ad credendum alâ—â—quin staret in casu quod qui obligaretur ad contradictoria vel ad falsum contra fidem Out of this roote is concluded a double truth First that the resolution or determination of the pope alone in things belonging to faith as it is precisely such not confirmed by a generall counsell doth not tie or bind a man to beleeue it For other wise the case might so fall out that one should be bound eyther to beleeue contradictories or else falshoode against his faith The said Gerson after he hath in the same place by me quoted in the margent delated at large that the Popes erroneous doctrine must be controlled by a generall councell addeth these expresse words Cui legi haud dubie subest papa licet hactenus multis haec veritas non placeret propter inordinatuÌ„ fauorem ad summum pontificem vel scripta sua male suscepta plus quam ad ChristiÌ„ Euangelia Nunc auteÌ„ opposita falsitas est haeresis expresse damnata per concilium Constantiense cum alijs multis in vtilitatem totius politiae Christianae To which law the pope doubtlesse is subject although hitherto this truth did not please a great many by reason of their inordinate affection to the pope more then to Christ and his gospell But now the opposite falshood is an hereâ—ie slatly condemned by the counsell of Constance together with many other things for the good of all Christian pollicie The second place is conteyned in these words Concilium generale sic est supra papam alium quemlibet de ecelesia quod ipsum papam potest deponere pro quocunque crimine de quo notorie incorrigibiliter scandalizatur ecclesia Hoe est practicatum dudum de papa Ioh. 12. nunc de Ioh. 23. In cuius deiectione non inseritur quod fuerit haereticus vel à fide deuius A generall councell is so aboue the Pope and euery one of the Church that it hath power to depose the Pope for what crime soeuer whereof the Church is scandalized notoriously and incorrigibly This was done vpon Iohn the 12. Long sythence and now vpon Iohn the 23. of that name in whose deiection it is not inserted that he was an heretike or had swarued from the faith The third place is conteyned in these words Concilium generale potest eum quem reputat summum pontificem nedum consultiue inducerè sed authoritatiuè compellere ad offerendum viam cessionis vel ad cedendum papatui etiam sine culpa licet non sua sine causa A generall councell may not onely by way of councell induce him whom it reputeth to be the lawfull Pope but also by way of authoritie compell him to offer to giue place or to depart from the Popedome in verie deed yea without his owne fault though not without a cause The fourth place is conteyned in these words Status papalis non eximit papam à legibus purè diuinis quae vel in euangelijs vel generalibus concilijs positae sunt Et ex hoc consequeÌ„ter patet quod papa subijcitur legi de correctione fraterterna Si peccauerit in te frater tuus c. Sic quod potest fraternaliter corripi dum peccat Et si tandem nolet audire ecclesiam quam generale concilium representat debet haberi sicut ethuâ—â—us publicanus Et ita potest hoc modo per concilium vel iudicari vel coerceri vel pro excommunicato haberi The Popes estate doth not exempt the Pope from the pure diuine lawes which are set downe eyther in the gospels or in generall councels And hereupon it is cleare consequently that the Pope is subiect to that law of fraternall correction if thy brother offend against the c. So that he may be reproued brotherly when he sinneth And if at length he will not heare the Church which a generall councell doth represent he must be reputed as an Ethnicke and Publican And so he may this way by a councell either be iudged or corrected or reputed an excommunicate person The fift place is conteyned in these words Ecclesia vel generale concilium potuit potest congregari sine expresso consensu vel mandato papae etiam rite electi viuentis in multis casibus The Church or generall councell both might and may be called together without the expresse consent or mandate of the pope euen when the pope is lawfully elected and liuing and that in many cases Againe the same Doctor hath these words Ecclesia vel generale conciliuÌ„ eam representans est regula a spiritu sancto directa tradita à Christo vt quilibet cuiuscunque status etiam papalis existat eam audire ac eidem obedire teneatur lioquin habendus est vt ethnicus publicanus The Church or generall councell representing it is a rule directed of the holy Ghost and giuen vs of Christ that euerie one of what state soeuer euen papall must heare and obey the same or else he must be reputed as an ethnick and publican The sixt place is conteyned in these words Concilium generale potestatem a Christo immediatè habet cui quilibet cuiuscunque status vel dignitatis etiamsi papalis existat obedire tenetur in his quae pertinent ad fidem extirpationem schismatis ac generalem reformationem ecclesiae dei in capite in membris A generall councell hath power from Christ immediately to which euerie one of what state or dignitie soeuer he be yea the pope himselfe is bound to yeeld obedience in those things which pertayne to faith and extirpation of schisme and the generall reformation of the Church of God in the head and in the members The seuenth place is conteyned in these words Iohannes papa non est accusatus vel conuictus de haeretica prauitate tamen concilium vocauit indicauit ipsum tanquam suum subditum Vnde in toto processu vsque post sententiam definitiuam suae depositionis reputans est ab eodem concilio verus papa Pope Iohn was neither accused nor conuicted of hereticall prauitie and for all that the councell both called him and iudged him as their subiect Whereupon the councell reputed him the true Pope in all the time of their proceeding against him vntill after the definitiue sentence of his deposition The eight place is conteyned in these words In causis fidei non habetur in 〈◊〉 iudex infallibilis vel qui non sit deuiabilis à â—ide de lâ—ge communi praeter ipsam ecclesiam vniuersalem vel concilium generale eam sufficienter repraesentans In causes of faith there is no infallible iudge vpon earth or which cannot swarue from the faith by the coÌ„mon course of Gods procéeding sauing the vniuersall Church or a generall councell Thus you see at large the constant doctrine of this great Doctor and famous papist who was present at the councell
Pope their popish faction From which and all treasonable practises good Lord deliuer vs Amen A profitable and compendious appendice for the better confirmation of the Reader VVHosoeuer can and will seriously peruse the printed volumes of many famous writers of great account and high estéeme euen in the Church of Rome cannot but behold as in a glasse of Christall that the late Romish religion commonly called of the people the olde religion is but a newly coyned religion and by piece-meale crept into the Church I say the late Romish religion because the ancient Roman religion was in déed sincere and agréeable to the holy scripture but the late Romish religion is quite contrary to the same This I proue by two means first by late practicall experience for that the institution or papall Bull by which an Arch-priest is designed the gouernour ouer the Cleargie and laitie ouer all England is a thing neuer hard of before in the Church of God as the priests themselues do willingly truly grant this is confirmed by the late order of the Capuchenes who affirme theÌ„selues to be nothing else but only reformed Franciscans as the secular priests doe know and can it not denie For as the Francans did by little and little neglect and abolish the ancient rules of their order and brought into their societie nouelties and new deuises in stead therof and therefore were reformed by the Capuchenes and called home again to their old setled rules euen so the late bishops of Rome haue neglected and swarued from the ancient doctrine of the primitiue Church and brought into the Church nouelties new deuises of their owne inuention in stead thereof and therfore godly and zealous princes endeuour to reforme the Church and to abolish such superstitious nouelties after the examples of Iosaphat Ezechias and other godly kings of Iuda Wherof I haue discoursed more at large in my booke intituled the golden ballance Secondly by the flat testimonies of best approued popish writers The great learned popish scholeman Spanish fryer Victoria writetth in this maner paulatim ad hanc c. By little little we are brought to these inordinate dispensations to this so miserable state where we are neither able to endure our owne griefs nor remedie assigned for the same And therefore must we perforce inuent some other way for conseruation of the lawes Giue me Clements Lines Siluesters and I will commit all things to their charge But to speake nothing grieuously against these latter Popes they are doubtles inferiour to Popes of old time by many degrées Loe heere gentle reader the Popes owne renowned doctor and professed frier telleth vs plainly that the bishops of Rome in his time were not like the bishops of â—oâ—â—er ages but did degenerate from the ancient doctrine and discipline of the Church He telleth vs in like manner that this deflection from the truth was not done all at once but was brought by little and little into the Church Thus you see or may see that the doctrine I teach is the selfesame which I receiued from the best learned papists The Popes famous Canonist Covaruvias writeth to the same effect in these words neâ— me latet c. neither am I ignorant that S. Thomas affirmeth after great deliberation that the bishop of Rome cannot with his dispensation take away from monks their solemne vow of chastitie This notwithstanding we must defend the first opinion least those things which are practised euery where be turned vp side downe Thus writeth Coueruvias out of whose doctrine many godly profitable lessons may be learned First that the papists cannot agree about the Popes authority Secondly that great learned papists among whom Thomas Aquinas is one whose doctrine sundry Popes haue confirmed to be sound do denie the Popes authoritie in the premisses Thirdly that the contrarie opinioÌ„ must be defended for the honesty safegard of the Popes pretensed soueraigntie Fourthly that most miserable is the Popes religion which stand in need of such poore and beggerly shifts for the vpholding maintenance therof Fiftly that the papists haue no cause to exclaime against the mariage of priests seeing the Pope dispenseth with his owne munks to marry at their pleasure Sixtly that the doctrine of Aquinas which the Pope himselfe hath approued doth vtterly ruinate and batter to the ground the lately inuested religion of the Church of Rome Now for the better satisfaction of the ignorant I will heere briefely recount the originall of the chiefest points and articles in the late Romish religion First the Church-seruice was made in the vulgar tongue euery where in the old ancient and primitiue Church Secondly popish primacie began in the yeare 607. and that by the tyrannie of the Emperour Phocas at the earnest suit of Boniface then bishop of Rome third of that name Thirdly the Popes pardons were neuer heard of vntill the yeare 1300. Fourthly the mariage of priests was not prohibited till the yeare 385. at which time Siritius then bishop of Rome made a wicked law in that behalfe Fiftly popish â—urgatory tooke not root in the Romish Church till the yeare 250. Sixtly popish pilgrimage began in the yeare 420. SeueÌ„thly the merit of works de condigno was disputable about the yeare 1081. Eightly the popish inuocation of Saints adoration was not known or heard of til the yeare 350. Ninthly the communion vnder both kinds was neuer thought vnlawful till the yere 1414. Tenthly the Popes Buls were not authenticall till the yeare 772. Eleuenthly auricular confessioÌ„ was not established till the yeare 1215. Twelftly generall coâ—ncels were euer summoned by the Emperours Thirteenthly the popish English Archpriest began his new no religion in the yeare 1006. and that by the tyranny treasons of the Iesuites All these important points are soundly proued in my booke of Suruey whither I referre the gentle reader for better satisfaction in that behalfe God grant that these my painfull studies may tend to his glory and the common good of his Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Table Alphabeticall conteyning the principall matters handled in this worke The letter P. signifieth the Page and the letter V. noteth the verse A ALlen the Cardinall was a traytour Page 93. Vers. 7. p. 92 vers 28. Allen set forth a trayterous booke pag. 108. vers 5. Allen iustified Sir William Stanleyes treason pag. 13. vers 19. pag. 166. p. 167. Arch-priest setteth vp a new religion pag. 89. v. 8. p. 179. v. 30. Arch-priest a traytor pag. 89. vers 8. Arch-priest is an Idoll pag. 104. vers 2. Arden and Someruile See treason Authors true dealing in this discourse pag. 1. vers 7. B BLackwell raigneth as a prince Page 104. vers 7. Bookes written by Parsons are traytorous pag. 173. ve 7. pag. 80. vers 7. pag. 106. vers 9. Bishop of Cassana prayed for by the Iesuites pag. 20. ver 21. Bellarmine against the messengers pag. 152.
gentle reader the wealth pride and saucie deceitfull dealing of the Iesuites to be such and so great that if they remaine a while vnpunished they will not onely ouerrule the priests but our noble Queene and all Paragraph V. Of the peremptorie and seditious dealing of Iesuites THe Iesuits by cunning haue gotten into their hands all authoritie good estimation and all the treasure of money and so doe what they list at home and abroade They thrust out and let in hire and buy and maintaine factions at their pleasure These words are to be found in the memoriall page 75. The Iesuits haue purchased them an hard opinion of all religious orders euen so farre forth as to bee written against by some of them in most parts of christendome ex professo and in particular are banished for such out of all the most christian kingdome of FraÌ„ce as also for their Spanish faction there where for all their great meanes and flattering ballads of late made and exhibited to the king they are not like to get in againe this yeare nor yet the next onely they hold in heere and there with the good Capuchines which they may easily doe for that as one of those good Friers on a time confessed they couet to haue all and these couet nothing Vpon this ground the excellent good bishop of Bamberge in Germany when hee was laboured for their admittance into his reformed diocesse answered thus no I brooke no such Quiddits These words are to be found in the aunswere to the Iesuited gentleman page 16. If any priest haue a conuenient place of residence the Iesuits will not cease vntill they haue cast him out and that by wicked meanes by defaming him and bringing him into suspition These words are set downe in the abstract of the memoriall Page 74. The Iesuites are the firebrands of all seditions The Iesuites by right or wrong â—â—eke simplie and absolutely the monarchie of all England These words are set downe in the memoriall page 74. The ambition of Iesuites hath taken footing not only in prouinces and cities but also in priuat families it seperateth breathren one from an other and the husband from the wife inflaming them with rancour and enuie one against an other These words are to be seene in the abstract of the memoriall page 76. Note heere gentle reader that whosoeuer loue charitie christian peace and vnitie they must abhorre detest eschew all Iesuiticall societie For the end as you see which that cursed broade aymeth at is nothing els but to dissolue peace and vnitie and to maintaine sedition and rebellion euerie where Paragraph VI. Of the murders committed by Iesuites IKnow there be diuerse that will thinke this historie straunge and incredible but if it chaunce that master Charles Paget doe but set downe the actions of father Holt especially concerning master Godfrey Foulgeam the verie cause of whose death he was you shall see more straunge matters then this These words are in the reply vnto Parsons libell Fol. 70. pag. 1. in fine Sée the fift chapter the first and second sections and note them well Note heere gentle reader that the Iesuite Holt is flatly charged to haue beene the cause of the death of master Godfrey Foulgeam Note also that the Rector of the Colledge of the Iesuites in Vallidolid with some of his complices dealt most cruelly with one Barkworth a priest then student in the English Colledge there after that the minister of the Colledge had deceitfully enticed him being sick in his bed to go abroad to shake off his feauer They conueyed the said Barkworth into the Colledge of the Iesuites and there commaunded him to put of his scholers robes and to put on a sute of ragges which they offered him And because he refused so to doe the Rector called in certaine of his lay brethren strong fellowes to deale with him by violence Wherof two comming to him catched him by the legs and pulling them from vnder him vpon a sodaine threw him backward flat vpon the pauement with such violence being then sicke and weake with a feauer that he was much brused therewith The rest of the lay brethren apprehended some a legge some an arme haling and beating him most outragiously and would as it seemed haue murdered him in his bed if a casuall good hap had not hindred them The storie is long and therefore I referre the reader to the place They procured Henry the third to be excommunicated and then by degrées they murdered him These words are set downe quodl 8. art 8. pag. 261. Perhaps they will pretend that this fruitlesse encrease of of their number is an argument of Gods blessing vpon their societie but this were both a daungerous and an absurd consequence For it will be a long time ere they come to equall the number of the Arsacides who were sent into France by their king a Pagan to murther S. Lewes or Assasins murtherers men of their owne stampe These words are to be found in the franke discourse Page 88. Let not A Iesuite become a censor of other mens writings or doing as temerarius till he haue amended and satisfied for his owne temeritie both in his doctrine of prince-killing and other disloyaltie to ones prince and countrey A. C. in his second letter Page 8. in fine If your maiestie please â—o reade but the oration of the Polonian gentleman made in their senate there you shall sée an Iliade of tumults and ciuill warres amongst the Christians which inhabite those large and wast countries stirred and excited by the onely meanes of the Iesuites who haue there caused of late more battels to be fought then had béene in fiue hundred yeares before These words are put downe in the franke discourse Page 89. This is wonderfull that in the whole troupe of the Iesuites there was not one found one is a small number and yet I say againe there was not one that from 89. to 94. was heard to let fall one word that might be strained to the good of his prince or countrey but euermore vehement in behalfe of the Spaniard and to qualifie the hard conceit of his gouernment These words are in the franke discourse Page 95. vers 17. A due religion of the Iesuites for to speake truth to deale in State-matters and to practise the death of princes are as essentiall parts of their function as their confession it selfe These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Liber 3. cap. 13. fol. 168. Loe heere gentle Reader it is an essentiall point of Iesuiticall function to cause sedition and to murder princes From such religious men good Lord deliuer vs. The first breaking out of our troubles was in the yeare 1585. at which time all that resorted to the Iesuites to be confessed if they affirmed themselues to be good subiects and loyal seruitors to the king for they were questioned vpon that article they were sent backe by the Iesuites without receiuing
our specall grace and fauour we confirme them Out of this generall constitution they haue drawne one particular which is worthy to be knowne in the 16. part of their constitutions chap. 5. The title beginning thus That the constitutions may not binde any man in conscience sith the societie desires that all their constitutions declarations and order of life should be without euasion conformable to our direction and also neuerthelesse wisheth to be secured or at least succoured that they be not snared in any sinne which may growe by their constitutions or ordinances we haue thought good in the Lord exception taken to the expresse bow wherewith the societie is bound to the Pope for the time being and the thrée other essentiall vowes of pouertie chastitie and obedience that no constitutions declarations or any order of life shall impose any yoake of mortall or veniall sinne vpon them vnlesse their superiour command those things in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ or in the vertue of obedience And againe in stead of feare of offending let loue and desire of all perfection come in place and let the glorie and praise of Christ our Lord maker be the more exalted By the first article it is lawfull for them to change and rechange their constitutions at their owne pleasure for their owne good By the second their constitutions are held in regard of the soule indifferent so that the Iesuite may breake them without committing mortall or veniall sinne A law which their great law-giuer gaue them to the end that to Gods honour and glory there might he fewer sinners in their societie Oh holy soules oh pure consciences who restrayning their inferiours from sinne take themselues the reines committing all manner of sinne vncontrolled Let vs examine these points without passion and let let vs consider the scope of these two propositions By the first no prince shall be assured of his estate and by the second no prince shall be secure of his person in his owne kingdome Concerning the first point call to minde how matters haue béene carried for these 25. or 30. yeares There hath béene no nation where they be fostered but they would be tempering with their affaires of state I thinke they are such honest men as what herein they haue done they haue vndertaken to doe it by vertue of their silent constitutions for if they did it by their owne priuate authoritie the generall were vnworthie of his place should he suffer it Further this was forbiden them in the yeare 1593. when they saw all their plots were frustrate Admitte new troubles should arise these gallants will cassiere and disanull this last ordinance suffering their companions to intermeddle as before But what are their rules in such affaires Marrie that is it lawfull to kill a tyrant that a king breaking the common lawes of the land may be depriued of his Crowne by the people That there are other causes for the which princes and great personages may be slaine In what a miserable condition shall princes liue if the assurance of their estate shall depend vpon these fellowes Let us sée their new constitutions of 1593. I will that they medle not at all in affaires of state in generall termes And that particularly they practise not vpon the person of princes Are they bound to obey this Nothing lesse For their law-giuer chargeth not their consciences but in expresse termes he would otherwise haue charged them by vertue of their blind obedience And this is the cause that Commolet preaching since this new statute that there wanted a new Ehud to kill our king and Walpoole furnishing Squire with poyson and instructions to kill the Quéene of England his mistresse thought they sinned not therein These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 26. fol. 234. fol. 236. It is not christian charitie O Iesuites that leads you to that course but Iesuitish charitie Your whole profession is nothing else but a particular coozning of our priuate families and a generall villanie of all the countries where you inhabite These wordes are put downe in the Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 12. fol. 106. The Iesuites make ostentation of a solemne decree concluded among them that they shall no more intermeddle in matters of estate But let vs see what date this decrée beares They say of an 1593. hath your Maiestie then alreadie forgotten that since that time they haue practised twise against your life Behold the performance of this glorious decree Doe not we know the generall exception of all their statutes vnlesse it be for the good of the Church an exception that extends as farre as they list to straine it The Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of states disauthorizing of magistrates and seducing of subiectes from their alleageance These words are set downe in the franke discourse Page 98. Ribadiner wrote his historie onely vpon report of the countrey as the further a Iesuite goes the lowder he lies These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 17. fol. 61. Such iuglings and shiftings of late haue béene vsed by the Iesuites that not onely protestants but also catholiks yea priests can scarce tell when they speake sincerely when otherwise These words are set downe in the reply to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 2. These are ordinarie iugling tricks which are too too familiar with our good fathers the Iesuites In the reply to Parsons libell Page 19. 2. vers 14. Concerning the imputation of lying so famous and notorious are their equiuo cations and so scandalous that the verie protestants take notice thereof to the great preiudice of our profession alwaies heretofore famous for our truth and sinceritie In the replie to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 1. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me first that the Iesuites are notorious lyers and that their owne fellowes can not tell when to trust them Secondly that they are notorious coozners and full of iugling tricks Thirdly that the Iesuites acknowledge the Pope to be Lord spirituall and temporall ouer all christian princes Fourthly that the Iesuits are notable temporizers as who account all things lawful that will serue their turne Fiftly that the Iesuites are so perfidious a people as their faith is become Fides panica the Carthagenians faith that is a false and detestable faith Sixtly that the Iesuites will be Spaniards or Frenchmen or whatsoeuer else if opportunitie be offered thereunto Seuenthly that no estate is free from the villanie of the Iesuites Eightly that the Iesuites make hauocke of the Popes Buls and constitutions Ninthly that the Iesuites change and rechange their rules and lawes at their owne good will and pleasure The Iesuites therefore are good fellowes fit for all times all places and all companies Paragraph X. Of the profession and Religion of the Iesuites in generall THe Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of
when occasion serueth forget These words are set down in the discouerie Pag. 42. pag. 29. quodlibet 7. art 10. pag. 217. quodl 4. art 2. in fine Concerning father Parsons illegitimation I haue oft wished it had not beene vrged being not much to the purpose But sith it haue béene vrged that he denieth it I will but aske him why he was expelled Balioll Colledge in Oxford and whether the chiefest matter obiected was not periurie in taking the oath of the house to the statutes amongst the which this was one Volumus vt omnes huius collegij alumni sint legitimo thoro nati which was vrged against him and offered to be proued openly For the auoyding of which publike infamie he made his owne resignation writing it with his owne hand as is yet to be séene This is more then I ment to haue said in this matter being a personall touch had no father Parsons ouer much vrged the obiection not onely as an vntruth but also inuented and framed by vs. Heereby you may see that the matter was not coyned by any of vs nor so void of verity as he affirmeth These words are let downe in the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 91. b. 6. Now then for our credits with father Parsons for his rising by practises or factious disposition I will say no more but what is iustiâ—able à parte rei viz. that the most stirring medling and practising heads amongst all of our English nation to goe no further haue alwaies come to credite and preheminence amongst them Witnes this per inductionem father Parsons whose factious dispesition hath béene euerie where sufficiently displayed with proofes sufâ—cient Witnes father Heywood and his busie inclination at his comming into England of which father Parsons can beare witnes being at variance with him and many other priests yet liuing in England some of them hauing beene present at his synodes where he made himselfe president in the Popes name Witnes father Holt of whose disposition you may read in master Charles Pagets answere to the Apologie Witnes father Creswell as you may see in Doctor Elies answere to the Apologie Witnes father Garnet the onely chiefe actor in all our stirres héere in England I might adde father Crichton the Scot with therest and father Holt if he were aliue would take my part These then are pretie inducements to thinke father Parsons rose in his order by his factious disposition But for the other point concerning master Blackwell let him be examined vpon his oath whether he came not to master Bluet then prisoner in the Marshalsies vsing these or the like words what meant Doctor Allen to send this man ouer he will vndoe vs all And being asked why he answered that his expulsioÌ„â—ut of Oxford was so infamous that it would be obiected by the protestants to the disgrace of the cause Let master Blackwell I say be vrged with this and I adiure him as he will answere it before almightie God at the latter day to say the truth then father Parsons shall see we haue won our credits euen in both these points besides an hundred more alreadie proued These words are put downe in the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 93. a. 30. Out of this spirit it is that father Cowbucke alias Parsons for all the disparage of his birth which not his baptisme could wash away and other his scandalous carriages aswell since his Iesuitisme as formerly when he was an heretike in Oxford ambitioneth the Cardinalate forgetting how that to be a bare priest though no such peere he being a known bastard is against the canons of yâ— Church although to be a Iesuite being such well and good he may These words are put downe in master A. C. his second letter page 23. and more at large pag. 38. What name of his he speaketh of the Iesuite Robert Parsons or but two letters of his name find ye to this his manifestation of folly and bad spirit whereby he not to deserue to be burned in the hand for a vagabond not any No nor any durst he shew manifesting so badde spirit and so much folly in that censure of his as he hath done He is discouered for such as he is viz. a man who being the misbegotten of a ploughman and he a cuckwold too vpon the bodie of a plough-man hath accordingly demeaned himselfe first in begetting two bastards male and female vpon the bodie of his owne sister betweene his age of seuenteene and three and twentie which was the cause he ranne away as fearing the sheet c. And so became a Iesuite secondly or rather formerly and continually by being a common alehouse-squire and the drunkennest spunge in all the parish where he liued thirdly for being an heretike of the family of loue all his life till he became a Iesuite These words are set downe in master A.C. his third letter pag. 50. and more at large pag. 78. O Parsons monster of mankind fitter for hell then middle earth Thou giuest occasion to thinke that thou art not a meere man but some fairies brat begotten of some Incubus or aerish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman These words are set downe expressely by the author of the quodlibets quodl 8. art 5. pag. 238. and quodl 4. art 5. he is termed a sacrilegious bastard borne of a base queane Not heere gentle Reader two things of great moment First that when the Pope abandoned lawfull and honest wedlocke to priests which was euer deemed lawfull vntill Syricius was aduanced to the Popedome in the yeare 385. as I haue prooued in my booke of Surucy then the priests had good store of bastards one of which as the priests heere confesse was expelled from Balioll Colledge for his bastardie seditious dealing is this day euen by the free confession of the secular priests an arrant traitor to his prince and natiue countrey Secondly that this holy father who must forsooth reforme the Church of England and manage euerie thing in that high and heauenly function was to be sent from heauen with heauenly and extraordinarie gifts viz. he must first be a priests sacrilegious bastard Then hee must be a common drunkard Thirdly he must be polluted with the execrable sinne of incest and beget male and female vpon the bodie of his owne sister Fourthly he must be giuen to sedition and libelling Fiftly he must be a ranke traytor to his naturall soueraigne At the length being thus qualified with supernaturall gifts and extraordinarie graces proceeding from Beelzâ—bub that notable Machiuell he must depriue noble Queene Elizabeth of her royall and princely Diademe and set the same vpon the Spaniards head he must make a bloodie massacre of all the nobles and other her louing subiects he must abolish abandon and make hauocke of all the ancient lawes of this Church and Realme and so forsooth si dijs placet set vp his newly deuised Monarchie his holy so falsely named reformation Sect. II.
as is alreadie proued and the seculars did not reueale them vntill the yeare 1601. Neither then but to be auenged of the Iesuites and to saue their owne neckes from the halter Paragraph III. Of the cause of the discouerie of the Iesuiticall treasons Now of late God hath most strangely in very déede as it may be termed miraculously reuealed the truth which long hath béene hidden These words are set downe quodl 8. art 9. p. 267. Note heere gentle reader that God for his owne glorie for the preseruatioÌ„ of his faithfull seruant our gratious soueraigne and for the common good of our natiue countrie hath miraculously contrarie to the expectation of man caused the secular priests to discouer the longe hidden treasons contriued and disloyally practised both by the Iesuites and themselues The fourth Booke containing a sparing postpast prouided by the Seculars for the Iesuites in regard of the delicate and sumptuous Antepast bestowed on their messengers at Rome AFter I had accomplished the three bookes aforegoing I had a sight of a Iesuiticall booke itituled a briefe apologie which in pervse I found not only to confirme the treasonable complots and bloudy practises heretofore intended against her maiesty and this our natiue contry but with all to sound out alarum to most cruell and vnnaturall rebellion in time to come and consequeÌ„tly I haue thought it my parte and bounden dutie to vse my penne for the confutation and confusion of such vnchristian villany CHAP. I. Of the Author of this seditious apologie ALthough by the inscription of this libell some Iesuited priestes should bee the authors thereof yet doe I verely thinke that the traytorous Iesuite Parsons did compile the same For first if the stile and methode bee conferred with his other bookes they will séeme to bee of one and the same moulde Secondly the author thereof speaketh of himselfe in the singular number so as the words can no way be applyed vnto many Thirdly the author of this disloyall pamphlet speakethâ— scornâ—fully and dishonourablie of her Maiestie and o others in authoritie vnder her which is the proper badge of that foule-mouthed wretch For to say nothinge of manie other places when hee hath told vs some parte of Maister Bluets letter to his fellow maister Mush in these wordes I haue by opening the cause vnto there honours and to Cesar obtained c. Hee putteth downe in the margent these wordes the Queene after a sorte As if hee had said shee is depriued by the Popes Bull and is not Queene indéede but by bare name only And the very reuerend prelate Maister Doctor Bancroft hee termeth the false bishoppe of London And yet this good fellowe is grieuously offended that the seculars doe not tearme the Arch-priest Blackewell by the name of Reuerendissimus the most reuerent Father Fourthly they that would seeme to bee the authors of this libell confesse fréely and plainly that Parsons himselfe did diligently enforme them how and in what sorte they should write And consequently he was the architect indeede howsoeuer others haue the name But euery wiseman will thinke that seeing Parsons is the partie accused if his owne conscience had not condemned him in the aunswere hee would haue put his owne name to the Apologie Well the answeare is so badde the author may not be knowen See more heereof in the fourth chapter CHAP. II. Of the cruell proceeding against the messengers sent to Rome MAster Charnocke and master Bishop two of the secular priests who had traueiled many yeares in the Popes affayres here in England being vniustly molested by the tyrannizing Iesuites did with the consent and counsell of many other priests vered by the Iesuites as themselues take a long and painefull iourney to Rome to desire some mitigation of his holinesse in that behalfe But God thanke you Parsons by the helpe of their Iesuites made such an heynous complaint to the pope against the said messengers that the prison was made readie for them before they came to Rome Yea at their comming they were imprisoned indeed neither to this day could they be permitted to come to the Pope And which is more they were inioyned at their going out of prison to remaine in exile the one in Paris the other in Lozaine and not to returne into England without speciall licence of his holines or of the protector his deputie Which cruell decree they were compelled to confirme with a corporall oath Heereupon the other priests exclayme and crie out O miserable times O wicked maners of men that their two messengers should so be handled as to be put in prison before they could be heard page 192. Master Collington saith that they were kept in prison till Parsons had made all sure by getting forth a Breue for confirmation of his plotted authoritie page 208. Now what doth Parsons answere in defence of his intolerable tyrannie you shall heare the expresse words of the Apologie in the next chapter CHAP. III. Of Parsons his answere for the punishment of the messengers THey say that Cardinall Bellarmine his letter to father Parsons from Ferrara a lttle before their arriuall doth proue that the imprisonment of their messengers was procured by Parsons for that the said Cardinall wrote that the two English priests were not yet come but should be imprisoned when they came nor that it should be needfull for Parsons to flie or make haste to Ferrara for that cause And then the priests crie out O tempora O mores that their two messengers should so be handled as to be put in prison before they were head But God be thanked that worthy Cardinall is yet aliue and can testifie all this to be their fiction and that his holines being aduertised in Ferrara from his Nuncioes in Fraunce and Flaunders of these mens comming was offended at their new stirring and willed the said father to write to Rome to father Parsons so be enâ—ormed of them and their pretenses before euer father Parsons had written or spoken word thereof as the said Cardinall will beare witnesse And as for the least clause of his letter whereby he should write that Parsons needeth not to slie or make haste to Ferrara it is added and forged by themselues and no one such word in the letter These are the expresse words of the Apologie in which all is saide for the Iesuite Parsons that himselfe possibly could deuise for his owne defence For eyther he was the man that penned the Apologie or at least the man that diligently instructed him who penned it as is alreadie proued Marke then the due examination thereof Out of these words of the Apologie we must obserue first that the Iesuite Bellarmine now Cardinal wrote from Ferrara to Parsons at Rome telling him that the priestes were not yet come thither Secondly that the Cardinals letter was written before the priests came eyther to Rome or to Ferrara whither it was thought they would come because
the Pope was there Thirdly that it was decréed that they should be imprisoned so soone as they came These three obseruations are expresly conteyned in the former part of the Cardinals letter to speake nothing yet of the last clause thereof because that part is denied But the former part is freely granted which may not be forgotten Fourthly that the Pope was aduertised in Ferrara by his Nuntioes in Fraunce and Flaunders that the priestes would come to him Fiftly that the Pope willed the Cardinall to write to Parsons to be enformed of them and their pretences Sixtly that the Cardinall Bellarmine can testifie all this to be their fiction for so saith the Apologie These obseruations duely pondered it will appeare to the indifferent reader as cleare as the Sunne when it shineth at the noone tide that the Iesuite Parsons is câ—ndemned in his owne conscience and knoweth now no other meanes how to defend his badde dealing but by hypocriâ—ie falshood and impudent lying First therefore he chargeth the Cardinall Bellarmine with false testimonie This is euident by the first obseruation where after hee told vs the words of the Cardinals letter he addeth immediatly to the same words the exclamation of the priests That done he forthwith with an impudent mouth auouceth that the Cardinall can testifie all this to be their fiction Peruse the words in the beginning of this third chapter and marke them well The diuell is termed a lyer and pater eius but henceforth let him giue place to Parsons in that behalf For hauing told vs of the Cardinals letter written to him and of the contents thereof he forthwith affrmeth to vs that all is false and the méere fiction of the priests And yet is the greater part or rather the totall summe of their narration conteyned in the said Cardinals letter But let vs in the way of dispute and in fauour of our good Iesuite Parsons and in regard of his trauels for the king of Spayne against our natiue countrey suppose with him that the priests had vttered many vntruthes the contrarie whereof God willing shall shortly be made manifest yet must the lye perforce be retorted vpon Parsons as vpon him that best hath deserued it for his impudent shamelesse and most notorious lying The reason is euident because he granting a great part to be true affirmeth in the same periode the whole to be false But it shall be proued before the ende of this replie that there is no falshoode therein at all saue that onely which procéedeth from his owne lips Secondly Parsons to purge himselfe of bad dealing if possibly it would bee telleth vs in the fift obseruation that the Pope willed the Cardinall to write to him to be enformed of the priests and their pretences Heere Parsons either condemneth himselfe or else giueth the Pope a mortall wound If the Pope gaue no such charge to his Cardinall then hath Parsons committed a damnable sinne in lying so egregiously vpon the Pope and his Cardinall And it séemeth verie probable that the Pope was not then acquainted with the matter but that the Generall of the Iesuites by Parsons his information had required the Cardinall to moue the Pope for their imprisonment if perhaps they should come to Ferrara while the Pope made his abode there And for this cause did the Cardinall answere that the priests were not yet come but should be imprisoned when they came as we haue in the third obseruation As if he had said haue yee no care I will be mindefull to gratifie you in your desire The priests are not yet come but I shall not faile to procure their imprisonment at their comming For it can not be imagined that intelligence of this matter could come to the pope but by the consent of Parsons and as Parsons did designe to be done The reason is euident because Parsons boasteth that he is appointed the Rector of the English Colledge the Prefect of the English mission and the like All which is true indéed and by reason hereof all English papists depend vpon Parsons and will doe nothing without his aduise the seculars euer excepted that now oppose themselues against him who doubtlesse would not bewray their owne cause If the Pope gaue such a charge indéed then did he shew himselfe to be the diuels vassall and not Christes vicar as he pretends to be For who but the diuell of hel would first decrée that the priests should be imprisoned and afterward labour to know what offence they had committed For if Parsons say truly the Pope knew not what offence was done Wel be this as it be may it is confessed on all sides that the priests with the Popes knowledge were first imprisoned then inioyned to liue in exile and neuer to returne into their natiue countrey without licence and could not to this day be permitted to speake to the Pope Iustly therefore may the priests exclayme O miserable times O wicked manners of men O cursed Parsons O cruell bishoppe of Rome Doest thou send thy priests with the daunger of their liues to execute thine imployments and when they haue taken a long painefull and chargeable iourney to know thy further pleasure in their doubts and distresses in that behalfe doest thou cause them to be imprisoned Doest thou punish them before thou know any cause Doest thou condemne them nay banish them before thou doest heare them speake they truly haue deserued no lesse because they haue taken part with thee against their naturall soueraigne Yet is it a shame of all shames for thee to haue dealt so cruelly with them They may see if they haue but one eye left that thou art neither Saint Peter nor Christs lawfull vicar Thirdly they were more strictly imprisoned at Rome then the Iesuites are this day in England though knowen professed enemies to the crowne For first Parsons was the chiefe Iaylour Secondly the priests were put in â—eucrall places of the prison so as the one could not speake with the other Thirdly they could not be permitted to talke with schollers nor the schollers to talke with them This is a good president â—ew to deale with tayâ—orous Iesuites when they shall hereafter be apprehended in this land Fourthly the notarie that penned the examination was a Iesuite so as Parsons had his desire in euerie respect These things put together with the former the last clause of the Cardinals letter of Parsons his hasting to Ferrara will be euident Fourthly Parsons fearing that the Pope would make some subordination in England laboured by all meanes possible that Blackwell might be the Arch-priest I proue this euidently For first the Pope willed that information should be procured out of England who were the fittest men for gouernment And yet Parsons confesseth that the opposite seculars were not acquainted therewith Albeit they were the fittest men as I shall proue demonstratiuely if any Iesuite will prouoke me thereunto Secondly the Protector demaunded the opinions of
worldly affaires Behold here tyran ny ambition in Iesuiticall proceedinge O cruell tyrannie o tyranous crueltie Loe the Iesuites proudly do promise a conquest Iohn Gerard the Iesuite said to the Ladie MarkhaÌ„ of Notinghame shire that the Iesuits would make the seculars leape at a crust ere it be longe quodlib 3. art 10. p. 83. What a malepeart â—aucinesse is this what greater pride can be found 〈…〉 O braue gallanâ—â— O humble le Iesuits â— O poore 〈◊〉 O Iesuits where is your vow 〈◊〉 pouerty Loe I pray you the Iesuites caÌ„ steale The Iesuites surpasse the false steward in the gospel Loe the Iesuits are men of good credit All is fish that come to the Iesuites haÌ„ds see the next paragraph The Iesuites are seditious All religious men hate the Iesuites The Iesuites are banished out of â—â—ance for their seditious dealing O what a cursed crew is this O deepe gulfe of sedition Iohn Chasteâ—'l â—as brought vp in the Iesuites schoole O wâ—he Foxe O religious Iesuits What a 〈◊〉 is here Zauier or Xauier The Iesuites are iuglers maâ—ke well my discourse See the 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 and note them well Loe the Pope cannot depose kinges nor translate their kingdomes The Pope is readie to curse slow to blesse Loe the bearers of the Pope bull were set vpon the pillory Pervse the fiâ—t chapter in the first section â— note it well Lo the Iesuites vse to preferre factious heads The Archpriest must be a witnes against his good master Parsons the author of the trayterous booke of titles See more of this fellowes treasons in the next chapter Loe Parsons hath the trade of lying Remember the memorable caueâ—â— The high counsell of reformatioÌ„ Loe the Pope purposely intended rebellion The Duke of Norfolke a traytour King Philip appointed the Duke of Alua to aide the Duke of Norfolke Ergo the Pope may erre Rebellion in the North. 1569. Loe euery thing tendeth to rebellion The priest Saunders was the Ringleader â—â—â—bellion Loe the deuill brought the Iesuits into England Ano. 1580. Mendoza is a Iesuite See impors coÌ„sid p. 22. 24. P. 23. 18. Important considerat p. 22 24. p. 23. 18. Gregory 13. See the 16. Preamble See the fourth chapter in the 11. Paragraph See the 4. chapter the 6. Paragraph The Pope is the cause of all rebellion Read the 4. chapter in the 10. 11. Paragraph See the 4. and 5 chapters and note then wâ—ll This doth confound the secular priests O gracelesse Cardinall O most cruell and bloodie villaine See the third booke in the third aduito Fie sâ—e shal the 〈◊〉 depend vpon the courtisie of the Spaniardâ—â— goodly new no recompence to all It is lawfull for euerie christiaÌ„ to judge of the Popes doâ—trine See the sixt quodlibet art to infine and the apologie page 17. For the proofe see the fift aduiso in the third realâ— and note it well See the fourth booke and fourth chapter in the .5 section See the fourth aduiso in the answere to the sixt reason See the preface to the discouerie in the end Campion is canonized for a Saint The Seculâ—â— are either traytors or not sound papistes This worthy man was Cardinall 〈◊〉 Quadl S. art 5. page 223. See quodl 8. art 6. page 243. â—ehould how God inforceth the Papists to disclose the very truthâ— truth will euer preuaile in time See quodl 9. art 8. pag 8. pag. 27. et quodâ— 8. art 9. pag. 277. The Secular priests in matters of treason and state seeme to equiuocate The authors booke 〈◊〉 iustifid by the priests See more hereof in the third booke in the fourth aduiso in the latter end Page 68. It is good and necessarie to keepe the papists vnder See quodl 8. art 9. Page 270. Loe the papists expect a day as Esau did when be meant to kil his brother Gen. 27. 41. Loc their Popish Archpriest is an idol The king of France murdered by the Iesuits Loe the Iesuites are most skilfull Phisitions PreaÌ„bles 7 and 8. Deut. 32. v. 35. Rom. 15. 19 Psal. 82. 6. Iohn 13. 1. Rom. 13. 1. Mat. 26. v. 52. If a like ergo treasonablie Quod. 8. art 1. pag. 223. See the answere to the 〈◊〉 gentleman page 24. quodlib 8. art 1. page 223. The seculars are insolent fellowes Corall 1. Corall 2. See the 10. chapter in the 3. Paragraph in the second booke In the second booke chap 3. 〈…〉 Quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. Loe thousands are bent and wish disloyaltie The Pope hath greater power then God Quod. 9. art 5. pag. 306. Quod. 8. art 6. page 24â— Marke this well that ye may vnderstand it aright Loe the secular priests are as traytorou as the Iesuites See the fiâ—t reason Imp. consid p. 43. quodlib 342 p 267. p. 361. Loe the penall lawes are iustly made against the seminaries Loe the seminarie priests are traitors See the 3. reason See the 4. booke and 7. chapter This is a maxime in the RomaÌ„ church see D. Elyes notes vpon the Apologie p 93. 31. et p. 103 6. The Pope may be iudged euen by Popish doctrine See booke 2. cap. 9. â—euel 3. How the Pope cannot erre but the diuell in his coate Note this word iustly for it is of great importaÌ„ce The Priests are bound to detect the Iesuits Loe here the Priests confesse freely that they are traytors Note this point well it is to be admited and to bee sought into carefully Note this point well Marke well for Christs sake See the replie to Parsons libell fol. 68. 3500. pounds 100. pounds 1008. Markes 400. pounds 1000. pounds See the sixt Aduiso and note it well King Henry now regnant Gerson pri part de examin doctrinar confider 2. Gerson vbi supra Gerson pripart in serm pro. viagio regis Roman part 3. direct 1. Gerson in pri part in serm pro â—agio regis Rom. direct 2. Gerson pri part dâ—â—statiâ—us ecclesiastic consider 3. Gerson in serm coâ—â— concil Constan K. prim part Gerson ibidem Gerson in serm pro viagio regis Romanorii direct 1. prim part Gerson pâ— parte in tractatu de appellatione à papa circa medium Gerson vbi 〈◊〉 in 2. propâ—it See the Apologie page 172. and note it well Loe the like treason was neuer hard of to this day These words are set downe quodl 8. art 7. page 247. This my selfe know to be so Quodl 7. art 7 p 196. I speake this of my owne knowledge See the â— chapter the seconâ— section Apologie page 2. See Collingâ—ons defence page 123. p. 124. p. 126. Apologie page 211. Apologie page 162. page 10. Apologie page 194. It is not Parsons manner to put his name to his bookes See the apologie page 172. O tyrannie of all tyrannies in world See D. Elies notes vpon the Apologie p. 108. p. 111. p. 112 vers 20. Apologie Page 139. Page 154. How would these Iesuites intreat others that deale so cruelly with the popes friends Aske my brother if I bea a these Apologie page 193. Iohn 8. vers 44. O blessed Iesuitical Cardinall seruant of the diuell Page 199. Note this dilemna The Pope is a most cruell tyrant Apologie Page 193. Page 191. Apologie Page 99. Apologie page 99. See Collington Page 126. Page 127. and note them well Apologie page 4â— Note this 〈…〉 See the râ—pâ—â—e to 〈…〉 See Colleton page 224. See the Second booke in the fift chapter Apologie p. 184. 1579. 1574. Parsons would very gladly haue credite but it will not be Apologie page 183. Apologie page 183. Parsons hath lost his wiâ— Note this point well Apologie page 183. Apologie page 167. Psal. 5. v. 9. See Colleton page 126. See also the 5 6. chapter follow See the second booke and third chapter in the 〈◊〉 paragraph See the â—eply to Parsons libell fol. 96. a. See Colleton page 1â—â— Apologie page 172. See Colleton page 126. See also the fift and sixt chapters following See Colleton page 294. Apologie Page 221. 222. Apologie Page 22. Apologie page 172. See the second booke and ninth chapter in the sixt obseruation Note here that the secular priests dostil commend Cardinal Allen in al things See Colleton p. 282. Apologie page 177. Apologie page 176. See the third chapter Parsons loueth the priestes dearly as appeareth by the intâ—â—atiâ— of then messengers sent to Rome See Apolog pag. 〈…〉 Parsons spendeth 5 or 6. crowns a weeke in 〈…〉 Loe Parsons studideth deepe diuinitie Parsons the cause of sharp lawes See note page 297. Loe the Crowne of England is set on sale Quodl 4. art 2. page 109. Quodl 8. art 5. page 238. Quodli 7. art 10. page 184. Quoâ—l 7. art 10. page 217. Quodl 8. art 5. page 236. Loe Parsons is purtrayed in his best be seeming colours Of the vttered by Parsons see ColletoÌ„ page 126. Colleton page 179. CollingtoÌ„ page 194. page 281. Colleton pag. 163. CollingtoÌ„ page 180. CollingtoÌ„ pag. 272. Marke wel all Iesuites Iesuited persons do depend â—pon the diuell Parsons is a great lyar well worthey of the wet-stone Behold deceitfull dealing Colleion page 126. page 127. Collington page 147. Quodli 2. art 8. page 43. Apologie page 212. They sent Watson with others â—ge the seculars are traitors like the Iesuites When theues begin to reckon then true men shall come to their owne See the 4. chapter towards the end Let this be well marked 2. Reg. 18. 2. Par. 19. 2. Reg. 23. 2. 34. Victor de potest Papae concil relect 4. pag. 139. Couarr 10. 1. cap. 20. par 11. in med