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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40496	A friendly letter to Father Petre, concerning his part in the late King's government published for his defence and justification.		1690 (1690)	Wing F2224; ESTC R5400	19,576	33

Principles for a good Catholick ought certainly to love Holy Church better than Father or Mother Wife or Children And did not the glorious Saint Q. Mary of England endeavour to cut off her own Flesh and Blood her own Sister to set up Timothy Malt on the Throne of her Fathers She wou'd have done as much no doubt by her own Daughters if she had had any and they had been Hereticks and stood in the way as her Sister did She was as Unnatural as lay in her power for Holy Church And this Trick had taken then and in all likely-hood at this time the Malt 's had been the Reigning Family instead of the Stuarts had not K. Philip spoil'd the design partly hoping when he had buried Q. Mary he might marry that Sister of hers and so hold this Kingdom in her right and partly fearing that if his Son by his first Wife Don Carlos should happen to Die this young Malt should carry away the Crown of Spain from any Son that might be born to him afterwards or from his Daughter the Infanta Isabella that was as good a Catholick as he If K. Philip err'd in this he made amends for it afterwards for when some Years after this he came to understanding that his own Son Don Carlos was inclin'd to the Protestant Heresie in high Indignation at this and Zeal for Holy Church he threw off all natural affection at once to that his only Son and not content to exclude him from the Succession he took a surer way to secure the Catholick Religion by making him die in Prison This heroical Action of his though he modestly represented it to the then Pope Pius V. in his Letter which I doubt not your Fatherhood has read in the Life of that Pope now a Saint in your Kalendar written by Girolamo Catena the Secretary of his Favourite Nephew and Printed at Rome with a Dedication to Pope Sixtus V. yet his Holiness set a just value upon it and because he cou'd go no higher for a Parallel he resembled it to God's giving his Son for the Redemption of Mankind For says your Historian he presently call'd a Consistory and there caus'd this Letter to be read and then with Eyes and Hands lifted up to Heaven he broke out into the Apostle's Words He that spared not his only Son but gave him up for us all How shall he not with him c. That which this great Saint and Head of the Church judged to be so highly Meritorious in King Philip was indeed a higher Instance by many degrees of abandoning natural Affection than that was to which you perswaded King James But your Work was the easier especially having to do with a Prince that would think it a very Scorn to be told that any Catholick King of them all had a greater Zeal than he has for the Catholick Church And for the necessity of it that he should find out some way or other to disinhereit that Heretical Daughter whom he used to call by the Name of Queen Bess you need not tell him that she was as likely to do as much Mischief to the Church as ever Queen Elizabeth did and therefore she ought to be prevented in the same manner as that Queen should have been if King Philip had not hindred it For the doing of this in that way of a Mock-Childbirth you had such a Queen to act it for you as perhaps never was in the World an Italian by Birth that has the Blood of four or five Popes in her Veins an adoptive Daughter of France a most bigotted Disciple of your Order one that seem'd to have been sent hither for such a purpose far ' un fioliolo by all means to get a Son I would not seem by setting forth the Necessity of this or the Advantages you had for the doing of it with so much Ease Closeness and Secrefie to derogate any thing from your Merit good Father in the Advice or Contrivance of any thing else that was properly yours For whatsoever that was as no doubt your Part was very great in this whole Business it cannot be denied that it was worthy of your Self and your Order and most agreeable to the Principles of your Church Fourthly The last Accusation of the Hereticks against the late King and consequently against his Guides and against You in particular seems to me the greatest and truly it strikes a Horrour into all Men's Spirits that think on it They say How could it be propos'd to reduce this heretical Land to the Roman Catholick Religion without making it swim in Blood Your Arguments never did much any where but least of all in England where you have been so often foil'd by the Learned Men of the Church of England and where your Religion also is so much against the Interest of the Kingdom Therefore it was observ'd by an old experienced Missionary that had staid long in England That this Nation was to be reduced to the Roman Catholick Religion by nothing but the Sword And said he when the young Missionaries come first over they think they can do mighty Matters with their Arguments but after they have been in England some time they are all of my Opinion And indeed this is so known and received a Maxim amongst you That England is never to be converted but by the Sword That the late King himself in a Speech to the Parliament of Scotland told them That he knew the bringing in of the Roman Catholick Religion into these Realms must cost so much Blood and make such a Desolation that he had the greatest Horrour at it imaginable and hop'd that none of them wou'd have such hard Thoughts of him as to believe him capable of so much Cruelty and Barbarity even as Hazael said to the Prophet Well then King James knew well enough what it would cost and what must be done to bring in Popery and yet Popery he was resolv'd to bring in as I am sure every Man in England believed two years since and every Man must believe in spight of his Heart that knows the Jesuits his absolute Guides What Excuse then can be made for so great Cruelty intended 'T is the Business and End of a King or Supreme Governour to defend from Injury to Preserve and Protect the Lives and Fortunes of his Subjects How then can any one be a King over those he thinks himself bound and resolves to Destroy There are some indeed so tender-hearted in themselves and of such tender Understandings to boot that they won't believe this or at least are afraid to be known they believe it And therefore they say Surely the late King did not Design to bring in Popery at all or at least not by such rough ways But by such ways all experienced Catholicks conclude it must be brought in or not at all The Question then is only Whether the late King resolv'd to bring in Popery and if his Guides were not resolv'd to bring it in by