the English language that the Spaniards caus'd to be made by an English Iesuite call'd Parsons and 't was by the way of the low Country dispersed about England c. And further in the 7 th book p. 301. in the letter to Villeroy letter 133. what he saith of that book of Parsons may be thus made English and from that book of Father Parsons one might draw reasons in favour of his Majesty which would be more weighty then those he deduceth for the King of Spain and his Sister the said Father Parsons does contradict himself very often and very grosly as it happens to all persons in passion as able as they are who are not guided by truth and by reason but transported by Interest and by passion And in the last letter of the 8th book and to Villeroy from Rome the 30th of December 1602 he speaks of Father Parsons having made application to himself to desire that there might be a treaty prepared from Rome between the Pope the King of France and the King of Spain to agree among themselves of a Catholick that may Reign in England after the Queen be it the King of Scots if he will turn Catholick or be it some one else c. But there in p. 367 year 1603 letter 174. from Rome to Villeroy and on April 21st it appears that all the Machinations of the hot Iesuitical heads against King Iames his Succession were overturn'd by providence for he there saith that the Queen was no sooner dead then that the King of Scotland was in England peaceably received and the Controversie of King Iames his title evaporated and for the honour of our English understandings he there saith Les gens de cet Isle là ont bien Monstrè qu' ils scavoient faire leurs affaires entr ' eux tost seurement que ceux de dehors se sont fort mescontez en leurs desseins esperances i. e. the people of England have well shewn that they knew how to do their own business among themselves quickly and safely and that others abroad took very wrong Measures in their designs and hopes I have here said enough to entertain your Lordship with the View of their unreasonableness who would impose on us That Father Parsons wrote not that Impious and Treasonable Book and likewise with the more pleasant View of Gods Confuting it as I may say by the happy determination of his over-ruling Providence And Now because I would make it appear to your Lordship that I have not been unjustly severe to the Jesuitical Principles in rendring them such as are the sturdy extravagances of those offals of Mankind call'd Bullyes and Hectors I shall entertain you with one Instance of a Bravado of threatning from one English Iesuite to all Protestant Crown'd Heads a bravado that is like the High Water Mark to shew in words how high 't is possible for the foam of the raging Sea of Anger to reach and 't is in a Letter of Campian the Iesuite to Queen Elizabeths Privy Councellers printed afterwards at Triers 1583. as I find it Cited in that most learned Preface of my Lord Bishop of Lincoln's to the Book concerning the Gunpowder Treason in the Year 1679 and 't is thus in English viz. That all the Iesuits throughout the World have long since enter'd into a Covenant to kill heretical Kings any manner of way and as to our Society know That we Iesuites who are spread far and wide throughout the whole World have enter'd into an holy Covenant that we shall easily overcome all your machinations and that we shall never despair of it as long as any one of us remains in the World. Lo here a Drawcansir that will not only snub all Protestant Kings and take the bowles from their mouths and beat out their Brains with them himself but he saith there is a Society or Corporation of such brethren of the bladed Ecclesiastical who have enter'd into a Covenant or Association to murder all Protestant Kings and that every single Member of the Corporation should have that dead-doing talent of Valour that should awe and subjugate the Protestant World. And here then my Lord every Jesuite values himself on being a Mutius Scaevola and more than Three hundred of these new Romans or so many thousands of them I mean all of them according to Campian have Covenanted to destroy every Porsenna that lays siege to Rome but in that time of Queen Elizabeth there was an industrious Gentleman who fear'd not the terror of these Huffes but with his secrecy and silence did reduce these mad dogs into the Condition of neither barking nor biting in England I mean Sir Francis Walsingham of whom 't is said in Cotton's Posthuma That his bountifull hand made his intelligences so active that a Seminary could scarcely stir out of the Gates of Rome without his privity And no wonder then if Campian was soon brought to the end of a Traytor here in England by the Care of one of Queen Elizabeths Privy Councellers in the Year 1581. who did both defie and scorn that Rhodomantado address wherein the Iesuite did Goliah-like defie All Protestant Kings and their Armies and as if he would give their flesh to the Fowls of the ayr but the event shew'd his own flesh was so given as a Traytors to that use here in England It was a kind of a bravado in the great Archimedes to say Give me where to stand and I 'le shake the Earth He well knew no such place could be found The Iesuits it seems would have every one of their Order to be an Archimedes and able to shake the Earth as he pleas'd and the hypothesis of Popery they know offers them a place divided from the Civil and Imperial Government where to stand with their Engines namely the Ecclesiastical but things will not be ill administred and holy Church it self will sink into the Earth if its Foundation be not laid as God and Nature would have it and the Man who stands for the place to be an Archimedes and to Move the Earth will soon find his fate of being dissolv'd into his own little dust and that among the artificial lines he is making It seems that boasted association or Covenant of the Jesuites did help to occasion another among the Protestants in Queen Elizabeths time which was ratify'd by Act of Parliament in the 27 th of Eliz. which was about three years after the death of Campian who was Convicted of High Treason by vertue of the Statute made in the time of our Popish Ancestors namely in the 25 of Edward the Third and thereupon executed and yet by the Romish Church made a Martyr tho as I said convicted on that Statute But according to this thundring denuntiation of War against all heretical Kings by Campian as the Jesuites Herald and his boasting when he did put on his armour that every one of his Order should be like an Alexander an adequate match for at
to belong to the Pope's Authority and their own School Doctors are at irreconcileable odds and jarrs about them He had then his Eye on the Lateran Council as appears by the other words there in the Margent viz. Touching the PRETENDED Council of LATERAN See Plat. in vitâ Innocen 3. and by which Council the King knew that all except two or three of those Conclusions were concluded and defined If therefore many of the poor petty School-Doctors were so searless of the Papal Thunder as in Cases when they were perhaps unconcerned to impeach the Papal Usurpation there was no cause of apprehension in that our wise Monarch that any of his High-born Heirs and Successors would ever favour the Usurpations of that Authority When Queen Elizabeth was so firmly satisfied concerning the Loyalty of the Roman Catholick Lords Temporal and of their great Quota in the balance of the Kingdom securing their abhorrence of all Papal Usurpations as not to impose the Oath of Supremacy on them tho yet She took care to have it imposed on the Popish Bishops can we imagine that the great Interest of an Heir of the Crown in the Hereditary Monarchy did not give a Plerophoâ—y of satisfaction to that Great Monarch that such an Heir would never permit any Usurpation to prejudice his Crown Imperial Moreover if in the Case of the device of an Inheritance by Will on the Condition of the Legatees not holding this or that Philosophical or Religionary Tenet the absurdity of such Condition would not frustrate the device but would be taken as Pro non adjectâ and that thus in that known Case in the Digest viz. Of an Heir made on an absurd Condition namely On Condition he should throw the Testators ashes into the Sea the Heir was rather to be commended than any way questioned who forbore to do so how can we think in the Inheritance of the Crown which is from God and by inherent Birth-right any such supposed absurd Condition of a Prince's not believing this or that Speculative Religionary Tenet and for his professing of which he hath a dear bought Liberty by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the New Testament of Iesus Christ should be intended to operate to his prejudice But that I may in a word perimere litem about that Kings never intending the least prejudice to the Succession by any of his Successors being Roman Catholicks I shall observe that that Kâ—ng who was so great and skillful an Agonist for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England did yet in the Articles of the proposed Match with Spain and afterwards with that of France agree that the Children of such Marriage should no way be compelled or constrained in point of Conscience or Religion and that their Title to the Crown should not be prejudiced in Case it should please God they should prove Roman Catholicks and that the Laws against Catholicks should not in the least touch them And that the sense of the Government then was likewise to that effect avowedly declared is manifest from the Passages of those times and the needless quarrel therefore that our late Excluders would have exposed us to with France was a thing worthy their considering But enough of this Conclusion if not too much for where the Tide of the Words of any Oath runs strong and clear we need not to regard the Wind of any Law-givers intention however yet I have made it appear for the redundant satisfaction of the scrupulous that while they have embarqued their Consciences in thâ—se Oaths they have had such Wind and Tide both together on their side and that therefore any Storms which the Takers of these Oaths relating to the Lineal Succession of the Crown may have raised either in their Consciences or the State must be supposed to be very unnatural Having thus in the foregoing Conclusions asserted and proved the Obligation relating to the Kings Heirs and Successors as resulting from the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy I shall briefly answer such objections thereunto or rather Scruples for they deserve not the name of Objections as some noisy Nominal Protestants have troubled themselves and others with and so end this Casuistical Discussion The first Objection or Scruple then I shall take notice of that some have raised against the Obligation of these Oaths as above asserted is that they were made in relation to Papists only and were enjoyned to be taken for the discovery of those that were suspected to be so As to which it will be sufficient to say that it is most plain that all Persons who have taken these or any other lawful Oaths are bound by Deeds to fullfil what they have sworn in Words and it is an absurd thing to doubt whether the Law intended that those Persons should observe the Oaths whom it hath enjoyned to take them And to this purpose we are well taught by Bishop Sanderson in his 6th Lecture of Oaths That tho Papal Vsurpation was the cause of the Oath of Supremacy the arrogating to himself the exercise of Supreme Iurisdiction in spiritualibus throughout this Kingdom yet the Oath is Obligatory according to the express words in the utmost Latitude the reà son is that the intention of a Law is general to provide against all Future inconveniences of the like kind or nature c. I refer the Reader to him there at large By the Measures of that Bishop as to the Oath of Supremacy we likewise may direct our selves in the Oath of Allegiance being Obligatory according to the express words in the utmost Latitude tho that Oath was made by occasion of the Gun-powder Treason And as to the intent of the Oath of Supremacy King Iames tells us in his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance p. 108. That it was to prop up the Power of Christian Kings as Custodes utrâ—usque tabâ—ae by commanding Obedience to be given to the word of God and by reforming Religion according to his prescribed Will by assisting the spiritual Power with the Temporal Sword c. by procuring due Obedience to the Church by judging and cutting off all frivolous Questions and Schisms as Constantine did and finally by making Decorum to be observed in every thing and Estaâ—lishing Orders to be observed in all indifferent things c. whereby his Majesty doth clearly denote the intention of that Oath to have been to extend against any Non-Conformists continuing their Schism in the Church And as to the Oath of Allegiance being intended against Protestants as well as Papists making a Faction in the State the Book called God and the King compiled and printed by King Iames's Authority sufficiently shews throughout by the Notification of the particular Moral Offices required by the Oath of Allegiance and likewise by his Subjects natural Allegiance and which Moral Offices are there strengthened with passages out of the Scriptures and Fathers and the Doctrine of absolute Loyalty is there well Established and likewise the Doctrine of Resistance
least one World of hereticks the author of the Compendium needed not by his Rhetorick to reflect on my Lord Bishop of Lincoln's Candour gentleness in saying yet if it be a breach of Christianity to crush the bruised reed and of generosity also to trample upon the oppressed I wish his Lordship may be found guilty of neither c. for behold any single Jesuite according to Campian tho but like a reed shaken with the wind is able to bruise all Protestant Scepters and any little toe of that Order can trample all Heretical crowned heads to dirt and the Number of the Papists in England if reduced to the least of Numbers is not according to Campian to be slighted if one of them be a Iesuite for that that one Jesuite will carry the advantage of odds against all Protestant Kings and Princes that one may say my Name is legion for we are many but as that legion-spirit could not without the Divine permission ruin a herd of Swine off from a Steep place so neither can all the legions of Iesuited evil Spirits in the World drive a King Kingdom from Precipices at their pleasure And Queen Elizabeth in spight of all the arts and power of Rome outlived eight Popes and lived to change all her Counsellors but one all her great officers twice or thrice some Bishops four times and died full of years and did see and leave peace upon Israel And now I shall Entertain your Lordship with a further Reason of my charging the present Popes declaration aforesaid about some opinions of the Casuists as carry with it a face of some thing like shamme and my reason is grounded on what was said in a publick Sermon before an honourable Audience namely that the propositions of the Casuists therein were not Condemned by the Pope in the Consistory which would have made the Censure more authoritative but by the Pope and Cardinals of the Court of the Inquisition upon which a remarkable thing follow'd the Iefuites in France who were much provoked at this Censure moved the Procureur de Roy or Attorney general at Paris to put in a Complaint against the publishing that Decree since it came from the Court of the Inquisition which not being acknowledg'd in France nothing Flowing from that authority could be received in that Kingdom upon which the decree was prohibited and suppress'd And may not the English Popish Priests say the same thing the Inquisition was never received in England and therefore that declaration of the Popes obligeth us not here and we will prohibit and suppress it as much as we can No doubt but the present Pope fearing that the Noysome and Infectious smell of those Opinions of the Casuists being more offensive to the minds of Men then any snuff of a Candle can be to their Nostrils they were ready to cry for the removing of the Candlestick of his Church out of its place went about to extinguish them in the most Summary Manner that he could and therefore attempted to do it by the Court of the Inquisition well knowing that in the Consistory of Cardinals all proceedings are so dilatory and the old magi there so used to do every thing pian piano that they would consume many pounds of new Candles in debating whether or no and how the old snuff should be removed and perhaps would have thought to have contented the World in the mean time with giving it some perfumes but the Pope being afraid of the Iesuites perhaps as sometimes the Grand Signior is of his Ianisaries doth not for fear himself should be extinguished by them so far as I may say follow the light within him as to throw away or tread out that snuff of those opinions as containing a malum in se or declare any of them to be ill as contrary to the principles of the law of nature in which case neither he nor God himself indeed could have dispens'd with them tho yet any honest and ingenious Heathen would on the least occasion given have declared them so As Cicero and Seneca and many others have done and which had the Pope done and the Iesuites or any Papists persevered in the making those principles the Rules of practice his Kingdom had thereby been ipso facto divided against it self and a diffinitive sentence had been thereby given by the Pope that all who had dy'd owning those principles and practices had been sunk for ever into the burning lake Therefore as I said before I hope this declaration of the Popes such as it is will give an alarm to our English Papists to deal seriously with their Souls and to consider as if it were for their eternities these and other Principles of their Religion and that if they will not be thereby perswaded to be almost Protestant Christians yet to be altogether Masters of as good Moral Principles as the Heathens I named and If any of them can but give us a Moral certainty of their Principles being but such I shall never repine at any favour that any new Law may afford to such of them If therefore any of our Lay Country men Papists not guilty of the late Plot shall desire to be heard and to say any thing toward this effect some of us have heard of these principles before mention'd as own'd by our Casuists and Priests and Confessors that are now thus condemned by the Pope and we did not believe that those our spiritual guides did own such Principles but now our Eye seeth by the condemnation thereof that they were before own'd and made rules of Practice Wherefore we hope that who ever do own them will abhor themselves and repent in dust and ashes and others of us did formerly think them Consistent with the Christian faith and the peace of Kingdoms and with humane Society but we now abhor those principles and repent in dust and ashes We are ready to let the King and Kingdom and the World have a moral certainty that we desire no power to change the Religion in England by Law establish'd and we are willing to receive Instruction from any that shall be appointed by publick Authority to give it to us concerning what other principles beside these Condemned by the Pope are inconsistent with Religion or the publick Peace and in case any shall offer to give us dispensations either for principles or practices contrary to those we renounce as inconsistent with the publick peace we shall be so far from accepting of such dispensation that we shall detect the offerer thereof before a Magistrate as much as we would an enemy to His Majesty We are ready to give active or passive obedience as to all the Laws in being We believe not the Bishop of Rome to have more power in His Majesties Realms by Gods word then any other forraign Bishop as was by Acts of Parliament and publick Recognitions declared in the Reign of Henry the 8 th We are willing to render the Kingdom as secure from
Humane Nature and all the Jesuit's Skill in Divinity will never be able to render them otherwise to the World. I must seriously profess that one saying of the Great Cicero in that little Book viz Ea deliberanda omnino non sunt in quibus est turpis ipsa deliberatio i. e. Those things are not at all to be deliberated wherein the Deliberation it self is filthly has in it I think more frank generous Morality included and that which is more worthy of the ancient Roman and Primitive Christian simplicity then what all the Libraries stuff'd with Bauny Escobar Layman Le Moine Navarrus Azorius Molina Tanuerus Lessuis Emanuel Sa Henriquez and other Numerous Casuistical Jesuits have furnished the world with wherein they do so nicely and infinitely divide the body of Sin in semper divisibilia and indeed make it an infinite Nothing But the world I think will not long deliberate what to do with this Casuistical Divinity of which no truer Description can be given then that 't is a Deliberation of Sin. I do not know any that would eate or drink with another that he thought did deliberate to Poison him Dum deliberant saith Tacitus desciverunt i. e. While they do deliberate whether they should revolt they have revolted their very deliberation and consulting was ipso facto a Revolt I doubt not but many Pious Christians of the Roman Catholic Communion have Complain'd of the effect of their subtle and innumerable distinctions destroying Christianity in that style of the Woman in the Gospel They have taken away My Lord and I know not where they have Layd him and that Considering those Casuists had so far sear'd their Consciences and brazen'd their Foreheads as in the Patronizing of Calumny and other Impieties to defy not only Christs Gospel but the Pope's own Canon Law many Papists importun'd the Pope with their Zeal sutable to that of the Psalmist's to give that decree saying It is time for thee to work for they have made void thy Law. 'T is notorious that the Canon Law as bad as it is is very severe against Calumny and Calumniators and especially against Clergy-men that are such and pronounceth a Clergy-man infamous who is convicted of defaming another and 't was very well worthy the Vigilance of the Pope not to let the Jesuits steal away his Canon Law from him But this must needs be very diverting to this inquiring Age to see Protestants as well as Papists accounting the Popes reducing some immorallities to the Test of his own Canon Law a piece of Reformation and the Pope struggling to effect it and hindred by the Jesuits therein According to the former expression it is time for the Pope to work and to Null that Order that thus nulls his aforesaid Decree in the sight of an awaken'd World and is else likely to Null his Church the Patience of Mankind being the less able longer to bear the weight of Jesuitical Calumnies by its having endured them so long The truth is the Great and Original Cause of the founding of that Order being to cut Heretics Throats for at this plain rate we must speak and call a Spade a Spade when they are digging our Graves with it it was necessary for them to use the art of blackening of Heretics by Calumnies as the Prologue to that Tragedy the which would cause the Heretics to fall unpity'd and 't was necessary to make that black art as lawful as they Could that so they might have their quietus from the World for the arrear of their pass'd frauds and not fear accounting for future ones But as these men will not recede from their Art so neither will Nature recede from it self and our Critical English World now having occasion to pass Judgment of their Calumnies is naturally enforced to Conâ—ider their former Shammes in States and Kingdomes to aggravate their present ones as Judges still in the Case of Malefactors are obliged to take notice of their having been formerly branded for the same Crimes The execrable Shamme made against the Admiral and others as conspiring to kill the King of France and giving provocation to the Parisian Massacre will never be forgot nor the Shamme that was provided to have charged the Puritans with the Gun-Powder Treason nor that of the Irish Rebels who were so outragiously impudent as to pretend the Commission of our Royal Martyr for their Butcheries Nor yet that of the Jesuites having effected heretofore in Bohemia and lately in Hungary that Counterfeit and forged Letters should be found in the Custody of the Protestants to charge them with Crimes against Caesar. The Memorial of the Sufferings of the Protestant Ministers in Hungary at the Instigation of the Popish Clergy there printed for William Nott in the Pallmall 1676. shews it at Large where 't is said They did not against the Ministers insist much on the Particulars that relate to Religion but great endeavours were used to prove them Complices of the Rebellion the which their Advocates and Councel did manifestly disprove and the Resident of the States of the Vnited Provinces at Vienna did afterward in a Memorial to the Emperour fully and solidly refute Tho the Ministers were indicted in form of Law for having assisted the Rebels by their Councel and supply'd them with Provisions and for having Made way for the Turks to Come in and wast that Kingdome yet none of them as that Discourse sets forth was convicted thereof nor one clear Testimony brought to prove that any one was a Complice of that Rebellion That discourse shews that the Advocatus Fisci did exhibit everal Letters to prove all the Ministers Complices of that Rebellion but that many and great presumptions evinced that these Letters were never produced tho it was frequently demanded by the Ministers and their Advocates that they might be and that yet they could never obtain any thing but a printed Copy of them and thô the Advocates for the Ministers did often press the Fiscal to declare when where or how he came by these Letters yet that was never done That Author having p. 10. mentioned the vile art of Calumny That the Jesuits try'd to exterminate the Protestants out of Hungary by speaks in p. 11 th of the effects of their endeavours saying that upon a Iust account it can be made appear that at several times before and after the Citation against the Protestants meaning the Citation to that vile Process there were above 1200 Chruches of them suppressed It must needs then appear very Ridiculous to the World that when there is not a third part of Hungary that old Bulwark of Christendom against the Turks remaining in the Emperor's hands for so Dr. Brown in his late Travels there Computes it that these Nominal fellows of Christ by nominal crimes charged on real Christians should endanger the exterminating of Christianity out of the European World and the making the Emperor not long so much as a Nominal King in Germany it self
under whom they be Born some for Heresie some for Murther Treason Robbery and are there further represented as such whose secret practices have not fail'd to stir her Highnesses Subjects to a Rebellion against God and her Grace c. But secret Traitors they were found by the Realm and secret they were left by it Two of them were Iohn a Lasco Uncle to the King of Poland and Peter Martyr that were thus sent out of the Realm with Sanbenitos on and so far were our Popish Ancestors from Hospitality to Strangers and thereby unawares entertaining Angels that they made Devils of them and as such used them and to make amends to the multitude of Forraign Artists for the Gold they brought here they had the Dirt of Shams thrown at them by a Proclamation And as if not only the Biting but the very Barking of Mad Doggs had power to make others Mad she grew so enraged by the Books of Heresie and Sedition Printed in Forraign Parts and here Imported that she Publish'd a Proclamation Printed likewise in Fox wherein she Declared to all her Subjects that Whoever shall after the Proclaiming hereof be found to have any of the said Wicked and Seditious Books or finding them do not forthwith Burn the same without shewing or reading the same shall in that Case be Reputed and taken for a Rebel and shall without delay be Executed for the Offence according to the order of Martial Law. But nothing can palliate the Arbitrariness of Queen Mary's Proclamation for the Exercising of Martial Law but that she thought her Reign a time of War and perhaps not altogether Improperly for that Hereticks have the Title of Hostes given them by Popish Masters of Ceremonies There was another reason that induced Queen Mary to use the Arbitrary Power that her Popish Predecessors did not and that is this The People of England in the days of Popery were like to the three Fools in Lipsius that being ty'd together by a twine Thread went Whining about the House and consenting that they who would unty the Knots of it should have what Money from them they pleas'd And thus were our Foolish Ancestors innodated with Papal Censures and the Priests did but Arbitrarily ask and have their rewards to Absolve them But that Queen finding that the Reformation begun had proved Physick to Cure those Idiots of their dull Stupidity she therefore supposed that the Fools who before were held by the twine Thread must then be bound to the good Behaviour with Chains In fine by these three Important Acts of Arbitrary Power the which presently occurred to my remembrance out of her Story and without my troubling my self to rake for more she gave the alarm to her Subjects newly after their Eyes had been opened and their Hands unty'd by the Reign of K. Edward that they were to expect no free Trading where there was no free Living and to hear nothing but the dying Groans of Liberty and Religion So very exact indeed is the Frame of our English Government and of the Soveraignes Power and Peoples Liberty therein that as in an Arched Building if one Stone be removed from it the whole is immediately endanger'd and nothing could probably have saved it from ruin but the Restoration of our Law as well as Gospel by such a Reign as Queen Elizabeths who was so far from the exercise of Arbitrary Power on her good Subjects and Friends that she did it not on the worst nor on her Enemies One would have thought that after the many attempts against her Life and after the forementioned threatning Letter of Campians which notifies that the Iesuits had entred into a Covenant or Association to Kill Heretical Princes c. that she might have been provoked to have declared that Order by a Proclamation to be Hostes a thing that she or any Protestant Crown'd Heads might do without Violating the Laws of Nations in reference to those Forraign Princes that were their Allies and to whom any of that Order were Subjects a thing not only Consonant to the jus gentium but to our Lex terrae as it was resolv'd in Cambden's Elizabeth by the Lord Chief Justice Catelin who being ask'd Whither the Subjects of another Prince Confederate with the Queen might be held for the Queens Enemies Answer'd That they might and that the Queen of England might make War with any Duke of France and yet in the mean time hold Peace with the French King and a thing that if done would have tended more to their Extermination out of this or any Country perhaps then all other Laws against them in regard that it would have more effectually bereav'd them of the benefit of Correspondence Aids and Assistance from thence all Subjects being every where by the Law rendred Traytors who Correspond with or give Aid and Assistance to declared Enemies Nor would the term of Hostes bestow'd on such be more then a Retaliation and to this purpose Mariana makes the people authoriz'd to Proclaime a King upon occasion to be a Publick Enemy and so likewise Lessius even in his Book de Iustitiâ jure saith That a Tyrant is to be declared an Enemy by the Common-welth and thus Parsons alias Doleman in his Book of the Succession Part 2. Cap. 4. terms an Evil King an Armed Enemy The term I mention'd before of inimicus homo is certainly proper enough for those that sow such Tares in the World as the Iesuites do and make not only Lollards of ordinary Hereticks but as the Commenter on the Epitome of Confessions otherwise the 7 th Book of Decretals tells us in Commendation of all the Iesuits in these words Tyrannos aggrediuntur lolium ab agro Dominico evellunt I shall here observe how in the year 1596. the Hollanders and others of the States of the Vnited Provinces did Publish an Edict That none of the Bloudy Sect of the Jesuits or any that gives himself to Study at this time among the Professors of that Sect whether he be Bâ—rn in any of the Provinces that are Confederate or be a Forraigner crept secretly into the same Province should longer remain there then the time prescribed under the pain of being accounted and kill'd for an Enemy But that Magnanimous Queen did as much think it Inglorious for her to employ her Anger in such a Proclamation on such firy pedants as I believe our potent Neighbouring Monarch whose Name will look as great in all â—uture Story for mighty dilligence and for exact prudence in the Conduct of his Affairs of State as for the Success of his Arms would to Honour with the Title of Enemies such little great talkers who here in the Coffee-Houses Arraign his Political Measures And the truth is as it is not worthy the Grandeur of Princes who are Heavens Vice-gerents to squander away its thunder in experiments on Shrubs and Mushrooms or on slight grounds to call any of slight mankind and who are of no Name by that dreadful one
in that Quarter to put an end to that which begins in Nomine Domini and that they will not be the rather willing so to do in regard that the North made the World feel the Malignity of both those Proverbs by its old well-meant charity to the Bishops of Rome And since in the days of Popery here in Harry the 8th's time it did pass in Rem Iudicatam that the Pope had no more power over us by the Scripture then any other forrain Bishop it cannot now but seem ridiculous to scruple whether he can thence claim more authority here than any other forrain Prince and he who was exploded here formerly when the Critical Spectators were not so many for having ill acted the part of a King on our stage of the World would be thought mad for personating one after the Play is over Thus too in a less people World Bartolus the famous Lawyer pronounced it to be Haeresie to deny the German Emperor to be King of the Vniverse the which any one would now account Madness to affirm And if in France hundreds of Years ago its Monarch greeted the Pope with the terms of fatuus amens for claiming a Supremacy in Temporals there 't is impossible he can be otherwise thought there now prosecuting a claim to Supremacy in things Ecclesiastic for even his pretensions to that the Clergy of France have damned in their Declaration by setting a General Council above him and which Declaration the great Monarch hath there ratify'd by a perpetual and irrevocable Edict And 't is but with a Consonancy to the nature of things that the Papal Infallibility should be concluded against in that Declaration and since as the Author of the Policy of the Clergy of France relates the Roman Catholick Church there doth so much swarm with New Phil sophers there call'd Cartesians and Gassendists whose new Philosophy has been there by Zealous Catholics observ'd to have ruin'd the mystery of the Real Presence for so the words are in that Book 't is no wonder if the growth of the Messieurs les scavants encreasing with the Populacy of that Realm makes any man's belief of his infallibility pass for a degree of madness accordingly as Mr. Hobbes Chap. 8. Of Man well observes that excessive opinion of a man 's own self for Divine Inspiration and Wisdome becomes distraction and giddiness and this probably may be the final result there of the late fermentation about the Regalia c. and the Pope be tacitly thought so as aforesaid and his Power there insensibly evaporate and without any visible distrubance given to it by the ratio ultima Regum for no prudent person would declaim reproachfully against any of a quiet Phrensy or molest and vex such a one tho living near him and would much less project the disgrace or mischief of such an one living at a great distance tho he should assume to himself bigger Titles than ever the Kings of India or Persia did and call himself Son of the Sun or Lord of the Sea and Land or like some of the Roman Emperors challenge Divinity or be styled Dominus Deus noster Papa And thus may the Pope quietly go on longer to call himself Monarch of the World without being call'd Names for it in France just as the Dukes of Savoy style themselves Kings of Cyprus without any gainsaying from the Turk who likewise did not menace the Pope for causing the Brother of the Vice-Roy of Naples to be in Rome proclaim'd King of Ierusalem nor when that Gentleman in Requital of that favour from his Holiness caused the Pope to be in Naples proclaimed Caliph of Bandas was the Mogul aggrieved thereby And thus probably too will the Enthusiast's who assert a Millennium or Universal Reign of Christ on earth with that quietness and gentleness that the ancient Fathers before the first Nicene Council did pass off the Stage of the World but it will seem ridiculous not to bind such Fifth Monarchy Men in Chains as Mad-men who have in England and Germany endeavoured to biâ—d Kings so and Nobles with Fetters of Iron and who would again make Convulsions in the State by the Diseases of their minds as once Mahomet's Epileptic Fits shook the World and who by promising us a new Heaven and a new Earth would confound the old and only give us a new Hell broke loose But the World will not now be blunder'd into Confusion by such wild Reformers In the Book of the Apocalypse of which Bodin tells us in his Methodus ad facilem Historiarum Cognitionem that Calvin's Opinion being ask'd he answer'd Se penitùs ignorare quid velit tam obscurus scriptor it must be confessed that the Majesty of the Style is agreeable to that of the rest of the holy Text and that the predictions of the future State of the Church and of its splendor in the World are not grosso modo utter'd or attended with any irregularity but on the contrary that God appears there as the God of Order and applying all the exactness of proportion and number and its very fractions to the great things foretold After one Verse hath accounted the number of the Beast to be 666 the next mentions St. Iohn's Vision of a Lamb standing on Mount Sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand The Bodies of the Witnesses are mentioned to be unburied three days and an half The 4 Angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour and a day and a Month and a Year for to sâ—ay the third part of Men. The Woman was to be in the Wilderness 1260 days and to be nourished there for a time and times and half a time Blood came out of the Wine-Press by the space of 1600 Furlongs There were Seal'd of all the Tribes of Israel 144000. And in the State of Babylon mentioned in Cap. 18th where the voice from Heaven is heard Come out of her my People though all the various Sects of Religion that thrust one another into Babylon will admit of no proportion in their revenge yet it is there say'd Reward her even as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the Cup which she hath filled fill to her double But near the end of that Book where the great Scene of The New Heaven and the New Earth opens and the Vision of the New Ierusalem is described a Golden Rod was given the Angel to measure the City and the Measures thereof are particularized And tho I pretend not to understand the meaning of any of these obscure passages of Scripture yet one thing seems to me there as Conspicuous as the Meridian Light namely That as the Divine Providence did found the Old World in Number Weight and Measure so it likewise will the foretold New One. The exactness of the Numbers described by St. Iohn in that Prophetick Book written in the Island of Pathmos hath assured us that his imagination was much above the Vapors that
Oxford Antiquities said to be Dr. Bate the late Eminent Physitian in p. 49 estimates That the Revenues of King Queen Bishops Deans and Chapters and Delinquents in the hands of those Vsurpers were almost one Moiety of the Kingdom besides many rich Offices c and as to the multiplicity of Offices then a very ingenious Pamphlet written in those days call'd the City Alarum with a Treatise of the Excise mentions in p. 33. That 't was easie to demonstrate that more then 200,000 l. per Annum was then consumed by superfluous Officers which by the way sufficiently shews the ill Managery of the publick Treasure in those days and tho I have put the rate of the Heirs of such above that of common Inexperts yet I am not without hopes that possibly some what like a sort of Experience that many of those Heirs have from the latest Histories and Traditional Accounts had of the breath of the People having blown away that mighty Ballance of Land out of the hands of the unjust Possâ—ssors and all their Models of Government built thereon and of many of their Ancestors who had by their Swords acquired ample shares of the Spoyles of the Crown and Church and Cavaliers Estates growing ashamed of their unjust Victories and the Yoke they have brought upon themselves and the Kingdom and affraid of their Estates and Liberties not being ensureable under a fluctuating Military Oligarchy thought it the best of their Game to aspire with their All to the feet of their Lawful Soveraign and to be his Restorers without Capitulation may incline a considerable part of such and who are not desperate in their Fortunes and have perhaps inherited the Blessiing of their Ancestors penitence by their Peaceable Morals to make such an exception in this case as may confirm the Rule and make them according to the expression before used become sound parts of the State. Another momentous thing cannot but be obvious to the thoughts of the Considerate among them and all Orders or Parties of men here that if the devesting the unjust Proprietors of about half the Land of England by the necessary Course of the Law at the Kings Restoration did in making so many persons and their dependants Paupers and useless in the improvement of the Land and many to be Nusances in it as troublesome Sollicitors and Barrettors and many likewise to withdraw to our Forraign Plantations and to our insula Sanctorum call'd Ireland unavoidably make the price of our Land sink to the proportion it hath since done that if any Sons of Belial and disloyal persons should be ever able by a new Commotion to introduce the old Confusions among us and dispossess the Proprietors of about half our Land as formerly that England it self would turn Ireland and our Land perhaps be valuable but at ten years purchase And tho the Experts now in being among us are comparatively few yet is the work of the Loyal part of them so easie to demonstrate to their Vicinage every where the dreadful inconvenience of essaying to mend the World by War that one Harvy could not more easily among the judicious propagate a general Notion of the Circulation of the Blood then may a thousand of these shew to Millions of others the impious folly of Blood guiltiness again incircling our Land and especially when all our Blood and our Treasure is necessary to be preserved for the Defence of the Realm in a Conjuncture that hath put Christendom in procinctu and therefore 't is but according to the Course of Nature that in such a season the generality of Peoples minds here should manifest such an Abhorrence of both the Irish and English in 41 and that the Religion-Trade which had us at its feet being now at ours if it should again struggle to get uppermost as formerly is to expect from so many to find the salute of the rising blow And as I love to think of these things without asperity or offering the least Violence to the Sacredness of the great Established Amnesty so do I observe the same inclination to be very prevalent among the weightier persons of the several Parties The smalness of the Number of Persons now living that wanted that Amnesty makes men generally concur in not esteeming it taâ—ti to wish it broken but tho most of our former Empirical State-Physicians are covered with Earth their Errors are not and People seem generally sensible that both the present and in likelyhood the future State of England will not allow of Political Physicians trying more Experiments on us and particularly the former churlish ones that succeeded ill and especially in a Conjuncture when nature is by necessity leading us to a Convalescence As in Boccalines Politick Touch-stone Where the Monarchy of Spain is represented throwing her Physician out of the Window and Apollo desiring to know the Cause of it she told him how about 40 years ago she asking Counsel of her Physician he prescribed her a tedious and chargeable Purge of divers Oyls of Holy Leagues of Insurrections of People of Rebellions of Cauteries and other very painful Medicines that had wasted and weakened her spirits and that he prescribing just such another Purge as before was therefore thrown out at Window so would such Purges and such Purgers as we were troubled with forty years ago be here deservedly dealt with now How ridiculous will any Demagogue now appear that should in an English Parliament harangue it against supplying the King in such a manner as Sir Iohn Elliot and Mr. Pym did 4 to Caroli who then as Rushworth's Collections tells us moved in the House of Commons not to yield the King Tunnage and Poundage till they had first settled Religion touching the Points of Ariminianism They might as well have moved that the King might have no Money till they had found out the Longitude and likewise discovered the Quadrature of the Circle and they by that motion would have ensured to him the name of Pochi-Dinari that my Lord Herbert in his Harry the 8 th says was given to Maximilian the Emperor for his famed want of Money But that wantonness of Popularity did shew the worse in those two great Demagogues of their Age for the ingratitude it carried with it they moving so in the House of Commons as they did so soon after the great Royal Concessions as to the Petition of Right and might well excuse the Great Earl of Strafford's then quitting their Company But I shall here observe to your Lordship that after the discovery of the Gun-powder Treason viz. 3 Iacobi the Parliament gave him three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths of the Layety and four Subsidies of the Clergy all which by estimation amounted to 453000 l. and it was but just in them then so to supply the Crown after the detection of that Conspiracy because it appeared by several Examinations That if it had taken effect an Association of Forraign Roman Catholick Princes by a Solemn Oath
under the Gospel and tho no Presbyterians that I know of were here Arraigned for any design to fire our Metropolis and some Fanatical Fifth-Monarchy men only were Arraigned Convicted and Executed for such a design and whose Names I think might on that account have been properly enough engraven on the City Monument yet of the out-â—age of our Presbyterians having actually fired the Church and State with an intestine War the whole Kingdom is a Monument and where now their Principles are so seen and seen through that I believe any other such inhumane Ecclesiasticks as many of our former Presbyterians were will be ashamed to appear among us Their Assembly is adjourned to the Grave and no Divines will I believe in any future Course of time find the People of England willing to have 4 s. a day the wages of each in the Parliaments Synod allowed to them for endeavouring to bring our Consciences under the Mosaic Pedagogy and the noise of the World from Hammers of Hereticks either in any Presbyterian Synod in England or in any new Popish General Council beyond Sea will I believe be utterly over And tho perhaps the Centum gravamina did heretofore cause the last pretended General Council to be called I mean the Famous Tridentine one I may looking on the Course of Nature conclude that there will never be any General Council more and that not only for that the Pope hath been hors de page since the breaking up that of Trent but because that having been Revera a Council of Pensioners and having stood the Papacy for Pensions in 3000 Crowns a Month i. e. in 750 l. Sterling and having put the Popes to that Charge during its sitting for 18 years as it is easie to Calculate how much in pounds Sterling that Council cost the Popes in all so it is as easie to foresee that if the Pope should have occasion for the fellow to that Council he would not have that quantity of Money to spare for the same There is another thing that I may from the Course of Nature fortel much quiet to my Prince and happiness to my Country by and that is the extermination of all Mercenary Loyalty and of an inglorious Loyalty-Trade as well as of a Religion-Trade and mens not thinking they are to have Offices or Donatives for not being Villains or that by Monopolizing to themselves the name of the Loyal they should expect therefore a lucrative Monopoly the which would stain their Loyalty indeed and make it as null and void as any Monopoly for the word Loyal being used for Lawful he is not homo legalis in one sense who is bought to be just The apparent vast number of the Kings Subjects rendring them too many to hope all for largesses and the too great probability of the Future State of England according to my Notion requiring for the support and defence of the Government all that to be employed in order thereunto what giving Parliaments can well give will make People ashamed to cling to the Royal-Oak like Ivy and by preying on its vigour make it the less able to give shelter by its branches I was overjoyed with a piece of News a Gentleman sent me namely that he discoursing once at dinner with the Lord Hide the first Commissioner of the Treasury concerning the Insolence of some mens expecting to be rewarded by the King for not doing mischief to his Government or Revenue his Lordship occasionally mentioned somewhat to this effect viz. that the Trade of â—â—ch men was now broke there will now be no more taking off of men as the word was and if by his Lordship's Advice to his Great Master the resolving against taking off of men by Pensions and Rewards was settled as a new Fundamental Rule in the English Politicks as I am informed it was I shall think his Lordship deserves to find an everlasting Triumph in the History of the Age and to be more honoured by England than if as Commander of an Army he had vanquished very many Thousands of its Enemies for that the taking off of Hydra's Heads by Gifts as was beforementioned would be an endless work and the ill effects thereof inclusive of so much Hostility to the publick would be innumerable But God be thanked the King by the Political Conduct of this his Minister is now made Victorious over all those Enemies and if I had heard that any near his Majesty had moved for a day of Thanksgiving by reason hereof I should not have wondered at it the thing being of so great importance to England And no doubt but the shame of any mens diminishing the Royal Revenue by begging from the Crown will be the greater when the necessary improvement of our Land by our numerous People shall have enriched as many as deserve to be so and when to all who are industrious there will every where be multiplex praeda in medio posita and the effects of diligence fill all hands with profit and eyes with pleasure This is one kind of a New Heaven and a New Earth that perhaps we may shortly see in old England and when men shall by enquiries about Religion design only lucriferous experiments and not luciferous as my Lord Bacon's Phrase is and men shall improve their fortunes by the improvement and culture of the Earth and to this effect we find the Prophecies of Prosperity to the Iews in the old Testament expressed by the Trees yielding their fruit and the Earth their encrease the Seed shall be prosperous the Vine shall give her Fruit and the Ground shall give her encrease the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyl c. And they who are now by seducers that augment wild fears and jealousies directed to look up for strange Prodigies to the Sky will need no Monitors to behold with joy the unusual fruitfulness of the cultivated Earth and therefore I think that one Philosopher looking on the Future State of England may well say to another Aspice venturo laetentur ut omnia saeclo Then shall men on the account of Profit turn their Swords to Plough-shares and the Religion-Trading false Prophet baffled by fate shall then say as 't is in Zachary Non sunt Propheta agricola sum I do not wonder at some mens menacing our English World with ill news from Fate It is no irrational thing to suppose that the false Prophets in all ages did often find it turn to their private account to foretel evil rather than good to Kingdoms for that many might hope to mend their fortunes by the publick ruines and would therefore be well pleased with the Predictors of ill to the publick and would celebrate the Predicters and therefore it was not without cunning contrived that the prolation of Events by the ancient Oracles should be in a double sense sometimes because it might then be a moot point whether the Party of those that desired the quiet or disorder of great Bodies of People was