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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80534	The Iesuit, and the monk: or, The serpent, and the dragon: or, Profession, and practice. Being a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1656. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C622; Thomason E897_5; ESTC R206691	27,529	33

Gather your thoughts together now and I pray note with me that here in the beginning of Genesis the first Book of Holy Scripture the beast into which the Devil entred hath his Name à Serpendo from creeping He was but a creeping beast when he first began to plot against us I utter the words of my Soul Heart and Spirit The Jesuites and Monks if I may religiously say so have egregiously out-done him and gone excessively beyond all that he did or could have done when he was a Creeper Now it is plain that the Serpent the Creeper is in length of time grown into a Dragon such we find him in the last Book of Scripture the Revelation Chap. 7. 12. And there was War in Heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought and his Angels Had not the Dragon been a Spirit and his Enemy Michael a Spirit ye had heard here perhaps in the introit of the last Times of the first Powder-Plot But however the Devil is grown from a Creeping Serpent to a Flying Dragon think not I beseech you I am heartily sorry that I have cause to say it that the Jesuit and the Monk fly far behind him Indeed and in truth A Man skill'd in the Motions Promotions Actions Transactions and Overtures of Rome would have reasonably thought that if there were any pure and silken threads of true Christian sincerity simplicity interweav'd into the Practice of the Church they would have been found amongst the Benedictine Monks these having been the most antient order and the most Sun-beam'd from Christ as the most near to him And I grant there are apparently such amongst the Religious of other Nations But casting aside all the vain Follies and Falshoods of Love with which I humbly confess I have been captivated and enchained for extravagant Love and Hatred are alwayes erroneous and never sound and piercing in their judgements I declare upon my Christian Word our English Monks who in the flourishing days of an old Monk the Behemoth of humane Policy for whose Ashes I have yet so much Reverence as to conceal his name though I beleeve the Chronicling of his notable Actions would yeeld a great access to the knowledge of Despotical Dominion expended no time upon me to penance and prepare me for Profession but much to perswade me that the Jesuites are the grand Abusers of Mankind and the mighty Plot-Masters of the world are now themselves in regard that the Devil is grown from a Serpent to a Dragon become I will hold my Peace but I was in the way to say Deceivers and Impostors beyond a Parallel and beyond a Rival And to adde never any Dancer on the Ropes educated his tumbling Boy never any vile man tutor'd his Ape to so many strange tricks and wondrous Faces as these tumbling and Apish Monks are apted to and exactly taught when they are furnish'd out and manumised into this Nation from their Monasteries But not a word of this Many put it upon the question What kind of Serpent it was into which the Devil entred Eugub Eugubinus thinks it to have been a Basilisk because he is the King of Serpents Perer. Camar in cap. 3. Gen. Pererius that it was a Serpent called Scytales because the back thereof is variously coloured Martinus del Rio Disq Mag. Martinus del Rio a Viper Camara a common Snake Others think otherwise and when we have all thought we have but thought and can but think I would verily believe if I durst that it was a Serpent most fitly chosen as having certain subtil postures motions and tumblings that our young Monks and Jesuits now use My Reason is The Devil had it in his comm●nds from God that he should not assume a shape but one most shewing his nature to the end Eve might thereby be advertised S. Aug. lib. de Genes ad literam● cap. 3. For as St. Austin divinely admonishes Had the Work been referred to the arbitriment of the Devil he would have rather covered his treachery let me not say his Jesuitism his Monkishness under the sweet shape of a Lamb or Pigeon as often times the old Monks and Jesuits do Questionless It was a Serpent that could move turn wind all manner of ways and had Men say so but they speak as they please part of the motions windings turnings returnings and overturnings of blessed Father Garnet when he was religiously instructing his godly Ghostly Children in Confession and sub sacro Sigillo under the sacred Seal to blow up the Parliament House and moreover had it is not I that say it but another out of the clouds part of the motions and mutations of our old Monk and Behemoth when he was instilling in his close and private Chamber his black Art of Policy into his Novices But the Dragon was the compleat and master-Workman he that polished their high Performances And that these are the children of Cain all the children of Abel easily believe Gen. 4. 8. Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him These rose up against many thousand Fathers and Brethren and would have slain them and given them over to a most horrible Death They had a most pregnant and efficacious Will to it and the Effect was not wanting on their part They did not impede it but concurred to the production of it with the last dram of their Power Cain was in the Cause that his Brother Abel became Hebel Vanity and they would have turned all these their Fathers the Fathers of their Country and Brethren into Vain smoke A man is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little House Wherefore the Hebrews call a Son Ben quasi Domum as it were a House quam bana that is which the Father hath built How many fair Houses of Flesh had the Fathers of the Persons then designed for destruction richly built and educated which our base Children of the Serpent and of Cain would have most suddenly and most cruelly destroyed King Prince Bishops Nobility Gentry and thousands of innocent and ignorant people near to the Place in the heat of their other Thoughts should have been fir'd and torn without a grain of Mercy Let me tell thee O thou Jesuit or O thou Monk some other Power offended at thee speaks this by me that now outactest the Jesuit in all the high and airie motions of transcendent Villany the Devil could not have raised the dust of his Body to this Plot had he stood a Serpent he could not until he came through all the Degrees and Ascents of his Experience to swell into a Dragon and until the worst of times offered you for his Instruments Some curiously enquire especially of the Jewish Rabbins what Sign● it was which God set upon Cain answerably to Scripture Gen. 14. 15. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain lest any finding him should kill him Rabbini Some fancied this Mark or Sign to have been a most horrid yelling