Essentials in Worship agreed and maintain'd by Conforming and Nonconforming Protestants p. G. F. Fishing how to increase p. 13 Friars their several Orders whence and why instituted p. 212 213 Fundamentals agreed to by Dissenters with the Church p. G. G. Governors of Ireland unacquainted with the Country not capable of well managing its Affairs and why p. 102 to 107 This hath been the opinion and practice of our Kings from its first Conquest of which instances p. 108 109 In what cases excepted p. 110 111 I. Ireland's English Interest potent above what it was before the last Rebellion p. 47 48 Irelands Interest in being Govern'd by its own Members p. 47 to 96 Irish Papists their interest in the potency of the English Interest in Ireland p. 73 to 94 Ignorance in the Scripture the cause of Papists Rebellion p. 91 92 Judges and Juries of Ireland much more ingaged to suppress Sedition and Rebellion in Ireland than those of England can be and why p. 105 106 Jesuits their inhumane bloody principles from their own Authors p. 195 to 203 Papists reflections and glosses on them p. 204 to 207 Jesuits their Original and Characte p. 211 to 214 Jesuits by what Authority their Order Instituted p. 214 Jesuits banished and their Tenents exploded by whom p. 222 to 225 Jesuits the natural consequence of their Principles p. 225 They abrogate the Laws of Humanity Morality and Divinity p. 226 Their dexterity in fathering their Brats on innocent persons p. 227 Jesuits their suitable practices to their bloody Principles p. 231 to 240 Jesuits imployed by the Pope to destroy the Greek Church p. 236 Jesuits bloody work in the West and East-Indies p. 238 L. Lands of Ireland most possest by English Proprietors p. 48 Loyalty evidenc'd in many of the Irish Papists p. 89 to 203 Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany more differ than English Protestants yet esteem each other Protestants and unite against Popery p. H. Laws against single life useful in Ireland and why p. A. B. C. M. Massacre of Ireland how inhumane and barbarous p. 81 to 87 Militia of Ireland is its great Security p. 98 Militia neglected the cause of the easie massacring the naked Protestants 1641 p. 81 Manufacturies of Ireland by whom incouraged and erected how ruined p. 188 to 191 Mystical Babylon who in the opinion of Papists p. 220 N. Nobility or Peers of Ireland most English Protestants p. 63 to 67 Nobility their Catalogue 1571 and 1641 p. 67 to p. 73 Non-residents enjoying Salleries a great loss to Ireland p. 99 O. The Original of most Noble and Worshipful English Families of Ireland were from Offices p. 96 Ormond Duke the longest Regency over Ireland under the greatest difficulties and why p. 112 113 Ormond the great confusion he found Ireland in at his access to the Government 1662. and how soon composed p. 182 to 188 P. Parliaments of Ireland altered in their Constitution from an Irish to an English Interest p. 58 to 63 A good Plea for Irish Papists against their Jesuited Priests that shall again instigate them to rebel p. 88 Planting of Ireland discouraged by restraint of Trade and being liable to be tried for capital Offences by Judges and Juries in England to whom they are unknown c. p. 106 Poysonings and Stabbings the Popes arguments to convince gainsayers instances p. 228 229 Principles of the Jesuits inconsistent with the just power and right of Princes p. 240 R. Religion Protestant condemned as a venomous Doctrine and Hellish Opinion by the Papists p. 76 Religion Protestant why no more received by Irish Papists p. 90 91 Rebellion and bloodiness of Popery above all other Religions in the World whence p. 193 194 Rome can be no Mother-Church nor Superior to others why p. 218 Rome hath only the primacy of Apostacy from the principles of the Primitive Church p. 218 to 222 Rome c. always promoted and encouraged the rebellions of Ireland p. 76 to 85 Romes struggles with the Greek Church for Supremacy reduced them to Turkish Slavery p. 237 S. Statute Staple its original use and method p. 43 to 47 Souldiers who are best for Field-Armies p. 98 99 to 120 The Statutes of the 10 th of Hen. 7. and 23d of Hen. 8. no bar to persons born in Ireland from being Lord Lieutenant c. p. 100 101. Souldiers 1000 bred in Ireland worth 2000 bred in England for Irish Service and why p. 118 Subsidies of Ireland their establishment p. 164 to 173 Supremacy from the Pope from whence p. 208 209 Supremacy a Tallent so well improved by the Pope that he deserves it p. 234 Schism Criminal when p. D. E. T. Trade of England ingrost by the Guild of the Hance p. 18 Trade in Companies countenanc'd by the Kings and Parliaments of England since Edward the Third p. 20 Trade to the East-Indies when first obtained p. 24 Treasure the vast summ Ireland hath cost England above what it was ever worth p. 53 Table reducing Plantation Acres into English p. 162 1â—â— Trade why no more improv'd under the Government of the Justices and Duke of Ormond p 181 Tyrants are those Princes over their own Subjects who are Slaves to the Pope p. 235 Turkish Slavery of the greek-Greek-Church the Product of the Popes Supremacy p. 2 7 Trent Council illegal c. p. 217 U. Usher Bishop his opinion declared it was the Interest of Irish Papists to support and strengthen the Interest of the Crown of England in Ireland p. 77 to 81 Usher Bishop Prophecies of the Irish Rebellion 40 years before it was and 〈◊〉 great trouble to the Protestants by thâ— Papists yet to come p. 80 81 Vengeance of God dreadful on the Irish foâ— their bloody Massacre 1641 p. 86 87 Vnity though boasted of by Papists yet arâ— they much more divided than Protestants p. H. I. Vnion of Papists chiefly in Errors and Immoralities Vnion in Religion how far necessary amongst Protestants to promote the Prosperity and secure the Peace of Ireland p. C. D. W. Weaving Broad cloath when first set up in England p. 25 Wools first prohibited their transportation p. 25 Wools may easily be prevented transporting expedients proposed p. 39 to 43 Wools transporting the ruine of our Clothing Trade p. 39 Wall'd-Towns to be increased and well planted to secure the safety of English Protestants in Ireland p. A. Women drunk with the blood of the Saints Rev. 17. who in the Papists opinion p. 219 221 Y. Guild of the Hance its Antiquity and great Trade p. 43 Their dissolution and why p. 34 Z. Zeal preposterous like Hell hot without light that makes different Opinions different Religions saith B p. Bramhall p. E. Zeal Popish and Jesuitical that esteems all Separation Criminal Schism ibid. Books lately Printed A Judgment of the Comet which became first generally visible to us in Dublin Decemb the 13th 1680. By a person of Quality Foxes and Firebrands or a Specimen of the Danger and Harmony of Popery and
propagating Manufactures as I shew at large in that Treatise The second Expedient is to procure Laws against single Life enjoyning all English Protestants to marry the Males before the age of 25. and Females before the age of 22. or from that time to pay a yearly penalty by Statute to be presented by the Grand Juries and limited by the Discretion of the Bench not exceeding the eighth part of their visible Incomes to be imployed towards the maintenance of poor Orphans 1. This would somewhat restrain these abominable Fornications and Adulteries so frequent if we would take St. Pauls counsel Let every Man have his own Wife and every Woman her own Husband c. other mens Wives would not be so often debauched nor our Parishes so charged with Bastards 2. This would much increase an English Breed for the Countries Defence as I elsewhere shew ten of whom are worth twenty bred and brought up in England The neglect hereof gives the Irish a great advantage who are generally more fruitful and besides inure their Children more to hardness in their Nursings from whence they generally live whereas our nice English Women destroy their Children by too tender Nursing c. that if they live many of them are good for little but to make Carpet-Knights on though they do retain Spirit and Courage yet their Bodies are so inured to tenderness and delicacy the hardships of Winter War would kill more than the Sword 3. This would much tend to the planting our Towns for single persons content themselves with a Room in anothers House and Marriage would necessitate them to become House-keepers and Families would require their Industry to maintain but while single they live idlely if not debauchedly And in order to encourage the meaner sort to marry to countenance that ancient English Custom of Bridals wherein every person not receiving Alms in the Parish brings in something according to their ability towards the young Couples Housekeeping to the great incouragement of painful industrious young people and obligeth them whilst single to be the better Labourers and Servants that their honest Reports might increase their Bridals And further that a provision be made where Parents are not able to dispose of their Children to honest Trades to put them out Apprentices on the Country Charge which would much tend to the planting of our walled Towns and promoting the Manufactures as I shew at large in that Treatise But that which would above all other Expedients tend to the strengthening the English Interest would be to endeavour a right understanding and charitable Union betwixt all sober pious Protestants in matters of Religion the want thereof increaseth groundless Jealousies of each other and strengtheneth the Confidence of the common Enemy to the Protestant Interest that they are easily run down as in the Massacre 1641. they at first declared their displeasure was only against the Puritannical party and then only the English not the Scots but I suppose I need not inform you how soon all Protestants became the equall objects of their Fury and barbarous Cruelty Therefore by English Protestants I mean all that are not Papists and agree with the Religion established by Law in all its Fundamentals nay in all its Substantials that believe the same Creed and make the same Translation of the Scriptures their Rule of Faith and Manners and no people can be esteemed of a different Religion that agree in what is Jure Divino though they differ in some things that are Jure Humano Although they may scruple external Communion with some particular Churches yet if they retain internal Communion with the universal Catholick Church in all parts of the world they are no Schismaticks Saith a reverend Prelate Bishop Bâ—â—â—â—â—alls Vindicatioâ— of the Church of England pag. 14 15. The Communion of the Christian Catholick Church is partly internal partly external the internal Communion consists principally in these things to believe the same entire substance of saving necessary Truth revealed by the Apostles and to be ready implicitly in the preparation of the Mind to embrace all other supernatural Verities when they shall be sufficiently proposed to them to judge charitably one of another to exclude none from the Catholick Comunion and hope oâ— Salvation either Eastern or Western or Southern or Northern Christians which profess the antient Faith of the Apostles and primitive Fathers established in the first general Councils and comprehended in the Apostolick Nicene and Athenasian Creed to rejoyce at their well-doing to sorrow for their Sins to condole with them in their sufferings to pray for their constant perseverence in the true Christian Faith for their Reduction from all their respective Errors and their re-union to the Church in case they be divided from it that we may be all one Sheepfold under that one great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls and lastly to hold an actual external Communion with them in votis in our desires and do endeavour it by all those means which are in our power This internal Communion is of absolute necessity among all Catholicks p. 16. But saith he there is not the like degree of obligation to an exact Communion in all externals there is not so great a Conformity to be expected in Ceremonies as in the Essentials of Sacraments c. in the Explication of Articles of Faith as in the Articles themselves nor in the Superstructures as in Fundamentals c. p. 17. nor in Scholastical Opinions as in Catechistical Grounds not to Ecclesiastical Constitutions as to Divine Ordinances not such a strict adherence to a particular Church as to the universal So in his Answer to the Bishop of Chalcedon Essentials must not be pressed too far least we draw out Blood in stead of Milk c. it doth not follow because true Faith is essential therefore every point of true Faith is essential or because Discipline is essential therefore every part of right Discipline is essential or because Sacraments are essential therefore every lawful Rite is essential p. 4. Whatsoever toucheth not the Heart of Religion is not Schism p. 8. Saith my reverend Author 'T is a preposterous Zeal like Hell hot without Light that makes different Opinions different Religions in his Answer to S.W. p. 40. Who please to read this learned Author in point of Schism will find that he differs from those fiery Zealots that dare affirm Schism to be a greater Sin than prophane Swearing Drunkenness or Whoring c. but by the same rule they like the Religion of Bellarmine Suarez Vasquez c. for they say so better than Bishop Hall Sanderson Usher Bramhall or Taylor for not only they but all the pious Divines I have read of the Church of England are of another Opinon most of the sober Dissenters in Ireland will submit their Cause to be weighed in these Protestant Scales and own themselves for Schismaticks if their Character condemn them and it is required by the Divine Law Lev. 19.36
Deu. 25.15 that all men buy and sell by the same Weights and Scales divers Weights and Ballances are abomination to the Lord Prov. 11.1.20.10 But neither the Numbers nor the Parts of this sort of Antischismaticks are so considerable but our Quakers Muckletonians c. may match them who will extend Idolatry Popery Superstition and carnal Worship as far beyond their due bounds c. as they do criminal Schism that I shall leave them to agree upon the invisible Evidence of their unscriptural Principles and only plead for a charitable Union betwixt the sober and pious of both parties And as they agree in all essential positives the same Creed the same Scriptures the same Sacraments c. so in all reforming negatives they protest against all Popish Errors either relating to Faith or Worship contained in the first Protestation of the German Churches or is since protested against by any of the Protestant Churches in the world and that with more vehemency which makes them not the less Protestants They protest against all the old Herisies of the Arrians Socinians Gnosticks Nestorians c. so that both in positives and negatives the difference is little in Substantials betwixt Dissenters and the Protestant Church of England they maintain not only internal Communion with the universal Catholick Church but internal and external with the Protestant Church of England They do not only make the same Scriptures the standard of Faith Worship and Manners but highly esteem of and bless God for the many famous Lights the Church of England hath produc'd for the propagating Gospel Principles and converting Souls to Christ they put the highest value on their learned Writings next to the sacred Scriptures and esteem their Expositions Annotations c. the most Orthodox in the world they retain a venerable memory of all her Confessors and blessed Martyrs and are ready if God call them to it to seal the Truths they dyed for with their dearest Blod they bless God for and heartily rejoyce in all her learned and pious Bishops and Ministers that now are and daily pray that God would increase their Numbers and bless their Labours in his Work and grieve for all the Reproach and Dishonour brought upon the Church by ignorant and scandalous Ministers c. they agree with the Church at least in 36 of the 39 Articles and are therefore doubtless of the same Religion The Jews had their several Sects as the Pharisees the Sadduces the Herodians Essins c. but were all owned as Israelites if they adhered to the Law of Moses and the Prophets notwithstanding their Interpretation and Observation in some things of weight were different Some of the German Protestant Princes are Lutherans and others are Calvinists and their Subjects mix'd in their Dominions of both Persuasions yet they own each other for Protestants the Lutheran Princes have the same confidence in their Calvinist Subjects as in their Lutheran and the like on the other hand they all firmly unite to aid and assist their respective Princes against their Popish Adversaries if National Interest interpose not whereby the Protestant Interest in Germany becomes formidable and potent and yet the difference in Opinion betwixt the Lutherans and Calvenists is far greater than the difference betwixt English Protestants and the generality of Dissenters The Papists themselves who glory much in their Unity have their Jansenists Dominicans Molenists Jesuists Scotists and several Orders whose Differences are more momentary by far than any of ours some of them even to the shaking of the bottom of their very Faith as might be evidenced in their disputes about the Subject of Infallibility some placing it in a Council as the Councils of Basil and Constance others in the Pope as the Councils of Lateran and Trent some in both yet they own each other of one Religion Dr. Willet in his Synopsis fol. 1325 to 1352 incerts 307 Controversies amongst the Papists many of them repeated by Dr. Stillingfleet vid his Divisions of the Romish Church from pag. 353 to 471. And as they have these many distinct Sects maintaining contrary Opinions amongst their Clergy and Votaries so betwixt the Clergy and Laity as is at large asserted by Bishop Taylors Disswasive from Popery Bishop Jewel and Dr. Stillingfleet ch 4 and 5. and the History of the Council of Trent fol. 33 39.44 wherein you may read the bitter Contests about Ecclesiastical Power and Jurisdiction betwixt Pope and Pope the Popes and the Emperors of Germany Kings of Spain France Portingal States of Venice Italian Princes and States c. producing bloody Wars c. and yet were all esteemed Roman Catholicks But admit this were not the case but the Dissenters were as opposite in Principle and Interest to the Protestant Church as the Papists that they esteemed them all damn'd Hereticks and their Religion a pestilent Heresie and that it were not only lawful but meritorious by all possible means whether by War Massacres or Assassinations to destroy them as the Enemies of God and holy Church yet they could not be dangerous to the Common-wealth because of the paucity of their Numbers and Indepency of their Interest if the Papists were as few in number and had as few Noblemen and persons of Interest to head them and no Foreign aid to back them more potent nor neerer than Maryland all men would esteem it ridiculous for the State to maintain a potent Army to secure the Interest of the Crown against them or to observe the Protestants in dread of being destroyed by them especially if this small number of Papists were so far divided in their Opinions there were no probability of their ever agreeing which Faction should sway the Scepter having no Family or person that made the least pretence to a right of Soveraignty I say if this were the case we should laugh at persons dreading Popish Plots and Rebellions as we do at our little Children when they point to their own Shadows and cry a Bug-a-bo and yet this is the best capacity the Dissenters of Ireland are in to disturb the State and if so surely those Watchmen are blind of one eye at least that warn the State to beware of Puritans c. as more dangerous than Papists For admit Dissenters were persons of dangerous Principles considerable Interest there are few of them of despicable Fortunes the poorest of them by their painfulness in their Callings and frugality have Bread to eat and Rayment to put on and most of them live comfortably by their Industry and some of them enjoy plentiful Estates by Title from the Crown whereby they are equally engaged with others to preserve the Peace and support the Interest of it until their case be as desperate as blind Sampsons when he pull'd down the House on his own head to be revenged on the Philistines for his two Eyes I see no reason they should be esteemed dangerous to the Peace of Ireland but rather a great additional strength both to Church
dishonouring his Fathers Bed which was approved of by the Senate Tiberius crucified the Priests of Ises and cast their Tempe to the ground for their Adulteries Purch Pilgrimage 732. The Emperor Claudius and Otho put their Empresses to death for Adulteries Langchron The Romans had their Funerals at the Gate of Venus Temple to signifie that Lust was the Harbinger and hastner of Death Plut. Multitudes of instances may you read in Clarks Mirror fol. 6 7 8 9 10. So French Academy chap. 22. Herbert Think you on this who spend your days and strength And means on Whores Dogs Parasites at length They 'l worry you before you feel their wounds Look to their Teeth shun these Acteons hounds I shall close this Head with the Advice of wise Solomon after his dear bought Experience Prov. 7. Let not thine Heart decline to her ways go not astray in her paths For she hath cast down many wounded yea many strong men have been slain by her Her House is the way to Hell going down to the Chambers of death So Proverbs the 22. She is a deep pit he that is abhorred of God shall fall therein a wound and dishonour shall he get and his reproach shall not be wiped away CHAP. IV. Of Drunkenness The most Wealth-consuming Debauchery is Drunkenness TO whom we may ascribe as the Damsels to David comparatively it s ten thousands to others Debaucherers their thousands other Vices like petty thieves steal here a Hen there a Sheep but this lays Families and Farms waste this is the Mother and Nurse of all other Wealth-consuming Debaucheries We have a Story of a young man that was long tempted by the Devil to commit one of three sins either to kill his Father ravish his Mother or be Drunk he chose the last as most innocent but when drunk committed both the other Saith sober Herbert He that is drunken may his Mother kill Big with his Sister he hath loos'd the â—eins Is outlaw'd by himself all kind of ill Did with his Liquor slide into his veins The Drunkard sorfeits Man and doth divest All worldly right save what he hath by Beast Lest the Spirit of Wine should reveal to its zealous votaries that my Arguments against this Al a mode Vice are tinctur'd with Fanaticism I shall presume to make use of the Sentence of a pious Prelate on the Subject to conduct me whose Fame in the Church of England will defie their Censure Who thus complains of this tribe of Bacchus who were but pigmies in his time compared with the bousing mighty Gyants of this age From the Tongue saith he we pass to the Pallate which together with the gulf whereto it serves the Throat and the Paunch is taken up with the beastly fashions of Gluttony and excess whether wet or dry of ments or liquors Surfeits in the one Drunkenness in the other in so much as that the Vice hath taken the Name of the Part Gula as if this piece were of no other service the Psalmist describes some wicked ones in his time by Sepulchrum patent guttereorum their throat is an open sepulchre Psal 5.9 How many have buried all their Grace in this tomb how many their Reputation how many their Wit how many their Humanity how many their Houses Lands Livings Wives Children Posterity Health Life Body and Soul St. Paul tells his Philippians that their false Teachers made their Belly their God O God what a Deity is here what a nasty Idol and yet how adored every where the Kitchins and Taverns are his Temples the Tables his Altars what fat Sacrifices are here of all the Beasts Fowls Fishes of all the Elements what pouring out yea what pouring in of Drink-offerings what Incense of Indian Smoak what curiously persumed Cates wherewith the Nose is first feasted then the Maw I could even sink down with shame to see Christianity every where so discountenanced with beastly Epicurism what Street shall a man walk in and not meet with a Drunkard what Road shall he pass and not meet some or other hanging upon the Stirrup waving over the Pummel St. Peters Argument from the third hour of the Day and St. Pauls from the Night would be now a non sequitur Day is Night Night is Day no hour is priviledged I cannot speak a more fearful word than that of St. Paul whose Belly is their God whose End is Damnation Oh woful woful condition of that damned Glutton in the Gospel Oh the Flames of that delicious Tongue which begged for a drop but should in vain have been quenched with Rivers with Oceans as ye desire to be freed from those everlasting burnings Awake ye Drunkards and howl ye drinkers of Wine Joel 1.5 Return your superfluous Liquor into tears of Repentance which only can quench that fire and for the sequel put your knife to your throats Dr. Hall Bishop of Exeter in his Contemplations on the History of the New Testament fol. 382. Take heed lest at any time your hearts be overtaken with Surfeiting and Drunkenness Luke 21.34 Thus fashion not your selves to the excess of the world Every Country saith Luther must have its own proper Devil Italy hath its Devil France its c. our German Devil is a good lusty Wine-sucker whose Name is Swill and Quaff he is furnished with such a dry and thirsty Liver that it cannot be quenched nor cooled This continual Thirst in Germany I fear will remain until the last day of Judgment Luthers Colloq fol. 541. Besides the vehement abhorrency all the Prophets and Apostles with all their godly Successors in the Ministry of the Gospel expresseth against this brutish Vice It is worth our observing how all the Mahomitan and civilized Pagan Nations disdain and punish it as invading the very Law of Humanity But I shall first observe how many ways it obstructs our Trade and consumes our Wealth To let pass its stupifying Influence on mens Understandings whereby their Invention is dull'd their Strengh abated and a slothful sottish habit of Mind and Body contracted which unfits men for ingenious Arts c. 1. It consumes of the Wealth of this Nation in Wines and Brandy if we allow but three Wine-bibbers to each Parish one with another at ten pound per annum each person in 2500 Parishes amounts to Seventy five thousand pound per annum which is either paid for in Cash or in Goods of our Country as good as Mony 2. Our Ale-topers being estimated to five in each Parish one with another amount to 12500 persons our afternoon Wine-bibbers being most of them forenoon Ale-topers computing their excess in this Liquor to four pound per annum each man it amounts to fifty thousand pounds per annum consumed of the Growth of the Country which might either be exported in Beer or Corn or the Lands and the Hands imployed in breeding Cattel or in Daries to the Countreys advantage 3. The multitude of people imployed and maintained as Tapsters and Drawers c.
Separation Wherein is prov'd from undeniable matter oâ— Fact and Reason that Separation from the Church of England is in the judgment of Papists and by sad experience found the most compendious way to introduce Popery and ruine the Protestant Religion in two Parts Octav by R.W. Interest of Ireland c. THE SECOND PART OF IRELAND'S INTEREST c. Proposing Expedients for Ireland's Relief against its Trade-obstructing and Wealth-consuming Maladies hinted in the First Part. CHAP. I. Of Banks and Corporation Trade I joyn them together not that it is necessary in Countreys qualified to manage them distinct but where Members and Stock is wanting they are very consistent in the same hands to be managed by the same united Stocks and Policies BAnks are of divers kinds designed for several uses but still aiming at the same end which is gain either to the State or particular Persons together with such credit to their Bills that they become current in all places and to all persons where and to whom assigned These Banks sometimes consist of particular persons but usually Societies as the Chamber of London Banks of Amsterdam and Venice c. Some of which chiefly designs Exchange as Placentia in Italy Lions in France others Usury as Genoa c. others both for the publick and private benefit in increasing Trade securing and employing Orphans Widows and helpless people to money c. Bodin * p 672. observes that in Florence Siana c. they had their Banks nam'd Mounts of Piety wherein he that would deposite any Sum at the Birth of a Daughter should receive ten times so much when they arriv'd at the age of eighteen years where also Poor men might borroâ— Money upon Pawns at low interest to prevent excessive Usuries whereby the poor were opprest and that Antonius Pius and Servius c. delivered the publick Money in the Treasury to industrious men to imploy in Trade on Pawns or other good security whereby the Merchant gained by Traffick and the publick Moneys increased by Interest besides saith he a greater benefit did arise the publick Treasure was preserv'd from the paws of Thieves and Horse-leeches at the Court and from being otherwise wasted by the Princes prodigality But I shall only treat of Banks as they relate to Trade and Commerce and become useful to others by accident Sometimes Banks are erected from the plenty of Money in places not capable of Trade or where persons are not willing to adventure in Trade and so employ their Money at Usury or Exchange to foreign places as Genoa Placentia and most of the Banks in Italy which are the greatest and ancientest Banks in the World Heylin observes the King of Spain was indebted to the Bank of Genoa a Tun and a half of Gold at one time and eighteen millions at another But since their case is not like to be Irelands I shall only insist upon Banks for the supply of the want of Money which may properly be called a Land or dry Bank yet not wholly without Money but like some Merchants who with a small Stock and large Credit will drive a great Trade This sort of Bank must be founded upon undoubted visible Credit that all persons who have Money to spare may covet to lodge it there rather than in any other place having the knowledge of the Solvent Capital for their security and the great Credit upon which the whole success of their Bank depends it being with them as with some Merchants that are not so much concerned to have twenty Bonds sued as one Bill of Exchange protested From whence it is the Rich in Holland are as glad to get their Money secur'd in Banks or Cantors as the Poor are to get their Children receiv'd into the Hospitals which our observing Countrey-man Sir William Temple * 229. hath not omitted in his Observations Whosoever is admitted to bring in his Money takes it for a great savour and when they pay off any part of the Principal those it belongs unto receive it with tears Not will what is proposed be found difficult for persons in Ireland of very obscure Capitals might obtain credit both at home and abroad for treble the Goods they take up and how much more then may be done on the Credit of such a Bank especially when we consider how many of our single Bankers or Exchangers have fail'd within these few years to the ruine of some and weakening the Estates of others to this Kingdom damage upwards of 50000 l. besides the scandal it hath brought on the credit of the Countrey that no man knows who to trust or where to lodge Money with security these Bankrupts being as promising hopeful men as most they have left behind them But since there is no security in Ireland can be so solvent and satisfactory as Land-Security other Stocks though never so great may be subject to decay and the Creditor not discern it as hath been too evident in some of the most creditable Companies and chief Bankers in London Yet a Land-security may be so setled by Law as it cannot be weakned in that it will not be in the power of the Bankers in any case to alienate or incumber their Title in those Lands otherwise than by Bank-credit since all are personally and equally concerned therein As for Example Suppose Dublin being the chief Seat of the grand Bank and twenty persons shall secure to each other Lands of 200 Pounds per. ann by Feofment or Statute-staple in trust on Defeasance for Bank-security if any former Settlements or Statutes be they will soon be discerned and there can be no collateral Incumbrance on that Security this will be a Security to a Bank of 4000 Pounds per. ann Lands being worth twelve years purchase within ten miles of the City which will raise a Bank-Security of 48 thousand Pounds And that no place or person might be depriv'd of the benefit hereof every chief Port may likewise have their Banks as Branches or Members of the Principal Bank and take into their Company the neer adjacent places and to hold a weekly correspondence with each other and credit each others Bills or Bank-tickets Nor will such Banks restrain or confine any man from the freedom of Trade for though none have the benefit of the Bank-credit that hath not a Bank-security yet shall they have liberty if they desire it to trade in Company with the Bankers and have equal profit with them proportionably to their respective Adventures and at the end of every voyage liberty to withdraw or continue their Stocks as they shall see cause and chuse the place they will adventure unto and the Commodities they will export or import or else left to trade by themselves as they please by which also all persons that either want knowledge in Trade or scruple Usury c. may imploy their Stocks be they great or small upon equal terms with the Bankers allowing only for Factorage or provision towards the maintenance of the
with that strength by Wickliffs Books c. dispersed in Germany Bohemiah France Piedmont c. the Popelings observ'd it to be past the Cure of preaching Fryars whereupon Paul the third discern'd it necessary to raise a more warlike Regiment and instituted these Knights of the Virgin Mary as the Jesuits first stiled themselves Ross Stillingf p. 306. You have an exact account of their Original and Progress by that eminent Protestant Divine Dr. Stillingfleet in his Fanaticism of the Church of Rome pag. 301. to p. 320. and by Grimstone in his States and Empires fol. 1213. to which I shall refer you And if you neither laugh at the Ridicule nor weep at the Ignorance and Stupidity of that age you must be of a steddy temper But to give you an account of the bloody Wars barbarous Massacres and treacherous Assassinations since Anno Dom. 1545. the Council of Trent confirmed their Order and their Hetrodox Articles of Faith would be to copy Volumes of their own and our Authors but you may read some brief hints in Sect. 5. SECT III. Shews the Authority whereby they were confirmed EXcepting the Popes whose vowed slaves they are the Council of Trent is the only Council that approved and confirmed their Institutions therefore it is worth observing the Qualifications of that Assembly saith Dr. Stillingfleet pag. 106. so contrived as not to condemn the grossest Error The occasion of the Council was to suppress Luthers Doctrine in the designe of the Conclave at Rome but press'd by the Emperor c. to reform things amiss too and restrain the Imperiousness of the Pope and his Conclave Hist Coun. of Trent fol. 17. the Policy of Rome thought it not prudent to deny the calling it least it should be imposed nor safe at present to admit it least it should impose on them fol. 37. Christendom groaning under their unsupportable Exactions and Tyranny which Germany presented in an hundred Grievances fol. 37. Therefore the only expedient was to delay it and to that end raised many scruples about the Authority of their Summons fol. 54. the Qualifications of their Members place of Sitting c. fol. 233. fol. 25 57. by which means they drill'd out twenty years the Lives of six Popes before the first Session 1542. saith Grimstone then transferred to Bolonia after back to Trent fol. 465. And after that what time they spent in Preambles c. vide Council of Trent p. 139 c. 1. About the Title some of the Bishops were for stiling it the most holy Council representing the Church universal others opposed it the Italians vehemently Hist Council of Trent p. 138. So betwixt the Bishops and the Regulars about Priviledges p. 151. between the Dominicans and Franciscans in several points betwixt the Italian Bishops and others about Residence and the extent of Episcopal Power but the Legates informing the Pope of these Controversies he sent them these Orders Not to broach any new Difficulties in matter of Faith nor to determine any of the Points controverted among Catholicks and to proceed slowly in the Reformation but vigorously against the Hereticks vide Sleidens 12th Book But with what vehemency their proceedings were opposed by most Princes vide Field p. 107 c. by the French King Sleiden lib. 22. so Charles the fiâ—â—h by his Ambassador Mendoza disclaimed against the Popes Power in calling Synods to reâ— thâ— Church besides all the Members of 〈◊〉 Council were enjoyned to take this Oath against their Freedom and Liberty I will defend 〈◊〉 â—â—â—pacy against all men so help me God c. 〈…〉 no 〈◊〉 durst offer his Reasons or obâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—st what the Popes Creatures proposed 〈◊〉 presently expelled the Council Sleiden 〈…〉 Craken p. 158. Yet for all this Carâ—â—â— â—antarâ— c. urged for the true Doctrine 〈◊〉 jâ—â—â—â—fication the Spanish and German Bishops â—â—â—â—ve to reducâ— the Popes boundless Authority tâ— oppâ—se whâ—m he encreased the number of Bishops many of whom only titular and of a sudden created thirteen new Cardinals sent his frequent Instructions to direct and lead the Council that it became a Proverb The Holy Ghost travelled from Rome to Trent in a Packet Such as they could not expel as Cardinal Cantaren c. they cut off by Poyson and whilst they were thus amusing the world with an expected Reformation the Pope raiseth an Army invades Germany to impose the Tridentine Faith This is the Council of Trent called by the usurped Power of the Pope guided by Fraud and Subtilty awed by illegal Expulsions and treacherous Poysonings ending in bloody Wars from whence proceeded all their new Articles of Faith But with what Dissatisfaction not only to the Emperor and French King but most other Princes except the Popes Vassals the Italians these things were received you may read by their respective Letters printed at the end of the History of the Council of Trent fol. 782. to fol. 823. and then judge whether these Principles were not imposed on their pretended Catholick as well as on Protestant Princes But the History of this Council being writ by an Author so generally applauded amongst the Romanists that it became a proverb Father Paul is so blameless and pure that his very Pantables were canonized vide his Life fol. 43. but being voluminous I shall refer the Reader to Bishop Bramhall's Vindic. p. 351. to 355. where he demonstrates that Council to be neither general free nor lawful and yet this is the best Authority the Jesuits and their Principles are confirmed by and by which they are grown so presumptuous as to excommunicate all the Christians in the world for damned Hereticks that disown the Pope though they cannot be ignorant that their Principles and communion are rejected by far the greater number of Christians in the world v. Paget p. 1. to p. 33. where you may also read their Harmony both in Doctrine and Worship with Protestants of Europe and how vehemently they explode the Usurpations Heresies and Idolatries of the Roman Church fol. 59. to fol. 109. in so much that the Patriarch of Constantinople c. excommunicates the Pope and his Clergy once a year Therefore Rome cannot be the Mother Church nor the Mistress of other Churches being the fewest in number and last in being Jerusalem Antioch Constantinople and Alexandria nay England were in the Faith before her if we may believe the most authentick of Authors as Bishop Jewell Dr. Fulk Willet Paget vid. fol. 146. Bishop Bramhall Taylor Stillingfleet Ursinus c. indeed she was first in Apostacy in that she deserves the Primacy in departing from the Faith and holy Life of the Apostles and primitive Churches as is manifest from their own Authors that writ from Boniface 3. the first debauch'd grand Apostate to Leo the tenth who obtained a Confirmation from the Council of Trent of their Errors and Usurpations Saith Erasmus on the thirteenth Chapter of the Revelations When the Roman Kingdom after the time of Julianus