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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

they coming before the Board and being demanded where Commin was and the reason why he did not appear made answer that they had performed as much as they undertook which was that he should appear the day before A cunning Evasion to save both the Friar and their money that if they had received any further directions from Her Majesty and the Honourable Board to have brought him as that present day they would have obeyed the Commands but in regard the party accused was only spoken to to appear they supposed themselves discharged by his first appearance and not bound for his second with which nicety they drew their necks out of the Collar and Commin got an opportunity to make his escape Her Majesty sensible of this Affront which was the greater in regard it was to be a Publick Hearing caused diligent search to be immediately made all over London and Kent but all in vain for he went away that very Evening and was not heard of till some months after However by this search they found out most of his Followers who were examined before Her Majesties Council and said in their (c) Let their Opinions of men be what they will it is impossible for Dissenters who hear unlicensed Preachers to distinguish a true Protestant from a disguised Papist Opinions they had never seen so zealous and heavenly a man as he seemed to be from their Examinations the Council also came to discover the particular sums of Money of which this Religious Jugler hath cheated these deluded people There was no farther account of Commin till on the fourteenth of September one John Baker Master of a Ship called the Swan of London arriving at Portsmouth said he had seen the said Faithful Commin in the Low Countries Her Majesty being informed thereof sent for Baker to the Council Board who there gave them this relation That he had seen the said Faithful Commin in the Low Countries and that coming to unlade some Goods at Amsterdam one Martin van Daval a Merchant of that City hearing him talk of the said Commin told him that this Faithful Commin had been lately at Rome and that the Pope Pius Quintus had put him in Prison but that Commin writing to the Pope that he had something of importance to communicate to him the Pope sent for him the next day and as soon as he saw him said Sir I have heard how you have set forth me and my Predecessors among your Hereticks of England by reviling my person and railing at my Church to whom Commin reply'd I confess my lips have uttered that which my heart never thought but your Holiness little thinks I have done you a most considerable Service notwithstanding I have spoken so much against you to which the Pope returned How in the Name of Jesus Mary and of all his Saints hast thou done so Sir said Commin I Preached against set Forms of Prayer and I called the English Prayers English Mass and have perswaded several to pray spiritually and Extempore and this hath so much taken with the people that the Church of England is become as odious to that sort of people whom I instructed as Mass is to the Church of England (d) It is to be hoped he will be a lying Prophet who was a false one and that this Relation will contribute to the removing that stumbling Block and this will be a stumbling Block to that Church while it is a Church upon which the Pope commended him and gave him a Reward of 2000 Ducats for his good Service Her Majesty and the Council thanking Mr. Baker for his information ordered him to withdraw and upon this the Queen writ over to her Agents beyond Sea if possible to have Commin taken and sent over into England but the thing taking Air and it being the common Discourse how the Pope had rewarded this Imposter some of his Friends gave him advertisement of his danger which made him quit the Low Coontreys and seek a safe retreat in the Romish Territories However this produced that (e) This gave occasion to the Act for 12 d. per Sunday for missing Divine Service Act for preventing Popery and other Sects which enjoyned all people from ten years old and upwards not having a lawful Impediment to repair every Sunday to hear Divine Service under the penalty of forfeiting twelve pence for every such default What is observable in this Narrative is the original of Separate Congregations of Extempore Prayer the vilifying the publick Church-Service stiling it English Mass the pretences to the Spirit the denying the King's Supremacy despising lawful Ordination and Licenses to Preach in stated Parochial Congregations the jugling people out of their Money and their Loyalty are all Arrows that originally came out of the Romish Quiver and that there can be no doubt but ever since this mans success the Pope and Colledge de propaganda fide the Jesuits and Priests have been industrious to improve this Advantage and to stock us with disguised Emissaries who increase our Differences and exasperate all the Separations against the Church of England in hopes by our Divisions to destroy both But that in the mouth of two Witnesses Truth may be justified I will present the Reader with an exact Counter part of the same Romish Indenture whereby they have all bound themselves to work the ruine of the Church of England by this method of raising somenting supporting and exasperating Divisions and Separations among us The following Narrative is a true Copy taken out of the Registry of the Episcopal See of Rochester in that Book which begins Anno 2 3 Phil. Mar. and continued to 15 Eliz IN the year 1568 A strange Discovery of a Jesuit counterfeiting a Protestant to sow Division and raise Sects being the 11th of Queen Elizabeth one Thomas Heth Brother of Nicholas Heth Bishop of Rochester in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth came to the Dean of Rochester and pretending to be a poor Minister made Application to him to present him to the Bishop in order to some Preserment The Dean thought it fit to hear the said Thomas Heth Preach in the Cathedral Church before he would interest himself in his behalf to the Bishop Accordingly he appointed him to Preach upon the 21th of November where he took his Text Acts 12. ver 6. Peter therefore was kept in Prison but Prayers were made without ceasing of the Church to God for him But so it happened that while he was Preaching casually by pulling out his Handkerchief a Letter dropt into the bottom of the Pulpit directed to him by the name of Thomas Finne from one Samuel Malt a notorious English Jesuit then at Madrid in Spain This Letter being found in the Pulpit by Richard Fisher Sexton of the Cathedral he carried it immediately to the Dean who upon perusal went presently with it to the Reverend Father in God Edmond Gest then Bishop of that See who upon the

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

before being illiterate persons their intimate familiarity and immediate communion with God and Jesus Christ in and after their agonies and extasies their extraordinaay Callings Missions Messages to such and such particular orders fects places persons their sudden speaking understanding of several Languages which they pretend they never learned but got by inspiration all which are the very same in form and substance with those ridiculous lying Enthusiasms Impostures Cheats Agonies (d) See Wierus de Praestigiis Daemonum l. 1. c. 10. 17. in Jo Gerson de Probatione Spirituum Revelations Visions Raptures Illuminations Inspirations Apparitions c. of Popish Saints Fryers Priests Jesuits Nuns recorded in the lying Legends and Lives of their Romish canonized SAINTS by Capgrave Surius Lippomanes Ribadeniera Mafeus and other of their fraternity especially in the Lives of St. Francis Ignatius Loyola the Founders of the Franciscans and Jesuits Orders the principal Actors Speakers amongst the Quakers and other late Enthusiasts if fully examined and of St. Dominick for Men and of St. Katherine of Sienna and St. (e) Imitated by some women Quakers Bridget of Sweden for Women Out of this St. Bridgets Life and Revelations printed in Folio at Nuremberg Ann. 1524. most of our Male and Female Quakers extravagant new Revelations and Impostures are extracted as those who will but compare them may at first discern And though they conceal their Jesuitisme and grossest points of Popery from their Disciples at first baiting their hooks only with pleasing Novelties shews of superlative Sanctity and (f) See G. Emmot his Northern Blast p. 1.13 14. The perfect Pharisee p. 9.10 11 14 29 35 c. invectives against our Ministers Ordinances Church Tithes Government and the like that so they may more easily catch the silly people yet they discover their Jesuitical Positions and Popish Doctrines more openly by degrees at last as Evangelical Perfection Justification by our own inherent Righteousness and Holiness c. crying them up for new Gospel Light amongst the ignorant vulgar and crying down our Protestant Ministers Ordinances Sacraments the Articles of our Creed Church Liturgies Gods Ten Commandments the Lords Prayer our Churches and sometimes the Letter of the old and new Testament as Popish and (g) The Jesuits Popish Priests and Fryars condemned our Ministers heretofore as unlawful Ministers because they derived not their Ordination from the Church of Rome now they turn the scales and affirm them to be no lawful Ministers but Antichristian and Popish upon this false pretext That they derive their Ordination and Ministry from the Pope and Church of Rome Antichristian as the Fryers and Jesuits did heretofore in their Books and Discourses in their very Language And it is evident by some late instances that they are Anti-magistratical as well as Anti-ministerial Yea that these (h) See John Gilpin's and others 〈…〉 conce●●●●● the Quakers in the North. Quakers use inchanted Potions Bracelets Ribons Sorcery and Witch-craft to intoxicate their Novices and draw them to their party As Simon Magus bewitched the people of Samaria with his Sorceries Act. 6.9 11. and other seducing false Teachers bewitched the foolish Galatians that they should not obey the truth Gal. 3.1 which Enchantments Sorceries Charms Fascinations and Exorcismes are very frequent amongst Popes and Popish Priests Menks Fryers Jesuits as you may read at large in Joannes Wierus de Praestigiis Daemonum Incantationibus Basilae 1568. especially l. 2. c. 7. l. 5. c. 2 3 c. Platina Benno Cardinalis Baleus and others in the Lives of Pope Silvester 2. Benedict 9. John 20 and 21. and other Popes who were all most infamous Magicians Sorcerers and Inchanters by which black art they got the Papacy And Del Rio his Disquisitio Magie and John Jee his Foot out of the Snare London 1624. will prove the Jesuits and Priests in England are still accustomed to them to win and seduce their Proselytes Whence we find this Scripture expression concerning Romish Babylon Rev. 18.23 By thy SORCERIES were ALL THE NATIONS DECEIVED FINIS Books lately Printed A Judgment of the Comet which be came first generally visible to us in Dublin Decemb. the 13th 1680. By a person of Quality Interest of Ireland in its Trade and Manufacture c.