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A41042 Seasonable advice to Protestants shewing the necessity of maintaining the established religion in opposition to popery / by Dr. Fell ... Fell, John, 1625-1686. 1688 (1688) Wing F620; ESTC R6938 21,116 40

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of an Oath of Allegiance Paul V. sent his Breves with all speed to forbid the taking of it and for fear those might be forgotten in time in the year 1626. Vrban VIII sends again to forbid his beloved Sons the Catholics of England to take that pernicious and unlawful Oath of Allegiance Yet more in the late unnatural Rebellion in Ireland the loyal Catholicks as now they call themselves submitted that unhappy Kingdom to his aforesaid Holiness Pope Vrban to pass by other offers no less treasonable and after that as we are credibly informed Pope Innocent the Tenth bestowed it as a Favour on his dear Sister and much dearer Mistris Donna Olympia And sure we have all the reason in the world to believe that every thing of this will be done again when the old Gentleman at Rome is pleased to be angry next has a mind to gratifie a neighbour Prince or wants a Portion for a Son or a Favour for a Mistris And as it is the Papists of England have but this one excuse for that mortal sin of obedience to their Heretic Prince that they are not strong enough to carry a Rebellion And truly 't were great pity these men should be intrusted with more power who give us so many warnings beforehand how they are bound to use it But to all this the Roman Catholics have one short reply That they are the most Loyal Subjects of his Majesty and have signally approved their duty by their service and fidelity in the last War. To this I say in short that as bad as Popery is I do not think it can eradicate in all its Votaries their natural conscience no Plague was ever so fatal as to leave no Person uninfected but always some have scapt ' its fury The case is fully stated by King James of famous memory As on one part many honest men seduced with some Errors of Popery may yet remain good and faithful Subjects so on the other part none of those that truly know and believe the whole grounds and School conclusions of their Doctrines can ever prove either good Christians or good Subjects To speak the plain truth and what the insolent boasts of Papists makes necessary to be told them whatever was done then was no trial at all of Loyalty The late Rebels found it necessary for the countenancing their cause to make a loud pretence against Popery and to have the benefit of spoiling them So that the Roman Catholicks did not so much give assistance to the King as receive Protection from him When they shall have adher'd to their Prince in spight of the commands of their holy Father the Pope and defended their Sovereign and his Rights when it was not their interest to do it they will have somewhat worth the boasting As the case now stands they had better hold their peace and remember that the Sons of another Church served their King as faithfully as they though they talk less of it But since they will needs have the World know what good Subjects they have been let them take this short account from the Answer to the Apology for the Papists Printed An. 1667. In Ireland there were whole Armies of Irish and English that fought against his Majesty folely upon the account of your Religion In England it is true some came in voluntarily to assist him but many more of you were hunted into his Garrisons by them that knew you would bring him little help and much hatred And of those that fought for him as long as his Fortune stood when that once declined a great part even of them fell from him And from that time forward you that were always all deem'd Cavaliers where were you In all those weak efforts of gasping Loyalty what did you You complied and flattered and gave sugared words to the Rebels then as you do to the Royalists now You addressed your Petitions to the Supreme Authority of this Nation the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England You affirmed that you had generally taken and punctually kept the Engagement You promised that if you might but enjoy your Religion you would be the most quiet and useful Subjects of England You prov'd it in these words The Papists of England would be bound by their own interest the strongest Obligation amongst wise men to live peaceably and thankfully in the private exercise of their Conscience and becoming gainers by such compassions they could not so reasonably be distrusted as the Prelatic party which were losers If this be not enough to evidence the singular loyalty of Papists in the late War they may hear a great deal more of their vertue celebrated from their Petitions and public Writings in my Lord Orrery 's answers to Peter Welsh his Letter And because in those Writings they are so ready to throw the first stone against the late Regicides they would do well to clear themselves from the guilt of that Sacred blood which is charged home upon them by the Answerer of Philanax Anglicus who has not yet been controuled for that accusation V. To this barbarous insolence of Excommunicating and Deposing Kings may succeed the usual consequent of that but greater prodigy of Tyranny the putting whole Nations under Interdict and depriving them of all the Offices and comforts of Religion and that generally without any other provocation than that the Prince has insisted on his just rights or the people performed their necessary duty History is full of instances hereof Within the compass of one Age I mean the eleventh Century almost all the Nations of Europe fell under this Discipline France England Scotland Spain and Germany and some of them several times over and so it has gone down in following Ages The nature of the punishment we may learn from Matthew Paris who describing the Interdict in the days of King John which lasted amongst us for six years three months and fourteen days says There ceased throughout England all Ecclesiastical Rites Absolution and the Eucharist to persons in their last Agonies and the baptizing of Infants only excepted also the bodies of the dead were drag'd out of Cities and Villages and buried like the Carkasses of Dogs in the high-ways and ditches without any prayers or the Sacerdotal Ministry One would imagine that he who pretends to hold his Empire from the Charter of pasce oves the feeding of Christs Sheep would find himself concerned no to destroy and starve them or withhold from them their spiritual food for almost seven years together an unusual prescript for abstinence in order unto health But we may not wonder at all this for pasce oves with a Roman Comment means all Coertion and Dominion and they who take away the Scriptures and half the Communion from the Layty are not to be controul'd if they also withhold the other offices of piety VI. A farther consideration may be the Laws of the Land which in case of Popery must
Massacres Racks and Gibbets the known Methods by which the Romanists support their Cause and propagate their Faith. Should that Sect prevail the Nonconformist shall no longer complain of a Bartholomew day the Parisian Vespers which bore that date will be resumed again and silence all complaints of them or us and as his Holiness thought fit to celebrate that barbarous villany calling together as Thuanus tells us his Cardinals solemnly to give thanks to Almighty God for so great a blessing conferred upon the Roman See and the Christian World nay a jubilee was to be proclaimed through the Christian World whereof the cause was expressed to give thanks to god for destroying in France the enemies of the Truth and of the Church There may be found on this side the Sea men who will imitate the Princes of the holy League who upon such encouragements from the See of Rome and for the greater glory of God will be ready to consecrate their hands in a Massacre here with us It is vulgarly known what was done to the poor Albigenses and Waldenses How many hundred thousand of lives the planting of the Roman Gospel in the Indies cost What cruelties were practised in the Low-Countires by the Duke d' Alva what bloud in this Island in the days of Queen Mary what designed to be shed in the Powder Treason and that by the privity and direction of the Pope himself as Delrio informs us in spight of all the palliations that are now suggested who withal adds that his Holiness Clement the VIII by his Bull a little before that time gave order that no Priest should discover any thing that came to his knowledg in confession to the benefit of the Secular Government It seeming safer to these good men to break all the Obligations of Duty and Allegeance though bound by Oaths than violate the Seal of Confession or put a stop to that meritorious work at one moment to destroy their Sovereign with all his Royal Family his whole Nobility and Senate and subvert the Government of their Native Country But we need not seek for instances without our own memories the carriage of the Irish Rebellion where the Papists in a few moneths cut the throats of about two hundred thousand innocent Protestants of all Sexes and Ages cannot be yet forgotten Which Act was so meritorious as to deserve from his Holiness a most plenary Indulgence for all that were concerned in it even absolution from Excommunication Suspension and all other Ecclesiastical Sentences and Censures by whomsoever or for what cause soever pronounced or inflicted upon them as also from all sins trespasses transgressions crimes and delinquences how hanious and attrocious soeuer they be c. Nor let any man be so fond to hope for better terms or Liberty of Conscience if Popery should now prevail Let us look into the world and we shall see on all hands that nothing is any where suffered to grow either under or near that Sect. Where Protestantism has been so strongly fix'd as not to be batter'd down at once it has by degrees been perpetually undermin'd witness the Proceedings against them in Poland and Hungary and several parts of Germany the late Persecutions in the Vallies of Piedmont and the methods used in France to demolish their Temples and disable them for their Employments and almost exclude them from common Trades I need not enquire what is now done in Vtrecht and other acquisitions of the French upon the Hollander this we are sure of Whatsoever Articles are or can be made of favour and compliance 't is somewhat more than a probable Doctrine That Faith is not to be kept with Heretics The Jesuited Romanist is at large by Equivocotions to say any thing and by directing of Intention to do any thing they can with very good conscience dissemble their own and pretend to the Protestant Profession come to the devotions of Heathen Idolaters and that from express Licence from his Holiness Pope Clement the Eight upon account of which we may says Tho. a Jesu be present without any scruple at the Rites and divine Offices of Infidels Heretics and Schismatics Nay Peter Maffeius makes it his boast that Ignatius Loyola imitated the Devil in all his tricks cheats and cunning to convert souls and how his followers have transcrib'd that Pattern the world does know Yet farther they some of them at least can set up a new Gospel where their is not one word of the Cross of Christ can worship Heathen Idols with that pitiful reserve of having in their Sleeve a Crucifix to which they privately direct their Adoration All which as they are notorious for being complained of to the Pope so are they uncontroul'd for ought appears and permitted by him Indeed what conversation can there be with these men who are under no obligations of Society no Character of notice or Distinction who at the same time are Priests and Hectors Casuists and Artificers Presbyterians Anabaptists Quakers Theists Atheists and amidst all this very good Catholics Let any honest sober man judge what kind of Religion this is in it self and how fit to be encourag'd and submitted to XII To close up all that has been said from uncontroulable Testimonies and Proofs we have seen the influence which Popery has either heretofore or may hereafter have amongst us in all the great concerns of our Religion our Prince our Laws our Property our Country our Families and Lives and found it evidently destructive unto all the inference from whence can be no other but that if we have any love for our Religion any abhorrence of the grossest Superstition Error or Idolatry any regard for the safety of His Majesty any care of our Laws or our Estates any concernment for the Strength the Wealth or Numbers of our Nation any desire to hold the Freedom of our Conscience the Virtue and the Honour of our Families and lastly any care of Self-Preservation to escape Massacres and the utmost rage of persecution it will behoove us to beware of the prevailing of that sect in whose Successes we have reason to expect to forfeit all these Interests perish our selves and bequeath Idolatry and Beggery and Servitude to our Posterity FINIS a Art. 6. b 2 Tim. 3.15 c Artic. 13. 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