ad credendum alâ—â—quin staret in casu quod qui obligaretur ad contradictoria vel ad falsum contra fidem Out of this roote is concluded a double truth First that the resolution or determination of the pope alone in things belonging to faith as it is precisely such not confirmed by a generall counsell doth not tie or bind a man to beleeue it For other wise the case might so fall out that one should be bound eyther to beleeue contradictories or else falshoode against his faith The said Gerson after he hath in the same place by me quoted in the margent delated at large that the Popes erroneous doctrine must be controlled by a generall councell addeth these expresse words Cui legi haud dubie subest papa licet hactenus multis haec veritas non placeret propter inordinatuÌ„ fauorem ad summum pontificem vel scripta sua male suscepta plus quam ad ChristiÌ„ Euangelia Nunc auteÌ„ opposita falsitas est haeresis expresse damnata per concilium Constantiense cum alijs multis in vtilitatem totius politiae Christianae To which law the pope doubtlesse is subject although hitherto this truth did not please a great many by reason of their inordinate affection to the pope more then to Christ and his gospell But now the opposite falshood is an hereâ—ie slatly condemned by the counsell of Constance together with many other things for the good of all Christian pollicie The second place is conteyned in these words Concilium generale sic est supra papam alium quemlibet de ecelesia quod ipsum papam potest deponere pro quocunque crimine de quo notorie incorrigibiliter scandalizatur ecclesia Hoe est practicatum dudum de papa Ioh. 12. nunc de Ioh. 23. In cuius deiectione non inseritur quod fuerit haereticus vel à fide deuius A generall councell is so aboue the Pope and euery one of the Church that it hath power to depose the Pope for what crime soeuer whereof the Church is scandalized notoriously and incorrigibly This was done vpon Iohn the 12. Long sythence and now vpon Iohn the 23. of that name in whose deiection it is not inserted that he was an heretike or had swarued from the faith The third place is conteyned in these words Concilium generale potest eum quem reputat summum pontificem nedum consultiue inducerè sed authoritatiuè compellere ad offerendum viam cessionis vel ad cedendum papatui etiam sine culpa licet non sua sine causa A generall councell may not onely by way of councell induce him whom it reputeth to be the lawfull Pope but also by way of authoritie compell him to offer to giue place or to depart from the Popedome in verie deed yea without his owne fault though not without a cause The fourth place is conteyned in these words Status papalis non eximit papam à legibus purè diuinis quae vel in euangelijs vel generalibus concilijs positae sunt Et ex hoc consequeÌ„ter patet quod papa subijcitur legi de correctione fraterterna Si peccauerit in te frater tuus c. Sic quod potest fraternaliter corripi dum peccat Et si tandem nolet audire ecclesiam quam generale concilium representat debet haberi sicut ethuâ—â—us publicanus Et ita potest hoc modo per concilium vel iudicari vel coerceri vel pro excommunicato haberi The Popes estate doth not exempt the Pope from the pure diuine lawes which are set downe eyther in the gospels or in generall councels And hereupon it is cleare consequently that the Pope is subiect to that law of fraternall correction if thy brother offend against the c. So that he may be reproued brotherly when he sinneth And if at length he will not heare the Church which a generall councell doth represent he must be reputed as an Ethnicke and Publican And so he may this way by a councell either be iudged or corrected or reputed an excommunicate person The fift place is conteyned in these words Ecclesia vel generale concilium potuit potest congregari sine expresso consensu vel mandato papae etiam rite electi viuentis in multis casibus The Church or generall councell both might and may be called together without the expresse consent or mandate of the pope euen when the pope is lawfully elected and liuing and that in many cases Againe the same Doctor hath these words Ecclesia vel generale conciliuÌ„ eam representans est regula a spiritu sancto directa tradita à Christo vt quilibet cuiuscunque status etiam papalis existat eam audire ac eidem obedire teneatur lioquin habendus est vt ethnicus publicanus The Church or generall councell representing it is a rule directed of the holy Ghost and giuen vs of Christ that euerie one of what state soeuer euen papall must heare and obey the same or else he must be reputed as an ethnick and publican The sixt place is conteyned in these words Concilium generale potestatem a Christo immediatè habet cui quilibet cuiuscunque status vel dignitatis etiamsi papalis existat obedire tenetur in his quae pertinent ad fidem extirpationem schismatis ac generalem reformationem ecclesiae dei in capite in membris A generall councell hath power from Christ immediately to which euerie one of what state or dignitie soeuer he be yea the pope himselfe is bound to yeeld obedience in those things which pertayne to faith and extirpation of schisme and the generall reformation of the Church of God in the head and in the members The seuenth place is conteyned in these words Iohannes papa non est accusatus vel conuictus de haeretica prauitate tamen concilium vocauit indicauit ipsum tanquam suum subditum Vnde in toto processu vsque post sententiam definitiuam suae depositionis reputans est ab eodem concilio verus papa Pope Iohn was neither accused nor conuicted of hereticall prauitie and for all that the councell both called him and iudged him as their subiect Whereupon the councell reputed him the true Pope in all the time of their proceeding against him vntill after the definitiue sentence of his deposition The eight place is conteyned in these words In causis fidei non habetur in 〈◊〉 iudex infallibilis vel qui non sit deuiabilis à â—ide de lâ—ge communi praeter ipsam ecclesiam vniuersalem vel concilium generale eam sufficienter repraesentans In causes of faith there is no infallible iudge vpon earth or which cannot swarue from the faith by the coÌ„mon course of Gods procéeding sauing the vniuersall Church or a generall councell Thus you see at large the constant doctrine of this great Doctor and famous papist who was present at the councell
our specall grace and fauour we confirme them Out of this generall constitution they haue drawne one particular which is worthy to be knowne in the 16. part of their constitutions chap. 5. The title beginning thus That the constitutions may not binde any man in conscience sith the societie desires that all their constitutions declarations and order of life should be without euasion conformable to our direction and also neuerthelesse wisheth to be secured or at least succoured that they be not snared in any sinne which may growe by their constitutions or ordinances we haue thought good in the Lord exception taken to the expresse bow wherewith the societie is bound to the Pope for the time being and the thrée other essentiall vowes of pouertie chastitie and obedience that no constitutions declarations or any order of life shall impose any yoake of mortall or veniall sinne vpon them vnlesse their superiour command those things in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ or in the vertue of obedience And againe in stead of feare of offending let loue and desire of all perfection come in place and let the glorie and praise of Christ our Lord maker be the more exalted By the first article it is lawfull for them to change and rechange their constitutions at their owne pleasure for their owne good By the second their constitutions are held in regard of the soule indifferent so that the Iesuite may breake them without committing mortall or veniall sinne A law which their great law-giuer gaue them to the end that to Gods honour and glory there might he fewer sinners in their societie Oh holy soules oh pure consciences who restrayning their inferiours from sinne take themselues the reines committing all manner of sinne vncontrolled Let vs examine these points without passion and let let vs consider the scope of these two propositions By the first no prince shall be assured of his estate and by the second no prince shall be secure of his person in his owne kingdome Concerning the first point call to minde how matters haue béene carried for these 25. or 30. yeares There hath béene no nation where they be fostered but they would be tempering with their affaires of state I thinke they are such honest men as what herein they haue done they haue vndertaken to doe it by vertue of their silent constitutions for if they did it by their owne priuate authoritie the generall were vnworthie of his place should he suffer it Further this was forbiden them in the yeare 1593. when they saw all their plots were frustrate Admitte new troubles should arise these gallants will cassiere and disanull this last ordinance suffering their companions to intermeddle as before But what are their rules in such affaires Marrie that is it lawfull to kill a tyrant that a king breaking the common lawes of the land may be depriued of his Crowne by the people That there are other causes for the which princes and great personages may be slaine In what a miserable condition shall princes liue if the assurance of their estate shall depend vpon these fellowes Let us sée their new constitutions of 1593. I will that they medle not at all in affaires of state in generall termes And that particularly they practise not vpon the person of princes Are they bound to obey this Nothing lesse For their law-giuer chargeth not their consciences but in expresse termes he would otherwise haue charged them by vertue of their blind obedience And this is the cause that Commolet preaching since this new statute that there wanted a new Ehud to kill our king and Walpoole furnishing Squire with poyson and instructions to kill the Quéene of England his mistresse thought they sinned not therein These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 26. fol. 234. fol. 236. It is not christian charitie O Iesuites that leads you to that course but Iesuitish charitie Your whole profession is nothing else but a particular coozning of our priuate families and a generall villanie of all the countries where you inhabite These wordes are put downe in the Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 12. fol. 106. The Iesuites make ostentation of a solemne decree concluded among them that they shall no more intermeddle in matters of estate But let vs see what date this decrée beares They say of an 1593. hath your Maiestie then alreadie forgotten that since that time they haue practised twise against your life Behold the performance of this glorious decree Doe not we know the generall exception of all their statutes vnlesse it be for the good of the Church an exception that extends as farre as they list to straine it The Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of states disauthorizing of magistrates and seducing of subiectes from their alleageance These words are set downe in the franke discourse Page 98. Ribadiner wrote his historie onely vpon report of the countrey as the further a Iesuite goes the lowder he lies These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 17. fol. 61. Such iuglings and shiftings of late haue béene vsed by the Iesuites that not onely protestants but also catholiks yea priests can scarce tell when they speake sincerely when otherwise These words are set downe in the reply to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 2. These are ordinarie iugling tricks which are too too familiar with our good fathers the Iesuites In the reply to Parsons libell Page 19. 2. vers 14. Concerning the imputation of lying so famous and notorious are their equiuo cations and so scandalous that the verie protestants take notice thereof to the great preiudice of our profession alwaies heretofore famous for our truth and sinceritie In the replie to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 1. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me first that the Iesuites are notorious lyers and that their owne fellowes can not tell when to trust them Secondly that they are notorious coozners and full of iugling tricks Thirdly that the Iesuites acknowledge the Pope to be Lord spirituall and temporall ouer all christian princes Fourthly that the Iesuits are notable temporizers as who account all things lawful that will serue their turne Fiftly that the Iesuites are so perfidious a people as their faith is become Fides panica the Carthagenians faith that is a false and detestable faith Sixtly that the Iesuites will be Spaniards or Frenchmen or whatsoeuer else if opportunitie be offered thereunto Seuenthly that no estate is free from the villanie of the Iesuites Eightly that the Iesuites make hauocke of the Popes Buls and constitutions Ninthly that the Iesuites change and rechange their rules and lawes at their owne good will and pleasure The Iesuites therefore are good fellowes fit for all times all places and all companies Paragraph X. Of the profession and Religion of the Iesuites in generall THe Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of
THE ANATOMIE OF POPISH TYRANNIE Wherein is conteyned a plaine declaration and Christian censure of all the principall parts of the Libels Letters Edictes Pamphlets and Bookes lately published by the Secular priests and English hispanized Iesuites with their Iesuited Arch-priest both pleasant and profitable to all well affected readers Esdr. vers 42. Magna est veritas praeualet LONDON Printed by Iohn Harison for Richard Bankworth dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Sunne 1603. To the Reuerend father the ornament of learning and religion TOBIE the wise graue zealous and worthie Bishop of Durham THat excellent sentence worthie to be written in golden letters Right Reuerend father which the good Iew man of God Zorobabel pronounced confidently before the mightie king Darius viz. Magna est veritas praeualet is this day verified God be blessed for it euen in the publike writings of the Iesuites against the secular priests their owne deare Popish brethren And reciprocally of the secular priestes against the Iesuites their religious fathers and holy fryers The deepe and serious consideration whereof hath possessed mine heart with such vnspeakable solace as I can not easily with penne and ynke expresse the same Such is the force of truth my good Lord that it hath enforced the professed enemies of truth a thing verie rare and to be admired to testifie the truth against themselues and to publish the same in printed books to the view of the whole world God say the popish priests hath most straungely and in verie deed as it may be termed miraculously reuealed the truth which long hath beene hidden Thus them selues write of themselues Hence proceedeth that rare conceiued ioy which hath enuironed me on euerie side And which I am well assured cannot but bring great contentment to your Lordship and to all true hearted English subiects For as the Apostle saith Some preach Christ through enuie and strife and some of good will The one sort preacheth Christ of contention and not purely but the others preach him of loue What then yet Christ is preached all manner waies whether it be vnder pretence or syncerely and I therein ioy yea and will ioy Thus wrteth the chosen vessell of our Lord Iesus The Iesuites puffed vp with enuie and malice against the secular priests doe vnwittingly and vnwillingly bolt out many important truthes not onely against themselues and to their owne great preiudice but also to the euerlasting scandall and vtter ruine of theit patched hotch-potch late Romish religion The Secular priests turmoyled with the vniust vexations of the cruell Iesuites seeke by all aswell indirect as direct meanes to redeeeme their iniust molestations and to defend themselues from their villanous and diabolicall dealing The while they are thus busied they cannot inuent or deuise how to find out any end of their miseries but by laying open to the world the badde and irreligious conuersation of the Iesuites and by imputing to them those disloyall treacheries and most bloodie complots wherewith their owne hearts and hands had sometime beene imbrewed And consequently while they are encombred to disgrace and gall the malepeart and trayterous Iesuites they doe vnawares grieuously wound themselues euen with their owne chosen weapons They freely grant and can it not denie that all papists were kindly dealt withall vntill such time as themselues gaue iust cause by their disloyall plots and bloudie practises against her Maiestie of greater restraint and sharper proceeding against them For first they grant that the Earles of Northūberland Westmerlād with their adherēts were rebels their insurrectiō flat treasō that the pope ioyned with thē that he excōmunicated her Maiestie that he assoyled her subiects from their allegeance to her that he sent two popish priests Morton and VVebbe my selfe knew them both right well to bring the excommunication into England which they effected accordingly that the Pope assigned the Duke of Norfolke to be the head of the rebellion that he gaue order to Ridolphi the Florentine to take 150000 crownes to set forwarde the saide rebellion That the King of Spaine at the Popes instance determined to send the Duke of Alua into England that with all his forces he might assist the Duke of Norfolke Secondly they grant that the pope plotted with Stuckeley Fitzmo rize and others both English Irish and Italian my selfe was euen then in Rome for enterprise by force into Ireland vnder pretence of religion to further which cruell attempt Sanders did afterward thrust himselfe personally into the like action Thirdly they confesse that Parsons Campian Sherwin and others were sent disloyally into this land from pope Gregory the 13. my selfe was then in Rome and that Parsons presently vpon their arriuall fell to his trayterous Iesuiticall courses and bestirred himselfe with tooth and naile how he might set her maiesties crowne vpon an others heade Fourthly they confesse that the Iesuite Heywood was sent into Englād from the Pope that he tooke vpon him to call a synode and to abrogate auncient customes to the great scandall of many Fiftly they confesse that the Pope plotted with the King of Spaine for the assistance of the Duke of Guise to enter vpon the sodaine and to aduance the Queene of Scotland to the crowne of England For the better effecting whereof Mendoza a Iesuite as they write then ledger in this land for the king of Spaine set on worke Frances Throcmorton and many others They adde there vnto that about the same time Arden and Somervile had conspired how they might lay violent hands vpon her Maiesties sacred person Sixtly they write that about the same time Parrie was also plotting with the Iesuites beyond the sea how he might haue effected the like villanie Seuenthly they confesse freely that the earle of Northumberland was drawne into the plot of the Duke of Guise and that Parsons the bloudie Iesuite was him selfe an actor therein Eightly they write plainely that Babington and his complices committed such notorious treason against her maiestie as it was shameles boldnesse to deny or qualifie the same Ninthly they confesse roundly that Sir William Stanley committed notable treacherie falsified his faith to her maiesty Tenthly they write plainly that in the yeare 1588. the King of Spaine made a most cruell bloudie attempt not only against her Maiesty to vse the priests-words and their commō enemies but also against themselues all catholikes and their owne natiue countrey The memorie of which attempt as the priests write will be an euerlasting monument of Iesuiticall treason and brutish crueltie Eleuenthly they grant that Richard Hesket was set on by the Iesuites in the yeere 1592. or their abouts to haue stirred vp the Earle of Darbye to rebell against her maiestie Where I may not omit to deliuer mine owne knowledge in this behalfe This Hesket I knew very well in his life conuersation and professiō I
euer deemed him to be of all religions that it to say of none at all and so the euent did declare He could temporize egregiously and frame his religion in all places after the humours of the companie In the end his creditors came so roundly vpon him for his manifold and huge debts that he was in forced secretly to depart and to take England on his backe Not long after he became so deeply Iesuited that he must needs be a glorious popish martyr viz. an arrant and most bloudie traytour he thought sought by murdering his naturall soueraigne to haue gotten gold money large possessions and so perhaps to haue paid his creditors or at the least to haue cut them short at his pleasure But in steade of a popish imaginarie charter hee found an english reall halter according to his cōdigne deserts Twelftly they grant that shortly after this stratageme the Iesuite Holt and others with him perswaded one Patricke Collen an Irish-man to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands vpon her maiesties person Thirteenthly they freely confesse that doctor Lopez the Queenes phisition was stirred vp to haue poysoned her Maiestie and the like they affirme of Yorke VVilliams and Edward Squire animated and drawne thereunto by VValpole that pernitious Iesuite All these notorious treasons right reuerend father damnable in nature intollerable in state and almost incredible in relation are plainly confessed of the Secular-priests and the same together with many other bad licentious barbarous sauage and plaine brutish practises of Iesuited papists are compendiously comprised in this small volume Which I haue therefore endeuoured to reduce to certaine heads distinct bookes and chapters with some profitable annotations annexed to the same because I am verily perswaded that whosoeuer shall seriously pervse them with indifferencie cannot but loath and detest cursed Iesuitisme and all popish Iesuited faction For though it be necessarie to all true hearted English subiects to know throughly the matters discouered by the Secular Priests yet because many for lacke of money are not able to buy the bookes and others because they are tedious and confusely written will either abstaine wholy from the reading thereof or lightly and slenderly runne them ouer and so neuer attaine to the full knowledge thereof I haue imployed my industrie my wits to couch in a small volume and portable manuall the summe effect of all their bookes pamphelets libells edicts and letters so as euery one may easily compasse the price and no one bee wearied in pervsing the discourse My desire was to profit all to confirme the strong to strenghthen the weake to stay the staggerer to rowze vp the drowsie to instruct the ignorant to gratifie the thankefull to perswade the doubtfull and to confound the proud malepeart and disloyall hearts Paule planted Apollo watred but God gaue the increase If therefore any good be wrought by these my labours let such as shall reape that good be thankfull to God for the same The disloyall papists bloud thirstie Iesuites haue alreadie kicked against my former labours and whet their malicious tongues against me Their holy father the bishoppe of Rome whome they tearme the Pope hath thundred out his curse against me But neither secular priests nor religious Iesuites will or can make any sound answere to any of my bookes They haue often beene buzzing about the matter yet neuer durst they publish so much as but one colourable answere either to all or to any one of my bookes so as I must needs thinke that maledictiō cursing rayling will be their morning and euening song against me by reason of this my friendly posie which I present as a most redolent odour to their noses-grauitie so often as they shall kisse the shoe of their Pope and with him commit idolatrie the vsuall manner most reuerend and worthy prelate in all such kind of exercises both is and alwaies hath beene to make choise of some worthy and mightie personage to protect defend and patronize the cause and doubtles neuer did any booke or pamphlet stande in more neede of a stout and resolute patron then this present volume For the traytorous Iesuites and Iesuited papists that cannot endure their owne brethren the secular priests to publish in their honest defence their knowne practises and imperfections will no doubt become starke madde fetch al their Romish friscols against me poore soule who haue as it were anatomized and painted them out in their best beseeming colours After mature deliberation had herein most christian patron of learning and learned men I haue resolued to dedicate this worke to your most reuerend name as to that vertuous Tobi◠who is able with the perfumes of the heart and liuer of a fish that is to say with the redolent harmonie of christian diuinitie which continually floweth most pleasantly form his mouth to vanquish all the Asmodean-Iesuites vpon earth to strike such terrours into their harts as they shall not once dare to grunt or barke against my true dealing and sincere proceeding in this behalfe Sundry other motiues do occurre which might most iustly incite me to this dedication of these my late studies if they were better then in deed they are amongst which many large bounties from time to time receiued at your Lordships hand doe well deserue to haue a place So praying the almightie to increase your godly zeale against all traytorous Iesuites disloyall popish vassales and to blesse your good Lordshippe with many happie yeeres to his glorie your owne soules health and the common good of his Church I humbly take my leaue From my studie this 23. of Ianuarie 1602. Your Lordships most bounden Thomas Bell. The Elogie of the author in signe of his loyall affection both toward his late Soueraigne and now regnant The cursed crew of Iesuites A change did long desire A change they haue but to their griefe Both Pope and Spaine admire Our noble Queene Elizabeth From hence to heauen is gone King Iames the first giuen vs of God By right sits in her throne Shee fourtie yeeres and foure complete did Pope and Spaine withstand And maugree all their bloudie plots In peace did rule this land Gods word and his true worshippe euer VVith zeale shee did defend For which cause God did her protect Vntill her life did end Her death perforce we must lament VVho dearely lou'd vs all Her bountie great her mercie rare The world to witnesse call Yet English hearts be not dismaide King Iames is our regent Hence Poperie certes he will supplant All falshood must relent He will doe iustice euery where And poore mens cause respect The mightie must not them annoy He will their right protect Poore men to him must haue accesse Their owne cause there to tell No bribes can haue place in his court Thence vice he will expell The richer sort with lingringe suites Must not the poore oppresse Our noble King the man of God Their
as was brought vp vnder them In other Colledges they know not what it meant to instruct schollers how to murther kings and specially in ours But in the Iesuits Colledges it is contrarie and preached in their owne assemblies nothing so much as that alone Of the which indéed they were but too prodigall in their sermons These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 8. fol. 155. When our Iesuites saw themselues remoued from their princes fauour they began to lay a snare to intrappe him And as their societie is composed of all sorts of people some for the penne others for practise so had they amongst them one father Henry Sammier of Luxenburge a man disposed for all affaires and resolued to any hazard This fellow was sent by them in the yeare 1581. towards diners Catholike princes to sound the fourd And to say truly they could not haue chosen one more fit For he disguised himselfe into as manie formes as obiects one while attired like a souldier an other while like a priest by and by a countrey swaine Dice cards and women were as ordinarie with him as his presired houres of prayer saying he did not thinke he sinned in this because it was done to Gods glory and that he miâ—â—t not be discouered changing his name together with his habite according to the countries where he purposed to negotiate These words are to be read in the Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 11. Fol 162. William Crichton the Iesuite went into Spaine by the licence of his generall Whither he is no sooner come but he practiseth to infinuate himselfe into the kings fauour And to that effect drawes a tree of the descent and pedegree of the Infanta his daughter shewing therein that the Crownes of England Scotland did by right appertaine to her and so incite him the rather to take armes against the Scottish king hee scattered abroad diffamatorie libels against him Whereunto the king of Spayne giuing no eare Crichton determined with himselfe by letters to sollicite the Catholike Nobilitie of Scotland to the same purpose and to that ende wrote letters in the yeare 1592. to Gourdon and other Iesuites remaining in Scotland whereby hee gaue them to vnderstand in what grace he was with the king who by his incitement was resolued aswell for the inuasion of England as for the restoring of the auncient Religion in Scotland These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 16. fol. 173. Certaine young diuines infected with the poyson of the Iesuites loosed the reines to subiects against their king in the yeare 1589. and Commolet the Iesuite with his adherents sounded the trumpet of warre in their pulpets against the king deceased Whereupon insued those outragious disorders which we haue seene in France since that time These words are in yâ— Catechisme Li. 3. c. 14. fol. 169. Walpole the Iesuite in the yeare 1597. deliuered a poysonous confection to Squire therewith to make away the Queene of England his Soueraigne The Iesuites at Doway in the yeare 1598. sent the Cooper of Iper to kill Graue Maurice of Nassaw These wordes are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 13. fol. 168. It is well knowne O Iesuites that your Colledge was the fountaine and seminarie of all those calamities which we endured during the last troubles There was the rebellion plotted and contriued there was it fully and wholy nourished and maintained Your prouincials your rectors your deuout superiours were the first that troade that path they that first and last dealt with this merchandise Your Colledge was the retreat or Randeuous of all such as had vowed and sold themselues aswell to the destruction of the State as to the murther of the king In which your doings you at that time gloried and triumpht both in your sermons and lectures Sequitur this was the houre of Gods wrath who hauing long temporized with your sinnes thought it good to make Chastell a spurre in the hearts of the iudges to incite them to do iustice aswell vpon you as vpon him that you might all serue for an example for posteritie to wonder at To the accomplishment of this worke he permitted that Chastell who had beene nurtured and brought vp in your schoole should assay to put in practise your deuout lectures and exhortations against the king not in the countrey but in the citie of Paris and that his dwelling house should be not in any obscure corner of the towne but in the verie heart of the citie in a house right opposite to the gate of the pallace the ancient habitation of our kings and of the supreame and soueraigne iustice of Fraâ—nce This house belonged to the father who was so infortunate as not to reueale to the Magistrate the damnable intention of his sonne whereof hee had knowledge as himselfe confessed God made speciall choyse of that place of purpose to make the punishment more notorious For which cause this house was râ—â—nated and raced by order and in the place thereof a Pyâ—amis or piller raysed bearing the memoriall not onely of Chastels offence but of the Iesuites also and this to stand in opposite view of this great royall Pallace To the ende that our posteritie may knowe heereafter how highly Fraunce is beholden to this holy societie of Iesus These wordes are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 19. fol. 191. Note here gentle reader with me these important obseruations First that Iohn Chastell but 19. yeares of age went about trayterously with a knife prepared for that purpose to murther his naturall Soueraigne Secondly that hee the said youth was fully perswaded by Iesuiticall education and doctrine that to murther his liege Lord the King was the readie way to heauen Thirdly that nothing was more freely taught in the schooles of the Iesuites then the doctrine of the killing of lawefull kinges Fourthly that their sermons abounded with this kind of maladie Fiftly that the Iesuites imployed in this kind of marchandise one Henrie Sammier a most licentious dissolute villaine giuen to all vices vnder heauen Sixtly that he reputed all his vices for vertues in respect of his godly intents and purpose viz. Of killing Kinges Seuenthly that the Iesuite Crichton sollicited the Spanish King to inuade both England and Scotland affirming that the crownes of both the kingdomes did by right pertaine vnto him Eightly that the Iesuite Commolet and his adherents sounded the trumpet of warre against their king euen out of the pulpets â—s if it had beene an high point of diuinitie and most fit for edification Ninthly that the Iesuite Walpoole endeuoured by poyson to take away the life of his Soueraigne Tenthly that the Iesuites at Doway sent the Cooper of Iper to kill Graue Maurice of Nassaw Eleuently that the colledge of the Iesuites was the fountaine and seminarie of the calamities in France That in their colledge was all rebellion plotted coÌ„triued nourished maintained Twelftly that the prouincials rectors and
with two of Maister Williame Wisemans daughters of Broddocke with Elizabeth Sherlie borne in Leicestershire with Dorothy Buckwood Maister Richard Buckwoods daughter of Suffolke who had a great portion giuen her by the Ladie Elizabeth Drurie her grandmother with mistresse Marie Tremaine Maister Tremains daughter of Cornewell she hauing a large portion with Mistresse Mary Tremain of Dorcetshire of whome he had aboue .200 pounds with mistresse Anne Arundle of whom he got a great portion with Ladie Marie Percie who is now a Nunne at Bruxells All these words of this holy cousinage I would say exercise are set down in expresse terms quodli 3. art 10. toward the end By this aduiso wee may sée in what sort and by what meanes our Iesuites haue enriched their coffers and consequently we may haue a coniecturall prognostication thereby that they expect a day when to bestow the same to their aduantage In the meane time if they with their coÌ„plices be permitted scot frée they will set the whole land on fire with their seditious bloudie treacheries Aduiso X. Of Iesuiticall religious pollicie neuer inough to be admired IT is a plaine testimonie of no religion in the Iesuites but flat I Atheism making religious pietie but only a matter of meere pollicie These words are expressely set downe quodl 6. art 4. pag. 168. There is not a Iesuite nor a Iesuites fautour any where to be found but he hath a fowle tast of Atheisme either directly perâ—â—e or indirectly or virtute primi principalis agentis The experience whereof halfe witted men may see in England and els where These expresse words are set down quodl 4. art 4. p. 113. The Iesuites haue most traytorously cast the platforme doe goe about so much as wit of man can deuise to bring all Kinges princes states in christendome vnder their subiection quodl 9 art 7. page 313. They the Iesuites haue made religion but an art of such as liue by their wits and a very hotch potch of omnium githerum These words are set downe quodl 2. art 8. page 44. The Iesuites during the time of their rebellious practises and conspiracies against the late King Henrie the 3. of France Henry now regnant the 4. did cast at the whole kingdome and crowne of Fraunce quodlibet 9. art 6. page â—11 The seculars will be when not one Iesuite shall be left aliue in the world vnlesse they amend their manners and reforme their order but all damned for heretikes or thruste out of Godes Church as apostaâ—aâ—s and Atheistes These words are to be read quodlibet 2. art 7. page 42. How the Iesuites haue abused that sacred seale of confession of purpose to tyrannize ouer poore soules as getting thereby occasion to intrude themselues for disposing and managing of their wordly causes I leaue it to sundry reports and wofull experiences whereof mistresse Wibur in Kent together with hee husband can and will be witnesses another day against father Curâ—y the Iesuite vnlesse his repentance were great for it ere he died These words are set downe quodl 2. art 4. page 69. Onely in hell and amongst heretikes ordo negligitur Ergo the Iesuites appointing vs a superiour without order doe imitate one of these the diuels or heretikes These words are set downe Quodl 6. art 4. pag. 164. One is in time of solemne processions at which it hath beene noted that the Iesuites will seldome or neuer come These words are to be read Quodl 3. art 1. page 51. The power of priesthood is called into question by these new religious Scribes and Pharisees the Iesuites These words are set downe Quodl 2. art 7. page 42. It followeth that they must eyther renounce the Catholike Churches authoritie in crediting these false hearted seditious and erroneus Iesuites or else renounce the said Iesuiticall doctrine These words are set downe Quodl 2. art 7. page 42. By this Aduiso we see plainely that whosoeuer followeth the doctrine of the Iesuites must of necessitie renounce Christs Church Fie vpon them therfore and their badde religion Aduiso XI Of the testimonie that the Iesuites giue to the Pope THey the Iesuites haue preached openly in Spayne against Pope Sixtus the last of all holy memorie and rayling against him as against a most wicked man and monster on earth they haue called him a Lutheran heretike they haue termed him a Wolfe they haue said he had vndone all Christendome if he had liued And Cardinall Bellarmine being asked what he thought of his death answered thus conceptis verbis quaâ—tum capio quantum sapio quantum intelligo descendit ad infernum Thus in English as farre I can perceiue vnderstand and apprehend our pope is gone to hell They gaue him doubtlesse a merie farewell Thse words are set downe quodl 3. art 2. page 57. The Iesuites hold and defend this proposition hominem non christianum posse esse Romanum Pontificem A man that is not a Christian may be the bishop or Pope of Rome These words are set downe in the discouerie page 37. quodl 4. art 2. page 100. This is a worthie Aduiso which must be well marked and remembred for it giueth poperie a deadly wound First we see here that the Pope may be an ethnicke or atheist and consequently that the Church of Rome may be ethnicall or atheall such as is their head Secondly that the pope euen by confession of the greatest papists may be an heretike that their late pope was one de facto Thirdly that euerie pope holdeth not in euerie point the late Romish religion For if they write truly this late pope Sixtus disliked of popish auricular confession Fourthly that it is lawfull to iudge both of the popes religion and of the pope himselfe For we see here that the Iesuites did iudge the pope Yea our quodlibetist telleth vs in another place that the Iesuites affirmed the pope to haue erred in absoluing the French king quod 4. art 2. gage 101. See the fourth Preamble and the sixt Aduiso sup Concerning the pope how he both hath erred and still doth erre as also how both he hath béene iudged and this day ought to be iudged euen of his dearest popelings I haue sufficiently proued elsewhere neuerthelesse for the full satisfaction of the reader I will here adde a little which in the former bookes is wanting and cannot but wel content euerie indifferently affected person Master Doctor Gerson a famous papist and chancellor of the viuersitie of Paris doth make the case so plaine in many places of his works as none that with iudgement shall peruse the same can stagger or stand in doubt thereof Some few places onely I will heere allege referring the Reader for the rest vnto the author himselfe in his bookes The first place is conteyned in these expresse words coÌ„cluditur ex hac radice duplex veritas Prima quod de terminatiâ— sâ—lius papa in his quae sunt fidei non obligat vt pracisé est talis
the principall English in Rome And I pray you who were these Parsons himselfe forsooth and his brother Iesuite Baldwin lately come for that intent out of England Haddocke also Martin Array and Allen all Iesuited vassals and at his commaund Thirdly diuers other principall men wrote out of Spayne to signifie the sufficiencie of Blackwel for his Arch-presbiteran office and that he should be the gouernour This doth Parsons or his flattering vassals at his designement set downe in expresse termes in their Apologie Now I beseech the gentle reader who is so blind as cannot see this malitious treacherie Parsons seeketh by hooke and by crooke to hide his false dealing and yet doth he vnwittingly bewray his owne villanie Men forsooth in Spayne must please Parsons for their owne gaine and they must write to the Protector at Rome that Blackwell whose sufficiencie they know not is a most sufficient man Hee and none but he must gouerne all the priests in England Will ye know the reason this Blackwell is Iesuited if not a close and secret Iesuite and consequently he being the gouernour Parsons may rule at his pleasure and banish all that will not subscribe to his treasons For not onely the prests but the Cardinall also yea the Pope himselfe must conclude and agrée to the Iesuites their designements Who so will read the instructions which the Arch-priest is inioyned to follow can not possibly but be of my opinion CHAP. IIII Of the fashoods leasings and vntruthes conteyned in the Iesuiticall Apologie published to the world Paragraph I. Concerning Boromoeo the late Cardinall of Millan ANd as for that which our discontented brethren do cite in diuers places of their bookes of Cardinall Boromaeo of holy memorie that he tooke the gouernement of one of his seminaries in Millan from the fathers we haue informed our selues of the trueth that the fathers of their owne will and vpon their owne earnest suite left the said gouernment of the great labour and trouble thereof as also some little difference in opinion about the schollers education which the good Cardinall would haue had somewhat more bare in their diet and apparrel then the fathers order in their seminaries did permit For which the holy Cardinall alledged no euill reason saying that seeing they were to be sent afterwards abroad to poore benefices among countrey people where they must faire hardly they would refuse to goe beeing brought vppe after the diet of other seminaries But the fathers thought it easier for them to leaue this gouerment then to admit this difference and so they left it And the good Cardinall did vse all the meanes possibly he could both there in Rome to stay it in their hands These are the expresse words of Parsons his Iesuited vassals or rather of Parsons himselfe in the said Aplogie By these words two things are cleare The one that the Iesuites had once the gouernment of one of the seminaries in Millan vnder the iurisdiction of the Cardinall Boromaeo the other that the said Cardinall was a good man and of holy memorie Now the controuersie is this whether the good Cardinall disliked of their gouernment and therefore displaced them or that the Iesuites were wearie of the place and therefore did voluntarily leaue it The seculars say that the Cardinall◠〈◊〉 them the Iesuites denie it But why would the Iesuites giue ouer that gouernment which they had once taken vpon them because forsooth the good Cardinall would haue had the schollers to bee brought vp more barely in their diet and apparrell Thus they say but the contrarie is the truth For first eyther the Cardinals allowance was sufficient or not sufficient If it were not sufficient then was he not so good a man nor of so holy memorie as the priests do affirme If it were sufficient then was that excessiue and consequently vitious which the Iesuites did require then was their gouernment iustly disliked then did they shew themselues to be a prude and arrogant kinde of people that would not condescend to the Cardinall in his most lawfull demaund Secondly Doctor Lewis the late bishop of Cassana a man of great credit and renowne and who had great familiaritie with the said Cardinall did often affirme to his friends that the Cardinall could not endure them nor like of their gouernment Master Hugh Griffeth master Morgâ—n and master Meredith all priests this day liuing can and will testifie this to be so Thirdly my selfe admiring that the Iesuites kept not that place which sometime they had in Millar enquired diligently what should be the cause for that I thought well of the Iesuites at that time indeed And one of their owne order being then a Prefect in the English Colledge to say nothing of the common report of others confessed fréely that the Cardinall could not brooke well their fathers but he would not in any case shew the cause thereof This to be true I protest before God and his holy Angels Fourthly they alledge a reason which they would haue to be the Cardinals but both it is from themselues and doth consute themselues The reason is this viz. because they were to be sent afterward abroad to poore benefices where they must fare hardly But this reason is their owne and neuer framed by the Cardinall and it is confuted many waies For first they grant marke their words alreadie cited that the cardinals reason was good and consequently that the Iesuites were bad and without all reason when they refused to yeeld vnto reason Secondly where shall those benefices be found and in what country which are not sufficient to fill the priests belly No where doubtles for the mainteynance of Popish priests is too great euery where Yea by the setled law of poperie would God it were so in our english ministery euery priest at the houre of his consecration hath some title for his sufficient maintenance to say nothing of the huge commodities that doe dayly insue vpon his priestly function And for this cause the papists that now come into England where they haue no titles are created ad titulum sanctissimi and so may iustly chalenge necessary maintenance of the Pope howsoeuer he hath imprisoned the messengers but bestowed no viaticum on them at all neither great nor small Fiftly it followeth of the Iesuites their owne procéedinge that they are vnfit men for gouernance For it is against all reason to allow larger commons and more liberall diet to those that must be sent where no certaine maintenance is so be had and more bare and sparing diet to such as must haue well setled liuings And yet doth the case thus stand by Iesuiticall precéedings in the seminaries For they grant as you see that the Cardinals reason was good but it is their owne indeed in regard of the poore benefices which are farre larger and better a wiseman would thinke then the vncertaine and accidentiall maintenance of the Seminaries in this lande But this happely
must end vpon the ninth day of October at which time Parsons wrote his letter and so perforce he is farre short of his halfe yeare and consequently a lyar Thirdly that when Parsons saith from May to Nouember is more then halfe a yeare in which time no letter was come from them he both contradicteth himselfe and is an impudent lyar I proue it because euerie child knoweth that betweene may and Nouember intercéedeth the moneth of October and yet as Parsons confesseth liberally he wrote his letter to master Bishop the ninth of that moneth and the same weeke receiued a stale letter firm the same Bishop So then it is true that Parsons receiued a letter from master Bishop in the moneth of October and consequently it is false that he receiued no letter from May to nouember Fourthly that the word now in Parsons his letter doth connotate the time present that is the time of the date of his letter to wit the ninth of October at which time as he saith in one place he had receiued no letter but as he saith in another place he had that weeke receiued a stale letter Ergo Parsons is a stale lyar This lye is confirmed in perpetuam res memoriam by the word yet for when he saith no one letter appearing from you yet he doth flatly contradict himselfe when he saith by a stale letter which I receiued this weeke from you Fiftly that when Parsons saith the reports of the hard and iniurious dealing vsed to the messengers in Rome is contrarie to all truth the falshood proceedeth from his lying lips as I haue alreadie proued Sixtly that master Bishop I know the man right well is of better credit then twentie Iesuited Standishes 70. Iesuited Haddockes 100. Iesuited Personians Sect. III. Of the Secular priests and their writings PArsons in the preface of his Apologie telleth vs that these bookes must needes be presumed to haue beene published eyther by some one or few discomposed passionate people or by some heretike or other enemie to dishonour them all and to discredit their cause and nation and so as to such he will answere and not against his brethren whom he loueth most intirely but in many other places he singeth an other song For page 63. he affirmeth it to be probable by many euident arguments that a long and slanderous narration was written by the proper pen of the chiefe authors of all these broyles Againe page 8. he confesseth that two priests whom he termeth the ambassadours of the secular priests came to Rome about the controuersie Againe page 9. he confesseth that in Nouember last 1600. diuers of the discontented made a generall appeale from the Archpriests iurisdictien Againe page 24. he saith that his brethren doe vse so fonde a calumniation against the Iesuites as no man can but wonder thereat Againe page 105. he termeth the authors of the bookes his discontented brethren To be briefe in maine other places he confesseth that master Bishoppe master Charnocke master Mush master Bagshaw master Champney master Collington master Warson and others haue written against the Iesuites so as contradictions may be deemed a thing verie common with our graue and holy Iesuite Robert Parsons who knew right well that the declaration sent to his holinesse was subscribed with the hands of thirtie priests whose names I would here put downe but that I studie to tbe briefe Sect. IIII. Of the elegant Epithetons ascribed to the Iesuite Parsons by Iohn Collington the Secular priest in his booke of Defence IOhn Collington hath lately published a large volume in defence of the seculars for their appeale to the Pope against tyrannizing Blackwel which book came lately to my hand but doth so euidently conuince the Arch-priest and the Iesuites specially that notorious traytor Robert Parsons as I cannot omit to make briefe recitall of some parts therof for the common peace of this our natiue countrey In the page 30. He hath these words whose busie head he speaketh of Parsons actions haue béene the cause and increase of much trouble and persecution in our Church and Realme And who being a member of an other bodie and professing also a mortified state and to haue relinquished the world seeketh neuerthelesse to be our great master and to rule all or to tyrannize rather Againe pag. 31. He saith they haue most pregnant grounds to proue that Parsons was the inditer of the Cardinals letter constitutiue for the archpriests iurisdiction Againe page 296. He affirmeth that Parsons writeth no booke discourse nor scarse any letter of these stirres wherein he doth not recount some good act of his owne Againe page 297. he telleth vs that Parsons by managing of the Colledge hath gotten such store of money as he spendeth fiue or sixe crownes a weeke in postage for letters onely Againe page 253. hee affirmeth boldly that Parsons appointed the Arch-priest Againe page 255. he termeth Parsons the Arch-deuiser in getting the Cardinals hand subscription and seale Againe page 206. hee chargeth Parsons with many vntruthes and to haue as little synceritie in his actions as truth in his writings Againe page 256. he hath these words it would make to the praâ—se of father Parsons if religion were lesse worldlisted in him and state matter and the designing of kingdomes had not so great a part in his studies Againe page 170. he hath these words we assure our selâ—es father Parsons that your restlesse spirit and pen your enterprising and busie actions haue turned heretofore our Catholike professants to infinit preiudice for to no knowne cause can we impute so much the making of the seuere lawes of our countrey as to your edging attempts and vocations Againe page 240. hee telleth vs plainely that Parsons hath proferred and reprofered the Crowne of England to seuerall princes now to one now to another as opportunities best serued to entertaine the personage with the hope thereof And to omit many testimonies because I would not be tedious I will heere recount one for all which master Colleton setteth downe in these words Neyther is father Parsons holden onely of our magistrate for a statist or marchandizer of the Crowne Diademe though this were enough to estrange vs from hauing any partaking in ought with him but his trauels and negotiations this way are become so notoriously knowne that euen Pasquine in Rome as intelligence is sent vs speaketh in this manner of him if there be any man that will buy the Kingdome of England let him repayre to a marchant in a blacke square cappe in the Citie and hee shall haue a verie good penny worth thereof Thus writeth Colleton of Parsons who both are deuoted to the Pope alike Sect. V. Of Parsons his birth and expulsion out of Balioll Colledge in Oxford THat Robert Parsons the Iesuite and marchandizer of the Crowne of England as in the former Section is a bastard and a man of bad demeanour the fift chapter of the second booke