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england_n	act_n	majesty_n	parliament_n	3,548	5	6.7082	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46860	The Jesuites plea In ansvver to a letter written by a minister, entituled, Lying allowable with papists to deceive Protestants.		1679 (1679)	Wing J722; ESTC R216571	7,275	15

c. not naming Kings Emperors or absolute Princes but inferior Lords nor Kingdoms but Lands Terras and not Regna Fourthly Were such a Canon in force in England yet could not such a Law be executed against the King who was never denounced Haeretick nor any personal Excommunication pronounced against him or was ever heard or admonished by Pope or Counsel the fame may be said of all the Protestants in England so that I say were any such Canon admitted even by Act of Parliament or Constitutions of this Kingdom it would not reach his Majesty nor England as guilty Fifthly Though I should suppose contrary to truth that such a Canon did reach the King and this Kingdom yet could it not be executed by private persons no more than a Jesuite or Priest can by a private Person or Authority be hang'd drawn and quarter'd He or they must be first publickly Tryed and legally Condemned and then Executed only by the appointed Executioner that Canon then doth no ways Impower or Authorize in the least any person living Jesuite or other to perpetrate those Crimes you mention wherefore upon many demonstrative Reasons those aforementioned Crimes must by all be accounted or denied horrid and unchristian and no one can justly declare himself innocent who hath committed them Next as to your proving it law ful by Dr. John Dun-Scotus c. To Swear with Equivocations upon just Cause makes not at all to your purpose nor what you alleadge of Bonnacina For the Jesuites in their last Speeches tell you with great Asseverations that they make use of no Equivocation mental Reservation c. Nor from those Authors can it be proved that any one may Swear contrary to the sense the words properly bear but all you can deduce is that is words Amphilogious doubtful or of two senses I may swear to that sense I think the truth though it perhaps be understood in another sense by him that hears me and this only upon a just cause as Abraham did about Sarah his Wife calling her his Sister which he there explains The Jesuites protested they spoke in the plain sense the words bear and averred it with great imprecations and I believe you nor any body living can find any proper or other sense to their words but that of Innocency and I did hope with Fenwick That Christian Charity would not have let you thought that by the last Act of his life he would cast away his Soul by sealing up his last breath with a damnable lye Were not this greater want of Charity than to say He that dies an obstinate Haeretick cannot be saved The usual Objection against Catholicks In the next place you cite Soto saying Mendacium si non habet c. A Lye if it have no other malice than that of falsehood it is no mortal sin What is this more than to say every Lye is not a mortal Sin for every Lye has the malice of falshood and doth this argue or can any one deduce from hence that no Lye is a mortal Sin that a Lye that has besides the malice of falshood the malice of prejudice or wrong to my Neighbour a false accusation of another by protesting my own Innocency with a Lye or to lye with perjury and imprecations upon falshood can any inferr from thence these not to be mortal and such had been the Lyes of the Jesuites were they guilty of what they were accused Lastly You ground your calumny upon these words Certum est obligationem hujas praecepti c. It is certain that the Obligation of this precept to conceal what is reveal'd in Confession in no Case and for no end even the defence of the Commonwealth from very great ill either Spiritual or Temporal can be violated or broken to this you alleadge Durand Scotus and many more What of all this did the Jesuites if guilty know of the Plot only by hearing the Confessions of others If so they could not be Actors in it as they were accused to be and Condemned for where do you find a Precept of not revealing or owning my own Actions although I had confessed them before Now give me leave here mention being made of this Precept to shew you that this Precept is so far from being of any ill consequence to any Kingdom as that on the contrary 't is very advantagious a great hindrance and no incouragement to Treason Whosoever Sacramentally confesseth Treason owns it a Crime the Priest that has a precept of concealing it has also a precept not to absolve him unless he heartily repent and if the Treason be only intended he must indispensably require him to desist from such intention he must with all possible diligence exhort him to detest such Intention or Treason in his heart and to discover his Complices if he have any as in Conscience he is absolutely bound to do here is Confession by the admonition and direction of the Pastor and Spiritual Physitian of his Soul who hereby knows the Disease and State of his Soul a great means to his Spiritual Cure to cast out of his Heart all Treasonable thoughts and to prevent the Actions but if there were not that precept of secresie who would confess to be Accused and Impeached 'T is Confession that is the great security of all Catholick Kingdoms from Treason for when any guilty in fact or intention come to this Sacrament they are pressed to declare their Complices and obliged to retract and hinder what is not effected therein knowing they cannot be Absolved without it whereby most Treasons are timely prevented For this Reason we find that success in Rebellion against Government has commonly been joyned with Rebellion in Religion as pretended Reformation in Religion and Rebellion against their Sovereign set up together in Holland and in several Principalities of the Empire whereas Catholicks remaining such contradict by Treason their own Principles and must acknowledge such practice damnable wherefore had the Jesuites been guilty you would have had from them an acknowledgement of the Crime as done or acted contrary to their Conscience and Principles of their Religion but 't is no Principle of any Religion to accuse ones self falsly Wherefore wonder not that they should rather dye professing Innocency to the Crimes objected against them with hope of Salvation and Pardon of God for all their real Offences than to live by his Majesties Pardon with false accusation of themselves and others and displeasure or anger of God And I must not wonder to find their Words and Speeches so misrepresented whereas even the Word of God is dayly traduced by false Glosses to the ruine of many And what wonder that those Five Jesuites and many more though never so Loyal have been thus Condemned and Executed as Traitors to his Majesty Where by pretended Justice and course of Law one of the best of Kings has been Condemned and Executed as a Traitor to his Country By thus suffering they have as Christians imitated Christ and as loyal Subjects imitated their King Charles the First God bless King Charles the Second Amen FINIS