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A62921	Jesuits assassins, or, The Popish plot further declared and demonstrated in their murderous practices & principles the first part ... / all extracted out of Dr. Tong's papers, written at his first discovery of this plot to his Majesty, and since in part augmented for publick satisfaction.	Tonge, Ezerel, 1621-1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1877; ESTC R2873	22,639	22

his Spiritual Engines Lyes in Hypocrisy lying Wonders counterfeit Piety and the like against their Souls and Spirituals But let no Man be deceived by them the Devil is never more a Devil than when transformed into the sacred appearance of an Angel of Light nor his Ministers less but more Ministers of Satan for pretending and appearing as Ministers of Christ By these Works they may be known The Roman Wolf for all his Sheeps Cloathing is easily discerned by us by his devouring Teeth and bloody Chaps from a Shepherd The Dragon in the Revelation who though he had the Lamb's Voice and Horns had the Dragon 's beastly and dreadful Shape devouring Mouth and formidable Claws could not possibly be mistaken for Christ's Vicar by any but who had first given up their Faith to lying Legends Reason to his seducing Orators and Sense to his jugling Impostors to be led by their Noses into his Mouth A strange Religion in the mean time that is which requires for its first Principle that ye unman your self renounce Sense and Reason not in Matters of Faith but in those which are most properly by God and Nature subjected and objected to them And that they may worship Stocks first transform themselves into Blocks This Roman Circe to the end that she may keep Men in Vassalage under her filthy Lusts of Pride Ambition and Tyranny to serve her in those her unsatiable Passions turns all her Lovers into every Brutal and Feral Shape and Nature the farthest she can possible from that of Humane and Rational Some she indulges with Wine and Women till they be transformed to Swine and Dogs some she transports with the fury of her Love into ravenous and devouring Wolves Bears and Lions Such were the Powder-Traytors and the Assassins we speak of And here follows one of her Spells whereby she practises to make those prodigious Metamorphoses which are hardly to be believed by any who have not bin sad Spectacles or Spectators at least of her Sorceries In this as in a Mirror we may partly see how ouR brave English Spirits of the noblest Families such as Sir Everard Digby appears to have bin by his Letters are transported by them to such Extasies of horrid Zeal as to blow up whole Kingdoms Kings and Royal Families with their Parliaments at once and think such a Design to be the best of Causes and the most glorious Undertaking that ever animated Heroick Brests and to esteem Kings Princes Nobles and all the choice Gentry of their Native Country whereof many were their nearest Relations and Allies as so many Vermin not worthy the least pitty not worth the saving And I think on this occasion it will not be improper for me to record Julius Caesar Vaninus a Noble Spaniard and Doctor of both their Laws the Civil and Canon amongst our Powder-Traytors who is so far from denying that he glories and boasts of it not doubting to compare himself for it with and assume to himself the same fervour of sacred Zeal and Charity which at once animates and illustrates the most Holy Martyrs His words which I have inserted in the Margent with the Title and Edition of his Book which he wrote some ten Years before namely the Year after the Powder-Treason sounds thus I the very least Novice of the Church Militant being the last Year appointed and sent to London to be there exercised in the Christian Prize-Games laboured in that place of Exercise 49 days in cutting of Stones he meant the Walls under the Parliament House I was kindled and flamed with that desire of shedding my Blood for the defence of the Authority of the Catholick Church that no greater nor better Gift from God Almighty could have be fallen me So that I was judged by the Testimony of my own and the Conscience of my Fraternity who were exercised with me in the same Vault and Theatre if not Superior at least not to have bin Inferior to any Martyr Amphitheatrum aeternae providentiae Lugduni 1615. Exercitatione 19. p. 115 116. Martyrii virtus quae in charitate consistit à confessore aliquando perfectior quam à Martyre possidetur Quis enim inficias eat si non illustriori pari saltim Martyrii virtute charitateque praeditum fuisse D. Jo. Evangelistam atque ex Martyribus aliquem Ego sane vel minimus Militantis Ecclesiae Tyro cum Anno praeterito Londini ad agonem Christianum destinatus essem adeoque 49 diebus in latomtis tanquam Palestra quadam exercerer ea eram pro Catholicae Ecclesiae Authoritate defensanda effundendi sanguinis desiderio accensus inflammatus ut mihi à Deo immortalivel majus donum vel melius contingere nullo modo potuisset ita quidem si non superiorem inferiorem certe nullo martyre propriae Conscientiae Testimonium me judicavit confratrum qui mecum in eadem erant Xsto Theatro fortissimi digni sane qui tale Deo spectaculum exhiberent Id. Ibid Exercitatione VIII p. 71. He intimates his Country and Nobility And he concludes with great applause to himself and his Comrogue Roman Missionaries the trayterous Underminers of the said Palace as who for their Zeal and Valour were Spectacles worthy of the Observation not only of Angels and Men as St. Paul speaks in honour of the Holy Apostles but the respect of the holy Eye of God himself he means in the act of blowing up K. Parliament But here I must certify the Reader to the Glory of the Justice and Purity of that Heavenly Eye which still watcheth over our Kings and Kingdoms with a most sweet and merciful Providence and pursues such prodigious Traytors with condign Severity and Vengeance that albeit this Noble Spanish Doctor escaped both the Hand and Eye of Royal Justice in England whose diligence ought for ever to be commended as exemplary to all Posterity yet did he not escape from but was pursued by the Eye and Hand of Divine Justice to a most dreadful shameful untimely Death by the Authority of the Church for which he was so ambitious to shed his Blood and was burnt alive as an unparallel'd Heretick and died a professed Martyr beyond all example not in confirmation as I said before of the Authority of Rome and her Errors against the truth of Religion Policy and Morality with the Powder Traytors as he deserved and desired but which is horrid to be spoken gave up his Life in the Flames a Testimony and Witness against all Religion and God himself an obstinate and execrable Heretick and Atheist being given up by God to that reprobate Sense whereby ill Men Seducers and Seduced are justly suffered to fall into Temptations above their strength from which the humble and pentient are by his Grace in Answer to their daily Prayers delivered whereby they inevitably grow worse and worse till having filled up the measure of their Sins they draw on themselves proportionable Judgments And in these whether we respect Sin and

ungoverned Brutes I leave it to God to judg betwixt this People and their Superiors and to determine after so many thousands of Innocents flain in our former Confusions in all the three Kingdoms ralsed or promoted by these Incendiaries at whose hands that Blood shall be required which by any neglect of theirs in not trying up and exterminating these Furies may again destain and pollute this Land These following Propositions to prevent Assassins have bin perused and approved as not unworthy of publick consideration Da veniam subitis non displicuisse meretur Festinat Lector qui placuisse tibi Pardon kind Reader what you can't commend This haste to please deserves not to offend Other Depositions and Informations farther discovering the Jesuital Assassins and Assassinations Mr. Oates's Narrative JUne 13.76 Tho. Whitebread in his Chamber told the Rector of St. Omers That a Minister of the Church of England he meaning Dr. Tonge had scandalously and basely put out the Jesuits Morals in English and had endeavoured villanously to render them odious to the People and asked the said Rector Whether he thought the Deponent Mr. Oates might possibly know him and the Rector not knowing called the Deponent who stood at the Provincial's Chamber Door and heard these words and when the Deponent came into the Chamber of the said Provincial Whitebread he asked him If he knew the Author of the Jesuits Morals The Deponent answered His Person but could not well remember his Name Whitebread then demanded Whether he would undertake to Poison or Assassinate the said Author which the said Deponent undertook to do having fifty pounds Reward promised him by the said Provincial and was appointed to return for England At the said time the Provincial said in his Chamber That he and the Society of London would procure Dr. Stillingfleet to be knockt in the Head and Master Pool the Author of Synopsis Criticorum for writing some things against them Numb 30. July 78 Richard Ashby came to London with Instructions from Whitebread in which was an Item with a Memorandum for the procuring the Assassination of the Right Reverend Father in God Herbert Lord Bishop of Hereford for that the said Bishop had bin educated in the Popish Religion and was fallen and they were resolved not to pity nor spare any Apostate from the Roman Faith Ashby also said That Times being now ready to change they would be ready to give not only Apostates but also those Hereticks that had obstinately opposed the proceedings of the Society and their Agents in propagating the Faith and Interest of the Church of Rome a just Reward for their Apostacy and infamous Obstinacy and though the Parliament have taken away the Act for burning Hereticks they should not escape the vengeance of Catholicks Numb 33. August 9. 1678. Bazil Langworth and others of the Society did offer ten pounds to the Deponent Mr. Oates to kill Berry formerly a Jesuit now a Secular Priest because he had written and was about to print some sheets of Paper in vindication of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and in it persuaded Roman Catholicks to a more charitable compliance with Protestants And urged the Deponent If he durst not do it himself to procure some other to do it assuring the Deponent that whosoever did it and were questioned for it he should have a Pardon Numb 47. Mr. Bedloe pag. 42. April 75. at Paris at a Consultation two French Abbots and several English Monks discoursed about carrying on the Plot to subvert the Government of England to destroy the King and the Lords of the Council the King was principally to be destroyed and the Government subverted as well as the Protestant Religion Coleman's Tryal Mr. Bedloe Ireland's Tryal pag. 44 45. August 78. About the same time there was a discourse of a Design to kill several Noble Men and the particular Parts assigned to every one Knight was to kill the Earl of Shaftsbury Pritchard the Duke of Buckingham Oneal the Earl of Ossory Obrian the Duke of Ormond I will conclude these Informations with an Account borrowed from our ingenious Country-man a zealous Assertor of the Church though not of the Court of Rome nor their Jesuitical Parasites Braves and Cut-throats where you may see how these Artists imitate the Warlike Laconian Education of their Youth making by the severity of their Collegiat Institution the Sacred War to which they send their Missionaries a pleasure rather than a toyl as all they know who have had Education amongst them Baronius in his Roman Martyrologie so writes this Modern Wit saith That the Holy Priests as Innocent Lambs fatted in the Sacred Cloisters by the Holy Society of Jesus with divine Instructions for Martyrdom a Sacrifice acceptable to God and the Sacred Colleges at Rome and Rhemes have bin put to Death because they preached in England the Doctrine of the Holy Romish Church 1. King-killing as above in the Laws of the Holy Inquisition I wish he had not said it in regard they are Envoys of the Society of Jesus because they are accused to be liberal enough of other Mens Blood he means the Missioners and other Orders and therefore though it be a commendable thing to meet Martyrdom I would not have them guilty of sending People meerly upon that Errand when there is no need for it Then to breed them up as Victims to God looks as if we sacrificed them our selves and smells a little of Baal-Peor Then the word Cloister sounds like a Prison as if we kept them in Franks or Styes to force them to keep their Oaths he means of returning as Traitors to their Countries and upon this the Hereticks would be upon our Bones and say of the God to whom we Sacrifice them That it must be some God of this Age or World or else some God of the Earth i. Pope for that the God of Heaven requires now no more Sacrifices at all nor never did those of Humane Blood But that which spoils all is the word Fatted Greased or Anointed A. B. Valgrand sent me to Lipsius Saturnals l. 1. c. 14. for the meaning of it There I found the term was proper to the Gladiators who were pick'd out of the condemned Prisoners or miserable Slaves and afterwards maintained in their Sacred or rather Execrable Seminaries to the end they might purchase or pay for their Fat by their Death Qui dabit immundae venalia fata saginae Propertius They weary them out of their Colleges and Chambers of Meditation c. To furnish such as these the sharp-witted Prosecutors have provided and set up at Rhemes Rome Doway Madrid and Valladolid Colleges of young English who as Marcus Navarrus writes in his third Book of Councils by an established Papal Constitution are bound to swear before they taste any of the Popes Bounty in their Colleges That after so many Years they shall return into England to publish what they have learnt i. Assassination King-killing and City-burning as at this day I add and they at the entrance forswear their Allegiance also what good hath come of this Cardinal Bellarmine tells us in his Apology for Seminaries N. B. To justify our Laws against Roman Emissaries that before they are made Priests they are guilty of accumulated Treasons First It is Felony for any Protestant to go out of this Kingdom without his Majesty's leave much more for such a mischievous end as to be trained up in such desperate Principles in the Popish Seminaries as are there Professed Preached and Taught to the utter subversion of all true Piety to God Allegiance to Prince Morality Civility or Fidelity to Mankind 2. They renounce their Allegiance at their first entrance into such Seminaries which were first Instituted to teach a Foreign Allegiance to a Spanish Heir against Queen Elizabeth this is High Treason 3. They swear to perpetuate this their treasonable Renunciation by an uncessant activity in Treason in their return to England before they can receive any benefit of their Renunciation This intent of Treason were Treason though it should never be reduced into Act here in England whither it is Treason for them to come with such Traiterous Intention 4. At and before their Ordination their Bishops and Priests who in England have Episcopal Jurisdiction swear to be Enemies to all the Pope's Enemies and to seek their utter ruin and destruction I hope Priesthood by its indelible Character doth not blot out but augment all the Oaths and Obligations to Treason in consideration whereof it was and without which it cannot be given 5. All Priests who are of any Regular Orders are obliged by their Oaths to obey the Pope if not with Blind as Jesuits at least with Canonical Obedience and it appears above and elsewhere by the Canon of the Holy Inquisition and the Letter of the Pope's Law that they ought to molest us Hereticks by all manner of means Fire Assassination Regicides false Plots News c. of which we have lately lamentable experience till by mere vexation we be driven as thousands are daily out of other Countries to wander destitute afflicted and tormented in Exile or to forsake our Religion and Laws and live Slaves with our Prince under the Tyranny of the Pope and Devil FINIS