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A25653	The Antichristian principle fully discovered in a brief and true account of all the hellish plots, bloody persecutions, horrid massacres, and most inhumane cruelties and tortures, exercised by the papists, on the persons of Protestant dissenters from the Church of Rome, for the cause of religion only, as well as abroad as here in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the very beginning till this present year, 1678 ...		1679 (1679)	Wing A3485; ESTC R38626	46,886	49

shapes and disguises They are rich and full of coyn to cary on all their designes and to bribe the covetous They know how to satisfie all Scruples and to please all humours they creep into all Courts and are in all places They are dilligent in their wicked vocation and 't is their whole study and employ how to propagate the greatnesse and power of Rome and to subvert all that oppose them They inculcate into the ears of their people dangerous doctrines and establish in their mindes wicked principles They tell them that Princes not professing the Romish Religion are absolutely fallen from their title and authority that they are no longer Princes but Tyrants and Usurpers and that the Pope may excommunicate them and that being so excommunicated their Subjects ought not to obey them but are absolved from all tyes of allegiance that they ought to be thrown out of the seat of their Authority the Scepter ought to be wrung out of their hands and that 't is a meritorious act to depose or to kill such Princes that the clergy are exempt from the Jurisdiction of Secular princes and are not bound to their Laws That the Pope of Rome hath the full and chief power and command over all throughout the whole world even in Civil matters That the Magistrates of this nation are Heriticks and therefore not to be accounted Magistrates nor obeyed And that after the Bull of their holy Father the Pope is pronounced against a Nation that all that shall be then acted shall be accounted null and void That faith is not to be kept with Hereticks and that the Pope hath power to absolve all vows promises oaths how strictly so ever made or done with many others of this stamp whereby they alienate the hearts of subjects from their Princes and place all the bonds of Duty on the Pope These principles well planted in the Hearts of the people have caused so many risings and Rebellions in England How did they persecute King John and at last poyson him in Swinstede Abby what commotions raised Thomas a Becket that proud and stubborn Prelate against King Henry the 2d so that he made him weary of his life and to commit murther to be rid of him How many other Rebellions have they stirred up and promoted in this Land and what Seas of Blood have they shed and how many thousand Martyrs have they destroyed here and elsewhere They exceeded the rage and cruelty of the Heathen and abominableness of the Barbarian they murthered more and shed more blood then all the 10. persecutions There are reckoned in France only in the persecutions of the Waldenses and Allbingenses to have been slaughter'd a Million of people and in less than 30 years 150000 Christians to have been made away by the Inquisition 'T is to bring us again to this pass that these sort of men struggle with all dissiculties that we may fry with sire and fagot and that they may again sit here as cruel Lords and masters that make them so industrious to animate the blind and ignorant people to their own destruction Queen Elizabeth having sent them all packing with all their trinkets of Superstition and establisht her Reformation and Religion many penal Laws were industriously made against them that they might not be able to do hurt and mischief which if put in execution are sufficient to keep them under but the indulgency of our Prince hath taken off the sharp edge of their execution in hopes to oblige them to a fidelity and compliance and to live in peace and quiet but 't is impossible by these means to subdue them whilst their Priests have the opportunity to distill their dangerous principles into their minds they think 't is better to obey their earthly God the Pope than their Lawfull King and Governour and to rise in Rebellion at the command of their Ghostly Father than to live in quiet under an Heretical Prince as they call all such as submit not their power and Authority to that of Rome Pope Pius the 5th Gregory the 13th and Clement the 8th all sent over their Breves and Bulls from Rome against the Queen which roar and thunder forth excommunications Anathema's and Curses against her and her Subjects In which they take from her all her Royal titles Dignities and Rights to the Kingdom of England and Ireland declaring her illegitimate and an Usurper absolving all her Subjects from their Oaths Faith allegiance and obedience to her Foulis Hist Popish Treasons and Life of Q. Elizabeth 〈◊〉 threaten all of what condition soever under danger of the wrath of God not to assist her in any wise but to imploy all their power to bring her to condign punishment promising ample reward to all those who shall lay hands on this proscribed woman and shall punish her and to be paid out of the Treasury of the Church and a full pardon of all their sins who shall engage against her But when they saw these would not effect their desires and that her subjects were too faithfull in England Suintilla King of Spain deposed by Childerick King of France murthered 665. Childerick the third King of France deposed Charls le gross Emperor deposed Henry the 4th Emperor deposed by Pope Gregory the 7th Lewis the King of France interdicted they proceed to secret and horrid machinations to take away her Life from which she was still preserved by miracalous providence Their many wicked attempts against the Life of this blessed Queen may be fully seen in several printed Books largely shewing the manner of their proceedings there my intent only is to put my Countrymen in minde of the continual practises against both Prince and people in this Nation and elsewhere and whereever they dissented or opposed the wicked and Tyrannical Power of Rome 'T was these very men agitated by these their divillish principles of King-killing that violently took away the Lives of the two Henrys the 3d. and 4th of France the one by the hand of Ravilliac the other by that of James Clement a Jacobin encouraged by the Jesuits set on by the Pope and the case resolved by the Prior of his Covent that if he undertook it not for private revenge but inflamed by the Love of God for Religion and the good of his Country he might do it with a safe Conscience and not only so but he should merit much before God and without doubt if he should dye in the Act his Soul should immediately ascend into the Quiers of the blessed This was the good councel of this Holy Father and for which he was afterwards torn to peeces by 4. horses but Clement accounted a Martyr and his murtherous act extolled openly in France both in their Sermons and printed Books These are the monsters of men that would do the like to every Prince that opposes their Lusts Witness their murthering of the Lord Darnly the Father of King James of the Prince of Orange and of others

of lesser dignity and of meaner rank all that fall under their displeasures The providence of God which takes care of Princes protected this Queen of blessed Memory from their many and wicked Conspiracies and bloody machinations As that in which Robert Bidulph and the Duke of Norfolk was engaged 1566. and wherein Northumberland suffer'd at York This was followed by that of Leonard Dacres and with the like success 1569. Then the invasion of Ireland by Steukley at the great charges of the Pope happily prevented 1578. Then James Fitzmoris 1579. is sent into Ireland and Saunders with Legantine power and consecrated banners And the next year 1580. San. Joseph to them with 700. talian and Spanish Souldiers with the Popes promise of 10000000. Crowns to carry on the work of Rebellion To them joyned the ●●ish confederates the Earl of Desmond and his brothers but were all happily defeated These projects failing them they conspire the death of the Queen and make several attempts to Murther her First by Somervil and Hall a Priest who being condemned was found secretly Murther'd lest he should betray others 1583. Then the practises of Mendoza the Spanish Leiger here with Throgmorton and Parry who had Letters of plenary Indulgences pardon and remission of all his sins sent him by the Pope wrote by Cardinal Como and besides the merit he should obtain thereby in Heaven the Pope promises to remain his debtor for killing the Queen for which attempt he was exeeuted in March 1585. The same year Savage made the same vow to kill the Queen being instigated thereto by Gifford and Hodgson Priests and 1586. the same is taken up by Babington upon the same principles inculcated by Ballard a Jesuite for which they were convicted and executed and by the Popish party esteemed Martyrs Then by means of the French Embassador they dealt with Stafford and Moody the latter proposing to lay a bag of gunpowder under the Queens bed chamber and that way to blow her up but this also was discovered These secret plots and wicked combinations failing the Pope stirs up his dear Son the King of Spain openly to invade England which he does in the year 1588. the Pope having bestowed England and Ireland upon him and which he now sends to take possession of with that vast and as they call it invincible Armado of 150. Ships extraordinarily well furnished 20000. Souldiers 8000. Mariners and Seamen 2000. Gally slaves besides Gentlemen and voluntiers in abundance so that there was scarce a Family of note in Spain who had not either a Son Brother or Cosen in the Fleet. Of Brass and Iron guns 2050. with Powder Bullet Match Muskets Pikes Spears Swords and all things proportionable with Knives and Daggers and Skeens to cut the throats of the Hereticks and with them swarms of those Locusts Capuchins Jesuits Mendicants and the Officers of their sacred Order as they call it the Inquisition Besides all these lay ready in Flanders 50000. Old Souldiers and 288. Vessels ready for their transportation and all the King of Spains best Soldiers drawn from all parts even as far as from America to this expedition and had cost the King of Spain before they had set out 12. Millions of Crowns But the goodness of God at that time defended England from the gaping jaws of destruction and discomfitted this mighty Armado and all its preparations and sent them home full of shame loss and confusion The greatest part of this Fleet was lost and scatterd and about 10000. of their men perish'd by the English the Dutch the Seas Rocks Sands and Tempests being utterly broken scatter'd and consounded But yet these sort of people will not take notice of Gods Judgments upon their wicked designs and enterprises for all this they shut their and will not see that God is against them They no sooner recover breath but they send over new missions more emisseries disguised in all shapes into England with new plots contrivances and designs Lopez and his complices Cullen York Williams Squire and Hesket enter into a Conspiracy to poyson the Queen still uncouraged by the Jesuits and the Spanish Ministers of state 1594. and then 1599. Tyroen is stirred up to a new Rebellion in Ireland having the same Indulgences and pardons sent him as used to be given by the Popes to those who were to go to War against the Turks And 1601. The King of Spain sends to assist the rebells John Dr. Aquila with a great Fleet of Soldiers who land at Kingsale in Ireland But notwithstanding all these wicked and execrable designs this Heroick Queen having out liv'd 4. Kings and 8 Popes dyed in peace and leaves her florishing Realms to her successor King James One would think now that the succession of a Protestant King to the Crown of England thereby uniting into one body that of Scotland with England and Ireland and making up one entire and glorious Monarchy should have dasht all their hopes and that so long and well setled Reformation in Church and State could not be very easily broken and confounded but these sedulous people like worms cut into several parts retain life and sence in each divided bit they are not easily to be overthrown and though they have seen so many of their hellish designs succeed so ill yet they will not give it over but encourage one another in their wickedness Two Breeves were brought over from the Pope whereby they hoped to put by King James from the Crown and had others in their eye of the Nobility of England whom they would have perswaded with false Titles great promises both of mony and men to have laid claim to the Crown seeking at the same time to raise suspitions and dissentions among our selves and sowing discord between England and Scotland and dealing again with the Nobility and Gentry in Ireland to promote new stirs exasperating also the puritans and separatists in England with many other ways and endeavouts to ruine this Nation so they might bring in Popery and set up themselves But God continuing to frustrate all their designs and King James establishing the Religion and service of the Church of England so very opposite to their principles and to all their hopes they now as it were growing desperate enter upon the most barbarous and hellish plot and contrivance that ever was hatched in the brains and hearts of men that which we call the gun-powder Treason and which we yet yearly commemorate on the 5th day of November the day that not only the King as the head of the Kingdom Anno 2604. should have then destroyed but with him his Queen all his Royal Issue the Bishops Nobility and all the chief of the Gentry of the whole Kingdom should have perished together at one blow and have become a Sacrifice to the enraged Lusts of these bloody-minded Papists A plot and contrivance that no Age never could parrallel no Country ever could produce the like and which was as miraculously p●●vented and

detected as it were by the immediate finger of God Thuanus Foulis Hist Hist of the Gun-powder plot who pointed out their treasonable practises even within their dark vaults and cellars ●hen the very train was laid and fire almost put to it And for this horrid Conspiracy not only Catesby Percy Faux Digby Garnet Hall c. Priests great contrivers and promoters of the business and all sworn to secrecy with horrid Oaths and imprications and taking the holy Sacrament and engaging themselves one to another thereby and their Faith by the Holy Trinity never to shrink from the execution of this their hellish intention till it was performed The King of Spain having also promised them Ships and men and ten hundred thousand Crowns to carry on their work though perhaps he might be ignorant as to the way they had intended to begin the execution for I cannot conceive any Royal breast could have admitted the perfect knowledge of so wicked and monstrous an Act without detestation and abhorrancy It is not my designe to give you any Narative or Relation of this horrid Conspiracy that has sufficiently been manifested and the truth asserted and made plain though at first an usual artifice with them and learnt of Nero who when he had set Rome on fire lay'd it on the Christians they intended to have lay'd the wicked Acts upon the Puritans and since that they have endeavoured to make the world believe 't was only a plot of King James his Contriving seeking by these means when they could not blow him up with Gun-powder at least to blast his good name and to make him odious But three Kingdoms are not so easily to be deluded nor our Governours so horridly Impious to mock God so solemnly with annual prayers and thanksgiving for the deliverance from nothing from danger of their own making and to execute and take away the lives of men for false intended crimes yet these are the stories these sort of people relate and buz about endeavouring to take off the Odium and scandall from themselves and to lay it upon their adversaries King James is no sooner gone but they begin new disturbances these Protenses now vary their shapes and transform themselves into Angels of Light many of the Jesuits were known to be among the Presbyterians and there is none of the Sectaries without them in their conventions they can whine and pray with the one they can rant and thunder with the other they can cant and speak nonsence with these they can blaspeme and speak loud with those they can as well speak in the Tub or at the Table as in the Pulpit and in the Desk they are all things to farther their designes And we are not now to learn that the indulgence granted them in the time of the late King instead of making them quiet gave them fresh hopes of turning all into a flame and it is sufficiently manifested that these people had no small hand in our late troubles and in subverting a most glorious Monarchy and bringing in an Anarchy and confusion in pushing forwards the business of Religion till they had brought all to propha●●●ess in turning a flourishing and peaceable Kingdom into a dismal stage of Blood and Warr and exasperating the subjects of 3 Kingdoms till they turn'd Rebells and by their means brought one of the best Kings that ever reign'd on the English Throne to the Scaffold and to his Martyrdome There are no light proofs of all this that I have mentioned and we may boldly affirm that it was these sort of men that Converted the most famous City of Europe into ashes and were the Incendiaries who gave fire to London confessed by Hubert the French-man that was Executed and others and it may be more than suspected it was by the same hands that Southwark was also fired But nothing can quiet these sort of Beautfous what is it they would have Could they in reason expect or desire greater Indulgence and favour than hath been shown them by the best and most merciful of Kings have they not been admitted to Honours to places of Trust and profit in this Kingdome have they not with the rest enjoyed a perfect tranquillity and happiness not in the least molested nor their Consciences oppressed has not all the fair means that could be invented been used to with these people to fidelity and loyalty and yet see it will not do nothing can convert them from their principles they must reign that they may persecute and will still endeavour though with the overthrow of a Kingdome to attain their desires It is not the favours of a mer●iful Prince can win them 't is not the kindness of Governours and Magistrates can perswade them 't is not mercy or Indulgence can invite them from their Treachery their Plots and Contrivances They are still the same people and have still the same ends and we are still lyable to all those dangers which their Hellish plots do threaten us with Witness now this new Plot no question deeply lay'd in the foundation with Jesuitical mortar and daubing and which we are not yet able to see into and which has been years in contriving but the same God who hath still waked for England and has hitherto in a great measure subverted and confounded all their designs has in some measure manifested and made known miraculously their horrid designes against the King and Government and against the state and Religion and will I hope in a short time more fully bring to light the depth and fullness of their malice and pernicious designes which no doubt were very bloody and abominable by the little essay which they have given on the Body of Sir Edmondbury Godfry so barbarously murthered for his Loyalty to his King and for his activity in doing his Country Service and endeavouring to finde out and detect the bottom of this most horrid and bloody Couspiracy and to bring to condign punishment those who would have turn'd the peaceable Reign of a merciful Prince into Blood and slaughter and Confusion and who would have chang'd the face of a flourishing Nation to Horror and Sadness who would have overthrown our Altars and our Religion who would have enslav'd our Consciences or else have burnt our Bodies who would again have set up the Monster of Persecution and have made us all slaves and miserable This is it they would be at and to this end they sacrific'd the life of that worthy Gentleman and would have done as much to the person of his Sacred Majesty as is sufficiently proved against some of those execrable wretches had not the hand or the Almighty which defends the persons of Kings and Princes interposed as a shield and proved his defence I have thus given you a draught of the bloody Beast but it is but in little what a horrid sight would he be drawn at his full proportion But look upon him as he is view him and behold the ferror of his Looks his eyes are flames that consume the Bodies of so many thousand Martyrs see his mouth like Hell gaping for his prey Blood gusnes out of his open jaws like Rivers his bloody Tusks are Racks and tormenting Engines wherewith he grindes the bones of the Saints His tail is arm'd with the Stings of Scorpions wherewith he lashes Kingdomes from his throat he belches forth Curses and excommucations and denounces Judgements and Death upon all that oppose him It is this monster of persecution that the servants of Rome have set up in all places where they have any power and authority and by this you may best judg of their principles and Religion by these evil Fruits you may judge of the Tree and of what Spirit they are Their hopes doubtless were great and their confidence mighty but Heaven has blasted their designes and overthrown their machinations and redeemed his people from slavery for which we have cause to rejoyce and to bless the Lord of Heaven and Earth and to praise him in the Congregation Let there be no more difference and disagreement in opinions but gather your selves together as one man to oppose this armed Beast of Persecution and let us conclude in the words of the Royal Psalmist Psal 5.10 11 12. Destroy thou the wicked and murtherous Persecutors O God let them fall by their own counsels Cast them out in the multitude of their trangressions for they have rebelled against thee But let all those who put their trust in thee rejoyce let them ever shout for joy because thou defendest them let them also that love thy Name be joyfull in thee For thou O Lord wilt bless the righteous with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield Amen FINIS