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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55464	The Popish Plot taken out of several depositions made and sworn before the Parliament.		1680 (1680)	Wing P2956; ESTC R8779	6,995	4

persons For Instance He informs that Coleman was a great Agent in this business Letters found inform the same He informs that he delivered Commissions received from Langhorn Letters intercepted make mention of Commissions sent which they hope were delivered In short it was impossible that a Man should contrive such a thing attended with so many hundreds nay some thousands of Circumstances and comparing them with so many Papers Informations and Examinations of so many other Men but they would interfere one with another if they were false therefore it may be concluded the whole is true till something be found to the contrary and then it will follow that this is the most Bloody Devillish and Hellish design that ever was contrived The Massacre in France though very barbarous The Massacre in Ireland though very bloody The Invasion intended in 88 The Gun-Powder-Treason were inferior to this which should immediately have spread it self over so many Kingdoms That proposition made in Parliament to Imprison all the Priests and Jesuits that can be found in the three Kingdoms and to secure the Principal Papists in his Majesties Dominions to be kept as Hostages for his Majesties life seems not unreasonable It is essential to the Popish Religion founded upon the Pope's Supremacy and Infallibility that all Papists do own a Foreign Allegiance namely to the Pope the Oath of Supremacy is Diametrically opposite to the Popish Religion whoever takes that Oath and is a Papist still in these two fundamental points debauches his Conscience and must do all the Pope bids him in ordine ad spiritualia notwithstanding When the Pope condemns any for Heresie as is our Case now all Papists are bound as Papists to destroy such when it is commanded this is not only their Duty but it is meritorious so to do as the Papists did believe it in our intended Massacre So that they are our inveterate irreconciliable profest Enemies and would have declared themselves so had they not been prevented by Gods mercy in preserving the Kings life and the seasonable discovery of the Plot. Though they are not in open Hostility they lurk in secret and ought to be lookt upon as Spyes and by the Law of Nations may be used as such then if instead of present death which all Spyes deserve their Priests and Jesuits and Principal Laity are imprisoned and there kept not to be Executed unless their Confederates abroad exert their Wicked Principles and put them in Execution by murdering our King burning our Houses and imbroiling the Nation in Blood this seems to be no piece of Injustice As to the time of Oates's discovery of the Plot if on the first intimation of the Papists design he had made a discovery of it probably he had been rejected because he could not make out the particulars as now he doth He hath been hardly receive 〈…〉 and therefore would in all likelyhood have been rejected then Further He had not the Command of himself when he engaged in their Society had he moved any way without or contrary to their Order he had presently been suspected and might easily have been found out as soon as he was sent from S. Omers into England and had an opportunity he did shew his real intentions to preserve his Majesty's Person and his Native Country from their Romish Enemies the safety of which depended solely upon his Information which for ought we see must otherwise have been a Prey to them As to the Papists assisting King Charles the First in the late Wars the violence of the people forced them to that side where they did as much hurt to his Majesty by the scandal they brought to his Party as they did good by their Arms. For they were the Cause of that War and it mattered not much what side they were on so that their Design might go forward They were the main Men which brought the King's Head to the Block Monsieur Du Moulin in print hath offered to make good all these things but was never called to it he is yet living a Man of Reputation who doubtless will make good his word To conclude This is such a plain Discovery of the Roguery and Villany of the Papists as hath not been made since England departed from the Church of Rome It is hoped that all poor deluded persons now they see such things they could never have believed essential to the Romish Religion will renounce their Forreign Allegiance to so Devillish a Master as the Pope is and return to the Church of England and free themselves from those impending troubles which will justly and necessarily come upon them in the suffering of which they can have no comfort Persons that will retain after all means used to satisfie them such Hellish Principles as the Papists do ought either wholly to be rooted out from all Mankind or to be put into such a condidition under such Circumstances that they can do no hurt As for such as shall be obstinate in their Irreligion and maintain a resolution to destroy all Hereticks that is Protestants as soon as they can it seems not unreasonable to take Hostages of them for securing of the King's life and Kingdoms peace which can be secured no other way but by putting things into such a posture that the Papists shall presently lose much by the King's death and get no advantage afterwards by his Successors which must be left to the wisdom of Parliament The Candour of the Protestants is such that no violence or affront hath been offered to any Papists though the Protestants see their Houses so frequently fired by their means and are sure this plot was laid by them and should have been put in Execution so soon as they had accomplisht their Treason upon the King's person Though the pressure should fall upon the Papists in general when it may be presumed many are innocent there may be this offered in the case that few Papists have made any discovery though many yea most of the Principal Papists in England have been acquainted with it so that all the rest seem to be guilty either â parte ante by consenting to it and intending to act in it or â parte post by denying approving concealing extenuating and mincing of it FINIS