The Quakers Unmasked, Part 2

The Quakers Unmasked · Part 2

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THat the Jeſuites (The **See Ludovicus Lucius Hiſt. Jeſuitica, p. 297, 325, 328, 336, 447 5…2, 624.Peſts and Perturbers of all Republikes, who domineer by diſcords, tumults, ſects and ſch…ſ…) have (as well as Franciſcans Fryers) have a principle hand in erecting, promoting the new ſect of Quakers or Shakers lately ſprung up, and much increaſed amongſt us, and that by Diabolicall deluſions, ſorceries, enchantments, practiſes, to divide us as much as poſſible, and extirpate our Miniſters and Religion; theſe particulars ſuperadded to the premiſes, may more than probably perſwade, if not ſatisfactorily convince all intelligent Engliſh Proteſtants, and our Quakers likewiſe; for whoſe information I have made them publick, being unknown to moſt, who are utterly Ignorant of the ſtratagems of theſe Imps of Satan, to ſeduce them, to their eternal ruine.

1. That Ignatius Loyola, the Father of the Jeſuites, and firſt Founder Generall of their Order (at firſt a Souldier by profeſſion) when he began to play the Impoſtor, Seducer, and inſtitute his New Sect, pretended a divine Cal from God, and Jeſus Chriſt; appearing to him, whereupon he left his former Profeſſion, Houſe, Habitation, caſt of his coſtly apparell, (which he gave away to the p. 21poor) cloathed himſelf in courſe Sackcloth and ragged beggarly cloathes, lying upon the bare ground without a bed, wandred up and downe in them from place to place, like a pilgrim, profeſſing the ſtudy of poverty, penance, Mortification and contempt of the world, leading a moſt auſtere life for a time, moſtly eating little elſe but courſe bread, drinking nothing but cold water, faſting the greateſt part of the week, except on the Lords-day; converſing with the pooreſt and meaneſt ſort, teaching and preaching to them often gratis in the open ſtreets and woods, and all other places where he came without any Ordination or licence at all from the Biſhops or Clergy, exhorting them to repentance anſterity of life and contempt of all earthly things, whereby he got great eſtimation amongſt the rude people, (eſpecially for his pains in inſtructing their children and them without any Reward) gained many followers and ſome Schollers likwiſe to be his Companions: as Maſſaeus Vegius, Ribadeniera, Joa…is Euſebius Niremberger, Haſenmullerus (all Jeſui…es) record as large in his Life, with Hoſpinian, and Ludovis Lucius in their Hiſtoria Jeſuitica. And is not this the very practiſe of our Quakers and Shakers now, who exactly imitate him herein.

2. That Ignatius upon his firſt reſolution to enter into this New ſtrict kinde of Life, and erect his New Jeſuiticall Order, fell into a fit of Quaking and Trembling, as Ribadeniera (his Diſciple) and other record in his Life: Yea, Haſenmullerus (who was a Jeſuite ſundry yeares, and lived in divers Jeſuites Colledges) in the end of his Jeſuitical Hiſtory, with Ludovicus Lucius Hiſtori… Jeſuiti…ae .l. 1. c. 1. p. 8. record in expreſſe terms, from the Teſtimony of Terrianus the Jeſuite. That Ignatius ITA A DAEMONIBUS EXAGITATUM, was So vexed and SHAKEN BY DEVILS (not God or his ſpirit) both in his Dinner, Supper, MASSES; and likewiſe in his Recreations, that he powereth forth the moſt cold ſweat of death in great plenty; tandem ver… CƲM TREMORE p. 22ipſum objiſſe, and that at laſt he died Quaking, or with a TREMBLING, having a moſt black countenance. Yea, **See Speculum Jeſuiti…um, p. 3, 4. 26.Ribadeniera himſelf, in the life of Ignatius l. 1 c. 5. 17. records; That Ignatius had many conflicts with the Devil, who frequently appeared to him in the form of a Serpent, and that he whipped his companion Xavier whiles he was praying. And l. 5. c. 9. That the Devill painted Ignatius ſo lively and exactly in his colours, that Lugnes his companion much admired at it: And yet cap. 8. and 10. he relates. That Ignatius cured one poſſeſſed with a Devill with one word: that the Devill in another poſſeſſed one, was caſt out by the Jeſuites only naming Ignatius to him; ſaying, name not Ignatius to me, whom I moſt hate of all: And another Devill, in a Maid poſſeſſed, ſaid; That Ignatius his greateſt enemy, was in heaven after his death among other Founders of holy Religious Orders. Let our Quakers and their Diſciples hereupon ſeriouſly conſider and examine, whether their Quaking fits, be not derived from this Father of the Jeſuites; and proceed not originally from the very Devils themſelves, as his fits did? Yea, let them take heed they be not vexed and ſhaken by Devils as he was, and dye Quaking and Trembling as he did, with a moſt black countenance, as if he had been ſtrangled by the Devils, which made him a Quaker firſt, and then a ſeducer; whoſe Diſciples have made moſt Chriſtian Kingdomes, Churches (eſpecially our owne of late yeares) both to Quake and Tremble and Shake them in Pieces.

It is the obſervation of learned **Gulielmus R…delatius. Methordus curandi Morbos c. 23. 39. See VVierus de Praeſtigiis Daemonum. l. 1. …. 1….Phiſitians; That Shaking Palſies, Quakings, Tremblings of the Members and Joints, are very dangerous diſeaſes, proceeding from the coldnes and weakneſſe of the Brain or Nerves, cold flegme, extraordinary cold weather: (which makes moſt ſhake without any divine influences of Gods Spirit) ſudden fears or frights, extraordinary Venury, Drunkenneſſe, frequent handling of Quickſilver, Poyſonous ſumes of Henbane, white Poppy or the p. 23like: And ſome times from Sorcery and the Devil himſelf contracting, ſhaking the Nerves and Muſcles of the body in a violent manner: That if they grow inveterate they are hardly curable, and bring certain Death. Let our Quakers and new Trembling Paraliticks, examine, whether their Quakings and Tremblings (if reall, not feigned, as ſome of them doutleſſe are) be not rather Diſeaſes and Infirmities, then the motions of Gods Spirit in them, proceeding from ſome of theſe naturall cauſes (eſpecially overmuch Ʋenery ſome of them having been lately taken ſhaking with their female Proſelites between the Sheets in a warme bed, as I am credibly informed) or from the Devils or his Inſtruments Sorceries, Enchantments; and let them ſpeedily ſeek out for cure, leaſt they prove deadly to their Bodies and Soules too, in concluſion as Ignatius his Quaking fits did.

That many Jeſuites and their Schollers ſtudy the art of Sorcery and Magick, and are Arch-Magitians; affirming blaſphemouſly, that Paul himſelf received ſo great Revelations from Heaven by being inſtructed in the Art of Magick: that St John had skill in this Art; yea that Chriſt himſelfe, was the moſt abſolute Magition of all others; as Johanis Cambilbonus (once a Jeſuite in Syria) in his Relatio de abſtructoribus Jeſuitarum Artibus, & Studiis, Printed. 1608. & Ludovicus Lucius Hiſt. Jeſuitica lib. 1. cap. .8. p. 172. 173. record. Yea theſe two Authors, together with the **See Ludovicus Lucius Hiſt. Jeſuitica p. 172, 396, 432.Vniverſity of Paris, in their Anſwer to Peere Cotton the Jeſuite (Confeſſor to King Henry the 4. of France) Thuanus Hiſt. l. 132. phiſiogmonia Jeſuitica, printed Lugduni 1610. & Speculum Jeſuiticum p. 106. and all atteſt; That this Father Cotton was an Arch-Magitian, and the beſt skilled in this black art of any of their Society: That the Jeſuites themſelves affirmed, he had a Magycal Glaſſe, wherein he would plainly repreſent to the King what ever he deſired to know; and that there was no thing done or conſulted ſo ſecretly in the moſt Private Cabinets of other Monarches, which he could not diſcloſe p. 24and reveel by the help of that conſtellated, or rather condiabolated Glaſſe. That by the help of this Magitian, the Jeſuites hoped to convert one of the greateſt Proteſtant Princes of the Empire to their Religion and Party: That he conſulted with the Devil many times, and demanded his reſolution of ſundry queſſions and doubts; which he entred into his Magicke booke, which Devil poſſeſſed one Adrian Freſna a Mayd at Saint Victors in France, which he uſed as his inſtrument to predict many ſtrange things: particularly, he demanded of the Devil that poſſeſſed her theſe Queſtions. What ſhould be the iſſue of the Converſion of the Lord Lavalife, and of the Counſellors of the Citty of Genua? How long Herely ſhould continue? What hopes there were of the Converſion of ſuch and ſuch particular Perſons? How Heretickes might be moſt eaſily ſecluded from the Court? What was moſt profitable for the Converſion of all Heretickes? By what Sermons, Bookes, Meanes, the people might be moſt benefited? What danger might be created by the Devils againſt the Jeſuites Society? Whether God would permit him to know by him, the time wherein the Hereſy of Calvin ſhould be extinguiſhed? And (that which moſt concerned England) Qua ratione converti Rex Anglicae, …egina & Regnum maxime & facile quaeant? By what meanes THE KING, QUEEN AND REALME OF ENGLAND, MIGHT MOST OF ALL AND EASILY BE CONVERTED TO THE ROMAN RELIGION? Whether our Jeſuiticall Impoſtors, Quakers, and Enthuſiaſts do not now ſtudy, practiſe the ſelfe ſame Art of Magicke, Sorcery, and conſult with the very Devil himſelfe in their Diabolically inſpired, poſſeſſed Prophets and Propheſies, demand not the like Queſtions, Reſolutions from them, and the Devil acting, ſpeaking, Prophecying in them, as this Jeſuit Cotton did from this poſſeſſed Girle, and the Devil in her, let their owne practiſes and conſciences reſolve them and others? And how truly they act the Jeſuites parts in theſe particulars? **See Speculum Jeſuiticum. p. 59. 60, 62, 63.Haſenmullerus (a reclaimed Jeſuit) in his Hiſtori… Jeſuitied cap. 8. records. That John the p. 25Jeſuite in his Sermon. 15 October. 1583. publikely … …elieve me, the Devils follow us Jeſuites every where. That the Monks of Uldarie would have caſt out a Devil out of one poſſeſſed, but he would not depart: Being interrogated, why he would not? He anſwered, I will not depart before my three Sonnes (ſo he termed the Jeſuites) who are paſſing from Delinga hither, are come, who no ſooner entred the houſe; but the Devil departed out of the perſon poſſeſſed: moſt likely to enter into theſe Sonnes of his, whom the Devils every where follow. Yet the **Haſen mullerus Hist. Jeſuitica c. 8. Speculum Jeſuiticum p. 62, 63. Petrus Thyraeus de D…moniacis.Jeſuits boaſt of many Devil… ejected by them, out of their ſeminine proſelytes and others: particularly, the Rector of the Jeſuites at Vienna records; that a Mayd poſſeſſed with Devils, who could not be diſpoſſeſſed by any E…orciſmes, coming at length to their Jeſuits Church was there freed, and no leſſe then 15615…: Devils (if the Jeſuite computed a right) were there caſt out of her; the laſt of them ſeeming to him to be Luthers Tut…r, becauſe after the manner of the Lutherans, he ſpake many things againſt their Society and Religion. Surely this Jeſuiticall Rector, had very intimate familiarity with theſe Devils, who knew both their Number (being ſo incredulous) and could ſo accurately diſtinguiſh between them. Yet ſome Devils there were in women, whom they could not diſpoſſeſſe, and derided all their Jeſuiticall Exorciſmes. Let all Chriſtians then beware theſe incarnate Devils and their Emiſſaries, leſt they be really poſſeſſed by the Devil with whom they are ſo familiar and who accompanies them every where.

4. That the Jeſuites ſend forth their Emiſſaries and Agents into Proteſtant Kingdomes, Churches, States, under the diſguiſes of Souldiers, Merchants, Mechanicks, Phyſitians, Chyrurgions, Travellers, Exiles for Religion, and pretended Converts to the Proteſtant Religion, in all ſorts of habits, diſguiſes, the better to conceal their perſons, the eaſier to intimate themſelves into Courts, Company of all Proteſtant Princes, Nobles, p. 26Miniſters, and perſons of all rankes, to fiſh out their Secrets, inſinuate themſelves into their favours, poyſon them with their Errors, divide them in their Judgments, excite them to warre upon and diſtroy each other by their mutuall diſcords, and accompliſh their Treaſonable deſignes againſt them, to their ruine: Permitting & diſpenſing with them freely, to reſort openly to the Sermons, Churches, & Aſſemblies of Proteſtants, to diſpute and ſpeak againſt Popery, to eat fleſh on faſting-dayes, and allowing their perverted Diſciples to do the like, to feign themſelves the moſt Zealous Proteſtants, to be preſent in the Senates, Parliaments and Councils of thoſe of the Reformed Religion; to conſent to the apprehenſion and diſſipation of Papiſts by ſevere Lawes againſt them, together with the reſt, that ſo they may the better conceal themſelves, diſcover, divert or hinder the Conſultations againſt the Papiſts, promote the Popes and Papiſts affaires with more facility, propagate the Popiſh Religion upon all occaſions, and give them timely notice of any intentions againſt them upon any urgent neceſſity: provided alwayes that they be ſecretly Catholicks, and ſubmit themſelves wholy to the beck and counſels of the Jeſuits, as their Inſtruments and Intelligencers: as you may read at large, in Jeſuitica per Vnitas Belgii Provincias Negocitaio, printed Ano. 1616 (containing the Inſtructions in this kinde given to Jeſuits by their Superiors ſent into the Netherlands to imbroyl, divide, ruine them) in Joannis Cambilbonus de Abſtructiorbus Jeſuitarum Artibus & Studiis: printed 1608. & Ludovicus Lucius Hiſt. Jeſuitica p. 170. 175. 676. 677. 678. Therefore it is no wonder, that their Emiſſaries, and Diſciples to effect the utter ruine of our Proteſtant Kingdomes, Churches, Religion, now thus diſguiſe themſelves amongſt us, to promote their moſt dangerous defignes againſt them, by the ſelfe ſame means and ſtratagems now:

p. 275. That the Jeſuites make and profeſſe it, one of their principle deſignes, to withdraw, alinate the peoples affections from, ſtirre them up againſt the true Proteſtant Miniſters and Preachers of the Goſpel, and to caſt them out and take them quite out of their way, that ſo they may with more facility and ſpeed ſeduce, devoure their Flocks, domineer and ſet up Popery in all places without oppoſition. Witneſſe **See Ludovicus Lucius Hiſt. Jeſuitica, l. 1. c. 1. p. 2.Gregorius Baderus Provinciall of the Jeſuites in Bavaria, his words at Landſperge. We and ours ſhall have no peace in Auguſta (or Germany) unleſſe we take care, Evangelicos Concionatores ejici ac tolli; that the Preachers of the Goſpel be ejected and removed out of the way. By our Councils THE EVANGELICAL PREACHERS WERE CAST OUT OF VIENNA: Whereupon Society do now there teach in peace, and rule all things according to their hearts deſire. Seconded with their * practiſes, in ejecting, impriſoning, baniſhing, ſuppreſſing, perſecuting Hoſpinian & Ludovicus Lucius Hiſt. Jeſuitical. 4. Grimſtons Imperiall Hiſtory. p. 821. Romes Maſter piece. Speculum Ieſuiticum: p. 175 176.all the Proteſtant Miniſters in Bohemia, in the years of our Lord, 1602. 1607. 1621, and 1652. to the extirpation of the Proteſtant Religion, and Proteſtants there: and their ejecting, ſuppreſſing above thirty of the Proteſtant Preachers, and ſhutting up their Churches in the Dukedomes of Julius, Cleve, and Bergen; Anno 1628. To omit other later preſidents in Auſtria and elſwhere. And is not this the Quakers and their diſciples principle deſigne, endeavour, labour now, to withdraw the people wholy from, and excite them againſt, and ſtir them up to reject, ſuppreſſe, renounce all our lawfull Orthodox Miniſters, and evangelicall Preachers, as falſe guides, dumbe Dogs, Seducers of the People, Deceivers, Antichriſts? &c. Their railing Pamphets, preachments, and pretended meſſages to them from heaven; enjoyning them to come downe out of their Pulpits, to Preach no more hereafter &c. contrary to Chriſt owne expreſſe commands unto them. Math: 28. 19. 20. Mar: 16. 15. Acts. 10. 42. c. 16. 10. Rom. 10. 15. 1. Cor. 1. 17. Phil. 1. 16. 17. 18. 2. Tim. 4. 17. 1. Tim. 2. 7. 1 Pet. 1. 12. eſpecially. 1. Cor. 9. 16. Though I preach the Goſpel, I have nothing to glory of; for NECESSITY IS LAYD UPON ME; and wo is me if I preach not the Goſpel. and 2. Tim. 4. 1. 2. 3. I charge thee before God and the Lord p. 28Jeſus Chriſt, who ſhall judge the quicke and the dead at his appearance and his Kingdom. PREACH THE WORD BE INSTANT IN SEASON & OUT OF SEASON, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-ſuffering and Doctrin (Marke the reaſon, ſuitable to our times and Quakers) FOR THE TIME WILL COME (and now is the time) that they WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE, but after their own luſt ſhall they heap to themſelves teachers, having itching ears: And they ſhall turn away their ears from the truth, and ſhalbe turned unto Fables. But watch thou in all things, endure affliction, do the work of an Evangeliſt, make full proof of thy miniſtry. Certainly then thoſe Quakers, and their ſeduced Diſciples; who ſay unto the Seers, ſee not, and to the Prophets propheſie not, propheſie not unto us right things, ſpeak unto us ſmooth things, propheſie deceit: Get you out of the way, turn aſide out of the Path, cauſe the holy one to ceaſe from before us; are like thoſe Jews of old, Iſay 30. 10, 11. Wherefore let them there read their Doome, Character, and what ſpirit they are of, v. 8, 9. (and I beſeech them, with all others to obſerve it well) from Gods own mouth. Now go, write it before them in a Tabernacle, and not in a Book, that it may be for the time to come, for ever and ever; that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not bear the Law of the Lord: But is this all? No, there is a judgement with a witneſſe, purſuing all ſuch: Verſe 12, 13. 14. Wherefore thus ſaith the holy one of Iſrael: Becauſe ye diſpiſe this word and truſt in fraud and perverſneſſe and ſtay thereon; therefore this iniquity ſhal be to you as a breach ready to fall, ſwelling out in an high wall, whoſe breaking cometh ſuddenly at an inſtant. And he ſhall break it as the breaking of a potters veſſel, that is broken in pieces: He ſhall not ſpare; ſo that there ſhall not be found in the burſting of it, a ſheard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the Pit: (Let thoſe Stateſmen or Magiſtrates, who out of deſigne, or ſelf intereſt, tolerate or ſecretly countenance ſuch dangerous Rebels againſt God, his Word or Miniſters, remember it as well as theſe Seducers and their followers, leaſt God break them p. 29thus to powder ſuddenly and irrepairably together, and our whole three Kingdomes too) And if this Text be not ſufficient to convince them of and deter them from this their Sin; let them read at leaſure, Mich. 2. 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11. Amos 7. 10, to the end: and quake and tremble at the reading of them. But if they hold theſe to be obſolete and Old Teſtament onelyonly; Let them then conſider, who they were, and what tranſcendent ſin it was in thoſe, who prohibited (not ſeducing falſe Apoſtles and Jeſuitical Emiſſaries, as theſe Vagrant Quakers are) but Chriſts commiſſioned, **Math. 28. 18, 19, 20. Mar. 3. 14. c. 16. 15. Acts 10. 42. c. 1 22, &c. c. 14. 23. c. 13. 2, 3. Rom. 1. 1. Rom. 10. 15. John 15. 16. 1 Tim. 2. 7. Tit. 1. 5. 1 Tim. 4. 14. c. 5. 22. Heb. 5. 1. to 6.Matt 28:18Matt 28:19Matt 28:20Mark 3:14Acts 10:42Rom 1:1Rom 10:15John 15:161 Tim 2:7Titus 1:51 Tim 4:14Heb 5:1–6lawfully called, inſtituted, Apoſtles and Miniſters, to preach any more in the name of Jeſus, and diſpence his Goſpell: Acts 4. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. cap. 5. v. 17. to 42. compared with 1 Theſſ. 2. 15, 16. Even thoſe, who both killed the Lord Jeſus, and their own Prophets, and have chaſed us out, and they pleaſe not God, and are contrary to all men, FORBIDDING US TO SPEAK TO THE GENTILES THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED, TO FILL UP THEIR SINS ALWAY: for THE WRATH IS COME VPONUPON THEM TO THE UTTERMOST.

6. That the Jeſuites profeſſed doctrine and practice is, that if they cannot ſuppreſſe, deſtroy, extirpate, proteſtant Miniſters, Kings, Princes, Churches, States and all profeſſors of the proteſtant Religion, by rayſing Schiſms Seditions, Diviſions, Civill Wars and Commotions amongſt them, and dividing them one from and againſt another to their mutuall ruine; which hath been their great deſigne of late years, whereof we have felt the ſad effects: As you may read at large in Hoſpinian, and Ludovicus Lucius, their moſt excellent Hiſtoria Jeſuita, Speculum, ſive Jubilaeum Jeſuiticum, and the Epiſtle to my VINDICATION, &c. of the good old Fundamentall Liberties and Laws of England; which if they cannot effect by theſe means, then to excite all Chriſtian Kings and Princes to accompliſh in concluſion, BY FIRE, SWORD, WARRE, and THE POWER OF AN ARMY; as you may there be ſatisfied by undeniable p. 30Teſtimonies of Jeſuites themſelves, and preſidents of former and later times: More particularly by the Words and Writings of Jacobus Crucius, the Jeſuite, in his Explication of the Rules of the Jeſuites, and his Sermon. Anno 1584. Thomas Stapleton; his Speculum pravitatis Haereticae. Duaci 1580. Thom, Capian: his Concertatio Eccleſiae Catholicae Treviris. 1583. page 22. Paulus Windeck: De Extirpandis Haereticis. Antid. 10. and 11. Franciſcus Verona, his Apologia pro Joanne Caſtle, part. 5. cap. 13. Cunradus Brunus de Haereticis lib. 3. cap. ult. Cornelius Cornelii, his Praeſacio ad S. Trinitatem increatam, Commentariis in Minores Prophetas praefix…. Wherein, Bleſleth the Trinity, for opening the eyes of Chriſtian Kings, and ſtirring them up all againſt Calviniſme, as the plague of their Realms: For inabling the King of France, Spain, and Emperour in a ſhort time to overthrow, conquer, expell and deſtroy the Arch-hereticks; the **See Haſenmulerus Hiſt. Jeſuitica l. 5. Speculum Jeſuiticum p. 61.Huſſites and Calviniſts in France, Auſtria, Bohemia, Mor…via, Sileſia, Hungary, and both the Palatinates, as the fire-brands of Rebellion, to their eternal glogy: concluding thus. Agite Principes generoſt, pergitis animis, opus f…licibus adeo auſpiciis caeptum CONFICITE; paribus ſtudiis REBELLEM CALVINI HAERESIN, pene evulſam, STIRPITƲS ƲBILIBET ERADICATE, &c. And by Antonius Poſſevinus the Jeſuite (to omit **See Ludovicus Lucius Hiſt. Jeſuitica l. 1. c. 1, 2.all others) in his Miles Chriſtianus (publiſhed when Pope Paul the fifth, ſent an Army into France againſt the Enemies of the Church, wherein he aſſerts. That all Chriſtians are bound of right, to defend the Roman Religion againſt the doctrine of the Goſpellers (or Proteſtants) with all their forces; and the effuſion of their blood. That neither Peace nor the publique good can be preſerved in the Roman Church unleſſe theſe her enemies BE QUITE EXTIRPATED. Exhorting the Captains of the Army, to permit nothing at all to theſe Heretick…; not to keep their plighted faith with them; to ſuborn ſecret Inquiſitors againſt them; **We may ſee by this, who were the rayſers and originall contrivers of our late inreſtine wars, &c.DOMESTICA ET INTESTINA BELLA INTER ILLOS EXCITARI CURENT: To take care to ſtirre up Domeſtick and p. 31Inteſtine warres betweene themſelves: Proditores ac Sicarios, omnibus locis, contra illos inſtituant: and to inſtitute Traytors and Murderers againſt them in all places: Aſſerting, that the Captaines who did otherwiſe, ſinned againſt the Roman Church, and were rendered inexcuſable and damned. Now ſeeing Bariſonius the Jeſuit, in his Letter to **See Ludouicus Lutius Hiſt. Jeſuitica. l. …. c. 8 p. 164. 166.a Noble Venetian (who deſerted their order,) dated at Bononia 21. April 1608. printed 1609. amongſt other things thus boaſts of the excellency, power and perfection of their Jeſuiticall Order, PRO LIBITƲ NOSTRO, ET BELLƲM ET PACEM MƲNDO APPORTAMƲS. That they can at their pleaſure bring both Warre and Peace to the World, as the cheife Authors of both. That they lawfully may and do ſow diſcords and diviſions between King and Subject, Man and Wife, Father and Children, Brothers and Kindred, and uſurp abſolute Dominion and Tyranny over any private men, Citties, or whole Kingdoms they ſuſpect, for the benefit of the Church and See of Rome, in whoſe Service and Greatneſſe true piety and the higheſt Poynt of Religion conſiſts; and that for this end they may in their **of which read Ludovicus Lucius. p. 129. 199. 200.Chamber of meditation, animane their Aſſiſinates to murder Heretickes, Enemies and Rebels to the Church of Rome, not only though private Perſons, but though the greateſt of princes and Kings, by repreſenting to them the heroicall fact of Ehud, recorded in ſacred Scripture, and promiſing them a ſeat in heaven amongſt the Saints and martyrs for ſuch an heroicke deed. And ſeeing the Jeſuits (diſperſed like Locuſts over the world) are increaſed in few years to ſo great a Number, that they boaſted long ſince, **Ludovicus Lucius. l. 1. c. 7. p. 156. 172.that they had no leſſe then two hundred thouſand Schollers in Europe: and Claudius Aquaviva, their late Generall, vaunted; that he could bring into the feild, and that in a ſhorter time, more ſouldiers, then any one chriſtian king: and profered Pope Paul the 5th. (during the interdict of Venice, when they and he were in ſome danger) to ayde him with forty thouſand men, ſo as thoſe of them ſlain in the warres, might be reputed Martyrs; ſo infinite are the p. 32Numbers of their Society, Novices, Diſciples, Treaſures, Revenues; yea all their Colleges in foreign parts, ſo many ſtrong Caſtles, Forts and Magazines of Armes, Ammunition, Powder, and all military proviſions (as they boſt, and **Speculum Jeſuiticum. p. 207. to. 213. Lud. Lucius Hiſt. Jeſuitica. l. 1. c. 6. p. 156. 157. 238. 171.others write) And ſeeing theſe Jeſuits, who make it their Maſterpiece to weaken and deſtroy all others by diviſions, Schiſmes, Factions, Tumults, preſcribe it as the principle part of their owne Policy, Safety, Power, Succeſſes and Growth, to maintain Unity, Peace, Amity, and prevent all Schiſmes and Diviſions amongſt themſelves, **Regulae Jeſuitarum. printed 1627. and Ludovicus Lucius. Hiſt. l. 1. c. 3. p. 18. 19. 21. 24. 26. 31.preſcribing ſundry Rules and Orders for this end, to which they are all ſworn to yeild exact Obedience; I referre it to the conſideration of all prudent, Zealous Proteſtants and Stateſmen in our whole 3. Natio…s; How dangerous a Plot and **1. Kings. 12. 26. to the end. c. 13. 2. &c.1 Kgs 12:26Jeroboam like deſperate Policy it may in a ſhort time prove, to all our Churches, zealous Miniſters and Profeſſors of the Proteſtant Religion (yea to our preſent Governors, ſwordmen, and their Poſterities likewiſe) any longer to tolerate theſe Jeſuiticall, fiery, treacherous Agents, with other Romiſh Emiſſaries, freely to vent their Errors, Blaſphemies, Hereſies, Fancies, and ſet up Separat Congregations in all places, to multiply our diviſions, diſ-unite us all one from another, and augment their ſtrength and party, predominating in moſt Counſels, Places; the better to ſecure any in actuall Power for the preſent; though to haſten their, with our whole Kingdoms, Churches, Miniſters, and reformedMat. 12. 25.Matt 12:25 Religions ruine by it in concluſion, even by force of Arms, and Tumults, when they ſee their opportunity, as we have all juſt cauſe to fear? I ſhall therfore cloſe up all, with the words of **De vera & Falſa Religione cap. De Magiſtratu. printed, 1525.Huldrycus Zwinglius againſt thoſe Dippers and Anabaptiſts in his age, who denyed the Office and Coercive Power of chriſtian Magiſtrates (ſpecially in matters of Religion) as moſt of our Anabaptiſts, Quakers, diſguiſed Jeſuits and Franciſcans now do. Propter iſtos ipſos qui negant, Chriſtanum poſſe gerere Magiſtratum, maxime egemus magiſtratu; quum vitam omnium talem eſſe videatis, ut rigidiſſimo p. 33magiſtratu opus habeat. Quod ſi **1 Tim. 2. 1, 2.1 Tim 2:11 Tim 2:2propacato ſtatu orare licet; licet et nimirum orare, ut Deus pium magiſtratum concedat, quo cōmodius pax et concordia concilientur, Quin omnes hoc agimus, ut vitam innocentiſſimam ducamus, et nibil nos premet magiſtratus: **Rom. 13. 3.Rom 13:3For Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evill; wilt thou not then be afraid of the powers do that which is good, and thou ſhalt have praiſe of the ſame. Hoc ipſum Oro, ut diligenter expendant, qui Magiſtratum detrectant. Si poteſtatem odio habent aut timent; quod rectum eſt faciant. Expendant ſimul Principes nè rectè factis timori ſint. Qui ergo jam NOVIS EXACTIONIBƲS, TRIBƲTIS, VECTIGALIBƲS, non modò expilant miſeram plebem, ſed onerant, excarnificant, excindunt, ut videantur eſſe in communem nati perniciem; Qui malis delectantur, & bonis minaciter imminent, Principes non ſunt; ſed Tyranni, ſed Tortores, ſed Lanii. Qui ergò omnium malo praeſunt, videant quo pacto Chriſti nomine glorientur; qui non modò ut Praedones & Furts in omnium bona, ſed ut Peſtes quoque in omnium corpora graſſantur. Sunt autem & iſti Miniſtri Dei, ſed quomodo Satan Miniſter Dei eſt, qui ubique adverſatur, circumvenit, perdit. Omnia in manibus ſunt cupidiſſimorum hominum, u… jam non unum Tyrannum habeant, qui ſub talibus Imperiis degunt, ſed ſexcentos. **A Character of our times.Friget omnis juſtitia, fervet cupiditas imò dominatur, putant enim ſi Tributa ſint quacunque ratione ampliſſima, jam rectò adminiſtraci Imperium. Ne ergò tenurè ſummam rerum imprudentibus, pueris, ſtupidis, CƲPIDISVE nedamus, ſed iis quorum probitas, fides, prudentia, longo uſu perſpectae ſint, alioqui fruſtrà nos aliquando queremur, quod dicitur, non putaviſſe: Tribuat nobis omnipotens Pater, Magiſtratus tales, qui nullum aliud exemplum ſpectent, quam ejus, cujus, ordinatione ad hoc cocuneris inautorati ſunt, ut ad modum Creatoris noſtri ſeſe gerant quo Patres nos multos habere gloriari poſſimus: Nec queri cogamur, quod Propheta Mic. 7. (ver. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6,) queritur. Vae mihi. &c.

Amen.