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PHILANAX PROTESTANT' OR PAPISTS Discovered to the KING As guilty of those Traiterous Positions and Practises which they first Insinuated into the worst ProteCharge upon all:
To which is added PHILOLAUS Or Popery discovered to all Christian PEOPLE in a serious diswasive from it.
For further justification of our Gracious King, and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.
LONDON, Printed in the Year 1663. and are to be sold at the Royal Exchange, Westminster-Hall, and most Book-sellers Shops.
NOw the Popish Party being disappointed in their great design for Indulgence. 1. B, the care of our gracious Soveraign; Who will neither be provoked by the affronts of some that call themselves ProteOnce delivered to the Saints.
2. By the vigilancy of Orthodox and good BiThe defence of the Gospel.
3. By the honourable Interposition of those most Noble Lords who search the Scriptures, the first Counsels, and fathers. Whether these things are so?
4. By the resolution of the most Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled to stand by the grand establishment of the King
5. By the Ingenuity of our two most excellent
Church of England, and the Protestant Religion grow desperate and shake off all modesty; IngeCaveat to all Kings, Princes, and Prelates against the Protestants: Under pretence of some mens miscarriages Involving all, now they dare charge us with those Principles against Government which they themselves teach, with those treasons which they act, with those Rebelions which they promote: which our Learned and sober writers disown, our Confessions and Articles of Religion opThe light of our eyes, as the breath of our nostrils, as the crown of our head: Who make prayers and supplications for you and all that are in authority under you; who obey you for Conscience sake: & cannot resist you, knowing that whosoever resisteth resistethto hisown damnation, who must needsbesubject to you, as supream and to those that are in Church & State sent by you: who fear God and honour you our King and meddle not with them that are given to change: for we know their calamity shall arise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both? Who dare think no evil of you, not in our hearts much less murmure and speak evil against you: Who though
will not stir out of our place: who dare not call you to any account of your matters—nor say unto you, what do you: who with the antient Christians worship God above all: and obey honour and reverence you as next unto God on earth? We to vindicate our selves; to inform the world aright; to shew the true grounds of our late misery: and the present oppoWe humbly desire the world may know that it is not any private respect or opinion, its not any kindnesse you have for heresy or schism, Its not any cruelty or persecution that you provide just laws against Popery a new, or execute those that are already provided: but its a roy
1. They teach that the Magistrate hath nothing Contzen polit: c: 16. Bellarm: 5. de pont:—A 2 de Primati
In vain do you Govern if these men and these posi&c. anothers Religion is to deny all ordinances, ministry, Church duties, &c. anothers Religion is to disturb all conLeast you should persecute, or oppresse tender consciences, your Subjects may be perverted, your people may be debauched, and your KingMagistrate hath nothing to do in matter of Religion; we your poor Protestant SubNebuchadnezzar and Darius among the Persians as the Governours awhose first care was Religion, as the Roman Kings, Senates and Emperours whose great prudence it was not to admit of a strange Religion, as the Primitive Governours who as appears by their Laws, Orders, Institutes, and nemo Canons: Laid out their highest endeavours for the settlement of the true Religion, and as your Ancestors of blesgodliness and honesty: but alas! temporal Princes saith Suarez must meddle with temporal matters: they must let men be of what prinCosterus the Jesuit meddle with the affaires of the Church of God.
2. We your Loyal Protestant Subjects were realthere was none above you, to whom you should give account of your selves but God: speculum Jesuit. p. 187. 188. who have dogmatically asserted that the Pope hath abGovernment
as God to pull down some Kings, and set up others as Bensarchius profanely speaks, not onely to excommunicate,
but judicialy to suspend to mult with tempor
all penalties, depose, dethrone, put to death, and destroy any Christian Emperours, Kings, Princes,
Potentates, by open sentence, war, force, conspiracies private assassinations, and to give away their Crowns and Dominions to whosoever will invade them by treason or rebellion at the Popes command: who may translate Kingdomes to whom he pleaseth, all Kings deriving their Crowns from him alone, upon their good behaviour at his pleasure.
We are of opinion that the Government of the Church is enough, if not too much for the Pope and innocently perswade our selves he need not be so busie in other mens matters, but we know nonon solum potest Papa &c. sed debet &c. That the Pope not
can but ought to shew himself above Princes, why say we? why say the Jesuits of Paris against Arnoldus: to keep them (that is Kings) within their duty that in case of heresie, schisme, disobedience to, Rebellion against the Pope, and see of Rome, Male administration, refusal, to defend the Pope InsufficiSanctarellus taught, & our late disturbers learned the necessity of Publick good, or the safety of the Church and State, or the cause
of God: guess now who set up the high Court of justice. Now that your bloud may not rise against this here is nothing unequal or unfit. For saith the said Sanctarellus: multum aequum, & reip. expediens ut sit aliquis supremus M
ministrare, i. e. in English, demand justice, justice against delinquency, set up a high Court of Justice.
3. We and the more harmless part of the world thought that no man could lay his hand upon you Emanual Sa, that dangerous Papist assures us, that lat a sentententia quisque potest fieri executor, any man
may rid us of a Tyrant, but sure none of those that have sworn obedience to him may lay violent hands on the King: etiam qui juraverit &c. yea he who hath sworn obedience, if the Prince will not be ruit, potest autem e populo: any man may do it anyman that is careless of
Annos In cubui saith the solemn D. I studied it, 40. years,—a well studied, point I assure you: but his friends do not own him,—no ile warran
Ans. If there be but one traytor among the Jesuites they are much wronged,—alas he was but a dull melancholy man indeed to Mariana, who tells us Jure interimi potest, he may lawfully be killed: but the Learned are many of them honest, most of them ingenuous, and all deOzorius but any man may conHugh Peters said a short way to work, and that all mortals may not loose themselves in insignificant, general Mariana tells you how it may London resolved to dispatch K. Charles the first, (It was Jesuites that saught that excellent Princes bloud.) 2. by poysoning saddles, as Lopez should have served Q. Elizabeth, and this he saith is an excellent way, for it is the Moors way in Spain. 3. By poysoning Boots so as gouty Henry of Fra
was cured of all diseases. And this is a good way
quel est Artifice Roi moris. 4. By poysoning See Dr.
way c 10. p. 46. G
Hast. Xeth p. 764. Thuan. l 7Joan Albretta Q. of Navarre to death onely for favouring and protecting the Protestants in France against their violence. 5. By stabbing as they let out Hen. 3. and H. 4. of France great souls into an other world, and by Pistoling as they served William Prince of Orange Anno 1584. which great man they sent within three dayes into another world. 7. By a stone poyson wherewith men may be seven years a dying, going to another world by piece-meals, and dying dayly as Stephen Botskay of Transylvania. By PowM
and disclaime his doctrine? It were well for the Christian world if you did. Indeed the whole Vniversity of Paris, Anno 1625. and 26. censured Zuares, Bellarmine and Mariana for these passages, as not only most pernisubversive of Kingdoms, States, Republicks, seducing subjects from their obedience and subjection, and stirring them up to wars, factions, seditions, and the Murders of Kings. But what say the whole society in their apology 1610. They are all enemies to the name of Jesus that condemn Mariana &c, for any of these
Bensor. chap. c
Doctrines. O how Gretzer is taken with Marianas book, how pious, how useful, how elegant, Its the least recompence he can have for this work to give Mariana
De Onan the Provincial of Toledo would have lived and died reading that book, Iterum, & tertio Facturus &c. again and again would he have read Marianaes excellent book if he had been at leasure. Yow will say are such things as these licensed? LiHoyveda the visitor geneut approbatum a viris doctis, gravibus ex eodem ordine, as approved by learned and grave men of the same order, you may guess what they are by this. Arnold indeed arrests them Taylor Serm Dedic. to the late Ca
Paris for these tenents, but they cry Veritas defensa contra actionem Antonii, Arnoldj, the truth (a sad truth really) the truth defended against the Arrest of Arnold. Nay but we wrong them this business of King-killing is but a disputable question which some may hold one way, and others another. Not so neither saith Bellarmine, Non opinio sed tertitudo, its not onely an opinion but a great certainty:
res certa, & explorata, you must look upon them in this point as in others Insallible.
But you will say, I pray deal faithfully with me, do you think the Church of Rome holds such dan
Ans. 1. Ecclesia erreret si impune &c. If the Church should offer to let Kings go unpunished, it should erre? though it be built upon Cephas, though it be otherwise infallible: though its faith should neBellarmine saith in one place, if the Pope perswaded a man to go to hell it were a sin not to believe him: if he teach a damnable error he is yet infallible; always provided
erres.
2. That you may be sure the Church is right in this point, Bellarmine tells you, ex authoritate frequenti Ecclesia facit, &c. The Church doth these things Frequently: Its a very usual thing it seems, nay saith Johannes Eudaemon, mistake not non est Jesuitarum propria, sed totius Ecclesiae, to give the Jesuite his due, it is not the Doctrine of the Jesuits only, but of the whole Church; yea that the world may know the Jesuits are well backed, Universa Theologorum & juris consultorum Scholasticorum Schola, saith Creswell: The whole School of Divines and Lawyers,
make it a Position certain and undoubtedly to be believed, that if any Christian Prince whatsoever, shall manifestly turn from the Roman Catholick Religion, or desire or seek to reclaim others from the same, or but favour or shew Countenance to an Heretick, he presently falleth From, and loseth all Princely power and dignity, and that by vertue and power of the Law it self, both Humane and Divine, even before
any Sentence pronounced against him, by the Supream Pastor and Judge; That thereby his Subjects are absolved from all Oaths and Bonds of Allegiance, to him as to their Lawful Prince; nay that they may and ought (provided that they have competent power and force) to cast out such a Prince from bearing rule amongst Christians, as an Enemy to his own Estate and Commonwealth, and that the Kingdom of such an Heretick or Prince, is to be bestowed at the pleasure of the Pope, with whom the people upon pain
of damnation are to take part, and fight against their Soveraign.
Lord (you will say) can any men after so many Oaths and Obligations upon the Pope, or others Instigation, rebel against their lawful Soveraign?
A. Aas! do you not know that children are dePapa
potest quanquam absolvere de juramento fidelitatis, when you have taken all the care Imaginable to obUsher, would make a fool of the wise King James, and the Parliament that formed the Oath of Allegiance; sed vide (saith he) in astutiâ quanta sit simplicitas, &c. But see what simplicity here is in so great craft! when he had placed all his security in that Oath, he thought (I poor how contemptible this Jesuit looks, upon an exKing and his August Parliament) he had framed such a manner of Oath with so many circumstances, which no man could any way dissolve. But he (poor man) Could not see that if the Pope dissolve the Oath, all its knots whether of being faithful to the King, or of admitting no dispensation, are accordingly dissolved: Thus (now he was teaching the world a strange doctrine saith he) I will say a thing more admirable; you know I believe, that an unjust Oath if it be evidently known to be such, or openly declared such, obligeth no man: that the Kings Oath is unjust, is sufficiently declared by the Pastor of the Church himself: you see now that the Obligation of it is vanished into smoak, and that the band which so many wise men thought was made of
Iron, is lesse than straw: a trick to over throw the world.
But sure no Christians will be so wicked as to attempt such things against their Soveraigns.
Ans. They must—hear what Father Creswell saith, Certe non tantum Licet sed summa etiam juris divini
cer
But the Counsel of Constance hath denied that it is lawful for any private men to attempt any thing against Publique authority.—
Alas! What is that? as they resolve in other things Non abstante sic: Scriptura—so in this Case, Non obstantc Concilii const. decreto licitum est privatis &c. Notwithstanding any decree of that Counsel by the authority of the Pope who is above all Counsels, Private men may, Omni ratione & vi
by any Prince.
How may a Prince be safe in that Case?
An. Bellarmine told K. James of famous memory, si secure, regnare velit Rex &c. If the King would reign with safety—if he would secure his mens lives and his, then let him suffer the Catholicks to enjoy their Religion—Wellfair thy heart Bellarmine—that was plain English.
It seemes that if the Roman Catholicks are not
Ans. No it is not (saith Bellarmine de Pont. Rom. lib. 2 cap 7.) For Christians to tolerate an Heritical King (and he that cannot come up to all the abominations of Rome is Heritical) if he ende
We Protestants indeed did think that we should be obedient unto the death rather then resist as all the primitive Christians did, who said they could dye but they could not disobey.
Alas, We are deceived, alas! if the primitive Christistrength and not because they wantwill saith Bellarmine: so that no Prince is safe any longer than he keeps under the Papists and as they would perswade the world all Christians too when there is evident knowledge of the fact, Subjects may Lawfully exempt themselves from the power of their prince, before any declaratory sentence of a Judge, so they have but strength to do it: hence it followes that the Papists of England and Saxony are to be excused (saith he) that do not free themselves from the power of their Superiors, nor make War against them because commonly they are not strong enough.
It is indeed generally and charitably believed
Thus O Kings are you served in ordine ad spiritualia by the Papists—while We poor Protestants think.
That we cannot do any evil against you: that the greatest good many come to us, or the Church thereby.
If men came to us to discover any design against your Sacred Majesty (whom God preserve) and asked our advice about it, we must neds have abcan a man touch the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse.
If they come to Gar
in England about a powder
Guignard in France about a murther; Tirannus jure Interini potest, say the one its good and commendable and Heroick, saith the other and both dismisse them, with their blessing, prayer, and absolution.
When those licentious men among us acted as we are verily perswaded by Jesuitical Insinuations, and Popish principles: assaulted and murthered hislate We were all amazed: Our Nobility offered to dye for him. our Clergy, writ, prayed and preached against it, our whole Nation abhorred it; some dyed at the very hearEngland, Scotland, and Ireland, gathered black
When Clement murthered Hen. the 3d. of France, Voiez commends him, the Preacher at Colen
Sextas Quintus, makes a solemn Panegyrick upon him on September 11. 1589. in the Consistory in order to his Canonizations—Comparing him to Ehud, and Eleazar—And concluding with this meI pray God finish what he hath begun.
When Ravillac stabbed Hen. the 4th. of France, he hath no lesse then two Apologies made for him, the one by Veruna, the other by Guignard, who writes as if he would have done as much; himself yea he saith that Clements murther was most Heroical, and most praise-worthy,—adding moreover these words;—if we in the year 1572. on St. Bartholmews day (in the general Massacre of the French Protestants) had cut off the Basilicon vein (H. King of Navarre) we had not fallen out of a Feavour, into
sed quioquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi sanguini parcendo, that K. Henry should be but over mildly dealt with, if he were thrust from the Crown of France into a Modeposed without a War, a War must be raised against him, but if a War could not be levyed against him: the Cause being dead—
Let him be privily murdered (as he was) and taken out of the way:—and when this Guignard was justly executed by the Parliament of Richeome makes an Apology for him: and the whole Society expostulates against the Arrest of Parliament.—
We say to this day of the powder Traytors: Cursed be their wrath, for it was cruel: and their anger, for it was sierce:—our Souls come not yet into their secrets:—Bellarmine he hath written an Apology for Garnet,—Gretzer hath seconded him: Eudaemon he goeth along with him:—the whole Church hath Canonized, the Traytors Hallowed the Trea
We your Protestant Subjects stood firmly to your Predecessor Hen. 8. Obeyed heartily that Godly Prince, Fd. the 6. suffered patiently under Q. Mary: assisted our Gracious Q. Fliz. with our prayers, lives, and fortunes: opened the way cheerfully and unanimously to your famous Grandfather King James, to his haereditary Dominions and Territo
The Papists in the mean time oppose, resist, aH. 8.—rebelled with Ket, and other Northern men, against Ed. the 6.—they incite Q. Mary to destroy and baElizabeth, encourage Cullen and others to murther her, assuthey should merit Heaven and Gods favour by it: Further adding with Jacques Francis, That the Realm of England, then was and would be so well setled, that unless Mrs. Elizabeth (so he called Q. Elizabeth) were suddenly taken away: all the DeWhen in it was expired—That the Pope, by the power given from God by Lawful Succession from Catholick Church, for the defection of H. the 8th. who forcibly separated himself and his people from the Communion of Christians, which was promoted by Edward the sixth, and Elizabeth; who being pertinacious and impertinent in the same Rebellion and Usurpation: Therefore the Pope incited by the continual perswasions of many, and by the suppliant prayers of the English men themselves. N. B. Hath dealt with divers Princes, and especially the most potent King of Spane, to depose that woman, and punish her pernicious Adhaerents in that Kingdom, &c. he adds moreover that Pope Sextus before him prescribed the Queen, and took from her all her Dignities, Titles and Rights to the Kingdomes of England, and Ireland, absolving her Subjects from the Oath of Fidelity and Obedience: he chargeth all men upon pain of the wrath of
God, that they afford her no favour, help or aid, but use all their strength to bring her to punishment: and that all the English joyn with the Spaniard as soon as he is Landed: offering rewards and pardon of sins, to them that will Lay hands on the Queen,—and so shewing on what Conditions he gave the Kingdome to the King of Spain.—Read the rest there, for though dangerous it is worth the reading.
When We received King James your Grandfawe hope your posterity to whom we do and may acknowledge, that by you we enjoy great quietnesse: and we hope many worthy deeds may be done to this Nation by Your providence, which we shall accept alwayes in all places with all ehankfulnesse: When I say we received that excellent King with all cheerfulnesse, there was a Bull from Pope Clement the 8th. directed to H. Garnet Superiour of the Jesuites in England: Whereby he Commanded all the Archpriests, Priests, Popish Clergy, Peers, Nobles, and Catholiques of Engthat after the death of Queen Elizabeth, by the course of nature or otherwise, whosoever shall lay Claim or Title to the Crown of England (though never so directly, or nearly interested by descent) should not be admitted unto the Throne, unlesse he would first tolerate the Popish Religion, and by his best endeavours promote the Catholique Cause; unto which by his solemn and sacred Oath, he should Religiously subscribe, after the death of that miserable Woman; (so he styleth Q. Elizabeth.) By virtue of which Bull, the Jesuites after her decease disswaded the Romish Subjects, from yielding in any wise obediJames as their Soveraign;—Insomuch
that the Catholiques durst not be good Subjects: until Parsons and Champions, procured them an Indulgence to that purpose from the Pope.—
And what do you think would Cobham Gray &c. have done? They say they would have surprized K. James his person before he was crowned, and his Son, H. and Imprison them in the Tower of London. In Dover-Castle, till they enforced them by durance to grant a free toleration of their Catholick Religion, to remove some evil Counsellors from about them, (Evil Counsellors do you hear) Or else they would put
some further project against them in execution to their destruction.
But say the good Papists here—really we abhorre all these Treasons.
A. Do you in earnest?—it is well; but I will tell you a story:—when the Parliament of Paris asked the Jesuites their judgement of Sanctarellus his Book, v. 12. (seeing their general had approved the Book, and judged the things there written to be certain, whether they are of the same mind?) they answered (that living at Rome, he could not but approve what was there approved of) But say the Parliament what think you? say the Jesuites the clean contrary—say the Examiners; But what would you do if you were at Rome say the Jesuites?—That which they do that are at Rome: at which, said some of the Parliament, what! have they one Conscience at Rome, and another at Paris?—God blesse us from such Confessors as these:—I leave it with you to apply it.
Not to be endlesse, hear what one John Brown a Priest, aged 72 years, saith of them:—Prynnes Inp. 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 212.
unchristian Treasonable
Designes, have been pragmatical, furious, active JSociety was first erected by Ignatius Loyola (a Spaniard by Birth, but A (c) SOULDIPaul the 3. Anno 1540. which Order consisting onely of ten persons at first, and confined only to sixty by this Pope, hath so monstrously increased by the Popes and Spaniards favours and assistance (whose Lewes O
his JesuLondon 16Janizaries, Factors, Intelligencers they are) that in the year 1626. (d) they caused the picture of Ignatius their Founder to be cut in Brasse, with a goodly Olive Tree growing (like Jesses root) out of his side, spreading its branches into all Kingdomes and Provinces of the World, where the Jesuites have any Colledges and Seminaries, with the name of the Province at the foot of the branch, which hath as many leaves as they have Colledges and Residencies
Province; in which leaves, are the names of the Towns and Villages where these ColIgnatius his right hand, there is a paper, wherein these words are engraven, Ego sicut Oliva fructifera in domo Dei; taken out of Ps. 52. 8. which pourtraictures they then printed and pubnumber of their Colledges and Seminaries to be no lesse then 777. (increased to 155 more, by the year 1640.) in all 932. as they published in like Pictures and Pageants printed at Antwerp, 1640. Besides sunNew Colledges and Seminaries erected since.
Colledges and Seminaries of theirs, they had then (as they print) 15591 Fellows of their Society of Jesus, besides the Novices, Scholars, and Lay-brethren of their Order, amounting to near ten times that number. So infinitely did this evil weed grow and spread it self, within one hundred years after its first planting. And which is most observaColledges and Seminaries they reckonRomes Ma
Doom, p. 435. &c. Hidden Work o
88, 144.IN PROVINCIA ANGLICANA, in the Province of ENGLAND, where were 267 SOCII or Fellows of that Society, besides 4 COLLEDGES OF JESUITES ELSEWHERE. In IRELAND and elsewhere 8 Colledges of IRISH JESUITES: and in SCOTand otherwhere 2 Residencies of SCOT
What the chief imployments of Ignatius and his numerous swarms of Disciples are in the World, his own Society at the time of his Canonization for a Romish Saint, sufficiently discovered in their painPageants, then shewed to the people, (e) wherein they pourtraied this new Saint holding the whole
world in his hand, and fire streaming out forth of his heart (rather to set the whole world on sire by Combustions, Wars, Treasons, Powder-plots, Schismes new State, and old Church-Heresies, then to enlighten it) with this Motto; VENI IGNEM
his runLisbon.
I came to send sire into the World; which the University of Cracow in Poland. objected (amongst other Articles) against them, Anno 1662. and Alphonsus de Uargas more largely insisteth on in his Relatio de Stratagematis & Sophismatis Politicis Jesuitarum, &c. An. 1641. c. 7, 8. 24.
(f) Pope and Spaniard too, having long since (by Campanella's advice) erected many Colledges n Rome, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and elsewhere, for English, Scottish, Irish Jesuites (as well as for such secular Priests, Friers, Nuns) of purpose to promote their designs against Protestant Princes, Realms, Churches, Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, and to reduce them under their long prosecuted
Tho
Campanwatsons quodl bets, CoOssets Letters Arcana Impeover them, by Fraud, Policy, Treason, intestine Divisions, and Wars, being unable to effect it by their own power; no doubt of late years many hundreds, if not thouSociety, have crept into England, Scotland and Ireland, lurking under several disConne the Popes Nuntio, on purpose to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars, thereby to endanger, shake, subvert these Realms, and destroy the late King (as you may read at large in my Romes Master-piece, published by the Commons special Order, An. 1643.) who occasioned, excited, fomented, the first and second intended (but happily prevented) wars between England and Scotland, and after that, the unhappy Differences, Wars, between the King, Parliament, and our three Protestant Kingdoms, to bring them to utter desolation, and extirpate our reformed Religion.
We conclude this Importunity with the Prayer on the 5th. of November for your Majesty.
O Lord who didst this day discover the snares of death that were laid for us, and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same; Be thou still our mighty Protector, and scatter our enemies that delight in bloud, infatuate and defeat their counsels abate their pride, asswage their malice, and confound their devices. Strengthen the hand of our gracious King Charles, and all that are put in authority under him, with Judgement and Justice, to cut off all such workers of iniquity, as turn religion into rebellion, and faith into saction; that they may never prevail against us, or triumpth in the ruin of thy Church among us; But that our gracious Soveraigns Realms, being preserved in thy true Religion, and by thy merciful goodnesse protected in the same, we may all duly serve thee, and give thanks in thy holy congregation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
YOu are so conscious of your Duty to Kings, so obliged to their Governwritten in many of your dread Soveraigns sacred blood: a Religion whose prime Article (as some of them say) is Treason; a ReligiStates and Kingdoms; who turn the World upside down. We
Their lives, but your souls:—It's not onely a great inconvenience that hindereth your peace and settlement in this World, but a mischief that may hinder your Salvation in the next. We hope indeed that you have received the truth of your own Religion in much assurance; that you are rooted and grounded in the Faith: Since you have scarched the Scriptures (which the Papists kept from you) and finde that these things are so: Since you have felt the power and comfort of the Truth in your souls: Since you finde it owned by Gods wonderful dispensations in the World, whereby it's great, and doth prevail, and seated in your hearts by his Spirit: Since you see it eminent in the lives of many good men, and confirmed by the death of as many excellent Confessors and Martyrs, who vouch it with their last breath, and seal it with their dearest blood: Since you know it's owned by the Church of Rome its self (which hath nothing, which we may call a Religion, but ours, viz. The Scriptures, the Lords Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments, &c. to which they have added their own idolatrous, superstitiReligion,—that while he with the advice of his great Council, by a serious Law restrains you from Popery, for fear; we by seriYea, that they may be in your heart, that you may teach them diligently to your children, that you may talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. Ma
1. We taught you (who are our joy and crown, who we hope will be our rejoycing in the day of our Lord Jesus) we taught you a Religion pure and undefiled before God,—which consists in solid virtue, serious holiness; an exact conversasoberly, righteously, peaceably, and Godly in this present World; a Religion perfect, right,
pure, sure, faithful, holy, just, spiritual, lively, operative,
heavenly; that enlighneth the minde, sanctifieth the heart, reforms the life,—frames a man after Gods own image, in righteousness and true holitruth which is after Godliness, a Mystery of Godliness; a Religion that may make you wise to Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus; which may be profitable for Doctrine, for reproof, for correctiyou may be perfect, and throughly furnished unto all good works; in whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virture, if there be any praise.
Alas! The Papists having nothing besides the Halls disswasive.that true godliness which you profess is profitable for this life, and for that which is to come. They can teach you nothing but their own vain and useless inventions, whereby they make void the Commandments of God: nothing that may settle the heart, establish the conscience, satisfie the soul, weaken sin, strengthen grace, promote your comfort, or secure your eternity.
2. We have preached, and do preach to you
Luk. 8. 5. The Testimony of the Lord, that is sure, making wise the simple. We made your way plain before you. They of Rome will perplex you with those infinite rules of Faith, which the Learned among them cannot comRome, and be saved; and to mor
3. We have perswaded, and do still perswade
good; we have intreated you to grow in all knowYou have a sure word of prophecie, to which, we say, you would do well to take heed, as unto a light shining in a dark place, a light to your feet, and a lanthorn to your paths.—We say,—when an holy wisedom entereth into your hearts and knowledge, it's pleasant unto your souls; discretion shall preserve you, and understanding shall keep you, to deliver you, &c.
There are those abroad, a part of whose Religiafter the vanity of your minde, having your understanding darkned, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in you, because of the blindness of your hearts.—That Scripture, which we have translated for you, which is your meat, your drink, your delight, sweeter then honey or the honey-comb, of more value than the world, must be taken from you; and if they prevail (as we know they will not) it will be no less than death, to read that word, which is dearer to you than your lives: your faithful Ministers, to whom you would have given your right eyes, must be removed into corners; yea, and must seal that Doctrine with their blood, which they now deliRoman Catholicks. Hear, read, (saith God) and your souls shall live: Read, saith the Papist, and you shall surely dye. O wretchMahomet hath taught not to hear reason, that they may judge in themselves what is right:—a great part whereof the Pope hath traught not to hear the Scripture, which is no vain thing, which is our life.—A Bishop Hall.all too willingly ignorant) lest we should know Gods will, or any way to Heaven, but theirs; so as millions of souls live no less without Scripture, than if there were none: that forbids spiritual food as poyson, and fetcheth God's Book into the Inquisition.—
4. Although the Church and our selves by her appointment, first discovered to you the etertruth; yet have we not suffered you to rest updeceive, and be deceived; but have led to the Rock that is higher than us, and
Rome, who are now so busie, will take you off from the foundation of God, which standeth sure:—they will perswade you that the Word of God which you know is pure, is corrupt; that the Law of God, which you know is perfect, is defective; that the Scriptures, which you know in things necessary edark: and all this to what purpose? but to settle you upon men, who you know are a lie; to make you rest on Councils, who, saith Bellarm. himself, l. 2. c. 11. p. 153. May erre: ParBell. de Concil. Ecclesiasticis, l. 2. c. 5. See Aen. Sylvius, Telesphoand Baron. Annal.
p. 110. or upon Popes, whereof some have been Infidels; and privately conferring with their Cardinals, said, Oh how much gain this Fable of Christ hath brought us! Others have been Witches, others Murtherers, others Whoremongers, ravishing women in the Apostolick doors: others (as their own Records testifie) by Bribes, by Devils, by VVitches, have climbed up to the infallible Chair. Oh can you trust your souls with those men which have confessed to have given their souls to the Devil, that they might be Popes! yea, which is worst of all, the poor Catholicks, when they have relied upon this man as infallible today, must tomorrow relie upon another Pope as infal
5. We teach you to serve the true God, and him onely to worship: and we tell you he is a jealous God, and he will not give his honour to another: and that idolatry hath been the ruine of all Nations in this World, and is the damnatiwithout are Idolaters, Rev. 22. 15. Yet they, they who now with fair words deceive the hearts of the simple, have a degraven Images; lest you should not bow down to them, nor worship them, against the Letter of the second Commandment;—they leave out those words of that second Commandment, as a needless illustration in their Chatechisms and Prayer-books to the people.
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. The carpenter stretcheth out his rule: he marketh it out with a line: he fitteth it with planes, and he mar
In a voluntary humility do these men worship Angels, who said expresly to St. John, Worship thou God. Now you seek God in his Ordinances, and desire to see him in his holy Temple.—If you be seduced by them, you must go onely to poor creatures like your selves.—
6. We—or do we onely? doth not our God likewise teach you, that if any man adde to his hoWord, he shall adde to him the plagues that are written in this book?—Yet if ever they prevail, you must believe more Scripture then ever God inspired, or his ancient Church received; and you must do it upon no less penalty then if God himself should speak from heaven.—Sad! You must believe what an Angel from heaven is accursed if he teach you. They have a designe, Beloved, to set up a man in stead of God, who may create new Articles of Faith at his pleasure, and impose them upon necessity of salvation. In vain,
Peters successour: for we are not sure St. Peter was at Rome: if he was there, we are not sure that he was Bishop there, being an Apostle of the Circumcision, i. e. of the Jews, and not of the Romans. If he was there Bishop, we are not sure he was infallible, who denyed his Master thrice, and dissembled once:—If he was infallible, we are not sure he left any heirs of his grace and spirit,—or if any, we are not sure he left one in a perpetual and visible suc
Rome:—That he so be queathed his inPeter was infallible by vertue of Christs promise; yet that what Christ said to him, absolutely, ere ever Rome was thought of, must be referred, yea, tyed to it: that the Pope
that perhaps it may be true.—
7. We and our Church have taught you a sei. e. a professor of the true Religion;—and say, VVe will go with you, for God is with you. But alas, they of Rome have set up a Religion that
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made sport to our plain fore-fathers, with the remembrance of her gravest devotion. How oft have we seen them laugh at themselves, whilst they have told of their creeping Crouch, their kissing the Pax, offering their Candles, signing with Ashes, partial shifts, merry Pilgrimages, ridiculous Miracles; and a thousand such
Maygames, which we are ashamed to name? While you are taught that decent worship, that soif for no more but this, that it teacheth men to put confidence in
Bishop Hall Ibid.Beads, Medals, Roses, hallowed Swords, spells of the Gospel, Agnus Dei, &c. Ascribing unto them di
You are taught to draw neer to God, to hear his Word in a Language you understand, and to make your requests known unto God, in a wholejudged of all: and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.—When they of the Church of Rome are together in one place, they all speak with tongues; and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, and they say that they are mad: so that the great God is blasphemed, Christian Religion is disho
8. We, our God, our Church hath taught you a Religion that teacheth to deny all ungodliness, and all worldly lusts; to hate every false way; to allow no
Rome endeavour by all means to set up a way that professeth to be a baud to sin, whilst both (in practice) they tolerate open Stews, Bishop Hall. ibid.So as Hell can have no
We have taught you to Dives, no rich men in it; but fools and the friendless Devils infear an oath, and to swear in truth, righteousness and judgement, and to speak the truth one to another, for the peace and
Rome would imOstatus reports Clement the eighth, who said, he urged that the King of France should joyn with Spain in the invasion of England:—but the Cardinal replyed, that that King was tyed by an oath to the Queen of England; whereunto the Pope anthat the oath was made to an Heretick, but he was bound in another oath to God and the Pope;—and that Kings may allow themselves all things which make for their advantage: Indeed (saith he, using the Duke of urbins words) everyone doth blame a noble man that is not a Soveraign if he keep not his word; but supream Princes may without any danger to their reputation, make covenants and break them, or betray, and perpetrate other such like things.
What shall a Confessor do (saith
O wise, cunning, deep and holy perjuries, unknown to our fore-faFranc. de
S. Victoriâ, an ingenious Papist, and a learned reaSalamanca) if he be asked of a sin that he hath heard in confession? may he say that he knows not of it? I answer, (saith he) acswear? I say that he may and ought to swear that he knowi. e. not so as to reveal it.
We teach you to keep holy the Sabbath day,
9. Our Church indeed preserveth, teacheth, openeth, confirmeth, and urgeth the truth; yet so as (your selves being judges, and allowed a judgeDrink ye all of this Cup. They would have you mock God with a few Latine Prayers, without faith, ignorantly; without comCorinthians.—And lest ought should here be wanting to the affront of the Scripture, and the setting up of the
then to marry. And when our Church hath taught you, that all things are lawful, that every creature of God is good, and none to be refused; all things being yours, as you are Christs:—onely that you must admit three moderations of your Christian Liberty, Sobriety, Charity, and Duty in obedience to your Soveraign forbidding your private enjoyment of some things for publick good.—But they of Rome will impose upon you a Relgious prohibition of Meat, and differences of diet; superstitiously preferring Gods workmanship to it self, and willingly polthe commandments and doctrines of men; which things have indeed a shew of wisdom, in will-worship and humility, and neglecting of the body, &c.—Neither may you onely go against the Word of God, but even against Reason it self: If you be a Papist, you must believe the body of Christ in ten thousand places at once, and yet in no place; you must believe it in heaven, and yet every where; you must believe it flesh, and no flesh: several members without distinction; a substance without quantity, and other accidents; or subMartyrs.—You must honour Rebels, Villains, with Temples, Altars and Invocations: and yet you must believe them who lived according to scri&c. Wickliff a blasphemer, Luther a devil, Calvin a Sodomite, Tyndal a whoreBeza and King apostates,—Protestants hereticks, Q. Elizabeth a lewd woman, our Bi
10. We desire you to attend upon Gods OrdiRome will force you to believe that when you have prepared your selves to meet your God in his ways, yet it shall be to you onely according to your Priests intention. If he intend the Sacralife; if not, you receive it to your damnation. Alas! who knows when the Minister intends what he is about? How shall you, if you are Papists, know whether you hear effectually,—whether you pray savingly,—whether you receive the Sacrament successfully, seeing you depend wholly upon the Priests inten
11. We desire to be helpers of your joy, and proRome make it their business to torment and frighten you, to vex and perplex you: they will make you believe that so soon as you are born you must be cast remedilesly unto the eternal pains of hell for want of Baptism, which you could not live to desire: Thus they damn all your infants, and throw all those innoAnimala vagula, blundula, quâ vadis in loca? &c.—O poor soul, whither art thou going? Neither must you onely live in fear of your estate in another world, while you are in that way, but in infinite cares and vexations in this,—while they rack your consciences with the needless tor
Beloved, if they could shew you a more exElizabeth, that he would confirm all her and our Religiheads if you perish.
But if what is spoken upon examination, appear to have any repugnancie with godliness, in any one branch or duty thereunto belonging, we may be sure the words cannot be wholesome words. It can be no heavenly Doctrine that teacheth men to be earthly, sensual, or devillish; or that tendeth to make men unjust in their dealings, uncharitable in their censures, undutiful to their superiours, or aEngland, (I mean the pubEliah once said to the Baalites, That God that answereth by fire, let him him be God: so may we say to either of both; and when we have said it, not fear to put it to a fair tryal: That Church whose Doctrine, Confession and Worgodliness, Let that be the true Church.