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The English prelates practizing the methods and rules of the Jesuits, for enervating and altering the Protestant reformed religion in England, and reducing the people to popery plainly demonstrated by a reverend and godly divine.
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1661
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Wing E3111; ESTC R31433
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they should not outwardly demean themselves as the onely Saints upon earth as incarnate Angels men wholly composed of Devotion to God Compassion to his Church * Quem ubi vident constanter Religions adharentem non adeò temerarii sant ut directe calumnieutur traducant apud eum Orthodoxam Religionem sed occasiones commodas accipiunt quibus dâ—plorem turbat … pacem Ecclesiae hortantur principem ad eam restituendam id facile esse dicunt auferatur modo contentionis studium quod dissidium non sit in rebus magai momenti sed exigui ponderis Vedel de prud vet Eccles l. 2. c. 5. grief for the Rents and breaches of it Zeal for the peace and good of it they could not prevail with the Magistrate to trust them with so much power specially considering how often they have abused it in this Nation and intrenched upon the Royal Prerogative and the authority of Parliaments as appears by above a hundred instances in the English Chronickle Doubtless it stands not with reason that a Protestant Prince should knowingly and willingly give way to the re-establishing of the Popish Religion and therein ipso facto divest himself of his Supremacy and lay his head at the Popes feet for him to kick off the Crown from his Royal Brow with a spurn of his disdainful foot at pleasure But why the Bishops specially such of them as have been observed to wish well to Popery ab Incunabulis should contrive and carry on such a Plot some reason may be given For could they but once obtain this That Popery should Triumph over the Reformed Religion then they know that the Miter would soon Trample upon the Crown and Scepter Haec enim est veritaes c. saith Bellarmine (a) Bell. de offic princip Christi L. 1 c. 5. This is the Truth whatever custome hath introduced That the Bishop is the Father Pastor and Doctor as well of the Prince as of the rest of the people And according to these Appellations the Prince ought to be subject to his Bishop and not the Bishop to his Prince Swarez saith (b) Swarez Dâ—fens fidâ—i lib. 3. cap. 17. ss 18. lib. 4. c. 17. ss 16 17. cap. 15. ss 1. unusquisque Rex Subditus est c. Every King is subject to his Bishop in spiritualibus unless he be exempted by the Pope Would not this be a brave world for our Bishops and the whole Clergy too to be exempted from the power of Laws and civil Judicature Leges non obligant Clericos c. saith Swarez again The Law doth not binde the Clergy by vertue of any Laâ—k Jurisdiction neither can Kings binde the Clergy by laying any special Law upon them And again Ecclesiastical persus are priviledged in Court not onely in case of Ecclesiastical but of Civil Crimes And therefore Reader though thou canst see no Reason why a Prince or State professing the Protestant Religion having sufficiently smarted under the Popes and Prelates Tyranny should decline to Popery yet thou mayest see strong reason why a proud Prelacy and a corrupt Clergy should underhand indeavour to bring it in and thou mayest here take notice of the method and waies whereby they may compass their designs and neither Prince nor people shall know nor see and yet our Prelatical Clergy are so confident of the truth of their Maxime No Bishop no King That they would make us beleeve that it is as true as the Gospel whereas their great design is to make the Scepter subject to the Miter so much are they for the Royal Prerogative and the Power of Parliaments It is well enough known he that runs may read it that the Jesuits Rules for introducing Popery have been practised by our English Prelates of late years and still are practised by them Let any ingenious spirit judge of their intentions by their actions I have only let you see from whose Quiver they have drawn their shafts you may hereby judge of the mark whereat they aim You have seen whose Heifer it is they plowed with Judge by that of the seed they would have sown If they never knew that a Jesuit had delivered these Rules for the altering of Religion in a Christian state they were very unhappy in complying so exactly with them when they did not know them And what can we think but that they were and are acted by the same Genius or the same Angelus informans that the Jesuit was when he penned them But if they know as it is most probable they do that these are the Rules this the Art delivered by a Jesuit for the subverting the true Reformed Religion and the introduction of Popery again and yet do knowingly and de Industria conform to them and make proof of them what can we think is their intention but to alter our Religion But blessed bee the Lord who hath said and will perform it That no weapon formed against his Jerusalem shall prosper Give me leave Gentle Reader here to subjoyn the sayings of some wife and learned men as well Papists as Protestants touching the Grotian Arminian Design carried on by the Prelats and their Adherents in England for introducing Popery and reducing England to the Church of Rome A Jesuit writes in a Letter to the Rector at Brussels thus Father Rector c. We have now many strings to our Bows and have strongly fortified our Faction and have added two Bulwarks more for when King J. lived we know he was very violent against Arminianisme and interrupted with his pestilent wit and deep learning our strong designs in Holland Now we have planted the Sovereign Drug Arminianisme c. which we hope will purge the Protestants from their heresie This Letter was seized in Archbishop Lands Study and attested against him at the Lords Bar. An English Jesuit in a Book inscribed A Direction to be observed by N. N. printed 1636. p. 20 22. Thus writes To speak truth what learned judicious man can after unpartial examination embrace Protestantisme which now waxeth weary of it self Its professors declare themselves to love temper and moderation allow of many things which some years ago were usually condemned as superstitious and Antichristian And are at this time more unresolved where to fasten then in the infancy of their Church for do not the Protestant Churches begin to look with another face Their walls to speak with another language Their Preachers to use a sweeter Tone Their annual publick Tenets in the Universities to be of another stile and matter Their books to appear with Titles and Arguments which once would have caused much scandal among thâ— Brethren Their Doctrine to be altered in many things and even in those points for which their Progenitors forsook the then visible Church of Christ Their 39 Articles the summe the confessions and almost the creed of their faith are patient yea ambitious of some sense wherein they may seem to be Catholick To alledge wife and children in these