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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

not Zedekiah for breaking faith with a Pagan see his children and servants slain before his eyes after which his own eyes were torn out of his head How were the Israelites miserably afflicted in King Davids time with 3 yeares famine for Sauls slaying of the Gibeonites whose preservation was sworne 400 yeares before by the congregation of Israel which agreement though it were fraudulently obtained by the Gibeonites yet the Israelites having by oath confirmed it in the name of the Lord dared not break it And though Saul were so bold as to violate the covenant so solemnly sworn yet just vengeance ceased upon his posterity whereof seven of them were delivered into the hands of the Gibennites whom they hanged up before the Lord and the famine ceased And although they account us Protestants but Hereticks and infidells yet they might likewise remember that Abraham sware to many unbelieving Princes Isaac gave his faith and observed it to Abimelcch Jacob and his sonnes especially Joseph were allied and lived with the Egyptians And for their distinctions in promises it wil breed in short time such confusion in all the states of Europe as there will be nothing more pernitious lamentable For if a serious promise much more a solemn oath shall not be kept inviolable upon what agreement may any rely upon There are few towns castles Cities governments that are not bound by oath The Protestant by oath taketh assurance of the Papists The Papists of the Protestants Kings from their Subjects Subjects from their Kings By oathes the lives and states 〈◊〉 all men are tryed and the whole religious world governned How can this Kingdome or any other stand long if equivocation prevail so far as that things covenanted and sorwn need not to be observed This once known there can be no end of warre nor hope of peace nor safety to treat of Shall it be made but a bait for lying treason and cruelty by which our Predecessours passed through the armes of their enemies through the weapons of their most hatefull soes The Romanes ignorant of the true God in their swearing and contracting alliances were wont to say O Jupiter smite and with lightning blast him whosoever he be that is here with an intent to deceive what can be more horrible then to cover falshood with the name of the living God We may not touch them said the Princes of Israell meaning the Gibeonites because we have sworn to them in the name of the living God Now then that Jesuits dare to take libertie to themselves and dispence with others to equivocate to the breach of faith given upon oath we may safely conclude that they give the greatest wound to Chistian society as ever it received A third no lesse perilous then arrogant positiō of Jesuits is blind obedience to their conclusions and commands be they never so differing nay never so contrary to the law of God of nature of nations They indeed by vertue of their order are bound to obey their generall though his command extend to the killing of a King And whereas their generall is ever a Spaniard be the Jesuites English Scottish French Dutch or of any other nation whatsoever he must venter upon the person of his own naturall Prince rather then the Catholick King might suffer and so the Romish cause which is upon the matter onely supported by him might come in jeopardy But it doth not hence follow that the people should herein follow their blinde guides who dare publish to the world that they under his Holinesse can pardon slippes to Gods commandements But can affoord no pardon unto those who breake the commandements of the Church which how farre it doth derogate from the Majestie and authority of God and his holy word let not onely religious but even rationall men judge I will now instance in one more no lesse dangerous then blasphemous position of Jesuites upon which the three former and many more are grounded namely that the Church is above the Scriptures and so judgeth of the Scriptures as that she may reproove or reject Scripture as she shall think fit that the Church and the head thereof the Pope is the rule of faith better known and farre more certaine then are the Scriptures by whom Scripture ought to be judged and not either Pope or Church by Scripture whereas in truth the Scripture affordeth such a cleare and perfect light as may sufficiently guide our feet in the way of truth and fully instruct us what we are to believe and what we are to doe what to affect and what to hope which foure contains the whole dutie of a Christian To say no more the Church became the Church by receiving believing and so lowing the Scriptures from which when it shall in any sort vary it is no more the Church of God And now to their dangerous positions I shall adde so many of their bloudy nefarious practises as may in all reason indue those who most admire and are most addicted to them to detest and abandon them It is well known how often and how miraculously Queene Elisabeth escaped their many close contrived plots a-against her person and kingdome And it is no lesse known that in the beginning of King Iames his raigne an impudent petition for a toleration cōtrived by father Garnet other Jesuits was preferred to his Majesty but advisedly rejected upon the Archbishop Abbots grave counsel to the King Upon the rejecting of which their audacious petition growing desperate they enterprised by the advice of the said Garnet the gunpowder-treason the most cruell and barbarous as ever was heard of which had it taken it had been accompanied with a greaer effusion of bloud then was the massacre in France but herein much more destructive when King Prince Nobles Gentry and the whole wisdome of the land should have received an irrecoverable blow in being blown up in a moment so as the amased headlesse people not able to resist them and their army being at an instant in readinesse they must have yeelded to them both in matter of religion and liberty or have been miserably slaughtered by them A man might reasonably have concluded that such a matchlesse treason and bloudy designe upon King and kingdome should have produced execution of law to the extirpation of them and a dissipation of their Jesuiticall adherents But such was then their interest with forrain Princes subject to Rome especially with the King of Spaine and his pentioners here some of our Nobility Church-papists whose entertainment came to no lesse then 3000 l. or 4000 l. a yeere as that after execution done upon some few of them the father due prosecution of Law was stopped yea so powerfull and prevalent were our Spanish pensioners with King Iames a very wise Prince as they by many importunate solicitations induced him to yeeld to somethings and to deny other things which have or may prove exceeding prejudiciall to him and his royall posterity to the peace and

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