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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01233	Tvvo spare keyes to the Iesuites cabinet· dropped accidentally by some Father of that societie and fallen into the hands of a Protestant. The first wherof, discovers their domestick doctrines for education of their novices. The second, openeth their atheisticall practises touching the present warres of Germany. Projected by them in the yeare 1608. and now so farre as their power could stretch, effected, till the comming of the most victorious King of Sweden into Germany. Both serving as a most necessary warning for these present times.; Colloquium Jesuiticum. English	Francke, Christian, b. 1549.; Freake, William.; Camilton, John. De studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus. English.	1632 (1632)	STC 11346.3; ESTC S102623	30,485	64

vpon all that Sanctity whereof thou hast had experience hitherto partly in thy selfe and partly in other Iesuites and weighing the same deliberately together with the seuerall dispositions of the people as they are Italians Spaniards French or Dutch ingenuous or blockish free-borne or base consider them apart seriously so shalt thou at last bee resolued I assure my selfe that thou hast euer obserued and tooke notice of more frequent and outward expressions of Iesuiticall Deuotion in Spaniards and Italians then in Germans French or other Nations and most vsually in seruile and blockish companions much more then in free-borne and ingenuous Gentlemen Now as touching the Spaniard himselfe you shall find that this Disposition in him proceedeth meerely from his seruile Education in the Christian Religion For there is in Spaine as your selfe know as well as I doe so strict a course taken for inquiry into euery particuler man touching his profession at the least of the Romane Religion and the same is so narrowly watched for flying away that except the very Sonnes and Children themselues shall bring a Faggot to the burning of their Fathers if once they be adjudged Heretickes and so become little lesse then the Executioners of their Parents they are generally reputed Heretickes and worthy to fry with them in the same flame Whereby it is apparant enough that the Spaniards of necessitie must be Superstitious and very frequent in all outward acts of Devotion and both in life and death Romane Catholiques Yea they had need to take heed that they doe not so much as smell like an Hereticke when they are rotten in their Graues least if they haue fallen short in outward testimonies of Religion they happen to bee suspected touching the Faith and come to be most seuerely persecuted to the third and fourth generation How then can it bee possiblely that the Spanish Nation being borne and bred educated and instructed in such infinite slauerie of minde being also by Nature hot and chollericke should chuse but be most violent or if you please to tearme it so most Devout in his Religion Yea how could the Deuill himselfe if hee were lyable to the Spanish Inquisition how could hee avoyd it but hee must be compelled at all times to transforme himselfe into an Angell of light and to acquire some habite at the least to put on an outside of Romish superstition and seeming Sanctitie From this Fountaine sprung that Ignatius de Loiola who being a Souldier and by the valour of the French at the seidge of the Castle at Pampeloun in the Kingdome of Navarre spoyled for following that profession any longer and outstripping all others in Superstition became the Founder of the Iesuiticall Order by whom hee might in time to come not onely bee reuenged of the French but also make a Conquest of all the Christian world besides You shall also obserue in Italians that they are exceedingly frequent in those outward acts of religious Deuotion and that through a naturall inclination which they haue to hypocrisie and dissimulation as a Nation which euer hath bin as appeareth by all their antient Monuments and Records very superstitious and are to this day inclinable to worship a multitude of Deities and marueilous prone to Idolatrie insomuch that it may easily be demonstrated how out of this Cup of Fornication that people hath powred out many things into Christian Religion and infected it throughout with deadly poyson Wherewith the whole Christian world being for the most part inticed and deceiued by the sweetnesse delitiousnesse Antiquity and faire outside thereof is in a manner quite inebriated whiles day by day in the matter of saluation they resort to a Rabble of Romish Deities and to a Numberlesse number of Saints forsooth substituted by the Popes of Rome in roome of the Heathen Gods and propounded to be invocated and prayed vnto and them multiplyed continually though not in deed yet in their names as also to many Goddesses feminine Saints amongst whom questionles the Virgin Mary was brought in as in the place of Ceres whom the Roman Matrons in the time of Heathenisme did most religiously adore with burning tapers at such time of the yeare as the Feast of Candlemas or Purification of the blessed Virgin was enacted Which thing I am the rather induced to beleeue seeing that for the increase of their Idolatry this very solemnity was purposely contriued to fall into the moneth of February that being the selfe same time of the yeere the antient heathen Romanes kept their Feast called Februa offering vp sacrifices for all soules and for the purging or expiating of the sinnes of the whole City For indeed all the people of Rome at that time of the yeare as their owne Writers testifie was wholly taken vp with making Oblations and Sacrifices with lighted Torches and waxen Candles about the Sepulchers of the Dead for obtaining of rest to the Soules of their friends departed And finding the Scriptures of God vnwilling of themselues to consent to this Idolatry they haue forced and drawn them thereunto as it were by the head and shoulders and hauing by chance stumbled vpon one booke or other that seemeth to approue that opinion in some sort they haue made that booke Canonicall that so their opinion might bee made altogether an Article of our Faith in defence whereof as well as of other points all the Doctors or rather Doddipoles of the Romane Church doe labour till they sweate againe but all in vaine till at the last perceiuing that they nothing aduantage their cause by all the new Arguments they can deuise and rake vp day by day they retire in the end of all to the traditions of the Church as to their short Anchor and onely safe harbour in that case When as neuerthelesse that very tradition it selfe is for the most part I may safely say altogether vnderpropped by that great and principall Idoll of Rome which with its greatnesse doth in a manner reach vp to heauen Yea maketh it selfe equall to that euer to bee adored and blessed Trinity by that triple Crowne it weareth and that threefold gemiculation which is expected from all such as dare to approach neere vnto him Neither indeed can I suppose that the Germaines and Bohemians being naturally and of themselues inclinable to true piety did so easily fall off from the Church of Rome for any other cause so much as for this to wit because in regard of that honestie and grauitie of manners which is in them by Nature they haue euer abhorred cannot away with to this day a multitude of Idols and Ceremonies with all that leuity of Minnick representations and superstitions howbeit indeed they haue defiled themselues for many yeeres together with this Idolatry and inconstancie being ouerborne by the authority of that Romane Idoll and that infallibility of Spirit which they so bragge that they hold in Feesimple or at the least haue an euerlasting lease thereof to themselues and their posterities for euer And