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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

clearness and fulness of the Evidence against him and their Doctrines which thus allow them to go out of the world with Lies in their mouths Secondly They maintain that when they may lawfully speak what is false they may lawfully swear it thus Father Parsons Lessins Sanchez and Jo. Sanctius This is their Doctrine whereby it is evident that if a Person be Accused and Condemned for a Design to murther his Prince though he design it as much as any Assassinate ever did yet he may not only deny it and yet not Lye by vertue of a Mental Equivocation but though he be as guilty as any Person that ever was condemned in the World yet he may assert his Innocency with Oaths and notwithstanding by this Art he may free himself from all Guilt of Perjury and all other Sin And this quite destroys their Credit as to all their Asseverations and Oaths how many and horrid soever they be when they think themselves concerned to Equivocate He that would be believed against such Evidence as convicted this Lord had need be a Man of more than ordinary Credit But Men of his Lordships Principles are quite broke as to this for their Credit is blasted by their Doctrine Thirdly They may use such Mental Reserves or Equivocations when they are urged by others not to use any or when themselves profess and swear they use none So De Secund. Bonacina Sanchez and Fa. Parsons in his Treatise of Equivocations approved by Garnet and Blackwell One passage whereof I will here give you If saith he the Incompetent Judge shall further ask whether you do not Equivocate you may answer no but with another Equivocation if again suspecting you he urges whether this third time you do not Equivocate then the third time also say no but with another secret Equivocation and so as often as he shall ask the like likewise by Equivocating say you do not Equivocate Fourthly By their Doctrine they may Lawfully use such Mental Reserve or Equivocation which in their Account makes their Speaking or Swearing falsly to be innocent Thus Fillincius saith That Equivocation in Rigour is no Lye nor Perjury So Toleno Equivocation may be used especially when it is expedient to conceal a thing So Bonacina It is not saith he unlawful to Equivocate as often as any Inconvenience or Injury is like to befall us by speaking Plainly Can therefore any Persons be more highly concerned to keep any thing secret than these Men are to conceal the Plot both for the dangerous Consequences of the Discovery and the Advantage of concealing it They cannot more effectually promote the Piot than by perswading us there is none and so making us the more secure they think hereby to stagger weak minded Protestants who cannot think that any Christian dares go out of the World with a Lye in his Mouth They think also hereby to weaken the Credit of the Witnesses and to disparage the Justice of the Nation And Lastly his Lordship and the rest of the Plorters executed before him may think to die as Martyrs in the Account of the Papists and as Innocent in the Judgment of many others But on the other hand if his Lordship or those executed before him had been so ingenuous to have confessed what they knew of this Hellish Plot they had broke the Neck of their own Design which seems dearer to them than their Lives or any other Concerns they had encouraged others of the Conspirators to have followed their Leaders herein and so the Plot had been wholly dissected and Popery it self in danger to be rendred odious to the whole Christian World and for ever hereafter to be abhorred and renounced by all that own the Christian Name as utterly repugnant to Christianity and to be abhorred by Mankind as that which bids Defiance to Humanity it self Having thus sufficiently answered those Passages in his Speech that assert his Innocency come we next to his false Commendation and Character of their Church In the third Paragraph saith he I have no reason to be ashamed of my Religion for it teacheth nothing but the right Worship of God Obedience to the King and due Subordination to the Temporal Laws of the Kingdom And I do submit to all Articles of Faith believed and taught in the Catholick Church believing them to be most consonant with the Word of God And whereas it hath so much and often been objected that the Church holds that Sovereign Princes Excommunicated by the Pope may by their Subjects be Deposed and Murdered as to the Murder of Princes I have been taught as a matter of Faith in the Catholick Faith that such Doctrine is Diabolical Horrid and Detestable and contrary to the Law of God Nature and Nations and as such from my heart I renounce and abominate it As for the Doctrine of Deposing of Princes I know some Divines of the Catholick Church hold it but as Able and Learned as they have writ against it but it was not pretended to be the Doctrine of the Church that is any Point of Catholick Faith Wherefore I do here in my Conscience declare that it is my True and Real Iudgment that the same Doctrine of Deposing Kings is contrary to the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom Injurious to Soveraign Power and consequently would be in me or any other of His Majesty's Subjects Impious and Damnable That their Church teacheth the contrary to the right Worship of God and Obedience to Kings is very easie to prove But it is a Work that hath been so often done already that here we shall wave it To come then to the nice Point viz. the King-killing Doctrine This is a Charge upon them of so horrid a nature that I do not wonder that they all use their utmost endeavours to perswade the World that they hold no such Doctrine That Mariana held it Gavan himself owned Sanctarellus his Book was a little more favourable to Kings than Mariana's and yet this was printed at Rome and approved by Mutius Vitellescus the General of the Jesuits Ribadinera Scribanius under the name of Bonarscius Becanus Oresterus do partly praise and partly defend Mariana And wherein doth Emanuel Sa come short of Mariana in that particular or Becarus in his English Controversies which are approved of not only by divers Bishops but by the Provincial Jesuits of Portugal and Germany Yea a whole Vniversity approves of it To which add Fa. Campian who may be in stead of all he declares That all the Jesuits spread far and wide through the whole World have entred into a League to make away all Heretical Kings in any manner whatsoever nor will they despair of effecting it so long as one Jesuit remains in the World In Epist ad Concil Reg. Angl. p. 22. The Church of Rome doth declare that the Pope hath power to depose Kings especially for Heresie This is not only the Opinion of all sorts of their Authors but is especially determined by their Popes and the Decrees