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A78293 The Iesuits undermining of parliaments and Protestants with their foolish phancy of a toleration, discovered, and censured. Written by William Castle, for the confirmation of wavering Protestants, and the reducing of seduced papists. Castell, William, d. 1645. 1642 (1642) Wing C1229; Thomason E124_7; ESTC R4761 12,847 16

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THE IESVITS UNDERMINING OF PARLIAMENTS AND PROTESTANTS With their foolish phancy of A TOLERATION Discovered and Censured Written by WILLIAM CASTLE for the confirmation of wavering Protestants and the reducing of seduced Papists LONDON Printed by E. G. for Joseph Hunscot 1642. THE IESVITS UNDERMINING OF Parliaments and Protestants VVith their foolish phancy of a TOLERATION Discovered and Censured IT seemeth to wise men exceeding strange that Ignatius Loyola a worne Souldier a man of very little Learning when he was meerly necessitated by breaking of his legge to leave Mars and follow Mercury should in lesse then ten yeeres become such a grand proficient as to procure from the See of Rome the last new order of Jesuits whose number at first was but small But after some time the Pope finding them to be wel verst and most acute in all kind of literature exceeding active in undertaking and men no lesse able then willing to support the Papacy which without their unexpected rising like Locusts out of the pit had undoubtedly long since fallen without any hope of recovery their number was from time to time enlarged untill it became as now it is in all Kingdomes where the Pope hath any thing to doe unlimited and unsatisfied But it seemeth yet much more strange that Christian Princes to whom the Jesuits incomparable treasons cruelties adulteries perfidious and crafty stratagems are so well known should permit any of these Locusts to remaine within their coasts Yea or that Jesuits themselves whose matchlesse treasons and treacheries since the time of reformation have been so often discovered and punished with no lesse then setting their quarters assunder should be so audaciously confident as to conceive such extraordinary power or policy in themselves as to be able to reduce these Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland to the blind obedience I should say the miserable slavery of Antichrist And yet they have often attempted that since the beginning of King Iames his raigne and are not yet utterly out of hope to effect it notwithstanding the present cleere discovery of their damnable designes and the strong opposition which is daily made against them But the infernall practises and most irreligious positions of these Jesults the weake and improbable meanes which their carnall wisdome hath proposed unto themselves together with the generall detestation of them and their tenents in these Kingdomes may somewhat though not altogether secure us that they shall never be able to effect their so long desired toleration which once obtained an utter extirpation of Protestants might soon follow after for such are their principles There was indeed not many yeers since some grounds of their hopes when instead of being close hid in vaults they boldly walked the streets when instead of being imprisoned and having the Law executed upon them they were preferred to be Confessors to great Court-Ladies where they were very plentifully fed and royally maintained when being imprisoned they were soon enlarged by a Secretary of State one of their owne society when they had an Arrchbishop after their owne heart from whom holding intelligence with the Pope they found greater favour with him then did the sincere professors of the Gospell But that still they should flatter themselves with a hope of a toleration plainely sheweth them to be what they are most audaciously bould and impudently restlesse which that it may more plainly appeare I shall here briefly discover so many of their hellish positions and practises as may justly render them as wel formidable as odious To begin then with their dangerous positions First they maintaine that Princes are so subordinate to the Pope as that he may as he shall see cause discharge their Subjects from their loyalty and obedience yea and depose them and confer their Kingdomes at his pleasure nay further that in case they will not come in and submit to his Holinesse after admonition and excommuication that their subjects may and ought to rise up against them and destroy them which doctrine how contrary it is to Scripture the often repeated precepts and practices of the Prophets and Apostles yea and of Christ himself sufficiently declare Here the Jesuits as is their usual manner double extreamly according to the men they have to doe withall if it be with a Papist they dare justifie the premises in each particular in that the power and liberty of the Catholique Church is boundlesse and in that they kill them not as Kings but as favourers of hereticks but if they have to do with a Protestant who abhorreth the very thought of deposing much more of killing of Kings then they say that it is but a private opinion of some over zealous Catholiques not the doctrine of the whole Church Againe they answer by the way of recrimination that the late armes of Scotland and the present preparations of England for war prove them to hold the foresaid tenents As if there were no difference between discharging subjects from their due obedience and the setting a Kingdome in fit posture of war when forraigne invasions and homebred conspiracies in the judgement of Parliament the Grand-Councell of the Land do threaten the present utter ruine both of King and Kingdome As if it were the same to deprive the King or lay violent hand on the Lords anoynted as to desire his goverment may be regulated according to law or in case of extreame necessity to endeavour the removing the wicked from the King which is so far from being dishonourable or prejudiciall to his Majesty as that in the end it will prove the most effectuall means for the more firme establishing of his throne A second detestable position of Jesuits is that of equivocation which they stile a safe holy mentall reservation but we more properly the art of lying for confirmation of which their lying reservation they produce the authority of the Counsell of Constance Anno 1414. which tooke it selfe not bound to keep faith with heretickes though the same were solemnly sworne Whence they infer they are much lesse bound to speake the truth although urged by oath And they further confirm that by the example of Pope Eugenius who gave liberty to Hildeslaus King of Hungary to breake faith with Amurath the Turke and perswaded him to it I wonder they doe not remember what the fearefull event was of the liberty so given and taken was not Hildeslaus after many great victories obtained and a peace concluded the most advantageous that ever was upon the breaking of his faith not only beaten in the battell when he was far stronger then ever But he lost his honour his army his life the Empire of Greece and a great part of his own Kingdom which could never be recovered Why doe not these acute learned Jesuites remember that the oath is made to the living God not to the dying man were they so well versed in holy writ as they pretend they should find miserie and destruction to be the reward of Perjury and infidelity Did