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

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the inviolate Conservation of all his Princely Rights Titles Dignities and Prerogatives to him and his Heirs and for the frustrating of all those desperate and destructive Counsels and Practices which are said to be carried on for the disinheriting of his Royal Highness because of his Religion than which design nothing ever was or can be thought of more Unadvised and tending to the Nations ruine or that doth more evidently proclaim it self to be the very counsel and project of those our deadly enemies here complain'd of who have by some of their hired or brib'd Agents amongst us clancularly and underhand procur'd it to be set on foot on purpose to involve us in endless and inextricable troubles contentions and mischiefs following upon them from which God in mercy deliver Us and cause us to see I say not only the iniquity injustice illegalness of the Project which are apparent to every eye but the manifest impossibility of ever carrying it on and maintaining it against so many and great oppositions both domestick and foreign as will undoubtedly appear against it when the resolution shall be once taken and form'd into an Act of State Which that it may never be nor the traiterous phansie ever be thought worthy of motion but rather be look'd upon with horrour and rejected with deserv'd indignation by all the good Members of our ensuing Great Council the Parliament as also by all Good Patriots Lovers and Well-wishers of their Countries publick and common Good Peace Tranquillity Quiet more than their own Wills private Passions Interests and Concerns is and ever shall be as both Duty and Conscience binds the daily and most earnest Prayer of Good Reader Your loving Country-man and most hearty Well-wisher of the Best Things to You from God August 25th 1679. N. N. A NOTE concerning ERRATA THe PRESS hath done its part so well in this little Thing that unless a diligent perusal deceives me much there is not to be observ'd one fault worth correcting save only in the word Hyocrisy pag. 17. Prop. 26. line 11. for which if thou readest Hypocrisy I have no more to say but Cave Vale Lector The SENTIMENTS of N. N. Touching the ROMAN Consistories DESIGNS and PRACTICES c. The First Proposition THat though the Roman Catholick Religion in the Principals thereof Viz. so much as is grounded upon Christian Tradition the Vniversal practice of the Church or the Authority and Definition of General Councils be in my perswasion undoubtedly the True Christian Religion and in all the parts thereof Good and most Acceptable to God and consequently also most worthy to be embraced and professed by all Christians Yet through the infirmities of Men and the Vicious corruption of Times hugely declining in point of Judgment as well as Manners from primitive and pristine integrity to my extream grief and scandal I find it to be here in England of all others generally speaking an affair or business most Vnfaithfully and Vnworthily managed by Those who in vertue of their respective Callings and Offices in the Church of God have the chief management thereof in their hands Note ☞ The ingenuous Protestant Reader will not I hope be offended that such a Proposition as this is set in the Front of my Sentiments it being neither by way of Challenge nor out of any private confidence or presumption set down but meerly and simply as a profession of my present Belief which being as I said sincerely Roman Catholick I thought it not Vnnecessary to intimate so much briefly in this place as well to prevent Scandal-taking by some who may be too apt to interpret things to the worst as to shew that though in the following Propositions I be to mention with great dislike many Things of private opinion and practice amongst Roman Catholicks yet I do it with a clear conscience and without any the least prejudice to that Faith which I hold in common with them upon the grounds mentioned in the said Proposition Viz. Christian Tradition the Authority of General Councils c. Proposition II. Who are meant by those who have the chief management of Catholick Religion in England is sufficiently known therefore I say in the second place That neither the Consistory of Rome nor their principal Correspondents which as I said are the Jesuits Monks and Friers with some few others of the English and Irish Clergy pension'd by procurement and help of the Jesuits c. and therefore wholly dependent on them do at all seriously desire any general advancement or liberty of Catholick Religion nor any General Conversion of the People of this Nation from the Errours of Protestantism But only make use of that pretence for their reputation sake and the better to carry on their own private and more intended Designs which are Ambition Honour with Ease Emolument Power Authority and the like Proposition III. That if any credit may be given to Persons of their Quality and to their frequent publick and most confident Asseverations it cannot be doubted but at the time of his Sacred Majestie 's most happy and long-wish'd for Restauration Things were at such a pass and the Cause of Catholicks as well as other Dissenters so favourably look'd upon by all forts of People that had Those who pretend to the chief care of Religion as well here at home as abroad seriously and in good earnest desir'd the advancement thereof it might have been procur'd even by an Act of Parliament in such good measure as that it should have been free for them I mean for all Catholicks of Loyal and moderate Principles privately to have exercised their Priestly Function in all the parts of it without danger or molestation though not perhaps to an absolute repeal of all the Statutes against it or them Now what should move both the one and the other of these Parties so deeply and hernously to prevaricate in a cause so worthy of their best endeavours and which they will seem so much to own must be left to private conjecture which yet if we consider things well it will not be hard to make Proposition IV. I say therefore that one principal Reason why Those here in England did not effectually endeavour this liberty of Religion when time was so as they might and ought to have done was without doubt in great part their Vnwillingness to be oblig'd to the duty of Preaching which would then have been generally expected of them and whereto they have so little Affection their Sufficiency I shall not question knowing it by experience in some and not doubting it in others that in all the English Orders Viz. of Jesuits Monks and Friers there were not Three Persons to be found when enquiry was made about it by some that had Authority willing or inclinable to undertake that most necessary charge in any constant manner Not to mention their like Unwillingness to conform to that more strict regularity of life manners habit and conversation which the Gospel