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A60933	The political mischiefs of popery, or, Arguments demonstrating I. that the romish religion ruines all those countries where 'tis establish'd II. that it occasions the loss of above 200 millions of livres ... to France in particular, III. that if popery were abolished in France, that kingdom would become incomparably more rich and populous ..., IV. that it is impossible that France should ever be re-established whilst popery is their national religion / by a person of quality.	Souligné, de.; Ridpath, George, d. 1726.	1698 (1698)	Wing S4719; ESTC R25778	81,776	162

Popes was the cause of the Mahometans subduing part of Europe and that the Empire of the East of Christian became Mahometan The Ambition of the Popes hath also torn in pieces the Empire of the West and spoil'd its Emperours of part of their Dominions even of Rome it self and made them their Vassals and Slaves in a manner so as to tread upon them in person sometimes with Impunity so that by the Ambition of the Roman Clergy and their Popes the Empire is no other than a meer Shadow of what it formerly was It is very well known that by the perfidiousness of the Pope the Turks rendred themselves Masters of Hungary the Court of Rome having oblig'd the unhappy King Uladislaus to violate his Faith and break the Treaty he had made with them which Violation was followed by a Total Defeat of that King at the Battle of Varn●… and the loss of the Kingdom which the Infidels seized upon as may be seen by the following Distich wherein that ●…nfortunate King is made to complain that the Pope and his Clergy had ruined him by their perfidious Counsel Me nisi Pontifices jussissent rumpere faedus Non ferret Scythicum Pannonis or a jugum May be thus English'd By Popes command had I my League ne'r broke Pannonia ne'r had felt the Scythian Yoke For above 1000 years the Popes and their Clergy have been constantly aspiring to the Universal Monarchy and have made it their constant business to sow Divisions betwixt Christian Princes and their Subjects and to kindle War amongst those Princes to weaken them by one another that so they might bring them all under their Yoke By this method they make themselves Arbitrators and Masters of their differences and always cast the Ballance on the side of their own Interest without any regard to Honour or Justice and that not by Armies or open Force but by the Intrigues of Confessors Monks and Prostitutes or as the Scripture represents it by their Cups Draughts and Witchcrasts as becometh the great Prostitute that hath made the Kings and the Princes of the Earth drunk with the VVine of her Fornication They still foment now as formerly and without ceasing Divisions and Factions in all the Countries of Europe yea even amongst Protestants by their secret Emissaries whom they imploy in great numbers in order to bring them gradually under their Yoke one way or other by a Million of Crimes A famous Spanish Polititian who knew their Game well enough said that there is not so much as a Sword drawn no●… a Pike carried in Christendom that hath not been sharpen'd in the Forge of Rome No se Saca espada non se arbola pica cuyo el hierro no estuviere aguzado en la fraga de Roma They had the greatest share in the War newly concluded and made their profit on 't tho' the simple Vulgar are apt to think they have no hand in it No Body is Ignorant of the cunning Invention made use of by the Popes formerly to bring part of Asia under their Yoke without putting themselves to any charge and at the same time to increase their own Authority and Conquests in Europe at the expence of the Christian Princes whom they dispoil'd Their way was to perswade those poor innocent Princes to go in Person to Asia with great Fleets and Navies to chase the Mahometans from that Country for which end the Popes call'd it the Holy Land as if that Land had been holier than another after having put the Lord Jesus Christ to death And while those Princes were in that Country with numerous Armies of their Subjects by which they dispeopled their own Dominions the Popes endeavoured to make themselves Masters of t●…e same or at least suck'd their Subjects to the bone and drain'd out all the Riches of their Countries by means of their Clergy France and England suffered very much by this means and we have no reason to doubt but they would have been much more rich and populous had it not been for that All the World knows that the Romish Clergy or Church hath destroyed or caus'd to be destroyed by their Orders more people ●…nder pretence of Religion than all the Heathen Emperours and more than all the Nations of the habitable World have done upon that account since the Creation of the World France and England can testifie this from sad Experience It 's well enough known that their Councils that is to say the Luminaries of Popery the most enlightned and sincere part of the Church of Rome a mark of the Absolute Reprobation of that Church for several Ages It 's well enough known I say that those Councils have establish'd it as a Maxim or Rule for several Ages past that they are not oblig'd to keep Faith with Hereticks and that Princes are obliged on pain of eternal Damnation and the loss of their Dominions to destroy them Whence it comes to pass that not only all the Murders Robberies Perjuries Rapes and all Crimes in general are permitted but commanded against all those Christians who oppose themselves never so little to the Interests Tyranny or Ambition of the Pope and Clergy which Sentence doth à fortiori include also Jews Pagans and Mahometans when the Church of Rome shall think meet seeing it is clear that they ought not to have any more favour shew'd them than those they call Hereticks From those Principles have proceeded so many Massacres Persecutions Violations of Faith Religious Wars Croisades and Leagues to extirpate those who were called Hereticks Hence also proceeded many Assassinations of Princes and Attempts upon their Lives which France hath often had experience of hence came the Civil Wars in England and Ireland the burning of Towns and Conspiracies against the State One of the Kings of France was formerly whipp'd at Rome in the Person of his Ambassador by the Popes Order which is the highest Ignominy that can be done to a Nation or Prince And if we have not fresh and daily Instances from their Church of such decrees as those of the Councils of Constance and Lat●…ran or such remarkable demonstrations of their Pride and Cruelty it 's not because they have chang'd their Principles but because there is no opportunity offers to do it with safety and for the advantage of the Pope It is not want of good will The Habit remains still though the Acts are not continually exerted A Shoemaker says Horace though he lays aside all the Tools of his Art and shuts up his Shop is a Shoemaker still Alfenus vafer omni Abjecto instrumento Artis clausâque tabern●… Sutor erat c. We see what that Church hath occasion'd to be done lately and does yet at present in France against the Protestants and what they would have done in England and for their Inquisition it continues still the same It may be clearly seen by all those proofs which we have produc'd of the Natural and Necessary Opposition there is betwixt the Church

certain rate but all these would be worth nothing if Real Estates were in Mainmort because there could be neither Industry Commerce Revenue nor Money c. As for Example I have valued elsewhere the Revenues of all the Estates Real and Personal of France and the Fruits of the Peoples Industry altogether at 1000 Millions of Livres per Annum and the whole Stock therein comprehending the people at 20000 Millions at 20 years purchase And likewise in England I have valued the same Stock and product at 550 Millions of Livres per Annum and the whole Stock therein comprehending the people at 11000 Millions at 20 years purchase But if all those Estates were in Mainmort they would not be worth the 10th nay the 20th part so much nor indeed worth any thing but the present enjoyment of the people who would be very few in number as I have already said and like so many Savages having neither Commerce Arts Manufactures Sciences nor Money as has been often said for no Man would work but for himself and his Family and that too but from hand to mouth These and many more are the Inconveniencies that would follow upon having all Estates in Mainmort Lands and Houses are in a State when they can pass from one hand to another like Bills of Assurance or good Security which are worth as much or more than Gold and Silver when those things can pass by way of Commerce there 's less need of Gold and Silver and other personal Effects and if this were not so there would be an immediate Obstruction of Commerce and the State must fall into a Consumption Herein it is that the want of Publick Registers in England is very prejudicial to the Trade of the Nation because for want of this those who would Traffick with diverse persons that have Estates which might be purchased dare not venture ●…pon it for fear that those Estates are already engaged to others which for a time has the same effect to those particular persons as if their Estates were in Mainmort so that the Publick and the Proprietors lose abundantly by this means besides the numerous Suits which are thereby occasioned so that 't is neither easie to sell them nor to borrow Money upon them And hence it is observed that in the Town of Taunton where there are Publick Registers for Lands and Houses thereon depending and for such Estates as are Morgag'd or not Morgag'd that that Town is in a flourishing Condition for that very Reason But tho' the want of Publick Registers be a very great disorder in England yet it comes far short of that which is occasioned by Estates being in Mainmort in Popish Countries For in the first place this may be remedied when the Nation pleases whereas in Popish Countries the Pope and the Clergy who tyrannize there and make their own advantage of those disorders would rather over-turn a Country than suf●…er any Reformation as to that Head unless Princes of great Power and Authority such as the present King of France undertakes it In the next place those dubious Funds in England are not perhaps the 20th part of those in the Kingdom neither are they constantly left out of Commerce as are those of the Popish Ecclesiasticks And last of all it 's well known that this is no effect of the Protestant Religion as the disorder whereof we now speak is certainly an effect of the Romish Religion in France But some perhaps may say that Entails are allowed in all Countries which hinders those that enjoy such Estates from alienating them so that they cannot enter into Commerce so long as the Entail lasts and that by the same reason the Popish Clergy may also enjoy Estates that are inalienable without any great inconvenience I Answer That those Entails don't take place but where Men can't do better that it is an inconvenience and not an indifferent thing but besides it is not usual for the Entail to be perpetual only for a little time for assoon as the Children in whose favour it is made become Masters of the Estate it returns again into the Publick Commerce and may be Morgag'd and Alienated and pass from one hand to another either in whole or in part 2. There is not perhaps the 200th part of any Country so entail'd all at once and there 's no reason to doubt but in a well-govern'd State where the Governours have sufficient Authority they would find a Remedy for those Entails if there were too many of them and that they would find out some other Method for ensuring the Estate to Infants or Heirs without having the Estate cut off from the publick Commerce 3. But besides that this is not so common it must be agreed that there 's much more reason to have regard to poor innocent Children whom a Father that 's an ill Husband might ruine and who may one time or other be very useful to the Publick who are moreover recommendable for the sake of their Grandfathers Grandmothers or other Ancestors whose Memory is dear to the Publick I say there 's more regard to be had to those Infants to whom that Estate ought Naturally and Lawfully to be transmitted by Hereditary Right than to Ecclesiasticks who have no Natural nor Acquir'd Right to those Estates and who are besides unprofitable for the most part to a State scandalous Persons and i●… whose hands and those of their Successours the half or more of the Wealth of a Nation is always to remain cut off from Publick Commerce But perhaps some Opinionative Persons may say that to carry on the Trade of a Nation 't is enough that the half of the Wealth of a Country is not in Mainmort which is just as much as if he should say that it is as good to have half the Body Paralitick and depriv'd of the use of half of its Members as not to be so at all because they still live in that condition But who is it that does not perceive that it is a distemper'd and a languishing condition and that in such a case a Man cannot do half the business that he might do if he were in perfect health It cannot be reasonably denied that the more vigorous a Body is the better it does work so that the more Credit there is in a Nation the more all its effects are in Motion the more Arts Industry Agriculture and Commerce flourish there and the Country becomes Populous in proportion What a mighty disorder then does it occasion that all those Monks and Priests who are the Subjects of a Foreign Prince seeing they have taken the Oaths to him and who is moreover of necessity the Hereditary Enemy of the State should be thus with all their Wealth sequestred from the State in respect of all those things wherein they might be useful to it viz. in regard of Imposts and the Charges of the State and Trade as also in regard of Propagation and Obedience to their Sovereign as other

we consider that those Holy days debauch the People teach them bad Habits of Idleness Drunkenness and Immodesty which hinders them from working on other days ruins their Families occasions abundance of Disorders Quarrels Diseases Fires and the Death of many People one may easily perceive that the Dammage occasion'd by these Festivals amounts to above 100 Millions per An. and in effect as Men do generally ●…e those days they look more like as if they were consecrated to the Devil than to God Master●… suffer ve●…y much by this Libertinism of their Servants and Apprentices and the poor Wives at home are grieved to consider that their Husbands are at the Publick Houses where they spend all that they had gained in several days and will come home drunk and perhaps beat them into the bargain If it be pretended that Men work the better and are the more vigorous the days after the Festival because they have had some rest that may be true as to some of the honest people but as for the greatest part it hath a contrary effect their Idlenefs and Debauchery makes them lose those days and many others and if all of them don't debauch themselves on those days they spend them at least in Races and unprofitable Walks which fatigues them more than their ordinary Work and to tho●…e who are of a regular Temper those Holy-days are perfectly irksom God who is wiser than Man hath appointed but one day in seven as a day of Rest not that I would reproach those Christian Nations who have but a small number of Holy-days that I think tollerable provided there be no excess in their number as there is an horrible excess in the Popish Church I am really of opinion that the disorders above-mentioned which are the result of or inseparably annex'd to those Festivals do almost as much mischief as the Holy-days themselves and experience shews us daily that there 's more Insolence and Disorder committed on one Holy-day than on three others and that by an ill habit they contract on those days they do likewise break out in profanity on the Lords day and most Masters of Shops in Towns complain that they cannot find Journey-men to work the day after Holy-days nay nor on Mondays because of the Sunday preceding the Rabble usually disordering themselves so much on those Holy-days that they cannot work the day after I take no notice here of the Disorders and Debaucheries that are committed at their Midnight-Masses To this I may joyn their loss of time in their Scandalous Pilgrimages it being known that sometimes they go as far as Rome and Loretto and St. James de Compostella in Spain c. and now and then as far as Jerusalem Besides they lose abundance of time in Shrieving or Confessing themselves and at their Anniversary Days Ash-wednesday c. and by carrying their pretended Sacrament or God about e●…ery day by 4 persons at a time besides the Priest who holds it in his hands and this is perhaps in 50 places at once in some great Cities They lose also abundance of time in their daily Masses which are said without any shadow of necessity but meerly to subsist the Popes Troops in the Country at the charge of the people They have moreover their private Masses for the cure of their Cattle at which every one who is interested is obliged to assist They lose abundance of time at all those Follies of which I might make an Article apart as also their Ambarvalia and Rogation Weeks which they have borrowed from the Pagans as they have done most of the rest of their Religion by which they think to procure Rain or divert boisterous Seasons when they threaten their Corn. And this loss of time is so much the more ruinous to France that there are abundance of more people in it unfit for work proportionably than in England viz. Lawyers and other Civil Officers Clergy-men c. Article XI relates to the Summ which the Pope draws from France every year under different denominations as Annates Bulls Dispensations Indulgences Relicks Provisions Agnus Dei and Consecrated Grains all sorts of Expedition Consecrations of Prelates Dedications of Churches Jubilès now and then both at France and at Rome c. which is so much the more ridiculous for France to endure that the Nation since many Ages has not had greater Enemies than the Popes and yet the Money drain'd out of the Kingdom by this means amounts to diverse Millions Annually Mr. dè Sully Surintendant of the Finances under Henry the IV. having well examin'd the matter found that in that time the Pope got every year one with another above 4 Millions of Livres from France and since that time it has doubled at least suppose it were but 6 Millions of Livres per Annum 't is 120 Millions in 20 years time Article X. is concerning the great Summs which the Cardinals Protectors of France and divers other Romish Prelates who are Pensioners of France besides the Knights of Maltha c. draw yearly out of the Kingdom by Benefices which they possess in it This amounts also to several Millions yearly Article XI relates to the Tapers Wax-candles and Oil that is spent in their foolish Superstitions as burning them before Images Statues Hosties and at Funerals c. which did formerly cost the Kingdom of France perhaps 8 or 10 Millions per Annum the greatest part of the Wax being imported from other Countries and for that which is the product of France it must be also reckoned because it is as unprofitably spent as if they should take the Wine and Brandy which is their prod●…ct too and that they sell to Strangers and pour it out upon the Ground I don't reckon here the Incense which they burn to little purpose because that is no great matter and is grateful to the smell neither do I take notice of the Ornaments and Raiment of their Statues Images and other Idols because they last long nor of their Mysterious Vestments adorn'd with fine Lace of Linnen Silver or Gold or Gold-Fringes or Imbroidery with which their Priests are deck'd when they perform what they call Divine Service Nor do I take notice of the great Quantity of Wine which is spent in their multitude of Masses daily because it nourishes those that drink it nor yet of their Wafers or Consecrated Hosties that they keep tho' it be so much flower lost So that I content my self here only to reckon the loss of their Tapers and Oil which I do verily believe including their loss of time in making or lighting their Candles and cleaning and lighting their Lamps amounted to 8 or 10 Millions per Annum The Expence of the Wax is more perceptible to abundance of people than that of their Oil and especially to Protestants who don 't go often into the Popish Churches because they have seen 1000 times in the Streets and at the Gates of the Churches prodigious Quantities of great long Tapers

or suffered a Religion so ridiculous and ruinous to Sovereigns and their People and so contrary to good Manners to take place and be the Religion of the State This Treatise which proves so evidently and in a Method suited to the Capacity of the most Ignorant and Unlearned Persons thé Falshood and Transcendent Malignity of the Church of Rome and her Religion and which I defie all or any of them ever to answer will hence-forward take off the Mask from all the Hypocritical Clergy of that Church who though they believe nothing of their Religion themselves yet they pretend to be sincerely of her Communion under a Counterfeit Allegation that the Holy Scripture is Obscure and that the said Church is Infallible whereas they are in good earnest retain'd in her Communion meerly by their Love of Ease and the World and a Spirit of Profanity that they may enjoy the Sensual Plea●…ures and Carnal Delights which are the Lot or Inheritance of the Romish Clergy So that henceforward the Popish Clergy can't but be understood ev'n in Popish Countries them●…elves to be the greatest Enemies of the State and of Mankind And henceforward we shall have reason also to look upon all the other Papists who can read or have heard those Reasons Dis●…ours'd of as Impious Profane People without Religion and that Love nothing but the World if they still continue in the unhappy Communion of that great Harlot seeing her Shame and Uncleanness cannot in any wise be conceal'd We shall moreover have more Reason now than ever to look upon all Protestants Great or Small Princes or Subjects that renounce the Reformation or rather Christianity to embrace Popery as declared Enemies of the State seeing Popery is so evidently prov'd to be the Bane of all Countries where it is the obtaining Religion Nor can we in particular entertain any more favourable Opinion of those English ●…rotestants who continue Jacobites though they do not change their Religion This should also make such Protestants blush who entertain or rather would bring others to entertain a good Opinion of the Church of Rome as if it were still a True Church and comparable in any degree to the Church of England or other Reformed Churches whereas there 's no more comparison to be made between them than between Christ and Belial the Temple of God and that of Idols I hope also by this way of writing to deliver the World from abundance of Disputes and Vain Questions about the Popes Supremacy whether he be the Center of Unity the Source and Fountain of Ecclesiastical Ministry that is of the Mission of all Bishops and Ministers to which Pretensions he has no more Right than the Muphti as also about the Insallibility of the Pope and his Church Transubstantiation Invocation and Adoration of Saints and Angels and a thousand Inanimate Creatures in which Vain and Foolish Disputes the Protestants lost abundance of Time in endeavouring to convince the Popish Clergy of the Folly and Falshood of those Opinions which they themselves know to be False as well as we and without Foundation and laugh at us in their sleeve that we should think them so simple as to believe those nonsensical and ridiculous Opinions If they believed their own Doctrines and pretended Mysteries they would not prosa●…e them as they do forcing People by a thousand torments to go to their Mass and to swallow down their pretended God of Bread which the Protestants profess publickly to abominate as they do their other Mysteries By this means I hope I have also delivered our Divines from a sort of Necessity they lay under by reason of their Controversies with the Papists to read again and again those Books call'd the Fathers Ecclesiastical History the History of Councils the School-Divines Canonists and Decretals of the Popes c. which are all of 'em Vain Studies for the most part yet they were oblig'd to spend a great deal of time in following them which might have been better improved in applying themselves only to Meditating and searching out the Meaning of the Holy Scriptures which ha●… been much better understood since the Reformation than in all the Ages preceding and is the only Study in which a Mans whole Life can be profitably spent Hence we may also perceive of how little consequence it is to us in regard of our Controversies with the Church of Rome to know which of the two Histories of the Council of Trent is the Truest and most Faithful viz. that of the Incomparable Fra. Paolo or that of the Profane Candinal Pallavicini call'd of a long time his New Gospel which does not deserve to be read seeing we have a thousand other stronger Proofs of the Impiety of the Court of Rome and their pretended Religion than that History of Father Paolo though excellent in it self as to the Matter of Fact We may very well say that the Council of Constance and Lateran did Evidence and Establish as great Impieties as the Council of Trent diverse Ages before it That which was most fatal to Christianity in that Impious last Council was that all the Idolatries and Heresies of the Church of Rome as also her Tyranny were therein Consecrated and Established in Form of Laws with Anathemas so that if there were any remainder of Christianity in that pretended Church before the Council of Trent which is indeed very much to be doubted it was absolutely destroyed thereby especially if we consider that by Vertue of the Decisions of that pretended Council where the Protestants could not assist because it was not free and all was done therein by Bribes Violence and Treachery against the Protestations of almost all the Princes of Europe even Papists who had demanded a Free Council By Vertue I say of the Decisions of that Profane and Impious Assembly the Pope and his Clergy did afterwards put in practise all the Cruelties and Barbarities imaginable in order to quench the Light of the Gospel in the Blood of the Reformers and did also highly raise the fury of their Inquisition which Tribunal alone proves the absolute Reprobation of the Romish Church better than any thing that was done in the Council of Trent The Church of Rome has retain'd nothing of Christianity but the Name and some small Appearances of it in order to enrich her self by them just as the Rouers of Algiers who put out a Christian Flag when they design to enslave and swallow up the Christians for at the bottom there 's nothing in the Church of Rome but Idolatry Perfidiousness Cruelty and Tyranny It would seem reasonable also that after so many and so evident prooss that the Pope is the greatest Enemy of all the Christian States and of Christianity it self that Protestant Travellers should be more scrupulous to kiss the Popes Foot when they are at Rome For 't is not as a Temporal Prince that the Pope imposes upon them such as Ignominious and Abject Submission but as the Antichrist or Vicar of