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 vece 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 †1639. it seems upon their solicitations * Id. in preface to vind of Fund 1. pt E. 3. a. b. E. 4. a. b. 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 QUISQUIS EST HOSTIS ECCLESIAE i. e. Lei 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 victorious Popish Army of the Jesuits * Id ibid ê specul sive jubilaeo Jesuiâ—ico p. 220. ad p. 224. And the Scottish War 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 Cannonâ—z'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 Dâ—blin 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 perniciouâ— 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 Instruments about the cutting off King Charles I. on the 30. Jan. 1648. the Jesuits have been justly accounted by those who search'd the botome †Mr. Pryune in several pieces And
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 covetousneâ—s 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 Prisoners 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 Queen 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 Ireland 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 dam vivam sussinere non pâ—ssâ—m 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 Couâ—t 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 ‖ pag. 1123. and the affairs of Religion under him to Cardinal Pool 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 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 a fresh 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 second attempt * See Plots and Conspir collected Fran. Speed Camb. Stow. Hollingsh c. Namely the Spanish Mendoza the English Sanders and Allen stiffe Assertors 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 Gunpowder 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 * Speeds Hist p. 1178. Luc. Hist p. 498. 499. which contain'd 2843. great Oâ—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 Thuâ—n P. Metthew Meteran within a short time after to encourage whom the Jesuits had boasted by vertue of their League * 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 meterran l. 23. Spec Jef. p 100. Winter to entourage 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 despight of the Popes Bulls comes to the Crown however there were those of the like Ingenie with the Jesuits who almost as soon as he had set his foot upon English ground
2000000 Crowns besides the vast sums heaped together by Coyning and other pretty Artifices of the sacred Leger demain § 7. The review of this pompous Intrade with a numerous retinue 60 years ago did so elevate Barrisonius the Jesuit that to Court a young Venetian Lord to an Admiration of the Ignatian Republick he writes high lines * Le ters from Bononia Apr. 21. 1608. of the excellent Regimen and perfection of the Order which he would perswade him to think is the most free creditable and pleasurable he might have added for a Qualification and Atheistical bragging that the Provinces of the Archduke and the Dukedom of Bavaria were govern'd by the Instructions of the Jesuits * L. Lucii Hist Jesuit l. 1. p. 163. yea that Transylvania it self was then manag'd by F. Cariglia France and the King by Peter Cotton Poland and the King saith he most arrogantly by the Instinct and spirit Sanctitatis nostra of our holiness Further Spain Portugal Italy Scicily Belgia are at our beck nay and he would have had him believe that F. Parsons at Rome had then more Authority than the King of England himself affirming likewise there was neither Earl Marquess or Catholick Prelate * Ut summatim dicam Gen. noster sicuti manifestum est omnibus Romam regit Pontificatum Ib. so he would have Romish Bishops stiled but he had a Jesuit superintendant to his Conscience nay saith he in short our F. General as all know governs Rome it self and the Popedom we make war at our pleasure betwixt one Prince and another betwixt a Prince and his Subjects can usurp dominion over Cities and Countries fearing no discovery of our Actions sith our Commerce is chiefly with great men we know every publick secret and can in a singular way dispatch Hereticks and enemies to the Roman Court and encourage the Assasines with the merit of the remission of sins for their undertaking and insinuate that few or none out of our Society can be saved satis pro imperio concluding it most profitable * Qum maximam in populi utilitatem cessurum esset si pestifero semine politicorum sublato temporali dominio cum spirituali conjuncto solummodo a nobis ecclesiastacis regerentur gubernarentur ib. p. 169. Hosp fol. 84. which shews what the Jesuits heartily pray for that the Plaguy Race of Politicians so they often cal civil Magistrates were taken out of the world and the Government thereof left only to themselves who think they have made a great Progress towards it and whose Principles and Practises next to be laid open are in a tendency if they could reach it to accomplish CHAP. III. Of the Jesuits Principles opposite to Christianity Morality and Policy Sect. 1. UNder the pretensions of fellowship with the holy Jesus really to publish and plant Positions of Atheism and to erase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the very first principles of the Oracles of God * Heb. 5.12 by Preaching and Printing tenets contradictory to all that is sacred can certainly be no other than the motion of the unclean spirits * Rev. 13.16 with 19.20 like frogs coming out of the mouth of the Dragon i. e. the Devil and the mouth of the beast i. e. Antichrist and the mouth of the false Prophet i. e. all false teachers the whole species being comprehended in the singular number as elsewhere in the Original * Exod. 8.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 10.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or else a resemblance of the fire and smoak and brimstone that issued out of the mouths of the Horses which had heads like Lions * Rev. 9.17 18 and kill'd many men which may graphically signifie as smoak betokeneth fire the filthy and fiery temper of the Ignatian Sect who delivering Doctrines of Devils * 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. with 2 Thes 2.10 for love of falshood do by the false-fire of their pretended miracles perswade the credulous to enslave themselves to the beast and receive his mark * Rev. 13.13 with 16. discovering their design to be no less than the subversion of the Fundamentals of true pure undefiled Religion by damnable Doctrines pernicious Maxims and destructive Principles diametricall opposite to all unfeigned Christianity serious morality and honest Policy by the introduction of prodigious Divinity barbarous Ethicks and scandalous Politicks to exterminate faith and manners and all good Government As a remarkable Emblem of which at the Canonization of their Patron Ignatius for a Romish i. e. a beastly Saint pardon the Solecism sith contradictio in adjecto well befits them of whom I write the Fathers of the Society exhibited to the view of the people a Pageant wherein was Portray'd this novel Saint holding the whole world in his hand and fire streaming out forth of his heart * Mercure Jesuite to 1. p. 67. Spec. Jesuit p. 156. 1622. with this Motto Veni Ignem Mittere I came to send fire into the world which the Vniversity of Cracow did above 40 years ago justly upbraid them with and we see every day more plainly verified in their cursed Assertions § 2. These are such as being entertain'd do 1. over-turn the Christian Faith Now because I would hasten to what is peculiarly design'd I shall in brief present to your view A Jesuitical Creed gathered out of the works of John Baptista Poza a Spanish Jesuit by Fransciscus Roales Doctor of Salamanca a Chaplain to the King of Spain we have it in the Appendix to the Relations of de Vargas pag. 333. Printed 1641. digested into XII Articles in Latine which in the Adververtisement to the Mystery of Jesuitism I find thus translated to mine hand in English 1658. viz. I. I believe in two Gods whereof one is Son Father and Mother metaphorically according to an Eternal Generation the ether metaphorically Mother and Father according to a Temporal Generation and what is consequent hereto that the common term Mother-Father may be equally attributed to God and the B. Virgin as if they were both Hermophrodites II. I believe in Jesus Christ the only metaphorical Son of both according to an Eternal and Temporal Generation III. I believe that Jesus Christ as man was conceived and born of the Virgin Mary metaphorically as of Father and Mother by a Paternal and Maternal vertue IV. I believe that he suffered and was dead not truly and really because it was impossible he should die V. I believe that he was buried though not truly and really dead VI. I believe his Soul descended into Hell metaphorically whereas it was never separated from the Body VII I believe that he rose from the dead by a Metaphor suitable to that whereby I believed him dead VIII I believe he ascended into Heaven that he sitteth at the right hand of God the Father and that he will come to judge some alive and some already dead IX I believe in the Holy Ghost who spake by the Prophets though
and abuse of Gods worship In the Indies and in China * Myst Jes Let. 5. p. 53. 54. they allow'd their proselyted Christians to commit Idolatry by a subtile evasion viz. That of injoyning them to hide under their cloaths an image of Jesus Christ to which they teach them by a mental reservation to direct those publick Adorations which they render the Idol Cachiâ—n choan and their Keum fucum 1646. so gross was this that the Congregation de propagandâ fide did somewhat correct but little amend it Further they affirm That the diligence of an expert Conjurer in Diabolical Arts may well be thought worthy a reward * Let. 8. p. 116. and that a Fortune-teller is not oblig'd to restitution if he hath consulted the Devil * Add. p. 20 §. 19. nor to confession though he hath expresly invocated the Devil †p. 96. §. 28 and that 't is lawful to consult a Conjurer * p. 111. §. 10. and to the abuse of the spiritual worship of God they affirm that of an 100 easie Devotions they have invented to the Mother of God if a man practise but any one of them it will open Paradise * Myst Let. â— p. 120. 124. that recreation is the only comfort of humane life and now a-days many shake off their Polutions with much more expedition than they contract them * p. 138. Against the 3. Commandment the Jesuits teach it is a less sin to swear in common talk by the holy name of God than it is to eat an egge in Lent * Jes Gosp p. 70. Affirming that Laws against blasphemies are abrogated by a contrary custom †Add. to Myst Jes p. 97. §. 33. that by the Bull Cruciata a man may be dispensed with the vow he hath made not to commit fornication or any other sin * p. 95. §. 25. That 't is lawful as well in judgment as out of judgment to swear with a mental reservation without ony regard had to the intention of him who obliges a man to swear * p. 110. §. 5. That to call God to witness to a light inconsiderable Lie is not so great an irreverence as that a man should or must be damn'd for it Against the 4. Commandment they affirm that he sins no more who works on the Holy Sabbath than he that works upon the Feast of St. Didace the Spaniard * Jes Gosp p. 70 whom Sixtus V. made a Saint at King Philips request for recompence expresly of his Invasion of England in 88. That 't is enough to be bodily present at service though a man be absent as to the mind provided he behave himself with a certain external reverence * Myst Jes Let. 9 p. 134. nay that a man fulfils the precept of hearing Mass even though he have not the least intention to hear it that a wicked intention as looking on a woman with an impure desire hinders not a man from fully performing the duty * Ibid. that receiving of the Communion at Easter satisfies the precepts for two years the precedent and the subsequent * Add. to Myst p. 82. §. 20. the like is their conceit of two Clocks striking twelve at some distance on Saturday night * Ib. 81. §. 17. and that of a secular person or a Priest being fallen into any kind of impurity whatsoever though against nature may commendably communicate the same day after Confession * p. 88. §. 2. which they make very easie too and that of sacrilegious Communions producing grace * §. 3. and of a Priests consecrating without attention * p. 95. §. 23 We see how grosly abominable their maxims are against all the Commandments of the first Table more immediately respecting God § 4. And we shall find shortly they are as notoriously wicked against all those of the second Table which do respect our Neighbours whom we should love as our selves for these strange Casuists teach against the 5. Commandment which concerns our Relations to instance in some as concerning Man and Wife that 't is no sin to contract a marriage by personation as if t were in a play upon the stage by using equivocal expressions to elude the Church when one is forced thereunto by great fear * p. 95. §. 24 That 't is no injury done to the paternal power a man hath over his Children for another to perswade his daughter to run away with him in order to a Clandestine marriage against her fathers consent * p 98. §. 39 That to abuse a marryed Woman is not adultery if the husband consent thereto and the rest too too horrid to be translated * p. 110. §. 3 That women may take their husbands money unknown to them to game withall * p. 126. and concerning others that Judges shall not be obliged to make restitution of what they may receive for giving an unjust judgment * Ibid. that Mothers may wish their daughters death when they are not in a condition to dispose of them in marriage * p. 139. that Servants may purloin from their Masters * Myst Jes Let. 6. p. 80. that they may conscienciously contribute to the debauches of their masters several ways * Add. p. 97. §. 3â— that a Curate or Pastor of the Church is discharged from the obligation he stands in to endeavor the instruction of his people when he cannot do it of himself by reason of his ignorance and that he hath not the means to have it done by another by reason of the small profits of his Cure * §. 34. you may discern how easily this sort of men fill up their Relations of which more in their Politicks Against the 6. Commandment which respects our Neighbors life they affirm generally that one may Kill another to prevent a Box o' th' ear or a blow with a stick * p. 18. §. 6. yea that an Ecclesiastick may kill him who derogates from his reputation by opprobrious speeches and 't is doubtful say they whether he having made use of a woman may not kill her if she offer to discover what pass'd between them they say also that a man may kill a false accuser nay the witnesses produced by him and the judge himself when they cannot be otherwise diverted from oppressing the innocent c * p. 18. 19. §. 9. 12 c And you may easily perceive every one will be innocent as the Irish Rebels if their case be refer'd to these Ignatians si excusasse sufficit quis fuerit nocens the direction of the intention shall acquit a man for Duelling for defending his honor and estate by cowardly killing another when his back is turn'd * Myst p. 88. 89. 90. yea but for an affront by words or signs * p. 94. 97. and there be some occasions wherein a Priest is OBLIG'D to kill a Detractor * p. 98. a Jansenist
great bussle again not onely about the five Propositions with the Jansenists but concerning their great Idol the Popes power over Temporal Princes declared against about four or five years since by the King and Parliament at Paris 1667. And now doubtless they are labouring hard at the Popes Bellows to enkindle new slames against the Gallican Bishops for allowing the Jansenists to translate the New Testament into French § 6. Before I leave this Section somewhat may be noted of their attempts in Helvetia and the annexed Territories Though the Inhabitants were not so ruff with them Jesuits as those in Asturia who slew them as Cheats and Spies when they came to plant there * Luc. Hist p. 312. 1608. whatever they have been forc'd to since yet the Valesians when the Jesuits began to nest and fix their stations amongst them fortified themselves with fourteen Reasons against the entertainment of those pompous luxurious covetous sacrilegious Harpyes so they call them who were promoters of the King of Spain into their Democraticall state * Hosp i. 3. c. 2. fol. 136. 1610. But before that and since they found great favour in the Savoyan Court on which they have had so great an influence that the Evangelical Churches in the Valleys of Piedmont have a long time groaned under the severity of outragious practises effected by the counsels of their Missionarie Priests and Monks who have made it their business to debauch young men in their Principles and by suborning false witnesses to deprive the Evangelical Professors of their estates and to represent those innocent subjects as infernall Monsters in the eye of the Prince utterly destroy them by the Sword and FIRE burning some alive and unexpressible tortures as they did in the years 1640 1641 1642. c. and 1655. which you may see at large in Now Sir Samuel Morlands History * See especially l. 2. c. 1. 2. 3 set forth with Cuts in fol. 1658. There you l find they Copy'd out in BLOUDY Characters the Ignatian avowed principle of not keeping faith with Hereticks since within this seven years they were violent again in the same Practises against Gods wonderful owning and defending the poor despised Relicts of the Waldenses by his sheltering them with a natural munition of Rocks supplying them with supernatural courage and giving them success beyond all imagination I might here annex the stirs they made in the Vniversity of Padua and that unhappy Voyage they put Sebastian King of Portugal upon 1578 whilst by the Plot they get the King of Spain their great Patron into the possession of that Kingdom * Hosp l. 3. c. 2. f. 149. and in the interim some of their Fraternity were in the Isle Tercera one of the richest of the Azores belonging to Portugal attempting to betray it to the Spaniard which caused a tumult amongst the Islanders who were so inrag'd by this treachery they could hardly be kept from burning the Colledge of these Incendiaries But the poor Monks of other orders in Portug felt the smart of Phil. IId in Castile his hostile Invasion at the same time by the instigation of the Fathers of the Society who lately have made the very Bishops of Portugal feelingly to know the Jesuits Interest in the Roman Court. Sect. 3. § 1. If we pass into the Empire of Germany taken in its fullest Latitude we shall meet with Reports every where of the Jesuits continually prosecuting the advice they gave to the Emperor in an Oration at Auspurg 1566. saying So long as you do not make your Horse to swim in the bloud of the Lutherans you in no wise ought to think you shall enjoy any good fortune or Victory against the Turks * L. Luc. Hist p. 186. ventre tenus Amongst whom there were a Sect of Assassines a Pope call'd them Arsacides of the Mahometan Discipline but extinct â—262 whose principles about Government the famous Padre Paul shew'd the Jesuits have imbib'd * Id. 200. 201. 202. For as these Assassines were for killing and ruining any Magistrates or others that oppos'd them vi fraude dolo pro re natâ oblatâ occasione by force fraud damage according as the advantage lay and they had opportunity so the Jesuits conclude when they meet with opposition as P. Stewart one of the Society said * Id. p. 186. 200. Vrendum secandum esse we must BURN and cut the throats of Hereticks i. e. Protestants who I learn from Sleidan * Lib. 18. de statu Relig. Rep. sub anno 1546. about seven years after these Incendiaries were famous at Rome did emit a writing wherein they declare that the Pope the Roman Antichrist the instrument of Satan the Author of the German War who in the precedent years had grievously distressed Saxonie Per INCENDIARIOS Conductos by hired FIRE-BRANDS now had sent out Poysoners who might corrupt the Wells and Ponds of Water that what was left by the Sword they might destroy with Poyson Therefore these Protestant Magistrates gave order within their Ditions that these Emissaries might be apprehended and punished and within a few days afterward the Electors Son John William chargeth those under him to be watchful sith lately not far from Vinaria a Town of Turing one was took upon suspicion an Italian who upon examination confess'd that at Rome money was given to him and some others in the POPES Name * Nomine Pontificis ut Incendiis atque veneno quantum omnino possent per Germaniam damni darent that by BURNINGS and poyson they would make what havock they possibly could throughout Germany How consonant this practise is to the Jesuits principle of forcing Religion with FIRE or Sword is obvious to every ones observation These Ignatians did not only at Munstâ—r and Colen raise abominable lies against the Evangelicall professors and traduce them for Ignoramusses but father their Parricides upon them as Creswell and Coster would lay the massacre at Paris to the charge of Queen Elizabeth and the Calvinists which all the world laughs at * Luc. Hist p. 207 208. Thuan. but when they had an indulgence from the Pope to Temporize at the Diet then at Ratisbone or Regensperg they importuned the Prelates to diswade the Emperour Electors and Princes from any connivance to the Evangelicall concluding it would be detriment to the Roman Church * id p. 188 it seems they were much concern'd about the Inconveniencies of a Toleration however limited and thereupon their conclusion against the wise-Councellers then as of some now against the Sentiments of wise men among us who are of opinion that Reformed Christianity rightly stated in its due latitude is the stability and advancement of the Kingdome of England consonant to the celebrated Maxime of the D. of Rohan That besides the interest which the King of England hath common with all Princes he hath yet one particular which is that he ought throughly to acquire the
as the learned Causabon observ'd in an Epistle to the Jesuit Fronto-ducaeus machinatione clandestinâ tollere de vivis sunt agressi * Epist 170. p. 188. Edit Hag. 1638. made an attempt by a secret plot to take him out of the land of the living even before his Coronation And on that very day the King was Crown'd when the generality were intent upon that Spectacle five were suborn'd by the Jesuits to set London on FIRE in several places but were frustrated as I find it upon record * Luc. Hist 509. 510. 511. ex Marc. Gal. Belg. The King of Spain by this time had no great maw to hasten that force which Garnet and Creswell had been negotiating for whatever encouragement his Jesuitical Legate Baldwin in Flanders had given to it Whereupon a pl t is excogitated of greater advantage than any before and such a one as can never be discovered said Catesby Viz. the Horrible Conjuration to blow up by GUNPOWDER the King Queen Prince Lords and Commons at one-clap when they met together in the House after their Prorogation at the opening of the Parliament Novem. 5. 1605. When Guy Faux stood ready in the Cellar beneath to give FIRE to the Train laid to discharge this Jesuitical i. e. monstrous Morter-piece which would have overturn'd the Foundations of the Kingdom had not the King of Kings vouchsaf'd an admirable deliverance which hath been annually celebrated with praises to the Supreme Majesty by Protestant England for above sixâ—y years Yet the last years Apologist had the impudence in Print not onely to extenuate the Gunpowder-Treason but to insinuate that against all moral evidence which might weaken assent to the matter of Fact as it hath been transmitted to us not onely by Tradition uncontrol'd but by an Act of that Parliament who were then upon the place to examine all circumstances which were fully laid open and proved to the conviction of any gainsayers as may be seen at large in the Relation of the whole proceedings and Lords Commissioners Speeches with the Earl of Northamptons enlarged and what past at Garnets execution Printed by the Kings Printer 1606. There you may see proved not only the Provincial Garnet but at least four Jesuits more viz. Tesmond Gerrard Hammond Baldwin had an hand in this plot The ill-look'd suggestion of the Apologist concerning which is so fully answered and confuted by that worthy person who refusted the whole Apologie * pag. 29 30 31. that there needs not the addition of any thing more sith the matter hath been acknowledg'd both by friends and enemies both parties and standers by the Apologies of Bellarmine Eudaemon Johannes and other Jesutis As the learned Causabon * Epist 190. supra Cit. p. 191. See Bp. Rob. Abbots Antilogia amongst many other things rendring it out of doubt notes Those that would have Garnet esteemed for a Martyr never offer'd to deny him being guilty of the Gunpowder-Treason He at Lovain who in his Panygerick Oration pray'd publickly unto Garnet Sancte Henrice intercede pro nobis Father Henry intercede for us certainly took his prime agencie in the Powder-plot as a meritorious Act consonant to the Jesuits avowed principles and all other foremention'd practises wherein he was a leading man as well as in this of which Causaban wrote he certainly knew he was not onely guilty verum etiam approbatorem genere quodam auctorem * Id. 219. Utinam quivis alius mihi potius accedisset casus quam ut nomen meum proditionis infamiâ deturparetur c. but the Approver and indeed in some sort the Authour who himself said before Dr. Overal and three other Doctors Equidem si pro religione Catholicâ mortem obirem If I had died for the Catholick Religion c. but now saith he I acknowled he my sin and the sentence pronounc'd against me I confess to be most righteous I certainly if I had the whole world in my power I would willingly give it all to be free from this crime of treason which is impress'd on my conscience c. So he But I forget my self I 'le onely subjoyn what Mr. Richard Carpenter sometime one of the society if not so still in disguise hath Printed in his Sermon preached Novem. 5. 1662. page 11. viz. Father Thomson the Jesuit our Ghostly Father at Rome when he often told us Scholars there that his shirt had been many times wet in his digging under the Parliament house upon this horrible account intimated that their intention was to bring up the Foundation and all with a powder 'T is plainly confess'd the Fact here was own'd and that there was another Ignatian imploy'd in this grand Mechanical FIRE work besides those above Yet they have not done with K. James for the year after 1606. the Jesuits and some Masse Priests have another Conjuration W. Pierce a Provincial was examined about it * Luc. Hist p. p. 5. 3. In 1608. the forementioned provincial Garnet was taken and hang'd and 2. June 1610. upon further evidence of their practises the King publisheth a Declaration against Jesuits and Priests notwithstanding which many swarms of them were got over again into England at the latter end of King James his Reign for the year after the falling of the Massing-chamber in Black-Friers where F. Dâ—ury was Jo. Gee a reclaimed Priest * Mr. Pr. p. Royl Favour p. 54. by that accident when he hardly escap'd in his Book call'd The foot out of the Snare Edit 4. 1624. gives us an account of many hundred most of which were Jesuits and of their practises in their Congregation de propagandâ Fide which they held privately even here in London and as a Legate boasted they did their part to the poisoning of K. James * Rooms master-p p. 34. § 5. 'T is certain these bold Incendiaries were not frighted away with John Gee's discovery we may find in the years 1627. 1628. soon after King Charles I. came to the Throne the Jesuits had gotten an house neer Clerkenwell-Church for for their Colledge wherein they kept together in Commons and had their Officers and Books their Vestments and Relicks but if you 'l credit Doctor Sibthorp they would not suffer the Kings subjects that are Papists to be so loving and loyal as otherwise they would have been * Mr. W. Prins Introd p. 88. 90. Yet in their Letter to Bruxels then they made themselves the Introducers of the Excise but so insolently they did behave themselves that the House of Commons then petition'd the King for the putting of Laws in execution against them But they were afterwards blowing up new sparks of contention about 1631. from Ireland the Arch-bishop of Armagh in a Letter takes notice of some of their Books and likewise 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
Mr. Baxters Key for Catholicks Dr. Du Moulin Dr. L. to be the Principal Agents There did then above 600. Protestant Ministers Remonstrate against it and so many thousands and more had they not been over-powr'd by an Army wherein Jesuits were active would have done so likewise But Protestant Ministers had not a conquering Army oblig'd to their obedience as the Jesuits have their Novices whom they can make to do what they please 'T is absurd then to impute that Action to Protestants as such whoever were the Executioners 't was agreed to in the Council of Jesuits * Answ to Pa. Apol. p. 12. Mr. Pr. pres to to Vind. C. So that it can be no imputation to the Protestant Religion which abhors the Jesuits priciples and practises As Dr. Du Moulin hath solidly vindicated the sincerity of the Protestant Religion * Page 56 57 c. upon that account against the fictitious Philanax Anglus Therein he declares amongst other things yet 't is said some from his pon stuck in the Press The Roman Priest and Confessor is known who upon cutting off the Kings head flourished his sword and said Now the greatest enemy that we had in the world is gone * p. 58. And there were other Jesuits on horseback did so too as is credibly reported And the Doctor adds from a Gentleman of good credit a notable passage at Roan of Jesuited persons rejoycing there upon the news of the Kings death saying we have kept our word to him since he would not keep it to us * p. 59. as if the King had made a promise to them which the Doctor there says is most false offering to make good when Authority shall require it That a Select number of English Jesuits were sent from their whole party here in England First to Paris to consult with the Faculty of Sorbon then altogether Jesuited to whom they put this Question in writing that seeing the State of England was in a likely posture to change Government whether it was lawful for the Papists to work the change by taking away the KING which was answered Affirmatively upon this thirty Jesuits were met betwixt Roan and Deip going to England with endeavours to be Agitators they said in the Independant Army * Id. p. 60. At Paris the scarlet Jesuit who would have the English Lady he had proselyted to rejoyce at the Kings death distasted her with the Popish Religion upon that score so that God gave her grace to be no more of it and the Doctor saith hitherto she keeps her word * p. 61. It seems also there was great joy in the English Seminaries abroad and here at home Mr. White and others were applauders of the succeeding Government F. Bret was for the prevailing power †p. 62 64. under which the Dr. saith they got from the top of the House of Lords two of the Gunpowder-Traytors heads which we may hear in time are as Holy Reliques shrined up in gold and working miracles SECT V. § 1. And shall we think these Fiery temper'd Loyolans have been asleep these late years when such dreadful Burnings at Sea and such a lamentable conflagration in the City of our solemnities have awaken'd so many I dare say argumento ad homines they themselves who percinatiously assert the Doctrine of PROBABILITY have no just reason to quarrel me if I suggest more than THAT to conclude they have been very vigilant and active may I not say mechanically even in the burning of London as well as politically in the three Kingdoms Dies diem docebit Truth is the daughter of time And I confess as Jamblicus in explaining the Pythagorical Symbols says * Pyotrept Symb 18. p. 146. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Truth is commonly hid and difficult enough to find out yet as he well adds there a man ought to look after it and search it out I know sub judice res est The Petition of the Common Council of London is That the Parliament would be pleas'd to assume the Enquiry about the causes of the late Fire 1666. And I have not an itch either by any peremptory or immodest sentiments of mine to anticipate what they in wisdom which I pray for shall think meet to determine in that great affair concerning which I am prompted from the argument I have in hand to annex something in complyance with the expectation of the Reader but with all Candor and submission to the truly wise § 2. I desire to be as forward as any in adoring the Soveraignty of God the Supream Majesty who by Prerogative Royal rightfully disposeth of all things and places persons and actions according to his own good will and pleasure to the magnifying of his own power and goodnesse and to say with the Prophet * Amos 3.6 shall there be evil in the City and the Lord hath not done it Di gitus Dei hic We ought undoubtedly with great reverence to acknowledge the hand of God as in the Plague so in the War and Fir◠all the judgements we have groaned under are Providentially from the Supream righteous Judge and indeed procuringly from our own sins Hinc illae lacrimae tua te peccata cremârunt Londinum Ah! our multiplyed hainous trangressions provoked the Lord for the honour of his justice to enter upon his strange work with the Plague and Sword and when these would not move us incorrigible ones then to break forth into his fury very conspicuous in the raging fiercenesse of the burning through the violence of the wind which he commanded to go forth when he could have held it in his fist or turn'd it another way or have given our Magistrates wisdome and our people strength or many other ways have prevented our ruines by the devouring flames But it seemed good to his Majesty to humble us for our iniquities To remember which with sorrow of heart and shame we are by Statute * XIX Car. II. called upon to an annual observation of that day in publick fasting and humiliation Yet this does not exclude Gods permitting of Instruments it may be for the filling up of their iniquity from contriving and acting in the late dismal Conflagration any more than the Assyrian from being the Rod of his anger or the staff in their hand his indignation * Isa 10.5 Neither doth it discharge us from a modest enquiry and endeavour within our several Sphaeres to bring those to the test who may be rationally suspected to be guilty Hereupon after all that hath been said in the premises of the Fiery Jesuits temper and behaviour compar'd with the antecedent concomitant and consequent Circumstances of Londons Burning methinks it should not appear incredible that they had an hand also in the kinding of these Flames § 3. To bring the matter then nearer to an issue I shall briefly propose some things by way of recollection which have been prov'd in the foregoing