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A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

English joyn with the Spaniard as soon as he is Landed offering rewards and pardon of sins to them that will Lay hands on the Queen and so shewing on what Conditions he gave the Kingdome to the King of Spain Read the rest there for though dangerous it is worth the reading When We received King James your Grandfather and him your self and we hope your posterity to whom we do and may acknowledge that by you we enjoy great quietnesse and we hope many worthy deeds may be done to this Nation by Your providence which we shall accept alwayes in all places with all ehankfulnesse When I say we received that excellent King with all cheerfulnesse there was a Bull from Pope Clement the 8th directed to H. Garnet Superiour of the Jesuites in England Whereby he Commanded all the Archpriests Priests Popish Clergy Peers Nobles and Catholiques of England that after the death of Queen Elizabeth by the course of nature or otherwise whosoever shall lay Claim or Title to the Crown of England though never so directly or nearly interested by descent should not be admitted unto the Throne unlesse he would first tolerate the Popish Religion and by his best endeavours promote the Catholique Cause unto which by his solemn and sacred Oath he should Religiously subscribe after the death of that miserable Woman so he styleth Q. Elizabeth By virtue of which Bull the Jesuites after her decease disswaded the Romish Subjects from yielding in any wise obedience to King James as their Soveraign Insomuch that the Catholiques durst not be good Subjects until Parsons and Champions procured them an Indulgence to that purpose from the Pope And what do you think would Cobham Gray c. have done They say they would have surprized K. James his person before he was crowned and his Son H. and Imprison them in the Tower of London In Dover-Castle till they enforced them by durance to grant a free toleration of their Catholick Religion to remove some evil Counsellors from about them Evil Counsellors do you hear Or else they would put some further project against them in execution to their destruction But say the good Papists here really we abhorre all these Treasons A. Do you in earnest it is well but I will tell you a story when the Parliament of Paris asked the Jesuites their judgement of Sanctarellus his Book v. 12. seeing their general had approved the Book and judged the things there written to be certain whether they are of the same mind they answered that living at Rome he could not but approve what was there approved of But say the Parliament what think you say the Jesuites the clean contrary say the Examiners But what would you do if you were at Rome say the Jesuites That which they do that are at Rome at which said some of the Parliament what have they one Conscience at Rome and another at Paris God blesse us from such Confessors as these I leave it with you to apply it Not to be endlesse hear what one John Brown a Priest aged 72 years saith of them Prynnes Introduction p. 202 203 204 205 206 212. The principal Instruments the Popes imployed of late years in these their unchristian Treasonable Designes have been pragmatical furious active J●…ites whose Society was first erected by Ignatius Loyola a Spaniard by Birth but A c SOULDIER by profession and confirmed by Pope Paul the 3. Anno 1540. which Order consisting onely of ten persons at first and confined only to sixty by this Pope hath so monstrously increased by the Popes and Spaniards favours and assistance whose chief Janizaries Factors Intelligencers they are that in the year 1626. d they caused the picture of Ignatius their Founder to be cut in Brasse with a goodly Olive Tree growing like Jesses root out of his side spreading its branches into all Kingdomes and Provinces of the World where the Jesuites have any Colledges and Seminaries with the name of the Province at the foot of the branch which hath as many leaves as they have Colledges and Residencies in that Province in which leaves are the names of the Towns and Villages where these Colledges are situated Round about the Tree are the Pictures of all the illustrious Persons of their Order and in Ignatius his right hand there is a paper wherein these words are engraven Ego sicut Oliva fructifera in domo Dei taken out of Ps. 52. 8. which pourtraictures they then printed and published to the world wherein they set forth the number of their Colledges and Seminaries to be no lesse then 777. increased to 155 more by the year 1640. in all 932. as they published in like Pictures and Pageants printed at Antwerp 1640. Besides sundry New Colledges and Seminaries erected since In these Colledges and Seminaries of theirs they had then as they print 15591 Fellows of their Society of Jesus besides the Novices Scholars and Lay-brethren of their Order amounting to near ten times that number So infinitely did this evil weed grow and spread it self within one hundred years after its first planting And which is most observable of these Colledges and Seminaries they reckoned then no lesse then 15 secret ones IN PROVINCIA ANGLICANA in the Province of ENGLAND where were 267 SOCII or Fellows of that Society besides 4 COLLEDGES OF JESUITES ELSEWHERE In IRELAND and elsewhere 8 Colledges of IRISH JESUITES and in SCOTLAND and otherwhere 2 Residencies of SCOTTISH JESUITES What the chief imployments of Ignatius and his numerous swarms of Disciples are in the World his own Society at the time of his Canonization for a Romish Saint sufficiently discovered in their painted Pageants then shewed to the people e wherein they pourtraied this new Saint holding the whole world in his hand and fire streaming out forth of his heart rather to set the whole world on sire by Combustions Wars Treasons Powder-plots Schismes new State and old Church-Heresies then to enlighten it with this Motto VENI IGNEM MITTERE I came to send sire into the World which the University of Cracow in Poland objected amongst other Articles against them Anno 1662. and Alphonsus de Uargas more largely insisteth on in his Relatio de Stratagematis Sophismatis Politicis Jesuitarum c. An. 1641. c. 7 8. 24. Their number being so infinite and the f Pope and Spaniard too having long since by Campanella's advice erected many Colledges n Rome Italy Spain the Netherlands and elsewhere for English Scottish Irish Jesuites as well as for such secular Priests Friers Nuns of purpose to promote their designs against Protestant Princes Realms Churches Parliaments of England Scotland Ireland and to reduce them under their long prosecuted UNIVERSAL MONARCHY over them by Fraud Policy Treason intestine Divisions and Wars being unable to effect it by their own power no doubt of late years many hundreds if not thousands of this Society have crept into England Scotland and Ireland lurking under

than he keeps under the Papists and as they would perswade the world all Christians too when there is evident knowledge of the fact Subjects may Lawfully exempt themselves from the power of their prince before any declaratory sentence of a Judge so they have but strength to do it hence it followes that the Papists of England and Saxony are to be excused saith he that do not free themselves from the power of their Superiors nor make War against them because commonly they are not strong enough It is indeed generally and charitably believed that the Pope raiseth his power over Kings and Princes onely for their and the Churches spiritual good Ah narrow souled We look about you and It hath saith one been one of the most detestable crimes and highest Impeachment in the world against the Pope of Rome that under a Saint like religious pretense of advancing the Church cause the Kingdom of Christ they have for some hundred of years Usurped to themselves as sole Monarchs of the world in the right of Christ whose vicars they pretend themselves to be both by Doctrinal position and treasonable practices an absolute Soveraign Tyranical power over all Christian Emperours Kings Princes of the World who must derive and hold their Crowns from them alone upon their good Behaviours at their pleasure not only to excommunicate censure judge depose murder destroy their Sacred Persons but likewise to dispose of their Crowns Scepters Kingdomes and translate them to whom they please Thus O Kings are you served in ordine ad spiritualia by the Papists while We poor Protestants think That we cannot do any evil against you that the greatest good many come to us or the Church thereby If men came to us to discover any design against your Sacred Majesty whom God preserve and asked our advice about it we must neds have abhored it as treason and have charged them not to touch Gods annointed and have urged them with this can a man touch the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse If they come to Gar●…et in England about a powder plot or to Guignard in France about a murther Tirannus jure Interini potest say the one its good and commendable and Heroick saith the other and both dismisse them with their blessing prayer and absolution When those licentious men among us acted as we are verily perswaded by Jesuitical Insinuations and Popish principles assaulted and murthered hislate Majesty of blessed memory We were all amazed Our Nobility offered to dye for him our Clergy writ prayed and preached against it our whole Nation abhorred it some dyed at the very hearing others were distracted and the whole face of England Scotland and Ireland gathered blacknesse When Clement murthered Hen. the 3d. of France Voiez commends him the Preacher at Colen connes a whole Sermon to extol him and the Pope Sextas Quintus makes a solemn Panegyrick upon him on September 11. 1589. in the Consistory in order to his Canonizations Comparing him to Ehud and Eleazar And concluding with this memorable saying I pray God finish what he hath begun When Ravillac stabbed Hen. the 4th of France he hath no lesse then two Apologies made for him the one by Veruna the other by Guignard who writes as if he would have done as much himself yea he saith that Clements murther was most Heroical and most praise-worthy adding moreover these words if we in the year 1572. on St. Bartholmews day in the general Massacre of the French Protestants had cut off the Basilicon vein H. King of Navarre we had not fallen out of a Feavour into that plague we now find sed quioquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi sanguini parcendo that K. Henry should be but over mildly dealt with if he were thrust from the Crown of France into a Monastery and there had his Crown shaven that if hecould not be deposed without a War a War must be raised against him but if a War could not be levyed against him the Cause being dead Let him be privily murdered as he was and taken out of the way and when this Guignard was justly executed by the Parliament of Richeome makes an Apology for him and the whole Society expostulates against the Arrest of Parliament We say to this day of the powder Traytors Cursed be their wrath for it was cruel and their anger for it was sierce our Souls come not yet into their secrets Bellarmine he hath written an Apology for Garnet Gretzer hath seconded him Eudaemon he goeth along with him the whole Church hath Canonized the Traytors Hallowed the Treason and consecrated the Villany We your Protestant Subjects stood firmly to your Predecessor Hen. 8. Obeyed heartily that Godly Prince Fd. the 6. suffered patiently under Q. Mary assisted our Gracious Q. Fliz. with our prayers lives and fortunes opened the way cheerfully and unanimously to your famous Grandfather King James to his haereditary Dominions and Territories and the sounder part of us had the honour of being involved in the fate and ruine of your Father of blessed Memory that Royal Champion and most resolved Martyr for the Protestant cause The Papists in the mean time oppose resist abuse affront revile and excommunicated H. 8. rebelled with Ket and other Northern men against Ed. the 6. they incite Q. Mary to destroy and banish her Subjects in whom consisted her strength and honour They excommunicate Q. Elizabeth encourage Cullen and others to murther her assuring them it was not only lawful by the Laws but that they should merit Heaven and Gods favour by it Further adding with Jacques Francis That the Realm of England then was and would be so well setled that unless Mrs. Elizabeth so he called Q. Elizabeth were suddenly taken away all the Devils in Hell would not be able to prevail to shake or overturn it there was a Bull that came along with the Spanish Fleet in 88. When in it was expired That the Pope by the power given from God by Lawful Succession from Catholick Church for the defection of H. the 8th who forcibly separated himself and his people from the Communion of Christians which was promoted by Edward the sixth and Elizabeth who being pertinacious and impertinent in the same Rebellion and Usurpation Therefore the Pope incited by the continual perswasions of many and by the suppliant prayers of the English men themselves N. B. Hath dealt with divers Princes and especially the most potent King of Spane to depose that woman and punish her pernicious Adhaerents in that Kingdom c. he adds moreover that Pope Sextus before him prescribed the Queen and took from her all her Dignities Titles and Rights to the Kingdomes of England and Ireland absolving her Subjects from the Oath of Fidelity and Obedience he chargeth all men upon pain of the wrath of God that they afford her no favour help or aid but use all their strength to bring her to punishment and that all the

place they all speak with tongues and there come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers and they say that they are mad so that the great God is blasphemed Christian Religion is dishonoured Atheism is promoted and the world is ready to be shut up in unbelief 8. We our God our Church hath taught you a Religion that teacheth to deny all ungodliness and all worldly lusts to hate every false way to allow no evil inclination in our nature nor disorder or sin in our life A Religion that teacheth us to deny our selves to walk in a narrow way to mortific our lusts to abstain from all appearance of evil to walk circumspectly to live without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation to set God always before us and not allow our selves or others in the least evil The poor deluded souls of Rome endeavour by all means to set up a way that professeth to be a baud to sin whilst both in practice they tolerate open Stews and prefer fornication in some cases before marriage which is honourable among all men and the bed undefiled and gently blanch over the breaches of Gods Law with the name of venials and such favourable titles of diminution daring to affirm that venial sins are no hinderance to a mans clearness and perfection They would deceive you and themselves with a pretended power in the Pope to dispense with those sins which none can forgive but God They encourage one another and the vitiously inclined world to all excess of riot with a vain hope that sin may be bought and sold that pardon may be had for money and that riches will profit in the day of wrath So as Hell can have no Dives no rich men in it but fools and the friendless Devils indeed are tormentors there yet men can command Devils and money can command men We have taught you to fear an oath and to swear in truth righteousness and judgement and to speak the truth one to another for the peace and security of the world How can men live by one another unless they can believe what each speaks or swears to other But alas Rome would impose upon us a Religion shall I call it a Religion that allows jugling equivocations and reserved senses in our very Oaths O sad swear one thing mean another mock God and deceive the world Hear what Cardinal Ostatus reports of Pope Clement the eighth who said he urged that the King of France should joyn with Spain in the invasion of England but the Cardinal replyed that that King was tyed by an oath to the Queen of England whereunto the Pope answered and they say he is infallible that the oath was made to an Heretick but he was bound in another oath to God and the Pope and that Kings may allow themselves all things which make for their advantage Indeed saith he using the Duke of urbins words everyone doth blame a noble man that is not a Soveraign if he keep not his word but supream Princes may without any danger to their reputation make covenants and break them or betray and perpetrate other such like things What shall a Confessor do saith Franc. de S. Victoriâ an ingenious Papist and a learned reader of Divinity in Salamanca if he be asked of a sin that he hath heard in confession may he say that he knows not of it I answer saith he according to all our Doctors that he may But what if he be compelled to swear I say that he may and ought to swear that he knoweth it not for it is understood that he knoweth it not besides confession and so he swears true But what if he be asked upon oath whether he knew it in confession or no I answer saith he that a man thus urged may still swear that he knoweth it not in confession i. e. not so as to reveal it O wise cunning deep and holy perjuries unknown to our fore-fathers Yea which is worst of all they do obtrude upon the World so many idle Legends so many false Discourses so many lying Miracles so many pious Frauds as that they have shaken mens belief of all Antiquity such ridiculous and improbable things that they sure can hardly deliver them without laughter pleasing themselves to see how they deceive the world and their abettors cannot hear them without shame and confusion of face It 's a sad thing to see the wiser sort of the World read those stories on winter-nights for sport which the poor credulous multitude hear in their Churches with a devout astonishment Neither do they satisfie themselves with these false suggestions they have thrust upon the world but in conscience of their untruth they go about to deprave all Authors that may give evidence against them to outface ancient truths and to deface all monuments of Primitive belief and practice leaving nothing unattempted against heaven or earth that may promote their interest and disable us their innocent adversaries though thereby they blot out all Religion and suppress all truth We teach you to keep holy the Sabbath day prescribing the careful observation of this day and others as the onely means to keep up the life and power of Religion in the world But alas they turn not away their feet from the Sabbath from doing their pleasure upon God's holy Day they call not the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord and honourable neither do they honour it but upon it they do their own ways they finde their own pleasure and speak their own words 9. Our Church indeed preserveth teacheth openeth confirmeth and urgeth the truth yet so as your selves being judges and allowed a judgement of discretion she urgeth nothing contrary to Scripture Sense and Reason Yet if our Church were overthrown there are they that would overthrow with it Scripture Sense and Reason Not to mention their infinite vanities introduced to the Church which rob poor souls of the sound and plain helps of true Piety and Salvation they take from you one half of that heavenly which our Saviour left for his last and dearest Legacie to his Church for ever As if Christs Ordinances were superfluous or they were wiser than their Redeemer against express Scripture which saith Drink ye all of this Cup. They would have you mock God with a few Latine Prayers without faith ignorantly without comfort unprofitably expresly contrary to the 14 Chapter of the 1 Epistle to the Corinthians And lest ought should here be wanting to the affront of the Scripture and the setting up of the doctrine of Devils they forbid to marry yea they teach it is better to burn then to marry And when our Church hath taught you that all things are lawful that every creature of God is good and none to be refused all things being yours as you are Christs onely that you must admit three moderations of your Christian Liberty Sobriety Charity and Duty in obedience to your Soveraign forbidding

several disguises yea an whole Colledge of them sate weekly in counsel in or near Westminster some few years since under Conne the Popes Nuntio on purpose to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars thereby to endanger shake subvert these Realms and destroy the late King as you may read at large in my Romes Master-piece published by the Commons special Order An. 1643. who occasioned excited fomented the first and second intended but happily prevented wars between England and Scotland and after that the unhappy Differences Wars between the King Parliament and our three Protestant Kingdoms to bring them to utter desolation and extirpate our reformed Religion We conclude this Importunity with the Prayer on the 5 th of November for your Majesty O Lord who didst this day discover the snares of death that were laid for us and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same Be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our enemies that delight in bloud infatuate and defeat their counsels abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices Strengthen the hand of our gracious King Charles and all that are put in authority under him with Judgement and Justice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn religion into rebellion and faith into saction that they may never prevail against us or triumpth in the ruin of thy Church among us But that our gracious Soveraigns Realms being preserved in thy true Religion and by thy merciful goodnesse protected in the same we may all duly serve thee and give thanks in thy holy congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PHILOLAUS OR Popery discovered to the People In a serious Disswasion from it Dear Country-men and beloved in the Lord Jesus YOu are so conscious of your Duty to Kings so obliged to their Government so faithful to their Person so regardful of the peace and happiness you enjoy under them every one under his own Vine and under his own Fig-tree and so sensible of the Misery of rebellion disturbance and confusion that we need not use any other argument to disswade you from Popery than this That it is a Religion written in many of your dread Soveraigns sacred blood a Religion whose prime Article as some of them say is Treason a Religion managed by conspirators and advanced by those who are born for the overthrow of States and Kingdoms who turn the World upside down We know your souls abhor these courses and detest these villanies but this is not all this way threatneth not onely your Kings but your selves endangereth not onely Their lives but your souls It 's not onely a great inconvenience that hindereth your peace and settlement in this World but a mischief that may hinder your Salvation in the next We hope indeed that you have received the truth of your own Religion in much assurance that you are rooted and grounded in the Faith Since you have scarched the Scriptures which the Papists kept from you and finde that these things are so Since you have felt the power and comfort of the Truth in your souls Since you finde it owned by Gods wonderful dispensations in the World whereby it 's great and doth prevail and seated in your hearts by his Spirit Since you see it eminent in the lives of many good men and confirmed by the death of as many excellent Confessors and Martyrs who vouch it with their last breath and seal it with their dearest blood Since you know it 's owned by the Church of Rome its self which hath nothing which we may call a Religion but ours viz. The Scriptures the Lords Prayer the Creed and the Ten Commandments c. to which they have added their own idolatrous superstitious idle and vain inventions which is all the Religion they have differing from us We are perswaded that you will not easily be moved from the the hope of the Gospel Yet that we may according to our duties assist our gracious Soveraign and endeavour to establish your hearts while he is establishing your Religion that while he with the advice of his great Council by a serious Law restrains you from Popery for fear we by serious motives may refrain from it for conscience sake The scandals given you are many the seducers are numerous their insinuations are plausible their temptations are taking you many of you are weak and we the Lord forgive us have been too careless and almost asleep while the Enemies sow Tares among us therefore we must leave with you a few plain words that you may have always before you Yea that they may be in your heart that you may teach them diligently to your children that you may talk of them when you sit in your house when you walk by the way when you lie down and when you rise up Many may write to you with more profoundness none write to you with more sincere servencie and earnest desire to save you and we are very sensible that while exact learned writings are taken up onely by learned men it is necessary that there be some plain discourses written whereby the truth may with evidence be conveyed to you 1. We taught you who are our joy and crown who we hope will be our rejoycing in the day of our Lord Jesus we taught you a Religion pure and undefiled before God which consists in solid virtue serious holiness an exact conversation led soberly righteously peaceably and Godly in this present World a Religion perfect right pure sure faithful holy just spiritual lively operative heavenly that enlighneth the minde sanctifieth the heart reforms the life frames a man after Gods own image in righteousness and true holiness We taught and do teach you a truth which is after Godliness a Mystery of Godliness a Religion that may make you wise to Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus which may be profitable for Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that you may be perfect and throughly furnished unto all good works in whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virture if there be any praise Alas The Papists having nothing besides the Scripture which we have as well as they which yet you shall not read but vain shadows of holiness a gross form of godliness which they cozen the Vulgar with consisting in Latine-service Images Tapers Rich Vestures Crosses Sentings Holy-water Offerings Prostrations Processions Pilgrimages and other bodily exercises that profit nothing whereas that true godliness which you profess is profitable for this life and for that which is to come They can teach you nothing but their own vain and useless inventions whereby they make void the Commandments of God nothing that may settle the heart establish the conscience satisfie the soul weaken sin strengthen grace promote your comfort or secure your eternity 2.