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A28915	The mysterie of iniqvity yet working in the kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the destruction of religion truly Protestant discovered, as by other grounds apparant and probable, so especially by the late cessation in Ireland, no way so likely to be ballanced, as by a firme union of England and Scotland, in the late solemne covenant, and a religious pursuance of it.	Bowles, Edward, 1613-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3877; ESTC R211746	35,663	51

and who are accounted his Majesties true Subjects who Malignants But all this is easily blasted with the Consideration that they are the Expressions of Rebels pretending his Majesties name and service for their advantage No under favour they are the expressions of his Roman Catholique Subjects so stiled in the late Cessation concluded in his Majesties name and by his Majesties authority September 15. 1643. and ranked equally with other his Majesties good Subjects and therefore no reason to discountenance this Evidence not yet those of the like nature hereafter to be produced However it aboundantly shewes the end for which it was mentioned the proving that Rebellion to be a Quarrell of Religion Let us now trie what Evidence may be brought forth to prove that the Papists in Ireland and the Armies in England engaged against the Parliament are doing the same work and that there is a line of Communication betwixt their Counsells To this purpose let us consider a Commission and a Cessation to which whatsoever else is to be said in this matter may be reduced Common fame none of the worst witnesses hath brought to every mans eares the noyse of the Kings favouring the Irish Massacre and that the Catholique Subjects there have called themselves the Queenes Army and intimated themselves the Kings by saying they had good warrant in black and white for their proceedings and crying out upon the English Parliament and Puritanes as the Kings Enemies and theirs It were well worth the knowing the truth of this so important businesse Let us goe as neare it as the nature of a Mystery will admit And first let the Copy of the Commission said to be given by the King to his Catholique Subjects of Ireland be read and examined From our Camp at Newrie this fourth of November 1641. Philem Oneale Rorie Macguire To all Catholiques of the Romish Partie both English and Irish within the Kingdome of Ireland we wish all Happinesse Freedome of Conscience and Victory over the English Hereticks who have for a long time tyrannized over our bodies and usurped by Extortion our Estates BE it hereby made known unto you all our Friends and Countrey-men that the Kings most excellent Majesty for many great and urgent Causes him thereunto moving reposing trust and confidence in our fidelities hath signified unto us by his Commission under the great Seal of Scotland bearing date at Edingburgh the first day of this instant October 1641. and also by Letters under his signe manuall bearing date with the said Commission of divers great and heinous astronts that the English Protestants especially the Parliament there have published against his Royall Prerogative and also against our Catholique Friends within the Kingdom of England The Copy of which Commission we have here sent unto you to be published with all speed in all parts of this Kingdome that you may be assured of our sufficient warrant and authority herein THE COMMISSION CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the faith c. To all our Catholike Subjects within Our Kingdome of Ireland greeting Know ye that We for the safeguard and preservation of Our person have been enforced to make Our abode and residence in our Kingdom of Scotland for a long season occasioned by reason of the obstinate and disobedient carriage of Our Parliament in England against Vs who have not onely presumed to take upon them the government and disposing of those Princely Rights and Prerogatives that have justly descended upon Vs from Our Predecessours both Kings and Queens of the said Kingdome for many hundred yeares past but also have possessed themselves of the whole strength of the said Kingdome in appointing Governours Commanders and Officers in all parts and places therein at their own wils and pleasures without Our consent whereby we are deprived of Our Soveraignty and left naked without defence And forasmuch as we are in Our selfe very sensible that these stormes blow aloft and are very likely to be carried by the vehemency of the ●…rotestant Party into Our Kingdome of Ireland and endanger Our Regall power and authority there also Know yee therefore that we reposing much care and trust in your duties and obedience which we have for many years past found Doe hereby give unto you full power and authority to assemble and meet together with all the speed and diligence that a businesse of so great a Consequence doth require and to advise and consult together by sufficient and discreet numbers at all times dayes and places which you shall in your judgements hold most convenient and materiall for the ordering setling and effecting of this Great work mentioned and directed unto you in Our Letters and to use all politick wayes and meanes possible to possesse your selves for Our use and safety of all the Forts Castles and places of strength and defence within the said Kingdom except the Places Persons and Estates of Our loyall and loving Subjects the Scots and also to arrest and seize the Goods Estates and Persons of all the English Protestants within the said Kingdom to Our use And in your care and speedy performance of this Our will and pleasure we shall perceive your wonted duty and allegiance unto Vs which we shall accept and reward in due time witnesse Our selfe at Edinburgh the first day of October in the seventeenth yeare of Our Reigne This Deponent maketh Oath that about the middle of November last living then in the Parish of Saint Michans neare Dublin being accompanied with one master Stapleton of Dublin aforesaid Gentleman they happened into the company of a Popish Priest commonly called Father Birne who being formerly acquainted with the said master Stapleton desired to drink with him at a Ta●…ern called the Bull upon Merchants key in Dublin where 〈◊〉 of the injuries and troubles of the times the Priest answered that the Irish not enduring to have them called Rebels had sufficient warrant for what they did and stood strongly in defence of their actions and presently to justifie his words produced a writing according to the tenour of the premises mentioned in this writing abovesaid whereof the Deponent desired a Copy and he willingly yeelded unto it and thereupon he wrote this Copy out of his literatim in the presence of the said master Stapleton who is now living in Dublin This is the true copy of that Commission with the annexed Warrant and Deposition for I will conceale nothing in a businesse of this importance as it came to my hands in a paper thus endorsed A copy of the forged Commission in Ireland published by those traiterous Rebels Sir Philemy Oneale Knight Rory Maguier Esquire and others with their lying perswasi●…n to seduce and stirre up the whole Romish Party to Rebellion wherein may be seene how heinously his Majesty is abused and the Parliament unjustly taxed by the ●…apists This last clause I take for granted but as for the rest give me leave to try whether

Cause of so great consequence as the imminent danger of the Protestant Religion as to examine some of his Actions and see whether they have been more suitable to the Commission o●… Proclamation The Proclamation it selfe though in its nature opposite yee in its time and circumstances was too suitable to the Commission being deferred from the latter end of October to the first of January and then so sparingly printed so warily published as if it had been under the controll of some former Act whose leave must first be craved But his Majesty hath reason to expresse violence against these his Catholike Subjects or to chastise them at least for they went beyond this Commission though supposed reall that gave but a Yard they took an Ell though they were allowed to sei●…e the goods estates and persons of his Majesties Protestant Subjects yet they were not allowed to cut their throats unle●…le the private Letters concomitant can help out at such a pinch and their very transgression in this matter might justly occasion and provoke the title of mercilesse wicked Rebels But to return to Actions the best Commentaries upon words it is to be feared they will be found more agreeable to the Commission then the Proclamation as may be discerned in the unanswered Remonstrance of the rise and progresse of the Grand Rebellion in Ireland For instance What shall indifferent men think of his Majesties withdrawing himself from his Parliament declared by the then reall though now pretended Parliament to be a great obstruction to the prosperity of the Irish undertakings Of his raising war against his Subjects here the greatest service that could be done to the pretended rebels there being a diversion of that strength and a distraction of those Counsels that should have suppressed them Of his granting passes for notorious Papists as Butler the sons of the ●…ord Nettersfield and others to go thither for which see the Declaration of Parliament March 16. 1641. and if you will the Answ March 19. The stopping of provisions going to the supply of the Army against them taking away the horses prepared by the E. of Leicester for that service as appears by his complaint in a printed letter to the Earl of Northumberlana Of the free accesse of those that have been active in that Design to his Majesties camp and Court Of his putting in demu●…res to the Bill of pressing souldiers and deniall to the sending ships for that service It must not be denied that his Majesty was earnest in pressing care of that businesse of Ireland upon the Houses and passed some things to the advantage of it and in a message of the 8. of April 1642. spared not to offer his going in person to chastise those wicked and detestable Rebels with the renouncing of all other Ends but if his Majesty had continued in that angry minde hee might with ease have chastised them when they came over to him as they have done ●…ince plentifully I wish I had many more such actions to repeat But it must be considered there was a Proclamation that required some countenance and could not well have lesse then it had but I forestall no mans judgement but leave the impartiall reader to the weighing what hath been said and what hath been produced upon Oath in the Declaration of the Commons Iuly 25. 1643. And if the ballance be equall I shall only cast in some scruples of the late Cessation which unlesse the beame be false will make the Commission weigh down the Proclamation 1. First the scruple of c. in the nomination of the parties in this Treaty Is his Majesties Title of Defender of the Faith come to an intricate c. Y●…s and good reason for the other party with whom his 〈◊〉 treats upon equ●…ll terms are content with an c. and are called His Romane Catholique Subjects now in armes c. whereas it should have b●…en added according to the Acts of K●…lkenny for the Exaltation of the Holy Roman Catholique Church 2. The scruple of their sudden transformation from monstrous mercilesse Rebells into Subjects conj●…yned with other his Majesties good Subjects What shall the 〈◊〉 of Scotland thinke of this who hardly obtained the l●…ke retractation when they defended the P●…orestant Religion or the Parliament of England and their Adherents who cannot yet finde that favour But yet Mopso Nisa datur quid non speremus c. His Majesty sure had thoughts of this dishonourable recancation when hee was so loth to publish the Proclamation against them 3. The third scruple is ●…ersecute for that is the word in the Irish coppy not pros●…cute A license granted to 〈◊〉 ●…ure the Bishops had a finger in this Article and that Persecuted Protestants should expect no protection from his Majesty nor any of his forces against the Parsecution of the Papists but rather have occasion to feare the joyning of the forces the King shall have interest in in the Pers●…cution as is desired by the Catholiques to whom no such trifle must be denied is to me a sad story 4. The fourth scruple that these Catholique Subjects shall have liberty to send such Agents to his Majesty as th●…y shall thinke fit from time to time Priests and Iesuites not excepted If the Scales be not yet turned take the whole Cessation and the thirty thousand eight hundred pound and that will 〈◊〉 weigh it downe to the ground But I have much 〈◊〉 leave the contemplation of this Cessation Let us take a second view 1. Of the time wh●…n it was granted mo●…t seasonably when the P●…pish party was driven to great Extremities for want of victual ●…nd had b●…en in greater had nor the Forces raised and 〈◊〉 by the Parliament b●…en seduc●…d into a disaff●…ction to their service 2. O●… the Grounds all Acts of importance that are to passe the eye and censure of the world use to come armed against a●…l Exceptions with a preamble shewing the ground and necessity of them How comes it to be here ●…mitted that we have neither real nor * pretended causes and considerations but a down-right Ces●…ation or rather Accommodation as Souldiers judge it Was it such broad●●ced iniquity that no mask neit●…er in Oxford nor Dublin would fit it Was it neither for the preservation of the Protestant Religion nor affection to the ancient and native ●…ingdom of Scotland nor for the reconciling of the Distractions of the Kingdome of England Since those dull contrivers could f●…nde no matter for a foundation give us leave to ●…upply Seing the Catholike cause which the King of England is induced to serve either nakedly or cloathed with this pret●…rce o●… upholding his Powe●… and Prerogative which is suggested to be invaded and endangered by the Puritans there is now very much concer●…ed in the due ordering of the affaires of Great Brittain a●…d Ireland And whereas the Irish Catholikes have given so good t●…stimony of their approved zeal and cruelty in massacring near two hundred thousand Hereticks

THE MYSTERIE OF INIQVITY YET WORKING In the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland for the destruction of Religion truly Protestant DISCOVERED As by other grounds apparant and probable so especially by the late Cessation in Ireland no way so likely to be ballanced as by a firme Union of England and Scotland in the late solemne Covenant and a religious pursuance of it ZEPH. 3. 4. 5. Her Princes within her are roaring lions her Iudges are evening wolves they gnaw not the bones till the morrow 4 Her Prophets are light and treacherous persons her Priests have polluted the sanctuary they have done violence to the law 5 The just Lord is in the midst thereof he will not doe iniquity every morning doth he bring his judgement to light he faileth not but the unjust knoweth no shame LONDON Printed for SAMVEL GELLIBRAND 1643. THE MYSTERIE OF INIQVITY Yet working in the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland for the destruction of Religion truly Protestant WEre there not a more then ordinary stupiditie possessing the hearts of men which God usually permits as the fore-runner of heavie judgements after so many reall and bloudy demonstrations of a damnable designe upon our Religion and Liberty it were the most unnecessary worke imaginable to publish written ones But let this unhappy necessity be obeyed and honest men be perswaded a little to withdraw their thoughts from their perplex●…d reflections upon the businesse of Hull and the Militia and the London Tumults which are usually looked upon as the grounds but never were other then occasions and advantages sought to throw us into this confusion which now over-spreads the face of England and unlesse God who casteth out the counsels of Princes and takes the wise in their owne craftinesse mercifully prevent is like to overwhelme it and apply themselves to a diligent observation of the contexture and comprehension of affaires as they have beene these later yeeres managed by our Adversaries That so comparing one part of their proceedings with another and all with this proposed end of subverting the Protestant Religion together with the Subjects Liberty the Elme of that Vine the impartiall and diligent Reader may discerne an evident conjuncture of Iesuits Priests Princes Prelates Papists Polititians Atheists prophane and ignorant persons for the ruine of that Religion to which some of them are Professed Enemies others Pretended Friends but which of them the most pernitious is hard to judge But that no body may be wronged this Heterogeneous number must in reference to this great worke receive its proportionable distribution and we must not conceive all these equally engaged or upon the same grounds Babel is to be built the Architects are the Iesuites taking in some Atheisticall Politicians to their assistance as Surveyors of the worke Princes must finde the materialls as being made believe that the worke is designed for the House of their Kingdome and the honour of their Majesty Papists with the rabble of superstitious and ambitious Clergie are the daily Labourers the prophane and ignorant multitude are imployed in the most servi●…e workes as Hewers of wood and Drawers of water and are now made to treade morter for this building moistned with their owne blood And because all these must be presumed reasonable men though the later sort are used as naturall bruit beasts made to be taken and destroye●… who though they are not so wise as to know what they do yet must not be thought so foolish as not to know why they take this paines different ends are held out And therefore this great building is designed as a Church for the Papists Devotion as a Palace for the Prelates ambition as a Castle for the Princes power and the rest have severall baits by these cunning Anglers cast out unto them according to the variety of their dispositions But lest I should seeme rather to write then to reveale a Mystery it will be convenient to use all plainnesse of speech that they who are concerned may discern truth before it be beaten into their heads with a Poleax First I presume it will be granted on all parts that the Roman Strumpet is very industrious to corrupt the Earth with her Fornications Rev. 19. 2. and hath to that end constituted a great Councell De propaganda fide as they call it but rather De propaganda perfidia whose most vigilant Instruments and Emissaries are the Iesuits who have by their diligence obtained the honour to be Cupbearers of this Wine of Fornication and are justly accounted by us those Frogs comming out of the mouth of the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet going forth unto the Kings of the Earth and of the whole world Rev. 16. 12. These men as they compasse sea and land and have spread themselves well nigh in all parts so they have alwaies had a speciall eye to the Kingdomes of Brittaine it being doubtlesse propounded to them and all Romish Agents as a piece of eminent service if by any meanes that might be reduced to the vassalage of Rome And this is the second step which I think there wil be no contesting for that the Romish Agents have bin very earnest and industrious in reconciling this Iland with the adjacent to their Religion it being a service which the Pope himselfe disdained not to stoope to in that Letter yet uncontradicted which he writ to the Prince in Spain now extant in the English tongue where he desires that the Prince of Wales might be brought backe againe into the lap of the Romish Church and the Prince of the Apostles put in possession of this most noble Isle Which desires of the Pope have beene seconded with continuall endeavours of swarmes of Iesuites and Priests resident amongst us It being then granted that ever since the Reformation there hath beene such a designe it remaines to shew how it hath been prosecuted and how farre it hath prevailed where the Impediment now is what labour there is to remove it that all true Protestants may the better understand their own condition and Interests Onely let this be premised that wee being to deale with a Mystery a worke of darkenesse it must not be expected that all which shall bee produced should bee cleare and convincing as if a judicial proceeding were undertaken but that the Argument be so probable and dependant as though not a legall yet a rationall judgement may be passed against our Adversaries in this Cause And it hath beene a very unjust triumph of the Enemy over the Parliament and their friends in want of evidence when they have though the nature of the businesse being treasonable and therefore clandestinely carried and bound up by oathes of secresie beene put to make up the grounds of their proceedings from the connexion of severall particulars and probabilities which are enough for a Statesman though not a Judge And the diligent observer may take notice how these feares and jealousies pretended to be groundlesse have beene justified by after proceedings as