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A52809 The Devils patriarck, or, A full and impartial account of the notorious life of this present Pope of Rome Innocent the 11th wherein is newly discovered his rise and reign, the time and manner of his being chosen Pope, his prime procession, consecration and coronation, the splendour and grandeur of his Court, his most eminent and gainful cheats, by which he gulls the silly people, his secret and open transactions with the papists in England, Scotland, France and Ireland, and other Protestant countreys to this very day : together with the rest of the hellish policies and infamous actions of his wicked life / written by an eminent pen to revive the remembrance of the almost forgotten plot against the life of his Sacred Majesty and the Protestant religion. Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.; Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1683 (1683) Wing N452; ESTC R18567 63,170 152

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whether His Name and His Nature do correspond well herein and whether they would not have had hereupon far greater Reason to brand Him as in Scripture this is King Ahaz saying likewise this is Pope Nocent rather than Pope Innocent the Eleventh All must Truckle to Cardinal Howard His Nuncio Thirdly Johannes Paulus de Oliva comes in next to play his pranks and as He had been the Father General of the Jesuits in all Lands so this Pope Constitutes Him his Rere-Admiral to Mann and to Mannage a right Romes Great Man of War the Provincial of the Jesuits in London in so noble an Attack but is Attacking in a Military manner proper Work for an Olivas whose Name carries an Olive Leaf that Badg of Peace in its Mouth but it seems He will be like his Great Master Pope Nocent-Innocent there is War in his Heart Which minds me of a Story concerning the foregoing Pope Innocent the Tenth who bare for part of his Arms a Dove with an Olive Branch in her Mouth Whereupon our Turn Coat and Runagate Doctor Baily wittily Quibbles upon Oliva vera profoundly perverting it to Oliverus and highly Courted that Protector with his Seraphick Comparison of the Olive and Oliver See his Life of Fisher p. 260 261. 'T is the genuine Character of a Jesuit to have Honey or the Olive of Peace in his Mouth and to have designed yea Consecrated Swords and Daggers in his Heart Oh brave Olive Oh brave Oliver the handle of the Sword that should have been Sheath'd in our Bowels Reached to Rome and was held in this Brave Olivas Hand Fourthly Pedro Jeronimo de Corduba Provincial of the Jesuits in New-Castle in Spain the Pope must have here a Paul as His Third Engine and a Peter as this Fourth engaged with Himself herein though both Jesuits without whom no Mischief in all Europe can be managed the Hand of Joab or Jesuite is in all to make this Damnable and Diabolical Plot more like Apostolical That Work which this Pope cut out for him was to be a Grand Pilot in his Countrey and to give the Plot a lift endways both with Money and Men under the notion of Pilgrims and where this Popish Pedro or Peter plaid his pranks like a right Beautifeu to Sow his Seed of Contention betwixt that Crown and this thereby the more to facilitate the further Progress of the Plot. Fifthly La Chese a Jesuit too and Confessor to the French King and so must be Privy to all his Royal Designs He was also a Grand Pilot in that Countrey whose hands were directed to Steer a right Course herein by that conceited Coxcomb our Coleman who was hang'd for his pains in Betraying his own Native Countrey Sixthly Another Jesuite I have not his Name and indeed 't is not worth enquiry who is Confessour to the Emperour of Germany must Create Fends betwixt Him and our King That with all these pretty Diversions we might be wheadled into a Gazing abroad while they by their English Jesuits c. could cut our Throats at Home Mark here what a Sacred Number is Six with them there must be Six of Forreign Assistants the Number of the Beast is Three Sixes as before and still Jesuits every where must be the Instruments of Cruelty though the Pope be the hand to Improve them I the less wonder at this since I Read that passage in the Jesuit Muffeius writing the Life of Ignatius Loyala their Founder He there Ingeniously confesseth that their Father Imitated the Devil in using Tricks to Convert or rather Pervert Disciples c. You may Swear that all the Jesuits do Patrizare and will Try the Devils Tricks with the best of Juglers c. But are our Jesuits in England asleep all this while No the Pope hath Domestick Tools as well as Forreign This Popes Domestick Engines employed here were These First The Provincial of the Jesuits for the Time being in England who was White-Bread who would have made Brownbread and Brann of us but he fell into his own Pit c. Secondly The Benedictine Monks at the Savoy The Duke of Savoys Country was call'd Malvoy because it was pesterd so notoriously with Theeves as made it Mala Via or Malvoy that is a Dangerous Passage but when the Thieves were Rooted out its Name was changed into Salvoy or Savoy the way thence to Somerset-house makes the Application more easie Thirdly The Jesuits and Seminary Priests who were Sowing their Tares among the Wheat like the Envious one their Father all over the Land they being about the Number of Eighteen Hundred a large black Regiment under Roman Colours Fourthly Many Lay-Papists both of the Nobility and Gentry too well known to need naming who had all Commissions Sealed by Brave Oliva aforementioned both for Civil and Military Employ and sent them by this Pope as the Highest Marks of his Favour Fifthly Multitudes Multitudes of the Lay-Papists among the Commonalty Even all the Papists in England could not chuse but be Engaged in so Glorious and Meritorious a Matter and this is the more probable If not only their General Principles Imbibed with their Religion but also the Popes particular Test for Anathematizing us Hereticks Imposed Universally on them be but well considered Sixthly For still we must have the Six in Adoration of Six Hundred Sixty Six c. All the English Covents beyond Sea as St. Omors c. must be almost drain'd Dry and Transported Incognito's hither to Corroberate the better carrying on of the Catholick Cause which was now become as Catholick as their Religion having likewise all the most Eminent of the Popish Clergy in Europe Engaged to help at a Dead Lift and to Lift England to Rome Hereby this Plot became the Unanimous Act of the whole Romish Church whose Infallible and Innocent Head this Pope Adjur'd them to it upon the forfeiture of their Fathers Blessing Though we may not Imagine every Individual Popeling could know the whole Intrigue for there might be a Wheel within a Wheel yet in the Lump they pay to this Pope their Blind Obedience however the Guilt both of the parts and of the whole falls upon the Innocent Conscience of this Pope which all his Holy Water cannot wash off and make him as Innocent as his Name should he Conjure Tibur it self Now when His Holiness had thus well furnished his Holy Cause with Men a double Set of Sixes a Jury of Twelve I cannot say All Good Men and True No not so much as the Foreman himself His next Care is to be supply'd with Money the Sinews of His Holy War and though his own private Exchequer be Puteus In exhaustus as he once said of England when it was his Ass to Ride on and therefore would fain bestride her soft Back again an Inexhaustible Fountain yet the Old Crafty Fox liked better to get some Bearers well knowing that many Hands make lighter Work Hereupon by his Apostolical Command as well as Example A Vast and