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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23722	The absolute necessity of standing by the present government, or, A view of what both church men and dissenters must expect if by their unhappy divisions popery and tyranny should return again		1689 (1689)	Wing A112; ESTC R9768	37,630	52

Jubilee was granted to all who had been in that Massakcre and they were eommanded to go every where to Church and bless God for the success of that abominable Action So little did they relent after all these black and bloody Crimes that they believed they had done God good Service And to that hight did their Impudenoe rise that they presum'd to Address themselves to that Merciful Being who abhors cruel and Blood-thirsty Men and that with hands not only polluted with Blood but boasting of it as a Sacrifice offered to God which had bin a fitter Oblation to him that was a Lyar and a Murderer from the beginning But these bloody Facts were not confin'd to Paris only there being a Prosecution of the same Cruelties in many other Parts of France For at Meaux a little Town not far from Paris they began about the twenty fifth of August and spent the whole week in shedding Blood They kill'd above two hundred many of which were Women whom they deflowr'd before they Murdered At Troy in Champaigne about the same number was kill'd At Orleans a thousand six or seven hundred at Roan At Bourges Nevers and La Charite all they could find were killed At Tholouze two hundred were slaughtered At Bourdeaux they were for some time restrained through fear of the Rochellers but the Priests did so inflame the Multitude that at length they Massacred all they could find At Lyons the Governour had a mind to have saved the Protestants and to that end having got together about six or seven hundred lodged them in several prisons to preserve them But the people were so heated by the Clergy that they broke open the Prisons and Murdered them all dragg'd their Bodies through the Streets and cut up the bellies of the fattest of them to sell their Grease to the Apothecaries So that all over France as it is reported by a credible Author there were no less then a hundred thousand Butcher'd besides a hundred thousand more that were sent a begging the most of them Widows and Orphans When the News of this Massacre was brought to Rome which was upon the sixth of September following a Consistory of the Cardinals was presently call'd at what time the Legates Letter which contained the Relation of the Massacre being read they went immediately in a Procession to St. Marks Church where they offered up their solemn Thanks to God for so great a Blessing to the See of Rome and the Catholic Church And on the Monday following there was another Procession made by the Pope and Cardinals to the Minerva where they had High Mass and then the Pope granted a Jubilee to all Christendom of which this was one of the Reasons that they should thank God for the Slaughter of the Enemies of the Church lately Executed in France Two days after this the Cardinal of Lorrain had another great Procession of all the Clergy Embassadors Cardinals and the Pope himself who came to St. Lewis's Chappel where the Cardinal said Mass in Person and in the King of France's name thank'd the Pope and the Cardinals for their good Counsels the help they had given him and the Assistance which he had receiv'd from their Prayers Soon after the Pope sent Cardinal Ursin in his Name to congratulate the King of France who in his Journey through the Cities highly commended the Faith of those Citizens who had a hand in the Massacres and distributed his Holiness's Blessings among them Moreover the best Picture-drawers and Tapestry-weavers were put to work to set off this Action with all the Glory and Splendor that Art could invent and a Suit of these Hangings is to this day in the Pope's Chapel By all which we may easily gather what is to be expected from the True Spirit of Popery and what we are to look for whenever we come to lye at the Mercy of Priests and Jesuites whose Religion and Tenets will not only bear them out but embolden and encourage them to commit such treacherous and bloody Acts. From hence to proceed and shew that more Arts of Cruelty have bin found by the Romish Clergy for the Propagation of their Religion then ever the Heathen Persecutors reach'd to let us take a short view of the Irish Rebellion For most certain it is that the first Principles of that inhuman Conspiracy were roughly drawn and hammer'd out at the Roman Forge powerfully somented by the Treachery and Animosities of some of the Chief Irish Natives and being once hatch'd and set on foot by that Vicar of the Devil the Pope was carry'd on by those vigilant and industrious Emissaries of his who are sent continually abroad by the Power of that abominable See with full Commission per fas nefas to make way for the re-establishment of the Popish Religion in all Parts where it has bin suppress'd and by their venomous Infusions work so powerfully upon the blind ignorant and superstitions People as to make them easily ready for Change the Great ones mischievously to Plot and Contrive the Inferior sort treacherously to rise up and execute whatever they command By the Examinations also of several Persons to whom the most eminent and active of the Irish Priests has confess'd it it appear'd that the Priests Jesuites and Fryers of England Ireland and Spain and other Countries beyond the Seas were the Plotters Contrivers and Projectors of that Insurrection and that they had bin busied above six years in preparing and bringing it to pass And by Letters from Rome to Sir Phelim Oneale and the Lord Macguire which were intercepted it was no less apparent that the Pope and his Cardinal Nephews rejoyc'd when they heard that Sir Phelim had taken Arms and assur'd him all Assistance from Rome The Jesuites Priests Fryers and all the rest of the viperous Fraternity belonging to their Holy Orders were well assur'd of that and therefore during the six years lost no time but most dext'rously apply'd themselves to accomplish their Design So that when the Plot was so surely as they thought laid that it could not fail and that the Day was once prefix'd for Execution they were so impudent as publicly to solicit Heaven by their Prayers for the good Success of a great Design much tending to the Good of the Kingdom and the Advancement of the Catholic Cause And to facilitate the Work and incense the Zeal and Fury of the People they loudly declaim'd in all places against the Protestants telling the People they were Heretics and not to be suffer'd any longer to live among them That it was no more a Sin to kill a Protestant then to kill a Dog and that it was a mortal and unpardonable Sin to relieve or protect any of them According to this Doctrin one of the Irish Priests being ask'd whether it were not lawful to kill an English Minister because he would not go to Mass made Answer That it was as lawful to kill him as to kill a Sheep or a Dog. And several of