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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85553	A grave advise, for the suppressing of seminary priests, Jesuits, and other popish instruments, without effusion of bloud, or infliction of capitall punishment. / Presented to His Majesty by many persons of quality.		1644 (1644)	Wing G1604A; ESTC R225390	19,823	46

cause the strength of their party or patience or that tract of time hath discovered our Lawes importing overmuch sharpenesse in good policy to be thought fitter for abrogation by non vsance then repealed by a publicke decree 11. Moreover it is fore-thought by some that if these Seminaries be onely restrayned that they may prove hereafter like a snake kept in the Bosome such as Bonner Gardiner and others of the same Livery shewed themselves to be after Liberty obtained in Queene Maries dayes And if the losse of their Ghostly Fathers agrieve them it is probable that they will take Armes sooner and with more courage to free the Living then to set vp a Trophie to the dead 12. Howsoever the Iesuites Band is knowne in their Native soyle to be defective in many respects which makes them vnderlings to the Protestants as in authority armes and the Protection of the Lawes which is all in all Neverthelesse they insinuate themselues to forraigne Princes favouring their party with promises of strange assistance at home if they may be well backed from abroad To which purpose they have divided the Inhabitants of this Realme into foure Sects Whereof Ranking their Troupes in the first place as due to the pretended Catholiques they assumed a full fourth part to their property and of that part againe they made a Subdivision into two portions namely of those that openly renounced the established Church of England and others whose certaine number could not be assigned Because they frequented our service our Sacramēts reserving their hearts to their Lord God the Pope The second party they allot to the Protestants who retaine yet as they say some Reliques of their Church The third Ranke and largest was left vnto the Puritans whom they hate deadly in respect that they will hold no indifferent quarter with Papistry The fourth and last maniple They assigne to the Politicians Huomini say they Senza Dio Senz anima Men without feare of God or regard of their Soules Who busying themselves onely with matters of State retaine no sense of Religion without doubt if the Authors of this partition have cast their account aright we must confesse the latter Broode is to be ascribed properly vnto them For if the vndermining of the Parliament House the scandalizing of the King in Print who is Gods annoynted And the refusall of naturall obedience be workes of those that neither stand in awe of God or Conscience well may the Papists boast that they are assured of the first number and may presume likewise of the lasts friendship when occasion shall be offered For the preventing of which combination it is a sure way to cut off the Heads that should tye the knot or at least to brand them with a marke in the forehead before they be dismissed or after the opinion of others to make them vnwelcome to the faeminine Sexe which now with great fervency imbraceth them These are for the most part Arguments vented in ordinary discourse by many who suppose a Priests breath to be contagious in our English Ayre others there are who maintaine the second part of the question with reasons not vnworthy of observance Death is the end of Temporall woes But it may in no wise be accounted the grave of memory Therefore howsoever it is in the power of Justice to suppresse the person of a man the opinion for which he suffered conceived truly or vntruely in the hearts of a multitude is not subject to the edge of any sword how sharpe or keene soever I confesse that the Teeth are soone blunted that byte only out of the malice of a singular faction But where poyson is diffused through the veynes of a Common-wealth with intermixture of Blood good and bad separation is to be made rather by vacuation then by present incision The greatest byter of a State is Envie ioyned with thirst of Revenge which seldome declares it selfe in plaine Colours vntill a Jealousie conceived of personall dangers breaketh out into desperate resolutions Here comes it to passe that when one mal-contented member is grieved the rest of the body is sensible thereof neither can a Priest or Iesuite be cut off without a generall murmure of their Secretaries which being confident in their number secretly arme for opposition or confirmed with their Martyrs blood as they are perswaded resolve by patience and sufferance to glorifie their cause and to merit heaven Doe we not daily see that it is easier to confront a private Enemy then a society or Corporation And that the hatred of a State is more immortall then the spleene of a Monarchy Therefore except it be demonstrated that the whole Roman City which consists not of one broode but of a succession of Persons may be cut off at the first stroake as one entrei head I see no cause to thinke our state secured by sitting on the skirts of some few Seminaries leaving in the meane time a multitude of snarlers abroad who already shew their Teeth and onely waite opportunity to bite fiercely I will not deny that whom we feare we commonly hate provided alwaies that no merit hath interceeded a reconciliation For there is great difference between hatred conceived against him that will take away the life and him that may justly doe it and yet in Clemency forbeares to put it in effect For the latter breedeth reverent awe whereas the former subjecteth to servile feare alwaies accompanied with desire of innovations And although it hath bin affirmed of the Church of Rome Quod Pontificium genus semper crudele Neverthelesse out of Charity let us hope that all Devils are not so black as they are paynted Some or perhaps many of them there are whom Conscience or in default thereof pure shame of the world will constrain to confesse that his Majestie most graciously distinguisheth the Theory of Popery from the Active part thereof as being naturally inclined Parvis peccatis veniam magnis severitatem commodare nec poena semper sed Saepius poenitentia Contentus esse 2. Mistaking of punishments legally inflicted commonly proceeds from fond pitty or the interest which we have in the same cause both which beget blind partiality Admit then that the Papall side affecting merit by compassion may be meerely touched with the restraint of their Seminaries that cannot be denyed I hope except they had the hearts of Tygers that in humanity they will preferre their ease of durance before the Rigor of death And albeit that PARSONS BELLARMINE and the POPE himselfe constraine their spirituall Children to thrust their fingers into the fire by refusing the oath of alleageance Notwithstanding we have many Testimonies in Judiciall Courts and printed Bookes that the greater part of them are of that Theban Hunters mind who would rather have seen his Dogs cruell Acts then have felt them to his owne cost Garnet himselfe also in one of his secret Letters lamented that after his death hee should not be enroled amongst the Martyrs Because that no