our specall grace and fauour we confirme them Out of this generall constitution they haue drawne one particular which is worthy to be knowne in the 16. part of their constitutions chap. 5. The title beginning thus That the constitutions may not binde any man in conscience sith the societie desires that all their constitutions declarations and order of life should be without euasion conformable to our direction and also neuerthelesse wisheth to be secured or at least succoured that they be not snared in any sinne which may growe by their constitutions or ordinances we haue thought good in the Lord exception taken to the expresse bow wherewith the societie is bound to the Pope for the time being and the thrée other essentiall vowes of pouertie chastitie and obedience that no constitutions declarations or any order of life shall impose any yoake of mortall or veniall sinne vpon them vnlesse their superiour command those things in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ or in the vertue of obedience And againe in stead of feare of offending let loue and desire of all perfection come in place and let the glorie and praise of Christ our Lord maker be the more exalted By the first article it is lawfull for them to change and rechange their constitutions at their owne pleasure for their owne good By the second their constitutions are held in regard of the soule indifferent so that the Iesuite may breake them without committing mortall or veniall sinne A law which their great law-giuer gaue them to the end that to Gods honour and glory there might he fewer sinners in their societie Oh holy soules oh pure consciences who restrayning their inferiours from sinne take themselues the reines committing all manner of sinne vncontrolled Let vs examine these points without passion and let let vs consider the scope of these two propositions By the first no prince shall be assured of his estate and by the second no prince shall be secure of his person in his owne kingdome Concerning the first point call to minde how matters haue béene carried for these 25. or 30. yeares There hath béene no nation where they be fostered but they would be tempering with their affaires of state I thinke they are such honest men as what herein they haue done they haue vndertaken to doe it by vertue of their silent constitutions for if they did it by their owne priuate authoritie the generall were vnworthie of his place should he suffer it Further this was forbiden them in the yeare 1593. when they saw all their plots were frustrate Admitte new troubles should arise these gallants will cassiere and disanull this last ordinance suffering their companions to intermeddle as before But what are their rules in such affaires Marrie that is it lawfull to kill a tyrant that a king breaking the common lawes of the land may be depriued of his Crowne by the people That there are other causes for the which princes and great personages may be slaine In what a miserable condition shall princes liue if the assurance of their estate shall depend vpon these fellowes Let us sée their new constitutions of 1593. I will that they medle not at all in affaires of state in generall termes And that particularly they practise not vpon the person of princes Are they bound to obey this Nothing lesse For their law-giuer chargeth not their consciences but in expresse termes he would otherwise haue charged them by vertue of their blind obedience And this is the cause that Commolet preaching since this new statute that there wanted a new Ehud to kill our king and Walpoole furnishing Squire with poyson and instructions to kill the Quéene of England his mistresse thought they sinned not therein These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 3. cap. 26. fol. 234. fol. 236. It is not christian charitie O Iesuites that leads you to that course but Iesuitish charitie Your whole profession is nothing else but a particular coozning of our priuate families and a generall villanie of all the countries where you inhabite These wordes are put downe in the Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 12. fol. 106. The Iesuites make ostentation of a solemne decree concluded among them that they shall no more intermeddle in matters of estate But let vs see what date this decrée beares They say of an 1593. hath your Maiestie then alreadie forgotten that since that time they haue practised twise against your life Behold the performance of this glorious decree Doe not we know the generall exception of all their statutes vnlesse it be for the good of the Church an exception that extends as farre as they list to straine it The Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of states disauthorizing of magistrates and seducing of subiectes from their alleageance These words are set downe in the franke discourse Page 98. Ribadiner wrote his historie onely vpon report of the countrey as the further a Iesuite goes the lowder he lies These words are in the Iesuites Catechisme Lib. 2. cap. 17. fol. 61. Such iuglings and shiftings of late haue béene vsed by the Iesuites that not onely protestants but also catholiks yea priests can scarce tell when they speake sincerely when otherwise These words are set downe in the reply to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 2. These are ordinarie iugling tricks which are too too familiar with our good fathers the Iesuites In the reply to Parsons libell Page 19. 2. vers 14. Concerning the imputation of lying so famous and notorious are their equiuo cations and so scandalous that the verie protestants take notice thereof to the great preiudice of our profession alwaies heretofore famous for our truth and sinceritie In the replie to Parsons libell Page 23. 1. vers 1. Note heere gentle Reader these important points with me first that the Iesuites are notorious lyers and that their owne fellowes can not tell when to trust them Secondly that they are notorious coozners and full of iugling tricks Thirdly that the Iesuites acknowledge the Pope to be Lord spirituall and temporall ouer all christian princes Fourthly that the Iesuits are notable temporizers as who account all things lawful that will serue their turne Fiftly that the Iesuites are so perfidious a people as their faith is become Fides panica the Carthagenians faith that is a false and detestable faith Sixtly that the Iesuites will be Spaniards or Frenchmen or whatsoeuer else if opportunitie be offered thereunto Seuenthly that no estate is free from the villanie of the Iesuites Eightly that the Iesuites make hauocke of the Popes Buls and constitutions Ninthly that the Iesuites change and rechange their rules and lawes at their owne good will and pleasure The Iesuites therefore are good fellowes fit for all times all places and all companies Paragraph X. Of the profession and Religion of the Iesuites in generall THe Iesuites neuer harboured in their hearts any other proiect but the subuersion of
when occasion serueth forget These words are set down in the discouerie Pag. 42. pag. 29. quodlibet 7. art 10. pag. 217. quodl 4. art 2. in fine Concerning father Parsons illegitimation I haue oft wished it had not beene vrged being not much to the purpose But sith it haue béene vrged that he denieth it I will but aske him why he was expelled Balioll Colledge in Oxford and whether the chiefest matter obiected was not periurie in taking the oath of the house to the statutes amongst the which this was one Volumus vt omnes huius collegij alumni sint legitimo thoro nati which was vrged against him and offered to be proued openly For the auoyding of which publike infamie he made his owne resignation writing it with his owne hand as is yet to be séene This is more then I ment to haue said in this matter being a personall touch had no father Parsons ouer much vrged the obiection not onely as an vntruth but also inuented and framed by vs. Heereby you may see that the matter was not coyned by any of vs nor so void of verity as he affirmeth These words are let downe in the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 91. b. 6. Now then for our credits with father Parsons for his rising by practises or factious disposition I will say no more but what is iustiâ—able à parte rei viz. that the most stirring medling and practising heads amongst all of our English nation to goe no further haue alwaies come to credite and preheminence amongst them Witnes this per inductionem father Parsons whose factious dispesition hath béene euerie where sufficiently displayed with proofes sufâ—cient Witnes father Heywood and his busie inclination at his comming into England of which father Parsons can beare witnes being at variance with him and many other priests yet liuing in England some of them hauing beene present at his synodes where he made himselfe president in the Popes name Witnes father Holt of whose disposition you may read in master Charles Pagets answere to the Apologie Witnes father Creswell as you may see in Doctor Elies answere to the Apologie Witnes father Garnet the onely chiefe actor in all our stirres héere in England I might adde father Crichton the Scot with therest and father Holt if he were aliue would take my part These then are pretie inducements to thinke father Parsons rose in his order by his factious disposition But for the other point concerning master Blackwell let him be examined vpon his oath whether he came not to master Bluet then prisoner in the Marshalsies vsing these or the like words what meant Doctor Allen to send this man ouer he will vndoe vs all And being asked why he answered that his expulsioÌ„â—ut of Oxford was so infamous that it would be obiected by the protestants to the disgrace of the cause Let master Blackwell I say be vrged with this and I adiure him as he will answere it before almightie God at the latter day to say the truth then father Parsons shall see we haue won our credits euen in both these points besides an hundred more alreadie proued These words are put downe in the reply to Parsons libell Fol. 93. a. 30. Out of this spirit it is that father Cowbucke alias Parsons for all the disparage of his birth which not his baptisme could wash away and other his scandalous carriages aswell since his Iesuitisme as formerly when he was an heretike in Oxford ambitioneth the Cardinalate forgetting how that to be a bare priest though no such peere he being a known bastard is against the canons of yâ— Church although to be a Iesuite being such well and good he may These words are put downe in master A. C. his second letter page 23. and more at large pag. 38. What name of his he speaketh of the Iesuite Robert Parsons or but two letters of his name find ye to this his manifestation of folly and bad spirit whereby he not to deserue to be burned in the hand for a vagabond not any No nor any durst he shew manifesting so badde spirit and so much folly in that censure of his as he hath done He is discouered for such as he is viz. a man who being the misbegotten of a ploughman and he a cuckwold too vpon the bodie of a plough-man hath accordingly demeaned himselfe first in begetting two bastards male and female vpon the bodie of his owne sister betweene his age of seuenteene and three and twentie which was the cause he ranne away as fearing the sheet c. And so became a Iesuite secondly or rather formerly and continually by being a common alehouse-squire and the drunkennest spunge in all the parish where he liued thirdly for being an heretike of the family of loue all his life till he became a Iesuite These words are set downe in master A.C. his third letter pag. 50. and more at large pag. 78. O Parsons monster of mankind fitter for hell then middle earth Thou giuest occasion to thinke that thou art not a meere man but some fairies brat begotten of some Incubus or aerish spirit vpon the bodie of a base woman These words are set downe expressely by the author of the quodlibets quodl 8. art 5. pag. 238. and quodl 4. art 5. he is termed a sacrilegious bastard borne of a base queane Not heere gentle Reader two things of great moment First that when the Pope abandoned lawfull and honest wedlocke to priests which was euer deemed lawfull vntill Syricius was aduanced to the Popedome in the yeare 385. as I haue prooued in my booke of Surucy then the priests had good store of bastards one of which as the priests heere confesse was expelled from Balioll Colledge for his bastardie seditious dealing is this day euen by the free confession of the secular priests an arrant traitor to his prince and natiue countrey Secondly that this holy father who must forsooth reforme the Church of England and manage euerie thing in that high and heauenly function was to be sent from heauen with heauenly and extraordinarie gifts viz. he must first be a priests sacrilegious bastard Then hee must be a common drunkard Thirdly he must be polluted with the execrable sinne of incest and beget male and female vpon the bodie of his owne sister Fourthly he must be giuen to sedition and libelling Fiftly he must be a ranke traytor to his naturall soueraigne At the length being thus qualified with supernaturall gifts and extraordinarie graces proceeding from Beelzâ—bub that notable Machiuell he must depriue noble Queene Elizabeth of her royall and princely Diademe and set the same vpon the Spaniards head he must make a bloodie massacre of all the nobles and other her louing subiects he must abolish abandon and make hauocke of all the ancient lawes of this Church and Realme and so forsooth si dijs placet set vp his newly deuised Monarchie his holy so falsely named reformation Sect. II.
euer deemed him to be of all religions that it to say of none at all and so the euent did declare He could temporize egregiously and frame his religion in all places after the humours of the companie In the end his creditors came so roundly vpon him for his manifold and huge debts that he was in forced secretly to depart and to take England on his backe Not long after he became so deeply Iesuited that he must needs be a glorious popish martyr viz. an arrant and most bloudie traytour he thought sought by murdering his naturall soueraigne to haue gotten gold money large possessions and so perhaps to haue paid his creditors or at the least to haue cut them short at his pleasure But in steade of a popish imaginarie charter hee found an english reall halter according to his cōdigne deserts Twelftly they grant that shortly after this stratageme the Iesuite Holt and others with him perswaded one Patricke Collen an Irish-man to attempt the laying of his violent and villanous hands vpon her maiesties person Thirteenthly they freely confesse that doctor Lopez the Queenes phisition was stirred vp to haue poysoned her Maiestie and the like they affirme of Yorke VVilliams and Edward Squire animated and drawne thereunto by VValpole that pernitious Iesuite All these notorious treasons right reuerend father damnable in nature intollerable in state and almost incredible in relation are plainly confessed of the Secular-priests and the same together with many other bad licentious barbarous sauage and plaine brutish practises of Iesuited papists are compendiously comprised in this small volume Which I haue therefore endeuoured to reduce to certaine heads distinct bookes and chapters with some profitable annotations annexed to the same because I am verily perswaded that whosoeuer shall seriously pervse them with indifferencie cannot but loath and detest cursed Iesuitisme and all popish Iesuited faction For though it be necessarie to all true hearted English subiects to know throughly the matters discouered by the Secular Priests yet because many for lacke of money are not able to buy the bookes and others because they are tedious and confusely written will either abstaine wholy from the reading thereof or lightly and slenderly runne them ouer and so neuer attaine to the full knowledge thereof I haue imployed my industrie my wits to couch in a small volume and portable manuall the summe effect of all their bookes pamphelets libells edicts and letters so as euery one may easily compasse the price and no one bee wearied in pervsing the discourse My desire was to profit all to confirme the strong to strenghthen the weake to stay the staggerer to rowze vp the drowsie to instruct the ignorant to gratifie the thankefull to perswade the doubtfull and to confound the proud malepeart and disloyall hearts Paule planted Apollo watred but God gaue the increase If therefore any good be wrought by these my labours let such as shall reape that good be thankfull to God for the same The disloyall papists bloud thirstie Iesuites haue alreadie kicked against my former labours and whet their malicious tongues against me Their holy father the bishoppe of Rome whome they tearme the Pope hath thundred out his curse against me But neither secular priests nor religious Iesuites will or can make any sound answere to any of my bookes They haue often beene buzzing about the matter yet neuer durst they publish so much as but one colourable answere either to all or to any one of my bookes so as I must needs thinke that maledictiō cursing rayling will be their morning and euening song against me by reason of this my friendly posie which I present as a most redolent odour to their noses-grauitie so often as they shall kisse the shoe of their Pope and with him commit idolatrie the vsuall manner most reuerend and worthy prelate in all such kind of exercises both is and alwaies hath beene to make choise of some worthy and mightie personage to protect defend and patronize the cause and doubtles neuer did any booke or pamphlet stande in more neede of a stout and resolute patron then this present volume For the traytorous Iesuites and Iesuited papists that cannot endure their owne brethren the secular priests to publish in their honest defence their knowne practises and imperfections will no doubt become starke madde fetch al their Romish friscols against me poore soule who haue as it were anatomized and painted them out in their best beseeming colours After mature deliberation had herein most christian patron of learning and learned men I haue resolued to dedicate this worke to your most reuerend name as to that vertuous Tobi◠who is able with the perfumes of the heart and liuer of a fish that is to say with the redolent harmonie of christian diuinitie which continually floweth most pleasantly form his mouth to vanquish all the Asmodean-Iesuites vpon earth to strike such terrours into their harts as they shall not once dare to grunt or barke against my true dealing and sincere proceeding in this behalfe Sundry other motiues do occurre which might most iustly incite me to this dedication of these my late studies if they were better then in deed they are amongst which many large bounties from time to time receiued at your Lordships hand doe well deserue to haue a place So praying the almightie to increase your godly zeale against all traytorous Iesuites disloyall popish vassales and to blesse your good Lordshippe with many happie yeeres to his glorie your owne soules health and the common good of his Church I humbly take my leaue From my studie this 23. of Ianuarie 1602. Your Lordships most bounden Thomas Bell. The Elogie of the author in signe of his loyall affection both toward his late Soueraigne and now regnant The cursed crew of Iesuites A change did long desire A change they haue but to their griefe Both Pope and Spaine admire Our noble Queene Elizabeth From hence to heauen is gone King Iames the first giuen vs of God By right sits in her throne Shee fourtie yeeres and foure complete did Pope and Spaine withstand And maugree all their bloudie plots In peace did rule this land Gods word and his true worshippe euer VVith zeale shee did defend For which cause God did her protect Vntill her life did end Her death perforce we must lament VVho dearely lou'd vs all Her bountie great her mercie rare The world to witnesse call Yet English hearts be not dismaide King Iames is our regent Hence Poperie certes he will supplant All falshood must relent He will doe iustice euery where And poore mens cause respect The mightie must not them annoy He will their right protect Poore men to him must haue accesse Their owne cause there to tell No bribes can haue place in his court Thence vice he will expell The richer sort with lingringe suites Must not the poore oppresse Our noble King the man of God Their
gentle reader the wealth pride and saucie deceitfull dealing of the Iesuites to be such and so great that if they remaine a while vnpunished they will not onely ouerrule the priests but our noble Queene and all Paragraph V. Of the peremptorie and seditious dealing of Iesuites THe Iesuits by cunning haue gotten into their hands all authoritie good estimation and all the treasure of money and so doe what they list at home and abroade They thrust out and let in hire and buy and maintaine factions at their pleasure These words are to be found in the memoriall page 75. The Iesuits haue purchased them an hard opinion of all religious orders euen so farre forth as to bee written against by some of them in most parts of christendome ex professo and in particular are banished for such out of all the most christian kingdome of FraÌ„ce as also for their Spanish faction there where for all their great meanes and flattering ballads of late made and exhibited to the king they are not like to get in againe this yeare nor yet the next onely they hold in heere and there with the good Capuchines which they may easily doe for that as one of those good Friers on a time confessed they couet to haue all and these couet nothing Vpon this ground the excellent good bishop of Bamberge in Germany when hee was laboured for their admittance into his reformed diocesse answered thus no I brooke no such Quiddits These words are to be found in the aunswere to the Iesuited gentleman page 16. If any priest haue a conuenient place of residence the Iesuits will not cease vntill they haue cast him out and that by wicked meanes by defaming him and bringing him into suspition These words are set downe in the abstract of the memoriall Page 74. The Iesuites are the firebrands of all seditions The Iesuites by right or wrong â—â—eke simplie and absolutely the monarchie of all England These words are set downe in the memoriall page 74. The ambition of Iesuites hath taken footing not only in prouinces and cities but also in priuat families it seperateth breathren one from an other and the husband from the wife inflaming them with rancour and enuie one against an other These words are to be seene in the abstract of the memoriall page 76. Note heere gentle reader that whosoeuer loue charitie christian peace and vnitie they must abhorre detest eschew all Iesuiticall societie For the end as you see which that cursed broade aymeth at is nothing els but to dissolue peace and vnitie and to maintaine sedition and rebellion euerie where Paragraph VI. Of the murders committed by Iesuites IKnow there be diuerse that will thinke this historie straunge and incredible but if it chaunce that master Charles Paget doe but set downe the actions of father Holt especially concerning master Godfrey Foulgeam the verie cause of whose death he was you shall see more straunge matters then this These words are in the reply vnto Parsons libell Fol. 70. pag. 1. in fine Sée the fift chapter the first and second sections and note them well Note heere gentle reader that the Iesuite Holt is flatly charged to haue beene the cause of the death of master Godfrey Foulgeam Note also that the Rector of the Colledge of the Iesuites in Vallidolid with some of his complices dealt most cruelly with one Barkworth a priest then student in the English Colledge there after that the minister of the Colledge had deceitfully enticed him being sick in his bed to go abroad to shake off his feauer They conueyed the said Barkworth into the Colledge of the Iesuites and there commaunded him to put of his scholers robes and to put on a sute of ragges which they offered him And because he refused so to doe the Rector called in certaine of his lay brethren strong fellowes to deale with him by violence Wherof two comming to him catched him by the legs and pulling them from vnder him vpon a sodaine threw him backward flat vpon the pauement with such violence being then sicke and weake with a feauer that he was much brused therewith The rest of the lay brethren apprehended some a legge some an arme haling and beating him most outragiously and would as it seemed haue murdered him in his bed if a casuall good hap had not hindred them The storie is long and therefore I referre the reader to the place They procured Henry the third to be excommunicated and then by degrées they murdered him These words are set downe quodl 8. art 8. pag. 261. Perhaps they will pretend that this fruitlesse encrease of of their number is an argument of Gods blessing vpon their societie but this were both a daungerous and an absurd consequence For it will be a long time ere they come to equall the number of the Arsacides who were sent into France by their king a Pagan to murther S. Lewes or Assasins murtherers men of their owne stampe These words are to be found in the franke discourse Page 88. Let not A Iesuite become a censor of other mens writings or doing as temerarius till he haue amended and satisfied for his owne temeritie both in his doctrine of prince-killing and other disloyaltie to ones prince and countrey A. C. in his second letter Page 8. in fine If your maiestie please â—o reade but the oration of the Polonian gentleman made in their senate there you shall sée an Iliade of tumults and ciuill warres amongst the Christians which inhabite those large and wast countries stirred and excited by the onely meanes of the Iesuites who haue there caused of late more battels to be fought then had béene in fiue hundred yeares before These words are put downe in the franke discourse Page 89. This is wonderfull that in the whole troupe of the Iesuites there was not one found one is a small number and yet I say againe there was not one that from 89. to 94. was heard to let fall one word that might be strained to the good of his prince or countrey but euermore vehement in behalfe of the Spaniard and to qualifie the hard conceit of his gouernment These words are in the franke discourse Page 95. vers 17. A due religion of the Iesuites for to speake truth to deale in State-matters and to practise the death of princes are as essentiall parts of their function as their confession it selfe These words are set downe in the Iesuites Catechisme Liber 3. cap. 13. fol. 168. Loe heere gentle Reader it is an essentiall point of Iesuiticall function to cause sedition and to murder princes From such religious men good Lord deliuer vs. The first breaking out of our troubles was in the yeare 1585. at which time all that resorted to the Iesuites to be confessed if they affirmed themselues to be good subiects and loyal seruitors to the king for they were questioned vpon that article they were sent backe by the Iesuites without receiuing
prudent a counsell as her Maiesties is if not for a toleration of our rites at least for a mitigation of our aggriefes in the meane time Thus write the priestes out of these words I note first that the papists expect a day viz. the death of her Maiestie eyther naturall or violent whose happie life and victoirous raigne God blesse with Nestors yeares and defend her sacred person her honour crowne and royall scepter from all trayterous attempts and bloody designements of the Pope Spaniard Iesuite and other disloyall papists now and euer I note secondly that the priests expect trouble rather then peace in their long wished change and conquest I note thirdly that the priests boldly anouch that her Maiesties graue counsellers cannot preuent the mischiefe that the disloyall papists are able to worke in this land I note fourthly that they proudly and malepeartly like saucie malcontents auaunt their partie to be so great after fortie yeares persecution that the Queenes power must stand in feare thereof I note fiftly that they seeme to haue conceiued an hope that they shall as it were with bigge words and threats enforce a toleration to be granted them Where me thâ—â—ke they should rather feare to procure sharper measure to them selues in time to come then to liue in hope of any toleration My reasons are these First because where they would haue rendred humble thanks for her Maiesties great clemencie they contrariwise bragge of their great partie which her Maiestie might haue cut short before this day Secondly because if their partie be great and strong as they auaunt it is there is greater cause to keepe them vnder and suppresse then to giue them more scope by granting a toleration Paragraph V. Of the popish Catholike religion of Secular priests and why it is called Catholike THus write the Catholike secular priests of their popish Catholike religion Is there any sinne deare Catholikes rising vpon infirmitie and frailtie of man committed by an apostate an infidell an heretike an atheist cast out of the fauour of God and accursed out of his Church but a Catholike may often hath fallen into the saire and yet remained constant in his religion to death questionlesse there is not As innumerable examples of treasons of murthers of adulteries of incests of drunkennes of cusnage of what not vice doth verifie it in all nations in all times sexes and sorts of people These words are set down in their preface to their important considerations a little from the beginning thereof Note heere gentle reader many most excellent epithites which the secular Romish priests ascribe to themselues and to their Romish or popish Catholikes Viz. That they may be traytors murtherers adulterers incestuous persons drunkerds coâ—seners and all manner malefactors and yet be popish catholiks good enough constant in the popish religion vnto death If the papists theÌ„selues had not written thus who would haue beleeued me none at all But Gods spirit hath enforced their owne pennes to testifie the truth against themselues Out of this their plaine doctrine and open confession these golden corollaries are deduced euidently First that the popish religion may fitly be termed Catholike that is to say generall or vniuerall and the professors of the same religion Catholikes that is generalls For in good sooth if they speake truly of themselues all vices generally are in themselues and they are generally vitious as their letters patents tels vs. Secondly that where they imagine there is a purgatorie after this life it may seeme that such their opinatiue doctrine proceeded of their most beastly liuing For treasons murthers adulteries incests drunkennes couâ—enage and al vices that can be must needs haue a purgation doubtlesse And consequently these notorious vices remayning in popish Catholikes vnto death no maruell if they dreamed of a popish new no purgatorie after this life Thirdly that the popish religion cannot be good For as Saint Iames saith cap. 1. pure and sound religion is this to keepe our selues vnspotted of this world And therefore seeing popish religion may stand with such vices it cannot be good Paragraph VI. Of the Romish late English Archpriest and the excellencie of his creation IN good sooth we thinke his mastership as farre to blame as eyther of them or more in that being a secular priest he doth so tyrannize ouer his owne brethren by calling and hath not the wit to see how he is abused and made a puppie to dance after their pipe and to execute what they doe commaund him These words are set downe in the preface to their relation In another place thus Because none are iudged vertuous that oppose themselues selues against the Iesuites or refuse to worship their Iesuiticall idoll our Arch-priest But in good sooth master Blackwell speake truly man doth not that contention in some sort touch your high authoritie Was it not the ground of it Did not our garboyles beget your greatnes If master Weston had preuailed with vs master Garnet would haue wiued your nose for dealing like a young prince abroad as you doe And therefore indeed in a right goodsense wee are your good masters and so you ought to esteeme vs. These words are set downe in the same preface to their relation Note heere gentle reader these important points with me First that the popish priests in this Realme are so multiplied and become so strong and mightie and haue conceiued so firme and constant hope of their abilitie shortly to accomplish their long wished conquest that they haue desired their Pope to appoint presently some bishoppe or bishoppes ouer them What would these boysterous Nimrods doe if a toleration were granted them if they be so sawcie malepeart and peremptorie when they are in some sort by law kept vnder and supprest what troubles what garboyles what sedition and treacherie would they stirre vp thinke you If the magistrates should fauour them in such sort as they desire I doubt not but her Maiesties wise and graue counsellers doe sufficiently see what marke these good fellowes ayme at Secondly that the Iesuites labour with tooth and nayle that they may haue all and ouerrule all And when they could not preuaile therein as they wished directly their solemne vowe withstanding it they brought to passe by indirect meanes that an Arch-priest to their liking is appointed ouer all This Lordly Arch-priest is George Blackwell forsooth I know the man right well He is made a puppie to daunce as the Iesuites pipe vnto him For he is the Iesuiticall idoll as the priests write and dareth to doe nothing but as they commaund him neyther may hee refuse to execute whatsoeuer they will haue done Thirdly that it is true which I probably foretolde long since in my booke of motiues viz. That as the Romish English seminarie beganne with an vngodly oath and dissention so it would continue vnto the end And I pray you is it not this day apparant to the world You see it it can not bee
ad credendum alâ—â—quin staret in casu quod qui obligaretur ad contradictoria vel ad falsum contra fidem Out of this roote is concluded a double truth First that the resolution or determination of the pope alone in things belonging to faith as it is precisely such not confirmed by a generall counsell doth not tie or bind a man to beleeue it For other wise the case might so fall out that one should be bound eyther to beleeue contradictories or else falshoode against his faith The said Gerson after he hath in the same place by me quoted in the margent delated at large that the Popes erroneous doctrine must be controlled by a generall councell addeth these expresse words Cui legi haud dubie subest papa licet hactenus multis haec veritas non placeret propter inordinatuÌ„ fauorem ad summum pontificem vel scripta sua male suscepta plus quam ad ChristiÌ„ Euangelia Nunc auteÌ„ opposita falsitas est haeresis expresse damnata per concilium Constantiense cum alijs multis in vtilitatem totius politiae Christianae To which law the pope doubtlesse is subject although hitherto this truth did not please a great many by reason of their inordinate affection to the pope more then to Christ and his gospell But now the opposite falshood is an hereâ—ie slatly condemned by the counsell of Constance together with many other things for the good of all Christian pollicie The second place is conteyned in these words Concilium generale sic est supra papam alium quemlibet de ecelesia quod ipsum papam potest deponere pro quocunque crimine de quo notorie incorrigibiliter scandalizatur ecclesia Hoe est practicatum dudum de papa Ioh. 12. nunc de Ioh. 23. In cuius deiectione non inseritur quod fuerit haereticus vel à fide deuius A generall councell is so aboue the Pope and euery one of the Church that it hath power to depose the Pope for what crime soeuer whereof the Church is scandalized notoriously and incorrigibly This was done vpon Iohn the 12. Long sythence and now vpon Iohn the 23. of that name in whose deiection it is not inserted that he was an heretike or had swarued from the faith The third place is conteyned in these words Concilium generale potest eum quem reputat summum pontificem nedum consultiue inducerè sed authoritatiuè compellere ad offerendum viam cessionis vel ad cedendum papatui etiam sine culpa licet non sua sine causa A generall councell may not onely by way of councell induce him whom it reputeth to be the lawfull Pope but also by way of authoritie compell him to offer to giue place or to depart from the Popedome in verie deed yea without his owne fault though not without a cause The fourth place is conteyned in these words Status papalis non eximit papam à legibus purè diuinis quae vel in euangelijs vel generalibus concilijs positae sunt Et ex hoc consequeÌ„ter patet quod papa subijcitur legi de correctione fraterterna Si peccauerit in te frater tuus c. Sic quod potest fraternaliter corripi dum peccat Et si tandem nolet audire ecclesiam quam generale concilium representat debet haberi sicut ethuâ—â—us publicanus Et ita potest hoc modo per concilium vel iudicari vel coerceri vel pro excommunicato haberi The Popes estate doth not exempt the Pope from the pure diuine lawes which are set downe eyther in the gospels or in generall councels And hereupon it is cleare consequently that the Pope is subiect to that law of fraternall correction if thy brother offend against the c. So that he may be reproued brotherly when he sinneth And if at length he will not heare the Church which a generall councell doth represent he must be reputed as an Ethnicke and Publican And so he may this way by a councell either be iudged or corrected or reputed an excommunicate person The fift place is conteyned in these words Ecclesia vel generale concilium potuit potest congregari sine expresso consensu vel mandato papae etiam rite electi viuentis in multis casibus The Church or generall councell both might and may be called together without the expresse consent or mandate of the pope euen when the pope is lawfully elected and liuing and that in many cases Againe the same Doctor hath these words Ecclesia vel generale conciliuÌ„ eam representans est regula a spiritu sancto directa tradita à Christo vt quilibet cuiuscunque status etiam papalis existat eam audire ac eidem obedire teneatur lioquin habendus est vt ethnicus publicanus The Church or generall councell representing it is a rule directed of the holy Ghost and giuen vs of Christ that euerie one of what state soeuer euen papall must heare and obey the same or else he must be reputed as an ethnick and publican The sixt place is conteyned in these words Concilium generale potestatem a Christo immediatè habet cui quilibet cuiuscunque status vel dignitatis etiamsi papalis existat obedire tenetur in his quae pertinent ad fidem extirpationem schismatis ac generalem reformationem ecclesiae dei in capite in membris A generall councell hath power from Christ immediately to which euerie one of what state or dignitie soeuer he be yea the pope himselfe is bound to yeeld obedience in those things which pertayne to faith and extirpation of schisme and the generall reformation of the Church of God in the head and in the members The seuenth place is conteyned in these words Iohannes papa non est accusatus vel conuictus de haeretica prauitate tamen concilium vocauit indicauit ipsum tanquam suum subditum Vnde in toto processu vsque post sententiam definitiuam suae depositionis reputans est ab eodem concilio verus papa Pope Iohn was neither accused nor conuicted of hereticall prauitie and for all that the councell both called him and iudged him as their subiect Whereupon the councell reputed him the true Pope in all the time of their proceeding against him vntill after the definitiue sentence of his deposition The eight place is conteyned in these words In causis fidei non habetur in 〈◊〉 iudex infallibilis vel qui non sit deuiabilis à â—ide de lâ—ge communi praeter ipsam ecclesiam vniuersalem vel concilium generale eam sufficienter repraesentans In causes of faith there is no infallible iudge vpon earth or which cannot swarue from the faith by the coÌ„mon course of Gods procéeding sauing the vniuersall Church or a generall councell Thus you see at large the constant doctrine of this great Doctor and famous papist who was present at the councell
the Pope was there Thirdly that it was decréed that they should be imprisoned so soone as they came These three obseruations are expresly conteyned in the former part of the Cardinals letter to speake nothing yet of the last clause thereof because that part is denied But the former part is freely granted which may not be forgotten Fourthly that the Pope was aduertised in Ferrara by his Nuntioes in Fraunce and Flaunders that the priestes would come to him Fiftly that the Pope willed the Cardinall to write to Parsons to be enformed of them and their pretences Sixtly that the Cardinall Bellarmine can testifie all this to be their fiction for so saith the Apologie These obseruations duely pondered it will appeare to the indifferent reader as cleare as the Sunne when it shineth at the noone tide that the Iesuite Parsons is câ—ndemned in his owne conscience and knoweth now no other meanes how to defend his badde dealing but by hypocriâ—ie falshood and impudent lying First therefore he chargeth the Cardinall Bellarmine with false testimonie This is euident by the first obseruation where after hee told vs the words of the Cardinals letter he addeth immediatly to the same words the exclamation of the priests That done he forthwith with an impudent mouth auouceth that the Cardinall can testifie all this to be their fiction Peruse the words in the beginning of this third chapter and marke them well The diuell is termed a lyer and pater eius but henceforth let him giue place to Parsons in that behalf For hauing told vs of the Cardinals letter written to him and of the contents thereof he forthwith affrmeth to vs that all is false and the méere fiction of the priests And yet is the greater part or rather the totall summe of their narration conteyned in the said Cardinals letter But let vs in the way of dispute and in fauour of our good Iesuite Parsons and in regard of his trauels for the king of Spayne against our natiue countrey suppose with him that the priests had vttered many vntruthes the contrarie whereof God willing shall shortly be made manifest yet must the lye perforce be retorted vpon Parsons as vpon him that best hath deserued it for his impudent shamelesse and most notorious lying The reason is euident because he granting a great part to be true affirmeth in the same periode the whole to be false But it shall be proued before the ende of this replie that there is no falshoode therein at all saue that onely which procéedeth from his owne lips Secondly Parsons to purge himselfe of bad dealing if possibly it would bee telleth vs in the fift obseruation that the Pope willed the Cardinall to write to him to be enformed of the priests and their pretences Heere Parsons either condemneth himselfe or else giueth the Pope a mortall wound If the Pope gaue no such charge to his Cardinall then hath Parsons committed a damnable sinne in lying so egregiously vpon the Pope and his Cardinall And it séemeth verie probable that the Pope was not then acquainted with the matter but that the Generall of the Iesuites by Parsons his information had required the Cardinall to moue the Pope for their imprisonment if perhaps they should come to Ferrara while the Pope made his abode there And for this cause did the Cardinall answere that the priests were not yet come but should be imprisoned when they came as we haue in the third obseruation As if he had said haue yee no care I will be mindefull to gratifie you in your desire The priests are not yet come but I shall not faile to procure their imprisonment at their comming For it can not be imagined that intelligence of this matter could come to the pope but by the consent of Parsons and as Parsons did designe to be done The reason is euident because Parsons boasteth that he is appointed the Rector of the English Colledge the Prefect of the English mission and the like All which is true indéed and by reason hereof all English papists depend vpon Parsons and will doe nothing without his aduise the seculars euer excepted that now oppose themselues against him who doubtlesse would not bewray their owne cause If the Pope gaue such a charge indéed then did he shew himselfe to be the diuels vassall and not Christes vicar as he pretends to be For who but the diuell of hel would first decrée that the priests should be imprisoned and afterward labour to know what offence they had committed For if Parsons say truly the Pope knew not what offence was done Wel be this as it be may it is confessed on all sides that the priests with the Popes knowledge were first imprisoned then inioyned to liue in exile and neuer to returne into their natiue countrey without licence and could not to this day be permitted to speake to the Pope Iustly therefore may the priests exclayme O miserable times O wicked manners of men O cursed Parsons O cruell bishoppe of Rome Doest thou send thy priests with the daunger of their liues to execute thine imployments and when they haue taken a long painefull and chargeable iourney to know thy further pleasure in their doubts and distresses in that behalfe doest thou cause them to be imprisoned Doest thou punish them before thou know any cause Doest thou condemne them nay banish them before thou doest heare them speake they truly haue deserued no lesse because they haue taken part with thee against their naturall soueraigne Yet is it a shame of all shames for thee to haue dealt so cruelly with them They may see if they haue but one eye left that thou art neither Saint Peter nor Christs lawfull vicar Thirdly they were more strictly imprisoned at Rome then the Iesuites are this day in England though knowen professed enemies to the crowne For first Parsons was the chiefe Iaylour Secondly the priests were put in â—eucrall places of the prison so as the one could not speake with the other Thirdly they could not be permitted to talke with schollers nor the schollers to talke with them This is a good president â—ew to deale with tayâ—orous Iesuites when they shall hereafter be apprehended in this land Fourthly the notarie that penned the examination was a Iesuite so as Parsons had his desire in euerie respect These things put together with the former the last clause of the Cardinals letter of Parsons his hasting to Ferrara will be euident Fourthly Parsons fearing that the Pope would make some subordination in England laboured by all meanes possible that Blackwell might be the Arch-priest I proue this euidently For first the Pope willed that information should be procured out of England who were the fittest men for gouernment And yet Parsons confesseth that the opposite seculars were not acquainted therewith Albeit they were the fittest men as I shall proue demonstratiuely if any Iesuite will prouoke me thereunto Secondly the Protector demaunded the opinions of
the principall English in Rome And I pray you who were these Parsons himselfe forsooth and his brother Iesuite Baldwin lately come for that intent out of England Haddocke also Martin Array and Allen all Iesuited vassals and at his commaund Thirdly diuers other principall men wrote out of Spayne to signifie the sufficiencie of Blackwel for his Arch-presbiteran office and that he should be the gouernour This doth Parsons or his flattering vassals at his designement set downe in expresse termes in their Apologie Now I beseech the gentle reader who is so blind as cannot see this malitious treacherie Parsons seeketh by hooke and by crooke to hide his false dealing and yet doth he vnwittingly bewray his owne villanie Men forsooth in Spayne must please Parsons for their owne gaine and they must write to the Protector at Rome that Blackwell whose sufficiencie they know not is a most sufficient man Hee and none but he must gouerne all the priests in England Will ye know the reason this Blackwell is Iesuited if not a close and secret Iesuite and consequently he being the gouernour Parsons may rule at his pleasure and banish all that will not subscribe to his treasons For not onely the prests but the Cardinall also yea the Pope himselfe must conclude and agrée to the Iesuites their designements Who so will read the instructions which the Arch-priest is inioyned to follow can not possibly but be of my opinion CHAP. IIII Of the fashoods leasings and vntruthes conteyned in the Iesuiticall Apologie published to the world Paragraph I. Concerning Boromoeo the late Cardinall of Millan ANd as for that which our discontented brethren do cite in diuers places of their bookes of Cardinall Boromaeo of holy memorie that he tooke the gouernement of one of his seminaries in Millan from the fathers we haue informed our selues of the trueth that the fathers of their owne will and vpon their owne earnest suite left the said gouernment of the great labour and trouble thereof as also some little difference in opinion about the schollers education which the good Cardinall would haue had somewhat more bare in their diet and apparrel then the fathers order in their seminaries did permit For which the holy Cardinall alledged no euill reason saying that seeing they were to be sent afterwards abroad to poore benefices among countrey people where they must faire hardly they would refuse to goe beeing brought vppe after the diet of other seminaries But the fathers thought it easier for them to leaue this gouerment then to admit this difference and so they left it And the good Cardinall did vse all the meanes possibly he could both there in Rome to stay it in their hands These are the expresse words of Parsons his Iesuited vassals or rather of Parsons himselfe in the said Aplogie By these words two things are cleare The one that the Iesuites had once the gouernment of one of the seminaries in Millan vnder the iurisdiction of the Cardinall Boromaeo the other that the said Cardinall was a good man and of holy memorie Now the controuersie is this whether the good Cardinall disliked of their gouernment and therefore displaced them or that the Iesuites were wearie of the place and therefore did voluntarily leaue it The seculars say that the Cardinall◠〈◊〉 them the Iesuites denie it But why would the Iesuites giue ouer that gouernment which they had once taken vpon them because forsooth the good Cardinall would haue had the schollers to bee brought vp more barely in their diet and apparrell Thus they say but the contrarie is the truth For first eyther the Cardinals allowance was sufficient or not sufficient If it were not sufficient then was he not so good a man nor of so holy memorie as the priests do affirme If it were sufficient then was that excessiue and consequently vitious which the Iesuites did require then was their gouernment iustly disliked then did they shew themselues to be a prude and arrogant kinde of people that would not condescend to the Cardinall in his most lawfull demaund Secondly Doctor Lewis the late bishop of Cassana a man of great credit and renowne and who had great familiaritie with the said Cardinall did often affirme to his friends that the Cardinall could not endure them nor like of their gouernment Master Hugh Griffeth master Morgâ—n and master Meredith all priests this day liuing can and will testifie this to be so Thirdly my selfe admiring that the Iesuites kept not that place which sometime they had in Millar enquired diligently what should be the cause for that I thought well of the Iesuites at that time indeed And one of their owne order being then a Prefect in the English Colledge to say nothing of the common report of others confessed fréely that the Cardinall could not brooke well their fathers but he would not in any case shew the cause thereof This to be true I protest before God and his holy Angels Fourthly they alledge a reason which they would haue to be the Cardinals but both it is from themselues and doth consute themselues The reason is this viz. because they were to be sent afterward abroad to poore benefices where they must fare hardly But this reason is their owne and neuer framed by the Cardinall and it is confuted many waies For first they grant marke their words alreadie cited that the cardinals reason was good and consequently that the Iesuites were bad and without all reason when they refused to yeeld vnto reason Secondly where shall those benefices be found and in what country which are not sufficient to fill the priests belly No where doubtles for the mainteynance of Popish priests is too great euery where Yea by the setled law of poperie would God it were so in our english ministery euery priest at the houre of his consecration hath some title for his sufficient maintenance to say nothing of the huge commodities that doe dayly insue vpon his priestly function And for this cause the papists that now come into England where they haue no titles are created ad titulum sanctissimi and so may iustly chalenge necessary maintenance of the Pope howsoeuer he hath imprisoned the messengers but bestowed no viaticum on them at all neither great nor small Fiftly it followeth of the Iesuites their owne procéedinge that they are vnfit men for gouernance For it is against all reason to allow larger commons and more liberall diet to those that must be sent where no certaine maintenance is so be had and more bare and sparing diet to such as must haue well setled liuings And yet doth the case thus stand by Iesuiticall precéedings in the seminaries For they grant as you see that the Cardinals reason was good but it is their owne indeed in regard of the poore benefices which are farre larger and better a wiseman would thinke then the vncertaine and accidentiall maintenance of the Seminaries in this lande But this happely
may bee gainesaide in respect of the euerie daye expected conquest for other reason none can be yeelded and yet this perforce must be reiected Paragraph II. Of the Iesuite Bellarmine now Cardinall of the sea of Rome To proue the Iesuite Parsons an impudent and a most notorious lyer it is sufficient to pervse to remember what is already said thereof in the third chapter of this booke for after that Parsons hath set downe the narration of the seculars and freely granted the greater part thereof to be true yea the whole in effect as there it is proued and so needeth not here to be recounted he forthwith like a desperate ruffian and as one vnmindfull what he had immediately written affirmeth with shamelesse lippes and rayling tongue that the whole narration is false Which doubtles is such a notorious vntruth as nothing is worthy to be of credite that shall heare after procéede from his penne Paragraph III. Of the students in the English Colledge Parsons that arrogant Iesuite for his owne credite if it would be telleth vs in the apologie in the 184. page that vpon a certaine falling out betweene Maister Doctor Lewes then arch-deacon of Cambray and after bishop of Cassane and the English youthes then students in the English Colledge the said youthes aboue 30. in number were all dismissed thence and yet brought againe and placed in the colledge by his good meanes Thus doth this good fellow boast of his rare fauours towards the english students and his deserts in this behalfe are excéeding great if we will beleeue him But I assure thee gentle reader whosouer thou art and I speake vpon mine owne knowledge as who was at the same time one of the same number that this is to be enrolled among his other notorious vntruthes For first there was no disagreement at all betwéene the late Bishop of Cassana and the students Againe the contention was indeed betweene the Cardinal Morone then the protector of the English and the students or rather the Iesuites who like wilie foxes did all in all couertly and yet would séeme openly to be most vnwilling to haue the gouerment of the colledge Thirdly Parsons was at that time a man of no reckening among the Iesuits neither did he or could hee doe anie thing in that behalfe The reason hereof is euident because he confesseth in the said apologie that the colledge was erected in the yeare 1579. And that himselfe entered into the societie in the yeere 1574. so that he had then béene Iesuite scantly foure yeeres whereof one must be allotted for his probation now if any wise man wil beléeue him that he could be of such credite with them vpon so short a tryall he may but my selfe know the contrarie and so doe many moe yet liuing viz. Maister Meredith Maister Griffeth Maister Morgan M. Elize and sundrie others but none better then Maister Mush if he list to speake the truth therein Fourthly there were at that time Iesuited English men of long continuance in that societie who should rather haue done that exploit then this good father if it had béene but for comely order sake but as I said afore the Iesuites would not be knowen to deale in the matter Fiftly this good fellowe this good father I would say will needes bee the only man that procured the schollers to stay and a thing to bee laughed at the graue and learned father Toledo afterward Cardinall was but an instrument to helpe the said Parsons in his imployment A shame it is for this fellow to tell of himselfe such a shamelesse lye The truth is this the generall of the Iesuites was desirous indeed to haue the gouernment of the colledge committed to his societie as who knew right well that it would tend both to his credit and to his commoditie But for feare of the displeasure of Cardinall Morone who tooke part with Maister Morice the welch-man whome he had designed to be the Rector of the colledge he neither would deale openly for the schollers neither suffer any of the societie to concurre with theÌ„ in that behalfe yet he did that secretly which was the vpshot and end of all viz. he commanded by a secret message the reuerend father Toledo a great learned man and one of great reckening with the Pope at that time that he would instantly beseeth the Pope prostrate on his knees before his holinesse and to make a most pitifull lamentation for the ouethrow of England that is forsooth that now were reiected the finest wits the most toward youthes the seede of poperie and the only hope of the English nation who now exiled for zeale in religion and come to be his popish vassals must either be trained vp in papistry after the Iesuiticall manner or els should England neuer be reclamed world without end this swéet narration noe sooner sounded in the Popes eares but the commanded the schollers to be receiued into the colledge againe Where note by the way what politicians the Iesuites bee This Toledo was a Iesuite then remaining in the Popes house with the Pope and was the Popes chiefest aduiser in all ecclesiasticall causes He then being a Iesuite must needs doe the designement of his generall the maister Iesuite of all the rest For his profession was to obey at a beck And for that he was present with the Pope in his pallace Bel-vâ—dére he was free to deale without suspition in this great and weightie matter Lastly being in high esteeme with the Pope and speaking in a cause so plausible and profitable for his holinesse he was most likely to preuaile in his suite which I protest to the reader the Iesuits did more then once promise to the schollers before it came to passe Thus it is most apparant to euerie indifferent reader that the goodly story which Parsons telleth for his owne vaine glory is a lye with a witnesse For the first credite that euer he got was wrought by his treacheries treasons against his natiue country most noble England By reason whereof he crept into such credite with the King of Spaine that now he is able to doe all in all both with that Kinge and the Pope himselfe Wherefore my opinion is this that the seculars are ouer matched and that howsouer they bragge that they will haue audience or els dye for it one after another yet are they more like many of them if they goe to Rome to be cast into their holy most holy inquisition for Parsons hath now by the reason of their writings matter enough to worke vpon and therefore their best course is to submitte themselues to Queene Elizabeth and to bid the Pope faire well with all his traytorous Iesuites Paragraph IIII. Of the dealing of the Iesuite Parsons during his aboad in England THe seculars write that Parsons being in England did so exasperate the minds both of the Prince and magistrates by his doings as then first of all by that occasion capitall lawes were appointed against
must end vpon the ninth day of October at which time Parsons wrote his letter and so perforce he is farre short of his halfe yeare and consequently a lyar Thirdly that when Parsons saith from May to Nouember is more then halfe a yeare in which time no letter was come from them he both contradicteth himselfe and is an impudent lyar I proue it because euerie child knoweth that betweene may and Nouember intercéedeth the moneth of October and yet as Parsons confesseth liberally he wrote his letter to master Bishop the ninth of that moneth and the same weeke receiued a stale letter firm the same Bishop So then it is true that Parsons receiued a letter from master Bishop in the moneth of October and consequently it is false that he receiued no letter from May to nouember Fourthly that the word now in Parsons his letter doth connotate the time present that is the time of the date of his letter to wit the ninth of October at which time as he saith in one place he had receiued no letter but as he saith in another place he had that weeke receiued a stale letter Ergo Parsons is a stale lyar This lye is confirmed in perpetuam res memoriam by the word yet for when he saith no one letter appearing from you yet he doth flatly contradict himselfe when he saith by a stale letter which I receiued this weeke from you Fiftly that when Parsons saith the reports of the hard and iniurious dealing vsed to the messengers in Rome is contrarie to all truth the falshood proceedeth from his lying lips as I haue alreadie proued Sixtly that master Bishop I know the man right well is of better credit then twentie Iesuited Standishes 70. Iesuited Haddockes 100. Iesuited Personians Sect. III. Of the Secular priests and their writings PArsons in the preface of his Apologie telleth vs that these bookes must needes be presumed to haue beene published eyther by some one or few discomposed passionate people or by some heretike or other enemie to dishonour them all and to discredit their cause and nation and so as to such he will answere and not against his brethren whom he loueth most intirely but in many other places he singeth an other song For page 63. he affirmeth it to be probable by many euident arguments that a long and slanderous narration was written by the proper pen of the chiefe authors of all these broyles Againe page 8. he confesseth that two priests whom he termeth the ambassadours of the secular priests came to Rome about the controuersie Againe page 9. he confesseth that in Nouember last 1600. diuers of the discontented made a generall appeale from the Archpriests iurisdictien Againe page 24. he saith that his brethren doe vse so fonde a calumniation against the Iesuites as no man can but wonder thereat Againe page 105. he termeth the authors of the bookes his discontented brethren To be briefe in maine other places he confesseth that master Bishoppe master Charnocke master Mush master Bagshaw master Champney master Collington master Warson and others haue written against the Iesuites so as contradictions may be deemed a thing verie common with our graue and holy Iesuite Robert Parsons who knew right well that the declaration sent to his holinesse was subscribed with the hands of thirtie priests whose names I would here put downe but that I studie to tbe briefe Sect. IIII. Of the elegant Epithetons ascribed to the Iesuite Parsons by Iohn Collington the Secular priest in his booke of Defence IOhn Collington hath lately published a large volume in defence of the seculars for their appeale to the Pope against tyrannizing Blackwel which book came lately to my hand but doth so euidently conuince the Arch-priest and the Iesuites specially that notorious traytor Robert Parsons as I cannot omit to make briefe recitall of some parts therof for the common peace of this our natiue countrey In the page 30. He hath these words whose busie head he speaketh of Parsons actions haue béene the cause and increase of much trouble and persecution in our Church and Realme And who being a member of an other bodie and professing also a mortified state and to haue relinquished the world seeketh neuerthelesse to be our great master and to rule all or to tyrannize rather Againe pag. 31. He saith they haue most pregnant grounds to proue that Parsons was the inditer of the Cardinals letter constitutiue for the archpriests iurisdiction Againe page 296. He affirmeth that Parsons writeth no booke discourse nor scarse any letter of these stirres wherein he doth not recount some good act of his owne Againe page 297. he telleth vs that Parsons by managing of the Colledge hath gotten such store of money as he spendeth fiue or sixe crownes a weeke in postage for letters onely Againe page 253. hee affirmeth boldly that Parsons appointed the Arch-priest Againe page 255. he termeth Parsons the Arch-deuiser in getting the Cardinals hand subscription and seale Againe page 206. hee chargeth Parsons with many vntruthes and to haue as little synceritie in his actions as truth in his writings Againe page 256. he hath these words it would make to the praâ—se of father Parsons if religion were lesse worldlisted in him and state matter and the designing of kingdomes had not so great a part in his studies Againe page 170. he hath these words we assure our selâ—es father Parsons that your restlesse spirit and pen your enterprising and busie actions haue turned heretofore our Catholike professants to infinit preiudice for to no knowne cause can we impute so much the making of the seuere lawes of our countrey as to your edging attempts and vocations Againe page 240. hee telleth vs plainely that Parsons hath proferred and reprofered the Crowne of England to seuerall princes now to one now to another as opportunities best serued to entertaine the personage with the hope thereof And to omit many testimonies because I would not be tedious I will heere recount one for all which master Colleton setteth downe in these words Neyther is father Parsons holden onely of our magistrate for a statist or marchandizer of the Crowne Diademe though this were enough to estrange vs from hauing any partaking in ought with him but his trauels and negotiations this way are become so notoriously knowne that euen Pasquine in Rome as intelligence is sent vs speaketh in this manner of him if there be any man that will buy the Kingdome of England let him repayre to a marchant in a blacke square cappe in the Citie and hee shall haue a verie good penny worth thereof Thus writeth Colleton of Parsons who both are deuoted to the Pope alike Sect. V. Of Parsons his birth and expulsion out of Balioll Colledge in Oxford THat Robert Parsons the Iesuite and marchandizer of the Crowne of England as in the former Section is a bastard and a man of bad demeanour the fift chapter of the second booke
Pope their popish faction From which and all treasonable practises good Lord deliuer vs Amen A profitable and compendious appendice for the better confirmation of the Reader VVHosoeuer can and will seriously peruse the printed volumes of many famous writers of great account and high estéeme euen in the Church of Rome cannot but behold as in a glasse of Christall that the late Romish religion commonly called of the people the olde religion is but a newly coyned religion and by piece-meale crept into the Church I say the late Romish religion because the ancient Roman religion was in déed sincere and agréeable to the holy scripture but the late Romish religion is quite contrary to the same This I proue by two means first by late practicall experience for that the institution or papall Bull by which an Arch-priest is designed the gouernour ouer the Cleargie and laitie ouer all England is a thing neuer hard of before in the Church of God as the priests themselues do willingly truly grant this is confirmed by the late order of the Capuchenes who affirme theÌ„selues to be nothing else but only reformed Franciscans as the secular priests doe know and can it not denie For as the Francans did by little and little neglect and abolish the ancient rules of their order and brought into their societie nouelties and new deuises in stead therof and therefore were reformed by the Capuchenes and called home again to their old setled rules euen so the late bishops of Rome haue neglected and swarued from the ancient doctrine of the primitiue Church and brought into the Church nouelties new deuises of their owne inuention in stead thereof and therfore godly and zealous princes endeuour to reforme the Church and to abolish such superstitious nouelties after the examples of Iosaphat Ezechias and other godly kings of Iuda Wherof I haue discoursed more at large in my booke intituled the golden ballance Secondly by the flat testimonies of best approued popish writers The great learned popish scholeman Spanish fryer Victoria writetth in this maner paulatim ad hanc c. By little little we are brought to these inordinate dispensations to this so miserable state where we are neither able to endure our owne griefs nor remedie assigned for the same And therefore must we perforce inuent some other way for conseruation of the lawes Giue me Clements Lines Siluesters and I will commit all things to their charge But to speake nothing grieuously against these latter Popes they are doubtles inferiour to Popes of old time by many degrées Loe heere gentle reader the Popes owne renowned doctor and professed frier telleth vs plainly that the bishops of Rome in his time were not like the bishops of â—oâ—â—er ages but did degenerate from the ancient doctrine and discipline of the Church He telleth vs in like manner that this deflection from the truth was not done all at once but was brought by little and little into the Church Thus you see or may see that the doctrine I teach is the selfesame which I receiued from the best learned papists The Popes famous Canonist Covaruvias writeth to the same effect in these words neâ— me latet c. neither am I ignorant that S. Thomas affirmeth after great deliberation that the bishop of Rome cannot with his dispensation take away from monks their solemne vow of chastitie This notwithstanding we must defend the first opinion least those things which are practised euery where be turned vp side downe Thus writeth Coueruvias out of whose doctrine many godly profitable lessons may be learned First that the papists cannot agree about the Popes authority Secondly that great learned papists among whom Thomas Aquinas is one whose doctrine sundry Popes haue confirmed to be sound do denie the Popes authoritie in the premisses Thirdly that the contrarie opinioÌ„ must be defended for the honesty safegard of the Popes pretensed soueraigntie Fourthly that most miserable is the Popes religion which stand in need of such poore and beggerly shifts for the vpholding maintenance therof Fiftly that the papists haue no cause to exclaime against the mariage of priests seeing the Pope dispenseth with his owne munks to marry at their pleasure Sixtly that the doctrine of Aquinas which the Pope himselfe hath approued doth vtterly ruinate and batter to the ground the lately inuested religion of the Church of Rome Now for the better satisfaction of the ignorant I will heere briefely recount the originall of the chiefest points and articles in the late Romish religion First the Church-seruice was made in the vulgar tongue euery where in the old ancient and primitiue Church Secondly popish primacie began in the yeare 607. and that by the tyrannie of the Emperour Phocas at the earnest suit of Boniface then bishop of Rome third of that name Thirdly the Popes pardons were neuer heard of vntill the yeare 1300. Fourthly the mariage of priests was not prohibited till the yeare 385. at which time Siritius then bishop of Rome made a wicked law in that behalfe Fiftly popish â—urgatory tooke not root in the Romish Church till the yeare 250. Sixtly popish pilgrimage began in the yeare 420. SeueÌ„thly the merit of works de condigno was disputable about the yeare 1081. Eightly the popish inuocation of Saints adoration was not known or heard of til the yeare 350. Ninthly the communion vnder both kinds was neuer thought vnlawful till the yere 1414. Tenthly the Popes Buls were not authenticall till the yeare 772. Eleuenthly auricular confessioÌ„ was not established till the yeare 1215. Twelftly generall coâ—ncels were euer summoned by the Emperours Thirteenthly the popish English Archpriest began his new no religion in the yeare 1006. and that by the tyranny treasons of the Iesuites All these important points are soundly proued in my booke of Suruey whither I referre the gentle reader for better satisfaction in that behalfe God grant that these my painfull studies may tend to his glory and the common good of his Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Table Alphabeticall conteyning the principall matters handled in this worke The letter P. signifieth the Page and the letter V. noteth the verse A ALlen the Cardinall was a traytour Page 93. Vers. 7. p. 92 vers 28. Allen set forth a trayterous booke pag. 108. vers 5. Allen iustified Sir William Stanleyes treason pag. 13. vers 19. pag. 166. p. 167. Arch-priest setteth vp a new religion pag. 89. v. 8. p. 179. v. 30. Arch-priest a traytor pag. 89. vers 8. Arch-priest is an Idoll pag. 104. vers 2. Arden and Someruile See treason Authors true dealing in this discourse pag. 1. vers 7. B BLackwell raigneth as a prince Page 104. vers 7. Bookes written by Parsons are traytorous pag. 173. ve 7. pag. 80. vers 7. pag. 106. vers 9. Bishop of Cassana prayed for by the Iesuites pag. 20. ver 21. Bellarmine against the messengers pag. 152.
worldly affaires Behold here tyran ny ambition in Iesuiticall proceedinge O cruell tyrannie o tyranous crueltie Loe the Iesuites proudly do promise a conquest Iohn Gerard the Iesuite said to the Ladie MarkhaÌ„ of Notinghame shire that the Iesuits would make the seculars leape at a crust ere it be longe quodlib 3. art 10. p. 83. What a malepeart â—aucinesse is this what greater pride can be found 〈…〉 O braue gallanâ—â— O humble le Iesuits â— O poore 〈◊〉 O Iesuits where is your vow 〈◊〉 pouerty Loe I pray you the Iesuites caÌ„ steale The Iesuites surpasse the false steward in the gospel Loe the Iesuits are men of good credit All is fish that come to the Iesuites haÌ„ds see the next paragraph The Iesuites are seditious All religious men hate the Iesuites The Iesuites are banished out of â—â—ance for their seditious dealing O what a cursed crew is this O deepe gulfe of sedition Iohn Chasteâ—'l â—as brought vp in the Iesuites schoole O wâ—he Foxe O religious Iesuits What a 〈◊〉 is here Zauier or Xauier The Iesuites are iuglers maâ—ke well my discourse See the 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 and note them well Loe the Pope cannot depose kinges nor translate their kingdomes The Pope is readie to curse slow to blesse Loe the bearers of the Pope bull were set vpon the pillory Pervse the fiâ—t chapter in the first section â— note it well Lo the Iesuites vse to preferre factious heads The Archpriest must be a witnes against his good master Parsons the author of the trayterous booke of titles See more of this fellowes treasons in the next chapter Loe Parsons hath the trade of lying Remember the memorable caueâ—â— The high counsell of reformatioÌ„ Loe the Pope purposely intended rebellion The Duke of Norfolke a traytour King Philip appointed the Duke of Alua to aide the Duke of Norfolke Ergo the Pope may erre Rebellion in the North. 1569. Loe euery thing tendeth to rebellion The priest Saunders was the Ringleader â—â—â—bellion Loe the deuill brought the Iesuits into England Ano. 1580. Mendoza is a Iesuite See impors coÌ„sid p. 22. 24. P. 23. 18. Important considerat p. 22 24. p. 23. 18. Gregory 13. See the 16. Preamble See the fourth chapter in the 11. Paragraph See the 4. chapter the 6. Paragraph The Pope is the cause of all rebellion Read the 4. chapter in the 10. 11. Paragraph See the 4. and 5 chapters and note then wâ—ll This doth confound the secular priests O gracelesse Cardinall O most cruell and bloodie villaine See the third booke in the third aduito Fie sâ—e shal the 〈◊〉 depend vpon the courtisie of the Spaniardâ—â— goodly new no recompence to all It is lawfull for euerie christiaÌ„ to judge of the Popes doâ—trine See the sixt quodlibet art to infine and the apologie page 17. For the proofe see the fift aduiso in the third realâ— and note it well See the fourth booke and fourth chapter in the .5 section See the fourth aduiso in the answere to the sixt reason See the preface to the discouerie in the end Campion is canonized for a Saint The Seculâ—â— are either traytors or not sound papistes This worthy man was Cardinall 〈◊〉 Quadl S. art 5. page 223. See quodl 8. art 6. page 243. â—ehould how God inforceth the Papists to disclose the very truthâ— truth will euer preuaile in time See quodl 9. art 8. pag 8. pag. 27. et quodâ— 8. art 9. pag. 277. The Secular priests in matters of treason and state seeme to equiuocate The authors booke 〈◊〉 iustifid by the priests See more hereof in the third booke in the fourth aduiso in the latter end Page 68. It is good and necessarie to keepe the papists vnder See quodl 8. art 9. Page 270. Loe the papists expect a day as Esau did when be meant to kil his brother Gen. 27. 41. Loc their Popish Archpriest is an idol The king of France murdered by the Iesuits Loe the Iesuites are most skilfull Phisitions PreaÌ„bles 7 and 8. Deut. 32. v. 35. Rom. 15. 19 Psal. 82. 6. Iohn 13. 1. Rom. 13. 1. Mat. 26. v. 52. If a like ergo treasonablie Quod. 8. art 1. pag. 223. See the answere to the 〈◊〉 gentleman page 24. quodlib 8. art 1. page 223. The seculars are insolent fellowes Corall 1. Corall 2. See the 10. chapter in the 3. Paragraph in the second booke In the second booke chap 3. 〈…〉 Quodl 8. art 9. pag. 277. Loe thousands are bent and wish disloyaltie The Pope hath greater power then God Quod. 9. art 5. pag. 306. Quod. 8. art 6. page 24â— Marke this well that ye may vnderstand it aright Loe the secular priests are as traytorou as the Iesuites See the fiâ—t reason Imp. consid p. 43. quodlib 342 p 267. p. 361. Loe the penall lawes are iustly made against the seminaries Loe the seminarie priests are traitors See the 3. reason See the 4. booke and 7. chapter This is a maxime in the RomaÌ„ church see D. Elyes notes vpon the Apologie p 93. 31. et p. 103 6. The Pope may be iudged euen by Popish doctrine See booke 2. cap. 9. â—euel 3. How the Pope cannot erre but the diuell in his coate Note this word iustly for it is of great importaÌ„ce The Priests are bound to detect the Iesuits Loe here the Priests confesse freely that they are traytors Note this point well it is to be admited and to bee sought into carefully Note this point well Marke well for Christs sake See the replie to Parsons libell fol. 68. 3500. pounds 100. pounds 1008. Markes 400. pounds 1000. pounds See the sixt Aduiso and note it well King Henry now regnant Gerson pri part de examin doctrinar confider 2. Gerson vbi supra Gerson pripart in serm pro. viagio regis Roman part 3. direct 1. Gerson in pri part in serm pro â—agio regis Rom. direct 2. Gerson pri part dâ—â—statiâ—us ecclesiastic consider 3. Gerson in serm coâ—â— concil Constan K. prim part Gerson ibidem Gerson in serm pro viagio regis Romanorii direct 1. prim part Gerson pâ— parte in tractatu de appellatione à papa circa medium Gerson vbi 〈◊〉 in 2. propâ—it See the Apologie page 172. and note it well Loe the like treason was neuer hard of to this day These words are set downe quodl 8. art 7. page 247. This my selfe know to be so Quodl 7. art 7 p 196. I speake this of my owne knowledge See the â— chapter the seconâ— section Apologie page 2. See Collingâ—ons defence page 123. p. 124. p. 126. Apologie page 211. Apologie page 162. page 10. Apologie page 194. It is not Parsons manner to put his name to his bookes See the apologie page 172. O tyrannie of all tyrannies in world See D. Elies notes vpon the Apologie p. 108. p. 111. p. 112 vers 20. Apologie Page 139. Page 154. How would these Iesuites intreat others that deale so cruelly with the popes friends Aske my brother if I bea a these Apologie page 193. Iohn 8. vers 44. O blessed Iesuitical Cardinall seruant of the diuell Page 199. Note this dilemna The Pope is a most cruell tyrant Apologie Page 193. Page 191. Apologie Page 99. Apologie page 99. See Collington Page 126. Page 127. and note them well Apologie page 4â— Note this 〈…〉 See the râ—pâ—â—e to 〈…〉 See Colleton page 224. See the Second booke in the fift chapter Apologie p. 184. 1579. 1574. Parsons would very gladly haue credite but it will not be Apologie page 183. Apologie page 183. Parsons hath lost his wiâ— Note this point well Apologie page 183. Apologie page 167. Psal. 5. v. 9. See Colleton page 126. See also the 5 6. chapter follow See the second booke and third chapter in the 〈◊〉 paragraph See the â—eply to Parsons libell fol. 96. a. See Colleton page 1â—â— Apologie page 172. See Colleton page 126. See also the fift and sixt chapters following See Colleton page 294. Apologie Page 221. 222. Apologie Page 22. Apologie page 172. See the second booke and ninth chapter in the sixt obseruation Note here that the secular priests dostil commend Cardinal Allen in al things See Colleton p. 282. Apologie page 177. Apologie page 176. See the third chapter Parsons loueth the priestes dearly as appeareth by the intâ—â—atiâ— of then messengers sent to Rome See Apolog pag. 〈…〉 Parsons spendeth 5 or 6. crowns a weeke in 〈…〉 Loe Parsons studideth deepe diuinitie Parsons the cause of sharp lawes See note page 297. Loe the Crowne of England is set on sale Quodl 4. art 2. page 109. Quodl 8. art 5. page 238. Quodli 7. art 10. page 184. Quoâ—l 7. art 10. page 217. Quodl 8. art 5. page 236. Loe Parsons is purtrayed in his best be seeming colours Of the vttered by Parsons see ColletoÌ„ page 126. Colleton page 179. CollingtoÌ„ page 194. page 281. Colleton pag. 163. CollingtoÌ„ page 180. CollingtoÌ„ pag. 272. Marke wel all Iesuites Iesuited persons do depend â—pon the diuell Parsons is a great lyar well worthey of the wet-stone Behold deceitfull dealing Colleion page 126. page 127. Collington page 147. Quodli 2. art 8. page 43. Apologie page 212. They sent Watson with others â—ge the seculars are traitors like the Iesuites When theues begin to reckon then true men shall come to their owne See the 4. chapter towards the end Let this be well marked 2. Reg. 18. 2. Par. 19. 2. Reg. 23. 2. 34. Victor de potest Papae concil relect 4. pag. 139. Couarr 10. 1. cap. 20. par 11. in med