11. How then can Kings bear with your Sacrilegious prophaning of the Lords Supper and forbidding Gods own Word to be read and licence the rest of your Impieties and Blasphemies and hope to be free from your plague When Valentinian the younger was requested to wink at the renewing of an Alter for the Pagans in Rome St. Ambrose disswaded him in these words All men serve you that be Prmces and you serve the Mighty God He that serveth this God must bring no dissimulation no Connivance but saithful zeal and devotion be must give no kind of consent to the worship of Idols or other superstitious or prophane Ceremonies for God will not be deceived nor mocked who searcheth all things even the secrets of our Hearts Ambrose lib. 5. Ep. 30. Now what account will God exact for his Name blasphemed his Word exiled and wrested his Decalogue dockt his Sacraments curtal'd and prophaned And what answer must be made for the ruine of Faith harvest of sin murder of Souls consequent always to the publick freedom of Idolatrous and Superstitious Worship and Heresies which ought to be fully considered and wilely prevented by Christian Magistrates who must as well as the meanest of their Vassals give an account of their Stewardships when called thereunto at the day of their Account § When Mary afterwards Queen of England earnestly besought her Brother King Ed. 6. both by her own Letters and by the mediation of the Emperour That she might have the free use of Mass in her Family alledging her Conscience for it that her House was her Flock c. The King by his Council made answer that it was well liked that her Grace should have her House or Flock but not exempt from the Kings Laws and Orders neither may there be a Flock of the Kings Subjects but such as will hear and follow the voice of the King their Shepherd God disalloweth Law and Reason forbiddeth it Policy abhorreth it and her Honour may not require it However at her earnest intreaty and desire made in the Emperors Name thus much was granted and no more that for his sake and hers also it should be suffered and winked at if she had the private Mass used in her own Closet for a season until she might be better informed whereof was some hope having only with her a few of her own Chamber so that for all the rest of her Houshold the Service of the Realm should be used and no other After this was granted in Words the Emperors Ambassador desired some Testimony of the Promise under the Great Seal which being denied he desired to have it by a Letter which was also denyed but not without shewing sound reasons that he perceiving it to be denyed with Reason wight be the better contented with the answer But when there was ill use made of this Indulgence and Connivance her Chaplain taking too great a liberty by publick Celebration of the Mass out of her Presence was sent for by the Council imprison'd c. for whom though her Grace mediated by many carnest Letters both to the King and his Council yet did his Majesty signifie to her by a Letter dated 24. January 1550. That though he had for a while connived that she might be brought as far towards the Truth by Brotherly love as others were by Duty and in hope of her amendment yet now if there be no hope why should there be sufferance Alledging also That his charge was to have the same care over every mans Estate that every man ought to have over his own And that in her own House as she would be loath openly to suffer one of her Servants being next her most manifestly to break her Orders so must she think in his state it would prejudice him to permit her so great a Subject not to keep his Laws that her nearness to him in Blood her greatness in Estate and the condition of the Time made her fault the greater The Example is unnatural that our Sister should do less for us than our other Subjects the Case standerous for so great a person to forsake our Majesty And therefore 24. Aug. 1551. He sent Commissioners to signifie to her That His Majesty did resolutely determine it just necessary and expedient That her Grace should not in any ways use or maintain the private Mass or any other manner of service than such as by the Law of the Realm was authorized and allowed So resolure was this young Josiab this Noble pious Prince though his dear Sister and the next Heir of the Crown had divers times offered her Body at the Kings Will rather than to change he rconscience § Queen Eliz. as in other things so in Religion was according to her assumed Motto semper endem never suffering the least Innovdtion thereof and therefore as in the first Year of her Reign she took great care that those Protestants which then began to frame a new Eeclesiastical Poliey being transported with a humour of Innovation should be repressed betimes and that but one only Religion was to be tollerated Angli Bello in trepidi nec mottis sensu deterentur lest diversity of Relig ons amongst the English a stout and Warlike Nation might minister continual Fuel to Seditions So in the Second Year of her Reign when the Emperor and Catholick Princes by many Letters made earnest inter cession that the Bishops and other Ecclesiasticks displaced for refusing the Oath of Supremacy which notwithstanding most of them had Sworn unto and taught in their Sermons and writ in defence thereof in the Reign of King H. 8. might be mercifully dealt withall there being as themselves had written and calculated above 9400. Ecclesiastical orefer ments and not above 189. displaced whereof 14 were Bishops that Churches might be allowed to the Papists by themselves in Cities she answered That although those Popish Bishops had insolently and openly repugned against the Laws and Quiet of the Realm and did still obstinately reject that Doctrin which most of them under H. 8. and E. 6. had of their own accord with heart and hand publickly in their Sermons and Writings taught unto others when they themselves were not private Men but publick Magistrates yet would she for so great Princes sakes deal favourably with them though not without some offence to her own Subjects But to grant them churches wherein to celebrate their divine Offices apart by themselves she could not with the safety of the Common-Wealth and without wrong to her ovvn Honour and Conscience neither vvas there any cause vvhy she should grant them seeing England embraced no nevv or strange Doctrin but the same vvhich Christ commanded the Primitive and Catholick Church received and the ancient Fathers vvith one Mind and Voice approved and to allovv Churches with contrary Rites and Ceremonies Besides that it openly repugned the Laws established by Authority of Parliament were nothing else but to sow Religion out of Religion to distract good Mens minds
Forrein force though Authorized from the Pope himself as this Dialogist pretends now to do None of this sort were for their Religion prosecuted or charged with any crimes or pains of Treason And this I shall demonstrate in point of fact by instancing of some few of very many of the better sort for of the more ordinary sort they were sans nombre not unfit to be taken notice of as by name Dr. Heth that was Arch-Bishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England in Queen Maries days who at the first coming of Queen Eliz. to the Crown shewing himself a faithful and quiet Subject continued in both the said Offices though in Religion then manifestly differing and was not restrained of his liberty nor deprived of his proper Lands and Goods but willingly leaving both his Offices lived in his own House very discreetly and injoyed all his purchased Lands and disposd of them as he pleased at his death An Example of Clemency not to be parallel'd in Queen Maries time The like did Dr. Poole Bishop of Peter-borough Dr. Tunstall Bishop of Duresme Dr. White and Dr. Oglethorpe Bishops the one of Winchester the other of Carlisle who was so inclined to dutifulness to the Queen that he did the Office of Consecration and Coronation of Her Majesty And Dr. Thurleby and Dr. Watson the one of Ely the other of Lincoln Bishops and so Turbervile Bishop of Exeter all which lived at their own liberty without being charged with any Capital peine though they maintained the Popes Authority against the Laws of the Realm Some Abbots did the like as Mr. Fecknam Some Deans as Dr. Boxall Dean of Windsor Dr. Cole Dean of St. Pauls Dr. Reignold Dean of Exeter and many others having born Offices and Dignities in the Church and that had made profession against the Pope which they only began in Queen Maries time to change yet were these never troubled nor deprived of their proper Goods and Livelyhoods but only removed from their Ecclesiastical Offices which they would not Exercise according to the Laws and most of them and many others of their sort for a great time were retained in Bishops Houses very civily and courteously without charge to themselves or their friends untill the time that the Pope Phalaris like sent out his roaring Bull dated 5. Calend. Mart. 1569. 5. Papatus Pij Quint. and his bellowing Messages to trouble this Realm by stirring Rebellion about the same year being about 11 Years after Her Majesties coming to the Crown Besides these Ecclesiasticks there were also very many Lay-men of good Fortunes and Families that were manifestly seduced by their Priests to hold wrong opinions in Religion for the Popes Authority and none of them were ever impeached of Treason or of loss of Life Member or Inheritance for such their opinions in Religion or for the Popes Authority alone as our most impudent Adversaries have often published F. 5. and yet some of them were well known to hold opinion That the Pope ought by Authority of Gods Word to be Supreme and only Head of the Catholick Church over the whole World and only to rule in all Causes Ecclesiastical and that the Queens Majesty ought not to be Governour over any of her Subjects in her Realm being persons Ecclesiastical which opinions are nevertheless in some part by the Laws of this Nation punishable in other Degrees yet for none of these points were any persons prosecuted with the Crime of Treason or brought in danger of life but enjoyed their Religion in private with Connivance though not with Tolleration and Abetting and so they have done ever since even unto the very day this Dialogist writ his Dialogue with as much freedom and liberty Nay with more than have our other dissenting Brethren who differ in Discipline and Ecclesiastical Government only not in Doctrin without having their Consciences raked into by Six bloody Articles or any Oaths And if any thing of more than ordinary severity hath lately befallen them they may thank their own most implacable and restless Spirits for it And if any of the same Communion being of more quiet and moderate Temper and Humour and better principled do suffer thereby they ought in all Justice to do as the Seculars in Queen Eliz. days did and place the blame on the fiery tempers of that Crudele genus of some their own Colleagues that have brought this upon them and not to blame us or our Laws who in all prudence ought to provide for the safety and quiet of our selves and of our own Religion by wholsom Laws be displeased therewith who will Now were Papists in Queen Eliz. days the quieter or better Subjects for those 12 Years Indulgence Connivance Favours and princely Graces or the Queen in any manner the more secure in her person or quiet in her Dominions Let be Judg that Bull of Prius Quintus together with the Popes Commission granted to Dr. Sanders as Legate who before his passing into Ireland openly by writing Impudently avowed that Bull against Her Majesty to be lawful and which for ought I know is in force to this day against all her Successors if any Pope please to have it so and together with the Faculties granted by the Pope unto P. P. Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion at Rome 14. Apr. 1580. then going for England and together with the Confession of Hart who being Condemned with Campion did the last of December 1580. confess That the Bull of Pius Quintus for so much as is against the Queen is held amongst the English Catholicks for a lawful sentence 25. Feb. 1570. and a sufficient discharge of her Subjects fidelity and so remaineth in force but in some points touching her Subjects it is altered by the present Pope For where in that Bull all her Subjects are commanded not to obey her and she being Excommunicate and Deposed all that do obey her are likewise innodate and Accursed which point is perilous to the Catholicks for if they obey her they are within the verge of the Popes Curse if they disobey her they are in the Queens danger therefore the present Pope to relieve them hath altered that part of the Bull and dispensed with them to obey or serve her without peril of Excommunication which Dispensation is to endure but till it please the Pope otherwise to determine We thank his Holiness This Bull did Import 1. That Her Majesty was not the lawful Queen of England the first and highest point of Trason 2. That all her Subjects are discharged of all their Oaths and Obedince another point of high Treason 3. All warranted to disobey her and her Laws This was the proper and natural product of 12 Years Indulgence and Connivance with much moderation and many savours and from this Root sprang all the subsequent Treasons in Queen Eliz. days and since and will be again if not prevented of Northumberland Westmoreland Parsons Parry Throgmorton Somervile Stewkeley Saunders cum multis aliis A
Canum Rabies venenum Serpentum cruenta saenitia Bestiarum Gratulandum est cum tales de Ecclesia separantur ne columbas ne Oves Christi Soeva sua venenata contagione praedentur What hath the fierceness of Wolves The madness of Dogs The venom of Dragons and the Bloody Cruelty of Wild Beasts to do in a Christian Breast There 's joy and gladness when such are seperated from the Church lest the gentle and innocent Doves and Sheep of Christ be made a prey to their cruel Jawâ— and Venom May our King live for ever and may there never want a man of his Race to sit on his Throne Ruling in Righteousness fearing God and hating evil and that there may be a high-way of Holiness throughout his Dominions that wayfaring men though fools may not erre therein Isa 35.8 Surely there is no inchantment against Jacob neither is there any Divination against Israel Numb 23.22 Rara temporum faelicit as sub Nerva Trajano ubi sentires quae velles dicere quae sentires FINIS A Postscript shewing the purport of Pius Quintus his Bull against Q. Eliz. and also a form of Indictment of such Papists as were Executed for Treasons in her days that all the VVorld may be the better satisfied that not one of them dyed for any point of Religion and this is as a Supplement to what is so particularly set down in Horae subsecivae PIus Quinrus Pontisex Maximus de Apostolicia potestatis pleniâ—â—dine 25. Feb. 1570. deâ—laravit Elizabetham pretenso Regni Jure necnon omni quoeunque Dominio Dignitate privilegioque privatam Itemque proceres subditos populos dicti regni ac caeteros omnes qui illi quomodncunque juraverunt a Juramento hujusneodi ac omni fidelitatis debito perpetuo absolutos i. e. Pius Quintus the great Bishop of the fulness of Apostolick power hath declared Elizabeth to be bereaved of her pretended right of her Kingdom and also of all and whatsoever Dominion Dignity and Priviledge and also the Nobles Subjects and people of the said Kingdom and all others which had sworn to her any manner of ways to be absolved for ever from such Oath and from all Debt or Duty of Fealty c. with many threatning cursings to all that durst obey her and her Laws And for the Execution hereof to prove that the Effect of this Bull and Message was flat Rebellion mark what Dr. Sunders the Popes Fire-brand in Ireland writeth in his Book de visibili Monarchia Pius Quintus Pontifex Maximus Anno Domini 1569. Reverendum presbyterum Nicolaum Mortonum Anglum in Angliam misit ut certis illustribus viris Authoritate Apostolica denuntiaret Elizabetham quae tunc rerum potiebatur hereticam esse ob eamque causam omni dominio potestate excidisse impuneq ab illâ—is velut Ethnicam haberi posse nec cos illos legibus aut man datis deinceps obedire cogi i. e. Pius Quintus the greatest Bishop Anno Domini 1569 sent the Reverend Priest Nicholas Morton an English man into England That he should denounce or declare by the Apostolick Authority to certain Noble Men Elizabeth who then was in possession to be an Heretick and for that cause to have fallen from all Dominion and power and that she may be had or reputed of them as an Ethnick and that they are not to be compelled to obey her Laws or Commandments Thus you see an Ambassade of Rebellion from the Popes Holiness by an old doting Protestant a Fugitive and Conspiriator unto some Noble Men which were the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland Heads of the Rebellion that followed the success whereof he declares viz. Qua denuntiatione multi nobiles viri adducti sunt de fratribus liberandis cogitare auderent ac sperabant illi quidem Catholicos omnes summis viribus affuturos esse Verum etsi aliter quant illi expectabant res evenit quia Catholici omnes nondum probe cognoverant Elizabetham Haereticam esse declaratam tamen laudanda illorum Nobilium consilia erant i. e. By which denuntiation many Noble men were induced or lead that they were emboldened to think of the freeing of their Brethren and they hoped certainly that all the Catholicks would have assisted them with all their strength but although the matter happened otherwise than they hoped for because all the Catholicks knew not that Elizabeth was declared an Heretick yet the Councils and Intents of those Noble Men were to be praised This want of Information was soon after diligently and cunningly supplyed by sending multitudes of the Seminaries and Jesuits to inform the people as a Supplement to amend the former error Though Dr. Sanders hath thus written yet it may be said by such as favoured those Two Noble Jesuits Ro. Parsons and Ed. Campion that Dr. Sanders Treason is his proper Treason in allowing and justifying of the said Bull and not to be imputed to Parsons and Campion who notwithstanding had by special Authority charge to Execute the Sentence of this Bull which may appear by the subsequent Writings taken about one of their Confederates immediately after Campions death who in his life time would not be known of any such matter whereby may appear what trust is to be given to such Peudo-Martyrs Facultates concessae P. P. Roberto Parsonio Edmundo Campiano pro Anglia die 14. Apr. 1580. Petatur a summo Domino nostro Explicatio Bullae declaratoriae per Pium Quintum contra Elizabetham ei adhaerentes quam Catholici cupiunt intelligi hoc modo ut obliget semper illam haereticos Catholicos vero nullo modo obliget rebus sic stantibus sed tum demum quum publica ejusdem Bulle Executio fieri poterit Then followeth many other Petitions of Faculties for their farther Authorities not needful here to recite in the Close the Pope Answers Has praedictas Gratias concessit Summus Pontifex patri Roberto Parsonio Edm. Campiano in Angliam profecturis die 14. Aprilis 1518. presente Oliverio Monarco assistente Faculties granted to the Two Fathers Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion for England the 14. day of April 1580. by Gregory the XIII Let it be asked or required of our most Holy Lord the Explication or meaning of the Bull declaratory made by Pius Quintus against Elizabeth and such as do adhere or obey her which Bull the Catholicks desire to be understood on this manner that the same Bull shall always bind her and the Hereticks but the Catholicks it shall by no means bind as matters now stand or be but hereafter when the publick Execution of that Bull may be had and made Then in the Close was added The highest Pontiff or Bishop granted the aforesaid Graces or Faculties to Father Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion who are now to take their Journey into England 14. April 1580. being present the Father Oliverius Manark assistant By this it is apparent how
carry along with them their own warranty and so secretly invite belief which at length become meerly serviceable to the interests of those that manage them viz. the Popes and consequently disserviceable and disadvantageous unto Princes and all temporal Governments And such Orders being received and continued by the present Princes are no small obligations to their Heirs and Successors to continue them by reason of that former Authority engraven upon them by Custom and their Predecessors Now what does this Act do give a stop to the open and publick profession of the true Antient Catholick and Apostolick Faith as the Romanists bespatter and give out Nothing less It only discountenanceth the publick and open Profession of the Romish Tridentine Faith which in those Articles wherein they differ from the Protestants is neither True nor Antient nor Catholick but is an entire Apostasie from it and doubtless is the most Catholick and greatest Heresie in the Christian World A Religion that upon due examination and chioce no Man can embrace without reproaching his Maker and his Redeemer by renouncing his reason nay his very outward senses wherewith God hath endued him A Religion that by the same reason that they endeavour to justifie Transubstantiation I instance in this because I find more do wave the observance of the Act on the account of the Declaration and Subscription than of the Oaths therein a Man may as well believe every Hobby-horse to be a Barbe on Courser of Naples or the picture of every Bruit on a Sign-post to be really the Bruit it self Nay to doubt or deny that ever there was such a person as Jesus Christ upon Earth or that he or any of the Saints which slept did rise from the dead after him or that the Graves did open or that the Vail of the Temple was rent or that there was darkness over the whole Land from the sixth hour to the ninth c. I appeal to all the World if ever God declared either by word or practice that he would make use of artes praestigiariae Jugling Arts by deceptio sensuum or otherwise Nay hath not his practice ever been clearly contrary in all the Miracles that he or his Son ever wrought And the learnedst of the Romanists would infinitly oblige us if they would demonstrate unto us which of Christs Body it is that is Corporally in the Sacrament whether his glorified or not glorified Body and clear it of all the monstrous absurdities that opinion is guilty of The Antient Catholick and Apostolick Faith partakes not of their fopperies nor of their absurdities for their concealments and spunges are no better needs no captious reasonings no equivocations requires no implicit or blind faith or obedience uses no knaveries No no pure Religion and undefiled is of a better Brood of a more Noble Extract of a more Divine Origine The profession thereof joyned with Holiness and Righteousness ennobles every Soul scorns to obscure any Truths needs no prohibition of Gods Word no Indices expurgatorii hath superlative priviledges the greatest ornament any Sublunary Majesty can have scorns to use any indirect Artifices to Create Subtilities or Coyn Evasions to conceal or adulterate any of her Truths from ignorant or learned or to abuse any of our Senses as if we could not distinguish Bread from Stones or Fish from Serpents What have we from without us common to all Mankind so infallible as our Senses to cause Belief that Jesus Christ lived upon the Earth was Crucified Buried and Rose again The only Argument that Christ himself used to convince diffident St. Thomas to Believe was by his own Senses of seeing and feeling John 20.25 27. And if the Senses of all Christians in all Countries have been deceived above these 1600. years since Christs death in one Point why may not we by the same reason question and suspect the Senses of all those that lived contemporary with him in more Points as whether any of these things were so or no. So happy I confess are the Papalins in their Disputes against Protestant Religion that many of their Arguments by retortion only are as strong against their own Religion and indeed as strong against all Religions as against ours Light is come into the World but these men love darkness rather than light And why because their Deeds are evil every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his Deeds should be discovered but he that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God 3 John 19.20 21. Take but a short view but of Four of their Opinions that are so Diametrically contrary to Scripture that nothing but lowd and bawling Impudence can deny and in which the meanest capacity cannot be mistaken no not those Lucifugae Scripturarum that are only most blind not because they cannot but because they will not see nor yet understand though as directly opposite to Scripture as light to darkness truth to error God and Scripture GOd in the Second Commandment 20. Exod. forbids the very making of any graven Image or the likeness of any thing 2. Forbids the very Bowing down to them 3. He Commands them to take good heed unto themselves for that they saw no manner of Similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto them in Horeb out of the Fire lest they corrupted themselves and make a graven Image the similitude of any figure the likeness of male or female c. Deut. 4.15 16 17.4 He Cautionates them not to forget the Covenant he made with them viz. that they make not a graven Image or the likeness of any thing which the Lord the God had forbidden 5. He minds them that he was a Jealous God and would not have his Glory imparted to another 6. He was a consuming fire able to revenge all disobediences 23.7 He curseth the very man that maketh any graven or molten Image an Abomination to the Lord Deut. 27.15 Pope and Popish Doctrine NOtwithstanding all these solemn Prohibitions and Reasons delivered so dreadfully on the Mount by God himself in Fire with Thunder and Lightning thick Clouds and Smoak so that the whole Mount quaked greatly Yet so Super-omnipotent is Dominus Deus vester Papa that he doth not only dare to leave this very Commandment out of the Decalogue but Commands even under Anathema's and practises the clean contrary And it is justified and averred to be constans Theologorum c. The constant judgment of Divines that the Image is to be honoured and worshipped with the same Honour and Worship wherewith it is worshiped whereof it is an Image Jo. Azorius the Jesuit Institut mor. tom 1. lib. 9. cap 6. And Tho. Aquin. Concludes that the same reverence is to be given to the Image of Christ and to Christ himself and because Christ is to be Adored with Latria or Divine Worship that his Image is to be Adored with the Adoration of Latria Tho
have not one and the same Joynt-interest in Religion and State with themselves And that the Governours ought to be very vigilant in care themselves to forbid or at least discountenance all Councils and Things which may in any respect hurt or but disorder a good Government lest the Subjects thereof should be caught with any guile or seduced to embrace any opinions which may be repugnant either to good Government or sound Religion And I hope this Nation will never again be so infatuated as ever to put power into their Hands who have so often given such palpable Demonstration and Testimony how they have used it already and such pregnant presumptions how they would use it again could they obtain it Even they that run may read what the Papists like Jehn drive so furiously at even to make England once more Issachar like to couch and carry the Saddle Vah Papae shall it ever be again the style and reproach of England Glorious England that is scituate among the Rivers whose Rampart is the Sea and whose God is the Lord to carry the Saddle again God forbid But if so unhappy so unfortunate I 'le prophesie that not the Pope only but the Devil will ride her Pardon these Expressions I have encouragement from St. Jerome Neminem volo patientem esse in causa laesae fidei and from Moses the Mirror of meekness who knows no patience in Israels Idolatry Numb 12.3 Exod. 22.19 26 27. Idem manens idem semper facit idem THE REAL MERITS OF THE PAPISTS SUch hath the Confidence of the Papists of these latter times been as to claim a Right unto the Kings Majesties favour for a tolleration of their Religion upon the account of their great Merits as having best deserved of His Majesty because of all they were the most faithful to him and his Father The purport of this hath not only been averred by the generality of them in their ordinary discourses but also set out in print by several of them P. W. R. P. J. S. H. M. and others At which confident Assertion of theirs when I consider how boldly and feircly the contend for meritorious works nay for works of super-errogation even with God himself I do not so much wonder that such Merit-mongers broach it so confidently now as that they have not done it all this while § He that is first in his own Cause seemeth just but his Neighbour cometh and searcheth him Prov. 18.17 Which that we may the better do we will only a little look back into our own Chronicle without cloying the Reader with like Foreign Stories which would fill Volumes and first see how true and trusty Trojans the Papists have been to the Kings of England no Protestants but Papists and if they shall be found to have been neither true nor trusty but Traytors and Rebels to the Kings of their own Religion can it then ever be believed or hoped that they ever will be Loyal and Faithful to Protestant Princes when a neat opportunity offers the contrary and that Maugre all Roman Mandates to the contrary What Prince or other Sovereign soberly considers the new founded Society of Jesuits erected by Pope Paul the 3 d. about 1540 who although at first but 10 in Number yet so wonderfully encreased since that they bragged not a few years ago that they were 1300010. they lived in Colledges and places of residence besides those that trotted up and down that they had 359. Colledges or Schools 18 Domus professae 40 Domus probationis 8 Seminaries 1010 Residentiaries Vide speculum Jesuiticum Runninge Register And what their Principles and Doctrins are and what their practices have been for the destroying of all Princes quacumque Arte that will not become Vassals to the See of Rome and and acknowledg a Spiritual Monarchy in that Roman Chair paramount all temporal Crowns and Scepters and how strict and of what extant their vow of Obedience is to the Roman Bishop and how it is decreed by several Popes that the Institutions and Doctrins of the Jesuits must not be contradicted or disputed by any Ordinary Delegate Judg or Magistrate and how vastly that society is enlarged both in their Clergy and Layety since these great brags of theirs will be sufficiently convinced that neither their persons or their Kingdoms can ever be secure where either one sort or other are suffered to flourish § Let us now see matter of Fact Did not Pope Alexander the 3d. by violence and tyranny force King H. the II. to surrender his Crown Imperial into the hand of his Legate and afterwards b e content with a private Condition for a while to the great regret and Indignation of his Subjects Did not Innocent the 3d. stir up the Nobility and Commonalty of this Kingdom against King John and gave the Inheritance and Possession of all his Dominions unto Ludovicus the French King What were those 52000. but Papists that rebelled against Richard the I. Anno 1196. And all those that rebelled against Edward the II. Anno 1316 1317 1321 1322 1326. Amongst whom was Robert Baldock Bishop of Norwich and Lord Chancellor of England And all those that consented to the Murder of Edward the Third's Father and sought to kill John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Edward the Third's Son Anno 1330. 1372. And those in Richard the Third's time Anno 1381. Annimated by John Ball a Priest who at his Execution refused to ask the King forgiveness and despised him so peremptory was he Jack Straw confessing that when he sent for the King to Black-Heath they purposed to have murdered all Knights Esquires and Gentlemen that should have come with him and when they had got sufficient force they would suddenly then have put to death in every County all Lords and Masters of the Common people in whom might appear to be either Council or Resistance one Argument used by some of the late Protectorians for the death of our Glorious King and Martyr that he was too knowing and too intelligent to be suffered to live and especially they would have killed the Knights of St. John and all Men of any Possessions only Begging Fryars should have lived that might have Administred the Sacraments throughout the Realm and lastly they would have killed the King himself and made Kings in every Shire Thomas Arrundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury traiterously practiced the deposing of the said Richard his lawful Sovereign § It were no very wild conjecture to Divine that our late Generation of Levellers Major Generals Quakers and Phanaticks were spawned from them and that they are still but Badgers plotting and digging Holes for Romish Foxes to lie couchant and covertly in for their more subtile contrivances § What were those but Papists that rebelled against H. the 4th designing to Murder him under the colour of Justinge and other pastimes pretended 1399. And also those who raised Arms against him among whom was John Madelyn a Priest who had been Chaplain to King