throw off his yoak but if ever the Church of Romo could eradicate the Reformed Religion which doubtless is and ever must be their great drift and aim Princes of the Romish Religion would find the want of that check and awe upon the Pope Will you see how tender and fearful Princes have been heretofore of claiming their Rights in this kind See Ed. 3. a brave and a magnanimous Prince in the vigour of his Age in the 25 year of his Reign when he comes to claim and vindicate his Rights in Ecclesiastical matters he is so fearful of offending the Pope that he seeks all possible excuses even whilst he is claiming his own First he layes the fault on his Predecessors and quotes the Statute made in his Grandfathers time In the next place the grievous complaint of the Commons must bear its share then the injury to private Patrons is called in for a pretence as if that gave rise to the complaint when all this while the King had power enough from the Rights inherent in the Crown and from former Statutes if he durst put it in practise then which is a wonderful Instance of his fear to offend the Pope for a farther excuse he sets up a claim for his people to the prejudice of his Negative voice the greatest and choicest flower of the Crown for in the Statute of Provisors of that year he makes the Commons to alledge nor is there any mark of his dislike but rather assent to it so desirous he was of an excuse toward the Pope that the Right of the Crown of England and the Law of the said Realm is such that upon mischiefs and damage which happened to his Realm he ought and is bound of the accord of his said people in his Parliament thereof to make Remedy and Law in voiding the mischiefs and damage which thereof cometh c. Then the King goes on himself to alledge his own Oath to see the Laws executed c. as the Reader may satisfie himself more fully from the Statute at large as it appears in all our Books I suppose this may sufficiently show how fearfully that Great and Generous Prince not subject to vain fears went about to remedy that Inconvenience What Fruit he reap'd from the hazard he adventur'd And how effectual that Great Medicine our Author so highly commends to us was may be conjectur'd by the need there was of another Statute of Provisors the very next Parliament viz. the 27 year of his Reign It would be too tedious to the Reader and my self to quote all the Statutes of that kind Instead of others which it were easie to produce I shall onely add that of the 16 of Rich. 2. cap. 5. Where the Commons of the Realm having complained of the intolerable Tyrannies and Oppressions of the See of Rome go on to pray the King and him require by way of Iustice that he would examine all the Lords in the Parliament as well Spiritual as Temporal severally and all the States of the Parliament how they think of the Cases aforesaid which be so openly against the Kings Crown and in derogation of his Regality and how they will stand in the same Cases with our Lord the King c. Whether this Examination was in order to the Attainder of the Persons or Suspension of the Votes of the Dissenters or some other purpose I will not take upon me to enquire Certainly considering the Greatness of the Peerage of England at that time such a way of procedure shews the greatness of the mischief which was desir'd to be redrest But the continued Complaint and fresh Endeavours for Remedy do likewise as evidently demonstrate that none of our Kings ever found an effectual Cure till the time of Henry the VIII who yet although he retain'd the Roman Profession of faith denying temporal Subjection to the Pope became liable to that Deprivation and Censure and all that Spiritual Thunder which so severely fell upon him and has since exercised his Successors But these our Princes who came after him having generally been of the Reformed Religion which they of Rome have declar'd to be Heresie the practises among us however exorbitant will not fall under our present consideration I shall therefore pass over to our Neighbours of France and examine how well the Priviledges of the Gallican Church have stood the most Christian Kings in stead which will readily be seen if we look into their Histories nor will we seek farther than the last Age. Henry the Third we know had difficulty enough with the Catholick holy League oppos'd not only by the high-flown Jesuited Romanists but the Bulwarks of Regal Authority the Loyal Doctors of the Sorbon who being Seventy in number unanimously decree nemine contradicente That the Subjects of France were freed from their Oaths of Allegiance and Obedience made to Henry the Third And also that the said Subjects may legally and with a safe Conscience arm and unite themselves collect and raise money c. Which Decree of the good Doctors was ratified by his Holiness in his Bull of Excommunication which suddenly followed and was pursued to such Extremities by the Leaguers that they were not onely content to subject that Kingdom to the Yoak of Spain but in despite of the Sallick Law endeavour that the Infanta Clara Eugenia Elizabetha should succeed unto the Crown and though the King turn'd Covenanter himself and Establish'd the Oath of Union in the Assembly of the Three Estates and personally swore to it making it a Fundamental Law of the French Nation that onely a Catholick should be capable to succeed unto the Crown yet notwithstanding this the said Henry the Third could not escape the Anger of his Holiness and what is consequent thereto the being depriv'd of his Kingdom and his Life massacred by I. Clement the Iacobin-Monk To him we know succeeded Henry the V. who after great strugling and the same opposition from the Unanimous Determination of the Loyal Sorbon-Doctors in their general Congregation who May 7. 1590. Declar'd Henry of Bourbon uncapable of the Crown though he should obtain Absolution from the Church and that the French were oblig'd to keep him from the Crown that all who favour him are in perpetual mortal sin and all that are slain in the Cause against him shall obtain an everlasting Reward and be crown'd with the Trophies of Martyrdom This Henry I say having by the blessing of God and a good Sword added possession to his Claim and in spite of opposition made himself Master of France yet this new Sallick Law stood still in his light and a Crown was not to be had but at the price of a Mass For though it be a receiv'd Maxime That the Crown removes all taint of Blood it cannot of Opinion One now would have expected in this instance that the Church Doors should have flown open to receive this Royal Convert but the case is far otherwise Five years diligent
an easie-going good-natur'd man by very fair words or perchance visions or exorcisms chous'd of his Religion and at last awakened from the pleasant dream of being in the bosom of the Roman Church discovering the guilt and folly of his vile Apostacy from that Holy Mother in whose Faith he was Baptized and also the fraud of those that had seduced him from her Shall he start back and render himself abhorred unto that Party to which he was so lately reconciled and suffer the reproaches of the other he so unworthily deserted Will it not be easier for him to sit down with the contempt of Levity in one Instance than to repeat the shameful Act desert what he had chose and chuse again what he deserted Since he must be contemned and hated will it not seem better to have some to own him than none at all What effect a perverse bashfulness has in other cases we all know it being proverbial That 't is a greater shame to bring home the Bridle than steal the Horse and the Renegado Turke we find by common experience is so far from resuming the Profession of Christianity that he is sure to be its mortal and inveterate Enemy so that there needs little more security of having one continue in the Profession of Popery than by any means to beguile him to admit it a second Revolt being abundantly precluded by the first But let us go on forward and examine how honestly we are treated when we are made believe that there is a fair retreat afforded for that the Papists have no prisons in which to keep men against their wills as our Author tells us 'T is very well they have no Lollards Tower in England but we cannot but remember what has been heretofore I am sure in those Countreys where the Inquisition is on foot men may easily get into a Goal upon the least surmise of an intention to quit the Roman-Catholick Religion Nay where that Tyranny takes no place 't is plain enough that Votaries are not at large to go when or whither they have a phansie What think we of the Monasteries and Nunneries in Popish Countries whither young children are spirited away from their Friends or barbarously exposed by them Were the doors of those Houses left open would it not soon appear by their providing for their Liberty on such an opportunity that there was something of restraint that held them in But by our Authors leave is there nothing can confine a man besides a Prison He that being taken by the Enemy in War goes at large on his Parole to get himself exchanged is I humbly conceive no less a Prisoner than when under Guard and in the Marshals custody And if the word of a Souldier the bare engagement upon honour have this force what shall we say to a solemn Oath backed with direful execrations in case of failance Now that Proselytes to Popery are in this strict manner tyed not to desert it I demonstrate from the Roman Pontifical and the order of reconciling a Heretick to the Church The words are these I. N. being convinc'd of the snare of Division wherein I was held after long deliberation with ready and unconstrained will the Divine Grace being my Guide am returned to the unity of the Apostolick See But lest I may be thought not to have returned with a pure mind or with dissimulation I engage under the penalty of falling from my Estate and the obligation of an Anathema and Promise to you N. Bishop and by you to St. Peter Prince of the Apostles and our most holy Father in Christ and Lord our Lord N. the Pope and his Successors that I by no perswasions of any persons or by any other means will return to the Schism from which I am freed by the Grace of our Redeemer but will alwayes remain in the Unity of the Catholick Church and the Communion of the Pope of Rome Wherefore I Swear by the Omnipotent God and the holy Gospels that I will stedfastly continue in the Unity and Communion aforesaid And if which God forbid I should divide my self from this Unity upon any occasion or argument incurring the guilt of Perjury let me appear bound over to eternal Punishment and have my Portion in the World to come with the Author of Schism So help me God c. What effect such Imprecations naturally have 't is obvious to apprehend I my self know several persons that having been perverted to Popery were afterwards convinced of the Errors of it and returned into the bosom of the Church of England but then being hazen'd with the remembrance of those Curses they had laid on their heads if at any time they should leave the Roman Communion went after some years continuance in our Church back again to that of Rome Which I the rather mention because our Author is so very peremptory that no such thing is done and wages his reputation in the case ENQUIRY II. Whether if the State would think fit to allow the English Papists such of whose Fidelity and Affection to their Country the Governours were well assured to whom those Papists might have recourse for their spiritual Concerns they would remove our jealousies of their being over-much affected to Strangers c. It may here in the first place be well worth the enquiry whether it be possible for Papists to give the State where they live such an assurance as is talkt of For beside that their Clergy and all those in Religious Orders have separate Interests from the State and by their Caelibate have given no Pledges to it Certainly all they whose faith it is that Princes may be Excommunicated and then deprived of their Dominions by the Pope can by no imaginable way give security to the State for their Obedience to their Prince and Fidelity to his Government And it is not only altogether undeniable that this is the Faith of most Romish Confessors and Priests and Orders but also that it is the Faith of the Church of Rome it self I shall sufficiently prove in the following Section But secondly They who hold that no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks who teach equivocation as laudible and innocent who believe they can be dispenced with for any outward compliance with Dissenters in Religion by the Pope do evidently by such Doctrines set themselves without the terms of humane Society and are not to be trusted upon those Obligations which other men of narrower Principles are bound by How probable the former Doctrines are esteemed in the Church of Rome we may learn from their celebrated Writers As to the later I mean his Holiness giving Commission to his Factors to dissemble their Profession I have shewed at large in the seasonable Discourse and justified my Allegation against the Exceptions of the full Answerer in my Reply to him Though indeed the Compliance of in a manner all the Papists of England and coming to our Church-Service for the first 11 years of Q. Elizabeth
who are in the Communion of the Roman Church It is plainly this They are a sort of men who are alwayes the worse for Favour and Indulgence I mentioned but now the case of F. Watson who after his many publick declarations of himself against the traiterous Jesuits confuted all his Writings by his Actions But the particular which I now refer to is the time of this his Enterprize which was the entrance of K. Iames into this Kingdom when all the severities of the Laws against the Romanists were laid asleep and they received not only to a peaceful enjoyment of their Consciences and Estates but were admitted to the Court to Trust to Honours and Preferments nor was this treachery and falseness his singular Demerit At the same time and under the same circumstances was the Agency of the Romish Factors with the King of Spain for the procuring a second Invasion of their Native Country which might expiate that of 88. as also that hollish Machination of the Gun-Powder-Treason These though so barbarous in the intendment as to be capable of no aggravation had besides the forementioned Ingratitude of being attempted in a season of Indulgence this particular brand upon them that they were designed by those very men who had been guilty of Treasons in the time of Q. Elizabeth and had been graciously forgiven by K. Iames and personally had sued out their pardons from him under seal So that we may conclude it as reasonable an attempt to still a Tempest by whispering gently to it put out a Fire by pouring Oyl upon it or reclaim a Viper by receiving him into the Bosom as to hope by any Acts of Kindness and Indulgence to assure the Duty of a Roman Votary of whatever Principle or Subdivision he pretend to be ENQUIRY III. Whether the Popes power in deposing Kings be a Doctrine of the Roman Church Having debated this point already in the Seasonable Discourse and defended what I there asserted in my Reply to the Full Answerer there is really no need I should trouble my self or Reader in the proof of a thing perfectly evident But since the Gentleman with whom I had first to do and our present Author after him think they have abundantly cleared themselves by quoting a few Romanists who have denied the Exorbitant Tyrannies of the Pope and separating the Interests of the Court and Church of Rome with this Difference that whereas the Full Answerer quite slips over the mention of Councils this my Author after a short Reflection lightly passes the Allegations which I made from the Canons of the said Councils which I pretend to have been receiv'd as Universal not onely by the high-flown Papalins but these moderate pretenders and consequently what is by those Councils decreed must beyond all subterfuge be concluded to be the Doctrine of the Church And whereas the said Author onely addes some few colourable pretences to elude the Arguments drawn from the aforesaid Councils I shall which I take to be the alone remaining possible way of inforcement set down the express words of those Councils in plain English And then I hope there will need no infallible Interpreter to inform us of the meaning and importance of them And having done this I shall reply to those thin Sophisms which are brought to elude my Argument In the Seasonable Discourse I first cited the 27 Canon of the Third Lateran Council Cap. Sicut ait Where the Fathers having condemned the Cathari c. and subjected the Fautors of them to the same punishment with them 't is added They shall forfeit all the Fealty Homage and Obedience which was due to them Now we know who they are to whom Fealty and Homage in its remarkable and most proper importance is due But to avoid all Cavil this is determined to extend to Soveraign Princes by the express words of the Council of Constance as we shall see anon And therefore in the next place I proceed to the Fourth and as it is stiled by the Romanists the most General Council of Lateran Where the Fathers having condemned all Hereticks that exalt themselves against the Catholick Faith by them explained an Article whereof is That in the Sacrament of the Altar the Body and Blood of Christ are really contained the Bread being transubstantiated into the Body of Christ and the Wine into his Blood that is to wave all the monstrous Absurdities of Transubstantiation that they who receive onely the Bread receive onely the Body and they who receive the Cup onely receive the Blood of our Saviour for concomitancy cannot suit with things entirely separate And having required the Aid of the Secular Powers against the said Hereticks the Council proceeds in this form If the Temporal Lord requir'd or admonish'd by the Church shall neglect to purge his Territory from Heretical pravity let him be Excommunicated by the Metropolitan and his Suffragans and if he persist in neglecting to give satisfaction for the space of a year let him be signified to the Pope that he from thenceforth may pronounce his Subjects discharg'd from their Obedience and expose his Territory to be seiz'd by Catholicks who having exterminated the Hereticks without Contradiction shall possess it and preserve it in the Purity of Faith So as no injury be done to the Right of the Superiour Lord where there is such provided he do not any way oppose himself and the same Law is to take place on them who have no superiour Lord. Where we may observe how pitiful the Excuse is which is commonly brought that Soveraign Princes are not here meant but onely Feudatary when as if it were on purpose to exclude this plea those who are most Absolute and Supreme are particularly level'd with the other In the mean time we of this Nation may take notice That besides our own Runagates whom I cited in the Seasonable Discourse who make our Kingdom to be held in fee from the Pope in a manner all Foreign Writers go away with it as a thing confest and evident and bring as the common instance of the Popes power to depose Kings that his Holiness may dispose of the Crown of England even where they exempt the King of France from such subjection But this upon the by The same Council goes on and says That the Excommunicate Fautors of Heresies shall have no Votes in Councils or Elections shall not be allowed to make a Will to give Testimony or bear any Office or inherit an Estate If any happen to be a Iudge his Sentence shall be null and void If an Advocate he shall not be admitted to plead if a Clark or Notary the Instruments drawn by him shall be of no moment And so in all other like Cases Whence we may gather what assurance we are likely to have of the possession of our Estates if Popery prevail All Acts of Law all Bequests of Wills and Judiciary Proceedings since the Reformation and I suppose most English men hold
agitation in the Court of Rome and attendance on three several Popes can scarcely compass this great Work of bringing a straid Royal Sheep into the Fold of Christ. The difficulties made herein will abundantly appear as from the Histories of that Age so more particularly from Cardinal D' Ossat and Perron's Memorials And truly 't is remarkable when the matter was adjusted to what submissions the King in his Representatives was fain to descend How his Commissioners in his Name and Behalf beg Remission prostrate on their Faces and being drub'd and bastinado'd as the insulting Italians word it or as the French confess being switch'd by his Holiness hardly obtain'd an Absolution for their Master who was farther oblig'd to renounce his former Inauguration and Absolution given him in France and to swear the Extirpation of the Protestants But when all this was done the Pacification was not fully made but this Mighty Prince fell by the Poniard of a Ravilliac and the implacable Papacy as is notorious to the World The Successor to these Lewis the XIII having before him the Catastrophe of his two immediate Predecessors one would have thought might reasonably be allowed some farther Provision for his Safety and Assurance of the Allegiance of his People and to this end the Third Estate drew up an Oath of Fealty to be taken by all his Subjects but it is not imaginable with what fury this was oppos d by the Pope and Clergy what violent and long Harangues were made in the House of Peers and Commons against it what Gratulations were sent to the Clergy of France by his holiness for their generous opposition of that Oath complementing it as a Defence of his and therein the Churches Rights The Speech of Cardinal Perron is a sufficient account of this matter which was at large answered by the Royal Pen of King Iames and therefore needs no new unraveling But beyond all this there is a particular which is not commonly taken notice of and deserves not to be forgotten 'T is this After the Cardinal in his long Harangue in the Name of the Clergy of France had baffled and exposed the power of Kings and endeavoured to subject both it and their Persons also to the Discipline and Coercion of the Church and concluded that at best the point of Princes being exempt from Deposition was barely Problematical and consequently could not be matter of an Oath The King fearing to provoke so strong and eager a party called the aforesaid Bill for the Security of his Person to his own hearing and made an express Inhibition to the several Estates that they should not proceed farther in it or sign or publish what they had drawn up But this would not serve the turn the Ecclesiasticks would not sit down with a drawn Battail but insolently depute in their Names the Bishop of Anger 's with other Prelates and Capitulars among whom were Cardinal Perron and Sourdis where Cardinal Perron being the Spokes-man told the King to his Face That this matter lately contested was a point of Doctrine and though in his Speech to the Third Estate he had declar'd it to be Problematical now to cut it short he asserted that the power of the Pope was full nay most full and direct in Spirituals and indirect in Temporals That whosoever maintained the contrary were Schismaticks and Hereticks even those of the Parliament who had suck'd the Milk of Tours That if the King would not immediately cassate the Arrest of the Parliament and would not raze out of the Registers the Conclusions of the Kings Officers he had in Commission and Charge to say That they would depart from the Assembly of Estates and that being there as in a National Council they would Excommunicate all those who were of a contrary Opinion to the Proposition which affirmed that the Pope could Depose the King And if the King would not suffer them to proceed unto Ecclesiastical Censures they would do it notwithstanding though they were to suffer Martyrdom We have here if I mistake not plain enough the Judgment of the Church of France Would we see what was the Opinion of the Pope upon it Upon the 16 of Febr. there was brought and opened and read in the Chamber of the Clergy a Brief of the Pope Paul the V. bearing date the last of March 1615. sub annulo Piscatoris wherein his Holiness returns his Solemn Thanks to the Clergy of France for what they had done against the Article of the Third Estate wherein his power was concerned desiring them to persevere in the same mind Which Brief by the way was read in their Chamber without any leave had or ask'd from the King or Council And truly if the most Christian King be treated thus by his Subjects in duty to their Soveraign the Pope notwithstanding the primogeniture and other pretences of that Crown what shall we of England expect who stand in worse circumstances We must not wonder or take it amiss that Pope Urban the VIII in the year 1626. by his Bull bearing date May 30. forbad all Roman Catholicks to take the Oath of Allegiance And since the happy Restoration of his present Majesty when several of his Subjects of the Papal Profession offered by Oath wherein the Supremacy is wholly wav'd to assure their Duty and Obedience that the Pope and his Agents look'd upon this Overture as Apostacy from him that is from the Christian Faith and persecuted all those who are concern'd in the Proposal of which see the Controversial Letters and the late History of the Irish Affairs Nor lastly will it be at all strange that at this day many eminent Persons of the Romish Religion who by the great Indulgence of the State are permitted notwithstanding their Differences in Judgment and Interest from the rest of the Kingdom are upon assurance given of their Loyalty by the easie Test of promising it under the Seal of an Oath permitted to have the personal and free use of their Votes in the Judging of Causes in their last Appeal and what is the highest Trust imaginable the making of Laws and sit as Peers in the Great Council of the Nation do now refuse to give the aforesaid Assurance by taking the Oath of Allegiance though that be the general Condition previous to Session laid not onely upon them but all the rest of their Fellow-Subjects It is not for me or any private person to determine of the Rights of our Superiours but by Duty and Allegiance we are obliged to defend them This I think may be laid down as a Maxime That no Power is of any moment when set in Opposition to its Superiour and that all Pleas follow the last Appeal So that if the Spiritual Soveraign be plac'd above the Temporal 't is vain to talk of any Rights the Temporal can plead in prejudice unto the other and to speak the whole matter in one short word Princes can have no sufficient powers against
a just History and shall produce only two Testimonies in evidence to my present Conclusion and both of them of so early a date as not to admit that common excuse which the Irish are alwayes ready to offer that they did not rebel against the King but fought against his Enemies and Regicides The first of these shall be the Brief of Pope Urban to Oneal bearing date Octob. 8. that is our Sept. 28. 1642. which was before the first battel between the King and his Rebels in England at Edge-Hill The Brief runs thus To his beloved Son Eugenius Oneal You are accustomed to omit no occasion to testifie your singular zeal and endeavour which you derive from your Ancestors of defending the Church and of this you have given a recent testimony by designing to go into Ireland to take care of the concerns of the Catholicks Wherefore your Letters came very welcom to me whereby you signifie your intended Voyage and taking your Auspice from the Divine Assistance have not less humbly than religiously desired of Us our Apostolical Benediction We highly commend your constancy against the Hereticks and sincere Faith expecting from you in this opportunity the proofs of your Valour which have formerly given you renown and will be exemplary to others We hope the most high will be at hand to assert your Cause and will make known his saving health among all Nations In the mean time that you may proceed with greater assurance praying incessantly to the divine Clemency that he would frustrate the endeavours of your Enemies we give to you and those others who promote the affairs of the Catholicks in the aforesaid Kingdom our Benedicton and to all and each of them if they being penitent are confest and duly refresht with the holy Communion if it may be had plenary Remission and pardon of their sins and also at the point of Death plenary Indulgence Dated at Rome under the Seal of the Fisher the 8 day of Octob. A. 1642. and of our Papacy 20. My next Proof shall be from a zealous Votary of the Church of Rome Father O-mahon in his Apology for the Right to the Kingdom of Ireland in behalf of the Catholicks against the English Hereticks and his Exhortation where after other laudable Documents he thus bespeaks them My Countrey-men of Ireland Go on and prosper fulfil the work which you have begun for your Defence and Liberty destroy the Hereticks your Enemies and all their Abettors you have already killed an hundred and fifty thousand of them in these four last years I mean from 1641. to this present 1645. wherein 〈◊〉 the which your Enemies in their Writings roar out and 〈◊〉 and you acknowledge and I believe that more of the Hereticks have been killed and would to God that all had been so It remains that you destroy those that yet survive or at least drive them out of Ireland that they may no more infect our Catholick Country with their Heresies and Errours I shall trouble the Reader no farther on this Head but desire him to take his choice whether he will believe my Author who sayes the Rebellion of Ireland was not for Religion or his Holiness whom in this case we may allow to be infallible who sayes it was Or if we will avoid so odious a comparison whether we will think our Author speaks truth or Father Mahun who was not a stranger to the action he talks of and would be thought to know what belongs to War and Religion as well as any of his neighbours though by the way he also confutes that representation which our Author makes of the small numbers of Protestants murdered by the Rebels for our Author seems to suggest That indeed this thing which we talk of as a Massacre and a War was only a Scuffle at a Wake where a few broken shins or beads determined the quarrel and after the application of a plaister of Diapalma all was presently made well again But there is nothing so manifest that some Romanists have not the confidence to deny And truly they who teach their Votaries in the immediate concerns of their immortal Souls to renounce all their sences and reason to boot need not despair of obtruding any thing upon the credulous world It may here be expected that from the before-going premisses I should now draw out Conclusions and those severely pressing on that whole sort of men who under divers hotious and pretences call themselves Roman Catholicks that I should exhort our Patriots to oppose sanguinary Laws against inhumane bloody practises and pecuniary or other strict restraints against licentious Principles To put it out of their power to hurt the publick whose very Religion makes it impossible for them to give any competent security that they will not destroy it And in a word to avert those mischiefs by precaution which if allowed to gather strength will be so fatally destructive as not to be repaired 〈◊〉 after punishments But this is not my aim who press the discoveries which I have made no farther than to arm those who are so fortunate to have been educated in a Faith of peaceful Duty and Obedience not to be tempted by false pretences to desert it and to perswade all those who have been so unhappy to be entangled in that endless maze of Error the Roman Church to quit both it and those pernicious guilts which I have shewed to be its necessary and individual adherents I contend not against Names and Notions but Vice and Mischief nor am I angry with men but with that which destroys Human Society I would not make any Faction look worse than it is But I can never hold that for Religion which teaches men to Violate their Faith to Worship Wood and Stone to Make and then Devour their God to Blow up Senates to Massacre Nations and Kill Kings FINIS * Declarat of egregious Popish Impostures c Foot out of the Snare Examination of Sowbrets c. Boy of Bilson c. Chambers Sheldon a Tho à Jesu de convers omn. gent. p. 561 c. Ibid. Ibid. b Response au livre de Monsieur l' Evâ—que de Condom en l' avertisement d P. 7 8 c. Bull Pii IV. f Animad p. 76 77 c. g Consult p. 56. h P. 13. i P. 8. Pontif. p. 94 95 Arch. Spotswood History p. 803. Pontificale Rom. Watson's Quod libets Dialogue between a Secular Priest and Lay-Gentleman A true Relation of the faction begun at Wisbich Quod. P. 37 69 88 89 265 266 c. 275 c. 303 c. * Discourse of the Powder Treason Apology for the Oath of Allegiance Premonition to all free Princes and States Answers to Cardinal Perron and Bellarmin c. ‖ Sir George Crook's Reports part 2. Term Trin. A. 2. Iac. R. in Banco Regis First Controversial Letter King Iames his Discourse of the Powder Treason Proceedings against the Gun-powder Traitors 3 Concil Lateran Tom. conc 27. 4 Concil Lateran Tom. concil 28. Tom. Conc 18 P. 11. 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