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A69022	The baiting of the Popes bull. Or an vnmasking of the mystery of iniquity, folded vp in a most pernitious breeue or bull, sent from the Pope lately into England, to cawse a rent therein, for his reentry With an advertisement to the Kings seduced subiects. By H.B.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.; Catholic Church. Pope (1623-1644 : Urban VIII)	1627 (1627)	STC 4137.3; ESTC S106960	93,251	154

if his Master had conquered England in 88. the English should haue had the fauour to be transported to digge in his Indian Mines and by the way s●w you vp close in the old Romaine Culleus a leather sack the ancient reward of 〈◊〉 casting you into the Sea as vnworthy to touch any Element that would vnnaturally betray that sweet Country wherein you first receiued your Being and breath The Spaniard 〈◊〉 his lesson ad vnguem Amo proditionem odi Proditorem I loue the Treason but hate the Traytor Or say that necessity may inforce him for the present to allow you to breath still in England to be his Drudges and Vassals as it was with 〈◊〉 at the Captiuity in Babilon to till the ground for him to carry him in prouision for the warres in his conquest of the rest of Christendome and to feed his hungry pround Spaniards sucking the sweet of your sw●●t continually yet 〈◊〉 whither you will account this a condign recompense for such a foule treason yea consider also what yee haue now purchased in comparison of that which yee were before when yee liued like free English men euery man vnder his owne Vine and vnder his owne Figtree But why do I so much as suppose or imagine the least probabilitie of the comming to passe of any such prodigious 〈◊〉 God forbid I assure my selfe none of you will euer 〈◊〉 such vnnatural Miscreants to betray your natiue Country to the Spaniard neither if any would be so mad will our good God ever forsake this his inheritance wherein he hath so many thousands of his faithfull and vowed seruants who haue not bowed the knee to B●●l or kissed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And you cannot but know so much as little acquaintance as is allowed 〈◊〉 to haue with the Scriptures that so long as but one 〈◊〉 was in wicked Sodome euen the power of the Omnipotent himselfe was suspended from taking reuenge vpon it till Lot was safely provided fir and if but one righteous had beene found in the Citie God had spared it for their sakes Therefore neuer let any Romish or Spanish hopes feed themselues with such a vaine conceit of Englands Conquest vnlesse the conniuence at your innumerable 〈◊〉 Idols may indanger 〈…〉 place your chiefe confidence 〈…〉 more zealous then wise and 〈…〉 alleadge the Catholicke cause and the libertie of conscience as preponderating all other mischiefes the freedome of Religion and of the soule being to be preferred before the thraldome of the body yea and the betraying of your earthly Country not to be forborne for the meriting of an heauenly this indeed may seeme a waighty point and therefore not vnworthy altogether in this place of our deepest considerations for the discussing of such a difficulty To begin then at the head-spring of this our discourse it is no newes vnto you that the Pope of late hath sent his Bull or Brieue into England recommended to all his Catholicke sonnes of England wherein he chargeth you by no meanes to take the Oath of Allegeance or fidelity to your King but rather that you should account him for your Enemy the summe is that you should bee armed with the spirit of rebellion against your King and Country when occasion of the Catholicks cause should serue to show your valour in the open field as ye may all more plainely see in this brief● vnfolding of the Brieue How to charge subiects to disauow their fidelity to their Prince by what authority who hath such power ouer men to dispense to dissolue to absolue from the bonds of duty and obedience which naturall subiects owe to their King By what lawe or example God in his word hath taught the contrary But Christ Vicar hath this power but Christ practised the contrary But the Apostolicke successour of Peter may doe it but Peter Paul both preached practised the contrary so all the Patriarckes and Prophets Yet Christs Vicar Peters successor are titles not lightly to be regarded to which is added also Head of the Church Oracle of the world to whom is committed all power in heauen and earth who cannot erre to whom all must be subiect vnder paine of damnation and much more then I can tell Huge titles enough to intoxicate and infatuate silly and simple soules yea and to dazzle the eyes euen of the acutest wits with their glorious luster where they are attended or entertained but with credulity But if there be any truth at all in these things concerning the Pope whence in the name of God hath he these titles From what ground of truth He dare plead from Scripture From Scripture Hold you there we desire no better euidence or vmpire in this cause you will graunt then that the Scripture is of authority in it selfe to challenge our faith to rest vpon it as a most sure rule Yes but with condition as you are taught if it haue authority from the Church From what Church What Church Of Rome From whose mouth who must pronounce the verdict The Pope forsooth if so then the Popes power is not built primarily vpon the Scriptures but vpon himselfe and so he is Iudge in his owne cause The Pope belike lendeth authority to the Scriptures and they againe repay him with his owne minted coyne by confirming his supremacy This is pretty Iust as Boniface confirmed Phocas in his vsurped Empire and Phocas reciprocally settled him in his Papall supremacy Or as the Pope makes Saints who by that meanes receiuing a power and merit are by their Canonization qualified to become intercessors for their Canonizer his Holinesse What a coniuration-circle is here but pitch we vpon the center If the Pope giue the authority to the Scriptures prescribing and limiting them their sence whence then hath the Pope this authority From Christ as his Vicar How proues he that From Scripture But what authority hath the Scripture for this till first it receiue it from the Popes brest Come come let such popish jugglings impose vpon fooles and such turn-sicke windings cause the braines of young children to runne round and to conceit that the whole earth runnes round when it standeth still vnmoued But let men be guided by reason vnderstanding iudgement He that denyeth principles is to be detested not disputed with It is a Principle in Divinity that the Scripture is and euer hath beene the rule of Faith Yes say your Pontificians a Partiall rule but not Totall the vnwritten word is to be added What is that Apostolicke traditions Apostolicke That sounds well Well let not Apostolicke Traditions crosse Apostolicke writings and haue with you But otherwise looke not that your penny of Traditions should passe for current siluer with vs for waight and purenesse as the Scriptures in point of rule of Faith for all the Pope stampeth them with the Image and Superscription of Apostolicke Abrahams wells are now digged so deepe so large as not all your Philistian rubbidge can stop them vp not Apostolicke not all Romes holy

least I should offer both violence and wrong with my vnskilfull pensil to limme out more largely this most beautifull and well proportioned Image of a Princes vertuous mynd But I dare say which I referre to the best judgement of Your Majestie ablest to judge of Your owne noble sayings it is an exquisite Aphorisme or Abstract of that divine Rule prescribed to Kings by the Lord and Iudge of Kings It shall be when the King sitteth vpon the throne of his Kingdome that he shall write him h copy of this Law in a Booke out of that which is before the Priests and Leuites and it shall bee with him and he shall read therein all the dayes of his life that hee may learne to serue the Lord his God to keepe all the words of this Law and these Statutes to doe them that his heart be not lift vp aboue his brethren and that hee turne not aside from the Commandement to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his dayes in his Kingdome hee and his children in the midst of Israell Now what is the summe of all this but Honesty is the best Pollicy From this Root to wit Honesty the heathen deriued all the branches of vertue As those foure Cardinall vertues Prudence Justice Fortitude and Temperance the subiect of those three bookes of Offices Tully draweth from the force and nature of Honestie as himselfe expresseth And those foure also Iethro Moses father in law in his direction to his Sonne requireth to bee in all Magistrates saying Thou shalt prouide out of all the people men of Courage such as feare God men of truth and hating Couetousnesse Still the summe totall is Honestie is the best Policy Thus neede wee goe no further then Your Maiesty to learne the rule of all good policy whereof Honestie is the ground as containing all duties both to God and man in Prince or people Thus haue I though slenderly for the which I most humbly craue Your Maiesties generall pardon discharged my faithfull dutie in discovering so great a danger towards Your Maiestie It pertaines to the wisdome of Your Maiestie to provide speedy meanes for the prevention that Your Kingdomes may not become a prey to the enemie nor Your sacred Person exposed to the perill of beeing forsaken by Your owne Subiects whom the Pope instigateth by the authority of his Bull and by the incessant industrie of his Iesuites to stand closse to his Holinesse against Your Maiestie when occasion serveth His Breeue also mentioneth what anxious prayers the Church of Rome now maketh for hir Catholicke Sonnes in England There is some waighty cause in hand sure Wee poore Ministers hope that Your Maiestie will bee pleased to call a generall Fast to frustrate all Romes prayers Wee haue all fared the better for the last publicke Fast which Your Maiestie proclaimed for the averting of vnseasonable weather against the last harvest And it is memorable that on the same day wherein the Fast was kept generally over all England began the heavens to cleare vp their clowdy countenance and so continued till they had brought vs in a plentifull harvest in stead of a feared famine Not that wee place any vertue in a Fast but because a Fast with humble prayer preuaileth much with God not onely as being commanded by him and hauing a promise annexed but for the necessity of it to bee joyned with true repentance and reformation not onely of mens manners and all raigning sinnes publicke and private but also of the worship of God being purged from all the pollutions of Idolatry and superstition which are an abomination in Gods sight and especially a clearing the Coast of all Romish Iesuites and Idolatrous Priests whose religion is treason against Your Majesty and God himselfe When the good King Hezechiah had received the blasphemous letter of Senacherib King of Assyria he went into the Temple of the Lord humbled himselfe and prayed spreading the Letter for the Lord to read and revenge all the blasphemies contained in it both against God and the King perswading his subjects to defection from him But loe here a letter sent into England from the King of the spirituall Babylon full of most impious blasphemies against Your Maiesty most Antichristianly vsurping a power over Your subiects charging them to disavowe their fidelity vnto Your Maiesty shall not this iustly provoke Your Maiesty with Hezechiah to go into the Lords Temple and there publickly intreat the Lord to take revenge on such blasphemies and to turne the mischiefe which Rome and her confederates now intend and machinate against Your Person and Crowne vpon their owne head as Ezechias obtained of the Lord yea Your Maiestie thus doing all Gods faithfull Ministers as so many Esayes to King Ezechiah as so many Azariahs to King Asa dare promise Your Maiestie both certaine victory ouer Your enemies and a constant peace with prosperity while You constantly follow the worthy examples of those religious Kings of Juda which grace the Lord giue vnto Your Maiestie in abundance Amen Your Maiesties most loyall subiect though vnworthy servant HENRY BVRTON TO THE LORD DVKE OF BVCKINGHAM his Grace Right Honorable THE Dutifull zeale I beare to the safety of my dread Soueraigne and deare Country inforceth mee otherwise loth to put my finger into the fire in the second place to sollicite Your Grace to bee the more carefull to preuent the danger When King Saul and Abner with the whole guard were in a dead sleepe so that Dauid had the opportunity to take away the Kings speare and Pot of water by him onely to testifie his fidelity to the King hee called alowd to Abner and awakening him said Art not thou a valiant man and who is like to thee in Israell wherefore hast thou not kept thy Lord the King surely yee are worthy to dye c. But neither can I say so altogether nor neede I cry so loud to your Grace vnlesse these many businesses which will scarce suffer you to sleepe so soundly as did Abner will neither suffer such a dwarfe as my selfe easily to bee heard But speaking for the King I hope I shall not be denied Audience Nor are they good subiects persecuted as Dauid of whom the King is in danger but such as though they haue small cause to complaine of persecution yet are instigated to deny vnto their Soueraigne that loyalty and Allegiance which all true subiects owe vnto their lawfull Prince Doth not your Grace erect your most earnest attention to this But who dare thus instigate the Kings subiects against him No lesse then the Pope and that by a Breeue or Bull lately sent ouer into England wherein he straitly chargeth his Catholique Sonnes as hee termes them vpon no termes to take the Oath of fidelity to the King inciting and animating them as against their Enemy as the Breeue can testify Nor had I I confesse beene thus bold to meddle in such a matter if

I had seene but some publique Edict for the burning of the Breeue as also for the effectuall banishing of all Iesuites the onely Factors for the Pope in such Adventures for Treason and Rebellion But be like notice hath not as yet beene giuen thereof to your Grace And that you may bee not the lesse sensible of the danger of a Papall Breeue You may be pleased to know that such neuer appeareth but as some prodigious Comet not signifying only but designing and producing some sad fatality Thus did the Pope in 88 thus at the Gunpowder plott Thus now This Romish Lightning may warne vs of a Crack not farre off God keepe vs from the Thunderbolt If it were only a bare prognosticating signe it were the lesse Sapiens dominabitur Astris but being an operatiue Instrument wherein the Iesuites are Agents to improue it to the vtmost of their Masters aduantage it is not so to be slited Iesuits why are not all Iesuits packed away long since by Proclamation Alas Sir you may be pleased to know they are like cunning Iugglars that can passe and repasse at pleasure They say England is fuller of them at this day then euer And now while the Popes yron is in the fire how doe they sweat in beating it to perfection But if they be catcht they are put in prison Alas they are there but as a bird tyed to the nett to call in other birds which seeming to come to releiue the prisoner they are more intangled themselues But thence they are quickly dismist to bee gone and voyd the Land Alas they doe but play the cunning Duck which sent out doth by her wily insinuation tolle and traine hundreds and thousands into her Masters Nett Thus cunningly can they play at fast and loose How then shall these Proteus-like Foxes be taken Certainly there is no other way but to hunt them out with the Kings owne doggs Your Grace is the great Iusticiarius Forestae And anciently Iustices in Eyre were sent with Commission into sundry Counties to heare such causes especially as were termed Plees of the Crowne Lo here a great plee of the Crowne yea such as wher in the title of the Kings Crowne is not onely questioned but strongly vsurped by the Claime of a forraigne Power What English eares can with patience heare such an insolencie When King Ahashuerus did but vnderstand of the desperate estate of the Iewes wherein that wicked Haman as Hester told the King had brought them the good King by and by sent forth his Edicts by Post into euery Prouince to incourage and arme the poore people of God to stand vpon their guard and so they preuented and ouercame the perill Now who stand more deeply charged with the care of the Kings Crowne then your Grace So that I neede not I trow in such a case vse spurres to your agility and readines for the putting of all dull courses in speedy execution for not onely the apprehension but the condigne punishment of such kinde of Malefactors Why what Malefactors such as Iesuits are not onely of factious treacherous traiterous spirits as they are men possessed with the spirit of Iesuitisme but euen by vertue and force of their Order and Profession Traitors ex professo They must be so they are bound to bee so else they are no Iesuits else must they renounce their Holy Order of the society of Iesu And is it possible that such should roust in England Nay reuell and riot Nay not onely bee profest traitors themselues but drawing Parties to their side continually euen to the diuiding of the limmes the armes and shoulders legges and feete from the Head of this goodly Politicke body It is the fashion indeed in other neighbour Popish States publickely to allow and auow such kinde of Creatures in the State But none haue more reason to vphold them then the Spaniard their good Master For certainly in time if they be suffered to goe on they will bring all Christendome vnder the Spanish yoake God forbid Yet if they should so do I make a question whether the Spaniard would suffer such pragmatical spirits any longer in Christendome lest as the restles sea hauing wrought as far as it can one way it worke as far as fast the contrary way It is likly then that he would send them into the Turks Dominions into Persia all those Easterne Empires to make compleat the Monarchy of Spaine that ioyning the two Indies together and circling in whole globe of the earth his Motto may then be Ne plus vltra But why doe I roue so farre when our home is in such danger What is to bee done shall I shoot a fooles bolt Shall I bee bold with your Grace Why not I haue heard men say you are of a noble disposition which will easily pardon a fooles bluntnesse In briefe then Your Grace knowes the King wants money extreamely You know againe that Treason is vnsufferable to wink at it to conceale it brings a man within Misprision of treason You may be pleased all to know that all Iesuites as by their profession so in their practise are high Traitors to Kings and States You know againe that all Iudges and Iustices of peace in this land are sworne to the King to see the lawes duly executed but especially vpon fellons and traitors You know that all such as shall bee found guilty of such Periury or Misprision of treason are punishable not onely in their persons but in their purses and estates Can the King then lacke money so long as there are as they say so many Iesuits in the land which passe euery where vnpunished O that your Grace would finde out the Delinquents in this kinde Nay let your Grace be assured if you will but take a round course with the Iesuites in rooting them out according to their demerits as it would bring safety security to the Kings Person and State so being the faithfull discharge of that trust reposed in you what a comfort will it be to your conscience what a blessing from God might you expect yea what loue also from all the Kings louing subiects Then would all things proceed succeed happily whereas on the contrary so long as Iesuits with their factions and treasons are suffered in this land what can wee expect but that euery thing we take in hand should proue very vnprosperous crosse For God is highly displeased with vs for suffering such miscreants to practise their impieties on this his Church to the great dishonour of his Name and Religion And how shall we be worthy to inioy such a King such a Country such a Church so many blessings of God if we be so prodigall of them All the world admires the wonderfull trust that the King hath reposed in you I pray God your Grace may answer it in your faithfull prudent and vigilant care I remember a speech which his Highnesse when he was Prince vttered among vs that were his seruants that when he