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A56192	The Popish royall favourite: or, a full discovery of His Majesties extraordinary favours to, and protections of notorious papists, priestes, Jesuites, against all prosecutions and penalties of the laws enacted against them notwithstanding his many royall proclamations, declarations, and protestations to the contrary: as likewise of a most desperate long prosecuted designe to set up popery, and extirpate the Protestant religion by degrees, in this our kealme [sic] of England, and all His Majesties dominions. Manifested by sundry letters of grace, warrants, writings under the Kings own signe-manuall, privy-signet, his privy-councels, and Secretary Windebanks hands and seals, by divers orders and proceedings in open sessions at Newgate, in the Kings Bench, and elsewhere ... Collected and published by authority of Parliament: by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing P4039A; ESTC R220569	95,274	89

and there censured An. 1630. in the forecited Censure c. the Sponge of which Censure written by Herman Lomelius was answered by Le Maistre and withall they raised up such a faction and persecution against this their new Bishop of Calcedon in England and Ireland among the Popish party that they chased and banished him out of England into France where he was entertained by Cardinall Richelleiu Upon this occasion Le Maistre thus writes in his Defence and prints the insuing Letter of Rudesindus Barlo President of the Benedictine English Monkes in these very termes Nunc verò Episcopum c. But now they see the Bishop of Calcedon shining on every side round about with the splendor of Vertue by whose amiable light and prudence if the tempest should become more hard it might have been asswaged and calmed I say the Bishop of Calcedon greatly desired by the people coming FROM THE POPE most humanely entertained by Christians not grievous to the enemies of our Faith some enflamed with private hatreds and grudges have expelled have suborned secret accusers and Sycophants as if themselves would urge and imitate an OVER MUCH REMITTED PERSECUTION who cease not to complain of the grievousnesse of persecution You will you that I should speake have made you have raised a persecution neither hath Religion ever suffered under a more grievous evill then by impiety cloaked under the colours of a religious ●ruit For what was there that might provoke your gall against so great a man unlesse you purposed to execrate honesty sanctity modesty courtesie wisdome with the most filthy kindes of enmities Unlesse like the Syberites you scatter reproaches against the Sunne and indure not the light of so great innocence which no man ever ought to shun but he who would not imitate it Now all France is overslowed with greatest indignation against your madnesse from which since so many mischiefes have proceeded this one commodity accrues to behold and imbrace so great a man so illustrious a Champion of the Gospell so acceptable and lovely to our most eminent Duke and Cardinall But in the meane time the filthy patrocination of certaine Writers may cease to draw clouds over your wickednesse Did not Bishops heretofore carry divine books with them wheresoever they went even whiles the persecution was vigorous c Did they not when driven into caves hold assemblies reforme Priests performe holy duties dispence sacred mysteries What then forbids the same things and others which are not of greater pompe to be performed in England especially WHERE THIS HEAT OF PERSECUTIONS HATH CEASED THROUGH THE DIGNITY OF A MAGNANIMOUS KING AND MOST INVINCIBLE PRINCE BY THE BORBONIAN STAR WHICH HANGS OVER THESE COUNTRIES IN A MOST DEARE WIFE By which STARS AS BY THE DIOSCURI PERADVENTURE THE TEMPEST OF PERSECUTION WILL IN TIME BE APPEASED and THE GENEROUS PRINCE MAY ACKNOWLEDGE THE SAME CHRIST UNDER WHOM HIS ANCESTORS HAVE SO GLORIOUSLY TRIUMPHED But that it may appeare by how many Votes the Bishop of Chalecdon came desired into that Province I subjoyne a Copie of a Letter by which the most noble Society of Benedictines earnestly required Doctor Smith to be given to them for their Bishop by the Senate of the Church And hence 〈◊〉 will appeare how deserved their pride may be condemned who being but few in number have vexed the Bishop of Chalcedon against the Votes of so great a Fraternity with whom alone I am angry when as in this worke I complaine of the arrogancie of certaine men who call themselves Monks For in others I am alwayes resolved to reverence Religion and Modesty The Letter of Father Rudesind President of the English Benedictines to the sacred Congregation consecrated to the PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH 12 Decemb. 1624. MOst Illustrious and most reverend Lords of the most ancient Senate of the Catholique Church peradventure we doe a new thing and hither to unaccustomed yet as we hope neither ingratefull nor unpleasant to your piety Monks endeavouring to promote the cause of secular Priests although truly howsoever the abusive speech of the vulgar distinguisheth the Clergie from the Regulars as if the Secular Priests only should constitute the Clergie but the Regulars should by no means belong to the Body of the Clergie yet wee Benedictines were alwayes of a far other opinion esteeming even our selves to be some part of the Clergie although not a ruling part yet an assisting part out of the most ancient priviledges of the Sea Apostolike wee doe not therefore a thing different from our Profession if wee suffer together in the difficulties of THE ENGLISH CLERGIE since we judge the same in part to extend unto our selves verily we should not deserve to be under Christ the head of the Clergie if we should not suffer together with the Body especially with the Body of the ENGLISH CLERGIE of which we remember the greatest-part by far in the Primitive Church of the English to have been of our Fathers the Monks of Saint Benedict For that conjunction and participation therefore which our Body hath alwayes had in England with the Secular Clergie presuming most illustrious men of your benignities to the assistance of the said troubled Clergie we have thought wee ought to occurre according to our severall abilities not as ambitiously seeking any authority among them but as those who judge that even our tranquility doth depend on their quietnesse For we most truely judge that it is the onely method of Peace and concord that to every Order may be attributed what is its owne that due honour and authority may be rendred to the Clergy and their Priviledges may be preserved inviolable to the Regulars Hence is it that under the best and most prudent old man of pious memory Doctor William Bishop THE MOST REVEREND ORDINARY OF ENGLAND and Bishop of Calcedon the pious foundations of an wholsome concord were laid betweene the Seculars and Regulars THE WORKE-MEN OF THE MISSION we Benedictines agreeing the Venerable Bishop himselfe exhorting and proposing upon certaine necessary Articles of Ecclesiasticall Discipline whence without doubt it would have come to passe that the other Regulars following our example would have consented to the same Articles and a most joyfull face of mutuall peace and love in the whole Clergy of England would have shined forth but by the death of the holy Bishop intervening to him verily mature by reason of his long age but to us very unseasonable by reason of the beginnings of peace not yet confirmed these our endeavours lye in a manner intercepted and by meanes of the long delay of granting a successor Bishop almost quite dead For wee have received not without great dolor of minde from two chiefe men Master Matthew Kellison and Master Richard Smith ancient Priests and old Doctors of Divinity who among others were nominated to our most Holy Lord to undergoe the Episcopall charge that many things are objected by some onely out of a shew of the zeale of God but in

Roman Catholicke Religion to which he must condescend For the performance of both which Articles the King of Spaine demanded not onely the Kings and Princes Oathes and confirmations under the Great Seale of England which were accordingly given but an Act of Parliament and certaine Cautionary Townes in England when the marriage was accomplished the first whereof if not both were promised Whiles this match was in agitation King Iames assembled his Privie Councell together 25. of Febr. 1623. before the Princes departure into Spaine and there made a long Oration to them as the French Mercury never controlled attests some passages whereof are very observable That soone after he came to the crowne of England by the Popes exhortatory Letters to the King of Spaine and Arch-duke Albertus in Flanders there ensued a peace betweene the Crownes of England and Spaine That shortly after at the instance of many he caused the Image of the Crosse to be redressed and that men should not foule it under their seete That when he came first to the Crowne of England he spake among other points of the Apostolicke and Roman Religion and although it were the true yet then to avoyd all sorts of rumors which might then have risen to the prejudice of peace in the Re-publicke I said that in this Religion were many superfluous ceremonies the which deserved to be refused At the same time many Roman Catholikes our Subjects and members of our Realme presented us their requests by which they ●arnestly beseeched us to grant them the liberty of their Conscience upon the hopes they had to be so much the more comforted under our raigne as they had beene Dppressed under the raigne of Queene Elizabeth But as it oft times happens that those who ardently desire any thing imagine with themselves that it is very easie to doe or to be obtained and oftentimes prove the contrary so all the Catholikes who hoped to be releeved by us and to be disingaged of great and intollerable surcharges which haue beene imposed upon their Goods Bodies and Soules during the reigne of the said Elizabeth requiring onely of our Royall benevolence to be remitted to the enjoyment of their Goods Honours and Estates and to be maintained in the Religion in which all our Predecessours and Kings of Scotland have lived from Donaldus untill the time of our late beloved Mother who received Martyrdome in this Realme For Confession of the said Catholicke Religion A Religion which hath beene publikely professed so many ages in this Realme of England and which hath beene confirmed by so many great and excellent Emperours and hath beene so famous in all Ecclesiasticall Histories by an infinite number of Martyrs who have sealed it with their owne blood in their death were then deceived of their hopes by an apparent feare of certaine commotions which then might have ensued So that in all our Realmes for the sole respect of my person and not by Reason of Religion it selfe so as many of the said Catholikes have very well knowne there was no mutation or change at all had although they well k●ew There was in Us a Grand affection to the Catholicke Religion in so much that they haue beleeued at Rome that Wee haue Dissembled for to obtaine this Crowne of England But all this hath beene nothing else but the opinions of men the which one might have discerned in almy comportments during my reigne in not committing any Offices nor benefits to others than to those which have beene formerly purveyed for or appointed by the Lawes Now after that our bounty hath opened the doore to our Piety and that wee have maturely considered all the penuries and calamities that the Roman Catholikes have suffered in the exercise of their Religion seeing that they are of the number of Our Faithfull Subiects We have for this cause resolved to releeve them For which reason after we have maturely consulted upon this businesse we haue ordained and doe Ordaine and haue taken and doe take from henceforth all R●man Catholikes being our Subiects into our Protection permiting them the Liberty and entire exercise of their Religion without using in their behalfe and ●●rt of inquisition processe or other criminall actions by which they may be grieued or molested from this day forwards permitting them moreover to celebrate the Masse and all other Divine Seruices concerning their said Religion We will also that they shall be re●established and restored in all their Estates Lands Fees and Seigniories Commanding our Maiestrates and Iustices in this behalfe to hold their hands in such sort that none of what quality or condition soever he be for what cause soever it be shall not attempt hereafter to Grieue or molest the said Catholikes neither in publike nor in secret in that which toucheth the liberty of the exercise of the said Religion upon paine of being reputed guilty of High Treason and a dissurber of the Peace and of the repose of the Country such is our Will and Definitiue sentence After which he justifies the lawfulnesse of the Spanish match notwithstanding the difference of Religion and danger of feminine seduction relates his resolution to proceede in it with the reasons of it prohibiting any under paine of severest censures to speake against it Loe here writes this Mercury the causes which moved his Majestie of Great Britaine to seeke after the alliance of Spaine by marriages the which many in England and especially the Puritans or reformed and those of the English confession adhearing to this Sect were no wayes well pleased with and cheifely having understood of the Prince of Wales his honourable entertainement at Madrit and of the Articles of the Marriage which were to be cxamined at Rome So the French Mercury which thus proceedes Hereupon two writings ran from hand to hand the one intituled A Discourse of the Archbishop of Canterbury Abbot to the King of Great Brittaine and the other Vox Popul● the latter produceth many excellent reasons in point of policie and Religion against the Popish match with Spaine which you may peruse in the book it selfe being Common The first condemnes his Majesties toleration of the Roman Religion in his Realmes as being displeasing to God an anguish and griefe to his best Subjects professing the true reformed religion a great dishonour to himselfe who had publickely Writ and disputed often against that Religion which he knew in his owne conscience to be false and superstitious That his Edicts and Proclamations for the tolleration of it could not be confirmed without a Parliament which would never condescend thereunto unlesse he would openly shew to his Subjects that he intended to usurpe an absolute liberty to infringe and null all Lawes of the Country That it would produce many dangerous consequences and bring the just Iudgements of God both upon the whole Realme in generall and himselfe in particular With all it censures the ill advise of those who sent the Prince into Spaine

truth out of a hope of retarding that businesse then which there is none more necessary for the advancement of Religion and Piety in England Wherefore I deemed it appertained to the office of fraternall charity and to the zeale which I owe to Gods glory that I who unworthy preside over a great part of the Regular Priests in the ENGLISH Mission FOR WEE RECKON ABOVE SIXTY BENEDICTINE MONKES IN ENGLAND SVBIECT TO OVR CONGREGATION AND WE PREPARE FARRE MORE IN OVR COVENTS TO THE FVNCTIONS OF MISSION that I might give testimony to the Truth and to the innocency and credit of the said Priests I therefore humbly and sincerely signify to your most Illustrious Lordships that the said Venerable Priests Dr. Matthew Kelison and Doctor Richard Smith have been now very familiar known both to me and to the other brethren of our congregation by the conversation and experience of many yeares and that their manners are very well discerned by us Therefore before God I testifie that they both by us and ALMOST BY ALL THE CATHOLIKES IN ENGLAND are had in so great veneration whether wee respect their integrity of life or excellency of learning that we suppose there cannot easily be found their Peeres much lesse their superiours in all the Clergy of England whether Regular or secular And truely the glory of both their learning is sufficiently knowne to the Catholike world by the most learned Bookes set forth by both of them against Hereticks in Latin and English but to us it is more specially knowne who have knowne both of them to have a long time governed the Chaire with great praise of learning as well in Phylosophy as in Theology and we know that Dr. Kellion was chiefe Professor of Divinity for many yeares in the Vniversity of Rhemes and that Doctor Richard Smith was first conjoyned in the society of Studies to the most learned Bishop of Lussion now Cardinall of Richelieu And concerning the integrity of both their lives we can say seeing both of them are familiar to us and our Brethren by their almost daily conversation that we never yet knew any thing in their manners which might not beseeme grave Bishops yea that we have alwaies found so great gravity meekenesse and devotion in them as that wee may deservedly rejoyce we have been conjoyned to them in a most firme amity for many yeares And this our testimony concerning them is so much the more worthy of acceptation that whereas we are of that order of Monkes who had the chiefest power heretofore in England who had eleaven Bishopricks in their power and the Regiment of Cathedrall Churches computing also the Arch-Bishopricke of Canterbury if we would doe after the manner of men it is more likely for the desire of ancient power we would rather resist the secular Clergy as emulous than give assistance to them But wee emulating the humanity and sincerity of our Fathers and seeking the glory of Christ not our owne honoar desire the quiet profit and encrease of the secular Clergy as much as our owne tranquility Therefore we onely affirme that these things which wee have testified of the fore-named Doctors are so manifestly knowne to all good men in OVR ENGLAND that verily they may suffer a great scandall whosoever shall dare irreverently to back-bite the said Priests of Christ before your tribunall Therefore we Benedictines your humble Servants and Sonnes beseech you that rejecting their accusations who denigrate the same of the best Priests onely that themselves alone in a Clergy without an head may shine as it were by an Anteperistisis that they may seeme Hierarchicall and by a division of mindes in the Clergy may thinke that the best way to greatnesse lyeth open to them you would be pleased TO GRANT A BISHOP TO OVR ENGLAND seeing that no Province of the Catholike world hath more neede of one Whether we respect the necessity of the Sacrament of confirmation whose frequent ministration by the Reverend Bishop of Calcedon hath wonderfully erected the minds of our Catholikes or the concord dignity of the Clergy and the observance of Ecclesiasticall Discipline whichseemes by no meanes to be able to be preserved without Episcopall Authority NEITHER IS IT TO BE DOVBTED for we have already scene the GOOD SVCCESSE VNDER THE FIRST BISHOP that ANOTHER BISHOP BEING CONSTITVTED you WOVLD BEHOLD MORE IOYFVLL FRVITES WITHIN ONE TWO YEARES IN THE ENGLISH MISSION THEN HITHER TO YOV HAVE BEHELD FOR SIXTY YEARES NOW ELAPSED THERE BEING NO BISHOP IN THE SAME Neither ought the Religious to feare least Episcopall Authority should be burthensome to them for the Authority instituted by Christ can hurt none who is truely a Christian and wee see not why the Regula●s with their priviledges given them by the Apostolike See for most just Reasons may not as happily agree with a Bishop and secular Clergy in the English Mission as well as we see they every where doe out of England especially seeing a forme is already affected at least by us who by the exhortation of the most Reverend Bishop of Calcedon conspire in the best concord with the secular Clergie and in the observance of a uniforme Discipline saving our priviledges And whosoever at last is to be Bishop but especially if he shall be one of the two here named whom we know to be very friendly to the Regulars we doubt not but that the same sweetnesse of concord and conformity of Discipline will be continued God directing the endeavours of us all These things most illustrious Cardinals Patrons to be especially observed I have which in the name of my selfe and of the whole congregation I would humbly professe in the cause and for the cause of our secular Clergie of England it remaineth that I should earnestly request your most illustrious Lordships most gratefully to accept of this my service and that you would vouchsafe by your Authority to foster and corroborate our Congregation which neither yeelds nor will ever yeeld to any Society or Congregation in true observance towards the See Apostolike Now the God of glory and our Lord Iesus blesse your Lordship with perpetuall safety to the comfort and honour of his Church From the Covent of Saint Gregory of the Benedictines at Doway in Flanders the twelfth of December 1624. The most humble Servant and unworthy Sonne of your most illustrious Honours F. Rudesindus Barlo President of the ENGLISH CONGREGATION of the Order of Saint Benedict By which passage and Letter it is most apparant That the Kings match with the Queen was both in design and event the greatest means to advance Popery in England to suspend the Laws proceeding against Popish Priests and Monks and to reduce both the King and Prince to the entertaining and professing of the Roman Catholike Faith as Le Maistre his words assure us and this the Articles of agreement made and sworn to by the King upon the marriage with the Queen confirme What power these Benedictine Monks have

gained in England since this letter appeares by the Popes new printed Briefe directed to them and by this memorable story Anno 1634. Lewes Cooke Generall of the Benedictines dying without issue at Temple Cowly in Oxfordshire where he had Purchased divers lands and goods his brother a Civillian in Ireland hearing of it comes over and claimes his lands as heire his goods as Administrator to him the Benedictines withstood his claime to both alleadging that he purchased both goods and Lands with the money of the Order and for their use and maintenance onely And by Sir William Howard and their Court friend there made such a strong party against the heire that dispairing of his own right he made his addresses to Sir Iohn Bankes the Kings Attorny and procures a Commission of inquiry with a Fiat under his hand dated 2. Ianuary 1635. to intitle the King to the Lands and goods as a mortmain purchased to the use of these Monkes whereupon they compounded with the heire and gave him 300 l. as I am credibly informed by Mr Bernard who drew the commission wherupon it proceeded no further I shall conclude with the testimony of two English Iesuites which I fitted for the Presse An. 1636. in this ensuing peice sent lately to me by a friend who preserved it beyond my expectation as if Gods providence had reserved it to accompany the Premises The Iesuits Looking glasse OR The testimony of two late Priests and Iesuits touching the present condition of the Church of England and the greatest swaying Prelates thereof CHristian Reader it is Aquinas his observation that from the time Bishops were indowed with worldly honours offices riches power and great temporall possessions the very bane and poison of the Church as Authors stile them EXTVNC ex●rti sunt in Ecclesia Gigantes in magnis Mirabilibus supra se ambulantes qui potius videntur Reges vel Marchiones quam Episcopi what good fruits their Lordly Princely pompe and greatnesse produced the same Author presently subjoynes Et ideo non mirum si per coserigatur STATVA BABYLONIS terrena civitas dilatetur And therefore saith he it is no wonder if the image and tower of spirituall Babel be erected by them and the terrene City of Romish Babel inlarged This being an experimentall verity in Aquinas his age it makes me the lesse to wonder at the present industry and practice of our Lordly Prelates who following the footsteps of their Pontificall Predecess●rs bend all their force and power to re-erect the long since demolished Tower of Romish Babel among us and enlarge this earthly City though with the utter ruine of our established Religion the thing that first advanced them to their Lordly dignities which they now most ungratefully require This disperate confused Babel-plot of theirs long smothered from the vulgars knowledge is now palpably discovered to the publike view of all men not onely by the Towers Statues and walls of Babel to wit high Altars Crucifixes Images Altar-clothes Tapers Basons c. lately erected in most Churches especially Cathedrals by these Lordly Babel-builders but likewise by their fellow-labourers and confederates in this plot and structure to wit Popish priests and Iesuits who now over-joyed with the towardly forwardnesse and maturity of this their cu●side begin in printed Bookes to glory of it for the better incouragement and increase of their Roman Catholike faction and being privy both to their Lordships bosome counsels and secrets which ordinary poore Protestants are altogether ignorant of thinke all now so cock sure on their party that they begin to divulge in print our Prelaetes secret aymes and popish designes yea to discover and magnifie those Statues and walls of Babel which their Lordships have already set up in our Church Take but two late instance in stead of many as a most bright Chrystall Locking-glasse wherein you may exactly behold their Lordships Romish faces and actions without prejudice or partiality no Puritans having more lively and truly reflected their true pourtrait●●es or shadows then these Romish Optick● have done The first booke I shall instance in is intituled A direction to be observed by N.N. written by an English Priest or Jesuice yea printed here in England in our mother tongue to the end we might all take notice of it since Midsomer last In the 14. page he highly applauds the now Archbishop of Canterbury for prohibiting and suppressing Bookes in defence of our Protestant Religion which he there termes Socinianisme in these words Although I ought not to diss●mble by Doe gladly acknowledge and ●eserve●●● publish on this occasion for a patterne for others in this Realme the care of the highest Prelate in England in place grace favour and authority not in stature in prohibiting the sale much more then the printing and importing of books tending to Socinian●sme which page 16. he expresly defines and interprets to bee nought else but Protestantism● O happy Prelate to merit so great Laud from a Iesuits quill as to be prescribed as a patterne of imitation to other Roman Catholikes and Bishops to follow having now so farre cut-stripped them in their owne Iesuiticall practises and stratagems to suppresse and undermine our Religion that he even runs before them as a patterne worthy their imitation But stops this Iesuit here No for pag. 21● 22. he thus proceeds And to speake the truth what learned judicious man can after unpartial examination imbrace Protestantisme which now wareth weary of it selfe Its Professors they especially of greatest worth learning and authozity and who are they but our great Achbishops Bishops and their Heirs apparent declare themselves you may see now they are past feare shame and scorne to keepe counsell any longer to love temper and moderation Allow of many things which some yeeres agoe were usually condemned as superstitious and Antichistian and are at this time such strong steady pillars and grounded Fathers of our Church or rather Romish brothers are their Lordships more unresolved where to fasten unlesse with Rome then in the instance of their Church For proofe of which he gives us this experimenta●l und●●able demonstra●ion For doe not the Protestant Churches beginne to looke with another face their walls to speake to wit by late erected Images Crucifixes Laymens Books with another language their preachers to use a sw●e●er●tene that is to applaud not declaime against popery and popish writers their annuall publike tenets in the Vniversity to be of another stile and matter to wit for not against Popery Their Books to appeare with Titles and Arguments as Shelfords Reeves Pocklingtons A coale from the Altar and others whichonce would have caused much scandall among the brethren their doctrine to bee altered in many things and even in those very points marke it well for which their progenitors forsooke the then visible Church of Christ and is it any wonder then that many hundreds forsake and separate from our Church now Their thirty nine Articles the summe

the confession and almost the Creed of their faith are patient Patient that is they are ambitious of some sense wherein they may seeme to be Catholike that is of that Romish contradictory sence which Franciscus de Sancta Clara thrice printed as they say in England and presented by a great Prelate to his Majesty hath put upon them To alleadge wife and children in these dayes is but a weake plea for a married Minister to compasse a Benefice Fiery Calvinisme once a darling in England is at length accounted Heresie yea and a little lesse then Treason as the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Prelates judged in their sentence of Doctor Bastwicke where they much railed upon worthy Calvin whose bookes they are unworthy to beare Men in word and writing to wit in their Sermons and printed books use willingly the once fearfull names of Priests and Altars I would Richard Shelford Priest and Iohn Squire Priest with their new fraternity of Priests would consider this and those that preach and write for Altars Nay if one doe but mutter against the placing of the Altar after the old fashion for a warning he shall be well warmed with A coale from the Altar English Protestants are now put in minde that for Exposition of Scripture by Canon they are bound to follow the ancient Fathers And to conclude all in one maine point The Protestant Church in England of whom the premises are spoken prosesseth so small antiquity and so weake subsistence in it selfe that they acknowledge no other visible being for many ages but in the Church of Rome Thus and much more this Iesuit from his owne experimentall observation and reading Now wellfare thy heart good honest plain-dealing Iesuit for giving us such a lively Character and representation of the present face of our Church and practises of our Lordly Prelates that are of Greatest Authority and this thy timely disvery of their Graces Romish designes proceedings Apostacies for which all England shall con thee thanks Had any Puritan or Protestant writ or muttered half so much against these great Lordly Prelates as appeares by the late handling of worthy M. Burton he had been haled by head and eares out of his house committed close prisoner suspended persecuted with all violence complained of to his Majesty as a seditious factious rebellious person pursivanted pilloryed condemned for a Scandalum Magaatum long ere this and made a publike spectacle unto the world unto men and unto angels But thou being a bird of their owne feather one of their owne fraternity confederacy applauding not condemning these their courses and proceedings sha●t escape scotfree without feare or danger and perchance have a good boone for thy pains ere long So much safer and securer is it now for any man to be a Seminary Priest or Iesuit in England though therein a Traitor by our Laws then a faithfull Minister or painfull Preacher of the Gospel rightly discharging his duty to God and the King O times O Lordly Prelates for the Popes owne tooth The second Booke I shall nominate is inscribed Paraphrasticall and divout Discourses upon the Psalme Miserere composed by Ch. M. an English Iesuit as it should seeme who hath formerly written at large of the Masse and Transubstantiation the Iesuits badge standing in the front of the Epistle to the Reader Anno 1635. approved by George Colvenerius Chancellour of the University of Doway and Censor of Books Duaci 30 Martii 1636. In the Epistle to the Reader this Iesuit hath this remarkable passage I have lived long out of my Country and so know not who are the greater who the lesser sinners yet this I know in generall that there must needs be many and great sinners in England because where there are many beleevers as there are in England there are many ill beleevers true faith and beleefe being but one and consequently many ill livers true faith being the rule and square of good life c. Whereupon these my para●●hrasticall Discourses and pitifull lamentations of King David I intend for all sinners as well Catholikes as not Catholikes and of whatsoever Religion I being a debter to all and because I would have them all peruse these discourses I abstaine from controversies in Religion lest I should avert any from the reading of them onely in paraphrasing the two last verses of this Psalme occasion being offered I speake of the unbloody and daily sacrifice of the Altar but so that I rather touch it the ●handle it mention it then treat of it suppose it then prove it in that manner as I might hoping that this Doctrine now will not bee distastfull and why so marke it I be●eech you for seeing that now in England in very many Churches Altars which here to fore were throwne downe are againe erected by whom I pray but by Lordly over swaying Prelates and their Creatures according to the laudable example and pious use and custome of the Catholique to wit the Roman and even primitive Church to aberre a true sacrifice will not be ill taken to wit by these Altar er●recting Prelates and Priests of ours because to allow of Altars marke it is to allow of a true sacrifice which useth to be offered on them an Altar and a true proper sacrifice being Correlatives of which the one inferreth the other and so the one cannot bee averred without the other nor the one denied without the other Thus this Iesuit almost two yeeres since who might have said much more had he written now we having many new Altars and Crucifixes since that erected in England by those Prelates who bow downe devoutly to if not adore them See now at last what these great Prelates aime at in erecting Altars in our Churches in raising and railing in our Tables Altarwise this Iesuit plainly and truly informes us all that their direct intention is To usher in the unbloudy daily sacrifice of the Altar which to averre a Sacrifice will not be now ill taken in England seeing that now in England in very many Churches then but now in farre more Altars which heretofore were throwne downe are againe erected according to the Laudable example and pious use and custome of the Catholike Church of Rome yea and many new Priests as Richard Shelford Priest with hundreds more who will now be called by no other name but Priests I may adde Masse to it for distinction sake are already prepared for this true Sacrifice there being no other end or use of Priests and Altars but for Sacrifice an Altar Yea a Priest and a true and proper Sacrifice being correlatives of which the one inferreth the other and so the one cannot be averred as it is now in printed Books and Sermons without the other This then being most apparent let us be no longer deluded with flattering words and fond pretences but assure our selves that these Court Priests and Prelates who now write and daily preach even