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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60496	The narrative of Mr. John Smith of Walworth ... containing a further discovery of the late horrid and popish-plot ...	Smith, John, of Walworth.	1679 (1679)	Wing S4127; ESTC R15413	45,689	42

as not to know how upon the like hopes from Mary Queen of Scots being next Lineal Successor to Queen Elizabeth the Romish Party did from time to time contrive and design the death of that Excellent Princess of ever Blessed Memory And was it not the sense which our Ancestors had of this that influenced them to enter into an Association through the whole Kingdom even in an Interval of Parliament wherein they mutually obliged themselves in case the Queen should be taken off by any undue means to avenge it upon the Papists And this Association was so far then from being apprehended a Seditious or Illegal Bandying of Persons together that the Parliament that assembled the Year after did not only Approve it but Ratifie it into a Law Well do the Papists know that should they loose this Advantage which they have from the Duke's being a Papist and of such legal hopes of the Crown for the Reestablishment of their Religion they may never enjoy so fair and probable an Opportunity again They perceive the King as likely to live as the Duke and therefore reckon it absolutely necessary to Anticipate the Course of Nature and not trust matters of so great Consequence as the seeing these Nations once more subjugated to Rome to such a contingency as the Kings Dying in a natural way before the Duke And that which Mr. Dugdale divulgeth every where to this purpose deserveth a serious Remark namely That the Jesuits having calculated the King's and the Duke's Nativities which by the way is Treason by Law and finding that the King would in a course of Nature outlive the Duke they thereupon agreed and resolved to have him cut off by violence The having a Popish King again in England would be of so great concernment to the See of Rome that we may easily conceive especially seeing the Principles of their Religion do befriend them that they will not boggle at the Murder of his Present Majesty to compass and effect it And whatsoever security the Protestants may flatter themselves with as to their Religion from the Promises which his Highness may make unto them yet this may serve to undeceive them that not only the Council of Constance hath determined that no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks but that Martyn the 5. told Alexander Duke of Lithuania that if he kept his Oath with such he sinned mortally Secondly the advantage which they reckon upon the Kings Death ariseth not only from the consideration that the Presumptive Heir is a Papist but that he is more zealous for that Religion than Princes of the same Religion either are or use to be It is of great concernment to their Interest to see a Papist how lukewarm and indifferent so ever in that Profession exalted to the English Throne But to have a Prince of burning Zeal and Ardour for the dignity of the Triple Crown to be advanced to sway the English Sceptre is of far greater consequence to them than most Persons are willing to apprehend I know that there are some Monarchs of the Faith of the Church of Rome that are not of the Faith of the Court of Rome and therefore though they give all due protection and incouragement to the Romish Religion yet it is still without suffering it to undermine the State or to introduce the Papal Jurisdiction Though they countenance their Subjects in the Papal Worship yet they are not willing to see them inslaved to the Popes Usurpation But whether the Duke of York should he once arrive at the Crown would think it enough to allow the Pope only his power in Spirituals without granting him the right which he challengeth in Temporals I cannot tell but this I can say that the hopes which the Jesuits have of seeing the whole Papal Jurisdiction established by his means and as fruits of his Zeal to the Holy See over these Kingdoms is a great motive to precipitate his advancement to the Monarchy and for their conspiring the Destroying of His Majesty who is the only Remora in the way Thirdly the advantage which they count upon by the Kings Death ariseth not only from their Assurance of the Presumptive Heir's being a Papist and one of zeal and ardor for the Papal Chair but that he is moreover under the conduct of the Jesuits For I do remember that Father Campian and Father Anderton did not only frequently declare that the Duke of York was of the Romish Religion but that he was brought over by their Body and that they had the greatest influence over Him And as this was the common discourse in the Jesuits College at Rome so it was received with great joy and acclamation by the whole Society Now as there can be nothing more fatal to any State than to have the Prince under the Conduct of the Jesuits so the power they pretend to have obtained over the Duke of York hath its share in the animating them to hasten his Reign and in order thereunto to destroy His Majesty And to this purpose I shall here add what I heard some of the Fathers say For Father Campian having intimated that many set themselves against the Establishment of the Popish Religion in England he added that nevertheless it must flourish again in that Nation and we are do the great Work and restore it And Father Warner upon whom I had a Bill of Exchange from Rome he being Procurator for the Jesuits at Paris having paid me the Bill did thus declare himself unto me Religion must be set up in as high a manner as ever in England and we must be the Promoters of it though many set themselves in opposition to us Blessed Promoters and Restorers of Religion who conspire the Murder of Kings and Overturning of Kingdoms in order thereunto And are they not fit men to have the Guidance of the Consciences of Princes who besides all the other ill Principles which they are imbued with are more sworn Vassals to the Jurisdiction of the Pope than any other Order of the Roman Church I do moreover declare That when I was about to leave Rome and section XVIII return into England both Father Anderton Father Campian and Father Green assured me that there would suddenly be great Alterations in Church and State in this Kingdom And that there was but one Man in the way meaning the King who might be soon removed out of it Yea the same Fathers informed me That they were assured from the most Eminent persons of this Nation that their Religion should be Established again in these Dominions in as great Glory as at any time heretofore and whosoever opposed the Establishment of it should be removed And I do withall remember that waiting upon Abbot Montague at Paris as I was in my return homeward the said Abbot after he had congratulated the seeing me in a Religious Habit and told me that being of the Order of Secular Priests I was in the Apostolical way of Teaching he further subjoyn'd That

ill of them And this they have not only declared in their Books but maintained in the Theses which they have proposed to be disputed in their Schools I know that which surprizeth many who know not the Rules and measures the Papists act by is the men not only pretending to some Religion themselves but intrusted with the conduct of the Consciences of others should publish and divulge such and such things if they were not true when alas the Principle they act by is not whether the thing they affirm be true but whether it be for their advantage honour and secular interest to have it believed I do maintain saith Dicastellus That Calumny when it is used against a Calumniator i. e. one that doth them or their Order a mischief though grounded on absolute falsities is not for that any mortal sin either against Justice or Charity That is is only any mortal sin to Calumniate falsly to preserve ones honour is no doubt saith Caramuel a probable opinion It is a probable Opinion that we may lawfully slander that person by charging him with crimes that are false against whose Testimony we are not able otherwise to defend our selves saith Sambourin Nor is it any ways strange that they should hold it lawfull to Calumniate any one that accuseth them seeing they declare it lawfull to kill such a one We may without mortal sin saith Lessius kill an accuser though the crime whereof he accuseth us be true so it were secret It is lawfull even for an Ecclesiastick or Monk saith Amicus to kill that person who threatens to produce great crimes against him or his Order Now having established Maxims by which they make it lawfull not only to Calumniate without endangering their Salvation but destroy those that injure them is it any thing strange that they should practise what they esteem lawfull especially when their doing it is so necessary not only to the preservation of the credit and safety of their Order but of their Church and all their Party in England Can any man imagin but that having made it lawfull to Calumniate they should at this time if ever act accordingly there being no way left to vindicate themselves or discredit their Accusers save the making their recourse to lies slanders and revilings I desire in reference to all they say to bring the business to this issue with them either their Casuists teach such Maxims or they do not As to their teaching them let them deny it if they dare I both assign the Men that do so and the places where And besides those I have mentioned shall be ready if called thereunto to produce many more concurring in the same Doctrine And seeing they do teach these Maxims let them if they can give but any Rational person satisfaction that any credit is due to such who may lawfully act as every Papist may upon these Principles Let them not then offer to abuse the World any more by Discourses demonstrative of the Unlawfulness of lying and Calumniating by arguments from natural light and Divine Revelation seeing neither Scripture nor the light of Reason are the measures which they Govern themselves by And all Treatises of that nature are but fresh instances of their lying and deceiving while they are declaring it unlawfull to do so And let me add this that the late Pamphlets most adapted to impose upon the World a belief of the credibility and sincerity of the Jesuits such as the Letter to the Two Houses the Jesuits Plea and the New Plot to transform Jesuits into Martyrs c. Do overlook all those Maxims of their Casuists which have been advanced against them by the Authors both of the Impartial Consideration of the Speeches of the five Jesuits and of the Letter intituled Lying allowable with Papists to deceive Protestants and do only insist upon other Principles which by their Maxims they are not obliged to govern themselves by And whereas they are pleased to ask us whether we take those who have been either Condemned or only Arraigned to have been Atheists that they should do that which not only the Principles of the Gospel but the common Sentiments of Mankind not only forbid under the greatest penalty but teach us to detest I answer that I take them to have been worse namely Jesuits or their Disciples who under the names of Christians to the reproach of Religion as well as the debauching of Mankind and ruine of all Societies and Government have established that as lawfull which the Gospel threatens with eternal Wrath and with all states punish either with the Gibbet or the Pillory A second Reason why it is not only every ones duty but at this time section XIII indispensally necessary to contribute to the further detection of the Popish Plot is the awakening the Kingdom to provide in all legal and due ways for the Protection of His Majesties Person and its own defence and Security The Lethargy that the generality of the Nation laboureth under is that which amaseth its Friends and incourageth its Enemies They are greatly deceived that think the Papists have laid their design alas they do more industriously than over pursue it The Case is so stated that there is no retreat and rather than miss their hopes they are resolved to stake lives fortunes and all upon a venture They have laboured too long to bring things to the pass they are in to loose in a moment the fruits of all their toyls and indeavours Though the Protestants should be willing to forgive them yet they know that they have proceeded too far to rely upon Mercy and therefore their guilt lightning their fears makes them desperate The death of Traytors who have suffered instead of dismaying the Party hath greatly enflamed them to revenge They know too well that many more both deserve and may meet with the like measure and rather than tamely suffer it they will all run on in the same fortune They are at present negotiating with all Foreign States for Assistance and he must needs be a stranger to conversation that hath not heard of the liberal Contributions providing for them in all Popish Countries The boldness they every where express is not the effect of their Innocency but of their Villany and confidence of Success through the Aids which they look for Nor hath their slandering the King to his People and their misrepresenting many of his Protestant Subjects to him any other tendency but to prevent mutual confidence between them which if they can but hinder its impossible as things stand that they should miscarry in their design or that either His Majesty or his Protestant Subjects should escape To tell us by one hand that the King laughs at the Plot as a matter wholly fabulous and by another that the Two late Parliaments were a Company of Factious Men What design can this have but to beget a distrust betwixt His Majesty and his People and deprive us of that