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A38199	The Romanists designs detected, and the Jesuits subtill practices discovered and laid open collected from their own authors and other approved testimonies / by Anthony Egan, B.D.	Egan, Anthony, B.D.	1674 (1674)	Wing E251; ESTC R3340	16,045	42

guilty if false he may punish that is cast out the Accusers The sum of Campanella's Counsel for the promoting of the Spanish interest in England in Queen Elizabeths days was 1. Above all to breed dissentious and discords among our selves 2. To have Seminaries in Flanders that for the changing of our Religion may first sow the seeds of division in points of natural Sciences 3. By suborned Forreiners to promise great matters to the great ones here 4. To promise to King James the help of Spain so he would set up Popery or at least not hinder the Indian Fleet. 5. At the same time to perswade the chief Parliament men to turn England into the form of a Common-wealth by telling them that the Scots will be cruell when they come to Rule them c. 6. To perswade Queen Elizabeth that King James would revenge his Mothers Blood c. 7. To exasperate the minds of the Bishops against King James by perswading them that he was in heart a Papist and would bring in Popery and by these means the seeds of an inexplicable War will be sown between England and Scotland so that no party will have leisure to disturb the Spaniard or if King James prevail he will be a friend to Spain or if the Island be divided or the Kingdom made Elective we shall neither have mind nor power to enlarge our Dominions or if the Island be turned into the form of a Commonwealth it may keep continual War with Scotland and will manage all its affairs so slowly as that they can little hurt the Spaniard 8. The Catholicks here also are to be awaked and stirred up that the Spaniards may take the first opportunity to enter upon England under pretence of helping them 9. The Irish are perswaded to Rebellion these with the hiring of the Dutch to defend the Spanish Plate Fleets and fall out with us that we may not hinder it are the sum of this Friers design against England Their Method to win particular Persons you may find in Costerus Pref. Encheirid Thoma a Jesu de Convers Gent. L. 8. Par. 2. Sect. 2. p. 544. 545. Possevinus Lorichius c. 1. BE sure to keep the Respondents part and not the Opponents It 's not so easie to prove as to wrangle against proofs 2. Follow them with certain Questions which the vulgar are not verst in as Qu. 1. Where was your Church before Luther or where hath it been visible in all ages Qu. 2. How prove you that you have a true Scripture that is the word of God among you Qu. 3 What express word of God do the Catholicks contradict Q. 4. How prove you that you have a truly called Ministry that is to be heard and believed by the people Qu. 5. By what warrant did you separate from the Catholick Church and condemn all your own Fore-fathers and all the Christian world Qu. 6. If you will separate from the Catholick Church What reason have you to follow this Sect rather than any one of all the rest Qu. 7. What one man can you name from the beginning that was in all things of Luthers or Calvins Opinions Qu. 8. Do you not see that God doth not bless the labours of your Ministers but people are as bad as they were before what the better are you for hearing them Many more such silly questions they train up their deceivers to propound and prosecute which a knowing man discerneth easily to be transparent cheats but the ignorant may be gravelled by them The abominable Treachery and villany of the Gunpowder-Plot undertaken under pretence of maintaining and restoring the Roman Religion engaged the then Governours to consult the preservation of themselves and the Kingdom And considering the furious zeal and wicked principles of some men in affirming the lawfullness of deposing and killing Heretical Kings That the Pope had power to deprive temporal Princes absolve subjects from their obedience and such like villanous positions with the many wicked practices then fresh in memory against the Crown and life of Queen Elizabeth and King James it was thought fit to draw up a solemn Oath whereby every one should abjure such treasonable Doctrines and swear for the future to behave themselves as became good subjects But so far were they from intending to be good Subjects that fancying Robert Cecil Earl of Salisbury and Secretary of State to be the chief promoter of this Oath against them and considering that if they could deter him from prosecuting it the King and others would trouble their thoughts the less about the matter and so the Parliamentary proposals would fall of themselves a threatning Letter was sent to the said Earl of Salisbury a Copy whereof I have here inserted that all good men may see that they will not stick at Murther or any other villany to uphold their Religion My Lord WHereas the late unapprovable and most wicked design for destroying of his Majesty the Prince and Nobility with many other of worth and quality attempted through the undertaking spirits of some more fiery and turbulent then zealous and dispassionate Catholicks hath made the general state of our Catholick cause so scandalous in the eyes of such whose corrupted judgements are not able to fan away and sever the fault of the Professor from the profession it self as that who now is found to be of that Religion is perswaded at least in mind to allow though God knoweth as much abhorring as any Puritan whatsoever the said former most inhumane and Barbarous Project And whereas some of his Majesties Council but especially your Lordship as being known to be as the Philosopher termeth it a primus mortor in such uncharitable proceedings are determined as it is feared by taking advantage of so soul a scandal to root out all the memory of the Catholick Religion either by sudden Banishment Massacre Imprisonment or some such unsupportable vexations and pressures and perhaps by decreeing in this next Parliament some more cruell and horrible Laws against Catholicks than already are made In regard of these premises there are some good men who through their earnest desire for the continuing of the Catholick Religion and for saving many souls both of this present and of all future posterity are resolved to prevent so great a mischief though with a full assurance afore hand of the loss of their dearest lives You are therefore hereby to be admonished that at this present there are five which have severally undertaken your death and have vowed the performance thereof by taking already the blessed Sacrament if you continue your daily plotting of so Tragical Stratagems against Recusants It is so ordered that none of these five knoweth who the other four be for the better preventing the discovery of the rest if so any one by attempting and not performing should be apprehended It is also already agreed who shall first attempt it by Shot and so who in order shall follow In accomplishing of it there is expected no other

and there is no danger of resistance then turn the Ministers out of the Churches and put in those that you would set up in their stead 10. Then change the Universities and tell all the Fellows and Scholars that they shall hold their place if they will turn else not many will change Religion with the Rulers 11. Next he instanceth in Hassia where the Prince pretended that all the Professors and Ministers places were void at the death of his Predecessor and he had the disposal of them by Law 12. And the change was there made as he pretends by slow degrees one or two opinions only changed at the first and not the whole controverted part of the Religion and so the people will think it but a small matter to yield in one or two opinions and be easily brought to obey 13. Lastly They fall to writing against each other and those that have the Court-favor seem to carry it All this advice is about the third direction that is how to work out the Ministers safely which he covers under pretended instances of such as have changed Religion in Germany 4. The fourth Rule is To put out of honours dignities and publique offices all those that are most adverse to Popery it is but just that those that hinder the safety of the Common-wealth should be deprived of the Honours and Riches of the Common-wealth If men are deposed for heinous crimes Why not for Blasphemy and contempt of truth If those of a contrary Religion be left in honour and power they will be able to cross the Prince in many things and encourage the people of their own Religion 5. The fifth Rule is That when a Heresie is wholly to be rooted out and this must be done by degrees and in a way of reason and cannot be done by meer command and power then you must first fall on those opinions that the common people are most against and which you can quickly make them think absurd So he instanceth in some that would work out Lutheranisme that speak honourably of Luther and fell on them only under the name of Flaccians so the Arminians at Vtrecht when they would extirpate Calvinisme made a decree that no man should Preach any thing that seemed to make God the Author of sin Thus a Magistrate that would bring in Popery must full upon such heinous opinions which the impudent themselves are half ashamed of and bring these into the light that they may be odious and so the teachers will lose all their Authority when the people see that they are taken in a manifest fault 6. The sixth Rule to bring in Popery and abolish the Protestant Religion is to make use of the Protestants contentions How easie it is saith he in England to bring the Puritans into order if they be forced to approve of Bishops or to reduce the Puritans in the Low-Countries if the Prince adhere to the Arminians for the varietie of Opinions makes them doubtful that before seemed certain so that when the Magistrate joyneth with one side he easily overturns the other and leaves the whole obnoxious as Paul did by the dissention between the Pharisees and Saduces joyning to one side he escaped This saith he I would principally perswade an Orthodox Magistrate to for he may with as much advantage make use of the Protestants disagreements as of the Papists concord to extirpate Protestants As in Wars it is not only the skill and strength of the General but often also the carelesness of the enemy or his mistake that give very great advantages for success When rigid Calvinisme was assaulted by the Lutherans in the heat of the paroxism it was exasperated and the sudden restraint did much hurt But now the Arminians have of their own accord let go the hardest part of their rigor and judge the Calvinists to be impious and persecute them in the very University and in other Towns they force them to banishment and would venture to do more and crueller things if they were not afraid of the strength of the adverse party Verily if Prince Maurice alone did but stand for the Arminians the rigor of the Contraremonstants would flag or be broken 7. The seventh Rule is to forbid the Protestants privately or publiquely to assemble together 8. The eighth degree must be to proceed to severity of Laws and punishments Here he endeavours to prove this violence lawfull but this violence though it must be for the change of all need not be exercised on all cut off the Leaders and the multitude will follow the Authority of the Rulers shame will retain some and fear others but a vain security will prevail with most when they know not how to help it Within these few years above an hundred thousand have been turned to Popery in France and more in Germany not any of the Princes of Germany that did indeavour to draw over his people to the Catholicks did ever find any force or resistance contrary to his Laws Note this all you slanderous Papists that accuse Protestants so much of Rebellion to hide your own here 's a Jesuits testimony on Record for our vindication His next Rule is the good life of the Popish Magistrates and Clergy and that let them use as much as they will Chapter the 19. He commendeth many smaller helps As 1. Musick to entice people by delight 2. To cause all at their Marriage to profess the Popish Religion and so rather then go without a Wife or Husband they will do it 3. So also to deny to Protestants Church-priviledges as Baptisme Buriall c. Lastly He concludes that where the work must be secretly done by degrees the Magistrate must keep the institutions presentation confirmation and examination of Ministers in his own hand and so if he cannot cast them out at once he must cast out the most dangerous and put over the Churches the disagreeing and those that do not mind matters of controvesie much and those that are addicted to their own domestick businesses worldly men and such as are addicted to the Rulers Let him cool the hent of Heresie and let him not put out the unlearned and so their Religion will grow into contempt Let the Magistrate cherish the dissentions of the erring Teachers and let him procure them often to debate together and reprove one another for so when all men see that there is nothing certain among them they will easily yield to the truth and this discord is profitable to shew the manners of those wicked men for he that will read the contentious writings of Lutherans against Calvinists or Calvinists against Lutherans will think he readeth not the invectives of men against men but the furies and roaring of Divels against Divels a fair warning but the Jesuit tells you not what is done at home from these things the Ruler may take occasion for a change Let him enquire into the original of these accusations and if he find them true he may punish the