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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96094	VVorks of darknes brought to light, or A glance on the mystery of iniquity, carried on in these three nations by the Iesuits, to the utter subversion of religion and government, and an attempt to subject us to popish tyranny: with proposals to prevent the same. By S.W.	S. W.	1659 (1659)	Wing W111; Thomason E984_10; ESTC R203978	2,866	7

VVORKS OF DARKNES Brought to LIGHT OR A Glance on the mystery of Iniquity carried on in these three Nations by the IESVITS To the utter subversion of Religion and Government and an attempt to subject us to Popish Tyranny With proposals to prevent the same By S. W. LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLIX May 30. WORKS OF DARKNES Brought to Light c. IT is reported that the Athenians finding a boy picking out the eies of birds caused him to be put to death supposing this petty cruelty an infallible omen of his proving a tyrant when of riper years I could wish that this device were put in execution against Jesuits and Popish emissaries whose boldnesse attempts so high as not only to seduce this Nation in Peccadilloes and suckling Heresies but strikes even at the two eies of religion Magistracie and Ministrie Government and Religion A sad omen that their aims and highest expectations are to enslave us to their damnable desires To make a recapitulation of their former essaies to subvert religion by removing those from places of trust by dagges daggers and poison who have engaged their power to the utmost in the defence of the reformed religion for the good of their countrie were but to light a candle to the Sun their very Calendars blush to see so many Traitors canonized for Saints And it may justly be feared that in time this plague of Poperie arising from Antichristian Rome will spread its infection farther than ever the victorious arms of their mother Citie did even at that time when she was stiled the Mistresse of the world which to preven● is whol●y and primarily incumbent upon you to whom the divine Providence hath as to Vicegerents resigned the reigns of government And know that if the power he hath lent you be not emploied by you to the reformation or confusion of the enemies of Religion and by censequence this enemie of God who ha●h commanded a strict walking therein he will make you memorable examples of treachetie to Religion and apostacie from pietie to all eternitie Neither can any sober man impute those calamities of which of late we have deeply tasted to any other cause than the toleration of Schisms Heresies and damnable errours which of late daies hath been permi●ted amongst us and I am confid●nt that the noxious clemencie of our Ancestours hath wronged the Devil of his due by delaying or revoking those lega proceedings which by the law of this Nation have or ought to have been made against Hereticks and especi●lly the chief of them Emissaries and Seminary Priests which like the Egyptian Frogs and Grashoppers do now adayes swarm in England Scotland and Ireland For certainly if any may be thought disturbers breaers of the publick peace none more guiltie thereof than Jesuites than whose damnable maximes none more destructive thereto Some few of which I shall instance in and by the f●o● of Hercules you may guesse the bulk of his whole bodie 1. That Kings may impose a tribute as just according to a probable opinion and that the people may refuse to pay it as being unjust ●ccording to another probable opinion and by consequence the same thing may be lawfull and unlaw●●ll at the same time 2. That subjects do not sin when they refuse without any reason alleged to submit to a law whereof there hath been legal Proclamation made by the Prince 3. That Clergy-men are not subject to secular Princes and that they are not obliged to any obedience to their lawes even though those lawes are not any wayes contrary to the State Ecclesiastical 4. That a man outlawed by a temporal Prince may not be killed out of his territories but that he who is proscribed or excommunicated by the Pope may be killed in any part of the world because his jurisdiction extends over all 5. That it is lawfull as well in judgment as out of judgment to swear with a mental reservation without any regard had to the intention of him who obliges a man to swear 6. That it is sometimes allowable and that so as a man shall not be guilty of any mortal sin to kill an adverse party or to defame him by charging him with crimes he is no way guilty of 7. That it is lawfull for an Ecclesiastick or Religious man of any order to kill a detractor who threatens to discover notorious crimes of him or his Religion when there is no other way to prevent it 8. That it is lawfull for any man to kill any one of what degree soever that is excommunicated by the Pope Now what damnable consequences may be inferred from these devillish maximes and what horrible murthers and outrages have upon these principles been perpetrated no age but can produce multitudes of examples no Nation whither these pestilential Jesuits ever came but hath sufficiently felt the lash and smart of their inhumane butcheries Witnesse the Low-Countries France Spain the West Indies and not to be tedious in a matter so plain even this our native Country can produce lively though not living monuments of their devillish Cruelty To free us from the slavish attempts of these Spiritual Egyptians no way safer or speedier than to make a way for the reformed Religion through the Red Sea of their bloud to that flourishing estate which it once enjoyed under our Ancestors of happy memory To the effecting of which I humbly conceive these following proposals effectually tend 1. That all those penal Statutes which have been made against Pope●y Jesuits and Papists and have for a long time layn do●m●nt may be now put into speedy and severe execution to the intent● and purposes for which they were created 2. That none Popishly affected be imployed in any place though of the smallest trust 3. To appoint in every County according to the largenesse thereof a certain number o● pious and well-affected men and them to authorize to make strict inquiry and search after such persons inhabitants as are popishly affected and to that end do commonly harbour and conceal in their houses Jesuites and Seminary Priests and them to summon before the Judges of the Assizes in their several circuits to answer such things as shall be objected against them 4. That such persons as cannot give a lawfull account of their absence from Church may be dealt with according to the Statute in that case provided the money so raised being imployed to set the poor of the County on work 5. That no meetings may be made or assembled on week ●aies or Sabbath daies but in such places as are or have been lawfully consecrated appointed and set apart for the worship of God as being unwarrantable by the Scriptures or Laws of this Nation 6. That none be suffered to rrade or work as apprentices journey-men or otherwise within England or the dominions thereunto belonging but such as are natives thereof and lawfully bound to their respective Master or have served the full time of their apprentiships here in England or the dominions thereunto belonging unlesse the servants of Merchants who are imploied as Factours here Because there are many Jesuits that do exercise manual occupations in this land under the habit and notion of Laymen more subtilly and safely seducing others 7. That in the respective ports havens harbours and bayes of this Commonwealth and the dominions thereunto belonging an account may be taken by the supreme officer and officers of the said place of such persons who as passingers are imported or exported and the occasion either of the ingresse or egresse of the said persons into or out of this Commo● wealth or the dominions thereunto belonging and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 search and enquirie may be made into the commodities they import to prevent the bringing in of popish books 8. That a set number of able Divines be authorized to read over and license such books brought into this Nation as they shall judge not destructive to the peace thereof whether the said books be originally written in English or translated into English and to read over and according as they think fit to allow or disallow all such books as shall be written in England or the dominions thereunto belonging in the aforesaid Language or translated thereunto to be printed and a penalty inflicted on the offenders in the cases aforesaid FINIS