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A09135 The Iesuites catechisme. Or Examination of their doctrine. Published in French this present yeere 1602. and nowe translated into English. VVith a table at the end, of all the maine poynts that are disputed and handled therein; Catechisme des Jesuites. English Pasquier, Etienne, 1529-1615.; Watson, William, 1559?-1603. 1602 (1602) STC 19449; ESTC S114185 330,940 516

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moribus ipsamque tanquam scandalosam ad fraudes deceptiones mendacia proditiones periuria vias dantem reprobat condemnat Which is to say This holy Councell chiefly desiring as it is bound therfore assembled to prouide for the rooting out of errors heresies which now begin to spread abroad in diuers parts of the world hath lately beene enformed that some divulge opinions erronious in faith against good manners and verie scandalous tending to the subuersion of the whole State and order in States among which this assertion passeth for currant Euery Tyrant may and ought lawfully and meritoriously to be killed by any his Vassal subiect euen by ambushments or flatteries or faire allurements notwithstanding any oath passed vnto him or League made with him and without attending the sentence or commaund of any Iudge whatsoeuer Which this holy Counsel endeauouring to resist and wholly to root out decrees ordaines and iudgeth to be erronious both in matters of faith and manners and reprooues and condemnes it as a point most scandalous opening the way vnto all manner of guiles deceits lies treasons and periuries An ordinance which I respect and reuerence not only because it was enacted in that great counsel of Constance wherby the abuses of the Church and heresie were rooted vp but in that it was deriued from our Fraunce Gerson being the first and principall Solicitor against the new Diuines who then had intertained this opinion which since that time our Iesuits haue reuiued in the death of good king Heny whom they called a Tyrant had done the like to our great King now liuing if God by his holy grace had not preserued him But because the Iesuits would seem to deny their Peter Mathew as not being of their Sect what say they to father Emanuel Sa terming himselfe a Doctor of Diuinitie and of their Societie who by two artcles in his Aphorismes of confession hath maintained that it is lawfull for subiects to kill the Tyrant and to expell a misbeleeuing Prince out of his Realme as if the people could or should giue lawes vnto their King whom God hath giuen them to be their soueraigne Magistrate I am ashamed that I must prooue no subiect ought to attatch his Prince what part soeuer he doth play but hauing vndertaken to combate an heresy which Iesuits haue practized by deeds now would faine go from it in words I purpose to giue thē a fulsome gorge therof Learne therefore of me this lesson Iesuit for I owe this duty to al Christians we ought to obey our kings whatsoeuer they be I will say good or badde this is that the wise man teacheth vs in his Prouerbs S. Peter in his Epistles S. Paule vnto the Romans to Titus to Timothie the Prophet Baruch speaking of Nabuchodonozer whō God of all other Princes had made to fall into a reprobate sense the goodly example of Dauid persecuted by Saul Such Kings as God bestoweth on vs such are we to receiue without examining as thou dost whither they be Kings or Tyrants The hearts of Kings are in the hands of God they execute his iustice euen as it pleaseth him to punish vs or more or lesse whereto we are not to oppose our selues but by our humble praiers vnto him if we deale otherwise we resemble those ouerweening Giants described by ancient Poets who offring to skale the heauens there to sit cheek by iowle with Gods were in a moment tumbled down to hel by their god Iupiter Yet ought not a King abuse his power but know he is a father not to prouoke his subiects his children vpō euery sleight occasion for if he do God the father of Fathers king of Kings wil when he least thinks of it dart his vengeance against him with a most dreadful horrible arme To conclude seeing that thou Iesuit yeeldest a blind obediēce to thy superiors who are but thy adopted Lords thou owest it in greater measure a hundred-fold vnto thy King thy true lawfull naturall Lord father Therfore art thou a most dangerous yonker to propose vnto vs in thy writings this distinction of a King Tyrant not that I know not the great difference which is betweene the one the other but we are to blindfold our eyes vnder their obedience otherwise we shroud a rebellion of subiects against their Prince Rebellion which produceth much more euell then the tyrannie whereunto we were subiect CHAP. 10. ¶ A memorable act of Ignace whereupon the Iesuits haue learnt to kill or cause to be killed all such as stand not to their opinions THere remained in the confines of Spain certaine dregs of the Marranes whom king Ferdinand had chased out of that realme therfore got the title of Catholique a surname wherwith his successors haue since adornd themselues One of these rascals mounted on a Mule accoasted Ignace on the high way somwhat after he had changed his former life haning told one another to what place they were bent they entred into sundry discourses at length fell into talke of the blessed Virgin Mary whom the Moore acknowledged for a true Virgin before her Conception but not after grounding his opiniō on natural reasons the which haue no affinity with our faith Ignace vrged the contrary with good deuotion that she was a Virgin both before at and after her deliuery searched euery corner of his braine to make it good But being then a simple nouice if you wil needs know it but an a. b. c. man in points of religiō it was not for him to manage so high misteries so that supplying the want of arguments wherof he had none left with a iust choller the Moore who laughed at him in his mind spurring his Mule and giuing him a ful carriere left Ignace all alone who chafing that he was not able to get the victory at the blunt of the tongue went yet to win it at the sharp with the sword and so resolued to pursue him amaine presently to kil him Notwithstanding like a man of a good conscience he found himselfe extreamly perplexed For on the one side it vexed him to see a monster fraught with impiety and blasphemie goe vpon the ground on the other he weighed his owne feare of offending the Virgin in sted of defending her In this cōtention suspended between yea and no at length hee determined to take his Mules aduise Hee sawe the fellowe passe into a crosse way and knew whether it led wherefore in admirable wisdome he resolued not to slacken the reynes of his choller but to giue his beast the bridle on condition that if of her owne instinct she followed the tract of that Infidell along the crosse-way he would dispatch him without all remission but as God would haue it she chose another path by meanes whereof Ignacius suddenly appeased himselfe supposing the matter happened to his Mule by diuine inspiration God sometimes giues aduise vnto false Prophets by their beasts as we