THE REFORMED CATHOLICQVE, Against the Deformed jesuite. OR A DISCOVERING Of the treachery of the jesuites Against the Reformed Churches of FRANCE, And other parts.  Mark 13.12.13. 
The Brother shall betray the Brother to the death, and the Father the Son, and Children shall rise up against their Parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.  
And you shallbe hated of all men for my name's sake, but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shallbe saved.  
Written by an Inhabitant of Rochill/ 1621.   

THE REFORMED CATHOLICQVE, Against the Deformed jesuite. OR A DISCOVERING Of the treachery of the jesuites Against the Reformed Churches of FRANCE, And other parts.  
YOu shallbe hated of Kings/ and the greatest personages of the World/ shall abhor you. It is a Prophecy that is most true/ and what this day we see and behold to be common amongst us/ we are abhorred of the people/ as the most abominable persons in the world/ despised both of great and little/ and gennerally exposed unto the opprobries/ indignities/ and indiscreet insolences of mutinous Companions/ and contemners of the Law of God/ only for our Religion/ because we serve God in Spirit and truth and because we will not submit ourselves under the yoke of the beast. The jew/ the Turk/ the Pagan/ and the Moor that know not God/ are not hated of the World as we are/ and why? because we art of the Religion because we serve God/ and will not follow the son of perdition.  
FRANCE at this time is full fraughted even in the furthest Provinces and parts thereof with our miseries Shadows deplore and lament our afflictions in the middle of the Reformed churches that are furthest distant from the realm/ pity hath made known the desolation of our holy communetie/ throughout all the World/ are the good servants of God in all parts sight/ deploring the pitiful disorder/ and sorrowful abuse that is now practised in the church of God profaning his holy House/ destroying his Temple/ spoiling his inheritance/ exposing the flock of God/ to the rage of Wolves/ and giving them for a pray to hungry Drons'/ who in despite of God fell themselves and their cruel hearts with the substance of his dear flock/ and which is more sensible/ and the full accomplishment of our griefs/ those that ought to help us/ be they that commit most oppressions and extortions against us/ who most unjustly sustain/ maintain/ and entertain those/ that do all these mischiefs unto us/ inciting them to do it/ and under pretence of doing us justice/ animate them against us/ and draw them to a plublicke rebellion/ thereby to wrong and make us the authors of all these seditions. We are dumb/ like sheep led to the slaughter. If we make our complaints/ and implore the support and aid of those that aught to maintain us/ we are accused to be mutinous and seditious/ we are committed to prison/ and our innocence/ without any justification is condemned criminal/ and turbulent to the common peace. Oh most extreme Tyranny/ and incomparable iniquity. But alas! it is prophesied and forshowne by the Lord.  
They are not content to have taken Bearn from no/ to have polluted our Temples/ to have forced our consciences/ to have prohibited the exercise of the Religion unto us in those parts/ to have taken our goods from us/ to have violated our privileges/ to have compelled us to entertain and maintain our enemies with that small portion that is left us. The Wolf takes the Sheep/ and devours it/ the Thief takes a man's purse and his money from him/ and you take our goods and bodies both/ but you can not hurt our souls. We must give the juice of our travels unto perfidious hypocrites/ to secret Traitors/ or to venomous serpents to nourish them to make war upon us/ what say I? To nourish them/ when they have as great revenues as Kings alas! what impiety is? they rumate us/ but not to enrich the Crown of France/ but rather to say it open to an invasion. These jesuitical conspirators without foreign enemies'/ will rule the regale Sceptre/ if they attain to the intents of their subtle and diabolical inventions/ which they have already begun/ and seeing that they know that they can rule both the hearts and bodies of our Kings. They doubt not (I fear) to obtain their sceptres and crowns. They are for the foreign enemy/ and not for the upholding of France. Oh most dangerous Counsel/ in so brave a Monarchy.  
These good Fathers that outwardly seem to be the true type and figure of Simplicity/ are inwardly stuffed with malice/ and having enemies heart's/ can by no means procure the advancement of the state/ nor the good of the common wealth of France: Their pernicious design is bend to the conspiration of the total ruin of this happy Monarchy; They seek by the motions and sterrings up of civil wars/ which they go about to make against us/ by their pestilent Preachers/ to make a breach for our common enemy that he may suddenly enter into the middle of the press/ and desiring nothing but his own good dispossess our King of his Realm/ pull him down from his throne/ and with us/ bring him to the white bague.  
This is the end/ this is the intent/ this is the design and attempt of these traitorous hypocrites/ of these Divelishe double heart's/ of these perfidious and disloyal jesuites/ whose intents are not to set upon those of the religion/ to support the King's authority but to advance themselves/ those parricides/ who with murdering arms/ bathed their hands in the sacred blood of our King's/ were they not either pensioners/ or scholars of the triple horns/ or were they not solicited and provoaked thereunto by their internal sophistries/ teaching/ that it is a goodly action to kill a King that is an hereticque/ or that favoreth heresy.  
If we might be permitted to search and look into the registers of the depositions of the last desperate villains/ we shall find that the last words of Ravaillac were these: saying/ the jesuites promised and assured me/ that as soon as I had done the deed/ the Angels and the Virgin Marie would carry me into Parradise/ and in truth/ those that were present at such a woeful and lamentable accident/ report/ that as soon as he hath stabbed the King/ he sought to run away/ thinking that/ that which the Treacherous murderers had said would prove to be true/ and we shall not only know them by the last words of that miserable wretch/ nor by the sentence pronounced against them in their banishement/ but by the catastrophall ends of all those wicked persons/ which showeth them openly to be infamous to posteretie/ and therefore they are so cruelly animated against us/ because we strive against/ and always accuse them of the death of our Kings; Therefore they seek to raise war against us/ thinking thereby to root us out/ but that is the thing which we least fear/ protesting these that first begin may perchance to repent it.  
We were promised that nothing should be innovated in Bearn/ to leave that business in suspense and not to speak of the 7. months'/ never the less all those promises were withdrawn/ that dew proceed from such persons might be broken/ and his Majesty was persuaded/ and that by diverse great personages/ that it was a sin/ yea and a great sin to hold his word therein/ and to the contrary that it is a work of great piety to violate his faith.  
These hot spirits/ these spotted and black consciences/ these disguised Devils/ these perfidious infernal Hog's/ these Massacrers of Kings/ publicly teach such pernicious precepts/ whereof the death of Chastel serveth for a witness/ and an authentic seal unto us. They were not content to have done a thousand injuries unto us in Bearn/ but since that time/ (oh unspeakable cruelty/ and furious madness) they have taken our dead bodies out of the earth/ troubled their rest/ and used violence unto our carcases: seeing it is a Huguenot/ we must pull him out of his grave/ we must tie a rope obout his neck and draw him through the streets like a dog. Oh most outrageous beastliness and Divelishe fury.  
These Barbarous cruelties were done unto us in the city of Tours, and worse than they/ they broke down our church yard/ they defaced our Temple and burned it/ and the Bible/ the holy scriptures/ the Gospel and Testament of God. Whether do these cruel villains/ suppose to triumph against God/ when they triumph over his holy word? and not content therewith/ what have they not done? The repetition thereof is most lamentable.  
They animated seditious persons in all places against us/ they did us a thousand mischiefs/ and yet (alas) we durst not open our mouths to complain thereof/ that by our tears and sights we might pacify and asswge our grief. Some of our people were cast in prison/ and some were glad to run away/ and to set a fair show upon their cruelty/ they put some of their side likewise into prison/ that were shassed away/ and the matter winked at. If we had done the like/ we should have been imprisoned/ hanged/ and without form of process we should have been punished for an example unto others/ (alas) will not a good counsel take order in so pitiful a distress. My heart bleeds/ but I dare not say that which I know. Ne vati noceat esse locutum. A great tree in the end is pulled down to the ground/ by pulling one piece this day/ an other that day from it.  
Why should we be blasmed for assembling in Rochel/ by the King's permission/ they take this subject to animate themselves against us/ to come thither to over run us/ and to put all to fire and sword/ we are pressed and persuaded to separate ourselves which we will never do./ that wear a means to begin again/ and to reduce us into the like misery. It must not be so/ we must either know the short or the long/ we have been sufficiently dallied withal/ and in a manner afflicted/ since the lamentable death of King Henry the great of famous memory/ the more we stay/ the more we are vexed/ the more we remit/ the less we are eased.  
If they threathen to put us to death/ we are accustomed thereunto/ if they threaten to burn us/ we have passed through that already. If they threaten to cut of our heads/ we have tried that also. Is not the river of Seine yet red all over with the blood of our Fathers? Is not the River of Loire all bloody by the measure of our Brothers? Is not the River of Rosne yet purple with the blood of our grandfathers'? Are not the ashes of our predecessors that were burnt/ still hot? are not the high ways still full of the bones of our Kinsmen/ that were traitorously murdered? for the profession of the reformed Religion? and for refuseing to follow the footstepp of Antechrist? All this is nothing/ let us make the rivers show of a vermilion colour with the abondance of our blood/ let us contemn fire and faggot/ swords and shot/ gibbet and wheel for Religion sake/ for the service of God/ and for professing jesus Christ/ for he himself saith: He that acknowledged me before men I will acknowledge him before my Father which is in Heaven/ as to the contrary/ he saith to those whom tribulation and fear of death hath made to fall from their profession. He that shall deny me before Men/ I will deny him before my Father which is in Heaven/ he that is ashamed to acknowledge me before men/ I will be ashamed of him before my Father which is in Heaven: And again/ he that loveth his life more than me/ is not worthy of me.  
They think by spoiling one member by destroying one town/ by putting a thousand Millions of people to death/ that the whole body of Religion is thereby exterminated/ we spring up again out of our ashes/ our blood hatcheth us again. Those great and cruel Massacres committed upon our Father's/ have not diminished us. It is God's cause/ the Lord will undertake our defence/ and withstand the rage of our enemies.  
They make war against us/ which is manifest and evident/ but piety is not the principal cause of their design/ for seeing that Athists and jews are suffered to live peaceably/ they may well permit us to live in the Realm indifferently among the common people obediently/ as they have hitherto done/ but because we have directly banded ourselves against the wicked enterprises of the satanical instructions of this sodomitical society/ and that we disclose the subtleties/ the craftiness/ the infernal practices/ and the antitheticque or contrary Doctrynes of this commonalty of mammon/ and publish and make them known to simple ignorant fellows seducers of the people/ they are stirred up against us feareing that their state will dekie and wax worse and worse/ and that in the end they shall no longer be able to subsist against the truth/ and also having an apprehension/ that at the last they shall see the romish glory and profit overthrown/ which to maintain they do most audaciously strive against God/ and because we uphold his name and defend the truth/ they seek by a Divelishe counsel to destroy us/ as the most strong and most puissant enemies of the apostolic seat.  
These Dipers/ these Basilickes/ these Tigers/ these furious Dragon's/ are the cause of all the mischief which we see to be prepared generally to afflict all Frannce/ specially aiming at our destruction/ like greedy and ravening Lions. Let us stand firm and fast by the tree of faith/ and let us repose all our confidence and hope in Gsd/ without looking or attending for aid/ from man/ for/ If God be with us/ who shallbe against us?  
We make profession of the Reformed religion/ let not/ torments/ martiring/ racks/ nor horror of death make us at any time to waver/ nor change our Religion: let us not fear the World/ Emperor's/ King's/ Monarches/ Prince's/ nor whole realms nor Nations seditiously animated against us/ let us freely and boldly confess that we are Christians/ and that we will rather endure the cruelty of death/ then deny jesus Christ. Nevertheless let us fly and shun the occasion/ as much as we can/ and if we can by no means avoid the peril/ and not hinder the blow/ let us rather burst then obey Antechrist/ let us rather embrace condemnation then mercy/ and show ourselves constant in death/ for the Gospel of Christ. God died for us/ then are not we bound to die for him? Shall we bowing down our heads shamefuly without hope/ retire/ esteeming ourselves happy to have that favour and that liberty/ after we have been proclaimed traitors to his Majesty?  
It is a folly/ it must not be so/ either we will be punished/ or we will be justified/ we will have all or nothing. We have set the crown upon King Henry the fourth/ deceased/ of glorious memory: (France knows it well) and we will give the Sceptre to King Lowis the 13. God will give that grace/ being able to do more/ and being stronger than we are thought to be: away with favour/ away with the minion's of fortune/ and those unmarried courtiers/ away with those tapucine consciences/ they have sufficiently and to much/ to our great grief/ troubled the senses of our Atlas'/ by their bewitching sorceries/ possessing the noblest parts of his understanding.  
We will not rebel against the King/ and much less will we contradict the will of God/ nor endure that men should annihilate our ancient Privilege/ we will not endure it/ and let it not be thought to be strange/ if we oppose the same withal our forces/ for we will never endure/ that men should put a knife to our throats/ without putting their hands to it.  
If we take Arms in hand/ it shallbe to redstablishe the King upon his throne/ to command absolutely over his people/ and to prevent that mischief/ that is intended towards us/ and if we fight/ to defend ourselves/ it shall be to maintain the faith of the Gospel/ and preserve the King's authoretie/ although they cover themselves with veil of Regal authority/ to assail us/ but all proceeds from wicked counsel. We fear God/ and honour the King.  
What pity is it? all the World is animatted sore against us/ and there are some amongst us/ that would betray us/ patience/ let God be praised/ and do all for his glory.  
At this day it is a crime to be one of the Reformed Religion/ but that crime is pleasing unto God: There is neither Emperor/ King/ Monarch/ Prince nor Lord/ to be short there is none/ that we ought to obey before God. If they kill our body's/ they can not kill our souls. They have a quarrel against us long since/ all that formerly passed/ was but subtiletyes to entrap us/ we are put from public offices we are prohibited common commerce/ our Elections are transported/ our Privileges are eclipsed / and if they durst they would constrain us/ to play banckcrupt with God/ and religion/ but we will sooner die then to do wrong to our soul's/ we will never do it/ yea rather die a thousand deaths/ then violate the Faith we have vowed unto God. The three children contemned of Nabuchodonoser and his fire. The Prophet Daniel did not fear the rage of the Lion's/ let us rather be killed/ then bow our knies to Baal/ let us rather be thrown into the mouths of burning fiery furnases then to break our Law/ and deny our God/ and let us not lose courage/ nor be afraid/ for ●●ll the traitors. Luke warn/ and wicked men that m●●●e ●●wnd among us/ though they he never so great principal persons/ and puissant/ yea though they were our Father's/ Brothers/ Sister's/ or our nearest kinsmen. jesus Christ found a judas among his Apostles let us die/ let us die courageously to maintain God's quarrel/ that at the end of our course/ after we shall have fought a good fight he may receive/ and crown us in Paradise/ with the incorruptible crown of glory/ perpetually to sing to his honour and glory with the Angels and the blessed for ever and ever/ Amen.  
Veritas odium parit, & Supplicium.  
FINIS.