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A04344	The Iesuits downefall threatned against them by the secular priests for their wicked liues, accursed manners, hereticall doctrine, and more then Matchiavillian policie. Together with the life of Father Parsons an English Iesuite.	James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.	1612 (1612)	STC 14459; ESTC S107692	49,357	86

The Iesuits Downefall THREATNED AGAINST THEM BY THE SECVLAR Priests for their wicked liues accursed manners Hereticall doctrine and more then Matchiavillian Policie TOGETHER WITH THE LIFE OF FATHER PARSONS AN ENGLISH IESVITE Good God that such a Societie of men after so many scandals and foule deserts of theirs in France and elsswhere for Prince-killing Sedition c. can thus be of credit in England A. C. to his disiesuited kinsman Pag 72. AT OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes and are to bee sold by John Barnes dwelling neere Holborne Conduit 1612. TO THE RIGHT VVORTHY OF ALL HONOVR FOR RELIGIon Pietie and Iustice the Reverend Iudges and Iustices of Peace for the Countie of Oxon. TRue Religion the only badg of a Christian hath two marks whereby it is certainely knowne to wit Zeale and Constancie Zeale for it must not be cold nor luke warm but fervent and hot Constancie because it endureth not for a season and continueth but a while but abideth vnto the end vnto the death for ever This zeale which is so necessarily required in all men but more properly in Magistrates and Governours hath appeared Right Honourable and Right VVorshipfull most evidently in your late proceedings against Popish Recusants at and before the last Sessions holden for this Countie at an vnvsuall time and with very extraordinary care provision for the searching finding fining and restraining of the most dangerous persons of either sexe Of your Constancie likewise perseverance in prosecuting so good beginnings smal cause haue we to doubt considering the goodnes of the cause and the greatnes of autority wherewith both your hands and hearts are strengthned from aboue to the great ioy of all his Maiesties loyall subiects Gods faithfull servants What remaineth now but that we of the Cleargie for our parts should second these happy beginnings with our vttermost indeavors by adding the word vnto the sword perswasions cōferences vnto those sharper means corrosiues which are applied shewing our selues ready to offer vp not only our labors but our selues also for the good of such as haue bin seduced by the Priests Iesuits but rather by the Iesuits then by the Priests for which cause knowing the danger being most willing if it bee possible to prevent it I haue taken paines to compile this smal Treatise that if God shall be pleased in mercy to open their eies they may see the wicked liues accursed manners hereticall doctrine more then Matchiavillian policy of that Society which they do so devoutly follow with perill both of soule and body This worke I hope will finde the better entertainement with them because it is taken wholly and soly from the writings of sundrie learned Priests who spake as they were moved vpon consideration of their wicked liues and maners so that theirs are the proofs mine the collection method only as the Quotations in the Margent wil sufficiētly declare I admit that both Priests Iesuits are to be feared more and lesse as dangerous enimies vnto his Maiesty the State but chiefly the Iesuits who hold their disciples in such servitude or rather slavery that whatsoever they say is a law that law must be obayed though God man reason or authoritie King or Kaisar say to the contrary Frō such followers as are once wholly devoted to their company it wil bee a hard matter for the Magistrate you find it by too lamentable experience to draw either the Oath of Allegiance or obedience to the Magistrat in things Temporal much lesse conference and conformity in matters spirituall For the Iesuits like the Centurion in the Gospell haue that command Iurisdictiō over their inferiors that if they bid them goe they goe if they bid them doe this they doe it without asking any question whether it be right or wrong iust or vniust which is commanded the reasō is plaine because they relie altogether vpon the Iesuit and the Iesuit vpon the Pope who is the only vnerring person vpon earth A most absurd doctrine as any is in all Popery wherewith notwithstanding they haue bewitched the soules of I knowe not how many men women otherwise very vertuously and religiously inclined and what pittie is it for vs to consider what Cimmerian more then Egyptian darknesse they doe liue in that are thus taught by their ignorāt teachers that do vow themselues blind obedience VVhen the blinde lead the blind how can it be but that both of thē should fall into the ditch Now this which is spoken against the Iesuits doth not acquit the Secular Priests nor their followers For as long as they goe about to recōcile men from their true and naturall Prince vnto the Pope and to withdraw their mindes from religion vnto superstition from Gods word vnto fables from God himselfe vnto Mammon causing them that are reconciled not only to professe all Popish points according to the doctrine of the Councell of Trent as vnwritten Traditions Transubstantiation Purgatory Indulgences worshipping of Images Reliques Iustification by workes the truth of seaven Sacraments obedience to one only Pope c. but to make them Articles of the Creed and to take a solemne Oath that they will continue in the profession of all every of them vnto the death and farthermore perswade as much as in them lyeth all others that are vnder thē to doe the like we haue iust cause to suspect both their dealings to oppose our selues against their proceedings The which thing you haue begun to doe Right Honorable and Right VVorshipfull to your eternall praise commendation and to the example and encouragement of others You haue begun well who shal be able to hinder you if God be on your side Goe forward then I beseech you in Gods name both cheerefully and couragiously you haue our earnest prayers shal be sure to haue our best endeavors if need require I knowe the readines of many learned and graue Divines to further this religious service amongst which my selfe being one of the meanest in Gods Church scarse worthy to be called a Divine doe most earnestly desire to contribute my paines and service to make knowne vnto the world the great affection which I beare vnto all sorts of people thus by the Iesuits miserably seduced whose conversion as I haue alwaies sought by good and faire meanes such as the most wayward peevishest adversaries cānot iustly except against so is it my purpose God willing so to continue vnto my liues end both by speech writing propagating that faith whereof his Maiestie of al Princes Christian may truly be said to be the Defendor and because the Iesuits are his our chiefest enimies accept I beseech you these few lines concerning their liues and maners in generall one of the chiefest of them in particular the matter was ministred vnto me by certaine Secular Priests the method in disposing and digesting of it was mine to God bee ascribed the

which I willingly let passe and come to the rest of his seditious Bookes as his Admonition and Appendix For the former of these Don Lucifer the wittiest Fiend in Hel could not haue written more spitefully so that all posteritie cannot choose but condemne him for a most scurrilous Traitour and had he beene brought vp amongst all the Ruffians and Curtizans in Christendome he could not haue learned to haue writ more vilely prophanely and heathenishly for the later to wit his Appendix the booke was impudentlie fathered on Cardinall Allen after his death being hatched by the vnnatural heat of his ambitious hart wherin the Arch-Statist presumes to cal his learned Maiestie that now is king of great Brittaine and then was of Scotland obstinate Hereticke Who so bold they say as blind Bayard he feares no colours hath no shame or conscience what he writes so he write with an invectiue humour as hath beene largely proved already Wherefore having viewed examined and reexamined his Bookes and Writings we will now enquire farther after his life and conversation for as the Poet said a man may chance to write a lewd Booke which is a sober honest man But was he so so was Don Lucifer and al the Fiends in Hell from whom this man seemed to be descended in the right line giving occasion to diverse by his soule enormous and divelish life to think that he was not a meere man but some Fairies brat or begotten by an Incubus or aerish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman Shew me that Treason treacherie or noted villanie wherein Parsons had not a hand a heart and a head name that vice whatsoever it be lying coosening forgerie periurie craft hypocrisie dissimulation envie pride covetousnes vaine-glory backebiting selfe-loue crueltie murders and oppressions ambition heresie Atheisme whereof he was not guilty in the highest degree Speake you holy Priests of a sacred function that knew him best and lived longest with him speake boldly and shame not to tel him roundly of his faults We wil descend vnto some few particulars in order as they shal lie most convenient for our purpose and first of his foule conspiracies treasonable plots plottings of Treason You wil say perhaps it is not good rubbing that sore any more it hath beene touched alreadie to the quicke I confesse it hath beene so but in a different kinde For it is one thing to write an other to act treasons Parsons is guilty of both of the former there is little doubt by that which is spoken and of the later lesse by that which now followeth by way of evident demonstration To proue that Father Parsons was no lesse a traitour in action then in writing first we shew and can proue that we say with a wet finger that he gaue his concurrence furtherance to a forraine invasiō here in England sought to indanger his Maiesties person by the Scots set his rest vpon the hopes of Spaine procured himselfe to be the kings servant practised with the students there and diverse others to giue their names to a Charter of subscription first prophecied and promised vnto himselfe good successe and then tooke vpon him with his Iesuiticall Plotcasters to be an Actor an orator or a broker in labouring to bring that prophecie to an effect and rather then it should faile to be the bloudie instrument to worke it of his owne head Againe who is it that caused the Seminaries in Spaine and S. Omers to be erected and that alone procured 2000 crownes a yeare pension more for the College at Doway though he deserved small thanks for his labour considering the decay of Students at Rhemes and Lovaine Father Parsons Who was it that procured that the first forme of oath now vsed was brought into the Roman Seminarie and after that example by himselfe into the Seminaries of Spaine whereby al promised to take holy orders and returne into England when they should be appointed by their Superiors Father Parsons Who was it that vsed perswasion at Rome to the Students there that they should haue at State and al for which State-medling they could but die and dy they should if they were taken without State-medling Father Parsons Who is it that vpon a Luciferian pride durst presume to cal the king of Scots an obstinate hereticke and the French king a reprobate of God forsaken Father Parsons Who is it that chopped and changed the crowne of England 8. or 9. several times as it pleased him playing with it as little boies sport themselues with king by your leaue the great ones every hand while crying a New King a new and in the end set it to sale wherevpon a certaine Romish gentleman affixed a briefe Libell vpon Pasquines buttock in dirision and scorne of him If there bee any man that will buy the kingdome of England let him repaire to a Merchant in a blacke square cap in the Citty and hee shall haue a very good penny-worth thereof Was not this F. Parsons so then the premises duly considered we may safely conclude that this is that same Parsons whome all the Realme Prince and Peeres with all true English hearts haue cause to curse hate spit at and so an end of that matter Now as his predominant and most exorbitant qualitie was Treason so was he deepely learned and in a short time a great proficient in sundry other qualities belonging to the Divels craft as first for truth in him there was none Qui posuit mendacium spem suam professing the Art of lying and vsing tricks as in adding diminishing equivocating and subintelligiturs to serue his turne for you must note by the way that Equivocation is the Divels Sophistrie and the common principle of the Iesuits and he is not scarsely to be accounted a Iesuit that cannot lie dissemble and equivocate at every word these be the Aphricanian Phalanges and Iesuiticall forces Hence it is that Cameleon like he hath banded of and on with time like Protheus and in truth neither Protheus in his complements nor the Sea Euripus in his Crosse tide Ebbes and flowes for his inconstancy of old hath beene held more infamous then E. Parsons Yet he had a worse fault then all these and that is he incurred the hateful crime of forgerie taking vpon him to thrust in and out for his purpose as if hee had had a dispensation granted to forge at his pleasure Hee was shrewdly mistrusted to haue added or altered somwhat in Bellarmines Letter hee did alter the sentence of the two Cardinals Caietan and Burghesio Corrupted the Registers and Records at Rome and hee was charged in Oxon amongst very many things with forgerie by one Stancliff his fellow Bursar these wee thought good to note by the way for a tast of some of his forgeries in lesser matters but hee