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A14830	A sparing discouerie of our English Iesuits, and of Fa. Parsons proceedings vnder pretence of promoting the Catholike faith in England for a caueat to all true Catholiks our very louing brethren and friends, how they embrace such very vncatholike, though Iesuiticall deseignments.	Bagshaw, Christopher, d. 1625?; Watson, William, 1559?-1603.	1601 (1601)	STC 25126; ESTC S119548	53,231	85

other place taking vpon him to shew the causes why our English Students haue of a long time bin so troublesome in that Colledge he writeth thus you shall heare him at large Some thinke that it is in great part the nature of the place that ingendreth high spirits in them that are not well established in Almightie Gods grace For comming thither very yong and finding themselues presently placed and prouided for abundantly and acquainted daily with sights and relations of Popes Cardinals and Princes affaires our youths that were bred vp at home with much more simplicitie and kept vnder by their Parents and Maisters then the Italian education doth comport forgetteth easily themselues and breaketh out to liberty I meane such as haue runne astray and lost respect to their superiors in Rome This opinion of the circumstance of the place is greatly increased by the iudgement of Strangers both Spanyards Frenchmen and Flemings and other Nations who affirme that they try by experience their people that liue in Rome if they be not men of great vertue do proue more headie afterward and lesse tractable then others brought vp at home But yet to this other men of our Nation do adde a second reason for the English Colledge which is at Rome being a place whereunto many young men do resort only vpon a desire of seeing nouelties When any come thither of the English Nation finding such a commoditie of study and maintenance there and themselues in want and misery they made suite for that whereunto perhaps they had not true vocation from God nor due preparation in themselues to so holy and high estate And so being once admitted fell afterwards to disorder and to put out of ioynt both themselues and others Thus farre the Father of the want of grace in some and of a true calling in others that disagreed with the Iesuites and how dangerous a matter it is for Parents to send their children to Rome except they will haue them Iesuites or at the least to runne their tray terous courses the very place will marre them But now heare his report of the estimation that our English Students and Priests haue gotten by their being at Rome he shall tell it himselfe Baronius often told me that our youths bragged much of Martyrdome but they were refractary that was his word and had no part of Martyrs spirit which was in humilitie and obedience His holynes oftentimes told me that he was neuer so vexed with any Nation in the world for on the one side they pretended zeale and pietie and on the other shewed the very spirit of the Diuell in pride contumacy and contradiction c. And euer now and then his holynes would put his finger to his brayne signifying that there stoode their sicknes and so would most of the Court when they talked of Englesye were Indiauoluti and like words His holynes added also that he knew not what resolution to take for on the one side to punish them openly would be a scandall by reason of the hereticks and if he should cast them forth of Rome some had told him that they would haue become hereticks c. Againe in his letter to Maister Bishop writing of the report that he the sayd Maister Bishop and Maister Charnock had made to the Commissary of the Inquisition at their being in Rome he sayth thus to Maister Bishop You talked before your restraint heere with the Commissary of the Inquisition and you gaue him such a relation of our English matters as afterward when Maister Doctor Haddock and Maister Doctor Array had talked with him also and informed him as they thought of the very truths of matters he told an Honorable man in Rome and a great friend of mine that foure English Priests hauing talked with him they had taken from him all list to beleeue any English men or matters more they told him so different tales and yet all of them would seeme to be men of zeale And againe thus he writeth in the other letter I haue heard his holynes often and diuers Cardinals more often repeate with exceeding dishonor to our Nation the headynes and obstinacie of our youths so as now many great and wise men begin to suspect that the sufferings of our blessed Martyrs and Confessors in England was not so much for vertue and loue to Gods cause as of a certaine choler and obstinate will to contradict the Magistrate there What thinke you Sir ofthese reports by Parsons In what case are we poore Priests The chiefe cause of our affliction is our defending of the Church of Rome and therein his holynes authoritie And thinke they no better of vs for it If this do come to the knowledge of our aduersaries what aduantage will they make of it Wo worth that Iesuiticall broode that to mayntaine their ambition haue wrought vs this discredit We haue bin in better reputation with his holynes and so we hope to be agayne when this Machiuilian companion shall reape the shante himselfe of this report For it is not possible if euer his holynes will be pleased to be informed of him but that he will reward him with ignominy as he hath deserued You know our estates at home and you haue heard what estimation both we and all our Nation haue at Rome if Parsons write truly as we trust he doth not Our chiefest hope must therefore be in her Maiesties goodnes and mercie towards vs to graunt vnto vs if it be possible the libertie of our consciences But herein obserue this viperous Iesuite At the league of peace betweene the French and the Spanish Kings there was a rumor that the Queene would enter into that league and so graunt a toleration of religion which Parsons did vtterly dislike saying that either they would haue all or none they will admit of no conditions And his reason is this because sayth he a toleration would make the Catholicks of England dull and without spirit It is indeede quicknes that this Father desireth but such a quicknes as deserueth a quick dispatch at the Gallowes We trust he shall neuer draw our Catholicks heere to any such quicknes but that after our dull manner we shall for euer continue her Maiesties most faithfull subiects and with such quicknes as becommeth vs oppose our selues to his restles quick and bloudy deseignements against our Countrie But obserue we pray you that we say our hope is thus of all English Catholicks which hope may be subiect to some little doubt especially if his wicked platforme do proceede heere amongst vs that all Catholicks must hereafter depend vpon Blackwell and he vpon Garnet and Garnet vpon Parsons and Parsons vpon the Diuell who is the author of all rebellions treasons murthers disobedience and all such deseignements as this wicked Iesuite hath hitherto deuised against her Maiestie her safety her Crowne her Kingdome and her life So as our conclusion shall be with a branch which we will alwayes remember as an addition when we say the Letany à Machinationibus Parsoni libera nos Domine And thus wee end desiring God to blesse vs all Amen

done if it were to a good end When they haue held on after this sort so long as they thinke conuenient intermingling now and then some comforts least otherwise the parties vnder their fingers should grow very weary of them then they begin to be more plentifull in the setting forth of such comfortable promises as are made in the scriptures to the children and saincts of God Heere they omit no part of their skill to describe the Heauens the Maiestie and glory of God the happy estate and ioyes of the Saincts in that euerlasting kingdome which is prepared for those who in this life shall embrace the Christian faith and become obedient children in their true calling vnto their holy Mother the Church of Rome Hereunto they adde a discourse concerning the diuersitie of such callings as God hath ordeyned for his seruants and children to walke in shewing how necessary it is for euery man to vnderstand and know what calling that is which particularly belongeth vnto himselfe and what danger ensueth when men do rashly vndertake any occasion either for profit or pleasure to follow this or that course of life as when great men being borne to great possessions do thinke it sufficient for them to follow the steps of their Auncestors esteeming that to be the calling which God hath prepared for them whereof it commeth to passe diuers times that they make a shipwrack of all their estates and fall into many calamities God approuing of and sanctifying no calling which is not entred into by the direction of his holy spirit Many say they through their owne rashnes are spirituall persons who ought by Gods ordinance to haue bin of the Layty and many on the other side are as we tearme them Lay men which ought to be Ecclesiasticall both of them perishing in their owne courses through their owne faults in that they had no care to learne and know their owne proper callings ordeyned for them which God would haue sanctified to their eternall comforts if they would haue vsed the meanes to haue vnderstood and imbraced them In the description of which meanes the height the depth and the breadth of all their cousenage doth consist being the exercise it selfe before mentioned Of these meanes they do at the first speake only in generality entring into a discourse of the louing kindnes of God in that he hath prepared a way whereby euery man that list may know how to serue him whereinto as many as will enter may haue assurance in themselues by the testimony of the holy Ghost what their seuerall vocations are whereunto God hath called them and which they must vndertake if euer they meane to come into the ioyes and consolations of the Paradice of God Thus after they haue layd these ginnes no meruaile if the parties so kindly and cunningly caried on do fall into their traps Howbeit you must obserue that in all these discourses made to such parties they carry themselues so aloofe as that there may be no suspition of their intents to draw them by such their practises to be of their sócietie So as when the poore soules as rauished with a desire to attayne vnto the sayd meanes or exercise so highlie commended and so necessary as they suppose for all that truly thirst after the kingdome of God and ioyes of Heauen do intreate the holy Fathers that they may be receiued into that happie and blessed exercise their motion in that behalfe the good Fathers at the first seeme little to regard saying that peraduenture this their desire proceedeth of passion and therefore their manner is to leaue them in this sort for the first time adding with what deliberation and iudgement that sacred exercise is to be vndertaken as being the ladder of Iacob whereby they may ascend into the third Heauen and there see and behold the admirable mysteries of God If the partie thus caught be of great possessions wealth or parentage they are much the sooner intreated to admit him to this exercise the manner whereof is as followeth The partie at the time appointed comming to the holy Father who must deale with him is recluded from the speech of any body but the sayd Father for a certaine time Vpon his first reclusion the Father commeth vnto him and giueth him a meditation to study vpon for some foure or fiue houres willing him in the meane while carefullie to remember all the cogitations that do come into his minde The sayd foure or fiue houres expired in commeth this good Father and then the partie must be confessed and is to reueale all his particular thoughts of what matter soeuer good or bad that came into his head all the time of his aforesayd meditation Which done the Father giueth the partie an other meditation with the like instructions to the former and after the like distance of time returning heareth his confession And thus the partie is exercised diuers times euery day the space of nine dayes or thereabouts In which time the holy Father hauing framed the sayd meditations according to his owne drift for example if the partie be rich then of the contempt of the world and the vanitie of worldly riches and further perceiuing by his confessions his disposition and what effect the sayd meditations haue wrought and are likely in the end to worke in him which alwayes must be the forsaking of the world as they tearme it and for the most part if they finde him by this triall a fit man for the entrance into some profession of religion then he telleth him a long tale of the fruit of his sayd exercise as that he well perceiueth by his sundry confessions how the spirit of God hath wrought in him by the meanes of his sayd meditations and that he now supposeth him to be fit to enter into the consideration and choice of that calling whereunto God himselfe hath ordeined him to leade his life and walke in towards the attaynement of euerlasting happines Whereupon the partie hath time to consider with himselfe whether he will be a Dominican a Benedict a Iesuite a Frier or what he list Which time expired the holy Father entreth into a new stratageme The sayd partie so exercised as is before expressed comming thus vnto his election hath peraduenture determined to be a Dominican or to take some such other course as he himselfe hath thought of So as when the sayd holy Father commeth vnto him if he finde him bent to any other profession then to be a Iesuite he beginneth to cast many doubts and collecteth at his pleasure by something that he hath confessed vnto him that his sayd choice is not agreeable to such godly motions as the spirit of God wrought in him in the time of his exercise and therefore aduiseth him to consider with himselfe better of his choice that the same may be sutable to the sayd motions of the holy Ghost The conclusion is that the holy Fathers by this meanes hauing sundry poore soules in their