The  Child dreads the Fire: OR AN EXAMINATION Of the Merits of the PAPISTS, Relating to England, mostly from their own Pens.  
IN Justification of the late Act of Parliament for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants.  
And further showing, That whatsoever their Merits have been, no thanks to their Religion, and therefore ought not to be gratified in their Religion, by Toleration thereof.  Numb. 25.16, 17, 18. 
The Lord spoke unto Moses, Vex the Midianites, for they trouble you with their Wiles.  Isaiah 45.20. 
They have no knowledge that set up the Wood of their graven Image, and pray unto a God that cannot save.  
By William Denton M.D.M.Q.R.  
LONDON, Printed for James Magnes and Richard Bentley, 〈…〉 Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden, 167●   

Omnibus Christi Fidelibus,  Causae Regis magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae verae Antiquae & Apostolicae Fidei Defensoris ejusque Parliamentorum Justicia toti Orbi Christiano Innotesceret.  
THough it hath not been deemed prudent, that Legislators should in their Acts and Sanctions render their reasons of them; lest by so doing, they might haply invite and court contradiction from some ill-affected thereunto, which might prove derogatory unto their Supreme Authority, by giving occasion to the governed to wrestle with their reasons rendered and alleged; and if they should think (though erroneously) that they have resolved or confuted them, they would then also think that they have taken all virtue and efficacy from the very Laws themselves: Yet it hath ever been esteemed acceptable and good Service to Government itself, that Subjects should defend the just Laws of their Princes, and especially those wherein Religion is concerned. And Religion being, or aught to be, the grand concern of every Individual, I hope I shall not be thought to wander inconsiderately out of my own Province, whilst I endeavour to justify the late Act of Parliament for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants. I must confess that I dare not adventure my Salvation or Damnation on blind obedience, or Implicit Faith, or on any Deputies, Proxies, Popes, Priests or Friars, no● take their bare word without express warranty from Scripture, especially being commanded to search them, and thereby to try them that say they are Apostles and are not, and being precautioned, lest by good words and fair speeches the Hearts of the simple be deceived, Rom. 16.17. In which kind of Arts the Papalins are most expert.  
I have exposed this Treatise to the consideration of all Christians, but more especially of all Kings, Princes, and Governors, not to implore their Countenance or Protection of any error, that haply may be found herein; that were not only unmannerly, but injurious to Majesty itself. If what is here written cannot be justified by its own truth, and effort of sound reason, let it fall to the ground, and be obliterate for ever: For no error or salshood, or any false equivocating reasonings can ever be pleasing to the God of Truth, and therefore ought not to be supported or countenanced by any sublunary Majesty whatsoever. Justa ratio sapientem non possit offendere. The chief aim and great design in this Publication, is to justify to all the Christian World His Majesty's great Title of Defender of the Faith truly Ancient Catholic and Apostolic by his ready compliance with His great Council, his Two Houses of Parliament, to put away the evil from this our Israel by this His Act; that both this and future Ages, perceiving it to have been grounded both on great reasons of State, and true grounds of Religion, all the World may be the better satisfied, and his own Subjects may hear and fear, and do no more so presumptuously.  
It is the great duty of every individual Christian for Truth and Conscience sake, but more especially of God's Lieutenants on Earth, even for necessity, and reason of good government also, nay, even out of duty to him by whom they reign to maintain and preserve Religion in its purity. For this very end God hath ordained Kings and Queens to be his Vicegerents on Earth, and conferred greatness and Majesty upon them to make them Defenders, nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers of his Holy Church; in which Calling the greatest of them can never give a good account of this their Charge and Stewardship, except it be by a constant watchful care in matters of Religion. As it is not prudent in civil Politics for any Prince to receive a great succour from a more purissant Empire; so it is as imprudent for any temporal Prince or Power to indulge or countenance any Sects that own any dependence on a Foreign Head, Ecclesiastical or Civil, especially if Sworn to advance that Head and promote his Interest. And such a Head is the Pope, who claims to be superior to all Princes, to be exempt from all control, and exempts his ecclesiastics from their subjection and obedience unto their natural Princes, and whom (if you will believe them) they cannot chastise, though they are rebellious; that he hath Power over all, and can deprive Kings of their Kingdoms, that in any difference between the Ecclesiastical and Secular, the judgement appertains to the Ecclesiastical as to the more worthy: And as is the Pope, so are his Papalins. The same Hour they become his Proselytes, they also become his sworn Vassals and Advocates.  
Can it be other than an infinite prejudice done to the Authority of Sovereign Princes, if they should but supinely permit, or be constrained to change, or but to suspend their own Laws at the Beck, and Pleasure of another State or Interest, passing from one Law to another; or tacitly by conniving only to acknowledge, that he borrows from any other any power of governing in matters Civil or Ecclesiastical, and therefore but just and reasonable for Princes to secure their own power by wholesome Laws, preventing all Popish influences, that haply by some Wiles or politic Stratagems might oppose them, or interfere with them, in order to gratify and support their own interest, contrary to the interest of those Princes whose Subjects they are.  
The main Bane of true Church power hath been the great opinion that the Ancient and first converted Emperors had of the Abilities, piety and devotion of the Ancient Father's ecclesiastics, which confidence begat in them supiness and negligence of their own power, and that gave occasion and encouragement to the Popes and their ecclesiastics to usurp and encroach upon their Authority, whilst they little regarded their own power, which God had fairly stamped upon them; consequently neglecting their duty, as if they were to render no account to God for themselves or their Subjects, as if the care and defence of Religion and Piety were the least of their concerns, tolerating for their own interest the people to be deceived, by suffering the Pope to set up new Orders and Rites under the umbrello of Religion, but in reality for his own Empire and profit, without considering that such Orders and Customs by tract of time carry along with them their own warranty, and so secretly invite belief, which at length become merely serviceable to the interests of those that manage them (viz. the Popes) and consequently disserviceable and disadvantageous unto Princes, and all temporal Governments: And such Orders being received and continued by the present Princes, are no small obligations to their Heirs and Successors to continue them by reason of that former Authority engraven upon them by Custom, and their Predecessors. Now, what does this Act do? give a stop to the open, and public profession of the true Ancient Catholic and Apostolic Faith, as the Romanists bespatter and give out. Nothing less! It only discountenanceth the public and open Profession of the Romish Tridentine Faith, which (in those Articles wherein they differ from the Protestants) is neither True, nor Ancient, nor Catholic, but is an entire Apostasy from it, and doubtless is the most Catholic, and greatest Heresy in the Christian World. A Religion, that upon due examination, and chioce, no Man can embrace without reproaching his Maker, and his Redeemer, by renouncing his reason, nay his very outward senses wherewith God hath endued him. A Religion, that by the same reason that they endeavour to justify Transubstantiation (I instance in this, because I find more do wave the observance of the Act on the account of the Declaration and Subscription, than of the Oaths therein) a Man may as well believe every Hobby-horse to be a Barb on Courser of Naples, or the picture of every Bruit on a Signpost to be really the Bruit itself. Nay to doubt, or deny that ever there was such a person as Jesus Christ upon Earth, or that, he or any of the Saints which slept, did rise from the dead after him; or that the Graves did open, or that the Veil of the Temple was rend, or that there was darkness over the whole Land from the sixth hour to the ninth, etc. I appeal to all the World if ever God declared either by word or practice, that he would make use of arts praestigiariae, Juggling Arts, by deceptio sensuum, or otherwise. Nay, hath not his practice ever been clearly contrary in all the Miracles that he or his Son ever wrought? And the learnedst of the Romanists would infinitely oblige us if they would demonstrate unto us, which of Christ's Body it is, that is Corporally in the Sacrament, whether his glorified, or not glorified Body, and clear it of all the monstrous absurdities that opinion is guilty of.  
The Ancient Catholic and Apostolic Faith partakes not of their fopperies, nor of their absurdities, (for their concealments and sponges are no better) needs no captious reasonings, no equivocations; requires no implicit, or blind faith or obedience, uses no knaveries: No, no, pure Religion, and undefiled, is of a better Brood, of a more Noble Extract, of a more Divine Origine: The profession thereof joined with Holiness and Righteousness, ennobles every Soul, scorns to obscure any Truths, needs no prohibition of God's Word, no Indices expurgatorii, hath superlative privileges, the greatest ornament any Sublunary Majesty can have, scorns to use any indirect Artifices to Create Subtleties, or Coin Evasions, to conceal or adulterate any of her Truths from ignorant, or learned, or to abuse any of our Senses, as if we could not distinguish Bread from Stones, or Fish from Serpents. What have we from without us common to all Mankind so infallible as our Senses to cause Belief, that Jesus Christ lived upon the Earth, was Crucified, Buried, and Rose again? The only Argument that Christ himself used to convince diffident St. Thomas to Believe, was by his own Senses of seeing and feeling, John 20.25, 27. And if the Senses of all Christians in all Countries have been deceived above these 1600. years since Christ's death in one Point, why may not we by the same reason question and suspect the Senses of all those that lived contemporary with him in more Points, as whether any of these things were so or no. So happy, I confess, are the Papalins in their Disputes against Protestant Religion, that many of their Arguments by retortion only are as strong against their own Religion, and indeed as strong against all Religions as against ours. Light is come into the World, but these men love darkness rather than light: And why? because their Deeds are evil; every one that doth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his Deeds should be discovered; but he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God, 3 John 19.20, 21.  

Take but a short view but of Four of their Opinions that are so Diametrically contrary to Scripture, that nothing but loud and bawling Impudence can deny, and in which the meanest capacity cannot be mistaken, no, not those Lucifugae Scripturarum that are only most blind, not because they cannot, but because they will not see, nor yet understand, though as directly opposite to Scripture, as light to darkness, truth to error.  
God and Scripture.  
GOd in the Second Commandment 20. Exod. forbids the very making of any graven Image, or the likeness of any thing. 2. Forbids the very Bowing down to them. 3. He Commands them to take good heed unto themselves, for that they saw no manner of Similitude on the day that the Lord spoke unto them in Horeb out of the Fire, lest they corrupted themselves, and make a graven Image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, etc. Deut. 4.15, 16, 17.4. He Cautionates them not to forget the Covenant he made with them, viz. that they make not a graven Image, or the likeness of any thing which the Lord the God had forbidden. 5. He minds them that he was a Jealous God, and would not have his Glory imparted to another. 6. He was a consuming fire, able to revenge all disobediences, 23.7. He curseth the very man that maketh any graven or molten Image an Abomination to the Lord, Deut. 27.15.   

Pope and Popish Doctrine.  
NOtwithstanding all these solemn Prohibitions and Reasons delivered so dreadfully on the Mount by God himself in Fire, with Thunder and Lightning, thick Clouds and Smoke; so that the whole Mount quaked greatly: Yet so Super-omnipotent is Dominus Deus vester Papa, that he doth not only dare to leave this very Commandment out of the Decalogue, but Commands (even under anathemas) and practices the clean contrary. And it is justified and averred to be constans Theologorum etc. The constant judgement of Divines, that the Image is to be honoured and worshipped, with the same Honour and Worship wherewith it is worshipped, whereof it is an Image. Jo. Azorius the Jesuit, Institut. mor. tom. 1. lib. 9 cap 6. And Tho. Aquin. Concludes, that the same reverence is to be given to the Image of Christ, and to Christ himself; and because Christ is to be Adored with Latria (or Divine Worship) that his Image is to be Adored with the Adoration of Latria. Tho sum. part 3. q. 25. Art. 3. And Friar Pedro de Cabrera on that place Concludes, 1. That it is simply and absolutely to be said, that Images are to be worshipped in Churches, and out of Churches, and the contrary is an Heretical Doctrine. 2. That Images are truly and properly to be Adored, and out of an Intention to Adore themselves, and not only the Samplers that are represented in them. And this, he saith, is the Doctrine not only of Thomas, and of all his Disciples, but also of all the old Schoolmen, and he there reckons up Twenty of them, viz. Cajetan, Capreolus, Paludanus, Ferrariensis, Antoninus, Soio, Alexander of Hales, Albertus Magnus, Bonaventura, Richardus de Media Villa, Dyonisius Carthuganus, Major, Marsilius, Tho. Waldensis, Turrecremata, Angestus, Clichtoveus, Turrian, and Vasquez. And Zacharias Boverius the Spanish Friar in his Consultation directed to K. Charles, (of ever Blessed memory) when Prince, says, That the Images of Christ, and of the Saints should with pious Religion be worshipped by Christians, Part. 2. reg. 1. p. 189. Edit. Matrit. Anno 1623. And Styles that glorious Martyr spes Anglicanae Ecclesiae, The hope of the English Church, Part. 1. reg. 4. p. 58. And princeps futura orbis faelicitas. The future felicity of the World. Part. 2. reg. 2. p. 196. Thus impudently Sacrilegious are they, though the Prophet pronounceth all them Confounded that worship graven Images, and boast themselves of Idols, Psal. 97.7.  
Take but the judgement of one of your own Church, even of that incomperable Servite, who lived and died in the same Communion: At the end of the Confession of his Faith, (whereof he hath made 54 Articles, much more Orthodox than those of Trent,) concludes thus, viz. Quemadmodum credimus de ceremoniis sacramentorum quod nomini fas sit eas immutare, sic etiam credimus de lege dei, nulli mortalium hic licere quidquami Innovare, detrahere aut adjicere; quia scriptum est, Deut. 4.2. Ne addite ad verbum illud quod praecipio vobis neque detrahite de eo.  
Homini itaque Christiano fas non est detruncare Decalogum, quod tamen fecit Pontifex Romanus, cum propter commodum suum expunxit praeceptum de non faciendis Imaginibus ne plebs persentisceret imagines ejus atque Idola a Deo esse prohibita, f. 255.  
As we believe concerning the Ceremonies of the Sacraments, that it is lawful for no man to alter or change them, so we believe concerning the Law of God, that it is not lawful for any Mortal to innovate, detract, or add any thing; because it is written, Deut 4.2. Ye shall not add unto the Word which I command you; neither shall ye diminish aught from it, etc. Therefore it is not lawful for any Christian to dock the Decalogue, which notwithstanding the Roman Pontiffs have done, when for their Coffers they expunged the 3 d. Commandment of not making Images, lest the people should perceive, that Images and Idols were prohibited by God.   

God and Scripture.  
CHrist, when he instituted the Blessed Sacrament, gave to his Disciples both Bread and Wine, and to whom he gave the Bread, he said, Take, Eat, to whom also he gave the Cup, saying, Drink ye all of this Cup, Mat. 22.26. and they all drank of it, Mark 14.23.  
And St. Paul, writing to the Church of God which was at Corinth, and to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be Saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours, 1 Cor. 1.2. saith to them all, (without distinguishing the Priest from the People) as often as ye eat this Bread, and drink this Cup, ye do show the Lords death till he come, Chap. 11.26. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread, and drink this Cup etc. Vers. 27. Whereby it plainly appears, that all indefinitely are both to eat of the Bread, and drink of the Cup: And there is not the least shadow or colour of any pretence or practice, that ever this Sacrament was to be administered or taken in one kind only by any person whatsoever; and yet such is the impudence of Roman Heretics, as contrary to their own Knowledge and Confession, even in the Body of the Canon itself, to order and decree, That Priests that say Mass shall communicate under both kinds, but the Lay-people shall communicate under the species of Bread only, though the contrary was practised for above 1000 Years: And yet such Brows of Brass have they to boast of the Antiquity of their Tenets.  
§ The unquestionable Conolusion is, Let a Man examine himself, and so let him eat of this Bread, and drink of this Cup, 1 Cor. 11.28.   

Pope and Popish Doctrine.  
THe Council of Constance held Anno 1415. Sess. 13. hath declared, defined and decreed with a non obstante Gods Ordinance, even Christ's own Institution; and although acknowledged by them to have been the constant practice of the Apostles, and of the primitive Christians to Communicate under both kinds, That they that celebrate this Sacrament should participate both of Bread and Wine, and the Laiety of Bread only, and doth command under pain of Excommunication, that no Presbyter do communicate the people under both kinds.  
Likewise that pact Conventicle of Trent declareth and teacheth, Sess. 21. c. 1. That the Laiety and Clergy, which do not celebrate, are by no precept of God bound to receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist under both kinds. And further declareth c. 2. That although at the beginning of Christian Religion the communion of both kinds was very much used, yet the Holy Mother Church hath decreed, That it shall be accounted for a Law, and hath confirmed it with (accursed) Canons, viz. Can. ●. If any man shall say, that by the Commandment of God, or of necessity all and singular the faithful of Christ ought to receive both kinds, Let him be accursed; And yet Leo was of another mind, when he declared it was a Token of an Heretic, not to receive in both kinds. What is this less than matchless Antichristian impudence? that whilst themselves Confess, both that Christ instituted it under both kinds, and also that he, his Apostles, and the Primitive Christians Religiously observed the same, that yet we that practice according to Christ's constat, must be accounted Heretics for so doing, and be punished by the Bishop, his Officials and Inquisitors: And that they should boast so much of Antiquity, and of the conformity of their Creed to that of the primitive Church, and yet so openly and palpably renounce both in this so chief and principal a Point.   

God and Scripture.  
SEarch the Scriptures, forin them ye think ye have Eternal Life, and they are they which testify of one, John 5.39 The Scriptures are able to make wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus, 2 Tim. 2.15. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for Doctrine, Reproof, for Correction, for Instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good Works, Vers. 16.17.  
The Boereans were esteemed more Noble than those of Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so, Acts 17.11.  
St. Paul's Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians, Thessalonians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians were all written to allthe Brethren in general in a language vulgarly understood with a charge to be read unto them all; so far were they from concealing any of God's Word from any body whatsever.  
Christ rather than all people should not understand his Gospel, endued miraculously his Apostles with other Tongues, that every Nation under Heaven might hear and understand the wonderful Works of God, his Laws and Precepts in their own Tongues; and St. Paul hath written the whole 14. Ch. of the 1 Cor. demonstrating the impossibility of Edification with out understanding; and why the Laiety may not read the Bible, as well as have it taught them by the hPriest, is past all understanding but Romish.   

Pope and Popish Doctrine.  
THe Pope exalting himself above all that is called God, forbids the use of the Bible to Laics; and their Prayers, Offices and Hours to be in a Language vulgarly intelligible, witness their Breviaries, missals, and Hours in Latin And the Bible is placed in the front of prohibited Books, and Books to be expunged (whereof there are Seven Indices extant.) And Bellarmine can produce no such prohibition before that of Pius Quartus, who lived but in the time of the Council of Trent, (they had need brag of the Antiquity of their Doctrines) and forbade the Translation of the Bible into vulgar Tongues, and citys for it the Council of Trent, 22. Sess. c. 8, & 9, Caenon; and also the Fifth General Rule before the Indices expurg. viz. Cum experientia docuerit ex permissione Sacrorum Bibliorum lingua vulgari plus inde ob hominum temeritatem, ignorantiam aut malitiam detrimenti quam utilitatis oriri pro hibentur Biblialingua vulgari extantia cum omnibus earum partibusimpressis aut manuscriptis, etc. prohibentur pariter Horae earumque differentiae lingua vulgari ut patet in Catalogi tertia classe verbo Horas.  
Seeing Experience hath taught, that through the rashness, ignorance, or malice of men, more detriment than profit hath risen by the permission of the Bible in vulgar Tongues, let Bibles in such Tongues be forbidden with all their parts, printed or in manuscript. And they account all Languages vulgar but Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Caldean, Syriack, Aethiopick, Persian & Arabic.  
The like for their Horary, and other Devotions; what are these Popes that thus turn their Spirits against God? and make themselves wiser than the Almighty? and that let such Decrees pass sub annulo Piscatoris? And what are his Jannizaries, that call the Scriptures a Dumb Judg. Pighius de Hier. Eccl. A Black Gospel: Inken Divinity Eccius; and that if the Scriptures were not supported by the Authority of the Church they were of no more value than Aesop's Fables? Vide chemnitij Exam. de S. Can. p. 47. And that the people were permitted to read the Bible, was the invention of the Devil. Peres. de tradit. par. assert. 3. What is this less than by craft to call Christ and his Apostles Devils.   

God and Scripture.  
ST. Paul, Rom. 12.1. recommends unto us reasonable service, as Holy and acceptable unto God.   

Pope and Popish Doctrine.  
THe Romanists recommend unto us Ignorance, as the Mother of Devotion, and a blind Obedience, and Implicit Faith to believe, as the Church (1. as the Pope) believes, without farther Examination.  
Licet praeceptum praelati sit irrationale & pro tali merito quandoque haberi petit, tenetur tamen subditus illud observare. Joh. de Rada part. 2. Theol. strou. inter Scotum & Thom. & Tho. St. 20. ar. 2. Conclus. 6. Though the command of the Prelate be unreasonable, yet the inferior is bound to obey it. And according to Ignatian Doctrine, If the Church affirm that to be Black, which our own Eyes judge to be White, we ought also then to declare that it is Black. Siquid quod occulis nostris apparet Album, Nigrum illa esse definierit, debemus itidem quod Nigrum sit pronunciare. Ignat. Exercitia spiritualia apud finem, regulae aliqnot servandae ut cum Orthodoxa Ecclesia vere sentiamque Reg. 13. and this is not to be questioned, being strongly ratified by the Bull of Paul the 3d. 1548.  
I find that the Popes are told, Quod onnia possint, & sic, quod facerint quicquid liberet, etiam illicita & sic plus quam deus. Card. Zabar. de Schism. inter Germ. script. p. 703.  
They could do all things, and might do any thing, were it never so nnlawful, and by that means they could do more than God, that they might dispense against the Law of Nature, c. 15. q. 6. Authoritatem in glossa, against the Old Testament. Extra. de conces. prebend. pro ponit in Gloss. and against the Apostle Paul. Ibid. De justicia facere possint justiciam, They might make wrong right. Ibid. Et in his que vellent, iis esse pro ratione voluntatem. Ibid. They might do as they list, and none might say, Domine cur ita facis? Sir, why do you so? Such power was rarely well calculated for Pope Joan; Foemina v●●t, quia vult stat pro ratione voluntas, haec ratio quamvis sit rationis inops.  
Si homicidium Sampsonis quod ex se malum est, interpretamur quod instanctu divino fuit factum, multo magis omne factum sanctistimi Patris interpretare debemus in bonum: & fiquidem suerit furtum, vel aliud ex se malum interpretari debemus quod divino instinctu fe. teste Joh. de Parisiis de potestate regia & papali c. 23. If we impute the slaughter which Samson made of the Philistines, to an inspiration of God's Spicit, much more are we bound to interpret in the best part whatsoever the Holy Father the Pope doth, if it be Thest, or any other thing, which of itself is evil, (as for Example, Murder or Adultery dict. 40. non nos in blossa) we must likewise impute that to the inspiration of God's Spirit. Episcopos Romanos ne peccata quidem sine laude committere. Massonus de verb. Epic. lib. 3. in vita Johan. 9 I could furnish you with such unreasonable Doctrines usque ad nauseam: But I forbear, leaving every  reader to judge how inconsistent with reasonable service those Doctrines and Teachments are. Now whether it be better to obey God than these Men, judge ye, Acts 5.29.  
§ I have now done, concluding, that it is high imprudence, 
Periculosum Principi habere consiliarios Papisticos. Molinaeus Gregorio Capucino in Enchirid. Eccles. impress. venetus 1588.  nay very destructive for any Christian Governors to hearken or have recourse unto the Advisoes and Councils of any that own another Head or Authority, or indeed that have not one and the same joint-interest in Religion and State with themselves: And that the Governors ought to be very vigilant in care themselves, & to forbid, or at least discountenance all Councils and Things which may in any respect hurt, or but disorder a good Government, lest the Subjects thereof should be caught with any guile, or seduced to embrace any opinions, which may be repugnant, either to good Government or sound Religion. And I hope this Nation will never again be so infatuated, as ever to put power into their Hands, who have so often given such palpable Demonstration and Testimony how they have used it already, and such pregnant presumptions how they would use it again, could they obtain it Even they that run may read what the Papists, like Jehn, drive so furiously at, even to make England once more Issachar like, to couch and carry the Saddle. Vah Papae— shall it ever be again the style and reproach of England; Glorious England! that is situate among the Rivers, whose Rampart is the Sea, and whose God is the Lord to carry the Saddle again? God forbidden! But if so unhappy, so unfortunate, I'll prophesy, that not the Pope only, but the Devil will ride her. Pardon these Expressions; I have encouragement from St. Jerome, Neminem volo patientem esse in causa laesae fidei, and from Moses the Mirror of meekness, who knows no patience in Israel's Idolatry, Numb. 12.3. Exod. 22.19, 26, 27.  
Idem manens idem semper facit idem.    

THE REAL MERITS OF THE PAPISTS.  
SUch hath the Confidence of the Papists of these latter times been, as to claim a Right unto the King's Majesty's favour for a toleration of their Religion upon the account of their great Merits, as having best deserved of His Majesty, because of all, they were the most faithful to him and his Father. The purport of this hath not only been averred by the generality of them in their ordinary discourses; but also set out in print by several of them, P. W. R. P. J. S. H. M. and others. At which confident Assertion of theirs, when I consider how boldly, and feircly the contend for meritorious works; nay; for works of supererogation, even with God himself; I do not so much wonder, that such Merit-mongers broach it so confidently now, as that they have not done it all this while.  
§ He that is first in his own Cause seemeth just, but his Neighbour cometh, and searcheth him, Prov. 18.17. Which that we may the better do, we will only a little look back into our own Chronicle, without cloying the Reader with like Foreign Stories, which would fill Volumes, and first see how true, and trusty Trojans the Papists have been to the Kings of England, no Protestants, but Papists; and if they shall be found to have been neither true, nor trusty, but Traitors, and Rebels to the Kings of their own Religion; can it then ever be believed, or hoped, that they ever will be Loyal and Faithful to Protestant Princes, when a neat opportunity offers the contrary, and that Maugre all Roman Mandates to the contrary? What Prince, or other Sovereign, soberly considers the new founded Society of Jesuits, erected by Pope Paul the 3 d. about 1540, (who, although at first but 10 in Number, yet so wonderfully increased since, that they bragged not a few years ago, that they were 1300010. they lived in Colleges, and places of residence, besides those that trotted up and down, that they had 359. Colleges, or Schools; 18 Domus professae; 40 Domus probationis; 8 Seminaries; 1010 Residentiaries. Vide speculum Jesuiticum. running Register.) And what their Principles and Doctrines are, and what their practices have been for the destroying of all Prince's quacumque Arte, that will not become Vassals to the See of Rome, and and acknowledge a Spiritual Monarchy in that Roman Chair paramount all temporal Crowns and Sceptres; and how strict, and of what extant their vow of Obedience is to the Roman Bishop; and how it is decreed by several Popes, that the Institutions and Doctrines of the Jesuits must not be contradicted, or disputed by any Ordinary, Delegate, Judge, or Magistrate; and how vastly that society is enlarged, both in their Clergy and Laity, since these great brags of theirs will be sufficiently convinced, that neither their persons, or their Kingdoms, can ever be secure, where either one sort or other are suffered to flourish.  
§ Let us now see matter of Fact. Did not Pope Alexander the 3d. by violence and tyranny, force King H. the II. to surrender his Crown Imperial into the hand of his Legate, and afterwards b e content with a private Condition for a while, to the great regret and Indignation of his Subjects? Did not Innocent the 3d. stir up the Nobility and Commonalty of this Kingdom against King John, and gave the Inheritance and Possession of all his Dominions unto Ludovicus the French King? What were those 52000. but Papists, that rebelled against Richard the I. Anno 1196. And all those that rebelled against Edward the II. Anno 1316, 1317, 1321, 1322, & 1326. Amongst whom was Robert Baldock, Bishop of Norwich, and Lord Chancellor of England. And all those that consented to the Murder of Edward the Third's Father, and sought to kill John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Edward the Third's Son, Anno 1330. 1372.  
And those in Richard the Third's time, Anno 1381. Annimated by John Ball a Priest, who at his Execution refused to ask the King forgiveness, and despised him; so peremptory was he, Jack Straw, confessing, that when he sent for the King to Black-Heath, they purposed to have murdered all Knights, Esquires, and Gentlemen that should have come with him and when they had got sufficient force, they would suddenly then have put to death in every County all Lords and Masters of the Common people, in whom might appear to be either Council or Resistance, (one Argument used by some of the late Protectorians, for the death of our Glorious King and Martyr) that he was too knowing, and too intelligent to be suffered to live) and especially they would have killed the Knights of St. John, and all Men of any Possessions, only Begging Friars should have lived, that might have Administered the Sacraments throughout the Realm; and lastly, they would have killed the King himself, and made Kings in every Shire.  
Thomas Arrundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, traitorously practised the deposing of the said Richard his lawful Sovereign.  
§ It were not very wild conjecture to Divine, that our late Generation of Levellers, Major Generals, Quakers and fanatics were spawned from them, and that they are still but Badgers, plotting and digging Holes for Romish Foxes to lie couchant and covertly in for their more subtle contrivances.  
§ What were those but Papists that rebelled against H. the 4th. designing to Murder him under the colour of Justinge and other pastimes pretended 1399. And also those who raised Arms against him; among whom was John Madelyn a Priest, who had been Chaplain to King Richard, and impudently personated the King. They were Priests and Friars that suborned a False Richard, whereof 8 being Miners were hanged at Tyburn. Oswald, Bishop of Galloway, was the chief Plotter against Richard the 2d. in the Year 1403. A Priest of Warwick, and also Walter Waldock a Prior of Land in Leicester-Shire, and one Richard Freseby, a Dr. in Divinity, was Executed in his Religious Habit and Weed, and not long after 10 Grey Friars were executed all for Treason. In the year 1404. Tho. Percy Earl of Worcester with other Rebelled. In the year 1406. Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, R. Scroop, Archbishop of York, with others, Robelled, and were Beheaded in the Year 1414. Sir John Beverley, an Anointed Priest, with others, conspired the death of H. the 5th. other Conspiracies there were in the Year 1416. and 1417. against the same King by the like Generation of Men. And by such also several other Rebellions were raised against H. the 6th. in the Year 1433. 1442. 1447. 1450. & 1451. and so against Edward the 4th. in the Year 1461. 1472. 1478. his Two Sons were after his death murdered by the contrivance of Sir James Tyrrel, by the appointment of the Duke of Gloucester their Uncle; who then procured himself to be Crowned King by the name of Rich. the 3d. but both the Duke of Dloucester, Sir James Tyrrel, and Miles Forrest, one of those that smothered the Innocents', came all to untimely and shameful deaths, according to Psal. 55. The Bloodthirsty and deceitful Men shall not live out half their days. King Richard himself Slain in Battle, hacked, hewed, and hurried on Horseback dead, most ignominiously being tugged, torn and dragged like a Dog. They were Priests and Friars that 1 Ed. 4 conspired with Jasper Earl of Pembroke, for which they were Executed. There were likewise several Treasons and Conspiracies against H. the 7th in the Year 1494, 1497, 1498, & 1499. Asa, a Priest of Ireland, was a chief Complotter against the union of the Two Roses: So Two Priests, Greenwell and Garnet would have destroyed that Blessed Union in King James. During the Reign of H. the 8. many were executed for several Treasons, as 29 April 1536. The Prior of the  at London, the Prior of Bevall, the Prior of Exham, Reignolds a Brother of Zion, and John Hail Vicar of Thissleworth were Condemned, and Executed the 4th. of May following. 18 Junii Three Monks of the  at London, named Exmew, Midlemore, and Nidigate were Executed for Treason, and that without any exclamation in those days that they were executed for Religion; a late trick taken up only since the days of Queen Elizabeth, though no more reason for that Calumny now, than was then.  
§ There were also Two Rebellions raised in the North the same Year against the King, and one in Lincolnshire 1537 for which Twelve were Executed 29 March, whereof Five were Priests, one Abbot, a Suffragan Dr. Mackerel the Vicar of Louth in Lincolnshire, and Two Priests. In the Year 1538. There was another rebellious commotion in Somersetshire. Lawrence Cook, a Prior of Dancalfe, William Horn a Lay-Brother of the , with six others, were Executed for Treason. The same Year there was a new Rebellion in Yorkshire. Many more such good Works have we done, for which of them will you stone us, or deny us a toleration, or liberty to do more.  
By this short Survey without travelling beyond Seas, which would fill Volumes of like Precedents, it's abundantly apparent to all that are not wilfully blind, that Papists themselves, even before Jesuitism was batched, made it their usual practice to Rebel against their Princes, though of the same Faith and Relgiion with themselves, and can it then be reasonably expected, that they will ever be Loyal and Faithful to Protestant's (in their account Heretic) Princes, especially now Jesuitism is founded, established, nay vastly increased and advanced? so that indeed they are the only great Apollo's in the See of Rome, whose Doctrine it is to Excommunicate, depose, nay destroy Princes quacumque arte, and that uncontrollably for that several Popes have decreed, that the Jesuits are Immediate Subjects only to the See of Rome, free and exempt from all other Jurisdictions whatsoever, and that the Institutions and Doctrines of the Jesuits must not be oppugned nor contradicted directly or indirectly, no not by way of Disputation or otherwise. Spec. Jesuit. 27. However let us see what have been their practices since Jesuitism first sprung up, which was about the 31. Year of of H. the 8th. in whose time several Papists submitted to death, rather than they would quit the Pope's Supremacy, and acknowledge the Kings: which yields certain demonstration of the impossibility of such so principled, being faithful Subjects to Protestant Caesars, that own the Pope to be his and their Superior.  
In the Reign of King Edward the 6th. which was very short, and he himself a Minor, there were Rebellions and Commotions in Somersetshire and Lincolnshire; for which many were Executed, then in Cornwall and Devon, where above 4000 were Slain and taken Prisoners by John Lod Bussel, Lord Privy Seal. Then they Rebelled in Norfolk and Suffolk, against whom Sir John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, went with an Army, and slew above 5000. and took their Ring Leader. About the same time 3090 rose in Rebellion in the North and East-riding of Yorkshire, but were suppressed by the Lord Precedent. Amongst those Western Rebels Humphrey Arundel was Chief Leader, who amongst others, with 8 Priests, were taken and Executed therefore.  
What were those but Churchmen, that by their Doctrine in the Pulpit, and subscription of Hands to Traitorous Decrees, Embassed the Two Daughters of H. 8. both before and after the death of Ed. 6. for satisfaction to the Pride and Ambition of an aspiring Humour?  
In the days of Queen Mary, though there were few Treasons committed, yet was there much Innocent Christian Blood shed: Concerning which I shall make this Observation and Comparison between the Marian and Elizabethian days  
§ In Queen Elizabeth's days the Papists put out many traitorous, infamous and lying Libels in sundry Languages, and reported in other Prince's Courts, that she put a multitude of persons to torments and death, only for professing the Roman Catholic Religion, when in truth none of them were questioned for matters of Religion, but justly by order of Laws openly condemned as Traitors, for treasonable practices against Her Person and State, maintaining, and adhering to the Pope, the Capital Enemy of Her Majesty, 
Camb. 213, 214.  and her Crown, who was not only the cause of several Rebellions in England and Ireland, but in one of Ireland did manifestly maintain at his own charge Commanders and Soldiers, under the Banner of Rome, against the Queen, so as no Enemy could do more, and that not by force of new Laws, either for Religion, or against the Pope's Supremacy, as the slanderous Libelers, would have it seem to be; but by the Ancient Laws of the Realm made in Edward the Third's time, about the Year 1330. above 200. Years before, even when the Popes were suffered to have some Authority-Ecclesiastical in this Realm, as he had in other Countries.  
They gave out also, that they died because they would not acknowledge Her the Supreme Head of the Church, which was a most appetent untruth, visibly to be contradicted by the very Acxts of Parliament.  
For at the beginning of Her Reign, that very Title was omitted in Her Style. And to make the matter seem more horrible and lamentable, they printed the particular names of all the persons, which by their own Catalogue did not exceed 60. to the Year 1583 whereof hot above 30 Priests, nor above 5 Receivers and Harbourers, and for Religion not any one Executed: whereof not any one at all, till about the 12th. Year of Her Reign. And J. W. their own Martirologest for Her whole Reign, (which was above 44 Years) doth not reckon above 180. whereas in the short Reign of Queen Mary, which was little above, Years) there were by Imprisonment, Torments, Famine and Fire almost 400 destroyed, besides such as were secretly murdered in Prisons; and of that number above 20 that had been Arch-Bishops, Bishops, and Principal Prelates or Officers in the Church lamentably destroyed, and of Women above 60, and of Children above 40, and amongst the Women some great with Child, and one, out of whose Body the Child by Fire being expelled alive, was yet most barbarously thrown into the Fire again and burned: Examples Cruel beyond the Cruelty of Heathens.  
§ It is further observable, that they which suffered in Queen Mary's days, though they died constant unto, and professing the Protestant Religion, yet were there no traitorous Machinations nor Assassinatious laid to their charge, nor did they ever at their deaths deny their lawful Queen, or maintain any of Her open and Foreign Enemies, or procure any Rebellion or Civil Wars, nor did Sow any Sedition in secret Corners, nor withdrew any of her Subjects from their obedience, as the Papists (being sworn Votaries to the Pope) did continually do against Queen Elizabeth, countenancing and avowing the Pops Excommunications, Bulls, and other public Writings, denouncing the Queen not to be Queen, charging, and upon pain of Excommunication commanding all Her Subjects to departed from their Duties, and natural Allegiances, encouraging also, and authorising all persons of all degrees in both Kingdoms to Rebel; and upon this Antichristian Warrant (contrary to all the Laws of God and Man, and nothing at all agreeable to a pastoral Officer) they sought by all ways and means to justify, and to put in Execution that traitorous Warrant of the Popes Bull. And yet of these kind of Offenders, as many of them as after their Condemnations on second and better thoughts were contented to renounce their former traitorous Assertions, so many were spared from Execution; such was Her Majesty's clemency and unwillingness to have any Blood spilt without very urgent, just and necessary cause proceeding from themseloves.  
I must make this further observation, 
Merits of Papists by their own Confession.  That in the days of Queen Eliz though the Jesuits and Secular Priests fell strangely foul one upon the other with black Pens and Mouths, with Language scarce to be matched at Pitch-hatch or BVillingsgate; yet the Seculars commended highly the Queen's clemency, and justified her proceed against the traitorous Jesuits: Avowing, That they themselves, knowing what they did know, how under pretence of Religion the life of Her Majesty, and subversion of the Kingdom was aimed at, if they had been of Her Highness' Council, they would have given their consent for the making of very strict and rigorous Laws, to the better suppressing, and preventing of such Jesuitical and wicked designments. Important Considerations, etc. f. 57 They did also complain e'en to the Pope and Cardinals, That the Jesuits were the Firebrands of all Seditions: That by right or wrong, they did seek simply and absolutely the Monarchy of all England: That they were the couses of all the discords in England: That Fa. Holt did not only intent, but would indeed give wretched England in Conquest to himself, and his Favonrites, and many other Complaints there were of this nature, Extracted out of the Memorials, and other Letters dated at Rome, 8. Novemb 1597. Relation of the faction at Wisbich 74 Though I say the Seculars were so violent against the Jesuits, and such stout Assertors of the Queen's moderate dealing with the Papists; yet were some of them found guilty of like traitorous practices; so little are any of them to be trusted, for that though they have Mell in ore, yet have they Fel in Cord. Call to mind the great and serious Protestations that Watson the Priest made in his Quodlibetical Questions; That albeit he differed in Religion from that which was professed in the Church of England; yet if either Pope or Spaniard should seek by hostile means to invads his Country, he would willingly spend his substance; nay, his dearest Blood against any such as should attempt it: Yet he himself, with Clark his fellow Seminary, were the first that I read of that came to the Gallows for violating it; which considered together with what they confessed upon their apprehension, viz. That the Jesuits continually negotiated with Spain, preparing for a Foreign Aid, levied great Sums of Money, bought Horses, Powder, Shot, Artillery, etc. and conveyed them secretly to their friends, wishing not to stir, but to be quiet till they heard from them, etc. These things, I say, considered, do argue, that Secular Priests and Jesuits, and those that favoured them, were all Traitors in Heart, though their malice one towards the other made them discover, and rail, and libel each other both at home and abroad; which Queen Eliz. wisely considering, would not confide in them, notwithstanding all their books and promises, but by her Proclamations banished both one and the other: For in truth both Seculars and Jesuits, were in this like Sampsons' Foxes, though they differed in many other things very bitterly, yet in this they joined their Tails, their main Ends, to be Firebrands to kindle dissension, and withdraw her Subjects from her obedience, and to reconcile them to Rome: So as Joab kissed Abuer, whilst he stabbed him, and as Judas kissed our Saviour, whilst he betrayed him to the Pharises: So these men pretended Loyalty by their Tongues and Pens, and yet acted traitorously by their Plots and Contrivances. What could they print more than they did? viz. We are fully persuaded in our Consciences, and by Experience, That if the Catholics had never sought by indirect means to have vexed Her Majesty with their designs against her Crown: If the Pope and the King of Spain had never plotted with the Duke of Norfolk, who was to have been the head of a Rebellion, if the Rebels in the North had never been heard of, if the Bull of Pius Quintus had never been known, if the Rebellion had never been justified: If neither Stukley nor the Pope had attempted any thing against Ireland. If Gregory the 13th. had not renewed the said Bull and Excommunication: If the Jesuits had never come into England: If the Pope and King of Spain had not practised with the Duke of Guise for his attempt against Her Majesty: If Parsons, and the rest of the Jesuits, with other our Countrymen beyond the Seat, had never been Agents in those traitorous and bloody designs of Throckmorton, Parry, Cullen, York, Williams, Squire and others: If they had not by their Treatises and Writings endeavoured to defame their Sovereign, and their own Country, labouring to have many of their Books translated into divers Languages, whereby to show their own disloyalty: If Cardinal Allen and Parsons had not published the Renovation of the said Bull by Sixtus Quintus: If thereunto they had not added their scurrilous and unmanly Admonition, or rather most profane Libel against Her Majesty: If they had not sought by false persuasions, and unghostly Arguments, to have alured the hearts of all Catholics from their allegiance: If the Pope had never been urged by them to have thrust the King of Spain into that barbarous Action against the Realm: If they themselves, with all the rest of that Generation, had not laboured greatly with the said King for the Conquest and Invasion of this Land by the Spaniards, who are known to be the cruelest Tyrants that live upon the Earth: If the Pope had not ordered Ridolphi to distribute 150000 Crowns to advance the attempt, whereof some was sent to Scotland, some to the Duke of Norfolk, & alias. And King Philip to send the Duke of Alva and his Forces into England to assist the Duke of Norfolk. If in all their whole proceed they had not from time to time depraved, irritated and provoked both Her Majesty and State with those and many other such like their most 〈…〉 ungodly and unchristian practices; there had been no Speeches amongst us of Racks and Torments, nor any cause to have used t'him, for none were ever vexed that way simply, for that he was either Priest or Catholic; but because they were suspected to have had their hands in some of the said most traitorous designs. And most assuredly the State would have loved us, or at least born with us, and we had been in much better condition than now we are. Important Considerations, etc. foe 39, 40, 41. printed 1601. Furthermore, antoher in answer to a Letter of a Jesuited Gent. by A. C. foe 89. complains of the Jesuits, averring, That Her Majesty is an Heretic, an Excommunicated Princess, and consequently to be deposed: What Jesabelling of her have I heard them use? What questioning whether no Jehn have subdued her? why yet she prospereth? why yet she Reigns? why yet she lives? what defaming her? what throwing Soil at her Picture? what avowing her Royal Lions and Flower-de-luze no better worth than to serve for Signs to Baudy-houses? Thus do the Jesuits, and Jesuited use Her Majesty to my express knowledge, and worse, which for good manners I omit, fo. 90. nay, they sent one to me in the nature of an Engineer from beyond the Seas to persuade my assisting his firing the Queen's Navy throughout England against the next years coming of another Spanish Armado, f. 90.  
Was it not Fa. Parsons and Fa. Creighton, 
F. 9  That with much vehemency and bitterness contended for the disposing of the Crown of England, the one for the Lady Infanta, the other to his King of Scotland? Were they not Jesuits which plotted with the Duke of Parma for surpriseing, or stealing away of the Lady Arabella, and sending her into Flanders? who employed the Messenger into England about the affair but Fa. Holt Jesuit? who but the same Jesuit was consenting with Sir William Stanley to the sending in of Richard Hesket for soliciting Ferdinando Earl of Derby to rise against Her Majesty, and claim the Crown? was it not the same Jesuit that entertained York and Young in the Plot of firing Her Majesty's Storehouses? that set on work Mr. Francis Dickinson, and others, to persuade Watermen to fly with Ships and all into the service of the Spaniard? f. 93. their Conspiracies were not confined to England only? but they were extended also to Scotland; whereupon were the Three Catholic Earls Angus, Arrol and Huntley convicted of High Treason by Act of Parliament about 1593. if not upon certain plots laid by Fa. Creighton, Fa. Gourdon, and upon hopes given them of succour from Spain? Why was the Lord of Fentry Executed but for the same designs imparted to him by Fa. Ro. Abercronii a Jesuit? Was it not the principal cause of Fa James gordon's travel to Rome about the same time to solicit the Pope and other Princes to assist the King of Scots, if he enterprise any thing either against England, or in his own Country, 93, 94.  
And yet these matters will not be believed at this day by the Papists, though it be their own voluntary confession in several of their printed Books yet extant, Priests and Jesuits each deservedly accusing other of Treasons and Conspiracies against the Queen, Her Person, Crown and Dignity, with this difference only, that the Priests mostly, the Jesuits seldom acknowledged the Queers great favours and Jenity towards them, the Queen had great reason to believe them both, not barely because cause they peached one the other, but because thereof she really found the sad effects: And indeed because she and her Council did very wisely consider, that Papists some Centuries of Years before ever Jesuits were thought of, did universally incline unto and side with the Pope against their temporal Princes, usurping many great and exorbitant authorities and privileges over them, whereof Histories are full; and therefore it was but high time that the Queen should by wholesome Laws inflicting moderate pains and mulcts provide against both one and the other.  
This is no small Bedrall of Treasons, 
Vide Important consider. f. 16, 17, 18.  Conspiracies, provocations, etc. and yet as many more they might have urged; nay to do the Secular-priests right, they have done it particularly sparsim both in this and divers others their Books, and also made large, very large acknowledgements of the Queen's Bounty, Moderation and Clemency towards those Papists that were quiet and faithful, (a gratefulness that I have not found in any of the Jesuits) and in so doing they did the Queen but right; for from the year 1. Eliz. unto 11. Papists came to our Church and Service without scruple? so that for 10 years they made no Conscience, nor Doubt to Communicate with us in prayer: But when once the Bull of Pius Quintus (often called by the Queen Impius Intus) was published, wherein the Queen was accursed and deposed, 
16,  and Her Subjects discharged of their obedience and Oaths of Fealty; yea cursed if they did obey Her: Then, and not till then, they refrained our Churches and Service, so that recusancy in them (the name of Recusant being never heard of until the 11. Year of Eliz. as is evident by the very Acts of Parliament) is not for for Religion, but in an acknowledgement of the Pope's power, which was little regarded here, our famous Kings being never afraid of Pope's Bulls, no not in the very midnight of Popery, as Edward the Confessor, Henry I. Edward I. Rich. II. Henry IV. Henry V. etc. And in the time of Henry VII. and in all their times the Pope's Legate never passed Callais, but stayed there, and came not to England until he had taken a solemn Oath to do nothing to the detriment of this Crown or State, (so Jealous were our Kings even in those days.) A shrewd sign, and a plain demonstration what their judgement is concerning the right of the Prince in respect of Regal power and place, there being nothing in our Liturgy that a Conscientious Papist might justly except against out of the Word of God; but because the Pope had Excommunicated and Accursed, therefore forsooth, be it lawful of unlawful, they must obey the Pope, and disobey the Queen their incomparable Liege Lady. Now by reason of this Bull (the very bringing in whereof by a subject was adjudged Treason in the time of Edward the I.) the very foundation of all the ensuing Treasons, Rebellions, etc. And in Edward the Third's time the Abbot of Tavestock was fined at 500 Marks for receiving a Bull from Rome, wherein were but aliqua verba regi & Coronae suae prejudicialia. One main Article in Parliament enforced for the the deprivation of Richard II. was, that he had by admitting Bulls from Rome enthralled the Crown of England, which was free from the Pope, and all other Foreign power. In Edward the Third's time there was a seizure of all the Temporalties of the Bishops of Ely and Norwich for the publication of a Bull against Hugh Earl of Chester. And the Bishop of Ely was Condemned of Felony by a Jury at the Kings-Bench, notwithstanding his bold challenge to be unctus Dominit Frater Papae. The state of Romish Recusants became very miserable, being thereby ensnared in a lamentable Dilemma; for either they must be executed for Treason against the Queen if they did resist, or be accursed by their Holy Father, if they did obey Her: But rather than the Pope and his Crew would lose the Design and Effect of his Bull, (which for aught I know is in force to this very day; for if the Pope will say, that it was not directed and intended against the Queen only; but that its force and efficacy extends still to her Successors, I am sure it must go for good Doctrine with them, if they will be true to their Oaths, Doctrines and Principles) he quickly found out a means to extricate them out of that miserable Condition wherein they were thereby involved, viz. A Dispensation from himself, which was afterwards reinforced by Gregory the 13th. that all Catholics here might show their outward Obedience to the Queen, Ad redimendam vexationem & ad ostendendam externam obedientiam; but with these cautions and limitations, Rebus sic stantibus, things so standing as they did. 2. Donec publica Bullae executio sieri possit; until they might grow into strength, until they were able to give the Queen an unavoidable Checkmate, that the public execution of the said Buil might take place: And so much was confessed openly at the Bar by Garner, as before he had done under his own hand, for the better execution whereof the Pope granted Faculties to Rob. Persons and Edmond Campion then ready to go for England 14, April 1580. which Hart also confessed, Perside Gens! A strange Generation of perfidious-Men, whom no favours can oblige to be quiet and loyal. It was observed by Sir Edw. Coke Attorney General at the Trial of the Powder Traitors, that since the Jesuits set foot in this Land, there never passed 4 Years without a most pestilent and pernicious Treason, 
11. b.  tending to the subversion of the whole State: And was there ever any Prince that would endure, or not execute such persons within their Dominions as should deny him to be lawful King, or go about to withdraw his Subjects from his Allegiance, or incite them to assassinate, or to resist, or rebel against him? and withal endeavouring to justify it by their pens: Nay, by their deaths with strong presumption of meiting thereby? What possible hopes can there be of such Men enslaved to such Principles? Nay, what Prince under Heaven can think his State secure so long as every pettish Pope may without thime or reason pick a quarrel with him, whence a Citation, thence a Sentence, which either neglected, or not satisfied, infers Contumacy, which deprives the supposed Delinquent of that right which God gave, Conscience avows, and consent of Ages, and successive Generations hath fortified; and being declared an Heretic, the Croysade is published? The Words of the Canon strongly bend against the Crown Impereal of Hen. 4. are not many, but very heavy and very fatal, and extensive to all Princes, and in English thus: We observing the Statutes of our Holy Predecessors, do absolve those that are bound by Fidelity and Oath to persons Excommunicated from their Oath, and do forbidden them to observe or keep their Fealty towards them quousque ipsi ad satisfactionem veniunt, till they come to yield satisfaction.  
In this case I appeal to the judgement even of the Priests themselves, who confess, That in all the Plots against Queen Eliz. none were more forward than many of the Priests were, but how many of them were so inclined and addicted the State knew not: In which Case, faith they, there is no King or Prince in the World disguisting the See of Rome, and having either force or metal in him, that would have endured us, but rather have utterly rotten us out of his Territories as Traitors and Rebels to him and his Country; and therefore we may bless God that we live under so merciful a Prince, which had she been a Catholic, might be accounted the mirror of the World. Import. Consid. fo. 16. There were sparks of Ingenuity in these their Acknowledgements; but much more saucily writ those Emperor-like (Quaker-like, say I) Jesuits, Parsons and Creswel; who in one of their Books spoke thus to Her Majety. In the beginning of Thy Kingdom Thou didst deal something more gently with Catholics, none were then urged by Thee, or pressed either to Thy Sect, or to the denial of their Faith. All things indeed did seem to proceed in a far milder course: No great Complaints were heard of: There were no extraordinary Contentions or Repugnancies: Some there were, that to please and gratify you went to your Churches, etc. Ibid. f. 6. And yet did Queen Eliz. not only not call into question Thousands that were capitally guilty of the pains of her Laws, but favoured many known Papists, professing Loyalty and Obedience to Her Majesty: None of which sort were for their contrary opinions in Religion prosecuted, or charged with any Crimes, or pains of Treason; nor yet willingly searched in their Consciences for their contrary opinions that savoured not of Treason, and money even of those that were Edecuted would she have pardoned, if they would but have owned Her Regality, and defended Her Majesty against any Foreign Force, though coming, or procured from the Pope himself; An Example of Royal Clemency never to be matched in Queen Mary's time.  
And John Lecey, in defence of the Petition Apologet. presented to King James in July, 1604. confesseth, That Queen Eliz. both in person, and by Here Embassies abroad, did aver, That Her Will and Intention was not to punish Her Subjects for their Religion and Conscience, fo. 13.  
It is also observable, That after the Sanguinary Laws were Enacted, that no Priest or Jesuit remaining here that had before these Acts taken Orders beyond Seas, and lived quietly, was ever called in question for his Religion. In all the Laws, though extorted from the Queen by so many Rebellions and Treasons, there was nothing that did reflect upon an old quiet Queen Mary's Priest, or any that were Ordained within the Land by the Romish Bishops then surviving; so they were no over active, and busy in Treasons and Conspiracies; This also was such another Example of Royal favour as was not to be paralleled in Queen Mary's time. And yet it's very remarkable, That the chiefest of all these, and the most of them had in the time of Hen. 8. & Ed. 6. either by preaching, writing, or arguing, taught all people to Condemn, yea to Abhor the Authority of the Pope; for which they had also yielded to both the said Kings the Title of Supreme Head, etc. and many of their Books and Sermons against the Pope's Authority were printed both in English and in Latin, to their great shame and reproach to change so often; but especially in prosecuting such as themselves had taught and established to hold the contrary: A sin near to the sin against the Holy Ghost. Just. Brit. f. 4, 5.  
The Priests themselves confessed, that such of them as upon examination were found moderate, were not so hardly proceeded with in so much as 55. by the Laws liable to death, were in 1585. (when great mischiefs were in hand) only banished. A Regal Favour not to be paralleled in Queen Mary's days. Import. Considerations, f. 29, 30.  
Having seen how Faithful and Loyal Papists have been to Princes of their own Religion; and also to Edw. 6. and Queen Eliz. Princes of a different profession, let us now see how faithful they have been to King James and his posterity.  
Such were the deep, malicious, and early Counsels and designs of Papists against our protestant Princes, and Reformation itself, (in the bud as they would have it) that they were not content by all open and secret Counsels, Powers and Artifices imaginable, that Rome, France, Spain, Catholic Princes, Priests and Jesuits could contrive or possibly suggest to Assassin and destroy that incomparable Princess Queen Eliz. but in her days laid such a foundation and groundwork for future disturbances, ruin and destruction even to all her Successors, and to this Nation, and to the Protestant Religion, that hitherto it hath wrought, and is still working by undermining powers and policies, the effect whereof we feel even to this day, and so like to continue to all successive Generations, as long as the Seminaries and Jesuitism continue, whose Trade and Business it is to encourage themselves and others in mischiefs, and to Commune among themselves how they may privily lay snares. In the Year 1568. The English fugitive Priests assembling themselves at Douai by the design of William Allen of Oxon (the most learned amongst them) did Collegiate together in a common Colledge-like Discipline, 
Vide the Hope of Peace 20.  to whom the Pope assigned a yearly pension. Afterwards being banished the Netherlands by Don Lewis Requesens the King of Spain's Deputy: A like Seminary was erected at Rheims by the Guises the Queen of Scots Kinsmen; 
Camb. 216.206.  and another at Rome by Gregory XIII. And afterwards another founded at Vallodolid, that there might never want a successive Generation of Men of corrupt Minds, Heady, , despisers of Dominion, Idolatrous and Traitorous Priests to poison England with their false Doctrines, and traitorous principles.  
In these Seminaries it was quickly defined, That the Pope hath by the Law of God fullness of power over the whole World, as well in Ecclesiastical as Temporal matters; and that he out of his fullness of power may Excommunicate Kings, and being Excommunicate, depose them, and absolve their Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance. Then were divers Priests well instructed in such Principles and Doctrines sent into England. This done, divers traitorous Combinations and Conspiracies both Foreign and Domestic were plotted, as here, so elsewhere is related. Then the Jesuits on one side, 
Camb. 297.  and the Fugitive Noblemen and others on the others side, with different affections suggested unto Mary Queen of Scots such dangerous Counsels, that the Seculars afterwards charged the Jesuits, as procurers and Instruments of her death. And the Jesuits, when they saw there was no hope of restoring the Romish Religion either by her, or King James her Son, began to forge a new and feigned Title in the succession of the Kingdom of England for the Spaniard, (so wonderful faithful were they to King James) and they sent into England (as Pasquire saith) one Saimer, a Man of their Society, to draw a party to the Spaniards, and to thrust the Queen of Scots forwards to divers dangerous practices, by telling her, That if she were refractory, neither she, nor her Son should Reign, (most faithful Men still) and by exciting the Guises her Kismen to new stirs against the King of Navarre, and the Prince of Condey, that they might not be able to aid her. This their faithfulness (such as it was) lasted not only before King James came to the Crown, but afterwards, as will e'er long appear. Did not Fa. Parsons in Spain contest bitterly with Fa. Creighton, Parsons to settle the Crown on the Infanta, and Creighton on the King of Scots? Did not Fa. Parsons, with Sir William Stanley, thrust on Hesket to persuade Ferdinando Earl of Derby to Claim the Crown? Did not he persuade York and Young to fire Her Majesty's Storehouses? Did not he persuade Fr. Dickenson, and others, to tempt Watermens to fly with Ships to the Spaniards? as hath been intimated before Dialogue 93.  
Thus you see how many several Titles did they seign, and set up to set by Q. Eliz. from the Crown, and to set up M. Q. of Scots, whom they prompted and annimated unto so many Contrivances of dangerous Consequences that brought that Princess unto that sad Catastrophe, and consequently were the occasion thereof, and so confessed in print by themselves? they left no stone unturned. Paul the 4th. would not acknowledge here, and why? Because, forsooth, this Kingdom was held in Fee of the Apostolic See; that she could not succeed being Illegitimate, and that it was a great boldness to assume the Name and Government without him, and therefore refused to hear Sir Edward Kerne her Ambassador.  
All this, and more, was pretended to have been done in favour of that Admirable person M. Queen of Scots. But what think you would they have done, if the Tables had been turned? And Q. Eliz. had been an Illegitimate Papist; and M. Q. of Scots a Legitimate Protestant, would you then have been so zealous and industrious for the Q. of Scots? Certainly not! which is demonstrable by their Actings and Endeavours to hinder King James from the English Crown. And it is plain, that it was not Bastardy, but Heresy, i. e. for being a Protestant, that made their malice so implacable, and this is apparent by the Bull of Pope Pius V Dated 25. Febr. 1570. in which there is not the least mention of Bastardy. No, No, Illegitimacy is not so monstrous a Gudgeon, but that it will easily be swallowed at Rome. Gregory XIII. had a Bastard, James Buon Compagna, and to him he gave Ireland, and empowered Stewke with Men, Arms and Money to Conquer it for him. And England he gave to Don John the Emperor's Bastard, (both admirable Catholics without all peradventure) and gave him leave to Conquer it for himself. Christ's brave Vicar! give that which was none of his own, or had any thing to do withal. But that perverse Queen had no occasion to part with either on such ridiculous Nods. And his Successor Sixtus Quintus took no Notice at all of King James, proceeded against her with all his Italian Scarcrows, cursed her afresh, and published a Croysade against her, and gave all her Dominions to Philip II. King of Spain, but forgot to give his Benedictions of Craft and Cunning to get them, and so they still remain vested in the hands of the right owners, and long may they so do, even till time shall be no more.  
Now, if Romish zeal for Qu. M. of Scots had had its Rise and Original from her more rightful Title to the Crown of England, than it would have continued unto King James also; but their Actings being Diametrically opposite and contrary, it was visible to all the World, that it was Popery, not the Title that they contended so furiously for. And it was the common voice amongst the Jesuits of those days, That if King James would turn Catholic, they would follow him; but if not they would all die against him. Watson Quodlib. p. 150.  
The mutual love and amity that was between Queen Elizabeth and King James, his immovable constancy in Religion, the strict Laws made against Jesuits, and such kind of Men, the Execution of Graham of Feutre, the forwardest of all those that affected the Spanish party, the granting of Supreme Authority in matters Ecclesiastical to the King by the States, and the assotiations against the Papists did so quash all hope of restoring Popery in England and Scotland, that some of them in England which most of all favoured his Mother's Title began to project how to substitute some English Papists in the Kingdom of England, when they could not agree von a fit man of their own Number; they cast their Eyes upon the Earl of Essex, (who never approved the utting of Men to death in the cause of Religion) feigning a Title from Thomas of Woodstock, King Edward the Third's Son, from whom be derived his Pedigree. Indeed rather for any Body then for King James, who they foresaw, would be Malleus Hereticorum; such was their faithfulness to him; as also witness the designs of Gordon, Creighton, Abercromy Jesuits, and others, plotting the ruin of King James of Scotland. And also the Two Breves sent by Clement the 8th. to exclude King James from the Inheritance of the Crown of England; unless he would take an Oath to promote the Roman Catholic Interest. But the Fugitives favoured the Infanta of Spain, although they feared lest the Queen and the States would by Act of Parliament prevent it by offering an Oath to every one, and they held it sufficient, if they could set the King of Scots and the Earl of Essex at Enmity.  
To which purpose to Book was Dedicated to Essex under the Counterfeit name of Doleman, but wrote by Parsons, Cardinal Allen, and Sir Francis Inglefeild, as was believed.  
In this Book despising the right of Birth, they project, that the Ancient Lawsz of the Land concerning Hereditary Succession to the Crown of England, are to be altered, that new Laws are to be brought in cocerning Election; That no man but a Roman Catholic, 
14. b.  of Blood soever they be, is to be admitted King.  
And was not this another piece of meritorious service to King James, like the rest no doubt, of those that went before, and of those that will follow?  
They traduced most of the Kings of England as wrong possessors, and all in England of the Blood-Royal, as either Illegitimate, or uncapable of the Crown. The most certain right of King James to the Crown of England they most unjustly sought to overthrow, and did by forged Devices most falsely Entitle thereunto the Infanta Isabel of Spain, because she was a Roman Catholic: Yea, they proceeded with that violence herein, that they compelled the English in the Spanish Seminaries (if they themselves are to be credited) to subscribe to the forged title of the Infanta therein set down, and exacted in Oath of the Students in the Seminaries to maintain the same brave Blade! They rested not in their Pens and Tongues, but prosecuted the same by Actions.  
For Thomas Winter, as he himself confessed, and Jesmund a Jesuit being come into Spain from Garnet, and others of them privily plotted to cast off Queen Eliz. and exclude James King of Scots from his most just Title to the Crown of England.  
Yet not long after, when King James was proclaimed, this Impudent Parsons, excused by Letters to a Friend of his, as proceeding not from a mind to do King James wrong, but out of an earnest desire to draw him to the Romish Religion, and he hoped he should be excused, for that these Injurres did not prejudice the King, because, forsooth, they failed of success.  
As in the Year 1592. Patrick Cullent Treason, who was incited by Sir William Stanley, Hugh Own, Jaques Frances, (a base Laun dress Son, who said, That unless Mrs. Elizabeth be suddenly taken may, the State of England is, and will be so settled, that all the Devils in hell will not be able to prevail with it or shake it: (Hitherto a true Prophet, I hope will be so still.) And Holt the Jesuit (who resolved to kill the Queen) was accompanied with a Book called Philo-pater, written for the abetting and warranting of such a Devilish Act in general by Creswel the legier Jesuit in Spain; so was Tesmunds' Treason accompanied with Two Bulls or Breves from Pope Clement the 8th. when the Queen was full of days, and infirm, one to the Clergy, the other to the Laiety unto H. Garnet superior to the Jesuits in England, which as they were sent privily, so were they kept very closely, and Communicated unto very few. The tenor and purport of them was, that they should admit no Man how near soever in Blood for King after the Queen's death, unless he would not only tolerate the Roman Catholic Religion, but also promote the same with his whole might, and undertake by Oath, according to the manner of his Ancestors to perform the same, which in true understanding was directly to exclude King James and his Family from the Crown, These Bulls came forth upon the aforesaid negotiation of Tho. Winter in Spain, at what time an Army should shortly after have been sent to Invade the Land, and this was to be put in execution Quandocumque contingeret miseram illam seminam exhac vita excedere, 
16. b.  when ever it should happen that that wretched Woman (so pleased the Highpriest of Rome to call the Queen the greatest of Women, cujus memoria semper erit in benedictione) should departed this life. Of these Bulls also within Two Years after was begot that dreadful roaring Monster, the Powder Treason. Their Force and Virtue was not confined with Tweed, but extended itself also into Scotland. For the Sword was prepared there also at the same time by the Rethuens' Brethren, to take away King James' life; who boiling with revenge for their father's death, the Earl Gowry by Law in the King's nonage, by a Wile enticed the King (to whom they were much engaged) into their House most wickedly appointed him to the slaughter, had not God the Protector of Kings prevented it by the help of John Ramsey and Thomas Areskin, and turned it upon the heads of the Authors.  
Having thus summarily declared the good intentions, and faithful Service the Papists performed towards James 6th. King of Scotland, whilst he stood the next and undoubted Heir apparent to the Crown of England, before he came to be King thereof. I will now show you one other great Platform and design of theirs, for the ruin of this Nation, and then proceed to show you how faithful they were to King James after he came to be King of England, and have been since unto his Son and Grandson.  
The Seminaries being thus founded and established in divers places, and at Vallodolid by the procurement of Parsons, that Arch-traitor, who for his uncessant Romish Contrivances had by this time got great Interest in Rome and Spain, that in them they might consult and act how to bring to pass their grand design of erecting their universal spiritual Monarchy for Rome, Spain and Jesuitism, and a seeming Title being made out by his Book of Titles, or Succession of the Crown of England to the Infanta: He then in another Book, called A Memorial for Reformation, or High-Court or Council of Reformation of England, written at Sevil 1596. (of which he was so fond, that he kept it like a precious Jewel, 
An Answer to a Jesuited Gent.  as close in his bosom as the Dukes of Florence are said to keep Tully de rebublica, which not all the World have but themselves, as laboured all he could to have it read in the Refectaries at Rome, he there lays a secret Snare for our ruin by a Platform, to work insensibly the Alteration of our Government, by bringing it to a popularity, (and how near it was brought to effect in these late times by Papists, (as some Writ) under the Title of Levellers, Agitators, Independents, Fifth Monarchy Men, Quakers, etc. who are but Badgers, Working Holes for the Foxes, the Jesuits) will be obvious to every intelligent Reader. In this Book it is designed, that no Religious Order should resort into England, or be permitted to live within its Dominions, but Jesuits and Capuchins. That all Abbey, and Church Lands, and those of Colleges, Parsonages, Bishops, Vicarages, 
16 b.  Monasteries, Nunneries, Friaries, etc. must be no longer in their Hands, but must be brought into a public Exchequer, under the Government of Four Jesuits, and Two Secular Priests to be chosen by the General and Provincial Jesuits, who were to allow the Bishops, Parsons, Vicars, etc. Stipends and Pensions as Bishops, Suffragans, and Mont Signors had in other Catholic Countries, all the rest must be employed in Pious Uses, pro ut, etc. withou rendering an Account. They prescribed Rules of Living for the Lords Temporal, and other the Nobility and Gentry, what Retinue they would keep, how much should be allowed them to spend yearly, and what diet they should keep at their Tables: That Magna Charta should be burnt, the manner of holding Lands in Fee-simple, Fee-tail, Frank-Almanige etc. by King's Service, Soccage, or Villeinage, should all be brought into Villainy Scoggery, and Popularity; the Common Laws to be wholly annihilated and destroyed; and Caesar's civil Imperials brought into this Utopian Spiritual Monarchy. Quodlibets 92, 95. And the Reasons are given in these Quodlibats, viz. For that the state of the Crown and Kingdom by the Common Laws is so strongly settled, as whilst they continue, the Jesuits see not how they can work their Wills. He hath also set down a Course how all Men may shake off Authority at their pleasures: And this Stratagem is, how the Common people may be inveigled and seduced to conceit to themselves such a liberty and prerogative, as that it may be lawful for them, when they think meet, to place and displace Kings and Princes, as Men may do their Tenants at Will, Hirelings; or ordinary Servants. 286. Princes had need be fond of such Subjects, and account them their best Friends.  
Having thus acquainted you with the Platform laid long since deep in Council for our Ruin; I leave to all Contemporaries of these late Rebellious Anarchical times, to judge how much of this Train hath taken Fire, and how much of the substance of this Plot hath been put in Execution, and how near the whole design was like to have taken Effect, when the Assembly Elected only by the Army Officers on the 20th. of August 1653. (as the Diurnals printed) they ordered there should be a Committee selected to consider a new Body of the Law, for the Government of this Common Wealth, who were to new mould the whole Body of the Law. and is not this according to T. F. Parson's Platform? He that would know more of it must read the Book it self, (which is still in great esteem amongst them) or because that is rare, he may read a Book of the same Parsons, Entitled, A manifestation of the folly and bad spirit of the secular Priests; wherein this Memorial is owned by him, and Analysed and Excused from f. 55. to 64. or W. Clark a Roman Priest his Answer to the Manifestation, Entitled, A Reply unto a certain Libel, lately set forth by Fa. Parsons p. 74, etc. or watson's Quodlibets, p. 92, 95, together with a Reply to a brief Apology, and several other Books, which above 60 Years ago the Priests wrote against the Jesutis, and the Jesuits against the Priests, whereby the Reader may in transitu, besides all this, perceive that there be as many, and as great differences between them, as among Protestans. Smith's Preface to the Apology f. 12. See also Citizen the Morgentine Jesuit. f. 2 c. 18. of his Politics and Campanella in his Monarchia Hispan, The Jesuits now seem to drive another design all the World over, viz. as they have one Ecclesiastical or Universal Monarch; so to set up a temporal universal Monarch, which Eul. Postellus attributes to Terra sancta, cui Gallia ob primariam orbis nomen & jus substituitur eo quod Ambae toti arhi legem sunt daturae.  
I now proceed to show you how faithful the Papists were to the Crown of England, after King James came to it  
The first Meritorious Act towards King James was to calumniate him with a breach of promise, as made to some of them before he came into England for a Toleration of their Religion, which now he did deny to perform, which had this intended double mischief in it, viz. That it should bring an Odium upon him from the Protestants for making such a promise, and the like from the Papists for the breaking of it. And unto whom should this promise be made but unto that Arch-traitor Percy, and to that false Priest, Watson, both afterwards found in other Treasons, for which being condemned, Watson confessed to the Earl of Northampton (purposely sent by the King to examine him who was the first first Author of that false report) at Winchester, a day or Two before he was Executed, (at which time no man is presumed to lie) that he never could receive any spark of Comfort touching ease of Counscience to Catholics from His Majesty, 
17. b.  how unjustly soever the World had made him Author of that Scandal; though withal he added, how unwilling he had been to declare to his Fellows how averse the King shown him in his own Words, lest over great discouragement might render them desperate. The like did Percy (another desperate Traitor) aver after his return out of Scotland, both before and after the Queen's death, that in the point of Conscience he found the king's intent, and final purpose to be peremptory. Proceed against Traitors, 182. A. 6. & 45.6.46.  
The like slander and Scandal was raised upon the King by the Lord of Belmerinath his Scotish Secretary, by sending the Pope Word that King James would become his obedient Son, who afterwards being Arraigned, acknowledged his offence in devising Letters, and sending them to Rome, which himself got cunningly Signed in shuffling them in amongst others; His Majesty being utterly ignorant of the Contents. Speed. 917.  
Another faithful service towards King James his Person, Crown and Posterity, was plotted by Watson and Clark, Two Secular Italianated Priests, who drew others of the Nobility and Gentry into their Hellish Confederacy, as Lord Cobham, Lord Grace, of Wilton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Warden of the Stanneries, Sir Griffin Markeham, Sir Edward Parham, George Brooke, and others; their design was to have surprised the King's person, and his Son Prince H. to have kept them prisoners in the Tower, or in Dover Castle, and there by violence to obtain their Ends, viz. A Toleration of Religion, and a removal of evil Councillors, or to put some other projects in Execution, and then to obtain their Pardons. Watson to have been Lord Chancellor, Lord Grace Earl-Marshal of England, George Brooke Lord Treasurer, Sir Griffin Markham Secretary, etc. Thus did they divide the Bears-skin, which is not yet caught, though the same Generation in all probability be still in hot pursuit of the same Quarry, viz. A Toleration and Change of Religion in the transferring of all Crowns from Protestant to Popish Princes and Government, according to Parsons and Campanella's Platform. Of those Confederates only Sir William Parham was acquitted, and Three only Executed, viz. George Brooke, Clark, and Watson, who had taught equivocating; and to avoid his other solemn protestations both by Word and Writing, that the Act was lawful, being done before his Coronation, for that the King was no King before he was Anointed, and the Crown solemnly set on his Head.  
By this we may conclude, that there is no trust to be reposed in Papists of any Order. What Man in the World could profess and pubish to all the World in Writing more obedience and faithfulness to a Prince than Watson did to Queen Eliz. most fiercely and bitterly blaming the Jesuits for their iterated and reiterated Treasons and Rebellions against her, and for creating disturbances in allt he states of the World where they are. As he lived to see, so I hope he lived to repent of his sin and error; for he left this brand and suspicion on the Jesuitical Order at his death, that they in revenge had cunningly and covertly drawn him into this Action, which brought him into this shameful End.  
§ What shall I say more? 
18. b. 31.  Vox faucibus haeret. I am now come to that monstrum horrendum, Inform, Ingens cui Lumen Ademptum, unto Guy Fawks and his dark Lantern, that never to be paralleled Gunpowder-Treason, in which I will say with the Grave Senator, repertum esT hodierno die facinus quod nec Poeta fingere, nec Historia sonare, nec Minus Imitare poterit. This plot of plots is yet so fresh in memory, and so well known all the World over, that I will not enter into the particulars of it, though there are some so desperately Jesuited, that either out of simplicity, or Impudence will not confess the truth thereof, others extenuate it, by saying, they were only a few discontented persons, desperate in Estate, or base, or not settled in their Wits, without Religion, Habitation, Gredit, Means or Hope, and as our Apologizer for Catholics f. 5. A few Desperadoes. But most certain it is, that they were Gentlemen of good Houses, of excellent parts, and of Competent Fortunes. Besides that, Percy was of the House of Northumberland, Sir William Stanley, (who principally employed Fawks into Spain) and John Talbot of Graston, both of great and Honourable Families; others say, That there was never a Religious Man in this Action, which is no truer than the other. Whoever yet knew a Treason without a Romish Priest? In this there were many, Three of them Legiers and Statesmen, Henry Garnet alias Waller, superior of the Jesuits Legier here in England, T. F. Creswel Legier Jesuit in Spain, Fa. Baldwin Legier in Flanders, as Parsons at Rome, besides their Itinerant or Cursory Men, as Gerrard, Oswald, Tesmond alias Greenway, Hamond, Hall, and other Jesuits. Proceed 27, 18. Others of them condemn it now, that happily would have commended it, it had taken effect, Prosperum Scetus virtus vocatur, would have been a good Axiom then; such Hellish Actions being of their Nature and Number, quae non Laudantur nisi peracta. 〈◊〉 ●gainst whom was this Hellish Plot contrived (not to name Parliament, Council, Nobility, Gentry, etc.) but against King James, that peaceable obliging Prince, who had sought all Mild and Royal means possible to have reduced them unto a quiet, peaceable, and Loyal Temper, and yet even 1 Joc. when His Majesty used so great lenity towards Recusants in that by the space of a whole Year and Four Months, he took no penalty due by Statute of them. For at the time of watson's Treason, when some of the greatest Recusants were convented at Hampton-Court, and not found Participes Criminis, were presently dismissed, with encouragement, favour and promise, that those mean profits which had accrued to His Majesty, since His coming to the Crown, for their Recusancy, should be forgiven to those who had kept themselves free from all Conspiracies: Nay, so far was His Majesty from severity, nay from discriminating, that he indifferently Honoured all with Advancement and favours. And were they at all Reclaimed by this? Nothing less; for at that very time they gave out, That the King would deal rigorously with them, designedly to keep up the Hearts of Catholics against him, for that end indeed they had more Treasons then hatching against him before they saw his Face in England, and all grounded on those Two Papal Breves? For in March 1603. 
19 b.  Garnet complained to Catesby, That the King had broken his promise with the Catholics: And in September following, Catesby making a grievous complaint to Thomas Percy, That ocntrary to their Expectations His Majesty both did hold, and was like continually to run the same course which before the Queen had held, Percy presently breaks forth into this Devilish Speech, That there was no way but to kill the King, which he would undertake to do; but Catesby cunningly replied, No Tom; Thou shalt not adventure thyself to so small purpose: If thou wilt be a Traitor, there is a Plot to greater advantage; and such a one as can never be discovered, viz. thereby meaning the Powder-Treason.  
How impudently soever this is now Extenuated, nay denied by some Papists; yet Johannes Barclaius a French Catholic, wrote the History of it, under the Title of Conspiratio Anglicana, the very same Month it was discovered, viz. Novemb. 1605. where he thus brands it. Ingens, Atrox, horridum facinus, quale nec Antiquit as vidit, & aegre posteri credent: Denique velut omnium flagitiorum compendium in hanc diem fortuna contulit. So matchless and horrid a villainy, that our Forefathers never saw the like, and which future Ages will hardly believe, it being the very Quintessence and Compendium of all the villainies that the Sun yet ever saw; (Christ passion excepted.)  
Which history he improves to this Axiom. Saepe Divinitatis opera haec sunt ut Furias in ipso jam successu securas subito vitio excipiat: Ne vel unquant improbis timor, vel spes absit calamitosae virtuti. When they shall say peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as Iravel upon a Woman with Child, and they shall not escape, 1 Thes. 5.3. Neither doth God ever leave the wicked without fear, nor distressed righteous without hope. This pitiful politic device of theirs is so improbable, and looks so Jewish, that I can resemble it to no other. Though Pilate by the Advice of the Chief Priests and Pharisees, made the Sepulchre wherein Christ's Body was laid sure, by stealing the Stone, and setting a Watch and Guard of Soldiers, lest His Disciples should come by night and steal Him away; and though His Resurrection was made unquestionable by an Earthquake, and by the rolling back of the Stone from the Door by an Angel descending from Heaven, and sitting upon it, whose Countenance was like Lightning, and his Raiment White as Snow; so that for fear of him the Keepers did shake, and became as dead men; yet when some of the Watch had showed unto the Chief Priests all the things that were done, yet so hard of belief were they, that they assembled with the Elders, and having taken Council, they gave large Money unto the Soldiers, to say, His Disciples came by night and stole him away whilstowe slept, and if this come to the Governor's Ears, we'll persuade him, and secure you; so they took the oney, and did as they were taught, 
Mat. 28.  which saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day. And if Brows of Brass, and Brazen Faces can prevail, the 5th. of November shall no more be believed by them another Age, than Pope Joan is now.  
Had these kind of Men had any spark of Loyalty, or Gratitude in their Hearts, it had been impossible they should ever have plotted, and conspired so desperately against so mild and gracious a Prince as King James was, and who had sought their quiet and safety by many obliging means. Did not he bestow many Honours on many Catholics? Did not he allow them free Access both to his Court, and to his Person, not only on just occasions, but for their comfort, and at their pleasure, though he was not ignorant, that the Jesuits had been tampering with the Catholics, as well to dissuade them from the Acceptance of His Majesty at his first coming, alleging, that they ought rather to die, than to admit of an Heretic (for so they termed His Majesty) to the Crown: And that they might not under pain of Excommunication accept of any but of a Catholic for their Sovereign: as also to dissuade Catholics from their Loyalty after he was King? Did he not open the Gates of Justice indifferently to Protestants and Catholics alike? Was his predecessor so confident in the fidelity of any Catholics, as to employ them to Foreign Princes in Embassy? Would she have called the Chief Catholics to her Council Board, that upon their laying open their just complaints, they might have redress with favour? Did not Recusants in his days that were in Arrear compound with a Commission directed only to that end, almost for what term, and at what rates they might best satisfy? Did he not put them in possession of their whole Estates drawn out of the Farmer's hands upon due proof made of spoil, without further command of any other Contribution or Taxation than the Laws limited? Did he not give order for the punishing of Informers and Messengers, that preyed upon the prostrate Fortunes of Recusants, with harder measure than the Justice of the State Warranted? Was he not pleased in the General Pardon granted at the close of the Parliament; that Priests and Jesuits should be comprised in the List, and among them both Garuet and Greenwell, who in recompense whereof were shortly after pleased, that so Royal a Dispenser of Grace and Bounty towards them, should be blown up by their Bontefeaux? Had they not greater freedom than formerly in their own Countries, and to serve what Prince or State abroad that they pleased, to travel when and where they pleased, without yielding an account at their return? 
20. b. 35.  Did ever any Magistrate in cold Blood proceed against a Priest, that for want of means to procure a pardon had been kept in prison since the time of the Queen's decease? By all which, and much more that might be said, it fully appears, That King James was no hard Master, reaping where he had not sowed, and gathering where he had not strewed; nor yet Revengeful, who though he was to have been blown up after all these Favours and Liberties conferred on them, still continued, I might say increased them, (notwithstanding that horrid and matchless Conspiracy) even to his dying day, with as much Indulgence and Favour as he could without Offence or Scandal to the tender Consciences of his own Church, which as he ought, so he did chief regard.  
§ Neither were King James his Favours confined to the Papists of Great Britain only, but were extended also to those never to be obliged Catholics in Ireland; For he resolved not to take any advantage of great Forfeitures and Confiscations, which he was most justly Entitled unto by Tyrones' Rebellion; but out of his Royal Bounty restored all the Natives to the Intite possession of their own Lands, in hope this would for ever have engaged their Obedience to him and his at least, if not unto the Crown of England: And yet he had not Reigned 6 Years  the Earl of Tyrone, (not long before obliged by the Queen, with Titles of Honour, great store of Lands, Commands of Horse and Foot in her pay) was designing afresh the raising of another Rebellion, into which he easily drew the whole Province of Ulster then entirely at his Devotion: But his Design being prevented, he with his chief Adherents fled into Spain (from whence he never returned) which impious and ungrateful Act of his, and his Adherents, rendered them justly suspected to be Irreconcilable to a Protestant Prince, which forced the King to cause their persons to be attainted, thehir Lands to be seized, those Six Countries within the Province of Ulster to be Surveyed, etc. And the same course to be taken likewise in Lemster, where the Irish had made Incursions, and violently repelled the Old English. And though the King was by due course of Law justly Entitled to all their whole Estates there; yet was he graciously pleased to take but ¼ part of their Lands, which coming to British undertakers, made them to flourish with costly Buildings, and with all manner of Improvements; 
21. b.  so that the very Irish seemed to be very much satisfied with the flourishing, and peaceable Condition of the whole Kingdom, and yet could not Acquiesce therein; but Rebel they must against King Charles the Son, who besides many other Favours and Connivances, had so far gratified the Natives Anno 1640. that he grants unto the Commissioners, then sent unto him out of Ireland, the Act of Limitations, (so vehemently desired by the Natives) and the Act for the rilinquishment of His Majesty's Right and Title to the Four Counties in Connaught: Besides, at this time the Papists privately enjoyed the exercise of their Religion throughout the whole Kingdom by the Indulgence, and Connivance of the late Governors, they having their Titular Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Deans, Abbots, etc. who all lived freely, though obscurely, yet without control, and exercised a voluntary Jurisdiction, Multitudes of Priests, Jesuits and Friars returning out of Spain and Italy, where the Irish Natives that way devoted were thither sent for Education, and now returned, lived in the chief Towns and Villages, and in the Houses of the Nobility and Gentry, exercising their Religious Rites and Ceremonies, none of the severer laws being put in Execution, whereby great penalties were to be inflicted on Transgressor's in that kind.  
Were they ever the more faithful for these great Indulgencies? nothing less! For in August 1641. (after about forty years' peace) the Popish party in both Houses of Parliament then sitting in Dublin, grew so insolent, as being scarce compatible with the present peaceable Government, they were forced to adjourn for 3 Months, before which time, viz, 23. Octob. 1641. they broke out into that detestable and desperate Rebellion, as is not to be matched in any story, wherein, in less than Two Years they murdered in cold Blood above 200000. English Protestants, destroyed some other ways, and expelled out of their Habitations; nay moreover, they threatened to burn Dublin, destroy all Records and Monuments of the English Government, to make Laws against speaking English, and that all names given by English to places should be abolished, and the Ancient names restored. And was not this also a great demonstration of their Faithfulness to the King and Crown of England.  
Let every man judge as he sees cause how faithfully they requited King Charles the first for his favours towards them, which were many and great, which I will not here enumerate, it being super-abundantly done already in print in divers Pamphlets. though I fear with no good intention towards that glorious Martyr, but rather to raise an Odium towards him from some of his weaker Subjects, willing happily for other ends to be so seduced, many whereof I hope have lived to see and consider that his pious life and death gave a just contradiction to those false Imputations and Jealousies. And yet I must not forget one remarkable kindness of his (who loved not to punish scrupulous, peaceable Consciences sanguinarily) towards Papists, who being sent unto by both Houses of Parliament Anno 1640. for the Execution of John Goodman, a Condemned Priest, did in answer to them 3. Febr. 1640. own that he had reprieved him not without giving them great reasons for his so doing, viz. For that neither his Father, nor yet Queen Eliz. did ever avow, that any Priest in their times was Executed merely for Religion; and therefore did remit this particular cause to both the Heresies, cautionating them withal, That happily his Execution might seem a severity in other States, 
22. b.  and might draw inconveniences on his Subjects in other Countries, and therefore held himself discharged from all inconveniences, that might ensue upon his Execution. And this did he notwithstanding the Pope's Directions unto the then Superior of the Catholics in England, Anno 1638. were expressly to command them suddenly to desist from making such offers of Men towards the Northern Expedition then under consideration, as we hear they have done little to the Advantage of their Discretion, and that they be not more forward with Money, than what Law and Duty enjoins tem to pay.  
§ Such was the kindness and faithfulness of those Irish Papists to the King and Crown of England, that indeed they did rise, I must needs say, most Catholickly in Rebellion against both from all parts of the Kingdom, designing thereby to monopolise the whole Government of that Kingdom into their own hands, (exclusive of the King, if several Oaths are to be credited, published by the King's Warrant) to enjoy the public profession of their Idolatrous Religion, and to Expel all the English, by whose protection, countenance, favours and purses that Kingdom was so beautified and enriched, as it then was, and is at this day, though now by them miserably pejorated by that Intestine War raissed by themselves in the midst of their happy enjoyments, and that without any provocation, ground or colour against the King, as himself expressed under his Great Seal: To this give Testimony those early instructions privately sent over into England by the Lord Dillon of Costeloe, presently after the breaking out of the Rebellion by the Remonstrance of the County of Longford pretended about the same time to the Lords Justices by the same Lord Dillon, as also by their frame of their new Commonwealth found in Sir John Dungans, house not far from Dublin, and sent upon thither out of Connaught to be communicated to those of Leinster, the sum of which, and other such like, is summed up, and may be seen to have that purport in the Irish Rebellion, written by Sir John Temple, f. 80, 81, 82.  
§ Indeed if the Irish Papists had been so Loyal and Faithful, as they now boast themselves to have been: Nay, had they had the least spark of gratitude for that King, who had disobliged so many by obliging them so much, they would never in his distresses have capitulated so severely, and on the Sword's point with him, nor have held him to such hard terms as they did in all their Treatises, which they used only as Stratagems to Trapan, not to serve His Majesty: For in the Year 1643. when a Cessation was concluded with them by the King's Authority, and both English and Irish Engaged by Articles to Transport their Armies to England for His Majesty's Service; the English did it, the Irish only pretended they would do it when the English were gone, and then accordin gto one of their old Maxims Nulla fides servanda cum Hereticis, they plotted and attempted the ruin of the small Remnant of English left behind in Munster, where the Lord Inchiquin commanding by the King's Commission, and the English with him were necessitated to stand on their own defence against the Popish Army, Orery 25.  
Though in the Year 1645. the Earl of Glamorgan gave as Adventageous terms as they could ask, and condescended to such hard and dishonourable propositions on the King's part, as the then Marquess now Duke of Ormond in Justice and Honour neither could nor would condescend unto; and though the Commissions of the confederate Catholics solemnly engaged the public Faith for the performance of them; 
23. b.  one Article whereof was, That they should send 10000 to serve His Majesty etc. yet did they not in due time perform their plighted Troth herein, which was a great disservice to His Majesty: In which slender performance of theirs, they could have no other end than thereby to render the Rebels in England more irreconcilable to His Majesty, that so that War might be kept up, that they might the better gain by Fishing in those troubled Waters; so that they well hoped to give Law to both.  
It was the constant observation of the Protestant Army there, that the lower and more unfortunate the King was in his successes in England, the higher were the demands of the Irish; for the Truth is, how Loyal and dutiful soever their pretences were towards the King; yet their design was to set up for the Pope, and the establishing the Romish Religion, and erecting its Spiritual Monarchy at least, if not a Temporal with it.  
The Archbishop of Tuum was a principal Agent in the Irish Wars, and of the Supreme Council of Kilkenny, He attended the Army about this time to visit his Diocese, and to put in Execution an Order for the Arrears of his Bishopric granted to him from the Council at Kilkenny, which Order, together with the Pope's Bull, and several other Letters of Correspondence between him and his Agents from Rome, Paris, and several parts of Ireland were found about him, whereby it did appear, that the Pope would not at the first engage himself in sending of a Nuntio for Ireland, till the Irish Agents had fully satisfied him, that the Establishment of the Catholic Religion was a thing feasible and attainable in that Kingdom; in which being satisfied, he was content to solicit their cause with Florence and Venice etc. and also to delegate Farmano his Nuntio to attend the Kingdom, who after some delays in France, was at last posted from thence by express Order from the Pope, and he arrived at that River of Kilmore in a Friggot of 21 Guns in October, with 26 Italians of his Retinue, Secretary Belinges, and divers Regular and Secular Priests, and also with great Supplies, (for the service of the King no doubt) as 2000 Muskets, 4000 Bandeliers, 2000 Swords, 500 petronels, and 20000 l. of Powder, all which arrived at Brooke-Haven the same Month, together with 5 or 6 Desks or Small Trunks of Spanish Gold; how far all those Popish Auxiliaries conduced to the King's service, and the Protestant Interest, I leave to all Contemporaries to judge.  
As in the year 1645. so in that Year 1646. after a peace concluded with them they treacherously attempted to cut off the Lord Lieutenant, and his Army with him, who marched out of Dublin on security and confidence of that peace. 
24. b.  The same year the Council and Congregation of the Confederate Catholics of Ireland obliged their General Preston by a solemn Oath to exercise all Arts of Hostility against the Lord Marquis of Ormond, (the King's Vice gerent) and his Party, and to help and advise with Council, and assist in that service the Lord General, and Ulster, employed in the same Expedition.  
In the Year 1647. from Kilkenny 18. January, the General Assembly of the Confederate Catholics of Ireland employed Commissioners to Rome, France and Spain, to invite a Foreign power into Ireland. To Rome they sent their Titular Bishop of Ferns, and Nichola● Plunket Esq; (Knighted there by the Pope for his good service therein) to declare, that they raised Arms for the freedom of the Catholic Religion, which are their own words in the Third Article of those their Instructions. (Orerey) This is consonant to the Oath framed the same Year with some Addition to what had formerly been taken by the said General Assembly, and pressed on all sorts of people under pain of high Treason, which Oath enjoins the maintenance of these ensuing Propositions. 1. That the Roman Catholics, both Clergy and Laiety in their several Capacities, have the free and public exercise of the Roman Catholic Religion and Function throughout the Kingdom, in as full lustre and splendour as it was in the Reign of Hen. VII. or any other Catholic King, his Predecessors Kings of England, and Lords of Ireland, either in Ireland or in England. 2. That the Secular Clergy of Ireland, viz. Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, Ordinaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Arch-Deacons, Prebendaries, and other Dignitaries; all other Pastors of the Secular Clergy, their respective Successors shall have and enjoy all, and all manner of Jurisdictions, Privileges and Immunities in full and ample manner as the Roman Catholic Secular Clergy had or enjoyed the same within this Realm at any time during the Reign of the late King Hen. VII. sometimes King of England, and Lord of Ireland, any Law, Declaration of Law, Statute, Power or Authority whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding. 3. That all Laws and Statutes made since the 20th. Year of Hen. VIII. whereby any restraint, penalty, or other restriction whatsoever is or may be laid upon any of the Roman Catholics, either of the Clergy and Laiety for such their free Exercise of the Roman Catholic Religion within this Kingdom, and of their several Functions, Jurisdictions and Privileges may be repealed, renewed, and declared void in the next Parliament, by one or more Acts of Parliament to be passed therein. 4. That the Primates, Arch-Bishops, etc. of the Roman Catholic Secular Clergy, and their respective Successors shall have, hold and enjoy all the Churches, and Church-living, in as large and ample manner as the late Protestant Clergy respectively enjoyed the same on the first day of October 1641. together with all Profits. Emoluments, Perquisits, Liberties, 
25. b.  and other Rights to their respective Sees and Churches belonging, as well in all places now in the possession of the confederate Catholics, also in all other places that shall be recovered by the said confederate Catholics from the adverse party within this Kingdom, saving to the Roman Catholic Laiety, their respective rights to the Laws of the Land.  
§ But to return to the said Instructions, it is Recorded in another part of the said Third Article, that they intent to insist on such Concessions in matters of Religion, and for the security thereof as his Holiness shall approve of, and be satisfied with.  
And in the Ninth Article, they were instructed to make application to his Holiness for his being Protector of Ireland, (wherein they were before the fanatics in England) and by special instance to endeavour his acceptance there etc. Nay, their Commissioners then sent to France and Spain, were required in case of the Pope's refusal of being their Protector to offer it to either of those Kings, nay to any Popish Prince (from whom to use their own words) they might have most considerable aids. Orerey. Faithful and Meritorious Servants still, if they may be their own Judges, though they desired and designed the Pope; nay any King or Prince rather that the King of England ratified to be their Liege Lord for so many successions of Princes together.  
Neither was it in those Treaties only that they shown themselves such Loyal and Faithful Subjects; but in that other also, Anno 1648. wherein they forced and compelled the King to yield unto such unreasonable condiscentions, that nothing but pure necessity could ever have extorted from him, or his Lieutenant. And did they Acquiesce in those Articles, or were they at all more Loyal and Faithful to the King than before? not at all; for they having got by the 18th. Article a Papal-like preclusin of all offences to be committed or done after their date, they then thinking themselves sufficiently authorised and pardoned for all or any new Crimes by a pardon of much more force than of one from their Holy Father the Pope; they were not long  they began to vilify and disobey the King's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; in pursuit whereof they sent to the Lord Lieutenant in April 1650. desiring him to leave the Kingdom, and to commit the Government thereof to one that they should choose, and might confide in, and this without so much as acquainting his present ajesty with it. And in very deed they had good reason so to do; or else how was it possible for them to compass teir main design, viz. The Achieving of the Government into their own hands and power, that so they might have a Native King of their own, and extirpate the English, Root and Branch.  
Though herein they were disappointed by the Piety, Honour, Courage and Integrity of the Lord Lieutenant; yet did they not forbear to impeach, and affront the King's Authority in him; for in August following, by their public Declaration, they did therein manifest to the people, that they were no longer obliged to obey the Ordersor Commands of the Marquis of Ormond, whereby they did evidently break these Articles, and declare their power paramount to His Majesty's Orerey, 5, 6,7. And this they pursued yet farther, not without some scorn; for in the next Month they caused their Clergy to Excommunicate not only the Lord Lieutenant, but all that should feed or adhere to him; (a great  I must confess) but it being solemnised Glave Errante it scared not his Grace, nor any of his Adherents from their duty, and so it missed of their desired end; however this shown their good will to have preserved His Majesty's Regal Authority, by bereiving his Lieutenant of it. All Meritorious and our best Friends still.  
The Rump, that Infamous Rump (Infamous as for many other abominations, so most superlatively for their High-Court of Injustice) was much more beholding to them than the King was; for they made Petitions and Supplications unto them, as unto the Supreme Authority of the Nation, Entitling them the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, wherein they did readily subject and put their Consciences, Lives and Fortunes as insecure Sanctuary under the Protection thereof: (they are their own words) And herein vaunted, That several of them were able to make appear their constant good affection, and adherence to the Rump, (their own words still) and prayed a competent time to be allowed them for making out the same. Vide the Petitions of Sir Ra. Talbot Baronet, and Garret Moor Esq; who were not herein private, but public persous, and so owned in the Title of their Petitions, being for the behalf of others, for whom they were Solicitors, Agitators, or trusties, call them what you will, (and were so continued for the Irish Papists until of late days) which is more than ever they would do to King Charles I. or King Charles II. for they treated with their Majesties upon the Sword's point, upon as great terms of defiance, as if they had treated with the Tork, and not with their Liege Lord Vide Orerey, fo. 14, 15. Of which sit liber Judex, the Articles of the Treaties. They went yet further congratulating with them, by acknowledging, That their withered hopes, and former confidences were a fresh revived by the Rumps return to the management of the Government, under which their propensions to peace and quietness were so great, that they willingly acquiesced in their transplantation; albeit it was not executed by any Legal power, as not being derived from their Honours.  
What could they submit more than they did, Consciences, Lives Fortunes? Nay, their Transplantation they accepted cheerfully; nay, Petitioned for it? would they yet but acquiesce in that their Transplantation only, (as they bragged unto the Rump, that they did to them) it would be some manner of Expiation for their Crimes past, and encouragement to His Majesty more securely to confide in them for the time to come, and be a means to remove many Fears and Jealousies, and would make way for future Graces.  
But they are yet so far from doing any thing of this Nature, that they contend Tooth and Nail, both by Pen and Interest, for the performance of those extorted, and Inglorious Articles made 1646.  
Articles, that nothing but pure necessity could ever have compelled His Majesty to have yielded unto Articles that themselves broke and set at naught, as hath been proved; besides, did not galway after the Articles of 1648. Treat with the Duke of Lorraine to be Protector of Ireland? Did not Waterford deny a passage to the Lord Lieutenant and his Army? Nay, sought they not his life afterwards, or to deliver him to the Usurpers, had he not suddenly and secretly withdrawn and secured himself?  
Their General Assembly styled themselves His Majesty's Loyal and Faithful Subjects, and to manifest it the Enacted: That no Temperal Government or Jurisdiction should be assumed, kept or executed in Ireland, or in any Province or County thereof, other than of what should be approved or instituted by their General Assembly. If this be not professing like Saints, and doing like Devils I do not know what is; profess Loyalty, that they might have the better opportunities to perpetrate their wicked designs; Kiss and Betra with Judas, Salute and Honourably present with Ehud, and at the same time thrust a Dagger into the King's Bowels: Hosanna on the rips of their Tongues, and Crucifige in the depths of their Hearts: And yet so Impudent as to style themselves the King's best and most faithful Subjects.  
They Addressed their Petitions to the Supreme Authority of this Nation the, Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. First odrator f. 59 They affirmed, that they had generally taken, and punctually kept the Engagement. 2. Moderator f. 41. They promised, that if they might enjoy their Religion, they would be the most quiet and useful Subjects of England. 1. Moderator f. 31. They proved it in these words, viz. The papists of England would be bound by their own Interest (the strongest obligation amongst wise Men) to live peaceably and thankfully in the private Exercises of their Consciences, and becoming gainers by such Compassions, they would not so reasonably be disinherited as the Prelatic party that were loser's, 1. Moderator f. 36.  
I have dwelled the longer on the practices and designs of the Papists of Ireland, for that there was clear demonstration in pact of foot of their Affection and Adherency to the Pope before; nay, against their rightful King and Sovereign, which hath been evidenced by their public Acts and Monuments, (of which for a Teste take a part of one Translated, viz. Vrban. 80. ad futuram rei memoriam. Having taken into our serious consideration etc. Orerey f. 59, 60.) by their often Treaties, their Acts of their General Assembly, and of their Council, by their Instructions to their Engineers to their Foreign Princes etc. All which are excellently, and much more largely Anatomised and descanted on by the Earl of Orerey in his answer to P. W. Into whose hands many of the Originals having fallen, cannot be gainsaid; and if they had not, yet their Catholic and open rising in Arms, and fight on every occasion against His Majesty's Armies and Comwands, is a demonstration as evident as the Sun at noon, that they were Rebels to the height to all intents and purposes; for it was begun, continued, and ended by Papists only, (not one Protestant among them) both Secular and Regular; the Pope himself, the Head of their Church in the person of his Nuntio Rinuccini generalissimo of all their Forces both by Sea and Land, with all his Tribe of his Ecclesiastical Orders, contributing all assistance and encouragement imaginable thereunto: Whereby it is most manifest, that the horrd Rebellion was not only a Crime of some in their Church, but even a Crime of their Church.  
I now pass to the Papists of England, concerning whose Actions and Affections it cannot reasonably be expected, that I should so clearly discover their more secret Designs and Machinations, for that our Civil Wars here were not Papists fight under the Pope's Banner, Countenance and Encouragement against Protestants, as they did in Ireland: But Protestants (Jesuitically in that point principled) against a Protestant King and his Liege-men that were more loyally minded and principled, and so were never Embodied together apart and by themselves; and therefore could never Assemble and Confederate together either in Battle to fight, or in full and open Council to design and plot, but what they did covertly and in the dark, by fo●●enting dissensions and Intestine Wars according to Corzen the Moguntine Jesuit, in the Second Book of his Politics Ch. 18. and to Campanella's design the Monar. Hisp. Ch. 24. p. 204. etc. I am vero ad enervandos Anglos nihil tam conducit quam dissentio & discordia inter illos excitata perpetuoque nutrita, quod cito meliores occasiones suppeditabit, and that by putting the Parliament upon it, ut Angliam in formam Reipublicae reducant ad Imitationem Holandorum and how near it was brought to this by our late Republicans is most notorious; So confident were the Jesuits of their Plots and Designs taking effect, that Campian in his Book printed 1583. at Trevers, declares, thus concerning the English in the name of his Holy Order, viz. Our Will is, That it come to the knowledge of every one so far as it concerns our Society, that we all dispersed in great numbers through the World, have made a League, and Holy solemn Oath, That as long as there is any of us alive, that all our Care and Industry, all our Deliberations and Councils shall never cease to trouble their quiet and safety, we shall procure and pursue for ever their Ruin, the utter destruction of their Religion, and of their Kingdom.  
It is long since we have taken this Resolution with the hazard of our lives; 
53.29. b.  so that the business being already well begun and advanced, it is impossible that the English can do any thing to stop our design, or surmount it. Faithful Men still no doubt they are yet unto the Mither and Redcaps of Rome only; but nothing less unto the Crown and Diadem of England. And shall we after all such demonstrations  their own protestations, and not take their own Wrods for it?  
§ Besides, if we may guests at the Body of Hercules by his foot, we may then by tracing some of the Footsteps of our English Catholics as have casually come to light, discover the main design of them, and especially of those of their Clergy to have been for the ruin of the King of happy memory, and of the Protestant Religion: Yet I would not be misunderstood herein, as if I meant every Individual Papist; for some of them, and those of Noble Families and Fortunes, as also others of them of meaner rank, ventured both Lives and fortunes very gallantly for their Sovereign; but it was still against a Protestant, not against a Popish party; however I wish they may continue hearty Loyal against all parties, and that all of that Religion were so minded, which though I may wish, yet can never rationally hope to see, whilst they continue true to Romish Principles, which oblige them to set up another Supreme Head within those His Majesty's Dominions in derogation of this Imperial Crown and Sceptre.  
I shall not trouble you with the repetition of many store of the disguised and dark Actings of the Papists against the King and Crown of England, they being already extant in several Treaties, viz. In hidden works of darkness brought to light. Jus Patronatus. Mr. Prinne his Speech in Parliament, his Memento, his Epistle to a reasonable and legal vindication etc. Quaders unmarked. In which, and other Books, many particulars may be seen of their secret undermining Actings.  
In the Year 1638. (when the Kings had great need both of Men and Money, and the Hearts of all his Subjects, and their contributions, whether Popish or Protestants) his Holiness gave directions to his Catholics in England, whereof these following were part, viz. You are to command the Catholics of England in general, that they suddenly desist from making such offers of Men towards this Northern Expedition, as we hear they have done little to the advantage of their direction. And likewise it is requisite, considering the penalties already imposed, they they be not forward with Money more than what Law and Duty enjoins them to pay without any Innovation at all, or view of making themselves rather weaker Pillars of the Kingdom than they were before.  
Declare unto the best of the Peers and Gentry by word of mouth, or Letters, that they ought not at this time to express any averseness in case the High Court of Parliament be called, nor show any discontents against the Acts, which do not point blank aim at Religion, being in general the most fundamental Law of this Kingdom.  
Advise the Clergy to desist from the foolish, nay rather illiterate and childish Custom of distinction in the Protestant and Puritan Doctrine, and especially this Error is so much the greater, when they undertake to prove, that Protestanisme is a Degree nearer to the Faith-Catholick: For since both lie without the verge of the Church, it is a needless Hypocrisy, yea it begets more malice than it is worth.  
All busy Inquirers are defended, but especially into Arcanes of States.  
It is affirmed by— in a printed Speech before a great Assembly 4. September 1654. p. 16, 17. That he knew very well, that Emissaries of the Jesuits never came over in those Swarms as they have done since these times. That divers Gentlemen could bear witness with him, that they had a Consistory, and Council abroad, that Rules all the Affairs of the things of England. That they had fixed in England in the limits of most Cathedrals (of which he was able to produce the particular Instruments) an Episcopal power with Arch-Deacons and other persons to pervert the people in the midst of all our sad Distractions.  
And I presume it will not be denied, 
Ind quod nuper veteres come. gravere Coloni.  that very many of them have been sent or come over from Foreign Seminaries into England under the disguises of Converted Jews, Physicians, Chyrurgians, Independants, Quakers, Fifth Monarchy Men, Agitators, Mechanics, Merchants, Factors, Travellers, Soldiers, that they might the more unsuspectedly have an Influence on the Committees, Agitators, and Officers of the Army. It was confessed to one of the English Nobility at Rome by the English Provincial there, that they had then above 1500. of their Society in England able to work in several professions and Trades, which they had there taken upon them, the better to support and secure themselves from being discovered.  
Who ever considers the  Platform laid subtly by F. F. Parsons, and others, to work insensibly our Ruin. Vide smith's Preface foe 12. the Swarms of Papists here ready to join Heads, and Hands, and Hearts on all occasions and opportunities to bring it to pass, the new printing (about the time of that borrid matchless Murder) of their Dolman, that Infamous and Traitorous Libel against our Kings under a new Title of several Speeches, delivered at a Conference concerning the powers of Parliaments to proceed against their Kings for misgovernment, together with what is averred for truth, and offered to be justified (when ever called thereunto) by that learned and worthy Divine Duke Moulin in his Vindication Se. 58, 59, 60. etc. will easily conclude, that their Merits have not been of that Nature, as to be used as Arguments for a Toleration, no nor yet for the least of kindness, viz. When the business of the late bad times are once ripe for an History, and time the bringer of Truth to light, hath discovered the Mysteries of Iniquity, and the depths of Satan, which have wrought so much crime and mischief, it will be found, that the late Rebellion was raised and fostered by the Arts of the Court of Rome. That Jesuits professed themselves Independent, as not depending on the Church of England; and Fifth Monarchy Men, that they might pull down the English Monarchy, and that in the Committees, for the destruction of the King and the Church, they had their Spies and their Agents.  
§ The Roman Priest and Confessor is known, who when he saw the fatal stroke given to our Holy King and Martyr, flourished with his Sword and said, Now the greatest Enemy we have in the World is gone.  
When the News of that horrible Execution came to Rouen, a Protestant Gentleman of good credit was present in a great company of Jesuited persons: When after great Expressions of Joy, the gravest of the Company, to whom all gave ear, spoke much after this sort. The King of England at his Marriage had promised us the re-establlshing of the Catholic 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 those courses which would bring him to his destruction: We have given him lawful warning, and when no worning would serve, we have kept our Word to him, since he would not keep his Word to us.  
That grave Rabbis Sentence agreeth with this certain Intelligence, which shall be justified whensoever Authority will require it: That the Year before the King's death, a select number of English Jesuits were sent from their whole party in England, first to Paris to consult with the faculty at 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, whether it was lawful for the Catholics to work the change for the advancing and securing the Catholic Cause in England, by making away the King, whom there was no hope to turn from his Heresy? which was answered affirmatively. After which the same persons went to Rome, where the Question being propounded and debated, it was concluded by the Pope and his Council, That it was both lawful and expedient for the Catholics to promote the alteration of State. What followed that Consultation and Sentence all the World knoweth, and time the bringer forth of Truth will let us know. But when that Horrible Parricide, committed on the King's Sacred person, was so universally cried down as the greatest Villainy that had been committed in many Ages, the Pope commanded all the papers about the Question to be gathered and burnt. In obedience to which order a Roman Catholic in Paris was demanded a Copy which he had of those papers; but the Gentleman, who had refused to consider and detest the wickedness of that project, refused to give it, and shown it to a Protestant Friend of his, and related to him the whole carriage of this Negotiation, with great abhorrency of the practices of the Jesuits.  
In pursuance of that Order from Rome for the pulling down both of the Monarch and Monarchy of England, many Jesuits came over, who took 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 Gentlemen between Rouen and Deipe, to whom they said, (taking him for one of them) That they were going into England, and would take Arms in the Independent Army, and endeavour to be Agitators.  
A Protestant Lady living in Paris, in the time of our late Calamities, was persuaded by a Jesuit going in Scarlet to turn Roman Catholic: When the dismal News of the King's Murder came to Paris, this Lady, as all other good English Subjects, was most deeply afflicted with it; and when this Scarlet Divine came to see her, and found her melting in Tears about that heavy and common disaster, he told her with a smiling Countenance, That she had no reason to lament, but rather to rejoice, seeing that the Cacholicks were rid of their greatest Enemy, and that the Catholic 'Cause was much furthered by his death. Upon which the Lady in great anger put the Man down the Stairs, saying, If that be your Religion, I have done with you for ever.  
Many Intelligent Travellers can tell of the great Joy among the English Convents and Seminaries about the King's death, as having overcome their Enemy, and done their main Work for their settlement in England, of which they made themselves so sure, that the Benedictins were in great care that the Jesuits should not get their Land: And the English Nuns were contending who should be Abbesses in England.  
An understanding Gentleman visiting the Friars of Dunkirk put them on the discourse of the King's death, and to pump out their sense about it, said, That the Jesuits had laboured very much to compass that great Work: To which they Answered, That the Jesuits would engross to themselves the Glory of all great and good Works, and of this amongst other Works; whereas they had laboured as diligently, and as effectually as they. So there was striving for the glory of the Atchieument, and the Friars shown themselves as much Jesuited as the Jesuits.  
In the height of oliver's Tyranny Tho. White a Priest, and a right Jesuit in all his Principles about Obedience, set out a Book Entitled, The Grounds of Obedience and Government; wherein he maintains, That if the people by any Circumstance be devolved to the state of Anarchy, their promise made to their expelled Governor binds no more. That the people are remitted by the evil managing, or insufficiency of their Governor to the force of Nature, to provide for themselves, and not bound by any promise made to their Governor, that the Magistrate by his miscarriages abdicateth himself from being a Magistrate, and proveth a Brigand or Robber instead of a Defender; that word Defender he writes with a great D. that the Reader may take notice whom he means. His Book is full fraught with Argumentations of this Nature. All in bar and prejudice to His Majesty's Restauration. Of the same opinion was F. F. Bret, when at St. Malo he was earnest with those Gentlemen that had so gallantly defended the Castle of Jarsey to take the Engagement; from which they ought to be freed by the Articles of their Rendition, maintaining, that they were not to acknowledge any Supreme but the prevailing power. Du Monlin Ibid.  
§ Having dwelled thus long on this unpleasant Theme, it is now time to wind up this Bottom, and therefore, Admit the Papists had merited in these late troubles, as much as they pretend they have, from the King and his Father; yet doth it not follow, that they ought therefore to be rewarded with a Toleration of their Religion, or with any Mitigation of our Laws prohibiting the exercise thereof, no more than it was fit Joseph, for the good service done to his Master, should be be gratified with the company of his Master's Wife. Neither did his Master think this reasonable, though he acknowledged the extraordinary good Service of his Servant, much less did Joseph expect it. In like manner the Papists must first satisfy us, That the Toleration of their Religion is not Toleration of Idolatry, which the Scripture calls Spiritual Adultery, nor yet the exercise of a World of Impieties under the Mask of Religion, before they can convince as (whatever their Loyalty may otherways be) that it is either lawful or reasonable for Magistrates (whom the Scripture styleth Gods, and who standing in God's stead ought to be as jealous of his Honour in that case as a Husband would be of his Wife; Nay, as much as in them lies, even as God himself, who professeth himself to be a Jealous God) to Authorise or connive at the Exercise of such a Religion, or as to account very strict Laws too severe in that Case, for which there is both Precept and Example in the Word of God.  
It is a very great Truth, That Kings neither can, nor aught to give permission or allowance of any things, which in their own Natures are evil, and opposite to the Salvation of men's Souls, and which though they should permit them; would nevertheless continue and remain sins, and exclude them that do and practise them from obtaining Salvation. And of such a Nature are many Popish Doctrines etc. And certainly those Princes are most worthy of the praise of God and Men, that endeavour to remove such Abuses, and all things forbidden by God, which remaining make it impossible for men to be saved, or if saved, yet so as by Fire, very difticultly. But in things not repugnant to the will of God, all Princes have liberty to do that which the good and weal of their State requires.  
I appeal to all the Oaesars in the World; nay to all mankind, if it be reasonable, that the requital of the good Services of particular persons should be gratified with the vacating, or but suspending those Laws which are our strongest security, or should be debarred from making yet stronger Laws against Butchering and Idolatrous men and Principles. This State seeks not your Blood, it only desires to be secured and safe from those destructive dangers,, unto which Popish Doctrines, practices and principles do most manifestly expose it; against which no persect security can possibly be given, but by as public condemnation and detestation of them, as they are ratified by, (1) by Popes, Councils. Decrees, great and learned men, Abjurations, and the like.  
And I appeal yet further to all the World, if our Popish Traitors here have not in defiance of our Laws, and for their Justification, Honour and Encouragement been rewarded at Rome with Honours and Offices, made Holy Martyrs, Canonised for Saints, and their very Bones kept for Relics: Mighty Motives I must confess to persuade us to reward and tolerate such men, and such a Religion. A Religion that no Protestant (I might go farther) can embrace without becoming worse than brutish, by unreasoning themselves out of their own reasonable Souls, yea their very Senses, according to Jer. 10.8, 14, 23. They are altogether brutish and foolish: Their Stock is a Dostrin of Vanities: Every Man is brutish in his knowledge: Every founder is confounded by the Graven Image; for his molten Image is falsehood, and there is no Breath in them: Nay, the Pastors are become Brutish, and have not sought the Lord And what are they but brutish that will not know, that will not understand and that hate reproof? Now let all the Romish Doctors and Jesuits show if they can, if the Doctrines of the Pope's power to Excommunicate, Depose and Murder Emperors, Kings and Princes, and to absolve their Subjects from their Oaths of Obedience and Allegiance to them: And if the Extravagant, de Majoritate & Obedientia, and that other of unam sanctam be not in as full force and virtue now at Rome as ever, only the most Christian King did cudgel Clement the 5th, into better manners, and made him to expound that Extravagant of Boniface the 8th. in favour of him and his Subjects by another of Meruit de privilegiis. And did not Paul the 5th. Innocent the 10th. and Alexander the 7th. of later days ratify these monstrous opinions with a particular respect to the case of His Majesty's Subjects of Great Britain? And shall we after all these demonstrations of their rancour and malice towards us, and our Religion, mitigate or suspend our Laws that secure us? or ought not they rather to repent and amend their lives, their Religion and their Doctrines? I appeal to all  persons if they have not incapacitated themselves of all possibility of ever giving any probable security to a prudent State, whilst they remain in the Communion of that Church by becoming Votaries to Rome by their Vows and Oaths, except they will abjure them, and imbosom themselves in our Church. And shall we then fear to Countermine such destructive bloody principles and practices by moderate and cautionary Laws preventing them? or by any precautions to disappoint the mischiefs designed against us, and which if they should fall upon us were never to be repaired by any future Laws or punishments how severe soever? Let God and the whole World be Judge between us.  
I must confess myself so little discerning, that I cannot perceive any difference between the Idolatry of the Jews, and that of the Papists. The Jews were reasonable Creatures, had the same senses and faculties inward and outward as Papists have; and can it then reasonably be imagined, that the Jews after they were come out of Egypt, and had themselves broken off the Gold Earrings which were in the Ears of their Wives, of their Sons, 
32. Ex.  and of their Daughters, and given them to Aaron to Make a Golden Calf withal: Should yet be such Changelings, so void of all sense and reason as to think, That that very Calf made but Yesterday by Aaron, should be the very God that brought up them and their Fathers out of the Land of Egypt so many years before. It is true, they said, These be thy Gods O Israel that brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt, and accordingly built an Altar, proclaimed a Feast unto the Lord, (not unto the Calf) offered burnt Offerings, and brought peace Offerings, and sat down to eat and to drink, and risen up to play; i. e. to Idolatrize, 1 Cor. 10.7.1. To play the fool, by thinking to please God by making a representative of him; for they could only mean, that the Calf represented that God (not that it was the very God) that brought them out of Egypt; leading and defending them by a Cloud by day, and a Pillar of Fire by night.  
Those Athenian Idol-worshippers, whose altar inscribed to the unknown God, Acts 17.23. argues, That their Sacrifices and Devotions did not centre and terminate in the Idols they worshipped, but had respect to the True God, though unknown to them, whom therefore they did ignorantly worship, (whereby it is manifest, that their Worship had respect unto God) Paul did declare unto them to be him that made the World, and all things therein, etc. Verse 24, 25, 26.  
Is Romish Idolatry less, or other? I doubt not. Jehu riding in pomp in his Chariot, bragged and boasted of his zeal towards God as much as Papists, Come see my zeal for the Lord, 2 Kings 10.16. and pretended worship to God when he worshipped representatives, 
1 Cor. 10.18.20, 21. Psal. 106.37 Deut. 32.17.  Golden Calves, nay Devils, 2 Kings 10.29. 2 Chr. 11.15. By which it is plain, that their worship did not terminate in the Calves, but had a farther prospect, even a respect to God himself. Is not Romish Worship the same? where's the difference? Crux Legati a dextris collocari debet, quia ei debetur Latria. If the Legates Cross must be placed on the right hand for that very reason because Latria, (which is the same Worship and Reverence which is due to the one only God.) Graece servitus dicitur que quamum ad Religionem attinet, non nisi uni & soli Deo deb●●●r, Vide Isid. 12. lib, Vide August. contra Faust. Manich. lib. 20. c. 21. Vide Aquin. 1, 2. q 130. Art. 3. is due unto it. I for my part must acknowiedg myself so thick Sculled as not to discern any difference between the Jews worshipping the Calves, and the Papists worshipping the Cross, their Breaden God, or any Picture, Thing or Representative, though Vasques be so bold as to ascribe Worship even to a Wisp of Straw. Tho. Aquin. sumnt. part. 3. Quest. 25. Artic. 3. Concludes, Sic sequitur quod eadem reverentia exhibeatur Imagini Christi, & ipso Christo; cum ergo Christus adoretur adoratione Latriae, etc. That the same Reverence is to be given to the Image of Christ, and to Christ himself; and by Consequence seeing Christ is adored with the Adoration of Latria (or Divine Worship) his Image is to be adored with the adoration of Latria also; which induces me to believe that that in Jeremiah, ch. 10. is as truly applicable to the now Romanists, as to the Jews of old.  
All which seriously considered, and that though Supreme Magistrates have power moderately, and in measure, by wholesome Laws (not by Fire and Faggot, Tortures and Inquisitions) to compel, and to secure the true Religion and undefiled, and their Realms professing the same; yet I find no warrant in Bibliis Sacris for any power to tolerate and indulge any false Religion in their Dominions.  
§ Concerning which I shall say thus in general, That though no mortal man hath rightful power to forbid Christ's Spiritual Duties, the Worshipping of God, Preaching his Word and Truth; yet I say first, that no Indulgence ought to be given by the Magistrate to any Sect whtsoever, whose Doctrines and Principles are not known, and therefore none to Quakers and Enthusiasts, whose Rule is not the Scripture, but the Light within them, which is darkness to others, if not to themselves, and it may be Hosanna to day, and yet Chucifige to, morrow. Then the Principles, by which other Sects do worship, being known, the legislative Magistrares, whether Monarches, or Free States, are the Judges of them, how confistent or inconsistent with Gods true Religion and Worship, and with the peace and welfare of their own Dominions and Subjects, and accordingly may, or may not Indulge or Tolerate their Religion and Worship.  
And therefore Princes ought to use great Caution, and to be very wary and circumspect herein, for that sins committed by others through our Example, Instigation, Conniunace or Toleration, become ours by just Imputation. In Naboths death, the Judges and false Witnesses were the next Agents, Jesabel the Plotter only, and Instigator, 1 King. 21.7, 13, 23. Yet she is punished for shedding Naboths Blood, though her hand was not upon him: Even in Courts of ordinary Justice it seems just, and is so in our Law, that not only the Executioner, but the Plotter, Abettor, Instigator, and Concealer of Treason, be punished with death: Yea, see how far a less degree of participation brings guilt upon our Souls: The Rulers amongst the Jews that but tolerated the breach of the Sabbath, are charged to have profaned the Sabbath, Nehem. 13.17.18. Yea the least Countenance given to Idolatry, makes culpable of Idolatry, 1 Cor. 10.18, 21. To this agrees the Prohibition of St. Paul, Communicate not with other men's sins, 1 Tim. 5.22. And that command, Leu. 16.17. Thou shalt rebuke thy Neighbour plainly, and not suffer him to sin. It is a Gospel-Principle that God's Children ought to be careful not only to eschew evil in their own persons, but also to prevent it in othrss. A notable Example we have in the people of Israel, who (well knowing that God was a Jealous God, 
Deut. 4.24. Isa. 42.8.  and would not have his Glory communicated to others, nor his praise unto Graven Images) out of their abundant caution, minding the concerns of their Brethren as their own, when they heard Tidings how the Rubenites, Gadites, and half Tribe of Manasseh, had Erected an Altar, not for Worshipping, (as they truly protested) but for Memorial; so fearful they grew of God's Wrath, that they presently dispatched an Embassy to their Brethren to prevent their sin. And see how pithily they deal with them: Is the Iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which ye are not cleansed to this day, that ye also must departed from following the Lord, Josh. 22.17. Thus they in a show only and appearance of evil, which we are commanded to abstain from, 1 Thes. 5.22. and to resist unto Blood striving against sin, 
Qui non vetat peccare, quum possit Jubet.  Heb. 12.4. The Conclusion is strong, What sins of others we labour not within our Province, Power, and Compass to prevent, are ours in the guilt, as well as those of our own personal Commission. The Reasons are many, 1. We hazard ourselves to infection, 1 Cor. 5.6. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 2. Unto wrath, Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her Plagues, Apoc. 4.3. We hazard the Delinquents to obstinate impenitency. We blemish our own same and sincerity. 5. Quantum in nobis, we encourage others to like exorbitancy in sinful Worship, even in our common Laws; it is held maintenance, when a great person only by his presence countenanceth a Cause. Saints of old were regularly scrupulous and abstemious in this kind, I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with distemblers: I have heated the Congregation of evil doers, and will not sit with the wicked, Psal. 26.4, 5. Jer. 15.15.17. I sat not in the assembly of mockers, nor rejoiced. Did not Elias sharply repove King Ahab, and the Commons of Israel for that error? He did not say, Why permit you not those that will to serve the Lord, and those that lift to serve Baal? But, How halt you between Two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal then fallow him, 1 Kings 18.21. Since it is confessed both by Protestants and Papists, That there can be no God save the Lord, Psal. 18.31. and he never meant to surrender any piece of his Glory, Isa. 48.11. but is so jealous of it, that he will be served, and only served with all our Heart, and with all our Soul, Deut 10.12. I reckon, it cannot stand with a Magistrates duty to reverse this Heavenly Decree, Thou shalt Worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve, Mat. 4.10. Deut. 6.13. with establishing Two Religions in the Realm. And the first precept forbidding more Gods than one, barreth all other services of the same God, save that which himself hath appointed for himself? His commands relating to his own Worship are very severe, very strict. He that is born in the House, and bought with thy Money, must need be Circumcised; i. e. Observe the whole Law, Gen. 17.12. So the charge of Keeping the Sabbath is had upon the Father of the Family for all that are within his Gate, Exod. 20.10. The Lord commandeth, That if any person, Brother, Son, Daughter, the Wife of thy Bosom, or thy Friend, which is as thy own Soul, shall entice to Idolatry, or any City shall set up a new Worship, the one shall be killed, the other destroyed, Det. 13.6, 9, 12, 15. To this belongeth that precept, to separate the precious from the vile, Jer. 15.19. and this, viz. Not to sow the Field with divers Seeds, nor to wear a Garment of divers things, Leu. 19 ●0. So Moses, Deut. 22.10. Thou shalt not plough with an Ox and an Ass together; which St. Paul thus expoundeth, 2 Cor. 6.14. Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers. Which the Apostle demonstrates to be as absurd and monstrous, as that righteousness shall have fellowship with unrighteousness, or light to have communion with darkness, or that Christ can have Concord with Belial, or that the Temples of God can have agreement with Idols, and such Temples are all good Christians whom Legions of Lusts and Devils do not pre-possess, Vers. 14, 15, 16, 17. Besides, it cannot be denied, but that they may, and will be Snares and Traps, if not Scourges in our sides, and Thorns in our Eyes, Josh. 13.13. God foresaw it, and foretell it, and the refore made such strict commands against such Medly-mungril Christians, like those of Samaria, who feared God, yet served Idols, and like those of Israel, who Swear by the Lord and Melchom, to hear as Protestants, but believe as Papists, to cry the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, boasting of the high Privileges the Gospel hath and doth afford us, and yet not to walk by the Rules, and Precepts thereof, which in plain English is to talk indeed like Saints, but in truth to do like Devils. Why then should we hazard the Eternal welfare of our precious Immortal Souls upon nice points of Logic, upon Peradventures, and come at last, and when it is too late, unto an, Had I wished? Remember Nehem. 13.23, 26. Did not Solomon King of Israel sin, by these things? yet amongst many Nations was there no King like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him King over all Israel, nevertheless even him did strange Women cause to sin.  
§ Moreover, it hath been the practice of the Church in all Ages to cast out the Leaven of contrary Doctrines and Profession In the time of Enos before the Flood, the Servants of God began to worship God by themselves apart from the profane Generation of Cain. Ishmael was cast out of Abraham's House, because he was a scorner of Isaac; Jacob reformeth his House, and putteth away the strange Gods, Gen, 35.2. Joshua maketh the Gibionites hewers of Wood, and drawers of Water for the House of God, Josh. 9 13, David expelleth the Idolatrous Jebusites out of Jerusalem, 2 Sam. 5.8. Asa put Maacha his Mother from her regiment, because she was an Idolatress, and broke down her Idols, 2 Chron. 15.16. Josias put down the Chemarins a Sect of Idolatrous Priests, 2 Kings 23.5. Zerubbabel would not suffer the adversaries of Judah to build the Temple with them, but refused their service, which they offered, Ezech. 4.3. This was the Law, Thou shalt make no Covenant with them, nor with their Gods, they shall not dwell in the Land, lest they make thee sin against me, Exod. 23.32, 33. Deut 7.2, 3, 4. The Graven Images of their Gods shall ye burn with fire: Thou shalt not desire she Silver and Gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.  
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou be an accursed thing like it; but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing, Deut. 7.25, 26. Neither shalt thou set up any Graven Image which the Lord thy God hateth, Deut. 16.22. Where God's Ark is, there Dagon shall be thrust out of his place, and fall down before it, 1 Sam. 5.  
§ One kind of vile and base Idolatry, when Men Worship their own Fancies; (as Papists, Ouakers and Enthusiasts amongst others now adays do) observing, that for a Religion, which their deceived minds imagine; then may not Princes wink at corrupt and vicious Religion, which is an inward and ghostly worship of Idols, seeing no man; and therefore no Prince can serve Two Masters, Mat. 6.24. Luke 16.13. And the Service that Princes yield Christ in respect of their Royal vocation, consisteth in making Laws for Christ, which if they do, likewise for Antichrist, it cannot be salved, but that they serve God and Mammon, or rather cease to be Servants of Christ, in that they renounce their Master, by serving his Adversary: And they cannot but know, that silence provoketh, and sufferance imboldeneth their Subjects to forsake God, and his Church: Even as in civil Affairs the slacking of Justice doth maintain disorder; the life of the Law is penalty when duly executed; wherefore the great Lawgiver to his own Israel useth such enforcements. Every state and Kingdom hath Refractories, whom nothing restrains but penalty, indeed penalties executed do scarce reform, yet is Treacle made up of such Vipers, for preserving others.  
All Israel shall hear and fear, 
Deut. 17.13  and do no more presumptuously; Servility is much in men of best inclination; they are not always led by the Spirit of Ingenuity, Psal. 51.12. Draco his Laws are yet extant, their severity is deemed over rigorous, providing death for least offences; lenities in some enormities is no less blamable, whilst Adultery laughs at the white sheet, or secures itself of redeeming that shame, with purse or power, As offences grow though but in circumstances, so ought Penalties, Num. 30.32.35. Maxima peccandi Hlecibra est impunitatis spes; There is no greater encouragement or enticement to sin, than hope of Impunity. Some wise Men begin to think, as that Sage Politician spoke by occasion of Nerva's remissness in Government: Praestat vivere ubi nulla, quam ubi omnia sint cicita. It's better to live in that state where nothing, than where all things are lawful, David was so far from suffering the worship of any strange God within his Realm, that he protesteth, Their offerings I will not offer, neither make mention of their names within my lips, Psal. 16.4. When would he, think you, confirm their Honour and Service with his Royal Authority, that thus disdained them common civility, he had a more Ennobled Spirit, more Divine Principle, 
Quo major suum eo plus laborabo as the Sun. Josh. 23.7. Deut. 12.3. Num. 32.38  and would show it by the sublimity of his Actions, scorned to know wicked persons,, or to let them tarry in his sight; he was engaged to do something more than ordinary, being called to be Gods own Anointed, and that the observation of God's Laws was the noblest Ornament of His Majesty, and that the Law was express against it. Make no mention of the names of other Gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth, Exod. 23.13.  
The good Kings of Juda were favoured and blessed of God, for walking in the Ways of David their Father, and purging the Land from all Sacrifices and Ceremonies not prescribed by Moses' Law: Contrariwise Solomon was rejected for admitting other Gods to be erved within his Dominions, besides the God of Israel, though this toleration was granted, in respect of his own Wives that were strangers, Nehem. 13.36. Jerohoams politic devise to Worship the same God in Dan and Bethel, after a new manner, turned to the destruction of himself and his Posterity: Therefore Jehosaphat reproved by Jehu, visited his Kingdom from Beersheba to Mount Ephraim, and brought his people back unto the Lord God of their Fathers, 2 Chron. 19 2, 3. That the false Priests and Prophets did so over-bear the true Prophets of God, Jeremiah, Ezechiel, etc. to the ruin of the City and Kingdom, was the fault of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah. And at this day it is the fault and folly of Christian Kings that suffer the grand Signior of Rome to impose upon them, and that the Church of Rome is not either reduced to her primitive truth, and purity from which she is degenerated and brought to better confortymity with the truly Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, or else demolished as the Jewish Synagogue was.  
§ Gratian at his first entering finding all places full of Arrians, and the Laws of Valence his Uncle making for them, fearing some general Tumult, if he should presently destroy so many, gave leave, That every Religion might have Churches and Oratories with Freedom and Immunity. But being once settled and joined with Theodosius, he commanded that all Heresies should keep silence for ever, as interdicted by the Law of God and Man, That none should any longer teach or learn prophance Doctrine. Cod. 1. Tit. 5. lege omnes.  
The same prohibition did Arcadius and Honorius continue with great severity: Let all Heretics understand, that all places must be taken from them as well Churches as other places, and of private Houses also: In all which let them be debarred from service, both by night and by day; the Lord Deputy to be fined 100 l if he permit any such thing in sight or in secret. Ibid. lege cuncti. Theodosius the younger, and Valentinian his Cousin, comprising a long Beadroll of sundry sorts of Heresies, appointed, That no where within the Roman Empire their Assemblies or Prayers be suffered, and that all Laws made to probibit their meeting should be revived and stand good everlastingly. Ibid. lege Ariani.  
The Papists in the time of Queen Elizabeth wrote divers Books, and used many Arguments against the Oath of Supremacy, and for a Toleration of their Religion; alleging the Examples of other Countries; and admomshing Her Majesty, that she must answer to God, not only for things done by her command and knowledge, but for whatsoever is done unjustly by her Name and Authority, though she never knew thereof; but Her Majesty (respecting her duty, and account that she was to make to God of all things done in the flesh, whether they were good or evil) denied to bear the burden of their wicked abuses, and poisoned errors; which not civil Magistrate can avoid, that permitteth their sinful Masses, and licenceth their wicked Rites, because the seeing and suffering their Impieties (having power to suppress and hinder them) is a plain consent, and in a manner an open Communion with their unfruitful works of darkness. The downfall of Ely, a dear Servant of God (once a Judge in Israel) for Connivance only, and foolish Pity, (where even Bowels of Nature might seem, if not to dispense with severeties, yet to excuse his lenity) Scriptures have Registered for our warning and terror. And if Religion be not as mere a Fable as any in Aesop, the greatest Governments in the World will one day be called to a most severe Account for their so doing.  
§ That other Countries and Kingdoms otherwise affected in Religion than themselves, were nevertheless contented to suffer their service within their Dominions, prevailed not with Queen Eliz. she well considering, that their do could be no warrant nor discharge for her who was not to imitate the Vices, but the Virtues of Princes. Besides that in such toleration they did well, ought first to be proved before their Examples should be urged, as they were in her days. It being the duty of every Prince to consider and do what every Prince ought to do by God's Law, and not regard what other Princes please to do what seemeth best in their own Eyes. And Her Majesty for so refusing to countenance their Religion deserved more countenance and protection with God, and praise with Men, for that in guiding her people she rather embraced Christian Piety, than irreligious policy, and chose rather to walk by God's Precepts, than by the ill Example of other Princes. Besides, Her Majesty well knew, that amongst the Germans and Helvetians (Examples in their Writings urged) many Dukes, Landt-graves, Marquesses, Counts, yea Bishops, Barons, Abbots, and Gentlemen had Regal Jurisdiction within their respective precincts: And it is no news to see divers Laws under divers Lords, and divers Religions under divers Regiments. As for any other Countries or Kingdoms (as Polonia, Hungaria, etc.) not able without Blood and War to reduce their Countries to the profession of the true Faith; neither may we reprove them as negligent, nor the Papists allege them as warrantable Examples, since not their own salt, but other men's fore● keepeth them from attempting any redress by thei● Princely power, which the Nobles restrain, and th● Commons receive with this Proviso, that their accustomed freedom of conscience be no ways prohibited, nor interrupted. Other Examples of Turks, Pagans, Arrians, and the like, are unfit for Christians. David, Josiah, and other Kings of Judah, are to be imitated in this not Saracens. Moses and other Holy Writers are very plain and positive against this daubing with untempered Mortar, Exod. 23.13, 32, 33. Deut. 12.2, 3. Deut. 13.6. Jor. 15.19. Deut. 12.10. Come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty, 2 Cor. 6.17, 18. Levit. 36.12. Isa. 52. n. Was not the Church of Thyatira (otherwise beautified with many Graces) highly blamed for suffering the false Prophetess to teach, and to seduce. I know thy Works, and Charity, and Service, and Faith, and Patience, (all excellent Graces) notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that Woman Jezabel, which calleth herself a Prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit Fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto Idols, Rev. 2.19, 20. which fearful Effects made Constantine to decree, That all Temples of Heretics should without any denial be overthrown, and in no place public or private should their Assemblies be suffered. Jovinianus resused to govern those that were not sound in Faith. Socrat. lib. 5. c. 1. The privateness of the place when the fact is ill, acquitteth not the doer from sin; nor excuseth the permitter from negligence. No corner so secret, no Prison so close, but their Impieties there suffered do offend God, infect others, and confirm their own frowardness.  
Private permission of error is unlawful as well as public, if Popish Religion be good. Why should it lack Churches? If it be naught why should it have Corners? St. Patil hath put in a Caviat against that slight of permitting, which in truth is consenting, Rom. 1. Ely reproved his Sons, yet was sharply punished of God for his Indulgence, which is all one with Connivance, 1 Sam. 2.22. St. John saith, He that receiveth into his house, or biddeth an Heretic God speed, is partaker of his evil deeds. Eph. 2, 10 11. How then can Kings bear with your Sacrilegious profaning of the Lords Supper, and forbidding Gods own Word to be read, and licence the rest of your Impieties, and Blasphemies, and hope to be free from your plague? When Valentinian the younger was requested to wink at the renewing of an Altar for the Pagans in Rome; St. Ambrose dissuaded him in these words. All men serve you that be Prmces, and you serve the Mighty God. He that serveth this God must bring no dissimulation, no Connivance, but saithful zeal, and devotion; be must give no kind of consent to the worship of Idols, or other superstitious or profane Ceremonies, for God will not be deceived nor mocked, who searcheth all things, even the secrets of our Hearts. Ambrose lib. 5. Ep. 30. Now what account will God exact for his Name blasphemed, his Word exiled and wrested, his Decalogue dockt, his Sacraments curtaled and profaned? And what answer must be made for the ruin of Faith, harvest of sin, murder of Souls consequent always to the public freedom of Idolatrous and Superstitious Worship and Heresies, which ought to be fully considered, and wilily prevented by Christian Magistrates, who must as well as the meanest of their Vassals give an account of their Stewardships when called thereunto at the day of their Account.  
§ When Mary (afterwards Queen of England) earnestly besought her Brother King Ed. 6. both by her own Letters, and by the mediation of the Emperor, That she might have the free use of Mass in her Family, alleging her Conscience for it, that her House was her Flock, etc.: The King by his Council made answer, that it was well liked, that her Grace should have her House or Flock, but not exempt from the King's Laws and Orders; neither may there be a Flock of the King's Subjects, but such as will hear and follow the voice of the King their Shepherd: God disalloweth, Law and Reason forbiddeth it, Policy abhorreth it, and her Honour may not require it: However, at her earnest entreaty and desire made in the Emperor's Name, thus much was granted, and no more, that for his sake, and hers also, it should be suffered and winked at, if she had the private Mass used in her own Closet, for a season, until she might be better informed, whereof was some hope, having only with her a few of her own Chamber; so that for all the rest of her Household the Service of the Realm should be used, and no other. After this was granted in Words, the Emperor's Ambassador desired some Testimony of the Promise under the Great Seal, which being denied, he desired to have it by a Letter; which was also denied, but not without showing sound reasons, that he perceiving it to be denied with Reason, wight be the better contented with the answer. But when there was ill use made of this Indulgence and Connivance, her Chaplain taking too great a liberty by public Celebration of the Mass out of her Presence, was sent for by the Council, imprisoned &c. for whom, though her Grace mediated by many earnest Letters, both to the King and his Council; yet did his Majesty signify to her by a Letter dated 24. January 1550. That though he had for a while connived, that she might be brought as far towards the Truth by Brotherly love, as others were by Duty, and in hope of her amendment; yet now if there be no hope, why should there be sufferance? Alleging also, That his charge was to have the same care over every man's Estate, that every man ought to have over his own: And that in her own House, as she would be loath, openly to suffer one of her Servants, being next her, most manifestly to break her Orders; so must she think in his state, it would prejudice him to permit her so great a Subject not to keep his Laws, that her nearness to him in Blood, her greatness in Estate, and the condition of the Time made her fault the greater. The Example is unnatural, that our Sister should do less for us than our other Subjects, the Case standerous for so great a person to forsake our Majesty. And therefore 24. Aug. 1551. He sent Commissioners to signify to her, That His Majesty did resolutely determine it just, necessary and expedient, That her Grace should not in any ways use or maintain the private Mass; or any other manner of service than such as by the Law of the Realm was authorized and allowed. So resolure was this young Josiab, this Noble pious Prince, though his dear Sister, and the next Heir of the Crown, had divers times offered her Body at the Kings Will, rather than to change he rconscience.  
§ Queen Eliz. as in other things, so in Religion, was according to her assumed Motto semper endem, never suffering the least Innoudtion thereof; and therefore, as in the first Year of her Reign, she took great care that those, Protestants which then began to frame a new Eeclesiastical Poliey, being transported with a humour of Innovation, should be repressed betimes; and that but one only Religion was to be tolerated, 
Angli Bello in trepidi nec mottis sensu deterentur.  lest diversity of Relig on's amongst the English (a stout and Warlike Nation) might minister continual Fuel to Seditions: So in the Second Year of her Reign, when the Emperor and Catholic Princes by many Letters made earnest inter session, that the Bishops and other ecclesiastics displaced for refusing the Oath of Supremacy (which notwithstanding most of them had Sworn unto and taught in their Sermons, and writ in defence thereof in the Reign of King H. 8. might be mercifully dealt withal, (there being, as themselves had written and calculated, above 9400. Ecclesiastical orefer ments, and not above 189. displaced, whereof 14 were Bishops) & that Churches might be allowed to the Papists by themselves in Cities; she answered:  
That although those Popish Bishops had insolently and openly repugned against the Laws and Quiet of the Realm, and did still obstinately reject that Doctrine, which most of them under H. 8. and E. 6. had of their own accord with heart and hand publicly in their Sermons, and Writings taught unto others, when they themselves, were not private Men, but public Magistrates; yet would she for so great Princes sakes deal favourably with them, though not without some offence to her own Subjects: But to grant them churches wherein to celebrate their divine Offices apart by themselves, she could not with the safety of the Commonwealth, and without wrong to her own Honour and Conscience; neither was there any cause why she should grant them, seeing England embraced no new or strange Doctrine, but the same which Christ commanded, the Primitive, and Catholic Church received, and the ancient Fathers with one Mind and Voice approved, and to allow Churches with contrary Rites and Ceremonies; Besides that, it openly repugned the Laws established by Authority of Parliament, were nothing else but to sow Religion out of Religion, to distract good men's minds, to cherish factious men's humours, disturb Religion, and the Commonwealth, and mingle Divine and Humane things, a Thing, Evil in Deed, but in Example worst of all, to her own good Subjects hurtful, and unto themselves, to whom it is granted, neither greatly commodious, nor yet at all safe: She was therefore determined out of her natural Clemency, and especially at their request to be willing to heal the private insolency of a few, by much Connivance, yet so as she might not encourage their obstinate minds by her Indulgence.  
§ When Sussex treated with the Emperor Maximilian on the Articles of Marriage between Archduke Charles his Son, and Queen Eliz. both Father and Son did require, That a public Church might be allowed, wherein Divince Service might be celebrated to him and his, after the Romish manner: When this would not be granted, then that in some private place in the Court he might peaceably use his Service of Cod, (as was permitted to Popish Prince's Ambassadors in their Houses) and that with these Conditions, That no English Man should be admitted thereunto, and neither he, nor his Servants should speak against the Religion received in England, or favour those that did speak against it: That if any displeasure should arise in respect of Religion, he should be present with the Queen at Divine Service, to be celebrated after the manner of the Church of England: Unto this the Queen answered, That if she should grant this, she should offend her Conscience, and openly break the public Laws of her Realm, not without great peril both of her dignity and safety. The same Princely, Pious, and immovable Resolution she held, when in the like Treaty of Marriage between her and the Duke of Anjou, where Toleration of the Roman Religion being much pressed and insisted on, both by the Queen his Mother, and by Charles the 9th. King of France, his Brother, Queen Eliz. (though it were suggested, that the Romish Religion was not deeply rooted in the Duke's mind, being but young, and for that he was Educated under Carnlette, a person not averse from the Protestant Religion, and that by degrees he might be brought to the Protestant profession; and many other and great advantages would thereby accrue to the good of the Reformed Religion) answered, (as well became God's Vicegerent in her Dominions) That although the outward Exercise of Christian Religion might haply be tolerated with different Rites and Ceremonies amongst the Subjects of one and the same Kingdom; yet a different, yea a flat contrary Exercise between the Queen (who is the Head of her people) and her Husband, might not only seem perilous, but also altogether absurd; she prayed them to consider with equal Ballauce, on the one side her own hazard, and on the other side the Duke of Anjou's Honour: By Tollerating his Religion, she should break the Laws established, give offence to her best Subjects, and encouragement to her worst; which things would certainly over-weigh the Duke of Anjou's Honour: If the Duke would water more plentifully the Seeds of the purer Religion, already sown, and suffer more to be sown, he should soon see, that it would be unto him a most high Honour. At length it came to this Issue, That if so be the Duke would be present with the Queen, at the Celebration of Divine Service, and not refuse to hear and learn the Institutions of the Protestant Religion; she would assent, that neither the Duke nor his Family should be constraned to use the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, nor molested for other Divine Rites, not openly and manifestly repugnant to God's Word so as it were done in a certain private place, and no occasion given to the English to break the Laws established. Foix stuck at the Word, the Word of God; for whose satisfaction the Queen commanded instead of God's Word to put in God's Church, which when it liked him worse, and for it would have had to be put in the Catholic Church; the Queen flatly and stoutly refused it, and so by degrees it cooled. Her religious care herein was also so great and steady, that Walsingham her Ambassador had secret Instructions, That if the Duke of Anjou should be content to omit in that Treaty that point concerning Toleration of Religion, yet would the Queen bind him in such sure caution, that he should not require is at any time after.  
§ Of the same opinion was King James Anno 1596. in the Case of Huntley Angus, and Arrol, Popish Lords, who though they would have betrayed the Kingdom to the Spaniard; yet the King being willing afterwards to have them return, (though Gild had made them Fugitives) and being returned, the King writ thus to Huntley, viz. My Lord, I am sure you consider, and do remember, how often I have incurred Skaith and hazard for your cause; therefore to be short, resolve you either to satisfy the Church betwixt that day that is appointed, without any more delay, or else if your Conscience be so Kittle, as it cannot permit you, make for another Land betwixt this and that day, where you may use freely your own Conscience, your Wife and Barnes sholl in that Case enjoy your Living, but fo● yourself look never to be a Scottish Man again; deceive not yourself to think by lingering of time your Wife, and your Allies, shall ever get you better Conditions: And think not, that I will suffer any professing a contrary Religion to dwell in this Land.  
Afterwards when His Majesty came to the Crown of England, which was May 14. 1602. he declared to his Parliament there 19 May 1603. 
Li c. p. 1  That the Popish point of Doctrine is that Arrogant and Ambitious Supremacy of their Head the Pope, whereby he not only claims to be Spiritual Head of all Christians, but also to have an Imperial civil power over all Kings and Emperors, dethroning and decrowning Princes with his Foot as pleaseth him, and dispensing and disposing of all Kingdoms and Empires at his appetite. The other point which they observe in continual practice, is the Assassinates and Murders of Kings, thinking it no sin, but rather a matter of Salvation to do all Actions of Rebellion and Hostility against their natural Sovereign Lord, if he be once accursed, his Subjects discharged of their fidelity, and his Kingdom given a Prey by the Three Crowned Monarch, or rather Monster their Head.  
Which Positions of theirs the Gun-powder-traitors, within Two Years after made good, after which time he was not only willing, whilst he lived, that we should pray to God as was done in the days of Great Eliz. that he would keep us from all Papistry, and that he would preserve us from the Pope as well as from the Turk, in as much as the Pope laboured to dethrone Christ, as well as the Turk did; but he required further of us: That we should pray God to strengthen his Hands, and the Hands of his Nobles and Magistrates in the Land to out off the Papists, 
In the Prayer to be made 5. Novemb. for the Gun-powder-treason.  to root them out of the Confines and Limits of the Kingdom; protesting in Parliament, that he could not permit the increase and growth of Popery, without betraying the liberty both of England and Scotland, and of the Crown in his posterity, and did declare in his Speech in Parliament 1605. That none of those that truly know and believe the whole Grounds and School-Conclusions of their Doctrines can ever prove-good Christians or good Subjects. Vide his Works 504. Nay farther, in the Second Year of his Reign ter' tr ' upon a false rumour being spread, that His Majesty intended to grant a Toleration to Papists; he commanded all the Judges, with divers of the greatest Nobility, viz. Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and to Assemble in the Star-Chamber to receive their opinions upon these and other points; at which time the Lords severally declared, how the King was discontented with the said false Rumour, and had made but the day before a protestation unto them, that he never intended it, and that he would spend the last drop of Blood in his Body before he would do it: And prayed, that before any of his Issue should maintain any other Religion than what he truly professed and maintained, that God would take them out of the World. Vide Sir George Croaks Reports part. 2. ter. tr. Anno 2 Jac. Reg. in Banco Regis.  
§ When a Match with Spain was propounded to King James for Prince Charles, and there with an Article desired for a Toleration of the Popish Religion, which when King James had propounded to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1623. the Archbishop did write his Sentiments of King James; in which Letter He besought His Majesty to take into his consideration, what your Act is, and what the Consequence may be by your Act; you labour to set up the most Damnable and Heretical Doctrine of the Church of room, the Whore of Babylon. How hateful it will be to God, and grievous to the good Subjects, the professors of the Gospel, that your Majesty, who hath often disputed, and learnedly written against those, should now show yourself a Patron of those wicked Doctrines, which your Pen hath told the World, and your Conscience tells yourself, are Superstitious, Idolatrous and Detestable. Besides this Toleration which you endeavour to set up by your Proclamamation, cannot be done without a Parliament, unless your Majesty will let your Subjects see that you will take unto yourself ability to throw down the Laws of the Land at your pleasure, etc. prout. King James not long after, viz 23. Ap. 1624. returns this Answer to a Petition of his Parliament touching Recusants, viz. What my Religion is, my Books declare, my profession and my behaviour do show; and I hope in God I shall never live to be thought otherwise; sure I am, I shall never deserve it: And for my part I wish that it might be written in Marble, and remain to posterity as a mark upon me, when I shall swerve from my Religion; for he that doth dissemble withy God, is not to be trusted by Man. My Lords, Ip rotest before God, my Heart hath bled, when I have heard of the increase of Opery; and God is my Judge, it hath been so great a grief unto me, that it hath been like Thorns in my Eyes, and Pricks in my sides, so far have I been, and ever shall be, from turning any other way. And my Lords and Gentlemen, you all shall be my Confessors, if I knew any way better than other to hinder the growth of Popery I would take it, and he cannot be an honest man, who knowing as I do, and being persuaded, as I am, would do otherwise.  
The Romish Catholics for want of this liberty and tolerance in the time of Queen Eliz. and since have made and written many bitter Complaints and Invectives against the Rigour of our Penal Laws etc. 
Rex Talionis.  I could requite them by commemorating the flames they kindled in England to burn their Brethren to dust: How Pius Qintus conferred England on Philip II. King of Spain, and approved as an Act lawful by Azorius. Instit. Mor. part. 2. lib. 11. c. 5. And how many Princes they have displaced, poisoned and murdered.  
The Holy House which the Friars have planted in spain, resembling the Torments of Nero his Garden, the Massacres of Provence, Piedmont of old, and of late, and of Paris, where they murdered Men, Women and Children by Thousands, against the very Grounds off all Equity, Piety, Charity, and Humanity, without Convicting, Accusing, or so much as Calling them before any Judge, to hear what was misliked in them. And when was any of this put in Execution, some of it, even the 24 Aug. 1572. the very Year that Charles IX. the French King pretending great kindness to the Protestants, had in Testimony thereof desired a Confederacy at Blois with Queen Eliz. and the Princes of Germany in favour of them, whom notwithstanding he had secretly and treacherously designed to the slaughter: For no sooner were the Articles of Confederacy agreed on, (which was the 11th. of April) and confirmed by Oath by the Queen at Westminster 15. May in the presence of Montmo. rency, styled the first Christian Prince, and accounted the most Noble Family of all france; who also again earnestly solicited the Marriage with the Duke of Anjou; but for that they could not agree about the Exercise of Religion, he hasted into France to the Marriage of Henry of Navarre, and Madam Margarite the French Kings Sister. To this Marriage, in pursuance of the said Bloody Design, were invited the Queen of Navarre, and all the choicest of the Protestants, and also Burleigh and Leicester our of England, (pretending Honour to them) and the Palatine Elector's Sons out of Germany, that being brought into the snare, both they, and with them the Protestant Evangelical Religion, might with one stroke, if not have had their Throats cut, yet at least receive a Mortal Wound: For no sooner was the Marriage Solemnised, but that barbarous Massacre of Paris, and the Bloody Butchering of the Protestants throughout the Cities of France, upon men of all Estates, was cursedly put in Execution, and that within Two days after. Mota: Fennelon the French Ambassador had propounded the Marriage between Queen Eliz. and the Duke of Anjou at Kenelworth. Camb. Elisab. 162. Which considered, I annot but wonder to hear you thus complaining at the Fatherly Chastisement wherewith this Realm seeketh your amendment, and sucketh not your Blood. Compare the penalties which you fret at, with the Laws of former Emperors, and you will see how easy they are in respect of their ancient Edicts; which restrained such as did forbear to communicate with the Church of Christ from buying, selling, disposing, bequeathing Goods or Lands by will or otherwise, yea from receiving any Legacies, or enjoying their Father's Inheritance, the place where Schismatical Service was faid, Chapel or House to be forfeited, and the Bishop and Clergyman to pay 16 l. weight in Gold, or to be banished. God. l. 1. Tit. 5. Mamcheos Ibid. 8. Cuncti. St. Augustin Ep. 48. When it was expected, by reason of the goodness of his Nature, that he should mediate for some of these penalties to be released, gave this quick and smart answer: Nay, marry let Princes in God's Name serve Christ in making Laws for Christ.  
§ It was, in the days of Queen Eliz. objected, That for want of the Exercise of a Religion, many sorts want things necessary to Salvation, and many are forced to things which Bring Damnation. Sol. We do not know what those things necessary to Salvation are, which this Realm wanteth. Receive with meekness the Word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your Souls, 1. Jam. 21. So long as we refuse no part of the Gospel, which is the power of God for the Salvation of every Believer, Rom. 1.16. all other Wants signify little. St. Paul doth warrant us, That the Scriptures are able to direct and instruct Salvation by Faith in Christ Jesus, 2 Tim. 3.15, 16. less we believe not, more we need not, dream you what you list of Salvation and Damnation. The Comfort of the Scriptures shall nourish our Hopes, Rom. 15. It is you, not we, that keep back half the Communion one of the Commandments, and the publikc use of the Scripture, the very Rule and Guide to Salvation.  
§ It grieves you sore, 
As lawful for Protestants as Papists to compel.  that any of your Tribe should be invited against their Wills to frequent our Sacraments or Service, and that any man's Conscience should be forced: Then why did you force Numbers with extreme violence to recant, and forswear the persuasion of their Faith? What Reason can you bring that you may compel others, and none must compel you? Where got you that exemption? or if Compulsion be lawful for both sides alike: Why storm ye so much at our easy penalties, and those seldom or never put in execution, when yourselves are justly charged with many cruel, and unchristian Butcheries and Tragedies? your Inquisiting, your Burning, your Murdering of Thousands, without any refpect of Innocent or Ignorant, is indeed very lamentable. This kind of compelling which Queen Eliz. used, and out Laws still prescribe, cannot be denied to be Charitable, and to be resembleable to that Co-action, which the Seriptures commend in Josiah, which the most virtuous Emperors followed in the Primitive Church, and which St. Austin, upon deep debating the cause, found allowed by God himself as the chiefest point of that Service which he requireth of Christian Princes. As much as they are troubled with Compulsion, when it is used against themselves, yet they can glory in it when they use it against others; Witness Peter Damesius the French Kings Ambassador to the Council of Trent, who in his solemn Oration to that Synod, vapoured, that the Kings of France had never suffered any Sect in any part of France, nor any but Catholics; yea, have procured the conversion of Strangers, Idolaters and Heretics, and have constrained them with pious Arms to profess the true and sound Religion, (rectius Heresy.) He shown how Childibert compelled the Visigothes (who were Arrians) to join themselves to the Catholic Church; and how Charles the Great made Wars 30 Years with the Saxons to reduce them to Christian Religion. Cons. Tr. 186. Our Sacraments, Service and Sermons, are reform according to the Constat of Christ's Will and Testament, and therefore aught to be used and frequented, and persons may be compelled to frequent them.  
To come yet nearer home, & unto our own days; What are the persecutions of the Hugonots & Hungarians at this day, but Compulsions, & those contrary to several Edicts, Agreements and Sanctions of their Princes, which thereby (besides their just right derived from God himself) become their just due, and aught as Inviolably to be kept as well on the Princes as on the Subjects part. God never broke his Covenant made with his people; and Princes ought as solemnly in this to Imitate their God, and their Lord, whose Vice-gerents they are, and ought not to transgress or go beyond their Commission. Nothing of this kind can ever be claimed from, or objected justly against our Protestant Kings or Parliaments. I will not look far back, nor mention those solemn cursed Oaths some of our European Princes have taken to destroy and extirpate Heretics, . e. Protestant's Root and Branch.  
I shall here only call to mind the Edicts of Nantez. made by H. 4. as a particular Irrevocable fundamental Law. In pursuance whereof Commissioners were sent into all Provinces to execute the same, which being done in due form, the Commissioners returned the Execution thereof into the Hands of the King to serve as a Rule and Standard in all future Debates which might happily arise on that Subject. Now to tell of all the violations of this Edict at the Instigation of the Jesuitical Clergy would fill a Volume, therefore I shall stint it to a few of many.  
New Commissioners since 1660. being Commissioned, are commanded to Execute the Acts of Council made in Consequence of that Edict, which are no other than so many violations of the same. The Council Anno 1662. past an Act, that the Protestants shall not be admitted before the Commissioners to prove the right for the Exercise of their Religion by Inquests or Witnesses, even although the Witnesses be Roman Catholics, whereby they have lost near Three parts of Four of all their Churches.  
Provence, which had 15 or 16. Churches, is now reduced to 4. Grex which had 23 Churches hath now but 2. In all Bretaigne remains but 2. High and low Languedock are reduced to half their Number. Poictu which had 61 indisputable Churches, is now reduced to 13. by an Act of 6. August 1665. and so of divers other Provinces.  
By which means the Protestant Religion suffers more than by any Parisian Vespers: the Protestants being necessitated either to live without any public Exercise of their Religion, or through infinite dangers and inconveniencies to wander 50. or 60. Miles distant from them.  
One Act of Council hath rob them of the liberty of praising God by forbidding singing of Psalms, even privately in their Houses. May 6. 1659. March 17. 1663.  
Another Act hath deprived them of the comfort of paying their last duty to their Dead with any conveniency; compelling them to bury clandestinely, and in the night. Inhumanity heyond that of Heathens. 7. Aug. & 3. Novemb. 1662.  
Another hath divested Protestant Magistrates, what ever be their charge or quality of the privilege of presiding in their Courts. Soct. 1663.  
Another hath taken away all means of Instructing and Educating cheir Children, leaving them at most (and that only in some places) the smaller Schools, where is only taught to Write, Read, Compt; as if study of Religion were incompatible with the study of Humane Sciences. 26. Eeb. 1663.  
Another hath restrained the liberty of Printing any Book in favour of the Religion without obtaining an Imprimatur from the King's Council, and how likely they are to obtain that is not hard to guests. 29. Jan. 1663.  
Another ordaineth Parents to give Pensions to their Children who turn Papists, although the Children will not dwell with them. Declaration 24. Oct. 1663. and Acts of Council 30. Jan. 1665. As if paternal Authority were nulled by children's Apostasy; forgetting, that Christian Religion doth not absolve Slaves from their Subjection to their Masters, yet Dominus Deus vester Papa can discharge Children of their obedience which they own to their Parents of the Protestant Religion.  
Another prohibits the Exercise of Charity towards their Brethren, who have no sufficiency of their own for their livelihood. 5. Oct. 1663.  
Another dischargeth payment of Debts by those of the Commonalty who shall turn Papists. The very Heathens never pretended that those Christians who did but Apostatise to them, should be discharged from payment of their Debts.  
Another prohibits Ministers to preach without the place of their residence, thereby depriving them of the benefit of Annexation, i. e. the privilege of one Ministers supplying Two Churches, which singly are not able to afford a complete maintenance. 22. Feb. 1664.  
Another giveth liberty to Priests and Friars to enter their Houses, and come unto their Bedsides when sick or dying to solicit them to change their Religion. 18. Sept. 1664. & 12. May 1665.  
Another maketh it criminal in Ministers to style themselves Pastors or Ministers of the Word of God. Nay, they have regulated the very Garments of Ministers; forbidding them to wear a long Garment, that they may have no Character of distinction from the peasants. 30. Jan. 1663.  
In the Declaration of pretended Relapses 1663. ratified in Parliament 7. Jan. 1663. It is ordained, that those of the Religion who have once embraced the Popish Religion shall never again return unto it under pain of perpetual Banishment. A thing plainly contrary to the Edict: Yet they have given it a retrospective and retroactive power to execute it against persons who became of the Religion long before the Declaration was in being; and accordingly have proceeded against some whom they have imprisoned, compelled to do penance (by going Barefoot and Bareheaded through the streets with a burning Torch to the place of Justice, or person offended, and there to ask forgiveness) and then Banished the Kingdom.  
I could cloy the Readers with like severities usque ad nauseam, but I forbear, having no other design by this brief Narrative but only to give a taste of the difference of severities, which we use here, and which are used against us abroad in our Neighbour Nations, without going farther into Germany, Hungary, Poland, and other Popish Countries. 
Vide the Memoirs of the King of Sweden to the Emperor.  Let William Watson the Secular Priest conclude for our Justification, viz That all the sufferings brought upon the Papists here in England, was the due reward for their own demerits: Which Axiom is as completely true now, as it was in his days.  
Now, what hope can we have to speed better than our Neighbours, who only want power to do as much for us? but I proceed.  
As in the days of Queen Eliz. so now they begin to play their old tricks over again, and would fain persuade us, that there is a Generation of them that are faithful and dutiful Subjects to this Crown, (whatsoever others of the same Communion are) and therefore plead hard for Indulgence and Toleration above their Fellows; 
F. 5.  As that they disown the Paramount and Omnipotent Powers attributed to the Pope in many particulars, and look upon it as a grievance, rather than a right belonging to him, and complain and wish for remedy; that they will stand with the King, his Crown and Regality in some Cases by them named, and in all others in all points to live and die with them. They farther conceive that it is the right of every National Church to provide for the particular concerns thereof, and yet confesses, that it is not for her safety to receive those who do not believe as she doth. It is there owned, 
F. 7.  (yet not without a Peradventure) that the Church of England hath preserved the face of a continued Mission, and uninterrupted Ordination, that her moderation in Doctrine is great, that her disciple preserves Episcopal Government, that she abhors Phanaticisme, and the wild Errors of a private Spirit, that though she hold the Scripture to be the Rule of Controversy, yet holds withal, that it is not of private interpretation, and that she is for Vincentius Lyrinensis Rule, quod ab omnibus, quod semper quod ubique that the Papists upon many occasions have been found as faithful to the State as any of their fellow Subjects. At last this Diologist P. takes pet, 
F. 15.33.  that the seasonable discourse accounts the Protestant Religion excellent, and the Popish full of stupidity, which though granted, yet he argues, may we not therefore be permitted to say our Prayers in private, which is all the Indulgence allowed us? and that sure it is no part of the Protestant Church to hinder others from being as good as they can, and the worse our Religion is, the more need we have of praying to make us better.  
A great Courtier I must confess, and hath complemented us highly to his own ends and advantage, yet with little Injury to us; which though I cannot so courtly return in its own kind without flattering; yet I modestly wish, that all the Papists were no worse minded: And yet if they were, I do not know that this State were the more secure. This very Scene was acted in Queen Eliz. days, as I have showed before, and their own Books, which are very numerous, and very full of such acknowledgements and disclamours; and yet some of the same Leaven for their unfaithfulness to her and this Crown came with the first unto untimely ends, and that deservedly. I will hope better of these of this Generation, presuming they will take warning by other men's harms. However, I presume this State will be as wise now as they were in her days, and trust to neither, for that the more secure we are of the one, the less safe we are from the other. The Seculars and Regulars in her days confessed much more, viz. That though they disliked the severity of her Laws, yet could not but acknowledge, that the State had great cause to make such, except they should have showed themselves careless, and though the Laws were very extreme, yet the occasions of them were very outrageous; and likewise, that the Execution of them was not so Tragical as many did write and report. Import. Consider. f. 11. A Letter from a Jesuited Gent. f. 65, 66. Dialogue between a Secular Priest, and a Lay. Gent. sparing discovery, and others, sparsim.  
In Queen Eliz. days such of the Papists who though they did not forbear to profess Loyalty and Obedience to Her Majesty, and were ready to resist any Foreign force, though Authorized from the Pope himself, (as this Dialogist pretends now to do:) None of this sort were for their Religion prosecuted, or charged with any crimes or pains of Treason. And this I shall demonstrate in point of fact, by instancing of some few of very many of the better sort, (for of the more ordinary sort they were sans nombre) not unfit to be taken notice of; as by name Dr. Heth, that was Archbishop of York, and Lord Chancellor of England, in Queen Mary's days, who at the first coming of Queen Eliz. to the Crown, showing himself a faithful and quiet Subject continued in both the said Offices, though in Religion then manifestly differing, and was not restrained of his liberty, nor deprived of his proper Lands and Goods; but willingly leaving both his Offices, lived in his own House very discreetly, and enjoyed all his purchased Lands, and disposed of them as he pleased at his death: An Example of Clemency not to be paralleled in Queen Mary's time. The like did Dr. Poole Bishop of Peter-borough: Dr. Tunstall Bishop of Duresme: Dr. White and Dr. Oglethorpe Bishops, the one of Winchester, the other of Carlisle, who was so inclined to dutifulness to the Queen, that he did the Office of Consecration and Coronation of Her Majesty: And Dr. Thurleby, and Dr. Watson, the one of Ely, the other of Lincoln Bishops, and so Turbervile Bishop of Exeter; all which lived at their own liberty, without being charged with any Capital peine, though they maintained the Pope's Authority against the Laws of the Realm: Some Abbots did the like, as Mr. Fecknam: Some Deans, as Dr. Boxall, Dean of Windsor: Dr. Cole, Dean of St. Paul's: Dr. Reignold, Dean of Exeter, and many others, having born Offices and Dignities in the Church, and that had made profession against the Pope, which they only began in Queen Mary's time to change; yet were these never troubled nor deprived of their proper Goods and Livelyhoods; but only removed from their Ecclesiastical Offices, which they would not Exercise according to the Laws, and most of them, and many others of their sort, for a great time were retained in Bishop's Houses very civility and courteously, without charge to themselves or their friends, until the time that the Pope (Phalaris like) sent out his roaring Bull, dated 5. Calend. Mart. 1569. 5. Papatus Pij Quint. and his bellowing Messages to trouble this Realm by stirring Rebellion about the same year, being about 11 Years after Her Majesty's coming to the Crown. Besides these ecclesiastics, there were also very many Laymen of good Fortunes and Families that were manifestly seduced by their Priests to hold wrong opinions in Religion for the Pope's Authority, and none of them were ever impeached of Treason, or of loss of Life, Member, or Inheritance, for such their opinions in Religion, or for the Pope's Authority alone, as our most impudent Adversaries have often published, 
F. 5.  and yet some of them were well known to hold opinion, That the Pope ought by Authority of God's Word to be Supreme, and only Head of the Catholic Church over the whole World, and only to rule in all Causes Ecclesiastical; and that the Queen's Majesty ought not to be Governor over any of her Subjects in her Realm, being persons Ecclesiastical; which opinions are nevertheless in some part by the Laws of this Nation punishable in other Degrees; yet for none of these points were any persons prosecuted with the Crime of Treason, or brought in danger of life, but enjoyed their Religion in private with Connivance, though not with Toleration and Abetting, and so they have done ever since even unto the very day this Dialogist writ his Dialogue, with as much freedom and liberty: Nay, with more, than have our other dissenting Brethren, (who differ in Discipline and Ecclesiastical Government only, not in Doctrine) without having their Consciences raked into by Six bloody Articles, or any Oaths: And if any thing of more than ordinary severity hath lately befallen them, they may thank their own most implacable and restless Spirits for it: And if any of the same Communion being of more quiet, and moderate Temper and Humour, and better principled, do suffer thereby, they ought in all Justice to do as the Seculars in Queen Eliz. days did, and place the blame on the fiery tempers of that Crudele genus of some their own Colleagues that have brought this upon them, and not to blame us or our Laws, who in all prudence ought to provide for the safety and quiet of ourselves and of our own Religion by wholesome Laws, be displeased therewith who will.  
Now were Papists in Queen Eliz. days the quieter or better Subjects for those 12 Years Indulgence, Connivance, Favours and princely Graces or the Queen in any manner the more secure in her person, or quiet in her Dominions? Let be Judge that Bull of Prius Quintus, together with the Pope's Commission granted to Dr. Sanders as Legate, (who before his passing into Ireland openly by writing, Impudently avowed that Bull against Her Majesty to be lawful, and which for ought I know is in force to this day against all her Successors, (if any Pope please to have it so) and together with the Faculties granted by the Pope unto P. P. Robert Parsons, and Edmund Campion at Rome, 14. Apr. 1580. then going for England, and together with the Confession of Hart, who (being Condemned with Campion) did the last of December 1580. confess, That the Bull of Pius Quintus (for so much as is against the Queen) is held amongst the English Catholics for a lawful sentence, 
25. Feb. 1570.  and a sufficient discharge of her Subjects fidelity, and so remaineth in force; but in some points touching her Subjects it is altered by the present Pope. For where in that Bull all her Subjects are commanded not to obey her, and she being Excommunicate and Deposed, all that do obey her are likewise innodate and Accursed, which point is perilous to the Catholics; for if they obey her, they are within the verge of the Pope's Curse; if they disobey her, they are in the Queen's danger; therefore the present Pope to relieve them hath altered that part of the Bull, and dispensed with them to obey or serve her without peril of Excommunication, which Dispensation is to endure but till it please the Pope otherwise to determine. We thank his Holiness. This Bull did Import, 1. That Her Majesty was not the lawful Queen of England; the first and highest point of Trason. 2. That all her Subjects are discharged of all their Oaths and Obedince; another point of high Treason. 3. All warranted to disobey her and her Laws.  
This was the proper and natural product of 12 Years Indulgence and Connivance with much moderation, and many savours, and from this Root sprang all the subsequent Treasons (in Queen Eliz. days, and since, and will be again if not prevented) of Northumberland, Westmoreland, Parsons, Parry, Throgmorton, Somervile, Stewkeley, Saunders, cum multis aliis. A special Argument and Motive I must confess (and well becoming P. the Dialogist, when he hath no better) to persuade King and Parliament to give new and fresh Indulgence to the Papists, that they might with the better Grace, and more Authority impune peccare.  
As to this pitiful begging Argument of this P. viz. That because many of them deny much of the Pope's Authority; therefore they should have Toleration now; I shall only apply matter of Fact, viz. the chiefest and most of them that I have named, had in the times of H. 8. and E. 6. either by preaching, writing, reading or arguing, taught all people to condemn, yea to abhor the Authority of the Pope; for which purpose they had many times given their Oaths publicly against the Pope's Authority, and had also yielded to both the said Kings the Title of Supreme Head of the Church of England, next under Christ, and yet they refused to allow Queen Eliz. the Title of Supreme Governor, though to gratify them she omitted the very Title of Supreme Head at the begin of her Reign, and this is demonstrable by many of their Books and Sermons against the Pope's Authority printed both in English and Latin to their great shame and reproach to change so often, but especially in persecuting such in Queen Mary's days, whom themselves had taught and established to hold the contrary in H. 8. days; a sin bordering on the sin against the Holy Ghost, scarce to be forgiven. And shall we be gulled again by such Sophisters. Was Queen Eliz. ever the more safe in her person? or her Dominions the more secure from Troubles, Insurrections, or Rebellions, because some few protested Loyalty? Let all Impartial Histories, and their and our own Memories be Judg. Come out of their fellowship, and you will not partake of their plagues; else they that will ship themselves with the Devil must Sail with him  
But why trouble I myself, or the Readers with this frivolous Argument, when it cannot be the least dust in the Balance to persuade? That upon this Dialogist, Warrant, or only Intimation rather, he and his Seculars (and who those are we know not, and not possible for us to distinguish) shall use loyal and peaceable behaviours; nay, what if they should be as good as their Word, deny the Pope's Exorbitant powers, and swear Allegiance maugre the Pope's Mandates to the contrary? Is this an Argument prevalent enough to persuade us to nurse and nuzzle up the Pope's Imps, (whose Seeds-men and Legates are both Priests and Jesuits) and suffer him that hath already cursed Her Majesty's person, and in her all her Successors, removed her Crown, discharged her Subjects, invaded her Dominions, 
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In the days of H. 8. the Earl of Desmond proffered Ireland to the French King, (the Instrument whereof yet remains upon Record in the Court at Paris) and the Pope afterwards transferred the Title of all our Kingdoms unto Charles the 5th. which by new Grents was con●i●●tect unto his Son Philip in the days of Queen Eliz. with a resolution to settle this Crown upon the Spanish Infanta.  
Bishop Ushe. s Speech at Dublin, f. 12.   and given them away to others, and now to suffer them to steal from our Kings and Queens their people's Hearts, and reonile them to that Mother of Abominations, that dares call light darkness, and darkness light, dock Communions and Decalogues, and worship Idols, whole Brow is Brass and whose Heart is harder than the nether Millstone, that hearing, will not hear, and seeing, will not see, nor understand; charm the Charmer never so wisely, never so sweetly, and all this under the vizard of Catholic Religion, and feigned Devotion, which in truth is nothing less, but is superstitious, Idolatrous and Abominable, the Toleration and Allowance of which cannot possibly be Indulged, without manifest breach of God's Law (against which there is no plea or excuse to be allowed) joined with the subversion of the Crown and Royal State. For how is it possible that light should agree with darkness, God and Belial, Christ and Antichrist? the same Moment any persons is reconciled to Rome, the same Moment he is become a sworn Votary and Vassal to Rome, subject to another head.  
Were this humble Petition and desire only for Earthly and not Heavenly things, and did it not concern Christ's Glory, but the Indemnity of our Kings and people, what a pitiful toy is it for a few Friars well versed in the Arts of Equivocation to think themselves meet Pledges and Hostages for the security of so great a Prince and people. Submission to God, and your Prince would be more preswasive and authentic, and would better become you. It is not enough to renounce the exorbitant powers claimed by the Pope, except withal you renounce the idolatrous Worship of Rome, and her Doctrines of Infallibility, and of probability, of Transubstantiation; Demy-Communions; praying in an unknown Tongue; debarring the people the use of the Bible, and a thrave of other false and Heretical Doctrines and practices; having only loud and bawling Impudence for their Justification, without either Sense, Reason or Scripture.  
The most Honourable and Grave Sages of this Nation understand you so well, that I believe you find they will not easily be cheated with kanting words or specious pretences, made use of only to obumbrate and shadow the clearness of their long and grounded Experience, purchased by clear demonstration, and matter of Fact at the dearest rate and expense of Blood and Treasure. I do hearty join Issue with this Dialogist, and believe as he doth, That it is not for the safety of our Church to receive those who do not believe as we do. In this we are good Friends; but I doubt he will be as angry with me, as with the seasonable discourser, for accounting the Popish Religion to be Superstitious, Idolatrous and Absurd; and the Protestant to be the True, Ancient, and Apostolic Religion: Neither shall I much differ with him in some other of his Concessions, viz. That it is the right of every National Church to provide for the particular concerns thereof, and (and without his Peradventure) that the Church of England hath preserved the face of a continued Mission, and uninterrupted Ordination, (which is impossible for the Romanists to do, their Doctrine of Intention being allowed for currant) that her moderation in Doctrine is great, that her Discipline preserves Episcopal Government. He concludes, may we not therefore (because the Popish Religion is accounted stupid) be permitted to say our prayers in private, which is all the Indulgence allowed us, and that sure it is no part of the goodness of the Protestant Church to hinder others from being as good as they can, and the worse our Religion is, the more need we have of praying to make us better.  
§ As it is no part of our Doctrine to hinder prayers and devotions, (that are in truth so according to Christ's Constat) or men to be as good as they can; so it is no part of our practice, and it looks too like a slander to intimate it; and it is our belief, that the worse the men and their Religion are, the more need they have of their own and other men's prayers to make them better, but then they must be made to God, and his Son, and not to Pictures and Images, nor yet to Stocks and Stones, and those in a Language to themselves Intelligible.  
It is is indeed the desire and design of our Souls, that being converted ourselves to strengthen our Brethren, and to hinder some scabbed Sheep from infecting the rest of the whole Flock, to hinder the traficking of your private Idolatrous Masses, or the feeding His Majesty's best Subjects with Fragments of Communions, or to mock the weaker Brethren with prayers not understood, or weary them with ridiculous Gestures, and to hinder the giving the Glory that is due to God unto Stocks and Stones; Prayers understood or not understood to Saints, Pictures, and Idols, Ave Maries and Beads, Agnus Dei's, and such Abominations which will never prevail with God for Blessings, but will rather pull down his Curses and Judgements upon you. Prayers to God and his Son are by God commanded, and are acceptable to him without dispute; to Wafers, Saints and Pictures, are not so; it being indisputable Idolatry to give Divine Honour to a Creature, to a Wafer God, that Dogs, Mice and Rats may eat.  
Do but what our Saviour undeniably did, viz. break and give to all, 
Mat. 26.26, 27, 28.  that all may be partakers one Bread, 1 Cor. 10.16, 17. Divide the Cup that all may drink thereof: Do that which he commanded to be done, who first ordained this Mystery: Do that which St. Paul received of the Lord, and delivered to the Church of Corinth, 1 Cor. 11.23, 24, 25. Do that, I say, which the Primitive Church of Christ always did, and you need not doubt of public Allowance, nor of public places and oratory's. Do not make yourselves wiser than God himself, by putting a Padlock on the Scriptures which Christ hath commanded every man to search, for in them ye think to have Eternal Life, and they are they which testify of me, John 5.39. and which was taught Timothy from a Child, and are able to make wise unto Salvation through Faith, which is in Christ Jesus, and is profitable for Doctrine, for Reproof, for Correction, for instruction in Righteousness, that the man of God may he perfect, throughly furnished unto all good Works, 1 Tim. 3.15, 16, 17. Do not go about to rob God of his Glory, by denying the Work of his own hands, and the Redeemed of his own Blood, the Efficacy of the Scriptures, with the assistance of his Spirit; not us of our Senses, as if we could not distinguish Bread from Flesh, or the Juice of the Grape from the Blood of Christ: Do not subtract from Gods own Decalogue one of his own Commandments; under the pain of Eternal Damnation add 14 new Articles to the Apostles Creed, which squint more at belief in the Pope and Papal Definitions, than towards God and his Word, lest ye Incur the plagues denounced against such Arithmetic, and your part in the Book of Life be taken away, Rev. 22.18, 19 Neither be of those many which corrupt the Word of God; but as of sincerity; but as of God in the sight of God speak and write in Christ, 2 Cor. 2.17.  
These few of many are sins so gross, that they go open before to Judgement, and are as manifest as the Deeds of the Flesh, which are Adultery, Fornication, Uncleanness, Lasciviousness, Idolatry, Murders, Revel, etc. Gal. 5.19, 20, 21. which both God and Nations abhor and make Laws against, and Prohibitions; so that none can be deceived, but such as are given up to a reprobate sense, and unto strong delusions to believe Lies, 1 Thes. 2.11.  
§ It is true, you have reconciled some Proselytes unto your Church, (which hath made both King and Parliament so Industrious, to preserve the rest from Infection and Seducements) and by so doing you have made them two fold more the Children of Hell than they were before, mere Samaritans, Worshippers of they know not what; whereby we have lost little, and you have not got much: For indeed it matters little what Religion Men profess, if they live not according to to the Decalogue. It is neither Circumcision nor Uncircumcision, 
Gal. 〈◊〉: 9  but a new Creature that availeth, Gal. 6.15. For no man either knows or believes in God otherwise than the Devils do, that doth not keep his Commandments: And God knows the love of men towards him, only by their keeping of his Commandments, and by abstaining from that black Catalogue of sine Recorded Gal. 5.19. 〈◊〉 without Holiness it is impossible ever to see the face of 〈…〉 comfort. I know no medium between a Saint and 〈…〉 Purgatory between Heaven and Hell 〈…〉 so it lies, Heaven and Hell will divide the whole World at last.  
As it hath been the unhappiness of former Ages, so of this also, that they that depart from evil make themselves a Prey; and they that live Holily, Godlily and Righteously in this present evil World are jeered, and accounted but the off-scowring of the World, Penitentiarii Asini, Formal Fops. But I fear when the King of Terrors shall Attack the Copyholds of such Flowters', and Magor-Missabib, Fear and Terror shall be round about them, and when they are drawing near to the Chambers of Death, that then their Groans will be like the Groans of a deadly wounded man, and their Hopes like the giving up of the Ghost; and that then they'll wish that both their lives and their deaths had been like those Formal Fobbs. Therefore my hearty desire is, That both this Dialogist, and all the perverted reconciled Proselytes to Rome would return from whence they are fallen, and repent, and come out of that Enchanting City, and Sink of sin, (that hath spawned more false Doctrines of a Scarlet Dye, than all the Christian Churches in the World) and be separate, and no doubt but this Church will receive them, and our Kings and Queens will be their nursing Fathers, and Mothers, and you will become their Sons and Daughters; else, What fellowship can righteousness have with unrighteousness? what Communion can Light have with Darkness? What Concord can Christ have with Belial? and what agreement can the Temple of God have with Idols? Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, and God and this Church will receive you, and God will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be his Sons and Daughters, 2 Cor. 6.14, 15, 16, 17, 18.  
§ Reason's are as strong and convincing against Toleration, if the case be considered upon a Politic Account and Interest, as well as upon a Religious; for tordraw away Subjects to depend upon a Foreign Prelate or power from their Natural or Lawful Sovereign, is in a Politic Consideration as the defiling of the King's Bed, and debauching of his Consort from him; and this is that which makes Popery Intolerable on a Politic Account; neither can any Merits render it tolerable or reasonable.  
Notwithstanding their pretensions of Merit are so high, that they are not content with connivance & safety (which they enjoy without grudging, and with more freedom, and less trouble than many non-assenting Protestants, nor yet with Honours, (which they have had also in great measure) nor yet with power and trust, of which they have had their shares also) and yet are not contented: Lords Paramount they must be, or else restless, and clamorous they will be. Such is their Nature, that it must devour or trample down all before it, or else it will never rest satisfied. Such is the unsatiableness of this Scarlet Lady, so often drunk with the Blood of the Saints, that no Blood could yet satisfy, but that she still cries, Give, Give.  
In all Histories from Generation to Generation, they that run may read prodigious Examples of Exorbitant Papal Claims and pride over Kings, Emperors, Princes, and Free States, even against right reason, and to the Indignation of all Mankind, and these justified by their Popes, Councils, Decretals, Canons and Divines of the first Magnitude, ascribing to the Pope power of deposing Kings, if Heretics, and they are all so, when his Holiness pleaseth so to term them by as good Logic as the Fox's Ears are Horns, if the Lion please to call them so.  
And if yet there be any Papists that in Word, or Writings do disown such Doctrines as the Seculars did in Queen Eliz. days, (of whom notwithstanding it is observed, That they never discovered any traitorous design until it was first discovered by others, and that in several Treasons, though many of the Seminary Priests were active and forward) yet they are as little to be confided in, as those that own and justify them; for that by so doing they contradict and disclaim the very Faith they own and profess; and unto which they are sworn, thereby forsaking their Popes, Councils, Canons, Divines, and Decretals; nay, their Doctrines of Supremacy, of believing as the Church, i. e. as the Pope believes of Infallibility and Probability of Equivocation, of no Faith to be kept with Heretics, &c all Doctrines of the Church of Rome, which alone are in their esteem, of power sufficient to warrant and justify their blind obedience, and to null all the security that can possibly be given between Prince & People, whether Oaths or Laws, Civil or Ecclesiastical, nay Divine.  
And if we may prognosticate of practices to come, by practices past let the said Experience of former Ages, and of all Countries, and of ours in particular, rise up in Judgement against them, that they never have been, never will be Loyal Subjects to our Protestant Princes the Reasons are strong, for that they are ever incited to such evil Machinations and practices by the strong impulse and impetuous zeal of their own Doctrines and Superstitions, and all proceeding from causes pecular unto Romish Religion and Principles, which they have not in the least as yet changed, nor disclaimed, nor yet their Interest.  
§ Besides, if the Papists of England have merited any thing from the King and his Father in these late troubles, it is no thanks to their Religion; and therefore no reason they should be gratified in their Religion; for had it proceeded from the undoubted principles of their Religion, it would have held as well in Ireland as in England; nay, it would have held as well in Queen Elizabeth, and King James his time, as in the time of King Charles Father and Son. 
a Postscript to an Answer to a Jesuited Gent, and also in a sparing Discourse.  It being confessed by themselves, that none of them have in all the times of persecution died expressly for Religion, but all for Treason. 
b Answer to a Letter to a Jesuited Gent. f. 45.  And that Irish Papists would have been as little Loyal to Queen Mary as unto Queen Eliz. But the continual Plots against the Life and Crown of that Queen; and that horrid Gunpowder Plot against King James, and all his Race and Nobles; and the late Rebellion in Ireland against King Charles do demonstrate the contrary, and their Religion, where that and the Pope are concerned, teaching the contrary; but they thought not their Religion in that case concerned, if they had, than it would have appeared, whether their Loyalty would have born up against it or no, more than it hath done in former times. Therefore if any such Merits have been, they have been only personal, and so may be, and no doubt so have been, and will be requited with personal favours, but in no case, with such as may tend to the advantage of the Popish, and consequently to the disadvantage of the Protestant Religion, Power and Interest of our Princes.  
But let us a little examine what in truth have been the Merits of the Papist, in the late Wars. To say the Papists were the Formal Causes of the late War upon what hath been before written, were happily not quite besides the Cushion. However, the former matter and grounds administers good Reasons to believe, and affirm that they were great occasions both of the rise, growth and continuance of our late Wars. Some, and those not a few, of the wisest and most sober Cavaliers thought that the Papists did look upon the War as their great Interest and Hahvest, either by opening unto them occasions to pretend something in favour of their party in case the King prevailed; or otherwise by fomenting of the War between Protestant and Protestant, they should have gained an Interest through their divisions, when they had weakened one another, and that by fishing in troubled Waters they should gain some advantage by the confusions, which (as the Law stood) in a settled State of Affairs they could not expect.  
§ However, if the Papists did not design those divisions, and the breaking in pieces of the Ancient Government of this Kingdom, and that wherein they hoped to find their Interest; it is certain they were great occasions thereof; for what on the one hand with their Negotiations before the War by Signior Con, and other the Pope's Agents, and the State tampering with the Pope and King of Spain about the Infanta, not yet on't of the Minds and Memories of his Subjects; and their boldness upon the favour they might happily expect from the King's Mother, and the Clemency which they found from his Father, (no way desirous to have the Sanguinary Laws Executed upon them) and what by the Rebellion of those of that Religion in Ireland, they created so great Jealousies in the minds of the Protestant party in England, that it rather weakened the Royal party than fortified it, and made the Adverse party so numerous and so successful as a long time it was. And it may be truly said there was never a Papist in the King's Army, but it lost him the Hearts of many Protestants; and as it cannot be supposed, that they brought a Blessing on the King's Armies, so it is certain they brought a very ill reputation upon them; and where one fought against the King's party upon a serious Examination of the State of the Quarrel, Hundreds took the other party, because they saw so many Papists on his side; and possibly things had never grown to that height, as to have broken out into a War, had it not been for the Jealousies which were partly given, and partly taken from the Insolent Carriage of that party both in England and Ireland. And yet for all this, and that they were so much concerned to quench the fire, that had so far contributed to the kindling of it, we shall find as little ground for their Works of Supererogation in this matter, as in point of Religion; if the number of them that were slain, or suffered for the King or his Father be compared with the Protestant profession: Neither were they so Instrumental to the restitution of the King as those of the Protestant profession, no not as very many of those that had formerly been of the contrary side, and even where Interest might seem more to sway them another way, and that in all probability might have promised themselves more favour under the powers that then prevaled; for that is also considerable in that matter, (which was pleaded by many of the Papists to obtain favour from the powers that were from time to time uppermost, when they were so) that could they have lived quietly in their own Houses, they had never repaired to the King's Garrisons. But the War being held forth (to gain more credit to the party) to be against Papists and their Adherents chief, though all sorts of gther opinions found some Indulgence, yet the Papists (professing themselves Papists) could not be admitted upon any terms, though happily they were admitted; nay favoured under disguises of Quakers, and the like; and therefore no marvel if they were on the King's side, that they might play their Game the better on both sides, when they could not be on the other side professedly.  
§ The Truth is, prudence and necessity together, with their Loyalty, made them serve the King in his Wars, they well knowing that the Parliament was professedly and desperately bend against them; and therefore could have little hopes of comfort from them, which Induced them to adhere to the King, who was Pater Patriae, and from whom they might justly challenge protection, as Subjects, though not as Papists, in which capacity His Majesty received them; neither did he ever own their assistance, but as Subjects, and as justified by necessity.  
And now that the differing parties being weary of endless Broils, were willing to come to a Closure; those that had done so much to occasion the War, and so little to make it successful, and less to bring about His Majesty's happy return, and union between him and his people, would make such a virtue of necessity, as to deserve such Indulgences and Rewards, which neither can be expected with modesty, nor granted with a good Conscience towards God, no nor yet with safety to the Crown, if the Intrinsic Interest thereof be justly weighed and considered, and without all Colour or Ground of Reason, Conscience or prudence: For indeed all things, principles and practices considered, I cannot Imagine what good and indeseasable security they can possibly give to any Protestant Prince or State, that they will be and continue Loyal and Faithful Subjects: Therefore until they reverse and nullify their Oaths and Principles of Obedience to the See of Rome, their claims and pretensions of Jurisdiction over Temporal Princes, their Doctrines of Infallibility, and of blind Obedience; nay, their Doctrines of probability also they must excuse me, if I differ in opinion with them, and make it an Article of my Creed, and believe, that no protestant Prince or State can ever be undoubtedly secure of the Loyalty and Fidelity of their Popish Subjects, if the Pope command the contrary: It being according to their Doctrine of probability, a Maxim amongst them, that that which 1, 2 or some few Roman Catholic Doctors say is lawful, may (in the Judgement of Papists) be done without mortal sin.  
This is Mr. Knots Charity maintained c. 4. Sect. 25. as also Valentia's, Vasques, Lessius, Euriques, Sa, Cellot de Hier. l. 8. c. 16. p. 714.) But not only one but many Popish Doctors; nay, Popes, Cardinals and Councils say, That it is lawful to murder or depose a Supreme Magistrate that is guilty of Heresy, or suspected of it, and such according to their Tenets are Protestant Princes: Nay, J. E. in his Book Entitled, The Right and Jurisdiction of the Prelate, and the Prince, printed with the Licence of Superiors, 1617. maintains the same not only by the opinions of very many Doctors, but also by the Popes, and the Authority of General Councils, as that of Lateran under Innocent the Third, Anno 1215. c. 3. and that of Lions c. 5. de homicidio in 6. and another General Council of Lions, Anno 1245. and affirms, That many other Councils he could allege for the same, as Bellarmine and Schulkenius have done, Ergo, Cavete Principes Conclusionem. Princes beware your Crowns, beware your Heads, and of giving any Indulgence, Countenance, and power to that Generation of Men, who are Sworn Vassals to the Bishop of Rome, and make it a part of your Litany, viz, from such ill kind of Men Labera nos Domine.  
Having thus Summarily manifested to all the World, that will read and understand the Doctrines and practices of Papists to be so desperately pernicious and destructive to our Protestant Kings and Kingdoms; and withal will consider what most precious Golden Apples England, Scotland and Ireland, with all their Foreign plantations and Dominions, are to gratify Cardinalisme, Nepotisme, or any incestuous Brood of any Donna Olympia. It is very reasonable to believe, That what they have done, that they will reiterate again and again, if not wisely and timely prevented; were it not then admiral discretion in us to give this Generation of Men yet more power and liberty (the only things they want) to put the same practices in Execution again, when they have given us from Age to Age successively such Demonstrations and Assurances, that they will do as they have done when ever they have power, a neat opportunity, and are so commanded by their universal Monarch?  
But I Conclude, That if we have any love or regard for that Religion, which is pure, peaceable, undefiled, and which is truly Ancient, Catholic and Apostolic, or any abhorrency to that Enchanting City full of all pollutions & uncleaness, Idolatry, Superstition, Blasphemy, what not? or any concern for the safety of His Majesty's person, for liberty of our Consciences, property and freedom of our Estates, and lastly any care to preserve King and Kingdom from Parisian Vespers, Inquisitions, Fire and Faggot, and from a Six-knotted-whip of Articles; it will wonderfully concern us by all wholesome Laws and means to prevent the growth of this Crudele Genus, by paring their Nails only, that otherwise would crack our Crowns, and seek our lives, unless we will quantum in nobis, sacrifice once more all that is near and dear unto us, unto Romish Tyranny.  
§ I shall yet further Conclude, That if Protestant Princes will but rightly consider that they (like Gods own Sabbath) were ordained for Kingdoms, and not Kingdoms for them, and that if they will follow but the very Dictates of right Reason, and the very light of Nature, they cannot (without being felones de se) establish, or tolerate by Law Popery in their Protestant Dominions: For as self-preservation by the very Law and Light of Nature is the Suprema lex of every Individual, and consequently of every Prince considered only as a single person: So Salus Populi, (wherein the Prince himself is also included and involved) even politically, and in respect of Magistracy considered is the Suprema lex also, And the first and principal thing Magistrates are to look after, is to preserve Magistracy, and the Authorty they are entrusted withal for the good of the Governed, in its full power and prerogative: And for this great reason also it is wonderful absurd to suppose a Magistrate obliged to tolerate any thing destructive to the very being of the persons, and Authority of him and his people, for whose welfare he is entrusted: And of such a Nature is Popery, and is the design of Papists, and no pretence of Conscience whatsoever is in such a Case to be harkened unto, or endured, it being against the very Light of Nature, and in-truth nothing else but to pretend Conscience, the better to enable them to destroy not Religion only, but even Protestant Mankind: For the very Light of Nature abandons all such principles from the least Toleration, they making men cease to be true Subjects to the State, or good Common-Walthsmen in relation to others.  
Though I have thus justified the Act of Parliament by the confessions of Papists themselves, by matters of Fact, Reasons of State, and warranty of Scripture; yet I can give no Vote or Encouragement for Sanguinary Laws, merely for matters of Religion abstract from treasonable and capital crimes and practices; nor yet to imitate our Adversaries in Inquisitions, flaying with Stripes, starving with Hunger, Cold and Nakedness, plunging into loathsome Dungeons, full fraught with stinking Nastines, and with Toads, Serpents, and other venomous Creatures; nor yet for unnecessary pecuniary Mulcts. And I am confident, that such true English generous Blood runs in the Veins of English Parliaments, that they naturally pity the distressed, and abhor cruelties, that they will not use Extremities, not put in Execution the utmost of the Penal Laws, but will mould them a gently as the peace and safety of the Nation will bear and permit. And I am verily persuaded, That if their over busy and fiery Priests had not been over Active, the Review and Revival of any severities against them had never been though of, and if any new Acts do ensue, it is but what they have brought upon themselves, and for which none may be blamed but themselves, and their Laity only, because they suffer themselves to be led blindfold by their Noses by them who have no Authority so to do, for which they are much, very much to be commiserated, there being a vast difference between the Seducers and Seduced.  
But if any more severe Laws than other aught to be put in Execution, certainly they ought to be inflicted on Idolaters and Blasphemers. That the Papists are Idolaters hath been demonstrated by many Pens; and that they are Blasphemers is as evident: For according to the Notion of Blasphemy, even in the New Testament: He that assumes and appropriates to himself a property Divine, is a Blasphemer, and in truth a setter up of more Gods than one; and of such a Nature is their Doctrine of Infallibility. This is most Evident from Luke 5.20, 21. when the Jews Taxed Christ himself for speaking Blasphemy, who did not rail, but only said to the Paralytic Man, Thy sins are forgiven thee. Yet they (not acknowledging him to be God) did account it Blasphemy in him to take upon him to forgive sins, (which is a property merely Divine) For who (said they) can forgive sins but God alone? so Rev. 2.9. I know the Blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan. Much more he that says he is In allible, (a property Divine) when he is not. So John. 10.33. For a good Work we stone tee not, but for Blasphemy, because thou, being a Man, makest thyself God. What was this blasphemy? even because he said, I and my Father are one, v. 31. Whereby it is apparent, that the Pope's assuming to themselves a property Divine make themselves guilty of Blasphemy, and indeed of making more Gods than one, which is undeniable Idolatry: To which if their Luciferian Dogmas be added, it will not mince the matter at all, viz. Credere Dominum Deum nostrum Papam non potuisse statuere prunt statuit Haereticum censetur. Extravag. Johan. 22. cum inter nonnullos, gloss. ibid. declaramus. Idem est Dominium Dei & Papae. Augustus Ambonitanus q. 45. & 35. Dominus Deus noster Papa. Clement. in proem. in Gloss. ibid. 121. Rex Regum, Dominus Dominantium. Extravag. de Majoritat. & obedientia. But let these pass.  
In the Church of Rome the Popes were the first Preachers of force and violence, and that their St. Dominick was one of the first that I read of, that preached the Doctrine of Death and Tortures for opinions in Religion. He was the founder of the begging Order of Friars preachers; and therefore in Honour of him the Inquisition is entrusted only to the Friars of his Order. And if they will believe their own Legends, his own Mother the night before he was born dreamt that she was brought to bed of a Mastiff Dog with a Firebrand in his mouth. The Hieroglyphic whereof I leave to every Reader to make. Only his deportment towards the Albigenses is storied to be as mad as that of Dogs; so that one saith of him. That a Hundred Thousand of them were put to flight, 
Aeo quidem ut Centum Haereticorum Millia ab Octo Millibus Catholicorum fusa & interferta fuisse perhibeantur.  and slain by 8000 Catholics, and of those who became Captives 180 were burnt to death; the first Example that I find in the Church of Rome of putting dissenting Brethren to death for Religion.  
Though my particular Confession engages me Experimenta per mortes Agere; yet I abhor to be of the College of Bloodsuckers, whose Bellies like those Canes Sepulchroles of the Romans are never satisfied with the Blood of Saints. I have learned better things from Isa. 27.4. Fury is not in me. And from Psal. 11.5. Him that loveth violence his Soul hateth; lest God should return Blood upon me in fury and in jealousy, Ezek. 16.38. I Conclude with St. Cyprian. Quid facit in pectore Christiano Luporum feritas? & Canum Rabbis? & venenum Serpentum? & cruenta saenitia Bestiarum? Gratulandum est cum tales de Ecclesia separantur, ne columbas, ne Oves Christi Soeva sua & venenata contagione praedentur. What hath the fierceness of Wolves? The madness of Dogs? The venom of Dragons and the Bloody Cruelty of Wild Beasts to do in a Christian Breast? There's joy and gladness when such are separated from the Church, lest the gentle and innocent Doves and Sheep of Christ be made a prey to their cruel Jaw● and Venom.  
May our King live for ever, and may there never want a man of his Race to sit on his Throne, Ruling in Righteousness, fearing God and hating evil; and that there may be a highway of Holiness throughout his Dominions, that wayfaring men, though fools, may not err therein, Isa. 35.8.  
Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob; neither is there any Divination against Israel, Numb, 23.22.  
Rara temporum faelicit as sub Nerva & Trajano ubi sentires quae velles & dicere quae sentires.  
FINIS.   

A Postscript, showing the purport of Pius Quintus his Bull against Q. Eliz. and also a form of Indictment of such Papists as were Executed for Treasons in her days, that all the World may be the better satisfied, that not one of them died for any point of Religion: and this is as a Supplement to what is so particularly set down in Horae subsecivae.  
PIus Quinrus Pontisex Maximus de Apostolicia potestatis pleni●●dine, 
25. Feb. 1570.  de●laravit Elizabetham pretenso Regni Jure, necnon omni & quoeunque Dominio Dignitate privilegioque privatam: Itemque proceres, subditos & populos dicti regni ac caeteros omnes qui illi quomodncunque juraverunt a Juramento hujusneodi ac omni fidelitatis debito perpetuo absolutos, i. e.  
Pius Quintus the great Bishop of the fullness of Apostolic power hath declared Elizabeth to be bereft of her pretended right of her Kingdom, and also of all and whatsoever Dominion, Dignity and Privilege; and also the Nobles, Subjects and people of the said Kingdom, and all others, which had sworn to her any manner of ways, to be absolved for ever from such Oath, and from all Debt or Duty of Fealty etc. with many threatening curse to all that durst obey her and her Laws.  
And for the Execution hereof, to prove that the Effect of this Bull and Message was flat Rebellion; mark what Dr. Sunders, the Pope's Firebrand in Ireland, writeth in his Book de visibili Monarchia. Pius Quintus Pontifex Maximus, Anno Domini 1569. Reverendum presbyterum Nicolaum Mortonum Anglum in Angliam misit, ut certis illustribus viris Authoritate Apostolica denuntiaret, Elizabetham quae tunc rerum potiebatur hereticam esse; ob eamque causam omni dominio & potestate excidisse, impuneq, ab ill●is velut Ethnicam haberi posse, nec eos illos legibus aut man. datis deinceps obedire cogi: i. e. Pius Quintus the greatest Bishop Anno Domini 1569 sent the Reverend Priest Nicholas Morton an English man into England, That he should denounce or declare by the Apostolic Authority to certain Noble Men Elizabeth, who then was in possession to be an Heretic; and for that cause to have fallen from all Dominion and power, and that she may be had or reputed of them as an Ethnic, and that they are not to be compelled to obey her Laws or Commandments.  
Thus you see an Ambassade of Rebellion from the Pope's Holiness, by an old doting Protestant, a Fugitive and Conspiriator unto some Noble Men, which were the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland, Heads of the Rebellion that followed, the success whereof he declares, viz. Qua denuntiatione multi nobiles viri adducti sunt & de fratribus liberandis cogitare auderent, ac sperabant illi quidem Catholicos omnes summis viribus affuturos esse: Verum etsi aliter quant illi expectabant res evenit, quia Catholici omnes nondum probe cognoverant Elizabetham Haereticam esse declaratam, tamen laudanda illorum Nobilium consilia erant: i. e. By which denunciation many Noble men were induced or lead, that they were emboldened to think of the freeing of their Brethren, and they hoped certainly that all the Catholics would have assisted them with all their strength; but although the matter happened otherwise than they hoped for, because all the Catholics knew not that Elizabeth was declared an Heretic, yet the Councils and Intents of those Noble Men were to be praised. This want of Information was soon after diligently and cunningly supplied by sending multitudes of the Seminaries and Jesuits to inform the people, as a Supplement to amend the former error.  
Though Dr. Sanders hath thus written, yet it may be said by such as favoured those Two Noble Jesuits Ro. Parsons and Ed. Campion, that Dr. Sanders Treason is his proper Treason in allowing and justifying of the said Bull, and not to be imputed to Parsons and Campion; who notwithstanding had by special Authority charge to Execute the Sentence of this Bull, which may appear by the subsequent Writings taken about one of their Confederates immediately after Campions' death, who in his life time would not be known of any such matter, whereby may appear what trust is to be given to such Peudo-Martyrs.  
Facultates concessae P. P. Roberto Parsonio & Edmundo Campiano pro Anglia, die 14. Apr. 1580.  
Petatur a summo Domino nostro Explicatio Bullae declaratoriae per Pium Quintum contra Elizabetham, & ei adhaerentes, quam Catholici cupiunt intelligi hoc modo, ut obliget semper illam & haereticos, Catholicos vero nullo modo obliget, rebus sic stantibus sed tum demum quum publica ejusdem Bulle Executio fieri poterit. Then followeth many other Petitions of Faculties for their farther Authorities, not needful here to recite in the Close; the Pope Answers. Has praedictas Gratias concessit Summus Pontifex patri Roberto Parsonio & Edm. Campiano in Angliam profecturis die 14. Aprilis 1518. present Oliverio Monarco assistente.  
Faculties granted to the Two Fathers Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion for England the 14. day of April 1580. by Gregory the XIII.  
Let it be asked or required of our most Holy Lord the Explication or meaning of the Bull declaratory, made by Pius Quintus against Elizabeth, and such as do adhere or obey her; which Bull the Catholics desire to be understood on this manner, that the same Bull shall always bind her and the Heretics, but the Catholics it shall by no means bind, as matters now stand or be; but hereafter when the public Execution of that Bull may be had and made. Then in the Close was added. The highest Pontiff or Bishop granted the aforesaid Graces or Faculties to Father Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion, who are now to take their Journey into England 14. April 1580. being present the Father Oliverius Manark assistant.  
By this it is apparent, how all the Catholics in General did desire to have the said Bull (which is still in force against all her Successors, when ever it shall please his Holiness so to declare it) to be understood, viz. against the Queen, but yet to be free themselves; which is made more demonstrable by the Confession of Hart, one of their own Fellows, and Condemned, but not Executed with Campion, who ult. Decemb. 1580. Confessed, That the Bull of Plus Quintus, for so much as it is against the Queen, is holden amongst the English Catholics for a lawful Sentence, and a sufficient discharge of her Subjects fidelity, and so remaineth in force, but in some points touching the Subjects it is altered by the present Pope. 
Greg. XIII.  For where in that Bull all her Subjects are commanded not to obey her; and she being Excommunicate and Deposed, all that do obey her are likewise Innodate and Accursed, which point is perilous to the Catholics; for if they obey her, they be in the Pope's Curse, and if they disobey her they are in the Queen's danger: Therefore the present Pope to relieve them hath altered that part of the Bull, and dispensed with them to obey and serve her without peril of Excommunication: which dispensation is to endure but till it please the Pope, otherwise to determine.  
By the same reason that one Pope may receive and dispense with a former Pope's Bull, and ratify one Paragraph thereof, and make another void, and make what Interpretation thereof he pleaseth pro re nata, to serve a turn: He may also by the same Reason declare the same Bull to be still in force; and may at this very Nick of Time, and Juncture of Affairs dispense with all our Catholics by any ways or Arts to evade this last Act, and where are we then? and how the more secure?  
§ Edmund Campion, that Arch-traitor, deeply designing, and covertly as well as diligently preparing for the perpetrating of his Treasons against Queen Eliz. most cunningly before he came from Rome procured Toleration for such other prepared Rebels to keep themselves Covert under pretence of temporary and permissive obedience to her Majesty, the State standing then as it did; but so soon as there should be sufficient force whereby the Bull of her Majesty's deprivation might be publicly Executed; they should then join altogether with that force upon pain of Damnation, ex pede Herculem. By this you may guests, what kind of Obedience and Allegiance Papists swear to Protestant Princes, viz, temporary and permissive, i. e. during their will and pleasures of their Lord God the Pope, or until they shall be strong enough to cut our Throats, whose Nails desire to pair.  
§ It is likewise observable, that her Majesty's Ministers in their Examinations of Papists, suspected Traitors (and those only which were first known, and evidently probable by former Detections, Confessions, etc.) had a full purpose to follow the Example of the Queens most Gracious Disposition, and never tormented any Innocent, or extorted Confessions at adventure upon uncertainties; nor ever demanded any question of their pretended or supposed Conscience, as what they believed in any point of Faith or Doctrine, as of the Mass, Transubstantiation, etc. but only with what persons at home or abroad; and touching what Plots, Practices and Conferences they had dealt about attempts against her Majesty's person, or to alter the Laws of the Realm for matters of Religion; and how they were persuaded themselves, and did persuade others touching the Pope's Bull, and pretence of Authority to depose Kings, and namely for deprivation of her Majesty, and to discharge Subjects from their Allegiance civility, without mentioning or meaning therein any right that the Queen, as in right of the Crown, had over persons Ecclesiastical, being her Subjects.  
In all which Cases Campion and the 
* Briant, Sherwin, Kirby, Cottam, Richardson, Fords, Shirt, Lewis, Filhee, Bosgrave, & others.  rest never answered plainly, but sophistically, deceitfully and traitorously restraining their confession of Allegiance only to the permissive term of the Pope's Toleration. As for Example, If they were asked, whether they did adknowledg themselves the Queen's Subjects, and would obey her, they would say, Yea, for so they have leave for a time to do; but being more narrowly interrogated, if they would so acknowledge and obey her any longer than the Pope would so permit them, or notwithstanding such Commandment as the Pope would or might give to the contrary; then they either refused so to obey, or denied to answer, or said they would not answer to those Questions without danger; which Interpretatively was a plain Acknowledgement, that they would be no longer true Subjects, nor persuade others to be so than the Pope gave them Licence so to be. And yet such was their Impudence, that at their very Arraignments they would (ad captandum populum) cry out that they were to die, not for Treason, but for matter Faith and Conscience in Doctrine, touching the Service of God without any attempt or purpose against her Majesty, and that they were true Subjects, and did and would obey and serve her Majesty; whereas in truth there was not the least Syllable in their Indictment of Faith or Doctrine; and consequently not possible to be Arraigned, or be Executed for any such thing: And to try whether such their Hypocritical and Sophistical Speeches and Answers did extend to a perpetuity of their obedience; or to so long time only as the Pope so permitted or no; they were immediately and publicly, even in the very place of their Arraignment, asked by her Majesty's Council, whether they would so obey, and be true Subjects, if the Pope commanded the contrary; they plainly discovered themselves in their Answers; saying by the mouth of Campion, that this place (thereby meaning the Court of Her Majesty's Bench) hath no power to inquire or judge of the Holy Father's Authority, and other Answer they would not make.  
For the better satisfaction of all people, and that they may the better and more plainly understand how, in what manner, and for what all the Papists died in Queen Eliz. days; who most falsely have since been reported to have died for Religion, when in truth they died for Treason, and nothing else. Hereof take one Example and Instance for all, the Indictment and Arraignment of William Parry, that wicked, perfidious, faithless, ungrateful Traitor, sworn Her Majesty's servant Anno Domini 1570. And as was his Indictment, so were all the other Indictments Mutatis Mutandis. Superlatively wicked in that he became twice reconciled to Rome, and in that he boasted, That for 20 Years past he having been a Catholic, had never received the Communion; and yet before he traveled beyond the Sea at Three several times within those 22. Years, he voluntarily take the Oath of Obedience to the Queen, made 1. of her Reign: Faithless and ungrateful in that after many obligations conferred on him by loan of several Sums of Money, and otherwise, by Hugh Hare of the Temple, he contrived his death by breaking open his Chamber, assaulting and wounding, and leaving him for dead; for which being Convicted of Burglary, and Condemned to die, the Queen most graciously pardoned, for which he most gratefully requited her according to the old Proverb, Save a Thief from the Gallows, and he'll cut your Throat.  
He was Indicted of Treason 22. Feb. 158●. by Commission of Oyer and Terminer held at the Kings-Bench Westminster before Sir Christopher Wray, Lord Chief Justice of England and others, where Miles Sands Esq; then Clerk of the Crown read the Indictment, viz. William Parry, thou art here Indicted by Oaths of Twelve good and lawful Men of the County of Middlesex, before Christopher Wray, & alias, for that thou as a Traitor against the most Noble and Christian Princess Queen Eliz. the most Gracious Sovereign and Liege Lady; not having the fear of God before thine Eyes, nor regarding the due Allegiance, but being seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, and intending to withdraw and extinguish the hearty love and due obedience which true and faithful Subjects should bear unto the same our Sovereign Lady, didst at Westminster in the County of Middlesex 1. Febr. in the 26. Year of Her Majesty's Reign, and at divers other times and places in the same County maliciously and traitorously conspire and compass not only to deprive and depose the same our Sovereign Lady of Her Royal Estate, Title and Dignity, but also to bring her Highness to death and final destruction, and sedition in the Realm to make, and the Government thereof to subvert, and the sincere Religion of God established in her Highness' Dominions to alter and subvert. And that whereas thou William Parry by thy Letters sent unto Gregory Bishop of Rome, didst signify unto the same Bishop the purposes and intentions aforesaid, and thereby didst pray and require the same Bishop to give thee Absolution, that thou afterwards, that is to say, the last of March 26. Year aforesaid, didst traitorously receive Letters from one called Cardinal de Como; directed unto thee William Parry, whereby the said Cardinal did signify unto thee, that the Bishop of Rome had perused the Letters, and allowed of thine intent, and that to that end he had absolved thee of all thy sins, and by the same Letter did animate and stir thee to proceed with thine Enterprise, and that thereupon thou the last day of August in the said 26. Year at St. Gyles in the Fields in the same County of Middlesex, didst traitorously confer with one Edmund Nevil Esq; uttering unto him all the wicked and traitorous devises, and then and there didst traitorously move him to assist thee therein, and to join with thee in those wicked Treasons aforesaid against the peace of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen her Crown and Dignity.  
Which being Read, and William Parry being asked, whether guilty of these Treasons, whereof thou standest here Indicted, or not guilty? He confessed that he was guilty of all that is therein contained, both in matter and form as the same is set down, and all the Circumstances thereof: Which being Recorded, and though confessed willingly by Parry, yet because the Justice of the Realm had been of late very impudently slandered, That such like Traitors were Executed for Religion, and not for Treason, the Justice of that Court deemed it necessary to satisfy the World more particularly; that though his Confession in Court served sufficiently to have proceeded thereupon to Judgement, yet Parry's Confession, (taken the 11, and 13. Feb. 1584. before the Lord Hunsdon, Mr. Vice-Chamberlain, and Mr. Secretary) and Cardinal de Como's Letter, and Parry's Letter to the Lord Treasurer and Lord Steward should be openly read; to which also Parry himself agreed so readily, that he offered to read them himself for the better satisfying of the people. All which Letters, and his own voluntary confession written and subscribed with his own Hand he acknowledged to have Confessed freely, without any constraint, and that it was all true, and more too. And that there is no Treason that hath been sithence 1 Eliz. any way touching Religion, (saving receipt of Agnus Dei, and persuading others wherein he hath not much dealt) but he had offended in it: And that he had demanded his opinion in writing, who ought to be Successor to the Crown, which he said to be Treason also.  
All which Letters and Confession being first shown to him Leaf by Leaf, were openly and distinctly read by the Clerk of the Crown.  
Which done, Parry having obtained favour of the Court to speak in discharge (as he pretended) of his Conscience, assuring them that he would not go about to excuse himself, and that he intended to utter more; He said my Cause is rare, singular and unnatural, conceived at Venice, presented in general Words to the Pope, undertaken at Paris, commended and allowed of by his Holiness, and to have been Executed in England: I have committed many Treasons; for I have committed Treason in being reconciled, and Treason in taking Absolution; and yet never intended to kill Queen Eliz.  
Which said, Mr. Vice-Chamberlain retorted upon him, in that he both in Court and else where under his Hand voluntarily confessed, That he did mislike Her Majesty, for that she had done nothing for thee; how by wicked Papists and Popish Books thou were persuaded, that it was lawful to kill Her Majesty; how thou wert by reconciliation become one of that wicked sort, that held Her Majesty for neither lawful Queen nor Christian? and that it was Meritorious to kill her? And didst thou not signify that thy purpose to the Pope by Letters, and receivedst Letters from the Cardinal, how he allowed of thine intent, and Excited thee to perform it, and thereupon didst receive Absolution? And didst thou not conceive it, promise it, vow it, swear it, and receive the Sacrament that thou wouldst do it? And didst not thou thereupon affirm, that thy Vows were in Heaven, thy Letters and Promises on Earth to bind thee to do it? And that whatsoever Her Majesty would have done for thee, could not have removed thee from the intention or purpose, unless she would have desisted from dealing as she hath done with the Catholics, as thou called'st them. And didst thou not confess, (besides that which thou didst set down under thine own Hand) that thou hadst prepared Two Scottish Daggers fit for such a purpose? Notwithstanding all these and more Demonstrations of his Bloody Intentions against the Queen by Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Hunsdon, and others of the Lords Commissioners; he thereupon in a furious manner cried, I never meant to kill Her, I will lay my Blood upon Her and you before God and the World, and so fell into a great rage and railing. Which madness of his the Lord Hunsdon thus rebuked. This is but thy Popish pride and ostentation, which thou would have to be told to thy Fellows of thy Faction, to make them believe that thou died'st for Popery, when thou diedst for most horrible and dangerous Treason against Her Majesty and the whole Country.  
Thus you see what little Faith is to be given to such, who flatter with their Lips, and dissemble with their double Hearts.  
These things rightly considered, I do not doubt but that all good Subjects will clearly see; and all deluded and wavering persons will perceive, how they have been seduced to wander out of the right way; and that all strangers, especially Christian Princes having Sovereign Estates, being hereby acquainted with the true, just, and necessary Grounds and Reasons of His Majesty's late Act of Parliament for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants, made purely for the defence of His Majesty's Crown, Religion and People, and for prevention of Intestine Jars, that otherwise might be occasioned through different Religions, Religions as discrepant as light and darkness; good and evil, which naturally occasions disputes, and somewtimes btows; that all the World perceiving upon how great Reasons of State, and Grounds of Religion that Act was made, may be satisfied that no prudent State could do less; especially the concern of Religion being a considerable Ingredient therein, which often sets variance between nearest Relations. And I cannot doubt but that this His Majesty's just Act will have the like happy entertainment and success, as had King James (of ever blessed memory) his Monitory Preface unto his Apology; upon the coming forth of which Book there were no States that disavowed the Doctrine of it in the point of the King's power; the Venetians justified it both by Pen and Practise; the Sorbons maintained it; and Bellarmine and Suarez their Books to the contrary were burnt in France with scorn and disdain.  

Passus damna semel cautior esse solet.   

Roman vade liber— sed  
Nescis, Heu neseis Dominae fastidia Romae  
Majores nusquam Ronchi, Juvenesque Senesque  
Et pueri Nasum Rhinocerotis habent.  
I, fuge, sed poveras tutior esse domus.    

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