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A75361 Animadversions on the last speech of William Viscount Stafford who was beheaded on Tower-Hill for high treason in conspiring the death of the king, &c. on Wednesday, December 29th, 1680. 1680 (1680) Wing A3197A; ESTC R42644 6,417 8

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of General Councils They do also declare that Kings being Deposed any one may kill them at least by the Pope's Order For this we have the declared Sense of the whole Body of the Jesuits in France than whom none of the Society in any part of the World were more favourable to Kings in an Apology for their Doctrine on this Subject to Henry the Fourth yet there they declare in the words of Valentia consonant to the Doctrine of Aquinas Caletan Sotus Coveruvius Salonius and others That a Tyrant who has no Just Title but usurps Authority may be killed by any one Now there is none of them who have the use of Reason will deny but a King deposed by the Pope is such a Tyrant a meer Usurper without such a just Title and therefore they cannot deny but it is their Doctrine That a King Deposed by the Pope may be killed by any one In the Seventh and Sixteenth Paragraphs he prays for the King acknowledging him His Lawful King and Soveraign and denying that any Power on Earth can Legally allow him or any Body else to lift up a Hand against his Legal Authority and then Pra●ing for him that he may enjoy all Happiness in this World and the World to come ●●e would undoubtedly have it thought that he had no design to kill the King who can pray for his prosperous Reign But it need not seem strange that any of them should Equivocate in their way of Praying since their Church allows of plain Lyes in their publick Liturgies which divers of their own Authors express themselves sensible of To give one instance of this in Fa. Garnet he composed some Prayers for the good Success of the Powder Plot which he used amongst his Party and being charged with it answered like such a Jesuit He said He made not those Prayers with that meaning that the thing might fall out according to the mind of the Conspirators but rather cross to their desires that so the Safety of King and Kingdom might be provided for So that when he prayed for the Ruin of the King and Kingdom his meaning was that they might be preserved and prosper So when any of this sort of Men I mean Romish Zealots pray for the King 's prosperous Reign why may not their meaning be his utter Destruction For this is altogether as likely as the other One thing is observable that in his Prayer for the King he twice comes in with the word Legal So in the sixth Paragraph He would discover if he knew of an Illegal Dangerous Plot. But the Question will here be what he means by Legal and Illegal By their Principles if the King be Excommunicated his Authority is not Legal and therefore the Plot against him not Illegal This Artifice though the thing be false in it self yet it may be innocently asserted by him His Temper at Death was none of the most Christianlike for he could not forbear though he pretendedly forgave them villifying the Witnesses against him by calling them Perjured Fellows But what better can be expected from such Men. And he seems designedly to intimate that his Tryal was Illegal by this subtil Insinuation I shall say little to my Tryal and whether it were all according to the known Law I am too much a Party to say much of it If it were not so God forgive him or them that were the Cause or it Certainly never Man had a more Honourable Just and Legal Tryal and consequently less Cause for such a Malicious Insinuation To conclude We have great reason to believe that this Speech was contrived for the promoting of their grand Plot upon which as a true Be-Jesuited Zealot his Heart was so much set the Catholick Interest being so deeply concerned in it that the thoughts of Death could not divert him Now if we are found so Weak and Facile as to believe these fraudulent Expressions of this Lord and others that were Executed before him against so much Rational Evidence then their Work is in a manner done and they will do more at their Deaths by putting out our Eyes than they could in all their Lives We cannot in Justice Reason or Charity believe them against Such Evidence who think they may Lawfully deceive us when dying and apprehend it to be the great Interest of their Cause so to do FINIS