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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36912	The copy of a letter sent from the Cardinall du Perron embassadour for the French king at Rome concerning the divisions of the papists of England their difference in government whether by bishops or Jesuites with the care of His Holinesse in the agreement, and his judgement in placing of bishops in England for making priests to increase the Catholic number : whereunto is added a certaine conjecture of the use both prelates and papists have made of the cardinals counsell to augment and establish their greatnesse.; Ambassades et negotiations. English. Selections	Du Perron, Jacques Davy, 1556-1618.	1641 (1641)	Wing D2637; ESTC R5607	5,454	9

place of those who were married and already out of hopes they should keep their wives and Bishopricks together in the Catholike Religion His Holinesse took time to think upon it after which according to the commandment I shall receive from your Maiestie I shall continue or leave off to present the businesse further and thus much from that Letter NOw I hope ye see clearly from the Cardinalls Letter what his judgement was of our Bishops wherein if he was deceived or not I will not judge onely this I may say confidently if he spoke falsly of Bishops of his time he hath been an oracle of truth concerning the Bishops of our time as may easily appear to those who will informe themselves but slenderly of their doctrines and practices so well known to most sorts of men that it is wonder they should find so much as one to speak but one word in their defence for have they not used all violent courses to suppresse the truth of the Gospell by pilloring scourging imprisoning fining banishing and confining numbers of the most zealous professours of the truth for no other known offence but because they would not submit themselves to the superstitions tyrannies and oppressions of those bloodthirsty persecutors Did ever any of that cruell society hitherto publikely disapprove either by word or writing the barbarous rage of their Tygerlike fellows the misery of those injustly persecuted men the deplorable c●lamities of their distressed Mother the Church oppressed by the too too prevalent factions of Papists and Arminians to this day But for all this some will not spare to averre that divers of the Bishops had never any hand in those businesses but on the contrary cherished piety abhorred cruelty resisted superstition to the utmost of their power and endeavoured as they were able to conserve the peace of the Church and State My onely desire is that those men would consider that neither love affection towards the one party nor hatred towards the other doth so much move me as the love to the truth which ought to be freely spoken at all times but especially when men seem as it were to doate on those Bishops who seem innocent to divers and it may be they neither did contrive nor desire those abominations which charitie would make me beleeve if I should find reason to perswade me that they did either disapprove or reject them being once urged by their fellow companions nay on the contrary divers reasons induce me to believe that they did approve all without any the least opposition as first suffering all things to be imposed upon them without any repining Secondly urging the practice upon all men punishing severely the refractory Thirdly their unanimous consent to the late diabolicall Canons whence I Imagine all things to have been done in the same manner Lastly their prodigious silence which is one infallible signe that even to this day they allow of them for qui tacet consentire videtur But the end of introducing those superstitions and setting those persecutions on foot is most probable as I can conjecture to curry favour of the Papists and seek by their means and assistance to raise their monstrous greatnesse and boundlesse ambition to such an height as they might easily crush and ruine all those who should attempt to oppose their superstitious cruell bloudy and hellish designes As for the Papists humane policie could never have invented one surer foundation then the Cardinals councels for them to have builded their greatnesse in this Kingdome all things wisely considered for hath not the pacifying of discords amongst the Papists here and the sending over of Bishops been the chief instruments and in a manner the sole causes of the excessive increase of the Romanists in these Kingdomes Let Papists themselves speak who tell us plainly that the dexterity of the Romish Bishops who are no fewer then the Protestant Bishops in number hath been such that in complying the one with the other they have equally shared in the divisions for if we may believe some of their catalogues there be above 6000. Priests in England which number being compared with that of the preaching Ministers shall not come farre short if not equall them as I suppose And truly this councell of the Cardinall hath been received by his part with as great policie and good successe as it was given with solidity and wisdome Now if the number be so excessive in England what shall we expect of Ireland where the most part of the Natives hath known no other Religion from their infancie truly the prodigious multitude of that whores sonnes who in blind zeal to that Idolatrous strumpet and blasphemous beast can finding opportunitie devote themselves to murder Kings and Princes blow up Parliaments betray their Countrey and bring all to confusion without fear of God or reverence to man as wofull experience the master of fools hath too too often taught by lamentable examples to the infinite dammage of the Christian world The sympathy and affinitie of those men with our Bishops is such as I conceive would not require much labour to make in most things a notable parallel which I leave to some other contenting my self onely to shew that their correspondency hath been such these many years that the Bishops have taken all things done against Papists as done against themselves and the Papists all things done against Bishops as done against their head the Pope and them but this hath been so cunningly performed as few could heretofore perceive it whilst at last the Papists seeing both themselves and the Miter of Bishops wronged as they thought by the factious covenanters of Scotland could contain themselves no more but burst out in rage against those Hereticks and openly undertook to defend that our Bishops were Iure Divino tales more I am sure then ever they would have said for their infallible head the Pope whom they defend onely to be Iure Ecclesiastice Pope but this they did perceiving that if ours should not be proved to be Iure Divino tales no Ecclesiastick or humane constitution could hinder their Miters to be fallable although themselves beleeve all that the Church the Pope beleeveth who will never beleeve any thing to his own disadvantage And least our Bishops should seem to be behind with the Papists in mutuall courtesies I assure you they have rendred them tenfold the league being offensive and defensive for they will have us beleeve that the Pope is not Antichrist but the true successour of Peter that the Romish Church as it is presently is the true Church that in it they defend no materiall or substantiall errours that our Religion differeth from the popish in matters of small or no consequence that invocation on Saints prayer for the dead worshipping of Images crucifixes and other reliques with more then seven mountains of other abominations of that blasphemous beast and her whorish Locusts are not onely lawfull but expedient and profitable to be used I may further averre that Papists have been the men of greatest esteem with our Bishops and that they went free being convicted by the Laws of the land when Godly and laborious Ministers zealous professours and sound Christians were most barbarously martyred and that for obeying the Laws of God and the King all this undoubtedly to please that man of sinne who under promise of assistance caused them to sin But I can tell them that he hath {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} written on the triple crown which covereth his blasphemous head and though this seem a mystery to most men yet they may perswade themselves it is true that the Pope would redeem their dignities with millions furnish them all with competent maintenance onely to cover under their wings the nest of his newly cleked vipers not without reason suspecting that their fall shall be his ruine in this land And although divers will affirm that Segnior Conne and Rosseti brought bags full of Apostolicall benedictions to all those who would spend their lives estates where the Miter was so much concerned yet their infallibility ●ea●ed them all those things not being capable to save from censure C. C. and some others who received a yeerly pension of Angelicall and Pistolicall benedictions from the P. his H. and the K. of S. to advance their affairs in England And now diverse Merchants assure mee that Gregorie is to have the bill of exchange to pay them the last wages for their service who as I am informed will be so ready upon the first receipt thereof to shew them the same courtesie he useth to others that they shall have no just occasion to complain of his sound dealing more then others have done before for my part I am so confident he will doe them right even behind their backs that I could heartily wish all such as their Lordships to addresse themselves to him who can certainly end their desires FINIS