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A49770	The interest of Ireland in its trade and wealth stated in two parts first part observes and discovers the causes of Irelands, not more increasing in trade and wealth from the first conquest till now : second part proposeth expedients to remedy all its mercanture maladies, and other wealth-wasting enormities, by which it is kept poor and low : both mix'd with some observations on the politicks of government, relating to the incouragement of trade and increse of wealth : with some reflections on principles of religion, as it relates to the premisses / by Richard Lawrence ...	Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1682 (1682)	Wing L680A; ESTC R11185	194,038	492

saith my Author the Emperor was scarce out of Rome Gates before his Holiness perjur'd himself Ursin 13. 2. The like after Clement the second and the Romans solemnly took Oath never to presume to meddle with the Election of a Roman Bishop without express Commission first obtained from the Emperor this honest Pope was presently poysoned and Gregory the seventh that mischievous monster saith my Author after he had poysoned six Popes decreed upon pain of Excommunication all that should deny he had not only power in Heaven to bind and loose but Jurisdiction on Earth to take away and give Empires Kingdoms c. to whom he pleased Urs p 24. which he exercised in the most insolent and vile manner over the Emperor Henry the fourth Ursin p. 28. Now if this be the case of Christian Princes that no hereditary Title no legal Election no publick Leagues or Covenants no humble Submission nor strength of Arms can secure them from Deposing nor their loyal Subjects from Massacres and Assassinations what miserable Servitude are they reduced unto They dare not practice the dictates of their own Reason in prosecuting the Interest of their States they dare not correct or punish their rebellious Subjects for the highest Insolences and Contumacy as in the case of Anselm and Thomas Becket they dare not indulge their most loyal Subjects in their dissent from the Papacy in the smallest point that toucheth their Supremacy nor protect them from the highest Exactions the Pope and his Clergy shall think fit to impose on them as in the case of Henry the fourth of France and our King John they are in the worst condition of Vice-Roys having no Standard or fixed Rule to govern by but the arbitrary contingent Will and Pleasure of the Pope which is as variable as the Weather vide Platina Now is it to be imagined that any Soveraign free Prince in the world not infatuated will chuse to dwell in this house of bondage except they who like Error better than Truth human Tradition better than divine Institution and scandalous Sins better than holy Life If any shall alledge the Protestants are full of Divisions and Confusions it is manifest Part 2. Chap. 2. that the Papists have far more Divisions and different Opinions amongst them in matters more momentous their Harmony is only in their Errors Superstitions and Immoralities vide Dr. Hornebeck p. 172. King James's Monitary Epistle And would any man in his wits turn Papist for the sake of so cursed an Union vide Platina on the Life of Stephen the sixth and Bishop Hall his Book call'd the Peace of Rome They were esteemed Rebels againgst God Sons of Belial that did but talk of chusing a Captain to return to Egypt to the house of Bondage it was for that Sin all their Carcasses fell in the Wilderness Numbers chap. 14. The Israelites had a Law that the Servant who so undervalued his Liberty in the year of Jubilee as to chuse bondage his Ear should be bored at the Door-posts and to continue a slave for ever but Popish slavery is worse than Israelitish bondage theirs was only corporeal but this is not only corporeal but spiritual we must believe against all dictates of common Reason nay against our Senses their corporeal presence legions of lying Miracles their Infallibility c. or be damned and burnt for Hereticks Subjects must either be Rebels at home or Hereticks at Rome if his Holiness see cause to quarrel with their lawful Princes Nay we must believe all their Blasphemy against God is Piety and all their Treason against Kings and Princes to be Loyalty or be perverse Hereticks 1. Their Blasphemy against God when they play the Devils for Gods sake by pretending Gods Commission and designing his Glory by all their inhuman barbarous Acts although they thereby violate all solemn Oaths and Leagues c. it is alledged to be for Gods Glory as in the bloody Parisian Massacre c. never did Prince make and break so many solemn Oaths Imprecations and Royal Grants to trepan his Subjects into the pit of destruction as Charles the ninth of France for Gods Glory That most barbarous of Murderers the Duke of Guise after by his Order the brave Admirals dead Body was thrown out of the Window into the street he kick'd and trampled on it crying out to his Fellow Blood-hounds this is he a blessed beginning let us now go on in the name of God in which name they before morning saith my Author sack'd and plundered 4000 Houses barbarously murderded above five hundred Lords and persons of Quality and ten thousand of inferiour rank no Age Sex nor Quality not the innocent sucking Infant nor decrepacy of old age found mercy until above 100000 innocent Souls were destroyed in France and this perpetrated in the name of God and for his Glory and so agreed unto by the Council of Trent with Spain and France c. in the Confederacy to extirpate all the Protestants in the world within their power stil'd the Holy League in pursuance of which not only France but Piedmont Bohemiah and Belgia c. tasted of the same bitter cup yet when the news of this inhumane barbarous Massacre came to Rome his Holiness and their Eminencies in their Pontificalibusses march'd in procession to their great Church and caused Te Deum to be sung and all expressions of Popish Devotions to be express'd as a Thanksgiving to the most merciful God for this most unmerciful barbarous work and a Jubilee proclaimed in honour of it It s only perfect Coppy we read of ever acted on the stage of the world was the Irish Massacre and that was done in the name of God and for his Glory vide the Popes Letters to O Neal October 18. 1642. and to the Clergy and Nobles of Ireland dated at Rome Febr. 1. 1642. and in the Popes Bull dated May 25. 1643. signed M. A. Miraldus In which after observing the holy Zeal of their pious Ancestors to root out Heresie and propagate the Catholick Faith proceeds to his Benediction In the name of the merciful God and the blessed Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul is granted a full and plenary Indulgence and absolute remission of all their Sins Trespasses Transgressions Crimes and Delinquences how heinous and atrocious soever I instance in these two Presidents as being in our sight and memories but if you please to read the Popes Bulls and Excommunications c. against any Prince or State they are all in the name and for the Glory of God And if their Piety and Vertue consist in these barbarous inhumane Treasons and Massacres what shall we think of their Vice and Wickedness 2. As their Blasphemy against God must be believed for Piety so their most horrid Treasons against Princes c. must be esteemed Loyalty in which multitudes of instances might be given out of the Histories of other Countries But we need not go far from home to find them for all their Rebellions

such a dread of the like Miseries that might be perpetrated in England by them moved the Parliament to desire of the King the Ordering the Militia on pretence for the better security of the Nation against Papists and speedier Suppression of the Irish Rebellion upon which Head arose that woful Breach on which that unnatural War with all its dismal consequences succeeded from that time began the rude Tumults of London Apprentices c. and all other misbehaviour as you may read in Scobels Collections of that years Transactions And on that occasion succeeded that Petition and large Remonstrance from the Parliament presented to the King December 14. 1641. which laid the foundation of all our succeeding Miseries so that all Englands Scotlands and Irelands Troubles since Henry the eighth shak'd off the Papal Yoke have arose either from the Papists Struggles to recover their tyrannical Dominion over these Kingdoms or the Divisions they have made amongst Protestants by their wily sleights And what their Plots have been against the Life of Charles the second and the Peace of England of late we are wearied with reading the Discoveries and Evidences in Print I shall only insert their Oath of Secresie which will serve for an Epitome of the whole Plot at least the Design of it and indeed it is the truest Explanation of all their former Oaths of Confederacy extant In this the Monks Hood is thrown by of defending and maintaining His Majesties just Rights c. They here clearly renounce and disown any Allegiance and do swear to help his Holiness's Agents c. to extirpate and root out and destroy the said pretended King of England c. The Oath of Secrecy given by William Rushton to me Robert Bolron February 2. 1676. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen I Robert Bolron being in the presence of Almighty God the blessed Mary ever Virgin the blessed Michael the Arch-Angel the blessed St. John Baptist the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all the Saints in Heaven and to you my Ghostly Father do declare and in my heart believe the Pope Christs Vicar General to be the true and only Head of Christs Churh here on Earth and that by vertue of the Keys of Binding and Loosing given his Holiness by our Saviour Christ he hath Power to depose all Heretical Kings and Princes and cause them to be killed Therefore to the utmost of my power I will defend this Doctrine and his Holinesses Rights against all Usurpers whatever especially against the now pretended King of England in regard that he hath broke his Vows with his Holinesses Agents beyond Seas and not performed his Promises in bringing into England the holy Roman Catholick Religion I do renounce and disown any Allegiance as due to the said pretended King of England or Obedience to any of his inferour Officers and Magistrates but do believe the Protestant Doctrine to be Heretical and Damnable and that all are damn'd which do not forsake the same and to the best of my power will help his Holinesses Agents here in England to extirpate and root out the said Protestant Doctrine and to destroy the said pretended King of England and all such of his Subjects as will not adhere to the holy See of Rome and the Religion there professed I further do promise and declare that I will keep secret and private and not divulge directly or indirectly by Word Writing or Circumstance whatever shall be proposed given in charge or discovered to me by you my Ghostly Father or any other engaged in the promoting of this pious and holy Design and that I will be active and not desist from the carrying of it on and that no hopes of Rewards Threats or Punishments shall make me discover the rest concerned in so pious a Work and if discovered shall never confess any Accessaries with my self concerned in this Design All which I do swear by the blessed Trinity and by the blessed Sacrament which I now purpose to receive to perform and on my part to keep inviolable and do call all the Angels and Saints in Heaven to witness my real intention to keep this Oath In testimony whereof I do receive this most holy and blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist By this Oath it is evident Popelings are no Changelings Hildebrands Principles commencing an Dom. 606. are here repeated in their full strength above a thousand years after and why these treasonable Plots and Principles were not since the time of this Oath effectually perpetrated is so notoriously manifest in the multitudes of Prints published on that occasion it evidenceth it was not for want of good will on their parts And although God hath gratiously and wonderfully preserved the precious Life of the King and in him the Lives of us all that value our Religion Yet have these Incendiaries not lost their labour but have accomplished that which is next to cutting all our Throats viz. the fomenting a Misunderstanding and Jealousie betwixt the most indulgent and compassionate Prince and his faithful and loyal Subjects A doleful consideration it is to all serious loyal Hearts to observe a Prince so lately received with all expressible passions of Joy not only by those that expected Gain and Advancement but by others that knew they should suffer Loss as to their private Fortunes yet were so weary of their past and then present Confusion and so well satisfied in the Kings Gratious Declarations and Intentions they could and did say as Mephibosheth to David For as much as our Lord the King is come again in peace let Zibah take all let Royalists but not Papists take our Crown and Bishops Lands our Regiments and Troops c. our Hearts shall joyn with our Hands to lift the King into his Throne which we defie all other Hands to do without us so England c. may be once more settled And with what mutual content both King and People have enjoyed each other till the very day this last Hell-hatch'd Plot broke out is notorious to all Europe as well as Great Britain and Ireland till then we heard of no Court nor Country Parties no Whiggs nor Tories c. but in Irelands Boggs c. no Petitioners Abhorrers or Addressers but what the King was pleased with no executing penal Laws on Dissenters but on the contrary Subjects entirely and universally endeared to a Prince in his own nature compounded of of Tenderness and Sympathy pleading with Parliaments against penal Statutes and proposing to their Consideration that some Provision might be made to enable him to dispence with such Protestants who through misguided Conscience could not conform to the Ceremonies Discipline c. of the Church vid. Speeches Octob. 26. 1662. and again Mar. 6. 1678. His Majesty did not only press the House but also commanded the Lord Chancellor to commend to their consideration not only what might tend to preserve the Protestant Religion in general but for an

Catastrophy of these Firebrands and their Prosylites were miserably extinguished their Hypocrisie and Covetousness having rendred them monstrously odious to the Japonians c. vid. Bernh Var. Relig. in Reg. Japon ch 11. That as their predecessors the old Pharisees compassed Sea and Land to make Proselytes c. these modern Pharisees have trod miles to their steps to convert alias to destroy Nations and Countries and of all the Countries in the world esteemed by them heretical England with its Teritories is the mark they have for this hundred years past and at this day do most level their poysoned Arrows against therefore of all the Protestants in the world the English or at least the Irish Protestant is not to be blamed for manifesting a dread of the influence of Jesuited Papists the burnt Child dreads the fire And it being the Jesuits declared Opinion the Catholick Religion is not to be recovered in England c. by Disputing or Writing but with an Army and with Fire and Sword vid. Prynnes Compl. Hist Part 1. pag. 449 450. Idem in Preface to Vind. of Fund Part 1. I am of the same Opinion in that point but were I of their Principle and design'd to make one trial more of this supposed infallible expedient I would advise the next Consult to be sure the Army be strong enough and the Fire big enough for if they miss the next attempt it is twenty to one but the exasperated English Hereticks will reckon with them for old scores and endeavour more effectually to secure themselves against new Massacres vide Part 2. ch 2. p. 83. to p. 89. and Supplement Sect. 7. SECT VI. Of their Inconsistency with the just Power and Right of Temporal Princes and States 1. THe most absolute Soveraign Monarchs in the Christian world much more inferiour Princes c. have been greater slaves since the Popes usurped Supremacy than ever we read any conquered or tributary Prince c. have been to the Great Turk c. Vide Ursinus's Compendium of the Lives of the Emperors and then consider whether the Turks ever dealt with their Vassals after Submission as their Holinesses have done with their lawful Soveraigns who the Laws of God and Man enjoyns Subjection too Did he ever insultingly tread on their Necks upon Submission as Alexander the third on Frederick the first or kick their Crowns off their Heads with his Feet as Celestin the third did to the Emperor Henry the sixth or suffer them to stand with their tender Ladies and Children in a manner naked bare-foot and bare-leg'd waiting to acknowledg their Vassalage in Frost and Snow or did he ever cause them to be whip'd like Vagabonds as he did our Henry the second till the Blood ran down for restraining the Insolency of their own Subjects No. Multitudes of instances might be given of this kind wherein the Antichristian Pope hath outdone the Antichristian Turk in barbarous insultings over Princes c. And this tyrannical slavery exercised against all legal pretence to Royal Dignities 1. No hereditary Title though derived from the most Royal and antient Descents could secure their Claim until confirmed by the Pope 1. The Line of Constantine the Great after three hundred years Regency rejected by the Pope and Phocus of base birth and vile conditions set up for granting Rome the Supremacy Grimstones State of the Empire 594. 2. In the year 800. the Line of the Grecian Emperors rejected and Charlemaine set up by Leo the third Grimstone fol. 596. from which time you may read in Ursinus the abstract of the frequent Treacheries of the successive Popes sometimes instigating Sons to rebel against their Fathers c. labouring to extinguish all lineal Descent and after suppressing due Elections to usurp the sole power of creating and deposing Emperors c. at their will and pleasure to whom I shall refer you 2. No legal Election nor general free choice of inferiour Princes and States though of never so long prescription could fix a Crown on their Heads till set on by the Pope as in the case of Frederick Barbarossa Ursin p. 47. his predecessor Conrade the third p. 43. so Lodowick of Bavaria p. 112. the like that brave Prince Charles the fifth and his Successor Ferdinand c. vid. Urs 141. to 177. Fred. the second p. 102. 3. No Concession or submission to the Popes Sentences could obtain Absolution longer than his Holiness could pick the least hole in their Coats instance the Emperor Henry the fourth so the Emperor of Greece Constantine the seventh being in distress consented to the worshipping of Images c. yet soon after the Pope sets up Charles the Great as Emperor of the West after him the Emperor John Paleologus to make the Pope his Friend when distress'd by the Turk owns the Popes Supremacy in the Council of Florence 1439. yet he assisted his Enemies and obstructed his Aids to the utter ruine of the Greek Empire and Eastern Churches Henry the fourth of France turns Papist to please the Pope and extends all possible respect to the Jesuits to preserve his Life from Assassination revoked all Edicts made for their Banishment by his Predecessor pull'd down the Pillar erected in memory of their barbarous Assassination of Henry the third and other treacherous Villanies yet after all was stab'd in the Heart by Raviliac because he tolerated two Religions in which Christs words were verefied He that will save his life shall lose it but he that will lose his life for my sake shall find it 4. No strength of Arms nor strong holds could ever secure them from the Popes vengeance when once he resolv'd to rid the world of them as is evident in Henry the third of France stab'd by a Fryar in the midst of his mighty Army besieging Paris though a great Persecutor of the Hugonites and this after the good Emperor Rodolph the second told him there was no greater sin than to force mens Consciences supposing thereby to win Heaven did oftentimes lose what they possess'd on Earth French Hist p. 318. which when dying he declared to his Nobles that Piety is a duty of man to God over which worldly force hath no power pag. 319. so that most warlike Prince Henry the fourth after all his Conquest and his changing his Religion to preserve his Life was stab'd in the midst of his warlike Captains by that wicked Regicide Raviliac read Grimstones State of the Empire c. you may find many other instances 5. No Articles for Peace or publick League will secure them they have always snap'd like Sampsons new Cords and green Wit hs for as there is no Faith to be kept with Hereticks so not with Catholiks if they stood in the way of the Popes Interest nay Humour as multitudes of presidents might be given even to fill a large History I can but give hints 1. John the thirteenth perfidiously broke his Oath solemnly given on the Body of St. Peter to Otho the Great