THE GREAT LOYALTY OF THE PAPISTS TO K. CHARLES I. (Of Blessed Memory.)  
DISCOVERED, By Peter Du Moulin. D. D.  
IN HIS VINDICATION OF THE Protestant Religion.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year MDCLXXIII.   

The Great Loyalty of the PAPISTS to King CHARLES the I. (Of Blessed Memory.)  
WHen the businesses of the late bad times are once ripe for an history, and Time the bringer forth of truth, 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 that 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: where after great expressions of Joy, the gravest of the company, to whom all gave ear, spoke much after this manner; The King of England at his Marriage had promised us the re-establishing of the Catholic Religion in England; 
Which is false.  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 warning 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 of Sorbon, then altogether Jesuited; to whom they put this question in Writing:  

That seeing the State of ENGLAND, was in a likely posture to change Government, whether it was lawful for the Catholics to work that Change, for the advancing and securing of the Catholic Cause in ENGLAND, by making away ihe 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 same 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 that alteration of State. What followed that Consultation and sentence, all the world knoweth, and how the Jesuits went to work, God knoweth; and Time the bringer forth of Truth, will let us know. But when the 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 that 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 had time to consider and detest the wickedness of that project, refused to give it, and shown them 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 the Monarch and the 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 Gentleman between Rouen and Diep; to whom they said (taking him for one of their party) 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 Catholics 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. And God hath given her the grace to make her word good hitherto.  
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 upon 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 among other works; whereas they had laboured as diligently and effectually for it, as they. So there was striving for the glory of that achievement, and the Friars shown themselves as much Jesuited as the Jesuits.  
In the height of Oliver's Tyranny, Thomas White Gentleman, a Priest, and a right Jesuit in all his Principles about obediene, 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, 
pag. 122.  their promise made (to their expelled Governor) binds no more. That the people are remitted by the evil managing and insufficiency of their Governor, to the force of Nature to provide for themselves, and not bound by any promise made to their Governor. 
pag. 123. & 124,  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.  
If the Magistrate (saith he) have truly deserved to be dispossessed; or if he be rationally doubted, 
pag. 133.  that he hath deserved it, and be actually out of pospossession. In the former case, it is certain the Subject hath no Obligation to hazard for his restitution, but rather to hinder it: For since it is the common good that both the Magistrate and the Subject are to aim at, and clearly out of what is expressed, it is the common harm to admit again of such a Magistrate, every one to his power is bound to resist him. The next case is, if he be innocent, 
pag. 135,  and wrongfully deposed; nay let us add, One who had governed well, and deserved much of the Commonwealth, yet is he totally dispossessed: And so that it is plain in these Circumstances, It were better for the Common good to stay as they are, than to venture the restoring him, because of the public hazard.  
And now to set down all his words, and follow his style, which is affectedly intricate and obscure, he maintaineth that a dispossessed Prince, whether by right or wrong, is obliged absolutely to renounce all Right and claim to Government; and if he does not, 
pag. 136.  he is worse than an Infidel.  
He tells us, That Pope Vrban the VIII. published a Decision, That after five years quiet possession of an Estate, 
pag. 151.  the Church was not bound to take notice whether the Title were lawful or no, but acknowledge the possessor in Ecclesiastical business.  
That when the people's good stands on the possessors side, then clearly he gins to gain right and power. That when the people think themselves well, they manifestly consent to the present Government. 
pag. 154.  Besides (saith he) who can assure they shall be  by the return of the dispossessed party▪ Surely by common presumption the gainer is like to defend them better than he who lost it. He comes so far as to conclude; That if the old Magistrate offer to return, he must be repulsed by force of Arms. His reasoning is this;  
What if an open even my should come, could or ought the Subjects join against him with their new Magistrate. 
pag, 157,  If not, the whole public must perish; If they may, than their case is the same against their old Magistrate, since his right stood upon the common Peace; and that transferred from him to his Rival by the Title of quiet possession.  
This was the Philosophy of that contemplative Gentleman, when the King lived in Exile, and Oliver sat on the Throne. Having so well deserved of the King, he was not long since highly recommended to his Majesty, by a man of great Note. But the King who hath a Royal Insight into persons and businesses, stopped him with this short answer, No more of that, I know what man he is.  
Father Bre● was of M. Whites opinion, for the Castle of Jersey being surrendered after that resistance which for the length of standing out, and the height of Valour shall be memorable in all ages: When the Gentlemen who had defended it were pressed to take the Engagement, contrary to the Articles of their Rendition: That goodly Divine was very earnest with them at S. Malo to take it; maintaining, That they were not to acknowledge any Supreme but the prevailing power.  
When his Majesty cast himself upon the Spaniard, the Jesuitical party thought they had him sure enough from ever returning; but God disappointed their hopes, and deceived our fears by his miraculous mercy; For it is the Lords doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes, that he scaped out of those hands.  
I cannot leave un-observed, That in the height of the late tyranny, two heads of the Gunpowder Traitors that were set upon the House of Lords, were taken down; not by the high winds, but by the same zeal which had had plotted that Treason, and with the leave of Traitors of another feather. We may hear in time that those holy Relics are shrined up in gold, and are working miracles.  
FINIS.