Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	spirit_n	way_n	word_n	4,565	5	4.0752	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46846	The Jesuite and priest discovered, or, A Brief discourse of the policies of the Church of Rome, in preserving itself, and dividing of Protestant states and kingdoms in which is plainly demonstrated, the effects of their political operations upon us at this day, in respect to religion, and matters of state : together, with the necessity of their banishment.		1663 (1663)	Wing J703; ESTC R39013	11,218	15

THE JESUITE AND PRIEST DISCOVERED Or A Brief DISCOURSE OF The Policies of the Church of ROME in Preserving it Self and Dividing of Protestant States and Kingdoms In which is plainly Demonstrated the Effects of their Political Operations upon Us at this Day in respect to Religion and matters of State Together with the necessity of their Banishment London Printed 1663. The Jesuite Discovered THe Policy of the Church of Rome consisteth principally in dividing it Self into Divers and Sundry Orders which are provided to retain all Humors in Mankind By this She maketh Her Interest strong and powerfull and preserveth Her self from ruine without which She could not have continued to this Day or bin able to act any thing to the hurt or detriment of the reformed Churches First As to the diversity of Orders amongst them their only Policy to those who despise the Wealth of the World and that can content themselves with Poverty are the Mendicants their Prelates abound in Riches their Hermits and Capuchins for severity of Life their Cardinals for Pomp and Glory their Jesuits for Learning and all manner of Sciences their Popes and Prelates exercising Soveraignty and Princely Command They take especial care to ingage and ravish all manner of Humors On the one side of a Street you shall have a Nunnery or Cloister of Virgins on the other side a Sty of Courtizans One day you shall have them all in Masks with all manner of Obsceneness and Folly that can be imagined or the corrupt nature of man desire the day following they will be all in Processions whipping themselves untill the bloud commeth On one Door you shall have Excommunications throwing Souls and Bodies to Hell on another Door a Jubilee or full Discharge of all Villanies Murthers Fornication Drunkenness Swearing Forswearing Poysoning in a word all manner of sin Leudness and Impiety They were led to this Policy by the hand of Confessions by that means they come to discern the nature of Mankind in general They do not hold it safe to restrain any of these Humors lest it should cause Eruptions and make their Subjects seek some other way for to vent them in so that these Orders are as Sinks to receive the Humors They have not the sword of the Spirit to destory Vice nor the Word of Truth to convince of evil Doing therefore they must trust to carnal Policy For the more growth sin hath among them the more the Church increaseth in Riches for that all punishment upon the matter and pardons are Pecuniary The wayes they have to ravish all sorts of affections as is said before are well nigh infinite there being not any thing either Sacred or Prophane no Vertue or Vice almost nothing of how contrary condition soever which the Church of Rome maketh not in some sort or other to serve Her turn that each fancy may be satisfied and each appetite find what to feed on Whatsoever their Wealth can sway with its Lovers or voluntary Poverty with the despisers of the World what Honour with the Ambitious what Obedience with the Humble what great Imployments with stirring or Martial spirits as the Orders of Knights that of Rhodes St. John of Jerusalem those now of Malta that of the Knights of St. Morris and St. Lazare amongst the Savoyards established by Pope Alexander the fourth 1644. the Knights of the Order of the Dog and Cock in France The first were to wear a Collar full of Stags heads with the Image of a Dog to hang thereon to signify fidelity these followed Philip the first King of France in his Wars Those of the Cock signified watchfulness and had a Cock for their Blazon for that the Antients accounted it to be a Bird of Mars The Order of the Knights of the Ginit in France The Order of the Knights of the Leli in the Realm of Navar The Order of Knights of St. Mary in Jerusalem of St. John of Accon and of St. Thomas of St. Saviour in Arragon Knights of Mountjoy in Syria The Order of Knights of the Glorious Virgin in Italy The Order of the Knights of the Golden fleece in the Houses of Burgundy and Austria with above 200 more Orders of Knights too large here to be mentioned These Orders are for their Metall'd and Active spirits Also they have their perpetual provisions for their Heavy and Restive Bodies in their Cells What content or pleasure nature can take in Pass-Times and Jollities What contrariwise the Austere mind in Discipline and Rigor What Love either Chastity can raise in the pure or Voluptuousness in the impure or dissolute What allurements are in knowledg to draw the Contemplative or in Actions of State to imploy the Polititian What Miracles with the Credulous What Visions with the Fantastical What Ceremonies can do with the Superstitious What Prayers with the Devout What dispensing with breach of all Rules with Men of lawless condition In sum whatsoever the Heart of man can desire he is fitted with in the Storehouse of the Church of Romes Politicks for himself to pursue or at least to Adore or Reverence in another This is the main Wheel on which the Church moveth and keepeth fast Members of all sorts so that by this means of providing for the several Humours of the Members it enjoyeth the more quiet in it self and becommeth able to oppose and disturb the Reformed Churches They have other strings to their Bow besides this aforementioned which is indeed the chief The one is their Miracles Another is their keeping the Laiety in Ignorance For their Miracles the numbers are infinite that they reckon upon but they are all of the same stamp and Impression with these viz. the representation of the Virgin Mary with the Babe their Eyes to move at certain times it is performed by Engine work secretly contrived to cheat the people into a belief of their Fopperies the lifting up the hand of the Image of the Virgin in imitation of blessing the People and the like Her Image giving Milk on the Day of the Nativity conveyed by small Tinn Pipes at a great distance begot the admiration in the people and an Implicit faith of all these wonders A subtil Jesuite shall make his abode five or six years more or less being blind at least seem so to be by Dying the inner skin of the Eye by a water distilled from a certain Herb not fit to be mentioned here or seem Lame or Leprozed or otherwise by Guzmonds Art of raising an artificial Leprosy now used among some Beggars to move compassion in the Charitable When he is well known he shall come and implore the aid of such a Saint Immediately he shall be as whole as a Fish and his sight shall be restored then that Saint is repaired unto far and near offerings come plentifully Thus they contrive to enrich the Church and if it chance that any Bath or Spring break forth of the Earth that passeth thorow any mineral and is of Physical use as all

his observing the several Humors of the English Nation those that are more Austere as the Presbyterian those that are more pure as the Independent or separate Churches the Anabaptists as holy and select and as persons set apart from the World by their Submission to that Ordinance of Baptism at years of Discretion The Difference is not much material yet the Jesuit maketh use of these Distinctions to carry on his design by promoting of every one of them and by keeping them at an eaven poyse and sometimes again subdivide that thereby whilst he divideth them that are most near to the Truth he may work the better upon those that are of a baser Mind and Humor and that will receive more gross Principles more remote from the Truth And those he practiseth upon such who have not a spirit of discerning but have some Affection to devotion as on the Seeker and the Quaker more loser Principles on the Familists and Ranters merrier and pretty-conceited Devotions amongst the Rosicrucians and Psalterists or Halilujaists or Singers so of many others But he sometimes must make use of Truth and the wayes of Truth to gain advantages in his Design as the Devils in the possessed said What have we to do with thee Jesus of Nazareth thou Son of the most High God The Devil acknowledged Christ to be the Son of God in design for the People seeing him to be acknowledged by the Devils they drew this Conclusion That he did cast out Devils by the Power of Belzebub the Prince of Devils the Devils would never have confessed that he was the Son of God but to produce that contrary Effect So the Jesuit doth not promote or cast himself under those forms that are true or near the Truth to any other end than to produce those contrary Effects before premised viz. to divide and subdivide to render the Churches lesse formidable or powerful in opposing the Church of Rome if not subvert them and bring them back to the Obedience of the Church of Rome That this is certain and not taken up upon conjecture is evident by the practise of Thomas Ramsy of the order of Jesus who joyned with a gathered Church at Hexam in the North of England under this pretence That he was a Jew and gave himself his name Joseph Ben Israel his particular Instructions was to insinuate the Doctrine of Free-Will the which he did accomplish and carryed on with a High hand untill he was discovered detected and cast into Prison One that got more than ordinary advantages of Familiarity obtained of him the Discovery of many secrets in the Policy of the Jesuits practice some of which are these The waies that they practise in their Seminaries to bring up youth and render them fit for the intended Imployments they put them upon are They First observe the Genius of the Party and observing the peculiar Gifts he is naturally indowed with they fit him only for that service he learneth some Trade to hide and blind his Order which he practiseth by this means he becometh Eminent amongst those of that perswasion he casteth himself into and to put him into such a condition that he may be freed from the stings of Conscience they first teach him to swear curse damn and forswear and immediately to implore the Throne of Grace with all pious Devotion imaginable By this means they become flexible and fit for any design that lyeth before them to promote and if Conscience still should pursue them their Pardons help at a dead lift And this they warrant from that Maxim That no way is to be refused whereby the Felicity and Peace of the Church of Rome is to be promoted and secured Let it be by any means whatsoever lawful or unlawful These things considered How much doth it behoove all that truly fear God or have any true sincere Religion in their breast to detest and decline the thought of condemning this Form or that in regard Religion doth not lye in Forms but in the powerful practise of all Holinesse and godly Conversation and therefore consent to some Natural Harmony or Form necessary to the Truth that the union thereof may be such as it may be able to make head against the Church of Rome's designs and the Projects of the Devil else we shall continually be divided and subdivided till at last we shall neither have form or substance left and be hurried into all manner of Confusion The Truth of which is to be seen at this day amongst us How do the giddy and unstable run out of one thing into another The Devil and Jesuit can scarcely invent that which hath either seeming Form or Order in it fast enough or so fast as giddy People that were never well principl'd in Religion are ready to be led away captive by poysonous Notions that are daily distilled amongst them to the ruine of their own Souls and to the dishonour of God Who so soon as they are tainted by those delusions immediately think themselves illuminated by Divine Light as we see by sad Experience at this day amongst us by People that yield Obedience and submit to all manner of Delusions and conform to them as Impulses from on High which is nothing else but the Effects of depraved minds agitated illuminated and acted by the Evil One. The Art of the Jesuits is manifest Another way which serveth them to great purpose is the loosening of People from Principles and when effected distill Notions to pursue after the discovery of new Lights and instead of meeting with that which is Light they close with what suiteth to their corrupt Minds or Ends The Inferiour sort of every Perswasion when the Jesuit hath distilled his poysons amongst them receive the Notions and Principles as Truth and many of them worship under those Forms and Notions as in Spirit and Truth The chief of most of them do joyn with them out of corrupt Ends to be Head of the Factions to exercise a kind of Domination which is delightful to mankind so that the Jesuit doth no more than first distill a Poysonous Notion and nurse it and defend it till it be indifferent considerable when accomplished it will subsist of it self and put it self into Form and Order Then when he hath done that by Error if that should grow too fast he allayeth it by subdividing of it by some true Notion or some other erronious Notion which are equally alike to the Jesuit for that the end of his design is Dividing When he hath devided and cast a Nation into many and various Forms he hath accomplished and arrived to his End then if he can Procure Foment or Stirr up Dissatisfaction and Jealousies betwixt the Interests there he keepeth them in continual ebbing and flowing and naturally every Perswasion will incline some to one Interest of State some to another As for Example the Episcopal doth naturally incline to a Monarchy Campanella did give the King of Spain the best advice to practise