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The last speeches of the five notorious traitors and Jesuits viz. Thomas White ... William Harcourt ... John Gavan ... Anthony Turner and John Fenwick ... who were justly executed at Tyburn, June 20, 1679, for conspiring the death of His Sacred Majesty, and the subversion of the government and Protestant religion.
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been such Weak and Pusillanimous Combatants with Death as not strenuously to deny what they were so fairly convicted of they would have been deprived of those glorious Crowns of Martyrdom which were assured them by Him whom they call the only Lord of all the World the only Vice-God the only Emperour the only King the Most Holy Pope They thought it was much better to make but one Skip from the Cart to Jacobs Ladder and so to mount directly up to Heaven than to be condemned with an ignominious Load of Truth and Penitent Confessions of the Facts they Committed to the Whips and Scourges of a tedious Purgatory else it would seem strange to the World that in the midd'st of those solemn Protestations which they made to that God to whom their Souls were taking such a speedy flight as they pretended should so boldly deny what so many Grand-Signiours of Jesuitisme have so stifly maintained to all the World Nor did this Leash and Brace of their Disciples shew themselves such mild Receders from their Principles who durst so confidently adventure to Beard the Laws and Statutes of a Soveraign Prince within his own Dominions ipso facto Malefactors and Rebels to His Majesty when they first set Foot upon His Shore As for their renouncing all Equivocations and Mental Reservations which is the Ground upon which they all tread that will signifie nothing when we consider the Nature and Quality of a true Jesuite which is tenaciously to hold and adhere to the Dictates and Positions of their Superiours as believing what they teach to be all Inspiration Now their Heavenly Doctrine is no more than this that it is lawful for them not only to deny and conceal the truth but also piously and religiously to affirm to swear by and invoke God and their Salvation to attest those things which they know to be assuredly untrue Thus Toletus both a Jesuite and Cardinal L. 4 of his Instructions to the Priests C. 21. If it be a secret Crime concerning which any one is examined he may make use of Equivocation As for Example if I be asked whether I did such a thing or No I may answer No with this reservation to my self I did not now do it Gregory de Valentia asserts the same If the Question saith he be not fit to be answered though you be upon your Oath yet shall no Perjurie be committed though the party swear contrary to the Intent of the Judge such a one does neither lye nor take the Name of God in vain when it is for his own Preservation Andreas Eudemon Johannes is another of the same Stamp Martin Azpilcueta of Navarr proves Equivocation to be lawful from the Example of St. Francis who being asked by certain Officers whether such a Murderer did not run such away Put his hands into his Sleeves and cried he did not pass this way meaning that he did not flie through his Sleeves The fore-mentioned Cardinal Toletus also affirms That if a Priest be asked by the Magistrate whether he saw such a one at any time He may answer No For he did not see him that he should tell the Magistrate or he did not see him in a Beatifical Vision or I did not see him at Venice c. Many more Examples might be brought out of the same and several other Printed Authors neither are the Equivocations of Tresham Garnet and others unknown to our selves as those of Richeome are in France who affirmed That he never heard the last deceased Henry called Tyrant by any of his Subjects though he had heard Henry Valois the last Murdered King often so reviled So that it may be well said to be the Jesuits Motto Jura perjura secretum prodere Noli Swear and Forswear But the main Secret to betray forbear Thus while they pretend to renounce and detest Equivocations Mental Reservations and Dispensations Reason it self must needs perswade us that Men principl'd and educated by such Instructors are guarded with a good Salvo for those very Equivocations which they seemed to abjure No less if not more apparent is the fallacy of their disowning and disavowing that Dismal Doctrine of killing Kings and Princes To which purpose Gawen fell short in affirming that only Mariana the Spaniard was the upholder of that dreadful Opinion witness the Writings and Approbations of Stapleton and Garnet and the Apology of Jacob Clements in some part recited in the Oration to the King of France against the Readmission of the Jesuits into that Kingdom Commolet and Guignardus by whom that bloody Act of Jacob Clements who Murdered Henry the Third of France was called the Gift of the Holy Ghost as is averr'd in the forementioned Oration to Henry the Fourth And who so wicked among us saith the same Oration as not to see that if Jacob Clements had not deeply drank of the Jesuits Poyson he would ever have thought of killing his Lord and Master The Warlike Prowess and renown of Henry the Fourth could not defend him from the Treachery of a Bejesuited Enthusiast who confess'd that he had suckt all his King-killing malice from their Diabolical Oratory And so far was Mariana from being the sole supporter of this Doctrine that Francis de Verone wrote in the defence of Chastell who had stabb'd Henry the Fourth and John Gueret and John Hay were both banish'd out of France for publickly teaching their Disciples the vicious Precepts of early Treason Nor is there any thing more horrid among all the Butcheries of the Heathen Sacrificers than the Ceremony which the Jesuits use at the Consecration of the Person and the Dagger which they design for a Royal Massacre For the intended Executioner is brought into a private Room where the Dagger carefully wrapt up in a fair Linnen Cloth and sheath'd in an Ivory sheath enamel'd with several strange Characters with an Agnus Dei appendant is set at liberty to dazle the Murderers eyes Then the Weapon being drawn is sprinkl'd with Holy Water adorn'd with a Rosarie of Coral Beads and so deliver'd with these words Chosen Son of God receive the Sword of Jeptha the Sword of Sampson the Sword of David with which he cut off Goliah's Head c. go and be prudently couragious Then falling on their knees they mumble forth this dismal exorcism Cherubims and Scraphims ye Thrones and Powers ye Holy Angels all descend and fill this blessed Vessel with perpetual Glory dayly offer to him the Crown of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Holy Patriarchs and Martyrs For he is now your own and no longer belongs to us Then they bring him to the Altar and shewing him the Picture of Jacob Clements Strengthen O Lord they cry this thy Arm the Instrument of thy revenge Let all the Saints arise and give place to Him An invention of Men worse than Devils enough to amaze Heaven it self which shews that the words of dying men are not always Oracles when they go about to palliate embodyed Villany Nor was Mariana's Book exploded as Gawen averrs but it is true that care was taken by the Jesuits to suppress both Mariana and others for he was not alone meerly out of necessity and to divert the storm that threatened them from the Court of France And thus the world may see the folly of that vain Complement That a whole Order should suffer for the rashness of one man As little cause there is for Us to believe That the whole Catholick World should be the Jesuits Advocate At least the whole Catholick World has taken a very ill Cause in hand to defend an Order that has so ill behav'd it self as to be expell'd out of France for Murther out of England for High-Treason from Venice almost in the sight of Rome it self for their insufferable Ambition and designs of Bloody revenge out of Bohemia for being common Disturbers of the Publick Peace out of Moravia and Hungaria for the same Cause out of Transilvania for being almost the ruin of that Country and out of the Low Countries for their continual Misdemeanors and Lastly this may be also added That Ferdinand King of Sweden was expelled his Kingdom for endeavouring to obtain their readmission after they had been ejected by his Subjects As for Father Harcourt let it not seem strange for I find they were all alike in hast to reach Heaven before Sun-set that he should pretend so much ignorance of the Plot. For the reason is plain he was resolv'd to Visit S. Peter in the Jesuits Livery and to let them see he was True Blew while his own Letter under his own Hand written into the Country to give notice of Sir Edmund bury Godfrey's Death three Hours after his Murther and publickly to be seen puts a most cruel Slur upon his late protested Hatred of Mental Reservation and Equivocation Now as for their Prayers for their Judges and the Discoverers of their Treason in my judgment they might have spar'd'em For why should they be so zealous to pray for them when they would not so much as beg one tear from those that were not of their own Profession They were no Prayers of Charity but rather the Curses of their Malice while they labour'd to scandal the Justice of such most Eminent Judges the Impartiality of so sound a Jury and the Fidelity of such Witnesses who having so highly merited of the whole Nation have render'd the Sufferers more remarkable in their Ends than in all the Progress of their Lives before FINIS