Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A45491
|
The loyalty of popish principles examin'd in answer to a late book entituled Stafford's memoirs : with some considerations in this present juncture offer'd to Protestant dissenters / by Rob. Hancock.
|
Hancock, Robert, fl. 1680-1686.
|
1682
(1682)
|
Wing H643; ESTC R25407
|
95,985
|
210
|
out a Postern-Gate After his Speech was ended the King produced the Original Letter which he intercepted as it was going to the French King and ordered it to be read (F) Impartial Collections p. 309 c. As to the later Insurrections in Scotland I will only observel That besides the Information of some Romish Priests being sent thither to prepare them for a Rebellion their very Declaration shews they were acted by a Popish Spirit for the Act of Supremacy was condemned and the Kings Authority in Ecclesiastical Affairs call'd an Vsurping Power But to return So true were the Romish Emissaries to their good Old Cause that having set the factious Party to work in Scotland they took advantage from that conjuncture to stir up a National Rebellion and barbarous Massacre in Ireland of which I have spoken already I cannot pass over the Conspiracy against the King in the Year 1640 because it gives some further light into the Designs of Cardinal Richilieu and the Jesuites Whilst his Majesty resided at York he was acquainted by the Archbishop of Canterbury with the Information he had received from Sir W. Boswel his Majesty's Ambassadour at the Hague By the discovery of this Plot it is evident that the Jesuitical Party exasperated the King and his Subjects one against another labouring to incense his Majesty against them as conspiring against his Crown and Government and them against their Soveraign as aiming at the subversion of their Laws Liberties and Religion That they stirred up the Scots to rebel hindred all accommodation between the King and them and endeavoured to bring his Majesty under a necessity of craving the Assistance of the Papists which he should neither obtain without yielding to their own terms nor refuse without the hazard of his life That for the compassing of their Ends Cardinal Barbarino was engaged fifty Scotch Jesuites were maintain'd in London Cuneus in quality of the Popes Legate Chamberlain Chaplain and Almoner to Cardinal Richlieu Sir T. Matthew a Jesuited Priest Captain Read a Secular Jesuite and that all the Papists in England did contribute to the carrying on the design Here was a Plot against the King and Kingdom and Protestant Religion of which he that desires a full account may consult Mr. H. Lestrange and Mr. Sanderson in their Histories Prinn's Romes Master-piece and others of later time What great numbers of Priests Jesuites and other Romish Agents afterwards flocked into England what various shapes they assumed how they insinuated into the Councils and Armies of the Kings Enemies Mr. Gatford Prinn Dr. du Moulin and others informs us to whom I refer the Reader And even some of the Members in the Long Parliament were sensible how active our Enemies of Rome had been in raising and fomenting the War as we learn from a late Writer who sate in that Assembly I will barely relate what he saith without making any Collections or Inferences from his words The Parliament Vote That which was done at York for a Guard to the King to be a preparation for War against the Parliament a breach of the Trust reposed in him by his People contrary to his Oath and tending to the dissolution of his Government and all such as serve him there to be Traytors to the Laws of the Kingdom Upon the debate for raising an Army one of the Members declared his sense Our Enemies of the Popish Church have left no Evil Arts unessayed to bring us to our present posture and will yet leave none unattempted to make our breaches wider well knowing that nothing will more advance their Empire than our Divisions Our Misery whom they account Hereticks is their Joy and our Distractions will be their Glory and all Evil arts and ways to bring Calamities upon us they will esteem Meritorious (A) Memorials of the English Affairs ad An. 1642. Sanderus de Schism Angl. 1585 p. 188. Quo Haereticorum ut fit bello Catholici indies plures constantioresque in fide fiunt Campanella de Mon. Misp Amst 1641. p. 204. Jam verò ad enervandos Anglos nihil tam conducit quam dissensio discordia inter illos excitata perpetuóque nutrita quod citò occasiones meliores suppeditabit P. 207. Verum ab alia parte instiget primores Comitiorum aut Parliamenti ut Angliam in formam reipublicae reducant Nor did the design of Cardinal Richlieu die with him it was vigorously pursued by Mazarine to whom he left his Instructions at his death and what an intimate Correspondence was maintain'd between him and the Grandees of Derby House we are told by the Author of the History of Independency (B) Hist of Indep p. 114 115. His words are these To negotiate which the detaining of the Prince in France the Grandees of Derby House and the Army have an Agent lying Lieger with Cardinal Mazarine the great French Instrument of State who is so well supplied with Money and so open handed that it hath been heard from Mazarines own Mouth That all the Money the Queen and Prince have cost the Crown of France hath come out of the Parliaments Purse with a good advantage It is likewise said Mazarine hath an Agent here to drive on the Interests of France in England To all which we may add That the King having assented in the Isle of Wight to pass five strict Bills against Popery the Jesuites in France at a General Meeting there resolved to bring him to Justice by the power of their Friends in the Army And this resolution of the Fathers was agreeable to the sense of the Roman Conclave For the Question being sent to Rome from the whole Party of Jesuites in England the year before the Kings death whether considering the present posture of Affairs it was lawful for the Catholicks to work a change in the Government by making away the King whom there was no hope to turn from his Heresie It was answered affirmatively (C) Answer to Philanax Anglicus p. 59 65. To what I have said upon this Argument I will add these two Propositions 1. That the grounds on which the War against the King was maintain'd so far as it was maintained under a colour of Religion were laid by the prevailing Faction of the Roman Church and the most dreadful effects of Fanaticism which were the consequents of it may be justified by their Principles And here I could make it evident That the same Maxims of Political Divinity the same Arguments and many times the same Phrases and Expressions are to be found in the heads of both Factions I know it is disputed whether the Ring-leaders of Sedition amongst us poysoned the Jesuites or the Jesuites them but I do not envy the Bishops of Rome the honour of having first poysoned them both with Antimonarchical Doctrines If Milton the great Oracle of one of the Factions had owned himself to be a Papist there had been no reason to wonder at the Impiety of his Doctrines which he
Margent (I) Greg. 7. Ep. l. 8. Ep. 21. Itant dignitas à secularibus etiam Deum ignorantibus inventa non subjicietur ti dignitati quam omnipotentis Dei providentia c. quis nescit Reges Duces ab iis habuisse Principium qui Deum ignorantes superbia rapinis perfidia homicidiis postremo universis paené sceleribus mundi principe diabolo videlicet agitante super pares scilicet homines dominari caeca cupiditate intolerabili praesumptione affectaverint V. l. 2. Ep. 5. Ep. 13. Ep. 18. l. 3. Ep. 10. Also his famous Dictares published in a council at Rome are to be seen in Baronius Annal Eccles Tom. 11. ad An. 1076. sect 31 32 33. V. Baron ad An. 1080. sect 62 63 64 65. ad an 1073. sect 73 24. Kingly Government in his Judgment is nothing else but the contrivance of evil Spirits to abridge men of that Liberty which God and Nature have given them and if so what we call Rebellion is a very harmless if not a meritorious thing For why should not the People endeavour to recover their ancient Rights and Liberties which were so unjustly taken from them Miltons Inference from such Premisses is this If it were my happiness to set free the Minds of Englishmen from longing to return under the Captivity of Kings from which the Strength and Supream Sword of Justice hath delivered them I shall have done a Work not much inferiour from that of Zorobabel (L) Iconoclastes towards the latter end And now I cannot shew without exceeding my intended brevity how true the other Popes have been to these Principles V. G. in the 9th Century Adrian the Second salutes the Pious and Orthodox Basilius that 's the Roman Catholique Title for Traytors and congratulates the Murder of his Soveraign Prince About the 1090th year Vrban the second sate in the Holy See of whom I need say no more than that he was the Author of that Impious Decree That an Oath made to an Excommunicate Person is not to be kept His Successor Paschal the Second commanded the Son of Henry the 4th to take up Arms against his Father Alexander the Third which lived in the same Century trod upon the Neck of the Emperor The Decrees of Innocent the Third and Fourth are well known But I am not writing an History of the Bishops of Rome Since the rise of Jesuites the Roman Catholiques in France entred into a clandestine Combination the Holy League they call'd it without their Kings Consent under a colour of opposing the Progress of Heresie but in truth to reduce the Catholique Forces into one Body and strip the King of his Royalty And how specious soever the Design of it might appear to some men of more Zeal than Judgment yet in its very Nature and Tendency it was of most fatal Consequence to the King and Government and being prosecuted with Force and Armes against Henry the Third and Fourth it cost one of them his Life and the other his Religion The Principal Instrument of the League was Mathew a Jesuite and the Fathers of that Order would give no Absolution to the Gentry of France unless they would vow and promise to band themselves against their Soveraign The secret Counsels and Conspiracies were holden in the Jesuites College Where did the Agents and Ambassadors of Spain the two Cardinals that termed themselves Legates in France assemble their Counsels but among the Jesuites Was not the Provincial of the Jesuites sent to Rome and Father Sammier into Spain where they acquitted themselves so well that both Gregory the 13th and the King of Spain promised large Sums of Money for carrying on the War In Fine the Holy League and the War of Subjects against their Kings in prosecution of it were promoted by Pope Gregory the 13th Sixtus the 5th Gregory the 14th Innocent the 9th c. by the Jesuites and most of the Preachers and Confessors of all Orders who soon drew in the main Body of the Papists into this Combination against Henry the Third a King of their own Religion but unjustly suspected to be Haeretically affected The Design of this Holy League may be seen in Thuanus l. 63. Ed. Genevae p. 164. c. more largely in Davila's History of the Civil Wars of France ad An. 1576. c. out of whom I will transcribe part of it Art 2. For preservation of the King and his Successors in the State Honour Authority Duty Due to them by their Subjects as it is contained in those Articles which shall be presented to him in the Assembly of the States c. Art 4 and 5. If there be any Impediment Opposition or Rebellion be it from whom it will or from whencesoever it may c. In case any of the Covenanters be molested oppressed or questioned for this Cause be it by whom it will the King himself is not excepted they shall employ their persons and goods estates and lives to take revenge on them either by Justice or Force without any exception of persons whatsoever Art 6. If any of the Confederates shall wilfully break this Promise and Oath they shall be punished in Bodies and Goods by all means that can be thought of c. Art 7. They shall swear to yield ready Obedience to the Head of the League to the ruin of all Opposers of it without partiality or respect of persons Art 8. All the Catholiques of all places shall be secretly advertised by their particular Governours to enter into this League and to concur in providing of Men Arms and other Necessaries Art 10. All to be held as Enemies that will not enter into this Covenant It would be too large a digression to enter upon a Discourse concerning the Solemn League and Covenant in these Kingdomes and therefore I will only subjoyn the two following Observations as a further Proof of the Loyalty and Peaceableness of the Reformed Churches abroad 1. The first is that of his Majesty in his Excellent Manifesto or late Declaration concerning the late Tumults in Scotland by the King An. 1639. p. 74. This Covenant was resented abroad by Papists with infinite joy in hopes it might oblige the King and his Successors to hate the Protestant Religion for the sake of those Seditious Zealots and the Priests and Jesuites from Doway and other Seminaries came over in great numbers upon that Encouragement But by Foreign Protestants the Covenant was received with most offensive scandal and grief as his Majesties Publick Ministers abroad gave him an account for they were afraid it should bring an indelible Scandal upon the Reformation and alienate the minds of Princes from it Thus it became Joy and Triumph to our Enemies Grief and Scandal to our Friends 2. We are told That the English Divines and Scotch Commissioners sent a Copy of their Covenant with a solemn Invitation to Seventeen Reformed Churches beyond the Seas but notwithstanding all the unjust Calumnies cast upon his Majesty we never heard