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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69527	A vvorthy speech by Mr. Tho. Abernethie ; wherein is discovered the villany and hellish plots (which himselfe hath been an eie and eare witnesse of) wrought in the Popes courts against these our three kingdomes, and now disclosed this 29, Iuly, 1641.	Abernethie, Thomas, fl. 1638-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing A95; ESTC R1172	4,703	10

most considerable First that they should all employ their wits for the pervertion of his Majesty our soveraigne Lord and contribute for the levying of an Army under pretext of giving assistance to some confederate Prince and therewith to force liberty of conscience this opinion was rejected as dangerous till all things were surer and their faction stronger S●condly that if they could not attaine to their purpose with his Majesty they should endeavour to get two Iesuits in our Princes service for his Graces instruction and education in Popery Thirdly that pensions should be given by mediate waies through the universities and other parts where they might worke their ends Fourthly yet this was all thought little of by some of our country men who advised them to set their whole minds for the pervertion of England which being nearer to them in points of doctrine then Scotland as also in forme of Service worships and Ecclesiasticall government they might worke surer and with greater hope of prevailing then with Scotland whom he assured to be of a stubborne nature dangerous to be dealt with and great Puritans directly opposite to the Church of Rome and therefore nothing more should be desired of Scotland but conformity in matters of religion with England which the English Church would gladly wish as if she were a Mother Church wherof others did flow neither could his country men deny it in respect of his Majesties supremacy and of the union of the two Crownes and Kingdomes that they both might have but one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one King For the execution of his councell he proponed mutuall intellegence to be procured betwixt England and Rome which shortly after was begun by an Italian Priest a great polititian well versed in the french tongue Il signior Gregorie who stayed above a yeare and a halfe in London for that effect and with whom I conferred in his own lodging in the Covent-garden at London and with two great men of our owne nation and now continueth there himself with great grudge to both the Kingdomes seeing this mutuall intelligence was never heard of betwixt Rome and us since the Cardinalls Woolsy and Polus daies neither is it necessary as states men may see Now non-covenanter is thy curiosity satisfied This I know and more looke then to it in time and bee not one of those who for vanity or other ends will be thought singular against Gods cause and thy owne promise in baptisme I will end this discourse that my enemies say not that I minde to put dissention betwixt Protestants and Conformists letting these three Kingdomes see some of the dangers wherein they stand of the Roman Antichrist and his Congregation de extirpanda fide first ye stand in these dangers especially that mutuall intelligence between Rome and England secondly of your Countrimens affection to Rome if they be Papists for alledged rights of the Popes upon each of you viz. Peters penny and Peters patrimony thirdly your extreme great number of Iesuits and Priests extending in England to five or six thousands so that they are striving among themselves and writing books against others for Bishopricks in your Church as for Ireland it hath 15. Papists Bishops alone this is great danger fourthly your populous multitudes of Papists in you extending many thousands so that I am of that mind that in England the people if not already may shortly desire a generall assembly for liberty of conscience Fiftly the education of your Nobility in forraine Countries who having drunke in the doctrine of iniquity from their tenderage are both more perverse in themselves and more dangerous bringing in their friends and neighbours by their Priests to p●rdition with them Sixtly that which is to be lamented of all that you have good Lawes against Papists and every good reason to execute them but alas mony breaks them gr●nting to all P●pists a pecuniall liberty of conscience and present banishment to all these poore reformed Christians who will not conforme with you and that which is to be laughed at or r●ther weeped at that vee would blind pe●ples eies with your searchers going on the one side to apprehend Priests and punish Papists and on the other side to have your customes to receive monies and give discharge for liberty of Papistry O God! who doth not evidently perceive these monstrous dangers and not oppose himselfe with all his power against them if there remaine any sparke of true Christianity truly who doth it not I must of necessity thinke him an internall Papist The last danger of all the 3. Kingdomes is Pensions whereof we may consider foure things First the giver Secondly the persons to whom they are given Thirdly the quantity of the summes Fourthly the end wherefore they are given There is certaine pensions given in the Country for Priests and intelligencers and out of the Country for Seminaries and correspondents of these intelligencers but to come to the particulars First the givers are the house of Austria and the foresaid congregation de extirpando fide Secondly the persons to whom it is given to my knowledge are the Priests the man that goeth for it and the keeper whereof I was one and know the names and residence of the rest which I have declared by writ already and if there be given pensions to any others as to these the superiour with his councellors and the treasurer know it for me I know not but this I am sure of that there was more sent into the Country then was bestowed on them Thirdly the quantity in cumulo is best knowne to them I being none of the superiors councellors in respect of my travells for the mission the quantity that wee who were Priests got was a 100. Crownes in the yeare from Rome and eighteene pence every day from Spaine besides our purchase by our masse confessions and pardons which was more or lesse conforme to our imploiment and the persons with whom we dealt Fourthly and lastly in a word the end of these gifts is pretended zeale and pitty but which may appear by the deposition of Master George Ker and the Iesuits Abercrumby Chrighton and Gordon with three Noblemens letters intercepted with him and registrate by his pensions given to us and his pretended rights were our native Countries truly intended Hierarchy of Rome and Monarchy of Spaine If this then be not an evident danger to suffer so many forraigne Princes pensioners in your bosome God see to it in his owne time and give me grace that I may follow my Christ in feare and hearty resolution FINIS