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A28915	The mysterie of iniqvity yet working in the kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the destruction of religion truly Protestant discovered, as by other grounds apparant and probable, so especially by the late cessation in Ireland, no way so likely to be ballanced, as by a firme union of England and Scotland, in the late solemne covenant, and a religious pursuance of it.	Bowles, Edward, 1613-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3877; ESTC R211746	35,663	51

the use made of Newcastle hath vindicated the securing Hull The Ship from Denmarke hath justified their suspition grounded as it is said upon the slighted testimony of the Skipper at Roterdam The Lord Digbies endeavours and the residence there of King and Cochran the Propositions to the Scots at Newcastle hereafter to be mentioned for the joyning of the Scottish and English Armies against the Parliament have justified all the suspitions and accusations then pretended and protested to be unjust and groundlesse In such times and cases as these feares and jealousies are pardonable and distrust especially after evident breaches of trust is the mother of security It is a very unequall thing that the King with his Cavaliers should renounce the Parliament destroy his good Subjects upon the jealousie that Parliaments and Puritans are Enemies to his Prerogative and Power which can never bee proved if Iustice be made the Rule of Power and we railed on for defending our selves against the confederacie of Papists Prelates Court Parasites and their Adherents whose endeavours of introducing Popery and Tyranny are farre beyond jealousie as is now to be demonstrated I will not retire so farre backe having so much work before me as to insist upon the manifest and manifold attempts upon this Kingdome in the dayes of Queene Elizabeth whom when they had discerned to have settled her Interests for the Protestants against Spaine and Rome and established her Councell according to those Interests So that though the Bishops brought her to dis-favour Puritanes yet they could not perswade her to favour the Papists but she still kept a strict and vigilant eye over them as being rightly informed that they and not the other were the greatest Enemies to Royall Power When they saw this the usuall arts of Rome against dis-affected Princes are put in practice viz. Bulls Interdicts Poysonings Assassinations which God wonderfully preserved that heroicke Ladie from the Spanish Armado the Rebellion in Ireland may be further Testimonies of their zeale in this business●… To the enumeration of these let us onely adde thankfulnesse and caution and proceed to their after Machinations the bitter fruits of which the Protestant Churches yet feele King Iames before he came to the Crowne of England had a heart too large for his Dominion and therefore extended his affectionate thoughts to the Kingdomes of England and Ireland which he longed for a peaceable possession of The Factors of Rome having studied his interest and nature according to their wonted confidence attempt him as for his Understanding so well informed in the Forgeries and Falshoods of the Romish Religion it was not to be ventured on and therefore they proportion their workings to his Passions which were desire of the accession of power mixt with a more then ordinary feare in which he was naturally unhappy lest he should be interrupted if not disappointed in the entrance And in this Conflict obtaine from him some intimations if not assurances of favour to the Catholique Cause with which they were for the present satisfied The King upon his entrance and settlement in England saw cause rather to dispence with his promises then his principles whereupon the Popish Faction grew discontented against him and a fruit of that discontent was the Romish Hellish Powder-plot never to be mentioned by any good Protestant but with due gratitude to Almighty God and just detestation of the Romish Religion This Treason wrought not kindely with his Majesty for whereas he might have made the Plot a ground of defiance and the Deliverance a ground of confidence the horrour of the businesse wrought such impression of dread upon his timorous spirit that though he was not blowne up yet he was shaken by it all his life after and drawn successively to a Compliance with at least a Connivance at their proceedings And notwithstanding the free exercise of his wit and pen against Popery which they could well allow him they constrained him to purchase his own security contrary to the Interests of Protestant Religion and Paternall affection with the ruine of the neigbour Churches of Bohemia and the Palatinate We should not have looked upon the day of our Brethren to that we may reduce the many impediments that have fallen in betwixt us and the help of our friends and that posture wherein God himselfe stands towards us even as a man astonished a mighty man that cannot save Jer. 14. 9. Though we have this hope left that God will recompence that mischiefe not upon the Nation the body whereof had a just fellow-feeling with the distresses of their neighbours but upon that cursed Faction whose pernicious Councels yet rule among us This was the most considerable Progresse made in his time though the preparatory workings for a fitter opportunity were not omitted as the cherishing in him a dis-affection to Puritanes an inclination to Bishops procuring countenance to Prophanenesse both by practice and Declaration to the remote Counties for licentious Sabbath-breaking and settling about him persons regardlesse of the good of Church or Common-wealth To which may be added the untimely death of Prince Henry when it was once observed that he grew popular inclined to martiall affaires and dis-affected to Spanish proceedings As also the Propositions of the Treaty of marriage with Spain offered from England revised at Rome and then by the Negotiation of Bristoll agreed to though after broken with so many advantages to the spreading of Popery in England as might discover the designe to have been considerably advanced in King Iames his time I shall shut up the discourse of his Reigne with this observation of the providence of God That those Princes who have trusted God with their lives and Kingdomes and kept Spain and Rome at distance and defiance have sped better then they who to their dishonoured selves have sacrificed the welfare of the Church of God as by comparing the History of Queen Elizab●…th with those of Henry the fourth of France and King Iames may appear who trusting to their own politike Conservations the thing that they feared came upon them For so it was That when by the journey into Spain fairer hopes were conceived of the Prince as by his intercourse with the Pope and the presumptions of the jesuite which you shall finde in the Treatise of the English Pope not unworthy an English-mans deligent observation most fully appears King Iames came to be looked upon as {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and must be taken out of the way that the Mystery might work the more effectually and so died he both a Friend and Martyr of the Catholique Cause Though it was doubted and feared there were severall ingredients into his death the world talks of a drink and a plaister the Cup might be mingled for Romes sake and some other hands accessary to spreading the plaister if so Let them share the guilt I leave them to him whose eyes are upon all the wayes of men to render them according to their wayes

THE MYSTERIE OF INIQVITY YET WORKING In the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland for the destruction of Religion truly Protestant DISCOVERED As by other grounds apparant and probable so especially by the late Cessation in Ireland no way so likely to be ballanced as by a firme Union of England and Scotland in the late solemne Covenant and a religious pursuance of it ZEPH. 3. 4. 5. Her Princes within her are roaring lions her Iudges are evening wolves they gnaw not the bones till the morrow 4 Her Prophets are light and treacherous persons her Priests have polluted the sanctuary they have done violence to the law 5 The just Lord is in the midst thereof he will not doe iniquity every morning doth he bring his judgement to light he faileth not but the unjust knoweth no shame LONDON Printed for SAMVEL GELLIBRAND 1643. THE MYSTERIE OF INIQVITY Yet working in the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland for the destruction of Religion truly Protestant WEre there not a more then ordinary stupiditie possessing the hearts of men which God usually permits as the fore-runner of heavie judgements after so many reall and bloudy demonstrations of a damnable designe upon our Religion and Liberty it were the most unnecessary worke imaginable to publish written ones But let this unhappy necessity be obeyed and honest men be perswaded a little to withdraw their thoughts from their perplex●…d reflections upon the businesse of Hull and the Militia and the London Tumults which are usually looked upon as the grounds but never were other then occasions and advantages sought to throw us into this confusion which now over-spreads the face of England and unlesse God who casteth out the counsels of Princes and takes the wise in their owne craftinesse mercifully prevent is like to overwhelme it and apply themselves to a diligent observation of the contexture and comprehension of affaires as they have beene these later yeeres managed by our Adversaries That so comparing one part of their proceedings with another and all with this proposed end of subverting the Protestant Religion together with the Subjects Liberty the Elme of that Vine the impartiall and diligent Reader may discerne an evident conjuncture of Iesuits Priests Princes Prelates Papists Polititians Atheists prophane and ignorant persons for the ruine of that Religion to which some of them are Professed Enemies others Pretended Friends but which of them the most pernitious is hard to judge But that no body may be wronged this Heterogeneous number must in reference to this great worke receive its proportionable distribution and we must not conceive all these equally engaged or upon the same grounds Babel is to be built the Architects are the Iesuites taking in some Atheisticall Politicians to their assistance as Surveyors of the worke Princes must finde the materialls as being made believe that the worke is designed for the House of their Kingdome and the honour of their Majesty Papists with the rabble of superstitious and ambitious Clergie are the daily Labourers the prophane and ignorant multitude are imployed in the most servi●…e workes as Hewers of wood and Drawers of water and are now made to treade morter for this building moistned with their owne blood And because all these must be presumed reasonable men though the later sort are used as naturall bruit beasts made to be taken and destroye●… who though they are not so wise as to know what they do yet must not be thought so foolish as not to know why they take this paines different ends are held out And therefore this great building is designed as a Church for the Papists Devotion as a Palace for the Prelates ambition as a Castle for the Princes power and the rest have severall baits by these cunning Anglers cast out unto them according to the variety of their dispositions But lest I should seeme rather to write then to reveale a Mystery it will be convenient to use all plainnesse of speech that they who are concerned may discern truth before it be beaten into their heads with a Poleax First I presume it will be granted on all parts that the Roman Strumpet is very industrious to corrupt the Earth with her Fornications Rev. 19. 2. and hath to that end constituted a great Councell De propaganda fide as they call it but rather De propaganda perfidia whose most vigilant Instruments and Emissaries are the Iesuits who have by their diligence obtained the honour to be Cupbearers of this Wine of Fornication and are justly accounted by us those Frogs comming out of the mouth of the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet going forth unto the Kings of the Earth and of the whole world Rev. 16. 12. These men as they compasse sea and land and have spread themselves well nigh in all parts so they have alwaies had a speciall eye to the Kingdomes of Brittaine it being doubtlesse propounded to them and all Romish Agents as a piece of eminent service if by any meanes that might be reduced to the vassalage of Rome And this is the second step which I think there wil be no contesting for that the Romish Agents have bin very earnest and industrious in reconciling this Iland with the adjacent to their Religion it being a service which the Pope himselfe disdained not to stoope to in that Letter yet uncontradicted which he writ to the Prince in Spain now extant in the English tongue where he desires that the Prince of Wales might be brought backe againe into the lap of the Romish Church and the Prince of the Apostles put in possession of this most noble Isle Which desires of the Pope have beene seconded with continuall endeavours of swarmes of Iesuites and Priests resident amongst us It being then granted that ever since the Reformation there hath beene such a designe it remaines to shew how it hath been prosecuted and how farre it hath prevailed where the Impediment now is what labour there is to remove it that all true Protestants may the better understand their own condition and Interests Onely let this be premised that wee being to deale with a Mystery a worke of darkenesse it must not be expected that all which shall bee produced should bee cleare and convincing as if a judicial proceeding were undertaken but that the Argument be so probable and dependant as though not a legall yet a rationall judgement may be passed against our Adversaries in this Cause And it hath beene a very unjust triumph of the Enemy over the Parliament and their friends in want of evidence when they have though the nature of the businesse being treasonable and therefore clandestinely carried and bound up by oathes of secresie beene put to make up the grounds of their proceedings from the connexion of severall particulars and probabilities which are enough for a Statesman though not a Judge And the diligent observer may take notice how these feares and jealousies pretended to be groundlesse have beene justified by after proceedings as