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A38476 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. 1661 (1661) Wing E3111; ESTC R31433 12,469 20

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Religion in Discipline and Ceremonies so they have likewise observed it in Doctrine First they will bring in the Arminian Doctrine and the Cassandrian-Grotian Divinity and then they know that down-right Popish Doctrine will easily follow Let the Serpent but winde in his head he will soon work in his whole body Let Arminianism but obtain Countenance and Licence in the Kingdome our Universities Schools Pulpits Presses will soon be filled with Popish Doctrines Witness the publishing of so many points of Popery one after another especially those two which you may frequently meet with in the Books of Dr. Hammond Dr. Bramhall now Primate of Ireland and Dr. Jeremy Tayler now a Bishop in that Kingdome and of other High Prelatists namely That the Pope is not Antichrist And that the Church of Rome is a true Visible Church Altae sic surgunt maenia Romae Thus according to the Rule of their Masters the Jesuits they seek to re-establish Rome by degrees here in England and to do it so as wee may not know nor see So much for Contz●ns first Rule II. Rule propounded by the Jesuit His second Rule is this To press the examples and practises of some eminent men as a good means to draw on the rest And is not this Rule likewise well observed by our Prelatical men They dazle the eyes of the meaner and less judicious people with the practices of some noble and learned persons If any begin to startle or be troubled at the matter and cannot swallow down the Service-book and Popish Ceremonies and observations they presently answer My Lord Bishop doth thus and thus and my Lords Grace of Canterbury doth thus and thus The Knights of the most noble order of the Garter-bow versus Altare towards the Altar at their Instalment His Majesties Chappel is thus and thus adorned many honourable Lords do observe these Orders and Ceremonies A. C. Speech 〈◊〉 Star-Chamb p. 47. The learned Doctors of the Universities are conformable thereunto Such a zealous Minister is Re-ordained by a Diocessan Bishop and now reads the Service-book Such a strict Professor is present when the Service-book is read and the Ceremonies practised And what will you be wiser than so many noble persons so many reverend Prelates so many learned Doctors so many eminent famous Preachers and Professors By these and the like pretences they cast a mist before the peoples eyes and so dazle them that they cannot or will not see that Jesuitical design that is carried on for Altering Religion III. Rule of the Jesuit His third Rule is this That Arch-hereticks and such as are teachers of Heresie must be banished the Common-wealth at once if it may safely be done but if not by degre●s It is easie to know who are the Jesuits Arch-hereticks whom they would have banished even the most active orthodox conscientious Protestants the Calvinists as they call them who have eyes in their heads to discern and discover their Antichristian designs and will not be gulled by their sleights as the ignorant people are For the extirpating and rooting out of these the Jesuit prescribes a method of twelve or thirteen steps Contz Poll. l. 2. c. 18 sect 6. for which I refer the Reader to the Book it self such as will not Bow they must Break such as will not comply with the Popish Design must be crushed According to this Rule the Prelates have acted By them the Puritan Preachers have been counted the Arch-hereticks and teachers of Heresie in England though they teach nothing but what is consonant to Scripture and the publick Doctrine of the Church yet they are the teachers of Heresie And being too many to root out at once it must be done by degrees The Puritan party must be divided one from another and then they may be more easily suppressed It may be done with more case and less noise And therfore first they did cast all those out of the Minister that were not punctual and full Conformists to the old Ceremonies This was the practise of Prelats Next because there was a company of conformable Puritans as themselves stiled them they procured an Edict for Recreations upon the Lords day and this must be published by Ministers that such as could stand under the Ceremonies though groaning under that burthen might fall and be broken in peeces under this And yet because some men suspected of Puritanisme might have a latitude here beyond their brethren they had a third Engine and that was the enjoyning now Ceremonies and Adorations that if any could swallow the Book yet they might discover and cast them out by straining here To this they added a fourth Prayers and Proclamations to be read against the Anti-prelatical party in Scotland And their last and greatest Engine which was like the Powder-plot against the godly Ministry of the Nation to blow up the Relicks of them at once was the Oath for Episcopacy the Oath Etcaetera By these successive Stratagems they made account utterly to extirpate those Arch-hereticks As it was sometimes said to Elijah Him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay and him that escapeth the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay 1 King 19. So had they said Him that escapeth the dint of the Ceremonies shall the Book of Sports slay and him that escapeth the Book of Sports shall the new Injunctions slay and him that escapeth the new Injunctions shall the Proclamations slay and him that escapeth the Proclamations shall the Oath slay And this by degrees and pauses that they shall neither know nor see till we slay them and cause the work to cease If one snare do not intangle them another shall If one Engine do not batter down this party another shall The Prelates have variety of means and engines to ruine conscientious Ministers and Professors IV. Rule of the Jesuit The fourth Rule is this That those which are adversaries to the true Religion which with him is Popery be put by their Dignities places and offices and not trusted with power or publick Imployment I think none is such a stranger in England but from his own knowledge can witness this The bestowing of all Offices the collating of Benefices the election of Masters and Fellows of Colledges in both Vniversities who have had the over-ruling hand in them all the power of Mandamus but the Prelats and their faction and whom were they conferred upon usually but upon men infamous for and impudent in Arminian and Popish opinions protested Arminianisme and bold-faced Popery hath been the onely speedy way to Church preferment These have been and are still confided in as to publick trust and imployment whilst the soundest and most zealous Protestants are discountenanced by our high Prelatists whose practice suits well with the Jesuites Rule V. Rule of the Jesuit His fifth Rule is To make the Protestant Religion odious by laying load upon such tenents as are most subject to harshest constructions and rendring the persons of those who maintain them