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A25960	The arts and pernicious designs of Rome wherein is shewn what are the aims of the Jesuits & friers, and what means they use to obtain them, to the prejudice of this nation and the future involving it in misery, together with some proposals to prevent the same / by a person of their own communion, who turned romanist about thirty years since.	N. N.	1680 (1680)	Wing A3895; ESTC R16343	30,211	46

our indignation at the fact ought to bend it self upon those that were the original contrivers of the mischief neither ought we to think of cutting the throats or massacring all the Papists in England for the faults of them at Rome But if it be found necessary that we seek revenge it ought to be endeavour'd by way of retaliation upon the place from whence the Devilish counsel came the generality of English Papists and even of Priests themselves if their professions may be believ'd being as innocent in the thing both as to practice and opinion as any other of his Majesties Subjects except before excepted Viz. some Jesuits and Jesuited Monks and Friers with a few others which depend on these for Pensions and subsistence Whom as I cannot in particular accuse so neither will I for the reasons already given undertake for their innocency And if there be any that will not give such Testimony of their innocency and of their abhorring such practices as the wisdom of Parliament shall require of them in God's name let them be taken for guilty But let not the Innocent suffer with the guilty Proposition XLIII That the Roman Court or Consistory making her self the publick Patroness of Opinions and Doctrines whereby ignorant and ill advised people are not only allowed but also invited animated and encourag'd under pretence of religion and with opinion of merit or doing a work acceptable unto God to concur and act in Villanous and mischievous practices so injurious and so prejudicial to all Christians both Princes and people is in all justice responsible for the mischief done and may be by the injur'd parties if it be in their power justly forced to make reparation and that it would be no impiety or sin nor incurring any just censure for Subjects even of the Roman Communion and perswasion to bear Arms in such a War the ground thereof being first legally evidenced and declar'd to the World Proposition XLIV That if we observe Equity and Moderation in our proceedings we may with God's help promise to our selves probable success in any just and honourable Undertakings that way being first well and firmly united among our selves at home and with Friends abroad But if Passion or Fury transport us otherways and particularly to any resolutions prejudicial to his Majesties Sacred Person or just Rights or the well setled Government of the Nation or to the execution of any tumultuary Violence or cruelty upon any particular persons only upon general suspicion or because they are Roman Catholicks certain it is that in so doing we shall but give our Enemies further advantage against us and involve our selves in greater and more remediless Troubles than we can foresee By Union and Equitable orderly proceeding if we find just cause to act any thing that way we may with God's help and assistance be able in some just and honourable sort to vindicate our Nations honour and take account of those who without any provocation given shall be found to have machinated so base and wicked an injury to us But by factious and precipitate proceedings here at home we shall but bring farther miseries and calamities upon our selves For let the Nation be well assured of this Truth That whatsoever Indications they have of this matter they come originally from them who were the chief Actors in it and that as in plotting and executing such a mischievous work they intended principally to give an occasion of some future rupture in this Nation so in the Indications they make thereof they look at nothing more than that it should put us into an Universal Distemper and in fine drive us on to some such violent resolutions as above-said out of which they will be found we fear much more ready to make advantages than we shall be to remedy or prevent the mischief when disturbances are once begun Proposition XLV That seeing it sufficiently appears by a Book called The Memorial c. written long since by Father Parsons of the Society in Spanish that the Jesuits design is when they shall get power into their hands to reduce all Church-revenues especially the greater Viz. Bishops and Dean and Chapters Lands with the Lands belonging to Religious Houses as they shall be gained into one common Stock or Treasury to be managed and dispensed out by Commissioners appointed indeed by the Pope but no doubt nominated or as good as nominated by themselves and seeing this design beside the open and most execrable Avaritiousness of the Projectors which it speaks doth necessarily suppose and threaten an utter dissolution and abolishment of the True Right and Apostolick Government of the Church by Bishops and Arch-bishops c. That therefore the better and more effectually to obviate such their wicked purpose and intention it were to be wish'd that for all time to come it be made Treason or highly criminous and penal for any person whether within or out of parliament to move or plead for the alteration of the Church-government by Bishops and Arch-bishops as it is now by Law established and hath been always accustomed in this Nation and that all persons frequenting the Publick Churches and Divine Service therein appointed be made subject to the ordinary Jurisdiction of Bishops according as it hath been wont to be exercised in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory and of King James her Successor and of our late dear Sovereign King Charles the Glorious Martyr of Monarchy and Just Government Proposition XLVI That a severe Law were likewise made for the preserving of Church-Lands so lately and happily recovered out of the hands of Sacriledge and all Sacred or religious Revenues whatsoever so much as may be to their proper uses and that it be made highly criminous and penal to move for the selling of the said Lands or applying them to any other use than by the Laws of their Foundation and of the Kingdom respectively is already appointed Proposition XLVII That it is not much to be doubted but the project now again set on foot for alienating of Church-Lands to help to pay the publick Debts if there be any truth in the report which the palpable and apparent iniquity of the Thing renders scarce credible is in the origin thereof no better than a Fourbe and subtle practice of the Jesuits by that means with the Help of their Agents and Trustees to invest themselves of the best part of them as some think upon how good grounds I will not take upon me to say they have long since done and still continue to do of the Tribute of Hearth-money And when all is done the Kingdom shall have as much ease in Taxes and Publick Charges as it had in Harry the Eighth's time by the dissolving the Monasteries and Houses of Religion Proposition XLVIII I meant only to insist upon such matters as related to the Church and State of England otherwise I could willingly enough have added more of the like evil practices which for my part I