had they been permitted quietly to enjoy this small part they so rightfully possest they had gone no further But instead thereof Roderick King of Connaght then sole Monarch of Ireland raiseth the whole Kingdom to drive out Mac Morrough and his Welshmen upon which he appeals to Strongbow and renewes former contracts who hasts over with about 1200 fresh Men by them wars with the Waterfordians who were in Arms against him took the City and married the Kings Daughter with an assurance of the Reversion of the Kingdom and soon after disperses his Enemies then surrendred all his Conquests to the King who came over with a new Force to secure his Interest which so terrified the Irish that all their Kings and great Lords proffered to to be tributary and swore Allegiance and had they so continued they had felt no farther damages But no sooner was the Kings back turned but they are again up in Arms to disposess the English of what they had so justly atchieved who still subdued them and gained ground of them and obtained Grants of their new Conquests until all the Irish Kings and great Lords were vanquished and their Lands c. possest by the English Victors the Heirs of Ulster and Connaght married to the Kings Subjects whose successive Heirs in process of time were married unto the Royal Family and so their Lands and Honours came Hereditary in the Crown who of right disposed of them at pleasure Now had it not been the Interest as well as the Duty of the Irish to have submitted to their first Concessions Then Dermot Mac Morrough had sustained no wrong his right Heir had enjoyed his Dominion and the rest of the Irish great Lords had enjoyed their particular Rights none pretended to disturb them until constrained in their own defence So if we take a further view of their many Insurrections and perfidious Rebellions since they held their Honours and Lands from the Crown of England it will appear they were tempted to it by the weakness of the English Interest as in times of troubles in England by the Barons Wars and Struggles betwixt the two Roses c. When the Kings of England drew over part of their Army for Ireland some taking one side and some the other which did not only weaken Englands Strength in Ireland but divided what were left into powerful Factions betwixt the great English Lords of Ireland which became the cause of the ruine of that great Family of Desmond with several others of good Rank who though degenerated from their English Civilities yet after they turned Rebels against their Prince they fell wholly off to the Interest Manners and Customs of his and their own former Irish Enemy whereby Ireland was to be new conquered and replanted for the degenerate English were more stubborn Rebels and with more difficulty subdued than the rebellious Natives for although their Minds and Manners were degenerated they had so much English Blood left in their Veins as gave them English Courage and Resolution whereby Tho. Fitz Giralds and Desmonds Rebellions became harder work to subdue than any before them they also receiving great Incouragements and Aids from the Pope and King of Spain upon the account of Religion they became obdurate the same Indulgences that were granted to the Souldiers fighting against the Turk in the holy War being sent them whereby their Consciences were not only released from their Obligations of Allegeance to their Prince but strongly engaged on the behalf of holy Church to extirpate that mad and venemous Doctrine and Hellish Opinion as the Protestant Faith was then termed in a Pamphlet then publish'd intituled A Declaration of the Divines of Salamanca and Vallidolid dispersed through Ireland by O Sullivan a Spanish Priest which with divers other practices of the Irish to shake off the English Government is rehearsed and press'd by that pious Prelate Primate Usher the Glory of the Irish Protestant Church in his elegant Speech to an Assembly of all the States of Ireland April 1627. in which he defends my Assertion that it is the Interest of the Irish to aid and support the Prosperity of the English Interest amongst them and had they had Grace to have believed him some thousands of Irish Families now utterly ruined might have been in a prosperous state And after he had minded them of their traiterous tendering the Regency of Ireland to the French King and upon his refusal to the Spaniard which was by him accepted for although Henry the fourth of France was not Apostate enough to invade his Protestant Neighbours yet Charles the fifth of Spain and his Son Philip were Papist enough to admit the Popes Donation which the Irish obtained for them Title good enough not only to claim Ireland and invade it with several Armies of Italians and Spaniards who landed at Kinsale and Kerry to their cost but also to attempt England by their supposed invincible Armado in 88. but the invincible just God did not only deliver us from their power the Sword destroying his Land Souldiers in Ireland and the Sea swallowing up his Naval Force assayling England but also from that time blasted the Counsels and Successes of that aspiring Monarch that their Fame and Potency hath ever since dwindled away Portugal and the Low Countries soon after revolted and the stately Don who then talk'd and acted as proudly as Monsieur doth now was so far from beeing able to invade his Neighbours he hath been put to his shifts to secure his Hereditary Countries and as old as I am I hope to live to see it the case of Monsieur who though now stiled the most Christian King hath declared himself the most inveterate Enemy to the most Christian Faith and Profession in the Christian World and let but the Defender of the Faith turn his Subjects loose with his Commission in their pockets they would soon covince him of it and let him know that the English Blood that inspired their Ancestors at the Battel of Agincourt c. is boyling hot in their Veins and that Charles the Second may be as dreadful to France as ever was Henry the fifth c. when he pleaseth if our God hath not given us up for our impious provocations to be a prey and a spoil as he did Israel to the Assyrians a bitter and hasty Nation But to return to my Argument that it is the Interest of the Irish Papists to further the Protestant English Interest in Ireland I shall return to my reverend Author saith he They put me in mind of the Philosophers Observations that such who have a vehement respect to a few inferiour things are easily misled to overlook many great things so saith he they have so deep a sense of their present burthen of contributing small matters towards the support of the Kings Army to secure us from foreign Invasions that they overlook all those miserable Desolations that will come upon them by a long and heavy War which the having of an
I have over-estimated some particulars others are as much under and if I do allow Five hundred thousand pounds deduction from the Ballance of our fifteen years Consumption computed Ch. 4. the Remain is sufficient to move the Government to take the Consumption into consideration For my intruding upon politicks of Government I endeavour to confine my self within the verge of such particulars as have a strong ruling influence over the Trade and Wealth of a Country and the most apt Mediums to improve a Kingdom or State in Trade without proper Maxims and suitable practice in Rulers can never reach their Designs the whole success of Trade depends upon the Principles and Inclinations of the ruling part of a State For my Reflections on Principles of Religion I designed only to hint those that relate to the civil Policy and Peace of the Kingdom and I think I have confined my self within that verge not touching on one Controversie betwixt Protestants insisting only upon the uncharitable nay I may say unchristian Severities and Censures practised by the rigid of both parties to the grief and burden of the more pious and moderate Empty Casks make the greatest sound which I only reprove and plead for a charitable Union wherein we agree in order to the Promulgation of our common Faith and Preservation of the common Protestant Interest of Ireland c. And I judge the Prosperity of the Trade and Wealth of Ireland is much concerned therein as is stated in my Supplement What I observe of the bloody Principles and Practices of the Papists is but Historical being Collections out of authentick Authors most of their own and that only to these ends First To awaken some drowsie Protestants who seem to be lulling asleep on Dallilahs Lap where they may expect to have their Locks cut wherein their great strength lies and then will soon follow The Philistines be upon thee Sampson It is grievous to observe how many Protestants greedily lick up the Papists Debaucheries as if they were vying which should fill up the measure of our Iniquity soonest and provoke a jealous God most to send new desolating Judgments upon us not considering that this is the Jesuited Papists method to debauch in Manners in order to corrupt in Principle knowing that when Conscience is feared by a custom of Sins against the second Table Precepts all Religions will soon be alike to such And the matter is not great to themselves which they choose for God hath determined that no impenitent Drunkard Adulterer prophane Swearer c. shall be saved Luke 13.3 Acts 3.19.7.13 whether they be Papists Protestants or Dissenters from both but of all Religions in the world if you resolve to spend your days in rioting and excess in chambering and wantonness c. and venture your Souls on a death bed Repentance be Papists where Pardon of Sin is said to be obtained at least purchased by a meer verbal Confession tho' there be no Contrition appear nor profest purpose to reform if you live as I evidence in my Supplement from their own Authors But let all this sort of Protestants consider the Papists in October and November 1641. made no distinction betwixt the precise and prophane the Protestant and the Puritan were equal Hereticks with them with whom no Faith is to be kept nor Mercy to be shown when their Destruction tends to the Advancement of the Catholick Cause My second End is to warn the more serious and better principled Papists to save themselves their Families and Country from further desolation by these Jesuitical bloody Principles whereby some of their Priests have so often brought upon them and are now again plotting to compass their total ruine and destruction and had before this in all probability caused Ireland once more to swim in Blood even the Blood of Women and Children and other innocent persons both of Papists and Protestants if God had not touch'd the Hearts of some of their own Priests c. to be Discoverers Therefore since it is manifest all Papists are not poysoned with Tridentine bloody Principles pity it is the more Innocent should be involved in the miserys and mischiefs of the Guilty And that less than a total extirpation of Protestantism or Popery can be the issue of the next Rebellion is irrational to believe and as irrational to think it is possible for the Papists to carry the day if they consider the Disadvantage they are now under above what they were in 1641. And therefore have I asserted it their Safety and Interest to promote the potency of the English Interest amongst them as the only Medium to prevent their future Calamity The Searcher of Hearts knows I have not the least Gall or prejudice against Papists quia Papists I have many intimate Acquaintance and kind Friends amongst them with whom I willingly exchange kindnesses whose ruine and misery would greatly afflict me and hundreds of them yet living will and daily do acknowledge when it was in the power of my Hand to do them harm it was in my Heart to do them good many of them have removed out of other Precincts to come under my Government and Protection and in the time of the first Court of Claims addressed themselves to me as their common Sollicitor if they had but the least pretence to Innocency or of Kindness shewn to the English in their distress and as it never was so it is not now my design to incense their English Neighbours against them but should rather rejoyce to further an increasing neighbourly Friendship betwixt them on equal and safe terms much less is it my principle or the least of my design to provoke the Government to persecute them desiring to walk by that Golden rule to do to others as I would they should do to me all I aim at is to lay before the eyes of them sound in Morals the perniciousness of those Jesuitical Principles which I have reason to suspect they have never read or heard of and if they did never seriously consider the malignant nature and desperate consequences of them though they have not only made Ireland but all Christendom swim in Blood as appears Supplement Sect. 5. And that torrent can never be stop'd nor Irelands Peace never secured until these bloody savage Tridentine principles are renounced surely the Romish Church was more Catholick before Ignatius Loyola broach'd his hellish Doctrines than it can be since for the better half of the Christians of Europe then in their Communion are since broken off he being the first of their Fathers that vehemently maintained and rebelliously defended the Popes Supremacy over Emperors and Kings c. so far as to proclaim it lawful nay meritorious to destroy its opposers a Doctrine that hath been exploded and its Propagaters banished by all the Princes and States of their own Religion when they have found their own Estates in danger by it as I shew in my Supplement And why they who so much glory in
Bishop Usher in his Speech to the Assemblies of the States of Ireland April 1627 asserts this opinion that it is the Intereâ—â— of the Papists to promote the potency 〈◊〉 the English Interest in Ireland p. 77 to 80 Henry the 4 th of France refuseth but Phâ—lip of Spain accepts of the Donation 〈◊〉 Ireland from the Pope The Spaniarâ— never throve since p. 77 Bishop Usher's Prophecy of dismal times 〈◊〉 come on the Protestants by the Papists yet though sharp will be but short p. 81 82 The English great Plenty and Debaucheriâ— made them ripe for destruction p. 82 A hint of the most barbarous Tortures anâ— inhumane Cruelties of the Irish upon thâ— naked secure English p. 82 83 The excellent natural temper of the Irish evidenceth that the barbarous Crueltieâ— proceeded from the bloody Principles infused into them by their Priests p. 85 86. Their observation of the weakness of the English as to Arms their great Encouragement to rise p. 85 The Dismal destruction God brought on the Irish by the Sword Plague and Famine p. 87 88 The most sober of the Irish approved this Notion in the year 1651 1652. that it is their interest to promote the Potency of the English Interest p. 88 All Irish Papists are not infected with Jesuitical bloody Principles but many of them good Subjects and good Neighbours p. 89 It is the interest of the Irish Papists in any capacity to live to promote the English Interest to that Potency as all attempts to disturb it might appear irrational and desperate p. 90 It would encourage their Industry in Planting and Trading p. 90 It would incline the the most sober Papists to enquire into the differences about Religion if from under the dread of the Potency of the Popish Clergie p. 91 Their ignorance of the Scriptures the reason of their Errors p. 92 The novelty of the rebellious bloody Principles rejected by the ancient Roman-Church above 600 years after Christ p. 93 94 The equal Peace and Prosperity Honour and Trust Love and Friendship Irish Papists not Jesuited might enjoy if they would secure the English against the fear of Massacres c. p. 94 95 Sect. the second p. 96. asserts it above all other the Protestants of Ireland are obliged to promote the Potency of the English Interest there But in regard through mistake the Pages are not figured I can only refer to the supposed Letter of the Alphabet which the Reader may soon perform with his Pen. The Argument to secure themselves against the miseries of 41. being repeated p. 96. 1st Expedient to plant our Wall'd-Towns and erect new where needed to be done without charge by Manufacturies p. A. 2. To Institute Laws against single life with the reasons p. A. B. C. 3. Above all other Expedients to endeavour a right understanding betwixt all Protestants sound in Fundamentals c p. C. Bishop Bramhall's opinion concerning Criminal Schism p. E. Bishop Bramhall Taylor Sanderson and Hall c. differ from our fiery Zealots who esteem all Separations Criminal Schism and more sinful than Drunkenness Swearing Whoring c. it is the Jesuits not the Protestant Divines opinion p. F. The sober Dissentors agree with the Church in all Fundamentals both Positive and Negative p. F. and G. They maintain not only Internal but External Communion with the establish'd Church in all Essentials p. G. The Jews had their several Sects yet all esteemed Israelites while they adhered to Moses Law The German Lutherans and Calvinists more differ yet esteem each other Protestants p. H. It is a preposterous Zeal like Hell hot without light that makes different Opinions different Religions saith Bishop Bramhall p. E. The Papists who glory much in their Vnity are much more divided in Doctrine c. and yet esteem each other Catholicks p. H. I. If the Protestant Dissenters were as malignant against the Church as the Papists yet they could not be dangerous p. I. K. L. Irrational for Dissenters Papists or others to expect protection from a Prince oâ— State to whom they will not give aâ— Security in their power for their Loyalty p. L. M. Dissenters ought to avoid all occasions 〈◊〉 appearing or being engaged in any Fâ—ction in a State or reflecting on the Râ—ligion established asserted from Scripture Instances p. M. N. O. Errors in Schism more sinful than Error in Conformity p. O. P. The Authors Apologie for his Essay to Vnâ—on with his reasons how much the safeâ— and prosperity in Trade and Wealth dâ—pend on it p. Q. R. CHAP. III. ASSerts Irelands Interest in its own Government in what cases excepted p. 96 97 â—he most expeditious and effectual way to secure and plant Ireland with English is by the Armies and how to be managed p. 97 98 â—he neglect thereof the ruine of the English the last Massacre p. 98 〈◊〉 what cases by the Civil list c. Preferments Ireland may be advantaged by sending persons from England p. 99 â—hat reason of State there was heretofore to Govern Ireland by Ministers of State out of England c. are ceast now p. 100 101 â—easons why persons unacquainted with the humour and state of Ireland cannot so well secure its Peace nor promote its Prosperity as its own Members p. 102 to 114 â—hat are the discouragements to persons in England from setling upon their Estates in Ireland p. 105 106 â—esidents both ancient and modern of Princes c. Governing their Tributary Provinces by their own Princes and Nobles p. 107 It hath been the practice of the Kings of England since the Conquest to Govern Ireland by Interested Persons p. 108 109 Cases excepted when England had reason to send over persons disinterested but are all now removed p. 110 111 The Duke of Ormond hath enjoyed the longest Regency and undergone the greatest difficulties of any Vice-Roy since the Conquest and why p. 112 113 His Loyalty not only applauded by the King c. but his Service in Ireland approved by the English Parliament who offered him great rewards if he would have accepted of them p. 113 Mr. Spencer of my opinion p. 114 So Giraldus Cambrensis p. 115 So Sir Hen. Wooten p. 107 The Objection answered why I term English Protestants aliens to Irelands Interest p. 115 116 117 The case of the English in Ireland differs from all other Tributary Countreys they being not the Conquered but the Conquerors by vertue of whose blood and the blood of their Ancestors Ireland was subjected to the Crown p. 118 They are more obliged to secure the interest of the Crown than that is to protect them ibid. 1000 men raised in Ireland worth 2000 fresh-men brought from England for that service ibid. The sufferings themselves and their Progenitors have undergone deeply engageth them to be true to and resolute in defence of the English Interest above all others p. 119 Spencer of the same opinion p. 120 So Livy p. 121 A Catalogue of the Lord Lieutenants c. in two Columns to
Essentials in Worship agreed and maintain'd by Conforming and Nonconforming Protestants p. G. F. Fishing how to increase p. 13 Friars their several Orders whence and why instituted p. 212 213 Fundamentals agreed to by Dissenters with the Church p. G. G. Governors of Ireland unacquainted with the Country not capable of well managing its Affairs and why p. 102 to 107 This hath been the opinion and practice of our Kings from its first Conquest of which instances p. 108 109 In what cases excepted p. 110 111 I. Ireland's English Interest potent above what it was before the last Rebellion p. 47 48 Irelands Interest in being Govern'd by its own Members p. 47 to 96 Irish Papists their interest in the potency of the English Interest in Ireland p. 73 to 94 Ignorance in the Scripture the cause of Papists Rebellion p. 91 92 Judges and Juries of Ireland much more ingaged to suppress Sedition and Rebellion in Ireland than those of England can be and why p. 105 106 Jesuits their inhumane bloody principles from their own Authors p. 195 to 203 Papists reflections and glosses on them p. 204 to 207 Jesuits their Original and Characte p. 211 to 214 Jesuits by what Authority their Order Instituted p. 214 Jesuits banished and their Tenents exploded by whom p. 222 to 225 Jesuits the natural consequence of their Principles p. 225 They abrogate the Laws of Humanity Morality and Divinity p. 226 Their dexterity in fathering their Brats on innocent persons p. 227 Jesuits their suitable practices to their bloody Principles p. 231 to 240 Jesuits imployed by the Pope to destroy the Greek Church p. 236 Jesuits bloody work in the West and East-Indies p. 238 L. Lands of Ireland most possest by English Proprietors p. 48 Loyalty evidenc'd in many of the Irish Papists p. 89 to 203 Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany more differ than English Protestants yet esteem each other Protestants and unite against Popery p. H. Laws against single life useful in Ireland and why p. A. B. C. M. Massacre of Ireland how inhumane and barbarous p. 81 to 87 Militia of Ireland is its great Security p. 98 Militia neglected the cause of the easie massacring the naked Protestants 1641 p. 81 Manufacturies of Ireland by whom incouraged and erected how ruined p. 188 to 191 Mystical Babylon who in the opinion of Papists p. 220 N. Nobility or Peers of Ireland most English Protestants p. 63 to 67 Nobility their Catalogue 1571 and 1641 p. 67 to p. 73 Non-residents enjoying Salleries a great loss to Ireland p. 99 O. The Original of most Noble and Worshipful English Families of Ireland were from Offices p. 96 Ormond Duke the longest Regency over Ireland under the greatest difficulties and why p. 112 113 Ormond the great confusion he found Ireland in at his access to the Government 1662. and how soon composed p. 182 to 188 P. Parliaments of Ireland altered in their Constitution from an Irish to an English Interest p. 58 to 63 A good Plea for Irish Papists against their Jesuited Priests that shall again instigate them to rebel p. 88 Planting of Ireland discouraged by restraint of Trade and being liable to be tried for capital Offences by Judges and Juries in England to whom they are unknown c. p. 106 Poysonings and Stabbings the Popes arguments to convince gainsayers instances p. 228 229 Principles of the Jesuits inconsistent with the just power and right of Princes p. 240 R. Religion Protestant condemned as a venomous Doctrine and Hellish Opinion by the Papists p. 76 Religion Protestant why no more received by Irish Papists p. 90 91 Rebellion and bloodiness of Popery above all other Religions in the World whence p. 193 194 Rome can be no Mother-Church nor Superior to others why p. 218 Rome hath only the primacy of Apostacy from the principles of the Primitive Church p. 218 to 222 Rome c. always promoted and encouraged the rebellions of Ireland p. 76 to 85 Romes struggles with the Greek Church for Supremacy reduced them to Turkish Slavery p. 237 S. Statute Staple its original use and method p. 43 to 47 Souldiers who are best for Field-Armies p. 98 99 to 120 The Statutes of the 10 th of Hen. 7. and 23d of Hen. 8. no bar to persons born in Ireland from being Lord Lieutenant c. p. 100 101. Souldiers 1000 bred in Ireland worth 2000 bred in England for Irish Service and why p. 118 Subsidies of Ireland their establishment p. 164 to 173 Supremacy from the Pope from whence p. 208 209 Supremacy a Tallent so well improved by the Pope that he deserves it p. 234 Schism Criminal when p. D. E. T. Trade of England ingrost by the Guild of the Hance p. 18 Trade in Companies countenanc'd by the Kings and Parliaments of England since Edward the Third p. 20 Trade to the East-Indies when first obtained p. 24 Treasure the vast summ Ireland hath cost England above what it was ever worth p. 53 Table reducing Plantation Acres into English p. 162 1â—â— Trade why no more improv'd under the Government of the Justices and Duke of Ormond p 181 Tyrants are those Princes over their own Subjects who are Slaves to the Pope p. 235 Turkish Slavery of the Greek-Church the Product of the Popes Supremacy p. 2 7 Trent Council illegal c. p. 217 U. Usher Bishop his opinion declared it was the Interest of Irish Papists to support and strengthen the Interest of the Crown of England in Ireland p. 77 to 81 Usher Bishop Prophecies of the Irish Rebellion 40 years before it was and 〈◊〉 great trouble to the Protestants by thâ— Papists yet to come p. 80 81 Vengeance of God dreadful on the Irish foâ— their bloody Massacre 1641 p. 86 87 Vnity though boasted of by Papists yet arâ— they much more divided than Protestants p. H. I. Vnion of Papists chiefly in Errors and Immoralities Vnion in Religion how far necessary amongst Protestants to promote the Prosperity and secure the Peace of Ireland p. C. D. W. Weaving Broad cloath when first set up in England p. 25 Wools first prohibited their transportation p. 25 Wools may easily be prevented transporting expedients proposed p. 39 to 43 Wools transporting the ruine of our Clothing Trade p. 39 Wall'd-Towns to be increased and well planted to secure the safety of English Protestants in Ireland p. A. Women drunk with the blood of the Saints Rev. 17. who in the Papists opinion p. 219 221 Y. Guild of the Hance its Antiquity and great Trade p. 43 Their dissolution and why p. 34 Z. Zeal preposterous like Hell hot without light that makes different Opinions different Religions saith B p. Bramhall p. E. Zeal Popish and Jesuitical that esteems all Separation Criminal Schism ibid. Books lately Printed A Judgment of the Comet which became first generally visible to us in Dublin Decemb the 13th 1680. By a person of Quality Foxes and Firebrands or a Specimen of the Danger and Harmony of Popery and
was divided into East and West then began a new Roman Jurisdiction namely the Popes Pomp the Kingdom of the Papists took upon it all the Power of the first Beasts the Roman Emperor and compelled the Christians to Idolatry and Service of false Gods under pretence of honouring Christ and Saints Again on ch 17. he doth affirm that the Women prophesied of to be the Mother of Whoredoms and Abominations of the earth drunk with the Blood of Saints c. to be Christian Rome Again on chap. 18. Sect. 3. With this Babylon have Princes and Prelates and whole Kingdoms committed Whoredoms and Abominanations So Hollcot pag. 18. complaining of the Priests and Prelates of Rome in his time saith They be like the Priests of Baal they resemble the Priests of Dagon they are the Priests of Priapus and Angels of Hell So Aventine lib. 6. I am ashamed to say what manner of Bishops we have with the Revenue of the Church they feed Horses Hounds I need not say Whores So Mantuan lib. 3. Their Wickedness is in every mans mouth Cities and Countries talk of it the bruite thereof hath quenched all care of Vertue So their Bishop Cornelius Epist 3. With what monsters of Filthiness with what channel of Uncleanness with what pestiferous Contagion are both Priests and People defiled c. So their Palingenus lib. 5. warns the people Let no Fryar Monk or any other Priest come within thy doors take heed of them they are the dregs of men the fountain of folly the sinks of sin Wolves under Lambs skins c. under the shadow of Religion hide a thousand unlawful acts Committers of Rapes abusers of Boys spending night and day either openly with Whores or secretly with Boys O shameful saith he can the Church endure such Hogs Saith Plantina Vita Marcellini What shall we think will become of this our age wherein our Vices are grown to that height that they have scarce lest a place with God for Mercy how great is the Leachery of all sorts amongst the Priests and the chief Rulers vid. His Life of the Popes Saith Mantu lib. 3. They are hateful to Heaven and loathsome with unclean Lusts c. they rather kindle and provoke God by their Services than appease him never hope for help so long as such pray for you Saith Hierome Whilst I staid at Babylon and was an inhabitant of that purple Whore the Senate of Pharisees made an uproar and the whole Faction conspired against me if you would see the barbarous cruelty of one Pope towards another plucking out of Eyes famishing in loathsom Prisons cutting off Tongues Hands Fingers Noses Stones c. vide Paget fol. 112. Saith St. Augustin on Psalm 44. They have made us the Citizens of Babylon we left him that made us and worship what we make our selves Saith St. Ambrose Apocalips lib. 6. Rome is become a second Babylon Saith Chrysostom Hom. 36. 1 Cor. The Church at this day is like unto a Woman that hath quite lost her Modesty Saith Vincent Religious Orders are become unto mens Souls the way of perdition Saith Card. Beno They are led by the Spirit of Error and Doctrine of Devils Beno de Vita Hildeb Saith Matth. Paris in Hen. 2. Whence Christians were wont to fetch the Waters of Righteousness there they find a poysoned puddle Abbot Joachim on Jeremiah chap. 1 and 2. proves the Romish Church to be the Whore of Babylon mentioned Rev. 17. They have chosen Antichrist for Christ the Devil for God and Hell for Heaven Nay certain of their own Prophetesses as Saint Bridget lib. 4. cap. 133. and St. Hildegrard the Nun in her 2d Book c. declaim vehemently against the Vices as abominable and their State as antichristian So their Bishop Cornelius in his Oration to the Council of Trent Would to God they were not fallen with one consent from Faith to Infidelity from Christ to Antichrist Saith Platina on John 10. The Popes are clean departed from Peters steps vid. Paget fol. 171 c. Saith Cataldus in his Prediction of Rome Thou unhappy Babylon the damned pit of Priests It would be endless to give you the Testimony of their own Fathers Bishops Fryars Nuns c. of Romes dreadful Apostacy from Christ to Antichrist and from Truth to Error from Boniface 3. anno 602. to Leo 10. 1520. the Council of Trent was proposed and from Leo 10. to Paul 3. the Council was opened Hist Counc Trent 97. all which 20 years time were spent in bloody Wars betwixt the Emperor and the Popes the Emperors and Francis the first of France c. vide the Life and Reign of Charles the fifth where you will find the Pope changed sides theree or four times as his advantage lay to weaken them and strengthen himself though contrary to several Oaths and Leagues agreed on But did they themselves escape no Rome was several times taken and sack'd the Pope besieged in the Bastile glad to compound on base conditions though he kept them not which Confusions made bloody work all Italy over that by their continued bloody Wars the Pope had so wearied the Emperor and Princes in strugling with him that Charles the fifth resigned the Empire and retired to a Monastry and all others let him do what pleased him and did themselves what he plesaed to be quiet and then the Council of Trent past their impious Canons though not without much contradiction Thus you see by whom approved next consider by whom rejected and banished How far their seditions bloody Principles have been exploded and detested by learned Romanists you may observe Sect. 1. p. 204. to 208. which I there inserted to this end that you may observe all Papists are not Jesuited Papists it was evident in the last Irish Rebellion a considerable number of the Irish Nobility and Gentry not only disapproved but violently opposed the Nuntio's party who copied out the Jesuits Principles and Practices as you may read in Borlacy's History of the Irish Wars in 1649 6150 c. and in this last Irish Plot I have heard several of good Rank of their party vehemently declare their abhorrency of it but divers of their Clergy have been Discoverers and Witnesses against their Primate Plunket c. which nothing could move them to but Duty some of them being in a plentiful condition and titular Dignitaries in their Church are thereby reduced to great wants even to extremity the more is the pity And as their Principles have been detested so their Practices have been resisted and their persons banished all Popish Realms and States as fast as they discerned their destructive consequences as in these following Instances may appear 1. The State of Venice did not only banish but violently thrust them out of the Country never to return and made it capital for any man the Duke himself to move for their Restoration you may read the Story at large in Howels Survey of the Republick of Venice fol. 161. to 167.
such a dread of the like Miseries that might be perpetrated in England by them moved the Parliament to desire of the King the Ordering the Militia on pretence for the better security of the Nation against Papists and speedier Suppression of the Irish Rebellion upon which Head arose that woful Breach on which that unnatural War with all its dismal consequences succeeded from that time began the rude Tumults of London Apprentices c. and all other misbehaviour as you may read in Scobels Collections of that years Transactions And on that occasion succeeded that Petition and large Remonstrance from the Parliament presented to the King December 14. 1641. which laid the foundation of all our succeeding Miseries so that all Englands Scotlands and Irelands Troubles since Henry the eighth shak'd off the Papal Yoke have arose either from the Papists Struggles to recover their tyrannical Dominion over these Kingdoms or the Divisions they have made amongst Protestants by their wily sleights And what their Plots have been against the Life of Charles the second and the Peace of England of late we are wearied with reading the Discoveries and Evidences in Print I shall only insert their Oath of Secresie which will serve for an Epitome of the whole Plot at least the Design of it and indeed it is the truest Explanation of all their former Oaths of Confederacy extant In this the Monks Hood is thrown by of defending and maintaining His Majesties just Rights c. They here clearly renounce and disown any Allegiance and do swear to help his Holiness's Agents c. to extirpate and root out and destroy the said pretended King of England c. The Oath of Secrecy given by William Rushton to me Robert Bolron February 2. 1676. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen I Robert Bolron being in the presence of Almighty God the blessed Mary ever Virgin the blessed Michael the Arch-Angel the blessed St. John Baptist the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all the Saints in Heaven and to you my Ghostly Father do declare and in my heart believe the Pope Christs Vicar General to be the true and only Head of Christs Churh here on Earth and that by vertue of the Keys of Binding and Loosing given his Holiness by our Saviour Christ he hath Power to depose all Heretical Kings and Princes and cause them to be killed Therefore to the utmost of my power I will defend this Doctrine and his Holinesses Rights against all Usurpers whatever especially against the now pretended King of England in regard that he hath broke his Vows with his Holinesses Agents beyond Seas and not performed his Promises in bringing into England the holy Roman Catholick Religion I do renounce and disown any Allegiance as due to the said pretended King of England or Obedience to any of his inferour Officers and Magistrates but do believe the Protestant Doctrine to be Heretical and Damnable and that all are damn'd which do not forsake the same and to the best of my power will help his Holinesses Agents here in England to extirpate and root out the said Protestant Doctrine and to destroy the said pretended King of England and all such of his Subjects as will not adhere to the holy See of Rome and the Religion there professed I further do promise and declare that I will keep secret and private and not divulge directly or indirectly by Word Writing or Circumstance whatever shall be proposed given in charge or discovered to me by you my Ghostly Father or any other engaged in the promoting of this pious and holy Design and that I will be active and not desist from the carrying of it on and that no hopes of Rewards Threats or Punishments shall make me discover the rest concerned in so pious a Work and if discovered shall never confess any Accessaries with my self concerned in this Design All which I do swear by the blessed Trinity and by the blessed Sacrament which I now purpose to receive to perform and on my part to keep inviolable and do call all the Angels and Saints in Heaven to witness my real intention to keep this Oath In testimony whereof I do receive this most holy and blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist By this Oath it is evident Popelings are no Changelings Hildebrands Principles commencing an Dom. 606. are here repeated in their full strength above a thousand years after and why these treasonable Plots and Principles were not since the time of this Oath effectually perpetrated is so notoriously manifest in the multitudes of Prints published on that occasion it evidenceth it was not for want of good will on their parts And although God hath gratiously and wonderfully preserved the precious Life of the King and in him the Lives of us all that value our Religion Yet have these Incendiaries not lost their labour but have accomplished that which is next to cutting all our Throats viz. the fomenting a Misunderstanding and Jealousie betwixt the most indulgent and compassionate Prince and his faithful and loyal Subjects A doleful consideration it is to all serious loyal Hearts to observe a Prince so lately received with all expressible passions of Joy not only by those that expected Gain and Advancement but by others that knew they should suffer Loss as to their private Fortunes yet were so weary of their past and then present Confusion and so well satisfied in the Kings Gratious Declarations and Intentions they could and did say as Mephibosheth to David For as much as our Lord the King is come again in peace let Zibah take all let Royalists but not Papists take our Crown and Bishops Lands our Regiments and Troops c. our Hearts shall joyn with our Hands to lift the King into his Throne which we defie all other Hands to do without us so England c. may be once more settled And with what mutual content both King and People have enjoyed each other till the very day this last Hell-hatch'd Plot broke out is notorious to all Europe as well as Great Britain and Ireland till then we heard of no Court nor Country Parties no Whiggs nor Tories c. but in Irelands Boggs c. no Petitioners Abhorrers or Addressers but what the King was pleased with no executing penal Laws on Dissenters but on the contrary Subjects entirely and universally endeared to a Prince in his own nature compounded of of Tenderness and Sympathy pleading with Parliaments against penal Statutes and proposing to their Consideration that some Provision might be made to enable him to dispence with such Protestants who through misguided Conscience could not conform to the Ceremonies Discipline c. of the Church vid. Speeches Octob. 26. 1662. and again Mar. 6. 1678. His Majesty did not only press the House but also commanded the Lord Chancellor to commend to their consideration not only what might tend to preserve the Protestant Religion in general but for an
their Antiquity and so frequently challenge our Protestant Divines to shew them where our Religion was before Luther should imbibe a Religion they cannot shew where it was before Loyola so many years his junior is hard to give the reason of unless it be this one that since the Light of the Gospel hath shined in the world their Deeds of Darkness could no ways be hid nor defended either by Scripture or Reason only by bloody War and cruel Inquisition by destroying the Lives of their Opponents in order to shut their eyes and stop their mouths And having thus far endeavoured to vindicate my self against the censure of Presumption in treating upon Politicks and from uncharitable Severity in my Descants on Religion I shall submit the whole to the Judgment of the charitable judicious and for the rest as much slight their Censure as they despise my Labour THE CONTENTS PART I. CHAP. I. Shewing the reasons why Ireland is so little improved in Trade and Wealth I. FRom the Impediments it is subject unto not common to other Countreys Pag. 1 1 Impediment The unsetledness of the Countrey p. 2 3 4 2 Impediment From the perplexity of the minds of the people p. 5 3 Impediment From its plenty of Provision p. 5 6. 4 Impediment From the height of the Interest of Money p. 7 5 Impediment From the lowness of Farming and purchasing Land p. 7 6 Impediment From the low esteem the generous and worshipful Calling of a Merchant is of in the Countrey p. 8 9 7 Impediment is from the lowness of the Credit of the Tradesmen of the Countrey p. 10 1. Arising from the delatoriness of Law-proceedings ibid. 2. From the smalness of their Stocks ibid. 3. From the bad payment the Gentry c. make to the Tradesmen ib. Expediences proposed for remedy of this grand obstruction p. 11 12 13 Honourable Titles are made contemptible by dishonourable qualities p. 15 Theodosius the Emperor made severe Edicts to reform it p. 16 Our Virgin Queen was careful of the Virginity of Honour ib. The Institution of Baronists by King James with their qualifications p. 16 17 CHAP. II. SHews the second Head of the Causes of Irelands not improving in Trade c is from its excessive consumption of forreign growth and Manufacturies p. 18 Why some Countreys may consume more than others with much less damage p. 19 The vast consumption of our Wealth by forreign Silks c. exceeding twenty to one above our Grand-fathers which ruine our own Manufacturies p. 20 21 France gains by their gay Attire and modes ibid. If poor Ireland imitate rich England in Garb it will be begger'd p. 22 Englands care to prevent their ruine by excess in Apparel by sumptuary Laws p. 23 24 25 The spruce Garb especially of the meaner sort besides the consumption of our Wealth is attended with many other intollerable inconveniences p. 26 27 28 Not only England but the Jews and Heathens had their sumptuary Laws by which Harlots or Women of ill fame were prescribed their Attire p. 29 30 The contempt put upon gay Clothes by the most Puissant and Wise Emperors and Princes p. 30 31 32 We consume more by riot and excess than the Kings Revenue amounts to p. 32 33 The opinion of Mr. Fuller Luther and Bishop Hall of this Childish vanity of gay Clothes p. 33 34 35 CHAP. III. OF Wealth-consuming and Trade-obstructing Debaucheries p. 37 1. Profane Oaths p. 38 39 Bishop Hall's Censure p. 39 40 Profane swearing is the preparatory cause of false swearing p. 40 The viciousness of the Papals in point of Perjury p. 41 Whilst profane Swearing passeth for a venial false swearing will never be esteemed a mortal sin p. 42 2. Wealth-consuming Debauchery is Gaming p. 42 1. High Gaming amongst the Gentry pag. 42 43 2. Chiefly peasantly and mechanick Gamesters that consume their time and money in Bowling-Alleys p. 43 3. Wealth-wasting Debauchery is Whoreing p. 44 1. The wealthier sort in their costly Misses alias Strumpets p. 46 48 It fills the Countrey with Bastards to the great charge of Parishes p. 45 The several motives to Strumpets to prostrate themselves p. 46 47 This Vice effeminates a people and unfits them for warlike Employment p. 48 Several Instances of the ruining nature of this vice p. 48 49 The severity of the Laws and punishment of this Sin by Turks and Pagans p. 49 50 CHAP. IV. Of the most Wealth-consuming Debauchery of Drunkenness THe dismal effects of it p. 51 Bishop Hall's Sentence p. 52 53 Luther's opinion p. 54 The great consumption of Wealth by our Wine-bibbers p. 54 By our Ale-topers ibid. The loss of the labour of many persons able to work employed as Drawers and Tapsters c. p. 55 The damage of our Manufactures by Drunkenness ibid. Youth debauch'd by drunken Masters and Masters undone by drunken servants p. 56 Drunkenness a sin oft inflicted upon a Nation in judgment and a fore-runner of destruction p. 57 Expedients proposed for remedy p. 57 1. Statutes against it to be executed upon Tiplers and Taverns ibid. 2. Observes how the lives and healths 〈◊〉 many persons are destroyed by it 3. The ensnaring practice of healthing t◠be restrain'd and rejected especially a◠the Tables of Magistrates and persons 〈◊〉 Quality p. 58 59 The practice of Healthing sinful both in the Provoker and Accepter p. 60 Heathens abominated and severely punish'd Drunkenness of which several Examples p. 61 Drunkenness hath been the ruine of many great Kingdoms and States instance p. 62 63 64 The opprobius Epithetes given of Drunkards by Heathens p. 64 65 Drunkenness fatal to Armies p. 65 66 67 68 CHAP. V. Observing the spring from whence all the Debauchery of Christendom flows DEbauch'd Christians worse than debauch'd Pagans p. 69 Debauchery in Christendom proceeded from the Fountain of all filthiness Rome p. 70 Holy Places holy Ceremonies c. crowded holy lives out of the Church ibid. Confest by their own Prelats p. 71 Declared by Luther in his Genealogie of the Pope as Anti-Christ p. 72 73 Consciences once seared by a custom of Immoralities can never long struggle for truth in Divinity p. 73 The present generation of Debauches in Christendom exceed all we ever read of in former ages or Pagan Nations p. 74 Some live as if they had abandoned all thoughts of future State all belief of a God Judgment Heaven or Hell They turn all seriousness either in Divinity or Morality into a Ridicule p. 76 CHAP. VI. States the intollerable charge Ireland is at by maintaining Foreigners to its peculiar interest in the most profitable Employments 1. BY the Court of Claims p. 79 2. By Farmers of the Kings Revenue p. 80 3. The Contracters for the Treasury p. 81 4. Pensions and Annuities to Absentees p. 82 5 Foreign Merchants and their Factors p. 82 83 6. Trading in Foreign Ships p. 83 7. By Absentees drawing over the Rents p. 84 85 86 87 8. The Attendants of our Nobility