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The Damnable principle of the Jesuites touching the murdering of Kings fully laid open in two eminent instances, de facto, by their own confession
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1679
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Wing D156; ESTC R5571
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THE Damnable Principle OF THE JESUITES Touching the MURDERING OF KINGS Fully laid open in Two Eminent Instances de facto by their own Confession As troops of Robbers wait for a Man so the Company of Priests murder in the way by Consent Hosea 6.9 LONDON Printed for Will. Bowtel at the Sign of the Star near Mercers Chapel in Cheapside 1679. THE JESUITES Ghostly Wayes c. BEfore the Advent of Jesuites saies France of their Catholick Church we never understood what it was to destroy Kings and Princes That is a Merchandise indeed too horrid for any Christian people to deal in but yet it seems not so bad as to deter Jesuites from having to do with it And as it first of all came out of their shops by that wicked Vow of blind Obedience which they made to their Superiours so they dearly love still to keep up that traffick because of the no small gain it brings in to them here and they are the absolute lovers of this world and besides that like Paper and Packthread Heaven when they tramp out of this life is thrown in to the bargain and given them as the last Recompence of all their Meritorious Deeds and Services so that now Kings and Princes seem to hold the tenure of their lives at the will of two Landlords God and the Jesuites and either of them may turn them out of Possession whensoever they think fit I have made choice of these two ensuing Stories being I think as remarkable as almost any in History and there are not a few to show you how bloodily they are bent both in their Natures and by their Function against all that are not of the same damnable Faith with them not sparing even so much as sacred Majesty for whom they ought to have a continual Reverence and Dread as being the peculiar Seals of Gods more immediate impress of himself especially too when he has so strictly charged us all not so much as to touch his Anointed that is not to do them the least hurt or prejudice no not even in our thoughts and certainly then much less to come near them with blood-thirsty and violent hands He who made the Humble Remonstrance and Request to the then French King being extreamly desirous to make it appear that the Jesuites were most Calumniously accused of having attempted against thâ— life of the Queen of England saies thus As for the English those who have writ the truth have testified our fidelity and have not dared to accuse us of attempting any thing against the Queen in her estate and those who would fain calumniate us know not how to fix their lyes and forgeries upon any of our deportments by any probable Reason of truth But however I will make it out that that Jesuite is a Second Herodotus and I confer no flight and trivial honour on him when I compare him to that great person who 't is thought was the father or author of the lying and fabulous History William Parry Doctor of the Civil Law a man of smart parts but as it is said of him of profuse wastfulness ryot Speed's Chron. in Q. Eliz an Dom. 1584. f. 1157.94 and prodigality after he had eat and drank out his own estate and consumed the greatest part of his two widows fortunes and wounded his creditor Hugh Hare a Gentleman of the Temple by committing burglary for which fact he was condemned to dye but by the compassion and tenderness of the Queen upon his suing for it got his reprieve of life he was deliberating with himself what course to take and at last resolved to fly his Countrey and to sail for France And being got to the City of Paris and desirous to screw himself into a familiarity with some English Gentlemen fugitives likewise from their own Countrey for the sake of their Religion they were somewhat shie at first how they entertained him not knowing but that he might come expresly to them to spy out their actions which made them send him to Lyons and afterwards to Venice where being an English-man he was put to the Inquisition But he gave so good an Account of his Catholick Religion that his Judges thought it their duty to send him back being well beloved by all the Catholicks and by Father Benedicto Palmio a Jesuite of great reputation among them he took up a hellish resolution to fall from his natural allegiance and wholly to devote himself to the interests of the See of Rome and to confirm this absolutely to them he projected to kill the Queen and by the same means to set fire to the four corners of England grounding this his enterprize here both to deliver his Countrey from the tyranny under which it groaned and to advance to the Crown the Queen of Scots a Catholick Princess who had lately married Prince Dauphine and who laying her title from Margaret the eldest daughter of King Henry the seventh linked in marriage with James the fourth King of that name she being the daughter of King James the fifth his son was the nearest in blood and the lawful heir to the crown of England An opinion that came from his own instinct without ever having before his departure communicated it to the Queen of Scots as since he confessed in the prison But because this enterprize was somewhat arduous and difficult and his conscience was not so stiffed but that it gave him now and then bitter remorses he went to confer about it with Palmio who according to the common maxime of his sect not only did not dissuade him from it but greatly confirmed him in it and told him that in such a matter as that was only length of time could be prejudicial Whereupon he packs away again to Lyons and discovering his design to the Jesuites he is mightily commended and honoured by them Some little time after he returns to Paris where some English Gentlemen fugitives being acquainted with his intention began to imbrace and hug him in their arms among the rest one Thomas Morgan who assured him that within a short time after he should be in England and should have executed his business he would give order for a puissant army of Scots to come thither to secure the Kingdom to the Queen of Scots Now although Parry seemed to be resolved on all things yet he could not sometimes keep out the stings that gnawed and tore his conscience And therefore he communicated it to some persons of the English Church all of whom disswaded him from it especially a learned Priest named Watell who wisely remonstrated to him that all the rules of God and of the world were repugnant and contrary to that his deliberation In so great an irresolution he resolves to inquire and take advice of the Jesuites of Paris among whom he addresses himself to father Hannibal Coldretto to whom he discoursed in confession his first intention and the incertainty and disquiet into which Watel had reduced him But the Jesuite who never