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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47966	A letter concerning the Iesuites		1661 (1661)	Wing L1352; ESTC R7624	8,478	17

as an Heresie would be absolutely Schismatical although to deny the effect of such a Power in England might be done upon prudential grounds and I think there are divers considerable reasons which may guard the Assertion against Opposers Engubinus Constantine in his Dotation of the Church where many Kingdoms are made Foedaty to the Papacy England is not nam'd as if the Emperor would have reserved the place of his nativity from all Temporal subjection whatsoever Never by any Act of Parliament was this Nation in Vassallage concerning Temporals to the Pope but on the contrary many Laws have been enacted in cutting off incroachments of the Papal Temporal Power And although some object that King John did submit his Kingdoms to Innocentius the 3d. yet the Deed of Conveyance lies so dormant in the Vatican that it could never be awak'd or produc'd upon any provocation And Sir Thomas Moor the just Assertor p. 296. of the Pope's spiritual jurisdiction denieth that King John either did or could make England subject to the Pope Neither is it to be objected that Peter-pence or Rome-Scot were Duties but Alms for in our antient Authors they are termed the one Elemospia Regis the other Larga benignitas Regis which truly would be very improper expressions to signifie a Tribute or marks of Subjection Hence I gather that we may conscientiously promise notwithstanding the Deposing Power the Pope may have over other Princes yet we will never put in execution the said Power as concerning England to which all Jesuits by Oath will engage themselves though the particular Covenants and Agreements of other Nations with the See of Rome would cause a scruple to assert the same Proposition in unlimited terms As 't is objected by their Adversaries that they were banished for this opinion out of France and Venice so likewise it might be pleaded that by the same States they have been recall'd The Magistrate condemning onely to the fire Books of a few Authors who held forth those dangerous Tenets and did not as some do cast with a poisonous breath the ashes of a burnt Doctrine into the faces of the Innocent But to gratifie their Adversaries suppose them all guilty and that they were required to give satisfaction before their re-admittance the same assurance of Loyalty will be joyfully given when demanded to our present Powers And I hope that security of Allegiance which fully appeased the jealousies of France and Venice may prove sufficient for England There is no Nation in Christendom keeps a stricter Eye upon the Popes growing Power than France and yet the Jesuits are no where in greater esteem than there Henry the 4th in whose Reign they were expelled the Kingdom appear'd an earnest Advocate for their re-admission and in requital of the Jesuits dutiful affections to him living he bequeath'd his Royal Heart to them in his last Will and Testament And his Successors have constantly committed their Souls to the direction of certain Fathers of the Society and what power and credit they now have at Court let the Jansenists who are most sensible thereof declare It must then be concluded that either the Kings and Ministers of State in France are weak Polititians to nourish these Serpents in their bosoms or else we must believe that the Jesuits are good Citizens and hold Principles consistent with Loyalty The Government of the Society is Monarchical the Supreme Power residing in the General all other Officers are constituted by his approbation and upon misdemeanors by him may be displaced therefore even to be right Jesuits they must necessarily suck with their education Maxims very agreeable to Monarchy and Regal Power And may be this very consideration did not a little retard the wary Venetians from granting so speedy a re-establishment into their Common-wealth especially the Monarchs of France Spain and Germany being their earnest Solicitors The Rebels in Bohemia did believe the Jesuits to be of such a Monarchical temper that they conceived themselves not sufficiently secur'd in their ways by throwing headlong the Imperial Commissioners out of a high Tower in Prague unless they had compleated their work by expelling the Jesuits which they presently performed Cardinal Richeleu after the Siege of Rochel erected there a Colledge of Jesuits judging that more effectual to contain the Revolters in their due obedience to his Christian Majesty than any Cittadel or Canons the ultima ratio Regum Many are the instances of this nature not to be comprehended within the limits of a Letter Therefore I will conclude with the constant practise of the * Alexander Prince of Parma who wheresoever he rooted out Rebels he always planted Jesuits The result of this Discouase demonstrates that lawful Governors have always found in the hearts of Jesuits a Soveraign Antidot against the poison of Rebellion and that Usurpers must send away the Ark if they will have their Dagon stand But the Pamphleter shall have his choice either to be busie in piecing up broken Dagon or with the Ark return to Israel The Actions committed in Queen Elizabeths Reign I will not defend and if I should accuse the Jesuits to be the onely causes of the Penal Statutes then enacted all Historians would confute me Yet this I believe is a great truth that if the Title of the Queen of Scots to favour which Cataolicks were suspected and thence sprung the Sanguinary Laws were now to be argued it might be done with more thanks and less contradiction For Queen Mary of England and Queen Elizabeth could not both pretend a Title to the Crown as right Heirs unless the Parliament had supplyed a Defect in the one and whether the power of any Parliament unless it be a Rump-Parliament extends so far as to dispose of Crowns let those whom it may concern judge If the Jesuits were faulty 't was but in antedating their Allegiance to the Sacred Family of the Stuarts and since Hales and voluminous Sir N. B. and many other Protestants did not receive a just punishment for promoting the Title of Suffolk I see not why the Jesuits may not deserve a commendation their Transgression if it must be so called being in the happier extreme But those that kept the middle and surer way in defending against Hales and the like Caball Queen Mary's right in succeeding after Queen Elizabeth were Sir Anthony Browne Chief Justice in the Common Pleas and I. C. who for his eminent knowledge was commonly called the Father of the Law both Catholicks and Friends to the Society But it may be remembred to the immortal praise of Father Parsons and Father Campian who procured a mitigation of the Sentence Declaratory of Pius Quintus against Queen Elizabeth and Pope Gregorie following declared that The Subjects of England ought to perform all duties to the Queen notwithstanding the Censures and whatsoever their inward judgments might be concerning her Title yet after the Parliament had acknowledged her as lawful Queen all Civil obedience was most