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B21181	The Jesuites policy to suppress monarchy proving out of their own writings that the Protestant religion is a sure foundation and principle of a true Christian / written by a person of honor.	Derby, Charles Stanley, Earl of, 1628-1672.	1678 (1678)	Wing D1088	39,304	36

will clear all Objections that may encounter him in his way it will be necessary to take a brief view of them And here first our Author accuseth us with a pretended Submission to Lawful Powers begins then to boast how patiently their party did bear with the proceedings of the present Parliament how they used no tricks and subterfuges to nip their proceedings in the bud this is his expression and I would be glad to know what they could have done more than they did what means he by this nipping in the bud would he have another Gun-Powder Treason to what purpose is all this enumeration of our several Kings Richard the First Edward Longshanks Edward the Third and Henry the Fifth their Opinions of their Popish Subjects in the first place it may be said that were not so clear-sighted as Princes are in these days that the Roman Writers were not altogether so insolent plain and positive against the Sovereignty of Kings as now As for the French Kings they did very roundly maintain their Rights and Sovereignties having been sufficiently tormented by their Popish Subjects in the time of the League that what the Jesuites were inventing to the prejudice of Kings was by cunning and insinuation Writing one thing and making the French Kings believe another as is usual with that kind of people As for the House of Austria they have the greatest dependences upon the Pope imaginable and the Pope hath a very great tie upon that House for by their Incestuous Marriages authorized by the Popes they make it impossible for them to throw off the Authority of the Pope for should they do so all of the Houshold would prove Bastards and now even in these our days the present King of Poland in the life-time of his Brother known by the name of Cardinal Casimir did Marry his said own Brothers Wife and this was the Policy of the Pope with our Henry the Eighth in dispensing with his Marrying his own Brothers Wife that he might have as great Dominion over the Kings of England as of Spain As for the Authors branding this last Century that what was perpetrated now was never done before as to Mary Queen of Scots and Our late Sovereign I very much wonder at the Impudence of the Man to mix these two actions the first was done by Lawful Authority for her being Queen of Scotland did not bereave Queen Elizabeth of her Sovereignty and I have heard it averr'd by Learn'd and knowing Men that the King of Scotland hath sate in an English Parliament in former ages as a Peer of England and then no wonder nor Injustice neither that the Queen of Scotland suffered Death for her Treasons against the Queen As for the latter the Murther of our late Sovereign of Blessed and Glorious Memory the action is without Example such and so hainous a thing was never acted upon the Theatre of the World And as I said before so I will again that the Murther of that good King may properly enough be said to be the abominable product of that accursed Doctrine of the Popes Infallibility and his Sovereignty over Kings for those accursed Regicides and Murtherers of that Glorious King did but a little alter the Argument for that Power which the Romanists lodged in the Pope these wicked Miscreants placed in the People They had heard there was a Power above Kings and instead of giving it to the Pope they gave it to the Peoples Representative and so fell that Great King to the Consternation of the whole World and for a Memento to all Kings to awake them out of their Lethargy and be an Exhortation to them to Vindicate their Supreme Authority We do all of us much commend the Fidelity of Carlos Whitegrave and the Penderels and Huddlestone and this Author is much mistaken if he think we wish any of them ill We have said enough already to evidence that they effected that glorious and happy action happy I say to these Nations through some other instigations than the Principles of the Romish Religion they were led thereto certainly by a hand Divine as well as assigned by it they carried English hearts about them at that time but if they will Apostatize 't is none of my fault for my part I am well content they be dispensed with as a Mark put upon them for their miraculous preserving our Good King As for the stigmatized person I must needs say for him that he labored in the Vineyard before the last hour of the day and was very ready both with Hand and Pen to promote the Interests of the King for his Restauration and therefore that word of reproach might well have been left out That we differ in Religion is but too true and we dare as boldly as your selves appeal to the day of Judgement something you say we differ I say very much else why does Your Church Damn ours But this is not a place either to Dispute about Religion or express wherein we vary We are assured our Religion is the best free from Superstition free from too much homeliness God and the King are best served in our way Our Church is Monarchical as well as yours but still with a Subordination to Our Sovereign Temporal Prince what our great Ancestors were we shall not be ashamed to remember nor the Conversion of England from Paganism which possibly as all the World besides Converted from the like Errors did retain some few Pagan Ceremonies from which the Church of England was purified in the Reformation of Edward the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth He does well to put us in mind of Romish Persecutions Are not we justified thereby if we do the same to you France forsooth is instanced where the Reformed Religion is permitted which I shall leave indifferent whether to attribute that toleration to their vast numbers or to the innocency of their Tenets not at all prejudicial to Kings This I am sure they own no Sovereign above their natural King they have no Forreign Jurisdictions in their Spirituals and as little in their Temporals Let this be remembered they assisted their King Henry the Third against his Popish Rebels even after the Massacre at Paris and Henry the Fourth in his Siege of Paris when the Duke of Parma reliev'd it But as for the French King he is no competent instance in this case had you singled out some Trent-Catholick such our English Catholicks would be acknowledged there had been a fairer colour for your Argument When you have found some Roman Catholick of the Trent-Perswasion allowing the same favours to known Protestants you may more plausibly plead for the like allowance till when by their Inquisitions and such like entertainments of Protestants they have prescribed the Law for other Princes towards those that no less differ from them in matters of Religion We will wave the Massacre at Paris to come nearer home What think you of the Massacre in Ireland As a fore-runner of the Enlish Troubles Was

cry'd aloud that Jesus was the Son of God that the Arms which Christians may use against Lawful powers in their Severities are only Prayers and Tears Thus far he speaks like a Protestant that is to say a Primitive Christian and it might have stood as a fair Character of his pretended Innocency had he not foully bespattered it in the Sequel with the Dirt he casts upon the face of Authority But first It would be considered what it is the Apologist would be at upon his frequent Compellation of his Lords and Gentlemen is it to draw them to a firm Combination with those of his Roman party against all such as should question the innocency of his Carriage and Intentions Nothing less it seems can satisfie or secure him unless my Lords and Gentlemen that is the old constant Royalists stand up for his Advocate he must fall under the heavy censure of his greatest Adversaries who to complete the mischief and misery of it are not only become his Accusers but his Insulting Judges as he complains And now it is high time for my Lords and Gentlemen to remember their often Vows to that party and Renounce all further Conjunction with them that have been the cause of so great Calamity to the Nation as he there tells them But is not this Davide Impera and though they did not nip the Plant in the Bud yet now being grown up and not likely to answer them in the expected Fruits they will endeavor so to dismember the parts as may manifestly endanger the whole For what else mean those words Let it never be Recorded in Story that you forgot your often Vows to us injoyning to them those insulting Judges as he terms them before that have been the cause of so great Calamity to this Nation Is not a Dis-union here manifestly endeavored and that in direct contradiction to what was before protested far be it from Catholicks to perplex Parliaments To reconcile this difference in the expressions will well become the Apologist before he answer the following Objections which he makes his next task And here first he presents his Catholick Party astonished even to admiration at that Calumny above the rest that their Principles are said to be inconsistent with Government and they themselves thought ever prone to Rebellion as if because they account themselves the only Orthodox Christians they must necessarily be very loyal Subjects at the least Indeed If they could make good the former we had reason to expect some compliance as to the latter Religio à religando seeing Religion hath its name from the Connexion and strick conjunction it works in its Professors as with each other so in all with that government and Governors under which they have their common protection .. But how Orthodox and united Roman Catholicks are in the grounds of their Belief the main Ingredient in the Essence of Religion hath sufficiently appeared in the Writings of many who have unanswerably evinced the nullity of the Romanists Faith whether ultimately resolved into their virtual Church the Pope with his Conclave as the Jesuites will have it or into the representative Church a General Council as others will have it or into both the former conjoyned as others contend or erranti nullus terminus into the new mode of Oval Tradition as it is lately and clamorously urged by others who abominate the former Yet though our Catholicks do thus stagger in the Grounds of their Faith are they not more firm in their Fealties and Loyalties Surely their Principles are every way consisting with the Government under which they live Nothing less and it will plainly appear if we consider the Doctrine of their Church and their frequent practice to the former much need not be said that the Pope the acknowledged Head of their Church hath a plenary power to Excommunicate all Christian Kings that will not close with Papal Perswasion and when they are Excommunicated that they cease to be Kings that their Subjects are absolved from all Fealty and Allegiance to them yea may take up Arms against them and so murder them All this is so notoriously known that as no real Roman Catholick will deny so it were needless to urge further proof of it He that hath leisure may find enough of this Becanus Bellarmine Rossius Molina Campion Stapleton c. in Alvarez Mariana and others that speak expresly enough at this rate and hath it not been sufficiently verified in the Roman Catholicks practice 't is well known who encouraged one Parry to Murther Queen Elizabeth what Pope it was that issued out his dreadful Excommunication animating the Subjects of England against her and if you will allow of Cardinal Perron's positive Sentence he will tell you that that Doctrine which renders Kings indeposable opens a gap to no less than Schism and Heresie and hereby as if it were not only Lawful but necessary to suppress whatever they be that will not Conform to the Popish Hierarchy He that should see a Sovereign Prince holding the Bason whilst the Pope washeth his Hands and another no less Sovereign holding his Stirrup though unfortunately mistaken in the side whilst he mounts up on Horse-back yea he that should see that Bishop of Rome treading on a great Princes neck and abusing that of the Psalmist for justification of his usurped power Super Leonem aspidem c. cannot but conclude that Dominus Deus noster Papa as the Canonists stile him will be Supream Prince of the Christian World and that all other Potentates must limit their Authority and Jurisdiction according to the measure of his Placet And now the Premises considered that upon the Popes excommunication Kings cease to be such and stand lawfully exposed to all insolencies of their Subjects as hath already appear'd I cannot but very much wonder that the Romanists should be so angry with Cromwel Bradshaw and the rest of that hellish Crue for Murthering our late Sovereign of Blessed Memory were they not taught by those Romish Fathers above cited to Murther Charles Stuart and yet not kill the King I dare boldly say that our late Republicarians have not one Tenet that is destructive to Civil Government and the Sovereignty of Kings that was not first broached by the Romanists to whom we owe our late Confusions which hath answered the Predictions of Gondamore the Spanish Embassador who when he returned to Spain gave out that he had kindled a Fire in England which would burst out Forty Years afterwards Not to insist upon those several disguises presented by the Romanists in the late Troubles under the habit of all sorts of Mechanick Artists Soldiers and others so to Preach up and foment the Rebellion with our home-bred Sectarians this may suffice to demonstrate how ill-consistent their Principles are with our English Government and consequently how weakly they acquit themselves of that Calumny they complain of even to Admiration but the Apologist hath his other pretences and