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The Jesuites policy to suppress monarchy proving out of their own writings that the Protestant religion is a sure foundation and principle of a true Christian / written by a person of honor.
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Derby, Charles Stanley, Earl of, 1628-1672.
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is the best so it is the safest Religion that is I beseech you Sir do not mistake me I do not I assure you speak this as being of their perswasion but to be better enabled by you to oppose our Adversaries when they shall object to us this fallacious argument Ortho. Sir you shall not want what I can contribute to your satisfaction and truly I think this may be easily answered and I shall begin with a reply I have heard of a very learned man upon this Subject in a Disputation between him and a Papist who being at his last shift and forced to make use of your abovesaid Argument answered thus Sir says he do not condemn us for an excess of Charity towards you and consider how want of Charity in you towards us may be laid to your charge another day And withall take notice of this that in the same manner those infamous Schismaticks the Donatists argued against St. Austin and the Catholick Church taking hold of their Confession that Salvation might be had in their Churches which was not said these Schismaticks to be had in a Catholick Church thus did these wicked Schismaticks conclude with the Papists their Religion to be the surest and safest and so consequently the best also Doth not the King of Assyria by his Servants rant and argue against good King Hezekiah much at this rate in the 2 of the Kings and the 18 Chap. Have any of the gods of the Nations at all delivered his Land out of the Hand of the King of Assyria Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arphad Where are the gods of Sepharvaim Henah and Ivah Have they delivered Samaria out of my Hand Who are they Amongst all the gods of the Countries that have delivered their Country out of my Hand that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my Hand Caco One word more Sir and I promise you I have done Does not the Author of whom you quote the Story of the Speaking Idol c. express an aversion against and relate some things to the prejudice of Arch-Bishop Laud towards the Conclusion of his Book Ortho. I confess he does and he is blame-worthy for it but withal to be pityed if you consider his case aright and thus it is in his Infancy with his Milk he sucks in the Roman Religion has his Education in Popish Countries becomes a Priest goes over an Emissary into the Indies for the advancing and propagating the Romish Religion However being a Man of Parts and Learning through all the Mists and Clouds of Error he discerneth the unreasonableness first and then the dangerous Tenets of the Church of Rome but all this while it is scarce much more than Break of day with him he is but a Negative Christian but a Neophyte the Roman Religion he perceives is bad but as yet knows little of the Protestant Religion Thus endowed he comes over into England very little before our Civil Wars began still troubled in mind he goes over into Italy to Rome where he thought if any place could afford him satisfaction in the Romish Perswasion there it must be in that place he converses with Eminent Divines who tell him strange Stories of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his great inclination to return to the Roman Church This Neophyte this doubting wavering Christian is told these falshoods by these Roman Divines to encourage him to go over an Emissary into England and there labour vigorously in the Roman Vineyard the poor Man believes that which these men knew to be false but this must be rumor'd to gain English Proselytes you know how much the Church of Rome allows of officious and beneficial Lyes confirm those they have and add Reputation to their Cause amongst the English Papists and observe Sir do not the Papists the same thing now Do they not observe the same Method still to the great dis-heartening His Majesties Protestant Subjects so that the King and Parliament have been forced to take notice of their Insolencies Well Sir with this prejudice to the Protestant Church of England and the Arch-Bishop This Neophyte this doubting Christian comes over into England where every innocent Ceremony and the Liturgy of the Church of England confirm in him the Belief of the Italian Falshoods concerning the Arch-Bishop c. and by reason of that his perswasion he proves as great an Enemy to the Church of England as of Rome and thus out of the Frying Pan or out of one Fire he leaps into another and so turns a new kind of Fanatick and it often falls out that out of one extream Men are apt to run into another and therefore it often falls out that when a Protestant turns Papist he for the most part does throw himself into the Arms and Bosom of a Jesuite and then sucks in all their wicked and abominable practices as principles against the Sovereignty of Kings Humane Society and Moral Virtues and the Dictates of Nature a stout Champion of the Pope and Court of Rome rather than the Church of Rome against all Temporal and Civil Interests whatsoever you may be sure such a Convert he proves and truly this is so natural to Man in avoiding one Rock of danger and offence to fall foul upon another that if Men be not very wary and discreet they can hardly avoid it thus when a Papist turns Protestant he is apt to turn from being that to throw himself headlong into all sorts of Enthusiastick phrensies in opposition to Popery this was the case of this Author for he was so fearful of the Rock of Popery that he fell foul upon the Rock of Enthusiasm and there made Ship-wrack of his Faith and therefore waving that passage concerning the Arch-Bishop and Monarchy let us believe the rest concerning the Idol c. for he delivers them upon his own knowledge being an Eye-witness and not reports from others and now thus I have Sir I hope answered your Scruple concerning this Author Caco I do confess you have very fully and now I will give you no further trouble at this time yet if it be not too troublesome to you be pleased to let a small piece of some two sheets of Paper conclude our Discourse Ortho. Name it Sir and you shall be obeyed Caco It is that which you shewed me lately the Title of it is this An Answer to a Pamphlet Entituled The humble Apology of the English Catholicks written by a Royalist before Christmas Ortho. I 'am ready to obey you and thus I begin and first with the Title though I but repeat your foregoing words An Answer to a Pamphlet Entituled The humble Apology of the English Catholicks Written by a Royalist before Christmas 1666. Thuanus Miseros Principes quibus de conjuratione non creditur nisi occisis IF the Author of the Apology could make good the beginning of his Discourse I could very heartily turn Apologist for him and his Friends He says aright and the Devil spake true when he
THE JESUITES POLICY TO Suppress Monarchy Proving out of their own WRITINGS THAT THE Protestant Religion IS A SURE FOUNDATION AND PRINCIPLE OF A True Christian Written by a Person of Honor. LONDON Printed for William Cademan at the Pope's Head in the Lower Walls of the New-Exchange 1678. To all Supreme Powers by what Titles soever Dignified or Distinguished i. e. To Emperors Kings Sovereign Princes Re-publicks c. TO You Gods Vice-gerents on Earth over all Persons whether Ecclesiastical or Temporal next under god within Your own respective Dominions Supreme Governors I conceive fittest to Dedicate and Direct the ensuing Papers to You Most Illustrious they address themselves as to persons most concern'd in the Subject they treat about whereby is endeavored the Vindication of Gods Honor wherein as his Vice-gerents You are highly concern'd also Your own Supreme Powers and Authorities which in former Ages and yet still in the Doctrinal part have been often Invaded by the Bishop of Rome and their Abettors amongst whom the Jesuites have been still in the Front as the principal Champions against You and for those Bishops from whom all Anti-Monarchical Principles have proceeded under the veil and cover of other Religions as Quakers Anabaptists Independents c. which several Sects have been Abetted by several of the Roman Clergy thereunto Authorized and commanded by the Bishops of Rome to prevent a Reformation amongst themselves always a terror to them and the better to dâ—vide the Reformed Churches over the World according to that Maxim Divide Impera whereby they have not a little impeded the Christian Profession in the Inlargement of the Kingdom of Christ and thereby given occasion to the Enemies of God the Turks c. to Blaspheme and enlarge their Dominions and Territories hereby the Isle of Rhodes and Candie has been lost to the Eternal reproach of the Christian Profession for while Christians are disjoyned the common Enemy takes the advantage which by a happy Vnion ho would lose I shall here add a few particulars out of the History of France in the Life of Lewis the Thirteenth Fol. 1295. Vpon occasion of the Murther of Henry the Fourth of France by Ravilliac the words be these This wicked Murtherer confessed no other motive of his crime but the Book of Mariana a Spanish Jesuite which Book by a decree made by the Colledge of Sorbonne and confirmed by a Sentence from the Courts of Parliament was for that cause condemned to be publickly burnt before our Lady Church in Paris the tenor of the Sentence was The Court the great Chamber the Turnelle and the Chamber of the Edict being Assembled having seen the decree of the faculty of Divinity assembled the Fourth of this Month of June according to a Sentence given in May last upon the renewing of the censure in matter of Doctrine made by the said faculty in the Year 1413. Confirmed by the Holy Council of Constance that it is an Heresie full of Impiety to maintain that it is lawful for Subjects or Strangers upon any pretence or cause whatsoever to attempt against the Sacred Person of Kings and Sovereign Princes the Book of John Mariana Intitled De Rege Regis Institutione Printed as well at Mentz as in other places containing many execrable Blasphemies against the Deceased King Henry the Third of most happy Memory the persons and Estates of Kings and Sovereign Princes and other propositions contrary to the said decree upon the conclusion of the Kings Atturney General the matter being propounded the said Court hath and doth ordain that the said decree of the Fourth of this present month of June shall be entered into the Registers thereof and heard at the instance of the Kings Atturny General and read every year on the like day on Sunday in the Parishes of this City and Suburbs of Paris it doth also ordain that the Book of Mariana shall be burnt by the Executioner of Justice before our Lady Church in Paris forbidding all men of what Estates Quality and Condition soever they be upon pain of High Treason to write or cause any Books to be Printed against the said Decree and Sentence it doth also enjoyn that Copies taken out of the Originals of the said Decree and this present Sentence shall be sent unto the Bailewicks and Seneshaushes of this Jurisdiction there to be read and published after the accustomed manner and form And moreover at Evensong in Parishes in Towns Suburbs and other Burroughs the first Sunday of June enjoyning all Bayliffs and Seneshalls to proceed to the said publication and the substitutes of the Kings Atturny General to have a care of the Execution and to certifie the Court of their Diligence Vpon A Declaration or Letter from one Cotton the Jesuite to the Queen Regent to wipe off that Aspersion from their Society An Answr is framed unto it by the name of Anti-Cotton which you will find in Fol. 1298. The words be as follow Anti-Cotton the Doctrine of Jesuites for Murthering Kings Francis Ribadinera writing of the parricide of James Clement he saith forasmuch as the resolution Henry the Third took upon him was the advice of a Polititian and a Machiavilist not conformable to the rules of our Saviour behold the reason that by the judgment of God the said Henry was kill'd by a young Monk and dyed by the stroke of a Knife Carolus Scribanius a Flemish Jesuite who calls himself Clarus Bonarscius in his Book Entituled Amphitheatrum honoris sayes that if it so fall out that a Denis a Machonidas or an Aristotimus Monsters of their Age oppress France shall not the Pope have absolute power to animate against them some Dion Timoleon or Philâ—poemen that is to say tamers and suppressers of Monsters And afterwards speaking of a Tyrant wasting France will no man sayes he take Armes against that Tyrant wasting France Will no Pope set free that Noble Kingdom from the stroke of the Axe He cites Bellarmine who although he condemneth Treason against Princes yet in ambiguous terms he seems to approve it by commending Garnet the Jesuite in these words Wherefore was Henry Garnet a man unmatchable in all kinds of Learning and Holiness of Life so punished in the highest Degree but only for that he would not detect that which with a safe conscience he could not And the same Author in his Book De Pontifice Romano sayes the Pope may dispose of Kingdoms taking from one and giving to another as being the Superior Prince Ecclesiastical and the Jesuite Gretzer sayes we are not such Dastards as that we fear to affirm openly that the Pope of Rome may if necessity so require free his Catholick Subjects from their Oath of Obedience if their Sovereign intreat them Tyrannically yea he adds in the same place that if the Pope do it discreetly and warily it is a meritorious work after all this he quotes the Doctrine of Tolet Mariana and John Guignard a Jesuite Priest residing in Paris who had written a