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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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