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A38476 The English prelates practizing the methods and rules of the Jesuits, for enervating and altering the Protestant reformed religion in England, and reducing the people to popery plainly demonstrated by a reverend and godly divine. 1661 (1661) Wing E3111; ESTC R31433 12,469 20

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dayes is but a weak plea to compass a Benefice Fiery Calvinisme once a Darling in England is at length accounted Heresie yea and little less than Treason men in word and writing willingly use the once fearful names of Priests and Altars nay if one do but mutter against the placing of the Altar after the old fashion for a warning he shall be well warmed with a Cole from the Altar c. That aspiring Prelate Dr. Laud in his Letter to Bishop Hall concerning Episcopacy hath these words You do extreamly well to distinguish the Scottish business from the state of the foreign Churches but yet to those Churches and their Authors you are a little more favourable than our case will now bear What should bee the intendment of this word Now Bishop Carleton in his Examination of Mountagues Appeal page 62. What greater pleasure saith he can a man procure to the exemies of the truth than to speak evil and odiously of those men whose service God hath used and made them excellent Instruments to make the truth known to us Some take it for a sign of such as are looking towards Popery when they offer such a service to the Papists as to speak evil of them who have been the greatest enemies to Popery the greatest Propagators of the truth Dr. Robert Abbot Bishop of Sarum in a Sermon preached before the University of Oxford 1615. Men under the pretence of truth and preaching against the Puritans saith he strike at the heart and root of faith and Religion now established among us This preaching against the Puritans was but the practise of Parsons and Campians counsel when they came into England to seduce young Students and when many of them were afraid to lose their places if they should professedly be thus the counsel they then gave them was That they should speak freely against the Puritans and that should suffice And they cannot pretend that they are accounted Papists because they speak against the Puritans but because they are Papists indeed they speak not against them If they do at any time speak against the Papists They do beat a little upon the Bush and that softly too for fear of troubling or disquieting the Birds that are in it They speak of nothing but that in which one Papist will speak against another as against Equivocation the Popes temporal Authority and the like and perhaps against some of their blasphemous speeches but in the point of Free-will Justification Concupiscence being sin after Baptisme inherent Righteousness Certainty of salvation the Papists beyond the Sea can say They are wholly theirs and the Recusants at home make their brags of them And in all things they keep themselves so near the Brink that upon all occasions they may stop over them The University of Cambridge in a Letter March 8. 1595. to their Chancellor subscribed unanimously by the Heads of the Colledges They desire his Lordship to use some effectual remedy for suppressing of Baroes Arminian opinions lest say they by permitting passage to these errors the whole body of Popery should by little and little break in upon us to the overthrow of our Religion And a little after Vouchsafe your Lordships aid and advice both to us wholly consenting and agreeing in judgement and all others of the University soundly affected and to the suppression in time not only of these Errours but even of gross Popery like by such means in time easily to creep in among us as we finde by late experience it hath dangerously begun Declaration of the House of Commons to his late Majesty The hearts of your subjects are perplexed when with sorrow they behold a daily growth and spred●●●g of the faction of the Arminians that being as your Majesty well knows but a cunning way to bring in Popery And the professors of those opinions the common disturbers of the Protestant Churches and Incendiaries of those States in which they have gotten any head being Protestants in shew but Jesuits in opinion and practice The Noble Lord Falkeland in his excellent speech to the House of Commons printed anno 1641. pag. 3 4 5.6 7. Master Speaker hee is a great stranger in Israel who knows not that this Kingdome hath long laboured under many and great oppressions both in Religion and Liberty and his acquaintance here is not great or his ingenuity less who doth not both know and acknowledge that a great if not a principal cause of both th●se hath been some Bishops and their adherents Mr. Speaker A little search will serve to finde them to have been the destruction of Unity under pretence of Uniformity To have brought in Superstition and scandal under the titles of reverence and decency to have defiled our Church by adorning our Churches to have slackned the strictness of that Union which was formerly between us and those of our Religion beyond the Sea an action as unpolitick as ungodly And again p. 7. As Sir Thomas Moore saies of the Casuists their business was not to keep man from sinning but to inform them quam prope ad peccatum sine peccato liceat accecere so it seemed their work meaning the Prelates was to try how much of a Papist might bee brought in without Popery and to destroy as much as they could of the Gospel without bringing themselves into danger of being destroyed by the Law Mr. Speaker to go yet further some of them have so industriously laboured to deduce themselves from Rome that they have given great suspition that in gratitude they desire to return thither or at least to meet it half way some have evidently laboured to bring in an English though not a Roman Popery I mean not the outside onely and dress of it but equally absolute a blinde dependance of the people upon the Clergy and of the Clergy upon themselves And have opposed Papacy beyond the Sea that they might settle one beyond ●●e Water Nay Common fame is more than ordinarily false if none of them have found a way to reconcile the opinions of Rome to the preferments of England be so absolutely directly and cordially Papists that it is all that 1500 l. per annum can do to keep them from confessing it And again p. 9. Wee shall finde of them to have o th kindled and blown the common fire of both Nations to have both sent and maintained that Book of which the Author hath no doubt long since wished with Nero Utinam nescissem literas and of which more than one Kingdome hath cause to wish That when he writ that he had rather burned a Library though of the value of Prolomies Wee shall finde them to have been the first and principal cause of the breach I will not say of but since the Pacification at Barwick Wee shall finde them to have been the almost sole Abetters of my Lord of Strafford whilest hee was practising upon another Kingdome that manner of Government which hee intended to settle in this where hee committed so many so mighty and so manifest enormities as the like have not been committed by any Governour in any Government since Verres left Sicily And after they had called him over from being Deputy of Ireland to be in a manner Deputy of England all things here being governed by a Juntillo and that Juntillo governed by him to have assisted him in the giving of such Counsels and the pursuing of such courses as it is a hard and measuring cast whether they were more unwise more unjust or more unfortunate and which had infallibly been our destruction if by the Grace of God their share had not been as small in the subtilty of Serpents as in the innocence of Doves FINIS