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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	abandon_v	conclude_v	france_n	14	3	6.7582	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04410	An exact and sound discovery of the chiefe mysteries of jesuiticall iniquity	Bargrave, Isaac, 1586-1643.; Micanzio, Fulgenzio, attrib. auth.	1619 (1619)	STC 14529; ESTC S113297	14,943	128

with strange dexterity and wondrous iugling they vtterly ruine those designes to vvhich they had giuen a beginning The league of Fraunce treated and concluded by them not long after they abandoned when they saw things prosper on the Kings side and England so often promised by them to the Spaniardes yet in such manner perfourmed so confirmes this my Discourse that there needs no farther proofe Tenthly from what hath beene already sayde it necessarily followes that the Iesuites haue no good intention towardes anie Prince what euer eyther temporall or spirituall but onely serue them so farre as they may serue theyr owne commodity Nay it followeth yet further that no Prince much lesse any vnder Prelates can make the like vse of them because they shew themselues at the verie same time equally affected to all making them selues French with French men Spaniards with Spaniardes and so with all other according as the occasion requires frō which they do intend to extract their profite They haue no regard of the preiudice of one more then of another and therefore those enterprizes in which they haue intermedled haue seldome times succeeded well beecause they haue no purpose to serue further then their owne interest dictates to them And in this the Artifice which they vse is most notorious some of them faining themselues to be partiall to the crown of France others to Spaine others to the Emperour and some to other Princes of whom they desire to bee fauoured And if any of these Princes please to make vse of some Iesuite whom he holdes for his confident friend hee immediately writes to the Father Generall the businesse which hee hath to treate and expects his answere together with order what hee shall doe and conformable to that Commission he rules himselfe neuer regarding whether that Order be conformable to the intention of the Prince who commits the care of that businesse to him but if the society be serued he takes little care what seruice hee doeth vnto the Prince Besides this because the Iesuites vnderstande the interest of all Princes and are most knowing in all thinges daylie treated in secret Counselles those who pretend to hold with France propound to the King and his principall Ministers certaine conditions of State and important considerations which are sent to them from their Politicke Fathers at Rome And those that pretend to hold with the Crowne of Spaine doe iust the same with them and so with the rest From which course of theirs there ariseth such a diffidence in the hearts of Christian Princes that none giue credit to other which is a maine preiudice to the publike peace and vniuersall welfare of Christendome the which diffidence of theirs is that which makes it so difficult a thing to conclude a league against the common enemy precious peace to be of so little valewe a mongst Princes Furthermore vvith these artificious deuices they haue so opened the eyes of the world and so sharpened mens wittes in matter of State that this day to the notable preiudice of the holye Church they attend to nothing els but matter of policie and poyse all their actions in that ballance But to the end that these Iesuiticall stratagems may yet appeare more plainly I cannot here conceale the meanes by which they in ueigle Princes to their party There are some yeares nowe past since one of these Fathers called father Parsons the Assistant of England wrote a booke against the succession of the King of Scotland to the Crowne of England And another Father called Crittonius with some others of the same order in a Book which they wrote defended the Title of the King of Scotland opposing the opinion of Father Parsons and faining to be at discord amongst themselues although all this was indeede cunningly done and by the command of their Father Generall onely for this purpose that whosoeuer shold succeede in the Kingdome of England they might haue an excellent Argument to worke in him a great good opinion of their Society and to extract their own ends from him A faire example to shew vs that Princes are the obiects of all Iesuiticall actions and determinations and by consequence to make good their own saying That their Societie is a Grand Monarchy Againe that the trueth of this may appeare that the Iesuites haue no regard whether they please or displease any Prince where it toucheth vppon their owne commoditie although the experience of infinite things past maketh it as cleare as the Sun it selfe yet the particular which I shal here subioyn will render it euerie way most euident There is no person in the Worlde whom they are more bounde to serue and obey then the Byshoppe of Rome not only for many other reasons but especialy because they make a particular vowe to obey him Yet when Pius Quintus went about to reforme some of these Fathers reducing them vnto the performance of theyr dutie in the Quire they would not obey him esteeming that a notorious preiudice to their society and those fewe of them who yeelded themselues to the Popes pleasure accepting that profession were alwayes afterwardes in mockery called by their fellowes Quintini nor could euer any of them get the least preferment among them In the same kinde they opposed glorious Saint Charles Arch-byshoppe of Millain who as Legate alatere to his Holynesse endeauoured to reduce them to a Religious Discipline But what should I speake of these since they obey not the Sacred Cannons them-selues but agaynst their Decrees make Merchandize of Pearles Rubies and Diamondes the which they bring from the Indies and there is an opinion that the greatest part of precious Stones which are solde in Venice belong to the Iesuits The ground of which opinion hath beene receiued from their owne brokers whom they haue emploied in the sale of them But that they are no faithfull seruants vnto the Byshoppe of Rome those Fathers knowe well who for defaulte of theyr seruice were called by processe to Rome I neyther will nor can name them nor will I wade farther into this matter as wel that I may not bee compelled to speake of some Prince whom my Discourse will not very well please my selfe desiring to do seruice to all and to offend none as beecause I intend not here to make an inuectiue against the Iesuites but onely to giue a shorte and plaine draught of theyr courses and customes For as many times we behold one afflicted with some greeuous infirmitie sending forth such lamentable cryes as reach heauen it selfe and euery one perceyues that the man is terribly indisposed but no man is able to discerne the originall cause of his euill so the whole worlde complaines of the Iesuites some for beeing persecuted others for being treacherously serued by them but the mischiefe still remaines among vs. Nor is the cause therof easily discouered which is nothing else but a prodigeous and immense desire which they haue to encrease their owne power in respect whereof they