they gave out this Head was for some miracles which being related to her credulous Son Prince Teimurez Lord of the Territory they enjoyed his liberal favour and munificent priviledge of erecting a Colledge a School and Temple sacred to the memory of Cateba by which success the Jesuits being elated and daily increasing their Treasure Reputation and Friends which did accrue from the great conflux of Visitants who sometime came to pay their Devotions to the Head They fell to the trade of gaping after th' other Monks Estates and cheating them who ill resented the envy covetousness and ambition of the Jesuits and when vexation put them upon exercising their senses they soon smelt out 't was not the Head of Cateba but of some facinorous Traytor which had been set upon a pole stollen away and religiously laid up by the crafty Jesuits and obtruded on that miserable Nation which had sometime smarted under the Persian sword hereupon a diligent enquiry was made after the true body of Cateba which was really found in the Tents of their Enemies reserved by her maid Moacla who prov'd it by undeniable circumstances when brought into Iberia which so enraged the Prince that he clapt up the Jesuits close Priâ—oners but afterwards because they had by their cunning got some Friends to intercede for them he contented himself to banish them upon whom reproaches were powred abundantly by Moacla and all the Inhabitants of Iberia the infamy which justly fell upon these Fathers for this imposture being a greater punishment than death it self Yet even in those Eastern parts of the World these impudent Incendiaries give more troubles * Narrat Epist Turbarum in Oriente de Jesuitis ad Fin. Myst Patr. Jes as Cyril the Patriarch of Constantinople found in the years 1627 1628. when by calumnies they afflicted the poor Bishop turn'd him out of his place put the distressed Church to vast charges and had utterly ruin'd him and them if the English Embassador or Resident had not once and again interposed with the Turkish Bassaws kept him from smiting detected the Villany of the Jesuits and brought them by clearing of the truth into disgrace in those parts Sect. IV. § 1. THe truth is no sincere Christian in his place could do less than contribute his assistance to the relief of a distressed Church none such especially who tenders the welfare of these three Nations could do less than discountenance the Jesuits who have exercised their chief skil in FIRE works both moral and mechanical in these Dominions to enkindle perpetual Flames The very Roman Clergy of other Orders were so sensible hereof that they addressed themselves unto Pope Clement VIIIth in a complaint of many particulars concerning the intollerable Impostures and fraudulent actions of the Jesuits especially in seditious libelling of and conspiring against the Temporal State concluding no good could be expected unless the Jesuits were removed they did so afflict even those of the Popish Religion who were not slaves to the Court of Rome * Querela extar in Hospin a fol. 173. ad f. 178. What Smoke did they raise ab Aquilone when they influenc'd the Guises to move the bold and stirring Genius of the Scottish Nation against England One while the Jesuits cry up the Title of the Queen of Scots another while they decry it one Jesuit writes pro and another con and this no question de industria by consent as one that would enkindle a Fire makes use of two Flints and strikes them against each other to elicite Sparks into the tinder-temper of discontented Subjects The late Apologist whiles he celebrated the Queen of the Scots could not forbear to cast reproach upon Qâ—een Elizabeth in her Grave for which he is roundly took up with a cleer and full Answer as he deserved and whatsoever now is said for the honor of the Queen of Scots the Ecclesiastical Querelants to the Pope but now mention'd charge her death upon a Jesuit who also wrote against her Son ‖ id fo noting that of all Men living the Jesuits treated her the most unworthily the Papist who wrote the Jesuits Catechism * Jes Cat. lib. 3. c. 15. hath this Title before one Chapter That the Jesuits were the cause of the death of the Queen of Scots Shewing therein that Hen. Sammier a Jesuit disguised in the habit of a Souldier was the contriver of that mischiâ—f setting out the wicked fellows Treachery at large Yea and after her death they procured the Earl of Huntley and others to make a powerful Rebellion in Scotland * Answ to Po. Apol. p. 26. ê Camb. against her Son King James Against whom also Will. Creighton a Scotch Jesuit stirred up Robert Bruce a young Noble Man who had been educated in the Jesuits schools to kill Metelan Chancellor of Scotland for disswading the King from hearkning to the Popes Proposal of a Match but Bruce trembled at the motion and when the Jesuit said he would absolve him he replyed he knew not whether God would give him grace to confess * L. Luc. Hist p. 519. Hosp 178. Then he offered him from the Duke of Parma 1500 Crowns to engage three Noble Men to do it but he denying The Jesuit found an opportunity afterwards of getting Bruce clapt up and kept 14 Months in Prison whiles he himself was at liberty taking his pleasure § 2. Ever since King Henry 8th did solemnly cast off the Popes Supremacy England and Iâ—eland have been the Butts against which the Court of Rome have been emptying their Quiver of Fiery Darts though he did no more for substance than what had been of old for Will. Rufus * Mat. Paris ad an 1094. in hist min. Ego inquit in regno meo parem dum vivam sussinere non possum that he might stop the incroachment of all Forreign Jurisdiction was wont viva voce to charge the Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. That to the Court of Rome or the Pope himself they should not have any respect c. I cannot saith he ever while I breath endure an equal in my Kingdome To eradicate this principle the Roman Conclave molested the Raign of that excellent Prince Edw. 6th whose Laws were said to be written in milk and not in blood †Speed pag. 1092. for the bloody Laws came in when Queen Mary left the supremacy to the Pope and the affairs of Religion under him to Cardinal Pool ‖ pag. 1123. a very great favourer of the Jesuits who no doubt were at Rome active to kindle those Flames which took hold of so many Protestants here BURNT in the days of Q. Mary at whose heart it was said the loss of Calais lay whether any one is so concerned for Dunkirk I know not sure the domineering Papists took a course to lay at her heart rather Fire scalding Lead and red-hot Irons whereby they urged her against her natural temper to put to death the poor Martyrs For favouring
and an enemy of the Common-wealth yea that the Subjects may not only lawfully depose such Princes but also that they are BOVND to it by Divine precept the strictest bond of Conscience and the utmost hazard of their Souls This Gentleman had said before * Id p 109. Si Imperator vel Rex haereticum savore prosequatur ipso facto regnum amittet that if an Emperor or King favour'd an Heretick i. e. one who takes the Scripture for his Rule he hath ipso facto lost his Kingdom Tresham and Bridgewater write after the same Copy and Bellarmine saith It is not lawful for Christians to tolerate such a King who endeavours to perswade his subjects to embrace that Heresie viz. that Religion * L. 5. de Pontif c. 6. 7. 4. § 4. Now to stir up people to take their counsels to eject their lawful Princes they deliver that people may refuse to pay tribute to Kings as being unjust according to a probable Opinion * Vide Add. to Myst Jes p. 92. §. 3.4 and that Subjects do not sin when they refuse without any reason alledg'd to submit to a Law whereof there hath been a legal Proclamation by their Prince and for Clergy-men they are not subject to secular Princes neither are they oblig'd to any obedience to their Laws though not any way contrary to the state Ecclesiastical Whereupon they make nothing of it to vacate all Constitutions Decrees and Covenants how solemn soever betwixt Princes and people especially upon pretence of Religion they are peremptory Faith is not to be kept with Hereticks particularly the Emperor is not oblig'd to make good any Priviledges granted to the Protestants when he was in straits * Jo. Paul Windeâ— de haeres extirp p. 324. and the subjects of England as others in such circumstances or when it pleaseth the Pope are disobliged from their Oath of Allegiance * Bellar. de jur The famous Historian Thuan assures us They taught publickly both in the Pulpit and Press that Princes were not bound to keep touch with Sectaries alledging for Proof the Council of Constance and if Oaths bind not farewell Trust which is certainly no more to be regarded than is consistent with the Ignatian interest for either they 'l swear by Equivocation which they account laudable * Talet Just Sacerd. l. 4. c 21. however an Heathen †Cicero would condemn their shift saying Fraus non dissolvit sed distring it perjurium i. e. Craft in an Oath doth not lessen but strengthen perjury or else they 'l conceit the Person to whom they swear incapable of an Oath and they think the incapacity considerable if the Pope and their F. Gen. have not a kindness for him * Appian Plantus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pactum non Pactum est non Pactum pactum est cum illis lubet § 5. After they have indoctrinated Princes and Subjects in such previous Lessons as these then they shew them what conclusions arise from such premises as * Rossaeus p. 649. 670. The Right of Kings depends upon their devotion to the Pope rather than succession magis in ultione haeresis quà m in cognatione sanguinis rather in an endeavour to be aveng'd on Protestants than in the legitimateness of their Pedigree from their Ancestors as we may see in Reynolds under the Title of Rossaeus Then Conclusionês Politicae sub Regis Domini nostri Praesidio as the Jesuists publish'd at Madrid * Alph. d Varg. c. 5. instructing the King of Spain their grand Protector †Spec. Jes p 217. 218. to promote their Vniversal Monarchy for which a late Writer would perswade us the King of France is now a Competitor though the Parity of reason is not so apparent by determining he was consecrated to invade and seize upon other mens Dominions and on the other hand they conclude the French ought not to admit the King of Navarre * Rossaeus p. 466. because a Calvinist and Protestant neither Queen Elizabeth nor King James for the like reason * Parsons of succession and thereupon they at Salamanca determin'd that whatsoever Papists should not desert the defence of the English under their lawful Soveraign and follow Hugh Oneele the Rebel would sin mortally and could not obtain life everlasting except they desist * Determ Salam And F. Parsons did pronounce sentence †Doleman p. 216. that whosoever did consent to the Succession of a Protestant is a most grievous and damnable sinner And so keen is the rage of these Jesuits against truly Evangelical Christians that as Dr. Du Moulin in the Epistle to his excellent Book The sincerity of the Protestant Religion told the Archbishop of concerning the Flanders Jesuit under the Title of Philanax Anglus Their very stile is a continual casting of FIRE BRANDS and FIRING of Granadoes to scatter the Protestants in all the Parts of the world for they call'd Qâ—een Elizabeth Jezabel and the English Wolf the Elector of Saxony an Hog W. of Orange the Prince of Beggars and those Princes who though Papists do give the least indulgence to Protestants they call half-Catholicks and Politicians in derision nay worse as Henry 4th of France a Renegado Apostate concluding they ought to be oppress'd with Poison Sword FIRE Gunpowder and the like machinations as Stapleton said they account such Politicians in some sense worse than Hereticks and Turks because they refuse to defend Catholicism by weapons and wars and ought to be driven out of all Cities as the old Athenians expell'd Diagoras and Protagoras proposing a reward to him that would kill them * Orat. Duaci contr Politic. unless the House of Austria none else may expect favour In the Parisian Massacre Guignard the Jesuit was vexed they had not opened the Basilick vein i. e. stab'd Henry King of Navarre together with the rest * Hosp l. 4. p. 216. l. 1. c. 6. de Reg. And Marina * before him commended the Murtherer of Hen. III. saying O Memorable Action by murthering the King he got to himself a great name Bader and Cracius Jesuits were in such an heat that they affirmed there could be no Peace in Germany so long as the Augustine Confession was not abolished and the Protestants the defenders of it slain and BURNT for that kind of men could be no otherwise soften'd and dissolv'd but by the flame of FIRE and F. Peter an Italian and Master of the Spiritualities wish'd such a spirit in their people as was in those who made the Butchery in France saying unless in Germany there were such another the Jesuits could not be safe * Hausen-mull p. 126. whereupon one of those before said †p. 16. It behoves us in following our Military Leader to rush in upon all that oppose the Pope by Counsels Words and Writings and to take them off by FIRE and Sword We see the temper of the Gentlemen by their
of whose cause the Incendiaries lead forth the Popes Bulls against Queeen Elizabeth of whose title to the succession none could justly doubt as hath been afresh declared by a worthy pen from the words of the Arch-Bishop of York then a Papist and Raynolds under the name of Rosaeus a Jesuit himself * Answ to the Papists Apology p. 23. 'T would be tedious upon the Evolution of the Annals during her long and happy Reign to give full Narratives of the several attempts were made by the Ignatians upon her person and government and therefore 't will be convenient at present only to suggest the heads of some § 3. Whence was the first Rebellion of Fitz-morris against the Queens government in Ireland but from the same Incendiaries who animated him to the fecond attempt * See Plots and Conspir collected Fran. Speed Camb. Stow. Hollingsh c. Namely the Spanish Mendoza the English Sanders and Allen stiffe Affectors of the Jesuits Principles Stanleys Conspiracy 1570. and that dissembling Treaty by Don John of Austria 1576. was from the same Forge After Fitz-Morris stirs San Josephus was sent into Ireland 1580. with 700. Spaniards and Italians upon the turbulent motions * L. Luc Hist p. 496. 497. from Thuan. c. of F. Campian and Parsons alias Cowback and Jaspar Heywood who of all the Jesuits saith Sr. Hen. Baker came first into England unto whom upon his arrival his Father old Heywood said in a simple admiration Jesu Jasper who made thee a Jesuit The year after 1581. Campian was taken and executed for his Treason Yet in a short time after 1582. 1583. one Summeruil a Gentleman having read dangerous Books of divers Jesuits and convers'd with Hall attempted with a drawn Sword to have kill'd the Queen which was design'd also by William Parry Doctor of Law about 1584 who having read D. Alans book concerning excommunicated Princes acknowledged he was instigated to this Parricide by Benet Palm * Id. 498. and Hanibal Codreto Jesuits at Venice as afterwards by one Morgan in France About these times there was on Shipboard a very admirable discovery of the contents in the Scotish Jesuit Creighton's torn papers gathered together by Sr. Will. Wade which brought to light * Plots and conspir pr. 1642. p. 19. 23. That then to advance the Pope and Spaniard they had resolv'd 1 To deprive Q. Elizabeth 2 To disinherit K. James of England 3 To have the Q. of Scots marry some Popish Noble man of England whom 4 The Papists or Pseudo-Catholicks should choose Which choice 5 the Pope would confirm These were Ignatian projects but God disappointed them as he did the wicked attempts of the Savages with Priests who had suck'd in Jesuitical Doctrines to kill the Queen Elizabeth whom they thought also to have dispatch't by moving the French Embassadour of the Guisian Faction to have hired one Moody who proposed poison or a Bagg of Gunpâ—wder but this was detected and the Ambassador sent home to learn better manners Then when all these fail'd the unwearied malicious Incendiaries set on moving their great Machine the Spanish Armado 1588. Of which we may see from Garnets acts the Jesuits were forerunners at least two years when the Gad-prickers stir'd up the Popes Bulls in defence of this vast and as they counted it invincible Navy * Sâ—eeds Hist p. 1178. Luc. Hist p. 498. 499. which contain'd 2843. great O dnance 28840. Marriners Souldiers and Slaves rowing in Galleys innumerable FIRE balls and Granadoes sunk taken and dispers'd through the singular goodness of God by the English Fleet with the loss of no more than an hundred men and one ship when this publick assault came to naught the Jesuits fall again to their old small games for about * Hosp Cambd. Speeds Stow. c. 1592. they had hired Patrick Collen an Irish Fryar to kill the Queen unto which murther Holt the Jesuit did perswade with this motive that 't was not disallow'd by the Laws whiles Pius V. Bull was out but that he should merit Gods favour and Heaven by it Much about this time the Queen did emit a Declaration against these Sicarii and Incendiaries back'd with excellent Reasons from their Clandestine snares and devices which yet was not so prevalent with Dr. Lopez the Portugez her Physitian to make him Loyal as 50000 Crowns in Rubies and Diamonds was to allure him to attempt the poisoning of her 1593. Neither was it the year after viz. 1594. so powerful with Williams and York who conspired against the Queen as F. Parsons Doleman and the instigation of the Jesuit Holt who also brought other Incendiaries into a combination to FIRE the Navy with wild-FIRE for which they were stretch'd at Tyburn 1595. But this did not yet scare Edward Squire a Deputy Purveyor for the Queens stable upon the motion of Walpole the Jesuit from essaying to poison the pummel of the Queens Sadle 1596. nor Tyrone from Rebellion against the Queen in Ireland within a short time after to encourage whom the Jesuits had boasted by vertue of their League Thuan. P. Metthew Meteran they would clean extirpate Protestantism by the year 1600. but God check'd their confidence and frustrated their hopes Yet the Provincial Garnet and Creswel leguer Jesuit in Spain with Râ—bert Tesmond another of the society were conspiring with the King of Spain to send an Army to joyn with 5000 Foot and 2000. Horse they had Dormant in England of Papists to receive them 1601. 1602. But the great God blasted this as the rest of the Jesuits horrid practises against the Queen notwithstanding the determinations of their Colledge at Salamanca sent to embolden Tyroen in Ireland and the erection of their New Society at Thonon in Savoy 1602. whereto many Popish Kings and Nobles gave their names by pious frauds and force of Arms to convert or extirpate the Protestants under the Notion of Hereticks having by the Agencie of 50. disguised Jesuits in England listed as was said 25000. Popish souldiers about June that year to joyn with this new Assâ—ciation to carry on the forementioned design * Mr. Pr. pref vind from metâ—rran l. 23. Spec Jes p 100. Winter to encourage the Papists brought word of a million of crowns prepared by the Jesuits in Spain for the service and two Bulls †L. Luc. Hist p. 405. were propounded from Clem. VIII viz. one to the Lords Spiritual another to the Lords Temporal that whether by a Natural or a violent death the Queen should be remov'd they would only promote a Papist to the Crown * Causab Epist ad Font. p. 186. The notices of these Machinations occasion another Declaration by the Queen against the Jesuits * p. 509. 15. Novemb. 1602. But about half a year after when she had reigned full 44. years and four moneths April 4. 1603. God was pleas'd to remove her out of the reach of these Furies § 4. And K. James in
about 1636. 1637. they were not onely injurious in their practises towards other Papists as some of them complain'd then but some grew very insolent upon several occasions in their expressions against the Laws and had their weekly Congregations then and in the years following to hurl us all into disorder and confusion * Id. ib. Hidd works p. 109 144 170 171 189 c. 1. pt Compl. Hist p. 443. 449. alibi Roy. fav p. 54. 55. Rom. m. peec p. 31. For we find Mr. Waddesworth did depose both in writing and vivâ voce at the Lords bar that one Henry alias Francis Smith alias Lloyd alias Rivers alias Simons who it seems was then a Provincial of the Jesuits and had in his younger days as Stukely the Priest related had a hand in the Gunpowder-Treason before the beginning of the Scotch wars did tell him in Norfolk where he met him that The Popish Religion was not to be brought in here by disputing or books of controversie but with an Army and with FIRE and sword * Mr. Pr. 1. pt Comp. Hist p. 449 450. And when according to this menacing determination of F. Smith the Jesuits had fomented a war betwixt England and Scotland * Id. in preface to vind of Fund 1. pt E. 3. a. b. E. 4. a. b. 1639. it seems upon their solicitations the King of Spain had provided a new Spanish Armado and land Army of old souldiers to invade the western and southern parts of England when the Forces and Ammunition were drawn into the Northern parts against the Scots which design was broken and detected by the Hollanders unexpected encounter of their Fleet on the English coasts and the pacification in Scotland which appear'd by the confession of an English Pilot in that Navy on his death-bed mortally wounded in the first fight to an English Minister and others to whom he revealed it out of conscience as also by some Letters and other evidences and by a pamphlet made and printed by the Jesuits 1640. in which amongst other passages entered in the Parliament journal Novemb. 14. 1640. there was a particular prayer for the Holy Martyrs which suffered in the Fleet sent against the Hereticks of England 1639. with this note the Papists must fish in troubled waters To which purpose the Popes Nuncio with the secret Colledge of Jesuits then in Queen-street summon'd a convention of Jesuits having gotten secretly into private pay an Army of 7000. Papists upon which the Fathers of the Society were so confident of success that in their Jubilee 1640. which they solemniz'd in all places being the hundredth year from the first Erection of their Order by Ignatius as was noted above 1540. at Aquisgran or Aken in their publick Hall they had an Enterlude which they invited people to by Printed Tickets signifying the Triumph of the Popish Church of Rome by Pageants brought upon the Stage subduing all her enemies till that day by their means but in their jollity when two Armies came in one of the Jesuits and Papists another of the Protestants ready to encounter a Jesuiticall Actot in the habit of a masse Priest comes in also devining success to the Popish Army praying for it with an affected devotion and solemn invocation or rather prophanation of Gods name upon which the Popish Army of Actors as certain of the instant victory utter'd these words as their parts directed them with a loud and reitterated voice and shout PEREAT PEREAT QUIS QUIS EST HOSTIS ECCLESIAE i. e. Let him perish let him perish whoever is an enemy of the Church At the repeating of which words a great part of the Stage on which they acted together with the whole Popish Army not one Souldier or Captain excepted fell to the ground immediately while their feigned enemies personating the Protestants were left standing on the other part of the Stage which fell not at all with this sudden fall many of the Popish Army were bruised in peices with the beams of the Stage falling upon them who through pain and horror needed no Moniters to silence their outcries Others with broken limbs were carried to the Chyrurgeons and the rest confounded with shame crept away secretly under the veil to their lodging So this Ignatian-Play ended in a reall unexpected Tragedie and a reall rout of the whole pretended victorius Popish Army of the Jesuits * Id. ibid ê specul sive jubilaeo Jesuitico p. 220. ad p. 224. And the Scottish Wars that year which they so much depended on through Gods mercy concluded in a blessed peace and union betwixt both Nations § 6. But the Irish Papists by their Plots and Instigations of the Jesuits who seconded their motions with encouragement of Arms and Monyes from abroad undertook the bloody Massacre of all the Protestants in Ireland and surprisal of all the Forts Castles Arms and Ammunitions therein On the 23. of Octob. 1641. being IGNATIUS DAY which they celebrate like the Jewish Rabbi's feast about this time of the year called Festum ignis or luminum the Feast of FIRE or of lights * Car. Sigon de rep Hebr. l. 3. c. 17. p. 637. the Founder and new Cannoniz'd Saint of the Jesuited Society for the great honour of their Patron and Order they being the chief Plotters of that horrid bloody Treason and Rebellion †Mr. Pr. pref to vind Fund Rights E. 4. b. which though happily discover'd the night before at Dublin and some few places else yet in other Parts of Ireland it took effect to the slaughter of 200000 innocents qua Protestants in a few months space Followed with a bloody War for sundry years to the loss of the lives of many thousands more there And afterwards by a direfull War here fomented by the Jesuits likewise * Id. ib. In Ireland they threatned to BURN and ruine Dublin and all the Monuments of the English Government * Sr. Jo. Tem. pref to Hist of Irish Rebel At their rising in Vlster besides the barbarous murthers and cruelties there and elsewhere they did BURN spoyle and destroy the English Protestants †In Hist p. 22. And to instance only in one or two places in the Castle of Lisgool they consumed by FIRE an hundred and fifty men women and children and in the Castle of Tullah they BURNT and kill'd * Id. p. 91. at least an hundred Then here in England the Parliament did Decemb. 15. 1641. charge the Jesuits with a malicious and pernicious design of subverting the fundamental Laws and principles of government it seems F. Philips Sr. Toby Mathew and Lord Gage had been very active and some design'd with Seignor Con to have took away King Charles I. by giving him a Spanish Fig as Andrews ab Habernfeld agent for Cardinal Barbarino Protector of the English and Scottish Jesuits discovered to Sir Will. Boswel the Kings Agent then at the Hague * Rooms Master piece Hence who ever were the
left at the Temple pretended at least to be penned by a Penitent who had been in a combination with other Papists both French Irish and English who he relates Fired the City may have somewhat in it to augment suspicion at leastwith Jealous persons The p eticall libel of the Papists on the fifth of Novemb. 1666. Cover la feu did so inflame a Poet of our own that 't is said he answered to this purpose viz. Ye Devills Jesuits and Friers By the light of London Fires Have detected your own Plots To martyr harmless Hugonots And we now do know that flame From Hell and Purgatory came But Burning London will not doe Except you could Burn Tyburn too c. § 6. But to leave the Pathetical Poet and put a period to this discourse It cannot be easily imagin'd by vulgar intellects whatever some more refin'd who soar aloft and can abstract tam â ratione quam â re may deeme after all these circumstances proved by sufficient witnesses that all the Papists as such in this affair should be innocent Yet I confess I should not chuse the Commissioners in the late Court of Claims in Ireland for Judges And that the generality of Papists are to the Jesuits but as tooles to the Mechanick their implements whithout which they can effect no great designe in their Self-Monarchy is not ordinarily denied But the Jesuits themselves have not altogether it should seem stood out of sight in blowing up Londons Flames for the Letter from Heidelberg to Mr. Alton in Sept. 1666. testifies upon the personal knowledge of the pen-man * p. 5. the BURING of London had been discours'd of among the Jesuits and expected by 15. yeares before to happen in the year 1666. and they use to prophesie of what they have laid project to effect The formention'd Letter from Alenson may be compar'd with this So may the Argument of Powel the English Jesuit at Antwerp who to perswade Henry Young in April 1661. to turn Papist saith that within five or six years they viz. Jesuits would break the Power and Strength of London in peices which could not well be imagin'd they should do any other way than by Fire * p. 30. Tomson and Copervel admirers of the Flanders Jesuits spake of the same time So did Father Taaff an Irish Jesuit at Parts 1665. tell Ferdinando de massido a Portugez of destruction * p. 31. the year after viz. 1666. Oriel an other Irish Jesuit threatned to the same purpose at his taking Shiping when he went to carry his eight Irish Boyes to the Seminaries in Flanders * p. 32. so they are yearly stealing away the Kings subjects Father Harveys good will was noted above in his confessing of Hubert * p 28. 26. whom likely the Ignatians will Cannonize in the next Age if they themselves do not fall before as the proud Templers did The foresaid old man in the Frock look'd like a Pyrotechnist of the Fraternity And Carpenter no Question who in his glorying seem'd to please himself so much upon the Burning of London is no other than at least a Jesuit in Voto still For as 't was said Jesuit a est omn is homo a Jesuit is every man he is accounted with them the better Artist who is most an Atheist Be sure as often formerly so lately in a Booksellars shop he spoke of the Church of England with the greatest Detestation ugliest words imaginable calling it dirty * dungcart dung-hill c. He affirmed that the Firing of the City was a just judgement for casting off obedience to the Pope which looks like the expression of an A better 'T is true the Jesuits are very subtile in hiding their Arts insomuch that one said a Jesuit exceeds the Devil himself in sleights and elusions But these passages already render them palpaple Agents in our troubles and the People say since the King hath garbled his guards turn'd out Papists and put in a new Lord Keeper they have not been so alarm'd with Fireing as they were before whereupon they are in hopes to make further discoveries of these Incendiaries who usually doing mischievious exploits grow more insolent and tyranicall which may hereafter occasion some novices they have imploy'd in their fiery work to tell tales out of the schooles As Jacob Capellus gives us the brief of astory from Livie that about 210 years before Christ Hist Sacra exotica p. 550. there did at Rome break out a FIRE in many places at once which continuing Night and Day consumed much The Campans the Authors of this Jncendie were so besotted that not long after they did with stripes chastise their servant Manâ—us who was conscious to the villanie He disclosed it to the Senate to whom yet Mannus his report did seem a little suspected But so great was the strength of truth that the incendiaries upon the accusers charge confessed they had done the Fact from an earnest desire of revenge because Q. Fulvius had beheaded their Parents and would goe on farther to procure the Campans perpetual ruine The incendiaries were executed and the remainder of the Campans nothing more mildly treated Indeed to Fire the City was not a likely way for them to get better usuage unless they could have destroyed the citizens too Yet had they done that behold the Judge stands at the door and they must soon come to a reckoning But my business is only detection of Jesuiticall incendiaries a determination concerning them I do with all submission referre to the Senate I shall only observe that the famous Antiquary Sr. Robert Cotton urgeth Preaching in a plain pr ctical manner as the most effectual remedy against the Jesuits WHiles I was drawing to a Conclusion of the precedent Discourse a Pamphlet called Observations both Historical and Moral upon the Burning of London invites me to an Appendix to the last Section The Authour by his Mathematicks seems to be some Virtuoso but for the cunning that he useth in dawbing with untempered morter one would guess him to be a pretender at least to State-Divinity For the Historicals he gives us about the Conflagration of Moscow considering the combustible materials I had rather believe the substance of his relation than go thither to disprove M. Rege Sincera though I should not be disappointed as the Gentlemen that rode to St. Albans about the Story of the Prodigious Swine-trough And if we should appeal to the Muscovian Citizens whether the Relator hath strain'd in some circumstances 't is likely they would say as they are wont in difficult and dangerous matters Only God and their treat Duke knows But Sincera is a Traveller and should we suppose him or his Dutch Merchant to have strain'd courtesie with truth I dare say Lucian in his true Histories hath out-pitch't him clearly above half a Bar. Yet I may without offence mind him of two or three dormitats as when in page 22. speaking of the Tartarians