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A26001	Some generall observations upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book, and way of wrighting with a vindication of St. Ignatius Loyola, and his followers the Iesuits, from the foul aspersions he has lately cast upon them, in his discourse concerning the idolatry, &c. : in four letters, written to A.B.	Ashby, Richard, 1614-1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing A3942; ESTC R7040	65,474	73

by heart but this engin faild them for to their great shame and confusion it was found upon due examination that Ravillac knew not a word of Latin in which the book is written nor so much as Mariana's name And soon after the Queen Regent with the Princes and counsel in the Kings name issued out a Decree which cleared the Jesuits from all suspicion of having had any thing to do in that wicked Fact And because four dayes before the Parliament had condemned Cardinal Bellarmins book de potestate summi Pontificis in temporalibus in the same decree they revoked and annulled that Act. 12. His last fling at the Jesuits practise is to make Father Henry Garnet guilty of the Gunpowder Treason But it is manifest that mild man detested from his very heart all such bloody practises and laboured all he could to prevent them by suing to Rome for an excommunication against all those that should use any violent proceedings upon the account of Religion as is to be seen more at large in the History of the English Province Mar. l. 7. an 27. The main thing objected against him was his concealing the plot but you must know all the knowledge he had of it was in the Sacrament of Confession and all he could do there was to exhort and conjure his penitent to terrifie the Plotters from so wicked an attempt and he was not at all wanting in this point of duty but for revealing the plot it was more than he could do for Protestants must give us leave to beleive what all Catholick Princes and States allow to be of no prejudice but rather an advantage to their safety that the Sacred Seal of Confession is inviolable nor is this only the Jesuits doctrine but the known opinion of all Catholick Divines there is not that Priest amongst us that will not rather chuse to dye than reveal a Confession and if they dye for it Protestants must not think it strange that we honour them This was Father Garnets case who was condemned for not revealing Confessions and for being a Priest and Jesuit No wonder then if St. Arnour saw his picture in a Catholick countrey But I dare say he never saw Guerets or Guignards as the Dr. insinuates for though they dyed innocently yet they dyed not for the Faith as Father Garnet did Let St. Arnour say what he will he never acknowledged himself guilty of the Treason that 's a meer calumny and it is something strange the Dr. should travail into France to know what passed in London All he confessed was that having an inckling of suspicion out of confession that Catesby was bruing mischief though he knew not what it was he used all his power to perswade him to be quiet and not to run himself upon desperate courses which were neither pleasing to God nor man and that finding him to his thinking resolved to follow his counsel he did not take himself obliged to give informations against him as not judgeing it the part of a christian much less of a Priest to accuse his brother of a crime whereof he verily beleived he had repented After his death it pleased God in a wonderful manner to confirme his innocency ibid. n. 34. 35. by imprinting his picture upon a husk of straw where some of his blood had light King Iames himself and some other Protestants as well as many Catholicks were witnesses of it and although much endeavour was used to find out a Painter that would undertake to make such another picture by it none could be found all concluding it was beyond the art of man to contrive such a rare peice in so narrow a compass The Baron of Hobocque who was then Embassador from the Crown of Spain offered six hundred Crowns for the straw and his testimony is yet to be seen witnessing that he saw the picture upon it though he could not say it was like Father Garnet because he had never seen him There is also extant a large narrative which one Iohn Wilkinson signed at his death who was the very man that took up the Straw at the Execution and was also present when Father Garnets picture was first discovered upon the straw 13. One thing more I cannot omit in this place that if Jesuits were such desperate King-haters as the Dr. paints them Kings would not be such sooles as to build them Colledges and trust them with the education of youth and with their own Consciences too as we see most Catholick Kings and Princes do to this very day the Emperour the Kings of France and Poland the Queen of England Queen and Prince Regent of Portugal Dutchess of Orleans though but a late convert Dukes of Bavary Newburg and many other Princes of Germany and else where It is their nearest concern to look well to their own preservation and safety and not to have dangerous Persons about them Had not the Queen Regent of Spain taken Jesuits to be honest men She would never have preferred Father Nithard her Confessour to the first Ecclesiastical dignity in all Spain She would never have made him her first Minister of State Her extraordinary and now lately her ordinary Embassador at Rome and procured for him a Cardinals Cap and his Holinesse's command and dispensation to receive it and to undertake the other honourable Employments which he laboured to decline according to the Obligation of his Vow Believe me Princes are so far from conceiving Jesuits to be Enemies to Government that they are generally of Alexander the Prince of Parma's mind that they are necessary to keep Subjects in obedience to their Governours and that one of their Colledges is as good as a strong Cittadel to keep the People in their duty Strad To. 2. l. 3. And it seems the Magistrates of Embrick in Cleaveland thought so too for not many years ago when the Protestant Governour would have turn'd them out of the City they prevail'd with him to let them stay protesting that the Jesuits had such a powerful influence into the good order of the whole Town that they neither could nor would govern it without them and with a great deal of reason for what do the Jesuits Preach to the People but first that Soveraign Princes are the Lords annointed and therefore to be respected and honoured as holy and sacred things 2. That it is a damnable Heresie to think that their power does not come from God 3. That it is God that sets the Crown upon their Heads as it was wont antiently to be represented in Pictures by a hand stretcht out holding a Crown 4. That he who resists Kings purchases to himself his own damnation as the Apostle expresses himself Rom. 13. 1. 5. That obedience is due to them not because they are vertuous or wise or indued with any other good quality but for this only that they are Soveraigns and Gods Vicegerents 6. that it is not lawful to deny them obedience much less to rebel against them although

First I briefly examin the Jesuits Principles and Practises and shew them not to be destructive to Government and that shall be my Task in this Letter In the next I will make it appear that they are neither Factious nor Enemies to Bishops and then I will also remove a libellous story of the Jesuits way of converting China I confess I do not admire their modesty for not appearing all this while in defence of their Order for the violence of their Enemies is come to such a height there 's no dissembling it Their patience may be very laudable in other occasions but not when the reputation of their institute lies at stake Methinks they should reflect upon the Counsel which his Majesty's Grandfather Henry 4. that wise King gave the French Jesuits after he had studied them well Fathers said he make but your selves known for no body that knows the Society can speak ill of it I know they cannot flatter themselves so much as to think they can with their writings stop the wide mouths of envy and malice yet may they so far vindicate the Society that Sober Persons will see they are wronged and happily some Protestants upon better information may grow to be of our great Chancellour of England Sir Francis Bacons opinion who Bacon advancement of Learning said of the Jesuits that when he considered their pains and industry in advancing Learning and bringing up Youth that of Agesilaus came to his mind talis cum sis utinam noster esses By these few Sheets which have rob'd me only of some spare hours you may see how easily it were for a good Pen to justifie the Jesuits in a Cause where innocency pleads for them 3. For methods sake I begin with the Jesuits Principles and then proceed to their practises In both charges I promise to dissemble nothing which the Dr. has objected if it any way concern the Jesuits but make bold to wave some impertinent matters which he intermixes as that of the Irish Remonstrance Pope's proceedings c. 4. The first principle which he fastens upon the Jesuits as destructive to government is that civil power is so originally in the people that they may in some cases alter the form of government if they find it necessary for the good and preservation of the common-wealth This principle whatsoever truth it may have in speculation is by no means to be preached to the people who are apt enough of themselves to stretch cases and pick quarrels with their best Governours yet was it taught many ages before the Jesuites were so much a thought of And as the Dr. confesses that Bellarmine uses Navarr for it who was no Jesuit so he might have produced many more as well Divines as Lawyers and amongst others Barclay himself allows it may be practised in two cases as Cardinal Perron has well observed And since there are so many precedents where the people have assumed the power it had been very Oration to the third state strange if no body had stood up in defence of it had it been but to justifie their Princes Title who were beholding to the people for them What then if a few Jesuits have followed this opinion which they found taught by others and what if Father Parsons had been one of these is it therefore to be pinn'd upon the Jesuits as their particular doctrine The opinion may be called any thing as well as Iesuitical I will call it Protestant if you please for this last age has afforded us more examples of the doctrine put in practise amongst Protestants then many ages have done before as is demonstrated at large in that excellent Historical Treatise Hierusalem and Babel Did not those of the Reformation actually turn out their Soveraign Princes in Scotland Swedland Denmark Holland and Geneva Did they not raise Tumults and Rebellions in France Germany Poland Hungary Bohemia Transilvania did not brave Coligny as the Drs. worthy Author of the Answer to the Papists Apology styles him head the Rebels in France and brag he had lost four battles against the King and yet was formidable did not Edward the sixt with his councel give away Queen Maries Title to the Lady Iane Grey and did not Cranmer and Ridley stickle hard for her were there not more Rebellions in Queen Maries five years reign then in forty under Queen Elizabeth Was not Queen Mary of Scotland the undoubted Heir of the Crown of England and was she not put to death least she should destroy the Protestant Religion as the Earl of Kent told her Cambden 1587. pag. 455. Were not all these Factions and Rebellious proceedings warranted by their own Protestant Gospellers Luther Calvin Beza Zuinglius Knox Bucanan Douglass Goodman c. But to return again to Father Parsons the Dr. makes it sure that he writ Doleman but he had most reason to know that himself and I have alwaies heard that he denyed it at his death and that one Doleman no Jesuit was the Author of that book there are no few arguments to prove that Father Parsons was not the man But whosoever it was it is foolishly done of the Dr. to make him guilty of the late Kings blood He has a great deal more reason to lay it upon Hugh Peters and other seditious Protestant Preachers who though they might borrow part of Dolemans discourse yet scorn'd to be beholding to him for the doctrine You see Sir the Answerers of Philanax and the Papists Apology will receive but little benefit from this observation which Dr. Stillingfleet has added to theirs when they come to their more accurate examinations of these things 5. Another Jesuitical principle of the Drs. making is the Popes power to depose Princes This is every where laid in their dish by him and his party but with a great deal of injustice as you shall presently see You are then to know Sir that the doctrine was long agoe taught by almost all Orders and Professions Seculars Regulars Divines Lawyers before the Jesuits were in being Card. Perron in his Eloquent Oration to the third State in France quotes some of them and Barclay calls it the Canonists and Divines common Doctrine I will not tire you out with a tedious Catalogue of Authors some of those who are wont to be cited are Panormiranus Aegidius Rom. St. Thomas Cajetan St. Bonaventure Halensis Waldensis Bacon Gerson Chancellour of Paris Sanders Bartholus Bardus c. What wonder then if Bellarmine and three or four more Jesuits were carryed away with such a torrent of Doctors who went before them They found their works publickly expos'd it Libraries never censur'd but in good repute amongst the Learned nor had Princes in those dayes shewed their indignation against their doctrine as they have done since What wonder I say then if a few Jesuits have since followed it Is this sufficient to excuse the Dr. from wilful malice or gross ignorance in attributing the opinion to the whole Society as if the