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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

thirty miles a bloody spectacle Sixty women were cruelly rackt so that the cords peirced their Arms and Leggs to the bones and then being cast into prison dyed all but nine of the handsomest who were taken away from thence and never heard of more And thus they continued their cruelty till they had quite rooted out and extirped all professing that Religion in Calabria The Waldenses in Province who had fled thither out of Piedmont Province Daupheny and other places encreasing and being near Avignion the Popes Seat he soon raised against them an horrid persecution but the greatest was in the year 1360. in the time of Lewis the 12th in which many suffer'd and continued more or less rigorously to the year 1540. in which was the cruel Massacre by the means of the Popes Agents at Merindol and Chabriers Pepin and other places Where the Towns were fired wholly destroyed and all the Lands about laid waste The poor people were slain the young Virgins ravished and barbarously used Children pulled alive out of their Mothers Bellies the breasts of divers women cut off and their sucking Children left on the floor to dye with Famine or sucking the gore that ran from the wounds of their dead Mothers At Cabriers there being but sixty six weak men left in the Town the rest being fled they caused them to be brought all forth to a field and there the bloody Papists cut them to peeces And all the women they found in the Town with their young Children they lockt up together in a Barn and so set it on fire and burnt them and some that endeavoured to escape thorow the flames they knockt on the head with their Halberts and ript open the bellies of others that were with Childe their Children falling under their feet and others being bound back to back were broach'd in sport upon one Sword So that in this place were slain above a thousand Men Women and Children that could not lift up their hands to resist At Costa another Town they committed great slaughters and where they used several Women and Malds that fled into an Orchard for safety with so much cruel and inhumane beastliness that they dyed most thereof This long and bloody persecution of these Waldenses Collected out of Luthers Forerunners Cades Justification of the Church of England lasted near five hundred years in which time they spread their Tenents over Bohemia Austria Germany Flanders England Poland Italy Spain Dalmatia Oroatia Sclavonia Greecia Livonia Sarmatia and Bulgaria in all which places they were persecuted and tormented more or less according as the Pope and his Ministers had power and Influences over the Princes of those Countrys The persecution also of those called Albingenses was very notorious The persecution of the Albingenses they were of the same principles and Tenents as the Waldenses and differ'd only in Country and Name being Inhabitants of the Country of Albi the chief of whom was Arnold from whom they were called Arnoldists Pope Alexander the third began with them and his successors followed his steps and Pope Innocent the third raised a War against them calling it the Holy War and gave out the same pardons and Indulgences for encouragement of those who went against these people as he did to those that went into the Holy Land against the Saracens in which War he so thundered against Raimond Earl of Tholouse that he was forced to submit and for penance to be led publiquely stript to his drawers with a cord about his neck and so whipt by the Fryers nine times about the grave of one Peter the Hermite kill'd in that War And then wou'd have forced him against his Conscience to have fought against the Albingenses His Legat playing the part of a General In Beziers besieges and takes Beziers by storm seting the whole City in fire and burnt it to ashes and slew all they could meet with without distinction both Catholicks as well as those they termed Hereticks for there were of both in the City At which time they slew in this City 60000 persons Their next morsel was the Town of Carcasson Carcasson Town which the Holy Pilgrims as they called themselves took also by storm burning destroying and slaying all as they had done before at Beziers After that they set upon the City of Carcasson Carcasson City defended by the Earl of Beziers and when they offered to Capitulate the Legat would grant no other conditions but that the Earl and twelve more should come forth with their baggage but all the rest both men women and children should come forth stark naked without covering of either Shirt or Smock and humble themselves before him But they disdaining such unworthy and ignominious terms stand it out till they had told the Earl forth of Town under pretence of parly with the Legat having given his Oath for his safe return but having him without regard thereto stormed the City to the amazement of the poor amazed Citizens who looked for nothing less but there being a certain Vault under ground which went to a Castle not far of most of them convey'd themselves away by it leaving their City and all therein to the fury and rage of the unholy Pilgrims Then they surprized the Castle of Beron Beron. where they pull'd out the Eyes of an hundred Albingenses and cut off their noses leaving only one with one Eye to guide the rest to Cabaret They took also the Castle of Menerby Menerby defended by the Lord of Termes whom they flung into a filthy Prison till he dyed his wife sister and daughter who was a Maid they burnt in one fire because they would not recant their Religion And after that they cast into one fire for the same cause 180 men and women at the same place who dyed rejoycing At the taking of the Castle of Lavaur Lavaur by Simon Monford who succeeded the Legat in his Generalship all the Souldiers therein were put to the Sword except 80. Gentlemen whom that cruel Earl caused to be hanged and the Lord Aimery on a Gibbet higher then all the rest And the Lady his Sister east into a ditch and there covered with stones The rest of the people who were about 400. persons were forced into a great fire made purposely for them and so burnt except those that for fear recanted their Religion which were sew At this time one Reynard Lollard by his preaching stirred up the English in Guienne to assist the Albingenses this Lollard was a holy man and a Prophet and afterwards was burnt at Collen by the Papists those in England of that Judgment were from him afterwards called Lollards These men still proceeding in their cruelty against the Albingenses take the Town of St. Anthonys St. Anthonys where they caused thirty of the principal men to be hanged in cold blood after they had granted them their lives and several other Towns where they put all to the sword without

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