expressions and what we may expect when they gain opportunity And we are certify'd * Alph. de Varg. c. 5. 7. 't is the Property of their Society daily to bring forth new INVENTIONS to bring men to God i. e. to their Religion and Society by the use of Arms Terror FIRE 1601. W. Watson the Priest did 60. years since Charge Parsons the Jesuit with certain Principles of the Jesuits at Sevil 1590. for the Reformation of England * Cited by Mr. Pryâ—n Pref. to Vind. E. 3. amongst which this was one that all the great Charters of England must be BVRNT But though we have been made sensible enough of the Flames of these Incendiaries yet through Gods goodness their Plots have not took effect according to their projects to evert our Civil as well as Religious Privileges neither hath their Catholick Holy League as they call'd it * Thuan. l. 63. 1576. 1577 1598. solemnly entred into and renewed ut Evangelium radicitus ex orbe toto extirpetur that the Gospel-Religion should be clean rooted out of the whole world done much more than discover'd what TEMPER they are of which is evident from these and the like abominable Tenets I might transcribe out of several other Authors as well as many more out of these besides those that I have named many of whose Principles you may see in Lucius his History * L. Luc. Hâ—st Jes l. 2. c. 1. p. 179. where you will be directed to them § 6. 'T is true though these fiery Principles have been vouched again and again by the foremention'd Authors and all the Actors of them extoll'd and commended by Sixtus V. Pope by Guignard Gnerâ—t Verone Varade Barisonius c. Jesuits yea and so far by their learned Cardinal Peron whom King James refuted holding Kings may be deposed when the Pope sees Cause that rather than desert the Tenet he would chuse to burn at a stake Yet some of the Ignatian Society have in straits pretended to except and make Apologies to take off the Odium not by denying the matter of Fact which is to be seen and read of all men but alledging these are the Opinions of particular Doctors a postnate formal order of their F. Gen. Cl. Aquaviva concerning Marina's Book with P. Cottons Declaratory Letter to the Queen Regent of France and other evasions about Santarell But all this Paint will soon melt away when we do but recollect 1. Their Constitution and Charter of Priviledges * Ut suprâ c. 2 p. 14. for correcting expunging and burning what Books they please whereby the F. General hath such an influence upon all Subordinates with whom he corresponds that he indispensably requires blind obedience to himself as unto Christ so that they are not to dispute whether the matter be right or no when 't is once commanded but do it now in this Case when there is no disallowance of the Doctrins in many Authors of the same stamp with Mariana's the Lawyers rule if any where holds scil Qui tacet consentire videtur silence is consent A Father of the Society concerning a passage in F. Barry told the Author of the Letters to the Provincial * Let 9. Ia. 3. 1656. p 123. as a thing worthy his knowledge That there is a certain Order of our Society containing a prohibition to all Book-sellers to Print any work of our Fathers without the Approbation of the Divines of our Society and the Permission of our Superiors This order was ratified by three Kings in France * Hen. III. ma. 10. 1583. Hen. IV. De. 20. 1603. Lew. XIII F. 14. 1612. so that our whole Body is responsible for the Books of any one of our Fathers This is a particular Priviledge of our Society and thence it comes to pass that there comes not any work abroad which proceeds not from the Spirit of the Society so he Now when we find a very great number of their choicest Scholars and most admired Doctors stifly asserting upon the matter the very same Anti-magistratical Principles and that they are animated by one and the same spirit and that they do persevere in their Opinions not expunging them in many Authors but approving them under the hands of three Superiors when too they are severe in purging out and prohibiting contrary Tenets as particularly in the Venetian writings 't is but reasonable that these foremention'd should be charg'd upon them who so hug a probable Opinion as their avowed Principles We can see them quick enough which argues their setled fiery temper against Princes who do no favour them if our Edw. VIth be but stiled Admirandae indolis Adolescens i. e. a young Prince of admirable towardliness with a deleatur upon all places where it is found * Index Hisp l. expurg p. 93. 148. 150. Ind. l. prolib Sect. 2. c. so if Frederick Duke of Saxony be term'd an Illustrious Wise and Christian Prince because a Protestant it must be blotted out yea and all Epithets whatsoever in Praise of such †Azor. Iust mor. l. 17. and Dedicatory Epistles to them as those of H. Junius and Jo. Serranus to Queen Eliz. and King James yea their very Names unless mention'd with contempt they disapprove and also Pictures * those too who are but of meaner Persons if Protestants as I remember one shew'd me Anna Maria Schurmans cross'd out before her Book by those of their Inquisition but all this while these Principles remain as before Printed and re-printed Further 2. The Apologetick Declaration of Peter Cotton and decree of Aequaviva will be insignificant to assoil the charge when 't is plain as the Learned Causabon hath noted of the Apologist * Epist 170. ad Front Duc. p. 154. Omnia defendit omnes tuetur omnes laudat uno Mariana aegre excepto he maintains all things defends all the Authors praises them all yea Mariana himself is scarcely excepted insomuch that soon after there came out a Pamphlet in English Permissa Superiorum * p. 169. wherein the Author said that P. Cotton whether for modesty brevity sake or serving the time had left Mariana unguarded how far was this from renouncing his Doctrine adding They are enemies of that Holy Name of Jesus that condemn Mariana for any such Doctrine You see how their Superiors allow them to affront the Doctors of Sorbon who condemn'd the Jesuits Principles in Mariana's Book and whatever they or any other say against the Ignatians an Apologist * p. 172. for them will evade the dint of the blow for he will say Mariana means a Tyrant and no King and such they account every Prince whom the Pope excommunicates * Bell. cont Barcl c. 3. therefore he goes out Doctor subtilis and affirms †Casaub ut supr p. 172. that the night and day may as well be joyned together at once light and darkness agree heat and cold health and sickness life and death as a Jesuit
the Jesuits he could obtain no due consideration of his short memoir about the 5. famous Propositions But after his tedious waiting he found that the Cardinals judgment was only Prudential i. e. such as was for their own interest and the Pope innocently told him * Jour part 3. c. 12 p. 120. Oct. 1651. he was no Divine he could not take the toil to understand the terms of the Questions Because said he in Italian It is not my Profession besides that I am old and never studyed DIVINITY Having to the like motion of the said St. Amour about a quarter of a year before * July 1651. part 3. c. 4. p. 78. reply'd by shewing him a Crucifix which he said was his counsell in such affairs as those that having heard what would be represented to him he kneels down before that Crucifix to take at the feet thereof his Resolution according to the Inspiration given to him by the Holy Spirit whose assistance was promis'd to him and could not fail him So the Beast open'd his mouth in blasphemy against God * Rev. 13.6 And before two years were over viz. June 9. 1653. made a Constitution declaring and defining in favour of the Jesuits who were confident the King of France would force it to be received at whatsoever rate it was * D S. Amour's Journ part 7. c. 2. p. 431. That the V. Propositions were impious and Heretical so meerly upon the Jesuits false suggestion of matter of Fact he gravely Decrees Articles of Faith which occasion'd D' St. Amour's Confident to write this Observation to him * Id. That 't will ever be imprudence to bring a cause to be examin'd before a Judge though the Pope in Cathedrâ after his Devotion to his Crucifix who understands not the terms of the matter in Question The Jansenists affirm * Provinc Let. 17. in myst Jes p. 343. Mar. 24. 1657. upon the Test of 60. of their Doctors that the Five Propositions censured are not to be found totidem terminis in Jansenius * Gazet. though they easily discovered 50. errors in the Jesuit Molins works To render which more palpable to be took notice of it seems the Jansenists * have lately Printed the New Testament in French which the Fiery Jesuits are enkindling fuel to burn that it may not be read lest by that true light of Gods word there be a manifestation of their abominable points of Faith which indeed are no other as Lucius observ'd * Prefat ad Hist Jes Bas 1627. 40. years ago than a monstrous Hodgpodge of old Errors and Heresies blended together after the mode of a new Oleo by communicating with the Naetetians Praxeans Anthropomorphites Collyridians Gnosticks Carpocratians Pharisees Manichees Nazarites Catharists Massilians Pelagians Mahumetans Priscillianists Ebionites and what not to over-turn the Fundamental Articles of Christianity Sect. 2. § 1. Neither are the Ignatian Doctrines opposite only to the true Faith but their maxims are also contrary to all good manners yea contradictory to all the common Notices of Holiness and the Rules of Right reason Jesus saith strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leads to life and few there be that finde it * Mat. 7.14 But the Jesuits say easie is the gate and broad the way and many yea any may find it if they follow but the Doctrine of probable Opinions and the artificial direction of the Intention which really are the prodigious Loyolan Vipers that eat out the very bowels of morality Those reasons of good and evil which are eternal and indispensible the natural Laws of equity and also those necessary institutions of sanctity in the holy Scripures are sleighted and shuffled away by this monstrous generation of men shall I say or beasts who have labour'd in many works to propagate Epicurism and sensuality and as some observe * Remonstr of Curez of Paris 1657. teaching men to be Scepticks in all things and to find out ways not to exterminate the corrupt maxims of men but to justifie them therein and to instruct how they may with safety of Conscience put them in practise § 2. 'T will be sufficient proof of this charge here if I only in a matter of Fact which the Apologist * Add. to Myst Jes p. 124. 125 for the Jesuits acknowledg'd to be true and pretended reason for it present to view a short Scheme of some of those impious maxims which are faithfully collected out of at least 60. Modern Casuists approv'd by the Ignatian tribe as I find them dispers'd in that unanswerable discovery of their immorrality The Mystery of Jesuitism containing the Provinciall Letters with the Additionals concerning that affair rendred into our Mother language unto which I shall refer the Reader who may there allowing ordinary Errata's of the Printer see and examine if need were the Authors themselves as I have done some of them who make it their business to represent every sin as a diminutive to vent new Notions of good and evil and indulge men in an impudent impenitent violation of all the weighty precepts of the most just and holy Law and the necessary Rules of the blessed Gospel § 3. Cast but your eye upon the margin and you may see noted there the Pages wherein are such blasphemous and impure streams as these following and the like flowing from the hearts and pens of the Novel Casuists of the Ignatian Society who affirm that he who hath a will to commit all the venial sins that are doth not sin mortally * Add to Myst of Jes p. 98. §. 37. p. 125. Lond. 1658. and that all the breaches of the first and second Table of the Decalogue are no sins at all when they are committed by any man out of ignorance surprize or Passion Recollect the first Table and we shall find against the 1. Commandment therein besides that horrible Atheism which they do every where encourage they are so monstrously vile as to assert That 't is sufficient a man Love God any time before he dies or at the point of death or on Holy-days or once a year or once in five years * Myst of Jes Let. 10. p. 151. That we are not so much commanded to love God as not to hate him †p. 153. They disingage men from that irksome obligation of loving God actually and Print with Approbation That a man may be saved without ever loving God in all his life * Let. 11. p. 160. Animus meminisse horret I even tremble to transcribe it Oh as the Prophet Jeremy said that mine head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep because men make void this great Commandment Oh! that vile wretches should dare to sport themselves with the Love of God! and sleight this great thing this indispensible duty no marvel these men disparage effectual grace and traduce the piety and zeal of others for their strictness in Christian
paenâ irremissibili under an unpardonable penalty of Proscription * p. 641. Afterwards when the Pope came to terms with the Venetians the Jesuits labour'd might and main to have their Re-admission included in the Articles of Peace betwixt that State and the Pope But the Venetians then stood upon justification of their own Act and would not yield Whereupon in April 1607. the Jesuits Print their complaints causless enough and send them in several Languages to the Emperours Court to Prague Hosp f. 181. b. Poland and elsewhere alledging that the Venetians were not only greatly tainted with Heresie but they had so affronted the Court of Rome that the wound grew daily more incurable and would break forth into an open war That the Pope did much injure himself in permitting those who had always been the Prime in obeying of him for this very cause to be exposed to contempt all the world over amongst Papists and Protestants and punish'd with a perpetual banishment and a privation of their goods and that this would much prejudice the Popes Authority sith he could thenceforth publish no Interdict so as it would be valid for when 't was seen that those who for their obedience should be rewarded were greatly punish'd no Ecclesiastical person would obey him and that the Jesuits who in all Rebellions as they call the Venetians standing upon their just Right had been faithful would be discouraged and therefore upon the whole matter conclude what a scandal it would be to the Court of Rome if they were not re-admitted ‖ Id. 642. But when they found this device succesless then meditating Revenge they fell to work in their proper Trade and hired four Rascals whereof one was a Priest of their Order you may imagine vertually at least who were the Assassines that set upon that gallant man Padre Paul whom while it was dusk they left for Dead wounded running away for their own security but he being upon the noise lookt after and carried home by the help of good Chyrurgions was preserved Alive ‖ Id. 643. they who would see more of this affair in those dayes may consult the famous Writings of this Padre Paul and others against the two Eminent Cardinal Jesuits Barronius and Bellarmine whose books and the Popes Interdicts could never prevail to relax that Law made against the Jesuits for Fifty Years together till 1657. that the Venetians being in straits greatly afflicted by the Turks yeilded to the Perswasions of the Pope that they would abolish the Decree of banishment and again admit the Jesuits and they should receive from the Pope Souldiers Monies Navy and all things necessary against the Turks * Hen. Kipp Append. ad Jo pappum an 1657. So the Venetians are constrain'd to suffer those to come in amongst them whom they once proscribed as Vultures rathe◠than be devoured at once by those who are as Roaring Lyons § 7. What the King of Spain cannot do by his Army that the Popes Janisaries attempt to do for him by Assassination In Belgio about the beginning of May 1584. the Furies help the Duke of Parma to one Balthasar Gerrard called Serac who came to Delph in Holland when William Prince of Orange was in Action against the Spaniards bringing a Seal which the Jesuits had an art to get for him from Count Mansfield which gain'd him credit with the Prince who being desirous to be informed in some circumstances about the Duke of Anjou's death admits into his Chamber this same Gerrard who because he was shortly to be gone beggs money of the Prince to mend his Cloaths as he pretended but having got it he bought a pair of Pistols of the Souldiers Then on July the 10. the Prince going to Dinner this Privy Murtherer asks him a Pass which was granted but the Prince going out from Dinner was met by this Rogue who while he pretends to Bow to him Shoots the Prince with three Bullets so that he shortly after Died of the Wounds This Murderer being Apprehended confessed he had heard the King of Spain had proscribed the Prince 3 years before from thence he designed to Kill him but that he was told a Merchants man of Antwerp had slain the Prince Mar. 18. 1582. but it pleased God the Prince recovered of that Wound he received by that Rogue whose Quarters were occasion being given by the Vicissitude of War solemnly removed from the Walls of the Castle of Antwerp by the Jesuites who kept them as Sacred Relicks ‖ Luc. Hist l. 4. p. 672. Gerrard acknowledged he had confessed this design to the Father Rector of the Colledge at Triers who acquainted the Prince of Parma with it and said it was from God and gave him his Blessing by the Devils warrant you may think before he left Triers where the Jesuits promised him that if he should loose his Life in the Action he should be Canonized for a Martyr and have a CROWN in Heaven another of the Ignatian Fraternity at Tourn undertook to pray for him ‖ Id. ib. Thuan. Hist spec Jes Grimst Hist Neth who was executed July 14. 1584. But the Jesuits doubt not of procuring such another to dispatch Prince Maurice of Nassaw Williams Son and Successour having gotten a Reason of State from the Jesuited Italian Campanella who had told the King of Spain Maxime opus est ut Serpens seditionis comes scil Mauritius interimatur ‖ Mr. W. Pr. Pref. to Vind. of Fund Libert C. 4. T is chiefly necessary that the Serpent of Sedition viz. Prince Maurice be Slain and not have an advantage of growing greater and greater in the continuation of the War Hence we read that Peter Pannes at Leiden was apprehended on suspicion May 27. 1594. when he confessed that Melchior Walle Jesuit had perswaded him to Kill Count Maurice and took him to Doway where he was instructed by other Jesuits that it was an Act merritorious of Heaven and that if he should Die for it he should be immediately translated over Purgatory to Paradice if he escaped he should receive 200l Flanders of the Jesuits and have a publick Office in the City of Ipre and his Son a Prebendary and Canon-ship in the City of Tournay ‖ Luc. Hist Thus they carry it as if Preferment in Heaven and Earth were at their Disposal for the Rewarding of those Sicarii whom they can tempt to Murder all Princes that stand in the way to impede the working of the mystery of Iniquity But this Emissary Villain of theirs was within a month after viz. June 22th condemn'd and Quartered at Leiden We read also of one Peter Furius or D'Four who by the like Instigation was also to Assassinate this Prince but he was discovered and lost his Head for it * Thuan l. 109 Chron. Belg. to 1. p. 719. 2. p. 93. Hospin 205. But the death of the Earls of Horn and Egmont was from the Jesuits The States-General taking into serious
of whose cause the Incendiaries lead forth the Popes Bulls against Queeen Elizabeth of whose title to the succession none could justly doubt as hath been afresh declared by a worthy pen from the words of the Arch-Bishop of York then a Papist and Raynolds under the name of Rosaeus a Jesuit himself * Answ to the Papists Apology p. 23. 'T would be tedious upon the Evolution of the Annals during her long and happy Reign to give full Narratives of the several attempts were made by the Ignatians upon her person and government and therefore 't will be convenient at present only to suggest the heads of some § 3. Whence was the first Rebellion of Fitz-morris against the Queens government in Ireland but from the same Incendiaries who animated him to the fecond attempt * See Plots and Conspir collected Fran. Speed Camb. Stow. Hollingsh c. Namely the Spanish Mendoza the English Sanders and Allen stiffe Affectors of the Jesuits Principles Stanleys Conspiracy 1570. and that dissembling Treaty by Don John of Austria 1576. was from the same Forge After Fitz-Morris stirs San Josephus was sent into Ireland 1580. with 700. Spaniards and Italians upon the turbulent motions * L. Luc Hist p. 496. 497. from Thuan. c. of F. Campian and Parsons alias Cowback and Jaspar Heywood who of all the Jesuits saith Sr. Hen. Baker came first into England unto whom upon his arrival his Father old Heywood said in a simple admiration Jesu Jasper who made thee a Jesuit The year after 1581. Campian was taken and executed for his Treason Yet in a short time after 1582. 1583. one Summeruil a Gentleman having read dangerous Books of divers Jesuits and convers'd with Hall attempted with a drawn Sword to have kill'd the Queen which was design'd also by William Parry Doctor of Law about 1584 who having read D. Alans book concerning excommunicated Princes acknowledged he was instigated to this Parricide by Benet Palm * Id. 498. and Hanibal Codreto Jesuits at Venice as afterwards by one Morgan in France About these times there was on Shipboard a very admirable discovery of the contents in the Scotish Jesuit Creighton's torn papers gathered together by Sr. Will. Wade which brought to light * Plots and conspir pr. 1642. p. 19. 23. That then to advance the Pope and Spaniard they had resolv'd 1 To deprive Q. Elizabeth 2 To disinherit K. James of England 3 To have the Q. of Scots marry some Popish Noble man of England whom 4 The Papists or Pseudo-Catholicks should choose Which choice 5 the Pope would confirm These were Ignatian projects but God disappointed them as he did the wicked attempts of the Savages with Priests who had suck'd in Jesuitical Doctrines to kill the Queen Elizabeth whom they thought also to have dispatch't by moving the French Embassadour of the Guisian Faction to have hired one Moody who proposed poison or a Bagg of Gunpâ—wder but this was detected and the Ambassador sent home to learn better manners Then when all these fail'd the unwearied malicious Incendiaries set on moving their great Machine the Spanish Armado 1588. Of which we may see from Garnets acts the Jesuits were forerunners at least two years when the Gad-prickers stir'd up the Popes Bulls in defence of this vast and as they counted it invincible Navy * Sâ—eeds Hist p. 1178. Luc. Hist p. 498. 499. which contain'd 2843. great O dnance 28840. Marriners Souldiers and Slaves rowing in Galleys innumerable FIRE balls and Granadoes sunk taken and dispers'd through the singular goodness of God by the English Fleet with the loss of no more than an hundred men and one ship when this publick assault came to naught the Jesuits fall again to their old small games for about * Hosp Cambd. Speeds Stow. c. 1592. they had hired Patrick Collen an Irish Fryar to kill the Queen unto which murther Holt the Jesuit did perswade with this motive that 't was not disallow'd by the Laws whiles Pius V. Bull was out but that he should merit Gods favour and Heaven by it Much about this time the Queen did emit a Declaration against these Sicarii and Incendiaries back'd with excellent Reasons from their Clandestine snares and devices which yet was not so prevalent with Dr. Lopez the Portugez her Physitian to make him Loyal as 50000 Crowns in Rubies and Diamonds was to allure him to attempt the poisoning of her 1593. Neither was it the year after viz. 1594. so powerful with Williams and York who conspired against the Queen as F. Parsons Doleman and the instigation of the Jesuit Holt who also brought other Incendiaries into a combination to FIRE the Navy with wild-FIRE for which they were stretch'd at Tyburn 1595. But this did not yet scare Edward Squire a Deputy Purveyor for the Queens stable upon the motion of Walpole the Jesuit from essaying to poison the pummel of the Queens Sadle 1596. nor Tyrone from Rebellion against the Queen in Ireland within a short time after to encourage whom the Jesuits had boasted by vertue of their League Thuan. P. Metthew Meteran they would clean extirpate Protestantism by the year 1600. but God check'd their confidence and frustrated their hopes Yet the Provincial Garnet and Creswel leguer Jesuit in Spain with Râ—bert Tesmond another of the society were conspiring with the King of Spain to send an Army to joyn with 5000 Foot and 2000. Horse they had Dormant in England of Papists to receive them 1601. 1602. But the great God blasted this as the rest of the Jesuits horrid practises against the Queen notwithstanding the determinations of their Colledge at Salamanca sent to embolden Tyroen in Ireland and the erection of their New Society at Thonon in Savoy 1602. whereto many Popish Kings and Nobles gave their names by pious frauds and force of Arms to convert or extirpate the Protestants under the Notion of Hereticks having by the Agencie of 50. disguised Jesuits in England listed as was said 25000. Popish souldiers about June that year to joyn with this new Assâ—ciation to carry on the forementioned design * Mr. Pr. pref vind from metâ—rran l. 23. Spec Jes p 100. Winter to encourage the Papists brought word of a million of crowns prepared by the Jesuits in Spain for the service and two Bulls †L. Luc. Hist p. 405. were propounded from Clem. VIII viz. one to the Lords Spiritual another to the Lords Temporal that whether by a Natural or a violent death the Queen should be remov'd they would only promote a Papist to the Crown * Causab Epist ad Font. p. 186. The notices of these Machinations occasion another Declaration by the Queen against the Jesuits * p. 509. 15. Novemb. 1602. But about half a year after when she had reigned full 44. years and four moneths April 4. 1603. God was pleas'd to remove her out of the reach of these Furies § 4. And K. James in