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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34432	Carnal prudence display'd, or, The crafty contrivances of the Jesuits relating to the popish plot discovered by way of letter from Gaunt to Mr. Willmore in England.	Ignatius Franciscus, Philo-presbyter.	1682 (1682)	Wing C604; ESTC R22951	6,986	8

Carnal Prudence Display'd OR THE Crafty Contrivances OF THE JESUITS Relating to the POPISH PLOT Discovered by way of LETTER from GAUNT TO Mr. Willmore IN ENGLAND Jam saturati estis jam divites facti estis sine nobis regnatis Ep. I a Paull ad Cor. c. 4. Qui Conveniunt in aliquo tertio conveniunt interse LONDON Printed for B. Shirley under St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1682. Carnal Prudence Display'd WEE the Fathers of the Society now Convened at Gaunt having been advised of your late Proceedings thought it our Duty to express our Cordial thanks to you on that Subject we therefore desire you to believe our whole Body in Flanders as gratefully sensible of the last great service you have done our common Cause as any of our Brethren whom the Nighness of abode might have given the opportunity to prevent us in the like acknowledgment And indeed we cannot sufficiently admire and applaud the Christian constancy of those truly brave Jurors who in acquitting the Right Honorable Lord Shaftsbury have asserted the Right and Property of Englishmen as well in order to their Lives as Estates in spight of all the damnable Projections and Machinations of those Belials called Tories Oh! memorable Ignoramus Jury which well deserves Inscriptions on Monuments of everlasting Marble Now as our correspondency with you has hitherto been under the Rose so we desire that it may be still we keep all things of this Nature out of the cognizance of any of our Subs and have reason to believe that you do the like now to satisfie you we will demonstrate the possibility of setting our Horses together as you said nay it shall be made out from your own Confessions If you remember you said in your last Letter That if it could be made to appear that our Principles as well in Religion as in Matters of State did agree with yours the Business would soon be at an end To perform what I promised I shall lay before you such matter of fact concerning our Allegiance to Princes and Obedience to Prelates that if you are in your wits you must needs confess that all the difference betwixt us is de nomine and not de re FIrst then you must know that having through our indefatigable Intrigues discovered the Methods of the Romish Court we new-molded our rule so as it is now altogether agreeable to the Maxims by which they steer insomuch that they look on us as the most necessary to carry on their Designs and Contrivances In the beginning we were strangely serviceable and obedient to that degree that at length we carried all before us Being come to a height of Power and Riches we were courted by Kings and Princes into whose Cabinets when we had humbly crept in we so magnified to them the Pope's Power as well Temporal as Spiritual and the influence it gave him upon the Subjects of Christian Princes that we soon brought them on their knees and now so far prevail'd that no Catholick Prince thinks himself secure without taking some of ours for their Confessor Things now being by our unanimous endeavors brought to this pitch you must conceive we have a double game to play that is we must keep in with Pope and Princes a hard task you will say and so it is But however we have made a shift hitherto to play this game ay and ply it still To let you see this you must know that whenever there 's a Pope made of our Faction then we make it our whole business to cry him up for a Saint a learned and wise Pope to represent him to each Prince as one who espouses his the Prince's particular interest by our inducement it is suppos'd which obliges him to acknowledge his sence of the Service in glorious Encomiums of us to his Holiness by whom and the whole Court we are therefore judg'd the fittest Spiritual Directors for Princes in the World and consequently the main Pillars of the Church By this means as our Employs are twofold so are our Pensions double for Janus-like we have one face towards the Prince and another regarding the Pope Sirs believe me you cannot imagine in such a game as this is well play'd how many occasions there are to bring grist to our Mill. Now on the other side if it fall out that a Pope be chosen who though a holy and learned Man yet Si non pro nobis contra nos est then what do we do why we whisper in the ears of our Penitents and especially of the Ladies that 't is much to be fear'd that holy Father the Pope is too great a favourer of Jansenists and Blackloists and such-like Hetrodox men and how they ought to pray all such may be removed from his Holiness lest being led away by these Wolves in Sheeps-skins the Orthodox meaning our selves mought be forgot and Catholicity left in a tottering condition Now let the prejudice of Pope Bishops and Clergy be never so great against us all the devout Sex both Nuns devoted Women and Lay-women will buoy up our sanctity against them all and for this intent we have particular Prayers Fastings Meditations and Disciplines Sirs in good truth you cannot imagine how devout the Women are at all this and how they out-do even our selves in the performance of it By this means many Proselytes are got and our fame is spread abroad in such a nature that in some Cities we Monopolize all the Faithful except only the tagragg folks or rabble who if they are so impudent to approach our Confession seats we send them back with a powder to their Parish Churches and if they argue the case we tell them it is their Christian Duty but after all this if some one of them be found so wise as to distinguish then we admit him rather than he should instruct the Rabble against us and truly it is a great matter for a Community whose aim is at governing the whole to have the Rabble on their side especially when ad majorem Dei Gloriam it will be necessary for the carrying on the Cause to lay any one aside on point of good Name or Life according to the gravity of the Sin committed against the said Community besides this 't is very advantagious to have their good word were it only upon the account of the respect paid us by Children old Women in asking our Blessings and in putting off their Hats and such like honorary worship paid to our Reverences all this does undoubtedly distinguish us from all other Priests or Religious who though they may have the simplicity of the Dove yet they fall short of us in the prudence of the Serpent because they are so silly as not to know how to reconcile them the reason is because they understand Religion but not Government and consequently they are ignorant how sometimes Prudentia carnis is meant by Prudentia serpentis or that they are identified But after this If the Pope be such an one