Popery Anatomized, Section 4
SECTION IV.
That the continual practiſe of Papiſts ever ſince the Reformation, hath been to plot and practiſe bloody and treaſonable Conſpiracies, Aſſaſſinations and Murders, both of Princes and People, who profeſs the Reformed Religion.
IN the former Section we have proven that the Pope and Synagogue of Rome, have been the grand Authors of warrs, confuſions and combuſtions in Chriſtian Churches and Kingdoms: In this Section we are to prove that not only have they been the Authors and inſtigators to bloody wars and confuſions in Chriſtian Churches and Kingdoms; but that in all Proteſtant or Reformed Churches, Kingdoms, or States, they have been ſecretly and under-hand always plotting and practiſing bloody and treaſonable conſpiracies, aſſaſſinations, and murders, both of Princes and people, who profeſs the Reformed Religion.
It would be too tedious to declare at large what plots and conſpiracies the Pope and his dependers and vaſſals have had in all the Reformed Churches, ever ſince Luthers Reformation: we only ſhal inſtance ſome few not our near hand, in France, Ireland, and in Britain.
I. I told in the former Section how the Pope and his ſworn vaſſals, were the Authors of the maſſacre of Paris anno 1572. which was ſurely hatched in hell, and carried on with all the ſubtilty of that old Serpent: for when the Pope and Court of Rome, and Queen Catharin de Medicis, and Charles the 9. her ſon, ſaw that fire and fagot, and force of war could not undo the Proteſtants, they ſaid, come and let us deal ſubtily with them, and enſnare them, by pretences of friendſhip and flatteries, therefore they not only concluded a peace with them; but gave the ſiſter of the King of France to the King of Navarre in marriage, that ſo they might maſſacre the Proteſtants at the marriage; and they ſuſpecting no treachery, came to the City of Paris, where the Queen of Navarre was poyſoned by a pair of perfumed gloves, and the Admiral, and the greateſt part of the Proteſtant Nobility were all maſſacred in a morning: the maſſacre was ſo cruel, that it made the river run with blood, and there were thirty thouſand Proteſtants killed in one moneths time, of which more afterward.
II. We alſo hinted before how King Henry the 3. of France, although he lived and died a Papiſt, and while he was Duke of Anjou, had foughten ſeveral battels againſt the Proteſtants, and was one of the plotters in the maſſacre of Paris, yet becauſe he did not joyn with the holy League, and obey the Popes will in all things, the Pope excommunicated him, and ſtirred up James Clement a Jacobin Monk, to commit that horrible parricide upon his Royal perſon.
III. We did alſo a little touch how his ſucceſſor King Henry the 4. was oppoſed and moleſted by the Pope, and the holy League, his ſworn ſervants, and excommunicat, and the Spaniards brought in the Kingdom to joyn with the holy League to his ruine: But God ſo bleſſed his enterpriſes, that he foyled them often; but he being weary of war, and conſulting with fleſh and blood, for peace and eaſe to himſelf and quyet to his Kingdom, turned Papiſt, and ſought abſolution from the Pope, and at length obtained it: But becauſe they thought him not a heart Papiſt, and cordial for them in all things, they plot his death by ſecret aſſaſſination; and after ſeveral attempts, one whereof wounded him in the mouth, R…villac ſtroke him through the very heart: although to pleaſe the Pope, he cauſed recall the Jeſuits, which for their bloody principles and practiſes were baniſhed the Kingdom. So this is the Pope and his Jeſuits method, when they cannot overcome any Prince, that they think no cordial favorer of theirs, by open hoſtility; they excite and ſtimulat ſome ſcholer or other of theirs, ſecretly to aſſaſſinat him. For John Chaſtel, a ſcholer of the Jeſuits, who ſtroke King Henry the fourth of France in the mouth, and broke out one of his teeth, intending to have cut his throat; when he was examined, confeſſed that he being guilty of a great crime, was kept priſoner by the Jeſuits in the chamber of meditations; where, after they had long terrified his ſoul, they propounded to him a way to leſſen his torments in hell, to wit, to kill the King, which the miſerable wretch promiſed and attempted: Whereupon the Colledge of the Jeſuits was ſearched, and many perſons ſeized on, among which was found a book in the praiſe of James Clement, the murderer of King Henry the 3 written by the Jeſuit Guignard; containing many arguments and reaſons to prove it was lawful and juſt to kill King Henry the 3. together with many incitements and motives to make away his ſucceſſor King Henry the 4. then reigning, The themes given to young ſcholars, were found to be about King killing, with praiſes of the attempt and exhortations to it. Likewiſe Bariere, another wretch who had attempted to kill King Henry the 4. being examined, confeſſed that the Jeſuit Varadius, Rector of the Colledge of the Jeſuits, had incited and adjured him upon the Sacrament of confeſſion, and the communion of the Lords body, to kill the King▪ aſſuring him, that if he ſuffered for it he ſhould obtain martyrdom. Moreover, Ravillac in his examination ſhewed ſufficiently by whoſe inſtructions he was perſwaded to murther King Henry the 4. for he gave this reaſon why he did it, becauſe the King would make war with God, in as much as he prepared war againſt the Pope who is God: which is the plain doctrine of the Church of Rome. So the Jeſuits at the Popes inſtigation, never ceaſed till they had aſſaſſinated both theſe Kings of France, Henry the 3. and Henry the 4. So Peter du Moulin, chap. 5.
IV. William Prince of Orange, being one of the bleſſed inſtruments the Lord imployed for the delivery of the Netherlands from the Spaniſh tyranny and Popiſh idolatry; therefore the Popiſh faction carrying an implacable hatred to him, they ſtirred up one Joanville to kill him; and for encouraging him in this deviliſh attempt, a Frier perſwaded him that he ſhould go inviſible: and for that effect he gave him ſome characters in paper, and little frogs bones, and other conjurations, whereby he being animated to that wicked deed, went & lay in wait, and ſhot the Prince with a piſtol through the throat: But he through Gods goodneſs recovering, they ſtirred up Baltazar Gerard to make a ſecond attempt upon him, who ſhot him through the ſtomack and vital parts, ſo that he preſently died.
V. But leaving theſe forraign inſtances, let us come home to Britain, where we will ſee a wonderful Tragedy of ſecret bloody treaſons, plotted and carried on for the ruine of Queen Elizabeth, King James, &c. and the whole Reformed Religion profeſſed in theſe lands. For ſo ſoon as the Pope perceived that Queen Elizabeth intended in earneſt to ſhake off that Romiſh yoke, and that all his flattery and fair dealing could not reduce her to his obedience, ſhe refuſing to permit his Nuncio to enter her Kingdom, he falls to his old courſe, and anno 1569. Pope Pius the 5. excommunicats her (as we ſaid before) abſolving all her ſubjects from her obedience, and …urſing all that ſhould longer obey her, giving her Kingdom to the King of Spain. But fearing that a war might be dangerous, and of doubtful event, he thought the moſt compendious way to ruine her, was to ſend over his Agents to England, to cauſe proclaim his Bull there, and to excite the Papiſts in England to rebellion againſt her, and to endeavor by all means to aſſaſſinat her: For he thought this would either win her, or at leaſt it would ſtrengthen the King of Spains hands, when he knew that there were ſecret plottings in England for to accompliſh his deſign. Therefore he ſent over his Bull declaratory by one Morton an Engliſh fugitive, who bringing it to Rodolf a Florentin, divers copies of it were firſt ſecretly ſcattered among the Papiſts, and then the Brieve it ſelf fixed on the gate of London-houſe; by which time, the Prieſts, and other Agents for Rome, had wrought ſo far with ſundry Nobles and Gentle-men of eminency, whom they either found or could make diſcontented with the Reformed Religion, or Government, or whom they diſcerned to be ambitiouſly affected, that they never reſted, plotting one treaſon and rebellion after another. For in that ſame year wherein the Popes Bulls was here ſcattered among the Papiſts, the Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland, and ſundry other their complices, fell out in actual rebellion. But that not taking effect, they uſed more ſecret and hidden wayes for carrying on their miſchief: For L. Aubeſpine, a French Ambaſſador of the Guiſian faction, ſolicited one Mocdy to kill the Queen, by laying gun powder under her chamber, and ſecretly firing it. But although that was diſcovered, yet they did not ceaſe, but all that Queens time they were ſtill plotting treaſons; ſuch as the treaſons of Stuckly in Ireland, of the Stanlies in Darbiſhyre, of John Trogmorton and Brook, of Sanders and Briſtow, of the Nortons, Barn and Mather, of Doctor Story▪ and Shirwin, Parſons, Campian, and Kirly, and many other Prieſts and Jeſuits, to the number of 120. of Somervail and his adherents: of Mayn, Nilſon, Thomſon, and the reſt of that crue: of Payn and his fifty reſolutes hyred by the Pope to murder the Queen. Of Francis Throgmorton, Paget and Englfield. Of bloody Pary, of Babington, Tichburn, and the reſt of that pack. Of the ſame Babington, Charnock and Savace, on a ſecond deviliſh deſign. Of Lopoz▪ of Stanly, of Cullen, of York and Williams, &c. with infinit mo that never came to light; yea, Garnet, Winter, Catesby, Treſhame, and others, in the laſt year of Queen Elizabeth, travelled with the King of Spain to joyn with the Papiſts in England to depoſe the Queen, and to extirpat Religion. Thus they never reſted all the time of that Queen, to plot treaſons and rebellions againſt her. And is it not well known, how the Duke of Guiſe, and his faction in France, did enter in the holy League, to root out all the Proteſtants? In proſecution whereof, they warred and rebelled againſt their natural Soveraigns King Henry the 3. and King Henry the 4. while ſeveral hundreds of thouſands of the ſubjects were killed and deſtroyed▪ and the whole Kingdom almoſt waſted and depopulated, and way made for the Spaniard to conquer the Kingdom, with whom the Leaguers joyned, and brought his forces unto the Kingdom. And if his wars in the Netherlands, and the loſs of his Armado anno 1588. had not weakned him, he might have conquequeſted all France. But did King James feel them any quieter in Scotland? Surely no. For beſide the hazard he was in from them in his infancy and minority, he felt alſo their treaſons and rebellions, when come to age: For the Earls of Angus, Huntly and Arrol, the Lords Maxwel, Hares, and others, made a conſpiracy for bringing in the Spaniard, with whom they were to joyn forces for the ruine of King and Kingdom, and afterward brake out in open rebellion at the bridge of Dee; as is proved at large in a Treatiſe, intituled. A Diſcovery of the unnatural and trayterous conſpiracy o… Scottiſh Papiſts, &c. printed by King James ſpecial command 1592. And as ſoon as he entered England, Watſon and Clerk inſtilled treaſons unto ſundry Nobles and Gentle-men againſt the King and Prince before the Coronation: But that not ſucceeding, they fall next to the Gun-powder treaſon, deſigning to blow up King & Parliament, & all at one blow: they hiring the cellers of the Parliament-houſe in which they laid 36. barrels of gunpowder, and 1000. billets, and 500. fagots; and if God had not diſcovered their wickedneſs by a ſingular providence, both King, Queen, Prince, Nobles, Knights, Citizens, Burgeſſes, yea the whole Parliament, had all gone with at one blow. I ſpare to ſpeak of the continual treaſons and rebellions in Ireland, both in Queen Elizabeth and King James reign; Or of that memorable deſign of the Spaniſh Armado anno 1588. Which however it was attempted by Spain, yet all men may know that the Engliſh and Scottiſh Papiſts kept continual correſpondence, and were combined with the Spaniard: And of the thundering Bull of Pope Sixtus the 5. then ſent abroad for confirmation of the ſeveral Bulls made by his predeceſſors Pius the 5. and Gregory the 13. againſt Queen Elizabeth, to the end our Papiſts might more cheerfully aſſiſt in that bloody enterpriſe. Nor were the Papiſts leſs active in King Charles the firſt his reign; as M Prin and M. Baxter have evidenced at large. Prin in ſeveral treatiſes (eſpecially in a treatiſe intituled Romes Maſter-piece) ſhows what great plots they had, either to ruine King and Kingdom or to procure liberty for the profeſſion of Popery. M. Baxter in his Key of Catholicks, chap. 45. & ſeqq. proveth at large, that they plotted, contryved, and carried on that late change of Government in the State, and that cruel and abominable parricide committed on the Royal perſon of King Charles the firſt. Peter du Moulin junior, Chaplain to the Kings Majeſty, in his vindication of the ſincerity of the Proteſtant Religion, in the point of obedience to Soveraigns, chap. 2. pag. 58.59 teſtifieth, That the year before the Kings death, a ſelect number of Engliſh Jeſuits 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: That ſeeing the State of England was in a likely posture to change Government, whither it was lawful for the Catholicks to work that change, for the advancing and ſecuring of the Catholicks cauſe in England, by making away the King, whom there was no hope to turn from his hereſie? Which was anſwered affirmatively. After which the ſame perſons went to Rome where the ſame question being propounded and debated it was concluded by the Pope and his Council, that it was both lawful and expedient for the Catholicks to promote that alteration of State. What followed that conſultation and ſentence, all the world knoweth. The ſame Author relateth, That when the news of that horrible execution came to Roan, a Proteſtant Gentle-man of good credit, was preſent in a great number of Jeſuited perſons: where after great expreſſions of joy, the greateſt of the company, to whom all gave ear, ſpake much after this ſort: The King of England at his marriage had promiſed us the reeſtabliſhing of the Catholick Religion in England, and when he delayed to fulfil 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 theſe courſes which would bring him to his deſtruction. We have given him lawful warning, and when no warning would ſerve, we have kept our vow to him, ſince he would not keep his word to us. The ſaid Author likewiſe relateth, That in purſuance of the fore-mentioned concluſion at Rome, many Jeſuits came over, who take ſeveral ſhapes to go about their work, but most of them took party in the army. About thirty of them were met by a Proteſtant Gentle-man, between Roan and Deep, to whom they ſaid (taking him for one of their party) that they were going to England, and would take arms in the Independant army, and endeavor to be Agitators. Much more hath he to this purpoſe.
M. Baxter likewiſe proveth that many Jeſuits did enter in the army, and ſwarmed through the Countrey, under the name of Independants, Seekers, Quakers, Levellers, &c. endeavoring to ruine the Reformed Religion, by railing againſt the Church, Miniſtery, Ordinances, &c.
From all which it is evident, that the grand work of the Pope and Jeſuits his Janiſaries, is to plot and carry on treaſons and bloodſhed in Proteſtant Kingdoms and Commonwealths, which they have been ſtill about ſince the Reformation: And no wonder the Prieſts and Jeſuits lay life and all at the ſtake, to accompliſh bloody and traiterous deſigns, ſeeing they are ſworn and ingaged by oath to make this their work: For the Pope binds all the Jeſuits, and Prieſts by oath to inculcat their principles of treaſon into their proſelyts, and to ſtir them up upon all occaſions to act it, as will be evident to any who will but read the rules of Ignatius Loyola, the father of the Jeſuits: Or the teſtimony of Pope Urban the 8. in his Bull of Canonization of Ignatius Loyola: Touching that Society, that beyond all other fraternity, they are the chief and most ſtrenuous propugners of the Popes authority. And how far do the Jeſuits extend their vow of blind obedience? Even to the killing of Kings, raiſing of treaſons and rebellions whereever they can have acceſs. So that Watſon in his Quodlibets, and other ſecular Prieſts, have proven and concluded the Jeſuits traitors, both for tenets and practiſe. But not only are the Jeſuits bound by oath to aſſaſſinations and rebellions, but alſo the ſecular Prieſts themſelves (who are not Jeſuits) are bound unto the Pope himſelf (in his Conſtitutions for ordering of the Engliſh Colledge at Rome) by oath to propagat rebellion: For thus ſpeaks Martin Aſpilcueta. Doctor Novarrus, lib. 3. conſil. & reſp. concil. 1. de regular. (cited by Doctor Burges) At Rome in the Colledge of the Engliſh, it is a Statut and Papal Conſtitution, that whoever will be admitted into that Colledge, he be tyed to ſwear, that after ſo many years he will travel unto England for defence of the Catholick faith, and there preach it both in publick and privat. Now what Faith it is that they are bound to preach, the treaſons and rebellions raiſed by them can beſt evidence. Now their great work is to corrupt the judgements of their followers, and inſtruments of aſſaſſination and treaſon, with poyſonous poſitions touching the nature of ſuch facts, and bribe their conſciences with ſtrong baits of reward and glory, to all that will undertake the acting of treaſons and rebellions at their inſtigation, which is a ſtrong incentive to them: For men that are either ſenſible of Religion, or deſirous of glory, will eaſily be induced to any attempt, which is pronounced not only lawful, but noble and meritorious, for advancement of their Religion. And the Prieſts and Jeſuits perſwaſions, are the more forcible, by reaſon of the great influence they have upon Papiſts of both ſexes, and the power they exerciſe over their conſciences, and the eſteem and honor they have among them, becauſe that they do hazard their lives to do them ſervice, which doth exceedingly endear them to them, and makes them more apt to drink down any poyſonous principles that they infuſe. And ſo under pretext of Religion, they at their pleaſure involve them in deſperat treaſons. For whither will they not lead them by advancing the Popes authority over all, in ordine ad ſpiritualia, and by dayly telling them that the Proteſtants are a pack of excommunicat and damnable hereticks, which all Catholicks are to look upon as ſuch, and ought to proſecute them as the Pope ſhal command and direct? It would be too tedious to ſhow how often, and with what arguments they have excited up their followers to treaſons and rebellions. For what rewards have been promiſed to traitors, if they do the deed, and what glory of Martyrdom they purchaſe in heaven, in caſe they miſcarry, is better known then I can declare. I ſhal only bring a few inſtances.
Firſt, one William Parrey a Popiſh traitor, acknowledged, That he had promiſed at Rome to kill Queen Elizabeth, about which he was much troubled in his conſcience, till he lighted upon D. Allens book, which taught that Princes excommunicat for hereſie, were to be deprived of Kingdom and life: which book (ſaith he) did vehemently excite me to proſecute my attempt.
Secondly, when the Gun-powder treaſon was hatching, Catesby, and ſome others, at firſt had ſcruples of the lawfulneſs of it; upon which they conſult father Garnet, and others of their ghoſtly fathers, who all pronounce it lawful, and full of merit, and encourage them in it. Catesby had alſo grounded himſelf upon the doctrine of father Creſuel in his Philopater, who aſſerteth, That a Prince manifeſtly heretical, falleth from all Princel… p…wer and authority, even before any legal ſentence paſſ d by the Pope against him. To both which he added the infallible jugement of Clement the 8. who in two ſeveral Breves, one directed to the Catholick Nobility and Gentry of England; the other to father Garnet, enjoyned them not to permit any but a Catholick Prince to ſucceed Queen Elizabeth. Hence he concluded, He who then might lawfully he kept out, may now as lawfully be thruſt out▪ Pope Clement enjoyned the former: Ergo, we may do the latter. And thus armed with poyſoned Divinity, he and his followers, reſolved moſt deſperatly to go on with that wickedneſs.
Alſo Oneil firſt, and Tyron afterwards, had the publick approbation of the Univerſity of Salamanca in Spain, before they diſplayed their rebellious banners.
From all which, the Reader may perceive in what a poor caſe any Prince or Republick ſtands into where Papiſts have any power or ſtrength. Is not both the Kings life and his Kingdom and poſterity in dayly hazard of utter ruine and undoing?
Object. But leſt it ſhould be ſaid, that theſe were the the facts of ſome treacherous ſpirits, eſpecially the Jeſuits, who have been incendiaries, as well in their writings, as in their practiſes, yet the more moderat Catholicks have ever condemned theſe facts and writings: and many of them have been content to have granted to the King, all that the Sorbon Doctors and Parliament of Paris have granted to the King of France.
Anſwer 1. Theſe treaſons and rebellions have not only been done by ſome obſcure hot-brained Papiſts and Jeſuits, but alſo approved by their moſt learned & approved Writers; yea commended by the Pope himſelf, who (in their judgement is infallible:) For did not Pope Pius the 5. excommunicat and depoſe Queen Elizabeth, and gave her Kingdom to Philip of Spain (as we hinted before) which Bull of excommunication was confirmed by his ſucceſſors Gregory the 13. and Sixtus the 5? And not only doth the Pope excommunicat and depoſe Kings, but alſo he doth approve of killing of Kings. For we told you before, that Pope Sixtus the 5. gave thanks unto God in open Conſiſtory, for the horrible murder and aſſaſſination committed by James Clement upon Henry the third of France; which Oration was publiſhed by the Papiſts and printed at Paris by Nicolas Neville and Rollin Thory, with approbation of their Doctors Boucher, de Creil, and Ancelin. And is not the fore-cited reſolution of Pope Urban, half an approbation of King-killing, when he ſaith, He eſteemed them not to be murderers, who poſſeſſed with the zeal of the Catholick Church againſt theſe that were excommunicat, ſhould happen to kill any of them? And did not Pope Paul the 5. permit Garnet and Oldcorn (who were taken and executed in England for the Gun-powder treaſon) to be put in the Catalogue of Martyrs, their picture to be worn in medals, their image to be ſet upon the Altars in Churches, and their bones worſhipped as holy relicks? And Gerard, another of the Gun-powder traitors who fled, was permitted publickly to take confeſſions in S. Peters Church at Rome. And Toſmond (another of theſe helliſh conſpirators) was made publick Penitentiary at Rome, and Confeſſor to the Pope himſelf, after they were fled for that helliſh Gun-powder plot. And doth not Franciſcus de Verone write an Apology in defence of John Chaſtel, who attempted the murther of King Henry the 4. of France? Now either the Papiſts muſt acknowledge theſe aſſaſſinations and murders to be lawful▪ or they muſt condemn the Pope as erring in approving of them, which will ſtrike againſt the foundation of their Religion to wit, That the Pope cannot err. Now therefore albeit ſome Papiſts in words profeſs a diſlike of Jeſuitical practiſes▪ yet ſtill they hold of the Pope for the whole frame of their Religion, and vow obedience to all his publick definitions, and ſo muſt approve of the moſt vile parricide imaginable, if the Pope command or approve of it.
2. It is an ordinary ſtratagem of Papiſts to profeſs to abhor Jeſuitical tenets to lull us aſleep, to get their wickedneſs acted with leſs ſuſpicion. Among many, inſtances might be given: I ſhal give one in Queen Elizabeths time, when after that Pope Pius his Bull came out againſt her, ſome ſeminary Prieſts admired and extolled that Bull, and blaſphemouſly ſaid, It was indyted by the holy Ghoſt: yet preſently after they ſet out a book (on purpoſe to lull the Queen and State aſleep) to admoniſh the Papiſts of England, not no practiſe any miſchief upon the Queen, becauſe Catholicks might uſe no other armes, but tears, prayers, watchings and faſtings, againſt their adverſaries, and yet in the mean time they never reſted plotting one treaſon after another. A liſt whereof I ſet down before. And even Watſon and other Prieſts, who did write againſt the Jeſuits rebellious practiſes, were the deſperat propounders and ring-leaders of that treaſon againſt King James and Prince Henry, at his coming to England; for which the ſaid Watſon and Clerk ſuffered the reward of traitors. So that H. T. and other Papiſts, are not to be believed; for they will ſay any thing, maintain any aſſertion, that they may make for the advancement of their cauſe.
3. What is the matter although they pretend to grant to the King all that the Sorbon Doctors and Parliament of Paris grant, yea what although they profeſs to ſwear their allegiance, are we the ſafer, ſeeing they change their principles according as they ſee occaſion, and ſeeing they hold that the Pope can diſpenſe with any oath, even after they have taken it, as I have proven before? And did not Parſons and Campian anno 1580. (notwithſtanding of their ſtrict oath to obey the Pope in all things) procure a diſpenſation to free all Catholicks from obeying the Popes own declaratory Bull of excommunication againſt Queen Elizabeth, till a better opportunity? So you ſee they can get a diſpenſation from the Popes own Bull, if they find it not ſeaſonable. What oath then will bind them, eſpecially to theſe they account heretical? For that is one of their principles. No faith is to be kept to hereticks, (as we ſhewed you.) They can change themſelves Proteus-like in any form. When there is no remedy, they will yeeld to any thing; But when they ſee their time, they will do any thing.
I ſhal cloſe all with the teſtimony of two great Doctors and Biſhops in King James time, the firſt whereof is Doctor Andreus Biſhop of Wincheſter, who in a ſermon on Nov. 5. 1616. ſpeaking of the reaſon that Bellarmin gives, why the primitive Chriſtians did not riſe up againſt perſecuting Emperors. id fuit quia deerant vires; He makes this collection, that is as much as to ſay, if they now in theſe days be ſo as they were then, and carry themſelves quietly, it is quia non ſunt vires: and to hold no longer, then donec erunt: And then you are like to hear of them, to have them go again with ſuch another birth. Ye ſhal have them as myld as Gregory the firſt, when they have no ſtrength: But as fierce as Gregory the 7. when they have: and afterwards thus.
See ye not next under God, whereto to aſcribe your ſafety? even to non erant vires, there is a point hangs on that: for while that laſts, while ye keep them there, ye ſhal have the primitive Church of them: have them to ly as quiet, as ſtill, as ever did the barrels in the vault, till vires, like fire come to them, and then off go they: then nothing but depoſe Kings, diſpoſe of Kingdoms, aſſoil ſubjects, arm them againſt their Soveraigns: then do they care not what: But if the powder take not fire, then ſhal you ſtraight have books tending to mitigation; then all quiet again: certainly, thus ſtanding it were beſt to hold them in defectu virium, to provide, ut ne ſint, to keep them at non ſunt vires, till time they be better minded in this point: and we have good aſſurance of it: for minded as they are, they want no will, no virus, they tell us what the matter is; ſtrength they want; they write it, they print it: and ſi adeſſent vires, they would act it in earneſt. Thus he.
The ſecond is Doctor Prideaux in a Sermon on Nov. the 5. who having reckoned up a Catalogue of the damnable doctrines of Popery, profeſſeth to have done it. To make it appear to theſe that would willingly be better perſwaded of their doctrine, that the doctrine it ſelf directly warranteth treaſon. Let the traitors be what they will, and that none can be an abſolut Papiſt, but (if he throughl… underſtand himſelf, and live under a Chriſtian Prince, that hath renounced the Popes authority) muſt needs, being put unto it, be an abſolut traitor.
Thus I hope ye have it proved, both from their principles and practiſe, that if Popery or Papiſts, get any ſtrength or footing in a Kingdom, it will tend undoubtedly to the ruine of both King and Kingdom. Yet the Papiſts are grown ſo impudent of late, as to charge the Proteſtants integrity of rebellion, and rebellious principles, and excuſe their own rebellious principles: As in a Treatiſe, intituled, Philanax Anglicus, dedicated to the Archbiſhop of Canterbury: But Peter du Moulin, hath learnedly anſwered it. And truly herein they deal with us as Verres did with Tully: Verres himſelf was a very notorius thief, and knew that Cicero had much againſt him in that kind, and therefore he knaviſhly and impudently calls Cicero the thief firſt, though a very true man and noble Orator. It is juſt ſo in this caſe. Now I pray, what caſe may both King and Kingdom expect to be in, if Papiſts get any ſtrength or power? Have they not given infinit proofs both of old and late, of their rebellious diſpoſition and treaſonable practiſes?