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A25960	The arts and pernicious designs of Rome wherein is shewn what are the aims of the Jesuits & friers, and what means they use to obtain them, to the prejudice of this nation and the future involving it in misery, together with some proposals to prevent the same / by a person of their own communion, who turned romanist about thirty years since.	N. N.	1680 (1680)	Wing A3895; ESTC R16343	30,211	46

under disguise do both act and plead for all parties some for the Presbyterian others for the Independent Some for the Anabaptists others for the Quakers yea some perhaps even for the Protestant Church it self and Clergy of England though most feignedly and hypocritically all and only to drive on their own design which is to multiply dissensions amongst us and to keep the several parties at as great a distance and disunion of hearts and counsels as they can And in this craft they have thriven so well that from what I do certainly gather from the mouths and profession of some of them I can make little doubt but that at this present all or most of the principal and leading Men in all the dissenting Parties in England are if not brib'd or pension'd yet some way or other purchas'd gain'd wrought upon and abus'd mediately or immediately by these Ministers and Agents of Rome I do not except that religious and honest Gentleman and sincere Royal Convert I hope Mr. W. Pr. himself when living Proposition XVIII That the general drift and design of these Men being to make all parties as discontented with the State and present Government as they can and the Governours themselves odious to the people to this end they want not fit Instruments privately so far as they can and find it expedient to mis-counsel those that are chief in Government and by the advantage of pleasing and complying with their natural affections and passions to mis-lead them into such courses and to engage them in such resolutions as tend to nothing more than to expose their persons to publick hatred and contempt and their affairs to danger Proposition XIX That it is generally and no less certainly true both of the Princes and People of the several States and Regions of Christendom that they do all of them more or less render themselves obnoxious to the practices of the Roman Court by this means that is to say by their Unwary and ill-advised pursuing of their private passions and Affections of their private and particular Interests Animosities Ends without due regard to the dictates of Reason Religion Piety Justice and Virtue which is requisite and that the crafty complyant managing of Peoples Inclinations and passions by the hands and industry of such Agents as she makes use of is to speak the truth the very Neptunes Trident of Rome hâc movet componit aquas I mean it is the chief Art and Engine where by that Court not much unlike the Woman mentioned in the Apocalypse sitting on many Waters moderates at this day the publick affairs of Christendom Apoc. 17.5 and tempers them all to her own Interest Proposition XX. Now as the designs of the Roman Consistory are in a manner wholly mundane secular and aiming at temporal Things to wit the upholding and advancing in what they can their worldly Interests of Profit Power and Authority c. So are the Principles by which they act and the Doctrines and Maximes by which the Divines attending that Court do instruct and direct them no less corrupt spurious and perniciously different from the genuine Maximes of Christ's Holy Gospel and from the true Primitive Catholick and Apostolick Doctrine of the ancient Fathers Evil and debauched practices suppose most commonly a debauch'd and perverted judgment it being not otherwise so easie for Satan to tempt persons especially of Sacred Character and Function to the Transgression of Divine Law without first perverting their Understanding with false Notions and Opinions by means whereof they are made to think it either no sin at all to act contrary to what the Commandment of God requires of them or at most but light and Venial sin which by another errour no less dangerous than the former they make no account of nor scruple to commit whensoever their passions or corrupt Interest inclines them thereto Neither can it be denied but what through immoderateness of Disputation what through vain subtilty of speculation wherein every one strives to exceed each other what through presumptuous and unadvised decision of matters not to say that through direct compliance with their own or others inordinate affections for Interest sake the Doctrine of the Modern Schools is extreamly much corrupted and degenerated from the ancient Primitive purity even in all the Heads of Christian Morality and Piety of which with God's help a further account may be given in due time and place At present it may suffice only to mention some few Maximes that are more than ordinarily was wont to be heretofore put in practice and pursued by the Roman Court. CONSISTORIAL THEOLOGIE OR A COLLECTION OF Some few of those Corrupt Uncatholick Maximes which are now in chief Vogue and Currant at Rome and by which the Resolutions and Proceedings of the Roman Consistory are at present governed 1. THat Catholicks may in some cases so far dissemble their Religion as to deport themselves both in Religious Assemblies and otherwise as protestants or any other Sectaries Which Proposition is variously defended by them Some assert absolutely that a Catholick living or having occasion to be and abide in any Uncatholick Country be it with Hereticks Turks or pagans if he be not known to be a Catholick may without scruple conform himself exteriourly to all the Rites and Customes of that Country even in matters of Religion Others limit and restrain this Liberty only to such cases and times wherein he is not bound to make express confession of his Faith Which cases being so rare and seldom as they are taught to be Viz. when one is publickly questioned for his Faith before Authority or the like it comes to the same in effect with the former assertion Viz. that where a Man is not known nor suspected to be a Catholick or a Christian he may if he will feign himself an Heretick or Pagan A Third sort require the Pope's Dispensation to do this that is to dissemble their Faith and certain it is if any credit may be given to Priests themselves and to their own Writings That the Pope doth grant such Faculties to English Missionaries and no doubt to others too where like cause requires it and that ore tenus by word of mouth only which I suppose is for greater secrecy and that the matter should not be too generally or publickly known the Pope I say doth grant in such manner Faculties to Jesuits and other Priests to dispense with Catholicks for going to Church and being present Sacris Ceremoniis Haereticorum when they find it necessary II. That upon the same ground Viz. the Pope's Dispensation or Permission the Oath of Supremacy is now also allowed to be taken by Catholick people which was formerly held so Unlawful and they give a reason for it Viz. because there is now so they pretend when and where they think good a better Vnder standing between the Court of England and Rome than hath been in former times III. That for the avoidance of a greater

our indignation at the fact ought to bend it self upon those that were the original contrivers of the mischief neither ought we to think of cutting the throats or massacring all the Papists in England for the faults of them at Rome But if it be found necessary that we seek revenge it ought to be endeavour'd by way of retaliation upon the place from whence the Devilish counsel came the generality of English Papists and even of Priests themselves if their professions may be believ'd being as innocent in the thing both as to practice and opinion as any other of his Majesties Subjects except before excepted Viz. some Jesuits and Jesuited Monks and Friers with a few others which depend on these for Pensions and subsistence Whom as I cannot in particular accuse so neither will I for the reasons already given undertake for their innocency And if there be any that will not give such Testimony of their innocency and of their abhorring such practices as the wisdom of Parliament shall require of them in God's name let them be taken for guilty But let not the Innocent suffer with the guilty Proposition XLIII That the Roman Court or Consistory making her self the publick Patroness of Opinions and Doctrines whereby ignorant and ill advised people are not only allowed but also invited animated and encourag'd under pretence of religion and with opinion of merit or doing a work acceptable unto God to concur and act in Villanous and mischievous practices so injurious and so prejudicial to all Christians both Princes and people is in all justice responsible for the mischief done and may be by the injur'd parties if it be in their power justly forced to make reparation and that it would be no impiety or sin nor incurring any just censure for Subjects even of the Roman Communion and perswasion to bear Arms in such a War the ground thereof being first legally evidenced and declar'd to the World Proposition XLIV That if we observe Equity and Moderation in our proceedings we may with God's help promise to our selves probable success in any just and honourable Undertakings that way being first well and firmly united among our selves at home and with Friends abroad But if Passion or Fury transport us otherways and particularly to any resolutions prejudicial to his Majesties Sacred Person or just Rights or the well setled Government of the Nation or to the execution of any tumultuary Violence or cruelty upon any particular persons only upon general suspicion or because they are Roman Catholicks certain it is that in so doing we shall but give our Enemies further advantage against us and involve our selves in greater and more remediless Troubles than we can foresee By Union and Equitable orderly proceeding if we find just cause to act any thing that way we may with God's help and assistance be able in some just and honourable sort to vindicate our Nations honour and take account of those who without any provocation given shall be found to have machinated so base and wicked an injury to us But by factious and precipitate proceedings here at home we shall but bring farther miseries and calamities upon our selves For let the Nation be well assured of this Truth That whatsoever Indications they have of this matter they come originally from them who were the chief Actors in it and that as in plotting and executing such a mischievous work they intended principally to give an occasion of some future rupture in this Nation so in the Indications they make thereof they look at nothing more than that it should put us into an Universal Distemper and in fine drive us on to some such violent resolutions as above-said out of which they will be found we fear much more ready to make advantages than we shall be to remedy or prevent the mischief when disturbances are once begun Proposition XLV That seeing it sufficiently appears by a Book called The Memorial c. written long since by Father Parsons of the Society in Spanish that the Jesuits design is when they shall get power into their hands to reduce all Church-revenues especially the greater Viz. Bishops and Dean and Chapters Lands with the Lands belonging to Religious Houses as they shall be gained into one common Stock or Treasury to be managed and dispensed out by Commissioners appointed indeed by the Pope but no doubt nominated or as good as nominated by themselves and seeing this design beside the open and most execrable Avaritiousness of the Projectors which it speaks doth necessarily suppose and threaten an utter dissolution and abolishment of the True Right and Apostolick Government of the Church by Bishops and Arch-bishops c. That therefore the better and more effectually to obviate such their wicked purpose and intention it were to be wish'd that for all time to come it be made Treason or highly criminous and penal for any person whether within or out of parliament to move or plead for the alteration of the Church-government by Bishops and Arch-bishops as it is now by Law established and hath been always accustomed in this Nation and that all persons frequenting the Publick Churches and Divine Service therein appointed be made subject to the ordinary Jurisdiction of Bishops according as it hath been wont to be exercised in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory and of King James her Successor and of our late dear Sovereign King Charles the Glorious Martyr of Monarchy and Just Government Proposition XLVI That a severe Law were likewise made for the preserving of Church-Lands so lately and happily recovered out of the hands of Sacriledge and all Sacred or religious Revenues whatsoever so much as may be to their proper uses and that it be made highly criminous and penal to move for the selling of the said Lands or applying them to any other use than by the Laws of their Foundation and of the Kingdom respectively is already appointed Proposition XLVII That it is not much to be doubted but the project now again set on foot for alienating of Church-Lands to help to pay the publick Debts if there be any truth in the report which the palpable and apparent iniquity of the Thing renders scarce credible is in the origin thereof no better than a Fourbe and subtle practice of the Jesuits by that means with the Help of their Agents and Trustees to invest themselves of the best part of them as some think upon how good grounds I will not take upon me to say they have long since done and still continue to do of the Tribute of Hearth-money And when all is done the Kingdom shall have as much ease in Taxes and Publick Charges as it had in Harry the Eighth's time by the dissolving the Monasteries and Houses of Religion Proposition XLVIII I meant only to insist upon such matters as related to the Church and State of England otherwise I could willingly enough have added more of the like evil practices which for my part I