Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2, To the reader (1 of 3)

Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 · To the reader (1 of 3)

To all truely Chriſtian Free men of England,This Epiſtle ſhould have been printed before the firſt part; but was omitted through haſt. Patrons of Religion, Freedom, Lawes, Parliaments, who ſhall peruſe this Treatiſe.

Chriſtian READER,

IT hath been one of the moſt deteſtable Crimes, and highest Impeachments againſt the AntichriſtianaaSee the ſeveral Epiſtles of Frederick the Emperor againſt Pope Gegory the 9, and Innocent the 4 recorded by Mat. Paris, p. 332. to 693. ſparſim. Popes of Rome, that under a Saint-like Religious pretext of advancing the Church, Cauſe, Kingdom of Jeſus Chriſt, they have for ſome hundred yeers by-past, uſurped to themſelves (as fole Monarchs of the World in the Right of Chriſt, whoſe Vicars they pretend themſelves to be) both by Doctrinal Poſitions and Treaſonable Practiſes, bbSee Extra… de Majoritate & Obedientia: Auguſtinus Triumphus: Bellarminus, Becanu…, and others, De Monarchia Remani Pontificis. Hoſpinia… Hiſt. Jeſui. l. 3, & 4.an abſolute Soveraign, Tyrannical Power over all Chriſtian Emperours, Kings, Princes of the World (who muſt derive and hold their Crowns from them alone, upon their good behaviours at their pleaſures) not onelyonly to Excommunicate, Cenſure, Judge, Depoſe, Murder, Deſtroy their ſacred Perſons; but likewiſe to diſpoſe of their Crowns, Scepters, Kingdoms, and tranſlate them to whom they pleaſe.

In purſuance whereof, they have moſt traiterouſly, wickedly, ſeditiouſly, atheiſtically, preſumed to abſolve their Subjects from all their ſacred Oaths, Homages, natural Allegiance, and due Obedience to them, inſtigated, encouraged, yea expreſly, enjoyned (under pain of interdiction, excommunication, and other cenſures) their own Subjects, (yea own ſons ſometimes) both by their Bulls and Agents, to revolt from, rebel, war againſt, depoſe, dethrone, murder, ſtab, poyſon, destroy them by open force, or ſecret conſpiracies: and ſtirred up one Chriſtian King, Realm, State, to invade, infeſt, deſtroy, uſurp upon another; onelyonly to advance their own Antichriſtian Soveraignties, Uſurpations, Ambition, Rapines, worldly Pompe and Ends: as you may read at leiſure in the Statutes of 25 H. 8. c. 22. 28 H. 8. c. 10. 37 H. 8. c. 17. 13 Eliz. c. 2. 23 Eliz. c. 1. 35 Eliz. c. 2. 3 Jacob. c. 1, 2, 4, 5. 7 Jacob. c. 6. The Emperour Frederick his Epiſtles againſt Pope Gregory the 9. and Innocent the 4. recorded in Matthew Paris, and **Henricus de Knighton, de Eventibus Angli ae, l. 2. c. 14, 15.others, Aventinus Annalium Boiorum, Mr. William Tyndal's Practice of Popiſh Prelates; the ſecond Homily upon Witſunday; the Homilies againſt diſobedience, and wilful Rebellion; Biſhop Jewels view of a ſeditious Bull; Iohn Bale in his lives of the Roman Pontifs; Doctor Thomas Bilſon in his True difference between Chriſtian ſubjection, and unchriſtian Rebellion; Doctor John White his Sermon at Paul,s Croſs, March 24. 1625. and Defence of the Way, c. 6, 10. Doctor Crakenthorpe of the Popes temporal Monarchy; Biſhop Morton's Proteſtant Apology; Doctor Beard's Theater of God's Judgements, l. 1. c, 27, 28. Doctor Squire of Antichriſt; John Bodin his Commonwealth, l. 1. c. 9. The learned Morney Lord du Pleſſy, his Myſtery of Iniquity, and Hiſtory of the Papacy. The General History of France. Grimston's Imperial Hiſtory. Matthew Paris, Speed, Holinſhed, Cambden, and others, in the lives of King John, Henry the 3. Queen Elizabeth, and other of our Kings, with hundreds of printed Sermons on the 5 of November.

The principal Inſtruments the Popes imployed of late yeers, in theſe their unchriſtian Treaſonable Deſignes, have been pragmatical, furious, active Jeſuites, whoſe Society was firſt erected by Ignatius Loyola (a Spaniard by Birth, but AccSee Maſſaeus Vegius & Petrus Ribadeniera in vita Ignatii Loyolae. Heylins Micracoſme, p. 179. SOULDIER by Profeſſion) and confirmed by Pope Paul the 3. Anno 1540… which Order conſiſting onelyonly of ten perſons at firſt, and confined onelyonly to ſixty by this Pope, hath ſo monſtrouſly increaſed by the Popes and Spaniards favours and aſſiſtance (whoſe chief Janizaries, Factors, Intelligencers they are) that in the yeer 1626.ddSee Lewis Owen his Jeſuites Lookingglaſs, printed London 1629. the Epiſtle to the Reader, and p. 48 to 58. Jubilaeum, ſive ſpeculum Jeſuiti…um, printed 1644. p. 307 to 213. Hoſpinian Hiſt. Jeſuitica, l. 2. they cauſed the picture of Ign…tius their Founder to be cut in Braſs, with a goodly Olive Tree growing (like Jeſſees root) out of his ſide, ſpreading its branches into all kingdoms 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 in that Province; in which leaves, are the names of the Towns and Villages where theſe Colledges are ſituated: Round about the Tree are the Pictures of all the illuſtrious Perſons of their Order; and in Ignvtius 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 publiſhed to the world: wherein they ſet forth the number of their Colledges and Seminaries to be no leſs then 777. (increaſed to 155 more, by the yeer 1640.) in all 932. as they publiſhed in like Pictures & Pageants printed at Antwerp, 1640. Beſides ſundry New Colledges and Seminaries erected ſince.

In theſe Colledges and Seminaries of theirs, they had then (as they print) 15591 Fellews of their Society of Jeſus, beſides the Novices, Scholars, and Lay-brethren of their Order, amounting to neer ten times that number. So infinitely did this evil weed grow and ſpread it ſelf, within one hundred yeers after its firſt planting. And which is moſt obſervable, of theſe Colledges and Seminaries they reckoned then no leſs then 15 (ſecret ones)**Speculum Jeſuiticum. p. 210. See Romes Maſter-peice & Conterburies Doom, p. 435, &c. Hidde… works of Darkneſs. 88, 144. IN PROVINCIA ANGLICANA, in the Province of ENGLAND, where were 267 SOCII or Fellows of that Society: beſides 4 COLLEDGES OF ENGLISH JESUITES ELSEWHERE. In IRELAND and elſewhere 8 Colledges of IRISH JESUITES: and in SCOTLAND and otherwhere 2 Reſidencies of SCOTTISH JESUITES.

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 painted Pageants, then ſhewed to the people,eeMercure Ieſu…le, tom. 1. p. 67. Speculum Jeſuitieum p. 1. 56. 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 fire by Combuſtions, Wars, Treaſons, Powder-plots, Schiſmes new State, and old Church-Hereſies, then to enlighten it) with this Motto; VENI IGNEM MITTFRE: I came to ſend fire into the World; which the Univerſity of Cracow in Poland objected (amongſt other Articles) againſt them, Anno 1622. and Alphonſus de Vargas more largly inſiſteth on in his Relatio, de Stratagematis & Sophiſmatis Politicis Jeſuitarum, &c. An. 1641. c. 7, 8, 24.

Their number being ſo infinite, and theffSee Lewis Owen his running Regiſter, & his Jeſuited Looking glaſs. The Anatomy of the Engliſh Nunnery at Lisbone. Pope and Spaniard too, having long ſince (byggDe Monarchia Hiſpanica, p. 146, 147, 148, 149, 204, 234, 235, 236, 185, 186. Campanella's advice) erected many Colledges in 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 the Proteſtant Princes, Realms, Churches, Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, & to reduce them under their long proſecuted hhSee Thomas Campanella de Monarchia Hiſpaniae. Watſons quodhbets, Co… loni Poſthuma, p. 91. 10 107. Cardinal de Oſſets Letters. Arcana Imperii Hiſpanici Del…h. 1628. Advice a tous les Eſtat's de Europe, touches les maximas Fundamentales de Government & diſſ…iennes Eſpaginols, Pa…is, 1625.UNIVERSAL MONARCHY over them, by Fraud, Policy, Treaſon, inteſtine Diviſions, and Wars, being unable to effect it by their own Power; no doubt of late yeers many hundreds, if not thouſands, of this Society, have crept into England, Scotland and Ireland, lurking under ſeveral diſguiſes; yea, an whole Colledge of them ſate weekly in counſel, in or neer Weſtminſter, ſome few yeers ſince, under Conne the Popes Nuntio, on purpoſe to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars, therby 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, fom…nted, 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.

The Kings Forces (in which many of them were Souldiers) after ſome yeers wars being defeated, thereupon their Father Ignatius being a SOULDIER, and they his Military ſons, not a few of themiiSet my Speccb in Parliament, p. 107. …o 119. and the History of Independency. ſecretly inſinuated themſelves as Souldiers, into the Parliaments Army and Forces, (as they had formerly done intokkExact Coll…ction, p. 651, 652, 662, 666, 813, 814, 8…6, 826, 827, 832, 902, 904, to 920. A Coll…ction of Ordinances, p. 267, 313, 354, 424. the Kings) where they ſo cunningly acted their parts, as extraordinary illuminates, gifted brethren, and grand States-men, that they ſoon leavened many of the Officers, Troopers and common Souldiers, with their dangerous Jeſuitical State-politicks, andllSee Put…y Projects, the Hiſtory of Independ…ncy, and Armies Declarations, Papers, Propoſals. printed together, London, 1647. Practiſes, put them upon ſundry ſtrange deſigns, to new-mould the old Monarchical Government, Parliaments, Church, Miniſters, Laws of England; erecting a New General Councel of Army-Officers and Agitators for that purpoſe; acting more like a Parliament and Supream Dictators, then Souldiers. And at laſt inſtigated the Army by open force▪ (againſt their Commiſſions, Duties, Oaths, Proteſtations and Solemn League & Covenant) to Impeach, impriſon, ſeclude, firſt elevē Commoners; then ſome ſix or ſeven Lords; after that to ſecure, ſeclude the Majority of the Commons Houſe, ſuppreſs the whole Houſe of Lords, deſtroy the King, Parliament, Government, Priviledges, Liberties of the Kingdom & Nation, for whoſe defence they were firſt raiſed, which by no other adverſe power they could effect. This produced new bloody diviſions, animoſities, wars, in and between our three Proteſtant Realms and Nations; & after with our Proteſtant Allies of the Netherlands, (**De Monarchia Hiſp. c. 25, 27. Campanella's expreſs old projected Plots to ſubject us both to the Popes and Spaniards Monarchies, effected by the Spaniards Gold and Agents) with ſundry heavy Monthly Taxes, Exciſes, Oppreſſions, Sales of the Churches, Crowns, and of many Nobles and Gentlemens Lands and Eſtates, to their undoing, our whole Nations impoveriſhing, and diſcontent, an infinite profuſe expence of Treaſure, of Proteſtant blood both by Land and Sea, decay of Trade, with other ſad effects in all our three Kingdoms; yea, ſundry ſucceſſive New changes of our publick Government, made by the Army-Officers, (who are ſtill ringing the changes) according to Campanela's and Parſons Platforms. So that if Fire may be certainly diſcerned by the ſmoke; or the Tree commonly known by its Fruits, as the Truth it ſelf reſolves, Matth. 12. 33. we may truly cry out to all our Rulers, as the Jews did once to the Rulers of Theſſalonica, in another caſe, Act. 17. 6. THOSE (Jeſuites) WHO HAVE TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN, ARE COME HITHER ALSO; and have turned our Kingdoms, Kings, Peers, Monarchy, Parliaments, Government, Laws, Liberties, (yea, our very Church and Religion too, in a great meaſure) UPSIDE DOWNE, even by thoſe very Perſons, who were purpoſely raiſed, commiſſiond, waged, engaged by Proteſtations, Covenanes, Vows, Oathes, Laws, Allegiance and Duty, to protect them from theſe Jeſuitical Innovations and ſubverſions.

And thoſe Jeſuites, Spaniſh Romiſh Agents, who have ſo far ſeduced, ſo deeply engaged them, contrary to all theſe Obligations, and to their own former printed Engagements, Remonſtrances, Repreſentations, Propoſals, Deſires, and RESOLUTIONS, for ſetling this Nation in its just Rights, the Parliament in their just Priviledges, and the Subjects in their Liberties and Freedoms; publiſhed to all the World, in the name of Sir Thomas Fairfax, THE ARMY, AND THE GENERAL COUNCEL OF THE ARMY, none Volume. London, 1647. (which they may do well to peruſe) yea, againſt the Votes, Intreaties, Deſires, Advices, of both Houſes of Parliament, the Generality of the good Ministers, people of the three whole Kingdoms, and their wiſeſt, beſt affected Protestant Friends, who commiſſioned, raiſed, paid, aſſiſted them for far other ends O whether may they, will they not (in all humane probability) raſhly, blindly, ſuriouſly henceforth lead, drive, precipitate them, to our whole three Kingdoms, Churches, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties total, final deſolation, and the Armyes too in concluſion, beyond all hopes of prevention, unleſs God himſelf ſhall miraculouſly change their Hearts, Councels, and reclaim them from their late destructive, heady violent courſes: or put an hook into their Noſes, to turn them back by the way by which they came: or, ſet a timely period to their uſurped Armed power and extravagant late proceedings, of ſuch a deſperate unparallel'd, unproteſtant ſtrange Nature, as none but the very worſt of Ignatius his Diſciples and Engineers durſt ſet on foot, or ſtill drive on amongſt us Proteſtants. Which I earneſtly beſeech, adjure, and conjure them now moſt ſeriouſly to lay …o heart, before it be overlate.

Thoſe who will take the pains to peruſe all or any of theſe ſeveral printed Books (moſt of them very well worth their reading) written againſt the Ieſuites and their Practiſes, as well by Papists as Proteſtants, as namely, Fides Ieſu & Ieſuitarum, printed 1573. Doctrinae Ieſuiticae praecipua capita, Delph. 1589. Aphoriſmi Doctrinae Ieſu…ticae. 1608. Cambitonius, De Studiis Jeſuitarum abſtruſioribus. Anno 1608. Iacobus Thuanus, Paſſages of the Jeſuites. Hiſt. l. 69, 79, 83, 94, 95, 96, 108, 110, 114, 116, 119, 121, 124, 126, 129, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137. 138. Emanuel Meteranus his Paſſages of them. Belgicae Hiſt. l. 9, 12, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 26, to 34. Willielmus Baudartius, Continuatio Meterani, l. 37, 38, 39, 40. Donatus Weſagus, Fides Ieſus & Ieſuitarum, 1610. Characteres Ieſuiticae, in ſeveral Tomes. Elias Huſenmullerus, Hiſtoria Ieſuitici Ordin…, Anno 1605. Speculum ſive Theoria Doctrinae Ieſuiticae, necnon Praxis Jeſuitarum, 1608. Paſquier his Jeſuite diſplayed. Petrus de Wangen, Phyſiogmonia Jeſuitica, 1610. Chriſtopherus Pelargus, his Novus Jeſuitiſmus. Franciſcus. de Verone, his Jeſuitiſmus Sicarius, 1611. Narratio de proditione Jeſuitarum in Magnae Brit. Regem, 1607. Conſilium de leſuitis Regno Polonia ejiciendis. The Acts of the States of Rhetia, Anno 1561, & 1612. for baniſhing the Jeſuites wholly out of their Territories, NE STATUS POLITICUS TURBARETUR, &c. mentioned by Fortunatus Sprecherus, Palladis Rheticae, l. 6. p. 251, 273. Melchior Valcius, his Furiae Gretzero, &c. remiſſae, 1611. Cenſura Jeſuitarum, Articuli Jeſuitarum, cum commonefactione illis oppoſitae Anti-Jeſuites, au Roy par. 1611. Variae Doctorum Theologorum Theſes adverſus quaedam Jeſuitica Dogmata. The Remonſtrance of the Parliament of Paris to Henry the Great againſt the re-eſtabliſhment of the Jeſuites; And their Cenſure of Mariana his book, to be publickly burnt, printed in French, 1610. recited in the General Hiſtory of France, in Lewis 13. his life, & Peter Matthew, l. 6. par. 3. Hiſtoria Franciae. Variae Facultatis Thologiae & Curiae Pariſienſis, quam aliorum Opuſcula, Decreta & Cenſurae contra Jeſuitas, Paris 1612. Conradus Deckerus, De proprietatibus Ieſuitarum, 1611. Quaerelarum inclyti Regni Hungariae adverſus corruptelas Ieſuiticas defenſio. Lucas Oſiander, his writing about the Jeſuites bloody Plot, Han. 1614. Ieſuitarum per unitas Belgii Provincias Negotiatio, Anno 1616. RadulphusAn Excellent cove…y of … ſtable, aſonakle … and …. Hoſpinianus, Hiſtoria Ieſuitica, 1619. Bogermannus his Catechiſmus Ieſuiticus. Lodovicus Lucius, Hiſtoria Ieſuitica, Baſil. 1627. Arcana Imperii Hiſpanici, 1628. Mercure Ieſuite, in ſeveral Tomes, Geneve 1626, De Conſcientia Ieſuitarum, tractat. Cenſura ſacrae Theologiae. Pariſienſis, in librum qui inſcribitur, Antonii Sanctarelli ſocietatis Ieſu, de Haereſi, Schiſmate & Apoſtaſia, &c. Paris, 1626. Anti-Cotton; Ioannes Henricius, Deliberatio de compeſcendo perpetuo crudeli Conatu Ieſuitarum, Fran. 1633. A Proclamation of the States of the united Provinces, Anno 1612. And another Proclamation of theirs: with two other Proclamations of the Protestant States of the Marqueſate of M…ravia, for the baniſhing of the Ieſuites, London 1629. Alfonſi de Vargas Toletani, Relatio ad Reges & Principes Chriſtianos, De Stratagematis & Sophiſmatis Politicis Societatis Jeſu, ad Monarchiam Orbis terrarum ſibi conficiendam: in qua Jeſuitarum erga Reges & Populos optimè de ſe meritos infidelitas, erga ipſum Poutificem perfidia, contumacia, & IN FIDEI REBUS NOVANDI LIBIDO, illuſtribus documentis comprobatur, Anno 1641. Jubilaeum, ſive Speculum Jeſuiticum, exhibens PRAECIPUA JESUITARUM SCELERA, MOLITIONES, INNOVATIONES, FRAUDES, IMPOSTURAS, ET MENDACIA, CONTRA STATUM ECCLESIASTICUM POLITICUMQUE, in & extra EUROPEUM ORBEM; primo hoc centenario, confirmati illius Ordinis INSTITUTA ET PERPETRATA: ex variis Hiſtoriis, inprimis vero Pontificiis collecta, Anno 1644. (a piece worth peruſing) Or elſe will but caſt their eyes upon our own forecited Statutes, and the**No… … date. Proclamations of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charls againſt Jeſuites, and Seminary Prieſts. A brief Diſcovery of Doctor Allens Seditious Drifts, London 1588. Charles Paget (a Seminary Prieſt) his Anſwer to Dolman, concerning the ſucceſſion of the Engliſh Crown, 1601. William Watſon (a ſecular Prieſt) his Dedachordon or Quodlibets, printed 1602. now very well worthy all Proteſtants reading. A Letter of A. C. to his Diſ-Jeſuited Kinſman, concerning the Jeſuites, London 1602. Romiſh Poſitions and Practiſes for Rebellion, London 1605. The Arraignment of Traytors, London 1605. John King Biſhop of London, his Sermons on November 5. 1607, 1608. King James his Conjuratio Sulphurea, Apologia pro Juramento fidelitatis: &, Reſponſio ad Epistolam Cardinalis Peronii. An Exact Diſcovery of the chief Mysteryes of the Jeſuitical iniquity: and, The Jeſuites ſecret Conſultations; both printed London 1619. William Craſhaw his Ieſuites Goſpel, London 1621. William Feak of the Doctrine and Practice of the Society of Jeſus, London 1630. The many printed Sermons of Doctor Iohn White, Biſhop Lake, Biſhop Andrews, Doctor Donne, Doctor Featly, Doctor Clerk, and others, preached on the fifth of November. Lewis Owen, his Running Regiſter, London, 1620. His Unmasking of all Popiſh Monkes and Jeſuites, 1628. And his Jeſuites Looking-Glaſs, London, 1629. John Gee, his Foot out of the Snare, &c. London, 1624. with the Jeſuitical Plots diſcovered in my Romes Master-piece; and, Hidden works of darkneſs brought to publick Light, London 1645. ſhall ſee the Jeſuites and their Seminaries charged with, convinced of, and condemned for theſe enſuing Seditious, Treaſonable, Antimonarchical, Anarchical Poſitions and Practiſes; for which, their Society hath by publick Acts and Proclamations been ſeveral times baniſhed out of Hungaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Poland, the Low Countries, Rhetia, France, Tranſilvania, Sweden, Denmark, the Palatinate, Venice, Aethiopia, Japan and Turkey, as well as out of England, Scotland and Ireland, as moſt inſufferable Pests and Traytors; in many of which they have yet gotten footing again.

1. That at leaſt …ifty ſeveral prime Authors of that infernal Society of Jeſus▪ in ſeveral printed books (which you ſhall finde ſpecified in Doctor John Whites Defence of the Way, c. 6, 10. Aphoriſmi-Jeſuitarum: Iubilaeum, or, Speculum Ieſuiticum, p. 187, 188. and the Appendix to my Fourth part of the Soveraign power of Parliaments, p. 187, 188.) have dogmatically maintained;**Hoſpinian. Hiſt. Jeſuit. l. 4. That the Pope hath abſolute power, not onelyonly to excommunicate, but judicially to ſuſpend, mulct with temporal penalties, depoſe, dethrone, PVT TO DEATH, and deſtroy any Chriſtian Emperours, Kings, Princes, Potentates, by open Sentence, War, Force, ſecret Conſpiracies, or private aſſaſinations, and to give away their Crowns and Dominions to whoever will invade them, by Treaſon or Rebellion, at the Popes command; and that in caſes of Hereſie, Schiſme, Diſobedience to, Rebellion againſt the Pope or See of Rome, Male-adminiſtration, refuſal to defend the Pope or Church againſt her adverſaries, Inſufficency to Govern, Negligence, Tyranny, Exceſſes, Abuſes in Gove…nment, Incorrigibility, Vitiouſneſs of Life, and mmQuando eorum malitia hoc exigit & Reipub. vel Eccleſiae NECESSITAS ſic requirit. Speculum Jeſuiticum, p. 168, 169, 170. Mercure Jeſuite, Part. 1. p. 884, 885. Alfonſi de Vargas Relatio. &c. …. 55.NECESSITY OF THE PUBLICK GOOD, OR SAFETY OF THE CHURCH, STATE, OR CAVSE OF GOD; as Antonius Sanctarellus the Jeſuite particularly defines, in his Book De Haereſibus, Schiſmatibus, &c. printed in Rome it ſelf, Anno 1625. who affirms it to be, Multum aequum & Reipublicae expediens, ut ſit aliquis ſupremus Monarcha, qui Regum hujuſmodi exceſſus poſſit corrigere, & DE IPSIS IVSTITIAM MINISTRARE; ſicut PETRD conceſſa fuit facultas PVNIENDI PAENA TEMPORALI, imo etiam, PAENA MORTIS, DICTAS PERSONAS AD AL… …VM COKKEECMIONEM ET EXEMPLVM. (Whether the Erection, Title of, or Proceedings againſt our beheaded King, in the late miſ-named High Court of Juſtice, had not their original from hence; and whether the Army-Officers derived not their very phraſe,nnSee thei… Remonſtrance from Sl. Albans, 16 Nov. 1648, and Decem. 7. with other Papers. of bringing the King TO IVSTIEE, with their pretended NECESSITY OF PVBLICK GOOD AND SAFETY, for it, from theſe very Jeſuites, or their Agents in the Army; let themſelves, the whole Kingdom, and all Wiſemen now conſider.) Moreover, ſome of the fifty Authors, (as Creſwel, or Parſons the Engliſh Jeſuite, in his Philopater, Sect. 2. and**Attributed to …ne Jeſuite Treſham. De Officio Principis Chriſtiani, chap. 5. affirm, That the whole School both of (their) Divines and Lawyers, make it a Poſition certain and undoubtedly to be believed, That if any Chriſtian Prince whatſover, 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 (as they deem all Proteſtants, and Diſſenters from the See of Rome in any punctilio, ſuch) HE PRESENTLY FALLETH FROM, & LOSETH AL PRINCELY POWER & Dignity; & that By Vertus & Power OF THE LAW IT SELF, BOTH DIVINE AND HVMANE, EVEN BEFORE ANY SENTENCE PRONOVNCED AGAINST HIM BY THE SVPREAM PAS…OR AND IVDGE. That thereby his Subjects are abſolved from ALL OATHES AND BONDS OF ALLEGIANCE TO HIM AS TO THEIR LAWFUL PRINCE. Nay, THAT THEY MAY AND OVGHT (**See Watſons Q…libets, P. 295. &c. PROVIDED THEY HAVE COMPETENT POWER AND FORCE) TO CAST OVT SVCH A PRINCE FROM BEAKING RVLE AMONGST CHRISTIANS, as an Apoſtate, an Heretick, a Back-ſlider, a Revolter from our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, AND AN ENEMY TO HIS OWN ESTATE AND COMMONWEALTH; leſt perhaps he might infect others, or by his example or command, turn them from the faith. 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. Out of which deteſtible and Treaſonable Concluſions, moſt Treaſons and Rebellions of late time have riſen in the Chriſtian World; and the firſt ſmoke of the Gunpowder-treaſon too, as John Speed obſerves in his Hiſtory of Great Britain, p. 1250. Whereupon the whole**Alphonſi de Vargas Relatio, &c. c. 55. Spe…ulum Jeſuiticum, p. 162, 163. Univerſity of Paris cenſured them, An. 1625, and 1626. not onelyonly as moſt pernioious, deteſtable, damnable, erroneous, and perturbing the publick Peace; but likewiſe, as Subverſive of Kingdoms, States, and Republicks, ſeducing Subjects from their Obedience and ſubjection, and ſtirring them up to Wars, Factions, Seditions, & Principum parricidia, and the Murthers of their KINGS.

2. That the Jeſuites have**Hoſpinian. Hiſt. Jeſuitica, l. 3. frequently put theſe Treaſonable, Seditious, Antimonarchical, Jeſuitical, damnable Doctrines into practice, as well againſt ſome Popiſh, as againſt Proteſtant Kings, Queens, Princes, States: which they manifeſt,

1. By ooHiſt. Gallica, & …elgica, l. …. p. 126. Speculum Jeſuiticum p. 46. Hoſpinian. Hiſt. Jeſuitica, l. 3. …. 159.their poyſoning Jone Albreta Queen of Navarre, with a pair of deadly perfumed Gloves, onelyonly for favouring and protecting the Protestants in France againſt their violence, Anno. 1572.

2. By their ſuborning and animatingppSee Speculum Jeſuiticum and the General Hiſtory of France in H. 3. Hoſpinian. Hiſt. Jeſuitica, l. 3. f. 151, 152. James Clement a Dominican Frier, to ſtab King Henry the third of France in the belly with a poyſoned Knife, whereof he preſently died, Anno. 1589. for which they promiſed this Traytor, a Saintſhip in heaven. Pope Sixtus the fifth himſelf commending this foul Fact in a long Oration to his Cardinals, as Inſigne & memorabile ſacinus, non ſine Dei Opt. Max. particulari providentia, & diſpoſitione, ET SPIRITUS SANCTI SUGGESTIONE DESIGNATUM: facinuſ que longe majus quam illud S. Judith, quae Holofernum è medio ſuſtulit.

3. ByqqSpeculum Jeſuiticum, p. 75. Cammolet the Jeſuites publick juſtification of this Clement in a Sermon at Paris Anno 1593. wherein he not only extolled him above all the Saints, for his Treaſon againſt, and murder of Henry the 3. but broke out likewiſe into this further Exclamation to the people: We ought to have ſome Ehud, whether it be a A Monke, or A Souldier, or a Varlet, or at leaſt a Cow-herd. For it is neceſſary, that at leaſt we ſhould have ſome Ehud. This one thing onelyonly yet remains behinde: for then we ſhall compoſe all our Affairs very well, and at laſt bring them to a deſtred end. Whereupon, by the Jeſuites inſtigation, the ſame yeer 1593. one Peter Bariere, undertook the aſſaſination of KingrrSee the General Hiſtory of France in the life of Henry 4. and Lewis 13. Speculum Jeſuiticum, p. 77, 80, 126, 235. Hoſpinian. Hiſt. Jeſuitica, l. 3. p. 153, to 158. Henry the 4 of France: which being prevented, and he executed, thereupon they ſuborned and enjoyned one of their own Jeſuitical Diſciples, John Castle, a youth of 19 yeers old, to deſtroy the King: who on the 27 of December 1594. intending to ſtab him to the heart, miſſing his aim, wounded him onelyonly in the cheek, and ſtroke out one of his teeth; for which Treaſonable act he was justified, applauded, as a renowned Saint and Martyr, by the Jeſuites, in a printed Book or two, publiſhed in commendation of this his undertaking. As namely, by Bonarſcius the Jeſuite, in his Amphitheatrum, Franciſcus Verona Conſtantinus, (a Jeſuite) in his Apologiapro Iohanne Caſtello, contra Edictum Parliamenti, & ſupplicium de eo ob Parricidium ſumptum, An. 1595. Where he thus writes of the attempt upon Hen. 4. Whoſoever diligently ponders, that Henry was excommunicated, an Heretick, relapſed, a prof…ner of holy things, a declared publick enemy, an oppreſſor of Religion; and (thereupon) a perſon ſecluded from all right to the Kingdom; and therefore a Tyrant, not a King; an Vſurper, not a lawful Lord; he verily, unleſs he be mad, and deſtitute of humane ſence, and love towards God, the Church, and his Country, cannot otherwiſe think or ſpeak; but that the fact of Caſtle was generous, conjoyned with Vertue; and Heroical, to be compared with the greateſt and moſt praiſe-worthy facts which the ancient Monuments of Sacred and Prophane Hiſtories have recorded. One thing onelyonly may be diſliked, namely, That Caſtle hath not utterly ſlain and taken him from the midſt of us. In ſum, He denies this Henry to be any King of France, by right or inheritance, becauſe, (in his and the Jeſuites Opinion onelyonly, not in Truth) he was both an Heretick, and A TYRANT. Aſſerting, That it was lawful for Caſtle, or any other private man, TO DESTROY AN HERETICK OR TYRANT, much more then, him that was both.

And**Speculum Jeſuiticum, p. 80, 81. Hoſpinian. Hiſt. Jeſuitica, l. 3. f. 156, 157. John Guignardus a Jeſuite, (Fellow of the Jeſuites Colledge of Claremount) in his Papers then ſeiſed by, and reported to the Parliament of Paris, Anno 1595. not onelyonly compared Henry the third and fourth to Nero and Herod, and juſtified Clements murder of the one, and Caſtles attempt upon the other, as moſt Heroical and praiſe-worthy Actions: but likewiſe added, That if we in the year 1572. on Saint Bartholmews day, (in the General Maſſacre of the French Proteſtants) had CVT OFF THE BASILICON VEINE, (Henry King of Navarre) we had not fallen out of a Feavour, into that Plague, which now we finde. Sed quicquid delirant Reges plectunctur Achivi, SANGVINI PARCENDO. That King Henry ſhould be but over-mildly dealt with, if he were thruſt from the Crown of France, into a Monaſtery, and there had his crown ſhaven. That if he could not be depoſed without a war, then a war was to be raiſed againſt him: but if a war could not be levied againſt him, the cauſe being dead, CLAM E MEDIO TOLLATVR: he ſhould then be privily murdered and taken out of the way. For which the Parliament of Paris adjudged and executed him for a Traytor. Yea, ſo deſperately were the Jeſuites after this, bent to deſtroy this King, that**Hoſpinian. Hiſt. J…ſu. l. 3 …. 157, 158. Alexander Hay (a Scottiſh Jeſuite of Claremont,) privy to Caſtles villany, uſed to ſay, That if King Henry the fourth ſhould paſs by their Colledge (the firſt there built for them) he would willingly caſt himſelf out of his window headlong upon him, ſo as he might break the Kings neck, though thereby he brake his own. Yet was he puniſhed but with perpetual Baniſhment. After which Jeſuitical conſpiracies detected and prevented, notwithſtanding this King Henry (before theſe two attempts to murder him) had by their ſollicitations, renounced the Proteſtant Religion, profeſſed himſelf a zealous Romaniſt, recalled the Jeſuites formerly baniſhed for the murther of Henry the third, againſt his Parliaments and Counſels advice, reverſed all the decrees of Parliament againſt them, razed the publick Pillar ſet up in Paris, as a laſting Monument of their Treaſons and Conſpiracies; built them a magnificent Colledge in Paris, indowed them with a very large Revenue; entertained Pere Cotten (one of their Society) for his Confeſſor (who revealed all his Secrets to the King of Spain;) bequeathed a large Legacy of Plate and Lands to their Society by his will, and was extraordinary bountiful and favourable towards them; yet theſe bloody ingrateful Villains, animated that deſperate wretch,**See the General Hiſtory of France in Hen. 4. and Lewis 13. Dr. John Whites Defence of the …y, c. 10. p. 46. Ravilliac, to ſtab him to death in the open ſtreet in Paris, Anno 1610. Albigni the Jeſuite being privy to this murder, before it was perpetrated. Yea, Francis de Verona in his Apology for John Caſtle, p. 258. thus predicted his ſecond mortal ſtab, in theſe words, Though this Prince of Orange ſcaped the firſt blow, given him in his cheek, yet the next hit, whereof this was a preſage; as the blow given by Caſtle SHALL BE THE FORE-RVNNER OF ANOTHER BLOW. Such implacable Regicides are the Jeſuites.

4. By their ſuborning, inſtigating ſundry bloody inſtruments one after another, to murder ſſSee Grimstons History of the Netherlonds p. 764. Thuanus l. 79. p. 186. Speculum Jeſuiticum. p. 60, 61.William Prince of Orange, prevented in their attempts by God's providence, till at laſt they procured one Balthaſar Gerard to ſhoot him to death with a Piſtol, charged with three Bullets, An. 1584. the Jeſuites promiſing him no leſs then HEAVEN it ſelf, AND A CANONIZATION AMONG THE SAINTS AND MARTYRS, for this bloody Treaſon, as they did to James Clement before, for murdering the French King. And it is very remarkable, That after this murder of his,**De Monarch. Hiſp. …. 27. p. 258. Thomas Campanella (a Jeſuited Italian Frier) preſcribed this as a principal means to the King of Spain of reducing the Netherlands under his Monarchy again, to ſow emulation and diſcords amongſt their Nobles, States, and to murder Prince Maurice his ſon and ſucceſſor, which he expreſſeth in theſe direct termes. Maxime opus eſt, ut Serpens ſeditionis, Comes Scilicet Mauritius Interimatur; non vero per bellum diuturnum, copia illi danda est, magis magis que ſuccreſcendi: which they**Chron. Belgiae Tom. 1. p. 719. Tom. 2. p. 97. Meteranus l. 17. p. 575. Hoſpinian. Hiſt. Jeſuitica, l. 3. f. 205. twice likwiſe attempted to affect; An. 1594, and 1598. No wonder that they ſo much endeavour by all means & inſtruments to ſuppreſs that noble family now, to whom the Netherlands principally owe their infranchiſement from the Spaniſh yoak of bondage.

5. ByttSpeculum Jeſuiticum, p. 127. their poyſoning Stephen Botzkay Prince of Tranſylvania, for oppoſing their bloody perſecution.

6. By their manifold bloody Plots and Attempts from time to time, vvSee Speed and Cambden in her life. Biſhop Carletons Thankful Remembrance of Gods Mercy, London 1624.to murder, depoſe, ſtab, poyſon, deſtroy our famous Proteſtant Queen Elizabeth, by open Inſurrections, Rebellions, Invaſions, Wars, raiſed againſt her both in England and Ireland; and by intestine clandeſtine Conjurations; from which Gods ever-waking providence did preſerve her. Amongſt other Conſpiracies, that of Patrick Cullen, an Iriſh Frier, (hired by the Jeſuites and their Agents to kill the Queen) is obſervable.xxHoſpinian. Hiſt. Jeſuitica, Speeds Hiſtory, p. 1181. Cambden, Stow, Holinſhed in the Life of Queen Elizabeth. Speculum Jeſuiticum, p. 73. Holt the Jeſuite, (who perſwaded him to undertake the murdering of her) told him, that it was not onelyonly lawful by the Laws, but that he ſhould merit Gods Favour, and Heaven by it; and thereupon gave him remiſſion of all his ſins, & the Euchariſt, to encourage him in this Treaſon; the chief ground whereof (and of all their other Treaſons againſt this Queen) was thus openly expreſſed by Iaquis Francis, for Cullens further encouragement; That the Realm of England, then was and would be ſo well ſetled, that unleſs Miſtras Elizabeth (ſo he termed his Dread Soveraign, though but a baſe Landreſsſon;) were ſuddenly taken away, All the Devils in Hell would not be able to prevail, to ſhake and overturn it. Which then it ſeems they**See Watſons Quodlibets. principally endeavoured, and oft-times ſince attempted, and have now at laſt effected, by thoſe who conceit they demerit the Title of Saints (though not in a Romiſh Kalender) and no leſs then Heaven, for ſhaking, overturning, and making it No Kingdom.

7. By theiryySee Speeds Hiſt. p. 1240, 1242, 1243. John S…ow, and How; 1 Jac. Conſpiracy againſt King James, to dep…ive him of his Right to the Crown of England, impriſon, or deſtroy his perſon: raiſe Rebellion, alter Religion, and Subvert the Stat… and Government; by vertue of Pope Clement the eighth his Bull directed to Henry Garnet, Superiour of the Ieſuites in England: whereby he commanded all the Archprieſts, Prieſts, Popiſh Clergy, Peers, Nobles and Catholicks of England, That 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 neerly intereſſed by deſcent) ſhould not be admitted unto the Throne, unleſs he would firſt tolerate the Rom…ſh Religion, and by his beſt endeavours promote the Catholick cauſe; unto which by his Solemn and Sacred Oath he ſhould religiouſly ſubſcribe, after the death of that miſerable woman; (as he ſtilled Queen Elizabeth.) By vertue of which Bull, the Jeſuites, after her deceaſe, diſſwaded the Romiſhminded Subjects, from yielding in any wiſe obedience to King James, as their Soveraign; and entr…d into a Treaſonable Conſpiracy with the Lord Cobham, Lord Gray, and others, againſt him, to impriſon him for the ends aforeſaid; or deſtroy him: pretending that King Iames was no King at all before his Coronation; and that therefore they might by force of Arms, lawfully ſurpriſe his perſon, and Prince Henry his Son, and impriſon them in the Tower of London, or Dover-Caſtle, till they inforced them by dureſs, to grant a free toleration of their Catholick Religion, to remove ſome evil Counſellors from about them, and to grant them a free Pardon for this violence; or elſe they would put ſome further project in execution againſt them, to their deſtruction. But this Conſpiricy being diſcovered, The Traytors were apprehended, arraighned, condemned, and Watſon and Clerk (two Jeſuited Prieſts who had drawn them into this Conſpiracy, upon the aforeſaid Pretext) with ſome others, executed as Traytors; zzCook 3 In…itutes, p. 7. and Calvins Caſe 7… Report, f. 10, 11. 1 Jac. c. 1.Jas 1all the Iudges of England reſolving, that King Iames being right Heir to the Crown by deſcent, was immediately upon the death of Queen Elizabeth, actually poſſeſſed of the Crown, and lawful King of England, before any Proclamat…on or Coronation of him, which are but Ceremonies, (as was formerly adjudged in the caſe of**See Fox, Holinſhed, Speed, 1 Mariae, Queen Mary, and Queed Iane, 1 Mariae) there being no Interregnum by the Law of ENGLAND, as is adjudged, declared by Act of Parliament, 1 Iac. c. 1. worthy ſerious peruſal.

8. theiraaSee 3 Jac. c. 1, 2, 4, 6. Speeds Hiſtory, p. 1250, to 1256. The Arraignment of Traytors, with others. Prayers for the 5 of November. Hoſpinian. Hiſt. Jeſuitica l. 3. f. 163, to 170.Jas 1:2Jas 1:4Jas 1:6 horrid Gun-powder Treaſon Plot; contrived, fomented, by Garnet (Superiour of the Engliſh Jeſuites) Gerard, Tenſmod and other Jeſuites; who by their Apoſtolical power, did not onelyonly commend, but abſolve from all ſin the other Jeſuited Popiſh Conſpirators, and Faux The Sculdier, who were their inſtruments to effect it. Yea, the Jeſuitical Prieſts were ſo Atheiſtical, as that they uſually concluded their Maſſes with Prayers, for the good ſucceſs of this helliſh Plot, which was, ſuddenly, with no leſs then 36 Barrels of Gunpowder, placed in a ſecret Vault under the Houſe of Lords, to have blown up and deſtroyed at once, King James himſelf, the Queen, Prince, Lords Spirituall and Temporal, with the Commons aſſembled together in the Upper-Houſe of Parliament, upon the 5 of November, Anno Dom. 1605. and then forcibly to have ſeiſed with armed men prepared for that purpoſe, the perſons of our late beheaded King, then Dake of York, and of the Lady Elizabeth his Siſter (if abſent from the Parliament, and not there deſtroyed with the reſt) that ſo there might be none of the Royal Line left to inherit the Crown of England, Scotland and Ireland; to the utter overthrow and ſubverſion of the whole Royal Family, Parliament, State and Government of this Realm. Which unparallel'd, inhumane, bloody Plot, being miraculouſly diſcovered, prevented, the very day before its execution, in perpetual deteſtation of it, and of the Jeſuites and their traiterous Romiſh Religion, (which both contrived and approved it) the 5 day of November, by the Statute of 3 Jacobi, ch. 1. was enacted to be had in perpetual Remembrance, that all Ages to come, might thereon meet together publickly throughout the whole Nation, to render publick praiſes unto God, for preventing this infernal Jeſuitical Deſign, and keep in memory this joyful Day of Deliverance; for which end, ſpecial forms of publick Prayers and Thankeſgivings were then appointed, and that Day ever ſince more or leſs annually obſerved, till this preſent. And it is worthy ſpecial obſervation, that had this Plot taken effect,bbSpeeds Hiſt. p. 1242. The Arraignment of Traytors, and M. John Vicars Hiſtory of the Gunpowder Treaſon. It was agreed by the Jeſuites and Popiſh Conſpirators before-hand, That the Imputation of this Treaſon ſhould be caſt upon the Puritans, to make them more Odious: as now they father all the Powder-Plots of this kinde, which they have not onelyonly laid, but fully accompliſhed of late yeers againſt the King, Prince, Royal Poſterity, the Lords and Commons Houſe, our old Engliſh Parliaments and Government, upon thoſe Independents, and Anabaptiſtical Sword-men, (whom they now repute and ſtile, **See Militiere his victory of Truth, 1654. dedicated to the King of Great Brittain.the moſt reformed PURITANS,) who were in truth, but their meer under-Inſtruments to effect them; When as theyccSee my Epiſtles to Jus Patronatus, and Speech in Parliament. originally laid the Plots; as is clear by Campanella's Book, De Monarchia Hiſp. ch. 25. and Cardinal Richelieu his Instructions at his death, to the King of France. And it is very obſervable, that as Courtney the Jeſuite, Rector of the Engliſh Jeſuites Colledge at Rome did in the year 1641. (when the name of Independents, was ſcarce heard of in England) openly affirm to ſome Engliſh Gentlemen, and a Reverend Miniſter (of late in Cornwal) from whom I had this Relation, then and there feaſted by the Engliſh Jeſuites in their Colledge, That now at laſt, Nota.after all their former Plots had miſcarried, they had found out a ſure way to ſubvert and ruine the Church of England (which was moſt formidable to them of all others) by the Independents; who immediately after (by the Jeſuites clandeſtine aſſiſtance) infinitely encreaſed, ſupplanted the Presbyterians by degrees, got the whole power of the Army, (and by it, of the Kingdom) into their hands, & then ſubverted both the Presbyterian Government and Church of England in a great meaſure, with the Parliament, King and his Posterity; as**In his Victory of Truth, 1654. p. 15, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27. Monſieur Militiere a Jeſuited French-Papiſt obſerves. So ſome Independent Miniſters, Sectaries and Anabaptists, ever ſince 1648. have neglected the obſervation of the fifth of November, (as I am credibly informed) and refuſed to render publick thanks to God for the deliverance thereon, contrary to the Act, for this very reaſon, which ſome of them have rendered; That they would not mock God in publick by praiſing him for delivering the late King, Royal Poſterity, and Houſe of Lords from deſtruction then, by Jeſuites and Papiſts, when as themſelves have ſince deſtroyed and ſubverted them through Gods providence; and repute it a ſpecial mercy and deliverance to the Nation from Tyranny and Bondage, for **Ʋpon which ground, many of them have ſince ſolemnized the 30 of January, inſtead of November 5.which they have cauſe to bleſs the Lord: Performing that for the Jeſuites and Powder-Traytors, which themſelves could not effect. The Lord give them grace and hearts to conſider, how much they acted the Jeſuites, and promoted their very worſt Deſignes againſt us therein; what**See Militiere his Victory of Truth, p. 4, to 50 infamy and ſcandal they have thereby drawn upon all zealous Profeſſors of our Proteſtant Religion, and**Jer. 5. 31.Jer 5:31 what will they do in the end thereof?

9. (To omit all other Forraign inſtances cited in Speculum Jeſuiticum, p. 124, to 130. where you may peruſe them at leiſure) ByddRomes Maſter-piece, p. 8, 18, 19. their poyſoning King Iames himſelf in concluſion, as ſome of them have boaſted.

10. By the Popes Nuntio's, and a Conclave of Jeſuites Conſpiracy at London, Anno 1640.**Romes Maſterpiece, p. 8, to 22. to poyſon our late King Charles himſelf, (as they had poyſoned his Father) with a poyſoned Indian Nut, kept by the Jeſuites, and ſhewed often by Conne the Popes Nuntio to the Diſcoverer of that Plot; or elſe, to deſtroy him by the Scotiſh wars and troubles, (raiſed for that very end by the Jeſuites,) in caſe he refuſed to grant them a univerſal liberty of exerciſing their Popiſh Religion throughout his Realms and Dominions: and then to train up his Son under them, in the Popiſh Religion; To which not onelyonly heretofore, but now likewiſe they ſtrenuouſly endeavour by all poſſible means to ſeduce him; as appears more eſpecially by Monſieur Militiere hisccThe Victory of Truth, Anno 1653. late book dedicated to Him for that purpoſe, to invite him to the Roman Catholick Faith. Surely all theſe premiſed inſtances compared together, and with that memorable paſſage of the Engliſh Jeſuite**Hoſpinion. Hiſt. Jeſuitica, l. 3. f. 214. l. 4. f. 264. Campian, in his Concertatio Eccleſiae Catholicae: (or Epiſtle to Queen Elizabeths Councel.) Treviris 1583. p. 22. Velim ſciatis, quod ad Societatem noſtram attinet, omnes nos, qui per totum Orbeni longe lateque diffuſi ſunt, quarum eſt continua ſucceſſio, & magnus numerus, Sanctum foedus infiſſe, nec quamdiu unus noſtrum ſupererit, ſtudium, & conſilia noſtra intermiſſuros, ad Reges Hereticos quovis modo tollendos (as Hoſpinian relates, and expounds his words and meaning) & Religionem veſtram exting…ere. Iampridem jacta eſt ratio, & inchoatum certamen nulla vis, nullus Anglorum impetus ſuperabit; ſo as to hinder this their holy League and Covenant long ſince entred into, To deſtroy, take out of the way, ruine all Proteſtant Kings throughout the World, under the Notion of Hereticks by any means whatſoever, (and the Proteſtant Religion togetherwith them.) With a**Printed by it ſelf, and at the end of my Speech in Parliament. Copy of a Letter ſent by an Independent Agent from Paris, ſome few weeks before the Kings removal from the Iſle of Weight, by the Army-Officers, declaring the Jeſuites implacable Enmity to the King, and to hereditary Monarchy throughout the World. And an Expreſs ſent from Paris to the King himſelf, ſome three dayes before his ſeiſure and tranſlation from Weight, to this effect, (as I have heard from perſons of Honour) That the Jeſuites at a general meeting in France, had reſolved, by the power of their friends in England, to ſeiſe on his Majeſty, bring him to juſtice, and cut off his head, becauſe he had, contrary to their expectation, cloſed with the Parliament, conſented to the aboliſhing of Epiſcopacy, and) to five new Bills againſt Jeſuites, Popiſh Prieſts, Maſs, Popery, and all Popiſh Ceremonies, in the laſt Treaty; and adviſing Him, to prepare for this new ſtorm, which within few days after fell upon him: will ſufficiently inform the world, that the late unparallel'd capital proceedings againſt our Proteſtant King, (contrary to the Votes of both Houſes of Parliament) the Parliament Members, Peers Houſe, and forced, diſſolved late Parliament too,**See An Apologetical Declaration of the Province of London, &c. Jan. 24. 1649. proceeded not from the Principles of our reformed Proteſtant Religion, as thisffPage 5, 7. 8, 18, 33, 39. &c. Monſieur in his printed Pamphlet, would make his Reader, the youg King; to whom he dedicates it, and all the World believe; but from the Popes and Jeſuites forecited Treaſonable Opinions, ſeconded with their clandeſtine Sollicitations and Practiſes: and that they, with ſome French Cardinals, Jeſuites, as well as Spaniſh and Engliſh, (then preſent in England to promote their Deſignes) were the chief original Contrivers, Promoters of them, whoever were the immediate viſible Inſtruments, as I haveggSee my Speech in Parliament, and Memento. The Epistle to my Jus Patronatus, & Tho. Campanella De Monarchia Hiſp. 6. 25. elſewhere more fully demonſtrated, for the wiping off this Scandal from our reformed Religion, & the ſincere Profeſſors of it, who both abominated and**See the Declaration of the ſecluded Members, The London - Miniſters and others, Repreſentation to the General, and the ſecond part of the Hiſtory of Independency. proteſted againſt it in print. … Radolphus Hoſpinian in his excellent Hiſtoria Jeſuitica, l. 4. f. 244, 245. reckons up theſe three prime cauſes of the Jeſuites Regicides, & other Notorious Treaſons. The firſt is, that blinde Obedience, which they vow to their Superiours, to execute with great celerity, ſpiritual joy, and perſeverance, whatever their Superiours ſhall enjoyne them, by being perſwaded, That all their Cemmands are Iuſt to them; by renouncing their own Opinion and Iudgement with a certain Blinde Obedience: and by believing, that thoſe who live under Obedience, are carried and governed by Divine Providence, (a word now moſt in uſe with our Army-Saints, and Souldiers, wholly infected with this Jeſuitical Doctrine of**To their General & Officers, even in unlawful acts againſt the Parliament, King, Kingdom. Obedience) by their Superiors, whitherſoever they ſhall ſuffer themſelves to be carried, or in what ſort ſoever they ſhall be dealt with by them, (like a ſtaffe in the hand of a man, which readily obeys him that holds it, whereſoever and in what thing ſoever he will pleaſe to uſe it,) eſpecially when backed with a pretext of Neceſsity, Religions Safety, Publick Good, Exemplary Juſtice, and promoting the common Cauſe for which their Society was firſt inſtituted. 2. That they hold themſelves obliged to no Kings, Princes, or Civil Magiſtrates by any Oath of Allegiance, but onelyonly to the Pope and their Generals; and therefore think themſelves free and unable to commit any Treaſon at all againſt them, although at the Popes and …heir Superiours commands they ſtill riſe up againſt, murder, …ſtroy them. 3. That they deem thoſe Kings, Princes, which the Pope and Jeſuites, or other learned men of their Religion, or the common people ſhall deem Hereticks, to be thereby wholly made uncapable of any Empires, Kingdoms, or Principalities, or any other civil Diguity; yea, to be accurſed Tyrants, unworthy of the name of Kings; that thereby their Subjects are totally abſolved from the bond of Allegiance to them; and that thereupon it is lawful to kill and deſtroy them, and the murders of ſuch are meritorious. Now that theſe three Jeſuitical Grounds and Principles, (infuſed into our Army-Officers and Souldiers by the Jeſuites and their Inſtruments of late yeers, againſt their Primitive Orthodox Poſitions, Proteſtations, Declarations, Oaths, Covenants, Engagements) backed with ſecret Avarice, Ambition, and Self-ends, were the principal impulſive Cauſes of all the extravagant violent Proceedings both againſt the late King, and Parliament (not the loyal Principles of the Proteſtant Religion) is apparent unto all the World, by the Armies own Declarations of Nov. 16. and Decemb. 7. 1648. Their True State of the Commonwealth of England, &c. 1654. and other Pamphlets for their juſtification, which all true Protestants bluſh at. …

3. That the Jeſuites ever ſince the Eſtabliſhment of their Military Order, under Ignatius their Martial General, have been the**Hoſpinian. Hiſt. Jeſuitica, l. 3. Romes Maſter-piece. principal Firebrands, Bellows, Inſtruments of kindling, ſomenting, raiſing, continuing all the publick commotions, wars, ſeditions and bloody fewds that have happened in or between any Kings, Kingdoms, States, Princes, Soveraigns or Subjects throughout the Chriſtians world; and more particularly, of all the Civil commotions, wars in France, Germany, Tranſylvania, Bohemia, Hungary, Ruſſia, Poland, England, Scotland and Ireland, to the effuſion of whole Oceans of Chriſtian blood: which one poetically thus expreſſeth,

hhJubilaeum, five Speculum Jeſuiticum Epigramma.Quicquid in Orbe mali paſſim Peccante Gradido eſt,

Quicquid turbarum tempora noſtra vident,

Cuncta Sodalitio mentito Nomine Jeſu

Accepta Hiſtoriâ teſte, referre licet.

It… modò & veſtrae celebrate Encaenia Sectae,

Militis inventum, Loiolana cohors.

Yea, it is well worthy obſervation, what Jacobus Crucius, iiHaſen mullerus Heſt. Jeſuit. c. 1. Speculum Jeſuiticum, p. 61.a Jeſuite (Rector of the Jeſuites Novices at Landsberge) preſumed to publiſh, in his Explication of the Rules of the Jeſuites, Anno 1584. in theſe words: The Father of our Society ought to be a Souldier; becauſe, as it is the part of a Sculdier, to ruſh upon the Enemy with all his Forces, and not to deſiſt, till he become a Conquerour; ſo it is our duty to run violently upon all, who reſiſt the Pope of Rome; and to Deſtroy and Aboliſh them, not onelyonly with Counſels, Writings, and Words; Sed invocato etiam brachio ſeculari, Igne & Ferro tollere & abolere, ſicut Pontifer & noſtra Vota (contra Lutheranos ſuſcepta) Volunt & Mandant. But likewiſe by calling in to our aſſiſtance the ſecular Arm (of an Army) to take away, and deſtroy them with Fire and Sword, as the Pope and our Oathes (taken againſt the Proteſtants) Will and Command. And may we not then ſafely conclude, they have been the Original Contrivers, Fomenters, Continuers of all our late inteſtine and forraign wars, by Land and Sea, with our Chriſtian Proteſtant Brethren and Allyes, (askkExact Collection, p. 12. 10 20 97, 98, 106, 108, 207, 461, to 465. 491, 492, 498, 508, 574, 616, 631, to 670. 812, to 828, 832, 834, 849, 890, to 918, 651, 652, 653. ſundry Parliament Declarations of both Houſes aver and atteſt?) And that many of them have ſecretly crept into, and liſted themſelves Souldiers in our Armies, on purpoſe to put on foot their deſigns againſt our King, Kingdoms, Churches, Religion, and perpetuate our Civil Wars? And ſo much the rather, becauſe,aaRelatio de S…ratogematis & Sophiſmatis J…ſuitarum, c. 4, 6, 7. Alphonſus de Vargas (a Spaniſh Popiſh Prieſt) informs us: That the Jeſuites, being a Generation of Incendiaries, are ſo welpleaſed with the name of their Founder Ignatius, derived from Fire, and ſignifying a Caſter about of wild-Fire, or an Incendiary; that though his chriſtned name at firſt was Innicus, or Inighiſtas; Yet Iohannes Euſebius Nirenberger, a Jeſuite, in his Book, De Vita Ignatii, printed at Madrid, 1630. moſt falſly records, That his Parents at his Baptiſm, being in doubt what name to give him, thereupon the Infant himſelf, with a loud voice, ſaid, He would be named Ignatius, to ſignifie what office he ſhould obtain in the Church and world, even to caſt abroad fire in them, and ſet them all in a flame. Hereupon his Diſciples the Jeſuites, conſidering that this their founder was by his name A firebrand, and a Souldier by his profeſſion, profeſſed publikely to the King of Spain, his councel and the world, that it was no leſs conſonant to the mind, inſtitution and ſtatutes, then to the name of their warlike Father Ignatius, that they ſhould not onelyonly exerciſe, but Publikely profeſs and teach to others, Artem Pyrotechnisam, &c. the art how to make and caſt abroad fire-balls, fire-works and wild-fire, to fire and burn houſes and Cities: and likewiſe the art of warre, of ſetting Armies in battel array, of Aſſaulting cities, the maner of making Gun-powder, bullets, fire-bals; of caſting Guns, and the maner and wayes of making all other Military works, Engines, together with rules and precepts belonging to Navigation, & omnia maritini belli munia: and all duties and incidents belonging to Sea-fights. Upon which they perſwaded the King of Spain (notwithſtanding the oppoſition of all the Univerſit…es of Spain againſt it) to erect a publike Univerſity for their fiery martial order at Madrid, and to endow it with an annual Revenue of ten thouſand Crownes; wherein they ſet up a publike Lecture concerning war and all incidents appertaining thereunto; with this Printed title: Acroaſis, De re Militari; in qua pracipietur Doctrina & forma Militiae veteris & Hodiernae, & Species Mathematum arti iſti ſubordinatarum: quae ſunt Tactica, five De Acie inſtruenda, Topographica, Machinaria Militaris, Organo Poetica, Pyrotechnica, &c. Hanc acroſia faciet, P. Hermannus Hago (a Jeſuit) quarta pomeridiana uſque ad quintam. This is the firſt publike Military Lecture I ever read of erected in any Univerſity amongſt Chriſtians, and Profeſſors of the aaRom. 10. 15Rom 10:15Goſpel of peace; who are expreſly enjoyned by thebbRom. 15. 33 Heb. 13 29.Rom 15:33Heb 13:29 God of peace, and Prince ccIſai. 9. 6.Isa 9:6of peace ddMat. 26. 52.Matt 26:52To put up their ſwords into their ſcabberds, becauſe all thoſe that that the ſword, ſhall periſh with the ſword. eeIſai. 2. 4. Mica. 4. 3.Isa 2:4To beat their ſwords into plow…ſhares, and their ſpears into pruning-hookes: not to lift up the ſword againſt one another, neither To learne war any more. Yet ſuch bloody incendiaries and delighters in war are the Jeſuites, that they thus publikely teach others the art of war and fire-workes, to ſet the whole Chriſtian world in combuſtions and open warres againſt each other; which they have everywhere accompliſhed, and that upon this accompt: that the Goſpel of Jeſus is principally to be taught and propagated by armed power, exercitu & armorum uſu; by An army and the uſe of armes (whereby they now propagate it in our Kingdomes the quite contrary way, to the ruine of our Church and religion:) whereuponffCap. 7. p. 47 and c. 23. p. 132. Vargas paſſeth this juſt cenſure on them: Hos velut Ignigenos illis Comici verbis recte quis a ſe amoliri, & in malam rem abire juſſerit.

Apage illum a me; nan ille quidem Vulcani irati eſt filius.

Quaqua tangit, Omne amburit; ſi prope abſtes, calefacit.

And a German Frier in his Aſtrum inextinctum, gives this true Character of them: Diſcordias inter ſuprema Reipublicae Chriſtianae capita ſeminare credimus eſſe veritati patrocinari; quam ſalvam eſſe negant, quamdiu Principes iſti inter ſe non colliduntur Hoc eſt flammas in Europa ſuſcitare, ſicut gloriantur Patrem ſocietatis Ignatium, eſſe illum, de quo Chriſtus dexerit, Veni ignem mittere in terram, hoc eſt, claſſicum in aulis Principum canere, & illos inter ſo committere.

4. That theggSee Hoſpinian. Hiſtoria Jeſuitica. l 4. f. 212, 213, 214. and l. 3. throughout. Thuanus Hiſt. l. 4. Jeſuites from the firſt erection of their Military order, have conſpired, attempted to ſubvert and utterly extirpate (under the name of Schiſmatickes, Hereticks, Goſpellers, Hereſie, and the Goſpel) all profeſſors whatſoever of the Proteſtant Religion and their Doctrines throughout the world, not onelyonly by Machivilian plots and treaſons, but by war, fire, ſword, holy leagues, Armies & armed power, as is evident both by their bookes and Practices. To inſtance in a few particulars both abroad and at home. Franciſcus Veronas Conſtantienſis, a Jeſuite, in his Apology for John Caſtle, Anno 1595. part 5. c. 13. reſolves, That all wars to extirpate heretickes (Proteſtants) Ar… lawfull, yea more lawfull then againſt all other Infidels, becauſe Hereſie according to Gods word, is worſe then all Infidelity. And if war be Juſt againſt Heretickes, how much more juſt is it againſt the head of the Heretickes? And if it be juſt to Extirpats hereticall Kings out of all Chriſtian Kingdomes (which the Jeſuites entred into an holy League to effect, as you heard before out of Campian) How much more juſt is it in the moſt Chriſtian Kingdom (France) to root out King Henry the 4? (whom they not onelyonly warred againſt, but ſtabbed and murdered as aforeſaid.)hhGenevae, 1620. Thuanus Hiſtoriae, l. 65. p 238. and lib. 67. 299. records; That it is the opinion and Sentence of the Jeſuites, that it is a Pious and wholſome thing, that all Chriſtians ſhould lay violent hands upon Sectaries and Proteſtants, ought to be armed againſt them, and to make no peace, keep no faith nor truce with them; yea, that it would be more profitable for the Church, and more conducing to Gods glory, for all Chriſtians to give over their warrs they wage againſt the Turkes by common conſent, and to let the Turks alone, and to turn all their arms and forces againſt the Evangelical Sectaries (or Proteſtants) which live amongſt them, who are worſer, and ought to be more odious to true Chriſtians then Turkes; and **Yet theſe plead for a Toleration among us, and enjoy it.utterly to deſtroy and perſecute them to death, rather then to delete the unbelieving Mahometans, who are not ſo dangerous as they. Hoc quàm pie, et juxta manſuetudinem Chriſtianam dicatur, ipſi qui conſcientias alioram moderantur, conſcientiam ſuam rogant; Subjoynes Thuanus, though a Papiſt. And Joannis Paulus Windeck, in his Book De extirpandis Haereſ. antid. 10. p. 404. 412. antid. 11. p. 480. and p. 244. poſitively determines, That the Lutheranes and Calviniſts are to be perſecuted with warrs, and not onelyonly to be terrified, but likewiſe deleted, cut off, taken out of the way, and utterly extirpated with arms and flames. That all Catholike Princes ought to enter into Holy leagues, aſſociations & confederacies, to deſtroy and root them out, as they did in France, Anno 1587. That the oportunity is not to be neglected, namely,Nota. Quando Proteſtantes Pecuniis exhauſti ſunt; when the Proteſtants Purſes and money are exhauſted (as they are now amongſt us by exceſſive endleſs Taxes, Exciſes, Civil wars, and a perpetual army too much ſwayed by Jeſuitical counſels, to eat us out, and ruine us with our Religion in concluſion, ere disbanded.) And that the Catholickes may more eaſily oppreſs and deſtroy theſe Sectaries, they are to be ſevered one from, and divided againſt each other, by ſundry various arts and means, and all occaſions laid hold on for this purpoſe. (And are we not ſo now in all our Realmes and Dominions more then ever, by the Jeſuites and Romiſh Emiſſaries?) Which the Emperor Charles the 5 obſerved (in his proceedings againſt the Proteſtants in Germany) to his great advantage. In purſuance of theſe JeſuiticaliiRichardi Dinothi Hiſtoria de pello Civili Gallico, l 6. p. 151. &c. The General Hiſtory of France. p. 778. 779 Hoſpinian. Hiſtoria Jeſuitica f. 149. 150 Thuanus Hiſtoria. l. 63. Poſitions, Anno 1576. and 1577. the King of Spain, Duke of Guiſe, with ſundry others, Jeſuited Popiſh Princes, Nobles and Papiſts of all degrees, by the Jeſuites inſtigation, and Popes ſpeciall approbation, entred into a bloody Conſpiracy, or holy League, as they term it: To restore and retain the moſt holy worſhip of God, according to the form and maner of the holy catholike Apoſtolike Church of Rome: to abjure all errors or corruptions contrary thereunto, &c. To ſpend not onelyonly all their Eſtates, but lives, to repeal all publique Edicts in favor of the Proteſtants and their aſſociates; to extirpate all Hereſies, heretickes, and purſue all ſuch as publike enemies, with fire and ſword to death, who ſhould any way oppoſe or withſtand this League, or refuſe to joyne with them in it, or fall off from it upon any pretext, after this Oath to obſerve it. Which League they ſeveral times renewed: and in thekkDinothus, Peter Mathew, Thuanus General Hiſtory of France, Meteranus, and others. renovation thereof Anno 1598. the Jeſuits openly boaſted, That they would uſe their utmoſt endeavours, that before the year 1600. began, Evangelium (So they termed the Proteſtant Religion) Radicitus ex orbs toto extirpetur; Should be clean extirpated out of the whole world. The Maſſacres, Slaughters of how many thouſand Proteſtants by open inteſtine wars and bloody Conſpiracies, this League occaſioned in France, Germany and the Netherlands, together with the murders of two French Roman Catholike Kings, thellSpeculum Jeſuiticum, p. 92. French and Belgick Hiſtories of thoſe times, will ſufficiently inform the Reader.mmMeteranus Historia. l. 23. Speculum Jeſuit. p. 100. In the year 1602. the Jeſuites erected a new Colledge and Society at Thonon in Savoy, to convert or utterly extirpate the Proteſtants, under the Notion of Heretickes. 1. by Preachings. 2. by pious frauds. 3. by Vi armata: by force of armes: to which new Society, many Popiſh Kings, Nobles and others, gave their names; and in June that yeare liſted above 25000 expert Soldiers, all Roman Catholickes, to put this their Deſigne againſt the Proteſtants in execution upon the next oportunity: there being above 50 Jeſuites diſguiſed in Lay-mens habits imployed in England, to ſtir up the Papiſts and people there to joyn with them in this new Aſſociation, to root out the Proteſtants in all places by the Sword, the Principal Engine uſed by theſe Ignatians to effect it. To paſs bynnSee H…ſpinian. Hiſtoria Jeſuitica l. 3. f. 160. 161. 162 all the conſpiracies and attempts of the Jeſuites in Queen Elizabeths reigne, to extirpate our Religion and the Profeſſors of it by open wars, Rebellions, Spaniſh and forraign invaſions both in England, Ireland and Scotland, recorded by Mr. Cambden, Speed and others in her life, and William Watſon in his Quodlibets; with their attempts of like Nature in the beginning of King James his raign, recited in the Statutes of 3. Jacobi, c. 2. where all may peruſe them: I ſhall onelyonly acquaint you; That a little before the beginning of our late bloody wars, Diviſions, (contrived, fomented by the Jeſuites and Papiſts, as I ooHidden Workes of darkneſs brought to publique light. Romes Maſterpeece, Conterburies Doome.have elſewhere at large, diſcovered, and ppExact Collect. p. 651, 652. 662. 668. 813. to 832. 902. to 920.many Parliament-Declarations atteſt) one Francis Smith an Engliſh Jeſuite, openly affirmed to Mr. Waddeſworth and Mr. Yaxly, That it was not now a time to bring their Religion by diſputing or Books of controverſie, but It muſt be done by an Army, and By the Sword. And it is very conſiderable, That when the Jeſuites Spaniſh and Romiſh Agents had engaged the King and Engliſh Proteſtants againſt their Proteſtant Brethren of Scotland, 1639. to cut one anothers throats; the King of Spain had provided a great new Spaniſh Armado by the Jeſuites ſollicitation, and a great Land-Army of old Spaniſh Soldiers to invade the Weſtern and Southern parts of England, then deſtitute of all forces, Arms & Ammunition to defend it, all drawn to the Northern parts againſt the Scots; and to joyn with the Popiſh confederates here, to extirpate the Engliſh he retickes and Proteſtants: which deſigne of theirs, through the Hollanders unexpected encounter, which ſcattered their fleet upon the Engliſh Coaſts, and the Pacification with the Scots, before any engagement of both Armies, was happily prevented. That this Spaniſh Fleet was then eſpecially deſigned for England, appeares (beſides other Evidences, which I haveqqThe Royal Popiſh favourite p. 58, 59. Hidden workes of darkneſs brought to light p. 198. elſewhere touched) by the confeſſion of an Engliſh Pilot in that Navy upon his death-bed, mortally wounded in the firſt fight, to an Engliſh Miniſter and others, to whom he revealed it out of conſcience; by ſome Letters I have met with; and by a Pamphlet made and printed by the Jeſuites, Anno 1640. intituledrrThe Royall Popiſh favourite. p. 58. 59. Hidden workes of darkneſs p. 198. The Jubilee of the Jeſuites, taken from a Papiſt at Redriffe, and preſented by Sheriffe Warner to the whole Commons Houſe, November 14. 1640. Wherein among other Paſſages then read in the Houſe, (entred in the Journal of that day, out of which I tranſcribed them:) there was a Particular prayer, For the holy martyrs that Suffered in the Fleet ſent againſt the Hereticks of England,Nota 1639. with this advice; That the Papiſts muſt fiſh in troubled waters, (to wit, whiles that The King was Ingaged in the wars againſt the Scots:) with **Exact Collect. p. 12, 13.certain prayers added, For their good ſucceſs in that Deſigne againſt the Scots. For the more effectuall carrying on whereof, the Popes Nuncio, with thessHidden workes of darkneſs brought to publique light p. 189. to 199. and Romes Maſter-Peece. Colledge of Jeſuites then in Queen-ſtreet, ſecretly ſummoned a kind of Parliament of Roman Catholicks and Jeſuites in London, out of every County of England and Wales, in which Conne the Popes Nuncio ſate Preſident, by the Queens commiſſion and direction, in April, 1639. Who granted and collected an extraordinary large Contribution, by way of Subſidy, from the Papiſts, to carry on this war againſt our Proteſtant Brethren of Scotland, and raiſe forces to joyne with the Spainards, whom they then expected, to cut the Engliſh Proteſtants throats. The Jeſuitical and Prelatical Popiſh party much diſpleaſed with the defeat of this their Plot, by the unexpected Pacification with the Scots, 1639. induced the King ſoon after to break and revoke it, ttSee the Kings declaration concerning that Treaty, Hidden workes of darkneſs.Anno 1640. (the very year of the**Speculum ſive Jubilaeum Jeſuiticum. Jeſuites Jubilee, which they ſolemnized in all places, being the 100. yeer from the firſt Erection of their Order by Ignatius, Anno 1540.) they cauſed a new Army to be raiſed and ſent into the North againſt the Proteſtants of Scotland, to ſubdue & deſtroy them. At the ſame time they ſecretly uuHidden workes of darkneſs p. 225. 226. Canterburies Doom. p. 459.liſted an Army of no leſs then 7000. Romiſh Catholickes, kept in private pay, of purpoſe To cut the Proteſtants throats who ſhould reſiſt them, and to Conquer the Proteſtants in England firſt, and then in Ireland; which Deſigne they were to put in execution, when the Pope or his Legat, with the Spaniſh, French and Venetian Ambaſſadours ſhould appoint; who deſigned them to begin to execute it, When the King went into Scotland againſt the Scots; as O Conner (the Queen-Mothers Prieſt) confeſſed to Anne Huſſey, Nota.who juſtified it to the Lords of the Councel then, and afterwards, before the Lords in Parliament upon her Oath. The Jeſuites were ſo confident of the good ſucceſs of their deſignes amongſt us, and compleat Victory over all the Proteſtants throughout the world this yeare of their Jubilee (making**See Bellarmin. de No…is Eccl. Nota. 15. Triumph over their Enemies, one of their Notes of the true Church) thatxxSpeculum five Jubilaeum Jeſuiticum. p. 220. to 224. they appointed a ſolemne Enterlude to be acted by their Society in the publique Hall at Aquiſgran in Germany, in honour of their Jubilee: wherein they ſignified to the people, by printed Tickets and Pageants, that the Popiſh Church of Rome ſhould be brought in upon the Stage, happily fighting againſt, triumphing and reigning over all her enemies every where throughout the world, in all ages till that preſent day, and eſpecially of later times, by their meanes. The beginning of this Enterlude being happily acted, and ſucceeding according to their mindes; at laſt there were two Armies of ſoldiers brought by them upon the Stage, ready to encounter each other: the one of Jeſuites and Papiſts, fighting for the Church of Rome; the other, repreſenting the Proteſtants warring againſt her. Before their fight, a Jeſuitical actor, clad in black, perſonating a Popiſh Maſſe-Prieſt, divineth good ſucceſs to the Popiſh Army, praying for it with an affected devotion and ſolemne invocation (or rather profanation) of Gods name: after which, the Popiſh Army of actors, as being certain of the inſtant victory, uttered theſe words to their Captain (as their parts directed them) with a loud reiterated voyce and ſhout; Pereat, Pereat, Quiſquis eſt hoſtis Eccleſiae: Let him periſh, let him periſh, whoever is an enemy of the Church: whereupon a great part of the Stage on which they acted, together with the whole Popiſh Army (not one Souldier or Captain excepted) at the repeating of theſe words and wiſhes, fell to the ground immediately, with ſo great celerity, that many of them felt they were fallen down, before they diſcerned themſelves to fall; their feigned enemies of the Church (repreſenting the Proteſtants) ſtanding all faſt, at leaſt in place, if not in mind, on the other part of the Stage, which fell not at all. With this ſudden fall, many of the Popiſh Army were bruiſed in peeces with the beames of the Stage falling upon them; who through pain and horror, needed Monitors to ſilence their outcries; others having their bones broken and Limbes put out of joynt, were carried to the Chirugions to be dreſſed; and all the reſt confounded with ſhame, crept away ſecretly under the Veile to their Lodging. And ſo this Jeſuitical Enterlude, by divine juſtice, ended in a real unexpected bloody Tragedy and real rout of the whole pretended victorious Popiſh Army of Jeſuites; and the Scotiſh Wars that yeer (which they ſo much depended on) through Gods mercy, concluded in a bleſſed Peace and Union between both Nations. Whereupon, theyySee Hidden works of darkneſs brought to publike light, p. 219. to 250. The Riſe and Progreſs of the Iriſh R. bellion, and others. Iriſh Popiſh Rebels, by the Jeſuites Plots and inſtigations, ſeconded with ſecret encouragements, and promiſes of aſſiſtance with Arms and Moneys from Cardinal Richliou, the King of Spain, Pope, and other forraign Popiſh Princes, undertook the late horrid bloody Maſſacre of all the Proteſtants in Ireland, and ſurpriſal of all the Forts, Caſtles, Arms and Ammunition therein, on the 23 of October, 1641.zzHidden works of darkneſs, p. 243. being Ignatius day, the Founder and New Canonized Saint of the Jeſuited Society, for the greater Honour of their Patron, Order; they being the chief Plotters of this horrid bloody Treaſon. Which horrid Conſpiracie, though happily diſcovered the night before its execution, at Dublin, and ſome few places elſe; yet it took effect in moſt other parts of Ireland, to the ſlaughter of neer two hundred thouſand Proteſtants there, in few months ſpace; ſeconded with a bloody Warre, for ſundry years; to the loſſe of many thouſands more lives. To this Plot **Hidden work… of darknes, p. 226.all the Papiſts in England were privy, who intended the like Maſſacre in England; and ſoon after by the Popes and **Exact Coll. p. 662, 666, 813 to 832. A Collection of Ordinances, p. 267, 318, 354, 424, and the Hiſtory of Independency.Jeſuits inſtigations, by the aſſiſtance of ſorragin Popiſh Princes, they eugaged the King and Parliament in a longlaſting bloody uncivill, unchriſtian war againſt each other, concluding in the Kings and Parliaments joynt ruines by an Army raiſed for their mutual defence, ſeduced thereunto through the Jeſuits inſtigations and policies. After which, they engaged the Proteſtants of England and Scotland (formerly united by the ſtricteſt B…nds and Covenants againſt them) to war upon, invade and deſtroy each other by land; and ſoon after that (by the Spaniſh **See Tho. Campanella de Monarchi… Hiſp. c. 25, 27.Agents Aſſiſtance) raiſed a moſt dangerous bloody Warre between our Proteſtant old Allies of the Neitherlands and the Engliſh by Sea; to the infinite dammage, prejudice of both, and the effuſions of whole Oceans of the Gallanteſt Chriſtian Proteſtant blood, that ever yet was ſhed, the expence of more treaſure and men in theſe inteſt…e Wars, than would have conquered all Spain, Italy, and the Indies, had they been imployed upon ſuch a deſigne; and to the entailing of a **See the 27 Article of the Inſtrument of Government.perpetuall Army on us and our Poſterities; more ready (as we have of late years found by ſad experiments) to hearken to the Jeſuits clandeſtine ſuggeſtions, …eductions, and execute their foreplotted Deſignes to ruine our Kingdomes, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties, Monarchy, Church, Religion, then to follow the Advice, Votes Councels, Directions, Commands of our Parliaments, Kingdomes, and the beſt affected Proteſtants of all ranks who firſt raiſed, and have ſo long maintained them, for quite other ends (hereafter touched) then what they (of late times) have moſt purſued, to the Popes and Jeſuits great content.

5. That the Jeſuits have endeavoured, attempted the convulſion, concuſſion, ſubverſion not onelyonly of the Empires, Realms, and ancient ſetled Governments and States of Germany, Ruſſia, Bohemia, Hungaria, France, Poland, but likewiſe of England, Scotland and Ireland, and to new model them into**Exact Coll. p. 3, 4. 461, 462 491 497, 498, 917, 631. other Forms of Government. What mould of Government they intended to caſt England into, is thus long ſince deſcribed by William Watſon (a ſecular Prieſt) in his Quodlibets, Anno 1602. page 309, 310, 330, 331. England is the main chance of Chriſtendome at this preſent, by ſeditions, factions, tampering and aſpiring Heads: the onelyonly But, Mark, White, the Jeſuits aym at, as well in intention as execution of their pretended expedition, exploit and action. I am of opinion, that no man on earth can tell what Government it is they intend to eſtabliſh, ratifie and confirm, when they come to their preconceited Monarchy; no not any of their Plot caſters. No queſtion it is, but their Government ſhall be as uncertain as their New conceited Monarchy; their Monarchy as mutable as their Reign, and their Reign as variable as the Winde, or Proteus in his Complements. But no queſtion is to be made of it, but that the Government they do directly intend at this preſent is, A MOST ABSOLUTE SOVERAIGNTY, DOMINION AND STATE, CLEARLY EXEMPTED from any ſubordination, TO ANY LAW or Legifer divine or humane; and therefore it is rightly called DESPOTICON in the higheſt degree of exemplary immuni…le, **Is not ours ſo …ow?IMPERIALITY AND ABSOLUTE REIGN, RULE AND AUTHORITY, as containing in it three ſorts of Government; S…il. Monarchical, Ariſtocraticall, Democraticall, in matters of Counſell and mannaging of Common wealths cauſes; not in point OF REGALITY, HONOUR AND INHERITANCE; For there ſhall be neither Title, nor Name, nor Honour given, taken or done to any Prince, Duke, Marqueſſe, Earl, Viſcount, Lord, Baron, or the like, (all the Jeſuitical Governours being Puritan like, Seniours, Elders, Provincials, &c.) neither ſhall there be any ſucceſſions by Birth or blood, TO ANY HONOUR, OFFICE OR MAGISTRACY from the Monarch, Pater General, to the Minor, P…ter Miniſter, but ALL SHALL GO BY **See the New Government of the Commonwealth of England, Artic. 25, 26, 32. 33, 34. 41.ELECTION OR CHOICE. Whether our late and preſent variable floating New moulded Governments have not been caſt by this long ſince predicted Jeſuiticall Mould, let wiſe men, with all our late, yea preſent Governours, now ſadly conſider and determine.

6. That the**Alphonſi de Va…gas Relatio cap. 5. Jeſuits in a publique Diſputation held at Madrid, publiſhed by them under this Title; Concluſiones Politicae ſub Regis Domini noſtri praeſidio, inſtructed the King of Spain (their Chief Protector,**Speculum Jeſuiticum p. 217 218, 219. whom they moſt extoll above all other Kings, to promote both his univerſall Monarchy and their own thereby.) That in relation to his Empire, Power was neceſſary, which power they defined to be; A faculty, not onelyonly of retaining the Kingdomes he already poſſeſſed, but likewiſe of acquiring other mens. Perſwading him by this Doctrine to believe: That he was therefore conſecrated a Catholike King by God, that he might enjoy a faculty, not onelyonly of keeping his own, but alſo OF INVADING AND SEISING UPON OTHER MENS DOMINIONS. For to retain ones own, was the praiſe onelyonly of a private family: DE ALIENIS CERTARE REGIA LAUS EST: but it was a Royall praiſe to fight for that which is other mens: NEC REGNANDI CAUSA JUS VIOLARE CRIMEN EST, DUM CAETERIS REBUS PIETAS COLATUR: Neither is it a Crime to violate Law or Right, to reign or gain a Crown, whiles that Piety in other things ſhall be obſerved. Which Jeſuitical Machivilian unrighteous Doctrine, though (as Alphonſus Vargas, a Spaniſh Popiſh Prieſt reſolves) it be diametrically contrary to the doctrine of our Lord Jeſus himſelf, inſtructing men, that **See Joh. 10. 1. Ezech. 18. 5. to 14. Levit. 6. 1. 4. Job. 20. 19, 20 c. 24. 2. to 15 Obad. 5. Jer. 49. 9, 10.John 10:1Ezek 18:5–14Lev 6:1Lev 6:4Job 20:19Job 20:20Obad 1:5Jer 49:9Jer 49:10aliena obtinere non Potentis Principis, SED IMPOTENTIS AC VIOLENTI PRAEDONIS EST: Yet the Jeſuites and their Inſtruments of late years have ſufficiently propagated it amongſt our Engliſh Grandees and Army-Saints; for a moſt ſacred Oracle, as their violent invaſions of other mens Realms, Powers, Offices, Pallaces, Lands, Eſtates, and Poſſeſſions of all kindes, by meer armed power and might, demonſtrate beyond contradiction.

7. That the**Alphonſi de Vargas relati… &c. c. 5. 7. ſee c. 2, 3, 16, 18, 19 56, 57. & Hoſpinian Hiſtoria Jeſuitical. 206 207. Jeſuites in their Book, De Zelo S. Ignatii in Religione ſua inſtituenda, printed at Madrid, p. 13, do glory; Hoc Societatis proprium eſſe, ut quotidie nov… promat inventiones quibus homines ad Deum perducantur: That this is the property of their Society, that it DAILY BRINGS FORTH NEW INVENTIONS, whereby men may be brought home to God (that is, to their Religion and Society) the principle whereof they, and Vargas record, to be theſe. Their perſwading of men to embrace the Goſpel, by AN ARMY; the uſe of ARMES, Power, Terrour, Fire: Their Exerciſe of Merchandize (which many of them in moſt places & in**Hidden works of darkneſſe brought to publique light, p. 203, 204. England too, now uſe, they being very great Merchants, Factors, and Returners of Moneys by Bils of Exchange) and of all other Secular Imployments, Callings, in Lay-mens habits, the more eaſily to inſinuate themſelves into all Countries, Places, Companies and Societies of men to infect, ſeduce, and diſcover their ſecrets, according to this their received Maxime; JESUITA EST OMNIS HOMO: a Jeſuit is every man: that is, a man of all Profeſſions, Callings, Sects, Religions to effect his ends: Their queſtioning, traducing, oppugning, cenſuring of all the Articles of the Apoſtles Creed, and received Principles, Doctrines of Chriſtian Religion; corrupting, ſlighting, falſifying the Scriptures themſelves, together with Councils, Fathers, Schoolmen, and all other Divines; but thoſe onelyonly of their own Order, which they incomparably extoll above and prefer before all other: Their venting of new Opinions, Notions, Revelations, Expoſ…ions, Crochets, Herefies, Problems, both in Divinity itſelf, and all other Arts and Sciences in the Preſſe, Pulpit, Univerſities, Schools. And if theſe (as Vargas aſſures us) be their properties and new inventions to propagate the Goſpel, and draw men unto God (which our Lord Jeſus himſelf and his true Diſciples were wholy ignorant of) may we not certainly conclude, that they have of late years been extraordinary buſie at this their harveſt work amongſt us, and more eſpecially in ſpreading their Goſpel by AN ARMY, and taking upon them the uſe of Arms, in … of their Military Father Ignatius, with all other ſecular Imployments, and New Sects to draw Proſelites and new ſeparate Congregations to them, throughout our Realms, to deſtroy both our Church Diſcipline and Religion, as well as our Civill Government and Laws?