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A62176	The Jesuite discovered, or, A brief discourse of the policies of the Church of Rome, in preserving it self, and dividing of Protestant states and kingdomes in which, is plainly demonstrated, the effects of their political operations upon us at this day, in respect to religion, and matters of state.	J. S.	1659 (1659)	Wing S69; ESTC R8681	16,341	24

THE JESUITE DISCOVERED Or A Brief DISCOURSE OF The Policies of the Church of Rome in Preserving it Self and Dividing of Protestant States and Kingdomes In which is plainly Demonstrated the Effects of their Political operations upon Us at this Day in respect to Religion and matters of State Gal. 3.1 O foolish Galatians Who hath bewitched you that you should not Obey the Truth London Printed 1659. TO The Reader THis Discourse of the Jesuit Discovered I intended that it should have bin much larger and better Methodized but that I finding the Malevolent Influences of the Jesuit and the Common Enemy powred out so fast upon Us therefore Published it thus Rude and Vndigested This will not prevent the Evil but it demonstrateth that some course ought to be taken that this Nation may come to a Consistence in Government else nothing but ruine will follow So many Perswasions as we find in the Nation so many Interests of State we may find also unless all be wound up upon one bottom it will be a hard matter to save it from Destruction The Saints Interest must not be onely consulted but also their Interest that are not accounted Saints Our Saviour adviseth his Apostles to let the Tares and the Wheat grow together untill the Harvest Perfection is not attained unto in this Life therefore our perswasion in Religion ought not in point of its own safety seek Predomination over another It is to be bewayled amongst us that mens merit by many is measured by their opinions T is true that the Jesuit hath had more opportunity for to practise upon us this last 22 years than he had in 100 years before and would do much more if he could perswade you to take down and throw in the dust the Ministers of Gods most holy Word What think you of those that say They are dumb Doggs Hirelings and Antichristian Did not the Jesuit teach them to spell that Lesson Be sober Englishmen be sober you are Ridd by the Jesuit throw him off seek after wholesome Principles that may be as Charts to sayl by in this Turbulent Dangerous Sea where you find nothing but Rocks and Shelves He hath raised mists that you cannot descry nor make any true observation of your Land marks that should guide you into safe Harbor He feedeth you with Notions that are sweet in the mouth but bitter in the belly yea Poyson He infatuateth your understandings that you cannot distinguish between Life and Death He layeth his Snares at distances and biddeth you walk as in a most pleasant path but behold you are taken in his Toyl Do not look so a squint upon Him who is not of your perswasion but take him unto thee and imbrace him and say unto him Brother The Jesuit hath endeavoured to set us at Odds. We are the same in fundamentals Why should those small Circumstances be such marks of distinction and difference Come let us unite and joyn hand in hand in the Work of our God and these Nations that the People of the Lord in other Nations that shall hear of it may rejoyce and his Enemies may fear and tremble for that England is become an intire Piece in the Building of the most Holy One. Unite that you may not be broken How much is the love of Gods People one towards another abated since they were separated by those various distinctions amongst us If there were no more in it but that of the preserving love among those that fear the Lord it should be a sufficient Inducement to unite and a prevayling perswasion to submitt to it as an Essential Dùty but there is more also in it viz. If you do not unite your ruine will follow and you will be broken one against another What if one perswasion were fully possest with Soveraign Power could they hold it No For that there is no one Perswasion but must Exclude and Sever from their Interest six times their own number Will Councel or Arms defend you in such a Case No there is nothing Will or Can Defend or Preserve but union of all Interests for which he prayeth who is an unfained lover of the Church and People of God and his Native Country J. S. I have here briefly unlockt the Cabinet of the Policies of the Church of Rome and do desire that others more able then my self will make it their Work to search further in the mysteries of their Policies that the evil intended by them to us may be thereby prevented I also intend to do more of this matter God Willing THE Jesuit 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 preserveth Her self and maketh Her Interest strong and powerful 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 onely 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 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 until the blood cometh On one Door you shall have Excommunications throwing Souls and Bodyes 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 Lendness 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 destroy Vice nor the Word of Truth to convince of evil Doing therefore they must trust to carnall Policy For the more growth sin hath among them that 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 I sayd 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

particular 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 suteth to their corrupt Mindes or Ends The Inferiour sort of every perswasion when the Jesuit hath distilled his poyson 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 Heads of the factions to exercise a kind of Domination which is delightful to mankind so that the Jesuite doth no more then first distilt Poysonous Notions 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 a like 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 Forment or Stirr up Dissatisfaction and Jealousies betwixt the Interests there he keepeth them in continual ebbing flowing and naturally every perswasion will incline some to one Interest of State some to another As for example the Episcopal doth naturally encline to a Monarchy the Presbytery doth also encline to a Monarchy but that is accidentall for the Presbytery is well suited as to its form for a Commonwealth but here when it started from the Interest of the Common-wealth it was necessitated because it was suspected by the then Supream Power therefore it adheared to the Interest of Charles Stuart and espoused his Quarrel The Independent naturally incline to a Commonwealth The fifth Monarchy to an Oligarchy that is to say a Select company of Men to Govern so and so qualified Campanella did give the King of Spain the best advice to practise this kind of policy yea he commendeth it before the opposing of England by Arms. The reason why he chose the Doctrine of free will to be first set on foot in England was because that opinion concludeth Man to be a free Agent which looseneth and freeth the disciples thereof from more firm and sounder Principles and prepareth them to seek after new Lights and when once arrived to this degree immediately they turn Enthusiasts who pretend or think that all they do is done by the Spirit and that they are attended by the spirit of Revelation Our Quaker is much pestered with the Malignant Influence of this opinion The Jesuit by this means doth not onely divide People as to Religion and thereby render them lesse formidable against the Church of Rome but also bringeth an evil Report upon the Protestant Religion disuniteth the affections of the professors thereof and causeth Jealousies Heart-burnings and Animosities one against the other and taketh them off from the Power of Religion to defend paultry forms and distinctions and that which is worst of all thereby increaseth so many distinct and different Interests of State as there are considerable perswasions in a Commonwealth that Cherisheth Religion as is in part shewed before When a perswasion is grown up to be considerable it giveth occasion for factions in State Thereby some ambitious men will become the Heads of this or that faction and by the Power of the faction they head become Mighty and sometimes arive to the top of Supreamacy thereby But of all Perswasions Opinions or notions that of the Enthusiast is the most dangerous and inconvenient to a Common-wealth for when that the Jesuit hath infused that Opinion That what ever is given into their hearts after praying or seeking to God must needs be the mind of God and pursued with all vigour and earnestnesse to the death they then do nothing but roul out of one Change into another and out of one thing into another and a State or Power having gotten once out from the Center or Basis of true Interest by such wicked principles they shall never return nor take Sanctuary at Settlement and Safety before utter ruine and destruction as is plainly demonstrable in these few Lines following that is to say A State or Power having once repaired to extraordinary means to accomplish this or that Design if they have successe in it immediately they conclude God hath done it for them and so repaire to one extraordinary Undertaking after another so often as they have opportunity and conclude into be righteous so often as they have successe which may as well and justly be concluded by him that robbeth or killeth on the High way if he were in a Capacity strong enough to protect himself from Justice he would seem righteous and in stead of being Hanged by the Judge he would execute the Judge The Error that such People States or Powers are in is that they were Principles and Rules and Act neither by Principles nor Rules but prop●und to themselves the Object or End that is no say what they would have or desire then they seek God afterwards consult and if by consultation it be found attainable then it is the mind of God if not the contrary God is to be sought in all undertakings nay it is an underlable Duty but in seeking Him respect is to be had to the Justice of what we seek for Now in this Man is very subject to be led out of the way of Truth for he is very apt to conclude that what he would have is just the desire or affection is passion and passion doth Cloud the Judgment and that which is true in one holdeth proportionably true in more then one being united by one Interest Now if the Judgment be so Clouded by private affection and a State or Power be led by such Principles What wickednesse shall not they be led into What villanies shall not they attempt What so sacred that they shall not violate Or what Interest or Right will not they invade What shall limit them if they find opportunity to attempt the accomplishing or the attaining to their desire Miserable is that Nation that hath such a Prince or Power Civil or Military that are poysoned with such Opinions such Powers are ridd by the Jesuit who will ride them not onely out of breath but at last to death The World is mistaken when they apprehend that the Jesuit worketh immediately in Councels to produce Turns and Changes of State No but he worketh by remote Causes such as are here before premised than is to say by infusing Notions destructive to publick safety at first into the common People then it is drunk in by great Ones then it Cleaveth and Divideth a Nation into so many Interests as there are Perswasions then he