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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78293	The Iesuits undermining of parliaments and Protestants with their foolish phancy of a toleration, discovered, and censured. Written by William Castle, for the confirmation of wavering Protestants, and the reducing of seduced papists.	Castell, William, d. 1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing C1229; Thomason E124_7; ESTC R4761	12,847	16

tranquility of the Kingdome and the protestant religion now established First his Majesty was drawn on to conclude a peace with the King of Spaine the most disadvantagious to this Kingdom as ever was were it but for one particular which indeed was rested in but upon the concluding of the Articles and it was this that no English be permitted to trade in the West-Indies and if any did venture so to doe they should be hanged and tortured without mercy Hence it followed that the English who had resolved with the Netherlands for the sending of ten thousand men between them into those parts were so deterred as that our best friends the Netherlands were left to shift for themselves who thanks be to God have got a greater footing in Brasill not the tenth part of America yet bigger then three Englands then that the Spaniard will be ever able to remove them thence And whilst the English have for many yeeres sate still and have not in the generall dared to adventure into those parts the Pilatage into those spacious and goodly Countreys hath been by us well nigh lost and the King of Spaine so well inabled by a yeerely abundant comming in of his vast treasure there to make full and due payment to his Jesuiticall pensioners here as that ever since they have performed such faithfull service unto him as may shortly prove destructive to these Kingdoms if not timely foreseene and prevented by the wisdome and blessed accord of his Majesty and this his present Parliament And lest any thing should be wanting to the Catholique King undertaking the Catholique cause his faithfull pensioners perswaded King James to arme the King of Spaine with 20â—0 peeces of Ordnance under colour of which licence one Sir Iohn Ferne transported twice as many more What others did here in is not so well known but by wise men who have had knowledge of former times it is conceived that if the King of Spaine were as well prepared with men and shipping as he is with guns and amunition from us he might beat us with our own weapons A third thing wherin King Iames was strangley abused by the Spanish pensioners the best friends to Jesuits was that by reason of their continuall crying up his boundlesse prerogative a point which Princes generally are overmuch pleased to heare of his Majestie though otherwise very iudicious was at last drawne to diâ—affect and undervalue Parliaments as intrenching too much upon his royall prerogative by how much they did more carefully endeavour to preserve the laws enacted in their full strength and to enact other laws as might tend but to due regulating of regall power which ought never to exceed law but when it tendeth to the releife of the subject in mitigating the vigour of law not to the oppressing and impoverishing of them with illegall Monopolies and unwarrantable taxations I might instance in many other particulars but one more shall suffice to shew how prevalent the Spanish faction were with King Iames when upon the motion of Gundumore that arch politician seconded by their strong approbation his Majesty neglecting the profers of some German Protestant Princes did condescend to send his only sonne and heire into Spaine for the contracting of a mariage there with the Spanish Kings Sister one of a contrary Religion which had it accordingly proceeded it might have proved more inconvenient and troublesome then hath his mariage with France How the Jesuits and Jesuiticall Spanish pensioners plots have succeeded since the accesse of his Majesty that now is unto the Crowne I need not relate at large the wisdome of this present Parliament hath saved mee that labor in their first unanswerable remonstrance I shall therefore only breifly mention some of the chiefe after which I shall lay forth their yet more bold practizes and bloody executions in France and else where The first was the laying of their foundation at the conclave at Rome wher it was concluded that his holines should have a Nuntio in England and the Queene of England should have an agent at Rome to act things here as should be there resolved upon The 2. was to perswade his Majestie by meditation of the Queene whom they too well knew he did as entirely love as if she had bin of his owne Religion to preferr those to places of dignitie at Court and of judicature both in Church and common weale as might serve to put in execution their mischewous designes Whence it came most unhappily to passe that the Spanish pensioners became here Cabinet Councellors so usually over-awing and overswaying the farre greater and better part of the privy Councell as that their meere proposalls past for resolutions and hence it was that the Star-chamber where these Jesuiticall pensioners and such as they had promoted bare Sway did abound with extravagate censures no lesse unconsionable then terrible to the oppressing of the common people by maintaining illegall taxations and unwarrantable monopolies and in advancing prerogatives farr beyond all the presidents of former times And Shurely had it not bin for those exceeding powerfull Popish factors the high commition had no dareth so eagerly to oppose true Religion by suspentions deprivations excommunications fines and imprisonments much les would some Bishops and in eriour ecclesiasticall Courts have adventured with such animosity to propose or bitternes to persecute their owne superstitions articles as if they had bin Cannons concluded upon by the whole Church of England as then consisting only of Bishops Deanes Archdeacons Cathedrall Priests and 2. such country Clarkes as every Bishop and his Sly officiall thought good off ought to bind the whole Church being so partially if not corruptly represented For what are Cathedrall Church but such places as Queene Elizabeth and her Councell for some by Politicall ends were pleased to let rest in some part of that Popist splendor which might take with neighboring Princes and not render her and her people utterly irreconcilable to the Church of Rome when as yet the Parochill Churchs here were better clensed from Popish relickes according to the well setled constitution of other reformed Churches and yet for south these better refined Parochiall Churches must againe be reduced to a Cathedrall garbe why But that it is more ceremonecus more Majesticall and therin more resembleth Rome To conclude this point by reason of the oversweling greatnesse of those Cabinet Councellours men were preferred to places of Judicature in the common-weale which either could not or would not maintaine Justice but were alwayes forward to advance prerogative above and against law witnesse some millions of mony in few yeares wrested from the subject under the name of Loane Knighthood Shippe Coat and conducte mony by colour of forrest law the Statute of improvement the commission of severs abused Tunnage and Poundage inhaunced by unwarrantable rates All which though unlawfull yet were they all either justified by the most part of the Judges or the people miserablely oppressed whilst being debarred the

is not musuall but that foure hundred or five hundred gentlemen so considerately chosen as these were in all counties should be so abused as without any show of probability Vnlesse we conceive that those few accused members worke by no ordinary meanes And if it were granted as few truly religious will grant it that those accused members were any way guilty of misdemeanors yea or of treason against his Majestie and the government established yet it is but reasonable that their offences should be examined and decided by Parliament otherwise upon meere pretences the Parliament might be extremly dismembred And in case the whole body of Parliament do erre yet it cannot be reasonably conceived that the body of this Parliament and their resolutions are questionable and triable by any other power then by some succeeding Parliament Oh then that all protestants would seriously consider how the foresaid positions tend to the dissolving not only of this but of all other Parliaments without whose assistance neither our religion nor our liberties have any hope of continuance by reason of many hellish subtile contrivements of Iesuits who as they have from their first originall disturbed many other Nations so now they have procured our present calamities and a geeat effusion of blood in Ireland I cannot at large relate what they have no lesse tre cherou ly contrived then bloodily executed in France Germany and other places yet I may not altogether passe them over in regard we may be admonished and thereby armed against these firebrands of Christendome who in these our times are no lesse insolent and dangerous to kingdomes and States then were their fore-fathers and founders the Popes of Rome The great Massacre of France wherein were slain more then 50000 was the Iesuits damnable plot and so were the murders of the two French Kings Henry the third and Henry the fourth Henry the third was bred a papist from his cradle and when he became a man while he was Duke he was made generall of the popish forces and gave the protestants that fatal blow at the battel of Mouncounter and made them sue for peace and after he was King he maintained the Roman Religion to the uttermost of his power And yet because he gave peace to the Hugonets whom he could not constraine and because he had compassion of his poore people eaten up with the armes of strangers And because the cries of the widdow and fatherlesse pierced his royall heart and because he would not deliver the crowne it selfe unto the hands of his vassals he was wounded to death and the fact approved as meritorious And for Henry the foâ—râ—h though he changed the profession of the protestant religion which hee had professed from his child-hood and though he caused his owne children and the next Princes of the blood to be trained up in popery and to have Iesuits for their Instructors yet because he would not continue the civil wair in his owne country and turne the sword against the Huganites who had most faithfully served him in his greatest distresse and because he would not break of his leagues and prove ungratefull to his protestant Princes and States which had assisted him with men and mony in attaining the crowne hee was shamefull murdered by the procurement of Iesuits Oh that he had beene more constâ—nâ— in the way of his religion that he had depended more upon the power and providence of the Almightie and lesse upon the arme of flesh for the preservation and continuance of his kingdome then undoubtedly that God who so often protected would also have protected him against Raveliack And oh that our King would seriously consider the untimely end of both those french Kings murdered by Iesuits though professing and maintaining popery then might we hope that his Majestie who deepely professeth to live and die in the protestant religion would cause the lawes to be severely executed upon these King-killing Athisticall agents for the Pope In Germany the Duke of Saxony and many more other Luthran Princes have of late been miserably deluded by Iesuits who induced them to stand Neâ—ters whilst the Emeprour with his Popish army plundered the most part of Germany and hath perplexed and well uigh destroyed that Goodly Country with twenty yeares warre Which hath consumed many thousands of Luthrans as well as Calvenists al which ealamities and slaughters might have beene prevented had they not beene unhappily disunited by the subtilety of Iesuites In Polonia now lately they have kindled such a fire betwixt the King and his subjects as that they who choose him with one generall consent doe now thinke how to be ridd of him by reason that through their Councels hee entrencheth upon their Liberties more hee ought to doe And in Vâ—nis where Popery is professed they have beene long since Bannished by reason of their treacheries cruelties and insolent inte medling with state affaires wherein they doe but resemble their holy Fathers the Popes of Rome whose pride cruelties and treachries were such as no Christian could beleeve them were they not recorded by their owne popish authors And yet these Iesuites the Poopes youngest sonnes doe in all the forenamed respects and many more equal them especially in regard of their audacious intermedling with State affaires As the popes heretofore have disturbed kingdomns destroyed kingdomes and confirred kingdomes from nation to nation from family to Family so now his deare sonnes the IESVITES take upon them by his leave to doe no lesse How have they set the FRENCH against the SPANNISH the Spanish against the French The French against the Italians The Italians against the French The Spaniard against the Portugall the Portuall against the SPANIARD But almost all Nations against ENGLAND And the Dominions hereunto annexed as evidently appeareth by the great store of ayde shipping men money and all kinde of Warlike A nunition sent and to bee sent against these united Kingdomes from France Spaine Polonia Denmarke Dunkercke and other Popish places of the Low Countries whereof some have beene taken others have unhappily escaped but farre more are it in readinesse and preparation to bee sent And shall wee permit such Vipers as these Iesuites and they Jesuicticall Abetors are to live among us untill they have eaten up the bowells of the Common Weale and which is it much more the life and substance of true Religion by no by meanes But let us stand and acquit our selves like men of Wisedome and courage for the King and kingdome but chefly for our GOD and that pure Religion which for many yeares wee have now enjoyed Let our wisedome appeare first by our Piety in crying mightily to God by seeking him by Fasting Weeping and Mourning in truth and sineerity and all other duties wherein wee may manifest our true humiliation before him And then submitting our owne particular understandings let us hearken unto and observe diligently the grave observations and directions and resolutions of this present Parliament which cannot choose but see more and decide better than any private man yea or many men be they never so wise however men of no understanding or men of no religion or Neuters in religion or of a contrary religion either rashly or malitiously dare to affirme the contrary Let our courage appeare in a stout and resolute opposition of all opposers of our Religion and lawes established more especially against Iesuits and their abbettors who strive fiercely even to the effusion of much blood to disturbe and alter the Militia of the Kingdome both by Sea and Land under a fond pretence of defending the King and kingdome religion and law wheras in truth they seeke the utter subversion of them all For how can it be reasonably imagined that papists should take up armes for the defence of the protestant religion utlaws for the preservation of the Law or delinquents fugitives from parliament for priviledges of parliament which is the representative body of the kingdome And yet these are the men and but few other of any better quality or condition who pretend to fight under the Kings Standard against King and kingdome A very strong motive and unanswerable argument to incite all of any understanding or resolution to stand firme to God and his truth for his Maiesty and royall posterity for the peace and safety of the realme against all forraigne invasions and home-bred conspiracies which necessary prudence and happy resolution if it shall please the Lord to give unto the land in general we need not much feare what either of them can doe against us Our Militia by Sea so strongly and so compleatly set forth and so well assisted by our no lesse gratefull then provident friends the Netherlands may under God sufficiently assure us against any great hurts from forraigne forces though France and Spaine though Denmarke Poland a thing very unlikely should at once joyne their forces of shipping men mony horse and other warlike ammunition against us And as for homebred conspiracies now that the wisdome of the parliament hath so well contrived and disposed the order of the Militia in all countries so well approved of all some few onely excepted as they intend by Gods assistance to live and die in the defence of it The Iesuits and their abbettors are very likely ere long to their shame and confusion to finde their damnable plots to be fully discovered their persons and estates to be left to the severity of law as is most just and but necessary for the preservation of this Kingdome FINIS

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