the Schools of the Jesuits who afterwards did labour to infuse some of them into him The Seculars value themselves much on the accompt of their obedience to or patient suffering under those Princes and Rulers of a Contrary Religion to them in whose Dominions they reside Hence it is that formerly they persuaded those here in England of their own Sect and Profession to quiet subjection fealty and allegiance in the days of Q. Elizabeth contrary to the Principles and Practices of the Jesuits betwixt whom ever since their first Institution and the said Seculars there hath always interceded an irreconcileable Pique The former being as an Episcopal Protestant hath lately character'd them * Fuller's Ch. Hist Book 6. p. 279. The most active and Pragmatical Undertakers in all Christendom But alas This Censure is but a light Velitation if compar'd with that black charge of guilt which the Body of Seculars make against That Order and Society He that reads the Quodlibets of William Watson a Secular Priest published in the Year 1602 will easily confess That no Protestant Pen can decipher Jesuits in more dark and bloody Colours than he hath done For besides the liberal Epithites he intersperseth in his Book calling them Mountebanks Usurpers False-hearted Seditious Impudent Erronious Turbulent Malicious c. In his 5th Quodlibet Art 8. pa. 149. he hath these words speaking of them It is not unknown to all the Christian World as I verily think That in Rome in Spain in Flanders and every where but especially here in England Scotland and Ireland They labour to stir up all men under colour of Religion and Zealous Desire in them of our Country's Conversion against our Soveraign the present State c. But more fully in Quodlibet 3. Art 3. p. 61 62. he bestows his Favours on them in these Expressions They run now such a desperate Course as if Religion were but a meer Political and Atheal Device c. taught by their Arch-Rabbies how to maintain with Equivocations Dissimulation Detraction Ambition Sedition Contention Surfetting sorer than ever did Heliogabalus with his many hundred varieties of Services served in at every Banquet or Feast-Royal at his Table in setting Division breeding of Jealousie and making of hostile Strife by opposition of King against King State against State Priest against Priest Peer against Peer Parent against Children c. raising of Rebellions MURDERING OF PRINCES c. Are these Men then to be called Religious c. No no Their Course of life doth shew what their Study is and that howsoever they boast of their Perfections Holiness Meditations and Exercises yet their Platform is Heathenish Tyrannical Satanical and able to set Aretine Lucian Machiavel yea and Don Lucifer in a sort to School as impossible for him by all the Art he hath to besot men as they do Thus He. And though the same Watson notwithstanding his Zealous Professions of Subjection to Temporal Princes was afterwards put to death for Treasonable Practices against King James whereby he might seem to stain the Credit of his own Doctrine formerly delivered yet our Historians say That he was out-witted therein too by the Jesuits out of a Vindictiveness of spirit against him for his plain demonstration of their odious Practises mentioned in the asoresaid Book Hear what John Speed saith in his Chronicle in King James p. 1223. Watson having at large laid open in Print the Treachery and Unsufferable Machinations of the Jesuitical Order left this suspicion on them at his death that They in revenge had covertly and cunningly drawn him into this Action which brought him to this shameful End 'T is true The great Favourers of Ignatius and his Followers do look upon their Sect as a Necessary Bussier Floscul Historiar p. 386. 387. initii and Seasonable Supply to the Roman Church in regard it was instituted not many Years after the Assaults made against it by Luther To ballance the Protestants the Jesuits were set on foot as one of our own confesseth Fuller's Church History Book 6. p. 279. Melancthon and their Partners Yea Saunders in his Book De Schismate Anglicano drives the Observation a little further remarking it as a special Providence that the Order of Jesuits began to appear in the World when all other Religious Orders of the Roman Communion were suppressed in England by King Henry the Eighth Anno Dom. 1538. Nevertheless some Grave and Sober Persons even of the Roman Church do not without cause suspect that Their heady and rash Activity may in time contribute to the overthrow of that Religion which They would seem strenuously to maintain And we do reasonably hope that the violent Humour of that sort of men may prove like the over-officious Duty of that Servant who pretending to lift his Master up to Horse threw him over on the other side But to return to Mr. Jenison He as I have said being Educated in the Principles of the Romish Religion continued constant in his adhesion thereunto till about the Month of January last past The chief occasion of his Conversion was The Confident Asseveration of Mr. Ireland who was his Kinsman both at his Tryal and Execution concerning his being in Staffordshire at the same time when he knew him to be in London and discoursed him there upon which he entertained such Thoughts in himself That a Religion allowing such Palpable Untruths in the very Article of Death must needs be ill-grounded besides the Countenance and Encouragement it gave to the Slaughter and Assassination of Princes in order to which he had been tamper'd with by the Jesuitical Party These things did first shake his Stedfastness in that Profession before ever he had Will or Inclination to read any Protestant Books though since he hath been further confirmed in the truth of the Reformed Religion by perusing some Writers especially the Bishop of Lincoln's Book Entituled Popery or the Principles and Positions approved by the Church of Rome where really believed and practised are very dangerous to all c. Wherein he doth evidently prove those Doctrines to be maintained by the Church of Rome which Mr. Jenison supposed to have been injuriously charged upon It before Yet when he was in the Communion of the Roman Church he had alwayes a secret Aversion to those King-Killing Maxims which his Cousin Ireland and other Jesuits would have instilled into him Hence it was that they communicated their Principles and Purposes to him but gradually and guttatim allowing him time to ruminate upon and digest One Principle before they attempted to infuse another And the Consideration of those Principles and his Conviction of the Evils of Them hath proved by God's Blessing contrary to their expectation a strong Inducement to the Discovery of their Vile Machinations and Practices If any shall Object That the matters contained here in this ensuing Narrative are but Crambe his cocta or a repetition of what was discovered before