The Great Loyalty of the Papists to King Charles, Title page
THE GREAT LOYALTY OF THE PAPISTS TO K. CHARLES I. (Of Bleſſed Memory.)
DISCOVERED, By Peter Du Moulin. D. D.
IN HIS VINDICATION OF THE Proteſtant Religion.
LONDON, Printed in the Year MDCLXXIII.
The Great Loyalty of the PAPISTS to King CHARLES the I. (Of Bleſſed Memory.)
WHen the buſineſſes of the late bad times are once ripe for an hiſtory, and Time the bringer forth of truth, hath diſcovered the myſteries of Iniquity, and the depths of Satan which have wrought ſo much crime and miſchief, it will be found, that the late Rebellion was raiſed and foſtered by the Arts of the Court of Rome. That Jeſuites profeſſed themſelves Independent, as not depending on the Church of England; and Fifth-Monarchy-Men, that they might pull down the Engliſh Monarchy, and that in the Committees, for the deſtruction of the King and the Church, they had their Spies and their Agents. The Roman Prieſt and Confeſſour is known, who when he ſaw the fatal ſtroke given to our holy King and Martyr, flouriſhed with his ſword, and ſaid; Now the greateſt enemy that we have in the world is gone,
When the news of that horrible execution came to Roan, a Proteſtant Gentleman of good credit was preſent in a great company of Jeſuited perſons: where after great expreſſions of Joy, the graveſt of the company, to whom all gave ear, ſpake much after this manner; The King of England at his Marriage had promis'd us the re-establiſhing of the Catholick Religion in England;Which is falſe. and when he delayed to fulfill his promiſe, we ſummoned him from time to time to perform it: We came ſo far as to tell him, that if he would not do it, we ſhould be forced to take thoſe courſes which would bring him to his deſtruction. We have given him lawful warning, and when no warning would ſerve, we have kept our word to him, ſince he would not keep his word to us.
That grave Rabbies Sentence agreeth with this certain Intelligence which ſhall be juſtified whenſoever Authority will require it: That the year before the Kings death, a ſelect number of Engliſh Jeſuites were ſent from their whole party in England; firſt to Paris, to conſult with the Faculty of Sorbon, then altogether Jeſuited; to whom they put this queſtion in Writing: